Presidential Travel Is Major Project Chief Executive Zealously Guarded by Secret Service m New Product Keeps Potato Sproutless By B A l’KHAGE W m j Analyst and Commentator. Problem of Storage Now Aided by New Methods “ When P resid en t T ru m an finally an- a s k e d !? h ? ™ J ? e Wi S*g? ng tO B razil> he w as im m ediately s ia 1 w contem plated any trip s acro ss continental United States. He answ ered in the negative. A rep o rter piped up: “This v e ar or next v e a r’ ” “ THIS y e a r .” the P resid en t'rep lied < t Z h,V r X e n S ‘' i ?o“ T '¿ '„ iT , “ “ : ,*r r r- 2 ATI AAV [ i ______ 'T 'W E N T Y years ago. Babe Ruth * turned in his 60th home run In u ■ingle sensen Here is a murk thut thousands of ball players have been swinging at ever s i n c e , but only three huve se riously challenged These were Hunk Greenberg of the T ig e r s , Jim m y Foxx of the Athlet ics, with 58 each, und Buck Wilson of tlie Cubs with 58. The sprouting, shriveling and sog- gincss of potutoes when kept at room temperatures now can be pre vented with use of barsprout. The treated potatoes remuin firm, prac tically farm-fresh, and not only cook but also taste better. The What the three product is equally effective on cer tain other root crops such ns beets, don’t know Is that they were halted carrots, turnips and rutubagas. by the Jinx plaa- Babe Ruth The active Ingredient is methyl i tered on their ro ester of naphthaleneocetic acid. When applied to the potatoes as a bust frames by several million kids. dust, it vaporizes and literally Io whom (list number SIXTY has 'gets into their eyes," keeping been a shining star in baseball’s them from sprouting Feeding tests -iky because the Babe pul It there. Just when it begun to look ns if both Greenberg and Foxx were cer tain to beat It, star dust, thrown mysteriously by all these kids, got In their batting eyes and they were forced to halt abruptly. Now Big John Mize of the Giants Is the latest Ruth challenger for a record season. Big John of the moon face and the mighty swing w ill be facing the same Jinx Many thousands of kids would like to see the mauling Mize reach 59 Hut not 60 Especially not 61. • Thia mysterious kids Jinx won't Potatoes at right treated with begin to uffect Jolting John until he barsprout, left, untreated pota passes the 50, or perhaps the 55 toes; both held under the same point. Then he w ill feel mysterious conditions. forces nt work thut w ill turn the baseball into the size of a golf ball. have shown that the chemical im He w ill And star dust in his batting parts no harmful effect. Tests have eye, Just as Greenberg and Foxx been conducted for the past five did. Big John won't quite under years at leading agricultural exper stand what has happened, but some iment stations. ten million kids w ill By this treatment the potatoes may be kept at ordinary room tem Untouchable Record peratures without sprouting and Those 60 Babe Ruth home runs, without formation of reducing delivered twenty years ago as part sugar. Ordinarily potatoes are held below 45 degrees and shrink 5 per of a total cargo of 714—which Is be yond anybody's reach unless they cent in weight, developing reducing use rubber balls nnd move the sugars which affect color and taste. fences in back of the infield—-is now a classic number in American sport. It belongs to the greatest KNOW YOUR BREED power hitter of ull time, who was only halted by the 100 to 170 bases Percheron on bulls handed him each year. has been used to the respect spontaneously^ndHexcepVffi elect! "b ™ b” almost universally, tendered his office pt ction >' ears) set FOR NEW SPEED RECORD . . . After two years of prepara- A presidential trip may be. in-P— hi " o u° ln R‘ ( ° bb oi En»,and w»» prepared for an attempt to drive many cases, fun for the President, is Kailton Mobil Special to a new land speed record. Cobb's car la raid alert system was designed. powered with two airplane engines. but it isn’t much fun for a lot of Reilly says “ to protect FDR any other people. where in the United States." Not that all Presidents have had easy traveling. When a spotter or watcher, either civilian or m ilita ry, spot It was an ordeal for the early ted an airplane he or she was heads of the nation just to get home unable to identify “ any place In the stagecoach ______ from Greenland to the Straits and tavern days. of Magellan,” the information President Garfield was radioed immediately to the ! was shot in a . 5 .. army air force headquarters at railroad station; Mitchell Field. N. Y. M c K in le y w a s THE AMERICAS: killed by a half- The information was immediately • mad anarchist on evaluated and conveyed by radio ; Aid Promised a trip to the Pan- and land line to the secret service 1 "W'e must refect an encroachment American Expo communication system where men ! *pon the fundamental rights of the sition in Buffalo; were standing a 24 hour watch. This stale. I am confident that u e all agree IN DALLAS . . . Mrs. Warren J. Harding died in system tied together Mitchell Field, that the state exists for man, not man Woodard. 