McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, April 11, 1940, Image 2
McCORMICR MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C.. THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1940
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
(Consolidated Features—WNU Service.)
"^EW YORK. — Paul Reynaud,
who was asked to form a new
French cabinet, and successor to
Premier Daladier, put through the
D . n French - Brit-
Premier Desires
British-French
Monetary Union
ish monetary
and economic
accord of last
Dec ember,
and, even before the start of the
War was an advocate of a close
financial union between the two
countries as the first bulwark of
their joint defense. For several
years, he has been studying Eng
lish finance and history, insisting
that both nations must abandon their
old plan of remaining apart in the
matter of monetary and economic
relationships.
He is a lawyer,, financier and
economist, minister of finance
since October, 1938. In the
chamber of deputies, he repre
sents a “big bosiness” section
of Paris and has contended vig
orously against “governmental
meddling in business.'* In 1935
and 1936 he made a courageous
fight for the devaluation of the
franc, an issue which is always
loaded in France and always
sidestepped by more cautious
politicians. His business sagaci
ty was demonstrated in the sum
mer of 1929, when he warned all
and sundry that a big smash
was coming, and withdrew all
of his securities from the mar
ket.
He is as direct, decisive and fiery
as Daladier is ponderous and medi
tative, and for many years has been
making prophecies more gloomy
than Cassandra’s foredoom of Troy,
as he urged France to prepare for
the worst. He parts his hair in the
middle, strings with the Alliance
Democratique, a center group, and
has never been classified as either
right or left. He is said to be “too
intelligent to be liked," and does
not seem to mind. He is small and
alert, only slightly gray at 60, care
fully groomed and the master of a
verbal short jab which seldom in
vites a return engagement for any
one inclined to mix with him.
He was a\ holdout on LavaTs deal
to give Mussolini a green light in
Ethiopia and in this connection
warned France that it had better
be looking to its empire. In poli
tics since 1919, in the chamber since
1928, he was previously minister of
finance in Tardieu’s cabinet. He
comes of a family high in the moun
tains of Barcelonnette, of a clan
which has extensive holdings in sev
eral foreign countries, including
Mexico.
B UILDING more stately mansions
for his soul, Fritz Mandl, the
Austrian munitioneer, runner-up for
Zaharoff, was interrupted by Adolf
New Arms Plants In a
Are Being Built
By Fritz Mandl
New York
municipal
court, an Aus
trian archi
tect sues Mr. Mandl for payment
for designs for a new wing on his
A'oine castle, when he was married
to Hedy Lamarr, the screen star,
now the wife of Gene Markey, Holly
wood producer. The castle and the
plans were a war casualty, but Mr.
Mandl is sitting pretty in Argentina,
the hidalgo of a great estate, and
getting a fast running start with
new steel and munitions plants in
the land of the pampas.
He fooled Hitler. His great
arms plants, including the Hirt-
enberg plant, were supposed to
be worth about $60,000,000. That
was a nice, fat grouse for the
Nazi nimrod, but when Der
Fuehrer moved in, he found the
great plants just a hollow shell,
the securities long since liqui
dated and Mr. Maftdl at a safe
nose-thumbing distance with his
former fortune remaining more
or less Intact.
Now 40 years old, round-faced and
merry, he was a playboy in his
youth, but stayed on the job in his
later years. The munitions works
were a family holding, founded by
his grandfather, Sigmund, and ex
panded by his father, Alexander. He
was an associate of the fallen
Prince Ernst Ruediger von Star-
hemberg in the Vienna putsch of
1934—not at all interested in politi
cal ideologies, and smarter than the
prince in both making a get-away
from Hitler and from Germany as
well as being able to save his for
tune.
N OT a refugee fortune, but the
makings of a new one appears
in the operations of Arnold Bern
stein, who also found a hole in the
Nazi line. A freighter of the Ameri
canized Arnold Bernstein shipping
lines burns at Baltimore, but it was
insured and his newly recruited
ships are running cargos to Europe
and his fleet is expanding. He came
here last October, from a Nazi jail,
where a tangle over the mysterious
blocked marks had landed him. At
51, a tall, pale, thoughtful man, he
«e*s a new start.
