Where Uncle Sam Will Bury Billions of Gold
IN PREPARATION for another major transfer of the government's huge gold reserve, secret orders hnve
been Issued In Washington for the rush construction of a subterranean vnult In the center of Fort Knox
(shown here from the air), an army post 31 miles from Louisville. Into the vault will be transferred a
good portion of the billions In gold now held by the government In New Tork and Philadelphia. The struc
ture will be built In continuation of the policy of moving precious monetary reserves away from vulnerable
cities on the coast to more Isolated inland territory.
Bedtime stor!
)By THORNTON W. BURGESS1'
DANNY FINDS A REFUGE
AS DANNY MEADOW MOUSE
anxiously looked this way and
that way for a place to hide from
Buster Bear, a sharp, squeaky voice
almost In his very ear made him
Jump. “What are you doing over
here. Cousin Danny? Arpn't you
lost?” said the sharp, squeaky
voice.
Danny turned quickly to find a
little round hole in the ground
‘‘Now,” Said Whitefoot, "You Have
Nothing to Worry About From
Buster Bear.”
between the roots of the tree, and
Just inside was the trim little head
of his cousin, Whitefoot the Wood
mouse.
“Oh 1” cried Dnnny, “Buster Bear
Is trying to catch me, and I don’t
know what to do.”
"Come In here,” replied White
foot promptly.
Dnnny didn’t need a second in
vitation. He darled in just as Bus
ter Bear reached the tree on tlie
other side. Buster promptly tried
again the trick by which he had
so nearly caught Danny. lie
reached a great paw around the
trunk of the tree and brought It
down swiftly. But he was too late.
There was no one under that big
paw. Buster watched and listened,
but he saw nothing and heard noth
ing. Then he walked around the
tree to Investigate. There was no
sign of Danny Meadow Mouse. But
between the roots of the tree was
a little round hole.
“Huh !” grunted Buster Bear, and
began to dig furiously.
Now Busier Bear's claws are long
and stout and when he sets out to
dig lie makes things fly. But White
foot the Woodmouse knew all about
those great claws, and when lie
made that little round hole he
made It right under the big roots
of that tree. It didn’t take Buster
long to tind out that It was quite
useless to try to dig out Danny
Meadow Mouse. You see, those
big roots were in the way. So after
a minute or two of useless digging
Buster gave np. It was foolish to
waste time there when he might he
hunting for find finding sweet little
beechnuts. So, grumbling deep In
Ills throat, Buster walked off and
once more began to rake over the
leaves In search of beechnuts.
Meanwhile Danny Meadow Mouse
had followed his cousin, Whitefoot
the Woodmouse, along a little tun
nel among the roots that led him
some distance away from where he
had entered. It was a very nice lit
tle tunnel. Danny said ns much as
lie scampered along after White
foot. Whitefoot was pleased but he
didn’t say anything. He just scam
pered along and Danny followed.
After a while they eame out In the
heart of a big, hollow stump.
“Now,” said Whitefoot, “you have
nothing to worry about from Bus
ter Bear. Tell me what happened
and what are you doing so faraway
from home."
<£), T. W Burgess.—WNU Service.
Tucson Health Queen
Christine Moss, twenty years old.
Is now given the title of Arizona
Health Queen, for In tests at the
University of Arizona at Tucson
she scored 100 per cent—the first
time such a record had been made.
Christine neither smokes nor drinks
liquor.
The Passing Months
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Rioppvx
HARVEST
Question Box
By ED WYNN
Tha Parfaet Fool
Dear Mr. Wynn:
Every month, a club I belong to,
holds a meeting at which all the
members have to tell a story on a
subject which Is told us a week be
fore the meeting. The subject
for our next meeting Is: “The
Stingiest Man 1 Know.” Will you
tell me the stingiest man you ever
met? Yours truly,
O. COMM TE1-MEE.
Answer: The stingiest man I
ever heard of was a man who fell
overboard and as he was swimming
ashore a policeman hollered to him
that It was $50 fine for swimming
in that river and when the man
heard that he Just threw up his
hands and sunk.
Dear Mr. Wynn:
My wife and I had nn argument
last night about the army. My wife
says, in order for a man to be
buried with “military honors” he
must be a captain, while I say he
must be a general. Which of us Is
right? Yours truly,
LEW TENANT.
Answer: You are both wrong.
In order for a man In the army to
be burled with full military honors
he must be dead.
