Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 July 1947 — Page 9

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NEW YORK, July 3»An, expedition to study the depths of the ocean in the ‘vicinity of the ‘legendary lost continent Atlantis was announced today, Scientists of three institutions who are making the trip in & 146-foot kefch Insist it 1s not a search for the lost continent that ancient Greeks, including’ Plato, said existed in the Atlantic ocean. Atlantis was a powerful nation, the legend goes, and its armies many thousands of years ago over. ran the Mediterranean lands . with ' Athens alone resisting. i This expedition, according to Prof. Maurice Ewing, Columbia university geologist who heads’ ‘the party, is to survey a section of the mid-Atlantic ridge, a jong undersea mountain range. This range, long known to exist, rises some two miles above the ocean floor and runs almost unbroken from Iceland to Antarctica. Much of it is submerged, but occa~ sional peaks emerge to form such islands as the Azores and Ascension. The crest averages about a mile below the surface.

Two-Month Trip Planned . CO-OPERATING with Columbia are the National Geographic society and the Woods Hole Oceanographic institute. The scientists will leave July 15 from Woods Hole, Mass, and will be gone about two months, Using new-type submarine cameras and electronic »

Palaverin’ Pappy

WASHINGTON, July 3. — An inoffensive-looking Texan with a bald head, a hard-boiled collar and a broad-rimmed panama in his lap, sat on a hard seat in the senate gallery.

He squirmed there, hour after hour, while-Sena-.

tor W. Lee (Pass the Biscuits Pappy) O‘Daniel of Texas looked up at him, shook his fist in his direction and called him obnoxious. His expression never changed. When the silver-tongued Pappy shouted the loudest about his. obnoxiousness and mentioned fiends and their diabolical plots, the bald-headed one's pretty wife smiled and touched his hand. The situation was a weird one. Some people called it (if Pappy won't mind my using his favorite word) obnoxious. Here was the U, 8. senate faced with a dozen urgent” pieces of legislation; unable to budge because of a political squabble in the Lone Star state: The poker-faced citizen in the gallery vas Joe B. Dooley of Amarillo, lawyer nominated by President Truman to be a U. 8. district judge. The trouble seemed to be that nobody ccensulted Pappy, the bitterest anti-New Deal Democrat in the senate. He said that if the gentlemen were gents they'd show him a little senatorial pourtesy and turn

" down Mr. Dooley on the grounds that he was per-

sonally obnoxious to Pappy.

Pappy’s Got Plenty of Time NOTHING DOING, reported the other Texas senator, Tom Connally, one of Pappy’s political enemies. Senator Tawm of the white hair, the southern accent and the eyeglass on the black ribbon, said Mr. Dooley was a man of high repute and an excellent Let the senate vote, he said. On the second day of this argument Pappy showed up in a handsomely tailored suit, a spotted necktie, two-tone shoes, and a rub of bear-grease which made his hair glisten. under the skylights. He spotted Mr.

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British Accent

HOLLYWOOD, July 3-It wouldn't surpgise me a bit to see one of our Hollywood studio executives come riding down Sunset blvd. some afternoon on a white horse, shouting at the. top of his voice: “One if by rocket, two if by Constellation—the British are coming!” ' : They are not saying much out in the cpen, hut behind the closed doors of the producers’ cffices, the word is getting around. Those British motion piectures are doing all right at the box office. The result is that the Hollywood studios are wondering about the competition from John Bull's little island, and people like Rank and Korda. But I think they've got the cart before the horse. Instead of making American pictures with good American people talking and aéting like good Americans, hey have gone British in Hollywood. There's an epidemic of broad A’s on the studio lots. They're coming out of the mouths of actors sounding like a new gargle. The reason miy temperature goes up about this subject is this: These pictures give the impression that to be smart, sophisticated, educated and respected, you must talk and act like an English lord who is half scotch and half soda. I say let the British make their own flims.

