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SECTION A PAGE SEX LANCASTER, (0.) EAGLE-GAZETTE THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1942 LANCASTER EAGLE-GAZETTE HARRISON IN HOLLYWOOD LANCASTER Taken From The HAPPENINGS Daily Eagle. FiUt I UnM EKabEalM4 109, Hi th Unw GoMt THE EAGLE-GAZETTE CO. B. KENNETH KERR. PobUw Ota SeWt Lut 1 Th Dcmcnric Suu fna Ajmcudos.

MQUEt Of THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AND THE CNJTED PRESS Found at Uncamr Pew Office as Strand C1m Matur SUBSCRIPTION RATES tht mk. ana ia FairiicM Com aad Lcnraanr Trading Ttrruorjr, MM. Ouutfe rrhW Urn, M.O0 ih. nar. faro aad arcoad Poatal or Lancaster The FORWARD IN THE AMERICAN WAY Those who are disappointed in the achievements of a Pan-American conference are usually those who, taking no account of obstacles, expect great things all at once.

The meetinc inst closed at Rio de Janeiro marks another and very definite step forward in the integration of the Western Hemisnhere. The accomplishments were not cerhaDS. Quite as treat as great as at one moment in but they are substantial. They have earned iorwara another step the work that has been going on for 50 years, and have carried it forward on a solid basis. Unanimity, EPITAPH FOR THE AXIS s-f r-jrJ 1 the keystone of Pan-American served.

To have built the structire a little higher on solid stone masonry is better than to have shot it up five stories with ncketv scaffolding. The 21 American republics unanimously agreed that a Zona, cU yaar. Eagle-Gazette Is For It as many had hoped, nor even the conference seemed likely, agreements, has been pre happen. They result from' common danger faces all the Americas. They recommended that each country in its own way and time break diplo matic relations with the axis powers.

Mneteen of the countries have done this, even before the conference clos ed; others may follow. The hundred-year border contro. versy between Peru and Ecuador, which has so often re suited in bloodshed, appears to have been settled. Consul tation before any of the countries resume relations with Forty Years Ago Mr. and Mrs.

Ed Schwenke of Sugar Grove were host and hostess of a six o'clock dinner party on the evening of February 1st given in honor of the hostess sister, Miss Emma Hummell of Philadelphia, who is visiting her mother and other relatives. Messrs. C. Embich of Beme, Samuel Arney and James Fricker of this city went to Columbus this morning to attend the meeting of the State Dairymen's Association which is holding a three days' session in Townsend's Hall at the O. S.

U. Fairfield County dairymen "captured the first prize at last year's meeting and they again made exhibits of their products this year. Miss Grace Winter has accepted a position in the jewelry store of Mr. Edson B. O.

Smith. Mr. A. Marcuson arrived home yesterday from a four days' visit in the Forest City. A new publication is shortly to be launched in Lancaster by Mr.

Joseph J. Miller as publisher. It will be issued weekly and is to be a magazine containing interesting and up-to-date stories. It is understood that much of the paraphanaila of the plant has already been purchased. Mrs.

John Henry Goss will give a whist party on Thursday, February 6. Mr. Ira B. Baumgardner and son Harry today celebrated their 44th and 14th birthday anniversaries respectively as they each occurred on the same day of the month. Mr.

Bauman is having the stairway which was in the center of his business room taken down and placed to one side, near the elevator. This will give him more floor space and make it so they can see from one end of the room to the other. Thirty Years Ago Mr. and Mrs. J.

Fosnaugh of Columbus spent Saturday and Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. S. A Bailey of Arnold Avenue. Messrs.

Arthur Buell and Walter Marshall also Miss Katherine Larimer of the O. S. Columbus, spent Sunday at their homes in Sugar Grove. Death Mr. John Quincy Fortier, aged 46, February 3, at his home on South High Street.

In compliment to the birthdays of Anna Katherine Frasch, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Frasch and Helen Sundermanj daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Sunderman, a dinner was given by Mr.

and Mrs. Ben Frasch at noon on Sunday at their home on East Fifth Avenue. There were covers laid for Mrs. Anna Sunderman, Mr. Foster.

