Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 October 1942 — Page 16
Getting Power of Politico- Evangelist Who
, Rung a ‘Closed.
Corporation.”
By THOMAS L. STOKES = ° 7a Rimes ‘Special: Writer y
DETROIT, Oct. 9.—Gerald
Huey Long of Louisiana, is still talking himself into a
L. K. Smith, at pupil of the
here in Michigan, making politics pay.
‘Georgia finally rid herself
of Gene Talmadge. Gerald,
stocky, bushy-haired, shouting politico-evangelist, is one he last of the clan of demagogues of the Huey Long-Tal-
)adge stripe.
He is worth a’ glance as a symptom of a
ase of American democracy which, in the hard days to
e, may recur if the country nce he is a candidate for United States senate, me people here think the torial campaign investiing committee might beitself and find out how d is financed, aside from the tributions he takes up from his neces. - see him’ on the platform here, ating from his oratorical workas he takes a look into the into which his audience of the ment has dumped its offerings. pokes around the bills and coins | his beefy paws.
© Pass the Hat Again wling over the audience, hel)
‘that all there is?” ‘He waves his hand scornfully. *“Send it around again.” While the hat is going around n, he keeps up a constant chat‘to loosen the purse strings of admiring and docile followers. | g hey rolled up 112,000 votes for him -not enough—in his ‘attempt to win Republican senatorial nominan, and now they ate being imed to support him’ as an inndent’ “sticker” candidate in November election. Nobody is worried that he will | elected.
is not on guard.
. | December.
| * Workers Are Provided" for |
“Projects.in’ Mexico. And Brazil.
: By RUTH FINNEY Times Special Writer |
‘waltipg for passage of a service act, the United States employment service daily is supervis-
workers from one part of the country to another where their labor is urgently needed in the war effort.
building Corp.—is only one of many such undertakings. This business -of finding needeéd workers and sending them quickly ‘|to another part of the worid really got under way about the time of Pearl Harbor. The USES had to find several ‘thousand workmen— fast—to ‘go out there and work last It also had to recruit men to: work on military installations at the Panama. canal, at the
4 Newfoundland. bases, and Bermuda.
Must Pass Testis
For such assignments; UsEs expects’to have to interview-10 or 15 men for every one who meets all the requirements. Each has to pass a rigid physical examination. and be
. |a citizen of the United States, as
Gerald L. K. Smith. oo 0 “Send the hat around again.”
But he is a source of some con-
to the regular candidates— you don’t pay for it.
tisers pay for it. three cents for a newspaper,
ator Prentiss Brown, Democrat, ‘for re-election, and Homer Ferguson, the Detroit judge who w
The adverWhen you pay that
sen as Republican candidate on|doesn’t cover the cost of the paper 3 » heels of his investigation and it’s printed on. The advertisers pay
‘prosecution of gambling rackets in is city which involved many -city, ounty and police officials.
for.your paper.
“But I can’t do that. How would
* Each camp is worried about the |it sound for me to say in my
mber of votes Gerald will draw.
Tires for Everybody Gerald has seized upon the dilem-
speeches, ‘up with ex-lax!’?”
The crowd roars, and chips in. It is a commentary on Gerald that
to which Michigan, the autoile state, is peculiarly sensitive, d blandly promises: - “Tires for everybody.” He repeats that, and as the-hat 8 around again he gives out with jomething like this: “It’s up to you common folks out to finance this movement.
it is generally assumed here that somebody is financing his senatorial campaign for a purpose, and that there is something more in it for him than the contributions he begs out of his audiences. He has moved from one game to another since leaving the ministry several years ago and teaming up with Huey Long. At one time he
well as possessing the desired skills. Where there is time, the USES tries to fit the man to the job even more carefully, For instance, it recruited for the Newfoundland workers in Minnesota, : Wisconsin! and the Dakotas, because the weather in these states resembles that in Newfoundland, and because in those areas most of the residents are not dependent on manufactured amusement—of which none was to be had in Newfoundland. Some time ago a west coast aircraft company sent out a call for help, and USES rounded up several thousand workers, recruiting on a nation-wide basis. The company wanted . skilled machinists, expediters, and production clerks, and USES .found what it wanted. It also recruited trainees for this same company.
