Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 January 1943 — Page 9

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ship brought the first newspaper from home I had since the occupation, and it said only 12 men were lost. in. taking Oran. The. losses, in fact, were not great, but they were = 891 many 12 times 12. Most of our convalescent wounded have been sent to England. Some newly arrived Americans feel that, if more of the wounded were sent home, it would put new grim vigor into the Amer-

ican people. We aren't the sort

of people from whom wounded men have to be concealed. The biggest puzzle to us who are on the scene is our policy of dealing with axis agents and sympathizers in North Africa. We have taken into custody only the most out-and-out axis agents, such as the German armistice missions and a few others. That done, we have turned the auifiority of arrest back to the French.

There Is Still Sabotage

THE PROCEDURE IS that we investigate, and “they arrest. As it winds up, wé investigate, period. Our policy is .still appeasement. It stems from

: what might be called the national hodgepodge of

French emotions. Frenchmen today think and feel in lots of different directions. We moved softly at first, in order to capture as Now

that phase is over. We are here. in full swing. We

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

DIRECTORS OF THE Marion County Tuberculosis association decided several weeks ago they needed some new regulations making it impossible for ‘unauthorized persons to get access to the association’s Bock box in the Indiana National bank. The box contains valuable records, including the deed to the nutrition camp property. Three members of the board, all lawyers, were assigned to prepare the regulations. They are Grier M. Shotwell, John S. Wright and Fred Sims. They drew up some airtight regulations, which were adopted by the board and a copy was sent to the bank. Last week, it became necessary to get some records from the lock box, so the three lawyer-members ot the board went to the bank. “So sorry,” they were told. “Under your own board's regulations, we can't let you see the lock box.” ‘What to do! The trio went back and rounded up other board members—John Lauck Jr., the vice president; Mrs. A. C, Rasmussen, treasurer, and Miss Mary A. Meyers, secretary. Dr. E. O. Asher, president, wasn't avliilable at the moment. The six members of the board then went to the bank and got the same answer. ‘Quite discomfitted, they retired. The ‘lawyer members finally sat down and pre“some new regulations; with fewer safeguards, ‘the board sent these to the bank to replace the

: others. ..And-all was well once mre.

~ That Hoosier Soil’

THERE'S SOMETHING about this old Hoosier state that gets under the hide of us Hoosiers. We

A like to travel, but after we've been away a while, it’s

Washington

. WASHINGTON, Jan. 4—Union labor will be asked for more in the coming year, just as everyone else will be asked for more. . Labor is not being singled out. The new year will

x 5k for more fighting from our forces. More taxes

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will be ‘taken from those who can pay. More food will be demanded from the farmer regardless of his difficulties with help. More production will be asked of industry, and more productivity will be asked from labor. Some of those responsible for war production are quite disturbed. The pressure for manpower will become acute during 1943. More than 3,000,000 men will go into the army. War production will require several million more workers. wPB top officials are convinced the job can be done. ' - But part-of ‘the shortage will need to be made up by: larger productivity per man. Some of those here

. Who are responsible for war production report a con-

le amount of slowdown activity in war plants. " The number of strikes is small. The check on

production is not through strikes but through the

, through featherbed rules that require more help: 4s needed and make three men do the work

oftwo. Leaders Speak for, Not to, Labor

. UNION LABOR has been one of the sacred cows of this administration. Its status has been ‘enor- ~ mously advanced and justly so, I have always felt. But the union business agent, and his legmen who . needle up the. msn in the plant, have not always

~~ Justified the recognition that union labor has received

from this administration. They have persisted in Suing on wit union Sectios as ustalyss If this Wars

g- reading. “There are several articles iron din ly interesting to people with chilthem, Jobin K. Springers cle, “The 5 lth,» ‘shows

_ the thought processes of a Frenchman who prefers |

“keeping to-themselves.

