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/ V. M McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1941 ML by (Uma Scott WatdOH (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) ‘Aguinaldo Is Captured!* E'ORTY years ago this month 1 America had a new national hero. He was Frederick Funston, a na tive of Ohio and a soldier of for tune who had aided the Cubans in their struggle to throw off the yoke of Spain, then organized the Twen tieth Kansas Volunteers at the out break of the Spanish-American war and arrived in the Philippines with his regiment in time to help Gen. Wesley Merritt capture Manila in November, 1898. Meanwhile Emilio Aguinaldo had declared himself president of the revolutionary government of the GEN. FRED FUNSTON Philippines and started an insurrec tion against the new rulers of the islands. There was constant fighting throughout 1899 and 1900 but always Aguinaldo, the leader of the insur- rectos, eluded capture. During 1900 He apparently gave up the struggle, but in January, 1901, he ordered the ipsurgent forces in southern Lu zon to join him at his rendezvous in the province of Isabela. However, the messenger to whom he entrusted this order, surrendered to the,. Americans in February and, upon securing the information as to Aguinaldo's whereabouts, Funston determined upon a daring plan to capture the Filipino leader. Taking with him Captains H. W. Newton and Russell T. Hazzard, Lieutenants Oliver P. M. Hazzard and Burton J. Mitchell and a com pany of 80 Macabebes, who spoke the Tagalog languages, he was land EMILIO AGUINALDO ed on a beach sout^i of Casiguran in the province of Principe on March 13, 1901. Aguinaldo’s messenger also went with the expedition and he and the Macabebe scouts were to pass themselves off as a detachment of insurgent Tagalogs who had cap tured the five Americans and were taking them as prisoners to Agui naldo. After marching seven days and nights, the party reached a point eight miles from Palanan, Aguinal do’s hiding place. A message, stamped with the seal of General Lacuna, was sent for ward to Aguinaldo and a prompt re sponse was received, welcoming the party. The Americans and their fake Tagalogs hastened forward. Funston entrusted the actual cap ture to a Spaniard, lazaro Segovia, and a detachment of the scouts. The story, as Funston told it later, fol lows: “Running up the bank toward the house, we were met by Segovia, who came running out, his face aglow with exultation and his clothes spat tered with the blood of the .men he had wounded. He called out in Span ish: Tt is all right; we have him.' “We hastened into the house and I introduced myself to Aguinaldo, telling him that we were officers oi the American army, that the men with us were our troops, and not his, and that he was a prisoner of war. He was given assurance that he need fear no bad treatment. “He said, in a dazed sort of way: *Is this not some joke?’ I assured him that it was not, though, as a matter of fact, it was a pretty bad one on him.’’ • • • In after years Aguinaldo was loud in his praise of Funston for the au dacity and skill of his plan, saying that only by the stratagem used could he have been captured. The former leader of the Filipino insur- rectos later took the oath of alle giance to the United States and be came reconciled to American rule. He even sent his daughter, Carmen, tp this country to be educated and she became a studc-nt at the Uni versity of Illinois. Aguinaldo is still living at the age of 72. I km tECTgrai'iFJi. The Village News Press: (Prop, and Editor, W. W inched) The Gov’t says you can deduct bur glary losses from your taxes. Wendy Barrie wonders if that includes night 'club overcharges. Year’s Easter Fashions ' Tb Be Dainty, Very Feminine . By CHERIE NICHOLAS Prof. Emery Deutsch, who has been appointed condiictor of the CBS Salon orchestra, always did detest playing in night clubs, and never dreamed the day would come again when he could hold his head and fid dle high. Nice boy, Emery. And his pretty bride is a nice girl, too. Inez Robb of our town spent a quiet week-end over at Mrs. Evelyn McLean’s house down Washington way. Mrs. McLean being the owner of the well-known Hope diamond. The first day breakfast was brought to Inez’s boodwah, but the second morning it was necessary for Inez to ring. Beside her bed were two buttons . . . Inez reasoned: “Ob viously the black button is for night service; the white one for day.” So she touched the white one delicately —it being morning . . . Well, sir. Sirens screeched forth from here, there and everywhere; Great Danes barked their heads off; and folks started running hither and