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WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON Con tali dated Features—WNU Features. NEW YORK —In June. 1M0. a few months after becoming gover nor of Alaska. Ernest Gruening said, **A few parachutists could take Alas ka today." Thi* Doc Doetn’t He pondered Treat Eyea. Eart, the observa But Utet Hit Own 1ti°n *!** late General William Mitchell. "He who holds Alaska holds the world," and, a man of peace and a foe of imperi alism, the governor thereafter never missed a chance to urge the stra tegic importance of Alaska, and to insist that "It has the greatest pos- : gibilities for an offensive of any land isider the American flag." Congress was not, at first, responsive. Just how effective the governor’s pleas have been is still shrouded in the mists of that frozen domain. The least Insular of men. Dr. Greening has long been con cerned with insular affairs, and was chief of the division of terri tories of the department *f the Interior from 1934 to 1939, re ceiving the Alaskan appointment on December 5 of the latter year. He la a doctor of medi cine. with a degree from Har vard university, diverted to newspaper work early In bis ca reer. His studioua bent has been snch that he might have been pat down for bookworm, bad It not been for his snccess in prac tical affairs, notably running big town newspapers and making them pay. The son of a famous New York eye and ear specialist. Dr. Gruening also bad intended to treat eyes and ears, but began his career as an alert reporter for the Boston Ameri- j can. That led him to the successive managing editorships of the Boston Herald, the Traveler and the Jour nal, the New York Tribune and the New York Nation, with time out for his service as a private in the World war. A liberal and reformer, he began back-trailing our tentative adven tures in imperialism, in the Philip pines and in establishing our he gemony over the Caribbean. Enter ing tbe department of the interior j be became the administration torch bearer for a territorial New Deal. He was bom in New York city in 1887. Howard mingos is a skilled writing man who also can add and subtract This unique combina tion of talents naturally has made u u- him our cur ‘ Howard C. Mingos rent histori A John the Baptist an of avia Of Air Wilderness tion Pro« ress, as edi tor of the annual aircraft year book, published by the aeronautical cham ber of commerce. The 1942 edition of the book, just out says our plane manufacturers have some ‘'frightful aurprises,’’ for the Axis, which will Jolt the enemy clear down to his cloven hoof. “Who says It?” Is the wary on looker’s natural query about wartime news like that. The first answer, as to Mr. Mingos. and It is reassuring, is that he Is cautious and never has gone off half-cocked In reporting avia tion news, good or bad. In 1937, he did not pull his punch in re porting the swift ascendancy of the German Luftwaffe over the British RAF. He has long sustained a reputation as a good reporter, on the New York Sun for quite a spell. He is the au thor of more than 1,000 articles on aviation in newspapers and maga zines, and several books. ‘The Air Is Our Concern” was the subject of a book on which he collaborated in 1935. He now gets long over-due agreement on that. After his graduation from his home town high school in Athens, Pa., young Mr. Mingos studied two years at the Philadelphia School of Industrial Art, then switched to a long stretch of newspaper work, with the Philadelphia Telegraph, the Scranton Republic, the New York Times and Sun. From 1922 to 1930, he was a special contributor of avia tion articles to the Times. With the volunteer air service of the U. S. army, overseas, in the first World war, he became a special represent ative of the aeronautical chamber of commerce in 1920. He is 51 years old, our outstanding professional score-keeper in air doings. ANY day now we may get word that swarms of American planes, manned by Americans, are fighting and bombing with the Brit ish over Germany. Maj. Gen. James E. Chaney will wing them eastward, as commander of all American army forces in the British Isles. He is a flying general, a military stu dent of the German industrial re gions in the post-war years, an in ternational authority on military avi ation, on tactics, fighting and bomb ing interception. He is 57, and grad uated from West Point in 1906. WASHINGTON. — Announcement that the crew of a certain U. S. na val vessel had •’celebrated” their third sinking of their ship by the Japanese radio since last December 7 illustrates the extraordinary lack of information about losses—and some victories—in this war in the hands of the public. Probably In no war in his tory has there been more rumor and less Information. There is no comparison what ever with the situation which ex isted in the last war. although dispatches could be sent just as speedily then as now, and every government was trying, in one way or another, to use propa ganda for its own ends and pre vent the propaganda of the ene my from having the effect the enemy desired. The chief reason for all this secre cy in this war of course is high strat egy, which exists to an extent and on a scale never before dreamed of. Let’s consider the matter of the battle of the Coral sea. The United States