Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 February 1941 — Page 6

"GALVIN TO TALK

T0 K. C. COUNCIL

Fourth Degree Assembly to Give Dinner; McNamara Is Chairman.

Timothy P. Galvin, Hammond at- " torney, will address the members of

the Indianapolis Council, Knights of Columbus, at 8 p. m. Monday in the K. of C. assembly hall, 1305 N. Delaware. St. The speech by Mr. Galvin, kno is the newly appointed Supreme Master of the Fourth Degree, Knights of Columbus for the United States, will be preceded by a dinner given ‘by the Indianapolis Fourth Degree Assembly. . ; Joseph P. McNamara, deputy State Attorney General and faithful navigator of the Knights of Columbus, is general chairman of the meeting. He will be assisted by Vernon Hennessy, Harry Wissel, Russell Woods and Humbert Pagani. Approximately 60 members of thé Indianapolis Council will leave by special busses for South Bend tomorrow to attend initiatory exercises sponsored by the Notre Dame Council 1477, K. of C. William H. Bradley, grand knight, . will head the delegation, which will leave at 9 a. m. and 10 a. m. About 125 candidates, including several members of the University of Notre Dame football squad, are in the South Bend degree class. .Joseph F. Lamb, supreme secretary of the Knights of Columbus, will be fhe principal cpeaker at a banquet’ which will follow the degree work. : :

AUTO INJURIES FATAL

AURORA, Ind. Feb. 8 (U, P.).— Helen Holden, 23, Harrison, O., died late yesterday of injuries received in an automobile accident near Brookville in which her companion Clifford McLaughlin, 20, Aurora, was killed instantly.

Breakdown of

By FREMONT POWER When 'J, Frank .McDermond Jr

paper.

paper and hired a staff of one. By

become so heavy that Publisher McDermond suffered a nervous breakdown. He: sold out for $750. That’s the early career of J. Frank McDermond Jr, who a few years ago bought up and merged all the publishing interests in Attica, Ind. Eight years ago, Mr. McDermond helped organize the Hoosier State Press Association, now in convention here, and last July it, elected him president. When he fornpra ily retired from the publishing siness at 15, he was getting out a two-column paper of about a dozen pages. It was filled with personals and, in general, covered Attica happenings. It was not a collection of childish sayings. Mr. McDermond got: back into the business when he was 23. He had a chance to buy into a paper, but was hesitant about asking his father to “go on his note.” Attica editors at that time often left a drunken trail behind them and Mr. McDermond Sr. considered it a rather shady business. (At 15, Publisher|S McDermond- slipped into the cellar to work on his paper, while his parents believed he was in bed). But Mr: McDermond at 23 finally swung the deal when the Attica mayor offered to be his security. The young publisher still was working in his father’s store but he got a chance to supervise his printing interests when he took the store advertisements to the paper. A year or so later he came out in the open as a full-fledged and ‘“public” publisher after his mother had persuaded his father “to let the boy get in the newspaper business ‘if that’s what he wants to do.” Today at 48, Mr. McDermond is

publisher and editor of. the King-

was 12, he entered the publishing: business and edited his own news-|:

The paper rospered and when|. he was 13, Publisher McDermond: bought a new press, expanded the|:

the time he was 15, his duties had:

"15 Failed”

To Stop Attica Publisher

J. Frank McDermond Jr. .. . he ‘‘loes more than merely ‘report.’

man Star and the Fountain-Warren Democrat, weeklies, and the Attica Ledger-Tribune, a Republican paper and the only daily in Fountain and Warren counties. A gangling, easy-talking man, Mr. Mc¢Dermond is what one often considers the typical Hoosier. He wears good clothes carelessly and doesn’t take himself too seriously.

But he has very well-defined ideas on what the small-town publisher (Attica has about 4000 residents), should do. ‘He ought to step right out and take the lead in community affairs and not just sit back and ‘report,’ ” Mr. McDermond declared. “We give a cup every year to the olitstanding citizen and we try to accomodate every one who comes into the office. “Of course, when spring comes alcng we’ll have to start weeding ouf part of the poetry that always gets plentiful at that time of year.

“Some of it is really pretty bad.”

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Mayor- ome. © Civic Club Bates Impractical at - The. Moment.

Conferences with representatives of industries along South Side railroad tracks were planned today by South Side Civic Club leaders after their request: for: track elevation was termed impractical yesterday by Mayor Sullivan. The Mayor told a committee that elevation would be too expensive at this time. The cost of the entire plan has been estimated by City Engineer M. G. Johnson at about $3,000,000. Building of underpasses was suggested by the Mayor as an alternative. Arthur Paetz, club president, said the general feeling was that a compromise would be acceptable now, in which only the Belt Railroad crossings at Madison: Ave. and East, Shelby and W. Morris Sts. would be involved.

No formal statement of the club : = attitude will be made, he said, untli |§

action has been taken by the Legislater on bills now under consideration.

The committee that conferred |

with Mayor Sullivan yesterday included Mr. Paetz; Leo L. Kriner, secretary, and John F. White.

