Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. Cn NOVEMBER ?0. ifW? Washington, D. C. CAPITAL CHAFF Bernard Baruch, who has been commuting from New York when ever the President desired his serv ices in Washington, is now looking for permanent quarters in Washing ton. Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish has rented the old Robert E. Lee house in Alexandria, suburb of Washington. When a New York banker came to Washington on a government job, he wanted to rent a Georgetown home belonging to Mrs. Lionel At- will, ex-wife of both General Mae- Arthur and actor Atwill. But the banker balked at the rent. “I can’t pay that -nuch,” he said. “I gave up a $45,0C0 job to come here.” . . . “That’s nothing,” retorted Mrs. At- will, “I gave up a $50,000 husband!” Once when Mrs. Atwill was asked if she didn’t regret divorcing Mac- Arthur, thus losing the limelight of a great hero, she replied, “Which is the greater figure—Josephine or Marie Louise?” • • • STEALING THE STARS Washington is full of movie moguls all worried about the fact that their big stars are leaving them. Trou ble is the $25,000 ceiling on incomes. Hollywood stars figure this is an opportunity to jump their contracts, and everybody is now out stealing each other’s stars—or trying to. The ins and outs of the new in come ceiling are difficult. But in brief, here is how it affects Holly wood. The total salary which can be paid under the new ruling is $67,000, which, when tax deductions are made, gives a net income of $25,000. Certain other deductions also are allowable, but the treasury regulation specifically states that additional money to care for these deductions cannot be paid out by the companies. If they do pay them, the government may require them to make good the outlays. This is what gripes the movie stars. Some of them have been getting salaries running up into the $200,000s, so to come down to $67,000 is quite a plop. Furthermore, movie contracts are for one picture, with an option '.ak- en on the next and then the next. So with the companies unable to pay high salaries, the options on their stars are automatically broken. * * • HEROES WITHOUT HEADLINES You don’t hear much about them and their names don’t get into the headlines, but some of the boys do ing great jobs in Egypt are the tank repair crews of the U. S. ordnance corps. When a tank is damaged in ac tion on the Egyptian front, an Amer ican crew goes out at night with a big auto-transport truck, not unlike those which used to carry passenger cars from Detroit to retail auto deal ers. They load the crippled tank on board, haul it behind the lines where mobile machine shops have been set up, and in almost no time it is repaired. • • • U. S. SOLDIERS—U. S. FARMERS Forthright Sen. Charley McNary comes from Oregon, where the farmers have had a lot of trouble this year getting men to pick their fruit and harvest their wheat. So McNary wrote to Secretary of War Stimson pointing out that there were two army cantonments in Ore gon, that it might be an excellent thing for the nation’s food supply and for national co-operation gen erally if some of the soldiers were given furloughs and allowed to help Oregon farmers with their crops. Secretary of War Stimson wrote back rather tartly that soldiers of the U. S. army had to work at war, and that the idea was preposterous. A little later Senator McNary no ticed newspaper accounts of the way American soldiers in England had taken time-to help English farmers harvest crops. So he wrote Stim son again. “The work of our men in training for war must be shot to pieces in England,” McNary said, “in view of the fact that American soldiers are working in the harvest fields.” The secretary of war replied a little lamely that if American troops in England were working in the har vest fields, they were doing it on their own time. But he welcomed no more suggestions about helping farmers here at home. • • • MERRY-GO-ROUND Undersecretary of State Welles has made it clear that Chairman Ed Flynn of the Democratic nation al committee will be appointed to a Latin-American diplomatic post only over his dead body. The President, always an opti mist, will make one more attempt to bring the AFL and CIO together by inviting Bill Green and Phil Mur ray to the White House. Labor lead ers say privately, however, that there will be no agreement. Both sides will patch up a jurisdictional truce and agree to refrain from membership raids for the duration. Navy department communiques are short and sweet. In the navy department’s press section, answer ing queries from newspaper offices, are two young officers, Lieut. Short and Lieut. Sweet. RESTAURANT SCENE Waiter—You wanna order now or after you make up your mind what I can’t get you? Customer—I’ll look over the menu first. Waiter—Don’t hurry; we probably haven’t got it anyhow. Customer—There’s as many things on the menu as ever. Waiter—That’s just to hold your Interest. » • V Customer—How is your porter house steak? Waiter—Pretty good; how is yours? Customer—Listen, could you pick me out a