By Ernie Pyle

occupy countries and pretend not to, We are tender in order to avoid offending our friencls, the French, in line with the policy of interfering as little as possible with French municipal life. We have left in office most of the small-fry officials put: there by the Germans before wi came. We are permitting fascist societies to continue to exist. Actual sniping has been stopped, but there is still

sabotage. The loyal French see this and wonder what manner of people we are. They are used to force, and expect us to use it against the common enemy; which include the French Nazis. Our enemies see it, laugh, and call us soft. Both sides are puzzled by a dountey at war which still lets enemies run loose to work against it. :

The Going Will Be Tough! |

THERE ARE AN astonishing number of axis sympathizers among the French in North Africa. Not a majority, of course, but more than you would imagine. This in itself is a great puzzle to me.) I can’t fathom |

Germany victory and perpetual domination rather than a temporary occupation resulting in eventual French freedom. But there are such people, and they are hindering us, and we over here think you folks! at home should know three things: That the going will be tough and probably long bhefore we have cleaned up Africa and are ready to move to bigger fronts.” That the French are fundamentally |. behind us, but that a strange, illogical stratum is against us. And that our fundamental policy still is one of soft-gloving snakes in our midst.

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mighty good to get back. If we've keen away long enough even the sun shines brighter the moment we cross the state line coming back. We were reminded of all this when Joe Sullivan, the state parole agent, told us of an experience on a train en route home after a trip to Texas. There were eight, young soldiers on the train, on furlough after seversl months in a Texas camp. They were pretty quiet and reserved, But as they neared the state line, they" perked up. And when the train stopped at Terre Haute, the first stop in Indiana, the boys got off to walk on Hoosier soil—couldn't wait until they got home. A couple of them even picked up handfuls of dirt and threw it against the car windows, shouting: “Lqok, gang, good old Hoosier mud.”

Around the Town

A HOUSEWIFE ‘we know still is annoyed over an experience at the Kroger grocery at 46th and College the. other day. She stepped up to the meat counter to get some ground beef. And a man just

By EUGENE RUTLAND A Times Staff Writer

DEN. SON, Ark., Jan,

4.—Dreams. of an ideal reloca-

tion center where some 8000 Japanese-American West coast evacuees would be almost self-supporting for the duration, have turned into a nightmare of confusion, waste of food, slowdown strikes, refusal to work and threats against construction workers at the Jerome relocation center. The evacuees began moving into the center here

on Oct. 8.

Investigating reports of “deplorable conditions and silk glove handling of evacuees “from high officials of the Rife Construction Co. and the United States engineers at the center, the Memphis Commercial Appeal learned that: Three truckloads of Japanese evacuees recently cornered H. H. Hobbs, assistant area engineer, U. S. engineers, and Leonard Ball, foreman, and threatened to kill them during a “cussfest” at an isolated spot in the camp before military guards who were Relpless to intervene

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Evacuees Don’t Like to Handle Coal

War relocation administration officials are having difficulty getting coal unloaded from railroad cars and trucked to the block kitchens because the Japanese-Amer-

“icans ‘do not like to handle coal.”

The coal is used to

fire the stoves used in preparing meals for the evacuees. Japanese-American cooks and their assistants are wasteful or careless in preparation of food, throwing away

much food that is edible. showed evidence of this.

An inspection of garbage pails

Reputable officials of the construction company reported that one of the men hauling garbage from the camp found partial sacks of potatoes, quantities of oranges, apples and grapefruit in good condition in the garbage

pails.

Paul Taylor, project manager, said ‘that he would begin an investigation of the alleged sabotage of the food

supplies at.the center.

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Hot Tea Served

ON DEC. 16 the project manager asked for 300 volunteers to chop wood to relieve a critical fuel shortage. Thirty-seven responded on the next day and on Dec. 18, “Communique,” official bulletin of the center, said that

ahead of her bought the last two pounds of ground beef “for his dog,” then complained because he couldn't get more. And she got none. . . . Wilbur Peat reports that about half the patrons of the John Herron art museum on Sundays are men in uniform. And last Sunday when he went to the public library, the only patrons he saw at the moment were a soldier anda sailor, , . . During the holidays, a waiter, still wearing his apron, stepped outside ga busy downtown tavern, muttering: “I can’t stand any more of it.” , &. Members of the committee that arranged the recent Camp Atterbury show here ‘think we | ought to tell you about Fabien Sevitzky. Although the symphony orchestra director gave his services in conducting the camp’s “swing” band, he refused a “pass” for Mrs. Sevitzky, insisted on buying a ticket for: her. The boys liked the gesture.

