Stokes: This is victory!
By Thomas L. Stokes
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Era of atomic power –
Peace, or civilization’s end is prospect for the future
By David Dietz, Scripps-Howard science editor
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Teaching four freedoms –
Germans now govern selves in POW school
Principles of democracy put into practice
By Edward A. Evans, Scripps-Howard staff writer
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Gracie Allen Reporting
By Gracie Allen
HOLLYWOOD – Dear me, it looks as though the throne room isn’t the only place where kings get into trouble. I see where King Gustav of Sweden just fell down in his bathtub. It must have made an awful big splash, because he’s way over six feet tall – a real king-sized king. Not a bit like that tiny Victor Emmanuel of Italy. When that one gave the Fascist salute, he looked like a little boy asking for permission to leave the room.
I hope that business of a slippery bathtub doesn’t give enemy agents ideas for a new system of accidental assassination. The old-fashioned way of throwing a bomb at royalty looks pretty suspicious in the eyes of police. But they wouldn’t get suspicious if you just stood outside the palace door with a banana peel in your hand.
Glamor, a war casualty, filmmakers report
For instance, whipped cream in movie scenes is mashed spuds
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Everybody wants to help Lauren to be housewife
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Pretty good 4F…
Kurowski’s bat wins for Cards over Bums, 2-1
By the United Press
Tow-headed George Kurowski couldn’t join his cardinal teammates who went to war, but the way he carried on as a 4F athlete on the home front was something to watch. Typically, he saved one of his most brilliant performances for the day the war ended.
It was against the Brooklyn Dodgers yesterday. The Cards won, 2-1, when Kurowski crashed a ninth-inning homer, his 17th of the season, with two out.
The right arm that kept Kurowski from going into the service, had kept him out of the Cardinal lineup recently until the Brooklyn series. Afflicted with osteomyelitis when a youngster, his right arm is several inches shorter than the other one, and he has recurrent soreness. However, after getting treatments which relieved it, he flew to Brooklyn to take part in the Dodger series. It was a strategic move. He delivered four homers during the four-game set, accounting for six runs. Altogether he batted in six runs during the series.
Phillies upset Cubs, 2-1
Harry Brecheen got yesterday’s decision for the Cards with a five-hit job to top Ralph Branca, who allowed only three.
The Phils added to Philadelphia’s bedlam by upsetting the leading Cubs, 2-1. Oscar Judd winning a duel over Ray Prim on the strength of Andy Seminick’s homer. Prim fielded only four hits, Judd gave up six.
Pittsburgh won two at Boston, 7-5 and 6-2, behind steady pitching by Fritz Ostermueller and Walter (Boom Boom) Beck. Beck, cast off by more teams than he likes to remember, won his fifth game against four losses.
The Giants handed Cincinnati its 11th straight defeat at New York, 5-2, behind the pitching of Rookie Sal Maglie, making his first start.
Senators lose ground
In the American League, the Senators dropped three and a half games behind the leading Tigers when the Browns beat them, 5-4, at St. Louis. Southpaw Weldon West, pitching eight innings in relief, was the winner.
Jim Bagby shut out Boston at Cleveland, 3-0, but it was a costly victory for the Indians, who lost their Manager Lou Boudreau for several days after a collision in which he suffered a sprained ankle and a spiked leg.
New York at Detroit and Philadelphia at Chicago were rained out in the American.
Boos instead of bazookas…
Happy days! G.I. Joe soon will again be Gus H. Fan
NEW YORK (UP) – G.I. Joe was headed for an old and happy role today. He’ll soon be Gus H. Fan again.
He is leaving a world of deadly pop guns to one of pop bottles. His target is no longer the enemy but the blue-coated umpire. His weapon is a boo instead of a bazooka.
Today is the dawn of a new golden era in sports, of new achievements by guys who toughened their physique in the deadly game of “winner take all” with the men of Hitler and Mussolini and Tojo.
Conscience won’t stab him
It will take a little time for the average American to get his sports back on a peace-time basis. It’s been a long time since he could duck out for a ball game or golf match without his conscience stabbing him because he was absent from his war job.
If a foul ball comes his way and he wins the game of “grandstand grab,” he can put it in his pocket and take it to the kids instead of tossing it back to be sent overseas.
His old favorites, Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams, Bobby Feller, Terry Moore, Dick Wakefield, Luke Appling, Denny Galehouse, and a raft of others can be expected back at the ball parks.
Soon he’ll be able to travel to any sports event he wants to take in, the World Series, a Rose Bowl football game, the Kentucky Derby, or the National Open golf tournament.
Out on the links he can use shiny new balls without restraint, knowing there are plenty more where that one came from.
He can come and go to the race track on special trains.
Probably within the year there will be the first million-dollar fight gate since long before the war when Sgt. Joe Louis, the world champion from Alabama’s cotton patches, meets Pittsburgh’s Cpl. Billy Conn in a heavyweight title bout they put off to fight a war.
Other lands rejoice
It’s a day of rejoicing in other lands, too. Australia’s Davis Cup tennis champs, Adrian Quist, John Bromwich, and Jack Crawford, put away their racquets to fight.
England is ready to stage the Olympic Games, this time as a real instrument of perpetuating peace. And with great athletes from every corner of the world running, jumping, and otherwise using their million-dollar legs, it will be a “gam session” to remember.