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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C„ THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1942
By LEMUEL
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
F. PARTON
(Consolidated Features—WNU Service.)
N EW YORK.—In his new novel,
“Storm,” nominated by some
reviewers for the Pulitzer prize,
George Stewart notes that man is
24-Hour Alert in “ al a ^ d a ^i
Weather Building, a land ani-
Washington, D.C. have com .
monly supposed. We live at the
bottom of an ocean of air but that
doesn’t make us a land animal, any
more than a crab is a land animal
because it lives at the bottom of a
body of water.
Dramatizing a storm which gath
ered up north of Japan, and clock
ing it down this way, and record
ing the resulting inter-play of hu
man nature and meteorology, Mr.
Stewart's book is an incidental, per
haps not intended, reminder that the
politicos have been far behind the
meteorologists in grasping the full
implications of man adding wings to
his breathing apparatus.
Francis W. Reichelderfer, the
lean, baldish, chief of the U. S.
weather borean, seems to have
had something like that in mind
for many years, and that's all to
the good just now, as our fight
ers, on, under and above the
sea have the best weather serv
ice in the world. It was in the
aerological service of the navy
that Commander Reichelderfer
carried through his “air mass”
analysis which revolutionized
weather forecasting. Bringing
meteorology into focus with
modern communications, avia
tion and revised military science
was a little heeded but supreme
ly important assignment, and
Commander Reichelderfer made
good.
He isn’t dealing bulletins the way
he used to. The most authentic
weather news now is low-down, deep
from Sibyl’s Cave of the Winds,
slipped out quietly to the armed
forces and a touchy job it is, with
the seven seas to cover. The com
mander is putting on forced draught
the full 24 hours in the old red brick
weather building in Washington.
In 1918, the youth from Harlan,
Ind., two years out of Northwestern
university, newly commissioned en
sign in the navy, was sent to Lisbon
to dig weather reports for the wob
bly crow-hop of theNC-4 across the
ocean. Thereafter, joining the aero
logical service, he was the weather
consultant of polar fliers, gave Lind
bergh the gun for his historic flight
to Paris, cleared or held Dr. Ecke-
ner’s blimps, served from 1922 to
1928 as head of the aerological serv
ice, and became head of the weath
er bureau on January 16, 1939.
I N ANOTHER, and possibly more
enjoyable, century, Cadet Charles
M. Wesson, known as “The Bull,”
was a famous line-bucker at West
Point. For
34 years in
the ordnance
department
of the army,
le has been bucking congress, try
ing to break through the line for an
appropriation touchdown, and al-
nost always thrown for a loss. But
aow, as Major General Wesson,
ahief of ordnance since 1938, he finds
ais appropriation upped about 1,600
?er cent to around $5,000,000,000.
Ordnance Chief
Comes Up With
S Billion in Hand
General Wesson, bulky, mus
cular and appropriately beetle-
browed at 63, has been a glutton
for punishment, trying to get
goods and gear for the armed
forces. But he stands up well
under it, with no come-back oth
er than an occasional wry wise
crack. Away back in 1920, he
made an earnest plea for anti
aircraft guns, insisting that the
bombing effectiveness of planes
was increasing rapidly and we
would be in a bad way if we
didn’t keep ahead of it. Hie
general might just as well have
asked for caviar and champagne
for the daily army ration. It was
pretty much that way for the
next 20 years. And now, all at
once the man who blew in Brew
ster’s Millions is a skin-flint,
eompared to the general.
He was born in St. Louis, Mo., and
was graduated from West Point in
1900.
Jn 1907, he joined the ordnance
department, made good on his job
as a hard-working and competent
technician and passed quite a few
miracles in keeping the U. S. arse
nal at Watertown, Mass., kicking out
fighting equipment during the World
war, with or without congressional
appropriations. As commandant ol
the Aberdeen proving grounds in
Maryland, he spent much time ex
plaining to congress why the army
found it difficult to patch up old
Springfield rifles, or get its shoes
half-soled. In some manner or othei
he gets along with congress.
Victims of Jap Subs on California Coast
At left, the 5,698-ton freighter Absaroka, hit by a Jap torpedo off the California coast, is shown, with deck
awash, as she made some port. One crew member was killed. Right: This photo pictures the thrilling
landing of part of the crew of the tanker “Montebello,” which was sunk by a submarine off California. Here
a lifeboat bobs in the boiling surf, dangerously close to the rocks, as rescuers throw men a line.
‘Pause in the Day’s Occupation’
Smiling cheerfully as they push German forces back the way they came, members of this Russian tank
crew (left) halt for brief pause in their march westward, for lunch. Rigors of the Russian winter seem
to have no terrors for these hardy soldiers. Right: These Italian prisoners in the Libyan desert seem too
miserable to attempt to escape, and yet they are guarded carefully before being shipped to a concentration
camp.
Fierce Moro Tribesmen Fight Japs
To Fill Men’s Shoes
A deadly warm welcome was extended Japs who tried to open a
second front in the Philippines by invading Mindanao island. On hand
to greet them were some of the fiercest fighters known, the Moro tribes
men, to whom fighting is a profession. They are shown being inspected
by Col. Ralph McCoy in Zamboanga, P. I.
First members of the Canadian
women's army corps to leave Can
ada on active service are shown as
they left Ottawa for Washington, D.
C., where they will take over duties
formerly performed by men at the
Canadian legation. All are company
sergeant majors.
