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Detroit evening times., 1945-03-23
CiSarefS for Sweden

Americans will put up with 1t as an
unavoidable or perhaps justifiable
privation of war.
But there is no real shortage If we
can ship consignments of 20 million
cigarets per consignment to Sweden.
There is only bad management and
negligent unconcern.
Washington should make ii some
body's business to see that whenever
there are 20 million cigarets to spare
they should go to the American
armies overseas, and when the need
there is satisfied, rUhateUer is left be
placed on the American domestic
market.
This is the sensible and justthing
to do.
Our good friends the SwedeS, and
all the other foreign nations who are
not unacquainted with American
generosity, will surely understand
why in this case we must divert our
philanthropy towards American
homes and American foXholes
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-23

A MERICANS who are working at
"A home or fighting abroad are irri-
tated and puzzled over the cigaret
shortage.
No ore seems to be able to explain
why the shortage comedies with an
all-time high in cigaret production.
Once in a while, however, we get
hint or two from the foreign press.
For example, the newspaper At
tonbladet of Stockholm reports that
consignment of 20 million Ameri-
can cigdrets is en- route to SWeden
by safe conduct ship.
The foreign economic administra
tion in Washington adds that these
consignments are routine, with the
heaviest amounts having been
shipped during the past six months
At least partially, therefore, Al
tonbladet explains why American
boys overseas and American smokers
at home are not getting cigarets.
If there is a real cigaret shortage
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-23
Laurence.
By
Westbrook Pegler

this debt out of the wages of
unionism aS practiced In the
ALL under Green's presidency.
Joe MORESCII, the president
- of the hod-CarrierS, also has
a big farm IN Illinois.
Several members OF his family
were planted on the unions s pay
roll for sedentary. II not noml-
nal duties. and he became presi-
dent during a period OF 81 years
in which gangSters flourlshed
and died and elected their own
SUCCESSORS without holding a
single national conN entlon OF
workers delegates.
Carrozla was a mighty man
in MoreSchi's racket and In the
Chicago city hall.
He kept concrete pavement
of Chlcago's streets because he
had power both IN the union and
in New Deal politics and owned
an interest in patent paving
compound which concrete would
have Outmoded
Twice when he tired to be-
come a citizen. he took down
his petition because he would
have been challenged on his
filthy record
Finally, in the dark Of the
moon. so 10 speak, he slipped
through and became a voter and
one of US.
In calling attention 10 the
apathy of the department OF
Justice toward Fay's crimes, 1
should like to cite. by way OF
contrast. the punishment OF
many obscure individuals, COM
mon men. II you will, for viola
tions of arbitrary and possibly
illegal price controls z
IL think ii appropriate. also, I'd
point to the officious diligence
Of the labor relations and war
labor boards in protecting
labor in controversies. many of
them artificial and deliberately
provoked TO the detriment of the
war effort and the unjust dis
paragement of the employers.
During all this time Fay. q
political protege of the ruling
party, has enjoyed complete inn
munity from the slightest embar-
rassment, to say nothing OF
prosecution.
Copyright. 1s4S, BY United Features. sysH.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-23
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CHAIRMAN J. A. KRUG of the
~ War Production Board has
issued a solemn and somber warning
to the American people, and espe
cially to those in government who
have authority and responsibility IN
the name of the people.
Speaking in the wake of, if not in
reply to, President Roosevelt's al
most facetious remark that America
will have to meet it's increasing food
shortages by Tightening its belt, "
Mr.. Krug pointedly said
eve must explore all the
factors that lUiH REDUCE TO
A MINIMUM the net drain on
A meric can goods, including
food, textiles and basic ma
teriais such as steel and lead.
eve can stretch to the
limit all our resources - and
they are tremendous-and Ue
wiH still FALL SHORT in our
efforts to aUoid desperate SUIT
fering abroad.
owe are not an mex
HAUSTIBLE arsenal of fooC
and materials.
"This fact seems to be
much a surprise to millions OF
Americans as 1T is to our Allies.
"There has been too much
talk the Dorld around about
the inexhaustible Uealth and
resources of America.
"There is a LIMIT to
everything, and America is
REACHING that limit.
81 hope We can get this
idea oUer to the other nations
of the world, for uOe haze
SCRAPED THE BOTTOM
OF THE BARREL in several
respects"
The true situation about Ameri
can shortages, particularly of food, is
reflected in the fact that we have al
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-23
FAIR ENOUGH

