Illinois Valley News, Thursday, October 2, 1941
Page Two
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THE VEGETABLE SEDAN
K’ASHVILLE. TENN -This is the
WINTER PLANS
Henry Ford has just turned out a
4 ’ story of one of the greatest
As far as can be ascertained, the pitchers—and one of the oddest ball car with a plastid body made largely
It is part salad
most important point under dis players—that ever wore a spike or from vegetables
and part automobile.
cussion between Hitler and Musso threw a curve ball.
He started his pitching career
lini during their recent visit to the
Russian battle lines was a plan by here at Sulphur Dell well over 40
which Italian troops would hold years ago—and he is still working
down a sizeable portion of the Ger out every day at Redland field. Cin
man front during the Russian winter cinnati.
His name is Noodles Hahn.
stalemate.
Naturally, no one outside the Noodles Hahn, a slender left hand
Eascist-Nazi high command really er, set a record of 16 strikeouts for
knows the details of what happened. the revised National league. This
However. Mussolini squawked so was back in 1901 with the Reds. He
It marks the triumph of the
loudly over Hitler's demands, that floated his dinky-dinks by hostile vegetable over the steel industry.
bats
year
after
year,
back
In
the
their general nature leaked out in
Rome where a lot of army leaders forgotten days.
Henry has been experimenting
But last fall I saw him working with the idea for years
are none too friendly to the Axis.
He is a
Hitler’s theory, bluntly put, was out before the first World series man who always looks ahead. And
that the Italians were no good as game in Cincinnati between Reds wipes his own windshield.
• • •
fighters; so during the winter months and Tigers.
"I haven't missed a day's work
when there was no fighting to be
A
farm
boy,
Hank always nour
done, they could move into the out for 40 years,’’ Hahn told me.
ished the notion that th? "Man With
This
means
that
trenches and protect the German
the Hoe” could do anything that
Hahn, out of base
lines.
*
could be done by the "Vice Presi
ball
for
at
least
25
Then Hitler could ship his troops
No longer does New York lag behind densely populated metropolitan areas in the ways and means of com
dent With the Blueprint.” And after
years
—
still
puts
on
down to Africa, and could clean up
all there was nothing so fanciful in bating possible gas attacks. New York firemen are given courses in such technique at the tire college in
the
old
uniform
and
the whole of North Africa before
the idea of making an auto out of Long Island City. Pieture at left shows assistant chief of the fire department, James Quinn, instructing the
spring and good fighting weather re takes over the day’s
vegetables. Henry had been mak men how to put on the gas masks. At right men with the masks on go into the gas chamber.
warm
up
with
the
turned to Russia.
Hitler figured
ing spinach out of automobiles all
Reds.
"I
haven't
that during the winter he could take
his life.
missed
a
work
out
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over all of French North Africa,
in this same park
Egypt and the Suez canal, then pene
Henry's
first
problem was to find
since 1915,” he said
trate to Dakar—from which he
out which vegetables would go best
again. That's some
would have a base against South
in automobiles. He could dismiss
sort of a record,
America.
the cucumber at the start. Too
whatever it means.
It has long been known that Hitler For
many people won't have anything to
1899
wasn't Lefty Grove
realizes he has to move fast in Af yesterday.
And you’ll still find do with cucumbers.
rica and the South Atlantic, or the Noodles Hahn working out with
United States will be strong enough Bucky Walters, Paul Derringer and
He then considered onions, but
to block him.
other Red pitchers who were born dropped them quickly. After all. he
Mussolini's reaction to this plan long after Hahn set his 16 strike was making a car, not a hamburger
was anything but enthusiastic. outs mark.
Aside from the ignominy of with
Hahn was a left hander who be
Lettuce and tomatoes were
drawing from Italy's proposed field longed to the Herb Pennock, Eddie
suggested, but vetoed after the
of conquest—Africa—Il Duce argued l’lank school. He lacked the blazing
opening debate. Mr. Ford did
that Italian troops could not stand speed of a Grove or a Rube Wad
not want the public to get his
Russian winters. They would die of dell, but he could tie up batters into
car confused with a reducing
pneumonia in such a rigorous cli more knots than 10 sailors could
diet.
mate.
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untie in a week. And you could see
Whether Mussolini finally agreed the seams on the ball as it came
The soybean had begun to poke
is not known.
floating up.
its noggin up and attract attention
Note: The Nazi plan apparently
for some time. Of all vegetables,
is to put 250.000 Hungarian troops in
, none has gotten ahead in life like
the Russian trenches during the
the soybean.
