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By Dale McFeatters, Press business editor
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Flint, Michigan (UP) –
Vice President Henry A. Wallace, delivering the third of nine scheduled addresses during a three-day tour of Michigan, last night predicted that President Roosevelt would carry the nation “by at least three million votes” over Governor Thomas E. Dewey with three-fourths of the states casting Democratic ballots.
Mr. Wallace expressed confidence in a “decisive, perhaps overwhelming victory for President Roosevelt” during a five-minute national broadcast which preceded his half-hour address before an audience of 2,000 which jammed the Industrial Mutual Association Auditorium.
The vice president, who earlier spoke at Lansing and at Jackson, estimated a total vote of at least 50 million in the coming election.
States outside of the South and border states that Mr. Wallace thought would vote Democratic included Illinois, Ohio, Wisconsin, New York, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, California, Missouri and Massachusetts. Mr. Roosevelt, he said, would carry Michigan by 100,000.
Albany, New York (UP) –
A second poll of newspaper and radio correspondents accompanying Governor Thomas E. Dewey on his last campaign trip shows that 40 believed President Roosevelt will be reelected, 10 think the Republican candidate will win and one correspondent is undecided.
The poll was conducted by CBS. CBS made a similar poll last Sept. 27, at which time 35 members of the press party thought the President would win a fourth term, five thought Mr. Dewey would be elected and eight correspondents either were uncertain or declined to say.
Today’s poll also revealed that 28 of the newsmen personally favored Governor Dewey, 17 for Mr. Roosevelt, four were undecided and two wanted neither the Republican nor the Democratic candidate. In the first poll, 21 favored Mr. Roosevelt, 18 were for Governor Dewey and nine were undecided.
By William McGaffin
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Former WPB head says he has ‘knowhow’
Washington (UP) –
The reelection of President Roosevelt as the man with the “knowhow” on both foreign and domestic questions was urged last night by Donald M. Nelson, former chairman of the War Production Board, and Senator Joseph H. Ball (R-MN).
In his radio speech, Mr. Nelson said that the nation “cannot afford to take chances on the Presidency,” and that he therefore would vote for Mr. Roosevelt because he has “the knowhow to lead the nation to swift and absolute victory in this war, to a firm and lasting peace, and to higher living standards for all.”
Stating that he had voted the Republican ticket more often than the Democratic, Mr. Nelson said that he also had “enthusiastic” support for Senator Harry S. Truman, the Democratic vice-presidential candidate.
Senator Ball, who announced earlier this week that he would back Mr. Roosevelt because of Governor Dewey’s asserted failure to take a stronger stand on international collaboration, charged that the Republican candidate had failed to offer a constructive program on domestic issues as well.
He also criticized Governor Dewey and other Republican campaign speakers for their attempts “to scare the American people into believing that reelection of Mr. Roosevelt would mean a Communist dictatorship in the United States.” This, he said, has “seriously weakened the chances of a Dewey administration being able to cooperate with Soviet Russia.”
Charging that it is ridiculous to present Communism as a serious menace now, Senator Ball said:
The rights and liberties of the American people are in far less danger from the little handful of Communists on the outer fringe of the New Deal than they are from the rabid isolationists and labor haters who unfortunately occupy positions of much greater influence in Governor Dewey’s campaign.
Hutcheson charges ‘labor runaround’
New York (UP) –
William L. Hutcheson, president of the AFL United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, asserted last night that a “decisive percentage of labor voters are seriously considering casting their votes for Thomas E. Dewey,” because of the “dismal record of labor runarounds” of the Roosevelt administration.
Mr. Hutcheson, one of Mr. Dewey’s strongest supporters in the ranks of labor, charged that the Democratic Party “has persistently evaded a head-on facing of any of the fundamental domestic issues which will confront post-war America.”
He said labor, before it votes, wants an answer on six specific questions:
Will the next President take the “straightjackets off collective bargaining and restore it to its former free status?”
