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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C. ; Who’s News This Week i *, Delos Wheeler Lovelace Consolidated Features.—WNU Release. EW YORK.—For this new year ' of pell-meU war traffic the In terstate Commerce commission has elected to its chairmanship William Took Railroading son, who By Mail as a Call knows the Roy; Head. ICC tion system and its problems in war or peace from the ground up. He began studying them nearly half a century ago as a call boy. Patterson became an ICC member in 1939,'hut he has been on its payroll for 30 years. Me was hired as an inspector of ap pliances in 1914 when there was a considerable stir about safety. The job expanded until a score of years later it turned into the assistant directorship of the commission’s bureau of safety. Next Patterson went onto the mechanical advisory committee of the federal coordinator of transportation. Finally member ship on the commission itself came from President Roosevelt. Patterson made his first connec tion with a railroad in Neenah, Wis. He was born there, where the Fox Indians used to hunt and do a lot of fighting, only seven years after the town was founded. A little while as a call boy made him want a better job. Correspondence courses were new then, and well recommended for kids who couldn’t get other schooling, so he studied air brake and train operation by mail. That started him up the railroad ladder and finally he became a conductor. At the peak of his rise he married, fathered a son, a daughter. Later he switched to the ICC. He is 63 now. U ITLER’S legions fall back and A the little kings whose little countries lie just beyond the smoke of battle turn more boldly toward n Hitler’s ene- Cen. Royce Talks m ies. Maj. Of Oil, Transport Gen. Ralph Rights, Weather ? oyce an <| “ his Allied military commission sit down to 10 sheep served on heaped up rice by shrewd warwise Ibn Saud, master of the best of Arabia. The talk, after chins are wiped, is of oil and transport privileges. But once, at least, the general certainly asked about the weather. An airplane pi- lot^jjih^ Jjas flpwn his own ships rhore than a million miles, he is always a little worried about wind and clouds and rain. Royce is American command er in the Middle East, big, wide- jawed, with his military cap usu ally cocked at a Beattie angle. He gets on with kings. A while back Egypt’s Farouk piloted him on an aerial sightseeing trip, though Royce could have piloted Farouk even more skill fully. He was one of the first 30 army officers to qualify as fliers and in the last war led a squadron of fighting planes in France. In this war he began by fighting the Japs in the Philippines and won a DSC and the DFC there to add to the Croix de Guerre he earned e quarter of a century ago. Con vinced that Germany can be beaten from the air, he has commanded in the Middle East since Septem ber. Like most of the army’s top men he went to West Point. Of a Long Line of Tailors, This Son Makes Steel Vests A THIN, tireless Englishman helps make the fliers of the Eighth air force safer than Milton’s “helmed cherubims . . . seen in glittering ranks with wings dis- p 1 a y e d.” He covers more than the Americans’ heads with steel. They fly cap-a-pie. Well, nearly! If they aren’t armed from bead to foot they wear, besides a helmet, an armored vest. And it turned blows like Lancelot’s shield. This war makes less and less sense. It uses every invention of history’s most mechanized age, but the best protection for its cham pions is copied from the days of old When knights were bold. A dozen years ago Leonard Barratt of the classic Wilkinson Sword company tinkered up an armored vest. Vests came easy to him. His father, grand and great grandfathers were tailors. Some were sold, in the Battle of Britain, to wives and sweet hearts wanting extra protection for their airmen. Nearly two years ago Brig. Gen. Malcolm Grow, Eighth air force surgeon, heard of the dandy device. Scot land Yard helped him run down the maker and shortly Barratt was working until all hoars. The latest vests include a thigh- protector. Their flexibility is the result of overlapping plates, one, two and three ply. One ply stops light flak. Three ply stops even revolver bullets close up. Each small plate is sewn into an individu al pocket on the canvas back. The whole yields to every blow, then readjusts itself as links adjust them selves in a chain. Helmets are a development later than the