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Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-05-05
Floyd &66cns
ADVENTURES CLUB
HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES
OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF! -
''The Trap
BY FLOYD GIBBONS
Famous Headline Hunter

II ELLO EVERYBODY:
Come up here and shake hands with Arthur H. meyers
Middletown catch bears once ana
ended by being the hunted himself He never reazeo
how dangerous he the wild life of the continent until ne
got Now he's beginning to think ne
pretty tough bozo And IwelI know doggone well ne Is
the 1921 Art went into Canada and eaphshea
Alberta, south
his pal and partner
STAINS body WIND
swept Art himself? Well, he's
lucky Otherwise he'd be lying there that same
hillside beside his friend and partner, STAN -
there the Ihey
had west from their camp ach
several leano shacks strung
the night Stan took OF the
the week and meet
again at the base Friday.
His Partner Didn't Return to the Camp.
there time when Art waited all Friday afternoon for
didn't appearance that
night either and by morning Art began to be alarmed He ree
something about bears the week before
had reckoned they'd
Information said set few
hurt?
wondered
the east trap
line he could find STAN II almost frantic at his failure to
trudged
before always hoping find fresh footprint the
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-05-05
He Had Stepped Into One of STAINS Bear Traps.

bulky formc coming
had left
mile
Art Found Stan Dead in the Snow.
"There Stan couldn't
have survived night the Also knew that those tracks
something that tell
alive But instead sighted STAINS body lying in the snow"
slipped off his snowshoes started II hoping
might
of life him. henwhen five feet from STAINS
the itself
ngy about left leg and tossed headlong in the snow
Art knew flash what had happened He had stepped
STAINS spike tooted bear The almost unbearabe
the spikes bit deeper the flesh The struggled he
body caught sight the huge that his
began think predicament If didn't
would be thing
Caught Foot in the Bear Trap
Already, Arts growing numb. pushed
aside and that stick of
them closing had his snapped
like match stick He tried the
couldn't He could
to stumble of his Then he thought of the
file there, rubbing off the of
Franticaly Art began tearing at his while
movement sent twnge Of shooting through
dumped out its contents his
fell desperation, plunged inside
touched steel! The fe spite Of the excuciatng
shouted for joy.
began filing Slow Every
stroke of the feeant
meant life oand freedom For hour and half he
the hard Steel half
conscious
How his He did,
shacks along the line II the
to the
Though lost swell partner and nearly lost Life
copyreht-WNU
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-05-05
Aids Box Office

The Cubs have acquired a great,
but eccentric pitcher, baseball
personality more colorful than any
thing since Babe Ruth and box
Office attraction of first magnitude.
But at best he is hard to handle.
Some authorities have viewed the
deal with skepticism, for Branch
hickey and Sam Breadon are noted
for their canniness.
On the other hand, the Cub rec
ord on trades in the last five or six
years has been one headache after
another. The Dean trade may break
the jinx. Only one of those deals
was really satisfactory and in the
process the Cubs tossed about
million dollars in cash and players
around the league. That was the
trade that brought Tex Carleton, at
present top pitcher on the staff to
the Cubs from St. Louis in the off
season of 1894 in return for Pitch
ers Bud Timing, Dick Ward and
bundle of cash.
Worst bust of all was the Chuck
Klein deal. The Cubs laid out $685.
900 plus three players to the Phillies
for the National leagues then prize
slugger. His cleanup attempts were
pathetic and three years later dis
illusioned management traded him
back to the Phillies along with
Pitcher Fabian Kowalik and cash
for Curt Davis and Ethan Allen.
Allen was of little use and went to
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-05-05
Haze You Noticed-

