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SOUTH NEW BERLIN BEE
W EEKLY NEW S ANALYSIS
By R o g er S h a w
Stowaway!
Great Britain Gets 50 U. S. Destroyers
In Exchange for Naval and Air Bases;
U. S. Senator Lundeen of Minnesota
Among 25. Killed in Airliner Crash.
iE^CREiHiDir
By VIRGINIA VALE
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
T F YOU plan to be driving
A in Tucson, Ariz., early in
O ctober m ake sure in ad­
v a n ce w hether youTl be a l­
lowed to or not. For there’ll
be three days when it will be
the only city in the U nited
States without an automobile,
truck, motorcycle or even a
gasoline scooter on its streets.
vo'T’F — vfHiriy n»'i«ioT»s are expressed in these columns, they
are those of the news analyst and not necessarfly of this newspaper.)
by Western Newspaper TTninn i
So desperate was Leonore
Hirmukallio, 18 (above), to get
to the United States that she
stowed away on the ship AmerU
can Legion, which brought 870
refugees from the European war
zones, Leonore comes from
Helsinki, Finland, Latest re­
ports indicate that immi^ation authorities in the United
States would he forced to ex­
clude her from entrance into
this country.
Here’s a man that both Republicans and Democrats can congratulate.
He’s Senator Hiram W. Johnson of California (center)i who won both the
Republican and Democratic nomination for tfiiited States senator in the
recent California .primary election. This practically assures him of reelectio^n for his fifth term. He is pictured here being congratulated by
Democratic Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana (left) and G. O. P. CAMPAIGN:
Senator Warren R. Austin of Vermont (right).
Not Hot Enough
The 1940 campaign still was not
from interfering, one was killed when
U. S. DEFENSE:
hot. Both the candidates acted
he tried to shoot it out with the es­ very
very
genteel, although some of their
caping prisoners.
Boats for Bases
supporters vocalized like cats on a
The convicts fled with four high- back fence. The best Republican
President Roosevelt notified con­
gress that the United States had powered rifles and six sawed-off shot­ crack was this (for a lot of Repub­
reached an agreement with Great guns, some of which were weapons licans stiff didn’t care for Willkie):
Britain whereby this country would they had had in their possession pri­ If Mr. Wiffkie wasn’t going to vote
obtain leases on naval and air bases or to the break.
for Mr. Wiffkie, he would undoubted­
in British possessions in this hemi­
ly vote for Mr. Roosevelt. These
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GERMAN
WAR:
sphere in exchange for the transfer
Republicans (there were a lot of
of 50 over-age U. S. destroyers to Aerial
them) felt that the foreign policies
England.
of Wiffkie were no better than those
The Germans reversed their ae­ pf Roosevelt, and that—^they growled
Expeted to arouse a storm of de­
bate, the act requires no ratifica­ rial tactics, just as they reversed —^was a sad state of affairs. This
tion by congress, but was submitted their iiffantry tactics in 1917. At growling was becoming a really se­
to that body to advise the nation of the beginning of the first World war, rious matter, within the Republican
the arrangements made. Attorney the Germans would attack in regu­ ranks. Willlde, meanwhile, leaned
General Robert JI. Jackson submit­ lar, regimented mass formation. more and more on the Wiffkie clubs
ted an opinion to the White House The losses were colossal, especially and the r^c^'endent Democrats, and
which upheld the legality of the at Verdun. It was sheer mass mur­ less and less bn the angry Republi­
der. Late in 1917, General von Hu- can regulars, who tend to be isola­
trade.
The destroyers were built by the tier changed the German method­ tionist.
