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THE MERIDIAN TRIBUNE
Friday, September 11, 1936
00/
Adventurers’
Club
"The Joke That Wasn't Funny"
By FLOYD GIBBONS
Famous Headline Hunter
VOU know, boys and girls, I don’t suppose anybody exactly
A relishes the idea of death for any reason, but you can’t get
around the fact that some reasons for dying are more pleasant
than others. The long list of the world’s martyrs seems to sug-
gest that death isn’t quite so terrible when you’re dying for a
good and worthy cause.
But on the other hand, it must be pretty awful to be facing your
doom on account of nothing more important than a practical joke.
That’s what happened, though, to CHARLEY DI GIACOMO,
of Paterson, N. J., on March 8, 1923, at the Peoples Bank in
Paterson. Death came for him riding on the butterfly wings of a
laugh—came for him at his place of business, just as he was
getting ready to leave for the night. . '
It happened so suddenly that for a moment Charley could hardly
realize what had happened. He was putting his books away in the big
vault when his friend Bill, another clerk in the bank, called out, “Hurry
up, Charlie, or I’ll lock you in.” Then he heard the door click shut. It
was seconds before he realized that that ominous click meant death.
Bill’s Thoughtless Gag Threatens to Smother Charley.
Bill hadn’t meant to shut that door. He’d only been kidding—only
meant to close it part way. But at the last moment the heavy portal
had slipped from his hands. Too late he realized he had shut the door
to an air-tight vault—a vault in which a man could live only a few
hours—a vault equipped with a time lock that couldn’t be opened till
the next morning!
Bill called Garret Kuiken, the assistant cashier, who was still
in the bank. Kuiken called the fire department, and the firemen
called out half of Paterson. They got crews from the electric
light company, crews of structural iron workers and concrete
workers. They sent for an ambulance for they knew Charley
Di Giacomo would need it before they got him out. Then they set
to work with drills trying to punch a hole through the side of the
vault.
While crew after crew arrived on the scene the firemen worked
frantically, but their labors were futile. A bank vault is built to keep
people out of it, but it isn’t an easy thing to GET people out of. And
© New York Post.-—WNU Service.
‘What Does It Prove’
Bout Gives Sailor
$30,000 for Trouble
"A/HILE beating his , Basque
V Woodchopper par in slapping
over the Boston Bartender at
Yankee Stadium, Joe Jouis was
far short of his top Chicago King-
fish performance. Yet, even though
it took one minute and two seconds
of the third round before he could
convince a trembly-legged, eye-
scarred, thirty-three-year-old veter-
an that he had enough; this falling
short of perfection should not be
held against Joe. He did the job
assigned to him and probably the
whole Vassar Daisy Chain team
could not have done it any better.
. Whether he is, by any chance, the
same gifted athlete he was before
the Schmeling mis-
take is something
that need not be
gone into here. Cer-
tainly he entered
the ring more
blithely than for any
other New York ap-
pearance up to date.
Even before he got
his first glimpse of
that dreadful Shark-
. ey man,
Jack Sharkey.
the way
who, by
was the
round-heeled riot of
“Hurry Up, Charley, Or I’ll Lock You In.”
RAMS
meanwhile poor Bill, the cause of all the trouble, was taken home in
a state of collapse, tormented by the. thought that his joke had caused
the death of his friend Charley.
It Looked as if the Vault Would Be Charley’s Tomb.
Again the drills began clattering at the top of the vault. Would he
live until they could get him out? That’s something Charley didn’t know
himself. When that door had closed on him it had taken him a. few
seconds to realize the gravity of his predicament.
“When I remembered that the door couldn’t be opened till
the next morning,” he says, “I was stunned—for how long I
cannot say. Everything was quiet. I could hear the thumping of
my heart. I felt alone and helpless like a man buried a thousand
miles under ground. I pulled myself together. I knew I must
keep calm.”
The concrete workers arrived and a pneumatic drill was brought
into play on the top of the vault. After an hour’s work they succeeded
in drilling a small hole in the top of the vault. Would Charley still be
conscious? The president of the bank just came on the scene, put his
mouth to the hole and called: “Are you all right boy?” There was
no answer. But after a moment a piece of twisted paper was thrust
up through the opening. On it was scrawled one word, “Hurry!”
