King matches Army’s plan for unification
Forrestal’s coldness offset by new order
By Henry J. Taylor, Scripps-Howard staff writer
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Steel output hits high for 30-day month
7.5 million net tons produced in April
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Court orders dissolution of Pullman group
‘Final decree’ ends car monopoly
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Travelers face tests –
Majors swing into East-West tilts tomorrow
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Williams: Can it be Cubs’ plan to recover McCarthy?
By Joe Williams
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Here’s Petrillo again –
Non-musician disc jockeys must join union
Maybe they’ll have to quit talking
By Si Steinhauser
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Democrats train their big guns on Governor Dewey
New Yorker’s statements on Russian and American production are cited
New York (UP) –
Robert E. Hannegan, chairman of the Femocratic National Committee, intimated last night that the party’s high command believes the Republicans will nominate Governor Thomas E. Dewey to oppose President Roosevelt, but asserted that the President would be reelected “to complete the assignment which destiny has given him.”
In his first public prediction linking the President with a fourth term candidacy, the Democratic National Chairman told a Thomas Jefferson dinner that he had not discussed the coming convention and campaign with Mr. Roosevelt, but added:
The people of the United States are determined that Franklin D. Roosevelt shall complete the assignment which destiny has given him.
Barkley raps Dewey
Senate Majority Leader Alben Barkley (D-KY) credited “a Democratic administration, headed by a Democratic President,” with the success of organizing the nation for war.
Mr. Hannegan, while criticizing the Republican Party as a whole, mentioned no other possible GOP nominee than Mr. Dewey, and he devoted part of his speech to a resume of the New York Governor’s utterances in recent years on Russian recognition and American production for war.
Mr. Hannegan said:
There is among our people a firm conviction that the Republican Party… cannot be given another opportunity to destroy or confuse the hope of mankind that we will have both victory and peace in the great war that is now reaching its climax.
Experience cited
It is my personal opinion that the mothers and fathers, the wives and sweethearts of the men serving in the Armed Forces, the workers in our factories and shipyards, the owners of farms and the enlightened leaders of our great industries, alike are coming to a single great realization: That the future, not only of their own private interests but of their country, is at stake, and that the stakes are too large, the penalty of inexperience too heavy, to shift the tasks that lie ahead to an unpracticed hand.
‘Most unfortunate’
Discussing Republican leaders who he said “run with the hares and bark with the hounds,” Mr. Hannegan recalled a statement by Mr. Dewey in January 1940 deploring the New Deal administration’s recognition of Russia.
Mr. Hannegan commented:
It was “most unfortunate,” said the Governor of New York, that our President recognized Soviet Russia.
Of course, he said that four years ago. And at that time, unless a person was gifted with a rare insight into the play of great forces in the world, unless he had in him the quality of statesmanship which would enable him to judge accurately of the pull and direction of those forces, he could not have known, could not have realized the great peril in which our country stood in 1940, he could not have recognized the heroic roles which the people of Great Britain, the people of China and the people of Russia were to play, he could not have foreseen how, in fulfilling their own destinies, they were to halt the menace that threatened us.
‘Has shown insight’
Our President, by his actions before and since that time… has shown that insight, that quality of statesmanship. And those characteristics go far toward explaining today the steady march of the United Nations toward final victory.
Mr. Hannegan continued:
A few days ago, speaking his piece this time after the answers had been given out and the examination was all over, Governor Dewey said:
No initial measures against Germany and Japan, however drastic, will have permanent value unless they fall within the setting of a durable cohesion between Great Britain and ourselves, together, I hope, with Russia and China.
…the government of Russia with which Governor Dewey wanted to have no truck in 1940 is the same government with which he hopes we shall have a durable cohesion in 1944. The only major change pertinent to this question that has taken place inside Russia since that time is the elimination of somewhere around eight million Germans.
Another statement recalled
Mr. Hannegan recalled that Mr. Dewey four years ago said American industry could not produce 50,000 airplanes.
The Democratic leader said:
He had all the figures to show how and why it could not be done.
He said Mr. Dewey had pointed out that an air force of 750,000 men would be necessary and that “these are sobering facts.”
Four years later, Mr. Hannegan said, American industry has produced 184,000 planes and has built an air force of 2,385,000 men.
Negro vote test to come in Georgia
Many register for July 4 primary
By Thomas L. Stokes, Scripps-Howard staff writer
Atlanta, Georgia –
Here, symbolically on July 4, Independence Day, will come a test which will be watched all over the nation to see how far the South will go in accepting the Supreme Court’s decision that Negroes are entitled to vote in primary elections.
