Syracuse-Wawasee Journal, Volume 36, Number 37, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 27 June 1941 — Page 2

PI AN age ot prodigious hitting, no matter what the game, there is still a wide sweep of argument in regard to reeord distances. There

is a wide divergence of opinion as to how far the mightiest of the hitters can drive a baseball, golf ball or polo balk to take up three examples. Few have ever smacked a baseball beyond 500 feet. I mean on the carry. A good many years ago one of "Babe Ruth’s Florida wal-

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lops that dropped into a plowed field was measured around 520 feet. Anything over 430 feet i's no part of soft hitting Ruth remains the long-distance champion, both as a record hitter and as the most consistent one. The Babe not only had bulk and power back of his punches, but he also had one of the finest swings that baseball has ever known in the way of timing and smoothness. But the feabe rarely reached a full range of 500 feet. Therms no way

to make any exact, measurement when the ball sjatls out of the park br crashes into the sjpper stands, j i . There ijs a Renter field fence in the St Petersburg park around 500 ‘feet away, and no one |Ms ever hit this palisade on the fly yet. according to

the best knowledge I, hove. °Golf Sluggers ■ln golf Jimmy Thomson remains; the long-distance ruler with some- > . thing to spare. As I recall the figures Thomson has won the last six driving contests arranged by the PGA It must be remembered that the only true measure in golf is from a flat surface, with no helping wind. Roll doesn’t count. You can drive a golf ball a mile on the ice. And a few of the long hitters can on an lelevsfted tee and pass' 300 yards on the carry with a helping gale. One earnest seeker fo£ records; once drove a golf ball well over a mile—standing- at the top of the ; . Grand Canyon. Driving from a, level surface, unhelped by a wjnd. Thomson's best blows usually range from 270 to 275 yards-. This is big blasting. A carry of 250 yards under these conditions is big hitting. I doubt that any golfer ever carried 300 yards on flat ground, minus a keen breeze. I know that few good hitters care ’ to risk. a carry bey- rid 225 yards when there is trouble to, face. A helping or a headwind makes a much greater difference than many know. A headwind is also a mental handicap since it usually brings on pressing and overeffort, which is always a mistake. Hoic Far a Polo Hall? In his prime. Tommy Hitchcock could hit a polo ball as far as anyone I ever saw. , Dev Milburr and Wilburn Guest were also on the longer side. Hitchcock figures that 150 yards, I half the distance of the field, is about all one can get from a full polo smash. Any wallop beyond 100 yards is good, hard bitting. ’The longest drive I’ve seen.” an ’ eyewitness writes, “came from a ! combination of golf and polo. Winston Guest teed up a golf ball at j Meadowbrook one day. mounted his polo pony and was then handed a polo mallet. With a good, galloping start and a double windup Guest drove the golf ball the full length of the polo field—a matter of3oo yards. I It was all carry.” I Golf machines can reach 500 yards, which shows bow far the human machine lags behind the meta! cuatrlvance. . Getting Distance * Distance isn’t a mere, matter oi bulk and physical power by many yards. . . Ben Hogan, weighing less than 135 pounds,, is longer by yards than I most of the 180 or 200-pound swing- 1 ers. . I once saw Cyril Walker, then weighing flO pounds, outdrive Walter Hagen, at 185. consistently in a big tournament Distance comes largely from club-; bead speed—more so than from any other single fastor. I i i Bobby Jones one day. with Ms own clubs missing, used his wife’s r net. Mrs. Jones’ driver weighed •nly 12 ounces, much lighter than Bob’s. *1 was astonished to find that I was hitting the ball that day longer . than usual." Bob said. "I found out ' that 1 could get much greater speed from the lighter ciubbead. Natural- / ly it called far lea effort in swing-1

WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Edward C. Wayne Closing of German Consulates in U. And ‘Freezing’ of Axis Financial Assets Strain American-Nazi Diplomatic Ties; Hitler Offers New Problems to Russia ■ — , —. (EDITOR’S NOTE—Wb«» •glniana ar» expf«ss«4 in these enlnnns. they are these at the aews analyst and net aeeesaarUy ot this newspaper.) ___________ (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) While the world watches the military and naval battles of Europe and the Middle East attention is diverted from the possible battleground in the Pacific. But Japanese military training goes on nonetheless. In the above photo. Emperor Hirohito of Japan is shown reviewing his troops during an imperial inspection which featured an anniversary celebration of the nation’s youth training schools. • . ;

