Corpus Christi Caller-Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • 13

Prowlin' come home all tuckered to bed with some whoop'em-up magazines and relax. So, of is all set for a walk. go for a A lop-sided moon is staggering bay when we reach Cole through rift of clouds that the sunset made a royal purple. The sea breeze is cool. I'm not regretting missing out on the Western story powder or smoke so much now.

Down off the bluff at the water's edge, a fisherman or a beachcomber is cooking up a batch of grub for supper. It smells good. We wish we take off sometime and become beachcombers for a We find a wad of "maiden's out, ready to Western course, the So, of course, Nature Nicer Than Western Stories- -Or Is It? forms us that this is the "Corpus Christi Woods of Remembrance." It's very foolish, of course, but the question does creep into my mind--could all these people have maybe mistaken toadstools for mushrooms? Dusk is gathering as we leave this place of the dead and stroll out on the park pier. In spite of the semi-darkness, the wife is almost certain that she recognizes a pair of slacks on a woman ahead of us as belonging to Mrs. E.

A. Danford, although I cannot understand this as women's slacks are, well, just women's slacks, me. The women are stooping down over string on which there is a hunk crab bait when we pass, however, and we do not get down and look up in their faces, to make certain who they are. You never tell how women will react to things like that. We find R.

C. Briggs fishing from the end of the pier. We watch him awhile and get as excited as he when his pole bends and his reel begins to sing. We're also as surprised as he when he lands a gafftop cat, fully four inches long. None of us can understand how a fish that size could make such a play.

It is Mrs. Danford who is crab-fishing, we find on our return along the pier. I can recognize her, slacks and all, when I meet her face to face. Her sister's fishing with her. They've got a basket of crabs to show for their efforts, too.

There are mighty few women like Mrs. Danford, who can hold a job downtown, keep house, and then fish for crabs to feed her guests at night. The doctor ought to get along with a wife like that. Many wives can only crab. Fireflies are spearing the darkness as we stroll back through the park.

stalk one that keeps glowing atop a grass stalk, catch him and return to a light to prove or disprove the wife's assertion that fireflies here are "bigger and jucier" than those of West Texas. Personally, I can't see that they're any bigger or "jucier." This one is just about the same size and of the same liquid content as those I used to catch and put in a fruit jar to make 3 lamp when I was a kid. The real argument comes up, however, when I get to just where the the the switch is that the bug on and off the juice. The wondering, the wife contends that lightingbugs light up just like people when they're emotionally touched. I claim that so much light is not an emotional expression, that the bug really glows for a purpose.

But I can't seem to think just what that purpose might be. It's hard to argue without facts. I'd rather read Western stories. Fair Enough AFL Faces Choice Between Cleanup and Rebellion By WESTBROOK PEGLER The May 10 issue of The Labor Union of Dayton, Ohio, which calls itself an official publication of the American Federation of Labor, prints a letter to Will Green, president of the AFL from the Summit County Trades and Labor Assembly. This letter says the assembly has.

observed the "yellow journalism of Westbrook Pegler for some time," and argues that nobody has any right to expose graft and corruption in the racket unios of the American Federation of Labor who cannot prove that he has first criticized Richard Whitney for his thievery and publicized findings of the Temporary National Economic Committee in- PEGLER vestigating the shady practices of monopoly" and the report of the La Follette committee. "The affairs and problems of the labor movement are its own," the letter says. "Neither Pegler nor anyone outside that movement, having as their basic premise an anti-union bias, has any right to interfere." The answer to this is that the American Federation of Labor is not the labor movement but a front for panders, thieves, extortioners and thugs who prey not only on employers and the United States government but on the and file workers as well, reducing thousands of nominally free Americans to the status of subhuman robots who pay tribute to brigands for the right to toil, are not allowed to vote on union questions and risk terrible injury or death if they make so bold as to try. These citizens are now so furious at the abuse of their human rights by brutal grafters that they are almost up to the point of fighting it out with nickel ball bats. The answer is that the sins of Richard Whitney and Wall Street, of monopoly and the labor spies employed by anti-union associations of employers have nothing to do with the case and have been used too long as a stall to distract attention of the dues-paying suckers from the merciless greed and inhuman cruelty of crooks holding key positions in unions of the AFL.

I have shown up a few spectacular criminals hair," a golden, tangled hair-like para-, sitic plant, among thorns of a flattened catelaw bush. We squat down and prick our fingers, pulling some of it loose to look at. We wonder how a plant can grow so luxuriantly without any roots or ties. Some people can live like that. I think they must be the happiest people on earth.

We find a mushroom growing in the grass. Or maybe it's a toadstool. I've never been able to tell them apart. Couldn't when I was a kid and had a Boy Scout book to go by. All my life I've wanted to find and cook and eat own mushroom once.