Portable Camps Follow Nation’s Migratory Workers
Health and living conditions of some 350,000 migrant workers have been improved by government-estab
lished portable camps which follow laborers through California, Oregon, Idaho, Washington and other states.
A typical portable camp, above, located now in California, has about 200 tent platforms which are hauled by
truck. It also has a first-aid and children’s clinic built into a trailer, and a trailer which contains 24
shower baths. There are six of these portable camps in existence. Each camp has a trained nurse and
complete sanitary facilities. Camp affairs are handled by a camp council, elected by camp residents. The
Farm Security administration also has established 26 permanent camps/which take care of 7,000 migrant
families. Lower left: A young migrant mother in the door of her “home." Lower right: Cupboard and
tent platform, standard equipment of mobile camps.
Tommies Do Their Bit to Relieve French Agriculture
With so many men of the French peasantry at the front, a general shortage of labor has resulted on the
'farms of France. With a view toward alleviating the plight of their allies, these British soldiers lend a
hand. The women of the farms know what is to be done and under their directions the Tommies, armed
with pitchforks, attack their new agricultural jobs.
Royal Artillery Tunes Up for Action
Winning Form
Both men and guns become rusty through inactivity, according to
the British censor, so the royal artillery keeps tuned up by regular
gunnery practice while awaiting action on France’s western front. This
crew is at loading exercfSes in a' camouflaged gun pit, somewhere in
the forward zone.
Mrs. Floretta D. McCutcheon, 52,
world’s champion woman bowler,
demonstrates her winning form in
New York city alleys. She has
rolled 10 perfect “300" games since
she took up the sport at the age
of 35.
Candidate Dewey Addresses Chicagoans
Thomas E. Dewey, racket-busting New York district attorney and
candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, as he addressed
a G. O. P. mass meeting in Chicago recently. It was the second speech
of Dewey’s current midwest invasion. He charged that corrupt practices
existed in the administration of relief.
A King at Play
King Ananda Mahidol of Thailand
(Siam) romps with his mother and
a toy rabbit at Lausanne, Switzer
land, where the young king attends
school. A council of regents rules
Thailand during his minority.
By VIRGINIA VALE
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
T HERE’S been a bit of knife
throwing going on in Holly
wood, and it’s been none too
good for the nerves of the spec
tators who are scheduled to act
as targets. Paulette Goddard is
trying her hand at it, in prepara
tion for her role in Cecil B. De-
Mille’s “North West Mounted
Police.” She is scheduled to play
“Louvette,” whom Mr. DeMille
described as “a combination of
Circe, Desdemona, Carmen and
a black panther." She always gets
her man, and knife-throwing is part
of her menace. ^
So she’s been practicing around
the studio. “It’s hard work," she
complained the other day. “I’m
afraid I’ll knock off a finger or chop
off a toe before I’m through.”
“Probably my toe,” gloomily
prophesied Bob Hope, who’s work
ing with her in “The Ghost Break
ers."
And over at Warner Brothers*
Steve Clemento is also hurling
knives, in a corner of the set for
“Torrid Zone." An expert, he
BETTE DAVIS
easily flips a knife into a wall 15
paces away.
James Cagney and Pat O’Brien,
stopping to watch him, noticed that
there were two chalk marks on the
wall, less than six inches apart, and
that the knife went whistling neatly
between them.
“What do those marks mean?"
asked O’Brien.
“Those," answered Clemento,
“represent your head and Mr. Cag
ney’s. They’ll be that close togeth
er when I throw a knife between
them for the picture."
—^—
Bette Davis owns her own home
at last. She’s been in Hollywood
for nine years, and lived in a dif
ferent home each year—she’s never
owned a house, a ranch or even a
vacant lot. But before beginning
“All This and Heaven Too" she
bought what the salesman called
“An American farm house”; she
says it reminds her of her childhood
home in New England. It’s just
five minutes from the studio. It’s
also just a little too near the Los
Angeles river, which overflowed its
banks a few years ago, washing
away several homes in the vicinity.
