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Show Who's News This Week By Delos Wheeler Lovelace Consolidated Features. WNU Release. 1EW YORK. In army circles ' they rate Maj. Gen. Harold L. George as one of the best impromptu speakers in the service. He likes to talk, his His Air Transport colleagues Command Is Gen. will tell you, George's Pet Topic and does it easily and well. He's the chief of the air transport trans-port command of the army air corps, and has been ever since its' formation last July. Out in Australia the other day he likened the feats of his fliers to the tales of Jules Verne, and it wasn't so long ago that he was picturing with delight how his men had flown the equipment for a 24-bed hospital to Nome, Alaska, after a fire had destroyed de-stroyed its lone hospital. Just a year ago when he was made head of the ferry command of the army air corps, his major task was getting new planes from the factories to wherever they were needed. Now he has that problem and a whole lot of others, such as flying troops and essential supplies overseas. He first learned about flying in World War I. A native of Soner-ville, Soner-ville, Mass., he was a student in the law school at National university on April 6, 1917. A month later he was a second lieutenant of cavalry. Fall found him training to be a flier, however. He won his wings in March, 1918, and the following September Sep-tember he was in France as a bombing bomb-ing instructor at Clermont. Before the Armistice, he had been assigned to the 163rd aero squadron. After the war, he resumed his studies and won his LL B in 1920. His heart was In the army, however, and in 1921, he went back, this time to stay. Since his return he has been stationed at a lot of places, Kelly Field, Texas, the Aberdeen Proving Grounds, out in Hawaii, and down at Maxwell Field, Alabama. Ala-bama. They made him a captain cap-tain in '32 and a major in '39. Meanwhile he had done plenty of flying. Fit and bronzed and with keen blue eyes, he looks every inch a flier. He'll be 50 this summer, but he seems a lot younger despite graying gray-ing hair. THE man who has been swinging Bolivia into war against Hitler & Co. is a fighter and a believer in orderly government. Enrique Pena-1 Pena-1 randa won Bolivia s President njs way to Can Swing Mailed the top as a wu mjj military i I leader in the Chaco war against Paraguay. Today he is equally famous as an able president. When General Penaranda was elected chief executive in March, 1940, he depended on the ballots of his countrymen, not the muskets mus-kets of his troops. For some years before that the stylish way to land in the presidential palace was by coup d'etat. His political opponents, on hearing the returns re-turns from the polls, decided old methods were best. The general gen-eral promptly showed them he was still a warrior, and inauguration inaugu-ration day found him taking office of-fice as scheduled and expressing express-ing his faith in democracy. Born in the La Paz district 50 years ago, he entered his country's Wet Point in 1907 and graduated a second lieutenant three years later. He became a captain in '17, a major in '21, and a colonel in '32. The start of the war with Paraguay shot him swiftly to the top and three months after hostilities began he was made commander-in-chief. FREE FRENCH circles offer a double barreled explanation for the failure of the United States to clear up the muddle of Martinique .. andVice Martinique s Four Admiral Families' Control George All but Mt. Pele belt- They say ' the vice admiral is pro-Robert, but anti-everything else save the Four Families. These, they explain, boast of being the only truly white families 1 on the island. 1 The four families are in complete 1 control, it is claimed, of 247,000 na-' na-' tives and Martinique's economic existence. ex-istence. The vice admiral could. If he ' would, make any deal without consulting Vichy to which he ! still vows loyalty. Vichy gave him full power in the French ' Antilles and authority to con-' con-' elude any arrangement with the ' United States. He entered the French navy 50 years ago. The admiral, after an old French 1 ; custom, has an assortment of names ' I George Achilla Marie-Joseph. He : is 68 years old now, with a white, ' out-jutting spade beard, and a tem-' tem-' per some describe as not unlike a hornet's. Whether Martinique's Social Reg 1 ister is limited to a mere quartette ' of families is, probably, debatable, but independent reports of Vice Ad-1 Ad-1 miral Robert's speech made last " year at Fort-de-France certainly 1 made it and him anti-American. He 1 gave the "greed of Americans" a " fine going over. |