\\ ' t. ill,L,u"i t ~ ' • 1 9 4 1• ( GoTernor Dewey of lew York a epped into the Pr eidential campaign todaJ - at least that•• the interpretation which is being given to the addresa he aade in Bew Yort City. Be ca ■• forward with a major declaration on foreign affairs - speaking on the la~ahall Plan.:)juat in adTance of the special ••••ion of Congress called to consider the program of giTin1 economic aid to the tree nations of Western lurope. (coTernor Dewey aaid we haTe le ■uat help the western de■ocraciea)o enable the■ to I witbatand the preaeure of totalitarian dictatorahip.- , le tbinta it 1bould be on a bueinesslite and truly ■■■ . . . nonpartiaan ba111 • . _ 'l'he lew . Yort Goyernor recoamended thf, the larehall Plan be ad ■ iniatered bJ a 1■■t 1enuin• nonparti1an bo : rd headed b1 one of A■erica'• top industrial executiTes - thia •• the best guarantee that • the relief progra ■ will succeed and the moneJ not be wasted. The alternatiTe, ae presented Dewey, was grim. Be put it in these words - •If, as a ■ere hundred and forty million neonle, we•~~ i n the midst of a con q uered world, fro ■ France to China,•• should find ■ ore than a billion people)in an araed ca•p~ under the control of an aggre11iYe 41ctatorabip)arraye4 against~• ELECTI01'S ------ ~he Deaocrats ar~ hailing yesterday's elections as a sign and pOt"-tent of a Democratic Presidential victory next fall~ while the Republicans are interpreting · the signs and portents as toreca•tin1 nothing of the sort. The Democrats appear to ba•e a bit more reason tor their crowing - Ientucky for example, electing a De ■ ocratic Go•ernor, after four 1ear1 of • ~•publican rule. But the G.O.P. hastens to J ■■■ point out that lentucky is nor ■ ally a Democratic 1tate. (1n a nu■ber of cities, Republican layor■ lost out to De■ooratic victor•,) in few Tort State for exaaple, the Republican• lost Schenectady for the first ti ■ e in twent11ears, and were also defeated in S1r.acuae and liagara 1alle. In CleYeland a Democrat was reelected by the largest ■ ajority in Cleveland history. In San Francisco, on the other hand, the Republican candidate for Mayor won out in decisive style a gaibat heavy t~■ 2 labor opposition. syBSTITUT~ - ~ LECTIO!L-2., The latest 11 fro ■ Miaaiaeippi, where the election b a s just been conceded to Judge John C. Stennis -- who goes to the Senate. Be succeed• the late Senator Bilbo, who aroused ao much contro• e ray on the eubject ot white 1upreaacy. The new Senator i1nore4 the racial issue. ~ The Mississippi contest has no national significance; but, . eYerywhere else political 1ootb1ayer1 are fi4ding thoee in@vitable signs and prognoatic 8 tiona tor Nineteen rorty light - the De ■ ocrat1 shouting that the election day o ■ en• are in the ~ r faYor, the wd. .,,. !epublicane denying t~i•A•oual ardor. lell, it• the 014 story - you••• an oaen, and you try to make it your~~ HUGHES The Boward Hu g hes investigation got going again today, though without any of the fireworks that - raised oain at the previous hearing. iB fae~y t h e r ~ The first witness was Charles I. Wileon, President of ~ General E l e c t r i c , ~ ~ head of ta. go•ernaent aircraft procurement.p••1•e114er,at-4h• Be testified that he reco ■aened-. cancellation of the contract for building the giant Hu~hea flying boat, whiob ■ ade its first hop off the water in California the other day. The warti ■ e he&d of aircraft procure ■ent declared today that the e~ecial resson why he oppoae4 the Hu g Ns flying boat project was because it could not be co ■ pleted during the war. The aircr a ft program, according to orders fro• the late President RooeeYelt, was to concentrate on eouipment that could be used for