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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. Russian Break With Japs May Speed War's End Chinese Ambassador’s Wife Says Her People Are Optimistic. By Pauline Frederick When the code translator of the Chinese embassy in Washington brought Madame Wei Tao-Ming, wife of the ambassador, the first word that Russia had ended its neu trality pact with Japan, it was a kind of D-Day for her. “For years we pursued the hope that the whole world would one day understand the aggression of Ja pan,” she told me that same after noon in the teak-wood furnished drawing room of the embassy at historic Twin Oaks. “Now that day is here.” “And what does it really mean?” I asked. “Victory may come quicker,” she said with spirit. “The Chinese peo ple are very happy today.” Madame Wei had another cause for optimism. At eight o’clock that MADAME WEI TAO-MING morning she and the ambassador had learned of the fall of the Koiso government in Tokyo. It was hard to believe that this diminutive woman in. her black sat in mandarin gown with a jade and diamond clip at her throat, presid ing over a dainty tea table, was, at the age of 15, carrying bombs and dynamite in suitcases for the Chi nese revolution from Tientsin to Peking. Or that a year later, with a belt of dynamite strapped to her body, she set out on a dangerous mission to kill a public official who was an enemy of the revolution. But the “rebellious spirit,” as she calls it, that was oorn in her has ever been fanned into flames of action against the enemies of her country, both within and without. That’s the reason she was largely responsible for China’s refusal to sign the Ver sailles treaty . . . but that comes later. Always Revolutionary. Madame Wei has always been what she terms “revolutionary.” When her feet were bound in the Chinese fashion, she removed the bandages. She drank tea with sug ar and cream in it from a cup with a handle instead of plain, out of a little bowl. She wore a hat instead of going bareheaded. When she was betrothed by her parents to a man she had never seen, but about whom she heard things which led her to believe he would be unsuitable, she threw the strictest custom to the four winds and wrote him a note breaking the engagement. Her ac tivities with the revolutionists are as exciting as fiction. She studied law at the Sorbonne where she met Dr. Wei, and they practiced togeth er in China. She was the first Chi nese woman lawyer, the first Chinese lawyer of either sex to practice in the French Mixed Court in Shang hai, the first woman magistrate in China, and the first woman to be president of a Chinese law college. But to her burning interest of the day: “We have been fighting for the democratic way of life since 1911,” she told me with the fierce convic tion that dominates her. “Before this war we were fighting for na tional independence—now in this war we are fighting for the same idea. China is a peace-loving na tion, but for 40 years the Japanese have been preparing to conquer us.” It was this latter belief that mo tivated her activity as a delegate to the Paris peace conference. She and her student friends became alarmed at the plan of the conference to permit Japan to entrench itself on the Shantung peninsula. “We had little difficulty in per suading Dr. Koo and Dr. Wang not to sign the treaty,” she said, “but Mr. Lou, the delegate from the north of China, was a different matter. Jailed German Mayor Leaps to His Death SCHWEINFURT, GERMANY. — The oberburgomeister, who was also the chief S. S. (Elite guard) official in the city, killed himself by jumping out of a win dow of a schoolhouse where he was held under guard. His name was not disclosed. S. S. troops had hanged 11 sol diers caught trying to surrender. "GAY GADGETS Associated Newspapers—WNU Features. n By NANCY PEPPER TOWEL-TOPS If you took a bird’s eye view of a gang of Ughschoolers these days, you’d think you were looking at a corps of hospital nurses. Why? Be cause they’re all women in white these days. Seems they’re wearing mother’s dishtowels on their heads and they’re proud of it. Double Header—Some girls cram a jeep hat down over the dishtowel that’s tied under their chins. T’ain’t purty, McGee! Fancy Fringe—Edge your dish- towels with colored wool fringe. Left-overs from that last sweater you made look creamy. Aren’t you glad you’re a Knit Wit? At Your Service—Service insignia look dee-gee sewn all over your white dishtowel. Hasn’t it come a long way from the kitchen? Button Bonanza—And while you’re at it, try sewing assorted buttons all over your dishtowel. Hasn’t it come a long way from the kitchen? STEADY STUFF