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; ) i i McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1940 'si WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features—WNU Service.) N EW YORK.—Close in, inv the critical diplomatic huddle at Ankara is our John Van. A. Mac- Murray, ambassador to Turkey. A Our Ambassador linin' reer dipio- To Turkey /« a m a t , Mr. Gnm Fact Chaser mjgh t have been a star reporter. He has a gim let mind and is a diligent digger and researcher. While our state depart ment may not have much to say about what Yiappens in Turkey and the Balkans, it will surely have the record, when it all becomes history. As minister to China, Mr. MacMurray studied the country and its people so diligently that his friends said he began to look like a Chinese. There was the matter of iikin, or Chinese im port taxes. No other western dip lomat had worrried much about them. Mr. MacMurray com pletely surrounded them. He is the world’s greatest author ity on the subject. When he left his post in China after five years, he had compiled two stupendous vol umes on the general theme of “Rights and Obligations of China From 1894 to 1919.” These were only small details of his encyclo pedic roundup of knowledge of the Far East. That being the case, they shifted him. Which is a reminder that this writer has a friend, a ca reer diplomat, who learned Chinese and amassed such information in eight years in China, and was shift ed to Geneva last year to be re placed in Peking by a young man' starting from scratch. With all his grim fact-chasing Mr. MacMurray has, like all good diplomats, a touch of Dale Carnegie about him—that is, he makes friends and influences people. He has a charming, in genuous smile, when his adding- machine mind is out of gear, and he has been happily placed in the gold-lace maneuvers of our diplomacy. He was born in Schenectady in 1881, educated at Princeton and Co lumbia and entered the diplomatic service as secretary of the legation in Siam in 1907. He became head of the far eastern division and min ister to China in 1925. In 1930 he became minister to Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, and minister to Tur key in 1937. Many big issues of international politics seem to have gone the way of Chinese. Iikin, and of Estonia et al, but whatever they are, or were, Mr. MacMurray knows about them. ^ W HEN Capt. Henry Harwood defeated the Graf Spec pocket battleship, off Montevideo last De cember, the home office flashed a *Hadm. Arwood* m ®ssage in whip b.- e May Yet Inspire learned he Kiplingete Lines ™ miral. “Thank you, boys,” he. wig wagged to his three British cruisers, as a sporting gesture in which he gave credit where it was due. He had had 37 years in the navy with out a swing Of the spotlight in his direction. But the victory over the Graf Spee started songs in the Drury lane musical halls about “Hadmiral Ennery Arwood”—a natural—and now he’s almost the ruler of the king’s navee because he took the measure of the big Graf Spee. It doesn’t quite scan, but he gets the job as assistant chief of the naval staff, and member of the board of the admiralty. It was as a lad of 14 that he first climbed the rigging of the old wooden training ship Britan- nica. He moved on up through routine grades and in the World war was a torpedo boat lieuten ant. In the years between wars, he was with the fleet in South America, China and the Medi terranean, known as a coura geous and resourceful officer, but never in the headlines or in the British Who’s Who. He is thickset, square-jawed and ruddy of countenance, planted on the bridge as though he had taken root there and meant to stay. This war hasn’t inspired any clanging, inspir iting Kiplingesque lines, but Admiral Harwood may yet touch them off. Ashore he has spent much time in staff training. He has two sons in their early teens, who expect some day to “climb the rigging like their father used to do.” A S A “man against death” Dr James Ewing has been in the trenches for years in the world war against cancer. A medal is con ferred by the New York City Cancel committee for “outstanding worl. during the year in the campaign f- control cancer.” He is director of the Memorh Hospital for Cancer and Allied Dh eases, a world leader in the battl against the scourge of moder times. He voices hope, but ruthles ly limits his conclusions to demo strable fact. Japanese School (jhildren Salute Our Flag Here is a morning scene in one of the classrooms of the Moiliili Japanese language school in Honolulu, jrhere the ceremony of saluting the flag as it is performed in American mainland schools was introduced