United States during the World war ology. He devised a hit-and-run, in­
and had been'out of service for some dividual, scattering attack, which Revolution?
time until they were recently re- wiped out the whole British Fifth
The Russeff-Overton amendment
army at St. Quentin, on March 21, to the conscription biff brought forth
commissionedNinety-nine year leases on terri­ 1918. It was the worst day the Brit­ some Wiffkie-Roosevelt nastiness.
tory in Newfoundland, on the island ish army ever had, until Dunkirk, in The amendment in question, would
of Bermuda, the Bahamas, '"Jamai­ 1940.
permit the government to conscript
The same cycle has come to Ger­ any industry in peacetime, if the
ca, St. Lucia, Trinidad, and Antigua
in the Atlantic and in British Guiana man aviation. In the battle of Eng­ government considered that industry
in South America are granted to the land, the German planes were at­ necessary for national defense.
United States by the terms of the tacking in regimented, mass waves. Some people felt it was aimed di­
agreement. Naval and air stations The losses were tremendous-^close rectly at Henry Ford, who wouldn’t
are expected to be constructed at to 1,000 planes. General Milch play ball with the New Dealers, and
these points to aid in U. S. plans for changed the method. He sent the wouldn’t help the British. Wiffkie
a military defense of the Western German machines over in irregular, didn’t like the amendment, and tried
hemisphere.
individualistic jabs, and by night, to draw Roosevelt out on it. Roose-'
instead of by day. This proved velt refused to be drawn out, but!
AVIATION:
much more economical, and much the dopesters believed he liked the
less ineffective. The amusing fea­ amendment, and the radical New
Worst- Tragedy
ture was this: Generals von Hutier Dealers certainly liked it^fine. It
In the worst commercial aviation and Milch learned their “novel” mil­ was
the key, they said, to unlock
tragedy in the country’s history, and itary maneuvers from no less a the castle
of entrenched Yankee cap­
the first in more than 18 months, 25 source than the American Indians of italism. The
amend­
persons lost their lives when a Penn­ the Eighteenth century—the red­ ment, said Russeff-Overton
scientists,
sylvania-Central airliner crashed skins that ambushed General Brad- was probablythethepolitical
most
truly
revo­
near Lovettsville, Va., during a vio­ dock, etc., out Pittsburgher way.
lutionary detail in American history
lent thunderstorm. The liner, en
—^more revolutionary than the Dec­
route from Washington, D. C., to TRANSYLVANIA:
laration of Independence, or the
Pittsburgh, Pa., plunged into the
emancipation proclamation. This
side of a Blue Ridge mountain foot- Here I Come
was hotly contradicted, and the de­
hillj apparently with the throttles
bate
grew bitter. Meanwhile, Sec­
Ever
since
the
last
war,
Hipgary
of its two engines wide open.
JRumania have been quarreling retary lekes got called a Hitler-inAll of the persons aboard the ship and
the disputed province of Tran­ short-pants, and Wiffkie got smeared
perished, Among the 21 passengers about
sylvania. It was Hungarian for 1,000 as -a “barefoot Waff Street boy—the
was Sen. Ernest Lundeen, Farmer- years—till
1919—and has been Ru- rich man’s Roosevelt.” Even so, the
Laborite, of Minnesota. The plane manlc since. Over the past some 1940 campaign wag pokey, and Nor­
seemed to have exploded when it weeks, the Rumanians and Hungars man Thomas looked awfully good to
struck the ground, scattering wreck­ have been squabbling at -n great a- lot of perfectly respectable Re­
age and bodies of the victims over rate. Germany and Italy want peace publicans and Democrats.
a large a re a.in the Balkans, so at last they set­
tled the row in arbitrary style. They DICTATOR:
ARKANSAS:
split up Transylvania, half and half,
Travelers
Hungary getting the top half,* and Non-Dictatorial
Dictator Winston Churchill of Eng^
Rumania
keeping the bottom half.
Aided by four trusty guards, two
was^ in a big air raid on the
of them convicted murderers, 82 The name Transylvania, by the way, land
coast
of Kent. It was at a place
prisoners escaped from Cummins gave William Penn the idea for his called Ramsgate. The ^ctator en­
State prison farm near Pine Bluif, Pennsylvania nomenclature, and not tered an underground air-raid shel­
Ark., in a wild mass break. The so bad at that. Transylvania is the ter, puffing on one of his favorite
guards were prisoners who had been special home of vampires, as anyone cigars—^which he chews like Barney
appointed trusties because of their who had read “Dracula” wiU re­ Oldfield. The mayor of Ramsgate
good records and were supplied with member.
said, sternly, “Put out that cigar,
saddle horses and guns.
