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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C.
Women Baseball Fans Go All Out With Cheers and Boos "gay gadgets"
Ladies’ Day Brings Out
Enthusiastic Crowd Who
Know Fine Points of Game
Because it isn’t in the nature of a
woman to resist a bargain, Ladies’
Day in the nation’s ball parks is an
event that rivals the World Series
in attendance. We can imagine the
deep sighs heaved by diamond im-
pressarios who survey the packed
stands and bleachers and murmur,
“If only they were paying.’' For the
clubs do not profit from Ladies’
Day. When the distaff side comes
out to honor the national pastime
with its patronage, the ladies pay
only the entertainment tax de
manded on such occasions by
Uncle Sam and the state, plus a
small service charge.
As the grand march starts to
parade through the turnstiles on
Ladies’ Day, toddlers of pre-school
age mingle with the bobby socks
generation and their grandmothers.
There used to be a time when few
of the patronesses on this occasion
knew much about what was happen
ing on the diamond. But nowadays,
they are experts, and as unrestrain
ed in voicing their opinions of the
playing and players as the male
fans. There are no more Mesdames
DeFarge who calmly count their
knits and purls while the diamond
goes mad with frenzy and tension.
They are as vociferous in urging
a violent demise for the umpire as
in exhorting the runner to make
home plate — if he is running for
their favorite team. And the “razz-
berries” are equally heartfelt and
dinning.
The accompanying candid photo
graphs reveal the depths to which
the national sport has embedded it
self in the hearts of the fair fans
at a recent game on Ladies’ Day at
Yankee stadium.
Associated Newspapers—WKU Features.
By NANCY PEPPER
FUNNY BUSINESS
“Come o-o-on!!’’ Nothing phlegmatic about these young fans. A pos
sible home run pulls them out of their seats, and a successful slide to
home plate practically starts a jive session right in the bleachers.
Area in Danger of Drouth
Can Be Forewarned by
New Forecasting Method
Farmers may look forward to
keeping “one jump’’ ahead of the
weather, if U. S. department of agri
culture studies can be given prac
tical application. Knowing when
drouth would come to a specified
area, as well as other weather haz
ards, could have an important influ
ence on U. S. farm production, it is
pointed out, since the possibility of
annual crop loss would be greatly
lessened.
A Complex Method.
Government researchers have de
veloped a statistical method of gaug
ing the probable occurrence of drouth
in any locality in the United States
at any time of the year. Too com
plex for use except by scientists,
the method produces information
that may be used by agronomists
and others for the farmer’s benefit,
in adapting soil and water conser
vation work, as well as other farm
activities, to weather conditions.
Charts might even be prepared for
individual farmers to show the prob
ability of weather hazards in their
localities for virtually every day of
the year.
Because the information obtained
shows when sequences of dry or
rainy days are most likely to oc
cur, it can be valuable in checking
day to day weather forecasts and
in long range planning as well, it is
pointed out. The knowledge can be
used, for instance, in planning ter
race construction programs for pe
riods when rain is least likely to
Minut* Malta- Up*
By GABRIELLE
On Ladies’ Day you’ll find every generation represented, and the
mothers are as enthusiastic as their daughters. They are also equally un
restrained in exercising the spectators’ privilege of making their voices
heard across Yankee stadium. Trying to, anyway.
cause erosion of unfinished embank
ments; or in extensive seedings of
grass, for selecting a planting time
when a killing drouth is least apt to
occur during the period needed for
germination of the seed. Agri
cultural workers probably will
evolve many other practical uses for
the material provided by the study.
Probability Tables Used.
Applying to drouth the theory of
probability used by insurance au
thorities in deriving life expectancy
tables, climatologists and other sci
entists now have a technique that
also can be employed to discover
probable occurrences of other cli
matic hazards such as intensities of
rainfall and extremes of tempera
ture. Drouth was selected for try
ing out this method because drouth
data already has been compiled and
tabulated, from weather bureau rec
ords of 1898 to 1937, for stations rep
resenting every climatic area of
the continental United States.
iV. Africa Offers Chance for Development of
Brisk Trade to U. S. Commercial Interests
Want to shorten the length of your
face? You can do this by a beauty
trick! A touch, just a touch of
rouge on your chin. Choose a soft
rose-red. Blend till there is jflst a
faint rosy shadow. This beauty trick
will aid you in camouflaging an
over-emphatic chin. Thus—you fool
your Public!
