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The Enard Chartes Rating
Sincc the melancholy spectacle
in Chicago known as the N B A.
heavyweight championship, various
experts and noncombatants have
been busy attempting to rate Ez-
:ard Charies, the winner. The best
rating wouid seem to p!ace Charlf s
Mmewhere between the post-Tun-
ney and the pre-Louis period.
!t is difficult to make any clear
cut estimate since he was facing an
opponent who refused to fight, the
same being Jersey Joe Waicott.
Charies is a better boxer than
Max Baer, Primo Camera and
Jim Braddock. He
is no better a box-
er than Jack
Sharkey or Max
S c h m e 1 i n g hap-
pened to be. He
^can't punch with
Baer, Braddock or
Schmeling. That
p o s t-Tunney, pre-
Louis period was a
Granttand Rtce gad one for the
fight game — especially the heavy-
weight game. This new era, now
rolling in, wit! be just as sad or
possibly even sadder.
The winner of the Charies—Wood-
cock vs. Savold contest won't ic-
quire much on either side. This is
just as weii since neither side has
much to offer. At the very best,
such a meeting shoutd be worth
perhaps a $10 top, if you happen
to have $10 you don't need.
There is no complaint about
the N B A. catting the Charlos-
Walcott fiasco a championship
fight. It was a terrible fight to
watch from start to finish, .(er-
sey Joe Waicott started at a
rather brisk pace hut, after the
second round, suddenly decidcd
that he was through for the
evening.
He had collected three pretty
fair purses in a row and he had
been around 19 years. He had
squeezed about alt he could out of
mediocrity.
You can't keep on making lemon-
ades out of one temon.
Certainly the heavyweight situa-
tion doesn't want any more of Jer-
sey Joe Waicott. This recent show
was one place where the promoters
had to work without any working
material.
The fight mob for years had
been accustomed to fellows tike
Dempsey, Tunney and Louis
who coutd box and also punch.
Tunney was no stick of dyna-
mite hut he coutd cut you up
and hurt you. The fight moh
had become too accustomed to
Joe Louis to start cheering for
anEzzardChartesoraJoeWat-
cott, minus any part of per-
sona) appeat. Or even imper-
sonal appeat.
Charles was at least willing to
fight, while to Waicott the thought
of hitting someone or being hit was
adecidely abhorrent. Waicott would
have been an ideal soldier in the
War of the Roses.
More About Charies
Charles is a serious, earnest
young fellow who is a good boxer
and who is willing. But he is never
overanxious. He is careful. He tried
to make a fight of it but his punch-
ing was too feathery to make him
dangerous.
Charles is not much of a puncher,
even with a fair shot at some an-
tagonist. Here was Waicott in front
of him for 15 rounds and yet Wai-
cott emerges without a knockdown
or a scratch outside of a split upper
lip.
This isn't the type of fighter who
Is going to revive the lagging fight
game and start the multitude
cheering loudly. For all of that Ez-
zard Charles is very likely the best
heavyweight fighter left in the
world today.
He shoutd have no great
troubte handting either Wood-
cock or Savotd. Woodcock never
was very much and Savotd is
wet) over the hit). Chartes tacks
any touch of fire or ftame. He
is merety a pretty good work-
man who ts invotved with in-
ferior materia).
Louis has been through for sev-
eral years. His title was worth at
least a million dollars to some am-
bitious tellow who could learn how
to box and punch The inducement
has been the richest prize in sport
The ring game has had at least
stx years in which to develop just
one fighter, one good fighter The
net result has been Ezzard Chartes.
who. in baseball parlance, would
berat<!ra 270 hitter
Gene Tunney stopped Tom Heen
ey and retired in July, 1928 Max
Schmeling won from Jack Sharkey
on a foul in July. !930
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President Trum
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"selfish interest'
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the nation that
' are making
POTENTIAL TEAK! HARBORS . . . Fergus Hoffman, spectslts!
on Ataskan affairs for Seattte, Wash., newspaper, tells a senate
approprtattons subcommittee on Alaskan defense that the terri-
tory today ts "the most widespread co))eet)on of potentiat Tear)
Harbors under the stars and stripes." Shown at the hearing, teft
to right, are Ataskan detegate E. L. Bart)ett; Senator James E.
