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McCORMICK MESSENGER. McCORMICK. S. C-. THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1937 By Edward W. Pickard 0 Western Newspaper Union f Mrs. Simpson's Divorce Is Made Absolute \/[RS. WALLIS SIMPSON was granted an absolute decree of divorce in London, and within a few hours Edward, duke of Wind sor, was on his way from St. Wolfgang, Austria, to visit his fiancee at the Cha teau de Cande near Tours, France. The former king of Great Britain had been waiting impatiently, baggage packed, for word that Wallis was entirely free, and he lost no time when his solicitors telephoned him from London. It took only 25 seconds to make absolute the decree nisi which Mrs. Simpson obtained last October 27. The king's proctor had been satis fied with the lady’s behaviour in the interval, and Sir Boyd Merriman, president of the divorce court, per sonally granted the decree along with a lot of others. The date for the wedding of the duke of Windsor and Mrs. Simpson has not yet been announced, but it probably will be in the week begin- nmg May 24. Edward was willing to wait until all the coronation hul labaloo was over for he did not wish to annoy his royal brother in any way. Mrs. Simpson London Getting Heady for the Coronation C 1 ROM all quarters of the earth 1 men and women of much, little or no importance were flocking to London for the coronation; the dip lomats were trying on their new knee breeches; the peeresses were buying wigs to make their coronets fit more comfortably; the officials, troops and horses were being re hearsed in their parts; the proprie tors of parade seats were desper ately trying to dispose of them at cut prices; and hotel managers and tradesmen of all sorts were prepar ing to make lots of money out of this thoroughly commercialized af fair. It was said by steamship of ficials in New York that hundreds of Americans booked for the coro nation had cancelled their passages, but despite this it was certain Lon don would be thronged with visitors. One most disturbing feature was the strike of the London busmen. It disrupted traffic just when the city was filling up with visitors, and those persons as well as hundreds of thousands of residents of the city and its suburbs were compelled to get about as best they could. New Constitution for Ireland Is Published PAMON DE VALERA, president of the Irish Free State, made public his proposed new constitution for that state which is to be ratified or rejected at general elections and a pleb iscite probably late in June. The docu ment declares all of Ireland, its islands and territorial seas, included in the na tional territory, and “Eire,” ancient name for Ireland, is designated the offi cial name. Ireland is declared a “sovereign President De Valera a "sovereign and in dependent democratic state,” and no mention is made of Great Britain. The president is to be elected by direct vote for a seven year term. The Roman Catholic church is given special recognition, but other churches also are recognized and freedom of conscience and practice of religion is guaranteed. Titles of nobility are prohibited. Support of home life is pledged, and the constitution declares “no law shall be enacted providing for the grant of a dissolution of mar riage.” Divorce in other states un der civil laws would not be rec ognized in Ireland. Ulster, thp northern part of Ire land which does not belong to the Free State, received the proposed constitution cooly, evincing no de sire to unite with the Free State. “We definitely prefer our position as citizens of the United Kingdom,” said the Ulster commerce minister, John Milne Barbour, and this seemed to be the prevailing senti ment. Big Strike Is Started in Hollywood Movie Plants E LEVEN unions of the Federated Motion Picture Crafts, with about 6,000 members, went on strike in Hollywood, Calif., and the great film industry there was in serious difficulties. The strikers counted heavily on co-operation by the Screen Actors' guild, but that body, which has 5,600 members, delayed action until it could confer with the pro ducers. The guild already had pre sented a number of demands regard ing working conditions and hours and overtime pay. Pat Casey, labor relations expert for the producers, said the strike would not curtail operations at any of the nine big studios and ventured the opinion that the dispute could be settled in a reasonable and sensible manner. He claimed that no more than 1,500 of the