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Weekly News Review ' ' -
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Probes Hollywood Communism
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&. F. OF L.'S JOHN FREY, INVESTIGATOR DIES
They were obliaed to discuss John Lewis.
D,~mesth~
Last year Chicago Times Report-
er John Metcaife joined Fritz
K~n's German-American Bund,
traveled 20,000 miles attending Bund
meetings, then resigned to write a
startling expose for his paper. Di-
rect result was a $25,000 house com-
mittee on un-American activities,
which met last week under Texas'
Martin Dies. After three days of
probing, un-Americanism reared its
colorful head everywhere from C. I.
O. headquarters to glamorous Holly-
wood.
Ex-Bundsman Metcalfe told how
Fritz Kuhn organized 500,000 Ger-
naan-Americans under instructions
from AdoLf Hitler, how in return
Kuhn was given a whip hand over
Germany's ambassador to the U. S.
He told of Chicago's "Silver Shirts,"
organized to smash Communism.
Ex-Bundsman Peter Gissibl told
bow Nazi spies consorted with Ger-
man-Americans, how the Red Star
line "fixed it" so spies could slip
back home when they got in trou-
ble. But it was American Federa-
tion of Labor's John P. Frey who
tossed in the biggest bombshell and
caused C. I. O.'s Jchn L. Lewis to
snort with rage. ~
Naziism is one thing, but Metal
Tradesman Frey promised to identi-
fy "several national C. I. O. offi-
cers" as Communism. Would he
mention John Lewis? "How could I
avoid itl" replied Mr. Frey.
The Frey disclosures had barely
started before Committee Investiga-
tor Edward Sullivan hurried into
Washington from California, anx-
ious to reveal how C. I. O.'s Harry
Bridges, America's most famous
alien, "attended 'top fraction' meet-
tngs of the Communist party and
received aid from officials of the
1.]. S. labor department while patri-
otic citizens were trying to have
him deported for his Communistic
activities,"
Continued Investigator Sullivan:
"Witnesses can be produced who
can name the day when an official
of the immigration service contact-
ed Harry Bridges and called him to
his office, where he read. ~ . a con-
fidential letter of instructions on his
future behavior, written by an out-
standing official of the labor depart-
rnent."
That Communist Bridges is
financed by Hollywood cinema stars
was Mr. Suilivan's next charge.
Armed with this evidence, supported
by Unionist Frey whose accusations
John Lewis seemed unwilling to an-
swer, the Dies committee prepared
to remain in Washington two more
weeks. In New York they will pick
up more tasty rumors, then move
west across the nation to smell out
Communism a la Hollywood.
Foreign
Many years ago Germany's great
Bismarck fooled his opponents by
telling the truth, knowing they would
not believe. Last week, when Adolf
Hitler called 500,000 reserves to the
colors for war games with a mil-
lion regular soldiers, all Europe be-
came jittery. But in Berlin there
was scoffing; if Germany planned
anything but peaceful moves, she
would have assembled her giant
war machine secretly. Remember-
ing Bismarck, answering too that
secret mobilization on such a giant
scale would be impossible, Berlin's
nervous diplomatic corps sped the
news back home to Paris, London
and Prague. There, these things
happened:
(1) In Prague, England's Lord
Runciman has spent a fortnight
mediating differences between loyal
Czechs and their disgruntled fellow.
countrymen, Sudeten Germans. Su-
detens want autonomy, eventual an-
nexation by Germany. Was it pos-
sible that Germany's mob~ation
foreshadowed a quick annexation
move? As Premier Milan Hodza re-
jected a Sudeten demand for autono-
my; all Czechoslovakia became wor-
he
along Germany and Italy were vir-
tually locked. Next, Interior Min-
ister Albert Sarraut re-enforced his
counter-spying service against Ger-
many.
(3) In London, Prime Minister Ne-
ville Chamberlain forgot his catarrh
and returned from Scotland. Since
Germany recently closed its fortified
zones to all military men, Britain's
war office warned its officers to get
special certificates to avoid "trou-
ble" during travels irt Germany.
Chief dynamite in Germany's ma-
neuvers lay in the possibility of an
incident that would topple Europe's
delicately balanced peace structure.
• When Japan and Russia signed a
truce in their month-old undeclared
war on the Manchukuan-Siberian
border, only the most optimistic ob-
server could predict lasting peace.
As a redemarcation commission
prepared last week to settle the
boundary dispute, two incidents
threatened once more to send Rus-
sia's bear charging up bullet-pocked
Changkufeng hill. On isolated Sag-
halien island, half Russian, hale Jap,
Soviet guards fired on a touring
member of the Japanese parlia-
ment. Next day Tokyo's troops took
advantage of the truce, advanced
100 meters up Changkufeng hill
while Russian guns bristled. Since
wisdom was the better part of val-
or, the Japs immediately retreated.
