New Yorkers back Ohio-to-Erie canal
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Italy’s great need for aid stressed
Threats of famine, chaos emphasized
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Cheers for Roosevelt cost woman her teeth
New York (UP) – (Oct. 21)
A woman Democrat in Queens leaned out of her fourth-floor apartment window today to cheer lustily when President Roosevelt’s motorcade passed by.
At the peak of her efforts, her false teeth – uppers and lowers – popped out and fell on the heads of spectators on the sidewalk.
Labor factions split on campaign
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (UP) – (Oct. 21)
The Pennsylvania Federation of Labor “Committee to Elect Roosevelt,” in a circular to the state AFL union membership, today took issue with the campaign arguments of the new “Labor’s Non-Partisan Committee of Pennsylvania For Dewey and Bricker,” headed by David Williams, deputy State Labor and Industry secretary and former State AFL, secretary-treasurer.
The circular, signed by committee chairman and state AFL president James L. McDevitt of Philadelphia, said members of the Dewey-Bricker group “speak now as individuals,” whereas the Federation’s committee is acting under authorization and direction of the Pennsylvania Federation of Labor.
The letter pointed out that some members of Mr. Williams’ committee were delegates to the Federation convention in April, “but did not speak or vote in opposition to the Roosevelt endorsement.”
Mr. McDevitt charged the “nonpartisan committee” with using “the scare technique with respect to their comments concerning Communists.”
Mr. McDevitt said:
We have led the fight against all persons and organizations that have identified themselves with Communistic ideologies, and have not hesitated to expel them from the ranks of our movement, in accordance with the provisions of our constitution, whenever we were able to secure creditable evidence.
Wildcat strike halts output of B-25 bombers
Kansas company fires 127 workmen
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Nightclub fire charges dropped
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Dewey preparing farm speech
Minneapolis address set for Tuesday night
Albany, New York (UP) – (Oct. 21)
Governor Dewey tonight began working on a major farm speech which he will deliver on a whirlwind campaign through the Midwest next week.
Governor Dewey, who returned to the New York capital after a campaign speech in Pittsburgh lasts night, started work on the farm address with Elliott Bell, his chief advisor. They planned to devote most of the weekend to whipping into shape the material the GOP nominee obtained at conferences with farmers in all sections of the country.
The Governor’s Midwest itinerary calls for a nationwide address from Minneapolis Tuesday night and Chicago the following night, with a three-hour stopover for conferences at Milwaukee in between.
Governor Dewey will leave Albany Monday morning for Minneapolis.
Bricker cites GOP gifts to Social Security
Hits New Deal’s exclusive guardianship
Salt Lake City, Utah (UP) – (Oct. 21)
Ohio Governor John W. Bricker, asserting that welfare legislation was only evidence of good intention, said tonight the actual fulfillment of a Social Security program depended upon administration and sound government.
Defying what he said was the New Deal claim of “exclusive guardianship” over Social Security, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, in a speech prepared for delivery here, asserted that “America has always had a Social Security program.” Furthermore, he cited Republican contribution to social progress and said his party’s platform now outlines a Social Security program which deserves support.
Enactment only one thing
Bricker said:
As American citizens, we must realize that legislation is not a guarantee of social progress or Social Security. It is only evidence of good intentions, the fulfillment of which depends upon the soundness and the security of our government.
Enactment of legislation is one thing; administration and sound government are something else.
“The Social Security Act of 1935 was not a spur-of-the-moment New Deal conception,” Governor Bricker said.
Cites Republicans’ role
The Republican Party, he said, “has played a vital role in promoting social progress,” adding that his party gave the country the Sherman Antitrust Act, the Commerce and Labor Departments, Meat Inspection Act, Pure Food and Drug Act, the Federal Children’s Bureau, first National Unemployment Conference, Railway Labor Act, Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Federal Farm Board and the original Home Loan Act.
Governor Bricker goes to Wyoming after resting here throughout tomorrow.
Earlier today, he branded as a “myth” the “indispensability” in foreign affairs which, he said, the Democrats claimed for Mr. Roosevelt.
34,000 votes from services received here
Returns averaging over 5,000 a week
One-third of the 100,000 military ballots for the presidential election – voted and ready to count – have been returned to the County Elections Department and tucked away in a bank vault for safekeeping.
The ballots continued to deluge the Elections Department last week when 5,000 were received, a slight drop from the previous week, but raising the total to 34,000 of the 100,242 mailed out, County Elections Director David Olbum said.
It was the fifth straight week that the return has hit a 5,000-a-week or better average.
Week of counting foreseen
With two weeks left before the Nov. 7 election, and nearly five weeks remaining before the deadline for the acceptance of military ballots, indications are that the final total will reach at least 50,000, and perhaps go over that figure.
Mr. Olbum said yesterday that if half of the absentee votes are returned in the County, “it will take at least a week to count them” once the tabulations by the Return Board get underway 15 days after Election Day.
If the race is close in Pennsylvania, the 390,000 military ballots, expected to be returned “could very easily” determine which way the state’s 35 electoral votes will go, thus delaying the national outcome until about Dec. 1, he said.
New York in same category
Mr. Olbum added:
Nothing could be more appropriate than to have the soldier vote decide a wartime election.
The final outcome in New York may also hinge on the military ballots, with more than half of the state’s 600,000 absentee votes already returned. In the 1940 election, the Democratic plurality was 224,000.
New York’s military vote laws, however, require the ballots to be returned on or before Nov. 3. They will be counted on Election Day, the same as civilian ballots, Mr. Olbum said, thus removing any delay in final tabulations.
