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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1940
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
(Consolidated Features—WNU Service.)
tions assembly was in session, on a
sunny afternoob, with every garde
nia in place
on the lapel
Popular Candidate
Tor Free Albania ot its mom-
Modem Jeremiah mg “oal.with
decorous
murmurs mingling with the bird
song and the hum of the bees, heard
through the open windows. The im
peccable and somewhat desiccated
Sir Eric Drummond, who played
closer to his immaculate white vest
than any living man, was presiding
watchfully against any untoward
procedure, any solecism, any break
in syntax or punctilio, or move to
ward any overt suggestion or act.
There arose among the dele
gates a great, shaggy bearded
man who started the windows
ratUing with his booming voice.
He said: “Ton are just blowing
bubbles. Your talk is hot air.
You have done and will do noth
ing for peace. You know that
the Dawes plan is doomed. You
know that all treaties are des
tined for the waste basket.’*
It was a long, masterful and pun
ishing philippic, delivered in a fin
ished Harvard accent. Sir Eric was
almost a hospital case.
The Jeremiah was Bishop Fan
Stylian Noli, of the Albanian Ortho
dox church, and it is Bishop Noli,
now supposedly living in Boston,
who is named in a London cable
to the New York Sun, as the popu
lar candidate for a liberated Alba
nia. With the aid of .the Greeks,
the hope of Albanian liberation is
warming up daily, here and abroad.
The huge, ruddy warrior-bishop, a ’
medieval man with modem ideas, 1
never has been caught in the feudal
tensions and confusion of Balkan i
politics. He is a genuine libertarian
and democrat, recruiting Moslems
as well as Christians in his long
running fight for modern free state
hood for his country. His League
of Nations speech was shushed in
Europe, but all of it finally filtered
through to American newspapers. It
was the voice of a major prophet,
as startling as the little flickering
cinema spot on the walls of Belshaz
zar’s palace.
If the bishop should reclaim and
redeem Albania, America would get
an assist, if not a put-out. He was
educated at Harvard university, en
tering in 1908 and finishing in 1912. In
the former year, the peaceful re
ligious revolution by which the mod
em Orthodox Albanian church was
established was just getting under
way, and it was in that year, that
he was invested with the robes of
its priesthood.
I got a glimpse of the bishop
in the Commodore hotel in 1931,
• a keen-eyed, black-bearded gi
ant, purposeful, alert and power
ful in every aspect of his face
and person. He had arrived just
a jump ahead of certain dissi
dent Albanian gunmen. On this
and many other occasions, he
blasted Albania’s dude monarch,
Ahmed Zog much as he had
blasted the tit-tat-toe assembly
of the league. But he changed
hotels frequently and mysteri
ously, as for many yehrs he has
had death close on his heels.
And it was in 1931 that he said
that Premier Mussolini would
snatch Albania when he got
ready, and that Zog’s govern
ment was ail make-believe.
Om PHILIP B. JOUBERT DE L*
^ FERTE, British air marshal,
has had a long and distinguished ca
reer in the army, and in all these
m. r%i «»« t ci* years he has
Sir Philip'* Slip been a model
Get* Approved of of discretion
V. S. Newshounds » nd
ble official be
havior. Hence it was a most ex
traordinary slip when he broadcast
to the world details of where Ger
man bombs had fallen. The min
istry of information, of which Sir
Philip is a member, had been
clamping down the censorship lid
and British papers were printing
German communiques, as the only
news available. American newspa
per men, sharply at odds with the
censorship about getting news from
Germany, are acclaiming Sir Philip
for a fumble which they think was
in the public interest. It seems to
be his first fumble.
As a flier in the World war, he
gathered both British and Italian
decorations and was mentioned in
dispatches six times. He joined the
royal flelcf artillery in 1907 and
transferred to the royal flying corps
in 1913.
He was in France in first two years
of the war and in Egypt in 1916
and 1917. After the war he was
R. A. F. instructor at the imperial
defense college and commanded the
R. A. F. staff college in 1930 and
1934. He was given command of the
R. A. F. in 1937. He was educated at
Harrow and Woolwich.
They Seek 12,000 Flying Students
Off to Caribbean
Lieut. W. Wittie Jr., assistant recruiting officer for the Philadelphia
flying cadets, is shown (left) going over plans for the procurement of
applicants with Lieut. Lawrence Semans, of the U. S. army air corps.
Lieut. Semans is advance agent in a drive to get 200 Philadelphians to
make up part of 12,000 flying cadets needed in the expansion program.
President Roosevelt waves from
the deck of cruiser Tuscaloosa at
Miami, Fla., as he starts on his
cruise to the Caribbean to inspect
new military bases. He said the
voyage was strictly for business.
23rd Recipient of Donor’s Blood
Here From Britain
Mrs. Leslie Watts cheers her mother, Mrs. Hazel Farmer, victim of
staphylococcus septicemia, who will be the twenty-third recipient of the
blood of Mrs. Rose McMullin, of Washington, D. C. Mrs. Farmer, whose
home is in Oklahoma City, was brought to Chicago to await the arrival
of Mrs. McMullin, whose blood has saved the lives of 22 persons.
Sir Frederick Philips, undersecre
tary of the British treasury, shown
on his arrival in New York. He
came to America to straighten out
dollar exchange ’’technicalities.”
Select America’s Champion Liar I - Rail Prexy
Number 1 Liar of America will be proclaimed December 31 by the
Burlington Liar’s club, of Burlington, Wis. Lower left: President O. C.
Hulett at his desk reading some of the 17,000 lies entered in the contest.
