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Show THE 1'ap.e Two TIMES-NEW- RUSSIA: Action in the Center WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS History Of Will Lewis-Rooseve- Mediterranean Victories Prepare Way Write Details For New Allied Campaign Against Axis; Essential Production to Be Increased By Simplification of Consumer Items Feud lt Story Begins During 'Roaring Thirties' as The Forgotten Man Is Remembered By New Deal and CIO. m (FIIITOK'S NOTE: When opinions expressed in these columns, they are those of Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) Released by Western Newspaper Union. - By BAUKIIAGE News Analyst and Commentator. WNU Service, Union Trust Building, Washington, D. C. Today there came to my desk a mimeographed sheet from the OfIt was fice of War Information. headed "The Nazi Slave Labor So- ciety." 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 6ides of the Potomac. I say "Constitution" avenue instead of "Pennsylvania" (which you and I have come to feel Is the main street of Washington) because this coal strike struck 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 offices looking down the mall from that strange modernistic pile that is the new Interior building, was concerned. He was, at that moment, responsible head of the soft coal mining industry and the industry wasn't functioning. Naturally the members of the War Labor board were concerned. The board's existence was threatened. As I Self-Destroy- er Small-minde- BKIE FS The Bangkok radio has issued more advice on good manners to the people of Thailand. "Since the clothing and manners of those who are In private business art not respectable yet, we request that tbey observe the following principles: 'Be we'J dressed, be clean, be agreeable t customers, do not smoke or be intoxicated, have good manners, be honest. Japanese-controlle- 'Situation Worse "We are rapidly passing from an exporting to an importing nation in Quick Look sit-do- d The United Slates was producing fighting equipment eight times as fast as Japan A in the spring oil." With these words Petroleum Administrator Harold Ickes forecast an Increasing shortage of crude oil. Such a shortage, Ickes said, would not develop because of a lack of natural resources but rather because of a scarcity of labor, transUnder the watchful eyes of U. S. guards, Axis prisoners march in portation and other factors. Internment camp In Camp Atlerbury, Ind. Since fighting in North Africa, While stating that imports of oil many of these camps have sprung up throughout the country, the average would have to be increased from 500 American troops. Prisoners Venezuela, the Caribbean and Mexconcentration holding 2,000 prisoners and of war are treated under rules of an international convention. ico, he declared that California will not be producing sufficient crude by FOREIGN AFFAIRS: the end of the year to take care of MEDITERRANEAN: the Pacific war theater and her own World Cooperation Eyes Turn to Sicily needs. American participation in the esreported With Allied Ickes also blasted the Office of shipping massed in the Sicilian straits, all tablishment and maintenance of Price Administration for its handling post-wa- r peace was unanimously of the gasoline Rationing, declaring Italy awaited invasion. recommended by the house foreign the OPA was too lenient in its alPreparatory to the expected blow at the "underbelly of Europe." Al- affairs committee. lotments. He said home owners In a simple, resolution could expect fuel oil rationing next lied airmen ranged over the Italian islands of Sardinia and Sicily, the which it recommended to the house winter. and senate for approval, the comAxis' remaining bastions in the Medmittee declared: ". . . Congress CORN: iterranean following the fall of Lampedusa, Lampione and hereby express itself as favoring the Plan Call on Loans creation of appropriate internationLinosa. Aiming at loosening the tight situAirfields at Catania and Gerbini al machinery with power adequate to establish and to maintain a just ation in corn for processors and in Sicily were attacked. At Catania, enemy fighters rose in force to and lasting peace, and as favoring feeders, it was reported Commodity participation by the United States Credit corporation planned to call its challenge the Allied assault. loans on 57 million bushels of 1942 retherein." Allied headquarters Although mained silent on their military Introduced by Representative J. corn. Under the proposal, farmers would movements in the Mediterranean, W. Fulbright (Ark.), the resolution the Nazis reported that their air- was passed after being stripped of be allowed 30 days to liquidate their men were engaging in running fights the phrase calling for the organiza- loans. The call would not interfere with the agency's previous move to with large convoys off North Africa. tion of an international body to preThe Axis also stated that the Allies vent future aggression, and to main- redeem 35 million bushels of corn 1938-'4- 1 crops, effective July 1. had massed invasion barges at tain law, order and lasting peace. on the Decision to call the 1942 loans Since this section touched on the Meanwhile, the Allies kept the highly controversial subject of an was reported reached after the War Axis guessing about their next international police force, it was Food administration, headed by Chester