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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C.
ARMY CRACKDOWN
The army is determined that re
turned European war veterans shall
no longer appeal to congressmen or
newspaper men to hasten their dis
charge from the army or to protest
redeployment to Japan for police
duty.
Severe secret orders have just
been issued to this effect over the
signature of Brig. Gen. A. M. Gur
ney, chief of staff for Lt. Gen.
Lloyd R. Fredendall, commander of
the 2nd army. The order, which has
been secretly circulated, reads:
“Recently members of a division
in the United States scheduled for
redeployment to the Pacific area ap
pealed to the press and radio pro
testing against transfer of the divi
sion to the Pacific theater. . . .
Action of this nature, if concerted,
may subject participants to dis
ciplinary action. . . .
“Incidents such as noted in para
graph 3 above (the paragraph just
quoted),’’ continued the secret or
der, “will be dealt with drastically
by this headquarters and the com
mander concerned will be sum
marily relieved.”
The division referred to prob
ably was the 95th, stationed at
Camp Shelby, Miss., which sent
all sorts of appeals to newspaper
men and radio commentators
against being transferred from
Europe to Japan. Apparently
the protests worked, for the or
der to send the 95th to Japan
was rescinded.
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PRESIDENTIAL POKER
Those who traveled with Presi
dent Truman on his various trips to
Washington state and Potsdam
found him a delightful and en-
tertaining companion. One story
they tell about Truman’s trip to the
northwest was regarding his salmon
fishing off the Washington coast.
While the motor boat was chug
ging back to shore, Truman and his
old senatorial friends. Gov. Mon
Wallgren and Sen. Warren Mag-
nuson of Washington, played poker.
The stakes were low, but the thrifty
Truman was trying hard to come
out ahead. It was agreed that, no
matter who was ahead, the game
would stop the minute the boat hit
shore.
So the President kept up a line cf
banter to the Norwegian skipper.
“Slow her down, Christiansen,”
he said, “I’m behind. I need a little
extra time to catch up.”
Or again, it was: “Speed her up,
Christiansen, I’m ahead now. Let’s
get to shore before the governor
catches up.”
Finally, the motor boat touched
shore with the President of the
United States a few cents ahead.
Skipper Christiansen was just as
pleased as Truman.
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ARMY AND RAILROADS
Even the army’s friends on
Capitol hill say the brass hats are
killing any chance for public sup
port they might have had by their
autocratic disregard for civilian
needs in such fields as coal mining,
steelmakin^ and railroading.
One of the busiest railroads in the
country today is the Southern Pacif
ic, which has handled most of the
east-west traffic to the busy port of
San Francisco. The S. P. is a single-
track line able to carry its huge
volume only by scheduling trains at
10-minute intervals round the clock.
In order to maintain this schedule,
it requires a huge crew of crack
trainmen, repair men and other
skilled workers. It has done pretty
well even in the last year, although
there was a recent bottleneck near
El Paso which resulted in the hold
ing up of 75 trains.
Southern Pacific officials have
been begging the army to release
skilled railroad men with the
80 points required for discharge, or
to furlough railroad men in this
country with less points.
Finally in mid-summer the army
agreed to release 4,000 railroad
men, with 2,400 of them assigned to
the S. P. But then the army be
gan going back on its promise and
said it could discharge only 1,300
men. A few weeks ago, the army
ireleased 230 men to the Southern
Pacific and said no more were
available. The joker is that 24,000
men have gone into the armed
'forces from the S. P. employment
roster.
Finally, War Mobilizer Snyder
stepped in and forced the army
to release 4,000 railroad men,
amidst loud squawks from brass
hats that this action would de
stroy morale.
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CAPITAL CHAFF
<L Senators are looking forward to
better eating, now that Derwin Dar
ling has come back from two years
in the marines to resume manage
ment of the senate restaurant,
fl. Alleged United States opposition
to the Kilgore unemployment com
pensation bill has cracked open.
Forty-seven state administrations
were reported opposed, but it now
develops that Massachusetts, Rhode
Island, Oklahoma, Washington and
California are definitely for the
bill, with Connecticut and several
others about ready to support it.
Notes of a New Yorker:
Don’t be disappointed that Halsey
didn’t ride Hirohito’s horse. . . .
That was just the colorful Old
Boy’s way of saying ha’d get to
Tokyo. . . . Admiral Halsey always
was good with the phrase-turner’s
tool. ... As frixample: The con
gratulatory message he sent to a
submarine crew after a job well
done:
“Your picture is on my piano.”
The Boner Delightful (from an
Aug. 24th a. m. paper): “De Gaulle
Here. At City Hall, deception cere
monies will begin at noon.”
Final Guffaw Dep’t: The foot a
newsmag once used to kick this col-
yumist is now in its mouth. We
were booted because.one of our pre
dictions fizzled. . . . The Aug. 13th
(1945) issue of the same critic con
tained this gem: “Last week Rus
sia was not ready — if ever she
would be — to go to war with
Japan.” . . . Russia went to war with
Nippon on Aug. 8th. To make the
revenge sweeter — this broadcaster
was first to accurately forecast Rus
sia’s positive entry into the war.
The House Ways and Means Com
mittee has been giving a frosty re
ception to Pres. Truman’s request
for greater jobless benefits, with
Rep. Knutsen of Minnesota asking:
“If we pay a man $25 a week for
not working, what will we have to
pay to get him to work?*
“The answer to that,” com
mented a politico, “is that you’ll
have to pay him a living wage,
that’s all.”
“Yes,” agreed a colleague, “but
what constitutes a living wage?”
“That,” was the retort wonderful,
“depends on whether you’re giving
it or getting it.”
Sallies in Our Alley: In the Cub
Room Fannv Ward, the 76-year old
doll-face, swapped howjoodoos with
her friend, Supreme Court Justice
Frank Murphy. . . . “Frank,” she
asked, “how do you keep so
young?” . . . Looking at his chcim-
ing companion alongside him, Mr.
Justice replied: “Courtin’” ... In
“Polonaise,” the new Chopin-in
spired operetta, the principals are
all European-bom. . . . Kiepura is a
Pole; his wife, Marta Eggerth, is
Hungarian or Austrian. . , . Kurt
Bois, the new comedian, is from
mittel-Europa, and other foreigners
include David Lichine, the ballet
master, and Tanya. . . . “Who’s the
most important person in the
show?” inquired a clown. “The in
terpreter?”
The nationalist group has adopted
another rodent for a pet: Traitor
Petain. . . . The boo-hooey consists
of sobbing about Petain’s age and
blubbering that he was merely try
ing to save France. Nutz! When
Petain was in Verminy’s hip-pocket
he was an accessory to Nazi crimes
committed against Frenchmen of
all ages including children. Petain
sent 35,000 French children to work
in Germany as slave laborers!
When the six Americans were
arrested on State Dep’t orders re
cently front pages whooped about
the espionage angle. . . . This re
porter pointed out that the spy hoop
la was merely the gimmick used by
some diplomats in an attempt to
muzzle journalistic criticism of
State Dep’t policies. ... A few days
ago a Federal Grand Jury refused
to indict three of the accused, and
the other three were not indicted for
espionage but merely for “purloin
ing” government documents. ... It
is about time Congress probed the
striped-britches boys responsible for
the whole shameful affair.
The American Navy and Hiro
hito’s eyeglasses prove the same
thing. That the Japs are a very
shortsighted people. . . . The Japs
signed the surrender terms. But our
safety is in our fleet, not in their
signatures. . . . We had their sig
natures on treaties December 7th,
1941. . . . The Jap is anxious to
let bygones be bygones. So is any
criminal on the day of his convic
tion.
Sounds in the Night: At the En-
duro: “A waiter is a guy who be
lieves that money grows on trays.”
. . . At the Metropole: “When is
that tramp going to write her
naughty - biography?” ... At
Chateaubriand: “He made her an
honest woman. Sent her back to her
husband.”
Stork Clnb Confncius: Beware of
a Jap on his knees. It only makes
it easier for him to hit you below
the belt.
Very Important People Dep’t:
Arch Oboler is one of those studied
kerrickters, according to intimates.
. . . More than before, they add, he
keeps referring to himself in the
third person. . . . “Oboler doesn’t
want to do it” or "Oboler didn’t
sleep so good last night” or “Oboler
is getting hungry,” etc. . . . Mr. O.
wrote and directed a Metro film
once and in conference he said:
“I don’t think Oboler will like that
at all!” . . . “Really?” was the icy
retort of a departing supervisor.
“I’ll tell him when he comes ini”
Only a Slight Difference of Fifty-Three Years
Once in a great while Mother Nature permits herself a whimsical chuckle and turns In a performance
that makes us gasp. The old lady gave such a performance on the day that George Thomas Morton was
born in Sioux City, Iowa. He is caUed either “Ike” or “General,” for little George looks as if he were a pea
out of the same pod that gave us General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower. There is an interval of 53
years between the births of the two “Ikes.” George Thomas will soon be two years old.
Fired First and Last Shots at Jap Invaders
The leathernecks of the U. S. 4th marine regiment, shown as they were briefed before their landing at Yo
kosuka, Jap naval base at the entrance to Tokyo bay, by their commanding officer, Lt. Col. Fred D. Beans of
Annapolis, Md. The 4th marines served in China from 1927, then defended Corregidor. As raiders they saw
action in Solomon campaigns, Emirau, Guam, Okinawa and finally landed on Japan proper with General
MacArthur’s surrender commission. They have the honor of firing some of the first and last shots.
Old Glory Over Tokyo Embassy
Miss America of 1945
Insert shows Admiral William Halsey, famed commander of the U. S.
3rd fleet, and General Douglas MacArthur, Allied commander, as they
salute Old Glory as it is unfurled over the American embassy in Tokyo.
