Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 June 1941 — Page 19

FRIDAY, JUNE 20,

1941

‘Washingt WASHINGTON, June 19.—Sidney Hillman, one of the founders of the C. I. O,, had to fight Communists . 20 years ago when they were boring into the needle ‘trades; ‘and he may soon have to take the lead in a far broader campaign to weed the party-line boys out : of influential spots in the labbr movement. The issue is whether organized labor is to co-operate wholeheartedly in defense, as undoubtedly the vast majority wish to do, or whether small groups of Communists and sympathizers, strategically placed, are to carry on their obstructive tactics, plac‘ing the Moscow party line above this country’s needs and above trade unionism. : Sidney Hillman, as co-director of OPM, is in an excellé™® position to know fhe effect of disruptive labor trouble ‘upon the defense program. However, as a Government official on leave from his trade-union office, ne is not in an ideal position to carry on this campaign to clean up Communist-infested unions. But if John L. Lewis, still the mighty power behing the C. I. O,, ‘and Philip Murray, C. I. O. president and ally of Mr. “Lewis, do not make this fight——and' they show no “signs of doing so now—then the unpleasant task must

“fall ‘to Mr. Hillman. He is understood to be ready to: - purging

‘undertake it if the other two will not. : Hold Key Positions

+. ‘The number of Communists in the labor movement “Brglaatly is relatively small. But they are effective fdr beyond their numbers. They always maneuver to get into strategic spots. One of the favorite key places is on the negotiating committee. On these nenegotiating committees a Communist, while seeming to be fighting for higher wages, can obstruct dnd delay a settlement.

Ernie Pyle is on vacation. He will be gone about two more weeks.

Inside Indianapolis (And “Our Town”)|

. WE'VE JUST, HEARD about all: the difficulties of ‘the Surgical Dressing Department of the Red Cross here and so we've nominated ourselves as a committee of one to let you in on the story. The department started eperatisg just exactly a year ago (June 24, 1940) on a strictly volunteer basis under Miss Julia Brink. The gentlemen Frenzel, who ‘operate the Merchants Bank, thought well enough of the project to donate room space and interested volunteers. have been pitching in ever since. They've averaged between 20 and 25 workers a day, but it isn’t enough, because it’s hard work. The women who help have to _ make dressings according to rigid Army requirements and while anyf -one can do it, it’s painstaking bus“in The local volunteers first turned out two full » duokss for British use and ever since March have been working on a 98,300 quota for American cantonments. So far, they’ve finished 57,000, which leaves them a good distance to go. Anyway, the point' is that they can use 25 voluateers any day youre free. It’s Room 807, the Merchants Bank Bldg. telephone MA rket 0910. . If they can finish off the American quota, they can begin work on 1000 complicated dressings for Britain, requested in. an SOS from the British Red Cross. You'd be surprised at the things going on ground this town. We are. 2

You'll Have to Wait

IT LOOKS NOW as though’ ‘that cafeteria court system of paying traffic fines isn’t going to be ready byiJuly 1, as previously indicated. The new Traffic Violation Bureau was to open ‘in a building near the © Police Station, but the Safety Board has changed its : mind. ‘But it’s all due to a good cause.

Chief Morrissey wants to transfer the Juvenile Aid Division to the new building and put the Violation Buteau in the stafion. He has always contended that it wasn’t right to have youngsters come to the Police

Defense Sleuths

WASHINGTON, June 20.—Some time within the next couple of weeks, Senator Harry S. Truman of Independence, Mo., will have to. rise on the floor of the Senate and make a request for more money to finance further work of his special committee investigating contracts under the national defense program. Starting in April with an initial $15,000, the committee of seven Senators, Truman, Connally, Hatch, Mead, Wallgren, Ball and - Brewster, has run two months on a staff of chief counsel Hugh Ful-