Tracy Turns to Painting WE HAVE a. product, a way of life, a sophistication of our own. If we want to compete with Rank and Korda, we can give and take ‘the blows by standing on a good American foundation. We don’t have to

By Paul F. Ellis

that it isa fragment left behind when the North and South America separated from Europe and Africa, Soun have $hown "that the topography. of the ridge is extremely rugged. : Prof. Ewing said that one important object of the |: survey will be to determine whether submarine canyons may have been. carved into the ridge. Such canyons have been found in the continental shelf off the eastern coast of the United States.

Shoot Tubes Info Ocean Bed THE EXPEDITION, by using a fathometer, hopes to chart the undersea mountain peiks apd valleys,

Prof, Ewing said. In addition, the scientists plan to

shoot tubes 10 and 15 feet long into the ocean bed to collect samples of the fine mud, or ooze, that covers the bottom. Later, they plan other tests 40 determine the age of the sediment and conditions under which it was deposited. . The scientists will watch for any sign in the sedi. ment that the mountains once rose above the water and were inhabited. Prof. Ewing also is taking along a special camera that will photograph specimens living at great depths. The legend of the continent Atlantis has been debated for centuries. Arabian geographers insisted the continent existed. Medieval maps listed the continent and its numerous islands.

By Frederick C. Othman

Dooley in the-gallery and announced that he was prepared to spend days and, If necessary, weeks to prove that the er-faced one was obnoxious, Nobody tried to sf Pappy. He charged that Mr. Dooley was a lawyer, as he put it, for the Atchison, the Topeka and the Santa Fe. “This appointment is a sinister and diabolical plot to purge the junior senator from Texas (that's Pappy) | from the U., 8. senate,” Pappy cried.

A Loud Haw Haw by Senator Tom

PERHAPS CRY isn't the word. Senator O’Daniel

got into polities spieling on the radio about the flour

from his mill. “Pass the Biscuits, Pappy,” was his theme song. He became: as anybody with half an ear could tell—an- adroit orator. Senator Connally was not impressed; he sat with hand on cheek, yawning elaborately at Pappy’'s language de luxe. ‘When this had gone on for most of the day (with an occasional quorum call to let the speechmaker stretch his legs outside) Pappy ‘strolled down the middle of the aisle, took a long look up at Mr. Dooley, and told of his love for the U. 8. senate. He said he was the son of an humble tenant farmer, honored | far beyond his fondest hopes by his seat among the other lawmakers. He said he loved them all, Senator Connally included. “No senator,” he shouted, “has more affection for| Senator Connally than I have for my own [colleague from Texas.” Senator Connally straightened up, removed his| ¥ eyeglasses, and for the first time in what he considered an obnoxious afternoon, laughed—haw-haw-| haw-—out loud. Last I heard of Pappy, he was growling: nomination is rotten to the core.” was sitting there like a statue. His wife was touching his hand again. But he didn't seem ta notice Later, maybe, when the senate finishes with this matter of obnoxiousness it'll get around to passing some laws,

Mr. Dooley still

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" By Erskine Johnson

I say let's have some good American accents— they sound all right to me. : That handsome gent with paint brush and easel painting the blue Pacific along the Malibu coast on Sundays is Spencer Tracy. It's his latest hobby. He sits in his convertible, pointing. seaward, and paints for hours.

Looks like Judy Garland and Gene Kelly are going slapstick on us in “The Pirate.” In one scene, Judy throws vases, books and potted plants at him,! and finally knocks him cold by breaking a lamp over his head.

Telegram from Spike Jones: “Have been trying to record an arrangement of ‘Begin the Beguine." but the

last note is so high that every time our. tenor at-|

tempts it his nose bleeds.”

No Hero to His Aunt

THERE'S. ONE GAL who isn't impressed with! Walter Pidgeon’s charms—his 90-year-old Aunt Nan. She's a former school teacher who lives in Canada with Pidgeon’s 88-year-old mother. It has always been a thorn in her side that Pidgeon became an actor instead of a doctor or a lawyer. And she’s always reminding him about his non-in-tellectual calling.

