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McCORMICK MESSENGER. McCORMTCK. S. C.. THURSDAY. MAY 26. 1938 Star Dust ★ Movie Whereabouts ★ How to Kiss a Girl ★ Toys for Crosbys By Virginia Vale H AVEN’T you frequently felt, when you were at the movies, that you’d like to know where some of the scenes were taken? Harry Sherman, pro ducer of the “Hopalong Cassi dy” pictures, has solved that long-standing need. Beginning with “Beneath Western Skies,*' each of these films will carry an announcement of the loca tion where it was made. It’s a grand idea. But probably it won’t be taken up to any extent, lor imagine the shock if you were told, at the beginning of a picture whose scenes were laid in France, lor instance, that it was filmed right along the good old California sea coast. Parts of that coast have been used so often that old-timers secognize them instantly. * It looks as if Metro had a winner in “Three Comrades,” the sequel to “All Quiet on the Western Front.” Robert Taylor really had • chance to be dramatic in this one, Robert Taylor and he had to be good, for the other leading roles are played by Mar garet Sullivan, Franchot Tone and Robert Young. —*— ‘ Wayne Morris has found, to his sorrow, that kissing a girl for the movies is pretty complicated and decidedly difficult. For instance, the director tells you to look down at the girl. Maybe you're not tall enough; then you have to stand on a box. (That doesn’t worry Wayne, because he’s plenty tall.) “You lave to take the girl in your arms and kiss her,” he says, “while the hairdresser stands by, glaring if you muss the girl’s hair, and you mustn’t wrinkle the collar of the girl’s dress, and you must raise your arms so that your coat doesn’t hike up in back; if it does, everything stops while the tailor is summoned to see what’s wrong with the coat. Screen love is the bunk—but it’s a living.” & Peg La Centra is the joy of radio program directors. Not only does she sing (probably you’ve heard her on the “For Men Only” programs,) but she acts the female character parts in the dramatic sketches as well. She’s been women and chil dren with southern, Scotch and Swedish accents; all she needs to do when a different dialect is re quired is to hear someone who speaks it—she’s a born mimic. * Jerry Belcher has broadcast in terviews with interesting neighbors from almost every fair-sized town in the United States, and from some m Canada, but so far he hasn’t in terviewed any of the ones he knows best of all—those in his own corner of Texas. * Bing Crosby’s wife went to New York to have a lot of fun and do a lot of shopping. And what do you suppose she bought? Clothes and toys for those four small Crosby boys! Somehow, the stores’ other offerings just didn’t seem to be very interesting. * ODDS AND ENDS—Gloria Blondell has been learning to sail a boat, with her brother-in-law, Dick Howell, doing the leaching . . . Edward Arnold was weighed the other day at the studio and beamed when he found that he'd lost four pounds, due to the hot weather . . . And then along came Lionel Barrymore and he beamed because he’d gained five . . . James Stewart has 17 harmonicas, but he’s still in the market for more . . . Joan Bennett collects salt and pepper shakers ...UniversaVs budget for Deanna Durbin’s next picture, "Cinderella,” is $l,000ft00— which will buy a lot of glass slippers . . . John Payne is doing so well in "Garden of the Moon” that fParner Brothers have him all set for a big build-up—so add him to your list of potential movie stars . . . Have you a good idea for a radio program for children? A certain big cereal com pany is in the market for one . . . Joe Penner recently escaped injury while broadcasting—and from a wooden box, of all things! He was supposed to be thrown out of the ring by a wrestler. A splinter from the broken box used in sound effect missed him by a fraction of an inch. 0 Western Newspaper Union. Hoyd (fi&fatHs# ADVENTURERS’ CLUB HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELFI “Monster From the Swamps 9 * By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter H ello everybody: Well, sir, if I seem to be continually harping on the fact that adventures are things you meet up with most frequently at home, you can put it down to the fact that I am continually be ing reminded of it. Just