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in Moscow and may ask to be re-
apital Acts to Ease Tension Resulting From _ Criticism of Stalin. (Continued from Page One) resented in Moscow dispatches he : consult his home government
“dnd certainly not air his views in such public fashion.
here, [Russian people had no way of know-
that he has outlived his usefulness
lieved. Unless his report to the state - department provides a far different version of the.Admiral Standley remarks. than has appeared in the newspapers, an official Yeprimand appeared Hkely. Recall Possible An authoritative source said that it was improbable that Admiral Standley would be recalled immediately, but the possibility was
Standley will confer soon with Premier Josef Stalin and Foreign Minister Viacheslav M. Molotov on Russo-American problems, but has no intention of raising the question of publicity for American aid to Russia, American circles said today. These sources said Admiral Standley’s expression of regret in a press conference at the lack of publicity accorded American aid in Russia was intended merely to convey his personal disappointment that the
ing the extent of American contributions to Russia through the Red Cross and Russian relief funds. His remarks were merely incidental in the course of a press conference Monday that covered a number of topics, it was said, and there was no suggestion that he was carrying out instructions from Washington or intended to make any formal protest.
It’s Recognition He Wanted Admiral Standley emphasized that
not ruled out entirely.
: Some suggestions were heard that . Admiral Standley had some official sanction for his remarks and that . the present excitement was a sort of ' diplomatic hocus-pocus. Chairman Robert R. Reynolds (D. N. C.), of 'the senate military affairs commit-
tee said:
| “I believe every word Standley
_ #poke and it was of such great. portance from a diplomatic s
point that I am convinced som fa . high in authority approved. his assertions before he made them because any man of his maturity and judgment must have known what terrific repercussions would follow.”
_ 'J"MOSCOW, March 10 (U.P)— ‘American Ambassador William H,
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to the Soviets.
in Russia of its receipt bution. The beneficiaries, however, do not necessarily know whether the
donated by the United States.
original American labels and mark4 ings.
that there are mot quite enough of them for a 2000-mile front.
Russia’s failure to publicize the arrival and full extent of American aid did not mean that it had not reached the Soviet people. On the contrary, he said that he kmew it had been distributed, but without the people knowing whether it came under the lend-lease ‘agreement or as an outright gift through the Red -|Cross or Soviet relief funds. American circles here said that it was an unwarranted inference to interpret Admiral Standley’s assertion that the Russian people “don’t know the facts” as meaning that they are unaware of America’s contribution to the Soviet war effort.
The ambassador obviously meant, as he said, only that he had seen no evidence of acknowledgment in the Soviet press, these quarters said. Thus the Soviet beneficiaries have no way of determining whether they are receiving material sent by the U. 8. government or from private citizens out of appreciation for the Russian people’s efforts. ;
Stettinius Reports Transmitted
The Soviet press has made no mention of Standley’s remarks to the American and British correspondents. ; The official Soviet news agency Tass, however; transniitted to Russian newspaper editors a transla. tion of a recent article in an American magazine by Edward R. Stettinius, U.’'S. lend-lease administrator, dealing with food shipments." An earlier Russian broadcast to Soviet editors yesterday carried a long report based on Mr, Stettinius’ recent summary of American lendlease shipments to Russia. Less than 48 hours after Standley’s press conference, the .government newspaper Izvestia today published lengthy excerpts from the Stettinius article. Soviet newspapers in the past have published previous statements by Stettinius regarding lend-lease shipments, as well as announcements by President Roosevelt and
the number of planes and tanks sent
American-Labels Easy to See
Whatever the reason why Soviet authorities have not publicized American relief or acknowledged it officially, there is ample evidence and distri-
goods have been purchased from or Leud-lesbe clothes and food are in stores with the Russian officers have reported the fronts, bit always with the regret
Ford and Dodge trucks and jeeps are visible in every large city in
Communiques
EISENHOWER COMMUNIQUE (Issued Wednesday, March 10)
‘It Means to Dying and - Helpless People. | (Continued from Page One)
to the dying or helpless people any kind of disaster or what | Red Cross is doing all over
When Walter Hess wrote that letter he thought “to help you in the best possible way” was through giving his blood. But the local Red Cross now is in the midst of a campaign to raise $715,000 right here in Indianapolis to help carry on its work here and abroad. It heeds salesmen—io tell the story of the part it’s playing in people’s lives, to raise funds so that it can go on playing the role of “the greatest mother in the world.” In Walter Hess there is such a story. And here it is: Walter Hess’ father was born in this county and at the age of 38 returned to his father’s native land. There Walter was born and reared. There he was educated and grew up and served in the German army. He was in a medical detachment in the last war. He rode on ams bulances and lent a hand in field hospitals and saw the Red Cross at work, .
Saw Children Starving He saw women and children in
occupied Belgium and France starv-
ing. He saw the looks on their faces
when they received food—food sent by the American Red Cross. He knew prisoners. And he saw the,
looks on the faces of prisoners when the Red Cross workers handed out
packages and brought through messages.
