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Fla. Av MeH fflT I i wew? we wahma lar Naplea fishing guide, pulled into the yacht basin Friday evening at the end of a two-hour run from Naplea. Hit little 25-foot Correct-Craft guide boat, Pretty Eyed Baby, really carries the mail when Capt. Fingers givea her the gun. The captain pulled in here to meet a party.

Your scribe, in the decreptitude and decay of hi declining years, has come to that leg of his voyage on the stormy sea of life when ho must either reef or crack up. Naturally he has decided to reef which means shifting some of hia responsibilities to the shoulders of younger and more capable men, The job of race director for the Royal Palm Yacht Club has been turned over to Col. H. M. Fiore, whose well known place of business is at the North end of the Edison Bridge on the up-river side.

The next sailboat race to be sponsored by the Royal Palm Yacht Club will be on Labor Day, Sept. 1. Sailboat skippers, please contact Col. Fiore and watch this column for future Information on the race. The Royal Palm Yacht Club is an active and healthy outfit composed of boatmen and their mates.

Unlike some yacht clubs, it is not stuffed-shirt front for poker playing and other questionable forms of diversion. There are two phasea of membership, the resident members and the cruising members. The cruising members are those who are currently domiciled in far away places but entertain a sufficiently high regard for the Royal Palm Yacht Club to desire memebership therein. There are cruising members on the Pacific Coast, on the Atlantic Ciast and at varioui places in between. At the last director's meeting we approved the application of a gentleman from Albuquerque, N.

and a citizen of no mean city, who has heen keeping his boat at Daytona Beach. We have one member, a lieutenant colonel, who ia with this man's army in Germany. The Royal Palm Yacht Club We stopped at the yacht basin last night just in time to meet some mighty nice people; Dr. Frank A. Stump and his lovely wife, Dorothy.

The Stumpi have home In Clearwater, where the doctor maintains a dental office when he ie not out fishing. Their little ahip, the Frandoca, 30-foot Owens, it cleverly named by taking a syllable from the names of Dr. Frank, Dorothy, their son, Frank and his wife, Carol. Add it all up and it spells "Frandoca." The Stumps have been keeping their boat at Cape May, N. J.

-which Is, after all, quite a hike to go fishing but are now bringing her down through the Inland We-terway and up the coast to Clearwater. Dr. and Mri. Frank have been enjoying their cruise the right way leisurely. After clearing Cape May, July 13, they -prowled along the Inland Waterway, stopping; at points of interest or where-ever they needed a spot of rest.

They had no rain until they got this side of Okeechobee but ran into duster while crossing Albemarle Sound. They spent a little time at Daytona and Ft. Pierce, which they enjoyed, and are very favorably impreased with the Fort Myers yacht basin, iti facilities and aurroundinga. The good ship, Frandoca, is well suited to comfortable sports fishing, with a 10-foot, 4-inch beam, shallow draft and husky Chrysler motor. She fliei the colors of the U.

S. Coast Guard Auxiliary. When we saw a 34-foot Chris-Craft Commander glide into the basin, we watched her come about and crawfish into the slip we wanted to see the name on her transom. It was the Wood Nymph, of Jacksonville. There were three congenial gentlemen aboard; R.

L. Griffith, president of Dixie Wood, E. R. Turner and E. E.

Dyal, also of the Wood corporation. The genetlemen were en route to Mobile on a business trip, which they wish to coincide with the annual Mobile Rodeo, which runs three days, Aug. 15-1 S. Ca.pt. "Fingers" O'Bennon, popu- land and Michigan are in states which are now represented by two Democratic senators, and GOP prospects don't look very bright there.

Maryland, where Sen. O'Conor is retiring, seems to hold the Republicans' best hope for an overturn-but that's only one. Sen. Moody of Michigan has made a fine record and now that he's been given the Democratic nomination he doesn't figure to have much trouble defeating his Republican opponent, Rep. Charles E.

