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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C.. THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1940 mm? WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features—WNU Service.) XTEW YORlt.—When v young “Red* Phillips played guard on the University of Oklahoma football t£am, in 1915, he was scaled down _ . to a mere 26C Game of PdMics pouhtfi, biit Is Another*Story T in spite ol For Football Star that man aged to root through the lin,e like a,. high-pow- ef&d" snowshovel. Sometimes he wtAildn’t stop when the thistle blew and they had a hard time’ to. keep him inside the state lines. Todayi as Gov. Leon C. Phillips of Okiar homa, he weighs in at 290. and eveii more abandoned ih his rootiji’ tootin’ guard play: He orders biit the National Guard' to repulse the invasion of the federals, trying.to build a $20,000,000 dam on the Grand river in his state. . This, one of ’’ his rrjany,., scrim mages, is part of his waxing battle for state rights against what he con siders the illegal encroachment of the federal govermrient. ‘ He is an apostate New Dealer, having de feated the similarly .belligerent “Al falfa Bill” -Murray'On the issue, of New Deal adherence in. the ld38 Democratic primary. Now he has switched teams. “With a big cigar pfdtrudiiig "from his lips at a cocky angle; bit&ig it to shreds when he gets steamed up, he says the. New Deal'is a social serv ice outfit, and social workers are “sbrority sisters.” Like the “Fiery and Snuffy” of the Oklahomci cow- : boy song, he’s “rhrin’ to go and he sends word to the war department that he won’t let any. invader set foot on Oklahoma soil.” He started to be a preacher, but switched to the law. Bom 50 years ago in Grant county, Missouri, along the covered wagon trail, he was taken to Oklahoma at the age of two, and grew up in — the Cheyenne and Arapaho Indian country. He attended Epworth university one year, studying, presumably mili tant, Christianity, and then entered the law school of the University of Oklahoma. His fame as “Red” Phillips, the bone-crushing, man- eating football player, gave him a fast running start in politics, and he soon landed in the state legislature. He made his campaign for the gov ernorship on an economy platform, sweeping the state. The citizens still know him as “Red,” and the; “Yea Red!” yell of’his college days serves for his political campaigns. - i . • f > ..1. J "HEN I knew ‘’Death Valley Scotty and his dog “Goldbug,” around Goldfield, n Rhyolite. , and Windy Gap, there .-was a atory tfyat AM Scott?, Is ‘Loaned 9 td'Him over * a; Sy Chicago Man st v i , dnger w at■ y * Ca«*s:;s b#tei, and a theory that this. stranger must, have been Scotty's mysterious back-; er. The visitor, noweVe¥,‘ was ’just passing through afid was never • identified, and Scotty even in mo ments of abandon in Tex Rrokard’s place, continued to jnsist, that he had a “chimney,’’ or “blow-but”) of gold nuggets, samples of which he carried in his overalls pobketl '.It was not until years later that- the man who financed the Dearth Valley Scotty saga, just for his own amuse ment it would seem, was .A. M. Johnson, the head of a big Insur ance firm in Chicago. As Scotty and his backer round out 40 years of a beautiful friend ship, Scotty informs the federal tax collectors that he has $100,000 in gold certificates buried somewhere in the Panamint mountains, and that the source of his mysterious wealth has unfailingly been Mr. Johnson. From the same source came the $3,000,000 Spanish castle which Scotty built in the heart of Death valley several years ago, ac cording to his previous admissions. The unique partnership opened with a $2,500 grubstake. He not only wrote a check, but followed Scotty to Death valley. The first mine didn’t pan out, but Mr. John son was having fun. They fought bandits, got clubby with the Piute Indians and rooted around in old prospect holes. Thereafter came Scotty’s famous train ride and the deepening mystery of his treasure cachp. They kept their secret until along about 1930. The pooch, “Gold- bug” and . Scotty’s extraordinarily intelligent white mule both) died of old age. But the original partner ship still goes on. “Mr. Johnson, now '68 years old, is cut somewhat on the same lines as Henry