Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 June 1947 — Page 11
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‘breeze helped the eager towards the buoy a mile
canoes were not: spanking the water anymore, they were digging in deep for all they were worth. Medenwald and’ Church heeded the spectators’ calls, Their paddles dipped deeper and faster into White river as they neared the finish line. Druley and Gill were ahead by only half a cance length. “Then it-happened. ‘The trailing canoe flipped over and Medenwald snd Church were in the drink. The Post 28 canoe crossed the finish line to the tune of
“Hoorays” and “Aws,"
Sailboats Get Ready
A VOICE over the loud speaker announced the next event, sailing race, “Sailboats rigged and ready to leave in 15 minutes.” s The boys who dunked their canoe took their time about getting to shore. The perspiring boys of canoe No. 3 called to clear the river because “We're coming in, too.” One sailboat crew was having difficulty with the sails, John L. Buehler, commodore and chairman of the senior scouting committee, called “salty” instructions to the boys. “Trim your main, ' Cast off your port sheet, off your starboard sheet.” Both sailors shook their heads and threw up their arms as the instructions boomed forth to the delight of the crowd. Finally one of the boys yelled back, “We don't know what you're talking about—SIR.” Instructions from the “bridge” did not cease. The sailboats were off and the crowd settled down to wait for the finish. The southwest wind seemed to be dying by the minute,
Cast
WHALE BOAT ON WHITE RIVER—Coxswain urges more speed from already straining senior Scout muscles during the highlight race of the Scout regatta.
All in on Kill
WASHINGTON, June 24—The secretary of the American federation of human skeletons, himself, couldn't have found standing room in the senate chamber for the vote that overwhelmed President Truman's. labor veto. Every senator who could walk was in his seat when Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio banged his desk for the last time (with red necktie flying in his self-generated breeze) and appealed to his cohorts to ignore the man at the other end of Pennsylvania avenue. Behind the senators, lining the walls six deep and blocking the swinging doors until even the pages couldn't fight their way through, were 200 members of the house. They'd répudiated the President's labor policies last week. Most of these lawmakers, oddly enough, were dressed in gray; en masde they were a drab-looking lot. In the galleries, where each seat was filled and svery stair had its squatters, the scene was gay. Particularly was it bright in the senatorial gal-
lery; here the wives of the lawmakers wore hats that
looked like flower seed catalogs.
Air As Hot As Debate
OVER THIS STEAMING mass of humanity throbbed in vain the air-conditioning machinery. The brows of the orators glistened; the tally clerks’ hands were so clammy they bad to keep wiping them between votes. The speeches had started at noon. Senator Claude Pepper of Florida led the forces who claimed it would be a tragedy to pass the law Over the President's judgment. Senator Pepper's fina] speech-, maker was Senator Alben W, Barkley of Kentucky, the “Dear Alben” of many a New Deal battle, still in there pitching for the President. He did, I think, an excellent job of it. His voice boomed loud; “his arm-flinging was vigorous. He said that Président Truman was no cheap politician, but a statesman with the best interests of his country at ‘heart.
"labor bill he wanted,
Be Zon DAES Se" Hoye sesthied the buny the ro. gram director ordered Ed Dodd, field scout executive, with the Gar: Wood
The ‘whale boats began to move after the third stroke, Coxswains chanted “Heave, heave, heave.” The Gar: Wood circled the whale boats easily. Coxswain Hudson looked longingly at the power boat as his crew slipped behind. Mr. Sommers brought home the whale boat far shead of Mr. Hudson, The race, however, wasn’t won yet. The, crews were racing against time and the results wouldn't be known until every crew had been clocked. : The Gar Wood paced the next contestants to the bouy. Everyone in the launch ,remarked how nice it was to be riding under power. Just as Mr, Dodd took a wide swing around the marker to head back to Port Optimist, the motor sputtered and died. Mr, Cretors, a former lieutenant in the navy, remarked that “I am not accustomed to being stranded In my vessels.” Everyone thought that was a pretjy good joke.
