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McCQRMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1936
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Here’s a famous painting—“The
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Pattern 1212
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Pattern 1212 contains a transfer
pattern of a picture 13Vfe by 16
inches; a color chart and key;
material requirements; illustra
tions of all stitches needed.
Send 15 cents in stamps or coins
(coins preferred) for this pattern
to The Sewing Circle Needlecraft
Dept, 82 Eighth Ave., New York,
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By FLOYD GIBBONS,
Famous Headline Hunter
H ERE’S Distinguished Adventurer Howard Hurtling of Brook*
lyn, N. Y., and his yarn starts out like this.
“Up on the surface we sat smoking.
.“One of the smokers asked me for matches and I passed my
box to him. When he returned it I put it back in my pocket with
out looking at it. A match was never of much value to me
UNTIL MY LIFE DEPENDED ON HALF OF ONE.”
Remember that Canadian mine disaster that happened up in Nova
Scotia and took up so much space in the newspapers a while ago? Well,
Howard Hartling is going to tell us the story of a similar misfortune
that took place in the same mining district in August, 1900. As a young
lad, Howard worked in the Famous gold mines in Halifax county, Nova
Scotia. His job was on the 300-foot level where they were digging a
new tunnel—a tunnel that was being dug around a deep pit filled with
icy water so that the company could tap the gold vein that lay on the
other side.
Smokers Borrowed His Matches.
Howard’s adventure took place in that tunnel—but as Howard him
self points out, it started up at the top of the shaft where a bunch of men
sat around smoking and borrowing his matches.
Just about the time Howard’s match box was handed back
to him, the whistle blew and the men went down in the “cage”
to the 300-foot level. They went to work and the afternoon wore
on. The distant sounds of dynamiting reminded Howard that it
was almost time to knock off, and he started for the mouth of
the tunnel. As the sounds of exploding dynamite came nearer,
he hurried his steps. He was turning into a cross tunnel leading
to the shaft landing when the candle by which he was lighting his
way flickered and went out.
Left In Pitch Black Darkness.
Only a little thing, the blowing out of that candle, but it left Howard
in darkness, and darkness is one of the things a miner fears most.
Once he took a wrong turning he might get into the old abandoned
workings and be lost there for days—maybe forever. It wasn’t exactly
safe, either, for a man to stay below for long after the blastings started,
and those explosions were coming perilously near. Hastily, Howard
reached for his box of matches, and suddenly the darkness and the
dynamiting took on a new and terrifying significance. THE MATCH <
BOX WAS EMPTY—CLEANED OUT BY THE SMOKERS AT NOON!
“It was a litle more than 300 yards to the landing,” says Howard,
“but that thousand feet had to be covered in pitch black darkness, by
feeling my way along the foot-wall of the tunnel. There was no
A Hundred Feet of Icy Water Was Waiting.
near to get a light from. All the miners had gone out as their tasks
were completed and before the blasting began for the day. Those explo
sions were coming nearer. I could smell the heavy, choking nitro
glycerine smoke. I crept on slowly, but the fumes of the burning dyna
mite were getting more dense every minute.
“They were catching my throat. Breathing was becoming
more difficult. The walls were wet and mucky with slime that
had been formed millions of years before. It oozed from the rock
crevices and dripped down on the floor of the passage. I crawled
along till I realized I had gone many yards and should be seeing
the lights of the shaft landing. Then something inside of me
seemed to shout ‘Stop!* I obeyed the impulse!
Lost In the Abandoned Workings.
“Underfoot the floor of the tunnel seemed unfamiliar. It dawneu
on me then that I had taken the wrong turning at the cross tunnel. I
had entered the old abandoned workings. I WAS LOST!”
In his left hand, Howard still gripped his unlighted candle. If only
he had another match. Again, something inside him began to prompt
him—to urge him to make another search of his pockets. “Carefully,”*
he said, “I wiped my muddy right hand on my coat and opened my
vest. Carefully—very carefully—I made my search. In the upper right
pocket I found half a match.
I couldn’t tell which half it was, but I held the candle over
in the shelter of my open coat. Where, in that damp tunnel,
could I find a place to scratch this precious half of a match?
Would it light? I thought of the buckle on my suspenders. I
felt for it. With a prayer I tried that splinter of wood!”
Howard scratched that piece of match—and it lighted. Quickly he
guided it to the candle. The wick sputtered but—IT LIT! Howard
breathed a prayer of thanks. Then, with a light to see by, he began
looking around him.
On the Brink of Waterfilled Pit.
Says he: “I held that candle aloft and let my gaze wander. I was
in the old tunnel. Not 20 feet ahead was the old, abandoned, water-
filled pit. A hundred feet of icy water was waiting for me. Another
minute and I would have plunged to my death. A GRAVE 400 FEET
UNDERGROUND! I almost collapsed at the thought!”
But suddenly, Howard was on his toes again. A new blast, so close
that it deafened him, reminded him that he still was not out of danger.