There Wasn’t Any Air Left for Charley to Breathe.
“At first I could breathe, but I knew that the air wouldn’t last long.
I was standing up when they began to pound on the sides of the vault.
The din was so terrific that I stuffed my fingers in my ears. But I
. Was happy to know help had arrived.
“The place seemed to be getting hot. Breathing began to be
harder. I broke out in a cold sweat and got down on the floor
where the air was better. .For hours I lay there, gasping for
■ breath. My body was feverish. I began to pray that they would
be in time.”
Charley’s lungs were aching. He was burning up inside. As time
went on breathing became almost impossible. His tongue hung out and
he licked at the side of the vault because it felt cool. His head was
spinning. Tears were rolling down his face. His stomach was turning
and he thought he would go mad.
The Cost of Humor Is Pretty High, Sometimes.
“I felt like dashing my head against" the walls,” he says. “Every-
thing was getting hazy. The end was near when I looked up and saw a
hole. I struggled to a chair, stood on it and pushed a note through.
Then I fell to the floor, unconscious.”
It took them five hours to open a breach in that two-foot-thick
wall of battleship steel. Charley’s face was blue, his eyes bulging
and his tongue hanging out of his mouth when, at last, they
got him out into the air.
His hearing was gone and he still can’t hear as well as he once
could. For weeks he lay in bed recovering from the shock. The doc-
tors say he will never be quite the same again and won’t be able to do
indoor work for many years. It’s a pretty tough price to pay—for an-
other guy’s sense of humor.
©—WNU Service.
two rounds and 1.02 later, he was
grinning.
That, of course, may have been
because hewas getting his first
glimpse of Leon Kettchel, the hu-
man beanpole who some day may
be stood up to be bowled over in the
same alley and under the same
benevolent auspices as last night.
It also might have been Because a
youngster, whose best ballyhooers
had been doing masterpieces about
his “shellshocked” reactions, was
at last coming to realize that in-
stead of going into a battle he was
facing a pink tea.
Anyhow it, hardly matters. Keep-
ing his right up high, as he did
not against the fairly young and
fairly agile Schmeling, Louis start-
ed slowly. Perhaps a punch into
those whiskers he has never yet had
time to' grow might have caused
him some inconvenience and slowed
him up even more. But, even though
the leaden-footed, half-bald Sharkey
made some motions, which indicat-
ed that Joe still has a bit to learn
before being better than even mon-
ey against such two-legged gents
as Ettore, Pastor and John Henry
Lewis, nothing much happened.
Sharkey went through the first
round as if surprised that the bad
news was so long delayed. So, he
pawed his bemused way into the
second round, scarcely landing a
blow. He went down from a right
to the jaw, got up and went down
again shortly thereafter from a
right, a left and a feeling of futility.
In the third round he again was
bowled over twice, once sprawling
over the lower strand of ropes, ,
After this he got up. He was not
as badly beaten as was Louis in
the Schmeling fight and it is prob-
able that he expected to go on. But
Referee Donovan had already
counted ten. So that was that. The
battle of “What Does It Prove?”
was over and, even thougl the radio
and movie concessionaires may
squawk to the high heavens, there
will be no rematch. Sharkey now
can go back to Boston and impa-
tient customers who have been
screaming can get some service
again.
Sloughed Sailor Need
Have No Regrets
Variety of Flavors
A classification of many of the
eucalyptus trees reads like a cata-
log of flavoring extracts for cake-
making. Some of them, says the
Los Angeles Times, are the pepper-
mint gum, lemon-scented gum, ap-
ple-scented gum and sugar gum.
The crushed leaves of these trees
actually have the designated odors.
The peppermints are the tallest
trees in the world. The almost un-
believable heights of the tallest eu-
calyptus trees vary from 400 to al-
most 600 feet. It is said that there
is a eucalyptus tree near Sydney
525 feet high. One of the modest
cousins of these giants of the euca-
lyptus family is known as Euca-
lyptus polyanthemos, or the Aus-
tralian beech. It is one of the har-
diest and most drouth resistant of
the small types of eucalyptus.
