Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 October 1943 — Page 20
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| NEW YORK, fortunate that the people of the United States are deprived these days of an opportunity to read really comprehensive accounts of | the current trials here of several | Chicagoans against whom George Browne and Willie Bioff are giving testimony. It is not entertaining but depressing news, and it must be. condensed even in New York and
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other places because we are short of paper. But, though it is depressing, it would warn our people of the terrible monstrosity of the rule of underworld facketeers in the labor movement in parthership with | ‘| the new deal party. : i
DUNWOODY DELIVERS
this ordinance.
much one way or the other about smoking on streetcars but feels it is his job as a policeman to enforce any law that happens to be a law, Yesterday one correspondent wrote “Now if our police officers would make arrests of men who are breaking laws that amount to something . . . we would have a wonderful police force.” ; » > .
» . WELL, the ink was barely dry on this letter before Patrolman.Dunwoody did just that. Answering a burglar alarm call with Patrolman Charles W. Schaubhut, he confronted two armed desperadoes in the School board building. As one of them—a man with a long record of violent crime, by the way—drew a gun, Patrolman Dunwoody brought him down with a flying tackle that quite possibly saved his own life or that of his fellow officer. The
oners—each facing a charge of burglary and one of them even more serious charges, which no doubt our correspondents will agree is the arrest of men “breaking laws that amount to something.” : co Both these policemen displayed exceptional bravery and unusually skillful police work, and in our opinion any police force could be proud to have them as members. : We hope a lot of indignant smokers will share that belief. 1
ALLIANCE VS, PEACE F the hot senate debate on the Connally resolution for
American post-war collaboration, has done nothing more, ft has demonstrated that both sides want a truly inter-
military alliance. + The purpose of a proposed clarifying amendment by the Ball-Burton-Hatch-Hill group is to prevent exelufive alliances. Advocates of the Connally measure insist— accurately, in; our judgment—that its words “join with free and sovereign nations in the establishment and maintenance of international authority with power to prevent ‘aggression” clearly do not mean a two-power or three-power * ‘alliance. : Anyway, as Senator Ball says, everyone knows that if such an alliance were submitted to the senate for ratification “it would not stand a chance.” Unfortunately, since the earlier remarks of Prime
+ ‘writing on the subject. So much so that leading proponents of a close relationship between London and Washington are inow afraid of a popular misunderstanding and reaction. Americans generally believe that without American-British co-operation no international peace authority will be effective, but they are opposed to any attempted AmericanBritish world control. : » » » ” ” »
S Alf Landon explained last week: “Alliances tend to ‘them together. . . . The proposed British-American alliance
in (such) an alliance, which would inevitably put the rest ‘of the nations against us, than there is in a partnership of the rich against the poor.” Or as Herbert Hoover and Hugh Gibson warn in the current Collier's: “What the world needs is an approach that gets away from the whole reactionary spirit of military alliances, with the cohnotations of military domination. «+. A very particular danger lies in a single alliance between the United States and Britain. ... At once the other 90 per cent of the world will fear, and many of them will cry out, that the intention is to dominate the world.”
