Frankfort Community High School - Red Bird Yearbook (West Frankfort, IL)

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We left California and flew up the coast to Washington where we found Arty at Washington State College. He showed us the records made by his team in previous years and we knew then that what time and work he spent on the F. C. H. S. quintet had been time and work well spent. Sophy managed to get in communication with the President of the college, and through him, we learned that Arty was a very valuable coach and that they owed their team of unconquered champions entirely to him. Arty told us that Vit Kreivenas was making a great showing in the athletic world. Pluto, as we always called him, had defeated all of the greatest wrestlers including Stanislas Zbyszko, and now the world proclaimed him the champion wrestler. At present he was touring Europe in search of anyone who wished to challenge him. Gaining all of the information we could from Arty, we steered our plane in the direction of the far North. After traveling for several thousand miles, we saw in the distance two separate necks of land stretching toward each other and separated by a narrow strait of water. Sophy said it was the Bering strait. We decided to land, for supplies and provisions. This sudden change in climate was pretty severe for Sophy and me, for we had but few clothes to provide us with warmth, and when we left Frankfort we never dreamed of going as far as Alaska. Just as we were about to leave, a fellow walked up to the plane, and upon looking up we saw before us Noble Rains. This was indeed a surprise to all three of us. Red was on a seal hunting expedition for Bamum Bailey circus. He had caught several thousands of the slick, slimy, squirmy animals and was planning on leaving for the wanner climate. He said he and his wife (who was Zetta Kelly) liked the northern country for awhile, but give them the good old United States for always. Red informed us that Maurice L. Bladders, better known as Dode, our class president of ’22, was a representative of the greatest ice cream works in the world, situated at Saskatchewan, Canada, and at present he was on an expedition to the North Pole for data and information concerning the origin of the Eskimo Pie. From Alaska we went to China, landing at Pekin for supplies. Here we found Vivian Knight as the head of the Missionary Department of China. Her assistant and secretary was no other than Lelia Martin. Vivian told us that Lillian Grosse and Edith Beauford were in charge of the Sub-District Departments at Honkong. She said they were all as well pleased as if they were in Illinois. She was glad to see us and, of course, we told her of the trip we had made and of the ones we had met. They heard of no others except that William Monti and Taylor Harris had l een in India on some important mission.

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Upon landing, we discovered we were in the wonderful city of Salt Lake, Utah., the music was coming from a pipe organ in the Morman’s Cathedral, played by no other than Blanche Norman. Blanche told us that Bess Pitchford and Pauline Frances Hunter and Elma Wise were the wives of wealthy mormons. One great surprise that greeted us here was that Ralph “Desperate” Hinckle turned out to be a Mormon, and no one knew exactly how many wives he had, but they were reported to be between thirty and forty in number. Our time was limited, so we left Utah l ehind and flew for the sunny state of California. Our first stop was Hollywood and such a l eautiful place it was. We found that Charles “Pug” Pittman was working for the United Artists Picture Co., and had taken the place of Bull Montana. Virgil H. Burgess was leading man for the Metro Picture Corporation, and it was rumored that he was leading Rudolph Valentino in a close race as the greatest lover on the screen. Louise Arnold was one of Mack Sennett’s famous bathing beauties, but we were informed that Paramount was planning on starring her in a super production in the near future. After looking around Hollywood we went over to Los Angeles and while walking down one of the streets of the business section, we noticed a sign which read “Henson Henson, Chiropractors.” The name looked familiar so Sophy and 1 decided to investigate. Well, owing to their tremendous business we had to wait some time in the reception room before we were admitted. Surely enough, it was the twins. “Cooko” and “Bol-iver.” They were both married, Cuckoo to Harriet Gladders, and Boliver or Don to Pearle Murphy. Of course Harriet didn’t graduate when we did, but we remembered her as the most popular girl in F. C. H. S. and she was still as popular or more so. Pearle used her idle moments writing. She had just finished her latest masterpiece, which was “The I .over From Mars.” These four certainly made two ideal married couples Don informed us that Leslie “Ajax” McFadden was assistant coach to Andy Smith, the famous Indian foot ball coach of the University of California, and that Arty A. Martin was the wizard Basket Ball coach of Washington State.

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From China we went to India, but learned that Bill and Taylor had sailed for Africa, so we marked Africa down as our next stopping place. We did not know where to land in that dark continent, so as we were overland, 1 shut off the engine and volplaned to the ground. As luck would have it ,we landed in the center of a typical African village (I suppose it was typical, at least Sophy said it was— Ihad never seen one myself, except at Cairo in Illinois.) I imagined the natives would swarm around the plane like bees, but they hardly noticed it. I learned later that there was an air plane factory near the village and it was a common accurance to see several thousand planes in the air at one time. All the talk of the village seemed to be centered upon two wonderful white men who were visiting them. We couldn’t find out the names of the white trash, so we started sauntering around the village in search of anything or anybody. We hadn’t gone far when we came upon a group of the natives huddled up in a form of circle and in the center sat Bill Monti and Taylor Harris. They were playing the wonderful game of “African Golf,” alias “Galloping Dominoes,” alias “Shooting Craps.” Taylor and Bill looked somewhat surprised at seeing us. They informed us that they were connected with the great casino at Monte Carlo, and had been sent to Africa to study this one game, as it was to be played exclusively in the casino, and it was the desire of the owners that it would be handled by persons who were experts From Africa, we went to Paris. Here we found Helen Wilmore as the greatest prima dona of all Europe, who was soon to make her debut in America. After listening to her sing before a packed theatre, we agreed with the critics of Europe. After asking Madamoiselle Wilmore to look us up when she came to America, we bade her “Au revoir.” We now turned our journey towards America, and late one afternoon we landed in Cuba. Whom do you suppose we found here? The wonderful Jake of Jakes, alias, Frank Jacobs. Jake was dancing instructor of the distinguished society folk who spent a great deal of their time in Cuba. From Cuba we jumped across to Mexico. Here, in Mexico City we found Susie Mars and Marie Odle, as Red Cross workers. They were two busy girls, and seemed to be satisfied and happy.