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Washington. I>. C. i>! i i nsi: *im ii>i:n i s Out <?f 2(5 major "incidents of dam age" in defense plants Inst month, military intelligence authorities have evidence that 14 were caused by sabotage. The other 12 were ac cidents Of the 14 sabs?tage eases, four were fires and 10 were mechanical damage Two are attributed t<? Coninuin.st.x ; the others to Nazi agents. There is no indication that Communists and Nazis worked to gether. Since the outbreak of the Russo Ger?r?on war, the Communist party line has sumci vaulted. The current dictum is. no interference with de fense output It is significant that since thi Nazi attack on the Soviets there has been a sharp decline in Strikes. However, intelligence agents re port that the party has made no change in its policy of propagandiz ing soldiers and sailors. This is be ing pushed as vigorously as before, although with little success. In fact, i party generals are so dissatisfied with results that they recently or dered labor unions dominated by Communists to help their campaign by offering their halls as soldier rec reation centers. Japanese Consulates. Another significant development in subversive influences relates to the Japanese. Since the expulsion of the Nazi and Italian consulates, intelligence officers have found that the Japa nese consulates in Los Angeles and Seattle have become the chief clear ing houses for espionage on the West coast. Japanese residents are send ing in a constant stream of reports on airplane production, ship move ments and other military informa tion. The recent arrest of two Japanese spies in Los Angeles caused a flurry hi Japanese quarters, and a num ber of Japanese rushed to Wash ington. apparently to place them selves under the protection of their embassy. Others hotfooted for Mex ico, which may mean they are plan ning to shift spy headquarters to Mexico City. ? ? ? SECRET NEW AAA CZAR American Farm bureau and Na tional Grange moguls are smart pol iticians. Although their bill io cre ate an independent, five-man board to rule the AAA has not yet seen the light of day on Capitol Hill, they are already greasing the way by canny wooing of possible oppo nents. I-atest to be "propositioned'' is Rudolph ("Spike") Evans, ambi tious head of the AAA, who might be a vigorous foe of their scheme to gain control of his own agency. The farm leaders have sent word to Evans that they will back him for chairman of their proposed board if he will go along with them. An inner group of 11 decided on this move at a secret pow-wow dur ing the recent conference in Chi cago of the Farm bureau. Grange and National Co-op council on the defense emergency. The master minds also accepted ; Walter Randolph of Alabama as the Farm bureau's selection on the boards, pledged themselves to take whomever the Grange picked, and agreed to allow this hand-picked trio to name the other two board mem bers. The plan is very pat, but the mys tery is where Roosevelt and Secre tary Claude Wickard fit into the picture. Under the law the Presi dent appoints board members, and on agricultural selections he natur ally would consult Wickard. Appar ently, the Grange and Farm bureau manipulators propose to do the pick ing and force Roosevelt and Wick ard to go along. No Chance. Actually, the five - man board : scheme has no chance of getting anywhere this year. Not yet even introduced, it faces such a long battle when it does ap pear that months will elapse before it goes through the committee proc ess. Further, there are indications that certain Farm bureau moguls privately don't want the legislation considered at all this session. According to Farm bureau insid ers, Earl Smith, Illinois big-gun, and Francis Johnson, Iowa chief, secretly want to make it a political issue in next year's congressional election. Militant New Deal foes, they arc said to believe that a Jot of GOP campaign hay can be made In the rural districts by raising the cry of "give the farmer control of the AAA." How much control he would have Is shown by the fact that the boys already have made sure that they would do the controlling. WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON ? Keatuivs WNU Scrvice. ? VKW YORK. ? Early in World War I, Louis Racmaekers. Dutch cartoonist, drew a cartoon tailed "When the Grain Is Ripe." ry I , . I It showed Raetnaehers Ink j > ,. a 1 1, ;M| Horn Blasts at vancing with Germans Continue 'lls scythe, reaping a human harvest. Perhaps the only other cartoon which has had com parable range and staying-power was Sir John Tenniel's "Dropping the Pilot," in Punch, or possibly some of Thomas* Nast's pen Philippics against Tweed. If American views