Show WHO IS NEWS f H THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON consolidated features release NEW YORK at fort des ia moines where the first entrants of the army auxiliary corps take up their col faiths faith ta for cers train in kicks ing there out guardhouse will be no guardhouse col don C faith commandant of the corps says standards of conduct conduct of of women are generally higher than those of men we anticipate no trouble if there is there will be a discharge rather than discipline ci the tactful colonel faith a genial hoosier who used to be an army educator will however allow a beauty parlor if not a guardhouse he says theres no reason why women get a hairdo hair do when they need it and therell be time out for that but this mean a soft time for the soldier girls there will be seven 45 minute classes a day and one 45 minute period of drill the women who have qualified for officers training have been chosen ron roni i several thousand applicants rhe full complement of the fort eventually will be about woman they will serve in kitchen po ice as barracks orderlies clerks and messengers and in many other opacities apa cities in which men have been iced the tall lean colonel faith a trailblazer trail blazer in this kind of organization takes his bis job easily and casually and gives assurance that the women will be inducted smoothly into army routine while he be is friendly and informal in manner he is known in the army as a careful and competent officer and while the girls may get their hairdo hair do and all that there will be no slack administration of the corps do a grand job says he colonel he has held an army commission 5 5 years which experience includes bervice ervice on the mexican border and it at camp logan houston texas and n the first world war he was on luty in the philippines in 1922 23 ind and in china in 1931 32 great britain has made a tremendous nen dous success of its aux biary corps which now includes about women fort des boines is just a beginning for us and colonel faith thinks we can lo io even better M AJ GEN FOLLETT BRAD 11 1 1 LEY commanding general of he first air force with ers at mitchel field N Y rates wore mare difficult dinwit for far slogans s as among the taps aps f to interpret least effect aur ur native idioms tive of war weapons he will ill have none of them around the bield not even remember pearl harbor he is however hospitable 0 0 native home grown idiom just as t happens along uses a lot of it himself lim self and commends the boys who keethe keep the flies files off the horses lack ack referring to the aerial gun lers of his command in whom he akes special pride the expression is not mine said the general its their own and its very apt it is a light way of saying that they keep destruction away if the aerial gunners up there doing their job every time one of our bombers goes out over the libyan desert or china or the pacific many of the bombers would tail fail in their mission and many would never get home this came up in connection with talk alk of this month marking the gen rals straight year in the air services of the army and the fact that operating a fighter or bomber olane alane is a matter of a complex organization aniza tion of human and technical factors undreamed of when the genral first went aloft every bombing mission is a matter of team work said general bradley it is not by any means just a piloting job the aerial gunner is is a member of the team without whom the mission might fail so is the bombardier the navigator the engineer and everyone else in the crew the failure of one can mean the destruction of all |