The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, June 25, 1943, Image 2
THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C- FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 1943
Who’s News
This Week
By
Delos Wheeler Lovelace
Consolidated Features.—WNU Release.
"NJEW YORK.—Maj. Gen. Eugene
’ M. Landrum, who snatched the
island ol Attu back from the Japs,
is exactly the type of man you could
„ readily pic-
nere Definitely We { ure wres t-
Have a Man Not of ing a hard
Style but el Active
that away from a wily foe. Short,
stocky, and firm jawed, he radiates
pugnacity and courage. Those who
favor the fashion plate genus in their
military men would never glance
twice at him. If they met him in
civics on the street of a small town
they would pick him out as the hard
working village doctor, especially if
he were carrying his battered Glad
stone bag and had his well-caked
black pipe clamped between his
teeth. He is 52.
General Landrum is a man
who got to the top the hard
way. Back in 1910 he entered the
army as a private in the coast
artillery. By the time the Unit
ed States entered World War 1
he was wearing the silver bar of
a first lieutenant on his shoul
ders. Two months later he had
become a captain. In the years
following the Armistice he kept
moving slowly and quietly
ahead. He was not the kind of
officer to make the headlines,
especially in peacetime, but his
superiors knew him as plug-
ger and they approve of him. He
was graduated from the Army
War college in 1936 and just six
months before Pearl Harbor, he
received his colonelcy.
General Landrum is a native of
Florida and he calls Pensacola his
home town. Mrs. Landrum, how
ever, is now in California. Like
many another wife of an army or
naval officer she likes to look at the
same ocean her husband does.
I F IT had not been for the late
Kaiser, William E. Lynd might
still be practicing law in Idaho in
stead of being, at 49, a brigadier
_ general in
Attorney Becomes the army air
Warrior to Make corps. He ac-
The Laws Stick ‘“ally start
ed out as an
attorney, in fact after earning his
degree at the University of Washing
ton. Then he took on military train
ing as a sideline with the Idaho Na
tional Guard. In 1916 he went to
the Mexican border in the fracas
that served as a curtain raiser to
the first World war. He had hardly
settled back at his law books be
fore the real show started. On
March 27, 1917, he was called back
to the colors and eight days later
was commissioned a second lieu
tenant of infantry.
Christmas eve, 1917, is one he
will always remember, for his
outfit sailed for France just as
St. Nick hitched up his rein
deer. Overseas he was switched
to the air service as an ob
server and he finally reached
the front in a plane in August.
A few days later he was the
proud possessor of a Silver Star,
earned in an air battle with the
Germans.
Like many another veteran of the
AEF, Lynd found civilian life dull
and in 1920 he rejoined the army,
this time for good. He has an
other air medal now. He won the
second awa^d for a spectacular re
connaissance flight out over the Pa
cific in the first year of the present
war. More recently he was at Attu,
and the other day he visited the
White House to tell President Roose
velt what his fliers had done to lick
the Japs there.
W HEN the censors finally re
leased the news that Artemus
L. Gates, assistant secretary of the
navy for air, had been on a tour
_ . _ # of the Pa-
Getting to Zone of cific fight .
Battle Is Second ing front,
Nature to Gates ^is longtime
friends said
in unison, “We might have known
it.” In World War I his experiences
were like something out of fiction.
When the war clouds lowered over
the United States 25 years ago,
Gates was in his junior year at Yale.
He had just been made captain-
elect of the football team, an honor
earned at tackle for two seasons.
By April, however, he had aban
doned his cap and gown for a naval
uniform.
In the summer of 1916 be bad
bad a fling at flying and it did
not take him long to get into
naval aviation, then still in its
infancy. August, 1917, found him
in France and long before the
Armistice he was commanding
the U. S. naval air station at
Dunkirk.
While there he was decorated for
saving the crew of a British plane
which had crashed into the sea. Lat
er the French drafted him for one
of their bombing squadrons. In an
air battle behind the enemy lines in
October, 1918, his plane was shot
down. When the Germans rushed up
to grab him, they found him calmly
trying to destroy his ship. On the
way to prison. Gates managed to
leap through the window of his train
and escape. Just before he reached
the Swiss border, he was recap
tured, however, and on November
11 he was a prisoner in Germany.
Hundreds Offer Home to Soldier’s Waifs
Their father is in the army and their mother is ill in the South, so
the four bright-eyed brothers pictured at top were waiting at the Chil
dren’s Aid society in New York for someone to give them a home until
their parents can come back. Hundreds responded to their plea ex
pressed via a newspaper. Among them was William G. Helis, mil
lionaire oil man shown at bottom. Helis is a Greek-American who
has contributed over $1,000,000 to Greek war relief.
Warning!
“You guys better get out of here
while the getting’s good.” That’s
what the characters on this imita
tion leaf told the Japs on Kiska
island. The leaves were dropped by
U. S. aviators to enemy forces who
are supposed to have an aversion
for the leaves, supposedly from a
Japanese Kin tree.
He Made Salt Water Drinkable
The Road Back
“Water, water, everywhere, and not a drop to drink.” This cry of
the shipwrecked sailor is no longer true. Lieut. Clare R. SpeaHnan,
USN (left), has discovered a simple process to make sea water drink
able which can be carried out in a few minutes by a shipwrecked sailor.
He is shown being congratulated by Capt. William L. Mann.
President Roosevelt meets a famous Australian nurse, Sister Kenny,
who has developed a new method of treating infantile paralysis. Pic
tured above are President Roosevelt, Basil O’Connor, head of the National
Paralysis Foundation, and Sister Kenny. She was a luncheon guest at
the White House.
WAVES Learn to Rule Waves
The historic Charles river in Cambridge, Mass., where Harvard mas
culine crews practiced and raced for many decades, is now the scene
of a training headquarters for WAVES. A group is shown carrying their
shell from the boathouse. They learn to row, handle a small boat, and
•tt.er water lore.
