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Time for improvement
By Florence Fisher Parry
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Former Democratic Leader dies
Washington (UP) –
Burt New, one-time executive director of the Democratic National Committee, died yesterday at the home of his daughter here. He was 74.
A native of Vernon, Indiana, and a law graduate of Indiana University, Mr. New was appointed to the party committee post in the early 1920s under the chairmanship of Cordell Hull, now Secretary of State. In 1927, he became Washington representative of the Motion Picture Producers And Distributors, a position he held until retirement a year and a half ago.
CIO office union supports Roosevelt
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (UP) –
Delegates to a convention of the United Office and Professional Workers of America (CIO) today were pledged to support the Roosevelt-Truman ticket in an election which they said “will decide the speed of our victory in the war and the path to be followed in the peace.”
In passing a resolution presented by the resolutions committee, the delegates praised Roosevelt’s leadership and said that through his “Economic Bill of Rights,” solutions would be found to the economic problem of white-collar workers.
The convention pledged a voluntary contribution of $50,000 to aid the ticket. At least $1 will be sought from each member, according to the resolution.
Another resolution passed by the convention endorsed the conduct of our foreign policy by the President and Secretary of State Cordell Hull and called for continued unity among the United Nations for solving post-war problems and establishing a “peace-maintaining international organization.”
Senator McCarran wins in close race
Reno, Nevada (UP) –
U.S. Senator Patrick A. “Pat” McCarran today won the Democratic senatorial nomination for the third time as unofficial returns from yesterday’s primary elections in Nevada gave him an increasing lead over Lieutenant Governor Vail Pittman, Ely publisher and brother of the late Senator Key Pittman.
With only 34 scattered precincts to be reported, unofficial tabulations gave Mr. McCarran a majority of nearly 1,000 votes over Mr. Pittman and observers said he had won the nomination regardless of how the vote went in those sections still to be reported.
Returns from 249 of the state’s 283 precincts gave McCarran 10,441 votes, compared to 9,588 for Pittman.
Mr. Pittman made a campaign issue of Senator McCarran’s pre-Pearl Harbor isolationism, classing him with Senators D. Worth Clark (defeated in Idaho), Bennett Champ Clark (who went down in Missouri), Cotton Ed Smith (who lost in South Carolina) and Gerald P. Nye (who barely won renomination in North Dakota).
Mr. McCarran apparently will oppose George Malone, former state engineer, in the general election in November. Incomplete returns showed that Mr. Malone apparently had won the GOP nomination over Reno divorcee lawyer Kendrick A. Johnson and youthful State Senator Kenneth F. Johnson.
Dewey needed to rid nation of ‘bossism,’ GOP governors say
Republican candidate can meet trials of post-war era, they assert
New York (UP) –
The Republican governors of New Jersey, Michigan and Washington, completing a series of nationwide radio addresses on behalf of GOP presidential candidate Thomas E. Dewey, asserted last night that his leadership was essential for the nation to rid itself of “bossism” and “pressure groups” and successfully meet the trials of the post-war era.
Governor Walter D. Edge of New Jersey launched a bitter attack on “political bossism,” saying his state had suffered at the hands of Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City and declaring that “a national condition of political bossism would eat out the heart of our country.”
Governor Arthur B. Langlie of Washington attacked the “negative philosophy” of the New Deal, asserting that it “can only function by piling agency upon agency, bureau upon bureau, debt upon debt and promise upon promise.”
Leadership promised
Governor Harry F. Kelly of Michigan presented Mr. Dewey as a man who can provide the leadership and cooperation to meet the problems of labor, agriculture and business.
Mr. Edge said:
My state, New Jersey, has had intimate experience with governments which have selfishly sought personal power and perpetuation at the expense of the good of the people.
The New Deal, notwithstanding its lofty and noble pretentions, does business in New York with the radical Sidney Hillman and the Communist Earl Browder in the hope they can supply votes needed to win.
Dictatorship feared
Mr. Edge said Democratic vice-presidential candidate Harry S. Truman had based his arguments for the reelection of Mr. Roosevelt almost completely on the matter of experience, and asserted “if one carried that reasoning through to its final analysis, it would mean there never would be a change of Presidents.”
“In other words, it was a clear bid for a dictatorship, the indispensable man,” he said.
Mr. Langlie charged that “present administration has passed the prime of its vitality” and is “insulated from the people by an ever-groping tier of bureaus.”
He said:
There is a feeling on every hand that our national government is no longer of the people.
Four more years of this trend would place a disheartening damper upon our hope for a more bounteous life, and through confusion and internal strife would gravely endanger those basic values which have made our country strong and our people free.
‘Hasn’t mortgaged future’
He said Mr. Dewey “has the uncanny ability to surrounded himself with competent people and delegate to them responsibility, at the same time giving leadership to all that they do.”
Asserting that Democrats were joining with Republicans in backing Mr. Dewey, Mr. Kelly said the New York Governor would make a “realistic approach” to post-war problems and work with Congress, industry, labor and agriculture to provide post-war jobs for returning servicemen and those displaced by the completion of war contracts.
Mr. Kelly said:
The American people can be thankful that they have in Thomas E. Dewey a candidate for President who believes in America and did not mortgage the future of America or his own future for the nomination.
Last night’s addresses were the third in a series leading up to Mr. Dewey’s first major speech in Philadelphia Thursday night.
Republican National Chairman Herbert Brownell Jr. described them as “frankly political, designed as a forthright and honest approach to the real issues of the campaign.”
Kirkpatrick: Patriots to ask ouster of Archbishop of Paris for catering to Nazis
Cardinal Suhard barred from Notre-Dame during first services after liberation
By Helen Kirkpatrick
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1,500 U.S. planes in heavy raids
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Allied bombers hit 37 new Jap ships
13 barges carrying soldiers smashed
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