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* THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C. Who’s News This Week By Delos Wheeler Lovelace Consolidated Features.—WNU Release. \J EW YORK.—On the day General ' Eisenhower’s invasion barges bump against the channel-washed walls of Hitler’s fortress, the invad- .. .. ers’ air sup- Vtctory May Now ^ wiu ^ Depend Upon an commanded OP Umbrella Man h l shal T. L. Leigh-Mallory. His initial job will be to raise a cover of planes through which Nazi bombers and fighters cannot thrust at Allied infantry and tanks down under. On his record Leigh-Mallory Is as good as he had better be and the business of raising an aerial umbrella is not new to him. He raised a fine one over Dieppe. Some of the fruits of that hair-raising raid were sour but the air marshal’s parasol was beyond criticism. Besides smoke-screens laid and the gun positions knocked out, his bomb ers and Blenheims and Bostons, his Hurricanes and Spitfires fought so furiously that Nazi plane losses were set at 191, against a British 98. And 30 pilots of the 98 were saved. Entering the last World war as a private after coming down from Cambridge, Leigh-Mallory finished as a flying officer with the D. S. O. He had planned on law, but re mained in the army and the start of this war found him commanding the British Twelfth fighter group. He also organized and directed the Polish air force in England, and for his achievements has been made a Commander of the Bath. Of all Britain’s commanders none looks more British than the air mar shal. He has the wide jaw, the trim, thick mustache, the strong nose, the closely buttoned mouth glorified in cartoons. He is 51 years old. ♦ 'TPHIS is just a luncheon pick-up; probably there isn’t a true word in it. Sir Stafford Cripps was traveling with a Great Man. After dinner the Maybe Mr. Grippe Great Man Isn’t as Austere As Yarn Suggests hauled out a couple of his terrific cigars. “I never “Smoke!” he urged, smoke,” said Cripps. The Great Man turned himself Into a chimney, poured a stiff brandy, poised the bottle over a sec ond glass and raised eyebrows in a convivial invitation. “I never drink," said Cripps. The Great Man had several stiff ones. Ten o’clock came. At the first chime Cripps checked his wrist watch. It was ten, right enough, “G’night!” he said briskly. “I al ways go to bed at ten.” Britain’s minister of aircraft production probably isn’t as se vere as ail that. But he can be g. im; as now when he warns rosy optimists that 1944 will be the Allies’ toughest year. He took on aircraft production late in 1942 and some said he had been demoted. It did seem a come-down from the post of lord privy seal, and certainly less rewarding than his earlier ambassadorships to China and Russia. Fifty-five, Sir Stafford is an aristo crat, a baron’s son, but he runs with left-wingers. He is M.P. for Laborite Bristol and works to allay distrust of Communism. /"J ERMANY’S Iron Cross comes in three grades; the Nazi special police come in three grades, too. And it couldn’t be just a coincidence _ ..... , that Wilhelm Executes Hitler’s Schepmann Orders to Letter wears the And to the Death 1 ° we ® t ^ aC - e of the one and commands the lowest grade of the other. Hitler’s own Elite Guard, the swaggering SS and the Gestapo, Himmler’s pets, both rank above Schepmann’s troopers. Since Schepmann took over after tough Victor Luts died in that automobile accident last May, his task has grown enor mously. There are 12,006,000 re bellious alien workers in the Reich now, and if these are to be kept at work along With the bombed natives, the SA must tarn the trick. Fifty now, Schepmann was born in the troubled Ruhr. In the first World war he won his Iron Cross in the infantry and survived three wounds and at the end was a lieu tenant. With peace be spent much time in the headquarters of the budding Nazi group at Dort mund and finally Hitler made him a full time SA leader. When the Nazis at length came to power in ’33 Hitler ordered Schep mann to wipe out opposition in Dortmund. There was a lot of op position. Communists were numer ous. These all vanished, however, after Schepmann’s militia caught up with the leaders; and Dortmund be came known as the town where po litical suspects most frequently were shot while trying to escape, or com mitted suicide by leaping from their prison windows. For his good works Schepmann was awarded the empty honor of membership in the Prus sian Diet and in the Reichstag, too 30 Years of U. S. Aviation Progress Top: Naval air station at Pensacola, Fla., in 1914. Tents were fair weather hangars. In bad weather planes were roiled into a brick struc ture not shown. Bottom: Typical view of the naval air training cen ter today where 15,000 naval aviators are trained yearly. The planes are trainers. MacArthur Poses With His Indian Warriors Gen. Douglas MacArthur, commander in chief of the Allied forces in the Southwest pacific area, poses with representatives of American Indian tribes in our army. Left to right: Sergt. Virgil F. Howell, Pawnee tribe. Pawnee, Okla.; Sergt. Alvin J. Vilcan, Chitimacha tribe, Charenton, La.; General MacArthur; Sergt. Byron L. Tsignine, Navajo tribe, De fiance, Aria.; and Sergt. Larry L. Dekin, Navajo tribe. Copper