24. housewife, got up in San Francisco on t or state— and that u e abhor any Bolling Field, the homes, offices and __ _ arms about legs. his way back automobiles of various secret serv limitation upon the freedom of exprès- She organized the from a swing- sion of men throughout the world." ice agents, field offices throughout "L ittle Below the around that had Thus, in his first address before the country, all secret service mo Knee club" for t a k e n h im to bile units, the President’s train, the inter-American conference at Baukhage w om en w ho o p - Vancouver. Can Petrópolis, Brazil, U. S. Secretary Shangri-La, and the President’s pose the long skirt ada; Wilson suffered a stroke in his room at Hyde Park. of State George Marshall issued a now in style. The Pullman; Theodore Roosevelt was reaffirmation of democratic princi girls organized a wounded while he addressed a P r e s id e n t K e p t ples in the western hemisphere and parade and ankled meeting on a visit to Milwaukee. then bulwarked his expression of I n fo rm e d C o n sta n tly th ro u g h Dallas idealism with specific assurances Furthermore, it has been re- streets to give em But keeping the President alive of U. S. economic aid to Latin Amer cently revealed by the head of phasis to their pro- is only one activity. Keeping him ica. Mrs. Woodard test. the secret service, Mike Reilly, in touch with his job is another. He told the delegates that the in his book "R eilly of the White IN LAS VEGAS Once when a bullying congress U. S. government " w ill continue House." that Franklin Roose . . . Senator McCarthy (Rep., Wis.) 1 demanded of President Grant which to take up economic questions with velt, who disliked a ir travel, : if any of his duties he performed in its sister republics and seek a sound put the bite on congress for its “ do nearly cracked up in Malta, and nothing" attitude toward veterans. ' Washington, he replied that his busi basis for practical cooperation." might have been assassinated in Congress, said he, "did foully by ness and where he did it was his a park in M iam i had he not our disabled veterans, their widows i own affair. Now a president’s out- and dependents." leaned out of his car to take a of-town business is a lot of people's telegram (Mayor Anton Cermak I affairs. IN BALMORAL SCOTLAND . . . of Chicago was killed and four Princess Margaret Rose of Eng In wartime this signal corps de other persons wounded). land, just turned 17. received as a tail had the mission of speeding the birthday present her first m ilitary President’s top-secret communica S ta y e d W ith in The Babe picked out his stance The Percheron horse originated title —colonel-in-chief of the High tions "from the highest level con from Joe Jackson. This position Is N a tio n ’s B o rd e rs land light infantry. in La Perche. a province near Nor ference tables to installations in the known in golf as the closed stance mandy, France, and was imported field.” Up to Franklin Roosevelt’s time, CRYSTAL BALL: into this country in 1839. Readily which, In Balm’s left-handed batting Taft was the most traveled of presi “ Today," as M ajor McNally gaining in popularity in America, it posture, meant that his right root dents, and in 1901 worried all the puts it, “ wherever the President Ypxf President is still the most widely used draft was well In advance of his left. constitutionalists (unfam iliar with travels, the White House signal However, Babe's stance was not as breed in the country. Marshal] at Itio General Douglas MacArthur w ill the Constitution) by visiting the detachment continues its task of pronounced as Shoeless Joe’s was, The Percheron is an unusually the state exists fo r man . , be the next president of the United Canal Zone. However, he was scru weaving deftly an intricate com and his feet were planted closer to States. active horse, but never the-less pulously careful to stay on board munications net, which enables gether to give his tremendous body That was interpreted as meaning the American warship which That, at least, is the occult pre the commander-in-chief (and, a better rhance to work with his that the U. S. is w illing to help solve diction of a 75-year-old Japanese for touched only American soil. It had he might have added, a travel hands and arms. Latin Am erica’s economic problems been considered an unwritten law tune teller. Kakudo Tomioka. who ling candidate) to keep himself through a series of bi-lateral pacts. eulogized: "M acArthur has a glo Added to his power was almost since George Washington’s time (he constandly informed and in There was also a hint that the big perfect coordination between mind had refused to enter Rhode Island rious future in store for him ." touch with the nation." northern neighbor is counting on und muscle, including amazing re- until it was admitted to the Union) Tomioka, who is said to have This work of weaving this "com sending down its capital fiexes. If Ruth had started out as an that a president in office couldn’t record of several accurate predic outfielder in 1914 or 1915. where ho leave the country. When Woodrow munications net” is