Abraham’s Gardens
Gardens are recorded in ancient
accounts of the journey of Abraham
from Ur of the Chaldees to the
Land of Cannaan, says the New
York World, gardens that ficur-
ished in approximately 2000 B. C.
The record is, as follows: “When
the caravan stopped for a long time
in one place the women cultivated
the soil. They raised lettuce,
onions, ’ radishes, beans, lentils,
cauliflower, cabbage, carrots and
beets. The seeds they carefully
saved and carried from place to
place. Sometimes when they found
a new root they planted it. In
larger fields they raised wheat, rye
and barley to feed their cattle and
make bread for thmseives. The
men could not help much in culti-
vating the soil because they had to
care for the herds, hunt and fight”
While explaining how he held the
Brown Bomber to a mere count of
ten kayo three years after the stal-
wart Carnera won the champion-
ship from him by means of a slash-
ing, lone uppercut, the sloughed
sailor need have no regrets, though.
He got a very handsome $30,928
for his scant moments oi light ex-
ercise. So he departs with the pleas-
ant feeling that in a town where
6,000,000 people take daily chances
of being bowled over by autos,
merely because they cannot afford
carfare, at least 6,000,000 people
are envying his pretty opportunity
and his bright reward.
Not in the Box Score:
Dartmouth football fans are wor-
ried about Mutt Ray, who recently
underwent a back operation. The
crack center is far from right and
chances are he will see little action
this fall. The two star guards, Lat-
ta McCray, severely injured in a
skiing accident, and Joe Hanrahan,
who was stopped by the June ex-
ams, also may be unavailable.
NOT IN THE BOX SCORE:
DITSY GRANT’S European tennis
D tour cost him $250, exclusive of
incidental expenses. His partner in
the insurance business, who was
supposed to take care of his renew-
als, fell ill while Bitsy was away
and let a number of policies lapse
. . . Bobby Riggs and Wayne Sabin,
the young California doubles combi-
nation being touted for next year’s
Davis cup competition, have been
parted by Jack del Valle, their “an-
gel.” The break came during the
Rye matches and Del Valle ex-
plained it by saying he believed
Sabin’s influence on Riggs was not
beneficial. It probably will be
patched up before the national
championships.
Although the Giants are in the
midst of one of the most magnifi-
cent pennant drives of recent years
gossipers still operate on them. The
latest lowdown is that Hank Leiber
and Harry Gumber’ will be traded
to the Cards for Jim Collins next
winter. The whispered reason for
this is that Terry and Leiber do
not “get along.” Another keyhole
item is that several Giants’ offi-
cials consider Mel Ott to be “an
overrated player” and will peddle
him to another club in 1937 if Terry
agrees.
Pop Warner and Gil Dobie will
be personally matching their foot-
ball coaching wits
for the first time
when Boston college
meets Temple in
October. This is
Warner’s forty-sec-
ond year as a coach
while Dobie has
been on duty for a
mere 35 seasons . .
Eddie Borden, the
sports writer and
fight manager, will
shortly publish a
new boxing maga-
Pop Warner
zine tagged Bang . . . Princeton
insiders are breaking down and ad-
mitting that the Frosh football sup-
ply is the best since the class of
’36. They add that this manna will
be very much welcomed by Coach
Fritz Crisler since practically all of
the present regulars will be blotted
out by graduations next June.
Ohio State Fears Grid
Date With New York U
Strange as it may seem Ohio
State fears that early football date
with N. Y. U. this fall, buckeye
athletes, in New York for the World
Labor meet, reported that folks
around Columbus feel the Violets
are going to be so tough that there
is practically no betting money in
sight.; . . Yale men refuse to
talk about gridiron prospects but
there is a persistent rumor that
Ducky Pond will surprise the na-
tion with a powerful team this fall.
Especially if some of the scho-
lastically doubtful sophs regain
good standing . . Don’t expect
Lou Little to be overactive at Co-
lumbia this fall. Reports from his
Leominster, Mass., home town are
that his injured hip still pains him
mightily.