good one? Waiter—Extra thick? Customer—Yes. Waiter—Nice and juicy? Customer—That’s it. Waiter—Very lender, with lots of gravy? Customer—Exactly. Waiter—You want it medium well done, with no bone? Customer—That’s the idea, gar- con. Waiter—We’re all out of it! Customer—But why lead me on like that? Waiter—I have to consider your morale. • • • Customer—Well, lemme see . . . you used to serve a fine English mutton chop here. Waiter—I recall it, too. You wouldn’t care for some boiled cod, would you? Customer—I guess you can bring me a couple of regular lamb chops . . . and please stop laughing. Waiter—Those were the good old days, weren’t they? Customer—What were the good old days? Waiter—Away back when you could order chops in a restaurant without having anybody laugh at you. Customer—This is most annoying. Haven’t you any chops here? Waiter—If we had any chops we would call in a pianist and write a song about them. Today’s special might interest you. It is broiled mackerel. Customer—I don’t like fish. Waiter—You WILL! • • • Customer—Ah, I see what I want. Roast beef! Waiter—Would you mind repeat ing that? Customer—You heard me. Waiter—Yes, but it brings back such lovely memories. Say it again, please. Customer—Very well . . . roast beef. Waiter—Thanks, now we can go on with your order. How would you like some filet of sole, an egg dish or maybe some chicken? Customer—I’m ordering this dinner! Waiter—You’re not ordering; you’re just hoping. I could bring you some very nice had dock. • • • Customer—I’ve a good mind to leave here and go to another restau rant. Waiter—If you expect to get any meat you may have to leave here and go to another country. I’m get ting tired of you. I’ll give you five minutes to accept fish or chicken. Customer—Now look here . . . Waiter—Listen, how will you have it, boiled or broiled? Customer—Have what? Waiter—The swordfish. Customer—I give in. War is war. Waiter—Good. And if we’re out of swordfish you’ll get chick en a la king. • * • SHARE THE WEALTH! Sight of folks in cars luxurious Here of late has made me furious. I’m a socialist at heart. Since my tires have come apart. —Merrill Chilcote. • • * The Smithsonian Institution has Just officially ruled that the Wright Brothers, not Professor Langley, were the pioneers of sustained air plane flight. Maybe they would all rather disclaim it now. • * * “The reason some men don’t like the draft,” says Merrill Chilcote, “is that it makes their middle names public.” * * * TAX HEROES Consider Jeptha Otis Spink— He can afford to smoke and drink! When he would use the telephone He doesn’t have to float a loan! • » • The all-purpose ration book is being shown and is quite cute in size and colors. But a lot of us still think that it would be nice to have a couponless week. • » • The OPA has ruled that the price of a glass of beer should not be in creased to meet the new tax. The tax is an extra $1 a barrel or one- third of a cent per bottle. If the cedes can sell you a smaller scuttle of suds at a higher price they’ll do it, thinks Bibulous Barney, who de clares that life’s greatest annoyance is the “smallest glass of beer in town for 15 cents.” • • • Simile—He’s so generous he’d split his cup of Java with you. —Buy War Bonds— Merchant Marines Taught ‘Abandon Ship’ Methods The U. S. merchant marine eadet basic school at Coyote Point, San Mateo, Calif., holds a demonstration of equipment used to teach methods of abandoning ship. Photo at left shows cadets jumping into the water at the word “abandon ship,” from frame replica of ship’s quarters built on deck. The men must then right and climb aboard a standard life boat (upper right). Picture at lower right shows merchant marine cadets bailing out the life boat. Canadian Oil Reserve Harnessed by Science Ten thousand square miles of prehistorie, mineral-rich oil sands in Alberta, Canada, will provide the United Nations with huge quantities of oil. Experimental production has been in effect for more than a year at Mc- Murray, 300 miles northeast of Edmonton. Photos show (left) conveyor belts carrying oil sands to the separa tion plant where, through flotation, hot water washes oil free from sand. Right: “Black gold” flows freely through the pipeline after the separation process is completed. Bullets for Offense and Defense U. S. Flying Fortresses not only spell death in the form of heavy bombs. Their excellent armor plating provides a good defense against enemy fighter attacks, and the many guns with which the Fortresses are equipped make them deadly to the would-be-attacker. Somewhere in Great Britain a Flying Fortress prepares for a raid over Hitler’s Europe. Picture shows its cartridge belts that feed the machine guns being checked. We Hope the Tea’s Good, Gen. Mac Arthur Gen. Douglas MacArthur sips tea while on an inspection tour of United Nations positions in New Guinea. Seen to the right of MacArthur is Gen. Sir Thomas Blarney, commander of Australian land forces (profile). Air Raid Signal Police Chief James Gray of Mc Keesport, Pa., with home-made air raid signal which he put