The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-09-24
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Delos Wheeler Lovelace
Consolidated Features.-wNu Release.

Consolidated Features.-WNu Release.
NEW YORK.-The worries that
L y clouded the round, good-natured
face Of Gen. Sir Thomas Albert
Blamey last April are fading fast.
Tvo-War General mares then
NotU Depreciates from think
Japs as Fighters ing ing abb about 1.-THE the
nese poised on nearby islands for
a jump to Australia. Now he ticks
off Guadalcanal, Buna and Coma and
sundry imminent captures and
opines that the Nips are hardly the
fighters they were cracked up to be.
The general should be a first
class Judge Of fighting men. He
has been in two big wars, most
ly up where the shooting was
most prolonged, and is rated
rafting good tactician. He COM
manded the Australians i'm
Greece and his handling Of his
battalions is one of the few good
memories of that desperate and
luckless venture. To the pres
emit generation of Australian SOL
diers Blamey is "Old Tom," SO
years old and loyal supporter
Of our own Gen. Douglas (they-
never invite him) Macarthur,
+. under whom he has commanded
the Allied ground forces in the
southwest Pacific for more than
q year.
When the war started Blamey re-
duced his own rank so that he might
lead the first division of Aussies in
the field. He had been the common
wealth's chief-of-staff. Before that
he was in charge of recruiting, and
long before that, when the Japs
were only faint distant hiss on the
horizon, he was chief of police Of
the state of Victoria. He married
late, at 81, and has a son. In the
First World war he was mentioned
seven times in dispatches. In that
war, as in this one, he led mixed
force of Australians and Americans.
With these he helped crack the Hin
denburg line.
ONCE "Dogs are people" on the
~ word of the club whose doings
are told by Darragh Aldrich over a
midwestern radio station, General
Gen. Ike Holds hoW Owe s Scot
Up Captaincy of tie, Telek,
This Dog of War cert lniy
rates this
column. Especially as he has been
invited to be the clubs commander
in-chief with the rank of captain.
Commander Harry C. Butch
er, naval aide to Eisenhower,
has conveyed to Mrs. Aldrich
from Africa, Scottie's thanks
and his masters qualification.
But, alas, General Eisenhower
DEGREES that Telek may accept
only a corporaPs rank! He's
i. been in service only since Octo-
Der IA, the generals birthday.
Telek was a year old on June 20,
1913. But before he reached his
first birthday he was a proud father.
His wife is Commander Butchers
Caacie, pronounced Khaki. 1t stands
for Canine Auxiliary Air Corps"
Telek and Caacie have son and
daughter now. Only satisfaction
over the way the war goes over
Swallowed the thrill of arrival of their
family, Commander Butcher writes.
Recently Telek tried to eat a scor-
pion, and now his tongue has the
outlines of an elm leaf. The gen.
eral was away but Telek knew that
under the circumstances he was en-
titled to the comfort of the generals
bed, and took it. During bombings
Telek and Caacie and the pups go
under the generals bed together.
"For the general, Telek and
Caacie afford opportunity for escape
from war;" writes Butcher. More
power to them!
y 10 DE JANEIRO repeats her as
N surance that a Brazilian over
seas force waits only call from the
United Nations, and if the call
BraziPs OUerseas odds are
Force Ready;War that the
Chief May Lead 1t com m no,
will be Brazil's war minister, the
serious but hard-riding cavalryman,
Enrico Gaspar Dutra.
Dutra has been Brazil's out
standing commander for almost
ten years and soldier in fact
as well as in heart since he was
16. He made up his mind then,
after reading limitless lives Of
military heroes from the deified
Alexander onward. He enlisted,
was graduated from the state