Potter, in November. But far from capturing any three seats from the Democrats, the Republicans will have a tough time hanging on to all of the 20 of their own which are at stake. The nomination of Symington in Mis-souri by the Democrats over the undistinguished candidate President Truman had backed makes it very likely that the Republicans will lose that one. Their candidate is, the isolationist Sen. James P.

Kem whose record is one of the very worst. The progressive Symington has broad support and the odds are heavy that he will displace the Republican Kem. In other states, too, incumbent Republicans face strong foes. In Ohio, the or-atorical Sen. John Bricker is up against Mike DiSalle, a formidable candidate.

In Wisconsin, Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy has stiff Democratic opposition and has been handicapped by an operation which has prevented him from campaigning. In Utah, Sen. Arthur V.

Watkins faces a ptronjr Democratic rival in Marriner S. Eccles, the former Federal Reserve Board chairman. In Indiana. Demo-cratic Gov. Henry F.

Schricker is a serious threat to the isolationist Sen. William Jenner. The effects of some of these senatorial contests will go beyond the Senate they will weigh heavily on the presidential returns as well. The candidacies of such men as Symington in Missouri, Moody in Michigan, DiSalle in Ohio, Eccles in Utah and Schricker in Indiana will certainly help Stevenson in those states; but the Republican candidacies of senators like Kem, Bricker, McCarthy and Jenner will be a handicap rather than a help to Eisenhower in their states. Police here recovered $407 of stolen cash hidden in a snuff can.

And that's not to be sneezed at. Keep young folks busy, advises a iudge. When there's nothing they should Co is when they do things they shouldn't. Gen. Eisenhower urges expansion of the social security program to cover 14 million more persons.

If Gov. Stevenson had proposed that it would be called Socialism. A Michigan youngster was unhurt when he fell from the second to the first floor of a home under construction. If he'd fallen through to the basement it would have been another story. THE SENATE RACES The victories last week of W.

Stuart Sjtnington of Missouri and Blair Moody of Michigan in their states' Democratic senatorial primaries make it likely that the Democrats will do more than retain control of the Senate in the November election they may increase the narrow majority they won in 1950. the election two years ago produced a Senate of 49 Democrats and 47 Republicans. This margin soon became 50 to 46 when Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg, the Michigan Republican, died and Democrat Moody was appointed to succeed him.

This fall there will be 35 Senate seats at stake in the elections the 82 which constitutionally become vacant every two years, plus those of the late Senators Virgil M. Chapman of Kentucky, Brien McMahon of Connecticut and Kenneth S. Wherry of Nebraska. Of these 35 peats, 20 have been held by Republicans and 15 by Democrats. So in order to win control of the Senate, the Republicans would have to hang on to every one of their 20 seats which are at stake and capture at least three of the 15 Democratic eeats.

But six of these 15 Democratic peats are in the South (including that of Sen. Holland in Florida) and therefore definitely beyond the reach of the GOP. Of the other nine, all but those in Mary. Asslqtiment: America Looking Sidewoyi Cliches in Reading Matter Burn Them At the Library Briton Takes Look At Florida Winter By WHITNKY BOLTON really gets around. Fidltr In Hollywood Atmosphere Players More than 'Extras' Man Who Saw first Saucers Thinks They're Living By INEZ ROBB Ran into six example! of "exact replica" and four "Due to tha fact that" in the New York Sun-day newspapers Has anyone ever seen an inexact replica? If it was inexact it wouldn't be a replica And why a man with a typewriter should write five whole words when he could write one, "because," is something unfathomable Irvin S.