Suderman, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sunderman, William, Helen and Mary Elizabeth Sunderman, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Sunderman, Mr.

and Mrs. Frasch and Anna Katherine Frasch. Twenty Years Ago Wilson's eight piece orchestra will furnish the music for the Phi Sigma Gamma Sorority informal dance which will be given on the evening of February the fourteenth at the K. of C. Hall on South Columbus Street.

Plans have been completed by the committee in. charge which is Mildred Reid, Margaret Welchvand Kathleen Henry. Mr. C. M.

Yarger of East Wheeling Street returned today from a two weeks' visit in Hunting and Wabash, Indiana. Brown Brothers moved tfieir cleaning and pressing shop from Main Hill today to-the K. of P. Building over the Hub Clothing Store. The Lancaster History Circle meeting has been postponed from Tuesday evening until Thursday evening when they will meet at the home of Mrs.

Charles Hutchinson on ftorth High Street. Mr. Chester Martin left this morning on a business trip down the Valley. Ten Years Ago F. M.

Paul, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, is attending the mid-winter meeting of the Ohio Secretaries' Association at the Deshler-Wallick Hotel in Columbus. Mrs. C. B. Whiley and son Charles Whiley of East Wheeling Street left yesterday for a trip to New York City.

Mrs. Emil Tobin entertained members of her card group lease turn to Page 7, Sec B) the axis is promised. In short, the American republics face the world today united as never before. These are no negligible achievements. It is true that Argentina and Chile hase not yet seen fit to break with the axis.

That does not mean that Hitler and Hirohito con- trol them. They stand where the United States stood two vears asro. feeling secure in isolation, wary of "foreign en tanglements," still hoping it won't happen. It will take time and events to show it to Britain and then to the United States. In the meantime, we are assured many forms of co-oneration from both countries denied to the axis.

These things didn't just SO THEY SAY BEHIND THE SCENES IN WASHINGTON I steadfast work and faith in the face of scepticism work by devoted men who have never lost sight of hemisphere "solidarity since Bolivar first dreamed of it 116 years ago. On these foundations we must build yet higher and even more securely. Nothing in human relations is ever Sumner Welles has good reason for saying has been the most living thing yet to come out of the 'hemisphere." We of the Americas are building a structure not only for the present, but for the future not only for ourselves, but for humanity. Unless scrap rubber is collected in larger quantities, we are facing a much more dismal future. J.

J. Newman, vice president, B. F. Goodrich Co. I cannot understand the smugness of the United States.

I cannot understand its complacency. Justice Roberts, U. S. Supreme Court. We are looking forward to a period which may be as long in time as the leadership of ancient Rome.

President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia i PROTECTING A SYMBOL The Liberty Bell, ancient symbol of American freedom, is going to be protected against bomb damage if the offer of an insurance company is accepted. The company would construct a bomb-proof vault into which the bell could be lowered in case of a raid. If this project goes through, it would not be the first time the Liberty Bell was a war fugitive. In September, 1777, when the British army was on the point of occupying Philadelphia, the old bell that had rung out the news of dependence was removed from the State House tower, and carried by the retreating American army to Allentown, where it remained hidden for almost a year. It is good to preserve such symbols; better still to preserve the thing symbolized liberty itself.

Which is, roughly, what the war is all about. HOLLYWOOD The movies are full of villains who are in the habit of confiding ruefully Jiey're really miscast come-miscast comedians or that they ought to be ft playing romantic I I leads, and that I- V- they hate being 'typed as seoun- drels. It's a pleasure, then, to be able to re-port the existence of a man who always has been a dramatic blackguard, who currently enjoys his work as a menace, and who hasn't the slightest ambition to be anything else. This is Edmund MacDonald. As a youngster, enthralled by the perils of Pearl White and other serial queens, MacDonaldV interest always was with the heavies.

When he could persuade his neighborhood gang to help re-enact the thrillers, he. always was the one who shot at the hero from ambush and tied the gal on the railroad track. SOME SNEERER As soon as he was old enough to get into a local stock company on Long "Island, MacDonald began leering and sneering and plotting diabolically. He kept it up through a succession of melodramas with William Faversham, on Broadway, and in radio. In the morning he might be a betrayer of womanhood, in the afternoon a fiendish scientist causing ice to form in the veins of the listening kiddies, and at night a slick scoundrel removing one by one the more immediate heirs to an uncle's estate.

