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THE SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C, FRIDAY. JUNE 28, 1940 Pi WHO’S NEWS Mi WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features—WNU Service.) VIEW YORK.—Gen. Emilio de Bono, taking command of Italy’s southern armies with her en try into the war, is said to have had the longest De Bono First to Nail ‘Empire? on Fascist Mast-Head and strongest seizure of em- piritis in those parts, a tiny man, Italy’s little Now 75 years old, scarcely taller than king, he has been built up as a rough- and-tumble wildcat fighter, a legend which he sustains by ferocious activ ity. They benched him in the mid dle of the Ethiopian conquest be cause, he complained, the Ethio pians wouldn’t step out and fight. They sent in Gen. Pietro Badoglio and he finished thcsn with poison gas. Early in 1935, General De Bono recorded his heart’s desire in Mussolini’s political review, Gerarchia, as follows: “One proclaims, even shouts, often and perhaps too much, a beau tiful word that I have personally promised myself not to pro nounce or write any more un less it is on the day where one can by direct action give a real reason to the why of this great word. Oh, well, although old, I will live to see that day.” The word so hallowed he dared not write it was—“Empire.” The pint-size general was one of the original quadrumvirate of Fas cism and is said to have been the first to nail the empire slogan on the Fascist masthead. This writer remembers having seen him once— an extraordinarily active, bright- eyed, talkative little man, with a neat white beard—a few hours after a mob of young blackshirts had wrecked the house of former Pre mier Nitti, in Florence, and slit to shred« his classical library of books which ranged back to the Fifteenth century. In 1926 General De Bono was charged with knowledge of the political kidnaping and murder of the Deputy Matteoti. There was latent opposition to Fascism then, and II Duce hastily sent his little wildcat general to Af rica. The incident was forgot ten and the general went to work getting Africa ready for empire day. He was the Fas cist chief of police in the early days of the regime and built up the Italian Cheka. He entered the Milan Military academy at the age of 12, and has put in his entire career in the army. Cartoonist Low Early Touched Up Fifth Column T HOMAS NAST, the hornet who stung Boss Tweed, is perhaps the best precedent for David Low: Similarly, the British cartoonist has been stinging B r i t a i n’s “Apologia Germanica” for several years. A brief cable today reports the telling effect of his cartoons in stirring a new surge of anger against the trimmers and side-step pers of the immediate pre-war years. Correspondents score this on the side of new unity and fighting spirit. The quiet, bearded Briton with a big black hat touched up the fifth column long before the Norway debacle. Visiting the United States in October, 1936, he said: “We’re becoming a world of stool pigeons. There are too many white rats loose everywhere. I’m pessimistic. We’d better get ready to save what we have. That goes for the U. S. A., too. People who believe in civilization don’t know what’s happening to it. They’d better find out. I’m trying to tell them.” During the last two years, his ten-strike cartoons have been car ried on the cables and widely re produced in this country, the first to be thus distinguished. They have found publication in many other countries—signed “Low,” as the David has long since been dropped. He says people have to learn to laugh to win a war, and adds, “We laugh too much from our back teeth and too little from our stomachs.” He is of Shakespearian aspect and says that his neat little beard is in deference to the bard and not Mos cow. He was born in Dunedin, New Zealand, in 1891 and began his ca reer as a cartoonist with the Syd ney (Australia) Bulletin. ‘*'T' HE Beautiful Girl of the Bow- -*■ ery Run” heads the move of the American Medical Women’s as sociation to get military rating for women physicians in government service, and to prepare women doc tors and dentists for effective war work—if necessary. The above des ignation was that of Dr. Emily D. Barringer, when she was the coun try’s first woman ambulance sur geon in 1903. She recently retired after twenty-one years on the staff of the Kingston Avenue hospital, Brooklyn. By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) W HEN you see Paramount’s version of Joseph Conrad’s “Victory” (directed by John Cromwell, co-starring Frederic March and Betty Field), you’ll see some of the most-traveled film