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MONDAY, AUGUST 30, 1943

NOW DENMARK AND BULGARIA S Hitler's fourth year of war ends, his Europe is breaking up. Today it is Bulgaria and Denmark. Yesterday it was Italy. Tomorrow the crack will show in other places. - And so it will continue until axis control of Europe is wiped out. For the pressures crumbling Hitler's fortress are ex-

ternal and internal, both growing. From outside, allied mil-.

. itary power is applied from the east, from the south, and from the skies above Germany itself, while an invasion from the west is prepared. All this is increasing the strains within the sabotaging occupied countries, the ratting satellite regimes, and within terrified Berlin itself. In such a Nazi crisis the uncertainty in Bulgaria and the revolt in Denmark are far more dangerous for Hitler than they would have been even a few weeks ago. ; Whether King Boris died of heart trouble after his session with Hitler, or was assassinated, the Nazis have lost their ablest accomplice in the Balkans when they need him most. Boris was not a'weakling, or the puppet of a native dictatorship. : : He was the dictator and had been for nearly 15 years. Though he was Hitler's tool, it was by personal choice and by slick trading in which he got more from Berlin and gave less than the Italian, Rumanian, Hungarian and axis : partners. : : When he had to choose between the axis and the allies, ‘ he cold-bloodedly opened the doors so the Nazis could rape . the rest of the Balkans and was paid in territorial loot. Unlike his pro-German father, Ferdinand, who lost the ' throne for joining the Kaiser in the first world war, he . was simply pro-Boris; : sn = . #8 ORIS was clever enough and strong enough to keep his country in the war despite the Bulgarians’ hatred of Germans and Nazis. Only one thing he could not do—he could ‘not make the Bulgarians fight their Slav kinsmen, the Russians. And'he was smart enough not to try. That was the issue on which his recent meeting with Hitler turned. Whether he was assassinated or not, the ' Russian question apparently figured in his death—because " “ Hitler was less clever than Boris in this crisis, and tried to force that issue. Now Hitler is not likely to find a partner "in Balkan crime as effective as this unscrupulous king-dic-tator. The weakening of Bulgaria will make Rumania and . Hungary more anxious to get out of the war. It will open new. opportunities for the Yugoslav guerrilla armies. It will . give new zest to the Russian drive across the Ukraine. It . will increase Turkey’s aid to the allies. It will give Churchill ‘new arguments for his oldest pet policy of striking at Germany through Greece and the Balkans. And it will rever- ‘ berate in tottering Italy, whose discredited axis princess ‘is now queen mother of the Bulgarian boy king and center ‘of the same Nazi intrigue as her House of Savoy in Rome. In Denmark the open defiance is led by king and gov- - ernment. In recent weeks the hardy Danes have increased their sabotage and strikes until Hitler had to do something. ‘First he insisted on instituting German Nazi laws. When the government and king refused that, Hitler declared mar- . tial law—and the “model protectorate,” the show window - of the Nazi rule, became the same hell hole as all the other ' slave pens of occupation. What happened then is not fully known yet. The crews : of Denmark’s small navy scuttled some ships and escaped

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{with a few others to Sweden. Presumably the king and

. government are in' “protective custody,” and the people ‘ after street fighting are planning more sabotage. | Little Denmark's revolt will be felt in all other Scandi- ' navian countries: In Finland, which was already maneuver- . ing for a separate peace with Russia and Britain; in Sweden, ~ { which has ceased to use her neutrality to aid Germany and . is now protesting Nazi violations; in Norway, which has “ i fought the invader longest and hardest. The fourth anniversary of Hitler's blitz to conquer the world will probably be his last in power,

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‘SAME OLD PLACE "TODAY we feel that we are in a position to assure the {© ‘troops overseas that the America which awaits their . home-coming is still the same old place. | Tommy: Manville has just got married again (and it’s ‘busted up already). Mrs. Roosevelt has hit the trail once more, running over to New Zealand. The big news in Washington. is as usual a feud, this one ending in Sumner Welles” departure from the state: department. The heat continues to shoulder the blame onto the humidity. The “Dodgers are still Bums. The radio blurbs still cloy with

“tasty goodness,” etc.

