The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, May 03, 1946, Image 2
THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY, S. C.
RUSS DON’T LIKE U. S. A.
WASHINGTON. — Inside reason
why the Russians are pulling wires
to have the capital of the United
Nations moved back to sleepy
Geneva is that American public
opinion has been too powerful a
champion of the smaller nations.
So the Russians have been work
ing behind the scenes to corral
votes in favor of the Geneva trans
fer and can count on Yugoslavia,
Czechoslovakia, Poland and France.
However, they can’t count on the
British, who once favored a Euro
pear capital, but are now 100 per
cent sold that American opinion is
one of their best allies.
The Russians also can’t count on
the Latin Americans. In the old
days, Pan - American diplomats
loved lolling in Paris most of the
time and turning up in Geneva a
few days of the week. Today, how
ever, Paris is one of the most
uncomfortable places in the world,
Geneva is short of food, and New
York is far more pleasurable.
The Russians, who originally
favored an American city as the
U. N. capital, now consider this
a serious mistake. They dislike
the fact that American newspa
pers publish columns and col
umns of front-page news on ev
ery move made by the Rus
sians and they figure that
American newsmen at Geneva
would sit drowsily in the Swiss
cafes drinking beer, or spend
week mds in the Swiss Alps.
In Europe, they also believe, no
photographer or newspaper would
have the energy to trail Ambassa
dor Gromyko on his famous and
circuitous trip around New York
City when he almost stopped in at
the Security Council meet’ ig, but
didn’t.
If the Iranian question had been
discussed at Geneva, instead of
New York, the Russians figure, it
never would have attracted so
much attention and the Soviet would
have come off with a complete vic
tory.
• • •
NO ARMY RACE PREJUDICE
A Negro, former master sergeant
in the army, Marion F. Green, tes
tified before General Doolittle’s
“caste system” board the other
day, that there was little evidence
of racial prejudices and discrimi
nation in the army. When General
Doolittle inquired about this, Ser
geant Green replied:
“Colored soldiers found some
resentment against them when
they first joined the army, but
this was quickly ironed out aft
er a few months of training. In
February, 1941, we had some
fights and riots while I was sta
tioned at Camp Livingstone,
Lousiana. However, by the time
we finished training, everybody
was getting along fine. I en
countered no racial bias what
ever overseas.”
The ex-G.I. also suggested the
saluting of officers be optional when
enlisted men are off duty and off
the post, to which Lt. Gen. Troy
Middleton, now an executive of Lou
isiana State university, countered:
“Wouldn’t optional saluting such as
you propose tend to tear dow* dis
cipline?”
“Not necessarily, general,” re
plied Green. If a man does some
thing to merit respect, he will get
that respect whether he is a civilian
or an army officer.” '
* * *
POWER AND NYLON LOBBIES
Many congressmen will vote
against dynamic Speaker Sam Ray
burn in a secret committee s sion,
but don’t have the nerve to stand
up and oppose him on the floor of
the house. Very soon, however.
Democrats who have fallen for the
beguiling promises of the giant pow
er lobby are going to face the latter
test.
Sam Rayburn really has fire
in his eye when he talks about
the power lobby. And today that
lobby ranks with the real estate
buttonholers as one of the most
potent on Capitol Hill, has even
gone to the extent of dangling
nylons before the wives of con
gressmen in order to win votes
against the government’s south
west power authority in Texas,
Oklahoma, Arkansas and south
ern Missouri.
Tfie question at issue is whether
the government can construct its
own electric lines to distribute elec
tric power from the Denison dam
on the Texas-Oklahoma border and
the Norfolk, Ark., dam. Without
such power lines, the gvernment
merely generates the power but
can’t sell it. The power lobby
wants to prevent this sale.
So far, the power Ipbby’s tech
nique has been successful with
the appropriations subcommit
tee, which knifed the construc
tion of the distributing lines.
Cong. Ben Jensen of Iowa,
Henry Dworshak of Idaho, Rob
ert Jones of Ohio, and W. F.
