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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1940 By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features—WNU Service.) XJEW YORK.—Gen. Emilio de Bono, taking command of Italy’s southern armies with her en try into the war, is said to have had De Bono First to and^tJonleft Nail ‘Empire* on seizure of em- FascistMast-Head piritis in those parts. Now 75 years old, a tiny man, scarcely taller than Italy’s little king, he has been built up as a rough- and-tumble wildcat fighter, a legend which he sustains by ferocious activ ity. They benched him in the mid dle of the Ethiopian conquest be cause, he complained, the Ethio pians wouldn’t step out and fight. They sent in Gen. Pietro Badoglio and he finished them with poison gas. Early in 1935, General De Bono recorded his heart’s desire in Mussolini’s political review, Gerarchia, as follows: “One proclaims, even shouts, often and perhaps too much, a beau tiful word that I have personally promised myself not to pro nounce or write any more un less it is on the day where one can by direct action give a real reason to the why of this great word. Oh, well, although old, I will liv^ 1 to see that day.” The word so hallowed he dared not write it was—“Empire.” The pint-size general was one of the original quadrumvirate of Fas cism and is said to have been the first to nail the empire slogan on the Fascist masthead. This writer remembers having seen him once— an extraordinarily active, bright- eyed, talkative little man, with a neat white beard—a few hours after a mob of young blackshirts had wrecked the house of former Pre mier Nitti, in Florence, and slit to shreds his classical library of books which ranged back to the Fifteenth century. In 1926 General De Bono was charged with knowledge of .the political kidnaping and murder of the Deputy Matteoti. There was latent opposition to Fascism then, and II Duce hastily sent his little wildcat general to Af rica. The incident was forgot ten and the general went to work getting Africa ready for empire day. He was the Fas cist chief of police in the early days of the regime and built up the Italian Cheka. He entered the Milan Military academy at the age of 12, and has put in his entire career in the army. T HOMAS NAST, the hornet who stung Boss Tweed, is perhaps the best precedent for David Low. Similarly, the British cartoonist has Cartoonist Low been stinging Early Touched Up Fifth Column B r i t a i n’s “Apologia Germanica” for several years. A brief cable today reports the telling effect of his cartoons in stirring a new surge of anger against the trimmers and side-step pers of the immediate pre-war years. Correspondents score this on the side of new unity and fighting spirit. The quiet, bearded Briton with a big black hat touched up the fifth column long before the Norway debacle. Visiting the United States in October, 1936, he said: “We’re becoming a world of stool pigeons. There are too many white rats loose everywhere. I’m pessimistic. We’d better get ready to save what we have. That goes for the U. S.» A., too. People who believe in civilization don’t know what’s happening to it. They’d better find out. I’m trying to tell them.” During the last two years, his ten-strike cartoons have been car ried on the cables and widely re produced in this country, the first to be thus distinguished. They have found publication in many other countries—signed “Low,” as the David has long since been dropped. He says people have to learn to laugh to win a war, and adds, “We laugh too much from our back teeth and too little from our stomachs.” He is of Shakespearian aspect and says that his neat little beard is in deference to the bard and not Mos cow. He was born in Dunedin, New Zealand, in 1891 and began his ca reer as a cartoonist with the Syd ney (Australia) Bulletin. HE Beautiful Girl of the Bow- ery Run” heads the move of the American Medical Women’s as sociation to get military rating for women physicians in government service, and to prepare women doc tors and dentists for effective war work—if necessary. The above des ignation was that of Dr. Emily D. Barringer, when she was the coun try’s first woman ambulance sur geon in 1903. She recently retired after twenty-one years on the staff of the Kingston Avenge hospital, Brooklyn. ‘Miss liberty’ Salutes Refugee Liner The Statue of Liberty was a welcome sight to the refugees from war-torn Europe who jam one of the Seeks of the United States liner, Manhattan, as the liner passes the distinguished lady (background) on its way to its New York city pier. The Manhattan brought almost 2,000 passengers from Genoa, Italy. Whither Bound, Soldier Boys of Italy? Relatives and friends of those aboard stand silently on the pier as the Italian liner, jampacked with sol diers, leaves Genoa, Italy, for some undisclosed destination. The soldiers might have been shipped to Ital ian territory in Africa to be used in attacks on French and British territory on the same continent. ‘Miss Houston’ of the Lone Star State ‘The Soul of Italy’ Dimple Causey, selected as “Miss Houston” in a contest of more than 14,000 Texas school children, is here shown at the engine room tele graph of the liner Algonquin, arriving in New York, to take part in a series of events at the World’s fair. Miss Causey was scheduled for a mighty busy time. Recent photo of King Victor Em manuel of Italy, who, according to an official announcement in Rome, has left for the front to lead his troops. In his declaration of war II Duce referred to him as “the soul of Italy.” By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) W HEN you see Paramount’s version of Joseph Conrad’s “Victory” (directed by John Cromwell, co-starring Frederic March and Betty Field), you’ll see