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WASHINGTON, June 16.—Just as important as the immobolized French fleet, from the American point of view, are half a dozen six-engined French flying boats, recently completed by Air-France with Nazi approval, and now flying. These big transports, neariy¥ twice the size of original Boeing Pan-American clippers, were designed primarily os luxury air f liners for trans-Atlantic passen=ger trade. Outbreak of the war stopped work on the ships, but word leaks out of France that they have been stripped of their fancy trim, baths and bars, and converted into French versions of the Mars-type long range naval air bomber, with suspicious bulges and blisters that might be bomb bay and gun turrets, The fact that materials for their conversion were allocated by the Nazis is significant. Four of the boats are supposed to be under supervision of Vichy and two are in oscupied France. If the Nazis could get control of the fleet, here might be the vehicle for a token bombing on the U. 8.

The D. of J.'s New Headache

EVER SINCE THE Supreme Court decided that . | labor unions couldn't be prosecuted for violation of . the anti-trust laws, the department of justice has had to lay low on its labor conspiracy cases, but it still has a few in which unions and union officials are involved. In the Dubuque, Iowa, milk case, one union official was finally involved for conspiracy to fix prices paid producers for milk and prices to be charged for milk at retail. In the army hat case, at Philadelphia, union officials are involved with manufacturers charged with conspiracy to fix prices on bids for contracts to make army headgear. In a San Francisco building case, * union men are involved with employers in a conspiracy to limit production. So the only way a crooked labor leader can be got at today on anti-trust charges is for him to be involved with a crooked employer.

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NEW YORK, June 16.—The law forbidding employers and others to spy on those political organizations known a8 labor unions, which have private taxing powers and their own private laws and courts, is a dangerous law and it should be repealed. There iS no reason why these political groups, with their great powers and their over-all record of ruthless criminality and oppres-. sion, should be given the protection of a federal law which attempts to preserve the dark secrecy that all conspirators and thieves prefer. No other element in our whole nation enjoys such protection. Although there is no other element whose record so urgently demands that its conduct be carefully watched at all times in the public interest. I have not heard whether Senator Robert M. La Follette intends to proceed against me for investigating union affairs, often with the assistance of men within the unions, but if he should call me before his left wing committee, I would cheerfully say that I have had thousands of communications from union members revealing otherwise hidden facts of misconduct within the ruling group of unions.

"Let La Follette Call the Wagon"

I WOULD TELL him that much information ob-

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TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 1942

GANGWAY FOR THE BIG BOMBERS HE more details you read about the battles of Midway and the Coral sea, the more respect you are apt to feel for the land-based bomber. To laymen’s eyes it looks as if the real answer to this war is the fast, far-reaching, high-flying, heavily armed and armored cruiser of the air, with its deadly bombsight, ite power-turned gun turrets and its team-trained crew. Some go so far as to say that ship-borne aviation is on the way out—or even already obsolete. That seems prema-

ture, in view of the heavy blows struck by our carrier forces against Jap seapower. tained in this manner has been found Seer) by . » > ! A b . ing WD ion of Japan's | prosecutors, both federal and state, in puni But the destruction of a heavy proportio f Jap | Poh thy Could fits nave been 2 cept by carrier tonnage, and the loss of our own Lexington, attest

| victims on the inside. I would tell him that some of the vulnerability of this breed. And when you lose a car- | his colleagues in both houses of the national legislarier, you lose a swarm of planes as well.

needs.

taken a few preliminary doses. = » » =

Have a Piece of Cheese—

U. S. IS NOW producing cheese at the rate of a billion pounds a year, which is enough for the British, the army and navy, and two pieces with every cut of pie for yourself. . . . Consumers’ division of OPA advises you should leave the ruffles off your next pair of new curtains. . . . Another war economy tip is to order your winter's coal now, but don’t insist on ime mediate delivery. , . . The army needs more chape= lains. . , . Special approval must now be obtained for an air trip of two hours or less, if you can get there by train in six hours. . , . Don’t waste pins and needles, - The metal supply for pins has been cut down and the high carbon steel for needles is needed in war pro duction.

