Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 June 1943 — Page 12

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 1943

. WORKERS FOR WAR

Yan is’ something inspiring about the long lines that formed at 20 N. Pennsylvania street this week to register for work. These are not people who need, or. particularly want, jobs, in many -cases.. Here are boys and girls just out of school for their cherished summer vacation. _Heré are old men, men who laid down their tools or closed their desks a decade ago, they thought forever, Here are women with homes to care for, and families, offering. to double their daily duties. They came to register for work Because their country needs their work, in very much the spirit that brings young

men to recruiting stations.

If Indianapolis is to fulfill

completely the wartime job we have undertaken as a community, a great many. more people must go to work— ‘perhaps 20,000 or 25,000 more this year. Factories rushing vital supplies to our armed forces must be kept running. Stores and restaurants and scores of other varieties of service establishments must be kept open to care for the “absolute requirements of the city and its people. This job the registrants are ready to undertake. ~The response to the call of the citizens manpower committee in the first five days far exceeded expectations. Yet, while it is gratifying, it need not be surprising, that Indianapolis citizens are now, as always, ready to do. Wha

ever needs doing when their nation asks it.

-WEARING ’EM DOWN

[BEY is new and welcome proof from several directions that the allies are wearing down the axis. "' Moscow reports that Germany has lost 3319 planes on the eastern front in the past six weeks; and in the last week 498, compared with 153 Russian planes down. Even allowing for the exaggeration which sometimes creeps into such comparative figures, the spread is staggering. As a result the Russians now have air superiority for the first time. That can mean a lot in the summer campaign along the 1500-mile front on which so much depends. In the western air offensive R. A. F. night bombers and American day bombers have resumed the unprecedented devastation of German ports, submarine nests, airfields, was

, factories and transportation networks.

“Though the full

effect of this will not be seen on the battle fronts until next fall, results are ‘beginning to show in the air and at sea

~ already.

The allies axe now sinking U-boats faster than Hitler ~ can launch new ones. This, as Mr, Churchill remarks, “may

.. be a fateful milestone.”

Latest figures on the six-month Nortiiwest African

campaign are even more favorable than earlier ones.

The

axis lost 300,000 men, killed and captured, while the allies

gained 300,000, new. Frénch troops.

In addition to huge

enemy losses in tanks, guns, planes and materials of all kinds, he lost 137 ships or 32 per cent of his total-available . tonnage in the Mediterranean. Meanwhile allied ship losses were a little over 2 per cent—and the allies picked up 200, - 000 of French naval tonnage. ~The softening-up process for the battle for Sicily is

costly to the enemy, with a minimum of allied loss.

The

toll of enemy planes in the past two days is at least 158.

: N THE Pacific the count also is on our side, though on a |

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smaller scale because the enemy so far has succeeded in holding us with advance bases a long way from Japan. In China the air score continues in our favor all the way from 10-to-1 to double that figure, though our forces there are still so small that even this fantastic ratio does not dent the large Jap power. The over-all in total war during the last six months, and particularly during the past six weeks, is that allied losses have been much smaller and axis losses much larger

than expected by our optimistic commanders.

This attri-

tion puts usin a much better position for the major summer and fall campaigns, But any false sense of security, or delay in allied war effort or offensives as a result of this improved position, could be fatal. Time fights on the side which make the most of it. We dare not give Hilter time to recover from recent ~ blows. We dare not give the J aps time to consolidate their

vast gains. .

The longer we must wait, the greater the danger and

~ cost. The recent favorable score is significant precisely be4 case. it warns ba strike harder ‘and sooner.

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JUVENILE COURT. : UDGE MARK RHOADS is right. in demanding that the

county find a new and suitable location for the juvenile:

court. ‘and the agencies that operate from: it, and do it now.

The present quarters of this court are crowded, dirty | and ‘wholly inadequate. The work of the. court, with the |

rise in juvenile delinquency that always takes place in

wartime, cannot properly be done with the facilities now

vailable to it. The county spends enough money in rentals on unsuitable space elsewhere to pay for a permanent and well equipped building to house this important branch of the county government. Such buildings are known to be available, at prices that assure a good investment. : There has already been too much delay, too much wire

and too much indecision on this matter.