FREE—EXCEPT TO THE TAXPAYER
in the amount of postage-free mail sent out by the ‘government. Nohody but a draft dodger would begrudge the Selective service its right to send around those small oh-so-interesting cards. And we certainly heard no complaint ‘ when ration hook No, 3 was delivered by the postman. "+ But some government offices do throw away a lot of money by their lavish and indiscriminate use of the mails ‘to distribute material—printed on scarce paper, and some-
up, unread, in the nation’s wastebaskets. : In many cases, we feel sure, it is the old story: When something is free, it is not valued. The mailing privilege being free to the bureaucrats, they waste no thought on the bent backs of the letter-carriers—or the taxpayers. (Statistic: In 1942 the postoffice department handled some 900,00 ),000 pieces of free government mai]; that was 5 00,000 more than in 1930.) EER © remember an Indiana town where fBatural gas
eft on in daytime; it didn’t cost any more that way, Today seems to us there 3 and McKellar. They propose, simply, that
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The fan mail, which now ranks in volume along with that of Westbrook Pegler, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and even Jane Jordan, is both pro and con, each side blissfully disgegarding the fact that Patrolman Dunwoody doesn’t care
two patrolmen disarmed and brought in two dangerous pris- |
national peace authority and object to an Anglo-American |
Minister Churchill there has been much loose talk and |
| union politicians. The men wha selected Levy just
separate the nations of the world rather than pull
is joint isolationism. . .. There is no more world co-operation |
procurement of the nomination of Thomas A. Aurelio | for the supreme esourt, which is a misleading name for a court which elsewhere would be called the county court This is a dirty mess, to be sure, and
VER since city council passed the ordinance forbidding | Aurelio may be disbarred and probably will be beaten |.¥ smoking on streetcars, some months back, the Hoosier | at the polls. Forum, two columns east of here, has been mightily agi-| Relationship With A. F. of L. tated about Patrolman Alexander Dunwoody. Patrolman Dunwoody has made all of the arrests for violation of | yenina Aurelio, which is probably regarded as low
BUT THERE is a relationship between the gang
and sordid, and certain people in the American Federation of Labor who put themselves forth as defenders of the American toiler and dictate to congress and run for office as “liberals” and supporters of the com-mander-in-chief. "The forces behind Aurelio and Costello are, in large part, the forces of the underworld in the federation. Jimmy di Salvio, alias Jimmy Kelly, a Tammany | district leader and old-time Bowery gangster, was one | of Aurelio’s backers. He is related by marriage to, |
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Thete is a great to-do about the influence of the | § racketeer, Frank Costello, over ‘Tammany Hall and his, §
| and ‘a close associate of a gangster named Augie | Carfano, known as Augie Pisano and Little Augie. | This Little Augie has been a social intimate of Browne, Bioff and George Scalise, all of them power- | ful and utterly degraded union bosses of A. F. of L. organizations, f Augie was among the party who were flown from
| Miami to Cuba for a winter vacation some years ago
The Hoosier Forum
1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltairg.
as the guests of Scalise, who got his money from the |
building service workers. Browne recently testified | “THE SMOKERS GO CRAZY; that during his rule over the movie unions, and when | PUNWOODY GOES NUTS" he was a member of the highest council of the A. F. |By Disgusted,
After reading about view and the smokers’; views, I have come to the conclusion | | bo that this overworked going to clutter up the Hoosier | Forum for the duration, { I suggest that all these so-called knowing that Scalise had served a term for white | “can’t do without it” smokers throw slavery and certainly being obligated and in a posi- [out their chests, jut forth | tion to know that he was still a gangster, nevertheless (chins, and in a determined inner) vouched for him to the department of justice as a voice say to themselves, “I will do { man of good character; and so did Joseph Padway, | without a smoke until I get off the general counsel of the A. F. of L. This recommenda- | streetcar even if I go crazy.” There yau are, folks. The smokers and to the whole American people, he had investi- og crazy; Officer Dunwoody goes gated the man's habits and associates. Otherwise, he |; ts looking for someone to arrest; | everybody gets thrown behind bars!
{and the non-smokers live happily wf, Padway had received $1000 from Scalise for legal | oye; after—simple, ain't it? .|'services and he not only Served as general counsel
| of L. and one of its vice presidents, he attended a | | party at the home of Al Capone on an island off | Miami. The list of those present included Scalise and was a roster of the Capone mob,
| Green Vouches for Scalise WILLIAM GREEN, president of the A. F. of L,
tion conveyed a presumption that, In justice to labor
| was in no position’ to phss judgment on him. | Padway was under the same obligation.
for Browne's union, continuing even ‘after it had be-
! praises on Browne as a labor leader. 80 did Matthew M. Levy, a New York union lawyer and politician who has now been selected by the Union party, which is
| Browne Never Was Kicked Out.
