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Show History Will Write Details Of Lewis-Roosevelt Feud SSMBBMnass.. MM Story Begins During 'Roaring Thirties' as The Forgotten Man Is Remembered By New Deal and CIO. By BAUKIIAGE Newt Analyst and Commentator. WNU Service, Union Trust Building, Washington, D. C. Today there came to my desk a mimeographed sheet from the Of fice oi War Iniormatloa It was headed "The Nazi Slave Labor So ciety." As I read that title, my mind shot back to a very few days before this writing; one of the days when your capital was tense over the coal strike from one end of Constitution avenue to the other, and on both ides of the Potomac. I say "Con stitution" avenue Instead of "Penn sylvania" (which you and I have come to feel Is the main street of Washington) because this coal strike truck deep into a lot of offices and bureaus beside the White House at one end of this historic thoroughfare and the Capitol at the other. Naturally, Harold Ickes, In his of fices looking down the mall from that strange modernistic pile that Is the new Interior building, was concerned. He was, at that moment, mo-ment, responsible head of the soft coal mining Industry and the industry indus-try wasn't functioning. Naturally the members of the War Labor board were concerned. The board's existence was threatened. Two Worries Over across the Potomac In that marvelous architectural achievement, achieve-ment, the Pentagon building, where the army is housed, officers paced the floor of their pentagonal offices. They had two worries. One: Will there be a coal shortage that will hold up production of Important war supplies? Two: Will we have to go out and push people around with bayonets? I haven't mentioned what was going go-ing on at the Capitol or in the White House. Plenty. Every enemy of the administration, every friend of the administration who was angry at Lewis, everyone who was for 100 per cent prosecution of the war and they weren't necessarily different differ-ent people, bilt people with different Ideas was yelling for Lewis' eyebrows eye-brows and some of them were threatening the President if he didn't bring them In (on a silver charger) for breakfast j Inside the White House, there were meetings which, because of the presence and absence of certain persons, per-sons, I would like to report in greater great-er detail but I can't that will have to be left to history. As I write these lines, I cannot predict the aftermath of the action which began late one afternoon on June 3 when, contrary to reports circulated earlier in the day, a statement state-ment was Issued from the White House ordering the men back to the mines by June 7. But between these lines of that statement was the story of "Franklinsteln" and the creature which he created, as dramatic. If not as tragic, as the horror tale by the gentle Mrs. Shelly, written earlv In the 19th century. Self-Destroyer A copy of that book ("Frankenstein") ("Franken-stein") is on my table as I write. On the last page are the lines spoken by this strange being which the hero had created, hoping to raise the standard of humanity but which, alas, had found itself heir to the human weaknesses and turned against his creator. The "being," just before it destroys itself, speaks to its creator: ". . . thou didst seek my extinction extinc-tion that I might not cause greater wretchedness; and tf yet. In some mode unknown to me, thou hast not ceased to think and feel, thou wouldst not desire against me a vengeance greater than that which I feel. Blasted as thou wert, my agony was still superior to thine ..." (You really ought to read the book if s far superior to the movie version.) But why do I bandy with this ancient tale? Because I do believe that all of us build, materially or physically, creatures which come back to haunt us. Look at the record of John Lewis and Franklin Roosevelt . John, born to the pits, a man who won to literacy, yes, to scholar-chip scholar-chip the hard way. Franklin, born to the purple. Both endowed with that Indomitable Indomita-ble something that lifted them, in BRIEFS. . The Japanese-controlled Bangkok radio has issued more advice on good manners to the people of Thailand. Thai-land. "Since the clothing and man-tiers man-tiers of those who are in private business are not respectable yet we request that they observe the following follow-ing principles: 'Be well dressed, be clean, be agreeable to customers, do not smoke or be intoxicated, have good manners, be honest spite of their respective handicaps, to leadership. Egocentric enough to elbow their way up to the