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LATE NEWS

KILLED IN ACCIDENT London—Air Marshal Sir Francis John Linnell was killed today in a traffic accident near Wheatley, Oxford. Linnell, 52, was knighted in the field in North Africa by King George in June, 1943, when he was deputy.com mander in chief of the Royal Air Force in the Middle East. JAP ASSAULT REPULSED Chungking. — A Chinese army spokesman reported today that Chinese troops had withheld a three-way Japanese assault on Kweilin in the outskirts of the city and carried out one successful counterattack, against the southern enemy forces. “All the hill fortifications surrounding Kweilin still are in Chinese hands,” he said, explaining that the Chinese are fully prepared for a long siege. STRIKE ENDS

Double Talking Mr. Gates Desires A Bureaucracy Proposes a Bureau of Chemurgy To Aid EX TICKET MATE Agriculture—Forgets Purdue University ap/uiiot nni/CV Is Making Extensive Research In That De-| nuHINo I UtvvtT

partment—Slaps the Gross Income Tax Law But Makes No Definite Pledge To Abolish It Since He Is Afraid of the Far-

mer Vote - Gates Surrounds Himself'L~^ e «— With I nhhviete ! tics tor 20 y ftars an(1 a candidate T t 1111 lixyidi l^WUUjIolo* ,f 0r Representative-at-Large on the

V Dewey ticket in 1938, explained

Ralph F. Gates, campaigning as the nominee of jptp™' 1 No/goi^To the machine which kidnapped the Republican party!vote tor his party’s choice tor in Indiana—seeking the high and glorious office of Pr < G ^ i ‘ lent m 1 1 ^ 4, Governor—has often blasted “bureaucracy.” His s

VOTE FOR F.D.R. Before you go to the polls next Tuesday, be honest with yourself. Ask yourself but one jnestion. The answer should be very simple. Which one of these :wo candidates for Presidency would Hitler want me to vote ’or? Then vote for the other. We all know Dewey would be Hitler’s choice. Cast your vote for Roosevelt and be on the safe side.

No Suiokescreeu Coo . Dim Democrat Record

Says Candidate’s Record Is A Weather Vane of

Polls

Mishawaka, Ind.—An unauthorized strike at the Ball Band Company, which made about 6.000 rubber workers idle, ended today when most of some 2,000 first shift employes returned to their

jobs after hearing a plea by union officials.

Mr. Gates said, and we quote, “When I am elected Governor, I shall ask the legislature to establish within this department (The

back-to-work j ( ^ vis * on commerce and indus-

try) whatever staff is necessary to study and correlate new developments in chemurgy to increase j the use of agricultural products.”

Mr. Gates promises to establish

in the Pacific have knocked a new and unnecessary bureau in

a division now operating under the office of the Lieutenant Governor. Wjb want to ask Mr. Gates why he made that promise. We want him to tell the voters just what interests are behind that movement. We want him to say what group he talked to about this matter before he proposed that dream product of a bureaucratic mind. But most of all we want to

ask a couple of -questions. Has Mr. Gate^ ever heard of

Purdue University, one of if not f 0r i the greatest university of its kind j in the whole world ? If he knows j of this great university has he ' ever heard of two of it’s fine schools—the school of agricultural engineering and the school of chemical engineering? In those two schools, for some time past, pioneering research has been going on

_ „ in the Held of chemurgy. And this The filing ot an applicat o . g certain; no political bureau, Die Public Utility Commissions of such as Gates proposes, will ever Indiana and Michigan to merge I catch up with the fine work these the Indiana General Service into J university schools are doing.

5TH RATE NAVAL POWER

San Diego, Cal.—American naval i forces in the Pacific have knocked 1 Japan down to a fifth rate nayai power and have virtually eliminated her naval air arm, vice Adm., Marc A. Mitscher, commander of Task Force 58, said here today.

GERMANS FALL BACK.