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Dale Sommers checked the carburetor. Howard| 7%
Westbrook blew into the gas tank. Mr. Dodd kept punching the starter button. Someone suggested we call Gar Wood. Time passed as we rode at anchor. Whale boats came and went around the bouy. Then they ceased, The race Was over. Mr, Dodd thought it was “A revolting development.” As time passed we began to wonder if we had been forgotten at the Port. “Canoe ahoy.” Explorer, Post 28 delivered mechanic William Pence. The Sea Scouts aboard groaned, but were quiet. The motor apparently had died for gocd. “Whale boat ahoy.” Harvey Gill, advisor of Post 28, with four sturdy parsmen was coming to the rescue. Explorer scouts came in on an oar and a dig for the Sea Scouts.
Motor Sputters to Life BEFORE A HAND from the whale boat could
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touch the Gar Wood, the motor sputtered and Sea
Scouts yelled that they were “under power.” Members of the whale boat crew accepted an offer to be towed in. Sea Scouts rode White river waves triumphantly. We got back just in time for reveille and the announcement that Explorer Post 28 had won the first senior scout regatta of the seasom with’ 210 points. Monte Mead, assistant scout executive, also announced that Harvey Gill would be the new director of Senior Scouting of the Central Indiana council. Explorer Post 28 did all right for themselves at the regatta, Their former post advisor was going to be the new director of senior scouting and top honors of the combined land and water event was safe in their knapsacks, How about that Sea Scouts?
Q=. By Frederick C. Othman
While he talked, clerks passed through the press galleries with copies of a letter Mr. Truman had sent him only an hour before, urging him to do what he could to kill the labor bill. Senator Barkley beld the original until his last minute; then, in a voice so soft you had to strain to hear it, he read the President's appeal. Then came Senator Taft, who had fathered the bill and shepherded it through months of hearings, weeks of debate.
Well-Drawn Bill, Taft Says
HE STOOD WITH his hands in his pockets at first, baring his nondescript red cravat and receiv-
ing close attention to his telling of the care with}
which the law was written. ’ He charged the President with giving the measure not nearly enough study, said it was the work of hundreds of able and sincere men, added that
Mr. Truman never had told congress what kind of and closed: “I appeal to the senate to stand up and vote as a legislative body; this is a bill that the President never should have vetoed.” The time was 2 p. m. (Indianapolis time), the hour set for the vote. Senator Taft, an ever-cautious man, glanced around the chamber and suggested, despite. what his eyes told him, the absence of a quorum. The clerk called the, roll; 93 sénators answered to their names. Came then the vote, itself, There isn't much need for me to add any more, except that Senator Taft— nalf way through the balloting—was smiling like a clean-shaven Santa Claus. Senator Barkley, across the aisle, sat slumped on his spine, his face expressionless and tinged in grey; his hands loose and helpless in his lap. The expressions of the two lawmakers told the story; seldom has an American Presiderit’ been poked so hard in the political jaw by any congress.
Oscar for News
HOLLYWO?D, June 24.-—-Behind: the screen: It's good news to hear that the Academy is considering an Oscar for the newsreel boys. Maybe now we’ll have less grapefruit queens and more news. Peter Lind Hayes had to shed 20 pounds for his role in “The Senator Was Indiscreet.” As 8 gag, Bill Bendix will serve as bat boy for the Dodgers when he goes to Brooklyn for a visit this summer, Carmen Miranda has a new business manager—her new husband. Dinah Shore is thinking abot femaining on the radio until just before the stork’s visit. She'd sing her songs from a special studio at her home. There's another good Goldwyn story making the rounds. Som hired a couple of writers to re-write one of his old hits, the Barbara Stanwyck-Gary Coopef film, ¥Ball of Fire” into a comedy for Danny Kaye. When' the re-write came to Sam’s desk he read it and then howled, “I pay two guys $10,000 to re-write ‘Ball ‘of Fire’ And all I get is the same old story with different dialog.” But the new dialog must have been good. They're shooting it now, with Danny in ‘the Cooper role and Virginia Mayo playing the Stanwyck part,
May Change Joan Title THEY'LL CHANGE the title of Ingrid Bergman's “Joan of Lorraine” to “Joan-of Arc” if the latter title can be wooed away from David O. Selznick. He registéred it two years ago for a Jennifer Jones movie. But with Bergman playing Joan, it's unlikely Jennifer will ever try to top her,
We, the Women
EXPERTS ARE working overtime today trying to sell women op the idea that they are lost souls because smaller families and labor-saving devices have given them too much leisure. ime for theit own
good. But before they fall to ward for the “you poor frustrated little thing” line, women might well ask themselves: “What's so terrible about having some leisure hours, even a period of leisure years?