thither through the halls. Inez, it seems, had rung the fire alarm. Mrs. Mc Lean, the owner, merely turned over in bed. She knew there was a guest. But the coffee—when it did come— was hot. Ye ed sure got a big laugh out of the story the other day about the 60-year-old president of a Rotary club who ran off with a woman 29 years younger. He can be prose cuted under the Mann act, a feddiral offense. But look at what the Rotary club is worried about: That he missed his first club luncheon in 18 years! Enis Beyer, the singer and con stant subscriber, says ye ed’s daily stint is “absolutely conseqwinchell.” Ha, ha. See where Marshal Petain’s al lowance for the next three months will be 954,000 francs. That’s about $80,000 a year. In other words, Pe- tain gets more to ruin France than FDR gets to run the U. S. A. Jean Gabin, the big French actor, tbld how the Frenchmen feel about Great Britain. He says: “We are both pro and anti-British. Those who are pro-British say each night in their prayers: ‘Please, God, let the gallant British win quickly.’ Those who are anti-British say in their prayers: ‘Please, God, let the awful British win right away.’ ” Over at Frank Case’s inn the pic tures of the drama critics are on display in the lobby. Frank asked Bub Benchley what he thought of them. “The one of George Jean Nathan,” Bub said, “don’t do him injustice.” Guy Lombardo heard a deb say to another: “What color galoshes are you getting with your new spring suit?” And Jerry Cooper doesn’t believe -all that talk about a food shortage in Italy, considering all the crow they have to eat. Broadway Wiseguy: He knows the same elements as other people, but in his world they have different functions . . . The air is something you listen to for songs, sketches, speeches. Water is what they put in stocks, and fire is what a poor performance misses . . . He thinks a skirt isn’t a gar ment, but a woman in one—and when he talks of a turkey he means a flop-show ... He lives and moves and has his being in theater-town . . . Things that are said and done on a stage or screen amuse and touch him, but try to make him weep when the show is over . . . Try to make him laugh, for that matter. He read it long ago or he heard it when you were still breaking in your longies . . . People who take “hours” telling a story (which is a gag in his lingo) are usually bores, phonies or jerques . . When he says he doesn’t like pictures he means movies, not paintings ... A book isn’t something to read, but the plot in a musical show, or the thing wager-makers make for racetrack bet-placers ... He is that loud voice giving away the secrets of pals. ALL signs point to a lovely and colorful array of sweetly fem inine fashions for Easter. This is definitely a year when emphasis is on “pretty lady” trends. There is big news, in color, es pecially in the pastels for suits, coats and ensembles. The whole fashion world is expressing enthusi asm for the new monotone wools in light beiges, misted greens, the very new violet and mauve tones, muted pinks and pale grayish blues. Seen in fashion-first Easter costumes, they are ideal, especially for the long-coat costumes as shown in the illustration. Fresh flowers add chic to these attractive Easter outfits. Beaux please take notice! The lady of your heart will be queen of the Eas ter parade if you send a corsage of fresh white freesias to match the bouquet on her hat (note the model in the center of the picture). If she is sophisticated, any beau may win her heart with a modern istic corsage of fresh gardenias. If you’re away she will appreciate your wiring her local florist to in clude an extra gardenia or two to tie on her wrist bracelet fashion as illustrated to the right. The newest idea of American de signers is that fragrant flowers should match the motif of gay print dresses with which they are worn. This Easter, romantic arrangements of roses, violets and lilies-of-the-val- ley will vie with orchids, gardenias, flaming hibiscus and camellias. Sil' vered and gilded leaves are a new and distinctive Easter fashion with appeal to those seeking the out-of- the-ordinary. Speaking of flowers, milliners ev erywhere declare that myriads of flattering little flower hats are sell ing in unprecedented numbers. The significant message about these adorable little flowery confections is that you may wear them as cor rectly with your prim little tailor suit as you can with your dressi est dress-up costumes. (Quite a de parture from the old idea which ex acted a tailored hat with a tailored suit!) The thought that is prevalent throughout this season’s style pro gram is that one should wear al luringly feminine