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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C. Who’s News This Week By Delos Wheeler Lovelace CINATRA fans from coast to coast ^ are rising to defend their idol against slurs cast by Artur Rodzin- ski. Older and soberer and more Rodztnakt Takes folk, too. On Sinatra {Winner led by Con- Not as Yet Called Sj uct0 J. St °- kowski, are speaking up in gentle reproof of the maestro. This corner ehjoys a bit of boogie woogie but still it thinks that the conductor of the New York Philharmonic should not go unde fended. Certainly he has courage. The smoke caused by his quarrel with dtismissed New York musicians has just stopped getting in his eyes, and new he takes on the embattled ’teen agers. The man positively enjoys squaring off for a fight. Of coarse age doesn’t have to worry him yet. He was born in Spalato, Dalmatia, only 50 years ago. And if he needs legal aid in his squabbles, it’s right in his own head ... or onght to be. To please his father he got a law degree at the University of Vienna as well as a doctorate at the Vienna Academy of Mu sic. He began as conductor of the chorus at Lwow; he went on to Warsaw; came to the U. S. at Stokowski’s invitation to be assistant director of the Philadel phia orchestra. This was in 1926. He isn’t the long hair that Sinatra calls him although he has an ample pompadour. He has a tall virile fig ure, nearsighted lively eyes, and a quick likeable grin. His manner on the podium is matter-of-fact but he has plenty of temperament, as all know who listen in Carnegie Hall and over the revealing air waves. qpHE seldom-heralded earl of Sel- -*■ borne (Roundell Cecil Palmer) reports that Germany cannot hold out much longer, and the announce- _ _ ment is as Reports Germany significant as Close to Bottom one would be Of Her Barrel byEisenhow- er telling of shattered Nazi corps. Selborne is Britain’s minister of economic war fare and it is his business to keep tab as much on Germany’s re sources as upon those of his own country. If he didn’t know what bombings and the blockade and sabotage were doing to his enemy’s stockpiles, he would hardly know how high to heap his own for vic tory. He is a rock-ribbed conserva tive, but bold in his estimates of Germany’s staying power. He knows that four million of her best men have been killed in battle, and he knows that this has weakened Hitler’s fortress, and how the bombings have weakened it, and the lack of oil, rubber and textiles. He doesn’t say just when the break through will come, but his guess ought to be good. The Selborne earldom is not old It dates back only 62 years or so, but this is the third head of the house to have an important, al though unobtrusive finger in his country’s problems. The first earl gave sound legal advice to Prime Minister Palmerston in troublesome matters arising out of the American Civil war. The second earl, as high commissioner for South Africa, helped build the Union now standing loyally with the mother country. And the present Selborne has been direct ing the ministry of economic war fare three years. A Jap Who Didn’t Fight to the End CanaolMated Features.—WNU Release. EW YORK.—The name of Napo- ' Icon Zervas keeps coming into the news that is relayed from Greece, and he may be the leader , around whom Napoleon Zervas his people May Rise to Be will rally Greek Tito Broz £ hen * he Nazi mvaders try to retreat up the Valley of the Vardar, down which they marched in such easy triumph a while back. Just now, as long ago in Yugo slavia, there has been a split among Greek partisans, and Zervas has just broken away from the oldest guerrilla forces to set up his own movement. He calls it the National Andartes band and hopes to keep its members free from the bribery which, he says, taints the old group. Allied leaders in the Middle East call Zervas Greece’s ablest guerrilla leader. Before the war he was an officer of the regular army. Now he calls himself “General Zervas” but whether he uses this title on more than his own authority is not clear. He is old enough to have been a general. His present fight agpinst the Nazis is being waged in the northwestern province of Epirus. This is his home and his birth place. He knows every dim trail over its wild mountains as Alvin York knows his Tennessee hills. Every tree, every rock is a friendly shield, and every small village a fortress with a hundred sally-ports out of which to attack or .. . when the enemy presses hard . . . escape to fight again when the odds have evened. * Marshall Invaders This dejected Jap crouches before his eaptors in the Rice Bowl region of Hunan province where he was taken as the Chinese defeated and drove off Japanese invading forces. Shortly after this victory it was revealed that a new road, to take the place of the Burma supply route, was nearing completion and that the Allies would soon have a ground route into China. F. D. R. Thanks March of Dimes Donors 0* A SERIES OF (SPECIAL ARTICLES ^ 'BYTHE LEADING VAR CORRESPONDENTS'^ Beating Japan’s Torpedo Planes By Frank Morris Top: Maj. Gen. Holland M. Smith. USMC, who was identified as the commander of the assault forces which captured 10 Marshall Island beachheads. Bottom: Maj. Gen. Harry Schmidt, USMC, who com manded the fourth marine division in the Roi island area. Draft Dilemma President Roosevelt broadcasts to the nation on his 62nd birthday to thank the many donors for their contributions to the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. At right is Mr. Basil O’Connor, president of the foundation. They are looking at a few of the thousands of dimes that have poured into the White House during the drive. Bougainville Warriors Fight Fire 30 Hours Branch Rickey, president of the Brooklyn Dodgers, gazes at a rack of baseballs as he wonders whether or not he’ll have anyone to throw them around. Baseball club officials are facing