had been evenly balanced in World war days. Raemaekers' cartoons might have tipped the scales, so powerful was their impact on our public opinion, with their grim por trayal of German brutality. At 72, with no slackening of pace or skill, or of his devastat ing hatred of (icrmin aggres sion, he renews his pictorial blitzkrieg over here, just now drawing posters for the Belgians in Britain and other groups ral lying against the Nazi on slaught. lie arrived here about a year ago, his country a cap tive, his home and all other possessions swept away in the (Herman lunge against which he first began warning Holland in 1908. Through this stretch of more than three decades, dur ing wars and in between, he never has faltered in his almost daily portrayal of the deadly menace of expanding Germany. He is a small, compact, pink cheeked man, looking much younger than his years, with roached-back, thinning hair, sharp blue eyes and a shadowy goatee. His mother was German and his Dutch father was for 40 years editor of the liberal Weekly Volkvriend. He was for 32 years political cartoonist for the Amsterdam Telegraph. He speaks of himself as "writ ing," which aptly denotes his ability to pack the content of a long ana powerful harangue into a bit of black and white. I TSUALLY, there's quite a loss in transmission when real life is sluiced into the movies. The new film, "Blossoms in the Dust," seems ~ to be an ex I lluston Comet ception> at To T ermn With least so far Reality in Picture as the deeP" er and truer import of the film is concerned. The critics score it high in sensitivity and adult emotional content. Mrs. Edna Gladney would naturally come out that way in a film. The widow of a Texas flour manufacturer, she built the Texas Children's Home and Aid society, which has now provided happy homes for several thou sand waifs. Her effort began before the death of her husband, a sublimation of her yearning for children who never came. The 19Z9 crash wrecked her hus band's prosperous business. He got work in a flour mill. She rang door bells to get money to build her home for children. He developed a new process of flour-milling which was restor ing their fortune, when he died. She kept on recruiting and mothering stray children, until one day a Hollywood writer knocked on her door in Fort Worth. "What on earth could anybody write about me?" she asked. The movies ranged clear back into her girlhood, as Edna Kahly in Mil waukee. Nikola tesla's eighty-fifth birthday finds his death ray still in the blueprint stage. The great inventor says he could build a few plants, at a cost of $2,000,000 each, [ within three months, and melt the ] engine of any approaching plane at a distance of hundreds of miles. The immigrant youth from Jugoslavia already had discov ered the rotary magnetic field, which made possible alternating current motors, before he ar rived here in 1884. He helped harness Niagara, Inrned in nu merous inventions which be came historic contributions to power transmission, was an as sociate of Edlsoa, won the 1915 Nobel physios prise and now holds 790 patents. ' I ""HOSE looking for further late summer and early autumn ex citement should find what they want in the battle for the batting chain* pionship of the American league be tween its two best hitters? Ted Wil liams of the Ked Sox and Joe Di Maggio of the Yankees. Heath, Cul lenbine or possibly some other son of swat may upset this combination ? but we doubt it. Williams and DiMag are the two A. L. standouts and they still have the better port of throe months left in which to prove their places in polite baaeb ill society. DiMaggio's bril liant consecutive hitting streak has ^iven the San Fran cisco entry most of the publicity lately, but the gangling kid from San Diego and Boston is still far out in front when it Grantland Rice comes to the main figures. Anyone who can reach the half way mark over .400, as Williams did, knows how to handle ash furni ture. And even the excellent DiMag will have to keep on swinging his mace effectively to catch or pass the tall, relaxed entry from the Red Sox reservation. Looking Back How do the two compare at this spot along the pennant road? Here is DiMaggio's five-year Yankee rec ord through 1940: 1936? .323; 1937? .346; 1938? .324; 1939? .381; 1940? .352; grand average ? .343. Here is Ted Williams' record for his two complete years: 1939 ? .327; 1940 ? .344; average ? .336. But up through the halfway stretch of 1941 Williams is now in front, counting the games both have played under the big tent. Both Williams and DiMaggio can be listed high in the natural hitting class. One of the main features of Di Maggio's base-hit ability is perfect wrist