together with a couple of pieces of old pipe. He devised this signal after Mc Keesport was unable to agree on a signal. Gray got the idea from an old police whistle, and submitted his creation as an alternative to a $100 air horn which the defense council had contemplated buying. Help for Midget Johnnie Winters, midget assembly expert at an aircraft plant in Los Angeles, gets a helping hand from Edith Chadwick, who assists him when he gets in a tight spot. Grantland Rice B ILL BRADY handled Jim Corbett when the pompadoured stylist boat John L. Sullivan 50 years ago. Later on the able Mr. Brady direct ed Jim Jeffries, another of the old- time greats. For more than 50 years Mr. Brady has kept in close touch with boxing and the fight game in general, but he admits now that no one can guess what might happen be yond the fog of war. “The length of the wa* - will be a big factor,” Bill says, “and who can say how long this war will last? “We know that after another year or two in the army that neither Joe Louis nor Billy Coun can hope to be what they were st their peak form. I am referring to speed, skill, timing and reflexes. They may be just as healthy and just as powerful, but there is almost sure to b* a dull edge on their sharpness. "This doesn’t mean, however, that they will be outclassed if they re turn to ring action. For who is com ing along to show much more? The Difference “This war is different from the first World war,” Mr. Brady con tinued. “The kids of 18 and 19 now are going into service. There is more boxing now, and there will be more and more boxing than any ex tended sweep of army and navy camps ever knew. This applies to millions. “There will be a big average im provement on the boxing side. More men will know how to handle their fists and use their feet in the ring. But developing a champion under war conditions is another matter. It can be done, but it will take time— plenty of time after the war. “We might take the case of Gene Tunney,” Mr. Brady went on. “He went from the marines to t’ e heavy weight title. He was a fine all- around fighter. “But don’t forget that the armis tice came in November, 1918, and 1926 had arrived be fore Tunney reached the top. Here was a smart, hard-work ing fellow who trained perfectly. Yet he needed eight years to get there. Three years after the war Gene was still just another floundering heavy weight, as he proved against Sol dier Jones—I think that was the name—on the Demp- sey-Carpentier card. “Gene’s boxing improvement came after he left the marines—and you won’t find as many ambitious, determined young fellows as Tunney was in his eight-year campaign. And on his way up he had to weather one of the worst beatings in ring history —from 160-pound Harry Greb.” Someone—But Who? “As I said before, there are sev eral millions taking boxing lessons now from good instructors all over the country—camp by camp,” Bill said. “The majority from this big group never would have boxed if it hadn’t been for camp training. Naturally, many of these will show undeveloped talent that may lead to something after the war.” Jack Dempsey brought out this point at his coast guard station. “We have several thousand kids here taking boxing lessons, learn ing at least how to stand and how to use their hands,” Jack said. “Nat urally, the great majority of these never could be good fighters in the ring. It would be the same if you taught the fundamentals of golf to several thousand youngsters. From this group you might get five or six possible champions — maybe not even that many. But you would get a few who could take high ranking. “It is the same way in boxing. I don’t think many people know how many have been trying to get some place in the ring game—up in the thousands—but less than I per cent ever get anywhere. One of the Toughest “Boxing is one of the toughest games in the world to face. When you have a heavyweight champion, for example, you rarely have more than one or two challengers who are any good at all. Baseball and foot ball and golf are full of stars, but there are never many good fighters —I mean topnotchers. “I agree with BiU Brady,” the Manassa Mauler went on, “that out of several millions who are being given intensive training under many good instructors, we should be able to dig np many more good ring fighters than we have had before. But this is something that belongs to the future, not to the present. We won’t have the answer for some time, but it must be on the side of youth when we get it. Just as in any other game, the younger they get started the better chance they have.” The truth of Dempsey’s state' ments will be proved in the future. Gene Tunney VTOU’LL like these cuddle toys because they’re easy to sew and made of scraps, too. Baby will love them because they’re small and soft. • • • Pattern 7121 contain* transfer pattern of toys; Instructions for making; materi als needed; illustration of stitches, your order to: Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept. * S2 Eighth Are. 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