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THE BEAUFORT NEWS, BEAUFORT, X- C
THURSDAY. APRILIW?
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First Iladiotelephoto From African Front
DREW PEARSON
Washington, D. C.
PRESIDENT LISTENS
The President did the listening, in
stead of the talking, when he con
ferred on farm manpower and food
with three prominent farm leaden
Albert S. Goss, master of the Na
tional Grange, H. E. Babcock, vice
president of the National Council of
Farmer Co-operativ. ?, and Ezra T.
Nelson, its executive secretary.
The farm spokesmen spent about
30 minutes of the 37-minute confer
ence expounding their views on what
caused the food shortage now facing
the country and what has to be done
to remedy it. The President con
fined his remarks chiefly to asking
questions.
He began by telling his visitors
that the food situation was "ex
tremely serious."
"That's why I Invited you gentle
men here today to get your opin
ions on what has to be done," the
President said. "Go ahead and be
as frank as you like."
The farm leaders accepted the
challenge. They charged the ad
ministration with "shortsightedness"
In dealing with farm labor defer
ments and contended that govern
ment price policies also had con
tributed to the farm manpower
shortage.
Local Draft Problem.
"If you want my views, I'll give
them to you, Mr. President," spoke
ud Ezra Nelson. "Two things have
to be done and done immediately.
First of all, someone in authority
here in Washington must tell these
local draft boards where to head in.
"They must be told that they have
almost as much responsibility to see
to it that we have sufficient man
power to produce food for the war
effort as they have to provide men
for the fighting forces. Food is just
as important as munitions in my
opinion. We can't fight the war
without it, and we can't let our civil
ians starve.
"A lot of these local draft boards
still feel that they must fill theil
induction quotas." Nelson continued.
"The boards have been assignee
quotas, but they don't have to meet
them, at least not in sections where
there is a crying farm labor short
age. You, or someone else should
fell them this."
--.-The President pointed out that
rhany young farmers don't want to
be deferred.
"This isn't the fault of the draft
boards," he said. "The young men
themselves are so patriotic that they
do not want to remain on the farm
while a war is going on."
It was agreed that steps would
have to be taken to convince se
lectees that they could serve their
country as well on the farm as in
the army. Goss suggested that one
"way out" would be to induct farm
hands and then "furlough" them
back to the farm at prevailing farm
wages, instead of army pay. ims i
would require legislation, but the
President said it was an idea worth
considering.
Stop Selling Cows.
"The second thing that has to b
done Is for the government to step
in and stop the widespread selling
of dairy cows and other stock and
farm equipment by farmers who are
unable to continue in business at
present farm price levels," Nelson
continued.
"I'm as much opposed to inflation
as you are, Mr. President," he add
ed, "but we have got to make it
possible for farmers to operate at a
fair profit if we are to lick this
threatened food shortage. They have
got to be assured fair prices in order
to pay wages that will keep their
help from migrating to jobs in in
dustry." The co-operative official contend
ed that farms had lost two-thirds of
their manpower to war industries
because of low farm wages.
The President said that he, too,
was deeply concerned about this fac
tor, suggested to his callers that
they get together with Secretary of
Agriculture Wickard and map out a
program embracing their recom
mendations. "Then come back and see me
again," urged the President. "I want
to continue these discussions."
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A gun crew digs in and Is on the alert during the battle for Gafsa, in
Tunisia. I. S. armored forces under command of Lieut. Gen. George
Patton Jr. in two days advanced 30 miles to recapture Gafsa and to go
12 miles beyond. Photo was flown to Algiers and transmitted from that
point in seven minutes to Washington in the new two-way radio transmis
sion system put to its first practical test by the V. S. army signal corps with
the transmission of these radiotelephotos.
The idea was to "attack" at dusk,
during Third Army maneuvers in
Louisiana. But first, this paratroop
er had to call for help to get down
out of a tree.
Good News
Chicago Cubs' Mascot to Be Goat
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It s a goat instead of a bear that Manager Jimmie Wilson of the Chi
cago Cubs (left) will use for a mascot thisspring, as his charges play
exhibitions in and about their French Lick, Ind training camp. Manager
Jimmie Dykes of the White Sox (right) will have a similar talisman. The
goats' names are "Bunt" and "Homer."
Caution Wrecked Plane Being Repaired
Mrs. Paul D. Brown of Orange,
N. J., admires the portrait of her
husband, an air corps major. After
hearing rumors of his death, Mrs.
