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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1940 By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features—WNU Service.) \ ■^^EW YORK.—In the last nine years,' this typewriter has re ported on the achievements of about 7,000 Americans distinguished in the 'No. 1 Flier of Navy Got Wings The Hard Way arts of war and peace. If the appraisal of personnel resources is important in a critical hour, the rec ord of this file is encouraging. Hit ler has not repealed the axiom that the whole is equal to the sum of all its parts; and that being the case, this onlooker is* convinced that we have what it takes, considering, par ticularly, the requirements for cour age and highly* specialized ability. Today's citations of individual preparedness are Rear Admiral John H. Towers, ranking avia tion officer of the navy, and Major General H. H. Arnold, chief of the army air corps. They are flexibly minded men who never have been grounded by precedent. They came all the way up from primitive and hazardous aviation, and from their altitude they have seen farther over the horizon than most of the rest of us. And they warned us. Admiral Towers is the only sur vivor of the first three men assigned to naval aviation in 1911. Com mander John Rodgers was killed in 1926, and Commander T. G. Ellyson in 1928. Towers himself has had many a close brush with death. It was in May, 1919, that he command ed the transatlantic flight of the. wobbly, but determined NC4. He and his mates, sagging down into the sea, taxied 60 hours over 205 miles to the Azores. In 1913, he was bucked out of a lurching sea plane, caught a strap as he fell and dropped 1,700 feet with the hurtling plane into Chesapeake bay. The navy’s No. 1 flier was born in Rome, Ga., in 1886. Glenn Cur tiss taught him to fly at Hammonds- port, N. Y. Succeeding Rear Ad miral Cook, he became a rear ad miral and head of the bureau of naval aeronautics in June, 1939. He is a West Pointer of the class of 1906. Major General Arnold, known in the air corps as “Happy” Arnold, for obvious reasons, was assigned to aviation in 1911 and trained by the tr* , , t a ' Wright broth- Cowboy of Atr e rs, at Day- Thrilled Capital ton, Ohio. In In Sprocket Job 1912 he caught s *' ’ the attention of the then complacent country by riding a clattering chain and sprock et job 30 miles around Washington. In Jhe same year, he coaxed a quaint sort of Currier and Ives plane up to the perilous height of 6,540 feet. -*It was a national sensation.- They began callhii him the “ride ’em cowboy” of the air. When the World war started we had 35 pilots and 55 planes. Lieutenant Arnold was clamor ing for more then, and, as gen eral, he has been out in front the last year, 0 insisting that air strength would decide any mod ern war. - Pne of his most notable achieve ments was his brilliant leadership of a hazardous plane survey over the Alaska mountain ranges. He is a native of Gladwyn, Pa., and was graduated from West Point in 1907. R EAR ADMIRAL Samuel M. Rob inson blames delay in ship con struction to restrictive labor laws, short work weeks and inadequate or qualified Adm. Kooinson appropria- Rates High as tions. As co- Navy Appraiser ordinator of ship construc tion, he is cast in an important role in the hard-pressing enterprise of naval expansion. He is chief of the navy bureau of engineering, ap pointed September 13 and appears in the opening arguments primarily as a technician rather than as a policy adviser. When and if there is a; decision as to just what we want to defend, what will be needed to defend it, and how much it will costv* Admiral Robinson will no doubt score highly in the technical “information please.” He is 58 years old, a native of Eulogy, Texas, was graduated from West Point in 1899 and engaged thereafter in never spectacular, but crucially important naval engineering. A FRIEND of mine, who until a few months ago had lived in Italy several years, tells me that Crown Prince Humbert of Italy not only is a holdout against the Fascist regime, but that he has a tremen dous personal following which he could and would launch against Italy’s entry into the war. My friend believes that his opposition to the axis and the war must have been sharpened by the fact that his wife, the former Princess Marie Jose, is a daughter of the late King Albart of Belgium. Thunder on Our Coast—but It’s Only Practice! The thunder of the great war across the seas re-echoes here in America as one of the six-inch disappear ing guns at Fort Hancock, Sandy Hook, unlimbers its blast. As the gunner yanks the lanyard a projectile is hurled at a moving target several miles away. Note how the men in the pit have braced themselves against the effects of the concussion. Refugees Fleeing the Terrible Nazi Invasion This view, somewhere in Belgium, passed by French censors, shows a small group of nuns and civilians fleeing before a Nazi invasion. (Inset)—This dramatic picture shows a mother and child sobbing in the midst of the ruins of their home, in the environs of Paris, after a Nazi raid had destroyed what was dear to them. These scenes are typical of m^ny that are witnessed daily in the war-torn sections of Europe. Adijiiral Byrd Checks His Polar Maps Sponsors New Sub Back again in his Boston home, Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd gets down on his hands and knees before a large map of the wilderness known as Antarctica. He is explaining the many difficulties his expedition has en countered in establishing bases along the unexplored coastline under the Southern Cross. Mrs. Walter B. Woodson, wife of Rear Admiral Woodson, just before she acted as sponsor to the newest addition to Uncle Sam’s submarine fleet, the U. S. S. Trout. The Trout has recently been launched at the Portsmouth navy yard. Kills Baby Son to Save Him From War Mrs. Katherine Kelly of Chicago, suffering from “involutional de pression,” and her five-year-old son, John, whom she killed with a base ball bat because she wanted to save him from the war. The tragedy occurred while Austin, her 16-year-old son, was attending the furnace. The jury recommended that Mrs. Kelly be held on a murder charge. Airdream Realized Igor Sikorsky, aircraft designer, claims success for his airdream to rise and descend vertically. It looks ancient, but here it is—1940 model —hovering over the airport. Mr, Sikorsky is at the*controls. 1 OP?. SEW 4-- Ruth Wyeth Spears A CERTAIN Miss Fixit, and that was not really her name, inherited a house full of furniture that was not old enough to be either quaint or antique. One day she sent for my little Book No. 4, and there she found a sketch show ing how to plot a room color plan based on a rug, or a picture, or a piece of drapery material with good coloring. Miss Fixit had a picture that she had always loved because of its beautiful colors. Just for fun, as a sort of game, she made a room color plot based on that picture. Then she sudden ly realized that, after all, color is very cheap—anyone can have pH they want of it for very little money. That was really a turning point in the life of Miss Fixit. This old rocker that she made over is merely a sample of what may happen when a clever young lady is bent upon bringing color into her life. The chair has been paint ed a pale turquoise blue, and the seat cushion and back are covered with an inexpensive chintz in tur quoise; cherry red; primrose yel low and deep green, with red bias bindings. I wish every reader interested in choosing colors for her home might have a copy of my Book 4. 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