Norrell of Arkansas were the
gentlemen reported to have fall
en for the wiles of the lobby.
However, when the bill comes out
on the floor of congress, Sam Ray
burn, together with the dean of
congress, Adolph Sabath of Illinois,
plans to stage a real battle.
The President and
Horseshoe Pitching
President Truman has decided to
build a horseshoe pitching court on
the White House . grounds. This
should make America feel better.
Much of the trouble that the world
is in today is due to the fact few,
if any, rulers have been horseshoe
pitchers.
*
There is something about horse
shoe pitching that keeps a man cool,
eases his nerves and lessens the
chances of his doing anything cock
eyed. We had a few horseshoe pitch
ers among our earliest Presidents,
and their administrators were the
most peaceful in history.
*
Perhaps in these troubled times
of irascibility, frenzied disputes,
hair - trigger decisions, impa
tience, with the other fellow’s view
point and the itch to settle every
thing overnight, horseshoe pitching
may save civilization!
*
Had Adolf Hitler ever gone in for
pitching horseshoes the yen to con
quer the world would never have
developed. In your wildest dreams
can you picture Mussolini fooling
around with a horseshoe?
*
On with the horseshoe stuff,
Harry! You’re no genius in states
manship. You are not the wisest
ruler of the day. But nevertheless
when the atomic bomb crisis agitates
the great men of the earth, when
potentates on all sides are shout
ing at one another and when so
many big men have so many hot
ideas for causing trouble, it will be
good to know that you spend a little
time each day out behind the White
House pitching horseshoes.
* * *
Circus Memories
The circus is back in New York,
and thousands of big city kids will
be thrilled no end. But we pity the
kid who never knew the circus in a
small town. Back home in our boy
hood it was the event of the year.
The first flush of posters on the bill
boards kindled our imagination. . . .
we were sleepless for nights before
the great day . . . and we were up
at 3:30 a. m. the morning the big
show arrived. ... It was always
unloaded in the freight yards down
at Long Wharf off Water street, and
what a thrill it was to hear the
locomotive whistles and then see
the circus trains pull in, unload
and start on the five-mile trek to
the circus grounds, which used to
be in Elm City park back of the
Hubinger mansion.
After the unloading had pro
gressed an hour or so, we hustled
to the grounds to see the tents go
up. . . . The rat-tat-tat of the stake
driving crews . . . the rumble of
the wagon wheels . . . the smell of
tambark and hay . . . the aroma
of lamb chops and boiled potatoes
from the cook-tent . . . oh, boy!
We generally managed to get a job
leading a pony in a parade and got
a free pass to the show.
* * *
The “O” has been knocked out of
“UNO” which now becomes officially
“U.N.,” which makes it sound like an In
dian grunt. Now if they would only take
the “N” out it seems to us it would per
sonalize its message tremendously.
* * *
A head of the Mexican baseball
league threatens to complain to the
American ambassador about an
American baseball pl»yer who has
quit the league. The matter may
get before the United Nations se
curity council. Which is a fine idea.
It would give the organization ter
rific press notices, especially if any
delegate walked out.
* * ♦
General MacArthur recommends
that the Japanese adopt the A.B.C.
alphabet. The Japs are satisfied
that they were nuts to stage the re
cent war and they may be ready to
admit that the Jap alphabet drove
them crazy.
*
But we still doubt that the Japs
will seem any less warlike because
they spell, “Does the cat see the
rat?” our way.
*
Soon we shall be hearing of the worthy
citizen who started life on a shoestring
and ultimately acquired a furnished room.
*
Isn’t it about time the book clubs
began selecting the book clubs of
the month?
* * *
Laugh of the Year—The announce
ment, with a sober face, by OPA '
enforcement agents at this late date
that wholesale butchers have been
forcing retailers to make “tie-in”
purchases!
* * *
PORTRAIT OF AN AMERICAN
“This is an outrage,” he declares
When in a subway jam;
“There ought to be a law!” he
screams,
“What (Jo they think I am?” . .
His squawks are terrifying, oh,
They can be heard a mile—
But at the race track he will stand
And take it with a smile.