Hollywood movie industry’s 40,000 employees were in volved in the points at issue, and observed that no questions of wages or hours had been put forth by the striking unions. The film companies have indicated their unwillingness to settle the is sue of the closed shop and union recognition until they know what de mands in the matters of wages and hours may be made by their work ers. Fifteen of the largest, hotels in Sau Francisco were practically tied ui> by a strike of 3,500 employees. The strikers were given the. active sup port of 13 unions. They insisted that hotel owners had refused to agree to preferential hiring and a five day week for clerks, although other groups of hotel employees had been awarded such conditions. The 15 hotels involved were the Alexander Hamilton, Bellevue, Cathedral hotel apartments, Clift, Sir Francis Drake, El Cortez, Fair mont, Mark Hopkins, Palace, Plaza, Whitcomb, William Taylor, S t. Francis, Gaylord, and Steward. Moscow-Volga Canal Is Opened by Stalin \/l AY day was fittingly chosen for the opening of the Moscow- Volga canal, one of the greatest physical undertakings of the soviet Russian govern ment. For four years 2 0 0,000 prisoners have been working on the project, these including not only Russians, but also Finns, Letts, Eston ians, Poles, and Ukranians. Many of them were political prisoners. Josef Stalin, dic tator of the soviet union, and President M. I. Kalinin were the chief figures at the official celebration of the opening of the canal. This waterway, part of the plan to make Moscow actually a seaport, is 90 miles long, has eleven locks, twelve large dams, and util izes eight large lakes and man-made reservoirs. The canal begins on the Volga sev enty miles below the city of Kalinin (formerly Tver), where a large dam and hydro-electric station have been constructed. The lake formed there has been named the Moscow sea and is ninety miles long with an area o/ 205 square miles. ■ Josef Stalin Basques and Rebels Fight Fiercely Near Bilbao COME of the most desperate fight- ^ ing of the Spanish civil war was taking place in the struggle for Bil bao between the sturdy Basques and Gen. Emilio Mola’s veterans, reput edly mostly Italians and Germans. The insurgents had promised not to bomb the center of the city but bombarded its environs heavily from the land and the air. By fierce attacks they broke through the Basque lines on the Bay of Biscay coast, reaching Bilbao’s seaports at the mouth of the Nervion river. Disregarding the protests of Gen eral Franco, Fascist chieftain, the British and French governments undertook to remove from Bilbao a large number of women and chil dren. These refugees were taken away by merchant vessels while British warships guarded outside Spanish waters. Franco maintained Bilbao was a military objective and that neutral nations had no right to evacuate the civil popula tion as this would lift a burden from the Basques and permit them to concentrate on the defense of the city. War Department Bill Is Biggest Since War Time n ESISTING all efforts of th would-be economists, the major ity in the house passed the War de partment appropriation bill carryini $416,400,000 for the fiscal year 193£ This is the largest army bill eve passed in times of peace. As passed the measure carrie increases in the pay of the arm; totaling $5,861,000; clothing am equipage, $5,500,000; military pos construction, $5,400,000; ordnanc service and supplies, $5,800,000, am National Guard, $1,600,000. The bill provides more than tw< millions for the acquisition of lam at Mitchel field, N. Y.; Kelly field Tex.; at Tacoma, Wash., and a West Point, N. Y. Japan’s Military Bloc Defeated in Elections PREMIER SENJURO HAYASHI * and the army bloc that sup ported his regime lost out in the Japanese parliamentary elections. The candidates of the Minseito and Seiyukai parties, both anti-govern ment, won about 400 of the 406 seats in the new house of representatives Despite this defeat. General Haya- shi refused to resign. 'Jhlnkd about Humane Fox Hunting. ANTA MONICA, CALIF.