Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 March 1942 — Page 9

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In fact, he doestit even look Hike a cowboy off the

screen. He doesn’t, affect wild west get-up, and he

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ming. We met last summer at the rodeo in Chey, we had a good time together, he gave me his private od number, and he sald, “Nex time you're out. that ll me up.” The old stuff, i . ‘

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It ‘wound up that I went out to Tim's apartment for “dinner, and I must be eenesatig intoa very ‘poor reporter. For, instead of pumping Tim all about evening talking

i : a | | | He Looks Like a Lawyer TIM CAME TO Hollywood 20 years ago to herd a . ‘bunch of Wyoming Indians in a picture. The Hollywood big shots liked him so well they kept him. They even sent him and his Indians to England and France for a year. i #2 Tira is an odd sort of fellow in that Hollywood has . never got. In his blood. His are in Wyoming. He J s back there between % . i i ‘has never felt that he really was settled in , The -only property he owns in the world Wyoming. He has always just lived in an apartment out here—16 years in the same one, in fact— yet he could pack up and elear out in one day.

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are (bout a dozen movie people in it. Cesar Romero led) and Robert Young are both lieutenants in the outfit. |story for the first time from an_ A.

doern’t ‘talk cowboy ‘talk ‘or:use movie slang. He's alwiiys the international situation, damn

him, and hé knows practically as much about it as in Last Two Days of

fa i City’s Siege. /, What, You: Didn't Touch Em By LELAND STOWE aM 18 WHAT YOU might call middle-aged, but he’s ruddy and enthusiastic and-as straight as a rod.

His soldiering probably accounts for that. He spent/ ‘eround: hen

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“Tim is among: the last of ‘the old Tom Mix and Rangeon's def Buclt Jones generation of western stars. He can't] "months, ever After dinner, we got in Tim’s car and went over| SHFIA thefirse to ste Lewis Stone, the “Judge Hardy” of the movies, leave their airfield you know. Stone is just as nice as I always thought Rangoon, when he would: be, aithough I didn’t talk to him long, for t bombings he’s head over heels in defense work. : Sin untenable last He is in command of a regiment of the State But in Guaird and it keeps him busier than a bird-dog. They fare well days were ‘having their weekly drill-meeting in the old Rangoon a group of A. Warner Brothers studio when I saw him, gagements s.small Tot The regiment is an evacuation outfit. Everybody ROyS arg be Saved 10 IAS in i), enlisted men and officers both, furnish their|2 aps, owh station-wagon and a ed be the ones to evacuate old an pp! an . children .from bombed areas, if and when bombing high standard they themselves had

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They were there and I saw them, but didn’t touch |V. G. radio operator, Edward Lussier, then. If you're disappointed, I'll go back and touch|of Plymouth, Mass. while radio then) for you. operator Robert J, King gave the highest praise to all the A, V. Gs First Squadron pilots who, with a

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on |a dozen probables—the American) two stretchers. They'll {o "\ oy up to the extraordinary|.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum arm erm:

Name your weapon . . ..it’s bound to be here, . ‘With the typical self-effacement 4

BILL BOOK: (C. of C) |and Roscoe Hardwick (taxicabs) have- just received their draft board serial numbers. Bill's number is 246 and Roscoe's is 335. The members of their board are—Bill Book, Roscoe " Hardwick ‘and the Rev. Roy’ Turley. . . . Mary ~ ;° Margaret and Sarah Ann Carroll, daughters pf Mr. and Mrs, Jack

som¢one,” crowed Bob. . » + Remember Mary Holmes?

