US. Fails to Use Motion Picture Industry to Block Nazi Propaganda
US. Fails to Use Motion Picture Industry to Block Nazi Propaganda Reich Tries to Capture Latin American Films By VINCENT ROGERS The drive against propaganda films like die recent flood of...
...The curtain falls...
...If he, runs, he will secure the support of the LaFollettes and their paper...
...first big breaks in the ranks of 'the Midwest isolationist progressive movement and may be the, first attempt to bring about the much-discussed coalition between Democrats and Progressives...
...Kennedy is rabidly isolationist...
...German agents went to its directors and bluntly suggested that in exchange for turning over their studio to German artistic and technical personnel, who would be flown over from Germany, the company's, indebtedness would be written off...
...Recently he learned that the German propaganda office in Buenos Aires had obtained the Gran Cine Idea], one at South America's largest movie houses, to exhibit propaganda films...
...There the Germans are pushing their propaganda campaigns with characteristic thoroughness...
...Hollywood's studios can be- the most effective anti-fascist propaganda machine yet contrived...
...The crowd began to gather about six o'clock in the morning, before any milk had arrived...
...Young and the Governor in Albany to work out a compromise...
...The union tried in every way to get the dealers, through the Federal Order, to raise the price of milk to three dollars a hundredweight...
...Before the strike was over, it had captured the attention of Governor Lehman...
...Tracy, who was appointed _ to the Department of Labor by President Roosevelt last July, has been the liaison man between the Department and the Office of Production Management and has been called upon frequently to assist in the adjustment of industrial disputes...
...ThiB would not only put German propaganda films before all South America but through control of exhibitior circuits would keep out Unitec States films...
...These amendments were voted for by the farmers, but as always the distributors were able to circumvent the desires of farmers...
...the lustful, icey-eyed emissary the Third Reich...
...Isolationist forces are seeking to nominate State Senator Kenneth L. Greenquist of Racine...
...With a birth ratex of approximately 40 per thousand and a death rate of 20 per thousand yearly, the island's natural rate of increase, if present trends continue, will add another million to the island's total population by 1960...
...11.5 for Hawaii, and 15.77 for continental United States...
...The late Cong...
...Darkness Over Vienna ty EVELYN UCHTENBERG A MONG the less important consequences of the present eras) has been the increasing popularity of storm troopers, tflt columnists and romantic refugees as material for sensatieil novels and films...
...Dairy Strike By PIERRE DeNIO Special lo The New Leader ROCK RIFT, N. Y.—During the past six months the cost of producing milk hats gone up almost from day to day- Hearings were held in different parts of the milk shed to petition the government for redress through the orderly method of amending the Federal Milk Order...
...writes in France Speaking, this book will n«r*t ig future years to recall to our mind the strangely peaceful m4 anomalous atmosphere of the first months of the war and tat rapid hallucinating tragedy of the end.__ The author"is" a"French newspaperman, assigned during'fjjj"" war to the Anglo-American section of the French Ministry «f Information...
...At the same time, the retail price of milk was boosted in New York...
...Statistics published in this country' nave disproved tkls contention and actually shown that French heavy industry produced more in 1936 and 1937 than in the years immediately preceding the coming into power of the Front Populaire...
...Hollywood appears about to lose it, and it is a technique at which Hollywood excels...
...Drowsy Midwest politics stirred itself this week in Wisconsin as Tom Amlie, leading Midwest Progressive, announced his candidacy for Congress on the Democratic ticket...
...The women and kids were there as well...
...The best be had was Tugboat Annie I This he had to pit against well organized (Berlin directed efforts to capture the entire Argentine movie industry...
...When some farmers * tried to send their milk, it was dumped on the ground...
...When they become-heavily indebted to the German corporations, the Nazis try to step in and take over...
...Fails to Use Motion Picture Industry to Block Nazi Propaganda Reich Tries to Capture Latin American Films By VINCENT ROGERS The drive against propaganda films like die recent flood of antiNazi pictures is playing directly into the hands of German motion picture' agents operating ont of Buenos Aires—the Hollywood of South America...
