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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C.. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1939
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By LEMUEL F. PARTON
EW YORK.—Back in the cham-
pagne days, when our Uncle
Sam was “Uncle Shylock” in Eng
land, Sir Philip Kerr, later the
. marquess of
Bntish Envoy Lothian, did
/« Old Friend * not share this
Of Uncle Sant disesteem. He
said repeated
ly that Abraham Lincoln was his
political saint; he risked ostracism
at his club by admitting that Amer
ica did a lot to help win the war,
and urged that England should at
least make a token payment on the
American debt.
Lord Lothian, arriving in Wash
ington as British ambassador to this
country, has traveled widely in this
country, has always taken home
good reports, and, as one of the
most skilled artisans of * empire
building and upkeep, has urged un
derstanding and co-operation be
tween the two nations, for the well
being of both.
“The British empire,” he recently
said, “is America’s outer ring of
security. If it disappears under
Fascist attack, the United States
and its Monroe Doctrine, freedom
of the seas and so on would be
threatened.”
A brilliant writer and speaker,
addressing coltnral and foreign
policy groups in many nations,
Lord Lothian has spoken and
written unofficially, his disserta
tions reflecting closely empire
policy. There probably is no
more scholarly and gifted out
rider of the British intellectual
dominions than this handsome
Oxonian, trained in South Af
rica under the famous Lord Mil
ner, skilled not only in the real
istic “pratique” of empire-build
ing, but in its genteel histrion
ics.
Like Simon, Chamberlain, Hoare,
Halifax, Astor, Beaverbrook and
virtually all the others of the Brit
ish high command in recent years,
he firmly refused to believe—until
Munich—that Adolf Hitler had any
but pacific and constructive inten
tions; he shared the prevailing con
servative view that German expan
sion would be, legitimately, to the
east, and that the resurgent Reich
harbored no designs against the
British empire. In 1935, he visited
Herr Hitler and returned with warm
reassurance to his countrymen. He
reported great achievements by the
Nazis and indicated high esteem for
their fuehrer—as virtually all his
political associates had done.
He shared the shock and bewil
derment of his confreres in the aft
ermath of Munich. He urged that
no further concessions be made to
Germany and that the Hitler on
slaught should be met with an im
pregnable alliance against him. It
was after Munich that he warned
America against the ills with which
it would be beset if Britain should
succumb to a “Fascist attack.”
f GUIS (LEPKE) BUCHALTER,
^ who, it seems, after all, hasn’t
been away, was discharged seven
times by New York magistrates.
c al c n Judge Nott, of
Smooth Fellow general ses-
Never Carrie* sions court,
A Shootin 9 Iron twice held
him, as did
Bridgeport, Conn., several times,
but he won, seven to six, in 23
years of tilting with judges and
juries, the charges ranging through
assault, robbery, burglary and hom
icide, as involved in fur-dressing,
garment, flour, trucking and fake
labor union rackets.
He has never carried a gun,
and, as befits the richest of all
industrial racketeers, keeps the
strong-arm stuff moving smooth
ly, with perhaps no more than
an inter-office memorandum to
carry it through. Unlike his
predecessors of such amateur
ish outfits as the Gas House
Gang, he is no show-off, never
wears conspicuous clothes,
speaks softly and is never out
in front. His gang at times has
included more than 500 thirty-
second degree hoodlums, and J.
Edgar Hoover, of the FBI, to
whom he surrenders, has put
him down as a co-partner of the
Barker-Karpis kidnaping gang
and other equally unpopular
outfits.
. He was born in Essex street, on
New York’s Lower East Side, in
1897, one of 11 children. All his
brothers and sisters are honest and
respectable. No explanation of his
errant ways has ever been offered.
In his early youth, he formed a
partnership with young Jacob Sha
piro, the beginning of a long and
poisonous friendship. They worked
up from such small beginnings as
package-snatching and mauling
pushcart peddlers, and, taking on
hired help, began to take over old-
established crime firms, such as the
Kid Dropper gang. Their first big-
business outreach was when they
began systematically to shoot up the
leather business.
(Consolidated Features—WNU Service.)
Polish Troops Off for the Front
A section of the Polish army’s cycling corps as they neared the Polish frontier to face German soldiers.
Chief of Poland’s combatant forces is General Kasimir Sosnkowski, who is outranked in authority only by Pres
ident Ignacy Moscicki and Marshal Smigly-Rydz, the Polish strong man.
Prepared for German Tanks
Star Dust
★ Public Deb I\o. 1
★ Garfield Lingers On
★ Golden Boy Holden
By Virginia Val©
C HARLES LAUGHTON
proved himself a hero re
cently, and the cameras weren’t
[ grinding either. “The Hunch-
| back of Notre Dame” company
was on location, and hundreds
of extras were milling about,
i staging festival scenes in Fif
teenth century Paris. Part of
the atmosphere was a trained
! bear in a cage, who was placid
ly eating ice cream.
Somebody bumped into the
cage, as the mob pushed and
shoved about, and it was
overturned. The bear, ice
cream dripping from his
jaws, got out — and the panic
would have been on, with
people convinced that the bear was
frothing at the mouth, if Laughton
hadn’t stepped in.
Over the public address system he
reassured the crowd, telling them
that it was ice cream on ihe bear’s
mouth, and that, if they would stand
CHARLES LAUGHTON
still, the trainer would tie the bear
up.
All in the day’s work for Laughton
—but can’t you see the newspaper
headlines if he hadn’t kept his head?