By Raymond Clapper

nothing but an economic war with the employer. The trouble is not with what the national labor leaders, the national spokesmen for the A. F. of L. and the C. I. O, say in their speeches. The trouble is that they speak for labor instead of to labor. The union agents down the line, the troublemakers in the shops, are the people that bother those who are interested in production. Then there are the raiding activities such as the C. IL O. attempt to break into the Pacific coast shipbuilding yards. And the national labor relations board is not helping that situation either. The wage stabilization agreements worked out while Sidney Hillman was still here in the old OPM in effect bowed to an existing situation in recognizing the A. F. of L. in the west coast yards and the C. I. O. on the east coast.

War Trend Depends on Shipping

FOLLOWING THAT arrangement Henry J. Kaiser made his collective-bargaining agreements with the A. F. of L. metal-trades unions, Both the union and the management have worked in good. co-operation and have attained the kind of practical working relations between management and labor that we always hope for but seldom get. However, the C. I. O. wants to muscle in on the Kaiser yards, and it has carried its case to the national labor relations board, demanding an election. THe : A. F. of L. is in the overwhelming majority. © The NLRB might be justified technically in ordering an election. In practice such an order would only breed labor trouble in one of the most crucial of all war industries. Whether we get enough forces abroad and enough supplies to them to end the war in Europe this year, or whether it will have to drag on longer, will ‘depend in large measure on the number of Ships that can be built.

‘By Eleanor Roosevelt

One of my hopes is that, because we are forced to do certain things now, we may find them really interesting, pleasant and worth doing at all times. Wel: may become better neighbors and live together more happily in our communities, because of what we learn in this period. Miss Dorotliy Thompson has sent me the: “Christmas Declaration,” which was released 10 the news-

. papers on Dec. 28. 1 is sified Ly. ova) Americans -'the German

oF: ‘German descent and addressed to

* people. It is a fine appeal and we hope that it may|

reach many ‘of the people now under the Nazi heel in

Germany and make them realize that there is faith!

+ in this country that some of the fine German

- to’ this article. Dr. John: W. Studebaker, U. S. commissioner of education, writes a few words fo introduce an article by Raymond

has en group had snmounced that

: : we knew in the past still exist among the e there. ues yan, ons peopl

Mr. Taylor “expressed his satisfaction of the signup and declared if volunteers continue to come in, the critical wood situation would be solved in a short time. ~ Construction officials reported’ that the evacuees

“knock off” whenever they “like to have tea.

The Communique said, “The serving of hot tea to men on the wood detail was started yesterday (Dec. 17).” The American Association of

' Railroads has protested the delay

in unloading carloads of lumber at the center. Reports from construction officials were that the demurrage charges on the lumber totaled more than $3000. Evacuees refused to unload the lumber at first but finally agreed to unload the cars. They threw the lumber into water filled ditches along the tracks instead of stacking it. The lumber is for the construction of schools at the camp. WRA has had to issue a special contract for clearing a space for a drainage ditch. A crew of 90 evacuees felled six trees in a day. Carpenters Union No. 690 -has protested to Senators Caraway and McClelland and Representative Norrell and WRA Director Myer over plans to use JapaneseAmericans in the construtcion of work totaling $120,000 at the center. ¢ WRA is planning to give indefinite furloughs to 25 per cent of the evacuees who can find employment. Many school teachers are on the pay roll and no schools are in operation. Thefts of material from contractors have been reported to

WRA authorities and no action

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A Misunderstanding RECENTLY these reports were

‘presented to Mr. Taylor, Robert

A. Leflar, project attorney, and Charles Lynn, public relations

officer and they discussed the reports freely. : “We hab some of the evacuees working on the back section,” said Mr. Taylor. ' “At the hearing the evacuees said that Mr. Hobbs began: the argument, which turned into a ‘cussfest,’ and that Mr. Hobbs and Mr. Ball left.” Mr. Hobbs, who is Col. A. M. Niemz’ representative at the center, sald that he: told an evacuee

‘truck driver to move his truck -

“out of the way so he could get .past. Col. Niemz-is head of the United States engineers force

which is in chaige of Sonsuue-

tion of the camp.

