What’s tavern? It’s puzzling to First Lady
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Sect loses appeal over street sales
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Invasion craft put 6 divisions ashore in Italy
Nazi air attacks fail to halt reinforcements to Rome beachhead
By Walter Logan, United Press staff writer
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Roper: G.I.s fascinated as WACs wash undies in Italy
By James E. Roper, United Press staff writer
A 5th Army bivouac area, Italy –
Twenty-three WACs moved into this bivouac area just a few miles behind the firing lines today and by nightfall they had their laundry – G.I. panties and all – flying from a dozen improvised clotheslines.
It was the first time a WAC contingent has been stationed so close to the fighting lines, but the girls’ only complaint was over the lack of rope for clotheslines.
They went into action washing and rinsing undies almost as soon as they hit camp.
Hundreds of G.I.s lined up on the opposite side of the creek from the WAC camp – which is strictly off limits for the doughboys – and watched in fascinated silence while the girls went through their laundering.
Pvt. Joe Haas of Philadelphia mused:
I don’t get it, but isn’t it wonderful?
Threat to expose Argentina figures in break with Axis
Hull reported set to reveal Buenos Aires link with Bolivian coup when Ramirez severed relations
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One-candidate plan offered by Browder
Cleveland, Ohio (UP) –
Earl Browder, general secretary of the Communist Party USA, called upon Democratic and Republican leaders last night to “explore the possibility” of a single 1944 presidential candidate.
Browder, in a speech commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Daily Worker, the party’s official organ, urged the “unprecedented measure to meet an unprecedented emergency.”
Tammany chief mum on 4th term issue
New York (UP) –
Edward V. Loughlin, taking office today as the new leader of Tammany Hall, pledged “unswerving allegiance to our Commander-in-Chief,” but refused to say whether he would instruct the Tammany delegation to the Democratic National Convention to support a fourth term for President Roosevelt.
Mr. Loughlin said:
In times such as these, we are all Americans before we are partisans and accordingly owe unswerving allegiance to our Commander-in-Chief.
Ickes’ former aide pleads ‘not guilty’
Washington (UP) –
George N. Briggs, suspended aide to Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes, pleaded not guilty today to indictments charging him with being the forger of the “Harry Hopkins” letter.
Briggs was arraigned before Chief Justice Edward E. Eicher in District Court and denied all charges, which include alleged use of the mails to defraud.
The court granted three weeks for filing of motions to change the pleas at the discretion of Briggs’ counsel.
The letter, purportedly written to Dr. Umphrey Lee, president of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, concerned the presidential nomination chance of Wendell Willkie. It was first made public by C. Nelson Sparks, former Mayor of Akron, Ohio, who referred to it in a book, One Man – Wendell Willkie.
If convicted on all counts, Briggs would face a maximum penalty of 53 years’ imprisonment and $8,000 fines.
U.S. fliers rip 62 Jap planes in Rabaul raid
Torpedo, dive-bombers make 26th attack on base in month
By Don Caswell, United Press staff writer
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Soldier reaction to news remains same as civilians’
But they can detect political buncombe expounded in their name much quicker
By Henry J. Taylor, Scripps-Howard staff writer
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State Department crowds into labor agency field
New setup designed to keep government informed of developments in other countries
By Fred W. Perkins, Pittsburgh Press staff writer
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300 fliers honor Bataan hero at fete he planned
Hollywood, California (UP) –
Lt. Col. William E. Dyess, who survived “the march of death” as a Jap captive in the Philippines only to die in the flaming crash of his plane here months later rather than endanger the life of a motorist, was acclaimed a hero at a party he planned three days before his death.
‘Exploits are legend’
The Hollywood Masquers Club staged the party, for 300 officers and men from March Field Air Base, as Lt. Col. Dyess had planned, but instead of a greeting from their host, the guests heard Lt. Col. Dyess’ widow read the following letter from Gen. H. H. Arnold, head of the Army Air Forces:
His exploits are legend. Courage like his helped this country face extreme adversity in the Philippines campaign. We will never forget his heroism, which with his splendid character and personality won him a high place in the Air Forces.
