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.
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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,
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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.
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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-
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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
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“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.
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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.
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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
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