Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 July 1942 — Page 15

THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1942

SECOND SECTION

Hoosier Vagabond

LONDONDERRY, Northern Ireland, July 23 —This is the town where Amelia Earhart landed on her first flight across the Atlantic. And this is the town where the American navy has established its first base on this side of the water. I always thought Londonderry ’ was a village, probably a place with only a few stores and no hotel. Actually it is a sizable city, the second biggest in Northern Ireland. The population today is around 60,000. It has two railroad stations, several movies, a large business district, a great lovely cathedral, a Woolworth 10-cent store, and a city square known as The Diamond, with a world war statue in the middle. Londonderry is a place of hills. You can stand at certain high points and look down upon the city. The most striking thing to an American eye is row after row of little chimneys sticking up from long lines of brick houses. The houses make almost a wall, and the chimneypots oozing smoke into the damp air are an Irish sight © for you.

It’s Shortened to Plain ‘Derry’

LONDONDERRY IS A terrifically old city. It was even old when the Great Siege’ came in 1689. The siege was Londonderry’s most historic moment. It is spoken of often, just as the Great Fire is spoken of in San Francisco. The old wall built around the city still stands in- ‘ tact. Of course the city was much smaller then, so the wall now encloses only the center part of town. It is as high as a second-story window, and so wide

By Ernie Pyle

you could drive a car on top of it. Arches have been cut so that when you are driving to the center of town you drive right through the wall. My first evening here I walked with friends clear around the top of the wall. I could look down on the sidewalks just beneath and see sailors talking to girls. But when they looked up and saw us watching they were embarrassed, and stopped talking. Londonderry is almost always shortened to plain ~#Derry” in conversation. The city is not on the ocean, nor even.on a bay. It is several miles up the River Foyle. The river is no wider here than the Ohio at Cincinnati. Nothing bigger thdn a destroyer can get up this far.

Rain and Sun, Rain and Sun

DERRY EXISTS BECAUSE of its shirt and collar factories. The town is full of them. They employ around 12,000 employees, mostly women. There is almost no other industry at all. The result is that in the past few years Derry has been a place where the women did all the work. The menfolks couldn’t find jobs so they didn’t work much, which makes Derry a Utopia, except for the climate.

The summer here is one of daily rain. In fact it|"

rains a couple of dozen times every day. There may be black rain coming down in torrents, and then 30 seconds later the sun will be beaming—and vice versa. The result is that everything is violently green. The rolling countryside is a joy to see. You go around half wet all the time, but despite the dampness and chill Derry seems to me several degrees warmer than Belfast, on the east coast. American sailors and marines based here like Derry. Like everybody else over here, they'd rather be home, but even so they know they're living a pretty good life for wartime and could be a lot worse off. Tomorrow I'll start telling you about them.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

A CERTAIN BANKER around town (we'll spare his name) has been morosely asking his friends if ,they “know of a glue factory that can use a slightly “used carcass” He explains that he tried to get a commission in the air corps, but was rejected because of his eyes. The volunteer officers corps turned him down for an-

other reason. And then—the crowning blow of all—the draft board examiners rejected him for . still another physical defect. Now . he’s almost afraid to get up out of his chair for feat he’ll fall to pieces. . . . One of the girls in the state auditor's office innocently caused quite a bit of confusion the other day. She belongs to an organization that wanted to hire a musician, and so she put a want ad in the classified ,column. For convenience, she listed the auditor’s phone number. But she forgot to tell anyone else, and she doesn’t sit where she can answer the phone. The result is that the other girls spent the entire day telling disappointed musicians that “It must be a mistake— no one wants a musician here.”

Monumental Details

WE THINK WE'VE FOUND the monument to end all “tallest monuments” arguments. Back on July 13, we quoted Raleigh E. Hamby, of Hopkinsville. Mr. Hamby had seen a ‘postcard view of our own Soldiers and Sailors’ monument (284 feet) with a reference to it as the second tallest monument in the U. 8S. “’Tain’t so,” he wrote. “It is a known fact that ¢he Jefferson Davis monument 10 miles east of Hopkinsville is the second tallest monument in the United States, measuring “355 feet.” S. O. Byrum, 1222 W. 34th; read that and takes

exception to Mr. Hamby’s claim. “The San Jacinto monument at San Jacinto, Tex. near Houston, is the tallest monument and masonry structure in the world. It is 570 feet high. Washington monument being second which is 555 feet high. This evidently would place Jeff Davis monument third.” He inclosed a paper match book with a picture of the San Jacinto monument to prove his statement.

