Army to terminate school at W&J
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CIO battles independents at gates of Weirton plant
Disturbance is attributed to renewed campaign to break independent union’s hold
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WLB finds plan to punish ‘authorized’ strikes
Withdrawal of membership maintenance may become standard practice, regional chairman hints
By Fred W. Perkins, Pittsburgh Press staff writer
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Labor, church papers barred from subsidy
Committee’s bond ad bill bans journals started since Jan. 1
By Robert Taylor, Press Washington correspondent
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In Washington –
Compulsory war training after war sought in House
May declares year’s service for all youths is needed to prevent future conflicts
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Soldier vote plans
Washington (UP) –
A meeting of Senate-House conferees today produced three proposals for a compromise path out of the complicated tangle over the soldier-vote bill.
Senator Tom Connally (D-TX) suggested that candidates for state office be printed on the federal war ballot form. Rep. Harris Ellsworth (R-OR) suggested authorizing a supplemental federal ballot in cases where the soldier voter could not get the state ballot. Chairman Theodore F. Green (D-RI), of the Senate Privileges and Elections Committee, offered an entirely new bill, which gives the same priority to both state and federal ballots.
Crisis at Anzio ‘a real thing,’ writer insists
War correspondent cites that high officials ‘admitted’ it
By William H. Stoneman
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Big Jap convoy sent to bottom
Attempt to supply Bismarck force halted
By Don Caswell, United Press staff writer
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2 Marine planes photograph Truk before big attack
Sight huge Jap fleet in enemy’s bastion and island covered with heavy coastal guns, airfields
By 1st Lt. Penn T. Kimball and 2nd Lt. William Holt, USMC correspondents
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Tough job to invade Truk, U.S. visitor to base says
All island in group heavily and skillfully fortified, declares correspondent invited by Japs
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Hull: Awaiting Japs, soldiers trap real live rats
Oil can used for snare by Yank soldier in Pacific
By Peggy Hull, North American Newspaper Alliance
Peggy Hull, the only accredited woman correspondent of World War I, is now the only woman covering the Central Pacific area.
A Central Pacific base – (by mail)
I’ve just spent a day with a small anti-aircraft outfit in an isolated section of this island. They haven’t been over here very long and are a disappointed crowd because they haven’t had a chance to take a shot at a Jap plane.
I don’t know where they got the idea that they were going to set up their guns and go right to work on the Nips, but they certainly arrived here all set to work out on real targets.
A little camp problem has kept them preoccupied recently and I was just as well pleased that my invitation was for a day and not a week, for the site is infested with rats and mice and what is worse, the rodents have taken the low, thickly branched trees and made their nest there.
A mouse dropping in one’s hair during an evening stroll or a rat landing on your shoulder in the blackout isn’t something I can contemplate with enthusiasm.
At first, they tried arming themselves with bamboo poles, knocking the rats out of their nests and then running them down.
Then an ingenious G.I. thought up a new kind of trap and when I was there it was working to everyone’s satisfaction except the rats.
A 55-gallon oil tin (in case anyone at home needs this prescription for the same reason) is cut in half and partially filled with water. The sides are then greased, a thick piece of paper tied over the top with a hole in the center and some bait suspended above the hole on a string. It really works.
Editorial: The losses and the gains
News of the worst military disaster at sea in our history, and news of the most daring naval action of the war, come on the same day. After this, no American in his senses can talk glibly of a soft war and easy victory.
To the thousand families who have received official notice of the loss of their loved ones on a troopship sunk by the enemy in European waters, the nation extends its deepest sympathy.
The same American Navy which has held such transport losses to a minimum now has sent a fleet in another ocean into the very jaws of the dragon. Truk is the main Jap base outside home waters. Repeatedly the enemy’s Pacific fleet has refused to come out and fight, even to defend its Marshalls bastion. Now Adm. Nimitz has thrown in a mighty task force of surface and airpower. If the enemy fleet is there, a decisive naval battle is in progress; if that fleet has fled, our forces will destroy its bases.