and flattering ac cessories. This applies not only to flowery hats and colorful whimsical veils but also to “hankies,” which are of the pretty-pretty type. It is just such flower-bedecked hats as the one shown above (to the left in the illustration) that are lending “endearing young charms” to the Easter fashion picture this spring. Note the dainty handker chief, designed by Burmel, which so artfully plays up a dainty petit- point garland encircling an embroid ered full blown rose. You can get these “hankies” with violets or daisies or whatever flower you may choose. The other flower chapeau is typically an Easter bonnet. It is a shiny straw in bon bon pink, trimmed with cherry blossoms, full-blown roses and wide green rib bons. The veil matches the straw. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Fruit Buttons m Y He argues that money will buy everything and anything, and he has never learned not to mistake public ity for fame . . .,Most of the United States to him is “the sticks” or “the hinterland” . . . The over 130,- 000,000 people are “suckers.” The name of Shakespeare always recalls the time he won a bet on a horse by that name ... He has many friends he doesn’t like, and they detest him ... He has a won derful knack for ignoring the check ... It has been said of him that his conscience is more his accomplice than his guide . His idea of a good song is “Beat Me, Daddy, Eight to the Bar!” ... He is deeply con cerned about the foreign situation be cause it has cut off his supply of post cards .. . He’s the guy you want to know—until you do. Look to fashions for a new yield of vitamins Fruit has become an outstanding inspiration for design in the apparel field. Many of the smartest new prints are patterned with colorful fruit motifs: hats are trimmed with realistic looking fruit; lapel gadgets are replicas of fruit, and buttons that fasten our dresses and blouses, coats and jack ets, are copies of fruits. The beige wool sport jacket here pictured is “vitamized” with fruit buttons, new this spring! A miniature dish of polished wood gives the button form. There’s good news for tired clothes at your nearest button counter! These novelty buttons are durable, as well as attractive. Vieing for honors with the fruits are vegeta- i bles—carrots, onions, lettuce, etc. Fads and Fancies Young moderns are all enthusi astic over fringed play shoes that take their cue from Western cow boy fashions. The inverted pompadour is a “last word” hair-do that is exciting much interest. The hair is brought down over the forehead, the ends turned under, which, when deftly done, gives every appearance of bangs. Not only is this ever so flattering, but it is very practical, for it stays neatly “put,”- with minimum care. Something new for the bridal gown—white Nylon velvet, said to be very charming to the eye, and highly satisfactory in that it drapes beautifully and yields pleasingly to fabric manipulation. Very new for spring are navy coats or capes that have small shapely collars of white caracul, broadtail or similar fabriclike fur. Other models in navy have simply a cluster of white ermine tails at the throat. White hat and accessories worn with these coats and capes key to the white of the fur. To wear with your spring and summer print dresses, look up bead or flower necklaces, bracelets and clips that pick up one or more colors of the print. 1941 Jeweled Gadgets Romantic, Whimsical You must wear a jeweled “gadg et” of some sort on your lapel. It may be as romantic and sentimental as your mood dictates, or it may be humorous and delightfully whim sical. In every event, however, it will be a masterpiece of good work manship, for even the novelty types are exquisitely wrought. One of the amusing sort that is extremely pro vocative is a huge question mark all set in brilliants, with a dazzling solitaire rhinestone suspended from the base. You might wear a glittering gold fish, a spray of colorful flowers worked out in elaborately set stones or a bright patriotic emblem. sjlllllllllllllllllimilllllllllllillllllllllllll': § Sfxeedzi+Uf | [ ’ | By ROBERT McSHANE | Released by Western Newspaper Union “ ^iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiifS A QUICK glance at the crystal ^ ball is enough to convince most interested observers that the Uni* versity of Chicago will not long re main a member of the Big Ten athletic conference. If a crystal ball isn’t handy, an equally quick look at Chicago’s latternday athletic record would be just as effective. The University of Chicago, as you may remember, withdrew from Western conference football on De cember 21, 1939. That move caused no end of sorrow