America at war! (1941–) – Part 4

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Dewey favors Jewish nation in Palestine

Governor reviews Columbus Day parade

Albany, New York (UP) –
Governor Thomas E. Dewey said today that he “heartily endorsed” proposals to reconstitute Palestine as a free and democratic Jewish commonwealth.

The Republican presidential nominee issued a statement supporting the Palestine plank of the GOP platform after a conference with Dr. Abba Hillel Silver of Cleveland, chairman of the executive committee of the National Zionist Emergency Council.

Favors Palestine opening

Governor Dewey said:

I heartily endorse the Palestine plank in the Republican platform. I again repeat what I previously stated to the great leader of the American Zionist movement and distinguished American, Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, that I am for the reconstruction of Palestine as a free and democratic Jewish commonwealth, in accordance with the Balfour Declaration of 1917 and the resolution of the Republican Congress in 1922. I have also stated to Dr. Silver that in order to give refuge to millions of distressed Jews, driven from their homes. I favor the opening of Palestine to their unlimited immigration and land ownership.

Governor Dewey and his wife registered last night to vote in New York City. He gave his age as 42 and his residence as the Roosevelt Hotel.

Windup plans set

Governor Dewey plans to deal with international affairs, agricultural problems and the future of small business during the closing days of his campaign, it was reported reliably today.

He will discuss foreign policy next Wednesday at the Herald Tribune Forum in New York City. The farm speech probably will be delivered on his trip through the Midwest and the problems of small business in one of the Eastern talks.

Governor Dewey, it was said, is planning a strenuous “stretch drive.” This strategy was seen in his decision to return here last night, rather than remain in New York City. His aides said there would not be so many interruptions if they worked on the speeches at the capital.

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Bricker urges world bases to protect U.S. interests

GOP candidate ends Oregon tour, begins in California tomorrow

Aboard Bricker campaign train (UP) –
Ohio Governor John W. Bricker wound up his campaign for Oregon’s six electoral votes today after coming out for U.S. maintenance of bases to protect American interests “around the world if necessary.”

The Republican vice-presidential nominee made only three rear-platform talks on the eve of his entrance into California, whose 25 electoral votes have remained a political prize since they topped the scales in favor of Woodrow Wilson in 1916.

Governor Bricker chatted with railroad station gatherings at Roseburg, Grants Pass and Medford during his final day in Oregon. He will meet California Governor Earl Warren at Sacramento tomorrow, speak at luncheon there, and appear at Richmond, Berkeley and Oakland before making a major address at San Francisco tomorrow night.

Clarifies stand on bases

Mr. Bricker’s endorsement of protective bases was made last night at Eugene, Oregon, when he told a press conference the United States “should maintain bases within our sphere of responsibility.”

In response to questions, he explained he meant “sphere of responsibility to trade and security.”

“We should maintain bases wherever our interests lie,” he said, adding that he did not necessarily mean military bases in every ocean and on every continent, but “bases from which we could protect our spheres everywhere.”

“And there’s no imperialistic design in that either,” he said.

Oregon students parade

Governor Bricker’s final formal speech in Oregon was delivered at the University of Oregon, where hundreds of students greeted him with a torchlight parade. He charged that bureaucrats were “stuffed to the suffocation point” through the nation and demanded that the bureaucratic system “patchwork” be “taken apart and streamlined government substituted.”

Subversive charge answered by Hillman

New York (UP) –
Sidney Hillman, CIO Political Action Committee chairman, yesterday charged Ohio Governor John W. Bricker, GOP vice-presidential candidate, with “deliberately impugning the patriotism of the more than five million members of the CIO and other millions of Americans who support its purpose.”

Terming Mr. Bricker’s charge that the PAC is subversive, “the cry of a defeated candidate,” Mr. Hillman said “the Republicans are scared” by the large registration totals “and so Governor Bricker has been selected to do the unutterably filthy job of setting neighbor against neighbor – a job which, from his easy association with Gerald L. K. Smith and other American Fascists, he is well equipped to undertake.”

