The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-06-18
Who's News
This Week
By
Delos Wheeler Lovelace
CONSOLIDATED Features.-wNu Release.

Consolidated Features.-wNU Release.
NEW YORK Now here, now
~ there, old friends put their
brushes to the still incomplete pic
ture of Brigadier Orde Charles Win
He's Getting to Be csro ne Wv, wn ~
More and More Bur m as
Like Daniel Boone ju aa;l, s. with tn
Of silky whiskers and belt full of
Jap scalps. He is related to Law
renee Of Arabia. Certainly his three
months long commando raid was
the only taste Of victory that the
British enjoyed in their newest try
for the eastern shore of the Bay
of Bengal.
Before this war Wingate was
deft, polite in handling Arab
Jewish mixups In Palestine. In
1910 he few to Abyssinia and
steamed up the natives against
their Roman overlords. The
force he mustered finished of
10000 Italians and when prim,
trim Halle Selassie returned in
triumph to Adds Ababa, Wing
ate rode beside him ON a white
charger.
General Wavell, commander-in-
chief for Burma, himself called Win
gate there and then stood clear while
the 39-year-old brigadier trained stol-
i'd men Of Lancashire, tough little
Gurkas and loyal Burmese into the
jungle commando which wrecked
airfield, blasted ammunition dumps
and bridges and cut railroads be-
hind the Japanese lines.
Wingate's marriage was a sort Of
commando raid in reverse. Lana
Paterson, pretty and IS, sighted him
on Mediterranean liner when he
was 30. She announced on the dot
that he was the man she would
marry. They were married when
she was II.
DIAM FRANK BANE is ration
ing expert. The system on which
the people of these still well-fed
United States buy victuals is one
After Office Hours n,,+ "0 oIana
He Laid Rules for with Leon
Us Buying Victuals HENDERSON so...
other high-f1ying experimenters. But
Bane, they say, was the hardest
worker.
1t was work that he did after Of
fee hours because he had, still has,
one full-time job. He is director of
the Council of State Governments,
headquartering in Chicago, and, ac-
cording to Governor Stassen of Min
nesota, is the best administrator in
the country.
Administrator Bane's story is
that he earned Stassen's praise
by doing next to nothing. He
delegates all assignments and
sits back until the hired hands
drop in to say the job is cleaned
up. This system gives him
plenty of time for storytelling
which he likes, and for rocking
chairs, one of which he de-
mands in any home his wife sets
up. His stories, his rocking
chairs, help explain why every
new acquaintance, along about
the second meeting, drops all
handles and calls him Frank.
Fifty now, he has been married
for Is years. He was born in Vir-
ginia, went to Randolph-Macon col
lege and Columbia university and
served in the last war as a cadet
pilot before he buckled down. Prior
to landing with the Council of State
Governments he was a football
coach, a school principal and super
intendent and took a whirl at well
fare work.
THE Rt. Hon. Sir Archibald Sin
1 clair's paternal grandfather was
a blinking old codger out of Dickens
by Poe who saw calamity in every
Most Optimistic e and iiVed
OF Air OffensiUe fearfully on
Against Germany heraing ana soo
all that he was a baronet.
The maternal grandfather, howev-
er, was an American who piled up
much of the wealth Sir Archibald
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