Dewey’s Army charge denied
Washington (UP) –
House Democratic Leader John W. McCormack (D-MA) today accused Governor Thomas E. Dewey of making “ridiculous and untrue” charges of “political advantage” in suggesting that the administration wanted to retain soldiers in the Army until they were assured of employment.
Mr. McCormack told the House that the Republican presidential nominee made the charge at Philadelphia the day after the War Department announced its demobilization plans.
He recalled that Mr. Dewey attributed to Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, Selective Service director, the statement that men could be kept “in the Army about as cheaply as we could create an agency for them when they are out.”
Mr. McCormack said the only bill he could find proposing the sort of provision Mr. Dewey attacked had been sponsored by a Republican, Senator James J. Davis (R-PA). He said both the War Department and Gen. Hershey had opposed Mr. Davis’ bill, which would have barred the discharge of men without their consent unless employment was available.
Indians, cowboys welcome Dewey
Valentine, Nebraska (UP) –
Governor Thomas E. Dewey was greeted by Indians in feathered headdress and cowboys on horseback when he arrived here today for conferences with Nebraska and South Dakota Republicans at the ranch of former Nebraska Governor Samuel R. McKelvie.
The GOP presidential nominee and Mrs. Dewey stepped from the train into an open auto for a parade led by about 50 Sioux Indians from the Rosebud Reservation of South Dakota, followed by sombrero-wearing cowboys from the Nebraska plains.
The parade lasted half an hour and then the Deweys were taken to the McKelvie ranch, 20 miles south of Valentine.
Shortly before the Dewey party arrived here, the Governor’s secretary, Paul E. Lockwood, announce that additional stops would be made at Sheridan, Wyoming, Sept. 14, and Billing, Montana, Sept. 15 so Mr. Dewey might have the opportunity to meet local political leaders in those two states. Governor Dewey had planned to spend three days at the McKelvie Ranch, but his stay here was cut to a day and a half to work the other stops into his itinerary to the West Coast.