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FDR: Cracks Down The President of the United States, frankly hostile to the Axis, “cracked down” following the sinking of.the Robin Moor by a German submarine in the South Atlantic, and announced the freezing” of all Axis funds in this country.’It was considered a matter of course that the Italian and German governments would do likewise, and while any sort of guess as to the amount- was impossible, some Sources estimated that the freezing, if carried but on both sides, would be about even Stephen” financially, with perhaps $400,000,000 involved on each side. : More important, it meant-that all business dealings between Italy And , Germany and the United States were instantly at an end: » The reason the estimated sum was so small, state department officials revealed, was that during the past two years most Americans have liquidated -their, interests in Axis countries and vice versa c.ial experts said that the order does not necessarily mean that foreign countries cannot get their money out of this country, but that in order to do ,so. they must get a license for the withdrawal from the treasury. If it is admitted that the Germans are paying out funds for sabotage.in the United States, -they will bave.a hard time getting such money. for the treasury can keep a check on the funds, and see that it. is spent for the purposes intended, such as paying the upkeep of the German embassy. etcl , The fact that all 46 persons on' board, the Robin Moor were eventually reported rescued somewhat tempered public opinion on this “incident.” Further action on the part of this country was* conjectural, but public opinion polls found the nation strongly favoring convoys for American shipping, and a.general strengthening of our naval patrols. NAZIS AND V. S.: Consulates Out Following the U. S. "freezing” of, all Axis financial assets in the United States came another move by the federal government which strained American-German relationships to the breaking point This was the order from the state department dosing all Nazi consut lates in the United States. German propaganda offices—the German Library of Information, the German railway and tourist agencies and’ TranAocean News Service — were also ordered closed in the same order.’ ' ’ - •. . | All German nationals connected with the consular offices and these propaganda agencies were ordered to leave the country , Embassy officials and employees of DNB, the official German news agency, were not affected by the order. While these first moves did not actually constitute a complete rupture of relationships between the two countries it pointed toward a policy of “action—not words” with respect to the U. S. attitude toward the Nazis Reasons given by the state department tor the action were general in nature but they mentioned “improper” and “unwarranted” activities “inimical to the welfare of this country."

HIGHLIGHTS . . . in the „ eits

Vichy—The Germans have released thousands of French prisoners of war. giving their freedom to return home to all who have three minor children or three minor brother*. Berlin—Auto bodies can be made of artificial resin, an “ersatz” for steel. One body, tested on a mountainside. turned turtle 20 tunes without damage, it vai claimed.

RUSSIA: Heavy Strain r The stress of German demands on Russia was such that it appeared Stalin’s hold on his country was cracking, if not actually broken, and his policy of appeasement of the Nazi demand|_Jound the army forces strongly Opposed to the dictator. / f Whether this wijkfld end in the long-expected military break between Germany and Russia, a feeling that was .heightened by the announcement that 120 German divisions were massed on the Russian frontier, or whether it would simply result as in the past, in a terrific Russian blood-letting from within, was hard to foresee. The analyst, seeking to ferret out the genesis of this troop-massing, perforce had to go back to Churchill's warning, when he was trying to interest Russia and Turkey in active assistance just before the start of hostilities in Greece. Churchill put Russia and Turkey on notice that "they would be next" when the Nazis got through with Greece. Nobody else, thus far, at least, had been next. Then, too, there was the , broad hint dropped by Goebbels. German ace propagandist, that Germany would need the Ukrainian wheat for a long war against Britain. Churchill also had warned Russia that the Ukrainian wheat-fields would* be the next objective. .» Another possible objective of the massing agatnst Russia was the need of a sure and well-fortified line through Russia down into Syria, also the possibility that a sufficient threat against Russia might break up the Russian-Turkish alliance and allow the Nazis to press upon Turkey their demand for free passage of tgoops. With a hostile Turkey and Russia to the horth. Hitler’s generals would be naturally hesitant in trying an air-borne invasion of Syria to help the French there, and to create a land base for attack against Suez. The typical strong groundwork necessary for a major German offensive would demand dealing with Russia and Turkey first There was just one more important angle, which might, precipitate fighting, however brief, with Russia, Rumania wanted Bessarabia back, and the position of the German legions was such ihat this might be the primary objective, to force Russian abandonment of Bessarabian territory. BILLIpN: For Bombers Belief amounting almost to a certainty by U. S. war tacticians that a huge-air armada, assuring Britain or this country mastery of the air was the surest method of winning the war for the democracies was evidenced when tbe RFC”announced a plan to provide a billion dollars to produce 500 big bombers a month. The RFC was given additional powers in a new law signed by the President also permitting it to have augmented borrowing capacity with no strings attached, provided it was for defense purposes. This organization had already spent $1,500.000 000 for. defense, half a billion for factories, more than that for tin and copper and other defense materials. $200:000,000 for rubber and $200,000,000 for miscellaneous purchases of material

