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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. NIMITZ WILL RESIGN WASHINGTON. — Adm. Chester Nimitz, hero of the Pacific and one of the most efficient leaders of the navy, has indicated to friends that he will retire as chief of naval operations after about one year of his four-year appointment. Backstage reason is that Nimitz finds his job chiefly requires lobby ing naval appropriations through congress, and he would much rath er be at sea than playing politics. Furthermore, Washington society is running him ragged. Mrs. Nimitz doesn’t feel the same way at all about Wash ington society—which perhaps is one reason why the admiral wants to get oat of the capital. He hates dinners, loathes cock tail parties and feels ill-at-ease at receptions. But Mrs. Nim itz loves them and insists on dragging her husband along when she makes the rounds. Rigors of war in the Pacific now have begun to look like heaven in contrast with social Washington and when the right time comes next year, the admiral plans quietly to pull out. Note—Grandson of a Texas hotel- keeper, Admiral Nimitz hopes to re tire to Texas or the California coast. • • • PRESIDENTIAL SEASICKNESS Those who suffer from stomach maladjustments when they travel by sea or air will be glad to know that President Truman not only sympa thizes with them but also has found a fairly good remedy for sea sickness. The cure is not 100 per cent effective, however, and that is one reason the President’s yacht turned south. Mr. Truman had a bottle of sea sickness pills with him on his recent cruise—a remedy concocted by the Canadian army for use by its troops when they crossed the Atlantic or went ashore in tank landing barges. It is supposed to be the best thing so far developed to cure seasick ness. The President always carries a bottle with him when afloat and eats the pellets almost as if they were candy. On his first important sea trip aboard the cruiser Augusta to Potsdam one year ago, he took this medicine along and apparently avoided seasickness. However, Mr. Truman, born and raised on the Midwest prairies, doesn’t get the same kick out of the sea as did F.D.R. * • » HUSHED-CP INCIDENT Tenseness of the Russo-American situation in southeast Europe is il lustrated by an incident in Austria so far hushed up by the censors. For some time, the Soviet gov ernment has been pressing Gen. Mark Clark to permit cross-exam ination of Yugoslav, Baltic and oth er displaced persons in Austria. Many of them rebelled against go ing back to their homelands for fear of Soviet reprisals, but some were willing to go. Finally General Clark agreed that the Soviet could send in 12 men to ask them ques tions. While the Soviet team was at work with the displaced persons, General Clark was getting secret information from one of the D.P.s as to what was going on. Eventual ly this informant reported to Clark that he was under Soviet scrutiny. So Clark secretly placed an American machine gun in a room above the informant’s and another machine gun on the roof of the building opposite. A night or two later a squad of Russians drove up to the inform ant’s home, knocked down his door and carried him out in the street. Immediately the U. S. troops turned on their searchlights and arrested the Russians. Here was the pay-off. Our allies, the Russians, were dressed in the uniforms of American military po lice. * * • TRIGGER-HAPPY TITO The question of using “horse-and- buggy” tactics to calm Dictator Tito of Yugoslavia, especially the navy’s dispatch of cruisers to Tries te, has been criticized privately in side the U. S. armed forces. U. S. warships at the head of the Adriatic, according to army men, could be caught in a trap and might be sunk with one bomb. Further more, the cost of operating one cruiser in contrast to an airplane is tremendous. Therefore, U. S. army command ers in Europe have proposed that we send one or two B<S9s over Yugo slavia to see what Tito’s trigger- happy warriors do about it. • • • ELDER STATESMAN BARUCH Kindly elder statesman Bernie Baruch has made a private propo sition to the state department that he be allowed to read its secret cables from diplomatic posts throughout the world. These are a gold mine of nformation for which any business man or banker would give his eye-teeth. Baruch prom ised, a little naively, that if he was given the daily secret intelligence summary of world affairs, he would show them only to his two invest ment-banker assistants. The Wild Animal Crisis Wild animals are now on the “we can’t get the stuff” list. Inflation has struck the jungles. Reconver sion snafu rages on the veldt. The waterhole needs ceiling prices. * The highest prices in history are being quoted to zoos seeking beasts of the fields. You may think you are being soaked for cowmeat, but suppose you wanted elephant-steak! * African lions are bringing $10 a snarl, Bengal tigers are being sold by the stripe, giraffes are higher than ever and camels are quoted at $2,500 for single humped ones. A double-humper brings twice as much and no deliveries until 1947!! * A seal with no ear for music is up.80 per cent and one that can only toot three notes of “My Country 'Tis of Thee” sells higher than used to be asked for a seal that knew Irving Berlin’s repertoire. » “Why is this?” we asked John Kieran, the well-known animal, fish, bird and bug man. “Production line troubles,” said Kieran—presto, like that!