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A Paper For The Home SUNDAY INDEPENDENT The Weather Partly cloudy, colder! Monday: fair, warmer. 38TH YEAR, NO. 52 — 4. PAGES CMTED PKES9 WlM KeWB Srrtir* WILKES-BARRE, PA.. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1944 PRICE TEN CENTS ^ fc f Jap Defenses on Leyte Crumbling^ Shelling Holland Escape Funnel Naval Toll Now Set at 48 Ships v F.D.R. Says GOP Tries I To Embrace His Reforms On a 'Me Too' Basis 100,000 Hear Him Ridicule Opponents; Bid to Business Men Advocates Lower Taxes Chicago, Oct 28. (UP)—President Roosevelt, addressing a crowd of more than 100,000 in Soldier Fleld tonight in one of the most spec¬ tacular appearances of his political career, heaped scorn upon his Re¬ publican opponents for attempting to embrace New Deal policies and made a strong bid for business sup¬ port by advocating reduced taxes to help private enterprise provide 60.000,000 postwar jobs. Hours before the President ar¬ rived at the huge arena, long lines of Chicagoans pushed their way into the field despite a cold wind which swept the massive standi. Tonight's crowd was probably the Isrgcst ever addressed in per.'ion by Mr. Roosevelt, rivaled only by his 1936 crowd in the Hollywood Bowl In California. Olves Post-War Plan The President made a sweeping review of what the administration had done since 1933 to aid the workers, the farmers and the busi¬ nessmen of the nation. Then he listed a number of things he wants done after the war to keep Amer¬ ican economv up to present levels or raise it higher. After the war. he said. "»n ade¬ quate program" -to assure "full realisation of the right to a use¬ ful and remunerative employment" must provide this country with close lo 60,000,000 "productive jobs." He forf.«aw a vast expansion of our peacetime productive capacity, proposing that "the government do Its part in helping private enter¬ prises to finance exnaiwion of onr private industrial planU through normal Investment channels." As an example of what he had in mind, the President said large and small business "must be en¬ couraged by the government to ex¬ pand their plants and to replace their obsolete or worn out equip¬ ment with new equipment." "And to that end. the rate of depreciation of these new plants and faculties for tax purposes should be accelerated." he said. Foreign Trade OpfMirlunlty The President then turned to future foreign traile. saying "never again must we in the United Stales attempt to Isolate oiirselvc.-. from the rest of humaaity." "I am confldeni.' he added, "that with congressional approval, the foreign trade of the United States ran be trebled after the war pro¬ viding millions of more jobs. "Surh cooperative measures pro¬ vide the soundest economic foun¬ dation for a lasting peare. And. after this war, we do not Intend to settle for anything less than lasting peace." Mr. Roosevelt made a forthright hid for labor and farm support In this, his first major appearance in the Middle West during his fourth term campaign, demanding that America remain "the land of high wazes and efficient production." "Kvery full-lime iob in America must provide enough for a decent living." he said, promising an rnd sfter the war to wase and salary restrictions. Tn F.nd Wage Control "After the war, we shall, of eourse. remove the control of wages snd leave their determination lo free collectivr bargaining between trade unions and employee.'." Saying that it was "common Sense to see to it it that the work¬ ing man is paid enotigh and tint the farmers earn enough." the (resident struck at the Republi- (Contlnued on Page A-1.')) DEWEY AHACKS Says Farm Program Was Exploited for Political Profit Albany, Ocl. 28. iUP>¦ Voicing his confldence that he will win the ' presidential election next month, ;Gov. Thomaa E. Dewey of New York returned here today after fell¬ ing a political audience at Utica that "your new President will never juse his office lo .separate the coun- tr>-." "Your new President," Dewey added in a brief speech from the rear platform of his campaign itrain, "will never use his oflicc to !