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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1941 WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features—WNU Service.) Baron Manfred Von Killinger is op erating is a good place to watch n for a sanded Feinting at Ras* deck a pair And Swinging at of trained dice Everybody Else and a buried ace. Such have been the diplomatic parapher nalia of the eminent Nazi statesman who, it is now reported in Europe, will be the new gauleiter, or Hitler straw-boss in Rumania. Lately, for eign correspondence has converged on the idea that Herr Goebbels is faking a possible run-in with Rus sia and letting word leak out in the Balkans that the Nazis are sending troops to menace Russia, while in reality, he is dealing under the ta ble with Stalin, as usual. That would be a grand way to dampen American war ardor—this country getting into the war on the side of red Russia. Anything as elaborate and devious as this would be right on Baron Von Killinger’s target. With his genius for duplicity and complicated intrigue he would be a marvelous advance agent for just such a grand razzle-dazzle as that. When Baron Von Killinger was German consul-general at San Francisco, from August, 1937, to January, J939, Rep. Samuel Dickstein denounced him on the floor of congress as a “Nazi adventurer." On No vember 6, 1937, the Americani- cation committee of the Ameri can Legion demanded his sum mary rejection "from this coun try as a spy delivering secrets of the American fleet to his gov ernment. He stayed on the job until the Nazis saw fit to recall him, as the war loomed, for more immediately urgent in trigue over there. He spent nine months in jail, in 1922, on charges of complicity in the murder of the conciliatory Ma thias Erzberger.' Bullets like those used by the murderers, Schulz and Tillesen, had been found in his pos session. He was acquitted and moved through the turbulent years of the Nazi ascendency ,10 a spot at the right hand of Der Fuehrer. His gift for intrigue was such at some times he ran the ball the wrong way, and during the blood purge of 1934, Hitler put him in a concen tration, camp and fired him as pre mier of Saxony. However, they could find no sub stitute for his legerdemain and let him out to pick up his old line of mystagogy. IN 1933, a young man from Potts- *■ ville, planting his typewriter on his bed in a New York hall bed room, rounded out 25,000 words of a When the Vtterly w “ Improbable Doe* was down to Happen, IF* New* his last three dollars. He sent unfinished manuscripts to three publishers, with a take-it-or-leave-it, first-come-first-served letter, telling them he would finish the book under a contract which would allow him to live decently while he was work ing. The next day came three ac ceptances. Harcourt, Brace was first in line and got the book, “Ap pointment in Samarra." The author got $50 a week for the three months and delivered the finished book with in four days of the dead-line. Such was the literary get-way of Young John O’Hara, author of the current hit musical show in New York city, “Pal Joey," the same being one of the most poisonous portraits of a “heel" ever etched with the steel-point of contempt. The book clicked and in the years between there was the routine stretch at Holly wood, and a series of magazine stories from which the unlovely portrait of “Pal Joey" gradual ly emerged. “Pal Joey" isn’t a show to which you would want to take your Aunt Tabitha, but there is a moral in the story of how young Jol-n O’Hara began to rise and shine. When he decided to become an author, he swore off liquor, cut smoking down to a minimum, went on a diet and worked a punishing shift, • seven days a week. He is tall, person able and gathers his garlands and his royalties at the age of 35. I F HE can’t buck a blizzard of an avalanche, a Grade A war would do nicely for big, bucko William F. Carey, New York commissioner of sanitation, on leave with the de fense commission to shove through army cantonment construction. He says the building needs bucking up a lot, but it will all come through. We saw him win the Culebra cut steam-shovel record for dirt remov al when he was helping to build the Panama canal. He has built rail roads, dams, canals, roads, bridges and what not, pretty nearly all over ‘Tomahawks’ for Tom Against Jerry Mass production of the new Curtiss Tomahawk fighters for Great Britain’s RAF now total a new high of eight planes per day at the huge Buffalo, N. Y., plant, a part of whose final assembly department is here shown. The Curtiss Tomahawk is the British name for the Curtiss Hawk 81-A “pursuit." The planes shown above will soon be England-bound. British Purchasing Agent at White House Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., left, and Arthur Purvis, head of the British purchasing commission in the United States, are shown at the entrance of the White House executive offices, after a luncheon conference with President Roosevelt. Purvis said they had a general talk on supply matters and the situation in London. Nazi Spy Radio A girl examines the portable ra dio transmitter which was used by two German spies who slipped into England as refugees. They sent