Evening star., 1944-10-16
1900 Welcome
'DeweyPartyin
East ST. Louis
Governor to Press
Attack in Major
Address Tonight
BY J. A. O'LEARY,
Star Staff Correspondent.

6AN WV - ~ 81. LoO1o,
Oct. 16.-The battle of states
ments'' between Gov. Thomas
E. Dewey and the White House
was to be pressed forward with
increased force in another major
campaign speech in st. Louis
tonight.
Gov. Dewey arrived at East ST.
Louis, Ill. at II am. and was
greeted by a crowd estimated at
1000, on hand to watch the parade
from the station across the Missis-
sippi River to hotel headquarters on
the Missouri side.
In the welcoming group were Gov.
Forrest C. O'Donnell of Missouri.
Republican Senate candidate: Jean
Paul Bradshaw, the partys candi-
date for Governor of Missouri;
Barak T. Mattingly, Republican ma
tional committeeman, and Mrs.
Frances OMeara, national commit
teewoman.
Gov. Dewey accused President
Roosevelt last night of hiding be-
hind "evasions by his associates"
and of sinking to the use of the
White House to make headline
for Today -old release by the pub
licity director of his party in pub
licizing documents Saturday imply
ing that the Republican candidate
was guilty of distorting facts in
campaign addresses.
The Republican nominee. however,
made no reference to letter from
Mai. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey includ-
ed in the White House releases, in
which the selective service director
said he was expressing only his own
views in telling Denver press con-
ference in August that it would be
about as cheap to keep men in the
service as to set up an agency on
the outside to care for them.
Speech on Two Networks.
Asked about this omission, James
c. Hagerty. Gov Dewey's press rep
resentative, replied: Just wait"
This led to the conclusion that the
Governor would have something
/ further to say on ehis point to-
night in St. Louis. His speech at
10 O'Clock Washington time will be
broadcast by NBC and the Blue
Network.
For more than d month Gev.
Dewey has pounded away at the
Hershey statement as evidence that
the New Deal is afraid of its
ability to provide jobs for the re-
turning soldier. Gen. Hershey told the
President it was an expression of
his personal opinion in a field
over which have no responsibility.
He also argued that a congressional
committee subsequently was in
formed that the needs of the armed
forces to defeat Japan and the
availability of shipping would be
the regulating factors governing
rate of demobilization.
The efforts in Washington Satur-
day to combat Gov. Dewey's speeches
am the Governors prompt re-
loinder, in which he repeated nearly
all of his past charges, made it ap-
parent today that the campaign has
reached fever heat, and that there
will be few dull moments from now
until November 7.
| Treated as Direct Statement.
Gov. Dewey asserted that this
statement put out at the White
House to show that he had turned
speeches and other documents from
administration and official sources
to his own purposes by quoting Sc
lected passages was the same as one
the publicity director of the Demo-
cratic party issued 10 days ago to
party speakers. Selling on its re-
! issuance by the White House, Gov.
Dewey treated it as a direct state
ment from his opponent and said:
1T seems regrettable that the man
who wants to be President for 16
years should find it necessary to
hide behind evasions by his associ-
ates and should sink to using the
White House to make a headline for
a 10-day-old release by the publicity
director of his party"
| Lie cdilleI part Ol JOp. DeWey
statement follows:
Il have read Mr. Roosevelt's state
ment issued by him at the White
House in which he belatedly at
tempts to answer my speech of three
weeks ago at Oklahoma City"
Statement Not New.
But this statement he puts out
is not new. Exactly the same state
ment was put out by the publicity
director of the Democratic party to
its speakers 10 days before. Mr..
Roosevelt has found it necessary to
dust 1t off and issue it with the
sponsorship of the White House
In his statement Mr.. Roosevelt
confesses that every single state
ment / made in my Oklahoma City
speech was exactly correct down to
the last period and comma.
Mr.. Roosevelt's failure to prepare
this country and the resulting price
(see DEWEY, Page A-I4J