The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-02-18
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Delos Wheeler Lovelace
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NEW YORK.-The name of Napo-
~ leon Zervas keeps coming into
the news that is relayed from
Greece, and he may be the leader
Napoleon ZerUas his people
May Rise to Be will rally
Greek Tito Broz M W n EN- ;,u.d 5ns
try to retreat up the Valley of the
Vardar, down which they marched
in such easy triumph a while back.
Just now, as long ago in Yugo-
slavia, there has been a split
among Greek partisans, and
Zervas has just broken away
from the oldest guerrilla forces
TO set up his own movement. He
calls it the National Andartes
band and hopes to keep its
members free from the bribery
which, he says, taints the old
group.
Allied leaders in the Middle East
call Zervas Greece's ablest guerrilla
leader. Before the war he was an
officer of the regular army. Now
he calls himself General Zervas"
but whether he uses this title on
more than his own authority is not
clear. He is old enough to have
been a general.
His present fight against the
Nazis is being waged in the
northwestern province Of Epirus.
This is his home and his BIRTH
place. He knows every dim
trail over its wild mountains as
Alvin York knows his Tennessee
hills. Every tree, every rock is
o friendly shield, and every
small village a fortress with
hundred sally-ports out of which
to attack or when the enemy
presses hard g. escape to fight
again when the odds have
evened.
CINATRA fans from coast to coast
~ are rising to defend their idol
against slurs cast by Artur Rodzin-
ski. Older and soberer and more
Rodzinski Takes folk too
On Sinatra Winner led by Con-
Not as Yet Called auc.or oto-
speaking up in gentle reproof of the
maestro. This corner enjoys bit
of boogie woogie but still it thinks
that the conductor of the New York
Philharmonic should not 60 unde-
Tended.
Certainly he has courage. The
smoke caused by his quarrel with
dismissed New York musicians has
just stopped getting in his eyes, and
now he takes on the embattled teen
ayers. The man positively enjoys
squaring off for fight.
Of course age doesn't have to
worry him yet. He was born in
Spalato, Dalmatia, only so years
ago. And if he needs legal aid
in his squabbles, it's right in his
own head or ought to be.
To please his father he got a
law degree at the University Of
Vienna as well as a decorate
at the Vienna Academy of Mu-
sic. He began as conductor of
the chorus at LwOw; he went
on to Warsaw; came to the u. S.
at St0kOwski's invitation to be
assistant director Of the Philadel-
phia orchestra. This was in 1926.
He isn't the long hair that Sinatra
calls him although he has an ample
pompadour. He has tall virile fig
ure, nearsighted lively eyes, and a
quick likeable grin. His manner on
the podium is matter-of-fact but
he has plenty of temperament, as
all know who listen in Carnegie Hall
and over the revealing air waves.
THE seldom-heralded earl of Sell
= borne (Roundel Cecil Palmer)
reports that Germany cannot hold
out much longer, and the announce
ment Is as
Reports Germany significant as
Close to Bottom one would be
er telling of
shattered Nazi corps. Se1borne is
Britain's minister of economic war
fare and it is his business to keep
tab as much on Germany's re-
sources as upon those of his own
country. If he didn't know what
bombings and the blockade and