Will he get md of the incompetent “bureaucrats” who are “now staffing the federal agencies dealing with labor?”
Will he halt the “dismantling of the Department of Labor” and restore it to its intended importanceship under male leadership?
Will be put a stop to political “one-man rule” over labor policies?
Will he end favoritism for particular unions and discontinue personal interference in internal affairs of organized labor?
Will he pledge himself to “general economic policies which will assure labor and the returning servicemen an after-war job at adequate and progressive wage levels, in private industry?”
Repeats his denial of Klan membership
En route to Cleveland, Ohio (UP) –
Senator Harry S. Truman, maintaining an unceasing attack on Republican “isolationist” Senators, headed today for Ohio where he expects to assail Senator Robert A. Taft’s record on foreign policy.
Mr. Truman, Democratic vice-presidential nominee, departed early today from Peoria, where he injected an attack on “isolationists” in his farm speech, He also denied charges in affidavits published in the Hearst newspapers yesterday that he was once a member of the Ku Klux Klan.
Hearst papers hit
He said:
The isolationists are desperate to win the election.
The Hearst papers have even gone so far as to say that I’m a member of the Ku Klux Klan. That charge is a complete falsehood. I have never belonged to the Ku Klux Klan nor ever attended any of its meetings.
Mr. Truman plans to speak briefly from his special car this afternoon at Toledo, Ohio, and to address labor representatives at a dinner tonight. He speaks later tonight at Akron. His Akron address will be an attack on Taft’s record, which Mr. Truman called “mighty bad.”
In his farm speech, Mr. Truman defended the Roosevelt administration’s agricultural program and sought to allay any sentiment among farmers that labor has been favored by the administration.
Welfare linked
He said:
The farmer cannot sell his produce at good prices unless the workingman is getting good wages.
There is no use in the farmer raising hogs and cattle unless the workingman can afford to buy pork chops and beef steak for his family. The welfare of the farmer and the workingman go hand in hand.
Mr. Truman said the Democratic administration had brought jobs to working men, put a floor under farm prices, adjusted production of farm products to the market and expanded the market by increasing the buying power of labor.
Reno, Nevada –
Two C-46 transport planes, returning from a routine training flight, crashed over Reno Army Air Field yesterday, killing 12 men in the first fatal crash in 85,000 flying hours at the base.
Prize role set for noted actor
The question uppermost in the minds of Ernie Pyle’s army of devoted admirers – “Who’ll play him on the screen?” – was settled definitely today by film producer Lester Cowan in a long distance telephone call to The Pittsburgh Press.
“The Pyle role goes to Capt. Burgess Meredith, assigned to inactive duty by the Army,” announced Mr. Cowan, who is producing G.I. Joe, based on Ernie’s book, Here Is Your War.
Mr. Cowan continued:
Buzz [Meredith] is the same height as Ernie, has his general build and is within 10 pounds of Ernie’s weight. After many months of consideration – for we have to please about 20 million people, including the thousands of doughboys who know Ernie – we have finally decided on Meredith.
Meredith is a fine actor and sensitive enough to create a life-like portrayal of Ernie on the screen.
Will study Ernie
Mr. Cowan said that the choice has Ernie’s approval and that Meredith will go to New Mexico immediately to stay with the famous war correspondent in order to study Ernie at close range.
The actor became famous on Broadway before going to Hollywood, appearing in such notable plays as Maxwell Anderson’s Winterset, High Tor and Star Wagon. He appeared at the local Nixon in two of these plays.
Four other big-name stars were under consideration – James Gleason, Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan and Fred Astaire. In addition, at least 500 unknowns were candidates. Of the latter Pittsburgh’s Rosey Roswell was the outstanding.
Rosey nearly ‘in’
Rosey, about two months ago, sped by plane to Hollywood on Mr. Cowan’s request. There the radio announcer took a screen test and the results were encouraging – so much so that for a while it seemed Rosey would win the coveted assignment. However, a switch in directors caused Cowan to reconsider and it was decided to cast a famous actor.
