Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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\ y McCORMICK MESSENGER. McCORMiCK. S. C.. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1937 ^Isk Me Jlnother A General Quiz 1. Which are the three largest fresh-water lakes in the world? 2. In what country did geome try originate? 3. What is the minimum age for the office of President of the United States? 4. In what country has a con demned criminal the choice of drinking cyanide of potassium or being hanged? 5. In Roman mythology who was Lucina? C. Of what material is a para chute made? 7. - How great is the flow of the Big Horn Hot spring at Thermopo- lis, Wyo.? 8. Is coal still forming in the United States? Answers 1. Lakes Superior, Victoria (Af rica), and Huron. 2. The history of the science be gins in Greece, but mensuration was developed to a considerable extent at an early period in Egypt, Babylonia and India. 3. Thirty-five years. 4. In Estonia the death penalty in murder cases gives the con demned this choice. 5. Goddess of Light. 6. The sail of a parachute is made of carefully chosen un treated silk, while the shroud lines are of a high grade thrown silk, consisting of not less than 32 threads of a 3-ply each. They have a breaking strength of not less than 400 pounds. 7. The flow is 18,600,000 gallons of hot mineral every 24 hours. There are many other hot springs in Hot Springs State park. The springs were given to the state by Chief Washakie of the Shoshone Indians. 8. The Bureau of Mines says that coal is still forming in some parts of the United States, such as the Everglades, in Dismal swamp, and a few other similar places. Necessity Money History tells us that the social and economic unrest of the years 1833-44 and 1861-65 caused hard money to go into hiding and re sulted in a deluge of private coins which passed as cents. The great est number of these necessity coins were issued during the Civil war period. More than 10,000 va rieties have been found in copper, brass, lead and other metals, the majority bearing political and pa triotic slogans or merchants’ names. GENERAL4Q ELECTRIC MODEL F-96 9 TUBES 3 BANDS Touch Tuning (7 buttons). Silent Tun ing. AFC Tone Monitor. Louver Dial. Visual Volume Control. Visual 4-point Tone Control. Automadc Band Indi cator. 12-inch Stabilized Dynamic Speaker. Bass Compensation. Foreign- Domestic Reception. R.F. Pre-selector Stage. Handsome Full- $1(1095 length Console * IU U $10.00 DOWN DEUVERS FREE HOME TRIAL ^ GINERAt ELECTRIC RADIO PERRY-MANN ELECTRIC COMPANY, INC. (Wholesale Distributor*) Columbia, S. C. FOR REPLACf ' ENTS SPECIFY 6-1 PRE-TESTED RADIO TUBES ADVENTURERS^ CLUB HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELFI « » Horror on the Highway By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter H ello everybody: And a very extra-special hello to you, Marybob Willson out there at your home in Union, N. J., for your swell story today. Marybob—pretty name isn’t it?—is a big girl now, but she was only seven when adventure—in the shape of an escaped lunatic—jumped right on the running board of the family car and gave Marybob a chance to be a heroine. One autumn day in 1932 Marybob and her mother were driving, without her dad, from Erie, Pa., to New York city. That was a big thrill for Marybob—taking a long trip like that without her dad—because it gave her a chance to take care of her mother. Madman Jumped on Their Car. Marybob kept her eyes open, and, while her mother drove the car, she lolled luxuriously alone in the back seat like a little queen watching the scenery. Old Man Autumn had been using his paint brush on the trees that line the road of the Roosevelt highway in the part of Penn sylvania they were driving through and Marybob didn’t miss a thing. Beautiful russets and yellows flew by in a moving picture of color as mother stepped on the gas to get to New York before dark. Suddenly, however, as the car sped along the light traffic, a man jumped into the center of the road and gesticulated wildly for them to stop. Thinking that there had been an accident around the bend ahead of them and that some one might be seriously hurt, Marybob's mother slowed down just in front of the man. As she did so he dashed forward, jumped on the running board and began cursing and yelling like a madman. “Go ahead, go fast, go fast,” the man screamed between curses. Marybob and her mother looked at the man and Marybob’s mother went pale. The man’s eyes were staring out of his head and the muscles of his strained face twitched spasmodically. At first she thought he was drunk, but a second glance at his wild, unnatural eyes told her she had a dangerous maniac to contend with. The mother’s first thought was for her little girl. “Be careful,” she said in a guarded voice, “this man is crazy.” Marybob looked at him. He certainly looked crazy hanging onto the inside of the car door through the open window. She looked ahead. The road was clear. Her mother was driving faster, as ordered, but that wasn’t fast enough for their uninvited guest. “Faster!” he shouted, and, taking a screwdriver from his pocket with his free hand, he reached through the window and struck at Mary- He Struck at Marybob’s Mother. bob’s mother. He was on the driver’s side of the car and could easily reach her. The car went faster as the frantic mother tried to avoid the blows and avert an accident. Down the highway they went—faster than the law allows—and Marybob’s mother prayed for a policeman to stop them. Marybob Closed Window on His Hand. In the meantime, in the back seat, Miss Marybob was