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Tank Riding Proves Rough
^ ^	by Dixie Wilkinson	•
“Make sure they know Washington is in North Carolina. That’s all I ask,” said Prof. William De Mille. “I realize that Washington, D.C., is a great place, but there is just as good a town in North Carolina, and that’s where I was born.” William De Mille described himself as a man with four
--separate careers. He started his
first career as a teacher of English and athletics in various eastern private schools. When he found that dramatics was taking most of his time and all of his interest, he gave up this career and embarked upon the second.
PICTURE INTEREST For 13 years Professor De Mille appeared in numerous Broadway hits. “Strongheart,” “Classmates,” “Warrens of Virginia,’* and “The Woman” were a few of the many successes in which he acted. “Warrens of Virginia” and “The Woman” were (productions of the famous David Belasco.
In 1914 Professor De Mille found himself becoming deeply interested in the new art of motion picture production. He saw the immense possibilities of reaching a vast audience which had formerly been limited to plays produced in only a few major cities.
MOVIES GROW
“It was just 27 years ago that I first came to California,” he said. “In that time I’ve seen two separate phases of the movies develop. The crude affairs that we considered masterpieces in 1915 gave way to the comparatively fine productions of the middle 20s. Then we found we had to start all over again when sound came in.” Professor De Mille spent 22 years in motion pictures. His talents were not limited to acting, however. Producing, directing, and writing, he headed his own unit for several years.
‘MY FOURTH CAREER	*
“And now I’ve embarked on my fourth career,” he smiled. “The real reason behind this last one is that I enjoy working with young people. I refuse to grow old. My students help to keep me young. I think it’s a fair exchange, though. • I give them the benefit of my years of experience in the acting business, and they mafce me feel like a youngster.”
William Churchill De Mille, professor of the drama, laughed:
“I play a mean game of tennis. I think I could beat a few of my students.”
STAFF
Duane Atteberry -------- Ed Holley
You’re in a tank—a clattering, crashing, speeding tank — in the gunner’s bucketlike seat alongside driver Sgt. Tim O’Rourke. You’re dressed in fatigue clothes, your legs are stretched tensely out in front of you, your goggled eyes are bulging out of their sockets as you stare fixedly at the maze of pine trees and underbrush coming toward you at 25 miles an hour.
These are some of the sensations reported by one of the draftees assigned to the tank division after his first ride in one of Uncle Sam’s “mechanized hullabaloos.” DUST STORM CREATED Swirls of sand and dust cyclone up from under the thrashing caterpillar tracks. They get in your nose, your ears, and sharp particles of silica sting your cheeks. Those trees! They’re closer every second. How will you get through them? Not even a 30-ton truck could knock ’em all over!
You've reckoned without Sargent O’Rourke’s driving ability. Crushing a growth of underbrush flat, the tank skims between two husky pines, whirls sharply left to avoid a third, then spins on its axis to the right. You’re in the forest— you still don’t know how you made it— and you smash ruthlessly on, flattening shrubs and small bushes, dodging, weaving, spinning.
TREES NO TROUBLE Suddenly there’s a tree dead ahead. It’s a man-sized tree, big enough to put an accordion pleat in the front of any automobile— and this mechanized hullabaloo is heading straight for it!
You try to jam your feet through the steel floor plates, your whole body stiffens, and as the horrible crash becomes imminent, you close your eyes, duck your head, and hang on convulsively. SAVED AGAIN But there isn’t any crash, not even a noticeable jar. A small shower of leaves and dead twigs comes through the open -port in front of the gunner’s seat, scatters itself harmlessly over your lap, and, amazed, you look up.
The tree is gone, and the tank is still racketing through the woods. A glance sideways at the driver brings a grin from him and says as plainly as spoken words, “Yes, I know how you feel”—and you do feel exactly that way.
Mosquito ‘Blitz’ Due in Illinois Next Summer
CENTRALIA, «111.—(U.E)—It’s not an optimistic picture, but a University of Illinois scientist believes that Southern and Central Illinois can expect a mosquito blitzkrieg next year.
W. K. Dellaplane, a commercial fellow at the university, spent several weeks at Centralia helping to quell an attack by millions of the pests that ended virtually all summer entertainment in the city, including porch-sitting.
Dellaplane explained the possibility of a spread of the mosquito plague next summer.
EGGS LAID IN MUD “The adult mosquitoes, who live from three to four months, lay eggs in the mud adjacent to marshes and other bodies of stagnant water. Then the rains come and wash the mud into the water. There the eggs hatch quickly.
“There's not much you can do about the eggs until they’ve turned into wrigglers. Then about all you can do is spray the water. That will kill them.
WINDS SPREAD PI
Head Ache? Just Relax
CHICAGO — (U.P.) — The “sick headache,” one of mankind’s commonest ills, stems from the hard-driving, perfectionist personality and can best be relieved by relaxation, according to a study of the ailment by Dr. Harold G. Wolff, a neurologist.
Writing in the Archives of Neurology, Dr. Ward said a recent investigation of patients suffering from migraine or sick headache showed that treatment through almost any form of relaxation reduced attacks from one every two weeks to as few as three or four a year.