Cobb had an over-writing phrase that cindered him the way "Due to the fact that" incinerates me Hit was "For Johnson to open the window was but the work of a moment." Old Irvin eould never understand why writers jutt didn't write: "Johnson opened the window immediately." One of America's greatest dramatists has a horror of the theatrical cliche: "Won't you tit down?" Hit 11 plays contain not one line involving that question He merely has an actor gesture toward a chair with "a polite, Inquiring expression." A leading novelist winces when he encounters the printed phase, "Funnily enough." The other phase that dramatists avoid rushing in their plays is: "Don't you have anything to say?" Not because it is trite but because actors ad lib it when another actor goes up in hit linet and can't remember what he ahould say next Actors use it to jog memories, to shock another player who hat gone dry To use it as a written line in a play would be confuting to actors. Mn I'd like to know it Sir Alexander Cadogan, new head of the British Broadcasting Corporation Neither of us ownt a television set We have one in the house but I'm not allowed to use it It belongs to my wife, who occasionally acts on television and then catches herself on filmed re-play a few dayt later Later the fellow who always clowned up the class portrait by posing on the right end of the group and, at the camera slowly panned along the length of the class, would run around back of the camera and pose on the left end Anyway, she said: "We ought to have a televis- ion set," and I taid: "You mean you ought to have one," and three weeks later, uting her salary from a television thow, the bought one It came with a plaque: "For per-tonal use of the owner only." Tht plaque cost her a dollar extra and it's screwed on tight right where you can read it if tempted to lift the cover Who's ever tempted There's some good acting bark in town after a summer lay-off: Henry Fonda has re-opened in "Point of No Return" No eritie yet hat perfectly evaluated the astonishing talent that it Fonda't A relaxed actor, a white-collar pebble-kicker in his style, he manage! without visible exertion to create a character of superb dimension His ttageyiortrait of "Mister Roberta" was one that no succeeding actor ever approached, and it is doubtful that any other actor could come near the full, rich stature of Fonda't work In hia eurent play Besides which, ha eamt cheen at a man who could have remained constantly and richly employed in moviea but chose to return to the theater and devott) hit talents to it Thoughtful, Intelligent, seriously concerned with his work, he shapes up as Broadway's Mr. Real. Just ran into another Sunday paper wrestla with the Englith language Fellow writing a piece about architecture described something as being "exactly tha tame thing." -j If it's the earns thing it hat to be exactly so or it itn't the. ttme Would you like to have a collage of Bette Davit? That doesn't mean tnip of her hair This one ia by Salvador Dali and the first person to up with $1,000 in cash can have it A collage seems to be a composite pieture and not an educational institution I didn't know what it wat, either Did a piece about a grown-up doll named Margaret O'Brien recently About how lovely she looked in a lacy white evening gown But that was before I saw her In a crimson summer linen outfit She's going to Japan about Aug.

16 to make a movie there cers have been seen only over this continent, Arnold said. "They have been seen all over tha world, Including Russia, Africa, Korea and Northern Europe." Although Arnold is convinred that the saucers are not a menacing or attacking; force he is not at all certain that aircraft hava not col. lided with them In recent yeai. No one has lived to tell the tale, but this would explain some otherwise inexplicable air disasters in the past five years. The Boise man believes the saucers are large, gelatinous masses that vaporlie when they hit the ground.

This, too, might explain why the phenomenon seems able to change its density in flight, a peculiarity noted by a number of observers. Arnold has several aviation inventions to his credit and is highly regarded in his home town. He is not only a most successful fire control engineer but is an acting deputy federal U.S. marshal, a member of the Idaho Search and Rescue Flyers and a flying deputy for the county aerial posse. It was while on a search mission in 1947 that he saw the first saucers and accidentally gave them the picturesque name that has stuck ever aince.

At that time he said "they flew like a saucer would if you skipped it nrross water." With Ray Palmer, he is the author of one of the first honks about the flying objects, a volume called "The Coming of the Saucers." To unbelievers and scoffers he simply tells the story of the pigeon that flew hend-on into a plate glass window. Limping home with feathers he-draggled, the pigeon told his companions of his terrible experience. "The air suddenly froie solid in front of me," he declared. The other pigeons looked at him in disbelief and sneeredi "Tell that to the sparrows," BOISE, Idaho This is an up ami coming community, and the city father do intend to be caught flat-footed if flying saucer derides to land here to visit Kenneth Arnold, the Boise flyer and engineer who spotted the first such phenomena in 1947. The airport commission and tha city council have approved a fee-scheduled for flying saucers-wishing to use tha Boise airport.