Dear Mr. Wynn:
I am a coed, at a well known col
lege, and am crazy about a boy my
own age who goes to the same col
lege. He gave me a lovely cigarette
holder for my birthday and his
* MOTHER’S *
COOK BOOK
OUTDOOR MEALS
S I’ICNH' days art* here again
<_ _ we turn to our lists of good
things which we have enjoyed and
plan a picnic lunch. Those who tine
some food hard to digest will enjn>
them and have no discomfort when
eaten out of doors after a brisk
hike, or even a stroll through the
woods.
When packing a lunch, retneinhei
to put In some of the foods that add
zest, such ns green onions, fresh
radishes, cucumbers and a few
pickles, sweet and sour I’ickled
beets, onions, chow, are all rel
islies which are enjoyed with the
other food.
The sandwiches may be cut and
made Just before serving, with let
tuce, a slice of cucumber and on
Ion, ns Oiling. Haked bean sand
wlches are always enjoyed for a
hearty meal. Serve them with
sliced sour pickle.
Most picnic lunches are made up
of starchy and sugar foods. Some
of these are needed hut the alkn
line foods will be needed or head
nclies and Indigestion will result.
Fruits, green vegetables, celery,
tomatoes, ore all good to combine
with the sandwiches, rolls and
cakes. Meats are acid forming
foods and should be used sparingly.
With the crisp lettuce carried In
a towel, well wtapped, add sliced
oranges or tomatoes or apples and
serve with a french dressing all
prepared and carried In a tight Jar
or bottle.
With all the disadvantages,
snakes, mosquitoes, poison Ivy, the
more we go on picnics, the more we
learn what to avoid and the more
pleasure we get from them.
Where there Is a stream of clear
water or a spring, all the green
birthday la nest Saturday. I saw
a whisky flask. In a shop window,
which was made to look like the
seven of spades. Don't you think
that is a cute present to buy him?
Sincerely,
LILY KUPPS.
Answer: The present Is all right,
but he’s liable to leave It on a table
In some fraternity house, and some
other student might come along
with the eight of spades and take 1L
Dear Mr. Wynn:
I bought a new suit, the other
day, and the first time I put It on,
the coat split up the back. How
do you account for that?
Yours truly;
L PICTICT.
Answer: The buttons were
sewed on too tight.
© Associated Newspapers.
WNU aervlce.
Through JEAN NEWTON
A WOMAN S EYES
THE BANDITS WASTE THEIR
TIME
A YOUNG “bandit” describing
a criminal career which will
put him behind bars probably for
tlie best part of his life, announced
that his whole "career,” which In
cluded a number of robberies and
hold-ups, had netted him only $50.
Tlie stigma of crime, a medium
of harm to his fellow men, his life
ruined—for $50!
The comment Is obvious that a
similar amount of Interest, en
thusiasm and effort expended on
constructive work would have
brought this deluded young man at
least a good living, peace, security,
respect. And it might have brought
him a good deal more. It might
have brought him success, leader
ship, distinction.
It is the age-old story of trying
to get something for nothing. And
it Is not only In the pursuit of
crime that we find constant evi
dence that this does not pay, that
it leads always to tragic failure.
There are ways besides crime in
which people try to get something
I PAPA KNQW§-I
“Pop, what Is a lion?"
"Big shot."
0 Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service.
for nothing. There are petty little
ways of attempting to get some
thing for nothing. These are ex
emplified perhaps more by women
than by men, for men are more
business-like and it is unbuslness
like to try to get something for
nothing.
It Is always a waste of time and
energy. It never pays—this trying
to get something for nothing. And
in addition there Is the unpleasant
feeling of dissatisfaction which
every normal person must feel with
the consciousness of "trying to get
away with something.”
© Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service.
tillin'* inny he k«*pl cool and fresh
as if taken from a refrigerator a'
home. Much can l>e said of the sun
shine, the elorloiis out of doors
trees. crass and (lowers sun hath*
swimming. mimes. and lust lontlnn
when you picnic. They all out
welch the discomforts, which upsei
stomachs and disturb the regular
routine.
Western Newspaper Union.
Fan Pleats
Fan pleats from neck to hem and
from shoulder to elbow appear In
this casual afternoon dress of off
white crepe. The fringed sash Is
polka dotted black satin. From
Maggy Ilouff.