some of the most-traveled film ever shown. Scenes were shot in Sourbaya, on the island of Java, in the Dutch East Indies; then the cans of film were transported by train, native boat, and finally by Chinese air line to Hong Kong. A Pan-American clipper flew it to Manila, and there it stayed; so many passengers were waiting to take the clipper home that there was no room for part of a movie. It came along on the next sched uled flight. Meanwhile the cast was working at Baldwin lake. The scenes shot in the actual location of BETTY FIELD \ the story will be slipped in with the ones shot on the American location —and it won’t be surprising if the Baldwin lake shots are the more convincing. More than 100 boys are being paid for having the time of their lives; they’re portraying real-life ' cadets in Columbia’s “Military Academy,” and much of the action calls for them to disport themselves on the track and football field of a local military academy. They sprint, put the shot, pole-vault—and the checks come rolling in. Tommy Kelly, Bobby Jordan, David Holt and Jackie Searl are in the cast. Four-year-old Dickie Lyon, son oi Bebe Daniels and Ben Lyon, (and don’t tell me that you don’t remem ber those two picture stars!) is worried. He’s working in “The Howards of Virginia,” and doesn’t want his parents to find it out. “They told me pictures was bad,” he declares. Bebe and Ben have been starring in a stage play in London, and they sent the boy back to California to live with his grandmother several months ago, because of the war. Frank Lloyd, who’s directing “The Howards of Virginia,” persuaded Mrs. Daniels to let Dickie take the role of the young son of Cary Grant and Martha Scott, and Dickie is do ing remarkably well—except that he’s worried. He’s afraid of what his mother will think when she sees him on the screen. “Maybe she won’t like it,” he says, ominously. But Lloyd’s not anxious. Some time ago he told Bebe that little Dickie was a good picture prospect, and she said, “I’d trust him with you.” M' Uncle Ezra (Pat Barrett) of ra dio’s National Barn Dance is highly enthusiastic over making movies in Hollywood, but the most difficult thing he had to adjust himself to was the delay in starting. He re cently returned to Chicago from the cinema city after making “Coming ’Round the Mountain” with Bob Burns; later he’ll go back to Para mount and do two more. The Italian ‘Blitzkrieg’ Machine Under Way An Italian motorized division rolls along the streets of Rome in true “blitzkrieg” tempo. Their destination was not disclosed, motorized troops and guns like these got into the grim business of destruction when II Duce ' entered the war. Arrives in U. S. Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt aboard the U. S. liner President Roosevelt, as it docked in New York, with more than 700 refugees from England aboard. Her husband is a majoi I with the British army. ODDS AND ENDS—Gary Cooper has a photograph of his two-year-old daugh ter, Mary, encased in the dashboard of his car . . . Agnes Moorehead used a train and three planes in a frantic effort to get to New York from Milwaukee for a “Big Sister” broadcast, landed in ff ash- ington, and had to give up; when she found the New York plane grounded in Milwaukee because of bad weather, she flew to Cleveland, then to Pittsburgh, then to W ashington, only to find that there wasn't enough time left to reach New Y ork for the broadcast . . . Virginia Dale and Lillian Cornell, whom you've seen or perhaps will see in “Buck Benny Rides Again” will supply the feminine inter est in “Touchdown,” with Wayne Morris. 'i' Frances Langford finished a broadcast, then drove 700 miles to the Navajo Indian reservation in Arizona to spend her second wed ding anniversary with her husband, Jon Hall, who’s starring in “Kit Car- son,” an Edward Small production. There are 59,000 Navajo Indians i on the reservation, but the role of Indian chief went to A1 Kikumi, a full blooded Hawaiian. After numer ous tests Producer Small came to the conclusion that Kikumi looks more like an Indian chief than any of the Indians do. More of Our Friend Betsy’s Attic Magic By RUTH WYETH SPEARS LJERE is Betsy again — that A clever girl in Sewing Book 3, who streamlined an old iron bed. In her house there was an enor mous kitchen and her mother hated big kitchens. So, a parti tion was used to divide it into two rooms. The half with a door into the front hall was for Betsy to en tertain her own special friends. The old linoleum was painted dark green. All the walls were painted cream and then pink stripes were painted on the new wall. The neat and efficient cot cover is cream chintz with pink roses and green leaves. The sides of the pad, the two end cushions and the center cushion are green,; lighter than the floor. The cut- down table with the tin tray on top is painted with the green floor paint with some of the cream wall color added. Next week Betsy’s mother solves another home dec orating problem. NOTE: Betsy is now making a hooked rug for her new sitting room from directions in the Sew-, ing Book 5. It also contains di rections for streamlining an old : couch; rockers; dining room chairs and other “attic magic.” Send name, address and 10 cents in coin to cover cost and mailing. 1 Send order to: MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS Drawer 10 Bedford Hills New York Enclose 10 cents for Book 5. Name Address THOUGHT AT THf FIRST f Cf WARNING OF INORGANIC PAIN J *• OR COLDS DISCOMFORTS. . ^T. JOSEPH ASPIRIN Disclosing Talents Adversity has the effect of elicit ing talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.—Horace. NERVES? Cranky? Restless? Can’t sleep? Tire easily? Worried due to female functional disorders? Then try Lydia E. 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