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'ORAN algo Tvs stinnge; ‘but for some reason ier thir seem ‘ta get damaged in wartime, . So les than ive wee: it ve anand in Afric, “claims cor on had set itself up in each |
‘gr me 1 ig ‘occupied cities and was «doling: out money
a ‘aggrieved’ citizens whose - per-. : 3 sons or: property had been dam- | aged ‘by ‘our forces. ’ ' There are 12 officers and 13 enlisted” men in the Oran claims | section. “They handled 165 cases hn ‘the first two weeks. ‘They ‘paid
x - ws of them that comes in his letters.
age : wd where
.marched across fields og camped ' ° for the night. The en
rotighit: aoe’ an American farmer in order to be “able: to handle such cases intelligently. “He is ‘Maj. William Johnson, who lives on a 200- * aere farm six miles outside of Duluth, Minn. Ironically, |
Hie has been so busy in the office handling. claims |
; gm he hasn’t had time to get outside of Oran and ‘pee ‘any farms.
$200 For a Good Mule
! “THERE HAVE BEEN a number of traffic accldents. In the first three weeks five people were killed by trucks, and eight or 10 mules have been killed. "The commission pays $200 for a good work mule, ¥hat’s more than they'd pay at home, but good mules are harder to get over here. The price for . ‘horse is about the same. ‘One tough problem’ the eomumidsion faces is how
« fmuch to pay for destyoyed articles that are irreplace-
One woman, for instance filed a claim for a
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~ Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nusshaun
r PROFILE OF THE WEEK: Charles MacKay A $harp, the quiet, serious, capable and hard working
principal of Howe—the city’s newest high school. He
has been described as really looking “the part of a high school principal.” Charles Sharp is 54. He's 5 feet 10 or 11, weighs a shade under 170. He has an alert appearance, blue gray eyes, a small cleft in his chin and a well modulated voice. His silvery hair is clipped close to the sides of his
head. He wears rimless glasses, °
sometimes stands with his hands in his: coat pocket while talking. He gets quite enthusiastic over new ideas. On such occasions, his voice rises and he gestures freely 2 with his hands. Sometimes he ; leans forward and thumps the Mr. Sharp desk with his fist until persons sitting outside his office think someone really is patching the dickens. He's a keen observer, doesn’t miss & thing when he walks into a classroom. And he has a keen memory, too; frequently quotes things you said: two or three years ago. Very open minded, he will listen to anyone, but has a habit of asking questions that quickly develop any weaknesses in plans you offer him, :
. MR. SHARP'S friends sometimes tease him ‘about his eye for beauty. They say he has the best looking faculty in town, they're the “brainiest faculty, <* ‘He~handpicked the faculty when he opened the school back in 1938. Born at Springfield, O., he was graduated from
- -.. Wittenberg college in 1911, did postgraduate work at :%. ‘the University of Chicago, Ohio State and I. U. His
first teaching job was at Rensselaer, Ind. In 1911, he went to Noblesville as science teacher, moving to
Shortridge in 1916. After serving in the army in world war I, “he went
‘to Manual as head of the science department, became
vice principal in 1926, and 12 years later was chosen to head Howe.
Washington
WASHINGTON, March 27—If I seem to be writing too much about plans for after the war, it is not because I think the war is almost over. Nothing in sight suggests any early end, not even in’ Europe. We have been in North Africa almost five months and it may be two: or three months more before we have driven the Germans out. As Secretary of War Stimson says, we may expect favorable progress in North Africa, but we must pay for it with heavy casualties. Many more heroic allied soldiers will die in the hard fighting that Is still ahead there. Our ideas of the speed of warfare have been influenced unduly by the early German blitz sweeps, the quick victories in Norway, in
Holland, Belgium and France, A better guide would
be the long, slow, grim swinging of the tides back and
~ gorth in Russia for nearly two years, since Hitler
‘marched in. Consider War as “Our Way of Life’
IN ‘OUR PREPARATIONS here at home, we must
# assume that the war will go on for some time. It"
was put very well this week by one of the officials of - ‘the Sun Shipbuilding Co. He said we ought to stop considering the war as an emergency and instead consider it as our way of life, That is what Germany, Japan, Russia and England have had to do. ‘We will be more effective if we do the same. That mean$ a vast amount of tightening up. It means that we can’t go on improvising on manpower forever. The Sun shipbuilding yard, which I visited this week, builds three-fourths of all American tankers. Hl ’ . ‘These people are under pressure to: more than ‘double last year’s production-of 40 tankers. They have 30,000 people working, They need 10,000 more. £Tney! hire three people while losing one for the draft.
