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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. CU THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1941 WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features—WNU Service.) N EW YORK.—For four or five years now, Dr.: J. Enrique Zanetti, professor of chemistry in Columbia university, has been pooh- w * e- d u P° ohin g hi ^ h Lists Ftre Romfr e x plosive As Head Devil o^ bombs and Detractive Might and put- ger on the incendiary bomb as the head devil of the hosts of destruc tion. Just out is his book, “The ABC of Incendiaries,” in which he insists that current European bomb ing forays are pretty clumsy busi ness, since the high explosives con stitute a defense against the spread of fire started by the incendiaries. Remembering how they blew up buildings to check the spread at the big San Francisco fire, one finds the professor’s idea plausible. Dr. Zanetty’was a lieutenant colo nel of the chemical warfare service in World war No. 1, and from 1922 to 1926 was a consulting expert of /the League of Nations in studies of chemical warfare. Supplementing this experience with academic and industrial studies of many years, he has become a world authority on bombs and what to do about them if anything. His main idea is that gas dis sipates and fire proliferates— therefore look out for incendiary bombs. In January, 1936, he wrote in a university publication that fire bombs would be the worst peril of the next big war. Two-pound fire bombs could be sprayed over a city and one ef fective hit out of 200 dropped might start 200 fires in widely separated places. He cries down alarmists about gas. He thinks it would be just as well to do away with slums, as a de fense measure because of their vulnerability to fire. Dr. Zanetti was born in Santo Do mingo in 1885, came to the U.S.A. in 1900, was naturalized in 1906 and in 1907 took his doctorate from Har vard university. He joined the Co lumbia university faculty in 1913, and has held a full professorship since 1929. ^ A PLEASANT change of subject, from fire bombs, is Tom Smith, a ball of fire in his way, but one everybody likes. Seabiscuit day . was recently Seabiscmt Owes celebrated at All to This Horse the Santa Ani- Psycho - Analyst ta track in Califpmia. to honor the greatest money-winning horse of all time. His trainer, the silver-haired Tom Smith, probably was inconspicuous, as usual, but without him there would have been no Seabiscuit saga of speed, dollars and romance. “Silent Tom,” as they call him around the tracks, was a rodeo rid er, cowhand, prospector and black smith in Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana. About four years ago, Charles S. Howard, later owner of Seabiscuit, hired him to train the Howard stable, then unknown to fame. The new trainer discovered Seabiscuit on an out-of-the-way New England track and persuaded Mr. Howard to buy him for $8,000. .The (horse has earned $437,730. Mr. Smith is probably the only horse psycho-analyst in the world. He was about three years old when he started being a horse-wrangler and learned things about horses that nobody else ever suspected. Naturally, he became an amateur veteri narian, but psychology helped a lot in bringing through Seabis cuit. The nag was fussy and given to brooding. Long before, Tom had learned that pleasant companionship is necessary for horse well-being. After a few ex periments, he picked for Seabis- cult’s stablemate an amiable old swaybacked roan named Pete. They nickered and muz zled each other happily and Sea- biscuit began to pick off purses. Of course what happened was that Seabiscuit’s ego was bucked up by having somebody around he knew he could beat. “Silent Tom” is 50 years old. Among other winners he has trained for the Howard stable are Mioland and the wild-eyed Kayak II, brought from the Argentine by Mr. Smith’s son, Lin. He has about 200 horses to handle and study. H ERE’S a clever Russian, scien tifically educated, who took a different tack than most before the revolutionary gale. He is Dr. Vladi mir K. Zworykin, who came here in 1919 to make distinguished con tributions to American science— notably the development of the elec tron microscope. With his col leagues of the Radio Corporation of America, he now unveils the super eye, from 20 to 50 times more power ful than the ordinary microscope, lit is said to reveal far horizons oi microscopic research. Germany Prepares for British Air Attack There have been many pictures of British preparations to ward off Nazi invasion attempts, but very few showing Nazi preparations against British effort. These pictures show the preparations being made by the Ger mans on the coast of occupied France, to withstand the daily batterings of the RAF. At left, an anti-aircraft gun is placed in position. Center: The observer mans his instrument as the “trigger man” sits ready to blast the invading British. Right: Gun loaders insert clips of 37 mm. shells. Gas Mask Drill and ‘Dipsy Doodle Dip’ Soldiers of the Forty-fourth division (left) racing through a smoke screen, to which a little tear gas has been added, during a gas mask drill at Fort Dix, N. J. The gas was sprung on the boys by surprise to test their powers of detection. Right: Members of Company “E,” 101st Infantry, try out a new march relief step called the “Dipsy Doodle Dip” at Camp Edwards, Falmouth, Mass. The boys take a dip on every tenth step. Mighty Mites to