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* & of THIS war, = | effective U. 8. (0g problem of x Department; trialists had to , before they in 1918, , His Secretary d, and took it (Fae authors of By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN the cotumn which appear: laitiude, holr vletcpoints de nor mencaneriy WASHINGTON.—The French have secretly been al- most on their knees before U’. S, officials to beg, borrow, Is d plates have been smashed is a guess— perhaps to the French, them- Front has been devitalited. Probably at least an equal number of Nazi planes have crashed, but Ger- many started with about 18,000 planes, the French with about French were counting on British air support. Original tac- tics were for the French to do the bulk of the land: fighting with the British reinforcing in the air. This before anyone real- ized Hitler was going to break through the French lines and head for the Channel. Now Britain needs ber every plane for home defense. desperate was France that She Ais Oates fom ERP es cy “tet > ‘ N. Oh ou " we is bas ch “pilot killed in re rr iY or buy more airplanes. The French aviation situation +—~ Seren ordering planes ordering planes American market tong Tt was a San Diego, that caused such x furore a, ee over U. 8. planes shy a foreign country. iNew tere IF no furore.) wy The British Rave been woe- fully inefficient in chases, When the last British purchasing mission arrived jast & few weeks ago, instructions were to order 10,000 planes, But suddenly cabled instrac- tions from London cut the pur- chase to 4,600. Why Sir John Simon changed his mind is not known, for it came just as the Allies were in a bad spot in Norway, Also, it came just Maktuths 9etispalian of the illas- @ and that 8 eg fm the widert reflect thore ef the Daly Mirren) ~¢ |French in Desperate Need of Planes +, the war started. Kle- a's famous King Ranch. Driving his colleagues about the vast estate, Kleberg gave them a demonstration of his markmanship. i grabbed & rifle and got the ii Klaberg’s gucats were wide-cyed. “That's nothing,” be smiled. “We'll run acrosa a wild turkey, and I'll show you some real shooting.” ing. Sure enough, down the road a wild turkey suddenly whirred ¢ road. Again Kle- berg grabbed his rifie and fired, oe 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.” explained Kleberg eravely, “I always hit them in the head and these wild turkeys are smart. en this one saw me aim—be ducked!” ld system of buying and Manufacturing through middle: men. | Merry-Go-Round | EP. JED JOHNSON of Ok-, lahoma, took Paeerek by urprise, bringing his 5-mont old's son to the Executive offices. ‘The President tock the baby on his knee, posed for the parents’ movie camera, and concluded oy saying: “This is a treat, J And 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 Sena McKellar Paul Randolph, New York tax expert, proba will get the next Federal judge- ship in New York City... Tom Dewey's managers leave nothing to chance. Weeks before his Middle West appearances, his” managers appear in a city te BIEPATE yy mer ous (Coprrlght, 1964" Talted Features Byndioate, T8e}