Mary has a penchant for out of the ordinary modes

of transportation. She used fo publicize the saddle hors: roundup; then took over publicity for a roller skating rink. Several weeks ago she moved to Grand Rapids and now, her friends report, she has taken up skiing. . . . Bob Ochiltree brought a couple .of

of ground crew men they did not mention the heroic work of those who had remained on the ground and kept the planes flying despite terrific handicaps and increasingly grave risks, or mention the fact that they had stuck at their radios

JUDGE REBUKES

Rudolph Hoerle's Den hs A Grim One, but Historica

TEACHERS HEAR

SCHRICKER PLEA

Face Task of Préparing Youth for After War Problems, He Says. |

| ‘The youth of America: must. be educated -and prepared to meet the post. war readjustment, Governor Schricker declared yesterday = to members of the Indianapolis Fede eration of Public School Teachers, Addressing the group at Shorte. ridge high school he:said: “The task of building our youth for this period falls directly upon the school teacher and the parent,

Carroll, deserve a medal. They are members of a swimming class at the I. A, C, and for more than a year they've been present for each of the thrice weekly class sessions; never a miss. . . . Leslie F. Ayres, the architect, doggedly avoids in his correspondence all use of the “silly inanities,” such as “dear sir,” ‘“yours truly,” and so forth. He thinks they're ridiculous, and Jat we're not sure he isn’t right. Some ‘day, says Les, he's going to quit procrastinating and - print some little stickers to attach to the bottom of his letters, asking the recipient's co-operation in: the present one-man crusade) , . . Several persons on the sidewalk were mystified when they saw a ‘car in the center lane of Meridian st. waiting for

By TIM TIPPETT : HUMANS HAVE ‘spent a lot of time and effort inventing new ways to annihilate each other and some of their choicer death-dealing gadgets are hanging on the walls of Rudolph Haerle’s den. Mr. Haerle, you may be assured, is the mildest of men. He is assistant buyer of men’s furnishings at L,.S. Ayres & Co. when he’s not lugging some war, weary machine gun or bent bayonet up to the “violence room” in his north side : : home. = + | front, which undoubtedly came in This den of his is reached by | handy in close work. : a steep circular iron stairs. Once Then another little number is inside the door: it is only necessary | & stubby hunk of gun which, to reach to the left and fire a re- | after being fired unsuccessfully, volver and presto—the lights | could be twirled about and used ‘come on. as brass knuckles. The smaller It is best, 100, to be forewarned | Pieces also included a pepper pot

about just what the light reveals | Pistol. one of many shots and a

working hand ip.bénd” ~~ : Favors Physical Training

Governor Schricker told the fede eration that he strongly favored a compulsory ‘physical education pro-. gram in the schools of Indiana and said the “school child of today must be made conscious of the impor tance of a healthy, strong body will play in his life.” : “The example now being set by our fighting men at’ the fronts shows that: the school teachers, in = the past, have sowed the seeds of democracy in the ‘hearts of our young men. The fact that the worker who lays down his tool is as’ much a traitor as the soldier who lays down his gun, must be made clear to our school children.”

Nominating Group Chosen

The federation elected a nomi< nating committee at the business session yesterday afternoon. Meme bers of the committee are: E. B. Hargrave of Washington high school, chairman; Walter Care nahan of Shortridge high

