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' BUSY AS HE WAS, Lt. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith took time Wednesday afternoon to telephone an old friend, Mrs, Elizabeth Spahr, 202 E. 33d st. Mrs.
Spahr, who is almost 103 years old, lived across the
street rom the general when he was a small boy, Informed by George Dickson Jr. AT that Grandma Spahr had kept 3 track of his doings in the war, the + general let a couple of hundréd . people wait at the press club re- | ception while he telephoned her. Mrs. Spahr, who is quite spry despite her age, was tickled to hear from him. “I heard your speech, and you did yourself proud,” she told him. The general said someone sent him a clipping from The Times about her back in 1943. After reminiscing a while, the general signed off with: “Goodby, now, and God bless you.” , . . Incidentally, many of those attending the reception were sipping cocktails or highballs, but not the general. In between handshakes, he sipped a hice cool glass of half and half—half milk and half cream. The general has trouble with his stomach. . When Mrs. Elizabeth Hodges, of the Fabric shop, 2 N. Pennsylvania, makes up her mind to do something, it’s hard to stop her. Employees of the shop got up a nice bouquet and sent Mrs. Hodges over to present it to Gen. Smith during the parade. Alas, the general's car was moving too fast and although Mrs. Hodges tan along beside it nearly half a block, she was ‘unable to deliver it. But that didn’t stop her, She just hurried right on over to the Claypool and, panting a hit, made the presentation there. Speaking of the parade, lots of folks around town have been complaining that the parade was ‘over sold.” Their complaints boiled down to lack of music, too much speed, and not enough military personnel, The military personnel complaint is easy to answer. There just aren't enough treops stationed around here any more that can be spared for a parade. And the reason the band waited on monument circle instead of marching in the parade is that the marching would have slowed the parade so much that the general would have been late for his noon address over a nationwide network. That seems to explain the speed of the procession, too.
Still in Old Mansion,
ALTHOUGH IT'S been several months since the state bought the Trimble home on N. Meridian for & new governor's mansion, Governor and Mrs. Gates still are living in the old mansion on Fall Creek. The new mansion is being redecorated, and the Gates
Homeless Slaves
LINZ, Austria—Kishka Raziona was washing the dishes and her sister was feeding her two small children that morning, three years ago, when the Ger-
mans came. Kishka's father was a member of the Communist party and there were papers in the house. They were afraid. The gestapo found the papers; stuck a gun in the father’s back and marched him away. “Now you women, ou,” they said. “But I cannot go,” my children will starve,” Kishka protested, “We are not interested in children,” was the answer. “We were dragged from the house, leaving the children on the floor,” Kishka told your correspondent, ““We have not seen them. We do not know of them. We do not know of my husband.” Mayer, a textile factory owner received a telephone call. “Come to the clearing station this morning” a Nazi official said. “A trainload of labor is In from Russia and you will select 40 women to replace the laborers taken from the factory for the army.” Mayer selected Kishka, among others. Her sister went to the huge Goering steel plant nearby.
Mayer Kind to Women DAY AFTER DAY trains rolled in with Russian labor. Nearly 100,000 went into the factories near Linz alone. They went to villages, to smal] factories, to farms. They cleaned the streets and kept the German home front functioning while all Germany and Austria went to fight for Hitler. Mayer, a kindly anti-Nazi Austrign~was good to the 40 women. He gave them cloth for dresses and coats. The Nazis protested. He evaded by listing the clothing as Nazi property. But he could not prevent: the Nazis from beating women who refused to wear the insignia designating them as ‘‘easterners” and therefore unfit for Aryan association. “The insignia branded us everywhere,” said Kishka,
we want
AN ENEMY that conceivably could prove far more deadly than the Japanese threatens the United States, It is bubonic plague,
Though the Japanese are proposing to put pilots on the free balloons they are launching across the Pacific, there no longer appears the remotest chance of an invasion of our coast by the Japanese. But bubonic plague—the Black Death that . caused 42,000,000 deaths in the Middle Ages—invaded our Pacific coast in 1900. In that year there was an outbreak of the plague in San Francisco. The blame was placed on rats coming ashore from ships from the Orient and carrying fleas infected with the bacteria of the isease. Rats, fleas and the bacilli known as “Paseurella pestis,” this is the unholy triple alliance that preads the Black Death, There were larger outbreaks, reaching epidemic proportions in California in 1907 and 1908. These aused nation-wide scares which many older readers ill remem
Since 1800, there have been more than 500 cases of bubonic plague in the United States with 315 deaths. Two cases were reported in California in 1941.