government up to the moment this is written has not admitted the loss of anything more than two planes in that battle. Jap claims as to our losses have ranged until they finally counted a battleship as well as two airplane carriers and numer ous smaller vessels. *Connections’ Mean Nothing All sorts of people with all sorts of connections have tried to find out what really happened to our ships in that battle. While there is general acceptance of the statement by Gen. Douglas MacArthur that the Japanese claims were '‘fantastic’* the thought of most of the inquirers has been that we did lose more than two planes, and probably some small surface craft. The Inquiries have been made in some instances by important admin istration senators who had close friends on ships in the southwest Pacific. Remembering the case of the cruiser Houston, which was not ad- j milted to have been sunk until weeks after the Japanese announced it, and from which not a single officer or man, as far as we have ever learned, was rescued, these sena tors, worried about their friends, have tried to find out as to the safe ty of certain other ships. Hie senators In question failed to discover even whether the ships in which they were inter ested had participated in that engagement! This is not written in criticism, but in commendation. It is unfor tunately true that if the senators had learned the truth the informa-1 tion would not have died there. With in a few days the scraps of infor mation would have been pieced to gether. A check-up of estimated losses in flicted on the enemy obtained from that enemy's capital is pretty near ly priceless in guiding future opera tions. * • • It isn’t only the military and po litical leaders who have to make de cisions involving vital gambles on what may or may not happen. Industry is up against the same thing, and even the little business man has to make up his mind on courses of action which may lead to losses if things break one way or save his shirt if they break the other. Building Management Faces Difficult Decision Take the matter of a big office building in Washington. This build ing has three furnaces, which have burned oil to supply heat and hot water ever since the building was , constructed. Now the building management is ordered to cut down Its consumption of oil by 50 per cent (the first order was for only a 25 per cent reduc tion). Now it would be comparatively simple for the management to let the building be cold next winter, and tell the tenants it was sorry, but a temperature of 55 degrees, or whatever should prove to be possi ble, was the best it could do Actually the building management COULD do precisely that, for the tenants would not be able to find other quarters, Washington being so crowded. But naturally the management is scratching around, trying to find some way to soften the blow. It figures it can save only 12 to 15 per cent at the maximum, without pro ducing hardship So now it is considering putting in coal stokers. IF it can get the 1 stokers—for at least one and possi bly two of the boilers. Being a downtown office building it can not pile up a stock of coal, as can the regular householder with a cellar. Its cellars are much occupied. PPATTERNS ) SEWINGORCLE^) IT IS no trouble at all to slip into * this smart slack suit—with its practical bib top—you’ll probably insist on wearing it all day long while you are enjoying the wide outdoors! Note the smart treat ment in back—which exposes a generous area of skin to sun tan ning—and the buttoning which closes the slacks. Make the bo lero to match and trim with the latest in decorative braid—giant ric rac! • • • Pattern No. SIM is tor sixes I to 11 years. Size 10 years slack suit takes 2'fc yards 35 or 39-inch material, bolero % yard. Two-Piece Dress BRIGHTEST new fashion idea in ^ years! A two piece frock which looks like a suit. You can wear it as a suit, in fact, with a blouse or dickey. Nothing could be more useful in a summer wardrobe, made in a washable seersucker, Play Is Preparation Play is a pleasurable mental and physical competitive exercise where the issues involved are trivial and transient. It is a fit preparation for more important tasks. And it is the law of life that you only do those important tasks well at which you have played in childhood.—Stanley Hall. gingham or chambray. Tops for tailored smartness, tops for com fort and tops for figure flattery— it makes you look straight and slim and ready to go places. • • • Pattern No. 8161 Is designed tor sizes 12 to 20; 40 and 42. Size 14. short sleeves, takes 4*» yards 35-inch material. Send your order to; SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. Room 1116 211 West Wacker Dr. Chicago Enclose 20 cents in coins tor each pattern desired. Pattern No.Size. Name... Address... ^ |* ft* ft* ft* ft* ft* ft-ft* ft* ft. ft. ft* ft* ft. ft. ft. ft. ft* ft. ft. ft. ft* ft* ft. ft. ft. ft. ft. ft. ft. ft. ft. ft. ft, fv. ASK Ml O quit with answera off#ring f another: Information on various lubjftch r i -.ft.ft.ft.ft.rh^.^.fv.l^i^tv.ft.ft.ft.ft.ft. ft. ft. ft. ft. «w ft. ft. ft. ft. ft. ft. ft, ft. f*. ft. ft. ft. ft, K.fJ The Qufifioni 1. What line follow.* "The night has a thousand eyes’’? 2. The wife of an earl Is catted what? 3. Oarlic belongs to what botan ical family? 