Mr. Hillman said:

As for the allegation that there is anything remotely illegal in the work of the PAC, the record is quite clear. Two Congressional committees, in addition to the Department of Justice, have investigated PAC and no finding of law violation has been made.

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‘Cold storage’ urged for some Roosevelt aides

Washington (UP) –
Senator Edwin C. Johnson (D-CO) suggested today that Earl Browder, Sidney Hillman and Vice President Henry A. Wallace be placed “in cold storage along with Eleanor” – Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt – for the rest of the campaign.

Mr. Johnson, who personally opposed third and fourth term nominations for President Roosevelt, said the three men “are proving to be a millstone around the President’s neck.”

He said the task of putting them in “cold storage” should go to DNC Chairman Robert E. Hannegan.

Mr. Johnston said his suggestion was based on a belief that the Communist leader, the chairman of the CIO Political Action Committee and the retiring Vice President are alienating independent votes by the prominent parts they are taking in the Democratic campaign.

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Mrs. Luce, Kerr open Illinois fight

Chicago, Illinois (UP) –
Rep. Clare Boothe Luce, GOP glamor girl, and Oklahoma Governor Robert S. Kerr, keynoter of the Democratic National Convention last July, will feature tonight’s opening battle for Illinois’ 29 electoral votes.

Mrs. Luce will speak at Chicago’s Orchestra Hall and Governor Kerr will address a Democratic rally at Joliet.

KQV will broadcast Mrs. Luce’s speech at 10:00 p.m. ET.

Mrs. Luce urges change

Both speakers participated in warmup address last night, Mrs. Luce addressing a pro-America Republican women’s organization rally at St. Louis and Governor Kerr speaking at Duluth, Minnesota.

Mrs. Luce called upon the nation’s voters to “do your part in changing horses this year, including Senator Harry S. Truman, the new end of the horse that was cleared at Chicago by Sidney Hillman.”

Dewey ‘shadowboxed’

Governor Kerr told his Duluth audience that in his speech at Oklahoma City, Governor Dewey only “shadowboxed with the champ, leaving unanswered pressing farm problems and a pledge for international cooperation.”

Governor Kerr called Governor Dewey’s indictment of President Roosevelt for unpreparedness “contemptible” unless it is backed by the Republican nominee’s own “record of preparedness for war and peace – a record I fail to find.”

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Martin charges ‘vote buying’ by Roosevelt

Attacks New Deal’s ‘blundering waste’

Springfield, Massachusetts (UP) –
Pennsylvania Governor Edward Martin today attacked the Roosevelt administration for “flooding the land with promises” and for not having been prepared for World War II.

Mr. Martin said in an address prepared for delivery to the Republican Women’s Club:

The economy promise of 1933 had gone with the wind before the end of that year. Blundering waste and reckless extravagance played their parts in the enormous peacetime debt increase.

When the fourth-term candidate took office in 1933, there were about 550,000 employees on the federal payroll. On Dec. 6, 1941, the eve of Pearl Harbor, the number had risen to more than 1.5 million. Today it is more than three million. Nobody seems to know how many more.

Mr. Martin referred to President Roosevelt’s criticism of the Hoover administration for “piling bureau on bureau, commission on commission,” and then compared the national setup of 1932 with that of today when “there are many more such bureaus and commissions.”

‘Indicts’ Roosevelt

Mr. Martin said:

As a responsible American citizen, I indict Franklin D. Roosevelt for his failure to prepare for World War I for his domestic policies that left us 10 million unemployed, years after the worldwide depression had ended in other nations, and for his attempted packing of the Supreme Court and his political debauchery of that tribunal.

Mr. Martin also accused Mr. Roosevelt of “buying elections by long lists of federal employees trained to snoop into the private affairs of people,” and for “New Deal blunders, quarrels, crackdowns, mistakes and indecisions and for lifting into high places of this nation, men and women of doubtful loyalties.”

Raps ‘swing to left’

The Pennsylvania Chief Executive “indicted” Mr. Roosevelt additionally for the “steady swing of the federal government toward the left and toward the dangerous totalitarianism that has made a shambles of the Old World and has turned back the clock of civilization."

