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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.
HOUSEHOLD
QUESTIONS
Grease can be removed from an
iron by rubbing corn meal over it.
* • *
Overstirring and mixing causes
muffins to rise in peaks and burst
open.
• • •
As potatoes get old add a little
sugar to the water in which they
are boiled. They will taste as good
as new ones.
* * * •
Biscuits need a preheated, hot
oven. Then you have to bake them
only 10 or 15 minutes.
* * *
Onion or fish odors can be re
moved from the hands by rubbing
them with dry mustard or salt and
then rinsing them in clear water.
* • •
t , <* . ’ V v
Cider jelly is an excellent ac
companiment for turkey. Or mold
it in ring shape, fill the center
with chilled diced fruit and sur
round it with salad dressing. Serve"
•as first course salad.
• • * .
Always wrap a rubber hot water
bottle in soft cloth before placing
in a patient’s bed. Place the bot
tle near, but not against the pa
tient’s flesh. If placed too close the
patient may be buhied before
realizing it.
* ..
"use MUSTEROLE lor
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