Show Who's News This Week eek By Delos D los Wheeler Lovelace Consolidated Features Release NEW N EW YORK The The sooty ends of the mustache of Brig Gen Frank OD Hunter sweep skyward They seem to swagger as they sweep And He Needn't Watch on the gen gen- Younger Airmen eral they are areT areTo right To T o Learn L earn Tricks Trick T k S just He seems to swagger s too His middle has thick thickened ened and his best profile has two chins but even without a plume a cape and doublet and hose bose he looks as swashbuckling a fighter as DS all the century could churn up Outwardly that is Actually the general on his record is tough di direct die di- direct and silent no fire eater at all His prediction from London that our attacks will finish the along about 1943 1913 is substantial talk The general is not one of the youngest American brigadiers but he be Is young enough 48 48 and his bis Eighth American Fighter command very likely likel will nill fol Col follow fol- fol follow low v him toward Germany German off oft the airfields of England more often that it U will leave lea him behind He downed eight German planes in the First World war and can wear a with four oak leaves a Purple Heart and a Croix de Guerre with wit pains The oak leaves and palms Indicate repeat perform perform- I ances I In the following peace he set crashed cross country records twice and became an authority on precision flying which comes In handy hand now But nut he wont won't talk about his past and that Is why he be is a swaggerer only to the limit of that mustache A long parade of reporters agree that he is a mum cuss Invited once to say a few thousand well well- chosen words on why he remained in the army he answered I guess its it's because I like the life and went back to his tip tip to to tip flights O WRANGLES over the efficiency I of American bombers have lately la tely been a little little muffled by the I I roar of American motors high higI over German G e r man T r f r r Think What Gen cities where Andrews Would some critics D Do a W. W With It h P Pegasus swore our type slugger slugger craft could not go except at too great cost Shortly they should be quieted for keeps The new Amer Amer- American AmerIcan ican lean commander of all aU forces in Britain is a flier too old to be fooled and his proposal to intensify Intensity bomb bomb- bombing bombing ing of the Nazis points to a show down Gen Frank M. M Andrews started from Crom West Point in 1906 as a man on horseback But nut In Inthe inthe inthe the last World war he quit the cavalry for Cor a cockpit Since then he has held increasingly Important Important important tant air commands In his own amphibian he hung bang up tip three world records so the water hazards should bother little when hen he orders an invasion in across the English channel lie He Heis lieIs lieIs is an expert on blind flying too loo and English fogs or cloudy French skies ought not to trouble him him either The general was quite a spell get getting ting to a colonelcy over the army's peacetime promotion hump He made it in 1935 Since then however how I ever he would have done well to carry an extra star at all times Promotions piled in that tha t fast He Dc comes to his command I from the Middle East where he earned a Distinguished Service Cross lie He has a couple of Nic- Nic Nicaraguan Nicaraguan Nicaraguan decorations too too and If he wishes may also sport the medal of a commander of the Italian Order of the Crown If It Ithe he wishes 0 MME TV DIE WELLINGTON KOO v J-v- whose father called her Hui Hul HuiLan HuiLan Lan which means Meteor-Heavenly Meteor Orchid seems too fragile to turn the spotlight More M are a Meteor all by her- her Than Orchid on self on Pres Pres- US U.S. U. U S. S Aid to China Ident id dent 1 I Roose Roose- RoosevelL's veils veil's lease lease- lend aid to China But she does docs and makes the allowance look much too much like a pea without any of ot its three shells Unlike the three Soong sisters whom she admires Mme Koo works alone Maybe this Is why she throws aside finesse Our help is pitiful to a China on the verge erge of ot collapse she says Such plain words have rarely been used by a more decorative speaker In her year the wife of the Chinese ambassador to Great Brit Britain aln ain now visiting in this country still Inspires photographers and diplo diplomatic matic matte assemblies On the street in a Fifth Avenue hat and fur coat she is only notable But beneath these the e she might out out- charm the Chinese charmer whom brought to Java head Her lIer dress blue or black by day brighter by night is always a mod modernization of an old Manchu cps cos tume Its lines are straight it is ankle length slit silt to the knee on either side Only a woman as slim as Mme Koo would risk it Her lIer finger nails naib on her small hands arc are arelong long and enameled to match the deep red ol of her full ull mouth Her Jewelry Invariably is Jade I I 1 t i t Lu L. I 1 J 1 0 |