On the way down 10 now, I
found two Republican politicians
in the pay of the crooks and
constantly found William Green,
the president OF the American
Federation Of Labor, unwilling
10 take the initiative against
traitors TO the people whom he
pretendS TO represent, and 10
the cause Of labor.
This data was examined. in
turn, by various departments of
the federal and state govern
ments and by Mr.. Hogan's as
Sistants, some of whom ampli-
fed il with information from
their own sources.
Except as a general guide and
as clues, il was not important
10 Mr.. Hogan, whose own per-
Severing work now deserves the
gratitude of labor with a capital
l. but probably will earn him
the taunt of "labor-baiter" from
actiev and passive accompliceS
of the racketeers.
OF COURSE. the conviction
" of these two Is a victory
and a satisfactory reply, by a
jury to those motived union
propagandiSts of the Roosevelt
following, who have denounced
as fascism and union-busting
the long campaign against cor
ruption in the union movement
under Roosevelt'S political pat
ronage
But Mr.. Green's tolerance Of
such characters in powerful
union positions and the passive
ness of = department of JUS
tice in thNpresence of criminal
acts against federal law h ave
not been shaken.
The higher powers of union
ism in the AFL and the national
government are still arrayed
against that figure whom they
decribe aS the common man.
To call Fay a drunken. brutal,
thieving thug is not to abuse
him but merely 10 describe him
effectively. That is his charac-
ter. He is all of these.
Yet, Fay is a vice president
Of the Operating Engineers
Union, whose members have 10
do with excavating machinery.
drilling in rock and kindred
dangerous operations.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-23

VNHE trial is over and Joe Fay
l. and James Bove, two more
crooked union officials of the
American Federation Of Labor,
stand convicted Of exploiting
workers in a system of extor-
ton.
The trial was short but the
preparation was long and diff
cult. and Frank Hogan, the New
York district attorney who pros
ecuted the case, encountered on
the way, the obstacle of favor
even in the court system.
Both of these gangsters are
notorious, Fay the more so, and
their loot came in part from
federal funds, but although Vio-
lations of federal law thus were
inherent in their crimes, the
National Department of Justice
has never molested them even
10 the extent of a grand jury
investigation.
In the same connection, al
tention may be invited 10 the
fact that Fay is a New Jersey
politician of the Frank Hague
machine which is a recognized
ruling subsidiary Of the RooSe-
welt party and Is influential as
we'll in Democratic politics IN
New York.
MY INTEREST in their depre-
A'l dations began more than
FIVE years ago.
1t was first aroused by letters
from practical day-wage work
ers and by a conviction that
such men should not be perSe-
cuted by political satraps placed
over them by creeping dicta-
torShip.
One story led 10 another and
more letters came. Some were
from educated young engineers
learning the business the hard
way in the great Delaware
aqueduct. a tunnel being driven
under mountains and rivers TO
bring water to New York.
Others were from horny
handed workers who could not
express themselves well and
whose educational lack obviously
precluded a future much better
than the bread they could earn
by the sweat of their brows.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-23

