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STOCKS SOAR New York. — Stocks soared around noon today when news tickers carried the announcement that President Truman has asked Secretary of Commerce Henry A. Wallace for his resignation from the cabinet. BYRNES OVERJOYED Paris.—Secretary of State James F. Byrnes and his associates tonight were overjoyed at President Truman’s reaffirmation of Byrnes’ “get-tough-with-Russia”

policy.

Byrnes and the delegation were described as feeling that Mr. Truman had unequivocally given Byrnes full support for his Russian policy which had been under attack by Secretary of Commerce Henry A. Wallace. o OUSTER OF BYRNES URGED New York. — TRe Communist Party opened its 1946 election campaign today with a platform calling for the ousting of Secretary of State James F. Byrnes and the reshaping of American foreign policy for closer cooperation with Russia. The Communists also demanded the political death of Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York and better housing for veterans, hinting of a “squatters’ movement” similar to that which swept London last week. NEW SEC. OF COMMERCE Wahsington — Alfred E. Schin dler, who will become acting Secretary of Commerce when he returns from a Pacific Coast speaking tour, is a native of St. Louis, Mo,, and a close friend of President Truman. As Undersecretary of Commerce, he was the top department official under Secretary Henry A. Wallace. Had he been in Washington he would have been named acting secretary immediately. Instead, solicitor ffarorttt Young, the highest ranking department official in the city, will serve until Schindler’s

return.

Henry Wallace Will Live Up To His Agreements

BURCH MAKES 1 OPPOSED SPEECH

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REJECTS YUGOSLAVIA PROTESTS Washington — The United States has rejected two Yugoslav protests over recent outbreaks in Trieste, it was announced today, and has fired back an American protest slapping full blame for the incidents on the Tito government. The State Department said the American note, replying to complaints over treatment of Yugoslav nationals in the U. S. zone of Trieste, was delivered in Belgrade Sept. 17 by Ambassador Richard C. Patterson, Jr. The British delegates as similar note at the same time.

Ex-Secretary of Commerce Expected To Speak Via Radio Over Resignation — Wallace Expected To Continue Speeches After Paris Peace Conference Is Ended— Wallace’s Aides Are Expected To Follow Chief By Resigning—Even Though Gagged Temporarily Mr. Wallace Expected To Continue Fighting for World Peace. Washington, Sept. 20—Henry A. Wallace was represented by associates today as d i s p o s e d for the present to live up to his agreement not to make any more speeches until the Paris peace conference ends, even though President Truman threw him out of the

cabinet.

That disposition, it was emphasized, is subject to change after Wallace has more time to think things over..

TAFT SPEAKS Chicago — Sen. Robert Taft, (R., O.,) said today that President Truman’s demand for the resignation of Secretary of Commerce Henry A. Wallace was a help to Secretary of State James Brynes. “It is the only thing the President Qould do,” Taft told a press conference. “It ought to strengthen Byrnes’ hand considerably.” News of Mr. Truman’s action came in the midst of a news conference. Taft earlier had termed the situation created by Wallace’s New York address as “ridiculous,” asking, “how can we speak with two voices on foreign policy.”

Wallace probably will make a brief radio talk tonight explaining his decision to hold to his pledge of silence. It was understood that he will say that he felt that he wanted to give Secretary of State James F. Byrnes and the administration a chance to work out the peace negotiations without interference from one whose ideas on foreign policy are in conflict. Wallace got the bad news in a telephone call from Mr. Truman about 10 o’clock this morning. That was about 50 minutes before the President told it to reporters at the White House. Wallace was in his office talking to Harold Young, solicitor of the department and long-time political adviser to Wallace. Young became acting secretary of the department, pending the return to the city of Alfred E. Schindler, Undersecretary o f Commerce. Schindler was in San Francisco. The President’s call was short and he wanted no time coming to the point. He said in effect: “Henry, I’m asking for your, resignation.” Wallace appeared caught by surprise for a moment, friends said, and he paused as he looked up at Young. Then regaining his composure, Wallace replied substantially this: “If that’s your decision, Mr. President, I’ll be very happy to

comply.”