» * * *
The old league of Nations is now
closing in Switzerland. It is surpris
ing everybody by a display of firm-
“ALAB i” PRESENTED TO TRUMAN . . . Future Farmers of
America, and 4-H clubs, presented President with an Aberdeen angus
bull calf as proof that Alabama can raise cattle as well as cotton.
Left to right, Dorothy Fuller, Birmingham, Ala.; Max McLaughlin,
Blue Springs, Ala., state president of Future Farmers of America;
Luther Fuller, Birmingham, and Billie Smith, Fosters, Ala., president
of 4-H clubs of Alabama.
SNIPERSCOPE REVEALED AS SECRET WEAPON ... A soldier
presses the handgrip to turn on the light of one of the U. S. army’s
most carefully guarded war secrets. The device permits a soldier to
see at night by means of an invisible light, infra-ied radiation, which
casts a beam but cannot be seen by the enemy. It is mounted on a
.30-calibre carbine.
SOLD THE FIRST POPPY . . . Betty Lou Hall, 4, daughter of Infantry
man Arthur A. Hall, who was killed in action in Europe, traveled from
the Veterans of Foreign Wars National Home for Widows and Orphans
at Eaton Rapids, Mich., to the White House, where she sold Presi
dent Truman the first 1946 buddy poppy to inaugurate the annual buddy
poppy sale conducted by the VFW for relief work.
ELECTION RETURNS—AMERICAN STYLE . . . Just as any Amer
ican couple would sit before the radio to get late returns on election
night, Emperor Hirohito, the debunked mikado, and his wife, the
empress, sit before the radio and get the latest results of Japan’s first
democratic election. They are shown at the summer palace at
Hayama. Returns continued all election night. Reds filed objection
to results.
MODELING FOR MOPPETS . . .
Tiny tots staged their own fashion
show at the Children’s .Aid society,
New York. Latest creations in
children’s clothing were shown by
the little models, including Mary
Panico, front.
BRITISH CHAMP ... Bruce Wood
cock, British empire heavyweight
champ, working on favorite Ameri
can ice cream cones. He arrived
from England for fight with Tami
Mauriello at Madison Square Gar
den.
CHAMP NEWSBOY . . . Believed
to be the best trained monkey in
the United States, “Kip,” a chim
panzee from Dania, Florida, plays
the role of newsboy at a Miami
street corner. Sales soared that
day.
NEW SWIMMING RECORD . . .
Ann Curtis, 20, University of Cali
fornia co-ed, defeated Brenda Hel-
ser, Portland, Ore., and estab
lished a new American record in
the 220-yard free-style event at
Seattle recently.
HEADS U. N. SECURITY COUN
CIL ... Dr. Hafez Ifif Pasha, as
he assumed chairmanship of the
U. N. security council, replacing
Dr. Quo Tai Chi of China. He has
just been made leader of Egyp
tian delegation.
T HE present year may not be the
golden age of sport as far as out
standing ability goes. I can see little
chance that it will produce master
pieces even close
to Babe Ruth, Jack
Dempsey, Bobby
Jones, Tommy
Hitchcock, Rogers
Hornsby, Bill Til-
den, Red Grange
and Man o’ War.
Not to overlook
Earl Sande.
But the year on
ahead will outclass
the postwar period
of the first world
conflict when it
comes to the matter of attendance
and the actual amount of gold or
Its equivalent taken in at the turn
stiles.
This 1946 season will make all
other past years look like the tag
end of a depression so far as
crowds and cash are concerned. The
recent basketball season flattened
ill past attendance records. We
have had over 50,000 people clam
oring to pay $20 a seat for a non
title fight, meaning Graziano and
Servo.
California and Florida race tracks
have left the past far behind in this
same respect. Two Alabama foot
ball squads, made up from Ala
bama players, recently fought it out
before 25,000 spectators in Birming
ham. Racing at Jamaica has al
ready taken long leaps beyond last
year’s earlier marks.
