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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK. S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1937 Inexpensive Buffet Set That's Done in a Jiffy This—the newest in crochet—in expensive—quickly made in one or two colors (the leaf border con trasting) adds beauty to your home. Make luncheon or buffet sets—scarfs or just doilies—use Pattern 1532 perle cotton or just string. Pat tern 1532 contains detailed direc tions for making the design shown; illustrations of it and of all stitches used; material re quirements; photograph of section of work; suggestions for varied uses. Send 15 cents in stamps or coins (coins preferred) for this pattern to The Sewing Circle, Needlecraft Dept., 82 Eighth Ave., New York, N. Y. Please write plainly pattern number, your name and address. Beneficence There is no use of money equal to that of beneficence; here the enjoyment grows on reflection; and our money is most truly ours when it ceases to be in our pos session.—Mackenzie. Still Coughing? 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Katherine Hepburn, so long totter ing on the brink of whimsy and ob livion, returns to the early forthright manner of her great success, “Morning Glory” and really tugs at your heart strings. Ginger Rog ers proves to be a fine dramatic ac tress. Andrea Leeds and Lucille Ball make dramatic bits stand out so effec- Katherine tively that they have Hepburn already been re warded with leading roles. Constance Collier, for many years a great idol of the London and New York stage, proves that she can be equally effective in motion pictures. Jack Benny has every reason to be proud of his wife’s motion-pic ture debut. In Paramount’s “This Way Please,” Mary Livingstone tosses nonsensical lines about as deftly as she does on the nation’s favorite air program. This picture also serves as the film debut of Fib ber McGee and Molly, those pleas ant homey folks of the radio, and brings back Buddy Rogers. He isn’t as young and exuberant as he used to be, but he can still lead a band. Crowded as the picture is with big- time favorites, two youngsters man age to walk off with a large share of the honors. Betty Grable is a little bombshell of vivacious beauty and Rufe Davis proves to be the most hilariously-entertaining of all hill billies with an imitation of a mafl sicking his hound dogs on a pig in a potato patch. Decision on putting little Leatrlce Joy Gilbert, daughter of the late John Gilbert, in the leading role of “National Velvet” is still in abey ance, but she is assured a future in films. She will make her debut in “Benefits Forgot,” an ambitions production in which Walter Hnston will play the lead at Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer. —■¥— With Ruth Mix, daughter of Tom Mix, starting on the first of four cowgirl pictures she will make for Grand National, this young com pany is assured more Westerns for release during the coming year than any other company. Tex Ritter is making eight musical Westerns for them, and Ken Maynard is coming back from his tour with the Cole Brothers circus to nfiake eight dra matic Westerns for them. Frances Dee retired from the screen long enough to have two babies and bring them up to the tod dling age and when she returned to play in “Souls at Sea” she was not at all sure that she wanted to go on with her career. Now, how ever, she finds that working doesn’t keep her away from her babies very much and she enjoys being able to swap professional studio talk wiih her husband, Joel McCrea. Paramount is equally enthusiastic over her return and will put her in the lead of “Dream of Love.” Ernst Lubitsch, Gary Cooper and Claudette Colbert have all been marking time while Paramount officials searched for just the right actor to play a very important role in “Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife.” They were getting dis couraged, when they happened to go to a party where “The Prisoner of Zenda” was shown, and as soon as they saw David Niven they chorused “That’s our man.” Luck ily, he was just on his way back from England, and Sam Goldwyn to whom he is under contract had no immediate plans for him. ODDS AND ENDS—The Warner Broth ers are in a frenzy because the Mauch twins are growing so fast, they are outgrow ing some scenarios written for them . . . Lionel Barrymore has gone off to England to work in Robert Taylor’s picture being filmed at Oxford . . . Norma Shearer ex pects to get started on filming “Marie Antoinette” any year now when she can get just the actors she wants in her sup porting cast . . . Rumor has it that Cary Grant will be known as number one comic of the screen when “The Awful Truth” with Irene Dunne, and “Bringing Up Baby” with Katherine Hepburn are shown . . . Joan Crawford wishes that fans would write and tell her what sort of role to play next. She does not