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Dewey Comes To City To Visit Campus

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31
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July
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1947
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Dewey Comes To City To Visit Campus

Ruthven Gives Luncheon For Governor

Tour Of University Made By Family From New York

Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York began today his attempts to “sell son Thomas, jr., on the University of Michigan,” with a visit to the campus where he pursued his undergraduate studies in the early 1920’s.

His "sentiment-tasting” trip, billed as a vacation, drew near its close as the 1944 Republican presidential nominee came to Ann Arbor for the announced purpose of showing his family the University.

This afternoon, after a luncheon and reception in his honor at the Michigan Union, with University President Alexander G. Ruthven as host, Dewey was to be taken on a tour of the campus. Accompanying him on the jaunt are more than a dozen newspapermen, political associates, home-town friends and New York State troopers—in addition, of course, to Mrs. Dewey and young Tom, 14, and John, 11.

Saw Sigler In Flint

Last night Dewey met Michigan’s Gov. Kim Sigler at a nonpartisan and "off-the-record" dinner in Flint.

At a press conference after the dinner, the Wolverine state’s chief executive declared, in a repetition of his week-old stand expressed in Salt Lake City, Utah:

"Michigan has a very distinguished senator, and that is all." This probably meant, observers said, that Sigler would continue to string along in Michigan's favorite-son support of Arthur Vandenberg for President.

Informed that U. S. Senator John Bricker of Ohio had declared that “I give my unqualified support to Senator Robert Taft of Ohio in his candidacy for the Republican nomination for the Presidency of the United States,” Gov. Dewey said:

“If I've got to comment on everything said in the United States of America, I’m going to be a busy person. I have no plans, literally, for appearances outside of the state of New York after this vacation trip."

Visited Relative

Dewey visited briefly with a grand-aunt in Flint, before appearing at the dinner meeting which involved a double-barreled press conference with Sigler.

As New York’s chief executive, who was born in Owosso, moved here today he still had not announced candidacy for the Republican nomination for President which he won in 1944.

Speaking after a series of "skits” at a meeting of General Motors Corp. officials in Flint Wednesday night, Gov. Dewey outlined personal reminiscences of his trip which included stops in nine states.

Gov Sigler of Michigan insisted, in response to questions from the audience, "the smart guy who can win will make a good candidate."

Actually, there was little doubt but that Michigan's former special prosecutor of the one-man graft grand jury, had failed to indorse Dewey, who spring-boarded from special graft prosecutor to governor of New York.

RETURNS TO CAMPUS: Gov. and Mrs. Thomas E. Dewey and their two sons, John, 11, in front, and Tom, jr., 14, in back, pause in front of the Michigan Union for a photograph with Herbert G. Watkins, assistant University vice-president, left. The governor and his wife arrived here for a luncheon at the Michigan Union at 12:15 and were to make a tour of the campus with their sons this afternoon before leaving for Detroit and thence for Albany, N. Y.