Fleas Spread Plague IN THAT SAME YEAR, Dr. Thomas Parran, surgeon general of the U. S. public health service, called
conferente of health officers from the Pacific and estern states to consider the situation,
My Day
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riting this column on the American Communists was 0 show how it is possible to work with the U. 8. 8. R. nd the people of that great country, and why we
need have no fear of them.
Those of us-who take thé trouble to understand at know what communism in Russia 1s. We also know that any leader, no matter how powerful, has to listen to the people with whom he works. While for obvious reasons the people of Russia are still largely dictated to by their leaders, they have objectives and opportunities ~ for growth in freedom, just as we ~ had when we wrote our consti tution. We have not quite attained the jectives which we wrote into constitution but they are there as Sands by
World of Science
'B. C.; while the Spartans were besjeging the city and
nism if the people exercise their power. Nevertheless,
put. into positions of leadership. I do not “he should from
Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum
family expects to move into it the" second week in July—if they can get a moving van. .,. W..C. Tremear, the sugar broker, is intrigued with a sign on a store window on Illinois near Ohio. It reads: “Tattooing inside.” Mr, Tremear thinks the tattooing wouldn't show that way. . A- friend in the South Pacific sent J. B. Canary, 1915 ‘W. Michigan st., a postcard, written in Japanese, apparently found on a dead Jap. Curious as to what the hen tracks on: the card said Mr. Canary sent it to Old Inside in the hopes of getting it translated. Lacking acquaintance with the Japanese language, I sent the card on to Toyozo W. Nakarai, the Butler university. instructor, who was kind enough to furnish a translation. Apparently written by a Japanese schoolchild to a soldier, th® note read: “Returning greetings. I am sorry that I have not written you sooner. I am glad to learn that you are well, and that you have enrolled in a school. That is good for the future. Our school began on the sixth. I am doing my best in our studies. Narihiro has moved to the lodging place of Yoshinaka’s. Let us do our best. Take care of yourself, and pardon my clumsy writing.” There you are, Mr. Canary,
Keep Secrets Secret
IF THERE HAD BEEN any enemy spies aboard a certain Brookside trolley Wednesday, they'd have gotten quite an earful about the Stewart-Warner plant here. A couple of passengers in the back of the car were talking. Ome, in loud tones, was discussing, in detail, everything from‘ what the plant was making for the armed forces to the materials used, from whence obtained, types of war equipment abandoned and why, and other production secrets. One of my agents who couldn't help hearing the conversation thinks maybe we need more frequent reminders that
SECOND SECTION
By PETER EDSON NEA Staff Writer
ASHINGTON, June
of war in the United States
for top rank officer prisoners in Georgia. The general was the once proud and tough Fritz von Arnim, commander of the Afrika Korps.
en, broken, older and a lot wiser. » » ” AT THE end of the interview he had a request to make.
there's still a war going on... . T. Sgt. Robert N. Denman, former Link-Belt employee, got quite a sur- | prise the other day. He's with the army of occupation | in Munich and was part of a detail that took over a certain Munich factory. In the scrap book of one of the plant executives, Sgt. Denman was surprised to find two pay envelopes from the Link-Belt plant. The employee. was Otto Rieger, who was employed here in 1928, and returned to Germany. ‘Sgt. Denman sent the pay envelopes back to Walter Griffin, an employee of Link-Belt. . Cpl. Lee Stokes, Indianapolis free lance writer ‘Just discharged by the army, is the suthor of a murder mystery, “The Wolf Howls Mutder,” published by the Phoenix Press. The story, Cpl. Stokes’ first published novel, is laid in the Angel Mound territory near Evansville, although it's de-
»“Do give us,” he said, “all the material you can on America. Maybe if we had known more about the United States we—" Then he caught himself and, re= membering . what he had been, wptld not go on. How he would have finished that sentence has always puzzled the MP lieutenant colonel. * Von Arnim might have said, * . we would have planned differently,” or he might have said, “we wouldn't have started this war at all.” n » o
scribed as being in Illinois. Cpl. Stokes started writ- | ing it in Iceland, revised it in northern France and | Germany, and finished it in a hospital in England.
