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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1941 WHO’S NEWS X. • THIS WEEK t ' By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features—WNU Service.) "Vf EW YORK.—Maj. Gen. Henry H. Arnold, chief of the army air corps who has just arrived in Eng* land to serve as an official observer Arnold, Pupa of .tVSfe Wrights, Pioneer only officer In Am,, Aviation r a e “frv- ice.who leamed to fly under the per sonal supervision of Wilbur and Or ville bright at their school in Day- ton, Ohio. Just two years previ ously the war department had ac cepted delivery of its first batch of airplanes and so his experience as a flier pretty nearly spans the com plete period of army aviation. Anyone who can recall the status of flying in 1911 will ap preciate “Hap” Arnold’s exploits in his first year of training as a young lieutenant, assigned to flight duty from the infantry, with a record of 140 flights, 29 hours in the air. In Ids second year of training he achieved honor as the first winner of the Mackay trophy awarded for ex cellence as a military pilot. In a day so blustery and cold as to keep all but 2 of 12 entrants out of the race he completed a 40- mile flight, originating at College Park, Md., at an average speed of 52 miles an hour. V Twenty-two years later he again won the trophy as leader of a flight of 10 twin-engined bombers from Washington, D. C., to Alaska and re turn. As early as 1911 he prac ticed at aerial bombardment and war department records credit him with being the pioneer in the suc cessful use of the radio for military purposes in an airplane. Quite at variance with the out ward semblance of this slightly built, silver-haired soldier with his diffident smile, is his forthright ut terances and writings concerning the airplane as a war machine. “The only way to prevent air invasion is to attack the invader with superior numbers and knock him out of the air.” He has been preaching this for years, his concern having ever been for the constant procure ment of thousands of new, im proved combat craft, training of thousands of new pilots, enlist ment of tens of thousands of ground crew men, swelling of aircraft plants and acquisition of vital raw material for future aircraft production. Still an active pilot, mounting ad ministrative duties have cut down his time in the air and restricted his activity in two hobbies—cooking and writing fiction. Boys who re member his “Bill Bruce” books, in cluding “Bill Bruce at West Point,” “Bill Bruce at Flying School,” and other breath-taking juvenile works, will regret the recent idleness of his pen. PRONOUNCED feeling of good-will toward a nation where she has been most hospitably received, sen timent bom of local pride and a high wo c* l sense of hon- Brazdtan Senhora* 0Tfihle pre . Christens Ship in ferment, Spirit of Good-Will ^ ng d th e t d 0 the gesture which Senhora Peixoto employed in breaking the bottle con taining champagne over the bow of the new Moore-McCormack passen ger liner, Rio de Janeiro, as it slid down the ways in the shipyard at Chester, Pa., the other day. So act ing, she represented her husband. Commander Ernani Do Amaral Peixoto, governor of the state of Rio de Janeiro—for which the vessel was named—as well as her father, Getulio Vargas, president of Brazil. A petite, vivid womra, who has made a delightful impres sion upon those concerned in making the current visit of the distinguished Brazilian pair an important hands - across - the - sphere event, the senhora holds a degree in law, the result of study at the University of Bra zil, a profession, however, in which she has never practiced. Marrying soon after graduation she eventually became secretary to her father, a position she now holds. Her hosts in New i York have found her a fluent speaker of English. This acquirement has made her of value to her husband as an inter preter when our idiom and more in volved diction carry him beyond his depth. No one, it seems, has yet found her at a loss on economic, so cial, or political questions—in fine she is a brilliantly accomplished woman. Practical, too. When it be came clear that certain handwork arts in Europe no longer would be available to American buyers she founded the Fundacao Anchieta in Rio de Janeiro which gives free training in fine needlework to Brazil ian women. Under the • Whig ; of •: the American Eagle Greenland came under U. S. protection when the government signed an agreement with Danish officials. Thus the Monroe Doctrine spreads northward in scope. Photos show the -fishing colony at Umanak (below) and fishing boats at Scoresbysund (upper right). Circle: Hendrick De Kauffmann, Danish minister to the U* S., recalled by the German-controlled Copenhagen government, for his role in the negotiations. Cherry Blossom Time in Washington This photo shows how people walked or rode to view the splendor of the hundreds of Japanese cherry trees as they burst in full bloom around the Tidal Basin in the nation’s capital. Inset: Nancy Alden Strong is erowned Queen of the Cherry Blossoms. With her is Sen. John Overton of Louisiana. About a quarter of a million people attended the coronation. Three Generations of Tears in Greece To Watch Air War As the Nazi air blitz shifts from nation to nation only faces in the amiliar pictures of ruined homes are changed. Censors are quick to realize that photos like the one above, taken in Greece, do much to invite sympathy of neutrals. Here three generations of Greek peasantry weep amid ruins of their “blitzed” home. Maj.