It is

up to the county ‘commissioners to find, and recommend, a uvenile court location that can be obtained at a fair valuation—and if they do it is entirely likely that it will get ck approval from the county council.

ENCE J. HILL

r HE election af Clarence J. Fill to head. the Indianapolis | pu Board of Trade comes as a well deserved tribute to a |® h haa done such for that organization, and Surough

Fair Enough Tf Masks Page

CHICAGO, June 16 ~— Possibly someone will’ say: that I exag-

alliance between the present national government of “the United States and the criminal under-. - world" of the union rackets. Is this only my interprewsiion or.can I prove it? . 1 can. prove up. 2 - Let us take the case of Joseph Newell, known as Buck Newell, of St. Louis, a gangster - who ‘was killed in a cheap family shooting on June 2. The homicide case needn’t interest us. Newell was just a murderous thug; who abused his own family among others and finally got his.

engineers, a St. Louis racket and a subsidiary of

"the national racket whose. president is ‘William E.

Maloney, a dese-dose-and-dem gorilla with home and headquarters in. Chisago, and an admired friend of William" Green. : Maloney is a dominant figure in the unspeakably corript A. F. of L. organization in Chicago, which is a political, moral ‘and fmancial subsidiary of Ed Kelly's Chicago chapter of the party of humanity with which Harold Ickes and Harry Hopkins bargained so earnestly in 1940 to put over President Roosevelt's nomination for the third térm.

Many American Lives at Stake

AFTER BUCK NEWELL'S death it was disclosed that he ‘had been indicted on three counts by the local grand jury at Cape Girardeau, Mo. where recently ‘work was ‘stopped for five days on the new oilpipe line that ‘Mr, Ickes is building with public. funds, meaning your taxes and mine, to relieve ‘the shortage of fuel oil and gasoline on the Eastern seaboard. Many lives are at stake on this project because ‘miilions of Americans in the East have ‘just lived ‘through one very bad winter with insufficient fuel and are facing a similar shortage next winter. This, incidentally, is not ‘the first time a union racket has tied up work on this vital pipeline. There was a similar ‘stoppage last spring, occasioned by no aisputes between employer ana employee but only by the determination of a racket licensed by President Roosevelt's government to collect dues from countryside workers who were earning a few dollars on a public project. . One of the indictments against Newell we can throw out as being of no interest to us. It charged him with carrying-on with a girl friend when he took to the road to beat up a few working stiffs. But the other two indictments charged him, first, with smashing up the dining room of a hotel in Cape Girardeau and throwing crockery all over the place in assaulting a couple of pipeline workers with intent to extend to them the benefits of the New Deal's benevolent labor policy, and,.second, with starting a riot in the railroad yards at Illmo, Mo. with the same intent. . In each case he had a mob of St. Louis underworld bums with him, Work on the pipeline stopped for five days.

U.S. Didn't Indict Hih

THIS WAS the third war project that this protege of the New Deal party had tied up within two years under the license and privilege extended to him by the national government. But it will be observed that it was not the federal department of justice which indicted him for obstructing the pipeline. The only trouble the federal department of justice ever gave him was a $500 fine back in 1937 for conspiracy to defraud the government, This conviction did nat. impair his eligibility to operate as a defender of labor's gains and thus, in time of war, this bum could stop work on the pipeline without molestation by any federal agency. Brother Newell never was a workman and he always was a bum, a rumpot, saloonkeeper, gambler, muscle man and thief. Nevertheless, or perhaps we should say for this reason, Brother ‘Maloney of the Chicago chapter of the party of humanity, let him have his head in Missouri and, for your further information, the mob had the gall’ to picket the gov=-

City, because Donnell sent a detachment of the staie guard to protect the workers and expedite the job. A further fact pertinent to the corrupt relationship between the party of humanity and the criminal underworld is the recent indictment in New York City by the county grand jury, not the federal, of

. Rum-dum Joe Fay of the Jersey City or Frank Hague

chapter of the party of humanity.

