America at war! (1941–) – Part 4

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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.

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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.

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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


U.S. denies envoy is persona non grata

Ford workers straggle back to war jobs

Vote of union heads ends 3-day strike

Streamlining of legislative process urged

Structure held badly suited to today’s needs
By Charles T. Lucey, Scripps-Howard staff writer

Phone call studied in hotel slaying

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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

Stokes: World league must precede settlement of peace terms

Organization needed man to deal with problems arising from cessation of war
By Thomas L. Stokes, Scripps-Howard staff writer

France’s role is question before ‘Big Three’

Liberated nation’s entry seems likely

Nazi escape, supply roads blitzed anew

Other bombers pound Hungary, Austria

Allies poised to subjugate all Germany

Government setup poses problem
By Hal O’Flaherty

A ‘two-gun gal,’ too –
Packard: Pistol-packin’ mama hailed as a new Joan of Arc

Slender, beautiful and only 23, Geneviève has already killed two of Nazi enemy
By Reynolds Packard, United Press staff writer

Poles extend gains in Italy

Troops near coastal town of Pesaro

Mme. Chiang sick, to return to U.S.

Editorial: Sure they want unions – but decent ones

Editorial: Hot spot

Edson: Our fighting men won’t change much in war

By Peter Edson

Ferguson: Oklahoma, where…

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson