Show Who's News This Week By ay Delos Wheeler Lovelace Canso listed Features Release NEW ORlI Most of the All Ailed ed blows In Ch na and Burma and India are be ng struck from the air airI I Lots of them will cont flue nue to be a aG G Gen en 01 Oliver lVer Busy fact whIch steps up the Readying Forces Importance For Push ore on Japs of the U S SAIr SAir AIr ServIce command BrIgGen in that reg on and of BrIg Gen Robert C Oliver Its direct directing ing head Oliver s job is to muster the supplIes and men and equip equip- equipment equipment ment needed to maintain the Tenth and Chennault s swash swashbucklIng swashbuckling bucklIng Fourteenth and all the theother theother other air forces now In the area or due there when the big push starts against the Japs A year ago he had a half dozen men mena a warehouse or so a couple of trucks II ow his warehouses are all about his trucks run in bat bat- battalIons battalions and he counts his men In hundreds even thousands OJ OI er er IS a thin West Pointer 41 years old He we a scant pounds works 11 hours a day seven days a week and IS disarmingly frIendly When he no noI I tires tIces a strange prIvate he IS likely to stroll oter o ask ash the man s name g ye ve his lus own and shake hands heart heartily lly ily Army born with a father who served In the medical corps dur during during ing the Spanish American war ar arhe he went first with the infantry antry after West Point but finally set tIed down In the air force His lias pilot score sheet shows 3 hours in the air Some of these were piled paled up early last year In North Africa but he didn t down any Germans His wife and son are living th in Montgomery Ala It is a fine qUiet town to serve out the duration and the cocoa cocoanut cocoanut nut cake sold In the community market will certainly please Robert Jr THE game of musIcal chairs which l has been playing With us his w ar chiefs through a series of setbacks In AfrIca and RussIa now sends Can Halder Hold Gen Franz All Comers Along Halder to the Po 64 Question hot sea t Late cables say that he is chIef of staff agaIn He was tossed out last ChrIstmas ChrIstmastIde Christmastide tIde for Kurt the NazI plug ugly a switch s which would be paral paralleled paralleled here If General Marshall were ousted for a modern modem Quantrell But now he IS back lust Just in t me to plug If he can the hole left by Italy s a collapse Balder Halder has a cheery smile smale and this along with thick glasses gases gnes him a air But he IS a soldier with 40 years training the son of a general and in his own right righta a sound strategist and a bold tactIcian Hitler turned him out with a curt I 1 ou on may go after failures in Russia but it VI was as Hitler s plan that failed not Balder s Some people who toured pre war Germany are arc fond of saying that the kindly BavarIans should not be counted among the toughest Naz s But Halder IS a Bavar an and though tho he was not tough enough for Hitler I he left bItter memories all through the Ukraine The bIg question is whether he be heis beis is tough enough to hold the re region region gion around the River Po in Northern Italy against the Allies That is where he is expected to stand although once again the plan is Hitler s not his On his own plan he would refuse battle until the lofty barrier of the Alps stood as his first line of defense e instead of worrIsome worrIsome- worrIsomely worrisomely ly at his back United Nat ons comm ss on onto onto THE to draw up true b lis against AxiS war criminals wIll beyond any doubt let go wIth both barrels as soon as Will Make Legal possible The of and t that hat might be Axis War Culprits pretty soon But now that S r CecIl Hurst has been named Britain s accuser the wIll at least have the cold comfort of knowing that the shoot tag mg is entIrely legal Sir Cecil has been a lawyer for 50 years Just dust For a long whIle he was legal advisor of the Brit Brit- BritIsh British Ish foreign office acid since sance 1909 has had a seat In The Hague court succeeding Charles Ivan Evan Hughes he was elected its pres- pres presIdent president Ident in 1933 But he be Is no dust dryas-dust dry dust as-dust Awhile back he was over here for some distin goings on at Princeton A few AmerIcans present were a amIte amite mIte squeamish about mentioning the remote but remembered trouble centerIng around the year 1776 1770 Sir Cecil wasn t He eased a 3 t moment by declaring cheerfully that Britain in 10 that d star stal year tear or there thereabouts thereabouts had got a mighty good les lesson lesson son one which had helped her ever SInce wIth other colon es Seventy three now S r l Cecil sup supports supports ports the popular notion that an EnglIshman doesn t tear up his roots cas ly Iy He was born m in Horsham He st 11 has his home there though not the same one |