Mr. Churchill!” .The dictator looked
Of the six loyal trusties who re­ And Also
sheepish, and humbly did so. “There
fused to join in the break, and were
Rumania also lost territory to" lit­ goes a good -un,” said he, crest­
prevented by ringleaders of the plot tle Bulgaria, on the Black sea coast, fallen.
Therein lies the essential
and to the Russian Soviets: the big difference between British and Ger­
province of Bessarabia. Rumania man dictators, in the year of gracej
NAMES
was phoney from start to finish, and 1940. Churchill’s daughter married
few tears were shed over King Car­ a-waudeviffe actor, and his nephew
. . . in the news
ol’s cruel fate. Italy and Germany is a Communist. He himself is a
have now given Carol an afi^tight trade-unionized brick-layer, an art­
C Mike Hogg of Texas organized a guarantee of what’s left of his king­ ist, and an author. He is an ultra­
no-third-term Democratic party in dom. How grateful that merry mon­ blue-blood, he is half American, and
his native empire down Mexico way. arch feels, remains to be seen. The he served with the Spanish against
The no-third-termites of Texas guarantee, however, may lead to America (he has never cared for
pledged themselves as full-breasted, trouble in the Balkans, between Ger­ America) in the Spanish war of 1898.
red-blooded WiUbdsti of the first wa­ many and Russia. That’s what Mr. When a New York taxi-driver
ter. They said they wanted Willkie Churchill sits up nights, and prays knocked him down a few years ago,
for.
to “lead them out of chaos.”
he gave the penitent fellow a cigar.
And it’s all because of the movies.
“Arizona” will have what’s known
in the trade as its world premier
in Tucson, and the city is planning
quite a celebration—a governor’s
state ball, a three-day 1860 fiesta
in the adobe city of Tucson, built
for the picture, a rodeo with nation­
al roping and riding stars, and In­
dian pow-wows. Jean Arthur, Wil­
liam Holden, Warren William and
all other members of the cast will
be specially honored.
Some of the best stories about a
movie are not heard until it is fin­
ished and the principals have gone
on to other pictures. Here’s one.
Arriving at the set for “He Stayed
for Breakfast,” Columbia’s new
comedy starring Loretta Young and
Melvyh Douglas, visitors found the
set barred to outsiders. They were
il.P hillipr WNUSenrtoli
It
THOUGHTS AT THE CLOSE OF
SUMMER
The_summer season is closing,
and the great American public has
only a few weeks
more in which to:
1— Get its dis­
comforts away
from home.
2— Sleep on a
m a ttre^ ” stuffed
with a n th ra c ite
coal in a bed that
is a souvenir of the metal industry
at its worst.
3— Become accustomed to mos­
quitoes in bedrooms, crickets in the
closets, hornets in the sun porch,,
ants in the table linen and spiders
all over the premises.
4— Drive from 100 to 500 miles in
an overloaded flivver with poor
brakes, no sunshield, one de­
fective headlight
and a constant
aroma of some­
thing burning.
5—Spend days
at a time in heat­
ed a rg u m e n ts
over what the road signs mean.
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nights in those
piano boxes
known.as tourist
camp cottages...
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MELVYN DOUGLAS
told that the p layers w ere working
in an extremely small space where
it would be impossible to watch.
The real reason, disclosed later,
was that Douglas was working in
a woman’s dressing gown. “I’ll
look silly enough on the screen,” he
explained, ^ h en asking tiiat the set
he closed.
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6— Tour through endless miles of
hot-dog, gasoline, tourist camp and
souvenir doggie-^nd-doff zones in
the insane belief that it all comes
under the head of enjoying scenery.