But I never did have the nerve, always afraid I'd pick a toadstool, which I was always informed are very deadly eats. Some of us are just not constituted to take great chances in life. We miss a lot of fun, too. We are somewhat surprised to find that a part of Cole Park has been converted into a burying ground. In it, row upon row, white, black-lettered slabs, marking the 'resting places of all sorts of local clubs and organizations that I had thought dead for some but was not aware of their having been buried.

The city council is buried there, and the school board and faculty, the Monday Club, the Bluebonnet Three Arts Club, the Blucher Group and the Daughters of the American Revolution, and any number of individuals and religious groups. numerous white slabs there me a whole lot of a picture I once saw remind, crosses in Flanders Field after the burial of all the soldiers in the previous World War. Some kind persons have planted some trees among the graves, and another white slab in- who acquired great power over the livelihood and the very lives of decent Americans, not merely in local unions but in the national council of the American Federation of Labor, against. whom not one word ever was said, either in the council or in the national convention of that body, although their rotten character and criminal notorious. But I haven't started yet.

I will show that the AFL has permitted the growth through Tammany methods of a criminal influence within the organization so strong and so dangerous to the physical safety of the honest leaders that the national body itself is afraid to make a move to throw these loathsome gangsters out, Because George Browne, the president of the Stage Hands and Movie Employee's Union, has no criminal record the national executive couneil permitted him to sit in on its deliberations in Washington last week and this week, although Mr. Browne personally appointed not only the pander Willie Bioff to a position of greater power than his own, and personally appointed as chief gorilla of the Chicago district another old-time Capone, gangster and stickup man named Nick Cirella, alia Nick Dean. That shows what type of man Browne is, but still the national executive council, including Green and old Dan Tobin, of the teamsters, who is a kosher-keeping Catholic family man and a veteran of many tough physical battles against strikebreakers and other gorillas, is afraid even to suggest that he be thrown out. Labor leaders are using official labor publications to swindle their members out of the truth about their own weakness Or crookedness by denouncing as enemies of labor everyone who puts the finger on a thief. These are the answers to the Summit County Trades and Labor Assembly's, letter to Will Green, but another word is required.

will solve our own problems in our own way," says the assembly, The answer to that is: The hell you will! You will solve them honestly, and soon, or the solution will be provided by a rank and file rebellion and the Congress of the United States, You aren't the masters of the rank and file. You are their servants, and you had better improve the service or you will be tossed out, too. My Day War Co-Ordinated, Relief Work Says Should First Be Lady ELEANOR ROOSEVELT GIPSON Park. up out of the It's breaking FRED West Virginia, what it was like to see a half a million people leaving their homes under the threat of invasion. Then, later, he described to me the evacuees France for whom he Lady Abingdon are trying to obtain assistance.

All we can do over here is to give money to help those who are doing this work of mercy. As By WASHINGTON, pitiful stories of people in pouring in day White House al, -voiced been working sion, first in group of high time goes on work should ing, at least, ship, and then lished agencies both in Europe ably on the time to time. The ladies ladies of the lawn today. Monday More and more of what is happening to masses the invaded countries abroad come by day. Under trees on the lawn the other day, an unemotionQuaker, Mr.

Kershner, who has for the International CommisSpain and then in France, told a school students from Arthurdale, I feel that all this ELEANOR be co-ordinated. The money raisshould be done under our leaderdistribution to the various estabworking in different localities, and Asia, could be done equitbasis of need as it shifts from of the Senate lunched with the cabinet and me on the White House We were showered upon for a Lateral Road Work Near Odem Planned By County and WPA ODEM -Beginning Monday a crew of approximately 40 workmen will start work on miles of lateral roads in this precinct. The work will E. H. be directed by Commissioner under the supervision of the WPA.

The project consists of 41-2 miles, running east and west from Highway 9 to connect with the Odem-Edroy road, north of Odem, and 11-2 miles in the Sodville section. extending from the Gerdes gin to the Sodville pavement. The -way will be widened from 40 feet to 70 feet. A Corpus Christi Caller May Dream on Harbor Island of Concrete Ships to Face Menace Of Submarines in Last War Was Doomed for Early Failure Men Who Were There Recall Highlights Of Their Strange Tropic Adventure ARANSAS to sea one blustery that has always a boat. No person after the blocks crash sidelong could say this boat.

An outsider, had not spent perspiration 121 By GEORGE FREEMAN PASS -A dream of men and of governments put February morning amid the cheers and merriment accompanied the christening and maiden voyage of who watched the giant as were knocked from her into bay waters was an ordinary water a person who his and ing pans energies her construction. against could i not even say that she was a boat. But to some 200 men this was the inauguration of a lion dollar concrete ship industry that had already turned young Harbor Island into a boom town inhabited by 35 tents and a shipbuilding yard whose abutments along the waterfronts are memorials to what later proved to be one of the biggest failures in ship construction annals, A Concrete Mammoth As the boat slid from its moorlings and the shouting died in the ears of the men whose jobs were significant ones on this maiden voyage, each turned to face jubilantly the task of pioneering in Gulf transport--of jockeying mammoth concrete structure across a sea of uncertainties. Out across the horizon from Port Aransas a tug boat threw its billowing smoke laboriously across the infinite point where two shades of blue meet. A few weeks had passed since that day when the Durham was baptised in the saltine waves she was intended to conquer.

