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Labor Legistation Gets Priority
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What About the Betmont?
wFTEH THE RACE at Pimlico
"'and on the way home we
heard no one discussing either the
Kentucky Derby or the Preakness.
The flow of racing conversation
turned in the general direction of
the Belmont, .to be
run June !1 over
the miie-and-a-half
test, the real test
for the three-year-
old.
There were three
names that led
most of the com-
ment — Ponder,
Capot and Pales-
Granttand
crown for 1949 is
How dust and dreams, or such
things as dust and dreams are
made of.
With Ponder in charge of the
Derby and Capot on top in the
Preakness, it would be no unfair
turn of fortune's wheel to see
Palestinian win the Belmont, which
he might do. The Bieber-Jacobs
horse was finishing close up and
strongly in both the Derby and the
Preakness and no one can say that
Belmont's longer race will hurt
him a bit.
Before the Preakness I hap-
pened to run across Warren Wright,
the Baron of Calumet.
"The Preakness distance may
have been too short for Pon-
der," he said. "But ! honestly
think Tonder should win the
Belmont. The longer the dis-
tance. the better Ponder likes
It. He tomes from far hack,
20 lengths or more, and ha
needs running distance to make
up this ground."
Parnell Ben Jones offered no
prediction but he admitted that the
longer the race the better Ponder
would like it—even up to two
miies.
No one can question the fact that
Ponder can handle the route. What
about Capot? John Gaver turned in
a fine job of having Capot in per-
fect shape for both the Derby and
the Preakness. When a horse breaks
la track record, running against the
time set by such horses as Whirl-
away, Count Fieet and Citation, he
must be moving in a hurry.
Capot was leading at the mite
and three-sixteenths in both the
Derby and the Preakness. He
had the continued speed of the
field. But what about a mile
and a half? This is something
else again. That extra quarter
can be a heavy test unless the
race is slowly run.
Palestinian has shown both speed
and stamina in his last three races
—the Wood, the Derby and the
Preakness. His record is 2-3-2, be-
ing extremely close to winning on
two occasions. Ponder's most re-
cent marks are 1-5. Capot's last
three are 3-2-1.
Palestinian, like Capot and Pon-
der, is also an improving horse.
Palestinian has had enough speed
to run with anybody. He has been
coming on, cutting away ground,
in his last three big races. Capot
had to fight bravely and desperate-
ly to keep his head lead at Pimlico
and I don't think an extra 16th of
a mile would have bothered Pales-
tinian in the slightest. He is both
fast and strong.
The Belmont will have all this—
plus Sun Bahram, Noble Impulse
and others. Old Rockport? Rocky
seems to be slipping instead of get-
ting better. He hasn't had it since
he left California, although as able
a trainer as Ben Jones stiil be-
lieves he hasn't run his race.
More Games Than One
A day or two ago we ran into
Ralph Kercheval, now in charge of
Alfred Vandorbiit's racing farm.
How many remember that more
than 10 years ago Kercheva! was
one of the greatest kickers college
football ever knew? Many well-
known pro coaches have tangled in
arguments as to whether Kercheval
or Ken Strong was the greater all-
around kicker. Shipwreck Kelly,
another Kentuckian, was always a
Kercheval booster.
Ralph had full early faith in
Vanderbilt's Loser Weeper, winner
recently of the Metropolitan. "Loser
Weeper has improved as much as
any horse I know," Kerchevai said
before that race.
As far as racing goes, Sammy
Renick has gone out for the ver-
satility record. Sammy started as
a rider—one of the best. Then he
began as a racing owner and now
is involved in the television section,
where he is one of the season's
video hits. "No," Sam said recently,
'I've never tried training. I may
take a shot at that later."
* < *
The two big leagues today, plus
other leagues, are packed with all-
ttar footbail materia!. Cincinnati
has Merriman, a brilliant back at
Stanford, A 212-poundor who could
run, pins Kluskewski, one of Bo
McMiilin's Indiana stars. The
Braves have Dark. Chapman of the
Athletics was an all-American back.
Hitchcock of the Red Sox was a
good footbalier. So was Rip Sswell
of the Pirates. Most of these are
doing well. A1 Dark is the greatest
baseball - footbail combination of
them alL
U. N. Shuns Spain
rNSIDE REASON why the Amcri-
1 can delegation to the United Na-
tions abstained from voting on
Spain was because Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt threatened to denounce
the state department publicly if it
voted for Franco.
Warren Austin, the U.S. delegate,
was all set to vote for sending am-
bassadors back to Spain when Mrs.
Roosevelt found out about it.
Immediately she telephoned
secretary of state Acheson and
gave him her very blunt views
on getting cozy with a dictator
who had played bait with Hitler
and Mussolini during the war.
