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Evening star., 1942-07-05
Sir.Sh0oters Aided
Rangers in Fights
With Indian Foes
BY HAROLD GERARD.

When Samuel Colt invented his
famous six-shooter in 1885, the Army
rejected it. The plant he had built
at Whitneyville, Conn.,, for the ex-
elusive manufacture of revolvers
was closed in 1842, and the whole
venture called off. So unfavorable
were the reports given to the Army
by inspectors of the six-shooter that
the Government did not place q
single order for the guns!
Colt had hoped for the support Of
the Army to make his invention a
success. In vain he pleaded and ca
joled for a reasonable test OF the
weapon. Still the Army turned
thumbs down on the project.
Then the Texas Rangers came to
the rescue. The Rangers had tried
the guns and found them to be Of
great advantage in their campaign
against the Indians. Formerly, the
Rangers had found themselves at
great disadvantage in the encounters
with the redskins, due to slowness
and clumsiness of reloading their
awkward one-shot guns. The In
dams could send halls of arrows
into the midst Of the mounted
Rangers before they could reload.
The six-shooter changed the pic
ture completely. Capt. Jack Hays,
a great Indian fighter, put into the
hands of each of his frontiersmen
two six-shooters from Colts plant.
From then on the Indians lost their
advantage. They were amazed to
find that solitary white man could
send II shots into their midst with
out stopping to reload. Because Of
the six-shooter the Rangers, par
ticularly Capt. Hays. were able to
cover themselves with glory.
Later, Ranger Capt. Walker made
a visit to Colt, during which he
suggested changes in the weapon.
Colt made the improvements gladly
and renamed the gun the Walker
Pistol" Walker approved the new
weapon and declared that all Rang
ers should be equipped with them.
The name walker Pistol" was
later changed to Colt" but the
nickname given it by the Texas
Rangers is still the most common
name Of all. To them 1t was .
''slX-shooter."
Evening star., 1942-07-05
Growing Plants Tell
Story of Minerals
Contained in Soil