ever shown. Scenes were shot in Sourbaya, on the island of Java, in the Dutch East Indies; then the cans of film were transported by train, native boat, and finally by Chinese air line to Hong Kong. A Pan-American clipper flew it to Manila, and there it stayed; so many passengers were waiting to take the clipper home that there was no room for part of a movie. It came along on the next sched uled flight. Meanwhile the cast was working at Baldwin lake. The scenes shat in the actual location of BETTY FIELD the story will be slipped in with the ones shot on the American location —and it won’t be surprising if the Baldwin lake shots are the more convincing. - * More than 100 boys are being paid for having the time of their lives; they’re portraying real-life cadets in Columbia’s “Military Academy,” and much of the action calls for them to disport themselves on the track and football field of a local military academy. They sprint, put the shot, pole-vault—and the checks come rolling in. Tommy Kelly, Bobby Jordan, David Holt and Jackie Searl are in the cast. * Four-year-old Dickie Lyon, son of Bebe Daniels and Ben Lyon, (and don’t tell me that you don’t remem ber those two picture stars!) is worried. He’s working in “The Howards of Virginia,” and doesn’t want his parents to find it out. ' “They told me pictures was bad,” he declares. Bebe and Ben have been starring in a stage play in London, and thef sent the boy back to California to live with his grandmother several months ago, because of the war. Frank Lloyd, who’s directing “The Howards of Virginia,” persuaded Mrs. Daniels to let Dickie take the role of the young son of Cary Grant and Martha Scott, and Dickie is do ing remarkably well—except that he’s worried. He’s afraid of what his mother will think when she sees him on the screen. “Maybe she won’t like it,” he says, ominously. But Lloyd’s not anxious. Some j time ago he told Bebe that little , Dickie was a good picture prospect, and she said, “I’d trust him with you.” —*— Uncle Ezra (Pat Barrett) of ra dio’s National Barn Dance is highly enthusiastic over making movies in Hollywood, but the most difficult thing he had to adjust himself to was the delay in starting. He re cently returned to Chicago from tha cinema city after making “Coming ’Round the Mountain” with Bob Burns; later he’ll go back to Para mount and do two more. * ODDS AND ENDS—Gan Cooper has a photograph of his tsco-year-old daugh ter, Mary, encased in the dashboard of his car . . . Agnes Moorehead used a train and three planes in a frantic effort to get to New York from Milwaukee for a "Big Sister” broadcast, landed in Wash ington, and had to give up; when she found the New York plane grounded in Milwaukee because of bad weather, she flew to Cleveland, then to Pittsburgh, then to Washington, only to find that there wasn’t enough time left to reach New York for the broadcast . . . Virginia Dale and Lillian Cornell, whom you’ve seen or perhaps will see in “Buck Lenny Rides Again," will supply the feminine inter est in “Touchdown,” with Wayne Morris. * Frances Langford finished a broadcast, then drove 700 miles to the Navajo Indian reservation in Arizona to spend her second wed ding anniversary with her husband, Jon Hall, who’s starring in “Kit ^’ar son,” an Edward Small production. There are 50,000 Navajo Indians on the reservation, but the role of Indian chief went to A1 Kikumi, a full blooded Hawaiian. After numer ous tests Producer Small came to the conclusion that Kikumi looks more like an Indian chief than any at the Indians do. Brims Are Wide, Wider, Widest In Chic and Flattering Ways By CHERIE NICHOLAS W HAT a merry chase fickle fash ion is leading us this season in regard to the hats we wear. Starts us off at the dawn of spring with flower or fabric-drape toques so tiny (some of them) as to be almost amusing, yet withal so flattering and so chic, even the new broad brims cannot entirely wrest their well- earned honors from them. And then what does capricious fashion do— suddenly announces brims so tre mendously wide they fairly amaze one. Which, summed up, means every fashionable wardrobe of hats this summer must necessarily in clude both types to be worn as time and occasion demand. As to the new broad-of-brim vogue so full of promise for the coming months, no matter how big your hat with a brim, it will be none too large, according to fashion’s way of thinking. None too dramatic either, since the new brims are daring in deed, and to make them appear the more so they are worn with a dash and a go that adds infinitely to their style. The wide-brimmed, strictly tai lored felts which proved