ture have asked permission to examine the data in my d i files and have used this material for guidance in conThe great four-motored flying fortresses and Libera- | qucting investigations. tors, rising from dispersed runways, carrying their own It seems unlikely that Senator La Follette would striki ot 8 is mmonly | try to punish these public prosecutors and these condefenses, Striking with s beaith SHEY J : Hot Sy * | gressional colleagues of his for receiving this informafeasible for the carrier, look like the medicine that Japan | tion obtained by means of which might be challenged To sav nothing of Germany, which has already | as a violation of the sanctity of union affairs. | And have I been guilty of spying in passing on i 4 | information to these public officials and even to em- ‘ ‘ ployers so that the employers might protect their HE shoe may be on the wrong foot for a while, if the | jegitimate interests ana the workers in their employ? Japs can utilize their Aleutian conquests for land-based | Because, if so, let La Follette eall the wagon, for I raids against Dutch Harbor and elsewhere. But those oc- NaVe done just that and intend to continue to do so cupying forces will be rooted out sooner or later. And we hope the day is not too far off when our bombers, perhaps via those same Aleutian stepping stones and | the Office and Professional News, the publication of

"Yes, It's a Party-Line Paper" I HAVE BEFOREpme at this moment a copy of

Old Keep-'Em-Moving Henry

THE AMAZING ENERGY of Vice President Henry A. Wallace continues to astound many Washington people. He will deliver a speech in New York at night, hop a late sleeper for Washington, and at 8 o'clock the next morning, when: other guests at the Wardman Park hotel are just wiping the sleep from their eyes and looking out the window to see what kind of a day it is, they will see Henry playing his morning set of tennis.

The Hoosier Forum

I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

cannot lend force to your judgment. You claim to be an American. Americanism is grounded in majority rule—an overwhelming majority decided your issue in the American way of trial and error, and decided it unequivocally—so what makes you an American except perhaps an accident of birth, You say we are “trying” to give our boys the best, We are giving ; ~=n only ftrying— move the threat of another great ep ne est a pin TY TVA conflict. ed meddlers like yourself, we shall To leave Germany a massed and ,o,tinue to do so. There is nothing massive nation of 80 millions is t0/ better for any man than the free invite that clever and beaver-busy| ..ovcise of his will. folk 10 TERT A ON ty on You boast that you have raised

seize the opportunity, Three gen- e erations would be needed under) four sons—did I hear you also say

the wisest policies and luckiest|that they are rubbing shoulders circumstances, in a time of peace, With those boys you weep for? Had to work out of the Teuton blood you raised your four boys in clean the cruel military and plundering living, not tied to your apron strings, strain. [to the age of discretion, and had This would require that the coun-| trained them to use good judgment try be constantly and vigilantly oc-|—perhaps better than your own— cupied in order to prevent it from|/you would not now be concerned rearming and from making ominous about tying millions of boys to your with each other. In the new treaties and mischievous secret) very limited apron string. . carless éra a great deal of perdeals with governments perpetually] Those parents who have raised | sonal happiness will depend upon how well we can unfriendly to us, like Japan, their sons-—and daughters, too—in| fit ourselves into the home group. Dale Carnegie's The danger will be that, as in 5 free, broad-minded, realistic| philosophy will be put to its first test, when a na-

“SAVE THE TIRE, BUT HAND OVER THAT GUM ICE TRAY"

By Harry E. O’Brien, P. 0. Box 3924 The president in his address overlooked your ice box for rubber. That little tray that holds ice cubes, if made of rubber, is worth more than several old tires for it is almost pure gum, commonly called smoked rib-sheet or pure latex. Enough pure latex is in one tray to make a tire. One can get along without this rubber tray, metal is just as good and most ice boxes have several metal trays. So if you don’t wan't to give up ‘that old worn tire, that perhaps has a few miles left in it, just keep fit