Any move to embrace him,
Mrs. R. told Acheson, would
only embarrass the truty demo-
cratic nations of western
Europe and ptay into the hands
of the Communist propaganda
machine at a critical time in
world affairs.
Acheson seemed impressed with
Mrs. Roosevelt's argument and
suggested as a compromise that
the American delegation abstain
when the vote came up. He further
promised to issue a statement
blasting Franco as a dictator
created with the help of Hitler and
Mussolini, which he later did. This
satisfied Mrs. Roosevelt and she
has said nothing more about the
matter.
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lunations began and
f )„i! if the charges of
ffuial that not one dollar
niil!:n raised in the U.S.
was used, then the
, {,nd humanitarian-
:.,i.v had taken the worst
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Durmg Warn,
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NICE TRY! . . . Like a round peg in a square bote, in
3eorge Mcl'herson of the San Francisco humane society
ituck in a narrow light we!) into which he crawled t" restue . ''
George
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was removed through a window cpcninn onto the bcttom oT nn*
light weil and is being heid by Officer (ieurge barren, at right.
Senatoria) Triangte
The two women who are fighting
aver Sen. Harry Cain, Republican
of Washington actually came face
to face the other day.
Mrs. Cain, who was put on notice
6y her husband in a public press i
confercnce that he was divorcing
her, nevertheless turned the other
:heek and went to the hospital to
visit the sick senator.
While there, Miss Mary Hall, a
senate secretary who may marry ]
Senator Cain after the divorce, also
arrived for a visit.
The sudden meeting was too
much for Airs. Cain and she
lashed out at Miss Hall for
stealing the senator's affec-
tions. "You may have the
game," she sizzled, "hut you'll
never get the name."
Later both women cooled off and
walked out of the hospital to- t
gether.
The Cain divorce is supposed to
become final on June 14. The
lawyer who is handling the matter
for Senator Cain in Tacoma, Wash.,
is Ed Eisenhower, Ike's brother.
Rent Contro! Battte
The legislatures of Alabama,
Texas, Nebraska and Florida now
are considering bills introduced by
real estate interests to abandon
rent control.
One of the public-opinion
gimmicks put out by some of
the real estate hoys is that a
state can temporarily get rid
of rent control, then later re-
store it—under the rent act re-
cently passed by Congress.
However, this is not the case,
The rent-control act passed by con-
gress categorically and definitely
bars any reinstatement of federal
rent control if a state or city once
votes to decontrol. In other words,
if a state or city once breaks away
from the rent-control program it
can never come back again.
Atomic Contracts
I-ainstaking. persevering Sen. Joe
O'Mahoney of Wyoming has been
applying the scourge to big monop-
olies for years. Now he has come
up with revealing information on
the way big corporations handle
big contracts with the government.
In 1946 the atomic energy com-
mission signed a contract with
Genera] Electric for atomic energy
work at Hanford, Wash., and
Schenectady, N. Y.. under which
G. E. was paid all its costs plus a
fixed fee of $1. The total amount
obligated under this contract was
370 million dollars, of which seven
million was paid to General Elec-
tric for salaries, training of per-
sonnel, etc.
Meanwhile. Senator O'Ma-
honey points out that it has he-
come a common practice of
the atomic energy commission
to get around congressional ap-
propriations by authorizing
blanket contracts In such a way
that Congress cannot judge
their validity.
In the current year, for instance, }
the commission has contract ap-
propriations of 600 million dollars )
and congress has no way of know-
ing what it's all about.
British Compromise
American Ambassador Leighton
Stuart in China is mad as a hornet
at the British for trying to make a
deal with the Chinese Communists
behind his back.
Without telling Stuart a word,
British representatives talked with
the Chinese Communists twice. By
accident Stuart has discovered that
what the British have proposed is
this: If the Chinese Communists
let the British keep Hong Kong, the
British government then will be
willing to recognize the Reds.
F4RM PL4N;
More Curbs Asked
Critics and supporters alike of
Agriculture Secretary Charles Bran- new -} a] t-rs was
nan's 1949 farm support program
Batdness "Cure"
Buried on inside pages of most
a story which, if
true, would have rated banner
were surprised when Brannan asked ).?. nines in the eyes of t! - e it
sweeping new powers to control ccr.cerncd.
the nation's agricultural produc- rOB, from Ken. Holland, there
tion. h-amca claim that McinheerJ. Van
THE latest Brannan proposals ]{, \<<n. a bewildered little barber.
were contained in the full draft of
the administration's farm program
which was laid before congress.
In that program, the powers re-
quested would mark the first time
in the history of the nation—not ex
cepting wartime—when farmers and
their activities would be so com-
pletely under federal control.
For example, Brannan asked that
rigid marketing quotas, now usable
on only six major crops, be applied
on the great bulk of farm products,
including meat animals, milk, poul- ]
try, eggs, fruits and vegetables.
