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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. CU THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1941
By LEMUEL
WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
F. PARTON
(Consolidated Features—WNU Service.)
^EW YORK.—Just how far Dr.
^ Arnulfo Arias, new president of
Panama, will co-operate with the U.
S. A. in defending the Canal Zone
Cuban Allegiance J^pic d^com
To Hemisphere siderable ar-
/. Bit Dabiout
weeks, some of it out in the open.
Several correspondents have flicked
the president with charges, of Fas
cist leanings and have quoted him
as saying that any grants for naval
bases would not of necessity be lim
ited to the United States. Not nec
essarily as a riposte to these thrusts,
he now pledges co-operation with
his northern neighbor, but makes
certain qualifications. He proposes
to abandon no sovereignty and de
mands ‘‘understanding and unself
ishness from the United States.**
Which seems fair enough at this
distance.
President Arias, son of a wealthy
cattle-raiser, attended Hartwick col
lege, Oneonta, N. Y., took a bache
lor of science degree at the Uni
versity of Chicago, and a medical
degree at Harvard. He began prac
tice as a surgeon, but was diverted
to politics in 1931, being in the diplo
matic service at Paris and Rome.
At the age of 39, he is the youngest
chief executive in La tin-America.
One cause of much palling
and hauling over the president’s
political leanings was the new
constitution which he promul
gated within 17 days of his elec
tion last fall. It withdrew citi
zenship from pbout 90,000 non-
Spanish speaking Panamanians,
many from the West Indies,
and left them without a country.
It extended the powers of the
state in the expropriation of
property; and the president, in
decreeing its adoption, said it
would provide “state socialism
consonant with new social move
ments.** This take-off, with
many later references to a “dis
ciplined people** stirred, possi
bly irresponsible, talk of foreign
derivation of the new constitu
tion.
Good - looking, handsomely tai
lored, a facile orator, Dr. Arias was
elected by the largest majority ever
given a Panamanian president.
Washington has shown no official
concern over the liberal and left
charges of doubtful allegiance.
JOHN P. FREY, president of the
^ metal trades department of the
A. F. of L., announces the “no
strike” and full co-operation policy
Metal Worker*
Chief is Firm for
Labor StcUus Quo
national de
fense effort.
Mr. Frey, one
of the most eminent of the elder
statesmen of the labor movement,
is, like Ernest Bevin of England, a
staunch conservative who has
cracked down on the left-wingers
and has singled out radicals, rather
than employers as the most danger
ous foes of labor.
When the C. I. O. was estab
lished he raked John L. Lewis
as “a tool of Moscow” and nev
er ceased firing until Mr. Lewis*
withdrawal. It is understood
that his animus is considerably
less toward Philip Murray, Mr.
Lewis’ successor, and the more
optimistic among labor critics
and onlookers see hope of peace,
under the unifying stress of the
' defense call. Mr. Frey has great
influence in the A. F.,of L. and
* his metal trade workers, nearly
a million of them, are in a key
spot.
White-naired, baldish, clerical in
appearance, facile in speech and a
ready writer and controversialist,
Mr. Frey is a veteran jouster in
many wordy tournaments in which
he has expounded the old-line Sam
Gompers gospel of labor paddling its
own canoe and not getting caught
in any errant political or intellectual
drifts.
Gompers repeatedly warned
labor to fight shy of governmen
tal entanglements, and Mr.
Frey has carried on from where
he left off. This drive has
brought him into some violent
collisions with the New Deal
’ labor program. He has vigor
ously assailed the Labor Rela
tions board and the wages and
hours act.
Mr. Frey has been known as a
“labor educator” for many years.
Among the half-dozen books and
scores of labor tracts and pam
phlets that he has written, thers
is only one that deviates from ortho
dox conservative opinion, “Bankers’
Domination,” written in 1933 and
charging the depression to the bank
ers. He is 70 years cl£. He was ed
itor of the Molders* Journal from
1903 to 1927. He has lectured on
trade unionism at the University of
Chicago, and was president of th*
Ohio State Federation of Labor from
1924 to 19 9P
Warriors Hailed by Greeks
To Puerto Rico
Wild with joy over their country’s successes against the Italians, the
populace of Athens, Greece, gives a rousing reception to Greek and
British soldiers home from the battlefront. The British fighters have
British and Greek flags. The Greeks are grateful to the British for the
aid they have given them in Albania, where U Duce is still in reverse.
, Pictured here is Guy J. Swope,
auditor of Puerto Rico, who has
been nominated by President Roose
velt to succeed Admiral William D.
Leahy as governor of Puerto Rico.
The appointment is subject to con
firmation by the senate.
Start Whittling on 45,000-Ton ‘Big Stick’
With British Embassy
Assisted by Capt. J. J. Broshek (left). Rear Admiral Clark H. Wood
ward is shown setting in motion the machine that drove the first rivet in
the keel of the 45,000-ton battleship Missouri at the Brooklyn navy yard.
The Missouri, expected to be completed in 1944, will be a sister ship of
the Iowa. They will be the largest ships in the U. S. navy.
Miss Craig McGeachy at her desk
in Washington, D. C., the first wom
an ever attached to the British em
bassy here. She represents the min
istry of economic warfare.
