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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK. S. C.. THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1938
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THE SKULL WITH A HOLE
IN ITS FOREHEAD
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ADVENTURERS’ CLUB
HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES
OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF!
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*1 'HEY found the headless body of
an aged man on the banks of the
Bow river right after the ice had
Cone out, and right away there was
m check-up to find out who was miss
ing.- That was in June, 1910. Sev
eral months passed and then, just
as the beautiful Bow was beginning
to freeze up again, a trapper stum
bled over a small boulder. Later
an, upon examining the round thing
that had tripped him, the trapper
realized that he was handling a
human skull. Like a good Canadian
be was soon in touch with the Royal
Mounted.
A more thorough and extensive
search and investigation was soon
ander way. Within a few yards of
where the skull had been picked up,
the Mounted saw a strange looking
heap which later proved to be a
blanket and a cowhide tied with
ropes, the whole still frozen solid.
The first discovery had come in
June, the second in November, and
still no one had turned up missing.
With everyone accounted for, the
only thing the Mounted could do
was to store the remains. The check
up of transients and settlers, how
ever, continued; meanwhile a griz
zled and widely experienced physi
cian and surgeon examined the re
mains. The physician ^announced,
m little while later, that the man
bad been about fifty or sixty, had
iron-gray hair, and that the hole
in the forehead had been made by
a bullet of .22 caliber, and that the
ballet had been found imbedded in
the skull. Moreover, there had been
another bullet foflnd in the body.
B bad entered from the right side
and had coursed upward through
both lungs and had lodged in the
ribs of the lower left side.
Then a> constable had a bright
idea. Everyone had been accounted
for, he argued/but that was only for
the year 1910 or for the months pre
ceding and fbllowing the discovery
«f the headless body. What about
Msft year?* After all, the constable
argued, the deceased could easily
have been done in a year or two
years ago, so> why not go back a
bit? Soon r Ed! interest was centered
upon the absence of one of the first
aetUers, an Englishman named
Beadi. In’ no* time the Mounted
discovered that Peach had sold out
to a man named Robertson and
bad then returned to his home in
England: Robertson was soon be
ing questioned' in a town a hundred
miles away, and he corroborated
the information of the deal with
Peach. Later it was learned that
Robertson had moved to Calgary
after having bought the Peach
homestead and mat he had left or
ders that all mail for Peach be for
warded on to his address in Cal
gary. Well, this was really the first
“break” for the Mounted. Why
should Robertson want Peach's mail
forwarded to him?
Robertson was again questioned,
Biis time by a Mounted policeman
he had never seen before but who
knew the results of the first inter
view. x
Robertson's story changed color
entirely during this second question-
mg. but the Mounted policeman
kept this discovery entirely to
himself. Some days later another
Man of the Mounted had a quiet
little chat with Robertson, and again
the latter’s story changed complete
ly. Surely Robertson was tying him
self up into, a knot. Then he an
nounced that he was going down to
a small settlement just a few miles
away for a few days’ rest, a sort
af short vacation.
Instead of alighting at the small
town, he stayed on the train and,
went through to McLeod. Here he
proceeded to get drunk and was
soon boasting that he had made a
cleanup in the Yukon gold fields and
was returning to his home in the
States. And, as he sat boasting
bow tough he had been in his time,
a constable of the McLeod detach
ment walked in and very quietly ar
rested him for the murder of Tuck
er Peach. Back in Calgary, Rob
ertson tied himself in such a knot of
lies and falsehoods that there was
nothing else to do but confess. His
confederate, one Fisk, had fired the
ftrst shot, into Peach’s forehead.
He, Robertson, had fired the second.
Fisk had learned that Peach had a
large amount of money hidden
somewhere about his homestead
eabin, and was scheming to get it
when he met Robertson who was
planning to buy the Peach home
stead. “Buy it,” advised Fisk, “then
we’ll knock him (Peach) on the
bead and get your money back.
Then we’ll ransack the cabin and
End the two thousand he has hidden
somewhere in it. After that,' you
take the homestead, and I’ll take
the horses, and we split his money
between us when we find it.”
No one knows to this day whether
Fisk and Robertson found the old
man’s hoard, but they do know that
Canadian law worked fast, and
cmofcthly as these two renegades
were tried. Fisk was sentenced to
bang. Robertson wad given life im
prisonment. Inside of a month after
capture, both men had begun pay-
Mg for their awful crime.
Dangerous Crossing 9 *
By FLOYD GIBBONS
Famous Headline Hunter
H ELLO EVERYBODY:
Here’s a yarn from Claire Gibson of Chicago about an
adventure that took place in Springfield, 111. Claire was just a
little girl when she had that adventure. It was the first one of
her life, and for thrills and plain out-and-out terror nothing that
has happened to her since could ever even approach it.
