Wallace in Buffalo
Buffalo, New York (UP) – (Sept. 23)
Vice President Henry A. Wallace arrived here by train tonight and was met by district Democratic leaders and a cheering throng of several hundred persons.
Bulkley denies pressure won Browder visa
But board opinion cannot be made public
By Charles T. Lucey, Scripps-Howard staff writer
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Dewey may reply to FDR tomorrow
Starts homeward trip after coast visit
Aboard Dewey special campaign train (UP) – (Sept. 23)
Governor Thomas E. Dewey sped east tonight after a whirlwind campaign through 11 politically-important states whose combined electoral votes will be a major factor in his bid for the Presidency.
As the GOP nominee boarded his special train for the return trip home from Los Angeles, he appeared confident of victory in November and was reported “more than optimistic” at results of his drive through the West.
Speaks Monday night
Mr. Dewey will deliver only one major speech on the trip east – in Oklahoma City Monday night – but his associates say it will be “full of fight.” He may take the opportunity to reply to President Roosevelt, who formally opened his campaign tonight.
The New York Governor spent 22 days consulting with Republican leaders and representatives of labor, farmers, cattlemen and businessmen in Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Michigan, Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon and California.
Organizes groups
His purpose was to organize the groups behind his campaign and at the same time gather material for future speeches. The states have a total of 131 electoral votes and many are considered “doubtful.”
Mr. Dewey’s major argument in six nationwide speeches and numerous back platform appearances had been, “It’s time for a change.” He argued the Roosevelt administration had failed to solve the nation’s problems despite more power and more money than any previous administration in history.
Slav Congress told to back fourth term
Resolution on issue to be voted on
A resolution calling for endorsement of a fourth term and reelection of President Roosevelt will be placed before delegates to the second national American Slav Congress today as the Congress closes its two-day convention at Carnegie Music Hall.
More than 2,000 delegates registered for the convention yesterday and heard Leo Krzycki of Milwaukee, the Congress president, keynote the opening session by calling upon “every Slavic American, regardless of party affiliation, to vote and work for the reelection of President Roosevelt and those candidates for Congress who will support his general policies for victory, security and peace.”
Scully speaks
Officials of the organization say the Congress represents 15 million people of Slavic descent living in the United States.
Mr. Krzycki’s address followed an address of welcome to the delegates by Mayor Cornelius D. Scully who also urged their support of President Roosevelt.
Halls closed to group
John Sobczak, Pittsburgh district organizer for the CIO Amalgamated Clothing Workers of which Mr. Krzycki is a vice president, and also chairman of the Western Pennsylvania Committee of the Congress, explained to the delegates that the “cramped quarters” in the Music Hall was due to two halls in Pittsburgh breaking contracts with the Congress “on grounds that we were holding a political meeting.”
Soldiers & Sailors’ Memorial Hall refused the Congress on grounds that its session was a political meeting. Syria Mosque also refused to entertain the convention but gave no reason.
Mr. Sobczak asserted that only a short time before in one of the halls a Republican meeting had been held where Ohio Governor John W. Bricker, GOP vice-presidential candidate, had been the speaker. The Congress delegates booed roundly at mention of Governor Bricker’s name.
Letter from Roosevelt
Mr. Sobczak charged:
Those in charge of those halls are more interested in the kind of politics than they are in whether a meeting is political.
Jaroslav Zmrhal, vice president of the Congress, in a brief address, told delegates that “the hour of the Slav has struck… and with the unification of all Slavs the day of bloody wars has ended.”
A letter to the Congress delegates from President Roosevelt read at the opening session pointed out that “the day of liberation of peoples of Slav blood draws near and with it the time for administration of retributive justice on their Nazi enslavers.”
The message urged the Congress “in all of your deliberations to be inspired by constructive action to further the great objective of hastening victory as a preliminary to peace on earth.”
An Army chaplain, Lt. Ernest J. Zizka of Camp Barkeley, Texas, gave the invocation at the opening session.
Ickes to ‘pick’ Dewey cabinet here today
Secretary of the Interior to speak at 4:00 p.m.
