McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, October 09, 1941, Image 6
McCORMIGK MESSENGER, McCORMlCK, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1941
WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
(Consolidated Features—WNU Service.)
i^JT EW YORK.—Back in the days ol
toothpick shoes, peg-top pants,
the guards-back play, and “label’'
heads in newspapers, a young
man was
Blocked Channel drummed to
With Hobson, He fame in a
Now Clears ’Em "' od „ e . s ‘ i 4 '
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italic headline — but a line which
was quite a splash in those days.
It was:
“Heroism of Cadet Powell.”
Young Joseph Wright Powell,
not long out of Annapolis, had
commanded the little steam
launch that tagged into the
channel of Santiago harbor the
Collier Merrimac, sunk by Rich
mond Person Hobson to block
the escape of the Spanish fleet.
The launch attracted heavy fire
from the shore forts, as Cadet
Powell searched for Hobson and I
his men, and its commander
was highly praised for his skill
and courage. He went back to
Oswego, N. Y., married a home
town girl and swung into an
illustrious career in and out of
the navy.
Four decades later, Joseph Wright
Powell, special assistant to Secre
tary Knox, is busy, not obstructing
but clearing a channel, as he helps
bring through this swarm of novel
little “sea otter” freighters to get
iood and war gear to England. He
is a director of the newly organized
government - sponsored company,
which will rush construction on the
revolutionary little ships. His par
ticipation, linked with that forgot
ten headline, gave, to this depart
ment at least, a sense of historic
continuity in our common enter
prise, at a moment of great par
ticularization and controversy—
“participating and continuous” as
the life-insurance policies say.
Mr. Wright has long been one
of America’s leading naval ar
chitects and shipbuilders, hav
ing taken a post-graduate study
in naval architecture, after his
graduation from Annapolis,
under Captain Hobson before
their service on the flagship
New York. He continued these
studies at the University of
Glasgow and was assistant
U.S.N. naval constructor until
1906, when he withdrew from
the navy to take up his ship
building career with Cramp’s
Shipbuilding corporation.
He was president of the Emer
gency Fleet corporation in 1921 and
1922. *
W HO is the highest ranking
woman officer in the United
States army? Come, come—what!
The Quiz Is On; y0UgiVeUP?
Take T wo Dollars
Or Try for Four?
Well, the an
swer is Ma
jor Julia O.
Flikke, su
perintendent of the army nurse
corps, at a time when the corps’
membership is mounting toward
6,000, 'with new members being
widely recruited and diligently
trained to gain the goal of 9,000 set
for next June.
The peak of the corps member
ship in the World war was 24,927.
Under the active and experienced
command of Major Flikke, the base
is being broadened for even a larger
membership to meet the require
ments of our expanding army.
From her native Veroqua,
Wis., she went to Chicago, mar
ried, was suddenly left a widow
and prepared herself for nurs
ing at the Augustana hospital, in
Chicago. After a post-graduate
course in nursing education and
administration at Columbia, she
returned to Augustana and be
came assistant superintendent.
She “joined the army” in the
World war, and served a year
in France, a year in China and
a year in the Philippines. She
was with the Walter Reed hos
pital in Washington for 12 years,
succeeding Maj. Julia C. Stim-.
son, as superintendent of the
corps, on May 29, 1937.
Officers of the nurse corps have
a rank somewhat comparable to
male officers—they can order the
arrest of a recalcitrant soldier—but
their pay is less and they are car
ried as “singles,” that is, they are
provided no allowances or pensions
for their families.
G ROVER LOENING, eminent
aeronautical engineer, has for
years been wearing out pencils
showing how ocean freight carriage
was just over the horizon. The
other day, Pan American Airways
started its transatlantic air ship
ments. Mr. Loening has contrib
uted much of the gradual tech
nical buildup. His experience as a
designer and builder of airplanes
began with the Queen Aeroplane
company of New York, in 1911, and
he was thereafter an executive of
many other aviation companies.
A ‘Liberty Ship’ Hits the Water
On Vacation
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The “liberty ship,” the S. S. Louise Lykes, is pictured going down
the ways at the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock company, at Kearny,
N. J., after her christening. She was one of the 14 new ships which slid
down the ways of shipyards throughout the country in the largest mass
launching since World War I.
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Groups of high Nazi officials and their retinues are quite common
in Paris these days. Lone Nazi functionaries run the risk of assassi
nation. Lieut. Gen. Von Schaumburg, second from right, commander
of greater Paris, is shown as he inspected the markets. He is ac
companied by Admiral Bard (third from right), prefect of police in Paris.
On a six-weeks* vacation to the
United States and Canada, the duke
and duchess of Windsor are pictured
on their arrival at the nation’s capi
tal. They were given a warm greet
ing by the citizenry, and received
briefly at the White House by the
President. The duke, who is gover
nor of the Bahamas, was on his way
with his wife to his ranch near Cal
gary, Canada.
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tank (top picture) after it was stopped by the first salvo. Soldier in center
holds a hand grenade which he is about to hurl. Below: Three German
infantrymen look cautiously into windows and behind fences as they
search for snipers in a newly captured city somewhere in Russia.
Spitzbergen Coal the Nazis Won’t Get
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Clouds of smoke are shown rising from the stocks of coal burned
by the British raiding party (under Canadian command) that dropped
in on the island of Spitzbergen to toss another monkey wrench into the
German war machine. The raiders blew up mines and destroyed every
thing that might be useful to the Nazis.