London,—Berlin said today that Soviet pursued German forces had fallen back to the area 14 miles south of Budapest, and radio Budapest broke in on a program to warn that ‘false rumors are spread

ing" and call on the people confidence in Providence.” Merger Application

Filed By State IGSC

“bureaucracy.”

thunderous charges frequently made headlines in the G.O.P. press which supports him with one eye closed

and the other cocked.

Mr. Gates asked for it, so here | it is. Speaking at Kokomo Oct. 25 | want to assure the retail mer-

chants of the state of Indiana that when I am elected Governor of Indiana I shall favor any and all steps necessary to free' business generally from the burdens of bureaucratic control and interference to the end that we may restore as full a degree of free enterprise in the business world as

first,” said

Scandrett. “T hen Mr. Dewey

points his direction.

“His record is a weather vane of Gallup polls. Sometimes it almost amounts to eontortionism in the attempt to have both ears to the ground at once.” Scandrett, a nephew of Dwight Morrow, is senior partner of the infuential Wall street law firm of Scandrett, Tuttle and Chalaire. His political career began in 1920, when he was one of the group which tried—and failed—to put over Calvin Coolidge as the Presi-

|dential nominee*

, . , A , I He was chairman of the treasmay be consistent with good gov- j urer > s advisory board of the Reernment. This is a principle which blican National committee in 1 enunciate now and by which l)^, succeeded Ogden L. Mills as shall be bound ^ftei election. | treasurer of the New York County Let’s look at the “principle” j Republican Committee in 1929

Gates enunciates. He slaps the Gross Income Tax Law was having placed a heavy burden upon the retailers. Then he proposes, and pledges to be bound by the pledge, “to free business from the burdens of bureaucratic control and definitely that he will “free busi- , ness from the Gross Income Tax?” 1

the Indiana & Michigan Electric Company was announced today by Arnold Hogan, Vice President and General Manager ob the Indiana General Service Company. Similar applications are being filed With the Securities Exchange Commission and Federal Power Commission. Indiana General Service Com pany proposes to call for redemption of all its outstanding 6 per cent preferred stock in the hands of the public amounting to 15,364 shares, and at the same time American Gas and Electric Company, owner of all the common stock of the Indiana General Service Company, will surrender the \ 24,347 shares of 6 per cent preferred owned by'it and take in its place an equal number of shares of common stock, par value $100. In addition, NAmerican Gas and Electric Company will purchase from Indiana General Service Com pany 653 shares of common stock for 65,30i0 in cash. The application further proposes that the First Mortgage 3 1-4 per cent Bonds of Indiana General Service Company now outstanding in the hands of the public amounting to $6,500,000 will be assumed by the Indiana and Michigan Electric Company at the time of the merger, and immediately after the merger takes place Indiana & Michigan Elec trie Company proposes to call for redemption all of these bonds, in accordance with the terms of the mortgage. Mr. Hogan pointed out a number of advantages which would accnue from such a merger to this section of Indiana now served by the Indiana General Service Company. The merged company will be much stronger financially and in a better position to care for the growing needs of the comimunties serv- ^ ed. For some years Indiana Gen era! Service Company has itself had insufficient generating capacity to supply all its customers and has purchased from the Indiana & Michigan Electric Company a large 'portion of its requirements. iSo far as the employees of Indi ana General Service Company are concerned, there is contemplated little, if any, change. They will carry on as part of a larger organization. It was also learned that Mr. Hogan, who is how Vice President of the Indiana Geheral Service Company, will be elected a Vice President of Indiana & •Michigan Electric Company and .Will continue to be in eharge of all (the company activities in that part of Indiana now served by the Indiana General Service Company.

Mr. Gates said he proposed to establish this bureau, aqd again we quote, “to increase the use of agricultural products.” A very interesting suggestion from Mr. Gates, who last week was not so interested in the wishes and the interests of the agricultural folk.

Not on your life.