winning the war, and the procurement exper.t1 la Waahington belieY•4 that the war would be oTer before the Bugbee flying boat could be co ■pleted. So the contract wa1 canoelled - and then later the head of Aircraft procure ■ ent learned, ■ucb to bis 1arpri••• that the wort on the plane was continuing. Be said be found that the cancellation had been reYersed because of pressure brought to bear by Jesse Jones, then bead af the Reconstruction Finance Corporation - which was adYanoing the fundsf~t the previous hearing, Jesse Jones testified th at this was on a dvice of President Roosev e lt, who said that so ■uch money had alrP.ady been spent on the Hu g hes flyin g boat, ~~~ w-eR-R~""· All o which technical testi ■ on1 produced little excitement. The headline• caae when a witness appeared who had nothing to do whatever with aircraft. On the contrar1, he waa an of f icial of the Treasur1 Depart ■ent, and the subject on•~*~ which he held forth wae - income tax. It •as brought out that the Hughe• inveatigation had disclosed inco ■ e tax deficienalls that ••1 coat the hi~•• Boward Hughe• Aircraft Co■panie• ~ ~~a..~-o{ - ■ t ■ t ~I• ■ illion dollars in back paJ■ ents. It wa1 " . expre1el1 atated in the proceeding• todaJ, that there 11 no i ■ putation ot fraud or deliberate inco ■ e tax evaaion. (soviet Ru11ia has lost it■ fight againat intervention of the United I tions 1n Iorea - the U.I. voting to send a nine man co ■ misaion to superTiae free I eleotiona in that Asiatic nation.)The vote, by the political coamittee, wae unaniacua - the So•iet1 an4 - - their satellite• not casting any ballota, boycotting the whole thing. la•ing been dtfeated on the iaaue of Iorea, the So•iet• pro ■ptly launched a~•• hea•J attaot , on the pro ~ o•al tor a •tittle Aeeeably•, the next queatloa to co ■ e up. The United States is the 1pon1or of the plaa ,year, · t o cre a te an all" J••~round co ■mittee reoreaenting the General A11e ■bl7, a coa■ ittee in which at ■ attera would be decided by a Tote of two thirds. Viehinsty o~ the Soviets assailed thia on the ground that it••• an atte ■ pt to get around the Security Council, 10 often tied up by the Soviet veto. Be called upon the big powers to r e turn to the days of fk Teberan and Yalta - those big three meetings of W■ • FoosPvelt, Churchill and St a lin. The Aaerican reol7 to this was ■ ade by Delegate John Foater Dullea, who noted that at Teheran an4 Yalta the bit power• decided the fate ■ •x ■alt ot - - aaill nations in secret negotiation,. Thia he argued, aight haYe been neceaaary in w ar tiae, but in tiae of peace, - the little countries 1hould not ha•e their - - 4eat1aiea dec14e4 in 1ecret deal• between the bi1 - fello••• - • (rn China the Chiang Iai-Shet goYern■ent announces the arrest of fifty top-ranting A~mJ otfioera and civilian officials - as Communist spies. laalftskL Thie is the result ot an investigation tba ha• been going on for ■ ore than a year - an investigation brought about by the curious tact that the Co ■■ uniats • ••r• ao well-intor ■ ed about th• military plan• of Chiang rat-Shet. The Chin••• Red Ar■ ies appeared to be ao well aware of whet••• coaia1, when ■ ilitary offen1ivea we~e launched against the ■, that it was apparent they had••••• been tipped off. So investigations were begun at the three chief military headquarters of the Chinese nationalist z arm i es - Mukden, Sian and Peiping. The result is a senaa t ion. Fifty to p milit a ry and civilian leaders arrested ae announced by the Chinese government, and one hundred and CHINA -2 _____ _,_._ fifty a ccording to popular r~port. (At lukden Be~d q uarters of the Chiang Ia Shet forces in the bitter battle for Manchuria, one of the prisoners tonight is Major General Wang Shih Hai Deputy .!