President Roosevelt With War Cabinet
Tops in Autographs
The President and his war cabinet, at meeting in White House. Left
to right around table: Harry Hopkins, Frances Perkins, Col. P. B. Flem
ing, Henry Wallace, F. LaGuardia, Paul McNutt, Jesse Jones, Harold
Ickes, Frank C. Walker, Henry Stimson, Cordell Hull, the President,
Henry Morgenthau, Francis Biddle, Frank Knox, and Claude Wickard.
-Chinese ambassador, Dr. Hu Shih,
leaves White House with book,
“The Personal Papers of Franklin
D. Roosevelt,” presented by staff
and autographed by the President
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
By VIRGINIA VALE
EDY LAMARR’S going
to have that long bob
done in little pig-tails for a
scene in “Tortilla Flat,” ac
cording to an official announce
ment from M-G-M. She’s also,
in that picture, going to have
another opportunity to show
that she really can act when
she is given a chance
“H. M. Pulham, Esq.,” her cur
rent picture, does all right by her
in that respect, though the picture
itself is rather disappointing—some
how, not quite so good as it should
have been.
&
The Mexican Spitfire comedy se
ries rolls right along, with Lupe
Velez and Leon Errol; the fifth one
LUPE VELEZ
is “Mexican Spitfire at Sea”; evi
dently the combination of the rub
ber-legged comedian and the fiery
Lupe is a money-making one.
Put on Pressure
“But surely you didn’t tell him
straight out that you love him?”
“No fear—he had to squeeze it
out of me.”
What About It?
“I see that historians claim that
women were using cosmetics dur
ing the Middle ages.”
“Well, women in the middle ages
are still doing it.”
She’s At It
“How long will it be before your
wife makes her appearance?”
“She’s upstairs making it now."
He’s Different
“Your husband has a new suit.”
“No, he hasn’t.”
“Well, something’s different.”
“Yes; it’s a new husband.”
• He Was Behind It
Zimpir—How did you get that
swollen jaw?
Playfoot — A girl cracked *
smile.
Zimpir—Well?
Playfoot—It was my smile.
Beware Coughs
from common colds
That Hang On
Creomulsion relieves promptly be
cause it goes right to the seat of the
trouble to help loosen and expel
germ laden phlegm, and aid nature
to soothe and heal raw, tender, in
flamed bronchial mucous mem
branes. Tell your druggist to sell you
a bottle of Creomulsion with the un
derstanding you must like the way it
quickly allays the cough or you are
to have your money back.
CREOMULSION
for Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis
—*—
Like many other women the coun
try over, Rosalind Russell wanted
to do something useful in the pres
ent emergency; she’d taken a Red
Cross course, but felt that she could
do more than roll bandages and
make splints. So she’s Private Ros
alind Brisson now (the new hus
band’s name being Brisson, remem
ber), of the Beverly Hills Women’s
Emergency Corps, and is spending
two evenings a week learning to
take an ambulance apart and put it
together again. When she finishes
“Take a Letter, Darling,” she’ll en
roll in the radio course.
When the Armistice was signed,
23 years ago, Wesley Barry was a
boy actor, and A1 Green was an
assistant director. They were work
ing together in a Mary Pickford
film called “Daddy Long Legs.” On
the day when America entered the
present war they were again work
ing together—this time at the RKO
Radio studio, in “The Mayor of
44th Street,” the film musical star
ring Anne Shirley and George Mur
phy. This time Barry’s assistant
director, Green’s director.
*
It’ll be a new version of “Down
to the Sea in Ships” for Jean Gabin,
the talented French actor, if 20th
Century-Fox sticks to present plans.
Gabin is now working in “Moon-
tide.” The other story was prepared
two years ago for Tyrone Power,
but never went into production. The
studio’s lucky; sea stuff, for back
ground, was shot last summer off
the Mexican coast; couldn’t be done
now.
*
Hearts and Understanding
Men, as well as women, are
oftener led by their hearts than
their understandings. The way to
the heart is through the senses;
please their eyes and ears, and
the work is half done.—Chester
field.
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Just for the record: “Two-Faced
Woman,” the new Garbo picture,
has been revised, and the Legion of
Decency has rated it “B,” instead
of “C,” which stands for “con
demned.”
*
Joan Davis, the film comedienne,
has become a permanent member
of Rudy Vallee’s Thursday evening
radio show. She’d been in vaude
ville before she struck gold in Hol
lywood; Vallee saw her radio possi
bilities, gave her a single guest ap
pearance, and now she’s headed for
the top, if she follows in the foot
steps of other Vallee discoveries.
Francia White, the soprano star of
the Monday evening telepnone hour
concerts, is an air raid warden.
Her instructions are, in case of an
alarm, to warn people not to use
the telephone!
*
For five years Ted Straeter has
been vocal director of the Kate
Smith program. Three years ago
he organized a band, and he’s been
making a reputation for himself
through his engagements at one of
New York’s smartest night clubs.
Now his music will be featured on a
new series of radio programs, over
the Mutual network.
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ODDS AND ENDS—Listeners who send
in the questions used in the quiz portion
of the “What’s On Your Mind” broadcasts
| are being given defense saving bonds and
stamps . . . Shortly after the first black
out struck the Pacific coast Paramount be
gan to get “Pacific Blackout” ready for re
lease—it stars Robert Preston and Martha
O’Driscoll . . . Joan Crawford’s building
an outdoor gymnasium at her home for
her adopted son . . . Lou Costello is train
ing his young daughter, Patricia, for a
small role in his next picture . . . Fred
Astaire won’t pose for still photographs of
himself kissing his leading ladies.
Alleviating Misfortune
One alleviation in misfortune is
to endure and submit to necessity.
—Seneca.
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