Laborers’ Union leaders indicted
Probe Pegler began snares thirteen
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Killed: Miss Frances F. Grimes, 30, a WASP, and a Pitt graduate in 1937, was killed this week at Otis Field, Massachusetts, when her target-towing plane crashed shortly after a takeoff. Miss Grimes, former woman tennis champion of West Virginia, enlisted in 1942 and served as a flight instructor. She was formerly employed by Dr. Lytle S. Adams of the Tri-State Aviation Corporation.
I DARE SAY —
Poker game
By Florence Fisher Parry
Thomas L. Stokes is writing some very pungent political commentary. His column the other day on Wendell Willkie’s minor league itinerary seems to me to be one of the most pungent pieces of reporting of recent date. For the presidential campaign is upon us, a campaign that promises to be the most dramatic this country has ever known.
Mr. Willkie has devoted the last four years almost exclusively in preparation for this campaign. He has traveled and talked, talked and traveled, and he has written the biggest-selling book since Gone With the Wind. Never has a man met with greater opposition outside and within his own party. There are those leaders among Republicans who would rather have the party lose than have Mr. Willkie win. They hate Mr. Roosevelt, but they hate Mr. Willkie more.
Meanwhile, Mr. Willkie is pinning his faith and his hope upon the rank and file, the off-the-beaten track, small-town common man.
There is something pathetic to me in Mr. Willkie’s faith that the little man – the little un-unionized, unbossed, unregimented, unsubsidized, unbought American man can help him get to be President! This little man, for the moment, happens to be living in Wisconsin. Mr. Willkie is working very hard in Wisconsin. He is hoping that he wins a vote of confidence there. It will serve as an example to other states and set the pace for independent, uninfluenced moves all along the line.
Moreover, a Willkie victory in Wisconsin, a Midwest state, where Mr. Willkie is supposed to be the weakest, would do much to slap down the isolationist opposition within his own party.
Lantern slides
The best way, it seems to me, for us to choose a candidate for President would be to picture him sitting alone in a little private room face to face with Joseph Stalin in a poker game. What man have we upon whom we could rely to keep up his end in such a game? Let us toy with a few lantern slides.
The first, let us say, is a picture of Stalin and Roosevelt sitting over the game. Place your bets, ladies and gentlemen, upon the outcome of this game. Who do you think would win? Mr. Roosevelt or Mr. Stalin?
Now let us seat Mr. Dewey at the table with Mr. Stalin. How long do you think he would last? He would play a slick game. His plays would be quick and dazzling for he is an adept showman, and could be counted upon to employ an adroit technique. Mr. Kibitzer, how long do you think you would be seated at that table?
Now let us take Mr. Stassen at the table. Mr. Stassen is a realist. He would know what he was up against. He would see in his opponent not a politician nor yet a statesman, but a sharp business competitor. He would play that kind of game. But for how long would he play it, dear reader? Watch the clock.
Supposing we put Gen. MacArthur at the table. His success would depend very largely upon what kind of game his opponent would elect to play. If military strategy were to be employed, the game might last through the night. If, on the other hand, power politics ruled, Gen. MacArthur would be in bed by midnight.
Pull up a chair
Now it is Mr. Willkie’s turn at the table. Better pull up a chair, Mr. Kibitzer. When good fellows get together, they’re apt to take their time. Mr. Stalin’s smile is enigmatic but expensive. Mr. Willkie’s is as sunny as that of a child.
As the game progresses, however, we may look for a slight change in the mien of Stalin. Mr. Stalin knows men like nobody’s business. He has coped with them all from Tōjō to Franklin, from Adolf to sunny Winston.
But in his lexicon, one word has been left out. He should have learned it. It would have served him in this game.
The word is “Hoosier.” Indiana Hoosier. In this game he may learn the meaning of that word.
“Hoosier” is that plus element in a Yankee. It is that added “R” in American. It is that quality that can outsmart, that can out-smile, that can out-believe, and so can outlast, any antagonism. It combines naïveté with complicity; distrust with abounding faith. It is unlickable for the simple reason that it never knows when it’s licked.
Yes, that might be a pretty good game to watch. A game played by two kinds of men – deep-dyed men, shrewd as sin, smart as Satan, deep as the deepest well, and both possessed of vision dazzling as the sun.
Tartar and Hoosier! A good game to watch.
Chaplin rallies his forces for last stand
Defense is balked in dismissal plea
By Frederick C. Othman, United Press staff writer
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Communications union endorses Roosevelt
Kansas City, Missouri (UP) –
The American Communications Association today became the first Congress of Industrial Organizations international union to go on record as favoring a fourth term for President Roosevelt.
Joseph P. Selly, president of the ACA, said he believed the national CIO organization and Philip Murray, its president, would take similar action within two or three months.
