Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 April 1942 — Page 5
Self First Aid
0, $, HOLDS UP | CLOSE MALS TO FOOD TO VICHY COUGHLIN PAPER
Shipments Are Canceled i \ Ban Opens Major Attack Against Internal Foes;
After Laval Rises Leniency Ends.
To Power. (Continued from Page One) (Continued from Page One)
sniping at the government's war policies. The justice department has apprehended, among others, William Dudley Pelley, leader of the “Silver Shirts,” who faces trial in Indianapolis on charges of violating the espionage act. The order against “Social Justice” indicated that the government and principally the justice department, has departed from an earlier policy of leniency toward individuals and organizations suspected of illegal opposition to government war policies. The action was taken by Mr. Walker after Mr. Biddle had advised him that articles in “Social Justice” violated provisions of the espionage act. Violators are iiable, upon conviction, to a fine of not more than $10,000, imprisonment for 20 years, or both. Mr. Biddle said that examination of copies of “Social Justice” printed since Dec. 1, 1941, showed “a close relation” of material to “10 major themes which have been broadcast by our enemies,” and that the publication had engaged in a “sustained and systematic attack on certain of our activities directly related to the war effort, as well as upon public morale generally.” He said the publication's attitude since American entry into the war was but a “continuation and de-
pected offensive before it can get | started. Dispatches from Kuibyshev said that 20,000 Germans had been killed and probably 40,000 wounded on two sectors in a single week and that the Russians had broken through | 3
two enemy defense lines to attack| a large and strategicaliy-important city. This city was believed on the] basis of previous reports to be Bryansk, but the Soviet censorship strictly prohibited correspondents in Russia from giving its name. On the aerial front, British fighters and bombers were striking as never before against Nazi targets in France and western Germany. A big fleet of British air raiders hammered the French invasion]: coast hour after hour today, con-| centrating on the Boulogne area, while R. A. F. fighters over the Dover channel coast beat off a retaliatory atack by the Nazi Luftwaffle. |
A U. S. army corporal, member
i Hammer German Areas of a decontamination squad, ap-
_| plies special ointment to a minor Today's attack, followed up yes-| gas burn during an army chem-
terbay’s 92-hour daylight offensive; | jeal warfare demonstration at on France and last night's assaults] Honolulu. Each member of dein which B ritain’s biggest bombers | contamination squads carries speeT & ISU [ot Steat jet biinne cial ointment for self-treatment across the German Ruhr with its] n minor gas BUFRS. vital war factories. [| 9 Ur Sus Explosions were almost continu-| velopment” of that prior to Dec. T. ous for several hours in the Bou- great Krupp munitions works at) logre area today, observer along the Essen; other war industry factories | Dover coast reported. and railroads were attacked under) Coughlin Ready to The Luftwaffe, thrown on the de-| conditions so good that precision ‘Defend Publication
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Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, Times Columnist And ‘Iron Pants’ of NRA Era, Dead at 59
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day thrqugh the halls of the commerce department building. He called some of the biggest industrialist leaders in the nation “to come to this table at once.” And when they got there he pounded “this table” with his fist and would cut through preliminaries and excuses with such statements as: “You guys have been handing me that guff long encugh.”
Pledged ‘Crack Down’
He hurried from one organization meeting to another. And everywhere he went he was followed closely by his secretary, “Robbie,” Frances Robinson. He became a national hero overnight and went into eclipse almost as soon after the supreme court decided that the national recovery act was unconstitutional. Few resisted his vigor, his wheedling, his bullying. When Henry Ford showed signs of resisting, and Gen. Johnson was asked what could be done about those who signed no NRA codes, he replied: “They’ll get a sock right on the nose.”
velt’s price administrator in world war II. Gen. Johnson ran into so much difficulty with Henderson that he finally offered him a job with the NRA. Mr. Henderson accepted. Gen. Johnson had his troubles with congress. bitter critics was the late Senator Huey Long of Louisiana. But Gen. Johnson was a match for Huey when it came to vituperative and fancy phrases. Gen. Johnson was born in Ft. Scott, Kas, in 1882, the son of Samuel and Elizabeth Johnston. His father, an attorney, dropped the “T” from his name because there was another lawyer in town named Samuel Johnston and their mail was continually confused. For his “work on the selective draft” Johnson was awarded the distinguished service medal and other world war medals.