themselves so definitely good-looking with the new spring suits continue to have a firm hold on the affections r M well- dressed women. Outstanding among these striking felts are the simple, huge, sailor types, the stunning, large Bretons and the very new rip pled or pleated, soft, flaring, felt brim that, to be pe fectly chic, must be worn far back on the head. Of course the latter are necessarily dedicated to youth, for who but the ingenue smooth of brow dare ven ture so striking a fashion? The fact that the off-the-face broad brims are essentially a young so phisticate item should not by any means imply that the vogue for enormous brims is confined to the teen-age and debutante set. On the contrary, the off-face wide brim is merely one phase of the matter, for whether you are in the “life begins at forty” class or not, the message of the wide brim is all-inclusive, for certain it is and true, there’s flat tery a-plenty in the new wide brims, whether you are sweet sixteen or “plus.” The new wide-brimmed summer straws are everything you want them to be. The stunning hat worn by the smart young woman, stand ing above to the right in the illus tration, speaks in accents of red, as also does her belt, which is a brilliant red patent leather, for be it known that fashion, is making a sen sational splurge of red this summer, red hats being a pet hobby just now. Broad of brim and utterly fasci nating is the hat which the young sophisticate standing below to the left in the picture is carrying. It is made of raffia in colors matching those of her gay plaid frock and still gayer raffia sandals. The vogue for white millinery came early and is going to stay late. Women of fashion have been wearing white hats in accordance with style dictate since early spring and as the summer advances the popularity of white headgear is rush ing along at a crescendo scale. The white straw breton pictured above to the left flaunts a cluster of straw berries nested in its crown—another instance of the flair for red with white. Black holds its own in spite of the tremendous play being made on col or this season. See the off-face Bret on below to the right in the group. A crisp white bow and head-band en livens the black to perfection—just the type hat to wear with prints and summer town clot v .es. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Good Shoe News Hear, hear ye the good news! It’s about an exciting innovation—an in- nerscle of a new synthetic material named Onco Insole-ated, which has recently been developed by Vincent DeLiso. In creating this new in- nersole a slim layer between the outer sole of a shoe and the lining completely insulates the foot against the heat and cold of city pavements. Mr. DeLiso says this insole-ated sole is so deep and resilient it practical ly caresses the foot, causing the shoe to be molded at the first wear ing, to the individual contours of the foot. Summer Black In the midst of all the welter of color shown for summer wear, sheer black, and black and white, zoom to an imporUat place for hot weather. ‘Companionate’ Is Aim in Accessories More and more fashion encour ages the idea of companionate ac cessories. This season, more than ever, much ado is being made over establishing a family relation be tween this and that of one’s cos tume. Such as for instance a cos tume ring to match the lapel gadget or clip. Also the idea of wearing flower costume jewelry to which is matched the color of your nail polish. You can get blouses with hats of the same material and designers have even gone so far as to make gloves of the identical fabric. Costumes that ensemble from head to foot include dress, hat, para sol and gloves of the same material. This is being carried out beautifully in the very fashionable cottons, especially flowered prints. Dark Linen With Lingerie Frills New on the style program and strikingly chic is the black or navy linen redingote dress the skirt of which flares open at the front re vealing starch white petticoat frills, the very feminine treatment further carried out in dramatic collar and cuffs of matching snow-white em broidery and lace. Fashion-alert women are also set ting the pace with costumes of dark green linen with which red acces sories complete a costume of out standing mode. With dresses of lin en in the new browns hats and de tails in the much talked about cocoy shades achieve pleasing contrast. AN APPEAL TO RADIO STATION CHIEFS 1— Must you link up ballyhoo for breakfast foods wi.n the most mo mentous news in world history? 