Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-07-16
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON

| eral OF the newly eSLaDllSIleO Lulu
pean theater of operations for U.S.A.
forces. General Eisenhower was
born and grew up in Texas, as did
Admiral Nimitz, later of the Coral
sea and Midway. Other sons of the
Lone Star state are bringing fame
to the name Texas.
Two main facets of interest
light up the generals career. He
was long an intimate aide and
prOtege of General Douglas
Macarthur, and in his name and
fame, the accent is on youth. In
army shifts, rapid advance
ments and adaptations, in which
it was indicated that we weren't
going to have a muscle-bOund
army, his name frequently has
appeared. General Eisenhower
is So, of the younger school Of
army officers who make war a
science rather than an art. In
this connection, he has been
characterized as tactician, as
we'll as strategist, this, so far
as we can learn, indicating a
capacity for quick improvisa-
ton, even if it breaks some clas-
steal rule-Of-thumb.
One reasonable deduction from
the selection of General Eisenhower
for the European command is that
it indicates preparations for land
attack. While he has made special
studies of coordination of land, sea
and air forces, he is land gen.
eral, one of the army's leading spe-
cialists in tank warfare. He was a
lieutenant-colonel III the tank corps
in the first World war and was COM
manding officer of the tank corps
training center at Gettysburg.
Graduated from West Point in 1915,
he took diploma from the army
tank school and was an honor gradu-
school in 1926.
His Distinguished Service medal
came from his service in the Philip
pines. When General Macarthur
went to the islands in 1885, to build
the commonwealth army, he took
Colonel Eisenhower with him as his
aide, and as assistant military adj
wiser to the government He re-
manned until February, 1910, to re-
turn home as chief of staff of the
Third army at San Antonio, Texas.
He attained the rank of brigadier
general in 1941. He was assistant
chief of staff of the war plans di-
vision before. his recent departure
for London with high-ranking officers
to scout European western front.
"Alert, resourceful, dependable
and adaptable" are prevailing char
acterizations by those who know
him.
THIS John Ford, the moving pic
ture director, who became a
commander in the navy and got
wounded at Midway, is an Irishman
Film Director Not t o,Fai n1aa
Directing in Battle from Port
That Isn't Celluloid 4 ian aot M Il, me
let in his arm, grinding out a close
up of the battle, on top of the Mid
way power house. The filming was
an official navy job in the midst of
a lot of official shooting. Hollywood
passes on the story with an unre-
hearsed cheer for its Mr.. Ford.
He got his start as a property
boy and before he was rs had
made 200 Westerns. At 20, he
directed "The Iron Horse" He
built his name on that of the
film tag of his brother, Francis
Ford, serial star of the silent
pictures. He is known on the
picture lots as quiet and tough,
biting his pipe lot and not say
ing much. He is apt to throw
the script away and improvise
plot. His signal achievement in
the film has been to get sharp
characterization with mini
mum of stereotype and hokum.
This year GLOW Green Was My
Valley" won for him the Academy
and Film Critics Circle awards for
the best directing of 1941. He won
the Academy award in 1885 for "The
Informer," and in 1910 for "The
Grapes of Wrath" He is big and
bulky, with thinning, sandy hair and
heavily trimmed glasses, AZ years
old
COME years ago famous sociolo-
" gist said that since we were rap
idly developing an "energy civiliza-
tion," youth would have to acquire
so much technical knowledge that it
would be gray over the ears before
it would be of any use. Many of
today's stand-outs disprove this.
Here's Abe Fortas, undersecretary
of the interior at 80. When %, he
was member of the Presidents
liquor control commission. In big
legal forays and tournaments for
the government, his record already
would fill fat biography.