-Gen. H. H. Arnold, chief of the U. S. army air corps, shown as he boarded a clipper plane in New York for flight to Europe. General Arnold will go to London to act as an official observer for the war de partment. ‘Slight’ Loss in Compensation William McChesney Martin, 34-year-old head of the New York Stock exchange, signing his induction papers at local draft board No. 15, in New York. He is giving up a $48,000-a-year job to become a $21-per- month selectee. Behind him are members of the board and other draftees. Cultural Envoy Douglas Fairbanks Jr., appoint ed cultural envoy to South America to strengthen inter-American under standing through the theatrical arts, tracing their route with his wife. By VIRGINIA VAUE . (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) R ita hayworth, whose • rise to movie heights makes one of Hollywood’s most spectacular success stories, has drawn the co- starring role opposite . Fred Astaire in Columbia’s “He’s My Uncle” because she really deserves it. This is a really im portant picture; the songs are by Cole Porter, the dance se quences will be di rected by Robert Al ton, who did the dance routines for three of Broadway’s most popular cur rent musicals. Rita’s Rita Hayworth ® member of the in ternationally known Cansino family; has danced all her life. *— Did you happen to listen to Bing Crosby’s radio program the night J. Carrol Naish appeared on it? If you did, you’ll remember that Naish sang an Irish ballad. Until then nobody in Hollywood knew that he had a good baritone voice, and had sung on the stage. William C. Thomas of the Pine-Thomas organi zation, producing aviation pictures for Paramount, listened, and learned. Naish was already booked for a role in “Forced Landing”—now he’s scheduled to sing a song as well as act. Ella Neal established something of a record recently when she ap peared in three pictures in three days. On Wednesday she was Jon Hall’s handmaiden in “Aloma of the South Seas”; Thursday morning, for “Buy Me That Town,” she was a mother at her baby’s christening; Friday, she played a Mexican bride in “Hold Back the Dawn”—for that one she had to say something in Spanish, which she doesn’t under stand; she’s still wondering what it meant. —*— If you enjoyed “The Cat and the Canary,” made two years ago, you’ll look forward with good reason to “Nothing But the Truth,” in which the same stars — Bob Hope and Paulette Soddard-appear. It’s in the hands of the same director, Elli ott Nugent. It’s the hilarious story of a stock broker who bets $10,000 that he won’t tell a lie for 24 hours, and the cast includes such capable actors as Ed ward Arnold, Grant Mitchell, Rose Hobart, Helen Vinson, Leon Belasco and Leif Erikson. Hi / It looks as if Gloria Swanson would really return to the screen in “Father Takes a Wife” with Adolphe Menjou, Desi Arnaz and John How ard. Mr. Menjou, famous for his wardrobe, and Miss Swanson, equal ly famous for hers, have been hav ing wardrobe tests at RKO; she has a reputation in New York for being able to wear just anything at all and look smart in it. \u xlx Joan Crawford’s New York fans, who troop around at her heels when ever she’s in town, recently present ed her with a rather staggering birthday gift—a birthday card more than two feet square, which they’d had autographed by dozens of fa mous theatrical people. w The public apparently spends a lot of time and thought on trying to beat the quiz shows; the newest wrinkle bobbed up recently in connection with Ben Bernie’s program. For two weeks he was besieged with requests for tickets to the repeat show. Here’s the reason: The final contestants vying for the prize of $100 are selected by their ability to guess from a recording row many shots are fired out of a machine gun in so many seconds. One night on the first show, the number of shots fired was 52. On the repeat show, all the contestants jromptly guessed 49, 50 and 51. But they were fooled—Bernie had 93 shots fired the second time, by let ting the record run longer. * Because a singer on the “Uncle Szra” program got a chance to make a movie with Shirley Temple, the announcer on the same program gets a chance to be a network sing er. The first singer is Bob Nolan, the announcer is Cy Harrice. ODDS AND ENDS—Clark Gable’s nexi for Metro, “Honky Tonk,” in uhich Luna Turner will appear opposite him, turns him into a confidence man and swindle/ who becomes a pouer in a town in tht Yukon . . . RKO will introduce a new ro mantic team in “Lady Scar face”—they’re Frances Neal and Dennis O’Keefe, and the story’s a comedy with a gangland back ground . . . Wendy Barrie and Gcorgi Sanders will be teamed in “The Gay Ful con’’ mystery picture to be made by ll KO. Michael Arlen (remember “The Green Hat”?) is the author . .. 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