By Jack Bell
‘we dared not go to the movies, or into the stores. | Some bosses were good, some were terrible, Now we | go home, but I do not know where is my sister. My father, I think he is dead. Our house, I do not know.” “I stay to help move others home,” said Vincent Myron, another Russian. “I have no family. When they came for me, my wife fought them so they shot her, -I saw the shot hit her. They shot my little boy too. They brought me here to work.” He went to supervise the loading of trucks cartying those homeward bound, to the trains. This time they are not empty-handed. They are permitted to take all they can carry, because, as Pvt. John Colson, Perth Amboy, N. J, said, “It's easier to let ‘em carry it than to argue with em.” They stagger under loads that are heavier than they.
Nice to Slaves Now I DROVE TO the home of a wealthy Austrian farmer. He has many cows, pigs, horses, and plenty
surrendered Germany army. He cursed the Russians | because “I have heard there has been hunger in| Vienna among our people.”
say, this incident is important because it reveals
smart German prisoners of war|
held in this country have figured out for themselves a healthy respect, | for the United States and have] | learned some lessons they aren't go-
|ing to forget.
Without knowing it, the German PW’s have been encouraged to suck!
this wisdom out of their thumbs.
Von Arnim, for instance, along]
with his fellow general-prisoners,
got information about the® United
States—information of the type
that would do tien the most good. » »
Archer L. Lerch, the provost mar-| shal, the army has been unable to|
talk about re-educating German followed the line of giving them Col.
prisoners in this country.
22. A lieutenant colonel of military police who had been given the job of inspecting camps for German prisoners
was questioning ‘a famous German general at a camp
He |was a different general now—beate
WHATEVER he had intended to
better than any survey could possibly do that the
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e Indianapolis ' ig FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1945 SOME LESSONS THEY AREN'T GOING TO FORGET— .
Little emotion is shown by German prisoners of war at Camp Cooke, Cal, as they view newsreels of
Nazi atrocities in Germany for the first time.
Observers spotted in the audiencé to hear comment indi-
cated 'that about 80 per cent of the prisoners appear ed to believe what they saw on the screen, and many
exhibited shame at concentration camp pictures,
reorient prisoners.
| be. { Would you give the order German prisoners of war?
by the irreconcilable
Would you yourself be willing to go ready to swing into action as soon | {out and shoot those prisoners, ruth- as the war was over and the pris- | |lessly, as the Germans shot down oners were returned to Germany.
{150 U. S. prisoners during the battle
{of the bulge last winter? { 2 = =
Cordell Hull, then secretary of
state, and Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson had a confererice on |
| ONE OTHER punishment that |this subject and out of it grew an in-
bread and water.
| prisoners on that diet?
| might have been meted out to the |terdepartmental board of prisoners German PW'’s in retaliation would of war, made up of representatives have been to order them put on!from state, war, navy and justice |. "How much work | departments.
UP UNTIL now, says Maj. Gen. | {could have been gotten out of Ahe
2 » » THE JOB of reorienting the Ger-
| The army policy has consistently man prisoners was handed to Lt. |
| enough calories
Edward Davison—the
Army has been damned all over | day's work out of them, and te work | with Gen. von Arnim was reported the country for not doing anything | them 10 hours a day whenever and at the beginning of this article.
about this while actually it has]
béen doing a lot.
