1937-10-24 [P 10]

1937-10-24 [P 10]

Boake Carter — Adventurer Carter, whose friends by Frances Dietrich spondcnt of the London Daily Mail. and enemies number millions For that paper he made a six-month when he goes on the air each |" motorcycle tour through the south of evening, was born in the Brit- France, stories This is what Boake gathering about post- over50,000doctors isn consulate at South Baku. Russia, war rehabilitation. He saw a nation have used and recommended tor of Irish-English parents. He was edu- torn by bullets and plowed under cated in traveled in most of gentle, thorough action England, by big-gun fire. lie saw destitution the countries of the world and then and violent you need a grief. And then he iound ’* came to the United States. After — laxative, play spirit in the people a spirit that led SAFE and follow the several in the busi- years newspaper them to wish nothing more than to method thousands of ness he transferred his journalistic rebuild their shattered doctors use and recom- homes. That to another medium — radio. mend. For doctors, of all ability six-month tour made a seasoned news- In two nation-wide he was voted people, know what is polls paperman out ot a cub reporter. best for constipation. the outstanding news commentator. The colorful docks of Just listen towhat they Singapore There you have a chronological say about IMutoWater: the startling height of the Matter- Dr. F. D. M of Mis- summary of Commentator Carter. ^ horn ... the tragody of a Sinn Fein souri, writes: “I hare Filling in the outline are adventures riot in Dublin ... the a about cruelty of used Pluto for 12 years with wonderful in — foreign lands amusing, alarming, in results and prescribe it regularly." Dr. C. J. II., bullfight Madrid ... the startling aggravating. In addition, there are of Illinois, says: "Pluto <5 always my faemtte beauty of forests in Nicaragua — the D» "T. C. of writes: inborn characteristics which make physic C., Texas, "My recollection of all these and other fan.ily and / use Philo, and I prescribe it reg- him a staunch individualist, provide are to sights tucked away in Mr. Car- ularly my patients." him with the to state definite courage ter’s mental reserve. easy Te Take Thes New Way convictions firmly and supply him We asked hun about the two years mix 1 5 of a of Pluto Water in 4 5 with the of satire. He hates Simply glass rapier he was in Mexico in the oil of a of water. You'll find working glass sham and “stuffed-shirtedness,” pos- business. And he told us this new mixture pleasant. that in those sesses an Irish sense of humor that Tlx-re's no overnight wailing No 5—I days keeping alive was largely a ques- You forbids his taking himself too seriously, painful griping. get quick tion of outwitting bands of revolu- yet gentle, thorough action. and is superstitious to the extent that tionists. So when need a laxative. j you he wears his hat whenever he goes from be sure—take Pluto Water. Your j He’ll never forget the journey back his fifth floor office to the seventh own doctor will tell you there is to camp from Tampico, when he car- better than this non- fleor studios in the same nothing Philadelphia ried $10,000 worth of uncut diamonds habit forming saline mineral for his broadcast. building to be used in water, bottled at famous French well-drilling. He and a When we interviewed Mr. Carter Lick Springs, Indiana. Cel Pluto Mexican helper drove their car over he was at his overburdened sitting — Water from your druggist, and the only road available the favorite yn ill feel worlds better quickly desk in that Philadelphia office. We rendezvous of a desperado and his wanted to know something of his ad- gang. Halfway home, the two came ventures in foreign lands. And the to a wooden bridge that had just been stories he told took us to Persia, set on fire. Without thinking twice, Egypt, India, France, Mexico. they sent the car through the smoke As a in Teheran, neophyte journalist in one mad dash. he was the first person obliged to wear EARLY ADVENTURES SHARPEN HIS INTERPRETATION OF THE NEWS "We heard afterward." says Carter, a top hat for an interview with the "that the men who had set it afire were Shah of Persia. Just before receiving so to see money—orthecables would beslipped! It was there he saw the ancient coun- astonished us come hurtling the for an H. R. 11. request appointment. Of that course, the Carters paid, but not terpart of the “racket." The ship in through, they forgot to shoot!” had gazed with admiration on pic- without a