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Show THE BULLETIN, BINGHAM CANYON, UTAH ftria Now Under United States Army Control tr, company of the 103rd infantry division, U. S. 7th army, marches through town I ,e of the daily formal guard mount ceremonies. The 103rd division has been guardi XeSS ng )njnnctlon with the 88th Infantry dmsion, U. S. 5th army in Italy. Unlike most German ciUes Bren-- , n0, show the effect of the war, having been left with few war scars. I Directed Battles on Okinawa Lt. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., commander of the II. S. 10th army, is shown (left) on a rocky observation post on Okinawa as he watched progress of his troops moving up on Nalia, capital of the island. With General Buckner are MaJ. Gen. Lemuel C. Shepherd, commander of ihe 6th marine division, center, and Brig. Gen. William I, ( lenient. A SURPRISING number of let-ter- s have come to this desk asking about the deal wherein Mort Cooper of the Cardinals was traded to the Boston Braves. Our only answer to these queries is that baseball is strictly a business. For example the Cooper brothers, Mort and Walker, as a battery, would have been cheap at $40,000 a year to the Yankees or the Giants, for two examples. But they happened to belong to the Cardinals, who could atTord no such outlay with the fan support Mort Cooper St. Louis gives its ball clubs. In the Aay of attendance, St. Louis is only a lair baseball city. It was none too lot last season with two pennant .vinners. The attendance figures prove all this. It isn't a matter of argument. So when a pitcher such as Mort Cooper comes along and happens to be St. Louis property, he Is out of luck. Affiliated with another club ne might get almost double the price St. Louis can pay him. Mort Cooper, however, used bad judgment in the way he handled his side of the argument. He should never have left Billy Southworth stranded, without any warning. For Southworth is a square shooter, who is for his men. Not Very Smart One of the main tangles in base-ball is that few club owners are smart, and most ball players are in the same fix. There is more than a little smartness on the field in base-ball, but not much smartness off the field. This includes the players and the owners. Ball players like to win. And yet many good ones have to go to sure second division or tail end teams, where they get less money and are usually overlooked. They get all the worst of it. But if all the good ball players went to New York, Detroit, Brooklyn and the better paying cities, there would be no big leagues as the setup exists today. There should be a new distribu- - tion of baseball cities. There are cer- - tain towns that can't handle two big league teams. St. Louis is one. Maybe Boston is another. Certainly such cities as Los Angeles and Balti-more could do a far better job in the way of supporting crowds. De-troit could handle two big league clubs, but the American League wants no National League competi-tion. It is all badly muddled. Those FmtIv Days A few days ago we ran into an old pal, who at the age of 86, is still as spry as two Mexican jump-ing beans. He is the sole survivor of the old St. Louis Browns who won four pennants in a row in 1885, 1880. 1887 and 1888. Arlie Latham, as an umpire, was something on the order of Tim Hurst and Silk O'Loughlin. Which means he was more important than the ball game. I asked Arlie a few days ago who was the best ball player he worked with in those earlier days. "He was a kid named Ty Cobb, playing with Augusta." Arlie said. "He was always crowding the plate, so I couldn't see it. He was always ready to fight with everybody for his rights, including the umpires and the other ball players. He was only 17 or 18 years old. But he could do everything hit, run, field and win ball games. He'd lay down a bunt and beat it out. He'd steal two bases. Then he'd hit a triple and try to steal home. To most of us umpires, he was a pest. We didn't have enough eyes to follow him That was the best minor leagur team I ever saw Ty Cobb. Fddie Cicotte, Nap Rucker, Ducky Holmes and a few more. And none of them brought over $750. Cobb was one of the cheaper sales to Detroit." This reminded me of the older days in the South when I was called on, as a young sportswriter in Nasn-ville- , to recommend a few south-ern leaguers. My four selections at that time were Joe Jackson, with New Orleans. Jnke Dauhert with Nashville, Tris Speaker with Little Rock and Nap Rucker witli Augusta. The Brooklyn club refused to pay S5.000 for Joe Jackson, the greatest natural hitter that ever lived. The Cleveland club sent for Jake Daubert and turned him back be-cause he couldn't hit. He only led the National League in hitting in 1913 and 1914, with Brooklyn one of the best hitters the National League has ever known. And Cleve-land needed a first baseman badly. 'Crude,' but Great Ab Powell said Nap Rucker was too crude. That's what they said about Rube Waddell, Shufflin' Phil Douglass. Dizzy Dean, Bugs Ray-mond and Grover Cleveland Alexan-der. A trifle crude I'll admit. But I'd like to own a ball club with those five pitchers. So would you. if you knew anything about baseball. Most of these were not heroic characters. But when they stepped into the box. a majority of the big hitters of their day wanted to throw their bats away. ' Rtlid by Western Newapapcr Union. By VIRGINIA VALE CRACE MOORE, who's overseas to enter-tain servicemen, is booked for a new radio program of her own, which will take to the air this autumn. If it isn't good it will break her record she's been successful in musical comedy, in opera, in the movies, and whenever she's done a radio stint listener have wished for more. All that's known at the moment Is that George r jdjsfl GRACE MOORE Givot, "The Greek Ambassador," will appear with her. Miss