The midland journal., 1943-03-12
Who's News
This Week
Delos Wheeler Lovelace
Consolidated Features -wNU Release.

| Consolidated Features.-WNU Release.
EDITORS NOTE With the death Of
| LemueI y. Parton. DeIos W. Loveface.
Journalist Of many years experience. will con-
duct the WHO'S NEWS column.
NEW YORK.--Maj. Ruth Cheney
Streeter, new Marine Corps
Women's Reserve director, has been
an airplane pilot since 194O Dates
More Reason for en5 Mn .hosa .is, :,
Adding 'in the Air Mrs. Street
ToMarines' Hymn sav er $ sha aiary ansy
born in 1895. That would make her
As when she began to fly. Not
many women do that at that age.
There isn't another, probably, be-
tween the Halls of Montezuma and
the shores of Tripoli; fact doubt
less pleasing to the marines as the
major scouts the country seeking
$4,000 recruits for her command.
A year or so after her first les
son the major had commercial
license, too, and little time back
the 126th squadron, army air forces,
made her honorary pilot. She is
also the only woman on New Jer-
sey's defense councils committee on
aviation.
Major Streeter's. home is at
MOrristOwn, N. ]. Before the
war there were few town
schemes and stratagems in
which she didn't have a hand.
She belongs to six clubs, to the
Junior League and to the New
Hampshire Society of Colonial
Danes. When the war began
she expanded her orbit to in
clude most of the doings at
Camp Dix nearby. Now to Dix
she adds the marine corps. Her
children, happily, are all old
enough to go their own gait -.
daughter Lillian and sons Frank
and Henry, who are ensigns,
and Thomas w. Jr., who is in
the army reserve.
The senior Thomas W. is a law
yer and retired public utilities ex-
pert now collecting funds for the
Red Cross.
nNE college, three universities,
- ten years in the law and three
with the United States attorney gen.
eral have helped make Norman
Keeps Uncle San, m' " ni.'eir ! 9 :
From Being Rocked m n. A
In Big Land Deals sauaer tno one me
sidering the funny -diddles he has
lately uncovered.
MIR. LitteIl is assistant att0r-
ney general i'm charge of the
governments wartime real es-
tate business. Land is needed
for shipyards, housing and all
the army's great growing pains.
When the boys come marching
home the government will own
100000 acres, five times as
many as there are in the state
of Maine. In a venture SO vast,
Uncle Sam could be rocked to a
fare-ye-weIl. If he isn't, Mr.. Lit
tell will have earned a DISC.
Forty-four now, he joined the at
torney generals staff in 1889. Ear
lier he had practiced law in Seattle
after studying at Wabash college,
Oxford; Harvard and Washington
university. At Oxford he was
Rhodes scholar. He was born at
Indianapolis, Ind, and has been
married IL years. Two children.
Already his canny double-check on
real estate deals has saved the price
of few Flying Fortresses, maybe
of battleship. He cut one $195, 900
fee In half, cut a couple of COM
missions from 6h per cent to 3h
per cent, persuaded one land agent
to take fiat $50 fee on each of
600 deals although original claims
had run as high as $500.
DUDGET DIRECTOR Harold Dew
II ey Smith will compile the record
| of the administrative history of the
war; and he was handpicked by
ToCompile Record ie Presi-
OF Administrative dent on the
Hisfory of the War 1SysO nsro ocr.t =,
ic Supreme court justice. Neverthe-
less Republicans borrow trouble If
they wonder whether the record will
be on the level. Fifty years from
now undoubtedly anybody will be
able to travel the budget directors
miles of memos and learn the truth
about everybody's sins. Mr.. Smith
loves documents and data too well
to fnagle them even for his party.
When Associate Justice Frank
Murphy sold President R0Ose-
welt ON MIR. Smith he was budget
director Of Michigan. That was
three years back. He had got
to Michigan's state capitol after
righting the problems Of cities
in both Michigan and Kansas.
He was born in Kansas, As years
agO. He got a degree in engi-