It was a bold stroke on the part
of the administration and one that
was gambiing with farmer good j
wtll over the .nation.
For it was quickly discernible
that, if enacted, this program would
put the American farmer under fed-
eral control from the moment he
arose to feed the chickens and other
stock in the morning, until he
tended his vegetables and worked
his crops, milked the cows and
fed the stock again in the evening.
The big question was: Would the
farmers stand for that, even if
congress did enact the law? Farm-
ers would be given a choice because
under the Brannan proposal, they
would have to vote adoption of the
program by a two-thirds vote of alt
producers.
Brannan envisions a condition
where prices would be allowed to
move freely in the market with
farmers getting a payment cover-
ing the difference if and when mar-
ket prices fell below a predeter-
mined "fair" return.
LABOR LAW;
Sets Priority
With domestic issues having been
given the green light over fun e n
affairs, the U.S. senate was e'ln-
mitted to wrestle out a new la) r
law—or repeal Taft-Hartley—be-
fore adjournment.
The importance of the labor ques-
tion to the administration was in-
dicated in the senate's shelving ns-
cussion of the North Atlantic cu-
rity pact until the troublesome
labor issue has been disposed of.
THE reason was rather obvious.
Organized labor, worried by an ap-
parent disinclination of congro to
go along with the President in re-
pealing Taft-Hartley and fearing
further delay, was pushing the
administration to get going. There
was constant reminder behind the
scenes of the President's campaign
pledges to scrap the present over-
all labor law and labor wanted
action. The 1950 congressional
races weren't too far off and the
administration evidently felt it had
better deliver or face labor's an-
tagonism at the polls next year.
It was estimated some three
weeks of debate would be necessary
before the administration's MM
came to a showdown vote.
MAJORITY LEADER Scott Lucas
declared that if all major le^i !a-
tion were not disposed of by July
31. "we shall extend the length of
the session until we have dealt with
igc
could cure baldness—no fooling.
Tiie news leaked out, and the;
!ittle barber shop was thronged with I .^t,
visitors. Letters poured tn by the
thousands.
The meinhecr started it all him-
'df by trying to stop his own thin-
niti:; hair from growing thinner,
cxi t'imenting. with various lotions
and use of infra-red rays.
ACCORDING to reports, he final-
ly hit upon a combination that!
made his hair grow. Tried oni
others, it succeeded. Now he is
treating ]H0 people, working 13;
t ours a day.
r ckii.g in years.
VuDH'KA. secretary-gen-
t , noun of fighters fot
mm Czechoslovakia, said the
diction rebuild the city razed
\ the Nazis had been made
among our compatriots in the
'.Hit' ) States and the rest of the
, r ,n public, and the union has
.,f,,n,iati"i that of the five million
collected. 30 per cent was
i;,k,,i),v th.e collectors and nearly
7t) pcrccnt by the administration."
. v.as a quick denial. In
New York. Dr. Jan Papanek, re-
t:gn<-d Czech U. N. delegate, satd
)i, ],:dn e n:. n.e.rial committee col-
ieite;! "$5,0(10 at the maximum"
'torn Americans and never got a
hance to apply any money to
Lidice.
LIDICE, as too few probably will
remember, was the village near
Piat:no which was completely de-
;ti..v. f)l)v the Nazis in retribution
'ei tlie assassination of the Gorman
hangman' lleinhardt Haydrich.
\11 the men of the village were
silled and its women and children
lispersed.
:w/LD LABOR.-
.ow )s Strict
Summer vacations were coming
jp and there would he hordes of
-nun): ters socking work during the
' <ng holiday. But if the wage and
icur and public contracts division
)f the !' S. department of labor
ir. 1 its way. all child labor would
Se done strictly according to law.
FROM Cleveland, the director.
William S. Singley, issued a remind-
er to all employees of school boys
md girls under 16 that age and
topi ; tuent certificates for such
vorkcrs must be on file.
He pointed out that these certifi-
' arc considered as proof of
nd serve to protect employers
!< ;n unwitting viotalions of fedora!
av regulatiiig the employment of
:).ildren."
I'iiLht the fair labor standards
let, the minimum age for most
i johs is 16, but in occupations de-
iaied to be especially hazardous
'< r young workers, the minimum
age is 18.
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U.S. JOBS;
Could Be Cut
A contention that the government
cut its civilian employe rolls by 10
per cent and "accomplish exactly
the same purposes" was made in
Washington by former President
Herbert Hoover, lie hiring that this
could be done if the government
were organized properly, Mr.
Hoover said the savmgs to the tax-
payers might reach four to five
billion dollars a year.
MR. HOOVER S statement must
have carried some weight, but
there were only an optimistic few
who believed anything might he
done along the lilies ho pointed out.
