GOODE ENING E
1
ERYBODY:
I' ■
sure you have all been listening to
t
hose
fieeJ
speaker• from Texas who have just provided the
De ■ oc•atic
Convention with its most
dea■ atic
moments.
The
fight to see which Texas delegation is seated is
still on.
For
a
time it looked as though both delegaticm
would be seated, each delegate to get half a vote.
Well, the Democrats are putting on ouite
a
■ how
-- ~s
they
always
do.
There was plenty of drama behind the scenes
at the Convention here in Cbic~go today, and much of it
was not out in the open.
All of it centered around the
Vice Presidency.
At noon, the aomination looked likely
for Seantor Barry Truman of Missouri, according to
the majority of the political reporters.
But early
this afternoon that picture changed when somebody
threw a bombshell into the parade and the man who threw~
111
Mayor Ed Kelly of Chicago, pot9ne in Democaatic circle
Ql!!!!!lQB
anc hitherto a
strong
rooter for Truman.
Kelly suddenly
announced that he had changed his mind on the round
that the Missouri Senator doesn't want the job.
Half
an hour later, Truman, in so many words, told the
United Press that he is not a candidate for the nominatio
but will accept if the delegates insist.
The
Missouri
Seantor is a vastly different fig~
in lational
affiars today from
what
he was when he first
beca ■ e
a
Seantor ten years
ago.
Then he war
a
Judge un
heard of outside his own county.
Be was nominated by g
the
De ■ ooaats
for tbe Senatorship as a compromise
candidate, nominated by Boss Pendergast, head
of the corr
upt
Iansa•
City machine.
Truman himself made no bones
about it, and even acknowledged Pendergast
as a
war ■
personal friend.
After he took his seat, the Senators
on both sides of the political line began to respect
hia because he worked hard and intelleigently.
Be did
not emerge into the National limelight until some time
lat after Pearl Harbor, when he became Chairman of the
Coaaittee to investigate the conduct
of the war.
At that
QQB.!l!!!!Ql! -
2
aost
people admit he has dome a good · b
JO•
Truman is sixty years old.
Bis
first job was
bottle
duster
in
a
drgg store.
Be
studied law two
years,
lost his shirt
ruaning
a haberdashery s~op at
Independence, Yissouris, and after the First orld
War
served three terms
of County Judge.
In the war he comm
coamanded a
battery
of field artillery and was
demobiliad
with the rank of Major.
Nobody h~s yet ventured a public guess at the
real reason for the desertion
of the Truman cause by
Mayo
~elly.
It may be the reason he gave.
But
in the
politi-
cal scene there are always suspicions.
Of course,
Ielly's action stimulated the ~opes
of the sup
orters
of Vice President Henry Wallace.
It also gave a shot
in the arm to the c ndidacy
of Senator
Barkley
of
K
~
n-
tucky, •near Alben.•
{
Dear Alben got a warm hand this afternoon whe
be nomin t•d President Roosevelt for his Fourth Term.
The man
who bitterly lashed into his Chief on the floo
ot
the Senate several months ago -- today compared him
a
with Thomas Jefferson,
andrew
Jackson, Abraham Lincoln,
Grover Cleveland, and Woodrow Wilson.
In fact, accordi
to the Kentucky Senator, Franklin Delano Roosevelt com-
bines all the finest aualities of all his predecessors.
His leadership, said Bralkey has been unsurpass~
in the history of the United Statesif, indeed it has ever
been eoualled.
He declared that Mr. Roosevelt had
reetored our financial institutions, rebuilt agricultural
prosperity, reduced unemployment, and given to labor
the boon of collective bargaining, minimum wages, and
aaxiaua hours.
Barkley also praised unemployment insurean
insurance and the abolition of c ild labor.
The Senator made
a
passin
g
reference to bis nua-
rrel with Mr. Boosevelt over the tax bill.
Be
had not
always agreed with the
P
resident, he admitted, and added
that
if
he ever has occasion to disagree in the future on
an1
policy of course of action, he will do it again.
But, he
continued, it is one thi
n
g
to differ from
s
friend,
even though he be
P
resident.
It
is
ouite
a
no
er
to
discard him.
Barkley attacked the Re
nu
blican'
for s~
y
ing t~
Ad ■ inistr
a
tion
is compose
d
of ol
J
men.
No birt
h
certific
said he, can or will constitu•e the prime
o
ualific
a
tion
for the Presidency of these United States.
The
same
Question of old age was taken up this
morning by Senator Jackson of Indi
a
na, •ermanen• chairma
of the convention.
President Roosevelt he said, is in
the full vigor and flower of his energy.
And Jackson
ad•ed
that Yr. Roosevelt bas more rugges vitality even
today than any two men the opposition have to offer.
)
The finish of Barkley's nomination sp
e
ech w
a
s
the cue for one of those difficult, wild convention
hullabaloos.
The delegates paraded cheeri g and shouting
more
than half an hour.
All the state's joined in except
the deleg
a
tions from V~rginia, Mississippi, and Texas.