an exciting sto tions, placed the general on a plane was u winning pitcher, his home- Wilson went to Paris and Vice Pres ry too long to recount here, but DP SHUFFLE: with Mohandas Ghandi in the field run mark today would have been ident Thomas Marshall had to pre let me quote Major McNally brief of social welfare. commu- Truman Acts around 1,000. side at cabinet meetings, the vice ly » to show how • continuous inc vice . — ---- "There presently are two living president made it clear he was of nlcatlon was maintained when Pres President H arry Truman, in a re men who have succeeded in realiz one of ----- his - fre newed effort to alleviate the "tragic ficiating only at the request o i ident Roosevelt made -------------- Mize and the Modern Rail ing a peaceful revolution,” he said. quent trips to Hyde Park. plight” of Europe's displaced per "They are MacArthur and Ghandi. No one can question the fact that “ A 50-watt frequency modulation sons, ordered a three-way shift in But, then, Ghandi’g mission is over. the ball Babe swung at was far station was modified and installed the top command of the U. S. im And M acArthur has his most glori livelier than the pellet Home Run on the secret service car attached migration and naturalization serv ous task to accomplish for the world an easy keeper. He is clean-legged, Baker. Ty Cobb. Joe Jackson, Tris black or dapple-grey and of marked to the presidential train. Arm y ve ice. in the future." Speaker and other hitters had to tractability and intelligence. hicles, radio equipped, were spot In addition, it was disclosed that It was not immediately known face before the first war. On the ted at strategically plotted points administration officials in Washing whether MacArthur would use To- other hand, taking nothing from along the route between Washing ton have resumed their review of mioka's recommendation as a plank Michigan Designs New Johnny Mize, the 1947 National ton and Poughkeepsie, so that the the problem of displaced persons. in his platform if he runs in 1948 League ball looks to be the liveliest train was in constant touch with Bug and Weed Killer ammunition yet thrown at swinging Most important personnel shift in the White House all the way. An volved the transfer of Ugo Carusi SURPLUS: To meet the need for a light bats. other FM radio link was installed In certain places the fences have from his post as commissioner of weight sprayer to apply 2,4-D to in the old stable on the President’s Rudget Review lawns, pastures, cornfields and gar also been moved ln to decrease the estate at Hyde Park. By means of im m igration to a position in the President Truman’s budget busi home-run range. a direct telephone line to Washing state department where he w ill sur ness made big news again when the den patches, this relatively inex But this Isn’t Johnny .Mize’s fault. vey all “ c ritic a l" problems relating pensive and easily operated appa- ton and frequency modulation ra chief executive (1) forecast a rec He is swinging at the ball that la dio, the White House was kept in to displaced persons, particularly ord treasury surplus next June of their resettlement. O.K.’d by the National League. He formed of the President’s where has always been a great power This is expected to result in add nearly five billion dollars, and (2) abouts at all tim es." hitter. hurt Republican feelings by telling ed stress being placed on a directive The speed with which messages the nation that congress trimmed The war came along just when could be dispatched and answers re M r. Truman issued in December, the 1947 budget estimates by only Big John was at his prime, and 1945, calling for coordinated action ceived was astounding. When Win S ig n a l C orp» P h o to 1.5 billion dollars. after his injury last season, few ston Churchill was making his sec by federal officials to admit as President Truman receives tele thought he would ever be the same His mid year budget review esti ond visit to Hyde Park, he and the many displaced persons as possible type message aboard the presi old walloper. mated tax receipts this year at President who were keen competi within quota limitations. dential radio car. Standing by the $41,667,000,000, which is 2.1 billion tors as well as close collaborators President are 1st Lt. Clinton G. Watson B. M iller, federal security dollars more than any previous Tots of Power Hitters decided to make a speed test on the administrator, succeeds Carusi as Conover (left), maintenance of forecast. communications facilities. Each commissioner of immigration, and ficer of the army security agency, It isn't so much thut Mize is Mr. Truman made his announce sent identical messages to Australia Oscar Ross Ewing, New York law and 1st Lt. Harvard E. Dudley, now up in the home run 30s. It is ment coincidentally with a bureau over the respective British and yer, replaces M iller. cryptographic officer, White more that so many others are close of labor report which indicated United States facilities. The Presi House signal detachment. on his trail. As I recall the far off President Truman’s action