Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 January 1949 — Page 17

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b a dolla V3 MR. HINE picked the senior forward to wear which you hang on your belt to measure distance AN eIGEIEr ha enute Be amis Gores Works ao to. around hard if sot harder than any ‘man on the team. The test was conducted for one eight-minute! quarter, High school teams play eight, you know, while college teams play 10-minute quarters. No one on the first or: second team had any idea how far a player would run. Several boys made guesses which ranged from two miles to five, Coach Hine thought three miles would be close. The first team, George Theofanis, Robert Bor.| , Winfield Dittemore and

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Tillery guarded Theofanis and for a few mo-} ments, both boys were quite conscious of the pedométer. . Very understandable when people come in contact with it for the first time. There's a ‘tendency to believe the thing won't work. I know a couple of players thought it was a gag at first. i There are a number of things to take Into __consideration in a project of this type. Theofanis clocked off exactly one and & Half ‘miles during} the eight miles of playing time. He was clocking distance. during time outs and fouls, : Another thing, .a player. isually plays his fastest during the first half. During the second half he slows down, something coaches would like to overcome. Some “playef's are more aggressive than others. Theofanis is in the aggressive class.’ And finally, position has a lot to do with how much a boy runs. ‘It's safe to say a forward or a guard will cover more distance than a center. . Key offensive players will run more, too, We're pretty well checked out now, I hope. If not, drop me a card and I'll see if I confuse you more, x

‘A Strenvous Game

IT WOULD have been interesting to hang|. _ pedometers on all the boys. It also would have \been inferesting to hang it on the boys in rota-

play 80 minutes of basketball. It's a strenuous game, pedometer or no pedometer: Theofanis did right well even though the clock on his thigh kept bouncing him. As a mater of fact, all the boys whipped around the floor something terrific, stealing the ball, going into fast! breaks and fighting for dear ol’ Washington and! my: pedometer. : When the whistle blew, everyone. crowded around George. The hand stood on the one and a half mark. The figure was multiplied by four (the number of quarters in a game) and there were more whistles. Frankly, it surprised me as it did most of the players. “Six miles,” huffed one player. 1 feel tired after a game.” 3 . Anyone who has played basketball knows what he means. Especially if he has played Hoosier basketball. :

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Tangy Tangier

NEW YORK, Jan. 6—The thing I love best about the city of Tangier, in the international zone of Spanish Morocco, is its B-movie melodrama. The very second I stepped ashore there recently, we were up to our ears in sinister doings so corny they would have been rejected by a shilling shockér, B “The countess” sald my friend George Greaves, the Australian, in tones he uses for deepest conspiracy, * ‘as disappeared aw'y. They threw ‘er overboard, they did, off that big bloody yacht.” In Tangier. when a person disappears, it means he's likely to be back some day. But when he disappears away, that does it. He i§ likely at the bottom of the sea, with his feet tied to a chunk of iron.

Everybody's Business Is Vague

THE COUNTESS Magda of Andurain, a mid-dle-yeared French lady of uncertain antecedents, nad come to Tangier in a yacht “Djeilan,” with two ostensible Belgians, man and woman, named Yonecini. Their business was vague, but everybody’s business is vague in Tangier. One day, the Countess turned up missing, and the Poncinis flew the coop. The business was hushed for awhile and then mushroomed into an orgy of fine French journaljém. The: Countess’ son was onthe scene, and he wrote daily byliners that raised the hair: Son Jacques put on so much gallic dog with his prose {hat it took him 17 paragraphs before he mentioned mama's mysterious disappearance. The glamorous Magda, it appears, got around. She wanted to go to Mecca, once, so she married an Arab. The Arab got scragged, after the Countess had no further need for him. Back in Paris, a cousin, Raymond Clerisse, was poisoned under circimstances clearly ‘indicating the Countess had a hand in the medicine chest. . The Paris cops tried to nail her, but couldn't find enough evidence. But a8 Junior points out, with becoming poignance, the inspector remarked.

