Interest Centers on November Polls
GOP Leaders Intrigue Press
With Election Prospects
By BAUKIIAGE
Newt Analytt and Commentator.
WNU Service, 1616 Eye Street, N.W.,
Washington, D. C.
WASHINGTON, D. C. — This
weather—In Washington and else
where—develops more heat than
light. That's a trite phrase, I know,
uui u 8 apropos
(because heat,
rather than light,
li always the
keyword at this
season, politi
cally speaking
Congress accom
plished its fade
out rather grace
fully, I thought
even if they must
have prayed for
forgiveness for
"the things we
have left undone"
as fervently as
for the things they did which didn’t
sit too well with their consciences.
And now the voice of the vote
getter is heard in the land.
Radio and newspaper correspond
ents are being courted by both
political parties. For example, re
cently, a crowd of radio folk was
given a luncheon-table look at the
vote-getting machinery behind the
Republican lines. Our hosts were
Republican Chairman Carroll B.
Reece at one end of the table, and
Republican Campaign Manager
Clarence Brown at the other. (A
similar jaunt into Democratic ter
ritory will be reported in a future
column.)
Reece Quiet,
Popular Chief
Reece is a slight, greying, quiet
voiced man whose Tennessee ac
cent reminds one occasionally of
Claude Pepper in one of Claude's
unoratorical moments if you can
catch him in one. (Personal confes
sion: I like Pepper and Reece both
and so do a lot of people who would
be the first to say, “the views of
these notables do not NECES
SARILY agree with those of the
undersigned.’’)
It is a little presumptuous of me
to refer to Reece as "greying” be
cause the year 1880 had to stretch
itself from January to December to
fill the time-gap between my birth
day and his. He has taught In almost
as many academic institutions as I
have casually attended. He was a
battalion commander in World War
I whereas I never rose above the
exalted station of shavetail, and
among his five deoorations are the
Distinguished Service Cross, the
Distinguished Service Medal and
the Purple Heart. He was cited for
bravery by a marshal, three gen
erals and a colonel.
Perhaps the same qualities which
won Reece hit decorations qualified
him for his present job. He cer
tainly doesn’t lack assurance even
if he doesn’t rattle sabers in ex
pressing it.
But we are not talking about
Reece. We are talking about his
job. He is out on the hustings, al
though his trip, which will take him
as far west as Seattle and as far
south as Georgia, is mildly camou
flaged as a vacation. Anyhow Mrs.
and Miss Reece are going along,
and a part of the time will be spent
at a resort in the Rockies.
Backstopping Reece here in the
capital where nobody votes, but
where a lot of writers and talkers
remain, will be Clarence Brown,
representative from the Seventh dis
trict of Ohio, a state which might
be called a latter-day mother of
presidents and which right now is
looking hopefully over the patterns
of maternity gowns.
I have a fellow feeling for Rep
resentative Brown, tinged perhaps
with the natural deference a re
porter always has for a publisher.
Brown publishes several country
newspapers (that’s the way he put
it himself in the congressional di
rectory) whereas I merely write
for "several" besides this one. Also
he has three more children than I
have. He and I once met on the
debating platform, and while I
would naturally never admit that
I didn’t present the best argument,
I will concede somewhat grudging
ly that Brown’s resounding oratory
won him the most applause. We
Brown and Reece complement
each other very well. Reece is
slight, dignified, soft-spoken. Brown
is large, loud enough to be heard
in the back row without using the
PA system, and hail-fellow-well
met. As “campaign manager” he
is going to sweat It out (that is lit
eral ) with the rest of the Washing
tonians who don’t vacate in the
summer.
were debating selective service, and
1 hasten to explain that former
Senator (now Supreme court just
ice) Burton and I had the unpopu
lar side. Anyhow, Brown (may-the
best-man-win) won.
Reece and Brown didn’t talk on
the-record at the luncheon but I
bave a good idea of how things
looked to the Republicans at that
congenial gathering of radio folk.
