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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1941 WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK Off for Joint Maneuvers With Marines I Vi « By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features—WNU Service.) XTEW YORK.—The army could use a few top-flight Broadway playwrights, particularly those who have had war experience. But it -At • already has Army Impresario its Da _ Injects Realism vid Belasco. • . mww r* War games, Into War Games to condition our new army of 1,400,000 men for real combat now provide the ut most in dramatic realism. There are machines to simulate faithfully the screaming of Stuka bombers; there will be the roar of gunfire— with blank cartridges, of course; {there will be parachute attacks, ma chine gunning from airplanes, and every possible device to keep the boys from forgetting that “they’re in the army now.” Gen. Lesley James McNair, chief of staff of general head quarters, a small, keen, alert man who seems omnipresent in the army camps, is the impre sario in this the army’s biggest and most’serious venture in ap plied theatricals. He has had long experience in war games and has convincingly portrayed them as invaluable rehearsals for the real thing, not only for the instruction imparted but tor the unconscious, reflex condi tioning of nerves and sensitivity to the now heightened tumult of war. When the nucleus of a general headquarters staff was formed July 25, 1940, General McNair was put at the head of it. That subsequently placed in his hands the intensified and expanded war-training maneu vers, far exceeding anything ever before attempted, and last Septem ber he took over the entire training program of the rapidly increasing army. It is regarded as an undertak ing of the utmost importance and President Roosevelt recent ly promoted the army Belasco from major general to the rank of temporary lieutenant general. His knowledge of war is by no means confined to make-believe. He fought with the field artil- _ _ r in France and won the U. S. Distinguished Service medal and the French Legion of Honor. He is a native of Minnesota and was graduated from West Point in , 1904. ^ T wis writer went to the wedding of a young woman friend a few weeks ago. The bridegroom was a tall, loose-geared, bespectacled Perchance Radio S'aTen- Beam Led Inventor chanting grin . _ _ . „ ., and a thick To Comeiy Bride th atch of brownish hair. The bride told us he was a scientist. We should have known that he was Russell Varian, the inventor, with his brother Sigurd and several other associates, of the Klystron radio generator which American technicians say is better than anything the British have in their new plane-spotting system and ■which has made blind-flying, in fog or night, like a trip around the block in a baby-carriage. Russell Varian worked his way through Stanford, odd-jobbing for the professors. His brother Sigurd was a flight captain with the Pan-Ameri can Airways on Mexican and Cen tral American routes. One day Rus sell got a letter from Sigurd in which Sigurd said he. was tired of ramming around in fog and night and they ought to get together and work out a radio beam which hom ing planes could really follow. Rus sell thought that was a good idea, so Sigurd brought him his savings of $4,000 and the boys set up a workshop at Halcyon. Their facilities just wouldn’t do. Dr. David L. Webster, head of the department of physics, at Stanford, provided a laboratory, gave them effective aid in every possible way and made them research associates of the uni versity, bnt the university could provide no funds. Sigurd’s $4,000 dwindled to $47. The young men were living sketchily when the Klystron came through. A rep resentative of the Bureau of Civ il Aeronautics put them in touch with the Sperry Gyroscope Co. Sperry hurriedly plunked down a check for $25,000 and built a laboratory for Russell in Garden City, Long Island. Etussell came to New York- His iio beam had guided him straight Miss Jane Martinson, a comely search worker ip biochemistry, tee of Miss Bessie Beatty of the rrent radio team of “Betty and il.” It was a case of love at first ;ht on the part of both. Hence the dding, just a fortnight later, in i East Nineteenth street residence Adolph Berle, now occupied by ss Beatty. Bride and bridegroom, th tireless hikers, had their out- ar togs ready for a long vaca- n and honeymoon tramp through w England. *.v v.