He wanted to give the retailers that impression. He wants their votes. Yet he is afraid of the wrath of the Indiana farmer—in the event they should get a copy of his letter —so he makes no definite pledge to move for abolition of the Gross Income Tax. Homer wants to play both ends agaist the middle, play class against class, group against group, and fool all of them. But let’s look further. How about Gates? Who are his managers and supporters? First there is Robert W. Lyons, nationally famous chain store lobbyist, who was a point in the Lyons-Gates-Capehax-t triangular machine which kidnapped the Republican party in the state convention last June. Lyons has said that Gates was on his payroll. If he was on Lyons’ payroll it is reasonable to ask

served as treasurer of the Oramge County Committee from 1934 to 1939. In 1936 he was a delegate to the national convention which nominated Alf Landon, and in 1938 to the New York State convention which nominated Dewey

for Governor.

In the 1938 campaign he stumpecj

of Pag Island in the Adriatic by two British destroyers.

Smash Dusseldorf

In the air war against German}. more than 1.000 British heavy bombers smashed the inland port, rail hub, and arms center of Dus seldorf last night in the wake of yesterday’s great sky battle in

the state with Dewey, and wa* which 208 enemy planes were de-

In a letter which be did not expose I what he did for Mr. Lyons. Many

to the view of the farmers until after a Democratic speaker called it to public attention, Gates attacked and by inference pledged to work for repeal of the Indiana Gross Income Tax Law. Farmers of Indiana have acclaimed the Gross Income Tax Law, enacted by a Democratic administration, as the fairest and best state tax law in all the nation. But in his letter, (sent to business men, only,) Mr. Gates said, and again we quote, “For many years I have had business interests in my home town and I have served a number of small businesses. I am, therefore, cognizant of the heavy burden which tvas inflicted on retail merchants of Indiana by the Democratic Party WHEN THAT PARTY PASSED THE GROSS INCOME TAX ACT

OF 1933.”

Then Mr. Gates continued, “I

suspect that he worked against the interests of the local retail merchants and the farmers and for the powerful chain stores groups.

Gates has as his campaign man-

ager the well-known Jess Murden, of Peru, and as one of his office advisors, the also well-known Clark Springer, of Montpelier. Mr. Murden was an automobile salesman when he was on the State Highway Commission during the dark days of Indiana’s sad experience with such Governors as Ed Jackson, Warren McCray and Harry Leslie. Murden was a registered lobbyist during the 1943 legislature and has been well known about legislatures for several years. Mr. Springer, also is a lobbyist. That both “worked” the legislature as lobbyists can be verified by examining the 1943 Lobby Register, page 371, in the office of the

(Continued On Page Four)

Are You, Mr. Republican, Going To Let Capehart Get Away With This? BUFFALO, N. Y., Oct. 11.—Erie county political circles buzzed today with talk about Homer E. Capehart, erstwhile vice-president and general sales manager of the Rudolph Wurlitzer Co., who was an active Democrat here in 1936 and 1937 and who is now the Republican nominee for United States Senator in his native state of Indiana. Capehart’s candidacy became known here when The Buffalo News ran articles about his campaign. Politicos recalled that Capehart and his wife were registered on the election rolls of the Town of Amherst as Democrats, and that Capehart not only attended Democrat meetings, but contributed $200 to the Erie County Democratic Committee in 1936. Capehart was considered by those engaged in politics as a Democratic party worker. He usually attended political functions in the company of prominent Democrats then holding office, and was a close political associate of Thomas J. Holling, then mayor of Buffalo. In 1938 Capehart returned to Indiana where . . . ambitious to become a big politician, he is reported to have spent $40,000 to stage a free “Cornfield Conference” for Republican workers on his farm near Washington, Ind. From that day on, his friends here say, Capehart began to demand recognition from the Republican leadership. Capehart’s next move to entrench himself in the Republican party was in 1942 when his money and high-powered sales methods enabled him to unseat Ewing Emisen, veteran member of the Republican State Committee, as Seventh District chairman. Last June, by the same steam-roller tactics and help of the GatesLyons machine, Capehart grabbed the Senatorial nomination at the expense of James M. Tucker, wounded veteran of World War II and a life-long Republican. ‘ ' Can Capehart Buy His Way Into the U. S. Senate?

defeated in hip campaign for Congress along with the whole Dewey

ticket.

