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Show - THE BULLETINt B'NGnAM. UTAH i j Uneasy Lies the Head That Wears a Crown' J" I , V If I I oil iywiiiiiiiiiwiiiiww.Miwiiy.i " I i Kulers of (he (hrec nations recently invaded by the war juggernaut of Germany are, left to right: The Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg, King Leopold of Belgium, and Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands. Control of these nations would give Germany the advantage of air bases much closer to England. ming evident that the 1W0 afe not going t0 wrecking this U ,h league m did the last four t place Joe DiMagglo e, oubtful quantity for some ei ne. . DiMaggi" means more ,,nkees than one might li m imagine. When you remove a .385 hit-ter, one of the leadi-ng home-ru- n punch-ers and one of the best of all defensive outfielders, you are losing something no team can afford to osenot even the Yankees. The odds are that DiMaggio will be as Jgood as ever in a short while, but he j will still be a gam- -' landed knee is always a l;k any good trainer. another angle one of the iiigers gave out recently. Mlast four years," he said. J; have taken it for granted 14 Yankees couldn't be fhey were just too good, this reason too many of were beaten before a me started. But you get kinf too many beatings, to leave a deeper sting, you'll find most of the dtto beat the Yankees, busi-er than they ever have be-i- n make a lot of differ-Ispecial- ly as the Yankees, jr fcig years, won't have the einess. They can't have. an nature. imber hearing Ty Cobb iat three or four years of 4 about all any ball club j This doesn't mean the I jan't win again. But it ;aj we should have a real ijeason." jffZ the Dodgers itter of team spirit brings ite the Dodgers. I asked :Phail how he accounted I'ild and woolly getaway ;rs put on this season, iog and spirit," Larry said, ii- think we have 25 per spirit than any team in M lAcn't a great team as far 'ii personnel goes. But we i hustling rnd a hus-W- h of fel-- 4 keep on sfrom start M jbu know 4 old days Sevier in i" Larry I "I've d quite a jfng things J ccr Mac- - Larry MacPhaU t;r.d 1917 f,'.3'.8, was stationed In the covered lot with Colonel s 113th. F. A. And he fc be one of Colonel Lea's fleers, willing to try any-ajbdi-a Kaiser kidnap-- ( "(I've been around quite a fairy continued. "But I jfen any better spirit in iseball or football than this year. We have a I back of us, one of the ilascball cities in the his-l- e eame. When you can fe than a million people m trying to finish third, making it, you can nn-- " typ? of fans we have to. Don't forget that ot. Team Spirit nave 25 per cent more My other team carries-r-"- k we have the average : ,;n has 40 per cent more 1 any other fan. He may nst us a little if we start lu' why shouldn't he? The ras of a big league ball ' win ball games. But if lim chance no other fan " quickly. This season f $140,000 for talent. We f W from the weather, e needed badly. Try to t break." bes' baseball cities In the p Brooklyn and Detroit. jp:oing awayi They know I ia they love basebalL i WCU ahead of New York f5". whose "topless tow-Tmt- oi by nearly 15.000,- - are overshadowed. They 27s. but more '''"'and Important know the game. lrP!Ct they have aken Iball Boston. fte real knowledge and in- - Sw?" ag0- - There w" IcL ?ston was main QiL SebaU city- - But it i or a Detroit. r tour of some through winter and ReT? 0131 a"t 70 per Utoni m fte National K iandfor Bton to Sqx , League pennant at I nipart. NEW VOKK A1K DEFENSE Washington, I). C. The army is not anxious to pub-licize the fact, but as of today there are only 39 anti-aircra- ft guns in the whole New York city defense area. Six months ago not even the most cautious generals would have wor-ried about this. But after watching German air operations in the past month, and after doing a little fig-uring with paper and pencil on the flight performances of German phmes, the army is rushing more aircraft guns to the nation's biggest city. Twenty-tw-o battalions with 264 ad-ditional guns will be sent to New If .; t - - ii t f'n.r:ti'i iiEiiisit the cwvns AmbasmJor l.olhinn of Gretit Itrittiin (Irfl) and Ambassador dfi Saint (Juen-ti- n of Frunce find Mimt'thing to cheer them after a conference in Washing-ton uil'n State Department officials. York as soon as the army can get them, but that will not be before the end of the year. Note The arithmetic which wor-ried the army was this: Norway to Iceland, 733 miles; Iceland to Newfoundland, 1,500 miles; New-foundland to New England, 800 miles. More arithmetic: German No. 110s have a flying range of 1,700 miles; German bomb-ers have a minimum range of 1,230 miles, most of them more; and Ger-many has between 8,000 and 10,000 of them. NAZI STRATEGY When Sumner Welles was in Ber-lin on his peace pilgrimage, the Hit-ler entourage told him flatly that if Britain wanted to continue the war, Germany was ready to lose 9,000 planes if necessary In raining the greatest barrage of bombs in his-tory on England. With Dutch air bases, plus new submarine bases in Norway, the Nazis plan to put the greatest squeeze in history on England, sub-ject her to a terrific air bombard-ment, and land invading forces for the first time since the triumphal march of William the Conqueror in 10G6. The military strategy of the Nazis is the old SchliefTen plan used by the kaiser's troops in the last war. Briefly summarized, the plan is: Outflank, Develop, Destroy. To this, the Nazis have added some streamlining of their own, namely the "locusts" or parachute troops, whose