It was a hot day in the early summer of 1910. Claire had an invi
tation to a party that was being given at a house some distance away
from her home and she was all dressed and ready to go.
It must have been somewhere between seven and eight in the
evening, because Claire remembers that the party started at eight.
She left her home, walked two blocks to the trolley line, and
waited for a car to come along. When it arrived, she got on and
took a seat up near the end of the car.
The car moved on, and, after a few blocks, an old lady boarded it
and took a seat near the middle. More people got on after that. It was
pretty well filled by the time it reached Fifth and Rafter streets and
started to cross the railroad tracks.
Claire was up in front of the car, and she saw everything that hap
pened. That crossing they were coming to was a dangerous one, and
it seemed to he* that all necessary care was being taken to see that the
car got over it safely. The conductor got out and ran ahead to maka
sure there were no trains coming.
Freight Engine Smashed the Trolley.
Apparently satisfied, heNmotioned to the motorman to come ahead,
and swung back aboard the moving trolley. And, then something went
wrong. The trolley was moving across the tracks—was fight in the
middle of them—when suddenly a freight train appeared out of nowhere,
looming up in the night not three yards away from the car!
There was no time to avoid it—no time to do anything. Some
one in the car screamed. Then there was a thud—a terrific jar—
a crashing of glass and a terrible grinding soimd. The big engine
was tearing and ripping the trolley car to pieces!
The air was full of shouts and screams now. : Bodies were flying
everywhere. At the first impact, Claire had been tossed into the air and
tfi/A'ArAr**—
Claire Was Thrown Through a Window.
thrown bodily through a window, shattering the glass as she went.
She landed in a sitting position on the ground, 30 or 40 feet from the car
tracks. The car, carried along by the train, was right beside her.
Claire got to her feet. Kid-like, she never gave a thought to the pos
sibility that she might be hurt. And as a matter of fact she was so
stunned and dazed by the accident that she didn’t notice such things.
“I was only about half-conscious of what was going on,” she says.
“I didn’t even realize that I had been in a train wreck.”
Climbed Over Bodies of the Dead.
As soon as she got to her feet, she thought of the old woman who had
boarded the car just after she had. Back through the window of the
wrecked car she climbed, in search of that old lady.
“I climbed over bodies,” she says, “until I found her. She
was unconscious but I dragged her out of the window and laid
her on a nearby lawn. I screamed for help, but nb one paid any
attention to me.
“Then I ran to the wrecked engine and climbed to the cab to get
the engineer.”
But the engineer wasn’t in the cab. Claire found him lying outside
on the tracks—dead.
By this time she was beginning to realize that she was hurt. She
.iras covered with blood and her clothing was nearly all torn from her
body. There was a deep cut on her wrist that was bleeding badly. But
still she carried on. She climbed back into the wrecked trolley.
“I found another woman,” she says, “lying on her back and begging
for help. I managed to lift her a little and, as I did, I recognized
her as one of our neighbors; I dragged her out through the window and
laid her on the lawn beside the old lady, but she died a short time
•fterward.”
Claire Herself Was Badly Hurt.
But by that time help had arrived. The ambulances, the fire depart
ment, and the police had all been summoned, and now they were reach
ing the scene of the accident. Hundreds of people were gathering, trying
to lend a hand.
By this time, too, Claire’s head was beginning to clear and
she was sick at heart at the horrible sights she had seen.
With the blood still streaming from her, she began to run home,
too excited to realize that she was badly injured.
She reached home all but exhausted—ready to collapse. Her wrist
was cut to the bone, and there were splinters of glass in her face, and
her back was strained from lifting people out through the window of that
wrecked car. She was so weak from loss of blood that she staggered as
she entered her house.
Her folks called a doctor and put her to bed. And it was the next
day before she read in the newspapers the cause of the accident.
The conductor had looked for the train all right. He just hadn’t been'
able to see it. It was dark, and in addition to that a thick fog had
fallen over the city, obscuring the view. The freight’s headlamp had gone
Out, and the watchman at the crossing had gone home just a short while
before.
All that was a long time ago. Claire has never forgotten the hor
rible sights she saw that night, but she doesn’t regret that adventure
either.
“I’m glad,” she says, “that I was able to be there and do a little
to help those who were more badly hurt than I was.”
Copyright.—WNU Service.
Habits of the Hummingbird
The hummingbird camouflages its
nest (hung from horizontal branches
for safer wind sway) with moss and
cobwebs, for the nest itself using
soft fibers held together by spider’s
silk.
Naming Birds and Fishes
Birds are not the only wild crea
tures burdened with vernacular
names. There is really more con
fusion among the fishes. There are
hardly two states that refer to the
same species by the same names.
Discovered, Named Brazil
Brazil was discovered by Petro
Alvares Cabral in 1500. He named
it Terra de Santa Cruz, or Land of
the Holy Cross, and took possession
of it in the name of the king of
Portugal.
