The Syracuse Journal, Volume 28, Number 36, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 2 January 1936 — Page 3

THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1936,

§ ADVENTURERS’ ■Hide rilft Robbers' ’ By FLOYD GIBBONS f Famous Headlina Hunter. YOU know, boys and girls, a few weeks ago, I started looking for automobile yarns. I. figured that in an area where thousands of people owned cars, there ought to be a flock of guys who had adventures riding in them. Well, sir, those auto stpries are just beginning to show up now. Not many of them—not nearly as many as I would like to see. But enough to show that, at least, I wasn’t entirely wrong in my guess. I've got another auto story for you now, incidentally, and—well—lt’s the funniest sort of automobile yarn you ever heard of. Because Harris Budner, the man whose story it Is, wasn’t even in the cap when things started to happen to him. He got his adventure. Just by standing alongside of a gas-buggy. ‘ Now 85 East Bennington street is the address of the cobbler shop that he has run bn the same spot, in East Boston, for 37 years. And It was right there that his adventure took place on the sixth of August, 1934. “It still seems like a dreadful nightmare," he says.’ “It Is the one experience of my life that I am lucky to be alive to tell." It was a hot, muggy August day, and through,the windows of his shop, Harris could see that it was getting dark a bit earlier than usual »Storm Clouds Cast an Ominous Darkness. Taking a look at the sky, though, he saw the reason for that premature darkness. Storm clouds were gathering overhead, shutting out the sun. He started putting away hit toots and cleaning up his shop. It was seven-thirty, and time he was getting home. But before he had flniched, a car drew up in front of the door and a young lad came in and asked him if he could repair a torn auto top. , , Harris had done many a Job of that sort so he picked up a needle and thread and one or two other tools, and went out to the curb. In Which Harris Is Abducted. He stepped on the running board and reached over the imitation leather top. looking for the tear. His hand probed the smooth surface in vain. There was no ten here. In an instant Harris knew that something was wrong. But before be had a chance to move, he felt a push from behind. Th« lad standing behind him shoved him into the rear seat of the car and .four men,, hiding inside, covered him with a couple of heavy blankets. - Then the man at the wheel stepped on the gas, and the car shot away from the curb and went rolling down the street. “It was hot enough outside,” says Harris, "but It was hotter under those blankets. I screamed and they choked me. I gasped for air and they thrust a gun in my face. “One more yip, out of you,* they told me, 'and you’ll be a dead man,* ” It Took a Tough Skull tp Survive This. They were going through a crowded section of the city then and Harris knew they wouldn’t fire that gun. He began to kick and struggle, trying to regain bis feet. ; < A gun butt crashed down on his head and he sank back to the floor. Again and again that gun descended on his cranium, Harris says. Dazed, and unable to move, Harris lay atilt. He lost all sons# of tints v —all sense of everything except the rolling motion of the car. ■} They Literally Tors the Clothes Off Him. Be couldn't tell yon hoqjong be rode, but at length the car palled up at a deserted spot on the edge of the Lynn marshes. Hu* young thugs rolled him out sod began going through his clothes In smirch of money. * They literally tore the.ciothes off him as they went through them, garment by garment. They then threw him Into the marshes and left him there to die. Cold Rain Revives Unfortunate Victim.. Still unable to move, Harris lay in the marsh, wondering if he would ever regain the use of his muscles. For half an hour he waited for his faculties to return. Then the clouds opened up and the cold rain,, spattering oo his face, revived him. ,-j., Hs got slowly to liie feet—looked around Mm. Tho locality w>s Strangs and hs didn't havs the slightsst idea where he wae but hs saw a light in the distant# and began walking toward it. . The light came from a house, whore two women occupants screamed when they saw the disheveled condition of his clothing. Harris turned away and staggered down tho road. A Short diMunce away, he saw the lights of a small store. He heads* toward It. his feet dragging, but before he had gone far. he met a man and ’woman on foot who took him in hand and led him to the nearest police station. The police called a doctor and the doctor recognized Harris as the man who had mended his shoes for bilk When he went to school to Fust Boston. He dressed Harris' wounds aud sent him to a relief station for rurtber examination: The -cops had Harris In two or three times to look over hold-up suspects but he couldn't .identify any of them. And incidentally, he wishes it understood that in tho future he will mind automobile tops only for those who corns well supplied with references. Well. sir. that’s aoh t her automobile story. There still ought to bo hundred* of thousands more that I haven't beard about. „ ®—WSU terete* ■ „

