I DARE SAY —
…And the pursuit of happiness
By Florence Fisher Parry
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South barred in preparing 4th term plea
Guffey backed resolution urging President to run again
By Lyle C. Wilson, United Press staff writer
Washington (UP) –
Democratic National Committee records showed today that the South was not represented on the Resolutions Committee which proposed at the meeting here a surprise solicitation that President Roosevelt seek a fourth term.
The National Committee adopted the resolution unanimously.
There is no Democratic Party rule that the South must be recognized in allocating such positions of responsibility at party meetings but it has uniformly been the practice to include Southerners on any such group authorized to propose party policy.
Feeds ill feeling
Exclusion of Southerners from the Resolutions Committee will probably aggravate further the ill feeling between the old-line party members and the newcomers among Mr. Roosevelt’s associates whom they term “New Dealers.”
The Resolutions Committee, six men and one woman, was heavily weighted with fourth-term sentiment. The big industrial states and notably the Democratic machines of Mayor Edward J. Kelly of Chicago, Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City, and Senator Joseph F. Guffey in Pennsylvania were well represented.
Senator Guffey, the most active advocate of the fourth term, is not a National Committee member and therefore could not have been on the Resolutions Committee. But his Pennsylvania organization was well represented with two of the seven members by his sister, Mrs. Emma Guffey Miller and David L. Lawrence.
Other members
Resolutions Committee chairman was Senator Theodore F. Green (D-RI). Mayor Hague was not a member, but was represented by Rep. Mary T. Norton (D-NJ). The other members were Mr. Kelly, boss of the Illinois Democratic machine, former Governor Keen Johnson of Kentucky, a member of the Roosevelt faction, and O. S. Warden from Montana.
The National Committee adopted the fourth-term resolution with neither debate not dissent. Veteran political observers ascribed the actions in part to the belief that the President is the only Democrat who would have even a remote chance of being elected this year.
Willkie won’t run in California
New York (UP) –
Wendell L. Willkie, who announced yesterday that he would not enter the California presidential preference primary in May, was expected today to place his name before Republican primary voters in four and possibly five other states.
His name definitely will be entered in Wisconsin, Nebraska, Oregon and Pennsylvania, his associates said, and possibly in New Hampshire.
Mr. Willkie announced his decision after a telephone conversation with California Governor Earl Warren.
He issued a statement saying:
In the last few days, I have discussed this situation fully by telephone with Governor Warren. He assures me that he is not and will not be a candidate for the presidential nomination and that he has no agreement, arrangement or understanding with any candidate or potential candidate that he is not and will not become associated with any Stop-Willkie movement.
4th term support pledged by CIO
New York (UP) –
Calling upon President Roosevelt to seek reelection, 2,500 CIO leaders were on record today with a formal pledge to support a fourth term.
Meeting under the auspices of the Greater New York CIO Council, the officials also adopted a resolution endorsing the President’s five-point home front program, including passing of a national service act.
The conference also adopted a resolution demanding that the War Labor Board permit wage increases of 20%.
White-collar workers to ask pay raise advice
Senate subcommittee to open hearings tomorrow government to be asked to help unorganized get boosts
By Fred W. Perkins, Pittsburgh Press staff writer
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Labor dispute handling by U.S. groups hit
Union dissatisfaction is significant factor in strike votes
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Fuhrman: Darlan’s widow lives for two daily visits with son stricken by infantile paralysis
Magic hours are 12:30 and 6:30 p.m. at Warm Springs
By Lee Fuhrman
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Slav group refuses to endorse 4th term
Full endorsement was given President Roosevelt’s war policies at the closing session of state presidents and secretaries of the American Slav Congress, but delegates declined to adopt a resolution favoring a fourth term.
Announcing the action of the congress, Judge Blair F. Gunther, chairman, said that although “the American Slav Congress tries to avoid European politics as much as possible,” sometimes some of the issues cannot be ignored.
One of these was the solution of the Polish-Russian boundary problem, which delegates said could not be solved by Russia alone, but must be settled by a conference of British, American and Polish government-in-exile leaders.
Raids may be diversion –
Mid-Pacific drive indicated by Paramushiru bombings
Two more attacks made by Navy planes on Japan’s Kuril Islands stronghold
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Invasion staff ‘streamlined’
Eisenhower names aides to handle details
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More use of V-mail requested by Navy
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Yanks letdown’s terrific at ease of Allied landing
Ready for any eventuality, American soldiers slog ashore near Rome without opposition
By Reynolds Packard, United Press staff writer
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In Washington –
House, Senate confer today on mustering-out pay bill
Proposal for $300 for 60 days service and $100 for less is considered likely to be adopted
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Soldier vote speeded
Washington (UP) –
Administration forces in the Senate today defeated a Republican attempt to prevent immediate consideration of soldier-vote legislation.
The decision to take up the legislation ahead of food subsidies was reached by Democratic Party leaders in caucus. When the Senate convened, Senator Robert A. Taft (R-OH), an opponent of the administration-sponsored bill, tried to upset the Democratic program by moving to consider subsidies first, but the Senate rejected his motion 38–33.
Five Democrats voted with Senator Taft.
Democratic Leader Alben W. Barkley (D-KY) said the committee discussed only the legislative program – the order in which the two issues would be taken up – and did not try to bind party members to any particular side on either question.
Democratic ranks are split on both subjects. Southern Senators have resisted the administration-favored soldier-vote bill on the ground that the federal ballot it provides amounts to an invasion of state’s rights. Democrats are also split on the subsidy issue, with farm state Senators leading a fight to outlaw the present food subsidy program.
Monahan: Soldier in training prefers war movies
But at the battlefronts his tastes are completely ‘escapist’
By Kaspar Monahan
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Johnson: Man who knew him when defends crooner Sinatra
Memphis newspaperman says Sinatra is what is known as ‘a musician’s singer’
By Lee Johnson
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Missing Army nurse is reported safe
Lt. Gertrude G. Dawson, 29-year-old Army nurse, is safe in Allied military territory, according to word received by her mother, Mrs. J. A. Mathewson of Vandegrift.
Lt. Dawson was reported missing in November when a plane carrying her and 12 other Army nurses overshot an airport at Bari, Italy, in bad weather, and was believed to have made a force landing somewhere in the Balkans.
Miss Dawson is a graduate of Southside Hospital and served as a United Airlines hostess six years before enlisting in the Army in October 1942. She was assigned overseas last September as an air evacuation unit attaché and was participating in operations between North Africa and Bari when reported missing.
Mightiest warship will join armada
New York (UP) –
The mightiest battlewagon of them all, the new 45,000-ton USS Missouri, will slide down the ways at the Brooklyn Navy Yard next Saturday to take her plate later in the greatest war armada of history, RAdm. Monroe Kelly, commandant of the yard, announced today.
More powerful than any craft ever to sail the seas, the Missouri, on completion, will be the fourth dreadnaught of the Iowa class to be put into service by the Navy since the start of the war.
The sponsor of the ship at Saturday’s launching will be Mary Margaret Truman, 19, the only child of Senator and Mrs. Harry S. Truman of Independence, Missouri. She is a sophomore at George Washington University.
Present plans call for completion of the Missouri nine months ahead of schedule because of accelerated production at the yard. Her keel was laid Jan. 6, 1941.
Flattop launched
Quincy, Massachusetts (UP) –
The aircraft carrier USS Hancock – the third vessel named for the famous signer of the Declaration of Independence – slid down the ways into the Fore River today at colorful ceremonies at the Bethlehem Steel Corporation’s shipyard.