President Roosevelt was accused by Mr. Martin of not heeding U.S. Army and Navy leaders’ “pleas” for increased forces, and added that “there is no military reason why the American people should not be told about what happened” at Pearl Harbor.

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Labor gains under Dewey, Italian told

Record as Governor pointed out here

What Governor Thomas E. Dewey’s labor policy will be if he is elected to the Presidency must be judged on his record in New York State, a member of his cabinet asserted here today.

Edward Corsi, industrial commissioner for New York, who is making a nationwide tour on behalf of the Dewey candidacy, declared at a luncheon attended by prominent Italian leaders here that the record has been a good one.

Mr. Corsi said:

A study of his labor policy shows that in this war emergency he has not only preserved all if labor’s gains but strengthened its position.

Allowances most liberal

He said the Governor has given labor the greatest representation in his administration that it has ever attained in New York State, added that unemployment compensation and workmen’s compensation laws have been liberalized, with the allowances the most liberal granted in the United States.

Mr. Corsi said:

Under his administration, the state enacted the equal pay bill for women workers who do the same work as men. The first labor university in the country was established under state auspices.

He cited as outstanding the freezing by the Dewey administration of its $165-million surplus as a fund for the relief of returning veterans who seek jobs and said the state now has an unemployment reserve of $800 million to meet post-war unemployment problems.

Proved his ability

Mr. Corsi said:

Governor Dewey has proved his ability to conduct a liberal administration which has strengthened labor’s position. He can transit his program to a national scale.

Mr. Corsi was formerly Commissioner of Welfare in New York City and before that was Commissioner of Immigration at Ellis Island. In the company of Attorney Joseph Rossi, he met many Republican leaders here today.

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Village honors dead Yank for outstanding courage

Sergeant riddled by Nazi bullets while trying to save buddy from flaming tank
By Robert W. Richards, United Press staff writer

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Battle faced on creation of new League

Peace ‘hamstringing’ charged by Senator

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Churchill pays tribute to Willkie

Washington (UP) –
Wendell L. Willkie “will always be remembered” by Great Britain for “the warmth of his support” in Britain’s darkest days, Prime Minister Winston Churchill said in a cablegram to Mrs. Willkie released by the British Embassy today.

Mr. Churchill’s message said:

I am greatly grieved to hear of your husband’s death and beg you to accept my deepest sympathy. His visit to our blitzed cities and the warmth of our support for Britain’s resistance was a source of much comfort to us in those dark days, and will always be remembered by those who had the privilege of meeting him and by countless others. We salute a great American.

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Simms: Allied action put Hungary on Nazi side

Country was left defenseless
By William Philip Simms, Scripps-Howard foreign editor

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Aachen ghost city but still not destroyed

Fires blaze unhindered, cameraman finds
By Bert Brandt, ACME Newspictures cameraman

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Nazi plane output halved in week

Arnold reveals toll of pre-D-Day raids

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Kidnap suspect pleads innocent

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British roll Germans back along Adriatic

American drive on Bologna stalled
By Eleanor Packard, United Press staff writer

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Editorial: ‘There is where we came in’

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Editorial: Needless waste

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Editorial: China waits

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Edson: Setting changed for President’s pollical speech

By Peter Edson

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Ferguson: A good Congress

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

With commendable fervor, members of the League of Women Voters are devoting their efforts from now until November to Congressional races.

The women of this organization, most of whom are well informed politically, believe that Congress runs the country. The men we send to Washington as our legislators will have together more power to shape the future than either Mr. Roosevelt or Mr. Dewey.

Unfortunately, for 11 years the emphasis has been on the executive branch of the government. there was a period when Congress appeared about to abdicate. It seemed possible that the American people might decide to trust one man and his appointees with the full responsibility of national affairs.

At the moment, the presidential candidates monopolize the headlines. Yet our country’s fate rests neither with Mr. Roosevelt nor Mr. Dewey. It rests perhaps with the men we send from local districts to Washington.

