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Sunday, October 16, 2011

HESS; 1941

St. Petersburg Times,
May 13, 1941

The Milwaukee Journal,

May 15, 1941

St. Petersburg Times,

May 16, 1941

The Age, May 14, 1941
THE CAREER OF RUDOLF HESS
BERLIN--Hess became Hitler's private secretary in 1923, and as such was nicknamed the "brown mouse." A faithful watchdog, slavishly following every step that Hitler made, he was without ambition for himself. Hitler called him "my brave Maurice." In the early brawling beer-hall stages, Hess served as bodyguard, interposing his powerful athletic frame into fights to defend his adopted Fuehrer. In one melee he had a beer-mug broken over his head, and he still bears a scar where no hair will grow.
Hess was born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1896, his father being a merchant there. His family had come from Frankenland, the mother being Swiss. Until the age of 14 Hess went to school at Alexandria, then started studies at the high school of Godesburg. At 17 he took a commercial course, with the intention of going into his father's business. After spending a time in French Switzerland, he went to Hamburg, where at the outbreak of the 1914-18 war, he joined up as a volunteer. Wounded in 1916 at Verdun, he returned to the field six months later, this time in Roumania. He became a lieutenant in the infantry, but joined the air force just before the end of the war.
Hess had met Hitler when the latter was a dispatch rider, in 1917, but the two got to know each other only after May, 1921. In the abortive Munich putsch of March, 1923, Hess carried out a commission which showed how cruel he could be for the cause.
Hess was called to account for the kidnapping (of two Bavarian Ministers) and was sentenced to detention at the Landsberg fortress, where Hitler was also a prisoner. Here the two collaborated in producing the first part of "Mein Kampf." The greater part, still with Hess' co-operation, was written later, at Obersalzberg, near Berchtesgaden.

(CAPTION READS: Rudolf Hess (right), personal deputy to Adolf Hitler, is shown with the Fuehrer at the famous Buergerbrau beer cellar in 1938 in Munich at the celebration which marked the 15th anniversary of the beer cellar putsch. Wide World Photo via Canadian Colonial Airways.)

The Montreal Gazette, May 14, 1941
Press Hides Hess Act But All Italy Talking
(By Telephone to The New York Times and The Gazette)
ROME--One of the greatest stories of this war or in the history of journalism--the flight of Rudolf Hess to Britain--is buried away as inconspicuously as possible in the Italian press today in the form of the first German communique.
The Giornale d'Italia tacks the communique on to another item and does not mention Hess in the headline. One has to look carefully to find it in any newspaper, but it is there, and needless to say every thinking Italian is talking about it as excitedly as any other citizen anywhere else in the world.
Although the admission has not been made here, one may be quite sure that the Italian people know where he is and what he did. It is no longer possible to keep such news from people in these days of radio.

St. Petersburg Times, May 16, 1941
Hess, Under Suspicion, Learned Few Military Secrets
By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN, United Feature Syndicate
WASHINGTON--According to best diplomatic advices available here, it seems probable that Rudolf Hess will be able to give the British almost no military secrets.
Inside explanation of his weird airplane flight to Scotland is that Hess had repeatedly warned Hitler against a policy of trying to conquer the whole world. This caused a break between him and der fuehrer, and Hess had been under suspicion for some time.
Hitler assigned eight or nine Gestapo men to watch him constantly. These were the "adjutants" or "aides" described as arrested in Berlin dispatches. Apparently Hitler made the mistake of telling the Gestapo merely that Hess was suffering from a mental breakdown, and did not tell them the real facts. That was why they let him go to an airplane factory where a friend lent him a Messerschmitt 110.

St. Petersburg Times, May 16, 1941
GLASGOW--David McLean, Scottish farmer who captured Rudolf Hess with a pitchfork as his only weapon, is pictured with his mother who offered Hess a cup of tea after he parachuted to earth on their farm. (Passed by censor, cabled to London-New York).

St. Petersburg Times, May 16, 1941
GLASGOW--The wreckage of the Messerschmitt-110 from which Rudolf Hess parachuted to earth in Scotland after his mysterious flight from Germany. (Photo cabled from London to New York).

