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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C. X Needlework Variety S MILING little pansy faces In crochet and embroidery—such lovely guest linens! Have a set of towels, pillowcases, and scarf! Doubly charming Pattern 956 has transfer of 6 motifs 7 x 9 to 6*6 x 13 inches; crochet directions. Send 20 cents in coin, your name, ad- ■dress and pattern number. Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept. P. O. Box 5740, Chicago 80. 111. or P. O. Box 162. Old Chelsea Statioa. New York II, N. Y. Enclose 20 cents for pattern. BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET Hope Diamond—Not a Jinx Gem But a Marble Carrying a Hex By BILLY ROSE- The members of the gang squatted in a small circle on a patch of green a block away from the subway station at 242nd street. Their eyes were in fixed focus on a shiny object at their feet— the Hope Diamond .... Let me end the suspense here and now by announcing that the gang was made up of boys who had gotten together to deoide the marble championship of the Upper Bronx, and that the shiny object at their feet was not the unlucky stone of great price you’ve been reading about for years, but a legendary agate known to small fry from the Triborough Bridge to Spuyten Duyvil as the Hope Diamond shooter. Now, a shooter, or “real,” as the afficionados call it, looks a lot like an ordinary mar ble, but any kid who knows a heist- shot from a knuck le-down can tell you the difference. The shooter is heavier, truer, m o r cunningly fashioned than the ordinary i m m i e, and, even more im- p o r t a n t, there exists between it and the thumb No. — Nam, Address What to give? What to give? It that question has you running around in circles this Christmas here’s a smart suggestion. Make a list of your friends who enjoy smoking. Then take the list into your neighborhood dealer. He has a well-stocked array of gay gift cartons of Camel cigarettes—yes mild flavorful Camels that bring pleasure with every puff. And for the pipe smoker or the man who likes to roll his own, your dealer will show you pound tins of Prince Albert Smoking Tobacco—the Na tional Joy Smoke. Both these popu lar gifts come all dressed up in special, colorful Christmas wrap pings. You don’t even have to fuss with a personal greeting card—it’s built right into the package for your easy-writing convenience You’ll be good to your friends and kind to your budget if you send them Camels and Prince Albert! —Adv Effective Cough Syrup, Home-Mixed for Extra Economy Saves Big Dollars. No Cooking. This splendid recipe is used by millions because it makes such sn effective medicine for coughs due to colds. It’s so easy to mix— • child could do it. From any druggist get 2H ounces of Pinex. s special compound of proven ingre* dients. in concentrated form, well-known for its soothing effect on throat and bronchial Irritations. Then make a syrup with two cups of granulated sugar and one cup of water No cooking needed Or you can use corn syrup or liquid honey, instead of sugar syrup Put the Pinex into a pint bottle and fill op with your syrup This makes a full pint of cough medicine, very effective and quick acting, and you get about four times as much for your money It never spoils, and children love its pleasant taste. This cough syrup takes hold of coughs, giving quick relief It loosens phlegm, soothes Irritated membranes, helps clear air passages. Money refunded if Pinex doesn’t please. FOR EXTRA CONVENIENCE GET NEW VEOOf-MIXEQ. NEAOMO USE PINEX! en Your Back Hurts- And Your Strength and Energy la Below Par It may b. cau..d bj disorder of kM- ney function that permits poisonous waste to accumulate. For truly many people feel tired., weak and miserable when the kidneya fail to remove excess acids and other wests matter from the blood- You may suffer nagging backache, rheumatic pains, headaches, dizziness, getting up nights, leg pains, swelling Sometimes frequent ana scanty urine tion with smarting and burning is sn other sign that something is wrong wit! the kidneys or bladder. There should be no doubt that prompi treatment is wiser than neglect. Ust Doan'* Pill*. It is better to rely on s medijine that has won countrywide %p E rovsl than on something less favorab!) nown. Doan’* have been tried and teat ed many years. Are at all drug stores Get Doan f * today. i»m'Hiiuu and forefinger of its owner a spirit ual affinity which makes*it more precious to him than all the other marbles he owns. When a player loses in a “for-keeps” game, he pays off with common, earth-bound miggels—he would no more think of parting with his shooter than a good family man would with his life in surance. ... NOW, IT FIGURES that by this time you’re bustin’ to