- Hlili Troops of the first division are pictured as they boarded a V. S. army transport vessel in New York, before sailing to take part in joint maneuvers with United States marines along the coast of North Carolina. Giant B-19 Takes Off :-. Y mm < / ^ - ' %<v>X-X<<vX\vX*XvX'XvXv>X<Xv:v.v.*.* x-x-xxx-x :<;.-Xv: t::x:::>::; ; :x::-::::xvv::::::xvx:::::::x:*;-:v:-:%xx%v:::x-x-::;::-x-:x:;>xx:;:::::::::;:v.;::X.: x:::>:>>::-:>::::::>::-:::^::::::-:::::*xx:x : Xv::-::x::v;-:-:-x:*::;:::::v::-:::x:::::>:XxX;:::::;X;::::x mm ' I ;>.v.vXv.;.; ^♦^•❖x-xvx-xv; Douglas B-19 bomber, largest airplane ever built, is pictured above as it took off on its first test hop from Clover field, Santa Monica, Calif. The mighty plane lifted from the concrete runway amid a rousing cheer from Douglas workers and army officials. Army air corps ace test pilot, Stanley Umstead, was at the controls. Army Conducts Vitamin Tests . i m 9 il m c-xsvx-x-xwrx-:! ■ .*.• . V ■ mm; wZ., Vitamin tests are being conducted at the Chicago quartermaster depot, U. S. army, with the aid of laboratories of many firms, to find foods best suited to sustain soldiers. At top, Capt. R. H. MacDonnell, left, and Lieut. L. E. Kahn, testing various units of C type ration. Bottom: Capt. Charles Herman, left, and Maj. Jesse H. White. U. S. Youths Join R.A.F. ■Il • v..„4 MmM&m Wm :>> >•: Hr; >Mk. mM Cheery and carefree, seven young American fliers wave good-by to Chicago on their way to London to join the R.A.F. L. to R., Robert Wilbur, San Mateo, Calif.; Jack Brown, Chicago; Fred Gamble, Wash ington; Sam Whedon, Beverly Hills, Calif.; Lawrence Ray Jr., Carthage, Mo.; Le Roy Skinner, Webb City, Mo.; and Jim Valley, Amarillo, Texas. Ty Cobb Wins Match ■ Ray Joslyn of the Golden Rule Farm for boys in Franklin, N. Y., for whose benefit this charity golf match was played at the Common wealth Country club, presents Ty Cobb with the Bette Davis trophy, while the Georgia Peach Indicates with his fingers the three-up score in which he beat Babe Ruth. Argentine Quiz ■ r*->\ in I * \ The Argentine congress commit tee has requested evidence uncov ered by Dies committee on Nazi in filtration into Latin America. Shown is Robert Stripling, Dies committee secretary, addressing pouch with evidence of Nazi and Communist activities in South America, to Buenos Aires. Army ‘Admiral’ Mmm mimmm • S - • . .• giSS5flB&a 1 $ iE^SCREErOADIO By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) T ESTING’S under way at Paramount for “For Whom the Bell Tolls”; Charles Laugh ton, Akim Tamiroff and Oscar Homolka have been considered for the role of “Pablo,” but the burning question is—who’ll play “Maria”? It calls for beauty, but even more for the ability to act. We hear that Paulette Goddard heads the list of the girls to be tested; seems as if it would be a superb piece of miscasting if she got the part. Ingrid Berman’s our choice—and the author’s. wiHhijVi ' ' ••X-X^x-xx 1 wX , x-xcvXv>:*xvX-x«>>.X*X'.X:ii4 Ginger Rogers Ginger Rogers has signed for three years more with RKO; she’s been there for eight years. She did “Fly ing Down to Rio” then, and her danc- ■aiHs: • afc HI ing with Fred Astaire in that little | number made them I our leading dance | team in pictures. | She wisely insisted, at last, on acting as well, and worked up to “Kitty Foyle,” which she didn’t want to do, we hear, but which proved to be her greatest success. She’s just finishing “Tom, Dick and Harry” now, and they say around the lot that it’s a worthy successor to “Kitty Foyle.” * Orson Welles isn’t making any announcements about his second picture for RKO Radio—he kept mum about “Citizen Kane” too, re member, and executives were pretty startled when they found out, too late, what it was all about and it looked as if they might have trouble if they released it. Instead of a trouble-maker, they had one of the best pictures of all time on their