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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.
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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.
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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.
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Oil casement window hinges oc
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rusting.
• • •
Baked custards and vanilla jun
ket are tasty with a sprinkling at
grated nutmeg.
. • •
Rice should always be washed
before cooking. Use cold water
and change it two or three times
until the water is clear.
• * •
Store seeds in a cool place it
they reach you too early. They
keep better than in a warm room.
• • .
Try baking apples in a doable
roaster with one cup of water for
a half dozen peeled apples. They
are much more juicy than when
baked in a pan without a cover.
. • •
When door handles become
loose, it is usually because the
screw holes have become larger
and the screws do not hold. Get
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trouble will be remedied.
• * *
Never press a quilt while it is
damp. It is apt to become stiff
if you do. Wash quilts in mild
soap suds aad water. Rinse them
thoroughly and hang them, drip
ping, in the shade to dry. Then
press them on the wrong side with
a warm, not hot, iron.
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