“Even then,” Scandrett recalls, “Mr. Dewey was never positively ‘for’ anything, always just ‘against’ the man he was trying to beat.” Scandrett agrees with a recent editorial by James A. Wechsler, PM’s National Editor, that Dewey has no sympathy with the doctrines of Gerald L. K. Smith. He also agrees—so thoroughly that he is sending copies of the editorial around to a lot of his Wall Street friends—'that Dewdy “does not. sense the deepest aspirations and strivings of the American people” and “cannot be expected to translate them into world terms,” as Wechsler wrote. “President Roosevelt understood from the beginning that the war nresented an issue of freedom or slavery for the people of the United States as well as for the people of Europe. He is the living embodiment of our faith in our selves. He has accurately interpreted and reflected the fundamental spirit of his times. “In contrast, xvhen Roosevelt was expressing faith that the American people could and would build 50,000 planes a year, Dewey said it was absurd even to think of such a thing—that we couldn’t reach such a point in four years.” Scandrett said he was for Pres idenf Roosevelt on his domestic policies, too. “But,” he added, “I don’t think they’re the issue now. The peace is the issue. If we’re going to nave another war in 25 years, everything is lost. (Continued on Page Four) o

ALLIES ADVANCE IN ALL THEATRES

Russian Calvary Patrols In Sight of Budapest, Only 21 Miles Away London, Nov. 3.—The American | 1st army probed deeper Into German defenses southeast of Aachen today while Allied forces in western Holland cleared the enemy from the south side of the Schelde Estuary and held most of the northwestern and southwestern

DEMO ELECTION Republican Leaders Obstructed Every De0(1 ADnc I ICTCn ^ ense M° ve Made By President Roosevelt dUAIiliO LlultUj —Republicans Blatantly Misquote and

Misrepresent President In Their Vicious Propaganda—It is Absurd of Republicans To Continually Harp That the War Is Mr.

Roosevelt’s War.

Precinct Officials Named

For Next Tuesday’s

Voting

The list of Democratic precinct election officials was filed today with the county clerk of election commissioners. The Democrats

Anyone who knows anything at all about current “ d history knows that it is absurd to say that this is

Roosevelt’s war.

The truth is that it is neither Roosevelt’s war, | nor America’s war. The truth is that this is Gern

^ i many’s war and Japan’s war. For years the warfollow: ocrat,c 1>r< “ c,nct offlc,als [lords in both these countries have been bent on world

No. J—-Pearl Sammons, judge; 120nquest.

Kate Miller and Mrs. Leon Fisher, | The Japanese treachery at Pearl,—

assistant clerk in each precinct. Republicans name judge, sheriff, two clerks and the inspector. The ! G. O. P. precinct boards were re ported to the election commis

sioners.

coasts of Walcheren Island on the

approaches to Antwerp.

Russian cavalry patrols were' within sight of Budapest as the main Soviet forces drove to within less than 21 miles of the capital in their sweep through Hungary against diminishing German-

Hungarian resistance.

In the Italian front, British troops advanced nearly a mile and surrounded two sides of the Forli airfield in their advance towards Balogna. Rome reported That these

I*" b ? r W “ simply lhe crowll ' n £ | their disputes by peaceful methI Charline Werbel and Minna Bern- ^ reac ^ ei y ot y ears o1 treacherous , °ds.

stein, clerks; Emmet King, sheriff. : Planning. There is a written rec- 2—When war did break out, he

