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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C.
BYRNES MAY RESIGN
WASHINGTON.—Friends of Sec
retary of State Byrnes have re
ceived word that he may have to
resign shortly after the end of the
Paris peace conference—for rea
sons of health. The news has come
as a great blow to President Tru
man, who has leaned heavily on
Byrnes.
Byrnes’ doctors have told him that
he might be able to continue as sec
retary of state provided he took long
and periodic r is. However, Byrnes
does not believe he should do this.
Cordell Hull used to spend several
months a year away from his of
fice. In 1942, our first year in the
war, he was away a total of six
months.
Byrnes has told intimates that
condncting the foreign affairs of
the United States today is a con
stant, day-to-day job. He does
not feel that a secretary of state
can be off the job a minute, and
he does not believe it would be
fair to the American people for
him to take a prolonged rest.
For instance, immediately after
the Paris conference is the assem
bly of the United Nations, now al
ready late. After that comes the
Pan American security conference
and the regular Pan American con
ference, to say nothing of various
meetings of the United Nations se
curity council.
WORKS AT TERRIFIC PACE
Byrnes has been hopping back
and forth across the Atlantic ever
since he became secretary of state.
In 15 months he has made seven
round trips. Cordell Hull, in 12 long
years, made only one air flight
across the Atlantic, plus two leisure
ly steamship trips to Latin Amer
ica.
In Paris, Byrnes has worked at a
terrific pace. Sitting in the peace
conference all day, keeping on the
alert to watch the moves of rival
delegates, is a grueling job. It would
wear out a younger man. But by
going to bed every night immedi
ately after dinner, Byrnes has kept
going.
However, he is no longer young—
68—and when the peace conference
closes, he will have to decide wheth
er to follow his doctors’ advice and
resign, or face eventualities.
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MONTY’S POLITICS
Some of those who served in the
American command in Europe are
lifting their eyebrows over the U. S.
visit of dapper, publicity-wise Field
Marshal Viscount Montgomery.
Seared in their minds during those
bloody months in Eurorpe are cer
tain events involving the famed
Monty which personally they would
like to forget, but which nationally
they hope won’t be forgotten—espe
cially in view of the fear of impend
ing war.
General Patton’s officers, for
instance, remember Patton’s
race up the west coast of Sicily,
in contrast to Montgomery’s
snail’s pace up the east coast.
Nobody can blame a command
er for having hard luck or nec
essarily going slow. But what
only a few officers around Pat
ton know, and what has never
been published, is the telegram
he received from the vaunted
Montgomery.
Montgomery actually sent Patton
a telegram asking him to halt his
offensive and wait until he, Monty,
caught up. In other words, Amer
ican troops were going too fast for
Monty. He was afraid Patton would
envelope not only the enemy, but
also the British army. Inside fact
is that Patton pretended he never
received the telegram, showed
it only to a few top aides, later told
Monty it never arrived. Patton’s
army kept on moving.
Later, in the Normandy offensive,
Gen. Omar Bradley’s officers recall
all too vividly how Monty was sup
posed to break through at Caen, but
sat there day after day, yelling at
Eisenhower for more troops (Amer
ican troops). Finally Bradley, Pat
ton and Joe Collins made the Amer
ican breakthrough at St. Lo, leaving
Monty still sitting at Caen.
British papers all this time
were featuring headlines:
“Monty Pivots at Caen.” Actu
ally all the pivoting he did was
to break up a few tanks in the
Normandy hedgerows.
f Shortly after that Eisenhower
made General Bradley top field
commander, giving him a higher
place than Montgomery—a shift
that brought such a roar from the
British press and Mr. Churchill that
Eisenhower later took two armies
away from Bradley and gave them
to Montgomery.
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MERRY-GO-ROUND
President Truman has told con
gressional friends he will summon a
special session of congress follow
ing the November election to deal
with skyrocketing prices, the contin
ued housing shortage and other mat
ters, providing the Republican par
ty does not win control of the house
of representatives or make materi
al gains in the senate. . . . Truman
again has offered the chairmanship
of the atomic commission to Under
secretary of State Dean Acheson, but
Atcheson again declined.
