Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 March 1944 — Page 7

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New Oil Policy

WASHINGTON, March 25.—Senator Francis Maloney (D. Conn.) today had undertaken one of the most important jobs in congress, that of guiding s senate committee toward agreement on a new Ameri. ean foreign and domestic oil policy. * The committee has $25,000 for its work, but the

Saudi Arabia, in a sphere of British influence, at a cost of $110,000,000 or more. It would tap reserves held by three American companies. ‘One of Maloney's first chores will be to investigate this Arabian deal. His committee will not be able to report legislation, but it could recommend for or against the Arabian venture. The oil industry (with the three exceptions) vigorously opposes the Arabian line.

Ickes Agrecable

THERE 18 no indication that the government's Petroleum Reserves Corp, which has agreed to finance

Ickes has sald he welcomes the senatorial investigation. Plans for developing. some aspects of our foreign oil policy have already been made, for the state department has announced we will discuss petroleum problems with the British. The senate's Truman committee has suggested that the British turn over to us oil reserves in repayment for petroleum products we have furnished them under lend-lease.

My Day

BALBOA, Canal Zone, Friday.-—Miss Thompson and I were very much touched at the navy base at Curacao when, at the movie theater, we were presented with little gifts which the whole camp had brought for us. The gifts were lovely in themselves; but the thought touched us more.

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Fancy Chickens Dept.

ONE OF OUR readers has been having an argu-|

‘ment with fellow workers out at the Packard Manufacturing Co. plant and phoned to ask our help in proving his point. It seems he related how as a

ship's steward he ran across some rare chickens owned by ‘a New York millionaire. The most striking thing

By Marshall McNeil

Chairman Maloney said he is open-minded about our world oil policy, but nevertheless he is on record as favoring conservation of domestic supplies, and purchase of petroleum from foreign sources

Urged Higher Crude Prices

AS CHAIRMAN of another special committee that studied problems of transporting ofl to the East Coast in wartime, Senator Maloney last July made a report to the senate which recommended higher crude prices and also said: “ . +. Increased military and civilian demand (for petroleum products) will find us definitely short of crude oil in the near future. For this reason utmost efforts must be made to discover new sources of domestié¢ oil. : ’ “It will also be vital to conserve our domestic oil reserves once this war is over. As soon as possible we

. of this resource.”

It is the contention of many advocating the Saudi Arabian pipeline that it will help assure us of adequate reserves in the face of the claimed dwindling of domestic supply. Senator Maloney, who came to the senate in 1034,

of South’ Carolina, Democrats; and Vandenberg of Michigan, Brewster of Maine, Gurney of South Dakota, and Moore of Oklahoma, Republicans; and LaFollette of Wisconsin, Progressive,

By Eleanor Roosevelt

Caribbean” looked to me rather arid. Their rainfall at all times is low, only about 13 inches yearly, and I Wondersd that herds of sheep and goats got enough to ea y We drove through refinery grounds and were amazed at the sight of flourishing little gardens around many houses. I soon discovered, however, that these gardens flourish because water which is brought from the United States and very carefully

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This almost equaled the 43.5 per cent rise in wage earner’s cost of living which has been publicized by the labor members of the presidential committee on the cost of living.

Wage Control Gauge

It is almost twice the 23.4 per cent which is admitted by the bureau of labor statistics, this figure being the one that is used by the war labor board in wage control matters. Harold Ruttenberg, research man for the steel union said the two government surveys were compar able because they covered or allowed for the same items. . Mr. Murray said the only conclusion must be that statisticians for the bureau of labor statistics

would be about the same. So Mr. Murray seems headed for an attempt to show he can beat the government at figuring. Numerous citizens report they were not able to do much in that line the fifteenth of this month. The steel union president tossed a quantity of other figures at the steel company executives whom he must confound before he really gets at the government. These related to allegedly exorbitant profits of the companies and inordinate salaries of their top of-/ ficers. : The steel companies did not reply immediately, about 10 days to go into huddles with their statisticians before they start tossing their own figures around. About a hundred sub-chiefs of the steel union are backing Mr. Murray and his assistants in presentation of their case, which is the spearhead of organized labor's attempt to break the little steel formula.

COACH ENTERS RACE FOR STATE SENATE

A. E. Pitcher, athletic director and football coach at Southport high school, today announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for joint state senator from Marion and Johnson counties.

Born in Johnson county, he is a graduate of Whiteland high school and Franklin coliege. He has been coaching at Southport for the last 18 years. He also has coached at the Greenwood and New Bethel high schools. He is associated with his father, Otis Pitcher, in the real estate and construction business. He is a member of the Greenwood Masonic lodge, Scottish Rite, Murat Shrine, Greenwood Christian church and the Indiana and Marion County Coaches’ associations.