Most Prosecutions by State

FAY WAS INDICTED in New York on a charge of extorting more than a million dollars from contractors and workers on the Delaware aqueduct. This job was largely financed by federal money and if you were naive, you might wonder why the federal department of justice did not indict him, but you are not naive So you bow to the fact that Fay runs to fires with the Jersey City auxiliary of the party which governs the United States, Has it ever occurred to you that almost all of the prosecutions of union criminals, even though they could have been charged with federal offenses, have been state prosecutions? Have you noticed that in all but a very few cases, the New Deal's department of justice has let them strictly alone? _ This alliance between a governing party, indeed a government, of the United States and predatory criminals of the foulest kind is ‘something Sheolulely new in American history.

We the People

|By Ruth Millett

‘I'M JUST marking time,” the war wife said.

isn’t. you are making a home for your two children.

mark time—nor stand ‘still. They are growing and developing and

for their development that you can. “You, also, are learning. You are I how to manage a home and a family without a man to help you. . You are learning how. to make ‘decisions . alone. + “You are developing an inner resourcefulness. You have had to, in order not to be too forlorn. Cy “You are making new friends. Not ‘since you were a school girl Have you bad: zo Wel time for friendships. : :

Know the Important Things | YOU ARE taking more of & part in 0

gerated or drew on my imagina- |. "tion in writing of the dangerous.

Newell was the boss of local 513 of the operating |

ernor of Missouri, Forrest C. Donnell, at Jefferson |™

Let's try to show her! that she | “To begin with, Mrs. Smith, Children don't’

learning—and you are providing them with the best: environment |

The Hoosier Forum

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

“B. J. G. MAKES SOME HISTORICAL MISTAKES” By Ww. H Edwards, R. R. 2, Spencer

In The Times of June ‘10, B. J. G. does some “clarifying” of Dr. Payli’s address made before the Indiana Bankers association. In so doing, B. J. G. makes some historical mistakes, mistakes that have been used for many decades as a smoke screen to hide the money barons’ drive against the welfare of people and nation,

B. J. G. is mistaken in saying that if inflation of post world war I had continued everybody would have been happy; he doesn't seem to realize that millions of low income people were then suffering because they could not buy enough necessities to maintain good health. Then and to a large sense now, inflation was bred and nourished on speculation in land, city lots, rentals, food, and about everything classed as necessities.

B. J. G. is mistaken, too, in saying that “President Lincoln, trying to stabilize American economy, set up the present system of national banks.” The national bank act was passed in 1791 at the behest of Alexander Hamilton and in collabora~ tion with Vice President John Adams, against the opposition of Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr.

Hamilton, born in the West Indies, brilliant orator and organizer, wanted to make the colonies into a monarchy; Vice President Adams was ‘adamant against the idea of g the colonies into a monarchy but willingly went along with Hamilton in forming an aristocratic form of government through the medium of the national bank act. That bank act continued in force until the administration of Andrew Jackson, when “Old Hickory’ had it annulled, following which the states began establishing their own banking systems, which still continue. After the death of William Henry Harrison, John Tyler became president and used all the force of

bank act re-established, Because of Tyler's bank aet fight the Whig party refused to renominate him at the end of the Harrison-Tyler term. B. J. G. confuses greenbacks with “shin plasters,” in saying later, “Many houses were papered with them.” The shin plaster money issued during the civil war had no resemblance to the greenbacks issued at the behest of Abraham Lincoln and continued on until the Grant administration, when at the order of John Sherman, then secretary of the treasury, specie payment was undertaken and the greenbacks were retired. All who know our nation’s history know what suffering the return to specie

the presidency to have the national |

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payment caused the people of this country. * There is much more of economic history that c¢ould be stated but that would make my letter far too long. : » ” » “WHY SOME NURSES AREN'T PRACTICING PROFESSION” By A Times Fan, Indianapolis I read every day in the newspapers about the shortage of nurses! available for the armed forces and the local hospitals, yet I know of several good nurses who are not practicing their profession because

