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“ON GUARD!" “Let's just take it easy, Andy, with that on guard stuff,” I told Andrew Voisard, foil fencing ifistructor at the central branch of the YMCA. I better explain a little about Mr. Voisard. Without a steel foil in his hand, the 23:year-old instructor looks like a mighty healthy, capable and pleasant hunk of young American manhood. «All through his explanation of how to hold a foil, the stance, parry, thrust, lunge, attack, etiquet, etc, I had the idea fencing was going to be great sport. Even after Andy explained that fencing required
grace, poise, speed, endurance and split-second. timing, * .I thought it would be great sport.
But then little tlfings begin to show themselves that start changing a guy's mind. ‘For instance; when I made my advances, lunges and attacks. Andy told me they were “pretty good” but “watch how I do it.” He glided over the floor with the speed of a strikIng rattlesnake. On the several lunges he made he called “Touche” so many times I felt a little on the sieve side, “Parry my thrusts” he would shout. “The point of the foil is covered—you can't possibly get hurt.”
Heart, Lung Targets
“If you were fencing for keeps,” Andy said, “you'd
try very hard to parry the fourth and sixth thrusts.” Yes, sir. But who wants to stick his neck out for
"TOUCHE" —Andy Voisard in the middle of a foil fencing "fundamental."
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keeps in this day and age? TATEwhT we Rave Courts = of human relations, don't we? All during the preliminary instructions, my. oppo-|
“SECOND SECTION
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1947
nent was a yery amiable and helpful chap. Time and time again hé corrected my stance, cautioned me to keep my torso turned in line with the foil so it wouldn't make such a big target. We. worked on straight thrusts, --disengagements and cutovers. Through the tedious session, the former welterweight, boxing champion of the Navy (he won 21 straight fights) and physical education major of of Indiana University, displayed a terrific amount of patience. Then, silly me, I asked that we cut out all the foolishness and start fencing. “Leave us cross swords,” I said Andy fitted a wire mask over my head. I know how how a mosquito feels looking through a screen, He slipped a similar mask over his sharp, D'Artagnanlike features. He was no longer the Andy Voisard I knew. I peered from behind the wire mesh of my mask as he cut the air with a couple of practice cuts. Then he placed his foil under his right foot and pulled up and down on it. | “What's that for?" “Just warming up the blade. guard.” By that time I have come to respect the fencing stance. It looked positively ridiculous when I first saw it. You know, left arm in back and above the! head, right leg bent and forward with the right foot| at a right angle to the left. I repeated, “On guard.”
Looking at Fourth Spot
ANDY'S BLACK EYES glistened from behind his | mask. I may have been mistaken but it seemed to me they were looking at the high fourth spot—the heart.’ It was hard to keep in mind that this was for fun! and that the foils were tipped. Relax, I told myself, relax. You've seen it done | in the movies. Now, go ahead and touche. I tried. Andy didn’t want to be touche-ed. Parry— thrust—lunge—advance—parry—oops. “Touche,” called Andy.. His foil quivered for a @ second over my thumping pump. From then on it was a series of “On guards” and “touches.” | Lucky for me I wore a mask. Otherwise, my tongue | would have been on the floor. “Temper, temper,” cautioned Andy as I held my foil in both hands and came at him as if I were batting a baseball. “See, how easy I can cut you down when you do| that?” He let me have another touche in the high! fourth position.
Now, my friend, on
THE IMAGINARY INVALID — Michoe "The Imaginary Invalid," whose ambition
and Sunday night and at 2:30 p. m. tomorro School auditorium.
“I quit.” ga § “You're doing all right,” Andy said. “But you need “1 ie > &
a lot more practice. I was just trying to teach you a lesson.” “You did.”
