The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, February 04, 1944, Image 2
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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.
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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. To an unprejudiced
onlooker it seems that she’s capable
of far better work than she’s done
so far.
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ODDS AND ENDS
Note to girls—Dick “Henry 4ldrich“
Jones is thrilled, but also embarrassed, by
all those letters junior misses have been
tending him, sealed tcilh pink impressions
of their lips ... Latest addition to the
“Silver Theater" is Madeleine Lee, whom
you used to hear as “Amos *i»* Andy’s"
Miss Blue .. . If hen Jan Peerce of “Great
Moments in Music" lets go with the full
power of his lungs, listeners fully expect
the studio walls to be blasted apart . . .
Hal Roach, former United Artists pro-
I ducer, has been promoted from major la
lieutenant colonel in the U. S. army.
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SNAPPY FACTS
ABOUT
RUBBER
A Wisconsin truck driver re
cently received a tribute from
the Office of the Rubber Direc
tor because he risked his life
to save the tires an the trailer
of a tractor-trailer unit he
was driving. 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.
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f'RST IN RUBBER