Illinois Valley News, Thursday, October 2, 1941 Page Two London? Not a Bit! This Is Gotham! lUwhinglirb meury NJ rrj j Xxy - so - boiihd I drew pzahsoh & RUBiRTACLCN Washington, D. C. 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 • ♦ • 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. • • • 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. • • • 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. • • • 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 • • • 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. • • • 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 • • • 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 Ship Sunk