Around the Town

HAVE YOU NOTICED the super-duper crew haircut Toner Overley is sporting? Wow!! . , . Stanley Shipnes lunched on tomato juice and scrambled eggs at the Columbia club yesterday because of a badly swollen jaw. Extraction of a wisdom tooth did it, he says. . . . Mrs. Ethel Fleenor, over at the state conservation offices, received a letter from her son who is overseas and noticed the envelope was stamped “Sans Origin,” which is the army’s way of saying that it’s nobody’s business where this letter was mailed. - Mrs. Fleenor showed the letter to a couple of the girls in the office who, according to the usually reliable Marc Waggener, began looking in the encyclopedia to see where Sans Origin is located. . . . Dr. Russell S. Henry, the lung specialist and ex-Rotary president, is getting his business affairs in order. He'll soon be wearing a uniform,

Looking for Clues

A BROAD RIPPLE woman phoned the Central library the other day and asked Miss Mary Wilson about a certain book. The woman said her son, on duty somewhere in the Pacific, had mentioned the book in a letter, and she thought that maybe somewhere in the book might be a clue to his particular whereabouts. The boy’s father, while a soldier in the world war, had told where he was in that way. The book mentioned by the son was “Illiterate Digest,” by Will Rogers. We didn’t learn whether she found any clues in the book.

Raymond Clapper is on vacation.

He will return in about three weeks.

Pegler and C. I. O.

This column appeared in The Cleveland Plain Dealer, a newspaper which does NOT carry Westbrook Pegler.

BEFORE ANY MORE time elapses I'd like to get in my two cents’ worth on the subject of the Cleveland C. I. O. council's condemnation of Westbrook Pegler, and its desire to pressure The Cleveland Press into dropping his column, a stupid attempt to say the least. We on the Plain Dealer can’t be ‘accused in this instance of stooging for one of our boys, for - Pegler’s column is published by our competitor. If Pegler should disappear from The Press, something important and real would be gone, and that would not hurt us as a competing 1ewspaper. So put this down as outside comment. I don’t know Pegler and I'm not in his league, but : I do know he has plenty of guts, something all too rare in newspapers today, and he has the unions right where the hair is short—that is why they are yelling that he should be suppressed. And I know that any such move as the C. I. O. is making in several cities is a direct threat to freedom of the press, which affects not only ourselves but all citizens, black or white, male or female, union or non-union.

He's Anathema to the Nazis

I'D LIKE TO touch briefly on two things: (1) The silly allegation that Pegler is hampering the war effort by fumigating the unions and is therefore a “fifth columnist” and (2) What it would mean 'to free press and free speech for any special interest such as a union to be able to suppress fair comment through pressure.

Let's consider this “fifth columnist” nonsense, which sounds to me like an old communist tactic— trying laster an unpleasant phrase on the opposition. would be natural, for Pegler has been socking the Communists right and left, both before and after Russia got into the war. What is a fifth columnist? To me, it means

By Philip W. Porter

Coughlin ‘and Martin Laval Sweeney, who were so busy with their hates of our present administration that they would help Hitler and the Japs, because it would hurt Roosevelt. It means Bundists and United Mothers. ~The fact is that no American writer has so bitterly and regularly denounced and scorned Hitler and Mussolini and the Japs and their several forms of fascism. Pegler started it years before the war. He started it after he traveled through Europe, and saw the brown shirts in action, and his column has been anathema and his name mud to the gestapo ever since. Pegler would certainly be one of the first to be garroted should. Himmler and Goebbels or their American counterparts ever get control of us.

“The Nerve of These Guys”

THE FACT ALSO is that Pegler has drawn a bead exactly on the weakest spot in American unionism and he has already been instrumental in sending three or four of its most notorious goons and crooks to jail—Willie Bioff, George Scalise, George Browne, among others. He has pointed out ‘without successful denial that

the labor movemer: in America today has been|

preyed upon by its own business agents and bosses, that it is milked out of high initiation fees and unnecessary dues; that it has no control over its own officers; that actual democracy in it is a laugh, for the John L. Lewises appoint their own officers, and in plenty of other places any ordinary workman who isn't a member of the ruling cabal gets his skull cracked when he talks out of turn. . The nerve of these guys thinking they can shut

up a legitimate critic in such a fashion is what burns |:

me most of all. If they could make it stick against Pegler, another gang might make it stick against