Ah, Puerto Rico

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Jan, 6—For a fellow without a derby hat this business of trailing Christopher . Columbus around the Spanish main is dangerous. Take this, morning. I was strolling down the street minding my own business when a gust of wind hit a palm tree and I missed by a hair getting conked on the head by a ripe coconut. But there's no snow liereabouts, nor earmuffs within 1500 miles," and if you're thinking about taking a winter vacation, this may be the place. Provided you keep an eye on hurtling coconuts. Tourists are few, the hotels have rooms to rent, prices aren't too high and the ocean hereabouts is the bluest- blue I ever saw. Warm, too, and full of sharks, but the beaches have underwater fences to keep the fish from gnawing on the customers’ feet. Am I hope I can keep from sounding like a Fitzpatrick travelogue about beautiful Puerto Rico, but it is a part of the U. 8. A., which hardly anybody from the states bothers to visit, This pains the Puerto Ricans and their new governor, Luis Monoz Marin, for whose inauguration I came down. Between high jinks in connection with this, I have been looking around a little and I'd like to tell you something about it.

Technicolored All the Way

PUERTO RICO is 1100 miles straight out into the Atlantic from Mismi and the water is tefhnicolor all the way, being mostly bluse, green, purple and varying shades of lavender. The clouds are puffy and plok,-like elephants. The stewordess on the flying machine put me fn the mood for this by bringing me .a slug of Puerto Rican rum before dinner, With the beefsteak (and I never ran into this on any airplane before) she handed each. passenger a bottle of excellent wine. Nothing seems to be too ‘good for voyagers to Puerto Rico. He also gets the royal treatment when he

fands. The natives are going: all out trying to bring some business to their impoverished island; ness and also functions as host at a hotel called

they've got housing projects going all over; they're Bluebeard's Castle and, in view of the weather

By Robert C. Ruark

“If Madame Andurain didn't croak Clerisse, who did?” Sonny-boy, or Jacques, wrote proudly that his chere. maman had been accused of. 22 separate crimes, and was called by the police the greatest criminal brain of the epoch. Says Junior: “Af this series of boredoms, mama's reputation became that of an adventuress. He said that she decided to come to Tangier for the tless possibilities in smuggling gold, cigarets and other valuable trinkets. . “MA mer€ let herself to take a project which reunited the advantages of sportive adventure and solid commerce.” 7 Well, sir, old Magda stocked the yacht with powdered gold and the two Belgians, and in she sailed. While she was lining up: her contacts, she disappeared—and, with charming gallic neatness,

mond got himself empoisonneed. When she was no more to be seen, the town buzzed. The two Poncinis ducked the Spanish frontier guards and disappeared.

Junior Was Indignant

JUNIOR, who described. himself as a “globetrotter,” was indignant when they dragged him back from a fishing expedition. The fishing was good, and it seemed to annoy him that mama had spoiled his holiday. But once he got going on the typewriter; his indignation gave way to honest ham. He dragged in history, allegory, economic notes, meteorology and opinion. He wrote about mama's vanishment with the passionate ardor of a fish-peddler describing a carp that got away. When I left Tangier for Spain, the other day, mama's corpus delectable hadn't risen from the deep, but the Poncinis had been snatched in Casablanca. They confessed to giving her the .deep six, after-a fight in which she was hurled down the stairs and “opened up her head.” The Poncinis turned out not to be Belgians at all, but Germans. It was delicately hinted that the man, Hans Abel, was an old gestapo agent. It was a lovely story, and as I departed, we were expecting Adolf Hitler and Judge Crater to show up -any minute.

- By Frederick C. Othman

The whole island seems to have burst sud-| denly into life after hundreds of years of somnolence and,- too frequently, semi-starvation. 2 80 the hotel clerk’ll shake your hand and the manager will send up a_ basket of tropical fruit with his ‘best wishes. I wish he'd send along a

ly when attacked with the bare hands. | Outside the -town are rum distilleries, which are generous with the free samples, and a tropical rain forest where you can pluck your own orchids Up in the hills is a hot-water spring, which the locals claim is Ponce de Leon's fountain of youth. This I am inclined to doubt. I soaked myself in same; but when I got out I still had gray hairs in my mustache. The only difference was that I smelled slightly of” sulphur andl had to. wash same off under the shower at the hotel. i :