was that the U. S., far from being in dent had an answer in less than taken in the face of congress' re details, Hoffie Run Baker, another for a business depression, can look Wilson and that he didn’t consider two hours; the Prime M inister got stout swinger, led both leagues fusal to act on his proposal to relax forward to a period of prosperity Wilson’s leaving the country vacat his the next day. around 1911 with either 9 or 11 immigraton quotas. continuing •’indefinitely." ed the presidency. home runs. I can’t recall a ball club that had Travel has become a presi Sprayer mounted on cultivator such power hitters as Mize, M ar dent must, and Mr. Truman’s as designed by Michigan State shall, Cooper and Thomson at this trip to South America is just college. stage of the race—not even Ruth, routine. But it Is complicated routine ratus has been constructed at Mich Gehrig and Mcusel. The Giant are’ now after the old Yankee mark and igan State college. for a whole army of people. The spray boom is made of one- arc quite likely to break It. What these people do is little Today any power hitter who Swinging sharply away from its eighth inch pipe, connected to the known to the public, especially the previous cautious attitude of econ might acquire runaway proportions. ventories a year ago are placing tank by a length of rubber hose An hasn t cxillected 20 home runs, ln “ We are watching developments orders to replenish their stocks secret service. One out of every 10 omy - minded discrimination, the automobile gasoline filter removes the National League especially, is of our presidents has been assassi U. S. buying public has launched from day to day,” said a govern As a result of the widespread particles of dirt which might clog on the puny side. Ted Williams, nated up to the time congress itself on a relatively liberal pur ment economist, “ hoping that It buying trend, previous opinions that the nozzles. rated the hardest modern hitter, is w ill taper off before it becomes a turned the job of protecting the chasing spree. industry and business were in for at close to the Giant trio. Ted has a violent spiral that can end only In chief executive over to the secret least slight setbacks in the last half good chance to lead the American V irtually all fields of trade have a serious reversal." service. Since then no president reported a clear-cut trend away of this year are being revised Cur Hot-Weather Care of League, but only an epidemic of It is generally agreed that the rent forecasts are optimistic con has been assassinated. home runs down the stretch can from passive waiting for lower Poultry Is Essential Theirs (the secret service) Is a prices, and purchases are increas movement began with the renewed cerning high levels of business ac put him ln front of Mize. Hot weather always brings prob wave of price increases that fol tiv ity during the third and fourth heartbreaking job, and never have ing all over the country. Club owners have decided that lems of poultry management, but lowed the boost in coal prices and quarters. the details been so thoroughly re The change has given rise to a mine wages. It has gained momen good practices w ill solve most of the home run is something the vealed (to the discomfiture of certain amount of alarm over the Belief now is that prices generally them successfully. Feed your flocks crowd wants, and apparently the tum ever since. some of his form er colleagues) as possibilities of a new Inflation spiral w ill move upward, or at least hold freely to keep up high egg pro 1947 attendance is backing up their Consumers apparently have given their present heights, until well into by Mike R eilly in the book I men which may develop as a result of judgment. Any number of teams up hope that any m aterial reduc next year. Cash remains abundant, duction and to keep pullets grow w ill pass the m illion mark this sea tioned. indiscrim inate buying. It has be tion in prices w ill occur wjthin the ing rapidly. Have plenty of fresh and the influx of large amounts of water available for them at all son, including Pittsburgh, which Of course in wartime the job was come the subject of much discus been u just cellar line. vastly more complicated, and the sion among business leaders, bank reasonable future and are going money from veterans’ terminal times. Provide plenty of shade t has u . u .. . above the --------------------- - ahead to purchase merchandise leave bonds and state bonuses w ill arm y and navy worked closely ers and some economists, of H whom ---- viuaeij wun ers ana with economists, of whom some ; which i p . inn» h»,,» Make use of good pastures where -\,rf " rabld anlmal- the secret service. A special air I express concern that the movement 1 merchants w h f curtailed th e ii^ n - be added contributing factors to the possible, to help keep feed costs i “ d f he th° u«ht too many home down. P ° COSti I ,r,uns wer* being hit, he would lose inflationary trend. I little time in staying away. NEWS REVIEW Hint American Aid Plan; Truman Acts for DP’s Headliners CAUTION TO THE WINDS Sharp Rise in Buying Noted