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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C.
WORLD LEADERS PICTURE
By the thread of one man’s life
hung personal relationships which
affected nations. Prime ministers
and potentates, once close to Frank
lin Roosevelt, now must learn how
to get along with an unknown gentle
man in the White House. Certain
army-navy officials, who always
knew how Roosevelt would react on
this and that, now must do business
with a man they once criticized.
To illustrate how the pendulum
of fate has swung, here are some
of those who will miss Franklin
Roosevelt most:
WINSTON CHURCHILL — was
able to call the late President on
the telephone at any time night or
day. Their. relationship was more
intimate than with most members
of their own cabinets. When Church
ill couldn’t get Roosevelt, he talked
to Harry Hopkins. Their friendship
was equally close. Hopkins and
Churchill used to stay up late at
night sipping brandy long after
FDR had gone to bed, and it was
those late-hour talks that sometimes
worried U. S. army-navy men. For
vital policy sometimes was moulded
after midnight.
Churchill had planned to hold na
tional elections, probably in June,
and Roosevelt's friendship would
have been one of his great cam
paign assets. That asset is now out
the window. Instead he must do
business with a man he doesn’t know
and who chairmanned a committee
whose members were quite critical
of certain British lend-lease and in
ternational air policies abroad.
Some political observers believe
that makes Churchill’s political fu
ture very uncertain:
ADMIRAL ERNEST KING—The
Commander of the Fleet and Chief
of Naval Operations really ran the
navy under Roosevelt, and he ran
it with a high hand. He ignored the
late Secretary Frank Knox when
ever he felt like it, knowing he would
get a sympathetic ear at the White
House. He even overruled Knox on
such a trivial matter as a gray-blue
summer uniform for the navy,
though Knox had decided it would
cut too heavily into the consumption
of textiles.
Knox’s successor. Secretary of the
Navy Forrestal, has played in with
King. He had to. If King didn’t
agree with him, the admiral came
out bluntly in press conference and
said so.
But now there is a new man in
the White House who wrote a caus
tic report bitterly critical of the way
the admirals slowed up the war by
failure to build adequate landing
boats. The new President also did
not hesitate to throw his hooks into
the navy whenever the brass hats
got inefficient, especially on their in
excusable procrastination in build
ing destroyer-escort vessels. So
fellow-admirals are watching to see
just where King now sits.
GENERAL B. B. SOMERVELL—
No army officer clashed with the
Truman committee more frequently
and more head-on than the tough-
talking chief supply officer of the
army. Somervell differed with Tru
man on all sorts of things, and the
Truman committee reports are stud
ded with criticism of the army’s sup
ply job.
Truman is not a man to nurse
personal grudges and won’t demote
or transfer Somervell. General •
Marshall always maintained that de
spite mistakes he was the best man
they had. But Somervell will never
become chief of staff, or rise any
higher in the army.
HARRY HOPKINS—Of all those
around Roosevelt, Harry Hopkins
will miss him most. Their’s was
a very close personal relationship.
Although Harry has been criticized
vitriolically, sometimes even by oth
er presidential intimates, FDR nev
er wavered in his devotion. In a
way, Harry took the place of Roose
velt’s eldest son, Jimmie, whom he
once hoped would be his secretary.
So Harry will miss his old friend
terribly.
The critics will say that Hopkins
will miss him because of the glam
our, the power and the prestige. But
actually there was a love and devo
tion between the two men which few
realized and even fewer understood.
Noil—Several years ago, Roose
velt gave Hopkins permission to take
notes on their discussions and write
his memoirs. “You have no money,
Harry,” he said, “and you’re foolish
if you don’t take notes on our con
versations. You have my full per
mission to use them later.” But
Hopkins, always too busy, always
engrossed with winning the Chief’s
next objective, never had time to
take notes. He knows more about
Roosevelt than any other living man,
but most of the secrets will go with
Hopkins to the grave.
BERNARD BARUCH—The man
who talks with Presidents, no longer
has the key to the White House.
During the bitter battles between the
War Production board civilian group
and General Somervell’s military
clique, Baruch always backed up
Somervell. In fast, he was one of
Somervell’s most vigorous support
ers.
Truman, on the other hand, fought
in the WPB civilian corner. Also
Bemie was for Byrnes, not Tru
man, at the Chicago convention. So
he may not be such a close friend
tn Presidents any more.
AX/HEN this war is over, and the
expected boom in every form
of sport comes along, there is cer
tain to be a big need for much
stronger supervision than we have
today. This includes baseball, rac
ing, football, boxing and basketball
above most of the
others. For these
are the major spec
tator and big money
games.
This isn’t a mat
ter of today or next
week or next
month. It is a mat
ter of the big tangle
and scramble that
is coming after the
war is over when
there will be al
most countless prob
lems to face and handle, including
the return home of motions of serv
icemen, many of these hoping and
expecting to make a living out of
professional sport.