request on the ground that Gen. Johnson was not physically fit for active service. The correspondence between President Roosevelt and Johnson on that issue included the famous letter in which Gen. Johnson told the President: “I am sure you don't iike me any more—and I don’t blame you. But I am equally sure that you know in your heart, more confidently perhaps than about some other people, that in whatever you might ask me to do I would serve you faithfully and loyally—as I have always done.” Call Him ‘Iron Pants’
Brig. Gen. Edwin M. Watson, a presidential secretary, replied to Gen. Johnson, saying that the president had asked him to say “personalities had no place in his decision not to reappoint you.” Gen. Johnson had contended that the White House had no right to say, “in the absence of a physical examination that I am physically unfit.” He said that in any case he “wouldn't be of much use except in industrial or man-power mobilization.” But on that latter score, he asserted that he had had more experience than any officer of his acquaintance, Gen. Johnson, in his many years of work in Washington, established a reputation as a gruff, hard-boiled administrator. He had many nick-
FORESEES ROSY FUTURE
BERKELEY, Cal, April 15 (U. P).—Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold believes the United States faces a post-war economic era of “unlimited possibilities.” He told a University of California
audience last night that new opportunity for enterprises “may even make Herbert Hoover's remark, “two chickens in every pot and two
Gave Henderson Job
Later he said maybe the people would crack down on Henry Ford. From then on he was known as “Crack Down” Johnson. He ran into difficulties with a young economist who was a member of several NRA industry committees. That man was Leon Henderson,
One of his most |be
PREDICTS LAVAL T0 YIELD FLEET
Vichy to Stop at Nothing To Satisfy Germans,
London Fears. (Continued fram Page One) Laval appointment are expected to
1. A wholesale shift in all important posts in Vichy and North Africa. 2. The Germans are given complete control over all French and African ports, naval bases and railway junctions in unoccupied France, while Alsace and Lorraine are expected to be handed over outright. 3. The partial mobilization of the French army in unoccupied France, under German supervision, to reinforce Laval’s guarantee to Berlin that an allied invasion would be repelled. 4.‘The Riom trial is to be suspended, though it may reopen again
.|along fhe lines originally dictated
by Berlin—that is, to establish France's guilt in declaring war against Germany.
Seek Break With U. S.
Another condition, which it 1s reported that Berlin made, was a break in diplomatic relations with the United States. Seldom has the United States sent a more temperate reply to a foreign protest than that of Mr. Welles to Vichy’s complaint against,
names, probably the most famous of which was “Iron Pants.”
Jater to become President Roose=-|cars in every garage come true.”
the appointment of an American
consul-general to free-French-cons= trolled Equatorial Africa. Yet the cabinet of which Laval has just become a member yesterday called it “insulting” and “unacceptable.”
new Petain - Laval therefore, resulted in a conflict— apparently between Laval, the new
and Petain. British Steps Pondered It was reported in Paris that the rejection was canceled at the bee hest of German authorities and it was finally released only after Lae
Vichy that it was not intended to complicate his position as regards the United States at the moment he was about to reassume office. Britains’ position vis-a-vis Vichy
there has been no contact between the two governments. Whether the British will take steps to interrupt continued ship ments from North Africa and France, now that the Germans will be in control of all ports, will un= doubtedly depend, in the future as it has in the past, not on political considerations but strategic disposie tions. It has not been unusual for cons voys running between Marseilles and North Africa to be escortcd by a battleship, two cruisers and a come plement of destroyers. To interfere with such convoys would mean a fair-sized naval battle. The British believe that Laval will not hesitate to approve Germany's use of all French colonial ports, par= ticularly Madagascar, for U-boat bases.
His speech always was liberally sprinkled with well-chosen “army” words and had he been an actor would have been a perfect choice for the hard-boiled sergeant in the world war movie, “What Price Glory.” Friends said he got tough as a cavalryman after the turn of the
fensive all the way from France to) bombing was possible.
