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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1939 WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON "^EW YORK. — Radio, automo- ^ biles, airplanes, moving pic tures an£ virtually all the other technical ten-strikes of the modern n .. . „ world came in Dives in Cellar, Brings Up Our Television Set Artificial Flies for the Nation’s Critical Anglers between the first and second Chicago world’s fairs. About all that is brand new at the New York World’s fair is television, which took its bow with a telecast at the inaug ural ceremonies. Unlike Britain’s garret inven tor, John Logie Baird, Allen B. Du Mont, patting his by-line on the new television set, came along through the “channels” in which promising yoong techni- ' cians are grooved these days. Oat of Rensselaer Polytechnic institute in 1923, he was em ployed as a tube engineer with . the Westinghouse company in Bloomfield, N. J., until 1937, when he became chief engineer of the De Forest Radio compa ny. Bat, when he caught the television germ, he did just what Baird did, the only difference be ing that he holed ap in a cellar instead of an attic. It was in 1931 that he quit a good job to play a hunch. The hunch was that the cathode ray was the joker in the flickering television deck. So he dived into his base ment, built his laboratory and stayed underground until he was ready to come up with a cathode-ray tube which is pretty nearly the works in televisiop. . In 1937, Mr. Du Mont rounded ap some capital and built a siz able two-story laboratory at Montclair, N. J., employing 42 men. By 1938, Paramount pic tures had declared itself in in a big way, and, at last accounts, Mr. Du Mont’s enterprise was virtually a subsidiary of this cor poration. That is interesting in view of the fact that, in Eng land, they already are televising events for the moving picture screen. It is indicated that the Du Mont rig may be subject to the same development. Star Dust ★ Law Forces a Fake ★ NO for Life of Child Star ★ U. S. Groceries to Europe By Virginia Vale With the old-fashioned worm fishing becoming a thing of the past, thousands of fishermen are using various kinds of flies to attract their prey. Here workers are busy in a Freeport, Maine, factory, one of the country’s largest, turning out flies made from the feathers of bright-colored birds imported from all parts of the world. The feathers must be correct as to color, size and weight for the fish they are meant to lure. Feathers shown include peacock, ostrich, kingfisher, African jungle cock, and Mexican macaw feathers. East Side Kids Model Latest in Informal Attire What the well-dressed East Side boys and girls will wear this summer, as modeled at the annual fashion show of the New York Children’s Aid society’s children’s center in New York. Left to right: Margaret Callahan in a blue play suit and cape; May Wagner in a beach play suit; Grace Callahan in a blue sun EDWARD STARLING who I sui *» Billy,Collins in a blue sun suit, and Catherine De Lorenzo in white slacks and cape. Only bit of trouble— •oro the children didn’t want to take T HERE’LL be a bit of fak ing about Principal Pro duction’s “Way Down South,” but it’s not the fault of the producer, Sol Lesser. The story of the picture is laid in Louisiana; it deals with plan tation life in pre-Civil war days. One of the high lights of the picture is a sugar cane festival, the autumn celebra tion that marks the comple tion of the harvesting season. Lesser ordered a freight car of Lou isiana sugar cane, and thought things were all set, when the Cali fornia bureau of agriculture stepped in and stopped it at the border. Seems that “foreign” cane can’t te brought into the state. So native cane from near Bakers field will be used instead. It is neither so heavy nor so tall as the genuine Louisiana article, but the art director will take care of that Everything else about the picture is genuine. Bob Breen and the 50- piece Hall Johnson choir have been CLASSIFIED FARM LANDS W. E. (BUCK) HANCOCK Licensed Broker FARM LANDS • ACREAGE MADISON, FLORIDA • Write for Listings • Chameleon-Like Sleuth to Guard British Royalty pOL ^ confers with Albert Canning, chief constable of Scotland Yard, about guarding the British king and queen on their