want to sing or dance, though she does both well, but will try anything else her fans suggest. D Western Newspaper Union. Gary Cooper ADVENTURERS’ CLUB HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELFI “Escaped Ax-Murderer 9 * By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter H ello everybody: This adventure yarn just proves, once moffe, that you don’t have to prowl around the African jungles to find thrills. No sir, you don’t have to be a big game hunter, either, to run across tough spots where you have to do hair-trigger thinking. Why, if Jimmy Hagle, who lives in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, never sees a jungle, well—he will have plenty of adventure to look back upon. Hold on to your chairs, boys and girls. Jimmy Hagle—it’s James Ruthven Hagle now—was twelve years old, back in 1917, when America jumped into the World war. Frances— that’s his sister—was eighteen. Both went to the same schoolhouse. Thanksgiving rolled around and school was dismissed at noon the day before, for the holidays. Jimmy and his schoolmates were leap-frogging home, snowballing and whetting up their Turkey Day appetites. Siren Meant Convict Had Escaped. Right then, from over those snow-covered, vacant lots, came a low moan. It sharpened in the crackly air until it became a shriek. That meant just one thing to kids and grown-ups in Fort Leavenworth. There were three prisons around that town and when a siren groaned it meant that one or more convicts had es caped. It meant terror to women at home alone. Jimmy and the boys were too busy with Thanksgiving plans to worry much about the siren’s wail. Escaped convicts wouldn’t bother kids. So they all shivered a little, started snowballing again and romped home. Jimmy neared his house. A strange, black tomcat scurried out of the open coal chute. Jimmy heaved a snowball at it and ran into the kitchen to sniff of Thanksgiving preparation. Mother and Dad were all dressed up. Big affair up in Kansas City they had to attend. Mother would be back bright and early to fix that turkey. Jimmy and Frances had been tentatively planted with the neighbors for the night. “Nix,” said Jimmy. “We’ll stay here. Think we’re afraid?” Well, they did stay. Alone for the first time, the house seemed dark and sinister. The light snow turned into a Kansas blizzard. Rattled doors and windows and howled around the corners. Lights out and twelve-year-old Jimmy lay sleepless, listening to noises of the storm. Memory of that wailing siren came back. Memory, also, of his father’s comment on newspaper articles. Dad had read aloud, before he left, that five convicts—four of them convicted murderers— It Was the Ax-Murderer, Insane—Desperate. had escaped. One was a maniac murderer, guilty of a triple slaying— butcherer of three persons with a knife and ax. Jimmy tried to think of Thanksgiving. Troubled sleep came at last. He was being shaken. His body tensed. Then, a voice called, “Buddy, I hear a noise in the basement. What do you suppose it is?” Jimmy put on a brave air. “It’s that cat I saw running out. He must have come back through the coal chute.” Giant Negro With a Knife. Frances went back to her room. Jimmy’s mind turned again to the siren—the escaped murderers. Ten—fifteen minutes passed. The unmistakable rattle of sliding coal. Clump clump, clump. Footsteps down there, surely. Frances was at his bedside again—trembling. “I can’t sleep. You must go down and put that cat out.” Jimmy wasn’t sure at all that4t was a cat. Cats don’t clump, clump over concrete. But he couldn’t back down before his older sister. Both Jimmy and Frances tiptoed down the cellar steps, turning on the lights. Jimmy first opened the door to the food-storage room. In the dim light he saw nothing unusual. Then he threw back the door to the furnace room and entered. He glanced backward to see whether Frances was following him. She was. But behind her, at the door, was a sight that froze the blood of that twelve-year-old lad. A giant negro—bared teeth and bloodshot eyes—was pressing the door shut with his powerful back. His right hand was on the knob. His left held a long-bladed knife—a butcher knife. It was the escaped ax murderer—insane—desperate. He was mum bling—gripping the knife convulsively. Jimmy and Frances screamed in chorus. Jimmy thrust his sister behind him. They retreated toward the wall. A twelve-year-old boy facing an armed maniac who had fought off armed posses of grim men for days—overpowered prison keepers and escaped. The murderer was weaving stealthily forward, muttering. The knife was hobbling for a thrust. His words were intelligible, now. “They’ll never get me. They’ll never get me,” he repeated. Jimmy’s arms stretched backward to protect his sister. His hands touched something. Dad’s tool bench! Good Hammer Throw by Jimmy. The smooth hickory handle, of a riveting hammer was in Jimmy’s