Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. Newhouser '"THERE is a pitcher we think is a -*■ trifle overlooked. We say that because all the ball players we’ve talked to lately rank him as the best in either league. No—his name isn’t Bob Feller or Spud Chandler or Tex Hughson. He is a wiry left hander by the name of Harold Newhouser of the Tigers. Newhous er was the best pitcher in base ball in 1944 when he won 29 games. They threw that one out. A war year. Newhouser was the best pitcher in baseball last season when he won 25 games and took over the World series. They threw that one out, also. Another war year. Wait until the big hitters come back, they said last spring—Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio, Dom Di- Maggio, Bobby Doerr, Bill Dickey, Charlie Keller, all these and many others. So what happens? New houser has been winning six times out of seven. And Newhouser has been winning these games with a third-place ball club—a ball club that without New houser would be in fifth place. New houser was the best pitcher in base ball in 1944 and 1945. It is our pre diction that he also will be the best pitcher in baseball in the current season of 1946. Us Newhouser, J to 1 We decided to make a fuller check on Newhouser in his own league. We took a survey from 10 well- known veterans who know their way around. Nine gave us New houser, one gave us Bob Feller. 1 asked Bill Dickey what he thought about the matter. The Ar kansas quail hunter gave us a slow smile. “I’m already in enough trouble,” he said, “without getting into another argument. When I came back to baseball this spring, I heard that Newhouser was just an other wartime pitcher. “Our league happens to be well stocked with fine pitchers. I mean Chandler, Hughson, Ferris, Harris, Trucks, Kramer and a few more. But so far I haven’t seen a better pitcher than Newhouser. You know how hard it is to win 20 games. Newhouser has won 54 in the last two years. It wouldn’t surprise ma to see him win 30 or more this year. “What has he got? About all it takes. A good fast ball. A good curve bill. Good controL A lot of confidence in himself. Determi nation to win. A good head. Plenty of heart.” Unless something disastrous hap pens suddenly, it is a pretty safe bet that Hal Newhouser will lead both leagues on the pitching side. It is also a pretty fair bet that he will pass the 25-game mark again and threaten the 30 spot, which few have ever reached. Two 40-Game Winners So far as so-called modem base ball goes the only 40-game winners I can recall at the moment happen to be Ed Walsh and Jack Chesbro. Among the 30-or-more game win ners, we’ve had Matty, Johnson, Smokey Joe Wood, Dizzy Dean, Grover Alexander, Lefty Grove and possibly one or two others. Only Matty and Alexander have won 30 or more games three times, in the past 40 years. You can let us know if our memory is slipping. Newhouser has yet to be a 30- game winner. Bat the willowy Tiger left-hander has the best chance to reach this mark for 1946. He comes so close to being the best pitcher in the game that someone else will need a spur to crowd him back be fore the stretch run ends in Septem ber. Bob Feller, Spud Chandler and Tex Hughson are all great pitchers. Among the best. But all three will have to put on extra steam to crowd back Newhouser, who has been baseball’s best pitcher for three years. • • • About the Two Leagues Several querulous letters have come in since the all-star game asking what has happened to the veteran circuit. “Why is it,” one asked, “that the American league should come up with most of the top stars—such men as Ted Williams, Charlie Kel ler, Bob Feller, Newhouser, Chan dler and so many others who appar ently outclass most of the National league’s best men?” The sad facts—sad for the N. L.— are that the older league this sea son can match the younger circnit neither in stars, nor in average playing strength. The N. L. has no pitchers to rank with Feller, New houser, Chandler, Hughson and oth ers. Outside of Johnny Mize it has no power hitters who can be classed with Williams, Greenberg, Keller, DiMaggio and several more. This was all known before. It would have taken a Carl Hub- bell, a Dizzy Dean, a Matty or an Alexander to remove the noise from A. L. bats this season. MARKED CONTRAST . . . Foreign girls were wooed and won by American soldiers in both world wars but, as the above pictures attes., there was a marked difference in the brides of tw^> generations. Photo (1) shows a group of American soldiers in World War I’s army of occupation entraining at Coblenz, many bringing back wives and children. Girls like those shown in photo (2) won the hearts of American serv icemen in World War I, the picture showing typical war brides ready to embark for the U. S. In contrast to their sister war brides of a quarter century ago. World War II brides show every evidence of mod ernity. Photo (3) shows joyous wives of ex-G.I.s obligingly posing on the railing of a transport in typ ical Hollywood style, although minus the finishing touches. Longer duration of World War II resulted in larger families for G.I.s and their foreign brides. Larger than ordinary is the family cf Arthur Smith of Greenville, N. C. Mrs. Smith is shown in photo (4) arriving from England with her four children, two of which were by a former marriage. An Italian girl “fell hard” for Joseph Cianciotto of Rochester, N. Y., and they were married in Italy. Mrs. Cianciotto “fell hard” for him again when her war bride ship docked in New York, as photo (5) attests. Even modern modes of transportation were utilized in reuniting G.I.s and their foreign brides, photo (6) showing a group of war brides arriving in America by airliner. ‘LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON’ Statistics Show Equal Foreign Marriage Rate for Both Wars Influx of war brides to all parts of the United States leads to^ the general impression that G.I.s serving overseas during World War II were more addicted to marrying foreign girls than were their doughboy fathers of World War I. From the British Isles, France and Germany, even from far-away Austraha and the Philippines, have come bride ships transporting war wives to America to join their former G. I., husbands. The common impression that the average G.I. of World War II was more inclined to take a foreign wife than was his counterpart of World War I is contradicted in statistics compiled by Metropolitan Life In surance company. Records indicate that .there were about 52,500 marriages with foreign girls during World War II, com pared with an estimated 4,000 to 8,000 during the war of a quarter century ago. Records for war mar riages at that time are very in complete. Despite the increased num ber, however, the foreign mar riage rate of the two generations of servicemen is practically equal. Longer duration of World War II and the far greater numbers serv ing overseas account for the in crease in marriages, statisticians point out. Third Have Children. Duration of the war also is re sponsible for an increased number of children in war marriages. The 52,500 foreign brides coming to the U. S. to join their husbands were accompanied by 17,500 children, in dicating that nearly a third had children. In a majority of cases there was only one child, although there are instances of as many as three children. War marriages were most com mon in European and Mediterran ean theaters. Nearly 60,000 of the 70,000 brides and children came from these two areas and they rep resented more than 30 different na tionalities. Great Britain had the largest per centage of war brides, 75 per cent, followed by France and Italy with 15 per cent each, Belgium and Ire land with 3 per cent each, with about 4 per cent from the other countries of Europe and North Af rica. Many From Australia. From the Pacific area came 10,000 war brides, 85 per cent of whom were from Australia. Another 10 per cent are from New Zealand and 5 per cent from other countries, par ticularly the Philippines. Age of war brides varies con siderably, with marked concen trations in the late teens and early twenties. Just as personnel of the armed forces was recruited from every state in the Union, so will these wives and children of ex-G.I.s set tle in every part of the country. Soil Termed Great Laboratory For Production of New Drugs Blood Test Used To Fix Maternity- In Animal World CHICAGO.—An equine parallel to Hollywood’s recent series of pater nity disputes was reported by the American Veterinary Medical asso ciation. The investigation described by the veterinary authorities was made by two French veterinary scientists and was believed to be the first practical application of blood group ing to determine parentage in horses. The problem was to determine which of two mares, “Fanny” or “Clairette,” was the mother of a colt named “Robert.” Serum tests showed that Faliny’s blood belonged to group “AB,” Clairette’s to group “A” and Robert’s to group “O.” Soil not only is the source of life supporting food but also is a great laboratory in which are produced many new-found drugs for curing diseases of man and beast against which even good nutrition cannot j prevail, according to Alden Stahr and Dr. Boyd Woodruff in an arti cle in Capper’s Farmer. “These are the so-called miracle drugs, firs? of which was tyrothric- in," says the article. “Then came penicillin, used extensively during the war, followed by actoinomyein, streptothricin, clavicin and guma- gicin. Others have been discovered and more are in prospect.” Among the things scientists have seen and identified, Stahr and Wood ruff point out, are: One-celled plants, molds, green plants, ani mals, protozoa, worms and nema todes. And these soil inhabitants do more than provide fertility to the soil. In their struggle for existence, many of them throw off waste prod ucts and create chemical sub stances which are deadly to disease germs. Thus a very special strain or species of fungi yielded penicil lin, which shared the credit with blood plasma and the sulfa drugs in greatly reducing the wound mor tality rate - in World War II as compared with the First World war. “The soil,” conclude the writers, “is so complex a mixture that there must be many other healing agents found in it. Many of man’s 2,000 diseases still are unconquered. Most prevalent of all, of course, is the common cold, which causes more economic loss and discomfort to people than any other disease and, weakening the system, paves the way for more serious ailments.” Statute Books Contain Many Outmoded Regulations Ancient blue laws continue to gather dust on New Jersey statute books. A person who drives a horse while intoxicated—the driver, that is, not the horse—is subject to a fine of from $2.50 to $10 and 30 days’ im prisonment, according to one of the outmoded laws. Another law authorizes magis trates fo order a ball and chain to be placed on the leg of any tramps tried as disorderly persons. Wearing of dangerous hatpins in any public place automatically makes the wearer a disorderly per son, liable to a fine of $5 to $20 for each offense. In case someone should be stabbed, the injured per son can recover half the fine. Practice of witchcraft or sorcery in an attempt to discover lost or stolen goods is classed as a mis demeanor under the law. A similar charge can be placed against any one pretending to be God and caus ing followers to worship him. Selling a floral wreath at a home where a funeral is about to take place