The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-12-11
WHO'S
NEWS
This Week
Lenuel r. Parton
Consolidated Features. --wNU Release.

is exultant, vociferous and omni-
Introducing Two Fr ey~ Mo-
Gun Patton, Tank rocco as the
Herding Champion c 6 nm 41a;.
ed States forces there. The general,
who earned his two-gun title, as it
will be explained later, was educat-
ed in the Classical School for Boys
at Pasadena, Calf, before he went
to West Point. There he may have
learned of Hannibal's elephants. At
any rate, he was out early as tank
specialist, commanded the first tank
brigade in the First World war, was
severely wounded and lavishly dec
GRATED, and thereafter became the
champion tank-herder of the U.S.A.
He is now commander Of the first
armored corps. He was in command
of the landing and hopping up op-
erations on the African Atlantic
coast.
At 81, he is bull-voiced, hard, mus
cular and fit, his two guns still in
his belt, and with nothing written
of but his hair. That the Pasadena
louisiana of the Rose Bowl and the
dolce far niente should turn out from
q classical school the toughest,
rootin-tootin' general Of our high
command is something to put down
in the book.
As to the two guns, Colonel
Patton, with General Pershing's
punitive expedition into Mexico,
was chasing Villas men through
the chapparal. He caught up
with Candelario Cervantes and
a band of exceedingly tough
hombres. It came down to a
close-range shooting match, with
the colonel backed up against
wall, whamming away at the
mounted Cervantes troop, with
two .45-caliber revolvers. He
emptied them both, and as he
started to reload, bullets came
SO close that they hemstitched
his silhouette on the wall. He
got both guns working and
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happily back to headquarters.
He was the first officer assigned
to the tank corps in the First World
war, and organized and command
ed the 304th brigade. On September
Is, 1918, at Bogais, he led six Amer
lean and two French companies into
action-with % tanks. He was.
wounded. For this and other such
exploits, he was awarded the Dis
tinguished Service cross, two cita-
tons, the Silver Star, the Purple
Heart, the Congressional Medal Of
Honor and the World War medal.
In the postwar years, he contin-
ued as tank specialist, and in De-
cember, 1910, was giving his thun-
dering herd workout in Abbeville,
Ga. A year later, his 'hell on
wheels" Second Armored division
was the leading attention-getter
around Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. They
had only 75-mm. field artillery guns
then, but it is noted in dispatches
from North Africa that the general
is all set up with lot of new 105-
nm. self-propelled guns, and that
one of them blew hole in Fort
Lyautey big enough to let his men
through to capture the fort.
DEERE PUCHEU, one Of the
toughest and toughest of Hitler's
me-too men of Vichy, was the loud
est in defamation of America and
War Makes More first to =. d, S
Queer BedfelloWs when tn 9
Than Do Politics 1a .ill1s. came anne
to Africa he fed, to string with a
winner in his customary manner. As
chief of the Vichy Gestapo, he had
charge of shooting hostages. It
would appear that, in Africa, he
might embarrass even our state de-
partment, necessarily hospitable TO
all corners in wartime emergency.
The Fighting French naturally find
M. Pucheu hard to take.
He is synthetic strong man, big
and husky, who built himself up with
tough talk and a pair of OUTSIDE
rubber-tired spectacles which make
him look ogreish.
His participation in the inside
Job which delivered France,
roped and hog-tied to Germany.
began in 1928 when he became
foreign relations officer for the
Comite des FORCES, the steel and
munitions cartel organized two
years previously. to betray
France and fatten Germany
from that day to this. Flandin,
inland outer in big-time French
politics and on the receiving end
Of every big smear of his time,
including the Stavisky scandal,
was a co-conspirator with Pu-
cheu from the first, and fed with
him to Africa-a n0is0me two
some and double-threat.
Pucheu worked offstage for years.
keeping the French Lorraine ore
steadily routed into Germany, but
in 1896 stepped out into the open.
with the raucous and rotund Doriot,