Wallace’s first decision after he received and accepted the resignation dictum was, as an associate explained it, to “be a good sport” and stand by his pledge not to speak or make statements until after the Paris meetings, which are scheduled to wind up about mid-October. ' Wallace’s plans after the deadline were uncertain, but political friends said they were certain he would speak in behalf of the election of “Progressive Congressmen and Senators.” Young was expected to submit

| his resignation shortly to follow I his chief out of the department, i Other aides brought into the I department by Wallace also were expected to quit. Wallace declined, however, to make any immediate statement beyond the 26-word letter of resignation which he sent to the

President.

Wallace’s Letter of resignation to the President said: “Dear Harry: “As you requested, here is my resignation. I shall continue to fight for peace. I am sure that you will join me in that great en-

deavor.”

“Respectfully, “Henry A. Wallace.” GOP FEARS LOSS OF HOUSE SEATS

COP Candidate States Views Not Shared By Gov. Gates

While Congressman Raymond Springer, Republican, advised a group of political workers assem-* bled in Heekin Park Tuesday evening how to get votes this fall at the polls and yelling Sugar, Sugar, Sugar, another fellow candidate, A. V. Burch, state auditor, addressed the local Lions Club and pleaded for the return of the direct primary for nominating all public officers in Indiano. The Congressman’s speech, no doubt, would have drawn applause from his GOP sympathizers, but the expressions of the state ticket candidate Burch did not bear ap(Continued On Page Three) EDITORS HEAR CLIFF TOWNSEND

Party Names Incumbents On Danger List In November Election

The Republican Party leadership has prepared a confidential list of Congressional Districts now held by Republicans which it fears it may lose in the election next November. The list, which inadvertently came to The Democrat direct from Republican National Committee headquarters, contains the names of GOP incumbents considered “dangerous from the Republican point of view.” It presents a sharp contrast to the optimistic statements given out by Republican spokesmen for public consumption. In its releases and speeches to the public, the Republican Party has predicted that it would capture control of both the House and the Senate. That would mean gaining from the Democrats 26 (Continued on Page Three)

THAT MAN IS HERE AGAIN

John Bricker Called The “FJarding” of The Old Guard GOP

Democrats Gain In Maine Voting

Robert E. Hannegan, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, today sent the following letter to F. Harold Dubord, National Committeeman for the State of Maine: “I have examined the returns of the recent election in the State of Maine, and nothwithstanding the majority vote for the opposition, which was expected, one incontestable fact stands out which the press of the nations appears to have overlooked: Namely, that the Democratic Party’s showing in Maine this year was very much better than in 1944 “This was true in every Congressional District. The average improvement over 1944, for our party, was better than seven percent, whereas the Republican vote showed a recession of about the same proportion. “While we at headquarters are not basing any predictions on the 'Maine results, we believe the Democratic improvements, together with the corresponding shrinkage in the Republican vote, reflects even in that traditionally Republican State the growth of disatisfaction with the performance of the Republican minority in Congress, and the defection from Republican ranks of those voters who insist on a party program.”

Ex-Secretary of Commerce Henry A. Wallace

Senatorial C a n d i d ate Headlines Democratic Editors Meeting Complete text of the address of M. Clifford Townsend, Democratic nominee for United States Senator before members of the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association at their annual fall banquet Saturday night, Sept. 14, in the French Lick Springs hotel. Members of the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association and

other friends:—

The people in a country where they have a free government depend on the press for their information about their government. That is, they depend on the press if they have a free press. The United States has the freest press in the world. Let’s keep it so. Lincoln, one of the four f greatest American advocates of democratic government said “Let the people know the facts and the country will be saved.” The best means the people have to get the facts is through a free, vigor-

ous and honest press.

The loss of the right of individuals and the press to criticize is the beginning of the end of freedom, the decay of Democracy. Any political party, public official or candidate for public office who resents or becomes “sour” from public criticism does not understand true democratic

government.