it is not profitable for them. My wife is one of these. She is a graduate of a local hospital school of nursing. We have two small children which makes it impossible for her to follow her profession steadily, but it is possible for her to work a few days of staff duty now dnd then, and she would like to do so in order to help out. This hospital pays $4.60 per day for this type.of work. From this amount she must pay $3 per day for a woman to care for the children, plus her transportation to and from the hospital and one meal at the hospital. So you see that she wouldn't clear $1 per day for her services and she feels that this isn’t worth leaving her children. Recently a former patient who was re-entering the hospital for a major operation called my wife and asked her to be her nurse for approximately 10 days. My wife called the hospital and asked if she could go. on the case. They informed her that they would be very glad to have her come back to work but in order to do so must pay her yearly fee of approximately $40. gr This includes $20 for registration, $8 alumni dues, and a complete physical examination fee. All of this to work 10. days, and it must be paid in advance before going on the floor. My wife sent the woman to several of her nurse associates but all of them were in the same position and as a result the woman didn’t get a nurse. The girls would be glad to pay a fee for each case but no, they must

Side Glanes—By_ Galbraith

pay the full fee whether they work 10 days or 365. These girls worked and studied three years to learn their profession, yet today they can’t command the wage of the lowest paid domestic help. The hospitals have raised everything but the nurses’ pay ‘and in these days of high wages and high living costs, you can’t blame these girls for not wanting to donate their services. » » » “WHY SHOULD SOLDIERS BE LEFT WAITING?” By Pvt. Joe, Ft. Benjamin Harrison All praise to the many organizations who are looking after the service men! It is altogether too infrequent that credit is given to them and theft supporters for the noble work they do. I'd hate to think of how forlorn we in the army and navy might be

without their generous efforts and

satisfactory services. On the other hand ‘there is the legion of the inconsiderate, referring to those who think only of their own satisfaction and pleasure. Included in that category are those making it difficult for service men who must travel, by utilizing a good part of the available travel facilities, perhaps depriving us of accommodations which we might have a right to claim. Every hour is precious to the man in the army or navy who is on furlough, and to delay his trip does not aid his morale. So why should soldiers and sailors be left waiting at the St. Louis or Indianapolis stations for a later train on Saturdays just because it is possible for civilians to make earlier reservations of space and grab a lot of seats? Many times service men do not know far in advance when they can start on their furlough which will enable them to spend a few brief hours with their families and friends, maybe for the last time in a long while. A To remedy the situation I suggest calling time off for civilians at particular hours so that the soldiers and sajlors can get a %Quick start on their trip. I believe the majority of people would be glad to co-operate ‘by rearranging their travel schedules so as to give us servicemen a break. » ” ”

“MINERS ENTITLED TO MORE THAN THEY ARE ASKING” By Frank R. Lay, 2164 N. Illinois st.

The press and general public seem to be very much concerned

over what they call lack of patriotism among the rank and file

of the coal miners. Little or no consideration is given to the unpatriotic attitude of the New Deal administration and the operating owners with their backlog of millions and millions of dollars and the reduction of profits. That patriotic (?) ownership sits

in their comfortable offices while

600,000 miners go into the pits with danger and hardships in a Spartan

. | effort to feed and clothe a family

whose home is quite often little more than a shack. This patriotic: (?) ewnership expects and demands that the administration protect their property and profits and proposes that the

| | public confine its condemnation of {all unpatriotic to the miners that

dig the coal for their comfort and profit.

John 'L. Lewis ‘should be com-|

Our Hoosiers |By Daniel M. Kidney

WASHINGTON, June ne ity While his Republican colleagues, Reps. Forest A. Harness and Charles A. Halleck, were bursting with pride for the part they played in putting the modified Smith anti-strike bill over in ‘the house, modest Rep. Louis Ludlow (D, Ind.) was warning against a ware time crackdown on all. organized labor, Repeatedly during the days of debate on the Smith-Connally bill, which he voted against. the Indianapolis congressman urged that irri tation against John L. Lewis not cause a congressional upset. unfair to labor generally and the wonderful production record it has made in this war. “Donald Nelson, WPB chairman, came before our subcommittee of 12 on deficiency appropriations and gave us the production picture,” Mr, Ludlow reported in the Congressional Record appendix. “Mr. Nelson is the official who has primary ree sponsibility for producing the implements of war.