doing a little heavy thinking. If she locked the door from the inside the crazy man would at least have to stay on the outside. Her little hand slipped down and zip! the lock was on the door. So far so good. But now, how about closing the window on his hand? The maniac was giving all his attention to her mother, so Mary bob was able to start turning the little handle that closes and opens the window. Littlelby little the heavy glass came up. If only the man wouldn’t notice it until he was caught. Marybob’s mother was driving like mad now. The car was swaying back and forth across the road. Any minute she might lose control and send them all to their deaths in a terrible smash- up. The glass was soon just a tiny bit away from the man’s hand. Mary bob could see the blue veins standing out as the man held on with all his strength. She took a long breath, a tight grip on the handle and then turned it as fast as she could. The window pressed the hand tight in its grasp. Her Clever Scheme Was Effective. A wild scream of anger came from outside the car—a pair of murderous eyes glared through the glass at the little girl, but Marybob wasn’t afraid now. She just held on tight to the window handle. . Her mother, nearly fainting from terror, saw a group of men in the road ahead. She dared not slow down and was afraid to look around be cause of the speed of the car. And right then Marybob did some backseat driving. “It’s all right, mama,” she said, “I’ve got his hand caught m the window.” , , Mama nearly lost control of the car and herself when she realized what her daughter had done, but she did slow down and stop. And Mary bob didn’t let go of the window handle until three men grabbed hold of the crazy man and pulled him off. Even then he swung his screwdriver at the window and smashed it to bits. But he didn’t hurt Marybob or her mother. . - , The man was an escaped lunatic and the men in the road were guards searching for him. Wow! What an adventure! And what a girl! Copyright.—WNU Service. Ship Watches The first watch on a ship is from 8 p. m. to midnight; the middle watch from midnight to 4 a. m.; the morning watch from 4 a. m. to 8 a. m. Other watches are the fore noon watch from noon to 4 p. m.; first dog watch, 4 p. m. to 6 p. m. second dog watch, 6 p. m. to 8 p. m. On shipboard, bells mark the half- hours. Four, 8 and 12 o’clock are marked by eight bells; the next half- hour after this is one bell, then 5, 9 and 1 o’clock is two bells, etc. Captain Kidd in New Jersey Pirates were not confined to the Spanish Main as many believe. In 1696 the famous Captain Kidd stopped at Money island near Island Heights, N. J., where he is thought to have buried considerable treas ure. At any rate relics of the time such as blunderbusses, Spanish horns and stray coins minted in the Seventeenth and Sixteenth cen turies, are intermittently discovered ^n Money island. Indians Had Many Drinks Tea and coffee were unknown to the Indians before they came into contact with the whites, but they had a great variety of drinks which served the same purpose. Such were the leaves of the ink berry, the common holly, the winter berry, the frost grape, wild mints, wild berga mot, catnip, thistle sage, roots of the elder and roots of the larch. Many seeds formed an acceptable substitute for coffee. Cod Is a Greedy Fish A greedy fish is the cod, grabbing at any bait. On the Newfoundland banks during the spring run, says a Washington Post correspondent, one fisherman can catch over 500 cod in 10 or 11 hours. The average cod weighs 10 pounds, but 50-pound ers are not rare and some of 200 have been landed. An important food fish, cod also give us medicine (cod liver oil), isinglass (from air bladders), cattle fodder (in Norwaj and Iceland), and fuel. ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ STAR DUST jMLovie • Radio ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★★★By VIRGINIA VALE★★★ I T IS a toss up whether Made leine Carroll or Loretta Young will be the most-exquis- itely dressed screen star this winter. Miss Carroll writes from Paris that she is having the time of her life selecting costumes for “The River Is Blue” which she will start mak ing for Walter Wanger when she returns to Hollywood. Loretta Young was in New York recently buying fur coats, hats, and dresses by the ’score, just as if she hadn’t had any new clothes in ages. Hollywood designers have just about run out of ideas for Lo retta for in her last four pictures she has had altogether some 80 changes of costume, and each one was supposed to be a knockout. The more extreme and bizarre clothes are, the better she likes them—so she keeps designers working overtime. iilli:.!,; Madeleine Carroll You will be hearing a lot from now on about Ilona Massey, who makes her American screen debut in M-G-M’s “Rosalie.” Officials of the company are so delighted with her performance in a minor role that they are going to give her the title role in “Pompadour,” one of the most alluring beauties in history or drama. —-K— There is one popular radio player who will have to mend her ways if she ever goes into motion pictures— and most of them do sooner or later. Alice Frost of the “Big Sister” cast comes out of rehearsals with her forehead all smudged. She holds a pencil in her hand, and in a mo ment of dramatic tension invariably draws the point across her forehead. The jinx that has dogged the foot steps of all Hollywood players who appeared on the Broadway stage this season has at last been knocked out. Frances Farmer broke the spell. She opened recently-in “Gold en Boy,” a play about a prize fight er, and