WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON EW YORK.—The WPA barrel isn't like the widow's cruse of oil in the Bible. They expect to be scraping the bottom by next June. WPA Trouble Who gets fired k and when is a Shooter Finds naturally dis- Relief in Clouds tressing prob- lem, falling mainly on Dean Brimhall, trouble- shooter and handyman for the bears in Utah. Officially, he is di- rector ment problems of the WPA, just now these problems loom up Rocky mountains. Ax-grinders, angry congress- men, union disputants, kickers, fixers, utopians, and what not see Mr. Brimhall, and, when he isn’t taking this rap, he is ex- perting and editing administra- tion outputs on labor relations and employment, making sur- veys on relief technique, or flying in his own plane to some spot where employment is ebbing. A trap-drummer is just snoozing along compared to Mr. Brim- hall. Merely getting a bear by the tail was never like this. For relief or nerve tension, he hops into his plane now and then and makes a getaway in the clouds, which seems like a nice idea. Reared in the Church of the Lat- ter Day Saints—his grandfather trekked west with Brigham Young —he was one of a group of twelve Utah business men, Marriner Ec- cles among them, who craved New Deal action for some of their ideas. Six of them are still active. On the side, he still maintains a live interest in four different concerns— an airplane company, a railroad company, a lumber business and extensive real estate interests. Og- den is his home town. He hauled coal to pay for his education at Brigham Young university, and one winter he maintained his family nicely with a shotgun, hunting large and small game. Under Me- Keen Cattell at Columbia uni- versity, he studied experiment- al psychology and later taught that subjeet at Columbia and Brigham Young. He saw the Wrights make their first Euro- pean flight and he has been in- terested in flying ever since— flying and hunting. On every week-end and holiday he’s high in the sky, his plane poised and pointed toward his beloved Rockies. But there seems to be no likelifiood of his doing a “wrong-way Corrigan.” He says he still could get a living with a shotgun, but instead of his of citizens less versatile. es fp THE United States senate, pos- sibly ‘standin’ in the need of prayer, supplication and puts praying on the regular Senate, in Need, dally schedule. Puts Daily Task Last year, prayers by official chaplain, the Rev, ment $420 a prayer. Now the rate for each will be about $16, as Mr. Phillips gets $1,680 a year. The change was brought about by a resolution by Sena- tor Neely, by which the senate will be opened by prayer on every calendar day, instead of only on ‘““legislative’” days as in the past. The latter are a fic- tion by which the senate may free itself from things diurnal, as effectively as did Joshua. But, since the senate is entitled to a good prayer on every real, not figurative, working day, it is going to get it, Possibly as a tribute to Chaplain Phillips’ prayers, the vote on Senator Neely’s resolution was unani- mous, While both parties in the senate have on many occasions claimed divine guidance and inspiration for their side, Mr. Phillips, although a Republican, appointed by Cavin Coolidge in 1927, has been strictly non-partisan. He is a distinguished Episcopalian clergyman, rector of the Church of the Epiphany of Washington, and has discharged his office with simple eloquence and dignity. Chaplain Phillips, 63 years old, is a native of Springfield, Ohio, educated at Wittenberg college and the General Theo- logical seminary. He engaged in special studies at Oxford in 1910 and 1911 and has served pastorates in Cincinnati, Chi- cago, St. Louis and Philadel- phia. His children are named Faith, Deacon and Sallie Hews, % Consolidated News Features, ADVENTUROUS AMERICANS By Elmo Scott Watson Historic Footrace W HEN Capt. John Whistler ar- rived on the shores of Lake Michigan in 1803 to build a military post—Fort Dearborn of tragic mem- command was his son, Lieut. Wil- liam Whistler. more than six feet tall and famous for his strength and endurance. born was a young Pottawatomia chief, the champion runner of the tribe. Believing that Lieutenant Whistler was just the man to spoil the Indian's record, the officers at the fort proposed a five-mile foot- The race was a thriller. At the start the Pottawatornie sprang into and by a final burst of speed plunged across The race had an exciting sequel. During the War of 1812 the same Pottawatomie chief, who was now an ally of the British, sent a chal- lenge for a hand-to-hand combat with Whistler or any other officer or soldier in the American army. It was The fight began. Whistler dodged the tomahawk that was hurled at him and closed in on his opponent. The Indian stabbed at him with his long hunting knife but missed. Then the lieutenant’'s sword finished the duel. % * » An American Mandarin Ly 1859 Taiping rebels had almost overthrown the Manchu dynasty in China. Fifteen of the eighteen provinces had been captured when Frederick T. Ward, a 28-year-old sailor from Salem, Mass., quit his ship and offered to put down the revolution—if they would pay him $75,000 for each city recaptured. The rebels were knocking at the gates of Shanghai when the Manchu leaders agreed to young Ward's price and allowed him to train his own army. He recruited his men from among the human derelicts around the wharves, but he instilled in them the discipline he had learned as a soldier in the French army during the Crimean war. Then, at the