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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C„ THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1941 WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features—WNU Service.) XTEW YORK.—Back in the days of Sockless Jerry Simpson and the Populists and the rock-and-sock battle between Wall Street and the Corn Belt, there was a prairie heal er and evan gelist named Slater who scolded the farmers for their intemperate talk about the New York bankers, and said that when the millennium came they would be brothers again. It Comes to Pass— Bankers Pick a Farmer to Lead The evangelist might have been locked up had he predicted that within four or five decades the board of directors of the New York Stock exchange would hire an Illinois farmer, with no experience in se curities dealing, to be president of the exchange. These things came to pass, in the Rev. Mr. Slater’s scriptural par lance. By unanimous vote of the board of governors, the $48,000-a- year exchange job is offered to Emil Schram, operator of the Hartwell Farms at Hillview, 111., and head of the Reconstruction Finance cor poration since July, 1939. As this is .written there is word from Washing ton that Mr. Schram will accept the post. The tall, baldish, urbane, deep voiced Mr. Schram has been es teemed in Washington for his bi lingual accomplishments. It has been noted that he can talk to New Dealers and business men in their own language. Under the tutelage of Jesse Jones, who brought him into the RFC, and whom he succeeded as its head, he has served not only as a liaison between business and government, but between agri cultural and industrial interests. Shrewd onlookers in Wall Street are interpreting his call to* the big board as a protective meas ure by the governors. The idea is that he might be a shock ab sorber as war tension brings more governmental regulation. Wartime Rules Invoked to Guard Capitol Fights Polio Capitol police begin checking articles carried by visitors, for the first time since World War I days, when a time-bomb exploded in the senate reception room. Fourteen officers are stopping all visitors at the seven entrances to the building, and relieve all sight-seers of bundles, cameras, umbrellas and other articles. At the invitation of President Roosevelt to take treatment for po lio, Higinio Morinigo Jr., son of the president of Paraguay, arrives at Miami airport with his mother and Maria Carmen Pena, four, en route to Warm Springs, Ga. Australian Prime Minister Arrives Gift From Red Cross Robert G. Menzies, prime minister of Australia, and companions, pictured as they arrived in New York, from Europe, on the Pan-American Dixie Clipper. Left to right: Menzies; Frederick Sheddon, secretary of Australian-British defense co-ordination department; and John Storey, member of Australian-British aircraft production committee. John G. Winant, United States ambassador to Great Britain, handi ing over a check for 70,000 pounds to Lady Reading, chief of the Wom en’s Volunteer Service, in London. The money was sent from the Amer< ican Red Cross. Of the third generation of German immigrants, Emil Schram finished high school in Peru, Ind., and took a job as a roustabout and handy man in J. O. Cole’s lumber and coal yard. By the time he was twenty-one, he was the bookkeeper for the business. Several years later, his employer took over 5,000 acres of swamp land on the Illinois river. He assigned his young bookkeeper the job of draining and developing the large tract of land. Within a few years, the yield from the land was run up from 6,000 Schram Proves bushels of corn per Expert in Work year, to 140,- Of Reclamation ofvfpr ^rnn other crop increases in proportion. Young Mr. Schram acquired a substantial inter est in the project, which became the Hartwell Land trust. Twenty tenant farmers have been on the reclaimed land for more than 25 years. Mr. Schram’s first contacts with the federal government came in later years as he be came active in community drainage and reclamation proj ects, requiring federal co-opera tion. As chairman of the board of directors of the National Drainage association, he had dealings with the Hoover ad ministration, when the Illinois river was messing up farm lands in this vicinity, and loans for flood control and reclama tion were needed. The astute Jesse Jones made him chairman of the drainage, levee and ir-. rigation division of the RFC. He later was a swing man in va rious government activities, includ ing the presidency of the Home and Farm authority, a TVA subsidiary. He made it pay. Recently Edward R. Stettinius “drafted” him as as sistant priorities administrator, to allocate raw materials for defense purposes. Mr. Schram is 48 years old, the grandson of a woodworker. He is a Democrat, but he has never been active in politics, and has never been a candidate for office. William M. Martin Jr., the “boy president” of the Stock exchange, whom Mr. Schram will succeed, quit his lucrative job for $21 a month as a private in the army. His term of office had been a good invest ment, but not solely because of the $48,000-a-year salary. To take the exchange presidency, he had to sell his seat, for several hundred thou sand dollars. Today’s sales of ex change seats at $20,000, the lowest since 1898, reveal young Mr. Martin as having played in luck, regard less of salary. Much of the same to Mr. Schram. Home Legionnaires Sign Up Proof of Sabotage A group of army mothers who attended the organization meeting of the Home Legion in New York city, signing a huge post card which was mailed to the President by those pledged to do all in their power to make the