» $8 FIRST and foremost, it didn't | want the German prisoners to know |
He went away and came back with two Yugo- that they were being reoriented on|
slavs. “They are fine men,” he said beaming. The Yugoslavs bowed proudly, then posed with folded arms and stiff mustachios. “That farmer was not so nice to the Yugoslavs before the Americans came,” said the interpreter when we drove away. “He called them prisoners and threatened them. They have worked for two years with no pay, only food. Now, they go as soon as the Ser lenine are ready to transport them home and he knows it. He fawns over them and ho his son will ‘return’ soon to help withs' the farm before the slaves go.” a We drove back past the Russian camps and stopped to watch the dancing _and listen to the accordions. Suddenly the, fun ceased. Two long lines of men trudged through the pouring rain into the camp— more Russians, picked up far to the west and brotight’ by train to Linz. They were on their way into Rus-sian-held portions of Austria—and home.
Copyright. 1945. by The Indianapolis Times and The Chitago Daily News, Inc,
By David Dietz
What had happened was that the infected fleas had spread from rats to a number of wild rodents, including certain squirrels, and were being carried by them across the United States. As early as 1935 a survey conducted by the U. S. public health survey had revealed that wild rodents in California, Oregon and Montana were infected and by 1941 the infected fleas were being found on ground squirrels, chipmunks, rats, marmots and other wild rodents in the states of Arizonia, California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. A few infected rodents were even found as far east as North Dakota,
Kill Those Rats!
THE GREAT DANGER is that eventually these fleas infected with the germs of bubonic plague will spread to rats in the populous cities of the Middle West or even the East. The result would be the forging of a chain that might have the most serious consequences for the nation. While it would” appear that the task of control must be attacked by the states named it is also obvious that rat control in all the cities of the United States is an Important part of the picture. Rats themselves become infected with the plague. The fleas acquire the germ by biting the rats. In turn these fleas spread the disease to other rats by. biting them. Human beings contact the plague from the bite of these same infected fleas. The Black Death is as old as written history. An outbreak in Athens gave Sparta the victory in the Peloponnesian war, bringing the Golden Age of Greece to an end. The plague struck Athens in 430
killed a third of the inhabitants,
By Eleanor Roosevelt
ernment of the U. 8. 8. R. is today, nor as to the hopes and aims of its people. We may not agree with those aims or methods, but we need not fear whit we know. I for one, think democracy better ‘than commu-
I feel we can co-operate with the U. 8. 8. R. and its people, just as we do with other nations. I hope the Communist Political association will forgive me if I am frank with them. What I object to in the American Communists is not their open membership, nor even their published objectives. For years, in this country, they taught the philosophy of the lie. They taught that allegiance to the party, and acceptance of orders. from party heads whose interests were not just those of the United Stale, were paramount, I happen to believe that anyone has a right © be a Communist, to advocate his beliefs peacefully and accept the consequences.
A Communist here will be—quite rightly, it seems |
to me—under certain disadvantages. 5g Wil nok be
mouthed elements
military police, Brig. Gen. B. M. Bryan, in charge | there was another danger that was! Nazi PW’s. of the 150 prisoner of war base even greater. camps and 350 branch camps in| this country, are no softies. They are yous cops, and have to prisoners in their camps, well fed papers,
| some of their Nazi ideas.
Now that Germany is defeated,
| wherever it could.
{Davison was made head of a “pris- |
On the-side, the policy has been | oner of war special projects diviBut it couldn't talk for two rea- to feed them a little healthy ide- | sion” in the office of the provost of food. He begged me to get his son out of the!sons.
| ology to stimulate an attitude of Te- | | marshal general. { spect for the United States and its |
institutions. ” ” x
|
The name sounds innocent |
Same | follow the guide book. to get a good lieutenant colonel whose interview 12 chapters long, leaving out all the stuff that drives even American {kids crazy. Howard Mumford Jones | of Harvard wrote it, sticking to the] broad outlines.
Films and other media of modern education are used to
{ence courses, pamphlets,
radio, phonograph-
= n » AS EACH of the German prisonlers landed in this country. given a little pocket U. printed in German.
