America at war! (1941–) – Part 4

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Cards defeat Browns, 5–1, even Series count

Musial clouts homer for two runs in first inning to decide win

Sportsman’s Park, St. Louis, Missouri (UP) – (Oct. 7)
The St. Louis Cardinals exploded some of the hitting power which enabled them to coast to the National League pennant to defeat the Browns, 5–1, today and even the World Series at two games each.

A 12-hit attack against three Brown pitchers, which included a first-inning home run by Stan Musial, gave the Cardinals the fourth game before the largest crowd of the Series – 35,455.

Harry Brecheen, streamlined Cardinal southpaw, yielded nine hits to the American League champions but kept them well scattered and did not permit a run until the eighth inning when his mates had already given him a five-run margin.

Homer clear pavilion

The game was only eight minutes and 12 pitches old when it was decided.

Sigmund “Jack” Jakucki, Browns righthander, struck out the first man to face him, but then was touched for a single by Johnny Hopp. Musial, a World Series bust in 1942 and again in 1943, caught hold of Jakucki’s first pitch, a high, hard one, and drove it over the rightfield pavilion roof for all the runs Brecheen needed.

The Cards doubled their margin in the third when infield hits by Danny Litwhiler and Musial, a single by Catcher Walker Cooper and an error by Don Gutteridge gave them two more tallies.

Jakucki was taken out for a pinch-hitter in the third and his relief, Southpaw Al Hollingsworth, yielded the final Cardinals run in the sixth on Ray Sanders’ single and Martin Marion’s double.

Browns threaten often

Although they threatened to break through in almost every inning, the Browns did not score until the eighth. They had a promising rally going when Martin Marion came up with a good stop on Chet Laabs’ grounder and turned it into a double play to snuff out the hopes of the American League champions.

Gene Moore had walked to open the eighth and went to third when Vernon Stephens singled. That was the setup when Laabs came to bat. The double play resulted in the only Browns run, Stephens scoring.

They made a dying gesture in the ninth but were retired with two men on and two out.

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americavotes1944

Perkins: PAC is mum on how much money it has

Hillman’s ‘tell all’ pledge disproved
By Fred W. Perkins, Pittsburgh Press staff writer

New York – (Oct. 7)
With just a month left before the election which will show whether the CIO Political Action Committee hits or misses, officers of that organization won’t talk about how much money they have collected to help elect Mr. Roosevelt for a fourth term.

John Abt, counsel for the CIO-PAC and its twin, the National Citizens PAC, said today the returns on contributions will be made public only through formal reports to Congress.

This was despite a statement in Washington, on Aug. 28, before the Special House Committee to Investigate Campaign Expenditures, when Sidney Hillman, chairman of both PACs, said, “I know of no other political organization which has so consistently conducted its affairs in the light of day.”

Everybody mum

To be fair about it, frequent reports on how the money is or is not rolling in, cannot be obtained from either the regular national committee of the Republicans or the Democrats.

The PAC reticence is believed to be based on reluctance to report an apparently small total of individual contributions because it would show that the campaign is not getting the desired support from the rank and filed of CIO members.

There is authority for writing that the total of individual CIO-PAC contributions up to today is less than $200,000, instead of the millions the officers had hoped to raise. More money may come in later but the evidence on the surface shows that the members out in the mills and factories are not giving like they were supposed to give.

A puzzler

The foregoing applies to the CIO-PAC. The same reticence applies to the NCPAC, an organization that lawfully can contribute to campaign funds of candidates, while the right of PAC in this field of political activity is highly circumscribed.

How much money is in the bank account of NCPAC has not been made public, but its success in getting large contributions appears to have cramped the style of the Democratic National Committee in cultivating the same field.

CIO-PAC and NCPAC occupy the same quarters here. Both organizations are served mainly by the same staff. Mr. Hillman heads both outfits, but with one secretary for CIO-PAC and another for NCPAC.

The two Hillman secretaries appear to be the main line of division – except the law which forbids labor unions as well as corporations from contributing to campaign funds.

Anybody who can figure out where CIO-PAC ends and NCPAC begins ought to be good at crossword puzzles.

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Soldier vote return shows slight drop

Olbum expects more than 50,000 ballots

Although the return of military ballots dropped off slightly during the past week, nearly a quarter of the 98,727 sent out have been returned to the County Elections Department.

The department received about 5,500 ballots from servicemen and women during the week ending yesterday for the presidential election on Nov. 7, a drop of more than 1,000 over the previous week’s return.

The total number sent back so far is 23,500 or 24 percent of those mailed out, County Elections Director David Olbum said.

