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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C„ FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1940 WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features—WNU Service.) *^TEW YORK.—When young “Red** ~ Phillips played guard on the University of Oklahoma football team, in 1915, he was scaled down _ to a mere 260 Game or Politic* pounds, but t* Another Story in spite of For Football Star that man aged to root through the line like a high-pow ered snowshovel. Sometimes he wouldn’t stop when the whistle blew and they had a hard time to keep him inside the state lines. Today, as Gov. Leon C. Phillips of Okla homa, he weighs in at 290 and is even more abandoned in his rootin’ tootin’ guard play. He orders out the National Guard to repulse the invasion of the federals, trying to build a $20,000,000 dam on the Grand river in his state. This, one of his many scrim mages, is part of his waxing battle for state rights against what he con siders the illegal encroachment of the federal government. He is an apostate New Dealer, having de feated the similarly belligerent “Al falfa Bill” Murray on the issue of New Deal adherence in the 1938 Democratic primary. Now he has switched teams With a big cigar protruding from his lips at a cocky angle, bating it to shreds when he gets steamed up, he says the New Deal is a social serv ice outfit, and social workers are “sorority sisters.” Like the “Fiery and Snuffy” of the Oklahoma cow boy song, he’s “rarin’ to go and he sends word to the war department that he won’t let any invader set foot on Oklahoma soil.” He started to be a preacher, but switched to the law. Born 50 years ago in Grant county, Missouri, along the covered wagon trail, he was taken to Oklahoma at the age of two and grew up in the Cheyenne and Arapaho Indian country. He attended Epworth university one year, studying, presumably mili tant, Christianity, and then entered the law school of the University of Oklahoma. His fame as “Red” Phillips, the bone-crushing, man- eating football player, gave him a fast running start in politics, and he soon landed in the state legislature. He made his campaign for the gov ernorship on an economy platform, sweeping the state. The citizens still know him as “Red,” and the “Yea Red!” yell of his college days serves for his political campaigns. • TXT’HEN I knew Death Valley Scotty and his dog “Goldbug,” around Goldfield, Rhyolite and Windy Gap, there was a story that the dog had All Scotty * Cash made a great I*‘Loaned’ to Him fuss over a By Chicago Man stranger at Casey s hotel, and a theory that this stranger must have been Scotty’s mysterious back er. The visitor, however, was just passing through and was never identified, and Scotty, even in mo ments of abandon in Tex Rickard’s place, continued to insist that he had a “chimney,” or “blow-out” of gold nuggets, samples of which he carried in his Derails pocket. It was not until years later that *he man who financed the Death Valley Scotty saga, just for his own amuse ment it would seem, was A. M. Johnson, the head of a big insur ance firm in Chicago. As Scotty and his backer round out 40 years of a beautiful friend ship, Scotty informs the federal tax collectors that he has $100,000 in gold certificates buried somewhere in the Panamint mountains, and that the source of his mysterious wealth has unfailingly been Mr. Johnson. From the same source came the $3,000,000 Spanish castle which Scotty built in the heart of Death valley several years ago, ac cording to his previous admissions. The unique partnership opened with a $2,500 grubstake. He not only wrote a check, but followed Scotty to Death valley. The first mine didn’t pan out, but Mr. John son was having fun. They fought bandits, got clubby with the Piute Indians and rooted around in old prospect holes. Thereafter came Scotty’s famous train ride and the deepening mystery of his treasure cache. They kept their secret until along about 1930. The pooch, “Gold- bug” and Scotty’s extraordinarily intelligent white mule both died of old age. But the original partner ship still goes on. Mr. Johnson, now 68 years old, is cut somewhat on the same lines as Henry Ford, but with an Achilles’ Heel of Romance. He was born and grew up in a small town in Ohio, went to Cornell university, did a jolt of railroading in Arkansas and engaged in mining lead and zinc near Joplin, Mo. In Chicago he augmented an inherited fortune in the insurance business. He be longs to a string of good clubs in Chicago, is a sagacious and con servative citizen, and, from all ac counts, has bankrolled Scotty just for the fun of it. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) R AY MILLAND would like to keep a controlling hand on the scripts of all pictures in which he appears from now on. Truth came far too close to fiction to suit him a while ago, and he hasn’t quite recovered yet. He’d finished work in “Un tamed” and gone to Sun Val ley for a week’s rest. Mrs. Milland stayed in Hollywood, as they were expecting the ar- j rival of their first child some ( weeks later. Then he received word that he’d have to race the stork if he wanted to be in Hollywood when it appeared. He started for Boise, Idaho, in a car, also in a blizzard. At Boise he chartered the only plane available, and was grounded at Salt Lake City. He telephoned the hospital, in Holly wood, and learned that he had a son. In "Untamed” he’d braved a bliz zard to reach the bedside of a sick sweetheart. If it’s all the same to the scenario writers, he’d rather have less harrowing experiences. * Hollywood’s most famous mixed foursome—Paulette Goddard, Ruby Keeler, Bing Crosby and Bob Hope —will probably have difficulty in sticking to picture-making if they all BOB HOPE find themselves in the cast of “Fol low Through.” They played togeth er in a charity match last autumn, and it was then that the idea of teaming them in a picture was sug gested. They’re all experts, and if they can resist staging a match that the script doesn’t call for they’ll be doing well. * Anouncer Del Sharbutt intended to be a musician, but instead has become widely known as announcer for such programs as “Myrt and Marge,” “Ask-It-Basket” and Lanny Ross’. The musician in him has come out at last, though; he’s writ ten two songs of Hit Parade propor tions within a few weeks—“The Kitten With the Big Green Eyes,” and “I’d Love To.” * Ginger Rogers, who has millions of fans now, had only one in 1929; he was John L. Cass, who recorded the sound of “Primrose Path,” in which she co-stars with Joel McCrea. About 10 years ago RCA made a two-reeler called “Campus Sweethearts,” in New York, to try out a new wide-film process. Two movie unknowns. Ginger Rogers and Rudy Vallee, were featured. The director didn’t care for the song that Ginger had been rehears ing, but Cass insisted on recording it. “She had everything, including a swell mike vo'^e,” he says. “I knew she was star dust—and how!” * Want to see what happens to win ners of beauty contests? Claire James, who was runner-up in the Miss America contest last year, is playing a bit in Paramount’s “The Ghost Breakers”; she appears in a restaurant scene, wearing a floor- length dinner dress. * Ben Bernie and his lads and lassies, including Dinr.h Shore and Lew Lehr, are moving. After 60 weeks of Sunday broadcasts they’re setting up shop in a Wednesday eve ning half-hour, beginning April 10. Want to bet that for the first few weeks at least half of the troupe will dash to the studio on Sundays? * Cecil B. DeMille is back in char acter again. Now that he is di recting “The Northwest Mounted Police” and goes straight from the movie studio to the radio one where he does his Radio Theater broad casts, he shows up in his “shooting” outfit—high boots, riding breeches, and headgear ranging from som brero to pith helmet. * If you have a harpsichord that you don’t want, get in touch with Alec Templeton. Collecting unusual musical instruments is his hobby, and he has no harpsichord and he wants one. There are only 10 of these ancient instruments in the United States, four of them owned by friends of Templeton’s in Chi cago. They urged him to try one not long ago, he played his favorite satire, "Bach Goes to Town”—and now his life won’t be perfect until he is presented with a harpsichord of his own. Face-lifting operations for the 1940 Golden Gate International exposition are well under way in preparation for the opening day. May 25. Left: Workmen are pictured plastering and painting in Treasure Island’s court of reflections, where an entirely new color scheme will greet first-day visitors. Right: Statuary gets a bath on the exposition grounds. Jeanette Adams and Fay Lacey do their share with this sculptured figure. German Bombers in Action Over Enemy Territory Typical of the men who pilot Germany’s huge bombing planes are these three men pictured, according to the Nazi censor, by fellow members of the bomber’s crew. Left: A youthful pilot at the controls of one of the Reich’s flying fortresses. Top right: To sustain them on their long raiding and reconnaissance flights to England, German fliers eat a concentrated food that is highly nutritious. This pilot eats his scientifically prepared pemmican on the wing. Right bottom: An unusual picture showing the gunner sighting along the muzzle of his machine gun during a raid. Where Their Fathers Fought and Died Builder Men of the Welsh guards, British forces in France, are treated to a cup of tea by a French woman. The soldiers stand amid the ruins of a building partially destroyed during the World war. Many of the men are sons of those who fought and died in this spot during the last world conflict. Miss Muriel Lent, visitor to a New York hobby show, views a model church through a magnifying glass. The church is made of thou* sands of burnt matchsticks. Five-Year-Old Tries Swimming to Health Largest device of its kind is this “many purpose tank” recently in stalled in the New York Orthopedic hospital. Physical therapy technician Phillip Phillips supervises the treatment of five-year-old Bart Giordano, who “bathes” for health. The machine provides underwater exercise for all joints of the body. Jewish Leader Recent arrival in the United States is Rabbi Joseph Isaac Schneersohn, leader of the movement for the pres ervation of orthodoxy of the Jewish faith. He was forced to spend six weeks in a cellar in Warsaw during the German invasion of Poland. IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL S UNDAY 1 chool Lesson By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. D. Dean of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Lesson for April 7 Lessen subjects and Scripture texts se lected and copyrighted by International Council of Religious Education; used by permission. AMOS PLEADS FOR JUSTICE LESSON TEXT—Amos 8:1. 