The former President was speak-
ing with authority because a com-
mission of whicli lsc had been
named the head a fact-finding bodv
to uncover just such things as he
had uncovered—had exhaustively
studied go'.ciiimii.t fuititionsand
processes and had reported its
findings.
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idded it could I
rough normal
. runs about
atten-
Berlin
tems yet
the most urgent proposals
'?f YOU C/W7* Bf/tf fM
cut in federal person
nel would require \vhot,;,t,
firings, he said. Ho
be accomplished tt
turnover, which no
500,0M a year.
BfRiJN.-
New tssucs
The mooting of the bi'^ four coun-
cil of foreign ministers had de-
veloped one tact-discussion of Ger-
man unity under current conditions
was futile. So. it appeared
tion would be turned to
where some major probh
remained unsolved.
Berlin presented concrete issues
which many hoped could be re-
solved or. at least, discussed more
profitably. The western powers
were understood as ready to insist
upon written agreements concern-
tng nghts in Bcrlm to replace ,,ra,
understandings that alone have
g-ven then- any rights in the in°
mediate past.
It was also holicvecl they would
urge a single elected citv ro^
occupation shK
for their zone h ^ i-.r
ovitable that the qu'e.t.on oMour*
power authority - which led to a
tr,r"""
cussed—win "nan) was dis-
to'a Berlin recime"'''"
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.ewis Wants Law
Attacking state regulation o!
mine safety codes, John L. Lewis,
icadcr of the United Mine Workers,
Icniandcd a federal safety law to ]
'prevent coal miners from being ]
Tiaimed. mangled and killed."
CHARGING that the "nation's!
roal is stained with blood." Lewis ]
produced figures to show 1.25 mil-
ion miners have been injured or
!illod in the past 19 years.
Lewis' charges were hurled be-
fore a senate labor subcommittee
n support of a bill which would
give federal mine inspectors right I
:o close mines they think danger-
<us. Under present conditions,
.vhile the federal bureau of mines j
nrkes safety inspections and rec-
'nunonds safety measures, all con-
rol is oxorcisod by the states and]
here is no way to implement fed-
ral suggestions and recommenda-
i ns Lewis contended that states!
; ire falling down badly.
LEWIS' tcstitnony chiefly car-
i d the thctne that the states have]
ailed to enforce safety regulations]
o d that the mine operators are I
j :ot going to pay any heed to safety ]
jnlessforcedtodoso.
Remember Him?
If woolen socks get
while on a car!''-':;.
toes with small pcbMvsb;
hanging them up to dry: Mis
keep them from shrinking.
— $ —
Dip a cloth in houschoM
monia and place over the ri
spot in the broiler of your rf
close the range door for a
minutes and ch.i:.< ]
be able to wash sptc. cast
To avoid stirring HP
sweeping a rug. sprinkle rug]
bits of dampened
pers will absorb the ni'^ P
ing it from flying around the
The quickest way to detel
if a plant needs water's^
ing the soil surface if' '
water the plant.
If lower par'of ;i"'^^t
tssoiled. shades."'^ 1
to bring clean ,
nence: untack
reverse; cut .'t " ,
edges near the I'"*''''"; 'J
back onto roller < ", 'J
hem. slip stick tr.; ']
and reinsert the put.
Dust pictur.
back, and fram";.'
month: dust the v.a
too. to prevent
from fornung on t ae
— $ —
Save your or.,: - r--;'!
spring and f
have dried toss -
place on coou
kindle qutckly ''"d
pleasant aroma.
Shanghai Popuiace Swings to Comm
It was mostly beer and skittles
for the Communists in Shanghai
The city and its millions had ..mg
into the Communist catnp, ] ,,t !,y
degrees, but with what appeared
to be an enthusiastic rush. At,,ng
long linos of avenues, Hcd flags
flow from every shop. Newspapers
reversed their policy overnight and
began to sol] the populace on com-
munism.
umsts
niun.'st''".!Li!!s"' A!, Com-
munism appeared to to com-
customs hou: ,. vo, k
stopped Inst a cl Tks
bled in the h.ll
nist songs. Chinee r"'?''
spent nmeh time , ^."lions
lessons. The words w.V s*"Hing
itL wotas were read ovet
)< then music was played.
How nmny will remember the
gentleman shown above? Well,
the question is hardly a fair one
for his public always saw him
in fight trunks, not street togs.
He is former heavyweight
fighter Muddy Baer, whose en-
gagement to Hollywood column-
ist May Mann, put him in the
news.
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Lcss for Farmer
For farmers who grow tobacco,
the take was just about half as
much as Uncle Sam collects in
taxes from the product. This ad
mission came from the U. S. de
partment of agriculture itself.
iN a review of the tobacco situa
tion, the department estimated thai
combined U. S. and state tax re
ccipts from tobacco would approxi
mate 1.75 billion dollars during tht
fiscal year, which would be a record
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