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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK. S. C- THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1939
I
WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
N :
EW YORK.—Admiral Emory S.
Land, chairman of the mari*
time commission, says the proposed
safety belt around our shores is a
nice idea,
Oar ‘Sab’ Zone but seems to
Is ‘Nice Idea, 9 concede noth-
Says Adm. Land ing more. He
wonders what
will happen when “somebody sticks
his nose inside the zone.”
Admiral Land’s opinion is that of
a technician and expert on ob
trusive noses, particularly those of
submarines, and, to be more ex
plicit, German submarines. He got
the Navy cross for his work in de
signing and building submarines in
the World war, in which he served
as commander of the construction
corps, and, in 1919, he turned in a
searching technical study of what
German submarines had done and
what they might do in the next war.
The spirited little admiral, a
cousin of Charles Lindbergh, has
most important business on
hand just now, with something
like $400,000,000 staked out for
building a merchant marine.
This business of new ships, and
how good a risk they may be on
sub-infested seas, is decidedly in
his department.
He is a native of Canon City, Colo.,
born in 1879. After his graduation
from Annapolis, he did postgraduate
work in naval architecture. Football
has engrossed him almost as much
as the navy. He was the garrison
finish star of that famous “crap
game” match between the Army
and Navy in 1900, a gridiron hero,
and thereafter a successful concili
ator in the long-drawn-out army
and navy athletics row.
His suavity and persuasive- *
ness are always effective, as
when he invited some C. I. O
pickets of the maritime commis
sion into his office and talked
them into good humor; He suc
ceeded Joseph P. Kennedy as
chairman of the commission in
February, 1938. He’s in a crit
ical goal-keeper’s spot just now,
and everybody is satisfied.
W ORD comes from Paris of the
demobilization of Lucien Le
Long, the famous dressmaker. The
government puts him back on the
r . - . job designing
Lucien Le Long
Back to ‘Grace,
Swirl, Freedom 9
1.. .
gowns. "Grace
swirl and free
dom” has been
his rallying
cry as a designer. This isn’t that
kind of war, and perhaps the French
think they are wasting his talents
as a soldier. .
However; soldiering is: one-of> >
the best things that M; Le Long ;■
does: In the last war,* a' Shell r
blew him dirt of a ltfench frttp ::
the dressmaking business. Se-'
verely wounded^ hist hearing tip-
paired, he borrowed $2,500, .eih-* ;V
ployed SO midinettes ahd seajn- ,
stresses, married the cousin, of.
the late Czar Nicholas of Russia,-
and ran his business up to a
daily gross intake o|> 1,000,000 >
francs, employing more than
1,000 women. He took with idih
into the business a Croix' de
Guerre and two citations. He
had been a liaison officer with
Allenby in Palestine.
Brisk and businesslike, although
still boyish-looking, he says the hap
piest day of his life was when he
freed women from tubular gowns.
He has visited this country frequent
ly and is widely known and popular
here. His is one of the most inter
esting of all “between war” careers.
T HIS department gets word from
a Washington ringsider that Dr.
William M. Leiserson, summoned by
the President several months ago
«... to unscramble
Dr. Leiserson the Na ti 0 nal
Loosening Knots Labor Rela.
In Labor Tieup J ion 1 s board,
has been mak
ing swift progress and that, just as
a matter of war preparedness, the
outlook for labor-employer peace is
much better. Previously a member
of the national mediation board,
he was appointed to the labor board
to succeed Donald Wakefield Smith,
center of bitter controversy. He is
said to have greatly clarified and
expedited procedure under the Wag
ner act.
•4 ^
He is one of millions of Amer
ican citizens who in late years
have seen their native countries
taken prisoner. Born in Estonia,
he was brought to this country
when he was a small child. At
the University of Wisconsin, he
was schooled in economics. He
obtained his doctorate at Colum
bia in 1911 and made his career
in Wisconsin in various state in
dustrial, employment, labor and
workmen’s compensation posts.
He personalizes and particularizes
each case and sees no hope in
“legalistic” solutions of labor prob
lems.
(Consolidated Features—WNU Service.)
Paravane overboard;
. cuts mine anchors
2 Mines bob to surface;
. fired by sharpshooters
Buoys overboard to
mark "clean/ lane
The crew of a British minesweeper at work seeking and making harmless any enemy mines that might
endanger the country’s shipping. At left is the paravane, a device that cuts the anchor lines of mines, permitting
them to bob to the surface where they can be destroyed by gunfire. After they are exploded, buoys are put
overside to mark a “clean” area to sea.
Italian Honeymoon on a Bicycle Built for Two
They’re not bothered with a string of old shoes, this Italian couple married recently in St. Peter’s cathe
dral in Rome. With the government curtailing the use of motor cars in an effort to conserve gasoline, bi
cycles have become not only a fashion but a necessity. Here is the wedding party, headed by the bride and
groom on a “bicycle built for two.”
Adventurer
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Four Chinese Who Caused a World Crisis
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A chip off the old block is Quentin
Roosevelt, 19, who has returned to
Harvard university with some of the
valuable art objects collected on his
recent expedition into the wilds of
Nashi, between China and Tibet.
Iron Lung Baby
Medical history was made in
Chicago when 22-year-old Mrs. Ger
trude Epstein, infantile paralysis
victim, successfully gave birth to a
six and one-half pound baby while
encased in an iron lung. The moth
er died the day after the operation.
