Völkischer Beobachter (February 14, 1944)
Judas Geheimherrschaft
Von Walter Freund
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Sorgen der Behörden in USA –
Die kommende Arbeitslosigkeit
dnb. Stockholm, 13. Februar –
Die amerikanischen Behörden sind nach einer Neuyorker Meldung von Svenska Dagbladet beunruhigt über die sich in Reihen der Arbeiter und Beamtenschaft stark geltend machen den Tendenz, sich einen sicheren Arbeitsplatz in der Zukunft zu beschaffen. Die Arbeitsplatzfrage in der Nachkriegszeit sei außerordentlich aktuell geworden, da das Arbeitslosengespenst nach dem Kriege erneut in der amerikanischen Öffentlichkeit auftauche.
Aus Briefen amerikanischer Soldaten aus Übersee gehe hervor, daß die Furcht, bei einer Heimkehr keine Arbeit zu finden, ständig wachse. Wie ernst das Problem sei, zeigen auch die Verhältnisse im größten Industriekonzern der USA in Detroit, wo man einerseits 75.000 weitere Arbeiter für die Vollendung der Arbeiten in der Rüstungsindustrie sucht, die Personalchefs der Fabriken sich jedoch gleichzeitig größte Sorgen machen, was sie mit den Männern und Frauen tun sollen, die sie nach dem Kriege entlassen müssen.
Feindliche Schiffsbewegungen bei Nettuno und Anzio bekämpft –
Verstärkter Feinddruck im Nordteil der Ostfront
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U.S. Navy Department (February 14, 1944)
CINCPAC Press Release No. 270
For Immediate Release
February 14, 1944
Pacific Fleet carrier‑based aircraft attacked Eniwetok Atoll on February 10, 11, and 12 (West Longitude Date). Airdrome and other ground Installations were heavily bombed. There was no fighter opposition, and no anti-aircraft fire was encountered.
Carrier planes attacked Ujae Atoll before dawn on February 12, damaging ground facilities.
On the same day, 7th Army Air Force Mitchell bombers, Dauntless dive bombers and Airacobra fighters attacked three enemy‑held atolls in the Marshall Islands dropping bombs and strafing with machine guns and cannon. Navy search planes made small-scale bombing attacks on Ujelang and Utirik Atolls.
Small force of enemy bombers raided Roi Island in the Kwajalein Atoll during the night of February 11 and 12. Our damage and casualties were moderate.
The New York Times (February 14, 1944)
Wilson’s daughter dies a recluse at 57 in religious colony in India
Margaret Woodrow Wilson, shown in this 1923 photo. (AP)
Los Angeles, California – (Feb. 13)
News of the death in India of Miss Margaret Woodrow Wilson, eldest of the former President’s three daughters, was received today by cable by her sister, Mrs. Eleanor Wilson McAdoo of West Los Angeles. The cablegram stated she died yesterday of uremia.
For the last four years, Miss Wilson, whose age was 57, had been studying the religious teachings of Sri Aurobindo in Pondicherry, India, where he and members of his organization live in solitude.
Miss McAdoo said arrangements for the return of her sister’s body to the United States for burial would probably have to wait until after the war.
Miss Wilson was born in Gainesville, Georgia, April 16, 1886, a daughter of President Wilson and his first wife, the former Ellen Axson of Savannah, Georgia. Her mother died on Aug. 6, 1914, and on Dec. 18, 1915, her father married Mrs. Edith Bolling Galt of Washington. President Wilson died on Feb. 3, 1924, leaving his entire estate to his widow for her life, except $2,500 a year to be paid to Margaret as long as she remained unmarried.
Until she was about 40 years old, the chief interests of Miss Wilson’s life were music and social welfare. She made a long and serious effort to find a professional career in music. After attending Goucher College in Baltimore, 1903-05, she spent a year at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, studying voice and piano; a like period as a voice pupil of Blanch Sylvana in Baltimore, then two years with Vivian Edwards at Princeton, New Jersey, and three with Mrs. David Gillespie in New York. From Ross David of New York, she received instruction from 1912 to 1919. Another teacher was Mrs. MacDonald Sheridan of New York.
Made singing debut in 1915
After making her debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the Central New York Music Festival at Syracuse in May 1915, Miss Wilson, a soprano, gave song recitals that autumn in Buffalo, Cleveland and Erie, Pennsylvania. Throughout the First World War period, she gave frequent recitals in many American cities and at Army camps, the former usually for the benefit of the Red Cross. In October 1918, she went to France where she sang at camps of the Allied armies until June 1919. A New York Times critic who heard her sing with a group of Ross David’s pupils at the Bandbox Theater in April 1915, wrote that her voice has “a sympathetic quality, which is its most commendable attribute;” that she sang “with intelligence and feeling and without affectation.”