If the elections were held as of
that moment, they claimed, the Re
publicans would win a majority of
seats in the house of representatives
and would make very heavy inroads
an the Democratic majority in the
senate. Since then many of the pri
mary battles have been fought and
['ll report the reactions later.
%
Gallup Poll Heartens GOP
In the first place I understand that
the Republicans took considerable
satisfaction in the Gallup poll which
showed that, excluding the one
party Democratic states. 40 per
cent of the persons interviewed
showed a Democratic preference
and 54 per cent a Republican pref
erence.
The GOP leaders believed they
had a good, fighting chance to win
15 to 17 senatorial scats from their
opponents. In New York, they say
Governor Dewey’s good record and
the campaign he is planning ought
to pull in a Republican senator
(they won’t say whom). They be
lieve Democratic Senator Mead will
have to run for the governorship.
They felt they had a chance In
Delaware and West Virginia and that
If the ballots were cast at that mo
ment they would win in Mis
Carroll B. Reece and Rep. Brown
souri (I'm still talking about the
senatorial race). They called Mon
tana and Washington probabilities
rather than mere possibilities.
O'Mahoney knows he has a fight,
they say, and they believe the Re
publican candidate. John Hender
son, has a chance against the popu
lar gentleman from Wyoming.
I heard a lot of talk, too, about
the interesting possibility in Con
necticut where Repr. Clare Luce
was expected to oppose former OPA
Administrator Chester Bowles,
which would be a colorful affair
with all the technical skill of her
publisher husband, and all the skill
of an advertising man, Mr. Bowles,
pitted against each other.
As to the house of representatives.
Republican machinery has been
grinding in at least 75 districts.
OV Kentuck
Bloody Battleground
Kentucky was catalogued as still
a dark and bloody battleground. At
the time of the luncheon. Repre
sentative May’s followers seemed
to feel, according to press reports,
that he was a martyr. If something
should come out to change their
minds on that score, he might go
down to defeat. And we are re
minded that, as one Republican
put it: ’’every 20 years or so Ken
tucky changes its mind.”
What the Republicans seem to
count on most is the natural re
action, “throw the rascals out"
theory which Americans always
have reverted to after so long a pe
riod of any party’s incumbency.
In addition, say the GOPundits,
there are the usual mistakes of the
party in power which result in the
well known attitude of one of Clar
ence Brown’s constituents who told
him:
"I don’t know who I’m FUR, but
I know durned well who I’m
AGIN.”
NEW UNIFORMS ON PARADE . . . The navy’s new uniforms went on
test parade at Treasure Island, Calif., navy base. From left to right,
sailors are shown wearing the new dress blues, old garb, new un
dressed blues and new work clothes. Major Improvement, sailors
agreed, lies In the fact trousers now have four pockets.
NEWS REVIEW
New Farm Plan Studied;
Death of UNRRA Looms
UNRRA:
U. S. to Quit
Following close upon the blast
of Senators Butler (Rep., Neb.) and
ip 11 « ^ — /r\_
W. S. Clayton
La.) against use
of United Nations
relief and rehabili
tation funds
abroad, Assistant
Secretary of State
William L. Clay
ton told the fifth
UNRRA council
meeting in Gen
eva, Switzerland,
that the U. S.
would not contrib
uie auaiuonaj runds to the agency.
While the senators had charged
that UNRRA supplies were being
used to bolster foreign govern
ments. Clayton stated that the U. S.
was withdrawing future assistance
to the agency because the pe
riod of immediate postwar impov
erishment was passing and the
U. S. and other countries had sup
plied sufficient credit mediums for
financing recovery.
In all, the U. S. provided no
less than 2% billion dollars of aid
to UNRRA, sufficient for supplies
to fill 2,000 cargo ships.
WAR INSPECTION . . . Sepa
rated by the war, Mr. and Mrs..
Edgar Manske found inspiration
for a unique business venture.
Mrs. Manske, the former Jane.
Fauntc of swimming fame,
sculpted small figurines of their
daughter to send to her husband,
former football star. Now they
are In business selling figurines.
