Funeral services held for Clare Luce’s daughter
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Anti-racket bill called up for early Senate hearings
Joseph Eastman of ODT to be first witness for Hobbs bill, designed to curb wartime interruptions
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Labor’s change seen in draft of better law
Plea for ‘national service’ called admission of failure
By Rep. Mike Monroney (D-OK)
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Governors’ poll on soldier vote –
Dewey stands pat on New York law
Bricker to call special session of Ohio Legislature after Congress passes bill; other states plan action
By Robert Taylor, Press Washington correspondent
Washington –
Governor Thomas E. Dewey believes that New York’s soldier-vote law is adequate to assure every New York soldier a vote, and he plans no further recommendations to his legislature, but Governor John W. Bricker plans to call a special session of the Ohio Legislature when Congress passes a soldier-voting bill.
The two Republican presidential possibilities made their positions known in a poll of governors conducted by Senator Theodore F. Green (D-RI).
Mr. Dewey, replying through his secretary Paul E. Lockwood, implied that the federal government had failed to cooperate with New York’s soldier-vote program. The reply said:
The New York law for soldier voting appears to be complete and, if the U.S. government had consented, would have permitted every soldier from this state to vote in each of the last two elections.
Mr. Bricker reported that:
It is my purpose to call a session of the legislature as soon as Congress acts on this matter.
Nine other governors replied, like Mr. Dewey’s secretary, that their state laws were adequate to permit soldier voting, and that no further action was contemplated now. These states were Alabama, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, Montana, North Carolina, Oregon and Pennsylvania.
Altogether, 23 governors either consider present soldier-vote laws adequate, are waiting to see what Congress does, are considering the problem and have reached no decision, or will make legislative recommendations “if necessary.”
Two governors, John Moses of North Dakota and Lester C. Hunt of Wyoming, mentioned that they favored federal action. States in the waiting group include Delaware, Massachusetts, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, Tennessee, Arkansas, Idaho, Vermont and Washington.
In 16 other states, governors have made or will make recommendations to their legislatures, in regular or special session, for soldier-vote legislation. These are Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Oklahoma (where a referendum is planned), Rhode Island, Virginia, West Virginia and Wisconsin.
Senator Green is reporting the results of his poll to the Senate Privileges and Elections Committee, as evidence of the need for federal legislation. Congressional supporters of such action have cited cumbersome and conflicting state laws as the principal reason for a federal military ballot to assure each servicemen a vote on federal offices.
Poll: Political air of Illinois is all for Dewey
Some Willkie backer opposed to Chicago for GOP convention
By George Gallup, Director, American Institute of Public Opinion
With Chicago picked as the GOP convention city, surveys of Republican sentiment show the political climate of Illinois is more favorable to New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey than it is to Wendell Willkie.
Although Mr. Willkie declared he had no personal objection to the selection of Chicago, some of his backers were opposed to the choice. The Midwest as a whole, and Illinois in particular, is the center of Mr. Willkie’s weakness as a candidate.
The center of his strength is New England, the stamping ground of Governor William H. Wills of Vermont, who came out with a strong endorsement of Mr. Willkie early this week.
Dewey clearcut choice
The contrast between Illinois and New England is revealed in surveys by the Institute. In Illinois, the current top choice of the Republican rank and file is Governor Dewey. He receives twice as many votes as the next candidate, Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Mr. Willkie and Governor John W. Bricker are the next two choices, running about even in strength. Governor Bricker has gained in recent weeks, whereas Mr. Willkie has lost a little.
In New England, Mr. Willkie enjoys a marked advantage over all other candidates. An Institute survey covering Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont shows him receiving nearly twice as many votes as Governor Dewey. When Governor Wills endorsed Mr. Willkie, he was clearly reflecting the sentiment of this area.
More than half for Willkie
The vote follows:
Asked of Republicans: Whom would you like to see the Republican Party nominate for President?
Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont only
| Willkie | 55% |
| Dewey | 29% |
| MacArthur | 10% |
| Bricker | 4% |
| Stassen | 2% |
A recent survey in Massachusetts likewise found Mr. Willkie leading, with a vote of 40% as compared to 30% for the next most popular candidate, Governor Dewey.
Airman frozen by flak wind crawls back to man his guns
Bombardier whose sense of duty made him cripple for life named for highest award
By Douglas Werner, United Press staff writer
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Small, adequate British industries may beat U.S. to post-war word market
By Henry J. Taylor, Scripps-Howard staff writer
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Packard: Cervaro hills stained brown with U.S. blood
Push against Italian town takes many lives and much courage
By Reynolds Packard, United Press staff writer
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Steele: Overseas Yanks in favor of national service law
Soldiers want anything that will stop strikes; believe drastic measures justified
By A. T. Steele
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Roosevelt’s conferences with press drop sharply
President now meets half as often with reporters as he did before war
Washington (UP) –
President Roosevelt, who used to hold regular twice-a-week press and radio conferences, has averaged only a little better than one a week in the last year.
Wartime travel and occasional illnesses have been the principal reasons given for Mr. Roosevelt’s lessening contacts with reporters.
Continuing to “take it easy” after his recent illness on orders of his doctor, Mr. Roosevelt did not hold his press conference today. He also scheduled no Cabinet meeting, but held three appointments in his residential quarters.
For years it was the President’s custom to meet with newsmen virtually every Tuesday afternoon and Friday morning to make announcements and to submit to free-for-all questioning. These conferences were rarely cancelled and held even when he was out of town for the benefit of reporters traveling with him.