the other day, while looking through a sheaf of letters I came to a story by a woman who had an adven ture on a farm. Well—of course, there’s nothing unusual in that. The funny part of it was that the farm was in this country, and the adventure was of a sort you’d only expect to run into in the jungles of Africa or South America, or to read about in some account of the grim battles between men and animals that the ancient Romans used to stage in their gladiatorial arenas. The woman is Lottie Hawco—Mrs. John Hawco, of New York city. And the animal she fought with was a wild boar. I’ll bet a lot of people— including me—didn’t know there were wild boars in this country. But there are, as any South Carolina farmer can tell you. How they got here is an interesting story. You see, the ordinary barnyard breed of pig is nothing in the world but a descendant of the wild boars you read about in tales of old-time Merrie England. Those boars were tamed and fat tened and domesticated until, over the space of six or eight hun dred years they became the fat, lazy, gluttonous animals you see in hog pens the country over. How Pigs Get Wild and Dangerous. But a pig will stay fat, and tame, and lazy only so long as he’s kept in captivity and stuffed with chop suey from that well known galva nized iron can out on the back porch. Once he gets loose and goes back to the woods again and has to rustle for his own food—well—then he gets thin and tough and rangy His tusks grow out, and in'a generation or two he becomes a boar again—just as wild and as dangerous an ani mal as ever he was when he roamed the marshes and forests of old England in the days of Robin Hood. There are plenty of those backsliding wild hogs in the back country of South Carolina, and the farmers hunt them down and round them up because they destroy the nests of the wild turkeys in the neighborhood, 1 //p1L= llpjjl ^- The Boar Viciously Attacked Lottie’s Mother. And that brings us to Lottie Howco who, on February 16, 1931, wa visiting with her mother and her sister, Inez, on a farm near Osborn S. C., where a wild boar hunt was in progress. A bunch of men from the neighborhood had been out all day, comb ing the marshes with packs of dogs, roping boars and herding them— alive—into a big high-sided farm wagon. They had just returned home with six or seven boars—big, vicious fellows, waist-high to a man and weighing three or four hundred pounds—animals that could break a man’s leg with their huge, crunching jaws and which frequently did dis embowel the fierce dogs that hunted them with one sweeping blow of their long, protruding tusks. The men backed the wagon up to a strong enclosure and were untying the boars one by one and cautiously prodding them into the pen. Lottie, her mother and sister were standing near by, watching the proceedings—and then—suddenly—a terrible thing happened. Attack by a Savage Boar. The men had unloosed the largest boar and were prodding it toward the pen when it turned, squeezed between the wagon and the enclosure and rushed out into the open, gnashing its great teeth and foaming at the mouth. It headed straight for Lottie’s mother, who was standing near est the pen, and before she could turn to run, it was on her, throwing her in a heap to the ground, biting at her savagely. It was the most terrible sight Lottie ever beheld in her life. Charlie, the foreman, stood with his mouth agape, too surprised for a moment to even move. Sister Inez, paralyzed with fright, clapped her hands over her ears and began to scream. Lottie herself was numb with terror, and for precious seconds—seconds that seemed like a lifetime—she stood rooted to the spot. All the rest of the men were on the other side of the pen, or on the wagon, too far away to reach the spot in time to do any good, Then, all of a sudden, Lottie came to life. She can’t explain what happened, but it seemed as if a spring inside her had sud denly been released. She sprang forward, threw herself on the snarling, screaming, rolling jumble of woman and beast, singled out the boar and began beating and mauling and scratching it with insane frenzy. Surprised Him, So He Fled. The boar could have killed Lottie with one thrust of its sharp, pointed tusk. Lottie’s mother had been saved from death thus far only by her long skirts and thick clothing. But