Open 1941 Infantile Paralysis Campaign
President Roosevelt’s birthday on January 30 will open the annual
“March of Dimes’* campaign against infantile paralysis. Last year more
than $1,400,000 was contributed. At the left is shown lovely Nana Gollner,
star of New York’s Ballet theater, “hopelessly crippled” from infantile
paralysis at the age of three. Efforts to restore the use of affected limbs
are shown in pictures at the right.
Figure Skater
Twenty-year-old Eugene Turner,
figure-skating champion of the U. S.,
will compete again for the crown at
the annual National Skating Cham
pionship tournament to be held in
Boston January 30 to February 1.
Turner is also the undefeated Pa
cific coast senior figure-skating
champion.
Observe Child Labor Day
National Child Labor day will be observed January 25-27. Only eight
more states are needed to ratify the child-labor amendment, which
would empower congress to “limit, regulate and prohibit the labor of
persons under 18 years of age.” The amendment has already been passed
by the house, 297 to 69 and by the senate, 61 to 23.
Fore!
The $5,000 Western Open goll
championship will be played at
Phoenix, Ariz., January 31-February
2. Above is Jimmy Demaret, win
ner of last year’s tournament.
By VIRGINIA VALE
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
W HEN talk began of 50,000
airplanes a year, the Amer
ican public was surprised to
learn that it takes at least five
men on the ground to keep one
man in the air, but the picture
makers of Hollywood consid
ered the number rather small;
you see, they use anywhere
from thirty to forty persons be
hind the camera to keep one
actor in front of it.
In a scene made for “Thai Un
certain Feeling,” in which Merle
Oberon appeared alone before the
camera, there were 35 persons on
the set to help her make a shot
which will last 15 seconds on the
screen. If you’re interested, the list
included two assistant directors, a
cameraman, a camera operator,
two camera assistants, ten electri
cians, three carpenters, two prop
erty men, four sound men, a paint
er, a wardrobe woman, a makeup
man, a body makeup woman, a
hairdresser, a still photographer, a
playback operator, a pianist for off
stage sound and a stand-in. The
thirty-fifth was Director Ernst
Lubitsch.
&—*
Betty Brewer’s ship has really
come in at last. Betty’s the attrac
tive but not beauti
ful youngster who
made such a hit in
“Rangers of For
tune,” remember?
She’s been the bread
winner for her fam
ily of five for a year
—she’s 13 now. Her
family migrated
B WiffiM from Joplin, Mo., to
SkJQB Sacramento, Calif.,
in a flivver, but her
father couldn’t find
work there and Bet
ty began singing at conventions and
banquets.
She went to Hollywood, sang on
the radio, lost her job and had to go
on relief. She was singing on the
streets for pennies when Sam Wood,
the director, discovered her. Her
second picture was “The Roundup”;
she’s working now in “Las Vegas
Nights,” and next will do “Two Bad
Angels,” and she’s just signed a
brand new contract with Paramount.
Betty Brewer
-%r
Katharine Hepburn has had her
revenge on the people who not so
awfully long ago considered her
“poison at the box office”; her new
Metro picture, “The Philadelphia
Story,” topped all records for New
York’s huge Radio City Music Hall
for the last five years. Cary Grant,
James Stewart, Roland Young and
Ruth Hussey give her perfect sup
port. Miss Hepburn evidently knew
that she had a good thing when
she found “The Philadelphia Story”;
she is still starring in the stage ver
sion—she is part owner of the play—
and she is full owner of the picture,
as well as its star.
—&—
The success of “Teeny,” Fibber
McGee and Molly’s little “I betcha!”
girl, is no flash in
the pan. Marian
Jordan,, who plays
“Teeny” as well as
“Molly,” was one of
radio’s pioneers in
adding a child’s
voice to her reper
toire of characters.
She did her little-
girl routine fully 12
years ago in Chica
go as part of Kal-
tenmeyer’s Kinder- Marian Jordan
garten, one of ra
dio’s first network children shows.
Fibber McGee and Molly weren’t
even names on a radio script until
six years later, when Don Quinn,
the Jordans’ script writer, thought
them up.
*
If the “Quizz Kids” are among
your radio favorites prepare to see
them on the screen before long.
They’re making a series of shorts at
Paramount’s Long Island studios.
The star performer is sure to be
that very young man, Gerard Dar-
row, who ranks with John Kieran
of “Information Please” when it
comes to natural history.
&
Don’t be surprised if you happen
to meet your favorite radio stars
and discover that their voices sound
altogether different than they do
when you hear them on the screen
or radio. Rudy Vallee, John Barry
more and Billie Burke are outstand
ing examples of this difference in
voices; theirs are all pitched lower
naturally than they are when they
come over the air.
M/
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ODDS AND ENDS
41. Franchot Tone has signed up to make
two pictures a year for five years for Uni
versal.
C. Charles Boyer co-stars with Deanna
Durbin in “Ready for Romance”—which j
Deanna is.
41. James Cagney and the newly-wed Bette
Davis will co-star for the first time in “The
Bride Came C. O. D.”
41. Bing Crosby and Bob Hope are going
to play golf for Britain. They’ve an
nounced that they will begin a golfing tour
in March, teamed with two golf profession
dt, the proc eeds going to British war relief.
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