It was all over in 1918, that is the fighting was, but Walter Hess saw the Red Cross’ work go on. He went
home. He became a Red Cross volunteer. He’s really never stopped be-
ing one, in'one way or another, for over 20 years. Walter Hess was a German businessman. He, sold devices for fire, burglary and accident prevention. In between times he served as a eaptain of a Red Cross ambulance disaster squadron. In 1925, he helped
rescue 700 from a burning factory.
Joins Refugee Stream He saw Hitler come to power and became : a steady stream, some
helped along the way by the Red Cross. In "1938, Walter Hess, with
his wife and daughter, Erica, joined
that stream—three more in the long list of Jews driven out of their homes.
They arrived in New York pen-
niless. That very day, they took out
citizenship papers and went to the national service for refugees. Officials advised the Hess family to come to Indianapolis. “The name, of course, didn’t mean anything” reminisces Hess. “I thought ‘maybe there are Indians there.” Walter Hess didn’t know a word
of English. Now he ‘speaks pretty
well. “I do, don’t I?” he asked several times.
Does All Sorts of Work “We were welcomed here. It was
here I have done every kind of work—the kind a greenhorn has to do. I have met two other refugees, one from Austria and one from Hungary. We are partners now and do factory and office clean-
.|ing.”
‘Two years ago, Hess’ wife had to have two blood transfusions. “It saved her life,” he declared. Four months ago he showed up at the blood donor center. This is
‘this third time back. And he'll be
back some more. : “IT would like to say to eve
In lwho is able to make blood | to do it because, as I think, the
eted ‘the occupation y reconnaissance pais were active.
mm Tunisia, t arm. ols con! ed to harass the y sectors of the front. Two *Parther D tanks were destroyed.
Al activity wis: ty estsicted by weather in|. all fighting areas
Jostenday, Offensive the josthern and
blood plasma is not needed only on war fronts. . . * and here he groped a bit for words in his new language. “Well, maybe it can save the life 1lof someone in my own family after some air raid or accident, t00.”
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'MARETH LINENGF ar FOUM TATAHOUINE
Here is the Tunisian situation as bad weather foes a lull in the fighting.. The Germans have been applying pressure in the Tamera region (1) in the far north while retreating in the Medenine area (2) in the far south. In between American forces have been driving from the Feriana region (3) toward both Gafsa and Faid pass, but withdrew slightly after brief occupation of Pichon (2). northwest shore of the Chott Djerid salt lake have occupied Tozeur and are in position to assist the Americans at Gafsa and to co-operate in any British sighth army attack on the Mareth line (5).
<4 |twveen the contral and .southern | fronts. :
AR MEDENINERS
French forces on the
Labor's Secret
equivalent to a 30-day suspension of production. When the executive council of
‘the A. F. of L. met in Miami, Fla.,
in mid-January, it ratified the unity agreement of Dec. 2, which had already been ratified by the C. I. O. executive council. But. to make the agreement mean what the A. F. of L. peacemakers thought it fo mean, the A. F. of L. executive council was forced to instruct its peace committee to seek a new agreement with C. I. O. preventing “raiding” of established unions. At the insistence of the Metal Trades Unions, the executive council also sent a telegram of protest to President Roosevelt, urging him to use his powers as éommander-in-chief to stop the NLRB from “interfering in the perfect co-opera-tive relationship which has been established between labor and management at the Kaiser Shipbuilding Co. plants.” Nothing happened in either case.
C. L O. Files Complaints
The C. I. O. wasn’t interested In further discussions. The national labor relations board went right ahead with its hearings on C. I. O. protests of unfair labor practices in the Kaiser yards. And the C. 1. O. now has 18 similar protests filed with NLRB against other shipyards havi A. FP. of L. contracts. The “legal rights” under which the C. I. O. organizers take sheller is the national labor relations act of 1935, commonly referred to as the Wagner act, which declares in section T: “Employees shall have the. right to self-organization, to form, join, or assist labor organizations,. to , | bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and to engage in concerted activities, for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection.”
Revise Wagner Act?
If this section is interpreted to mean that labor unions shall have the right to raid each other for members, instead of stabilizing}. labor conditions, the net effect will be to guarantee continued disrupfion and leave employers with no assurance whatever that when they sign a contract with one union it will continue in force for the period specified or be worth the paper on which it is written. In Washington, this situation raises again the question of imme diate revision of the Wagner act make it cover jurisdictional rows between unions to meet : wartime conditions. New demands for revision of the Wagner act would be based on the grounds that the labor situation in the United States has
, |so changed ‘that it is necessary to
bring the law and its administra-
"| tion up to date.