George Varoff,. the high-soaring
pole vaulter, will stay away from
sports' until after Christmas. He
feels that he has been spending too
much time on such play and is
anxious to catch up in his studies
at Oregon, where he is a sopho-
more this fall ... Sign of autumn
. . . Six Youngsters tossing the
Manhattan sidewalk season’s first
football on East Eighty-fourth
street.
Although Jess Sweetser, president
of the Metropolitan Golf associa-
tion, is playing as good golf as any
New York amateur this summer,
his temperament still gets in his
way during tournament competition.
In spite of his many years of cam-
paigning he still enlists in the club-
throwing ranks when the breaks go
sour . . . For a lad who’s had a
taste of Hollywood, Buell Patrick
Abbott, the Californian who recent-
ly won the national public links ti-
tle, has mild aspirations for a movie
career. “All I want,” he says,
speaking of that fabled city where
salaries always are quoted in the
higher G’s, “is a contract for $350
or $400 a week for four or five
years. Then I’ll quit.”
This has been a singularly unfor-
tunate summer for Bill Cook, cap-
tain and future coach of the Rang-
ers. His mother died two months
ago, just after the popular hockey
veteran had moved his family east
to the new/ house he bought near
Hamilton, Ont. His two children
had to have their tonsils out and,
although that’s ordinarily a simple
operation these days, his younger
daughter had a relapse and had to
return to the hospital. Then Mrs.
Cook became ill and had to under-
go an operation. . . . Jughandle
Johnny Morrison, former Dodger
and Pirate, is now pitching for not
too good semi-pro teams in Brook-
lyn and getting $3.50 per game.
Although he appears to be a quiet,
well-mannered fellow, Wally Berger
of the Bees likes practical jokes ev-
en better than base hits. His pet
prank is to put eelf in the pullman
berths of his teammates . . . Hand-
books take five-cent bets in Mon-
treal . . . Watch North Carolina
State’s football team this fall. Hunk
Anderson, the old Notre Dame, will
be working with 26 letter men, most
cf them juniors. .
Experts whisper that the best
buys on the Philly mid-winter bar-
gain counter wii' be Pitcher Claude
Passeau and Catcher Bill Atwood.
The Culs and Giants already have
been fingering the $50,000 price tags.
Flair for Hand-Quilted Fashions
Quaint Sampler Will
Keep You Occupied
By CHERIE NICHOLAS
T TP TO comparatively a short
C time ago handquilting was re-
garded as a form of needlework to
be utilized and reserved for luxuri-
ous intimate apparel, robes, bed-
jackets, negligees and such. The
thought no longer holds good. The
emergence of hand-quilting from
boudoir environs becomes a high-
style event—the dawn of a new era
for this exquisite needle work.
' That faithful perennial back-to-
college clothes problem is with us
again. By way of a new and in-
teresting approach to the subject
suppose we talk about the perfect-
ly fascinating hand-quilted , sports
coats and evening jackets, such as
are now pridefully showing in
shops that make boast of being
ever “first” in fashion.
Tuck away one or more of these
cunning and chic hand-quilted gar-
ments in your back-to-school ward-
robe. Wear ’em.on the campus and
to parties and proms and you will
excite the admiration and e. vy of
the whole college. If you think
this is an exaggerated way of put-
ting it, please take one long look
at the hand-quilted fashions here
pictured. The argument is closed,
n’est ce pas?
Hand - quilting really dates back
to early history, some of the oldest
pieces originating in China and
India. In the general art revival
of the Renaissance period Trapunto
quilting came into exisetnee, the
same accomplished by quilting the
design in double lines, raising the
space between into a bas relief ef-
fect by drawing through wisps of
soft wool to form a padding.
Women especially in north of
England and in northern Italy cre-
ated unusually artistic and original
pieces of hand-quilting. Via the
English route the art of quilting
was brought over by the English
settlers whose descendants, farm-
ers’ wives, living in the mountains
of Kentucky carry on the work to-
day.
Visioning the possibilities in this
attractive handiwork, current style
creators, have put experts in vogu-
ish costume design at the service
of native workers and thus is added
to hand-quilted garments now
showing in the shops.
The new sport coats and evening
jackets now featuring in the fash-
ion picture are made mostly of
hand-blocked linens, cottons, smart
satins, sheer woolens and dainty
challis. There are flowery prints,
geometrical designs, checks and
plaids as well as plain colors in
flattering combinations.
