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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C, THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1941
A
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
(Consolidated Features—WNU Service.)
f^EW YORK.—A few years ago,
Anita Loos’ maid used to de
liver to her every day a dash of
gbpher dust from Harlem. We
Strung Manuscript he ard wheth-
Across Continent; er this still
Her Net, $600,000 °£ ar b “*
seems to be still working. All goes
well as “Blossoms in the Dust” gets
warm, almost fulsome from the crit
ics. Miss Loos did the screen
play for Ralph Wheelwright’s story.
It taps deep founts of tears and
ranges far from Miss Loos’ “Gen
tlemen Prefer Blondes,’’ and its
Lorelei Lee, the alluring and un
abashed golddigger of 1925. It’s one
of those “where, are they now?”
stories, with Miss Loos sitting
pretty, literally and figuratively, as
a deft, swift, workmanlike story
adapter, scenarist and remodeler in
Hollywood—one of the best.
The pint-size girl with bangs—
weight 87 pounds, height four
feet, eleven inches—was riding
on the train from California to
New York in 1925, considerably
bored. She started writing np
this golddigger Lorelei, with a
soft-stub pencil, in big, round
letters. The manuscript strung
along clear through Kansas and
Indiana and on to New York,
and was almost as big as Miss
Loos, what with those big rope-
trick letters, when she landed
here.
It brought her something over
$600,000. It was translated into vir
tually every language except Es
kimo and pigeon-talk, and in Eng
land its sales passed those of any
other American book. She later
wrote “But Gentlemen Marry Bru
nettes.”
Her talent for humor may
have been inherited from her
father, a country newspaper
publisher and humorist of the
Bill Nye school, of Sissons,
Calif., where Miss Loos was
born. She was a shy, quaint
little thing, hanging around the
newspaper shop, helping polish
up a gag or feed the flatbed.
When she was 14, she sent a
story to the New York Morning
Telegraph. They printed it. A
year later David Griffith sent for
a girl who had sent a scenario
which had set his assistants to
whooping joyously.
“What can I do for you, my
child?” he asked when the tiny girl
with bangs and pigtails came in.
The Loos girl showed him her sum
mons to Hollywood. There she was
and is. In the years between she
had become a pretty good actress,
appearing in San Francisco and oth
er California cities.
TUST a year ago, Roger L. Put
*“* nam, go-getting mayor of Spring-
field, Mass., was much in the news
with the Putnam plan to break bot-
tlenecks in
Management, Over industry. He
Finance, Rapidly caught the
Forging Into Lead £y
his success in achieving co-opera
tion among the city, industry and
labor, the most important detail of
his formula being the training of la
bor by the city, to fit specific needs.
He’s in the news as Springfield’s
defense director with some snappy
suggestions about the swift and ef
fective integration of civilians and
officials, and private and public
facilities. His successful battles
with two floods and a hurricane give
weight to his words.
He’s Harvard, 1915, did a P.G.
stretch at M.I.T., worked at
engineering and was in the navy
in the World war. In the navy
he learned to crochet cord belts,
an art which he still practices,
and Putnam-made belts are in
great demand among his
friends. He is the father of
three boys and three girls, 48
years old, stocky in build, but
quick-moving both in person and
speech. He is president of the
Package Machinery Co.
More and more management, as
above, is coming to the top, as
against finance. Note James Burn
ham’s new book, “The Managerial
Revolution,”—malign over there,
still benign over here.
A WIZARD in electrometallurgy
is Dr. Francis C. Frary, who
explains the exact uses to which
aluminum pots and pans may be
put in expediting defense. Since
1918 he has been director of the re
search laboratories of the Aluminum
Company of America at Keystone,
Pa. His work made possible over
2,000 uses of aluminum.
He was schooled at the University
of Minnesota and the University of
Berlin. He then taught for seven
years and became an industrial re
search worker in 1915.
Getting Ready to Take on ‘All Comers’
These are days when many nations are preparing against invaders. At the right, British soldiers are
shown jumping a trench during a theoretical attack, and the upper picture, which was made in Northern
Ireland, shows the men going through a barbed wire entanglement. With Holland in Nazi hands, Nether
lands Indies soldiers are ready to fight for the Pacific islands. At left, Indies artillery men are handling an
snti-airctaft gun while wearing gas masks.
Private Papers
Of a Cub Reporter:
J. Edgar Hoover and the G-Men
received great acclaim from all
sources for rounding up those spies
. . . Some congressmen, however,
showed their appreciation by killing
the wire-tapping bill—designed to
make things easier for the G-Men
in espionage cases . . . What’s the
matter with them? . . . Afraid
they’ll hurt the civil liberties of a
few spies and kidnapers?