Although the “official” campaign opening is scheduled tomorrow night, the fourth-term drive will get started here this afternoon when Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes appears on Flagstaff Hill to “choose” Governor Thomas E. Dewey’s Cabinet for him.
Mr. Ickes will address an outdoor rally of the American Slav Congress, which has been holding a convention to endorse the reelection of President Roosevelt.
The New Deal “curmudgeon” has announced he will devote his speech to Mr. Dewey and, by coupling Mr. Ickes’ bent for picturesque speeches and his obvious partisanship, it can be surmised that the Secretary will attempt to “do a job” on Mr. Dewey.
Address on radio
Mr. Ickes agreed to speak to the Slav Congress only after officials of the organization promised him a radio hookup. Fifty stations on MBS will broadcast his speech.
Slav Congress officials said they had to raise $4,000 to pay for the broadcast. Each of the delegates paid a $2 fee on registering at the convention and the organization sold programs for 50 cents. If this doesn’t provide the necessary fund, they indicated, they will pass the hat for more.
Mr. Ickes’ speech will be broadcast by WCAE from 4:00 to 4:30 p.m. ET.
The officials’ opening of the Democratic campaign here, sponsored by the Democratic Women’s Guild of Allegheny County, is scheduled for North Side Carnegie Hall at 8:30 p.m. tomorrow.
Mrs. Norton to speak
Mrs. Mary T. Norton, Congresswoman from New Jersey, will head a list of 12 speakers, In addition to the speeches, the rally will be shown a new Roosevelt campaign picture “Lest We Forget,” a 20-minute reel depicting the achievements of the New Deal administration.
Other speakers will include: Congressman Francis J. Myers of Philadelphia, candidate for the U.S. Senate; Federal Judge Charles Alvin Jones of Edgeworth, candidate for the State Supreme Court; Auditor General F. Clair Ross, candidate for the Superior Court; State Treasurer G. Harold Wagner, candidate for Auditor General, and Ramsey S. Black, third assistant postmaster general, candidate for state treasurer.
In addition, U.S. Senator Joseph F. Guffey; his sister, National Committeewoman Emma Guffey Miller; State Chairman David L. Lawrence; Mrs. Emma Bray, vice chairman of the County Committee; Mrs. Elinor Kane, president of the Women’s Guild, and County Commissioner George Rankin will speak.
GOP units tour state
Meanwhile, two Republican campaign groups will be touring the state.
U.S. Senator James J. Davis, State Senator G. Harold Watkins, candidate for Auditor General, and Judge J. Frank Graff of Kittanning, candidate for the Superior Court, will visit Rochester at 11:45 a.m. Tuesday, Butler at 3:30 p.m. and Kittanning at 5:45 p.m.
On Wednesday, these candidates will appear at Brookville at 11:45 a.m., at Indiana at 4:00 p.m., at Johnstown at 9:00 p.m. Thursday they will address a noon meeting at DuBois and a 5:45 p.m. rally in Altoona.
Another group composed of Supreme Court Justice Howard W. Hughes, Superior Court Judge Arthur H. James and City Treasurer Edgar W. Baird of Philadelphia, candidate for state treasurer, will travel through the central part of the state.
In Washington –
GOP refuses to end fight on Pearl Harbor
‘People want facts,’ Congressman says
Washington (UP) – (Sept. 23)
Republicans continued their efforts to smoke out the facts about the Pearl Harbor disaster today despite every indication that the administration has no intention of saying a word until official Army and Navy inquiry boards have completed their investigations.
Rep. Ralph Church (R-IL), indicating GOP dissatisfaction with waiting for the military board to report, said again that “the people want the facts.”
The work of those boards is going forward steadily, but there is no knowledge as to how much of their factfinding task has been completed. Neither has there been any indication as to when they expect to make public their findings.
General summoned
Evidence that the factfinding is being accelerated was seen yesterday in a War Department announcement that Maj. Gen. Leonard T. Gerow, commanding general of the V Corps of the 1st Army now fighting in Europe, has returned to testify before the Army board.