The general view was taken from the gates of the embassy, showing in
the background the wreckage of the city of Tokyo, caused by bombs.
Twenty-one-year-old Bess Myer-
son of Bronx, N. Y., who won the
Atlantic City title of “Miss America,
1945.” She turned down movie con
tract offers which went with title.
Will Try German War Criminals
Allied Prisoners’ Aid
Left shows Francis Biddle, former U. S. attorney general, who has
been named the American member of the four power military tribunal
that will try the major Axis war criminals. Judge John J. Parker, of Char
lotte, N. C., has been named as Biddle’s alternate. Parker was nomi
nated by President Hoover to the Supreme court but rejected by the senate.
Evelyn Gore-Symes, 25-year-old
English girl, who spent seven years
in Budapest. Through the German
occupation, she aided scores of
Allied prisoners to reach safety.
W HO is the greatest hitter that
baseball ever knew? It seemed
to us that the best way to round out
this argument was to go in a
diredt line to one
who was a master
at applying the ash.
So I looked up Ty
Cobb, author and
producer of more
than 4,000 base hits.
No, Ty didn’t
name Cobb. He
named Shoeless Joe
Jackson.
"I'll tell you why
Jackson belongs on
top,” Cobb said.
“Back in those
years we not onljP had to swing at a
dead ball but also a ball that was
doctored in every known way. We
had the spit ball, the emery ball, the
fuzzed-up ball—a ball that would do
a lot of queer things and come at
you with odd dips and breaks. So
the good hitters of that period had
to choke the bat and go in for punch
hitting.
“All except Jackson. Joe still took
his full swing and he was often up
there from .380 to .410. I know I
could never have hit above .300 with
that type of swing. Only Jackson,
old Shoeless Joe, had the eye and
the smoothness and the timitag to
do that.
"I used to wonder why he didn’t
strike out at least twice a game,
taking a full cut at a ball that
flopped and ducked from the treat
ment it got, either by emery or
thumbnail or saliva.
“Taking nothing away from Babe
Ruth, the Babe never had to swing
at a slippery or fuzzed-up ball. In
those days you could lead the league
with 10 or 12 home runs. The trick
stuff had ended before Babe moved
to the outfield in 1919.
“I’ve often wondered what Joe
Jackson would have hit against the
pitching and the livelier ball that
came in around 1920. The same
might go for Nap Lajoie, another
great natural hitter, who didn’t have
as deep or as full a lash as Jack-
son used. With the liveher ball
Jackson and Lajoie would have had
infielders playing back in the out
field to keep out of hospitals. In one
of the old-timer’s games played in
Boston with the lively ball, Lajoie’s
line drive hit the center field fence,
and that was after Lajoie was
through.”
About Hitting
I asked Ty if he was ever tempt
ed to become a slugger.
“Not with that dead, fuzzed-up
ball,” he said. “I always believed
in playing percentage, and the per
centage was all against a free
swinger in those days.
“Later on I tried a few times to
go out for distance, but by that time
I had been around nearly 20 years
and it was a little late in life to
change my swing or learn new
tricks. You can’t change the habits
of 20 years in anything like a hur
ry, if you can change them at all.
But I remember a series in St. Louis
where I decided to take a chance on
the slugging side and as I recall it,
I picked up five home runs in two
games.
“Walter Johnson was the greatest
pitcher I ever faced,” Ty went on,
“except Ed Walsh in 1908 when he
won 40 ball games and saved 10 or
12 others. But when you speak of
great pitchers, how can anyone over
look Cy Young?
“Cy had been pitching 15 years
before I came to the Tigers, but he
was still a great pitcher. He won
something like 510 ball games,
which is more than most pitchers
ever worked in. Cy was a big, burly
fellow and he could hide that ball
better than anyone I ever saw. He
would turn his back to you in the
windup and the ball would be on you
before you knew what was happen
ing. Cy had fine speed, a good
curve ball and perfect control. He
could pitch into a tin cup. He was
also smart and game.
“The great thing about Walter
Johnson was that you knew a fast
ball was coming—but it didn’t help.
You never had to worry about a
curve in those days from Walter, or
any change of pace. Just speed.
Raw speed, blinding speed, too
much speed. The answer is that
Johnson still holds the shut-out and
the strike-out record. With a better
hitting, better scoring ball club,
Johnson would havj had several 40
game seasons on the winning side.
Some day look up the records and
see how many 1 to 0 games he lost.
I can see that long, rubber right arm
unwinding now, with the ball on top
of you before you could even blink.
No wonder a lot of ball players
used to get sick on the day Johnson
was to pitch.”
‘Crazy’ Stunts
I asked Ty what was the greatest
thrill he got out of baseball.
“On the bases,” he said. “I liked
to run and at times try out a few
crazy things, such as scoring from
; first on a single or scoring from
second on an outfield fly.
“Every now and then I’d take a
! crazy chance where I actually had
no chance at all. I knew that. But
I also knew that a certain amount
of crazy running would put more
pressure on the defense and maybe
start a little hurrying.
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