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Just a Racket
NEW YORK, Nov. 21—I got to laugh a little bit at all the view-halloo that's been going on around here because a plug named Jake LaMotta allegedy got his hair wet, as the saying goes, for some character named William Fox. To get your hair wet is-a refinement of the term to splash, go in the tank, or otherwise succumb without effort to an adversary, said adversary generally being fistically inferior to the swimmer. This kind of thespian performance is Usually set up by an expert director, in order to collect on the fat odds which hover around the head of the underdog. It is a thing that seems to happen all the time in the business of maiming thy néighbor.. It always has happened. It probably always will happen. But each time they catch some noble warrior laying down for dough, a scream goes up which would make you think that the President had been surprised working for & bookmaker, : Everybody is very ; indignant now about all the crooks that are running around in the fight business, and the fixes, and all, They ‘recently discovered that
had been dishonorably discharged from, the Army, after doing some time. The indignation cotildn’t have been thicker if ‘they'd caught Princess Liz in a spirited game of strip poker.
A Racket? So What?
THEY ARE HINTING now that young Mr. Fox may have built his record by pushing over a flock of stiffs who were not only tailored to measure, but who might be the same guy working under different aliases. Is thit*hew? They are also talking about “abolishing the manly art-in New York, which is al‘most as silly’ as trying to, keep jockeys honest. I quit being indignant over the fight business a long time ago. It is a rdcket, pure and simple, and in essence is nearly as dishonest as some aspects of modern big industry. It is full of thugs and bums and greedy and liars and ex-cons and gunmen and smooth operators and it always was and it always will be. Trying to keep it peopled with Rover boys, and trying to run it square is as futile as an effort to meke an ambassador out of Tony Galento.
more vital arguments. Carnera may have won a,
By Robert C. Ruark
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A few respectable citizens shake down out of it, like Joe Louis, Dempsey, Tunney. But Louis got his} start working for a policy racketéeer who went to jail for his sins and he was trained by a razor-| scarred murderer with a hitch in brig. Dempsey worked for years with Doc Kearns, who has done no time that I know of, but who has been operating on the nimble side ever since he split with Dempsey. I know of at least one wide-open fix he tried to| work in Washington half-a-dozen years ago, which was reported fully in the journals, and Doc never took anybody to court.
I ain't so young I can't remember the Carnera| build-up, when Uncle Will Duffy, fresh out of the | clink, was superintending the flops for Carnera with| a great big old persuader to lend emphasis to his
single honest fight, though I doubt it. - But then they have always lined up stiffs for the comers.
Comes Down With Hard Snickers
EVERY TIME I thigk of the Kearns operation in Washington I come down with the hard snickers. I] was laboring in the sports vineyards at the time. And the years may have hazed it up some but it seems like| the preordained loser was supposed totake it in the fourth heat. Young Innocent, meaning ‘me, found! out about it from a disgruntled stool pigeon,. and| rashly wrote a pre-fight+column denouncing this| snide plan.
They had a changed it to the eighth round. But the loser got | confused and pushed out his chig in the fourth, anyhow, and all the gamblers went away and cut] their throats quietly. It proved, once and for all, that| the business is at least uncértain. “ Old Kearns was| going to sie me for something like five million, or maybe it was 10. I disremember, It's a fascinating racket to write about, but one thing I learned early is that you can’t reform it, you can't expert it, and you can’t control it It's a roughneck’s business from taw, and I must say the principals are admirably suited to the profession, and vicious versa.
THE PLOTTERS — Howard Phillips (M. and Thomas Holloran (M. Fleurant) plot how they can
arrange marriage of Jack Bradshaw (Thomas
Plasma Received on Battlefield
Former infantry Captain E. H. Scott is a man who be his debts.
by some unknown. patriot.
Hospital, he repaid his debt by -contributing his blood to the depleted supplies. | Mr. Scott read of the campa by the Barbed Wire Club of ign
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Senator Speechless! By Frederick C. Othman
WASHINGTON, Nov, 21—No quickie producer nin Hollywood ever considered a plot such as unfolded in a Senate hearing room; the censors would have tossed it on the cutting room floor and set a match to it. The proceedings hardly seemed real. The palefaced Maj. Gen, Bennett Meyers (Ret.) told a story that couldn't possibly have happened, except that— of course—he said it did. Sen.- Homer Ferguson, of Michigan, chairman of the committee looking into the general's big business deals, squirmed as in embarrassment as he listened. And Bleriot Lamarre, the wronged husband—if ‘wronged he was—sat there with his cheeks flushed a deep pink, while he stared at the man who admitted 2 long-time love affair with Mrs. Lamarre.