The stunning swagger coat in the
picture is made of hand-blocked
challis in brilliant plaid. It is lined
with plain linen. Just the thing for
campus wear or to stroll about
town on an early coolish autumn
day.
The good-looking model to the
right at the top makes an ideal
knockabout country club coat. The
original was done in brown lines.
The pronounced vogue for satin
this fall bespeaks the appeal of a
hand-quilted coat thereof fashioned
in like manner.
The sports cardigan “set” shown
in foreground is of bright monotone
fabric lined with a gay print, the
complementary waistcoat being of
match-color pique with silver coin
buttons to add to its lure. The eve-
ning jacket (in panel) is in a Trap-
unto design on silk-finished linen
with contrasting lining. This model,
comes in exquisite Chinese color-
ings. A perfect accessory to com-
plete an autumn campus frock is
shown to left above. This round-
about jacket is reversible and has
contrasting lacing.
© Western Newspaper Union.
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OR
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COME WHEN
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WARNING
Pattern 1187
No matter what the Season—a
sampler’s always fun to do, espec-
cially when it offers as colorful
a picture, as quaint a verse, as
this. You’ll find it a grand way to
use up scraps of cotton or silk
floss, and a design that works up
in no time, for the background is
plain. Wouldn’t it go beautifully in
a young girl’s room? Perchance
that Young Miss will want to do
this easy cross stitch design her-
self!
Pattern 1187 comes to you with
a transfer pattern of a sampler'
12 1-4 by 15 1-4 inches; color sug-
gestions; material requirements;
illustrations of all stitches used.
Send 15 cents in stamps or coins
(coins preferred) for this pattern
to The Sewing Circle Needlecraft
Dept., 82 Eighth Ave., New York,
N. Y.
Write plainly pattern number,
your name and address.
Strong, Silent Men
Certainly strong men are not
necessarily silent. Caesar wasn’t;
nor Napoleon; nor Solomon; nor
Daniel Webster; nor Abraham
Lincoln. Lincoln told funny sto-
ries and good ones.
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MS
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TO KILL
Screw Worms
Your money back if you don’t like
Cannon’s Liniment. It kills screw
worms, heals the wound and keeps
flies away. Ask your dealer. (Adv.)
TAILORED SILK
By CHERIE NICHOLAS
LOOKING AHEAD TO
COATS FOR WINTER
Those who prefer to ignore the
heat by focusing their thoughts on
the winter and fur coats will find
sufficient different styles in the
shops to keep them guessing for
hours as to which is the most im-
portant. If they’re wise they’ll
choose the most becoming silhou-
ette and forget about the others.
Outstanding in fur fashions is
the flared silhouette, the width of
hemline contrasted with the slen-
derness of the waistline. A coat of
this type is obviously dressy, so the
busy woman may prefer to pass it
by 'in favor of a straightline ’’top-
coat” model which proves service-
able from morning until night.
Fall Hosiery to Glisten
in Bright Copper Tones
A penny—or rather a copper—for
your thoughts if you’re thinking of
colors that are good in hosiery at
the moment. The copper tones are
important—shades that glisten with
the bright bronze of a new penny,
or of your burnished copper tea-
kettle. The copper casts will con-
tinue into the fall, the fashion
makers tell us, because they con-
sort. so well with the new autumn
colors in fabrics and shoes. New
taupes and grays are also coming
into the picture.
Emphasis is on the tailored
theme for pajama costumes. The
pajamas pictured is typical. This
two-piece is tailored of gray silk
shantung with glove stitching to
give it fine finesse. This model is
not only good to wear at a resort
or at countryside, one may even
drop in to see a friend and wear
this conservatively styled pajama
costume with perfect propriety.
Wine Tones Are Popular
in Fashions for Autumn
The prominence of wine .tones,
grapes and vintage greens in the
first fall fashions springs from the
Exposition Vinecole at the Tuileries
in Paris.
American women have already
caught this Bacchanalian note in
fashion. Evidences of its presence
are seen in clusters of grapes worn
in the hair for evening, wine colors
in the first fall hats and leaf motifs
in trimming.
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