Brown had cabled for confirmation.
The day after, stories were released
telling how Major Brown command
ed a Flying Fortress which took
part in the raid, on Vegcsack sub
plant near Bremen, during which
V. S. planes blasted 19 buildings.
Block -Buster
PORTS
Released by Western Newspaper L nlon.
Bill Cox, head of a New
' York-Philadelphia syndicate,
bought the Phils he took over a job
that would make the most experi
enced of baseball men cringe with
sheer terror. I
Cox, 34-year-old former NYU and
Vale athlete, organized the syndi- j
f that Knntrhi the Phils after the i
National league had foreclosed on
them. It is his announced intention
lo bring a new deal to Philadelphia. ;
The tables have been turned.
When Cox took over the team the
Phils constituted the most impor
tant of the ivory markets. Under
the old management, Philadelphia
was the trading block of the circuit.
When Gerry Nugent held the reins
of the Phils, other ball clubs looked
to him for building program re
inforcements. Nugent had few com
punctions about selling players. To
him they were worth only the cash
they would bring in the open mar
ket. The Cincinnati Reds, Dodgers,
r.lants and Cardinals all managed to
win pennants with the help of play
ers bought from Nugent.
The Bargain
The syndicate was reported to
have paid $325,000 for the franchise.
Included was a lease on Shibe Park
-and very little else. At that time
there were about 20 players on the
roster most of whom were not
world-famed for their prowess.
Before he stepped out Nugent sold
the Phils' best Ditcher. Rube Melton,
to the Dodgers. Catcher Benny War
ren went to the Cubs. Nick Etten,
the Phils' best hitter, went to the
Yankees, and the one other good
pitcher, Tom Hughes, is in the army.
The history of baseball in Phila
delphia Is not a gay, frolicsome tale.
It is one of the game's oddest sto
ries. It will come as no startling
surprise to point out that every base
ball league must have a tail-end club
each year. But the Phils have taken
advantage of the other seven clubs.
Year after year they refuse to be
budged from that particular, easy-to-remember
location. Other clubs
may view with alarm, but the Phils
Ignore them with an indifference
verging on boredom.
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BY THE LEADIN
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Make a Coffee Table
From Odds and Ends
IT ALL started with a bright idea
1 for making a simple, painted
coffee table from odds and ends.
The sketch at the lower left gives
the dimensions and shows the sim
ple construction. Two end sec
tions were made first; the top and
sides of these being fastenca to
gether with metal angles, as illus
trated. A shelf was then nailed
America Spreads
Her Wings
By Robert McCormick
Pennant Winner
Surprised? So were we to learn that the two seemingly peaceful rural
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nf . wrecked V. S. air force plane. Members of the service group at
D r, ..ht ia rvsme. salvaee. and n:Mt wrecaea
. ' . ...t,u.t t air mnd rround attack at any time. At
fop? plane Is covered by a screen which blends It into the dlsiruJe and
-Iw.. it mreeorniiable from the air. The "farmhouse" and "silo ' In
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tne DacKgrouno l-iuiij' mB.w. B -
touch is added to the camouflage Installations of the service group by
these cows.
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CAPITAL CHAFF
C The super-cabtnet's careful con
sideration of how big our armed
forces should be was actually a
sham battle. FDR has the "old
dutch up" over the size of the armed
forces and wouldn't take anybody's
say-so on this point, except the
army's own plan, conceived way
back in 1938 . . . The army in 1938
had no idea whether we would have
the ships in 1943 to transport troops
abroad, but is sticking to its original
plan just the same. And FDR is 100
per cent behind it.
C John McClintock, assistant coordi
nator of inter-American affairs, is
off to the Amazon, to inspect food
and health programs for rubber tap-
nprs.
C When General Marshall turned
down the rank of "Field Marshal"
h also knocked over carefully
laid plan whereby Admiral King
would become "Admiral ol the
Fleet" ... To date only three men
have won the title "Admiral of the
Fieet" Dewey, Farragut and Por
ter . . Tipoff on the proposal to
make King Admiral of the Fleet was
to he could outrank Admiral Leahy
Their Majesties Pay Visit to Yanks
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Thl is a nhoto-dlaeram of the
dreaded 4,000 pound super-block
buster, made to the United btates,
and dropped on Germany in night
and day raids by American fliers
and RAF men. Approximately z,zw
sounds of the two-ton bomb are
TNT and other secret explosives.