Murray )M . Mont ), member of senate interior affairs committee;
Hoffmtn. and Senator Ktmer Thomas (!). Okia ), chairman of the
appropriations subcommittee.
MONROf DOC7R/NF;
Pact Fuss
John Foster Dulles, in his first
speech as US. senator appealed
j for ratification of the North Atlantic
pact and rebuked Senator Robert
) A. Taft and others opposing it.
Taft's opposition was on the
grounds that the treaty commits
the United States to re-arm its
European signers.
Dulles countered with the defense
that the pact does not obligate this
nation to enter any arms program
which "isn't defensible on its own
merits." Dulles said that the treaty
doesn't give any individual mem-
ber the right to get any particular
! thing from any other member. No
particular member has any claim
on any particular aid he averred.
It does not require the United
States to build each signer up so
that it could defend itself alone,
Dulles said.
ANOTHER FOE of the pact, Sen-
ator Flanders of Vermont, wanted
to extend the Monroe Doctrine in
place of entering the pact. He said
this nation would not be obligated
in details any more than in the ori-
ginal Monroe Doctrine.
Flanders also objected to possible
arms commitments to Europe if
we signed the pact. He said that if
vast arms shipments are made to
Europe we don't know what will
happen to them in case of com-
munist domination of nations bene-
fitted.
Senator Scott W. Lucas, the Dem-
ocratic senate floor leader, said
that the treaty imposes no legal
obligation for an arms program,
but added such a program is need-
ed just the same.
The Truman administration
seeks a $!.130,000.000 program to
rearm western Europe.
FNGL4ND;
More Austerity
Sir Stafford Cripps, chancellor of
the exchequer, has placed a new
austerity program before the
British people. He announced that
Britain will reduce her spending in
the United States and Canada by
$400,000,000, or one-fourth, in the
current fiscal year.
THE BRITISH financial situation
is more serious than Secretary of
State Acheson has made it appear.
However, it is not insoluble. British
difficulties cannot be attributed to
the American slump. The British
will benefit from declining prices
here of raw materials and food.
Inflated war prices are blamed for
the rapid consumption of Ameri-
ca's 1946 loan to England.
There is taking place in England,
according to a recent poll of the
British Institute of Public Opinion,
a shift of political sentiment to-
ward the right. A general election
now might turn the Labor party
out of office.
Union leaders promised to try
to end London's wildcat dock strike
as more soldiers, sailors and air-
men went into the miles of wharves
to unload ships and move cargoes
of food.
Vaughan Accused
President Truman has been
asked to suspend his military aide,
Maj. Gen. Harry H. Vaughan.
The request came from Rep.
Shafer. Michigan Republican, who
cited the army's suspension of two
other major generals, Herman
Ficldman, the quartermaster gen-
eral. and Alden H. Waitt, chief of
the cltemical corps.
They were suspended pending a
senate investigation of army con-
tract handling. Shafer said
Vaughan was implicated in the
same case, but gave no details.
All three generals were men-
tioned in a recent news story which
inspired the inquiry into dealings
of "five per centers," those who
hire out to obtain government con-
tracts.
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Stec) Accepts Plan
The steel industry's biggest cor-
porations accepted President Tru-
man's ()0-day peace plan under
protest, thus averting a nation-wide
steel strike. The fact-finding hour),
appointed by the president will
study the dispute over a fourth
round of postwar wage increases
and pensions and group insuranee
—and will make recommendations.
The United States Stee! Corpora-
tion had asked President Truman
to alter his terms for a peace pro-
posal with the United Steelworkers.
as a steel strike deadline rushed
closer.
The corporation demanded that
the president's proposed fact-find-
ing board be given no power to
suggest a settlement.
The union threatened to strike
against four companies — U. S.
Steel, Bethlehem, Republic and In-
land These firms are against any
fact-finding boards outside the Taft-
Hartley act.
Phillip Murray's big steel union
agreed to a RO-day postponement
of the walkout at companies which
agreed with the president's propos-
al. The Taft - Hartley act provides
for an inquiry hoard with no power
to m^ke recommendations.
Earlier. Rep. Franklin D. Roose-
velt. Jr. (D.. N. Y.) flayed Ren-
jamin Fairlcss of United States
Stee] in a speech before the United
Automobile Workers in Milwaukee
for not acceding to the president's
proposal
"V4RDS7*/CK"
Cancer Gauger
A "yardstick" for measuring the
growth of cancer has been reported
discovered.