is barred, the offense being listed as disorderly conduct and making the offender liable to a fine. Dumping of junk on private prop erty also puts a person in the out law class. The legislature meets yearly to correct existing laws and enact new ones, but calmly ignores the out moded regulations. Kudzu Saves Soil And Provides Feed Increasing Use Seen On American Farms Erosion gullies, once the bugaboo of farming, are succumbing rapidly to a versatile leguminous vine known as kudzu. In addition to growing vigorously, with proper management, under many unfavorable soil and moisture conditions, kudzu has the advantage Kudzu crowns or roots will pro duce luxuriant and nutritious for age for hogs and other livestock. of permanency. The crowns, or root system, will remain over a long pe riod of years without replanting, if the vines are not overgrazed. When harvested for hay it has a feeding value as high as that of al falfa, and also provides a nutritious forage for livestock grazing. It is especially recommended for ravines or other sites that are too badly gullied to be used for cultivated crops. It is equally important on more level acreage where it can be cut for hay as well as acting to con serve the soil. From Dadeville, Ala., comes the report of an increase of 25 bushels per acre for corn that followed the plowing under of kudzu, or 40 bush els an acre. Most corn yields in that section averaged below 15 bushels. Labor Saving Cart Almost any dairy will find a cart a big labor saver, as well as a sani tary aid. Scales, milk pail, strain er, disinfectant and record books are all included in the cart shown above. ‘Gateless’ Cattle Gate Cattle will not cross this “gate” although it is always open. Photo Lincoln Electric Co. To make this “gate” dig a hole approximately 8 feet wide, 6 feet across, reinforce all sides at top with 4 inch square concrete slabs, embedding ends of six 5-inch Chan nels for cross supports. Cut 13 lengths of 2 inch pipe and space 4 inches apart. Weld pipe each side to tops of channels using 3/16 inch rod for mild steel. Controlling Blackleg Disease in Potatoes Crop rotation and seed treatment are the two most important control measures for black leg in potatoes, ac cording to R. A. Schroeder of the University of Mis souri. Blackleg is an old potato disease caurfted by a bacteria that thrives in cool damp weather. If dipped in a good seed disin fectant, there will be little infection when the seed is planted on clean land. Save Bees From an Insecticide Death While the dusting and spraying of farm crops must be regulated upon approved practices for each individ ual crop, in general the use of DDT and other insecticides should be em ployed before blossoms appear. In general, by following this practice, it is possible to reduce the loss among bees to such a point that it is of no economic importance. Do not spray or use insecticides except upon a given method of procedure. SEWING CIRCLE PAHERNS "Wdl-Zktting Qown in cjCurrye —^tzeA ^^aiitune JrocL £la,&y to Si: Cool Nightie C'SPECIALLY nice for the slightly larger figure is this neat and delightfully cool night dress. Narrow lace makes a pretty design to match the flatter ing sweetheart neckline. The back is slit to the waist and there’s a narrow belt to tie. Use a colorful all-over print with crisp white trimming. • • • Pattern No. 1529 Is designed for sizes 34. 36. 38. 40, 42 , 44. 46 and 48. Size 36, 3 3 ,i yards of 35 or 39-inch; U4 yards narrow lace. Beginner’s Dress IUST two main pattern pieces for this charming daytime frock that closes just below the waist. Makes easy sewing for the beginner. Dropped shoulders ac cent a trim, neat waist, soft gath ers and a bow tie' give a dainty feminine air. Certain to win you many compliments. • • • Pattern No. 1532 comes in sizes 12. 14, 16 18. 20; 40 and 42. Size 14 requires 4 yards of 35 or 39-inch. SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. 530 South Wells St. Chicago 7, 111- Enclose 25 cents in coins for each vattern desired. Pattern No Size- Name — Address ■ — A noted fashion authority ad vises buying a hat last when planning a new ensemble. It is then simpler to make a better se lection in regard to color, material and style. —•— Heavy roof paint applied to in side of metal gutters will prevent rusting for a long time. —•— Drab-looking flower pots can be brightened by going over them with ordinary wax crayons. —a— To remove dust from wall pa per, wipe with a soft wall brush or soft cloth. Hard rubbing will streak and roughen the paper. —•— To help restore the original lus tre of gilt picture frames rub with a sponge moistened slightly with turpentine. —•— Sandpaper is useful in cleaning suede shoes. After a thorough brushing, go over them lightly with fine sandpaper, then follow with a cloth which has been moist ened with vinegar. —•— Tip on painting: Don’t overload brush, dip it one-third its length, and keep the can about half full. U you wish to mix cheese with other ingredients to be cooked, cut the cheese in small pieces or grate it. —•— Late fall is regarded as the best time to do house painting, for by then the long summer sun has re moved all moisture from the wood. CHOOSE BY NAME The name St. Joseph guar antees quality, speed, econ omy in aspirin. Always ask for St. Joseph Aspirin. EXPANDIKG WATCH BAND FLEXIBLE STAINLESS GUARANTEED ADJUSTABLE Immediate Delivery. No Tax. C | CA Postaae paid. (MBitHsssi0i4sr. ALFRED KEENE. 170 W. 73>d SL,Nss>YsthCHy {STEEL PALLETS HIGHEST QUALITY ALLOY ALUMINUM Chill cast to Insure extra hardnesa and symmetry. Rustless, no breakage, warp ing or bending Stock size 8” x 16”. Any size available on order in any quantity. Light shipping weight. 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