counter; altruistic enough to have something to contribute to the general welfare when they got there. Reader, be fair even if vou have your honest prejudices both these men are gifted. gift-ed. , . A Quick Look Pick up the story In the roaring thirties the New Deal Is beginning to strut Its stuff. The "forgotten man" has been remembered and he's grateful to Roosevelt The forgotten laborer Is being remembered; re-membered; he's grateful to Lewis. I mean the man who couldn't because of the by-laws of the AFL, get into a la Dor union any more than he could get into the Union League club, Lewis stepped out of the AFL with his miners. The CIO was formed in 1935. It looked as If John of the eyebrows eye-brows and Franklin of the amber cigarette holder had something in common. They did. It began by being an Ideal a better deal for the man who hadn't had such a good deal before. Later, the issues became more complicated but we won't go Into that now. Anyhow, the Wagner act was passed in 1935. (Labor's Magna Charter, they called it) That gave the poor, heretofore outsider, the workman who couldn't qualify, to Join the snooty AFL, a chance to be somebody. If there were more of his group than there were of the AFL's In a plant shon or factory. his outfit was recognized as the col lective bargaining unit That was a real step forward in economic democracy. The CIO thrived. It had the bless ing of the administration. It gave its votes in return. It also gave the largest campaign contribution in return. re-turn. Some of the starry-eyed young men in the New Deal (they have departed, most of them, for Puerto Rico and elsewhere on the fringes) dreamed dreams. They told their dreams to Lewis. , "Why not a real labor party. Jawn," they smiled encouragingly. "with you as the leader? We'll get rid of the democrats without Imagination. Imagi-nation. You'll be vice president next time ..." The Siren' $ Song But then Mr. Lewis made a great mistake. He went to Paris. Other men have erred in that once-fair city before this. (I visited it myself.) my-self.) But John met another siren . ' . .ha witnessed the ait-down strike. Now, frankly, this is hearsay but I am told that it was Lewis brought that illegitimate Gallic child, of the proletariat conceived in a strange moment of aberration, back to Amer lea. It did not thrive. It needed a more mined atmosphere than that which blows across the prairies and once flapped the cover of-the covi ered wagon. Mr. Lewis went to the White House, Jerked the previously welcoming wel-coming latchstring, and went in. But old man Vox Popult got there before be-fore him. Up to then, V. P. had been pretty satisfied with things as they were under the New Deal. But things had changed. In a chilly voice V. P. said: "No, Franklin, no John. No dice." Franklin listened. John got mad. That was the end of a beautiful friendship and the rest is history. Lewis turned against the man who had made his success possible and there is, as we know, no feud like the feud of former friends. The soldier on the battlefield, utterly ut-terly unable to comprehend why men strike while he is risking his life for a fraction of the pay the strikers demand, cursed and threatened; threat-ened; the miner, with many Just grievances, stood confused, looking for his oracle to speak, but cringing cring-ing under the sneers at his lack of patriotism. Small-minded bureaucrats, bureau-crats, more Interested in saving their faces than saving the country, sputtered and strutted. Lewis and Roosevelt the two men who, working work-ing together, might move mountains (of coal and coalition) were forced to square off against each other, the public backed the government and, as usual, decided the Issue. Oh yes! That "Nazi Slave Labor Society" it can't happen here! . 6y Bauhhage The United States was producing fighting equipment eight times as fast as Japan in the spring of 1943. v A popular Joke In Holland deals with the bicycle shortage. So many men's bicycles have been stolen that it is asked what happens to the ladies' bicycles. "Oh, they're being kept for the Scotch Highlanders when they get here." Mediterranean Victories Prepare Way For New Allied Campaign Against Axis; Essential Production to Be Increased By Simplification of Consumer Items (EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinion! art pre4 In the.. '"" .Vtl.'l Waiters Newspaper Union's new analysts and not neoetiarllj ! Utli newpaper. Released by Weitern Newspaper Union, mm ! I 'j Under the watchful eyes of U. S. guards, Axis prisoners march In Internment camp In Camp Atterbury, Ind. Since fighting in North