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! TOMORROW MORE THAN 14,000 school teachers begin shuttling through this town to" scattered points to ‘attend meetings, 'léctures, movies and exhibits,
The 94th annual convention of the Indiana State Teachers Association promises to serve up teacher a big dish of concentrated education, culture andplain fun, o And i educators who reside .on opposite ends of the ho a their own regional conventions to attend. They're scheduled for Gary, South Bend, Pt. Wayne and Evansville. You can tell this twoday affair is quite a big deal. Just wo see how things were shaping up for the convention, I popped in on Robert H. Wyatt, execu tive secretary of the association, yesterday. His offices in the Lincoln Hotel are the focal point for all the doings. It doesn't take long to see that his offices are also the focal point for a lot of worries and trouble. Mr. Wyatt asked me to sit down for a spell. He lifted a cup of coffee to his lips and gulped. “What's the matter?” I asked as he screwed up his face. “Is it poisoned?” “No, it's cold. I've been trying to eat my lunch for two hours now,” iy
Plans Speakers’ Schedule THE PHONE RANG. While Mr. Wyatt waited for his party he said it was a call from Washington, the third that day.
OH, YES, THOSE REPORTS—Even after months of work last minute details for the teachers convention keep crowding the clock. Here Robert Wyatt, executive secretary, and Doris Starkey, dig in on paper work.
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— \ end were all set. | . . . & — 9 i “Just” one of the thousand and one details that . ! will keep me here day and night until Saturday,” | O O O n es ! A Mr. Wyatt sighed. . \ wi ’ W
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The door opened and Mr. Wyatt's secretary, Doris Starke, walked in, She said there were a couple of things that “just had to be done right away.” | 3 I just sat and watched, happy with the thought that I had nothing to do with the convention. They! went over the bulletin pn finances (statement which! shows what the office did with their dough). and a last-minute change in Margaret Daum's program for, her “Concert of Popular Music.” While in the midst of his “must” work Mr, Wyatt! talked to a district chairman in Ft. Wayne and a hepped-iip teacher who had a super resolution he’
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“This is a fertile week for ideas,” said Mr, Wyatt.} Opal Skinner, bookkeeper, walked in with a batch| of checks. I say batch because there were 250. Mr, Wyatt had to sign them as soon ‘as possible, | An excited teacher called to ask about hotel | reservations. She had slipped up somewhere along the line. Mr. Wyatt explained that his office didn't handle teachers’ reservations, only the 50 speakers’ reservations, [8
24,000 Mimeographed Reports
THERE WAS A LITTLE MATTER .of committee reports. Twenty committees had enongh stuff to fill 32 pages. The office had to mimeograph 24,000 copies. Miss Starkey said she was working on the reports. Also the mimeographed sheet for the 70 Butler students who were going to be doorkeepers | at the meeting places. Miss Skinner was taking! care of the change boxes for the doorkeepers. Mrs, Kay Ziegler, who says she's secretary to Mr. | Wyatt's secretary, was checking the 50 meeting places § to make sure everything was ready as arranged. | 3 Right behind Mrs, Ziegler, Mrs. Dorothy Dickine son, typist, was pounding out the last of the letters to department heads. From the looks of the material in front of her the convention would have more department heads than a department store. Troubles will be over tomorrow, though, won't they? Hah. It wouldn't surprise anyone if several teachy 2 ers lost their tickets and started screaming, a couple!|§ of doormen failed to show up, pianos weren't at a hall when a musician was ready to play, loud speakers weren't connected and a lectyrer wound up in Broad Ripple when he should be in Tomlinson Hall. That's all.
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RUNNER-UP — One of the honorable mention awards went to this pet photo by John G. Hale, 634 N. Riley Ave. A Recomar camera with Pan film was
BEST OF THE WEEK—Winner in the |1th week of The Times Amateur Photo Contest was this entry by Lawrence George, a student at Indiana Central College. He used a 4x5 Speed Graphic and Panchro Press, Type "B," film, Exposure was
A Heel—For a Fee
17200 second at f. :32. A No. 40 and a No. 22 flashbulb were used. By Robert C. Ruark |
used. Exposure was 1/10 second at f. :32.