DISCUSS ROLES FOR LEGIONNAIRES’ SONS

The role of American Legionnaire sons will be discussed by the executive committee of the Sons of the American Legion today and tomorrow at Legion headquarters here, The nine-man committee is headed by P. N. Hiatt of West Palm Beach, Fla. and represents about 70,000 sons, adopted sons “and grandsons of: Legionnaires. Also on the agenda are plans for the 1941 program and membership

problems.

British Can Obtain “Anti-Blockade Bases i in

Ireland Only at Risk of Starting Civil ‘War

This is the last of a series of three articles on Eire.

By HELEN KIRKPATRICK OL nt Gh HS eRe me? DUBLIN, Jan. 30 (Delayed).—If Great Britain wants Irish ports she will have to go and get them. And

that, in the estimation of everyone here, would mean civil war. - Under the. Anglo-Irish treaty of 1921, Britain retained control ' of three Free State ports—Bernhaven in Bantry Bay; Spike Island off Cobh (Queenstown), County Cork, and Lough Swilly in Donegal. In April, 1938, as part of his general appeasement policy, Neville Chamberlain (late Prime Minister of England) agreed to the settlement of the land annuities question, to the conclusion of a trade agreement and to thé handing over of the three ports to Eire. Under the 1921 treaty it was stated that the ports would be retained by the British until the Irish were able § to defend themselves, Those ports in P the last war, g like northern Irish ports of Belfast, and 8 Lough Foyle, were open to the British navy

ww while Cobh has ‘Miss Kirkpatrick been a. base-for ; the British navy for the past 150 years. Today, the British Navy is able to use only Lough Foyle and Belfast in the north, and the high rate of sinkings|T off the Irish coast has aroused feeling in Britain and northern Ireland over the refusal of the Eire government to extend to Britain the use of the southern ports. British naval experts believe that if destroyers could use Lough Swilly and BearhaverY it would possibly materially reduce the number of sinkings.

At the moment, it is clear that

neither Premier Eamon de Valera’s nor other Irish government would survive one day if it offered ports to the British.. And the reason of ordinary individuals is not the same as that given by the Government. It is my impression that many Irish would be glad to see the British navy use those ports, except for two things. First, if the British were to be given the ports now, the Irish feel that the Germans would bomb Eire—Dublin, Cork, Cobh and other cities. Second, many Irish feel that if the British were once allowed in again, they never would leave. While the British, at the moment, certainly have no intention of seizing the ports, frank ones admit that the time might cdme when they would have no alternative but to do so. In this case, Irish government officials state, it would have four disastrous consequences. It would mean, in their words, roughly: “First, war in Ireland of indefinite . duration; second, the over= throw of Irish agricultural economy; third, encouragement of the other belligerent to use the then distracted Ireland against Britain, and lastly, the adverse reaction of the United States where millions of Irish kith and kin would, despite all propaganda, see the vital fact that Britain was using the aid given her by America to destroy their own motherland.” The Irish army, of roughly 100,000 men, is prepared to defend Eire, against the British or the Germans, whichever come first, and they can count on the assistance of the popuEgon, in either case. While the think that the British intend to invade before the Germans, they do not think the’ Germans will invade, anyway. Officially, Premier - Eamon de Valera has never stated what he would do in case of German invasion, and consistent neutrality forbids that he should say, in advance. Neither could he approve general staff talks for the purpose

of co-ordination of plans with the

British in event of invasion. The Belgians did not. . Nevertheless, if the Germans invaded, it is likely that the British would be invited to go to Eire’s assistance. \ The fact is that the Irish have not sufficient. equipment or material with which to put up a really great resistance against the methods of modern warfare, The Government is only too well aware of that. If invasion here occurred before the invasion of Britain, the Ger-

mans might well have a bad time,

but if simultaneously, things might not go too well for Eire. . But it would be as great a mistake to assume that the Germans could not establish a firm foothold in southern Ireland as it would to beliove that the Irish would not ig

PROFESSOR TO SPEAK Dr. W. Norwood Brigance, director of the department of speech at Wabash College, will speak next Wednesday at the Kiwanis Club luncheon. Dr. Brigance will speak on Abraham Lincoln,

BUTSCH REQUESTS

HOSPITAL TRANSFER

William Ray Butsch, alleged slayer of Mrs, Carrie Lelah Romig, failed yesterday: in Criminal Court in an attempt to be transferred from the County Jail to City Hospital for

surgical treatment. Butsch, who. is under indictment on charges of first-degree murder, was adjudged insane before his trial two years ago and was sent to the criminal insane’ division of Indiana State Prison by Special Judge Omar O’Harrow of Martinsville, A recent Probate Court jury found him sane and he has been held in County Jail pending hearing of a habeas corpus petition to be released on bail. - Judge O’Harrow, who heard the request yesterday, sald he did not have jurisdiction in the case. He said Butsch was held in jail on arrangements arising out of the habeas corpus petition ‘and only a judge chosen to hear that petition

.|would have jurisdiction to order

Butsch's transfer.

PEDESTRIAN, 86, KILLED PETERSBURG, Ind. Feb. 8 (U. P.) —William ¥. Finney, 86, was killed here last night when struck by an auto at a street intersection.

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