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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C Who’s News This Week By Delos Wheeler Lovelace > Consolidated Features.—WNU Release. N EW YORK.—In November, 1917, when the United States had been in World War I for seven months, the navy sent to its Brook- c ^ . lyn yard an Spruance Goes to Annapolis Sea in This War; graduate 11 An Admiral Now y ears ° ut ot the academy and just turned 30. He’d had a post graduate course in electrical engi neering and he’d helped build the battleship Pennsylvania before go ing to sea in her. The powers that be figured that he’d make a top- notch electrical superintendent. The only person displeased about the whole thing was Raymond Amos Spruance himself. In fact, the only thing that delighted him was that he managed to wangle a couple of months afloat in 1918. This time it has turned out the way he likes it, and President Roosevelt recommends that this same officer, now 57 and a vice admiral, be promoted to admiral for his success as commander of the mighty assault force that just trounced the Japs in the Marshall islands. The admiral’s a man who shuns the limelight, but talk to navy men and they’ll tell you he’s tops as a tactician. He plans his moves meticulously, and carries them out with skill and daring. He and Vice Ad miral Fletcher drove the Japs back at Midway in 1942, and Spruance himself had charge of the conquest of the Gilberts. He packs a tremendous amount of energy in his medium build, and he drives himself and the men with him hard when the heat is on. His rug ged face had been weathered by many a salt breeze. His blue, flinty eyes are those of a born commander. The Spruances are a family of four. His wife and daughter live out on the Pacific coast and his son, true to the navy tradition, is an officer on a submarine. Q UITE likely Mrs. George C. Marshall is doing a little extra listening these days. The thoughtful chief of staff of the Army of the General Ha» Silent stages talks Audience in Mrs. out his prob- Geo. C. Mar shill ,en ? s to his wife as to no one else. And with the going a trifle heavy in Italy he may be talk ing more than usual. It is to be noted that the gen eral talks his problems to, and not with, Mrs. Marshall. Unlike some Washington wives she pre tends to no expert knowledge in her husband’s field, even the edges of it. Her role is that of audience while the sometimes harassed general thinks out loud. For this role she is nicely fitted. She used to be a Shakesperian actress and early learned to show a lively, but silent interest while Mansfield and others reeled off the long, magnificent speeches of the Bard. For both the Marshalls this is their second marriage. He met her on a boat when she was a Baltimore lawyer’s widow, met her again on land, decided he had done enough reconnaissance and found she felt the same way. A slim wife, hardly up to her husband’s shoulder, with modish gray hair, she is finely propor tioned for the roles of Portia, Juliet and Rosalind. These were among her favorites. Ophelia was one of her favorites, too, but that can hardly be of any present help. —♦ /""^EN. Alexander A. Vandegrift, commandant of the marine corps, marks the first birthday of the women’s reserve with an all en- _ . compassing Col. Ruth Streeter “ W ell done,” And the Marines and a smile Have No Regrets lights up the keen blue eyes of Col. Ruth Cheney Streeter. Those are the very words she has been waiting 12 months to hear. She knew that at the start the leather necks, almost to a man, were from Missouri as far as her organization was concerned. Now the stamp of approval is as emphatic as the skep ticism was real, and the director of the reserve is justly proud. A year ago if this action-loving wife of a lawyer could have had her way, she’d have been ferry ing planes overseas. She had learned to fly at 45 and held a civilian pilot’s license, and it seemed pretty silly to her that Washington thought 47 too old for the Ferry Command. Her year in the marines has erased that disappointment. She admits she was startled when the marines commissioned her a major in January of 1943 and set her to bossing the sister group to the WAVES. She had found time from running her home in Morris town, N. J., and bringing up her four children to participate in wel fare and defense work, but this was something else again. She received her second promotion in a year last January and now she far outranks her three sons in service, two in the navy and one in the army. Only her husband and her daughter are not in uniform. Spearheading War on Typhus in ‘Sunny Italy’ Ready with spray guns and other delousing equipment, members of the flying squad of the U. S. army assigned to fight typhus in Naples (left) are off to investigate reports of a case of lice-carried disease. In pic ture at top a baby member of a Neapolitan family is given a dose of lice-killing powder. The man with the gun is an Italian member of a delousing squad. Right: Here the “target” is a woman who has been exposed to typhus. She has been living in a filthy tunnel in the slum section of Naples. U. S. Nurses Get Jungle-Wise in Indian Jungle Four U. S. nurses now in training to replace Lieut. Col. Gordon Seagrave and his Burmese nurses on the Burma front, are shown (left) cooking chow over their fire during an eight-mile hike with full combat packs, They are trained to live in the jungle in order that they may be better able to care for their patients. Right: An army nurse pushes her way through thick jungles of bamboo on the Indian-Burmese border. Barkley Breaks With President Roosevelt Sen. Alben Barkley (D., Ky.), who announced his resignation as Democratic leader of the senate in protest against President Roosevelt’s attack on congress in the tax veto message, is shown as he met with members of the press after his