Show OR W ON D C QUEZON ON T THE E JOB It s bad ne news s for the Japs that PI President e dent Quezon of the PhIlipp nes Is back m in Washington They knew though It was not generally real zed lied In Washington Washington-th-it Quezon had suffered a relapse of his old illness tuberculosIs whIch has plagued hIm hImoff himoff off and on for 20 years ears Quezon was u a well man at the thet t me of Pearl Harbor nut But confine confinement confinement ment m in the dampness of dor during ti 11 e a Jap attack brought the illness back again agam That one reason MacArthur urged hIm to re return return turn to the U Sma S in a submarine When he came to Wash Que ton eon tonas was as advIsed to take things eay eacy Instead he rushed Into the of activities of PhIlIpp ne Corn Com mom mOl affaIrs not sparing hIm hImself himself self H s phys crins advIsed h m not to remain In Washington during the summer of 1942 nor last winter But lie he remained nevertheless ne Re suIt was that last spring he suffered a further relapse SpecIalists were ere summoned and Quezon was g yen ven the stern adVIce that he would hat ha hae e a to get out of the humId clImate of Washington mime If he wanted to live Jve YIeld YIeldIng mg Ing to pressure he went to Saranac N Y and submItted himself to a rIgId discipline during most of the past summer Quezon led the We life of an invalId sIttIng In the sunshine In a wheel wheelchair wheelchair chair lIstening to the radIo or to hIs nurses as they read to hIm Re suIt of thIS regIme was that the tu to was arrested and Quezon gamed gained 12 pounds When the Japs heard of his re relapse relapse lapse they were ready to say to the people of the Philippines where Quezon Is still highly popular Look thIS Is the skeleton you pm your hopes to But today Quezon IS back on hIs feet and back at his desk still hoping to realIze his one great ambition to see U S and PhIl forces march Into Man Manila a SEVEN II I MINUTES UTES TO WAR Every day now pIctures are ar arriving riving In a 1 room In Washing Washington ton which seven minutes before were In AlgIers 3 miles away One day just after the landing m in Italy 41 pIctures came through the theaIr theair aIr and landed safely on top of the Pentagon bu building m in a little room marked Confidential heep Out InsIde that room IS a lIttle ma mach mach ch ne not as b g as a typewrIter WIth a 1 cylInder on It The cyl cylInder finder Inder SpinS around exposing a nega negative tive to dots and dashes of light and after seven minutes the exposure IS as complete From there on It at s mere merely merely ly a matter of developing the nega negative tive and the U S c has a pre pIC pICture ture of the landings m in Italy or the surrender of the Italian fleet And d tto for the South PacIfic It Itis Itis is farther away but the seven mm ute requIrement holds From Froman Froman an unmentionable unmentionable post in Australia the dots pf f lIght flasH Into the little room you have a picture of General MacArthur flYing in a bomber over New Guinea The pIctures may have been taken by anyone any one of the four photo syndI synda Acme cates-Acme AP or LIfe or they may have been taken by the Army Army- SIgnal servIce In any case they can be ohly by the officIal aIrwaves What would be a highlY expensive daIly transmissIon cost for the photo agencIes IS thus fully borne by the war department OfficIals justIfy the cost m in terms of keeping the publIc abreast of the war war-m fact only soy sev seven soyen en minutes away from the war MERRY GO O ROUND I Ex Congressman Joe Casey of Massachusetts now doing various I inside Jobs for the Wh to te House re recently Gently made a polItIcal survey of I I New England reported that Maine Mame was so strong for Roosevelt s war polIcIes that the only RepublIcan who could beat hIm was Wendell Willkie AdmIral Standley i iU U S ambassador to RussIa has cleared wIth the state department a significant speech in whIch after praising Russian victories plus those of Df England and the UnIted States he says A victory for one is a VICtory for all HIghly inflammatory matory remarks in Negro newspapers newspapers pers some of them close to sedition are being studIed by the army Lew Douglas war shIppIng admen was personally thanked by bythe bythe the PresIdent for the job he dId dad in helping to smooth Brit sh and Amer Amerlean lean general staff feelIngs at Quebec There have bave been some very vigorous differences between them and thanks partly to Douglas things were smoothed out consid considerably considerably at Quebec CAPITAL CHAFF CI Winsome Molly Flynn of OCD re recalls recalls calls that on the day before Pearl Harbor she drove up to the White WhiteHouse WhiteHouse House door on invItatIon to Mrs Roosevelt s tea and was told by guards We don t see your name on the last but it s all right If you say so Today you can cant t get near the White House CI 41 Among the cannIest officials of OCD Is Stanley McCandless on leave from Yale unIversity At Yale he was a stage lighting expert With WIll OCD he La a black out expert |