Ford, but with an Achilles’ Heel of Romance. He was born and grew up in a small town in Ohio, went to Cornell university, did a jolt of railroading in Arkansas ahd engaged in mining lead and zinc near Joplin, Mo. In Chicago he augmented an inherited fortune in the insurance business. He be longs to a string of good clubs in Chicago, is a sagacious and con servative citizen, and, from all ac counts, has bankrolled Scotty just for the fun of it. They Also Serve: British Women Offer War-Time Aid, itipMiii Because -the men of England are occupied with a .war, ,wqmen are being pressed into service to a greater extent than ever. :Left: Two women doctors recently appointed to the, royal army medical corps, the first time in army history that women have filled these roles. Center : Plowgirl Thala BOwman is one of four women who banded together to reclaim united farm land/' Miss Bowinan was a former tap dancer. One of the other four was a mannequin,'on^a stenographer, and the fourth an 'advertising* woman. Right: Miss Rose mary Smith, 16, has taken over the postman’s:jobcin Glynde, England, while he is at the front. " ‘ :n-v?,:/!: i 1 Women. Leaders ;Plan 1940 Centennial Congress t 1 Vi* * W 1 Problems concerned with the advancement of mankind, achievements of women during the past 100 y<*ars and the present status of women will be studied by delegates to the Woman’s Centennial congress late in 1940. Planning the New York meeting in November are (seated) Miss Josephine Schain, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, Miss Henrietta Roelofs and Miss Mary W. Hilly er. Standing: Mrs. Helsey Wilson, Miss Alda H. Wilson and Mrs. Albin Johnson. Other leaders are Pearl S. Buck, Frances Perkins and Dorothy Canfield Fisher. Baseball’s Heavy Hitters Compare Bats A quartet of baseball’s greatest sluggers compare bats (and batting averages) at Tampa, Fla., where stars of the National league beat American league topnotchers 2 to 1 in the all-star game. Left to right: Mel Ott of the New York Giants, Ernie Lombardi of the Cincinnati Reds, Joe DiMaggio of the New York Yankees and Jimmy Foxx of the Boston Red Sox. Mrs. Ickes Hostess at Indian Art Show . • * Canned Death \V.*.*.*.**.*.*.W.W.W.*.*.-.*.-.-.’.*. iESCREENRADIO (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) R AY MILLAND would like to keep a controlling hand on the scripts of all pictures in which he appears from how on. Truth came f^j: too close to fiction to suit him a while ago, and he hasn’t quite recovered yet. He’d finished work in “Un tamed” and gone to Sun Val ley for a week’s rest. Mrs. Milland stayed in Hollywood, as they were expecting the ar rival of their first child some weeks later. Then he received wojd that he’d have to race the stork if he wanted to be in Hollywood when it appeared. He started for BoiBe, Idaho,' in a car, • also in a blizzard. At Boise he chartered the pqly plape available, and was grounded at Salt Lake City. He tetephbned the hospital^- in Holly wood,' and learned that he had a son. • ... v v In “Untamed” he’d braved a bliz zard to reach the bedside of a sick sweetheart. If it’s all the same to the scenario writers, he’d rather have less - harrowing experiences. ..i. Hollywood’s^ most famous mixed foursome—Paulette Goddard, Ruby Keeler, Bing Crosby and Bob Hope i—will probably have difficulty In Sticking to picture-making if they all BOB HOPE find themselves in the cast of “Fol low Through.” They played togeth er in a charity match last autumn, and it was then that the idea of teaming them in a picture was sug gested. They’re all experts, and if they can resist staging a match that the script doesn’t call for they’ll be doing well. Anouncer Del Sharbutt intended to be a musician, but instead has become widely known as announcer for such programs as “Myrt and Marge,” “Ask-It-Basket” and Lanny Ross’. The musician in him has coine out at last, though; he’s writ ten two songs of Hit Parade propor tions within a few weeks—“The Kitten With the Big Green Eyes,” and “I’d Love To.” Mrs. Harold Ickes, wife of the secretary of the interior, is shown with Chief James White Calf and Chief Theodore Lost Star at the exhibition of Indian portraits in the fine arts gallery of the interior department build ing in Washington. The exhibition ts composed of 90 