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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C. JUNE 5, 1942
Washington, D. C.
WAR FLASHES
Belgian anti-Axis saboteurs have
blown up one of the largest syn
thetic fertilizer plants in their coun
try. This is a serious blow to the
Nazis, who have been using the out
put of this plant for food production
in Germany.
For more than a month there
have been no cereals of any kind
on the Sofia market. Also the lack
of feed, commandeered by the
Nazis, is so severe that thousands
of horses have died of starvation.
Four small Buffalo concerns are
demonstrating that where there is
a will there is a way to aid war
production. Three of them, tomb
stone manufacturers, have obtained
contracts to sandblast castings
for battleships and machine gun
mounts. The fourth, which former
ly made wig-wag turn signals for
trucks, is now making armaments
parts.
When Nazi stooge Quisling recent
ly issued a call for enlistments in a
select “Quisling Guard” only 35
in the whole of Norway responded.
The labor shortage in Italy has
become so acute that all males be
tween 14 and 70 and all females be
tween 16 and 60 have been required
to register for "war work service.”
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CONGRESSIONAL GRAB
Even Washington, where congres
sional boodling is an old story, was
startled when some 300 senators and
representatives took "X” rationing
cards giving them an unlimited sup
ply of gasoline.
The capital well knows that few
members of congress have sufficient
“official business” to warrant an
“X” rating. Also, after the way
the boys got their fingers burned in
the attempted crude “bundles for
congress” pension grab, it was
thought they had learned their lesson
—for this session at least.
But it seems they haven’t, for the
gas grab is only part of the ration
ing ducking story.
OPA has said nothing about it,
but the inside fact is that a number
of the congressional statesmen have
privately demanded that the drastic
tire restrictions be lifted for them
so that they can get tires for cam
paigning purposes.
Further, none of these politi
cos said anything about extend
ing such a concession to their
opponents. They want tires for
themselves, but their rivals
must abide by the regulations
without any special favors.
So far OPA has turned a deaf
ear to the tire demand.
Note: One reason why “X” cards
were dished out so freely on Capitol
Hill was that a number of congres
sional wives acted as registrars.
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FAST THINKER
Popular pastime at Selective
Service is swapping stories about
draftees. Here is the latest making
the rounds:
A prospective draftee was taking
his physical examination and the
doctor directed him to “look at the
chart on the wall and tell me what
numbers you see.”
“What wall?” asked the draftee
blankly.
After looking him over a few min
utes the doctor told the registree the
army couldn’t use him. He put on
his clothes and departed. But on
the way home, he stopped off to see
a movie. When the lights went on
at intermission, he was startled to
find the examining physician seat
ed beside him.
But the draftee was equal to the
occasion. Nudging the doctor he
asked innocently, “Can you tell me
if this is the bus to Alexandria?”
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JAP OIL
Navy experts are closely watch
ing Jap efforts to rehabilitate the
destroyed oil wells and refineries in
the Dutch East Indies and Burma.
Orders have been issued that
samples of oil, grease, gasoline
and fuel oil from captured Jap
equipment be rushed by the
fastest route to the Engineering
Experimental station, Annapo
lis, where analysis will attempt
to ascertain from what region,
and even from what well, the
original crude was obtained.
Nearly all oil wells and refineries
were destroyed when the Allies were
forced to retire from the Nether
lands Indies and Burma, but the
Japs are working feverishly to get
the fields back in production. So far
there has been no sign of any Jap
use of this oil.
Note: A quart is needed for a
thorough analysis, but if no more
than a omear can be found, the
navy wants it.
• • •
MERRY-GO-ROUND
C.The hens of the nation are doing
their part for the war. This year’s
egg goal is 51,900,000,000 eggs—13
per cent more than in 1941. And
so far this year egg production has
been running around 16 per cent
greater than 1941.
C.Although one of the oldest men in
the senate, Senator George Norris,
“father” of TVA, is at his desk ev
ery morning by eight o’clock, never
misses a meeting of the committees
of which he is a member, and rarely
goes home before 7 p. m. .
T. S. Farrelly says he hears
Goebbels has stolen the U. S. ma
rines song and rewritten it, “From
the halls of Schicklegrubber to the
Shores of Musoleen.”
• * *
Apology in the Jap Manner
By error we sailed
The Coral Seas . . .
Most regrettable mistake—
Excuse, please!
—ELSA S. GREENE
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Lieut. Col. Pete Barron of the
U. S. marines says it is the
duty of every American to help
every Jap in his laudable desire
to return to his honorable an
cestors.
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In a Furniture Store
A lace-engirdled dressing table
Intrigues me more than mink or
sable.
In choosing this chartreuse chaise
longue
I couldn’t possibly go wrong.
A tree of life in finest crewel
I’d treasure as a flaming jewel.
And, oh, this deep and downy sofa
Is definitely what I go for!
Pretey things in house or garden
I’ll want until my arteries harden.
