World peace talks begin on Aug. 14
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‘To hell with objectives – keep going!’ Yanks ordered
That’s what commander tells troops reporting they have carried out assignment
By Gault MacGowan, United Press staff writer
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4th wife, 4th child –
Daughter is born to Oona Chaplin
Charlie’s wife, baby ‘doing well’
By Frederick C. Othman, United Press staff writer
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Congress ends 5-week recess
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Three more ward stores hit by strikes
WLB promises to take action in case
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Editorial: Dewey hit bigotry
Soon or late, every presidential candidate runs into the issue of racial and religious bigotry. Most of them try to duck it. A few, of better stuff, hit it head on. Governor Thomas E. Dewey is that kind. He thinks intolerance is too high a price to pay for votes.
When Rep. Ham Fish (R-NY) was quoted as attacking the Jews for their alleged partisan support of FDR and the New Deal, Mr. Dewey lashed out with this:
Two years ago, I publicly opposed the nomination and election of Congressman Fish. The statements attributed to him confirm my judgment expressed at that time. Anyone who injects a racial or religious issue into a political campaign is guilty of a disgraceful, un-American act. I have always fought that kind of thing all my life and always will, regardless of partisan considerations. I have never accepted support of any such individual and I never shall.
Every race and religion has its bigots. So do both political parties. Therefore, it is important that parties and candidates come clean on this issue. The Republican platform says: “We unreservedly condemn the injection into American life of appeals to racial or religious prejudice.” Candidate Dewey has shown where he stands.
Unfortunately, the Democratic enemies of intolerance were unable to write a similar plank into their platform. Whether it was left out of the draft the President sent to the Democratic Convention, we do not know. But, now that Mr. Dewey and the Republicans have led the way, Candidate Roosevelt should have enough courage to follow.
In Washington –
Federal corporations rival government itself, report says
Economy group urges prompt action to make them subject to control of Congress
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Soldier vote
Washington (UP) –
Senator Robert A. Taft (R-OH) said today that he will probably introduce this week a Soldier Voting Act amendment to relax censorship of reading matter for the Armed Forces.
How G.I. Bill of Rights works –
Veterans must meet test to get ‘guaranteed’ loan
By Robert Taylor, Press Washington correspondent
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The CIO in politics –
Personal contact stressed by PAC in its vote drive
‘Secret of political success lies largely in doorbell ringing,’ pamphlet tells workers
By Blair Moody, North American Newspaper Alliance
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‘Fish vs. Dewey’ showdown today
New York primary holds spotlight
By the United Press
Primary balloting in New York, one of four states holding primary elections, today determines if Governor Thomas E. Dewey, Republican presidential nominee, can read Rep. Hamilton Fish out of the GOP.
Mr. Fish, running for renomination in New York’s 29th district, has been assailed by Governor Dewey and Wendell L. Willkie, the 1940 GOP nominee, for allegedly injecting religious and racial issues into his campaign.
He is opposed by Newburgh attorney Augustus W. Bennet, who is the unopposed candidate of both the Democratic and American Labor Party. Mr. Bennet’s name will be on the fall election ballot whether or not he wins the Republican nomination.
Other contests
Mr. Fish’s fight for renomination far overshadows any other contest in the three other states (Missouri, Kansas and Virginia) holding primaries today.
Second in importance is Democratic Senator Bennett Champ Clark’s fight for renomination in Missouri, where Attorney General Roy McKittrick has waged a strong campaign against Senator Clark’s pre-war isolationist record.
Many unopposed
In the Republican gubernatorial race, former GOP State Chairman Charles Ferguson is running against Jean Paul Bradshaw and State Health Commissioner James Stewart.
All of the state’s 13 incumbent Congressmen are up for renomination, with nine of them (five Republicans and four Democrats) unopposed.
The only contests in the Virginia primary are in the 2nd and 4th districts and in Kansas, there are no contests in four of six Congressional districts. Governor Andrew Schoeppel is unopposed for renomination on the Republican ticket.
In New York City, a feature race is that of Rep. Vito Marcantonio, who is attempting to gain renomination from three political parties.
GOP confident
New York –
Republican National Committee Chairman Herbert Brownell Jr. yesterday predicted a Republican victory in November with a possible margin of 45 electoral votes on the basis of latest figures from public opinion polls which show the Dewey-Bricker ticket leading in six key states.
Mr. Brownell, on the eve of his departure for the Republican Governors’ Conference in St. Louis, said Republicans need a gain of only five percent in 19 other states to win an electoral vote of 311, and asserted that the present “trend” indicated the prospects for the gain in these states was likely. He referred to the Gallup Poll in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, New York and Ohio, and the Des Moines Register newspaper poll in Iowa, in making his prediction.