Labor Gives Its Best

“THE PRODUCTION picture as he unfolded 14 us was astounding. It revealed that the laboring men of America have performed a wonderful service during this war. The production of all of the implements of war has been perfectly amazing and far beyond all expectations. The output of planes, tanks and ships is staggering in its immensity. “No American boy on the fighting front has without the implements and equipment he needed because of lack of production. . Vast quantities of military equipment and implements of war are piled up in warehouses and at shipping points awaiting transportation facilities. “This production record, which must challenge the admiration of all Americans, could not have been achieved without the devoted, sacrificial efforts of the laboring men of our country, who have rallied to the colors and in the workshops and on the assembly line have given the best there was in them to America,

‘Couldn't Part Company’

“MR. NELSON'S presentation of the production record convinced me, if further evidence on tha¥ point were needed, what an enormous injustice it would be to slap down all organized labor in order to get at one disturber, John L. Lewis. “As a member of the appropriations committee I have supported our war advisers by voting every dollar of appropriations necessary for war purposes. When all of the officials clear down the line who dis rect the war asked us not to pass anti-labor legisla~ tion because they believed it would have a harmful effect on the war effort, I could not part company with them and do something which they believed would be injurious to the prosecution of the war.” Other Hoosiers feeling likewise and voting against accepting the conference report on the anti-strike 'bill were Republicans Charles M. LaFollette and Gerald W. Landis and Democrat Ray J. Madden,

Commandos

By Dan Gordon “4 THEY HAVE fired the imagle nation of all the allied nations, They have struck fear into the heart of the axis. They have won the admiration of the enslaved -peoples of Europe. Their exploits —and fame—have spread to far corners of the earth. Al this they have accomplished be cause it was they who, before the scales of victory began to tilt to ward the allies, brought to bear

against the Nazis practically the only effective re-

sistance offered anywhere. Now the official story of their deeds has been told, “Combined Operations” is the account of the accom plishments of those picked men from the royal navy, the British army and the royal air force, who work with U. S. rangers and others of the united nations in what is known officially as combined operations— or, more popularly, the commandos,

Commandos Have Long History

THE AUTHOR of this and the other British gove ernment’s official accounts of the war, “Bomber Com mand,” “Costal Command” and “Battle of Britain,” has been revealed to be Hilary St. George Saunders, ‘assistant librarian of the house of commons. These last three books are reported to have had total sales of 12 million copies. ; The writing in “Combined Operations” is plain and unadulterated—perhaps for two reasons. One is that the truth needs no embellishment, and the sec-. ond is that the mere straight reporting of the adven= tures of these daring fighters shapes up into a far more exciting tale than any fictional adventure could ever be. At times the technical details of the o tions seem to get into the way of narration. But "the whole they are put forth in an uncomplicated mane ner, which is lucid enough for any non-military reader. Mr. Saunders tells us that the history of the commandos dates back as far as the 16th centur when Sir Frances Drake battled the Spanish in the

‘West Indies. The first commando raid of the present.

‘war took place in June, 1940, when 120 men in fast light motor boats landed on the coast of France. That was only the beginning.

Paved Way for Axis Defeats THE RAIDS increased in number, intensity

An the amount of damage inflicted. One of the m

successful expeditions was the ramming and smash ing of the lock gate of the great drydock of St, Nazaire in March, 1942, to prevent Germany's battleship, Tirpitz, from using! it. The ram chosen was formerly the 'U. 8. destroyer, Buchanan, rechristened ‘H. M. S. Campbletown. The account of this raid’ is so admirably done that the reader is made to feel a part of the action as it moves swiftly on. The narrative includes the commando raid on Dieppe, where it was thought at first that a second. front .had begun; the s of Diego Saurez, the Viclly French naval base on the northern tip of the island of Madagascar, and “the majestic enterprise,” the landing on North Africa in October of last year, - - Thus, from a rude, small awakening against Nazi.

‘held territory, the commandos paved the Way for’

the present series of axis ‘defeats.

Hilary St. George sander

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