© ‘Pegler is still an angry man. The younger generation

is still going to hell in a handbasket, or so we are told. In

the movies and the magazines, Golden Boy still meets Golden Girl and wins same. Petrillo continues to strike the : uke-boxes, Ickes is curmudgeoning at the same old stand,

leasure, at least for the men. Harry Hopkins still lives | , be House. A. nickel still buys a coke if you can | is tn

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

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member of the Hague political mob the Joe Fay mob in the union racket. He name: but let's not bother about that. long police record and is just a gorilla who n

did a lick of work in any of his numerous vacations from prisons-and jails, :

Edward G. O'Neill, an ‘assistant attorney general |

of the state of New York held over from the Lehman administration to finish up the investigations and prosecutions which he started about 18 months ago, finally got Wallace on two felony charges after a jury trial, and, considering his past performances, he ma; be sent away for as long as 15 years, :

May Decide to Squeal

UP TO NOW Wallace has been a very steady fellow but 15 years or even 10 is a lot of time out of a life and he may decide to look for a bargain and try to cut down his sentence by squealing on Fay, who is the boss racketeer of the mob and under indictment in Manhattan and the one they are really trying to get. Wallace is O'Neill's second score in the Newburgh investigations, the first one being a bootlegger and Saturday-night sport around town named Sam Nuzzo who was convicted a few months ago and given 10 years. In the course of the job, O'Neill went deep into the books and other records of the union, which is a local of the hod carriers and common laborers, and got information which makes brother Fay's future look depressing. Here is the way it was: : . They were building a great tunnel to bring water down from the mountains to. New York and were spending about 300 millions, so when it developed that the job was going through the jurisdiction of the Newburgh local of the hod carriers, the gorillas rallied around in force, .

Bove Cuts Himself In

JAMES BOVE of Yonkers, who owns a local of his own which normally brings him a very handsome income, is also an international vice president of the union which has headquarters in Washington. So Bove cut himself in and, for purposes of supervision, sent Wallace over to Newburgh as Nuzzo's assistant.

Bove also i§ under indictment for extortion along’

with Fay in Manhattan and some of the evidence turned up around Newburgh probably will be used in their trials. Wallace doesn’t even look the part of a unioneer and about all he did was tear up the sucker’s money on vacation trips to Florida and other haunts of the criminal scum whenever the selfless defenders of labor's gains would decide to get away from it all and catch up on their drinking, gambling and love life by calling a convention or jurisdictional conference. One of his little scholarships in jail, incidentally, was earned by throwing eggs at Norman Thomas, the frequent Socialist candidate for president of the U. 8. A., the time Thomas tested his right to free against Frank Hague’s vergoten in Jersey and: was badly pushed around by a large gathering of the party. of humanity.

Fay Has Hague Backing

BOVE ISN'T a Jerseyman but Wallace and Fay are and Fay is a very heavy Hague man, ‘And, in

view of Hague’s strength in Washington the boys]

undoubtedly will turn to and try to save Fay when he goes to trial in New York. The fact that Bove sent Fay’s gorilla over to.supervise the graft on the Newbtrgh section of the tunnel gives you an idea of the association between Fay and Bove, even though they operate through separate international unions of the A. F. of I. Fay's is the operating engineers, & smelly racket but no more rank than the hod carriers, and because the poor fellows in the tWo trades operate side-by-side in tunnel and excavation work, their affairs often interlace. That makes two down and the next trial will be the main event but do you want to know something peculiar? Well, although millions of federal money

went down the hole on this enormous project, the fed-"

eral department of justice hasn’t made a move. The federal D. of J. hasn't made a move even though the mob moved in on several colossal military construction jobs done under army supervision, in the same neighborhood and ran the taxpayers’ bill ‘way up, during the very time that the Newburgh investigation and trial were proceeding. Why not?

Well, you know, labor's gains and all that.

We the People By Ruth Millett

DON'T BE too critical when you see a bunch of women playing bridge these days. Before you condemn thtm for wasting time when they could be doing worth while work, find out what the

Mrs. Smith, and carefree, spent yesterday from 9 until 5 in the Red Cross rooms, rolling bandages.

You may find Mrs. Jones put in hours as a nurses” |

ald: yesterday. And that fat, jolly Mrs. Brown

spent yesterday ; canning, not only for her own family, but for her

daughter, who works in a war plant, and who hasn’t the strength to come home and can fruit at the of a tiring day in a noisy factory. : :

Thinking of the War YOU MAY discover that two-thirds of the women

looking so carefiee as they sit concentrating on.

their cards have either husbands or sons in service, and that far from not knowing that there is a war going on, they think of little else.

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

| of enterprise was a subsistence.

