Fortresses batter arsenal city of Frankfurt
Record Allied air fleets pound Europe; Liberators hit French coast
By Walter Cronkite, United Press staff writer
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Two U.S. submarines lost during raids against Japs
1,525-ton Cisco, 850-ton S-44 bring to 19 total of U.S. underseas craft destroyed
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200 tons rock Paramushiru
U.S. shelling of Japan’s base unopposed
By Russell Annabel, United Press staff writer
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U.S. again tells Finland to end war with Russia
Hull reveals warning that Helsinki must face consequences of hostilities
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Shades of coal strike –
MESA, Murray take a leaf from Lewis’ strike book
Labor board defiance and no-contract-no-work plea follow successful pattern of UMW
By Fred W. Perkins, Pittsburgh Press staff writer
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Davis ‘willing’ to run again for Senate post
Washington (UP) –
Senator James J. Davis (R-PA) today announced his willingness to run for reelection.
Mr. Davis said:
If the Republican Party leaders feel that by reason of my years of experience I can be of service to our country and Pennsylvania at this critical time, I am willing to be a candidate for reelection.
Mr. Davis was first elected to the Senate in 1932 and reelected in 1938.
Tax bill sent to Roosevelt; veto possible
Republican says rest of year will be spent simplifying levies
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Murray seeks federal stage for steel case
Change in national policy is avowed purpose, he tells WLB
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Invaders slay 8,122 Japanese in Marshalls
264 captured; U.S. dead total 286; factors in victory cited
By Charles T. Lucey, Scripps-Howard staff writer
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Two lieutenants awarded Medal of Honor
Washington (UP) –
President Roosevelt today presented Congressional Medals of Honor to two fighting men, one of whom thereby became the first soldier in this war to win both the Congressional Medal and the Distinguished Service Cross.
Lt. Kisters
The soldier thus honored was 2nd Lt. Gerry H. Kisters, a 24-year-old ex-furrier of Bloomington, Indiana, who went to the White House from the War Department where Gen. George C. Marshall, Army Chief of Staff, had presented him with the DSC.
Lt. Walsh
Sharing the White House ceremonies was Marine Lt. Kenneth A. Walsh, a 29-year-old native of Brooklyn officially credited with shooting down 20 Jap planes in the South Pacific. Lt. Walsh had previously been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross.
Lt. Kisters’ feats were performed in the Tunisian and Sicilian campaigns. In Tunisia, he wiped out, single-handed, an enemy artillery crew, for that he received the DSC.
In Sicily, he helped to capture one enemy machine-gun crew and then, though wounded five times, went on alone to wipe out a second, that won him the Medal of Honor.
Present at both ceremonies were Kisters’ wife, Mrs. Nola J. Kisters, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Kisters, all of Bloomington, Illinois. Gen. Marshall and Adm. Ernest J. King, Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Fleet, led a parade of high military officials to the White House presentations. Lt. Walsh’s wife and sister-in-law, Jean Barinott, were present.
Lt. Walsh won the Medal of Honor for tearing into superior Jap formations on two occasions last August and shooting down three enemy planes in one fight and four in the second.
Planes wreck 34 Jap barges, coastal craft
Four other ships left in flames in raids on New Guinea
By Don Caswell, United Press staff writer
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In Washington –
Smaller food allotments likely, civilians warned
Increase in farm yield expected in 1944 will go for military and Lend-Lease needs
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Hon. Jap Kale goes to war for us – to aid bond drive
Ida Lupino turns over yen and sen to group which will auction it off during campaign
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Editorial: Soldiers must vote
There is still hope that the Senate can work out some practicable compromise in the soldier-vote fight.
The so-called states’-rights measure passed by the House does not do the job. Under it, most servicemen abroad would be disfranchised, because not all states can or will make the necessary changes in their laws and constitutions to facilitate absentee voting. There should be a federal ballot as a substitute, leaving to the states their constitutional function of counting all ballots.
The issue will be determined chiefly by the Republicans. Their almost-solid party vote – more than 9 to 1 – put over the states’-rights bill in the House. Some Republican leaders in the Senate have been more farsighted in seeking a compromise. Such a compromise probably would become an amendment to the House bill, and would permit both state and federal ballots.
Why should Republicans in the House suddenly become the states’-rights party, and at the risk of alienating soldiers? There seem to be three reasons for this paradox:
One is the real constitutional difficulty in any federal ballot, and the possibility that this will invite contested elections. But some of the suggested compromises eliminate most, though not all, of this danger.
A second reason probably arises from the harsh language used by President Roosevelt in trying to force Congress to act. While what he said about the need for an adequate law and the descriptive terms he applied to the House bill were apropos, his statement was received by many as an unjust smear and as a partisan campaign blast.
The third reason is the Republican fear that the President is accurate in his guess that the soldier vote will be heavily pro-Roosevelt. Of course such partisan considerations do not touch the inalienable right of the eligible soldier to vote. But, unfortunately, both the President and House Republican leaders seem to be thinking more about party politics than about the soldiers’ rights.
There is probably no way to make soldier voting absolutely fair as between a Republican candidate and Mr. Roosevelt. As Commander-in-Chief, and as one far better known to the troops than any Republican candidate can be, Mr. Roosevelt will have an advantage.
That should force the drafters of any federal ballot law, and the War and Navy Departments in handling the ballots, and the states in facilitating absentee voting and counting the results, to lean over backward to prevent the result from being rigged.
But it does not provide reason for disfranchising servicemen.