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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1941 WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F„ PARTON (Consolidated Features—WNU Service.) ■^EW YORK.—Back in the caln untroubled days of February, 1939, with one more spring not far behind, a famous economist, return ing from Eu rope, told the ship n • cl j news men Peering Skyward that this They Also Serve Who Only Stand, war scare was all paper talk. Re sponsible statesmen of Europe had things well in hand. On this same day, there was a little item, back in the dustbin of the newspaper, reporting that, in certain minor changes in the army, the President was putting the “ac cent on youth.” One Brig. Gen. Delos C. Emmons, a youth of 51, was upped to the post of chief of the army’s mobile general head quarters air force. Five or six other youngsters were similarly elevated. The other day, the quietly ef fective General Emmons was given direction of a new organi sation of possibly 500,000 or 600,000 civilian air raid spotters. Four brigadier generals will as sist him in recruiting and train ing his volunteer observers. Back in 1916, we thought of air planes as primarily useful for ob servation, and it was the signal corps, our only flying service, that the then Captain Emmons entered. He adapted himself quickly to the fighting as well as observing uses of planes, became a keen technician in the art of plane development and flying, and, in 1920 and 1921 taught flying at Harvard university. He is a native of Huntington, W. Va., and graduated from West Point in 1909. A/TISS MABEL BOARDMAN, tall, regal, tireless and alert, is a born co-operator and commander. Her 40 years with the Red Cross is . An Accident Cave f ‘ imely ci : tation, not Disaster Victims only in the Catwe to Rejoice ^“edy of London, but in her current Wash ington announcement that the Red Cross is geared for swift emergency action. In this connection, she men tions the fact that it sent more than $23,000,000 to Europe last year, and gives other details of its expanding and intensifying organization. Miss Boardman is secretary of the American Red Cross. During her service, its member- . ship has grown from 300 to 15,000,000, with much of the credit for this increase assigned to her. Born and reared in Cleveland, with abundant means and distinguished family ante cedents, she was a Washington society bud. In 1900, a friend made an unauthorized use of her 1 name as one of-the incorpora tors of the new Red Cross. Miss Boardman accepted the call and has helped guide and build the vast organization with unflagging energy and administrative and or ganizing ability. She is straight as a ramrod, serene and at ease, but with a touch of military alertness, —an ever watchful evangel against all the plagues of the litany. T AST October, Major Edward Bowes, of radio fame, gave his Westchester estate to the Lutheran church. Then, in November, he Maj. Bowes Gives ? ave his 6 U 2 ; * ton yacht With Freedom of and his 29- One From Frisco navy. Previously he had given to St. Patrick’s cathedral four huge English elms and eight Schwedleri maples. And now he is giving to St. Patrick’s an Andrea del Sarto painting, masterpiece of the Floren tine painter, done in 1515. It is “The Holy Family With St. John and Ste. Elizabeth.” The major started on a grand garrison finish, along in his fif ties. This writer remembers him as a genial evangel of real estate, and a crusader against crime in San Francisco, many years ago. Even in that day he had imposed on a grammar school education the smoothest diction in those parts. It was in San Francisco, a mosi theatrical town, that he moved into the theater. It was in 1917 that he built the Capitol theater in New York and thereafter his career was a pleasant upbound ride on a gold- plated escalator. Off and on, he has been radio’s best magnet for fan-mail and his “take” has been put down at around $25,000 a week. He started his amateur hour in 1934 and it quickly blazed into a four-eleven conflagra tion. He lives abstemiously, as to food and drink, but sports a $38,000 car, with Venetian blinds, a refrig erator and gold-rimmed dishes ; and he provides plenty of Lucullan trim mings for the entertainment of his guests. He gives things away on the slightest provocation and couldn’t possibly have come from anywhere but San Francisco. Fire Demon Takes Heavy Toll in East Damage estimated at about $2,000,000 was caused in the Ocean Bluffs, Mass., area as the result of a fire that destroyed a church and leveled more than 450 cottages. Only a timely shift in wind saved hundreds of other houses. The above photo shows a row of cottages burning fiercely when the fire was at its height. Mexican Army Doctors Study U. S. Methods Mexican army medical officers visit a Chicago draft induction station to study V. S. army methods. From left, Capt. L. Johnson of the draft center. Mexican army men, Majors Salas, Vera and Sanchez; Lieu tenant Colonel Ramos and Major Gomez. Captain C. Buczynski, of the draft center. Major Zapata of Mexico. Seated: R. Forsythe, a selectee. iiiiiiiii More Might for Uncle Sam’s Navy Two powerful fighting ships will be commissioned on May 15, when the 253-foot submarine Mackerel (upper left), and the 35,000-ton super- dreadnaught Washington (below), are placed in service. The Washington will join her sister ship, the North Carolina, which was commissioned last month. Four other