It has been known for many years
that plants, through their roots, will
absorb from the soil whatever min
erals and chemicals they need for
their growth. Now it has been dis
covered that plants absorb other
minerals, too, in direct proportion
to the amount that is available in
the surrounding soil 1t is there
fore possible to determine the min
eral content of any given area, by
studying not the deeply imbedded
deposits themselves, but the leaves
and pine needles that grow on the
surface.
The leaves, pine needles, or grasses
are burned, and the flame is studied
through a spectroscope. This Is the
same instrument which astronomers
use to study the stars, and physicists
to study molecules and atoms. TO
botanist, this same instrument re-
veals not only the type OF mlnera
which is available in that region
but also the relative amount present
BY this method. burning leaves
have recently indicated the pres
ence of tin, zinc, lead and copper
deposits, manganese, molybdenum
gold. silver and tungsten.
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Gladys Arnold. tn m an d
pricked with a pin several times
to keep them whole. They were
then packed into us jars and filled
with a hot syrup and processed for
20 minutes in a hot water bath.
We turned out beautifully, but I
was the most beautiful jar of all,
and feel grateful to Gladys for saw
ing the plums from rot. I have
tried to be an honor to her. In
August, last year, she exhibited me
in canning contest. I won blue
ribbon for her. In November I won
a blue ribbon and quarter at the
Damascus (Md) Community Fair
I was then carefully wrapped in
brown paper to retain my color and
placed in her mothers cellar.
When the 1941 All canning show
came, I was entered with two other
jars of Gladys canning and we won
q blue ribbon for our group.
The following week the three of
us went to All Club week at Uni
versity of Maryland where we won
her State All red ribbon,
Next, I was sent to the Mary
land State Fair at Timonium. Here
I again won my mistress a ribbon
and a check for 81.
Perhaps this will end my career,
but I hope I've proven to my mis-
tress that it pays to carefully save
surplus, and I hope she'll keep up
her good work of canning and that
she'll win many more prizes.
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reputation as bad hombre. Young,
wavy- haired, good-natured, the Kid
nevertheless was top man with six
shooter during the famous Lincoln
County IN. MeXD feud. His blood
thunder career terminated abb
ruptly when he was only 81. Oddly
enough, he was born, not in ranch
house on the range, but in New
York City. When he was 8, his par
ents took him to Coffeyville, Kans.,
the place where the notorious Dalton
brothers came to grief at the hands
Of a group Of embattled citizens
seeking to avenge an attempt on
the towns two banks.
Happily Married.
Some people in Missouri still say
that Jesse James and his brother
Frank were not really bad. 1t was
partly due to the loyalty of their
friends and relatives that these spe-
cialists in train robbery were able to
carry on their dubious profession for
16 years without once being ar
rested. They were both happily
married, and neither drank. Char
acteristic of their hold-ups was the
grain bag they carried as a conven-
fence for the passengers of the train,
who were told to drop their valuables
therein. Once they held up a train
on the Iron Mountain Railroad in
Missouri and, before disappearing,
handed the conductor a prepared
account of the robbery for insertion
in the newspapers!
Dick Fellows was one California
bandit who approached in appear
ance, at least, the popular concep-
ton of holdup man. He was tall
and strong and had a luxuriant
black beard. Even Dick, however
had some unusual traits for one of
his calling. For one thing, he in
variably left the scene of his crimes
on horse. But he was never able
to ride one-a sad failing for a
highwayman of the pre-automobile
days! One horse broke Fellows leg,
another finally led to his capture
when it threw him.
Then this unusual desperate sur
prised every one by organizing a
Sunday School Bible class among his
fellow prisoners at San Quentin
prison. The prisoners, and even the
guards, refrained from swearing
when Dick was present. Finally the
California bad man who was a fail
ure at riding horse or robbing a
stagecoach achieved success in an
other line-as a teacher in the De-
partment of Moral Instruction at
Folsom Prison.
1t is generally believed that Tom
Bell was CALIFORNIA; most cold
blooded gunman. Yet he was known
by some as the Gentleman High
wayman" and was respectable
Tennessee physician before he left
the straight and narrow. His real
name was DR.. Thomas j. Hodges.
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were familiar and terrifying to the
hard-bitten Wells Fargo drivers
Yet, when he was finally caught and
unmasked, it was discovered that he
was the softest, easiest-going high
wayman of them all!
In the first place, he didn't look
the part. For some strange reason
we have come to visualize highway
men as huge, swarthy, black-eyed,
black-haired men Of glowing face
and rough appearance. That was
probably the way the Wells Fargo
messengers thought Black Bart
looked-because he always appeared
before them with a flour sack over
his head and shoulders. Actually,
he stood less than 5 feet inches.
He always wore a derby under the
flour sack to give him height!
In contradiction to his name, Bart
was actually blond, blue-eyed
Anglo-SaXon with fair complex
ion. He borrowed the name Black
Bart from a story he read. His real
name was Charles E. Boles. He
was mild and genial in appearance,
and bit of dandy. He sported a
Chesterfield coat, flower in his
lapel, a mustache and carefully
trimmed goatee. AS a matter of
fact, he looked so much like a re-
spectacle, solid citizen that when he
was finally being taken to prison,
crowd thought the San Francisco
detective at his side was the prisoner
and he the officer-much to Black
Bart's amusement, for he had a
sense of humor, too.
He not only didn't look the part
he didn't even act it. He was not,
for example, fierce, violent man.
of-action, of intemperate habits and
harsh, uncouth manners, as could
be expected of a brigand of his
reputation. During all his % hold
ups he never once fired a shot, and
there is reason to believe that he
never meant to. He never touched
intoxicating liquor, never smoked
and, according to legend, was polite
to ladies when they were present in
the coaches he stopped.
Others Were Blond.
Black Bart was famous for van
ishing as if by magic-turning up at
long distances from his last holdup
in an amazingly short time. Once
he covered 80 miles in three days
on foot-a remarkable feat for a
man who was so years old!
Bart was not the only blond, blue
eyed bandit the West produced. AS
matter of fact, one biographer of
Western desperadoes-W.N N. Burns
says that all the noted gunmen Of
the West were the blond type. He
cites Frank and Jesse James, the
Youngers, the Daltons, Wild Bill
Hickok, Ben Thompson, King Fisher,
Henry Plummer, Clay Allison, Wyatt
carp and Billy the Kid.
William H. Bonney-better known
as Billy the Kid-was another whose
appearance and manners belied his
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paved streets Charles steooins.
harmonic to a patriotic tune, as
Richard delivers his papers amid
curious stares. He explains that the
pepper color of his burro accounts
for his name, Pepper. And, any
way, the man I bought him from
had already named him that"
Richard says.
He admits that, before he got
Pepper, very little gas and tires were
used to deliver his papers. On week
days, he used a wagon, and on Sun
days, his father took him around in
the car. After the gas and tire
shortage, he had to begin using the
wagon on Sunday, too. This was
when Richard decided on four
legged power, and his parents chip
ped in and helped raise S75. With
this, Richard bought Pepper, cart
and harness.
During the summer, Pepper is kept
in pasture, and his main food sup
ply comes from his grazing, He is
also given mill feed, but he doesn't
eat more than a sack a month. 1t
casts Richard about SO to keep
Pepper during the warm months.
He has a barn for him in winter and
has to buy hay. All in all, the ex-
pense of keeping Pepper is not great.
Contrary to his name, Pepper is
not mean. According to Richard,
he is very gentle" Once in a
while, the cowboy in Richard is
aroused, and he hops on Pepper and
goes for a ride. Pepper is also used
in the garden and makes fine plow-
horse-or, rather, plow-donkey. Pep
per often has quite busy day pull
ing a newspaper cart, plowing the
garden and giving the neighborhood
kids a ride, but he does it all with a
smile. Maybe 1t is because he knows
he is a defense animal"
Richard lives at 1922 North Lex
ington street.
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Friends
Prize Contribution
BY PATRICIA MORAN, II,