— In England it has been de cided that fox-hunting is hu mane. This opinion emanates from the hunters. The foxes have not been heard from on the subject. Maybe you don’t know it, but there’s a lot of fox-hunting among us, especially down south. Being but a lot of stubborn non conformists, south erners do not follow the historic rules. A party at large wear ing a red coat, white panties and high boots would be mistaken for a ref ugee from a circus band. And anybody blowing a horn as he galloped across hill and dale would be set down as an insane fish peddler; and if you shouted “View, halloo! Tantivy, tantivy! Yoicks, yoicks!” or words to that effect, they’d think you were a new kind of hog-caller. Down there they’ve chased the fox until he’s wise. The foxes have learned that the hounds can’t fol low trail on a paved highway and so quit the thicket for the concrete when the chase is on. A fox has been sitting in the middle of the big road listening to the bewildered pack. On second thought maybe Bret Fox isn’t so smart, after all—not with automobile traffic what it is. ’Tis a hard choice—stay in the woods and get caught or take to the pike and get run over. • • • Courageous Republicans. HO, besides the writer, can re call when the Democrats held their jubilation rallies the night be fore a presidential election and the Republicans the night after the re turns were in, when they had some thing to jubilate over? Now the sit uation is just the other way around. The Literary Digest poll was prac tically the only thing the Republi cans had to celebrate during the en tire fall season of 1936. Still, we must give that dimin ished but gallant band credit for courage. Here, in an off-year, they’re spiritedly planning aga nst the next congressional campaign. • • • English Recruiting. HE English are still having trouble inducing young fellows to join the colors. First, tfce gov ernment tried to increase enlist ments by giving every recruit a gid dy new blue uniform, absolutely free of charge, and still the lads re fused. So now, as an appeal which, ’tis believed, no true Britisher can withstand, the military authorities announce that, hereafter. Tommy Atkins will have time off for after noon tea. This may be a new notion for peacetime, but, during the great war, the custom was maintained even up at the front. Many a time I’ve seen all ranks, from the briga diers on down, knocking off for tea. However, this didn’t militate against his majesty’s forces, be cause, at the same hour, the Ger mans, over on their side of the line, were having coffee—or what the Germans mistake for coffee. And the French took advantage of the lull to catch up with their bookkeep ing on what the allies owed them for damage to property, ground rent, use of trenches, billeting space, wear and tear, etc., etc. Did it ever occur to our own gen eral staff that guaranteeing a daily crap-shooting interval might stimu late volunteering for the American army? * • • The Job of Censorship. NE reason why moving pictures are so clean is because some of the people who censor them have such dirty minds. To the very pure everything is so impure, is it not? That’s why some of us think the weight of popular opinion, rath er than the judgment of narrow- brained official judges in various states, should decide what should and what should not be depicted. Anyhow, there are so many movies which, slightly amending the old ballad, are more to be pitied than ;ensored. Sponsors of radio programs also lean over backward to be prudishly proper. But without let or hindrance the speaking stage, month by month, grows fouler and filthier. Suggestive lines once created a shock in the audience mind. The lines no longer suggest—they come right out and speak the nastiness. Sauce for the goose isn’t sauce for the gander, ’twould seem—or may- bo, after the reformers got through saucing radio and screen, there wasn’t any left over for the so- called legitimate stage. IRVIN S. COBB ®—WNU Service. Modem Language Course The study of French, English and German has been introduced into El Azhar university, Cairo, the old est university in the world, estab lished in 972 A. D. FAMOUS HEADLINE HUNTER ▲ iYCNTU tets CLUE “The Wrong Train" By FLOYD GIBBONS Y OU know, boys and girls, hope is a wonderful thing, and I’ll be doggoned if I know what the human race would do with out it. When things look the blackest—when it seems to you that you haven’t a chance to pull through—then it’s hope that keeps you going until your luck turns or things begin to straighten themselves out. Hope has saved many a life—and I’m going to tell you about one life it saved, today. The life of a man who got himself into a horrible sit uation just by taking the wrong train. The man is Joe Seitsinger of Chicago. .One evening late in November, in the year 1907, Joe was standing on the platform of the railroad station in the little town of Tyrone, Okla., waiting for