Mrs. F. M. Andrews pins the third
star^on Lieut. Gen. F. M. Andrews.
His appointment as commander of
the Caribbean defense area (em
bracing the Canal zone) marks the
first time an air corps general has
commanded the field forces of com
bined arms.
Fashion Feathers Your Hat
And Braids Your Fall Suit
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C'EATHERS on your hat
* and braiding on your
suit, coat, dress or cos
tume ensemble! These are
two of the most outstand
ing trends for fall and
winter.
If you would make a dra
matic and high-styled ap-
proach to fall, take your cue from
the two ladies of fashion pictured in
the foreground of the accompanying
illustration. Note how smartly fash
ion feathers their hats and braids
their handsome wool costumes.
You can indulge in as little or
as much as you please in this mat
ter of braiding, but whether it is
just a wee dab of braiding here or
there, or an all over blanketing of
braided design, when it comes to
topnotch style prestige braiding’s
the thing this season!
See the ensemble pictured to the
left. It is a masterpiece of artistry
in both color and costume design.
It is the sort of coat-ensemble that
takes you places in “style,” is ideal
for travel or town wear. You will
wear it to dinner at fashionable res
taurants, or to the matinee. It has
a red gabardine reefer with a black
velvet collar and cuffs embroidered
with red soutache braiding. The
sheer wool dress carries out the
same color scheme. The hat is a
crushed Homburg with two stream
lined quills. '
To the right is a youthful suit of
beige wool with forest green sou
tache braid on lapels and upper
sleeve.
The new greens this fall are fas
cinating. Milliners are enthusiastic
about soft, subtle greens in felts,
1 velvets and feathers. The jaunty
feather hat has sprightly birds’
wings to give it height and its mel
low green color is a perfect comple
ment to the beige and green suit.
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So far as the new hats are con
cerned they are staging a veritable
riot of feathers. Casual wide-
brimmed felts, this season, mostly
of the picturesque vagabond type,
are in ravishing colors aided and
abetted with spectacular vividly col
orful pheasant quills. Referring to
the three hats shown above in the pic
ture note in the upper right corner
a gray felt vagabond gaily sporting
a bright pheasant quill. This stun
ning headpiece tops a yellow sweat
er worn over a gray dress.
Centered in the trio is a black
beret that glories in a snow white
novelty quill. Berets have certainly
come into their own this season.
And you are supposed to wear ’em
any way that is most becoming.
Some like ’em posed in daring pro
file effect, others position ’em back
of their pompadours, others dash
’em down over their eyebrows, but
pose ’em as you will berets are
making conversation that is punctu
ated with thrills every step of the
way. And keep an eye on the dra
matic manner in which they are
feathered, if it’s exciting moments
you crave.
Completing the trio of smart
feathered creations shown above is
a black hat accented with a gray
feather bird that blends with a mon
key fur jacket of an unusual shade
of light gray. While all types of
feathers are to be seen on the new
hats, milliners are giving special
emphasis to pert little wings, birds
and all-feather hats.
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Soundphoto of Puerto Rico’s new
governor, Rexford G. Tugwell, leav
ing the inaugural stand after his in
duction as the island’s sixty-sixth
chief executive. The inaugural cer
emony took place on the steps of
the insular capital.
Young College Dean
Wear White Jersey
Under Your Fur Coat
College girls who seek something
other than the usual black or col
ored date dresses will hail with de
light the advent of the new white
jersey frocks that are designed to
wear under brown or black fur
coats. This dress is proving to be
one of the highspots in a co-ed’s
life. As a rule the white jersey
dress is styled with classic sim
plicity but with exquisite detailing
in the way of drapes, tucks and
sometimes trapunto quilting. For
those who have a yen for color
there are white jerseys that are
gaily embroidered in bright yarns.
Others flaunt glittering gold buttons
and gilded kid trimmings.
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Now You Can Wear Your
Vitamins on Your Head
A new process has been discov
ered whereby the casein in skimmed
milk can be used to make a fiber
which blends with rabbit fur to make
felting material for hats. One pound
of this fiber is produced from about
30 pounds of skimmed milk.
I Since imports of hatter’s rabbit
fur are now limited because of war
conditions, there is a large market
for this domestic product. Bossy’s
in the hat business now—classy hats
from contented cows!
Taffeta Dirndl
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Mrs. George Stewart, 22, who is
dean of women at Mary Hardin-Bay-
lor college, Belton, Texas. Mrs.
Stewart is one of the youngest deans
of women in the United States.
Embroidery on Suits
There is no end to the embroidery
story this season. The newsy part
l of the tale is that embroideries ap
pear on sedate suits and wool day
time dresses, as well as on dressier
modes. Long evening capes have
embroidered yokes. Daytime jack
ets and blouses are also ornately
embroidered.
Smart young sophisticates do not
like to give up the picturesque dirndl
skirt that has been such an out
standing favorite during the past
summer. That is why many of the
most voguish taffeta and wool cos
tumes on the fall and winter style
program continue to exploit the
dirndl after the manner here shown.
Sheer wool and taffeta are com
bined most attractively in this stun
ning afternoon dress. The fitted bod
ice of sheer wool has a brown taf
feta facing at the V-neck, and the
sleeves show the new drop shoulder
treatment. Crisp brown taffeta is
shirred on at the natural waist. The
hat is a veil-trimmed rolled-brim
dark brown felt. The whole effect
is soft and feminine and true to the
tradition of elegance.