The Pittsburgh Press (November 4, 1944)
Yanks fall back in Reich under Nazi counterdrive
Germans regain half of 2½ miles lost to 1st Army near Aachen
By J. Edward Murray, United Press staff writer
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Jap tanks land on Leyte; big battle due
U.S. planes batter enemy relief column
By William B. Dickinson, United Press staff writer
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Roosevelt to speak in Boston tonight
President lays ‘fear’ campaign to foes; Hudson Valley tour planned
Hartford, Connecticut (UP) –
President Roosevelt, carrying his fourth-term campaign into this insurance center of the nation, charged today that the Republicans are making “a deliberate attempt to panic the American people” by saying that their insurance policies will be worthless unless the Roosevelt administration is beaten.
He arrived here at noon en route to Springfield, Massachusetts, and Boston after making a platform speech at Bridgeport.
His speech here was the second in a series of four in a day-long tour that will be climaxed with a major address tonight at Boston’s Fenway Park.
KDKA, WJAS and KQV will broadcast the speech at 9:00 p.m. EWT.
‘Like previous campaigns’
In a year platform address here, he told a station throng that he wanted to say a word “about the campaign of fear which some Republican orators are seeking to spread among holders of insurance policies.”
He said:
It is much like previous Republican campaigns.
Today as before, they are saying that unless this administration is removed from office, the insurance policies of the people of the United States will be worthless.
The President said that type of campaign has “been rebuked by the American people at the polls before – and it will be again.”
GOP policies scored
He also charged that:
Time and again the Republicans in the Congress voted overwhelmingly against price control, and in favor of letting prices go skyrocketing.
He said:
The Democratic Party, in this war, has been the party of sound money. The Republican Party has been the party of inflation.
If the Republicans had their way, all of us – farmers, white-collar workers, factory workers, housewives – we all would have had our dollars cut down by inflation and higher living costs.
Without mentioning Republican presidential nominee Thomas E. Dewey by name, he struck sharply at Mr. Dewey’s campaign charge that this is a “bungling, incompetent administration.”
Record cited
Referring to the “record” of this administration after 11 came into office in 1933, he said:
You know how quickly the action which this administration took resulted in increased earnings and savings and property values of our people.
That is what this bungling, incompetent administration has done.
Denouncing what he described as a Republican campaign of “fear,” he said:
Republican leaders tried the same kind of campaign in 1932 – when the people… were told that “grass would grow in the streets…” unless Mr. Hoover were reelected.
Well, he was not reelected President. But instead of grass growing in the streets we saw the streets hum with a revival of business and revival of employment.
From Hartford, Mr. Roosevelt was proceeding to Springfield, Massachusetts, where he was due for another rear-platform speech. The presidential train will also make a brief stop at Worcester, Massachusetts, to pick up Senator David I. Walsh (D-MA) and proceeds to Boston, where it is due at 5:30 p.m.
For the most part, tomorrow will be a day of rest at Mr. Roosevelt’s Hyde Park (New York) family home. Monday he will make what has become a traditional tour if the Hudson Valley around Hyde Park.
To vote in Hyde Park
Tuesday, the President will make his usual trip to the white-walled town hall in Hyde Park village where the election registrar will ask his name and occupation and the President will reply, “Franklin D. Roosevelt, tree grower,” before casting his ballot.
At Bridgeport, the President was greeted by Democratic officials who flanked him as he spoke from the rear platform of his special train.
Addressing a station throng, Mr. Roosevelt said he hoped that very soon after the first of January he and Mrs. Roosevelt would be able to greet at the White House “the charming lady on my right” – Miss Margaret Connors, Democratic candidate for Congress opposing the incumbent, Mrs. Clare Boothe Luce (R-CT).
Two developments
As the President left Washington last night, there were two developments:
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The President, asking employers to give their workers sufficient time off Tuesday to vote, asked “that any employee who is not allowed enough time to vote inform me of the circumstances, together with the name of his company and other pertinent facts.” The President pointed out, too, that companies having government contracts would be allowed to charge as reimbursable cost the pav to workers for election time off.
