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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C„ FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1940
WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
(Consolidated Features—WNU Service.)
"^EW YORK.—In the last nine
^ years, this typewriter has re
ported on the achievements of about
7,000 Americans distinguished in the
arts of war
No. 1 Flier of and peace. If
Navy Got Wings the appraisal
The Hard Way ° f personnel
resources is
important in a critical hour, the rec
ord of this file is encouraging. Hit
ler has not repealed the axiom that
the whole is equal to the sum of all
its parts; and that being the case,
this onlooker is convinced that we
have what it takes, considering, par
ticularly, the requirements for cour
age and highly specialized ability.
Today’s citations of individual
preparedness are Rear Admiral
John H. Towers, ranking avia
tion officer of the navy, and
Major General H. H. Arnold,
chief of the army air corps.
They are flexibly minded men
who never have been gronnded
by precedent. They came all
the way up from primitive and
hazardous aviation, and from
their altitude they have seen
farther over the horizon than
most of the rest of us. And they
warned us.
Admiral Towers is the only sur
vivor of the first three men assigned
to naval aviation in 1911. Com
mander John Rodgers was killed in
1926, and Commander T. G. Ellyson
in 1928. Towers himself has had
many a close brush with death. It
was in May, 1919, that he command
ed the transatlantic flight of the
wobbly, but determined NC4. He
and his mates, sagging down into
the sea, taxied 60 hours over 205
miles to the Azores. In 1913, he
was bucked out of a lurching sea
plane, caught a strap as he fell and
dropped 1,700 feet with the hurtling
plane into Chesapeake bay.
The navy’s No. 1 flier was born
in Rome, Ga., in 1886. Glenn Cur
tiss taught him to fly at Hammonds-
port, N. Y. Succeeding Rear Ad
miral Cock, he became a rear ad
miral and head of the bureau of
naval aeronautics in June, 1939. He
is a West Pointer of the class of
1906.
Major General Arnold, known in
the air corps as “Happy” Arnold,
for obvious reasons, was assigned
to aviation in 1911 and trained by the
. _ ..... Wright broth-
Cowboy of Air ers> a t D ay .
Thrilled Capital ton, Ohio. In
In Sprocket Job 1912he caught
the attention
of the then complacent country by
riding a clattering chain and sprock
et job 30 miles around Washington.
In the same year, he coaxed a quaint
sort of Currier and Ives plane up
to the perilous height of 6,540 feet.
It was a national sensation. They
began calling him the “ride ’em
cowboy” of the air.
When the World war started
we had 35 pilots and 55 planes.
Lieutenant Arnold was clamor
ing for more then, and, as gen
eral, he has been out in front the
last year, insisting that air
strength would decide any mod
ern war.
One of his most notable achieve
ments was his brilliant leadership
of a hazardous plane survey over
the Alaska mountain ranges. He is
a native of Gladwyn, Pa., and was
graduated from West Point in 1907.
•
D EAR ADMIRAL Samuel M. Rob-
inson blames delay in ship con
struction to restrictive labor laws,
short work weeks and inadequate
or qualified
Aam. Kootnson appropria-
Rates High as tions. As co-
Navy Appraiser ordinator of
ship construc
tion, he is cast in an important role
in the hard-pressing enterprise of
naval expansion. He is chief of the
navy bureau of engineering, ap
pointed September 13 and appears
in the opening arguments primarily
as a technician rather than as a
policy adviser. When and if there
is a decision as to just what we
want to defend, what will be needed
to defend it, and how much it will
cost. Admiral Robinson will no
doubt score highly in the technical
“information please.” He is 58 years
old, a native of Eulogy, Texas, was
graduated from West Point in 1899
and engaged thereafter in never
spectacular, but crucially important
naval engineering.
A FRIEND of mine, who until a
few months ago had lived in
Italy several years, tells me that
Crown Prince Humbert of Italy not
only is a holdout against the Fascist
regime, but that he has a tremen
dous personal following which he
could and would launch against
Italy’s entry into the war. My
friend believes that his opposition
to the axis and the war must have
been sharpened by the fact that his
wife, the former Princess Marie
Jose, is a daughter of the late King
Albert of Belgium
It’s Long Torso Lines, Pleats;
Pockets That Give ‘New’ Look
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(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
By VIRGINIA VALE
W HEN Count Theo Rossi,
the speedboat champion
and “vermouth king,” took a
flying trip over South Ameri
ca with his bosom friend,
Tyrone Power (before Anna-
bella became Mrs. Power),
they were hailed everywhere
as “the world’s two most eli
gible bachelors.” The count,
still a bachelor, made quite a
dent in the hearts of the Hol
lywood girls last summer, but, like
J. Edgar Hoover, he preferred Shir
ley Temple.