A LITTLE NEW
SOUL
BY ANNE CAMPBELL
A LITTLE new soul came down
today
On a sunlit cloud, from far away.
She stole the blue from the morn
ing skies,
And a star for each of her pretty
eyes.
She grasped at the dawn, and In
her fingers
The rosy glow of the morning lin
gers.
A little new soul came down to lift
Our weary hearts with her hopeful
gift.
She brushed by the sun and plucked
Its gold,
And she brought God’s love for our
nrms to hold.
A little new baby, with dreams In
• her eyes,
Came to show us the pathway to
Paradise!
Copyright—WNU Service.
Oil Long U«ed in California
Californians have burned oil foi
heat and power since as far back
as 1880. Originally It was used
only in the galleys of ships, but,
because of Its convenience. It grew
rapidly In popularity and was go
ing strong as an infant industry
when the San Francisco earthquake
and Are almost ruined it.
Good Samaritan Aids Helpless Birds
THEY were just three baby sparrows In need of protection when
Frances A. Urban, fourteen-year-old blgh school girl, saw them flop
ping about helplessly In her back yard In Hollywood, Calif., and decided
to befriend them. At her home, the girl placed them In a cage near a
window. A day later she heard a flutter and saw a grown sparrow, then
two, beating wildly against tbe screen. Suspecting the visitors were the
birds' parents, she placed the cage In the yard and opened the door.
One of the birds flew la with worms and fed them, dally.
SEEN IN
HOLLYWOOD
Adjusting an Artificial Eyalath.
Prepared by National Geographic Society,
Washington, D. C.-WNU Service.
HEN Hollywood had only
300 people and not even
a "nickelodeon,” pioneer
ing actors rented an old barn there
and began to film “The Squaw
Man.” Armed cowboys, dashing
through dusty streets to "light” In
dians, alarmed the village.
If the play called for a scene on
a front porch, the actors simply got
permission to use somebody's porch.
No one, at first, built special “sets.”
Such colossal structures as Baby
lonian palaces 300 feet high, built
later to film “Intolerance," were
undreamed of.
Now studios that are walled cit
ies within themselves house this
stupendous Industry, whose feats
smack almost of witchcraft.
To make a “horror” picture, the
Illusion of prehistoric monsters in
vading a modern city was achieved
with Texas armadillos. Shot at 20
times normal size, while waddling
past the toy buildings of a min
iature city, the final effTect on the
screen wag realistically hideous.
One studio has a toy shop where
boats, airplanes, cities, railroads
trains, and automobiles are all
made In miniature. In “The Invis
ible Man," a tiny automobile, load
ed with gasoline-soaked cotton, and
a fuse, was run off a toy cliff, burst
ing Into flames. In the same pic
ture a railroad train (with cars 2
feet long) tumbled down a moun
tain side. Both “accidents” were
strangely convincing.
Coral and marine plants for un
dersea views are cleverly coun
terfeited. “When we found ocean
stuff wouldn’t transplant,” snld a
Universal director, “we dipped cac
tus and other desert growth In a
plaster solution. Dried and painted,
this ‘bottom of the sea’ fooled
everybody.”
Octopus tentacles nnd snakes
may be merely a jointed tube,
strung on piano wire, coated with
sponge rubber, and pnlnted.
Human Actors of AM Kinds.
But It Is human beings and their
behavior, as much as tricks with
cameras, that make Hollywood,
which is only a part of Los An
geles, better known abroad than
the big city Itself.
Since most of the world’s movies
are mnde hereabouts, the millions
paid In salaries lure performers,
real and would-be, from every
other clime. Besides stars and plain
five-dollar-a-day “extras,” these
actors range from real pygmies, as
In Tarzan,” to acrobats and bona
fide bareback riders In plays like
‘Polly of the Circus.”
Casting offices for years have
studied hordes of people for dif
ferent roles, more than 17,000
are listed on cards for “bit”
and "atmosphere” work. Every
conceivable type Is needed. As one
official said, “We could not use the
snme crowd for an embassy recep
tion as for a clandestine meeting
of the “Black Hand.”
At the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer stu
dio, experts keep In mind the faces
of some 7,000 semi-regulars, and
use a filing system for thousands of
extras.
