| Show by delos wheeler lovelace ce consolidated features release Bel case TEW YORK the worries that NEW na clouded the round good natured face of gen sir thomas albert blarney last april are fading fast he had night two war general mares mare then now depreciates from think japs as a filter fighters ing about the S japa nese poised on nearby islands for a jump to australia now he ticks off guadalcanal Guadal canal buna and gona and sundry imminent captures and opines kopines that the nips are hardly the fighters they were cracked up to be the general should be a first class judge of fighting men he has been in two big wars mostly up where the shooting was most prolonged and is rated a rattling good tactician he commanded the australians in greece and his handling of his battalions is one of the few good memories of that desperate and luckless venture to the present generation of australian soldiers blarney is old tom 59 years old and a loyal supporter of our own gen douglas they never invite him macarthur BIa cArthur under whom he has commanded the allied ground forces in the southwest pacific for more thin than a year when the war started blarney blamey reduced his own rank so that he might lead the first division of aussien in the field he had been the commonwealths chief of staff before that he was in charge of recruiting and long before that when the japs were only a faint distant hiss on the horizon he was chief of police of the state of victoria he married late at 51 and has a son in the first world war he was mentioned seven times in dispatches in that war as in this one he led a mixed force of australians and americans with these he helped crack the hindenburg line S CINCE INCE dogs are people on the 1 word of the club whose doings are told by darragh aldrich over a midwestern radio station general ike eisen ike i r u gen holds howers scot up lp captaincy of tie t i e T e 1 e k this dog of war celta certainly 1 l y rates this column especially as he has been invited to be the clubs commander in chief with the rank of captain commander harry C butcher naval aide to eisenhower has conveyed to mrs aldrich from africa Sc otties thanks and his masters gratification but alas general eisenhower decrees that may accept only a corporals rank hes been in service only since october 14 11 the generals birthday was a year old on june 29 1943 but before he reached his first birthday he was a proud father his wife is commander butchers cacacie pronounced khaki it stands for canine auxiliary air corps and cacacie have a son and a daughter now only satisfaction over the way the war goes overshadowed the thrill of arrival of their family commander butcher writes recently tried to eat a scorpion and now his tongue has the outlines of an elm leaf the general was away but knew that under the circumstances he was entitled to the comfort of the generals bed and took it during bombings and cacacie and the pups go under the generals bed together for the general and cacacie afford opportunity for escape from war writes butcher more power to them 19 R D 10 DE JANEIRO repeats her as lv aurance that a brazilian overseas force waits only a call from the united nations and if the ca call 11 brazils brads overseas comes the odds are force ready war that the chief may lead it com m a n ding general aill will be brazils war minister the serious but hard riding cavalryman enrico gaspar dutra dutra has been brazils outstanding commander for almost ten years and a soldier in tact fact as well as in heart since he was 16 ile he made up his mind then after reading limitless lives of military heroes from the deified delfied alexander onward he enlisted was graduated from the state military academy at 22 and moved up steadily to become a brigadier general after the sao paulo rebellion 11 years ago four years later he was appointed minister of 0 war his decorations are numerous and include brazils B order of military merit |