| BROWNE WAS never kicked out of his vice presi{'déncy of the A. F. of L. . The federation lacked the
: more sleep and have the barking | To this very day he has not been repudiated and for |dogs to listen to—just try this and HN Ilet’s see how you like it. son, four nephews, four cousins, to! | fight for. so please quit your griping | “WOMEN BUY SHOES and do something for your U. 8. A. TO FIT THEIR EYES” By Carroll Collins, Indiinapelis Strand said, [whefher it is going to warm your | hearth or burn down the house, you { never can fell.” . I think he should have said re-
all ‘that the A, F. of L. has said or, done, he is still | the admirable man that Padwily and Levy said he was | | when every newsboy knew othefwise. | | Yet, because Aurelio pledged eternal devotion to: | his pet racketeer, Costello, he is condemned and Tammany Hall is leveled again, as is right and just; while |
Padway continues to lecture the United States con- | “SHAME THE WAY POLICE LET MR. REMY DOWN" of the helpless toiler. . By Mrs. Walter Haggerty, Indianapolis
gress on the constitution and morals and Levy presents himself as one of the pure in heart ahd a defender
I connect this underworld mob with the new deal | Guardia (who indorsed Levy) are new deal labor or
as arbitrarily as Costello selected Aurelio, are new
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We the People
By Ruth Millett
‘becoming nonchalant about money.
wives are afraid to take war jobs
cern about the ration cost than
smokers’
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{none 86 blind as those who will not (see, Wake up and put Indianapolis’ p.ught from Canada to help meet a eritical New jon the map, not as a killjoy, or {8 witch burner, a political melting’ j;s emergency food commission was effective in iron{pot for crooks, but as a wide-awake 4,0 out gasoline distribution problems at a time when
real town, I'read an article in “She”| jn" one 13-county area there was no fuei-for farm
|about women taking over the gov-| tractors. |ernment of a town and believe me,| ‘There was similar state action to pravide care for {they did a real good job, even to eliminating taxes. Then we would | eral powers have been split among-conflicting agencies. have a paradise, No such luck. . . Where would all the payroll para-| Streamlines State Machinery {sites go? I hope I haven't shocked [the good people too much because IT told the truth.
{ YOUNGSTERS GET GAS®” 'By A. J. Schneider, 504 West dr.,
Newspapers these days are full of |
come : notorious, but alsa went before a convention ' “TRY TO GET SLEEP J of this abominable racket in Louisville and heaped wiTH 3 DOGS BARKING”
By A War Worker, Indianapolis
Do you work seven |
I think it is a shame the way the | government because Green, Padway, Lévy and L& police let Mr. Remy down after the formers are the
way he had upheld them. Well, the arrests fell off more than 50 per
deal unioneers And many of the characters in the | °¢nt. How do vou account for that, mob behind Aurelio are also 10 be found in Browne's | Mr. Remy? testimony and in the roster of the A. F. of L. jab Yet: Tammany is bad and the A. PF. of L. is good, 187500. Don’t be sorry for small and enjoys the support and shares the prestige of the Wakes of a policeman; new deal party and the government of the United along! States, and the fee is split in a dozen dif- | ferent ways it reminds us of the story of the mouse and a piece of, cheese. Two mice quarreled over a piece of cheese. They both helped | steal it and they wanted an equal | share. They couldn't agree so they hired the cat, the judge to settle gho.g. {the case for them. . .
Just think, 75 arrests at least $100 each would. be
Though after it's divided
AS A NATION we are certainly there was nothing left.