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the airfields of Siberia, will be running a daily time table | the office clerks’ union of the C. I. O. This and the h i | C. I. O. communications union, composed of wire and to Tokyo. ; ; | wireless telegraph operators and teletype operators, A great advantage of the bomber, in view of the ship | are two of the most dangerous organizations in the hab i : vor 8 be F. O. B. anvwhere. It country, from the standpoint of espionage. Between 8 Yortage, is that it never has to F. C a . | them they have access to correspondence, books and delivers itself, and in a hurry, whether to the Far East or to | business secrets of the companies which employ their | Ireland or Africa. members and to a great proportion of all the confi- | Ta Suds 4 | dential wire and wireless messages, not only of com- | And if we can deliver enough of them to make the | panies and individuals, but of the government as well, | mass raids on Cologne, etc., a routine perfor mance, it may | Well, the Office and Professionai News will give you be that Europe's “second front” can be maintained with a | an idea how red is the office workers’ union. This cindy i jes among the growing A. B. F. | paper carries an advertisement for the Communist mit Sn of casualtie among : g g i : | party's official organ and a display story shouting up We're turning out these big bombers in increasing | {he demand of the party-line New York Newspaper numbers. But are we shooting for as large a figure as our | Guild, that my copy be excluded from the Stars and ; . : o | Stripes, a publication of the various American expef or De industrial plant IS capable of . : | ditionary forces, on political grounds. It alse contains froversies It is conceivable, in the light of recent exploits of the | a ballyhoo story for a recent Communist party line bombers, that we ought to raise our sights—even at the | movie called “Native Land.” ' : . ” i$ It contains, too, a cheer for the release of ¢ | s. e release of Earl expense of other important military item Browder, the chief of the Communist, anti-American A tank, after all, can’t fly itself to Tokyo. conspiracy.

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A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

"It's a Patriotic Service!"

DOES SENATOR LA FOLLETTE or anyone else believe that such an organiation would forbear to engage in espionage against the employers of office workers, having access to the employers’ confidential affairs? And is the employer guilty of a wrong if he, in turn, spies on this Communist front which has and hand over that rubber tray, planted spies in his place? for it’s really something. . There is no longer any doubt that the political #@ ££ #5 It's a tough problem in all communities. Here, as else- | party for which this union shows such a strong devo- | «GERMANY MUST BE DIVIDED

: > % iti ov tion is an anti-American conspiracy. Th where, the city and county face a period of declining reve- | piracy. at question WANT ‘ : "he fo ogi : 34 | Was settled by Attorney General Francis Biddle in an IF WE WAN FralOR nines and rising costs. Yet officials realize that public em- fy Stuart Henry

| Opinion, prompted by we know not what devious ployees, particularly in the lower wage brackets, have a | Dolitieal motives, in the Harry Bridges case when he | The most vital aim of peace ie said the party “advises and advocates th h rojects should be to avoid an- ; se. w to meet it? > of € overthrow |p! ; sound A But how to me i : by force and violence of the government of the [other world war for at least 50 Some cities have sharply curtailed capital expenditures. years. All plans T have seen will, Others have rearranged their debt structures to take advan-

| United States.” I think, fail in this. I went to live tage of lower interest rates. Still others have installed

PUBLIC PAYROLLS

HE question of more money for both city and county | emplovees will undoubtedly be one of the most warmly debated subjects in coming budget hearings. County emplovees want a 10 per cent increase all along the line and city emplovees will very likely propose a similar program.

THE CHANCES ARE well have more fun when joy rides are out. We'll find out how shamelessly we have depended upon movement for excitement, and finally that excitement and pleasure are two very different sensations, Blessed is the ‘family whose members know how to get along

So I say that Americans who can do so should Spy on such an organization and that such spying, in Germany in 1963 ng, iearied far from deserving punishment, i& a patriotic service. shat Tacitus JeAI ED wae

stringent systems of budget control, cleared out the pure |

political hangers-on, re-examined their services to see which are genuinely essential, and gotten purchasing and everything on a sound business basis for the first time. Some combination of these economics may furnish the answer in this community.

THEY BEGIN TO WHINE ERLIN finally admits that British bombing of German war industries and ports has caused heavy damage.

From the Skies

By S. Burton Heath

Suffering is so widespread the government can no longer |

lie about it.

right about this race.

