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Show 1 THE BULLETIN. BINGHAM CANYON. UTAH i vAi J MAYOR ... Dr. Ernst Reuter. head of the Social Democratic party of Germany which polled more than two-thir- of the total vote cast In western sector elec-tions held recently. Reuter la now mayor of Berlin. IPS! Scrub to Coaching Star PRACTICALLY every one of tha long parade of great football coaches has come from good or better football players Camp, Haughton, Rockne. Little, Crisler, Bierman, Neyland, Thomas, Hick-man, Voigts, Yost, Heisman, on and on Indefinitely. I can recall but one exception. His name Is Bill Alexander of Geor-gia Tech, one of the top coaches of all time. Alexander headed north from the red clay hills of Georgia to accept f A'X!LJ:-;.- J the accolade of the Touchdown club of New York. Today he Is Georgia Tech'a graduate manager, having turned over the coaching reins at Tech to Bobby Dodd after direct-ing the destinies of the Yellow Jackets for 25 years. Grantland Rice But the Important poini IS miB nie- - ander was never a college star. He was on the scrub team at Georgia Tech In 1907. 1908 and 1909 before he became John Heisman's assist-ant in 1912. Bill Alexander, physically, was never quite equipped to be a college star. Bat, mentally and psychologically and emo-tionally he was far beyond most of the greatest players the game has ever known. He knew football. He knew tha physical side of football. But, bet-ter than most, he knew the value of deception, of using speed to match weight and power When John Heisman left Georgia Tech In 1920 to go to Pennsylvania, Alexander took over and set up a brilliant record for the next 25 years until he turned over the Job to Bob-by Dodd in 1945. In that time, Old Man Alex had won 6even conference champio-nshipshe was named the coach of the year in 1942 and he had baffled and bewildered more rival coaches than anyone I know, with lighter, faster, smarter working material. It was lack of weight and power that bowled Tech over this year. Bill Alexander Is football's leading philosopher. He has known the game from the frent line for over 40 years. He has a marvelous sense of humor an amazing understanding of values. Here's an Alexander story that goes back exactly 20 years to 1928 and explains Alex: Georgia Tech was playing its final game of the season against Notra Dame. This game meant staying home or going to the Rose BowL "How art things?" I asked. "How would I know," Alexander said, "I haven't r sen the team in three days. I've had 122 tickets to collect and deliver to old grads. Say, who're we playing?" The Four Horsemen There have been many stories told about the Four Horsemen of Notre Dame since they rode to vic-tory over 20 years ago, sweeping the plains from Army and Prince-ton to Stanford at Palo Alto. You may remember their names Harry Stuhldreher at quarterback, weight 154; Don Miller and Jimmy Crowley at the two halves, around 162 and 164; Elmer Layden at full-back, 162. Some of the main arguments that always break out when their names come up are: "What did they all do? Who did the blocking? Who did the Who did the kicking? Who did the tackling?" This ami undoubtedly the great-- est pony backfield, pound for pound. In football history. The average weight was around 160 pounds. There wasn't a man on the job at 165 pounds or higher. Yet It ripped, ran and passed its way from coast to coast with a series of victorious thrusts. One of the main arguments start-ed when Don Miller, now a high-tone- d Cleveland Judge, stopped me before the Army-Nav- y game a year ago and berated me soundly for picking him as a blocking back I never blocked a guy in my life." Miller said with much indig-nation I told this to Elmer Layden, recently. Layden laughed. "I'll tell you the truth," he said. "We all had to block. We all had our blocking assignments, even bowling over the two ends, help-ing take out a tackle, or han- - . die the secondary "Stuhldreher was probably the 1 lest of our blockers, but we had to jlock Miller. Crowley and I han-dled most of the running Stuhl-dreh- er did the passing, but we were more of a running team than a passing team We all had speed I could just shade 10 seconds say a for the 100. and the others were-abou-t the same I did the kicking " Also the pass Interference I sug-gested In the Stanford gama against Ernie Nevers and others. Layden intercepted four or ftva passes, running two Interceptions back for touchdowns JEGLEII; Ittttbrook Pegler by WNU Features. ' b;E nine of her memoirs Ida, service in the war as Vl Dwight Eisenhower's "j'uid secretary, Kay Sum-Pie- n an English civilian r by Eisenhower"! favor, t'of the American WACS, Bj ber attachment to an at colonel. This officer had ,nd child In the United ,ajing one year of their as--' ftn& including the time of . --othal. 