The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-22


 ousness of the crash have
 Fur one brief moment it looked as if the eewanna. with the RoOseveits aboard, would founder.
 It happened this way::
 Phot0grapfeFs had hired c bOat 0 get cloSeups Of the President embaEhing nt North Haven, Maine, and were told by Marvin Mcintyre to wait at the wAiage until he was lowered over enc side Of his destroyer on tO the yacht. Then the destroyer would send them . messenger, and they would come close and take all the pictures they wanted.
 Three and a half hours passed. No messenger. Finally they Ilo- tlced that the Presidents flag was being lowered from the destroyer, indicating he had left 1t. So they started out to catch the See wanna, manned by Roosevelt and his sons. Nlt
 Photographers Argument
 By that time, she was well out- side the l1arhor, but they finally caught up with her. Then an ar- gunnent ensued among the photoA graphers, the movie men wanting long distance shots with long diS- tance lenses, the newspaper photographers wanting close-ups for still pictures.
 Finally the movies were given their chance, then the boat was ordered closer for the stills. About this time Q heavy squall came up. Both boats were pitching.
 The captain of the chartered vessel, being given orders simul- taneously by every photographer aboard, tried to get very close to the yacht, at which point Q big wave swept the two vessels to- gether.
 Two Boats Collide
 The Presidents sons, shrieking curses at the photographers, tried desperately to keep out of the way. But the two boats colllded, and the bowsprit of the Savanna got entangled with the bow of the other boat.
 For one brief moment, 1t looked % if the yacht was going over. But the two ships finally got apart.
 The Presidents sons did not inince words telling the photo- graphers what they thought of them, and orders were given that all future pictures must be taken on land. The incident did not help Roosevelt relations with the Boston press--whatever those reT lations may be worth.
 By His Own Petard
 Ex-Comptroller General John R. McCarl now knows exactly what is meant by the expression, moist by his own petard." His en- lightenment came about this way:
 On tho eve of his retiring from fifteen years as watchdog of the treasury, 6 minor execu- tive in his office opened sub- scription list to buy McCarl 8 farewell gift. When the total pledges were tailed they came to 92,000, and 1t was decided to buy him an Al automobile.
 Forgotten Dictum
 A committee was picked, motor agencies visited and everything was all set for a final choice when one of the General Account- ing office employees quietly pro. duced a forgotten document.
 This was . stern ruling by McCarI holding that govern ment workers could not con- tsibutc to . fund to buy gifts for . superior officer. McCarl had issued his decree . year earlier, when he learned that AAA employees proposed to buy . watch for m executive.
 So McCari's ukase killed Me- Carl's S2,000 limousine.
 NOTE--After McCarl departed, 6 small group of his former as- sistants bought Q set of law books for his new office.
 Window Dressing
 The 'trlal" of the insur- gent industrial unions by the. executive council. of the 4. F. of L., set for August 3, is only win- dow dressing. Behind the scenes, the incensed craft union lnoguls of the Federation are all set to drop the trap on John L. Lewis and his allies.
 They have the votes and they would have cracked down last week except for two considera- tions:
 FIRST, was the tremendous backwash of rank-and-file hos- tility against any disciplinary ac- ton. The executive council has been deluged with messages pro- testing It's truculent attitude tow- ard independents. More than Q score of state labor federations have adopted resolutions demand ing e hands.off policy.
 SECOND, the executive council was uncertain about it's powers under the AFL constitution. It claims that 1t has authority to