Largest U.S. Newspaper Back Wheeler-Lindbergh Drive
ROGERS, VINCENT
Largest U.S. Newspaper Back Wheeler-Lindbergh Drive Patterson Hearst Lead Isolationists By VINCENT ROGERS 'Frequent statements by non-interventionist leaders criticise the United States press as...
...First, is William P. Williams, a North Hollywood High School teacher, long known and highly endorsed in pro-Nazi circles...
...This group has cooperated with openly pro-Nazi elements in arranging mass demostrations, such as last June's Lindbergh meeting...
...Peace Terms, ami the Wertt 4 Alter the War which 111* New Leader here presents...
...In future editions Mr...
...a plan for producing the big...
...It said in part: "The studios formed a parade to go to the Hollywood Bowl...
...Newspaper Back Wheeler-Lindbergh Drive Patterson Hearst Lead Isolationists By VINCENT ROGERS 'Frequent statements by non-interventionist leaders criticise the United States press as "warmongering", and a* being v*rt of a concerted presidential plot to "lead tMs/country into -war step by snip.'' Whenever it is considered politic the isolationists insinuate an "international conspiracy" by an "aggressive race...
...and in the picketing of Wendell Willkie when the former presidential candidate spoke in California recently...
...In some cases, the final peace treaty will have to deal with the question whether some frontier revisions ought to be made...
...An Einheite-tfront (united front) of Nazi sympathizers and dupes is being consolidated, Thomas Decker reported in the Nation^oi July 5, 1941...
...The aircraft industry has finally been coordinated to build an air fleet for theAllies and make this country capable of round-the-clock bombings of Germany proper...
...Two months ago...
...This will, on the one hand, obviate the necessity of delaying the peace pending discussion and settlement 0* frontier questions...
...s ¦• is' . ? at The restriction of installment terms would shift consumer expenditures "fnto other fields...
...The firs-, neef^ of the hour is complete defeat of the military forces of the b.xbi To this end all democratic nations, particularly the United Statm, must cooperate fully with the British Commonwealth of-N&tieae>, But since this present war is a struggle for the preservstios of freedom and civilization, a military victory over the forces of barbarism is not enough...
...On Tuesday evening...
...James McBride, Mr...
...yet the America First adherents have seen no threat to America in official Goeb-bels productions...
...Tl* social and economic changes which we Socialists desire must m) won by the people of each country, and will depend on cowBtftW and on the maturity of the population, as well as on the growing strength and solidarity of the international Socialist and Libs* movement...
...Ellis O. Jones, organizer of the National Copperhead Association...
...July 22, America Firsters and, Bundists assembled in front of the America First- headquarters on Wilshire Boulevard, organized a cavalcade and marched and drove to...
...Carry a small bottle of run preventive or colorless nail polish in your bag...
...Covington to the Americas CjfjJ Liberties Union, which has SMj*Sj in the defense of Jehovah's Vsvl nesses throughout the country ' In every case before the arrastj was made, according, to <see Covington, attention was called-** U. S. Supreme Court decisis"*: upholding the right of Jshosahm Witnesses to distribute literstur...
...Permits Group to Work With Bundists By BILL ROBERTS Isolationist leaders'have decided to exploit the recent drive against movie propaganda launched several weeks ago by the Hays office...
...Consumers should conserve their own supply of silk by taking good care of the hosiery they now have to make it last as long as possible," she advised...
...Rudolf Katz, Herman Kobbe, Algernon Lee...
...Press gently to force soap through the fabric...
...if*' * 2. The first war aim must be the victory of Britain imf W Allies...
...We should state what can-he- SOO'M plished, provided good will and intelligent understanding prevail » • • *' 4. This is not a plan for internal reforms, except in so /Sf at they, ore needed for security and international cooperation...
...the Scripps-Howard total of 1,794,000, and the extremist New York Daily News and Chicago Tribune, two of the-largest paper...
...also, Mrs...
...Duquette, sales agent for Goughlin's Social Justice...
