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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1941
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' 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 . .. George Brent and
Basil Rathbone have the leads in “G-Man
Versus Scotland Yard.”
Bob Hope
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