The Mount Airy News, May 15, 1941
Flight By Rudolf Hess To Scotland Planned Ahead
GLASGOW, Scotland--Rudolf Hess told his captors how he secretly fitted an extra gasoline tank to a warplane and flew a beeline from Augsburg, Germany, to Scotland with the route marked in blue pencil on a map.
The story of the nazi chief deputy's coldly calculated flight from Adolf Hitler was related today by two home guardsmen, who took over Hess' custody late Saturday night after Hess parachuted onto a Scottish field with an impact felt 'round the world.
On him they found the map with the blue-pencilled Augsburg-to-Scotland route, and a quantity of compressed food.
The extra gasoline tank, fitted to the Messerschmitt 110 so that Hess could be certain he would have enough gasoline for the trip, was dropped in the sea as he crossed the Scottish coast, Hess related.
TRIED TO LAND
The home guardsmen, Jack Paterson and Robert Gibson, related also Hess' story of how he tried to land the plane--the first Messerschmitt he ever had flown.
"I circled over the spot where I finally parachuted for a long time," he said, "but in the darkness I could not see a suitable landing place."
"Then I climbed several thousand feet, threw the plane over on its back and switched off the engine. Just as I was falling out I righted the machine again, switched on the engine and sent the plane hurtling to earth while I fell clear."
He said nothing about the ten bullet holes found in the tail of the wrecked plane--indicating he was fired upon by German pursuers or caught in the gunsights of British fighters. No such action by British pilots has been reported.
Paterson said Hess was completely calm when he talked to him; that he seemed more impressed by the availability of a drink of milk than by his own achievement, and that he gave his drinking cup to his guards as a souvenir.
SURPRISED AT MILK
While Hess talked, Paterson said, "we offered him cigarettes, but he told us he didn't smoke. So when we asked him if he wanted a glass of milk he said, 'Have you got milk?' as if surprised that we had any.
"He drank half a glass and then remarked, 'I feel a bit cramped. My legs are stiff from being in the plane so long and my ankle is a bit painful.'
"He said, 'I've been in the air for four hours. I left Germany in a Messerschmitt 110 destroyer. Although I'm a skilled pilot, I am really a German army officer."

The News and Courier, May 13, 1941
Farmer Used His Pitchfork To Challenge Nazi' Chutist
GLASGOW (AP)--
This was (David) McLean's story.
"I was in the house and everyone else was in bed when I heard a plane roaring overhead. I ran out to the back of the farm. I heard a crash and saw the plane burst into flames about 200 yards away.
"I was amazed when I saw the parachute coming slowly downward. I could see a man swinging from the harness. I concluded it was a German airman bailing out and ran back to the house for help. They were all asleep. I looked around for a weapon and saw nothing except a hay fork.
"Fearing I might lose the airman I hurried 'round by myself again back of the house and in the field I saw a man lying down with his parachute nearby.
"He smiled and I helped him to his feet. He thanked me but I could see he'd injured his foot some way. I helped him into the house. By this time my mother and sister were out of bed and made tea. He declined the tea and smiled when we told him we were very fond of it. He asked for a glass of water.
"We sent word to the authorities and in the meantime he chatted freely with us and showed us pictures of his little boy, of whom he spoke very proudly."
"He told us he had left Germany and he understood every word we said to him.
"He was a very striking looking man wearing a magnificent flying suit. His watch and identity bracelet were gold.
"He wouldn't discuss his journey. He was most gentlemanly in his attitude to my mother and sister and thanked us for what we had done for him. He was most anxious about the parachute, which he said he'd like to keep because it saved his life. He wouldn't tell us who he was, and we thought he was just another German airman.
"When the officials came he greeted them with a smile and assured them he was unarmed and stood up and allowed them to search him. The he was taken away."