Awaits upswing

He explained that the decrease was from a better-than-1,000 daily return to approximately 850 a day last week. He said he expects the return to take an upward swing again before the deadline for acceptance on Nov. 22, two weeks after the election.

Additional ballots are being mailed out every day to servicemen and women who have failed to receive a ballot or have improperly filled out one that they mailed in, Mr. Olbum said. The total number sent out will go over the 100,000 mark before Election Day.

Expects 50,000

Of the total, he estimated that the number of absentee votes returned before the deadline will exceed 50,000.

The ballots are being kept in a vault for safekeeping at the Union Trust Company until they are counted by Return Board on Nov. 22. Ballots will be valid if they are postmarked on or before Nov. 7 and received before Nov. 22.

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Thousands, rich and poor, pray at Smith’s funeral

7,000 men and women, famous and obscure, attend ‘largest service’ for a layman

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Rep. Anderson: Franking charge is not ‘official’

House group head explains statement

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Bricker hits ‘bypassing’ of Congress

Mustn’t be pawn, candidate says

Duluth, Minnesota (UP) – (Oct. 7)
President Roosevelt’s “bypassing” of Congress was condemned tonight by Governor John W. Bricker who said that a Republican victory in next month’s national election would assure the legislative of being a “corollary branch of the government.”

The Republican vice-presidential candidate said in a speech here that American representative government was free only so long as Congress was “untrammeled virile, and objective.” His party, he said, abhorred the “bypassing of Congress by devious methods” by President Roosevelt. American liberty dies, he added, when Congress becomes the “tool or the pawn” of the President.

‘One-man government’

Mr. Bricker accused President Roosevelt of “dominating” Congress ever since he took office in 1933 by declaring the existence of “crises,” “emergencies,” “dangers” or “serious situations” and by “coercion.”

Mr. Bricker said:

The basic issue of the campaign is whether one man shall personally govern and permanently regiment 130 million Americans or whether they shall continue to govern themselves through time-tested institutions of self-government.

Concludes his trip

By electing Mr. Dewey President, he asserted “the people will assure that Congress shall be allowed to function as a corollary branch of American government.”

Mr. Bricker’s speech here concluded his campaign in the Great Lakes region. He left in his special train tonight for a run through North Dakota and across Montana and Utah to Washington where he will begin stumping the whole Pacific Coast. His present tour will cover 9,250 miles in 29 days of hard campaigning for election of Mr. Dewey as President and himself as Vice President.

Berle: Dewey uses ‘old lie’

Cabinet aide replies to candidate’s quote

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Wallace to speak in Midwest

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Swift Greek aid planned by UNRRA

Agency may take over in 30 days

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After visit to Stalin –
Johnston: Russians thankful for U.S. help

By Eric A. Johnston

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Battles raging for two big Chinese cities

New landing perils port of Foochow

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Americans shell Bologna suburbs

Big guns dragged up through mud, snow

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End of Pacific War? That’s a BIG question

Many hurdles remain to be overcome
By William McGaffin

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Battle rages on fort’s top and in eerie passageways

Yanks hold fifth of surface, little inside; Germans may hold out for days

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Roosevelt lauds people of Greece

Praises courage under Nazi oppression

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Palau Island death toll of Japs 12,211

Bitter fighting on Peleliu continues

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Liberators blast ports on Celebes

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‘Satisfactory’ plan decided on at peace talks

Delegates agree on ‘set of proposals’

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Chaplain tells of 3 heroes who froze on rescue trip

Soldiers lose lives in storm while trying to reach wrecked ship in Arctic

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Allies recapture exchanged Nazis

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Test television takes religion into home

Chicago, Illinois – (Oct. 7)
Use of television to carry Christian teaching into the home was tested for the first time here through a 15-minute program over WBKB, sponsored by the International Council of Religious Education.

The broadcast consisted of Scripture reading, music, and Bible study, with young people from the church schools of three Protestant churches taking part. The Rev. John B. Ketcham, director of the field department of the International Council, served as announcer.

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Millett: Jobs curb splurging

Women learn value of money
By Ruth Millett

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Marine held in slaying of girl typist

Accused private is father of two children

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Mystery man Fritz Mandl, on U.S. blacklist, main cog in Argentina’s armament program

‘Bicycle’ builder branches out again
By Allen Haden

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Christmas mailing to men overseas hits record high

Packages sent from here expected to total over million pounds by end of week
By Betty Jo Daniels

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I DARE SAY —
Gather around, quiz kids; here’s something to test your memories

By Florence Fisher Parry

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