Show Who's News This Week By Delos Wheeler Lovelace Consolidated Features Release NEW N EW U If YORK II John R. R Deane could have kept on winning pro pro- promotions promotions motions as fast as au he did In the first months of his hu career In the United States army Ha 1 Gen C Deane he nc WOuld Slated to Go Co Fat Fa long 1 o n g ago a g o oAt At a Rapid Pace have had nad no nomore nomore more ranks to conquer He enlisted In the clos clos- closing closIng ing tog hours of ot World War I on Octo October October ber 5 two days after the Germans asked President Wilson for an ar ar- ar- ar He was made a second lieutenant on October 26 on the very day resigned his German command Not that Lieu Lieu- Lieutenant Lieutenant tenant Deane had the field marshal worried The two events Just hap hap- happened happened to dovetail By the next Feb Feb- lUary arary It was First Lieutenant Deane He lie lagged for a while after that lie He waited 16 years for his majority But Dut he Is a major ma r general now and his present job jobIn jobin In iD Moscow 1 at the head bead of the American military commission which Is supposed to blow all bottlenecks out oat of our lend lease program there Is likely to move him still farther upward and at ata a fast pace too Deane Is a Californian Better he belongs to the Inner circle of Californians who were born In San Francisco that romantic cen cen- center center center ter of fogs tip-tilted tip streets and evenings He belongs to the army's Inner circle too Is a graduate of the Army War college where only the smart officers go and of ot the Command and General Staff school seven Forty-seven now In his 26 years of ot military life he has served In nine states the Panama Canal Zone and China Just before the Moscow trip he was secretary of the Combined Chiefs of Staff In Washington That too is a job which goes only to the smart cers O A A NOTHER friendly gesture from President Carlos Arroyo del Rio of ot Ecuador pleases but docs does not sur sur- surprise surprise prise the United States Now those citizens of ot r i i f Ecuador's Chief in to his small Another Friendly country who Gesture to U. U S. S wIsh to get get into the fight may enlist in our armed forces with his approval Under Dr Arroyos Arroyo's presidency cy Ecuador has sold us valuable valuable valuable ble rubber has leased us Invaluable invaluable able naval and air bases on the mainland and on the Galapagos islands Dr Arroyo has bas made madeus us ns a state visit too In n 1942 1912 a atall atau atall tall tau heavy man with wItha a big nose a receding pompadour ur mus mus- mustache mustache mustache tache dignity he visited Wash Wash- Washington Washington ington West Point Point and New York Ills His only son Is s being edu edu- educated educated here The small c sitting so cock- cock cockily cockIly cockily ily astride the equator has had 22 presidents since 1897 Dr Arroyo elected in 1940 seems destined to fill out his year four term Born in 1893 in Guayaquil educated there his personality smacks of this pro pro- progressive progressive seaport rather than that of ancient dreamy Quito high above in the mountains lie He received his law degree at 20 practiced corporation law with solid soUd success taught in his alma mater the University of or Guayaquil served many terms as deputy to the national legis legis- legislature legislature lature was elected to the senate and finally presided over the en en- entire entire tire congress lie He refused to be candidate for president twice but luckily for us was willing in 1940 1910 e PORTS writers who knew him SPORTS S when he was running the ath ath- athletic athletic letic show at West Point said then that Maj Philip Bracken Fleming rt wr Was a tact Maj Mal Fleming Has ful adminis- adminis 3 Words to Ease never Dever neverA DeverA neverA Problem at a loss for forthe forthe A Tough tor loj-tor the word needed to ease a bad situation Now that he is a major general and Fed Fed- Federal Federal Federal eral Works administrator he still has bas the needed word Three in fact They rhey are arc A billion dollars That much money moncy the general reckons will nicely cushion the tho Impact of postwar unemployment unemployment unemployment ment feared by so many Re Re- Republican Republican Republican publican voices offstage seem to groan gnan that so much money ought to cushion anything but the tact tact- tactful tactful ful general g pays them no never never- mind Fleming finished up with West WestPoint WestPoint WestPoint Point 10 years ago An army engi engi- engineer engineer engineer neer with a highly regarded knowl knowl- knowledge knowledge knowledge edge of construction he was draft draft- drafted drafted ed by Roosevelt a fledgling president president president dent then to head up the Public Works administration He has done a passel of jobs since that time and has been called an anace anace anace ace New Deal trouble shooter He has been administrator for two years ears and before that wiped up a n lot lotof lotof lotof of spilled milk for the Wage-Hour Wage administration Major Fleming is just a little short of 60 years old now His hair is graying his mustache Is gray but buthis buthis buthis his eyebrows are arc startlingly black with a heavy quiet face and a full tull mouth He was born In the Middle West Iowa in fact and was graduated from West Point In 1911 I |