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Delos Wheeler Lovelace
consolIdated Feattres.--WNu Release.

Consolidated Features.--wfyu Release. 4,
NEW YORK.--If John r. Deane
: ' could have kept onEwinning pros
motions as fast as he did in the first
months of his career in the United
Maj. Gen. Deane be would
Slated to Go Far long ago
At a Rapid Pace have had no
to conquer. He enlisted in the clos
ing hours of World War I, on Octo-
Der 8, two days after the Germans
asked President Wilson for an ar
mistice.. He was made q second
lieutenant on October 26, on the
very day Ludendorff resigned his
German command. Not that Lieu
tenant Deane had. the field marshal
worried. The two events just hap
pened to dovetail. BY the next Feb
ruary 1t was First Lieutenant Deane.
He Jagged for "a while after
that. He waited 16 years for his
majority. But he is q major
general now, and his present job !
in Moscow, at the head Of the
American military commission
which Is supposed to blow all
b0ttlenecks out Of cur 1end-lease
program there, is likely to move
him still farther upward, and at
fast pace, too. ri 4( ~
Deane is a Californian. Better,
he belongs to the toploftical inner
circle of Californians who were born
in San Francisco, that romantic GEN.
ter of fogs, tip-tilted streets and
overloaded evenings. He belongs to
the army's inner circle, too, is
graduate of the Army War college,
where only the smart officers go,
and Of the Command and General
Staff school. Forty-seven now. in
his 26 years of military life he has
served in nine states, the Panama
Canal Zone and China. Just before
the Moscow trip he was secretary
of the Combined Chiefs of Staff in
Washington. That, too, is q job
which goes only to the smart Off
GERS. stsEh M q giy4a!la
"A MOTHER friendly gesture from
4 = President Carlos Arroyo del Rio
Of Ecuador pleases but does not sur
prise the United States. Now those
Ecuador's Chiefin b his snail Il
Another Friendly country5yho
Gesture to u. ST. Wish to get
fight may enlist in our armed forces
with his approval.
@gnder DR.. Arroyo's presiden-
cy, Ecuador has sold us valua-
BILE rubber, has leased us invalu-
able naval and air bases on the
mainland and ON the Galapagos
islands. Or. Arroyo has made
US state visit, too. In 1912, a
tall, heavy man with big nose,
receding pompadOur, mus
tache, dignity, he visited Wash
ihgton,, West Point and New
York. His only son is being edu-
Gated here. 49, 'f
The small republic sitting so cock
lily astride the equator has had %
presidents since 1897 DR.. Arroyo,
elected in 1910, seems destined to
fill out his four-year term. Born in
1893 in Guayaquil, educated there,
his personality smacks Of this pro-
gressive seaport, rather than that Of
ancient, dreamy Quito, high above
in the mountains. III
He received his law degree at
20, practiced corporation law
with solid success, taught in his
alma mater, the University Of
Guayaquil, served many terms
as deputy to the national legis-
lature, was elected to the senate
and finally presided over the en-
] tire congress. He refused to be
candidate for president twice
but luckily for us was willing
in 1910. s
CPORTS writer's who knew him
~ when he was running the ath-
letic show at West Point said then
that Maj. Philip Bracken Fleming
! Maj. Fleming Has full i' admins
3 Words to Ease traitor, never
A Tough Problem at loss for
the wor d
needed to ease q bad situation, Now
that he is major general and Fed
'eral Works administrator, he still
has the needed word. Three, in factJ
They are: IA billion dollars"
That much monoy, the general
reckons, will nicely cushion the
impact Of postwar unemploy-
ment feared by SO many. Re-
publican voices offstage seem to
groan that so much money ought
I to cushion anything, but the tact
full general pays them no never
mind. 80
Fleming finished up with West
Point 10 years ago. An army engi-