More recently he has left his
mark on the movie colony by de
signing some square glasses. Al
most the first person to get some
was Dolores Del Rio; Hedy La-
Marr, Joan Bennett, Rudy Vallee,
and Peggy Moran followed suit, as
did a number of the smart restau
rants.
And now Perc Westmore, Holly
wood’s ace make-up expert, claims
that those square comers fit into a
girl’s mouth more naturally than
does the edge of a round glass; he
declares also that, as they create
less pressure on the lower lip, they
help to preserve the natural form
of the lips.
*
Hollywood’s smudgiest girls are
Ann Dvorak, Helen Mack and Lola
Lane, who are
featured in Co
lumbia’s “Girls
of the Road.”
The script calls
for them to work
in mud and muck
throughout the
film, wearing
soiled clothes and
even dirtier
faces. Mary
Booth, great-
granddaughter of
Edwin Booth,
makes her movie debut in the same
picture.
*
Recently at a baseball game a be
wildered six-year-old boy in military
uniform found himself so besieged
by autograph seekers that he missed
an entire inning of the game. He
was Gary Crosby, eldest son of
Bing, attending the game with his
grandfather, and he’d like to choke
the fellow who recognized him and
pointed him out to the crowd.
*
The announcement that major
radio networks are planning to use
name stars from stage, screen and
radio during the annual summer
slump has created a wave of mental
depression among Grade B perform
ers, who had banked on filling in
as summer replacements.
*
Kathleen Burke, the famous “Pan
ther Woman” of the movies some
years ago, is now playing the part
of “Rebekah” in “Light of the
World,” the daytime radio show
based on the Bible. Miss Burke has
been absent from the screen for the
past four years, during which time
she married a Spanish dancer, Jose
Fernandez and had a daughter.
By CHERIE NICHOLAS
Ann Dvorak
A source of delight to the produc
tion men and engineers who handle
Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt’s Tues
day and Thurs
day NBC infor
mal talks is the
absolute ease
with which she
goes through her
routine. A sea
soned veteran of
the air, the First
Lady knows all
the hand signals
for speeding up
and slowing down
is proving excep-
Finishes
AXT"HEN you go in quest of a new
v v silk print frock to add to your
summer wardrobe, or if you have
the urge and ambition to make your
own and are in search of a smart
pattern, keep in mind the long torso
silhouette, also pleated skirts and
over and over again repeat pockets,
pockets and pockets for these are
high spots among styling items that
' give the coveted new look at a
glance.
A most radical turn fashion has
taken this season is to introduce a
strikingly different silhouette in the
way of long straight and slim torso
1 lines. To add emphasis to the inno
vation many of the newest tailored
cloth jacket suits take on the nar
row pencil straight skirts the like
of which we have not seen for many
a season past.
However, the leading formula for
the chic suits of print silk which
lead in the summer style parade is
the long slender jacket with pleated
skirt that shows from below the ex
aggerated low hipline of the jacket.
Very often these skirts are pleated
to a hip yoke which stamps them as
being decidedly ultra.
The daytime dress that has a long
torso top after the manner of the
model centered in the illustration is
regarded as eminently high-style
fashion. In this instance gray silk
crepe in two tones is the selected
material. Here we see a revival of
the 1914 co-ed silhouette in a Cali
fornia fashion shown in the Howard
Greer collection. The long-torso top
has leaves of the fabric appliqued
diagonally across the bodice. The
box-pleated skirt is referred to as the
new “action skirt” that gives you
freedom of movement. The sleeves
are notably simple and chic.
There is simply no escaping pock
ets this season. A glance at the
fashion-right dress to the left in the
picture emphasizes the idea that
pockets have a way of imparting
lots of style to a daytime frock of
attractive print silk. The pattern
ing of this printed silk crepe fea
tures a novel arrangement of wee
dot motifs in stripe interpretation,
for as every woman of style knows,
Eleanor Roosevelt
her speech, and
tionally easy to work with,
right on the nose, too.
*
Mary Martin came home ex
hausted the other day; for a scene
in “Rhythm on the River” she’d
been working in front of the cam
eras in a heavy beaver coat and the
temperature under the lights was 97!
Arrived at home, she was confront
ed by the immediate need for buy
ing a house for her mother, Mrs.