Camp Robinson, Ark. — Connie Kaster, daughter of Lieut CoL John F. Kaster. head of the Thirty-fifth division, wired her dad she would pay him a visit and added as a joke “have a band meet me at the station.” Her father had nine bands, 275 pieces, playing when the train pulled in. Thus at least one ambition to be “met by a band” was realized. ,

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Draftee-Actor j! h. * I fl a I Private Ted Terwilliger (above) will dispute anyone saying “There's no future in the army” A draftee from Missouri, his acting in a cantp musical review has led to promise of a screen test with a motion picture concern the day after he is released from the army.

TAXES: To Be Spread The house ways and means committee, by its adoption of a policy that the defense tax burden will be. spread to all sources, and not concentrated on income surtaxes, was welcome news to many who wondered bow heavily the blow would strike next year. Instead of starting at 11 per cent and going higher along with! in-! comes, indications were that the present tax of 4 per cent and 10 per cent defense tax on that would be, continued, and that the surtax woulcf be 6 per cent on the first $2,000, of taxable income and go up from; there. This would „cut the expected tax burden on the “little man” about 40 pgr cent from what he had feared, r and still would yield about half a billion'dollars in additional revenue. Chairman Doughton explained that' the committee will attempt to prorate the defense burden between the income tax. corporation taxes, excess profits, gift and estate taxes, and the excise taxes. The total figure aimed at is $3,500,000.000, but Chairman Doughton said: “If we can get more without hurting anyone and without murdering : anyone, we will.” JAPAN: AntllTS.Oil . While .the Dutch East Indies and Japanese continued their game of international bluff on the Oil situation, with the United States and Britain as keenly interested spectators, the U. S. maritime commission' made it clear that if oil is reaching Japan it is not in American owned or American controlled tankers. ■ Os 214 ploughing the high seas un-; der foreign flags, but owned or controlled in the U, S., not one is so engaged, it sas reported. There were two exceptions, the commis-* sion said, one group of five tankers under German or Italian flags being, "out of control of their owners,” i and one single ship now en route to Japan with a cargo of oil contracted for some time ago. “After this voyage," the report continued, “the services of this vessel will be required elsewhere.” ; In other words, it won’t do it again. There are 60 tankers in Panamania registry. 22 carrying the Venezuelan flag, 12 Norwegian. 7 Dutch, 6 French, and one each under the Belgian. Cuban. Danish and Honduran flags. ♦ In addition there afe 88 under j British registry. Recently a number of American tankers were transferred to the British flag because Britain had suffered heavy sinkings of this type of ship. At the time the number was not revealed, but I the maritime commission said there was a shortage of 49 tankers in the Atlantic coastal trade. - I LABOR: IT at chful Waiting Most eyes keeping a close vigil on national defense progress were turned to the labor situation, and many were wondering just what would be-the long-range outcome of the taking over of North American Aviation at Inglewood, Calif., by the army. Those who thought it might stiffen the attitude of labor and result in mill more and more bitter .strikes were rapidly proven wrong when quite the reverse happened, and the seizure of the aviation factory was almost immediately followed by the settlement of strike after strike, and the submission to arbitration of others that loomed. But that was not the whole Story, and many wondered how the rest of the formula would ’work out, and whether the President’s mediation board would be successful in «trnightoning out the whole labor situation so that the indices of labor, cost of living, cost of production and prices of essential materials would go along together. In this connection it was pointed out that living costs throughout the’ country had only risen 2.4 per cent; since the,start of the emergency and that wages of labor had risen 15.8 per cent.