Tho landing fee has heen fixed at $50 saucer for non-scheduled flights and the fee must be paid in U.S. currancy. Interplanetary greenbacks will not be accepted. If the saucer radios in for a scheduled landing, all feea will ba waived. If tha saucer merely desires to hover over the field at an altitude of less than 100 feet, there will be standard fee of $10 for the first three minutes of hovering and $10 for each additional minute.

"This is merely the city's usual forward looking action," says Mayor R. E. Edlefsen. Arnold, who set off the flying saucer uproar five years ago when he reported the first flight of nine, will allow any saucer to land for free in his own private landing field on the outskirts of the city. But he does not expect any little green men two feet high to scramblp out of the saucers, if and when they land.

He is convinced after devoting much time and $12,000 of his own money to private investigation, that the saucer is a living, thinking force from the stratosphere or beyond. The solid citizen still lookg like thy football player he used to be. He is one of the least hysterical of psychotic, persons I have ever interviewed. He is, naturally, delighted at the announcement that U.S. radar screens have picked up formations of this mysterious phenomena.

He has become an informal clearing house for taurer news and maeazine reports from the four corners of the globe. It is a big mistake to believe that flying sau rehearsal and one take. Occasionally, on a big tet, and I've handled up to 1700 atmosphere players in one crowd, you must give them explicit cues. For instance, you might have a police car chasing a car full of gangsters. The police car can't round a corner until the car it't pursuing has reached a certain point.

Yon can then have a player who can aee both cars unobtrusively give the cue, because the assistant director can't be In the scene to do it. It's the same with wagon wrecks in westerns. You ran have the atmosphere players give the cues for the crash so that there is no danger to players afoot. Take the case of a large group of Indian atmosphere players making a charge. You might have four cameras spotted around and you can't give 300 Indians exact cues for each camera.

What I do it show them where the camerat are and then tell them not to take a fall off a horse when they're not within camera range, and to ba eure they're in the clear before they take a fall so they won't hit tomeone. I tell them to charge 1n and try to space themselves naturally. That's about all that's required because you generally can trust the good judgement of the atmosphere players, even if they're real Indiana to whom you're talking through an interpreter. Speaking of Indians, for one, have always liked to work with them. What I love about them ia that you can tell them to stand in a certain place and they'll stand there until you tell them to move, or sit down, even if it taket three days.

Naturally, however, you try to be more considerate of their comfort. If I had any advire to give newcomers in the business I would tell them to be neat in appearance and mannerly in speech. In spite of the odds against them, and the odds are pretty great, there it always a chance for an atmosphere player to get somewhere in the motion picture business. Many atmosphere players, who belong to the Screen Extras Guild, also belong to the Screen Actors Guild, and there is always a chance they may be tapped for a bit role which can lead to an even larger role. It happent now and then in By WILLIAM KISSEL (Pinch.

hitting for vacationing Jimmle Fidler) As an assistant director, whose job it is to handle crowd scenes, dislike hearing atmosphere people called "extras." There it nothing "extra" about them. They're Important to picture business. Most of them are fine men and women, making their living the honest way. Most have been workers in the motion picture Industry for many years. Some of them have been important stars in the past.

As an assistant director at Warner Bros, for 20 years, I have always tried to regard them as individuals and not as just a group or a mass to be ordered about preemptorily, I like to give atmosphere play-era a chance to ahow a little initiative. One reason ia that when you're working with aeveral hundred people, you can't give them all euei and tell each one exactly what he's to do at a specified moment. You'd never get a scene dope that way, For instance, when we do a scene in a railroad station, I give them a speech something like this: "Alright, folks, you've been in a lot more railroad stations than I have. I want you to art natural. Don't mill around, but do what you'd do If you were actually in a railroad station.