The new name for those grew- some twosomes, for those who make a study of such things, is “Drac and Frank,” short for Dracula and Frankenstein, the most grewsome twosome of them all! Here are some of the new customs of S. D.’s (steady daters). Among Those Presents — We’ve told you about identification brace lets and cedar wood heart pins that a boy gives to a gal when she rockets him. The latest fad in steady gifts is a miniature animal Minutt Make- tljas By GABRIELLE 1 Just a Minute there! Are you conserving, making pretty new things out of old, practical ones? For instance—cut lovely flowers out of old felt hats. Group them into a gay, multi-colored bouquet for your hair. Turn old leather belts into Glamour Girdles by sewing big jeweled buttons of different colors in a single row. Make last year’s gloves exciting by three plaid bows on the wrist and a bow to match at your throat! Ledger Syndicate.—WNU features. The night before the treaty was to be signed we discovered his hideout in a suburb of Paris and decided to call on him. When he wouldn’t see us we decided to wait outside the house anyway. When we saw the secretary of the delegation go in with a brief case we were afraid we were being tricked. As he came out, the others frightened him and when he ran down the path I jumped out and pointed a stick from a rose bush at him which I had up my coat sleeve. He thought it was a gun and dropped his brief case. We stayed outside the house all night and at 10 o’clock the next day were admit ted. We succeeded in talking Mr. Lou into our point of view—he didn’t go to Versailles that day.” An Open Conference. “What about the Sari Francisco conference?” I asked Madame Wei, whose husband is a delegate. “That’s different,” she replied with animation. “At Versailles it was a conference of diplomats be hind closed doors. At San Francisco the people are behind the confer ence. We have big hope that peace for the future of mankind will be started at San Francisco.” Madame Wei is not only an in tellectual and a leader among Chi nese women. She is also tl: ; hostess at an important diplomatic mission. But not all the cares that beset American housewives in these days of curtailed food supplies bother her. For example, she doesn’t have to worry about making ration points go round. The reason— “Chinese dishes,” she smiled, “don’t require much meat. We use many soy beans, vegetables noodles, and rice—and, of course, they aren’t rationed.” for her knick-knack shelf. How’s your zoo these days? Big Blow—If he gifts her with a windbreaker, just like his, you’ll know they’re Swingin’ on a Star. Especially if she sews his fraternity emblem on the back. Gag of the Week. Tell someone to write anything at all on a piece of paper. Then tell him to stand on it and you will tell him without looking what is on the paper. He follows your instructions and asks, “Now you teil me what’s on the paper.” And, of course, be ing a Sharp Jackson, you say, “Your foot.” S' ifes | ike j hat By FRED NEHEF THAT LITTLE MORON AGAIN He put plaster on the window be cause the glass was in pane. He ate gunpowder so he could shoot off his mouth. He sat up all night waiting for the sunset and finally it dawned on him. He thinks foul language is chicken convei satwn. WeU, as one coffee pot said to the other, u Perk up—don’t be a drip all vour life." USOs Help Disabled Vets to Recapture Old Zest in Living “The most important thing which friends and relatives of disabled vet erans can do is to treat them as normal men. Attention should not be forced upon them. These men are supersensitive. If they have lost an eye, or an arm, or a leg, they may feel that the bottom has dropped out of everything—but that isn’t true. We all know men and women who have successfully overcome grave disabilities and have lived useful lives.” Guided by this statement from Maj. Gen. Norman T. Kirk of the army medical corps, civilians of Martinsburg, W. Va., have all helped to make the USO club in that city a popular center for men from the nearby Newton D. Baker general hospital. This is one of 527 USO clubs, financed by National War fund which serve ambulatory pa tients in hospitals caring for the wounded. The club, which is directed by Mrs. Sallie Ailes, is always crowded with men in uniform. “These men are wonderful,” she smiled. “Their acceptance of all that our club has to offer, and Martinsburg’s accept ance of the men is all so perfectly normal that we never think of them as being ‘disabled’ or ‘physically handicapped.’ We are all so used to seeing men on crutches, men with arms in casts and slings, or men with a patch over one eye, that we are never conscious of any of these physical marks of war. We see such marked improvement in the men, over such short periods of time, that we can really comfort wives and families before they see their sol diers, when they come to Martins burg to be near them. “Men come into the club from ear ly morning until late at night,” she “Let’s have another soda and tell him about this being my birthday.” Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE IT WAS three times and then JL out for a certain Hollywood jinx, for which actor John Dali thanks his lucky stars, i Three successive occupants of a certain ill-omened house in ; Laurel Canyon, near Holly- ' wood, came to unhappy ends, via a plane crash, suicide and murder at the hands of an unknown. Then John Dali moved in. A newcomer New Aircraft Compass Is Located on End of Wing Have you ever been misled in the woods because you read your pocket compass when it was too near your axe or rifle? If so, you can under stand why heavy metallic armor around fighter-plane cockpits made it necessary to adopt a kind of com pass that could be located in a wing tip, or the tail, but read in the cock pit. Such a remote-indicating com pass is now being manufactured by the General Electric company in its instrument factory in Lynn, Mass. Such compasses offer other advan tages in that one compass unit may have several remote indicating dials so the navigator or other members of the crew on large planes can have the same information as the pilot. Alnico permanent magnets in the compass unit, placed in a wing tip or the tail of the plane far from the plane’s disturbing magnetic effects, line themselves up with the earth’s magnetic field. These magnets af fect the electrical voltages in a wire coil so that corresponding coils in the one or more indicators in the cockpit move pointers over a dial in exactly the same directions as the compass. Until this type of compass became available the problem of providing pilots with a compass dial which could be located where they could, read it, and still be depended upon to guide them, seemed to be growing beyond practical solution. continued. “They come to eat, to read, to dance, or to play ping-pong or billiards. Often they come in just to sit and talk. Nearly all of the young wives who have come to live until, their husbandr. are either dis charged or returned to duty, use the USO club as their home-away- from-home as freely and as happily as do the men.” Typical of the cooperation and the appreciation of military authorities is the following excerpt from a re cent letter from Col. E. L. Cooke, commanding officer of the Baker hospital: “The USO has come to mean a helping hand and a place of warm welcome not only to the men at this hospital, but to all members of the armed forces who may come within its doors.’” JOHN DALL to films, from the New York stage, he needed all the luck in the world. Two weeks later he was signed to make his debut opposite Bette Davis in “The Corn Is Green”; now he’s on the stellar list at Warners’. ! The only case on record of an ac- I tor’s being wounded by a cork in Hollywood occurred during produc- | tion of Warners’ “Escape in the Des ert”; junior actor Blayney Lewis popped his popgun at a Nazi villain, caught Samuel Hinds in the left eye. * I Eight-year-old Sharon Moffett did ; so well in “My Pal, Wolf,” that RKO promptly began looking for the right story for a starring vehicle for ' her. It’s been found in “Lend Lease : for Penny,” an original with a small- ! town background. A new series, to be known as j “High School Kids,” will be pro- | duced by Sam Katzman for Mono- ! gram release; the films will be “jit- , terbug musicals,” stories of, modern i youth, and contracts just signed call for four a year. * A special plane will fly Edwin Jerome to New York from Washing ton each Saturday, and back to the Capital late Sunday night. He has a part in the 20th Century-Fox pic ture, “Now It Can Be Told,” which deals with the way the FBI handled espionage agents. All his scenes are shot right in the office of J. Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI. But Jerome has been a regular on “Crime Doctor”]ever since it went on the air five years ago, and can’t miss performances because of a< pic ture assignment, hence the weekly plane trips. —* When three-year-old Ann Marshall is twelve she’ll choose her own middle name. Her father, Herbert Marshall, star of the air’s “The Man Called X,” who on June 12 takes over the Bob Hope spot during the comedian’s vacation, agrees with his wife, Lee Russell, about that. So many children are -kidded because they have unusual middle names, they say, that they’ll let Ann choose her own. A summary of 17 years of Acad emy Awards will be prepared as one of the Columbia Screen Snap shots for the current season. The reel will feature the 34 male and female stars who’ve received Os cars, starting with the 1927-28 awards to Janet Gaynor and Emil Jannings, and will present them in scenes from the pictures for which they won the awards. It’ll end with Ingrid Bergman and Bing Crosby. His left arm is temporarUy out of commission, but that doesn’t pre vent S/Sgt. Ed Armstrong of Saltville, Va., from indulging his fondness for playing pool. Shown here at the Martinsburg, W. Va., USO club, as his wife looks on, the sergeant “accentuates the positive” with his good right arm. Wounded veterans from nearby Newton D. Baker hos pital renew their civilian life contacts at the Martinsburg USO club, whose activities are financed by the National War fund. TEtEFACT ESTIMATED POST-WAR NEEDS Of AMERICAN HOUSEWIVES MOMS VACUUM CUANOS MKBtS >>>>>> Each symbol represents 250,000 German Prisoners to Eat Only Livers, Hearts Now NEW YORK. — Capt. Robert McFadden of the food service branch of the quartermaster gen eral's office said recently that fresh meat for enemy prisoners of war henceforth would be restricted to hearts, livers and kidneys. Speaking at a conference of army post food supervisors, McFadden said there also would be more extensive use of substitutes for foods now scarce to Americans. Alexis Smith thought she was buy ing curtain material for her home when she bought a lot of marquisette some time ago. But when she was cast as an angel in the Jack Benny picture, “The Horn Blows at Mid night,” she learned that the ward robe department was having trouble finding sheer stuff for her costume. So she handed over her window cov erings, hoping they could be sal vaged for curtains later. * Every day is open house for serv icemen at Basil Rathbone’s home in Bel Air, Calif., with special empha sis put on entertainment during week ends. The star of “The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” has entertained about 50,000 men and women of the armed forces. * ODDS AND ENDS—Stanley Clements, tough jockey of “Salty O’Rourke" is an expert harmonica player—picked up the art when, as a kid, he picked up dimes singing on N. Y. subway trains. . . . Eddie Cantor has signed his latest singing discov ery, Fred Martel, to a five-year contract; Fred’s now a regular on Eddie’s air show. ... Cornel Wilde’s infant daughter, Wendy, appears with her father in Columbia’s “A Thousand and One Nights". . . Humphrey Bogart enacts his 25th homicide in “Con flict," a psychological murder mystery toon to be released by Warner Bros.; he’s con turning his career of crime now in “Tht SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN* Sunny-Day Set for Little Girls Patrern No. 1331 Is designed for sizes S»' 3, 4, 5 and 6 years. Size 3, dress, requires 1 1% yards of 35 or 39 inch material; bon-l net, Va yard; 5 yards edging or ric ra« to trim dress and bonnet. SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. 530 South Wells St. Chicago Enclose 25 cents in coins for each pattern desired. Pattern No Size. Name Address Japan’s Grab Through warfare in the past 50| years, Japan has grabbed land, to taling 2,796,600 square miles in area, with a population of 368,212,- 000, that belonged to eight coun tries: China, Britain, France, Thailand, Russia, Portugal, the Netherlands and the United States, our territory being Guam, Wake and the Philippines, according to Collier’s. Including its own people, Japan therefore controlled, one year ago, 21 per cent of the population of the world. A N ADORABLE out - of - doors outfit for a sweet little girl. A sun bonnet to shade her face— little wing sleeves to keep her cool —it’s an ensemble that she’ll love to wear on sunny days. Smithsonian Credited First Plane Flight Incorrectly In 1903, the Wright brothers flew the first man-carrying airplane nine days after one made by Doc tor Samuel Langley had proved a failure. The doctor was so piqued that he had his machine placed on exhibition in the Smithsonian Institution, where he had been an official for 25 years, and called it the first plane to fly with human cargo, says Collier’s. Eleven years later, Glenn Curtiss was asked to prove that it was capable of flight, and he flew it, but only after making 35 improvements, in cluding a better engine. It was not until 1942 that the Smithsonian finally admitted in an official publication that the Wrights had built the first machine and apologized for the attitude it had maintained for almost 40 years. • Kool/Ud Good for Uesserts-brand for Lunch Boxes! 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