Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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1 THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C. Washington, D. C. CONGRESSIONAL BROADCASTS Although congress has consistent ly refused to permit its proceedings to be broadcast to the taxpayers who foot the bills, one New York radio station has now taken the bull by the horns, will dramatize con gress to its listeners once a week. Station WMCA, New York, has de cided to take the most interesting portions of each week’s debate on the floor of the house and senate, re broadcast them with actors portray ing the legislators, give the public a sample of what sort of repre sentation it is getting in the nation’s capital. The idea was originally proposed to Florida’s Sen. Claude Pepper by WMCA’s new owner, former Federal Housing Administrator Nathan Straus. Pepper then introduced a resolution in the senate urging that debates be broadcast, but has been able to get nowhere with his resolu tion. Meanwhile, Straus polled the ra dio industry on his plan, found that many other stations want to do the same thing and will probably broad cast dramatizations similar to that being worked up by WMCA. Con gress can’t stop stations from dramatizing its debates, so will probably watch its speeches more carefully when it learns what is be ing done. * * • MANPOWER SHORTAGE The War Manpower commission is considering a drastic new plan to provide manpower for war plants which are now having difficulty get ting enough labor. In the shortage areas, accord ing to WMC’s new plan, factories which have recently been put back on peacetime production after hav ing worked on war contracts will be closed until the war plants have suf ficient labor. This should remedy the fact that workers are flocking to those plants which have already been reconverted, figuring that the jobs there are more permanent. • • * PRICE OF BUTTER UP Because OPA’s dairy price chief, Arnold J. Burke, refuses to place a ceiling price on cream sold by producers, the price of butter may soon go up five cents per pound. This is to permit butter-makers to compete with ice cream and cream cheese manufacturers in buying cream. The latter have been getting better prices for their prod ucts, so have been able to pay more for cream than the butter factories. To solve this inequality, the War Food administration has proposed to OPA that the price of butter to the public be increased five cents per pound. Despite its attempt to hold down prices, OPA may have to go along. This increase will not solve the problem, though it will mean slightly more butter. Early this month, the butter in dustry advisory committeee urged OPA to place a ceiling price on cream at the producer level, but Burke would not consider it. NOTE — Burke, incidentally, sub mitted his resignation to OPA some time ago, but his resignation was never acted upon. It will be shortly, to his chagrin. • • • REPORT ON CHINESE COMMUNISTS U. S. concern regarding the long- smouldering Chinese situation is coming to a h'-ad as a result of two developments: 1. It became apparent that the Japs could not be licked merely by island-to-island operations in the Pacific. This type of warfare might destroy even the Japanese main is lands, but because the Japs have been moving their war industries to China, a major campaign on the Chinese mainland is going to be necessary. 2. The United States was able to send an official mission to visit the Chinese Communists or Agrarians for the first time in five years. This was arranged as a result of Vice President Wallace’s trip. The mis sion’s subsequent report, recently reaching the president’s desk, con vinced him that somehow or other the two divergent factions inside China must be coordinated. • • • HOW GUERRILLAS OPERATE The American mission’s report to the White House is a very human document. It tells a vivid story of the lengths to which free people will go to fight an aggressor. With no ammunition to speak of — per haps averaging 20 rounds to a man —Chinese guerrillas will attack a much stronger Jap force in order to take away their supplies. One of their most effective weapons is home-made dynamite, manufactured from saltpetre, and sometimes mixed with odds and ends of metal to make hand gre nades. Dynamite has been too pre cious to use in blowing up railroads, so the guerrillas rip up railroad ties and rails by hand. To thwart them, the Japs now rivet their rails to gether. So many telegraph poles have been sawed off by the Communists that the Japs now have to go to the trouble of making concrete poles. Man About Town: Noel Coward will apologize tor his careless comment on Brooklyn over seas soldiers in hospitals. ... Is Sec’y Morgenthau resigning from the Cabinet after this bond drive? . . . Washington insiders insist that Att’y Gen. Biddle will inherit a U. S. Supreme Court bench. His succes sor probably will be Tom Clark of the Dep’t of Justice. Bob Hope’s new col’m is said to have already made 60 gazettes. His weekly take is about a “G.” . . . Photoplay’s coming out with an ar ticle on Bette Davis and her Cor poral chum—quoting all items on them. When Bette was asked if she planned marrying, she replied: “I am 36 and too old for such non sense!” . . . And just what is the “March On Washington Movement,” which is listed in the