Norway by the R. A. Fs spring] offensive, attemped counter-raids! against a southeast coastal town, | but only a few of the Nazi raiders
Devastation in Ruhr
Well informed sources here as-
DETROIT, April 15 (U. P.).—The Rev. Fr. Charles E. Coughlin today blamed “the Jews and Communists and new dealers” for the govern-
century and remained tough the rest of his days, although in a genial sort of way.
serfed that parts of the Ruhr now ment action in barring publication showed far worse devastation net “Social Justice” from the mails. | London, Coventry and Plymouth,] “I am neither editor, owner nor Rewna=0Wek Attatks ‘the cities on which Germany at| publisher of Social Justice,” he said. The royal air force, developing its the peak of its aerial power con-| “However, if Attorney General Bidgreatest offensive of the war, was centrated. | dle wishes to summon me to Washnow engaged in a round-the- clock | Intensity of air fighting in Russia | ington to defgnd the property of attack which had thrown the Ger-also was increasing with the Social Justice, I will not only be man air force on the defensive from | | Germans reported losing 466 planes happy to do so but will challenge Norway to France in fear that an lin a week compared to 83 Russian him to the invitation.” {
reached the coast while R. A F. fighters beat them off.
allied invasion of the continent was | | planes lost, and Kuibyshev dis-| Social Justice is owned by the Soin prospect. | patches said that the enemy was cial Justice Publishing Co., whose Two U. S. pilots participated in| {suffering heavy losses in trying to only stockholders are the ‘parents last night's attack, battling eight extricate himself from precarious of Father Coughlin. Father CoughNazi Fock-Wulf 109 planes. positions. lin was editor until 1939 when he Other planes attacked docks at| In this connection. it was sig- withdrew, coincidental with his Le Havre on the French coast, and nificant that—instead of starting| withdrawal from the radic netairdromes in occupied territory!che spring offensive—the Germans | works. while a third formation laid mines were complaining in their front] Father Coughlin has not conin enemy waters through which a line reports of seas of mud caused tributed to the magazine for two German fleet might try to break, by the spring thaw, which they | years, but its contents are based possibly to raid the Anglo-Ameri- said immobilized sll mechanical strictly upon the principles he can supply line to Arctic Russia. [transport in some areas. The Rus- | enunciated in his long series of Eleven bombers were missing. |sians said these reports of the mud radio talks and each issue reproFactories, believed to include the were greatly exaggerated. duces his sermons.
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‘Chiselers’ Was His Phrase
ST I LEN Rg Is
His vocabulary reflected that side of his character as well as anything. Many of his remarks while he administered the NRA were classic examples of frankness: “We can’t put men in who'll get the pants traded off ‘em.’ “public works is like shooting craps.” His remarks about NRA administration always were liberally sprin-| kled with such words as “bunk,” “hooey,” “gypped,” and “chiselers.” His rise to national prominence) came during the first world war when he was assigned to write the] first compulsory draft law. Then] he was made executive director of selective service, serving in the same relative capacity as Brig. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey does today.
Decentralized Draft
One of his major triumphs in 1917 was decentralization of the draft system. Many army officers wanted authority for final determintion of the status of registrants placed in Washington. He fought to have that authority placed in local draft boards and won. The same system is followed in the current draft. During the war Gen. Johnson became a close friend of Bernard M. Baruch who was chief of the war industries board. That friendship had continued until the present day and Gen. Johnson, in his columns during the last year, has advocated many of the practices recommended by Mr. Baruch, such as over-all price and wage controls to combat inflation. After the war Gen. Johnson be-! came executive vice chairman of the Moline Plow Co. and in 1927 acted as Mr. Baruch's statistical expert and right-hand man.
Ultimatums for Everybody
Gen. Johnson's selection to head the NRA—the New Deal's first experiment in 1933 in its drive to fight the depression—was not a surorise. Mr. Roosevelt knew him well and} had had Gen. Johnson help him with some of his speeches during the 1932 campaign. Mr. Baruch brought the two together. The days that followed Gen. Johnson's appointment as head of the NRA were hectic ones in Washington. But Gen. Johnson took them in his stride. He worked day and night during the oppressive heat of the 1933 summer and those
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who were here then recall that as the “mad era.” He received the high government officials and the high industry leaders alike in his shirt sleeves, and dished out ultimatums to both. No one really knew how much authority he had—and in those days no one was questioning.
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