Re-Educating German Prisoners
Put yourself in their shoes.iand safe from attack, might be!schools, lecture courses. correspondto shoot worked on Nazis and reorganized into a new | books, Make -it even simpler than that. German movement, an underground and movies are emplqged.
guide- | records |
i |
he was | S. guide,
Germans haven't any idea how!
big the United States is. the prisoners sent to Texas got the idea the train was being run around!
Some of |
lin circles just to confuse them and |
| make them think they were a long | way from everywhere, pletely lost.
A little history of the U. 8. will
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| enough, but hidden behind that System will follow;“telling how free | name plate is a fascinating story of
it is.
TO BEGIN with, nobody had any intelligence work which has until to understand that, because there | ideas that the Nazis could be Amer- Now never been told. icanized or democratized, but if un-|
that doesn’t make any difference. expected dividends of that kind are |
o » » DAVISON was a professor of |
Second, it was feared a few loud- earned, the coupons will be cashed English at the University of Colo- |
in the United | States would misunderstand what |
no retaliation. go ) " ” un MAJ. GEN. LERCH, head. of the] and his deputy, |
in,
rado, a writer, poet and lecturer |
Two years ago when this program {who got his knowledge of Germany | was being done and, just to stir up| | first began, the problem was a little | {through a- Guggenheim fellowship. |
a little excitement, would start yell- | | different, ing that the Nazi prisoners were]
|
He was in the last war, and was
At that time the United States in the morale services division un-
| times as many Americans.
The danger of Nazi retaliation on
U. 8S. captives was then real,
EJ ” td
THIS WAS that the
being mollycoddled. Also, we wanted held only a few thousand German der Gen. Osborn when he was | prisoners and the Nazis. hgld several | tapped omsthg shoulder and given|gq | |the assignment of fcould be done about straightenin but | out some of the twisted thinki
seeing what |
To reorient Nazi thinking of Ger-|
books, ‘news-
magazines, camp papers,
oh at the top, full of doctored ideas. A book on
isn't any national bureau of educa- | stuffing American |
American industry has also been |
| scheduled.
|
and com- |
It is only |
| A BOOK on the U. S. educational
German prisoners don't seem |
|
Before Davison began to build up |
his organization about a year and a half ago, he made a tour of PW
{bases and camps to see what he |
had to deal with.
one toward reorienting the Ger{man prisoners, the army had to]
8g {stop a lot of things that were Be-) ng of | |ing done,wrong.
NEXT: How the army revised its
| duced a system for self-education 'of German prisoners of war,
COUNT CIANO'S DIARY —THE INSIDE STORY OF THE AXIS —NO. 5
Italy Broke But Mussolini Shrugged
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trustworthy,’ and that the monarchy by its idotic ——— (the language again is coarse) is preventing the indoctrination of the army with Fascism. ” n n “IL DUCE says, “I am like a cat, cautious and prudent, but when I take a jump I am sure of landing where I wish. I am now debating whether to end it all with the House of .Savoy.” “The operation to emasculate Albania without making the patient scream is practically complete. Such is the advantage of cold-blooded and calculated decisions.” June 5—'Serrano Suner (Spanish minister of interior) arrives . clasps my hands for a long time and repeats words of gratitude for what Italy has done and how it has done it. » » ” “SUNER’S greatest annoyance fs France, He said that he hates her because his two brothers were killed by French bullets, and because he is Spanish and considers France the eternal enemy of Greater Spain. . “Spain fears 4 war in the near future because today she is at the end of her resources. , . . If she can have two or three years’ time, she can reconstitute herself and complete her miljtary prepara=tions. “Spain will be at the side of the axis. . A neutral Spain would be destined to a future of poverty and humiliation. 3 » » » “FRANCO'S Spain Intends to solve the problem of Gibraltar. So long as the British flag flies there Spain will not be completely free... . “The alliance (with Italy) is a fact in our minds. For the moment it would be premature to put it in a protocol. . . . The anti-Cath-
_olic excesses of the Germans of-
fend his (Suner’s) sensitiveness. ... He considers it fundamental to