Woodrow Wilson High School.
I was sitting out in the yard one
day,
When a bluebird happened to. fly
my way.
I sat very still, and he looked at me,
Not frightened bit, it was plain to
see.
Then he sat down on bit of a
limb,
And he looked at me, and I looked
at him.
We stayed that way for moment
or two;
Then he stretched his wings, and
away he flew.
I felt rather sad and blue just then
And I hoped he'd happen along
again;
So just sat still and looked at the
sky
And there was my feathered friend
passing by!
Then he flew down to that same old
limb,
And he looked at me, and looked
at him:
And there you can find us most any
day,
Till spring and summer have passed
away,
For we go each day to that same
old tree.
Where I look at him, and he looks
at me.
Evening star., 1942-07-05
Girl Has Two Ideas
To Help War Effort

donna Lindsey, IL, has two ideas
to help win the war, and they both
pay off in War stamps. On the
surface, perhaps they don't sound
impressive, but with them Idonna
is buying stamps that buy arms to
bring victory.
I'm the summertime, donna says,
Il pick raspberries from our patch
for cents a quart In the winter
I take care of the children of sew
eral neighbors while their parents
go out. Each family pays me 25
cents a night. l am buying War
stamps with the money I earn"
Idonna lives In Somers, Mont.
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erty IN all her grandeur.
The statue itself is $50 feet high
and stands on a granite pedestal
155 feet high. An elevator takes you
up halfway and you must walk up
a spiral stair to the top, or head.
Forty persons can stand in the
head Of the statue, and there is
wonderful view of New York Harbor
through windows in the forehead.
The frame of the statue is made Of
steel beams, like new building, COW
cred with heavy bronze plates which
form the outside.
The Statue of Liberty was pre-
sented to the United States by
France, as a token of friendship, in
1884.
The torch, as well as the millions
Of candlepower floodlights, are not
used during the war.
The arm holding the torch is more
than 40 feet long. Her mouth is 8
feet wide, which gives some idea
of the size of Miss Liberty.
She has thrilled millions of immi-
grants arriving from foreign lands
and stands majestically for freedom
and liberty.
Evening star., 1942-07-05

Greg.
One-sixteenth of the people in
South America live in Chile. They
are, for the most part, white. OF the
100000 population, only about 100,-
900 are full-blooded Indians
The main stock of the people of
Chile is Spanish. About l,250,000
are classed as pure Spanish" and
many others are largely Spanish
There are, in addition, fairly large
groups of persons of Italian, Ger
man, French and British descent.
When we think of Chile, we may
do well to think :of mountains. The
Andes mountains run down the
whole length of the country. and
form a kind Of backbone. For the
main part, they serve as a border
with the neighbor country of Ar
gentina.
The highest peak in South America
rises partly in Chile and partly ir
Argentina. 1t is known as Aeon.
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David Chavez of Santa Fe, N. Mex.
Instead of champagne, water from
the Santa Fe River was used, and
it was blessed by the Archbishop OF
Santa Fe, the oldest diocese in the
United States.
The State of New Mexico now
has two ships named in her honor
and the battleship New Mexico is
doing her share. I am sure, with
our fleet Santa Fe is the second
oldest city in the United States,
and in Spanish its name means
"Holy Faith"
We Americans need that faith;
faith in our soldiers. sailors and
ourselves. that right will conquer
In this war.
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left on a tree to
rot. Now we are
S / X c a n S o t
plums.
G ] a d Y S
c | e a n e d and
sterilized us jars
and fitted us
with new lids
a n d rubbers.
She picked the
plums from her
gra n d f ather's
tree. She aSsort-
ed them as to
size, color and
frmness, washed
Evening star., 1942-07-05
Riddles

