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McCORMICK MESSENGER. McCORMICK, S. C.. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1939 WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON XTEW YORK.—The WPA barrel -*■ ^ isn’t like the widow’s cruse of oil in the Bible. They expect to be scraping the bottom by next June. U/BA T LI Wh ° ® GtS fired WPA Trouble an d when is a Shooter Finds naturally dis- Relief in Clouds tressing prob lem, falling mainly on Dean Brimhall, trouble shooter and handyman for the WPA, who looks and talks like Sin clair Lewis and who used to hunt bears in Utah. Officially, he is di rector of the section on employ ment problems of the WPA, and just now these problems loom up like the peak range of his native Rocky mountains. Ax-grinders, angry congress men, onion disputants, kickers, fixers, Utopians, and what not see Mr. Brimhall, and, when he isn’t taking this rap, he is ex- perting add editing administra tion outputs on labor relations and employment, making sur veys on relief technique, or flying In his own plane to some spot where employment is ebbing. A trap-drummer is just snoozing along compared to Mr. Brim hall. Merely getting a bear by the tail was never like this. For relief or nerve tension, he hops into his plane now and then and makes a getaway in the clouds, which seems like a nice idea. Reared in the Church of the Lat ter Day Saints—his grandfather trekked west with Brigham Young —he was one of a group of twelve Utah business men, Marriner Ec- cles among them, who craved New Deal action for some of their ideas. Six of them are still active. On the side, he still maintains a live interest in four different concerns— an airplane company, a railroad company, a lumber business and extensive real estate interests. Og den is his home town. He hauled coal to pay for his education at Brigham Young university, and one winter he maintained his family nicely with a shotgun, hunting large and small game. Under Mc- Keen Cattell at Columbia uni versity, he studied experiment al psychology and later taught that subject at Columbia and Brigham Young. He saw the Wrights make their first Euro pean flight and he has been in terested in flying ever since— flying and hunting. On every week-end and holiday he’s high in the sky, his plane poised and pointed toward his beloved Rockies. But there seems to be no likelihood of bis doing a “wrong-way Corrigan.” He says he still could get a living with a shotgun, but instead of his gun he has to shoulder the troubles of citizens less versatile. npHE United States senate, pos- sibly “standin’ in the need of prayer,” does away with piece-work supplication and puts praying on • »» j 4 h e regular Senate, in Need, daily schedule. Puts Daily Task Last year, the On Its Chaplain occasiohal prayers by the official chaplain, the Rev. Ze Bar ney Thorne Phillips cost the govern ment $420 a prayer. Now the rate for each will be about $16, as Mr. Phillips gets $1,680 a year. The change was brought about by a resolution by Sena tor Neely, by which the senate will be opened by prayer on every calendar day, instead of only on “legislative” days as in the past. The latter are a fic tion by which the senate may free itself from things diurnal, as effectively as did Joshua. But, since the senate is entitled to a good prayer on every real, not figurative, working day, it is going to get it. Possibly as a tribute to Chaplain Phillips’ prayers, the vote on Senator Neely’s resolution was unani mous. While both parties in the senate have on many occasions claimed divine guidance and inspiration for their side, Mr. Phillips, although a Republican, appointed by Calvin Coolidge in 1927, has been strictly non-partisan. He is a distinguished Episcopalian clergyman, rector of the Church of the Epiphany of Washington, and has discharged his office with simple eloquence and dignity. Chaplain Phillips, 63 years old, is a native of Springfield, Ohio, educated at Wittenberg college and the General Theo logical seminary. He engaged in special studies at Oxford in 1910 and 1911 and has served pastorates in Cincinnati, Chi cago, St. Louis and Philadel phia. His children are named Faith, Deacon and Sallie Hews. <b Consolidated News Features. WNU Service. New York-London Air Service Set for March Undergoing trial flights for the civil aeronautics authority is one of Pan-American airways new 42-ton clip per ships which will begin the first London-New York service the latter part of March. The new Boeing strato-liner made her test flights at Seattle, Wash. The ship will carry more than 50 passengers, making one flight a week in each direction at the start. Testing crew includes: left to right: Co-pilot Julius Barr, Test Pilot Edmund T. Allen, and Co-pilot Earl Ferguson. HE LEARNS HOW Sir Kingsley Wood, British air minister, operates an automatic ar moured fire position in a Tolworth, England, aircraft plant. The units are being installed on fighting planes. ‘Weddings, Bah!’, Says Young Attendant Could it be possible this little attendant is that sorry for the bride groom? Regardless of the cause, he burst into tears during the recent wedding ceremony of Miss Heromoine Llewellyn and the Earl of Ran- furly at St. George’s in London. His shy bridesmaid tries consoling him, but to no avail. Mooney Silent on Rumored Divorce Plans When questioned recently in San Francisco concerning plans for his divorce Thomas Mooney, second from left, pardoned labor leader, stated he had nothing to say as his domestic life has