objective is to get into the enemy's radio and telegraph of-fices, disrupt communications, and cause as much confusion as possi-ble behind the lines. ARGENTINE NEUTRALITY If anyone around the state de-partment ever had any doubt that Cordcll Hull was not a candidate for President, they changed their minds after seeing him sit upon the Argentine proposal for the American nations to give up neutrality for a state of This meant a status somewhat similar to Italy's but friendly to the allies in-stead of to Hitler. The Argentines pointed out that, like President Roosevelt, they had sent sympathetic messages to the king and queen of Belgium and Hol-land; that they had impounded the money and property of the Low Countries in order to keep it out of Nazi hands; and that as a matter of cold fact, none of the was really neutral anyway. German Supplies. Diplomats arriving here from Ber-lin tell a significant story of Ger-many's shortage of food and materi-als. Undoubtedly this bad some-thing to do with Hitler's decision to stake everything on victory this summer. Returning officials report that "Ersatz" coffee is brewed from ap-ple peelings. The shortage is not only in food-stuffs but also in clothing, which is rationed to insure the supply for the armed forces. A woman may buy clothing only to the extent of 100 "points" in the course of a whole year. And a single pair of silk stockings rates 30 points. More important from the military viewpoint is the report that German gasoline is of such poor quality that it befouls the motors and causes frequent replacements. In other words, the question of observers is how long is the supply line? Note German people are forbid-den to listen to foreign radio broad-casts, but in many German house-holds at night you might see a strange looking mound covered by a bedspread the family huddled to-gether secretly near the radio, lis-tening to broadcasts from overseas. I Speaking of Snort DeanTlirough? No One Knows Final Sentence By ROBERT McSHANE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) X'HEN the one and only Dizzy Dean pitches his last game of baseball for the Chicago Cubs-a- nd that can well happen in the not too distant future- -it will furnish a field day for every sports scribe in the nation. For the Incomparable Diz Is the sole Individual cast from that par- ticular mold. He is "Mr. Baseball'" to hundreds of thousands of fans who can recite pitching records as readily as Junior can tear through the multiplication tables. Other men are more important to base-ball. Even the most ardent Dean rooter would hesitate before calling him an elevating Influence in the baseball world. But none of them captured the public fancy as did Diz. It was only six years ago that Dean won 30 games as St. Louis cap- - tured the National League pennant and the World Series. Today, the pitcher for whom the Chicago Cubs paid $185,000 in cash probably will be relegated to the permanent role of relief pitcher. 'One More Chance' P. K. Wrigley, owner of the Cubs, has given Dizzy a square deal. So has Manager Gabby Hartnett. They've been willing, so far, to give "just one more chance" to a spectacular, headline-makin- g pitching career. When Cub officials first discussed the role of reserve moundsman for their grat one, he had started in every fourth game since the open-ing of the 1940 campaign a pro-gram planned to answer once and for ail whether he could be depended DIZZY DEAN on this season. In his first start, against St. Louis, be was knocked out In the fifth inning, after yielding five runs and seven hits. The next game saw him beat Cincinnati on five hits. His next start, against St. Louis, saw him head for the showers in the fifth, after allowing five runs and eight hits. In his last game as a regular, every fourth game starter, the Phillies got to him for eight hits and four runs in less than five full innings. That record is a far cry from St. Louis Cardinal days. With that team he won 134 games during his stay of seven years. The Vagaries of Diz Dizzy and Manager Hartnett seemingly operate on a day-to-da- y basis. When things are going right with the great one, Gabby is the salt of the earth and a joy forever. When no silver lining can be seen peeping through the dark clouds, then Gabby, in Dean's opinion, is a second rate manager of a third rate team. For the most part, however. Gabby has looked with philosophical resignation on the outbursts of his moundsman. Dean's escapades, adventures and holdout sieges have furnished star-tling sports (and even front) page copy for many a year. Diz is the a ifl-- i hie only player in existence uu the unforgettable expe-rience of being bitten by a tele-phone. His early-seaso- n tirades against Hartnett were superb. Even Gabby must have been proud of his pitch-er's originality and forthrightness when he felt he wasn't being given a fair chance to demonstrate his comeback. Now Dizzy is close to the twilight of his career in the big leagues. Owner Wrigley has not indicated what disposition he will make of Dean. In fact, he hasn't even indi-cated that he will get rid of him. But chances are that Diz won't grow old with the Chicago Cubs. Value Received? "With the record he's made I don't know who we could trade him to now," said Wrigley. "Right at haven't any deals in-volving' this time we Di under consideration." Whether or not the owner of the Cubs thinks that he received full value for his $185,000 is debatable. But the fact remains that the magic words "Dean to pitch" pulled a lot through the turn-stiles of spectators at Wrigley