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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C„ THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1942 By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features—WNU Service.) '^’EW YORK.—Encouraging news —is that we may keep our rub ber heels, and if we have to travel on them, instead of on rubber tires, Small, Still Voice « e w ^ t b D * Of Scientists Now Dr. Elmer More Audible head of ^ bureau of plant industry of the de partment of agriculture. For many years, Dr. Brandes has been exploring rubber jungles, wher ever he can find them, studying rub ber-yielding plants and staking out for the government useful data and techniques. Currently, he tells the house agriculture committee about the urgency of planting large areas of the guayule shrub. This time, the committee is listening more in- teiitly. Germany is far ahead of us in synthetic rubber production. On occasion, Dr. Brandes has worked up a pleasant friendship with head-hunters, and should be able to get on friendly terms with congressmen. It was in August, 1923, that he landed his hydroplane In a jungle river in New Guinea. It scared the wits out of the pygmy head-hunters. But the genial and conspicuous- ly unarmed Dr. Brandes lured them into his camp by friendly gestures and they became friends and co-operators. He has flown many thousands of lone jungle air leagues on many re search expeditions to Central and South America, Asia and the Pacific islands. In July, 1940, congress provided $500,000 for a study of crude rubber in the Western hemisphere. Dr. Bran des flew to Brazil and is now offering to congress the result of bis researches there. He was born in Washington in 1891, was educated in science at Michigan State college, Cornell and the University of Michigan, taught at Michigan State and entered the government service as a plant pa thologist at the Puerto Rico agricul tural experiment static* in 1914. He served in the World war, as a sec ond lieutenant, in France. For Pan-American Solidarity Against Axis Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles, center, and U. S. ambassa dor to Brazil, Jefferson Caffery, are shown talking to Oswaldo Aranha, Brazil’s foreign minister, who was also administrator of the Pan-American conference held in Rio de Janeiro. The photo was made just before the third conference of foreign ministers in the interest of lining up all the American republics in a solid 100 pef cent Western hemisphere front against the Axis, with a complete rupture of diplomatic relations. Leaders described Aranha as a “tower of strength.” Commandos Examine Captured Field Piece British troops examine a German field gun, captured during their occupation of the island of Maaloy, Norway. The British commandos were landed on the Norwegian islands of Vaagso and Maaloy, after coast defenses had been silenced. Fifteen thousand six hundred and fifty tons of enemy shipping were destroyed, with munition dumps, oil tanks and storehouses. T HERE is one section of the popu lace which won’t be bothered I nuch by all this rationing of food, dothes, automobile tires and house- A Toot for One of is the group Oar Indispensable which is, for •Morale Builder* 1** ger to such luxuries. One of them asked me for a dime today. “We gotta work fast,” he said, “before the government gets all thq loose dimes.” * • If, as reported, morale is good among people who are hungry and cold, the Salvation Army has helped, and will help, greatly to this end. And rating many new stars in his crown, or cap, is Col. John J. Allan, just now becoming the Army’s lieu tenant commissioner for 11 central states, with headquarters at Chi cago. When, as a young man, get- ting a start as a jeweler, John James Allan decided to give his life to the Salvation Army, he disguised himself as a derelict, when he went down into New York’s Bowery. He shared their flop-houses, wore ragged clothes and took his hand-out where he found it. “Condescending to men of low estate,” in the scriptural phrase, he found reciprocal un derstanding when he shared their troubles. That was the start of his career of kindly and aggressive friendliness as an evangelist, and champion of the down-but-never-outs, and as a cornetist for the Bowery and for King George of England—at a command performance in 1904. He was for three years a soloist with Reeves American band of Providence, R. I. He is the father of the United Service Organizations. It, was on October 11, 1940, that he met with executives of Uie Y.M.C.A., the Knights of Columbus and the Jew ish Welfare organization for united effort among the soldiers, and out of this meeting came the U.S.O. He is married, the father of five children. He was born in Hazelton, Pa., in 1887, his mother having been born near Nottingham, England, a stone’s throw from the home of Gen eral Booth. In the World war, he was senior chaplain of the Seventy-seventh di vision in France, the first Salva tion Army chaplain in the Ameri can armed forces. He won the French Croix de Guerre and later received the rank of major chaplain of the U. S. army. In 1925, he en tered the army reserve corps, and his “Colonel” is a military title. He was in Salvation Army work in Newark from 1923 to 1925 and there after in Columbus, Ohio, for eight years, managing the Greenwood Lake Camp for Children. He never trumpets himself, but the Army does. Hawaii Gets Set for ‘Return Engagement’ U. S. troops and native workmen work on underground installations of dugouts. This is a first aid dugout equipped to perform surgery in an advanced position. Warns Draft Boards Against Hysteria Brig. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, director of selective service, speaks at national press conference in Washington. He said he expects the na tion’s manpower in the next several months to come from men in the 21 to 37 age group, and warned local draft boards not to indiscriminately classify men for immediate service because we are at war. Visits White House Wendell L. Willkie, 1940 Republi can candidate for the presidency, shown with reporters as he walked down the White House roadway, fol lowing a conference with President Roosevelt. Willkie gave the report ers no indication as to what the con* ference was about. Production Chief i ' Donald Nelson, named by the President to head a war production board, superseding the supply, al locations and priorities board. Nel son has “final” authority over all matters of production. In ‘Merry England’ Mrs. Winston Churchill is shown obviously enjoying a dance with a munitions worker at a recreation center in the North of England. This center was opened for the use of workers who have come from the south of England and Scotland. Commands Dutch Lieut. Gen. Heinter Poorten, com mander of the armed forces of Neth erlands East Indies, which have made things so hot for the invading Nipponese. By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) M ICKEY ROONEY’S mar riage to Ava Gardner, the pretty girl from North Carolina whose movie career has so far consisted of a few minor roles, depleted the ranks of Hollywood eligibles—and that’s a serious problem. There has never been enough bachelors there to go around. Now the draft, enlistment in the armed forces, and matrimony have made it harder than ever for a pretty, unattached girl to find a presentable, unattached male es cort. Franchot Tone, George Brent, Rooney himself—all seemed bent on pursuing the single life, no matter how many girls they were said to be engaged to. Then matrimony hit them all, like a hurricane. Pity the press agents, who’ll have to find substitutes, when they want to get publicity for a film starlet by an nouncing her engagement to a movie celebrity! w The dearth of bachelors isn’t go ing to bother Martha O’Driscoll, Paramount starlet; she herself re moved one from circulation when she announced her engagement to Walter Brewer, a non-professional, and the brother of Mrs. Hal Roach Jr. She appeared in “Reap the Wild Wind” in one of the principal roles and recently finished work in “Pa cific Blackout” in the feminine lead. & Betty Field has had a lot of good roles, but they’ve been non-dressy ones; in “Shepherd of the Hills” she wore makeup on her body that made it look as if she were covered with dirt, in addition to having drab clothing. Now, in “Mr. and Mrs. Cugat,” in which she is co-starred BETTY FIELD with Ray Milland, she has 15 changes of clothing—Edith Head, who designed the garments, said she had the highest budget wardrobe that Paramount will provide for any of its glamour stars this year, so for once Betty will have something to wear on the screen I * Claudette Colbert goes Betty Field one better, though—she wears two wedding gowns in “The Palm Beach Story,” in which she marries Joel McCrea twice—once in 1937, once in 1942—and both costumes are tops. * When the call to duty came, it found Carole Lombard ready and obedient. She did not lose her life in that call, she gave it, as willingly and freely as any soldier upon the battlefield. Her memory shall be cherished and revered down the ages by all who love that honor and freedom for which the fun-loving beloved wife of Clark Gable made- the supreme sacrifice, when an air plane, carrying the film star, her mother and 20 others, including 15 army fliers, crashed near Las Vegas, Nev., none surviving. Miss Lombard was returning to Holly wood from Indianapolis, where she had gone to assist the U. S. treas ury in the sale of defense bonds. —*— Paulette Goddard takes to the woods in “The Forest Rangers,” playing a girl of the backwoods who contends with a city-bred rival for j the affections of Fred MacMurray. ' Seems as if it would have been more ! appropriate to let her play city gal! * They tell us there’s a new word for “oomph,” which Hollywood had been tirelessly hunting. Help came from the army. A buck private was visiting the Paramount studio, and saw Jean Phillips, blonde ex- standin, who’d just finished a co- starring role in “Dr. Broadway.” He looked at her once, twice, and turned to the bystanders. “Wow!” said he. “She’s got woodle!” X ODDS AND ENDS—Bandleader Sammy Kaye, who, with Don Reid, wrote the stir ring song, "Remember Pearl Harbor," is donating all the royalties from sheet and record sales to Navy Relief ... If you've made a habit of listening to those heart stirring radio programs in which evacuated British children talk to their parents at home, you'll be glad to hear that Metro has bought "Journey to Margaret," a book about one such child . . . Chester Morris and Jean Parker, co-starring in "Torpedo Boat," both wore something red on the first day of shooting . . . Victor Borge tries out his routines for the Crosby programs on the pre-view audiences of other people's broadcasts. Trader Rat The wood rat, Neotoma fuseipes, of California, also known as the trade or pack rat, is notoroious for raiding camps and cabins and “trading” a twig or pebble for some article, says Collier’s. A search through several of their nests recently disclosed such ob jects as watches, keys, pencils, eyeglasses, mirrors, bolts, etc. Americans in Westminster Abbey Only three Americans have been honored by the British with a memorial in Westminster Abbey— James Russell Lowell with a stained - glass window, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow with a bust and Walter Hines Page with a marble tablet. 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. 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