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McCORMICK MESSENGER. McCORMICR. S. C., THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 30, 1939
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WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
r\R. Godfrey Lowell cabot,
donor of the Columbia univer
sity prizes in journalism, awarded
to two South American editors, gets
r% s* r s* l to P rating in
Dr. G. L. Cabot depart-
Listed High as ment’s war-
•Lamplighter' ‘ i , me lis 11 ”*
of men of
good will, as against the disturbers
and trouble-makers. Dr. Cabot, 78
years old, has all his life been a
steady ground-gainer, in the cause
of science and the humanities, a
scientist and humanitarian in his
own widely varied endeavors, not
only bankrolling progress but bring
ing it through by his own inventive
ness and enterprise.
The experimental house, being
pictured in the newspapers, as
scientists seek to trap sunlight
and store it in the cellar for
winter use, is traceable to Dr.
Cabot. In 1937, he gave Har
vard university $615,773 to carry
forward some of his ideas about
storing solar energy. A year
later, he gave a similar amount
to the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology for the same pur
pose.* And now Prof. Hoyt C.
Hottel of M. I. T. has his sun
shine bungalow built, with a
heat trap on the roof, sluicing
sunshine down into the cellar.
Perhaps with a winter supply
of sunshine, put up like jelly or
preserves, nobody would want to
start a war.
He has been a generous patron of
aviation, learning to fly a seaplane
in his late years, inventing a system
by which a plane can pick up fuel
in flight, and is now governor and
former president of the National
Aeronautic association. He has en
dowed various branches of research,
including botanical studies.
A native of Boston, he attended
M. I. T. two years, was graduated
from Harvard in 1882, and laid the
basis of his fortune manufacturing
lampblack in Worthington, Pa., in
1887, branching out in gases and
carbides.
D
ONALD WILLIS DOUGLAS,
president of Douglas Aircraft,
Inc., of Santa Monica, Calif., says
war orders for American planes,
_ and the spurt
Our War Boom j n building,
No Bubble, Says won’t end
0. W. Douglas with ® burst -
. ing “boom-
bubble.” He and other plane build
ers tackle $140,000,000 worth of or
ders and promise they can deliver
8,000 planes a year,
“Who knows what will come next
after the European nations settle
their own quarrels?” says Mr,
Douglas.
Mr. Douglas is in the midst
of a strictly orthodox aviation
career, without any stunting or
barnstorming. A Brooklyn boy,
- he was grooved quietly through
the M. I. T. and into the Glenn
Martin plant, as chief engineer.
He will get an important niche
in aviation history as the de
signer of the first plane to lift
its own weight. That proved
him an expert on the pay-load,
an advantage which he has
pressed hard.
He was in the U. S. signal corps
at the start of the World war. In
1920, he founded the Plane Manu
facturing company which later be
came Douglas Aircraft.
G YPSY SMITH, a full-blooded Ro
many Gypsy, born under a
hornbeam tree in England 78 years
ago, is the world’s most famous
„ c •*«. evangelist,
Gypsy Smith, now p r e a ch-
Once Militant, ing in New
For Persuasion York. He
turns from
militancy to persuasion. He says he
has given up “scolding and fright
ening” people. On this, his thirty-
fifth visit to New York, he preaches
“love and hope.”
For 60 years he has carried a
clothes-pin as a symbol of his
personal salvation. He and his
father made clothes-pins. An
old lady bought some and gave
him a Bible. He was 18 years
old then, had never slept under
a roof, and was unable to read,
but he taught himself with the
Bible. He is a small, spruce,
compact man, with broad shoul
ders and the general look of a
successful business man. He
thinks the great evangelists,
Dwight L. Moody and Charles
G. Finney, helped to end other
depressions and that the way out
of this one is the path of a new
faith for the multitude.
His name was Petulengro, and he
couldn’t spell it when he first learned
to read. He believes great wars
and disasters will end when we have
become “masters of small things,”
but that faith and religion must be
of ever widening scope. It must be
persuasive rather than militant
evangelism, he insists.
(Consolidated Features—WNU Servlet.)
Byrd’s ‘Penguin Special’ to Get Antarctic Workout
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Diagrammed here is the $150,000 snow cruiser designed by Dr. Thomas Poulter at Chicago’s Armour
institute for Admiral Richard E. Byrd’s exploration trip to the Antarctic. It averages 10 miles an hour,
and in its 27-ton body carries enough fuel for a non-stop New York-San Francisco trip and back. It car
ries a plane on its back. Each wheel has a separate motor and tires are changed by raising the axle inter
nally, letting the body rest on the snow.
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Giant Nazi Bomber Humbled by Great Britain’s Guns
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Twisting, looping and sideslipping, this Nazi bombing plane tried desperately to escape British anti-air
craft guns and planes in Scotland. However, the big ship crashed, smashing through a stone wall. It taxied
more than a half-mile in a last unsuccessful effort to take off. The pilot was captured attempting to flee.