“I dared not hurry,” he says, “as my light might go out again, and
this time I wouldn’t have even half a match. Another blast and water
began trickling in from the old workings. By the time I reached the
cross tunnel it was half way to my knees. Then, at last, the lights at the
hoisting shaft came into view through the murky smoke. A hoarse
voice, choked from the fumes, bawled out, ‘F’r Pete’s sake hurry up.
We’re holding the cage. Where in heck were you? You look white as a
ghost.’
“And,” says Howard, “I would have been one—only for half a
match!”
©—WNU Service.
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YT’S always interesting when a
A star stages a come-back;
Karen Morley’s is especially in
teresting, because she had to fight
a battle, not with loss of popu
larity but with poor health, be
fore she could win back the place
she once had on the screen.
Now she is prettier than ever.
Shortly after arriving in New York
on a vacation trip she attended a
party given by Paramount for all
of its celebrities, and practically
stole the show. Dressed in black
velvet, she was very lovely, very
dignified. She has just signed a
new seven-year contract, calling for
four pictures a year.
—*—
Shirley Temple is going to China,
on the screen. She is making “Stow
away,” part of
which is laid in
Shanghai, and in
those scenes she is
dressed as a Chi
nese girl.
Later on she will
do “Wee Willie Win-
kie,” the Kipling
story, which is laid
in India. That fa
mous bit of fiction is
about a boy — will
they make Shirley a
boy for this one, or
change the character? Whatever
they do about it, the part is a
grand one for her.
—-K—
Margot Grahame is one of the
busiest girls in the movie center.
She returned from England, her
home country, September 6—and
has just been cast by RKO for her
third consecutive featured lead
since that time. It’s opposite Lee
Tracy in “Criminal Lawyer,” fol
lowing on the heels of “Make Way
for a Lady” and “Night Waitress.”
—*—
When you see “The General Died
at Dawn” pay a lot of attention,
girls, to the clothes that Madeleine
Carroll wears as she dashes about
China, and the way in which she
wears them. You can learn more
from that one picture than you could
from a dozen fashion shows!
Shirley
Temple
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California’s Vigilantes
California’s vigilantes of 1851 had
to cope with not only the most crimi
nal and lawless gathered from all
four corners of the earth, but with
the shyster lawyers as well. Just
as the worst type of criminal law
yers of later times, their weapons
were mistakes in spelling the name
of the accused on indictments and
warrants, the charge that the law
claimed their client killed with a
pistol, whereas it should have stated
“by the discharge of said pistol,”
. and so on, right through all the
technicalities and loopholes we read
about.
Irene Dunne traveled to New
York recently for one of her usual
reunions with her husband. And of
course, Joan Blond ell and Dick Pow
ell arrived there and were greeted
by everything their company could
think up that would attract atten
tion to them—as if they wouldn’t
have attracted plenty just by them
selves! Thirteen tugs went down
the bay to meet their ship. Two
planes also met it, one of them
trailing a banner which read “Wel
come Dick and Joan.”
—*—
If you can invent a microphone
that can kick, you’ll make a for
tune—or so says Martha Atwell,
who directs some of our most popu
lar radio programs—“Mrs. Wiggs of
the Cabbage Patch” for instance.
She says that one of her hardest
tasks is keeping actors from kick
ing the mike when they’re broad
casting. And of course that deli
cate instrument registers every
sound. She thinks that, if the mi
crophone could kick back, the ac
tors might learn to stand still.
—*—
There’s never a dull moment in
a broadcasting studio where one of
those amateur programs is going
on. Phillip Lord launched his “We,
the People” not long ago, and when
one of the women began telling
about her baby, who had been kid
naped, the poor soul began to cry
and couldn’t stop.
“Everybody lost their heads, for
a moment,” one of the executives
told me. “Then Phil came to the
rescue, talked to her, and finally
calmed her down.”
—*—
Betty Furness likes to make pic
tures, but she can’t resist dashing
back to New York
every so often, to be
entertained by the
very social crowd of
which she was part
before she betook
herself to Holly
wood.
Gary Cooper’s
wife rates socially
too, you’ll recall,
but she and Gary
are so dignified
when they are in
New York that they
aren’t news. It’s hard to remem
ber the old days when his romance
with Lupe Velez was constantly
dragging him into the limelight.
—*—
ODDS AND ENDS .. . Dorothy Arzner,
the famous woman director (now doing
“Mother Cary's Chickens" with Ginger
Rogers), relaxes between films by doing
something different—studying astronomy,
redecorating her house, or planting * new
garden . . . Ruck Jones recently cele
brated his 19th anniversary in pictures—
and is so popular that his “Buck Jones
Rangers" club has 5,000,000 boys as mem
bers . . . Katherine Hepburn’s “Portrait
of a Rebel" has been changed to “A Wo
man Rebels," so that people won’t think
it’s about a photograph of a Confederate
soldier. ■ i.
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