The union. incidentally, made
many mock jobs for common
buns who infest big projects at
SO day for strictly theoret-
ical duties.
They are political tramps
utterly useless, and are known
as hamburger men because, IN
the days when we had ham
burgers, their only duty was to
fetch sandwiches from the cor
ner lunch wagon for the real
workers. This was A system OF
political patronage for political
machine loaferS.
DOVE was until recently, "A
- vice president of the Hod
Carriers and Common Labor
ers' Union. whose members per
form the humbler manual
tasks.
The two unions are foul rack
cts. the worse because they eN-
plot and prey on the men who
do the work
They divide jurisdiction in
great construction jobs.
Fay is a contractor as well as
a union boss, a fact we'll known
10 all who were interested and
often proved. and thus worked
both sides of the street.
Like many of his colleagues,
Fay grew rich through a
charter of the AFL and had his
winter home in Florida as well
as other homes in the North.
William F.. Maloney, the
president of Fay's union. has, or
did have. a racing stable and a
Information place in that sec
tion of the Florida east coast
which j Edgar Hoover de-
SCribed as the winter quarters
of the criminal scum. He also
has an opulent Illinois farm.
Mike CarrozZa of Chicago. an
immigrant who began his Amer
ican career as padrone of II
chain store system of brothelS,
was neighbor of Maloney in
Florida and had near Chicago
both a gaudy home estate and a
farm for the culture of deli
Cately symbolic swine.
He died owing the federal
government a debt of S250.000
representing income tax def
cheney, plus penalties.
His total income we do not
know but he was able 10 amaSs
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-23

q What type of religion -four
i-hrd In the ancient city Of
iiahopols
What is the difference be-
tween m heir and
,,vatec2
S Pfc Frank LocsScr, most
recent mt is an infantry
saUE Can You name It2
ANSWERS on Opposite Page
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-23
Dearest Mother:


THE twilight is gone and night has come. A lot
of us, as the light fades, stop for minute in
thought, and our minds drift back to our homes
and the life we love so very much. ch.---------------
And for while we don't see around us the
tumbled-dOwn houses and the shattered villages
with shell holes in the streets
Instead, the house where we lived and the
steps leading up to the porch.
How many times I've bounced up those steps coming
home from work and said:
MON, what have got for supper"
And remember the street lamp right out in front
of the house.
l used to turn my light at night and sit by the
window and fetthe street light shine my face and
listen to soft music over the radio,
CAN see the people at this time of year hurrying
along the street. going about their business anxious
to get inside and out of the cold.
l the street lights up town, and the cars
passing to and fro their way, and only they know
where they going.
can see the little bar where always stopped for
quick drink passed pleasant evening with my friends
Yes, we dream about homes and its almost if we
were there and the war forgotten.
Then the snow-covered ground becomes picture of
beauty and we forget we are in Germany where every
one, man. and child is enemy. Yes we even
forget there and for few moments we are happy
in recalling the past.
NHEN the crash of artillery around brings you back
to earth with start, and the few moments you let
your mind drift forgotten.
You look around the village covered with snow, shat
tered and destroyed not house left standing and not
soul left because they Germans and evacuated
back behind the German lines.
It's destruction every place doughboys in foxhoes
covered with roads paved with ice that make them
dangerous to travel.
And the rumble of artillery is always in the air.
Yes this is and fighting to keep this sort
of thing from happening to our little home town
Sure cold, miserable, and hungry.
At times feet freeze and trench foot sets in.
Many discomforts endure. Is it worth 1t? Yes
Yes, it is worth it.
GONE of the boys say that if the people back there
- had to spend 10 days in this frozen fox-hole, and
dodge 88s and German bullets for "A hours they would
know what is like.
He'll, that's what we're here for so the peopl.
back home won't know what is like.
All most of us ask is that the home front keep US
supplied with the machinery of may end this
possible.
Sure all want to come home
The man who says he doesn't is liar.
I'd come home right if they would let me, and
so would every other soldier.
But don't think crying about 1t; we aren't.
We know what it is to fight, and every time we go
to the front some of us get killed or wounded.
Sure we're scared; wants to die.
But when they say OK, this is it. grab our
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-23

