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“NO, NO. no—youre doing it wrong.” Freddie Trenkler, star comedian of the Sonja Heiiie. show, shaved the fop of the Coliseum ice and sprayed me with it as he came to a stop an inch away from ‘my head., 3 “Why didn't I bounce up. like yoy do when I hit the ice?” I asked the grinning little skater. 2° “Did you ever hear of the Axel Paulson jump?” *Can I get up from the ice?” I countered. That's how my “practice session with Freddie began—all questions and no answers to the secret of being a clown on ice. Well, I had never heard of the Axel Paulson jump. : Freddie demonstrated. He's aif’ awful congenial fellow. He called from the far side of the rink to watch carefully how he twisted in- the air, came down on his hip pockets and the speed bounced him to his feet. I thought the routine was funnier in the show but: then he wasn't wearing his tramp costume and makeup. The seat of my wet trousers got colder and colder es I whipped up speed for my Axel Paulson—bump and upsy-daisey. “Hold the phone, Freddie, here I go."

All Colored Lights Come On

“BOOK OUT” WAS all I heard my tutor of tomfoolery on ice skates yell. The Coliseum ice rink whapped me across the back. Someone turned on all the colored lights Sonja uses in her show. “Did it look funny? FREDDIE—did it look funny?” “Are you all right?” There we were asking questions again. “I'm sorry my friend that I have to say

pd Sorlire CLOWN. SLIPPETH — Master of ice

antics Freddie Trenkler '"Oooohs" as he watches another "clown" foul up a favorite routine.

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you. looked more ridiculous than funny. not’ the ha-ha funny.” ~ Freddie suggested we give up the bump-on-the-ice trick and do the run. He explained that it's done exactly as if a man were in gym shoes, “Forget youYe on skatés,” Freddie said. Maybe it's easier for Freddie, who has been skating for 20 years, to forget he's on skates, I don't know. But I had a little trouble to suddenly get forgetful. After Preddie helped me to my feet where I had

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cused himself, “Wait right here,” “Don’t move." Little did he know how easy I could do that. A skating rink doesn't have to fall on me to make me catch on. Freddie skated. towards me with a pillow and white cord. I had a spot for that pillow. Freddie tied the pillow on. Several chorus members working out near the stage got quite a charge out of the pillow. Little did they know what a charge, 1 got without the pillow. “What do we do now?”

Doesn't Catch On

FREDDIE LOOKED SURPRISED. He said he brought the pillow as a gag, sort of a farewell gesture to my efforts. “Think nothing of it, Freddie. more stuf.” Freddie threw his black derby on the ice and his arms in the air. Probably was thinking what a game fellow I was. From mid-ice. the 1936 international junior championship figure skater of Europe came streaking towards the derby. He was executing his famous, hoppity-skip stop in front of an obstacle. His back arched and he came within a hair of the hat on the ends of his skate runners. It was my turn to make with the funny stuff. The sillow was a reassuring piece of equipment. Didn't interfere with my speed a bit, I am happy to report I hoppity-skipped about five skippities before something happened to the ice. On the next run the ice stayed beneath my skates but— no _hoppity-skip. The third and final try brought near distaster to Freddie's derby, “That's all,” Preddie announced, picking up his derby. “Let's do the spread eagle and call it a day.” Hah—he was surprised when I began and finished the routine wheres you go around in a circle with the toes of the skates pointed in opposite directions.

he practically ordered me,

Just show me some

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Success.

“One more routine, Freddie. Show me how you

do the wire act where you fly over the heads or-the” audience.”

Hey, Freddie! Where are you?

Tradition Loses Out

WASHINGTON, Nov. 17—The United States Navy, never known as a completely liberal organization, has Just kicked tradition in the face by publicly admitting that there are things outside Bancroft Hall which may be of slight importance to the welfare of its help. Navy is now taking a basic approach to the continued education of its mien. It is sending the commanding officers to school—civilian school. It has espoused a fresh kind of correspondence course as

‘ vital to Navy's new look in the hard-bitten peace.