Meaning of Name Arna
Arna might well be more com
monly used as a girl’s name, being
simple and distinctive. It is of Teu
tonic and Latin origin and means
“of the eagle’s breed” or “like the
eagle.”
Star Dust
Goofy Comedies
★ *The Sheik 9 Is Funny
★ Restless Holiday
— By Virginia Vale
I T LOOKS more and more as
if those goofy comedies were
on the wane. First Carole
Lombard said she’d have no
more of them. Now Claudette
Colbert, who helped to start the
cycle with “It Happened One
Night,” has balked.
It was planned that she would do
“Are Husbands Necessary?” when
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CLAUDETTE COLBERT
she returned from that European
jaunt, but instead she’ll go to work
in “Midnight,” which is romantic
and dramatic and everything but
goofy.
Speaking of “It Happened One
Night,” it was revived recently in
New York, and a lot of people who’d
heard about how funny it was but
had missed it the first time round
had a chance to see it. And the
addicts who went to it over and
over when it was first released
found it just as funny as ever.
*
The revival of Valentino’s “The
Sheik,” seems to have been ill-ad
vised. Any picture that old is bound
to look funny nowadays. And the
generation of movie-goers that has
grown up since the days of Valen
tino just couldn’t understand why
he had been such a world-beater.
Some of them roared with laugh
ter. They thought Agnes Ayres, the
heroine, a bit too fat—though in her
day she was considered stream
lined! However, no matter what the
young folks thought of that picture
and the other Valentino revival,
“The Son of the Sheik,” they
brought mobs to the theaters and
money to the box offices.
*—
/
It looks aS if George Arliss had
been tempted into returning to Hol
lywood, thanks to Samuel Goldwyn.
Goldwyn has a picture called “The
Exiles” on the fire, based on the
stories of the many famous men
who have had to leave their homes
in Europe because of political trou
bles. Arliss would play the role of a
distinguished scientist.
*
Warner Brothers will, at last,
screen “The Miracle,” with Bette
Davis in the coveted role of the
Nun. Ever since it was so success
ful as a dramatic spectacle—in Lon
don in 1911 and in New York in
1924—there has been talk of doing
it for the screen. Now, with Max
Reinhardt, its original producer,
available, they are ready to start.
*—
When Bob Burns ducked away
from Hollywood for a rest, prepara
tory to taking
over the Bing
Crosby radio pro
gram for the
summer, he
didn’t do so well
in choosing a spot
to rest in. He and
his wife went—to
New York, but
were so besieged
by people that
they left and
went to Buffalo—
he wanted to
show her Niagara
falls. And the
public caught up with them again.
He might try wearing a mask, if he
really wants to rest!
*
Margaret Tallichet, a compara
tive newcomer to the screen, will
be Ramon Novarro’s leading wom
an in “As You Are.” When and if
“Gone With the Wind” reaches the
screen she will be seen as Kareen
O’Hara, younger sister of Scarlet.
Miss Tallichet tried the summer the
aters in the East last year, as a
way of getting much-needed experi
ence.
Bob Burns
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ODDS AND ENDS—Nancy Carroll will
be seen on the screen again in “There
Goes My Heart" . . . Judy Garland has a
wrenched shoulder, the result of an auto
mobile accident . . . Bobby Breen won't
have the kind of financial trouble that
Jackie Coogan is having when he grows
up; his parents have arranged to put his
earnings into a trust fund, keeping $200
a month for themselves . . . Sigrid Gurie
says her husband threatened to humiliate
her by getting a job in a gas station . . .
Lots of wives wouldn't see anything
humiliating about that . . . Harold Lloyd's
new picture, “Professor Beware,” will be
-eleased simultaneously at special show-
!wf« in New York, London and Paris.
• Western Newspaper Union.
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By REV. HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST.
Dean of the Moody Bible Institute
of Chicago.
© Western Newspaper Union.
Lesson for July 3
A CHOICE OF LOYALTIES
LESSON TEXT—Joshua 1:2-6; 24:14-21.
GOLDEN TEXT—As for me and my
house, we will serve the Lord. Joshua 24:15.
PRIMARY TOPIC—Choosing Sides.
JUNIOR TOPIC—A Loyal Leader.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC—
A Choice of Loyalties.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC—
Man’s Highest Allegiance.
“Lives of great men all remind
us,” according to the poet, that we
too may make our lives sublime,
and thus leave our footprints in the
shifting sands of time. The study
of biography is interesting, instruc
tive, and often challenging. When
we enter the field of Bible biography
we bring into consideration an ad
ditional and fundamental factor,
namely, the power and grace of
God working in and through a sur
rendered life. All strength of char
acter and ability is a gift of God,
but its glory is largely veiled and
its usefulness definitely limited, if
not actually perverted, because
there is no recognition of the
foundation of true greatness, which
Is faith in and loyalty to God.