Davis, turned down promove. Strong aerial formations ateliminated. tacked Axis shipping in the Aegean posals for requisitioning the corn. The WFA said requisitioning only sea, where the Nazis have fortified FOOD CZAR: would incense farmers and leave the islands leading to the Grecian Wanted by Congress the government with the problem of mainland. Shortly after a group shelling, grading and hauling the of legislators conferred with Presicorn off the premises. SIMPLIFY GOODS: dent Roosevelt and suggested that From Cradle to Grave he appoint a single czar to handle MEAT PRICES: In an effort to increase production the food situation, the War Food adof necessary essentials, the governministration prepared issuance of a Down 10 ment has ordered the simplification report dealing with unfavorable crop Answering to President Rooseand meat prospects. of more than 1,000 manufactured velt's order, retail items. Elimination of frills and variLed by Senator Walter George, the prices of meat have been "rolled back" 10 per cent, a move that ety of sizes is expected to result in five senators and four representaenough conservation of material to tives urged that a single authority will save housewives an average of three cents per pound. add to production. be delegated to produc" will be accomThe The simplification order will affect tion, distribution, preservation, raAmericans from the plished by government payment of tioning and pricing agricultural comsubsidies to meat slaughterers to Metal will be restricted in modities. It was reported the President sug- cover their costs of livestock. baby's cribs, and the length, width and depth of coffins will be limited. gested an appropriation from 1 to Although the action will reduce Cast iron kitchen utensils will be 2 billion dollars for subsidies to be meat prices, consumers will be comconfined to 12 items, and 40 styles used in "rolling back" the prices of pelled to eat even less beef. The of enamelware have been eliminated. foods. Many legislators oppose the War Food administration announced Wood furniture will be reduced to subsidies, contending the money that federally inspected slaughter24 basic patterns. Whereas 1,150 used only will have to be repaid in ers had been ordered to reserve 45 types of tools formerly were made, taxes. per cent of their steer and heifer In commenting on crop prospects, production for the army. only 357 now will be permitted. Production of electric bulbs will be cut the War Food administration deFlat price ceilings on meat have from 3,500 types to 1.700. Feminine clared floods in the Midwest and dry been drawn by the OPA for four apparel will be simplified along with weather over the great plains have classes of stores, starting with the children's sportswear and rayon caused considerable damage. Meat small independent doing less than dresses. slaughter and dairy production have $50,000 worth of business a year, failed to approach expectations. and ending with the large operator AIR OFFENSIVE: with an annual volume over $250,000. Pan-telleri- a, e. "hold-the-lin- "roll-back- cradle-to-the-grav- e. 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 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, d bolstered by hiiRe bombers, ripped Dtiesseldorf and Bochum in the Ruhr. Blockbusters caused heavy damage in both cities, sweeping firei adding to the havoc. Mass evacuations 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 shot down 46 planes, 29 of which were supposed to be the d machines. German aerial activity meanwhile was limited to a short, sharp sally over a London suburb, where bombs were dropped. HIGHLIGHTS by Bauhhagc of 1943. 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 Highlander when they get here." e, OIL: ed. 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; he's, grateful to Lewis. I mean the man who couldn't s because of the of the AFL, get into a labor 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 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. the Wagner act was Anyhow, Two Worries (Labor's Magna passed in 1935. Over across the Potomac in that Charter, they called it.) That gave marvelous architectural achieve- the poor, heretofore outsider, the ment, the Pentagon building, where workman who couldn't qualify, to the army is housed, officers paced join the snooty AFL, a chance to be the floor of their pentagonal offices. somebody. If there were more of They had two worries. One: Will his group than there were of the there be a coal shortage that will AFL's in a plant, shop or factory, hold up production of important war his outfit was recognized as the colsupplies? Two: Will we have to go lective bargaining unit. out and push people around with That was a real step forward in bayonets? economic democracy. I haven't mentioned what was goThe CIO thrived. It had the blessing on at the Capitol or in the White ing of the administration. It gave House. of Plenty. Every enemy its votes in return. It also gave the the administration, every friend of largest campaign contribution in rethe administration who was angry turn. Some of the starry-eye- d young at Lewis, everyone who was for 100 men in the New Deal (they have per cent prosecution of the war departed, most of them, for Puerto and they weren't necessarily differRico and elsewhere on the fringes) ent people, but people with different dreamed dreams. They