taken by surprise, the boar couldn’t quite figure out this wild new menace that came beating and kicking at his flanks—tearing and scratching at his eyes. It was a thing of fury. It didn’t seem one whit afraid of the boar. And an animal will often reason that if you are not afraid of him, then he must have good cause to be afraid of you. This one did just that. Snarling and grunting, he turned to flee from this inexplicable new attack. He got about three steps, and then he found himself tangled up in the ropes of the men who, by this time, had come around from the other side of the pen to deal with him. The next thing Lottie knew, she was back on the porch of the farm house with her mother, looking over herself for injuries. She doesn’t even remember helping her mother to the porch, and to this day she can’t figure out how she came out of that fight without a scratch on her body. Copyright.—WNU Service. Largest Book Sale in History The largest book sale in history took place in 1920, when the United States government purchased the Vollbehr collection, of 3,000 pre-Six- teenth century printed books for $1,500,000. Most famous of these books is the Gutenberg Bible. An Indian Custom When an Indian with a gun met a white man and wanted to show that he was a friend of the whites, he would often hold out the gun, with the breech pointed toward the white man. Genius Must Show Discretion “Even a genius has to show dis cretion,” said Uncle Eben. “A mu sical genius ain’t gine to git no where playing a Beethoven sym phony to an audience that’s tuned up foh ‘Turkey in de Straw’.” Survive Without Breathing Seals, beavers and muskrats, which can withstand submersion for about five times as long as land mammals, reveal that their ability to survive without breathing is due to insensitivity of their respiratory adjustments to carbon dioxide. Gallery in Famous Castle The castle of Dunimarle, on the coast of the Firth of Forth, near the village of Culross, Scotland, is used as an art museum. According to tradition, the castle was the scene of the murder of Lady Macduff and her children. The First Library The first library of which there is definite information was the col lection of cuneiform writings of the Assyrian King Asurbanipal, abou* 650 B. C. i— BOOKS IN BRIEF— ; How Prisoner Used Rats to Cheat Death By ELIZABETH C. JAMES HE prisoner opened his eyes to blackness. Fears shook him as he thought of the Inquisition Judges. Feeling painfully about him he dis covered that his clothes had been changed while he was unconscious and he now wore an unfamiliar robe. Thus does Edgar Allen Poe set the stage in “The Pit and the Pendulum.” What manner of place was this? Perhaps he was dead and this was eternity. Perhaps he was entombed alive. Panic seized him. He must know the size and shape of his prison! Cautious ly he felt his way until he found the wall. Ripping a piece from his robe to mark the starting place, he began to creep along, count ing the paces. A cir cuit of 50 yards in dicated that it could not be a tomb. Now he would cross the cell. Boldly ht* started away from the wall, but his feet tripped in the robe and he fell prone. Taut he lay. A queer sensation stole over him, for his head seemed to be touching nothing, to be in space. Reaching out he found a well or pit. Pit! Almost swoon ing he recalled stories of the In quisition pits which the people in Toledo had lately heard. Some time later and with an ef fort, his benumbed mind saw that the prison w r as now lighted. He saw Elizabeth James TURBULENT LIFE The life of Poe is more turbu lent than any story that he wrote. Scores of biographers have at tempted to reveal something of the spirit of this lonely and pas sionate man. Although Poe died in bis fortieth year, he left lit erary criticism that is excellent, and short stories and poems that are unexcelled for sheer artistry. Later biographers have stated that Poe’s reputation was worse than Poe. His difficulties at the University of Virginia and at West Point, and his being disin herited by his foster father gave him a name for recklessness when he was very young which the events of his later life did nothing to offset. Poe lived from 1809 until 1849, attaining a literary fame in Eu rope as well as in America. walls of metal, a stone floor, and a high ceiling. In