NEW YORK, Oct. 22—We have been peering into the secret life of Paul Douglas, a reformed sports announcer who has become a prosperous actor, or ham, and the verdict is that triumph in the arts is not without its pain. Mr. Douglas, for a right nice fee, has been laboring these 21 months and more as Harry Brock, a heel.’ Mr. Brock is the reverse-English hero of a play called “Born Yesterday,” which, although hastily fledged in post-war indignation, has sufficient foot in the mud to be around when the one-shot miracles are memories. This is not to say that I subscribe to the author's premise that horn-rimmed spectacles and a job with the pink press are the prime requirements in saving the world from the likes of Harry Brock. What I was working on before I got infatuated with my own political views was simply that I wondered what impact playing a consistent rat would have on a guy like Paul
A Heel in Double Spades
WHEN YOU SAY “A guy like Paul” you must remember that Mr. Douglas is no dewy daisy. For a censored number of years he has been a part of the Broadway scene; he has never expressed a vehement distaste for alcohol; he has linimented his matrimonial lumps, and in general is not the prospective candidate for the job of headmistress in Miss Folkes' school for untalented maidens. The heel that Paul plays was not inspired by Paul, although one popular legend has it so—according to Paul. Brock is a composite type, one you can observe in Toots Shor’s, in the barber shops, around the semismart fringes of a semi-smart city. Harry Brock is a heel in double spades, and Mr. Douglas, for my money, is a nice guy, an honest guy —in fact, one of the few nonphony gents you see around. If I labor a little, it is because I do not wish to confuse Harry Brock, the profiteering, loudmouthed, Congress-bribing insensitive bum with Paul Douglas. “I am a gentler character as a result of playing
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Brock,” says Mr. Douglas. “It has come to the point where I have to live him down. “I was asked to speak, recently, before the salvage engineers’ convention, as the premier junk man of the country, People are always coming up and batting me on the back—one loudmouth meeting another, ‘ > “Being Brock for nearly two years is rough. I am in three places one night, calmly trying to get half-a-can on.without any vengeance, and all I run into is trouble.
He's a Villain Too Early
“LITTLE GUYS—they are always little guys— come up and say: ‘You shout at people on the stage; well, shout at me!” And so you got to go away unless you want a fist fight. “For a robust, whisky-drinking guy, it is almost] enough to drive you on the wagon,” says Mr. Douglas, reflectively, “Almost.” Brock, on stage, is such a vulgar character that he walks around without shoes. His interpreter, Mr. Douglas, has marched so many miles with his dogs unconfined that his feet have spread like a southern sharecropper’s. The part of playing a Grade-A domestic Fascist is wearing, Mr. Douglas says. He finds himself becom- | ing a villain too early in the play. There is a lot of hollering in the portrayal of Harry Brock, and Paul has to fight against carrying the role with noise! alone, Mr. Douglas also says that he would be a liar indeed if he denied that his new career has aroused
all the latent ham in him. His artistry gets out of HONORABLE MENTION—"'Scotty's Castle,” Death control every so often, and he finds himself mugging, Valley, Cal., earned laurels for Mrs. Edward Peters, 3102
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Paul is a little rueful about his conquest of the| using Super-Pan Press film and a green filter. second. Diaphragm opening was f. :16. |
stage. The moving picture of “Born Yesterday” is! . : : \ i ’ . ; ize. but! After that time they will be entered y | . 's first | Mr. George will receive the $5| Prints may be of any size, bu still to come, and when it has percolated through the By ART WRIGHT (test, this is Mr. George's first award r Dg g a Ey be A re fo ae ny Cat consciousness of th ti il An Indiana Central College stu- His entries have come close to the cash award for the week. : 2 on. Paul rigwes he will -An fa, Aen 13 36s best-of -the-week selections in other AN) ot long ‘An entrant may submit any num-| Mail or bring entries to: Amateur spend the rest of his life fending off embittered, dent—Lawrence George—was the wets | The contest will continue as long... or oi0tures in one week, {Photo Contest, Indianapolis Times, Doutias trom Bi ci | WUling to separate MC. argt prize winner in the 11th week The winning picture recorded a °° Suitable entries are recelved po “4ooqune for each week's 214 W. Maryland St., Indianapolis 9, mw lof The Times Amateur Photo con- unique idea : P dog—glasses and There are no fees for entry. Any- contest is midnight Friday. Photos| Pictures become the property of test |all—posed as ‘a professor standing one is eligible as long as he (or brought to The Times or post- the Indianapolis Tints igh de= A regular contributor to the con- at the rostrum. |she) is an amateur photographer, Imarked by that time will be eligible. cision of the Judges ,
By Frederick C. Othman Two Pendleton ~~ |Uncle Sam Pays $5 on 1915 Claim Community Fun d Reports ‘Disappearance’
HUMAN INTEREST—This human interest entry by Lloyd Riley, 3639 Graceland |
Ave. was one of the honorable mention selections. The camera was a 4x5 Graflex,
WASHINGTON, Oct. 22—Now I know how to put across the Communist party line in the movies; Just loll on the front porch of the country club in white pants from the wardrobe department and look decadent, And, of course, snobbish. These ideas, and more as interesting, I learned between small uprisings, shoutings, and medium-sized riots at the House Un-American Activities Committee investigation into communism in Hollywood.