<laim personal or political creoit ifor the magnificent achievements of the military leaders and the snirlflccs of tl'- American people and their sons." Several hundred persons, carry¬ ing banners which read "Wc Want Dewey." "No Fourth Term" and '•Win With Dewey." gathered around jthe rear platform of tho train when 'it stopped here en route to Albany I from Syracuse, where the GOP {standard t>carer made a speech at- Itacking the Roosevelt adminlstra- ilion's farm program. Walks From Station Dewey told the rrowd that It was .juat "like old home week" and that 'he was glad lo be "campaigning jin my own home state." I "Change in administration can ioiily mean that we will end the chaos, bungling and confusion in Washington." he said. ' "When wc have a new adminis¬ tration we can go forward and win the war even quicker." When the (Jovernor arrived in Albany, he dismis.spd his chauffeur who was waiting at the station and he and Mrs. Dewey walked lo the executive mansion. He tip¬ ped his hat and chatted with people who greeted him along the way. 't'ontinued on Page A-14> Cologne Gets War's Worst Raid Paralyze Center of German War Traffic; Support Dutch Front; Yanks Attack Supplies By DOl'GALD WERNER Lodon. Sunday. Oct. 29. TPi Huge forces of RAK heavy bomb¬ ers hit Cologne Saturday with the greatest weight of explosives loosed on that ruined Rhine city, wetting towering fires in the railyards as German war traffic pa-i-ied through while .'iSO American heavy bombers blasted Hamm and Mucnster, sup¬ ply funnels for the Dutch front. A third heavy blow against Uer¬ many from the air appeared to be i in the making a few hours later when a steady stream of RAF big bombers crossed the channel in a southeasterly directions, requiring more than an hour to pass over the ' coast. Mosquito pilots flew over Cologne I four hours after the raid and re- I ported fires were raging out of I conlrol through the city. < More than 1.000 big RAF prtnes twere out over Cologne —the target Ifor the first historic 1.000-plane assault—and Walcheren Island at , the mouth of the Schelde Estuary, where the targets were German sun batteries commanding the ap- ^pMaches of Antwerp. Seven bombers and one fighter failed to return the air m.nistry :)nnounced. Rail (enter Paral.ixed The Germans had been .-ible to repair a few lines through Cologne where Allied raiders wrecked the rail yards only two weeks previ¬ ously but Saturday's record assault was reported to have once more paralyzed operations. The previous record weight of bombs dropped on Cologne was in the April 20, 1944, raid. The new assault not onl.v involved a heavier weight but al.so a greater propor¬ tion of hiyh explosives in the load as the Allies underlined Propa¬ ganda Minister Paul Joseph Goeb¬ bels' remarks that air raids were the Germans' "greatest worry at present." A U. S. Strategic Air Forces com- • Continiied on Page A-l."*) j s 7th Fleet Sank Every Ship in Leyte Gulf; 2 Battleships, 4JCarriers Got Alao 4 Cruisers, 10 Destroyers; 4 More Carriers Sunk Above Luzon By Admiral Halsey*s 3rd Fleet Men. ^lacArthur'a Headquarters, l..e)1r, Fhlllpplnes, Sunday, Oct. 3B.— (IP)—(ien. Doiigla.<i .MacArthur today conKnttiilsted \lce Adm. Thomas ('. HInkald and every man of the Meventli Fleet on one of history's very few IOO per rent naval tlrtories, after revealing in his communique that every ship of the Japanese forre had been sunk. Two iMttleshipa, two heavy rrulnero, two light cruisers and 10 destroyers were wiped out in the L.eylr (<ulf battle. • 7 Columns Hit Effort To Escape Take Coast Fortress; Rest of Front Awaits Freeing of Port of Antwerp By .MA( R. .JOHNSON U. S, Pacific Fleet Headquarters, Pearl Harbor, Ocl. 28.—'UP)— United States warships and planes definitely sank two Japanese battle¬ ships and wiped out iin otire force of four carrier's in the Baltic of the Philippines, boosting Japan- ¦ CSC losses In the Western Pacific last week lo 48 ships sunk or dam¬ aged, it was disclosed today. j A communique issued by Ge.i.' Douglas MacArthur announced that an entire force of 16 Japanese war-i ships was wiped out in the Surigiio Strait, between Leyle and Min¬ danao, In one of the three action:s which raged in Philippines walerh. That force comprised two battle- ] ships—the 30-year-old. 29.330-ton' battlewagons Huso and Yamashiro —two heavy cruisers, two light cruisers and 10 destro.vers. A delayed dispatch from Gcorpr Jones. ITnited Press correspondent with Adm. William F. Halsey's U.' «. Third Fleet, said that a force l).