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tofore done for themselves—it was to sharecropper an escape from sharecr Dick the “more abundant lifé” was through the medium of collectivism. * The government provided the land, and the tools. The farmers provided the I farmer was paid a small hourly wage, and : of the small profits which the co-operative produced. The best that the Lake Dick * was able to achieve from this theoretically

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Couldn't Pass Fair Test

TODAY THAT scheme stands as an failure. In a fair test, and measured both terial and spiritual values, communism could ne ter the system of free enterprise. It could equal it, because “free enterprise” is not economic institution—it is a mental a the ability of the man to create an image of accomplishment, as well as to create and'p tools ‘which made for accomplishment. : The cropper who joined in Dr, Tugwell’s high hopes for a better life discovered that he was still a sharecropper. = Free enterprise is both a hope and a pre the Lake Dick sharecropper found neither promise. Free enterprise is the ultimate of ti ings and yearnings of free men throughout all’

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“DOING THEIR DUTY AND BEING REWARDED” By Humilis .Nemo, Indianapolis.

fense workers appearing recently in this column are slightly nauseating to say the least. These persons, who seem fo imagine themselves making the su-

want the hoi polloi to pay homage to them in every way possible. In reality, they are probably making more money than at any other time during their lives and enjoling other

file. Times Reader and Mr. Bush might do well to. remember the fact that the defense worker is not a special brand of the genus homo but merely one doing his duty and being amply rewarded for it. In order to forestall the indignant replies that this letter is bound to evoke, I would like to say that I am a defense worker and have been since long before the present breed was conceived, :

» Nd ” “LET’S PITCH IN AND WIN THIS WAR” By ‘Mrs. Mac, Indianapolis. : It seems to me that people are

|raising a lot of ado about nothing.

That is, we “are separating people into classes, too much. : First take equality. We already have that. There are as many, in proportion, of poor whites as poor Negroes. Whites go to public

defense workers. Everyone has a chance to rise in this country, whether white or dark. There are plenty of examples, John D. Rockeieller, Henry Ford, Joe Louis, Marian Anderson. Second, why are defense workers talked about as though they were a separate class of people. A great many families have one or more, and theyre no different than you and me. My husband is one, and he doesn’t feel or act any differ ently than he did before. s Then, there. are the children. This class is the most senseless. The articles about them sound like experiments on guinea pigs. One can’t rent a house if one has more than one or two (we had to buy a

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one who has the sense. or power or whatever it, takes, would look upon the psychological effect on. children of the front page headlines on juvenile delinquency, the seeming attitude on the part of grownups of not being wanted anywhere plus the over-protection some of the children get nowadays would account for a good part of these serious escapades. What I'm trying to convey Is that we are all people, whether

The diatribes of the so-called de- |

preme sacrifice for .their country,|

advantages denied the rank and|:

schools, so do colored people, also |

(Times readers are invited to express their views in "these columns, religious controversies excluded. Because: of the voiume received, letters should be limited to 250 words. Letters must be signed. Opinions set forth ‘here are those of the writers, and publication in no way implies agreement with those opinions by The Times.

white, colored, defense worker, soldier, sailor, or child. This is war, and we all have our jobs to do, and they should be done without any one group being ‘pampered unduly or unduly criticized and sneered at. Of the whole bunch, it seems to me the boys in the service gripe the least with the most cause, considering the letters in the Forum. They'll fight and win (and remember these boys are from all races, nationalities and walks of American life) if we furnish them the equipment. Let the defense worker remember that the non-

‘|defensé workers have to furnish

them clothing, food and other things they like to buy. Let us all remember that any man or woman could be, but for the grace of God, you or I. Let's pitch in and win this war and fight to put real democracy on its feet where it belongs. Remember we all gripe if it's our foot the shoe is pinching.

” # ” “I SAY BOMB IT (ROME) OFF THE MAP” By Haze Hurd, 830 8. Addison st.

I wish I had a few words to say in regard to your editorial a few days ago. You said the Italian people had been sinned against. more than they had sinned. Now comes C.-M. K. and criticizes Roane Waring for saying the leaders of Ifaly could not have done what they have without the help of the Italian

any nation could commit crimes against God and man as the leaders of Italy and the leade:s of ‘Germany have without the consent and help of the people. Have you forgotten how the Italian: people cheered till their voices were hoarse, when it was: reported to them how many helpless Ethiopians had been slaughtered by the murderous army of Mussolini? I never saw in the paper where the people of Italy raised their voices against those crimes. And today we have people pitying poor little Rome, and saying spare it. I say bomb it off the map—give it what it has given others, every time it has had a chance. For a thousand years, Germany and Italy

have been a menace to civilization,

Side Glances—By Galbraith

people. I. wish to say no leader of

‘tter for one.

and now is a good chance to stop it. Did the Italian people and the German people raise up in arms trying to defend themselves, and did they raise up in arms when the Japs bombed Pearl Harbor? . No rulers can carry on a war without the aid of its people. Hitler and Mussolini could not .carry on a war one week without the aid of their people, So the people are just as guilty as Hitler and Mussolini. No people of any country have any business ' upholding their rulers or electeqg officials in committing crimes against another country. If they do they ate equally guilty. So I say, bomb all of Italy and Rome especially until the people reach for the stars with both hands and say, “we surrender,” and stop that kind of doing they have been carrying on for two thousand years. Read history, please, and see if I am right. 8 8 8 “SEPARATE HEADQUARTERS, PEOPLE IN THE MIDDLE“ By Oscar Houston, Ellettsville.

