The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-01-15

German Captives
Cast Reflections
on Currency
By HELEN EssARY

on Currency
By HELEN EssARY
.llled armies on the western
1t are being helped materially
strange ways by prisoners and
ED laborers now inside the
eh. One report relates how for
! workers and captives are un.
mining Nazi morale by the sim.
device OF spreading discredit of
Nazi financial system.
ince these foreigners are cut off
n their homelands until the war
ended, they feel they should
nd their earned funds on tangi-
goods rather than bank" It
~ spend freely, buy anything o;
gible value. promoting the black
'ket and-to add insult 10 Ger.
! pride-tell Nazi shopkeepers
'lassen sic nur' (keep the
nge.)
oreign circles report this com
o disregard for the stability OF
man currency and financial in
utions is having a marked effect
Nail morale and is reaping dis
It among the "herrenvolk' for
If own banks and reichsmarks.
John l.. Lewis goes back into
American Federation OF Labor
starts actively TO WOO Congress
Industrial Organization members
the federation, one Of the most
lie fields will probably be the
ted Auto Workers union
iggest CLIO union, approximately
5000 strong. the JAW faces an
table postwar future. Lewis or
ally organized the auto indus
countless JAW members are
jngly attached TO him.
he auto union, moreover, nov
orn by conflict among the lead
nip. r. j. Thomas grip as inter
ional president is considered
Q too firm. He recently attempt
10 increase the number OF vice
sidents in the JAW TO build up
support but the move failed
an he left for a brief trip TO
idon.
fter the war, JAW stands to
heavily in membership. It's
nbers are scattered through the
ny wartime enterprises Of the
o manufacturers which will be
ndoned with victory. Thousands
badly will be unable to find jobs
the auto industry and will be
e or less free 10 drift 10 any
from Lewis.
Telch Pogue, chairman of the
IL Aeronautics Board, is general
'egarded now as the administra.
rs No. man on aviation policy.
ogue moves into the top spot
owing the resignation OF Assist
Secretary OF State Adolph
lie. Jr.. who headed the United
ties delegation TO the interna-
ial Air Conference in Chicago
he CAB chairman was not in the
tight at Chicago, but he per-
med a highly important job.
cue directed the conference &C.
1 on technical matters such as
igation, air safety, equipment.
He did such a thorough job
I American equipment will be
the dominant position in post
flying.
he Christmas weekend tighten
OF food rationing represents a
ior policy victory for the Office
Price Administration, yindicat-
the agency in its position that
controls never should have
n relaxed in the first place
he blame for a vacillating ration
.cy on food lies with the War
ID Administration.
VIA insisted on taking canned
DIS off rationing last September
inst OPA's warning that there
s not enough canned goods re-
We to do so. WA also fought
AS insistence that meat and
Tor canned vegetables go back
rationing in December.
o what has happened is merely
5: the frightened food control
10 just a month late-in late De-
iber and early January instead
ate November-because OF WA
King.
he latter agency wanted TO
i'd piling up food SURPRISES in
e Germany was defeated soon
insisted there was not any over
food shortage anyway and that
ioning was not needed. OPA
Inferred with figures showing ex
ted declines in civilian canned
DIS and meat SURPRISES.