Wabash College classmates home with, for the : DRAFT EVADER week-end. It was 50 nice Saturday that, they removed | ioe op oot jarels Pr eT Save r— the op from the convertible they were driving and - ’ : left it in Crawfordsville. They started back Sunday Ba a Of Searile, hy Hap: Ban on Youth's Bohemian in thier topless car just.as the snow started. ‘Before| page River, Wis, who was chris- Existence Among Terms many miles, the car stalled and they gave up the trip.|i.neq Robert Smith but is never ; aX . : ““ » . . Just a, Little Slap-Happy _|called anything but “Snuffy. Of Strict Probation. : Neale shot down five Japs in the : WE'VE BEEN HOAXED and, through’ us, so have jas; Rangoon air battle and “Snuffy” CHICAGO, March 10 (U. P.)— you. Remember, we told you Friday about the man|got three more in addition to ‘sav- Federal Judge William J, Campbell, on a streetcar who slapped a woman who had been ing his squadron leader from being d the “pseudo-phil hboasiing how much her family was making out: of | shot down. ; condemning $he “pseudo-philosop the war? And how he said: “That's for a son I Full of H ical prattle” that prompted David Jost at Pearl Harbor.” Well, we've found it didn’t a ding... oves Nyvall Jr. to defy the draft law, to‘hapren—at least not here. We got the yarn from| “The Japs were sen > |day placed the yo sculptor and an advertising company executive who wrotes'“I got|bombers escorted by 40 fighters in Sy tee on ae em: it straight from the horse's mouth; the deughter|each relay,” Lussier said. “We only|,, .. wo. probations ever imposed : | ; of a personal friend of mine witnessed this incident|had a few planes still staying at the, 0 J gicia) district, four-barrel 1 with the signal to turn green. There were quite a few. and...” Then, Mrs, Edward Thomas of Des Moines, [i€ld and the R. A. F. only a few|. 00 comphel] ordered the youth | for it's a’ bit grim until you're | four-barrel pistol with four trigwears behind, and no one was seated in the {driver's ‘mot er of Mrs. Hal Aspy, informs us thas the identi-| more. but you should have seen our| ."). o.” onart from the “Bohemian used. to it. ges, : $2» Th t ¥ th “dri fess” boo AB A ay ? x in fellow: wade in No kidding, they ere A p ’ - “The pride-of : Mr; Haerle’s col~seat. e light changed and the ver] Car cal siory was published in Des Moines. as happening 3 atmosphere” near the University of LL % m= .

leaped ahead. The spectators then discovered the thers. We called our friend: he name | Were wonderful. They had the hell Resisters. a . lection of small arms is a pair of car, which had Canadian license plates, was a right- of his friend; we called his friend, hs holly wasp Shot out of their planes but, they Rept DE agin to| Take Your Choice fueling Pistia made by a painshand drive. ! his (laughter, but the daughter of a friend of his, |S0I8 Up Just the same. Sot’ OMiitary service—is centered. Nyvalll IN ONE CORNER, and look- | “gre [nish gunsmith in 1860. “Had Tell S | and |, . . well, you know. It doesn’t really take ail| those crates were so full of holes,| ; 4 {5 register because he was ing very much like it was tired stil riginal case the to Te L.oomeone | this space telling you about how we happened to|lt’s & wonder they got ‘em off the| sed to “legalized slaughiter.” At of inaction, is a World War I | Ein3 are sinooth bore and because BOB FLEETWOOD, who used to dish out sports Blve you a bum steer, except that it does teach: a|STound, But they knocked the tari; parents’ persuasion, however, hel pooping oti On all four walls Be mana Sealy hid fio Times fgaders, Soloed as s = aval aviator Saturday Tellow how gossip is spread, Sorry. 7 {out of the Japs, : reconsidered and signed his regis-| g;e rifies,. revolvers, daggers, bay- a wad cutter Soft Toad atl, xtra at Glenview, IIL ' Hp was 50 lickled that he got on 'P 'S.—Now we see where a Dallas, Tex. paper “You should have seen Bob Neale. qtion card. onets, pistols, hand grenades and ’ » © the phone. that night and phoned his uncle, Fred prin + pes meh

; flints—everything needed for a printed the same story Sund He never slept for two days and| -«pm going to give you another ay Bretthauer, 3536 N. Meridian st. “Just had to tell there, - Ty 8y as having occurred pnts but he kept going somehow—| chance, but I'm not going to coddle| ; mad Slats Suel suseps two angry e ' : The cigar stand is e of a French sabers and the lamp atop

and what a great guy! He stood by|yoy” Judge Campbell said. gentlemen, four seconds snd a his men right to the end, and in surgeon, the air—well, he is a wild man in Says He'll Obey it is a converted horse pistol. The ; » = @ Then he imposed the sentence,| light is turned on'by cocking the | His War Is on Dust weapon. The heavy curtains are

By Raymond Clapper the air, Bob is. Finally, in the last supported by cavalry lances from | THEN, TOO, there are items