2— Must you give us the graphic tidings of a major battle in one breath and a talk on com plasters or washing powders in the next? 3— Does it never strike you that the height of anti-climax is to follow a dispatch from the tragic fields off Belgium with an immediate boosting of somebody’s catch-penny merchandise? 4— Have you ever listened and felt the revulsion that comes when the fellow who gives the stirring de scription of the war for the world shifts abruptly into a glorification of peanut butter or a shaving soap? 5— Don’t you think, really, now, old fellow, that it jars the great unpitied audience to be flung abrupt ly from the European carnage and all its significance into a blurb for a baked bean? * • • 8—Are radio listeners people? 7— And, if so, don’t they deserve a break? 8— Do you think Otis T. Whiffle, bending over his radio set, de pressed and startled by a hair- raising account of the fall of a cit adel of civilization, likes to hear the announcer suddenly bark, “Did you feel low, tired, out of sorts this '-Ussffiss. morning? Then go to your nearest grocer and ask for Twihums, the super cereal”? 9— Do you think that what is going on in Europe can possibly have any thing in common with what is going on in the American cosmetics, hosiery, pickle or canned soup in dustries? • 10— Don’t you shiver at all when you hear Namur, St. Quentin, Mons and Louvain mentioned in the same breath with nail polish, wheatcakes, headache pills and somebody’s soda pop? A • • 11— What wUbld you think if a newspaper gave you the first three paragraphs of tn account of a des perate clash in the war of wars and then inserted three paragraphs tell ing how Spiffledorfer’s Sausages were the peer of all sausages the world over? 12— What would you think if the caption under a newspaper picture of a shell-tom village was followed by a few lines of eulogy for a liver pill, a $2 watch or a dog biscuit? IS—What do you think are the re actions of a radio fan who finds a chewing gum or a cooking grease being lauded by the same voice that has just broadcast breath-taking war communiques? • • • 14—Look into this matter, will ya, please? It’s got us throwing things at the old portable. • • • DEFINITIONS Dictator.—A man whose ambition is to bomb the baby show at Asbury Park. * * • DO YOU REMEMBER— Away back when America thought European wars were none of her business? • • • There is talk of sending Senator Pepper to the allies in exchange for two Chamberlains and a good utility infielder. • • • Next year Americans will be look ing back and remarking, “Do you remember away back in 1939 and 1940 when taxes were infinitesimal?” • • • PEEPUL’S CHOICE I’m sick of hearing the brassy ring Of each politician’s voice. And when the elections come next fall, Here’s how I shall make my choice: I’ll vote for whoever will swear to bring A balmy spring! SANDRA T. HERRICK. • • • Whatever became of Neville Chamberlain? • • • REFRAIN Reading an English novel, I often wonder whether I’ll get through without a single “Pull yourself together.” Reading the sporting pages, I don’t have to go great length Before I learn that so and so “Was a tower of strength.” The one that really gets me I’ll murder and no maybe, That boss of mine next time he says, “Now that is your baby.” CLAYPIPE McSULLIVAN. a • • Ninety-six New York school pu pils were found in one movie house playing hookey in a single afternoon recently. It is becoming pretty clear that if education is to get anywhere in this country the schools have got to pay more attention to organ mu sic, soft seats and double features. Dam Imperils Traces of Race Rising Waters in Oklahoma Project Blot Out Old Civilization. GROVE, OKLA.—A page from the unwritten history of a cultured In dian race, which flourished when Europe was plunging into the Dark ages, will be blotted out by im pounded waters above Grand River dam. Anthropologists, who have pieced together part of the history of this vanished people, are racing with the rising waters of the completed pow er dam to salvage what they can. To the excavations near this northeastern Oklahoma town have been sent 79 WPA workers and two supervisors to unearth the traces of Indian villages and cliff dwellings that lie in the path of the gathering waters. One project near Tahlequah, which is outside the dam basin, has been shut down temporarily to fur nish the needed experienced work men. Depending upon the amount of rainfall, supervisors calculate they have only from three to six months of grace. Had Advanced Culture Already the spade has turned up enough evidence in eastern Okla homa to convince anthropologists that these mound-builders—who peopled the Mississippi valley from 800 to 1,200 years ago—boasted a culture superior