Rep. Luce: ‘I’ll run, and win’
Greenwich, Connecticut (UP) –
Rep. Clare Boothe Luce (R-CT) said last night that she “certainly will run and win” in the coming Congressional election and scoffed at reports that she feared a “purge” at the polls by CIO Political Action Committee chairman Sidney Hillman.
Her announcement followed reports that she was considering not seeking the Republican renomination because of the resignation of her political advisor, J. Kenneth Bradley, as chairman of the State Central Committee, at the insistence of Governor Raymond Baldwin.
Pegler: Dewey in Pittsburgh
By Westbrook Pegler
Mr. Pegler, traveling with Governor Dewey and his party, wrote his column in Pittsburgh yesterday.
Governor Tom Dewey came to Pittsburgh from New York during Sunday night with Mrs. Dewey and a lot of others, bound for a conference in St. Louis tomorrow and Thursday of 26 Republican governors, including himself and John Bricker of Ohio.
For some obscure reason, possibly of political delicacy or through intent to deceive the Democrats, someone has tried to create an impression that this is not a campaign trip, which it is nothing else but, and that the train of nine cars on the Pennsylvania Railroad, which is waiting in the yard at this writing, is not a special but just another section of a regular train.
In some technical meaning, known only to railroad men and the Interstate Commerce Commission, it may not be a special train, but in all other respects, it is.
There are 45 reporters and photographers along, for newspapers, press associations and news magazines, each of whom pays his own way and picks up his own tabs for his meals and drinks, and one who can speak from considerable experience will say that political life is austere by comparison with travel on the World Series specials, which in the pre-war days, at any rate, were luxurious and gay.
Union politicians know each other
Mr. Dewey spent a large day meeting Pennsylvania Republicans here, including a number of professional unioneers of the opposition, or anti-CIO-Communist movement, and it appears the Republican Party is gathering a rather substantial labor wing of its own whose speakers will cry up various grudges against Mr. Roosevelt.
These include a charge that he is an enemy of free labor because he has been partial to the CIO which, in turn, has become a holding corporation for his own Democratic Party. They are saying he created this CIO arrangement as a shrewd and deliberate plan whereby the labor movement would become a device for collecting campaign funds to keep him in office, with the eventual intention to strip it of its original guise and run it, himself, as a party, as Mussolini ran the Fascists.
This fight will develop as the campaign warms up and should be interesting because the professionals of union politics all know each other of old and have plenty on each other. Unlike the machine politicians of the conventional type, they call each other crooks, murderers, racketeers and Communists out loud when they get going, instead of keeping their old business secrets to themselves.
Mr. Dewey is in a unique position as a candidate because he sent a lot of boss racketeers to prison during his spell as District Attorney and he knows the background of many of those who are still at large, including the relationship between the union of Sidney Hillman, the boss of Mr. Big’s CIO-Communist wing, and the late Mr. Lepke of New York and his team of professional murderers.
Deweys survive handshaking
The conferences of a hot and busy day included meetings with businessmen and representatives of the servicemen and women’s organizations of the last war and this one. Then, late in the afternoon, the Deweys toed a line in the ballroom of the William Penn Hotel and for an hour and 40 minutes, without a break, shook hands with a passing line of visitors – Republicans, they dared hope – who filed by at the rate of 40 a minute. This was a serious physical ordeal and Paul Lockwood, Mr. Dewey’s handyman, hurried downstairs after an hour of it to get them salt tablets.
The Deweys came through it with their right hands in good shape, thanks to a trick which now seems to be common property among statesmen of using a quick, firm grab in shaking hands and letting go quickly. This gives the subject command of the situation, for he has taken his hold and let go before those energetic, clear-eyed, firm-jawed bone-crushers can take the initiative.
The Deweys say “How do you do?”, “How are you?” and “Nice to see you,” varying the repertoire so that seldom are two successive individuals given the same greeting. It seems a hell of a way to choose a President.
On baseball trains, usually there is something to speculate about in the press cars at night, such as a pitcher’s sore arm or hangover, or a heavy hitter’s split finger which prevents his taking a firm grab on the stick. On this little journey, however, the head man seems to be in good shape for his conferences with the other governors in St. Louis and the visit to the tomb of Abraham Lincoln in Springfield, Illinois, neither of which should be any great physical trial.
Inasmuch as it is not a speechmaking trip, it comes under the head of strange business in the experience of most of those on board. The meaning of it all may not dawn for days and days.