Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1936 BRISBANE V THIS WEEK MM&- * wmm Ethiopia Rains Bombs Six Marriage Troubles Marilyn Miller Is. Dead Another Big Question Addis Ababa is bombed by Italian planes from more than a mile above the city, natives shooting at the Ital ian pilots with rifles that could not pos sibly 'tarry one- quarter of the dis tance. Correspond ents with receiving sets listened to the Italian pilots talk ing to each other by radio. Haile Se lassie, hurrying south, was not at home when they called. That war should be over soon. Arthur Brlsl Dr. Alice E. Johnson, psychiatrist of Philadelphia’s Municipal court, gives si.y reasons for marriage failures. They Are: Different family back grounds of husband and wife; rela tives .interfering, especially mothers-in- laws^infldelity; incompatibility; alco- bolfcsm, and a desire to •‘dominate.*’ ^here is a seventh reason, to be found In the nature of man, who is still OS per cent in the age of barbarism. Marilyn Miller is dead, only thirty- eight years old. The little town of Findlay, Ohio, or the bigger town of New York, might well erect some monument to her memory. She con tributed a great deal to human cheer fulness and happiness, and it may be said of her, as Samuel Johnson said, referring to the. death of the great actor, Garrick, that her death “eclipsed the gayety of nations and impover ished the public’s stock of harmless pleasure.” A lady who signs “B. A. G.” Is in terested in very serious things. She writes: “Tba more I hear of those big armies, th* more I am reminded of ^^^^e^^lation -Wiint Is That big question may be answered later. An aged colored man once told his pastor: “I don’t believe in hell, because I don’t think any constitution could stand it.” “It worries me," says the lady, "that so many men are afraid of poverty here upon earth, and not afraid of hell.” Miss B. A. G. is certain that hell Is real, a belief that must be comforting to those anxious to have the wicked punished. Winthrop W. Aldrich, head of Ihe Chase National bank, biggest in Amer ica, knows about money, as did his father before him, the late senator from Rhode Island, who invented the Federal Reserve plan and put it through. Mr. Aldrich thinks it would not ha a good Idea to turn nv>ney loose aad encourage a speculative, stock-gambling boom. He remembers 1929. Under certain circumstances "the prospect of inflation is very grave Indeed,” says Mr. Aldrich and warns against "the erection of a top-heavy structure of credit again.” When a woman starts, she keeps going, nearly always. Nothing could atop Joan of Arc, Dr. Mary Walker, or Nellie Bly on her trip around the world. Now Amy Johnson, married name Mollison, sets out alone in a streamlined monoplane to beat the rec ord on a fight to Cape Town and back. All alone, down to the other side of the world and back again, over ocean, forests, wild beasts and wilder men. And fools used to say women lacked courage 1 An offensive and defensive treaty between Japan and Germany, like the one between France and Russia, is considered a certainty. * It should be possible for nations that want to survive and prosper to get together and let others that must fight kill each other off until they ^re of it This country, at least, should carry out that plan. Japan and Russia have passed from the "warning’’ stage to border fight ing on the Russian side. Planes, war tanks and heavy artillery are taken across the Manchukuo border by Rus sia, and that “looks like business." i Russia will soon know how much Mongolia will be wortli as a protec tion against Japan, and Europe may •oon know the value of Russia as a protection against Asia. ! The Canadian Press news service says Canada’s wealth has shrunk al most six thousand million dollars since 1929. That will be only a tem porary shrinkage. You know that England is worried about something when you read that she now demands that the league es tablish an oil embargo against Italy. A Uttle late, but It is explained that England is outraged by Italy's use of poison gas against the Ethiopians. Mussolini used . something worse than poison gas against pngland when he occupied the Lake. Tana region. i ' i O Kins Featur*» S*»dlcate, InC. WNuawivic* TATI, TALES a As Told to: FRANK E. HAGAN and ELMO SCOTT WATSON Battle of the Rattlers CHEATS of strength almost legendary, U though their hero is very much alive, are heard in the Cumberland moun tains of Preston Brooks, Sewanee, Tenn. "Buck,” as Preston is best known, drove a light automobile. It negotiated mountain trails easily despite a weak ness for punctures. As frequently as tires went flat Buck would jerk away the offender, repair and replace it, all without bothering to jack up the wheel. “Puncture disease annoyed me only once,” Buck stated, explaining a fort night’s absence. "My last repair patch was lost, six days ago, in an isolated cove that is twenty-seven and one-half miles from anywhere. "I got stubborn. Decided to stay there indefinitely. Finally, near