Show I Who's News This Week By Delos Wheeler Lovelace Consolidated Features Release N NEW EW YORK It YORK It was a good hop 1 skip and jump that carried the amphibious forces of Rear Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner onto the I Russell Is Is- e i ti r Heres Here's Here s Sailor Who Quite Well Knows of Guadal- Guadal His Turbulent Sea canal cana they hey arc are that much nearer Tokyo and md the day of reckoning which the admiral has been helping to shape since Pearl Harbor Turner has spent 19 years on the uneasy untrustworthy bosom of the sea since he finished Annapolis In 1908 He was married two years later so his wife has been a navy widow almost half the time He is 57 years old has a and was i born in Oregon Four years ago the admiral had a fine close look at Tokyo Toko which may help on the cheerful day an American task force goes boiling past Boso noso peninsula De He was a cruiser captain then and the cruiser had just borne home all that was mortal of the late Ambassador Hiroshi Saito dead In the United States The Thc emperor emperor emperor em em- shook Turners Turner's hand band and expressed pressed undying fr friendship but didn't add that his fingers were crossed against December 7 1 7 1941 1911 Already Alread Turner has squared accounts accounts accounts ac ac- ac- ac counts somewhat His were the plans on which our invasion of Guadalcanal was based He bet that he would catch the Japanese napping there and he did The first convoy unloaded men guns supplies before the enemy sea force discovered what was up Later when we lost four cruisers the issue was tuck nip but then we caught two bevies of Japanese warships with their sampans down and after that even Tojo agreed that Turner had called the turn STONEWALL STONEWALL JACKSON was only in his late thirties when he was giving lessons to arthritic generals sent out from Washington Phil Sheridan Russ Boy wonder WOlder Was s still t i l l lIn In Class of Our younger Sheridan Jackson J when his s. s hell fo for leather cavalry was easing Grants Grant's work Now in Russia older than Sheridan younger than Jackson Konstantin climbs to toa toa toa a full generalship over crumpled d Nazi armies is just rounding 38 In the first weeks of the war he rose from colonel to major This because of a heady stubborn defense that stalled the first Nazi blitz for a month back of Ten weeks later he set going Rus Rus' Russia's sias sia's first counter offensive and elbowed elbowed el bowed the Germans so solidly thai that Stalin moved him up a notch In last years year's bleak fighting before beCore Moscow 1 the Germans outnumbered outnumbered outnumbered out out- numbered sky three to one Just the same he was able to put tanks enemy out of action in October alone This year jear he bc broke the Nazis at Stalingrad His employment of cavalry ha been notable and once was inspired This was when he rushed cossack in massed raids behind the Germai Germar rear a n disruptive triumph in lh tin great tradition begun by Greek Phil Phi Philip Philip I ip and Alexander and kept going b Parthian Surena Roman and to skip a lot of centuries am ant ama anta a lot of good cavalrymen Sherida and Jeb Stuart another boy wonder is big handsome with a wide full mouth a n broad untroubled forehead and a right eye ec eyebrow eyebrow brow that cocks higher than the left maybe in astonishment at nt his OWl ow rise O TF F JEREMIAH could come back h he ht I would get plenty of from Robert F. F Patterson As Hil Hilkiah's Hilkiah's kiah's klahs son worried over his careless p e o 0 p 1 I e's es It Seems a Testy plight sc St Critic of National the under secretary ary o o I s He war worries orne Over ver too much optimism about this thit global muddle of ours He talks gloomily of fight fighting fighting fighting ing planes because he says ays tough B Bill Jeffers tapped our oil supply sc se heavily to make rubber Recently he said We cannot be sure of victory victory vic victory tory in 1945 We must have an arm army of at least He said we must put a legal curb on absentee workers Patterson has cause to be quite satisfied with his personal record lie He quit a prosperous law practice for a federal judgeship judgeship judgeship judge- judge ship resigning this when he was asked to take lake hold under Secretary Secretary Secretary Secre Secre- tary of War Stinson Stimson three years ears ago ao This is t the e second war that he has gotten into He finished the last one onea a major with a n Distinguished Service Service Service ice cross and one wound stripe He also saw service on the Mexican border Now he bosses a new generation generation gen gen- of our fighting men from a n heavy desk in Washington but he flies Oies his own plane and in a pinch might do active duty again fur for ur all that he is 52 I He lie is a trim 52 with a long stubborn stubborn stub stub- born upper lip and the high narrow narrow nar nar- row forehead that suggests ence His Intimates say he is fast fast- moving concise |