ton, his associate Charles Patrick " Clark, half a dozen investigators . and a few stenographers. With that outlay, the committee: has - just scratched the surface of the huge 42 billion dollar defense program. The committee has not decided how much it will ask to carry on its work, but it has a. very definite program in mind and that program promises fireworks. Just a couple of the lines it wants to investigate will give the idea. The committee would like to have a look at profits of corporations with defense contracts. Labor is now

clamoring for wage increases, largely on the basis of

reported increased employer earnings. Are those claims justified? Senator Truman believes there is no diffierence between a labor racketeer and a corporation profiteer and he would like to go after both. A Look at Shipbuilding Immediately ahead of the committee isa look at the shipbuilding program. Most of the hullabaloo that has been raised so far has been with the Army, but the Navy and the Maritime Commission have been spending a few billions and one or two shipbuilding companies have published earnings statements which might hear . How does the Navy let its contracts? Is there a concentration of expenditure here? And what about all these defense millions RFC has . been letting in contracts? 3 What Senator Truman would like to have is a special staff of investigators, with men to follow the ordnance program, the shipping program, labor relations,

My Day

ELLSWORTH, Me, Thursday—We spent last night ‘ in ‘cabins just beyond Portsmouth, N. H., by-pass. - detours, roads in the process of being mended, hoary rage insand around Boston, and occasional of : rain, made our trip really longer than ‘it should have been. It is a love- _ ly drive though, along winding Connecticut roads with many glimpses’ of small lakes ang running brooks. Finally, when we were nearing Newburyport, I had my. first good smell of the sea,

oy Raymond Clapper,

Communists do not as a rule parade their party membership. It is safer to have no membership and to pose as a trade unionist interested in obtaining higher wages and better working conditions. With these activities are mingled other issues of a political nature that play toward the party line. ‘When the Communists are involved in ‘a situation you are likely to notice remarks and resolutions referring to this as an “imperialist” war, for ihstance. The party line is deftly woven into the regular trade union campaign, and the rank and file, interested in wages and hours, takes the tail with the hide. Besides, legitimate labor leaders have been denounced as Communists so often that the membership is hardened to the cry and is ap: to be indifferent to it, if not suspicious of it—a situation made to order for the Communist insiders. ‘

The Leaders Know Them

The rank-and-file membership is somewhat at a

disadvantage, especially as the Communist activity is| directed chiefly to the new industrial unions and to}

a membership of young, green men, inexperieficed in trade unionism, and often unable to detect the Communist line. But experienced labor leaders can spot the inside workers. John Lewis, who has accepted Communists in the C. 1. O,, has kept them out of his own United Mine| workers. Philip Murray fired them out of his Steel Workers Organizing Committee. * Only that kind of om the inside can be really effective. CIt

takes leaders who have a will to clean out the trou

blemakers and who work with local union. officers| and influential members in spotting and dusting 2

those of Communist leanings. The necessity of such a campaign is considored sO great by Mr. Hillman that unless others undertake it, he, with his many connections in the labor movement, may be expected to attempt to draw the line between those who put the United States and trade unionism first and those who put the Communist movement first.

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Station and thinks they ought to be segregated completely from adult offenders. So that’s exactly what will happen, but it will take some time to make alterations to the antiquated head-|"* quarters building to permit the cafeteria court to start.

Our Fighting Rotarians

AND WE REALLY OUGHT to put you next to the crusade of the Indianapolis Rotary Club. The local

club, which boasts an imposing membership list, de-| }

cided during the year that it was high time the American Rotary Clubs had a strictly United States steering committee, instead of having its problems decided by an international board. Well, things built up to a fever point and the Indianapolis delegation went to Denver early this week for the international convention, all set to put up a determined fight for an American division. They were outmaneuvered by the international group, which decided the matter out of convenfion time and then refused to consider a protest. But the Indianapolis boys haven’t given up and you may expect to hear rumblings every once in a while of how the Indianapolis Rotary Club is proving a thorn in the side of the International Board of Directors. We hope it hurts.