a train. It was a cold night and Joe shivered and pulled his coat tighter about him as he paced up and down that platform. It Wasn’t the Local Train. Joe was waiting for No. 1—the local—but it was late that evening. Unknown to Joe, it had been sidetracked to let No. 3—the limited—pass it. At last a train came in sight and began to slow down. That must be the local, Joe thought. The other trains never stopped at little stations like Tyrone. The engine came up to the depot platform, moving very slowly, a string of cars along behind. The vestibule doors of the cars were still closed, but Joe thought the train would stop in a few seconds and then those doors would open. To save himself a walk down the platform, he swung aboard one of the cars, standing on the little ledge that protruded from below the closed door, and at the same time, grabbing the two hand holds on either side. But the train didn’t come to a stop. Instead, it rolled right on past the station platform and began to pick up speed! That’s when Joe should have acted. He knew right away that he had made a mistake—realized that he had hopped on the Golden State Limited instead of the local. “I should have jumped from the train right there,” he says, “but I was waiting for a better place to do it. We were gliding over switches and spur tracks at the moment and I was afraid I might trip on them and turn an ankle.” Going Too Fast for Joe to Jump. Yes, Joe might even have broken a leg if he’d jumped there and got his feet tangled up with those switches and spurs. But what he did do nearly earned him a broken neck! By the time the train came to a suitable spot in which to jump, it was going so fast that Joe didn’t DARE jump. Inside of two minutes it had picked up its full speed and was clip ping off the miles at the rate of sixty or more an hour. And there Joe hung, digging his toes into a little ledge hardly more than an inch wide, on a bitter cold night, while the wind tore at him and His Plight Was Well Nigh Hopeless. threatened to wrench him loose. He pressed his face to the glass door, but he couldn’t rap on it. The wind was so strong that he didn’t dare let go of either one of the hand holds. He yelled—yelled at the top of his voice—but the train was making so much noise and the wind whipped his voice away so fas that no one heard him. Joe began wondering if he could hang on until the train reached Hooker, the next station, a few miles away. Then, with a sickening sensation in the pit of his stomach he realized that f this train didn’t even hesitate at Hooker. It’s next stop was Dalhart, Tex., ninety miles BEYOND Hooker. And he knew darned good and well that he could never hang on t u -'t long. Hope Was All He Had Left. “The concussion of the air on my body,” he says, “was forcing me back against the rear hand hold. It was bitter cold. I envied every per son on that train—whether it was a baby in a comfortable berth, or a bum on the rods beneath the train.” Joe’s plight was pretty well nigh hopeless—but hopelessness doesn’t stop a guy from hoping. And hope was all Joe had left now. He be gan hoping the train would, for some reason, stop at Hooker. The train rolled on. Now it was just a mile outside of Hooker. Now it was coming into the town. It passed Hooker without even slow ing down, and zipped right along toward Guymon, the next station on the line. Then Joe began hoping the train would stop at Guymon. It was a pretty forlorn hope, but it gave Joe something to live for. “We ran over some pretty rough country in the twenty miles between Hooker and Guymon,” he says. “There were a couple of high trestles— dandy places for a fellow in my position to commit suicide if he weren’t minded to stick it out and see the natural outcome of the adventure.” But Joe didn’t dive off of any trestles. Hope was still with him, telling him the train might stop. And Joe played along, even though he knew Hope was a doggone liar and it would be a miracle if that train stopped anywhere between there and Dalhart. Then Came the Miracle. Joe’s hands were getting stiff with the cold and he was having difficulty hanging on around the curves. He knew that when they passed Guymon he wouldn’t be able to play that game of hope much longer. Soon his numbed hands would let go and he’d just drop off. They were approaching Guymon now, and Joe figured his time on earth was just about up. The train was roaring down on the station, when suddenly, the miracle happened. The brakes began to grind—the train