THAT there are good many ath-
= letes who are standouts at one
game who are also mighty handy
at others? That would seem to in
dictate that athlete proficiency is an
innate quality. Most big league ball
players are expert golfers. Babe
Ruth was one of the standouts in
this direction, as is Sammy Byrd.
On the other hand, Walter Hagen,
Lawson Little, Bobby Jones and
Tommy Armour are also expert
marksmen with guns and pistols.
Craig Wood and Eddie Loos, the
figure and speed skating stars, are
equally at home on a golf links,
as are Ellsworth Vines and Fred
Perry, the tennis stars, Johnny
Weismuller the swimmer and Mush
March, the Blackhawk hockey star.
Jim Crowley, the coach at Fordham,
who was quite football player in
his own day and more than average
success as coach, is good enough
handball player to have competed
successfully in championship tour
namenLS.
There are plenty of other exam
pies. Glenn Cunningham, Don Lash,
Johnny Woodruff and Joe McClus-
key, all of whom set speed records
in track events, are better than
average swimmers. Birger Ruud,
the worlds ace skier, is a cham
pion high diver. It's the same way
with famous girl athletes, of whom
the standout example is Babe Did
riksen. Eleanor Sears and Mary
X. Browne are as good or better at
four or five sports than are most
male athletes. Glenna Collett Ware,
the golfer, is an expert at blasting
crOckery pigeons.
g Western Newspaper Union.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-05-05
Moody Comeback

OFF to Wimbledon in quest of her
~ eighth tennis championship as
well as the first step in an inter-
national comeback campaign is Mrs.
Helen Wills Moody.
The story still persists that Hell
ems ultimate goal is the ranks of
the professionals. 1t was whispered
while back that she very nearly
turned pro and joined up with a
troupe that features Fred Perry and
Ellsworth Vines. Then, so the tales
go, she considered her long layoff
might be a detriment and resolved
to fight her way back to the top of
the heap in the amateur ranks and
then as the ace woman player of
the world demand a fat contract
from the impressario of the pros.
This would all seem to add up,
except that Helen may find her path
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-05-05
Baseball Centenary

JUST one hundred years ago this
- spring, Col. Abner Doubleday
laid out the first baseball diamond
on the commons at Cooperstown, N.
Y, and the first game was played.
In the early days baseball was
called zone Old Cat" and was then
re-christened "Rounders."
Although Doubleday's diamond
has remained to this day, he did
not perfectly devise rules at the
same time. The first set of rules
was formulated and played under
by the Knickerbockers of New York
City who were the first team to
wear uniforms. They began to play
regularly in 1912, and a few years
later appeared on the field in blue
trousers and white shirts.
In the early days there were eleven
players to the side, including two
shortstops and two second base
men. They didn't have innings in
the old days. The first team to
score FL runs won the game and the
batter could keep chasing around
the bases and score as many as two
or three runs on one hit until the
ball was found.
The first extra inning game was
played in 1852, the Knickerbockers
beating the Gothams % to 81. The
game was popular during the Civil
war and there were hot contests be-
tween selected teams of the Union
troops and the Confederate army.
The games were played on neutral
territory and attended by thousands
of soldiers.
AL. j. Reach was the first ball
player to get salary and the first
to be sold from one club to another.
Brooklyn sold him to Philadelphia
in 1864 for $275. The Cincinnati Reds
were the first team to employ all
salaried ball players. George
Wright, the shortstop, was the star
and drew down 400.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-05-05
Ca1nilli Headache

The Dolph Camilli-Don Hurst
swap was fine business for every
body but the Cubs, particularly in
view of the fact that Hurst didn't
last the season out and Camilli be-
came fence-buster.
The Babe Herman deal added an
other sour note. He came to the
Cubs from Cincinnati for a reported
$4,000 and is now at Jersey CITY.
Another trade was the one that sent
Infielder Woody English and Pitch
er Roy Henshaw to Brooklyn for
Infielder Linus Frey. Frey, far from
top-notch caliber, was shunted to
Cincinnati this spring. English is
still an able ball player.
But dismissing all this gloom, you
cannot help but regard this latest
deal with optimism. If he does moth
ing else, Dean will draw a good
share of his purchase price back in
the treasury via the turnstiles in
few games.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-05-05
TSpeaking of Sports
..U!l y Dean
a d Recalls Jinx
"o1 Oh Cub Trades
By GEORGE A. BARCLAY