a bearing on Warren Bil lings' chance for a pardon. Billings was convicted of taking part in the 1916 San Francisco bombing. Mrs. Rena Mooney, second from right, collapsed when told that her husband planned on getting a divorce. Mrs. Mooney is employed on a WPA music project in San Francisco. Tortoise and Hare Resume Racing Feud i im i s. i : V//'/ ' Icag-p. Ml HHh The tortoise and the hare are at it again! This time “Pinky,” the hare, gets a free ride on “Mike,” 78-pound turtle which the Illinois department of conservation will exhibit at the Chicago National Boat and Sports show February 26 through March 5. Mike is just gaining ma turity at the youthful age of 108. TO SUCCEED GAMELIN Gen. Alphonse Georges, above, is expected to succeed to the post of chief of the French general staff when Gen. Marie Gustave Gamelin, who has passed the legal retirement age of 65, retires. Georges has been second in command to Gamelin and has long been an influential factor in French governmental circles. Star Dust ^ King Tyrone Off the Air -Jc Joan Signs for 5 Years "fa Fan Gets New Illusions By Virginia Vale T HERE’LL be no more Ty rone Power on the radio, by order of his boss, Darryl Zanuck, production head of Twentieth Century-Fox. Mr. Zanuck made this announce ment as a result of pro tests from theater exhibitors against too many appear ances of screen stars on radio programs. Mr. Zanuck stated that he had no quarrel with radio, but that the stars were en dangered because it was so difficult to get adequate material for those weekly appearances, especially since it must be new. So Tyrone, recently elected king of the movies by some 22,000 news paper readers, had to go off the air. * Joan Blondell has tied up her future again, so far as making movies is concerned. She’s signed with Columbia to make two pictures a year for five years, and starts the ball roll ing with “Good Girls Go to Paris, Too,” originally scheduled for Jean Arthur. It’s said that Columbia want ed to borrow her for that one some months ago, and that Warner Broth ers’ refusal to lend her was at least partly responsible for her winding up her contract. * “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” will be retired from cir culation the first of April, after breaking records in every impor tant city all over the world, and will probably be re-issued again about this time next year. It cost $1,700,- 000 to make, and will gross about eight million. It played in 41 coun tries, and was the first sound pic ture to be translated into a “talking book” for the blind. And “Dopey” got more fap mail than all the other characters put together. &— vX-'X v.'v Joan Blondell : : ::X:$;Xy»>?: : ;X;: .■ Madeleine Carroll When Madeleine Carroll paused recently in New York 6n her way from Europe to Hol lywood she shat tered one movie fan’s illusions. The movie - mad girl went to a smart night club, and dur ing the course of the evening noticed a rather buxom young lady who danced every dance with great enthusi asm. She had on rather dismal look ing gun-metal col ored hose and very flat shoes, re ported the movie fan. Decidedly not smart. But her hat was an un- copyable French bicorne, and the collar of her suit marked it as one of the latest efforts of a famous French modiste. Suddenly the rather buxom young lady smiled, and the movie fan wilted. She had recognized Miss Carroll—and had learned that movie stars, when left to their own de vices, aren’t always as smartly dressed as they are on the screen. Incidentally, the next Carroll pic ture is “Cafe Society,” and the one after that is called “Air Raid,” and is the story of two young people caught in a city in the war zone. * Hollywood has to be awfully care ful about these war pictures. In “Idiot’s Delight,” for example, Es peranto was used instead of Italian, French or German, just to avoid the danger of angry protests from foreign governments. When it was done as a play no such precaution was taken. * When fame begins to come to a radio performer it certainly comes fast. Kay Kyser, the orchestra leader, wasn’t particularly well known even so recently as a year ago. Now he’s so well established at the top of the ladder that when he signed recently to appear with his band at a New York movie house the contract called for a sal ary of $12,500 a week—an all-time high. * Want to know what sort of thing is likely to trouble big executives? It seems that there were weeks of huddles over the title for Raymond Paige’s new program. It was to be called “100 Men and a Girl,” and Paige had 100 men in his band, and the girl was Hildegarde and everything was fine. But Universal owned the title—remember the pic ture by that name? Eventually somebody thought up “99 Men and a Girl,” and after more indecision because that was pretty close to the original it was cleared. & ODDS AND ENDS — Phil Baker's sponsor has never seen either Baker or the cast of his radio program, so the broadcast is to be shifted to Honolulu for a time . . . Edgar Guest and Andre Kostelanetz, the orchestra leader (and husband of Lily Pons) are collaborat ing on a song. © Western Newspaper Union. Tufted Tassels for That Colorful Accent By RUTH WYETH SPEARS ««tSeAR MRS. SPEARS: I am a bride of six months and your Book 1—SEWING for the Home Decorator has certainly been a life saver for me. I have turned to it for help when making things for every room in our little house. The guest room is next. I would like to use yellow to bright en it up. 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