to the university’s followers. But Chicago’s sports program hadn’t yet reached its depth. This year the Maroons failed to win a single conference basketball game. Taking cognizance of this alarming state of affairs, Robert Maynard Hutchins, the university’s widely quoted president, announced that if a losing basketball team has a de pressing effect on the student body, then Chicago will abolish basketball —at least in its present competitive form. The university, under this plan, would meet opposition less keen than that found in Big Ten circles. With this announcement the ghost ly chorus on the Midway was swelled by the more earthly cries of Western conference athletic direc tors. Several of those directors were quite outspoken in their opin ions that the conference would be much better off if the Maroons were to withdraw from all team compe tition. Wendell S. Wilson, athletic director of the University of Illi nois, in the most direct attack on Chicago’s president since that school quit conference football, de clared that “I am sick and tired of reading newspaper and magazine quotations in which Mr. Hutchins at tacks our intercollegiate program. A Wasted Chance “I feel myself guilty, along with some other athletic director of the Big Ten, for not voting to drop Chi cago from the conference. Hutchins’ repeated statements are a handicap to the athletic policy in the West ern conference schools.” Wilson’s attitude was expressed recently when he appeared before his fellow athletic directors with a resolution calling upon Chicago to leave the Big Ten. Wilson was con siderably piqued at Hutchins’ fre quent utterances against the inter collegiate sports program. The uni versity president has admitted that he does not believe other schools in the Western conference conduct their athletics along ethical lines. The resolution was tabled, the board announcing that it did not consider it within their department to take action. The whole question should be solved with a minimum of ill feeling and delay. President Hutchins, by word and action, has indicated that membership in the Big Ten is a mat ter of secondary importance to the University of Chicago. Athletic directors of the remaining nine schools would be, for the most part, more than satisfied if Chicago would withdraw from team competition. Schedule Changes Under present conference basket ball regulations every school plays home-and-home series with three “traditional” rivals and one game with each of the others. A round robin play card, with home-and-home games against every other team, is considered most desirable, but with 10 teams, the conference faculty committee will not approve 18 championship matches when there is an over-all limit of 20 games per season. Should Chicago drop out of basket ball competition the round robin would be quite feasible since only 16 championship games would be required. If Chicago continues in the Big Ten, then the conference may go back to its old schedule sys tem under which some teams did not play others even once in a sea son. Chicago already has dropped foot- ■ ball. The school lost no students in so doing. Its academic prestige certainly has not suffered. Mr. Hutchins, spokesman of his college, expressed no deep regrets when he mentioned separation from the con ference. All in all, it might be advisable for Mr. Hutchins to announce Chicago’s willingness to withdraw from con ference competition. The final sep aration would be much less pain ful than any aggression action on the part of other schools. And it would pave the way for ad mittance to the conference of a school whose athletic program more closely approximated those of other Big Ten members. Sport Shorts C. Michigan’s Tom Harmon, all- American halfback of 1940, will re ceive $13,500 for his motion picture debut this summer. C. Michigan State has a veteran for every position on its 1941 baseball team. Only four college teams ever have won the National A.A.U. bas ketball championship. C. Don Lambeau, son of Curly Lam- beau of the Green Bay Packers, has enlisted in the army air corps. Smiles Hadn’t Found Out “There are millions of ways of making money, but only one hon« est one.” “How is that?” “I don’t know.” Early Practice Dinocan—You know that in the spring a young man's fancy turns to love? Sally—Yes, but it's still winter. Dinocan—Yes, but how about having a rehearsal? Rubbing It In Bunchuck—Yes, it took me six weeks of hard work to learn how to play tennis. Dzudi—And what do you have for your pains? Bunchuck—Liniment. Life is what you make it—till somebody else comes along and makes it worse. 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