EARL WILSON SEEKS HIS RENOMINATION

Huron today announced his candidacy for renomination on the Republican ticket for a third term in

detiet.. nn In his announcement statement, the congressman said that “I humbly ask that I be

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Class Hatred and Disunity Spurred by United Mothers

By JOANNA STEINMETZ Scripps-Howard Staff Writer CLEVELAND, March 25.—~The one purpose of the semi-monthly

meetings of the United Mothers

of America is to instill Nazi-like and rumors in the minds of its. members. I learned this during the five months I attended the meetings, Mrs. Frieda Stanley, United Mothers president, seems to ex-

‘hibit a “dual personality” at the

meetings. It's a militant<voiced Mrs; Stanley who addresses the Mothers as she viciously attacks Jews, President Roosevelt, Negroes and the united nations, It’s a mild, mellow-voiced Mrs. Stanley who addresses the Mothers as she praises the Rev. Fr. Coughlin, America Pirster Gerald L. Kl Smith and fanatical nationalism.

Shout “Traitor”

They shout “traitor” and “shame” when Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Churchill are mentioned. Mrs. Stanley manages to mendtion Negroes at almost every meeting. She tells the Mothers there is a high crime rate among Negro groups, refers to a Negro woman who had criticized her as a person “not so long ago just a savage,” and calls all members of unions, whether they are white or Negro, Communists, “because all unions are controlled by Communists.” Mothers also applaud loudly when Mrs. Sue Braun, treasurer, or any other of the club's officers reads excerpts from America Firster Gerald L. K. Smith's magazine “The Cross and the

Flag.” o Typical Titles

Typical titles of articles In Smith's publication are: “International Bankers,” “OPA Persecutes the Church,” “Roosevelt Satisfies Browder,” and “Churchill's Supreme Imprudence.” The United Mothers find fault with al! our allies. The most vicious attacks, however, are made against England. Not only at their meetings do they assail England, but also in their letters which are sent regularly to all people on the Mothers’ mailing list. Parts of such a letter follow: “For a number of decades treacherous and pro-foreign elements have conspired against

(This is the second of two articles on the Cleveland chapter of the United Mothers, a‘ group which spreads Nagi-like propaganda and rumors. The reporter joined the organization for five months to observe its aims and purposes.)

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our government, but none so much than the British, who ever since establishment of our republic have connived and plotted for what they hoped would be the eventual takeover of our nation as a recovered colony.”

Call F. D. B. “Santa”

Latin Americans are referred to as “those greasy people for whom Roosevelt likes to play Santa Claus with American

Mrs. Stanley speaks of Father Coughlin as “the greatest religious leader in the country today.” The real hero of the United Mothers, however, is Gerald L. K. Smith, Meader of the America First party. All of the United Mothers I spoke to were America Firsters, so I joined, too. Smith, former compatriot of Huey Long, is one of the leaders of this country’s isolationist movement. He is, however, more subtle in his anti-Negro, antisemitic, anti-labor ejaculations.

Mrs. Monreal, at one of the meetings, told members of the “catastrophe which would befall Ameriean families” if proposals for medical and hospital care contained in the Wagner-Murray amendments to the social security act were to be passed. She said that “Jew doctors, working ‘eight~ hour shifts like common laborers, would think nothing of leaving a patient during an operation or treatment if their shifts had ended.”

Oppose Service Bill

The proposed national service bill also was attacked as a measure which “would separate families and force the people of the United States into concentration

America Firsters and the United Mothers are concentrating all their forces on the coming elections. - Gerald Smith and Mrs. Stanley have little or no hope of electing a candidate. But the pre-elec-tion scuffle will give them an excellent sounding board for their attacks on democracy.

CIVIL SERVICE SEEK WMC CONSULTANTS

The civil service commission announced today that the war manpower commission in Indianapolis has opening for manpower utilization consultants. Applicants must have five years’ experience in industry or with in-

WOUNDED VETERAN RETURNS TO STATES

| to transfer to essential jobs.

Political Aid Declares Wisconsin Primary, Will Start Boom That Will Sweep Into 4.0. P, National Convention.

By THOMAS

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I, S. MANPOWER MUDDLE CLEARS

Physicals Ordered for All Industrially-Deferred Men Under 26.

WASHINGTON; March 25 (U. P). —The manpower crisis began to emerge from its muddled state today after a series of swift government decisions—including an-order for immediate pre-induction physicals for all industrially-deferred men under 26—designed to supply younger men for the armed forces without disrupting war production. A new has been set up under which all industrial draft deferments of men under 26 are, in effect, canceled and new deferments for “irreplaceables” will be “ra-

ly created committee headed by Manpower Commissioner Paul V. McNutt. The powerful inter-agency McNutt committee—which the WMC chief described as an “expanded war manpower commission”—will determine the industries and the specific firms within those industries which are eligible for consideration under the new program.

Plan to Assign Quotas

The new group, coinposed of representatives of the armed services and all war production and warsupporting agencies, will decide what percentage of industrial deferments in the under-26 age group must be canceled. Their next step will be to split this up among all manpower-claimant agencies and assign deferment quotas. Until the committee has an opportunity to make these decisions— action is expected in a matter of weeks—Selective Service Director Lewis B. Hershey has provided an interim procedure for draft-deferred men under 26 designed to prevent induction of “indispensables.” It calls for: . 1. Immediate pre-induction physjcals for all industrially deferred men under 26. 2. Immediate review of all draft deferments of men under 26 in industry and agriculture before proceed with reconsideration of men in the 26 through 37 years age group. : Procedures Changed .

