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...watch, long-armed Republican Governor Lewis O. Barrows of Maine peeled off his coat to engage short-armed Democratic Governor Barzilla W. Clark of Idaho in a five-minute contest at picking potatoes-a prime product of both their States. Governor Clark pitched his spuds forward into his basket; Governor Barrows scrabbled backwards into a basket between his long, straddled legs (see cut). The winner: Maine's Barrows, 201 lbs. to 197 lbs. He apologized :"I probably had a four-pound rock in there." Idaho's Clark explained: "Your potatoes are smaller and more slippery than ours...
Originally called pelota (ball) and played with the bare hand against church walls in the Basque country three centuries ago, the game gradually evolved until three concrete walls were used instead of one, and a cesta (wicker basket shaped like a pelican's lower bill) was strapped onto the wrist to protect the hand from the sting of the fast-moving little pelota (hard as a golf ball and a little smaller than a baseball). Cubans imported the sport in 1900, called it jai alai for no other reason than that it was played at an arena in Havana...
Last week, while a U. S. Circuit court was giving NLRB another one in the bread basket (see above), the Second Appellate Court of Illinois upheld the convictions for contempt, clearly informed Illinois employers that State and local law still protected them from illegally conducted sit-downs. Said the Court: "There is nothing in the Wagner Act which deals with the subject of violence or any illegal acts committed by employes in the course of an industrial dispute, and in our opinion Congress did not by this enactment deprive or attempt to deprive the States of their police power...
...typical and horrifying case history is that of a young Chinese girl brought in a basket litter on January 26 to the Mission hospital in Nanking. She said that her husband, a Chinese policeman, was seized by one of the Japanese execution squads on the same day that she was taken by Japanese soldiers from a hut in the Safety Zone to the South City. She was kept there for 38 days, she said, and attacked by Japanese soldiers from five to ten times each day. Upon examination by the Mission hospital, she was found to have contracted all three...
Assassinated. Dr. Herman Chanen Liu U. S.-educated president of U. S.-endowed Shanghai University; by unidentified gunmen; in the streets of Shanghai. Although he received many a threatening note, a basket filled with arsenic-sprayed fruit, Dr. Liu had continued to side with his fellow-Chinese and against Japan, ignored friends' advice that he quit Shanghai...