In Mesta case –
Moves to tax war factories aired in court
Miss Alpern argues cities’ case before highest U.S. tribunal
By Robert Taylor, Press Washington correspondent
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In Mesta case –
Daniels courts jail term as innocent political pawn
Supreme Court to be called upon to settle question of how far executive may be quizzed
By Thomas L. Stokes, Scripps-Howard staff writer
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Dewey seeks peace based on fellowship
New York (UP) –
Governor Thomas E. Dewey said last night that the peace which follows this war “must not be a rigid, inflexible thing,” but must “provide peoples everywhere with simple, understandable means of bringing an end to the horror of war.”
Mr. Dewey, speaking before 18,000 persons at a Red Cross rally opening the New York City drive for funds said the peace “must not be the dictated result of personal conferences.”
He said:
It must be the constant, daily beneficiary of the labors of men of goodwill, striving to make it work and sacrificing to make it endure. Most of all, it must be based on a growing sense of fellowship between peoples.
Noxon admits having motive to kill child
But father of imbecile son says he couldn’t slay ‘my own baby’
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Naval support is on time in invasion of Los Negros
Jap guns silenced as Americans stream ashore on another stepping stone to Tokyo
By William B. Dickinson
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Simms: Japs may repeat tactics employed to defeat Russia
If enemy is waiting to attack U.S. Fleet in Asiatic waters, decisive naval engagement may be near
By William Philip Simms, Scripps-Howard foreign editor
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Japanese kill cameraman in atoll battle
Yank photographer fatally wounded by mortar on Eniwetok
By Richard W. Johnson, United Press staff writer
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Poll: Dewey, Willkie and MacArthur top Iowa test
Governor leads with 40%, 15 more than nearest rival
By George Gallup, Director, American Institute of Public Opinion
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Editorial: So soldiers may vote–
Governor Martin has announced he will call a special session of the Legislature to amend Pennsylvania’s military ballot law so members of the Armed Forces may vote in this year’s election.
The Governor thus is taking rightful notice of the obvious need for a simplification of the election laws in this respect. And he is recognizing the basic justice of giving the Armed Forces a maximum opportunity to cast a ballot.
Mr. Martin also exercised his common sense in deciding to withhold his call for the special session until Congress either enacts a federal soldier-vote law or abandons the project altogether.
Some states have already held special sessions and passed soldier-vote laws of their own.
But it would seem wiser to await Congress’ action, if there is to be any, since it then will be easier to make the state’s law dovetail with the federal statute.
Prompt action is essential, so full preparations may be made for handling the immense job of getting ballots to the Armed Forces overseas, marked and returned in time for tabulation after the November election.
But the Governor believes, with apparent justification, that the Legislature can amend the Pennsylvania law in no more than two weeks.
Mr. Martin is practical and wise in deciding to call the special session, in delaying the call until Congress makes up its mind and in keeping the legislative program restricted to this issue.
When the Governor does call the special session, he plans to have ready for the lawmakers a program of legislation which will meet the needs and coincide with the federal law. This should expedite the session.
In developing amendments to the military ballot law, the Governor, the Attorney General’s office, the State Elections Bureau and the Legislature should keep uppermost in mind one main objective: Making it as easy and simple as possible for the man in the Armed Forces to vote.
The present Pennsylvania law is inadequate even for the use of voters in the military and naval forces in this country. It was written for peacetime mobilization when there was no immediate prospect of more than a relatively small number of voters being called into the services.
But with hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvania voters in training camps, its cumbersome procedure is far too involved, both for the men in the services and for the agencies at home which must handle the job.
As a wartime voting measure, with many thousands of Pennsylvania voters in scattered and distant posts overseas, it is impossible.
The law needs drastic simplification, in accordance with a mandate of the Pennsylvania Constitution which says that electors in the military services shall be provided with the means of exercising their suffrage “as fully as if they were present at their usual places of election.”