BASEBALL FOR JOSEF
The Army and Navy journal pro
poses that baseball be introduced tc
Russia. It would equip and uniform
1,000 Russian teams in the beliel
this would be one sure way to cre
ate a spirit of good will and make
the Russians a little less tense.
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This may be the best suggestion of
postwar times. A world series be
tween Moscow and Petrograd might
cure the crustiness. It might even
soften up Pravda. Certainly Mo
lotov would not be the same dif
ficult guy if he had a season in the
bleachers. And does anybody think
Gromyko would be the killjoy that
he is if he could get an afternoon
now and then at a crucial series?
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We are for baseball on the Volga.
It would be O.K. up to the time
when a home-run swatter got too
big a public following or a star
pitcher got his picture in the papers
above that of Joe Stalin.
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Of course baseball in Russia
would present some difficulties.
Would the Soviets stand for any
home-run hitter being called a
“king”? Will the three strikes and
out rule be subject to a veto? Will
the base on balls, being a demo
cratic institution, be ruled out as
capitalistic?
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Isn’t there a possibility that any
team that licked Moscow in a series
would be liquidated?
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Suppose Joe Stalin likes Minsk
to cop a pennant and the Pinsk club
takes it?
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If Joe thinks a player is safe at
fits! and the decision is that he is
out by a mile can the umpire es
cape being sent to the salt mines?
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Suppose the Russian baseball
teams have a bad season and Stahn
wants some big hitters and fast run
ners from American lend-lease?
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Could there be any hope of peace
if Stalin arranged to go to Teheran
for a crucial conference with Larry
MacPhail and Leo Durocher?
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What? No Reason
For Nervousness?
u No good reason for the break in stock
prices and the current nervousness could
be found”—News Item.
It couldn’t be that reconversion is
still behind the eight ball, that there’s
an ultimatum in every pot and two
border incidents in every garage,
that strikes are in flower again, that
the adimintstration recently set a
course for Newfoundland and wound
up in Bahama, and that meat, shirt-
tails, peace and brotherly love are
to continue shorter, could it?
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The uneasiness wouldn’t have a
thing to do with the fact that Gro
myko is still talking . . . that the
only industry without bottlenecks is
the holdup industry . . . that the
victors in the global war trust one
another less than they did Hitler—
that general snafu has reached a
new high in America and that there
are increasing signs that the Amer
ican public regards the Four Free
doms as (1) freedom of the daily
double; (2) freedom to mob any de
praved criminal for his autograph;
(3) freedom to operate a black mar
ket in choice steaks; (4) freedom to
dope out a newer and screwier pro
gram with audience participation.
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Nervousness? Uneasiness? A re
turn of the jitters? Well, possibly
it has something to do with the fact
that the world seems on fire, brass
knuckles are becoming compulsory
equipment in diplomacy, peace in
Europe doesn’t even look like a good
show bet, labor and capital are still
demonstrating new wrestling grips,
you can’t get a new auto except on
a radio quiz program, nine more
well-known Americans have be
come newspaper columnists. Rus
sia still has the veto power, a cou
ple aged 86 eloped the other day.
226 more strikes threatened east of
the Rockies and Fala is back in the
news!
• • •
Pettigrew the Penguin says:
“Jimmy byrnes promised the ger-
mans a two car-mirage and a chick
en in every potsdam.”
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Add similes: She was as bejew-
eled as if she had just helped launch
a ship.
• * •
Mrs. Oliva Dionne has given birth to a
baby boy. Two doctors and a trained
nurse were on hand. Dr. Dafoe's spirit
must be enjoying quite a hearty laugh.
• • •
A Miss Elayne Keenan has been
chosen “Miss C.I.O.” in Detroit.
John L. Lewis, the former C.I.O.
beauty, is now, it seems, with the
A.F. of L.
