Dewey goes west for speeches
Minneapolis talk set for tomorrow
Aboard Dewey campaign train (UP) –
Governor Thomas E. Dewey headed westward today to make two major campaign speeches and a strong bid for the 52 electoral votes of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Illinois.
The Republican presidential candidate is scheduled to speak at Minneapolis tomorrow night, stop in Milwaukee for three hours Wednesday afternoon and speak again in Chicago that night.
Mr. Dewey’s address tomorrow night will be broadcast over KDKA and KQV at 10:30 p.m. EWT. Governor Dewey will also be heard over KQV at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday and over WJAS at 10:00 p.m. Wednesday.
Republican leaders generally believe that all the Midwestern states will go to the Dewey-Bricker ticket in November. But they are taking no chances on such doubtful areas as Minnesota, Wisconsin and Illinois – all of which President Roosevelt won four years ago.
May visit in Ohio
As the schedule stood upon departure from the New York State Capitol, Governor Dewey’s special train was due to return to Albany directly from Chicago, arriving Thursday afternoon.
In view of the fact that he has announced no other speaking engagements until Oct. 31 in Buffalo, however, it was considered possible that stops in Ohio and Michigan may yet be added to the present Midwestern tour.
In New York Nov. 4
If he doesn’t stop in those states this week, about the only free time remaining between now and Election Day would be between his Boston speech Nov. 1 and his Madison Square Garden appearance in New York on Nov. 4. Eastern leaders are hoping he will use that time to campaign in Connecticut and New Jersey.
President Roosevelt carried Ohio in 1940 by a margin of 146,000 votes and the late Wendell L. Willkie, the Republican nominee, won Michigan by a margin of 7,916.
Flynn replies to Dewey charge
$25,000 fee called ‘moderate’
New York (UP) –
Edward J. Flynn, former Democratic National Chairman, denied last night Governor Thomas E. Dewey’s charge that his law firm had received an exorbitant fee from the Railroad Brotherhoods for political reasons and charged Mr. Dewey with signing a previously-vetoed bill which gave “hundreds of thousands of dollars which rightfully belonged to the City of New York” to clients of John Foster Dulles, Mr. Dewey’s foreign relations advisor.
In a statement issued at Democratic National Headquarters, Mr. Flynn said the fee, referred to in Mr. Dewey’s Pittsburgh speech, paid his firm, Goldwater & Flynn, for representing the brotherhoods before the Railway Labor Panel in February 1943, was “extremely moderate,” that he had nothing to do with the brotherhoods’ strike vote and never had discussed the matter with President Roosevelt.
Mr. Flynn charged Mr. Dulles with having found the “back stairs” to the Governor’s office and asserted further that he and other corporation lawyers would find the back stairs to the White House if Mr. Dewey were elected.
The bill, which Mr. Flynn did not refer to by name, was said to have been vetoed by former Governor Herbert H. Lehman and signed over the protest of Mayor F. H. La Guardia.