know some thing about the owner of the Hope Diamond shooter, and how the fabled marble happened to wind up at the feet of a bunch of kids on the day of the big tournament. Well, for you to get the complete picture, it is necessary for me to sketch in some of the background of the shooter—a story which, I might add, in many respects, parallels the history of its super-jinxed namesake. As the fen-everything set recalls it, the Hope Diamond was first brought to the Bronx by a player who originally hailed from Chepa- chet, Rhode Island. After a series of backyard triumphs, he won the right to participate in a semi-final, but the morning of the contest one of the ball-bearings in his skates got stuck and, in the header which followed, his shooting finger was so badly bruised that he had to with draw. Then, for * while, the malevo lent marble was owned by Irv Sondergaard, but shortly after he acquired it, the boy developed a game leg and was forever barred by his doctor from kneeling on the damp earth. Finally, Whitey Wizcoczki, re puted to have the most skillful thumb north of the Harlem river, latched on to the shooter, but two days before the big tournament, the jinx caught up with him and he broke a couple of ribs falling off the back of an ice truck. The easiest thing, of course, would have been to throw away the hex-heavy shooter but, as you know, the ways of men and urchins under the spell of superstition are hard to explain. Harry Winston’s Hope Diamond, too, is supposed to carry a curse with it, but as you may have noticed, Harry hasn’t thrown it away either. ... AND SO, five minutes before the contest, Charlie Hersch, Whitey’s I Sheltered Many a Care i SHELTERED many a heavy care And hugged them to my bosom, I held them close and guarded them For fear that I should lose them. One day I sat beside the road All spent and worn and sighing. Too tired to listen to the birds. Or mark the white clouds flying. Then suddenly, a shining note Like silver dropped from heaven. Pierced my ears; the cooling shade Offered its wayside leaven. The swaying grasses bent to touch My fevered cheek, and blessed me; A wild flower reached its gentle hand , And lovingly caressed me. The morning dew was like a drink Of water for my thirsting; I saw a lark lift from the grass. His gold throat swelled to bursting. I rose to take my cares again. And carefully to bind them About my bean—but they were gone I searched, but could not find them.*. GRACE NOLL CROWELL . closest friend, dropped the Hope Diamond shooter in front of the contestants with the dire words, “Wizcoczki says anybody wants it kin have it, only he oughta make sure his family kin afford the doc tor bills.” Eleven of the players regarded it with awe and distrust, but the twelfth—a dark horse from the swanky Riverdale section—was not impressed. He picked it up, tried a test shot, and said, “If nobody wants the Diamond, I’ll use it.” The Fiction * Corner THE PRICE By Richard H. Wilkinson T HERE was a strangeness about Pancho Ortegna that was hard to describe. There was mystery in his eyes, a wildness, a curiously de tached look. Yet he had the high forehead of intelligence, the cheek bones and nose of breeding, the erect carriage of pride. He was the type of man that you looked at twice. I first saw him two summers ago in Cano. It was swelteringly hot __________ outside, but with- in the dark in- 3 -Minute terior of Cabello’s Fief inn saloon y° u could neuwn forget the heat Ortegna was sit ting alone at a table, an untouched drink at his elbow, an open book in his lap. No one bothered him; the dancing girls veered away; there was respect in the attitude of the waiter who served him that wasn’t evidenced for other customers. “Who is he?” I asked Juan. “Pancho Ortegna, the head hun ter." “Head hunter?” I stared, drink held suspended. Jnan’s white teeth flashed against his dark skin. "It surprises you, yes? That busi ness of head hunting. Come, surely you have heard of the head hunting tribes?” "Who hasn’t?” I assented. “But who ever believed them?” “Come,” said Juan. “You Amer icans must be shown.” I followed Juan dbwn Cano's single street, beneath the blazing sun, and into the cool dark interior #»»pHE Ecuadorian government ^ will fine you $400 for posses sing one of these heads,” Juan ex plained as we left the store. "No one has yet been able to discover how the average tribes remove the bones before the shrinking is done, and little else about the actual shrinking process. “Pancho Ortegna is a scientist. He came down here two years ago, determined to solve the mystery. Naturally he ran Into difficulties because of the government rules against head hunting. But this only made him more determined. He visited tribe after tribe. Those who were friendly played Innocent, flat ly refusing to admit any knowledge about the business. From the other tribes, the hostiles, Pancho barely escaped with his life. I glanced at Juan quickly. “Do you mean ...” Again Juan shrugged. "Who knows. One cannot experiment without the proper ingredients. Cer tain natives have mysteriously dis appeared during the past six months.” Unconsciously I quickened my step, but when we arrived at Cab ello’s, Pancho Ortegna was gone. I <Mi not see him again for two years. The second meeting left an even more vivid impres sion than the first. Joan and I were renewing our acquaint ance and discussing olfi times over a bottle of Cabello’s fine liquor. Across the room an old man was reading a book. “Pancho Ortegna!” I exclaimed suddenly. Juan shook his head. “No, that is no one more important than Cabel lo’s old father, who comes here daily to get out of the heat.” His face became grave. “You are cur ious about Pancho Ortegna, eh?" I admitted that I was. “Come,” said Juan. And once more I followed him down the blaz ing street and into the gloomy in terior of the shop we had visited before. The object that the shop owner carried when he reappeared sent a cold wave through my body. There was no mistaking it. It was the shrunken head of Pancho Or tegna. craiD PUZZLE LAST WEEK'S ANSWER “Pancho Ortegna!” I ex claimed suddenly. af what might pass as a gift shop back home. Juan spoke rapidly in his native tongue to the swarthy gentleman behind the.counter. The swarthy gentleman looked at me, shrugged, and disappeared into a back room. In a moment he re appeared carrying in his hand an object that caused my flesh to crawL The object was a human head, thrunk symmetrically to about the size of an orange The swarthy gentleman of fered me the head for $25. When I refused it, he shrugged indifferently and disappeared behind the curtains. ACROSS X. An instru ment of torture C. Brightly- colored fish 9. Chills and fever 10. Coin (Turk.) 11. A ducklike diving bird 12. To gather with stitches 14. Guided 15. Father 17. Malt beverage 18. Pronoun 19. Disparage 22. Any power ful deity 23. Engrave, as by corrosives 26. Tempestuous 28. Retired 30. Shield 31. Captured, as game 34. Military cap 37. Farm animal 38. Fresh-water tortoise 40. Hypothetical force 41. A slight drink 43. Erbium (sym.) . Defile between two mountains 45 Per to the sun 48. Elude 50. Sheer 51. Half a pint 52. 53. A hulled Indian corn (dial.) Auction DOWN Most infrequent Matured Young bear Retains. Goddess of harvests (It.) Exclama tion of contempt Melody River (NE. Manhattan) 11. Adhesive mixture 13. Trust 16. Man’s nickname (poss.) 20. Shoshonean Indian 21. Piece of stone 24. A gear tooth 25. Large 27. Regret 29. Evening sun god (Egypt.) 31. Stud 32. Proverbs 33. Color, as fabric 35. Kind of dog 36. Not working 39. Lees 42. Entreaty 44. Summon 46. Fortify 47. Twilled fabric 49. By way of 44. * 2 5 * 1 s 6 7 8 1 9 I IO 1 n 12 >3 >4 > >8 16 $ / < 1 V7 >8 i 1 19 ZO 21 i 22 23 24 23 Z6 27 1 i Z8 29 30 I l\ 32 a 1 34 35 36 37 38 39 jji 1 40 4l 4Z I 1 43 /vVs J 45 44 47 jjji i 4S 49 I SO 51 i 52 <2Zt. 53 1 “Ya be lucky if ya don’t bust a leg," said Hymie Michernick. Well, for most of the cosstest it looked as if the rich kid was a cinch to whs. Not only did the Diamond connect with everything it went after, but it seemed to hex the other shooters that at tempted to hit it. Inspired and made confident by its perform ance, the kid from Riverdale sighted long and carefully, con sidered the topography of the ground and, when the situation called for extreme measures, even shot from the stomach position. However, as the match entered the tenth and final round, a station wagon pulled up apd a hefty Swede of a nursemaid got out. “Ja-ackie,” she shouted. "Din ner’s almost ready and look at your clothes. You’re a sight!” "Wait a minute,” said the kid, squinting at a marble four feet away. “Albert!” yelled the nursemaid. A chauffeur with big shoulders got out and walked toward the cir cle. Jackie dropped the Hope Dia mond in disgust, said “Aw, nuts!” and climbed into the station wagon. And, as it drove away, the blood shot eye of the blue shooter seemed to wink at the other players. Hymie Michernick picked it up. 