America at war! (1941–) – Part 3

Light workers in Sharpsburg stay on strike

Outside help repairs wire, restores electric service in borough

All-male jury is chosen to hear mercy killing case

Socially-prominent lawyer charged with electrocuting mentally-deficient son

The people must know –
OWI should be taken into full confidence of the high command

If this had been the case, the Patton incident never could have upset U.S. morale as it did
By Palmer Hoyt, North American Newspaper Alliance

Action on plan to demobilize is needed now

Over million men have been discharged from Army and Navy
By Arthur F. Degreve, United Press staff writer

Soft-hearted Marine – that’s Gen. Smith

Atoll-buster pounds men into mighty weapon
By Boyd Lewis, United Press staff writer

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Dewey withdraws in Wisconsin

Albany, New York (UP) –
The drive on behalf of Governor Thomas E. Dewey for the Republican presidential nomination continued today despite his withdrawal from the Wisconsin primaries.

New York supporters said Governor Dewey’s request that his name be withheld from the Wisconsin fight for delegates had not changed their position and that they would continue their campaign.

Governor Dewey in telegrams to each of the 24 Wisconsin delegates who had filed petitions in his support, said the use of his name met his “strongest disapproval.”

Some political observers interpreted it as a move to avoid a showdown with Wendell L. Willkie, who defeated him for the Republican nomination in Philadelphia four years ago. Mr. Willkie, it was pointed out, is in a position to make a personal campaign for support in Wisconsin while Governor Dewey is tied up with state affairs. These observers also placed significance in the fact that Governor Dewey did not withdraw from the New Jersey primaries or give a reason for his Wisconsin withdrawal.

In Washington –
Approval due bill to extend credit agency

House anti-subsidy bloc not to fight Commodity Corporation measure


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Soldier-vote conferees locked

Washington (UP) –
House-Senate conferees resume discussions tomorrow on the soldier-vote bill with still no sign of a break in the long deadlock between advocates of state and federal ballots.

Senator Theodore F. Green (D-RI), a Senate conferee, indicated the status of the talks by saying that the nearest thing to an agreement yet came yesterday when conferees “came very close to voting to disagree.”

At tomorrow’s session, Rep. John E. Rankin (D-MS), ardent advocate of a state ballot, will offer a proposal to give the federal ballot only to soldiers from states with no absentee voting laws – New Mexico and Kentucky – provided their legislatures confirm they will accept it.

This would in effect kill the federal ballot plan “with kindness” and Senate conferees were not expected to accept it.

C-2 ration coupons face seizure in West

Japs demand ‘rights’

Lamar, Colorado –
A petition signed by 3,340 Japanese-Americans at the Amache War Relocation Center demanding full restoration of “civil rights” was sent to Dillon S. Myer, director of the War Relocation Authority today after five young men at the camp were arrested for refusing to report for Army induction.

Russian Army congratulated by Roosevelt

Ford union demands million in backpay

Barkley’s sense of humor once pleased the President

Editorial: Barkley gets ‘enough’

Editorial: This makes sense…

Edson: Baruch post-war report pared to basic proposals

By Peter Edson

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Ferguson: Women in uniform

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

Our women are reluctant to join the Armed Forces, says Mrs. Roosevelt, because the men in uniform want them to be home when they get back. Funny we didn’t think of it before.

Of course, there’s lots of talk about the way Russian, English and Chinese men have made fighting regulars of their women. But our men aren’t like Russians, or British or Chinese – nor have they seen their homes bombed. And while they have sometimes been unkind and unfair toward their mothers and wives, they were reared in the tradition that man’s duty is to protect his own. As they see it, the soldiers are off to fight this war because they think their families are in danger.

All of which proves once again that men set up standards and women conform to them. It is certainly not true that women shape the morals of a nation, as the preachers so often say. Even today we try to adapt ourselves to the masculine dream. So it has always been – so will it ever be. Men create women even more truly than women create men.

Caesar desired a wife above suspicion, you remember, and forthwith the noble Roman matron stepped into the pages of history. Dante visioned Beatrice as chaste and unapproachable, so chaste and unapproachable maidens became the rage in the Middle Ages.

Yet throughout the centuries, the mother type has stood supreme and unchanging. Because all men want mothering. Mothers always forgive and always love them. And home is mother’s hangout.

Our feminine recruiting troubles go straight back to this sweet and human quirk, so let’s not be sad about it.

Simms: Palau Island ranks as Jap Pearl Harbor

Base nearer Philippines replaced Truk as key before war
By William Philip Simms, Scripps-Howard foreign editor

Murder trial of RCAF cadet delayed again

Lonergan’s attorney seeks new evidence in Toronto

CANDIDLY SPEAKING —
Childishly simple!

By Maxine Garrison

Roosevelt’s disdain shown in 3 messages to Congress

Demand for federal soldier ballot, vetoes of anti-subsidy and tax bills marked by criticism and vituperation
By Daniel M. Kidney, Scripps-Howard staff writer