Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 April 1948 — Page 6

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JULIUS WICHSER lets peo-

with news-

person has been arrested by the pers, no neatly-typed, wordy . “So-and-so announced” Is Marshal Wichser remarks questions freely, con-

and accurately. ; This seeming heresy has brought some critifog:rolling system an joe a), Those whose business brings them into the Bé-year-old marshal's office find he runs the J place efficiently and with consideration. He takes [i the job seriously, so much so that he had a nervous breakdown in 1943. He used to work

Even so, janitors often see him sneaking into his office for an hour or so each Saturday to see that everything is in order.

Keeps Marine-Style Haircut

TWO VESTIGES remain of his Marine Corps service 30 years ago. One is his attractive, Marine ring. The other is his “clean-shaven” appearance, as his friends call it. His face is free of cultivated hair and so is his head. The marsal’'s “newly-hatched” look often gives prisoners a start. JuMus looked in the mirror after a Marine parber had worked on him and decided then and there he liked the style, He has worn it that way since. In those days, he was a sinewed 135-pounder, not standing very tall, He's still pretty much the same, a little heavier. The marshal was So in slow-moving Tell pj phi City, an Ohio River town. Orphaned at 14, he went to work in one of the town’s saloons. His duties included tending bar and throwing out had served too often. depressing and he doesn't drink to this day. He smokes a little. The g youth continued to work and go to school, earning a high school diploma and _enrolling at Purdue University. He dies am. ani. husbandry. His hobby of b

post - was reappointed

tors to indorse

Mr. Wichser

the Bible.

r year. ' Young Julius carried mail in Tell City and beassistant postmaster. Then World War I came. He returned to discover his job gone. : best he could find in the post-war deprescans in a creamery. In % was manager and held the job 35 another depression brought him rvice again, this time as a deputy internal revenue collector. i Deve chief deputy marshal here in 1935.

The marshal

t. The hanging marshal’s office BI atl ot then Coty oy the only time a federal prisoner was executed outside a federal institution, Sherman Milton; forme U. 8. Senator from Indiana, appointed him as marshal in 1939. He

lér’'s office.”

"NOT | A BADGE AND GUN JOB"—Julius Mi Wichser himself is a colorful and unique personality, But when it comes to his job as U. S. marshal, he figures the two-gun Western stuff is out. He runs the office in a business-like fashjon and refuses to cany any Sroppings of his

Jackson and his second reappointment is pending before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Indications are that Republicans will join with| pia; Democrats in urging the state’s two GOP Sena- |;

Wichser on the basis of satisfactory service and business-like operation of his office.

them, Joy, is president of the Butler University A 's

‘You Are Just a Public Servant’

THE MARSHAL concedes he is not a “church man,” but his life has been greatly influenced by

A Biblical reference to humility has been a migrants. With a bit of research precept the official applies in his daily life. “Humble thyself, for you are just a public|list and starts pondering .about servant,” he believes the quotation should read. He sometimes impresses people as being blunt and undiplomatic, quaintance, for the conscientious marshal is just physician who trying to get things done as quickly as possible. |anesthesia, only to be frustrated His accomodating manner is known among many, especially the so-called little people. He|London spinster who had dehas often reopened his office after closing hours to accept a bond and allow some minor defendant | to spend the night with his anxious relatives. “It isn’t what you're paid to do that counts,” his philosophy holds. “It's the extra things that|/ham, really help people.”

see through the maneuvers of other agencies, but|/had to place their other children this doesn’t keep him from working co-opera-|in foster homes. tively with them. This is necessary, because the

almost every other féderal agency. : Mr. Wichser says it's “more like a comptrol- hopelessness that

The colorful official refuses to carry a gun or Thro badge, for this reason. (By Kenneth Hufford). | ore. job. Eh (extended

Features at Neighborhood Theaters

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Hoosidr Profile-

The Civic’s April production,

Much of the talk is profound Ardrey wrote with eloquent simplicity and poetic feeling. And sq the idea-laden speeches still have power, though the play is keyed to the temper of 1939 when it was first produced. We quickly forget former states of the popular mind. If you were asked to write} lengthy essay on what you firmly believed in 1939 about the world situation, you'd have a tough time the conflicting emotions, fears and hopes we all experienced at that time. About Newspaper Man “Thunder Rock” is about an ace newspaper correspondent who takes a job as lighthouse-keeper in a rocky islet in northern Lake He's fed up with the world and its approaching catastrophe. In his solitude (he’s alone a month at a stretch), he gets to thnking about a lake disaster of 1849, when a vessel foundered on a reef north of the fslet and all by former U. §, Senator Samuel [hands were lost, including 60 im-

the reappointment of Democrat James McDaniels| Alistair Stuart Ralph Saunders Paul McNamar Joan Puller | Margaret Eastridge |

Dorothea Bertarelli] John Williams

has three daughters, One of

Anne SATie, Ris ite. other passenger.

he finds the vessel's passenger

some of the persons named. He thinks intensely enough to

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— + TTHE'INDE ar AN a Ce re First Night of ‘Thunder Rock” Is Rough Test for Actors

By HENRY BUTLER

“Thunder {ast night, is an uncommonly difficult test for Jack Hatfield's actors and technicians,

ana Sos Ardrey’s fantasy-drama of human destiny moves rather slowly and contains a great deal of talk.

and moving, mainly because Mr.

McDaniels as Charleston and Charles Rawlings as Streeter, his adventurous pal, share honors with Joan Fuller as Melanie Kurtz and Margaret Eastridge as her mother. With another knockout setting by Walter Russell and with excellent direction by. Mr. Hatfield, “Thunder Rock” is a fine Civic production. It will play nightly through next Saturday.

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“April Showers,” with Ann Sothern and Jack Carsen, at oo, 1:45, 4:35, 7:20 and 10:05.

FORMAL — Judith Fellows, all rigged out-in Victorian evening finery for the bell scene in "Lady Windermere's Fan," in which Miss Fellows has the Lady Windermere role. The revival of the Wilde comedy, starring Cornelia Otis Skinner, today is in its final two performances at the English.

by a mob burning his house; a

spaired of women’s achieving economic and political equality with men-.in the old world; a young factory worker from BirmingEngland, whose wife is about to have another child, has an analytical eye and can|though they're so poor they've

Charleston Conclusion

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is affected by the functions of

has n David Charleston into his light-

conversation with them, Charleston arrives at the typically 1939 conclusion that humanity sooner or later will contrive to solve its problems. So he's not sorry to

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Good Acting

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sel and Paul McNamara as Dr. In a current issue of the|Stefan Kurtz, the persecuted sci-

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