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—Re McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1940 WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK ' By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features—WNU Service.) N EW YORK.—Some people don’t know when they are well off. Karl Ulmanis was a milk man at Lincoln, Neb., for five years, and a •at j' doingall Anyone in Need ri ht B before Of Good Milk he went back Wagon Driver? Latvia, to be president of the country and sit on a hot seat for 25 years thereafter. It was er roneously reported that he had fled, as the Russians moved in, but the news today is that he is still around, and has broadcast a message to his people to be nice to the invaders. Nobody knows the trouble he’s seen. Considering that steady job he had, it looks like a score for the isola tionists. In Lincoln, in 1909, he was Karl Ullman, not Ulmanis, for mer dirt farmer and country ed itor in Latvia. The dean of the state college of agriculture got him the milk route, so he could work his way through college. He was graduated in the allot ted time. He was steady and dependable, and might have been mistaken for a Nebraska farmer. ' One day, he discarded his bib overalls, appeared in a store suit and was seen no more in those parts. Everybody liked him and they were especially shocked by the fact that he owed about $1,000, which he had borrowed to start a cheese factory in Texas. Six years passed when A. L. Haecker, one of his creditors, had a letter from him, enclosing full payment of his debt. He explained that he had a nice job as president of Latvia and was glad to be able to pay what he owed. Other bank drafts followed. The $1,000 was paid in full. As president and foreign min ister of Latvia, he lived in an ancient, turreted castle and ruled in a medieval throne room. On the wall behind his desk, the medieval heraldic em blem of Latvia was crossed with the green pennant of the Ne braska State College of Agricul ture. But he wasn’t having a wonderful time. The country was under czarist Russia when young Mr. Ullman ran his newspaper. An indiscreet edi torial brought atxfut his departure for Lincoln by devious routes. To stave off Nazi aggression, he made himself dictator in 1934. 'T'HE possibility of South and Cen- ■■■ tral American countries picking up empire salvage before the U. S. A. works out its hemisphere de- Gen. Vbico Out ieems to have To Beat Hitler to been but British Honduras lightly re garded. How ever, here’s little Guatemala reach ing out for British Honduras, and Sir Samuel Hoare’s mahogany for ests and mills therein, according to news reports. Gen. Jorge Ubico, dictator of Guatemala for the last nine years, brings forward in the files the tale of a British pirate who snatched British Honduras from his country 60 years ago. “Los ers weepers, finders keepers.” Whether that applies to the wreckage of empires seems not to have been covered in interna tional law. General Ubico is the only living ruler who looks like Napoleon. He often is called the “ ‘Little Napo leon’ of the Tropics.” He was elect ed for his first one-year term as president. He survived two revolu tions during this term, and then set aside the constitutional limitation against more than one term—and has had eight repeats, so far. The general received a tech nical and military education in the United States and Europe, and rose to political power through various provincial and national offices. He entered the national assembly in 1918. He concentrates on road-building, sanitation, agriculture and voca tional training for young people. He has been strongly pro-U. S. A., and reports from Wash ington are that our state depart ment probably wouldn’t make much of a fuss over his grabbing British Honduras—as long as Hitler doesn’t get it. Brilliantly educated, hard-boiled and diligent, he has worked out in his small laboratory his own idea of an authoritarian state. Monopoly is the central idea. He grants ex clusive concessions in basic goods and industries. To restrain grab bing and grafting, he establishes a probity department in his cabinet. Anyone working for the government or doing important business with it, has to file a complete inventory of his own and his family’s possessions. If these goods and chattels increase too rapidly, the general’s busy little gestapo is on the job. Biography of G.O.P. Nominee Told in Pictures The life story of Wendell L. Willkie, presidential nominee of the Republican party, is told in the above series of photos. In the top row, (left) Willkie shown as he appeared at the age of six months, (center) at the age of 11 and right as he appeared in 1913. Bottom row, (left) the candidate shown in army uniform during the World war, (right) when he was practicing law in Akron, Ohio, and (center) as he appears today. Nazis’ Paris Parade Recalls Days of 1871 A field artillery regiment of the conquering Nazi army parades through Paris following the capitulation of the French forces. In the background is seen the famous Arc de Triomphe, landmark of the captured city on which are inscribed the military triumphs of the French armies under the Emperor Napoleon. Once before—in 1871—a conquering German army occupied Paris, following the Franco-Prussian war. Kindergartners Wear Gas Masks at Play Running Mate Toddlers at a British nursery school who learned to play while wearing their grotesque gas masks have become so accustomed to them that they no longer want to take them off for greater freedom under exertion. This fact may save their lives some day. The tots are proud of their ability to don the masks in a jiffy. Sen. Charles L. McNary of Ore gon, Wendell L. Willkie’s running mate on the Republican ticket. 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