PT. WAYNE, Ind, (Friday).—Last night in New “York city I saw, Mr. John Golden's revival of the
. play “Counsellor at Law,” with Paul Muni as the successful lawyer who has come up from poverty
to be a ‘rich and: “well-known criminal lawyer. I enjoyed every minute of the play, though today the young Commu‘nist’s speech sounds a bit hollow. I. am not quite sure that this ." play teaches a very good lesson from the moral standpoint, since all our sympathy is with the evasion of the letter of the lag. At the very end, however, there is one really valuable fact ’ ‘brought out, which all of us should remember, Just as. the lawyer. thinks life has cheated him of the .
- themselves.
He grins at that and adds that -
By Ernie Pyle
| sanod fon.a vaillo, the ast all soitusateered,
. She ‘said she paid 250: francs for it, but was asking|
375 because she simply couldn’t get another one. The
{commission agreed with her Teasoning. and paid her|
| 375 francs,
“The head of the commission is Lieut. Col. George|
T. Madison, a tall, gangling, slow-talking lawyer from Bastrop, La. I can never forget Col. Madison because he led our little detachment off the boat months ago,
and I marched into Oran for the first time behind)
“him.
Another friend of mine. on the commission 1s|
A apt John M. Smith, of West Memphis, Ark. = He 8 lot of my friends in Memphis, and. relays
+ Found No War in Liberia ;»
in North Africa awhile back from the Gold’ Coast,
way down below. He had been sitting for six months|
in Liberia, not permitted to write a line. He says he : didn’t ‘mind it a bit.
‘last June. They lived throughout the tropical rainy season in tents, and here in Oran Don slept in a real bed and under blankets for the first time in six : months. Don doesn’t smoke himself, but he left his bedroll and gas mask behind in order to bring scads of cigarets to give away up here, which is the most thoughtful thing I've heard of in years. He says they
were well fixed down there—but then we are upf
here, too." Don says he and the other correspondents,:to kill time during the long half year of doing nothing, thought of writing a book entitled “I Found No War.” But it’s hot down there, and all they did was think about it.
Likes Strawberry Shortcake
MR. SHARP used to play tennis, and is pretty fair at ping pong. At golf, he’s not particularly interested in his score, He enjoys football and basketball. Card games don’t interest him.
He enjoys music, including the more melodic of |
the popular music, occasionally takes in a symphony concert, dislikes crooners. Among his favorites on the radio are One Man’s Family, and some of the commentators. Lewis Stone and Mickey Rooney interest him at the movies, Deeply religious, he has taught a class of young people’ at ‘the Central Ave. Methodist church for years. He's also on the board of stewards of the church and the board of religious education. A fastidious dresser, he insists that his shirt, tie and breast pocket handkerchief harmonize. He also likes a touch of red about his clothing, wears double breasted suits. Hell eat most anything, especially strawberry shortcake. He smokes a cigaret infrequently. - A lover of nature, he enjoys working with his flowers and shgdobery, and is busy now planning a victory garden.
He Always Gets Caught
HE KNOWS HOW to get along with people—especially children. Once in a while he has to call the students together and give them a verbal spanking. He does it in a way that makes the kids laugh at They love it, too. Frequently seniors, asked to write the things they enjoyed most in school, mention those verbal spankings. Mr. Sharp is a master at making comparisons; is able to hit. the nail on the head. He has a habit of doodling while phoning, and he never signs’ his full name—it’s always just “C. M.” One of his rules is that the boys must not wear their hats in the school corridors. Occasionally, though, when he’s leaving late in the evening and he thinks everyone else is gone, he puts his own hat on his head before he gets out of the building. And just about every darned time he does, some of the boys are hanging around and catch him, Do they call him for it? You bet they do.
By Raymond Clapper
They have only .about a thousand women working, and they should be training toward using 30 per cent women—10 times their present employment. That, at least, is what will have to be done if the manpower strain is to be carried over a long period. There is no work more essential than building tankers, in the race to. keep the German submarines from choking off fuel to allied armies across the Atlantic. But men are being taken steadily for the army, and women must be trained to substitute if production is not to suffer. That’s the story all over America.