...t Despite the steepest tax bill on record, next year's deficit is ex! pected to rise even higher—to • $11,000,000,000, bringing the debt close to $60,000,000,000...
...I saw de Saint-Jean at wprk in Paris at the GoqtineosH / can therefore fully appreciate the touching candor of as ssfession when he writes of the tragic month which began wHatst , German invasion of the Lowland countries and ended with tk* abandonment of Paris by the government on June 10, 19411...
...Among the 49 miscellaneous groups were those in cooking, knitting and first aid...
...One expert reveals tha tile "Nazi plot to utilize the Ar gentine motion-picture industr...
...The dealers would not yield...
...All the union creameries closed up tight, but others remained open to take in any milk offered...
...Daladier, very dissimilar to the real Daladier," whose gate « "hard" but whose hand is soft...
...Jr.,_dis;trict attorney of Racine...
...W PIERRE COT, Minister of Aviation at-the time and now i refugee in the United States, has a story to tell of opp sition in the High Command to a rapid increase in the Frtsf aerial forces which probably would make M. de Saint-Jean casajt his mind on this point...
...making much of this fortune in the movie industry, where he still exerts considerable influence.- Mr...
...Another even more...
...inaccurate statements as: (p...
...an hour four troopers arrived...
...S1GHTFALL IS VIESSA...
...U.S.CommissionPlansEconomic and Social Program to Aid Puerto Rico WASHINGTON, D. C.—A twoway attack on the problem of Puerto Rico—increased economic aid plus a reduction in the birth rate' is proposed ih the staff report to the President's Interdepartment Committee on Puerto Rico, prepared by Dr...
...The two work hand in glove...
...The former envoy is worth close to $90,000,000...
...The most recent report on shipments of aircraft abroad deals with May, the month during which defense strikes were at their highest...
...French propaganda was astoundingly ineffective during tat war...
...Some months ago former Ambassador to England, Joe Kennedy, according to reports, wont to the weet coast to tell producers that anti-Nazi films would only result in organized anti-semitism...
...ip mysteriously attractive Austrian aristocrat who seems to B» * Nazi agent but really isn't...
...the dsrisj rescue from a fate worse than death...
...By Carolyn Darling...
...That, of course, is a great accomplishment...
...Educational Dep't Schools Thousands Varied activities,, ranging from horseback riding, photo and cycling groups to lectures, concerts, forums and movies were included in the work of the Educational Department of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union for the year ending May 31, the department's report reveals...
...irst test is the primary election on> August 8. The district is riorrrlally Republican...
...Bolles of the First District...
...His candidacy is -one of the...
...inferior,.JBr bage cans because of les* ri*> ' returns to beer bottles from b«* ^an«- shnt-t ration's nn C0SH1SHC...
...In the early morning a tenwheel tanker came along the road and was compelled to stop because of the tree...
...Jones said that the volume of trade depended on Russia's transport facilities, especially the condition of its railroads...
...The Dairy Farmers Union began holding meetings to work out plans to obtain some measure of relief for the dairymen...
...Milk that went into themanufacture of cheese and evaporated milk wfe classed much lower than the fluid price to the farmer, but was bringing a high retail price in a rising market...
...Cessation of movies urging hemispheric unity, anti-nazism, streamlined U. S. defense and those portraying the better sides of life in the United States will do much to cripple what little progress this country has made in -winning over Latin Americans...
...267) he says: "Our aviation, whose delays wen considerably aggravated by the Popular Front administration...
...In Puerto Rico the best balance does not now exist, for population has outrun the capacity of the present economic resources and organization to furnish full employment and satisfactory living conditions...
...Sight fall in Vienna may possibly appeal to A* section of the drug store-circulating library trade that likst O feel that it is improving its mind by reading about the realities of life in the modern worjd...
...Orland S. Loomis, Progressive candidate against Heil in the last Gubernatorial election attended the caucus which nominated Amlie...
...to boost the sale of his beak...
