Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 November 1943 — Page 20

national commtitee, and have to keep ead sy the Tuesday elections didn’t mean

( RS Raid Germany.” “ulap Navy Suffers Worst Beating.” “580,000 Miners Returning to Coal Pits.” Those first two headlines don't seem to belong in the same category with the third. But wait a minute. Here ~ are a few sentences from an article written for us by Dale McFeattors last April, when the miners were staging one of their other strikes: : “Coal Jhakss coke, and it takes a ton of oke to produce

a ton of st But coal is. also the source of many of the ~ other mats on which the success of this nation’s war f - depends. :

"Coal coked in by-product ovens produces toluol, entering into the ‘making of explosives, food preservatives,

phenol, used in the manufacture of picric acid (a high kx explosive), germicidals and photographic developers. E “If is a source of pitch coke for industrial abrasives, and for the® aluminum industry's electrodes and carbon 3 blo hs : ~ “It supplies ammonium sulphate for farm fertilizers #9 d plan foods; sodium sulphate for wood-pulp processing ol produced in by-prodiiet ovens is used ‘in para-

i Bilin ns . In short, coal is vital for many things besides heating * homes. Without coal, we would quite definitely and liter-

pw in an arfument over 8714 ‘cents a day: bat No matter what were the miners’ grievances, .. they have taken ‘a-fearful- responsibility. - It is to be hoped that as they return to work they will put in the-extra hours and the extra energy needed to replace the tonnage their walkout has lost to the country’s slim stockpile of this strategic mineral, :

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Hv long will the United States government continue to aid its enemy, the Fascist dictator of Spain? Franco has just made an agreement - with Hitler's = Mussolini. puppet regime .in Italy. This follows Franco's * message of congratulations and “mutual understanding” to ~ Jose Laurel, head of the Jap puppet government in the Philippines.

‘Of course this is not surprising. In word and deed Franco has been a Fascist terrorist and an opponent of the. | democracies from the beginning. Hitler and Mussolini ~ “put him in power; their troops and tanks and planes de- © stroyed the legally electéd Spanish republic in their dress * . rehearsal for world war II. He has been their pal and ~ stooge ever since, : Franco did not formally enter this war on the axis side, because he would have been a greater liability than asset to Hitler. Fascist Spain was too poor, too completely dis-|

organized, too weak; ‘and there was too much danger | go by the Spanish People; who hate Franco and the |

: ~~ So Hitler sent inte Spain enough Nazi troops, dis< . guised as tourists, to help protect the Franco regime which - acted as a silent partner and spy cent E Frais Ya shia to keep Hitler informed of allied move- | ments through the Gibraltar bottleneck, protect Nazi sub- _ marines, provide strategic materials, put Spanish troops into the Nazi army, and otherwise perform for the axis, ; ae >. 0.» : pir Franco's most. effective ole was running the Fascist fifth column in Latin America against the United States. His Spanish agents were often successful Where German and Italian agents failed. ; ~ Despite all this, the allies went on appeasing” Franco ie United States even paid his blackmail in the form am shipments and back-scratching praise by the n embassadoF, The excuse was that Franco might "8 rear from Spanish Morocco, and cut E. F. supply line, ¢ believe no price was too great to pay to protect

for the axis.

, F,, when it was in danger. But, now that the are furnéd and the axis is in retreat, the United “should n not deal with Franco, the enemy. If the withdraw their left-hand support of this Fascist

, the Spanish people wil handle him and his kind.

H, SEVITZKY AND SYMPHONY

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solvents, antiseptics and plastics. - It produces | quote:

ally lose this War: ~And yet for days the ‘mines were closed

always’ been something alluring about the , or Instance, there are seven days in , Seven wonders of the world, and of

the police department. Then th Beventh Son of a seventh |

Same Applies to Mr. Levy

same of Mr, Levy, a union who had associated closely with George Browne, a notorious racketeer

solicit Browne's help in Browne being a prisoner under sentence then, If Aurelio acted as the Times says, “with almost | {ncredible blindness,” then so did Mr, Levy and a little

known to the police, was not notorious to the public as Browne was when Mr, Levy paid him lavish compliments In the convention of the movie union racket in Louisville in 1940. It is hard to see how anyone could expect Mr. | Levy to be any more competent, informed or discriminating in court, for he, too, had proved to be a disastrously bad judge of Browne's character, “It will certainly be hard for the public to believe that the Tammany politicians who got Mr. Aurelio his nomination were equally ignorant, equally blind, equally babes-in-the-woods regarding Costello’s activities and character,” the Times said further and I

