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McCORMICK MESSENGER. McCORMICK. S. C.. THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1939 WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON N EW YORK.—Is the “czar” on his way out? Before and since the elevation of Judge Landis and Will Hays we have hired benevolent autocrats, in Impartial Ump Pushing ‘Czar* Into Discard? times of stress and confusion, but now the New York city hotel industry hires, instead, an “impar tial chairman,** with labor concur ring, as he will represent both em- * ployers and labor. Is this a prece dent, or is the title just a euphe mism for “czar”? Granite-faced, tight-lipped Ed- - ward P. Mulrooney gets the umpir ing job, at $25,000 a year. He also is now entitled to his $6,000 yearly pension, as a former police commis sioner, withheld while he held pub lic office. In 1933, he became chair* man of the state alcoholic beverage control board, and later state com missioner of correction, from which office he will resign accept the hotel post. He started pounding a beat in West street forty-eight years ago, when Theodore Roosevelt was police commissioner. He first hit the headlines by rescu ing women and children in a small boat when the Slocum burned. As a “waterfront flat- foot,** he was known as a “cop’s cop,” always having his mind <m his work. He became police commissioner in 1930. He gave his men orders to shoot to kill, and set shotgun squads patrolling the city. He roughed up the racketeers a lot, and, when he was switched to the Albany liquor control job in 1933, the word was out that certain anti social, anti-cop elements had desired the transfer and helped bring it about. At 68, his reddish hair is turn ing brindle. His ferrety eyes reveal a penetrating alertness of mind. He looks a great deal like General Pershing. It would seem unlikely that anybody in the hotel business here will be giving the umpire any back- talk. ^^EWS reports from Havana are ^ that, when Colonel Fulgeqcio Batista, Cuba’s strong man, visited Mexico, he was regarded by some s* • b • of his conserva- Cuoan Business tive supporters Frowns on Left as having gone Tumof Batata ° ver th « “wrong side of the tracks.” There was particular displeasure over his fraternizing with President Cardenas of Mexico, and business representation at his welcome-home ceremonies was con spicuously lacking. He told the crowd of cheering workers that “if capital does not wish to respect the desires and rights of the people, the resulting confusion will work against its own aspirations.” This is one of several recent signs that the one-time cane- rustler, barber, buck private and stenographer who now runs Cuba is veering left, after a wide swing to the right. v Soon after his seizure of power, with the downfall of Machado in August, 1933, he reassured the “law and order” elements, and left-wingers have been pasting him as the “Hitler of Cuba.** He made peace with foreign and native industrialists, and, from all accounts, they are jolted con siderably by his getting clubby with Cardenas, the ‘Expropria tor.** He is circulating much more than he used to, and there is talk that he aspires to be the “Napoleon of the Caribbean.** His hole-card is the army, which he commands efficiently as chief of staff. A big, reticent, swarthy man, 37 years old, he says little and keeps a sharp, wary eye on his soldiers. ITH a bullet in his shoulder and one heel shot away, Dr. Oswaldo Aranha, foreign minister of Brazil, is an effective emissary a i -ri* r. °* P ea ce in the Aranha Thinks western hemi- It Time to Stow sphere, and the Shooting Irons white hope of our State de partment, as he visits this country. He was the leader of five revolu tions in eight years, including the one which established Dr. Getulio Vargas, the present president of ;Brazil. His present mission Is mainly financial. It is possible that a central bank of Brazil will grow out of it, with the United States supplying $50,000,000 capital. He is 43 years old, the son of a wealthy hidalgo in Rio Grande do Sul. His life activities have been the army, law and poli tics. When President Vargas set up his one-man state last year. Doctor Aranha’s co-oper ation was taken in this country as reassurance against Euro pean fascism in that country. # CtMoUdated News Features WNU Service. v Youthful Princess Visits Nursery Princess Josephine Charlotte, 11, oldest daughter of the king of the Belgians, is already taking her place in public life. She is seen amid children and nurses during a recent visit to a public nursery in Brussels, Belgium. The little princess is one of the most popular members of Belgian nobility. HUNGRY BARONET When Andrew Ashton Waller Hills of London, five-year-old son of the late John Waller Hills, privy coun cilor, was informed that King George VI had conferred a baronet cy on him he thought it was some thing to eat. His father would have been honored by the king at New Year’s ceremonies but for his death Christmas eve. ADVENTUROUS AMERICANS By Elmo Scott Watson French Army Rushes Tunisian Fortifications Keystone of the French colonial empire in Africa, Tunisia is a plum highly prized by the Italian Fascists. Should it fall into Italy’s hands, the Mediterranean could be closed easily to French and British communi cations. Fully aware of these strategical considerations, France has been openly rushing Tunisian fortifications. On the Mareth line, near the Libyan border, France has stationed 35,000 soldiers—Zouaves and the Foreign Legion. Italian troops in Libya are reported at 60,000. At the left French troops are camouflaging concrete pillboxes along the defense line, so they will blend with the surrounding desert. Right: This is a typical native soldier serving on the Libyan border. BRIGADIER GENERAL First native born soldier of the U. S. territory of Puerto Rico to be made a brigadier general in the na tional guard or regular army is Luis Paul Esteves, former colonel recently elevated by President Roosevelt. He is now the highest ranking army officer in Uncle Sam’s tropical island, regarded as a strate gic outpost for the Panama canal. Jeep Proves Popular at Sports Show An albino coati mundi (otherwise known as a jeep) enjoys a good laugh at the expense of onlookers at an outdoor show in New York. He was exhibited by Mrs. Eugenia S. Sharrock of that city, and is the only known animal of its kind in captivity. Visitors didn’t know if he was bored, amused or hungry. Anti-Nazi Demonstrators Quelled by New York Police 1 Mi I i* \ % ? / # - V ■ ' i mm mm var* 'My ?V> S '<:■ .