...These types of goods are the only material aid England and the United States can ship to Russia at this time...
...When after the third day it was evident that the distributors would not discuss the problems, the farmers solidified their organization...
...Bankruptcy proceedings against Argentine film producers have revealed that A G FA has been the biggest creditor in every film failure during the past few years...
...Paul Reynaud's influence on Robert de Saint-Jean is planbvisible from the very first page of the book and helps uriitoate him politically, though th^^uthor does not like to be piftSjh holed...
...Berlin's agents hive been ordered to take -e^ei the industry of as many Latir nations as possible, in all its phases — production, distributor arid exhibition...
...A while later a fanner with another man driving his small truck came to the creamery...
...the capture...
...Another article by Mr...
...At least $5,000,000 worth of this fur is purchased by the New York district annually...
...His political leanings lead him to place more blame for French military unpreparedness on the defunct People's Front than u warranted by the facts and to make certain generally accepts...
...Typical is the case of Warner Brothers general manager in Argentina...
...But in lieu of prestige, the author in his <quiet...
...By contrast, both here and in England, according to reports, end of June and July production figures will be disproportionately high as- a result of speed-ups ordered...
...Kennedy is close to that small bnt voluble section of the Irish Catholic Church which is pro-German out of sheer Anglophobia...
...Sight fall in Yirv.iw...
...United States export of aircraft, including land and seaplanes, totaled 511 and were valued at $40,742,631 that month, the Department of Commerce reports...
...unobtrusive «ty brings us the fruit of his observations and gives us much Bart substance and food for thought than we" are in the habit tt finding in more pretentious works heretofore published and astV ing with the French disaster...
...not devoid of critical however, for when the latter on being named prime minister to succeed Daladier, failed to live up to what Robert de Saint-Jen expects of him, the author writes: "The case of Paul Reynaud shows that intelligence unls* accompanied by charaoter, is counterfeit coin...
...D. Appl*U* Century Company...
...A milk strike is no less a strike than a stoppage in any other industry, and there are those who will try and scab their milk into the Creamery that remains open...
...The farmer said: "No, I do not dare let you have an ax...
...Young then made a trip to Washington to prevail upon the Secretary of Agriculture to immediately call a hearing so that the Federal Order might be amended for the farmers to get a price of three dollars a hundredweight after the milk was classified, or of three dollars on the average, instead of the present $2.88 for the fluid price...
...Amlie Runs for CongressonAid To Britain Plank \ L ¦ . ' * i. Special to Tflfc NeV Leader It MADISON, Wise...
...Don Tracy Appelated Atsittamt Secretory of Leber President Roosevelt has appointed Daniel W. Tracy, former president of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, as Assistant Secretary of Labor, promoting him from the post as second assistant...
...The truck driver went to the farmhouse and asked the man for an ax to clear the road...
...At one of the local plants on the morning of July 4th, there appeared nearly two hundred people, mostly farmers of the nearby countryside...
...This represents a decrease of 13.6 per cent in shipments from the previous month...
...Analysis of these records showed signs of a long planned, systematic baiting of impecunious producers with easy credits and loans and then jumping, in with foreclosure proceedings when due dates were not met- AGFA and Banco Germanico moved under clpse orders from Berlin...
...Republic...
...Six union institutes at the University of Wisconsin, Southern Summer School, and at Hudson Shore Labor School were attended by 325 students...
...After a series of meetings, at which the fanners voted almost solidly to strike, the union members began with holding their milk on July 1st...
...Last year's report on the milk situation by Attorney-General Bennett showed that the large companies—Borden's, Sheffiield's, etc.—had reaped large profits, despite their protestations in large ads placed in many newspapers...
...by left-wing unions after the German invasion of Russia...
...they were so successful that it is being handled by what they term their "$150,000a-year leader, Owen D. Young...
...At sight of the crowd, tiie manager of the plant Wired for the state police...
...Robert de Saint-Jean has no great literary reputation, hke that of Andre Maurois or Jules Romain...
