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\ .0. McCormick messenger;, McCormick, s: c., thursday. november s, 1941: , i; ; WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features—WNU Service.) N EW YORK.—It was last August that Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby of Houston, Texas, became head of the women’s division of the army’s bu- Woman Journalist J^Jefations. Scores for Ladies She said she In Defense Effort w . ou1 ?, °^ a ' nize the divi sion to tell women what they wanted to know about the army. Her suc cess has been such that today her achievement is being nationally rec ognized as a bang-up score for wom en in the defense effort. Mrs. Hobby is executive vice president of the Houston Post, and hence a specialist in telling people what they want to know. Newspaper women are happy in finding a government public re- } latlons bureau which offers some thing more than hand-outs in press co-operation. The post is important as a liaison between soldiers and wives and mothers. She is 35 years old, pretty, slen der, stylish, brisk and businesslike, the wife of William Pettus Hobby, tvfcce governor of Texas. Her achievements in the above few years are such that they may only be briefed in the space available here: In addition to running the Houston Post, she is the active executive of radio station KPRC; director of a national bank; director of the South ern Newspaper publishers’ associa tion; a member of the board of re gents of the Texas State Teachers’ college, of the Junior League, the Houston Symphonic society and the National Association of Parliamen tarians. She studied law, was admitted to the bar, codified Hie state banking laws, was parliamenta rian for the Texas assembly for several years, was assistant city attorney of Houston, wrote a book on parliamentary law called “Mr. Chairman,” which is used as a text book in the schools of Louisiana and Texas, syndicated a column on parlia mentary law and served as re search editor, literary editor, as sistant editor and, since 1938, executive editor of Hie Houston Post. In 1939, Mrs. Hobby was awarded the annual certificate of merit of the National Federation of Women’s Press Clubs, for outstanding work in journalism. She was bom in Tem ple, Texas, the daughter of an at* tomey of the town. With all the above activities, she says she has had ample time for her children, a boy of nine and girl of five. ^ tp IGHTY-year-old Rep. Joseph Jef- ferson Mansfield of Texas has made a career of planned river and harbor development and control. It Rep. Mansfield at ££* behold 80 Is Still Battling days in Vir- Unruly Waterway, ing a horse to the grist mill, with sacks of corn stowed fore and aft. When he forded an angry stream, com and horse were swept away and he had a hard time making shore, with no end of trouble there after. Then and there he became a flood-battler, ready to take on any undisciplined waterway, for its own good and the well-being of the commonwealth. So, nat urally, in his 25 years in con gress he has been chairman of the rivers and harbors commit tee. He’s in form and in his stride today, as he contends that only river and harbor projects qualify as bona fide defense un dertakings, and rate advance ment in the “immediate con- strucHon” file. He has been 54 years in politics, a resident of Texas since 1881, when he settled in Eagle Lake—city at torney, mayor, county attorney, county judge for 10 terms, and con gressman. In 1926 he suffered a mal ady which cost him the use of his legs. He campaigned and won in a wheel chair and carried on in con gress, from his special wheel chair stance to the right of the speaker’s dais. * • His father, a Confederate soldier, was killed in battle six months after his son was born. He battles val iantly for a sea-level Panama canal and for transportation of Texas oil •astward on inland waterways. J UST before the war started, Vlad imir Kyrillovitch, a son of the .late Grand Duke Cyril, and pretend er to the throne of .czarist Russia, was working in a Diesel engine fac tory in England. He said he would learn and impart to his following of 2,000,000 White Russians the skills necessary to reclaim their homeland. He was soon back to his Brittany estate and now news of his repeated visits to Paris follow several reports that tiie Nazis are encouraging him to believe that he might yet stage a Romanoff comeback. ‘Hornets’ for Uncle Sam—and Hornet’s Nest msm A view of the U.S.S. Hornet, the navy’s newest aircraft carrier, is shown at left. The Hornet displaces 20,000 tons and has a speed in excess of 30 knots. Right: In the biggest single delivery of military planes in aviation history, 123 Vultee Valiants, basic training planes, roared over Los Angeles en route to army and navy training stations. Some of them are shown, just before the takeoff at Downey, Calif. Scenes From Russo-German Front Night Attack in Mediterranean This photograph, one of the most striking of its kind ever taken, shows a battleship of the British Mediterranean fleet in action as an Axi air attack is repelled. Tremendous flashes from anti-aircraft guns firing simultaneously to port and starboard outline the superstructure of the battleship in lurid flame. At National Youth Day Rally First Ladies Wi mm % f| Bulldog Queen — aV'Iv-:-:-: Pictured here, laft to right, are U. S. Sen. Joseph H. Ball, of Minne sota, Brig. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, Paul V. McNutt, federal security administrator, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. as they attended the National I Youth Day rally in New York. They were the principal speakers at | Hie rally. 10 By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) AFTER Veronica Lake made her screen debut in “I WantedWings,” there was plenty of comment about what fashion experts call the “plunging neck line” of her attire. Veronica’s necklines held the all-time rec ord for plunging; for a while they attracted almost as much attention as Dorothy Lamour’s sa rongs. In “This Gun for Hire” the blonde bombshell is going to give the clothes-conscious public another jolt; this time she’s going to wear tights. The script’s to blame—she’s cast as an entertainer in a night club who does sleight of hand tricks and sings, and that seems to call for tights. That is, it evidently does in Hollywood. * Telegraphers are going to have more fun than anybody when Eleanor Powell does that new tap dance in “I’ll Take Manila”; to most The Nazis occupy a captured Russian trench (left). One of the soldiers Is taking a nap on the cold ground of the bottom of the trench. The “gooiness” of the Russian terrain has had a delaying effect even on the 1 German war machine. From Berlin comes this picture (right) showing the Nazi’s own tanks with wheels en* meshed in huge gobs of mud. Mrs. Ruth Licklider, who became “Mrs. America” at a Palisades Park, N. J., beauty contest, is pic tured as she was received by Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt at the White House. Mrs. Licklider is a red' haired Powers model. ELEANOR POWELL of us it will be just a swell dance, but we’re told that wireless opera tors will read a definite message in the taps! —*— , Paramount’s fixed up a bannister cycle for us—not Barbara Bannister, but the kind that accompanies stairs. In “Birth of the Blues” six- year-old Carolyn Lee power-dives down one, smack into Bing Crosby. In “The Great Man’s Lady” Barbara Stanwyck slides down another, in crinolines. For “The Wizard of Ar kansas” Bob Burns shoots the ban nister chutes, but Bunts, of course, is different; he picks up a splinter on the way. And this, it is felt, will definitely end the bannister cycle. —*— Richard de Rochemont, managing editor of The March of Time, says that filming “The Story of the Vati can” was like a vacation. Since 1934 he has been chasing film scoops, and more than once he’s escaped death by a narrow margin. “At the Vatican I had a good crew of tech nicians, all our locations were in a small area, and there were no in trigues or subversive movements to be dealt with,” says he, The latest March of Time is “Sailors With Wings,” which traces the development of the navy’s air service and how it operates in part nership with the fleet; it’s vital and absorbing, one of those pictures that you won’t want to miss. —— The manager of an RKO theater on Long Island heard patrons imi tating the voice of the RKO Pathe rooster so often that he finally ar ranged a contest and let them crow for cash and poultry; several hun dred persons mounted the stage and crowed like mad. Glenn Ford almost sailed off to distant ports the other day as a way of getting into the right mood for “Martin Eden,” his next picture. He was just stepping on board a freighter, believing that its next stop was San Francisco, when a produc tion assistant raced to the dock and stopped him. He wanted to sign on as a seaman and see what it was like. But—five minutes later the freighter sailed—for Honolulu. —*— The radio scoop of the year is the signing of Shirley Temple to do four programs for one of the big watch manufacturers. For the first time in her career she’ll be on the air regularly—Friday evenings, Decem ber 5 to 26, 10 to 10:30, Eastern Standard Time, on CBS. She will do a series of four Christmas pro grams, in which she will sing and present Christmas playlets, and her salary for the month’s work will be $50,000. Radio sponsors have been pursuing the young star for years. Champion English bulldog, Cefam- afcley Queen, reads up on her an cestry before showing at the thirty- first annual dog show, to b« held 1a Chicago November 29-30. 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