Qa of o : joa a3 2 i “Washington only snl el wie | Bae fight the Jape got = Bois tall which provided: : a Ht TON at x : : . |and chased way ou sea 1. He must live away from the : WASHINCTON, March 10—This is the last of raw materials, have only to join hands. They have(Snuffy and Bob got all three of{influences of the “Bohemian life.”| & bygone war. Which show to What great hard. several belies which I have been writing in antici- only to connect up that shipping route through Suez|them. He must not talk to news-| Then there is the caltrop, which p the German army was focred) pation of leaving the country for several weeks. . and the Indian ocean. Then they would hav g: He ; : into before the war'was over— Pragya iw . . ‘ : : e a com- Landed on Flat Tires papermen or voice his opinions to] is a four-pointed piece of metal By the time this appears in print, I expeet’to be ' binafion of warmaking power that would pass any- - the public to throw in stréets to puncture paper bandages. well on the way to Africa—or maybe already there, thin; ever seen before. - : “But Bob’s plane was an awful 3 i oust comply with the se-| tires im. shen and cripple How did Mr. Haerle happen to sO EE Deoatise In “days of airplanes, We would be the havenots. It is a question now|mMess. You know, he landed it with lective service act. : horses They are also called devil start this collection: of 70 pistols, ‘distances mean nothing, whether in another year some of our war production |Poth its tires flat and never even 4. He must live in a place desig-| dice because «your point always 25 rifles and too-numerous-to-Why gojaway to that Godfor- planis may not be thrown into idleness at times for|cracked it up. He brought that) —v. .\ bation officers. comes up.” meniin gthes Semed | - saken part jof the world? Does it lack of raw materials, wreck down safely with its wind- “I will obey,” Nyvall said. Also among the collection are bronchi a or at 3 “devil . darts.” These pieces of | 8 oy Tul s fi iron, the shape and size of a pen- te

* have anything to do with us? . We're Not So Stupid! 3 shield and instrument board shot| ., 1. nvinced you are neither pa. schoolmate Haerle helped him cil, finned and extremely sharp,

Only this—that the whole shape Lup ang 21 uullets i gush iS jad a philosopher nor a hero,” Judge » of the future here in America may FURTHERMORE, IF THE axis joined han : spe gone, : : Campbell told the youth. : : carry it home. ' That started it , oine ds in the , were probably the first - aerial md p

depend on what happens around

' Suez during the next few months. It may decide whether the war is to ‘go on for years, or whether it ean be cleaned up in another year or two.

It may decidé whether that g lad now just going into long pants will ha work out his own life, or whether will have to help rescue decent civilization it is choking it. gh in .Egypt, open up Japan, which is push’ the other side, then you can settle v the longest, hardést, uncertain war you ever creamed. of. Bigrt glean i \ pad pr iged oi 3 1 k mipig What's in Store for] Us? . THE OTHER DAY Leon Henderson said that by next year we would have to give so much to the war that our standard of living would be lower than it was at the bottom of the depression; : If ‘tires are scarce now, of things will be scarce after this war goes on. another year or two.

~shouid we fight to save Communist Russia? They ask -you Ml" of the misleading, deceptive questions, hopin

Middle ‘East, that would automatically isolate Russia| “In those two days our fellows and China. All we could send. either of them then|were fighting odds of eight to 10 woul? be as feeding a lion with a medicine dropper.|against one man. Don’t know how They might be able to hold on, But it would be ait happened but only one of our deferisive, clinging, punch-drunk war, taking punish-|A. V. G. planes didn’t come" back. meni. day aféer day, month after month, with no hope| That was. Ed Leibolt—you rememexcept of being able to hold on a little longer. + | ber how Ed and Mick Mickelson gave Then the war would be won by ourselves and the|Mme. Chiang Kai-shek a ride in British alone, if at all. . | their. station wigin up at Kunming 1t doesn’t take much imagination to see that what| —Wel. Bd must have had a forced happens over there will affect us deeply in a city|180ding behind the Jap lines. But and village, in every home in this land. | We, are pretty sure he wasn't hurt. Those. are the things the demagogues don’t tell you|EYOP8RIY he's a prisoner but we about, They try to fool you with trick words. They|2™® DOPLOE maybe hell turn up, yet. ask ‘what has Africa to do with us? They ask . The Last to Go

