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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.
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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
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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.
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By limiting food calories to
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* • *
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A fault concealed is presumed to
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For Your Health
Gladness, Temperance and Re
pose slam the door on the doctor’s
nose.—Longfellow.
DONT BE BOSSED
BY YOUR LAXATIVE-RELIEVE
CONSTIPATION THIS MODERN WAY
• When you feel gassy, headachy, logy
due to clogged-up bowels, do as autlions
do—take Feen-A-Mint at bedtime. Next
morning — thorough, comfortable relief,
helping you start the day full of your
normal energy and pep, feeling like a
million! Feen-A-Mint doesn’t disturb
your night’s rest or interfere with work the
next day. TVy Feen-A-Mint, the chewing
gum laxative, yourself. It tastes good, it’s
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FEEN-A-MINT To;
Habits Multiply
111 habits gather by unseen de
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ers run to seas.—Ovid.
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'AU the Traffic
Would Bear*
• There was a time in America
when there were no set prices.
Each merchant charged what
he thought “the traffic would
bear.” Advertising came to
the rescue of the consumer.
It led the way to the estab
lished prices you pay when
you buy anything today.