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Who's News This Week By Delos Wheeler Lovelace Consolidated Feature*.—WNU ReleaM. NEW YORK.—On the day General Eisenhower's invasion barges bump against the channel-washed walls of Hitler's fortress, the invad .... „ «, ers' air sup- Vtctory May Now port wjl i Depend Upon an commanded Ol'Umbrella Man b * Mar shal T. L. Leigh-Mallory. His initial job will be to raise a cover of planes through which Nazi bombers and fighters cannot thrust at Allied infantry and tanks down under. On his record Leigh-Mallory is as good as he had better be and the business of raising an aerial umbrella is not new to him. He raised a fine one over Dieppe. Some of the fruits of that hair-raising raid were sour but the air marshal's parasol was beyond criticism. Besides smoke-screens laid and the gun positions knocked out, his bomb tfrs and Blenheims and Bostons, his Hurricanes and Spitfires fought so furiously that Nazi plane losses were set at 191, against a British 98. And 30 pilots of the 98 were saved. Entering the last World war as a private after coming down from Cambridge, Leigh-Mallory finished as a flying officer with the D. S. O. He had planned on law, but re mained in the army and the start of this war found him commanding the British Twelfth fighter group. He also organized and directed the Polish air force in England, and for his achievements has been made a Commander of the Bath. Of all Britain's commanders none looks more British than the air mar shal. He has the wide jaw, the trim, thick mustache, the strong nose, the closely buttoned mouth glorified in cartoons. He is 51 years old. —♦ — THIS is just a luncheon pick-up; probably there isn't a true word In it. Sir Stafford Cripps was traveling with a Great Man. After dinner the .. , . Great Man Maybe Mr.Cripps hauled out Isn't at Austere a couple of As Yarn Suggests his terr,fic cigars. "Smoke!" he urged. "I never tmoke," said Cripps. The Great Ma& tinned himself Into a chimney, poured a stiff brandy, poised the bottle over a sec ond glass and raised eyebrows in a convivial invitation. "I never drink," said Cripps. The Great Man had several stiff ones. Ten o'clock came. At the first chime Cripps checked his wrist watch. It was ten, right enough, "G'night!" he said briskly. "I al ways go to bed at ten." Britain's minister ot aircraft production probably isn't as se vere as all that. But he can be grim; as now when he warns rosy optimists that 1944 will be the Allies' toughest year. He took on aircraft production late in 1942 and some said he had been demoted. It did seem a come-down from the post of lord privy seal, and certainly less rewarding than his earlier ambassadorships to China and Russia. Fifty-five, Sir Stafford is an aristo crat, a baron's son, but he runs with left-wingers. He is M.P. for Laborite Bristol and works to allay distrust of Communism. —♦ — GERMANY'S Iron Cross comes in three grades; the Nazi special police come in three grades, too. And it couldn't be just a coincidence r , Ul i i that Wilhelm Executes Hitler » Schepmann Orders to Letter wears the And to the Death I ° wes u t B"de of the one and commands the lowest grade of the other. Hitler's own Elite Guard, the swaggering SS and the Gestapo, Himmler's pets, both rank above Schepmann's troopers. Since Schepmann took over after tough Victor Lutz died in that automobile accident last May, his task has grown enor mously. There are 12,000,000 re bellious alien workers in the Reich now, and if these are to be kept at work along with the bombed natives, the SA must turn the trick. Fifty now, Schepmann was born in the troubled Ruhr. In the first World war he v on his Iron Cross in the infantry and survived three wounds and at the end was a lieu tenant. With peace he spent much lime in the headquarters of the budding Nasi group at Dort mund and finally Hitler made him a full time SA leader. When the Nazis at length came to power in '33 Hitler ordered Schep mann to wipe out opposition in Dortmund. There was a lot of op position. Communists were numer ous. These all vanished, however, after Schepmann's militia caught up with the leaders; and Dortmund be came known as the town where po litical suspects most frequently were shot while trying to escape, or com mitted suicide by leaping from their prison windows. For his good works Schepmann was awarded the empty honor of membership in the Prus sian Diet and in the Reichstag, too THE DANBURY REPORTER, PANBURY, N. C„ THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1944 30 Years of U. S. Aviation Progress **"''**"*' " * *'' * '**" |> *^ •v' * *"~*'**!Trri;'i" .i^!!i!i^r!^^^^^^^^S!