DAMMAAAAMMAMAMMAAAAAMAAALLL WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK... By Lemuel F. Parton TIP TTTV T Vv VV vv Vr vvVv YY EW YORK.—If a prisoner hadn't jumped out of a two- window and escaped, 123 ago, newspapers today wouldn't be front- paging the de- scription of the biggest star in the universe, 3,000 times larger than the sun. They should have named the star Napo- leon, instead of Epsilon Aurigae. His was the touch-off of events ter- restial which finally ranged out 3,000 light years and brought news of the giant star. Chronologically, as the astronomers would put it, it was like this: story years Biggest Star Traced to 2-Story Leap wanted to be an astronomer, but lacked opportunity for study. of Napoleon's scouts seized him and of the River Elbe. made a long, hazardous swim and was pulled aboard. homeward bound to Russia. The czar was a patron of astronomy. and became not only director of the observatory of the University of Dorpat, but one of the founders of modern astronomy, with Herschel and Bissel. His sons and grandsons became famous astronomers and it is his great-grandson, Dr. Otto Struve, who, with his assistants at Yerkes observatory of the University of Chi- ers the facts about Epsilon Aurigae. He is director of the observatory. He arrived here in 1921, after fight- ing with the white armies in Russia and fleeing to Turkey with their col- lapse. He became director of Yerkes observatory five years ago at the age of thirty-four. N THE new movie, ‘‘Hollywood ADVENTURERS’ CLUB HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF! “The Unseen Foe” By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter ELLO, EVERYBODY: It’s Dan O'Donoghue of New York, late sergeant of the Royal Munster Fusileers, who tells today’s tale of mystery and terror. Like one of Kipling’'s ‘“‘Soldiers Three,” Dan has fought all over India. He has seen the things that Kipling saw, and he’s bringing us such a tale as Kipling might have written—the story of a strange and terrifying experience on the Northwest frontier, | up near Khyber Pass. Word had come that the tribes were plundering and raiding up Khyber way, and the Munster Fusileers was one of the outfits ordered | out against them. They left their barracks in Rawalpindi, Punjab, in | the summer of 1908, entrained for Peshawar, marched through the pass, and fought their way into Lundi Kotal, the fort on the other side of the Afghan border. They chased the marauding tribes back into the hills, but that, as Kipling would say, is another story. The one we're con- cerned with happened on the way back. No Beer, So They Drank Water. The regiment passed through Peshawar again and marched on to Shabkhadar, twenty miles away. There, for the first time during the expedition the native canteen manager, Hari Chand Khapur, ran out of { beer. ‘‘No one who hasn't been in India,’ says Dan, ‘‘has any idea how necessary beer is to the fighting forces. Most of the water in India is contaminated and unfit to drink. But that day we had nothing else, so we drank it and liked it. We pitched camp that night, went to bed early, as orders had been issued for an early morning start the next day. But daylight came, and we still hadn't received orders to fall in.” No one in the regiment could understand it, Other regiments were on the move. Two native regiments—the Twenty-second Punjabis and the Fortieth Pathans—marched past the Fusileers’ camp, their drums beating and the men singing. While they were passing, the Fusileers got an order that only mystified them the more. They were told to fall in WITHOUT their rifles. The whole regiment was marched off to a corner of the camp. Soon a doctor appeared and began distributing medicine. While the doctor was moving down the line, the man in front of Dan dropped to the ground. Dan picked him up and asked him what was the matter. And he replied: “I don’t know, Dan, but I feel very bad.” “The doctor came along,” says Dan, “and began asking him ques- tions. I thought it was strange that he didn't come near the sick man. eter and swingster, again demon- strates that he gets all the college trade. The boys whinny with ex- Music Makes citement at Mr. Goodman's most Kids Whinny off-hand toot. Ex- peditions sent by this department into the far domain of youth say it's that way all over the country, particularly among the collegians. The Dossier says he does it with his “gut-bucket, barrel-house, screw-ball and grunt-iron music.” Be that as it may, it nets him $100,000 a year. At the age of ten, he was a semi- pro vaudeville musician, earning around $2 a week in Chicago's Ghetto. He was the eighth of eleven children of a tailor who earned $20 a week. He bought a mail order clarinet on the installment plan, and, by the time he was thirteen, was a full-fledged journeyman mu- sician, but still in short pants. He first got out in front in Cali- fornia, running his first band in 1931. He slumped down to $40 a week in 1934, moved in with Billy Rose, hit his stride again, and, via radio, is a recent arrival in the top-money brackets. He is twenty-seven, tall, dark, ath- ‘Grunt-Iron’ tagonal glasses, and, the more sav- age his music, the