The deal is that George Washington University, a foundry of learning which is molding the thoughts of over 12,000 students, has added Navy to the list. An attempt will be made to teach the Navy's teachers how to teach in a manner to inflict wisdom upon the hired hands without recourse to the cat o' nine tails or, the keelhaul. * Recently George Washington had commanding officers of 60 Navy schools in its halls. A special textbook on painless education was handed them, and a week-long conference was held.- The idea is that the CO's will go forth and labor among their students for 20 weeks, reporting to G. W by means of a correspondence course, and then they return for another huddle. The same technique has been used with the CO's assistants, and will be employed in December for 50 more commanding officers and their assistants at the Great Lakes training center in Chicago. In January, tthe braid from San Diego will get the same treatment.

Triumph of Logic IT MAKES considerable sense. The reason for this civilian indoctrination is that the Navy has finally realized that a man might be a wow at directing the destruction of a Jap cruiser without being able to impart his special knack to a classroom full of neophytes. This is a belated triumph of logic, as anyone who sweated out naval training schools in wartime will attest. The old navy correspondence courses were

Soup’s On

By Robert C. Ruark,

creaky antiques. Actual classroom work was more of a penance for both teacher and pupil than an adventure in learning. The Navy has realized that the seaman has largely regarded the service school as an irksome duty which was a little more desirable than ‘time in the brig, but not much. The selling job attempted now is to make the instruction flexible enough and attractive enough to put school work in a desirable category. Dean James Harold Fox and D. Charles Edward Bish of George WasHington have prepared a sort of educational bible for the CO's of navy's schools. After immersing themselves in the basic principles of teaching, the commanding officers are duty-bound to report weekly on their progress. By the time they, have returned, some five months later, for the final) confab, they supposedly will have produced an entire- | ly new educational setup for the peacetime sailors.

Army Sends Observers

AT RECENT CONFERENCES, the captains in charge of the Navy supply.school and the submarine base were on hand, as well as observers from the Army and Marine Corps. Before the program is finished, top officers in every important branch of the service will have been steeped to the ears in advanced classroom techniques. . The old concept of maintaining a strictly military operation in the schoolroom is supposed to go overboard in favor of the newest wrinkles in selling in-

DETERMINED MEN—Male residents of the Williams

Creek area—got in a tight

the mass meeting at. Meridian Hills Country Club where North Side citizens tried to work out methods to protect their homes against the wave of violent crime. talked of a day and night patrol.

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STERN FACES — Two

meeting vigorously attach their letter addrassed to Gov. Gates and Atty, Gen. Cleon Foust demanding an enforcement inquiry. »

Officials Taken to Task for Laxity

ANGERED CITIZEN — Claude Caylor, 8202 N. Illinois St., was a vehement speaker demanding protection for Marion County women{olk.

LEGAL LOGIC — Francis Fughes U. S. Commissioner for the Southern District-of-Indiana, spoke for home protection. The thoughtful listener is Mrs. W. N. Colbath, 152 Fairway Drive, who was a close friend of Mrs. Mary Lois Burney, murder victim. The Colbaths and Burneys were planning to take a vacation fogethet

huddle immediately after

They

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men attending the mass signatures to an open

THOUGHTFULNESS —/ The seriousness of vd Marion County situation is reflected in this listener's face. tswer this question,

hearts of most. These four were but a few of many who + attended the -mass meeting called to bring , protection,

“you know as well as the rest fice was helpless in such cases, he

The bond is set,’

formation as painlessly as possible. The instructors he said, at” the discretion of the of us the vote out Jere couldn't said, are supposed to be “enthusiastic, well-groomed.” The udge. elect a township trustee.” “Why?” classrooms should be “attractive.” There is an in- By Assembly at Meridian Hills Country Club : “Who was this judge?” “Well, it. couldn't elect a decent on terse question asked by a junction to “see that the sailors find school reward- By RICHARD LEWIS: “Clark.” one, anyway.” woman evoked laughter and “ape ing and pleasant.” After the funeral, neighbors and friends of murdered Mrs. Mary “Which Clark?” “Ladies and gentlemen. My name plause. The progressive-school business of separating the Lois Burney held a mass meeting to see what they could do to safe- “Alex Clark." is Claude Caylor. I live at 8202 N. wy wot to tell all of you about creeps from the dopes, the smart from the slow, will guard themselves and their homes Who's he?” 1llinois St. want to tell a

be used from now on. Work will be pitched to several different levels, to encompass students of all possible abilities and backgrounds. Some effort will be made to eonvince the sailor that in the classroom it is a matter of student and teacher, rather than a projection of rank.

