Senate ready to kill food subsidy plan
Approval of bill boosting meat, milk, bread prices appears certain
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Prohibition leader’s brother on probation
Los Angeles, California (UP) –
C. Arthur Watson, 48, brother of Claude Watson, Prohibition Party candidate for President, began two years of probation today following its conviction on charges of intoxication and drunken driving.
Watson, who said he was sorry to have caused any embarrassment to his brother, admitted in court that he had taken three alcoholic drinks early in the evening of Nov. 21, and said he had been taking codeine tablets for dental ailments. He said he did not know what effect the combination would produce.
Völkischer Beobachter (February 12, 1944)
Hohe Feindverluste bei Nettuno –
Erneut zahlreiche Sowjetangriffe abgewiesen
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Roosevelts Gangsterschützlinge –
Kommunisten überwachen US-Unternehmungen
ws. Lissabon, 11. Februar –
Die Bolschewisierung Amerikas, die mit Hilfe der Regierung Roosevelt und der maßgebenden Männer des New Deal durchgeführt wird, wird erneut bestätigt durch Enthüllung des bekannten US-Journalisten Westbrook Pegler in New York World Telegramm. Pegler weist auf Grund von Feststellungen des amerikanischen Kongreßabgeordneten Edward Herbert nach, daß die von der Regierung aufgebauten und von ihr maßgebend beeinflußten großen Brewster Flugzeugwerke mit Unterstützung der Regierung und mit ihrem ausdrücklichen Einverständnis völlig unter kommunistischem Einfluß stehen.
Die Vertretung der 20.000 Arbeiter der Werke wurde dem CIO-Gewerkschaftsführer Vincent de Lorenzo übertragen, der zum New Deal Roosevelts in engen Beziehungen steht. Der Einfluß Lorenzos in den Brewster Werken geht so weit, daß das Kriegsarbeitsamt kontraktlich die Entscheidung darüber abtreten mußte, welche Arbeiter des Betriebes als kriegswichtig zurückgestellt werden müssen und welche nicht. Damit übt der Gewerkschaftsführer eine absolute Herrschaft aus und kann unliebsame Elemente jederzeit entfernen, indem er ihre Zurückstellung aufhebt. Obwohl nun durch eine Untersuchung, die von Kongreßabgeordneten durchgeführt wurde, festgestellt werden konnte, daß Lorenzo, der völlig unter kommunistischem Einfluß steht und sich dem amerikanischen Heeresdienst entzogen hat, eine höchst bewegte Vorgeschichte hat und ein Verbrecher ist, wird ihm gestattet, weiterhin die Macht in den Brewster Flugzeugwerken auszuüben.
Bei der Untersuchung stellte sich auch heraus, daß Lorenzo einen falschen Namen angenommen hat und sich bei seiner Einwanderung in die USA Henry Posener nannte. Unter verschiedenen Anklagen, die gegen ihn vorliegen, aber niedergeschlagen wurden, befindet sich auch eine wegen fahrlässiger Tötung.
Wie Westbrook Pegler ausdrücklich hervorhebt, ist Posener nicht der einzige von der Roosevelt-Regierung gestützte Gewerkschaftsführer, der den kommunistischen Parteirichtlinien folgt und systematisch daran arbeitet, die amerikanische Industrie und das Geschäftsleben Amerikas mit einem Netz kommunistischer Spitzeln zu überziehen. Der US-Journalist führt als weiteren Beweis für diese unheilvolle Politik Roosevelts den Gewerkschaftspräsidenten der CIO-Büroarbeiterunion Lewis Herrill an, der einen weitgehenden Einfluß hat. Er setzt New York World Telegramm zufolge seine Spione in alle ihm wichtig erscheinenden Unternehmungen und Betriebe und hat damit ein regelrechtes Überwachungssystem eingerichtet. So brachte er einen Beauftragten in das Neuyorker Büro der Bergarbeitergewerkschaft hinein und organisierte dann mit dessen Hilfe sowie mit Unterstützung einer Reihe der Kommunistischen Partei ergebener Elemente einen Überfall und Einbruch in das Gewerkschaftsbüro der Grubenarbeiterorganisation. Wie Westbrook Pegler zum Schluß hervorhebt, tritt auch Herrill unter falschem Namen auf, der bei seiner Einwanderung in die USA vor wenigen Jahren noch Cohen hieß.
