First service dispute –
Barkley mum on meeting with Roosevelt
Neither mentions tax bill veto
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Governor Bricker cites need for jobs
Boston, Massachusetts (UP) –
Close cooperation between industry, labor and government will be needed to solve the problem of post-war employment, Ohio Governor John W. Bricker said last night.
Speaking at the Boston University Institute of Post-War Problems, he said government and business must make certain that there are 10 million more jobs available after the war than there were in 1940.
Governor Bricker said:
However, no honest person will say that government alone will solve this problem.
To reach the 10 million extra job goal, he said, the federal government must establish a dynamic economy, eliminate bureaucracy and develop a constructive post-war tax program.
In Washington –
Dies promises showdown on radio commentators
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‘G.I. Joe Bill’ introduced
Washington (UP) –
Senator Bennett C. Clark (D-MO) today introduced for himself and 76 other Senators the American Legion’s omnibus “G.I. Joe Bill” to provide educational opportunities and post-war loans for honorably discharged servicemen and women.
Mr. Clark told the Senate that the bill was “a fundamental bill of rights for America’s servicemen and women” and was “the least we can do at this time.” It has the full endorsement of the Veterans of Foreign Wars as well as the Legion and is expected to win early passage in view of the overwhelming number of Senators whose names are already on it.
Soldier vote given Senate for debate
Connally backs conference result
Washington (UP) –
Senator Tom Connally (D-TX) formally reported to the Senate the conference version of the soldier-vote bill today and opened debate by telling his colleagues that it “represents the best possible bill that can be secured.”
Opening the third Senate debate on the controversial service vote issue, Senator Connally declared that it is his:
…earnest belief that more soldiers and sailors will be entitled to vote under the pending bill than under any measure proposed or possible of adoption.
Bill’s provisions
As drafted during three weeks of joint conferences between Senate and House spokesmen, the bill would extend the federal war ballot to servicemen overseas whose state legislatures and governors have certified by July 15 that the federal ballot will be acceptable for counting under their laws. All other servicemen, with the exception of those from Kentucky and New Mexico which have no state absentee ballot laws, must use state procedures.
Senator Connally said:
The primary responsibility with respect to election and voting therein rests with the states… If members of the Armed Forces are enabled to vote, state legislatures and state authorities must discharge their high responsibilities. State rights require state obligations and responsibilities.
The Senate originally passed a bill calling on the states to expedite the soldier vote but later adopted a measure providing for a uniform federal ballot. The House, however, endorsed the principle of the first states’ rights measure and the two chambers had to call a conference to find a compromise.
The sponsors of the federal ballot bill – Senators Scott Lucas (D-IL) and Theodore F. Green (D-RI) – have called for defeat of the compromise version on grounds it rejected the principle of the federal ballot and was too restrictive.
GOP women
Meanwhile, a Republican letters-to-servicemen campaign aimed at capturing the soldier vote was urged today by Rep. Charles A. Halleck (R-IN), who dared the administration to censor such mail.
He called on all Republican women to:
…tell the boys the truth about the manner in which the administration has misused its powers, how it has fight to kill representative government, how it has tried to make over America while real Americans were busy working to win the war.
Mr. Halleck, chairman of the GOP Congressional campaign committee, offered his plan at the closing session of a three-day advisory board meeting of the National Federation of Women’s Republican Clubs.
GOP National Committee Chairman Harrison E. Spangler warned:
Echoing a campaign theme noted in recent Republican speeches – “usurpation of power by the President” – he said:
On every hand we see instances of tampering with the Constitution, with undermining the faith of the people in the legislative branch of our government; of tighter regulation and regimentation of our daily life by executive decree. Our ship of state is manned by a crew of seasick landlubbers which has America literally hanging over the rail.
Yanks destroy 26 Jap planes in Wewak raid
Two U.S. aircraft lost over Guinea
By Don Caswell, United Press staff writer
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Admiral has his say –
Allied planes to bomb, burn Jap Empire
Leader in the Pacific looks to future
By George E. Jones, United Press staff writer
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Pioneer Lardner recalls good old Anzio days
By John Lardner, North American Newspaper Alliance
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Two Americans lead Partisans
Yanks direct attack on Slav islands
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Doughboys ask for offensive on beachhead
Americans eager to sock Germans
By Robert Vermillion, United Press staff writer
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Demands to Ireland based on fear of future spying
Hull explains stand; America may apply economic sanctions to Éire
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