Hollywood called him almost five years ago, and he has been busy with treachery and evil ever since. Currently he is the bad man in "To the Shores of Tripoli." It would round out a picture of an enthusiastic villain if I could report that he perpetrates mean practical jokes, hates kids and kicks dogs. But that would n't be true. MacDonald is a thor oughly nice fellow, gracious and kindly as anything. THEY WANT ROMANCE Conrad Veidt is an actor almost in the same category except that in England and Germany he didn't play heavies exclusively, and with the further exception that he may nt be allowed to continue in the roles which have established him as a villain in this country.

Personally, he doesn't care as long as the parts are substantial, but it seems that a great, many fans, especially women, are very much interested in seeing Veidt in romantic roles. He recently finished playing a high-ranking Nazi party member in "Out of the Past," and that's one department in which he doesn't wish to be typed. Mere villainy is all right, but not just one phase of it. Veidt was born in Germany, was a Max Rein- hardt pupil, and became a star on the continent before going to London. He became a British subject 11 years ago, Some months ago a prominent agent sold a client story to a major studio: Then he sold the services of a writine team to make the yarn into a screen play, i The talent peddler then persuad- ed them to hire still another cli-1 ent as a consultant.

Finally the scenaria got a grudging accept- i ance, and the studio asked the agent for his top client for the leading role. The agent fumed: 'Don't be absurd. I wouldn't let her play in that stupid stinker for a million dollars!" A simplified line of standard food containers is being develop ed by the glass industry in cooperation with the Department of Commerce. SIDE GLANCES Til say he'a rich! He has anticipation certificates r- SERIAL STORY TAMBAY GOLD BY SAMUEL HOPKINS ADAMS SIX WORDS An unnamed young soldier out in Hawaii has a mes-, sage for you. He didn't know he had a message.

But he had. A correspondent touring the new defenses of Hawaii found him in a secluded dugout, where he was sleeping on the hard ground. Asked if that wasn't pretty tough, the young soldier grinned, spat, and delivered his message: I "Was. Not now. Used to it." The sooner we civilians get into that frame of mind I about how tough it is to undergo the thousand little inconveniences that go with war, as well as the real sacrifices, the better.

The end of the war will be in sight when 000,000 people are saying about how tough it is to make their own sacrifices "Was. Sot now. Used to it." Thinks American Children Ought To I Make Fine Gunners MIAMI, Fla. JP) American kids, says veteran trapshoot expert Joe Heistand, ought to make the best aerial gunners in the world "because they've learned almost from childhood how to shoot quickly." "From what pursuit fliers say about it, I believe almost any good trapshooters could make a good air gunner provided of course he had the high degree of courage necessary," explained the Hillsboro, Ohio ace, whose feat of breaking 1,179 successive targets stands as a world's record. "The same qualities are needed in both you have only a split second when you're on the target.

You've got to get your shots away fast that means that in both you need speedy coordination of mind, eye and muscle. It's a cinch you can't be deliberate about either one." Bird hunting a pastime of thousands of American young- sters probably is only slightly less effective than trapshooting for developing the ability to shoot quickly and accurately, Heistand believes. "I believe trapshooting is a little better because you learn to judge target distances and leads better," he explained, "but hunt- ing birds still trains a person to shoot fast and straight and to time his shots right." He doesn't think any foreign nation can approach the general level of skill of American marksmen. "We don't have very much international trapshooting," he remarked, "but every time one of our boys goes to Europe to shoot he wins most of the prizes." By Galbraith more defense bonds and tax than anybody in town 1" WASHINGTON Your capital has a new diplomat this week in the person of the Hon. Mr.

Wal ter Nash, first minister to Wa shington from New Zealand, which, being 8000 miles southwest of San Francisco, might be consider ed well out of the war but is in it jight up to the hilt This Minister Nash is quite a person. It isn't his first visit to the United States it's his fifth but the other four were en route to and from England, where he was born. Nevertheless the Hon. Mr. Nash knows a lot more about the United States than many Americans, the principal reason! being that in New Zealand he is known as a New Dealer, a student of social reform and one of the ablest men in a labor government administration so advanced that it makes the first two terms I of the Roosevelt administration look reactionary.