drawings of American Indians by Eben F. Comins. Inventor Lester P. Barlow of Bal timore pictured with bis latest in vention, an aerial bomb of such deadly potentialities that a commit tee of legislators who heard his de scription of it in Washington de stroyed the minutes of the meeting. Welcomed Ginger Rogers, who has millions of fans now, had only one in 1929; he! was John L. Cass, who recorded thb 1 sound of “Primrose Path,” in wfijch she co-stars with Joel M$Crea. About 10 years ago RCA made a two-reeler called “Campus Sweethearts,” in New York, to try out ! a new wide-film process. Two movie unknowns. Ginger Rogers and Rudy Vallee, were featured. The director didn’t care for the song that Ginger had been rehears ing, but Cass insisted on recording it. “She had everything, including a swell mike voice,” he says. “I knew she was star dust—and how!” * Want to see what happens to win ners of beauty contests? Claire James, who was runner-up in the Miss America contest last year, is playing a bit in Paramount’s “The Ghost Breakers”; she appears in a restaurant scene, wearing a floor- length dinner dress. * _ Ben Bernie and his lads and lassies, including Dinah Shore and Lew Lehr, are moving. After 60 weeks of Sunday broadcasts they’re setting up shop in a Wednesday eve ning half-hour, beginning April 10. Want to bet that for the first few weeks at least half of the troupe will dash to the studio on Sundays? * • Cecil B. DeMille is back in char acter again. Now that he is di recting “The Northwest Mounted Police” and goes straight from the movie studio to the radio one where he does his Radio Theater broad casts, he shows up in his “shooting” outfit 1 —high boots, riding breeches, and headgear ranging from som brero to pith helmet. w “W Gen. George C. Marshall. United States army chief of staff, receives a flower lei and a glass of pineapple juice from a hula girl as he steps off a plane at Hawaii, Honolulu, to in spect the territory’s defense. If you have a harpsichord that you don’t want, get in touch with Alec Templeton. Collecting unu&ual musical instruments is his . hobby, and he has no harpsichord and he wants one. There are only 10 of these ancient instruments in the United States, four of them owned by friends of Templeton’s in Chi cago. They urged him to try one not long ago, he played his favorite satire, “Bach Goes to Town”—and now his life won’t be perfect until he is presented with a harpsichord of his own w ww w w w w Ask Me Another 0 A General Quiz The Questions 1. What country in Europe has always been at peace? 2. Why will not asbestos burn? 3. How much does a cubic foot of solid gold weigh? 4. What is a horse opera? 5. Do barking frogs have a tad pole stage?, , 6. Diamonds and coal are both carbon. What is the difference? ' 7. What is the oldest example of printing still in existence? 8. How many geese must :be plucked to obtain one pound of feathers? ' . . ’ The Answers 1. The Republic of Andorra, lo cated in the valley of the Pyr enees between France and Spain. 2. Being a mineral, asbestos is. noncombustible. 3: A cubic foot of gold weighs 1,204 pounds. 4. Movie pictures known as “Westerns” are sometimes re ferred to as “horse operas.” 5. Developpient into adulthood of the barking frog takes place within the egg. 6. - Coal is impure carbon. Dia monds are pure carbon crystal lized. . 7. A Buddhist prayer printed hr 756 A. D., owned by the Art In stitute of Chicago. 8. About six: geese. I LIKE FAST HORSES AND A SLOW-BURNING CIGARETTE! WAT ■MEANS CAMELS THEY’RE MILDER, COOLER, AND MORE FRAGRANT!,' NEVER WEAR OUT THEIR WELCOME Peggy McManus, Expert Horsewoman t , P EGGY uses plenty of horse sense in picking her horses... plenty of common sense in pick ing her cigarette. Like millions of others, she finds that a slower- burning cigarette gives more mild ness and coolness, and smokes with a full, rich flavor and fra grance. So Peggy smokes Camels, for Camels burn slower, give more pleasure per puff and more puffs per pack. In recent laboratory tests, CAMELS burned 25% slow er than the average of tho 15 other of the largest-sell ing brands tested—slower than any of them. That means, on tho average, a smoking plus equal to £ TER PACK/ FOR EXTRA MILDNESS^ EXTRA COOLNESS, EXTRA FLAVOR. Camels SLOW- BURNING COSTLIER TOBACCOS