You can see what happened when
three or four unknown basket
ball players, in a New York college
almost totally unknown in a na
tional way, almost wrecked basket
ball. You can figure what will hap
pen if the same thing occurs to
baseball, boxing, racing and football
on a bigger scale.
Four Big Sports
U. S. Delegates to Conference
The United SUtes delegates to the San Francisco World Security
conference are shown above. Top, left to right. Secretary Stettinius,
Senator Vandenberg, Representative Bloom, and Cordell Hull. Lower,
Commander Stassen, Representative Eaton, Senator Connally and Vir
ginia Gildersleeve. Center, official emblem and view of home of the con
ference.
Flag Heroes Visit Truman
We can take them up in order:
Baseball — In my opinion, base
ball needs a ruling commissioner
who will be given full authority to
act; who will be well known and
respected around the country; who
can pick up where Judge Landis
left off. A commissioner with
out these qualifications, without
complete authority, would be use
less. It will be too late in case some
scandal breaks. Baseball can’t look
for any such supporting combina
tion as Judge Landis and Babe
Ruth to restore public confidence.
Racing — Racing is a tougher
problem to tackle, due to the
jealousies of competing states and
the tremendous taxes they gather in.
Yet it is a well-known fact that even
before racing was stopped, many
chiselers, crooks and gangsters were
edging their way into the richest fi
nancial harvest of all sport, where
well over a billion dollars was bet
through 1944. Where more than a
few jockeys were not above suspi
cion and where general larceny was
on the verge of breaking out at
any moment. This applies to all
racing states.
Only a J. Edgar Hoover eonld
help here, where an annual salary of
$100,000 would be excellent insur
ance. It would take a direct order
from Washington to bring this
about. Bnt it might be badly
needed at any given time later on.
Pro Football and Boxing
Football—It would be almost im
possible to have any ruling commis
sioner for college football, as so
many sections have their own com
missioners who have different and
conflicting ideals and opinions.
Bat pro football faces as many
problems as any sport. For one
thing, there is the probability of
at least one rival league. Be
yond that is the problem of many
returning stars, who still have a
year or two years of college play
left. Any number of these will de
cide to play pro football and leave
their college careers to the bosky
deU.
This can not only bring about open
warfare between pro leagues, but
also a civil football war between the
colleges and the pros. It can also
lead to any number of scandals.
Boxing—Here is one of sport’s
greatest needs. Boxing, like racing,
has been largely a matter of state
regulation. As it is, we have no real
boxing control. Champions in one
state may be thrown out in another.
Boxing and racing are the easiest
contests to throw, with more money
involved in the throwing. Especially
in the general direction of the gam
blers — and I mean the crooked
gamblers. Boxing needs a com
missioner or a supervisor more than
any other single sport. And it may
need more very badly later on,
much more than it needs one at
the moment.
Heroes of flag raising on Iwo Jima look at oil painting of historic
picture displayed by President Truman. Left to right: Ph. M. 2/e John
H. Bradley, Appleton, Wis., Secretary Henry Morgenthau, President
Truman, Pfc. Rene Gagnon, Mass., Pfc. Ira Hayes, Bapchule, Ariz.,
as they visit in the President’s office in the White Honse.
Substitute for Horse Power
Hooking his pet tiger to a plow, Melvin Coontz, Chatsworth, Calif.,
gentleman farmer, proceeds with his spring planting regardless of gas
rationing or manpower shortage. Coontz declares the most primitive of
the animal family takes to dirt farming like a veteran. The tiger,
however, is not generally recommended as a farm animal.
Russian Army Invades Berlin
1 I have only mentioned four of the
major public sports — baseball, rac
ing, football and boxing. In each
instance they all need a commis
sioner who is nationally known, who
has the respect of the country at
large, who has both honesty and
proved ability, and who will also
be given possession of “the iron
hand,” when the iron hand is
needed. Any form of figurehead or
front man would be a useless under
taking.
• • *
Bob Feller Returns
Now that he is back in the states.
Bob Feller will be allowed to pitch
for his Great Lakes team after two
or more years service in the South
Pacific. Feller deserves his break
at Great Lakes, after a fine war
record. He has had little chance to
get any active pitching since he
won 25 games for Cleveland in 1941,
striking out 260 hitters. A lot of
rust can develop in that time, but he
will have the chance now to iron
out a few kinks.
With infantrymen hanging on superstructures, powerful Red army
tanks rumble through devastated streets of Berlin under a pall of
smoke from burning buildings. This photo was radioed from Moscow
to New York to Chicago and shows the damage done to the heart of
Germany’s greatest city. Much of the city was left in ruins.