He was decorated many times, in comparison with which words seem of little consequence. We are proud of have had him in our organization.
Accompanied by Capt. Samuel C. Grashio, who only last night related the horrible tortures, he and Lt. Col. Dyess were subjected to before the Jap prison camp, Mrs. Dyess told how the party came to be.
Go on with party
She said:
Col. Dyess and I were guests of the Masquers one Saturday night last fall soon after he came back to this country. It was the most memorable event in his life in more than a year. He wanted some of the other boys in the Air Corps to share in his enjoyment and arranged this party. The following Tuesday, he was killed. We decided to go on with the party as he had wished.
Movie actor Edward Arnold, president of the Masquers, who with Charles Coburn delivered a eulogy at funeral services for Col. Dyess, presided at the memorial.
Connally: Punish all Japs
Washington (UP) –
Chairman Tom Connally (D-TX) of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said today that all Jap elements, “from the Emperor to the soldier,” must be made to pay for the treachery at Pearl Harbor and the mass murder of war prisoners in the Philippines.
Deploring what he called a tendency in Washington to say, “oh, well, the Emperor’s all right – it’s the military clique that’s to blame,” Mr. Connally asserted that Hirohito “must bear his responsibility for the cruelties and outrages and the war itself.”
Aroused over the Army-Navy disclosure of Jap prison camp atrocities, which have already cost the lives of more than 7,700 American and 14,000 Filipino heroes of Bataan and Corregidor, Mr. Connally continued:
The Emperor, the military group and the people of Japan are all our enemies. They are all fighting us savagely with instruments of death and torture.
We can’t discriminate among internal groups. Our sword is drawn and every one from the Emperor to the soldier shall feel its edge.
Senator Styles Bridges (R-NH) said Americans must translate their anger over the Jap atrocities into “redoubled effort on the home front.”
He said:
No more strikes – striking at this time is unthinkable, unforgivable, and un-American. Supplies, equipment and men must go forward to Adm. William E. Halsey Jr., Gen. Douglas MacArthur and their associates to speed them on their way to Tokyo.
Writers go to work on ‘March of Death’ film
Hollywood, California (UP) –
The writing staff at Republic Studio has started work on a script based upon the “March of Death” inflicted upon the defenders of Bataan by the Japanese, a spokesman reported today.
The picture probably will be ready for production in about three weeks and “will pull no punches,” the spokesman said.
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Soldier-vote state ballot veto is hinted
President concerned over measure, calls leaders to conference
Washington (UP) –
President Roosevelt, concerned over the fate of legislation to provide for federal soldier-vote ballots, conferred with Democratic Congressional leaders today as the Senate approached a showdown vote on the issue.
House Democratic Leader John W. McCormack (D-MA), one of those to see Mr. Roosevelt, said the President had expressed “considerable concern” lest soldiers not be given a chance to cast their ballots.
Asked if the President might veto a “state-ballot” bill if Congress passes such as administration-opposed plan, Mr. McCormack said only: “What do you think?”
Senate approval predicted
Senator Scott W. Lucas (D-IL), co-author of the Lucas-Green federal ballot bill, stood by his prediction that the measure would receive Senate approval, but conceded the showdown might be delayed by promised Republican amendments.
The federal bill was intended as a substitute for the state vote measure which the Senate passed on to the House in December.
Senator Lucas again accused his Republican opponents of injecting their fourth-term fears into the dispute after Senator Styles Bridges (R-NH) proposed an amendment under which the federal ballot would carry the full names of presidential and vice-presidential nominees, instead of mere blank write-in spaces. This would mean the ballots could not be shipped to overseas servicemen until after the Democratic nomination convention to be held sometime in July. The Republicans will name their candidate in June.
Bridges answers Roosevelt
Senator Bridges said the Democrats could make sure the ballots reached servicemen in ample time if they would agree to hold their convention in June. Replying to President Roosevelt’s charge that the opposition was blocking the passage of an adequate soldier-vote bill, Senator Bridges said:
If the President thinks we are stalling, this is one way he can prove that he isn’t.