3. Local boards may reclassify into 2-A and 2-B men under 26 who are rejected or classified for limited service. Under previous procedures these men would be placed in 4-F or 1-LS. This action was taken to assure that men employed in essential industry will return to war work and also to encourage others

4. Authorization for the army and navy, maritime commission, war production board, office of defense transportation, war food administration, war shipping administration, petroleum administration for war, solid fuels administration and office of rubber director to designate representatives in each state to indorse special requests for deferments of key registrants under 26 engaged in non-agricultural war activities,

BET BY POLICEMAN RESULTS IN ARREST

An old-fashioned three card monte revival was nipped in the bud yesterday by police investigating an overflow sidewalk crowd in front of 100 S. California st. Patrolman John Brim ‘said that after watching Limon Johnson, 32, 403 W. Michigan st., the dealer, win $10 and lose $5 in a fast monte shuffle, he bet 50 cents himself. But before the dealer could reach for the stakes he was in custody of the patrolman who later slated him on charges of gaming, disorderly conduct and city vagrancy. . Johnson was released under a $3000 cash bond supplied by Vernon Anderson, proprietor of the much litigated-against Anderson Foundation. Police also confiscated a policy

James Coyle, 59, 940 Hosbrook st. Another - sortie at 1212 Vande-

tioned” out to industries by a new-|

machine and numbers slips last night in a raid at the home of

man st, netted police three cases of beer, rum and whisky and the|} arrest of Elizabeth Andrews, 47, on beverage

L. STOKES

Seripps-Howard Staff Writer

MILWAUKEE, Wis., March 25.—The word here is that

receptive candidate for the

Republican presidential nomination. . “It has been indicated to prominent Republicans that he won't do anything to get the nomination, but if he gets it,

it was put by Lansing Hoyt,

manager of the MacArthur campaign for convention delegates in the April 4 primary in which the general has three rivals—Wendell L. Willkie, Governor Dewey and Lt. Cmdr. Harold Stassen, ex-governor of Minnesota.

“I can’t tell you how I found that out,” Mr. Hoyt added mysteriously. He is hopeful that Gen. MacArthur will roll up such an impres= sive vote in this state, where he spent his youthful years, that it will set off a national movement that will sweep into the Chicago convention next June. He has so cone trived it that the general will have every opportunity for a popular demonstration. Seeks Popular Vote

Gen. MacArthur is the only candidate of either party in the primary who is entered also for the presidential preference vote as distinct from the vote for delegates. The popular preferential vote has no relation to the selection of delegates, but a heavy popular vote might make an impression. Mr. Hoyt was chairman of the America First committee of Wise consin and the whole tenor of the MacArthur campaign is to appeal to the isolationist sentiment once 50 predominant in this state. There still seems to be some latent isolationism. Why are the isolationists supporting Gerf. MacArthur? “Because,” Mr, Hoyt replied, “they think he is all American. Anybody who’s been out all over the world realizes that the other nations are trying to put it over America. Gen. MacArthur feels the same way, we think. We feel that the United States has to assert its own rights.” Has Anti-British View

Mr. Hoyt, a tall, slender, amiable gentleman with thinning gray hair, a dabbler in Wisconsin politics for years and an engineer by profession, has traveled widely, particularly in the Orient. He has developed a strong anti-British attitude. . With a twinkle in his eye he'related that he was in charge of Wen dell Willkiee’s 1840 campaign meeting in Milwaukee. 3 : He is directing the MacArthur campaign from three small, sparely furnished rooms in an old office building here. He has no paid staff, The movement is entirely voluntary, he said. The “native son” angle is being stressed in the campaign. Gen. MacArthur went to grade school and high school here in Milwaukee, From here he was appointed fo West Point. His grandfather moved to Wisconsin in 1837 and was fifth governor of the state. His father was raised here. # , Dodgers Hail General The general is hailed in a campaign dodger widely distributed as a representative of “American Ine terests,” for “his ability to make friends of labor” and as a military man and an administrator. A studied effort is made to meet the argument that the general should remain in command in the Pacific, which Mr. Hoyt labels as “that old New Deal propaganda,” by the counter argument that he should sit in Washington where as Presi» dent he could direct the whole war, Mr. Hoyt claims victory for Gen. MacArthur on the basis of the 1940 presidential primary here in which Gov. Dewey got 60 per cent of the votes—and all the delegates—and Senato?f Vandenberg of Michiga™ got 40 per cent. He expects Gen. MacArthur, he said, to get the Vane denberg 40 per cent, with the other 60 divided among the governor, Wendell Willkie and Lt. Cmdr. Stassen. The former Dewey support, he contends, will be split with Willkie and Stassen because Gov. Dewey is classed as an “internationalist” on. account of his advocacy of a “Brite ish-American alliance at the Mack inac conference last September. with some pride, ‘Mr. Hoyt related how President Roosevelt's name was withdrawn from the popular prefer ence vote—-though a full slate of Roosevelt delegates are entered in

hour after he had filed Gen. Mac-

Arthur's name for the preference vote on the Republican ticket.

the Democratic primary—just an =