Several thousand Negroes have registered in Atlanta to vote in the first real test since the Supreme Court’s decision invalidating the Texas “white primary” law. The Mississippi primary is the same day, but apparently little is being done there to force a showdown.
A handful of Negroes voted in the Florida and Alabama primaries, and some few others who tried were stopped in one way or another.
But here, under the supervision of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, lines of Negroes might be seen filing up to register at the county courthouse here. The books closed yesterday.
Given courteous treatment
They were given courteous treatment, and there was no challenge of the registration.
It is generally believed that there will be a challenge from election officials on July 4 to actual voting because of a statement by J. Lon Duckworth, State Democratic chairman. He said the Court’s decision did not mean that Negroes would be allowed to vote in Georgia’s primary.
However, an organization which has its headquarters here, the Southern Regional Council, is active in the interest of acceptance of the Supreme Court decision and is trying to create a public opinion receptive to voting by the Negroes.
The Council is composed of influential Southerners of both races, including churchmen, teachers, editors and some few businessmen and lawyers. It was created the first of this year when it absorbed the Commission of Interracial Cooperation, Inc.
Requires courage to join
Its president is Dr. Howard W. Odum of the University of North Carolina, distinguished educator and author of numerous books on the South and its problems. Dr. Guy B. Johnson, for many years at the University of North Carolina, is executive director, with Dr. Ira De A. Reid, Negro professor at Atlanta University, as associate executive director.
Only one familiar with the South can realize what courage it requires to join and work with an organization of this sort. It faces an uphill job. But it proceeds with the knowledge that there are many Southerners sympathetic to its aims, even if they do not dare to come out into the open.
The Council is making approaches to city and police officials on behalf of peace and order at the polls in the numerous primary elections still to be held.
Fourth-termers raise sights on unanimous renomination
Washington (UP) –
Fourth-term campaigners are raising their sights today toward an approximately-unanimous renomination of President Roosevelt by the Democratic National Convention.
Democratic National Committee chairman Robert E. Hannegan told a New York City audience last night that it was his “firm conviction” that Mr. Roosevelt would be renominated and reelected.
Mr. Hannegan, Senator Alben W. Barkley (D-KY) and former DNC chairman James A. Farley addressed a Thomas Jefferson dinner gathering.
Mr. Hannegan’s confidence that Mr. Roosevelt would be reelected was bolstered by computations showing that a score of states or state leaders have already pledged or in some degree committed more than 500 convention votes to a fourth term. A bare majority of 589 of the 1,176 convention votes is necessary to nominate.
A total of 136 Democratic delegates will be selected this week in six states. the President is expected to have an actual convention majority behind him when those contests are settled.
Missouri Democrats named their 32 delegates yesterday. Other states selecting delegates this week are North Dakota, West Virginia, Ohio, Washington and Wyoming.
Chairman Harrison Spangler of the Republican National Committee answered Mr. Hannegan’s speech with a charge that a fourth term campaign under Mr. Roosevelt’s direction had been brought out “into the open by his campaign manager.”
Spangler said the fourth-term movement heretofore had been veiled or apologetic, but added:
Even now, to keep up the fiction, his manager tells us that the announcement is made without consultation with Mr. Roosevelt. Where has his manager been? It is generally known that this fourth-term ambition has been the subject of almost daily discussion at the White House for many months.
Völkischer Beobachter (May 10, 1944)
Dumme Drohungen mit Schwarzen Listen –
‚Spürhunde gegen die Neutralen‘
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U.S. Navy Department (May 10, 1944)
Communiqué No. 519
Mediterranean.
The U.S. destroyer LANSDALE (DD-426) was sunk in the Mediterranean April 20, 1944, as the result of attack by enemy aircraft.
The next of kin of the casualties have been notified.
CINCPAC Press Release No. 394
For Immediate Release
May 10, 1944
Ponape Island was bombed by Liberator and Mitchell bombers of the 7th Army Air Force on May 8 (West Longitude Date). The town and airfields were hit. Anti-aircraft fire was moderate.
Seventh Army Air Force Mitchells, Dauntless dive bombers, and Corsair fighters of the 4th Marine Aircraft Wing, Ventura search planes of Fleet Air Wing Two, and Navy Hellcat fighters bombed and strafed remaining enemy positions in the Marshalls on May 8. Fuel storage facilities, antiaircraft batteries, barracks, and coastal guns were hit.
The Pittsburgh Press (May 10, 1944)
Atlantic Wall quakes under rain of bombs
Daylight blows follow heaviest attack by RAF on invasion shoreline
By Phil Ault, United Press staff writer
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