Here are the four Chinese whose alleged murder of a Jap puppet
official at Tientsin, China, several months ago precipitated Japanese
demands that Great Britain recognize the “new order” in China. British-
Jap conferences in Tokyo, started as a result of the incident, are still
continuing and the four prisoners are shown being removed from British
to Japanese custody, one of the points on which the British capitulated.
Thanksgiving Query— 6 When Do We Eat?’
November
| November
Itodecided
Divided response was accorded President Roosevelt’s action in setting
Thanksgiving a week ahead. Twenty-two states will celebrate on Novem
ber 23, the new date; 24 will celebrate traditionally on November 30;
Texas will have two Thanksgivings and Mississippi was undecided.
Star Dust
★ Too Many Good Ones
★ 'Gang Busters Do
★ Artie Shaw Goes G. B.
By Virginia Vale
T HAT argument betv/een
Bette Davis and Warner
Brothers should set a record of
some kind. Usually a star pro
tests because she either wants
better stories or more money.
Miss Davis didn’t want either.
She gets the best stories that the
studio can find; in fact, the execu
tives can’t hear of a good one with
out trying to buy it for her. The
latest purchase is “No Time for
Comedy,” the play that Katharine
Cornell has been doing so success
fully for so long on the New York
stage. It’s said that George Brent
will play opposite Miss Davis, in the
role done in New York by Laurence
Olivier.
Miss Davis’ complaint is that they
buy too many of these good stories
for her—in other words, she works
too hard. Since last January she
has made “Juarez,” “Dark Vic
tory,” “The Old Maid,” and “Eliza
beth and Essex,” which makes an
impressive record.
*
Loretta Young, in “Eternally
Yours,” has a chance to wear chin
chilla and orchids and look beautiful
against a luxurious background. The
picture is light and amusing, and
some of your favorite people are in
LORETTA YOUNG
the cast (at least, they deserve to
be among your favorites). Hugh
Herbert, Zasu Pitts, C. Aubrey
Smith, Ralph Graves and David
Niven have combined to give you
something to laugh at in this one.
Jimmie Cagney’s sister, Jean,
who’s twenty, has landed a movie
contract for herself; starts her new
career with a salary of $250 weekly
—not bad for a beginner, though in
Hollywood language that’s barely
pin money.
Andrea Leeds bagged off from
playing opposite Gary Cooper in
“The Outlaw” so that she could get
married; she wants a real wedding
and a real honeymoon, instead of
one of those hurried ceremonies that
motion .picture .actresses .usually
participate in. She may decide to
give up her screen career altogeth
er, in favor of matrimony.
*
“Gang Busters” starts its fourth
year in a crusade against crime on
an enlarged network that includes
61 CBS outlets. Since its debut it
has presented more than 150 dramas
of actual cases; through clues pre
sented near the end of each broad
cast, it has been credited with the
ultimate arrest of more than 130 sus
pects. Its producers work with law
enforcement authorities, and each
case that is dramatized is based on
facts supplied by official agencies.
During each program Col. H. Nor
man Schwartzkopf, former head of
the New Jersey State police, inter
views officers connected with the
case just dramatized. It adds a
thrill to Saturday evenings.
Artie Shaw, whose clarinet play
ing practically makes history, has
been startling people—especially his
sponsors—by saying what he thinks
about the jitterbugs. Band leaders
have wanted to say what he has, in
times past, but haven’t dared, be
cause the yelling, shouting mobs
who stormed the theaters where
they appeared were “the public.”
They didn’t dare pause to consider
the rest of the public, who went to
hear them play.
So Shaw has come out into the
open, rebelling against being goad
ed into writing autographs when
he’s due on the stage, resenting being
jeered at when he doesn’t do as he’s
asked. His radio sponsors feared
that it might affect his popularity.
Far from it—he attracts more peo
ple than ever.
ODDS AND ENDS—Lanny Ross likes
“Over the Rainbow” the best of the pop
ular tunes ... A print of “Intermezzo”
has been sent to the King of Sweden, re
quested by the president of the United
Swedish societies . . . Merle Oberon wants
to start Hollywood's feminine contingent
knitting for the soldiers of the Allies—
watch for a flood of publicity pictures of
the girls tvith their needles . . . And look
out for a flood of spy pictures, with “Es
pionage” as a sample, though Brenda
Marshall is above the average heroine
you can expect to see.
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
Jlsk Me .Another
0 A General Quiz
The Questions
1. Does a ship made of steel
weigh more or less than one of
wood of the same size?
2. From what did Lake Erie
get its name?
3. How recently were bows and
arrows used in warfare?
4. If a bullet is shot through a
board, which gets through first,
the bullet or the hole?
5. What is the greatest degree
of longitude a place may have?
6. What American republic is
governed by Negroes?
7. A ratel is a ship’s rope, child’*
toy or a badger-like animal?
The Answers
1. One of steel weighs % less.
2. From the Erie or Cat tribe
of Indians, which once dwelt along
the south shore.
3. Bows and arrows were used
as recently as in the Napoleonic
wars. When Napoleon invaded
Russia the latter’s armies includ
ed Tartars who used bows and ar
rows and were dead shots up to
100 yards.
4. The hole.
5. The greatest degree is 180.
t 6. Haiti.
7. A badger-like animal, a hon
ey-eater.
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