Cuban cargo ship adrift; crew gone
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Tug survivors washed ashore
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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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Germans fight bitterly on Bologna front
Yanks battle in mountains of Italy
By Eleanor Packard, United Press staff writer
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Postmaster Bodkin: Be sure of Navy numbers in addressing sailor’s mail
Mistake may send letter 30,000 miles out of way and long delay results
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Priceless paintings returned to gallery
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Simms: U.S. to build strong bases in Philippines
Lack of defenses speeded Jap conquest
By William Philip Simms, Scripps-Howard foreign editor
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It couldn’t be better, MacArthur says of invasion
General cheered by Filipinos as he tours capital’s suburbs; jeep bogs down in mud
By William B. Dickinson, United Press staff writer
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Philippines push hailed by Chinese
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Feminine footwear ‘goes nudist,’ in wide, open and light models
Bareback shoe is style note
By Betty Byron
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The truth about the Commies –
Even Army and Navy forced to drop ban against Communists
Reds given important war posts in spite of previous sabotaging of defense efforts
By Frederick Woltman, Scripps-Howard staff writer
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the sixth and last in a series of articles describing how American Communists, by utilizing their technique of infiltration, have burrowed into American unions, kidnapped the American Labor Party in New York, dominated the CIO Political Action Committee and made strong inroads into the New Deal administration.
Washington –
Not even the Army or Navy were left inviolate by the Roosevelt administration in its policy of coddling America’s Communists after the latter got orders to stop sabotaging America’s defense program in the summer of 1941.
The coddling process reached a high point last spring when the Navy Department scrapped the efficient and specialized “Communist desk” of the Office of Naval Intelligence.
Officer-experts, who had learned to spot the difference between a Communist, whose allegiance lies outside the United States, and, say, an honest union leader or a Socialist, were dispersed to new assignments, chiefly foreign. The “Communist desks” were dissolved, and in at least one naval district headquarters – New York – some invaluable files were ordered destroyed.
There were reports that the Army had also started to destroy its Communist files.
Communist gets war post
A striking example of this new policy came to light when Navy, as well as Army, Intelligence subsequently cleared for an important, secret war job a well-known Communist who had previously been dropped by the Office of Strategic Services after an investigation by the FBI.
Although barred from federal employment as a Communist, Leonard Mins is now working for a government war contractor, Walter Dorwin Teague, and is in charge of compiling a Navy manual on the closely-guarded techniques of operating anti-aircraft and other artillery.
Only three years ago, Mins, who has held many party posts since the 1920s, was marching in the Communists’ May Day parade, under banners denouncing the “imperialist war,” Lend-Lease aid to Britain, Selective Service and this country’s rearmament plans.
Dropped from the Teague job when the Provost Marshal’s office questioned his loyalty, Mins was cleared in a War Department hearing and ordered reinstated. The Navy concurred.
Reds fight Hatch Act
Almost immediately after President Roosevelt opened the gates of Atlanta Prison for Earl Browder, America’s Red mahatma, the Communists started putting the heat on federal agencies to lighten up on the Hatch Act which prohibits Communists and Nazis from holding federal office.
The U.S. Civil Service Commission, which conducts the government’s “loyalty” investigations, has been subjected to steady pressure from the small, Communist-led CIO Federal Workers Union, which was combating “loyalty” checks by the FBI, the Navy and the Army as well.
Last November, after conferences with the union, the Civil Service Commission hamstrung its own investigators by drastically restricting their freedom to inquire about the Communist affiliations of job applicants.
It was the Federal Workers Union which announced the new policy and the union announcement was sent out even before the Commission sent revised regulations to its 600 investigators.
Wartime ban rescinded
The union report praised the Commission and triumphantly promised its members that “quick and clear action” would be taken against federal investigators who violated the new policy.
The Communists achieved one of their greatest triumphs when the administration ordered the Navy to rescind a wartime emergency ban on Communist radio operators in the Merchant Marine.
During the Hitler-Stalin pact, high Navy officials were worried about filling these key posts aboard ships carrying Lend-Lease goods to Great Britain. The American Communications Association, one of the CIO’s most tightly controlled Communist unions which has never deviated from the party’s dictates, was placing its own operators aboard the ships.
At the same time, with Hitler ravaging Europe, the union officially joined the Communists’ sabotage measures against our defense preparations. The official ACA News of Feb. 17, 1940, parroting the Browder party’s pronouncements said:
Keep America out of war. The only war in which we should participate is the war to wipe out the causes that lead to unemployment.
Opposed national defense
That June 22, it added: “We examine with suspicion the expenditures of billions for battleships.”