When you tee a dead spot, fill it." When we do a restaurant te-quence I give them the same sort of speech. And it's good to see tome old timer fill up a dead spot instinctively, like getting up to greet someone at another table in the background or hailing a waiter, without any express order from the director or the assistant director. If you give them a little leeway In this respect they'll always cooperate with you, Many times atmosphere people will know more about what they're to do than the assistant director. For instance, when I was assistant on the recently completed "Top Secret" at Warner which atars Cornel Wilde, Steve Cochran and Phyllis Thaxter, we had a com-bat tcene involving 50 German soldiers on patrol, I found that of the 50 meo, 30 were combat veterans. I simply told them.

"Gentlemen, here is our problem," and outlined what the scene called for, They tolved it and we did it in one BY DORIS F. CARVER When Robert Burns penned the famous linet, "Oh wad tome pow. er the giftie gie ua to tee ourselt as Ithers see us," he may not have meant it quite literally; for teeing ourselves through other eyes it often an embarrassing experience. But when Alittair Cooke does the analysing, it turns out to ba highly entertaining and informative. "One Mans America" is composed of 29 selections from Mr.

Cooke't broadcasts to Britain. That Is the tame Mr. Cooke whose "One Man't Convention' had folks sitting up and taking notice last month. These brief essayt include inch topin as Joe Louit, a kidnaping in New York, winter in Flor-Ida. It is in no sense an expose' it it a sane, shrewd and appreciative account of the author's ob-tervation in America.

A chapter entitled "Some of Our Beat Citi-tent" is notably thought provoking. Mr. Cooke is adept at pointing out some of our more peculiar paradoxes. In the Florida chapter, he notes that "most of the native southerner! are the north cf the state; the eouthern part of the state is 90 per cent northern." And (now don't get mad) he suggests that Florida is "not so much state as a state of mind." Other bonkt just received at the library are "The Missing Heiress, Berniee Carey; "Cava-lier't Corpse," Theodore DuBoia; "Indian Summer," Robert Sylvester; "Island Rescue," Jerrard Tirkell; "Last Seen Wearing," Hillary Waugh; and a trickt, stunts and skits book for the voung readers called "Do It Yourself." Views of Editors WHO PAID IT? It really suprised us to read in the New Jersey Power Light Company magazine that 'if tha company had been forgiven ita tax bill for the year 1BB1 It would have been able to provide- free electric service to every residential customer for five months of the year. Danville (N.J.) Herald.

HAMILTON WAS RIGHT One dollar out of every tix now paid in wages or salaries In tha United States goes to a government worker, Wages and talariea currently being paid total approximately $1R6 billions a year. Fed-o eisuuiXsd iao pus aims ia employes total $32 billiont, or slightly more than 17 percent of the total of wagei and salaries. If when you are receiving S6 in wages or salary tome policeman should step up and take from you one of your six earned dollars, you would be ready to stage a rebellion even hotter than that generated by the tea tax that helped to precipitate the revolution. And the policeman it just tt real and pertistent, although hi happent to be Invisible. You pay tht dollar just the same.

Many of the taxes you pay are hidden taxes. You pay many of them without even suspecting that you are paying them. Some of them are witholding taxes which take your dollare before you even see it. But you pay and pay. In advocating excise or hidden taxes Alexander Hamilton declared that government can tax the people to the very bone without arousing any protest if it only keep tho tax disguishecl.