'This is the last time it’s going to put the squltch on anybody,” he said, and threw it as far as he could. Now, If the Hope Diamond had been an ordinary shooter, the story would end here. But, as I have gone to some pains to make clear, it was not. Propelled by the Michernick muscles, the little ball of fire sailed through the air for 50 feet, bounced off a tin can onto the sidewalk, and was picked up an hour later by an intern on his way to the hospital. "I know someone who’ll get a real kick out of this,” he said, hand ing the Hope Diamond shooter to one of the nurses. "Will you give this marble to the patient in room 218. Whitey Wizcoczki—the little boy who broke his ribs.” i&CSCREI By INEZ GERHARD J OHN DALL made a hit in his first picture, ‘The Corn Is Green”; in his fourth, Alfred Hitch cock’s “Rope”, he got the big break that every actor yearns for. He has his first sympathetic role in a long time in “Deadly Is the Female”, for United Artists. But his is no over-night success. He learned his trade the hard way, JOHN DALL through six years of work in stock companies and little theaters, then as a walk-on in two Broadway plays, finally in a good part in a third one, which brought him his Hollywood contract. He stands six feet one, has brown hair and blue- gray eyes. The public has been so enthusi astic about Milton Berle in “Al ways Leave Them Laughing” that Warner Bros, will produce another comedy starring him. Confined Flocks Make More for Poultrymen Average 28 More Eggs Per Hen When Kept Up Profitable chicken flocks usual ly lay about 20 per cent of their to tal yearly eggs during the last three months of the year. They produce one dozen eggs for each seven pounds of feed, have less than 12 per cent yearly mortality, and average 175 eggs or more per bird. Here is how poultrymen may achieve such records with their fall- housed pullets and insure them selves a profit: 1. More money will be made if the flock is kept confined. Figures show that confined flocks lay 28 A homemade grain chnte set at a tilt on an old truck makes qnick work of feeding scratch to pullets on the Glendale poultry farm at Somerset, Mass. more eggs per hen than those given the run of the farm. If it is desired to turn the flock out for part of the day, it should be done in the late afternoon—on a clean, graveled yard. 2. Supply plenty of floor space. Three to four square feet for each bird is about right. 3. Use a built-up litter on your chicken house floor. In starting a litter, use straw, wood shavings, sawdust, peanut hulls, peatmoss or any dry material available. Champ Wheat Grower Harold Pirtle, of Sullivan, Ind., shown above, was winner of the 1949 “pocket area” wheat growing championship in a contest spon sored by Purdue University and the Southwestern Indiana Wheat Im provement association. He produced an average of 57% bushels of wheat per acre on an 11-acre field. His prize-winning wheat was Vigoo. the new stiff- strawed, heavy-yielding red winter wheat developed at Purdue. Certified Seed Said Need for Good Crops Only by purchasing certified seed can a farmer make certain he is getting the best product available, says Dr. R. P. Moore, director in charge of the North Carolina crop improvement association. Dr. Moore says seed are unique in that their breeding cannot be de termined from appearance alone. To determine in advance the type of crop which a particular lot of seed can produce, it is necessary to know the history of the seed. In the production of hybrid corn, the plant breeder probably will know much about the performance of the proposed hybrid before it is actually produced. After it is pro duced, it is put through a series of tests. Diseased Livestock Costs Fanner Millions Yearly Millions of dollars are lost every year in diseased livestock. Less than a dozen diseases are causing unbelievable losses in cattle, calves, hogs and sheep. Pneumonia and pleurisy are most common, with pyemia, or blood poisoning, in third place. Immaturity alone claimed over one- fourth of the more than seven mil lion calves slaughtered annually, according to the report. FIRST AID to the AILING HOUSE by Roger C. Whitman! Washing Painted Walls QUESTION: How can I wash my painted walls without having the gloss come off? ANSWER: Get one of the com mercial preparations that is sold in package form and follow the directions for use carefully. You can also use a mild solution of trisodium phosphate for the pur pose. This can be bought at a paint or grocery store under a trade name; a soapless cleaning pow der. You will find directions for use printed on the label. Do not expect any glossy paint to keep its gloss after many washings. Some of it is apt to wash off after a time. ; ASK MS ? ? ANOTHER 1 A General Quiz The Questions 1. What is the meaning of ren dezvous? 2. By what name are the stu dents at the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis known? 3. Where is the “Rose Bowl” lo cated? 4. From whom did the United States purchase the Louisiana Territory? 5. Which railroad employe has the same authority on a passenger train that the captain has on a ship? The Answers 1. An appointed place of meet ing. 2. Midshipmen. 3. Pasadena, Calif. 4. From France, in 1803. 5. The Conductor. 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