| Show Strange Craft Sighted in in Home Waters Wafers F r r r 1 1 r u w wI I aw l jm r t tc c 80 AT ATz z s s' s a b vr e a f J The National Whirligig By Ray Tucker Telegrams Telegram's Washington Cor Correspondent respondent WASHINGTON The Germans Germans Germans Ger Ger- mans may not recognize him when a jaunty figure garbed in midnight hued overalls and with a cork blackened face crawls and sprawls across the rocky shores of Norway or Brittany Brittany Brittany Brit Brit- tany but he may be Colonel William J. J Donovan of the Fighting Sixty The scrappy Irishman from Buffalo is I. bored with his assignment assignment assign assign- ment as director of propaganda His field was narrowed when Nelson A A. Rockefeller shut thedoor thedoor the thedoor door of South America to his blandishments and again when Archibald MacLeish was wall delegated delegated dele dele- gated by F D R n to Star-Spangle Star Banner us into an increased warlike mood Bill wants more furious action The wearer of the congressional medal of ot honor honor hon hon- or and the distinguished service cross aches to head the American Ameri Amen can commandos who are now training under Canadian British-Canadian direction somewhere on this continent con con- The colonel has powerful powerful powerful power power- ful friends friend pleading his cause with Secretary Stimson Bill has hu a pardonable weakness weak ness for tor military titles title and as leader of ot the style Indian fighters fight fight- ers would be a major general The original plan was to endow endow endow en- en en en- dow him with a brigadier generals general's general gen gen- orals eral's rank but Major General Nelson Nellen Miles army Intelligence chief blocked it The G G 2 2 boss boas suspected that the newcomer I might be given charge of the combined navy army spy systems systems terns and he had enough influence influence influence ence to thwart the scheme Now the recently promoted Miles will viII offer no objection President Roosevelt handed Secretaries Knox and Stimson a ahot ahot hot potato when he on them the responsibility of at deciding de deciding de- de whether Rear Admiral Kimmel and Major General Short should hould be Their decision involves olves far more weighty questions than the Individual fate of ot the unfortunate unfortunate nate sentinels at our Hawaiian outpost People In the capital realize that the recital by the deposed leaders of or their relations relation with Washington during the last year might embarrass the ad ad- ministration shake public confidence confidence dence and cheer the enemy There are other considerations The officers' officers counsel could force the disclosure of ot details of our plans for war in the Pacific Pa Pa- theorIes theories which must soon be translated into strategy gravely affecting our national safety These factors incline certain ups higher-ups to seek some other method of disciplining the offenders although nobody excuses excuses ex ex- ruses their sins Tomorrows Tomorrow's draftees will not be green recruits and super- super awkward squads if It Brigadier General Lewis B B. B Hershey inaugurates inaugurates inaugurates a new training scheme which was submitted submitted sub sub- to the selective service director by educators and ex- ex officers as a short-cut short to final victory on the battlefield Under the present up set-up most draftees enter the army with only the faintest under under- standing of ot regulations the manual of arms disciplinary methods or customs prevalent in a camp Valuable weeks of the incubation pen period pe pee n od must be devoted to physical physical cal and psychological readjust readjust- ment The suggested program Is that newcomers summoned to active service shall receive coaching in their home communIties communities attics from rom veterans of other wars Harold L. L Ickes has another feud on his hands This time he has tangled with the United States army The war department Is the most overcrowded structure at atthe atthe atthe the capital It cannot provide sufficient facilities for feeding the thousands of during durIng during dur dur- ing their hour half-hour noon period Distracted officers privates and clerical workers stand in line lino al almost almost almost al- al most all that time Just to grab graba a sandwich and a soft sott drink Girl clerks refer to the restaurant restaurant restaurant rant as ulcer gulch Morale officers proposed construction construction con con- of a cafeteria on a triangular tri tr angular plot across the street But it would have meant erection erection erection tion of an unsightly wooden building in front of the department department de de- department de- de of the interior So Mr Ickes blocked it ft |