No. 3—Florence Ford, judge; jord of Japan’s design for world Pauline Zearhaugh and Mrs. Clem- 'conquest in the notorious Tanaka ents, clerks; William Dick, sheriff. 'Memorial, drafted by Baron TanNo. 4—Uora Beilis, judge; Dorajaka, Japanese premier in 1927 and Meehan and Mayme Proctor, ! 1928. Tanaka’s plan, which every clerks, Samuel Fetters, sheriff. I member of the Japanese military No. 5—William Jones, judge; (caste committed to memory, called Lillian Taffler and Eva Bowers, j for three major preliminary obclerks; W. A. Johnston, sheriff. jectives: (1) Conquest of ManNo. 6—Mary Boles, judge; Mar-|churia, (2) Conquest of China, and garet Harrison and Lottie Hanna, l (3) Conquest of the United States

enemy destroyers were sunk vjest j A - t l - E1 'j, a k ar ^ r » sheriff. | Americans are now fully aware

No. i Herbert L. Boyd, judge, jof the fact that the Japanese were Josephine Eisenmann and M^ry j laying definite plans to conquer

stroyed for a loss of 41 American bombers and 28 fighters. It was announced that American and British bombers dropped a record total of more than 113,000 tons of ex plosives on Germany in last month’s sustained operations. In aerial warfare on the other side of the world, it was announced that American B-29 Superfortresses from India had dropped the largest individual bomb loads on record on the railway yards at Japanese-held Rangoon, capital of

Burma.

On the western front in Europe, the American 1st army solidified its new positions in the Aachen area in a local drive aimed at enlarging its bridgehead into Germany for later offensive operations. The advance was on a. threemile front nearly 10 miles inside the Reich and 28 miles southwest of Cologne. ■ ; .U In the Pacific, Gen. Douglas MacArthur announcec^that the. end of the campaign on Leyte and Samar Islands in the Philippines was in sight, with the remnhnts of the Japanese forces on Leyte being driven into a pocket where they were being surrounded on three sides. The Americans, having taken the north coast stronghold of Carigara, were ’closing in on Ormoc on the west coast. Some survivors were trying to escape by sea, under attack by American planes and torpedo boats. MacArthur announced that than 30,000 Japanese have

Bemenderfer Bursts Forth in Columns

S. H. Bemenderfer “bursted out” in print again yesterday. This axticle of his which has provoked so much wrath in Democratic circles, is one headed “Soldiers Influenced” and was just as long winded and meticulous as Sam’s articles usually are. The only reason we take notice of this latest literary effort of his is because we have had a number of telephone calls asking that we publish some sort of an answer tc his malicious concoction of lies about the way the army is conducted. In Thursday’s article Sam speaks touchingly of a poor over worked Mrs. Hubbard whose son has gone to war, leaving his family for her to cafe for. If she is taring for her son’s family as Sam says she is, it is very commendable of her, and she is doing a patriotic duty just as thousands of other women are' doing. We have been informed that this lady is also boanling and caring for one of Bemeuderfer’s grandchildren, whose father, Sam Jr., was in the Navy but discharged. Maybe Sam will write another long-winded article about the Navy and tell the public about how the Navy treated his son—or how his son treated the Navy.

been killed, wounded or captured

in the 13-day campaign.

Headquarters of the 14th U. S. Air Force announced that Chinai based bombers, hunting for sur^ | viving units of the beaten Japanese fleet, had sunk another destroyer and damaged - a large transport in the south China sea. As the Superfortresses made their strike at the vital Japanese base of Rangoon, Chungking announced that Chinese troops in the Salween river sector had taken the enemy fortress of Lungling, clearing anothe obstacle to the opening of the Ledo^Burma x’oad

supply route into China.

Anderson, clerks; John Fi'itz,

sheriff.