“Elephant-Bear's” Bondi in U. S. National Museum Bone# of a great ix-ast that looked Hke a bear, bad seer rather l.ke attsdeptaaat's, but sot very uearly re**ted te either animal, are on display •n the Stnitiixirian institution In Wash- . ingtou, The ftssaMa were found In the Hi* Horn listen region in Vfyoming. The skeietim was embedded in a Matrix of stone, say* Science Service. The creature, known to scientists a* 4'oryphodea, was heavy tx died like a tapir and mu -quite so high at the shoulder as an «x. It pn>bably ms, ' pretty ifm»*h "b. s»" !n it* day, some •Ixty million year* ago, Tor Its great fchlk was reinforced hy a pair of formutable S lnch tusks In Its Jaws. . -£orypbodoa*s foot hones 'are what especially intrigue scientist* The snltaal neither walked dat footed like a hear nor up on the ends of its thick toes ItSke a modern etephant, IT seems to have been progressing In the tatter direction, howrevee, especially In Its forefeet which h.»re »»*e greater part W its Weight, Its .-ait probably was *

. __ City of Loot Whalers . Kara Hanes, in Chile, and the surrounding country is. by ordinary Standards. a harrea hand. It* hillsides yield snflicjeitt pasturage fw great flecks of sheep, hot little agriculture (ii possible. .The few trees whjcb decorate the nest Tittle plaza of the dty are cherished and carefully guarded for their rarity. The winters are nearly nine months long. The hitter climate has made of the native* a longsuffering, sturdy tot. independent, thrifty ami hard working,

s slow shuffle. like that of the modern elephant. In the same region where the *tophant bear flourished there lived also the earlier types of, horses. The latter line has survived, while the bigger, more dominant brute has perished. The •horse-ancestors,made upfor their lesser Milk and fighting ability by greater agility and brain capacity, and therefore greater adaptability. The efe-phanf-hear, a massive, stubborn conservative. was j beaten by a changing world which It could nett hrr understand nor get used to. - - Lewis said Clerk Expedition Lewis of the Lewis and Clark expedition left Washington.; on July 5, 1803. and was Joined by Clark at the Ohio. The expedition was delayed at Pittsburgh till August 81. then proceeded oo its way toward the Mississippi. Lewi* choosing volunteer* froril the military posts along the way. The party comprised.. In addition to Lewis and nark, three sergeants, twentythree soktieni, three Interpreters and, Clark's negro stave York. »*. <,

The Great Dismal Swamp - The Great Dismal swamp, a unique natural feature located near Ports mouth and Norfolk. Is one of the attractive spots of Virginia. Once the rendezvous of pirates, highwaymen and runaway slaves, and later infested by moonshiners, the swamp has much of interest. Doe of its canals was dug | by order of George Washington, who § khlassi as si j 1 stgsv’gtlgtfuswwava# fL n __ _ _ s |iwmwu itijuwnt jn iw area, if 1 tel a Wild raoi-jis* Ika }mRH» at fir fir r I a- %.**%. wl UFCT wWI ami tiiMpa fa uirgiii ttsktN&v mil} 1 standing