What We Hear—

J. H. ARMINGTON, our Weatherman, today starts his 40th year with the Weather Bureau. He started

in Chicago, has been here ever since 1914. Congratu-| " Comm. C. A. Griffiths of the Naval|

lations, Mr. A... Reserve radio school here is in very much of a quandary. His lieutenant commander, Boyd Phelps, got orders a couple of weeks ago to relieve Comm. Griffiths some time in June. The commander is all packed, but he doesn't know yet where to go. . . . And Jay Hill, who quit his Eastern Airlines job to be inducted into the Army, still isn’t inducted and is now filling in on an EAL job in Chicago waiting for the happy day.. Paul Hinkle got his big tfirill at .the circus the other night watching the 10 trained dogs play basketball. He almost got to the point of tying and untying his shoelaces.

By Peter Edson |

financing and all other phases of national defense. Then let these investigative staffs bring out their material as it develops. Sometimes, the committee has found, it takes three weeks of digging to uncover the evidence presented in one three-hour session of hearings. The problems are intricate, the facts hard to dig out. That’s what takes the money, and considering that billions of dollars are involved, the committee may ask the Senate for maybe as much as $100,000, if you please. Measuring accomplishments of the committee thus far, Senator Truman admits, is a matter of surveying intangibles. They've been able to put_on the brakes in a few instances, most important of which was the manner in which contracts were let for camp con-

struction. - How anyone with common sense could}:

have let contracts involving millions of dollars in as sloppy a way as some of the early papers were signed is’ something the committee chairman has yet to understand. ' So a few government officials feel that if nothing else has been done, the committee’s lear-

nual outing.

Athletic Director Ned Teany.

After golf In the morning, the

Five hundred Indianapolis Athletic. Club members, families and guests “took over” the Highland Country Club yesterday for their anFor the men the big event was the golf tournament, and keeping score were I. A. C. President J. W. Stickney (left) and Club

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. A C Families Enjoy Annual Ouhing Al Highland

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: eo For the youngsters, the main atfractions were the swimming and wading pools and the nearby play« | ground equipment. And then there was lolly-pop time. “Kitty” Lewis (right) sees that no one is over< looked, including Not-Quite-Three Marybeth McGowan (left) and Jeannine Holland (right). is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Holland, 5450 Kenwood Ave,

William K. McGowan, 4211 Park Ave. : ¢

ladies turned to bridge.

Lindsay, George H. Peef, Fred Krauss and George W. Davidson.

ings have perhaps saved a couple hundred million| &%

dollars by making the contract signers be a little more careful.

Locks Barn Door Before, Etc.

Bringing to a head the boils which were the coal strike*and the San Francisco machinists’ strike, by public hearings which put leaders of both disturbances on record, were psychological victories rather than exposures, but in these instances Senator Truman has gone on the theory that it’s better to keep a man out of jail than it is to send him there after he has committed a crime. Focus attention oh what a man, a business or a union is about to do wrong and it cah usually be prevented. «There have been numerous loose-end- hearings; probing to a limit extent operations of the Office of Production Management, subcontracting, shortage of strategic materials. The committee stuck its finger] into"an extremely sore spot by its feelers into the aluminum situation, but there’s more work to be done on all these subjects, to say nothing of all the subJects as yet untouched. Rightly or wrongly, Senator Truman believes the committee will have a job to do right through the defense effort, just in checking up Or nal is done with the billions Congress appro. priates

By Eleanor Roosevelt

we decided to’go on a little further and look for some attractive cabins. As a matter of fact, I think I could almost have reached Portland, Me., in the time I wandered around the outskirts of Portsmouth. But these little mistakes are all “luck of the road” and, if you like occasionally to Wander, you must count on making mistakes now and then. Eleven o'clock found us settled for the night. Sifice Tuesday night had been spent on a train, it” was rather nice to be in bed with the cool winds of New Hampshire blowing in from the sea and creating an atmosphere which reminded me that June in northern New England is not always a gentle summer, month, I wonder if you have as difficult g time as I have when ‘it comes to choosing books you actually want to take on a brief holiday? I gatheréd up several yes-

.terday, but I have a feeling that I left certain ones - behind which I am going to wish I had, Among

other things, I tried to pick one volume of poetry to

. re-read, and I couldn't make a choice.

