In South France –
Americans trap 15,000 Nazis
U.S. unit reported on Swiss frontier
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‘Like Spanish Inquisition’ –
Inhuman German tortures revealed by women victims
‘Electric bath’ and tearing off nails from fingers described in Paris
By Richard D. McMillan, United Press staff writer
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Peril to grow more acute –
Detroit, dominated by UAW, is strike capital of nation
Leaders unable to control big, young and rambunctious CIO auto workers union
By Fred W. Perkins, Pittsburgh Press staff writer
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Garrison: Rosey Roswell ‘tests’ for Ernie Pyle after nine hours of Hollywood fussing
Will he get the role? Well, wait and see
By Maxine Garrison
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Army to share radio time with political parties
Shortwave facilities will be used by five groups for broadcasts to servicemen
Washington (UP) –
The War Department announced today that equal time on its shortwave radio facilities will be made available upon request each week to all qualified political parties for rebroadcast of “political addresses” to U.S. Armed Forces overseas.
It said the arrangement will become effective next month and will end Nov. 1, by which date “overseas voting should be completed.”
Provided by law
The action is in conformance with a recent amendment to the Soldier Voting Act under which, the Department said:
The Army may rebroadcast “political addresses” over government-controlled radio stations provided equal time, if requested, is given to each political party having a candidate for President in at least six states.
It listed the Democratic, Prohibition, Republican, Socialist and Socialist Labor parties as now qualified for such radio time under the law.
Ruling reversed
The announcement followed Friday’s War Department action in which it first granted the Socialist Party radio time for an overseas broadcast to troops, upholding the Socialist contention that President Roosevelt’s Bremerton, Washington, speech Aug. 12 was a “political address,” and six hours later withdrew the permission on grounds it had determined that Mr. Roosevelt’s Bremerton “report” was not political.
Republican National Headquarters issued a statement quoting GOP National Chairman Herbert Brownell Jr. as saying that “I think before making any comment I will wait to see if the ruling is reversed by any higher-ups.”
GOP governors open campaign
New York (UP) –
Three Republican governors – Earl Warren (California), Dwight H. Green (Illinois) and Raymond E. Baldwin (Connecticut) – will launch the GOP presidential campaign tomorrow night with a nationwide broadcast over the Blue Network starting at 10:15 p.m. ET.
The broadcast, in which Mr. Warren will lead off at Sacramento, followed by Mr. Green at Springfield and Mr. Baldwin at Bridgeport, will be one of three radio programs in which Republican governors will discuss campaign issues.
The second program has been scheduled for Friday, when Governors Edward Martin (Pennsylvania), Andrew F. Schoeppel (Kansas) and Edward J. Thye (Minnesota) will speak on NBC from 10:30 to 10:45 p.m. ET.
Governors Leverett Saltonstall (Massachusetts), Harry F. Kelly (Michigan) and Arthur B. Langlie (Washington) will speak in the third broadcast, for which no date has yet been set.
Dewey withholds peace program
Albany, New York (UP) –
Governor Thomas E. Dewey, in a move to keep post-war peace plans out of politics, has withheld detailed ideas for preventing future wars, it was reported today.
The Republican presidential nominee, it was said, wants first to bring about a non-partisan agreement on general objectives before starting discussions of definite plans. Such a procedure, his advisers said, would prevent controversy from clouding general objectives.
Veteran Texan beaten in runoff
Dallas, Texas (UP) –
The number of newcomers in the 21-member Texas Congressional delegation was boosted to three today when unofficial returns showed that Rep. Nat Patton, a veteran of five terms, was defeated by Tom Pickett, 38, District Attorney of Palestine, in Saturday’s Democratic runoff primary election.
Unofficial returns from all of the 7th district’s 12 counties, eight of them complete, gave Mr. Pickett more than a 4,000-vote lead over Mr. Patton. The count showed 20,054 votes for Mr. Pickett and 15,514 for Mr. Patton.
“Democracy has spoken,” Mr. Patton said when it became apparent that he was defeated. “I must yield to its will.”
Other newcomers in the Texas Congressional delegation are Maj. John E. Lyle, now on duty in Italy, who defeated Rep. Richard Kleberg last month, and Judge J. L. Combs of Beaumont, who was elected to fill the seat left vacant by the retirement of Martin Dies, chairman of the Committee on Un-American Activities.
Bombers hammer 10 Jap bases
Destroyers bombard Marshall Island
By the United Press
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U.S. denies envoy is persona non grata
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Streamlining of legislative process urged
Structure held badly suited to today’s needs
By Charles T. Lucey, Scripps-Howard staff writer
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18 candidates aided by PAC
$5,000 reported as largest donation
Washington (UP) –
Sidney Hillman, chairman of the CIO Political Action Committee, told a Congressional committee today that National PAC had made contributions or expenditures on behalf of 18 Congressional candidates in the 1944 primary campaigns.
A total of $23,013 was spent, he said from trade union funds made available to the PAC treasury.
Mr. Hillman pointed out since July 23, when union contributions to PAC were frozen, the committee had relied on voluntary individual contributions and loans for money to be spent in connection with the November elections, and said $135,000 had been collected on this manner by PAC and the broader National Citizens’ Political Action Committee, which he also heads.
$5,000 donated by PAC
“If we relied on money to do our work, we would have scant hope of success,” he told the House Committee Investigating Campaign Expenditures.
The largest individual primary campaign contribution by PAC, Mr. Hillman said, was $500 for Adam Clayton Powell, New York Negro.
Mr. Hillman also listed $5,000 for the “Committee for the Nomination of Win-the-War Candidates” which he said supported Rep. Vito Marcantonio (AL-NY) and a number of state candidates endorsed by the American Labor Party.
Hillman protests
Mr. Hillman protested to the committee against the singling out of PAC for inquiry and Chairman Clinton Amderson (D-NM) replied that all the groups Mr. Hillman mentioned as possible subjects for inquiry except the America First Party had received from letters requesting appearances before the committee.
Under questioning by Rep. Clarence J. Brown (R-OH), Mr. Hillman insisted that the two committees were nonpartisan but conceded there would be no money available for the Republican National Committee or for Governor Thomas E. Dewey, the Republican presidential nominee.
Mr. Hillman said the CIO committee had originally received contributions from union treasuries totaling $671,214, of which $371,086 had been spent through Aug. 15. Seventy-six percent of the disbursements went for administrative expenses and $67,320 for contributions in primary campaigns and state elections, he said.
Over million sought
Mr. Hillman said that the CIO committee – seeking contributions of $1 from each CIO member – had received $56,922, of which $36,983 had been spent by Aug. 15. The NCPAC, he said, seeking voluntary contributions of $1,500,000, has received loans and contributions totaling $78,569 and has spent $20,328.
Mr. Hillman said:
If we relied on money to do our work, we would have scant hope of success, I need only recall that in 1940 despite the limitations of the Hatch Act, the Republican Party and its cooperating groups collected and spent some $17 million on behalf of their candidates.
The total expenses of the CIO Political Action Committee to date are considerably less than the 1940 contributions to the Republican Party by five wealthy families alone. I assume that they will do as well or better in 1944.
Mr. Hillman suggested investigations of the American Democratic National Committee, Gerald L. K. Smith’s America First Party, the Committee for Constitutional Government, the National Economic Council, United Mothers of America, the Anglo-Saxon Federation, the National Association of Manufacturers and the National Industrial Information Committee, which he said were “overripe for inquiry.”
Simms: Senate battle over peace treaty likely
Trouble due if pact is based on force
By William Philip Simms, Scripps-Howard foreign editor
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