N. Y. Classified (Red Book) on page 46? Flyers Map Bad Luck for Japanese Many secondhand Army cars are now being offered by dealers at $400 each. Some paid $200 for them. It costs another $60 to repaint from the Army color. ... If you think there is no racket on the cig short age, how come so many now show up wrapped in cellophane? The Red Cross in Hawaii and Aus tralia sent out urgent requests for publicity women, who are needed. Salary: $150 per month (to start) plus room and board. ... By now, each of the Army nurses who es caped from Bataan has been pro moted to at least the rank of Major. . . . Emergency surgery saved the index digit of talented Ethel Smith, the organist. Almost lost it in H’wood preparing sandwiches for servicemen. . . . Despite the re cent reports, pals of the heirs insist the N. Y. Yankees team is not for sale now. Unless, of course, you have a fabulous offer. ... 75 new mags will hit the stands within 6 months. They talk it over, lower photo, and load them up, npper photo, for attacks that repaid in part the debt owed the Japs for their surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. B-29s carry tons of destruction on each trip into the land of the “setting sun.” Few medals are awarded, but the hits are effective. ‘Carrying Coals to Newcastle’ Insiders hear that the banks are keeping a record of all large bills for Mr. Whiskers. From "C” notes up. The reason may be to call them in eventually and ask owners how they got them. Also to check on black marketeers, many of whom are offering 2 per cent to get them changed into 10s, 20s, and 50s. Upton Close hasn’t yet offered us any documented proof that Gov’t or other pressure groups got him fired off NBC. . . . When depositors of a certain bank (not in N. Y.) read that an accused Hitlerooter was in the owner’s employ—they withdrew nearly six million dollars by noon day of publication here! . . . Betty Hutton, we hear, is worth nearly a million slugs, and can’t find a H’wood house at any price. Members of the U. S. Army Engineer Petroleum Distributing company are shown unloading airplane of pipes from India to be used in the building of the India-Burma-China pipe line. The line will relieve the load of the road as well as the air force in furnishing the essential gas needed for planes attacking the Jap strongholds. SPARs All-Out for V-Bonds Sallies in Our Alley: Buss Faw cett, publisher (or, if you prefer, the mag-nate), reports on the maid sitcheeayshun in H’wood. Alexis Smith’s new maid was all dolled up the other day ready to accompa ny Alexis to the studio. The ac tress politely reminded her that she was hired as a housemaid, not as a personal attendant. To which the gal exploded: “Nutz to housework, madam. I only took the job so I could meet Errol Flynn.” . . . Sun ny Skylar offers cigarette-shortage gag No. 66543, to wit: “The cig famine has slowed the tobacco auc tioneers down to a drawl.” Memos of a Midnighter: That deafening explosion was Carole Lan dis screaming back at the Shuberts, who scolded her for missing rehears als, etc. . . . Judy Garland has her heart set on a Broadway musical and may not resume in H’wood for a while. . . . Garbo is no longer a vegetarian. Has to build up resist ance by eating food. . . . Smartest looking pair at Gilmore’s were the Ronald Colmans (Benita Hume). . . . That German ace (who is cred ited by the Nazis with bringing down 102 Allied planes) was shot down by an American, now back here. But I mustn’t reveal his name. Whv's that? Every state in the Union with a SPAR on duty in Washington, D. C. was represented when the Sixth War Loan roll was called at U. S. coast guard headquarters. More than 85 per cent of the enlisted SPARs through out the country bought bonds during the last war bond campaign, and hope to better this record during the Sixth Bond drive. In addition to individually signing up for bonds, these Spars have aided materially in the campaign in drives conducted in Washington as well as other cities where they are stationed. Answer Eisenhower This “hand packer” enables aeri al gunners and ammunition plant test gunners to link ten at a time into belts of any length, to help supply the ammunition needed by General Eisenhower and his fighting GI troops in Europe. The Late Watch: A 60-year-old fe male resort owner is having nightly rendezwoos with a caballero, age 25. . . . When Billy Rose’s “7 Lively Arts” premieres it’ll cost him one mill-and-a-Vi, including the fee for the Ziegfeld Theater. . . . Broad way’s toughest detectives are look ing for that louse who beat up a be- ribboned Army officer in a hotel. Cut his face to shreds with a broken glass. . . . Beaverbrook, they say, will invest 20 million to make Can ada the world’s movie center. . . . Maria Montez’s earrings have her husband’s pix on them. He’s Pierre Aumont, overseas. Newspapermen in New York hear rumors about the OWI pictorial serv ice. That it may be taken over by a news syndicate. The A.P.? . . . Socony will be the new sponsor of Info Please starting Feb. 12th. Same time, same station. . . . Returned Marines boost Ty Power this way: “We heard he was a regular guy, but his rating went away up when the rumor spread that he had even done some brig-time!” . . . The Paris edition of the H-Trib goes to press next week. Everett Walker of the staff here has gone to edit. How Food Prices Have Risen