Star of the proceeding was a portly young man with a black mustache, name of Jack Moffitt, who used to be a newspaper movie critic in Kansas City Then he was lured west by that Hollywood gold as a writer for the silver sheet; currently he's also criticizing movies for Esquire magazine,
He said that he got sore about Communists when he was lured into joining the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League. He did this because he hated Nazis and he was horrified, he said, when he learned that the league was a Communist outfit taking his money for nefarious purposes.
Leagues Not Connected
. 80.1 WAS JOTTING down this information with ty patent ball-point fountain pen when a worriedlooking little man plucked at my sleeve. “H-{-s-s-t,” he sald. He turned out to be the representative of the New York Anti-Nazi League. Strictly non-Com-munist. No relation to the Hollywood league. And could I please make this clear?
PHOENIX, Ariz, Oct. 22 (UP)— to make a claim for a refund. Of Son After 8 Years ean ug - | Theodore Pustarfi, state labor de- | “Maybe Tl return it to the LL . CINCINNATI, Oct. 22 (UP)—Mrs, He went on his way and there was Mr. Moffitt | | partment director, today pondéred treasury to apply on the war «+ Briefin e NS {Henry C. Thomas, Bellevue, Ky, testifying about how the Communist writers got their | ta lor maybe I'll frame it,” Pustarf lasked police to search today for her poison into big-time movies. Best system, he said he! the generosity and promptness o ‘ald a struction’ montlit lion wid dadghler-in-aw; was told, was to put about five minutes of Communist| Two Pendleton State Reformatory Uncle Sam. eres — THaining Ail NsLue ol Be “T didn’ t to t it earli party line speechmaking into the mouth of a big- fugitives captured here last night| wp. pustarfi recelved a $5 gov- 1 Dead, 1 Hurt i Crash for persons who have volunteered to| “I didn't yn oper at er time actor like, say Gary Cooper, (told police that searching parties ernment check after a 32-year wait! ead, ure in aid in the annual Community Pund because Idi By Nan to embarrass Mr. Cooper. wouldn't realize what he was saying, were within 10 feet of them in a ¢,. $180 worth of clothing lost in| CRAWFORDSVILLE, Oct. 22 drive started today. The drive them,” she explained. Mr. Moffitt continued, and the money-bags of the cornfleld near Fortville yesterday iy. 1915 Galveston flood and hurri-| (UP)—H. W. Spriggs, 45, Péters- will open. Nov. 3 and. continue She had not seen her son, Riche studios wouldn't want to cut out the speech because afternoon. cane. |burg, was killed today, and Fred ! jard C. Thomas, 31, and his wife, it would cost too much to reshoot the scene. Mr.| The two trusties, Edwin Jewell, Ho was stationed in Galveston Pell, Attica, was injured seriously through Nov. 19. | Lorraine, 25, since they disappeared Moffitt said this was regarded as a system by the 20, Franklin, and Richard Berndt, ,q 5 soldier. The clothing was gov- when two trucks collided on a coun-| A meeting for residential solici-|in April, 1939—eight and a half Communists whereby they made the capitalists cut 22, Hamlet, La...Porfe County, ernment issue. But its value was|try road near Wingate. Mr. Pell was tors of District 23 was held at years ago. their own throats. |escaped from a work detail in the (ayen out of his pay and he haditaken to Crawfordsville Hospital. 10:30 a. m. today at Kirshbaum ————————————————— 3 : t noon yesterday. | ee -— — —————— Center. Mrs. Charles Brignall, dis-, : Give Actors Advice rt os oo mort. Carnival—Bv Dick Turner ig ., Mrs. Caries Brignall, 2s- | glory Dispute Shatters "AND ONCE I DROPFED in on one of these s0- yj where, police said, they stole arniva y aided by co-chairmen Mrs. Henry Tranquility» of Temple called schools for acting on Labrea Boulevard,” Mr. |g state truck only to wreck it three - B. Steeg and Mrs. Hanley Black-| SHANGHAI Oct. 22 (UP)—Laboy Moors Sontinked, “There was this John Howard | mjjes southwest of the town on burn. trouble today "disturbed the solemn aL SE Jorard 2 3 Sammie, Having oes |U: 8. 67. State police set up a cor- Speakers were Mrs. Easley R. tranquility of three of Shanghai's Obe-aelorE - § men an en Who Wanted don around the area 200 culled on Blackwood, chairman of the resi- largest Buddhist temples. he ts sn aliplahe to aid in ihe sear dential division; Lawrence Wheeler, | o “So he told °' c ¥ { ’ + Temple janitors and attendants Id 'em that what they should do, even of cornfields bordering the highway. fund campaign manager, and MIS. | cored arid beat thelr abbotts, des
