Violence Again In Chicago
By Alexander Broad
. Chiengo.
is a long time since Al Capone, his boys and his enemies rode high, wide and handsome through the streets of Chicago, leaving a hail of machine-gun bullets and a trail of corpses be hind him.
Since then the Windy City has become famous for other and more pleasant things: A man called Robert Maynard Hutchins came to Chiengo and did things and said things that will prob- ubly rute a bigger place in history than ten Al Capones and their gangs.
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Robert Maynard Hutchina was president of the University of Chicagoa university little too big and maybe a little too bustling, but a university which has become a great - versity.
It was there that Hutchins restored the classical, education to the American seene, there that the vast programme of re search in se humanities
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the social sefences was launch- ed. They have produced many of the men who have been softening and the civilising fluence on American life politics.
the
Ju-
Put To Rout
TOUT it was there, above all,
whymond Me
Carthy was put to rout. Hutchins,
asked by an investigator
"Do in
you still teach Communisın your school?" replied "Yes, and I tench cancer in ny medical scliool, too."
Hutchins has moved Un to administer the Ford Founda- tion's multimilion dollar "Fund for the Republic,**
but
Chicago has retalned its re-
putation as 2 centre of learn- Jng,
History, however, seems
rus in cycles.
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There are no Al Capones in
Chicago now, but violence has
come
back--a new
sneakier Kind
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and violence
Jaunched by smaller but no less vicious men.
to
Al Capone and his mob user?
chool it out face to face,
mon to man. The new gongster
creep
aboul quietly in
the
15
night, planting time bombs..
"There
have been 25 bomb- Ings in Chicago in the last months, One of them blew up ↑ children's amusement park,
Partly, the business is rather like the dnd Capone used to
Tum.
Ti is a branch of the "pro. Petron" racket,
Small
merchants are visijed by really dressed salesmen whe ark them whether they would Fike to take ou come 15
sorance-insurance, say, against smashed shop windows, razor shushes and bombings.
Pinc
London Express Service
He is attempting what no man has ever done before--to drive 14,000 milos in a British car from Norway's North Cope (northernmost point of Europe) to Cape Town (southernmost city of South Africa). As fonders of his best-soller "Boldnast Be My Friend" remember, 39-year-old Richard Pape escaped from some of the tightest spots in the war.
Now,
In this special despatch, he describes his 1955 advon- tures against the implacable forces of the Sahara.
The metal parts of the car endlessly, glorious nectar. Then might have been oven plates. I saw my mother with a silver Then it happened... my car teapot, and she poured me tea. gave out.
Time
and fIDE
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TAKE THE Pictures You WANT WITH...
me
.
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I woke up in the shadow. of A horrible lurching, metallle a mud hut. How I got there groaning. The front left spring 1 shall never know. An old Assembly fell on the road. The Arab poured water over corrugated Sahara track had from a goatskin. proved too much for the car which had come from the Arctic I was given, food. I Alled Circle.
my water containers from the roatskins and collected pieces I climbed out and jacked up. of palm tree wood.
Too soft, but I had to have it. slowly cleared my brain and sought, the PARE on the fringes of the help of a guide, a smali Arab limitless desert. The map (inset); boy, of perhaps 12 years. I set shows His route so far, with an-off back towards the car. 'other' thousand milés beore, the
Sahara is crossed.
SABARA-
The
AFRICA
ear while I still hyd
A SCORCHING OCEAN OF SAND
NEARLY SMASHED MY
T
Adrar, Sahara Desert. HIS Cape - to - Cape journey is no longer a happy adventure but 11 desperate,. nerve-racking struggle. Yes,
Mestly, the merchants pay up admit it. I'm feeling the strain and praying to get it over. There is a limit. to human endurance.
and
By Richard Pape
drinks
water in two hours. water; one pours it down can hardly say one one's throat in a frenzy,
way's views
SPIRIT
strength.
I examined the damage and collected the pieces. I needed wood to act in lieu of springs; I had to support the 1 drank 10 pints of team knew the tracks well, car with wood to be able to One But, no matter how many times, drive it again. Oh, dear God,
a French driver has crossed wood in the Saharat sections of the Sahara, he al-
a fresh journey I filled a four-litre rubber
water with utter nervousness.
bottle und I set of walking. The great truck lumbered mile after mile in front of me. It slopped at an oasis, and the driver told me to take the lead position and stop every now and again for them to catch up, I drove on in front, but I missed he track. I have not seen the French lorry since.
Those who don't scan soon to
LAKIST need genuine protection.
But the bombings are mainly Tulis between
one "insurance
1 lay in the car in this company
another-nail-
vast desolate, burning lime gong wars.
Sweat; agony, toil, tears,
Sahara...and I was afraid. Now the Chicago Telbune ha ffered $5,000 word for help desperation, water, water,
I have been in many dan water, Did ever revel in In cleaning up the gangs.
Curinusly, though, the other this luxury of the cool, kind gerous and tense situations, but never have 1 resolved to side of Chicago's claim to fame cold of the northern has been in the nows toʊ.
countries? It is only a short kill myself by a pistol bullet Curiously, though, the other side of Chicago's claim to fame time ago, since I was in before dying of thirst in the
has been in the news too,
Loyalty Boards
THE
which
Norway, but to me today, it seems like a dream.