...This will give Anglc*Gana-dian-American production at least 2,000 planes a month mere than the Germans can turn out...
...upon intelligent constructive action by the democratic forces at tfce close of the war and thereafter, which ought to be Itswshl oat in advance...
...in the world...
...Bela Low, Boris Nicolaevsky, S. Sotoveitchik...
...0n January letof this year the' Daily News, sold 1,918,759 capiea'-daily and 3,483,616, copies oa.--Sunday...
...The authors are fully agreed on certain basic points: First that the complete military defeat of the Axis siuj the destruction of the Fascist and Nasist regimes is absolutely ¦* necessary if there is to be any hope for freedom and demorari in this or any other country...
...Take Care of runs immediately...
...During the past two weeks, this paper reported Nazi efforts to buy theatre outlets in South America...
...goods so outstripped rising prices that the cost -of living- nose only a few per cent...
...more men- are being podred\int» the maw of defense...
...3. Dry in the shade...
...The big job is cutting down durable good*—they use up too much steely tin, rubber, and other materials /fcthjch should be going into armsT with payrolls up, so too have sprraled the sales of heavy, goods...
...1. Wash stockings and socks immediately after taking them off...
...Government Reports Indicate July Plane Production Hit 2000 Mark WASHINGTON, D. C—-One -of the guiding factors in the increasingly aggressive U. S. foreign policy, and in our apparently over-generous offers of help to Britain, Russia, China and the Netherland Indies at a time when this nation appears about to be involved in an Orient war, is- the confidential report received by administration leaders that U. S. military plane production hit the 2*000 monthly marie in July...
...defense, of strategic bases owned by foreign powers...
...Y The list of American, Austrian, German, and Rossiaa Socialists who have signed the document ia as follows: John L. Afros, N. Avxentieff...
...participation in the war by a vote of more than twtf to inev but by the same tally approve the seizure, in the interests of U-S...
...army observers are .plentiful in-England...
...Station WGN is the meat influential unJt in the Mutual Broadcasting System...
...The Chicago Tribune sells 1,-07Sf,S66 daily and 1,132,602 papers on Sunday...
...i It is possible that within a year, more than $3,000,000,000 can be cut from- total consumer \ debt Such a prospect is in sight, t for the new Henderson price curb i bill will surely contain sections, affecting installment sales...
...and Hedwig Wnchenheim...
...rThey hope that in this spirit the discussion of war aims, of peace terms, and of the world after the war will be esa-tinued on a wider scale, simultaneously with intensified eftott to win the war and to deal with immediate problems connected with it Fmrpos* and Scope of Tfcii Program 1. In the midst of war prepare for peace...
...J. David Stern, of the Philadelphia...
...national Socialist movement There is no--insftrnn st finality in their conclusions, which are offered as a. essrtrk-bution to American thought...
...It is oar daby •> counteract them, not to compromise with them...
...Miss Elliott rapped the "selfish few" now stocking up on silk.wear, as taking unfair advantage of the- majority who do not have the income to bay in quantity...
...There has been ee rise m costs, and any hoarding or price rocketing \n sheer profiteering, she said...
...Except for the Journal of Commerce, a trade paper with, "22?$7 daily circulation, there is nc other morning paper in Chfcago^ « . ' Throughout the nation there are papers like the St...
...Total consumer credit business in the United States reaches nearly ten billion dollars, "half of which is installment buying...
...Their buying power will Delimited by the lack of civilian goods, in turn-caused by the lack of materials ¦and the siphoning, off of men into "war goods...
...A negotiated peace with the Nasjs, assuming that it were possible, would at best be an armistice wsisk would give them a springboard for new assaults...
...Then came the meeting, at which a popular firm star was master of-ceremonies...
...She added that relief, project employment decreased substantially, with WE A dropping 77,000 workers ancr-the NYA 96,000...
...Senators Taft and Wheeler have coordinated their tactics, split up the lecture territories, and are set for a campaign to compel Hollywood to drop anti-Nazi films, pictures of the army and air corps, and productions of a pro-democratic nature...
