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Show Who's News This Week By Delos Wheeler Lovelace Consolidated Features. WNU Release. MEW YORK. Money matters have chiefly kept John W. Pehle busy through his years in government govern-ment service. He has been in the J. W. Pehle Handed at bfg Another of Those b u i 1 d i n g Cumbersome Titles "st, ' the WhiteHouse and mainly at Secretary Morgen-Ihau's Morgen-Ihau's right hand, or nearly. He has worn a number of the lengthy titles In which the department dresses its key men senior attorney for the exchange ex-change stabilization fund, special attorney in the foreign exchange :ontrol division. Lately, as assistant assist-ant to the secretary, he has been in charge of the administration of ihe foreign funds control. Now, because of his executive talents, he may be pushed Into the alien, humane post of director direc-tor of the War Refugees board. This is the board long sought to supervise the United States' share of the rescue of Jewish people in occupied countries and finally set up by President Roosevelt. And since many of the rescued will find a haven in Palestine and bring fertility to its sandy wastes, Pehle may help to make true after 2,500 years the words of Isaiah. That prophet of boundless faith once wrote of a day when "The desert shall . . . blossom like the rose," and "the ransomed . . . shall come to Zion with songs." Thirty-five years old, Pehle was Dorn in Minneapolis. So he is a Winnesotan even though his folks luit the state so early that the ichools of Nebraska and South Dacota Da-cota helped educate him. His col-.eges col-.eges are Creighton in Nebraska, and ifale, which is in Connecticut. There le got his law. He has been in government service for 10 years, fol-owing fol-owing a short private practice in !Iew York city. JT SEEMS that George VI has been mighty busy, handing out knight-loods knight-loods in the Order of the Bath to his American and that But he has an out, for jcorge VI Filling foreigners. Order of the Bath however To the Overflowing distinguish-ed, distinguish-ed, are not ncluded when the roll is called to nake sure that the limit set a cen-:ury cen-:ury and a quarter ago has not been sxceeded. Latest American in the notable company is Lieut. Gen. Walter B. Smith. He moves into the middle rank, below the Knights Grand Cross but topping the Companions. Smith is chief of staff to General Eisenhower and before the imminent invasion has ended will have earned his decoration a couple of times, A colonel when this war started, le has come up fast. No West Point-;r, Point-;r, a one-time reserve officer from Indiana, he entered the army in .917 and did well then and in the fallowing peace. He did well be-:ause be-:ause he is smart, as chiefs of staff nust be. He is a graduate of the eneral staff school, the war college md most of the army's other crack lourses. And when the general staff leeded a secretary in 1939 he got he job. Be has a strong, dark face, a wide, full mouth which is stubborn stub-born unless determined is a better word and a decoration from North Africa which is quite different from the Order of the Bath. The French Colonial regiment, regi-ment, the Second Spahis, made him an honorary Pfc. As such he is entitled to wear a red cloak which hangs down to his heels and probably is a lot snappier than any Bath costume. THE harassed Japanese must wish they had been less helpful to the Chinese. AH too often for Japanese :omfort the record on China's top ... v . . men con- fu Year in Japan tains the Velps Him as Much line, "Then la It Stymies Japs came a year of study in fapan." Liu Kwang-chi, prankish 3an Bay general now supporting our Jtilwell, had his year in Japan and t helped him tremendously, much to he discomfort of the Japanese. Forty-six years old, Liu finished fin-ished high school, went to Japan much as young Englishmen used to make the Grand Tour, then finished at the military academy at Paoting and the staff college at Nanking. When Japan attacked at-tacked China he was ordered to Shanghai. Since then he has been chief of staff or commander command-er in half a dozen war zones. Now he is at the Kunming headquarters. head-quarters. Liu got his nickname because he ;ays "Gan Bay" when giving a oast to his American friends. "Gan 3ay" means "Bottoms up." He has lanned on coming to America when he war is over and he says he will un a newspaper ad announcing that he Gan Bay general will be pleased o meet his friends ... It ought o be a dandy party. The son of a family of farmers ind scholars, Liu was born in Shan-ung Shan-ung province. He is married but :hildless. Of English he says he un-lerstands un-lerstands nothing, and he never ;peaks it. |