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McCORMICK MESSENGER. McCORMICK. SOUTH CAROUNA Thursday, June 24, 1937 NOTICE OF TAX SALE Under and virtue of a warrant issued to me by the County Treas urer of McCormick County, I have ec ized the following described prop erty to satisfy the taxes due the State of South Carolina and the County of McCormick, for the years 1934, 1935 and 1936, and the same will be sold to the highest bidder for cash on salesday in July, 1937, during the legal hours of sale in front of the Court House Door at McCormick, South Carolina, and the proceeds of the sale wall be ap plied to the payment of the said taxes and the cost of said seizure and sale, to wit: The property of Eli Tompkins and is described as follows: Fifty-nine (59) acres of land more or less, in School District No 3, McCormick County, State of South Carolina, bounded on north by land of Midas Tompkins; east by Little River; south by land of Ambus Martin; west by land of Midas Tompkins, and probably others. J. T. FOOSHE, Tax Collector for McCormick Coun ty. . McCormick. S. C., June 15, 1937.—3t. \ NOTICE OF TAX SALE Under and by virtue of a warrant issued to me by . the County Treas urer of McCormick County, I have seised the following described prop erty to satisfy the taxes due the State of South Carolina and the County of McCormick, for the years 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935 and 1936, and the same will be sold to the highest toidder for cash on salesday in July, 1937, during the legal hours of sale in front of the Court House Door at McCormick, South Caro lina, and the proceeds of the sale will be applied to the payment of the said taxes and the cost of said seizure and sale, to wit: The property of Flem Butler, and is described as follows: Two (2) lots. No. 8 and No. 16, in block 9Mt, having a frontage of 50 feet each on Walnut and Oak Streets, running 100 feet back on Carolina Street, in Town of Mc Cormick, State of South Carolina. J. T. FOOSHE, Tax Collector for McCormick Coun ty. McCormick. S. C., June 15, 1937.—3t. NOTICE OF TAX SALE Under and by virtue of a warrant issued to me by. the County Treas urer of McCormick County, I have seized the following described prop erty to satisfy the taxes due the State of South Carolina and the County of McCormick, for the years 1934, 1935 and 1936, and the same will be sold to the highest bidder for cash on salesday in July, 1937, during the legal hours of sale in front of the Court House Door at McCormick, South Carolina, and the proceeds of the sale will be applied to the payment of the said taxes and the cost of said seizure and *ale, to wit: The property of R. H. Middleton, and is described as follows: One hundred thirty-seven (137) acres of land, more or less, in School District No. 25, McCormick County, State of South Carolina, bounded on north by lands of L. C. Rich and Thomas Meriwether; east by lands of Thomas Meri wether and H. A. Adams; south by land of H. C. Middleton; west by Bailey lands, and probably others. J. T. FOOSHE, Tax Collector for McCormick Coun- • ty. McCormick. S. C., Jdhe 15, 1937.—3t. NOTICE OF TAX SALE Under and by virtue of a warrant issued to me by the County Treas urer of McCormick County, I have seized the following described property to satisfy the taxes due the State of South Carolina and the County of McCormick, for the years 1933. 1934, 1935 and 1936, and the same will be sold to the high est bidder for cash on salesday in July, 1937, during the legal hours of sale in front of the Court House Door at McCormick, South Caro lina, and the proceeds of the sale will be applied to the payment of the said taxes and the cost of said seizure and sale, to wit: The property of J. F. Dalton, am is described as follows: Sixty-seven (67) acres of lend more or less, in School District No 17, McCormick Countv, State of South Carolina, bounded on north by Long Cane Public Road; east by land of M. DeLoach; south by land of Mrs. Franz Engles am Hollingsworth land: west bv Tim merman land, and J. F. Dalton land and probably others. J. T. FOOSHE, Tax Collector for McCormick Coun ty. McCormick. S. C., June 15, 1937.—3t. Insurance Fire Insurance And All Other Kinds of Insurance Ex- j fcept Life. O ITi 0 it’s the REFRESHING thing to do GREENWOOD COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO. Greenwood, S. C. HAS TIMED ISO MILLION LIVES TM A NEW WOMAN THANKS TO PURSANC TeS.Pursangcontains.in properly balanced proportions, such proven elements as organic copper and iron. Quickly stimulates appetite and aids nature in building rich, red blood even in cases of simple anemia. When this happens, energy and strength usually return. You feel like new. Get Pursang from your druggist. Experience Service Facilities Those are the Important things in measuring the worth of a funeral director, and should be borne In mind when you have occasion to choose one DISTANCE IS NO HINDRANCE TO OUR SERVICB and there is no additional charge for service oat of town J. S. STROM Main Street McCormick, S. C. /t<r ^ —— l MO Eft SHIP ZteaaH- EDEftCV! • . ' u. ' '■» : i'- . 