Things We Cannot Tolerate
‘A LONG WAR means that we“can less afford to tolerate the kind of thing that has been disclosed this week. The production of defective steel, covered up under fake records, is the kind of thing that needs fo be cracked down on so hard that it will discour-
age others from taking any chances of that kind. * The fantastic profits of ship operators, charging all that the traffic will bear, are certainly not to be condoned at a time when we are trying to induce the “coal miners and the farmers to refrain from charging all the traffic will bear. The cocky attitude of the shipowners down here, who haughtily spurn suggestions that they disgorge some of their fat profits, on the ground that they are within their legal rights, is not going ‘tq help in winning the battle against inflation. . The fact that this is apt to be a long war makes it "all the more imperative that the battle against inflation be wage! relentlessly. - Fortunately the treasury department is going to try to skim off a huge layer of excess purchasing power. That’s one big purpose that can be served by the new 13-billion dollar war loan, But the chances would have been much better if the pay-as-you-go tax plan had been put through so that people would know ‘just where they stood in planning their tax payments.
last night was so
a oe of mo. oriude feel for the
DON COE, United Press corféspondent, arrived|
He and three other correspondents went to Liberia |-§
By Eleanor Roosevelt 5 1
very kind. I hope T was able
TYNDALL CITES DROP IN CRIME
Gambling Devices ‘Driven to Cover.’
Crime has decreased sharply in Indianapolis and gambling has been reduced to activities by a few “unimportant”: operators, Mayor Tyndall said last night.in an address at : the Catholic community center.
mayor,” said Gen. Tyndall, “I deplored the fact that the city of Indianapolis stood within one point of the top, among cities of its class, for murders,” armed robberies and cases - of aggravated assault. I
mitted to flourish here to an unprecedented extent. Commercialized gambling’ breeds general crime,
Cities Crime Decrease
“Now,” he. continued, “the big wealthy operators of lotteries, baseball pools, horse racing books, numbers games, ‘and slot machines and dice games have been driven to
ing that crime in the city had decreased one-third during the first three months of this year under that of a similar period last year. Other progressive steps taken to “clean-up” Indianapolis were named by Mayor Tyndall as: Assignment
in an effort to curb the juvenile delinquency rates; safety board and
cials in the interest of venereal disease control.
{ Repair 7000 Chuckholes
The engineering: department has repaired 7000 chuckholes and resurfaced 2900 yards of. streets, the mayor reported. He added that plans were under way for construction of ‘an underpass at the Belt railroad and Morris st. -and for renovation of ‘the Indiana ave.
~ | bridge near City hospital.
A saving of more than $100,000 was accomplished by the works board, said Mayor Tyndall, when it decided to utilize gravel piled on the banks of White river near Michigan st.” for street resurfacing.
ROTARIANS TO HEAR: TALK ON MANPOWER
Eugene J. Brock, deputy regional director . of the- war manpower
will address the Rotary club Tuesday on-the ‘subject’ of “War Manpower.” !
deputy. regional: director, Mr. Brock was: regional representative of the U. 8. employment service. © From 1926 to 1030, commissioner for Michigan.
Yank Bombers
Mayor Says Operators of|
“When I was ‘a candidate for
blamed a bad administration of the| police. department and the fact that|, organized gambling had been per-|
cover.” He then cited figures show-.
of policewomen to the police force|
police co-operation with army offi-| the politics of his count
commission in charge of operations, |
Prior to : his appointment as|
he was industrial
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Jap installations in the Aleutian islands got a terrific pounding from bombers of the U. 8. army air forces when this photo (just released from Washington) was snapped. In the upper part of the picture can be seen four float type Japanese Zero: fighters which have been washed aground. This is perhaps the first photo. of the float Zero to be released in this country. In the lower left corner American bombers can be seen Zooming toward their target.
wrecked seaplane and the center of ‘the photo.
Xli—Nazi Agent on Capitol Hil
By MICHAEL SAYERS and ALBERT E. KAHN
ON THE AFTERNOON of Feb. 19, 1942, crowded federal district court in Washington, D. C., a thin
in the
frightened little man was on the witness stand. “Do you know the defendant, George Sylvester Viereck ?”’ the prosecuting attorney asked.
ol do.”
“Tell the court and the jury the circumstances under which you met Mr. Viereck, and the date.” “It was in July, 1940, and it was in the office of Congressman Fish. Mr, Fish said Mr. Viereck had some
speeches to send out—of Senator Lundeen’ S.
told me to send them to the mailing list of the National Committee to Keep Amer-
ica Out of Foreign Wars.” - “What else was said?”