Berkeley Daily Gazette, May 13, 1941
Scottish Plowman "Captures" Rudolf Hess With Hay Fork
By George Milne, United Press Staff Correspondent
GLASGOW, Scotland (UP)--David McLean, Scottish plowman who "captured" Rudolf Hess with a hay fork, was a hero of the war today and his cottage on the moors a few miles from Glasgow became a center of wide interest.
It was only last night that the McLeans--David, his mother and his sister--knew the identity of the man who came down by parachute near their cottage.
I had heard of the landing of a mysterious German aviator at the McLean farm and I hastened there with pictures of Hess. I put them before a score of people who had talked with him. They identified him long before the London announcement that Hess was the flying visitor.
They also emphasized he seemed he seemd in his right mind and that he was glad to be out of Germany.
"Sure, that's the man," McLean said when I showed him Hess' picture.
"No doubt about it," said his mother. "So we had a distinguished visitor after all."
The McLeans and others at the farm were thrilled and excited at being the center of a world story.
"We knew when he came into the cottage and spoke to us in excellent English that he was a man of personality and was accustomed to command," Mrs. McLean said. "He had compelling eyes.
"When the Home Guards arrived to take him away in a truck he was the coolest man in the kitchen."
David McLean said that Hess' ankle was not broken but that it was bruised. He had a slight chafe on his neck from his parachute harness, McLean added.
Hess displayed many gold teeth when he smiled, McLean said. He and his mother pointed to Hess' gold wrist watch. On the other wrist, they said, he wore a gold compass. His clothing and flying equipment were of the finest quality, they emphasized.
"His boots were lovely," Mrs. McLean said. "They were made of fine leather and were just like gloves."
He said to Mrs. McLean
"I am lucky to be here alive. I would like to keep my parachute for I think it has saved my life."

St. Petersburg Times, May 13, 1941
RUDOLF HESS FLIES WARPLANE AND BAILS OUT OVER SCOTLAND
LONDON (U.P.)--Deputy Fuehrer Rudolf Hess, 47, Germany's No. 3 Nazi, parachuted from a Messerschmitt-110 fighter with unloaded guns over Scotland Saturday night, an official announcement said today, and there were rumors that he had fled Germany after a quarrel with Adolf Hitler.
Hess floated down from his twin-engined plane onto the estate of the Duke of Hamilton, first peer of Scotland, fracturing his ankle in the fall, and later was taken to a Glasgow hospital for treatment.
With him he carried photographs, which he established his identity, and medicines for treatment of heart and gall bladder ailments from which he was said to be suffering.
Hess' plane, with empty gas tanks and carrying neither bombs nor ammunition, crashed in the moorlands about ten miles from Glasgow. A plowman helped him to a farmhouse where the plowman's mother offered him a cup of tea. The Nazi deputy fuehrer declined, however, and asked for a glass of water.
"It's more refreshing," he said.
LEFT HOME SATURDAY
Hess left Augsburg, in southern Germany, where Messerschmitts are manufactured, at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, it was learned. He reached the coast of Scotland five hours later.
Hess, a World war flier, was said to have been barred from flying by Hitler and that Hess' adjutants had been placed under arrest because they knew, and failed to report, that Hess had obtained an airplane.

Thursday, September 22, 2011

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Sept. 10, 1945

Economic Bill of Rights

By DAVID LAWRENCE

WASHINGTON--President Truman is essentially a fair man and, to be sure, nowadays he is a very busy man. So whoever helped him prepare his lengthy address to Congress didn't call his attention to the things which the late President Roosevelt omitted from his "economic bill of rights."

The most important omission--which may be understandable so far as Mr. Roosevelt was concerned but which hardly conforms to the Truman concept of fair play--is the one related to the right of the business man to earn a profit.

Nowhere in the so-called bill of rights is the right of the business man, large or small, conceded. Indeed, the only mention as to the right of a business man is in his relations with other business men in respect to fair or unfair competition.

Basic in any sound or stable system of national economy is the right of a business man to have a profit left after he deducts his labor and material costs and his taxes. Unless a business man can see some assurance in that direction, he cannot create more jobs or even preserve the jobs he has already created.

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The Bulletin, Sept. 7, 1945

Jobs-for-All Bill Assailed in Committee

By ANN HICKS

WASHINGTON (UP)--One of President Truman's most important requests of congress--the jobs-for-all bill--is provoking a bitter battle in the senate banking committee, which is considering the bill.

At the moment most of the fray is being carried on through the medium of the press with the issuance of statements, counterstatements and rebuttals.

The line-up is Sen. Robert A. Taft., R., O., ranking minority member vs. Committee chairman Robert F. Wagner, D., N.Y., and Sen James E. Murray, D., Mont., who isn't even on the committee.

TAFT STARTS FRACAS

Taft began it by submitting a series of amendments which would practically rewrite the measure and, as Taft put it, "eliminate the Henry Wallace theory" of government spending to assure prosperity.

Wagner and Murray, two of the bill's sponsors, immediately leaped to their mimeograph machines and accused Taft of attempting to "cut the heart out" of their bill.

The measure states that Americans able and willing to work have the "right" to useful paying jobs. It sets up machinery whereby the government could plan for full-employment.

