ADVENTURERS’ CLUB
HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES
OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF!
“Breath of Life”
By FLOYD GIBBONS
Famous Headline Hunter
ELLO EVERYBODY:
for your very life on the efforts of two or three of your pals who
were trying to save you—and you heard one of them say,
happened to him.
Don has a job now at the Pilgrim State hospital at Brentwood, N. Y.
and cables of Long Island, but in 1932 he was a lineman employed by a
of six men, stringing wires all over the surrounding country.
Chris Anderson was the boss of that crew, and there's another
lad in that outfit whom we might as well mention now as at any
other time, because he played a big part in this story of Don's.
His name is Kelly, and he had a couple of sore feet and a stubborn
disposition, and if he hadn't had both of those things it's a dif-
ferent yarn we'd be telling today.
Kelly's Sore Feet Started It All
The crew was running a new street light circuit in Stony Brook, L.
Don and Kelly were working together. They had strung seven or eigh
sections of wire when Kelly began to complain about his feet. He had
on a new pair of shoes that day, and climbing up and down the poles
made them sore. So Don told Kelly to stay on the ground. He'd take
over the part of the work that called for climbing.
Don went up the next pote. There were a lot of other wires strung
on it—old ones from which the insulation had worn off until they were
practically bare. Don admits he should have been more careful in tack-
“I Struggled and Wriggled With All My Might.”
ling that mess. There were safety devices in their truck that he
could have used. But the fellow who works on even the most dangerous
job gets careless once in a while, and this was Don's day to do it.
Don was passing one of the two new wires he was stringing over the
cross-arm of the pole when it happened. His left arm rubbed one of the
worn live wires, and at the same time his right leg rubbed against an
iron brace. It made a direct short circuit and sent TWENTY-THREE
HUNDRED VOLTS through his body.
“It held me fast,” Don says. ‘I was powerless to break the contact.
The only way I can describe the feeling is to say that it ied as though
some monstrous being like King Kong had me held at arms length and
was shaking the daylights out df me. I could hear the generators throb-
bing in my ears as though I was right in the powerhouse. 1 struggled
and wriggled with all my might, but it wasn't any use.”
In the meantime Don's partner, Kelly, had walked down the
road a few hundred feet. Suddenly he heard a moaning sound
and turned, to see Don hanging on that cross-arm, his clothes
burning and his face contorted in a look of terrible pain. He
raced back to the pole, climbed up it and cut the wire that was
feeding juice into Don.
They Thought Don Was Done For.
Dor, in the meantime, had slumped down unconscious, with only
his safety belt holding him on the pole. Kelly took a rope from his belt,
looped it under Don's arms, and lowered him to the ground. The
other linemen came running from down the road a piece and gave Kelly
a hand. They stretched Don out on the ground and looked him over.
He wasn’t breathing—and it seemed as if his heart had stopped. It
looked bad. for Don, but the boys went to work on him giving him arti-
ficial respiration.
For twenty minutes they worked on Don, taking turns at pressing
with their hands to force a little air in and out of his paralyzed lungs.
Twenty minutes and no sign of life! But though there was no sign of it,
life was still there. Just a few seconds before, consciousness had started
to return to Don. He was trying to get his lungs to work again-doing
his best to help those fellows who were doing his breathing for him. He
couldn't move a muscle—couldn't speak or even open his eyes—but
he knew he would be all right if his pals worked on him a little longer.
And then came the most disheartening moment of Don's life.
Out of a clear sky Don heard one of the fellows say: “It's no use,
boys. HE'S GONE. We might as well quit and take him back
to the truck.”
Saved by Kelly's Stubbornness.
Don wanted to scream, but he couldn't breathe by his own efforts.
Were they going to give up and leave him to die? All the terror of a
lifetime was packed into his heart in that one brief moment. But the
man astride his back still kept on pressing away, forcing the air in
and out of his lungs. Again the first fellow made this terrifying sugges- |
tion. “Let's quit and take him into town.” And this time Don could
hear the man who was working on him reply. It was Kelly—and Kelly
was sticking to his job.