action. The DiMag has a pair of cocked wrists that carry both power and control. Too many hitters are body and arm swingers. DiMag gio, well balanced on both feet, lets his body work with Joe DiMaggio his hands, but that brace of cocked wrists deliver most of the poison. The main feature of Ted Williams* bat swinging is his almost complete lack of tension. Williams won't be 23 until October, but he still acts with the ease and confidence of a veteran who has been through many baseball wars. In this respect he reminds you of Napoleon Lajoie. Larry at the plate looked as loose as ashes. He was apparently indif ferent as he waited for the pitch. "You either hit it or you don't," Larry told me years ago. "Why bother about it? Just take your cut." The fact might be mentioned here that with this modern lively ball Lajoie, a smoking line hitter with the old one, would soon have sev eral hospitals full of crippled infieid ers who happened to be in the line of fire. Another Hot Match With Williams and DiMaggio grab bing off most of the wild laurel ?prigs in the American league, you can look for another hot scramble in the N. L. between Pete Reiser of the Dodgers and Johnny Mize of the Cardinals. It might interest you to know, if you care for the succulent statistics in baseball, that Johnny Mize's five year average with the Cardinals is now .339 up through 1940 ? just four points below DiMaggio's mark for the same span. Big John is one of the top hitters of his time. Ball players through the South this last spring all picked him as the best hitter in the older league. Mize hails from Demarest, Ga., not so far away from Royston where Ty Cobb spent his younger years. (Ever notice how most of the top ones come from the nnsong hamlet* ? not from the big towns?) Mize has a freshman challenger in Brooklyn's Pete Reiser, who in his first year on big time has been whacking away between .350 and .370 most of the season. Pete Reiser is the ball player named by Uo Doroeher as the ! "next Ty Cobb ? provided there will ever be another Ty Cobb. Reiser is 185 pound* of speed, power, head i and heart," according to Daroeher'* | estimate. Referred Clarification llrlt-i I Ihtl ,YW/|V rrjrrl Juhnnie 14 htn he M ihlr ill ,\o; v/m- /mi him i> Clan 5 ? Iv tir i/fuii ii nit nit ly a% a ta\t rriurt. Womrn criminals arc more dan gerous than men, 'lis said. That's when they dress to kill. A Bell-Kinger Customer ? I wish to buy an ap propriate- Rift for a bride? some thing timely and striking. Merchant ? How about a nice clock? NO IN-BETWEEN Prank ? There are two periods in a man's life when he doesn't un derstand a woman. Harry ? When are they? Frank ? They are before he is married to her and after he is married to her. Wanted Recount The boxer who knew practically every trick in the game Anally met his match. In the third round he found himself on his back, lis tening to the referee counting over him. "One," roared the referee, "two ? three ? four ? five ? six ? seven ? " The fighter reached up and grabbed the referee's wrist. "I'm a little hard of hearing," he interrupted. "Would you mind repeating that?" Beware when hubby spreads soft soap. He wants to slip away for the evening. Onr Qualification Rufus-I wish I could l? a doctor. Id like t? bv b, P.eg** cialist. *?*" ^G^fus-Youve got ? ( ^ Proof Sullicirnt ? 'i V!i? " TV * rv I"""' '-ni.il Riiltiml, .(III d ihr pretty g, ,/ I ,r ? ?urr y?u Mire you l?i <? mr - ? ' "m "I ?" <? Itnlnnil Mr/, . (iW-Ay al the sale ?u,.; ,,?if ? ? ?"?* ?'/ my rrrn notice it till / "" DC AT Hust "ilh CU"''"V Mi xican D Ln I L'f' p?w<lcr. Du;,t in shoo. ||P|T Kclicvcs and eases rh:,:c. and HM I sunburn. Great for h, ? noh. IltMl Get Mcxican Heat leader. Test With Reason Reason is the test of ridicule? not ridicule the test of truth Worburton. ? WHEN IN NEW YORK CITY ? STAY AT EAST END HOTEL FOR WOMEN East 78th 8 tract Overlooking Eoat Rinr Tol. BUt tar (i?ld 8-6490 _ WTIS-WhW| from %8 Including ? Maals ..Daily $2.25 Including M*al? ft Kindness at Premium The world is more charitable in money than in kind words.? Diane. Pearl of Rockies Lake Louise is called the "Pearl of the Canadian Rockies." It is considered one of the most exquisite sights in the world. It lies at an altitude of 5,645 feet in the romantic "Lakes in the Clouds" region off Banff National park. Homage by Hypocrisy Hypocrisy is the homage which vice renders to virtue.? La Roche foucauld. My Three Friends Three men are my friends: He who loves me, he who is my ene my, and he who is indifferent to me. He who loves me tcaches me tenderness; he who hates me teaches me caution, and he who is indifferent, self-reliance. ? 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