{ “Mr. Fish left the room and Mr. 1 Viereck asked me how large the
list was. I told him it was 100,000 names. He asked me for a copy. We had an extra copy and I gave
“him one.”
“Did {Viereck give you anything?” - “He gave me a tip. He gave me two bills rolled up. When I looked
“at them later, I found they were
two $50 bills.”
‘The pale, badly scared witness
was a clerk from the office of Rep. Hamilton Fish. His name was George ‘Hill. Under ordinary circumstances, he ‘would have remained an insignific figure in . Pate,
however, involved him in a drama
of international axis intrigue.
He became, as Prosecutor William P. Maloney declared at the
trial of George Sylvester Viereck, “an important cog in the most
effective propaganda machine that the world has ever seen—a machine so diabolically clever that it was able to reach in and use the halls of our own congress to
spread its lies and half truths to try to conquer and divide us as
they did France and. other ¢ conquered nations.” ” s =
Kaiser to Hitler
GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK was born in Munich in 1884. and became an American citizen in 1901. Throughout the first. world war, he spread propaganda opposing the entry of .the United States into the war on the side of - the allies. He received $100,000 from the central powers for: his services. ‘When Adolf Hitler came to power, Viereck began to work for the Nazis. He admitted before a congressional committee in 1934 that he had been receiving $500 a month from Dr. Otto Kiep, the Nazi consul general in New York,
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tremendous effort put forth by ‘the people ‘of the}
theater in this war.
Not only have many of them given up thelr
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-and another $1750 a month from
Mr. Fish
an American publicity firm which was under contract to the German Tourist bureau. By the time ' Hitler’s legions were smashing their way. through Poland, Viereck had added various new Nazi sources of income to his bankroll. One of these was the German Library of Information, the official Nazi propaganda agency in New York City. Viereck edited the library's publication, a weekly called Facts in Review, which was sent free and unsolicited to a large mailing list of prominent Americans. In compliance with the 1939 ‘foreign agent registration act, Viereck was registering at regular intervals with the state depart-
- ment as a paid propaganda agent
of the Third Reich. But there were a number of vital faéts which he neglected to mention in
his registration papers. Some of
these concerned Viereck’s connec= tions with certain senators and representatives. ” 2 2
Viereck on the Hill
IN THE SPRING of 1940, Viereck became very busy in Washington. Urgent business took the Nazi agent to the capital at least once a week during the months of April, May and June. By August he had stepped up his visits to twice a week. On July 10, President Roosevelt
.-had submitted to congress a
$4,800,000,000 defense program. In August, congressmen were debating whether or not the selective service bill should be passed. It was Viereck’s job to do everything possible: to prevent the passage of these measures. -Invariably, when Viereck ar-
: ied in Washington, one of his
st calls was at the office of his
.0ld friend, Senator Ernest Lundeen. This office had already be-
come Viereck’s Washington headquarters. Here he wrote certain important speeches for Lundeen, which the senator delivered on the floor of the senate. , Viereck made no attempt to conceal from the office staff the fact that he was writing the sen--ator’s speeches. He :would fre-
| quently dictate to one of Lun.deen’s secretaries the outline for a talk. On several occasions, Vie-
reck broke off dictation to tele-
; - phone the German embassy for ’4| background material.
He paid his last visit to Senator Lundeen’s office on Aug. 6, 1940. - A couple of days after this visit, the senator mailed ‘to Vie-
Jl reck—for editing and. revision —
the manuscript of a speech Lun-
\| deen was to deliver over the Lalil bor day holidays. : ‘| speech came back to Lundeen on -
The revised
i the afternoon of Aug.-31, the day
on which the senator was killed in an airplane crash. Held .
‘The Franking Privilege
the franking privileges of various congressmen, many of whom were. doubtless unaware of the use to which their frarfked envelopes were being put.
George - Hill, 45-year-old clerk
in the office of Rep. Hamilton Fish, was in charge of Viereck’s Washington propaganda mill. As previously related, Hill first met Viereck in July, 1940, when Rep. Fish introduced him to the Nazi agent. Hill was told that Viereck wanted to mail out some reprints
of .a speech which Lundeen had. delivered. -Lundeen’s office did not -
have adequate facilities for send-
ing out the number of reprints Viereck contemplated distributing.
