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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C„ FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1940 WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK Bv LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features—WNU Service.) EW YORK.—“Gentle Breeze” is a loose translation of the name P ar aguay’s new dictator, Jose Fe lix Estigarribia. On September 13, ‘Gentle Breeze’I, 1935 ’ this de - New Iron Man For Paraguay partment ob served, “It is possible that a new iron tnan is checking in, in Paraguay, with the emergence of the shrewd, resolute General Estigarribia.” It appeared to be a wrong guess, until recently, when the genernl an nounced his dictatorship, having as sumed the presidency last August. Graying, handsome austere, just turning 50, he is the smallest of dic tators—130 pounds, five feet, six inches tall. He was a Napoleon ad dict in his youth, but is said to have abandoned such attitudes and interests in later years. Of remote basque ancestry, he is the descend ant of a wealthy Paraguayan fam ily, educated for the army at home and in Paris, He entered the Gran Chaco war as a lieutenant colonel, gained a generalcy in a year and emerged as a national hero. The C. S. A. has a stake in his new dictatorship. When he entered his brief turn as minis ter to Washington, be lunched at the White House and was ex tended generous credits for the “re-building” of Paraguay. “Extrasensory perception” has been fading rapidly after its sudden burgeoning of two years ago, but here it is again, with Professor J. B. Rhine, its Expert Studies Mental Powers Of Girl Marvel high priest of Duke univer sity, making a study of Faith Hope Charity Harding, the lit tle Pennsylvania girl who has been calling the future the way a pool- player calls his shots. Now 4% years old, she has been making bull’s-eye prophecies since she was 18 months old; so naturally they get Professor Rhine on the job. He has kept right on running his parapsychological^ laboratory l^atJJuke, since his 2,5*00,000 tests -"of University students there con vinced him of the reality of men tal telepathy, and the possibili ty of our peeping into the fu ture, as well as into the minds of our neighbors. He said it would take 1,600 digits to ex press the mathematical degree of improbability in his tests. Professor and Mrs. Rhine began exploring the spook world when they were getting the doctor’s degree at the University of Chicago. Among other such phenomena they exam ined the feats of “Margery,” the Boston medium and reported that the “whole game was base and bra zen trickery.” They repeatedly have assailed fake occultism. As to men tal telepathy, they lay it on the line, but they’re still working on the prophecy business. They started the latter inquiry in April last year. For the last year, knowing ob servers of European war and poli tics have warned the world to keep a sharp eye on Col. Gen. Walther von Brauch- itsch, com mander in chief of the German army. His tracks usually lead in the direction of the next German lunge, and, controlling the army, he makes as well as executes decisions. Army General Gets Credit for Nazi-Russ Deal General Von Brauchitsch is a member of an old east Prussian feudal family, a conservative by in stinct, education and tradition, but politically malleable. A distin guished officer in the World war, he hated the republic, but went along with it, alienating his stiff-necked Junker colleagues, and became head of its armed forces. From 1922 to 1932, he delivered many scholarly denunciations of bolshevism, but, perhaps more than any other one man, put through the interchange of officers, technicians, fabricated goods, munitions and raw materials between Germany and Russia dur ing this decade. Weighty opinion from the oth er side is that General Von Branchitsch, rather than Hitler, Goering or Rosenberg, schemed the Russo-German deal and forced it to a conclusion through his unquestioned hold on the army. To him is also attributed the plan, the decision, the timing and the start of the drive into Poland. In several instances there have been indications of hostility between the general and Goering, with the bet ting on the former, if it ever comes to an open break. The general was born in Berlin in 1881 and has been in the army since his early youth. He is handsome, imposing and bril liantly educated, within the limits of the old army caste, and has em ployed power in a manner to make him an ace exhibit in Dr. Rausch- ning’s “revolution of nihilism." Swedish Troops Practice Arctic Circle Maneuvers Swedish troops who guard their country’s northern frontier pictured at training manenvers within the Arc tic circle. It was in this area that Soviet warplanes bombed the Swedish village of Pajala. Left: Soldiers operate a mortar, similar to the Stokes machine. Right: Nature made this emplacement, used by an anti-tank gun crew near the border north of the Gulf of Bothnia. Cubs’ Pitchers (Minus Dizzy) Begin Spring Training Members of the Chicago Cubs pitching staff pictured limbering up in an early-season