TiIS being the case. you
Il would think some govern
ment official would conclude
the void should be taken up by
a big release of fish. But fish
are also Scarcer, and more eX-
penSive than last year. Why?
Because the government has
Curtailed the fish fleets and
equipment and raised the wages
of fishermen.
Poultry cannot fill the void
because last year the govern
ment discouraged the hatcherieS.
Thus the ByrneS investigation
cannot produce much meat or
poultry. even il il reverSeS the
government policy. As for ex-
ports, 230000,000 bushels of
wheat were moved 10 eastern
storage recently by the govern
mcnt, and 100000 bushels
more were added later, either
for shipment abroad or TO clear
Midwest storage for the winter
crop
JNRRA has not been re-
ported active lately and it can
be safely assumed practically
all recent shipments have been
for the army. although the gov
ernment keeps figures secret.
At least hunger has not been
appcaSed IN Italy and Greece
and not even DeGaulle has been
appcaScd IN France.
II looks 10 me as II Mr..
Roosevelt has stuck himself
with a food shortage by follow
inc a consumer ice-limitation
policy and cannot fulfill either
has promises abroad or domestic
demand
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Detroit evening times., 1945-03-23
Pedestrian Protection

who drink 60 not always get
home Two out of five pedestrians
killed had been drinking. accord
ns TO coroner's reports. Stay out
OF traffic when you drink!
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-23
The War VIGOROUSLY Peace PERMANENTLY Bring Our Boys Home PROMPTLY
Dearest Mother:
EDITORS NOTETh a soldier mother
L. Michigan

guns and go and tanks blast path through the Ger
man lines for the advance.
MAYBE you didn't read about Bastogne.
lvl Maybe you did, don't know.
But if you didn't read the stories about Bastogne
They are true, no matter how horrible they sound.
l was there
know
1 suppose the folks back home wonder how the Ger
go fighting after taking such beating.
And i suppose most people think the war is almost
Well it is almost over, only few more months now,
and that seems like short time.
But just how many more of us going to die
before these short weeks pass?
The Germans once got 10000 of us in less than
a week, and they do it again
No, I'm not kidding myself
The isn't for until the last gum has been
fired and the last German has accepted unconditional
surrender.
Outside the moon is shining brightly the snow,
and it looks like silver blanket covering the ground
A few hundred yards away the doughboys dug IN
on the side of HILL firing at the enemy.
The flashes fill the air and tracer bullets cut pretty
pattern going out across the ground
LIVERY minute some place out there a lads number
T. is called and as he hes there in the dying, his
thoughts probably of home OF the wife or mother ne
will again
And then he is gone.
His buddies cover his face with wet frozen blanket
and the snow and cold and curse the war ana
everything else they can think OF.
Yet they sit there beside their dead comrade with
their feet almost frozen and keep watch with that gun
No. they don't leave their gun.
Maybe in the morning their hands will be frozen
and their feet like cakes OF lce
Or maybe well find them out there in the morn
ing sharing the same fate their buddy whom they
watched die.
But they won't leave that gun.
The only way the Germans will get by them is over
their dead bodies.
Those boys know what they fighting for and
they willing to die for It.
wonder if the guy back home in the bar, warming
his hands a nice hot fire and complaining because
he couldn't get new tie knows what war s
No he doesn't know, and millions of others just
like him.
DUT I'm glad that they don't know what it's like, for
ID if they knew then it wouldn't be the America we are
fighting for.
We are fighting the people back there will never
know what it's really like. .
And when we return want to return TO world
untouched as much as possible by the war.
We want a world of sunshine, happiness and laugh
ter a world that make forget what we have seen
this side of the earth
Well, mother guess sort OF got wound up
don't know why, but anyway It's time try 10 get
a few winks of sleep
So if YOU will excuse me, I'll say good night
And NAV tomorrow the finish OF this war
That is my prayer every night
Your son.
Laurence.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-23
Brain Game

lNn,vcr, On Opposite rageJ
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-23