fingers. Instinctively they closed upon it. The convict was still ad vancing. Hardly aiming, Jimmy flung the hammer with his good right baseball arm at the leering face less than six feet away. Blood spurted. The heavy hammer had struck the murderer squarely across the bridge of the nose. He sank to bis knees, scrambled for a few dazed seconds—staggered to his feet. Frances raced for the dark stairway. A black hand, seized her flow* ing nightgown. Jimmy seized her, literally tore her free. She plunged up the stairway. She fell. Jimmy fell across her. Up again. Into the kitchen. The stairs shook with the heavy tread of the killer behind them. They were crossing the dining room—the front door their goal. A thud on the floor. The butcher knife, hurled by the convict, quiv ered in the floor beside Jimmy’s foot. Blood spurted high, but brother and sister plunged on. Frances flung open the door. Out into the blizzard, screams rising over the howl of the storm. Lights flashed on. Jimmy and Frances fell exhausted upon a neigh bor’s porch. Police found marks of the struggle, and giant footprints leading from the Hagles’ front porch. The convict had disappeared in the blizzard. A few nights later, the killer prowled again. He was captured after a desperate battle. Today he is serving, in solitary confinement, the re mainder of his life sentence in the Kansas State prison. ©—WNU Service. A Shake-Down Cruise A shake-down cruise is sort of a pleasure jaunt to foreign shores to acquaint the crew with its duties. It’s an old ship-builders’ custom. Shake-down voyages of United States navy vessels, however, are preceded by other trials. First is the builder’s own trials. Next come the navy’s “standardization trials.” Aboard this time are some navy ob servers, and the vessel is tried for speed. Then come necessary re adjustments, recruiting of the crew md the shake-down. Model Mate After 50 years of observation Ar thur Cleveland Brent, of the Smith sonian Institution, reveals that the red-shouldered hawk is the matri monial model of birddom. These birds marry very young, never de sert their wives, and always live in the homes they stake out, even put ting up no-trespassing signs made of fresh sprigs of evergreen. Most amazing of all is the elation with which they decorate the nest with violets when there’s a new addition to the family. Historic Hoaxes 88 By ELMO SCOTT WATSON © Western Newspaper Union. “Two Famous Scientists” 'T'HE World’s Fundamentalist con- A ference was meeting in Toronto, Canada. One of the speakers, a cer tain Doctor Brown, had defended the story of Jonah and the whale against the doubters who refused to take that familiar Bible story lit erally. So he was delighted when he received a letter from the city editor of the Toronto Mail and Em pire which seemed to back up his belief. The next evening Doctor Brown read to the 3,000 delegates to the conference the letter which de scribed how two well-known Ger man scientirts, Herr Doktor Butter- brod and Herr Doktor Smearkase, while delving in some ruins near Nineveh, had found the skeleton of what they believed was a whale. It had a sort if muscle arrangement working a trap door which gave access to tie stomach. This, the scientists declared, proved conclu sively that ii would have been sci entifically possible for Jonah to live contentedly fir three days inside the whale. The delegates cheered the read ing of this leiter and Doctor Brown was well plessed. But he wasn’t so pleased the lext day. Newspaper men came to interview him to get more particuhrs on the story. He was quoted at saying that the two Germans wen men of international reputation. Then the Mul and Empire came out with a stiry which announced that the namei of the two eminent scientists miglt be otherwise trans lated as “Doctor Bread and But ter” and “Docor Cheese” and that the letter was a hoax planned in its offices. It did not reveal where it had secured tie manuscript and it was not until several years later that the author of it was revealed as one of it£ reporters named Charles Langtoo Clarke, who had written the ston for his own amuse ment many months before the Fundamentalists met in Toronto. • • • An Andent Stone I N THE year 1875 the Brooklyn (N. Y.) Argus reported that a hunter in the Catskills had made a discovery which was of “extraordi nary antiquarian interest.” While resting on a grassy hillside he glanced idly at a boulder and then rubbed his eyes in astonishment. On it were plainly engraved these words: 1043 TH-ISS-TO-NEWA-SPUTH- ER-EFO-RCATTLET-OSCRAT- CH-THE-IRBA-CKSON S.B.AN-TH-ON-IE In what language was this inscrip tion written? Wai it carved there by some survivoi of a lost race? Was it some mage formula or the key to buried treasure? No one knew, but for days everyone was talking about it aid guessing as to its meaning. And then somebody had the bright idea of writing the syllables down