Diese Enthüllungen gaben einen Einblick in die Korruption der inneramerikanischen Verhältnisse und sind ein weiterer Beitrag zu dem sensationellen Skandal des Raubmörders Lepke – Buchhalter, eines Schützlings, der ebenfalls in den Gewerkschaften des New Deal eine maßgebende Rolle spielt.
Unruhen in Kolumbien –
Neuer Übergriff Roosevelts
dnb. Vigo, 11. Februar –
Dr. Laureano Gomez, der Führer der Konservativen Partei in Kolumbien, wurde auf Grund seiner ablehnenden Haltung gegen die Aufnahme der Sowjets in Kolumbien auf Betreiben der amerikanischen Botschaft verhaftet.
Infolge der Entrüstung seiner Anhänger ereigneten sich in der Nacht zum Donnerstag ernste Zwischenfälle in den Straßen der kolumbianischen Hauptstadt Bogota.
Wie EFE aus Bogota meldet, sind die ersten vier Agenten der neuen sowjetischen Gesandtschaft in der kolumbianischen Hauptstadt eingetroffen. Die Gesandtschaft wird insgesamt über 34 sowjetrussische Agenten verfügen. Damit dürfte die Bolschewisierung Kolumbiens schnelle Fortschritte machen.
US-Botschaft in Teheran
Die amerikanische Regierung hat wie die britische beschlossen, ihre Gesandtschaft in Teheran in den Rang einer Botschaft zu erheben, (dnb.)
Erbitterte Kämpfe an der italienischen Südfront –
22 Batterien trommeln auf Cassino
Von Kriegsberichter Walter Enz
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The Pittsburgh Press (February 12, 1944)
Yanks’ stone wall stand wipes out waves of Nazis
Ships hammer foe; Allied situation serious but not hopeless
By C. R. Cunningham, United Press staff writer
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Nazi shells kill 2 more U.S. nurses
Enemy artillery opens up on American hospital on beachhead
By Reynolds Packard, United Press staff writer
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Nazis massed in area –
Pontiff’s villa faces attacks
Allies cite enemy targets near Castel Gandolfo
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Invasion coast pounded again
Liberators lead new raid on Pas de Calais area
By Walter Cronkite, United Press staff writer
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Allies blast Rabaul, down 20 fighters
Other planes hit Wewak area of New Guinea with 200 tons
By Don Caswell, United Press staff writer
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Trial due in spring –
Lawyers go into huddle to keep Chaplin free man
Film comic and his pals to surrender in federal court Monday to be fingerprinted
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Bud Abbott elected mayor of his town
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U.S. indicts Japs
Sacramento, California –
A federal grand jury today indicted five Jap inmates of Tule Lake Segregation Center, one on charges of possessing a still and the others for possessing saki as well as groceries stolen from the center commissary.
Japs report new raid on capital of Thailand
By the United Press
The Tokyo radio, quoting a Dōmei Agency dispatch, said today that “more than 10 Allied planes” attempted another “indiscriminate attack” on Bangkok, capital of Thailand, Thursday, but were repulsed.
The raiders were forces to jettison their bombs, the agency said, and damage was “negligible.”
I DARE SAY —
Thunder and lightning
By Florence Fisher Parry
The first pictures from the Marshall Islands could be “stills” from the motion picture Gung Ho! now showing at the Fulton Theater. This magnificent motion picture, which tells as would some spare and factual newsreel how Makin Island was raided, is to my mind the best informative feature of the war we have had, with the exception of the actual newsreels.
We have learned so much about the war that it has become very hard for us to credit or be impressed by any fiction that Hollywood can manufacture for its screen. Only a few pictures have succeeded in creating the illusion of reality – really to match that which our newsreels and news pictures reveal. Gung Ho! and Guadalcanal Diary are the best of these. They more closely approximate the facts than any others.
True, we have been given some magnificent war films like The Moon Is Down, The North Star, and Mrs. Miniver, but these have been dramatic stories with plot, romance, theatrical situations. They have been screenplays. Personally I much prefer the newsreel technique to any other; and next to that the kind of factual motion picture of which Gung Ho! is such a splendid example.
Alcoholics
If you are looking for horror of another kind than that which is contained in war and motion pictures, I can recommend to you a neat little psychopathic novel by Charles Jackson entitled The Lost Weekend.
