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Augurs and portents
By Florence Fisher Parry
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Dewey assailed in union probe
Governor accused of ‘soft-pedalling’
Washington (UP) –
Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York was accused today of “soft-pedalling” an investigation of international officers of the Hod Carriers’ Union (AFL), who were indicted here Wednesday on charges of misappropriating union funds.
The charges against Governor Dewey were made by Frederick W. Dusing of Newburgh, New York, business agent of Hod Carriers’ Local 17 which last June obtained an injunction in New York Supreme Court against the international union and its officers.
Earlier probe cited
Pointing out that Governor Herbert H. Lehman had directed the New York Attorney General to conduct an investigation in February 1942, Mr. Dusing said that when Governor Dewey assumed office, “he soft-pedalled the investigation and it now appears to have been completely killed on the eve of sensational disclosures.”
Mr. Dusing said the indictments here coupled with the New York Supreme Court’s action constituted a “tremendous blow against this vicious and powerful labor racket.”
Bonds posted
Meanwhile, Joseph V. Moreschi, President of the International Hod Carriers’, and 11 others named in Wednesday’s indictment were under $1,500-$2,000 bond here to appear for arraignment next week.
The defendants were accused of conspiring to embezzle union funds up to $500,000.
Still missing, however, was Larry Kelly, former treasurer of the Building Committee of Local 74, Washington affiliate of the union, who disappeared several months ago while a special grand jury was looking into the Hod Carriers’ affairs.
Palau assault may presage new invasion
Yanks may strike in Carolines
By Sandor S. Klein, United Press staff writer
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Willkie prepares for Nebraska trip
Minneapolis, Minnesota (UP) –
His pre-primary campaign in Wisconsin ended, Wendell L. Willkie turned today to Nebraska where Republicans elect 12 delegates to the National Convention April 11.
Mr. Willkie arrived here last night after completing his 13-day tour of Wisconsin where he sought support for his slate of 24 delegates running for election in Tuesday’s primary. The 1940 GOP candidate showed evidence of the strain of his 1,500-mile trip through the badger state and with the exception of an appearance at the Minneapolis Club today, he planned no political activities.
In a final plea to Wisconsin voters yesterday, Willkie told an audience at Superior that he campaigned in that state because he wanted the people of Wisconsin to “know the beliefs and purposes of at least one candidate in the field.”
Mr. Willkie will leave for Omaha tonight to open a five-day tour of Nebraska.
Roosevelt improving
Washington –
President Roosevelt’s bronchial irritation is “steadily improving,” White House Secretary Stephen T. Early said today. He did not hold his usual Friday news conference.
Leaders split on ‘drafting’ million 4-Fs
Congressional act urged by Stimson
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Rickenbacker: Japs losing punch
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Poll: More believe European War will go into 1945
Battle in Italy routs optimism
By Dr. George Gallup, Director, American Institute of Public Opinion
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In Washington –
Post-war tax plan suggested by Baruch called ‘impracticable’
Doughton claims determining nation’s needs in advance would be impossible
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Landon offers 3-point plan to GOP
War, industry and peace stressed
Topeka, Kansas (UP) –
Alf M. Landon, the 1936 Republican standard-bearer, offered three planks today for the 1944 GOP platform – to win the war, reconvert to peacetime production by a free industry, and pursuance of a lasting peace.
In an address before the Kansas State Republican Convention, Mr. Landon called for the party to chose a presidential candidate who would work with Congress ad inspire confidence at home and abroad.
Scores red tape
The GOP nominee also must be a man determined to wipe out bureaucratic “red tape that is interfering with our war effort,” he said.
Mr. Landon recommended that the party platform include:
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“An assurance that we will exert every effort toward winning the war. No temporary political expedience will be permitted to jeopardize or delay on hour the winning of the war.”
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“Definite plans for reconversion from war to peace and for returning soldiers and sailors: a blueprint for free industry and not a socialistic state so that businessmen are assured of a fair profit, labor will be assured of full employment, good pay and higher standards of living, and farmers assured of a better price for their crops.”
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“The war and the way to lasting peace must be pursued with unrelenting vigor.”
Confusion charged
Mr. Landon condemned the present administration as “the same babble of voices confusing our foreign relations that confused our domestic relations.”
Off-hand comments by President Roosevelt, confusion among government agencies and vagueness of foreign relations in general, he said, have weakened the war effort.
He said:
The ballyhoo that surrounded the President’s return from Tehran is almost unpleasantly reminiscent of Dr. Cook’s return from the North Pole.