l. What's the difference between
a farmer and Observation-Disclosures
Swain
2 What woman does no one like?
Raymond Norris.
3. What is it that has teeth but
can't eat?-Raymond Norris.
4. Why is it hard to get baseball
game started in the afternoon?--
Harold r. Manning.
S. Why is snow like tree?-Har-
old r. Manning.
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broken against
the ships hull
and it slid slowly
into the water.
More than a
thousand work
men at the plant
burst into wild
c h e erS. H o W
proud they were
to have such a
gre a t part in
this war!
My ou S ! n,
Caroline Chavez,
the sponsor. is
the daughter OF
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ships, Coney
Island and too
many other new
things to men,
ton. One sight,
h o " e er, i'm
pressed me more
than all the rest
the Statue of
Liberty. Rising
to a height Of
more than 300
1ect, OH beQlOe >
Island, 1h miles
from Manhattan
Island in New
Y ork Harbor,
stands Miss Lib
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RlCnaTQ HdTTlS.
Is, a Star car
rier, bought this
outfit about a
week before the
big snow ir
spring to solve
the gas and tire
situation"
T h e sc op-
clop" of the
pepper = coloree
donkey's hoofs
and the grinding
of the S te e |.
trimmed cart.
wheels on the
we'd street,
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Riddle 4nszvers

/. One gathers what he sows and
the other sews what she gathers. 2.
Miss Fortune (misfortune). g. A
comb. 4. The bats like to sleep in
the daytime. s. 1t leaves (leafs) in
the spring.
Evening star., 1942-07-05
Santa Fe Launching
Was Thrilling Event,
Says Arlington Girl
Prize Contribution
BY JOANNE C. JEFFERYS, II

Villa Maria Academy, Arlington, Va.
Recently, in Camden, N. j., I at
tended the launching of the cruiser
U. S. S. Santa Fe. What a thrill
came over to me as the bottle was
Evening star., 1942-07-05
Famed Stagecoach Bandit
Didn't Look the Part
BY SAMUEL HUDSON.

If Hollywood to film the life OF Black Bart most
applied
would getting the
1875 and masked brgand held
double and his technique Of
that box!
Evening star., 1942-07-05
Prize Contribution
BY CHARLES STEBBINS, 18
Central High School.

Residents of Arlington have been
witnessing vague resemblance OF
return to horse and buggy days,
but in this case it is burro and cart
Evening star., 1942-07-05
BY RAMON COFFMAN

Unce
Chile
this
long ribbon along South
this If Chile
could be laid North it would reach from the mouth of
Evening star., 1942-07-05
A Useless Tar
Speaks a Word
For Its User
1t Was Nice to Win
Those Ribbons and
That Check, Too
Prize Contribution
BY GLADYS ARNOLD, Is,

We were useless objects until we
were put to usefulness by Gladys
Arnold. We were just six dusty
Jars and a bunch of surplus plums
Evening star., 1942-07-05
New York Visit
by
Trip to Statue
Goddess of Liberty
Is More Impressive
Than Other Sights
PHxe Contribution
BY MARION JACKSON, 8,

On recent trip to New York City
my first-every hour was filled
with thrills-the very tall buildings,
the fast subway trains, the giant
Evening star., 1942-08-30

was full of wondering admiration.
His seat was not many feet from the
ladders base. and the smoke from
his glowing cigar seemed to follow
the acrobat as he climbed to the taut
wire near the ceiling, where he was
scheduled to perform his much her.
aided feat, billed as Reckless Oar
ing in the Dark"
This was to walk, in total darkness,
the span of taut wire sixty feet above
the arenas floor.
WHEN the lights 60 on, Frederick"
the acrobat had explained to the
Nazi soldier. ''you shall see that have
walked half that span. Turn them off
for another fifty seconds, and l shall
walk the other half"
Now the moment had come for
him to make good his boast, and
Laikon's heart sang with expectance.
He would prove, on this night, that
in desperate world even an acrobat
can do his bit for freedom.
He reached the top rung of the lad
der and bowed. He bent to pluck his
balancing pole from its base. Looking
downward, he saw the substantial
figure of the Gauleiter, as if edged
with light.
Then he raised his hand, almost in
a Nazi salute.
1t was the signal to Frederick, and
Immediately the arena was swept into
darkness.
Unseen in that dark, Laikon
perched on his toes, extended his
arms, and dove swiftly. surely, grace
fully downward, holding his balancing
pole in front of him like spear.
The Gauleiter's cigar, racing up to
meet him in the pitch black, made a
perfect target.
MALCOLM l. HOFFMAN
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Laikon the acrobat was poised
for the greatest feat Of all