head of 500 men, and with a pistol in each hand, he or- dered an attack on Sungkiang, held by 5,000 rebels. His men fought hand to hand on the top of the city wall and held it by tossing over the bodies of Taiping soldiers. In 24 hours Manchu re-enforcements ar- rived. When the battle was over, Ward had only 128 men left and 100 But he had earned his first $75,000 and a wide reputation as a military leader. He continued to fight, successfully rebels. miles with a force of only 2500. Then he took the city of Quanfuling. Ward was made a mandarin and his fame spread throughout the em- pire. Soon he was able to increase his well-trained army to 6,000 men, besides piling up a huge fortune. He had been wounded five times, but in September, 1862, in a battle he was hit for the sixth killed. The Chinese time and cius at Sungkiang. Eskimo Heroine N 1921, science attempted to find out whether man could more. It revealed to the world the calm heroism of Ada Blackjack, who will be remembered as the most courageous woman of the Es- kimo race. Four men were year's supplies on Wrangel island, 110 miles north of Siberia in the Arctic. Ada Blackjack went along as seamstress, cook and servant. One year later a relief ship was to pick them up. The year passed but ice floes blocked the relief ship. Lorne Knight, one of the four men, became ill with scurvy. The other three left on a trek across the ice to Siberia to send a rescue party. No one ever heard of them again. Left alone with Knight, Ada Blackjack went through eight months more of mental torture. For two months she nursed him. Then he died. The relief ship finally came. They found her still keeping the diary that Knight had turned over to her when he could no longer hold a pencil. One entry in the diary read: “God is the only one who will brought me home again.” God did not fail the faith and persistent courage that enabled Ada Blackjack to face a seemungly hopeless situation with- ® Western Newspaper Union. Star Dust we King Tyrone Off the Air % Joan Signs for 5 } % Fan Gets New Illusions —— By Virginia Vale ears | i i rone Power on the radio, by order of his boss, Darryl Zanuck, production head of Twentieth Century-Fox. Mr. Zanuck made this announce- ment as a result of against too many appear- programs. radio, weekly appearances, since it must be new, So Tyrone, recently elected king of the movies by some 22,000 news- smi Joan Blondell has tied future again, so far as movies is concerned. She's signed with Columbia to two pictures a year for five years, starts the ing with “Good Girls Go to Paris, Too,” originally scheduled for Jean Arthur, It's said that Columbia want- ed to borrow her for that one some months ago, and that Warner Broth- ers’ refusal to lend her was at least partly responsible for her winding up her contract. up her ball roll- Blondell 4 v “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" will be retired from ecir- culation the first of April, after breaking records in every impor- tant city all over the world, and will probably be re-issued again about this time next year. It cost $1,700,- 000 to make, and will gross about eight million. It played in 41 coun- tries, and was the first sound pie- fure to be translated into a “talking book’’ for the blind. And “Dopey” got more fan mail than all the other characters put together. When Madeleine Carroll paused recently in New York on her way from Europe to Hol- lywood she shat- tered one movie fan's illusions. The movie - mad girl went to a smart night club, and dur- ing the course of the evening noticed a rather buxom young lady who danced every dance with great enthusi- asm. She had on rather dismal look- ing gun-metal col- ored hose and very flat shoes, ported the movie fan. not smart. But her hat was an un- copyable French bicorne, and the collar of her suit marked it as one of the latest efforts of a famous French modiste. r Madeleine Carroll re- lady smiled, stars, when left to their own de- vices, aren't always as smartly dressed as they are on the screen. Incidentally, the next Carroll pic- ture is “Cafe Society,” and the one after that is called “Air Raid,” and Hollywood has to be awfully care- ful about these war pictures. In peranto was used instead of Italian, foreign governments. When it was done as a play no such precaution was taken. wif fast. Kay Kyser, the orchestra leader, wasn’t particularly well known even so recently as a year ago. Now he's so well established at the top of the ladder that when he signed recently to appear with at a New York movie house the coniract calied for a sal- ary of $12,500 a week—an all-time high. nn forsnnnn Want to know what sort of thing is likely to trouble big executives? It seems that there were weeks of huddles over the title for Raymond Paige's new program. It was to be called “100 Men and a Girl,” and Paige had 100 men in his band, and the girl was Hildegarde and everything was fine. But Universal owned the title—remember the pic- ture by that name? Eventually somebody thought up “99 Men and a Girl,” and after more indecision because that was pretty close to the original it was cleared. seen ODDS AND ENDS — Phil Baker's Spontor has Aver sien either Baler or Sant. of His radio so the broadcast is to be shifted 10 Honolulu for u Hive « + Edgar Govat and dridre Kostelanetz, the orchestra leader (and husband of Lily Pons) are collabora: ing on © Wetern Newspaper Union. : i UICK UOTES 4 Sumsist §oripons M————— YOUTH fs [ET us insist upon principles where SON EAR MRS. 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