Other day he received a personal rote from Her She had come across a newspaper article naming the “Ten Best-Dressed Men in America.” Heading the list was Dr. Conant, president of Harvard University. And among the 10 bést-dressed men was Walter,

“My dear Walter,” wrote Aunt Nan, “Am glad to

make our actors spread their’ A's out as broad as a see your name finally linked with distinguished per-

policerrran’s feet.

We, the Women

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“SEX APPEAL and glamour are ——— not born,” claims the author of a book with the not too subtle title “Hold Your Man.”

In order to prove her thesis hia any woman of”

the sunny side of middle-age can turn herself into a glamour girl if she is willing to spend $30 and follow

“a few simple rules, the author and lecturer did just

that for a plain-looking 40-year-old office worker.

She Feels Like Flying

“I FEEL like ordering champagne and flying to Bermuda,” said the delighted subject, miraculously changed from- a plain Jane into a sophisticated looking woman, Forget it, lady. If you're going to keep that $30 glamour job you won't have any time or money left

sonages. Kindly thank your tailor for me.”

By Ruth Millett

With glamour it's not the original cost, it's the upkeep. That original $30 is just a drop in the bucket. It takes both money and time to keep a wardrobe up to the latest fashion picture, 3 It takes a lot of dollars and hours in a beauty shop to keep a 40- year-old woman’ in the glamour, class.

It's Work and Expensive IF THIS weren't 80 the beauty business wouldn't be one of this country’s big industries. *In addition it takes a lot, of home work for a woman to keep her glampur going between visits to her beauty salon.

Sure, glamour can be bought. But it's the Weekly installments that make the purchase price .so high.

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EPENDENCE, Mo., July 3 (U.

Ex-PW's to Meet

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Of Veterans’ Aid

WASHINGTON, July 3 (U.P).~ Indiana's two senators-and a bipartisan group of six others have 2 introduced a resolution asking con-

about 800 bills are now pending in congress proposing various veterans’ benefits. . “However, there has as yet been |

no constructive attempt to covordi- |’ legislation

uve [Local Man on Way Home From China UNRRA Post

,) ~City Counselor John F. Thice ruled yesterday that a beard is likely to include itanility as well as a lot of waiskers. City dremen, preparing for a civic festival, ave bee. growing beards. Mr. fhice ruled, however. that if a beard should be burned off in line of duty, the city would be Jiable for in {damages under terms of the work-

would constitute phy cisfigure- | ‘ment.

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In Convention Here

One hundred delegates

in Hofel Severin for. the second annual convention of the prisoners of war organization.

Kearie L. Berry, Texas adjutant | general; Dr. Henry Hass, Purdue university chemistry department head and atomic energy expert, and Hassel PF. Schenck, Indiana

Farm bureau president. = Mrs. Claire Phillips, author of | Was a Japanese for 10 months, will be a delegate from the club. . “y Indianapolis delegates are Austin. D. Rinne and Norman W. Lauch--

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FOURTH OF A SERIES

By EDWIN C. HEINKE + Times City’ Editor 7

SOME day before it is $00 late, some writer will carry out Dr, Carleton B. McCulloch’s suggestion that the people who personally knew James Whitcomb Riley save their stories for posterity, Many of the choicest Riley anecdotes, told and re-told by scores of peoples who knew Riley, never will be put down on paper: But Dr. McCulloch, personal physician to the great Hoosier poet, has dozens of stories in his collection of papers and other anecdotes he still remembers, » . . HERE ARE MORE of Dr. McCulloch's Riley stories: “Mr. Riley visited his erstwhile Chautauqua companion, Bill Nye, down at the latter's home on Staten Island one Easter. On Easter Eve, the two ladies of the house, knoWwing that the men would sit up and reminisce, asked them to be sure to be down early Sunday morning to escort them to church, “But their night session was prolonged and they were very late in getting dressed on Sunday morning. The ladies were indignantly waiting for them at the bottom of the stairs, all decked out in their Easter finery. | “Before going down to meet them, | Nye said to Riley, ‘We're awful late {and they're awful mad. Unless we {can get them laughing, it's going to joe a chilly atmosphere.’ And it