and leaving out thi dashes between them. In a momeit the translation became clear. Ifcvas: “This stone was put here for cat tle to scratch their backs on. S. B. Anthonie.” Who was S. B. Anthonie, the au thor of the hoax? Ni one ever knew. Why the date “1643”? Probably just a whim of the playftl Mr. Anthonie, put there to lead its “discoverer” to believe that he had found some thing of “extraordinary antiquarian interest”! • * i International April Foolishness I F WE Americans think that the best April Fool jokes are “made in America” we need to think again. For the nations of eastern and cen tral Europe have had longer years of practice at it than we have and newspaper readers in those coun tries expect on April 1 to read in their journals fantastic news items which are believable enough to fool all except the most sophisticated. Several years ago a Polish news paper published a photograph of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, erect as the day it was built. Over it was the startling headline “Straightened by Order of II Duce.” Such was thr reputation of Mussolini for “getting things done,” that many readers be lieved he had indeed had the Tower of Pisa restored to its original posi tion. One Warsaw paper carried a pho tograph of Charlie Chaplin arriving at the principal railroad station which resulted in hundreds of calls at its office to learn where the in quirers could see the famous Amer ican movie star. But the prize hoax was the one published in a Bucharest paper. It told in great detail of the arrival of George Bernard Shaw at a local hotel and made its reporter’s inter view with that witty Irishman so true to life that even seasoned re porters on other papers were gulled. Believing that they had been “scooped,” they rushed down to the hotel en masse to get interviews for their papers before Shaw left town, only to be greeted with an “April Fool!” (or the Rumanian equivalent f or it) by the smiling hotel clerk. Uncle T^ltil **j* l '%M A Wide Difference The difference between perse verance and obstinacy is that on^ often comes from a strong will and the other from a strong won’t. The increase of knowledge only produces more to wonder about. To make a rooster, the vainest of creatures, run, is the first tri umph of a very small boy. By courage and holding one’s nose much can be accomplished. A gossip makes a mountain out of a molehill and then brings it to you. Sport that is sport only for the onlookers, is not sport. Not All Can Laugh A person with a sandpaper tongue may create more gayety, but he with a velvet one is more comforting. It would be strange if the com pany a man keeps didn’t know him. A man never forgets a snub. That is the reason it does him so much good, by stirring him into' action. the REASON HEADACHES me RELIEVED $o east THE REASON BAYER ASPIRIN WORKS SO FAST Drop a Boyar Aspirin toblot Into a tumbler of wotor. By tho timo it hits tho bottom of tho gloss it is disintograting. This spood of disintogration onoblos gonuino BAYER Aspirin tablets to start "taking hold" of hoadacho and simi lar pain a faw minutss after taking. All people who suffer occasionally from headaches ought to know this way to quick relief. At the first sign of such pain, take two Bayer Aspirin tablets with a half glass of water. Some times if the pain is more severe, another dose is necessary later, according to directions. If headaches keep coming back we advise you to see your own physician. He will loot for the cause in order to correct it. The price now is only 15*? for twelve tablets or two full dozen for 25 cents — virtually, only a cent apiece. Virtually 1 cent a tablet Nobleness < ’Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to re venge an injury. — Benjamin Franklin. j YOU CAN THROW CARDS' IN HIS FACE ONCE TOO OFTEN 1 W HEN you have those awful cramps; when your nerves i are all on edge—don’t take it out on the man you love. Your husband can’t possibly know how you feel for the simple season that he Is a man. A three-quarter wife may be no wife at all if she nags her hus band seven days out of every month. For three generations one woman has told another how to go "smil ing through” with Lydia E. Pink- ham’s Vegetable Compound. It helps Nature tone up the system, thus lessening the discomforts from the functional disorders which women must endure In the three ordeals of life: 1. Turning from girlhood to womanhood. 2. Pre paring for motherhood. 3. Ap proaching "middle age.” Don’t be a three-quarter wife; take LYDIA E. PINKHAM’S VEGETABLE COMPOUND and Go “Smiling Through.” WNU—7 44—37 Battle Half Over A man prepared has half fought the battle.—Cervantes. MEDICAL JOURNAL IIS: ABOUT COLDS! e researches these doctors) „ — hem to believe that colds result from an acid iition of the body. To overcome this they icribe various alkalies.”That’s why, today... ODEN'S 5/ NOW CONTAIN AN LKAUNE FACTOR