During the years that her father’s position in the White House brought her a reflected prominence, Miss Wilson urged a universal American program of using schools for community centers. She made many speeches on this subject and appeared before a House committee to advocate the measure for the District of Columbia. To a convention of the National Woman’s Party in 1921, she said:
What shall we do now we have the vote? Let us, all of us, the men and women of America, organize for the purpose of taking a continuous and direct part in our own government. Each neighborhood should be organized in one non-exclusive, non-partisan group and should have as its meeting place and center of cooperation the schoolhouse, because it is common property. The neighborhood then should be defined for practical purposes by the limits of the school district. Also, there must be a way of drawing together all the neighborhood groups of a city or town or rural district.
Served as advertising writer
In the summer of 1923, Miss Wilson entered the advertising business as a consultant and writer for the Biow Agency, with which she remained two years. At about this time, or a little later, she engaged on a speculation in oil stocks which turned out badly. On Feb. 5, 1927, a judgment of $10,512 was entered against her in the county clerk’s office. Supplementary proceedings instituted to bring her into court for an examination of her finances were suspended, however, and it became known that she had taken a position as a bond saleswoman to pay off the debt.
The public heard little more of Miss Wilson until June 1940, when George Nakashima, an American-born Japanese architect, returned from India with the announcement that Miss Wilson had found peace and seclusion from the world in a religious colony at Pondicherry, where Mr. Nakashima had spent two years building a dormitory for Aurobindo’s followers.
When Herbert L. Matthews, New York Times correspondent, saw Miss Wilson in January 1943, at Sri Aurobindo’s ashram (the lodging where he receives and lodges his followers), she had been a sadhak or follower for four years. The former President’s daughter told him that she was happier than ever before and did not want to return to the United States.
She said:
I am not homesick. In fact, I never felt more at home anywhere any time in her life.
Her name in the ashram was Nishtha, a Sanskrit word whose meaning Aurobindo explained to her in mystic terminology as “leading to the discovery of the divine self in every human being.”
Miss Wilson told Mr. Matthews that she had not been a regular churchgoer since girlhood, but had become interested in Indian religious classics and the works of Indian mystics about ten years ago. One day, five years later, quite by chance, she selected a book by Sri Aurobindo from the card catalogue in the New York Public Library and began to read it in the main reading room. She only stopped when an attendant told her it was closing time. She returned daily until she had finished the book. The journey to Pondicherry followed.
Both sisters of Miss Wilson were married in the White House: Eleanor Randolph Wilson in 1914 to the then Secretary of the Treasury, William Gibbs McAdoo, from whom she obtained a divorce; Jessie Woodrow Wilson in 1913 to Francis B. Sayre, former U.S. High Commissioner to the Philippines. She died in 1933.
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The Pittsburgh Press (February 14, 1944)
British slaughter Nazis, take bridge on Rome road
Drive against beachhead slackens; air fleets pound Germans
By Robert V. Vermillion, United Press staff writer
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Cassino Abbey being shelled, enemy claims
Report follows anger by Yanks over Nazi use of monastery
By Robert Dowson, United Press staff writer
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Army seals her lips on escape –
Missing flying nurse back from ‘Shangri-La’
Lt. Gertrude Dawson ‘lost’ in Europe after forced landing
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2 union heads open attack on New Deal
Spokesmen for independent group, AFL carpenters charge partiality
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Fingerprinting first –
Chaplin starts long trip, surrenders to marshal
White-haired comedian and codefendants will be arraigned in court week from today
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Raymond Clapper memorial is planned by his friends
Famous columnist extolled at services as bulwark of free press, articulator of democracy
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Democrats face convention fight on Wallace vote
Vice President actively campaigning for renomination; conservatives want party stalwart on ticket
By Lyle C. Wilson, United Press staff writer
Washington –
Vice President Henry A. Wallace’s active campaigning for renomination on his transcontinental tour foreshadows a bitter contest at the forthcoming Democratic National Convention.
Conservative Democrats, finding themselves unable even to impede momentarily the fourth-term nomination of President Roosevelt, may attempt to wreak their vengeance on Mr. Wallace – if they can. They want a party stalwart on the ticket.
Whether the question of Mr. Wallace’s renomination reaches a convention floor showdown will depend on Mr. Roosevelt. If Mr. Roosevelt wants him again, he will have to lick the party regulars to put Mr. Wallace over.