—"Africa hasn’t reconverted yet at all. It’s the old story of supply and ' de mand.” “What, no OPA in the bush or at the waterhole?” we asked. “They sent some OPA fellows into the lion country to study the situa tion, but nothing further was heard from them,” he replied. “A lion can resent that sort of thing,” we suggested. “You just try to put a ceiling on one,” said the Sage of the Airwaves. “Once when I was on a safari I encountered. . . .” “But what about elephants?” we interrupted. “What about ’em?” he repeat ed. “Why should it be hard to get a good elephant now that the controls are off?” "An elephant with his controls off is harder to get than any other kind,” he said. “In 1927 I was bi cycling through India when I en countered—” “What will happen to American economy if it can’t get elephants?” we put in. “Oh, the GOP can’t get back any how, I fear,” he replied, “I remem ber one night encountering. . . .” * “Have you been able to get any wildcats lately?” we asked. “No, but a friend of mine got one.” “How?” “He says it was in a hamburger.” « “What do you hear about black panthers?” we asked. “You can get ’em, but nc. in col ors. Black is as hard to find as white.” “What do you think about the wild animal market for the next few months?” we inquired. “I dunno. There may be a big animal backlog, but on the other hand it may all be due to a slow up on the production line.” * “Do you suspect anybody is hold ing back wild animals?” “Not the really wild ones.” “Is there anything in the story a scientist is making a rhinoceros out of the soybean?” “I consider that as unlikely as the plastic hippopotamus.■’ “Any chance to get a porcupine in the present situation?” “Only with points.” • Kieran was pretty depressed. He suggested sending some fact-finding board into the jungle. The deep jungle. By night. Blindfolded. And with no weapons. Good here! • • • IFe understand Byrnes and Molotov made a big error at Paris. They went into action without sending mine-finders ahead. * • • Charming Pollock is dead. One of the first of our assignments as a cub reporter back home was to go to the old New Haven house at Col lege and Chapel street and inter view Pollock. He was there for the opening of one of his early plays, “Such a Little Queen.” Somebody had broken into his room at the hotel and taken a pair of his pants, including a roll of money, as we recall it. Pollock, the papers say, wrote a drama called “The Pit.” If this was a dramatization of a Norris novel with Wilton Lackaye in the leading role, then we were in it. For with a mob of youngsters from around the Webster school area, including John Quigley, Herb Moeller and Mike Sarasohn, we managed to get in as “supers” in the big wheat market scene. • • • Maybe in the Weather Dunder, a race horse named after one of Santa’s coursers in “A Visit From Saint Nicholas,” won a race the other day, surprising the ex perts who pointed out that it had never finished better than eighth, beating only Blitzen in the famous verses. • • • Fiorello LaGuardia is reported fairly sure to get a nomination for the United States senate. Good! We think every really funny man on radio should be encouraged. STUDIOUS KING . . . King Phumiphon Adulet, of Siam, 18, who re cently succeeded his brother, King Ananda Mahidol, after the latter was shot to death under suspicious circumstances, is shown as he arrived by plane at Geneva, Switzerland, to continue his studies at Lausanne. With the young monarch are his mother, Queen Sangwan Chrukanol and his sister, escorted by Swiss officials.—Soundphoto. BOY MEETS GIRL ... A fence at the Bronx zoo in New York is no barrier to two lovers who do a bit of long range necking as they meet for the first time. Jack, right, a 15 foot 17-year-old giraffe decided it was time to have a mate, so a 3-year-old female named Jill (left) was imported from East Africa. They’ll occupy adjoining compartments because it will be a couple of years before the romance blossoms. MONTY LOOKS AT MAPS AGAIN . . . With world problems un solved, spheres of influence have caused generals as well as diplomats to consult their maps once again. In this picture, Field Marshal Vis count Montgomery, chief of Britain’s imperial staff, is lecturing on maneuvers at the British staff college in Camberly, England. DISCUSSION ON HIGH FINANCE . . . Secretary of Treasury John W. Snyder, attends first of a series of meetings at the treasury depart ment, in which bankers and insurance executives will be asked for advice in the shaping of a policy for government financing. At the meeting are, left to right, Secretary Snyder, Robert Fleming, chairman American Banker’s association committee on government borrowing, and C. W. Bailey, vice president of the American Banker’s association. FLEET GOES ANYWHERE . . . Fleet Adm. William F. Halsey Jr., above, said that it’s nobody’s damn business where the U. S. government sends its powerful fleet. The wartime commander of the famed Third fleet declared at a press conference that the navy is free to send ships anywhere. TO PEACE CONFERENCE . . . Sen. Arthur H. Vandenber” (R„ Mich.) and his wife leave a plane on arrival at Washington. Accom panied by his wife and Sen. Alben Barkley (D., Ky.) he left Wash ington by plane for Paris meet. EATING CHAMP . . . Here’s a man who could eat you out of “house and home.” Frank Juli- ano, of Worcester, Mass., attract ed widespread attention by eat ing at one sitting 50 meat balls, two quarts of sauce, and drinking 17 beers plus 3 meals. CROWN JEWEL TRIAL . . . Capt. Kathleen Nash Durant, shown as she appeared with her defense counsel at opening of her trial at Frankfurt, Germany, in connection with the theft of the Hesse crown jewels. FOR MILITARY TRAINING . . . Secretary of War Robert Patter son, as he addressed the 28th state convention of the American Le gion at Lowell, Mass. He urged the Legion to take up the fight for universal military training. 