‘editorial best sums up the arguments against Aurelio that were offered in Levy's favor by thé American | Labor party, and the New Deal fofces generally

Browne's Character No Secret

the Times on this only because this-partleular i} ~~

BUT THE TIMES might have said exactly the! Sith attorney

TUESDAY'S ELECTION

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THE PROPAGANDA line of the black radio stetions gets pretty complicated.” They pretend that theyre anti-German, or anti-Vichy, and pro-Free French, or anti-Mussolini and pro-Badoglio, or antiNazi and pro-Catholic, or pro-Polish and anti-Coms munist, or pro-old-line-Bolshevik and anti-Stalin, or

antl-British, or pro-American and anti-Roosevelt. The black radio station beamed at America is - tion Debunk. It went off the air last August

{now back on the job, representing itself as beg =

station located in the Uni Actually, of course, it's in Germany a

States. is 100 per

whose accent is pretty genuine Midwestern, but whose real identity has nevér been disclosed, Joe lets on to be a veteran of the.last war. His show is full of scoops, dished out to cater to the gullible public which believes that gossip and Tumors are more important than news, One of the black radio’s newest tricks was to re

: The Hoosier Forum

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

THAT 18 quite true. The Tammany politicians, 1oy reason of their contacts and associations, were in a position to get reliable information about Costello. But on the other hand, Alex Rose, the secretary of the Labor party, who personally picked Mr. Levy, was in a position to learn about Browne's chatacter and At least. to experience suspicions of his betrayal of

..4»labor. into the clutches .of the criminal underworld

and exploiting employers long before Browne was exposed in the newspapers. . Union officials get around, they gossip at their meetings and conventions and many unfon men in Culifortis ud poirited thie" ‘Anger At Browne a8 early’ 84.1038, - Mr. Rose. is not. stupid nor naive hut w-smart, shrewd unioneer of long experience and it i§ only fair to apply to him the same standards’ ‘that the so-called “liberals” of the New. Deal -&pplied to the ‘Tammany politicians and. to Mr,” Levy the same standards that were set for Aurelio,

Only Made Offense Worse

AND, BY the same token, if the election of Aurelio is a cal y then the election of the “liberal” candidate: have been equally calamitous, it need not necessarily be calamitous at all anes the “liberals” are prepared to repudiate their own man, Hugo Black, on the highest court in the land; for ‘Mr. Black was an enrolled member of one of the most brutal, un-American gangs of ruffians in the history of the United States who accepted his membership in the Ku Klux Klan in order to win the political support of this gang for a cheap’ political job. That—explanation, however, ohly made his offense the worse because a man of character would have spurned their support and fought them, Yet,"Hugo Black has not been a bad justice of the supreme court of the U, 8. A. and Aurelio, whose record was otherwise good, might be just as good on the supreme court of New York county,

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We the People By Ruth Millett

REMEMBER how Mrs. .Amer- - ica used to treat her butcher and ~ grocery man--back in the days before rationing and scarcities?. “It wasn't unusual for her to two orders a day. If

a loaf of bread, or decided she would like some apples for a pie, ~ she would call up half an hour “before closing time and ask to * ‘have the item sent. ‘And when she went to pick out her own fruits and vegetables she would weigh and pinch and criticize and say “Haven't you any Tiper | bananas than these?” And she was always bragging to her husband about how she called up her butchér and bawled him out for sending her what she thought was a poor cut of meat, always adding, “He might as well know he can’t put anything over on me.”

‘Twas Different Then

AND IF a head of lettuce, when delivered, wasn't as fresh as she thought it should be, she would eall

and leave her another one. She was plenty independent in those days. Her attitude was: “You have to let them know you

bor policy with her butcher and groceryman, ae probably Wandering Just how Jong Bw

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she found that she had forgotten |

up her grocer and ask him to pick it up before dinner ;

salad dressing he has hidden behind counter, ‘out of sight of his hit-and-run trade. Mrs. America is cultivating a good neigh-

“MOTHERS SHOULD NOT LET STREET RAISE CHILDREN" By E. D. C., Indianapolis

I have been reading and hessing so much shout delinquency. T was a gil you never heard of deUnquency: Why? Because. thother stayed home and kept house and took care of the children and lived on what father earned and the parents went to church and Sunday

the mother said “no” to the children, they knew she meant “no,” she did not repeat that “no” but once. If the mothers that have Rushanes working would put their time in at home with their childrén and not let the street raise them, 4 nas ba would not have so much to contend with. I know that when I was a girl 84 years ago, children respected and obeyed their parents, They did not call them .oldfashioned and fools like they do nowadays. = » » » “A SOLDIER EXPRESSES HIS OPINION ON DRAFT” By This Is The Army, Indianapels, It isn't often that a soldier gets an opportunity ‘to-express his opinfon on some views while at camp. But being on a furlough ought to make me €ligible to do so now. I read in this paper how the 10