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ceived from Hong Kong a document of the highest interest, a study by Adm. Noble (British China station commander, 193840) on the British naval balance against the Triangle (Germany, Italy, Japan). His outlook is pessimistic, particularly about the Mediterranean.” . June 10—“Il Duce would like to see him (Suner) head of the foreign ministry. (Suner was appointed head in 1941.) » ” ” “NAVAL review. Very beautiful. The king praised the Roman step (goose step) . . . Il Duce comments, ‘I wanted to reply: My good untrustworthy and stupid fellow, it was against you most of all that I had to argue to introduce it.’ .« . I handed the Japanese ambassador a copy of the Noble document.” June 13—“Il Duce calls me to talk about Franco's visit. He says, ‘This time I don’t wart any irterference as there was with Hitler's visit. If the king hasn't sense enough to withdraw, I will’ “It is necessary to put this paradoxical situation before the Italian people so they . . . may
» » » JUNE 14—"I1 Duce desires that we define the future program for the western ‘Mediterranean with Spain: Morocco would go completely to Spain; Tunis and Algeria would go to-us. An agreement with Spain should insure our permanent outlet to the Atlantic through Morocco. “Dinner at the French embassy « «+ With old court dames whose only business is to gorge themselves with free food.”
to. carry out a policy that will attract the Croats, Slovenes and so forth, it is necessary to begin by giving them _a feeling that we are employing an intelligent liberality toward them. We shall think later of Hghtering the reins.” . » » » CIANO’S father died Tuesday, June 27, 1939, at the age of 62. For "the next week the entries are concerned exclusively with his death and burial. * July 3—“This morning n Duce
choose between me and the king.” -
June 22-“If we really want |
handed to me a dociment my 1n his possession since
ns Sam Te fam
November, 1926; a letter in which Il Duce nominated him as his successor and gave him instructions in the event of the chief's disappearance. . . “The international situation has become obscured because of Danzig. I remain calm, thinking it is a false alarm. The fact is the Germans haven't said a word on the subject . , .” July 5—“The Greek, Metaxas, (minister to Rome) pays a courtesy visit, but is stunned by my reception. . . .” o » n JULY 7—"Like a good ambas~ sador, new to his work with the Fascists, Percy Loraine makes a great to-do about delivering in person a message by Chamberlain. . The message hadn't.any special value, a sort of minor key actusation about German pretentions in Danzig. . . . Il Duce countered, point for .point. “Some of his arguments were" brilliant, such as the one about Poland being the last couniry that could speak about Czechoslovakia since it was Poland that struck a mortal blow when Czechoslovakia already was down (seizure of the Teschen district). “Il Duce concluded by saying twice, ‘Tell Chamberlain that if England is ready to fight in defense of Poland, Italy will take up arms on behalf of her ally, Germany.! ‘Percy Loraine almost never opened his mouth.” u » » FROM July 9 to 19 Cigno was in Spain. The entries resumed on his retirn. Mussolini is planning to meet Hitler Aug. 4. July 19—“We must prepare it - well (the meeting). . . . In view of the “act that war plans must be delayed as long as possible, he (Il Duce) could talk to the Fuehrer about launching an international peace conference. “Either the democracies will agree to sit around a table and riegotiate and they will have to end by yielding considerably, or
“they will refuse and we shall have ‘the advantage of having taken
the initiative for peace. , , . Ate
-| tolico (ambassador to Berlin), is
very much concerned, and indi~
July 20—“Attolico . , , says the Germans are preparing to strike at Danzig by Aug. 14. For the first time Caruso from Prague announces movements on a vast scale. Is it possible all this should take place without our knowing | it? ” ~ ~ “ON IL DUCE'S orders I have presented an ultimatum to Ossetvatore Romano (organ of the Vatican) : Either it ceases its subtle propaganda against the Axis, or we shall prohibit its seis, tion.” July 22—“I1 Duce has worked out a plan of welcome for the meeting at Brenner Pass. It is based on the proposal for an international conference. . . .I agree on the usefulness of our move, which will spread confusion and dissension in" the camp of the enemy, where many voices already are raised against war...” July 26—“I talked by telephone with Magistrati about his conversation with Ribbentrop. His reaction was negative to the proposal for an international conference, “He will talk about it to the Fuehrer, but it is easy to see that nothing will come of it. It would seem a good idea to postpone the meeting . . .” July 27—“Attolico’s error becomes more and more apparent. Still another time Ribbentrop has confirmed the German decision to
avoid war for a long period, yet..." July 28—“I1 Duce decided to
postpone his meeting with Hitler and I think it was well. 1 telephoned to Attolico, who still is trying to kid us. ... The ambassador has done some good work, but he admits himself now to be taken in by the war scare . . July 31-—“Hitler decided personally upon the postponement of the Brenner Pass meeting . . .”