1er she met General Eisen-Keming- ly by chance but V possibly by plan of VX the British foreign 1 J office or war office, 1 he "hurled dozens 07 of questions at me about women am-- I bulance drivers" 7 and "women's role y in the war." Miss fNi Summersby had Bf i . driven an ambu- - w lance in the Lon-ieI- B don blitz and was own words, in process f into the personal and of the man with the behaving according to the !e of West Point, and, of the crusaders, as iple to others. There is fji no discount from this iWest Point men either in academy or later. pjiry time when Miss Sum--i ssys Eisenhower hurled liens of questions at her driving his limousine ii definitely assigned to jyy by the British. plains that in the summer , about the time the big :ed, she "ran into an i colonel at a cocktail "He mentioned," w she continues, "That his little group of 17 B, officer 'observers' (then in civilian " j America wasn't in the If led drivers who knew Lon-;!- d him about our work and I at post No. 1 had turned nveral days later, a few transport corps girls were ed to U. S. army head- - 1" -- pages later she is referring "officer as "My own, my cial American,' who had ir "Very special American Jfe the days when I was an ce driver and he was a States army 'observer' at .jassy." That time definitely ling the life of his mar-- f Carriage was terminated by fin Reno one year after thf 4 mentioned by Miss Sum l !1 officer and General El-t-were fellow members iWest Point alnmnl and led by traditions of honor Jiscountenance disloyalty vwnal as well as military Zss. There were only a .corps of West Pointers In Iny, and this colonel was jito Elsenhower as a West Uman. ie 34, Eisenhower asks Kay 'Jyou like to go along?" on Jsion of North Africa, as almost shouting," she fs I explained that Dick un-.'- .j would be heading the SLi of the forthcoming in-J-would do anything to be ere near him. Ike knew rf)ick. No further emphasis Ul'jired. Ki "It'll be in about ng a month or so," he lJJt said, warning or ine St need for extreme se-t-curity." v'gh Eisenhower had blabbed f jil or mortal secret to an a woman who lacked even a W of military status or spe-- . ' Hcation for essential work, jlj'nmersby was in a great (fcfbout the need for secrecy, -a- ge 45 Miss Summersby, Re ashore at Oran, gives a 5 of a bossy dame bawling Jerican officers who had the to give attention to more ji matters than her imperi-- wires. She wanted to tele-sUgie- I and a lieutenant, a ilfind finally a colonel ap-- question her. rll this point she writes, 4 here,' I said In exaspera-;'j.Tv- e Just been rescued torpedoed ship. 1 want CI General Eisenhower and his staff is safe. And t'tf to get orders what t ?-. Do you mind?' " ou mind?" Is in italics, for emphasis. I one magic word Eisen-M8- ot me the telephone." r' as the war was concerned no difference whether she i&t or dead or what she did 'tt tod isenhower had nothing more lo do than get on the phone nn") put General Mark Clark 3 lome oversight he didn't Of to talk Individually to aU al'rican men and women who ' 'i the water when the same S ett down. n i ttf4iD Truman Goes Slow TALKING to a close friend last Truman con-fided that he did not Intend to make any cabinet changes before Jan. 20, at which time several cabinet members would go. However, Mr. Truman, who knows what it is to be broke, said he didn't want any cabinet mem-ber to appear to be fired, for fear It might hurt his future earning power. "And I'm not going to throw them out while the newspapers are snip-ing at me," he added. "When the newspapers stop picking my cab-inet for me, I'll pick my own." News Omission U. S. newspapers outside New York and Washington sometimes get mentally kicked around by their readers through no fault of their own. They are at the mercy of the press associations which fre-quently take their lead from the )ig Washington-Ne- York dailies. Here is a case in point Front-pag- e news in the big metropolitan dailies recently waa the report of D. Worth Clark of Idaho urging that several billion dollars be dumped into China. Clark had been sent to China by Repub-lican members of the senate ap-propriations committee and al-most every newspaper front-paged his demand for Chinese aid. However, not one paper carried the very important fact that Clark was a former part-ner in a law firm which was paid $100,000 by T. V. Soong, brother-in-la-of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-she- k, for the express purpose of getting aid for China. Qualified Public Servant Mayor John F. Davis of Reading, Pa., tells this story on himself. "Shortly after I was elected, I began to learn about the qualifica-tions for government office. A friend dropped in and suggested that I give a Job to George Schultze down in the 6th ward. " 'What can he do?' I asked. " 'Nothing. replied my friend. "Then let's hire him right away,' I said. 