The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-10-25
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON

EW 4ORk.-Rear ADM. Hayne
Ellis, who will command the
new Atlantic navy, now being devel-
oped, is not only one of the country's
Sauoir Fare, as t S'I, .so . tars'
Well as Fighting, piest dresser
Adm. Ellis Dish a IN ano ~ nee .hs
handsomest and most popular of
naval officers. He has reputation
tor unusual spirit and enterprise and
Is credited with wide and highly
specialized knowledge of foreign
affairs.
Like virtually all the navy
high command, he is a landlub-
Der, hailing from Macon, Ga.
After his graduation from the
Naval academy in 1900, he
served in the Boxer and Philip
pine rebelli0ns and thereafter
commanded many frst-line
ships. He was liaison officer
during the Washington arms
conference, was aide to Secre-
tary OF the Navy DENLY and
from 1881 to 1894 was head of
the naval intelligence. 1t was
ne who was picked as naval
aide to the prince of Wales on
the latter's goodwill tour of this
country.
Last year he was transferred from
command of the ninth naval district
to the command of the Atlantic
squadron. While the new Atlantic
navy, starting with nucleus of YES
sells now in the Atlantic, will be un-
der his single command, both Pacif-
lc and Atlantic fleets will be under
the supreme command of Adm.
James Q. Richardson, commander
n-chief of the United States fleet.
Sea dogs stress the admiraPs
popularity with the jack tars.
A few years ago he was in
charge Of flock of them on a
visit to the Vatican. The boys
pulled a navy yell, with their
yell-leaders doing back fips. It
might have seemed an unseemly
proceeding, but the admiral had
known 1t was coming, and had
guessed correctly that IL would
bring q call for encOres-which
1t did, from the pope himself.
Admiral Ellis is SO years old. tall
erect and broad-shouldered and,
again, magnificently tailored. He
attained his present rank in 1893.
a S The Little Church Around the
Corner marks its ninety-second
birthday, DR.. Randolph Ray may be
noting with interest that Jupiter and
Stars Slip; Little Saturn are
Church Around throueh g
The Corner Firm tu r 2 e : con o
which hasn't happened for some.
thing over 300 years. DR.. Ray keeps
track of the stars and thinks it quite
likely that his destiny ''inclines'
with theirs. For many years, he
consulted the late Evangeline
Adams, the astrologer. He think.
it quite reasonable that the affair.
Of men should be linked with the
cosmic deeps.
Jupiter and Saturn, 1t hap
pens, are backsliding, or retro
grading, but DIR. Ray and The
Little Church Around the Corner
are standing firm-largely due
to the tolerance, social tact and
humane understanding of the
rector. II is said that in his
youth he was impressed by Rob-
ert BrOwning's invocation of a
degree Of humane worldliness
among ehurchmen. That might
have been Fra Lippo Lippi.
At any rate, DR.. Ray met tn
theater more than halfway in max
ing The Little Church the haven TO
its people, and also the romanti
shrine of thousands of marriages
He is no of-hand marrying parson
He investigates all couples thorough
ly and the rites of his church ar
never casually administered.
OF southern birth, he was a
"leg man" for the Brooklyn
Eagle, and CROPPED around the
edges OF law and medicine be-
fore he became a minister.
ObuuACS ~ NOlumDla university
inclined him to the Episcopal
ministry. After his ordination,
he consulted Evangeline Adams.
She told him he would 20 West
and meet great success there.
In Bryan, Texas, he became rec
tor Of st. Andrews church and
later was dean Of st. Mathews
cathedral at Dallas.
He came to The Little Churc
Around the Corner, more formall
The Church of the TRANSPORTATION
In 1923. With the years, he ha
taken on the appearance and de
meanor Of a British cleric, tall an
dignihed, conforming rigidly in al
the requirements of the rubric, bu
less Of q rigid conformist in every
day friendly human intercourse. In
elined to overweight, he keeps Il