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Archibald MacLeish '19, Boylsotn Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, will be toastmaster of a dinner given by the Americans for Democratic Action in honor of Franklin D. Roosevelt '04. Principal speakers will be Walter P. Reuther, UAW-CIO's president, and Elmer Davis, radio commentator...
...Page One banner in the New York Daily News screamed: HUNT RED GOON IN UAW BOMBING. Inside, in a four-column, copyrighted exclusive, Reporter Jack Tur-cott put the finger on a mysterious assassin who was the "nation's No. i suspect" in the attempted dynamiting of Walter Reuther's union headquarters in Detroit (TIME, Jan. 2). Police in 48 states, wrote Turcott, were hunting one Paul F. Kassay, described by the News as a "Moscow-trained saboteur" and a "Communist fanatic . . . and avowed party hatchet man" who has been "at large" since another sabotage attempt...
...News reversed its hasty judgment. In a page 2 retraction, under a two-column headline, the newspaper reported that Kassay had proved to the News's satisfaction that he had been "many hundreds of miles away" when the bombing attempt (and two previous assaults on Walter and Victor Reuther) took place. Furthermore, said the News, Kassay had never been in hiding, had lived in the same house for ten years, had passed a security check for World War II defense work, denied that he ever had been a Communist, and was "highly regarded in [his] community...
...Clue. The news of the discovery touched off an immediate uproar. The union added another $25,000 reward (to a total of nearly $250,000) for information about the assailants of the Reuther brothers - Walter, whose right arm is still crippled by the attack on him, and Victor, education director in the U.A.W., who lost his right eye in an assassination attempt on him 13 months after Walter was shot down. Side doors to the U.A.W. headquarters were closed and locked and all visitors entering through the front door were thoroughly searched by police guards. U.S. Attorney General J. Howard...
Still in the dark, without clues or suspects, Detroit police suspected that the deadly attempt against the Reuthers stemmed from their successful anti-Communist crusade within the U.A.W. Another theory was that it resulted from their attempts to stamp out the numbers racket that once flourished in the Ford River Rouge plant. Walter Reuther, who had gone straight home from an out-of-town business trip instead of turning up at headquarters that night as expected, refused even to guess what was behind the plot...