I6-C The DETROIT TIMES
March lq45
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-17
Abolition Of Zone Boundaries Opposed
French Against Proposed Centralized Administration of Occupied Germony- Stumbling Block to Allies

they took over. In many cases, the Russians are accepting, at least for the present, number of minor Nazi officials. The top Nazi fig- ures in the Russian zone already have been taken care of''.
 In most cases, the Russians have withdrawn from their occupation zone the combat troops who fought their way across Germany to Ber- lin and who often settled on the spot long-standing scores they had for burnings, pillaging and raping carried out by the Nazis on Russian soil.
 Latest reports from the Soviet zone indicate the Russians are more orderly now and that top Russian authorities are anxious to see Ger many restored as an economic whole, although with the str1ctest possible control of industry and other phases of German life which might be used to rebuild the Naz war machine.
 The attitudes of British, Russian and American officials are SO sini- lar in many instances that some Americans believe the existing occu- patton zone boundaries might be re- moved by next summer.
 American leaders such as It. Gen. Lucius Clay, Gen. Dwight D. Eisen- hower's deputy, are working con- stantly toward greater freedom of movement within Germany, but 1t is expected the French will offer vigorous opposition to any abolition of the zone boundaries.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-17
BY VIRGIL PINKLEY

United Press Staff Correspondent
 Berlin, Oct. 17.-(UP)-Allied oc. cupation authorities in Germany are working fairly well together, except for French opposition to the pro- posed centralized administration oi the occupied territory.
 Frances failure to accept the Potsdam directives, according tc many responsible officials, consti- tutes the biggest stumbling block to the handling of many matters on which Britain, Russia and United States already have agreed in prin- ciple.
 The French are afraid that de- velopment of any central power in Germany would result only in res- toration of a strong Germany and powerful Teutonic military machine.
 This attitude was confirmed by Gen. Charles De Gaulle at recent Paris press conference when the French president said he never wanted to see German Reich re- established. De Gaulle recalled pointedly that German armies had invaded France three times within 70 years.
 It can be revealed that many four power sessions have been dead- locked recently by stubborn French opposition to any central direction of Germany's railways canals or in- dustries.
 The negotiations on most points have not yet reached the point where it Is entirely impossible for the four powers to continue discussions, but if the French persist in their stand it is likely that Britain, Rus sia and the United States might form joint zone policies and operate along parallel lines.
 Same Decisions Probable
 At present, decisions of the four power Allied control council in Ber- lin must be unanimous. But if negotiations break down, the Bri- tish, Americans and Soviets might make individual but identical de- cisionS to get around the impasse.
 The only other course would be to refer occupation problems to the council of foreign ministers, where unanimity might be even more diff ficult to attain than in the control council.
 It can be said generally that Bri- tish and American policies in their respective zones are very similar The Russians. who occupy roughly two-fifths of Germany, have gone farther than any of the other AL lies in granting administration to the Germans.
 The Soviet also work more closely with established administrative bodies than were functioning wher
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-17
Printing Co.
 Asks Sanction Of Pipe Lines

The Board of Works was peti- tioned at a meeting last night for permission by the Eastern Color Printing Co., which is building a new addition to its plant at 47 Con1- mercial street, to dispose of rain and storm water from the extended structure by joining the plants storm water lines with sanitary sewer lines and connecting the cor1- bined disposal to the city sanitary sewer system on Commercial street. The request was referred to the plumbing inspector with power to act.
 A notification by the Board of Aldermen that authority for install lation of sewers on Fulton Park avenue and Hauser street has been granted was referred to the city engineer to be placed in a project that will be given consideration.
 Appearing before an open hear ing of the board. Peter Cianciani, Jr., representing his father, conn., plained that the WPA many years ago turned surface and storm water into a brook on his fathers prop erty, and it has frequently over flowed, causing damage to the land. Though the city engineer maintains that 1t is @ natural brook, a com- mittee was assigned to investigate the claim.
 William A. Coilon appeared be- fore the board to back a petition for a sewer on Dracut avenue, from Moran street to Tanning street. Other petitions received by the board were for water main in Joy road from Park road to Arden road and sewer petition for the same stretch.
 Transfers approved by the board were for $l 900 in the Street Depart ment for equipment and replace ment of parts and $500 for meters in the Bureau of Water.