FARM PROGRAM:
New Proposals
A new farm program calling for
a combination of sound open mar
ket practices and governmental as
sistance was proposed by the spe
cial house committee on postwar
economic policy and planning head
ed by Representative Colmer
(Dem., Miss.),
In recommending changes in
present farm legislation, the com
mittee urged:
Greater flexibility be allowed
In farm prices, especially to
ward each other.
Supply and demand be given
greater opportunity to deter
mine farm prices rather than
artificial controls.
Re-examination of the out
moded parity price formula de
signed to give farmers an in
come on a par with industrial
workers.
Concentration on a long
rather than a short range farm
program.
For establishing a “floor” under
farm prices to prevent a disastrous
drop, the committee proposed
a support program guaranteeing
producers “60, 70 or 80 per cent
* of parity”; a supplemental pay
ment during hard times to assure
a certain percentage of pre-depres
sion income, and limits on the
rate of decline for a specified com
modity in a year.
CIO:
To Fight Prices
Remaining militant in its post
war program to aid the interests
of more than five million mem
bers, the CIO announced an all
out drive on rising prices to pre
vent further depreciation of the
workers’ dollar.
Revealing that it had given up
plans for another big wage drive
to win further increases to offset
rising living costs, the union stated
that demands for more money
probably would result in still high
er prices.
In forecasting additional price
rises of 15 to 20 per cent during
the next few months, the CIO said
that the corresponding reduction in
purchasing power of the con
sumer’s dollar would represent a
wage cut of 17 per cent. A suc
cessful consumer strike against
higher prices would terminate cur
rent inflation within the next 18
months at the worst and three to
six months at the best, it said.
‘ENCOURAGED’ DESPITE LAGS
Vet Housing May Reach Goal
WASHINGTON.-Despite reports
indicating building lags throughout
the nation. Housing Expediter Wil
son Wyatt predicted that his vet
erans' housing program will
achieve Its goal of getting 1,200.000
temporary and permanent homes
started In 1946.
Wyatt’s prediction was based on
a report which he characterized as
“encouraging” although it con
tained facts indicating the picture
is not too bright. The report
showed:
A total of 496,000 family units of
all types were started in the first
half of the year. To achieve the
1,200,000 goal, the number of
“starts" will have to average 117,
000 per month in the last half of
the year compared with an aver
age of 83.000 in (he first half and
with 92,500 in June.
First Slump Reported.
In June, for the first time since
the Wyatt program began last
January, “starts" of conventional
and prefabricated houses and
apartments slumped. The June
figure was only 62,000, compared
with 66,000 in May. To achieve the
Wyatt goal. 84,500 of these new
homes must be started every month
In the last half of the year. They
constitute the largest portion of the
program.
Production of prefabricated
houses has been far below Wyatt’s
earlier expectations, so that the
1946 goal for ’’starts” of this type
has been reduced from 250,000 to
100.000. To achieve the over-all goal
of 1,200,000 family units, the na
tional housing agency will have to
start 738,000 conventional type
houses and apartments, instead of
650,000 as originally planned, 212,
000 temporary homes Instead of
200.000, and 100,000 instead of 50,000
“conversions” (adding family units
by remodeling older houses and
apartments).
In the first hall ol 1946, 225,000
units of all types were completed.
Of these, 72,000 were ‘•emporary"
units, such as relocated barracks
and trailers. Only 153,000 perma
nent homes and apartment units
were completed, and only 40,000 of
these were started after the Wyatt
program began.
The Wyatt report attributed to
the bureau of labor statistics an
estimate that it takes six to seven
months to complete a new family
unit today compared with three to
four months before the war.
Wyatt did not mention in his re
j port that the number of applica
tions for priorities to build under
his program declined sharply in
June, a fact that may presage an
i other slump in “starts'’ during
! July.
Priority applications, which were
for 125,102 units during May,
dropped to 45,705 units in June. July
figures will not be available until
! September.
CO FAR 1946 has been an amazing
^ season in two ways—for its bril
liancy and its failures. For its Mex
ico—and the good that Mexico has
done for ball playA
Ted Williams
ers everywhere.
