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\ McCORMICK MESSENGER. McCORMICK. S. C.. THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1940 M' r m WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features—WNU Service.) N EW YORK. — We heard that Wendell L. Willkie had 300 invi tations to make public addresses. Across his big desk, which in its mountain- W end ell Willkie ous disarray Ha* Pep* Aplenty makes a And Plenty to Do ZTllFVt home, we asked Mr. Willkie about jit. The report was all wrong. The number is something over 2,000. Also in the ruck were enough pleas for magazine and syndicate articles to give Mr. Willkie writer’s cramp for the rest of his life, if he took on even one-tenth of them. Mr. Willkie, built like a guard, works like an end or a halfback. The range and agility of his mind is such that he might be a swing man, either in the line or the back- field. On his desk was a‘ new book, the life of the Elder Pitt, about which he is writing a review; also a litter of papers having to do with pretty nearly everything from kant to kilowatts. An hour’s conversation covered a similar range. He talked rapidly and vehemently, sawing and ham mering with his extended palm, when he told how the Common wealth & Southern forced down rates, or challenged what he terms the unfair TV A bookkeeping; mak ing hesitant or groping gestures when he touched on the intangibles of social origins and inducements. He is like that—assured and vehe ment on what he knows and thought ful and explorative on what he merely thinks. He doesn’t want to kill th& Se curities and Exchange commission. He would merely put it under sound democratic controls. Mr. Willkie has tremendous gusto and live, intellectual curiosity. He says all this talk of nominating him for President is incidental to the fact that he made a rock-and-sock battle on something he knew about—some thing which happened to be impor tant and which perhaps helped to clarify certain basic issues. He says he never spent a dime on a personal build-up and never will. Almost his strongest emphasis was reserved for his observation that the run-of-the- mill citizen is a lot brighter than he’s supposed to be, and that therein lies -the hope for our continuing de mocracy. Out of its context, that might sound like the old homespun Indiana political hokum, but that’s the last thing you could tag Mr, Willkie with. P I 1914, Franklin D. Roosevelt, as sistant secretary of the navy, was riding the venerable destroyer Pat terson up the coast of Maine. He said to young Navy Commander Lieut. Stark Ha* Talked Back at the helm, To HU Big Chief £ a while? I am an experienced navi gator and I know this coast.” The young lieutenant replied, ”1 am in command here and responsible for the ship. I doubt your authority to supersede me. If you can offer any helpful suggestions I should be glad to hear them.” It was said that Mr. Roosevelt liked that kind of sea talk. At any rate, last August, he jumped Adm. Harold R. Stark over 54 others who outranked him, to make him chief of naval operations, No. 1 post in the navy. White-haired and professori al, Admiral Stark continues before the senate committee on naval af fairs his advocacy of an adequate navy, this time pointing up his argu ment with a reference to Japan’s eight new dreadnaughts, supposedly under way. Admiral Stark commands a force of 110,000 men, 11,000 officers, 18,000 marines, 550 ships and 2,000 fliers. Two of his outstanding policies are a belief that the navy should control and operate its own air fleet, and disbelief in “attrition” warfare. In other words he thinks the navy should be always in instant readi ness for quick, hard hitting. His technical attainments advanced him in his earlier years and in later years his frank and outspoken formulations of broad navy policy. He is regarded by close observers of naval affairs as a fortunate com bination of the “activitist” tradition and studious and informed knowl edge in the overlapping zone of na val and foreign policy. This be comes important in the latter-day urgency and delicacy of internation al affairs.- He is an inlander, born and reared in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. When the World war started he was herding five destroyers in the Philippines, so old they weren’t supposed to go out after dark. However, he got them half way around the world and entered them in the main event. He is primarily a big-gun expert. In spite of all modern improvements on the big battle wagons, he thinks the decision is apt to go to the nation whose ships are able to display the finest assortment of the biggest and best gucs. He’s out for all he can get Captured ‘Mystery Gun’ Puzzles Military Experts m fV ■ ill m jljl i&i MM xx-x': I! m mmm *$3 ■ t k mm m A Finnish gunnery expert is shown examining one of the strange weapons captured from Soviet Russian forces during the recent Russo-Finnish war. The gun, a field piece, is believed to be a non-recoil cannon. It is shown ready to fire (left). The funnel attachment is thought to be a device which utilizes explosion gases to produce a forward movement of the gun barrel, thus neutralizing normal recoil. Right: The funnel arrangement is swung aside to show the breech. Experts confess themselves baffled. Parade of, States Features Washington Convention •.<1 /' m SR.: Feature attraction of the spring fete of the Woman’s National Democratic club, held recently in Washington, D. C., was a parade of states, which included daughters of senators and representa tives. Some of the marchers were, left to right: Louise Ransdell, Kansas; Esther Devine, Rhode Island; Dorothy Ramspeck, Georgia; Pauline Guessford, Delaware; Ruth Overton, Louisiana; Patty Mayfield, Mississippi; Helen Kine, Indiana; Martha Wever, Florida, and Barbara Grosser, Ohio. France Keeps Vigil on Western Front .if m * ^ vs O? •<*< Wmm Six' ■■'?