Chivalrous General on Spot THE BALD-HEADED general said he was a chivalrous soul, but that hé also was in a spot. He said he hated to mention the name of a lady, but mention it he had to do. And then he blurted out the whole story, banging the table at intervals, getting palér than his own shirt as he went.along, and speaking so rapidly reporters had difficulty keeping up with him. Hhe scrunched forward oi Bis big leather’ chair, so that his words reverberated as far as the crowds waiting outside the door, and said that Mrs. Lamarre had been not only his secretary, but his girl friend (his words) between 1936 and 1940. . “Was she married in 1936?” asked the senator. “To Mr. Lamarre,” the general replied. “This relationship was with his knowledge, approval and acquteseence, " *
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anapolis to assist the Red Cross in replenishing blood bank supplies,
Welcomed Opportunity
from several plasma and blood “pbligated” to revise transfusions,” he said. “TI think old wage-Hour Act many ex-GI's would be glad to con-| “many obvious incor tribute if they realized the for contributions to the Veterans’ por Subcommittee Hospital blood bank.”
Mr. Scott, of 210 N. Sheffield Ave.,
Mr. Lémarre uncrossedghis long legs. crossed them again, and frowned. The general said that when the Lamarres left Dayton, O., for Los Angeles, he wanted Mrs. Lamarre back. “And you want to know why I organized the Aviation Electric Corp.?” he cried. “I'll tell you why I organized it to get her back to Dayton.” Mr, Lamarre hecame president of which did more than $1 million worth of war busi- Northwestern Mutual Life Insur- changes in the law ness. He claimed that he got only $50 per week and ance Co. that during the five years of its existence, he passed; The Barbed Wire Club, an oron more than $150,000 profits secretly to Gen. Meyers. ganization of former prisoners of “That was not true,” the general shouted. man has admitted he perjured himself. that company for the reasons I stated and I lent the American Red Cross. - The club tioning after prese the Lamarres, both of them, about $18,000 over the|is assisting the Red Cross in con- Ment calling for a years.” \tacting industrial and business| ©f 75 cents an hou
Operated on Cash Basis Coatpaen I ireton. hor rons | epHons. THE SENATOR wondered if he had any can- and groups may contact the Red celled checks to back up this assertion. Gen. Meyers Cross chapter house, 1126 N. Me- | was amazed. Why, the said, he was married to his ridian St., or telephone LI-1445, to| second wife at the time. And he could not con- make arrangement for contribu’! ceive of a U, 8. senator believing that he would pay tions. anything but cash under the circumstances. Now Sen. Ferguson's face was flushed under his Se tular nous aa, Sonors; map: of white hair, He said he believed that Gen. | Wednesdays, and 2 p. m. to 4 p. m. | Meyers’ story reflected more dishonor upon the-uni-| on Thursdays, at the Veterans Hos- | form of an army general-than did the tale of Mr. pital, 2601 Cold Spring RA. Lamarre. — a { This time the general was incredulous. “Dishonor?” he shouted, ‘“The—the uniform? Ig Ancient Life Bared it dishonorable to set two people up in business and in Missouri Basin
- give them a start?” | The senator had no comment about that. { WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 (UP)— {The Smithsonian Institution has! . {found ‘races of prehistoric Indian
|tribes, some dating back
legislation today, s
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William R. McCo
Just plain “Sleep.”
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A ‘Housing Laugh’
HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 21—-It took the housing problem to get Myrna Loy really out of the perfect-wife rut., She and Cary Grant are wrestling with the house-building problem in “Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House.” They fight and they haggle, She squeezes the toothpaste tube in the middle, he carefully rolls it up from the end. She throws a ski hoot at him. Said Myma: “It's a normal husband and wife rela- . tionship, There's nothing idyllie about it."
