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Show Who 1 his Week B, Delos Wheeler Lovely Consolidated FeatureTTr-J M. Landrum. ah s: island of Attu bU is exactly t,letype;;. Here Definitely We rfal !J; Style but of Action b' that away from . wUy V' stocky, and firm jawed Pugnacity and courage ft" favor the fashion pla,e? ?:-military ?:-military men wouM e?, !: twice at him. If tte, clvies on the street 07. , 1 they would pick him out .7,1! ; ; working village doctor e he were carrying his batterer " one bag and had hla" black pipe ciamped b teeth. He is 52. u General Undrura U . wh0 ot t the kp a,, way. Back In 1910 army , prlvate ta artillery. By the time the C ed States entered World , he was wearing the silver bun a first lieutenant on his ih.u. dcrs. Two months lt ht w become a captain. In the m following the Armlstloe ht , moving slowly nd ,ltll, ahead. He was not the kind i officer to makn k,j, uvauuun, especially In peacetime, but fc superiors knew him si plu(, gcr and they approve of him. B, was graduated from th( jm, War college in 1936 ind Just it months before Perl Harbor, I received his colonelcy. General Landrum Is s nstin Florida and he calls Peniacoli h home town. Mrs. Landrum, t, ever, is now in California, is, many another wife of an an ij a naval officer she likes to look i: :4 same ocean her husband dcei. TF IT had not been (or the !s Kaiser, William E. Lynd n. still be practicing law In Idaho : stead of being, at 9, a br ;,:-As, ;,:-As, d general t Attorney Becomes the arnv Warrior to Make corps. Hu: The Laws Stick fV' ed out i! attorney, in fact after earr.ici f.i degree at the University of ff!;-4 ton. Then he took on military tv lng as a sideline with the Idaho Si tional Guard. In 1916 he .'. ' the Mexican border in the In" that served as a curtain rahtr 1 the first World war. He had h:: settled back at his law bo'ii fore the real show ilartd, ' March 27, 1917, he was called 1 ' to the colors and eight days 'a was commissioned a accord if. tenant of infantry. Christmas eve, 1917, h if h will always remember,' f to outfit sailed for France Jos' St. Nick hitched op hh " deer. Overseas he was sirilcW to the air service u server and he flnallf reuM the front In a plane In 4n A few days later be i proud possessor of a Silrt".' earned in an air bailie Germans. Like many another Vetera AEF, Lynd found civilian He -and in 1920 he rejoined it r this time for good. He w other air medal now. B";; second award for a -".; connaissance flight out -cificinthe first year of f ; war. More recently be ,nd the other White House to teUPre;;- veltwbat his fliers W " the Japs ther WHEN the censor! & leased the newtct-,. L. Gates, assistant seer. navy for air, bad be. Getting to Zone of & ; Battle h Second Nature to Gat" tr. in unison. 'ft!: lt." In World War W werelike When the war clouJ the United SttW rci::. Gates was in bisjr He had just elect of the footb,, earned .t te By April. doned his cap and I' uniform. ,( to the summer " had flt not take Daval a"0B'79"f: infancy. Au ': France Armistice be , the V. S. " Dunkirk. While there he saving the V air battle d down. "rVyfcr; to grab h.m. e:sp;.;, trying to d V; leap throng ' and escape. fce fy the SW'S ..ver. tured, hf ver isoc' U he was a P |