The super-brilliant stars who fol
lowed the last world war may be
missing, but there are still enough
good ones to keep the human mass
rolling in the general direction of
the next show, whatever game it
might happen to be.
Only Warming Up
But these matters are only in the
warm-up division. The real harvest
from the golden crop is still on
beyond us.
Baseball expects to shatter all
past crowd records by a wide mar
gin. The Yankees hope to play be
fore something approximating two
million at home. The Dodgers would
be right alongside if there was only
enough parking room for the human
frame. The Giants won’t be far
away if their ball club holds up.
The 450 million dollar bet at New
York tracks last season is likely to
reach or pass 550 million dollars
this year. We have seen crowded
Derby and Preakness years before,
but nothing to what this next May
will offer in these two better than
100 thousand dollar tests. The
Yankee stadium hasn’t the attend
ance space to equal the crowds that
saw the two Tunney - Dempsey
shows, but the Louis-Conn meeting
will outdraw both financially in the
way of extra carloads of cash. They
are already talking about Grazi
ano being involved in a million dol
lar gate and the rock-fisted entry
hasn’t even a title.
The United States Golf associ
ation is dead sure that the open
at Canterbury, Cleveland, in June
and the amateur at Baltusrol in
September will run up far higher
figures than either has ever drawn
in the past. The crowds who want
to see a contest have already far
outgrown the limited spaces through
spring and summer and fall.
On a recent tour of the southeast
we were often asked how long the
money would hold out. Apparently
it is going to hold out for at least
another year. No one can say yet
in just what fighting shape either
Louis or Conn will be, but the rush
to contribute at least three million
dollars is still under way with the
contest coming late in June.
Apparently it isn’t the entry list
but the game that is drawing them
out. As far as one can see neither
the Derby nor the Preakness nor
the Belmont has any Count Fleet
or any Whirlaway or Alsab run
ning. No outstanding star has yet
shown for these events, but this
won’t affect the size of the populace
on hand.
Baseball comes nearer approach
ing the first golden age in playing
class. For baseball still has the Car
dinals, DiMaggio, Ted Williams,
Bob Feller and many others with a
high standard of excellence, includ-
[ ing Newhouser and Wakefield of
the Tigers.
Some one recently asked how
large the crowds would be if Ruth,
Dempsey, Jones, Tilden, Hornsby,
were back in their prime. The
i answer is they couldn’t be any
larger for the simple reason there
isn’t any more room. Today they’ll
I rush to see anything at any price.
Apparently everything is worth $50
—except $50.
* • *
Genius in Sports
What is this “know-how,” this
genius or instinct for superlative
play in sport? Ty Cobb’s father was
a Georgia judge who had no particu
lar interest in any game. Ty Cobb’s
children had no interest in baseball.
Yet Bill Tilden once told me that
young Ty Cobb might have been a
tennis champion.
Old man DiMaggio never had the
slightest idea of what baseball
meant. Yet he produced Joe, Dom
and Vince DiMaggio.
Moonlight Over the Hudson:
Silhouettes in the Night: Walter
Pidgeon and Frank Sinatra (who
have about 40 million young fans
between them) spellbound by a
middle-aged woman’s conversation
in the Waldorfoyer. . . . Gene Ray
mond, back from the wars, getting
sighs from the Embassy’s hatcheck
banditti. . . . Connie Haines wearing
a gold-and-ruby dog collar—and her
pooch wearing her polls! . . . Mrs.
Ray Bolger bawling but the Duke
and Duchess of Sutherland for ar
riving at her groom’s hit (“Three
to Make Ready”) at 9:30. . . . Ex-
Ambassador J. P. Kennedy on E.
50th street telling a colyumist that
the stories of his “cornering the
market in Scotch” are exaggerated.
. . . Louise Albritton’s “Palm
Springs tan”—in the Stork. . . .
Belle Livingston, attractively gray,
reminiscing about her prohibition
heyday at a 47th Street bar. . . .
Lovely Loretta Young at the Wedg
wood Room. . . . Sec’y Byrnes (at
a party in the Hampshire House)
toasting Gromyko: “Those whom
war hath brought together—let no
peace put asunder!”
