The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-11-27
WHO'S
NEWS
This Week
Lemuel r. Parton
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NEW YORK.--Just after the last
= World war, there was an air.
plane rough-rider known as the only
man who could crowd Jimmy Doc
General Strickland t ir'se /. ~ oi pr.
Was the Toughest tn r GU g h
Buckaroo of Skies punishment punishment
and landing all of a piece, with his
ship still holding together. He looked
like Francis X. Bushman and spoke
yoftly.
That was young Lieut.. ABBY
Casey Strickland, just now Brig
adler General Strickland, lead
ing our bombers against ROM
mel and giving our side just
about its first chance to cheer
without keeping its fingers
crossed. As chief Of the bomber
command of the United States
army air f0rces-Overseas last
July-he rode the first plane Of
our bomber formation which
wrought historic havoc and hur-
ried the Axis on its way. There's
a sidelight on General Strick-
land In his commentator Of his
fliers in a successful attack a
few days ago: Knocking them
right down on their own airfleld!
That will teach those monkeys a
lesson! Wen drive these rats out
Of their holes! Tonight treats for
the whole squadron, and it's go
ing to be on me-"
He was born in Braggs, Ala, Sep.
TENDER II, 1895, attended Alabama
Polytechnic college, where he
played football, and joined the army
in November, 1917, not West Point
er. He was first lieutenant in the
reserve corps and served overseas
in the artillery. In July, 1920, he
switched to the regular army, get
ting joint commission as first and
second lieutenant, the latter for
mality incidental to the former. He
was a captain in 1880, a major in
1895, lieutenant colonel in 1910, a
colonel in 1941 and brigadier gen.
eral last July. He completed the
army flying school course in 1922
and attended tactical school in 1889.
EOR obvious reasons. it is a pleas.
ure to spot sound Americana
item in the news these days. Here's
a nice one in the story of the New
Comes Out From : 5o Q !, !, : rnil :
Deep in Hinterland symphony
To Suing a Baton + . wa y r =
Barlow to swing its baton for spell
at Carnegie hall, even If his first
program was of foreign origin. Mr..
Barlow swung cowboys quirt be-
fore he ever waved a baton, worked
in lumber camps and engaged in
other uniquely American occupa-
tons before his career as a must
clan.
He caught the real American
idiom, in speech and music and
in his Is years conducting the
CHS orchestra, he played Amer
lean composers and f0stered
American. genius. In 1910, he
was awarded a certificate Of
merit by the National AssOcia-
ton for Composers and Conduc-
tors as ''the outstanding native
interpreter of American music"
during that season.
When he was around II, Mr.. Bar
low left his home at Plain City,
Ohio, where he was born, for a job
on Colorado ranch, near Denver.
He rode an Old Paint and rode an
Old Dan and made the little dogies
git along for about two years and
liked it SO well that he almost made
it q business. However, he was d.
verted to the University of Colorado,
where he swarmed all over the mu-
sic department in his glee club and
orchestral activities. A necessary
sabbatical interval Of heaving logs
and slabs in an Oregon lumber camp
landed him at Reed college, Oregon,
where he picked up an ALB. de-
gree, scholarship at Columbia uni
versity, and $25. Thus accoutred,
he crashed New York, conducted
choral societies and made his debut
as an orchestra conductor at the