...North...
...In fact, they, had everything, bat a crowd-'-' ' John Wheeler referred to the Wendell Willkie demonstrtaion for "National Unity for Defense Week...
...Orders went out to the employees to participate...
...McCor-mick was one of the first Lindbergh sponsors and has long-been an energetic-opponent-of all progressive movements which crossed his editorial horizon...
...installment , Plan...
...The ino>pendence of the states which the dictators have destroyed must be restored...
...Most' of the armaments in O. S. planes- are ripped out by the British, when, the American aircraft arrive in-Britain...
...Ehntish- in fire power...
...and at least 11,300,000 will he needed during, the first half of 1942—even if, there is no further expansion of the army...
...Our total male labor, supply is just above 40,000,000 men;\ - • So now we enter a tremendous bottleneck...
...washing machines, and gas and electric ranges, and an even higher percentage of automatic furnaces are bought on the...
...Moreover, the military offensive of the Axis is accompanied bj an ideological offensive of the totalitarian "new order," watch means the enslavement and subjugation of nations...
...The New Leader printed a long list of these theatres in every one of this country's large cities...
...FTC Bars Misleading Ads by Gareie Grande The manufacturers Of 'Garcia Grande cigars agreed to Stop advertising their product as "Guaranteed 100% Havana and other imported long filler tobaeeo,n in accepting a Federal Trade Commission order this week...
...estimates that about two-thirds of all automobiles, about three-fourths of'all mechanical refrigerators...
...P The Peoee Treaties...
...Mark Viahniak...
...To make that victory effective, the foundation...
...Rogers will analyze the radio and* motion picture industries...
...On the other hand, it will allow time for the necessary -deliberations, and make it possible to arrive at a final decision after hatreds and rancors have cooled off...
...North Hollywood chapter of America...
...Sunlight and heat deteriorate silk...
...More would be -spent on food,' clothing, i better living quarters, recreation, or defense bonds...
...There are four simple rules for good hosiery care, as issued by Miss Elliott's office...
...and Mrs...
...Daring W39 American' factories turned out a total of 2,400...
...Among those who participated in the cavalcade were Mrs...
...The ¦ number of men in defense production and the army rose from 1,800*000 during the second half of, 1840 to about 5,000,000 during the first half- of 1941...
...This information has been forwarded to Senator Wheeler...
...5. We favor a preliminary peace treaty after the mHUaff defeat of the Axis...
...Anglo-American bomber production' already exceeds the Reich's...
...which wants to avenge the persecution of i»» "co-raoialists" in Germany—and that this rice controls the radio, movies and press of this nation...
...The only purpose of sudh demands is to embairas* that government...
...Faith McCullougb...
...Material on.the Texas situation has been submitted by Mr...
...The Roy Howard World-Telegram, which is now shifting from its former isolationism, circulates some-484,1300...
...second, that military victory for the democratic powers will not automatically ensure work...
...Only the lack' of aluminum or a CIO-AiFL (machinists) jurisdictional conflict can now,stop production of these, bombers...
...So slow moving, is the official War department mechanism that even Boeing is producing bombers which- are...
...Until recently anti-aircraft fire from (Berlin's defenders has either kept the British from the German capital or has taken a heavy toll...
...The country's largest news-, papers are in the hands of rabid isolationists,1 many of whom constantly boom Senator Wheeler and ex-Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh...
...increase of .3.3 in the 1 ast decade...
...The allegations are also>ne#ated:by last week's poll of daily newspaper publishers made by Editor and Pub-liihw, the press' trade journal, whin demonstrated that the daily papers >«»!¦-this eountry oppose immediate U;S...
...Stocking Run •"THOSE stores charging higher prices for silk hose are tak-* ing advantage of the national crisis to fill their own pocket-books, Harriet Elliott in charge of the Consumers Division of the Office of Price Administration stated this week...
...Women account for the larger part- of the extension of" the life spam They not only live longer, but their expectancy has been extended a year more than that of men...