I’ll sacrifice them all to taxes
To sink an ax into the Axis!
—JENNIE M. PALEN
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Poor Imitation
It makes me laugh to great
extreme,
The stuff that some cafes call
“cream.”
—MERRILL CHILCOTE
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The Federal Reserve board has passed
'ules to curb installment buying further
and to limit charge accounts to 40 days.
That’s just in case you go to a store and
find that there’s anything you can gel.
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Hundreds of furniture plants have
been converted to the purpose of
winning the war. The process of
throwing everything in the house
except the kitchen sink at the enemy
may be said to be on.
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The motorcycle cop who used
to stop you for driving fast is
now going to stop you for be
ing out on the road without a
good reason.
* * *
TOAST
Here’s to the cruiser Marblehead—
Battered and bashed and bombed
and bled!
The Japs had bumped her off, they
said . . .
But she just doesn’t know she is
dead!
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“For Sale—Seven pairs of shoes.
Different sizes. Like new. E-Jl.”—
Ad spotted by Robert W. Rogers
in a Jersey paper.
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With the gas ration so low
aren’t you taking a chance,
mister?
* • *
“The property consists of a large
colonial house, a concrete sea wall,
bathing dock, tennis court and
garage on one and a half acre of
land.”—News item.
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It’s a good trick, if the architect did it.
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Simile by J. G. Winchester: As
unhealthy looking as an habitue of a
vitamin bar
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“Mrs. Roosevelt has an A card
but rides a bicycle as much as pos
sible."—News item.
* * *
No racing-handlebars, we hope.
• * *
“Not that I lack faith in our
present song writers and gen
erals,” writes Merrill Chilcote
from St. Joe, Mo., “but I sort
of wish John J. Pershing and
George M. Cohan were 25 years
younger.”
mm*
Sir—So you think John Kieran re
vealed something when he told of
being a saddler in a World war out
fit that had no horses! I was in one
that had horseshoers and stable
sergeants!—N. C.
• * •
Under the new government bans
on iron and steel it is going to be
pretty hard to buy any kind of a
gadget pretty soon. So many people
are making a habit of throwing them
around, that we hope it means a
shortage of monkey wrenches.
* • *
Our idea of a reckless Ameri
can, under those new steel re
strictions, is the fellow who still
loses his temper enough to
break a golf club.
• * *
One day at Belmont $1,899,607
was bet on race horses. How’s
that war bond sale coming
along?
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RIMES IN A DIMOUT
Oh, mortified
Is Broadway Gene:
When he goes out
He can’t be seen!
And shed a tear
For Spotlight Joe:
He’s got to screen
His ego’s glow.
Trainees Learn What Makes a Ship ‘Tick’
AIT'HAT single mistake, error or
’V so-called faux pas in the rick
ety history of sport cost the largest
amount of money?
There have been more than a few
such slips, many of them normal
mishaps, that ran the bill trom $100,-
000 to $500,000. That’s a fair chunk
of loose change for one skidding act.
This argument came up in the
wake of Billy Conn’s misguided left
hook which happened to land on his
pa-in-law’s bead in place of his pa
in-law’s chin, nose or abdomen.
Conn, one of the sharpest of the
snipers—labelled another Jim Cor
bett by Bill Brady—cost himself,
Joe Louis, Mike Jacobs and the
Army Relief fund from $500,000 to
$700,000 by being off the beam many
inches. This certainly ranks around
the top of all-time financial upheav
als in the wake of erring judgment
or erring physical skill.
From the mountains and the plains young Americans come down to the sea at Port Hueneme, Calif.,
to answer the call for immediate expansion of the U. S. merchant marine. Here at the new, spacious Mari
time Service Training station nearly 300 trainees are going through the streamlined three-months process of
becoming seamen. At left they are shown learning to operate a 5-inch gun. Right: Lieut. Jr. Grade G. A.
Paintor instructs his class in boat engineering.
Oil That Feeds Russian War Machine
Two Russian workers (left) stand on a hill at Baku, U.S.S.R., and look over a vast panorama of oil fields
with the derricks resembling pins placed at random in some gigantic pin cushion. From this rich oil land in
the Caucasus comes most of the fuel to feed the Red army fighting machines. It has been Hitler’s most
wished-for goal. Picture at the right shows an oil-cracking plant in Baku.
Jews Prepare to Defend Homeland
This photo, released in London, shows what the Jews are doing to
guard the traditional homeland against attack by the Axis. A gun post in
a crusader castle on the island of Cyprus is manned by Jews from Poland,
Rumania, Czechoslovakia and other countries that are temporarily under
the Nazi heel. They have already seen service in Greece, Crete and Libya.
Fish Story?
Maybe he isn’t telling his stooge,
Colonel Engel, about the big one
that got away, but you can bet.that
whatever Adolf is recounting here is
just as fishy as the tallest tales. The
photo was made on the Eastern
front, where the Russian army has
; been engaged in hacking highways
through Adolf’s invincibles.
