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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C.
; Who’s News
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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.
Humphrey Bogart was just well on
his way to entertain servicemen in
that area when the company an
nounced that as soon as he returned
he’d start work on “To Have and to
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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. Franklin Roosevelt Jr.
shows his son, Franklin 3d, age 5,
one of his grandfather’s boat mod
els. This picture was made at Pres
ident Roosevelt’s Hyde Park home.
Given Highest Award
In the terrible blizzard that
swept the northwestern section of
the United States in 1888, thou
sands of head of cattle were fro
zen standing up on their feet in
the fields.
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Queer Names Bring Fine
Zoroaster and Jupiter are the
names of two children of Buenos
Aires, Argentina. Their parents
were fined on the ground that they
had no right to give them absurd
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At 66, Charles Coburn, veteran of
stage and screen, not only sings for
the first time in films but also en
gages in his first screen romance
The girl is blonde Constance Dowl
ing, who, with Coburn and Nelson
Eddy, is co-starred in “Knickerbock
er Holiday.” As Governor Peter
Stuyvesant, Coburn not only wears a
peg leg, but does a dance as well.
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Lieut. John C. Morgan as he was
awarded the Congressional Medal ot
Honor. He returned his plane to
England while the pilot and all gun
ners were unconscious from injuries
fella Raines was considered too
typically American to play the Eng
lish girl in “The Uninvited”—Gail
Russell got the role. Ella was
thought too sophisticated for “Our
Hearts Were Young and Gay”—Gail
got the part. But—Ella’s set as lead
ing woman in “Hail the Conquering
Hero,” in which she’ll play oppo
site Eddie Bracken—and it’s a Pres
ton Sturges picture!
—*—
ODDS AND ENDS-With that lucky
alarm clock back on tha Vox Vop show.
Harks Johnson and W arren Hull are won
dering again what will happen if it ever
goes off during the commercial—would the
sponsor get the SIO. or would it go to the
announcer, they ask ... Clifford Goldsmith,
author of “The Aldrich Family,” has been
asked to repeat some of his especially pop
ular scripts—an innovation in radio if he
does it .. . Renee Terry of CBS? “Bright
Horizon” has been awarded service stripes
as a nurse’s aide . , . There’s been an ava
lanche of suggestions that Fred Allen and
Lauritx Melchior do that note-famous stunt
of theirs in pictures.
WNU—7
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