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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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ON THE
HOME
FRONTS
RUTH WYETH SPEARS
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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^. An old quilt was
found for padding and the feathers
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BACK
RAISE SEAT WITH
A CUSHION
REMOVE
PROJECTIONS
ACROSS TOP
from an old bolster were packed
into a thick seat cushion to raise
the seat which has been lowered
by removing the rockers. This re
quired a yard and a quarter of
ticking. Four and one-half yards
of inexpensive chintz in a bold,
modern pattern did the rest. Total
cost for an up-to-date chair less
than two dollars, one that will
serve well for the duration.
NOTE—This remodeled chair Is from
BOOK S which also contains directions
for modernizing an old fashioned couch
and making other home furnishings from
things on hand. To get copy of BOOK S
send 15 cents direct to:
MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS
Bedford Hills New York
Drawer It
Enclose 15 cents for Book No. 5.
Name
Address
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