visit here, is an American o f the “Deadwood f~ ' ' Dick” tradition which the British like to think is typical of this country—a long, lean, reserved, tight-lipped Kentuckian, with a sombrero, the guardian of five Presidents, camera-eyed and a crack pistol shot. He will be there when their majesties go to the White House, but he will not be conspicu ous He merges with the scenery like a chameleon. > He saved Clemenceau’s life during the Paris peace confer- • ence. Guarding Woodrow Wil son, he rode in an automobile immediately behind the “Ti ger’s” car. He saw an assassin level a gun. Shooting from the hip in a lightning draw, he , cracked the killer’s wrist. He is the one man the President has to obey, an advance man who Interviews police, maitres d’hotel, transportation officials and chefs, even editing menus, and, on occa sion, speeches, if they indicate too much of a tax on the President’s receptive energies. At 17, he was a deputy sheriff Ky. As a spe cial agent for the railroads, he touched off his first national headlines by trapping the “Cali fornia Kid,” a desperate ma rauder who had long eluded cap ture. President Theodore Roose velt gave him special r lneniii Wfaiicfe irimteu nim into the White House secret service de tail in 1913. In 1935, he be came head of the detail, which congress had authorized after assassination of President Mc Kinley. He is six feet tall, gaunt and se rious, graying now, the better to fade into the crowd. J OHN R. STEELMAN, the govern ment’s special mediator in the Appalachian soft coal dispute, was once a “blanket stiff,” riding the rods with the hoboes to get from Arkansas to the western wheat fields, here, in the post-war boom days, s earned $9 a day and invested his ivings in a Henderson college A. B., Vanderbilt M. A. and a University l North Carolina Ph. D. Heading ic government conciliation service, e smoothed out 4,231 labor dis- utes, involving 1,618,409 workers, in ic 1938 fiscal year. He was an rkansas farm boy, working the mthern logging camps. He is tall nd dark, and friendly and easy- oing in manner. Released by Consolidated News Fc *ture*. WNU Service off the new clothes. And It Really Isn’t Done With Mirrors JUNGLE STYLIST This is the kind of fishing ihe not-too-energetic angief dreams about. Homer Harris and his son, Bill, of Atlanta, Ga., don’t bother with hooks. And it isn’t done with mirrors. Fishermen take their boats to the lair of A school of trout in Jackson lake, and as the fish make their quick, arching leaps out of the water, the side of the boat is tilted and the fish falls to the bottom of the boat. In two hours these men caught 18 pounds of unhooked trout. French Babies Protected From Gas Attack Osa Johnson, famous African ex plorer and producer of wild animal films, is shown demonstrating a high-powered elephant gun which she will carry on her next safari. Mrs. Johnson’s clothes are especial ly designed for use in the jungle. BOBBY BREEN rehearsing for two weeks, so that the American Negro spiritual mu sic will have the true beauty and charm of the Deep South. —*— Peggy Ann Gamer, a six-year-old native of Los Angeles, won out over 100 other children in tests to find just the right child to play the part of Carole Lombard’s daughter in “Memory of Love.” She is inex perienced, but she has charm and her tests were good, so she was signed up to appear with Miss Lom bard, Helen Vinson and Katherine Alexander, starting, perhaps, on the road to fame. Of course, this matter of being a movie star isn’t half so much fun for a child as other children are likely to think it is. Irene Dare, (another six-year-old) who is work ing in “Everything on Ice,” can tes tify to that. She rises at 6:30 every morning, practices skating until eleven, then has a ballet lesson for an hour. After lunch she has a dramatic lesson, then another hour of skating practice, although she is an accomplished skater. Her spare time is filled with fittings for cos tumes and tests for hairdressing and make-up. —& BABY CHICKS CHICKS *5 pj r 100 Up Georgia D. S. Approved Pullornm Tecled. Write bow for free cireBlar de* ■eribiag theae better chick* BLUE RIBBON BTCREIY 2U Ferayth St.S. W. Atlanta, 6*- POULTRY ri *1 IN THE BAG x-Blanket Stiff ’oils Down Our ahor Disputes In the event of war and threat of gas attacks, French