_nfor■a tlon ,!irector; The charge is that thh General, •• Deputy infor■ ation director, specialized in - - giYing infor ■ a ~ ion to the eue•y. (All of which would see■ to indicate a gri ■ 1tate of military affairs especially in lanchuria, •here two ■ajor battles are being fought right no•) the baYe been going on torjdaya on t■ two 1ide1 of the key city of Chang Chun -- the Yictorie ■ oYer the !ed1. nationalist• claiaing large - l,OIDQL 1rom London, a s t ory demonstrating the po er bf the motion picture industry -- a British fil ■ producer helping to get appropriate pageantry into the Royal Wedding procession on love ■ber Twentieth. Today, the Lord Cba■ berlain'a ff office iaaued details of the three state processions to Westminster Abbey -- prinoipa ite ■ of course, tbe Royal State Coach carrying the bride and her father. The Lord Cba ■ berlain'• announce ■ ent ■ ade no ■ ention of full dress unifora for the household ca•alry, life guard• and the Royal Horse Guards -- the reds and the blues. Originally, it••• presu ■ ed that because thia wee an austerity wedding, these picturesque bor1e ■en would not wear their full dress, the presu■ption being that the motha had got at those gorgeous uniforms. But recently, Alexander Iorda made a fila of Oscar Wilde's play - t ■ an ideal huaband -- - - - and featured in that rim were the Royal Horse Guards in ful1 dress, breast plates and helmets and flowing ~ white plumes, white gloves and shiny~ length ,, riding boots. Immediately, someone asked the ~ues ion 1,0l!~Qfi - 2 in the House of Lords why should the guards dress - up for a mere movie man when they couldn't do so to escort the royal bride and her bridegroom back from leet ■ inster Abbey in a glass coach. There was no foraal ans~er -- and Lord Chaaberlains office saying nothing, but today, •hen the guards rehearsed for the••• wedding proceaeio - they turned out in their full dreas, those ■ a1nificent breaet ~lates flashing in the dull love ■ ber sty -- •••rything co ■plete includidg aaddlea tz, draped with 1heep1tin1.-1'ro ■ i1e of a magnificent ■ ilitary ebow tor the royal •austerity wedding -- all because ~~ ~ ~ I l l ~ a movie producer ... .,.,....-.;41,!t"'l'-"''a-!' . . . guarda~&'ll'hdMII A A " ft11-:ttnn,~A. ~ - From London we hear of a news blackout imposed to conceal the cut and style of~• gown to be worn at the marriage of the heiress to the Crown. Jb:r, thePe ..lwt-s-Geea pleaty ef o.oaeeal ■ eat ..a~•a.1 th1t-.--!'trM ..t \u---na,-+,ial eer••~ • occasion - skirt For years the •Old Lady of larlborough ~~~~-) House•, as London c lls t h e A ~ ; ( o c ~ has stuck to the fashions of about forty years ago - favoring pastel shades, with~ toque for day wea~. The tooue is the cut of the early lineteen Hund reds, aaking t . he etfe women of this era exclaim - •where did she get that hat?• For evening the Dowager ueen has gone in for heavy brocaded gowns over tight corsets of days of yore. For neck we a r, a high pearl choker, reminiscent of the era of Lillian Bussell. The ancient land of Britain baa gone through ao ■e dizzy changes of late, but there has been one thin1 that hasn't changed, a rock of Gibraltar tradition - the dresses and hats ~ u e e n h t ~ - But now revolutionary ru ■ ora are circulating, furtive whispers that hWW•• Queen lar7 I will appear at her 1randdaughter1 wedding in ao ■ ethin1 new - ■ aybe in one of those ballerina skirts the s ■ art aet ia wearing, or one of thoae pert snappy bonneta •• perched on the back of the head. If that hould turn -L..,..,... ~ out to be true,._ people over there willA that Britain is in an era of change - the British lapire dissolving. . .1.11 this is made the •ore beguilin by the fact, diecloeeJ today, that the ueen Mother has ■ zf ordered her dr~ssmaking shop to observe comple t e silence about he new d ress, blank secr e cy. So~ what gUE!