The Ennis Daily News (Ennis, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 115, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 14, 1941 Page: 2 of 4
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he would be boss in name only.
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Army and Navy Rule
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cance of that last minute Cox
amendment to the defense priori-
ties bill in the house of representa-
tives.
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by Chairman Carl Vinson of the
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Entered as- second-class matter at the post ofice at Ennis, Texas,
under the Act of March 3, 1879.
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fully insured with private compan-
ies, these companies turn around
and re-insure with a pool, including
the Tokyo Fire and Marine Insur-
ance Co., the Meiji Insurance Co.,
of Tokyo, Generale of Triesti (an
Italian firm) and five German
companies.
This insurance pool also includes
Scandia of Copenhagen, a country
which has been taken over by Hit-
ler; Cristiana General of Norway,
Washingten, May 14.—It is hard
to believe, but the government of
the United States actually is pay-
ing war risk insurance to the Jap-
anese for helping to insure the S.S.
America, pride of the U. S. mer-
chant marine.
This is just part of the revela-
tions over re-insurance which are
breaking this week at the Justice
Department. These probes also show
that when a vessel is insured, Axis
insurance companies get all the
data regarding its cargo, time of
departure ,destinaticn and the in-
terior plan of the ship.
Thus, despite all the censorship
of Secretary of the Navy Knox,
Germany has had an easy means
of knowing all about every ship that
leaves the United States.
This is accomplished when Amer-
ican insurance companies, because
of the heavy risk involved in in-
suring a cargo in wartime, re-insure
with various foreign companies. In
other words, they sell part of the
policy abroad, thus distribute the
risk. That is how Japan makes a
lush profit on insuring American
vessels, even vessels owned by the
U. S. A.
Last year congress passed a law
providing war risk insurance for U.
S. shipping, but the Maritime Com-
mission, for reasons best known to
itself, has declined to take advan-
tage of the law. Cemmission mem-
bers state quite frankly that they
wanted to throw the business to
private insurance concerns—as long
as private insurance was available.
Begging For Insurance
As a result, here is what happens
when the S. S. America or some
other vessel seeks insurance for a
voyage. The operators of the Amer-
ica will get a certain amount of
insurance at the rate of 75 cents
per $100, but net enough properly
to insure the cargo. Then they
write to Bryant Ogden of the In-
surance Bureau of the Maritime
Commission asking for government
insurance.
Mr. Ogden, under the law, is sup-
posed to grant government insur-
ance when private insurance is not
available. But he writes back to say
that other private insurance is
available at a higher price. So the
S. S. America finally gets its insur-
ance at $1.50 per $100—but not all
of it. When it can get no more at
this price it again writes to Mr.
Ogden, who again asks if the pri-
vate insurance field is exhausted.
So this time the S. S. America
gets more private insurance at the
exhorbit ant price of $5 per $100.
You can always get private insur-
ance if you are willing to pay a
steep enough price. And Mr. Ogden
or the Maritime Commission, or
both,, seem to want no government
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A SOLDIER SAYS
The Coatsville, Pennsylvania, Record recently publish-
ed a letter written home by a young man who had been
taken into the army under the selective service act. He
said: “We give up a year of our lives, the comforts of
homes. and countless other things for barracks, hard work
and duty from sun-up to sun-down. We do our part and
do it harder than anyone at home, and yet it’s the people
at home who are doing the kicking and squawking.
“They kick about wages and squeal about hours, strike
threaten to strike, tie up machinery, and there you are
. . . The people wanted soldiers—millions of them. Yet
every day it’s becoming apparent that many of these same
people think more of a few cents an hour than they do of
their own children and relatives.”
It is interesting to know what young men are serv-
ing their country in the army for less than a dollar a day
think of the highest paid workmen in the world who
threaten to block defense production unless they are paid
still more.—Cleburne Times-Review.
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A success makes his wife a fur coat out of the wolf at
the door.
Under Secretary of State, has the
erect bearing of a guardsman, some
times awes people by his austere
manner. Underneath, however, is
is anything but austere, has a rich
sense of humor. Here is the latest
story he tells on himself.
After a late banquet at the Wil-
lard Hotel, Welles came down in
the same elevator with two women
who were slightly intoxicated.
“Say,” said one of them in a
highly audible whisper, “look who
we have with us in the elevator—
Sumner Welles.”
“What! That cld stick-in-the-
mud?” replied the other. “That
couldn’t be Sumner Welles.”
