The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-11-08
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
BY LEMUEL r. PARTON


consolidated Features-wNU Servicel
NJ EW YORK.-Close in, in the
critical diplomatic huddle at
Ankara is our John Van A. Mac
Murray, ambassador to Turkey. A
Our Ambassador veteran ese s;D ca
To Turkey Is a mat. Mr..
Grim Fact Chaser M a c M array
been star reporter. He has a gim-
let mind and is diligent digger and
researcher. While our state depart
ment may not have much to say
about what happens in Turkey and
the Balkans, it will surely have the
record, when it all becomes history.
AS minister to China, Mr..
MacMurray studied the country
and its people so diligently that
his friends said he began to look
like a Chinese. There was the
matter of likin, or Chinese inn
port taxes. No other western Dip
lomat had worried much about
them. Mr.. MacMurray COM
pleteiy surrounded them.
He is the worlds greatest author
ity on the subject. When he left his
post in China after five years, he
had compiled two stupendous vol
umes on the general theme of
Rights and Obligations of China
From 1894 to 1919" These were
only small details of his encyclo-
pedic roundup of knowledge of the
Far East. That being the case, they
shifted him. Which is a reminder
that this writer has a friend, a ca
reer diplomat, who learned Chinese
and amassed such information in
eight years in China, and was shift
ed to Geneva last year to be re-
placed in Picking by young man
starting from scratch.
With all his grim fact-chasing
Mr.. MacMurray has, like all
good diplomats, touch of Dale
Carnegie about him-that Is, he
makes friends and influences
people. He has a charming, in
genuous smile, when his adding
machine mind is out of gear,
and he has been happily placed
in the gold-lace maneuvers of
our diplomacy.
He was born in Schenectady in
1881, educated at Princeton and Co
lumbia and entered the diplomatic
service as secretary of the legation
In Siam in 1907. He became head
Of the far eastern division and min
lister to China in 1925. In 1880 he
became minister to Estonia, Latvia,
and Lithuania, and minister to Tur-
key in 1887. Many big issues of
politics seem to have
gone the way of Chinese likin, and
Of Estonia ct al, but whatever they
are, or were, Mr.. MacMurray knows
about them.
w HEN Capt. Henry Harwood
W defeated the Graf Spec pocket
battleship, off Montevideo last De-
cember, the home office flashed a
'Hadm. Aruood' message in
May Yet Inspire learned he
kipIingese Lines was was a * knight h
miral. THANK you, boys" he wig
Wagged to his three British cruisers.
as a sporting gesture in which he
gave credit where it was due. He
had had 81 years in the navy with
out swing of the spotlight in his
direction. But the victory over the
Graf Spec started songs in the Drury
zane musical halls about "Hadmiral
Emery Arwood"-a natural-and
now he's almost the ruler of the
kings navee because he took the
measure of the big Graf Spec. It
doesn't quite scan, but he gets the
job as assistant chief of the naval
staff, and member of the board of
the admiralty.
1t was as a lad of IA that he
first climbed the rigging Of the
old wooden training ship Britain
MICA. He moved on up through
routine grades and in the World
war was a torpedo boat lieuten-
ant. In the years between wars,
he was with the feet in South
America, China and the Medi-
terranean, known as a coura-
geOus and resOurceful officer,
but never in the headlines or in
the British Who's Who.
He is thickset, square-jawed and
rudy Of countenance, planted on the
bridge as though he had taken root
there and meant to stay. This war
hasn't inspired any changing, inspir-
ting Kiplingesque lines, but Admiral
HARDWOOD may yet touch them of.
Ashore he has spent much time in
staff training. He has two sons in
their early teens, who expect some
day to climb the rigging like their
father used to do"
a 5 a IMAM against death" DR..
James Ewing has been in the
trenches for years in the world war
against cancer. A medal is con
ferred by the New York City Cancer
committee for Outstanding work
during the year in the campaign to
control cancer"
He is director Of the Memorial
Hospital for Cancer and Allied Dis-