Walter Nash began his career as a tailor, and as a young man in New Zealand he took an active part in liberal one point in his career he was under suspicion of bringing Communistic literature into the country. The New Zealand new deal didn't get organized until 1935, two years after the original model got going, but when the New Zealand Labor Party did take over the government under the leadership of Michael Joseph Savage, now dead, Walter Nash was in on the ground floor. He became minister of finance, minister of markets' and minister of several other things in addition to being deputy prime minister. This is the importance of the man New Zealand is sending to Washington, where his job will undoubtedly be the task of seeing that his little1sland dominion gets the supplies it needs. POOLED SALARIES One story is told in New Zealand to illustrate Mr.

Nash's honesty as a politician and his methods. When he was first called into the cabinet after his election to parliament, he was entitled by law to an increase in salary. Nevertheless, he proposed to his fellow cabinet members that, since all the members of parliament in his party were in this reform government to show how a labor government could cucceed, all the cabinet members should pool their salaries with those of the ordinary members of parliament, dividing up the total so that each would get an equal share. He put it over and he made it stick. The reforms which the labor government put into effect were in many ways far more sweeping than the social reforms of the Scandinavian countries, which have received so much more study and attention in the United States.

I see no difference between the man who turns thumbs down, on Wagner, because was a German, and the man who bans Men-Delssohn, because he was a Jew. Deems Taylor, composer, flit IS IT A VERY GOOD HOUSE? Haying heard considerable criticism of his father's government of Britain while on leave from the Middle East Army, Major Randolph Churchill was moved to ask this question of his fellow-members of the House of Commons: "Although this might not be a very good Government, ought we not ask ourselves, is it a very good House of Commons?" There's a thought in that. While our own House of Representatives very properly exercises its right and duty COPYRIGHT. 1041. NEA SERVICE.

INC. ice. I Knew then it was ure-ana- death now for Doc anyway, if they thought he fired the shot A bunch of them came out of cover and carried something to ward the house. Doc opened the door enough for a look-see. Nobody was coming our way.

Doc said, "Juddy!" She went over to him. "This may seem a queer time to say it. But I don't want you to think that I cheated you." She put out her hands to him. "Oh, Loren!" she said. He held out his arms.

She came into them as if she belonged there. But it wasn't what she expected. He swung her put through the door and barred it behind her. She turned and beat at the heavy logs like a crazy thing until some young chaps ran up and dragged her away. They looked to me like Welliver boys.

O. K. We'd have some friends in the crowd when it came to a "I'd do the same to you if I were big enough," he said. Everything was so quiet outside we could hear them calling from bush to bush. "Is he dead?" "As good as.

They got him through the lungs." "I'd hate to be the guy that did "That rat Oliver done it. I seen him draw a bead through the window." That was Bixie Groff. "Get the fatwood. We'll burn him out and string him up." "Come on, fellas." That was Bixie again. "What the hell we doodlin' around for? Let's get "Shoot that guy, Doc," I said.

"I'm holding my shots," he said. He kind of laughed. "Come over here and give me a kiss, Mom, and then get out of here. You're no use to me now." What I an-' swered him didn't take much time. "Don't be vulgar, Mom," he said and laughed again.

The torches began coming then, curving through the air and landing on all sides, but most of them short One rolled under my window and I doused it with a pail of water. Another one, near the corner, I couldn't reach. Smoke began to come up. Those brave, bloodthirsty lynchers weren't tailing any chances with their precious hides. They were possum hunters; burn 'em out and pop 'em down.

The smoke was thickening when I heard the prettiest music that ever blessed my old ears. It was the police siren. Two cars camo in on the high jump and four husky young cops tumbled (To Be Continued) The crowd gave me a hand. 1 "It's Mom Baumer! In person." i "Howdy, Mom." "Make mine a barbecue with cawfee." "Say it, Mom." "I suppose you birds are thinking it's you that are getting me out of here. You couldn't get me out with a cable; I'd see you in hell first But well you all know my little skunk.

I gave a yank on the leash and Dolf stuck his nose out "I reckon I'd better take him out, as he's in a hurry. O. K. by you?" "Sure, Mom!" By the laugh I got I knew it was going all right. 'You get your big dogs out of the way." Those bloodhounds didn't fit infc my plan at all.

That struck them as good sense. They shut the hounds in the woodshed. I ducked back, handed the leash to Old Swoby, jammed the bonnet down over his ears, and gave him a shovtv I figured that nobody in that bunch was going to interfere with a skunk who was in a hurry. Old Swoby was good. He waved, his hand and scuttled for the nearest thicket.