Eighty per cent of the types
needed fall Into such groups as
dress men, bellhops, police, col
legians, butlers, riders, tall, short,
and fat men, stunt men, army and
navy men, tough men. Judges, etc.;
dress women (meaning Intelligent,
society types who can wear snlart
clothes), pretty girls, homely girls,
stenographers, tall, short, fnt, and
stunt women, maids, character
women, riders, dancers, dowagers,
healthy children, peaked children,
Hawalians, Orientals, Latins, Nord
ic and Slavic types.
An emergency call for “one tough
mechanic with a broken ncfse and
two teeth missing” was quickly
met
Trained acrobats who can take
rough falls and not get hurt;
sailors with one eye; a distin
guished-looking man with a con
tlnental-llke “spade-beard” who can
work as a count or a diplomat—
all these are In the cards!
Some of the Tricks.
"These bottles we break over
each other’s heada In barroom
brawls couldn’t hurt anybody," ex
plains an actor made up aa Jesse
James. “They’re not glass; they’re
made of candy."
Some such trick candy costs $86
a pound. In the form of pills, it la
used In shooting wintry scenes. Tha
actor holds this pill In his mouth
like a cough drop; as It melts. It
gives off a vapor that Is visible*
like breath on a cold day.
Icicles of plaster, oatmeal for
snow, and gales made by wind ma
chines, all Join to simulate winter.
To make It rain over a three-acre
field In “Little Women," RKO en
gineers built scaffolding high above
the lot which carried a mile of per
forated pipe. By this vast sprinkling
system It could “shower" whenever
directors yelled, “Stnrt the rain!"
In another scene, horses hauled
a sleigh across a “snow field” made
of half-baked cornflakes. Being yel
low, they photographed white. At
the same time a battery of 20 huge
motor propellers at one side of tha
field blew the air thick with corn
flakes, making a “blizzard.” Dur
ing a pause In the work one horse
got at a big bag of extra corn
flakes, overate, was foundered, and
a movie veterinarian had to give
first aid. Just then an actor, bun
dled up to face the “cold,” got a
sunstroke!
Realism of “Berlin.”
“Berlin” was only about 150 feet
from “Mexico” on the Universal lot
“Bain” poured down In a Berlin
street where actors In “Little Man,
What Now?” walked along In rain
coats, carrying umbrellas; cab
horses pawed the water, and boys
pedaled along on glistening-wet
cycles. From out in the dry a di
rector called his orders.
For versrimilltude an exact mod
el of a Berlin street car, all paint
ed with bona-fide names and num
bers, clattered along under Its own
power. About a kiosk, or news
stand, 'draped with illustrated Ger
man weeklies, a group of old Ger
man types recruited from Los An
geles lodging houses talked In Ger
man about Germnn politics.
Barely a stone’s throw away, on
nnother “set,” a cowboy actor, the
Idol of small boys the world over,
was struggling through Mexican
border brush a few jumps ahead of
a Texas sheriff.
Any kind of scenery desired, from
Alpine to Sahara, can be found or
easily manufactured somewhere In
southern California.
To film an Australian drama,
some rolling plains were wanted
like the terrnln near Melbourne,
where the principal action of the
story took place. They were found
In Los Angeles county.
Sometimes, however, nature plays
a Joke. Once rain Interrupted the
shooting of some scenes where
were used big leafless gum trees.
Two weeks later, when the actors
went hack to complete the scene,
the trees had leafed out. In or
der to match the old setting, the
trees had to be picked like chick
ens, which made a two days' Job
for 20 men.
From snow scenes In mountains
back of Hollywood to seaside set
ups Is only a three hours’ drive.
“Covered Wagon” was filmed on a
ranch near Burbank, now seldom
used because two air lines fly over
it and the roar of planes spoils
sound effects.
Near Santa Monica Is an almost
perfect bit of Cuba.
About Oxnard Is a made-to-order
Sahara. The “Alps” are In San
Bernardino county, and the fisher
men’s village on the Los Angeles
harbor has often been pictured as
“Southern Italy."
Orders for the Property Man.
One company has Its own hand
made jungle In which wild animal
scenes are filmed. Under the Jungle
trees life nets are used In case of
accidental falls by “wild men" and
others who leap from tree to tree.
An odd order for one picture
called for “5,000 moths and 200
cockroaches."
In “Stlngaree," a tale of Aus
tralia In 1870, the background In
cluded bull carts, dingoes, and even
a kookaburra bird, or “laughing
jackass," all brought from Aus
tralia.
The bird enacted his own comedy
role by sitting In a tree and Insult
ing the playera with his raucovg
“raspberry" cry.