to most North American tribes that the white man found. Dr. Forrest E. Clements, associ ate professor of anthropology at the University of Oklahoma, who directs the work, says that art designs on engraved shell and repousse copper gorgets are reminiscent of some phases of Central American art. Trade relations definitely existed between these prehistoric tribes ex tending clear to the Gulf of Mexico. The head on one of the ceremonial pipes bears a striking resemblance to some of the giant stone heads recently unearthed in Central Amer ica and has a similar headdress, roughly resembling a football hel met. Feathers Were Woven. Apparently, this ingenious race could make cloth from nearly any thing. The weavers warped and woofed with feathers, with fibers, and with tanned rawhide. They dyed their cloth with yellows, blacks and reds. They also were handy metal and stone workers. They hammered out copper and covered ornaments with it A tribal priest’s mask, made of cedar, was sheathed with thin, beat en copper. They decorated themselves with stone, copper-covered ear spools and hung strands of pearls about their necks. Many pearls, deterior ated by time, have been found. For a living this sedentary race cultivated maize, hunted and fished. The last pat of earth was added to the mound about 800 years ago. Dr. Clements says. This date was tentatively estab lished by Dr. Paul B. Sears, former University of Oklahoma professor of boiany, on the basis of pollen counts in the earth from which the mound was made. The filling of the Grand River dam will not end eastern Oklahoma ex plorations, for there are many sites outside the area yet to be explored. Town Loses Water Tank So Post Office Is Closed CAMAS, IDAHO.—Uncle Sam has closed the post office in this one time roaring, wide-open city of the West. The reason is that where at one time Camas boasted of 11 sa loons, four hotels, a main street and thousands of population, it now has only four families. The straw that broke the ghost town’s back was when the Union Pacific* tore down its water ' ink, the last evidence that a railroad had once teen there. Model ‘City’ Constructed To House Feeble-Minded SOUTHBURYf CONN.—Connecti cut is putting the finishing touches to a new model state institution for the feeble-minded which will be a city in itself, raising its own crops, manufacturing its electricity and piping its own water. The institution, when completed this fall, will house 1,500 persons and a staff of 300. There will be 70 buildings on 1,200 acres. Tangled Family Ties Now Tangled Further WHITEHALL, WIS—The rela tionships of the Holmen family are now slightly confused. Harry M. Holmen, 55 years old, married his widowed stepmother, Mrs. Agnes E. Holmen, 58. They were attended by the son and daughter-in-law of the bride, Mr. and Mrs. Kerwin Holmen, who were the half-brother and sister- in-law of the groom. It is reliably reported that this makes the groom’s half-brother his stepson and his sister-in-law his daugh ter-in-law. More of Our Friend Betsy’s Attic Magic By RUTH WYETH SPEARS LJERE is Betsy again — that clever girl in Sewing Book 3,v who streamlined an old iron bed. In her house there was an enor mous kitchen and her mother hated big kitchens. So, a parti tion was used to divide it into two rooms. The half with a door into the front hall was for Betsy to en- * tertain her own special friends. The old linoleum was painted dark green. All the walls were painted cream and then pink stripes were painted on the new wall. The neat and efficient cot cover is cream chintz with pink roses and green leaves. The sides of the pad, the two end cushions and the center cushion are green, lighter than the floor. The cut- down table with the tin tray on top is painted with the green floor paint with some of the cream wall color added. Next week Betsy’s mother solves another home dec orating problem. NOTE: Betsy is now making a hooked rug for her new sitting room from directions in the Sew ing Book 5. It also contains di rections for streamlining an old couch; rockers; dining room chairs and other “attic magic.” Send name, address and 10 cents in coin to cover cost and mailing. Send order to: MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS Drawer 10 Bedford Hills New York Enclose 10 cents for Book 5. Name Address THOUGHT AT Tttf fIRST ISt WMtmNG 0F INORGANIC MIN 1 OR COLDS DISCOMFORTS. -JOSEPH ASPIBIM Disclosing Talents Adversity has the effect of elicit ing talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.—Horace. V nerves? Cranky? Reetleas? Can’t sleep? Tire easily? 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