Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 269, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 March 1930 — Page 2

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Bedbugs They Grow Them Man Size in Texas, Hoosier Boys Are Told.

HTHE whine of the shells, the rat-a-tatAat of the machine guns, the acrid smell of fins, the shouts and screams and moans of men—they all come hack to you when you read these stories of the World, war, as told, by Indium apnlis veterans of the conflict. They're coming in fast, these tales cf drama, pathos and pure, unadulterated fun, as the vets dust off their memories and put down their experiences on paper in The Times contest. A first prize of $lO Is offered for the best story of the week and a prize of $5 for the second best. The rimes will print all that space will permit, so hustle yours in. The first week’s contest ends tomorrow night, then we’ll take a fresh start Monday, for the second set of prizes. a a a Here’s today’s opener, where a braggart wouldn't down. It's told, by Thomas C. Shepherd, Route C, Nashville, hid., who was with Company L, Sixtieth infantry: WHEN I was in Training there was a certain buddy from Texas who was always bragging and talking about the great things they had there. He said if Texas was on hinges and was raised, and laid down south it would cover South America, and if it was turned over and laid up north it would cover the United States and Canada. He bragged and talked so much that he became a burden to his buddies. He kept them awake at night talking about his home state. The boys got tired of him talking and bragging so much about Texas so that they got some land turtles. When he was out fooling around the camp one evening, they put them in his bed and fixed the cover over them so he couldn’t see them until he w r as ready for bed. It wasn’t long until he told the , boys he was ready to go to bed. j When he threw the covers back, he saw the turtles and he turned around and said, “Boys, what do , you call those things?” One of the buddies said that they were bedbugs that his aunt had sent j him from Indiana so he could show the boys what big bedbugs they had in the Hoosier state. The Texas boy looked straight at ] them for a while and then he said, “Boys, they must be young bedbugs, i for they are nothing compared to the size of the bedbugs we have down in Texas.”

Arthur Ullman, 1402 Montcalm street, Thirty-third service company, signal corps, put some romance in his offering: Monsieur henri becq was the proprietor of the “WUliame Tell,” where the tallest glass of beer in town could be obtained for two sous, and he had two daughters —Yvonne and Helene—which, of course, is nothing unusual in Prance. The unusual thing was that these two pretty daughters, partly of their own and under the watchful eye of Papa Becq. would not. "date up’’ the soldats America ines. Sergeants Verigan and Rinehart had spent bcaucoup francs and many hours in vain conquest of the comely sisters. Steven and I took mental note. “Singular,” says Steve, “the brains and talent the capting can find to make noncoms out of. There's old Sam Verigan who ran an elevator in Chicago, and Rareback Rinehart ■was a brakeman. Both of ’em been in uniform for years. They been tryin' to get Yvonne and Helene out for three months. Let’s show 'em how it’s done in excloosive circles.” “Check,” says I. A pair of hip boots purloined from a huge supply dump set me jake with old man Becq. How he enjoyed his hunting, and a pair oi such boots in francs would have cost a million. Steve farmed out his services to the “Y” secretary, body and soul. How pious and devoted he was to the coffee mugs! And what comment it aroused among the heroes. Two weeks rolled around. Every night Steve came In carrying little boxes, sometimes one, more often three or four. But on the same night he took them away again. Sunday nights the show at the cinema changed. Steve asks Sergeant Sam. “Coin to the opery tonight?" “Yes,’ says Sam, “I’ll be seein you." “Us two gallant knights escorts the Becq daughters to the showtonight. Get ready,’ Steve tells me. I get. Os course we steered ’em up to the row of boxes in the back where the better seats were, and incidentally. where we knew Sam and Rinev would be parked. We all get there about the same time. Sergeant Sam threw his overseas cap down and stomped it. Rareback said. “I'll be damned.” When we headed for the barracks I asked Steve how he did it. “Chewing gum.” said Steve, “I gave them enough to keep thengrandchildren chewing for forty years.” DIAMOND RUSH STARTS Discovery of Jewels in Rio de Janeiro Signal for Prospectors. Cw l nited frt RTO DE JANEIRO. March 21. Diamonds recently were discovered in the Jauru river in the state of Matto Grosso. From surrounding hamlets over three thousand wouldb prospectors have rushed to the locality and are now busily engaged In the business of trying to find the lucky stones.

IMITATED ‘CRUSOE’ Woman Lived on Island 20 Years Alone, Claim. Bv Science Service SANTA MONICA, Cal., March 21. —The story of a woman “Robinson Crusoe,” who lived alone on an island for twenty long years, is told by Dr. Roy L. Moodie, who has

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self-sufficiency in the world by making her home of whale ribs and brush, and by living off the abundant fish, abalones, birds, seals and some plant products. She made her clothing of bird skins. When at last she was brought to the misson she died within six weeks. The island possessess many relics of aboriginal life, but none so romantic as the record of the lost woman, Dr. Moodie said. The tarpon of Florida can cover eighty miles an hour.

MANNERS IMPROVED Maitre d’ Hotel Compares Present With Nineties. Bti Time* Special NEW YORK, March 21.—1f there is one man in this town who has had the opportunity to study New York society at its worst and best for a half century, he is Jerome,

maitre d’hotel of the famous Sherry’s since 1887. And Jerome will tell you that society has better maners in this supposedly free and unconventional age than in that era of rigid social decorum. the ninties. Particularly the women, and most particularly the girls, are more poised, more considerate, says Jerome. “Nowadays they never cause the trouble that some used to back in the nineties when certain ones wouldn’t be seated near this person

or that,” says in an interview in the current Smart Set magazine. “Girls today are themselves, care free and easy mannered. In the nineties each lady had her own mannerisms, so studied that often you could tell who she was just by the way she held her tea cup And young women toiay do not complain to the waiter just for the sake of impressing other folks nearby. In the old days so much was done for effect. I like the new naturalness and informality.”

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GIRLS IN ‘BLIND FLIGHT Sightless Passengers Enjoy Novel Sensation in Plane. Bp Cnited Vr, * AUCKLAND. New Zealand. Marca 21. —Three blind grils, who iffftde the first actual “blind fligh*” over the city, apparently enjoyed the usual sensations of an airplane ride, and were informed by the pilot as to the height, scenery, antics of the machine, and the art of handling the controls.