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...Armed Whacker. Pete Gray of Nanticoke, Pa., a regular outfielder for the Memphis Chicks, knocked a homer over a 20-ft. fence 330 ft. from home plate in a Southern Association game at Chattanooga's Engel Stadium. He has no right arm. Batting against Pitcher Bob Albertson of the Chattanooga Lookouts, the cocky, 28-year-old slugger let two wild ones go by, then clouted his way around on the kind of pitch he dreams about-waist-high and a little inside. Said Gray: "It sure felt good...
Everett Marshall's powerful baritone, used to the role of Dr. Engel, the Prince's tutor when he goes to Heidelburg for one year of freedom before becoming King, dominates the stage the few times he appears on it; he gives a fine rendition of the operetta's them, "Golden Days;" but a little less repetition of it in the beginning would have made the song more moving near the end when it reminds the Prince, who has become King of his days as a student...
...contractors in Engel-inspected plants made "excessive profits" (up to 53% after payment of taxes) during the last two years. Still greater profits were made by Government-financed corporations "earning profit on a large Government capital, but distributing that profit to a small group of stockholders who have very little capital invested...
...Machine-gun assemblers get $4,700 to $8,740 a year. (Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell, in charge of U.S. Army supply, gets $8,500. U.S. soldiers and sailors, at $50 a month, must take down and assemble machine guns, blindfolded.) Moralized Mr. Engel: "On the other hand, we attempt to freeze a half-million coal miners at wage rates of $1,200 to $1,700 a year...
Warned Representative Engel: "If there is one thing that will set the returning soldier against his Government, it is excess profits . . . on invested capital, and excess wages paid to labor. . . . If Socialism or Communism ever gets a foothold in this country, it will be because of these wartime profiteers in the ranks of labor and industry...