starved, I headed for home, flat tire and all. “Don’t believe I could have held out if I hadn’t steered into a wild cow, down on the mountainside. The flivver hit the cow plumb center and boosted her into the nic. Before she landed. I’d milked and stripped her dry. Did it with my left hand, too,.scooping the milk into my mouth with the right. "When I turned the cow out to graze again only one tire had air in it. A rattlesnake attacked me and I jerked off the tire, air and all, and fenced with the snake. His hollow fangs pierced the innertube but I held on and as the tire flattened, the snake swelled. He exploded, finally, and I came home. And here I am!” The Flying Pond N EAR Buffalo, N. Y. t lives a farmer who once had a pond back of his bprn but be doesn’t have it now. Gehrge H. Schicker tells the reason thus: One evening last winter the farmer saw a flock of wild geese settle down on his pond. He ran for his shotgun but before he arrived at the pond it was too dark to see the geese plainly enough to shoot one. So he decided to wait until morning to try to bag a goose. That night there was a sudden drop In the temperature. In the cold frosty dawn the farmer hurried out to the barn and peered around the corner. Sure enough, there were the geese sit ting quietly out in the middle of the pond. He stepped out Into the open and raised his weapon. Immediately the geese set up a terrific clamor. The next moment their threshing wings were carrying them high into the air and with them went the farmer’s pond—frozen solidly to their legs. Citizens of northern New York now look forward with dread to the com ing of every winter. They are afraid that a large flock of wild geese may some time alight on Lake Ontario, that a sudden change will freeze it to the legs of the big birds and that they will lose their lake just as the farmer lost his pond. Residents of northern Ohio are also said to lie alarmed over the possibility that the same thing may happen to Lake Erie. Clothes and the Man W HEN Walter Howey and Frank Carson, widely known newspaper executives, "teamed” on the Chicago Herald and Examiner years ago, their after-business adventures made history. At five minutes past three one morn ing they strolled happily on Randolph street, having been persuaded to par ticipate in a game of chance and prof iting handsomely thereby. At Clark street a ragged stranger ap proached. Instantly, Howey peeled $20 from Ids roll and showed it to the derelict. "This is yours,” orated Howey. "Just remove your clothes. Cross the street and touch the county building.” The unfortunate hesitated. He was lest. Stepping gingerly, he removed nil hut b. v. d.’s, appraised the apparently deserted streets, and weakened. Howey pressed the money into ids hand. “Take it,” said the editor. "All you gotta do Is touch the building.” As the victim, grabbing tbe $20, reached the county building, Carson yelled for the police. One of Chicago’s finest appeared magically. "Catch him,” screamed Carson, pointing. “That fel low's crazy 1” Nine seconds later the naked man, clutching $20 tightly, turned a corner in advance of the policeman, firing wildly. “Think of it,” gasped Carson. “More money than lie's seen in months, but naked. And not even a pawnshop open.” The sequel, heard infrequently. Is when Carson arrived home an hour later his apartment was jimmied. A complete outfit of clothing was missing. Costlier objects were untouched. © Western Newspaper Union. Foods Deteriorate In general, foods deteriorate on ageing with varying intensity. This Is manifested by such visible conditions as mold, rot and loss of moisture which is concomitant with a hardening effect. Many times, however, this deteriora tion can only lie detected by the change in aroma and flavor, as with butter ami eggs, and coffee belongs to this class. One of the greatest causes for spoil age In foods is the presence of oxygen. This gas is instrumental in changing some of the various constituents os' foods which have an aflinity for it and thereby alters the flavor of the entire food. The chemical composition of t-he toasted coffee bean is such that It t* very easily attacked by oxygen. i ADVENTURERS’ CLUB «< »» Twelve Stories Up By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter. G OING up! Take the next car, please! It’s an indoor aviator who’s come to tell us his tale of woe today—Distinguished Adventur er Edward T. McCrann, one of the best doggone elevator pilots that ever answered a buzzer. Ed jumps around almost as fast as that elevator he used to drive. When I first heard from him he was living in New Haven, Conn. Two weeks later, when I had occasion to communicate with him he had moved to Washington, D. C. It’s five years since Ed has run an elevator, and he still remembers it as one of the most monotonous jobs he ever had. It was just the same old trip, from morning to night. The same old buzzer ringing and the same people getting on and off in the same old building in Hartford. Only once did anything out of the