Several club members seem a bit dubious as he swears on a stack of
dictionaries that the tall tales are true. A medal is awarded the champ
prevaricator.
William White, who succeeds John
M. Davis as president of the Dela
ware, Lackawana & Western rail
road on January 1, will be the young
est railroad president in the East,
He is 43 years old.
AdAmAn Club to Scale Pikes Peak Again
Scientist
To usher in the New Year properly 17 members of the AdAmAn
club, which includes some of the nation’s best mountain climbers, will
scale the 14,109-foot Colorado peak on December 31, to set off fireworks.
The club has been making this trip for the past 17 years, adding a mem
ber each trip (hence the name). Pictures show last year’s “hike” and
fireworks.
Dr. A. F. Blakeslee, president of
the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, who is pre
siding at the annual meeting in Phil
adelphia—from Dec. 27 to Jan. 2.
By VIRGINIA VALE
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
T HE March of Time has
come to the rescue of all of
us who have an interest in some
one affected by the new selec
tive service law. In “Army and
the Men—U. S. A.” we are tak
en inside training camps and
shown how the young men in the
nation’s rapidly expanding citi
zen army live, what they learn,
what they do for amusement,
and how they are being welded into
a defensive fighting force.
The film shows what has been
done to provide comfortable living
quarters for the young soldiers; it
shows as well how the nation’s in
dustry is concentrating on orders
for the gigantic defense program.
It’s a picture specially meant for
all draft eligibles, their families and
their friends.
*
When Howard Hughes finishes
waving his magic wand over Jack
Beutel we may have a new star on
our movie screens. Beutel gets his
chance as one of the leads in the
new Hughes film, “The Outlaw.” He
hails from Dallas, where he had
little-theater experience, and wasn’t
getting far in his ambition to suc
ceed in Hollywood when he got the
Hughes assignment.
Eleanor Powell has finally com
pletely recovered from that opera
tion that kept her on the sidelines
all this time, and will start work
soon in “Lady Be Good,” which was
ELEANOR POWELL
a successful musical comedy years
and years ago. It will co-star Ann
Sothern (giving her a chance to get
away from playing “Maisie” for
awhile) and Tony Martin. Arthur
Freed and Busby Berkeley, produ
cer and director of “Strike Up the
Band,” will produce and direct, and
the George Gershwin music will be
used.
vy
What old favorite do you suppose
has been scheduled for a new ap
pearance now? None other than
“The Phantom of the Opera,” with
Broderick Crawford playing the
“Phantom.” But \the real surprise
is the girl who’ll play opposite him—
it’s none other than Deanna Durbin.
She’s always done comedy, and
sung a few songs, superbly. But
when she finishes “Nice Girl” she’ll
get away from all that temporarily,
and appear in Universal’s famous
thriller.
&
Something new in casting has
bobbed up at Paramount. Book re
viewers on newspapers and maga
zines are to be polled for their
nominations for players to appear
in the screen version of the Heming
way novel, “For Whom the Bell
Tolls.” Since book reviewers who
know one motion actor from an
other are scarcer than hen’s teeth
it seems unlikely that their opinions
will be of very great value.
*
Jill Esmond, a talented English
actress whom you hear on the air
as Emily Bronte, author and narra
tor in “Wuthering Heights,” spent
her last night before leaving England
in a Liverpool air-raid shelter, re
citing fairy tales for hours on end
to keep a group of children enter
tained. If you haven’t been listen
ing to “Wuthering Heights” you’re
missing something; it s*ts a new
high mark in radio serial drama.
*
Loretta Young unintentionally
stole the show from Santa Claus
the other evening. On her way to a
radio rehearsal, she parked her car
in a lot near the theater just as a
Santa Claus parade was passing.
Hundreds of mothers were holding
their children high enough to see
Santa Claus; somebody shouted:
“There’s Loretta Young!” and in
stantly backs were turned on Santa
Claus while everybody gazed at
Loretta.
✓ 4'
ODDS AND ENDS—That new Sunday
afternoon radio program, which has start
ed off so well, changed its name just be
fore the first broadcast—it’s “77.e House
That Refreshes,” not "Music That Re
freshes” . . . Gene Alt trey, of the CBS
"Melody Ranch'” and the movies, recently
bought a number of antique music boxes,
one for each guest room in his new ranch
house ■ . . Bob Burns is vacationing right
now, on a trip to New York which he and
Mrs. Burns planned two years ago, but had
to postpone because of an injury which
she suffered. It is Bob's second trip to
New York since he landed there jobless
in 1935 and got a job on the air with
Rudy Vallee.
New Date Frock
In Princess Style
* afternoon frock, with many par
ties coming on, and teas. A frock
that will make your figure look
particularly slim and supple, your
face fresh and appealing! That’s
just the kind of frock you can make
for yourself with design No. 8826,
in velveteen, chiffon-thin wool,
spun rayon or flat crepe.
See how beautifully the princess
cut makes it melt into your waist
line, in a most belittling fashion!
that clever skirt detailing in front
is a perfect way to achieve the
smart “concealed fullness.” The
draped bodice is not only an im
portant fashion point, but also
very becoming to slim figures, be
cause it tends to round out the
bosom. Make it of lace, or con
trast or, as shown in the small
sketch, of the frock fabric.
Pattern No. 8826 is designed for sizes
12, 14, 16, 18 and 20. Size 14 requires,
with short sleeves, 4% yards of 39-ineh
material without nap; long sleeves, 4Y a
yards, Vz yard lace. Step-by-step sew
chart comes with your pattern. Send or
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Enclose 15 cents in coins for
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