Walter Lippmann, or Dorothy Thompson, or Ray|

Clapper, or Drew Pearson, all of whom speak out of turn frequently. The point I am making is that if any special group feels its oats so that it thinks it can shut off criticism then it could shut off anyone? It could suppress my column, which is merely local and limited in area. That sort of thing, if the C. I. ‘O. but knew it, is an element of true fascism,

wartime summer.

the Indianapolis railways. So, with the transportation problem solved (you can leave the family car in the garage) all you need to do is plan an afternoon or evening outing, gather the necessary equipment together and start out. : o ” »

IN CASE YOU are worried

door ovens in our city parks to do your cooking, here is what to- do. Either call in person or write, enclosing a self-addressed, stamped envelope, to the park board on the third floor of the city hall. Tell them your plans and they will give you a permit for the use of an oven in the park you designate. Should the ovens in the particular park you wish to visit be spoken for already, the park

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City's Parks By FRANK WIDNER THERE ARE PLENTY of facilities for relaxs) :ion

and fun right here in Indianapolis for you conserva:i:nminded citizens who want to stay near home during chi

If you study the map on the page dlisily, you piib--ably will find a park within walking distance of your Lome or on one of the routes ofe~ x

board officials will proviikl one at the nearest park pcisible ‘to the one you first plann:c to visit. All ovens may be uscd; ‘for two hours.’ ” ” 8

FOR LARGE PICNICS » family reunions, those that cim-

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prise more than 25 persons, a permit must be obtained to use the parks. They may be obtained in the same way.

_ Ovens are allotted to persons =~ for a two-hour period and all fires” must be out by 10 p. m. "The

parks close at 11 p. m. J

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What each park offers is shown in the chart elsewhere on this page. There youll find facilities for young and old alike, whether you want to pitch horseshoes or swim. : Also listed are the city’s playgrounds and beauty spots, many of which you probably never knew

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There are scores of ways to énjoy healthful and safe pleasures and at the same time go along with the war effort by conserving tires. So make your arrangements with the park board, pack up a lunch, check your trolley or bus schedules and get aboard for a day of fun,

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NEW YORK, Wednesday.—1 left Asheville, N. C., yesterday afternoon, after a very interesting and pleasant visit to the International Student Service Summer "Institute there. Asheville college, which has housed the institute, was started about 50 years ago by the Rev. Mr. Pease, who founded the Five Point mission in New

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crafts, a business course, and courses which would prepare them to teach in the country schools. The college needs to find new support, new friends who are interested in seeing that these young people get a more libéral education. They are pure American! stock. They are strong and fine, and they are de- | serving of help in the educational field, even from

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NEW YORK, July 23 (U. P.).—

York City. When he retired he bought a farm near Asheville and shortly thereafter he and his wife took in five mountain girls, to help them obtain an education.

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_ Asheville Normal Teachers college, which was a denominational college, largely supported by church funds, up to a very short time ago. ‘Most of its students come from » J@dius of 100 miles around Asheville and belong to “the proverbially large families of mountaineer farmers. Th= curriculum, therefore, has bsen arranged

people who do not live in their own state. A limited number of people have been interested in the past, but the college must make new friends, because the buildings need repairs, and more teachers are required. A good many of the young people in the International Student Service Summer Institute come frem colleges in the south, but there is a sprinkling from the west, from Michigan and the Middle West, and even one student who combined his Indiana heritage with a Harvard university education. The contacts on the campus with the students in the summer session of the college itself have been pleasant and beneficial, and the use of one of the

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JACKSON, Miss., July 23 (U. P.) .—In mid-summer in the south

Curtis Ray Wilson, 25, El Paso, Tex., hid in the air-tight dust‘proof baggage compartment of a bus bound from Memphis to Jackson. Six hours later they opened the compartment here and fished Wilson out. He was soaked with perspiration, 10 pounds lighter and unable to stand alone. His trip was continued to the

hospital and then to jail,

in Argentina. recorded here by CBS.

There - were 29 officers among those who escaped, BBC said. The Grat Spee was scuttled in the plata estuary after it had been badly damaged in battle with British warships in December, 1939. The | Permitted to work on farms under

The British Broadcasting Co. said | yesterday that 153 members of the interned crew of the German pocket battleship Graf Spee have escaped The broadcast was

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conditions of the sailors’ internment supervisions of local authorities.