By Frederick C. Othman

WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 (UP)—~The noise you hear, as a breeze through the pine trees, is nothing to be alarmed about; it’s me exhaling a sigh of relief. My troubles are over. Congress is back. No longer need I turn over rocks looking for pieces for the paper, nor prowl through the patent office seeking newly invented ns to humanity. The soup’s- on, bean flavor, at Capitol Hill, . All I have to do now is sit on a stool (which could be a little wider) in the press gallery, while the lawgivers make news under my eyes on all subjects, including ‘the sorry state of mink coats on the hoof. What makes this reporter's heaven especially paradisaical (I found that one in the dictionary) is

oN man when Clark : ers ow 5 tyou have of city employees ‘Fhey. Laughter, ; - ; h THEY, hig Be ne pd THEN “the péciup Jenger gt Bea, 8» never know where the trucks were #8 - 1 ouse where chairs were being Sel bungling law enforcement, official ig GRE : > t scourge? How much longer should the government un on the inclosed veranda. MTS. incompetence and petty politics “BE FAIR and be dead! What at any ope time, FRANC 18 In SHES, U. S ‘Com support the pricé of turkeys? Shall a dozen movie. gyrney's neighbors and friends which had played their part’ in about the prosecutor. Whats the an.» missioner and former deputy prose-

actors, writers and directors be held in contempt of Congress? And what, if anything, are we to do about communism? Should we ration bath tubs? Skip Howard Hughes and his giant flying boat? Abolish the dollar-down-dollar-when-you-catch-me sales of motor cars, gold-

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It was a wet, dreary night. Country Club and stood talki: mist and rain “I brought my wife and daugh- ! with me . . . they don't dare to stay at home.” said one man. “My wife has been in the hospital since this happened,” declared

another. t

were - joined by citizens from all over Indianapolis. , There was an undertone of helpless rage in the conversation. There i was always the question: “What can we do?"

They

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applause, but hé was aware what he had said had not satisfied

permitting a known sex ciriminal to wander at large broke loose,

get a law with teeth in it?

my experience with officials,” said another woman. “I called up the office of the prosecutor, Mr. Stark. Mind you, I voted for him. I called him about this case and I got the brush off, Someone in his office told me to come down and see the records of all the people they sent te jail and not to take the newspapers too seriously. .. ."”

“I know him. He's a fine, level headed young man.” “Well that judge doesn't know his business. Why can't we throw him out? How did he get In In the first place?” “Gates appointed him.” “It isn't Clark's fault. wasn't any evidence against heard the case.

assembled outside the Meridian

“Now I'm gofiig to tell you some1g in hushed, little groups in the gong

thing. I went down to the county jai] and I talked to Magenheimer. There were two city supervisors there, a Mr. Hamilton and a Mr, | Walker. “They admitted that city trucks are used at random to haul the furniture and coal and whatever

n vour backyards, to look at it that Mr. Poust sat down. There was that There

he meeting. the

cutor under Sherwood Blue, got up to speak. He said the enforcement of the law from the standpoint of ‘he prosecutor is hamstrung by antiquated methods.