'We won't have o break him in." Doctor Shortage Unassuming Oscar Ewing, the federal security administrator, has been doing some quiet digging on the problem of get-ting more U. S. doctors, dentists and nurses. "Even today, three years after the end of the war." says Ewing. there are large sections of the country woefully lacking in doc- - tors." Meanwhile, medical schools are overcrowded and medical faculties are so understaffed that, if new medical schools were started, it would be difficult to find enough professors to staff them. Ewing is working on a plan for federal loans to medical students as one way to ease the doctor shortage. Local nanus would grant tuition-loan- s to qualified students, with the government guaranteeing the loans 109 per cent. that the bill He is also hoping introduced by Senator Thomas of Utah will pass the next congress subsidies to giving government medical schools based on the num-ber of students they turn out. Truman's Jaw Comments W. F. Bond. Missis-sippi's commissioner of public wel-fare- "Samson slew 1,000 Philis-tines with the jawbone of an ass a record which stood for over 6,000 vears and was not broken until November, when Harry Truman slew over with his own jawbone 21 000,000 Republicans." Labor Diplomat President Truman's advisers are seriously considering the appoint-ment of a labor leader as assistant secretary of state. Hitherto, high state department to Wall , jobs have usually gone streeters. as for Instance the pres-ent Undersecretary of State Rob- - ert Lovett. a big investment bank er and Assistant Secretary Charlei Saltzman. former vice president o the New York Stock exchange. However, most European governments are now dominat-ed by labor. In fact, the mod-erate labor leaders of Western considered the best Europe are Russia, and It bulwark against is vital that U. S. diplomats understand .neir point of view. That's why a laboi leader may be among the new state depart ment executives, also why Irving international labor of Brown, the fice representative in Europe, may be appointed U. S. ambassador to , western European country. Brown's quiet work among Euro-pean laboi leaders has done more Sovietism than a who.e to combat crew of the old fashioned U. S. dip-lomats combined. ;.,..M,.,n,.x.r. a lyrf-- yA , tk CHAMPIONS . . . "Good aeed, good soil tilth, plenty of fertiliser and bard work" are the reasons Newton L. Halterman and his aon, Lair, give for being crowned King and Prince Corn at the recent International Livestock exposition In Chicago. It was the aecond father and aon victory in show history. NEED ANY WEATHER? Weather forecasting now has be-come a business. Companies are selling predictions to railroads, communities, shippers, airlines and all sorts of corporations whose busi-ness is affected by weather. It looks like a good depression-proo- f business. There never can be a weather SHORTAGE. A man in the weather industry need never worry over conservation movements, embargoes or federal control. And Washington never can ra-tion it! John E. Wallace, a former army air forces major and Df the Washington weather bureau, started the weather forecasting sales service, and is reported swamped with orders. He says he takes it up where the regular bureaus leave off, and dopes out the probable weather in greater de-- tail and over more specific areas. This is one type of weather prophet who can't lose. He gets paid win, lose or draw. We are sorry we didn't think of this first. Imagine eashlng In on the age-ol- d question: "What're we gonna have, rain or anowt" From the beginning of time peo-ple have been answering that one for nothing. It has been strictly a give-awa- y program. . And suddenly there arrives the rain, snow, sleet, hall and sunshine specialist, the tycoon of tempera-ture changes, the mogul of cloud movements. Tb man who itarted on bo$-rtri-and worked up to s nulUon-doll-ar industry now givii way to the fellow who began with an isobar and worked up to a major corporation. We await the radio commercial: "Do you suffer from unexpected weather? Are you among those peo-ple who get caught in the rain? Does snow enter your life without warning? Are you a victim of fall-ing temperatures? Then why not write today for Never-MIs-s Weath-er Forecasts? Find peace of mind and nonchalance through knowing about blizzards instead of merely guessing. Yes-s-s-s-- Never-MIs- a Weather Forecasts will take those wrinkles from your forehead, end those falling hairs, efface that ap-prehensive look from your eyes and send you outdoors every day radi-ant in the thought that you are pre-pared for anything from a shower to a typhoon. "And don't forget that you can win one of 500 mink coats, com-plete with deep-freez- e unit and muff, by completing the sentence, I like to know whether it is goin to rain or snow BECAUSE . . .' " i WHY CINEMA REVIEW READ-ERS GO NUTS "Lunacy in a family is not a fun-ny thing, nor does it seem fitting and tasteful as a matter to be treated as farce. Neither does a giggling half-wi- t seem an apt comic character. Somehow it Just isn't funny to see a pitiful affliction made a Joke."