As he left the crowd heard the voice under the bonnet say, "Thanks, gents. Back in five minutes." 1 That's what they thought they heard. Juddy and Doc nearly threw a fit. I never told 'em lhaF I'd done a vaudeville turn as a ventriloquist when I was on the stage. It looked like everything was going to be O.

K. Old Swoby would have time to reach the woods. The bloodhounds wouldn't be after him this time. But I wasn't too easy in the old mind when I tried to figure what would happen when they found the game had slipped them, The moon backed1 into a cloud. I got the impression of a lot of movement going on outside.

The firing started up again. I let off the old pump-gun out the back window, by the way of warning. From what I could make out, Maurie Scars was doing his best to hold them. He called: "Mom! Juddy! Are you coming out?" Juddy didn't answer. Maurie was hurrying up and down, noWl trying to be everywhere at once.

There were scattering shots again. I couldn't see him now. Somebody yelled, "My God! They've got Scars!" "Who did it?" "One of those rata in there." rpilE low mutter went through A the crowd and cot deeper and savager, like nothing human. It, went down my spine like dripping TWO DEFENDERS CHAPTER XXVIII TT was then that Juddy laughed out loud. It was a queer spot for a laugh.

Or was it? There was something sort of triumphant about that laugh. Maurie Sears went crazy. "Good God! Juddy he yelled. His voice dropped to a snarL "You dirty coward! You've got her there to save you hide." "That's a lie, Maurie Sears," I said. "Mom, too!" He sort of gasped.

But his thought was all for my pal. "You can't stay there," he said, like a man praying. "You can't my sweet. Oliver, If you're a man you'll give her to me." Juddy said, "He can't. I won't go." 'Mauri! whirled around to face the mob.

Itfras inching forward. "Men, there" are two ladies in here." "Let 'em get out. Nobody wants to harm the gals." Doc's voice snapped. "Keep back, there. No further!" "You can't hold them," Maurie warned him.

I said in Doc's ear, "Ask 'em for 10 minutes to confer on it." He passed It to Maurie, and Maurie put it to the crowd and reported back that they'd stand for five minutes; no more. Back in the darkness a voice was shouting, "Where's fatwood torches?" I touched Old Swoby on the shoulder. "Take your coat and pants off," I told him. I shucked my clothes and got him into them. There was some hay in the corner to fill out the Drooer curves.

LucKy naa on the old, floppy bonnet I usually wore around the camp. That would pretty well hide his face. I made him walk across the floor a couple of times to get the right gait. Then I called Dolf. He figured to be the best part of the disguise, being a famous figure in the locality, and everybody knowing he was my watchdog.

While I was walkina Swoby I outlined what he had to do and prayed God he could do it. "It's simple," I said. "The only question Is whether you've got the ttuts to carry tnrougn. "Then I go," he said. 'Tm afraid: yes.

But I go." "Atta boy!" I patted his shoulder. "Wait till I speak my lines, then walk out there like, you was In a hurry but not too much of a hurry. Beat it for the woods." OPENED the door and stuck out my head with the Bonnet on it, to investigate the conduct of the war, it might give an occasional thought to the conduct of the House, and of the Senate, too, but especially of their individual members. For there is an investigatory body which is also watching the conduct of members of Congress, weighing some of the ill-considered statements that have been pouring out on all occasions or on no occasion. That is the entire electorate, which is going to weigh those individual records in the House and in a third of the Senate this year.

The public is going to insist not merely that we have effective administrative conduct of the war, but wise legislative conduct as well. REMEMBER? A feW VGarS airO Whfn SOmi Amnrifun notrenQnarmdn were just, discovering America there were a lot of stories about President Vargaa of Brazil. Admittedly a good of a dictator, he was, come of the writers added, 1 practically a Fascist, and all too sympathetic to totalitarianism. So comes the Rio de Janeiro conference to form a united front against the axis, and who stood firmest against the axis, who insisted most strongly on the most drastic action? President Vargas. Thus we see again demonstrated a truth about South American politics.

Latin America has dictators, but Latin America ia patriotic and nationalistic. Even those rulers whose regimes fail to how up as 100 per cent democracies by the standard of American liberalism, are pretty sure to land firm against foreign influence, and especially the subversive kind practiced by the totalitarian countries. You better keep inflation in mind so your tires don't wear out quicker from lack of it..