...i ¦ U.S...
...Blanche...
...Any program for permanent peace presupposes the eoav plete military defeat of the aggressor nations and the overthsom-ot their totalitarian regimes...
...As the basis for his charges against the motion picture industry, Wheeler read a letter in the Senate from his son...
...In the first months off this year, ' American consumers bought 40;-per cent more automobiles, 35 per cent more refrigerators, 20 per cent more vacuum cleaners...
...Total circulations controlled by these men come' to about 1,500,000...
...be overcome...
...Forces of hatred, shortsighl idnoM and special interests will make themselves felt...
...A similar effort is being made in the United States...
...These films are clearly an invasion of the United States, for they are outright German propaganda...
...3. No details of a future settlement can be given...
...No blos» print of a future world is possible at this time...
...Decker, the same organization behind the South American drive Until the war broke out, UFA was highly sue cessful in showing Nazi films in Eastern Canada, especially in Quebec, which has a large proportion of persons sympathetic to Germany...
...Strategy was worked out that evening, "for the constant picketing of Wendell Willkie...
...Add' to this, circulation the...
...Manpower By DANIEL BELL We are at the end of an era— the years of guns and butter...
...The largest Jewish interests are those of the Sulzberger-Adler combination, owner of the New Yorlf Times...
...oustejl...
...It declared', that- the Average, span of life is now 62.5 years, an...
...Senator Wheeler's charges are based on communications from his son, John Wheeler, a Los Angeles attorney who heads the local America First Committee...
...rfi...
...George Backer, owner of the New York Post*- the late Paul Block and Emanuel P. Adler...
...The Wall Street Journal s$y»,.that ''by this coming winter the...
...Twenty-five per...
...ACLU Score* Persecution Of Jefcc-roh's Wtrrwsses More than- MO' arrests'of Jehovah's Witnesses by Texas police officers and sheriffs during the past year reveal-widespread violations of civil liberty fat that state...
...W. H. Sahli, aide to G. Allison Phelps, radio broadcaster-, and organizer of the semi-Fascist "League of Free Americans...
...Production level booms ,had reached the 1929 peaks before the defense boom, while nine millions remained unemployed...
...J. Henry Orroe, closely affiliated with Mrs...
...Chairman was Franklin Ballard, whose association with the, "American Guard" is well known on the West Coast <The American Guard is a fly-by-night organization with pro-Nazi sympathies...
...General nrindste* and goals can, however, be stated...
...The Daily News is published by Joe Medi.ll Patterson, a member Ofr the Socialist Party's National ¦ Executive Committee in 190WS...
...and those measures of eWMSssde reconstruction and social progress which could and should' h* applied by such an international organization...
...must at the same time be laid for an enduring peacf which will remove the mainsprings of aggressive nationalism and militarism, restore and safeguard democracy, and keep open the way for social progress...
...made recently, by The Nct^ Leader...
...William E. Boon, Alfred Braunthsl Peter Carver, Albert Grzesinski, Ernest Hamburger, Sergiev M. In per man...
...The number to be shifted from civilian production during the second half of 1941 has...
...We, a group of Socialists of '-arte* - countries, present this program now, because the Socialist sat Labor movement must be prepared to take up that groat task at the war draws to a close...
...While attacks have emanated from John Wheeler and his Senatorial father on Hollywood movies, neither they nor the America First Committee have criticized the showing of hundreds of official Nazi fiilms throughout the United States...
...Nazis, Fascist!, and Communists carry on an "anti-capitalistic" campaign unig pseudo-socialistic slogans to delude the masses...
...peace, liberty, and progress...
...It is only with over-expanded capacity that we will be able to achieve full employment...
...Don't rob...
...2. Use a' lukewarm neutral soap suds...
...20 per cent more radios, 50 per cent more electric- stoves...
...Yet a consideration of the means of securing peace is n --t onh-appropriate...
...average American family will be .spending more to live than it has for some ten years past" More and...