The Red Sox, Joe
Louis and Assault
have taken full
charge of the spot
light side. They
have been the out
standing cham
pions. Golf has no
entry with Ben Ho
gan and Byron Nel
son, the two lead
i n ft mnnatr u'innorc
trailing Lloyd Mangrum in the U.
S. Open. We seem to have the best
tennis players but a Frenchman is
still the Wimbledon winner.
What has happened in the first
year after the war? Except in the
way of record attendances and gen
eral enthusiasm, the aftermath of
World War II hasn’t even ap
proached the aftermath of World
War I. Not in the way of competi
tive class.
Can you name competitors today
who have anything like the com
bined class of Babe Ruth, Jack
Dempsey, Bobby Jones, Bill Til
den, Tommy Hitchcock, Rogers
Hornsby, Earl Sande, Walter Hagen,
Gene Sarazen, Red Grange, Man o’
War? We have Joe Louis. But
Joe Louis has been the world’s
heavyweight champion for over
nine years.
We have Ted Williams, but Ted
Williams hit over .400 before the
last war. He was a great ball play
er, or at least a great hitter, before
World War II ever developed a
slight fever. Sammy Baugh and Sid
Luckman go well back before World
War II.
The brief postwar period has de
veloped a wild stampede to the box
office. But very little beyond that.
In baseball the batting stars today
include Ted Williams, Dixie Walk
er, Dom DiMaggio, Vernon, Musial,
Hank Greenberg and a few more.
But these are veterans—most of
them. Hal Newhouser of the Tigers
and Rocky Graziano have been the
two leading stars since 1941.
Against this list I haven’t the
heart to give you the names of
those who have faded, folded up or
slipped badly—who, returning from
army and navy assignments, fell
far behind. The outstanding per
formance of 1946—so far—has been
the Red Sox, plus Ted Williams.
Plus the Dodgers' fine showing
against heavy odds, player for play
er. The second nomination is Joe
Louis—who against Billy Conn had
almost no opposition.
Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson are
the two major money winners in
golf—but Lloyd Mangrum is Open
champion and Herman Keiser is
the Master’s winner. And Sammy
Snead is British champion. It is all
very much confused, very badly
tangled up.
Most Class in Football
In my opinion the feature part
of 1946 won’t belong to baseball,
racing, boxing, basketball, track,
golf or tennis. It will belcfhg to
football. This applies to both the
college teams and the pros. This
first applies to the quality of com
petition. There will be far more
class to football than any other
postwar sport can even approach.
I understand that over 100,000 ap
plications had been made for the
Army-Michigan game back in June.
There will be over 200,000 ticket
applications for this contest at Ann
Arbor. Applications for the Army
Notre Dame game will pass the
300,000 mark before September.
Army-Notre Dame and Army-Navy
together could leave the 500,000
mark behind — if there was
only space enough.
The Navy-Georgla Tech game In
Atlanta already has two times the
seat applications that Atlanta can
handle. Notre Dame, Army, Navy
and Michigan will be a triple sell
out for almost every contest. The
same thing will happen to South
ern California and UCLA on the
west coast. Also to St. Mary’s and
others.
But I doubt that Notre Dame
will have the team Frank Leahy
had in 1943 or that Army will have
the team Red Blaik had in 1944 or
1945. The talent hasn’t improved,
but the crowd interest has. Veter
ans coming from army and navy
service have proved nothing. Some
have been better — others have
taken a big dip. This has been true
in baseball — and it will be just
as true in college and pro football.
There will be stars from other
years who will shine — and there
will be stars from other years who
will be flops.
There will be a professional foot
ball entanglement that will leave
you gasping—and more than a few
pocketbooks flatter than a thin
plank. In looking on ahead you
will also see a big revival in ten
nis interest — and one of the hot
test amateur golf championships
any galloping member of the Thun
i dering Herd has ever known. Bud
Ward — Frank Stranahan — Cary
Middlecoff — golfers good enough
to beat the Nelsons and the Hogans
in major tests, plus young stars
moving up. This has been a rather
dizzy season so far, up and down
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Yet, with the slight altera
tions shown here, such a chair may
be made to seem at home with
either type of furniture.