Tht reason why games, short holidays, literature, music or love-making relives sick headaches, Dr. Ward sa;d, is that migraine literally is an outgrowth of personality.
Organ
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Bovard Auditorium Thursday, Oct. 16 12:10 p.m.
Archibald Sessions
Black Cherries ______ Seth Bingham
This excerpt is interpreted by Seth Bingham, New Jersey organist, in a footnote which says, “Over against the deserted farm house stands a gnarled and long-neglected cherry tree, visited only by the robins or rare passers-by.” It is a lilting reed melody, interrupted by a capricious staccato section.
There’s a fellow at the University of Nebraska who takes his house to school with him.
This mobile shelter, termed a “whaddyacallitis best described by the Husker himself, for only he can portray something in the way of a vivid description of his house-on-wheels:
“It doesn’t look like a bus; it doesn’t look like a trailer or & house or a boxcar or a piece of green cheese. In fact, it doesn’t look like much of anything. Therefore, it can only be a jeep.”
And so it is. The “jeep,” a sort of tossed-together contraption, proves very accomodating, for it houses two bunks, a tile sink, built-in clothes closets, and a “super de kixe” exterior finish. All these things came true only after the occupant had worked hard all summer at the art of—raising turkeys, 2500 of them.
GESTAPO AGENT STOPPED
Telling the Nazi gestapo to “go to blazes” may be one thing to you, but it was quite another to a coed at the University of Texas, for—she did It!
The daughter of the ex-American consul-general to Germany, the student had occasion to flip out this command in Copenhagen, Denmark, after she and her family had been thrown out of Germany twice.
It seems one of the officers walked up to her one day and asked her if she was English. When indignantly informed to the contrary, the gestapo agent ;demanded to see said maiden’s passport, whereupon she snapped, in no low voice:
“Go to blazes!”
APOLOGY RESULTS The policeman actually ended up by apologizing,, but the girl and her family had to leave Denmark immediately!
Turning back to the days of “precivilization,” students at the University of Toronto recently lit candles and went right on studying when the school and the entire city fell victim to an unexpected blackout. The cause wasn’t as drastic as it might have been, for the root of the trouble turned out to be a collapse in one. of Toronto’s power lines.
DARK AGES RETURN
The result: the university took on nothing short of a medieval appearance, what with grotesque shadows lurking on the walls, a kitchen lit only by flickering candles, and all dining room attendants finding their way about by the aid of the lofty tapers of wax, which dripped onto cardboard holders as the boys dashed about to serve the hungry undergrads.
Maybe there is such a thing as a sea monster after all! At least, something of that nature was recently dug up by geology students at Colorado State college. The fellows unearthed remains of serpents measuring from 40 to 50 feet in length, with broad turtle-like bodies, long necks, and elongated flippers.
Discovered in the Rocky mountains, the fin of one of the sep-pents—known as the plesiosaurs— already has been uncovered,
the STUDENT
POET
TO SPRING by M. D. Morris
This joyous spring did light my life,
Unto the beauty of the sky.
’Twas spring and I did find my love.
She touched my heart when she danced by.
She was so lovely these—alone.
Could spring in all her glory find—
Another beauty has she sown?
To pray upon my earthly mind.
So softly as a drifting cloud,
The longing did my soul make clear.
My heart told hers, but not aloud—
For her, but
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Collector Pays $400 For Historical Letter
NEW ORLEANS—(U.P,)—A New Orleans collector has bought for $400 a scrap of paper containing the proud words Maj. John Andre penned to George Washington asking death
by a firing squad.
The yellowed, 161-year-old letter — which was never
answered—has been in the hands -
of a New Orleans family for generations. It wras sold by Leo Brown-son, a broker, who would reveal name of neither seller nor buyer.
In it Andre, imprisoned for plotting with Benedict Arnold, pleaded with General Washington in polite, nicely-turned phrases to spare him death “on a jibbet.” Andre wrote the request on the eve of his execution at Tappan. N. Y.
Washington’s denial of it caused subsequent charges of harshness on the American commander’s part which have been the. subject of much historical argument.
His manner of death, however, was only the last blow in a life of disappointments for John Andre. Perhaps the greatest came when the strict parents of Honora Sneyd forbade him her hand.
NEVER FORGOT GIRL
He then joined the royal army in Canada. Honora married another in 1773, but Andre’s account of his capture with the surrender of St. John’s in 1775 notes that he was “stripped of everthing except the picture of Honora, which I concealed in my mouth. Preserving this I yet think myself fortunate.”
Exchanged for an American prisoner in three years, Andre returned to service and won rapid promotions. His ill-fated rendezvous with Benedict Arnold occurred when, as adjutant general of the British forces, he landed at West Point flying a flag of truce. MAPS OBTAINED
Pretending to arrange for disposition of a Loyalist’s confiscated property, he obtained vital defense maps from the traitorous American officer. The plot might have been successful had not American fire forced his sloop o’war, the Vulture, to move down the river
Andre changed into civilian clothes and hurried toward the English lines, but three colonial militiamen captured him near Tar-rytown. They found the tell-tale papers in his boots.
The event later was commemorated by an American statue to the three who seized the British officer and by a British tablet in Westminster Abbey eulogizing Andre.
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