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Show Who's News This Week By Delos Wheeler Lovelace Consolidated Features. VNU Release. NEW YORK. If John R. Deane could have kept on winning promotions pro-motions as fast as he did in the first months of his career in the United States army Mat. Gen. Deane ne would Slated to Go Far long ago At a Rapid Pace have hf I r more ranks to conquer. He enlisted in the closing clos-ing hours of World War I, on October Octo-ber 5, two days after the Germans asked President Wilson for an armistice. ar-mistice. He was made a second lieutenant on October 26, on the very day Ludendorff resigned his German command. Not that Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Deane had the field marshal worried. The two events just happened hap-pened to dovetail. By the next February Feb-ruary it was First Lieutenant Deane. He lagged for a while after that. He waited 16 years for his majority. But he Is a major general now, and his present job In Moscow, at the head of the American military commission which is supposed to blow all bottlenecks out of oar lend-lease program there, is likely to move him still farther upward, and at a fast pace, too. Deane is a Californian. Better, he belongs to the toploftical inner circle of Californians who were born in San Francisco, that romantic center cen-ter of fogs, tip-tilted streets and overcoated evenings. He belongs to the army's inner circle, too, is a graduate of the Army War college, where only the smart officers go, and of the Command and General Staff school. Forty-seven now, in his 26 years of military life he has served in nine states, the Panama Canal Zone and China. Just before the Moscow trip he was secretary of the Combined Chiefs of Staff in Washington. That, too, is a job which goes only to the smart officers. A NOTHER friendly gesture from President Carlos Arroyo del Rio of Ecuador pleases but does not surprise sur-prise the United States. Now those r- i .r g citizens of Ecuador 8 Chief in his small Another Friendly country who Gesture to U. S. ish to et into the fight may enlist in our armed forces with his approval. Under Dr. Arroyo's presidency, presiden-cy, Ecuador has sold us valuable valua-ble rubber, has leased us invalu-I invalu-I able naval and. air bases on the . mainland and on the Galapagos Islands. Dr. Arroyo has made us a state visit, too. In 1942, a tall, heavy man with a big nose, a receding pompadour, mustache, mus-tache, dignity, he visited Washington, Wash-ington, West Point and New York, nis only son is being educated edu-cated here. The small republic sitting so cock-ily cock-ily astride the equator has had 22 presidents since 1897. Dr. Arroyo, elected in 1940, seems destined to fill out his four-year term. Born in 1893 in Guayaquil, educated there, his personality smacks of this progressive pro-gressive seaport, rather than that of ancient, dreamy Quito, high above In the mountains. He received his law degree at 20, practiced corporation law with solid success, taught in his alma mater, the University of Guayaquil, served many terms as deputy to the national legislature, legis-lature, was elected to the senate and finally presided over the entire en-tire congress. He refused to be candidate for president twice but luckily for us was willing in 1940. CPORTS writers who knew him when he was running the athletic ath-letic show at West Point said then that Maj. Philip Bracken Fleming r-r ww was a tact- Maj. Fleming Has ful admmis. 3 Words to Ease trator, never A Tough Problem ? a loss foI th e wo r d needed to ease a bad situation. Now that he is a major general and Federal Fed-eral Works administrator, he still has the needed word. Three, in fact! They are: "A billion dollars." That much money, the general reckons, will nicely cushion the impact of postwar unemployment unemploy-ment feared by so many. Republican Re-publican voices offstage seem to groan that so much money ought to cushion anything, but the tactful tact-ful general pays them no nevermind. never-mind. Fleming finished up with West Point 10 years ago. An army engineer, engi-neer, with a highly regarded knowledge knowl-edge of construction, he was drafted draft-ed by Roosevelt, a fledgling president presi-dent then, to head up the Public Works administration. He has done a passel of jobs since that time and has been called an ace New Deal trouble shooter. He has been FWA administrator for two years and before that wiped up a lot of spilled milk for the Wage-Hour administration. Major Fleming is just a little short of 60 years old now. His hair is graying, his mustache is gray, but his eyebrows are startlingly black, with a heavy, quiet face and a full mouth. He was born in the Middle West; Iowa, in fact, and was graduated from West Point in 1911. |