sensational speech. A fighting mad con gress rallied behind him. Senate Democrats reelected him leader. Zeros His Specialty Tech Head Paints a Self-Portrait His family “made” him wear a smock, but Dr. Robert E. Doherty, president of the Carnegie Institute of Technology, says it would have seemed more fun if he could get paint on himself while doing a self- portrait. His self-portrait won him the first prize of the Associated Art- 'r(s of Pittsburgh exhibit. Painting it the educator’s hobby. Staff Sergt. John A. Murphy, 24, of Columbus, Neb., shown draped with Jap-killing bullets, recently blasted five Zeros out of the air on a single mission, becoming the ace turret gunner in the Rough Raiders' Strafer Unit, Fifth Air force. ‘Pinup’ to Pin Girl One of the servicemen’s favorite pinup girls becomes Uncle Sam’s pia girl as Ann Sheridan does anothei war chore by collecting pins, in Use with a government appeal to save pins, which are becoming scarce. _ A SERIES OF (SPECIAL ARTICLES 'BYTHE LEADING KAR CORRESPONDENTS'! Jugoslavia’s ‘Tito’ By Frank Gervasi (WNU Feature—Through special arrangement with Colliers Weekly) Fifteen years ago, Josip Broz was a nameless man hunted as a Com munist criminal by the police and secret agents of the then most pow erful figure in Jugoslavia, Gen. Pera Zivkovic, strong-arm front man for the late pious, dictatorial King Alex ander. Josip Broz did not have a birth certificate, much less a passport. For the entire year 1928, he lived in the political underworld of cellars and garrets in Belgrade, Zagreb and Split, and wherever he could find refuge. His crime? He had organized the Metal Workers’ Union and was one of the leaders of the trade-union movement in Jugoslavia. He was caught early in 1929 and jailed. He was released four years later with gray in the soft waves of his brown hair, ulcers in his stom ach and a dream in his brain. Leader of 300,000 Fighters. Today, at the age of 55, he stands at the head of an army of 200,000 and possibly 300,000 oddly uniformed but uniformly determined men and women known as “Partisans,” who have proved everlastingly that slave men may win battles but free men win wars. Today Josip Bros is the military and spiritual leader of a movement which has broken the Nazis’ hold on the Balkans, obviated an Allied of fensive in southeastern Europe until the main German armies can be crushed in the East and West, and has given new meaning to the words “A People’s War” and “The Four Freedoms.” To his army and the guerrilla bands and to millions of Jugoslavs in freed territory and the outside world, Josip Broz is known as Tito. “Ti” means you and “To” means this. Broz has few idiosyncracies or mannerisms to mark him apart from other men, but one of them is the habit of prefacing an order with “You do this.” Hence his name. It is pronounced Tee-toe. To the Titos of this world and their followers must go an indefinable measure of credit for the victory that will be ours. To one particular Tito—he who was born on a 30-acre farm near Zagreb of a Croat father and a Slovene mother—must go most of the credit for the rebirth of Jugo slavia and the immobilization of the German armies in the Balkans, and the setting into motion of a revolu tion in southeastern Europe which might provide a permanent solution to the problems of one-third of the people of that continent. Mikhailovitch Helped. What credit isn’t Tito’s must be given to Draja Mikhailovitch, who unfortunately chose, at one stage of his dramatic career as liberator, to turn from killing Germans to taking part in civil war and only sporadi cally resumed the bigger job. Tito is of slightly more than me dium height, broad-shouldered, long- armed and sturdy-legged. His head sets low on his shoulders and it is a remarkable head. In profile, it is the head of a poet and philosopher who is also a skilled craftsman—a Cellini perhaps. Full face, it is the tough, determined visage of a triple threat halfback. A side view of this prodigious proletarian shows a high forehead, bulgy shaggy brows with a deep crease between them, capable of eloquent frowning. Tito’s nose is long, slightly beaked, with thick nos trils. He has a straight, kindly mouth, good chin and a heavy work man’s neck. There is what some would call an American Indian cast in his features. Face to face, he looks remarkably like a clean-shaven Stalin, the effect being accentuated consciously or not by the cut of his unadorned broad- collared tunic. He speaks matter-of-factly, in a low, well-modulated voice, looks di rectly at you as he talks and never speaks until you have finished what you have to say. He talks, they say, to each individual in an audi ence, moving his eyes deliberately from one person to another. He smokes innumerable cigarettes, chain fashion, from a small holder. Far from being “a man of steel,” he is capable of great emotion. Mourns for Dead. “When something really bloody happens,” a man who spent months with him in Jugoslavia told me, ‘‘he’s knocked out. No hysterics, no pyrotechnics. He just retires qui etly for hours, as he did the night he got word that his friends Milose vic and Kovasevic had been killed.” Out of their affection for Tito, the people have fashioned a legendary man of extraordinary courage and endurance who rides a white charg er and walks uphill to spare its strength, who is always at the head of his euerrilla detachments Gem* of Thought \X7E DEEM those happy who, * ’ from the experience of life, have learned to bear its ills without being overcome by them.—Juvenal. Hope, like the glimmering taper’s light, adorns and cheers our way; and still, as darker grows the night, emits a bright er ray.—Goldsmith. Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows. Like the wave. Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men,—Arnold. 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