. » » “SO IN FRONT of them, Bill | said: ‘Jim, did you ever notice how the entire world on Easter turns out for the glorification of the Almighty; the flowers, the birds and mankind are all dressed up and beautiful.’ “Riley said: ‘Yes, Bill, and in spite of this glorification, it don't seem to spile it none.’ “Nye replied: ‘No, Jim, it don't spile it none and it's because the Almighty is a self-made man'” » - . “ON STATE FAIR days, Riley used to pick up Laurance Chambers, Meredith Nicholson, Hewitt Howland (a member of the literary seb of the.day who later married a sister of Irvin Cobb) and myself and we'd go out to make an official

"| visit on Arthur Downing of Green-| field, who for years was secretary

of the Indiana State Fair.

“Having completed. this formal-ity,-he would insist on lodking up the Putnam brothers, who had a | secret formula for cider, passed {down from mouth to ear through generations. Riley said they were the only ones who knew how, in making their particular brand of | cider; to add the correct proportion | of wormy apples.”

” ” n “WHEN I TOOK Riley down to | Miami Beach, somebody presented him with a beautiful basket of avocado pears and said, ‘These {rather resemble your Indiana paw- | paws, Mr. Riley. Do you like them?’ “He replied, ‘Personally, I'd just as soon eat an abscess.” ' “Riley was perusing the mythological story of Jupiter and his girl friend Io, and coming to the point when Juno revengefully turned her into a doe, he asked me, what in my opinion wis the eventual cause of Io's death, and then went on to say—‘iodide of potassium.’ ” "a DEEP IN Dr. McCulloch's files is a letter he wrote to another old friend, George Ade, on Oct. 22, 1940. The letter says: “I am just in receipt of the reprint of your convocation address on Riley made at Purdue 'way back there in ©1922. It brings up many memories. x “Some day those of us who knew him well ought to hold a kind of ‘lodge of sorrow’ and match up the funny stories that each one knows!

By Poet's

: THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1947 .

The Man Who ‘Doctored’ Indiand's Literary Great—No 4

Choice Riley Anecdotes Recalled Personal Phy

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"PICTURE FOR POSTERITY—This picture of James Whitcomb, Riley's funeral is one of the many shale “graphs in the collection of Dr. Carleton B. McCulloch, personal physician to the Hoosier poet. On the porch, left to right, are Dr. McCulloch, Will Bobbs, an unidentified man, George Ade, Hewitt Howland, George Hitt, Meredith Nicholson and Will Hough.

RILEY'S; EASY CHAIR==In this room —the library and living room of Mr. Riley's home on Lockerbie st.—the physician had many informal chats with the poet. Dr. McCulloch is seated in Mr. Riley's favorite chair, reading the -poet's Bible.

and perhaps the other one hasn't heard, “Por instance, Bill Herchell had quite a string of reminiscences and anecdotes, and I ‘don’t think he ever put them on paper. Now he’s gone, too. “Incidentally, Mr. Riley's funeral comes up in my mind. Do you re-

member his friend, Lou Dietz, also!

a local raconteur, who rode out to the cemetery with us and kept telling such funny Riley stories that

st. And the Riley hospital] is stead~ ily growing. Not a month goes by but some will is nrobated in which the hospital is the beneficiary. We'll have to reverse Mare Antony and say, ‘The good that men do lives after them. The evil is oft interred with their bones , , , ” ~ » n IN THE Indiana Historical Bulletin’s issue df_ August, 1940, Dr. McCulloch recited the version that Riley gave him of his visit to Tip-

we had to pull down the curtains Pecanoe battlefield,

of the conveyance in order that the mourning crowds on the ~urbstones might not know of our laughter? “We lay a wreath on his grave every birthday, and the neighbor-