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Hin durihg surveys of soon-to- | pressed,
By Erskine Johnson | River basin. \ard for himself." | The discoveries include ‘human remains, as well as evidence Steak, sell the sizzle.” {of ‘villages, bivouacs, fortifications The picture is bulk for laughs, of course, as both and burial ground of them practically lose their minds over building, er their post-war dream home. The cost starts out WATOMMAN HELD UP at $10,000, but winds up at $37,500. It may be more, An armed. bandit last if building costs are higher by the time the film robbed John W. McFadden, 59, of lic's imagination. is ready for pre-view. 38 N. DeQuincy St, a New York to remember.” But Mr. Blandings’ troubles were nothing com- Central Railroad crossing watch-| pared to RKO's. ings’ 11:room dream cost: $70,000.
who? And “Say it
he said.
Block of W. New York St |
in a robe and tasseled night cap, plays the lead role of Argan in
daughter to a doctor. The play will be given at 8:15 o'clock tonight
Ex-Captain 'Pays' Debt, we nears, and 1 une ey [OM@Ates to Blood Bank
Insurance Man Says He Owes Life to
Former Capt Scott who is now plain Mr. Scoit, credits the saving of his life on a battlefield in the Philippines to blood plasma contributed
Yesterday, when he heard of the need for more plasma at Veterans’
U.S, Wage Act
| WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 “I welcome the opportunity to re- Rep. Samuel K. McConnell Jr. (R pay in kind the benefit I received Pa.) said today that Congress was
need! Mr. McConnell, whose House Laweeks of hearings on the New Deal the concern, is special agent in Indianapolis for probably will - recommend several
begins its regular session in Janu-
“This war, is spear-heading the campaign administrator, was to be the final I organized initiated by the local chapter of| Witness. He was recalled for ques-
10.000. The bed people weren't too im-|
be-flooded areas of the Missouri fault. He had bet too high a stand- | ‘He got his nick-
some Name for the slogan “Don't sell the
“Don’t write, telegraph” for guess
“You've got to do a job of selling,”
The late President Roosevelt, THe studié’ had to build Mr. Bland- man, of his bilifold and $48 near!:aid, had a swell sizzle in his. little cowhoys and Indians. sore and lost house. on a sound stage. Final the crossing he guards in the 300 dog Falla. He-made the little fel-|a lot of vetes.” i [low part of the White House.
Collins Tr oced out in life is to marry his
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Diafoirus).
War Upon Crime |
Harris Lodge, 100F, plans to marshal all and fraternal organizations behind
today laid |
a civie, lieves th paying
crime in Indianapolis.
Norman McClure, chairman ©
dvised {contacted by the lodge will be held son and Washington Sts. “We decided that something has ito be done to find out who or what is responsible for the crime in the city, whethér it is the courts or the police department and to outline what should be the nine-year- done,” Mr. McClure said. because of its May Check Courts | 1sistencies.” | “If it is necessary, we'll post somebody in all the courts to hear cases being tried and find out who responsible for criminals being let
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winds up five
aid the group
punishment at all.” when Congress
mb, wage-hour
nting a state- common sense approach to minimum wage [City’s problems. r and a “fresh | Other committee members
|drickson.
'Sizzle’ Fizzles, Face's Red, His Slogans Sell Nary Bed
Convention Unimpressed With Offerings Of Nation's Ranking Catch Phrase Maker
By HARMAN W, CHICAGO, Nov. cute things to say about most evérything but beds. The bedding people asked Elmer (Sizzle) Wheeler to come to their natiohal convention and give them something that would seil a lot, of beds, He put his slogans on the table today, face up: “Hit the sack, Jack,” “Hit the pad, Lad
NICHOLS, United Press Staff Correspondent 21-The nation's No. 1 slogan man can think up
" “Move Over, Rover” and
“Gov. Thomas E. Dewey did a lot of bad selling—and you know how he came out in thé last election. “The governor had a natural sizzle in “District Attorney” and didn't know it. But that wasn't the only thing he did wrong. | “In Oklahoma he wouldn't put on an Indian headdress and pose for
“Bizzle’'s” own|
He made up
with flowers.”
‘Put some sizzle in it.| hictures with the “fellows in the night Something that will catch the pub-| iaenee.