Under the Dome
The Nelson Rockefeller commit-
tee for cultural relations with South
America wasn’t at all keen about
the Douglas Fairbanks good will
pilgrimage. ‘They resented Franklin
Roosevelt, Jr., close friend of Fair-
banks, putting this one over with
his father while they weren’t look-
ing ... a lot of people looked for
Senate Floor Leader Barkley dur-
ing the senate fight on Pan Amer-
ican Airways last week. The presi-
dent had asked defeat of Pan Am,
partly because the fight got per-
sonal, he being, accused of being
the tool cf the Lehman banking in-
and control cf the vessel, also pays
it a heavy subsidy. Yet the Maritime
Commission shuns the insurance
fund voted by congress and lets
part of the profits—as well as the
confidential information—go to
Axis insurance companies.
Sumner Welles’ Humor
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Defense insiders say real authors
of the amendment are the admirals
and generals, working under coyer
with Represntatives Vinson and
Gene Ccx of Georgia, who see eye-
to-eye with the Navy’s crack-down
on labor. Vinson sponsored the so-
called “anti-strike” bill that was so
extreme the Rules Committee gag-
ged at it. Cox is among the fore-
most union-haters in congress.
Navy brasshats never have taken
kindly to civilian control of the de- 9
fense program, have repeatedly tried 4 " A
to undermine it. But congressional ;
Mutilation as punishment is very old, and once was
thought to be a deterrent; the hands of thieves were cut
off, the eyes of spies put out, and the tongues of gossips
and perjurers torn out. Most frequent was the amputa-
tion of a hand for forgery, falsifying money and per-
jury. Other penalties included gouging out the eyes and
cutting off the nose. Branding was the last form of mu-
tilation to disappear, according to history. It consisted of
searing some part of the body with the first letter of the
crime commited.
But is it possible that torture still exists in our mod-
ern prisons? The following is a statement made to the
Texas Parole Board by ah ex-convict of the Texas Prison
System in regard to this question:
“. . . They are made to lie on the floor, nude, while
the executioner applies to their naked bodies a leather
lash two and one half inches wide and twenty-four in-
ches long, attached to a whip handle the wielder grasps
with both hands in administering the beatings. Frequent-
ly I have been present and although not a sentimental-
ist, could not endure the sight of such torture as the vic-
tims are forced to endure. Frequently men have been
whipped in the corridor of the cell block where I was con-
fined. I have heard the bat strike the bodies of the vic-
tims, sounding like the report of a pistol, and have heard
the cries of those who could not “take it.” A great many
men particularly white men do take it—it being consid-
ered an indication of courage among inmates when a man
receives such a flogging in silence. The number of lash-
es allowed by law is twenty. I have sat in my cell, with
pencil and paper, and kept tally of the blows as they were
delivered. I have studied the effect on others as they
listened to the fall of the lash on the naked bodies of the
victims. I have seen men turn white with rage and re-
sentment, pace up and down in their cells, grasp the bars
of the cell doors until their hands ran colorless, and call
down the curses upon* the prison and upon society for
allowing such barbarism to exist.”
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Vinsen did not say was that the
amendment actually would take a
handful of generals and admirals
the real economic rules of the
country.
guised stream would work: The
of Paris, also in the hands of the
Nazis.
When a ship is insured, informa-
tion regarding its cargo, destination,
etc., is passed around among the
insurance companies which partici-
pate. Thus the Nazis probably have
known—through re-insurance com-
panies—all about every vessel sail-
ing.
Note: In the case of the S. S.
America, the United States gov-
ernment owns a heavy mortgage
Comes Spring, comes the new hat, sometimes comes
the new car, and reposing within feathery ease within
the luxury of the super deluxe chronium-plated, trade in,
the family backs gingerly down the driveway and laun-
ches the shining steed of steel upon the crowded sea of
Sunday drivers, scraping fenders, honking horns, flat tires
and traffic policeman.
As the joyous possessor of the latest model guides it
amidst the plebian hordes of Model T’s and high school
jalopies, his anxious eye performs unbelievable acrobat-
ics within its socket, trying to maintain a vigilance over
the unblemished marvel. Woe to the presumptious last
years make that dares to rub fenders with the super, de-
luxe.
The family dog howls desolately from the house, pon-
dering what mysterious curse has banished him from the
plush interior of such brilliancy. The children sulk on
the back seat without a Sunday hope "of spot producing
sodas or ice cream cones.
But kingdoms must fall, worlds must end. and even
new cars must become stained and tarvel worn. Two
weeks of reverent handling and application of elbow
grease, then the children once more take their places in
the back seats, this time blissfully lugging their dogs, and
anticipating the stop at the nearest drug store. The driv-
er sits-back and relaxes. There is a cheerful sound of
screeching brakes and grinding gears. The new car has
become just the family vehicle.
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Nowlin, C. A. The Ennis Daily News (Ennis, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 115, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 14, 1941, newspaper, May 14, 1941; Ennis, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1474244/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Ennis Public Library.