“Wher he didn’t do it I got out to see what was the matter and

our truck,” Mr. Hobbs sald. “They h jumped out of the truck and be-

In the Washington Post yesterday, there was an| £81 editorial addressed to the American people, which I|

hope will be widely read. Tt spoke of the fact that we|:

had allowed mob violence to increase in two or three of our states, and one of our minority groups had been five times the victim of this type of mass murder. It quoted Virginius Dabney, writing currently, and pointing out that three of these lynchings had ocSH nA Sale where 8 man in is mnerily he would run for office.} The editorial is one that’ I think ail should

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like but the back page is always in Japanese characters, as shown Lelow. Above is a typical scene of Japanese-Americans discussing game they will play i in their new wartime home. Agnes Uvesugi with bow in hair is recreation director. at Rohwer Center near McGehee, Ark.

MR. HOBBS said that the incident took place in full view of the military police, but they are not permitted to come within the center proper without a request from the project manager. E. B. Whitaker, field director of the WRA, said the reason the military police do not patrol the inside of the center is because it would take foo. many soldiers, who are needed elsewhere. There is an internal security division of the WRA which has charge of the policing inside the center, ’ This division is headed by one man with some assistance from the evacuees. Mr. Whitaker said it is planned to have additional white officers but he had not been able to obtain them yet. Mr. Taylor said that the WRA is having some difficulty getting the Japanese-Americans to unload coal because they don’t like to handle it. He said that he got a group of them to-unload the coal. Reputable persons at the center said that this group sat

Asked about the reported parfound “in the garbage pails, Mr,

Taylor said that he had not heard !

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tion Co., . who were inspecting some of the buildings this week, this reporter saw in several of the garbage pails vegetables that had been mutilated and thrown away. Comnienting on the delay in unloading and stacking the lumber, and the complaint of the American Association of Railroads Mr. Taylor said, “we could have complained - about them getting too many cars in- at one time. We couldn’t handle it. I don’t know what the demurrage charges are and will not until the bills come.” Mr. Taylor said that the speical contract for clearing the way for the drainage ditch was let because the center was not peared to handle trees and sturaps in water. He had no comment to make on the report that 90 evacuees cut only six trees in a day, This report was verified by Linwood Smith, of Lake Village, Ark, the drainage contractor. ” 2 2

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ation : buildings, which are t 20x100 feet. In five. weeks rew of ab least 30 men have ceoded in, erecting the framfor one building and the floor a. second. The foundations e laid by the Rife ConstrucCo. at. the request of the A, “onstruction officials said that buildings could be erected in w/days with trained workmen ab a saving to the taxpayers. ’ithout: school buildings the I of teachers is having: little do. Folding chairs were recl only a few days ago. - intelligent Japanese-Ameri-who had a responsible: posiin California and who is a pe graduate, said that the 4 has seen it has made a ake and is making arrange-

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It deals with such mundane. things as Household Good: to Arrive Soon, Firewood Solution Expected to Satisfy and the

Construction officials, who have been erecting the. center for six months, were critical of the “siik= glove” treatment that the WRA officials are giving the evacuees. A survey of warehouses at the center revealed that by purchases through the war department the Japanese-Americans are getting first class meats, the same kind served men in the armed forces. In the center's large and modern cold storage plant are thousands of pounds of first class beef and lamb, crates of fruits, celery, organes, apples, fresh vegetables and hundreds. of pounds of bacon and hams.

‘Coffee Rationed

MR. TAYLOR said that coffee is being rationed and that it is

being served once a day. One of the chefs said that cocoa, tea and coffee are served daily, but was limited because of the sugar Tationing. ’ Three construction einployees chargéd that the Japanese-Amer- . y ican dining room charged excessive prices for meals on rainy days. They said that for 50 cents they got one slice of baloney, three slices of bread, two spoons of potato salad and a cup of coffee. : 5 Mr. Taylor said that plans underway: to give indefinite fur.

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