Who
are
the
greatest
left
handers
winter; plus 200,000 Rumanians; plus
Rube
about 50.000 Slovaks and about 500,- baseball has ever known?
The jelly bean, the string bean
000 Italians.
The German army , Waddell and Noodles Hahn, perfect
during the winter would be reduced opposites, were two of the best, dat and the lima bean were better
Each held a known, but never got anywhere in
to a mere skeleton of about 100,000 ing back to 1900.
strike out record of 16.
dustrially. (Once in October, 1928, a
men.
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To this pair, covering the last 40 string bean did succeed in getting
years, you can add Eddie Plank, into the reception room of Mr
NEW IMPRESSIONS
Ford's offices, but it was kept wait
Washington newsmen, after see- j Nap Rucker, Rube Marquard, Doc
ing so long that when the word final
White
(the
left
hander
who
always
Ing Roosevelt twice a week for eight
ly came. "Mr. Ford will see you
years, have only dull impressions , baffled Ty Cobb), Herb Pennock, the
now,” it had gone stale. —Ed note.I
when they walk into a press confer star of the stylists, Carl Hubbell and
The spirit of national defense has permeated the children of Washington, D. C. At the right an anti-air
. . .
Robert
Moses
Grove.
ence.
A fresh impression comes
craft gun crew of the Washington junior home defense battalion is ready for action. The "gun” is a piece of
From this list Rube Waddell and
But it was soon found that almost pipe. Picture at left shows group treating a member who has become a “casualty” during a “raid.” And in
from Jack Moffitt, ace Hollywood
re|H>rter, who saw the President the Lefty Grove undoubtedly had the anything from a harmonica to a the center, equipped with binoculars and megaphone, a tot is all ready to do her bit for the city’s defense.
big edge in physical stuff—which trailer could be made from the soy- |
other day for the first time.
"There was charm in the setting," i largely consists in speed. Speed— , bean, and Henry always liked a bean
Motlitt said. "The mementoes on and a fast curve. Waddell had the that was ambitious and full of get
his desk indicate a man of imagina fastest breaking curve ever thrown. up and go.
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On the right handed side this dis
tion who can extract pleasant mem- 1
In 1932 somebody suggested that ■
orics from past experiences . . . I tinction belonged to Dazzy Vance
He costumes well. Hoover's choker Waddell and Vance could start a automobiles could be made from i
fast curve for your Adams' apple hay. but word came from Detroit ,
collar became a symbol of Tory
and have it kick up dust in front that Mr. Ford was satisfied to keep 1
America. Coolidge dressed like a
of the plate.
on making hay from automobiles
small town banker.
Roosevelt
So could Nap Rucker -minus the
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avoids the foppish, but hits a cer-
sjieed. I happened to swing a few
tain suburban ease in his dress
Anyhow, Henry has succeeded in
bats against Nap Rucker around
which sells quickly to the public.
1903—swinging shoulder high—only his experiments, and in the priori |
"He was impressive in handling to see the catcher take the pitch ties crisis has found a way to maki
himself There was ease and frank ankle high.
a flivver almost entirely from thi
ness. and a quickness in response
Toad Ramsey, one of the great vegetable garden. The plastic ma |
to questions. He was at all times est. goes oil back beyond the 40- terial has 10 times the strength ot
master of the interview.
year span. Toad had a curve ball steel in resisting a blow. It's the I
"I was struck by his paleness and you couldn't hit w it h two planks. iron in the vegetables.
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the lines in his face, contradicting Ills record was phenomenal. But
Hie smirk I've seen in a thousand that was too far away and too long
Of course, the government cat
cartoons
If 1 were a casting di ago.
throw a monkey wrench into Mi
rector, looking for an actor for tins
Ford's car by putting the soybean
and other vegetables on a priorities |
part. I'd cast him as a man who is
working hard under great strain."
list Anyhow, good luck to the idea
Here's the left handed ranking I'll But we hope we don't get another
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give you since 1900 all in order— one of those tire jacks made out ot ;
I Niilit W AR SI CRETARY
I. Lefty Grove; 2. Eddie Plank; mashed potatoes.
Newsmen sat three deep around a 3. Rube Waddell; 4 Herb Pennock;
long polished table in the new war 5. Carl Hubbell; 6. Nap Rucker.
department building.
They fired And Hubbell might be moved up
THE CALL
questions at the man with a sun Into third place. A great pitcher.