Needs Sea Captain's Cap

YOU NEVER saw the like of this hotel. The proprietor once took a ride on the late liner Normandie. He liked it fine. When he got home he built a hotel of reinforced concréte to look as much like the ship as he could make it, : He made the floors of tile with eeramic flowers every couple df feet and installed a swimming pool, with salt water pumped from the ocean, in the main lobby: If I only had a sea captain's cap I'd feel perfectly at home. The citizens mostly speak English, the mayor of San Juan is a gracious, gray-haired lady and that may explain why the streets are clean and the .cops polite, 1 hate to leave for the cy streets and the pvershoes of Washington, D. C,, and in that connection ‘(my honored employers will be interested to learn) I have found some urgent business over at the Virgin Islands, which I understand Harold Tckés built sirigfe-handed back In the early days of the New Deal. it That's where Uncle Samuel is in the’ rum busi-

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“SECOND SECTION _

. Miss Angel® Ruminer of Mt, Vernon (left) and Miss Victoria Caesar of Gary, new House employees. learn about the House voting machine from Secretary Elmer Hoehn of Jeffersonville as the legislature opens.

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of Hymera and Sam J. Bushemi of Gary.

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Democrats caucus . . . Lt..Gov.-Elect John Watkins (left) discusses coming legislation with Marion County Democratic Senators Mrs. Mary Garrett and Judson West. 3

Wendell Willkie's son, following to hurry . home, there was. a in his father's political footsteps, prowler in the basement. | was sworn in today as a | Mr. Carpino burried out-- and] of the Indiana legislature. found a small kitten had climbed] Philip H. Willkie, 29, only child{to a fruit shelf and tipped over a| of the 1940 Republican, presi-|jar of preserves, { dential nominee, stood beside his| *. 5» ! new -bieached. oak desk. .in the! Mrs. Elena Morales of Mexico Hoosier House of Representatives City complained to authorities t=] and solemnly toSk the oath of|day that after her husband broke fice as a maker of laws along!her left arm during an argument with 99 others. |1ast week when she left him to His mother, Mrs. Edith Will-/80 home to her mother. Last kie. widow of the man Franklin Pight, she said, he came visiting D. Roosevelt defeated to gain his and. broke her right arm. third term in the White House, | aim watched from a balcony. Special Judge Cleon K. Calbert oa JstHaSlAR, Ky. Circuit Court, who Actor Audia Murphy, Americ a's) vestigation ‘of hootle sweeping in- . . Bing, yestermost decorated soldier: and “fim day fined himself $10 for appear-

em sites ng sor pate arried Saturs Judge Calbert told the court day night ‘in .|and spectators: “I fine the court Hollywood. $10 for being drunk yesterday,

and I want to see that entered on the order book.” " ” » Mrs: D. W. Wallace, President Truman's mother-in-law, is visit. Ing with the Trumans at Blair House insWashington.

The couple has been engaged for néarly a year, but the marriage was delayed while she was In

vy » . Dr. Isalah Bowman, retiring

a movie. a Mr. Murphy : president of Johns Hopkins Uniholds every Miss Hendrix [oorgity, Baltimore, Md., was réc-

American decoration an infantry-{ommended by Sen. Arthur H. man can be awarded, including| Vandenberg, (R. Mich.) for memthe Congressional Medal of{bership on the Atomic Energy Honor, | Commission.

1 r ” ” y— Bereen star Jane Wyman mid Traffic Safety Cases tollay she will give the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art a $4000 Will Be Broadcast award she got from the British| The Indiana Trafic film tribunal ‘which picked her as Commission has announced 1940's best actress, |series of 15 minute radio pro- . =» {grams to begin about Feb, 1, The Police officers’ wives. are no series. will feature real life braver than other women, plain- dramas from actual trafic cases clothesman John Carpin of Ft.over the state and nation. Wayne complained today,

building dams, and a whopping big new hotel is reports back home, I think I had better check up nearly finished on the beach. : | ws oN these enterprisés of our all-wise government.

last night and told her husbandry the program.

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Senate Parliamentarian. Ed Stein of Bloomfield (left) helps out three novice Democratic Representatives with parliamentary procedure: The pupils are Jane Aan:Noble of Kokomo, Leo Followell

Safety|Inspection of other state police long rond ahead. Some who will a'districts will

The. Commission has not de|sponsible for the pop; when hea A in use Mrs. Carpino called the station|cldéd what radio station will car-it turris into steam under pressure best to make sure it'is strong onjone in sight is used

Where's the ventilator switch? Senate Secretary Charles Brown (left) helps Republican Senators William Bates of New Albany, Samuel Johnson of Anderson and Roy Conrad of Monticello search for a way fo get more air after they were literally “smoked out” of their new caucus room

