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McCORMICR MESSENGER, McCORMICK. S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1939 By LEMUEL F. PARTON XTEW YORK. — Vincent Bendix ■*- got on famously as long as he stuck to tinkering, inventing and fussing with machinery. He did «»#• « , many other Without Wheels things, but any- It’s No Go for thing which Vincent Bendix didn’t have to do with wheels, cams, and pinions was just no dice. It was his Chicago real estate deals which brought against him the petition in voluntary bankruptcy filed in Chicago, say his lawyers. His holdings were more than $5,000,- 000, including the famous Potter Palmer Lake Shore drive residence —all down the chute in the federal district court. His machinery com panies, not involved in the petition, are rolling along nicely. They seem to be one up on the “good earth” as an arcanum of security. Modern times are like that. In the basement of a New York hospital, where he ran the elevator, he had a grand time taking an old hot-tube gas en gine to pieces and putting it to gether again. He was 17, not long from Chicago, where he had been a telegraph messenger boy. An old one-eyed swamper around the place, who under stood machinery, had instruct ed him in the working of the power plant and had encouraged his laboratory work. There was a close working alliance be tween faculty and student body. Two years later, the lad got a job as a typist in a law office, baffled at first because he couldn’t use a monkey wrench on the typewriter, but exploring it satisfactorily with a screw-driver and pliers. But a law office hadn’t any wheels, and he did better with the Lackawanna railroad, which had plenty, although he was in the traffic department. In his spare time, he worked out im provements on a bicycle chain and sprocket. That brought him in touch with bicycle manufac turers and at last he was on the main line—and it wasn’t the Lackawanna. It was a wide, paved highway to millions in the invention of automobile and avi ation devices whose only dead end was real estate. Of Swedish ancestry, son of a Mo line, 111., Methodist minister, he packed a copy of Schopenhauer in his pocket when he was a messenger boy. In those days, he wolfed Hux ley, Darwin, Marx, Tyndall, Wallace and Spencer, calling himself a So cialist in his earlier years. Never still a minute, he is buoyant and resilient at 57, and his friends shrug off this bankruptcy business as just a short detour from the main high way. They say they wouldn’t be surprised if he should bob up with something as exciting as perpetual motion, one of these days. CALTY, laconic, William Allan ^ Neilson, rounding three score years and ten, retires with this year’s graduating class as president of Smith col- The Groves of Academe Laud Retiring Prexy lege. Rarely does any pass ing prexy get such a hand from students and faculty. Some what in the picture of Stringfellow Barr of St. John’s, and Maynard Hutchins of Chicago, he has put over education on its merits. He has been first a scholar and secondly an ad ministrator, but has fired so much enthusiasm that administration has pretty much taken care of itself. The University of Edinburgh and Harvard passed on to him the flame of the great Elizabeth ans. Merry eyes—little white beard—resonant laugh—with a surgically incisive mind—he has been to the Smith undergradu ates a blend of Chaucer, Shakes peare and Erasmus—although said immortals didn’t smoke big cigars. He takes a bow from all the groves of academe. 'T'OSCANINI was so pleased with a tie designed by Mrs. Malcolm D. Whitman, former Countess Lu- cilla Mara de Vescovi, that he had _ . one like it Woman Designs made for each Styles for Men; of the 93 mem- They Like 9 Em bers of his or chestra. That started her designing ties for Doug las Fairbanks Sr., Noel Coward, Count Andy Robilant, et al. One thing led to another, and now Mrs. Whitman returns from Europe as the only woman couturier for men, after a study of the latest in men’i styles on the continent. Her ancestors were members of the council of ten of the Vene tian republic. One of them mar ried the painter Tintoretto, be queathing a sensitiveness to fabrics and color, no doubt. She was a concert singer before her marriage to Mr. Whitman. (Consolidated Features—WNU Service.) Range Romance Lives Again in Musty Records Romantic stories of the early days of Los Angeles county, when huge herds of cattle roamed the range, were recalled when County Supervisor Oscar Hauge uncovered hundreds of cattle brands dating back to 1833. The leather, upon which the brands were burned, was found in two old trunks, and was in first-class condition, despite the passing of more than a century. Most owners of the brands were old Spanish families. Star Dust ★ Winner: Virginia Vale ★ Scouts Eye Graduates ★ Elbow Room for Grant By Virginia Vale APPARENTLY Jesse Lasky, ./l. who is now conducting his second search for new faces for the screen, thinks that there is something in a name—at least, something in my name. For he has chosen “Virginia Vale” as the name which will be be stowed on the girl who is select ed as the winner of this nation wide talent quest. The boy who wins will be called “Robert Stanton”—which makes me wonder if some man, somewhere, who really is named Robert Stan ton, was as startled and exasperat ed as I was over discovering that his name had been kidnaped, as it were. There ought to be a law against it! * Freddie Bartholomew is no longer a star. Metro has demoted him, and promoted James Stewart, England Tests Efficiency of War Time Firemen Eight burning cottages attracted a large crowd of interested London spectators recently when fire-fighting units of the air raid protection organization demonstrated their efficiency. The A. R. P. is now seeking vol unteers so that it can give similar realistic tests of its