Ledger Syndicate.—WNU Feature*.
Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia,
where American G.I.s began their
Victory march in 1942-43, are ex
pected for several reasons to loom
larger in American post-war foreign
trade.
Before the present war French
North African trade was part and
parcel of French economy, and the
mother country cornered the lion’s
share, says the National Geographic
society. Recent studies of French in
dustrial production in the light of
war damage, however, indicate that
the bulk of North African needs
for the remainder of 1945, 1946 and
probably 1947 will have to come
from the United States.
In the next six months, North
Africa, bled by two years of Axis ex
ploitation, will require imports, ex
clusive of wheat shipments, esti
mated at more than $100,000,000. The
“Maghreb,” as the Arabs call
French North Africa, normally en
joys a substantial wheat surplus,
but drouth has produced four suc
cessive crop failures. Arrangements
are in progress whereby the U. S.
farmer will provide North Africa
with 2,500,000 tons of wheat during
the next 12'months. The French plan
to pay cash for the vheat out of
their limited foreign exchange re
serves, a sacrifice which em
phasizes the importance they attach
to keeping these restive lands well
fed.
French North Africa has been
called “a museum of minerals,” a
fact of importance to the United
States because this region contains
many subsoil deposits lacking or
near exhaustion in this country. The
Maghreb yields one-third of the
world’s supply of phosphate. There
are also important deposits of cop
per, lead, zinc, manganese, anti
mony, mercury, iron, molybdenum
and coal. Vast areas of North
Africa, especially Morocco, have not
yet been carefully prospected, and
expectations are that new deposits
of some or all of these metals will
add to the “museum’s” store.
French North Africa covers an
area of over a million square miles
—roughly twice the area of Alaska
—with a population now estimated
at 20,000,000 people, mostly Arabs,
native Berbers, and Jews, with a
small minority of Europeans. Geo
graphically the region is akin to
the Mediterranean lands of south
ern Europe. The three countries are
much alike in physical features, and
the north-south boundaries are man
made lines unmarked by natural
barriers. All are bounded on the
south by the wastes of the Sahara
and on the north by the Mediter
ranean sea.
Geography has marked North
Africa into three east-west zones.
Along the coast, where American
marines fought the Barbary pirates
140 years ago, stretches the Tell, a
belt of fertile slopes, and occasional
alluvial plains, where citrus fruit,
grapes, olives and cereals grow in
Do you know how many of your
own tricks for teens are actually con
verted into big business? Too bad
you can’t claim royalties on them.
Every time you introduce a new fad
there’s a smart manufacturer wait
ing to turn it into a fashion. Stand
up and take a bow for these brain
storms that were whacky enough to
be put to work.
Jabberwocky Fashions — You’ve!
been writing Jabberwocky and auto
graphs all over
your station-wag
on coats for years
now, haven’t
you? Well, you in
spired the very
successful “Alive
with Jive” coat
with a lining
printed in a de
sign of Jabber-
wocky and
names. Then, you’ve been embroid
ering Jabberwocky across your vel-
et headbands, haven’t you? Along
comes the Jabberwocky Bandlead
er—a hair band with assorted slan
guage embroidered across the top.
Aren’t they the copy cats?
S.W.A.K.—You teen-agers started
the fad for imprinting lipstick lip-
tographs on your envelope flaps.
Now you can buy boxes of lip
shaped, red paper stickers with
gummed backs, all ready to stick on
the back of your important letters.
Stop and Go—We reported that
you were fastening bicycle reflec
tors to the backs of your belts and,
before you could say “Tom Drake,”
there was a ready-made leather belt
with red and green reflectors across
the back. You’ll find it at your fa
vorite Gadgeteria.
DAFFYNITIONS
Palate Plush—A super-gooey con
coction at the Soda Fountain.
Dope Fiend—A gossip.
Drug Addict—A guy who hangs
around the Marble Slab.
Hi, Ping—How’s Pong?—That's
how you greet a half of any
“steady” team.
Hi, Candle, Who Blew Ton Out?—
A new way of saying “Hello.”
Don’t Be Hasty, Pudding—Don’t
get angry.
PARTY PATTER
Here are some teen tricks to maker
your next get-together a neat and
reet meet.