“THESE gentlemen admitted that trucks 32 and 34 have been missing for 45 days and they don't know where they are, “Furthermore, Hamilton and Walker told me in the presence of

matter with him?” “Yes, and. what sheriff?" “All he knows is how to put men in slavery building his dream house for him.”

about that Men were on their feet demandng that something be done. “What can we do out here to

What

plated wrist watches, and atomatic washing ma- Nine women living in the bedu='tan we do to prevent these maniacs “Magenheimer's all right, He Magenheimer they hired anybody “We need full-time prosecutors,” chines? tiful, semi-isolated. homes of ex-'from roaming around and assault- does the best he can with what indorsed by’a precinct committee. he said. “Get behind the move-

What about dans? Are we treating.’em right? Do government clerks get too many holidays? And how's the new labor law working out? What kind of gent is Sen. Theodore G. (The Man) Bilbo's suc-

clusive north suburban Indianapo-; lis had been molested by the murder suspect the day Mrs. Burney

ing our wives?”

off

ment for the nonpartisan selection of judges. “About

man.”

William Hamilton, street cleaning supervisor, said today that Mr.

money they give him. I.say demand that the county commissioners give ug more than five sheriff's cars to

“What can we do to keep them

the city payroll?” the bond on this man,

Jou ! ‘he was slain with the shotgun with “Who knows why this man was patrol 1500 miles of county roads.” ¢ ,vior had “misunderstood” the con. Waits. From a legal viewpoint, it the fact that this time the boys are prinmied for battle cessor? When will be stop shipping coal, literally, to which she tried to defend herself. let out on a $250 bond? Who “Ddn‘t blame’ the sheriff. Don't yorcoiion at the sheriff's offic is my opinion that the court might on almost anything you can mention this side of the Newcastle? * Cy 4 x knows?" » blame the prosecutor. Don't blame es 5 olee not have bound this man over to stratosphere. For instance: Pi he P ink “DID. YOU know he has been rox the judge. Blame yourselves, We Mr. Hamilton sald truck 32 had \p, grand jury. I think Clark Who's to blame for the 05-cent beefsteak? The ity the Poor Min out on bond since Pebriary—last MR. FOUST .attempted to®an- elected them.” been sent to the city's West St. p04 watts over without adequate Republicans, or the Democrats? Should the District HAS THE administration anv right to seek war- February mind you—on a charge - - - ———— = garage (1701 8. West St) for re- evidence. of Columbia commissioners be allowed to use shot- time censorship in peacetime? Has the international of rape?” pairs-and was missing for a short, «when the evidence was found in

in their historic fight against the annual starling scourge? Should the OPA be revived? With red tokens for meat? And what about the price of lunch “in the senatorial cafeteria? How much money should we spend for the hungry Chinese? When will the whisky distilleries be reopened?

Answers Aren't So Easy

WHAT'S HAPPENED to all the nails for house building? What are we going to do about the King of Saudi Arabia who owns a billion barrels of oil and has no gimmes? Do the members of the House get comfortable chairs next year, or ‘don't they? How much wheat do we ship to Europe? Should we try to educate the British into developing a taste for peanut butter? Will a cut in income taxes be a blessing, or a

static been strained from the voice of America? What about’ singing commercial’ on our own radio? Do the members of the House get their private subway car, like the Senators’? Should we try to. buck the international cocoa bean combine? What are we going to do about

“Isn't that disgraceful?” “Why do they let people like that work for the city?” “Some politician signed his application blank. That's how they get jobs at city hall”

Carnival—By Dick Turner

time on the morning of the murder. However, he said it was later determined the truck was being used by the flood control board on a legitimate operation,

Concerning the truck, missing 45

the. rape charge, that is when the prosecutor should have stepped in and asked for a higher bond.” . » »

JAKE MILLER of 2703 E. Epler

Alaska's decrepit railway? Does the Air Force need “A group of those here ‘were at days, Mr. Hamilton said, “nothing Aves So. lives eat toe ene of a new police department to keep an eye on the the funeral parlor downtown today like that happens. We have so few Mabel Merrifield, got up and stock market dealings of its offices? Is the 40-hour While our neighbor and friend lay of them that if that had happened week too long to labor? Or not long enough? there, ‘the victim of a terrible we would have had the whole police ha. live at the other end of town Boy! These are just some. of the questions, the tragedy.” force looking for it." ;

answering of which will make my work easy from now on, And 1 almost forgot those walking mink coats, The question is this: Should the House Agritculture Committee write a law prohibiting aviators from flying low over fur! farms and frightening the mink, which are timid beasts at best, into losing their hair?