the critics went into rhapso dies over her deft playing of ro mantic scenes. Radio performers develop some of the strangest hobbies, but for the present Tony Wons, the C. B. S. philosopher, is leading them all. He makes violins. He makes violins with the utmost care out of any old thing he finds lying around the home. Inspired, possibly by Bob Burns and his far famed bazooka, he has made one out of a piece of tin stovepipe and the tone to his sur prise is excellent. —4c— The battle of the two great glam orous stars of the screen, Garbo and Deitrich, turns out to be no battle at all when you see their new pic tures, “Conquest” and “Angel.” Garbo is so far in the lead that there is just no competition at all. “Conquest” is a lavishly-produced, historically-faithful romance of the time of Napoleon, and Garbo as the lovely Countess Walewska has nev er been more appealing. “Angel,” on the other hand, is just an incon sequential modern triangle story in which the camera lingers on Miss Deitrich to the exclusion of any ac tion. —■¥■— Because of her good work in the new Fred Astaire picture, “Damsel in Distress,” Joan Fontaine is go ing to get a strange reward. She is going to be starred in “Curtain Call,” which Katherine Hepburn turned down. Don’t think she minds taking this hand-me-down, though. It is a grand story. —4c— Edgar Bergen and Charlie Mc Carthy will be in the cast of a new comedy that will feature Irene Dunne and as a result she is the envy of all Hollywood as well as the public at large. Her outstand ing success as a comedienne in “The Awful Truth” influ enced Universal to postpone their biog raphy of Madame Curie and instead of that story to cast her in a comedy. Thus she has estab lished herself as a double threat actress, at home in heavy drama as well a^ light farce. —4c— ODDS AND ENDS—Constance Bennett is the envy of all the pampered stars, be cause Alfalfa Sweizer of “Our Gang** comedies serenades her in his hilariously- uncertain tenor . . . Ken Murray and Edgar Bergen have evidently decided that they are in pictures to stay because they have both bought ranches out near Al lolsons . . . Ann Sotherns sister, Bonnie hake, has composed a song and sold it lor u Girl of the Golden ITest” . . . Kate 'imith is toying with the idea of trying motion pictures again. © Western Newspaper Union. Charlie McCarthy OP?. SEW. 4- Ruth Wyeth Spears IS Thumbtack Your Draperies to a Board. T O GIVE draperies the smartly tailored effect obtained by the professional decorator, a valance board must be used. A straight one by two inch board will be needed. A small finishing nail in the top of the window' casing near each end and screw eyes placed near the top of the back of the valance board will hold it in place as shown at A. Both side drapes and valance may be thumbtacked to the board and then be quickly hung all at once by hooking the screw eyes over the finishing nails. Think of the advantage on cleaning day! Just lift board and all’ off the nails and take outside for dusting. Tack the side drapes to the board first as at B, arranging full ness in flat pleats. In making the valance, allow enough material to fold around the ends of the board as at C; then tack it along the top, stretching it just enough so that it is perfectly smooth. The valance shown here is made of glazed chintz and matches the glazed chintz border that faces the edges of the side drapes. The glass curtains may be hung just inside the window frame or to the bottom of the valance board. Every Homemaker should have a copy of Mrs. Spears’ new book, SEWING. Forty-eight pages of step-by-step directions for making slipcovers and dressing tables; restoring and upholstering chairs, "Quotations" A Be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear and too happy to permit the presence of trouble. Think well of yourself and proclaim this fact to the world—not in loud words, but in great deeds.— James E. Ament. When everything is new and startling, the human mind just ceases to be startled.—Walter Lipp- man. Every day is a little life, and our whole life is but a day repeated.— Joseph Hall. Think naught a trifle, though it small appear; small sands the moun* tain, moments make the year and trifles life.—Edward Young. couches; making curtains for ev ery type of room and purpose. Making lampshades, rugs, otto mans and other useful articles for the home. Readers wishing a copy should send name and address, enclosing 25 cents, to Mrs. Spears, 210 South Desplaines St., Chicago, Illinois. Beware Coughs. froni common colds That Hang On No matter how many medicines you have tried for your cough, chest cold, or bronchial irritation, you can get relief now with Creomulsion. Serious trouble may be brewing and you cannot afford to take a chance with any remedy less potent than Creomulsion, which goes right to the seat of the trouble and aids na ture to soothe and heal the inflamed mucous membranes and to loosen and expel the germ-laden phlegm- Even if other remedies have failed, don’t be discouraged, try Creomul sion. Your druggist Is authorized to refund your money if you Eire not thoroughly satisfied with the bene fits obtained from the very first bottle. Creomulsion is one word—not two, and it has no hyphen in it. Ask for it plainly, see that the name on the bottle is Creomulsion. and you’ll get the genuine product and the relief you want. (AdvJ Calming Influence Good nature ... is the most precious gift of Heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled jea of thought.—Washington Irving EXCEEDS THU RIGID OF THE U5. 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