...The Purse of the Nation The Treasury ended the fiscal ' year" more than $5,000,000,000 i deeper in the red...
...Zimmerman points out that Puerto Rico today has about 1.15 acres of land per capita in comparison with 6.06 acres for the Philippine Islands...
...you might cut yourself and I would then feel responsible...
...Financially rehabilitated, S.I.D.E...
...E. P. DsWsj, pfthltsher...
...the love at first sight...
...The new agreement, it is proposed, is to continue until May 1st next...
...The nation's • debt stood at $48,961,000,000 on - June 30...
...Soon six carloads of troopers ware speeding to the creamery...
...Said Hayes: "There are those who would uge the films to bemuse, rather than amuse the American public The screen has no room for such propaganda...
...a committee of labor leaders and economists, one of the heads of which is David Dubinsky of the ILGWU, which recently visited the island to check on wages and hours conditions...
...A short time later, Argentina's motion picture industry was amazed to learn that one of its giants had crashed...
...the farmers saw none of it...
...Though the farmers went back without hfcving won fully what they set out to get, they w*>n in the long run much more...
...R. E. *McConneIl of the OP* of Production Management ft* dieted curtailed supplies bTW stockings because of psrschn* production...
...Economic measures advocated include better -land use...
...By Robert <ir Saint-Jean...
...Whether or not the LaFollette and other isolationists in the progressive party would support Amlie, running on an interventionist program, and on the Democratic ticket, is not known...
...They were given the runaround, however, because the dealers thought that the farmers would not have the courage to strike...
...Committees have been appointed in all the organized counties to explore such possibilities...
...The farmers' demands were so just'that Owen D. Young, now a dairy farmer living at Van HofVielsville, N. Y-, held the milk of his dairy of one hundred cows, and offered his services to the dairymen of the union...
...The milk went down the sewer, but several men were arrested...
...This report follows one recently made by...
...Two hundred and forty-one study classes, 100 music, 42 dramatics, 56 dancing, 172 gym and 40 athletic teams were included in the total...
...Stripping for Defeest Although the defense prtIP*" is putting more money into pockets of consumers, fewer sftides are likely to* be offered <* sale...
...Already much of this is curtailed, for the metal usually goes via the Black Sea and the Dardanelles...
...former congressman and leader of the House liberal bloc, now special attorney general for the federal government, has always run as a LaFollette Progressive...
...Prominent leaders of the Progressive Party however, who do not share the LaFollette's War views have declared for Amlie, and will swing large sections of the party towards him...
...As the strike widened, the shipping of milk practically ceased in many localities...
...7.50 for Cuba...
...Greenquist has been vociferous in denunciation of American involvement...
...He is Harry Novak...
...Active agents in th< scheme are the local AGFA, tak ipg...
...William T. Evjue, influential Wisconsin editor, head of the Madison Capitol-Times, and former editor of LaFollette's "Progressive," will support Amlie...
...He thus found himself in an excellent position |t listen and take notes and to form his own opinion on am tpj passing events...
...The report states: "So long as the population to be , supported increases more rapidly than -the means of subsistence, there can, off course, be no permanent improvement of Puerto Rican living conditions...
...Rogers on German efforts to capture the South American movie industry will appear next week...
...The U.S.S.R...
...They promised only to recess the strike until the matter could be worked out...
...jj the Pan-American colder...
...During the night a storm blew a large tree into the road right near his home...
...The report records a total of more than 700 classes and groups attended by 16,800 student...
...Hays', principles will deprive the FederaLsrovernment of one of its most PTectivc weapons in South America...
...Robert de Saint-Jean was well" placed to appreciate tBa sorrowful state of affairs...
...U. S. Metal, Fur Supplies Perilec By Nazi Sweep Into Russia By GEORGE SHORT Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C.—Important sidelights on U. S. foreign policy and the speed of the domestic defense machine was revealed during the past fortnight by the Department of Commerce...
...Birth control measures occupy a specific chapter, with the note however that economic measilfes are most immediately neecred because of the long-range nature of birth control steps due to at least a 15year lag between contraceptive practice and reduced.pressure on the labor market...
