Show Round Merry I. I Dewey to Launch Launch ct Campaign in f September Mid-September B By Robert S. S Allen AUen substituting for Drew Pearson who vho ho is on vacation V WASHINGTON Governor WASHINGTON Governor Tom Dewey Dewey Dewey- has been doing a lot of ot unreported high high- powered conferring Among those he has counseled wit with j in these private talks are Speaker Jo Joe Martin Martin Mar Mae tin house floor loor leader Charles Halleck Senator Styles Bridges New Hampshire and Senator William Knowland California In these conferences Dewey has presented pre pre- the main outlines of his campaign strate strategy y He hns has sought ad advice cc but in the me main his operational plans are definitely formulated They are arc as follows 1 The G GOP 0 P campaign will get under tinder underway i iway way the middle of September and continue at an undiminished pace until election eve ce 1 J November 1 Dewey will vill make a Labor day speech He doesn't consider it necessary to race around as extensively as President Truman will do that day Dewey vey will confine confine confine con con- conI I fine his electioneering to a major speech at an important gathering I 2 The presidents president's attacks on congress his his chief campaign issue will issue will be met with the countercharge that ho cant can't get along with congress To high light this thi contention Dewey will stress his hi record 7 of teamwork with the New York legislature legis lature and also on all occasions will have prominently in his entourage several or more members of congress 3 Dewey will a avoid void any hard fast promises to balance the budget or cu cut taxes He feels that would be inadvisable because we might not be able to deliver if the foreign situation gets worse Instead Instead In In- stead he will emphasize improving the administration administration administration ad ad- ministration of domestic and foreign affairs affairs af at fairs and eliminating waste and excessIve excessive excessive sive personnel 4 Dewey and his running mate will wm carefully coordinate their major speeches to eliminate conflicts and contradictions t This is to avoid what happened in the 1940 campaign when the late Wendell Willkie and his running mate the late Senator Charles McNary occasionally talked at opposite op op- I poles Close Shave Former 0 OP P A Director Paul Porter is back at his private law practice after a hectic stint as President Truman's special assistant during the emergency session of congress As Porter walked into his office he was exuberantly greeted by Thurman Arnold onetime head of the antitrust division Welcome back boomed Arnold You squeezed out of that one just in ti time e. e lIt If that session had lasted a few days longer they would have got y you u They would have investigated you as a White House spy spy sure as shooting v Hot Oil Commerce Oil Commerce Secretary Charles Charles Charles' Sawyer is on a hot seat scat over a decision on steel oil piping he hc must make in a few weeks The question is the licensing of ot a huge quarter fourth-quarter allocation for export to the J middle east Four big U. U S. S oil corporations are for the piping Standard piping Standard of New Jersey Vacuum Texas company com corn pany and Standard of California They want it to complete their mile 1100 line from the Persian gulf to the Lebanon coast So far only miles have been installed The issue is hotly involved in both domestic domestic domestic do do- and foreign politics Independent U. U S. S oil men are arc violently against any export of the scarce piping I They have been yelling for months that their operations arc are being crippled for lack of of- the material Also army and navy chiefs are skeptical about the trans-Arabian trans pipe line The big oil companies argue their pipe pipeline pipeline line Une would pay itself ot off in a few years in huge oil supplies Even if subsequently lost they contend it would still be a good i proposition for the present I Copyright 1918 Bell Syndicate |