Trailing in the smoke of that tug, only a few feet of her hull above the water, was the Durham. Few persons in this section are 35 well qualified to recall the drama on the island coast during this period as Benny (Skip) Hare and John Felder, at that time young romanticists with a strain of adventure in their veins, and A. A. Allen, contractor here who helped build the ship in 1919. Hare and Felder are now oil company workers near the site where the boat was launched.

They, more than the investors, the French and Canada Steamship Company, New York, realized that concrete ship construction had been a failure. For Use in War The concrete was mixed with ground coke to make the vessel more buoyant and to add substance to its construction. The sections were welded together by metal, with concrete blown between the sections to seal the joints. A particular advantage of the boat for use during wartime was considered to be the fact that once torpedoed it would remain floating in sections. "They may have been able to float after a sub fired at her," recalls Hare, who made the maiden voyage, "but I'd hate to have been on her when she was struck by large shell." Hare, a mess boy, said that the cigar-shaped vessel, because of her cylindrical construction, had such a rough voyage that his job was not one of cooking and serving, but rather of juggling.

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I cable, enjoyed the party very much, for anything which makes one forget the clouds that seem always ready to gather around one, is a blessing these days. I was interested and encouraged at lunch to find that some of the things which were almost universally accepted in 1917 and 1918 seemed to be recognized today as belonging to a past era. Many of you will remember how we refused to listen to German music and felt that in some way we were condemning the Germans at war by this gesture. I recalled it to some of the ladies today and they looked positively shocked, which pleased me very much. Music should remain, like all works of genius, the heritage of all nations.

In this troubled world the arts should be a reminder that there are still possibilities of unity among us. While I talk of music, I wonder if any of my friends who live in and around Chicago, went to the Chicago Negro Light Opera I hope they are still playing and making enough money to keep the company going, for our negro citizens make their greatest contribution to the of the nation through the arts. All of us should appreciate this contribution and give them our support. (Copyright, 1940, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) soil stabilization base, in which mixture of asphalt and dirt will be used, will be built. Plans are to build the base in such a manner that it can be topped later San Antonio Banker To Head State Association GALVESTON, May 23.

(P) Walter P. Napier, president of the Alamo National Bank at San Antonio, today was elected president of Texas Bankers Association at final session of the organthe ization's annual convention. Houston was chosen as the site for the 1941 meeting. she tottered momentarily supports then saw her would splash out of the boiland they would be hurled the wall every time strong wave hit." Voyage Was Nightmare After completing a nightmare voyage to Tampico the employ of the Standard Company, under, several men were sent to hospitals 111 the Mexican oil center to recuperate, Seaman Felder, who remembers his own seasickness with a smirk more descriptive than words, reminisced. a few feet of the hull remained above the water after we took on that 10.000 barrels of oil there." he said.

we started back, seepage began to enter the tank and the anchor locker sprang a leak. For once the boat wasn't rough because of the amount of weight in her, but when it refused to give under those terrific waves, she dropped finish from her bow like plaster falling in an "The boat travelled about five miles an hour," Allen said as he burst into laughter over the revival of an -forgotten memory. "The concrete just weighed too much for the motor to pull. The sides were from four to six, inches in thickness. The assumption that concrete, although much lighter when mixed with coke, would be light enough to transport heavy cargoes was faulty, but so certain were the builders that they disregarded any A second boat, under construetion adjacent to the Durham almost simultaneously but launched At Last AN ALUMINUM VACUUM COFFEE MAKER PRICE for You $1.35 Suspect With War Maps Held by Atlanta Police ATLANTA, May 23 (P)- of a spy suspect possessing NOBLE EXPERIMENT- Here are pictures, of the Durham in dry dock and as she was launched at Harbor Island as a part of another noble experiment back in 1919.

The Durham, 277 feet long, was built of concrete, and theoretically was unsinkable to meet the war's submarine menace. It was the belief that after being struck by a shell, the concrete ship would break up into sections and that the sections would remain afloat. Read the accompanying story to see how this noble experiment failed. later, was the Darlington. Under tow after purchase with its sister for $11,000 the mastadon ghost broke from its tow ropes and was beached by Gulf tides between Port Aransas and Galveston.

Eighteen other vessels, originally planned for construction in the program, were pre-natal fatalities, unborn instruments of the creative art of the imagination. of potential military value disclosed today by Atlanta police. Detective Chief J. A. McKibben declined to give the prisoner's name but said he was being held "for investigation" and described him as a 65-year-old man who speaks with a heavy German accent.

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