They
sat
f
a
st in their chairs
uaaoved
and silent. But
aoaebody
snatched the Texas placard so
it
joined tthe
parade anyway.
ARR_gQ!Y~!!lQ!_
It
is a
foregone conclusion that the
will be
no ■ inated
tonight on the
The
suppv
supporters of Senator Barry Byrd of Virginia and other
Southern opponents of the Fourth
term,
claim there
will
be a
hundred and forty votes or more against Yr. Rooee-
,elt. In any event, the fight will be academic without
the faintest doubt about the autcome
.
Following his renomination the President
will
apeat
to the Convention and to the country at large
o,er
that
air.
HITLER:
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In
C ica
,·
o tod
1
Y, one
opic of conversation
oversbadowe
even
the Convention, even the bitter fig~
for the Vice
Presidential
nomination.
The most exciting
news
for
delegates ands
ectators like, •as the bulle~
tin telling of the latest attempt to blow up
Adolf Hitle
This time the
Fuehrer
escaped by a far narrower margin.
However,
be did escape;
with
slight burns
and
bruises.
The official Nazi news agency announced that the
singed
F
Fuerber then went back to
~
ork and had a conferance wit
Mussolini, the now much b e f u d d l e d ~
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•
le are not told where all this occurred, or
·
whoa
they suspect.
The guessing is that they will lay
it
at the door of either the British Secret
Service,
the Polish Underground or agents of the Soviet.
Though the Fuehrer escaped, several of the men
around him were seriously injured, including several of
his most intimate
associates,
one a Lieutenant Gener~l,
and another Col.
Gen.
Alfred Jodl,
his
c!ief of
•ilitary
staff.
All this
reminds
us of the
time bomb at a
R!!~ti -,
2
veteran's
Reunion in the 4unich beer cellar oon the
night
of
November eighth,
1939.
On that occ sion Hitler h
-
ad
left
the
hall
fifteen minutes before
the
bomb exploded.
But eight
people
were
killed
and sixty injured.
A
few
days
later, the Gestapo
arrested to
British agents,
·
kidnapped
them from Venlo,
Holland, and
accused them of
having instigated the explosion.
The Nazis never
told
the
world what
happened to
them but
British
aut oritias
believe
the
GPstapo
executed them.
Since
then,
there have been
several
rumors of
atte
pts to assassinate the Fuehrer, but none of them
were ever verified.
In
Washington,
reporters asked Secretary of
State Hull what
he
had
to
say.
The Secretary replied
that he would be glad
to
comment copiously if the
Fu•hrer's
injuries had been serious enough.
In Normandy, Nazi Mrshal Rommel threw n
army of
fitfty
thousand men into the breach to stem
the
advance
of
the British beyond Caen.
All
of
which
did not prevent Montgomery's men from ca
p
turing
on the
main railroad
by
which the
British took the Germ
n's
by surprise
yea~
fAtrday,
carried them eight miles beyond the enemy lines.
but nn
it bas begun to slow
up.
The Nazis
p
ut out a story that a new Allied ars
is now inactionin Normandy, an army comannded by Lieutent
General
George S. Patton, an army composed of Americans
and
Canadians.
The
Allied Suppeme command so far has
declined to make anycomment on this.
G
oo
flying
we
-
~er in Europe, an
so Un6le
Sam's
Eigbth and Fifteenth Air Forces attq,oke.:r fourteen
targets
in Germany.
The raiders based on
Britain
and
Italy
included nearly three
t
ous nd planes.
The skied
were
filled with fleets of Flying
Forts
and Liberators,
escorted
by
fighters.
This time they dropped more than
four
thousand
tons
of bombs.
This was the fifth day of a continuing day-
light
offensive,
concentrated prinaipally on Beipzig
Kunich, and
Friedrichshafen, bombing engine facto~ies,
as1embly plants, synthetic oil
plants, and other
strategic
objectives.
ROBOYBS
~------
The
ermans continue their attack on Englen
with
Robot bom s all 1st ni ht
But
the
a
,
a
Evidently the Nazis are establishine launchin
platforms
at new points.
A souadron of British Lancaster
bombers
last night attacked a large depot, which had been
set up in some limestone caves, about thirty miles
northest of Paris.
T~ese oav~s
ere
forme~ly used
as mushroom farms and make ideals or ge places for the
bombs.
One story from England
is that aome of the fly-
ing torpedoes came from t~e
direction
of qolland,
·n ➔ icat
ing that the Nazis
have
erected
platforms
t ere.
The Tokyo radio today took u
t
e c orus of
rumors that the Nazis are about to let loose a fl6ck
of tremendous flying rob
o
ts on New
tork.
The
~azis
have been
putting
ojt that story for
some
d~ys.
They
Profess
rojuctilesweughing ten tons
each,
travel
to h ve
ing at
speed of seven thousand, five
undred miles
an
hour
th
~
t
ly
t
subs
r
osp ere
so
a
0
~
t
roug
e
ROBOYS
immune
to interception.
Sot e Nazis
claim.