workout on Cata lina island, Avalon, Calif. Left to right are Larry French, Bill Lee, Claude Passeau, Charley Root, Clay Bry ant and Vance Page. Rain interfered with opening days of spring training. Dizzy Dean, No. 1 holdout, was conspicuous .by his absence. Finn Troops View ‘Gift’ From Invaders Dalai Lama White-clad Finnish soldiers give a “stolen” machine gun a thorough examination before putting it back in commission against its former owners. A foreign military observer estimated that 100,000 Russian sol diers lost their lives in bending the Mannerheim line far enough to threaten the city of Viborg. Finnish newspapers report that Russian ma terial losses so far have amounted to 476 planes, 1,193 tanks, 302 field guns, 399 guns, 630 motor tractors, 117 field kitchens, 1,560 horses and much other miscellaneous equipment. New spiritual and temporal ruler of Tibet, the world’s only theocracy, is a six-year-old Chinese peasant boy. Ling-erg La-Mu-Tan-Chu, whose elaborate enthronement re cently took place. He is accepted as the reincarnation of the thirteenth Dalai Lama, who died in 1933. Until Ling-erg is 18, a regent will per* form administrative duties. As Byrd Expedition Crosses the Equator Southward bound for the wastes of Antarctica, the Byrd expedition held appropriate ceremonies while the S. S. North Star was crossing the equator. Under the guidance of Dr. Alfred B. Geyer, a “southern cross” is clipped on the chest of Murray Wiener, assistant physicist of the expe dition. Jack Gambole assists by washing Wiener’s mouth. Televisionist Pictured at work in the office oi his Fort Wayne, Ind., laboratory is Philo T. Farnsworth, who was re cently designated one of the “ten outstanding young men of 1939.” Farnsworth, who is now 34, had filed a patent application on a complete television system before he was 21. By VIRGINIA VALE (Released bs Western Newspaper Union.) B ETTE DAVIS has always made it very clear that she had the courage of her convic tions. She’s prepared to back one of her pet theories with coin of the realm right now, and John Garfield, James Cagney and Pat O’Brien are ready to string along with her. She believes that Hollywood could be made a theatrical cen ter, since there is all sorts of talent on the coast, and she and her partners are prepared to form an organization for pro ducing plays—and also to act in them. Plays that succeed will be sent along to Broadway. —*— Olivia De Haviland hadn’t much more than settled her differences with Warner Brothers than she got into hot water again by refusing to work in “Flight 8,” and was sus pended again. Virginia Bruce was free, after cancellation of her Met- OLIVIA DE HAVILAND ro contract, so you’ll see her as the heroine, opposite Ralph Bellamy. The lovely Olivia seems to know v/hat she wants—the difficulty lies in getting it. * Metro is prepared to shoot the works and give the public a treat in “Boom Town”; Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Claudette Colbert and Hedy Lamarr will have the lead ing roles, Jack Conway will direct, and John Lee Mahin adapted the story for the screen. * If you’ve tried to get “Swiss Fam ily Robinson” at your local library lately you’ve probably been out of luck. Translated from the Swiss in 1820, the book is said still to be a best-seller, ranking second only to the Bible in gross sales. It had never been screened until RKO of fered it to the public, and the pic ture has made the book more popu lar than ever. * Small boys—and their fathers as well—are likely to want to camp out in the theaters showing RKO’s Pathe’s Sportscope reel on baseball. It features the tactics and tech nique of such experts as Gabby Hartnett, Dizzy Dean, Joe Moore, Merrill May, Joe Medwick, Arky Vaughan and Paul Derringer. It’s called “Pennant Chasers.” * It’s reunion on “Big Sister” for Alice Frost and Za- su Pitts. Alice broke into radio years ago by doing imperson ations of Zasu, as taught her by Miss Pitts, a friend of the famUy. Erin O’B r ien Moore will appear as Empress Carlot- ta, the role created by Bette Davis on the screen, when she is heard on the Star Theater in “Juarez and Max- imillian” on March 13. Aherne will play Maximillian, as he did in the picture. —*— Anyone who says a magpie bit him, in explanation of a gash under the eye, can’t expect to be believed —A1 Pearce can swear to that. He has an aviary in his yard, and among the birds is a magpie. Pearce was holding the bird—which he caUs Arlene Harris—and it snapped at him. That’s his story, and he’s sticking to it; but his gang, how ever, is enthusiastically giving him “the bird!” Zasu Pitts * ODDS AND ENDS . . . An eastern syndicate is negotiating with Lum and Abner for the right to portray their ad ventures in a newspaper cartoon series . . . Don Wilson is now plugging eleven different products on the air—and never getting them mixed! . . . Bill Powell was so determined not to do “Cyrano de Bergerac"—which Metro bought for him —that he refused to sign his new contract unlil a clause was inserted that protected him against it .. . 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