\.MAGED, of four Japanese carriers was sunii on Tuesday off northern Luzon. U. S. China-based planes prob¬ ably sank one destroyer Thursdav night in the South China Sea and damaged another More In ('amotea 8ra MacArthur also announced that one destroyer was sunk and a light cruiser was damaged In the Ca-1 inotes Sea west of Leyte on Thurs¬ day, but did not specify whether 1 (Continued on Page A-4) Latent figures boottled un¬ official Japanese losnes for the week'a fighting to: Si'\K: Tuo Battleships, fight Cruisers, 11 De¬ stroyers, Four Carriers —Total 25. PROBABLY SUSK: Two Battleships, One De¬ stroyer—Total Three. Six Battle¬ ships, Seven Cruisers, Two Destroyers—Total 15. In addition, China-based planes sank five mer¬ chant ships, making an overall unofficial enemy loss of 48 ships. Chiang Kai-Shek Asked Removal of Gen. Stilwell 'Tncle Joe" Also Disafirreed With (len. (.'hennault and Ivoid Mountbatten; China-Burma-India Theatre Now Divided (Copyright. 1944. by I nited Press) Washington, Oct. 28. 'Vl') Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell, hero of thej North Burma campaign and "Uncle Joe" to thous.tnds of worshipful hghtii'R men. has been relieved nf all his command and slafT posts in ' the Far Kast at the request of Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek. ¦ The sensational development -hrsl of it.^ kind involving a four-star <eiieral in this war was brought to linht by a brief While House | innounccmenl tnat titilwtll lias heen relieved of his Far Kasterii com- | mands and "recalled lo Washing- ——^^^——^^———^¦^— Ion " The War Department added conduct of the Far Eaatern phase! lati that he would he given "n of tlie war against Japan, now and important but at present stilwell. fil-vear-old soldier of the uiidi.sclo.sed assignment. Neither oj^ school, was commander of U. S.I disclosed nny of the factors lead-,forces in the China-Burr.in-Indii' ing to .Slilwolls recnll. Theater, chief of staff to Chiang; The United Press, however, learn- ^^ ed that Chiang had requested thr ^' ^Iflf arlion in a climax of loiig-standina ^ -. ¦ differences with the American over r^ '^Hr Red Drive Above Warsaw Takes Polish Fortress May Turn to Aid Forces in Fierce Strugjfle Inside Prussia's East Wall; Advancing: Deep Into Slovakia By ROBKRT >ll SKI. London, Sunday, Oct 20 (UP) Russian troops, cracking powerful Nazi fortifications in tuP outflanking drive northwest of devastated Warsaw, captured the Polish fortress of Jablonna-Legionowo yesler¬ day. while Berli.i said the Red Army had opened an offensive in Latvia to clear the iast Soviet-claimed territorv of German forces. SimultaiK ously, two Russian armies advancing westward across Yugoslavia approached the Danube River on a 70-mile front. Reach¬ ing the great water harrier at Apatin. onlv ^.^ miles northeast of the Yugoslav citadel of Osijek, thci Russians split in half and all but of the 20-mile wide Nazi "East eliminated a big German bridge-' Wall" In East Prussia, head in tlie river's hiigo right- j Warsaw-Prussia Drives Linked angle bend northwest of Belgrade. Marshal Konstantiii K. Rokos- Marshal Tito announced that sovsky's 1st White Russian Army the Yugoslav liberation army had j drive northwest of Warsaw was freed the big Adriatic port of closely linked to the East Prussian Spalato (Split) after three days of ' violent street battles in the Dal¬ matian coastal lown. Ruthrnia Liberated By JA.MKS F. MrOLI.NCV I Allied Siipreine Headquarters. I Paris, Sundnv, Oct. 29. lUPi Brit- I ish troops siiiaslicd Saturday lo within two miles of Breda and be¬ gun slicllinu tliat lasape funnel for [eight battered Nazi divisions, while i Canadian units tore away the enemy's west flank in Holland by capturing tlie ancient aeacoast [ fortress of Bergen Opzooiii. Three columns drove against I Breda, site of the Royal Dutch Academy and last big enemy ! stronghold south of the Maas. scor¬ ing gains up to five miles. The British drove closest from the cast along the Tilburg Road while PolLsh units approached within six miles in a drive up from Antwerp and Canadians rut in to¬ ward the city from the left flank jof the fast shifting 7.