The rest are shell ana fuses.
Dropped from a plane 20,000 feet
up, the bomb strikes the ground at
pulverising 600-mlle-an-nour apeea.
Even Boys Go for It
Only once since 1900 did they win
a pennant. Pat Moran led them
to glory in 1915. Except for a few
Isolated and unavoidable seasons the
Phils have remained triumphantly
in the cellar since that time.
There are many reasons. The Nu
gents (Gerry and Mrs. Nugent) in
herited their holdings from the late
William J. Baker, one-time police
commissioner in New York city.
Their operating methods followed no
time-worn pattern. When the in
come failed to keep pace with ex
oenses thev sold a player or two.
They managed to keep the books out
of the red temporarily, but it was
rather rough on the roster.
Former Phillies can be found in
all sections of the league, especial
ly pitchers, uerry
seemed to have a
weakness for bar
tering pitchers.
There's Bucky
Walters at Cincin
nati, Claude Pas
seau with the Cubs,
Rube Melton, Kirby
Higbe and Curt Da
vis with the Dodg
ers. Then, too,
there's Dolph Ca
milli, Dick Bartell,
Benny Warren and
quite a few others scattered through
out the league.
This isn't to Intimate that Gerry
was a chump for a deal. In fact,
the Giants are reported to have paid
$105,000 for Bartell. The Cubs anted
up $85,000 for Chuck Klein and at
least $100,000 more went for first
baseman Don Hurst and Pitcher
Bucky Walters
Their majesties, the king and queen of England, are shown passing
group of American soldiers who are busy playing cards at the American
Red Cross club in Northampton, England. The photo was made during
their majesties' visit to the club, and here the king seems anxious lo
give a bit of advice to the Yanks.
(WNU Fctturt Through tptciil trttnf
meat with Coiuti t nttmj)
In less than 12 months our army j
air force has grown from nothing
into one of the mightiest ngnung
outfits the world has ever seen, with
bases speckled ovtr the globe like
pepper on a fried egg. tvery line
of it was designed around a cen
tral idea that it must have a posi
tive part in destroying enemy re
sistance. It was patterned for
bombing the heart out of the enemy,
for subduing enemy aircraft, and lor
attacking enemy ground and sea
forces. These things it would do, not
in any one battle or one spot, but
in all American battles wherever
they might come.
The production of airplanes more
than doubled, got up to better than
5,000 a month. The types of com
bat planes being manufactured were
cut to less than a dozen, but each
of these had a specialized purpose. !
Many got their first battle tests in ;
the last 12 months. !
Level Off a Glacier.
These ships appeared at bases in
the Caribbean, in Alaska, in Brit
ain, at points all through the Pacific
and Africa and the Middle East and
India and China. A glacier was
leveled off to make an airport in the
Far North. An American engineer
dropped by parachute into the mid
rile nf the Sahara, armed with a
pocketful of money, rounded up na
tive labor and built an airfield.
Measure Distance by Hours.
Between these isolated spots, grew
un an AAF air-transnort system that
became bieeer than all the prewar
commercial airlines of the world put
together. The air transport com
mand became larger than the en
tire air corps was before the war,
and it flew more miles than all the
world's airlines before'the war.
It stopped measuring dis
tances in miles. India became
70 hours away, instead of 14,000
air miles; England became 10
hours away, Instead of 3,300
miles; Africa 40 hours, instead
of 3,900 miles.
Lieutenant General "Hap" Arnold,
chief of the AAF, flew back from
Australia in 35 hours, compared with
the conventional ship-sailing time of
33 days. The air transport com
mand shuttled great people around
like suburban commuters. Mrs.
Roosevelt flew to London and back,
Madame Chiang Kai-shek flew here
from China, Harry Hopkins flew
hither and thither with loose-jointed
freedom, the Harriman mission flew
to Russia and back, Wendell Willkie
moved all over the globe.
Climax Comes With Casablanca.
The climax came when the Pres
ident himself who hadn't flown on
a domestic airline since he took of
ficebroke all the rules by letting
the army fly him to Casablanca to
confer with Churchill. It wasn't
simply a matter of picking the Pres
ident ud and nutting him down. The
Secret Service had to go first, high-
ranking army and navy officers had
to be taken along, and extraordinary
nrotection had to be given each one.