vow -to “get even” some which he was traveling stopped at a A favorite after-dusk pastime of the tures of top-hatted gentry in a London day. “by Allah!” village on the Nile to take on mail and more hostile natives was a magazine. Thereupon he decreed that stretching India provided a quota of excite- merchandise. As it lay in dock, a party taut, thin wire across the road from the next person he received from that ment on the night that Carter and two of native girl dancers clambered on one tree to another. When an open capital city must sport a topper! friends camped in Khagan Valley. All board, followed by a group of musi- car sped down the path, the driver Carter made an all-day intensive were asleep, when suddenly Boake cians. After the performance, a collec- would ride swiftly into the wire, there- search for a high hat. But if there was woke with a start, gripped with an tion was taken the by decapitating himself. one in the city, nobody he'd spoken among passengers that or uncanny feeling something and given to the leader. Descending Fortunately for Boake Carter, one to knew about it. Temporarily sus- somebody was in the tent. He slipped the gangplank, a girl slipped into the such wire the road had —Glover’s Mange Medicine and pending the search, he stopped at the adorning Manage. Shampoo with Glover’s Medicated one hand under his pillow for a gun. waterand "drowned." Horror-stricken until it was level with the car’s home of a friend. The first he sagged Soap. It makes your scalp tingle with a thing With the other, he felt warily along- onlookers took up another collection radiator. He drove into it, but the im- feeling of clcanlinen. Sold at all Druggists spied in the entrance hall was a much- side the — — Your Barber can tire you Glover’s. cot to touch the hairless this time for the girl’s relatives. pact merely sent his machine bounc- coveted stove-pipe! Without a word of head of a man! The of contributors back like a rubber explanation, he grabbed the hat and party generous ing ball! He says: “I'll admit that my blood was not a little on their re- ran from the house. surprised, The commentator’s ability to view ran and I'm sure *' cold, my hair must turn trip, to find the same of domestic and Wit h a chuckle, he explained: When group foreign events from a have stood on end!” entertainers assembled at the — neutral FraH I tried it on at home, the wretched pier corner comes as a direct result In the camp, gun shots failed to fully prepared to one of their of such — stuck on of head like a push experiences his broad travels thing top my hit their mark, and a thorough search number into the water and collect and hfs discourses the Coast to Coast! Charlie Chaplin derby. But I wore among many of the grounds proved fruitless. Seem- another sum of to distribute it... the amusement money peoples of other nations. His early ■sore tkaa despite of many ingly the ghostly man with the bald among “bereaved relatives." Europeans and much to the excite- adventures are the abrasive against head had vanished into thin air. Leaving the land,” Boake ment of His who wanted to "strange which he sharpens his interpretations Majesty, This found globe-trotter Egypt "a Carter returned to England and from of occurrences and 5,270,000 know where he could get one like it!” situations in to- strange land filled with strange things.” there went to France as Paris corre- faalllM read Some weeks later. Boake and his day’s news. father met Oriental determination of THIS WEEK a much less amusing character. En Magazine route to Cairo over a desert trail from the Red Sea, their car ran into a gully. NURSING MOTHERS Their only hope of being extricated, Naked We Consult your doctor Come regularly. Ask about Hygeia Nipples and without walking miles over heat- Bottles breast Continued from page six Nipple, shaped, ridden was with the of easily inverted and thoroughly desert, help cleaned. Patented tab keeps nip- three Bedouin merchants who were ple getm free New inside and unnerving humiliating experience He was no bigger a coward than out of the station at ’valve prevents eoUapar coining their way on camels. you Poohb,” she had of a lifetime. or I, but he realized that to move said in effect. The opportunist Arabs set a small “Take young Moti and he had been sud- Only yesterday meant death, and that Landhi. Get in a fortune as their fee. They righted the quite possibly through window, denly called away from his headquar- not to move meant death.

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