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) THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. Who’s News This Week By Delos Wheeler Lovelace Consolidated Features.—WNU Release. fS^EW YORK. — Incentives to American girls and women to Join the U. S. Cadet Nurse corps are less numerous than the blessings USCNC Chief Ha, t£m Inducement That on the battle Should Fill Rank, of «?* world and in hard-pressed, under-staffed civilian hospitals. Still, they are numerous enough: free education in a well- paid profession, a shortened train ing period, living expenses, spend ing money while training, a distinc tive insigne, uniforms. But Lucile Petry, director of the corps, seeking 27,000 more recruits, offers still an other inducement. The prospects for marriage in the nursing profession are, she points out, excellent. This corner agrees after view ing the fetching new uniform. The petite, erect, gray-haired, fresh-as-a-daisy Miss Petry is even prettier in uniform than in civilian dress. On leave of ab sence as dean of Cornell Univer sity New York Hospital School of Nursing, she has been helping the government since 1941. She was named director of the nurse corps immediately after its cre ation in 194.1. Before Cornell she taught and supervised at the University of Minnesota. Earlier there was an immense amount of study. Graduating with honors from the University of Dela ware in 1924, she entered Johns Hop kins Hospital School of Nursing. Aft er graduation there she was awarded a scholarship and took a master’s at Teachers’ college, Columbia uni versity. Daughter of a small town school principal who believed that children should accept re sponsibility, Miss Petry worked in a dry goods store, a canning factory and a broker’s office while still “the little Petry girl.’’ TF Lieut. Gen. Omar Bradley runs true to form his maps of coastal France are being worn thin. He will lead invading American ground Not Out for Victory ^6° coming Through Needle,, big push, Blood Sacrifice, anc * he tries to know as much of the battle terrain as the enemy, more if possible. Usually he hops into a jeep and looks the country over, then studies its maps far into the night. Since he can’t very well tool a jeep through Nazi defenses beyond the channel the maps must do double duty. Fifty-one, Bradley is a Mis sourian who has made his way in the army against the handi cap of a singular modesty. Be fore this war started he was notable as one of the army’s erack rifle shots, one of its best mathematicians, probably tbe best commandant ever in charge of the Officers’ Candidate school at Ft. Benning, and a tactician who usually did a little better in maneuvers than his opponent. When he took over in General Patton’s wake in North Africa only the army found his name a familiar one. His score at Gaf- sa, Hill 609, Mateur and Bizerte turned the international spot light on him. Bradley’s military books are dog eared from much reading but lor fun he likes detective stories. He likes also to talk with his soldiers. And above all he dislikes the rec ords of such generals as that Frenchman who, in the last great war, was said to butcher his divi< sions to gain a victory. ♦ VAT HEN historians turn to the ex- » citing story of this era they will note the use of special envoys as a characteristic of the long adminis- HV»« Another OU Sea Dog Who l, Roosevelt. /in Adroit Diplomat Now it is Envoy W. A. Glassford who performs the very i special task of laying American aims and plans before the obstreperous Gen. Charles de Gaulle. William A. Glassford Jr. is a vice admiral in the navy, and it is common practice to look upon all our admirals as bluff old sea- dogs but among them is included a handful of deft diplomats. The vice admiral is one of these for all that he can seem bluff enough at times. He seemed so a few months before we got into the war. Speaking then before a Shanghai audience of American business men, he declared blunt ly that Britain was on the edge of a licking and our turn would come next. In the light of his later assign ments, however, he'may have been doing some pretty wily talking on orders received from very high up. Since last May, Mr. Glassford has been President Roosevelt’s personal representative in North Africa, with ministerial rank. Earlier he headed a mission which sought to discover for the adminis tration the value to the Allied cause of the battered but strategic port of Dakar. In the first days of World War II he was commander of the Anzac forces in the southwest Pa cific. 29 Japs Killed on Kwajalein for Every Yank Approximately 8,000 Japanese were killed in the American invasion of Kwajalein atoll In the Marshal /slands. Only 286 Yanks met death in the same campaign. United States marine and army wounded totaled 1,148 and 82 men were reported missing. Top: Assault boats and alligators are shown as they reached the beach at Enubuj bringing men and equipment of the Seventh division. F. was this division which captured Kwajalein and adjacent islets. Bottom: A marine searches through the wreckage after the unprecedented naval bombardment which preceded the first American occupation of land held by Japan before the war. Fatigued War Pilots Recover in Atlantic City Atlantic City, N. J., is one of the sites of an army air force relaxation and redistribution center. Here battle-weary pilots and ground crews rest and are reclassified before returning to combat duty. Left: Lieut. Thomas B. Dyer and his wife stroll along the sandy beach. Center: A group of veteran airmen enjoy , bicycle ride along the boardwalk. Right: While he was fighting in North Africa, Lieut. John R. Gilmore be came a papa. Back at the A. A. F. redistribution center he gets acquainted with his son, John Jr. They art pictured lunching in the dining room of the Ritz hotel. Lieutenant Gilmore has 65 combat missions to his credit Women Heroes of .be Battle for Rome ‘Sold’ for $2,500 IT. S. army nurses on duty in Allied beachhead positions south of Rome take time out for chow. An Allied evacuation hospital in the beach head area was bombed. An ail out German artillery barrage was ac companied by enemy charges in an attempt to dislodge the Allies. Lawyer