Army budget hints decline in war needs
Roosevelt requests $15 billion additional
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Angry at troops’ departure –
Ward election won by union, 2440–1593
Labor leaders warn of strike threat*
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Labor history made –
Ford gives pact to foremen union
End of strike sought at 13 other plants
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Holt turned back by West Virginia
By the United Press
Former U.S. Senator Rush D. Holt, attempting a political comeback in West Virginia, trailed by more than 3 to 1, in the Democratic gubernatorial primary, while in Ohio, mayors of the state’s two largest cities led their respective tickets for nomination for governor, incomplete returns from yesterday’s primaries showed today.
In addition, West Virginia Democrats selected 18 delegates to the national nominating convention, unpledged but reportedly favoring a fourth term for President Roosevelt, and Republicans “named” 19 delegates, divided between New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey and Ohio Governor John W. Bricker.
Ohio Democrats selected 52 delegates, 51 of whom were nominally pledged to State Auditor Joseph T. Ferguson. But who actually will back Mr. Roosevelt. The 52nd delegate selected at Akron was pledged to Forest Myers, who has also announced his support of President Roosevelt. Fifty Republican delegates named will back Governor Bricker.
WEST VIRGINIA
In the gubernatorial race, returns from 1,439 of the state’s 2,796 precincts gave:
Democratic
| Judge Clarence Meadows | 94,732 |
| Rush D. Holt | 30,067 |
Republican
| Mayor D. Boone Dawson | 47,650 |
| R. J. Funkhouser | 40,927 |
OHIO
In the gubernatorial race, 8,223 of the state’s 9,180 polling places gave:
Democratic
| Mayor Frank J. Lausche | 136,498 |
| Martin L. Sweeney | 55,746 |
| James Huffman | 33,472 |
| Franzier Reams | 19,029 |
| Frank Dye | 10,197 |
| Walter Baertschi | 7,987 |
Republican
| Mayor James Garfield Stewart | 147,057 |
| Thomas J. Herbert | 137,360 |
| Paul Herbert | 128,535 |
| Alkert Payne | 14,231 |
In the two primaries, President Roosevelt picked up 70 delegates. He is expected to pick up 66 more this week and they will be enough to give him an actual convention majority.
A Wyoming Democratic delegation of 16, selected Monday night in convention at Casper, will support Mr. Roosevelt. Texas Democrats met in county conventions yesterday, but the state convention will not be held until May 23.
Governor Bricker, with 50 certain votes, is the favorite son from Ohio, and an undetermined number from West Virginia is in second place in the campaign for the Republican presidential nomination behind Governor Dewey, who although still an unavowed candidate, was far in the lead.
Senator Robert A. Taft was unopposed for renomination in the Ohio Republican primary.
Returns are slow
Ohio voters also chose a complete state ticket, nominees for county officers, and Congressional seats, although returns were slow in coming in.
In West Virginia, nominees were chosen for the state’s Congressional representation in five districts.
Governor M. M. Neely, who cannot succeed himself, and the incumbent Republican, Andrew Schiffler of Wheeling, were unopposed for their respective nominations in the 1st district.
President handed 2nd Ward dispute
WLB halts work in case of subsidiary
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4th term, wages linked by union
Steelworkers want them both
By Fred W. Perkins, Pittsburgh Press staff writer
Hillman favors a fourth term
Cleveland, Ohio (UP) –
Sidney Hillman, chairman of the CIO’s National Political Action Committee, added his endorsement today to a fourth term for President Roosevelt.Mr. Hillman told 2,400 delegates to the convention of the United Steelworkers Union:
In these days of Selected Service, a person, regardless of his own desires, must and will be elected. We must make sure that Franklin D. Roosevelt is reelected.
Cleveland, Ohio –
When the big convention of the United Steelworkers of America (CIO) winds up here late this week, it will have asked President Roosevelt to do two things:
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Run for a fourth term.
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Look sympathetically upon the union’s attempt to get a wage boost for its members through smashing the government’s wartime wage controls.
No member of the convention has shown any feeling that the combination of these objectives involves any impropriety or the risk of a charge from Republican critics that they embody an offer of political support in return for a pay raise.
Philip Murray, president of the Steelworkers and also of the CIO, made it plain that he does not regard Mr. Roosevelt as responsible for a situation in which the union asserts “wages have been stabilized, but nothing else.”
Congress blamed
He blames Congress with allegations that it has neglected to curb corporation profits and has favored the farmer over the industrial worker.
The steelworkers are getting out in front on the fourth term question earlier than had been expected. But it was regarded as “inevitable, so why not now?”
Both the CIO and its Political Action Committee are expected to hold conventions in advance of the November election, and to back up the imminent declaration of the steel union.
Thus, a substantial part of the labor vote will be pledged to go the same way it did in 1936 and 1940.
Murray quoted
While talking politics, Mr. Murray declared that the object of the CIO Political Action Committee is merely to “disseminate educational material on important issues of the day.” He continued:
To those saboteurs of our national welfare who are attempting to destroy this movement by calling it subversive, I wish to say to them that they lie. This is an American movement. It is not going to be adulterated by any ideology – nor is it going to allow itself to be destroyed by a Howard Smith or a Congressman Dies.
Rep. Smith (D-VA) has complained to Attorney General Biddle that the CIO unions are violating the War Labor Disputes Act through contribution to a campaign fund. Rep. Dies (D-TX) has charged the CIO Political Action Committee with including a number of Communist sympathizers.
Americans kill 871 Japanese at Hollandia
183 of enemy captured in attack
By William b. Dickinson, United Press staff writer
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New Pacific assaults hinted as 3 top Navy chiefs meet
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Legion backs G.I. Bill
Washington –
National Commander Warren H. Atherton of the American Legion today presented to Speaker Sam Rayburn petitions bearing one million signatures urging passage of the “G.I. Bill of Rights,” a veterans benefit measure.
Lardner: Beachhead offensive not howling success
Hitler and his high command crossed Allied leaders, but we won consolation prizes
By John Lardner, North American Newspaper Alliance
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