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Hoosier Vagabond By Ernie Pyle BE Tig STI BEL 10

SROOK hd, Aug 10 George Ade is a wonderful Willkie either But hes known practically all the Hes 74 and I'm roughly (ha ha) Dalf of that vest Ive spent the day at his Dome, never felt more He NIikes--just as Meredith Nicholson does—to ye-| OME anywhere, never was more brilliantly enters vert © the old days and tell stories of Riley and “a. He i evervthing I ever heard he was Parkington. He is full of yarns about Mr. Riley, and George Ade is one of that fa as Ne tells them he gets tickled and laughs and MOUs Quartet that made Mdiana laughs fIeat in letters. The quartet of He says My. Riley was without question the most Jamier Whitcomb Riler, Booth amazing ang mteresting personality he ever knew. | Tarkington, Me edith Nicholson He has famed fetter fiom the poet mn hig study, | and Mr. Ade himsel and the drawers are full of them Mr. Riley died bel ore I ever Mr. Ade has a numility about him which I love. | got around his way, Three yeals Not a deliberate humility, but just a plain Hoosier, ago I drove around My. Tark- appraisal of himsel? For example, he was telling nmgton s home at Kennebunkport, how Indiana University gave him an honorary Doctor | Me. for half an hour and never of Laws adgree in 1926 ROL UD nerve enoush te go in “They gave them to Tarkington and Nicholwon Last winter I Spent an eve- and me.” he says, “and that was pretty fast company Ag With Meredith Nicholson inn for me to be He mn!” And he meant it. He has American Embassy in Niece the facility for being gi eatly flattered by things peo. |! here he 18 U.S. Minister. Delightful is the ple do for him Ed he beams over that degree like! for Mr. Nicholson a little boy NOW this day - with George Ade. It is 4 He has three degrees on his study wall. His ovigI will treasure all my life. Mis kind are inal one from Purdue, fom which he graduated in the earth. They are sharp, witty, gently 1887; a Doctor of Humane Letters from Purdue; and : the understanding. and b assed with his I. U. doctorate

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k *® has not been well for several years. He ‘Div e Wrath Business heart attacks. I had seen pictures looked Bad. I didnt know whether he “But I can tell you one degree that will never come | nybhodv or not y ay.” he Says, “and thats a Doctor of Divinity eid at Puidue called his farm home (30 0 Sir, Til never get that and left a message ttle while he nen he told about the eveione that hit here a Sure he would see me. Ax NATE TO year apo June. He had pone over to Rensselaer to 0 movie that aftemoon, so he missed the storm. But twister swung aciost Ris farms, touched nothin l smashed down four different sets and most of his beautiful shade

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comfortable hy Nere said it was a station of He haa on gray trouser na sn DIvIng Math for the wav I've alwavs ved ' he sag COAt-—SPIC ANA SPAN AS A Then he Janghed Thats all right s% far ax I'm ang graceful as youth concerned, h it pick on those tenants of m to place i : al Mmns he Yeaas &) y 1 Yd he went on AE Divi Ne-Wrath Business was the winter time e Calls them Blown uP. vou know. when the San Eranciseo five left block-square warehouse full of Dohenys whisky E : standing right in the middle of a whole section of the m Indiana’ he said OM city that was absolutely burned down : Yes, I know Dana. You fing Things like that Mr. Ade tells with ehuekles and where you go, don't you? gr d ne a bom stor tellers zest his Known most all the outstanding Divine wrath were really holding sway. 3 his time But theres a couple that Y gaunt that it woud 1 pick on George Ade at all. He the radio a) o admire ae have Bn 1 has done tod much for his fellow man The Hoosier guardsmen will spend many hours sitting beh ind machine gun tripods—perfecting their marksmanship. Maj. Gen. Tyndall in the field, e Said Thats Rdwin C ll and Eimer . i Then he remembered he had never met Mn NEXT-How Ade Lives Today. By Sam Tyndall \ NR SS A HE first week is to be dee Times Stall Writer : : : voted to (raining of smaller ) EX ROUTE T0 WIRCON- . 3 8 units, while the second week will