hands! Welles has admitted that he will write, produce and direct this new picture, and will star in it. * Joseph Pasternack, who guided Deanna Durbin through her success ful screen career, has signed a con tract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; it looks as if he might do for Kathryn Grayson what he did for Deanna. Hollywood just didn’t give a whoop about Victor Mature until he made a highly press- agented appearance in the New York stage success, “Lady in the Dark/’ He doesn’t act much in the play, just looks tall, dark and handsome. Now it’s announced that two motion picture com panies want him; one, Twentieth Cen tury-Fox, has bought half his contract Victor Mature from Hal Roach and will feature him in two pictures a year. The first will be “Bowery Nightingale,” co-starring with Alice Faye. Old timers among the movie fans will remember Raymond Hatton; probably they’ll also declare that “The Whispering Chorus,” in which he starred for De Mille, was one of the best pictures ever made. Well, Hatton is working for his old boss again in “Reap the Wild Wind.” Graduated as No. 1 man at U. S. naval academy in 1940, J. P. D’Arezzo did not get his naval com mission because of an eye strain. He tried the army. Today he is a first lieutenant with the coast artil lery in the Canal Zone. He is shown aboard the flagship of the Gatun lake fleet, where he is known as ad miral, of army’s third ocean navy. W. S. Van Dyke, the ace director, has been on active duty with the marine corps for the past year. Now ho’s returned to the Metro lot. And what do you suppose his first assign ment will be? “The Female of the Species”—a long cry from the Marines! * Hikes 20,600 Miles >: :-:-:X-x ;: .. :: wm ■Mm We* isi •••• ft Did you happen to hear “Man on the Street” on the “Manhattan at Midnight” radio show about a month ago? Within 24 hours after the sketch was presented five motion picture studios were after it. Para mount won out; Bing Crosby and Mary Martin will co-star. They’ve just completed “Birth of the Blues,” with Carolyn Lee and Brian Don- levy. MX People who’ve heard Bob Hope rave on the radio about Madeleine Carroll have decided that he must know her well enough to get auto graphed pictures of the blonde star for them. She’s on location in the West Indies, so they’ve been pes tering him for the photographs. He doesn’t mind; he just got a lot of her pictures, autographed them with his own name, and had them mailed. Four years afterleaviiigVenezuela, Julio Berrlzbeitia, 19-year-old Boy Scout, arrived in Washington, com pleting his 20,600-mile hike. He car- i ried a letter from the president of Venezuela to F. D. R. ODDS AND ENDS—Wayne Morris got leave from the Navy Department to finish “The Smiling Ghost" for Warner Bros, before he became an ensign . .#. NBC is preparing a new series, “Boy Meets Band," for its singer-bandleader, Ted Steele, who used to be an NBC page boy . . . Though Bing Crosby can't read a note of music t the boys in John Scott Trotter’s band say he’s a swell conductor . . . Metro will push Marsha Hunt up the ladder as a result of her tvork in "Blossoms in the Dust” . . . Service men who want to and can see Hollywood stars broadcasting should ap ply to Charles Posner of the United Sen* ice Organizations. Ask Me Another 9 ^ General Quiz The Questiont 1. What is a chuck-will’s-widow?, 2. When it’s 11 a. m. in Omaha, what time is it in Galveston, Texas? 3. Where are the Plains of Abraham? 4. What does a mace symbolize in legislative houses? 5. How does the world’s record for running and ice skating 100 yards compare? 6. Who did Sir Walter Raleigh plot to place on the British thronq in place of James I? The Answers 1. A bird. (So called from its] note.) 2. 11 a. m. j 3. Canada (Quebec). ( 4. Authority. A mace is a staff or mallet. 5. The record in both cases is| 9.4—Identical to the split second,? 6. Arabella Stuart. 1 BETTER VISION TWfcOUSH EYE GLASSES WAS DISCOVERED BY lUftNODtaMftR) AROUND i275i THE BETTER WAY TO TREAT Constipation due to lack OF PROPER BULK IN THE DIET IS TO CORRECT THE CAUSE OF THE TROUBLE With a delicious CEREAL, KEU066S ALL-BRAN. 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