In Texas he refused to Something £88Y muss up his hair and put on a 10- : gallon hat. “80 what happens?
he He made the
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the TOOF committee, said a meeting on t} = of representatives of groups being of the
increase of Mukden.
Mr. McClure emphasized that “there is nothing political in our |plans.” " |
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“On the other hand,” Sizzle sald,
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Photos by John Spicklemire, Times Staff Photographer, THE LOVERS — Jeanne Wieck (Angelique) and Vincent Kieffer (Cleante) are the lovers in the play. Although her father plots to wed her to a doctor's son, Angelique prefers Cleante. The cast is made up of students from Cathedral and St. Agnes Academy.
Cathedral, St. Agnes Students Present “The Imaginary Invalid’
DEATH SCENE— Ina climactic scene, Argan (on couch}-dies. Left to right, . other principals are: Laura Jean Ray (Toinette), Matthew Mescall (Beralde), James Wade (Louis), Vincent Kieffer (Cleante) and Jeanne Wieck (Angelique).
Its Back Broken
100F Lodge Maps War Goes In Cold Storage On Corridor to Red China
Winter Forces Both Sides to Call It Quits;
Devastation Reminds Observer of Russ Raids
: FARNSWORTH, Scri “MUKDEN; »Manchuria, Nov, 21—From the wintry sky, Mukden looks a fact-finding committee to combat |jke the face of an old man dying of a wasting disease, From Mukden northward along the Chinese Nationalist corridor to ¢. Changchun, a dusty, ‘yellowish pall of the winter's first thin snows lies we face of the tortured earth, seasons, intended to land at about Dec. 4 in the lodge hall, Addi- Changchun but the zero tempera-| {ture did something to the landing gear of our C-46 so we turned back | to the Chinese Air Force field at The trip was sufficient to reveal that the Manchurian war | between the Nationalists and Com-! munists had been put in cold storage
Factories show no smoke, and we
stripped and
industries,
Rails of the Mukden-Changchun
railway were torn up.
One large tossing out three cases in which non He sald the lodge hoped to ®et|siee] bridge was sighted with its complying CIO unions had won colthe support of other groups for a pack broken and its beams and lective bargaining elections before the girders sagging.
The Changchun corridor Is
Are narrow and perilous salient into firms and individuals as a part of|3PProach” to the question of ex- Fred Galloway and William Hen- req Manchuria and unless it can
_| be strengthened before China's war |
thaws out next spring, even it may,
| be lost.
Unarmed Troops
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At both Mukden and Changchun |
we saw waiting clusters of Chinese
troops on the airfields, Chungchun were seen only from the Mukden seemed
but those at
healthy and in good spirits.
they were
they had no guns.
Seeing backs to blizzard, frequent
we
reds. ‘
Those
at
Also
warmly clothed. But
them standing with their the wind like cattle in a
wondered about the
comparisons {morale with that of the Chinese
of
their
If there iy such a disparity, as
some
high-flown
would ‘have us believe, | probable answer lies not in any ideological convictions. ||
the
The likeliest answer is booty, The Communists, on the offensive, have
a promise of loot.
But the Na-
tionalists,. on the defensive, do not.
CAB DRIVER ROBBED OF $15
William Cotton,
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37, of 1972, Hilla cab driver, told police he was robbed of $15 by a man and’
woman passenger when the man’ threatened him with "a knife after he had taken them to an, “address |
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| The National Labor Relations Board | declared today that no labor union {can participate in a collective bar‘gaining election unless its officers The only moving things. we saw | ign non-Communist affidavits. were a few shuttling air transports is and a file of soldiers. had made a broad policy statement on the filing requirements of the Taft-Hartley act, although. it had off with: light sentences Or no were reminded of how Russia had previously made its position clear looted Manchuria’s|in rulings on specific phases of the ; * new law, ”
-Howard Staff Writer
War there has yielded to the turn
NLRB Tosses Out 3 C10 Elections
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 (UP¥-
It was the first time the board
The board made the ruling in
{passage of the Taft-Hartley act, {These unions were seeking board certification as bargaining agents for the employees involved, It was the firstotime certification had been denied a union which had iwon a plant election sponsored by the Labor Board.
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