recently. The Japanese children bow in the style to which they are accustomed. There are 26 Japanese language schools in Honolulu. ■ Is ‘Your Number Up,’ Mr. Young American? * Right: Judge Howard E. Davis, chairman of the draft advisory board for Philadelphia, with the historu , World war goldfish bowl that left its resting place in Independence hall to play its role in the nation’s firsf 'peacetime conscription. Left: James, Arthur and Timothy Dunn, three brothers who by an odd coincidencf drew draft numbers l f 2 and 3, topping list of 3,425 registrants from Queens, New York. Our First and Second Line of Defense Trousseau Ships of the United States fleet are pictured during recent maneuvers off the California coast, as naval planes fly in formation overhead. Build ing a navy second to no nation is rapidly becoming a reality, as America prepares for defense and protection of the Western hemisphere against possible invasion by the totalitarian powers. Fifteen-year-old Delvina Walker of Luray, Va., leans against her 76- year-old husband, John Heflin. Re cently married, they took up resb dence on his big farm nearby. ‘Sunshine’ Made in New Jersey Flee War Zone S. G. Hibben, director of applied lighting at the Westinghouse lamp laboratories in Bloomfield, N. J., shown with the 10,000-watt mercury vapor lamp that produces a light one-fifth as bright as the surface of the sun. Although encased in a cooling jacket of running water, the radiations from the lamp set fire to the wrapping paper. Adlam Ahmed, Turkish waiter aboard the Egyptian refugee ship, El Nil, grins as he holds Moses Levitt, of Palestine, when the El Nil docks at Jersey City. By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) M artha scott, playing the role of a school teach er in “Cheers for Miss Bishop,’' amazed Director Tay Garnett by her understanding of the role. Miss Scott didn’t think it surprising at all—she used to be a school teacher, you see. She hails from Jamesport, Mo. The family moved to Kansas. City, where one of her high school teach ers, Miss Ida Lilly, was so con vinced that Martha had exceptional ability that she lent her the money to go through the University of Michigan. Martha took to college theatricals like a duck to water. She taught for six months after graduation, then went back to the university to become head of the property department in the college repertory company. The company’s head, Thomas Wood Stevens, took an interest in her, and when he be came head of the Bonstelle theater in Detroit she went along. “If I am a qualified actress today, the credit must be given to Mr. Stevens,” she says. Afterward she went to New York, where she played in dramatized ghost stories opposite Orson Welles. More stock—the engagement for the stage play, “Our Town”—then to Hollywood for the screen version of the play. After that came “The Howards of Virginia.” & Do you like stampedes? Then don’t miss “Arizona” if you want to see the largest and most realistic cattle stampede ever attempted in motion pictures. The 700 white faced Hereford cattle were pur chased for it and rehearsed for a JEAN ARTHUR month; then three weeks were spent in filming it in Rattlesnake canyon, 18 miles from Tucson. Participat ing in the stampede with thb* cattle were 150 Papago Indians and 100 American “pioneers,” headed by Jean Arthur and William Holden. * Remember Ingrid Berman, who won so many hearts when she made her one appearance on the Ameri can screen? You’ll see her again in “Legacy” planned as one of Co lumbia’s most important pictures of the year. It’s being produced by Robert Sherwood, * Metro has a new series under way for you; it’s called “Keeping Com pany,” with Frank Morgan and Irene Rich in the father and mother roles, and John Shelton and Ann Rtitherford as the young couple who keep company. The cast includes Virginia Weidler and Gloria DeHaven. * Carol Bruce used to sell music sheets in the 5 and 10. Now she’s on the air in Ben Bernie’s show, a star in the Broadway musicale, “Louisiana Purchase,” and sings every night aftel 1 the theater at the Waldorf Serf room. As if that weren’t enough to keep her busy, she’s studying dramatic art. “Back in the old days, I couldn’t afford dramatic lessons, so I studied by myself,” she remarked the other day. “I stood in front of a mirror and made faces to go with the dia logue.” She’s getting ready to go to Hollywood after Christmas, to make a picture on the Universal lot. *— Horace Heidt fully recognizes the necessity for encouraging talent within his band—you know that if you listen to his “Pot o’ Gold” pro gram. 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