more money he makes. » * * RANKLIN decorously, Semitism mania. He is a Created Big suave career dip- lomat who once News in 1914 pulled headlines as big as a Rumania war would get Mr. Gunther was less news. He was a guest on a yacht an- chored in Christiania harbor. The harbor master told him that spot had been saved for Kaiser Wil- helm’s yacht. There was an argument and the harbor master said Mr. Gunther wouldn't pick it up. It boiled up in- many foreign ports. ister to Egypt in 1928. He is a na- tive of New York, fifty-two years old, an alumnus of Harvard. © Consolidated News Features, WNU Service, Author of “God Save the King” The origin of “God Save the King” has been wrapped in mystery for centuries. It was first sung by Harry Carey at a dinner ‘to cele- brate the capture of Portobello by Admiral Vernon in 1740, according to Pearson's London Weekly. Carey admitted authorship of the words, but refused to commit himself about the music. The song achieved in- stant success on the wave of patri- otism that followed the declaration of Bonnie Prince Charlie as king. English citizens sang it everywhere as a retort in favor of the legitimate monarch, and it was first sung in the presence of the monarch, at Drury Lane in September, 1745. He Screamed One Ominous Word, “Cholera.” He stood well away, and asked me to take the poor devil to the hos- pital. I carried him there on my shoulders.” They Were Dying of Cholera. There were several other men in the hospital, all of them complain- ing of pains in their stomachs. But that didn't mean anything to Dan at the moment. When he got back to his company they were ordered off to a spot six hundred yards away, where a flag was flying. They were issued beer and rum that evening, and given a supply of green goggles to keep the sun out of their eyes. All the rest of that day they lay in camp, doing nothing, and wondering why they weren't on the march. When Dan awoke the next morning there was a great commotion outside his tent. ‘I lifted the tent wall,” he says, ‘‘and asked the sentry what was the matter. ‘Oh, Lord. Donoghue,’ he cried, ‘we're all dying. There are dozens dead, and by tonight it'll have taken all of us!’ " Dan sat straight up on his cot. “What'll take all of us?” he wanted to know. And the sentry screamed one ominous word. “CHOLERA!” Dan will never forget the things he saw during the terrible days thai followed. “You can get away from an enemy,” he says. “You can fight and bluff your way out of tight corners in a battle. But you | can’t fight or bluff or run away when the cholera germ gets into your | system. You suffer terrible cramps in your abdomen, and you get so weak that you can’t stand up. During that epidemic it was a common sight to see the fellows visiting one another crawling along on their hands and knees. Buried the Dead in Quicklime. *““The boys died off like flies, and those who died were buried imme- diately—buried all together in a long trench, with six inches of quick- lime in the bottom. It was not at all common to hear a fellow say, ‘Come on over and see who is getting buried.” And on one such occasion I saw the strangest sight of my whole life. “A new trench had been dug and about fifty were getting buried in it. The bodies were brought over and laid in the ditch side by side. Some were naked, and others were fully clothed, even to the boots and puttees. As soon as each corpse was put in a blanket was thrown over it and another layer of quicklime was placed on top of that. Father Looman, the Catholic chaplain, was standing at the end of the long grave reciting the burial prayers. It was an awful and solemn moment. “I was there to see a friend buried. Everyone else there had come for the same reason. There wasn't a dry eye in the crowd. 1 was standing at the edge of the trench, looking down, when suddenly 1 | jumped. Directly below me was a body covered with a blanket, and it seemed to me I had seen that blanket move.” As Dan watched, that blanket moved again. Other men had seen it move, too. The whole crowd stood stunned for a minute, and then Dan and another man hopped into ihe trench—and helped out a poor devil who was about to be buried alive—in quicklime. | “And as we led him away,’ says Dan, “he crept crying, ‘Say, what's | the idea? What's all this crowd around here for?’ He didn’t even | know how narrowly he had escaped a terrible death.” It was the quicklime that had saved him-—that and the fact that he had been buried naked. Says Dan: “If he'd been buried with his clothes on he wouldn't have felt the burn of that biting stuff until it was too late. As it was, the sting of the stuff brought him to his senses, and he lived to get wounded twice during the World war.” Copyright. —~WNU Service, Battle of Waterloo Poppy, Blossom of Evil Omen The battle of Waterloo was fought | June 18, 1815, between the French under Napoleon Bonaparte and the combined forces of England, Ger many and the Netherlands under the duke of Wellington and resulted in the utter overthrow of Napoleon and the restoration of the Bourbon kings to the French throne. That battlefield was in Belgium, about two miles from the village of Water