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FROM THE PAPERS OF THE' IGNORAMUS CLUB By BTEPHEN LEACOCK YOO remember 1 told you. a little while back, about the Ignoramus club of which I am the secretary and how the Idea of the club is to get away from all the fuss and worry of -he world, and not to know anything and not to care anything abont it Ton remember that 1 said we don’t know where Chechoslovakia is and we don't care, if I have spelt it rights 1 apologize. I didn't mean to. We like to get away from all that and play golf, and go trout fishing and talk abont back-lot gardening and whether to tie tomatoes np on a stick or let them ran on the ground. These sre the real things In life. You get a few members of our club Into a keen talk on tomatoes and yoa’re hearing something. But, of coarse, we like in away to keep posted and we like to do good. And when the idea came np that If we held a lunch It migh. help to disarm Europe, the members were all for It The proposal was that Dean Elderberry Foible, one of our senior members and a Dean of the college here (palmistry, J think), should read a paper on disarmament anti that would draw a good attendance especially if we had fresh asparagus and lots of it Our members will go further for fresh asparagus than anything else; asparagus and cold salmon with a mayonnais salad and with a clear soup In front of it, and after It one of those things—what do you call It, vol-o-vent? —anyway a German name. Some of the committee thought tt too light, that the members would be too restless after tt and wouldn’t listen; a steak and kidney pie or cold lebster holds an audience down far better. They don’t wake np much till the end. So the upshot was that McSorley. the president, decided that we’d have the salmon and asparagus, with the steak and kidney pie on the side: it would boost the cost a little but he said he make It up by using some of the “money that the dob has raised for the children’s seaside fund- It hadn't gone aa yet, and we could make It op to the little tots, McSorley said, later on and In other ways, perhaps at Xmas. McSorley’* crazy over chttdren. So we certainly bad a fine turnout. McSorley .bad to hit the bell three or four times before they would atop eating. Even while the Dean was talking some of them were still reaching out for olives and things. Dean Elderberry Foible makes a fitw appearance. has frosty white hair and a face as red and pink as an apple and a healthy look, not like a professor at all The boys ail say be looks distinguished. So he to. He writes letters to people like Mussolini and the Queen of Moravians and Winslow ChorcbilL Mussolini answered one: 1 think it was Mussolini. Anyway some one did: tt doesn't matter. McSorley, when be announced that Doctor Foible would talk on disarmament, mid be looked upon him as the finest classical scholar in America. But • the Dean very modestly said on rising ttat he must take exception to that; be was sure there must be at least 50 classical scholars in America as good as himself, or if SO was aa exaggeration, at any rate a dozen, or say hi tj or If not six at least two or three. He didn’t know them but they might be there. Then he put on his glasses and toed; out a manuscript sad began to read. Our members don’t like U when a speaker reads. They like it quick and snappy and with lots of local hits and by-plays and some good side staff about the ladies, or Jokes like a hit a* Charlie and Mary Brothers and everybody knows who it means though they're nef named. Doctor Foible began by reading that the problem of disarmament went back to the Greeks and Romans and was one of the chief causes of the Phil Ipooeslaa war. and that even before the Greeks acme of the greatest wars of the old Babylonians were due to disarmament At that point McSorley rose and said he was sorry to interrupt the dean bat he flidn’t think that the dob wanted to gc badtw»rds: be doubted j whether any of the members knew i ißo*ll i)& mid that • th& - am! 110 j ****** fau away j