Two others in the ship were killed, and a third injured.
Safety Note: Why Not Camouflage It?
Impersonator
When air-raid sirens blare out their warnings to take cover, Lon
doners will do exactly that. They will grab the new bed comforter and
scram for the bomb-proof shelter. The coverlet is shown at left as a
comforter. At right, the quilt as it is transformed into a warm, com
fortable garment.
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Baby Panda Headed for Brookfield Zoo
Latest arrival at Chicago’s Brookfield zoo is this baby panda from
Chengtu province, China, by caretaker Rey Scott. The animals are be
coming exceedingly rare and special dispensation was necessary to take
the panda out of China.
Possessed of a burning desire to
see Hollywood, Anthony Meli, 16-
year-old Lawrence, Mass., school)
boy, dressed as a girl, appropriated
$1,000 from his father, and flew to
the cinema city. When arrested he
had $195, which he spent for male
attire “before Papa gets here.”
Needlework King
Crochet and embroidery cham
pion of Utah’s state fair is Frank
Mortensen of Midvale, who, when
he isn’t knocking off a bit of fancy
needlework, is a “mucker” in an
ore smelter. Crocheting is his hobby.
Star Dust
★ That Awkward Gap
★ Greta Garbo Charms
★ Connie on Her Feet!
By Virginia Vale
T HE bugaboo that haunts
all child actors has
swooped down on Bobby
Breen — he has reached that
in-between age when there’s
nothing to do but retire from
the screen for a few years,
until the awkward age is over.
Young Breen’s voice is chang
ing, and Sol Lesser, who has
him under contract, doesn’t want to
risk its being injured and has de
creed a rest.
So “Escape to Paradise,” made
for Principal Productions, may be
his last picture for a while. He’ll go
to military school and study drama
until he is ready to face the cam
eras again.
Sometimes the screen’s young
people bridge the gap from kid pic
tures to grown-up ones without tak
ing time off. Deanna Durbin did.
“First Love” will show you how
charming she is as a young—very
DEANNA DURBIN
young—lady. In private life she’s
all set to marry Vaughn Paul as
soon as she’s legally of age. And
Jane Withers and Edith Fellows kept
right on acting, very successfully.
For those who don’t do it, the awk
ward age is a tragedy. They have
years of drawing down huge sala
ries, then suddenly the money stops,
and all that they can do *s to wait—
and face the prospect of not being
able to score a second success, when
they are ready to work again.
Edward Small plans to bring to
the screen a number of the world’s
greatest stories, but so far he seems
to have found a gold mine in the
works of Alexandre Dumas, and the
other great writers will have to wait
until he gets around to them. Small
rang the bell with “The Count of
Monte Cristo” and “The Man in
the Iron Mask,” and now he an
nounces that he’s going to screen
“The Corsican Brothers,” the prin
cipal characters of which are a pair
of Siamese twins.
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It seems safe to predict that even
people who haven’t liked Greta Gar
bo in her other pictures will be de
lighted with her in “Ninotchka.” It’s
a delightful comedy, perfectly di
rected by Ernst Lubitsch, presenting
a Garbo who is an enchanting come
dienne. Melvyn Douglas and Ina
Claire give excellent performances,
the rest of the cast is good.
*
It’s grand news that Connie Bos
well is walking once more. The gal
lant little star of radio and movies
was crippled in an accident when
she was a child, and for years she
went everywhere in a wheel chair.
People wanted to stand up and cheer
when she arrived at a football game
or a theater—it put new heart into
them, to see how gallantly she car
ried on in spite of what, to most of
us, would be an unconquerable
handicap.
With her sisters, Martha and Vet,
she made a name for herself on the
stage and on the air. Since her sis
ters married, a few years ago, she
has continued by herself, and has
made a new record for a woman
singer in the number of her record-
‘ngs that have been sold.
She can walk now—only a few
steps, it’s true, but a few steps
mean a lot when you haven’t been
walking at all. She can swim, and
ride a horse. First thing you know,
she’ll be dancing.
*
Arlene Harris, the “Human Chat
terbox” of the air, had a handicap
to overcome, too, but she was too
young at the time to realize it. For
the first three years of her life she
didn’t talk; when her parents con
sulted physicians they learned that
she was deaf as well.
A trip to Vienna and an operation
cured the deafness, and from then
on she could talk. “I’ve been mak
ing up for lost time ever since,” she
says—and the way she chatters on
the A1 Pearce programs every Wed
nesday night proves it.
*
ODDS AND ENDS—Cal Tinney, pro
ducer of “Youth vs. Age," says that most
of the applications to appear on his pro
gram come from elderly people . . .
Felix Knight's November concerts took
him to Virginia, Maine, Florida and Con
necticut, with his Thursday night broad
casts from Neiv York forcing him to
hurry home between times.
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
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