BY GEORGE A. BARCLAY
M ORE words have probably been
~ written about the Dizzy Dean
deal than any sporting event since
the Dempsey-Tunney fight. In all
the writing there's a little word
called eff" that is going to be i'm
portant in the months to come. For
"If'' looms mountain-sized in the
trade that brought Dean to the Cubs
in return for S185,0O in cash and
Pitchers Curt Davis and Clyde
,Shoun and Outfielder George Stain
back.
If Dizzy returns to great pitching
form he will deserve the title of
"$250,OOO beauty" Phil K. Wrigley
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-05-05
Lipstick of Hindu Women

The lipstick of Hindu women is
pan or betel leaf chewed with chu-
nam lime, which leaves the tongue,
teeth and lips as ruddy as sunset.
Most distinctive item in the Hindu
woman's makeup is the wafer
stamped between her brows. This
is not caste-mark. When black,
the wafer is made of burnt, pow
dered sage, mixed with sandalwood
oil; when pink, it comes from the
dried and powdered "kumku" flow
er, common in the land.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-05-05
Wood Used for the Cross

Most of the alleged fragments Of
the cross preserved as sacred relics
are pine. There are many legends
on the subject. According to one,
the original Christian cross was
made of four kinds of wood-palm,
cedar, olive and cypress-represent-
ing the four quarters of the earth.
A poetic legend has it that the true
cross was made of aspen, which
accounts for the almost constant
quivering of the leaves Of that spe-
cies of tree.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-05-05
Star Dust
X Aces Take to Air
X Strong Sound Effects
X Second Fiddle Stars
BY Virginia Vale

DUT "Test Pilot down as one
i of the pictures that you
mustn't miss. Not just because
the leading roles are played by
Myrna 10y, Clark Gable and
Spencer Tracy, with Lionel
Barrymore added for good
measure, or because the story
is a good one, but because of
the thrills contributed by the
story when it takes to the air.
There is flight in bomber for
new altitude record, there is a
power drive to test an army pursuit
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-05-05

the st. Louis Browns. Davis de-
veloped brittle tendencies that kept
him out of action and made him an
m-and-outer.
Another deal that soured was the
one that sent Lon Warneke to the
Cardinals in return for Pitcher Roy
Parmelee and First Baseman Rip
Collins. Parmelee has gone to Min
neapolis and Collins up until now
has not played the brand of ball ex-
pected of him by Charlie Grimm.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-05-05

to the comeback filled with a num-
Der Of tough hurdles, not the least of
which are her arch enemy, Helen
Jacobs, and Helen Marble who may
be playing sensational tennis again
in short time. Then there is that
Polish juggernaut, Jadwiga Jedre-
jowska, who has a habit of steam
rollering any opponent who shows
fight.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-05-05

plane, and there's the Cleveland air
race. Paul Mantz acted as tech
nical advisor for. the picture, but
Metro isn't saying much about that,
because he was co-pilot and navi-
gator for Amelia Earhart, and the
company didn't want to cash in on
her disappearance in order to get
more publicity for the film.
* .:
Robert Taylor isn't going to be
just "pretty boy" if the studio can
help it. He is scheduled for 'North-
west Passage" but first he will play
the part Of prize fighter in "Give
and Take"
Merle Oberon thought that she
was being followed by hold-up men
when she was in New York; she
was sure that they followed her
from a theater to a night club, and
asked for protection. At least, that
was the report-it might have been
just another variation of the old
idea involving an actress being
robbed of her jewels, all for the
dear sake of publicity. Anyway,
Miss Oberon wasn't robbed
You've heard about the struggles
of the sound effects men to get
just the right sound before the
MISUNDERSTANDING their fingers
across paper to get the sound of
wind in the trees, or something
like that. Charles Atlas, "The
Worlds Most Perfectly Developed
Strong Man." appeared on Fred Al
lens program, and they wanted the
sound of a telephone books being
torn in two by him. Tried every
thing but couldn't get it. Finally
Atlas picked up huge New York
phone book, strobe over to the
microphone, and tore it in two
and the sound was perfect!
Sylvia Sidney refused to be the
heroine of "Algiers," playing OPP
posite Charles Boyer, and Sigurd
Gurie, who did so well in "Marco
Polo," takes her place. 1t will be
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-05-05
Cause for Applause