Politics
Dearer than anything else to
Franklin Roosevelt is his legisla-
tive program, blocked last session
not by a Republican minority but
by anti-New Deal Democrats. No
silent sufferer, Mr. Roosevelt de-
cided long ago that congress needed
new blood to replace opponents of
his reorganization bill, wage-hour
bill and lesser measures. This year's
primaries offered an opportunity.
By last week his "purge" pro-
gram was not a success. But neith-
er had New Dealism suffered many
losses in elections thus far. Bound
GEOKGIA'8 GEOKGE
He had reason so
to break the impasse, Mr. RooseveR
decided to stake his political future
on his tremendous personal popular-
ity in the South, Fortnight ago at
Barnesville, Ga., he bluntly read out
of the party Sen. Walter F. George,
who sat scowling in the audience
(see picture). Last week 60-year-
old Senator George took up the
"chaLlenge" and set out to beat New
Dealer Lawrence Camp in Georgia's
primary, September 14.
Stal]~ing next into South Carolina,
the President intimated that Sena-
tor Ellison D. ("Cotton Ed") Smith
would be unwelcome at Washington
next winter, intimated also that
South Carolinians should send in his
place Gov. Olin D. Johnson.
Back in Washington, news of the
South's "purge" gave political com-
mentators enough hard tack to chew
on until election day. What Frank-
lin Roosevelt wanted was complete
domination insuring
People
Last month Anne Lindsay Clarlc
married Son John Roosevelt, who
a fortnight ago took an $18-a-week
job in the Boston department store
of late Democrat Edward Filene.
Last week Anne Roosevelt's sister,
Sally, who has sung her way to
nomina~fame in a night club, said
she would marry George Xavier
McLanahan of New York.
• Wed only two weeks to his tele-
phone operator sweetheart from
Gore Bay, Ont., 21-year-old Auto
Heir Daniel C. Dodge was honey-
mooning on Manitoulin island off
Lake Huron's Georgian bay. One
afternoon as he rummaged around
the garage with his wife and Mr.
and Mrs. Lloyd Bryant, a stick of
dynamite exploded. Completely
shattered was Dodge's left arm, his
face torn, his eyes blinded. Rushed
off by boat to a distant hospital by
his badly injured friends, Dodge
suffered excruciating agony. Final-
ly he stood up, swayed, jumped into
the water, drowned. Next day Bry-
ant was not expected to live.
Crime
One morning last fall, 18-year-old
Paul Dwyer of South Paris, Me.,
was arrested in North Arlington, N.
J. Stuffed in the trunk of his auto-
mobile was the corpse of James
G. Littlefleld, elderly country doc-
tor. Stuffed in the back seat was
that of Dr. Littlefield's wife. Paul
Dwyer went to prison under life sen-
tence for double murder. Then he
changed his story. Said Dwyer:
Francis Carroll, 8 former deputy
sheriff, had improper relations with
his daughter, Barbara, Dwyer's
sweetheart. When Dr. Littlefleld
learned of this, Carroll killed him.
Later he killed the doctor's wife.
Fear of Carroll caused Dwyer to
admit both murders.
Last week these horrible accusa-
tions were settled. Francis Carroll
was convicted, sent to prison for
life. It appeared likely that sallow-
faced Paul Dwyer would be par-
doned, though he might still be
charged with guilty knowledge of
the slayings. Meanwhile Barbara
Carroll received offers to appear in
a Boston night club.
Aviation
Transatlantic commercial air su-
premacy has long since been willed
by public consent to U. S. and Great
Britain, though until last year nei-
ther nation did anything to justify
the public's approval. A few weeks
ago Nazi Germany sent its Nord-
wind, Nordstern and Nordmeer cat-
apulting from the Azores to New
York and back, placing a new na-
tion in the race for Atlantic air su-
premacy. Last week Adolf Hitler's
birdmen did something still better.
Non-stop from Berlin to New York
in 24 hours, 56 minutes, came the
26-passenger Brandenburg. Two
days later Brandenburg was again
in Berlin, making her return trip in
the record time of 19 hours, 55 min-
utes. No longer a secret is Hitler's
ambition to make not London, not
Paris, but Berlin the European
starting point for transatlantic
flights.
• Down from the clouds east ol
Mexico City plummeted an airliner.
First a crash, then flames, and 11
were dead. Down from fog-bound
skies into Germany's Black fores4P
came a Czechoslovak liner bound
from Prague to Paris. Sixteen died.