told their ideas was yelling for Lewis' eye- dreams to Lewis. brows and some of them were "Why not a" real labor party, threatening the President if he didn't Jawn," they smiled encouragingly, bring them in (on a silver charger) "with you as the leader? We'll get for breakfast rid of the democrats without imagiInside the White House, there nation. You'll be vice president next were meetings which, because of the time . . ." presence and absence of certain perThe Siren's Song sons, I would like to report in greater detail but I can't that will have But then Mr. Lewis made a great to be left to history, mistake. He went to Paris. Other As I write these lines, I cannot men have erred in that once-fai- r predict the aftermath of the action city before this. (I visited it mywhich began late one afternoon on self.) But John met another siren June 3 when, contrary to reports . . . be witnessed the circulated earlier in the day, a state- strike. Now, frankly, this is hearsay but I ment was issued from the White House ordering the men back to the am told that it was Lewis brought mines by June 7. But between these that illegitimate Gallic child of the lines of that statement was the story proletariat, conceived in a strange of "Franklinstein" and the creature moment of aberration, back to Amer which he created, as dramatic, if ica. It did not thrive. It needed a not as tragic, as the horror tale by more rarified atmosphere than that the gentle Mrs. Shelly, written earlv which blows across the prairies and once flapped the cover of the covin the 19th century. ered wagon. Mr. Lewis went to the White A copy of that book ("FrankenHouse, jerked the previously welstein") is on my table as I write. coming latchstring, and went in. But On the last page are the lines spoken old man Vox Populi got there beby this strange being which the hero fore him. Up to then, V. P. had bad created, hoping to raise the been pretty satisfied with things as standard of humanity but which, they were under the New Deal. But things had changed. alas, had found itself heir to the In a chilly voice V. P. said: "No, human weaknesses and turned against his creator. The "being," Franklin, no John. No dice." Franklin listened. John got mad. just before it destroys itself, speaks That was the end of a beautiful to its creator: ". . . thou didst seek my extinc- friendship and the rest is history. tion that I might not cause greater Lewis turned against the man who wretchedness; and if yet, in some had made his success possible and mode unknown to me, thou hast not there is, at we know, no feud like ceased to think and feci, thou the feud of former friends. The soldier on the battlefield, utwouldst not desire against me a vengeance greater than that which terly unable to comprehend why I feel. Blasted as thou wert, my men strike while he is risking his still to life for a fraction of the pay the egony was superior strikers demand, cursed and threatthine . . ." (You really ought to read the ened; the miner, with many Just book it's far superior to the movie grievances, stood confused, looking for his oracle to speak, but cringversion.) Hut why do I bandy with this ing under the sneers at his lack of uncient tale? Because I do believe patriotism. bureauthat all of us build, materially or crats, more interested in saving physically, creatures which come their faces than saving the country, tack to haunt us. sputtered and strutted. Lewis and Look at the record of John Lewis Roosevelt, the two men who, workand Franklin Roosevelt. ing tf E' tbrr, might move mountains John, born to the pits, a man (of coal and coalition) were forced who w;n to literary, yes, to scholarto square off against each other, the ship the hard way. public backed the government and. as usual, derided the issue. Franklin, born to the purple. Both endowed with that indomitaOh yes! That "Nazi Slave Labor ble something that lifted them, in Society" it can't happen here! Official announcements pertaining to the Russian front continued to be as confusing as the fighting. While the Reds claimed to have thrown back German counterattacks in the Orel region in the center of the line, the Nazis reported the continuation of the strong Russian offensive in the Caucasus. In neither sector, however, did either side claim any major adi vance. In relation to renewed Russian activity in the center, the Nazis said the Reds were massing huge forces there, apparently to press the initial attacks of a week ago when big holes were punched in the German line. Bolstered by the addition of American planes arriving under Russian airmen continued sweeping attacks over the German rear. Military installations and transport were bombed. lend-leas- 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 giftA Thursday, June 24, 1943 NEPHI, UTAH DRAFT: Fathers Due for Call "Fathers will be placed in uniform Intrigue in Hawaii at least by the last quarter of this In November, 1941, Bernard Julius year." Otto Kuehn offered his services as a With this statement the War Manat spy to the Japanese power commission, headed by Paul Honolulu. In a confession to the V. McNutt. announced the Selective FBI, he said he volunteered to supService board's new draft policy in ply the enemy with information informing employers to prepare for about the national defense of the replacement of married men with U. S. children in industry after October 1. Shortly after, Kuehn worked out In addressing 5,500 employers who a system of signals to transmit Inhave filed replacement lists with telligence of American fleet positions state draft directors, the WMC said to the Japs. According to testimony, that after July 1 the employers also the signals were developed through should plan to release the childless a window light 'ji the dormer of married men within six months. Kuehn's home near Pearl Harbor. Although the WMC's remarks Mrs. Kuehn played a prominent were directed to the 5,500 employers, role in the Intrigue, according to it inrlir.