'T'HE somewhat dusty files show - 1 that a Boston club has never lost a world series contest, with six vic tories out of six starts — five for the Red Sox and one for the Braves. This world series mop up began 43 years ago. It began when the Boston A. L. entry of 1903 came from behind to whip the able Pirates with [mm* such stars aboard 1 as Hans Wagner, Tommy Leach, Fred Clarke, Sam Leev- er, Deacon Phil- lippe, Jimmy Sefa ring and a few oth ers. Apparently ^ beaten, the Bos- GrantlandRice tonian delegation rallied to ride home on the stout right arm and the stouter heart of Big Bill Dineen. That was victory No. 1, although the world series of 1903 was on the unofficial side. Nine years later the Red Sox found John McGraw and his Giants in the road. This series went to eight games, where in the final spasm Giant support blew wide open as Christy Mathewson lost a contest he should have won in a common canter. Earlier in this meeting, around the fifth inning, Harry Hooper saved the day for Boston with the most spectacular of all world &‘tries catches when he pulled down Larry Doyle’s almost sure home run over the right field fence. The ball al ready had passed over the fence when Hooper made the miracle catch, crashing into the crowd. He must have used a net. Speaker Clinches Flag After that Fred Snodgrass dropped Clyde Engle’s easy fly to center that popped into his glove— and then popped out again, Engle reaching second. That was a bit discouraging. But a moment later on, Matty fed Tris Speaker a slow floater and Tris lifted the ball on a high foul pop-up near first base that Fred Merkle lost. Chief Myers made a futile chase as Merkle was vainly loking in various direc tions for the ball. The high pop-up dropped between these two only 10 feet from first base. Then Speaker broke it up with a single, scoring Engle. Two years later the Braves crashed into the big show by beat ing the Athletics four straight. Rudolph, Tyler and James did it. The famous Athletics curled up like a feather attached to a burning match. In these three world series Boston was three up. In 1915 the Red Sox broke back into the great white spotlight again. They lost to Alexander, one of the great pitchers of. all time, and then won the next four games. In 1916 they won the pennant again and took on the Dodgers. The main feature here was Babe Ruth’s extra inning victory over Sherrod Smith. The Babe was then a great left-hander in the box. Ruth’s Last Hurling In 1918, the Red Sox returned to the post-season carnival for the fifth time. That year they whipped the Cubs where Babr.- Ruth, dating back to 1916, turned in 29 scoreless innings. Babe wa.i the master of that party, his final as a pitcher before he turned to home-run hitting at Ed Barrows’ suggestion. Babe usually carried the world series along with him, using his pitching or batting eye for this worthy pur pose. It has now been a matter of 28 years since Boston saw its last world series. In the last 10 years, Tom Yawkey has spent enough money to win three championships, but this hap pened in the era or epoch where the Yankees had too much stuff. It is only natural that Boston sup porters are looking for another world series mop-up, making it seven in a row. This time they have the best team the home of the bean and the cod ever has sent into action. It is an even better team than the 1912 outfit that knew Speaker, Lewis and Hooper for the finest defensive outfield in baseball history. Plus Smoky Joe Wood in the box. Plus Bill Carrigan back of the bat. The 1946 Red Sox carry base ball’s two essentials — hitting and pitching. But the Red Sox road rec ord proves that Joe Cronin’s young men are far from being invincible. They are the best team in baseball, anyway, although their man-against- man selection doesn’t leave any wide margin over the Dodgers or Cardinals, who also can play their share of baseball. ♦ * » Query and Comment Bystanders and non-combatants can think up more questions than I can answer. But here are a few be lated attempts from recent mail: Sideliner — Among the more im portant and leading college football games of the coming season you can list Army-Notre Dame; Army- Michigan; Illinois-Notre Dame; Ala- bama-Georgia and Georgia-Okla- homa A. and M. There will be many others, but these will be among the best. Bedspread With a Permanent Valance A BED with a valance to the floor has a well-dressed ap pearance that is lacking when a short spread is used. A plain val ance like this repeating a color in the room would be just as attrac tive used with an old fashioned quilt for a spread; or with a cro- cljet or plain spread. 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