Many of the papers now praising
the G-Men for their efficiency in
rounding up the spies are the same
ones that found fault with the G-Men
a short time ago . . . And you were
a G-Man’s stooge if you defended
the FBI.
From page 187 of William Shirer’s
best seller, “Berlin Diary”: “Rep
resentative Ham Fish seems to have
been completely taken in by Ribben-
trop, who gave him an airplane to
rush in to the Inter-Parliamentary
meeting in Scandinavia.”
Boy, that sure explains a lot of
things.
Royalty in Exile—in England and Egypt
King Peter of Jugoslavia (extreme left) who lost his throne when the Nazis steamrollered through the
Balkans, shown in London. At the right, King George of Greece and members of his family rejoice. Left tc
right: Princess Cathrine, Princess Mary, Prince George, Prince Peter and King George. The king and his
party took to the hills when Nazi parachutists invaded Crete, finally boarding a ship for journey to Egypt.
Hot? Look at This and Cool Off
Released
Usually the month of July Is the year’s hottest, and snow is just
so much “wishful thinking.” But here we see Marianne Newton (left),
U. of Utah senior; Wanda Pratt, U. of Arizona student; and Barbara
Kollin, U. of California sophomore, reversing the order of things by
shoveling July snow at Cedar Breaks national monument high in the
mountains of Utah.
P. G. Wodehouse, noted British
author, is free again. He was cap
tured by the Germans in the fall ol
France, and has been released from
the Silesian internment camp and
granted full freedom within (Germa
ny. He is shown here (left) on visit
to Berlin.
First Barrage Balloon at Fort Davis
‘Iron’ Man
Balloon barrage crew of the 301st balloon barrage battalion at Fort
Davis, N. C., shown inflating a D-5 dilatable type which holds 27,000 feet
of helium. It is made of synthetic rubber fabric, and can be inflated in
less than a half hour. This is the first barrage balloon to be inflated at
Fort Davis.
Aid. L. E. Couplin of St. Louis is
finding real work pleasant. Because
he had grown flabby, Couplin went
back to iron working, his trade be
fore entering politics, and is mak
ing $70 a week. He still holds his
aldermanic job at $1,800 per year.
By all means read the article on
Wheeler and Roosevelt in the July
15 Look . . . While Wheeler goes
around the country wrapping him
self in the Flag and rapping the
President by using all kinds of ideal
istic arguments—this article proves
that the whole thing is strictly per
sonal . . . And get this: The reason
Wheeler sneers at everything the
President does—according to the ar
ticle—is that Mrs. Wheeler doesn’t
like the President!!!
Everett Boeder, one of the al
leged spies rounded up by the G-
Men, had an important job at the
Sperry Gyroscope company—which
manufactures some of our most vi
tal defense material . . . When
that company was first given de
fense contracts, we pointed out (in
the column and on the air) that Nazi
agents worked there ... It has
taken more than a year to confirm
these allbgations.
Congressman Coffee introduced a
resolution in congress to stop the
sale of oil to Japan . . . Just the
other day we gave some oil to Vichy,
but if we send any oil to Britain, we
are trying to get tfte country into
the war.
With typical stupidity, Virginio
Gayda is giving away Nazi plans
. . . The other day he boasted that
if Germany whips Russia, they will
have air bases near Alaska and will
be able to bomb the Western hemi
sphere ... Of course, the appeas
ers refuse to believe that anything
like that can happen.
Or maybe they know they can stop
bombs from hitting their homes by
making certain kinds of speeches
now.
A bored gal buttonholed a stag at
the Stork Club bar and begged him
to crash the table where she sat
with her kluck.
“He’s boring me with his mono
logue,” she wept. “He’s repeating
himself like a day-time radio com
mercial.”
From F.P.A.’s Column: “New
names for this and new names for
that. How about the America Last
Committee?”
How about getting it first? And
don’t WHOM me!!!
A Lexington Avenue motorist
jammed on his brakes two inches
from a jay-walker and cussed him
to a cinder. “Gwan, you ape,” the
pedestrian squelched, “the last gen
eration of your family was menacing
people with coconuts instead of
cars.”
F.D.R. freezing Axis dough over
here panicked lots of the well-heeled
refugees . . . The allotment of $500
a month to everybody is going to
cramp their style, shoo them out
of the luxury hotels and hamper
them from picking up cafe checks.
But if they think their money has
been frozen, wait’ll they see the ex
pressions on the faces of some of
their fair-weather friends.
Notes of an
Innocent Bystander:
The Big Parade: Ex-Heavyweight
Champion James J. Braddock, now
a soda water emir, making the
rounds of the midtown joynts and
grills to peddle his product . . .
