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If Stowaways I 1 PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE: MONDAY, AUGUST 31, 1936- -22 Pacific Island Reveals Tales Of Castaways Admits Paying $20 for Ride in Butcher Truck Youths Tame Shark Mi f. lilt 1 Men Rescued After Prominent Member Of $20 LARK Being Marooned Several Weeks. New York Society Wanted "Lark." NEW YORK. Aiijr. 50.

(A. Helene Fortescite Reynolds, socially prominent bride of a member of the Reynolds tobacco family, tonight stated that she had given a Long Island butcher $20 after she drove home in his truck from a party last Tuesday. Interviewed over the telephone at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lionel Porter at Bay Shore, Long Island, Mrs.

Reynolds said: "I gave Gus Miller, the owner of the truck, $20 for the use of it and for the gas and oil used. It (FT PAPEETE, Tahiti, Aug. 30 (A. From the tiny Belling-hansen Isles comes a tale of rescued castaways Avhich proves there still 'exist Islands in the South Pacific where one can be marooned for months. The Bellinghausen group of atolls and reefs, west of the Society-Islands, is uninhabited and is visited only at rare intervals by persons gathering fallen coconuts.

Passing there June 27, the lookout of the steamship Port Darwin observed a column of smoke and then the figure of a man making frantic signals for aid. Heavy seas and the dangerous tangle of reeds prevents sending a boat ashore. The Port Darwin steamed away but wirelessed the British consul at Papeete. Several weeks elapsed, however, before a boat could be dispatched. Then the schooner Denys, dropped anchor off Bellinghausen, found four Tahitian young men.

They told this story: They had been employed on the coconut plantation at Mopiha, an Atnll 70 miles awav. They said they was given at 5 o'clock Tuesday night not really by me but by my father-in-law (R. S. Reynolds, tobacco company executive). No money was given to police or anybody else except Mr.

Muller." "But you took the truck?" she was asked. "Of course I did." she replied. "It was just a lark. Friends dared me to do it." had been so beaten and starved by Assistant District Attorney Albert M. De Meo of Nassau county, who participated in an' investigation today of reports of bribery in the case, said he would question Mrs.

Reynolds Monday. Acting District Attorney Richard H. Brown, reporting a "legal compromise" of a $20 payment in the case, said the money had been turned over when Harry Schu-raski, Mrs. Reynolds' chauffeur, was arraigned before a iustice of sharks. It waged a battle against the loys in a rnwlMtat in ramlio Sound.

Kxcept for damage to their loat, they escaped unharmei. This 11 -foot, 7M-imhhi1 shark became enmeshed In the fishing lift of Henry (lef) ami James Mitehell-Hetlg'e when, willi lo other the resident manager that they determined to escape to Raiatea, another island. With a fifth man, they put to sea in a small boat equipped with copra bags as sails. They lost their bearings and drifted. On the night of the fifth day their boat was cast on a reef of Bellinghausen and broken up by the heavy surf.

One man was drowned. m. i i hi i it'll nun rr 11 im in it it i Sharks Come Off Second Best In Battle With Boys in Boat IMM'OIIling M()HIIJS HIMIHDl I IIK' IIIICI' li to till Mrs. Helen Reynolds, socially prominent in New York, who said she paid a butcher $20 tor a ride home in his truck, explaining it "was just a lark." startel hme. I hev nid in a me-liont until (Ik the peace at Valley Stream, Long; Island, on a petty larceny charge, Mrs.

Reynolds' is a younger sis-ter of the former Mrs. Thalia Fortescue Massie who figured in a and then found two steerage jn vovaae. The fimn-i lie---el ithout w.iiU in 1 1 lulu "simply hal to get hack to America." sensational assault case in Hawaii several years ago. 800 Sets of Twins Gather For Parade BUT NOT TWINS FRISCO. X.