bomb proof shelters. England has taken great steps to safeguard its people in the event of air raids. Japan Sends ‘Friendship Flame’ to U. S. The ‘‘Flame of Friendship,” presented to the New York World’s fair as a symbol of the friendship between Japan and the United States, was lighted by Mayor Keikichi Tanomoti of Tokyo from burning fagots of cypress wood brought from the Izumo grand shrine, where, according to Shinto mythology, the flame has been burning for more than 1,500 years. The flame was carried to New York by Miss Akiko Tsukimoto. DIAMOND ARISTOCRAT Charley (Red) Ruffing, star pitch er of the New York Yankees, is shown holding a trophy given him by his wife after recording his 200th big league victory recently. Only four other present day hurlers are in this select circle of 200 game winners. Coeds Train for Hawaiian Crew Title TOURS UNITED STATES Annual territorial outrigger canoe races at Honolulu July Fourth stir this coed crew from the University of Hawaii into active training. Left to right are Nancy Hicks, Cornelia Hogg, Ruth Murphy, Jean Butch- ard, Adean Ross and Jean Cowan. The races are one of the year’s outstanding sports events. General Evangeline Booth, head of the Salvation Army, at present touring the United States, will re turn to England in August for the meeting of the Salvation Army high council to select her successor. JAMES STEWART whose popularity increases with ev ery picture he makes—and he’s making plenty of them these days. * These are the days when the girls who are graduated from high school or college may be taking a screen test right along with their diplomas, without knowing it. Practically all of the major movie companies are in need of pretty girls, it’s said, and talent scouts have gone forth to find them. Of course, the very girls who come out best in these informal screen tests could probably go to Hollywood and try hopelessly for years to get into the studios. —m— Remember Wesley Barry, one of the screen’s first child stars? He has been signed for a feature role in “Stunt Pilot,” the second in a series of Monogram pictures based on the “Tailspin .Tommy” cartoon strip. He has been in the real estate business for three years, and during the last nine months has been sales manager for a large realty firm in Hollywood. 5K George Hicks, the NBC announcer who has been down to the bottom of the ocean and up in the clouds for special broadcasts, and is to cover the American visit of the king and queen of England, has received more than a thousand letters from fans who enclosed blank sheets of paper with the request that he get the royal visitors to autograph them. Hicks is the kind of man who wouldn’t make such a request even for himself! X Cecil B. DeMille always orders an extra microphone on the stage when Cary Grant is doing a play on that radio theater program. The extra microphone is used exclusive ly by Grant, who waves his arms and gesticulates while performing, and doesn’t like to worry about ac cidentally striking the person beside him. * Over a period of two months The Three Marshalls (Peggy, Jack and Kay) have had to change their radio program five times because the songs they submitted to the sta tions before taking to the air were banned. They couldn’t sing “Hallelujah, I’m a Bum”—it was thought to be offensive. “My Heart Belongs to Daddy” was all right if only Peggy and Kay sang the lyrics; Jack could play the music, but he couldn’t sing —network rulings reject the song if it’s sung by a man. They couldn’t sing “The Preacher and the Bear” because the lyrics contain the word “coon.” “Shoot the Likker to Me, Jive Boy,” a jam session favorite, could be sung only if some word not suggesting an al coholic beverage was substituted for “likker”—which in this instance was used as a musical term. * ODDS AND ENDS—“Captain Fury” the first motion picture to be shown at New York's “World of Tomorrow,” is one of the most old-fashioned melodramas seen for a long time in the world of toda\ . . . Here’s an inspired title for you— the sequel to “Angels With Dirty Faces' will be called “Angels Wash Their Faces . . . Mickey Rooney’s going to England t< make “A Yank at Eton” this summer . . Jack Benny’s “Man About Town” may n vice the popularity of musical pictures. tR«i«afied by Western Newspaper Dnioa. Decorative Angels for Sheets, Pillow Cases Pattern 6348. What could be more appropriate for sheet and pillow cases than these decorative angels in simple stitchery! Just the thing for guest linens. Perhaps you’ll prefer the cheery “Good Morning” and “Good Evening.” You can finish off either design with the filet cro chet edging. Pattern 6348 con tains a transfer pattern of seven motifs ranging from 4% by 16% inches to 3V4 by 9% inches; direc tions and charts for crochet; ma terials needed; illustrations of stitches. To obtain this pattern send 15 cents in coins to The Sewing Cir cle, Household Arts Dept., 259 W. 14th St., New York, N. Y. CHILLS AND FEVER Relieve Malaria Misery With This Proven Treatment! Don’t go through the usual suffer ing. Relieve Malaria chills and fever in quick time. Take good old Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic! This is no new-fangled or untried preparation. It’s a recog nized medicine. Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic con tains tasteless quinidine and iron. It quickly relieves the Malarial chills and fever. It also tends to build you up. That’s the double effect you want. 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GRAYS OINTMENT 25< Life in the Right For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight; he can’t be wrong whose life is in the right.—Pope. AT GOOD OtUO STORES BAiMs>z&BCessedRefiejL RHEUMATISM^Tb^o WNU—7 24—39 WATCH VOU con depend on the *** special sales the merchants o£ 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. Sk id THE SPECIALS