* *
“No tanks” say these effective anti-tank guns of Poland’s army. Here the gunners are ready for the advanc
ing German army on the Polish border. Officials of the Polish army place a great deal of confidence in the guns,
which have proved successful in halting mechanized forces.
Polish Troops in Front Line Trenches
Polish infantry awaiting the attack of German troops on the Polish
Corridor border. President Moscicki emphasized the fact that Poland’s
first battles were purely defensive to establish beyond all doubt that Ger
many is the aggressor nation. Germany’s initial land attacks were from
East Prussia against Dzialdowo and Mlawa; from Pomerania against
Chojnice at the narrowest part of the disputed Corridor, and from Bres-
law against Katowice.
Britain Transports Its Troops by Plane
Mobilization of the English army was materially hastened by use of
airplanes in the rush to get troops to the continent. Above photograph
shows members of the Second Battalion of the Royal Ulster Rifles board
ing a plane for the front. The Soviet Union, too, has laid great stress on
its troop carrying planes and its mass parachute leaps from the air. Rus
sia, in the past few years, has carried on extensive experiments with this
type of air raid and has repeatedly declared them successful. Many army
officials, however, declare the mass parachute leaps impractical for war.
Germany’s Iron Man
A recent photograph of Adolf Hit
ler, the iron man of Germany, who
has led his nation into war. Fre
quent arbitration and mediation
pleas made by diplomats of leading
nations were ignored by the Reichs-
fuehrer.
Leads Poland’s Army
Head of Poland’s army of 2,000,-
000 men is Marshal Smigly-Rydz,
second in authority only to Presi
dent Ignacy .Moscicki. Poles term
the war as “holy”—a battle for the
ideal of liberty. Smigly-Rydz was
appointed commander in chief of
the army and successor to Presi
dent Moscicki in event the presi
dency should become vacant.
Linda Darnell becomes a star in
“Public Deb No. 1,” with the top
men at Twentieth Century-Fox all
set to send her straight to the top.
She was booked for “Drums Along
the Mohawk,” but they felt that the
role assigned her wasn’t important
enough.
—m—
It’s in John Garfield’s contract
that he may return to the stage
each season. And it was in his own
mind a while ago that he wouldn’t
make any more prison pictures.
Consequently people were surprised
when, after finishing “Four Daugh
ters,” he didn’t rush back to Broad
way, and he surprised them again,
more recently, when he agreed to
do “20,000 Years in Sing Sing”
(which will be screened as “The
City of Lost Men”).
In the first case he was persuaded
to stay on in Hollywood in order to
get his screen career off to a good
start. In the second, a nice, fat
bonus check was used as persuasion,
o *
In “Golden Boy” you’ll meet a
new movie hero, William Holden-
six feet tall, possessed of Jjrown
hair, blue eyes, a pleasant person
ality, and so much ability as an ac
tor that he was picked from 4,500
candidates for the leading role in
the picture. And some of those
other candidates were experienced
actors.
Holden wasn’t. He’d gone to col
lege, and been a member of Para
mount’s stock company. It was
when he took part in a college play
in Pasadena that a talent scout spot
ted him, and he was signed to a
seven-year contract. After that he
didn’t do anything but report at the
studio and exercise in the gymna
sium, until he made a screen test
with a girl who was being consid
ered for a role in “Golden Boy.”
Director Mamoulian saw the test,
spotted Holden, Columbia bought a
half-interest in him—and you’ll see
him in “Golden Boy.”
—m—
Family notes: Paul Muni’s wife
took a screen test not long ago.
Charles Laughton’s wife (known to
stage and screen fans as Elsa Lan-
chester) will appear on the Bing
Crosby program September 21. On
Thursday nights, when he’s part of
that same program, Bob Burns al
ways telephones his daughter, Bar
bara Ann, to say good-night.
ODDS AND ENDS—Somebody in At
lanta uants to market a Scarlett O'Hara
cocktail, and Metro's trying to stop it .. .
Universal's sparing no effort to make
Gloria Jean as popular as Deanna Durbin
. . . Since her return to radio Jessica
Dragonette is singing better than ever be
fore—and she's practically the only star
of the air waves who could stay away for
two years and return to find that she was
just as popular as ever, according to
what's happened to others who tried it
. . . Benny Goodman's chartered a plane
to rush him from one one-night stand to
the next; thinks it's too warm on trains.
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
Strange Facts
!
Air to Float Wood
Easter Lily Is Out
Real Wash Out
I
Like water, the pressure of air
increases with depth. For in
stance, if a mine shaft were 35
miles deep, the air at the bottom
would be about 1,000 times as
dense as that at the earth’s sur
face, or heavy enough to float sev
eral kinds of wood and even water.
In northern Ireland it is a seri
ous offense, punishable by a fine,
to wear or carry an Easter lily
on Easter Sunday, as this flower
is a symbolic reminder of the un
successful Easter rebellion in
Dublin in 1916.
Despite the fact that he was
mentally deranged, Associate Jus
tice Henry Baldwin (1779-1844) of
Pennsylvania was allowed to serve
for 14 years on the bench of the
Supreme Court of the United
States because its members can
be impeached only for miscon
duct.
In several towns along the Ital
ian Riviera, a balcony is consid
ered to be such an essential deco
rative feature of a house that
those without one usually have a
painted substitute, some being
made more realistic by the inclu
sion of the family wash, which is
generally hung to dry on such rail
ings.—Collier’s.
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