vests—steel slats over leather modeled on a block to fit any need. They close down over the eyebrows, around the ears. Russian Generals Visit Allied 8th Army Major General Vasiliev is pictured saluting as his party of Soviet gen erals drives away in a jeep after a visit to Gen. Bernard L. Montgom ery’s 8th Army command. Vasiliev was named as the commander who directed the campaign which cut off the German armies in the Crimea. Railroad President Becomes Colonel Ralph Budd, left, president of the Burlington railroad, as he was sworn into the army as a colonel of transportation. He was placed in charge of all railroads in the central western region when the army seized the railroads as a strike threatened to disrupt service. Left to right are: Budd, Col. D. A. Hart, Maj. A. Hillman, and Maj. G. E. Van Tassel. Gen. George C. Marshall, U. S. army chief of staff, and Lieut. John H. Ferguson (left) of the infantry, watch a well trained jungle fighter crash a barbed wire obstacle with a fast lunge. Lieutenant Ferguson, an in structor in jungle fighting, was the first married man to be drafted from San Antonio, Texas. Marching Through Mud on Bougainville Heavily laden marine infantrymen slosh through deep mud of a jungle trail as they near the battle front. Continued American attacks on Japanese positions in the Pacific are steadily lengthening our striking power from the air. As the battle continued on Bougainville, American troops battled toward Rabaul which is considered a vital Japanese base. Furlough Fun McKinley Park, a luxury hotel in Alaska, has been taken over by the army and is used as a recreation center for women war department employees and soldiers stationed there. Margaret Mylius is helped to her feet by Lieut. Anselm Tibbs Jr. as they walk to the skating pond. By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. I OOKS as if Warner Bros. agreed with Jack Benny when, on his return from the European battlefronts, he de clared that the trip was the best vacation he’d had id years. 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Hard Blizzard Mediterranean Chief Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, who was named supreme commander in the Mediterranean theater of war succeeding General Eisenhower of the United States. Wilson formerly was the British commander in chief of the Middle East. FD’s Son, Grandson HUMPHREY BOGART Have Not,” by Ernest Hemingway. It’s a tale about the rum-running skipper of a yacht operating off the Florida Keys—sounds very Bogart- ish. * That nation-wide search for the voice which most nearly approxi mates that of the famous Nellie Melba wound up with the selection of 22-year-old Jean Forward, who’ll sing in Rene Clair’s “It Happened Tomorrow.” She moved to Los An geles two years ago, and before that had sung leading roles with the Golden West Opera company, the Southern California Opera company, and the American Opera company. . Her voice was selected from hun dreds by Robert Stolx, who’s serving as musical director for the produc tion. —*— When Janet Wilde was in Holly wood she appeared in a mere hand ful of pictures, mostly Westerns. She switched to radio, and was cho sen to portray Corliss Archer in the i new comedy series—and now the film folk want her back. “That’s not for me,” says Janet. —*— Tom Coats is a stunt double whose services are hired for extraordinary feats of horsemanship. He worked in “Riding High,” and one chore was to impersonate Cass Daley driving a heavy wagon at full tilt over a desert road. He had to wear a wig with a pompadour, so that in long shots he’d look like Cass—and that wig above his rugged face prac tically ruined the members of the crew I —*— His outstanding work in films and in radio guest appearances has won William Bendix a starring air show of his own, the Blue Network’s Sun day afternoon comedy-drama “The Life of Riley.” It was those guest appearances that attracted the ra dio moguls’ interest. —*— To present x broad, inclusive pic ture of American youth in wartime and to show how youth itself is meet ing the challenge of increased ju venile delinquency, the National Broadcasting company has an nounced a 13-week series of pro grams, “Here’s to Youth,” which will be heard Saturdays from one to one-thirty. Eastern War Time, beginning January IS. The broad casts will be presented in coopera tion with 10 major voluntary youth organizations with a total youth membership of 31 million. Lieut. 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