This is a really terrifying revelation of an alcoholic’s conflict. That this book should command such immediate and unexpected attention at a time when the reading public has no patience with less epic problems than those of world survival is testimony to the novel’s extraordinary power.
Here is a good look to put into the hands of any young man who might be indulging the delusion that he can handle alcohol. It is worth a thousand sermons, a million pledges and a billion vain petitions from well-meaning reformers.
I think that if I were one who found that the habit of drinking was taking slow and subtle hold of me, I should be very likely to be jolted out of the spell by the reading of this book. It is a most compelling and horrifying case history.
And in this connection, I am reminded of the amazing success which that comparatively young organization known as Alcoholics Anonymous is meeting with. Starting with a few reformed drunkards who had been saved by some strange, deep spiritual shock which somehow had the power to redeem them, these men began a quiet little crusade to save their fellow sufferers.
Today, this organization has won the gratitude and recognition of the medical profession to the extent that our hospitals utilize, whenever possible, the assistance of Alcoholics Anonymous. Our penal institutions are benefiting by its increasing numbers among their inmates, and Alcoholics Anonymous now have spread their beneficent work into the homes of thousands of men and women who had counted themselves lost.
Peril in Italy
The realization that the Allied forces in Italy are really being driven back closer to the sea has come as a timely shock, and costly as this tragic stand has been and will be, it could not have been better timed to jolt us from our complacency.
Let us pray that this bitter and costly reverse will put iron in the souls of all of us and bring us to the realization that war is long and can be won only by all-out sacrifice.
Let us have more unsparing pictures of the crumpled dead. Let us be made to look upon atrocity pictures, too. There is nothing so poignant as the grotesque and helpless attitude of death. The picture of one young American boy prostrate upon a lonely beach achieves an eloquence beyond the power of pen or prayer.
It is natural, I suppose, for us to be so caught up with this war that we are not aware of the tremendous forces that have been set in motion lately in our country, forces that can in themselves change the structure of our Republic far more than the outcome of any combat victory or defeat. The fourth term issue, for example, is taking shape with all its deadly implications.
I do not believe that in our entire national history we have been confronted with a more critical choice than that which is now taking shape on our political front.
Bricker’s plea for strike ban meets apathy
Congressmen think time unripe for action at present
By Fred W. Perkins, Pittsburgh Press staff writer
Washington –
Prohibition of strikes in time of war, as recommended here by Governor John W. Bricker of Ohio, has not changed that majority Congressional disposition to move slowly on this subject, according to opinion samplings today.
Even some of the Ohio Republican Congressmen expressed privately a regret that the Governor had unveiled this dynamic issue at this time. Another Republican from the Midwest, who has been active in efforts at union-regulatory legislation, took the same stand, but said he thought Governor Bricker had expressed a demand that exists among a substantial number of plain citizens and men in the Armed Forces.
Reasons for apathy
Reasons for the Congressional apathy on the subject are two: No serious strikes are going on now; the House would probably pass such legislation, but the Senate would probably let it die.
A bill to prohibit all wartime strikes is in the House, but until the situation changes it will be “just another bill.” The bill introduced by Rep. Howard W. Smith (D-VA) provides penalties of revocation of rights under the National Labor Relations Act and other labor-protective statutes for any union whose members strike in wartime, whether or not the disturbance is “wildcat” or authorized by the union’s officers.
Political factor
The subject is linked up with the presidential campaign. Republicans see a chance to divide the administration’s labor support this year. Among the leading Republican possibilities, Governor Dewey has made no labor pronouncement, nor has Mr. Willkie.
On the Democratic side, the labor-politico picture may be affected by two oncoming developments:
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The Department of Justice will find it necessary to make a statement eventually on its investigation of charges that the War Labor Disputes Act has been violated by a collection of a $700,000 political campaign fund under direction of CIO president Philip Murray.
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Congressman Dies (D-TX) says he will tell the House within two weeks what his investigating committee has turned up regarding alleged cultivation of un-American subversive elements by the CIO’s “Political Action Committee.”
Miners’ protest
Criticism of the administration from the American Federation od Labor and the non-affiliated unions has increased. Among the latter is the United Mine Workers, headed by John L. Lewis, who supported Mr. Willkie in 1940, but might find it hard to do so in 1944. This union’s magazine says in the current issue:
There are any number of honest American labor leaders willing and anxious to vote the Republican ticket if the Republican Party can and will furnish the assurance that it is ready and willing to become the party of the people.