Illinois Valley News, Thursday, lune 7, 1945
Up Front With Fighting Leathernecks on Okinawa Stitched Bluebirds
N ews
B ehin
In Color on Linens
PCAftSON
—
By P aul M allon
Released by Western Newspaper Union.
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Washington, D. C.
GERMAN PRISON LABOR
Officials are keeping very muri.
(bout it, but the entire question of
using German prison labor to re
build Russia and France has been
thrown into a new controversy by a
secret opinion rendered by Supreme
Court Justice Robert Jackson, who
has taken over U. S. prosecution of
war criminals.
Justice Jackson wrote his opinion
to U
S
Reparations Chief Ed
Pauley, stating that in his opinion
compulsory German labor should
not be used to rebuild France and
Russia unless they have been con
victed of war crimes.
"It is not my business what Is to
be done with reparations." Jackson
wrote, "but this would largely de
stroy the moral position of Ameri
ca in this war. . . . Compulsory
labor," he contifiued, "should be
required only for convicted war
Leathernecks, coordinating with army troops, are shown in action in the final stages of the fierce battles
criminals."
Jackson went on to point out that that raged in every section of Okinawa island. Island spotted with graves and fallen heroes attests to the
German labor "drifting out of Rus- high price paid.
sian concentration camps in the fu
ture would tell tales of horror"
which, even if exaggerated, would
"arouse sharp condemnation in the
United States." He urged, there
fore. that German labor not be
used for reparations until they had
been convicted of war crimes He
indicated that members of the Ges
tapo and the SS Elite guard undoubt
edly were war criminals as a class,
but the every member of the Nazi
party might not be classified as i a
war criminal.
Following Justice Jackson's
bombshell, a hurried meeting
was called in Secretary Morgen-
thau's office, attended by Ed
Pauley, Assistant Secretary of
State Will Clayton, the army,
navy, FEA, and other inter
ested government agencies. Sec
retary Morgenthau vigorously
protested thia new development.
It was pointed out by some that
the use of German prison labor
had been agreed to st Yalta by
President Roosevelt himself and,
therefore, could not he changed.
CIO REBUKED AT
SAN FRANCISCO CONFAB
WASHINGTON -Here is the story
no one could get at San Francisco—
the inside story of why Sidney Hill
man. Russian labor, and leftists of
British trade unions
happened to assem
ble their new world
labor order on Oax-
land.
across
the
bay, just at the very
day of the opening
of the world peace
conference.
and
what they were jp
to
All inquiries were
Sidney Hillman pushed
aside out
there with the ex
planation that this new world labor
power, called the World Trade Union
Congress, was merely looking for re
flected publicity from its proximity
to the conference, or something sim
ilarly inconsequential.
It is no wonder the story was hid
den securely beneath a rubble of
confusing explanations because it
would have disclosed a coup de con
ference planned by Mr. Hillman
and his Russian associates a coup
which was squelched completely in
a secret meeting of the conference
steering committee, despite inter
vention by no less a power than Mo
lotov himself These are the facts:
The Oakland labor assembly was
completely under control of Hillman
and the Russians, with the British
riding quietly behind them.
The
head of the Russian labor delegation
at Oakland was also an official dele
gate for Russia in the San Fran
cisco peace meeting and the pipe
line between.
PLAN WORKED UPON
Through him the Hillman crowd
worked up a program whereby thev
would all get into the conference and
into the permanent peace setup by
being established as the group to
handle world labor problems.
"If we have to wait for the con
They succeeded ii getting the eco viction of all these war criminals
nomic committee of the conference before we can get German labor,"
to approve their entry as consult
suggested Reparations Chief Pauley
ants. The economic committee in
"we may have to wait a year Mean
cludes strong representation of
while. there may not be enough
smaller nations, particularly Latin
Germans to repair the damage in
America.
France and Russia."
A resolution carrying out this pur
Pauley also made the point that
pose was handed by the economic
committee to the steering commit [ he had been charged by the Presi
tee which is composed of all nations dent with the handling of repara
After some warm discussion, that tions and. therefore, would have to
guiding committee of the conference , make the final decision himself
decided it would not even go into after his arrival in Europe, After
the matter thoroughly and defeated further discussion, however. Pauley
agreed to accept Justice Jackson's
the resolution
When Hillman saw this coming ne opinion in principle, namely, that
got Molotov to champion his cause, only convicted war criminals could
and it was the Russian foreign min be used as prisoner labor. This
ister who pressed the matter as far leaves the whole question pretty
as it went in the steering committee i much up in the air.
By his own adroitness, Hill
man thus oulsllcked himself
and disclosed his hand.
That
Molotov would champion his
cause was all-too-ohvious evi
dence to everyone on the inside
that their fears and suspicions
about Hillman's trade union con
gress had solid ground—that it
was more Russian than worldly.
A few days later the Oakland
meeting quietly adjourned without
laking any noticeable action and
Mr Hillman went off to southern
.'.ilifornia for a rest.
The frustration of the coup repre
tented a victory for Bill Green, the
AFT. president, who has been vigor
nisly fighting Hillmnn's attemot
tince the last election to establish
tith the Communist a world labor
However, it has been hinted that
Justice Jackson will endeavor to in
dict groups of Germans as a class
In other words, he may try the Ges
tapo as a group, not individually,
and decide that every member of
the Gestapo automatically is a war
criminal This probably will be done
w ith Hitler's SS Elite corps Wheth
er a blanket indictment will also be
lodged against the Nazi party re-
mains to be seen.
