McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, April 17, 1941, Image 2
McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. CU THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1941
WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
(Consolidated Features—WNU Servlc* *
XJEW YORK.—If Lord Halifax has
been homesick for England, he
no doubt feels better after his week
end at Unionville, Chester County,
j> There
Halifax Heard No has been
American Accent saved for
■ In PadS, Baying *
gracious hospitality it would seem,
a tiny spot of old England as au
thentic as diligent effort could pos
sibly make it. Chester county com
prises the fox-hunting domain of
Lord Halifax’s host, W. Plunket
Stewart, and so faithfully has Mr.
Stewart adhered to the British tra
dition that Chester county is often
called the Leicestershire county of
America, with its hunts comparable
only to the Melton, the Mowbray
and the Quoin of Leicestershire—the
same comprising all the superlatives
of fox-hunting in England.
In 1911 Mr. Plunket—a banker
when he isn’t riding to hounds—
began searching for the perfect
hunting domain. He found it in
Chester county. The terrain was
sufficiently broken to give the
fox a break, but open* enough
for some slam-bang, tallyho rid
ing, with woods, streams, stone
walls and all the required haz
ards and lures, without too many
people to get in the way. Mr.
Plunket bought a large tract and
thereafter, it appeared, banking
was somewhat of a sideline.
He and his brother Redmond had
bred a pack of hounds and built the
famous Green Spring Valley hunt,
of Glyndon, Md. Hence, knowing all
the ins and outs of fox-hunting, he
. proceeded rapidly to recreate the
Leicestershire of the Eighteenth cen
tury. Gilbert E. Mather, already
established in Chester county as a
fox-hunter, was moving eastward in
search of new territory. Mr. Stew
art bought his English foxhounds
and began importing others from
England, along with hunters of an
cient pedigree.
There is in Mr. Stewart’s hunt
the most careful observance of
all ancient traditions of British
fox - hunting, particularly in
dress. The master and his staff
wear scarlet, with crimson col
lars and the every-day dress is
scarlet with crimson facings and
scarlet velvet collar.
Mr. Stewart is a native of Mary
land, related to European royalty.
He was in the army remount serv
ice in the World war. Incidentally,
the natives of Chester county have
co-operated enthusiastically in the
fox-hunting, and real estate values
have risen.
\\TE’VE started leasing and lend-
^ ^ ing, and the quarterback snaps
the ball to Adm. Emory S. Land,
chairman of the maritime com
mission and
Adm. Land Apt to **co - ordina-
Delioer on the tor of facili-
Atlantic Gridiron tiesforocean
transport,”
as of his recent appointment. There
is historic precedent for his finding
a hole in the line, weaving through
,a broken field and planting the ball
on the other side of the goal posts.
That was in the famous “crap
game” session between the Army
and Navy in 1900. With less than a
minute to play, “Jerry” Land, as
his shipmates always called him, in
the backfield for the Navy, blocked
a kick and made one of those Frank
Merriwell zig-zags down the field,
winning, 11 to 7 for the Navy, just a
few seconds before the whistle blew
for the finish. Such doings are pret
ty much in his horoscope.
In the World war he was in
the navy bureau of construction
and repair and got the Navy
cross for building submarines
and for his work in the war
zone. In 1919 he turned in the
most comprehensive and search
ing technical study of German
submarines the navy ever got,
along with a study of what they
might do or try to do in the
next war. He retired in March,
1937, but got only a month’s lay
off, as President Roosevelt got
him back on the job as a mem
ber of the maritime commission.
When Joseph P. Kennedy retired
to become ambassador to Great
Britain, Land became chairman
of the commission, and within
two weeks the same was shak
ing a leg as never before.
The admiral, a small, wiry, eager
man, with a touch of the mule-skin
ner about him when he’s driving
things through, lost no time in put
ting to work the first congressional
allotment of $400,000,000 for building
our merchant marine.
He is a native of Canon City,
Colo., and a cousin of Charles Lind
bergh. At Annapolis, he was tops
not only in football but in several
other sports, and rowed the bow
oar on the academy crew. He was
the successful conciliator in that
|long-drawn-out Army and Navy atb
letics row of a few years ago.
As Strike Closed Ford Plant
The gigantic River Rouge plant of the Ford Motor company at Dearborn, Mich., largest single industrial
plant in the world, where from seven to eight thousand striking C.I.O. auto workers threw 85,000 employees out
of work. Inset: One of the men involved in the battle between pickets and workers, shown as he tum
bled into the gutter after being struck by one of the many flying missiles.
Sabotage—and Then Uncle Sam Takes Over
With dramatic suddenness the U. S. seized 69 Italian, Danish and German merchant ships in harbors
throughout the country. At left is photographic proof of sabotage. The main air pump of the Italian ship, Al
berta, is shown shattered and useless. Right: Chief Mechanic Alston of the Coast Guard at Port Newark, N. J.,
examines broken parts of the slide valve on the Alberta.
Demonstrate ‘Blackout Machine’ at Capital
Battles Jungle
Two New Jersey inventors demonstrating a “blackout machine” be
fore Sen. Morris Sheppard, chairman of senate military affairs commit
tee. The inventors said the device could shut off power in every Amer
ican city. L. to R., Senator Sheppard, Col. D. Watt, E. C. Pomeroy
and R. M. Franklin of the Radio Signal Products Corp., the inventors.