Truth does not always command
applause" said Hi Ho, the sage of
Chinatown. ut is often only
trick of word or voice that causes
men to shout and beat their hands
together"
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-05-05

will be called the David Harum of
baseball and Cub fans can start or
dering their worlds series tickets.
If Dizzy causes Charley Grimm
no filters, if he settles down to bust
ness, if he pitches for the best in
terests of the team, if he gets along
well with his teammates and his
employers, then Chicago will have
cause for rejoicing.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-05-05
Handlers First English Songs

HandeIs first English songs, in
Guiding Dear Adonis" and "Trans-
porting JOY" were discovered in
heap of manuscripts in the British
museum and published for the first
time.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-05-05
When S. C. Ratified Constitution

The federal Constitution was rati-
fed at Charleston, S. c., by a con-
vention of delegates meeting from
May IL to "a, 1888, by a vote of 149
to 70. This convention was called
by the legislature.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-05-05
Founded by Cardinal Richelieu

L'Academie Franchise was found
ed by Cardinal Richelieu, in 1885,
under Louis XIII, and reorganized in
1916 under Louis XVIII. The men,
bership is limited to 40, elected for
life.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-05-05

army, now numbering about lU,UUU,
and his autocratic
He Keeps Up state is firmly en-
DUN Army of cysted in the con-
mann Men stitutional COM
nonwealth. When
he resigned as secretary of agri-
culture on August 16, of last year,
it was reported that he had made a
truce with President Cardenas, but
that talk seems to have been pre-
mature.
He was a member of the Ma
tional Revolutionary party COM
mittee of 1884, which drafted
Mexic0's six-year agrarian and
economic plan, but has been
determined and effective oppo-
nent Of such fixings, particularly
the Cardenas agrarian plan.
My friend picks Seniors Cardenas
and Cedillo as the two strong men
of Mexico, one being driven left
and the other right by the present
social tension.
THE Swiss bell-ringers, the one
L armed trap-drummer, the circus
ring-master and all such supposedly
busy and preoccupied people are
just snoozing along
Tap-Drun1mer compared to DR..
Has Nothing Morris Fishbein,
nm Fishbein goal Ike r
against medical
quacks, heresies, panaceas, innova-.
tions, utopias and unsanctioned ex-
periments.
When DR.. James H. Means, retir-
ing president of the American Col
lege of Physicians, drops a few pro-
vocative words about self-imposed
medical reform, they scarcely hit
press wire before DR.. Fishbein
swings a devastating counter-asser-
ton
DR.. Fishbein is deliberately
equipped and organized for
timely blasts against any en-
croachment of subsidized or So
cialized medicine. AS editor of
the Journal Of the American
Medical Association, with head
quarters in Chicago, he COM
mands large staff Of secre-
taries and assistant secretaries,
trained like a fast ball club to
field any challenge or dissent.
He is undoubtedly the most highly
publicized medical man in America.
Through the journal, he reaches the
nations 125, 1000 doctors; through Hy-
geia, the more popularized medical
publication, he carries his message
to many more thousands and is a
prolific writer for national maya
zines.
He VOLTS hundreds of exchanges
and eight or ten medical books ev-
=. cry week, lee
Fnds lf71e lures, speaks on
for Fights the radio, reviews
on Ouacks books, writ s
books and, always
enjoying fight, keeps up a fast
running fight against the quacks.
When he finished Rush Medical
school, at the age of twenty-three,
he had the choice of becoming a
pathologist for the state of Indiana,
or an assistant editor of the Jour
nal of Medicine.
He chose the latter. Mrs. Fish
bein, who was Anna Mantel,
serves through the war with
him, travelling with him and as
sisting him in the biggest and
busiest job Of medical journal
ism ever attempted. They have
three children.
DR.. Fishbein, plump, affable,
bald, and forty-eight years old, also
is deep in art, music, literature, the
DRAMA bridge, golf and public af-
fairs, exercising a sharp critical
judgment in all these fields. He is
a magnificent demonstration of how
knowing doctor can build up his
basal metabolisms.
@ Consolidated News Features
WNU Service.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-05-05
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON

NEW YORK. Saturnio Ce-
~ dillo, the feudal chieftain OF the
province of San Luis Potosi, is NOV
ing out of the ruck as the No. !
49,, menace to the
Gen. Cedillo Cardenas admins
No. 1 Menace tration, according
- ro~de,oe to all one can
CLEAN at this
crossroads. &
A friend of this writer, an oil OPP
orator who has reasons for remain
ing anonymous, brings news from
Mexico that the big, swarthy Mesti-
20, the most conspicuous hold-out on
the state agrarian program, is gain
ing a following in long sweep OF
Mexican provinces, and, IN this
view, dissident factions will swarm
in behind him, if there is further
drift toward civil war.
He has the friendship and
backing of various foreign inter-
ests, according to my informant,
and around his huge, stOlid,
grim person there is gathering
powerful opposition to the gov
eminent.
He is self-made fighting man
who served his apprenticeship in va
rious minor workouts, before the
big upheaval of 1910, when old Por-
firio Diaz was overthrown. He
joined this revolt, but called him
self conservative revolutionist."
He never liquidated his personal
.-..a.x x,o.1r r,,,rn hari,ad ohn11t 10 Q0Q
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-05-05

Sylvia Sidney refused to be the
heroine of "Algiers," playing OPP
posite Charles Boyer, and Sigurd
Gurie, who did so well in "Marco
Polo" takes her place. 1t will be
The Washington times., 1938-01-17
Fixing Its Age

TVERY institution of learning is eager to appro-
IL pirate to itself the veneration which age bestows.
Oxford, for instance, fondly holds to the very
atenuated thread which connects it with the times of
Alfred the Great
Old World precedents, therefore, to justify
American schools of the presentday in gathering up
all the threads, if any, which connect them with
Colonial times.
The University Of Maryland is planning TO observe
the one hundred and thirty-frst anniversary of its
founding next Thursday with College Park, founded
in 1854, as one of its integral parts.
The University of Marylands has been
Kaleidoscope but its constituent units varying from
II of NJ Has Had time to time, have always
been branches of trunk
V0FIeG career This trunk, unlike the trunk
of other universities, has been the medical school.
Old Washington College at Chestertown and St.
Johns College at Annapolis grated upon the
parent trunk but subsequently Topped off, and
for time an institution in Baltimore of prep school
grade figured its school of arts and sciences.
Finally the Agricultural College at College Park
was attached to the venerable trunk.
This branch has developed into fullfledged State
university and, according to American custom, would
supersede the medical college the main stem.
Nevertheless, now that the university has become
compact entity it seems to be entitled according to
precedents to its years from the earliest of
its beginning
The Washington times., 1938-01-17

try as I may, 1 cannot fit the
pieces together.
Some of the most puzzling are
those marked Capitalist, La
borer; Protestant, Catholic;
Democrat, Republican: Gentle,
Jew, and many which are
painted white, black, and vel
low. But, wait! I shall try to
solve the puzzle a new way.
See?
I turn the pieces over so the
blank side is up, where I can
see neither color, creed, politics,
nor religion, and my eyes, now
impartial and unprejudiced, be-
gin at once to see how the pieces
may be fitted together.
Each one has its own niche to
fill in the world-puzzle; and it
takes every single one to form
the composite whole.
MARY e. VAN CLEAVE