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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C„ FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 1943 Who’s News This Week ✓ By Delos Wheeler Lovelace Consolidated Features.—WNU Release. XJEW YORK.—Some day a hard- ' pressed U-boat commander may surface to And a dozen airplanes riding herd on his craft in mid- Looh* at If Thit ° C£ ' an '. U finds, in ad- Backer of Blimps d i t i o n, a Momenf /. Nigh ^ ^ ing aloft until her birds do their job and come back to roost, all the blame will be Rear Admiral Charles E. Rosendahl’s. Rosendahl, a captain but up for promotion, has been ordered back to his favorite post, the Naval Air Station at Lakehurst, N. J., after a tour of sea duty. All through this war he has been asking for blimp plane-carriers. Since the wreck of the Shenan doah Rosendahl has been ac cepted as one of the best in formed men on lighter-than-air craft. When that big dirigible broke in two he drifted away in the bow section, no motors, no rudder, no anything. He and a few helpers free-ballooned the fragment until he could land her. Rosendahl is a Chicago-born citizen of Texas who finished Annapolis in ’14, served eight years on surface craft and then volunteered for a tour at Lakehurst, then as now the navy’s chief station for experiments with dirigibles. He helped develop the stationary and mobile stub masts, he worked out mooring problems and ground- handling end he never stopped preaching the virtue of the big gas bags. For a long time, catastrophes, such as the loss of the Los Angeles, the burning of the Hindenburg and the Shenandoah accident kept him from getting far. But now congress has ordered 200 blimps for anti-U-boat work. ■yiSARS ago the Kansas City base- ball team was in a slump and had no bat boy to boot. Somebody remembered a smart kid making Bat Boy to Baker sandwiches in the re in 13 Steps; Now freshment team sprayed hits all over, won hands down and the kid got a steady job, though he had to quit finally because he needed more money. Now the War Food adminis tration, judged by some to be slumping and certainly lacking a deputy administrator, remem bers the same kid, a solid citi zen these days, and E. Lee Marshall is drafted again. Since the old Kansas City days, Mar shall has held a baker’s dozen of jobs and in his last was, actually a baker. He quit the chairman ship of the Continental Baking company to go with the food administration. He was bom on a Missouri farm 58 years ago. When he was only 20 years old he owned his own food brokerage company. Later he man aged a bakery, and after a merger was called east to become, eventu ally, head of Continental. He is a big man, and a nose flat tened at the tip lends an accent of good nature to his round aggressive face. On his family tree is a notable ancestor, John Marshall, first chief justice of the Supreme court. ♦ TN THIS year of grace the Bellamy blueprint for Utopia is like Hit ler’s uglier new world, behind sched ule. After. “Looking Backward” 75, He Heads Big reached its first wide- Project for Less eyed readers Th.ntlP.rr.ar that 50 years would be plenty for his happy revolution. * Fifty-five have rolled along and we haven’t even those superheterodyne houses, state- owned and suited to the tenant’s “taste and convenience wholly.” Closest to them, maybe, are the different but promising proj ects of the private enterprise Bellamy snubbed. Consider the huge new construction with which the Metropolitan Life In surance company and Chairman Frederick H. Ecker, mean to re vive a blighted East side area on the still far from Utopian is land of Manhattan. This will be a major unit in a nation-wide apartment community program that Chairman Ecker is di recting at the age of 75. And he is working for nothing. He is working for only a little less than he got when he joined Metro politan 60 years ago. He was a $4 I a week office boy then. At 20 he ! had charge of all the company’s real estate transactions and later was the treasurer and finally, president. Two generations back, the Ecker family made their home in Alsace. That was the Jacob P. Ecker branch. Jacob served with one of Napoleon Bonaparte’s generals. He came to this country when his son John was but seven years old. When the Civil war broke out, John fought in 32 engagements, on the Union side. He was left for dead once, but lived to become a major. When peace came, he moved from Phoenicia, in upstate New York, to Brooklyn. Here young Frederick went to school until he was 15 years old, then took a job as office boy with the Metropolitan. They Came, They Saw, They Conquered mm Hf • - - ■ > . * ‘ “ ■ Scores of American soldiers carrying their equipment pour out of landing barges onto the black volcanic sand of Massacre Bay, on the Aleutian island of Attu which had been helcU>y the Japanese. Fighting in conjunction with army air forces these men forced the enemy to retreat to the sea. Even Mules Fight Axis Despite mechanization, the army needs the lowly mule. These three have been picked from a mule market in St. Louis, Mo., to be transported to a branch of the armed service. The