^-mile front. I Seven Powerful Coiunins I The Canadians were reported less than four miles southwest of Breda. I The Canadians. Brilish and Poles were surging forward In at least seven powerful columns against a foe that was trying to break offi action at many points in hia haste I to escape across the Maas. ! I The drive was being relentlessly. pressed despite continued German 1 {counter-attacks on the Allied east-, ern flank, where the enemy scored 1 I local gains. The counter-blows' were made by infantry and tanks | which sallied out of the Siegfried Line. But already their bridges had been wrecked behind them bV Allied bombers, which Saturdav enjoyed their first day of good weather in a week. | Swift progress was reported be¬ ing made In clearing the German pockets on either side of the Schelde Estuary. On the south, where the enemy already had been pushed out of effective range of Antwerp Channel. Canadian troops counted a total of S.n22 prisoners since the.v began operations against the pocket two weeks ago, and onlv a few hundred Germans were believed left. Gain on North Shore | On the north shore. British am-; phiblous forces and Canadian troops driving from the Dutch (Continued on Page A-14) ! New Landings On West Coast Reported Near Last Water Barrier to Manila Reathed by Amerltan Fortes As MacArtltur's Men Fan out; 20 Planes Downed over Beath By >\ILIJAM B. DI( KLN.SON tien. .>lac.\i(4iur's Headquai teix. Le.vto. Philippines. Sun< day. Oct. l»9 (ri»)—.Vmerican troops, driving west and .south thiouKh lapidly deteiiorating Japane.se defenses, have seized control of a 67-mile front on I.eyte Island, Gen. DouKlas .\lac.\rthur announced today, a.s other V. S. forces on Samar I.sland to the north reached the Ia.st water barrier on Ihe load to IVIanila, 2.'>0 miles away. 1 ] (The .'VIelbnurne radin reported tlial American landing and naval forr«-s aiready were operating along Ihe west coast of Leyte I bordering on the Caniotes Sea.) I . ''^ ''S.'*?" ••"•••'•¦ast admitted the Japanese were in retreat on : •'<•>»«¦• Tokyo also reported that 20 to SO Amrriran transports off , the I.#yte capital of Tacloban «ere pouring more men and supplies ashore. Covei-ed by fifth Air i'oroe fighters and anti-aircraft whirh ahot dowri 20 enemy raiders on tho American beachhead, dismounted troopa of the First Cavalry Division drove Into Carlgara in a three-mlla advance along the bay on the northern sector, while troops of til* 24th Division piclted up four miles in the Leyte Vallay. where tha enemy now is fighting only a delaying action America's "hottest" fighter pilots I In the Southwest Pacific, including , the famous Maj. Richard I. Bong, now were operatinR from Leyte, snuffing out Jap hit-and-run at lacks. Five hours after his arrival here Friday, the 23-ycar-oId Bong got his 3Ist enemy plane to become America's leading war ace. Stop Counterattack As the 24th slashed at Alsnga- lang, 10 and a half milea north¬ west of Palo, and threw back a Jap counterattack against Santa Fe. six miles southeast of Alanga- lang. elements of the Seventh Dlvi- square miles, waa reported In tht firm grip of Maj. Gen. Verna D. Mudge's dismounted cavalry and Filipino guerrillas a/ter a six-day cnmpalgn. The rcporta indicated that tha Americans driving up Samaria weat coast had advanced some 63 miles north of the newly-won capl* tal of Catbalogan to reach the 10« mile San Bernardino Strait separ« ating .Samar from Luzon. The dispatches mentioning "full control" of Samar did not mean that the Americans and Filipinoa sion on the southern sector drove had occupied all of the islands, but to within a mile of Dagami, ke.v|had taken key areas which en- junction of the Burauen-Dagam road, eight miles hrlow .Santa Ve. linking the coa.stal sectors, Mac- Arthur announced. On the left flank, patrols broke into the towns of Santa Ana, four miles .southeast of tho key junc¬ tion of Burauen. and near San Andre and Pangban. south of tho Marabang River. Minor rontact with the enemv wa.s reported in¬ land from Abuyog where six coast¬ al guns and 40 vehicles gathered in a motor pool were captured, the communique said. Control Srd I.argest Island Smar. third largest of the Philip¬ pine islands wilh an area of ,V124 abled thom to exercise control. Defenders Disintegrating On the Leyte front to the south. the Americans were driving for¬ ward in all directions ngalnsl Jap¬ anese forces officially described as bordering on "rompieto disorgani¬ zation and disintegration." (Tok.\o claimed that .Tapanesa naval planes were attacking tha American transports and that sine* the invasion of Ivcyte on October 20 had sunk or damaged 108 war¬ ships or transports. The enemj^ broadcast said that in the latest series of attacks on Friday threa large transports were sunk, threa (Continued on Page A-15) offensive. Smashing forward to; wipe out an enem.v bridgehead In a triangular neck of land east of the| confluence of the Vistula and the I Narew rivers, Rokossovsky's troops [ In Czechoslovakia and northern ^.