Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 September 1943 — Page 21

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Seven Copies a Day . ONE OF THE pleasures of being back in America is that I have to make only one copy of this column. Over in Sicily 1 was making seven copies of every one. I'd send two copies by courier plane from Sicily back to the headquarters city—one copy for transmis« on, the other for the censor’s files. Then next day I'd send two duplicates, just in case the first set got lost, which it sometimes did. |. Those four copies were in abbreviated cable form. -

Snorter bills, my last war discharge, even a British one-pound note—were all there, all intact. But the hundred bucks in American money was gone.

I'm grateful beyond words for the return of the

wallet and the credentials. And it's comforting to know that our thieves are honest thieves, And what would I do with a hundred bucks if I had it? That's all, now, for quite a while.” Take care of yourselves. And please don't wake me up till October.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

THE STATE POLICE have a mighty fancy new electric sign on the Capitol ave. side of the statehouse lawn, It out. like a sore thumb. Folks shouldn't have any finding the headquarters — s s re he took up solhas landed safely in. Engaccording to word received ’s an ordnance expert atthe air force. . , . Prof. ._ Kinter, head of the er university journalism de- ' go to Northwestern university to teach and work on his doctor's de- . He leaves next week. . . . ‘Lt. Pat Smith, the lawyer, is home on leave from his assignment as . a naval instructor at Hutchinson, returns Sunday. . . . Ray Stils, general of the Paper Package Co., corresponds with of the firm's employees in the armed forces. makes it & point always to answer their the day he receives them,

Around the Town : . SEAMAN BOB GLAUBKE who Is home on sur-

vivor's leave, has been visiting his pals at the gas y offices (he used to work there) and telling

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‘them some of his experiences. He wears a ribbon

four stars onyit: for four major engagements, id was on a ship that was torpedoed but was salnever had a scratch. He says the Japs : they're building ships turned the tes yesterday for den rise in bringing many : { firemen who disappointed at not getting to use their Charles Pitchford, 222 E. 21st st, left the it _ defrost. Mrs. a while so she locked her

“completely demolished a ‘four pound steak... . If

Washington

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.—We can scarcely esti.

mate how much depends on the success of Gen, Mark

w. The territory is not so important. go ashore and stay there against of Hitler to drive left its shell-shock on _ Sicily helped to rein amphibthose landNorth Africa were not against Salerno is the first real test singe Dieppe. At Dieppe the Brit-. ~~ ish—ahd Canadians especiall hat it means to try to land against prepared enemy. That costly failure has been

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Clark's 5th army in holding its bridgehead around

i is that the allies show they can

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you sing in the bathtub, why don’t you go' to t Athenaeum at 3 p. m. Sunday and let Eimer Steff give you an: audition. He probably can use you in his Indianapolis Symphonic choir, Who S—maybe you're an undiscovered Caruso.

Boy, Page Diogenes

AFTER READING where some miscreant lifted Ernie Pyle’s wallet as soon-as he landed in this country, Mrs. Mabel McBride, 2449 Carrollton ave., wrote us to suggest that “he should come to Indianapolis.” Her 15-year-old son, Marvin, lost his bilifold recently and some honest person mailed it to him... Marvin wishes he knew who did it so he could thank him. . « Speaking of honesty, Paul Sturm, who has offices here but whose home farm is just across the road from the Pyle farm near Dana, got a priority for a Grade 1 tire for his Chevrolet recently and then lost it before he could get around to getting the new tire. The rationing board said that was too bad—he’d have to file a new application, and there were many others ahead by then. But the day was saved when C. C. Bowers, 1301' N. Dearborn, found the priority papers in. the street and returned them to Paul. So much honesty around the town makes us feel proud to live here. :

Practical Experience

A CIVILIAN DEFENSE class got some practical experience at: its final session Wednesday night at the OCD ‘headquarters ‘at 136 ‘N. Pennsylvania when a man ran in and said there'd been an accident in front of the K. of P. building. Fire Capt. Jo¢ Hancock, who with Fire Lt. Glenn Wells ‘was serving as an instructor, hurried over and found that a soldier and a girl had walked against the side of & taxi and been knocked down. The soldier had a severed artery and other injuries, but the girl didn’t appear to be injured seriously. They carried the soldier back to the classroom, applied a tourniquet and stanched the flow of blood. The girl followed them-—walking—and when she got to the classroom asked for assistance. There it was found one of

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xB Raymond Clapper

When Napoleon lined up his troops in Egypt for the basis af the pyramids he reminded them that

And: It will air cover and co-ordination, all applied together, can take beachhe against entrenched artillery and Hitlér's best armored divisions. ~~ Success will give us not only knowledge and experience, but something that we need equally, confidence in moving against the best of Hitler's veterans.