demands of military forces have caused prices on mules to soar and there is a brisk rush of trading each day for this cross between a jackass and a mare. On the Road to Tokyo ‘Oh Suzanna’ On a banjo made from the metal of a wrecked Japanese Zero fighter plane, Lieut. Walter E. Moore strums out American favorites at a U. S. base in Buna, New Guinea. Tuning screws are 25 caliber car< tridges. Adrift 131 Days SE^SeREEtO/ftlO By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. AN ENTIRE apartment house, -t\. in sections, was constructed for Columbia’s “The More the Merrier” (Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea and Charles Coburn starring), which is certainly the most amusing picture of the year so far. The rooftop was laid out across the floor of an entire sound stage, the four room apartment that’s the scene of most of the action occupied another, the building front and a block of similar structures oc cupied another—the latter being the Scene of the love scene which is likely to go down in movie history as one of the most' delightful ever made. The way James Cagney mauls his women on the screen is a Hollywood legend; actually, he has struck women only four times, never oruised one. But in “Johnny Come Lately” he’s beat up by a girl, Mar jorie Lord. She slapped him, hit him on the jaw, pounded his chest. He suffered no ill effects. But Mar jorie sprained a wrist. * There’s not a woman featured in “Bataan”—but the wives of the all- star cast include Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Crawford, Lucille Ball and Jen nifer Jones, soon to make her ap pearance in the lead of “The Song Fish and rainwater was the com plete diet of Foon Lim, this 25-year- old Chinese sailor, while he drifted on the Atlantic for 131 days with only a raft between him and Davy Jones’ locker. His ship had been torpedoed. Jaws of Death British engineers in Burma are hacking highways through jungles, mountains, to create a system of roads and supply lines over which they plan to force the Japanese from their positions in that sector. At top: British troops are working on a new stretch of road. Below: A convoy of jeeps carry supplies around a loop on a new road in Burma. British Strategists at Allied War Talks Three of Britain’s war leaders take their places across the table from the United States war chiefs at a meeting of American and British war strategists in Washington, D. C. Left to right: Lieut. Gen. Sir Hastings L. Ismay, chief staff officer to the minister of defense; Admiral Sir Dudley Pound, first sea lord and chief of naval staff; and Gen. Sir Alan Bi'toke, chief at the irt.p-irial staff. '‘Excessive speed” was named as the cause of a wreck of a Pennsyl vania train, New York bound from Atlantic City, killing 14 persons and injuring 89 others at Delair, N. J. The wrecked vestibule looks like a grim jaw ready to devour the in specting officials. Here’s Mud in His Eye This front cover of a Nazi propa ganda magazine which devoted an entire issue to the mud and water in Russia shows a German trooper taking a drink of muddy water. JENNIFER JONES of Bernadette.” Her husband is Robert Walker, screen newcomer, who an enthusiastic press agent tells us has “the wistful appeal of Jimmy Stewart, plus a dash of Gary Cooper.” * Now that we all have to read maps, to keep up with the war, Walt Dis ney’s set to help us; in “Victory Through Air Power” he has intro duced an entire sequence to acquaint audiences with the fundamentals of cartography and map-reading. Freddie Bartholomew’s last act before reporting for service in the army air corps was to say good-by to Miles Mander, who gave him his start in pictures. Freddie dropped in on the set of “Five Graves to Cairo,” where Mander, formerly a director- writer-actor in English pictures, was playing the part of a British officer. Till recently Dick Stark, announc er on “Abie’s Irish Rose,” would fight anybody who called him “Baby- face.” Now he’s changed his tune— Paramount likes that baby face, and has signed him to Replace Alan Ladd in gangster roles lined up for Ladd before he joined the army. When a quizmaster makes a mis take listeners burn up the wires tell ing him so. On a recent “Take a Card” program Wally Butterworth said that hot dogs are made of pork; he’s been snowed under by wires, letters and phone calls telling him an assortment of meats is used. Brian Donlevy lost half his mus tache during the final day’s shooting for “America” at a steel plant; imi tated the workers in throwing his arms across his face after flipping a shovelful of ferro-manganese into a furnace, but took his arm down too soon. * Paulette Goddard predicts that Sonny Tufts, who appears opposite her in “So Proudly We Hail,” will become a big star. A year ago he was trying to get extra parts on the air, but radio producers wouldn’t lis ten. Recently she told Charles Mar tin of the CBS Playhouse that she’d bet him a pound of steak he’d be offering Sonny $1,500 an appearance after the picture’s released. -Sfc- Both radio and movies took a hand in the build-up of Jack Carson. Pro ducer Vick Knight announced his en gagement as star of an