For five minutes—ten minutes—Kelly worked on, stubbornly refusing
to give up his battle for his friend's life. Maybe Kelly remembered
that it was his own aching feet which had been the cause of Don's climb-
ing up that pole in the first place. Maybe Kelly figured that the least he
could do to a man who had almost died doing him a favor was to exert |
every effort to save his life. Anyway, Kelly kept on—and in another |
two or three minutes Don started to breathe. |
They flagged a passing car and took Don to a hospital, and they kept |
him there seven weeks. Kelly was cited for bravery and received a |
medal from the company for saving Don's life. But I think Don ought |
to get some sort of a medal too, for living through a twenty-three-hun- |
dred-volt shock of electricity. The electric chair up at Sing Sing, I'm
told, only has twenty-two-hundred.
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Seminoles Are Citizens
The Office of Indian Affairs says
that the Act of June 2, 1924, con-
ferred citizenship on all Indians
born within the territorial limits of
the United States who had not pre-
viously acquired that status. The
act referred to is in broad com-
pass and is equally applicable to
the Seminoles in Florida as well as
to the other Indians ‘‘born within
the territorial limits of the United
States.”” It js or was not a matler
of election or choice with the In-
dians, says the Philadelphia In-
quirer, that citizenship was thereby
cast upon them whether they de-
sired it or not, and regardless of
their individual wishes in the mat-
ter.
female's job is to see that the |
young are properly born and given |
their earliest care. But there are
some notable exceptions. The male
Bettas and Gouramis banish the fe-
males when the eggs have been
produced and give them good
trouncings if they so much as ven-
ture near the parental nest again.
And the youngsters get expert care
from their dad urtil they are able
to fend for themselves. The African
Mouthbreeder male is the one to
take the eggs in his mouth and keep
them there against all odds until
they hatch. Among the Cichlids
both sexes share the parental du-
ties. -
OR going-away-to-school daugh-
ters the hectic days have come
that are tense with the excitement
of assembling a wvoguish, and
practical as vog wardrobe that
will carry them through with
torial honors on campus, in class-
room and at college prom.”
Thinking in terms of the college
girl who must rank high in swank
and at the same time look to the
practical in clothes, we are remind-
ed of the stunning costume suits
and the smart sports outfits and the
glamorous evening gowns displayed
recently at the jubilee fashion pag-
eant presented in the open-air la-
goon theater on the lake front by
the Apparel Style Creators of the
wholesale district of Chicago. A
full-length costume was
tured that represents exactly
a college girl should have
an outfit that will serve fai
fully and dramatically through
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cape
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of matching fur on
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cape types many jacket suits
full-length capes, thus
interchangeable outfit
add
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If there is one item more than
another that proves to be the college
girl's delight it is a suede jacket in
one of the glorified au color-
ings. Buy it separate or let it be
a Cf for
great importance is given
that are part suede and part tweed.
The costume pictured was entered
in the pageant under the title "“ac-
cent on youth" which goes a long
way in describing it Circularly
stitched pockets decorate the rich
autumn green suede jacket which
tops a of black woolen. The
scarf is of matching wool. The cap
is a Scotch type with a high feather
to give It
Again referring to the great im-
portance at hed to suede this sea-
son, you can find in the shops most
i ing you may happen to want
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ron or tuxedo
to the mood of its wearer. The
costume ensemble that can be
given varied personality via acces-
sories and interchangeable items is
well worth considering when as-
sembling a college wardrobe.
SPICES LEND HUES
as being distinctly of this year's vin-
tage. The same applies to suits.
See the model centered in the group.
It is indicative of the new fur
| opulence decreed for winter.
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SISTER DRESSES
By CHERIE NICHOLAS
—and the diet. Now at last has
come a great reversal.
made flavorful and fragrant
with which the well-dressed woman
will make herself alluring in the
late summer and early fall season,
For once, therefore, foods will de-
termine what we wear, according
to the edicts of the nation’s stylists.
Spice shades,
rich brown of whole cloves, are be-
ing shown in light and medium
weight fabrics. Cosmetics are be-
ing tinted to harmonize with these
spice colors and also, incidentally,
to make the transition from sun-
tanning to normal skin tones more
gradual and more charming.
Fall Hats Go Low in Back
Is Latest Word From Paris
The first fall hats shown by Patou
anchored without benefit of elastic.
trimming of toques, while larger
shapes emphasize the profile by
brims curved sharply up on one
side and swooping low on the other.