...I.L.G...
...Nearly all the Persjan lamb imported into the United States comes from Russia— in the Uzbek S.S...
...Advocates of an all-out propaganda campaign against Nazism, especially some top well informed government experts, have told this reporter that implementation of Mr...
...has been purchasing wheat and gasoline for the Siberian provinces...
...as compared with $3,115,552 in April...
...Also present was Gustave Keller, head of the state Democratic organization, and about 30 other leaders of the Progressive and Democrats...
...The women crowded in a body on the road to stop the truck...
...The leaders of the 55,000 dairymen then met with Mr...
...He kept the driver of the track in an argument over the ax until a neighbor got several other men and dumped the tankload of milk...
...This summer the situation became serious with the dry weather and the rising cost of farm help...
...AGFA- sells naw film to the Argentine studios at ridiculously low prices, extending unheard of credit, while the bank issues loans without collateral...
...Huge MHk Distributors' Profits, Rising Farm Costs, Caused N.Y...
...Engine parts and accessories exported in May were valued at $2,149,448...
...The Germans know the value of visual propaganda...
...declares de Saint-Jean, "in which the situate must be explained to American journalists so as to less* I* gravity to th«»ir eyes, have become a real trial, and I COS* sst of it very badly...
...Fur makes up more than half of American imports from Russia...
...the happy ending...
...its name from the famou German photographic firm it rep resents, and the Banco Germanico...
...However, the dairymen haveNdefinitely cast off any foolish notions about their rugged individualism...
...Each day thereafter, less and less milk found its Way into the market...
...More than a third of the manganese ore" purchased abroad reached the United States from the Chiaturi deposits in Soviet Georgia...
...Amlie...
...Completely lacking in originality, literary merit, and excitement...
...wider distribution of land ownership, expansion of external trade plus increased credit facilities and aids to the sugar, coffee and needlework industries...
...2.50...
...would maintain ownership of its studios and be assigned a good slice of the profits from films made by German interests...
...One company owed A G F A 250,000 pesos...
...The farmers are learmng rapidly, and they are now carrying forward negotiations for " affiliation with the American Federation of Labor...
...He exerted pressure, made promises,' and killed the deal for tile Nazis...
...The President sent h«l ¦ 1936 as labor representative...
...Engine exports numbered 490 and were valued at $3,230,177, as compared with 700 units valued at $8223,894 in April...
...The added profit went into the pockets of the large distributors...
...Young and Governor Lehman, the farmers agreed to call off the strike pending negotiations...
...The report has produced a stir by its frankness, especially in the recommendations for birth con•trbl measures...
...commerce exceeded $100,000,000...
...At his press conference this week, Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones revealed that plans have already been made for twoway trade between Russia and the United States—we to ship machine tools and war goods in return for manganese and chrome...
...Erich W. Zimmerman of the University of North Carolina and director of the committee...
...Following the good old E. Phillips Oppenhs* outlines, most of them contain the usual proportions of tsfsp romance, spy hunt, and cross-country chase and, despite tsSf modern window-dressing, are as realistic as Graustark and js| about as important...
...The Federal Order is and always has been dealer-dominated, 60 the distributors felt safe in defying the clamor of a bunch of dirt farmers...
...Books and Writers Voice of France By BENJMIN PROTTER PIR those of us, foreign correspondents and others, wfcc through the self-same days in France of which Robert «* S»ir,t-Jear...
...The studios grab at these bargains because they always operate on a shoestring...
...The Argentine government has evidence of this relationship...
...FRASCE SPEAKING...
...The driver plowed his^truck through, and just as he turned to go into the milk plant, several njen—and the four troopers—went into action...
...He is caustic also in his comment on Daladier, the "legends...
...The farmers asked for a just price...
...The Governor and Mr...
...The fur industry will be badly hit here if Germany seizes Russia...
...He passes these down to us now in the fora «f a journal dated from October 9, 1939, to June 17, 1940...
