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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1939 WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON N EW YORK. — Mushing along with Jim Titus, an old desert rat, about twenty miles southeast of Tonopah, many years ago, this _ __ _ . scrivener was CaBe-tiardened alarmed by the Diplomat,Ticket approach of on Key Pittman ^ hat seemed to be a savage sandstorm. Old Jim, who seemed to know everything, reassured me. “It’s that young feller Key Pitt man. He’s runnin’ around in that big rattletrap automobile of his try in’ to get up a telephone com pany. Just kickin’ up a dust—that’s about all. No peace for anybody around here.” Mr. Pittman roared on through the greasewood, to set up his new telephone company, sluice a tidy lit tle fortune out of that and sundry mining ventures, and to become chairman of the foreign relations committee of the United States sen ate. He backs up the President. <r Why shoot a man when yon can starve him to death?” says Mr. Pittman, indorsing the hint of ^financial sanctions” against world outlawry in the Presi dent’s address. He readies his committee for action. In Nome, Alaska, Mr. Pittman was a charter member of the Ornery Men’s club, organized at Tex Rickard’s bar. Years later, Ole Elliott, Tex Rickard’s partner, re organized the club in Tex’s northern saloon in Goldfield. I believe Mr. Pittman’s affiliations were with the Montezuma club, down the street, but he was a highly esteemed alum nus of the Alaska chapter and he found enthusiastic “sourdough” backing in his financial and political enterprises. Since 1913, Nevada has been sending him regularly to the senate. He has been steadily against Japan—that is, against strong- arm Japanese trade and mili tary aggression—and quite as fervently for silver. Well up in the headlines today is the conjecture that the President’s new trade and credit militancy will move first in the direction of Japan. Bom in Mississippi, educated in Tennessee, practicing law in Seattle, Mr. Pittman landed in Dawson, Alaska, with a Canadian dime in his pocket. He manned a unilateral bucksaw for a few months before he was appointed district attorney. Jack London and Rex Beach found in him a rich pay streak of copy. 'T'HE son of a Buffalo dock work- A er, one of nine children, who had seen labor wars in his youth and through his lifetime, has sought ways to end Pries?* Fight 'on Strikes Gets Eye of Nation them, was influ ential in bring ing about the truce in the New York taxicab strike. He is the Rev. Father John Peter Boland, chair man of the unique New York State Labor Relations board since June, 1937. During his incumbency. New York has attracted the attention of the nation in its industrial media tion. “Stop them before they get started” is his formula, as he quotes the pope’s encyclical, ad vising priests to “go to the - workingman.” When he was ap pointed to his present post, he retired from his parishes of St. Lucy and St. Colnmba, with the blessing of his bishop, the Rev. John A. Duffy of Buffalo. He became profoundly interested in techniques of labor mediation while studying for the priest hood in Rome. He urges regu lar meetings between employers and employees and continuous and constructive effort, rather than emergency action when trouble comes. \\r HEN the young German im- migrant, Max J. Kramer, landed in New York and slept on a park bench, he had no “Don’t Dis turb” sign. Hence a police- Opportunity, as a Cop, Knocked With Nightstick man wakened him by whack ing his feet with a nightstick. It was really oppor tunity knocking. The policeman, who happened to speak German, steered him into a carpenter’s job, and, before long, he was buying and building hotels with the facility of a child handling building blocks. That was the only time he ever slept out. Last May, his wife, Maria Kramer, bought the 30-story Hotel Lincoln for $7,000,000 cash, tooling it over into the black in less than six months. She is a linguist, has made a career as a fashion expert and interior decorator, Mr. Kramer, who had $3.50 when he landed, built more than 500 tene ments, and, in 1925, had more than $10,000,000 worth of buildings under construction. C Consolidated News Features. WNU Service. ‘Breath Smeller’ Determines Drunkenness A driver, stopped by highway police in Long Island, N. Y., prepares to blow up a balloon in a test for drunken driving on the highways. At the right a police technician tests the air in the balloon for alcohol con tent. Forty-eight out of 100 drivers stopped in Nassau county were found to have been drinking. Two World Beaters of 30 Years Ago m THE 1939 MANNER Jess Willard, one-time heavyweight boxing champion of the world, in a plane used during his glorious days as a ring top-notcher. This 1910 pusher, owned by Clarence McArthur of Tampa, Fla., is an ancestor of the modern planes which took part in the American Air maneuvers in Florida recently. About the only place straps are used for support today are on street cars. Not, at least, on milady’s bathing suit. Strapless swim gar ments made their advent in Los Angeles during market week re cently. Naval Board Proposes U. S. Defense Bases ▲ AIR BASE # SUBMARINE BASE O DESTROYER BASE ■ MINE BASE □ AMMUNITION DEPOT A N ISTATES «Fj x*SeatUe Hawthorne/** UN ,rp D PACIFIC OCEAN MareL,Cahf.- San Francisco _ W^ayi SanDi^oU* Penaaco!- ,laeelpt,iaC>iZ J ‘ rra 9 ,n J settBa <l QuamicoA^%Hew London Jacksonville wake it Peart Hbr. . m AOahuL Ir&t-ic ^^Guantanamo, Cuba Puerto Rico Johnston /.