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- APD | SIN, Aug. 10. The | | sions Our Town By Anton Scher rer 38th National Guard Divi } a i : The three-week encampment

on if on the move bv rail will be climaxed during the last

1¢ one out Mm Irvington. His name was John M. Hett, a suanger and road this week-end for week with a sham battle between bu i I th nk of Rags the smartest (VINRTONS WiNAINE Ways and aaviating avenues " & “we § \ two army corps, the Fifth and \dianapols ever had the like of which can only be found m Boston | the Wisconsin “front. 3 2 y es. Ny y \ ha seh . Sixth Corps, comprising the Sec. Cars ago, Rags was as much & fixtw That ax LOIN to do out here.” Hett asked More than 3000 Hoosier SPAR House as its bell tower. Besides th } { n at the Engine House This srooked town ; . § one Army Was the pet of Irvington win Nas me all tangled up already and I am likely to guardsmen from scoves of oo «AE a : E ay For this “battle” regiments of was all the more remarkat 14 ! \ some! Res and mee! musi commg back cities and villages over the a & i J Ea 3 a : artiliery and Infantry will join to Because she didnt he an Rags was ving under the Rose wagon at the time 4 £ : v form “combat teams fast-strike-s ting as if Nl Ant have a thing on her mind | State joined mn troop trains i 3 ; Ga : 3 Ng mobile and independent units

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Pn of Irvington th Soon as sl awh he anft of the policeman’s re. and truck convovs with k N } 3 Sa under regimental commanders the people out there made a fuss marks, however, st nped up. barked, and eked] . al . 8 : The troops in the Fifth Corps over anybody who didnt have a the boots of Mi et he firemen knew right! 4000 other Division mem- TR <1} : will be known as the “Blues” family tree away that Rags realized the policeman plight | bers from Kentucky and : : ; : % i while the others will be desige r did Rags have anything | low the dog said : N \ i hated the “Reds.” The problem way of looks urled Ags ran up the stree block. turned off, went West Virginia, = aN NE : i which will continue for several the hose wagon. she might ¢ DI { blocks farther and then waited Ana he 38th Division in turn wail \ ah ; : : days will be carried out over have been mistaken for a when Patrolman MHett up, he quresveread the! jain 55.000 other guardsmen. reg. x ; Wisconsin swamplands, dunes, orchard and fruit country

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worn-out door ma: (Nat dog VIng InN the grass right under the nest ¢all box ware and reservists from four \ gosh, What & head the other states comprising the See« § Tt 3 : | - PD { ond Army for three weeks of gi« Sul u Apt Pupil gantic sham warfare over a 30 = ’ mile front

the equipment of the 4 Division's 10 regiments will Hons Duling the Bs oa) looks pretty good.” said Het and turned in oh 3 Re i be firing blank ammunition at the a ie She held He snapped the box shut when he noticed While troops from the Midale hia oR the “Reds.” Artillery field pieces, On a leash as it ort —b Wd confide? he Ags WAS again out in fron Dox n a winding west Wet on ya Lg A : \ including the 135 mm, will lay On A jeash S it l ana < NY had y 0 seonsin } oops © a \ 3 m ” ’ to the firemen. As time went on, "venue the policeman followed the littie dog until he felds in WViscuns \ ii ; ¥ down “barrages enlateed the field of her activities and with her lying under the next box. And so, Uncle Sims three in i Sh s ; i 3 Ha The 220-mile-an-hour planes Oe reid of Nn Activities ana \ “ in 1 \ with policemen, too around the beat which included practically Rares will be Ene co wi] : : Be of the Division's air squadron will Ne acey territory south of Washington St other sections of Gr = Mon ’ : : : a drone overhead, serving as the 5 ye MAR AY ICIS S (M R oN 3 pNIGe taking | the MOS extensive exerc { R eyes ana ears for the ground

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» x . the next two davs Rags acted as a We 3 Ay ar 3 S \ oN : k 1 1 i ihe Poly SAN OW policeman over the beat and never missing | We World \ x } SR Ba 8 roops. All the arms and services > ee 1X ngle call box. On the fourth day. however, Mr. Hett Apnroximately 400 Juntusmen 0 3 al EN of the Division will join to “do are of hey vOrs Wa ALol- ot the suiprise of Ris life. This time Rags qian left Drom Indianapolis alone, In battle." After it's all over the