^^e battling lo secure the flanks Hungary, meanwhile. Soviet forces qj reported bridgeheads on the; advanced deeper into the province [xarow River from which Soviet of Slovakia following virtual liber-1forces were preparing to strike! I Bong Becomes Leading U. S. Ace ^ Yfith No. 21 over Philippines If By rRAN( IS I. McCarthy W'ilh Far Eastern Air Force, Leyte. Philippines. Oct. 27. (UP) -Major Richard I. Bong, the 23- year-old sharpshooting Armv flier .^from Poplar, Wis., todny chalked "P his 31st Japanese plane live hours after arriving in the Philip- Pines, lo become America's leading war ace. Bong, who earlier this year kept "]' "piggy-backing" for a 4.'i-niin- "te demonstration of Iho aerial bag Of tricks, arrived al Leyte with his {jnd-based lighters to operate from ^^nillppine airfields. ''functioning from strips wrested 'rom the enemy a scant week ago. i In Today's issue < lassllled Kdltnrial Movlea Social Bperts „ Outdoor Radio .,. ,the Fifth Air Forces P-38 patrols. I lo one of which Bons voluntarily i attached himself, rrlurnod from I their flrst action against the enemy ! with an eighty [irr cent average downing four of (h'o .laps iinwar\" I rnoiisii to iross their eager paths. •laps Al larked Brarli Altliough the.v arrived shortly I after noon, it was not until just before dusk that the P-38's met ; the enemy. Talting advantage of low-hang¬ ing cloud lOvcr. four "Oscars" i (radial ensined enemy fighters), wlUch bear a striking resemblance to our P-,'J(1'3. and a divebomber with fixed landing gear, scurried in over our beachhead dropping their eggs and departing amid a fierce ack-ack barrage. Bong, flvins wiHi M»j- J^ry Johnson. K.iqciic. Arc, and Col. Robert .Morrison. Tccumacli. Neb., look iii> tiic pursuit. Tile Anicric.in trio ovcihaiilcd the enemv group ..—. ,20 mile." iiortlnvst nf Ti loban A—30 1 (Continued on Page A-iJ ation of Rulhenia and, in advances of as much as 18 miles, cleared all but 36 miles of the vital Lwow- Debrecen railroad and hammered to within seven miles of the strate¬ gic rail junction of Cop. Moscow's midnight communique early today said that Red Army troops had "reached the ap¬ proaches" lo Cop. For the first time since Moscov,- announced the great offensive in East Prassia six days ago, Soviet war bulletins ignored the bitter ititlggts hul both Moscow and Ber¬ lin reports told of a titanic battle of attrition raging in the drpths toward East Prussia's southern borders. j Capturing Jablonna - Lcgionowo, 10 miles nortliwe.st of Warsaw, Inj a three-day. three-mile advance, Rokos.sovsky's troops also took«ixl other towns and villages and se-l cured control of nine miles of the Vistula's east bank northwest of Praga. | Latvian Offensive Opens Berlin meanwhile reported that, the Red Army was attacking in' Latvia. The new offensive, design¬ ed to clear the last Russian-claim-J cd territory from the grip of the, (Continued on Page A-4) ¦ War l^uiiiiiiarT ..A—Sl . C—2 A—20 B—S B—I .MAJ. <iEN. A. (. WEUEMKVERl Succeeds (ien. Stiiurll and deputy lo Britis^h AdniirHl' Lord Louls'Mountbatteii, command-] cr of the Allied Southeast Asia! Command. He was relieved simul- taneouslv of all three posts. Forres ^'oiiipiele Mhakrup lis recall, v.hicii necessitated a shalieup in both the U. S. and .Mil d lommaiid .setups in the Far Hlatl. was preceded not only b.v ir¬ reconcilable conflict of lenipera- inenl and military concept wilh I (Continued on Paja A-13) P.VriFIC—American invasion forcea races up west coa.st of .Samar to within 6.") mile.s of Luzon wliilc un¬ official toll of Japanese warship lo.sses in Battle of Philippines ri.ses. WE.STERN FRONT—British Empire forces tijjrhtcn trap on .")(1,000 or more Germans in southwest liollanij. RUSSIA—East Pru.ssian front dispatches report Ger¬ mans have thrown several crack Panzer and Grenadier division.^ into battle and are counter- attackinjf ujiward of 20 times a da.v. AIK \\'.\R—Cologne given heaviest raid as rail centers are smashed. IT.\LV—Torrential rains bog down operations on the Italian front and stall .American Fifth and British Eighth annies below Bologna. :n.-. YANKS FANNING OUT IN PHILIPPINES okyo JAPAN
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A Paper For The Home
SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
The Weather
Partly cloudy, colder! Monday: fair, warmer.