7— ^Waste hours in country barns
displaying “Antiques” signs so the
little woman can look at spinning
wheels she doesn’t want, ox yokes
she can’t possibly use and early
American shaving mugs that don’t
mean a thing to her.
8— Learn what America’s doctors
are prescribing for beffy-Rche this
summer.
9— Spend two
or three terrible
mm
To—Determine
how much the hu­
man system can endure in the mat­
ter of steamed clams, fried clams,
clam fritters and clam chowder, not
to Inention lobsters, crabs, cuemnber salads and the strange fish na­
tive to stranger communities.
11—Pursue the search for a hotel,
lunchroom, drug store or drink foun­
tain that doesn’t
cut its orange
juice down to a
' point where it
might more prop­
When you see Hedy Lamarr and
erly be labeled
Clark Gable in “Comrade X” don’t
“Hydrant Juice.”
be puzzled if the story seems
12 —S a m p l e
familiar. . I t ’s “Clear All Wires,”
some
of
the
which Spencer Tracy made seven world’s worst coffee.
years ago. The story of an Ameri­
13—Find out where the worst
can newspaper man’s adventures in chefs go in summer.
Russia, it’s been rewritten to include
14r-Make the annual discovery
incidents in the recent Soviet mili­ that there is ho sense in trying to
tary ventures. Gable draws it as get any salt from a salt cellar at
an assi^m ent instead of ^‘Osborne a shore resort.
of Sing Sing,” which he didn’t like
15— ^Discover that a change in
anyway.
courses makes no difference in
your golf game.
June McCIoy may win a bet with
Find out*that 97 per cent of
her husband if you like her well the16—
instantaneous hot-water systems
enough in “Glamour for Sale,” in in the rural districts are out of or­
which she has the second feminine der.
lead. Nine years ago she left Holly­
17— Observe once again that not
wood to make a name for herself one cook in a thousand can fry an
as a night club singer, and suc­ egg without burning the bottom un­
ceeded. In 1936 she married and til the whole thing tastes like some­
retired. Now she wants to return thing cut from a hot brake band.
to the screen; she’s bet her husband
"18—Experience incredible difficul­
that she can make good within six ty getting a room that is not located
months; if she can’t, she’ll go back directly over the
to being Just a wife. So she’s work­ hotel garage, a
ing now in the picture starring Anita new federal proj­
Louise and Roger Pryor. She has e c t involving
a chance at her specialty—she sings steam shovels on
a torch song. But so does Anita a night shift, or
Louise.
one flight over
th e b allro o m
Denis Day became singing star of where the worst
orchestra
in North America has
the Jack Benny show because an
inflamed appendix kept him out of been engaged for the summer sea­
law school. An honor graduate of son.
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Manhattan college in New York, TH^ MAIN CONCERN
Eugene Denis McNulty won a schol­
arship that entitled him io try city With problems high and mighty,
■To seize this world and shake it.
government work for several
months. He chose radio, and was The question day and nighty
Is, “Will the Yankees make it?”
doing production work at the city’s
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broadcasting station, pending his en­
Night harness racing is to be held
try to law school, when the appen­
dix interfered just as his law classes for 30 nights on the track built for
auto speed racing on Long Island.
were about to “begin.
million dollars was sunk at this
When he got out of the hospital it A
to make it a motor speedway,
was to enter law school that year. track
and if the horses don’t do so well
He turned again to radio, got onto yoU'Can
to a major out­
a sustaining program, and made a break of attributa^t
is known as the horse
recording which Jack Benny’s agent laugh., what
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heard.
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Thumbnail description by R. RoeHe was summoned to Hollywood;
Benny was looking for a tenor to re­ lofs Jr.—“She loved beauty . . . .
a mirror.”
place Kenny Baker, you’ll remem­ and was never*without
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ber, and they were auditioning liter­
Overheard by Seymour: “She
ally by the hundreds. At the last
minute young McNulty got the job, must be a telephone girl; I said
‘Hello’
to her twice and got no anbecame Denis Day. and began carv-