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Cut-Rate Classy Cruises for Past-War Vacations
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<By CLAYTON IRWIN)
AP Features Writer
VLADIMIR YOURKEVTTCITS
contribution to the list of post
war projects is a super-colossal
ocean liner which, for $150, will
lake you to Europe, let you spend
a week in Paris or London, and
get you back, on the job by the
lime your two weeks’ vacation is
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The super-liner Ls no mere1
-dream. YourkevitCh is a native
of Russia and is now in New
York. He designed the hull of the
Normandie for its French build
ers and has the proposed 100,000
tonner down on paper, complete i
to the last welded seam and port-'
bole. He hopes to see someone 1
start building the ship within a
lew weeks after the war ends. |
It would be a floating city >f
S.000 persons — 4,000 passengers
and 1,000 crew—four times as
long as a football field and ca
pable of reaching Europe in four j
days at a speed of 36 knots an |
hour It would have none of the
Normandie’s interior decor, but
would have puMman-tyipe state-1
roams and a great number of
moderately-prteed cafeterias. One
of the few fancy touches would
be the accommodation in the hold
of 500 automobiles and a number
of airplanes ”
The superstructure would be
built with a single funnel, lo
cated at the side, so the ship could
be converted quickly into an air
craft carrier larger than any now
afloat.
Roughly speaking, it would be
a fifth again as targe as the Nor
mandie—1.200 feet long and with
a beam of 136 feet, compared to
the Normandie’s L'ldW and 113
Vladimir Yourkevitch hopes
construction of his new super*
liner will start soon after the
war ends.
feet, its tonnage of 83,000.
The ship could make 20 round
trips a year, and at $150 a pas
senger, Yourkevitch says it would
show a profit and reasonable
amortization on the $50,000,000
construction cost.
The Russian designer does not
share the widespread optimism
over prospects of post - war,
oceanic air travel. It will not be
a serious competitor of the ship
ping trade for some time, he says,
because it will accommodate only
a limited number of passengers
at a rate probably out of the
reach of the average American.
On the other hand, he feels
the United States, after the war,
will be the only country finan
cially and technically equipped
for the construction of such a
ship. Finally, he believes the
war will stimulate for many years
American travel to Europe, per
haps even to a greater degree
than in 1929. when some 1,000,
000 passengers were carried by
ships between the U. S. and Eu
rope. 0
BOTTLE BLITZ
Glass Manufacturers are work
ing 24 hours a day In order to
produce containers for many
foods which were previously
canned. So all those soft drink
empty bottles that are in hiding
in your cellar, attic or kitchen
should be returned as quickly as
possible.
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CARDS QUESTION MARKED
PITCHING ROTATION UNCERTAIN
ST. LOUIS — Who will pitch
for the Cardinals in the World
Series? That was the quest last
year, too, but the answer is far
different—and far more difficult
—in 1943.
Back in the days of PAP
(pitchers a plenty) the Cardinals
had so many fancy flingers it
was difficult to choose one over
another.
riut aehes and pains and Uncle
Sam have taken their toll. The
Cardinal hurling contingent has
sKid on greased ways this sea
son. Greatest loss was the de
parture of Howie Pollet to the
armed services.
The youth was coming into his
finest year in the majors when
war duty beckoned. He left in a
blaze of glory, ending up wtih
tnree straignt shutouts.
Mort Cooper, affable right
hander, is still the brilliant
moundsman of 1942 and No. 1 on
the Cardinal staff. Rated as No.
2 is lefty Max Lanier. Numbers
3 and 4 are questions even Man
ager Billy Southworth would
have difficulty answering.
Lanky Harry Gumbert, who has
be.'n troubled by a “dead arm”
off and on all season, was
groomed down the stretch for the
No. 3 slot. In between times,
when the arm felt chipper, old
man Gumbert stepped on the
mound and heaved across some
mean baseballs.
Dr. Robert F. Hyland, club
surgeon, in late August ordered
the taciturn righthander to keep
the ailing limb in repose for at
least two weeks and candidly
conceded Harry was being groom
ed for the after-season baseball
show.
Ernie White if he was in con
dition, could stage a performance
that might outshine that of any
I
other on the staff. He blanked
tne Yankees, 2 to 0, in the third
game of the series last fall.
He came back strong this
spring but his arm again went
xame ana he may at best be con
siaered only as a relief hurler.
Howard Knst most likely will
be tne chief relief pitcher in the
world series. He has a number of
creaitable “saved games" under
his belt, but even his most
staunchest sup,orter would hesi
tate to start him in a game.
! This leaves a freshman crop
1 which includes Harry Brecheen,
George Munger and Alpha
Brazle.
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! Brecheen has heart and ex
treme coolness. Munger owns
plenty of stuff but needs control.
Brazle, up from Sacramento,
I might come through to be the
world series hero.
1 If Gumbert reacts favorably to
conditioning there may not be
much reason to worry about an
' other full-route pitcher.
Some of the more avid Cardi
nal followers intimate if Cooper
kicks back at his American Lea
gue oppressors even a third
nurier will be unimportant.
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HUBBY’S TEACHING
DID SOME GOOD
iLEXINGTOI'i, W O. (API—
sergeant husband, who is some?
really hot news to write her staff
1 sergeant husband, ho is some
where on the European battle
fronts.
She made a hole-in-one on the
three-par 149-yard No. 12 hole of
the municipal golf course here.
Before going in the army, Aycock
was the pro at the course.
The hawksbill is the smallest
of sea turtles, averaging two
! feet in length.