STAGE sccrew RADIO By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) THE motion picture industry turned out recently to do honor to Harry Carey in celebration of his completing a fear of making motion pictures —“The Shepherd of the Hills,” his latest, is his 305th. He’s long been one of the most beloved men in Hollywood,, because he’s one of the most human. Not many people at the celebration knew of one of the nicest things he ever did. The Indians who work on his ranch (he homesteaded it himself) had never seen the sea; when he learned that, some • years ' ago, he and his wife piled them 511 into trucks and drove miles to show it to them! Red Skelton was so eager to play one of the three sailors in Metro's

"Panama Hattie” that he campaigned: went around with his. pockets full of cigars, and whenever he met one of the executives involved he’d hand out a cigar and say “Vote for me for 'Panama Hattie.’ " Then they previewed ‘‘Lady Be Good,” in which Skelton's a sensa-

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tion. “Panama Hattie's" producer. Arthur Freed.- sent Skelton a box of cigars and/ a note saying, “Red, ■you're elected. After ’Lady Be Good’ you're the one who deserves the cigars.” r H -The producer of the air’s “Stepmother" serial auditioned dozens of aspirants for the role of a two-year old. Then he happened to catch Alice Sherrie Goodkin’s baby imitations on the Uncle Ezra program—and she got the part. Ray Milland and Brian Aherne are starring with Claudette Colbert

in “Skylark.” Milland was a boy soprano when a child i in Wales—but in 12 ; years of acting in pictures he's never , sung a note. Aherne i never would sing as a child, or even a youth—and he's al- : ways having to sing before the camera. In “Skylark” he has to sing the sea chantey, “’Blow the Man

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Down,” soi 2 five mihutes—and it’s : during a storm at sea. Well, that’s Hollywood for you! Here’s RKO Radio’s list of 14 new i players whom they believe ybu’ll want to keep seeing on the screen; they’ll appear in 1941-42 produc- . tions: Signe Hasso. Dorothy Com- . mihgore,' Ruth Warrick. Anne Hunter, Michel Morgan. Frances Neal. Ginny Simms, Joan Carroll. James Craig. Edmond O’Brien. Joseph. Cotton, Dennis O'Keefe. Paul Hammond, Philip Reed. Keep track of them, if ypu're interested in seeing how stellar material is developed; some may hit the heights, others won’t. You’ll be the real judges! Some of these players might be called stars now. of course; James Craig, who clicked as the young doctor in “Kitty Foyle," is to become a star in “Unexpected Uncle”; Edmond O’Brien had one of the four ' stellar roles in "Parachute Battalion." But it’s the public, not the studio, that has the final word in these things; fortunes have been lost in attempts to cram “stars” down the public’s throat, when the pnblic stayed away ' from the resulting pictures in droves. Let’s hope RKO’s choice is a good one! i' ' ’ After you girls see Paramount’s "The Parson of Panamint’’ you may all be wearing your hair “a lq ElDrew”; that’s the name the actresses in the picture gave the hairdo which Ellen Drew adapted from the one the studio found was authentic for the year 1892, in which the picture is laid. Ellen agreed to the necessary pompadour, but added a smalL curl right in the center of her forehead, and the style ’ was made for the film. Charlie Ruggles stars in the picture. Connie Boswell, of the Bing Crosby program, has invented a new game. It’s called polo tennis. Connie, who is unable ,to walk, worked out the idea 6! having the players ride large tricycles. • and everybody who’s played is erfthusiastic about it — ODDS A\D E>DS—Bets Johnson, of radio’s “The Story of Bess Johnson,” has abandoned the wheel chair she’s used since she broke her ankle some tceeks ago . . . Rosalind Russell's relieved that die title of her new costarring picture with Clark Gable has been changed to “They Met in Bombay”—formerly it was “Unholy Partners” . . . Soldiers from the nearby army base turned out in force for the , “sneak” pre-view of Ronald latest, “My Life W'ith Caroline,” at i Riverside, Calif. . . J. Carrol Kaish tacked that “J“ onto his name because fans had a way of thinking he traa a Koman — thanks to all that make-up-

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