ing public school puts on a show at the old homestead on Lockerbie

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Carnival =By Dick Turner

“Riley told me that the interlocutor, or barker, or guide, ‘or what: -have you, zig-zagged him all over the place on a hot afternoon, pointing out the various spots (where various individuals, such as Tipton and Davies and others were stationed. He pointed out particu larly that across a little creek the “Indians were stationed when they they charged. “When - the function was over, Riley was léaning, exhausted, against one of the big forest trees, panting for breath. The guide said to him, ‘Now, Mr. Riley, is there anything else you want to ‘know further about this battle, or is

Fire Damage $2500 At Insane Hospital

A two-alarm fire swept through the basement of "a three-story brick building at the Indiana State Hos pital for the Insane, at Tibbs ave. and W., Washington st., late yesterday. It caused an estimated $2600 damages. Dr. Max A. Bahr, hospital super intendent, said that none of the hospital patients was in the buildLarge quantities of twine, weaving materials -and ‘finished rugs were destroyed.

YETERANS TO MEET Army alr force veterans who

there anything you do not under~ stand?’ “Mr. Riley replied, ‘No, you have described it as clearly as if you had personally been present at the battle. I can visualize everything in the most vivid detail. There is one point, however, which is not quite clear. “‘When ‘the . Indians charged from over yonder, how the -«-- did they get over this high picket fence?’ ”

» ” » PROBABLY NO person in Indianapolis has been mentionéd in nationally syndicated columns more frequently than Dr. McCulloch. Oftentimes the Indianapolis physician was quoted in the lafe O, O. Mcintyre's column, “New York, Day by Day.” Another Riley anecdote bobbed up when Mr. McIntyre wrote: “Dr. Carleton McCulloch, who was Riley's physician, in commenting upon my choice" of Riley's. “When the Frost is on the Punkin’, as the most thoroughly American poem, provides a revealing paragraph about the beloved Hoosier poet.

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“Says he: ‘How he used to dread October. He'd say, ‘I suppose I've got to go downtown this morning _ and some jackass is bound to me in the ribs with his elbow

most famous patients, Mr. Riley, Booth Tarkington and Meredith Nicholson and often he would dash off .a little poetry to one of them or all of them. At the Contemporary club's gold en anniversary ‘dinner in 1940, fit= ~ tingly held in the Riley Room at the Claypool hotel, Dr, McCulloch read one of his original poems, In part: “Ho! The moon's shining bright on the wabash, The clouds skitter by o'er the ‘White, A peacefulness creeps o'er the prairie, The whip-poor-wills quit for the pight.

Whence cometh this metrical cadence That thrums on our drums in the dark? ; "Tis the strophes and distichs and phrases Of Nicholson, Riley and Tark.

Ho,” them wuz the days, in the nineties, When culture ran rife through the land, When authors and poets and rhymsters ink pots and dusted the sand,

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When Hoosierdom wielded the Stylus, ("Twas Tetldy that wielded the stick) “© And pilgrims came seeking instruc tion From Tarkington, Riley and Nick.

Ah, Lockerbie stréet we hold sacred, Come fill up your glass to the brim, For deep in our honest affections Are Nicholson, Tark and old Jim.

We pray that the next generation May nurture the smoldering spark; And loyally seek approbation From Nicholson, Riley and Tark.”

(TOMORROW: Dr. McCulloch and the late Booth Tarkington.)

$0 1 CAN'T HIT THE BROADSIDE OF A BARN, EX/ .

Decatur Lions To Install Tonight

James N. Jay will be {installed as president of Decatur Central Lions | ¢lub this evening after a dinner at Decatur Central school. : Other officers to be installed are Robert FP. Gladden, first vice president; Glenn Cain, second vice president; Paul Baker, third vice president; Fred Butler, secretary; Kenneth Foltz, treasurer; Earl Yeager, talltwister; Herb Fledderjohn, lion tamer, and Ed and Joseph Best, directors

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