The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, March 17, 1944, Image 2
THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C.
Who’s News
This Week
By
Delos Wheeler Lovelace
In
Consolidated Features.—WNU Release.
r EW YORK. — Money matters
have chiefly kept John W. Pehle
busy through his years in govern
ment service. He has been in the
J.W. Pehle Handed treasury *
Another of Those
Cumbersome Titles
that big
building
east of the
White House
and mainly at Secretary Morgen-
thau’s right hand, or nearly. He has
worn a number of the lengthy titles
In which the department dresses its
key men—senior attorney for the ex
change stabilization fund, special
attorney in the foreign exchange
control division. Lately, as assist
ant to the secretary, he has been
in charge of the administration of
the foreign funds control.
Now, because of his executive
talents, he may be pushed into
the alien, humane post of direc
tor of the War Refugees board.
This is the board long sought to
supervise the United States’
share of the rescue of Jewish
people in occupied countries and
finally set up by President
Roosevelt. And since many of
the rescued will find a haven in
Palestine and bring fertility to
its sandy wastes, Pehle may
help to make true after 2,500
years the words of Isaiah. That
prophet of boundless faith once
wrote of a day when “The desert
shall . . . blossom like the rose,”
and “the ransomed . . . shall
come to Zion with songs.”
Thirty-five years old, Pehle was
bom in Minneapolis. So he is a
Minnesotan even though his folks
quit the state so early that the
schools of Nebraska and South Da
kota helped educate him. His col
leges are Creighton in Nebraska, and
Yale, which is in Connecticut. There
he got his law. He has been in
government service for 10 years, fol-
' lowing a short private practice in
New York city.
♦
TT SEEMS that George VI has been
mighty busy, handing out knight
hoods in the Order of the Bath to
this American and that. But he has
^ mu £■.■•. an out, for
George VI Fdling foreigners,
Order of the Bath however
To the Overflowing distinguish
ed, are not
included when the roll is called to
make sure that the limit set a cen
tury and a quarter ago has not been
exceeded.
Latest American in the notable
eompany is Lieut. Gen. Walter
B. Smith. He moves into the
middle rank, below the Knights
Grand Cross but topping the
Companions. Smith is chief of
staff to General Eisenhower and
before the imminent invasion
has ended will have earned his
decoration a ccuple of times.
A colonel when this war starteo,
he has come up fast. No West Point
er, a one-time reserve officer from
Indiana, he entered the army in
1917 and did well then and in the
following peace. He did well be
cause he is smart, as chiefs of staff
must be. He is a graduate of the
general staff school, the war college
and most of the army’s other crack
courses. And when the general staff
needed a secretary in 1939 he got
the job.
He has a strong, dark face, a
wide, full mouth which is stub
born—unless determined is a
better word—and a decoration
from North Africa which is quite
different from the Order of the
Bath. The French Colonial regi
ment, the Second Spahis, made
him an honorary Pfc. As such
be is entitled to wear a red cloak
which hangs down to his heels
and probably is a lot snappier
than any Bath costume.
T HE harassed Japanese must wish
they had been less helpful to the
Chinese. All too often for Japanese ;
comfort the record on China’s top
... „ . , m e n co n -
His Year m Japan t a j n s t h e
Helps Him as Much line, “Then
As It Stymies Japs came a year
of study in
Japan.” Liu Kwang-chi, prankish
Gan Bay general now supporting our
Stilwell, had his year in Japan and
it helped him tremendously, much to
the discomfort of the Japanese.
Forty-six years old, Liu fin
ished high school, went to Japan
much as young Englishmen used
to make the Grand Tour, then
finished at the military academy
at Paoting and the staff college
at Nanking. When Japan at
tacked China he was ordered to
Shanghai. Since then he has
been chief of staff or command
er in half a dozen war zones.
Now he is at the Kunming head
quarters.
Liu got his nickname because he
says “Gan Bay” when giving a
toast to his American friends. “Gan
Bay” means “Bottoms up.” He has
planned on coming to America when
the war is over and he says he will
run a newspaper ad announcing that
the Gan Bay general will be pleased
to meet his friends ... It ought
to be a dandy party.
The son of a family of farmers
and scholars, Liu was born in Shan
tung province. He is married but
childless. Of English he says he un
derstands nothing, and he never
speaks it.
Closeups of Some of America’s Fighting Men
At left, Lieut. (J. g.) Lloyd Milligan, navy torpedo bomber pilot, does embroidery while awaiting the call,
"Pilots, man your planes!” Center: All available material went into the airport recently built by Allied en
gineers near Nettuno, Italy. Here Pvt. Oscar Jones holds some of the powder which evidently bears mark,
“Made in Germany.” Right: Speaking over the loud speaker system so that every man on the carrier
can hear, Lieut, (j. g.) Eugene Hanks tells how he bagged five Zeros in five minutes on first combat flight.
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After a week of the most terrible air blows ever hurled from the skies, the Nazi war machine was badly
crippled. Map shows enemy targets hit and directions from which the giant bombers came.