A jr. (A. Two .1:1 loys! related a tale of how they lat- tied a school of maddened sharks from a rowboat. bagged i one, escaped, and displayed the big Showboat May Stage Comeback in U.S. Life OLD ENOUGH TO GOLF NOW Centenarian Putts With Ease.

FORT WAYNE, Aujr. 30. (Universal Service.) One of America's most unusual jratherinjrs was held here today before 1U.IKH) spectators. Twins from all parts of the country SOU scls of them paraded in a niile-lonj procession at the fifth annual convention of the Twins' in int 1 1 BEAUTY riNciWA A. IV coining 'k.

('apiaiti Hi. of a showboat ing in C'im Association, held in Trier Park. liipc nnu apprar- EERIE HOUR FOR DIGGING Hut Police Fail Find Bodv FORT LAUDERDALE, Aug. 30. C.

J. Coyle, who didn't play golf in the first 101 years of his life because he "always thought it was an old man's game." took time today to sink a few putts and show the youngsters how to "keep their eyes on the ball." Alert and active, although he will be 102 in October, Coyle lined up the putts without the aid of glasses, took a firm stance and rapped the ball into the cup several times. He said he was a former newspaperman, having worked on the London "Mercury" (he was born Young and old and some youngsters in their carriages vied for awards given for health records and for beauty. And while the twins and a few triplet guests were renewing their comradeship and telling how it feels to lead "double lives," data was being gathered from them for scientific purposes. T.

E. Liimakka, assistant to Dr. H. H. Newman, biology professor at the University of Chicago, fingerprinted all the twins and sought other information from them to be used in research work in a study of identical, paternal and mater fish to prove their story.

The boys, James Mitchell-Hedges, son of F. A. Mitchell-Hedges, an explorer and big game fisherman, and Raymond McHenry set out in the shallow waters of Pamlico sound off Hatteras Island towing a rowboat. They waded out to a net they had set about 100 yards off shore in waist-deep water. While taking small fish from the net one boy spied a triangular tin rutting through the water toward them.

They hopped into the boat just as the shark swished by, the youths said. They eaid the fish swam around the tiny rraft, lashing up spray with its tail. It smashed the bow of the boat and tore the beading off -the sides. The shark left but soon came back with 10 others which swam around and around the boat so closely, the boys said, they could have struck them with the oars. One shark finally became enmeshed in the net.

Quickly the boys loosed the net from its mooring and rowed for shore, towing the imprisoned shark. They said the other sharks followed to within a few feet of shore. The captured fish measured 11 feet and weighed approximately 7vi pounds. The jaws were four feet seven inches in circumference. CHICAGO, Auj.

(A. It was 3 A. Two men shoveled dirt into a shallow pit in the yard of Erie Zimmerman. i x1 1 i Screeching automobile tires her- England), and in i iry i ai.i tmm aided the aproach of four police -Mancnester, sounds The Dolicemen leaDed from -nicago. "I've had about all the evil hab its," he said, referring to smoking and drinking.

"They do some harm, I guess, but most everyone else has them." just hams; vc it," rrreivp I word today thr rVilrrU Government in. -iv Jsr.ar.i-f a rrturn of the floating thrvr. Miss Hallip Klr.r.r,:i2n. nMtirmal director of the Kcli ral Ihralrr project, infm mrd thai hit offer of free of show hw) probably be a- eptrri provided he permits use on any riri the Government "Of course. I ll Jet take if anywhere, i so Ion; employin' r.t to i.nfmp'oyi rm-boat Hi tor trrs-rs," ss 1 Bryant.

Government river ecsiniTis in-spected l-iill' shewhiMl fU F'lannasan's Killy (alls 'iv fnliin who out earned a hvelihii. in productions of Ol' Man River." He wrote a honU Phn-il the days whin a ilnrn r.oaiirj theaters op. i en the Ohio inn. "There Co' ton Hlos .001, Goldenro.l, Queen, h'v new sat ion: Won.ierland, New Km, Princes-. Anienia, (ohjmh 1 ani Sunny South.