'Wr ENERGY TOPIANTHE A mighty ycmcI ... a tower ing monolith ... a bridge . . , an airship ... a simple fob . . . whatever the ambition . . . dreame can be made to come true. Today — “Air-Condltlonod" Claussen'b Bread Is al ways fresh at your grocer's. ’'Air-Conditioned** because It Is removed from ovens, quickly cooled In a apodal cooling room, and wrappod quickly at proper tempera ture. Order Claussek's Bread today I HUGH C. BROWN, i McCORMICK, S. C. T VrT'7’ CiaaSSenS Bre&dr ■flIR-COnD!TiO!iEK UTILIZE SUBWAYS TO SPEED TRAFFIC Type of Rap ? d Transit Used in Most Countries. Washington, D. C.—“Discussions of a subway for the District of Columbia are reminders that this is the only major national capital of the world today without this type of rapid transit,” says the National Geographic society. “England, France, Germany, Ja pan, Argentina and Soviet Russia— all these world powers have under ground railways. Italy, joining the countries with underground trans portation this year, broke ground in February to plant four miles of sub way at the roots of ancient Rome itself. “Even countries which do not have marked traffic congestion have provided their capitals with sub ways — Hungary, Spain, Scotland, and Greece. Chile has approved sub way plans for Santiago, and Czecho slovakia has started on fifteen un derground miles for Prague. “London’s ‘tubes,’ Paris’ ‘Metro,’ Berlin’s white ‘U’ on a blue ground, the broad flaming ‘M’ over Moscow’s subway entrances, crowds funneling into the sidewalk hoods of New York’s subways—all are the talk of tourists and the speedy escape from tangles of surface traffic. Many Subway Systems. “About seventeen cities in the world have subway systems, with underground tracks, stations, and appropriate cars or trains. Four others have underground sections in their street railways, where sur face cars go undercover for several stations, then emerge farther on. “A great many more street rail way systems employ underground passages where track and train dip below the surface to avoid a hill or a congested area, as in Pittsburgh and in Los Angeles, and at the Kobe end of the line between Japan’s metropolis of Osaka and its port Kobe. Chicago has a subway for freight but none for passengers. “So far, the closest approximation to a subway in Washington is a mid get underground railway which has no schedule, no tickets, and only the most distinguished patrons. It shut tles back and forth beneath the Capitol and the senate office build ing, carrying senators from office to oratory without exnosure to traf fic or weather hazards. “In Liverpool, Newark, Roches ter, and Athens the street railways lead a Dr. Jekyll-MT. Hyde exist ence, going underground for only part of their career. “London blazed the subway trail, with an underground steam railway in the 1860’s. Glasgow, Scotland, followed suit in 1896. “Berlin, another pioneer, now has over 40 miles of subway. Instead of separate cars for different classes of passengers, as in part of Lon don’s underground system, it makes a distinction only between smokers and non-smokers, with red cars for the former and yellow coaches for the latter. Some of its subway sta tions, such as the Alexander-Platz, with its pictures in tile of old Ber lin, are three stories high, and serve the elevated railway as well. “Paris has an even larger system, spreading an underground spider web beneath the city’s foundation, with 296 stations. In contrast to New York’s simple coin-in-the-slot entrances, the subways of Paris re quire tickets for first and second- class travel. “The subway has even reached Asia, for Japan now uses this rapid transit solution for two of her rapid ly growing crtie&r Tokyo and Osaka. Moscow a Newcomer. “A newcomer to the subway cir cuit is Moscow, with thirteen sta tions cn three routes radiating from the Okhotny Ryad station in the center of the new business and hotel section. In their spare time volun teer workers joined in the labor of tunneling through marshy earth and quicksands. The marble stations are free of advertising, and mechanical ventilation and unusually lofty ceil ings—15 to 20 feet high instead of the more usual 10—give an impres sion of airiness. “Subways are an old story in the New World, for Boston has had one since the beginning of this century. Philadelphia’s narrow streets made that city also dig deep for a solution to its traffic problem. The subway city par excellence, of course, is New York, where miles of sub-sur face track are counted not by fives and tens but by the hundreds, and a nickel buys more underground travel than anywhere else in the world. In some spots, routes were bVsted through solid rock without d • turbing tall buildings on the sur- fioe. • Farthest south subway is that of P cnos Aires. Three systems con- ro t the central business district v th the outlying suburbs of Bel- g mo, Palermo, and Saavedra. The tv '.nel of one is large enough for rc ;ular railroad trains.” OLD DiCPQNARY TO AID BIBLE CLARITY Document of 10th Century Never Before Published. ? A J * W «? 