lot of the soldier in camp a happier one. The Home Legion is composed of wives, mothers, sisters and sweethearts of draftees. First picture of damaged machin* ery aboard Italian liner Colorado, being examined by J. C. Mahon, from coast guard cutter Unalga at San Juan, Puerto Rico. The FBI is investigating charges that th^ damage was caused by the crew. North Star Returns From Antarctic Reich Mouthpiece After thrilling experiences in the Antarctic, 36 hardy adventurers arrived in Boston on the North Star. Rear Admiral Richard Byrd, al ready in Boston, was on hand to greet them. In above group are, L. to R., Dr. Paul Siple, commander of the Little America base; Mrs. Siple; Admiral Byrd; Mrs. F. Wade, and F. Wade, senior scientist. Otto von Reinebeck, German min ister to Central America, at Guate mala City, who, it is alleged, is also head of the German intelligenc# service in Central America. By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) M ARCH OF TIME camera men went on a long and perilous voyage to film some of the material used in “Crisis in the Atlantic”—they went from Canada to England aboard a tanker in convoy. The film also includes the first pictures to ar rive here from Greenland since that strategic island has become so important. “Crisis in the Atlantic” vividly portrays the many aspects of the struggle to keep the sea lanes open so that war materials and food can be sent to Britain, and depicts as well the joint U. S.-Canadian defense* 1 efforts involving bases from the Arc tic to the South Atlantic. It’s a film scoop; don’t miss it! * Brian Donlevy has been spending a lot of time learning to do some thing that will be quite useless in pri vate life. In “The Great Man’s Lady,” a Paramount pro duction, he plays the part of a pro fessional gambler, a master hand at cheating. And what makes it all the more painful is the fact that Donlevy Brian Donlevy has an abhorrence of all card games, even the game of Authors. 'J' Bette Davis is at it again, play ing one of the most unpleasant wom en ever seen on the screen. It’s for “The Little Foxes,” RKO’s screen version of the tremendously suc cessful play. It was RKO, you may recall, that set Miss Davis squarely on her feet, dramatically, by casting her as the heroine of “Of Human Bondage”—a role few actresses would have had the courage to take. She took it, and made movie history. \u ' Anna Neagle does an entire dance number while submerged in a glass tank filled with wa ter in her new pic ture, “Sunny.” Back in England she won medals for swim ming and diving, so she got into a scanty sequin cos tume and combined her talents as a swimmer and a dancer. The story’s laid in New Orleans during the Mardi Gras, and Ray Bol- ger and John Carroll head the sup porting cast. The under-water dance is a stunt new to pictures—new, as well, to Miss Neagle, we might add. Mr si'* At the age of 97 Bob Hope’s grand father is helping to extinguish incen diary fires in the English village where he lives. “My health at pres ent is much better than my disposi tion,” he wrote his grandson. “I don’t mind staying up at night to see your pictures, but I hate to have to miss my sleep just to put out some fires.” Meanwhile Bob is slated to do an other of those hilarious comedies with Paulette Goddard; it’s called “The Murder Farm,” and sounds as if it might even top “The Cat and the Canary” and "The Ghost Break ers,” their previous collaborations. * Agnes Moorebead, who plays the mother in Orson Welles’ remarka ble “Citizen Kane,” first encoun tered Welles when he was five and she was not much older. He strolled into a hotel lobby with his father, describing a concert which he had just heard, and doing it so dramati cally that she never forgot him. She makes her film debut in “Citizen Kane,” and gives a beautiful, sin cere performance. In fact, the whole cast does that—you forget that the people on the screen are acting, be cause they seem so real. —*— Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Taylor didn’t tell even their best friends that they were going off on that West Indies cruise; waited un til just before the boat sailed to send telegrams announcing their plans. It’s their first vacation to gether in 18 months, and their sec ond trip together since they were married three years ago. They sailed as Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Brugh, hoping to avoid advance plans for ovations at their various ports of call. Anna Neagle ODDS AND ENDS—Warner Brothers drafted college students to man the guns in “Dive Bomber" and “The Flight Fa- trol"—the army draft left a shortage in the ranks of extras . . . “Robin Hood"’ is going to be a Republic serial, with Roy Rogers in the title role . . . Robert Cum- mings will be Deanna Durbin’s leading man in “Almost an Angel” . . . Edgw Bergen and Charlie McCarthy are begin- ning their fifth year with that coffee pro gram—and when they started Bergen wasn’t at all sure that he could turn out a script a week . . . “The Fause That Re freshes on the Air’’ has been renewed for another 26 weeks—one of the few network shows to run all summer. Easy to Reduce Weight When You Limit Calories You Lose Two Pounds a Week. A TRUE slimming story! And ** a really happy ending, too, when a stout woman diets the cal ory way. By limiting food calories to around 1,200 a day, she not only loses—as much as 24 pounds in three months—but feels radiantly younger. And the lovely part is that while reducing you eat as much as ever! * • * Have a graceful, girlish new figure— soon! Our 32-page booklet gives 42 tasty low-calory menus, a newly enlarged calory chart. Also tells hew to gain. 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