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McCORMICK MESSENGER. McCORMTCK. S. C.. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1940 WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features—WNU Service.) (XTEW YORK.—It is pleasant, in- deed, to get something on Ho ratio Alger. Here’s a boy who won his way to eminence by watching m ■ f a v* l clock, a 1” Alger’* Theory though he Of Clock Watcher was 38 years Get. a Setback ? ld and . had been just a clock-puncher instead of a watcher before this hair-pin turn in his ca- jreer routed him to fame. We cite Dr. Frank Conrad, the “father of radio broadcasting,” recently awarded the gold medal of the American institute for his “guiding genius in developing the world’s first radio broadcasting system.” The master clock which ticked off his higher destiny hong in the plant of the Westinghouse company in Pittsburgh. It was a highly reputable old clock, but Mr. Conrad didn’t altogether trust it. He and another em ployee made a bet as to which had the more accurate watch, through a week of time-keeping. Mr. Conrad refused to accept the decision of the office clock. In an unused garage near his home at Wilkinsburg, he rigged a crude receiving apparatus to catch time signals from the na val station at Arlington, Va. He caught them, but he also caught some added starters which he could not at first explain. Em ploying a primitive direction finding device, he located them as apparently springing from a slag heap about a block away. He didn’t find the source there, but he did find it a few steps farther on with one John Cole man, among the lonely impresa rios of the first feeble birth cries of radio. That was in 1912. Mr. Conrad in cidentally won the bet on his $5 watch against its $40 rival, but he forgot all about mere time signals. He and Coleman teamed their re searches and began filtering ghostly phonograph recordings through the intervening slag heap. The rest is an old story—the historic KDKA Harding broadcast. Dr. Coleman’s 200 radio patents, his honorary doc torate from the University of Pitts burgh and his award of the Lieb- man, Edison, John Scott, and Lamine medals. He is still curious and will take a sharp look at anything interesting or important,, which alertness has led him into diligent research in botany, biology and astronomy. He has a lined, leathery facd, steel- gray hair and, naturally, ever- watchful eyes. T F THERE are any good ball play- ers among the European refu gees, they can get' good jobs and nice pay in the' Caribbean league,* .r, Tworking for General Trujillo Rafael After Player* for Leonidas Tru- Caribbean Team ' boss, of the Domini can republic. He has been arigrily accused of raiding the American National Negro league, and the Pittsburgh Crawfords have been mourning that no dark-skinned shortstop is safe when the general starts building up his infield. The little, brown, diligent head-man of Santo Domingo is unpredictable. Since he took power 10 years ago, the junta of exiles here has been stacking him up as another Hitler. But just now, he signs a contract admitting 500 families of exiles from Germany and Poland, do nates them 24,000 acres of land and says provision will be made for 100,000 additional set tlers in the future. The con tract grants citizenship to the newcomers and pledges their freedom from “molestation, dis crimination or persecution.” He was a farm boy who learned fighting and ball-playing with the marines, during an eight-year pe riod, ending in 1924 with the end of occupation. He’s a fast shortstop. In the Dominican army he romped up through grades from private to general. In 1930, he tipped over old President Velasquez and took the country. In the framework of a democracy, he made him self a 100 per cent dictator and his enemies admit that he has made a tidy little nation out of a jungle. He put the opposition in jail. He has the cleanest of the Latin- American countries and boasts that there is neither crime nor unem ployment in Santo Domingo. He decreed that all automobiles should have lettered on their license plates, “Viva Trujillo!” He also had con gress officially proclaim him, “ben efactor of the fatherland.” He has a beautiful residential es tate, patrolled night and day by the army, and three country estates, where meals are served on sched ule, as he has implanted the tradi tion that he is apt to appear any where. any time—and he really is. Dead Men, Silent Guns Tell Mute Story of Warfare Star Dust ★ Music of Our Land ★ Needed Mother’s Touch ★ Eying Screen Nurses By Virginia Vale (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) T HE new radio program spon sored by Westinghouse is one of the most interesting and significant on the air. It is broad cast from Pittsburgh every Thursday from 8:00 to 8:30 p. m., Eastern standard time, on 97 stations of NBC’s blue net work. It is beamed to Europe, South America and other for eign lands. Its aim is an important