- yesterday. ; ‘

Republican ‘Representatives caucus . . . Robert Hoover of Goshen and floor leader W. O. Hughes, in front; Howard Steels, | and Edward Woodard, back. $0

.. . Passing out House jobs are Representatives Herbert Wadsworth and

Patronage committee

Wilbur Baldwin in the front row, and Earl Utterback, Charles Turner: and Rollin: Place standing in

Purse Snatchers Tough. Sledding Lies Ahead Total of $167 oF — will Lumen Ded Medical Measure Meets Opposition

By CHARLES T. LUCEY, Scripps-Howard Staft Writer day. One woman was struck on WASHINGTON, Jan. 6—The scorecard on congressional receps wet her BAnSUAg Wis tion of President Truman's State of the Unjon message points to jerked from’ hey grasp. ‘early -action on a few objective; “slow, tough “going for others

Thelma Allen, 28, of - 720%; So wh Grove St.. told police a ‘man and an out-the-window pftch for others,

stepped from the. shadows in the Administration leaders bellied a minimum wage law and a réar of her home last night and gy. clearance and housing bill could roll fairly fast. The votes struck her as ‘he grabbed her ,.. (here for extension of rent = = === == sitar yas purse. controls and probably for|shown inthe new Democratic ap. Officers. later found the purse o ...cthenirig the reciprocal-trade|pointments to the Senate Labor in her yard, but $96 was missing. |o.,oram, and Education Committee. Mrs. Emeline Hillock, 73, of 729 “But a new tax bill will come| Not .a . single conservative Greer St, sald an unidentified slowly and painfully—and Con- Democrat made the grade. Those man pulled her purse from her cress plainly will ‘call the turn. who afd==Nens. Hubert Humphrey shopping bag as she entered a poo. the Democrats are chary of| (Minn), Paul (Il) and storé in the first bioek in 8. Illi-| ny action toward price-control Matthew Neely (W. Va.) are nols St. yesterday. It contained’, were they'll wait to see if thejcounted Hberals who will go along . : . ’ present downward price move-|fully with the administration. A handbag owned by Miss ment continues, In this especially| An: excess-profits tax is out , Retta Hakey, 5539 Carrollton they know there is political dyna. Mr. Truman didn't even mention Ave. was taken from her coat’ gfe. It." An increase of 7 to 12 per cent white She shopped 18 a W. Wash- Union's Dream in present corporation taxes «is | ington, St. five and ten cent store. . forecast by some congressional | Many Congressmen believe uni-| It contained 368. , versal military training, asked by AX leaders—from the present 33 » . Mr. Truman, is-out the window PF cent top to 48 or.50 per cent. Trooper Superintendent, uniess there is a worsening of| Whether there will be any action Successor. | t Posts “ord conditions. His proposal OP Personal income taxes Is someessor. Inspect Posts oi ine government move to ex.'NINE else aguin—and even some Col. Robert Rossow, state pand industrial capacity-—an idea Democrats friendly to the ad. police superintendent, and his advocated by Walter Reuther and ministration are skeptical of it. successor, Arthur M. Thurstonlother union leaders—will jeave| The Senate Finance Committes of Shelbyville, were making in- most Congressmen backing away.[S1Ves the Democrats only sevenspections of two state police] Administration leaders acknow)- to-six dominance. Among those posts today. ledge that the proposal to insure| Democrats are three who often Théy were to inspeét the Pen: medical aid for all Americans—|Rave been anti-New Deal--Chair-lilleton post at 10 a. m, and the damned as “socialized medicine”|™80 Walter George (Ga.), Sen. West Lafayette post at 2 p. m. by the medical profession-—-has a drry F. Byrd (Va) and Edwin . Johnson (Colo.). These three be made After vote readily to widen the Social[*nd the six ‘committee Republis Mr. ‘Thiirston hecomes superin- Security system will not go along|Cn4 this can bend a tax program itondent Monday on the health bill pretty much as they wish, The adminisiration is intent on : " . moving first and fastest on new TRUCKS MOSTLY LOCAL

Purse grabbers who got $167 from three victims last night and yesterday were still at large to-

IT'S WATER THAT POPS The moisture in popcorn is re-|labor legislation to replace the} Taft-Hartley law, It is dolhg

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