After the rockers have been removed.
It may be made to change character to
suit the material used for cushion and
back covers.
• • •
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RADIO CASE 180,760 492
__
(Reversing the situation, a Sunday
night radio listener has John J. An
thony, "W hat’s Your Problem Man"
on the stand j.
Q. Now, Mr. Anthony, what’s your
complaint?
A. I have no complaint. You’re
mixed up.
Q. Come, come, Mr. Anthony,
there must be times when organ
music and poetry let you down a
bit.
A. Never. Give me a poem, an
organ and other people’s troubles
and I’m as happy as a lark.
Q. Mr. Anthony, there MUST be
something bothering you like every-,
body else. Are you happy at home? **
A. Certainly.
Q. Well, go on in your own way
and tell the radio audience why.
A. On my program we only tell
why people are NOT happy at
home.
Q. Why stay in a rut? Out with
it, when did your happiness begin?
In what quarrel did you first notice
it?
A. I tell you, there was no quar
rel.
Q. No fights, no quarrels, no dig
sentions?
A. None.
Q. You mean to tell the judges
who have kindly come here tonight
to get a little free publicity that noth
ing has ever happened in your home
that the radio audience should know
about?
A. I do.
A Judge: That’s the old familiar
pattern by which so many mar
riages go on the rocks, my boy.
What you need is a good family
quarrel. My advice to you is that
you go home and try being very un
happy for a change. It may make
a new man of you.
Q. Let's make out you are an- ^
other case, Mr. Anthony. Say, Case
3457289. That’s the case that won’t
go out and get a job and help keep
the home. Now, why don’t you go
to work instead of sitting around
all week waiting for Sunday night
to come?
A. I don’t sit around all week.
Q. And, furthermore, when did
this woman desert you?
A. What woman?
Q. Please go on and tell us all
about it in your own way from that
point.
A. What point?
Q. The point where you told your
father you wanted to play the ba
zooka like other kids and he ordered
you out of the house with the baby.
A. You’re all mixed up.
Q. Now, Mr. Anthony, remember
what you said at my office. You
said you were willing to take the
four cross-eyed sisters in to live
with you if the soldier would give
them a name and wear shoes at
the dinner table. Pull yourself to
gether and speak distinctly into
the mike.
A. Could I read a poem to touch
the heart now?
Q. All the hearts in tonight’s au
dience have been already touched.
Dr. Spotlight, what do you think of
this case?
Judge Spotlight (coming out of a
trance): I see no problem here at
all. This man should live with the
three deaf aunts until their grand
father finishes his college course. It
will be time enough after that to
see about formal adoption. Further
more, I think the boy who wants
to come home from the penitentiary
and beat his mother is wrong.
There is something to be said for
the mother’s stand that she wants
no part in the beating unless as
sured the fight is broadcast.
• • •
Just Casting About
Fred MacMurray has been
chosen to play the male lead in
“The Egg and I.” We rather looked
for the part to go to “Hennery”
Fonda or Walter Pidgen.
Tom Drake and Donald Duck
would have sounded okay in the egg
play, too.
•
And for the right touch, what
screen actress would fit better in
the female lead than Evelyn Laye.
_•_
Cary Grant plays Cole Porter in
"Night and Day” and if he looks
or acts Like Porter then Monty Wool
ley is the image of Tad Jones and
the ideal man to play the late
Arthur T. Hadley would be Jimmy
Durante.
• • •
Elmer Tuitchell has one of those
neu> house-to-auto telephones. Absent
mindedly he took it in the other day
for a grease job.
• • •
THE INCREDIBLE
Count that day lost
Beyond your wails
That sees no headline
"Russia Assails.”
• • •
Twenty-six ball players have
just met with big league club own
ers on a new deal including better
wages, pensions, etc.
_ •
There was pride in Casey’s manner
As he came up to the plate_
There was firmness in his bearing
As he asked a higher rate.