one. When Kenneth Watt, who produces and di rects it, was asked to make up “Mu sical Americana,” he had three things to remember. Primarily, he was to give American music to his audiences. He was to try to please 'all musical tastes; to win over those With gunners lying dead and frozen under their barrels, these Russian guns are shown on a road of Suomussalmi as they fell into the hands of the Finns, who mopped up the ragged remnants of the Red army’s forty-fourth division. This is only a small fraction of the total equipment which was captured by the Finnish army, and which is now being used against its former owners. ' . Colonists Off to Seek Utopia in Caribbean Sea En route to East Caicos, a 125,000-acre island at the southeastern end of the Bahamas, this small group re cently arrived in Cutler, Fla., from Pasadena, Calif. They hope to establish a perfect community on the un inhabited isle, which is a 700-mile voyage from Miami. Standing, left to right: Dawn Irvine, Mrs. A. E. Law rence and Jane Irvine. Seated, left to right: Helene Irvine, Mrs. Richard C. Irvine, Mrs. A. L. Lornsten and Mrs. James Lake. Mrs. Lake owns the island where the colonists will attempt building their Utopia. KENNETH WATT who look down on popular music,: and inspire a sharper appreciation of serious music in those who think they can’t understand it. And he was to give young American musi cians a chance. So, on “Musical Americana,** Deems Taylor is commentator. Ray mond Paige conducts the orchestra of 102 men, from the Pittsburgh Symphony; it is the largest orches tra on any sponsored broadcast. And each week a solo musician of exceptional talent is featured. The principal music schools of the coun try have been asked to recommend their star graduate students for these appearances. Deems Taylor, Raymond Paige and Kenneth Watt are top men in their fields; Westinghouse has spared neither time nor effort ( to giv£ us a superb program, made* up of the music of our own country. Thursday should be “Musical Amer*- icana night” in all our homes. Motor Magnates Greet Mickey Rooney Mickey Rooney, young movie star, in a friendly pose with motor car magnates Edsel (left) and Henry Ford. Mickey was a guest of the Fords while in Detroit, Mich., for a movie premiere. The new film, shown for the first time in the motor city, was the life story of Thomas Edison. Henry Ford’s enthusiasm perhaps is the result of his life-long ad miration for the inventive genius of Edison. Polish National Council Meets in Paris Ignace Jan Paderewski, world-famous pianist who has re-entered political life as president of the Polish national council, chats with Wlady- slaw Raczkiewicz, left, president of the Polish republic, and General Sikorsky, right, prime and war minister, at the first meeting of the Polish national council in France since the war began. The government in France was established after Germany’s invasion of Poland. Building the Lily From tiny bulb to flowering plant within 30 days is the record of this amaryllis, grown in a display room in the Merchandise Mart, Chicago. The lily, measured by Julia McCar thy, grew without soil or sunshine, its roots immersed in a solution of plant growing chemicals. Lone Sentinel Lonesomest job on the western front is that of this royal artillery telephonist who sits alone with his instrument and advises the British battery on its target accuracy, giv ing it the correct range. * “Musical Americana” may play no small part in international rela tionships. Mr. Edward C. Johnston of New York feels that it is tre mendously significant that the pro gram is broadcast to South America in Portuguese and Spanish. When you hear the American announcer speaking, in South America a native announcer speaks at the same time, the American announcement being cut off for those few moments. Mr. Johnston feels that a cultural ex change between the two countries aids greatly in developing the mu tual understanding which is so de sirable. * Stuart Erwin’s mother cut his hair for the first time in 25 years just the other day. Erwin started work as the milkman in Sol Lesser’s “Our Town.” He plays the milkman. “I want you with a home-made haircut,” Director Sam Wood told him. “You know, one of those rag ged mush bowl ones.” So Stuart Erwin went home and talked it over with his mother. She whipped out a pair of scissors, put a towel around his neck, and went to work. * The trained nurses of America have felt that some Hollywood pro ducers had a lot to learn about nurses, judging by some of the pic tures in which they have appeared. So they formed a committee to judge all moving pictures having nurse roles. The first picture to win their approval is RKO’s “Vigil in the Night”; Carole Lombard and Anne Shirley are the actresses, who, according to the American Nurses' association, really look and behave as they ought to. * Do you want to take a free trip to New York? 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