there
on the street to the effect that police are covering up something, Now! maybe the police ought to be investigated, When a jealous gir! ¢éan have an-! other arrested fer no cause, when a Mrs. PF. L. W, you are talking go1qiar can bic his wife goodby, only | ruin by a few union bosses, as a contrast to Aurelio. about gripers on no kids, g0ap, dogs, 1, Lave her arrested after he leaves, Green also gave aid and comfort to these underworld and let me ask you, are you a de- i. ¢ime somebody steps in. enemies of labor from the same platform. | fense worker? | | nights a week from 12 midnight should not be water run under the. {until 7:42, them come home and bridge. They should have their | do your own work; then tty and get| | some sleep wih three Sop Bucking charged up to the city and of ‘course | | honesty and character tg kick him out but got rid of Sou ye a or ” ore | the taxpayers. Maybe the people him by the cowardly device of eliminating his office, . ’ will all turn out in the next election | { and try to put decent men in office |
The things that have been done
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they kill themselves ‘tpolitically) or | the public gets fed up with them is | a question of time. The present administration has all the earmarks of making fools of themselves, Does Mr. Remy really. think: it is undressing to take one’s shoes off? Well, sorry, but I've seen that at the best Republican Women don't buy shoes to fit their feet but their eyes and when they begin to hurt, off they come no matter where their owner happens to be. I would advise Mr. Remy to crawl under the seats at church some Sunday and pick up all loose
at his political speeches he goes, the cat kept slicing off until could find quite a few. Watch the {patrons in all restaurants while It i And another thing, since when eating and two women out of five s reported that in one 10W- |n,ye policemen had the privilege will kick their shoes loose and Jet cost housing project, 2000 house- | of pyrsting into hotel rooms and them hang by the joes. Ever fall arrest defenseless women? over a shoe in the movie houses, but for fear their wages would bring There was a WAC found déliberate- you wouldn't ever go there, too thelr incomes above the limit per- lly murdered in one of the best! risque. mitted tenants, ‘hotels in town. Surrounded by po- mean? If a woman takes off her Housewives marketing for gro- licemen apd yet the case is a my- shoes, she is far from undressed . ., .
certes these days show more con- |tery., 1 have even heard comments! Poor blind fools, for there is
discussions of the so-called juvenile delinquency wave, causes and posBut 1 have yet to read remarks from any source indi‘cating one of the principal con-{ - causes, with suggested
Have you noticed that three af four cars on the street at night are filled with teen-age youngsters—the ages also mentioned as.creating the {chief problem? : With sharp cuts in gas rations, where do they get the gas? And when gas allowances to essential workers are being cut to the point where there is not sufficient to carry on legitimate occu | pational activities, does it not seem ridiculous that it is possible for these teen-agers to “burn. up the |gas” so needlessly while cutting al|lowances to essential workers? It is patent that the teen-agers, | “ born on wheels, will not get far from Lave is a fire, But home without wheels—and close to home the danger of delinquent |activities is considerably lessened. There can be no equivocation on i [the point that the parents are refire and Whether sible for the acts of thelr minor children. But if brakes were pu¥ on {their wheels, the children would be less of a problem to their parents. It. would serve a two-fold purpose of curbing delinquency and stretching the allowable gas supply ...
banquet, tables. uoyGHT TO BE A LAW
| AGAINST WARTIME STRIKES" By E. Drummond, Indiskapolis There ought to be a law against strikes during wartime. rageous whatever their cause or grievance, whether just’ or unjust, for any group of people to slow up or defer or stop the flow of essential war materials to our fighting
If any of those in service should walk out on strike they would be promptly court-martialed and dishonorably discharged or shot. So why let these wartime strikers be coddled as if they were sick babigs? I ask you. ’
Now do you see what I
about the price of the food they
first ‘arid “How much?’ after that. Clerks in stores smile ‘in a superior manner at |
buy. They say “How many points?” | Sid@ Glances-By Galbraith
~ “HOW BANKRUPT , = MAN MUST BE” By Perey Vers, Indianapolis In a Saturday Evening Post
the customer who comes in, cash in hand, to buy
HERE is good reason for part of the enormous increase
times contained in expensive oversize envelopes—that ends
80 freely from a well that the gas street-lights were
is merit in the proposition of | the Wr is over we are going to have plenty to spare. | |
something the store can't supply or is holding back for its old customers. His money doesn't talk. not even in a whisper. More and more help wanted advertisements are | listing considerations they think will appeal to pos- | sible employees more than the money offered like free lunches, rest periods, use of gymnasium, etc. Divorce trials now have to settle more than the | question of alimony. The man and wife are. often | these days primarily concerned with what is. to be- | come of the family car, the alarm clock, the canned produce of the victory garden. »
Income Takes Second Place F
MANY A FAMILY seems prouder of how many | Jars of fruit and vegetables Mama has in the base- | ment than of how much the combined family income | amounts to, even though it is at an all time high. Yes, we're getting mighty nonchalant about money. But how we prick up our ears when a man mentions that he has plenty of shotgun shells or a Jvoman says she still has a couple of pairs of nylon | ‘Stockings for “special” occasions. {
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enormously in state .capitals .and county. seats, New York is heginning to show that a state can tackle ifs own problems intelligently and solve them-—sometimes when Washington is still fumblifig. . © It is po idea that a state should refuse. to, €o-0p-~ erate fully with Washington, that there should not bé friendly interdependence of ‘state and federal. units, or that a state government should not take help rightly due it from the federal government, But Governor Dewey, as you talk with him here, expounds the idea that many of a state's eritics problems cannot await action from Washington, and
which is closer to them.