: “When we finally had to leave Ju Nor} De smart enoligh to think out the answers Soe Saoue last id 4 to ae opus or yourself, G’ ding groun They will be all over the country during this con- 354. Y. Bs mi She 1 gressional election campaign, trying to get away with that kind of tricky business. ey will gamble, as Hitler has always gambled, on the assumption that

people are too dumb to:know what it is all about.

Our future, the. chance fo: live a free life

Terms Acts Conceited

“The evidence shows you: coms= mitted egotistical and conceited acts and that you were a dupe in the hands of others from whom you received bad advice. Your writing proves the old adage that ‘a’ little learning is a dangerous thing. “It is not evident whether the school ‘or ‘the home is responsible for the exposure of juvenile minds to such material philosophy as your writing attempts to quote, but 'I can’t refrain in’ passing. fo remark ‘that both parents and school should realize that to. expose a youthful mind to such material and fatalistic philosophy ‘without the necessary and religion is just as dangerous as giving: an infant a loaded revolver as a toy.” ‘ 4

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counter-balance of sound mniorals| enemy with. the ball hé merely had to press another trigger and an eight-inch blade snapped out in

bomb following the brickbat. At the beginning of World War I the pilot (German), whenever he was over a likely spot, would throw out a

handful of these

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Dueling Pistols of 1890

A GOOD MANY pieces in the Haerle collection are pre-World war and even pre-Civil war. ' Among these are several pleas‘ant little articles intended for polite shooting society and as gambling hall answers to a fiveace deck. One is of French design. It is a one-shot pistol; But

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Yes, practically all ‘of Mr. Haerle’s guns are in good firing condition although their owner has never had a desire to kill anything with them. And no, he isn’t through collecting yet, although he hasn’t much room to store anything else. But it takes a lot of dusting to keep this kind of a collection as bright and shining as Mr. Haerle's. While -Mrs. Haerle thinks it is a

hobby, it is' Mr. Haerle who spends his spare time Gusting,

1 school, Miss Charlotte Cartfer-of school 51,

{Miss Mary Ronk ot school: No. 86,

and Miss Nell Heatheo. of school No, 57. Howard T. Wood, federation president, presided. 3

SCHOOL OFFICIALS TO CONFER

Ellis H. Bell, assistant state super intendent of public instruetion,: will hold six regional conferences with school officials ' in the state during the next two weeks to cons sider new demands on’ the schdols arising from the war situation.’

STATE MEMORIAL

CRAFTSMEN ELECT

D. R. Curtis of Indianapolis is the new president of the Indiana stafe association of memorial craftsmen, elected at the group’s annual con-

* WARQUIZ 1=It ‘you saw 4n Ametichn ‘wears

ing this medal, ribbon or button, what would you know about him?

free of this curse of total war, rests upon wi I think eady to start. Then cond. y, is the faci—that the American people are mot asl...ca s+ fro sible Jan| B= :

vention ‘at the Hotel Lincoln. ~stupid as the demagogues think they are. |

"The national executive secretary, convention of the Monument Build-

R i 3 = i 5 ' : : x Mk ers Sept. 3, 4,5 and 6, | Nl, §|in St. Louis, Mo. at which time a va Ly LE a NWT ; difficult question with which to cope, than it WS EP, outside. 1%. ii Em ‘\\ A anti

monument dedicated to the. birth] In the last war I ran & private home and complied|and that’s how it happened. Youl JI + \\ riches (7. OG" JR with whatever the government asked of us. We Te! can 1 is of di ways,| Jf LAY yg. isi Q 5 y onl

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Other officers of the state memorial association, besides Mr, Curtis, are Mack C. Morris of Spen- | |cer, vice president, and Mrs. Eleanor | . | Hoss, Greenfield. On the executive

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