No. 10—Angela Coughlin, judge; Louis Kelly and Dorothy Davison, clerks; Paul Goebel, sheriff. No. 11—Gilbert Turney, judge'; Ruth Privett and Exxdora Vexxable; clerks; Clai'ence Hamilton, sheriff. No. 12—Fahme'TfTc'hman, judge; Gladys Rogers and Mrs. Frank Nelsoxx, clerks; Perry Moore, sheriff. No. 13—Sam Haigh, judge; Bertha Voisard and Mai*gax*et Jellison, clerks; Rosa Dowden, sheriff. No. 14.—iClyde Journey, judge; Edith Schrink and Emogene Bog ges, clerks; Reason Baker, sheiiff. No. 15.—Daisy Replogle, judge; Nellie Martin and Mable Godlove, clerks; John Tuttle, sheriff. No. 16—J. W. Jones, judge; Adda Taylor and Nellie Miller, clertos; Chester Dain, sheriff. No. 17—J. F. Miller, judge; Elsie Riley and Addle Duffey, clerks; George Eppax-d. sheriff. No. 18—Mrs. Leo Fell, judge; Mrs. Paul Oooley and Evelyn Derbyshire, clerks; Schuyler Crane,

shex-iff.

No. 19—James McGuigan, judge; Ray Rafferty and Wanda Mathias, clerks; Dave Dawes, sheriff. No. 20—'Lillie O’Neill, judge; Thelma Taylor and Verna Brown, clerks; Elun Fields, sheriff. No. ,21—'Mary F. Leonard, judge; James E. Allen and Mrs. Gar Kennedy, clerks; Herman IMdClain,

sheriff.

No. -22—Robert Collins, judge; Ethel Heeter and Lucille Burton, clerks; 'Charles Davis, sheriff. No. 23—lAddie Helms, judge; Ethel Bricker and Gladys Jones, clerks; John Denney, sheriff. IN’©. 24—(Helen Beck, judge; Mabel Owens and Delpha Harris, clerks; Dora Shaw, sheriff. No 25—Agnes Wilson, judge; Mrs. H. Mace and Mrs. F. Keelen, clerks; George Buis, sheriff. No. 26—Thelma Gilespie, judge; Mary (Pontius and Claude Doughty,

ci er ks

No. 27—Tod Cox, judge; Kathleen Dribble and eParl Rozelle, clerks; Charles Perry, sheriff. No. 29—Guy IPlynxale, judge; Daphne Wilson and Ruth Franks, clerks; Richard Herron, sheriff. No. 30—(Katherine LaBay, judge; Zora Robertson and Virgina Man gus, clerks; Michael Mattox, sher-

iff.

No 3tl—James H. Winters, judge; Lola Conn and Evelyn Winters, clerks. No. 32—John R. Quirk, judge; (Continued On Page Four)

HEAR ROOSEVELT AND SCHRICKER Saturday Night, November 4th Central High School Auditorium BIG CLOSING RALLY President Roosevelt talks from Boston at 8 o’clock Saturday night. Special radio receiving and amplifying sound apparatus will be installed so all in the high school auditorium can hear the President plainly. Immediately after the close of the President’s speech, Governor Henry PL Schricker, in person, will make his closing talk of the campaign. ‘ - ' MUSIC AND ENTERTAINMENT Before the start of the Pi;esident‘s speech at 8 o’clock. Governor Schricker will start talking right after the President’s speech at 8:45 o’clock p. m. ; . MAKE UP A PARTY AND COME Everybody Welcome

this country long before Peaid Kai’bor. We now know that the Japanese fishermen, Japanese barbers, and Japanese students, always carrying cameras, were really Japanese spies, sending detailbd

information on our defenses back 5—Rv repeated warnings, he to their mastert! in TokyoFwe strove to awaken thlT''AmefTraii

know now that Japan for years, in violation of her solemn pledges, was busily fortifying mandated islands and building her fleet up

beyond treaty strength.

As for Germany, it is historical fact, not conjectux-e, that Hitler from the beginning planned to enslave the world for his “master i ace,” and that the United States was included in this blueprint. Secret German maps, showing both North and South America as part of a German world empii’e, are known to have been in existence for years before the present war started. German propaganda, Fifth Column and Bund activities were openly dii’ected at Nazifying every country in the Western Hemisphere. As long as Hitler’s war machine moved unchecked through Europe, every country ix-

the world stood in danger.

