The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-01-17
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL r. PARTON

Baron Manfred Won Killinger is OPP
Grating is a good place to watch
Feinting at Russ d., deck 2 nair
And Swinging at oftrained dice
Everybody Else and a S,, ! q
have been the diplomatic parapher-
MALTA of the eminent Nazi statesman
who, it is now reported in Europe,
will be the new gauleiter, or Hitler
straw-boss in Rumania. Lately, for
eign correspondence has converged
on the idea that Herr Goebbels is
taking possible run-in with Rus
STA and letting word leak out in the
Balkans that the Nazis are sending
troops to menace Russia, while in
reality, he is dealing under the ta-
BILE with Stain, as usual.
That would be grand way to
dampen American war ardor-this
country getting into the war on the
side of red Russia. Anything as
elaborate and devious as this would
be right on Baron Won Killinger's
target. With his genius for duplicity
and complicated intrigue he would
be marvellous advance agent for
just such a grand razzle-dazzle as
that.
When Baron Won Killinger
was German consul-general at
San Francisco, from August,
1887, to January, 1889, Rep.
Samuel Dickstein denounced
him ON the floor Of congress as
a "Nazi adventurer." On No
vember 6, 1887, the Americana
cation committee of the Ameri-
can Legion demanded his sum-
mary rejection from this c0un-
try as spy delivering secrets
of the American feet to his gov
eminent. He stayed on the job
until the Nazis saw fit to recall
him, as the war loomed, for
more Immediately urgent in
trigue over there.
He spent nine months in jail, in
1922, on charges Of completely in
the murder of the conciliatory Ma
thias Erzberger. Bullets like those
used by the murderers, Schulz and
Tillesen, had been found in his pos
session. He was acquitted and
moved through the turbulent years
Of the Nazi ascendency to spot at
the right hand of Der Fuehrer. His
gift for intrigue was such at some
times he ran the ball the wrong
way, and during the blood purge of
1894, Hitler put him in concen-
tration camp and fred him as pre-
mier of Saxony.
However, they could find no SUBJ
stitute for his legerdemain and let
him out to pick up his old line Of
mystagogy.
TN 1888, a young man from Potts
4 vile, planting his typewriter on
his bed in New York hall bed
room, rounded out $4,000 words Of a
When the Utterly w VoIt ne M Hs
improbable Does was down to
Happen, IT'S NesUs ms last three
sent unfinished manuscripts to three
publishers, with take-it-or-leave-it,
first-come-first-served letter, telling
them he would finish the book under
a contract which would allow him
to live decently while he was work
ing. The next day came three ac-
ceptances. Harcourt, Brace was
first in line and got the book, sap
pointment in Samarra. The author
got $50 week for the three months
and delivered the finished book with.
in four days of the dead-line.
Such was the literary getaway
Of Young John O'Hara, author
of the current hit musical show
in New York city, stPaI Joey"
the same being one Of the most
poisonous portraits Of ssheeP'-
ever etched with the steel-point
of contempt. The book clicked
and in the years between there
was the routine stretch at Holly
wood, and a series of magazine
stories from which the unI0veIy
portrait of opal Joey" gradual
ly emerged.
ssPal Joey" isn't show to which
you would want to take your Aunt
Tabitha, but there is a moral in
the story Of how young John o. Hara
began to rise and shine. When he
decided to become an author, he
swore off liquor, cut smoking down
to minimum, went on a diet and
worked a Furnishing shift, seven
days week. He is tall, person
able and gathers his garlands and
his royalties at the age of IS.
IF HE can't buck blizzard of an
= avalanche, Grade A war would
do nicely for big, buckle William
F. Carey, New York commissioner
of sanitation, on leave with the de-
Tense commission to shove through
army cantonment construction. He
says the building needs bucking up
lot, but it will all come through.
We saw him win the Culebra cut
steam-shovel record for dirt remov-
al when he was helping to build the