Removal of an officer from his post during active operations indicates anxiety to obtain vital information at once. Both Army and Navy authorities had previously objected to investigations until after the war partly because key witnesses might be engaged in fighting and unavailable for questioning here.
The Navy last winter sent Adm. Thomas C. Hart to Pearl Harbor to conduct an on-the-post investigation His findings have not been made public.
GOP may be aided
The Republicans might have much to gain politically should any high administration officials be involved in responsibility for the surprise with which the Japs caught U.S. forces at Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, 1941.
On the other hand, they would have little to lose if the guilt lay on the accused Pearl Harbor Army and Navy commanders or on non-administration shoulders, since the Republicans were not in power and could scarcely be held accountable for the Pearl Harbor disaster.
Fliers bolster troops in Holland
London, England (UP) –
Huge forces of bombers and fighters streaked across the Channel toward the continent this afternoon, possibly going to the aid of Allied forces in Holland, as an estimated 500 Italian-based heavy bombers hammered industrial targets in the Sudetenland.
Other squadrons of U.S. 15th Air Force heavies lashed at railroads in southern Austria and bridges in northeastern Italy, while three formations of Mitchell bombers blasted the German-held 5,000-ton cruiser Taranto at the La Spezia Naval Base. The warship, which the Nazis had so placed as to block the harbor entrance in the event La Spezia fell to the Allies, was set afire, it was reported from Rome.
Hit bow, stern
German anti-aircraft batteries threw up a terrific barrage, but bomb-strike photos showed explosives fell across the Taranto’s bow and stern, and amidships. There was no immediate announcement of the specific targets hit by the Lightning and Mustang-escorted bombers in the Sudetenland and Austria.
Despite yesterday’s bad weather, the 9th U.S. Air Force flew 750 sorties during which it dropped 200 tons of bombs on rail communications, motor transport and power stations in the vicinities of Coblenz and Saarbrücken, Germany. Six planes were lost, but the pilots of two were safe, it was announced officially.
U.S. and French P-47 Thunderbolts of Brig. Gen. Gordon P. Saville’s 12th Tactical Air Command struck at German locomotives and vehicles along the Rhine in good weather Friday after being grounded for almost a week by bad weather.
Bricker to speak in Connecticut
World court urged in his Boston speech
Norwalk, Connecticut (UP) – (Sept. 23)
Ohio Governor John W. Bricker, Republican vice-presidential nominee, came here tonight for his last speaking engagement on his 3,250-mile eastern campaign swing through Pennsylvania, Maryland, Maine, Massachusetts and Connecticut.
Connecticut Governor Raymond E. Baldwin boarded the Bricker train at New London, Connecticut, and accompanied the governor to the home of Mrs. Clare Booth Luce, Republican congresswoman.
Calls for cooperation
Earlier at Boston, Mr. Bricker told the Massachusetts State Republican Convention that the United States must cooperate with other nations in the post-war era and use force if necessary, to prevent a third world war should “moral persuasion or economic pressure” fail.
The United States, Mr. Bricker said, should “take the leadership among the nations of the world in organizing to preserve the peace.”
Mr. Bricker said:
The United States has always had a tremendous stake in world order and stability, yet we have not kept ourselves alert to developments threatening peace and world order. We have not kept ourselves prepared to cope with them when they attained world-shaking proportions.
Expediency is charged
The administration’s international policy, he said, has been ruled by “day-by-day expediency.” America sent money to China while sending war material to Japan, he said. Hitler seized power in Germany at the same time the New Deal entered office, he added, but the administration did nothing to keep “orderly peace” in the world.
Mr. Bricker proposed that a World Court be established “wherein justiciable questions will be decided” and adequate machinery created for arbitration and conciliation of international disputes.