babies under two years of age will be protected by means of a respiratory device which is connected with the gas mask of the mother. Not strong enough to open the air vents in a regulation gas mask, they are protected by this means. The baby’s covering is made of fireproof silk. Professor Le Mee, left, invented the device. Sir John Simon, England’s chan cellor of the exchequer, seems to have Britain’s budget in the bag. It was no laughing matter, however, to the house of commons when he set before that body a staggering budget swollen by the cost of war nreuarations. Remember Aileen Pringle, you folks who went to the movies in the days of silent pictures? You’ll see her again in “Girl From Nowhere,” with Anne Nagel and Warren Hull. Douglas Corrigan, the wrong-way flier, won’t make another picture after all, at least not for RKO. And Eddie Cantor is not to make “The Flying Yorkshireman” for that firm, after all. Both plans were jusf cases of misplaced enthusiasm, ap parently. —* Phil Baker is probably one of the most spoiled husbands in the world. When he and his wife travel in Eu rope she takes along a supply of American groceries, because he doesn’t like continental food. Another radio serial will reach the screen before so very long. It is “Hometown,” heard over WLS, which stars Lulu Belle and Skyland Scotty, and will be filmed by Re public Productions. * Whenever a new engineer Is as signed to the Charlie McCarthy pro gram he’s initiated with the same gag. Don Ameche and Edgar Ber gen pulled it on the latest recruit. They stood in front of a microphone, moving their lips but not uttering a sound, while the engineer nearly went wild trying to find the trouble. *— ODDS AND ENDS—The CBS Hit Pa rade now enjoys the highest rating in its history, and Mark Warnow's contract has been renewed—first time a bandleader has been retained on that program for 2t consecutive weeks . . . Walt Disney want ed the film rights for Maeterlinck's "Blue bird" but 20th Century-Fox got them. Shirley Temple will be starred in the pic ture . . . Pat O'Brien is readying a radii show that will be somewhat like the cw rent program of Edward G. Robinson . . When Hedy Lamarr and Robert Taylo finish "Lady of the Tropics" they'll star "Guns and Fiddles"—they seem to mak an excellent co-starring team . . . Robei Montgomery leaves soon for England, t make two pictures. (Western Newspaper UnlonJ BRED FOR PRODUCTION: Ducks RAISED FOR PROFIT: Chick* SOLD BY QUALITY: Turkey* STARTED CHICKS: Pullet* MILFORD HATCHERY ^“uiepfo! Long-Winded Pasha Probably the longest speech of modem times was the address made by the Turkish president Kemal Ataturk, then known as Mustafa Kemal Pasha, before the national assembly in Angora in 1927. It required seven hours a day for six days, ran into 350,000 words and was published in two large volumes.—Collier’s. it & KILLS MANY INSECTS ON FLOWERS • FRUITS VEGETABIES t SHRUBS Demand original seated bottles, from your dealer 8644 Equally Guilty Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be pun ished equally.—Coke. IT MUST BE GOOD! Any medicine that has been used for generation after generation MUST be good. That’s the record behind Wintersmith’s — over 70 years of continuous demand. Mil lions of people have preferred it— millions noth in America and in 21 foreign countries. TRY Winter- smith’s as a General Tonic, and for Malaria. Then judge for yourself. WINTERSMITH'S TONIC Our Broken Arcs On earth the broken arcs; in heaven, a perfect round.—Robert Browning. |?SSO REPORTER NEWS • A.M. Noon P.M. P.M. wese 8:00 12:00 6:30 11:00 WIS 7:30 1:15 6:30 10:00 WFBC 8:00 12:30 6:30 10:00 WWNC 7:40 12:30 6:15 11:00 WBT 8:00 12:55 5:10 11:00 WPTF 7:40 12:30 6:30 10:55 •WDOD 7:45 12:25 5:10 10:30 ♦WNOX 7:15 12:00 5:40 10:00 bComtral Standard Tima By Obeying When you obey your su] you instruct your inferior. Revenge to Take To forget a wrong is the best revenge. A GREAT BARGAIN VESPER TEA PURE ORANGE PEKOE 50 Cups for lO* Cents Ask Your Grocer WNU—7 20—39 ■dCLASSIFIEPW ADVERTISING Have you anything around the house you would like to trade or sell?Try a das- flaccificd sified ad. The cost is only a r»e a few cents and there are probably alot of folks look- f*t fug f 0 r fust whatever k ia Results you no longer have use for. mmmmmmmmmaymmmmmmmmmsmmsmt