* a Pa!my rat > Canton l. Rose/., Samoa Ayirginls. canal Zone%A Air, submarine, destroyer and mine bases, necessary to the adequate defense of the U. S. and its pos sessions, have been mapped by the naval board, which congress in 1938 directed to survey the coastlines of the United States and its possessions. Shown here are projects recommended in a report submitted to con gress by Secretary of the Navy Claude Swanson. These sites, in the opinion of the board, are best situated for defense bases. Mooney Cheers Billings in Folsom Visit THRIFTY TRAVELER Tom Mooney, recently released from San Quentin, Calif., prison by Gov. Culbert Olson after serving 23 years, is fighting to free Warren Billings, right, from Folsom prison. Billings was also jailed for the San Francisco Preparedness day bombing. Sergt. James “Jock” Scott has walked 31,300 miles in the past five years on doctor’s orders. He start ed from London, England, and re cently arrived in Seattle, Waah. on his world-circling tour. Star Dust ★ Pick of the New Crop ★ Tone Takes Up N. Y. ★ Kerrigan Still Leaving By Virginia Vale F YOU don’t believe that “Motion pictures are your best entertainment,” but that only really good pictures can come under that heading, you’ll be interested (I think) in knowing which ones an ex pert has selected as the best of the new crop. The expert is W. G. Van Schmus, managing director of the Radio City Music Hall, in New York. Mr. Van Schmus is on a spot, always. Visitors to New York, as well as na tives, troop to his theater. He can’t let them go away saying that the show was good but why in the world did he select that picture to go with it! • Ushering in the new year with “Topper Takes a Trip,” co-starring Constance Bennett and Roland Young, he picked “There’s That Woman Again,” (Melvyn Douglas and Virginia Bruce), to follow it. Then “Trade Winds,” (Frederic March and Joan Bennett), “The Great man Votes,” (John Barry more, Virginia Weidler), “Gunga Din,” (Cary Grant, Victor McLag- len, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.), “Made for Each Other,” (co-starring Car ole Lombard and James Stewart), “Love Affair,” (with Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer), and “Stage Coach” (with Claire Trevor, John Wayen, Andy Devine, John Garra- dine, and Louise Platt). Each film is scheduled for a week’s run. The theater accommo dates an audience of more than 6,000 persons; the picture is shown five times a day. It has to be good, you see! * Franchot Tone bobs up all over New York these days; leaving Hol lywood certainly didn’t mean leav ing the limelight. He is appearing on the stage in a new play, doing a Quickly Memorized Square Is Exclusive Pattern 1849. Use up those odd moments crocheting this square that you’ll know by heart in no time. Six inches in string, an excellent size for cloths and spreads, it also lends itself effectively to many small accessories in finer cotton. Pattern 1849 contains directions for making the square; illustra tions of it and of stitches; mate rials required; photograph of square. 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 your name, ad dress and pattern number plainly. ACTS FAST TO BRING RELIEF FROM COLDS This Simple Way Eases Pain with Amazing Speed FRANCHOT TONE bit of radio work, and recently shared honors with Abe Lyman and Dick Foran as a celebrity at the first of the International Casino’s “Sunday Night Informals,” dedicat ed to celebrities. ^— When J. M. Kerrigan arrived in Hollywood eight years ago he said that he’d stay long enongh to play the film role he’d been engaged for and then he’d go back to Ireland. He was then one of the Abbey play ers. He’s still in Hollywood, (a role in “The Great Man Votes” was the most recent bait), and still thinks that, as soon as he can get away, he’ll go back to Ireland. —*— Edward Small is in favor of giv ing new people a chance in his pic tures. It was he who brought Robert Donat to this country to appear in “The Count of Monte Cristo,” and recently he made Louis Hayward a star in “The Duke of West Point.” In his current production, “King of the Turf,” starring Adolphe Men- jou, it’s 15-year-old Roger Daniel who gets the big break. With radio and stage tempting movie stars to lose interest in motion picture making, it’s a wise producer who can spot talent and cultivate it— and put it under contract! By the way, in “The Duke of West Point” you’ll see some old-timers— Mary MacLaren, William Bakewell and Kenneth Harlan. * All of the music that Frank R. White, organist on Dr. William L. Stidger’s “Getting the Most Out of Life” program, writes for the Stid- ger hymns must stand up under Mrs. White’s “24 hour test.” When he writes a new hymn tune Mrs. White plays it twice on the or gan. Then if she’s able to play it from memory the next day White feels sure that the public will re member the tune without any ef fort. But does he make allowances for the fact that Mrs. White prob ably has an unusual memory? * ODDS AND ENDS — Joan Fontaine can claim to be one girl in a thousand; the cast of "Gunga Din” numbers about 1,000, and she's the lone female in it . . . Gabriel Heatter has a private tele phone number, but this host "K’e, the People” gives it to so many friends that it might as well be in the phone book . . . hum and Abner frequently tele phone former neighbors in Arkansas in order to keep the right vocal inflections for their radio work . . . Richard Him- ber's commitments for this year in clude three different programs on the three different networks for three dif ferent snonsors. C Western Newspaper Union. 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How Women in Their 40’s Can Attract Men e’s good advice for a woman daring her ige (usually from 38 to 62), who fears U lose her appeal to men, who worries it hot flashes, loss of pep, dizzy spells, st nerves and moody spells, et more fresh air, 8 nrs. sleep and u you eiaUy for women. It helps ihysical resistance, thus helps give more city to enjoy life and assist calming WATCH tht Specials You can depend on the spe cial sales the merchants of our town announce in the columns of this paper .They mean money saving to our readers. It always pays to patronize the merchants who advertise. They are not afraid of their mer chandise or their prices.