The country is sharply divided on issues. If you’re willing to hear both sides you cannot honestly assert that sincerity and high purpose is the sole possession of either. Instead, you realize that the majority of Democrats and Republicans stand on their convictions. Both are sure this election will be a fateful one. New Dealers feel truly that without their head man, international matters will suffer. But then, quite as truly, Republicans believe the same thing about their head man.

Let us then concede sincerity to our political enemies, and vote our own convictions, remembering always that the main job is to get a good Congress, because without one neither Mr. Roosevelt nor Mr. Dewey can accomplish much.

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Background of news –
That 1916 horse race

By Bertram Benedict

Although the betting odds in most parts of the country are substantially in favor of President Roosevelt, many keen political observers call the election, at least in its present stage, a “horse race.” Governor Dewey’s supporters are hoping that their man will stage a stretch run to come from behind, as did President Wilson in 1916 – the last previous presidential election that was close.

At the beginning of the 1916 campaign the betting odds in most parts of the country were 2–1 on Charles Evans Hughes, the Republican nominee. Mr. Wilson had been easily elected four years before only because the third-party candidacy of ex-President Roosevelt had split the Republican vote.

In 1912, Mr. Wilson had carried 40 states, but outside the Deep South and the border states the Wilson vote was larger than the combined Roosevelt-Taft vote in only one state.

Reconciliation fails

By June 1916, it looked as though the Republican regulars and the insurgents of 1912 were going to get together. The Progressive Party which had nominated Theodore Roosevelt in 1912 called its 1916 national convention for the same place (Chicago) and the same time as the Republicans.

Each convention appointed a committee to confer on reconciliation. But, to quote Prof. William Starr Myers, historian of the Republican Party, the GOP displayed a “Bourbon attitude” and “acted in the most highhanded and unrepentant manner.”

The result was that the Progressives named a separate ticket – Roosevelt and John M. Parker. Mr. Roosevelt declined, and supported Mr. Hughes in the campaign, but Mr. Parker ran for Vice President. Some Progressive leaders went over to Mr. Wilson, and in some state Progressive candidates ran for Congress.

As Governor of New York, Mr. Hughes had been labeled a Progressive. But the inability of the Republicans to bring the Progressive Party as such back into the fold made many voters consider Mr. Hughes a conservative.

In August, Mr. Wilson forced through Congress the Adamson Act, making eight hours the normal workday on the railroads. That swung much of the labor vote to him. And by coming out some months previously for stronger national defense, Mr. Wilson had partially nullified Republican charges that the country was in a state of unpreparedness for war.

Domestic issues stressed

The Republican platform, and the earlier speeches of Mr. Hughes, bitterly condemned Mr. Wilson’s policy toward Mexico and Germany. But toward the end of the campaign, the Democrats were demanding if this meant that a Republican administration would take the country into war, and in the last month of the campaign Mr. Hughes was talking almost entirely about domestic issues. By Election Day, the betting odds were even.

On Election Night, it looked as though Mr. Hughes had won, but California was yet to be heard from. California gave its 13 electoral votes to Mr. Wilson, by a margin of 3,806 votes in 928,594, and he was reelected by 23 electoral votes.

In California, Mr. Hughes found Republicans split for and against Hiram Johnson, Progressive candidate for Vice President in 1912. Mr. Hughes decided to be neutral in this factional quarrel.

On one occasion he and Mr. Johnson were in the same hotel, but no meeting was arranged between the two. Mr. Hughes was not told that Mr. Johnson was there, but Mr. Johnson’s admirers did not know that and thought their idol had been snubbed. California, voting for Mr. Wilson by less than 4,000, elected Mr. Johnson to the Senate on a Republican-Progressive ticket by almost 300,000.

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Man who broke 75¢-lock tired of ‘the whole mess’

Worker who set MESA dispute in motion gives his version of locker room incident

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President to seek curb on Petrillo

Will hunt law to enforce WLB order

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Stokes: Contrasts

By Thomas L. Stokes

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