The Teuton has always had the!

the 1920s, the united nations will| world, and had prepared them to sooner or later become lax andiface a rough-and-tumble world,

Destruction of morale is so serious Propa- | §

ganda Minister Goebbels must play on the popular fear of | 3

losing the war.

“The German people suffer from the bombings, but |

this is as nothing compared with sufferings which they would be compelled to endure if they should lose the war,” he savs. mentioned in Germany until recently; but now even the official propaganda is getting defeatist.

Possibility of losing the war could not even be !

But the newer optimism rests also upon more general acceptance of a theory which only a few have advanced consistently. The idea is spreading that the war can be won from the air by bombing.

Hitler thought that, of course, and tried it out |

lust for conquest and loot in his blood, and never so terribly much as in the last decade. It is folly to assume that that warrior people on their native heath are really like us and are innocent and only their leaders guilty. The leaders are sons of German fathers and mothers. If the allies fail again, as they CLEVELAND, June 18—Quite failed after the late a to sepapart from wishful thinkers, there arate Germany into its historic and is becoming apparent a new note \integral states, as was the situation] of cautious optimism as to the pefore 1871, when the Germans were | probable duration of the war. {prosperous and happy, we may exIn part, undoubtedly, this is at- (pect a third war in the coming tributable to the fact that our long |generation. retreat before the axis appears to | Prusia is the evil genius of Gerhave been nearly halted. Actually many. Clipping her bloody wings We are taking limited offensives. by taking away from her the other The tide seems all but halted, and | German states and setting them up ready to turn in our favor, as several sovereignties would re-

soft, and a united Germany will again be the cancerous and mili-| tant growth of civilization. If they do not have the stomach to divide up that nation it stands to reason they will eventually lack the backbone to stop Prussia from sallying forth once more to dominate the world by the sword. = ” ” “CROF OF MEDDLERS TRYING TO HITLERIZE OUR LIVES” By A. J. Schneider, 504 West Drive, Woodruff place May I ask your indulgence to answer Mrs. “Blue-Nose” Cooley, on the subject which has her so seriously agitated—she and a small minority of other busybodies. First. Mrs. Cooley, your remarks are full of contradictions, which

Side Glances=By Galbraith

they have no fear of their ability to exercise judgment in a “take it or leave it” world. Merely because there has been enacted legislation curbing individual exercise of discretion, does not declare that legislation divinely right. We have numerous laws against gambling and lotteries for money--but we also have laws legalizing a lottery in man’s life. Which is the greater gamble? The proper move for you bluenoses and meddlers is to train your own children to know right from wrong and exercise will power. And since you admit failure in that, try now to exercise some influence on your grandchildren that they may be spared another crop of meddlers trying to Hitlerize their lives.

ey wn “LET'S KEEP STRIKING AND SAY NOTHING” By E. 8. Brown, 2752 Winthrop ave.

tion of gadabouts settles down to become a nation of stay-at-homes. Blessed, then, is the person who loves a good book, or who can thump the piano for his own amusement, or who takes delight in a garden. And most blessed of all will be the family with a baby, For there we have the ultimate in home en. tertainment. Don’t contradict here, please, merely because you are bored by the rapturous admiration of your friends for their baby, whom you may find definitely dull,

It's Better Than a Circus

THIS IS A subject you know nothing about— until an infant has entered your family circle. All your preconceived notions will then fly out the wine dow and you will find yourself happily eating your words. There is no form of amusement so enthralling as watching YOUR baby do its tricks. Grandpa, grandma, uncles, aunts, cousins, father, mother, sister, brother-—here’s entertainment that appeals to all age groups and every type of intelligence. It holds their attention better than a three-ring circus, As for glamour, the baby puts the movie star in the shade, and you'll turn off any radio program when he begins to lisp. No commentator brings more arresting news than the First Tooth announce=

ment, For any sign of development your baby shows, although it has been accomplished by every previous child, is a world-beating achievement, God has been just that kird to us all. Actually, for entertainment, for happiness and as an antidote for war jitters, I strongly recommend a baby in the house,

And what is Berlin's military reply to the bombings? Not the dispatch of 1000 Nazi bombers to England in reprisal night after night, but a Goebbels threat to repay

“blow for blow.” = = os s 2 ~

against England. It proved false in his case. Though Nazi planes seemed unlimited and the British had only a few; though massed bombers broke through nightly and devastated important industrial centers | as well as mesidential and cultural areas, Hitler dis- | | covered that he could not beat Britain from the air.