Sallies in Our Alley: Fred Allen
was lunching at Lindy’s with his
announcer K. Delmar, alias Sen.
Claghorn. . . . The waiter brought
the check. . . . “Give it to him,”
said Fred, “he does the commer
cials.” ... At the Carnival a H’wood
producer was being panned. . . .
“But,” defended a friend, “he has
a heart of gold.” . . . “Yeh,” per
sisted the knocker, “yellow and
hard.”
The Moom Pitchiz: “Dragon-
wyck” lights the fuse for a stunning
display of emotional pyrotechnics.
. . . “The Falcon’s Alibi” is another
clue-by-clue saga of a sleuth-happy
gumshoe handcuffed by a mediocre
tale. . . . “The Wife of Monte Chris
to” offers cloak-and-dagger stuff set
in an era when a man’s best friend
was his sword. . . . “She-Wolf of
London” concerns a gal on a spook
spree, who scares up a passable
quota of tingles. . . . “Last Ride”
spins a few cliches in their graves.
. . . “Junior Prom” is replete with
frantic jive cacophony that sounds
like a jukebox calling to its mate.
E. Hillman, the mag editor, relays
this chuckle: A girl energetically el
bowed her way into the subway.
Maneuvering a seat, she hurriedly
pulled a comb from her purse and
ran it through her hair. She applied
powder, lipstick and adjusted her
earrings. She straightened her
stocking seams and drew on a pair
of gloves. She consulted her watch.
Then she shut her eyes and went
to sleep!
Quotation Marksmanship: An
drew Carnegie: The man who dies
rich dies disgraced. . . H. Felton:
As friendly as a fairy tale. ... A.
Corio: It is easier to toss a heavy
brick than a light compliment. \ . .
R. Connell: There is no greater
bore than perfection. . . . O. Henry:
She looked at. him with the unique
luminosity in her eyes that comes
to a girl with her first suitor—and
a kitten with its first mouse. . . . N.
Donovan: She had a dreamlined
figure. . . . Anon: The art of being
a parent consists of sleeping when
the baby isn’t looking. . . . H.
Jameson: The difference between
you and the other people is that
their money looks bigger and their
troubles smaller. . . . Ben Franklin:
Where there’s marriage without
love there will be love without mar
riage.
Midtowr. Vignette: During the
tense days of last week when Mr.
Gromyko walked out of the U. N.
Security Council—a crowd gathered
around the entrance to the Plaza
Hotel where some of the delegates
are tepeeing. . . . Two well-dressed
women got caught in the crowd. . . .
“Wonder what’s the matter,” said
the first. “Some movie star, I sup
pose.” ... “I don’t think so,” said
the other, as she saw a long, black
official limousine pull up, “I think
it must be those Social Security fel
lows from the Bronx!”
Main Street Smalltalk: Kay Scott
weds John Nerney on the 27th. . . .
Garry Davis and Mary McDonnell of
“3 to Make Ready” are Doin’ the
Old Soft Shoe. . . . Lana Turner
paid 75 Gs for her coast manse;
sold it for 150 thow. . . . Princess
Helene Yeuriavitch is brooding
in her borscht over a certain wed
ding announcement. Seems he
asked her, too. ... A top network
exec will toboggan via a beeff
shakeup. . . . Damon Runyon’s wire
to an aging crony: “Happy Birth
day. May there be just as many
more of them as you can stand.”
Manhattan Murals: The mink-
coated woman plus the yaller cow
boy boots in the Radio City Chase
Bank. Yipee! . . . The 23rd Street
window crowded with foreign-lan
guage typewriters. . . . The new
UN tie featured in a Lexington hab
erdasher’s. The design has 51 flags.
. . . The pigeons lined up on the
42nd Street library pediment—
Rockette Girl precision — almost.
. . . The E. 28th Street store that
sells only butterflies—mounted. . . .
The smallest store in Times Square
•™-at 48th and 7th—a jewelry shop.
R. Hornsby