ordinary occur—but Ed admits that that occurrence relieved the job of all of its monotony for a few minutes. It happened about 7 o’clock on a June evening in 1929. Nearly all the tenants were out of the building. The superintendent came up from the base ment and started looking over the elevator. He said there might be something wrong with it because he had heard a rasping sound in the shaft that shouldn't have been there. Elevator Man Goes Up on Top of His Car. One look at the top told the story. Some workmen had been doing a job on the inside of the shaft. They had strung a wire to furnish them with light, and had left it behind when they finished. That wire tangled with the main cable, way up at the top, just where the cable came out of the heavy grate that supported the motor. The super asked Ed if he’d ride up on the top of the elevator to the top of the shaft and unfasten that maverick wire. Ed was just a high school kid then. He was lean and active, and the job didn’t look any great shakes to him. He consented readily. After all, it was something to break the monotony of that everlasting up and down trip. The super got into the car and dropped it down below the door level. Ed climbed on top, and up they went to the top of the shaft, just above the twelfth story. The super ran the car slowly as they neared the top. When it got close enough so that Ed could reach the dangling wire he yelled, and the super stopped the car. The car halted just even with the twelfth floor. Ed reached up and began untangling the wire. The superintendent opened the car door and stepped out onto the twelfth floor. “Hey, Ed,” he called, "I’m going down the hall for a screw driver. I’ll be right back.” Ed yelled, "All right,” and went on with his work. The wire was fastened a little higher than he’d thought. He grabbed the grating un der the motor and lifted himself up. His toes were barely touching the top of the car and he was straining his free arm to reach the end of the wire when he heard someone enter the elevator MCfYi. He Clung Perilously by His Fingers to the Grating. below him. Thinking it was the superintendent he paid no attention. He made another lunge toward the wire—caught it Elevator Descends; Ed Is Left Dangling at Top of Shaft. And then, to bis consternation, the motor began to whine and the car dropped away from under him, leaving Ed in a panic, clinging to the iron grating with both hands. By the time Ed’s presence of mind came back to him the elevator was halfway down the shaft. He started to yell, but he was so close to the motor that he'couldn’t be heard above its noise. The elevator went clear to the bottom and stopped. The door clanged open and someone walked out. Then everything was quiet except for Ed’s cries. What had happened? Could it be possible that the superintendent had for gotten all about him? Ed yelled again. The sound echoed hollowly in the long shaft. Then silence—the dead, eerie silence of an empty build ing. And Ed hanging by his fingers 12 stories above the ground. "The seconds,” he says, “seemed like years. Try as I might I couldn’t get my mind to working. It was racing like mad trying to figure a way out, but it never found one. There just wasn’t any. “The grating was greasy and I could feel my fingers slipping—slipping. Suddenly I heard steps in the hall and yelled again. It was the superintendent coming back with the tools. He must have guessed what had happened when he heard me and saw the elevator door was closed. He yelled something to me but I was so scared I couldn’t make out what he was saying. My fingers slipped a little more. Then I heard him racing down the stairs.” Superintendent and Elevator to the Rescue! Again Ed’s fingors slipped, lie tried to hang on with one hand while he got a fresh hold with the oilier—and almost lost his grip altogether. It seemed like years—seemed as though he was holding on with nothing but ids finger nails, when finally he heard the elevator start upward and knew that if he could hang on just a moment longer he’d be safe, “There were tears in my eyes,’’ he says, "as that car came shoot ing up toward me. My body was covered with sweat, and I can’t say if it way> cold sweat or hot. My hands slipped again as the car came on. “1 didn't have the courage to look down—didn’t know how close the ele- rator was—when at last, my clawing fingers lost their hold on the grate. I shut my eyes as I started falling. A prayer ran through my mind and—.” And then Ed came to a stop with a thud—safe on the top of the car, about six feet from where be had started. When Ed got off the top of that elevator cab he was limp as a rag. It wasn’t until next day that he found a solution to the mystery of the moving elevator. A doctor on the twelfth floor came out in a hurry and, seeing the cab without an operator, ran it down himself. He had heard Ed yell, he said, but paid no attention to it. “And if you could feel one hundredth of the horror I felt as I hung in that dark shaft,” says Ed, "you’d realize why I