^^^^BSS^BSßßMWßß^ij^BMMtt^^^ c:^;^,: ••• •■*• • Top: Naval sir station at Pensacola, Fla., in 1914. Tents were fair weather hangars. In bad weather planes were rolled into a brick struc ture not shown. Bottom: Typical view of the naval air training cen ter today where 15,000 naval aviators are trained yearly. The planes are trainers. MaeArthur Poses With His Indian Warriors y Hpß^^^H > .^|>^^^K;e- B - y■ - Gen. Douglas MaeArthur, commander in chief of the Allied forces in the Southwest Pacific area, poses with representatives of American Indian tribes in our army. Left to right: Sergt. Virgil F. Howell, Pawnee tribe, Pawnee, Okla.; Sergt. Alvin J. Vilcan, Chitimacha tribe, Charenton, La.; General MaeArthur; Sergt. Byron L. Tsignine, Navajo tribe, De fiance, Ariz.; and Sergt. Larry L. Dekin, Navajo tribe, Copper Mine, Aris. Where Some of Those Huge Raids Start ClA.'''' | j :i : '" iI1; j| i IIM sEiGBAck \ || M§l I!! 1| l| YUGOSLAVIA U. S. Flying Fortresses are now using over 11 recently equipped air bases near Foggia, Italy, to drop tons of bombs on Nazi-controlled territory. These bases will make possible a campaign extending over the 600 mile range indicated by the light area on the map. Bombers can take off and return to these bases usually without facing serious enemy opposition. Flak Towers Take High Raider Toll r * / This is one of the most successful defense devices developed during Britain's long struggle for survival against Nazi bombers. It is a flak tower of the antiairoraft command. Such towers proved very effective last summer during the sneak attacks against seaside towns. Last year flak towers accounted for 93 Uwned enemy planes and 59 "probables." Banker on Newsstand ■fk # ' i 99 > iT Jf 7 jjj|| .. Guy Emerson, vice president of a New York bank, sells papers at I newsstand while the owner took time off to purchase a war bond. His act typifies the unity with which big and small business men are buying bonds and getting war tools to men at the fronts. Dry Crusaders H ' MiM Mrs. Ida Wise Smith, national president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, chats with Con gressman Joseph R. Bryson who is sponsoring a bill to outlaw bever ages containing more than one-half of 1 per cent alcohol by volume. Out of the Rough Isa / ? y - ' > / ''£' /■/ "■■ ' / jf »gw *cr~ I? Months of study preceded one deft stroke of Adrian Grasselly, who split the famous $200,000 Liberator diamond, the largest ever found in Venezuela. The 155 carat stone is shown in closeup at bottom. Wins Highest Award --"■ M Ifefe K t. link K ■£. $ Lieut. Qavid C. Waybur of Pied mont, Calif., who was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for heroism in Sicily. This is the higV est American military award. They tell yon that long before he was elevated to the position he now occupies, Jim Byrnes was always successful in getting FDR to read his memos to the White House. Because his notes were never longer than four lines. Byrnes learned his lesson the first time—when he sub mitted a windy report to the Presi dent. "Did you read it?" he inquired. "Read it?" said FDR, "I couldn't even lift it!" Lieut. Comd'r Jack Dempsey was reminiscing. He told about Mike Trent, a long-time admirer who was in his group when he was training for his fight with Comd'r Gene Tun ney. Mike was sent over to scout the Tunney training camp to bring Dempsey information of value—on Tunney's style and hitting power. Mike returned breathless. "It's a set-up," he reported. "I seen him readin' a book!" The Stork Club's host, S. Billings ley, is also renowned for sending gifts to customers and others. The gifts usually are rainbow-hued cra vats. One recipient replied: "Many, many thanks for your thoughtful ness. It's the first time, and what a relief, that the Stork ever brought me ties!— Eddie Cantor." In Scribner's rare book dep't, says th£ Sat. Review of Literature, a well-groomed customer asked Nick Wredin: "How is this volume bound?" "Genuine calf," he said. "How was that again?" "Calf—genuine calf!" "What did you say?" Nick threw back his head, closed his eyes and roared: "Moo!" The Sunday N. Y. Times radio section reports the reaction of listen ers to WJZ's new transmitter of 50,- 000 watts . . . One New Hampshire listener is quoted: "It's been our pet gripe (in our neck of the woods) that WJZ had such excellent pro grams, yet was the only major sta tion that simply could not be heard with any degree of ease. Why, Sun day evening we could even hear Winchell's tonsils quiver." New York Novelette: This is one of those stories that sweep the town now and then, and everybody al ways knows the woman it is sup posed to have happened to. But when you ask them to name names they say they mustn't. Because they cannot . . . Anyhow, a woman was talking to a friend on the phone, explaining she couldn't meet her be cause of a cold, etc. ... A strange third voice broke in and said: "Mad am, I am