4 \ CANNOT ESCAPE FROM HINT New Haven, Conn.—Controversies that have arisen over incongruous translations in the English revised version of the Bible probably may be solved through the use of the oldest comprehensive dictionary of the Bible, which has been published by the Yale University Press. The dictionary, written in the Tenth century and since then ex tant only in manuscript form, has been edited by Dr. Solomon L. Skoss, professor of Arabic in Dropsie college, Philadelphia. The dictionary was written in Arabic but in Hebrew characters and is based on manuscripts which for eight centuries lay forgotten in the basement of a Jerusalem synagogue. With it several disputed passages of the Bible have been clarified. It was written by David ben Abraham al-Fasi, one of the Ka raites, a Jewish sect which origi nated in Mesopotamia in the Eighth century and which denied the validity of the traditional teach ings of the Talmud and later Rab binic literature. Accepted Old Testament. The Karaites, accepting the Old Testament as the sole authority, de voted their entire attention to a thorough study of the Scriptures, its exegesis and philology. Al-Fasi’s dictionary enjoyed such popularity and authority among the generations of scholars that fol- loweid him that it was known simply as “The Book.” In various Euro pean libraries today are to be found in manuscript form three different abridgements made during the Eleventh century. An old and torn manuscript of al-Fasi’s work was found in 1830 in an underground chamber of the Karaite synagogue in Jerusalem. The manuscripts, together with sev eral fragments of the various ver sions, are now in the state public library in Leningrad. Dr. Skoss in 1932 was investigat ing manuscripts in the library on a grant awarded by the American Council of Learned Societies when he discovered the last half of one of the partly destroyed Leningrad frag ments. A study of the Hebrew-Arabic dic tionary has been made by students of the Old Testament and verses which have required elaborate in terpretations to explain their incon gruity have been shown to be in correctly translated. Exodus Chapter Cited. As an example. Dr. Charles C. Torrey, Sterling professor of Se mitics, Emeritus, of Yale, cites the customary version of the story of the golden calf in Exodus, chap ter 32, verse 4. The revised version presented the story that when the wives, sons and daughters brought the golden earrings, Aaron “re ceived it at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, and made it a molten calf.” Aaron’s transformation of the golden earrings into a golden calf by means of a graving tool has been difficult to understand. Dr. Torrey points out that the al-Fasi dictionary takes the corresponding Hebrew expression “heret” to mean “a mold into which molten gold and silver are poured” and the whole passage becomes clear: Aaron cast the earrings into a mold and made a golden calf. According to Dr. Skoss, the au thor of the dictionary was born in Fez, Morocco, as his surname al- Fasi (the Fezite) indicates. How ever, he must have lived for some length of time in Jerusalem, where he most likely wrote his dictionary. Dr. Skoss’ editions are based on all the known manuscripts and tragments and all its versions. llzzWlz Devices Protect Sea Francisco Fortress. U. S. Army Gets a Fourth 16-Ton Flying Fortress Washington, D. C.—A fourth army bomber of the YB-17 type, popularly known as a flying fortress, has been turned over to the army at Langley field. Three of this type of giant bombers are now at Langley field and another is at Wright field at Dayton, Ohio. Nine ignore are being built by Boeing to be turned over to the army within the year. The aircraft company is also building the largest anny bomber in the world for the army. The new plane, which shortly will undergo its test, is to be four tons larger than the 16 ton flying fortress. fan Francisco, Calif.—Within the next few months the federal govern ment expects to occupy its new $1,000,090 mint here, guaranteed by its designers and constructors to be the most burglarproof and foolproof construction of its kind ever erected. It will replace the famous old mint that has been one of the cu riosities of San Francisco for half a century. It will take the center of minting interests out of the down- towm section of the city, to the top of a rocky summit, where natural surroundings have contributed with the latest architectural genius in' makirg the mint safe. The new mint will be virtually automatically defensive against a burglar or a raiding party. It is so- equipped that defenders. will be able to call out not only the San Francisco fire and police depart