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word to use) reclassified to an essential classification. Remembering all that, I boldly asked him how he did it. He replied in a loud voice so all could hear it, “What in the hell do you think we had the kid for?” Using an eight-months-old baby for an excuse io keep from going was mere than I could stomach. However, * the draft board is to blame in this case. And it's this case anid others like it that are now cuming ws $ ugh on thelr doe | Per steps. . . . 8 8 =

“HIGH TIME DUNWOODY RECEIVED RECOGNITION” ~~ By A War Worker, Indianapolis, Patrolman Alexander Dunwoody does it again, It is indeed gratifying to note that one policeman, either on or off duty, is a guardian of the public. The recent press comment as to the arrests of two armed desperadoes on the part of

Patrolman Dunwoody shows that| _

certain policemen again displayed

bravery. ‘The board of safety] should take recognizance of Patrol- :

man Dunwoody, Possibly this patrotman, if given the opportunity, could solve the WAC murder still pending before the board of safety as an unsolved case. It is high timé Patrolman

| Dunwoody receive some recogni-

Then all of a sudden he was|tion

Why not make this man at least

Side. Glances—By Sait

|fot have a one-man police depart-

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a leutenant and put him in charge of certain districts in Indianapolis? They wottld be cleaned up and there would exist no need for the conferences now going on as to “cleaning up” Indianapolis between various enforcement officers. Dun-

It appears Indianapolis has a one-man board of safety, so. why

ment, thereby get and keep the Job

loli “AFTER US, THE INFLATION DELUGE?" By Themas D. McGee, 901 Dartmouth apis. ‘The ‘thing ‘we have feared has come to pass. Inflation is upon us. Congress having declared no more tax on income and no sales tax, the government, if it really needs the 10 billion which it asked congress for and which congress flatly refused, is thus forced to borrow. The effect of borrowing is to increase the amount of money in circulation, and this means inflation. It would therefore seem that all of the price fixing and ‘rationing (justified as a means of staying inflation) will not avail much, or avert the catastrophe, precipitated

tion, “After us, the deluge?” . . » “A FEW WORDS ON THE FATHER DRAFT” By & Disgusted War Mother, Indianapolis.

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port it had -cpriducted a public opinion poll in the United States, in which it was learned that a majority

ing put over was the idea that the war might cost that many casualties.

Anything to Spread Confusion.

TO SOVIET Russia, a station identifying itself as “Lenin’s Old Guard,” claiming to be inside the U. 8. 8S. R., broadcasts advocacy of the overthrow of Stalin and a réturn to Bolshevism. - Another station, claiming to be the voice of the militant union of Russian nationalists, tries to sell the lost cause of the White Russians. py “Newest of the “welahidestine” stations’ 1s radio SWIT: which in Polish means “dawn,” It is another German phony, outwardly anti-Nazi but really trying to convince the poor Poles that their worst enemy b the

Soviet. i "For French consumption, the Germans run a sta- 3 “tion ‘claiming fo be in Algiers, actually located near’ - | ‘Vichy. This station takes the prize for fast changes ' -{-of line. It claims to bé pro-De Gaulle, but it makes. the Fighting French obnoxious by ‘overstating the De Gaulle position, in that regard déing just what

De Gaulle does himself. It gets over its pro-axis line by admitting events unfavorable to the united nations and building up the thought that the U. 8. and Giraud

The Germans beam four black stations to the Arabs and two to India, using 10 dialects for the latter.

Triumph for Hull By: William Philip Simms

WASHINGTON, Nov. 5.—In Siplomatie circles here everycne is singing the praises of Secretary of State Cordell Hull A full share in the success of the Moscow conference, which has been hailed as a turning point in the is attributed to the gentle-

gic of a diplomatic mission embarked at's foram Tend eee His departure was preceded by a storm of criticism which

t few American statesmen have been held in or wider esteem, at home and abroad, than Mr. Hull. Ordinarily, therefore, the charges would

have been about as damaging as a few birdshot agairist

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‘of Americans would rather die in battle than in an automobile accident, so a loss of 5,000,000 lives would mean ‘nothing to this country. What was sibtly be-

are out to double-cross De Gaulle and Great Britain,

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