if they were just playing extra in a country club| Seized on 25th St " iy Leonard Solomon, a residential asscene, was to sit in their white pants aiff look as| The men were arrested by city ciate cialman. [andisie Jy Dives ane hal the
decadent as possible, And snobbish : . [police at about 10:30 p. m. as they “And then he said if they were extras in a slum were walking at 25th and Station Other Meetings Slated EE ET picture, they should manage to look as down-trodden gis, Solicitors of Residential District WORD-A-DAY 19 will meet at 1:30 p, m. tomorrow | By BACH
as possible.” | : a ee He or by at Hawthorne Center, The Rev. c.| :
Mr, Moffitt seemed to enjoy his testimony, except Orville Staggs, 2038 Forest Manor, 8); Hawthorns 3. dle Rav. o .@G, Baker, Harry , |
‘Life With Oscar
HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 22—Loret': Young says she’s making good use of Hollywood's current crop of bad pictures. “I go to them,"”-she ‘old me, “to learn what not to do.” Loretta, by the way, sings a couple of folk tunes in “Rachel.” As voice coach Bob Keith put it, “She’s just good enough to be pleasant.” Luise Rainer will make a comeback in a film version of the famous novel, “Christ in Concrete.” Jane Russell will be an aunt soon. Her brother
’ Ken, who toots a mean trumpet, will be the proud . papa,
Nominated for Oscar “LIFE WITH FATHER” is basking In the glory of 17 Oscar nominations from the critics, Warner Brothers will give the new Swedish star, Viveca Lindfors, a unique publicity ulidetp, They'll Just stress her acting talent. . ‘Doris Day doesn’t sound like she means it when
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for the interruptions. Twice lawyers for the 19/that he had given two suspicious | : “defendants” in the hearing jumped up to protest looking men a ride from 38th St.| |Cénkle and Miss Mary Rigg are about the proceedings. ~ |and Sherman Drive to 30th St. and| co-chairmen. Mrs. H. P. Will- | Sherman Drive, werth, supervisor of West and South —— E————— Divisions, will attend. A ( vont ) vers ' (release Nov. 8. Berndt was under TO BRAG; TO DISPLAY By Erskine Johnson Speakers will include Mrs. Black- ONESELF BOASTEULLY. z o wood, Mrs, J. P. 8mith, residential po 3. division associate chairman, and fom
| mer == Jewell, who was serving 2 to 10| |} years for forgery, was eligible for |} District 13 solicitors will meet at | 8 .p. m, Priday at Forrester's Hall, Eber Spence. Mrs, Kenneth Cox is =/ BET YOUNEBVER TE district chairman. 4
“{1-t0-10 year term for grand lar-| 'ceny.
she says she and Jack Carson are “just friends.” a Pat O'Brien wants to do the life of John McGraw CONgGress will Cut
on the screen, but relatives are withholding film Taxes, Taft Predicts rights. CINCINNATI, O., Oct. 22 (UP)<|
| a | Tax reduction’ is necessary and the A Change of Tune {next Congress will cut taxes “even
SIX MONTHS ago, friends told Bob Ryan he was if it has to override the President's risking his career if he took the heavy role of the veto,” Sen. ‘Robert A. Taft (R. bigot in “Crossfire.” Now the same friends are boom-'0,) said here yesterday. ing him for an Academy Oscar. Ben. Taft, in an address beOnce and for all: Jim Davis, Bette Davis’ new fore the Junior Chamber of ComYeaditig ‘man in "Wihiter “Meeting. is Tiot “related merce, siid that "burdensome taxes” | to the star, Nor will he change his name to avoid were responsible for the present confusion. Ihigh % i After hearing President Truman's food conserva- “You pay 20 to 30 per cent taxes tion plan, Ben Bard thinks 20th Century-Fox shouldion everything you buy,” Sen. bill it this way: “Chicken Sunday; but not Taft said. “Tax reduc is neces on Thursdays” It may be tless Tuesdays in sary. I don’t know w form it Hollywood, but the hams are with us. will take, but it will be done.” -
{Irate Prowler Proves
| ‘Courtesy Doesn't Pay’
IONIA, Mich, Oct. 22 (UP)Willis Clark, 41, wasn't sure today | whether he was too nice, or not nice enough, to a stranger he caught | _} stealing tools from his garage. The man fled after Mr, Olar! threatened to beat him up. | But three hours later the stranger | iste | returned with a revolver and robbed | § = | Mr. Clark of $273, “That'll teach you to treat pedple better,” the stranger sald, !
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GOP. 1947 BY NEA SERVICE. NC. 7. M. REO. U, 8. PAY, Oby,
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