i Beliind-the-Seenes Battle With
Bi?r Trusts and Monopolies
WASHINGTON—It has been obscured bv the bat-1
lies of Kharkov. Burma and Kinhvva. but behind the'
scenes, a bal de just as important domestically has been 1
raging be* ween Secretary of War Stimson and trust
busting Thurman Arnold over whether the big corpor
ations which monopolized war materials with Germany j
should be punished, or permitted to continue their i
monopolies.
Secretary Stimson doesn’t want these big firms both
ered with anti-trust suits, and some weeks ago wrote a
letter to the White House, demanded that they be
stopped. Thurman Arnold, he said, was playing into'
Hitler’s hands by nagging the big companies while they :
were filling war orders. Roosevelt, grinnng, gave the
letter to Attorney General Biddle. Biddle, also grinning |
gave it to Arnold. And Arnold wrote Stimson a lcttc"
which nearly raised the roof of the War Department.
He pointed out that there was no use fighting Hitler if j
U. S. industry was going to practice the same kind of j
monopolistic, cut-throat tactics as Nazi business.
Temporarily, however, the War Department won
cut. The Justice Department finally agreed to hold up
prosecution of certain cases, among them General El-i
ectric’s monopoly of fluorescent lamps, on the ground j
that General Electric officials were so busy with war
production they did not have time to appear in court.
They Found Time
But suddenly Thurman Arnold learned that although
General Electric did not have time to be prosecuted,
they did have time to prosecute on their own another j
company, High Grade Sylvania, for alleged violation of!
G. E.’s monopoly of fluorescent lighting.
So Arnold stepped into this private legal battle and.
asked that the government be made a party to the suit, i
The effect of this was to contend that General Electric i
had no right to its patent monopoly, and that High
Grade Sylvania was entitled to manufacture fluores
cent lamps. Arnold also told General Electric that he
intended to indict them every month. Next day. Arnold
got a phone call from the War Department. “We with
draw our objection to prosecuting General Electric,”
was the order.
General Electric had decided that it was better to
face one government suit, than to have the government
intervene in its private suits. So' it told its friend, the
War Department, to throw in the sponge. Insiders con
sider it the most significant anti-trust victory in some
time.
White House Barracks
As Cordell Hull looks out of the windows of h:s of
fice, he sees trees being trucked away from the park
just south of the State Department, and a steam-shovel
digging foundations for something.
A kibitzer watching the steamshovel shouted to the
operator: “What’s going up here?”
“I don't know,” he replied. “1 never heard anybody
say.” And he resumes the business of digging up the;
park. The answer is that barracks are to be built here,
to house soldiers detailed to guard the White House,
State Department, and Treasury buildings. At present,j
the men have to come all the way from Fort Myer, ac
ross the river.
Flanked by the State Department, the White House, |
i the Corcoran Gallery of Art. and the lawns that sweep
up to the Washington Monument, these will be the
most exclusive and richly located quarters in Washing
ton. Many a high-powered business man, turned away
from the best hotels, would give his shirt for a bunk in
such a spot.
'Washington Merry-Go-Round' by Drew Pearson & Robert S. Allen
TWIN REUNITED WITH MOTHER
L -V
Six-day-old Louis Francone, Jr., (left), mysteriously
taken from a nursery of a Los Angeles hospital, and
missing for two days, is shown back with his mother
and brother, Leo, his twin. Police said the baby was in
the possession of a woman who identified herself as
Mrs. Florence Post of Silver City, N. M. She was book
ed on a suspicion of kidnaping charge.
It’s your “Lucky Day" when you land
that prize beauty — you’ll feel extra
lucky when you add to your enjoy
ment with CREAM OF KENTUCKY'!
•6 PROOF COPR. 1942. SCHENLEY INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION NEW YORK CITY ^p^
DEFERMENT CASES
WILL BE CHECKED
WASHINGTON, June — Sen
: ator Millard Tydings, Democrat
; of Maryland, chairman of the
| special Senate committee on Sel
i ective Service recommended that
the Selective Service System
check up on the draft deferment
given 1000 young male employ
ees of the federal government in
I Washington. D. C. He said his
| committee was considering the
i holding of open hearings on the
j question of draft deferment be
| cause of federal employment.
Senator Tydings said that the
; deferring i f defense workers
from selective service among
federal government employees
, has been generally free from
abuse.
“There have been reports," he
i declared that mass deferments
from military service were be
1 ing granted to a large number
of government departments and
agenc es.
11 has been a rather hearten
ing r-welation to find that on the
whole the priviledge of request
ing and granting deforme ‘
from military service to person
. ncl in the national government
j has not been abused.
! “It ls true that in a few cases
j a large number of employees
have been deferred from the
i draft but when the committee
! scrutinized the reasons for these
■ deferments it was found general
' ly that they were warranted.”
Tydings added that some cases
where deferment was not reason
able had been uncovered.
Summons For Publication
No. 3536
In the District Court. Terri
tory of Alaska. Second Division.
HELEN ALICE JOHNSON,
Plaintiff vs WILLIAM EDWARD
JOHNSON, Defendant.
THE PRESIDENT OK THE
UNITED STATES OF AM
ERICA: To The Above Named
Defendant, GREETING:
You are hereby required to ap
pear in the District Court for the
Territory of Alaska, Second Div
ision, within thirty days after
the last publication of this sum
mons, namely within thirty days
after the 3rd day of July, 1942,
and answer the complaint of the
above named plaintiff on file in
the said Court in the above en
titled action. The said plaintiff in
said action demands the follow
ing relief:
That the bonds of matrimony
existing between the said plain
tiff and the said defendant be
dissolved.
And in the event you fail to
so appear and answer the plain- i
tiff will take judgement against
you for want thereof, and will
apply to the Court for the relief
demanded in her complaint and;
as hereinabove stated.
Witness the Honorable J. H. S.
Morison, Judge of said Court,
and the seal of said Court here
unto affixed on this 12th day of
June, 1942.
Aimer Rydeen. Clerk.
By Norvin W. Lewis, Deputy j
SOLDIERS TRAIN FOR FLAME THROWER ASSAULT
With talk of gas and chem eals creeping i to reports and no ala’' a > *- i >
war fronts, chemical warfare troops at th hiy engineer re a5 <* <:•« ' • ? V‘.
lie!voir, Va., have stepped up maneuver* employing the murd rous ■ ' •owe-.*
against the day when they sna> have to > • fire v. ’ I’' - a 1
squirts liquid (lame and r<;!?s up a cloud. <>, black smoke a> il* t •» pr - i... a. ho
to control the weapons.
AIOKC.ENSTIKKNE PRESENTS NEW CREDENTIALS
Wilhelm Munthe de Morgcnstierne (right) presented hs new credentials to Presi
dent Roosevelt in Washington as the legation of the Norwegian government in
exile was lifted to an embasy and Morgcnstierne advanced from minister to Am
bassador. In back, 1-r, are Crown Prince Olav of Norway & Prime Minister Johan
Nygaarsvold.
SOURDOUGH STATIONERY
Write to your friends and rela
tives on the ‘Outside,’ using Sour
iough Stationery. They’ll get a
jig kick out of it
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