China Is Affected

ALL THAT may have its effect on the other side of the world. China's foreign minister, T. V. Soong, is making curious references to Japatiese efforts make peace with China. It probably is only squeeze yet if we had a failure in Italy that promto prolong the European side of the war in-

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District Attorney Luther M. Swygert

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will ponder the fantastic fact that long before In-

- dianapolis had an art mu-

seum of its own certain

saloons around here took a

turn for the better and bought expensive paintings

e| for the enjoyment of their | guests. ~ If the historians “know their business, they will label it a milestone.

“backbar. row was so big that it the way to the ceiling.

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moved and in its place appeared a baroque decoration composed.

of cherubs, garlands of roses, and =

even amusing little animals such as squirrels and rabbits. They looked for all the world as if they were playing “I spy” among the rosebuds.

Pink and White Soap

THE FANCIFUL decoration was faithfully rendered in pink and white soft soap applied directly to. the big reflecting surface. Sometime around St. Patrick's day, the decoration was ‘washed off preparatory to putting the pink mosquito netting back in place. It was a sign that spring was here. again: a sign as. sure and infallible as the appearance of the crocus. - After that, it was only-a week's wait at most and the first keg of bock ° beer was rolled in, The discovery that all the saloons in Indianapolis had cher. ubs with the same pink faces, betraying a common ancestry, led me to suspect that they were the work of one and the same artist, possibly an {itinerant painter who turned up every autumn and cashed in big on his specialized profession. Significant as all this was, it wasn’t anything to brag about. The- old-time saloons God bless him—did his best; but his best amounted to nothing more than providing His guests with sentimental soft soap pic tures, a fugitive art if the bit-

‘ter truth bé told. The turn for

better came when a group

“of ‘three enlightened saloon keepers showed Indianapolis what

permanent art really is,

Tales of Hoffman House

BUT BEFORE we get to that, two other contributing factors

should be noted: (1) Chicago and. (2) New York—Chicago, because

of the far-reaching cultural influ-

ence of the World's Fair in 1803, and New York, because of the Hoffman House bar. Tales of Hoffman House reached Indianapolis as early as 1887. The reports - were unbelievable. One group of travelers, I remember, brought back stories about the dog who made his home in the Hoftman House. He had his entire mouth filled with solid gold teeth. I didn’t believe it either when T-first heard if, but I learned

SWYGERT SAYS

He Will Make 4 Fine Judge,

Campbell Says of Federal Court Nominee.

Times Special HAMMOND, Sept. 17.—“I am overhelmed.” : That was all that Assistant U, 8.

say today concerning his

“June 24, 1893." the 50-year-old masterpiece of William

Tron's collection. It hung in the Kingston Saloon, 17 N. illinois st. (now Three Sisters) until 1905, the year Mr. Tron died. Since then it has been the prized possession of his widow, Mrs, Asaneth J.

better when 10 years later I went East and included the Hoffman House im my curriculum. Sure, I went to school. On that -occasion 1 asked the barkeeper to show me the dog with the gold teeth. Pleased as Punch, he came out from behind the bar and whistled for the dog to come. And then, right before

‘my ‘eves.-he pried open the beast's :-

big mouth using no other tools but his bare hands, Believe it or not, as far back as one could see (or reach) every tooth in that dog's mouth was made of solid 18 karat gold. An English bull has 42 teeth as I learned the day I spent at the Hoffman House bar. » . .

Celebrated Travelers

ANOTHER CLASS of travelers, more frivolous than the rest, told about seeing P, T, Barnum and Edwin Booth and John L. Sullivan and James Gordon Bennett and Col, Joe (“Gin™) Rickey and

““Diamond” Jim Brady and, good-

ness knows who else, all taking their aperitifs in the Hoffman House bar at one and the same time. This group of travelers always insisted that they stood near enough to hear every word the celebrated men were saying, which was a little hard to believe, knowing thatthe -Hoffman- House bar was every bit of 60 feet long. Be that as it may, the tales brought back to Indianapolis by these travelers made the stories of Boccaccio sound like kindergarten stuff, More -serious-minded travelers told about the fabulous collection of oil paintings in the Hoffman House bar. It was worth $200,000, they said, and had for its headliner a 12-foot-high, lifelike masterpiece labeled “Nymphs and Satyr.” It was declared sul generis—a thing that couldn't be matched anywhere in the world. Some travelers, less emotional than the rest. remembered that it was painted by a Frenchman —one Bouguereau by name--who had an extraordinary gift for portraying people with their clothes off.