the middle of the floor yawned the pit. How strange he felt—he could not move. Lying on his back he was bound to a wooden bench. Pendulum Appears. From the pit crept rats. The pris oner looked about him for some weapon. Only his arm was free from the elbow down, so that he could reach the plate of food on the floor. As the rats crept to ward the plate he waved them away. Again a noise, this one sounded like steam. Looking upward, he saw the silver object to be a pendu lum that dropped slowly with each stroke. Then he divined the cun ning of his captors. A blade of steel was descending slowly toward him. With days of mental torture and hours of physical torture, his death would be slow and horrible. Time passed but he could not reckon how much. His mind alter nated between fascination and in sanity. Sometimes he laughed. Sometimes he cried. Sometimes he shrieked. Now the blade was only a yard above him, then two feet above. Then one foot. Rats Save Life. Only inches separated them. Then desire for life surged through him so that he cried to heaven for help. Grasping the scraps of food he smeared the meat over his bonds as far as he could reach, using ev ery drop of grease. Then he lay still. The rats had not before seen him lying so. They watched, crept closer, then jumped onto the bench. They were over his body in a flash. Voraciously they gnawed and chewed the bands of cloth. Greed ily they tore it, trying to get the last drop of food. The pendulum swung in long arcs, even closer. There was a pressure as the knife cut his robe. He did not dare move yet. Seconds passed, and he knew that his robe was cut through. As the blade reached the height of its arc, he lunged with all his force and fell free. The pendulum stopped and swift ly rose to the ceiling. The prisoner lay as one lifeless, waiting for the next mode of death. He did not wait long. The walls changed color, revealing hideous pictures which might have come from hell. Oppressive heat choked him as he saw that the walls were being heated and were coming to gether so that the cell was grow ing smaller. Their purpose was clear: to push him into the pit. A crash sounded. The walls jerked* away as with thunder. An arm clutched him. The French had con quered his enemies. He was saved. C Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service. New, Lovely Dresses For Early Summer IV/TAKE yourself something very pretty and smart to wear as soon as the bland summer days are here. These are so easy— each is a diagram frock, which means the pattern is amazingly easy to work with. Slenderizing Lines. Everything about this dress is flattering to large women—the v- neckline, the short, rippling sleeves, the smooth shoulders, front fullness, and waistline, snugged in by darts. You’ll want to wear it all the time, when you see how becoming it is. In georgette, chiffon, voile, or thin silk print. Frock With Slim, Crisp Lines. Cleverly fitted in to minimize the waistline, puffed high and wide as to sleeves, full at the skirt and with a demure round neckline, this is one of the most charming new dresses you could choose. A bit of ricrac braid and two little bows are all the trim ming it needs, the lines are so perfect. Make it up in silk print, dimity, dotted Swiss. The Patterns. 1504 is designed for sizes 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48, 50 and 52. Size 38 requires 5^ yards of 39-inch material; collar in contrast (if de sired) takes % yard. 1502 is designed for sizes 14, 16, 18, 20, 40 and 42. Size 16 requires 4 yards of 39-inch material. 1% yards of ricrac to trim. Send your order to The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept., Room 1020, 211 W. Wacker Dr., Chicago, 111. Price of patterns, 15 cents (in coins) each. © Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service. This Rag Baby Sits Down Gracefully By RUTH WYETH SPEARS 'T'HE charm of a rag baby de- - 1 - pends upon her figure. She may be molded with your fingers if the cotton stuffing is pushed into place very tightly a little at a time with the blunt end of an ordi nary pencil. Leave the opening for Stuffing under one arm. Stuff the legs up to the knees, then sew across. Stuff up to the hips and then sew through the body again, as shown, before the upper part is stuffed. This makes the doll joint ed at knees and