In the United States, President Roosevelt w r as completely aware of this danger. In the beginning, while the other nations tried to appease Hitler, in the vain hope that each demand would be his last, President Roosevelt was not fooled and, alert to the ever-in-creasing threat of war breaking out in Europe, did what he could to stop it. When the war had started, he tried to keep it from spreading to our shores and* against bitter, organized Republican opposition to every move, he tried to prepare us for attack, should it come. His policies follow-

ed five definite lines:

1—Each time a crisis in Europe threatened to explode into wax - , he appealed directly to the leaders of the countries' involved to settle

used both political and economic strategy to hold it back from out shores. History will undoubtediy show that the three steps whiei) contributed most to the United Nations victory were: (1) ThC transfer of ovei - -age destroyers to Britain, (2) Lend-Lease, and (3)

The Atlantic Charter.

3— From the very beginning, this Administration made good friends of our South American neighbors —a friendship which paid dividends many times over when we

were plunged into war.

4— Ydar after year, working always against Republican opposx tion, he built up our Army and Navy, which the Republicans had reduced almost to impotency.

people to their ever-growing peril. Peai'l Harbor caught us off guard—because we were the kind of people who believed that a peace mission came to a country to talk peace. Had we been as un-prepai-ed in our physical defenses on December 7, 1941, as we were phychologically, the ti’agedy would have been infinitely greater. It is a tribute to the wisdom axul the foresight of our president that on that dark day we had an Army and a Navy in the making, war plants humming with activity. Cextainly no credit for that fact could be given to the Republican party whose leaders obstructed every defense move. On no other topic do the Republicans more blatantly misquote and misrepresent President Roosevelt than in their constant use of only part of statements he made in 1940 in which he promised not to send American boys to fight in fox-eign wars or even to fight in foreign lands—except in case of attack. Quoting from a speech he mado on September 11, 1940, in Washington, they invariably say he promised: “We will not participate in any foreign wars, and we will not send our Ai'my, naval, or air forces to fight in foreign lands outside of the Americas. ...” What the President actually said then and again in Philadelphia on October 23, was: “We will not participate in any foreign wars, and we will not send our Army, naval, or air forces to fight in foreign lands outside of (Continued On Page Four)

Dewey Cries “Clear It With Sidney” But Back in 1937, He Was Crying for Sidney’s Help—And Got It. Read this extract from a speech by Robert E. Hannegan, Democratic National Chairman, delivered in New York City recently but not reported in any Muncie newspaper: “I was particularly .interested in what I think was his (Dewey’s) first x-adio mention of Sidney Hillman. Here again he gave voice to the “Clear It With Sidney” fiction. This statement is false, but it is apparent that Dewey is not interested in the truth if he thinks it will get him votes. “The interesting part of Dewey’s denunciation of Hillman find what the people of the country should have recalled to their attention is that Dewey, besides being careless with the truth, now condemns those whose support he once sought and welcomed. “In 1937 when Dewey was starting his political career as a candidate for District Attorney of New York County he solicited and accepted Hillman’s endorsement and likewise a campaign contribution of $5,000 from Hillman’s union. This was the campaign invidentally in which Dewey spent more than $92,000 to get a $20,000-a-year job. During this campaign, Mi\ Dewey attended and addressed meetings of the American Labor Party, now supporting the Democratic nominees; he was most unctuous in his px-aises of Michael Quill, head of the Transport Workers Union; addressed meetings of the Newspaper Guild and many other labor groups whom Dewey and his reactionary supporters are now denouncing as communistic. “Mr. Dewey took their support and their money while a candidate for District Attorney and now when these groups who know him, conclude that he isn’t big enough to be President, Dewey undertakes to smear them with the old red-baiting tactics“T6e American people will have little tolerance and less respect for a candidate for public office who, having sought and received support from particular groups, later attempts to malign and destroy them.”