The mailing was therefore to be handled from Fish’s office. From that time on, George Hill’
George Sylvester Viereck. Viereck ‘was cautious, ' As mu as possible, he avoided direct contact with PFish’s assistant. He
handled the necessary negotia-
tions through Prescott «Dennett, an isolationist .publicist in Washington. From his apartment in New York, Viereck sent to Dennett all propaganda. items that might be useful: Radio talks of America First leaders, extracts from antiBrifish books, isolationist and
" anti-administration editorials. The-
material was relayed by Dennett to George Hill, who contrived to get it inserted: into the Congressional Record. Once the material had appeared in the Record, Hill ordered reprints. Mail bags car}ying tons of these reprints with franked envelopes were then delivered—on~Hill’s instructions—to Dennett's office. Thus, the route which Viereck’s material traveled was: Viereck to Dennett to Hill to certain congressmen. and so into the Congressional Record. Finally, it emerged bearing the great seal of the United States as a headpiece and with a congressman's. frank to take it through the mails to hundreds of thousands of American citizens, tw By the summer of 1941, the Viereck-Dennett-Hill propaganda machine was working at high speed. Between March and September, 1941, George Hill bought
more than half a million reprints .
from the - Congressional Record, . the majority of them speeches by isolationist congressmen, who—no. matter how patriotic their motives. may have been—were thus creating propaganda material of use
to George Sylvester Viereck.
. 2 ” ” America Strikes Back THE AXIS conspirators _.ad dreamed of reducing the United States to. a condition of helpless unpreparedness, disunity and indecision. They badly miscalculated. On Dec. 7, 1941, an angered and resolute people was galvanized into a gigantic mobilization of its
‘ productive and armed: forces.
And on the home front, Amer= ica moved against the axis psychological saboteurs. On Feb. 6, 1942, George Hill wal sentenced to serve two to six years in prison. On March 13, 1942; George . Sylvester Viereck = was sentenced to serve two to six years in prison. - = (Editor's Note—On March 1, 1043, the supreme court of the
* United States reversed the conviction of George‘ Sylvester Viefeck on the ‘technical ground ¥
IT WAS VIERECK who con- . agent. ceived. how the’ congressional ~~ On
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Wreck Jap Installations in the Aleutians
Columns of smoke rise from Jap installations on Kiska island of the Aleutians. in this photo of a recent heavy raid by U. S. bombers—a raid which badly damaged ‘the Japs’ secondary seaplane hangar. A giant Jap four-engined seaplane, its tail section missing and washed up on the beach, can be seen in the upper right corner near the top. Four fleat type Zero fighters are on the water just off. the beach—between the
campaign “to put the und out. of business.” On July 23, 1942, the departe ment ‘of justice indicted 27 men and ‘one woman on charges of conspiracy to provoke revolt and disloyalty: within the United States armed forces. The indict= ments listed 30 publications as agencies ‘through which. the accused had tried to sabotage morale’ ‘among American soldiers and sailors. Among those indicted was Prescott Dennett, Government agencies, through 3 radio programs, motion pictures, publications and posters, told the public. iow to recognize and com= bat axis propaganda. Newspa= pers throughout the country exposed . the machinations of axis agents. “All ‘these measures made the work of axis agents more difficult, Nevertheless, ‘psychological sabotage went on in the United States. “It is still going on. To a great extent, the answer to the problem lies with. the American ‘people themselves. Public pressure can bring about the banning of all seditious pub= lications and can stop: the spread ing of every kind of defeatist propaganda. . America’s enemies are skillful, “powerful and ruthless. For more than 10 .years they have , been building their ‘underground ma chinery in this country. This vast
. and infricate apparatus of secret
war cannot be smashed overnight, but inevitably it will be smashed by an American people fully aware of the character and methods of the axis saboteurs and of all wi aid ‘them in the United States. (THE END)
(Copyrigh ht, 1943, by Harper & Brot ers; disirs bu ted by United Feature ayn
REALTORS WILL HE i EX-GERMAN SOLDIER
A former German soldier, - ‘now general building contractor, will ri the Indianapolis Real Estate © members next Thursday why he glad to be an American. ~~: : Jack G. Messmer, owner of the construction company which bears his name and.has offices in thi Pennway bldg, was born in Ham burg and was gradauted. from EH
burg high school and the - Uy sity of Munich. " He served in the German’ ny during 1917 and 1918. He came the United States in 1922 and
‘came ‘a citizen in 1928. He v
the only speaker at the Real board's next meeting, which-wi held at Hotel Washington.
CARD PARTY ARRANGE Maj. Robert” Anderson, relief corps 44, will have a card Jarty, ‘at the Food Craft at 1 p. 'm. Tuesday. Mrs. Buis is chairman of the exe committee. ]
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