{I the day baat In Irvington hen pun out in front. Quite the contrary: she followed | sddition to the Division stall ang A basic combat plane. The Division's air squadron is the “eves” for the ground troops. “high command” will get together night run Ags transferred bh at the policeman’s heel She had it figured out that the Division commander, Ma) © to plot the errors and successes TRIE LRU EN RAR al ne § il mn { aa 8 } \ §y » a) TAN 2 v by sall " Yan i 4 3 oilman Sullival ¢ e of The by this time the policeman ough! to know the loca Gen. Robert H. Tyndall, It was the first unit of any in sands of men from every walk of tirely new tactical organizations, Unit commanders, junior offi

polis to see Ra ana Sullivan to. ion of the call boxes without any help. Rags was » » . the National Guard to train as a life gave up their vacations, may n pment and procedure cers and even enlisted personnel

I a el aod X tg FEF ven Peuohnen ett tatned in a pe I will be the 18th consecutive Anvizion and foes into camp this be just a preview to what may 1 il practice mechanized will learn the mistakes thev score, \ r+) I veal that the 38th Division has summer at a peace-time peak in become regular practice should wariare insofar as umitea mo- mace--—so they won't make them AS the policemar Which leaves me only to add that 10 years later ne inte the field during the both training and equipment Congress approve torized and mechanized equip- AgAIN | grew tired of NIX Job and re- lamgelvy because of his fine Aa in Irvington, Mn So gr AAI AS & Avision ot The three-week Wisconsin mas The troops will be trained in ment allows an ATTY Out a came When it might not be a sham POCA Wins pw URE Gay tun Wh HIGH WHS male a Po or Serger pry of JATREr UNits : neuvers, for whieh these thou new types of warfare utilizing en paian in “blitzkrieg” fashion haitle

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Danville All a-Dither — Light] . The tall, silent prowler, garbed

TROOPR in Norwnav said or Gods rough Poland Nila Relgium and France. Alone us Planes ang Rhtt-aj guns M acting independentiv, any one of them would have { heard during the Battle f Fran been wipea out o ho circuited. Germany's sue a . SOS R in a long black robe and a large yd we must have anti-air guns ‘esses may be traced to the clocklike co-ordination be- Affiliate With William Allen Horse Exposed— epeats Don H. Potter Is Elected hood which covers his head and hat Ma). Gen. William Haskell mM tween all her services shoulders, appeared 3 : $ > : ‘ \ . . . | Sh , ! again last charge of the New York Na . If the German tank and motorized units had broe White Committee to By LEO DAUGHERTY Secretary-Ti easurer, night after a three-week layoff Guard, says in a letter t te Ken the time-table schedule and burst into action " . Mrs. Diana Brandenburg 1° President: “Give us gun ithout waiting for the dive bombers to clear the way S ort Britain THE BLAGRBIRDS are oruung Danville and Nis olcinis Ho end Poole on Board. N. Pershing Ave, told he he , . . » ‘ . : can’t stick out your tongue at a and dis rupt enemy back areas, the tanks and motor. upp . of trouble saw him walking down the street ak n ived elements wld have Deen smash 3 1 | ; . i . ub a y xy . wn} 3 ln oN alae te ’ = ot ee eh yf ait id elements A . ne desl nat virgen The Indiana Committee for Na- Cly Humston, president of the Board of Trustees, is all for paving Don H. Potter has been elected at 14th St and Tremont Ave, ave In| ed antl ach { (he Ar force haa gash nto act anes } : yo . Yerbking Wh PABA f “ 2 y We have 1X0 of cheat and developed a huge time gap its plunge {ional Defense today became affili- | 3 wonded employee of the town to visit the infested areas every night secretary ana treasurer of nh ( She ran into her home and notiNew York 4nd the advance of land forces, the air-force destrue- ated with the William Allen White 3 th a gun Ins , nationally known saw fled police,