When Mr. Roosevelt did do away
with precedent, he did it in a big
way, knocking off 15,488 miles in the
air.
The army, and civilians as
well, got used to seeing young
men In their twenties and early
thirties wearing the eagles of a
full colonel. The youngest of
these officers is Col. Charles M.
McCorkle of North Carolina,
who was graduated from West
Point In June, 1936, and became
colonel on November 16, 1942.
He was 21 years old.
Other Sources Contribute.
New trainniz schools turned out
quantities of at-home pilots, navl-l
gators, bombardiers, gunners,
ground crews, mechanics, radiomen '
and all the other specialized per-'
sonnel necessary to such a gigantic
business. Wright Field erected a
building big enough to test 40-foot
propellers; aircraft engines of more
than 2,000 hprsepower appeared;
swanky hotels were taken over at
Miami Beach, Atlantic City and Chi
cago to house AAF cadets in train
ing; stretches of desolate land In all
f" APPLIQUE DESI6N ONFABRIC UNDER
In and a "i by 3-inch board nailed
across the back of it. Two boards
for the top of the table were thera
screwed to the end sections.
Then the needle-lady came in.
The table was painted putty color
and then waxed. She bought a yard
of slightly darker tan sateen and.
appliqued a design of bright blue
and red morning glories and green
leaves on it with stems and tendrils
in green outline stitch. This was
placed over the table top and
tacked around the edge. A piece of
glass was then cut to fit and k by
3-inch pieces were screwed to the-
sides flush with the top of glass.
NOTE Mrs. Spears has prepared
sheet 17 by 22 Inches giving complete
i.Ac4nn anH Hirrtinn for making this
table. Even the gal who is Just learning'
to do small chores with hammer, saw
and screw driver can follow these simple,
clear directions. To get a copy ask lof
Design 254, address:
MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS
Bedford HUls New York
Drawer 10
Enclose 15 cents for Design No. 254.
Name ...
Address
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SNAPPY FACTS
ABOUT
RUBBER
Children are learning the princi
ples of nutrition and the art of pre
paring and serving well balanced
meals, at Central school, Long
Beach, N. Y. Here a husky lad
permits a girl to pin on his apron
before going to work at the stove.
Passeau.
Final Effect
The Dodders paid $50,000 for Ca-
mllli and $65,000 for Hlgbe. It was
quite a while ago that Jimmy Wilson
was sold by Nugent to the Cardi
nals. Whatever he cost the Red
Birds It was money well spent. He
WAS the man they needed to win
four pennants.
The effect of the Nugent manage
ment Isn't hard to imagine, fans
couldn't stand the punishment. Civic
pride can stand only so much. There
were times when the Phils might
well have closed up shop, selling an
occasional player when grocery
stores ran low. At least the players
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unkind remarks of a handful of cus- parts oi we coumry were bev name
tomers who wandered Into the 'as bombing ranges; emergency
stands in a fit of absentmindedness. landing strips appeared a long Amer-
Another unfortunate circumstance , ican highways,
was the former scene of operations American parachute troops were
the old Baker Bowl. The right , flown nonstop 1,500 miles from Eng
fleld fence was so close the larger land to Africa; troop-carrying glld
lefthanded batters could reach out ers were developed; General Kenney
their bats and touch It. The Phils moved enough supplies and troops
moved to Shibe Park three years Into New Guinea to enable the
ago but by that time the fans' in- American forces to start a hammer-
difference was miraculous.
I Cox isn't going to have an easy
time getting players. And he can't
hope to rebuild Philadelphia's inter
Ufcoratary laiH damtrtai tht
rubber (an ka moda to atrattch
treat SO to 10OO parcanf r
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In London art ahopa In 1770. It waa
than called rubber baoauM It cosM
pencil mazka.
Tha fk-at ertltUe ol rubber to be
BMUMifactured were elethhig ana)
American teamen are now equipped
with rubber bio-earing aulta weigh
ing alightly orer 14 pound. Ttia
new buoyant ault feature e whistle,
Sunlight, knife and yellow hood end
clove to attract rescuers. Weighted
ahoea keep the wearer upright In
the water.
in offensive at the Japs and al
most all of both men and material
went by air.
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est in baseball by maintaining the large sections of the entire army,
status quo. Lieut. Gen. Frank Andrews headed
He must give some other club a up the European theater of opera
chance at that last-place position. tions; Lieut. Gen. George Brett took
over Caribbean defense.
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