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if he were to drop right Into the modern world: and there was a murmur of pleasure and applause all around the room. The members all sat up again and felt that they were going to get something. So the Dean began reading again. "The modern world begins with the Blacky Death, the expulsion of the Moors and the disruption of Feudalism. 1 "® ; There was a ripple of excitement at this because they all thought he meant the Black Death was coming, was going to happen now, and they thought that the expulsion of the Moors was a good-natured hit at .the Sydney Moores being put out of the Arcadia apartments after the last kid was born. But when they gradually caught on that all these things happened hundreds of years ago the members just died on It again. So, of coarse, McSorley had to interrupt again and ask the Dean to come right down to the world of today. So Doctor Foible gave a sigh and he turned over pages and pages of his manuscript and he began again. “The world of today.” “Thgt’s the stuff,” said McSorley. “The world of today begins with Queen Anne”. . . . •McSorley apologized and said that he was afraid he must ask the Dean to come right down to the present He said that tt was such a glorious afternoon that be wa9 sure the members would want to get on to the links or into their back-lot gardens and so he would ask the Dean to talk about things of right now. He said members wanted to hear about the Europe of today and to contrast its quarrels and Its angers and Its brutal Indifference to human suffering with the gentle peaceful temper of our people in America. McSorley hit the table and got qnite angry abont it. Well, with that, late In the day as usual with professors, Dean Foible got well started. And it certainly was interesting! Did you know that right after the great war all the European countries were Joined In a League of Nations, so that there can't be any war anyway? Hence why disarm? The Dean made it as clear as anything, and the Ignoramus club just ate it up. It teems that whenever -any trouble starts the league holds a meeting at Lucarno, or at Stress or at places like that, and that stops It Some of the members had u little trouble with the names because they didn’t know, or didn't remember, that Lucarno is a big summer resort up on the Gatineau In Quebec. Stress was worse, only McSorley Interrupted and said he would ask Charlie Flint (Charlie’s In the post office) to teO the audience where Stress Is and Charlie answered right away that It Is a post village of Hendrick County, Indiana, on the west fork of the White River, 30 miles northeast by north from Indianapolis. Some of the members thought he must have looked it up: some thought he got.lt from his post office business. Anyway be knew It Well, we gathered from the Dean's talk that Europe is In a pretty ticklish condition, just the same It seems to come and go. I-a*t Tuesday things looked pretty good, and then on Wednesday, it appears. England held « “conversation" with Hitler or with s me one and put things to the had. However, It blew over till Friday and then some one “asked a question” in the French chamber—the word means “room apartment, or bedroom,” and things started again. The Dean had Just got to there when there was a Mg noise outside In the Street and the lice engines went past. . The audience could hardly ML And thee some one pat hls head In at the door and called out: “Boys. It's Macphersoa'a Floor and Feed and limy say one of the stenographers Is caught in the upper office and she may get burnt up!” go of course the meeting broke np and they aU rushed for the greet To rescue the stenographer? Yes, of course, to rescue her if they could, add if not, well, they didn't want her to be burnt up. but If she was going to he burnt up anyway, yon know what I mean, we’re not Europeans, but If she bad t. be burnt up. well, you see IL However, they got her out all ex cept that her hair was pretty much scorched. Too bad, wasn't It Even so. I think the meeting left a sort of painful impression, ail'that talk of wars and quarrels. Most of tint irember&l think, into , -i. In rnmne w l.,<

Handsome Wraps of Rich Velvet By CHERIE NICHOLAS lip mm ■Hr- ' -.'.’l . | ijgyßpp jfeipf mi If V

EVERY woman who knows her fashions is seeing to it that velvet plays a leading role in her wardrobe. Perhaps the theme around which clings most of romance and exciting interest this season is the velvet wrap, to which designers are Imparting a new grandeur and dignity such as a queen and her royal entourage might covet. ’ It is not only that the velvet wrap reigns supreme by night but It is equally as high fashion by day, taking for granted of course that type be tuned to occasion. In their styling, their novelty and their departure, from the ordinary into realms of untold elegance, the velvet wraps as ladles of fashion are wearing during the present social are reaching dramatic climaxes which are simply breath-tak-ing to contemplate. Some Idea of the unusualness and daring which characterize the velvet wraps that go to operas and theaters, to horseshows, to night clubs and to like society doings is given in the model centered In the picture. Schiaparelli designed the original of. this very new and striking wrap of American beauty crush-resistant velfhL The big buttons are gold simulated coins. The sleeves are bulky at the shoulders and slim at the wrists. The skirt fullness is gathered in the front only, 6 Equally as startling from standpoint of style innovation is the famous Doges’ cape and hood of velvet from Vlonnet, which chic Parlsiennes are wearing. This long cape enwraps „the figure from head to foot and the pointed hood lifts op over the head. Nevertheless as extreme as this model Is, It has made an instantaneous hit especially with young girls who love to wear this type over their party frocks. Sometimes the little hood at the back Is lined with snowy ermine which adds another dash of glamor and suraptuoosness to the picture. The importance of stately floorlength capes In the evening scene Is demonstrated In the magnificent velvet ensemble to the right in the group