• •
Carrier and Its Heroic Crew That Never Quit
A ghastly but unforgettable memorial to the heroi m of those who man the navy’s ships and the skill of
those who build them, was again shown when the carrier USS Franklin arrived In Brooklyn Navy yard under her
own power. Ilit by Jap dive bombers, afire and her own bombs exploding and one-third of her crew killed,
from Jap waters to Brooklyn she returned unaided. Lower left, officers of carrier. Lower right. Chaplain
Joseph O'Callahan, one of heroes during battle, and trip home. Right shows how she limped into port.
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Farming War Fields
Birds and flowers are in easiest possible
stitchery. Pattern 7481 has a transfer
pattern of 20 motifs, 2 by 2 to 4*/a by 10
inches.
Due to an unusually large demand and
current war conditions, slightly more time
is required in filling orders for a few of
the most popular pattern numbers.
Send your order to:
Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept.
Box 3217
San Francisco 6. Calif.
Enclose 16 cents for Pattern
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The Questions
1. What does comme il faut
mean?
2. How do Washington’s Japa
nese cherry trees differ from our
native cherry trees?
3. What technical term is ap
plied to a government by women?
4. Who elects congressmen at
large?
5. The Singhalese are inhabi
tants of what country?
6. What is the longest monosyl
lable in the English language?
7. Why do leaves turn up before
an impending rainstorm.
8. "
Under whose administration
was the national debt at its low-
est?
9. When and where was the
American Legion organized?
10. What ancient pass connects
Afghanistan and India?
The Answers
Proper. As it should be.
They do not bear fruit.
Gynarchy.
All the voters of a state.
Ceylon.
Strength.
It is due to an increase of at
mospheric moisture. Therefore the
leaf stalk absorbs more moisture,
and “warps,” turning the leaf
over.
8. Our national debt reached its
lowest level during President An
drew Jackson's term, when it
amounted to $37.515.05 in 1836.
9. It was organized in St. Louis
May 8 to 10, 1919.
10. Khyber pass.
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TR LINING
FILMS DESTROYED,
The army doesn't want it known.
but it has a new way of handling
one type of surplus property. In the
case of training and orientation
film, it burns old prints According
to a survey made by movie ex-
ports, old films last summer were
being burned at the rate of 225 tons
weekly at Astoria, N. Y.
I
Meanwhile
other
government
agencies, schools and universities
are anxious to buy these outmoded
prints from the army. In fact, the
U S office of transportation had ’o
spend $iU' 000 of the taxpayers'
money to make 10 new reels of its
own when the army refused to sell
it the army's excellent series of 20
reels for the training of auto
I c
mechanics.
Sen. Francis Myers of Pennsyl
vania, Democrat, has just written
Maj Gen Harry Ingles, chief of the
signal corps, demanding in explana
tion
The making of training films and
orientation films by the army has
H i » prete
been a major operation Thousands
of subjects have been turned out at
a tremendous outlay, and produc
tion schedules have been more
crowded than those of any Holly
wood studio.
1110 films have proved remarkable
of the nations <it mi if Hillrnan's coup training aids, with officers claim-
one thro ugh - able t<) influence mg that they cut at least in half the
the ji idgmcnt of nations
The Rus length of time need«cd to 'each men
nions art• not free ttrnide unions such things as first irid. etc.
• •
1 uriderstind1 that even Sir Walter
e, the British ultr a ■ liberal
< M’ITOL ( 11 IFF
r. is look ing for openi doors ne- « Aviation or thusi ast Rep
Jen-
hint to escape tw►litely the nings Randolph ha s introduced a
bill authorising the
i emmet t to
British trade uni< >ns which repay einplo'rc.x (or the use of their
uerc
sented in private airplanes on government
gathering Ihave now business — just as i s now done with
split, and I de> not expect thev * ill
torcycles
go ve ry much further wit h Hillman I
tile Senator Joe
and t he Huss lan effort t o capture! O Mahonev has qu etly started a
world labor co ntrol
study of the dispeaa 1 of surplus war
Hill man, b>r this efToi t coming 1 plants He wants to ii 'ure m xinium
* top his domirstic electoir.l activi- use of our nationa) productive
Ves. ttas lost r
1 in Wa«h rapacity after the war and th*
ingioi i. partici
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business
DLUEBIRDS — the symbol of
happiness—what more appro
priate motif for a prospective
bride’s linens? —
Do them in nat-
ural color.
• • •
Born in the early spring at Pittsburgh zoo. this giraffe (left! already
has grown out of babyhood. Ilis mother was shopping when this photo
was taken. Lower right, Lady Llama at San F rancisco with her son V-E,
born on that great day. Upper right, there was much ado at the Bronx
too when for the first time in over three years a baby icbra was born.
While plowing his field the French
farmer leaves a tiny island in the
center of the plot containing the
grave of a British soldier killed in
the early days of invasion of Nor
mandy who, like thousands of oth
ers, will remain In temporary plots
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Backache
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May Kt arn of Disordered
Kidney Action
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Fighting men of the army'a 77th Infantry division on Okinawa listen
to the news a few yards behind the front linen. Their battle-hardened
faces indicate the impassiveness with which they received the news real
ising the war is not over for them and that a tough fight lies ahead as is
now being proven to them.
\ combined radio recelver-trans
mitter for firemen is demonstrated
by Atlantic City radio technician
Larry Smith. The "talking helmet”
is a four-tube crystal-controlled
transmitter.
Modern life with its hurry and worry.
Irregular hab ta. improper eating and
drinking— its risk of exposure and infec
tion—throws heavy strain no the work
of the kidneys. They are apt to become
over-taxed and fail to filler excess arid
and other impurities from the life-giving
blood.
You may suffer nagging backache,
headache, dixxinrsa, getting up n.ghts,
Mg ra.m, swelling—feel (.
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constantly
t *ed. nervous, all worn out. Other signs
of kidney or bladder disorder are some
times burning, scanty or too frequent
urination.
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