Show I I I I OR W ON Washington D D. C. C QUEZON ON TOE TILE JOB Its It's bad news news for the Japs that President Quezon of the Philippines Is back in Washington They knew though it was not generally real real- realized In Washington WashIngton that that Quezon had suffered a relapse of his old illness tuberculosis which has plagued him himoff himoff himoff off and on for 20 years Quezon was a n well man at the time of ot Pearl Harbor But confinement confine- confine men ment in the dampness of Corregidor during the Jap attack brought the illness back again That was one reason MacArthur urged him to return return return re re- re- re turn to the U U. U S. S in a submarine When he came to Washington Quezon Quezon Quezon Que Que- zon was advised to take things easy Instead he rushed into the official official of of- I activities of or Philippine Commonwealth Commonwealth Com Corn J affairs not sparing him him- self seU His physicians advised him not to remain in Washington during the summer of 1942 nor last winter But he remained nevertheless Re Re- suit was that last spring he suffered a further relapse Specialists were summoned and Quezon was given the stern advice that he would have to get out of the humid climate of Washington Immediately Immediately Imme Imme- if it he wanted to live YieldIng Yielding Yielding Yield Yield- ing to pressure he went to Saranac N. N Y and submitted himself to a rigid discipline during most of the past summer Quezon led the life of an invalid sitting silting in the sunshine in a wheel wheelchair wheelchair wheelchair chair listening to the radio or toI to his nurses as they read to him kiln Result Result Result Re Re- sult of this regime was that the tuI tuberculosis tuberculosis tu tu- was arrested and Quezon gained 12 pounds When the Japs heard of his relapse relapse relapse re re- re- re lapse they were ready to say to the people of the Philippines where Quezon is still highly popular Look this is the skeleton you pin 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. U S. S and Philippine forces march into Manila Manna SEVEN MINUTES TO WAR Every day now pictures are arriving arriving arriving ar ar- riving in a little room in Washington Washing Washing- ton which seven minutes before were in Algiers miles away One day just after the landing in Italy 41 pictures came through the theair theair theair air and landed safely on top of the Pentagon building in a n little room marked Confidential Keep Confidential Keep Out Inside that room is a little machine machine machine ma ma- chine not as big as a typewriter with a little cylinder on it The cylInder cylinder cylinder cyl cyl- inder spins around exposing a negative negative negative nega nega- tive to dots and dashes of light and after seven minutes the exposure is complete From there on its it's merely merely merely mere mere- ly a matter of developing the negative negative negative nega nega- tive and the U. U S S. S public has a picture picture picture pic pic- ture of the landings in Italy or the surrender of or the Italian fleet And ditto for the South Pacific It ItIs ItIs Itis Is farther away but the seven minute minute minute min min- ute r requirement qt rement still holds From Froman an unmentionable post in Australia Australla the dots of light flash into the little room and you have a picture of General MacArthur flying in hi a bomber over New Guinea The pictures may have been taken by any anyone one of the four photo syndicates syndi syndi- cates Acme cates-Acme Acme AP or Life or Life or orthey they may have been taken by the theAr Ar Army ny Signal service In any case they can be only 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 in hi terms of keeping the public abreast of the war war war-tn in fact only seven seven sev soy en minutes away from the war I ROUND MERRY-GO-ROUND Ex-Congressman Ex Joe Casey of Massachusetts now doing various inside jobs for the White House recently recently recently re re- re- re made a political survey of New England reported that Maine was so strong for Roosevelt's war policies that the only Republican who could beat him was Wendell Admiral Standley U. U S S. S ambassador to Russia has cleared with the state department a significant speech In which after praising Russian victories plus those of England and the United States he says A victory for one is a victory for all aU Highly inflammatory inflammatory matory remarks in hi Negro newspapers newspapers newspapers pers some of them close to sedition are being studied by the army Lew Douglas war shipping administrator administrator admin admin- was personally thanked by bythe bythe bythe the President for the job he did in helping to smooth British and AmerIcan American Amer Amer- ican lean general staff feelings at Quebec There have been some very vigorous differences between them and thanks partly to Douglas things were smoothed out consIderably considerably considerably consid consId- at Quebec CAPITAL CHAFF C. C l Winsome Winsome- Molly Flynn of OCD recalls recalls recalls re re- re- re calls that on the day before Pearl Harbor she drove up to the White WhiteHouse WhiteHouse WhiteHouse House door on invitation to Mrs bars Roosevelt's tea and was told by guards We dont don't see sec your name on onI I the list but its it's all right if you say so Today you cant can't get near the White House C. C l Among the canniest officials of OCD is Stanley McCandless on leave from Yale university At Yale he was a stage lighting lighting expert With OCD he be is a a D out black-out expert i |