Africa, many of these camps have sprung up throughout the country, the average concentration holding 2,000 prisoners and 500 American troops. Prisoners bf war are treated under rules of an International convention. MEDITERRANEAN: Eyes Turn to Sicily , With Allied shipping . reported massed In the Sicilian straits, all Italy awaited invasion. m . Preparatory to the expected blow at the "underbelly of Europe," Allied Al-lied airmen ranged over the Italian islands of Sardinia and Sicily, the Axis' remaining bastions in the Mediterranean Med-iterranean following the fall of Pan-telleria, Pan-telleria, Lampedusa, Lampione and Linosa. Airfields at Catania and Gerbinl in Sicily, were attacked. At Catania, Cata-nia, enemy fighters rose in force to challenge the Allied assault Although Allied headquarters re mained silent on their military movements in the Mediterranean, the Nazis reported that their air men were engaging in running fights with large convoys off North Africa. The Axis also stated that the Allies had massed invasion barges at'Bi-zerte. at'Bi-zerte. Meanwhile, the Allies kept the Axis guessing about their next move. Strong aerial formations attacked at-tacked Axis shipping in the Aegean sea, where the Nazis have fortified the islands leading to the Grecian mainland. SIMPLIFY GOODS: From Cradle to Grave In an effort to increase production of necessary essentials, the government govern-ment has ordered the simplification of more than 1,000 manufactured items. Elimination of frills and variety vari-ety of sizes Is expected to result in enough conservation of material to add to production. The simplification order will affect Americans from the cradle-to-the- grave. Metal will be restricted in baby's cribs, and the length, width and depth of coffins will be limited. Cast Iron kitchen utensils will be confined to 12 items, and 40 styles of enamelware have been eliminated. Wood furniture will be reduced to 24 basic patterns. Whereas 1,150 types of tools formerly were made, f only 857 now will be permitted. Pro duction of electric bulbs will be cut from 3,500 types to 1,700. Feminine apparel will be simplified along with children's sportswear and rayon cresses. AIR OFFENSIVE: Cities in Flames Bremen's big Atlas shipyards were rocked by a dozen bomb hits as American airmen continued their Joint attacks with the RAF over German Ger-man Industrial centers. Results of the U. S. raid on the submarine base of Kiel were unobserved, as swarms of Nazi fighter planes arose to the defense. While the Americans hammered the Atlas works, strong British units, bolstered by huge four-engined bombers, ripped Duesseldorf and Bochum in the Ruhr. Blockbusters caused heavy damage dam-age in both cities, sweeping fires adding to the havoc. Mass evacuations evacua-tions were reported, and the German radio asked people in other districts to make room for the refugees. Size of the raiding fleets can be gleaned from the Nazi claim of having hav-ing shot down 46 planes. 29 of which were supposed to be the four-englned machines. German aerial activity meanwhile was limited to a short aharp sally over a London suburb, where bombs were dropped. HIGHLIGHTS SOFTWOOD: Softwood lumber will be made available for essential essen-tial farm repairs. About half a billion bil-lion board feet will be released by the War Production board. TOBACCO: Possibility of a shortage short-age of tobacco, caused by unrestricted unrestrict-ed buying for export was voiced when government officials conferred with leaders of the industry recently. FOREIGN AFFAIRS: World Cooperation American participation in the establishment es-tablishment and maintenance of post-war peace was unanimously recommended by the house foreign affairs committee. In a simple, 35-word resolution which it recommended to the house and senate for approval, the com mittee declared: . . Congress hereby express itself as favoring the creation of appropriate international internation-al machinery with power adequate to establish and to maintain a Just and lasting peace, and as favoring participation by the United States therein." . Introduced by Representative J. W. Fulbright (Ark.), the resolution was passed after being stripped of the phrase calling for the organization organiza-tion of an International body to prevent pre-vent future aggression, and to maintain main-tain law, order and lasting peace. Since this section touched on the highly controversial subject of an international police force, it was eliminated. FOOD CZAR: Wanted by Congress Shortly after a bi-partisan group of legislators conferred with President Presi-dent