...Defeat of Russia would mean the shutting of the chief source of American imports of highgrade manganese, one of the key metals in the U. S. defense program...
...Reports indicated that the United States has been Soviet Russia's most important trader since 1936...
...Every ton of common steel produced here requires about 14 pounds of manganese...
...And again (p...
...The enduring economic problem in Puerto Rico, as elsewhere, is to determine and secure the best balance between resources and productive equip* rreent on the one hand and the_ population to be supported on tlje other...
...255 pp...
...Conferences...
...At the request of Mr...
...Dr...
...Bolles was a GOPer...
...325 pp...
...the social laws which, sjnee 1936, have so decreased the figures of production...
...Hays obviously objects to it...
...Exesjt omnes...
...Translated into cold figures, the damage effected by the political line of key APM defense unions is more clearly seen...
...But pressure "from isolationist groups appear* to have obtained results...
...In 1940, during the height of SovietGerman collaboration, despite a U. S. embargo on shipments to Russia of airplanes and machine tools, the total U. S.-U.S.S.R...
...Farmhands went into government employment on a large scale because of the better wages which farmers couldn't afford to pay...
...Main products of exchange have been furs and licorice roots for U. S. tools and metals...
...Hays is president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America and this country's movie czar...
...without having to pay for it date: back several years with the Ger man Embassy darkly in the- back ground...
...Unions associated with the American Peace Mobilization cut production sharply...
...fewer models 4 farm implements...
...But to satisfy the theatre owners he had ' to substitute an American film for the Nazi production...
...2.00...
...I Amlie will run supporting PresidentRoosevelt's foreign policy) The election, to be held August 29, was occasioned by the death of Rep...
...however, the milk was drying' up very rapidly...
...One farmer who lives within a short distance of the writer helped in a quiet way...
...He is the j only one entered in, the GOP primaries...
...If in due time they do not get the price, then the strike will be resumed and with renewed vigor...
...What may come out of that, of course, remains to be seen...
...Yet the author admits, following in this Paul Reynaud lis, in turn, was a supporter of Charles de Gaulle's theory of viskot offensive warfare, that the French General Staff was considersMr behind the times and was living solely on its reputation acqSbtd during the war of 1914...
...He succeeds Charles V. McLaughlin, a former senior vice-president of the Brotherhood of Firemen and Enginemen...
...oil well and steel mill equipment, machine tools, engines and other metal manufactures...
...Recently a large Argentine film firm, known to Latin Americans as S.I.D.E.—just as M-G-M is known to us in the United States —appeared insolvent...
...His admiration forSReynaAl is...
...There is no room for propaganda on the motion picture screen, said "Will H. Hays this week.' Mr...
...The offer was rejected...
...The first day and the second there was little action...
...Although this long planner effort is ccjntinent-wide—and som< success has been registered ii ChileV-the Germans are concen trating- on Argentina where thi largest Latin studios are cen tered...
...Study classes took up the following subjects in this order of importance: Trade Union Problems, Public Speaking and Parliamentary Law, Labor Union History and Current Events...
...For this special election the Repub', licans have nominated Richard G. Harvey...
...Germany is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on this campaign in Argentina alone...
...Since the only screen propaganda noticeable in recent years is tBSt created by anti-Nazi films, Mr...
...by Carolyn Darling, has all the accepsJ elements: the tall, slender, courageous American girl, the tW lines of whose figure are apparent under the soft blue dress...
...The May shipments represented ^the lowest value of engine exports since June, 1940...
...The author puts his finger squarely on the tare spot when he says that "a person with a thorough knowledge of the concierge class psychology would certainly get up better propaganda texts than a university professor...
...President Roosevelt appointed him in 1935 as the first official labor delegate sent by** United States to the Intel "•"ST Labor Office Conference m VT 'neva...
...The milk distributors have been having a harvest...
...The greatest difficulty, however, is the shortage of bottoms to transport the goods...
...The Hotel Continental, where ft> Ministry of Information lodged, was filled with professors aid litterateurs...
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