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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? Every week about
3,000 people who do, write to Dave
Elman, of “Hobby Lobby,” and
about 3,000 more write to “We the
People.” If you believe that you’d
fit into either of those broadcasts,
here’s your chance.
During 1939 Elman brought some
250 people to New York, an average
of five for each “Hobby Lobby” pro
gram. An average of $150 was
spent on each guest.
&
ODDS AND ENDS—Hugh Herbert will
play six roles in Universars “La Conga
Nights”—he will play himself, four sis-
ters and a mother . . . Elvia Allman and
Blanche Stewart, whom you've heard as
“Brenda” and “Cobina” on Bob Hope’s
radio show, have been signed by Para
mount for “Night at Earl Carroll’s” . . .
Phyllis Newman, five, who recently ap
peared on a Major Bowes Amateur Hour,
now has a part in “The Goldberas”
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