hips. To make a pattern for the doll, rule an eight by fourteen inch piece of paper into one-inch squares. Number the squares, as shown, then outline the doll so that the lines cross the squares exactly as they do here in the di agram. Back and front are cut alike. The dotted line around the doll in the diagram indicates the seam allowance. Eyes, nose and mouth are embroidered, yarn is used for the hair, and the dress is made of straight pieces. NOTE: Mrs. Spears’ latest sew ing book contains three pages of doll clothes; 90 embroidery stitches; fabric repairing; table settings; gifts; many useful arti cles to make for the house, your self and the children. Price 25 cents postpaid, coins preferred. Just ask for Book No. 2, and ad dress Mrs. Spears, 210 S. Des- plaines, St., Chicago, 111. CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT r *«- V V . ' ' OLD GOLD Highest Cash Price paid by return mail for your discarded gold watches, teeth,' spectacles, etc. Satisfaction guaranteed. Mail today. Everett, Box 613, Macon, Ga, Tarotite TQecipQ ofi the IWeek'^' Ripe Sliced Strawberry Jam 4% cups (2 lbs.) 7 cups (3 lbs.) sugar prepared fruit bottle fruit pectin 'T'O PREPARE fruit, cut about 2 quarts fully ripe berries in halves lengthwise; cut large ber ries in quarters. Measure sugar and prepared fruit, solidly packed, into large kettle; mix well and bring to a full rolling boil over hottest fire. Stir constantly before and while boiling. Boil hard 3 minutes. Remove from fire and stir in bot tled fruit pectin. Then stir and skim by turns for just 5 minutes to cool slightly to prevent floating fruit. Pour quickly. Paraffin hot jam at once. Makes about 10 glasses (6 fluid ounces each). NERVOUS? Do you feel so nervous you want to scream? Are you cross and irritable? Do you scold those dearest to you? If your nerves are on edge, try LYDIA E. PINKHAM’S VEGETABLE COMPOUND. It often helps Nature calm quivering nerves. For three generations one woman has told another how to go “smiling through” with Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. It helps Nature tone up the system, thus lessen ing the discomforts from the functional dis orders which women must endure. Make a note NOW to get a bottle of world- famous Pinkham’s Compound today WITH OUT FAIL from ypur druggist—more than a million women have written in letters re porting benefit. Why not try LYDIA E. PINKHAM’S VEGETABLE COMPOUND? You May Think It Think what you like, say what you ought.—French proverb. Designed Wisdom No man was ever wise by chance.—Seneca. The crying of children is some times an indication of WORMS in the system. The cheapest and quickest medicine for rid ding children or adults of these parasites is Dr. Peery’s “Dead Shot” Vermifuge. 50c a bottle at druggists or Wright’s Pill Co.,100GoldSt.,NewYork,N.Y. HELP KIDNEYS To Get Rid of Acid and Poisonous Waste Your kidneys help to keep you well by constantly filtering waste matter from the blood. If your kidneys get functionally disordered and fail to remove excess impurities, there may be poisoning of the whole system and body-wide distress. Burning, scanty or too frequent uri nation may be a warning of some kidney or bladder disturbance. You may suffer nagging backache^ persistent headache, attacks of dizziness, getting up nights, swelling, puffiness under the eyes—feel weak, nervous,* all played out. In such cases it is better to rely on a medicine that has won country-wide acclaim than on something less favor* ably known. Use Doan’s Pills. A multi tude of grateful people recommend Doan’s. Ask your neiokborl Doans Pills KILL ALL FLIES Placed anywhere. Daisy Ply Killer attracts and kills flies. Guaranteed, effective. Neat, convenient — Cannot Wlllnot eoilorlnjure Lasts all season. 20o at _ dealers. Harold Somers. Inc., 150 De Kalb Ave.3‘klmN.Y. DAISY FLY KILLER LARGE SIZE Si.20 Brings Blessed Relief from aches and pains of RHEUMATISM NEURITIS and LUMBAGO Try a bottle . . Why Suffer? AT ALL GOOD DRUG STORES WNU—7 21—38 CHEW LONG BILL NAVY TOBACCO jour Toum-qouR stores Our community includes the farm homes surrounding the town. The town stores are there for the accommodation and to serve the people of our farm homes. The merchants who advertise “specials” are mer chants who are sure they can meet all competition in both quality and prices.