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Sedona pte YF usig along in of THIS war, sx ¥ effective U. S. . 0g problem of oF Department; trialists had to <p, before they Wi ivis. ! 7 x A His Secretary d, and took it Beep ow tea UF Fas wad Lae a od a h Tal Beet aha Ba has Mee tl terrane 2 Wt wee sy wt n ave wer ALLEN epace ere given widest cf those of tha Datiy Mirror.) French in Desperate Need of Planes W/ASHINGTON.—The French have secretly been al- most on their Knees before 1’. S, officials to beg, borrow, or buy more airplanes. The French aviation skuation 4——~ ls desperate. How many plattes have been smashed is a guess— perhaps to the French, them- — selves, But most of their Re DREW PEARSON 2.2 POREPT ¢ =F Seosse ee eww STG AWODAL Oy (Fhe authors of the cotumn which «: ri t latitude, Treir viewpoints do not nocesserity rofte uy ms , the war started. ‘ere far-sighted than began ordering planes ' American market long force on the Western Front has . -y' b . kt been devitalized. Probably at | Py. ch "Oot Muiled in” Maan least an equal number of Nazi | Die; , Chat caused such » furore Planes have erashed, but Ger- i Senate . 3 many started with about 18,000 be Otereign wopue being gold to a foreign country. Planes, the French with about | (Now thers iz no furore.) 2,000. The British Rave been woe- The French were counting on British air support. Original tac- tics were for the French to do the bulk of the lend: fighting with the British reinforcing in the air. This before anyone reai- ized Hitler was going to break through the French lines and head for the Channel Now Britain needs her every fully inefficient in their pur- chases, When the last British purchasing migsion arrived just a few w aga, instructions were to order 10,000 planes. But suddenly cabled instrue- tons from Londoa cut the pur- chase to 4,600. Why Sir John Simon changed his mind is not known, for it came just as the plane for home defense. Allies were in a bad spot ia .y,50 desperate was France that | Norway. Also, it came just aol OR ite dic morte hantebotcthe, ceuenaion of the | - ifas- ‘'g and that 4 a FU. Ss. ats in- f Brit- ‘to co ying. aission achine ‘acture yet re- a Lon- cable ta not ‘rs (or at the ny of- wr De fealers > with fritish imber + i? op . Ve, fA” PR a a re % Smart Birds ~ On a recent inspection of the site for the new Na air achool at Corps Christi, Temes, members ef the House Naval Affairs Commit- tee visited Rep. William Kle- berg's famous King Ranch. Driving his colleagues about the vast estate, Kleberg gave them a demonstration of his markinanship. As a pigeon flew over his tar, be jammed on the brakes, grabbed a rifle and got the bird. Xilaberg’s gucats were wide-eyed. “That's mothing,” he smiled. “We'll run across a wild turkey, and I'll show you some real shooting.” Sure enough, down the road a wild turkey suddenly whirred across the road. Again Kle- berg grabbed his rifie and fired. But this time he missed. “Bill,” asked Rep. William Jacobsen of Iowa, “how come you cam shoot a pigeon on the wing but miss a big turkey?” “Well,” explai Kleberg gravely, “I always hit them in the bead and these wild turkeys are smart, When this one saw me aim—he ducked!” aome ald system of buying and manufacturing thre men. | Merry-Go-Round | EP. JED JOHNSON of Ok-, lahoma, took Roosevelt by surprise, bringing his 5-months- old son to the Executive offices. The President teok the baby on his knee, posed for the parents’ movie camera, and concluded by saying: “This is a trea, Jed. _dnd it’s easy to see from the boy's good looks that he takes after—his mother.”...The new Federal judge for the sixth cir-- cuit is sure to go to Tennessee, will be a friend of Senator MeKellar . . . Paul Randolph, New York tax expert, probably will get the next Federal judge- | ship in New York City ... Tom Dewey's managers leave nothing to chance. Weeks before his Middle West sppesrances, his ~ mansgers appear in a city to BtepArE au ser (Copyright, 1944 Tulied Fearares Myndicate, Ine} a= ugh middle- t