Martin being one of the few people
in this country who doesn’t want to
be alone in a house in which Greta
Garbo used to be alone, and like it.
The lovely Mary took the house for
herself and her mother before she
married Richard Halliday. After
her marriage she moved out, and
her mother and the servants rattled
around in the mansion. She has a
six-room bungalow now, and likes it
much better.
the emphasis in prints is decided
ly on stripes this season. The full-
length button opening adds to the
sophistication of this dress. This to
gether with the clever pockets of
military inspiration combine to
achieve great chic. White pique in
corded effect edges neckline and
sleeves.
As the season progresses it is
proving that gray with white or
light green or yellow printed de
sign has gone to dizzy heights of
popularity. Another important col
or theme that persists throughout
the very latest silk prints is that of
brown with white. If you are buying
a new print you will be making a
wise fashion move if you choose
browns as expressed in a brown and
white print with which wear a wide
brimmed straw hat in the very chic
Balenciaga brown, a color that is
most flattering. By the way, it is
wonderfully good style to wear
brown hat and accessories with your
gray and white prints, too.
Don’t try to go through the season
sans a bolero dress. The more you
see of them the more you like them
and the more you wear a bolero
dress the more it endears itself in
your affections. Maybe because the
bolero type is so youthful, maybe
because it is so ever-flattering and
most assuredly it is greatly to be
coveted and appreciated because of
its practicality. Worn with a con
trasting blouse a bolero dress can
be made to tune to every occasion.
The bolero mode pictured to the
right is of printed crepe that adopts
one of the season's best color
schemes, namely, gray dotted in
white. The skirt is pleated in smart
manner. The ribbon belt is in Cor
dovan brown and her Flemish off-
the-face hat is in gray and white.
Milliners proudly refer to gray and
white as “so new” for hats.
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
Starched Lace
On a recent “Vox Pop” program
Parks Johnson was doublecrossed in
his efforts to lead into a natural ad
lib commercial. Parks asked one
of the men he was interviewing
“What do you do after a fast run
up the stairs?” The answer he ex
pected was “I puff,” whereupon
Parks was all set to hand him a com
plimentary tin of his sponsor’s to
bacco and then launch into a recital
of its merits.
But the man stopped him. “Oh,”
said he, "I always wonder why I
did such a foolish thing!”
Here is a brimful of white lace
and running over for that matter
for the neckwear repeats the hand
some immaculate lace theme. Mil
liners are increasingly emphasizing
the importance of lace and snow
white lingerie touches on hats. Here
white starched lace for the brim of
her hat and the matching collar on
her navy blue dress form the high
spots of this stunning costume. Her
bag is white patent leather and her
long finger nail gloves are navy and
red.
Dressy Bretons
Little bretons with sharply turned
back brims make up for their small
size by adding tall crowns and
white lingerie trim.
Lace Enthusiasm
Prevails in Paris
From Paris collections one gains
the idea that leading couturiers are
more decidedly lace-conscious this
season. Schiaparelli shows gay
young clothes that reflect enthusi
asm for lace such as narrow lace
edging around pockets, on linen
dresses and again on fabric crowns,
the same removable for washing.
Narrow lace also edges gloves, col
lars, cuffs and blouse fronts. Cro
cheted lace collars with gloves to
match are a charming and unique
feature.
The new Paris house, Cavalier,
uses large bows of lace on the backs
of tiny hats. Fine white Chantilly,
also starched Venise lace bands
often replace ribbon trims on hats.
Lace motifs are also encrusted in
huge straw brims. The “last word”
in uses of lace is the apron of sheer
black lace worn over formal after
noon black sheer frocks. Very stun
ning, too, are lace aprons worn with
pastel or white evening gowns. Lace
shawls likewise present an interest
ing new phase.
Frilly and Feminine
Collars and cuffs to transform a
dark basic dress this season have a
very fragile feminine air.
Methods Vary
In Treatment
Of Hay Fever
By DR. JAMES W. BARTON
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
T HE hay fever season will
be coming along soon and
thousands of sufferers will be
wondering just whether the
season will be
severe or mild.
If much rag
weed pollen is
being carried in
the air they
know they are in for a miser
able time.
Fortunately the use of in
jections of the ragweed pollen
prevents attacks in a great
many cases.