Roosevelt and suggested that he appoint a single czar to handle the food situation, the War Food aaV ministration prepared issuance of a report dealing with unfavorable crop and meat prospects. Led by Senator Walter George, the five senators and four representatives representa-tives urged that a single authority be delegated to co-ordinate production, produc-tion, distribution, preservation, rationing ra-tioning and pricing agricultural com modities. It was Reported the President suggested sug-gested an appropriation from 1 to 2 billion dollars for subsidies to be used in "rolling back" the prices of foods. Many legislators oppose the subsidies, contending the money used only will have to be repaid in taxes. In commenting on crop prospects, the War Food administration declared de-clared floods in the Midwest and dry weather over the great plains have caused considerable damage. Meat slaughter and dairy production have failed to approach expectations. DRAFT: . Fathers Due for Call "Fathers win be placed in uniform at least by the last quarter of this year." With this statement the War Manpower Man-power commission, headed by Paul V. McNutt, announced the Selective Service board's new draft policy In Informing employers to prepare for replacement of married men with children In industry after October 1. In addressing 5,500 employers who have filed replacement lists with state draft directors, the WMC said that after July 1 the employers also should plan to release the childless married men within six months. Although the WMCs remarks were directed to the 5,500 employers, it Indicated that its new policy would be broadly applied throughout all industry. in-dustry. Speaking before a house appropriations ap-propriations subcommittee. Draft Director Hershey said 10,900,000 men will be in uniform by December 3L During the first six months of 1944. 113,000 men will be Inducted monthly, month-ly, Hershey declared. in the tcee&'s nev$ SB3PPrxG. Shipping losses have been lower In June than to May, In which the smallest losses since Pearl Harbor were sustained, says the OWL ARMY: An army of about 2H million men wfll be maintained for some time after the war. according to statements to a house subcommittee ALl rtfflntui onnnnnrpments certalning b. Piiafan front continued to be as confusing as the fighting. nn.ii tha Pri Maimed to have nunc w thrown back German counterattacks. In the Orel region In the center; Una the Nazis reported Ul - continuation of the strong Russian offensive In the Caucasus. In neither sector, however, itt cWp claim anv major did ..anna Tn rlatIon to renewed Rus sian activity In the center.he Nazis said the Reds were massing nuge forces there, apparently to press the Initial attacks of a week ago when bis holes were punched in tne uer man lin. Bolstered by the addition of Amer arriving under lend lease, Russian airmen continued sweeping attacks over the uerman rear. Military instaiiauons transport were bombed. and OIL: 'Situation Worse "We are rapidly passing from an Bvnnrtfnir tn an lmDortine nation in o - - oil." With these words Petroleum Administrator Ad-ministrator Harold Ickes forecast an increasing shortage of crude oiL Such a shortage, Ickes said, would not develoo because of a lack of natural resources but rather be cause of a scarcity of labor, trans portation and other factors. While stating that Imports of oil would have to be Increased from Venezuela, the Caribbean and Me ieo, he declared that California will not be producing sufficient crude by the end of the year to take care oi the Pacific war theater and her own needs. Ickes also blasted the Office of Price Administration for its handling of the gasoline rationing, declaring the OPA was too lenient in its al lotments. He said home owners could expect fuel oil rationing next winter. CORN: Plan Call on Loans Aiming at loosening the tight situ ation In corn for processors and feeders, it was reported Commodity Credit corporation planned to call its loans on 57 million bushels of 1942 corn. Under the proposal, farmers would be allowed 30 days to liquidate their loans. The call would not interfere with the agency's previous move to redeem 35 million bushels of corn on the 1938-'41 crops, effective July 1. Decision to call the 1942 loans was reported reached after the War Food administration, headed by Chester Davis, turned down proposals pro-posals for requisitioning the corn. The WFA said requisitioning only would incense farmers and leave the government with the problem of shelling, grading and hauling the corn off the premises. MEAT PRICES: Down 10 Answering to President