Many observers here believe the President decided last summer to discard his 1940 running mate.
Clashed with Jones
That was when Secretary of Commerce Jesse H. Jones and Mr. Wallace disputed conduct of foreign economic policy. Mr. Wallace then was head of the Board of Economic Warfare and an important figure in Mr. Roosevelt’s war councils.
The President adjusted the dispute by relieving Mr. Jones of certain duties under circumstances entirely satisfactory to Mr. Jones and by stripping Mr. Wallace of every shred of power and authority except his elective office and the trivial ex officio duties pertaining to it.
But Mr. Wallace came up smiling and undertook a series of speaking engagements, frequently before labor or left-wing audiences, in which he has undoubtedly made himself solid politically with the New Deal wing of the political coalition which put Mr. Roosevelt in office in 1932 and has kept him there since.
Talks fourth term
Meanwhile, Mr. Roosevelt has been under occasional and scattered fire from the left. It is reasonable to believe that Mr. Wallace is attempting to establish his own political prestige with the left-wingers sufficiently to persuade Mr. Roosevelt to keep him on the 1944 ticket.
Mr. Wallace is making his own campaign almost synonymous with the movement to draft Mr. Roosevelt for a fourth term. On the West Coast and now on his return journey, Mr. Wallace is telling questioners that Mr. Roosevelt should be renominated.
There is no hint of White House displeasure over the persistent draft-Roosevelt campaign of which Mr. Wallace now seems to be the principal spokesman.
Farley, Garner put heads together
San Antonio, Texas (UP) –
Former Postmaster General James A. Farley visited former Vice President John Garner at Uvalde yesterday.
Mr. Farley said that they had talked of politics “past, present, and future,” but that none of their conversation was for publication.
Willkie outlines Far Eastern trade
San Francisco, California (UP) –
Immediate establishment of trade ties with Russia, China and other transpacific countries “without waiting for any post-war golden age” was advocated by Wendell Willkie last night.
In a radio address devoted largely to the industrial prospects of the Pacific Coast, Mr. Willkie said:
Narrow nationalism, domestic economic ineffectiveness and feeble leadership may well cause these hungry markets of the East to seek other sources of provisioning; for if we do not meet their needs, others will, and this section of the United States will be unimportant in the new economic pattern.”
Mr. Willkie spent yesterday afternoon in Sacramento with Governor and Mrs. Earl Warren, but refused to say whether they discussed political questions.
Browder: Retain Roosevelt
Boston, Massachusetts (UP) –
Earl Browder, Secretary of the Communist Party, said yesterday that the reelection of President Roosevelt in November and the strict enactment of the Tehran program are the only ways the world can reach security through victory and
Speaking at Symphony Hall, Browder said that:
Patriotic men and women of all parties must unite to convince Roosevelt that the country demands his continued leadership.
He said the Tehran program can be summed up in one word: “Security.”
And that means not only physical security which provides safety from attacks by aggressors. It also means economic security, social security, moral security – in a family of nations.
Close quarters fighting marks Cassino battle
Tired Yanks moving into town – this time to stay
By James E. Roper, United Press staff writer
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Allies blast French coast, Dutch air base
Attacks follow Nazi night raid on London at cost of six planes
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Simplified tax to be too late for ‘March 15’
House group starts effort to make Form 1040 explicable
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In Washington –
Deadlock bogs soldiers’ vote in conference
Taft compromise for count by states given new consideration
Washington (UP) –
Prospects of a hopeless deadlock between House-Senate conferees on the soldier vote issue today revived interest in a compromise plan – already rejected three times by the Senate – placing the emphasis on state absentee ballots.
The conferees were expected to begin Wednesday their attempts at a compromise, but a stalemate appeared in the making because five of the 10 conferees were string supporters of the state ballot while the other five were equal ardent backers of the federal plan.
Plan another look
The conferees indicated that they would take another look at the thrice-rejected plan of Senator Robert A. Taft (R-OH), allowing use of a federal ballot by overseas service personnel only if they are unable to get their own state voting blanks.
Senator Taft’s plan was in the form of middle ground between the House-approved plan, which calls for use only of state ballots; and the Senate’s Green-Lucas bill, which provides that federal ballots for President, Vice President and members of Congress be used generally overseas.
Martin’s challenge
Meanwhile, House Republican Leader Joseph W. Martin Jr. (R-MA) challenged President Roosevelt to make the soldier vote fight an issue in the coming presidential election. Recalling that the President had denounced the states’ rights bill as a fraud, Mr. Martin said:
The Republicans will meet the issue head-on. We won’t run away – and we don’t fear the result.