{0 war on the birds with a gun T . ‘ ‘ 36 al J . . . 1¢ prowler nv al m tion would have been wasted, and the defenses would Committee to Defend America by He said that if the paid Killer did any damage other than to the manufacturers here. to succesd Fred both and 0 Si ba re ‘ Lid . . \ .

have consolidated ficet the tardy 1) Aiding the Allies Sk wii . ) ywald cover trig mE Yatra have consolidated to offset the tardy land attack | The sroups became associated fol blackbirds his bond We ula « Gardner, who died recently, reason for such dress. has never i aide . in ; it Mr. Humston also proposed | guards rescued him from the bote | In > hasing t| spoke . . A [lowing the expansion of the objec t the marshal to turn or M. Poole, purchasing agent| spoken to or harmed anyone, yet “ .h t ; to instrue 1e marshy [ tom wk 7 " ’ {4 Mite Committee, ace . hy firm since 1908 was electe he keeps reappearing in various Comes {tives of the Wh '¢ Yomi | a deaf ear to all gunfire within Recovered from that shock '® firm since 1906, was elected Seth : PP! atin Pious cording to Kenneth LL. Ogle, execu- . | : > . bi oh ’ WER ections of the city time and time “ok Ah i 4) : a > : the corporation limits so that Charles went fishing in Lake |! he board of directors preached in the military tive secretary of the Indiana organ : . ' St t he nt yaa! n ) CET bh JARYY 3 ' mraet atin : citizens could carry on the war- | ghafer. The hook got caught in Mr. Potter has been connected | _ , \ . . Nool ms, tI can be learned only by practice i ization g 5 4 atk with the RDA for more than NA maneuvers no dive mbers . the field or on the sea. The Germans. from the be- There are 368 units of the Indiana Ian : ee | his hand and they had to call a with the company lo ! ol § ngle-seater fighting plane re u nin 2 their ana y ; ABR ™ Evia . ; A ; Milford Hadley, the park com doctor to remove it y Year having been employed ! eit Ming, maa heir ang, sea and air forces Indes, Pefense Committee and 500 chap- ' ARG th a quarrer-millioh hy aI peng at of ther far a ommand wa m | \ Wi t ganization Reb missioner, explained clearly that » RN » auring his summer vacations while ° dent of each er &8 ar ®/S © man as ¢ - 18 "Nite organize X . i \ ) yuard Y ng ACAY LS diers in the t y By, os ® A i a : ( 8 jo ters of the 3 org ht ( : el if anvone started shooting over his Georae Bonsinper is Bring ena iN high school and college He is . heh ’ AR hd mi Nadia Re mea § NAG 11S ovn general staf NE own re- resentatives of the two [RIoUpPs met h id b (00 bad for oorge enNzIinger 1s deine a |¥ x member of the Atkins Pioneer ETE STIL ATE 110 WiVE DOMDEIS AVAL- onsibla command. and its own unified control. With recently with Prof. Theodore Smith house it wouwia be 100 b Secretive about a new power he had |, : eo , | ' . \ A A . ’ . h A . '" i it that unification accompiished, co-ordination with of the Massachusetts Institute of yt " Th developed to charm birds. Walking we Book i ise ahi ne ‘ ¥ y 1 { 3) » \, 7 XL N Lan other arms would have been impossibie Technology. national co-ordinator Sam Andere - seoided to NO the Kokomo Tribune office he tig vid af Ore 1 ate I-~Labor Day always comes on % 1 AY Pp 3 1 3 ) Atiowe } Haes [A&C 1 of y * Navy opponents of a separate air force say that un- of the White committee rn She Tels “all tve displayed a white sparrow perched '' AIRE "he fh n prog wo which day of the week? +3 Ar) oe p . ‘ a Sia a » \'e 1 CR ANCE A rtably nn \ i a He si on, } { fy § LOW i ‘ the fleet commander has command of both sea The principal idea back of the 8 f ‘ comfortably in his han 1€ SAVS 9 : h § ; Th , : meshot eo \ pal a al 18 a +~Does soaking o : I units comprising a fleet, victory is impossible. formation of the Indiana Commit. &O HE oad A n pido he CoNXed Sot, Pld Ito hit hand " Brun = the eo 0, ai mushrooms on ¥ Selig Doesonous . x \ a . \ § . Grant artin san 3 t lad F oF x e er of the { mY LH | : t Y Id be made plain to the people that G® ets turn that claim around and ask tee for National Defense was that \ with a blade of gras thas ‘ale ‘Ba Hy Bia} \ 5 § \ he ‘European $1 o date is not What shout victory in the air® I i possible 10 demoeracy's OW moving peace- | duty to see that the no shooting f & = Other officials of the firm are them harmless Eh. | he EAS A , > oul : y within the corporation aw is en- | Henry ( AtRing, president; Eas | 3--Is a jerboa a jumping rodent utable to her powerful air force nor to her hieve dominance of the air over an entire continent time wavs require the concentratecp : N , 14 IMmit TI . ’ " a ro rd s Fivdd " v 9 a) a 5 rd ran rl forced and the best thing ‘for us Gerald R. Smith, an operating ©. Atkins. vice president; Keves W flving squirrel or a v 2 Ar motorized land forces, nor to her U ithout unified control in the hands of the chief of attention of its citizens in times of te af « Aothin and refrigeration engineer at a Ft Atkins. vice president in sharge of OF ® yampite bat? nF Ship aan sold RB wasdes * ADEFE tH ’ NS are fy an Ix 1 — ol, ddbibe > C : N24 HS, Vee presiacnt in nal To which politics ’ of these arms could have waded ai operations? | emergency if those in charge of the The Danville blackbird problem Wayne brewery, went scot free when sales: Henry ©. Atking Jr. vies G i Ek lit al party did {Government are to function with! yeorge ashington and John {sufficient courage and decision,” Adams belong?