Sahara.
TERRIFYING
Adrar, 220 miles away.
open window.
And again I was consumed by coma. I sank to the sand and hugo spiders watched me from a few foot away. I cursed them. awake to find the little Arab had deserted me.
The mystery of it all to me is how I got back to that ear. How I pushed palm tree wood into the gaps in place of the springs. How I sound two wood supports in the boot which I had completely forgotten about.
THE FORT
THAT then is the story. With-
out knowing it I fixed my
car (or the spirits of the Sahara Axed it) and I drove it buck to this fort or Adrar. I cannot recull entering the gates. I have been here two days-well look- ed after. My body is strong have 10st gain, although 2016.
I
I walked more than 20 miles before I came to four paim trees. My brain was burning The French will not let me again, away when I spotted the trees; face the Sahura alone my leg muscles had almost I must wait here for a convey withered away too, It seemed. to proceed to Gao, 1,000 miles.
My car is welded and repaired and cleaned of sand. The re- maining 1,000 miles are easy.
MIRAGES
time the
mirages:
DUT after a
Ban't wiary me.
heat
1 saw Yes,
I
I panicked a little and decided to follow my compass South, Ten hours later after the most
But I would not undertake hellish, nightmare journey,
this trip again for £50,000. The came into a small French fort. I had crossed from Gil-
Sohara is a lawy unto itself, a There I was redirected towards magnificent THE "Fund for the Republic," braltar to Tangier; I set out
saw them. Later I was told in part of the earth that ridicules Adrar that it is always the man, Heil's cauldron, Hutchinst organisation, to cross Morocco to Colomb THE heat does something to one's brain: it saps it announced the results of its in- | Bechur, on the edge of the
Shortly afterwards two mad same when death is near Inte
I candot but admire the the car, Saharu
French, with trumble respect, vestigation into "loyalty boards" Sahara. First I hit a huge into a useless jelly. Thirst prairie dogs attacked
and for attempting to civilise the government organisations crater in the road
and makes one's body tremble Que spat at me through the
I saw cool lakes and owing subjugate this part of Africa. Lry clvil servants for
rivers, alleged Communist activities and smashed a spring plate. For and jerk. The pit of one's vacuum flaske over its head.
lovely wamen, One The toughest specimens of man- woman field out a gold cup full hood I have met. sympathies,
10 hours I laboured in stomach craves liquid fuel The report is a little remind the sun to repair it.
und relief.
of black liquid and I drank scent of George Orwell's "1984."
The Sahara is terrify- ing, sinister, ruthless, de streams menting. Sweat from one's body all the time, it rolls into one's eyes and fuck! But now I began to feel scalds and burns.
Whet
There is the case of the woman was dismissed from her job she had p brother who wis not a Communist but
because
belonged to
who
some "subversiva"
think
organisation. She told board that she didn't
SANDSTORM
the CAME the next blow..
Again I hit a fissuro in tell the tortuous desert road. The what roof carrier was torn from
be-
it Was her duty to the government just organisation her brother
Ono has to swallow more longed to.
its mountings; the sun visor and more salt to avoid ver- There Was the coloured was torn off the bonnet tigo." And the more salt woman who was subjected to smushed in the armour one takes to keep going, the
ours of grilling because she had twice met a man whom the plating twisted' and ripped greater one wants to gulp gellow traveller,ght
houra
government
Was a away.
There was the case of
the
diqwn water.
For three hours I Slowly, slowly the Ca government board which grilled laboured in the tremendous crept into Colomb Bechár. a woman employer because she heat. Then came the sand- maintained
Bon and atorm,
Here I found a little. German sympathetic assocation" with
called Fritz, discharged from Within minutes the whole, the French - Foreign Legion on landscape was blotted out. I pension and now running ha
ס
man who sympathised with
Communists. The man was her Husband.
but
I smashed my
I began to feel the utter loneliness of the Sahara and a left messages in the sand be feeling of being lost forever. tween my tracks at intervala.
At dawn I picked up the Adrar track again-stupendous
the effects of it all,
My brain whirled. The track shook the car terribly.
The sun came over the range of mountains, a pale sinister
It appeared diuited blood, it thickened to as strenky deep-flowing crimson blood; it bocanso diluted artain and suffused the sky in yellow, and pale blue. It was curie, servov racking, threatening.
FEAR
The report is not very pretty; could see nothing. The wind oxy-acetylene welding plant for AROUND me was nothing but the fact that it was made howled. The flying fog of military vehicles. He reattached Saham and, a vast can and the fact thint it Was
**** sand WILS
eerie, soul- the armour plating; once again of nothing but burning yellow sand. The temperature xogo to 80, 90, 100, 110," 120,
published under the auspices of
an organisation backed by the destroying. biggest business in the land is Andienilve of the fact that It came in the car.
Americana art. no fonder, these came up my mostells, in days of McCarthys than they mouth, in my ears, and 15 were of Al Capones.
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my eyes
my chine, was made parfoot.
It I Loft Colomb Bechar three Not a palm tree in adoht, not
my truck by thechas con foar, taber: 11amed than tor days later. I was given a special, a anil. My heart; pounded with in varit contained 20 Arabs, pounding purton The motor and the French driver and hit was sermorning. In #goby too.
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