...His hold on Chicago's radio station WGN, coupled with the Tribune's monopoly of the Windy City's morning field, gives, the publisher the most effective propaganda outlet in the niid-west...
...Without going into detail, certain general principles may be laid down...
...1 These charges are refuted by a servey...
...Second largest paper in the United States is Colonel Mccormick's Chicago Tribune...
...it would also be unjustified, t¦ - - .» the nations under the yoke of Hitler cannot now be consustoO...
...1 1 ¦ ¦ Wheeler UsesSon's Aid to Hit US.Mov ies, lanores OfFicictl Nqzt films Shown Here War Production To Utilize 25% of U.S...
...Until the invasion of Russia, the America First group also conducted ba ok -door negotiations with.persons friendly, to the Communist Party...
...Chairman of the newly organized...
...There were thirty other prominent film stars on the platform and participating...
...Be-' cent army- testa have revealed that guns and blisters on U, S. !l?R!!U>" lilbtftrtEyiI»t against, fast German fighters...
...this result will depend...
...Another article by Vincent Rogers on who controls propaganda appears next week...
...Demand for goods, and, scarcities will cause -price rises and inflation...
...Then report that the U. S. producers are not being-informed- of the latest developments and lessons of- the British...
...Unless we plan to keep these' men in Civilian production after the defense boom, the statisticians will have . to get longer graph paper' to record the depression drops...
...Monday, July 21, an America First meeting was held at Richter's Cafeteria, in downtown.bos Angeles...
...A number of other Socialist $ at these and other nationalities (Hnngarian, Polish, sad Ro...
...A study byc«olf Nugent for - the Public Affairs Committee, entitled "Guns, Planes and Your Pocketbook...
...and Mrs...
...The preliminary peace must provide for annulment of all conquests and changes in the map which the aggressors have brought" about and the puppet regimes which they have set up must ba...
...From June, 1940, to June, 1941, national income was up 10 per cent, but production of...
...Behind this drive is an anti-racial whispering campaign designed to-iflighten the motion picture industry—although Wheeler has said nothing, of Nazi propaganda films here, or his son working with Bundists in Hollywood...
...Against this Hyp*, critical propaganda, the principles of a new democratic order ¦ Europe and in the worlo\ based on liberty, social progress, ant economic reconstruction, must be set forth,- ¦•"» Far from impairing the democratic peoples' determination win the war...
...Life Longer Nearly 13 years have been added to the average life of white persons in the United States since the turn of the century, according to the ¦ Bureau of the Census...
...cetit of our manpower will produce, non-consumption war goods...
...Concern for the reorganization of the world has nothing is common with the demand that the British government declare its war aims...
...Lucille Tauer and Sam Faulk, both, frequently seen at German House...
...the establishment of a world organitat«os **• preserve peace and democracy...
...Three' days before the Willkie demonstration, which was held on Wednesday, July 23, the "Save America First" group was ordered by its leader, T. W. Hughes, to cooperate with America First efforts to counteract WilHrie's publicity...
...William G. Msffett, all leading members and sympathizers of the German-American Bund...
...Pnt a drop at the top and bottom of the run immediately...
...We need not whittle down our demands for fear that they otherwise will not be accepted...
...the payroll index—With the 1&23-25 period as a base—now stands at 162 and the employment index at 127.6...
...A world disjtfoi between free states and slave states cannot live in peace...
...This is s progTe* of what should be done, not a prophecy of what may happen *> ' On the other hand, we must guard against being Utopian sns> picturing an ideal world...
...Ja-ne Empfoymefif Reaches New >IM-Tim« High Secretary of'Labor Perkins announced: civilian- non-agricultural employment increased by 484.000 during-June to reach a new all-time - high of 38,790,000—an increase oL 3^66,000 workers since June, 1940, and more than 1,-900,000 above the Jane, 1929, record level .' - Miss Perkins said manufacturing, industry payrolls increased, by- 5.6 per cent in the month—or $15,000,000 a week...
...and, 50 per cent more - furniture than -the corresponding months last year...