Since Pearl Harbor, however, Mr. Roosevelt has more and more missed his news conferences. Not one is held when he is out of Washington in wartime because reporters now travel with him only on exceptional occasions.
Mr. Roosevelt held only 59 press conferences in 1943, compared with 96 in 1942, 91 in 1941 and 96 in 1940, the third-term campaign year. During the 10 months he was in office in 1933, he held 83 conferences. The total since he took office on March 4, 1933, is 929.
The President has held only three news sessions since Nov. 9, shortly before he left the country for the Cairo and Tehran Conferences. He was out of the country for about five weeks and had no contact with press or radio reporters during that period. For the past two weeks, he has been ill and recovering from an attack of influenza.
He held two news conferences shortly after his return, one on Dec. 17 and again on Dec. 21, and one after Christmas, on Dec. 28, but none since.
A few days after the Dec. 28 conference, Mr. Roosevelt became ill and although he has virtually recovered and is holding a daily schedule of appointments, his physician, RAdm. Ross T. McIntire, has recommended that the President “take it easy” for a while.
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Gen. Stilwell carrying out war promise
Uncle Joe said 2 years ago he would beat Japs in Burma
By Darrell Berrigan, United Press staff writer
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Reporters are dizzy viewing style parade
Top-flight designers show dazzling array of new fashions
By Lenore Brundige, Press staff writer
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I know that no one at the time knew how sick he truly was, but he is trying to lead a nation at war. He might be a little bit busy lol.
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Roving Reporter
By Ernie Pyle
In Italy – (by wireless)
The Stars and Stripes in the last war had many men on its staff who later broke into great prominence in the literary and magazine world. It is too early yet to tell what the various Army newspapers throughout the world in this war will produce, but we have a couple of likely candidates over here.
Soldiers and correspondents both would cast a willing vote for them right now. One is a reporter, the other a cartoonist. The reporter is Sgt. Jack Foisie of Berkeley, California; the cartoonist is Sgt. Bill Mauldin of Phoenix, Arizona.
Both are very young, both are quiet and earnest, both have native talent, and both have that ephemeral and uncultivated ability to express the soldiers’ viewpoint.
Sgt. Foisie has been on the staff of Stars and Stripes only since the invasion of Italy last July, yet he is already the man for whom the paper gets the most requests from units that want somebody to write about them.
Foisie has been overseas almost 15 months. Before transferring to the Stars and Stripes, he was in a tank-destroyer unit. He drove a half-track and ran a .50-caliber machine gun.
He fought all through Tunisia. He was never wounded, but in the Battle of Sidi Bouzid last February, he lost his half-track by a hit from an 88mm cannon. Along with it he lost everything he had, including his portable typewriter.
Before the war, Foisie was a reporter on The San Francisco Chronicle. When he went into the Army, he was determined not to lose the writing touch, so he brought his typewriter with him and wrote scads of letters to the folks back home, just to keep his hand in.
Doesn’t need practice now
He says his folks can’t understand how he could write them so often when he was in combat and is so bad about writing now that he has a quieter job. The answer is, of course, that he doesn’t have to write letters for practice anymore.
Toward the end of the Tunisian campaign, Jack wrote to Stars and Stripes and asked if there were any chance of getting on the staff. Capt. Boo Neville, the editor, wrote back a two-word letter:
Why not?
Jack thought he was being facetious and supposed that was the end of it. But 10 days later, here came official transfer papers with travel orders calling for transportation by airplane.
This airplane business so astounded and impressed Jack’s company commander that he cleaned up, put on his dress blouse for the first time in Africa, and personally drove Jack the 50 miles to the nearest airdrome to see him off.
Among correspondents Foisie has a reputation of always being willing to go anywhere and do anything. But he is shy, and for months kept in the background, just filling his job and saying nothing. Now that he knows everybody he jokes and kids as much as the rest.
When I first knew him, last summer in Sicily, he had a fairly marked hesitation in his speech. But on rejoining him in Italy, I noticed that it was gone. I spoke to him about it and he said he thought it was because he had gained more confidence in himself.
Although he is a good soldier, Foisie went up and down in rank six or eight times before joining Stars and Stripes, due largely to the whims of various commanders.
Loses regard for rank
His ups and downs destroyed all his regard for rank and now he truly doesn’t care whether he’s private, sergeant or lieutenant. He actually argued against it when they made him a sergeant on Stars and Stripes, and wouldn’t wear his chevrons until forced to.
Jack Foisie is 24. He is a darkish blond, with hair starting to thin in spots. He has a big chin, and his eyes are set back in his head, giving him the appearance of looking out of two narrow slits. He is left-handed, does not smoke, and is of French extraction but speaks little French.
He was born and raised in Seattle and went to the University of Washington for two years – until his folks moved to Berkeley. His father is Frank P. Foisie, head of the waterfront employers of the Pacific Coast, which means he’s the man who sits across the table and argues with Harry Bridges.
After the war, Jack has two ambitions – to finish school and to get married. The marriage business comes first. Her name is Florence McTighe and she lives in Trenton, New Jersey. The big question will be how to make a Californian out of her.
Foisie has lived a rugged life both as a combat soldier and as a reporter. Recently he has been on special assessment, living in town and making trips out to the airfield by jeep. He has found it interesting but is beginning to be a little frightened.
He said:
I’m getting soft. The life is too nice. It would be better to be back at the front living with doughboys and writing about them.
Tomorrow we’ll tell about Bill Mauldin, the cartoonist.