Chicago, Illinois (UP) –
Democratic leaders from 22 Midwestern and Southern states opened a three-day meeting today with officials of the National Campaign Headquarters.
National Chairman Robert E. Hannegan told the group that the conference would “develop in detail a state-by-state program to assure a maximum registration and a maximum outturn at the polls in November.”
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Washington (UP) –
The Federal Communications Commission should have no right of radio censorship nor control over the content of radio programs, Republican presidential nominee Thomas E. Dewey said today in a copyrighted interview published by Broadcasting Magazine.
He said:
When the FCC starts to control program content, free radio goes out the window. The government no more belongs in this field than in the field of the newspaper and magazine.
He added that he favors a new law which would restrict the FCC to regulation of technical facilities.
Allentown, Pennsylvania –
Rep. Francis J. Myers, in an address before the Lehigh County Democratic Committee here last Saturday, blasted the presidential campaign address delivered Thursday night by Governor Thomas E. Dewey in Philadelphia.
He declared:
It was a speech that might well have been prepared by Hitler or Goebbels; a deliberate planned effort to divide our people in the midst of war; and a premeditated plan to frighten the mothers of our gallant servicemen.
Mr. Myers charged that Governor Dewey’s speech was “cheap and contemptible,” and also “was the beginning of Thomas E. Dewey’s end.”
Portland, Maine (UP) –
The CIO Political Action Committee’s attempt to unseat three Republican Congressmen was the highlight today as Maine voters went to the polls in the nation’s first state election of this presidential year.
The PAC has opposed all three Congressional incumbents, waging a particularly aggressive campaign in the first district where Andrew A. Pettis of Portland, president of a CIO shipyard union, seeks the place of Rep. Robert Hale of Portland. In the other districts, David H. Staples, member of the Brotherhood of Railroad Engineers, opposes Rep. Margaret C. Smith of Skowhegan, while Rep. Frank Fellows of Bangor is opposed by Ralph E. Graham of Brewer.
Also at stake is the governorship, traditionally held by a Republican. Republican State Senate President Horace A. Hildreth and Democrat Paul J. Jullien are the gubernatorial candidates. Republican Governor Sumner Sewall is retiring.
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Three reporters describe sidelights of battle against Germans in France and Belgium
By three United Press war correspondents
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Portland, Oregon –
Branding the Republican Party as “Old Guard Isolationist,” and big industry as “labor haters,” Senator Claude Pepper (D-FL) yesterday warned a s all group of listeners at the Portland Auditorium that lasting peace and security could come only with the reelection of President Roosevelt.
No candidate for such a high office as President of the United States can be responsible for the conduct of all of his camp followers.
President Roosevelt has been handicapped by zealots, crackpots and political phonies and demagogues.
Governor Thomas E. Dewey, as the Republican nominee for President, is “blessed” with some of the same stripe.
One of these is Congressmen Dewey Short of Missouri, who calls himself the “hillbilly from the Ozarks.”
Mr. Short last Saturday delivered a speech here to inaugurate the Republican campaign in Pennsylvania. The speech was utterly devoid of persuasive and logical arguments on behalf of the Republican ticket. It was an abusive, offensive diatribe, replete with invective and vicious innuendo.
This election will be determined by public judgment of the personal abilities of the rival candidates and their basic politics and intentions, as revealed by their own words and records.
There are ample issues to be debated. They can be defeated logically and clearly.
The Republican State Committee conferred no favor on the voters of Pittsburgh – and won no votes for its cause – when it brought Mr. Short here Saturday.
Both camps have their Dewey Shorts. The less we hear of them, the better it will be for the candidates, for the parties, for the country.