People wh would resist direct taxet even unto the death make no protest when paying an even greater indriect or hidden tax. Hamilton wat right Daily Oklahoman Answer to Previous Puizlo Bock to School The Notional Whirligig Stevenson Seen Throw -Back to Wilson's Hew freedom HOBIZONTAL 1 Vied In geography iesiona i This one goes to nunery school I Adhesive for cuts at school recess 12 Malt beverage 2 Toward the sheltered side 3 Contrition 4 Stripped 9 War god of Greece What the teacher did 7 Female theep 8 Name of a composition Region i SI TOAST By RAY TUCKER 13 Pupils all in line 10 What pupils shouldn't be 14 Angers 19 First graders Essential 23 Five-dollar bills (cell.) 28 Malicious burning 27 Mourners 28 Rooms in harems 29 Direettco II Landed property 33 Waxes 38 Calm 40 Clamps 41 Musical composition 42 Domesticated 43 Wild r- 44 Heal 46 Units 47 Pen name oft Charles Lassl 48 Mature 50 Unit of wire' measurement funny Business count to Those who "Made a bWi take offense 18 Rich girl "French 30 Make happy Jevnu Spread to dry 22 Gaelic 24 Unblesehed ''Governor Stevenson's nomination was so arranged by the polities! experts," states J. B. F. of Sumter, N.C., "that he did nnt have to lay what he stands for.

Is he a 'fair deal Truman The Democratic nominee will have to answer that question when he takes to the stump. It is already evident that the Republicans intend to depict as a Truman understudy, which would cost him millions nf in my opinion. This belief is also shared by many Stevenson advisers and friends. SENSIBLE However, from an analysis of the Illinois Governor's discussions of national jsues and he has given his views fully and freely in the past I do not think it is fair or accurate to call him a "Truman fair dealer." Ha is far too rational, intelligent and sensible to approve the radical ideas Truman sponsored liir.ply for vote-petting purposes. Broadly speaking, he opposes centralization cf power in the federal government.

He thinks hat Washington should intervene only when, for some the states cannot discharge their obligations. This preference for local action applies to questions Involving power, health, education, racial relations and even labor problems. He favors modification rathe' than repeal of Taft-Hartly. THROWBACK He is no wiU spender, like Truman. His post-Korea, 1951 budget was mailer than his 184a budget.

As a former publisher and corporation lawyer, he ia not ntl-business. He has said that "one corrupt officiaj is one too He does, of course endorse the foreleg policy knows as "collective security," and helped to organize the Nations. He is a throwback to Wnodrow Wilson, 'Wilson's "New Freedom" had nothing In common with the "new deal" or "fair It evisag-ed the government only as an impartial referee, whose only responsibility was to insure that every American had the opportunities for enjoyment of life, liberty and happiness. DIFFF.RKNCF An anecdote dating from early "new deal" days seem to express the difference hetween Truman and Stevenson. According to the story, Moses said to his people: "Follow me and I shall lend you to the promised land." But Franklin D.

Roosevelt, and Truman even more jubilantly, said to the A-nieriran people! "Fit where you are, take It easv, vote for us, and we will bring the promised land to you." In view of Stevenson's acceptance speech description of the dangers and hardships ahead, which recalled Churchill's "blood and tears, toil and sweat" consecration, the Democratic nominee, talks and acts more like the realistic Moses that his political imitators. PECl'RITY' "I have rend," says E. H. P. of Northhampton, "that General Eisenhower ia epposed to Social Security.

He is also reported to have said that, If it la security that people want, they ran get it by going to jail," General Eisenhower is not opposed to Social Security, whose extension Is advocated in the Republican platform. It is true that, speakinij before a TeNas chamber of commerce, he did say: "If all the American people want is security, they can go to prison. 24 Levtl 26 Mine entrance 27 Deep 90 Middle 92 Ten years 94 School period IS Dropsies 50 Employ 97 Throw 30 Repose 40 Weathercock 41 Males 42 Implied without words 45 Male chicken 49 Entertainment 51 High priest 92 Additional 53 Arrow poison 54 Tear 55 Pieces out 50 For tear that 57 So (Scot.) VlsmCAL 1 What school children call arithmetic 1 It 14 1 lie lii 2 fmmm r- 5 gjr- 5TT3 t- mnyn 5 5 ststnt a St tnrjr Jlu 3 9 1111 I- I I I I In 1 "Make it snappy! We only have four days of viction left-t'a taken the wife ten days to pack!".