Preparing to Give Adolf Knockout Punch
Stays for Finish
While round-the-clock bombing of Germany and the French “rocket
coast” proceeds relentlessly, preparations for invasion keep pace. Here
Air Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder (left), Gen. Dwight D. Eisenuower and
General Montgomery (far right) watch maneuvers on English coast.
Sergt. William Hancock, of Rock
Hill, S. C., has turned down a chance
to return to America from the Jun
gles of Assam and Burma, prefer
ring to stick till the job is done.
He has been with General Stilwell’s
forces for 24 months. A Chinese com
rade is shown with him here.
Friend in Need for Man’s Best Friend
Brace of Has-Beens
Man’s best friend finds a friend in need at the Anti-Cruelty society in
Chicago where injured pets receive free hospitalization. Last year the
society received 35,830 abandoned animals. Picture shows owners wait
ing at the society headquarters with pets that are in need of attention.
Max Schmeling (left), former
heavyweight champ, embraces
Georges Carpenter, Nazi collabora
tionist, as latter celebrates his lift’
eth birthday in Paris. Sehme’i”
fought with the Nazis in Crete.
Jitters in Japan
By Joseph Newman
(Wifu Feature—"Through tpreial irrangerntni
with Tht AmtricMn MagMzio*.)
Japan is getting the jitters. We
have it on no less an authority than
Emperor Hirohito and his No. 1 war
lord, General Hideki Tojc. Hiro
hito has told his pugnacious people
that the outlook for Japan is now
“truly grave,” and Tojo underscored
the divine insight of the god-emperor
by adding that the war situation is
"very complicated.”
This, in the customary Japanese
manner of speaking by indirection,
is another way of saying: “The
Yanks are coming.”
■And the Japanese man in the
street, whether he shuffles along in
his’ wooden clogs and traditional ki
mono or wears the pinching leather
shoes and tight-fitting sack coats
copied from his occidental enemies,
knows what that means. It means
that the despised Yankees are on
their way to the heart of the Japa
nese Empire—and that they’re com
ing with skyfuls of bombs for the
industrial nerve center from which
stems the terror and destruction
spread by the Japanese throughout
Asia and the Pacific.
The Japanese, far better than their
enemies, know just how vulnerable
they are. They know that once their
outer rim of defense is cracked, the
heart of the empire will be exposed
to a deathblow. That’s why the
Japanese, in their opening stroke of
war, pushed as hard and as fast as
they eould. go to the north, south,
east, and west, so as to shove -the
Americans from all bombing bases
within reach of the main home
islands.
And that’s why, now that the outer
rim is crumbling, Hirohito, Tojo, and
the shuffling Japanese man in the
street are very unhappy. They have
heard what round-the-clock bombing
has done to Berlin, Hamburg, Essen,
Frankfort, and other industrial cen
ters of their retreating German part
ner. They know, as do Americans
who have lived in Japan for any
length of time, that the six key in
dustrial cities of Japan will burn as
fast as—if not faster and more furi
ously than—their Nazi equivalents in
Germany.
Most Vulnerable Country.
The six key centers are Tokyo,
Osaka, Nagoya, Kyoto, Yokohama,
and Kobe. I have had a good look
at all of them—tiie'industrial Ruhr of
Japan—and I was often impressed
by the thought of how quickly Japan
could be snuffed out as a world
power by igniting the huge, sprawl
ing fire-traps from the air. A good,
stiff wind, which invariably blew
over these coastal centers from the
sea, strengthened this thought and
suggested how nature, combined
with feverish, careless construction
of these cities served to make Japan
the most vulnerable country in the
world. ^
The construction was careless be
cause the Japanese had neither the
time nor the money nor the desire
to change the basic layout of their
cities from a feudal to a modern
one.
Thus there was a mushroom
growth of sprawling factories among
the flimsy, wooden, boxlike houses
packed tightly together in areas
through which there are often only
dirt alleys or footpaths instead of
paved streets. After the devastat
ing earthquake and fire of 1923 some
streets were enlarged and some
modern innovations were introduced.
But this was limited to the business
sections of Tokyo and Yokohama.
The layout and structure of the
greater part of the Japanese capital
and the key eastern port of the coun
try are about as primitive as they
were 2,603 years ago.
In Nagoya, Kyoto, Kobe and Osaka
conditions are similar to those of
Tokyo and Yokohama. The down
town business areas are full of con
crete and steel, but the larger sec
tions of the cities, where most of
the homes and many of the factories
are located, are covered with a for
est of wooden boxes, which millions
call home. So that even the fire
proof structures are trapped in the
forests of wood and paper houses
which, when touched off by Amer
ican bombs, will turn into infernos.
The heavy concentration of indus
try and other military objectives in
the six leading cities provides some
thing of a bomber’s dream.
Plenty of Targets.
If he comes in from the east and
flies westward over the main island
of Honshu toward China, as the Doo
little raiders did, the first target he
will find in his bombsights will be
Yokohama. Here the principal tar
gets are the harbor, one of the twe
largest in the country, shipbuild
ing yards, warehouses, metal, ma
chine-tool, and chemical plants, tex
tile and rubber mills, and an auto
mobile factory. The 18-mile strip
oetween Yokohama and Tokyo If
racked solid with industries turniiif
out machines and machine tools.
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