-iterthat its new policy would the FBI. In 1939, her daughter be broadly applied throughout all ina beauty parlor designed to dustry. Speaking before a house ap attract "navy business," and in 1940 propriations subcommittee. Draft Mrs. Kuehn visited Japan, returning Director Hershey said 10.900,000 men with geographical literature describwill be in uniform by December 31. ing American and British islands in During the first six months of 1944, the Pacific. Kuehn, first sentenced 115.000 men will be Inducted month to death, was later committed to 50 ly, Hershey declared years at hard labor. vice-cons- ul ! . . . in the week's news Softwood lumber SOFTWOOD: will be made available for essential farm repairs. About half a billion board feet will be releasd by the War Production board. Shipping losses have been lower in June than !v May, In which the smallest losses since Pearl H.irbor were sustained, says the OWL TOI1ACCO: Possibility of a shortage of tobacco, caused by unrestricted buying for export, was voiced when government officials conferred with leaders of the industry recently. ARMY: An army of about 2'4 million men will be maintained for some tin.e after the war. according to stntemt ata to a house OS NAZI SPY: SIliri'lNG: SUPREME COURT: Bam Compulsory Salute Reversing a previous decision by to 3 vote, the U. R. Supreme court ruled that the nation's public schools cannot require pjpils to salute the flag. Said the majority: "Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard . . . No cifficial . . . can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, religion, nationalism or other matters a 8 of opinion . . ." i Mt-GD-RijuIl- D Yjtf JOU DREW PEARSON Washington, D. C. CHURCHILL'S TIP One significant phase of Winston Churchill'a conversations here has He volunteered Just leaked out some valuable advice on the makeup of the U. S. delegation to the peace conference. session Talking to a closed-doo- r of the senate and housa foreign relations 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 sidecomment, explaining he stepped didn't want to stick his nose in American affairs. However, he finally 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 Churchill restrictly plied, "half Democrat and half Republican." If the President named such a commission of outstanding leaders of both parties, the prime minister added, his chances of winning congressional 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 school at Boulder, Colo., sets candid a new record. Hand-picke- dates from colleges and graduate schools pore over Japanese "Kanji" (word pictures) 16 hours a day, 8 days a week, for 14 months. These 800 students are given intimate high pressure instruction in classes of only five men each. The faculty consists of 150 Japanese-Americanformer professional and business men, recruited from the East and West coast Japanese colo- nies. The course is intensive, and the students are given no job except the principal one of learning the difUnlike ficult Japanese language. other officer candidates, they have no guard duty, KP, or night bivouacs. Their Job is to learn Japanese, learn it quickly, and learn it welL 1 jifj Private Papers Of a Cub Reporter: Drew Middleton of AP, Wm. H. Stoneman, John MacVane, Chas. Colllngwood and some other American reporters and commentator rate medals for their reporting of the political embroglios in North Africa despite the heavy army and State Department pressure to stop-the. . . The political censorship was lifted early in January but since then pressure has been applied to get the boys to lay off the explosive situation created by our policy . . . What is not widely known Is that Columbia Broadcasting was pressured to shut up and that Harry Butcher, for Columbia Broadcastan ing, now a commander and naval aide to Eisenhower, was the instrument. ex-fix- Returning war reporters tell of the melodrama on a ship which brought back prisoners of war . . . The Geneva convention, it appears, ruled that officers of war prisoners would handle the discipline of their On this ship, some of own men the prisoners included a few of Germany's former social democrats . . . Now that they were prisoners, the war was over for them so they refused to salute their Nazi superiors . . . The infuriated officers sought satisfaction from the Americans in charge . . . "We demand," one of them stormed, "some pistols and permission to have these men shot." The request, of course, was ignored. ... The corespondents tell us they are amazed about the rumors over here regarding the WAACs in Algiers "allegedly being a headache to Eisenhower" . . . "We didn't see anything to Indicate that," said the scribes. "In fact, the ladies who arrived with Captain Marquis were a all lodged in a convent in suburb of Algiers where they