During the next three months we
are to share in the study of the life
stories of great men and women
which will not only stimulate am
bitions, but which also reveal what
God can do through those who are
ready to follow Him.
Moses, God’s great leader for
Israel, having brought them out of
the land of bondage and through the
terrible wilderness, is about to
leave them. God’s workman is about
to die, but His work is to go on.
God is not taken by surprise.
I. A Prepared Man Takes Com
mand (1:3-6).
“Moses is dead; now therefore
arise.” Life is like that. “The
king is dead; long live the king,”
is the cry of those who live under
monarchies, as one ruler dies and
his successor takes over the throne.
Until that day when there shall be
“time no longer,” men must put
away their sorrow and go on. Three
words characterize the commission.
1. Promise (w. 2-4). God gave
the land to Israel. Every place that
Joshua planted his foot upon was
to be his possession, even as God
has promised Moses. A river lay
between; there were walled and
armed cities to be takeh; there
were even giants in the land, but
God promised it to Joshua; and he
took it by faith.
God has given us many promises,
too. If we are fearful, poverty-
stricken, powerless Christians, it is
because we do not believe God.
2. Power (v. 5). No man is able
to stand against God’s servant who
is doing God’s will, in God’s way,
in God’s time. It was true of Joshua;
it is true today. Men set up their
opposition to God’s plan and pro
gram with the assumed belief that
because they have position, power,
or money, they can readily crush
the poor little band of Christian
workers. Russia tried it. They even
“abolished”’ God. But religion
thrives in Russia, secretly perhaps,
but none the less sincerely and suc
cessfully.
3. Courage (v. 6). To serve God
means to be assured of His help.
Faith lays hold of that fact and the
whole man becomes courageous.
H. An Experienced Man Gives
Counsel (24:14-21).
More than two decades have
passed since the appointment of
Joshua to lead Israel. God has ful
filled every promise. Israel is in
the Promised Land. Before the aged
leader dies he calls the leaders of
his people together to urge them to
continue in the way of faith and
loyalty to God. This he does by:
I. Example (v. 15). “As for me
and my house, we will serve the
Lord.” No man can honestly and
effectively call others to devotion to
the Lord unless he sets them an ex
ample.
2. Instruction (w. 16-19). Remem
bering God’s dealings with them,
the people declare their determina
tion to serve the Lord. They spoke
rather glibly. Joshua instructs
them. God is not interested in lip
service. He does not need them so
much as they need Him. He does
not look upon their confession of
Him, if they continue to live in sin.
3. Warning (v. 20). God will visit
His judgment on His people if they
forsake Him and turn away—such
is Joshua’s warning. We who look
back to the history of Israel know
that they did forsake Him, and that
the judgment of God is still upon
them. “Be not deceived; God is
not mocked: for whatsoever a man
soweth, that shall he also reap”
(Gal. 6:7) is God’s warning through
Paul to the Christian.
Be a Torch-Bearer
The poorest can be God’s torch-
bearer as well as the richest. The
little candle may do more good in
the world than the flaming beacon.
Giving Up Faults
Most people do not mind their
faults being spread out before them.
But they become impatient if called
upon to give them up.—Goethe.
Living
He lives long that lives well, and
time misspent is not lived, but lost
Chair or Buffet Set
In Filet Crochet
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Pattern 6091
Distinctive — this easily cro
cheted set, its picturesque motif
and initial set off by lacy K-stitch.
Excellent for scarf-ends, too! Pat
tern 6091 contains charts and di
rections for making the set and
3V4 by 5 inch alphabet; illustra
tion of stitches; materials needed.
To obtain this pattern, send 15
cents in stamps or coins (coins
preferred) to The Sewing Circle,
Household Arts Dept., 259 W. 14th
St., New York, N. Y.
Please write your name, ad
dress and pattern number plainly.
Send for This
Free Chart
Showing Iodine Content
of Various Foods
You are invited to write C. Houston
Goudiss for a chart showing the
foods rich in iodine and those
which are poor in this substance.
It will serve as a valuable guide
in preparing balanced menus.
Just ask for the Iodine Chart,
addressing C. Houston Goudiss at
6 East 39th Street, New York
City. A post card is sufficient to
carry your request.
Only
Town Crier
Amos Emanuel Kubik, the of
ficial town crier of Provincetown, ^
Mass., is the only one in the Unit
ed States. On his daily rounds he
wears a Pilgrim costume with
wide-brimmed black hat and bro-
gans with large buckled. He calls
out items of local news, the tides,
time and weather, and official
and commercial announcements.
These are prepared for him by a
civic organization known as the
Town Criers of Provincetown. The
town crier tradition has survived
in Provincetown for almost 200
years.
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