VELVET IS NOTABLE FOR THE AFTERNOON Velvet Is notable for afternoon and glamorous evening gowns and wraps. Patou features erect pile silk velvet, changeable silk velvet and faille ground velvet, lodell also endorse! the changeable velvet for formal wear. Maggy Rouff uses brocaded velvet for some handsome evening dresses. Worth launches wool back velvet in dinner talllews with wrap-around skirts and 'bloosed bodices. Helm makes taillears de minuet of velvet and favora velvet generally In his collection. Schiaparelli presents ribbed velvet in a.number of costumes. Designers Are Employing Purple in Smart Effects Seilers of purple—or more specifically sellers of fabrics in purptfeh tones—find up-to-tbVmiaute styles very much to tbefr liking. Rochas trims black with a purplish red. extremely bright and inspired by the ancient Pompeiian purple. Maggy Rouff uses a unique purplish tone, ranging from a dark shade to a red violet tone. Malnbocber adopts a fuchsia shade and Jodetle, a deep Parma violet. A« would be expected, the Influence off purple Is particularly noticeable In bloe. Both dark and light blues have a violet or purple tinge. Patou. In a new color he calls “Iris,* blends mauve with bios and gets a striking effect. Jewelry Is Now Designed for Wear With Sweaters A* sweaters continue to loom as top styles. Jewelry baa been especially designed to wear with them. One idea in bracelets is a flexible bangle of woven colored beads. Brown koa reeds from Hawaii have keen made Into bracelets. Even pearls have been styled into tailored bracelets to wear with woolly sports clothes. Goto god silver Jewelry Is especially good. Colors smart ia clothes near the deep cobalt blue, green, ruby and wine are reflated in artificial stones combined with goto, sliver, rhinestones and pearls.

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Sheer Mack lingerie is latest decree. Open-toed evening sandals reveal vivid tinted nail*. . Metal in neckwear appears in the form of dots on satin scarfs. Formal gowns are delicately sprinkled all over with rhinestones. Just as the renaissance influences *,s. ■ j., .1 _v . .j. ** frfcsn fik ltrinti l®e> vvHW«i SB uQrSI h lUc ISHfiSUaS* Brief Jacket, sum gut skirt, lavish

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herewith. Its superb styling Is in keeping with the elegance of the black velvet, gleaming white satin and precions fur which combine in Its making. The lovely white fox lei is part of the dresss. Rhinestone buttons and belt buckle, together with a rhinestone bracelet, add the glitter note which is so characteristic of this season’s modes. Milady’s short velvet gloves are decidedly chic. Speaking of velvet capes which are outstanding for formal wear, they may be most any length—as long or as short as you please. And they are not all of black velvet either, though, of course, black Is first choice, especially when one’s budget provides for a single evening wrap Instead of a wardrobe of formal coats and jackets and capes and boleros such as go to make up a full quota for the woman who queens In society. For instance, a cape of dark green velvet lavished with silver fox, as described In a recent cable from Paris, is sure to contribute a dramatically opulent note to an evening costume. The rich Italian reds and greens and purples are at their best expressed in terms of velvet Capes made thereof are simply ravishing. Here is a surprise—that Is, If you have jumped at the conclusion that the stunning formal slim-fitting daytime or evening coat (it serves as either) shown to the left Is the usual “black velvet trimmed with ermine.” As a matter of fact the velvet of which this coat Is fashioned Is brown, which, with white, is considered very smart. A very unusual velvet It is. being a reversible weave, the under side of which is like a long-pile duvetyne. The ermine removable chemisette is a practical feature, providing as it does added protection against winter winds. 0 Western Newspaper Union. DINNER WEAR By CHERIE NICHOLAS

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Here it Is—the costume Ideal for dinner -wear. Ethel Sbntta. popular singer and known from coast to coast

as the smartest dresser of the supper clubs, models this winsome velvet costume. By adjusting its trick neckline it can be made suitable for either dinner or evening wear. Other Important rashion aspeets are the short slightly puffed sleeves and the slim pencil silhouette which this gown achieves. I-atest reports frqm Paris favor the return of slender, svelt lines with fullness often placed at the back as the gown pictured suggests.

Brtiyeres for toques and Breton capes are setting the Parts world agog. Linen tweeds. In herringbone weave, were sponsored for the coming resort season. Metallized watered silk is lovely for evening and is especially arresting in white. Filver fox for capes and Persian ,u “ ~i> “* i _ togglg j|gg ||*|gg

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