shiver just a little bit, even now, when somebody mentions that doctor’s name.” ©—WNU Service. Succe*s It is said that a man can success fully lie with Ids eyes, but not with his mouth. The face Is such an Index of character that the very growth of the latter can be traced upon the for mer, and most of the successive lines that carve the furrowed face of age out of the smooth outline of childhood are engraved directly or Indirectly by mind. There is no beautllier of the face like a beautiful spirit. The want of mind lowers all the powers of the body; but so (Joes an evil and debased mind which Is still more wonderful. —Brian Brown. Find Castaway A Robinson Crusoe was discovered by the crew of the French windjam mer Tolosa, on Rlnca island, 100 miles north of the Strait of Magellan, South America. He was clothed In goat skins and uttered guttural cries, though he led them to a natural spring when they Indicated they wanted wa ter. The man appeared to be of Nor dic stock, either Scandinavian or Ger man. or possibly British. He is con sidered to be a shipwrecked sailor who has lost the. power of spech, prob ably through never having spoken to a soul for many years. Pride of the Garden,” Lovely Applique Quilt, Easy and Inexpensive to Make Z, A \ A Pattern 1118 ’Twill be the "Pride of the Gar den,” and also the pride of whatever bedroom it adorns—this lovely ap- lique quilt. Quilt-makers, young and old, will find it fun to do, making the tulip flowers ns varied as the scraps on hand, but keeping leaves and stems uniform. A very inexpensive quilt to make, it’s one you can afford to give a bride-to-be. The tulips can also be used on scarfs and pillows to make your bedroom linens match. Pattern 1118 comes to you with complete, simple instructions for cut ting, sewing and finishing, together with yardage chart, diagram of quilt AW Aoimd /Ac House If a fish bone gets caught In the throat, suck a lemon and the juice will quickly dissolve the bone. * * * Don’t keep gas stove burners turned on full after foods begin to boil. Turn burners down and keep down gas bills. * * * Cold roast beef toughens if cooked for any length of time in hot gravy. It Is better to heat gravy and pour over the meat when ready to serve. * * » Gelatin for fruit desserts should be whipped until the consistency of whipped cream, thick enough to pre vent fruit settling to bottom of mold. -• * * To make frosting adhere to a cake, dust a little flour over the top of the cake and you will have no difficulty in making the frosting stick. • # * Soap Improves with keeping, so when the stores offer sales of soap, it is economy to buy a quantity of it if you are able to store it in a cool, dry place. * • • When papering a room cut off the left-hand selvage on rolls before you begin to paste. Leave right-band selvage uncut. The overlapping meth od of papering is far easier than try ing to place two edges together. * * • You can’t kill plant lice with a poison. You must dose them with some kind of liquid that will smoth er them to death. Kerosene emulsion or tobacco dust will do this. * * * When serving lettuce be sure that no water is on the leaves when french dressing is added. The water will spoil the dressing and the oil will not adhere to the lettuce. Do not put dressing on lettuce until It Is to be served. © Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service. to help arrange the blocks for single and double bed size, and a diagram of blocK wnich serves as a guide for placing the patches and suggests con trasting materials. Send 15 cents in coins or stamps (coins preferred) to The Sewing Cir cle. Needlecraft Dept., 82 Eighth Ave.. New York, N. Y. LOST LANGUAGE IS UNEARTHED BY YALE SCIENTIST Discovery of a hitherto unknown prebiblical Semitic language, reveal ing the source of the ancient and modern alphabets and offering a new key to controversial passages in the Bible, was announced by Dr. Julian J. Obermann, visiting professor c 1 Semitic languages at Yale. Cuneiform tablets, found at Ras Shamra, near Antioch, in northern Syria, disclosed the language of Canaan, and, according to Doctor Obermann, "are written in a new al phabet that proves to be the oldest known.” He termed the find "an epoch-mak ing discovery in the field of Semitic antiquities and the most important find since the Babylonian cuneiforms have come to light.” The tablets, lie said, were in scribed during or before the Fif teenth century B. C., and offer a previously unknown link between techniques of cuneiform writing and the principles of alphabetic script. The Ras Shamra tablets, he said, al though written in cuneiform charac ters, employ only 30 signs, using them as alphabetic letters, whereas other systems known consisted of hundreds of signs representing syl lables of ideograms. LIGHT Every WITH A fbleman LANTERN ’THIS la the little Coleman X Lantern with the biff brilliance. It lights Instantly and is always ready for any lighting job. in any weather. 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