...There's the Isolationist William Randolph Hearst's chain with 5,-500,000 total- daily paid circulation...
...t* ,<vi.»«fed 1 It is the outcome of a series of discussions carried oa by a group of democratic Sociiliets orgs si—1 -sooorai ¦s»ns<ha,sue| * under, the auspices of the Rand School of Social ^shmbb, sss>*4 has been published in pamphlet form by the Band School Press* JjS A note prefixed to it ia that nebbcatioa oa»s: "Whatever weight this joiat declaration carries must rest oa the records of the signers and their steading in the Inus...
...They had a tremendous luncheon the day before, at which the applause for Willkie was rather perfunctory...
...Admitting that the percentage of Havana tobaccos hi their cigars is closer to 26 than to 109%, Garcia Grande Cigars, Inc., have also agreed to stop making any other false and misleading claims as to the geographic origin* of their product...
...Not only would an official declaration be prematura and lead to dissension over details at a time when unity of actios, is of paramount importance...
...and third, that thinking now about the ssmht after the war will positively strengthen the fighting msrstt of the democracies...
...The "Save America First" organization is made, up almost entirely of known Bund members apd Nazi agitators...
...Patterson's influence in*4j?pr York City, exercised through his powerful tab!oid, is vast...
...This program deals with the international settlement which must fellow the war, and therefore confines itself to three nmj»*' subjects-4a broad outline of the peace terms with Germany-aSd her Axis partners...
...War Aims, Peace Terms, arte} The World j^er the, W<V :i The statement on War Aims...
...Also Mrs...
...However optimistic the picture appears there are difficulties still to...
...Van Meter and her four sons, Mr...
...Renew the treatment, after washing unless you sew up the run...
...Now, as more materials and manpower are diverted to defense products, with less civilian- goods t0« buy, prices threaten to run ' away...
...manian) have expressed their substantial agreement...
...flying fortress in which Boeing, specializes...
...been estimated at 8,400.000...
...consideration of the future peace and of a better assjlir will strengthen their morale...
...anti-British Journa 1 -Anrcrican with- its circus 1 ation of 612,976 oopies daily and 991,649 on Sunday, and the non-interventionist Daily Mirror, also Hearst, which sells 768,946 daily and 1,429,005 on Sunday...
...Record...
...Hollywood, where a new chapter of the America Erst Committee held its inaugural meeting...
...Well based predictions indicate that by December mass production stride will hit the 3,000 and more a month pace...
...The sole distributor of Nazi films in New •York "is the Universnm Film Aktiengesellschaft .(UFA), according to Mr...
...In New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and Los Angeles, in dozens of theatres throughout the country, through the medium of skillfully produced feature films and newsreels, German-American citizens are being reminded of the ties of Blut und Erde (blood and earth) which link them with their Fatherland...
...Louis Post Dispatch—with some 300,000 circulation—and the Washington (D.'CVyTtoes Herald with 200r 000" which'are the largest sheets in their communities, and which are "isoiationisV Total daily newspaper circulation* in the country is 41 million copies...
...The new Flying-Portresses fly at heights beyond reach of Nazi anti-aircraft gun...
...considered - outmoded by the...
...And if you think that that's enough justification for causing the aspirin market to rise, think of the post-war problem of transposing this 25 per cent -of our, manpower engaged in pra-ducing war goods, and the en-t larged steel, aluminum, power, railway, freight, et al, capacities, into a smoothly' geared civilian production program...
...it is necessary...
...More serious-is^theifact that most of these purchases are made on time...
...The facts are that the rally was picketed by local Bundists and the America First crowd...
...The Douglas, Vega and- Boeing plane corporations have worked opt...
...H nnt nm 1 official declaration of the Social Democratic federation «f it* Unites States or of asm of the 8—isihrt refugee rroun* ess ' language federations, though most of these see re presorted among its authors...
...News.- Cartoonist Batchelor is the most macabre of the isolationist' artists...
...John Wheeler, Los Angeles America First Heacf...
Vol. 24 • August 1941 • No. 32