As your Governor for four years, I know whereof I speak. I was both complimented and criticized by the press. Sometimes, I thought unduly in both cases. However, I believe when my employers, the public — added the criticism and praise together and divided by 2, which they generally do, they about got the facts. Our Constitution calls for freedom of religion, freedom of speech and freedom of the press. To these, our party is trying to add by action, freedom from want and freedom from fear. But over and above all, we must keep the freedom of the press. The first thing all dictators do is to curb, shackle and “hog tie” the press. They first start to do the thinking for the people and later issue orders through the press to the people. Even though a small number of our newspapers are unfairly biased — (they don’t fool the people long) it is better than having the government dictate to the press. One of the great blessings of these restless times is the freedom of men to say and write what they think. For out of these expressions will come the ideas and the public opinion to settle the many conflicts that have arisen all over the world. You editors are performing a service that we have become so accustomed to that we take it for granted. You bring into the homes of your readers the daily news and the editorial expression of opinion that stimulates others

into thinking.

We cannot hope to solve such frightening problems as inflation, control of atomic energy, and world peace without an enlightened public. The President of the United States, powerful as he is, cannot do the job of public information. Nor can Congress, or a political party, or the government. It rests with you editors to bring the facts and your judgment into the homes of your community. • . In those parts of the world where the people are not inform(Continued On Page Three)

Remember John W. Bricker, the “new Harding of the Old Guard Republicans” who was i Thornhs E. Dewey’s running mate in 1944, and who hit an all-time low for fanning race hatred, smearing Roosevelt with red paint, and spreading “tall stories” about a labor Utopia under a

GOP administration?

Bricker has been out of the public limelight for two years, but he’s trying again—for a seat in the U. S. Senate. And those two years have changed neither his tactics nor those of the Ohio

gang in back of him.

“The people of Ohio,” the late Sidney Hillman said in 1944, “and the people of New York . . . each owe the nation an apology—you for producing John Bricker and we for producing Thomas Dewey. When John Bricker talks, he leaves no doubt in anyone’s mind that he is an old fashioned Hoover reactionary and a whole-

hearted isolationist.”

A glance at the impressive list of political bosses, Nat. Assn, of Manufacturers head and giant corporations in back of the former Ohio governor sheds additional light on this Senatorial contender to divest him of all the shadows 1 his party has attempted to cloak him with. Behind Bricker stand men who still are arch isolationists and thrive on racial discontent, who have fought price control, social security and labor savagely. In top position is the almighty Taft family, whose complete control of Cincinnati—from the court house to the kitchen gas—has (Continued On Page Three)

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Hannegan Airs Falseness Of Republicans’ Claims WAR SCANDALS Republicans Have Become Sensitive On BeINl/P^TIPATtn ‘ n £ halted Reactionaries — Now They 111 V Co I IliH ICU Claim They Are the Liberal and Progres-

sive Party In America, Says Democratic Chairman — Liberalism of GOP Was Clearly Demonstrated In the Defeat of Charles LaFollette In the May Primary,

AH By His Own Party.

Senator Says Railroad Of-

ficials In Uniform

Bilked U.S.

It’s open season on war tract profiteers in 1

con-

national

GOP IS STRONG LABOR HATER

Union Busting Campaigns Are Planned By The

Republicans

The tip-off for a crack-down on labor in the event of a Republican victory at the polls next Novem ber was given at the G.O.P. State Convention held in Dover, Dela-

ware, last month

Assembled in the capital of the DuPont industrial empire, the convention adopted an anti-labor plank in its platform which leaves no doubt about the party’s intention to deprive labor of the many gains it has made in the last 14 years, and to launch out on a un-ion-busting campaign for which the giant corporations have long

been spoiling.

Intimating that “the pendulum of power has swung too far in labor’s direction,” the convention indicated its determination to seek a return to the days when management wrote its own ticket and labor had no chance to assert its

fundamental rights.

“There must be, and we advocate,” the labor plank adopted by the convention stated, “a re-ex-amination and revision of the great bulk of pro-labor legislation of the past two decades that has contributed so mightily to building up modern labor organizations into Frankenstein-like monsters now so powerful that they dare defy the government that thus

promoted their growth.”

In commenting upon the action of the convention, Senator James M. Tunnell (Dem., Del.) said, “The anti-labor plank of the Delaware party is iq harmony with the anti-labor record of the national Republican party in Con-

gress.”