Roose velt's "hold-the-llne" order, retail prices of meat have been "rolled back" 10 per cent a move that will save housewives an average of three cents per pound. The "roll-back" will be accom plished by government payment of subsidies to meat slaughterers to cover their costs of livestock. Although the action will reduce meat prices, consumers will be com. peiled to eat even less beef. The War Food administration announced that federally inspected slaughter ers had been ordered to reserve 45 per cent of their steer and heifer production for the army. Flat price ceilings on meat have been drawn by the OPA for four classes of stores, starting with the small independent doing less than $50,000 worth of business a year, and ending with the large operator with an annual volume over $250,000. NAZI SPY: Intrigue in Hawaii In November, 1941, Bernard Julius Otto Kuehn offered his services as a spy to the Japanese vice-consul at Honolulu. In a confession to the FBI, he said he volunteered to supply sup-ply the enemy with Information about the national defense of the U. S. Shortly after, Kuehn worked out a system of signals to transmit intelligence in-telligence of American fleet positions to the Japs. According to testimony, the signals were developed through a window light to the dormer of Kuehn's home near Pearl Harbor. Mrs. Kuehn played a prominent role in the intrigue, according to the FBI. In 1939, her daughter operated op-erated a beauty parlor designed to attract "navy business," and in 1940 Mrs. Kuehn visited Japan, returning with geographical literature describing describ-ing American and British islands in the Pacific. Kuehn. first sentonPA to death, was later committed to 50 years at hard labor. SUPREME COURT: Bans Compulsory Salute Reversing a trevimi by a 8 to 3 vote. fh TT s cnMM court ruled that the nation's public; scnoois cannot require pupils to sa- iuie me nag. Said the majority: "CompuL Isory uiuncauon oi opinion achieves the unanimity oi the cravovara only No official ... can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, religion, reli-gion, nationalism or other matters of oninion . . .' Washington, D. C. CHURCHILL'S TIP One significant phase of Winstoi Churchill's conversations here hat Just leaked out He volunteered some valuable advice on the makeup make-up of the U. S. delegation to the peace conference. Talking to a closed-door session of the senate and house foreign relations rela-tions committees, he was reminded that If Woodrow Wilson had given more thought to the makeup of the U. S. delegation, his efforts to enroll the United States in a League of Nations might not have been, such a failure. Churchill at first tactfully sidestepped side-stepped comment, explaining he didn't want to stick his nose in American affairs. However, he finally final-ly observed with a grin that he knew a little about politics himself and possibly could offer one suggestion. "What is it?" chorused several of the politicos. "Appoint a delegation that is strictly bi-partisan," Churchill replied, re-plied, "half Democrat and half Republican." Re-publican." If the President named such a commission of outstanding leaders of both parties, the prime minister added, his chances of winning congressional con-gressional approval of a treaty among the Allied powers would be greatly enhanced. LEARNING JAP LANGUAGE Officer Candidate schools have a reputation for being tough, but the Naval Intelligence Japanese Language Lan-guage school at Boulder, Colo., sets a new record. Hand-picked candidates candi-dates from colleges and graduate schools pore over Japanese "Kanji" (word pictures) 16 hours a day, 6 days a week, for 14 months. These 800 students are given intimate inti-mate high pressure instruction in classes of only five men each. The faculty consists of 150 Japanese-Americans, Japanese-Americans, former professional and business men, recruited from the East and West coast Japanese colonies. colo-nies. . The course Is intensive, and the students are given no job except the principal one of learning the difficult dif-ficult Japanese language. Unlike other officer candidates, they have no guard duty, KP, or night bivouacs. biv-ouacs. Their job is to learn Japanese, Japa-nese, learn it quickly, and learn it well. SENATOR GLASS " : Much-loved 85-year-old Senator Carter Glass of Virginia is expected by friends to drop out of the senate before many months. He has served as Woodrow Wilson's secretary of the treasury, 23 faithful years in the senate and 17 years in the house. Virginia politicos close to Gover nor Darden are passing out the tip that when