Regardless of hazard, the U.S. Navy will continue to press its offensive in the Pacific and continue to convoy more and more troopships across the oceans until this war is won.
Edson: Old Dr. New Deal changes his name to Dr. New Peace
By Peter Edson
Washington –
You may well watch for the emergence of something that might be called “the New Peace” as successor to “the New Deal.”
President Roosevelt, in his now-famous aside to Dilworth Lupton of The Cleveland Press, just before Christmas, indicated that the New Deal slogan was outmoded and that something like “Win-the-War” would be more appropriate. A month later, Vice President Wallace told the Democratic Jackson Day dinner audience that the New Deal was not dead.
All the evidence would seem to indicate that Henry is right, as a look at the record of the last few weeks will show.
When the President was allegorically amplifying on his own views about how old Doctor New Deal had called in young Doctor Win-the-War to cure a sick country, he explained that although the post-war program had not been settled on at all – except in generalities – it was clear that plans must be made now for an expanded economy which will result in more security, more employment, more recreation, more education, more health and better housing for all, so that the conditions of 1932 would not return again.
Program outlined
There, from the President himself, you have the broad outlines of a post-war New Deal which is now being mentioned as “the New Peace” program.
In reality, it would be a successor to the President’s Win-the-War program.
The New Peace program has been dealt with in both the President’s regular message and in his budget message to Congress.
Basis of this New Peace program perhaps is best stated in the “Second Bill of Rights” passage from the President’s message:
The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines of the nation;
The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation;
The right of every farmer to raise and sell his products at a return which will give him and his family a decent living;
The right of every businessman, large and small, to trade in an atmosphere of freedom from unfair competition and domination by monopolies at home or abroad;
The right of every family to a decent home;
The right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health;
The right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident, and unemployment;
The right to a good education.
Political platform
This eight-point program certainly did not get into the presidential message by accident. It is a ready-made political platform if there ever was one.
Whether it merely restates old ideals or states a new peace program, it does not sound like much of an abandonment of the New Deal. Maybe the label will be dropped as something that no longer garners votes, but that’s all, and into the Second Bill of Rights you can read anything you like or don’t like, from socialized medicine or persecution of big business to social security from cradle to grave.
As if to implement this program, the President in his budget message gave clear indications that he would later ask Congress for appropriations to achieve the objectives of strengthening the U.S. Employment Service, broadening old-age and unemployment insurance coverage, providing public works to relieve post-war unemployment and finally, spreading the benefits of stabilized currencies and international management of trade and the production and distribution of food to the whole world.
The New Deal killed by its pappy? Don’t let them kid you. Henry was right.
Ferguson: Gallico and women
By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
Paul Gallico, the author, is now on tour delivering a lecture entitled “Women and How to Improve Them.”
At first glance, you would say his subject is timely and the material available should be extensive. But unfortunately, in an effort to be funny, he doesn’t talk about women at all; he talks about fashion plates. Railing against nail polish, lipstick, permanents, mascara and the silly habits originating with clothing models and movie stars, Mr. Gallico deals entirely with the husk of women – never with their real selves.
That, I think, is a pity, because so much needs to be said about feminine faults of the intellect, heart and spirit. The American woman could do with some stiff lectures on her shortcomings. But they have nothing to do with the color of lipstick or nail polish.
Mr. Gallico might have said that women are shallow and vapid, content with a veneer of good manners and too much given to emotional tangents; that we lack imagination and kindness, and are restricted to a conformity of thought deadly to the growth of character.
He could have shouted that we are cowards, because we are so easily swayed from our moral convictions; that we are stupid because having within our hands tremendous power – numerical strength, leadership in the buying field, industrial influence – we still let men do our thinking for us.
He might have flayed our weakness of spirit which has led us to accept with too little protest, the present world, constructed from the political and diplomatic blunders of men.
Gazing out over that world, one wonders where a representative of Mr. Gallico’s sex gathers the temerity to criticize the women his social order has created.