Yank P-40s bag nine Jap Zeroes over Marshalls
By Paul Beam, representing combined U.S. press
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Sisters freed of further quiz in hotel death
Police fail to link pair in fatal shooting of Mrs. Williams
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Farley sees New Deal as in its last days
Denver, Colorado (UP) –
James A. Farley, former chairman of the National Democratic Committee, said today that “the people are tired of being pushed around.”
He said the election of many Republicans was evidence of that fact, and indicated that he believed the New Deal was in its “last days.”
Mr. Farley said:
It is up to the American people to say when they have had enough pushing around by the bureaucrats. They and they alone will settle the issue.
O’Mahoney appointed
Washington –
Senate Democratic Leader Alben W. Barkley (D-KY) today named Joseph C. O’Mahoney (D-WY) as chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, succeeding Joseph F. Guffey (D-PA).
U.S. casualties in Italy are 23,407
Washington (UP) –
U.S. casualties in Italy since the landing at Salerno last September and including the current drive on Rome total 23,407, Under Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson announced today.
The casualties include 3,384 killed, 14,879 wounded and 5,114 missing.
Willkie calls for high taxes to pay for war
Lower living standard must be accepted, candidate says
New York (UP) –
Wendell L. Willkie, candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, said last night that Americans must submit to “ruthless” taxation and lower their standard of living or else “we shall lose in debt the victory we have gained in blood.”
Predicting a post-war public debt of more than $300 billion at an interest cost of $6 billion a year, Mr. Willkie told a meeting in the New York Times hall that:
We should pay now for as much of the war as we possibly can.
He assailed the administration’s tax program as “unrealistic” and said President Roosevelt’s request for more than $10 billion in new taxes should be doubled.
He said:
Every dollar of war cost that we pass on to the future thins the financial bloodstream of the future.
There is only one principle to apply to war taxation, and that is a hard principle; we must tax to the limit every dollar, corporate and individual, that is capable of bearing a tax, particularly those corporate and individual earnings which are created by the war itself. That limit is reached only when the war effort itself is threatened. All else must be sacrificed and all must share the sacrifice to the bone.
During a question-and-answer period, Mr. Willkie reiterated his demand for close international cooperation in boundary disputes such as the present Polish-Soviet one.
Wants Soviet friendship
He said:
Let’s still try to find a method of cooperation because millions of lives are involved in our finding it.
The 1940 Republican candidate, who leaves Friday on a speaking tour of Western states in connection with the 1944 campaign, criticized “so-called political experts” who contend that the American people “will never stand for a tough tax program.”
He said:
Give the people an understanding of the issues involved and they will do their duty by their country, however incredibly painful it may be.
Editorial: Unpardonable cowardice
The freedoms of a democracy which we in America enjoy were not won through political cowardice.
Men like Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, John Hancock and Patrick Henry had the courage to speak their minds and to “stand up and be counted” even though profession of their convictions may have resulted in death.
Similarly, the freedom of a democracy cannot be preserved through political cowardice.
Yet 233 members of the House of Representatives have demonstrated political cowardice in refusing to make known their positions on the question of giving servicemen the right to vote.
In a democratic legislative body, the members may vote as they see fit on any issue. But the citizens to whim they are responsible have an equal right to know how each representative votes on every issue.
Democracy falters when those entrusted with carrying out the grave responsibilities of government don’t have the courage to stand up for their convictions.
It is disturbing to record the tactics of the Republicans on this issue.
One of the vital strengths of a democracy is a strong, aggressive, intelligent, constructive minority – a “loyal opposition.”
By secreting their obstructionism behind an artificial parliamentary rule, the Republicans are attesting to the common charge that they have a peculiar talent for doing the wrong thing.
Favor within CIO for service bill called ‘Red line’
AFL spokesman demands delousing before labor unity is possible; Curran, Bridges cited
By Fred W. Perkins, Pittsburgh Press staff writer
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Hero ends own life
Los Angeles, California –
Staff Sgt. Floyd L. Evans, 37, who held three citations, including the Distinguished Flying Cross, was found dead today in a downtown hotel, his wrists slashed.
Civil affairs Marine teams run Marshalls
Islands are first Jap territory placed under U.S. control
By Charles Arnot, representing combined U.S. press
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Yanks face a mighty task in invasion of Marshalls
Japs have had 22 years to fortify islands, and nature also plays a big hand
By Morris Markey, North American Newspaper Alliance
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Dopking: Navy’s guns blow Japs sky-high on Kwajalein
Marines meet only sporadic resistance after shelling levels enemy blockhouses and pillboxes
By Alva Dopking, representing combined U.S. press
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Finch: 3-day shelling and bombing crushes atoll
Ships ring island with fire; planes rain down blockbusters
By Percy Finch, representing combined U.S. press
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