Haul Giant Plants Football Czar Tugs are usually associated with harbors and shipping, but their modern counterparts are found at Randolph field, Texas, where tiny ’plane tugs are used to tow the sky giants to and from their hangars. Picture shows Sergt. R. R. Arnold checking in a shipment of the ^mighty mites” at the “West Point of the Air.” Elmer Layden, football coach at Notre Dame and one of the “Four Horsemen,” who has accepted the post of commissioner of professional football—a post comparable to that of Judge Landis,. czar of baseball, Layden will draw $20,000 a year. Another Launching for U. S. Defense Pair of Queens The 158-foot anti-submarine net tender Locust is launched Great Lakes fashion (sidewise) at Cleveland, Ohio. It is the first of 12 such craft under construction by the American Shipbuilding company. As in build ing American submarines, special attention is given to constructional strength of net tenders against depth charge attank. Winter and summer queens of Twin Cities at opening of St. Paul’s winter carnival. Betty McDonald, (right) queen of St. Paul’s winter carnival, and Joyce Moyen, Minne apolis’ summer queer By VIRGINIA VALE (Released b*- Western Newspaper Union.) I N “BILLY THE KID,” Robert Taylor’s new starring vehi cle for Metro, there is one scene in which all of the characters have to check their six shooters with the sheriff before attending a mass meeting. Each morn ing on the set, the assistant director takes up a collection from all the extras and bit players. He “frisks” them—not of their guns, but of their wrist watches. Here’s the reason. The other day Robert Taylor was playing a scene in the back room of a saloon, Also in the scene were Gene Lockhart, as the bad man, Lon Chaney Jr., Norman Willis, Grant Withers and several western type extras. With hand on the door about to exit, Tay lor spoke his line—“What time is it?” Lockhart was about to make the reply called for by the script when Director David Miller called “Cut!” One of the bearded extras had for gotten where he was and automati cally pulled back his cuff to look at his very modern wrist watch. —*— “Gone With the Wind” started Dna Munson on a career of what she’s afraid will de velop into type cast ing, the bugaboo of actors. She did “Belle Watling” in “Gone — etc.” and then played another “shady lady” in the picture “Wagons Westward.’’ Now she’s set for the same sort of part in “Lady From New Ona Munson Orleans,” a story laia in the period of the Louisiana Purchase. It’s a re lief to her to do those “Big Town” broadcasts with Edward G. Robinson. & Naturally, everything possible is going to be done to put Shirley Tem ple back at the top of the star list when she goes to work for Metro. The wealthy little miss (she has more than a million in the bank) will ap pear in the screen version of “Panama Hattie,” a success ful musical now run ning on the New York stage, with Ann Sothern, Elea nor Powell, Connie Russell and Red Skelton. Shirley starts her “comeback” at a sal ary of $2,500 a week. * “The Lady Eve” gives Henry Fonda an opportunity for which he’s grateful—the chance to wear his own clothes on the screen for the first time in three years, and to have his hair cut. The only other time it’s been trimmed during those three years was when he got that prison hair-cut for “The Grapes of Wrath.” His roles have called for straight drama with a minimum of comedy, and the only time he kissed a heroine on the screen was in “Chad Hanna.” In “The Lady Eve” he wears 14 different outfits—everything from full dress to silk pajamas—and in dulges in some bits of torrid love- making. As for Barbara Stanwyck, she wears the longest bob ever worn by a star—16 inches; she’s been growing it for the last five years, ever since “Stella Dallas.” She wears 25 stunning costumes, and in dulges in slapstick comedy, in her role of a woman card-shark. * Shirley Temple Horace Heidt has finally escaped his reputation as “the man with the trained dog.” Before his orchestra hit the national networks and Heidt’s name became a synonym for scintil lating syncopation, Horace had a vaudeville act featuring Lobo, an amazing dog. Booking agents al ways thought of Lobo when Heidt’s i name was mentioned. But that’s all in the past now, since the smashing success of his “Pot O’Gold” pro gram. Overcoming unfortunate breaks was nothing new to the band-leader. At the University of California he was well on his way to football fame as a tackle when he found himself on the bottom of a scrim- . mage pile-up, and was carried off the field with a broken back. Lying in the hospital, he decided to or ganize an undergraduate orchestra to help pay his way through college. ' The orchestra gave him conducting experience which helped him on his way to the top ranks of radio band- heading. * ODDS AND ENDS—Warner Bros, re leases "Christmas Under Fire” another Quentin Reynolds commentary short; the first was "London Can Take It” ... The proceeds go to British war relief; "Lon don” raised $26,400 for the fund ... “7 he Trial of Mary Dugan” has become "The Trial of Mary Andrews”—but it probably will be the same old trial . . . Rudy Vallee's sponsor bought the rights to Rudy’s new theme song, "Til Give You a Smile for a Smile” and presented them to Vallee as a gift .. . Gene Autry, of the movies and radio’s "Melody Ranch,” will appear in a rodeo act at the Fort Worth stock show in March. 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