(TOMORROW: Ribbentrop Reveals It Is to Be War.)
Before anything positive could wel
{man prisoners of war brought to! reorientation program and intro-| German the United States,
GE 15 Labor Fall erin On Labor Law Are Planned
By FRED W. PERKINS Scripps-Howard Stal Writer WASHINGTON, June 22. ~There’ll be plenty of timé “for objections to the proposed federal industrial law, one of the three sponsoring nators said today, after all’ major “labor organizations had laid down a preliminary but heavy barrage against the proposed legislation. The unions dropped internal warfare to unite on this issue. Senator Joseph H. Ball (R. Minn.) said he had no doubt that public hearings will be ordered by the senate educa=tion and labor committee, of which he is a member. But he forecast they cannot be started before September ih view of other congressional business and the probability of a summer recess The hearings will be arranged after return to Washington next week of the committee chairman, Senator James E. Murray (D. Mont.).
4. 8.8 : MR. MURRAY'S voting record indicates he would oppose the bill in its present form, but he is exe pected to agree to hearings in view of the support already manifest for the three sponsors, who in additition to Mr. Ball are Senators Carl Hatch (D. N. M.) and Harold H. Burton (R. Ohjo), Another reason is that some senators, while net agreeing with the present proposal. say there should be legislation of some kind to prepare the country for return to peace and lessen the danger of management-labor controversies. Among those holding this view is Senator Wayne L. Morse (R. Ore.), former public member of the national war labor board.
n ” EJ THE DELAY of hearings to September also will give time for a suggestion of Mr. Morse to be carried out—that ‘the new secretary of labor, Judge Lewis B. Schwellenbach, call a general conference soon after he takes office in July and try to get an agreement among labor, management and public or government spokesmen on new labor law. Success of such an endeavor 1s made uncertain because of wide differences between management and union leaders, and also because the latter have consistently resisted any labor legislation not obviously for the benefit of their organizations. If definite ideas come out of the proposed Schwellenbach conferences they could be presented in the senate hearings, leaving the committee to make a choice. This course might remove one objection of labor leaders to the Ball-Burton-Hatch bill, that they were consulted in the 18 months given to study of the bill by the three senators and the committee of private citizens headed by Donald R. Richberg. » » \M ONE OBJECTION emphasized by the labor critics is that the bill proposes to establish a system of compulsory arbitration. This, said William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, “is a restriction upon their freedom that the wage earners of American will never accept. . . . The first step toward involuntary servitude.”
We, the Woron Thinks Experts On Efficiency
Home Need
By RUTH MILLETT MAYBE THERE is hope for women eventually doing something about the world's problems after all. The mail that has come in to refute an article I wrote a while back saying that women would not really like to have trained experts doing their housework is a good sign. If intelligent women really would get the job of running a home as well organized as men have their offices, then they could have time for helping to run their communities.
” » » NO MAN could be a big executive without turning over his routine offfce work trained to handle fit. had to type his own letters and answer his own telephones and talk with every caller who came to his office, he. wouldn't have time to do anything else. Successful men know this and so relieve themselves of the responsibility for handling any part of their job they can net 3 someone else fo do.
So if women really wan
g g