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was eft just that way--two mem- he was haled into court for speed- president and superintendent, and bers of the board determined to [Ing 52 miles an how William A. Atkins and Prank R . | Mr, Ogle said : orc! Dlaze away and the other two | He told the judge he was on his weaver, members of the board of Was Joe Louis the world's heavy. The committee strongly favors) SEF SHAD avainst it way to the brewery to head off an directors Weight boxing champion when he \ |v av By Eleanor Roosevelt « py ah increasing help for ° lag v # So" j explosion in a 120-pound pressure | Was beaten by Max Schmeling? J gland and is also doing all it| . . : : ammonia line which had built up | 6—Which is the writing medium in ~ bi to expedite manufacture of war THE FRED M'CLAINS couldn't +, 935 pounds when frantic officials DUKE DOUBTS VISIT | Ppencils—lead or graphite? ARK. Friday. This place seemed filled out hats dnd sitting on the back of a seat of a small BEAT aS well lle t bining ry figure out for a while who or [called him T—~Senator Burton K, Wheeler rep ats yesterday afternoon, and even in the car. They went off w With a party to picnic in & dis- a nt Ap ne what was flashing on the lights | . ——— . TO u. S. DUE SOON resents Montana, Wyoming or to arrive at Miss Nancy Cook's i ] sould nat a ha late in the Rvp Army dneluding the National! in the barn on their Needham HAMILTON Ber A 10 Minnesota? § 3 ‘oi & large Doon A sre fs Yeni to DITRIE 8% MY Ol} Huaid)S qIse thet Oh arrangement Township farm east of Franklin BRUCE WILL DIRECT t a LION, Bermuda, Aug. 10ig_y, what country is Cognac?

arranged iuncheon home, five miles above the village of Tivoli | I'he Duke and Duchess of ; h yo a be made for universal selective! apoying sure that no member of