New Deal wins special vote in Oklahoma
Democratic candidate has lead of 3,642
Muskogee, Oklahoma (UP) –
Democrat William G. Stigler, running under New Deal colors, won the special election in Oklahoma’s traditionally-Democratic 2nd Congressional district yesterday by a margin that approaches 4,000 voters, incomplete and unofficial returns disclosed today.
With returns from all but 12 of the district’s 331 precincts tabulated, the vote stood:
| Stigler (D) | 21,806 |
| Clark (R) | 18,164 |
Only returns from isolated rural districts remained to be reported.
Mr. Stigler’s plurality of 3,642 is being compared with the 380-vote margin by which Democrat Jack Nichols, who later resigned, won the seat in 1942. Clark was also his opponent.
Mr. Stigler’s election gave the Democrats a seven-to-one margin in House members from Oklahoma. Rep. Ross Rizley, of the 8th district, is the only Republican.
A temporary gain
It also strengthened, but only temporarily, the margin of Democratic Party strength in the House. It gave the Democrats 217 seats against 210 for the Republicans and four for minor parties, with four vacancies. But today Rep. Domengeaux (D-LA) resigned to enter the Army, again raising the number of vacancies to five and reducing the number of Democratic seats to 216.
The election was considered a clear-cut test of New Deal sentiment in Oklahoma and was watched closely by political leaders as a possible barometer for the presidential election in November.
National talent called in
The personalities of Mr. Stigler and Mr. Clark, neighbors in Stigler, Oklahoma, were all but submerged by the array of political talent that participated in the campaign.
Senator Alben W. Barkley, Senate Majority Leader, climaxed the campaign for Mr. Stigler while Mr. Clark’s drive was led by Senator E. H. Moore Jr. (R-OK), with the help of Senator W. Lee O’Daniel (D-TX) who urged the voters to “kick out” the New Deal, and the indirect aid of Governor John W. Bricker of Ohio who was also stumping Oklahoma on behalf of how own candidacy for the GOP presidential nomination.
Left-wingers win in New York vote
New York (UP) –
Left-wing elements, which won control of the American Labor Party in yesterday’s New York State primary elections, moved today to restore harmony in the party’s split ranks.
Immediately after the right wing conceded defeat last night, Sidney Hillman, left-wing leader, made a plea for unity in the party which holds the balance of political power in the state.
Left-wing forces claimed more than 600 of the 750 places on the state committee, governing body of the party.
Called Communist victory
Alex Rose and Dr. George S. Counts, right-wing leaders, in conceding defeat on the basis of incomplete returns, issued a joint statement saying:
The Browder-Hillman coalition won the primaries. The Communists who controlled Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens have now extended their control to the whole party. From now on, the American Labor Party will be controlled by Earl Browder [head of the Communist Party USA] no matter who will be put up as its fronts.
We have no regrets. We fought a good fight for great principles.
Dewey and Roosevelt
Voting in Republican and Democratic primaries was light. The Republicans elected 85 district delegates, and alternates to their national presidential nominating convention; the Democrats 86.
Of the Republican delegates, a majority was said to favor Governor Thomas E. Dewey as a presidential candidate.
On the Democratic side, most delegates favored President Roosevelt for a fourth term.
Jewish refugees trickle through Spain and Balkans
Roosevelt parries queries on permanent plan as Senators press for action on homeland
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Dewey urges fight against antisemitism
New York (UP) –
Governor Thomas E. Dewey yesterday warned that the American people must combat “antisemitism within,” if the Nazis and what they represent are to be defeated.
The Governor, here to cast his ballot in the state primary elections, made his statement to the American Federation of Polish Jews as he accepted a copy of its book describing Nazi atrocities against the Jews of Poland.
Mr. Dewey said:
We as a people are spending the blood of our soldiers and our substance in the fight against these beasts, but we must do more. We must strengthen ourselves against antisemitism within and we must extend to the victims abroad every kind of help, both spiritual and physical.
Subsidy hit as destroying press freedom
Eberharter report denounces bill
By Robert Taylor, Press Washington correspondent
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In Washington –
U.S. protests sent to Britain on news leaks
State Department answers Dewey
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Dewey reiterates charge
New York (UP) –
Governor Thomas E. Dewey, replying to a charge by Secretary of State Cordell Hull that he was “100% wrong” in accusing the administration of inducing the British to censor news for the U.S. contended today that “the record speaks for itself.”
The New York Governor said yesterday:
American correspondents’ stories, especially diplomatic stories, have been repeatedly withheld.
Mr. Dewey, here to vote in the state primary election, declined to discuss further Mr. Hull’s assertion made in Washington Monday, and declared that, “I am not going to get into a public debate with Mr. Hull.
Ex-soldiers soon may join unions without paying fee
Waiving of initiation requirement for war veterans advocated by Murray
By Fred W. Perkins, Pittsburgh Press staff writer
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