Maj. R. E. Randall of Swamp-
scott, Mass., Albrook field executive
officer, who was forced to cut his
way through 25 miles of Panama
jungle after bailing out of his dis
abled plane. He is shown here at
Ancon, Canal Zone.
And Now Frenchmen Give Nazi Salute!
Jugoslav Premier
A year ago Frenchmen used to mock the upraised arm salute of the
Fascists and Nazis, but things have changed in France. Above is shown
a great gathering of French war veterans saluting Marshal Petain,
French chief of state, in a rally at Le Puy. The aged marshal is on the
flgls in the background.
Gen. Richard Dusan-Simovich,
staunch friend of Great Britain and
army commander, who has been
namgd to the post of premier of
Jugoslavia.
By VIRGINIA VALE
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
W HEN you see “Men of
Boys Town’* (Spencer
Tracy and Mickey Rooney),
watch three very young men
who have important roles; it’s
more than likely that, when they
grow up, they’ll be tops among
leading men. Metro thinks so.
They are Darryl Hickman, aged
eight; Bobs Watson, who’s nine, and
Larry Nunn, just thirteen. You prob
ably saw Darryl as “Winfield Joad”
in “Grapes of Wrath.” Norman Tau-
rog thinks he’s one of the finest
child actors he ever directed. Bobs
has seven brothers and sisters who
have film careers. Says Taurog,
“Whenever I have needed a regu
lar kid, I have found that I could
depend on the Watsons.” Bobs got
his break because none of the other
Watsons fitted the role.
As for Larry, he’d made a name
for himself in radio before he tack
led Hollywood, two years ago;
“Strike Up the Band” was his first
picture.
*
For more than a year there’s been
discussion at Warner Bros, about
filming the life of
George M. Cohan,
and at last a deal
has been arranged
with the famous
song and dance
man. James Cag
ney will play the
lead, probably get
ting to work on it
some time this sum
mer, after he re
turns from vaca
tioning at his place
at Martha’s Vine
yard, Mass. Mr. Cohan will super
vise the production.
*
James Cagney
Scenario trouble has delayed work
on “Babes on Broadway,” in which
Shirley Temple was to start her
come-back, so her first picture will
be “Lazybones.” It’s a. story of the
San Pedro fishing fleet, and Shirley
will be seen as Wallace Beery’s
motherless daughter.
—&—
American people have more than
a generous sense of humor; they
have generous hearts as well. It’s
proved every Sunday on the “Dou
ble or Nothing” radio program. Wal
ter Compton, master of ceremonies,
asks each guest the name of his
favorite charity; if the contestant
can’t answer his questions, the prize
money is given to some charitable
institution.
Leading figures of grand opera,
the theater, the sports world and
big business have tried their luck on
the program, and many have given
their winnings to less fortunate per
sons. Martha Raye and Frank For
rest, the program’s popular tenor,
gave theirs to the Red Cross. Lyle
Talbot had a question from a woman
who wanted to buy her blind son a
Seeing Eye dog; he gave her his
winnings, and the listening audience
subscribed the remainder. Freder
ick Jagel of the Metropolitan Opera
! sent his to the Hundred Neediest
Cases.
*
Rita Hayworth returns to her
home lot, Columbia, to play opposite
: Fred Astaire, and dance with him in
a musical, “He’s My Uncle”—she’s
just finishing a dancing role in
! “Blood and Sand,” with Tyrone
i Power. The talented Rita may be
just the dancing partner needed for
Astaire since he and Ginger Rogers
parted company on the screen.
—*—
Penny Singleton was selected
America’s Number One Blonde by
beauty shop owners
and operators at
the International
Beauty Show held
in New York re
cently. The pretty
screen and radio
star won out over
Madeline Carroll
and Alice Faye, who
were runners-up; it
was said that dur
ing the past year
she’d done more
than anyone else
to make American
men blonde-conscious. As “Blondie”
on the screen and the air she’s in
spired many another young wife and
mother, who’ve appreciated her
quite as much as the men did.
*
For almost four years Bess John
son has been managing the mythical
orphanage around which the story oi
“Hilltop House” gravitated. Now
the serial has come to and end, and
she’s to be starred in a new one, ti
tled “The Story of Bess Johnson.”
Same time, same stations.
&
ODDS AND ENDS—While making “Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” Spencer Tracy i
been looking ahead to vacationing in Neu
York with his son, Johnny . . . After wail
ing about a year. Paramount will film
“Miss Susie Slagle,” the popular novel v . .
Greta Garb-3 is slated to go back to work
May J, in a modern American comedy . . .
About 3,000 enthusiastic fans greeted Glen
Miller, CBS band leader, when he arrived
in Los Angeles; they practically mobbed
him . . . Conratl Nagel, master of cere
monies for the CBS “Sitter Theater,’'
swore off on cigarette smoking from Neu
Year's to St. Patrick's day—but didn’t
quite make it.
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Showing Character
A man never shows his own
character so plainly as by his
manner of portraying another’s.—
Jean Paul Richter.
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When Truth Is Veiled
When the truth cannot be clearly
made out, what is false is in
creased through fear. — Quintus
Curtius Rufus.
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