Multi-Colored Accent
White shantung makes a sum-
mer costume with a front yoke of
multicolored striped applications.
The same bright stripes — reds,
greens, blues and yellows — are
used on the pockets of the short
white shantung jacket.
Belting Ribbon Hats
A little hat of belting ribbon, wheth-
er black or colored, will add new
life to a costume.
Matching sister dresses are the
trend of the hour. Little friends are
taking advantage of the matching
idea too, and are wearing dresses
of same material made alike. The
cunning frocks pictured are fash-
joned of a theme-song print. “In
the Shade of the Old Apple Tree”
is the song from which this par.
ticular allover patterning of rosy-
checked apples drew inspiration.
‘Way Back When
By JEANNE
GARBO LATHERED FACES IN A
BAREER SHOP
F YOU had walked into a certain
Stockholm barber shop 'way back
little Greta Garbo working up a
lather and preparing hot towels for
stubbly faces as she assisted the
local barber. Later, in Bergstrom’s
taken a second look at the pretty
little clerk who sold you a hat. But
if someone had told you she would
one day be world famous in pictures
for her portrayals of romance, pas-
sion and ecstasy, it would have
seemed too fantastic to believe.
Greta Garbo was born in 1805 in
Her
father was a poor machinist, and
her mother an uneducated farm
woman. The mysterious airs and
aloofness of the great Garbo of to-
day are natural, for they were traits
of the sensitive little daughter of
this poor family. Her father died
when she was fourteen and she went
to work in the department store to
help support her penniless mother,
her small brother and sister. The
manager of the llinery depart-
ment chose her to model hats and,
through publication of photographs
made then, she was given a chance
in motion pictures. Her rise to fame
was rapid, and the little lather girl
of Stockholm became the greatest
le of modern motion picture
rity.
One of her very first pictures was
awarded ]
received the medal «
Film Critics for her
“Anna Karenina."
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MOTOR BOAT KING WAS A
CATTLE HERDER
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a uch emphasis on the stigma of
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takes. Gar Wood's father had a
viewpoint something like that, and
he instilled into his chilaren the be-
lief that even though they failed in
an endeavor, they had fun in try-
ing it.
Gar Wood was born in Mapleton,
Iowa, in 1872, one of 13 children.
All of the children had to earn mon-
ey early to help make expenses,
and Gar had little formal school-
ing. When only a boy, Gar worked
as a cattle herder for one dollar a
day. He loved boats and enjoyed
constructing mechanically run mod-
els from clock parts. At the age
of thirteen, his unusual knowledge
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As
automobiles became popular, Gar
Wood was hired to sell them.
He obtained one odd job after an-
other. He was a teacher of elec-
tricity and gasoline motors in a
night class. He ran a garage for
awhile in St. Paul. One thing after
another he tried, and failed to ad-
vance. A less philosophical man, a
less courageous man might have
become stagnant. But not Gar
Wood. His mind was ever alert to
new opportunities in mechanics.
Then he perfected a hydraulic hoist
for trucks, risked the family's sav-
ings in constructing a model, and
became wealthy almost overnight
Suppose this man had been as
utterly stricken with shame as
some of us think we might be, when
he failed in his first attempts to
make a successful living. He prob.
ably never would have had the cour-
age to risk all the money he had
saved for the model of an invention
others told him was impractical.
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Is Really Pleasure
Something different in crochet—
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in strips! One strip makes an arm
rest, three a chair back, five a
davenport back. Once you've
made one, just keep repeating-—
join them together and you're
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Bad Enough
“Didn't you say your dog's bark
was worse than his bite?”
“Yag
Something Else
Girl—I stand in front of
Said a police court defendant:
“1 was not committing an assault,
I was merely emphasizing the
facts of the case.” But perhaps
he put too much punch inte i?
Down a Peg
y the actor playing the he-man
role. In his review he wrote:
“His idea of a he-man
should be played was to throw
out his chest three inches and fol-
low it slawly across the screen.”
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Unpleasant Duty
There is a reward in perform-
ing a disagreeable duty. This re-
ward you feel after the duty is
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