Bill Murphy of Chicago, who “sold’’ himself for $2,500 as an elephant washer at a bond auction. His choice was believed related U his status as a Republican. Mac Arthur During South Pacific Tour Gen. Douglas MacArtbur, commander-in-chief in the Southwest Pa cific area is pictured chatting with Maj. Gen. Horace Fuller (left) and Lieut. Gen. Robert L. Eichelberger, during a visit to troops in the front line area of his command. As the 1944 presidential campaign gets under way MacArthur < antinues to gain the status of a possible candidate. Accident Victim Raymond Clapper, Washington newspaper columnist and radio commentator, who died in an air plane accident while covering the American invasion of the Marshall Islands. Air Engineers Get There First classified; DEPARTMENT, CHICKS FOR SALE BABY CHICKS U. S. approved PuH< tested. Barred Rocks or New Hampi Reds. $14 per 100 postpaid. Red Cocke: $8.95. Write for lists. Seeley’s Mi - * — * “ ----- tarket, $14 Church St., Norfolk 1$, », Va. Nurses’ Training Schools ‘ MAKE UP TO S2S-S35 WEEK al a trainee practical nuraat Learn quickly at home. Booklet free. CHICAGO SCHOOL Off NURSING, Dept. CW-Z. Cbleare. MISCELLANEOUS Story tbo World’s Awaited from prehis toric days I Synopsis 25c. War prophecy I Revelation! Mysteries explained! You’H be astonished! Box 2868, San Diefo 12, Calif. By Robert McCormick (WNU Feature—Through special arrangement with Collier's Weekly) Aviation engineers in Italy are ap parently just good little gremlins, scooting hither and thither, building airports where no airports should ever be built, and building them just at the time somebody needs them. The men and equipment responsi ble for making the Salerno airdrome a decisive factor in the Italian land ing were our aviation engineers, one of the least publicized units of the army air forces, yet one of the ba sic influences in every victory we’ve won so far in the Mediterranean. Aviation engineers, riding their bulldozers, go right in amongst the bullets, into the front lines, or ahead of them. Their main jobs are to build new airports in conquered ter ritory, as they did exceedingly well in Tunisia, and to repair captured airports, as they did so nobly in Sicily. The big boss of the Aviation En gineers is Brig. Gen. Stuart C. God frey, a wiry little person who looks, acts and talks just the way you’d like to think all our generals do. General Godfrey describes himself simply as “General Arnold’s engi neer,” but he is likely to end up the 'most important engineer in modern history. His title is Air Engineer, Army Air Forces. As a sample of how Godfrey’s men work, there is the story of how they built five airports in three days near Sbeitla, in North Africa. Brig. Gen. Donald Davison, en gineer commander in those parts, was looking for one of his companies. He started through a sector occu pied by an American armored divi sion. Officers stopped him. and asked him if he knew he was in the front lines, and headed right out into no man’s land, beyond even the American’s outer patrols. ’Damn Fools’ Are Up Ahead. Davison obviously did not know. The surprise on his face would have detonated a bomb. He asked the boys if they’d seen anything of a company of aviation engineers. The answer was quick and positive. “Yes, we have,” said one of the officers, “if you mean those damn fools who wouldn’t pay any attention to us and took those big machines out. We think they’re about 10 or 15 miles down the road.” Finally Davison found his engi neers. They had put in a few defensive guns, bad dug themselves slit trenches, and were at work building an airfield right under the Nazis’ noses. , In three days—three days is 72 hours of work to the engineers—the men built five serviceable fields and moved north 110 miles to tbe area around Le Ser, to grind out more ’dromes. The five-in-three deal was the re sult of careful planning and fast movement. The whole North African battlefront had been looked over from the air, and spots picked out which seemed generally favorable for landing fields. When it devel oped that a batch would be needed specifically around Sbeitla, the en gineers again flew over the ground, choosing more definite locations. Then the engineer troops, with their bulldozers and scrapers and shovels and all the rest of their equipment, went roaring overland, marching day and night, and they went so fast that they paid no at tention to the fact that they had gone clear, through the front lines. Or if they did notice it, they were too stub born to care. Their ability to build airports just one jump ahead of our combat air planes is one of the big reasons we gave the Axis such a bouncing around in North Africa as well as in Sicily. By having airfields up front, •ye kept our air support constant ly with—and ahead of—our troops. Air Force Has to Be Near Front. There could be no delays in bring ing up our airpower. The tactical air force always had to get places ahead of our troops, to blast down enemy resistance before our troops arrived. The strategic air force had to reach deeper and deeper behind the enemy lines, hacking at the channels through which the enemy brought up food, munitions and other supplies. Both groups constantly had to be as near the Nazis as they could get. This meant turning out airfields at an amazing rate. It meant flatten ing out barren mountains, filling in colossal mudholes, trying to hold down expanses of drifting, destrnc- tive sand. It meant using fumbling native labor, carrying special pee- wee equipment and airborne engi neers hundreds of miles at a leap by air, and working night and day in bleak stretches of battlefields. That’s what the aviation engineers are up against. Yet they conjured up airports so fast that the pilots never knew, from day to day, where they’d find one next. Want Colored ’Chutes Burmese natives have asked the army to use colored fabrics in ’chutes that drop food and supplies to troops on the Burmese frontier. The natives use the discarded cloth for clothing, and they are tired of white. FIRST CHOICE OF MILLIONS None faster. None surer. None safer. St. Joseph Aspirin—world’s largest seller atlOf!. 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