38TH YEAR, NO. 52 — 4. PAGES
CMTED PKES9 WlM KeWB Srrtir*
WILKES-BARRE, PA.. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1944
PRICE TEN CENTS
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Jap Defenses on Leyte Crumbling^ Shelling Holland Escape Funnel
Naval Toll Now Set at 48 Ships
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F.D.R. Says GOP Tries I To Embrace His Reforms On a 'Me Too' Basis
100,000 Hear Him Ridicule Opponents; Bid to Business Men Advocates Lower Taxes
Chicago, Oct 28. (UP)—President Roosevelt, addressing a crowd of more than 100,000 in Soldier Fleld tonight in one of the most spec¬ tacular appearances of his political career, heaped scorn upon his Re¬ publican opponents for attempting to embrace New Deal policies and made a strong bid for business sup¬ port by advocating reduced taxes to help private enterprise provide 60.000,000 postwar jobs.
Hours before the President ar¬ rived at the huge arena, long lines of Chicagoans pushed their way into the field despite a cold wind which swept the massive standi. Tonight's crowd was probably the Isrgcst ever addressed in per.'ion by Mr. Roosevelt, rivaled only by his 1936 crowd in the Hollywood Bowl In California. Olves Post-War Plan
The President made a sweeping review of what the administration had done since 1933 to aid the workers, the farmers and the busi¬ nessmen of the nation. Then he listed a number of things he wants done after the war to keep Amer¬ ican economv up to present levels or raise it higher.
After the war. he said. "»n ade¬ quate program" -to assure "full realisation of the right to a use¬ ful and remunerative employment" must provide this country with close lo 60,000,000 "productive jobs."
He forf.«aw a vast expansion of our peacetime productive capacity, proposing that "the government do Its part in helping private enter¬ prises to finance exnaiwion of onr private industrial planU through normal Investment channels."
As an example of what he had in mind, the President said large and small business "must be en¬ couraged by the government to ex¬ pand their plants and to replace their obsolete or worn out equip¬ ment with new equipment."
"And to that end. the rate of depreciation of these new plants and faculties for tax purposes should be accelerated." he said. Foreign Trade OpfMirlunlty
The President then turned to future foreign traile. saying "never again must we in the United Stales attempt to Isolate oiirselvc.-. from the rest of humaaity."
"I am confldeni.' he added, "that with congressional approval, the foreign trade of the United States ran be trebled after the war pro¬ viding millions of more jobs.
"Surh cooperative measures pro¬ vide the soundest economic foun¬ dation for a lasting peare. And. after this war, we do not Intend to settle for anything less than lasting peace."
Mr. Roosevelt made a forthright hid for labor and farm support In this, his first major appearance in the Middle West during his fourth term campaign, demanding that America remain "the land of high wazes and efficient production."
"Kvery full-lime iob in America must provide enough for a decent living." he said, promising an rnd sfter the war to wase and salary restrictions. Tn F.nd Wage Control
"After the war, we shall, of eourse. remove the control of wages snd leave their determination lo free collectivr bargaining between trade unions and employee.'."
Saying that it was "common Sense to see to it it that the work¬ ing man is paid enotigh and tint the farmers earn enough." the (resident struck at the Republi- (Contlnued on Page A-1.'))
DEWEY AHACKS
Says Farm Program Was Exploited for Political Profit
Albany, Ocl. 28. iUP>¦ Voicing his confldence that he will win the ' presidential election next month, ;Gov. Thomaa E. Dewey of New York returned here today after fell¬ ing a political audience at Utica that "your new President will never juse his office lo .separate the coun- tr>-."
"Your new President," Dewey added in a brief speech from the rear platform of his campaign itrain, "will never use his oflicc to ! |
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