Down to their deaths off England's
coast went six crew members of a
royal air force flying boat, bringing
to 126 the total fatalities in that
service this year. Thus, in 12 hours,
in Mexico, England and Germany,
33 lives were snuffed out;
Sports
When Broker $. Smith Ferebee
played 144 holes of golf in Chicago
last fortnight, it looked like a new
marathon fad would start, rivaling
marathon dancing, surpassing the
toughest flagpole sitter. Last week
at St. John, Ind., 23-year-old Charles
Grant started playing golf at dawn.
By 3 p. m. he had covered 162
holes, by sundown, 225. His worst
18-hole round: the tenth, scoring 81.
Miscellany
From San Francisco's Golden
Gate exposition grounds last week
came orders that publicity on the
1939 fair must show more fair build-
ings, fewer fair maidens. Result
was a new bit of publicity, some-
thing fair officio, Is had not expected.
Up and down in front of the adminis-
tration building paraded "the most
beautiful picket line in America."
Their placards: "We're out on a
limb." "We want a leg-acy."
Q Last fortnight Britain's proud
Queen Mary made a westward At-
lantic passage in 3 days, 21 hours,
48 minutes, clipping better than an
hour from the record of her rival,
France's Normandie. Last week
Queen Mary steamed east from New
York, made the crossing in 3 days,
20 hours, 42 minutes, to besaa~dan~
other Normandie record.
proud offlcer: "This is the lion's
tttrn to roar."
• Last June 1 a big malamute dog
went hunting with his maste~ off
Alaska's frozen Bering strait. Lin-
~heering off shore to gobble aeai meat,
beast was carried to sea on an
ice floe. Last week, more than two
months later, the master again
went hunting, this time with Father
Bernard R, Hubbard, Alaskan mis-
aionary, On lonely Point Hope, 250
miles away, the dog bounded up.
WASHINGTON.---SOmething like a
year ago, quite a furor was raised
here by the revela-
Roar Over tion that the Home
HOLC Owners Loan cor-
poration had
loaned $40,000 out of its own treas-
ury to its employees who wanted to
organize a group which could hire
its own doctors on an annual basis.
This was public money, because the
HOLC is wholly owned by the fed-
eral treasury and its function is to
loan money on private homes to en-
courage home ownership. The
Group Health association, as it was
named, guaranteed medical treat-
ment to its members for a fixed
annual fee and hired doctors to do
the job.
There was a roar from many
quarters at the time because of the
use of government money in this
manner, but the loudest roar came
from the doctors who are members
of the District of Columbia Medi-
cal society. Few of us realized then,
Z think, where this controversy was
going to lead. I doubt that there
were very many persons expected
to see the tiny spark fanned into a
flame so large. Now, however, that
spark has become a national flame,
national issue of serious import. For
what could be more serious, indeed,
than a chance to live when the cold
fingers of death creep closer?
The issue as it is now defined, suc-
cinctly, is whether the long and hon-
orable history of the medical pro-
fession, and all of the scientific as-
sets that this implies, shall be
thrown to the winds; whether, in
the place of that history and gain
and the services of those individual
doctors, there shall be created a
new basic method, a procedure
where the doctors are hired by a
corporation subsisting on the annual
fees paid by its members who will
telephone the corporation offices and
say: send me one of your best doc-
tors. In short, as I see it, the issue
is whether there is to be personal-
ized, conscientious service or serv-
ice as lacking in personal interest as
a "fill my tank, please," at the gaso-
line service station.
That is the preface to the recent
legal proceedings by our own gov-
ernment against the American Med-
ical association and the District of
Columbia Medical society, which
are threatened with prosecution as a
"'trust." The government's action,
of course, makes the controversy a
national issue, one which interests
all of us. The trust busting assist-
ant attorney general, Thurman Ar-
nold, former Yale professor, vows
he will break up the "trust" which
is the national organization of doc-
tors, but there are those of us who
cannot help linking the corporation
method of medical practice with
Professor Arnold's blast and threats
against the doctors who believe in
individual practice.
The whole department of justice
position strikes me as rather fuzzy,
rather asinine and, in some re-
spects, reprehensible. However, if
there is to be a complete analysis
made and a complete understanding
of the situation obtained, it is nec-
essary to know that "President
Roosevelt wants it done," and Mr.
Arnold is proceeding. It does not
seem to matter that there are only a
few medical crooks, only a few un-
ethical and unscrupulous medical
practitioners; the whole profession
must be attacked and defamed. Nor
does it seem of great concern to the
prosecuting officials that some of
those doctors who are promoting
corporation medicine throughout the
United States have been denied ad-
mission to the American Medical
association for reasons of character
and ethics deemed sufficient to war-
rant non-recognition.