Is There Any Reason?
‘ACTUALLY; is there any reason why a woman ould heeom~ a nenrdtis pain-in.the-neck to her
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By Erskine Johnson
The screen private detective, outsmarting the police, brought thousands of letters of complaints to Hollywood from the policemen of America. So now the policemen get their inning in a new movie, “Behind the Star.” One scene will show them outsmarting a private eye.
Irony in Film Title RICHARD CARLSON, whom Hollywood forgot after he left the navy, has appeared in only one picture since V-J day., The ironic title of the film was “So Well Remembered.” Career-go-round: Dorothy Hart, who left N. Y. to get away from modeling, just arrived back in N. Y.| to play the role of a model in Mark Hellinger's new| movie, “The Naked City.” Peggy Ann Garner is taking singing lessons from Lillian Goodman, the gal who coached Margaret Whiting for so long. | "RKO is trying to talk Merle Oberon into doing another movie after she completes “Memory of Love.” ! But Merle says, “No, I need a vacation. I'd rather have some fun than drop dead.” She and her husband, Lucien Ballard, may soon adopt a baby. There's a typical Hollywood story behind the title, “Memory of Love.” It was a novel which RKO recently filmed | under another title. Now they're using the title on| an original screen play. Dana Andrews is Merle's costar. Dana is the hottest thing at the box office since “The Best Years of Our Lives.” Every studio in town | would like to borrow him from Sam Goldwyn and Fox for a movie, |
By Ruth Millett
She has the whole out-of-doors to enjoy. She doesn’t have to sel] out her interest in sports for a seat at a bridge table or membership In half a dozen women's clubs. She can always get a job or a worthwhile hobby.
Why Self Pity?
WHY THEN should modern women. be made t0|think your child’s.playroom is ideal, ~ feel sorry for themselves simply because life has given (petter check it against the seven|playroom:
them the gift of-leisure?
HOW'S YOUR BRAIN?—Jerry Fullnecky, Methodist hospital technician; makes first steps in giving Wilda Martin, student nurse, who acted as model, an eléctro encephalograph test to determine brain condition. Wires are stuck to her scalp with collodion.
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CIRCUIT 'CHECK—Wih wires affixed to various poions of the: 10 nician checks resistance between scalp and the electrode ures “rhythmic changes of electric potential and can locate brain Himors
injuries. The potential variations of patients Sikjact to ropiecticnse seizures also. can be recorded by the delicate operate,
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ANALYST—Dr. John Greist, exlevenante : condition,
a mild form of epilepsy characterized by "spikes and humps.” and was installed at Methodist nearly 100 tests have
third with a brain tumor on: the left. side.
By Science Service
NEW YORK, March 24.—If you |playrooms.
basic design fauits in playrooms| ONE: Have play Space elevated.
Why aren't today’s’ women being told how lucky Usted by Joseph Aronson, architect Most play
they are, instead of how unfortunate? | “women ‘that day by ing more
and furniture designer. Why are the so-called “experts” trying to convince Mr. Arosaon hs tesignen 3 woe 5 eT NAY Shey aie boomin: playroom at the Toy stitute here,
patients.
Seven Basic Ideas Are Needed to Assure an Ideal ‘Playroom for Your Chi ild
the usual faults in the design of more than 00 tors, all of then he model Soom. within easy reach for children. FIVE: | Here is his check-list for a child's] THREE: Children like to move ments. around and climb, 0. provide, }ltharder
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