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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
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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
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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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discomfort and re- from cold, crash and
dace fever take 2 dissolve S Bayes
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driakaglaasof water, water ... gargle*
Use Gemune BAYER Aspirin—
the Moment Your Cold Starts
The simple way pictured above
often brings amazingly fast relief
from discomfort and sore throat
accompanying colds.
Try it. Then — see your doctor.
He probably will tell you to con
tinue with Bayer Aspirm because it
acts so fast to relieve discomforts
of a cold. And to reduce fever.
This simple way, backed by
largely sup-
g medicines
nple way,
scientific authority, has
planted the use of strong i
in easing cold symptoms. Perhaps
the easiest, most effective way yet
discovered. But make sure you get
genuine BAYER
Aspirin.
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Work Is Never Vain
No work truly done, no word
earnestly spoken, no sacrifice free
ly made, was ever in vain.—F.
W. Robertson.
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.