battleships will be launched within a year. Women Bowlers Hold Tournament These champion bowlers will defend their titles when the Women’s International Bowling Congress opens its annual tournament in Los Angeles on May 15. Mrs. Tess Morris (left) is all-events champion and shares the doubles crown with Mrs. Dorothy B. Miller (center), while Mrs. Sally Twyford (right), is national singles titleholder. U. S. Loan to China Signing of a stabilization agree ment involving the purchase of Chi nese yuan by the U. S. stabilization fund to the amount of $50,000,000 was another important step in the monetary co-operation between the United States and China. Photo shows (seated) Henry Morgenthau Jr., secretary of the treasury, and T. V. Soong, representing China. Standing: Dr. Hu Shih, Chinese am. bassador. Wins Safety Award Gov. R. A. Hurley of Connecticut (left) receiving the National Safety Council’s 1940 grand award for states from Col. John Stilwell, presi dent of the Council, whose traffic contest is conducted in 1,281 cities in the 48 states. Cotton Royalty Five days of festivities will be ruled over by their majesties, R. L. Mallory Jr. and Miss Nancy Donel- son, at the Cotton carnival to be held in Memphis, Tenn., May 13-17. There will be a “float” for nearly every state. Tulip Time Almost 3,000,000 tulips surround this little fellow as Holland, MicH., prepares for Tulip Time on May 17- 24. Wooden shoes and the costumes of old Holland will prevail. By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union. T WO April weddings in the Hollywood movie colony are still topics for conversation, one because it was so conventional, for Hollywood, the other be cause it was so unusual for that colony and just the accepted thing anywhere else. The Yuma marriage of Constance Bennett and Gilbert Roland was Hol ly woodian. It was Miss Bennett’s fourth marriage, they drove to Yuma by themselves and the clergy man had to supply witnesses. The other, Deanna Durbin’s marriage to Vaughn Paul, was a big church wed ding, very beautiful, and motion pic ture stars who were friends of the ^ride and groom were invited but not featured as part of the perform ance. An achievement, in Holly wood! —as— Rudy Vallee is ready to chuck his career and undertake a new one at ■ ^ the drop of a mega- ijfcrSL. 1 phone. Now appear- ESi&rasL ; j n g ^ Columbia’s musical picture, I ? “Time Out for Rhythm,” with Ann I I Miller, Ttosemary Lane and Allen Jen kins, he’s ready to drop acting and singing if he can get a chance to di rect pictures. He’s even bought a home in Beverly Hills to be near the center of the movie busi ness. & Rudy Vallee During the next few months there will be a virtual parade of film play ers to the Latin-American countries. Spencer Tracy and Eleanor Powell are slated for good-will visits; Doug las Fairbanks Jr. will be a sort of good-will ambassador, and Marsha Hunt plans on spending six weeks in South America after she’s finished “Blossoms in the Dust.” % “Citizen Kane,” Orson Welles’ first RKO Radio production, aroused plenty of controver sy long before it was released, and will be one of those pictures that people will argue about years after they’ve seen it. It may not be the best picture ever made, but cer tainly it is one of the best—but there are those who main tain that it should never have been made at all. Welles himself scores superbly as writer, actor and pro ducer; the rest of the cast is so good that you forget that they’re acting. * Orson Welles The first day she appeared on the “Manpower” set Marlene Dietrich announced that she’d take whatever punishment the script asked George Raft to hand her. That included his slapping her twice across the face, knocking her down a flight of stairs, then leaping after her and hitting her across the mouth with the back of his hand. But George hit her harder than he intended, Marlene tumbled down the stairs (as per script), but wound up by severely spraining her ankle (which the script did not call for!). * Two more well known stage anc screen players—Martha Sleeper anc William Harrigan—have joined th( cast of “We Are Always Young,’ Mutual chain’s star-studded serial That cast probably includes more “name” actors than any other se rial on the air; among them are Jessie Royce Landis, Linda Wat kins, Margalo Gilmore, Joe Laurie Jr., Horace Braham, Pert Kelton George Coulouris, and William Jan- ney, who’s starred. Andy Hardy’s own, a squadron of RAF fighters, will soon take to the air. Mickey Rooney, the Hardy se ries “Andy,” received a letter the other day from a young RAF flier who wrote “We’re all young fellows in this squadron and we all think you’re an o. k. sort of lad, so we’ve nicknamed our squadron (soon to see action) for you.” Stirling Hayward lost Madeleine Carroll in “Virginia,” but he*S slat ed to win her in “Dildo Cay.” As originally planned, it was Dorothy Lamour whom he was to win, but she will be unable to finish her current assignment in “Aloma of the South Seas” in time to appear in the picture. * ODDS AND ENDS — Mutuals news analyst, Wythe Williams, is sponsored on more stations than any fellow analyst— has 100 stations . . . Robert Donat has leave from the British army to make “Rill the Younger" in an English studio . . . Warner Bros, have bought a story called “Coffin for Dmitrios” and Columbia is making one called “Obituary”—and trying to think up a new title f t or it .. . 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