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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.”
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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
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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
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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.
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