Ballots still going out
He said:
If the margin between the two parties is 100,000 or so after the count of civilian votes, then the military count may well determine the winner in either Pennsylvania or New York.
Ballots are still being mailed out by the Elections Department to servicemen and women missed in the roundup of military voters and to those who have sent back ballots improperly filled out or otherwise defective.
Less than 2,000 ballots received so far have been defective or appear questionable. To all these voters, the Department has mailed new ballots, along with a letter explaining why the first ballot may not be valid.
‘Man from Mars’ coming –
Orson Welles to speak for Democrats at Mosque
Senator Truman and ex-Governor Pinchot scheduled to perform on same program
Orson Welles, who scared the daylights out of half the nation with a radio broadcast a few years ago, will waggle the specter of a Republican victory before Pittsburgh Democrats at Syria Mosque Nov. 2.
And if there are still any wavering doubters not frightened into the fourth-term line by Orson, Senator Harry Truman, who is running for Vice President, will appear on the same program.
The third man on the program – which is just five days before Election Day – isn’t Father Time. No, Junior, it’s his first cousin, former Governor Gifford Pinchot.
But the big attraction on the program, sponsored by the Allegheny County Committee, will be “The Man from Mars,” the man who won the beautiful and glamorous Rita Hayworth by sawing her in two every night before an applauding throng.
There won’t be any such luscious victim at Syria Mosque, however. Instead, Orson will aim his cutting remarks at Tom Dewey.
Whether Rita will be present to hear her husband and help draw attendance hasn’t been announced.
Mr. Welles has been quite active in the Roosevelt campaign for some weeks – together with such other amusement notables as Frank Sinatra and Paulette Goddard.
Previously he had become a figure in serious discussions outside the realm of the theater and radio when he was a very vocal proponent of the opening of a second front in Europe – prior to the time that the general staff was ready to open it.
Writers, leaders agree –
Pennsylvania is THE pivot in election
‘Heat’ is turned on Keystone State
By Kermit McFarland
Pennsylvania, in the opinion of nearly all the top political writers of the country, as well as most of the national leaders, has become “the” pivotal state in the presidential election.
Reports from the national headquarters of the two major parties indicate that many of the strategists and pulse-feelers believe the election may hang on the outcome in this state.
Political reporters from the major newspapers and news services have been pouring into the state the last couple of weeks. Some 40 who were assigned to cover Governor Thomas E. Dewey’s speech here Friday night devoted their day Friday to hunting down information on trends in this area.
Nominees visit state
Mr. Dewey’s second appearance in the state and the fact that President Roosevelt will make one of his few campaign speeches in Philadelphia next Friday add to evidence of the concern with which Pennsylvania’s big bloc of 35 electoral votes is regarded.
The Republican candidate’s extraordinary efforts to dent the so-called “labor vote,” which generally has been regarded as mainly in Mr. Roosevelt’s corner, provides additional evidence.
In his speech at Hunt Armory Friday night, the New York Governor’s principal purpose, it was plain, was to persuade labor groups that his administration not only would be as friendly to labor as the New Deal, but would be more competent to handle labor issues on an equitable and efficient basis.
Appeals to ‘white collars’
He also made an all-out appeal to the “white-collar” groups, in which lie the bulk of the “independent” vote and which the politicians are just coming to recognize as a potent voting bloc capable of providing the balance in an election.
Mr. Dewey’s white-collar speech drew an immediate response from Leo F. Bollens, president of the National Federation of Salaried Unions.
Adopting Mr. Dewey’s term “forgotten Americans,” Mr. Bollens said “these people are little better off than they were four years ago.”
He said inflationary rises in the cost of living have left the white-collar workers far out of line in comparison to highly-paid workers in war plants.
Views in letter to Dewey
He said:
Certainly, these people are not responsible for inflation. Probably, if an analysis were possible, it would be found that they are contributing a far greater proportion of their income to war funds and charitable work than most of those who are receiving inflated incomes. This group forms the backbone of our financial structure.
Mr. Bollens set out his views in a letter to Governor Dewey.
The drive to sway Pennsylvania into the Republican or Democratic columns will be intensified in the remaining two weeks of the campaign.
The Democrats are making a special effort to impress on voters believed to be friendly to Mr. Roosevelt the necessity for voting. They report many war plant workers, reluctant to take off time to vote seem to be indifferent to the election on the theory that Mr. Roosevelt will win anyway, whether or not they vote. Democratic and Political Action Committee workers are turning on the heat to break up this notion.
La Guardia to speak
Two Republican mayors will occupy the speaking platform at North Side Carnegie Music Hall Tuesday night when the Independents for Roosevelt. a special committee, stages its second rally.
Mayor Fiorella H. La Guardia of New York and Mayor George W. Welsh of Grand Rapids, Michigan, former Michigan Lieutenant Governor, will be the speakers.
The Democratic County Committee has also scheduled a major rally at Syria Mosque for Nov. 2 at which Senator Harry S. Truman, Democratic candidate for Vice President will be the principal speaker. Democratic headquarters also announced former Pennsylvania Governor Gifford Pinchot and Orson Welles, movie and radio luminary, will speak on the same program.
Kirkpatrick: Daring American actress sheltered Allied fliers two doors from Gestapo
Stage star outwitted Nazis in occupation
By Helen Kirkpatrick
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Yanks find German cellars well stocked with food
Smaller, self-supporting towns well off, but big cities reported facing crisis
By L. S. B. Shapiro, North American Newspaper Alliance
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Ghali: Hitler may come to regret Home Army proclamation
Order received with relief by citizens but it isn’t due to patriotism
By Paul Ghali
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