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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. The i
candidate for the vice presidency
has been a senate leader for a num
ber of years and a strong advocate
of farm relief. He is said to have
been Willkie’s own choice for second
place and is expected to be a strong
running mate.
Rabbit Foundlings Adopted by Spitz
Fighting Pilots
“Doing nicely, thank you!” is probably what Tootsie, eight-year-old
Spitz, would say if she could, concerning these six wild rabbits she found
in the back yard of her mistress, Mrs. Valeria Lewis of Washington, D. C.
Letting her maternal instinct have full sway, Tootsie took charge of the
foundlings, washed them and fed them.
Perfecting knowledge of the latest
methods of aerial fighting, Lieut. M.
W. Brush is shown sighting a new
type of heavy aerial machine gun
at Floyd Bennett field, N. Y., while
a fellow reservist looks on.
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0 A General Quiz
The Questions
1. Are sound waves visible?
2. How many official salutes
with cannon are given the Presi
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3. Are more than one pattern of
fingerprints ever found on one
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4. In what state was the Battle
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5. What animal is known as the
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6. In law what does a plea of
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7. In what is milk delivered in
India?
8. Why is it called the “pupil”
of the eye?
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1. Intense sound waves are visi
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2. Twenty-one.
3. As many as five of the stand
ard nine prints have been found
on one man.
4. Indiana, near the present city
of Lafayette.
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Alone in the Storm
Whilst you are prosperous, you
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when the storm comes, you are
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Enthroned Hero
The muse does not allow the
praise-deserving hero to die; she
enthrones him in the heavens.—
Horace.
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