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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Simms: Advisory body writing terms for armistice
Question is: Should results be secret?
By William Philip Simms, Scripps-Howard foreign editor
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G.I. vehicles jam England, keeping traffic cop busy
Army office unsnarls convoys, helps lost drivers wandering about countryside
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Doctor puts Roosevelt on cough syrup diet
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Tobin backs 4th term
Indianapolis, Indiana (UP) –
Daniel J. Tobin, president of the Teamsters Union (AFL) today endorsed President Roosevelt for a fourth term. Mr. Tobin said:
No other Democrat can be elected and even with President Roosevelt running, it will be difficult for many of those on the same ticket to be reelected.