*
Martha Scott aud William Holden,
two of the stars in Sol Lesser’s
“Our Town," consumed 32 straw
berry ice cream sodas during the
making of the love scenes for the
picture, and at the moment wouldn’t
care if they never saw another one.
But Frank Craven, who finished 10
cans of tobacco in his pipe during
his scenes, just went out and bought
more for his personal use.
' i'
There’s an entire Hollywood novel
in a press announcement that was
sent out a while ago, before Linda
Darnell started east. “Miss Darnell
will be accompanied to New York
by her mother, Mrs. Margaret Dar
nell,” it stated, “but her father, who
is a clerk in the Dallas post office,
will remain on the job back in
Texas.” Apparently even the fame
of his very beautiful daughter
doesn’t dazzle Mr. Darnell.
Priscilla and Rosemary Lane re
ceived a substantial offer to become
platinum blondes—and turned it
down! A representative of more
than 5,000 hairdressers made it; he
said that a scheme is being pro
moted to revive the platinum blonde
craze introduced by the late Jean
Harlow, and that several other stars
are being approached with the
same offer. It includes a royalty
in addition to the flat advance sum.
&
Recently the students of Blue
Ridge college, New Windsor, Md.,
selected Albert Dekker as the “Per
fect Profile of 1940.” Dekker won a
narrow victory over Nelson Eddy;
the girls selected him because his
was the profile that impressed them
most when they inspected the photo
graphs of the contestants, which
included every male star in Holly
wood. What they didn’t know was
the man they chose as appears in
his current picture, “Dr. Cyclops,"
with his head shaved and his nose
obscured by a pair of glasses.
Practical, Decorative
Cutouts for a Garden
AX^E OFFER here two new cut-
outs. Practical as well as
decorative features are incor
porated in the duck; decorative
ness alone is the purpose of the
sunbonnet girl. These designs, of
course, are to be traced on wall-
board, plywood or thin lumber.
Jig, coping or keyhole saw may
be used to cut them out, and when
painted they become attractive
ornaments for your lawn.
Outlines for the 19-inch duck
and his “Keep Off Grass” sign are
on pattern Z9086, 15 cents. A
“Use Walk” sign is also given.
In about 24-inch size, the ever-
popular sunbonnet girl and her
sprinkling can are on pattern
Z9088, 15 cents.
Select one or both of these
clever cutout figures. General
cutout directions, as well as spe
cific painting suggestions come
with each pattern. Send order to:
AUNT MARTHA
Box 166-W Kansas City, Mo.
Enclose 15 cents for each pattern
desired. Pattern No
Name
Address
Making Amends Was Bit
Out of Paperhanger 9 s(Line
Whitley was having some dec
orating done, including the re-
papering of the dining-room and
the bath-room. His wife was
away, so he left the men on the
job when he went to business.
When he jeturned they were
just finishing. But there had been
some mistake. The dining-room
paper was in the bath-room, while
the dining-room showed an elegant
design in green tiles and purple
water-lilies.
“What are you going to do about
it?" demanded the householder.
“I dunno," said the paperhang-
er, scratching his head. “I’d will
ingly move the bath—but it’s a
plumber’s job."
r ADVISES
YOUNG
GIRLS
ENTERING
WOMANHOOD
Thousands of young girls entering wom
anhood have found a “real friend’* in
Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com
pound to help them go “smiling thru’*
restless, moody, nervous spells, and
relieve cramps, headache, backache and
In True Greatness
No man has come to true great
ness who has not felt in some de
gree that his life belongs to the
race.—Phillips Brooks.
WATCH
VOU con depend on the
special sales the
merchants of our town
announce in the columns
of this paper. They mean
money saving to our
readers. It always pays to
patronize the merchants
who advertise. They are
not afraid of their mer
chandise or their prices.
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