Joseph Selly, international ACA president, reported a six-week tour of the South in the ACA News in this message:
America speaks and here’s what it says… We don’t want any part of war. Don’t give us any baloney about “patriotism” and “national defense” being reasons for dropping our demands. We know plenty about patriotism – a lot of our fathers, brothers, husbands and sweethearts went to the last war “to make the world safe for democracy,” and what did they get… We hear a lot of words spoken about “necessary sacrifices” and “national unity”…
Congress passed a Navy-sponsored bill authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to keep Nazi, Communist, Fascist and Japanese operators off U.S. vessels. Some 40 Communists were dropped after investigation, along with a number of Nazis.
Navy changed policy
With the invasion of Russia and the change of party line, the pressure campaign started with a blast. According to the July 12, 1942 Daily Worker, the Communist paper now edited by Earl Browder:
The ACA almost tore the roof of the Navy Department off with its protests… and the Navy Department had a change of heart.
The Secretary of the Navy, the late Frank Knox, called a conference of high officers and told them the Communists had to be reinstated. They were, almost immediately and with backpay.
Secretary Knox was asked the reason for this reversal of policy. He replied, according to the testimony before a Congressional committee of Adm. Stanford C. Hooper (Ret.), one of those present: “That is a command from the White House and you have to obey it as well as I do.”
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Miners remain firm backers of Roosevelt
Rank-and-file turns deaf ear to Lewis
By William Forrester
With a great majority of Western Pennsylvania miners, it is still “Lewis for president of the UMW, Roosevelt for President of the U.S.”
That’s the summary resulting from queries directed to union officials, rank-and-file miners, mine town store and tavern keepers and others who follow the trend in the bituminous fields.
Lewis backs Dewey
And it holds true despite three major factors in favor of Governor Thomas E. Dewey’s candidacy:
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Support of Governor Dewey by United Mine Workers Union President John L. Lewis and Vice President John O’Leary, and such local and state officials as John P. Busarello, president of District 5, and Abe Vales, state director of District 50.
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Constant hammering in the UMW Journal, the semi-monthly publication of the union, against the administration in general and President Roosevelt and Solid Fuels Administrator Harold L. Ickes in particular.
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Dissatisfaction among the miners over the “kicking around” they believe their wage case received at the hands of federal officials and agencies.
These factors may have swung some former Roosevelt adherents into the Dewey camp.
Sample viewpoint cited
But considering the fact that the recent UMW convention in Cincinnati passed a resolution bitterly assailing the administration, the preponderance of Roosevelt support might be thought surprising.
The general attitude of a majority of mine workers seems to be that the convention action came as a result of the Roosevelt-Lewis feud, and will be paid little heed by the rank and file.
Here’s a sample viewpoint from a Russellton bartender, who hears hundreds of miners talk:
They’re as strong for Roosevelt as ever. I don’t think the Republicans will get any more votes out here than they did before.
Others quoted
And another of a woman store clerk in a small Allegheny River mine town: “There are a few around here for Dewey, but most all for the President.”
Or as a minor UMW official explained:
Sure they’re for Roosevelt. A lot of them aren’t saying much around the union offices, because of what the convention did, but they haven’t changed a lot.
Busarello for Dewey
Of the three district presidents in this immediate area. Mr. Busarello of District 5 here, William Hynes of District 4 at Uniontown, and Frank Hughes of District 3 at Greensburg, only Mr. Busarello has come out for Dewey.
District 5, however, is taking no active part in the campaign, and Mr. Busarello was giving his own opinion, he said.
Both Mr. Hynes and Mr. Hughes said they planned to make no political commitment whatever, but that their offices would carry out national UMW policy.
Journal backs Dewey
As for the UMW Journal, it is conducting a full-scale campaign on behalf of Governor Dewey, The current Oct. 15 issue has no less than 14 articles. editorials or cartoons which are open attacks on President Roosevelt or the administration.
Two stories praise Governor Dewey’s stand on security for servicemen and stabilization of the coal industry. An article, much more bitter than anything which has appeared in daily newspapers, links Sidney Hillman and Earl Browder with the administration.
Ridicule for Ickes
Others attack various phases of the New Deal, with special ridicule for Mr. Ickes.
And every issue of the Journal dwells on the “shabby treatment” accorded miners by government agencies.
Yet the best estimates throughout the district by Republican leaders are that the Republicans will let “some” of the miners’ votes. Not a single person close to the field is willing to predict any large-scale defection from the Roosevelt banner the miners have followed again, and again, and again – and again.