an increasing player shortage due to the needs of our armed forces. Marines and sailors pour streams of water on a gas and oil dump at Empress Augusta bay, Bougainville. The fire started when a Jap pilot scored a direct hit on the dump during an air raid. Fire flared from the 8.000 drums of fuel for 39 hours before the military firemen were able to stop it. Bedraggled Germans Retreat Through Mud This photo received vU neutral channels shows picked German troops —the grenadiers—sitting huddled together on a vehicle bogged in the quagmire during a retreat. One of the wounded has only an improvised bandage tied around his head and apparently there was no coat to spare for him. Another woundtd man c'3 the left is too weak to sit up. Invests in U. S. u Mrs. Manuel L. Quezon, wife ol the president of the Philippine Com monwealth, as she wrote a check for United States war bonds in New York. Her son, Manuel Jr., looks on. Materialized Dream Breakfast in bed in the army is unheard of. But as a reward for a high score in gunnery tests, all members of a company at Camp Campbell, Ky., were treated thus. Sergt. Charles Micklick partakes. (WNU Feature—Through special arrangement with Collier’s Weekly) I was on the bridge of a Pacific fleet aircraft carrier. Suddenly, straight as an arrow, a Jap torpedo plane came on less than 40 feet above the water and headed directly for our starboard bow. Through the sights, it looked to the gunners on this maiden flat-top, about to be un der Are for the, first time, like one of those wooden miniatures they had learned to identify in shipboard lec tures as a Mitsubishi 97 single-engine low-wing job. But this was no model. Its size doubled every second until you could even see the pilot plainly. On it came, unhesitating, malevolent, into a stippled wall of steel hurled at its nose from 5-inch cannon, 20- and 40-mm. machine guns. The sleek torpedo pendant from its belly seemed as big as the Hudson tun nel, hanging there poised for its plunge into the ship’s vitals. The onrushing plane was less than two hundred yards from the ship. Now was the time for its torpedo to be launched. Fate and the carrier’s gunners willed otherwise. A direct hit caught the steel tube of death before it could be released, and its shattering explosion sent plane and crew hurtling across the carrier’s bow to oblivion in thp sea almost under the big ship’s forefoot. As Carrier X plowed right through the blazing debris, the mechs on our hangar deck, spying two of the plane’s crew floating along in their mushroom-shaped life jackets, htirled curses and wrenches at them. Two More Mitsubishis Downed. A half-minute later another tor pedo plane came skimming at us from the starboard quarter. Our gun ners swung their mounts around sharply, opened fire and caught it squarely in midair before it could launch its fish. A puff of black smoke, a burst of orange flame and the Mitsubishi crashed into the sea. The third plane in the attacking team made its run right on schedule in just another 30 seconds. This one was aimed directly abeam of our starboard side. Our gunners con nected again. The blast of their shells tore the left wing apart, and the plane lurched to one side as it dropped its fish. The Jap pilot at tempted to pull out of his spin, but his plane was beyond control and plunged into the water. The torpedo, meanwhile, streaked on past the car rier’s stern, missing it by an un comfortable margin. “Wheel Three runs, no hits, three errors.” A baseball fan standing at a microphone of Carrier X an nounced the score. Three more torpedo 1 planes, using the same tactics, tried another at tack on our task force half an hour later. This time they selected as their target one of our sister car riers zigzagging along a few miles to port of Carrier X. They had no better luck. The guns on every ship in the vicinity concentrated on them until each in turn was shot down be fore it could do any damage. For a while, we thought Carrier Y was in | danger, when one of the planes ex- i ploding in the air appeared to be t heading for a crash landing on her flight deck. However, it dived into | the water on her port side, and the flaming wreckage drifted astern. Revenge Attacks. Both of these attacks on us, made shortly after noon, were inspired by revenge. That morning we had tweaked the Sun Emperor’s royal nose. Our task force had sent its planes in—hundreds of them—to pay a visit at Kwajalein, a Japanese stronghold in the western Marshall Islands. That visit hadn’t done the Japs any good, for it messed up some of their cruisers and other ships in Kwaja lein harbor, destroyed a sizable amount of the Imperial air force and disrupted things in general. So fling ing those suicide torpedo planes at us was just an example of blind fury, and we suspected there would be more of them tossed at us through out that day and night. Apparently what made the Japs particularly resentful was the fact that our task force had penetrated deep into an area they had believed to be impenetrable by an enemy sur face force. Steam Past Jap Bases. To get within bombing range of Kwajalein, our carriers and escort ships had to steam for most of 24 hours through passages between is lands the Japs had been using for months as air bases and military outposts. Rear Admiral “Baldy” Pownall thumbed his nose at Wotje and Maloelap as he guided his task force past these Jap island air bases to reach his objective. It was a bold maneuver and one the Japs knew nothing about until the first bombs and torpedoes struck Kwajalein. 1 ON THE HOME FRONTS RUTH WYETH SPEARS TT * £ IS not necessary to make ear economies so dull that they de press every one. Let’s make them gay and attractive to give us • lift and a bit of a challenge too. This old roclrer is an example. A saw and a wood chisel were used for removing projections and rocker^. 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