NAZI words have lost their power to shock civilized | Now, however, Britain has begun going to town, Ndi w ’ : Where the Nazis drooped 680.000 pounds of bombs on peoples. After the long Nazi record of persecution and poor Coventry, the British tossed ome 700,000 pounds slaughter of Jews in Germany, Poland and elsewhere, the | each on Rostock and Lubeck. Where the luftwaffe dev« world needs no Berlin warning of what barbarities Hitler shales London with 1200000 pounds of explosives will commit against Jews, ains Nasi sepy | and incendiaries, the R. A. F. has ruined both Cologne . \ : ams dey and against non-Nazis of ev ory and Essen with more than 6,000,000 pounds of bombs faith who refuse td bow down to him. in one night each. Since the German government's official boast that it wiped out the entire Czech village of Lidice, the world has | It May Shorten the War known that this is a mad dog—a mad dog at bay. The BRITISH AIR MARSHAL A. T. Harris forecasts world expects no quarter, and will give none. It is destroy | nights soon when 3000 united nations planes will drop v 1 9 or be destroyed. LS hilivk pounds of bombs on Hitler's industrial Neither Goebbel ‘ravings nor Nazi savagery will stay So we are shifting back to the 1040 Hitler viewthe relentless, mounting, allied destruction of Nazi power. Nazis know that, and they are beginning to whine.

Much talk about the present war, what the allies contemplate doing and are or have done, does not answer the question of the Amencan public. The prime question 13 why do our public officials in and out of Washington tell almost everything that has to do with the activities pertaining to the successful prosecution of war, not war effort as the word effort can be defined to mean other than it is intended.

Let's have more real action both at home and on the battle front. The more we talk the more the enemy can prepare for action against us.

‘I am not in sympathy with those who are talking only and saying to themselves George, John or Bill will do it when they get more time so it 1s just wasting away the time of golden opportunities, and letting the enemy strengthen his lines. Let's keep striking when once started and say nothing. —————

DAILY THOUGHT

The Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord will give, grace and glory; no good thing will He

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Q—1Is there a rank of third lieutenant, in the army? A—Not at the present time. The rank was created by congress in 1813 and used until 1815; it was ree vived in June, 1832, and’ again abolished in March, 1833.

Q—Has the delivery of mail to China been discone tinued by the post office? A—The regular mail service to unoccupied China has not been discontinued, but the parcel post service has been. All service to occupied China was suspended Dec. 10, 1941.

Q—What is an aileron? A—A hinged or pivoted movable surface of an aire plane, usually part of the trailing edge of a wing. The primary function is to impress a rolling movement on the airplane, :

Q—What is the average cost of producing a plese of United States paper money? 3

point. We say the luftwaffe failed because it did not follow through strongly enough—that we now have the material with which to accomplish against Ger many what Hitler failed to achieve against Britain. The idea is that such mighty death blasts as we can throw from the air can soften the Reich so effectively—in morale, but particularly by destroying her war production—that relatively few land fighters can almost stroli to Berlin. If this proves true, it will eliminate months or Joust that might be required to establish major bridges on the continent, land millions of men and millions of tons of armament and supplies and food, rs } pid rom Ih nh wale service the troops while they fight their way north- vids ‘ iy ward or eastward toward Germany.

SHE CAN'T DO THAT TO US RS. HARRIET L. ROSE, chief investigator for the Scarsdale, N. Y., welfare department, is an unbelievably bold iconoclast. She has done something that just isn't done, something that staggers the imagination. She has asked for a wage cut, because her work has decreased. Mrs. Rose was getting $600 a year on a part-time basis. When war re-employment reduced her duties, she asked to be cut to $300 a year. “I don't think it is fair to take taxpayers’ money for work I don’t do,” she said.

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