Opens Conference
Photo shows Secretary of State
Stettinius as he opened the United
Nations Conference for World Se
curity in the San Francisco War
Memorial opera house. Delegates
from 44 nations were present at the
opening session of the conference.
Outstanding Mother
Mrs. Esther Stoinick, Brooklyn,
who has been chosen as the out
standing mother of 1945. She is
the mother of nine sons and two
daughters, eight of her sons are in
the armed forees. She is shown hold
ing some of their decorations, in
cluding the Purple Heart.
To Head Air Forces
Man About Town:
San Franciscans are talking
about: The more than 200 G-Men
(not including the numerous state
department confidential agents and
New York City, Chicago, New Or
leans, etc., ace detectives) to guard
the delegates and diplomats. The
Big City “dicks” are assigned to
spot well - known pickpockets,
"dips,” rogues galleryites and “can
nons” — as big-time crooks are
called by the gendarmes. . . . The
heaviest protection is for Russia’s
Mr. Molotov. ... As one John Ed
gar Hoover man put it: “He’ll be
guarded by nearly 200 Russian se
cret servicemen so an FBI agent
won’t get within 200 yards of him.”
FDR’s pal, Charlie Michelson (he
was 75 the other day), raising eye
brows with the prediction: “Mayor
LaGuardia may be the Democratic
nominee for governor of N. Y.”
. . . John Metcalfe, the Washington
correspondent, here for a New York
gazette. He’s finishing a book called
“Tin Cup Diplomacy,” which will
please the underpaid working in
our state department. . . . The re
turn of Joe Rosenthal (this is his
home burg). Joe is the AP hocus-
focuser who took that wonderful
picture of the flag being planted on
Iwo Jima. . . . Kent Cooper, the AP
boss, is offering reproductions of
the famed photo at $1—the profits to
go to the Marines via Navy Relief.
WALTER WINCHELL
IN SAN FRANCISCO
The renowned rivalry between
Los Angeles and the San Francisco
correspondents, which George Polk
carries on from his Washington beat
for his L. A. paper. George won’t
refer to it as the San Francisco con
ference. He calls it the California
conference. . . . The “real reason”
Cong. Clare Luce'returned to Italy.
, They say she wrote a book there in
which she does “a job” on Edda
Mussolini.
Mike McDermott, the popuiar
special ass’t to Sec’y of Statetenius.
He arranged hotel rooms for over
900 newspaper men, newsreel cam
eramen, colyumists and radio prima
donnas and then wound up with no
| “decent” space in which to sleep
himself. . . . The musical show,
| “Watch Out Angel,” which folded at
the Curran theater Satdee night
after a three-week run. Too bad.
Some of the score was very good
and several people in it are tal
ented. . . . The Alcazar theater re
named the United Nations theater.
Its new marquee was arranged via
the War Production board—via re
quest of the state department. Glenn
Allvine of the Will Hays zoo is in
charge. The Hollywood films there
will be changed daily for the dele
gates. “Going My Way,” frixample,
will be heard in Czech for the
Czechs. In Portuguese for the Bra
zilians, etc.
Lt. Gen. Barney M. Giles, upper,
appointed commanding general of
the army air forces in the Pacific,
replacing Lt. Gen. Millard F. Har
mon, reported missing on flight. Lt.
Gen. Ira A. Eaker, lower, is the new
deputy commander of the army air
forces.
G.I. at Conference
At the request of Secretary of
State Stettinius, Pvt. Alfred Lilien-
thal, New York City, has been se
lected by American Veterans com
mittee to represent them at San
Francisco.
Jack’s for Big Town food, better
than most spots in New York. . . .
The two Stork clubs. And S. Bil
lingsley can’t do a thing about the
name piracy, either. Seems they
registered the name in Calif, before
Mr. B. got hep. . . . Barbara
Burke, ex-Follies dolly, recently di
vorced, who becomes a bride again
shortly. She’s the prettiest gov’t
worker in town. . . . Ralph Ober’s
comment: “The passing of FDR
was the shock heard around the
world.” . . . Ernie Pyle, who died
with the Americans he loved. But
he will live in the hearts of Ameri
cans who loved him.
The plight of S. F. restauranteurs
and swank hotels trapped between
OPA rules and the confabbers. No
butter, no steaks, etc. . . . But you
have little trouble getting what you
want in the small restaurants along
Market street.
Archibald MacLeish who has put
up his Alexandria, Va., house for
sale on the cue-tee. He’s asking
$65,000. . . . Jimmy Byrnes’ report
on mobilization and reconversion
which has all England talking. It’s
on their best-seller list. . . . The sug
gestion that FDR’s profile be put on
dimes. Good idea, especially for the
March of Dimes drive.
President Truman’s first query to
politicos looking for patronage: “I j
know whom he knows, and all that, j
but what can he do?”
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