Wagner and Murray said Taft would "cripple" the bill if his amendments were accepted because they would:

POINTS ARE GIVEN

1."Strike out the right to work."

2. Eliminate the provision that "pledges" the government's full financial resources to "the cause of full-employment."

Taft replied, via a reporter, that his amendments "wouldn't do anything of the kind."

Taft said the Murray-Wagner way of stating the two aims would (1) mislead some people into believing they could demand the government give them a job and (2) lead to continuous deficit-spending on government public works to provide jobs.

As for the "right to work" dispute the administration bill puts it this way:

BILL IS QUOTED:

"All Americans able to work and seeking work have the right to useful, remunerative, regular and full-time employment, and it is the policy of the United States to assure the existence at all times of sufficient employment opportunities to enable all Americans who have finished schooling and who do not have full time housekeeping responsibilities freely to exercise this right."

Taft would amend it this way:

"All Americans have the right to have their government adopt policies which shall provide to those able to work and seeking work, useful, remunerative, regular and full-time employment if they desire it; and it is the policy of the United States government to assure the existence at all times of sufficient employment opportunities to enable such Americans to obtain employment."

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Lawrence Journal-World, Jan 22, 1945

Full Employment Bill Introduced

WASHINGTON--Senator James E. Murray of Montana laid the base for a potential new new-deal in the nation's domestic economy today by introducing a sweeping "full-employment bill."

Three other Democratic senators joined him in sponsoring the legislation--Wagner of New York, Thomas of Utah and O'Mahoney of Wyoming. All four are rated close to the White House and their views frequently coincide with or even foreshadow those of the administration.

The bill would establish the right to a job as a federal policy, for all Americans able to work and looking for work who have finished their schooling and who do not have full-time household responsibilities.

It states that if full employment cannot be achieved otherwise, it is the federal government's responsibility "to provide such volume of federal investment and expenditure as may be needed" to produce the jobs.

To set the machinery in motion, the President would transmit to congress each year a "national production and employment budget" which would show not only the contemplated regular expenditures of the federal government, but also the estimated expenditures of business, consumers, and state and local governments.

If the total estimated outgo was less than that adjudged necessary for full employment, (President Roosevelt has estimated the post-war need for 60,000,000 jobs) there would be deemed to be a prospective deficit in the national budget.

That's when the federal government would step in. The President would recommend "a general program for encouraging increased non-federal expenditures," and if he didn't consider that enough to cure the trouble, he could recommend a federal spending program, including construction of public works.

Henry A Wallace, while vice-president, recently endorsed the principle of the bill, declaring "the essential idea is that the federal government is ultimately responsible for full employment."

On the other hand, Republican Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio condemned the proposal in a speech last week, asserting that it eventually would lead to the assignment by the government of every man and woman to a job selected by the government.

That, he added, "is in contradiction of the whole American tradition" and is "exactly the same system pursued in Russia today."

Speaking for his bill, Murray himself declared:

"There are some in this country who have lost faith in capitalism. I am not one of those. I have a stubborn and abiding faith in the principle of private competitive enterprise and in the necessity of making our system work. I am stubborn enough to believe that we can so improve this system that we can eliminate its principle weakness--periodic mass unemployment."

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The Telegraph-Herald, Aug 22, 1945

MURRAY URGES NEW WORK BILL

WASHINGTON (UP)--CIO President Philip Murray, calling on congress to "match its performance to the atomic age," Wednesday demanded passage of the full employment bill in time for President Truman to submit the first "national production and budget" to congress next January.

"Right now, while I speak to you," Murray told the senate banking committee, "millions of wage earners--heads of families-- are being dismissed from their jobs."

Murray said the nation must be "mobilized for an attack upon poverty, ignorance and fear.," that will compare to its war effort.

Meanwhile, Sen. Charles W. Tobey, R., N.H., said congress would be "very weak and very blameful" if it failed to pass the administration's full employment bill, which would set a national policy that persons able and willing to work have a right to jobs.

INSURANCE MEASURE

Describing the measure as "insurance against disaster," Tobey said that it recognized the important principle that the government "is responsible for seeing that people have a chance to work." And, he said, it provides a mechanism for carrying out that responsibility.

GENERAL PLAN

The President would submit a "national production and employment budget" to congress each year, outlining the number of workers and available jobs. The government, through public works, would fill in any "job gap" left by private enterprise.