. "As a result, I find myself burdened with several volumns. When I return, I shall tell you whether my choices were good or bad and how much I actually

accomplished of the reading I must in addition to|sota, t Ih do for. do, Ir rs

This foursome started late but right are E. L. Fleece, Jk; Reich, G.

APPEAL MAPPED ON RESTRAINER

Bicknell School Fight. Superintendent’s - Injunction.

VINCENNES, Ind, June 20 (U P.), — Attorneys for the Bicknell School Board today prepared to appeal to the State Supreme Court a temporary injunction restraining the Board from ousting Harold Axe as - Superintendent of Schools at Bicknell. The appeal was granted in: Superior Court late yesterday by Specig! Judge Ralph Alsop, who overruled a Board motion to dismiss the injunction. . oh

The restraining. ordef was awards ed Axe last May by Judge Herman

M. Robbins when Mr. Axe charged

he had been ousted as superintendent for personal and ‘political reasons. He was reinstated. In overruling the dismissal’ motion, Judge Alsop held that evidence failed to show j “cause for Mr. Axe’s, discharge.

. MAAS TO. BEGIN DUTY WASHINGTON, June 20 (U. P.). —Rep. Melvin J. Maas of Minneranking - Republican member

Board to,

their first drives showed it want too late. Left to W. Toole and F. C. McClurg.

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The official count showed 28 tables but even Hoyle ditn’t figure on this five-handed game with (Ieft to right) the Mesdames -R. N. Dedaker, H. W.

And the merry-go-round went ‘round, with all the youngsters to '

Jeannine '

Marybeth’s parents are Mr. and Mrs,

be found. Also popular were the teeter-totters and the swings, shown in the background, and the badminton courts not far away,

The young ladies sun-bathed, read and chatted just out of splashing distance of the swimming pool. Left to right: Misses Jean Moore; Mary Ann Morrison, Gloria Morgan,

. | day.

“ge. you wouldn't pay five bucks for me, eh? with you for 20—how do ya like that?”

gress for a six-week tour of.

Well, I wouldnt live

mittee, planned today to quit Con-|rine ° Corps. He flags. | to i Suty about July 1, at Pearl

MICHIGAN CITY FESTIVAL OPENS

‘Gay Nineties’ Motif, From Bustles to Beards, Marks Event.

MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. June 20 (U. P).—A “Gay Nineties” motif, bustles to beards, prevailed here today as the city began a three-day celebration of the 50th annual Columbia Yacht Club race from Chicago: to Michigan City. reputedly the oldest sporting event of its kind in the werld. The golden jubilee race will be run tomorrow, but today attic trunks were raided for costumes dating to the 90's. The men’s beards weré a result of a month's cultivation, Governor Schricker is to escort the belle of a ball to be given in his honor tonight for the official ‘opening of the celebration. \ Besides the race finish here tomorrow, parades, dances and night fireworks, were scheduled. Festivities are to Soniinve through Sun-

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; SLAYERS DIE IN CHAIR ~ CHI , ‘June 20: (U. P).— Edward , 38, and Orville Watson, 28, both of Detroit, died n iy Jey ar chair at the Cook Cqun-

early today for the slaying ‘undertaker during a| be

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Name the ship commanded by %

Capt. ‘Bligh, the crew of which mutinied in the South Seas: 2—Snakes “will crawl cver haip ropes; .true or false? . 3—What does “love” mean in tene nis? 4—Malta is an island in the Atlantie Ocean, the Baltic or the Medie terranean Sea?

5—Augustus St. Gaudens was & painter, sculptor or musician?

6—What is the slang name in Enge =

land for the sterling pound? T—Jeflerson Davis, President of the Confederacy, was a graduate of the United States Military .cade emy; true or false? 8—On ‘what date does summer in the United States. begin this year? Answers

1—H. M. 8S. Bounty. 2—True.

8—June at, # 8 =

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