air series; then Mark Hellinger said he’d get star billing in “The Widow Wouldn’t Weep,” first meant for Jack Benny. * ODDS .41VD ENDS —Martha Raya dropped in on the “Let’s Face If set to tell Bob Hope what he’d better take along on his overseas trip . . . She hopes to go back herself soon . . . Jack Benny’s been signed to star in “The Horn Blows at Midnight,” the scenes of which are laid in Heaven and New York ... They’ve changed the title of “The Pentacle” to “Conflict” much easier to understand—but “Five Graves to Cairo” is still a puzzler, since it doesn’t mean what it seems to . Stage 29 on the Metro lot, where Gregory Ratoff is directing “Russia,” has been christened “Ratoffgrad" by the ■members of the com- A SERIES OF /SPECIAL ARTICLES 1 ’EY THE LEADING VAR CORRESPONDENTS* Guerrilla Girl In Serbia By Ruth Mitchell (WNU Feature—Through special arrangement with Tba American Magasina.) During my 3% years in the Bal kans, I came to know that part of the world as no American woman has before. The Italian occupation of Albania drove me out of that country into Jugoslavia. There I met the Serbs. I liked their way of living and their principles. And because I found them most perfectly expressed in a Serbian organization of guerrilla fighters called the Chetniks, I eventu ally joined them and became, my self, a Chetnik. But not at once. There were many months of adventurous travel, dur ing which I was often hounded by Axis agents and accused of being a spy. I witnessed the growing men ace of domination by greedy, swag gering, war-mad Nazis and Fascists. I became involved in the struggle of the Serbs to maintain their freedom, joins Chetniks. So it was that I found myself one day in the presence of that old Chet nik leader, Voivoida Perchanatz. It was March 3, 1941, in Belgrade, where I had been living for nearly a year. I had come to join the Chet niks. Some months before, my name had been entered in the big, well- worn book of candidates, sponsored by a noted member of the organiza tion. I had been trained in the code of Chetnik fighting and taught how to use dagger and revolver. How I was ready. I stood before the ven erable leader, with my right hand on the crossed dagger and pistol, repeating after him the oath: “Do Smrti za srbiju—tako mi bog pomogao.” It means, “Till death for Serbia, by the help of God.” Name Crossed Out When Joining. That was all. Then Perchanatz took the big, old book and solemnly drew a line through my name. “Your life,” he said, “is no longer your own. It is given to Serbia.” This is the only organization in the world, I think, in which your name is not put down, but crossed out when you join. You must regard yourself as good as dead. How proud I was that dayl There are many women Chetniks, but I was the only woman of foreign birth and nationality ever to be admitted. I was a Chetnik I And through my mind went the great marching song of Serbia: "Ready, now ready, Chetnik brothers, mighty the com ing battle, and on our glorious vic tory will rise the sun of Liberty 1” Since I was to do intelligence work, my joining was to be kept secret at that time. Many of the leading men of Serbia—politicians, judges, professors — are Chetniks, their membership a dead secret. I was given the customary poison, which I sewed in the collar of my coat, where it could be chewed if my hands were bound. Serbs Were Stunned. Soon after I became a Chetnik, events in the Balkans moved to a swift climax. Bulgaria joined the Nazis, and on the morning of March 25 the news was flashed: “Jugo slavia has signed the Axis pact.” The Serbs were stunned at the in credible sell-out of their government. In Belgrade there was a death-like calm for two days. No Serb showed his face on the streets, but behind closed doors a momentous determi nation was gathering. It broke on March 27. On that fateful day, for the first time a small nation of Europe declared war on Germany before it was itself at tacked. Little Serbia had decided to battle the monster. And from that day onward, and because of that decision, everything went wrong for Germany. It was the Serbs, whom Germany expected to brush off like a trouble some mosquito, who spoiled her aim, destroyed her timing. I believe their courageous action saved the British empire and — yes — America, from slavery to Europe, as once before, in 1389, the Serbs’ heroic stand saved Europe from slavery to Asia. The Nazis had intended to attach Russia in March—my information told me March 16. Hitler had ex pected to have Jugoslavia in hand and thoroughly "co-ordinated” by then. Instead, he had to fight. He had to detach an army intend ed for Russia and send it down into the Balkans to secure his rear—an army of not less than half a million troops. It took him three months to do what he had expected would be done by routine penetration and ter rorization, in no time at all. There can be no question that if Germany had had those three spring months in which to concentrate her full force on Russia, she would have taken Moscow and that life stream of the Soviet, the Volga, and Russia would have been out of the war—a serious situation for the Allies. ■