Mine, Aria. Banker on Newsstand Guy Emerson, vice president of a New York bank, sells papers at a newsstand while the owner took time off to purchase a war bond. His act typifies the unity with which big and small business men are buying bonds and getting war tools to men at the fronts. Dry Crusaders Mrs. Ida Wise Smith, national president of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, chats with Con gressman Joseph R. Bryson who is sponsoring a bill to outlaw bever ages containing more than one-half of 1 per cent alcohol by volume. Where Some of Those Huge Raids Start Out of the Rough U. S. Flying Fortresses are now using over 11 recently equipped air bases near Foggia, Italy, to drop tons of bombs an Nazi-controlled territory. These bases will make possible a campaign extending over the 600 mile range indicated by the light area on the map. Bombers can take off and return to these bases usually without facing serious enemy opposition. Months of study preceded one deft stroke of Adrian Grasselly, who split the famous $200,000 Liberator diamond, the largest ever found in Venezuela. The 155 carat stone is shown in closeup at bottom. This is one of the most successful defense devices developed during Britain’s long struggle for survival against Nazi bombers. It is a flak tower of the antiaircraft command. Such towers proved very effective last summer during the sneak attacks against seaside towns. Last year flak towers accounted for 93 towned enemy planes and 59 “probables.” Lieut. David C. Waybur of Pied mont, Calif., who was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for heroism in Sicily. This is the high est American military award. By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. A MAN who has met so many motion picture stars that he can’t even re member hoW many he’s known told me that Joan Fon taine is really pretty wonder ful. Vitality, intelligence, warmth, sensitiveness — she has them all, said he. He seems to be right. A girl who grew up with her and her sister, Olivia de HavU- land, told me that Joan always did know what she wanted, and how to get it. Well, when she came to New York after finishing “French man’s Creek” for Paramount, she wanted a vacation with her hus- JOAN FONTAINE band, Brian Aherne. So she took it, in a quiet corner of Connecticut— and sandwiched work as a nurse's aid in with doing the marketing. * You’a never have known, if you heard Marlene Dietrich recently on the CBS Playhouse, in “Manpower,” that she started for the broadcasting studio in fear and trembling. Back in August, 1942, she appeared on that same program—and fans prac tically mobbed her when she got out of a cab in front of the impres sive building. This time she wore old clothes—and the doorrhan didn’t want to let her int —*— Here’s perfect easting: Samuel Goldwyn has engaged Victor Me- Laglen for the role of the pirate known as “The Hook" in his tech nicolor production of “Treasure Chest.” McLaglen will be a good pirate, even though he will be the nemesis of Bob Hope, and so in volved in comedy. Hope’s east as a touring actor who gets involved with a boatload of pirates. —*— Lewis E. Lawes, for many years warden of Sing Sing, calls “New Prisons—New Men” “the first pic ture I have ever seen which clearly portrays the all around activities of a modern prison in operation.” It’s the latest of the “This Is America” series. —*— Ruth Brennan, daughter of Wal ter, begins her screen career in a small role in Selznick’s “Since You Went Away.” Not wanting to trade on her father’s fame, she used the name of Lynn Winthrop—but the only person she fooled was herself. Her father’s been' signed by War ner Bros, for one of the top roles in support of Humphrey Bogart in "To Have and to Have Not.” —*— The Bine Network’s glamour star, Gertrude Lawrence, is one of the proudest women in America, since the American Red Cross gave her her first stripe for 1,000 hours of service. Everybody who knows how much time and good hard work she gives to aiding the war effort feels that she ought to be the most deco rated gal in America; she’s never too busy or too tired to do whatever she can. —*— “One Man’s Family” got its start on the air as a sustaining program on NBC way back in April, 1932. Carlton K. Morse had been writing and producing radio programs like “Chinatown Squad” and “Twisted Tales,” but felt that the story of life as it is to the average American would appeal to the public. First thing anybody knew, the public made it a weekly listening habit— and it still is. * —*— Nancy Kelly would like to spend winters on Broadway, on the stage, ^ and summers in Hollywood, in pic tures—if she manages it, let’s hope she’ll get better picture assignments than she’s had recently. At 17 she was sensational in “Susan and God,” on the stage, and the movies grabbed her. 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The trailer caught Ore, bat the driver lacked K up aad removed the tires while it was aWaxe. The far-reaching Influence of the rubber situation will be appreci ated when It Is known that close to 40% of the motor vehicles ever made in this country were still In service Id December, 1941. More than half of them were owned by famiUes with incomes of loss than $30 a weak. BEGoodrich f'RST IN RUBBER