‘We wonder how the people of Indianapolis enjoy the good government that was promised them when’ the present administration went in, with two separate “headquarters, one named by the county organization, the other by the city, with the people of the city in the middle. Instead of giving good government to the people, they are engaged in a struggle ot determine who is boss and who of the faithful is going to get‘ what job. They can’t even agree on who is going to arrest who. So bitter is the feeling that Henry E. Ostrum, county - Republican chairman, has had the gates of Garfield park shut against him from having a nice watermelon party for his political friends. No harm in eating watermelon, is there? But Mayor Tyndall, sensing an invasion of his domain, used his military knowledge by quickly executing a flanking movement by digging down deep in the musty records of the city and bringing forth an ordinance that, prohibits political meetings in city parks, Now Mr. Ostrom has withdrawn his troops to decide his next move. They act like it’s more important to find out who is going to be the Heelephant in their party, and who is going to preside at the pie counter, and who is and who isn’t going to get the pie, than it is to keep their pledge to the people. The smell of the pie counier is| too much for them. Looks like the biggest double-fisted gents get the pie and the boys that lack the physique will get the skinned heads.

2 ” . “WHAT IS WRONG? CANT WE USE EVERYBODY?” By Elihu Crowell, Indianapolis T have noticed that practically in every public conveyance and on posters that it is remarked it is your duty to get a war- job and to regisExcellent. Now here is the rub. How about these men who have lost a leg or hand and have an artificial appliance?

go get a job in any defense factory.

In talking with him, he said that he was told that it was doubtful if

unusual pay arrangement,

To the Point

—the urge for self-expression. The Lake Dick cropper could not express himself in terms ¢ dividual progress, which in our society is the stick by which we measure a man’s worth,

Tugwell Rendered a Service

WHETHER . HE “planned” it that Dr. Tugwell rendered a service to the sj enterprise by putting it to this practical proved that communism cannot fulfill the promis a better life. He demonstrated that there is really fertile soil in this country for commu Revolutions are not accomplished by fa Wall Street, or lean men in Greenwich are consummated and validated by the conservative middle-class folks. Such pes dc react to abstract ideology as such—they react prospect of tangible gains. Communism would to put THREE cars in every garage, chickens in every pot before the average could’ be convinced that it was better than] system of free enterprise. ! A If there has been any danger to this country from the ‘impact of foreign “isms” the danger seems to have been greater from than come" munism. The American people did not yet a majority. of them sensed the menace national security inherent in the Nazi & masses of the people—far ahead of congress some of their political leaders—interpreted accurat the violent character of nazism, which had press itself in war, because it was based on Ht premise that Germany's economic destiny ls in cf quest. it THE COMMUNIST ideology, although’ ak to American temperament and tradition, neve better life for the Russian lay in increased pro from within Russia. Whatever Stalin X about it, it seems clear that the common man Russia thinks he has achieved, or at least is mo toward, democracy; the German knows, with cynic clarity, that his has been a flight from democracy. If the Communist danger has been as real, it hi not been as manifest as the Nazi menace, For hundred years, the American has lived under which has provided greater economic OP higher standards of living, and more facilities self-expression of free men than promise, even to the Russian, © ‘8 ” ”

TOMORROW: America’s Chief

‘Work or Fight’ By Scrippa-Howard Newspaper Alance WASHINGTON, Aug. 30—A court test land’s “work or fight” law is expected a r the conviction and fine of $50 imposed Day, 19, of Laytonsville, Md., for refusing on his job as a farm worker at $2 a day. Young Day, classified 4-F by his draft boas ed his wages raised to $4 a day because, he) his $2-a-day wages were—by agreement father and his employer—being applied on debt to the employer. When he falled to work the employer caused his arrest. ~~ The “work or fight” law, applicable in was enacted after strong agitation by contended that farm help was scarce not compete with city wages, va ‘Judge Donald A. Delashmutt, who impo said the farmers need the law because they “troubled by hands who get drunk on § and don’t show up again until Wednesday of day.” ; ou

Farmers Turn in Names

THE WARRANT against Day W out at the complaint of Harry Bussard, his It ‘charged that Day did: unlawfully : of employment for which he is physically violation of the laws of Maryland.” Pre employment by Mr. Bussard young Da farm work and this a

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qualification for such work... they want to pay, have been turning into attorney’s office the names of men who work for them, and failed ne to in other jobs. Faced with the threat of proset ‘most of the men have ‘gone to work, before the could be brought to court. ou Mr. Bussard said he

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GET UP with a grouch in the