Delegates from nine nations are on the
way to the United Nations session in Flush
ing, N. y, which has been postponed. Anil
in view of the truck strike it is doubtful
if enough ice can be hauled to keep them
30 days.
• • •
The auto industry claim that the
unions haven’t a leg to stand on
seems pretty well blasted.
ON WAR’S WINNING SIDE—BUT TFTEIR BATTLE IS NOT OVER ... Greece, which was on the AlUed side
in the war, is suffering just as much, if not more, than former enemy countries who were on the losing side.
Typical of the little people—the common or average citizen—who are the real sufferers are these citizens at
Kanalia, Greece. Starting from the ground up, in a destroyed city, they are building a new home without
money and suitable material. Even their livestock went with the Germans.
NEW CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH . . . Discovery of gold and a possible new “mother lode” at Crescent City,
Calif., by a prospector, Joe Cronin, has started a full fledged gold rush with hundreds of people filing new
claims. Shown looking at gold deposit in a pan are, left to right: Mr. and Mrs. Joe Miller, Alvin Farlet,
Joe Azevedo, a^sayer, and Ernest Hey.
POLIO VICTIM KEEPS UP WITH CLASS . . . School bells rang for
Bill De Smith, 8, Dayton, Ohio, who didn’t let a little thing like a
wheel chair keep him from starting his third grade classes. Billy was
stricken with polio in May, 1944, and has been unable to leave his
wheel chair since. He is taken to and from school by his father. With
Billy in school, left to right, Janice Sherwood, Louis Malloy, Bill and
Janet Scheve.
TO BE OR NOT TO BE . . . In
dependent or join the CIO or the
AFL. That was the question when
A. F. Whitney, president of the
Brotherhood of Railroad Train
men, opened the 28th national con
vention at Miami Beach, Fla.
SPEEDY MITE REGATTA . . . Growth of the small-boat fad in Amer
ica is epitomized by the many regattas held. Latest gathering of the
clan was at Wrightsville Beach, N. C., where 150 entries participated.
The youngest racer in the regatta was Carmen Davis, 12, Wilming
ton, N. C. Boat manufacturers are gearing themselves to supply, the
demand for thousands of inexpensive, easily handled boats.
VIEWS SHRINKING WORLD . . .
Using a magnifying glass, Trygve
Lie, secretary general of the Unit
ed Nations, gazes at a tiny sphere
of the world whose peoples are
becoming more and more like
“next door neighbors.” The globe
is shrinking due to political con
siderations and air travel.
E'OOTBALL is moving in the direc-
1 tion of its record year. I am re
ferring here to class and talent from
over 40 football states. There has
been no season before that could
show as many fast and powerful
teams, due partly to returning G.I.s
from the various battlefields of the
world. Any one team that can finish
this season unbeaten must call on
a miracle. There are too many who
are good.
For example we might as well
take up the mat ‘r of All-America
backs. We brought
this argument up
before a group of
coaches recently.
“That’s simple
enough,’’ one of
them said. “Why
not pick Blanchard,
Davis, Wedemey-
er and Gilmer?”
“It isn’t quite
that simple,’’ we
countered. “What
about Fenimore,
Buddy Young and Trippi? What
about Tucker of Army or Justice of
North Carolina? What about the
best back on Michigan, Ohio State
or Indiana? Or Patterson of Illi
nois? What about the pick from
Notre Dame and Pennsylvania or
Columbia, or one or two from the
Southwest, including Texas and Mis
souri? Certainly Notre Dame
should come up with a challenger
from the group Frank Leahy has
in tow, perhaps Johnny Lujack.”
“If anyone is trying to pick the
four best,” another coach said,
“why not put eight names in a Jiat
and pick out the first four?”
“Which eight?” I asked.
“Well,” the answer came, “here
are seven anyway — B'anchard,
Davis, Wedemeyer, Fenimore, Gil
mer, Trippi and Buddy Young. You
dig up the other.”