Lower Meat Diet Threat to Health

OFFICERS [ELECTED

BY PHI DELTA THETA

a/Grand Jury Will ‘Examine

Cigar Boxes Proof

THE ART-CONSCIOUS travelers were the easiest to believe for “the reason that--a great -many cigar boxes in Indianapolis confirmed their stories. The Hoff man House perfectos, for example, were always packed in boxes bearing a colored facsimilé of “Nymphs “and Satyr." The reproductions suffered some because . of reduction, It just isn't possible to reduce a 12-foot-high painting to the dimensions of a cigar box lid and preserve all the detail Notwithstanding the defect, there was enough left in the cigar box pictures to show that the stories told by this class of travelers approximated the truth, “There is no way of knowing whether the cigar boxes or the travelers’ tales played the greater part in spreading the fame of “Nymphs and Satyr.” It doesn't matter, What is important is the memory that “Nymphs and Satyr,” more than anything else, spelled the doom of sentimental little cherubs rendered in pink soft soap. Indeed, it wouldn't surprise me to be told some day that the

the props out from under the whole Victorian Age. The period that followed--the one in which I don't mind saying I participated as a boy—was variously characterized as the “Yel low 90s” (Stuart P, Sherman); the “Romantic 90s” (Richard Le Gallienne); the “Electric 90s” (Henry L. Mencken) and the “Moulting 90s” (Princeton Prof. W. L. Whittlesey).

Enlightened Men

THOUGH NOTHING to rave about, the Princeton metaphor was probably the best of the lot. At any rate, it successfully piectured the shedding of worn-out feathers and, somehow, vaguely suggested a lusty, youthful hospitality to any and everything that was new including even new conventions in human relations, not the least of which was the

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Records in Probe of ~ Bondsmen.

By NOBLE REED The grand jury has ordered

Peace Control of | Bases Is Sought

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Tron who is now 84 yours old. For the

hung in. her apartment in the Cl

Courtesy Mrs. Amneth J. Tron, last 25 years the picture has inton hotel, 29 Virginia ave., the

building they tore down last month to make room for another

parking lot.

hitherto unsuspected relation of a. .

saloon keeper to his clientele. The unsuspected relation was based primarily on a new and loftfer conception. of thirst. The first around here to realize that thirst is not merely a physical suffering, but a pain that very ofteri has its source in the soul, were William (Billy) Tron, Herbert “W, Green and Harry A. Walker. Reading from left to right they were the three enlightened saloon keepers who ran the elaborate establishments known ‘as the Kingston, the Denison Casino, and 44 W. Washington st. I remember their collections . well. So far as taste was concerned, the collections were as different as the men who ran the saloons; but, strangely enough, the pictures had one thing in common-all were outstanding examples of a school of art now classified as “Realism.”

‘June 24, 1893’

I SHALL dismiss “Potiphar's Wife,” the candid masterpiece of the Denison Casino, and “Pan Pursuing Drysds” (Mr. Walker's chef-d'ocuvre), not because they don’t deserve extended remarks but because “June 24, 1803,” the title of Mr, Tron’s masterplece, was in a class by itself. In the first place, it was a plcture of heroic size especially painted for the Kingston, a fact that shed considerable light on the I. Q. of Mr. Tron's customers.

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Engaged Artist TO ACHIEVE the realism he demanded, Mr. Tron engaged Theodore QGroll, a Duesseldorf artist, who had been brought over from Germany to help judge and award the prises in the Fine Arts Division of the Chicago World's Fair. And to make sure that Mr, Groll would stick to facts and not jet —his imagination run away’ with him, Mr. Tron also engaged a first-class photographer in the person of Mr. Power of Marceai & Power, who used to operate the plush photo gallery on the Levees where the Block people now do business. Both were stationed at the fine ish—Mr. . Groll making sketches mth his pensll and Mr. Power taking snapshots with the fastest plates in his equipment. To do it this way cost: Mr:-Tron $4500, - It figures out around $100 a square foot for the finished pieture. measured- something like

5 by 9 feet, It was worth it, The combination of mind and

In the second place, it carried '

then such a thing wasn't thought possible, : : To the everlasting credit of Mr. Tron's clientele, the nakedness portrayed was horse flesh, The breath-taking picture revealed the exciting finish of the American Derby at Washington park, Chicago, June 24, 1803, the day

NEW YORK, Sept. 17 (U, P).— Secretary of Interior Harold L.

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