• • •
And while I am about it, I want
to pay tribute to that greatest of all
American charac-
~udsCounfry ters, the country
1)o~or doctor. I have per-
sonal reasons for
offering my humble praise to one of
their number, but throughout Amer-
ica there can be found no greater
asset. He is a friend and confidant
and adviser, minister to the body
and the mind. There are some
among his numbers that will not
have, even do not warrant, respect.
But that obtains in every walk of
life and my belief is that there are
fewer country doctors lacking in
honesty and good conscience than in
any regular profession or avocation
of life.
The country doctor is different
from his brother practitioner of the
city. The latter probably is better
trained, more up to date on all de-
velopments of science, perhaps
more expert in most fields, but I
think I can say without equivocation
or doubt because of personal experi-
ence that the country doctor is not
excelled anywhere among humans
for good, common horse sense. And
the man or woman who isequipped
with horse sense keeps the human
race on ~n evtn keeL
But to get back to the govern-
mant proceedings: here we sea an
action, or threat, against a whole
profession that has done as much or
more for mankind as the ministers
of the gospel. I take it for granted
that there are skeletons in the clos-
ets of many doctors. There is, and
can be, no justification, for example,
of some of the high fees charged in
cases where people without worldly
goods are concerned. Their lives are
as valuable as the lives of the rich-
est multimillionaires. There can be
no defense, as a further proposition,
for laxness and disinterest which
are matters of record. But I main-
tain and shall always believe that
there are comparatively few mem-
bers of the medical profession who
fail to give the best that is in them.
And when I mention disinterest, I
cannot help wondering whether doc-
tors hired by group health associa-
tions are going to be much concerned
about hurrying to the bedside of an
association member after a few
years of such practice. The month-
ly check is going to come in whether
the corporation doctor is sympathet-
ic and skillful or apathetic.
But let us get on to another phase;
two of them, in fact.
According to the best legal opin-
ion that is available outside of the
department of jus-
Other tice, it seems like-
Phases ly that no court
will hold the medi-
cai society to be a "trust." The or-
ganization of doctors is effected for
the purpose of maintaining high
standards, to keep racketeers out of
the profession. Its members must
be of good character; they must ad-
here to rules that are designed for
the protection of the layman who ob-
viously is at the mercy of the man
trained in the science of medicine
and surgery. The whole purpose
seems to be the very simple proposi-
tion of self-discipline. (I might say
just here that New Dealers all
along have called for self-disci-
pline among business and profes-
sional men.) The medical men want
to destroy the type that feeds upon
the hopeless individual's desire to
regain health, to live; they want to
rid society of the abortionist, the
quacks and the men and women who
traffic in blood. And the question I
propound, therefore, is: can such a
profession be catalogued in law or
in morals as dealers in commodi-
ties like steel or oil or calico? If it
can be so held under our laws, then
there surely is no point in young
men and women slaving through six
or seven or eight years of training
for the profession. They had bet-
ter go out and start practicing med-
icine as .the" unskilled laborer digs
ditches.
In this connection, too, it seems
preper to mention an implication of
a decision holding the medical socie-
ties to be trusts. As set'own above,
membership is based on character
and training. If the medical society
is a trust, what are all of ybur fra-
ternal organizations, your civic so-
cieties, your clubs, who elect or fail
to elect members because of good
character or lack of it? The Masonic
order, the Odd Fellows, Woodmen of
the World? And, what of Knights of
Columbus? That great organization
for good also could be broken down
if a crook, for selfish reasons, would
want membership.
And now to the polities of the sit-
uation. It appears to me to be a
great tactical blunder on the part
of the so-called board of strategy
which has President Roosevelt's
ear. Those men, most of them un-
trained in political campaigning,
have failed to recognize the human
element that is involved. They have
listened to the generalities of those
who have their own nests to feather
and have so far forgotten common
sense in politics as to propose a
move that can be offset by direct,
personal contact.
Let us think of the picture here
presented in a hypothetical case.
Suppose you are a great supporter
of President Roosevelt, believe him
to be sincere in his announced in-
terest in the masses, praise his cour-
age and his forward-looking pro-
gram for government. Along comes
old man sickness and lays you down
fiat on your back. Your doctor
comes• You know him, have confi-
dence in him, or you would not call
him.
Then, after the manner that usu-
ally happens, the doctor talks about
a number of things with you. Of
course, you know something about
the government attacks on the doc-
tors and you want ~o hear the story
from the other angle. I would, and
so would you. What is all of this
about, Doctor? Is there such a thing
as a medical trust?
Well, unless I miss my guess, un-
less my understanding of human re-
lations is as wet as swamp Iog~
you are going to feel that the whole
proceeding is quite unfair and pos-
sibly you will condemn the man
who "wants it done." That thing will
go on in thousands upon thousands
of households and hospitals, because
the smart alecks who started Mr.
Roosevelt in that direction put him
on the spot.
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