William A. Wellman, an Academy Award winner, is directing the production. Mr. Wellman’s first choice was Fred Astaire – but he was “voted down” by popular opinion which held “Ernie’s no dancer, and a famous dancer in the role would ruin the illusion.”
In 1942, Meredith became a private in the Army. A series of promotions elevated him to a captain’s rank. He was assigned to Allied headquarters in Europe, where he wrote, produced and acted in two training films.
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‘Every member will know our President,’ those willing to give $1,000 are promised
By Peter Edson
Washington –
Examination of the charter of the newly-found Democratic “1000 Club,” each of whose 1,000 members are to pay $1,000 apiece to build up a million-dollar fund to aid in the reelection of President Roosevelt, reveals that this organization has the makings of one of the most powerful pressure groups ever created to influence White House opinion.
Every member who kicks in his $1,000 gets a copper-engraved, red enamel inlay lifetime membership card and a copy of the constitution, a noble and inspiring document of lofty aims. He also gets other things for his money.
‘Will know President’
The prospectus for membership makes this bald statement:
Every member should and will know our President, to more intimately realize the zeal with which he so successfully guided our country’s ship of state through the most troubled waters of our history.
In other words, join up and you get to know the President personally.
Some of the franker approaches to prospective members have been along the line of, “You want to get in that White House, don’t you?”
When the prospect indicates that he does, that greases the skids for the $1,000 touch.
The constitution of the 1000 Club states that this “voluntary contribution of $1,000 shall be one of the qualifying requisites to membership.”
There are no other dues to this exclusive club, but it is provided that “any member may contribute additional sums.”
Payment of the $1,000 initiation fee is not, however, the only way a prospect may become a member. If a party wheelhorse gives the equivalent of $1,000 in services, that would make him eligible, or if he had given $1,000 to other party organizations – the Democratic National Committee, or Democratic State or County or Township or City Committees, he could still get in by proving his good deeds of the past.
The constitution says:
The Board of Trustees may elect to membership any eligible person who has in its opinion contributed outstanding services to the objectives of this club.
Quite a few members are expected to be admitted under this provision, getting their copper membership cards without direct payment of the $1,000 poll tax.
Some of the prospects approached for membership are reported to have been able to bargain their way into membership by citing their own good party deeds and offering to get a few more members for the club if they themselves are admitted without payment of another $1,000.
‘To support Constitution’
Borrowing a line original with Gerald L. K. Smith, Dr. Edward A. Rumely, Pappy O’Daniel and others, the first objective of the 1,000 Club is stated as “To support and defend the Constitution.”
In politics, you can apparently do anything you want to just so long as you say it’s to support and defend the Constitution.
The second and third objectives of the 1000 Club are: “To promote the general welfare o, the United States” and “To support the war–”
The club’s constitution provides members should prepare… “To participate actively in political campaigns in supporting the men best qualified to hold public office.”
‘To accept contributions’
But the payoff comes in the final precept: “To accept contributions and make expenditures for the purpose of influencing the election of candidates for the Presidency and Vice Presidency.”
Well, it costs money to elect a President, and the Democratic National Committee is limited by law to $3 million. Radio time costs $90,000 an hour if you go in for a nationwide broadcast, and half a dozen such chain hookups would cost over half a million.
The 1000 Club expects to do considerable sponsoring and advertising and in other ways relieve the National Committee as a purely independent service.
In office for life
Work of the 1000 Club will not end, however, when this campaign is over, for the constitution provides that members of the Board of Trustees shall hold office until their death or removal or inability to act.
The chief duties of the trustees, besides taking in the million dollars in initiation fees, seems to be in passing on the membership, but that’s wide open, as any democratic club should be.
The constitution says: “Any American citizen may become a member by applying for membership and by being elected by the board of trustees.”
If the 1000 Club doesn’t accept your application for membership, it promises to refund your money.