The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-01-10
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL r. PARTON


Consolidated Features-wNU ServiceJ
JEW YORK.-Joseph C.. Grew,
ambassador to Japan, got his
start by crawling into a cave and
getting half-nelson on a tiger. No
Bear Wransler, isn't AFRAID q to .
Tiger-Tilter Was talk back to
lister Matsu-
Okla and to tell him that 1.-The Amer
lean people are firmly determined in
certain matters"
About that tiger. Just out of Har-
ward, the young Bostonian headed
for Singapore, to piece out his sheep
skin with a tiger skin. He hunted
big game for two years in southern
Asia, engaging in a great deal Of
jungle milling before he found the
open door in China-the entrance to
the tigers cave which was his gate
way to a distinguished diplomatic
career.
When the tiger story was pub
hshed, 1t caught the eye of Pres
fdent Theodore Roosevelt, but II
was . later bear story which
really stirred his interest. Young
Mr.. Grew took three straight
falls from an angry bear. Nat
urally, T. r. saw In that the
makings of q diplomat. Cables
the next day routed the bear
wrangler and tiger-tilter into q
lifetime career In diplomacy,
starting a post with the Egyp-
tian acknowledgement at Cairo.
He was paced steadily on UP
through posts at Mexico City, Petro-
grad, Berlin, Vienna, Copenhagen
and Berne. He is rounding go, 80
years in the diplomatic service, tall,
erect, weathered, grazing. His
durable career typewriter has come
along with him down the years, and
On it he raps out his terse reports to
the state department. Bear-wran-
Cling, diplomacy and this and that
has left him with only one good ear,
but it serves to register bigger ear
full than most diplomats get with
two.
Mrs. Grew Is a granddaughter of
Commodore Perry, who opened
Japan to the western world-or vice
versa. Living with them at the en-
bassy Is their daughter, Mrs. Cecil
Lyon, with her two children.
VERNE MARSHALL was born
' and grew up in Cedar Rapids,
Iowa, and for 26 years has been
editor OF the Cedar Rapids Gazette.
Scribe Stays Put, a stev i ns,t ito TO
Believes the u. S. thinks the U.
Should Do Same >. "A; ought to
In New York, he becomes the or
ganizer and director Of the No For
eign War Committee, which puts
him In the opposite corner to VIII
liam Allen White, the other sage of
m1d-western newspapering, who
heads the Committee to Defend
America. Not that Mr.. White wants
war, but their ideas are so opposed
that they already are pumping
large-caliber editorials at each other.
MIR. Marshall lost one war.
For his courageous anti-graft
campaign In Cedar Rapids, he
was awarded the Pulitzer prize.
on May 4, 1888. But while the
cheers were still echoing, the
Iowa Supreme court, the next
day, knocked out his graft
charges against 81 persons. He
kept on slugging, however, and
Ii highly esteemed In those parts
as self-starting, hard-hitting
editor.
He was in London in 1911, writing
for the London Chronicle, returned
home and later left his newspaper
desk for a stretch Of machine-gun-
ming In the big war. He didn't like
it and now says enough is enough.
He is the father of six children.
MO CUSTOMER who ever dropped
In at jacques De Sieyes' Fifth
avenue perfume shop for a spot OF
"heur d'amour" would ever have
thought Of the elegant M. De Sieyes
as a fighting man. But that's the
way 1t Is with the French-elegant,
but tough, on occasion. M. De
Sieyes was a flying ace in the World
war, lost a leg, was wounded five
times and is now looking for a re-
turn engagement as he serves as the
personal representative of Gen.
Charles De Gaulle, to rally the free
French" in this country. Just now,
with three other members of Gen
eral De Gaulle's American commit
tee, he gives vehement assurance
that the present political machina.
tons Of the Nazis will consolidate
France and steel it for final resist.
ance.
M. De Sieyes was a elassmate
and intimate friend Of General
De Gaulle at the st. Cyr military
academy. They lost touch with
each other during the World war
and M. De Sieyes has not seen
his old friend since he left Paris
In 1920. But he cabIed the gen.
eral when the latter made a
new base in London and issued
bis stirring appeal for the SUD
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