Moore, looking most attractive in uniform, bade farewell to New York officially, Just before she was due to leave. No small task lay ahead of her; a little singer named Lily Pons had already set the pace for singers en-tertaining servicemen. t- Way back years ago. Lew Ayrcs hot Into stardom via his role m "All Quiet on the Western Front." William Goetz, head of Internation-al Pictures, thinks he has under con--i tract a young man who can dupli-cate that feat. The young man Is Richard Long; he hasn't completed his chores In "Tomorrow Is For-- ! ever," but the Hollywood grapevine caught up with him, and Goetz has turned down four offers to share Long's contract. Trust Warner Bros, to catch up with the army discharge system practically as soon as it was an-nounced. In "Janie Gets Married" Johnny Miles, Art Kassel Jr., John Sheridan and Mel Torme portray veterans who win their discharge via the point system. His fans are congratulating them-selves nowadays, since it's been an-nounced that Fred Allen will take over that spot on NBC at 8:30 Sun-day evenings, (EWT) rounding out a full hour of comedy which began with Edgar Bergen and Charlie Mc- Carthy. Allen will spend the sum-mer in setting up the program format of the broadcast that will mark his regular appearance to the air after a year's absence. JL Katina Paxinou, the talented Greek actress who gave such a magnificent performance in "For Whom the Bell Tolls" two years ago and hasn't done a picture since, ill be seen In the Charles Boyer-Laure- n Bacall starring film, "Con-fldentl- al Arent." The new March of Time "Spot-- i light on Congress" is crammed with vivid, informal shots of Wash-Ingto- n personalities. Much of the material, such as scenes of Presi-- j dent Truman talking with Senate Majority Leader Barkley, is ex-- j elusive with the March of Time. The scenes of the biannual press club party for new senators are especially entertaining. If you won-der how congressmen spend their time, don't miss it. Paulette Goddard says she's now "an trying to acquire a blonde personality." She likes her honey-blond- e hair, says her husband and his friends are enthusiastic about it, so she'll keep it that way. She finished "Kitty" and has had eight months' rest since then, the longest holiday she's ever had. Spent a lot of it at her Santa Monica beach home. She's the same Paulette, blonde or brunette. Maybe it's so that Hal Wallis thinks Lizabeth Scott can be built up to rival Lauren Bacall. Lizabeth's Initial screen effort is "You Came Along," in which she has a fairly difficult role. She'd had good train-ing with the road company of Olsen and Johnson's "Hellzapoppin." Says even training with the commandos would be a cinch beside that! . , ODDS AST) ENDS 20th Century Fox'$ "The IT (iy Ahead" brings David Alien back to the screen for the first time since he left Hollywood to enlist in the British army. . . . Overseas enter-tuinme-list includes Sonja Henie. . . . Samuel Goldwyn thinks Steve Cochran, o "Wonder Man," is "a younger Clark Cable," . . . oan CaulfielaVs sister Bet-ty, who replaced Joan as the lead in Broadway's "Kis and Tell," has been reeei'i ing film offers as the result of Joan's success in "Miss Susie Slagle." ' . . . Binnie Baric won the role of "Anne Bonney" in RKO's production "The Spanish Main." i linese Army Speeds Up All-O- ut War Effort photo shows one of the newly equipped and trained fighting units, as pep talk Is given by Gen. Chen Ier Circle shows Chinese infantryman, veteran of the Burma campaign, prepare to board for flight over the "hump" to China. Using jungle bamboo to box off stalls inside a V. 8. Chinese troops accompany their pack animals on a flight from Burma into China. Drum Spelt Doom for Germany f ' Here is one of the huge drums on which lengths of welded pipe were rolled to be laid along the bottom of the English channel to bring fuel for the tanks and planes of the Allies in the battle of Europe. The lay-ing of the pipeline, under Germany's nose, is called one of the most re-markable engineering feats of the war and a best-ke- pt secret. Ask for Okinawa's Independence Emaciated and despondent, these ancient natives symbolize the age-ol- d submission of the conquered. Upper, incredulous that the Amer-icans had no intention of killing them or torturing them, thrir first request was for cigarettes. Lower, right, young mother and child symbolical of new day. Circle, Takara Sensei, who expects to lead a free Okinawa. I Baldies Hold First Convention ... ljBB3vjsSSBSSSnMMc $ m bating assemblage consists of men whose shining virtues are m all. The slick domed members of the United Baldheads of t1' shown at their first annual convention held at Port Arthur, Tex-- m the reviewing stand, where Mayor Walter Bailey presented the city to the billiard tops. Dismantle Germany Hk jHfcPs IsBsflsH R. J. Wysor, who has been named to supervise metallurgical opera-- ! tions in Germany and to see that the steel mills are controlled, dis- -' mantled or moved out of Germany. Details of the handling of Germany's industries, have not been announced. No Coal Shortage jimmy HayhUMt. 8, of Fairmont found means of beat-ing W Va , has the coal shortage. With M of sister and girl friend, he helps htm-sel- f to coal without cos Fighting Marine at 'Death Valley' One of the Leathernecks, driving through Japanese machine gun fire while crossing a draw, later called "Death Valley" by the men, rises from cover for a quick dash forward to another position. The marines tustained more than 125 casualties in eight hours of fighting. I Ideal Four Poster Tank Bed I "... ,.'$ ' ed gasoline tank serves as a four pos er for t lh ' e, of Maplewood. N. J., who is attached fc Okinawa. This bed has decided advantages v ' &m,0rt-- but sti d" "ot COm UP ,0 l,,'e is lUB ta nking 4" when he joined the marine ncw bed home as souvt nir. |