With the Axis cleaned out of North
Africa, refugees like the ones shown
above can move back into their
homes. These people are returning
to Bizerte aboard their carriage
which is fitted out with springs, rub
ber tires, and a wheel assembly
from a Rolls Royce automobile.
Zip Off Zoots
Servicemen and zoot suit wearers
fought a small war of their own in
Los Angeles, sending many youths
like the one above to jails and hos
pitals. The servicemen were strip
ping the “zooters” in revenge for
previous assaults.
Limbering Up
Gunder Haegg, Swedish distance
runner, limbers up with Greg Riee,
America’s speediest two miler,
after Haegg arrived in New York
for the National AAU championship
track meet.
By VIRGINIA VALE
Released by Western Newspaper Union.
M ARY ASTOR certainly
started something when
she signed up as master of
ceremonies for that new
Thursday night air show, in
which she is starred with
Charles Ruggles and Mischa
Auer. Within a week sponsors were
being deluged with plans for pro
grams on which girls would act as
emcees. And just ask John Charles
Thomas if the ladies are taking
over! He’s a placid, composed in
dividual, but he nearly lost his calm
MARY ASTOR
recently, at one of his Sunday after
noon broadcasts, when he saw six
new girl members of the orchestra.
Penny (“Blondie” 1 ) Singleton is a
very proud young woman. She now
answers to the name of Mrs. Major
Sparks—her husband was recently
promoted, after performing distin
guished service as a captain. Pen
ny’s more elated than he is!
*
If it’s announced that Capt. Clark
Gable will appear at your local
movie house in a new picture,
“Wings Up,” don’t expect to see a
groat deal of him in it. The film’s
an Office of War Information short
subject, and it’s certainly worth see
ing, but Gable isn’t on the screen
much of the time. He acts as nar
rator, and makes an appearance
only in the concluding scenes.
*
Now you’ll have to add another
Ameche to your list. He’s Jim Jr.,
son of Jim Sr. of the Sunday “Fere’s
to Romance” broadcasts, nephew of
Don. The five-year-old appears on
CBS in the “Big Sister” serial.
*
To make the cloud effects for the
Heaven scenes in “A Guy Named
Joe,” starring Spencer Tracy and
Irene Dunne, the air must be un
disturbed and the temperature even.
So an air lock system is being used
on the heavy double studio doors,
and a watchman’s been installed to
see that the outer one’s closed be
fore the inner one’s opened. Of
course the cast has nicknamed him
Gabriel.
*
Among the congratulatory wires
Bill Stern received when he switched
to a Friday night spot on NBC was
one signed by George Raft, Betty
Grable and Tommy Dorsey. He’s
slated to make a movie with them
some time next fall.
They put Marie McDonald into a
wig, for the first time in her life,
for scenes in “Tornado,” since her
own blonde hair was too short. So—
when she lighted a gas heater in
her dressing room, gas which had
escaped during the night exploded
in a burst of flame, which caught
the long ends of the wig. The wig
was ruined; Marie would have been
badly burned if she hadn’t thought
fast and snatched it off.
*
Signe Hasso, of “Assignment in
Brittany,” has been signed to con
tract by Metro, and around the stu-
dio they are predicting that she will
be one of the biggest stars in Holly
wood after two or three roles in top
pictures.
Anne Shirley, the romantic inter
est of “Bombardier,” has the larg
est collection of service men’s flying
wings of any Hollywood star—42.
But Donna Reed has a set of flying
reports taken from a Jap flier shot
down at Guadalcanal, a bomb frag
ment from London, and walrus tusk
sewing needles from Iceland, all
sent her by soldier admirers.
*
Susan Peters and her fiance,
Richard Quine, had a bad spill the
other day. They were showing off
before some friends with a bit of
trick double riding, on Susan’s new
motor bike—it went down and so
did they, but hurt nothing but their
pride.
*
ODDS AND ENDS—Humphrey Bogart
and Robert Young have made more free
appearances for the Screen Guild Players
than anybody else — seven broadcasts
apiece for the charity . . • U A Date IPith
Judy," another serial about an American
family, will replace Eddie Cantor’s “Time
to Smile" program for the summer , . .
The day after Phillips Lord blasted tire
stealers on “Gang Busters" he started for
Maine—and somebody stole the tires of his
roadster . . . George Lowther, writer-nar
rator-producer of “Superman," says he’s
never had mike fright because he spent
three years as cheer leader at New Haven
high school, megaphone in hand.
HOUSEHOLD
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Start root vegetables in boiling,
salted water, about one teaspoon
of salt to a quart of water.
• • •
Gilt frames can be cleaned by
dipping a soft cloth in milk and
rubbing gently over the soiled
spots. Repeat several times if
necessary.
• • •
A cushion or pad underneath a
rug not only makes it feel softer
and warmer but will also make
the rug last longer.
e • •
Baked ham is glorified by pour
ing honey over the ham before
browning. It gives a delicate
brown color and a delicious flavor.
• • •
Never, never put electrical ap
pliances into water to clean them.
A damp cloth and a mild abrasive
are sufficient in most cases. Guard
wires against dampness.
Sprinkle your heat rash
irritated skin well with
Mezsana, formerly Mexi
can Heat Powder. Cools
burn as it soothes itching.
Wide Hair
Not only may some hairs on
the human head grow to be six
times wider than others, but the
hairs of some races as a whole
have been found to be 20 times
wider than those of other people.
DON'T LET
CONSTIPATION
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Herring gulls trample down the
treetops so solidly on an island in
the Bay of Fundy that a man can
walk on the abnormally grown
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over London in June, 1917. Twen
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were caused.
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