A simple, quick and inexpensive
method of gauging the growth or
decline of a cancer was reported
by Doctors Phillip West and Jessa-
mine Hilliard of the medical school
at the University of California.
The technique is based on an
analysis nf blood compounds and
will measure the effectiveness of
curative treatments. It is not a
cure itself, nor is it a test for the
presence of cancer.
HOOSfGOW
Three N. Y. Reds Sweat Out Tria! !n Jai!
The U S Circuit Court nf Appeals
in New York ruled that three Com-
munist defendants, on trial for con-
spiracy and recently jailed for con-
tempt. must stay in jail for the
remainder of the trial between
court sessions.
The action of federal judge
Harold R. Medina in ordering the
three men, Gus Hall, Harry Win-
ston and Gilbert Green, confined
in jail, was upheld by the appeals
court. With eight other defendants
and high party leaders, they have
been free on bail.
The defense to the circuit court
that their sentences were indeter-
minate since the length of the trial
was not known was argued by at-
torneys in their appeal The judge
refused to allow this plea and
passed sentence.
hud^<t.L-utr'qu<",ts^)".h'hrcatjJi!
to "blunder" 'he nation tntode-;
prcssinn.
[n his economic report. Truman
assured thfnatton that it's not,
in a depression, despite bustness ;
decline. "Political reasons" lead}
some people to want depress'on.tn-,
said. He added that depression can ,
be avoided.
He blamed "selfish interests" for
the tax cut that congress passed
over his veto and for the denial of t
anti-inflation curbs he requested, j
HE FKAHED a third great blund- }
er and warned that "to slash gov- j
ernment expenditures now would;
add to the downward trend." He i
defended his $42,000,000,000 budget
for government spending the next
12 months.
He said, "If we follow the wrong
budget policy at this time and
slash our expenditures, we will de-
crease employment, cut down in-
vestment. weaken our defenses,
and injure our efforts for peace."
His speech was seen as a move-
ment to line up popular support
for a showdown fight with the econ-
omy bloc in congress which is
demanding that government spend-
ing be cut to income.
He criticized those who say we
arc in a depression.
"Many of these persons for politi-
cal reasons would like to have a
depression," he said. "Others are
saying that there is nothing to
worry about and an increase of
the number looking for work is a
good thing. This attitude ignores
the human suffering..."
"CONf V /SL AND."
"Triviolicotion"
Dr. Robert M. Hutchins, chancel-
lor of the University of Chicago,
demanded that mankind's expand-
itm knowledge he turno<i toward
achievement instead of "trivialica-
tion" and formation of a huge
"Coney Island."
He spoke at the Goethe Bicenten-
nial Convocation at Aspen. Colo.
Ho said that world catastrophe
is inevitable if the "tribal self-
adoration, which goes under the
n;mic of patriotisin continues un-
checked."
He asked for a world union nf
"mtn of good will." and said that
wt'ldntwornmontisastcpinthc
ri^tit direction to avert global
suicide. Ho argued that "communi-
cation" with Russia is possible if
other nations were sincerely willing
to try.
A "moral, intellectual and spir-
itual revolution is the only thing
that will turn the world from a
downward course, he argued.
He attacked the "purposeless-
ness" of contemporary living,
made more so by technology, and
declared that new-gained leisure
has been used for meaningless rec-
reations.
Of atomic energy in peace and
war he said, "If we have war, we
shall be blown to bits; if we have
peace wo shall be bored to death."
Hutchins compared today's civi-
lization with the fears and hopes
expressed by the 18th century
humanist, Goethe. The theme of his
speech was "Goethe and world
unity."
Goethe's dream for the world
was that it should be a "world of
friends," Hutchins said. He advo-
cated Goethe's "civilization of
dialogue."
by
WRtGHT A.
PATTERSON
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injured
Among the injured )n Me
crash of Me New York-Cali-
fornia airhner that came to
grief in the Santa Susana
mountains near Chatsworth.
Catif., was movie actress
( aren Marsh. Latest estimates
ptace the death to!) of the crash
at 25 with IS injured. The ptane
crashed shortty after the pit„t
radioed that a viotent fight was
going on in the ptane among
the passengers.