Columbia’s Backs
John Lujack
You can imagine how the argu
ment will be in late November. For
example, it might surprise many
camp followers from the strohg
Midwest and the strong South to
know that Lou Little at Columbia
may end up with a better all-around
backfield than Notre Dame, Michi
gan, Indiana, Ohio State, Alabama,
Georgia and Texas. The line isn’t
there but the backs are, headed by
Rossides, Kusserow and the bril
liant passer Kasprzak, rated by Lou
on a par with Luckman and Gover-
nali.
With two big tackles, Columbia
could give Army, Alaba na or Notre
Dame an even scrap. But the line
is still the front wall. It is the ad
vance post. And Columbia so far
hasn’t the line needed to face such
a schedule.
My guess is that Army has the
best first - line backfield in foot
ball, with something to spare. This
backfield, in addition to Blanchard
and Davis, includes a brilliant quar
terback and a fine passer in young
Tucker. You’ll hear a lot more
about Tucker this fall than you ever
heard before. He can move right
up with Blanchard and Davis.
Alabama, Columbia and Okla
homa A. and M. have all-around
backfield strength above the nor
mal. So has Illinois with an attack
headed by Young and Patterson,
two of the best.
I believe the strongest lines are
at Illinois, Yale, Notre Dame and
Alabama. Notre Dame may have
the best of the lot, but Yale isn’t
far behind. Alabama has a great
center in Mancha, one of the best
in many years. Illinois possesses
top guards and Notre Dame has the
best looking tackles.
Oklahoma, Yale Lines
It might be added here that the
Oklahoma A. and M. line is one of
the best — a point Wally Butts of
Georgia might remember for their
October meeting. Yale’s line is
strong from end to end. Texas has
all-around strength, backfield and
line, and should be hard to handle
in the country’s major state.
The two best ends of the year
should belong to Army in Barney
Poole and Foldberg, veterans
around 218 pounds who know what
it is all about. They will have to be
better than good with the tackle
problem Army faces. Some squad
may have two better ends than
Army’s big, experienced pair—but
I doubt it.
Among the major teams the big
guess is Navy. Capt. Tom Hamil
ton, undoubtedly the savior of col
lege football through war years,
is as good a coach as you’ll meet
anywhere. But Navy has lost more
good men than any team in the
country. The group of supposed
stars under Swede Hagberg two
years ago have either graduated,
flunked or resigned.
Hamilton has little left from
that old crew—Kelly, Scott, Minis!,
Jenkins, Ellsworth, on and on, are
all gone. Most of the Navy line is
missing. But Hamilton still has
good football players left, no*; too
many, but enough to give any team
a busy afternoon.
Navy took the major rap in post
war football. Where most of the oth
ers were getting their former stars
back, Navy was taking a heavy def
icit. Navy may lose many games.
More than two or three. But these
games will be fought to the last
play with Tcm Hamilton in charge.
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The Questions
1. The Chinese are believed to
have been the first to discover gun
powder. Was that gunpowder ex
plosive?
2. What was the seating capac
ity of the Roman Circus Maxi
mus?
3. What is the outlet for the
Great Salt lake?
4. The Constitution of the United
States requires congress to assem
ble how often?
5. What has the United States
spent on wars since 1776?
6. How many persons are nor
mally employed by the motor car
industry?
7. What portio'n of the brain has
as its main function that of the
reasoning facilities?
8. What state in the Union is
completely debt free?
The Answers
1. No, but it was incendiary.
2. Estimated at 250,000 people.
3. It has no outlet.
4. At least once in every year.
5. Close to $414,000,000,000, or
more than all the wealth the Unit
ed States has piled up since the
Declaration of Independence.
6. About 7,000,000. Only 700,000
are employed in the production of
cars and parts. The rest are em
ployed in the operation, main
tenance and servicing of cars.
7. The cerebrum.
8. Nevada, the least populous
state, came out of the war with a
reserve surplus of $1,750,000.
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