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White House Press Secretary Stephen T. Early said Senator Carter Glass (D-VA) had telephoned him, asking him to give the President his “love” and assure him that Mr. Glass would vote for him. Mr. Glass opposed the third term nomination and until a day or so ago had said nothing about favoring a fourth term.
Dewey to speak in New York tonight
GOP nominee to summarize campaign issues; election eve speech planned
Albany, New York (UP) –
Governor Thomas E. Dewey brings to a white heat tonight his campaign to enter the White House next January and conduct “the greatest housecleaning in the history of Washington.”
The Republican presidential candidate will speak in Madison Square Garden at New York City before the last big GOP rally of the campaign.
KDKA and WJAS will broadcast the speech at 10:30 p.m. EWT.
Mr. Dewey will return to Albany tomorrow and will make a final speech from the Executive Mansion Monday night over all networks. It is expected to stress principally the importance of voting in Tuesday’s presidential election.
To summarize issues
Mr. Dewey will return to New York Tuesday to vote.
The campaign windup rally in Madison Square Garden is traditionally devoted to a summarization of campaign issues. For this Mr. Dewey has laid the groundwork in 20 major speeches from Boston to Los Angeles.
Mr. Dewey has argued that “it’s time for a change” by charging:
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That the Roosevelt administration has grown “tired and quarrelsome in office.”
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That it has strangled private enterprise and failed to provide jobs under a peacetime economy.
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That it had employed secret diplomacy in foreign relations.
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That it has abrogated for political gain the right of collective bargaining.
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That it has sold out the Democratic Party to “subversive forces.”
Pledges listed
He promised, if elected, to replace it with an administration which would:
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“Bring an end to the quarreling and bickering and confusion in the nation’s capital,” and foster “harmonious action between the President and the Congress.”
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Eliminate “unnecessary burdens and handicaps placed by government upon the job-making machinery of our economic system” and lower individual and corporate income taxes.
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Merge all labor agencies into one, “take the hand of government off free collective bargaining, choose a Secretary of Labor “from the ranks of labor” and provide jobs for all.
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Extend social security to “those who most desperately need protection and are not now covered.”
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Be “free from the influence of Communists and domination of corrupt big city machines.”
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Protect farmers “against extreme fluctuation of prices” without “dictation and control by his own government.”
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Retain in command Army and Navy leaders to whom he credits military victories, restore unity which would “speed victory” and bring home and release members of the Armed Forces “at the earliest practical moment after victory.”
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Carry on the fight until the military might of Germany and Japan is crushed, and establish “a world organization in which all nations may share as sovereign equals, to deal with future threats to the peace of the world.”
In the three major speeches at Louisville, Kentucky; New York City, and Minneapolis, Mr. Dewey went farther than any Republican candidate in history. He proposed that the peace organization be set up as rapidly as possible instead of waiting for military victory. He argued that only Congress can determine the scope of U.S. participation in such an organization but he advocated that participation be undertaken without “reservations that would nullify” is power to act speedily to halt aggression using force if necessary.
Mr. Dewey, returning from a final campaign swing through Maryland and Pennsylvania spent a quiet day at the Executive Mansion in Albany yesterday putting the finishing touches on tonight’s speech.
U.S. seizes eight plants involved in MESA strike
Companies to Toledo area are affected; walkout may spread to Cleveland
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Lost Yank company saved from Nazi trap in Holland
Americans in waterlogged foxholes fight off counterattacks for three days
By Boyd Lewis, United Press staff writer
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Stilwell arrives in Washington
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Flood of GOP money lowers Dewey odds
St. Louis, Missouri (UP) –
Maury Cooper, St. Louis betting commissioner, today lowered the odds on Governor Thomas E. Dewey, Republican presidential candidate, “because of a flood of GOP money from all over the country.”
Cooper placed the odds on Mr. Dewey at 14–5, and against him at 16–5. The odds on Mr. Roosevelt, he said, were now 5–19. At one time, the President’s odds were 1–4.5.
Nazis planned to bomb U.S. French claim
Worker slowdown prevented completion
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B-29s undamaged in Rangoon raid
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