NLRB First Target

Senator Tunnel, who is recognized by labor as one of its staunchest friends in Congress r cited the National Labor Relations Act as the first target upon which Republican sights were being trained. This law, sponsored and passed by the Democratic Administration, is labor’s Magna Carta. It establishes collective bargaining as a substitute for coercion and violence in industrial relations, and for the first time in American history put labor on an equal footing with industry. One of the first acts of a Republican Congress Senator Tunnell indicated, would be to repeal this law or amend it so that it could no longer serve as a means of bringing about orderly and equitable settlement of industrial disputes. Also high on the Republican list for repeal or drastic amendment, Senator Tunnell pointed out, would be the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, which placed a floor under wages and a ceiling over hours f«r millions

capital, with the FBI joining the Senate’s Mead committee in forcing out the sordid story from a tangled skein that will be exposed

to public view.

While the headlines went first to the dancing generals and Congressman Andrew J. May of Kentucky for their part in the Garsson munitions scandals, actually the bigger fish haven’t been hook-

ed.

Among the other subjects soon

to be aired by investigators is the ma J°y speecn or in famous Canol oil project — a war gressional election

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Robert E. Hannegan, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, in a nation-wide radio address last week, discussed at length the Republican Party’s claim—as made by its own leaders—of being

“liberal party” in America.

TAFT, WHERRY 2 GOP RIVALS

Both Are Candidates For Minority Leadership

In Senate

Can Senator Taft be slipping? Can it be that GOP party leaders are beginning to lose faith in Robert. Well, just recently, the former treasurer of the Republican National Committee, Sam Pettengill, issued the following statement: “Republican members of the House and Senate are disappointed in Senator Taft’s leadership. There is a feeling that he fights bravely at the beginning and then flinches at the final barrier. This has been charged to his account both in' the OPA fight and on the Wagner - Ellender - Taft public housing bill. He told a House Committee, considering that bill, that “the private enterprise system does provide food and clothing, but housing is not provided by the private enterprise system. “Mr. Taft’s colleagues felt that this was a wholly gratuitous concession of sociaslist ” In a following paragraph, Pettengill says “Some minority members of the Senate feel that the coming leader of their group is Kenneth Wherry, the hard-hit-ting ball of fire from Nebraska, who defeated the veteran Senator Norris in 1942 and now is minority whip.” Pettengill might have added, of Senator Wherry that he is also the man who tried, unsuccessfully, to defeat price control. o Local Democrats To Meet Sept. 26 The first major political gathering for local Democrats will be held September 26th in the circuit courtroom at eight o’clock in the evening. M. Clifford Townsend, Democratic nominee for the United States Senate, will make the principal address. There has never been a candidate from Indiana for this high office who has been closer to the common people, especially the farmers, than Cliff Townsend. He has been a real “dirt farmer” all his life except the terms he served as governor of Indiana and lieutenant governor. After his term as governor he served in the agricultural department under Franklin Roose-

velt.

Jack Reynolds from the C.I.O., George McMahan of the A. F. of L. and Raymond Johnson, wellknown Washington Township farmer, are in charge of the meeting. There will be other speakers not yet announced. It is hoped that a capacity crowd will be in attendance. o Becomes New Dealer To Get More for Corn

the

It was Mr. Hannegan’s second major speech of the current Con-

campaign.

“Nobody — not even the man with eyes on 1900 — likes to be exposed as a reactionary,” Mr. Hannegan said. “The Republican leaders have grown sensitive about this. So now they tell us

turbed by their party’s lack of a program. A Renublican voter who has a family to support by his job is interested in keeping that job. A Republican business man who is making a living is interested in the business he will do tomorrow and next week and

that they not the Democrats are I ? ext year - Th ? y do not vvant i^AmeHca. 30 ' 1 pr ° greSSive party : doTo^TanTa golemment

“They appropriate the label, but when we look for action from the Republican Party, what is liberal and progressive about

it

“Ask that saddened and be-

wildered few who are called the party’s ‘liberal wing,’ Senator Wayne Morse, Republican of Oregon, for example, commenting on the generalship of his own party, a few months ago said:

“Senator Taft, in his radio*

tirade against progressive legis- j lation, demonstrated in a fright-

ening manner why the common | Business is now in a dither over men and women of American j the prospect of a naralvzin^ incannot look to reactionary RC- ffmTdjT caused by the competilion

between prices and wages.