kept very chaste hours." r, You probably recall the booklet handed our men in North Africa which, about Arabian customs, warned them of the urgent importance of respecting mosques, customs, women, etc . . . Arabian dignitaries say the effect has been very-goo. . . General Nogues decided to resist when he learned of the SENATOR GLASS American landings in the early-hourMuch-loveSenator of November 8 . . . He Carter Glass of Virginia is expected planned to move his headquarter by friends to drop out of the senate to Meknes, which is inland, and before many months. He has served there await German help which had as Woodrow Wilson's secretary of been promised zi He was not the treasury, 23 faithful years in the simply an opportunist . . . He senate and 17 years in the house. thought we weren't there in sufVirginia politicos close to Goverficient force He asked the Sulnor Darden are passing out the tip tan to move with him from Rabat that when Glass retires, Darden will and from Meknes declare a holy war appoint as the senator's successor, on the invaders . . . Despite the not Congressman Cliff legend of General Nogues' influence-oveWoodrum, the most outstanding conthe Sultan, His Majesty regressman from Virginia, but fused to move or declare a holy war. Congressman Tom Burch. That was Sunday afternoon . . . That evening about six, the Sultan, WHO OWNS THE FARMS? was handed a copy of the booklet Most people have the idea that the army got up with the help of Washington postwar planners are a Harvard professor of anthropology thinking only of the people in forand some of his experts who were eign countries. But that isn't the over there ahead of time . . . This, case. They are also thinking of how booklet, the Sultan learned, was. the land of America can be returned found on the of an American, body to the people of America. soldier killed in the at Port Real fact is that much of the big Lyautey in the attacklanding on the Kasbab. land holdings in the U. S. A. are there, which was repulsed by native in the hands of insurance comtroops . . . The booklet was bloodand as absentee panies landlords, stained . . . The man who brought strikingly brought out by latest AAA lt to the Sultan was an Arab digconservation and parity payments. nitary favorable to the Allied cause In four of the country's biggest He translated the passages farming states, largest payments about respect for Arab customs. were, made not to individual farm Arab women, etc. . . . The Sultan, ers but to life insurance companies. not an emotional individual, wept Here are the actual payments, each and said: "I knew that the Amerone being the highest payment in icans were good people. I am glad that state: I did what I did." Ohio Union Central Life Insurance company, Cincinnati, $49,153; : Wisconsin Northwestern Mutual Notes of an Life MilInsurance Innocent Bystander: company, waukee, $47,517; Iowa Equitable The Wireless: Elmer Davis wonLife Insurance company, Des ders why Franco waited until hla Moines, $33,418; Missouri General Axis chum were on the losing end American Life Insurance company, before he got sorry about the inSL Louis. $52,170. humane aspect of bombings . . . In Mississippi, the largest payMurder of British Sunday school tot ment went to an absentee landlord, and teachers by the Luftwaffe hasn't the British owners of Delta and Pine been wept over In Madrid, Land company, Scott, Miss. The either officially . . .Wm. II. Castle, once of the property is managed by a former Etate Dcp't, spouted AAA official, Oscar Johnston. The talk, but Johannes Steel remindpayment was $50,141. ed all that Castle's last boner wa Highest payment in Illinois went saying that Japan was to be trusted. to the First Trust Joint Stock Land He said that on the morn of Dec. 7. bank, Chicago, $29,152. Highest in 1941, which you'd think would cure Nebraska went to the Federal Land him of forever Ed prophecy Bank of Omaha, $77,105, while the on NBC for Horn and Har-dar- t, Herlihy, tame thing was true In Minnesota, a tat on lilt knee where the largest payment, $75,761, before the mike. "Wouldn't you," went to the Federal Land Bank of asked Ed, "like to go on the ChilSt, Paul. The land bank hold dren's Hour?" to which the child lot of property as a result of mort(heard from Coast to Coast) replied: gage foreclosures In the lean years. "No, I wanna go to the bathroom! Largest payments In the four largest agricultural, states of the northInsiders tell you not to net against east also went to insurance com Cen. Patton distinguishing himself panics. ooner than you think . , , The New York Metropolitan Life InGeneral received "too much of a surance company. New York city, buildup in Tunisia" and then there $101,863. Incidentally, this was the wat no reason. to "attack" the enlargest payment made in the entire emy having fled . . , Lifc'a photog-geConnecticut country. Connecticut Eliot Elisofon, Is home mlnut General Life Insurance company, SO poundt of weight and all hit Hartford, $48,437. Pennsylvania Lost everything getting equipment. Providence Mutual Life Insurance out of burning plane Just in time company, Philadelphia, $13,022. New . . . Eisenhower, they say, comJersey Mutual Benefit Life Insurplained to Washington about the ance company of Newark, received abundance of newspaper men and payment of $82,126. radio correspondents In N. Africa. s d ... pro-Na- ... ... ' ... r, |