began to slow down— and up ahead Joe could see a red light and the arm of a sema phore set at the “stop” signal. They stopped at the depot, and several men ran out to take Joe down from his insecure perch. “I was stiff as a board,” he says “My eyes were full of cinders and my face black as coal. I was frozen. I was taken into the depot, thawed out, questioned, and complimented on my luck. When I asked: 'What made her stop?’ they showed me a message. Someone at Hooker had seen me and wired ahead.” And the message read: “Man seen hanging on front steps right- hand side fifth coach of Golden Limited. Stop her.” ©—WNU Service. Continental Glaciers Continental glaciers are ice sheets of enormous extent, covering thou sands of square miles. The great ice sheet of Greenland, 500,000 square miles in extent, and the one at the South Pole are the only two tully deserving of this classification. Celebration Honors Tortoise Natives recently held a celebra tion in honor of a tortoise present ed 160 years ago by Captain Cook to the paramount chief of the Friendly islands and still enjoying life on the palace grounds of the Queen of Tonga island. INTEREST TO I Ml Horoire Outer Leaves of Lettuce—The outer leaves of lettuce, often trimmed off and thrown away, are more than 30 times as rich in vitamin A as the inside leaves. • e • Hanging Pictures—Never allow picture frames to touch the waH if it is damp. The frame will soon become damaged. With a small tack or gramophone needle, at tach two small corks at the bot tom of your frame. These will keep the frame off the wall. * • • Beef Juice—To make beef juice add 1 pound of fresh, raw, finely chopped round steak without fat to 6 ounces of cold water. Add a pinch of salt, put the beef and wa ter in a glass jar and stand it on ice, over night. Shake and strain it through coarse muslin, squeez ing hard to obtain all the juice. * * • Removing Mustard Stains — Mustard stains Can be removed from table linen by washing in hot water and soap and rinsing in warm water. * • • Soaking Salt Fish—When soak ing salt fish add a small glass erf vinegar to the soaking water and it will draw out more of the salt. • • • With Fancywork—Before start ing to draw the threads on linen for hemstitching, wet a small brush, rub it over a bar of soap until a lather is produced, scrub the threads of linen that you wish to draw, and they will pull out easily. • * • Boiled Whitefish—Clean a white- fish. To sufficient water to cover add salt and vinegar and a bunch of parsley and a quartered onion. Cook until the flesh separates eas ily from the bones. Drain and place on a hot platter, garnished with parsley and serve with a sauce. • • • Butter Layer Cake—When rasp berry jam that is not of firm con sistency is to be used for filling a sponge sandwich cake it is ad visable to butter the inner surface of each layer before spreading it with jam. This will prevent the moisture from soaking into the cake and making it sodden. * • • Tomato and Lima Bean Casse role—Drain the liquid from a No. 2 can of green baby lima beans and combine the beans with a can of tomatoes. Add a little butter and seasoning, then mix. Place in buttered casserole. Cover. WNU Service. Why Laxatives Fail In Stubborn Constipation Twelve to 24 hours is too long to wait when relief from clogged bowels and constipation is needed, for then enor. mous quantities of bacteria accumu late, causing GAS, indigestion and many restless, sleepless nights. If you want REAL, QUICK RELIEF, take a liquid compound such as Ad- lerika. Adlerika contains SEVEN ca thartic and carminative ingredients that act on the stomach and BOTH bowels. Most "overnight’' laxatives contain one ingredient that acts on tha lower bowel only. Adlerika’s DOUBLE ACTION gives your system a thorough cleansing, bringing out old poisonous waste mat ter that may have caused GAS pains, sour stomach, headaches and sleepless nights for months. Adlerika relieves stomach GAS M once and usually removes bowel con* gestlon In less than two hours. No waiting for overnight results. Thla famous treatment has been recom mended by many doctors and drug gists for 35 years. Take Adlerika one- half hour before breakfast or one hour before bedtime and in a short while you will feel marvelously refreshed. At all Leading Druggists. Books Are Company If you can entertain yourself, you are fortified against many a long evening without company. Try the companionship of books. 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