U~1oME, Laikon, the Gauleiter
requests that you be
~ prompt" the Nazi soldier
said.
The great acrobat knew that "com-
mands" would have been more accu-
rate word than requests" but he con-
tinued to draw up his high black
tights very slowly and very deliber-
ately.
As a matter of fact, though, he was
as excited as a novice. Not since the
well-remembered day when his skill
had earned him a command perform
ance before the King of Norway, had
Laikon approached his famous ira
peze act with such a wildly beating
heart. His elation sprang from his GER
tainty that tonight he would perform
a new feat. the greatest of his whole
career; one that would be described
and remembered 50 long as men and
women have ears to listen.
Pulling on his black jersey over his
huge chest, Laikon looked almost bea-
tifically at the Nazi soldier 'Remem-
Der, Frederick" he said, that when
l have reached the high wire and
raised my hand, you are to switch off
all the lights. Then will perform my
daring feat in total darkness. Count
fifty, then throw the lights on again"
Frederick nodded mechanically,
and led the way into the Oslo Arena.
The seats were crowded with digni-
Evening star., 1942-08-30

taries, most of them Nazis relaxing
from the strain of holding down an
occupied but still rebellious country.
Laikon tossed himself buoyantly up
ward on the rings. reaching higher
and ever higher for his grip. Almost
directly beneath him as he rose, he
observed the rapt face of the Gauleiter,
the ever-present cigar between his
lips. Near the Gauleiter were Nazi
officers of the highest rank. Laikon's
chest swelled with pride.
Not easily had the acrobat won
this moment. To reach it, he had
suffered anguished months - months
of old friends lost, and the contemp-
tuous giances of his compatriots. He
was thinking of these things as he
climbed upward.
An ACROBAT, he reflected, cannot be
expected to understand politics. And
in this modern machine-made war, he
is about as useful as a peashooter.
Laikon had been an acrobat since boy
hood. Acrobatics had always been his
way of life, and he could not under
take to learn another.
He had known fellow oountrymen
whose rage against the conqueror left
them no peace, but led them out to
sea in rowboats on the f1imsy chance
that they might reach Britain and
fight. He had also heard of staIwart
citizens in the rural areas who with
Evening star., 1942-08-30

"VV7HAr difference faithful care with
w really mild soap can make! The Camay
Mild-Soap Diet has done thrilling things for
my skin," says the beautiful bride you see
here, Mrs. Harold Remington.
Be sure improper cleansing isn't cloud
ing your complexion. Be sure your soap is
Evening star., 1942-08-30

short knives nightly sought out enemy
sentinels. They were very brave. of
course, and as such he admired them,
but none of them had his delicate
physical skill, his perfect muscular
coordination. And none of them could
do what he was going to do tonight.
Thinking of this, twisting through the
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air under the powerful lights, Laikon's
heart beat high with joy.
Climbing higher on the spiral ladder
for each display of prowess, he looked
down from time to time and saw that
he had won the approval of the Gau-
letter with his performance. The Nazi's
face, turned upward like a saucer,
Evening star., 1942-08-30

mild enough Skin specialists advise regu-
lar cleansing with fine mild soap. And
Camay Is even niLder than dozens of other
popular beauty soaps. So try the Camay
Mild-Soap Diet for 80 days. And the ra-
diant loveliness of brides complexion
may soon be yours!
Evening star., 1942-08-30

Work Camay's milder lather over
your skin, paying special attention
to nose, base of nos,rils and !, chin. h
Rinse with warm water and follow
With 30 seconds of cold splashings.
Evening star., 1942-08-30

Then. while you sleep, the tiny pore
openings are free to function ior
natural beauty. In the morning
one more quick session with Camay
and your skin is ready for makeup.
Evening star., 1942-08-30

Night and morning give your skin
this thrilling beauty cleansing with
Camay. Be faithful, let no other
soap touch your skin. New love,
liness may soon be your reward!
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-09

Tony wanted 10 die on a calm
day, but the weather wa7 becom-
ling increasingly worse. The winds
were variable, and generally high.
The sky was overcast much OF the
thine. Squalls were numerous and
nasty.
This was the beginning OF the
hurricane we were 10 learn about
later, the most disastrous hurri-
cane remembered in the South
Pacific. II was fortunate, perhaps
I that we were unable 10 recognize
the signs of what was in store.
| When the clouds blackened and
the wind rose, the sea grew angry
and dashed It's vieieHsly Even with
the canvas anchor il was difficult
10 control the boat. We were con-
Itinually drenched and often in
danger Of upsetting. Worst of all
we had little strength left for
fighting.
The weakness hit us all at once
and left our ravaged bodies full OF
pain, Our morale, too, was lowest
When We needed il most.