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^Turbine Aircraft
Research on gas-turhine engines
at McGill University. Montreal
may bring about improved flying'
A turbine engine is a scientific
version of the mill wheel. It ha:
many small blades instead of a few
big ones, and instead of water hot
gas is used to push the blades.'
THE HOT GAS is produced by a
blowtorch in which fuel is burned
with the aid of air scooped from
the atmosphere and coaiprcssed.
Statehood For Hawaii
jurORE THAN HALF A century
ago the people of the then Re-
public of Hawaii asked that their
islands be annexed to the United
States, with a promise of future
statehood. The first annexation
legislation by congress was vetoed
by President Cleveland in the
closing days of his second adminis-
tration. During the McKinley ad-
ministration, with Me war with
Spain as an urge, a joint resolu-
tion passed by the senate and
house, admitted the islands as a
territory with an implied promise
of early statehood.
Through congress after congress,
for the last half century, excuses
have been found for not keeping
that implied promise to the people
of Hawaii. Some of the reasons—
not the excuses—have been purely
partisan. Hawaii, as a state, would
undoubtedly send two Republican
senators, and at least one Repub-
lican representative to Washington.
Such conditions were not inducive
to statehood legislation under
Democratic administrations. or
with a Democratic house and sen-
ate. The armed forces, dominant
in Hawaii, opposed statehood on
the claims of disloyalty of the
oriental residents, despite the show-
ing of those orientals in the two
world wars. Personal political an-
tagonisms in the islands had some
effcct in helping to stop statehood
As a territory Hawaii pays
into the federa) treasury as
federat taxes more than any
one of 12 of the 48 states. The
is)ands' economy is hased on
sugar cane and pineapptes.
That presumahty caits for ori-
entattahor, hut that to day is
Hawaiian horn tabor. The im-
portation of Japanese artd(hi-
nese stopped with annexation.
The island horn oricntats em-
ptoyed on the sugar cane and
pineappte ptantations are paid
higher wages, have better )iv-
ing conditions, than ts true of
farm )ahor in any section of
continentat United States. Con-
gress permits the island p)an-
tations but a limited market in
continentat United States for its
sugar in order to provide a
market for Cuba.
Hawaii is a territory with a fed-
eral appointed governor and a ter-
ritorial elected legislature with but
a limited authority. The islands are
not in a position to cope with in-
ternal or external difficulties as a
state government would he. Help
for her difficulties must come from
Washington, if it comes at all.
Again partisanship enters into
the picture. The Washington admin-
istration feels under obligation to
the labor bosses. It is not included
to do anything that would antago-
nize those labor bosses, such as
Harry Bridges and his longshore-
man's union. The labor bosses are
presumed to control more votes
than the half a million American
citizens in the islands, who have no
votes in any national election. To
move food and other needed sup-
plies in, the island products otit,
would not be acceptable to the
union bosses, and thi island people
are left to the mercy (?) of Harry
Bridges and such influence as may
be behind him.
In the 80th congress the house
passed the bill admitting Hawaii
as the 49th state. It was blocked in
the senate by a senate committee,
some members of which wished to
make a legislative jaunt to the is-
lantls, presumable to secure first
hand information, but in reality
only for a free ride.
The Hawaiian islands are a
vatuahle acquisition of Me
! nited States. As an American
outpost they undouhtedty pre-
vented a Japanese attack on
our Pacific coast in World War
H. As an outpost under federa!
control the Island people suf-
ferred all Me rigors of severe
ntilitarv discipline Inftictedhy
the armed forces. Now they are
suffering hunger. shortages,
the destruction of local bus!
ness. at Me instigation of Harry
Rri'lges, and which only the
federal government can rem-
edy.
How long must Hawaii wait for
that promised statehood, and a
chance for Me people to help
themselves?
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We. the voters of both parties,
wonder who is big enough to meas-
president in
L3- There will be numerous ap-
plicants for Me job and all will as-
sure us they fully measure up
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When tt comes time, at age 65.
for veterans of World Wars I and
11 to collect the pensions that are
being anticipated, it will be the
and their children who
will do a considerable portion of
'he paying. They will be a large
percentage of the taxpayers of Mat
"P " 'arge portion
of the billions the pensions call for
plus the cost of bureaucratic ad
ministration. There will he apart
o cost in the price of every,
thing they buy in addition to thf
direct federal taxes they pay
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