•••> Thousands of anti-Nazi demonstrators gathered outside Madison Square Garden in New York recently when the German-American bund held an “Americanization” rally inside the building. Mounted police and hundreds of patrolmen were necessary to quell riots. Storm troopers protected me^mbers of the bund by patrolling the aisles during the meeting. Pictured here is a photographer busy snapping pictures of a small riot in which 200 took part. * The Redoubtable Mme. La Compt IN THE year 1734 a daughter was 1 born to the La Flammes, a French family living at St. Joseph on Lake Michigan. While she was still a little girl, her parents moved to Mackinac and there she grew up and married her first husband, Pilette de Sainte Ange. In 1765 Sainte Ange took his wife to the site of the future city of Chi- I cago where they lived for several years. After a time she became fa miliar with the language of the Pottawatomies and other tribes, studying their character and acquir ing a great influence over them. When Sainte Ange died, his widow moved to the French village of Ca- hokia on the Mississippi. She soon married again, this time to a Ca nadian named La Compt. During the Revolution, the Cahokia villag ers, whom George Rogers Clark had won to the American cause, were in constant danger of attack by the Indian allies of the British, as were the American settlers in the early days of the Territory of Illinois. Many times Mme. La Compt was awakened in the dead of night by Indian friends who urged her to seek safety in St. Louis. But, in stead of fleeing, Mme. La Compt in variably set out alone to meet the hostiles and dissuade them from their purpose. Sometimes she stayed with them for days before she succeeded. More than once the fearful villagers of Cahokia, armed and ready for an attack, saw a strange procession' coming out of the woods—a band of warriors with their war-paint freshly washed away and humbly obeying the or ders given them by the tall white woman marching ahead of them! After rearing a large family of children, Mme. La Compt was wid owed again. Again she was mar ried, this time to an American named Tom Brady. She outlived him for 30 years and died in Ca hokia in 1843 at the age of 109 years. • • • A Monument to Failure ] ONG’S PEAK, the highest in Col- orado, is not only a memorial to its first American discoverer, Maj. Stephen H. Long, of the En gineers Corps of the United States army, but it is also a monument to a great failure. In 1819 the United States govern ment was preparing to send a great army into the Upper Missouri coun try to establish a military post to protect and extend the fur trade. The expedition was also expected to add to the scientific knowledge of the West and Major Long was di rected to take with him a group of scientists for this purpose. With a small and inadequately supplied force, he crossed the plains to the base of the Rockies and spent some time exploring that region. When he returned he made a re port that was destined to become famous for its inaccuracies. “In re gard to this extensive section of the country,” he wrote, “we do not hesitate in giving our opinion that it is almost wholly unfit for cultiva tion, and of course uninhabitable by a people depending upon agriculture for their subsistence.” More than any other man, per haps, he was responsible 'or fixing upon the maps of the United States of that time the words “The Great American Desert” and those words retarded development of that coun try for nearly half a century. • • • . Sharpshooter and Spy V IRGINIA MOON of Memphis, Tenn., was 16 years old and go ing to school in Ohio when the Civil war broke out. She immediately asked for passage through the Union lines to Tennessee and was refused. So, when the Union flag was first raised on the school grounds, she shot every star out of it, one by one. The results were immediate and most favorable—she was expelled from school and sent home to Mem phis, which was just exactly what she wanted. She was not only a good marks- woman—she was pretty and self- confident. Her beauty and other charms enabled her to become en gaged to 16 young Confederate army recruits, all at the same time. This wasn’t very honest, she admitted years later, but it made the young soldiers feel good and didn’t make her feel bad. As the war went on, Gen. Sterling Price appointed her special agent and she carried dispatches and other information back and forth from Union to Confederate territory. Several times she was arrested by Northern soldiers, being acquitted on one occasion but found guilty and served short sentences on others. She was the only Confederate woman spy whose unusual career did not end with the war or with spying. At the age of 75 she be came a movie actress in Hollywood. She appeared with Pola Negri and Mary Miles Minter and other prom inent stars before her death in Greenwich Village at the age of 81. C Western Newspaper Union. New Frocks That Are So Flattering '^'O. 1684.—The belted dress with flaring skirt and braid trims has shirred shoulders and a gath ered bodice to give pretty fullness over the bust. Braid is used to accent the gay, youthful lines of this dress, which will be charm ing in thin wool, flat crepe or print. Bodice Gathers. No. 1679.—If you take a large size, you will find the dress with lifted waistline and circular skirt extremely becoming, and so smart for afternoon parties. It fits beautifully, thanks to gathers on the shoulders and above the waistline, and to the smooth, slim hipline. Choose faille, flat crepe, chiffon or georgette for this lovely design. The Patterns. No. 1684 is designed for sizes 12, 14, 16, 18 and 20. Size 14 re quires 4% yards of 39 inch ma terial. 17% yards of braid. 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