WHAT GOVERNOR DEWEY has done In ‘this
| Haskell, Democrat.
The governor's action in helping to solve the food |
problem illustrates how that state has gone about. its business without waiting: for Washington to find the | answer. In Japuary, New York farmers were selling | seed because of poor prospects of getting erops harvested, A farm manpower office was created, and
| 111,000. volunteer workers were mobilizéd for state |
| farms, an entire crop of two and one-half miflion tons of fruits and vegetables was harvested, where | officials estimated a millions tons: might ‘have been
]! lost if there had been no action. - ve
Lo It wasn't done without the co-operation of federal | and local authorities, but the point is that the state took the initiative, and met its own difficulties. Through the same kind of initiative, barley was
| York cattle feed shortage. Again, the state, through
children of women war workers, a- field in which {ed-
IN 10- MONTHS, Governor Dewey has gone far toward - modernizing the state government, He hus |'worked closely with the Republican legislature. ~ Governor Dewey put through. a law for legislative
1 reapportionment of New York state to wipe out population inequalities. : :
He backed legislation provided for payment of
| state income -tax in quarterly installments. ta
He put through another bill advancing the start of
| the fiscal year from July 1 to April 1, a move which | helped income catch up with outgo in point of time,
| and saved the state about $1,000,000 a year interest in | short-term horrowings, no longer necessary,
Another Dewey-sponsored measure extended un-
employment insurance. Next Tuesday's election, if Mr. Hanley wins “is
{certain to see new pressure on him to become 4 can- | didate for the Republican ‘presidential nomination.
Today he reiterates his statement that he is not:a candidate, and doesn’t want the homihation. But, outside his office hang the portraits of" four men who have gone to Washington after occupying his chair—Martin Van Buren, Grover Cleveland. Theodore Roosevelt and. Franklin Roosevelt. He sees
Duce’s Mistake
‘By William Philip Simms
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.~-At 3 a. mj Oct. 28, 1940—three years ago yesterday — occurred one ofthose “minor incidents” which, later on, writers record as a turn.ingepolnt in history. & The incident was Italy's “ultito Greece. Rome charged Athens with allowing’ the British 10 use Greek bases and, true to form, the Italian dictator gate Greece just three hours to bagk dpwn. Her curt “no” changed the
| whole course of ‘events in southeastern ‘Europe, if not | of the war itself. Fn *
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Unquestionably Hitler wished the Balkans to remain quiet. What he wanted from that area was friendly neutrality, oil, foodstuffs and raw materials. War would upset the sconomy of the region and possibly hamper his plans to defeat Russia, knock out Britain and end the war by the winter-of 1041. Little Greece, with less populatiinn than New York and smaller than Florida, upset the axis applecart. At 5:30 a. m., Italian troops crossed the Albanian frontier and’ the war was on. Mussolini had been told it would be ‘a walkover; that the country ‘was
No New Equipment
. THE GREEK army had 10 battle divisions and even these were without 'modérn * equipment. They
war. : = 3 as What the Greeks lacked in equipment, they made up in spunk. With their plapes, the Italians leveled Gredk villages,
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which dependency on federal government has glown
that they can be met better by a state government | Appeals for Voter Support . . :
direction is largely the basis of appeal to New York | state voters to elect a Republican, State Senate Leader | Joe Hanley, in Tuesday's lieutenant governorship elec~ ‘tion. Mr. Hanley is opposed by Lt. Gen. William N.
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ISOLATION DEAD, §
NEW YORK, Senator Claude said last night United States r the Connally -r that isolationism U. 8. senate.” Speaking on 1 cast from Washi free world cong: said if there +
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