James L. Fly resigns post as FCC head
Radio boss to return to law practice
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Orson is braced for GOP ‘hoax’
New York (UP) –
Orson Welles, speaking at an extemporaneous radio forum sponsored by the Democratic National Committee, said last night he expected “one more act of desperation – a big hoax, an outrageous one” from the “Deweyites,” before Nov. 7.
He said:
I don’t know whether it’s too much to wonder if the Deweyites might not even attempt their own equivalent of the Reichstag fire.
Others on the NBC forum were authors John Gunther and Quentin Reynolds.
State is key to election, survey finds
Says results hinges on Pennsylvania
New York (UP) –
Newsweek Magazine announced today the final results of its presidential election survey which showed that the two candidates are so closely matched on the eve of the balloting that the final result hinges on the outcome of the race for Pennsylvania’s 35 electoral votes.
The survey, conducted nationally by 118 political writers, reported that Mr. Roosevelt leads in 27 states having an electoral vote total of 249 while Governor Thomas E. Dewey holds the lead in 20 states with a total electoral vote of 247.
In Pennsylvania, the survey said, the outcome is a “tossup,” which places the entire presidential race in the same category,
States believed either safely in the Roosevelt column or “leaning Democratic” were California, Washington, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Texas, Oklahoma, Minnesota, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Delaware, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
Those believed favoring or leaning to Mr. Dewey were Oregon, Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, West Virginia, New York, Maryland, Vermont, New Hampshire, New Jersey and Maine.
Bricker: Democrats ‘shake down’ U.S. employees
En route to New York (UP) –
Ohio Governor John W. Bricker today headed toward New York and New Jersey with their combined 63 electoral votes to deliver campaign speeches tonight at Paterson, New Jersey, and Queens, New York.
Last night at Toledo, the GOP vice-presidential nominee charged that the Democratic National Committee was illegally soliciting campaign funds in Ohio from federal employees. officers and employees of firms with government contracts, and recipients of federal loans and benefits.
Mr. Bricker based his charges on a letter which he said had been received by a federal civil service employee in Ohio asking for financial aid in reelecting President Roosevelt.
Mr. Bricker said:
This is the most brazen effort yet heard about to force federal employees into line. It is a violation of law and the spirit of patriotism with which many are serving. It is in keeping with Hillman’s effort to sell out American labor.
After holding a press conference in New York City this afternoon, Mr. Bricker will go to Paterson.
WJAS will broadcast Mr. Bricker’s Paterson speech at 9:30 p.m. EWT.
Immediately afterward, Mr. Bricker will go to Queens for another speech. Tomorrow, he will speak in Wilmington, Delaware, at noon; Camden, New Jersey, at 8:00 p.m., and in the Philadelphia Metropolitan Opera House at 9:30 p.m.
Simms: Chinese Tito may emerge in Far East
Breaks go against Generalissimo Chiang
By William Philip Simms, Scripps-Howard foreign editor
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More money than weapons flown over hump to China
Chungking black market exchanges 185 to 200 national dollars for one U.S. dollar
By Darrell Berrigan, United Press staff writer
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Bogarts reunited
Hollywood, California –
Patching up their differences after a two-week separation, screen actor Humphrey Bogart and his wife, the former Mayo Methot, today announced a reconciliation. Neither offered an explanation of their breakup or reconciliation.
2,000 U.S. planes blast Nazi targets
Smashing attack on oil, rail centers
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U.S. fliers down 131 Nazi fighters
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Stettinius supports Roosevelt campaign
Washington (UP) –
Acting Secretary of State Edward Stettinius Jr. said today that he thought this country needed “the continued wise and experienced leadership of President Roosevelt to bring about a speedy victory and a sound peace.” He made the comment in response to a press conference question whether he supported Mr. Roosevelt for a fourth term.
Perkins: Dewey seeks miners’ favor in second bid
Surveys give GOP slim hope for swing
By Fred W. Perkins, Pittsburgh Press staff writer
When Governor Thomas E. Dewey makes another invasion tonight of this key political state, with speeches in the “Twin Cities” of the hard-coal region – Wilkes-Barre and Scranton – he will be attempting to crack the coal miner vote which most observers believe has not yet been greatly affected by the anti-Roosevelt declarations of John L. Lewis.
Here in Western Pennsylvania, the soft coal region, surveys have produced opinions that the best the Republicans can hope for is a swing of 10 to 20 percent among the miners away from their old political love.
Pennsylvania’s governor, Edward Martin, who is campaigning daily for the Dewey-Bricker ticket, said today he was sure of a “large Republican vote” among the United Mine Workers in some sections, and also from AFL trades unions and the railway brotherhoods. He even predicted that Governor Dewey will receive substantial support from workers in steel mills, who are organized under the CIO, the labor organization most active in the fourth-term drive.
Martin optimistic
Governor Martin said:
I am certain that much labor support will be behind Governor Dewey in next Tuesday’s voting. That will be healthy for the country, because if labor votes all on one side it would encourage the evil of setting class against class. It would be a bad thing if labor were solidly Republican. I am sure it will not be solidly Democratic in this state.
One argument being used with the coal miners is based on the fact that their union will have to enter contract negotiations with coal operators next March. The present contract, which produced a long and bitter conflict in 1943, punctuated by four strikes and dramatized by government seizure of the coal mines, will end on April 1, 1945.
With the anti-Roosevelt attitude of Mr. Lewis a matter of record, the miners are being told that their hopes for higher wages and more favorable working conditions depend on Governor Dewey moving into the White House.
Signs for Democrats
Signs favorable to the Democrats have been found by investigators in all the important coal counties of Western Pennsylvania, But all of them have reported that the Republican presidential ticket will get “some” votes from the miners. The important question is how much is “some?”
Most of the United Mine Workers district officials support the Dewey campaign. But some district officers claim to be “neutral” and a few minor officials are openly backing Mr. Roosevelt.
The miner vote is most important in two states – West Virginia and Pennsylvania. In West Virginia, with only eight electoral votes, it bulks larger because the 110,000 coal miners are a larger proportion of the total population than the 190,000 are in this bigger state, with 35 electoral votes.
In West Virginia, this writer found symptoms of a considerable swing toward Governor Dewey in the southern section. Evidence of a swing diminished in the northern sections of West Virginia, and the same was true in the neighboring regions of Pennsylvania.
Voters removed, attorney to charge
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania –
U.S. Attorney Gerald A. Gleeson said he would present charges of the “wholesale removal” of voters’ names from Philadelphia voting lists to a special grand jury session tomorrow.
Mr. Gleeson made his statement as Federal Bureau of Investigation agents worked at the office of the Registration Commission checking reports that several hundred voters were disfranchised by removal of their names from the registration books in recent weeks.
The FBI, according to the commission, inquired on the status of 17 voters, divided equally among Republican and Democratic registrants.
Mr. Gleeson said approximately 100 complaints were received in his office. Earlier reports said that 10,000 voters were disfranchised.
Complaints to the FBI were that voters’ names were removed on the word of individuals that the persons named moved from certain districts or died.