("OPM wants Marlene Dietrich's
tanned face sitting at the head of
legs for use in drive to popularize
From this list Grove and Waddell stockings made from silk substi
the table He was tile under secre- 1
had
the
physical
stuff
Waddell
was
tutes.”—News item.)
tary of war.
the greatest genius
Hark. Marlene!
What's a T-6 tank like’ . . . Are
of the lot—but too
The OPM s
Now that General Wavcll has been
M 3 tanks available for the maneu
much on the erratic
Calling for
Three generations of Morgcnthaus arc pictured at graduation exer transferred to Syria, the command
vers ' . . . Did the French find the
side
The Rube
Those famous stems
cises of the I'. 8. naval reserve midshipmen on board the V. 8. 8. of the potential "hot spot" in Africa
75 mm tank gun effective? . . .
would rather fish or
Prairie State, anchored in the Hudson river. Left to right, Henry Mor goes to Gen. Sir C'aude Auchinleck
What is the altitude range of the 90
act as bartender j
Listen, kid—
genthau, secretary of the treasury; his son, R. M. Morgenthau. who is (left), shown with Maj. Gen. II. B.
mm anti aircraft gun ' ... Is the
than pitch a World
Your country begs
W. Hughes, in Egypt.
graduating, and Henry Morgenthau Sr.
army in Iceland-’
What do you
series game.
For the right
think about the Russian resistance’
Grove and Plank,
To use those legs.
He ducked the last two questions,
both under Connie
but answered all Die technical ques
Mai k'a
direction,
All must make
tions w ith the assurance of a soldier
were the two great
Some sacrifice;
ti amed all his life in ordnance.
est combinations of
Gue those legs!
But he isn't a life long soldier He C ari Hubbell brilliancy and con
They will suffice.
is a lawyer, an ex-circuit court
sistency.
judge, who scarcely a year ago was
They won the most games—which
Ankles such
concerned with such non-military Is a big part of the answer.
As yours. Marlene,
subjects as the reorganization of the
More than a few have ranked
In a war
New York subway.
A lot may mean.
Hiis was a press conference with Herb Pennock as the top left hander
of the long parade- for brains, con
the under secretary of war. Robert
trol. style and the rest of IL Pen
Forward, then.
P Patterson
A judge in 1940. he
nock was Hill Hanna's nomination—
With calf and knee—
is a soldier in 1941. with a complete
and Bill Hanna knew his share of
In the cause
grasp of the technical information baseball
Of victory!
of his job.
• • •
We'll
slill string with Grove.
Plank H addell, Pennock, and Hub
LAMEN T
Ml IIR) Gt) KOI ND
The President is wearing i1 black bell, in that order. Grove, at his Raby fingerprints to poets
Are sweet and quite a thrill,
four-iti hand tie these days, iis well greatest physical peak, was still
learning how to pitch. I’ve seen Methinks they've never washed 'em
as the■ black armband.
off
Lati •st addition to Roo<levelt'a him strike out six of the first nine
trinket-laden desk is a white porce Yankees and be hammered from the
A grimy windowsill.
lain figure of Churchill with a cigar box two innings later. When Grove
—Beatrice Gittleman
iu his mouth
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got to be canny and i uniting he was
OPM has a defense job waiting almost unbeatable.
For example
The Chrysler company is turning
for movie star Marlene Dietrich as 1931—when he won 31 and lost 4
( apt. J. D. Halliday of the 8. S.
out scores of tanks per week
Of
soon as her broken ankle is mended That's what you might call pitch
The world's largest non rigid airship, the K-3. which was described by Steel Seafarer, bombed and sunk In
course it had the advantage of still
They want to use her glamorous ing. Compare this to any 1941 rec
retaining the designs for that model naval commander C. S. Knox as satisfactory, following a test flight at the Red sea. Captain Halliday and
gams (legs) to publicize cotton stock- ord—I mean Feller or any of the
Akron. Ohio. After acceptance by the navy, the 246-foot, $325.004 blimp will his crew of 35 were saved by a Brit
it turned out about 10 years ago w itb
ngi for women, made necessary by others.
bo equipped with machine guns, torpedoes and depth charges.
ish warship.
both ends alike
the shutting off of Japanese silk.
Kids Stand Ready to Defend National Capital
(heat Left ¡hinders
Morgenthau’s Son Naval Reserve Graduate1
/loir T/iev Hank
World’s Biggot Non-Rigid lirship
Hi> Ship Sunk