Queen Among Britain’s Tin Miners * j ^ st WAAC Volunteer
Queen Elizabeth is shown chatting with Cornibh tin miners during her
visit to the tin-mining district in Cornwall, England. Her majesty holds a
piece of ore presented to her by one of the miners. This industry, neg
lected for many years, has been revitalized since the loss of Malaya and
thj Ea.t indies, on which Britain depended for tin.
Mrs. Jane House, 31, of Manhas-
set, L. I., first woman to volunteer
for the Women’s Army Auxiliary
corps. She is shown with Col. J. F.
Daye, recruiting and induction offi
cer.
A Few Others
There was the time Fred Snod
grass of the New York Giants
dropped a fly ball in Boston in the
Red Sox-Giant World Series of 1912
with Christy Mathewson pitching.
This happened in the stretch of the
eighth game and it cost the Giants
around $100,000 in the money split.
This mishap came from complete
overconfidence on an easy fly de
scending into Fred’s waiting hands.
There was the time when jockey
Johnny Pollard, riding Seabiscuit in
the Biscuit’s first Santa Anita Handi
cap, failed to hear the $100,000 thun
der of Rosemont’s approaching hoof-
beats. If he had, Whirlaway wouldn’t
be even close today for the Bis
cuit’s all-time cleanup.
There was the Hugh Casey-Mickey
Owen twister in the Y^ikees-Dodg-
ers battle last fall that lifted over
$200,000 from the two ball clubs
and sent it back to the ticket hold
ers in the wiped out sixth contest.
Casey had more stuff on the ball
than Owen could handle. He had
more than $200,000 worth of stuff.
So you can’t blame Owen.
Pastor-Lewis Fight?
Bob Pastor will make up a good
part of the Conn loss if a summer
heavyweight fight is arranged.
Which means, of course, that the
army must be willing to grant Joe
Louis a leave.
But a Louis-Pastor battle would
not draw as well as the cancelled
BILLY CONN
or postponed Conn entertainment for
several reasons. One is that this
would be Pastor’s third parking spot
in front of the two Louis fists, mean
ing right and left. Also, Conn came
closer than any other challenger to
removing the heavyweight crown
from the old homestead.
For all that, Pastor has earned
his place as the next in line. He
was at least smart enough not to
throw a left hook into a concrete
wall.
What’s the Source?
The amount of money sent through
mutuel windowr. so far this spring
has astonished even the racing opti
mists. This lias been especially true
of New York and Maryland tracks
where both the crowds and the cash
have set up a flow of new records.
New York will hit and pass the
$60,000,000 mark at Belmont. The
line at the $10 windows is the long
est racing has ever seen. This mon
ey, or a big part of it, comes from
new players who haven’t yet discov
ered there is a slight element of
chance in this racing game.
With extra billions scattered
around and fewer things to buy, in
cluding sugar and gasoline, they
storm the impregnable fortress of
thoroughbred chance.
No small part of this money comes
from war work for the govern
ment and that is one of the rea
sons that at least a part of it should
go back to government war work.
Just how long, or how much lo-vger,
this golden flow will pour through
the mutuel windows is another
guess. More than one big Behnont
day will pass the $2,000,000 mark.
It isn’t such a wrecking matter to
beat a race—or even to beat a day’s
card. But anyone who thinks he
can beat 12 per cent through a week
or a season has an imagination too
extended to be measured by either
time or space. As the late Mr.
Coleridge put it, he is strolling
“where Alph, the sacred river, ran
through caverns measureless to
man.”
CLASSIFIED
DEPARTMENT
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JOUSEHOLD
uriTSi
A fruit jar, tightly capped, can
be used effectively for mixing
fruit or milk shakes.
• • •
Pineapple and peach juices
mixed in ginger ale make a de
licious punch. Add the ginger ale
at the last moment and serve in
glasses or a pitcher half-filled with
crushed ice. The ice is needed to
dilute as well as to Chill the
beverage.
• • •
To protect posts against ter
mites, soak them (the posts, of
course) in fuel oil before putting
into the ground.
• • •
To help preserve the color of
beets and red cabbage when cook
ing, use a tablespoon of vinegar
to each quart of water.
• • •
When cotton sheets begin to
wear out in the center, rather than
sew the outside hems together,
make two pillow slips of the two
good ends.
• • •
Light-colored leather seats on
chairs should be washed frequent
ly. Make a lather of warm water
and mild soap, apply this on a
sponge to the leather. Wipe with
a clean cloth. Repeat until the
lather comes off clean, then wipe
dry and polish with another soft
cloth. See that the chairs are per
fectly dry before they are used.
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Freedom Ex’-.ts
Freedom exists only where the
people take care of the govern
ment.—Woodrow Wilson.
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Learning Is Not Free
All wish to be learned, but no
one is willing to pay the price.—
Juvenal.
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