Glass retires, Darden will appoint as the senator's successor. not 55-year-old Congressman Cliff Woodrum, the most outstanding congressman con-gressman from - Virginia, but 73- year-old Congressman Tom Burch. WHO OWNS THE FARMS? Most people have the idea that Washington postwar planners are thinking only of the people In foreign for-eign countries. But that isn't the case. They are also thinking of how the land of America can be returned to the people of America. Real fact is that much of the big land holdings in the U. S. A. are In the hands of insurance companies com-panies and absentee landlords, as strikingly brought out by latest AAA conservation and parity payments. In four of the country's biggest fanning ' states, largest payments were made not to individual farmers farm-ers but to life insurance companies. Here are the actual payments, each one being the highest payment in that state: Ohio Union Central Life Insur ance company, Cincinnati, $49,153; Wisconsin Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance company, Milwaukee, Mil-waukee, $47,517; Iowa Equitable Life Insurance company, Des Moines, $33,418; Missouri General American Life Insurance company, St Louis, $52,170. . In Mississippi, the largest pay ment went to an absentee landlord, the British owners of Delta and Pine Land company, Scott Miss. The property is managed by a former AAA official, Oscar Johnston. The payment was $50,141. Highest payment in Illinois went to the First Trust Joint Stock Land bank, Chicago, $29,152. Highest in Nebraska went to the Federal Land Bank of Omaha, $77,605, while the same thing was true in Minnesota, where the largest payment $75,761, Went to the Federal Land Bank of St Paul The land banks hold a lot of property as a result of mortgage mort-gage foreclosures in the lean years. Largest payments in the four larg est agricultural states of the northeast north-east also went to insurance com panies. New York Metropolitan Life In surance company. New York city, $101,863. Incidentally, this was the largest payment made In the entire country. Connecticut Connecticut General Life Insurance company. Hartford, $48,437.. Pennsylvania-Providence Pennsylvania-Providence Mutual Life Insurance company, Philadelphia, $13,022. New Jersey Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Insur-ance company of Newark, received payment of $82,126. if Private Pn. Of a Cuh p . "cporier an reToei;; f ate medal, forT.-COm,M the political embrS, ? 'eM te DertrnTnt a. lifted ?a; tac. then Pressure 10 t the boy, S explosive situation . hj ' nniir. '"watton created in Columbia Etc aide to Eisenh rnaer H ment the ruitr;;:0. 7. ""iter, oi War .i would handle the discH Own men . n- v"' 1 the Dnsnnnr. I...... . H - .-iuaea a fe, nany , former social dem Now that they were S Z Ul wei Nazi ici -ssrta char Pa imr. . 1 them stormed, .-jom, , u iu nave tnese md ua rew ipct n ... nored. The corresnondptifa in leu are amazed about the tumo uem regarding the WAACi to Eisenhnwpr" anything to indicate that' muea. in iact, the M arrived with Captain Marqi all lodged in Suburb Of A1rneo-W a - nutic t very chaste hours." You probably recall fa handed our men in North about Arabian custom; warned them of the ureal tance of respecting motqur toms, women, etc . . . AraM nitaries say the effect haiw good . . , General Nogues to resist when he leanxd American landings in hours of November planned to move bis to Meknes, which is there await German help r! been promised . . . He mi Nazi simply an opportunist i thought we weren't then ficient force ... He asked tan to move with him from and from Meknes declare! on the invaders . . . Deri legend of General Nogues1 over the Sultan, His Maji fused to move or declare i That was Sunday afternooj That evening about six, tne; was handed a copy of fin the army got up with is a Harvard professor of antbrl and some of bis experts over there aneaa oi ume . booklet the Sultan learaH found on the body of in Aa soldier killed in the Lvautev in the attack on the there, which wa, repulsed b! trooDS ... The booklet waf stninprf ... The BlM who It to the Sultan was in Arj nitary favorable to the auk . . . He translated the p about respect for Arab c Arab women, etc. . . . " not an emotional Indivldua ,iM "I knew that tt leans were good peopit. I did what I did." TJnto tit an .If- - - Innocent Bystander'. . ,,,. rimer Da' 1M w : , j . i ri.onon waited m oers wiij ,v.wf jU. chum, wen .on before MI" Humane aspen j Murder of British Sunday and teachers by th.LufwM . nt over 1 been oraciauj - -either... 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