Just why some individuals are at
tacked and others are not, is not
definitely known, but
there seems to be
two reasons for hay
fever attacking this
large group. One is
an inherited tenden
cy toward allergy or
sensitiveness to sub
stances and the oth
er is some change in
the gland system of
these individuals
^ which interferes
Dr. Barton with the balance of
one gland with an
other or with several others. For
instance, the first thought in the
treatment of asthma and hay fever
is adrenalin or epinephrine—the ex
tract of the adrenal glands, situated
one on top of each kidney. This does
not cure asthma or hay fever (which,
with eczema are closely related) but
it eases and usually stops the
asthmatic attack and, if applied to
eyes or lining of nose, eases the
distress in hay fever.
Gland System May Be at Fault.
That the gland system may be at
fault is again suggested by Dr. C. S.
Bucher of Champaign, 111., in Med
ical World, who, by the use of an
other gland extract—the pituitary
gland lying on the floor of the skull
—obtained excellent results in 50
consecutive cases in the treatment
of hay fever. With his associates,
Dr. Bucher gave hypodermic injec
tions of the extract of the front part
of the pituitary gland (15 drops,
equal to 18% grains of fresh gland)
once a day for seven days to ten
days, then three times a week for
two weeks, twice a week for two
weeks, and once a week thereafter.
About 24 injections were given. This
treatment is begun (as with the rag
weed treatment) about two months
before the usual time for the onset
of hay fever.
Lumbago, Sciatica
Not ‘Natural’ Ills
Parasol Brims
Wide and shady as a parasol are
the new picture hats of felt. Some
have brims that are shirred at in
tervals.
■y OU may suffer with an attack of
* lumbago and sciatica but be
cause you are getting “older,” yon
may think that lumbago and sci
atica are the “natural” ailments you
must endure. So you apply heat in
some form, take aspirin tablets reg
ularly and seem to get along fairly
well.
Sciatica and lumbago are not nat
ural ailments but have some def
inite cause.
I have spoken before of my own at
tacks of sciatica and lumbago. The
first attack was due to injury for
which I wore a Goldthwait brace
for four years. The second was due
to infected tonsils, the removal of
which brought relief of pain in 48
hours, and full use of a partly para
lyzed leg within one month. The
third and fourth attacks were due
to infected teeth.
Dae to Injury or Infeetion.
In other words, sciatica and lum
bago are due in the great majority
of cases to injury or infection.
The injury, may not be a fall, a
blow, a wrench of the joints in lower
back and hips. In many cases, it
is due to the faulty posture or car
riage; in fact, Dr. W. M. Steel, in
American Journal of Surgery, says:
Poor posture is the usual “pre
disposing” cause of lumbo-sciatica.
The spinal “tilt” puts an added pull
on ligaments and nerves, with pain
in the distant branches of these
nerves. “The poor posture may be
due to flat feet or just poor muscu
lar power.”
“Pain is transmitted down the leg
to foot. In mild cases there is
morning back stiffness and muscle
fatigue, followed as the day goes on
by pain over the hip joints, buttocks
and down back of legs. The pain
comes and goes and is made worse
by sudden body twists, lifting, ex
posure to wet and cold, or infec
tion.”
• • •
QUESTION BOX
Q.—What causes belching?
A.—Most cases of beV-hing are
due to a sluggish liver and gall blad
der. Other cases are due to gas
forming foods—cabbage, onions, let
tuce and cauliflower.
Q.—Will you kindly advise if cit,
rus fruits and tomato juice are good
sources of vitamin B 1 ?
A.—Citrus fruit and tomato juice
eontain vitamin B 1 , but are not as
rich in it as liver, milk, eggs, whole
wheat grains, yeast and peanuts.
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in the back, at neck and waistline
only (with plenty of lap-over), leav
ing the front perfectly smooth.
Thus you can lay it flat on the
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popular waistband style, it has a
charming silhouette—small-waist-
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The pattern also includes well-
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that transforms your frock into a
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Juniors will love it, in sharkskin,
gingham, linen or pique.
Pattern No. 8719 is designed for
sizes 11, 13, 15, 17 and 19. Size 13
dress requires 3% yards of 35-inch
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QUESTIONS
When lighting a birthday cake
always light the candles in the
middle first and those on outside
last.
• • •
A teaspoon of mixed pickle
spices tied in a small bag and
added to the water in which fish,
ham or tongue is boiled, will add
a very pleasing flavor.
• • •
Art gum may be used to clean
gloves, shoes, and wall paper.
* * *
When refilling a feather pillow
crush a small block of camphor
and mix in with the feathers. This
will keep the feathers “fresh” and
will help to preserve them.
• • •
After a blanket has been washed
and dried pin it on the line and
beat with a carpet-beater. This
makes the blanket beautifully soft
and fluffy.
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