The launching platforms
afor
these monsterr
are supposed to be
in Western
Jutland.
ut agents of•
the Danish under
g
roun
ave
been
investigating
the
story and
have
found no trace of such launching
platforms.
l!!~!
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·
The doughboJs of the Fifth Army in Italy hav
splashed ~head on a twenty-five mile front as far as
the Arno River, through a drenching rain.
They are no
in possession of more than half the
plain
between
Pisa
and Florence.
On the Adriatic side, the ~oles of the Eighth
Ar ■y,
under Sir Oliver Leese, have driven up the coast
eight miles beyond Ancona, while the Fifth is an e ual
distance Horth of Leghorn.
All in all, the ~llie~ of
bm
both armies are plowing right into the Gothic ~ine across
Italy about which the ~azis have boasted so muh
:
The Germans are retreating so fast t a t
the Allies have
difficulty
keeping in contact with
them.
RUSSIA
------
Two
big it~ms
of
news from Rus
ia to night.
First of all,
a
new offensive est
and Nort west
of
Koe.
in
Poland.
Stalin, in a special
order
of the
day,
described
it as
an off
nsive
of
■ ammoth
proportions,
proceeding
on
a front ninety-three
miles
wide w
icr
has already
p
ushed ahead fort irty-one miles, and
as
driven to the verge of the
powerful
efense
line
w
ich
the Germans
have
erected along the
Bug
River South of
Brest-Litovsk.
This is
the
eighth full scale
drive
that the
Red Armies
have
launched now in
less
than a month.
It began three days a
g
~,
but was only reporte~ today.
The First White Russian Army
has
alrea
dy
outflanked
Brest-Litovsk on the
South, ~nd
is
wi
hin
forty-se
'P.
n
miles
of
Lublin,
8
railroad junction and ~azi
Qtrong
o~
gurading
Warsaw.
All
in
all,
fewer than nine Sovie
armies
are
attacking the German
defenses along an
ei
g~t
un re
lile
front.
The
t
.
ir
Whi e
Rus
Qia
n
army
i
alre~<ly
battering at
the
g
tes
of
East
russia.
An
still
anot
~
Bi§§!! -
2
bas captured
two
i
g G
erman stronghol s Nor
of
Lvov.
Dispatches from the front
line
report
hat
the Nazi
defenses in front of Lvov are alre
dy
crumbling and
bound to fall before long to the overwhelming might o
tbe Russian steam-roller.
JAPAN
--~--
The news from Japan if anything caused more
excitement
here at the convention than any one thiug
so far.
For it is regarded as far more important than
anJ
■ere
attempt on Hitler's lie. And there is much
comment today over the word tb t Gener 1 Kuniaki Koiso •
and Admiral Uitsumasa
Yonai
r~ in Japan, regarded as
friendly to the United Sta es and Britain, or were
before Pearl Harbor.
In
;
fact, Yonai was the ~apanese
Priae
Minister for six months in Nineteen Forty.
It
was he whom Tojo sue eeded, as the representative and
la
leader of
war lord coioue in
fokyo.
Tojo and his entire ca
we learned
yesterday, resigned after confessing they could not
the
war.
Ntional Democaatic Charrman Hannagin
gites
the first word at the convention and it cavses a
sensation.
Tojo also resigned
as head
of the Society
•hich represents the Totalitarian Party in Japan,
The natural
main
inter retation is that
General Koiso and ~dmiral Yonai have thrue t into th e
Job as a
prelimin
ry tp peace overtures.
The
official
JAPAN
-----
Japanese news
agency
reported
trat
K
oiso and Yonai
visited t e Emperor
at Five
o'clock
O
yo time
0
S\
V,
and received t
e
honor awaried
t em with
grea
trepida-
tion.
At Chungking
as
well as at Washington the
appointment of pro-American and pro-British leaders
to succeed Tojo is naturally regar e
as a
sign that
we
soon may expect a proposal
·
for
a
negotiated peace.
But
acting Sechetary of War Patterson
wa~ms
us
today that
Koiso and
Yonaj may be just window-dress-
ing.
We have yet to le rn who else will consitute the
new
Tokyo
cabinet.
The clfances are,
said r•tterson,
that the
new ministers of the army and
the
navy may be
the
toughest and most ru5hless commanders in Nippon
and
he added that
the J~p•s
need not
hink that
any
change in
their
government will
make
us forget either
what
happened at
Pearl Barbor,
or
their s•vage
tre3tment
of
prisoners.
Secretary
Patt
e
80n
also reminds us that
8
1
"
~o knew the Japanese,
the very beginning,
peo
e
1
'
-
re
JAPAN
-----
ted something of this sort.
They
prophesied
tha as
soon as the Jape met with heavy reverses, they would
bring out leaders
pretending
to be frien~ly to the
United States and
Great Britain.
Hitler has been bo ben ann burned a bit, but
not enough; Tojo is out; F . .
R.
has
just
been% ■
nominal
for~ fourth
ter ■;
I'm
on
my way
back
to the conventio
.
hall -- and Hugh will vou take over.