Show Round Merry By DREW PEARSON u and nd ROBERT ALLEN LLEN Trade Mark WASHINGTON Vague WASHINGTON Vague news of a a. a collision between the presidents president's yacht and a photographers photographers' photographers photographers' photographers photographers' boat has leaked out but the facts regard regarding ing the seriousness of the crash have been carefully care care- fully concealed For one brief moment it looked as if the Sevanna with the aboard would founder It happened this way Photographers had hired a a. a boat to get close- close ups of the president embarking at North Haven Me and were told by Marvin McIntyre to wait at the wharf until he was low lowered red over the side of his destro destroyer er onto the yacht Then the destroyer destroy destroy- er would send them a messenger and they would come close and take all the pictures they wanted Three and a half hours passed No messenger Finally they noticed that the presidents president's flag was being lowered from the destroyer indicating indicating indicating ing he had left it So they started out to catch the manned by Roosevelt and his sons Photographers' Photographers Argument By that time she was well outside the harbor but they finally caught up with her Then an argument ensued among the photographers the movie men wanting long distance shots with long distance lenses the newspaper photographers photographers photographers wanting ups close-ups for still pictures Finally th the movies were given their chance then the boat was ordered closer for the stills About this time a heavy squall came up Both boats were pitching S I IThe The captain of the chartered vessel being given orders simultaneously by every very photographer photographer pher aboard tried to get very close to the yacht at which point a big wave swept the two ves vessels els together The presidents president's sons shrieking curses at the the- photographers tried desperately to keep out of ot the way But the two boats collided and the bowsprit t of the got entangled with the bow of the other boat For one brief moment it looked as if the yacht was going over But the two ships finally got apart The presidents president's sons did not mince words telling telling telling tell tell- ing the photographers what they thought of them and orders were given that all future pictures pictures pic pie tures must be taken on land The incident did not help Roosevelt relations relations' with the Boston press whatever press whatever those relations may ay be worth Window v Dressing The trial of the insurgent industrial unions by the executive council of the A. A F. F of L. L set for August 3 is only window dressing Behind the scenes the incensed craft union moguls of the federation are ate all set to drop the trap on John L. L Lewis and his allies They have the votes and they would have cracked down l last st week except for fot two considerations considerations considerations con con- First was the tremendous backwash of rank file and-file hostility against any disciplinary ac ac- ac tion The executive council has been deluged with messages protesting its truculent attitude toward the independents More than a score of state labor federations have adopted resolutions resolutions resolutions reso reso- demanding a off hands-off policy Second the executive council was uncertain about its powers under the A. A F. F of L. L It claims that it has authority to sus- sus suspend pend affiliate unions The Th insurgents deny this contend that only the annual convention o of ot the federation can oust Dust a member and then solely by a two-thirds two vote And since they control more than third one-third of the federation they are not worried about what would happen in the convention Clever Jockeying This is exactly what the craft moguls ar are jockeying to 10 prevent by suspending the insurgents insurgents insurgents gents before the convention meets But realizing realizing realizing ing that their action will be violently attacked they decided to give it an aura of legality On the advice of attorneys the they concocted the formula of preparing formal charges and a atrial atrial trial Behind this maneuver is an attempt to toba ba bait t Lewis' Lewis crowd into some action that would give the council grounds to claim that the insurgents insurgents insurgents' gents gents' recognized its Us jurisdiction to pass judgment judgment judgment judg judg- ment on them Co lg 6 b by by Feature uro Syndicate alc In |