4. The present population of the world is approximately what? 5. Who was called the Belgian Shakespeare? 6. By W’hat other name was Australia once known? 7. When was the first national convention of the American Le gion held? 8. How* much does a gallon of pure water weigh? 9. In what year was Alaska pur chased from Russia by the United States? Wartime Problem Solved Necessity has forced the Ameri can people to do many new things. While in the past many bird lov ers have raised canaries at home for the pleasure and satisfaction they derived, now the breeding of canaries at home has become a new, worthwhile hobby—a money making hobby that is spreading all over this country. With the major supplies of canaries from abroad abruptly stopped . . . with a strict war time ban placed on the importa tion of hundreds of thousands of canaries formerly shipped yearly from Central Europe and Asia, the ingenuity and foresight of the American people have met the situation with smiles of satisfac tion—as they turned this canary shortage into a wartime oppor tunity. But a small out-lay was required to start this worthwhile hobby— turning a most pleasurable under taking into a profitable, money making business at home NEW IDEAS tJlome.-mahieW' By Ruth Wyeth Spears r HANMMOE QWLT IS NOT WELL DISPLAYED i'/Ko^NO VALANCE \/f OST quilts today are planned as bedspreads and have a col or scheme to harmonize with other decorations. If a variety of fig ured scraps is used one color is generally repeated in each block to give the design usity. The beauty of any quilt is en hanced if it is set off with a val Does Just That “There’s a fellow who takes the worst possible view of every thing.” said the grouch. “Why, is he a pessimist?” “No, he’s a candid camera fiend.” Heart's Desire Spinster—So the waiter said to me, "How would you like your rice?” Friend—Yes, dearie, go on. Spinster—So I said wistfully, “Thrown at me.” Few Virtues Lady—That parrot I bought here swears frightfully. Dealer—I don’t deny it, madam, but you must admit he doesn’t drink or smoke. Different Views Sonny—Dad, what do you call a man who drives a car? Dad fa pedestrian I—It all depends on how close he comes to me, son. Advantage “They say that with war cut ting off imports of insecticides, the insects are steadily winning their eternal war with man.” “They’ve made a good begin ning, anyway. I pay five cents a pound for potatoes and the potato bug gets his free.” Concisely Aunt—l suppose you will be at the picnic, John ? John—Now, l ain't goin’. Aunt—Don’t say “/ ain’t goin’.” M give you a lesson: l am not going, you are not going, he is not going, we are not going, they are not going. Now can you say all that? John—Sure. There ain’t nobody goin’. Quite Important Hubby—You never tell me what you buy! Don’t I have my voice in the buying? Wi/ey—Certainly, darling! You get the invoice. ance around the bed. The bed in the sketch had no particular tra dition and the footboard was much too high to display the quilt to advantage. What a difference in the effect when the board was cut down and the crisp frills of dotted Swiss were added! Surely, any quilt worth piecing is worth this extra touch. • • • NOTE: If you have a metal bed that you would like to modernize you will find sketches and directions in Mrs. Spears’ Book 3. There are eight of these booklets of 32 pages of things to make from odds and ends which accumulate around the house, or from inexpensive new materials. Copies are 10 cents each and with an or der for three (No. 1 to 8) you will re ceive a set of three different quilt block patterns Including the Whirl Wind illus trated herewith. Send order to: MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS Drawer 10 Bedford Hills New York Enclose 10 cents for each book de sired. Nos. Name... Address. Fortunately Hole in Barrel Was Discovered in Time The particular unit in question had taken on a large number of new recruits and some of them were a little raw. During the first rifle inspection, the officer ap proached one of the men, had a look at his rifle, and then called to the N.C.O. in charge. “Look at this man’s rifle!” he announced. The sergeant looked down the barrel, swung the rifle around to the recruit, and barked: “Take a look at that rifle, you!” The recruit peerecP carefully down the barrel, then muttered in a surprised tone: “Well, what do you know. Got a hole clean through it!” Greatest Wealth Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a revenue; but to be content with our own is the greatest and most certain wealth of all.—Cicero. 10, In what year were the first practical friction matches made? Th* Aniu'rn 1. “And the day but one.1* 2. Countess. 3. Lily. 4. Nineteen hundred million, 5. Maeterlinck, 6. New Holland. 7. November, 1919. 8. 8,355 pounds. 9. In 1867. 10. In 1927, by John Walter, an English druggist. Memory (noniuses Some Mohammedan priests have remarkable memories. Starting when they first learn to read, they read no other book besides the Koran, and by the time they enter the priesthood are able to repeat the 2,400,000 words of that book from memory. Several of the priests with more retentive memo ries have memorized the complete work in as little as 2H years. No Compromise We cannot compromise witl» fear and cruelty.—Mrs. F. D. 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