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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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