back military movements to Germa ny. The spies were executed in Pen> tonville prison. Home Via Axis , Axel Anderson, five, an American hoy who was stranded in Norway when the Axis took ever, arrives in New York from Lisbon. The label around his neck shows he had to go via Berlin. Chinese Welcome New Year Alaska Draft Chinese Americans will celebrate their New Year’s day on January 24 in accordance with traditions that are centuries old. Highlights of the celebration will be dragon parades like the one shown above and the shooting of fireworks. Ceremonies performed in church by the girls above add a somber note to the observance. Ernest H. Gruening, governor* of Alaska, * shown above, announces that young men in the territory must register for selective service on Jan uary 22. At this time the snow will be hard enough to permit of safe travel. Turkeys Compete for Prizes Auto Dealer \ Choice turkeys will compete for prizes in the All-American Turkey show to be held in Grand Forks, N. D., from January 20 to 25. The tom shown (upper left) was named grand champion of turkeydom last year. At the right a judge is seen inspecting toms entered in the show. The champion dressed turkey pictured in the lower right was later sold for $3.30 a pound. Stanley Horner, president of the National Automobile Dealers asso ciation, will preside at the organiza tion’s twenty-fourth annual conven tion to be held in Pittsburgh Janu ary 20-23. The automobile dealer’s part in national defense will be thf convention theme. By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) S OME years ago when Joseph P. Kennedy, until recently our ambassador to the Court of St. James’s, was associated in the financial management of Paramount, he was rather skep tical about the valuation that Hollywood places upon its stars. In fact, he remarked that prac tically anybody able to “make faces” was a potential movie actor. Now Paramount is screening “One Night in Lisbon," with Fred Mac- Murray and Madeleine Carroll co- starred. It’s a story of the current European war, with the opening se quences laid in beleaguered Lon don. There is a role that fits Mr. Kennedy perfectly. Producer-direc tor Edward H. Griffith offered the JOSEPH P. KENNEDY role to our friend Kennedy, who dared to accept this chance to try his own ability to make faces. Incidentally, Madeleine Carroll tried her best to get out of making “One Night in Lisbon.” Her 19-year- old sister was killed not long ago, you’ll remember, during a bombing raid in London. * Just being home from the hos pital is. a vacation that Mrs. Eddie Bracken is still on. She and her hus band started off in their car for a vacation trip East, as soon as he finished his work in “Reaching for the Sun." They Were hardly well on their way when they were in a spectacular automobile accident, in which she was seriously injured. There’s no telling where this cus tom of playing oneself on the screen will end. Jack Benny and Fred Allen take a whirl at it in “Love Thy Neighbor"; Oscar Levant, of radio’s “Information Please," was obviously Oscar himself in i‘Rhythm on the River"; Deems Taylor, mu sic commentator of the air, steps right out as Deems Taylor in “The Hardboiled Canary," with Susanna Foster, and also in “Fantasia." And of course band leaders play them selves ; two of the newest baton-wav ing performances are those of Artie Shaw in “Second Chorus" aad Orrin Tucker in “Las Vegas Nights." & Members of the cast of that same “Las Vegas Nights" were slightly slap-happy after a memorable day’s shooting in which practically ev erybody slapped somebody else. Virginia Dale slapped Francetta Mallory, who slapped right back; after that it continued, spreading to other actors, until Assistant Direc tor Eddie Salvan had counted 97 blows. Then he stopped counting and sent for a studio nurse and some aspirin. * Jane Withers was borrowed by Twentieth Century-Fox from Colum bia to play opposite Jackie Cooper in “Her First Beau," a role for which both Edith Fellows and Bo nita Granville had been mentioned. She’ll report for it in February, when she’s finished “A Very Young Lady," also for Fox. Anna Neagle, the English screen actress, is going to give us still an other of those musical comedies of yester-year. She’s done “Irene" and “No, No Nanette" so far, and now we hear that the next one will be “Sunny." There doesn’t seem to be any very good reason for these en deavors; neither “Irene" nor “No, No Nanette" was very good—the latter has just been released, and in spite of an excellent cast it’s not Grade A entertainment. And for some reason the music which made the musical a standout is now mere ly incidental. * ODDS AND ENDS C. Universal’s in the market for really an cient automobiles, such as Pope Toledos and IP in tons—they’re needed for the V an- derbilt Cup race scene in the re^nake of "Back Street.” C. Claudette Colbert has signed for two years more with Paramount, making^ one picture a year. Her next one will be Sky lark.” based on a successful stage play, which was based on a magazine serial which you probably read. 4L Dorothy Thompson, writer and com mentator, has been signed for another thiAeen weeks over MBS. 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