loo, and twelve miles =outh of Brus sels. Poppy, according to mythology, is a blossom of evil omen. They were offered to the dead since they sig- nified sleep. Glaucus, the son of Neptune, once caught a fish. It ate some herbage and jumped into the sea. The Yellow Poppy or Pap- over Glauciere Jaune originated trom that myth. The cross of the pistil, according to Christian tradi- won, urigina in its color from the holy blood which stained the flower Historic Hoaxes on By ELMO SCOTT WATSON © Western Newspaper Union Anti-Brassiere Campaign HEN the late Halbert L. Hoard, editor of the Jefferson County Union, approached some of his friends in Fort Atkinson, Wis., with a request that they sign a pe- tition which he had prepared, they didn’t hesitate. They knew his pa- per advocated some very good The undersigned note with alarm the increase in divorces since the nineteenth amendment, the woman suffrage law We note many more women wearing breeches than before We can stand that, but this new fad — slab-sided dresses, flat in front—showing women in the fashion pictures as flat-chested as man, we regard with jealous eyes as an infringement . . . We ask that the congress of the United ost to break down these brassieres as a evil that menaces the future well being of society They very soon realized that they had been a little hasty. Their wom- enfolk told them they “ought to be ashamed” and that they ‘should mind their own business.” But a welfare league in a city nearby took the matter seriously and passed a resolution su rting the campaign. Then an official of the state board of health issued a statement say- ing that brassieres caused rickets in babies. Whereupon Mr. Hoard wrote an editorial in which he said: w-milk-fed babies right In or breath, the States do its utn with the dea ssieres and few of those are giving 1 Before the upre ter died down, Halbert known from coast to coast as the valiant crusader against the ‘‘dead- ly brassiere’''—all because of a hoax which some of his obliging friends helped perpetrate » * s mat- Hoard was ar over th Lord Kitchener's Body Ix AUGUST, 1926, all was thrilled by an announcement which indicated that one of the mys- teries of the World war had at last been solved. This was the mystery surrounding the death of Lord Kitchener, first commander of the British forces in France. A signed article by “Frank Power" which appeared in the London Referee de- clared that his body had been dis- covered in a graveyard in Norway. Kitchener had been lost at sea in May, 1916, when the ship, taking him to Russia on a secret mission had disappeared and there had been all sorts of rumors about the case. An especially ugly one was that the government, which had wanted to get rid of Kitchener but didn't dare remove him from office because of his great popularity with the masses, had been sent on what it knew would be a fatal trip “Power’’ announced that he was bringing the body back to London. When he arrived there with a cof- fin, it was immediately seized by the police. When it was opened in the presence of high government officials, it was discovered that the coffin was not only empty, but that it had never held a body. The whole affair was a publicity stunt for a new moving picture on the life of Kitchener in which “Pow- er,” whose real name was Arthur Vectis Freeman, and others were interested. Instead of profiting by it as they had hoped, a government investigation which was immediate- ly launched and popular indigna- tion over the hoax, did them con- siderable damage and discouraged Nr of England “Rare Old” Newspapers I%: WHILE going through an old trunk in the attic, you find a copy of the Ulster County Gazette, published in Kingston, N. Y., in the death of George Washington, don't get excited and hurry away to tell the local newspaper publish- er about your “‘discovery.” The chances are about 999 999 out of 1,000,000 that it's a “facsimile copy'’ of the Gazette of that date It was first done back in 1826 duced for the Philadelphia centen- nial in 1876. Naturally, in the course of time the paper becomes aged and yellow and brittle. So in that respect it's “old.” But it's neither rare nor valuable, unless you can find some- one who is buying “fake antiques.” Even then he won't give you much for it. The only known ‘‘genuine” copy of this famous paper is now in the Library of Congress. All of the thousands of others which bob up from time to time are reprints. An- other “‘original’’ may be found some time. But it's very, very doubtful! On the Shannon One of the more enterprising towns in Ireland is Carrick-on-the- Shannon, This town in Leitrim is famous historically itself, and close Ly are other towns noted for their literary assoc.ations: Elphin, in County Roscommon, the birthplace of Oliver Goldsmith, and Keadue. =~ear which Turlou~h Q'Carolan, the ast of the [rich bards, l'es huried Stitches in STITCH in time 4 way toward days brighter and your burdens lighter when the days of time your sewing goes a long \ making Spring roll then for deed are the rit} moral? now and be off t when the season starts! Practical House Coat. 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