will sit back and let that happen/

WAGES-PRICES AND INFLATION

Business Can Avert Disas-

ter By Opening: Its

Books

Out in Illinois recently the State’s most typical farm family was named. They’re Scott Neccessary, 42 of Shirley, 111., his 1 wife Elsie. 39, his two daughters, Helen, 19, and June, 12, and two sons, Joseph, 15, and Herschel Wayne 13. When asked about his politics, Necessary had this to

say:

“My folks are Republicans. But in 1930 I got tired of 13-cent corn and went over on the other side of the fence. I’ve been there ever

of industrial workers. A cardinal! since. I’ve done all right under

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publicans

Ask LaFollette. “What is liberal about the Republican Party? “Ask Republican Congressman Charles LaFollette, who was defeated by his own party’s machine in Indiana. Said LaFol-

lette:

“L will continue to fight for liberal, progressive legislation, but I believe the Republican party is not the vehicle that I can

use.”

“Or ask Governor Griswold, of Nebraska, another member of the clipped wing, who was defeated in the primary. “In New York ask Congressman Joseph Clark Baldwin, who incurred the wrath of the ‘oldfashioned conservatives’ by daring to vote for progressive measures. He lost out to a Wall Street lawyer. “Or ask Robert LaFollette of Wisconsin, recognized as an outstanding liberal through his 21 years in the Senate. He turned to the Republican Party for endorsement. But he turned to it in vain. The lesson Bob LaFollette learned in one State may well be produced by liberalthinking Americans in every State in the Union. “What has happened to these men? Is it mere coincidence that all have fallen by the wayside? Or have they been screened out of the Republican ticket of 1946 in a planned, deliberate purge of the party to eliminate any trace of forward and progressive thinking? “I ask that question of the Republican Party’s rank an file, its average citizens. I think I know the answer. “These people are deeply dis-

It says this must be prevented. And with ponderous solemnity business says the v/ay to stop it is to keep wages from rising. Business is not worried about increasing prices. Only increasing wag-

es.

Business seems to have learned nothing from the last depression, the last war, or even from last month. Its high-priced economists apparently are hired not to tell business the fundamental facts of economic life, but to tell business what it wants to hear. So they go into a brainstorm and come out with the solution— keep wages down. Business then spends thousands of dollars propagandizing the public. It points to labor as the villain in the tragedy of inflation. The country will be saved, it says, if labor cpn be prevented from obtaining more money. The Teamsters’ Union has some pretty good economists of its own, but it doesn’t need to consult them for the answer to a question as simple as that over which business is making its outcry. The answer is that neither wages nor prices can rise to abnormal heights without carrying the other with it. If wages rise to the point where they eliminate (Continued On Pace Three'

The wives of Prince Mehou. One was a king’s daughter, but the prince also thought highly of his other wife, who was only a little less high-born. Read Charles Robbins’ story of love thousands of years ago. It appears in The American Weekly, the magazine distributed with next week's CHICAGO SUNDAY IIERALDAMERICAN.

Wallace, Independent Thinker For many months nothing has caused quite the sensation as the speech made in New York by Henry A. Wallace, Secretary of Commerce. The fact that Henry Wallace dared make a public speech stating that he did not whole-heartedly agree with our present international policy immediately brought forth a vigorous storm of disapproval from the press all over- the country. The press would have the public believe it almost amounts to a national scandal. What most of the writers have failed to tell, however, is the fact that there are man/, many thousands of people of both parties who agree with Wallace on this subject affecting world peace. Wallace is a practical man and has always done his own thinking. He has never allowed any party to dictate his policies. For many years he and his father were ardent leaders in G. O. P. politics in Iowa. His father served as congressman from his farm district for many years, but finally despaired when the legislation he presented in favor of the farmers of his state was given only “lip service” by the Republican Congress, and no beneficial legislation for his constituents resulted. He finally deserted his party and turned to the Democratic party where he eventually got support for his farm program. With this family background Henry Wallace was bound to have developed into an independent thinker, into a man not bound by party lines. This country is to be congratulated that it has statesmen of this calibre, who, in the face of criticism, have the temerity to voice their own convictions at a time when the world’s peace depends upon so much. Maybe a little freer discussion of the world problems now might bring us to a better understanding of them. This is no time for “yes” men—both parties have too many of this type of statesmen. If any other high-ranking Artiericah has anything to suggest on the subject of international peace, now is the time—one year or ten years may be too late.