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Show WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK I By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features WNU Service.) NEW YORK. Frequently cited is the vast difference between the World war bi-plane and the flying fortress of today, and frequent- Col. Olds 'Ferry' Chief, Master of ministrative . r- . personnel of Flying Fortress the air serv. ice has kept up with this technical advance. Is a good administrator also an up-to-date flier? Col. Robert Olds, newly in charge of the air corps "ferry command," to start bombers on the way to Britain, Brit-ain, is picked by informed onlookers onlook-ers as a shining example of the forward for-ward moving officer. He 'learned to fly during the World war, but he knows the big bomber of today the way Fritz Kreisler knows his fiddle. It was only two years ago that the colonel brought a flying fortress for-tress across the country in 10 hours and 45 minutes, then a record flight for a military plane. In between wars, he has been busy every minute and has come all the way through with changing flying techniques and skills. He frequently has been mentioned as of the type of men who should command a separate air service. A friend of Colonel Olds described him to me today as a Hollywood ideal of a flying officer, minus the exaggerated showmanship and swank of the screen air-devils trim, natty, alert, clear-headed, courteous and personable. He seems to have stirred up more enthusiasm among his friends than anybody this department de-partment has back-trailed for a long time. One of Colonel Olds' most tiis-tinguished tiis-tinguished air exploits was when he led six flying fortresses on a round trip to Argentina, in February, Feb-ruary, 1937, for which he received re-ceived the Distinguished Service Serv-ice cross. His is the highly specialized spe-cialized skill of mastery over the newest and biggest bomber, no matter how many cannon or how many extra push-buttons en the dash-board. He is a native of Norfolk, Va., but joined the air reserve from Woodside. Md., in 1917. WE ONCE saw two sports writers writ-ers looking through the paper. Another sports writer had characterized char-acterized a famous athlete as "a Ac ' x ii big squir-Sports squir-Sports Writer reB Jadfid Never Forgets stumblebum u ,.-.t t wno ought to How to Get Tough be arrested for getting money under false pretenses." pre-tenses." One of the sports writers read this passage and remarked reverently, "That guy is certainly a powerful writer!" Not having to mind libel laws, or pull their punch on the typewriter, type-writer, sports writers frequently become the most released and uninhibited of catch-as-catch-can Iitcratteurs. In other words they never forget how to get tough. It is one of them who, as their craft would have it, has put the slug on the Bund, in New Jersey. Jer-sey. He is Atty.-Gen. David T. Wilentz, prosecutor of Bruno Hauptmann, who broke from the post as a sports writer for newspapers news-papers in Plainfield and his native na-tive Perth Amboy, N. J. Wilentz drafted a bill to put the Bund out of business in his state and it has been passed unanimously unanimous-ly by the state legislature. This first overt state move against the Bund is attracting national attention, atten-tion, as the high concentration of defense de-fense industries there might make the region an Achilles heel for subversion sub-version or sabotage. The attorney-general doesn't look tough. He is slight in stature, ultra-fastidious ultra-fastidious in dress, has slick black hair and ingratiating manners. He is a master politico, with a tar-bucket tar-bucket memory lot such small matters mat-ters as a constituent's lumbago of 10 years back, and he is also the Flo Ziegfeld of courtroom showmen. His histrionics in the Hauptmann Haupt-mann trial caused some comment, com-ment, but the news men gave him an "out." They said he hadn't circused up the proceedings proceed-ings any more than was necessary neces-sary to win his case. He knocked off newspaper ing to work his way through the New York Law school. THE rising prestige of Carlos Sa-avedra Sa-avedra Lamas in the Argentine is go6d news for this country. Recent Re-cent dispatches reveal Sr. Lamas definitely on record as favoring closer clos-er political and commercial co-operation of Argentina with the United States. In 1937. as foreign minister, he I made a forthright stand for Argcn- 1 tine support uf the Monroe doctrine, j He is the author of the Pan-America n anti-war pact and the builder ; of the ABC entente between Argentina. Argen-tina. Brazil and Chiie. |