Gen. Eisenhower: Power of Gestapo factor in length of war
General injured knee; he believes Germany’s military situation is hopeless
By John E. Lee (representing combined U.S. press)
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Eisenhower bars travel of civilians to war zones
Headquarters to probe charge businessmen were transported into liberated areas
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Allies smashing toward Bologna
Seize key positions in Gothic Line in Italy
By Reynolds Packard, United Press staff writer
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Two-term advocate backs Roosevelt
Washington (UP) – (Sept. 23)
Senator Josiah W. Bailey (D-NC) said today that Republican presidential nominee Thomas E. Dewey has “endorsed all the New Deal except Secretary Ickes, Miss Perkins and President Roosevelt and proving almost as good a New Deal speechmaker as Vice President Henry Wallace.”
Mr. Bailey, who has introduced a bill to limit presidential terms to two, said he would support President Roosevelt for a fourth term because “I am a Democrat,” but that he intended to do what he could to keep Sidney Hillman, chairman of the CIO Political Action Committee, out of the party.
Mr. Bailey said:
It appears Mr. Hillman is trying to control of both the political parties with a view of setting up his own peculiar sort of government.
Local Western Union unit pledges support of national strike
Fight between CIO and AFL since merger with Postal Telegraph nears showdown
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Perkins: Hopes for wider security are bolstered by Dewey
By Fred W. Perkins, Pittsburgh Press staff writer
Washington – (Sept. 23)
Hopes for an early extension of the social security system were raised in Washington today through Governor Thomas E. Dewey’s endorsement, in a Los Angeles speech last night, of some important features of legislation stalled in Congress since its introduction in June 1943.
The Republican presidential nominee, it was noted here, came out in favor of certain major phases of the program which appeal to the largest number of citizens and which have encountered the least opposition.
On one controversial feature, which its foes call “socialized medicine,” he proposed a method intended to turn the opposition of powerful medical groups into cooperation.
Job for the states
He would legislate “assurance of medical service to those who need it, and who cannot otherwise obtain it,” but he would reach that objective by enlisting “the leadership and aid of the doctors of America in organizing our private and public hospitals as well as our other services into a fully effective system to protect the health of all our people.”
He would not follow the proposal of the Wagner-Murray-Dingell bills in placing technical and professional administration under a federal bureau (the U.S. Public Health Service).
In another important particular, Governor Dewey differed from the philosophy of the Wagner-Murray-Dingell bills, and did so in harmony with the declared Republican policy of maintaining and strengthening state functions rather than extending federal power. He would return to the states the control of employment services, and would leave unemployment insurance with the states.
Present law cited
In the long argument over the wisdom of encouraging the individual to look more and more to the federal government for his upkeep in times of unemployment and to depend on Washington to get him a job, the New York Governor takes the side of those who believe these are proper functions of the states.
But Governor Dewey expressed full support for the effort to add 20 million Americans to the 40 million now carrying federal social security cards which promise them old-age pensions after retirement at 65.
Under the present law, enacted in 1935, and for which the Roosevelt administration claimed full credit (although the Republican candidate pointed out it was passed “by a nonpartisan vote of overwhelming proportions”) the old-age survivors’ insurance plan covers business and industrial jobs.
Some excepted now
Congress excepted a number of other large classes of employment – including agricultural labor, domestic service, public employment, service for non-profit and government institutions, and self-employment.
For instance, a printer who works for a commercial publisher gets the benefit of the present law, but a printer for a religious organization does not. The law covers a janitor who sweeps out a grocery store, and a stenographer for an industrial concern, but not a janitor in an educational institution, nor a stenographer for a charitable group.
‘Not good enough’
These exceptions were made for various reasons, including the one stated by Governor Dewey, “difficulties of administration.” Governor Dewey said this was “not a good enough answer.”
Governor Dewey did not adopt all the ideas of the Social Security Board, nor of the framers of the Wagner-Murray-Dingell bills, nor of the American Federation of Labor, which has been active on the subject. But his supporters think he may have found a way to end the stalemate in the Democrat-controlled Congressional committees (Ways and Means in the House, Finance in the Senate) where the proposed legislative extensions of social security have rested for 15 months without even a hearing.
Smith quits hospital
New York –
Former Governor Alfred E. Smith was discharged from St. Vincent’s Hospital today after an examination disclosed that his condition was “much improved.” He entered the hospital Aug. 10, suffering from heat exhaustion.