23 in 700 Qualify
One of the hardest orders to fill was for 23 highly specialized technicians wanted by the government of Brazil to teach in a vocationaleducation program. USES interviewed 700 persons before finding 23 that seemed to fill all requirements. They had to have practical experience, an excellent theoretical background, and ability to teach such varied subjects as {ronworking, woodworking, leatherworking, and fruit and fish culture. USES co-operated with the farm security administration in recruiting the Mexican workers just sent to California. to harvest its sugarbeet crops. And this week 700 Chicagoans are being sent to the state of Washington to work as apple knockers until the apple crop is harvested. Another 700 will be sent
WASHINGTON, Oct. without ing the transfer of thousands of |?
Its latest recruiting job — for|. Henry. J. Kaiser's Oregon Ship-|:
describes a new type of “rumaround” torpedo used to attack convoys, the first time apparently being against a Russia-bound Brit ish-American convoy. Descriptions indicate that instead of launching the torpedo. directly at a specific target ship, the. German plane comes’ down low and discharges the thissile about 1000 yards away, aimed at the general convoy area. Rudders of the torpedoes are sb ! adjusted that they follow a spiral- | ling course of ever-smaller circles. | This circling makes successful
A RECENT report from Moscow 3
dodging more difficult. The pictodiagram (above) shows ‘the principle of the new “run-around” torpedo. 1) Straight-line wake shows
Silkworms Now Food for: Japan
By Science Service WASHINGTON, Oct. 9.— Ever | wondered what the Japs are do*ing with all the silk we used to ! import? Well, according to a department of commerce report, they are eating it. : Of course they're not lunching on chiffon hose and satin yard goods. They are extracting honorable vitamin B from honorable silkworm cocoon, to make admirable diet. While nutritionists here could not be reached for comment, it is believed the new diet of worms will make a tasty addition to rice and dried fish.
AUXILIARY TO HEAR | STATE PRESIDENT
Mrs. Eva Miller, department president of Indiana, national auxiliary of the United Spanish War Veterans, will make her inspection of Maj. Harold C, Megrew auxiliary No. 3 at 8 p.m. Monday at Ft. Friendly. Mrs. Mattie Resor will read a history of the Spanish Ameri¢an war. Mrs. Marie C. Williams and Mrs. Marie Cron will sell defense bonds. Members are asked to bring keys for the key collection drive. A ‘class of candidates will be initiated and Mrs. Ora Love, president,
how oniteay torpedo, ising ship it is aimed at, cango straight through the convoy area without touching a ship. But :(2) “run=around” ‘ torpedo goes off at a tangent, circles directly in path
chances of a hit as at (3) where. :At ‘has .almost struck two- vessels.
2 of eneorming ships, h has multiplied
It comes around with a close
“shave for ship at lower right, finally scores on ship at (4). ’
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en y ou liste na Pp was a minister in Indianapolis.
Joined Townsend
When Huey died, Gerald appropriated the “share - the - wealth” movement. That gave him bread and butter for a while. Then he joined up with Dr. Townsend in the old-age-pension ' crusade, in that alliance of Townsend - Coughlin = Smith which got behind Bill Lemke
Is y G00D at RITE S! of North Dakota in 1936 in an independent presidential campaign.
0 a Gerald . got big ideas that year, i : ‘Bland before the campaign was over he stepped out boldly for himself and announced in an interview— which he later retracted—that he was out to head a fascist movement [to take over the government, with big New York money behind him. Dr. Townsend denounced him and kicked him out, for that. He showed up out here a few|' months later with his so-called committee of one million, and began to rant against ‘the C. I. O., with which the big automobile companies were having their troubles at the time. Later he shifted to an antiwar campaign. Who paid Gerald in those years? It is common talk about Detroit that “industrial interests” were keeping him for his nuisance value against organized labor. The FBI has investigated him, and probably knows.
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Corporation Closed
He operates a closed corporation. He is chairman of the committee of one million, his wife is vice chairman, and one Barnard A. Donovan is secretary-treasurer. Nobody has been able to find out: that this organization is incorporated anywhere, as Gerald says it is. To handle finances he created another organization, - the . federation of americanization of Michigan. Its books have never been audited. | Gerald says blithely that he writes to every contributor and tells him what he does with his offering. His list of supporters in Detroit “will read like a: duplicate list of contributors to the community chest from top to bottom,” he says. He has a headquarters here, with | a number. of employees getting out his literature. It is not. listed in the telephone book, nor 5s his home | telephone. :
WU. 8, GIRLS WON'T LIKE IT
SYDNEY, ‘Oct. 9 (U. P.). ~The Rev. Ernest Fletcher, an Angelican pastor, re today—on the basis | of informa he said he had ob-| jained from an American—that 10 out of 100 American soldiers of a ustralian
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