10-18. 21-24. GOLDEN TEXT—Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish Judgment In the gate.—Amos 8:18. Social justice, though much spo ken about in recent times, has been the concern of right thinking men ever since sin entered the world and started man’s inhumanity toward man. In the prophet Amos we find the eloquent and plain-spoken voice of one crying out against such conditions almost 800 years before Chris i. This lesson is one which is of ut most importance because in our present-day struggle with social in justice we have come to assume that it is primarily a political or eco nomic question. Amos and all other Scripture rightly gets at “the focus of infection,” which is sin. Sin in the heart leads to sinful actions, and these inevitably involve others, and thus bring about social problems. Let us learn from Amos to cure our social ills by bringing man to God. L Lamentation—in the Midst of Prosperity (y. 1). From the little village of Tekoa and out of the wilderness in which he had been a herdsman came Amos, the man of God, to hurl his prophecy of disaster upon the heads of the complacent people of Israel and to take up a lamentation over those in Israel living in luxury and prosperity. True it was that the common peo ple were being ground under the heel of cruel oppression, but who cared about the poor as long as they could be squeezed for taxes to sup port the luxurious comforts and pleasures of the rich? A prosperity which does not reach the homes of the poor is not a real prosperity at all. When in addition thereto it en courages the “haves” to oppress the “have-nots” it becomes a grave dan ger, a real cause for lamentation. II. The Reason—Sin Which Hates Reproof (w. 10-13). Sin is always a horrible thing, but when men who have fallen into sin are responsive to correction and ready to repent and forsake their sin, there is hope. The thing which made Israel’s state so serious in the sight of God and of His 'prophet was that they had only hatred for those who were bold enough to reprove them or to live among them accord ing to God’s standards (w. Iff, 13). “They who will endure no criticism have slammed the door in the face of truth. When we get to the place where we cannot endure having our faults pointed out, we are on the way to moral collapse" (Douglass). The sin which had thus hardened their hearts showed itself in social inequality and injustice which was built upon greed, oppression, cor ruption in the courts, etc. The shock ing picture which Amos paints bears a surprising similarity to conditions in our world today. Let us face the problem and seek its solution. III. The Cure—Seek Good Not Evil (w. 14, 15). God’s Word condemns sin, but it always presents a remedy. In Christ we have the perfect, final, and com plete answer to the sin question. Amos, speaking centuries before Christ, admonished Israel to repent and to turn away from the evil which they had cultivated with such assiduity and to be equally zealous about doing good, in the hope that “it may be that the Lord God of hosts will be gracious” (v. 15). How favored we are to be permitted not only to urge people to turn from evil to good, but to offer them the One who is the way, the truth, and I tile life. Israel did not repent, but in folly depended on their religious ceremo nies to satisfy tu. offended God. The prophet therefore declares that FV. Religion Is Not a Substituto for Jnstice (w. 21-24). God had no pleasure in their re ligious observances and rites, be cause they were presented with un repentant hearts and by hands which were soiled by the oppression of their fellow man. Mark it well, God has no delight in the attendance upon church serv ices, beautiful though they may be, does not listen to the sweet strains of sacred music, nor does He accept the rich “offerings” of those who live in unforsaken sin and who pay for magnificent church buildings and beautiful church services with mon ey gotten by crooked dealings and social injustice. God is righteous and God’s Word always cuts right through the hypocrisy of men. Let us heed the plea of Amos, that right eousness should run through our per sonal and national life “as a mighty stream,” and then we shall be ready both as individuals and as a people to worship Him aright. A Gracious Lord His work is honorable and glori ous; and his righteousness endureth forever. He hath made his wonder ful works to be remembered; the Lord is gracious and full of com passion.—Psalm 111:3-4. CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT FOB SALE: Bright Iron and iron miM4 pans $1.50 per bushel here. A. N. GARBEB COTTON CO.. WII.LISTON. S. C. BABY CHICKS BAST CHICKS (Mix*d HmvIm) No £ Cripples I No Culls! We guarantee Uve Delivery 1 We pay postage. ATLAS CHICK CO., St. Louis. Mo. 3 90 AGENTS WANTED UfAHTCn DISTRIBUTORS, WAmtU SALESMEN, ROUTE HEM Big profits and commissions. New farm and S irden insecticide. Government approved. on-injnrions to food plants. Kills bean bee tles. potato bugs, pea aphids, cabbage worms and hundreds of other insects. 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