■■■■* ■ ■ - y V : , V ^ % ■ mUH v ^ j'M il# r • " Somewhere on France’s Lorraine front a French soldier keeps eternal vigilance behind his rifle-machine gun, lest a German sur prise attack be successful. Note the cache of hand grenades just below the gun. They are used for close-in fighting. Discuss New Jobs for American Youth ■ : iiMp •xv:*:; A -v ; : M Discussing a clinic on “New Frontiers in American Life,” spon sored by the University of Rochester in New York state, are Dr. Alan Valentine (right), president of the university; Carl W. Lauter- bach, vocational counselor (left), and Wilbur Hooker, graduating senior. The election of Dr. Valentine to the board of Freeport Sul phur company established an industrial precedent last year. 1,400,000 Volts y*c| Main generator, voltage divid er stack and tube housing of Gen eral Electric’s powerful new 1,400,000-volt X-ray machine at Schenectady, N. Y. Its X-radia tion will equal that of 14 pounds ($150,000,000 worth) of radium. Germ Killer m VL Dr. J. C. Hoogerheide in his Philadelphia, Pa., laboratory ex amining a culture of what he con siders one of the most powerful germ-destroyers. Administered to mice, it enabled them to with stand 1,000,000 lethal doses of pneumonia germs. £ By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) T HERE’S a superstition in Hollywood that an actor cast as a newspaper reporter goes right on into bigger and better roles. Robert Paige believes in it firmly, because it’s worked for him. He was brought into pic tures from radio because of his ability as a singer—and then he was given one part after another in which he had no chance to sing. He seemed to be stuck in melodramatic roles. Then he was cast as a news paper reporter in “Golden Gloves,” and again played a reporter in “Opened by Mistake.” And now he’s booked for the leading male role in Paramount’s “Dancing on a Dime,” a musical comedy, in which he’ll play opposite Grace MacDon ald—and will sing and dance, at last! * At 75, May Robson has no idea how many roles she has played on stage and screen, but she’s ready to tackle her newest one, that of Ellen Drew’s grandmother, in “Texas Rangers Ride Again.” It’s one of Sills §§ Birthday greetings from Gary Cooper to May Robson. the most strenuous parts of her long career, that of a salty old lady who looks upon modern Texas peace of ficers as poor successors to the ones she knew in her youth. * You’ll be able to see Pat O’Mal ley, of radio’s “Alec Templeton Time,” on the screen before long. His first picture will be “Captain Caution,” in which he will play a Cockney sailor who is captured dur ing the War of 1812—and in which he’ll sing the “Apple Song,” which he has already performed on the Templeton program. & When you see “A Night at Earl Carroll’s” you’ll also see what was, two years ago, the community’s most expensive night club. Remem ber when it opened, with a special section for movie stars? Nowadays it’s a dime-and-dance emporium in the evenings, but during the days it’s been returned to its former glory by Paramount. Ken Murray and Rose Hobart play the leads in the picture, Cobina and Brenda, radio’s comedy team, and some of the much publicized Earl Carroll beau ties will support them, and Earl Carroll, besides acting as producer, will play himself. * The Philadelphia-LaScala Opera company wants Deanna Durbin to make her operatic career under its auspices next season. James Mel ton’s already signed with the com pany. —*— Ben Grauer has grabbed off the most coveted announcing assign ment in radio. He’s been selected to introduce Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt when she takes the air. Oddly enough, he and she will be in studios hundreds of miles apart, since she will be on the go most of the time; she’ll broadcast from a city con venient to her schedule, and he’ll chime in from a New York studio. He is an energetic, jovial young man, who, since he joined NBC 10 y*ars ago, has been working toward liberating the announcer from his stiff-necked, plush-voiced make-up. He’s been trying to sound like a human being, and deserves a medal for the way that he has succeeded, and inspired other announcers tc unbend. -*- Radio’s “Uncle Ezra,” (Pat Bar rett) a confirmed bachelor in his Na tional Barn Dance air show, found on his arrival in Hollywood recently that the screen expects him to have a wife. In the Bob Burns picture, “Cornin’ Round the Mountain,” “Uncle Ezra” will find himself wed ded to a movie actress, whether he likes it or not. * Nine years and 49 weeks ago Joan Blondell decided that she might as well leave Hollywood and go back to New York, because she’d never get anywhere in pictures. She was working in “Sinner’s Holiday,” with ! James Cagney, and she made up I her mind that she’d stick it out till the picture was finished. But she never got away. In fact, she’s been so much in demand that she’s had only a few trips to New York to do shopping, and the one she made with Dick Powell on their over-ballyhooed honeymoon. Venetian Blinds to Simulate Windows By RUTH WYETH SPEARS LJ AVE you ever tried placing -*■ your davenport on the side of the room where there was a single window? You probably found that it did not look well, because the back was just high enough to give the draperies an awkward cut-off appearance, as shown in the upper sketch. 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