a doctor. I suggest you try this prescription for your throat." Whereupon he offered it. . . She asked his name ... He replied: "You will never know that!" And got off the line ... So a few nights later at a party she was amazed to hear a man at the table relate the incident . . . He was the doctor! . . . The woman said nothing . . , She got his phone number from the hostess . . . Next day she called him saying she was the lady with the cold. She thanked him for the prescription . . . "Who are you?" he asked . . . "You'll never know," she cooed, hanging up. Will Mahoney, star American vaudeville headliner (in Australia and England many years), has become a British subject... J. Durante's pals call him "Sweet-nose" ... A lead ing male hairdresser threw a Christ mas poddy for his swishv friends. They had a Pink tree! . . Alan Gale's thumbnail description of Vice- Pres. Wallace: "He takes his job seriously instead of himself" . . . Reader's Digest credits th* "One of our cities is missing" gas (made famous by the wire services) to a contributor. It credits "Thurnbnose Sketch"—"Watch your hat, coat and girl friend" and "Feud administia tor" to everybody except this col yum, where they were born. Quotation Marksmanship: A. A. Milne: There was a full length novel in her sigh . . . M. Buchanan: The ash-can of her past . . . H. Smith: No one should be conceited. Talented people do not need it, the untalented do not deserve it ... H. P. Estabrook: Some people's voices are hard to extinguish over the phone . . . Joan Eden: If success doesn't give you a big head, it gives you big headaches . . . H. Balson: Nice people always have trouble finding people to be nice to them . . . H. Horner: She didn't catch a husband, she trapped one . . . Rose Macauley: A book to kill time for those who like it better dead . . . Ambrose Bierce: Positive is being mistaken at the top of one's voice. Sammy Renick, the jockey, was gagging about George Raft's shad ow, "Killer" Gray, who has never even killed a fly. The "Killer" at tended a swanky Jockey Club affair in Hollywood once, where Mrs. C. V. Whitney was at the same table. He conversed in typical Brooklyn ese. Someone at the table asked the "Killer" why he didn't c#sh in on his publicity and go into the movies like his pal Raft. "I don't wanna be like Raft," he said, "I only wanna live like him I" child #§* this nMfIIM «Md wlm QUINTUPLETS CATCH COLD It'promptfy relieves eoufhtaf and makes breathing aider Whenever the Dlonne Quintuplets catch cold—their chests, throats and back* are immediately rubbed with Musterole. Musterolegivessuch wonderful result* because it's MORE than just an ordi nary "sel ve." It's what so many Doctom and Nursed call a modern counter irritant. It actually helps break up local conges tion in upper bronchial tract, makes breathing easier, promptly relieves couch ing, sore throat and aching chest muscles due to colds. Get Musterole today! IN 3 STRENGTHS: Children's Mill), Regular and Eitra Strong. Indian Monument Turns A 36-foot statue of an American Indian in the court house at St. Paul, Minn., is rigged with mo tors and clock work so that it re volves once a day. RELIEVE Esse and soothe chafe. Form p>» medicated coat of protection tfbU between akin and chafing bed- CfIDEC c '°thes with Meisana, the wtlKEw soothing, medicated powder. A VEGETABLE ■ For Hsadschs, !, oil 11m,,..'"*® Sour Stomach • «* d Di« « * BH Spells when lit Ml BB Bi| caused by Con stipation. Uli 1 IS doses for tHUXZJr only 10 cenU. Streamlined Planea America's P-38 fighting plane 1B so streamlined that nearly two thirds of its air resistance is in the retractable landing gear. O use 666 •II TABLETS. SALVE. NOSE DROPS 13K3 YOU CAN LAUGH, TALK AND EAT, FREE OF PLATE IMIARRASSMENT It's so easy to enjoy all-day confidence when your plates are held firmly and safely in place by this "comfort-cushion"—a dentist's formula. L Dr. Wernet's Paw- t. Recommended by der lets yon enjoy dentiiu for SO yean. Klld foods, avoid era- S. Economical; small rraument of IOOH amount lasts looser, plates. Helps prevent 4. Fure snd harmless sore gums. —pleasant tasting. Maatyhaci if not M^hmL SNAPPY FACTS ABOUT t) RUBBER A Wisconsin truck driver re cently received a tribute from the Office of the Rubber Direc tor because he risked his life to save the tiros on the trailer •f s tractor-trailer unit bo twos driving. The trailer caught Are, but the driver (•eked It up ood removed the tiros white it was ablaze. The for-reachhg Influence of the rubber situation will be appreci ated when It Is known that close to 40% of the motor vehicles ever made In this country were still In service In December, 1941. Mere than half of them were owned by families with Incomes of leu than 130 a week.
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