field during the past few seasons. THAT BULMON-FOK-HITLE- B OFFER Mr. Samuel Harden Church, The Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pa. Dear Samuel: I have read your offer of a million, smackers for the capture of Adolf Hitler and In reply I would state that the proposition Interests me. But I do not like the way you empha-size the part about his being caught "alive, unwounded and unhurt." What about me? However, it is a novel Idea and the most original business proposal of a decade. I know of no cash of-fer like it since the depression and it is good to know there is a man in this country who knows where to get a million dollars these days. For that much money Uiere are peo-ple who would do anything. The big drawback is that Hitler has got such a big start, and I don't think it sporting to limit the offer to May. This is pretty short notice for grab-bing a guy who has been on the loose so long, and besides. May is a hard month for the capturing busi-ness on account of the birds and bees and little green things furnish-ing so much distraction from any pursuit. Could you extend the time through June? HOOO.OO- O- CTD ( CAPTURIO AUVt V' W0HI.O I "fSwSs ENEMY MC'.I ),-J-p 7 r, And are you serious about the "undamaged, unwounded and un-hurt" clause In your spring offer? Are you willing to stretch a point? I mean would it be okay if Adolf is brought In with a little mouse over one eye or with a lock of his hair missing? It would be a helluva note if I catch him and you rule the capture Illegal Just because he says that his back hurts him or a something. Who is going to Judge whether he is hurt or not? I want a good ref-eree as I have a hunch that Adolf will do a lot of squawking when he finds himself in Pittsburgh in a "Mil-lion Dollar Thirty Days Only Con-test," and he may Insist that he Is in terrible condition Instead of being undamaged and as good as new. In fact I think you should stretch a point and say that If he Is warped a little in transit the cash offer will still stand. And about the idea of trying him. I do not want any part of that If I deliver him it is up to you and Pittsburgh to run the trial. I am taking no (Ances on trials. All he would have 10 do would be to get a good lawyer to say that he wasn't quite clear mentally. Then there would be the old business of get-ting the psychiatrists to ask him a lot of questions and then report he was clearly a victim of the fact his folks made him eat lettuce with-out sugar In his boyhood or some-thing. He would get put on proba-tion and In no time would be on the loose again. So I want the cash on delivery, Sam. Let me hear further details from you soon. Yours, Elmer Twitchell. P. S. What are you offering this week for Mussolini? ALL DONE BY MIRRORS' "The New York police department today began distributing leaflets in-scribed 'A healthy driver is a safe driver' in a campaign to keep down auto accidents. 'The health of a motorist is an important considera-tion in any safety drive,' said Police Commissioner Valentine. 'There are many accidents caused by sudden illness.' "News item. Apple sauce! Also hassenpfef-fe- r, baloney and bunk! A healthy driver is not necessarily a safe driver; we have been chased op alleys by some of the healthiest drivers In existence and knocked for a goal by drivers who were notably In the pink. FAT GIRL: 1940 You'll get thinner by and by. If on a diet you plan to sup, Meanwhile let them laugh at you; Chins up, little lady, chins upl Richard Avedon. Comedian Jack Haley's definition of Yale is "a period between a change in voice and a job as an in-surance salesman." DAYLIGHT SAVING CHAOS Today at timetables I stare, And find a train that won't be there; It's where it ain't, the trainmen say I guess I will not go awayi ADD SIMILES As individual as the way a person opens a boiled egg. As shabby looking as your old shoes when you are trying on a new pair. As long-winde- d as credit titles In movie. Wallace Reyburn. Premier Mussolini Views Italy's Defense Measures t C" Premier Benito Mussolini of Italy, question mark In European warfare, views a formidable row of anti-aircraft guns located at Neptune Beach, near Rome. Mussolini repeatedly has warned his nation to be rcadv for war. Italy, herself, possesses an estimated total of 3,500 fighting planes, 1.CO0 of which are medium and heavy bombers. Tree-To- p Table ; niiVinm ijiMllijiiiriifiliiiiiliiii3iMiiiiiiliiiiii Here's something new In tables, displayed at Chicago's Merchandise Mart. The tabic will hold a six-fo- ot tree. Julia McCarthy is admiring the cactus, but plans on planting an evergreen in her own tree table. The new home furnishing is constructed of amber mahogany, with a copper lining and leather top. One of the most unusual pieces of furniture exhibited, it attracted widespread attention from dealers all over the nation. New Stage for Theater of War . I Atlantic fej ' iV-- Q Occart jf fT -- ( SPAIN, --r " VXVWI '?mAMlff Blaeked-ou- t areas of the map show countries already involved in the Second World war. The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg have been added to those nations invaded by German troops. Urges Co-operati-on Greater between state and federal social agencies to lessen the economic problem was urged re-cently by Secretary of Labor Fran-ces Perkins before the LaFollette committee In Washington. . , Y Kit Chn't tty a ( Better Miskey tianj ) ike. Mild, ! Mellow Flaw Immn QUART PINT HPINT MJll NO-6- 3 No.64 No.65 1 iTllS WHISMY IS 4 YEARS OlD-- 90 PROOF w 1940. 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