He Saw Tokyo Afire Chart shows how the food prices have risen in the United States since 1939, despite price control, ceilings and general effort to equalize living costs and wages. The new session of congress will see several bills I presented to remedy the condition. Several bills already call for in- -creased wages for federal employees. Maj. Jack J. Catton of Glendale, Calif., one of the pilots of the first B-29s to raid Tokyo, landed at Sai pan with General Hansell, report ing that hits had set Tokyo afire. TT IS highly probable that few foot- 1 ball players today recall the name of Herman Suter and the re markable Sewanee team he coached just 45 years ago. Herman Suter whs the Princeton quar terback who ran 95 yards against Har vard, back around 1895 or 1896. He was and still is on the small side, weighing around 140 pounds, with a shock of long blonde hair—at least it was blonde in those days. His story of the 1899 Sewanee team is the most remarkable foot ball epic in all football history. “We had 105 students at Sewanee that season,” Suter said. (Sewanee being a small but famous univer sity hid away in the Tennessee mountains.) “My football squad consisted of 18 men, from which only 12 or 14 could be used. Our schedule con sisted of 12 hard games, including a 2,500-mile trip in which we had to play five games in six days. The average weight of this squad was about 161 pounds. On this 2,500-mile trip we had to play Texas, Texas A. and M„ Tulane, L.S.U. and Mis sissippi, among the ranking colleges of the South. They were all strong that season. We had to jump from spot to spot by poor train travel at night, where we got little sleep. Yet this Sewanee team not only won all five games, but it wasn’t scored upon. “I can remember them still—Or mond Simpkins, one of the greatest football players I ever saw—a fine kicker, a fine ball carrier and the most terrific tackier and blocker I’ve ever seen since. There was Kirby Smith, son of Robert E. Lee’s famous lieutenant general—a 162- pound tackle. Also Ditty Seibels, a 158-pound greyhound back, and Rex Kilpatrick, brother of Yale’s famous end, John Reed Kilpatrick, now a general and former president of Madison Square Garden. These are just a few types I am giving you. “These men had the greatest spir it I’ve ever seen on any football field. Eight of them played through 60 minutes in all five games dur ing that six-day trip. The other three averaged 55 minutes. They almost fought me when I tried to take them out for a little rest. Yes, at the finish, they were tired and stale and battered, but they were still full of fighting football. Two Games in Three Days “But that isn’t all,” Herman Su ter told me. “We still had a tough schedule left. With this team picked from 105 students and a squad of 18 men, we still ha/d a strong North Carolina team and a stronger Au- i bum team, coached by John Heis- man, to meet three days apart. We beat North Carolina. Then we beat Auburn 11 to 10 in one of the rough est, fiercest and best football games the South has ever seen. There were riots along the side lines, and at times there were riots on the field. We were always in enemy territory since no one cared to come to our mountain fastness. “We finally finished the season with 12 straight victories over the best teams in the South. We had to do all the traveling. We had to be the invaders. Bnt we had three major football assets, and there wasn’t a man on the team who had been proselyted or paid in any way. “First, we had the finest football spirit that any football field has ever shown. Can you imagine a i 12-man squad today playing five 1 games in six days, and a player beefing when removed for rest? “Second, we had stamina and fiber, the ability to take more pun ishment than any of our rivals could give us, and hand it back. “Third, we had football skill— especially kickers, tacklers and ball carriers. Those were the main as sets over 40 years ago. After 45 years I still haven’t seen a better all around back than Simpkins. I have seen no one who tackled as fiercely. And I have seen few backs more elusive than Ditty Seibels.” It was a long trip back to the Su- ter-Sewanee days of 45 years ago in this new era where teams need a squad of 35 men to complete their schedules, many of them on the easy side. Someone may recall a more dramatic episode than the Suter-Sewanee campaign of 1899— five hard games in six days, with a working squad of 14 men—including five consecutive victories. What’s I the nomination? • • • Sidelights on the Pros Don Hutson of the Green Bay Packers was discussing professional football with me. “How about Herber after his lay off?” I asked Hutson. “There is an unusual case,” Don answered. “Good passing is also a matter of good timing and Herber is throwing that ball about as well as ever. He was always a great passer with the Packers and he is about as dangerous now as he used to be. The Eagles found that out.” Grantland Rice CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT HELP WANTED • Persons now engaged in essential industry will not apply without state-’ meat of availability from their local United States Employment Service. Reristered Pharmacist*—Good working eotw ditions. Attractive proposition to one who qualifies. Madison Drug Co., 500 Franklin, Tampa. Fla. 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