Three-Way Split
in 1935, there was only one major labor organization, the American Federation of Labor. The act sought
Efficiency at Kaiser Yards
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to
When the Wagner act was passed| Sufferers
to protect laboring men in their Sontach Basimann's Pn Tablets are made |
Clause Cuts
been virtually wiped out, but instead of one dominant A. PF. of L., there are now two major groups, with the C. I. O. fighting A. F. of L. for supremacy. And since the organization of the C. I. O.—which was originally composed of 10 industrial unions under the leadership of John L. Lewis, and expelled from the A. F. of L—C. I. O. itself was split in 1941 by the withdrawal of Lewis. Hence, there are in reality three rival labor groups—not courting the affiliated railway brotherhoods and the independent unions. 3 Out of this A. F. of L., C. I. O, and U. M, W. rivalry and internal strife has grown a complex, hydraheaded political-labor situation which was in no way envisaged at the time the Wagner act was passed. Tabor leaders are jealous of each other and suspicious. They have been drawn together somewhat by the war emergency. They serve on joint committees with representatives from government, management and the public. But four major attempts to bring the rival groups together—the last being the peace committee meeting of Dec. 2—have failed, and there is nothing in the Wagner act to bring them together or restore stability to labor conditions.
MORGAN ‘SLIGHTLY BETTER’ IN 24 HOURS
NEW YORK, March 10 (U. P.).— The office of J. P. Morgan in a statement issued at 10:45 a. m. today noted that the financier’s condition has shown “a slight but definite improvement” in the ‘last 24 hours. | Mr. Morgan is gravely ill after a cerebral stroke at Bocagrande, Fla.
BLACK MARKET HITS ARMY NEW YORK, March 10 (U.P).— Roy FP. Hendrickson, agriculture department’s food distribution administrator, said last night that black markets in meat had prevented the army from buying the amounts of beet it needs for Several weeks,
g SUGGESTS WOMEN’S ARMY
NEW YORK, March 10 (U. P). —Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt suggested last night ‘that the United States might raise a women’s land army, like Britain, if other efforts
fail.
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{cities including 13 with a popula- | tion of from 50,000 to 500,000, are
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to_solve the farm labor shortage}
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a Nazfs atnited the evacuation f Ba,
63 miles southwest of nd alto admitted they were
or HN astow and a Orel, the hinge be-| ' The Donets coal and industrial
far more important to the Germans than anything in the comparative wilderness of ihe central or northern fronts except Smolensk. That is why the Geimans threw upwards of 375,000 troops into the effort to
sians will battle desperately to hold Kharkov and regain the others.
650 Tanks Heported Destroyed Already, according to the Russinns, the offensive has cost the Germans 20,00) troops, 115 planes, 650 tanks and 120 pieces of artillery. The offensive was launched late in February after the Germans rushed eight divisions from western Europe, Moscow said. Cities recaptured so far and their distances from Kharkov are: Krasacgrad, 52° miles southwest; Pavlograd, 100 miles southwest; Lozovaya, 74 miles south; Slavyansk, 100 miles southeast. Kraumatorsk, 100 miles southeast; Krasnoarmeiskoye, 145 miles southeast; Lisichansk, 115 miles southeast, and Barvenkova, 80
either key railroad junctions or industrial center.
that it also was possible that the gslienist was summoned to treat Heichsmarshal Hermann Goering,
vho was confined to a Swedish} mental hospital for a short time
efter the last war.
In the Sunday Express, George Sillocombe suggested that Hitler may
be under restraint for violent para-|'
noia—a chronic mental disorder characterized. by delusions of greatness and persecution. Slocombe said it also was possible that Hitler still was 4t his Eastern
Rommel Is Menaced From
Two Sides in South Tunisi
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disposition ‘to return to the attack. He lost 52 tanks In the week-end fighting in the south and it was believed he was trying to regroup his armor. (The German-controlled radio Vichy said American forces in cen{ral Tunisia “continued their advance after the Germans had evacuated several positions in accordance with a plan to shorten their line”). The French forces were moving along the northwest edge of Chott Djerid (salt lake) in central Tu-
the result of the week-end fighting, There are between six weeks and two months of good fighting weather still left in southern Tunisia, ample. time for a full-scale offensive under
FEAR 2 SCHOOLBOYS
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ways within calling distance, usually playing in front of their homes.
thte Best Grand laundry and Mr. Long by tke Lukas-Harold Corp. The Stevensons have four other children, Robert. 6; Richard, 5; Shirley, 4, and Linda Rae, 19 months. The Longs have three
ald Lee, 5, ani. Mary Eulora, 2. Assigned to the task of investigating in the area are detectives Ray Moistner and John Dugan. A
given to all members of the police department.
Four Feet Tall
is three feet six inches tall and weighs 45 pounds. He has blue eyes and blond hair and was dressed in red corduroy {trousers a green jacket and, red cap.
failad to com¢ home from school last Dec. 18. ‘The body of the 9-year-old Metz boy was finally located in the canal after weeks of searching. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry L Melz, 1503 W. 29th st.
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peared before and they were al-| |
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other children, Harlan Jr. 10; Gers |
description of the youths has been
William Stevenson is described as| | being four feet tall, weighing 60| pounds, blond hair, light brown| eyes and dressid in brown corduroy trousers and jacket. William Long
The disappearance of the two|
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those in war work. Plain - or with ‘emblems.
youths follows close on the tragic| drowning of Henry I. Metz Jr., who|
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