. Mrs. Henry Morgenthau The house Jooks very much neglected, and for many service at the earliest possible date »| : Windsor continued a round of and I tell the county chairman years nobody has done Much to the grounds except "bie of the Indiana commit! the family had flashed on the COUNTY G. 0, P, MUSIC amnners, cocktail parties and golfing | Answers that we will each be glad to have ut down some trees, Still, as we sat and ate our us bat abi . ~ is SO today but gave no indication when a tea for the Democratic women ie supper watching _ Sun go down behind the oy Je rentals frgin guts, an i es Fue | IL 3 x Tov they would go to the 1-—Monday. : Nh Cae mh whdsks hk < 3 raue ana, yo - Awan toe » th y X= | . > / » This vear. Mrs. Fdward Con- at 11 Mountains, I could not help feeling a sense of Pe Ie I ars Waban Oo) ard, tiptoed « ames Bradford, Republican Bahamas. where the Duke is to be 2~No 3 \ 3 v ¢ b v . “ o » . # a i “ ger, who is vice chairman for anty and peace. It may be sad to return to the lege and civic and industrial leaders pecting to find prowiers County en today announced Governor 3—A jumping rodent. Dutchess County, included the scenes of ones childhood and realize all the things throughout the State Finding no one, they turned oft (appointment of Walter Bruce as{ The Duke vesterday expressed his 4—Peaeralist women from the four neighbor- that have happened in the intervening vears to the —— the lights and started home. Half- [00 00 of the county committee's Gesite to visit the United States N y Ng counties, ana told me she people one loves: yet there is also something very sweet Ww BOOK WRITTEN way they turned argund and the [musie division , but indicated there was no chance Dee NO, would have about 400. Yesterdav in remembering the good things which no sadness can NE { lights were burning again, : : N he would do so soon. 6-—Graphite,

morning owever, when Miss wipe out BY \ U. PROFESSOR Final discovery: : | Mr. Bruce, who will lead the | Ce o - PL 7—MOntana. Thompson checked up, she found For instance, into this house of adolescent life, “Pet,” a draft mare was flip- Willkie crowds in community sing- 8—France that it was more than likely that with young aunts and uncles enjoving to the full a RAY | Nimes Sheen ping the light switch on and off ing at Elwood next Saturday nas EARLHAM BASEBALL

we would have 80. We could and fairly undisciplined existence I came with mn MINGTO Al 10.-One With her nose served 10 vears as music director] vy =» hardly be blamed for being a 1it- brother after my mothers death. It was natural for _ BLOOMINGTON. emt a The MeClains had to build a of the Broadway Baptist Church COACH MADE DEAN ASK THE TIMES tle appalled. because when you my grandmother, already in the middle years of her book, “20th Century Bookkeeping box around the switch, located ant the 101 Men's Bible Class. He NY At Is Dot quite so BASY 10 go around life, to be wiliing to take in her eldest daughter's chil- and Accounting.” is A. I. Prickett,| On & post just above the horses has conducted community singing | {imes Special Inclose a 3-cent stamp for bur extra food. However, by dint of dren. As I have grown older, however. I appreciate gecount ing department head at In. stall |programs among Republican audi- RICHMOND, Ind. Aug. 10.-Dr reply when addressing any erything from everywhere, I hope that more and more the spirit which made those voung diana University here. fs a x {ences in Indiana many years, and George D. Van Dyke, physics pro-| question of fact or information ne who came got something to eat and drink. I aunts and uncles make us. as children. fee] that our Co-authors with Mr. Prickett. who FOURTEEN « YEAR - OLD hat written numerous campaign fessor at Earlham College who re! to The Indianapolis Times ring to make sure when I seemed completely home was with them: that we had as much right to js a past president of the Indianap-, Charles Sanger of Hammond gets songs |vived and coached baseball at the]! Washington Service Bureau, nded by hands which I was trying to shake be there as they. There never was a question of what lis chapter of the National Associa-! into all kinds of difficulties He plans to organize a male college, has been named acting! 1013 13th St. N. W. WashingPresident and Secretarv Wallace came I Was thine or mine among us. That is something which tion of Cost Accountants. are Paul! when he gets around the water chorus of 50 for the fall campaign, dean. He succeeds Dean H. Ran-| ton, D. C. Lega! and medical few brief minutes, and I must say that t makes for a deeper belief in the good of human na- A Carlson of Wisconsin State! He was swimming at Ideal |and has asked that singers register [dolph Pyle, who has accepted a| advice cannot be given nor can country seems the proper setuing for these two men. ture and helps one through the rough spots all the Teachers College and Hamden L| Beach in Monticello and went (at the committee headquarters, 247 [position as mathematics professor| extended research be under hev both look more natural and seem happier with. rest of ones life, { Forkner of Columbia University, down three times before life N. Pennsylvania St at Whittier College, Whittier, Cal.