Mother-and-Daughter Teas—It’s a
new fad throughout the country. One
girl invites her best friends AND
their mothers to an afternoon tea.
If you’re serving Iced Tea, be sure
to read the easy-to-follow instruc
tions in the cook book.
Clang, Clang, Clang—We can’t
guarantee that you’ll meet Tom
Drake on the way, but Trolley par
ties are going full speed these days.
At the End of the Line, there’s a
picnic.
Fire Alarm—A Fire party is Hot
Stuff. You send out your invita
tions on brown paper with burned
edges, telling guests to come to the
party exactly as they were dressed
when they received the invitation.
Anything can happen from Pajamas
to bath towels. All the guests are
instructed to bring their most pre
cious possessions, which are auc
tioned off for war stamps later in
the evening. You get some Prize
Packages with this gag.
abundance. Behind the Tell, ranges
of the Atlas mountains, reaching
14,000 feet in some places, roughly
parallel the Mediterranean coast. In
the southern reaches of the moun
tains is a high and somewhat arid
tableland, where nomad natives
tend large flocks of sheep and goats.
Farther south are limitless stretches
of desert and wasteland with iso*
lated oases, where dates are the
principal product.
Dry in Summer.
The climate of the northernmost
belt is not unlike that of southern
California. There is fairly abundant
rainfall along the coast and on the
seaward slopes of the mountains,
but little rain in the summer. No
rivers of economic importance flow
through French North Africa.
Normally, prewar trade between
France’s North African lands and
the United States was comparative
ly small. From 1937 to 1939 exports
to the Maghreb averaged unde* $8,-
000,000 a year, while imports aver
aged under $6,000,000. American ex
porters sent chiefly tobacco and cig
arettes, lubricating oil and grease,
refrigerators and parts, and farm
machinery. Americans bought in
exchange sausage casings, skins and
furs, leather goods from Morocco,
olive oil (both edible and for soap),
gums and aromatic oils and cork.
Manganese imports from North
Africa began shortly after the his
toric Anglo - American Invasion of
the region toward the end of 1942.
Ocean Going Airfield
Tried Out During War
LONDON. — Floating airfields in
the middle of the ocean have been
“tried out with success” during the
war, the Observer said.
“Since the first one was built to
British and American design by
Americans fairly early in the war
we have made several more on
what is considered an improved pat
tern,” the article said.
Location of the experiments is still
secret.
TELEFACT
LENGTH OF COAST LINES
HAWAII
PHILIPPINES
UNITED
STATES
775 MILES 4170 MILES
m
ALASKA
Bomb Plant Called
Absolutely Safe
OAK RIDGE, TENN—There is
absolutely no danger of an atomic
explosion at Clinton Engineer
Works, Col. Kenneth D. Nichols,
commanding officer, said. “Al
though these plants are the main
units for production of atomic
bombs, adequate safeguards
make an atomic explosion impos
sible,” he said.
PRIVATE PURKEY ON
OCCUPYING JAPAN
Dear Ed.—
Well I am all in a lather on account
of I got to be in the occupation force
in Japan nnd I wish you would write
my congressman, also the Secretary of
War, the President and anybody else
who might get me out of it: It is pretty
tough to come through the European
shindig after making the fight for a
better world, democracy and the as
sorted freedoms and then wind up as
a probation officer over them Japanese.
•
Occupying Japan is not up my alley.
It will be like occupying a haunted
house full of Charlie Chans. It is bad
enough to occupy countries which
look, talk and act like me without tak
ing on a country where I got to keep
looking in the book to find out about
fhe customs, habits and sound effects.
And anyhow there is something about
people who go around all day in ki-
monas that gets on my nerves.
•
I was not at home exactly among the
Krauts and Eyeties but they was mem
bers of the same league more or less
and they understood pinochle, horse
shoe pitching, gin rummy, checkers,
craps and reddog. They didn’t sit on
the floor to eat or wear no socks with
a special section for the big toe.
•
But the Japs is something else. I got
nothing no more in common with them
than the New York Giants has got with
a outfit of circus Esklmoes. It Is the
same as putting a lifelong resident of
Brooklyn in charge of a Chinese rice
plantation.
*
All I know about Japan is what I see
in the movie travelogues, plus what I
read in the war news beginning with
Pearl Harbor and if they is nice people
to be stuck with for a couple of the
best years of my life then an Ameri
can boy’s place is in Thibet.