~_MARY_ - 2 will the answer be when the •Old Lady of Marlborough Bouse•.,,••• appears a• the royal wedding? The United Preas ~lai ■ s it has so ■e sort of inside infor■ ation, and predicts that the ru ■ ors will turn out to be false. The U.P. declare• there is good reason to belie•• that, on the gala nuptial day, the Queen Mother'• new dress and hat will be the ea•old 1tyle - eapecially the bat. I I H -- - - - n V u ri t 1 w om·na d b s y mb ical i n - our b l ck h . I n , o h c o u rt roo m od y l k ed ou r def n d e n ts w i b h e l on b ars o t he nn ylv a ni a Dutch, f our of f ici a l s of t he Amish church, t he Uennoni s. W ho was the i r lawyer? None t all - because i t is again t the Amish r e li g ion t o have a lawyer. They walked t o the t a ble assigned to the def nee, where the attorneys usu a lly have their brief c a ses, legal documents, law books - but the church officials of the A m ish h a d noth i n g like the t . On to he t able they slapped down heir hats, black and broad of brim, accordin g to t he style of the Pennsylvania Dutch. Bishop John Helmuth, a deacon, and two others are being sued for forty thousand dollars by Andy Yorder, who charges that be was •mited". Tb t me a ns ostr a cized, ex-communic a ted, put under a reli i ous and social ben. it's m· g hty goodbye. And in an Amish community, ~~~ serious. You m i gh t as we l l /\. when you're miled, p ack u p and say Today, in s u i n g the church i•••••J le a ders, n Y h h iol a , ' on 0 e hurch rul wh i ch en o u 0 n a 1 over a gain. Bu ~ / 4 , . And 's lre dy ~ ? en c · se W' hopeless. ■ be /\- bou b an u 0 0 ile. h • l wb t C u ed bi 0 e OS r i ed, ex-com unic t ed - hav·ng an au omobile i s ~ agains he church rules. I w s told today how Andy pu~led the Bisho 's be~rd, nd the Bishop has a fine one, seven inches long. Andy, in fact, dragged the Bishop tv his beard out of the house on the Yorder farm. That Wab when the Bishop ceme arounct.-and told Andy's father to get Andy off the farm - because Andy was mited for buying that at automobile. The lawyer today put it in the following words - •This made kndy so•••• aad he saw fire. He grabbed the Bishcp by the bea~d, ulled him ou side, and old him - o begone." Ye, tha 's •hat he enraged Andy said - begone! Af er that beard pulling affair, Andy was mited ~orse than ever. Todsy he st ted he was o tr cized and ex-communic te so Em ■ Ji~i•i com letely I H -- ---- ~ b h mi h con r · a ion + he cou dn ' t fin /\ nyo n in h comrtun·ty o X 1 ho · s. So ha as h def en · o . he Amish stiJ.•:r church o~ i cl ls od y i hou he help of any lawyer, brief cases, docum ~ n ts or 1 w books? I t was simple and o he point. Bi hop He l mu h after telling the s ■ •r•t court that Andy wasn't such a good church member, declared: •we fe~l we'll stand on the confession of a it , h which wes writt.en in sixteen-thirty-two in - - - Dortrecht 9 Bolland. W e'll stand on the sixteenth and ,,"ft' seventeenth articles. •The se . two articles have to do with ostr a cis m a nd ex-commuh~c tion - when somebody is mited. They were written in . Sixteen Thirty Two and they~ A law unto this day, so far as the Menonite cohgregations are concerned. ell, any of us who have been out in Pennsylvania Dutch country have a high reg rd for the a/1( Amish. They'-' s ., urdy God fearing farm rs on sup rbly A cul i vated fields, -1Ju t 1 I shouldn't like to be mi ed. ~~~,4~ ~ - a.. WlV'-4 ~ ~ ~ LTP.1947.11.05i.pdf LTP.1947.11.05ii.pdf