Bye, Bye Mustache

HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 17—Exlusively Yours: Marlene . Dietrich’'s daughter, Maria Manton, lost 40 pounds in eight months and hopes to return to Hollywood for another try at pictures.

Clark Gable shaved off his mustache for a sequence in “Homecoming.” He has to look like a college youth. Kirk Douglas kavoed a writer, Sid Marks, at a Hollywood party. ‘He says the beef started over some"thing Marks said ; : }

Turns to Advertising ROGER PRYOR. Ann Sotherns ex. has given, up

acting and is now working for a News ork adver

tising agenc{ “in its television department. Helen Forrest has broken away from the band

singer element. Just made her night club debut as a give up her career to be Mrs. Hopkins.

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headliner at the El Rancho Vegas Hotel in Las Vegas at a four-figure salary. Gale Page, who retired from the screen five years ago, will eut an audition record as a lady disc jockey for children. Jack Paar claims Mr. Crosby and Mr. Sinatra have appeared as singing priests, singing sailors and

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Howard Nyhart, Indianapolis Kiwanis Club president, who opened the meeting, spoke. He paused for a moment and the crowd fell silent. There were 250 persons | ithere. The wind rattled the glass!

lof the veranda windows.

| “We are aroused by this horrible | thing,” he continued, “We want to|

Attorney General, Cleon Poust, and the anxious citizens settled back in their chairs to hear what he could offer, » ” ~ MR. FOUST described a modern1Zed program for treating sex cffenflers as mental defectives, He

easy for me to be academic and

but we've had the same thing down there. It's bad for an American | 12 personnel the citizen to have to say this, but I |street, cleaning department were had to be sufe before I came to collecting leaves on the North Side this meeting that my wife and and hauling them to the El Lilly/ daughter were secure.” {orchard but all of our men were! The meeting unanimously ap{accounted for,” the supervisor said. proved an open letter to Gov. Gates The Lilly orchard is at 71st and demanding an investigation into the _

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department, declared he was not at the sheriff's offite with Mr. Ham. flton, There were “ohs” and “ahs” Mr, Caylor sat down. “I want to ask the Attorney General what citizens can do about these disgraceful conditions. What

TOM RIDDICK of 650 Forest Blvd. asked all thé men living in the Willams Creek area to meet with him after the general meeting to work out a system of patrolling the neighborhood. “We'll walk our streets -day and night’lY we have to,” he said.

when

cult proceeding. Impeachment is

everyone clustered around a table

singing doctors. But why don't they ever play singing said the state was attempting to can we do, Mr. Foust?" Carl F. Maetschke was named i singers? work something out. -: ‘ Mr. Foust stood up. He weighed to head a committee to form & : : . He explained that actually the . his words canéfully. county-wide organization of gitizens Jessel Buys Annuity Attorney General's office had no ™ “Some citizens called me today to demand tighter . law enforce GEORGE JESSEL just took out $100.000. in an- power to intervene in such cases with respect to removal from of- ment. in nuity insurance, with his daughter, Jerrilyn principal “1 know,” he admitted, “that it’s 5 fice,” he said. “This is a very diffi- When .the meeting was over, "=

“Oscar Levant's sister-in-law, Jean Gale, is consoling hat designer Keneth Hopkins over his busted romance with singer Amanda Lane, who wouldn't

take the larger view since we see this same problem throughout the state of Indiana. TI know it’s hard

for you, with a possible - prowler’

to add his signature to the Wea to So ‘Gates for ini Slerempet

pers Sen . Nov. 15 5, 1047.

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"How coms my wite says it's okay to bring you home to dinner? MR. Foust gave a detailed ex- | ~ She -dsually says nol’ planation of the ditticulties. His of-|

\ College Ave. “travesty” of law “enforcement in ¢ of o + do some aroused thinking, but not | ! By Erskine Johnson alarmed thinking ” Sun Walger, Ghief inspector of Marion County. ! Mr. Nyhart “introduced Indiana's construction in the city engineer's «w=