-Bos- ley Crowther on "Miss Tatlock's Millions." "Far from being tasteless. "Miss Tatlock's Millions" holds to a high level of fantastic humor. It is gen-erally delightful entertainment. Charles Bracket's idea of having a man masquerade as a half-witte- d heir makes for elegant nonsense. Howard Barnes. Dr. Edwin G. Nourse has been named chief of an antl-tnflatl-board. Is he a trained Nourse or a practical Nourse? A commission has found that Washington could save 250 million dollars a year by merely buying supplies with a minimum of red tape duplication and poor business methods. Paper work on 1.5 rniUion orders a year involving only $10 in each case cost the government for unnecessary let-ters, more than $10 carbons, filing, duplication of effort, unnecessary help, etc. That gives you an idea. During the shipping strikes we heard of a feUow who went to a travel agency and asked, "What s the best liner to take and not go anywhere at all for a long time? We heard his companion asked for a deck chair on the sunny side of the mediation board. VANISHING AMERICANISMS: "The people want a change in Washington.'' ' ( 'Truman is good man, but. . "Ifs all dona by eyelet.' "You wouldn't go against the polls, would ya?" . , , The new chief of staff of the Brit-ish army la named SUm. We will feel better If the head of any oppos-ing force Is a General Fatso. Km.'.. ...i.-- J4fa-iW- ,i X CALM . . . Alger Ilisa, contro-versial highlight of the state de-partment spy Investigation, Is shown quite serene as he arrived at the Manhattan federal grand Jury which has been Investigat-ing Communism and espionage. EASE-U-P IN A FREEZE-U- P J 25 n. 50 n 75 n. 100 w. 125 n. 150 n. 175 n. fflft . I I I f CAM YOU ', dSflP Braking Distances I 26Q on Various Road tJSHJffil Tw'fe Surfaces at 20 mph pnmijfi ainO I J DRV CONCRITI V I fy.tSjTTn I I no chains . 'ilfffiU js 40rr. ' t, CHAINS ON kfM a EAR WHEILS p---- "S JL-s- a 169 n. S I."! NATURAL USSf R TIRM-- NO CHAINS chains 197 rr. CHAINS ON REAR WHtlLS 1 ' i i i 111! GRIM FACTS . . . New winter accident facts, based on research by National Safety council, reveal alarming Increase of skidding and poor visibility crashes during anowy, Icy weather. Authorities urge equal-ized brakes, using tire chains, windshield wipers, defrosters, good lights and lower speeds to minimize the added winter seasonal hazards. The National Safety councU's six rules for aafe winter driving are: (1) Get the "feel" of the road before you start out, (2) Adjust speed to road, weather and traffic, (3) Use tire chains on Ice and snow, (4) Keep windshields and windows clear, (5) Pump your brakes on snow or Ice. Don't lock wheels, (6) Follow at a aafe distance. It takes three to 12 times more distance to atop on anow or Ice. ft) I Vv j TAKES PLEDGE . . . Michael J. Quill, president of the CIO transport workers' union, pledged at the union's convention that be would remove Communist Influ-ences In the organization, and got the backing of many delegates in this endeavor. ?fte$ Mil li'W'J..-:-.-'-.- mi ' "MISSOURI" SILVER . . . President Truman attended ceremonies aboard the U.S.S. Missouri at Norfolk, Va., where Gov. PhH rmeUy of Missouri presented a $10,000 silver service to the majestic attleshiD; Left to right are Secretary of . the Navy John L. Sullivan, Truman. Capt. James H. Hatch and Governor Donnelly. fj f TOO GAY? . . . Princess Mar-garet Rose, shown dancing with an unnamed escort, has drawn criticism from a section of the British press because of the late hours she has been keeping in the course of her social whirl. AQUA STEPPER . . Down South this is called skiing. The expert shown here is Martha Mitchell, Florida's ski champ. She's stepping out with a new twist as she goes through the mo-tions of a water adagio. mm i nil . ..luiuiimiMujMiMw-w- K JTTTT7 F'" V . a5iAL Ii tr SFNSATIONAL PUMPKIN ... A newspaper reporter. Wilson Auld, hollowedut pumpkin where Whlttaker Chamber. Ld micronlm capsules on a Maryland farm. The house activities committee ha. declared that the bunch crofilm secrets have been fed out of the pumpkin. Is evidence that government - state department." |