They all hae gone with the w.ivl. i xrA water. The the AVatrr Q'irrn, was dcstroye.l by the jrr utid wafr winter a 'I PtN-Hn. a. HOPPERS Soar to Heights their cars and hurried through a narrow passageway toward the rear yard, carrying tear-gas guns, shotguns, flash lights and pistols.

"Stand where you are," shouted one of the policemen. "Thought you would bury that body not a chance," shouted another. "What body?" asked Zimmerman, who identified his companion digger as Frank Landa. "Your neighbors called up and said you were burying a body." explained Policeman Felix Kosinski. "The next time I try to fix my catch basin, I'll get out a circular letter for my neighbors," said Zimmerman, as he picked up his shovel and went back to work.

TWO COATS Henrv's Business CHICAGO, Aug. 30. Grasshoppers from the sun-baked plains hopped into the top floors of Chicago skyscrapers today. A bather in a thirty-seventh story apartment reported one of them leaped in his tub. Diners in rooftop restaurants found hoppers in their soup.

This, said William J. Gerhard, nal twins. Among the guests were three sets of triplets, including the 68-year-old trio of M. H. G.

and Medd Murray of Bluffton, O. Their quadruplet brother died at birth. Medd Murray paid tribute to the new scientific methods used in multiple births today, saying: "If there had been incubators in hospitals in the days of our birth, we would now be quadruplets instead of triplets." Medd Murray is the father of twin girls and twin boys. They did not attend tthe convention. Mrs.

Elizabeth Wood, SO, of Evanston, 111., paraded with her 66-year-old twin children, Dr. J. W. Wood of Mt. Gilead, and Mrs.

Jeannie Adams of Edison, O. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Clark of Huntington county, paraded with four sets of twins. Difference of opinion was expressed by the twins on the advantages of twindom.

Two comely 16-year-old sisters, Helen and Mary Newcomer, Mary speaking, said: "We are tired of being paraded always as the Newcomer twins. Twins get too much attention and find it hard living their own lives. No, sir we would nover marry twins. But James and Daniel O'Connell. bachelor business men of Detroit, Maurice Jee( left) and Harry Maurice, -year-old sons of Mr.

and Mrs. John Price of Chicago, were both lorn on February 13, but they are not twins. Harry is his father's child from a previous marriage and Maurice his mother's, also from a previous marriage. 7 'SKA fa chief entomologist of the field I HAIL Fells Birds but in their liey.lry had crew of to to person-, most, of them actois and musician- "With titeir passing, hundreds or river actors and musicians ate out of jobs. Most of them were jirt 'ham' actors but some weie reorr 1 clever than the Rrnadwnv wits.

ST. PAUL. Hi). (A. Hpnry Gentry had Orville Johnson, 59, arrested because hp declared Johnson gestured with an ire pick when asked why he was wearing two overcoats.

In police court Johnson unbuttoned both coats, produced the ice pick and assured the judge he used it only to clean his pipe. Judze Clayton Parks, dismissing the case, ruled: "You may wear two overoeats if you like, and you don't have to tell the reason why." Question of Goldfish Sex Finally Settled 1 Ff fill I a r. i '( a Jt-JfJ 4 4 sK 1 -i museum of natural history, was "not unusual," for "grasshoppers attain great heights and fly long distances." Gerhard said the grasshoppers were assembling on the Lake Michigan shora because they did not like water, and went around the lake instead of across it on their way East from the drought burnecj prairies. Aorine Oriole, wno was SEYMOUR, 111., Aug. 30.

UP) Clarence Keller heard an unusual burst of chirping during a sharp hailstorm at his farm. When the hail stopped falling he went out and looked. He said he counted 560 dead sparrows, felled by the icy stones. -T've not done re hadly --e an i so I'd llle to the f.ovrrn- mrnt to help thr.p 1 hi'drrn of OI' Man P.iver. chosen the most beautiful and hest dressed Indian girl at a recent style show in -Neopclon, Wash.