ments but the army stationed 1 at the Presidio. Besides being burglarproof it is declared to be virtually inaccessi ble even for a fly. Windows Bulletproof. Among a few of the safety gadg^ ets that are being installed are bul letproof windows, thick as a man’s thumb but with openings just large- enough to let machine guns pro trude. Then thebe is the automatic- te:jr-gas machinery for flooding the- enlire establishment. Tunneling into such a building’ is believed to have been circumvented rot only by the architectural pre- caut ons taken in its foundations but by the fact that it is located on top- of a hillock of solid rock that could hardly be “tunneled” short of con stant dynamiting. The vast burglar alarm system is declared to be the most extensive protective measure of its kind ever inr'allr.d in a mint. There will be only two entrances to the building—one in the front and one in the rear—and each will I e protected by a barred guard room. The bronze doors will be op erated electrically. According to mint officials, if any untoward incident should occur the mint department will act in the fol lowing manner: A’arms will be flashed automat ic;-dy throughout the building. A short-wave radio station will on 1 the San Francisco police de- rnrlment and mobilize the United S’ctas troops stationed at the Pre- sid’o. Tear gas automatically will spout, frrm a dozen sources. If the attack is at night flGod- ’’"Ms will illuminate not only the- ir.seror but the exterior as weir. So md Detectors Installed. All nine of the huge vaults will b° equipped with sound detectors so cel-cate that they can distinguish* ‘ e d Terence between the ring of a genuine coin and a counterfeit. Precautions even have been taken ♦ n the a ; r from stealing any ( i Uncle Sam’s gold from the new ra nary. O-t the top floor is being installed a gh-nt lu^u—or ventilating system - wh : ch will suck all of the air of f c entire mint into one room. Ex- rer-'ence in tie old mint has demon s'rated that air has the bad habit of lapping up particles of gold dust on i carrying them away—particles t’-rf in the long run amount to large sums. So. in the new. mint, even the n r won’t be allowed to escape with old. It will be gently conducted by e mint’s lung into a single room, where the dust will be allowed to -c-ttlc. Then the dust will be put ‘breagh a sifting operation and the gold recovered. Bans Tipsy Flying Selma, Ala.—Selma’s city council approved an ordinance prohibiting “i ersons under the influence of Ik uor or narcotics from operating an airplane over this municipality.” Old Coffee Mill Melbourne, Ark. — A 110-year-old coffee mill and a 100-year-old wal nut chest are still in use at the home of Joseph Jones here. It Takes an Engineer to Get Dog Out of Drain Oxford, Ohio.—Miami University officials, unable to locate the source of howls issuing from all openings of the drains beneath new concrete tennis courts, called in the en gineering faculty. J. Paul Albert, who planned the courts, used blue prints to figure out a hypothetical location, walked to a spot 50 yards from the drain entrance and said: “Dig here.” Rescuers dug and lib erated a fat beagle hound, which stretched, wagged its tail, and trot ted off. Squirrel Panhandlers Ashtabula, Ohio.—Most persistent panhandlers in town are a family of three squirrels housed in a tree in a city park. They are so fearless that they often come to the door steps on nearby buildings to beg food. Explorer Flans Landing Fields at North Pole r*. Lous, Mo. — David Irwin, iwp.'ty-sevcn-ycar-old arc jj c explor er and native of St. Louis, has an'r'rc his tentative plans for an ex- ' r tVn to the north pole a landing f. ? v’ fo r planes on the “top of the vr r’d.” l-wm sa : d he got his idea from Uc Tussia'n army’s method of para- « ng soldiers from planes. If tnYTers can be dropped out of p-a^cs. he said, it should be just as cary to drop men, sleds, dogs and su* olies at the pole and establish a plane base there. P^es would not be able to land at the pole immediately because of the shifting ice, but a field could be cleared and maintained by T the crew drooped there to allow a plane to land and pick up the members of the expedition when their explora- t’ops would be completed. The dogs end sleds would provide transporta tion back to other bases if the plane were unable to land, lYwin said. Brush Made From Boar’s Bristles Sells for $500 New York.—The world’s most ex pensive hairbrush, made of the rare, strong, beautiful bristles plucked from the neck of Siberian w Yf boars of 12 years and older are \ *'ging $500 today because of the s 'v'-et government’s campaign to tr-<-h citizens of the Steppes to hunt 1’ beasts for food. Agents here v ne quoting the brushes at $250 a vi — ago. But in the succeeding t, ■ 1 vernonth the firm was able to o'- U.in only six ounces of the precious bristles, or enough for 1hrc:> brushes: Their addition has bi t. «ght rtvsT in ventory up to nine.