• ♦
For one thing I do not care for fish-
heads, rice and wateriily saiads and
they tell me a good beer saloon it
harder to find in Japan than a ham
burger with onions. Also the fraterni
zation situation is very poor. Italian,
Kraut and French dolls is not too hard
to go for in dull moments, but I never
In my life found myself wishing I knew
some Japanese dame to call up.
•
It would not seem natural for me to
have snapshots took of me in a affec
tionate post with a Nip doll, even if it
don’t look so bad in some of them
comic operas.
•
Alto, | don’t like the emperor set-up.
If he keeps on insisting he is God it is
going to make me pretty sick and I
am apt to drop some remarks which
will bring on another war. I do not
like Japs anyhow. They all look alike
and when you have seen them two guys
what was house guests in Washington
all the time of the Pearl Harbor stab
In the back you have seen them all.
•_
Hy idea is that the Chinese should
occupy Japan and let the others go
home where they come from. They
would get a bigger kick out of it and
after what they have took from the
Japs for the last ten years they should
be in just the right occupation mood.
Me, I would not be a Class A occu-
pyer. If I got to occupy some place
send me back to Germany which with
all its faults wears pants, coat and
vest, uses shoelaces and knows what
a undershirt is for.
Yours, Oscar.
• • •
PEACE MY EYE1
One of the major problems of peace
remains unsolved; how to disarm the
kiddies.
*
The little ones have so far Ignored
the peace proclamations and all uncon
ditional surrenders. They are clinging
to their arme and munitions.
•
We took it up with Junior today. He
has scoffed at all the radio reports of
Japanese surrender and all the state
ments on war’s end. The rest of the
world might be standing on the brink
of a peaceful world, but not Junior.
We tried to reason with him.
“Listen, the war is over,” we said,
“Don’t you understand?"
“Bam! Bam!” he shouted, leveling
a machine gun on us.
“This all belongs to yesterday,” we
argued. “The world has ceased firing.”
“Ack! Ack! Ack!" he replied, switch
ing to an anti-aircraft weapon.
“Peace has come,” we insisted. “Now
you must lay down your arms and re
convert to ping-pong or marbles or
something. . . .”
That settled it. Junior now trained
a bazooka on us, and reinforced by all
the kids in the neighborhood., wiped us
oft the map.
*.
The FBI has arrested 118 railroad
dining car workers for not seeing that
the customers got what they paid for.
Years of experience eating on railroad
trains had caused us to assume this
was a matter of fixed policy.
“In many instances,” says the ac
count of the arrests, “the meat portion
was greatly reduced.” Don’t try to tell
us that it took the FBI to discover this.
• • •
Can You Remember — Away back
when the Jap* fised to think the height
of hard luck wat an earthquaket
Japanese leaders concede it must
have been something they ate, but they
are not ready to admit it was rice.
• • •
Mr. Andrew Spring has become a
neral partner in our firm, “Outwater
A Wells”—Newspaper notice.
Moving M. E. Van Realte to remark
that the outlook is damper and dampen
• v •
Love on your wedding day I send;
Because the war I* at an end.
SEWING CIRCLE PATTERNS
Scalloped Frock for Daytime
Afternoon Frock
S OFT scallops outline the neck
line of this graceful afternoon
frock. The simple gored skirt is
very flattering and easy to wear.
Use a pretty all-over scroll or
floral print and add your favorite
jewelry or a bright flower for or
nament.
• • *
Pattern No. 8903 is designed for sizes
14. 16, 18. 20; 40, 42 and 44. Size 16,
The egg slicer is good for much
besides slicing eggs. Thin, even
slices of cooked potatoes or beets
may be made with it, and some
fruits slice nicely that way.
—•—
Custards mixed in a wide
mouthed pitcher can easily be
poured into custard cups without
spilling.
—•—
To make dainty sandwiches,
use bread that is at least 24 hours
old and slice thin with a sharp
knife.
—•—
When clothing is spotted with
rain, place a clean, damp cloth
on the material and press it with
a moderately warm iron.
short sleeves, require* Sli yards of 39-Inch
fabric.
Due to an unusually large demand and
current conditions, slightly more time is
required in filling orders for a few of ths
most popular pattern numbers.
Send your order to:
SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT.
530 South Wells St. Chicago
Enclose 25 cents In coins for each
pattern desired.
Pattern No. Sire
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