District Attorney Dewey boarding
a taxi near the Biltmore as cabmen
gape in awe . . . Spencer Tracy
and Paul Muni, a couple of Holly-
wiseguys, looking like any other two
“out-of-towners”—ha, ha!
Sallies in Our Alley: One of the
Broadway health - seekers was
floored by the 90 per cent humidity
. . . “Whew,” he complained, “it’s
so hot I can’t stand it under my
sun lamp!” ... An actress opened
in a new show and was slapped
with so many summonses and at
tachments on her first pay night that
she thought it was snowing . . .
Overheard description of a midtown
magazine editor: “He’s so yellow he
could sell the streak up his back
for a caution signal.”
istoriad
Lf Zlmo Scott Wation
(Released by Western Kewspaper Union.)
Yellow Wolf, Indian Patriot
CIX years ago there died on the
Colville Indian reservation in
Washington a patriot of a lost cause.
You may never have heard of him,
for his name was Hemene Moxmox
which, translated into the white
man’s language, mearw “Yellow
Wolf.”
An Indian “a patriot of a lost
cause”? Yes! For Yellow Wolf was
as truly a patriot as was any ragged
Continental who plodded through the
snows of Valley Forge, and the “lost
cause” in which he served was that
of his people, the Nez Perces, who,
some 60 years ago, were fighting
against injustice in the face of over
whelming odds.
The story of that struggle is not
an unfamiliar one, and there is no
brighter page in military annals
than that which tells of the masterly
skill with which Chief Joseph led his
people on their retreat from the
banks of the Clearwater river in
Idaho to the Bear Paw mountains
in Montana between June and Octo
ber of 1877. Yellow Wolf shares
in the glory of that achievement,
for he was a cousin of Chief Joseph
and one of his chief lieutenants in
that epic march.
But interesting though Yellow
Wolf may be, as the “last great
Nez Perce warrior,” he is a more
important figure in history than that
characterization indicates. He not
only helped make history but he
helped write about it later. Thirty-
Taking down Yellow Wolf’s Story
r—(Left to right) Thomas Hart, in
terpreter; Yellow Wolf; L. Mc
Whorter.
three years ago he began telling
the story of his life to a frontier his
torian, L. McWhorter, of* Yaki
ma, Wash. The tale was complete
before his life ended and recently
it was published in book form by the
Caxton Printers of Caldwell, Idaho.
There have been many accounts
of the Nez Perce war but virtually
all of them have been written from
the viewpoint of the white man.
“Yellow Wolf: His Own Story”
gives, for the first time, a complete
account of that tragedy as seen by
one of its victims. It tells how the
Nez Perces were defrauded of their
ancestral homes by land-hungry
white settlers and how Gen. O. O.
Howard, acting upon orders from
Washington, “showed the rifle” and
precipitated the crisis which Chief
Joseph had tried to avert.
Then the Nez Perce chief, bur
dened with the women and children
of his tribe, began his flight over
some of the roughest country on the
North American continent. Repeat
edly attacked, he either beat off his
assailants or outmaneuvered them
in a way which won the admiration
of the army officers sent against
him. Then with his haven of refuge
across the Canadian border almost
in sight, he paused to let his weary
people rest. Attacked in the Bear
Paw mountains by Col. Nelson A.
Miles, who was later joined by
Howard’s pursuing column, the fugi
tives were forced to surrender.
In the light of Yellow Wolf’s story
the history of that campaign must
be rewritten. For instance, it shows
that Chief Joseph’s fighting force
was only a fraction of the number
of warriors which his opponents said
he had, and that fact adds to the
glory of his achievement. It shows
that, on the whole, the Nez Perces
were more humane toward non-com
batants than some of their white op
ponents were. For Chief Joseph’s
treatment of the tourists whom he
captured while passing through the
Yellowstone park region is in
marked contrast to the unnecessary
killing of Indian women and chil
dren in several of the attacks on
Chief Joseph’s camps. And there
are other examples which show that
a victor’s version of his conquest
is not necessarily the true one.
Has this warrior, speaking for the
vanquished, “talked with a straight
tongue”? Any impartial student of
Indian history, after reading his
book, can not help believing that
he has. And that is why the pub
lication of “Yellow Wolf: His Own
Story” is an “historical highlight”
of the past year!
* * •
Some of Chief Joseph’s warriors
escaped to Canada, among them
Yellow Wolf, who lived for nearly a
year among Sitting Bull’s Sioux be
fore returning to the United States.
Then he was taken to Indian Terri
tory where Chief Joseph and his
people, in violation of the terms of
their surrender, had been sent. In
1885 they were settled on the Colville
reservation in Washington and there
Chief Joseph died in 1904. Thirty-
one years later, on August 21, 1935,
Yellow Wolf joioed his chief ia
Mikunkenekoo (Land Above).