WASHINGTON ujr. o( 5. (A. The bureau of fisheries. bobbed up today with something- definite on the old and Obaffling question of how to tell BLOND WEST MIXES WITH BRUNETTE EAST a gentleman goldfish from a lady goldfish.

"Fish fanciers," said Fred Or-singer, director of the bureau's aquarium, "have been stumped who are identical twins, declared they enjoyed their likeness, and aside from dressing alike, try to talk alike, and even made it a HOUND FOR BEER point to keep step when walking tnrougn the ages by this problem. together. The executive committee meets next week to select the 1937 convention city. HE AIMED AT WRONG BONE A I A Modern William Tell No Marksman Spwial to the Pittsburgh Post -Gazette nd the Chicago Tribune. PKORIA, 111., Ausr.

Vfr-haps the story of "William Tell awl the apple is only a myth but the story of Paul Seham-bera, who attempted to emulate the perfect marksman, is not. Mrs. jjul i lhihk were getting somewhere at last." Many are the fish owners, he explained, who blissfully believe they are maintaining a happy, domestic "oldfLsh family in the front parlor whereas all they have is a couple of lady or gentleman fi.sh. The tentative key to the mystery has been supplied by Wallace A. Little, of Richmond Heights.

and partly substantiated by Kdwin H. Perkins, the Baltimore fish author. Mr. Little's theory as submitted to the bureau is simple, but so was Columbus' egg trick. The formula: Male The gills will be flat.

Female The gills will be noticeably round. The Missouri fancier stipulates, however, that he won't guarantee the system to work unless the gold-lish are two years old. "This fellow Little." wrote Perkins, who was consultel on the discovery, "may have uncovered something. I never before noticed it." Olsinger said he plans to put the Little theory to a thorough test this fall. The bureau has always maintained the only way to tell the male goldfish from the female is at mating time, when the male breaks out in "salt spots" on his gill plates.

However, officials are quick to add that sometimes even this won't work. "If Mr. Little is correct," said Osinger, "fi.sh fanciers will be saved a great deal of money and goldfish raising will become simplified." Lelia Sprague, Chiliicothe school I ft 1 Tw 1 62 i r'ZTTZT Ljl. teacher, can attest to that. Mrs.

Sprague is in the St. Francis Hospital, the index linger on her right hand shattered by a bullet. Mrs. Surague and Schambera were in the group enjoying an outing. Schambera brought along his .22 caliber revolver to give a demonstration of his They found an old piece of bone which Mrs.

Sprague was to hold between her fingers, arm extended, and Schambera was to shatter the bone with a bullet from his pistol. He stepped off 15 paces and fired. The bullet shattered the bone all right the one in Mrs. Sprague's finger. WHAT'S THE USE? THAT DAY OFF SS "i if AsjHK-iateit ITesa i'uoio.

liss Horcii.e Ma, I celey or Xew York Is with her pot podle alter he had reltimml from POPLAR BLUFF. Aug. 30. (JP) When somebody tried to steal Dame Todd's chickens several nights ago, his shotgun, seldom used, was empty. Next day he bought som shells, but when he returned hnm the pun had been stolen.

That night the thieves returned and took his 14 hens. 1.1 l.A rllilt'f COHOES, N. Aug. William De Wolf drove into the country on his day off. He discovered a fire and assisted eight persons to escape from the burning house after he had given the alarm.

p. Itoiaiise iney lelt mat Japanese i (r-" THp ha eUvf4l into jl Itppr.imKiu the Cl 'ihiH wene from a Nan Francisco kindergarten shows how happily the FjiI and West mixes; Tow-headed Orson MrKisfdrk In shown learnlnc the language from lh picture page up. Ha the on of Jr. and Mrs. J.

C. McKiasick, who placed him in the school to "mtrh me line Olil'ornla than a F.uroiean lancnage. i bin schKlmate reading lh kindergarten step in bis iioel education..