Cadet tried to buy poison, jury is told
Motion for mistrial lost by defense
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Poll: Kentucky GOP favors Dewey, then Willkie
Gen. MacArthur third, survey shows
By George Gallup, Director, American Institute of Public Opinion
Princeton, New Jersey –
In Kentucky, which Republican leaders are hoping to swing into the GOP column in the coming elections, Thomas E. Dewey leads the list of popular choices today for the presidential nomination among Republican voters.
Field reporters for the Institute asked Kentucky Republicans to pick their present preferences for 1944 from a list of men most often discussed by political commentators and party leaders as leading GOP possibilities.
The results of the present survey are as follows:
| Dewey | 37% |
| Willkie | 30% |
| MacArthur | 25% |
| Bricker | 7% |
| Warren | 1% |
In a similar survey reported in December, Wendell Willkie received 31% of the vote, Governor Dewey 26%, Gen. Douglas MacArthur 20%, Senator Robert Taft of Ohio 13%, Ohio’s Governor John W. Bricker eight percent and California’s Governor Earl Warren one percent, LtCdr. Harold Stassen (former Minnesota Governor) one percent.
Dewey gains strength
Previous surveys throughout the country show that when Mr. Taft’s name is omitted from the list, a substantial percentage of his followers goes to Governor Dewey, which accounts in part for the increase in the Dewey percentage in Kentucky.
At the same time, the New York Governor has shown increasing strength in recent weeks throughout the South and the country as a whole.
Oklahoma favors Dewey
Wendell Willkie’s strength in Kentucky remains substantially the same as it was in the December survey, while Gen. MacArthur shows a slight gain.
The strong Republican trend shown in Kentucky’s gubernatorial election last fall has focused attention on the “border” states.
In Oklahoma, latest surveys show Governor Dewey first in GOP, rank and file preference, with 36% of the Republican vote, Gen. MacArthur second, with 27%, and Mr. Willkie third, with 22%.
Pictures show vast areas of Berlin in ruins
Center of capital virtually erased
By Joseph W. Grigg, United Press staff writer
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Americans bomb Berlin by hand
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Simms: Allies require single policy on war aims
Otherwise they will be caught napping
By William Philip Simms, Scripps-Howard staff writer
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Vesuvius’ flow of lava slows
Pompeii, Italy (UP) –
Vesuvius still spouted smoke and ashes 20,000 in the air today but the lava flows subsided sufficiently to permit evacuees to return to some of the previously-threatened areas.
Some residents returned to Cercola. Officials still stood ready to evacuate Torre del Greco and Torre Annunziata, both of which were digging out from a two-foot deposit of gravel-like ash.
Army bulldozers cleared main roads in the vicinity of the volcano as cinders became a serious problem, particularly along the main railroad running south from Naples.
Work to clear line
Veteran U.S. troops, some of whom as railroaders used to battle heavy snowstorms in the Northwest United States, worked 24 hours without a halt to keep the line open.
The villages of Pagani and Nocera east of Torre Annunziata suffered heavily from the ash fall.
The ashes weighed down homes and spread across vineyards and orchards, causing damage expected to run into millions of dollars.
Residents in the vicinity carried umbrellas to keep the ashes from hair and clothing.
Many birds killed
Streets were littered with dead birds. Some villagers who had been forced to stay indoors several days and had been without food went up and down streets picking up the birds.
The ash sleet was reddish in color, giving the impression it was raining wine.
The crater was also shooting out boulders, about two feet in diameter, which rose nearly 2,000 feet and came crashing down like bombs.
On India’s border –
Japs cut road, but face pincer
British recover 3 points in Burma
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Leo Crowley resigns alien property cost
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Phone girl unions plead for even break from WLB
Forced to bow to full voting power of AFL and CIO, chairman of independent panel explains
By Fred W. Perkins, Pittsburgh Press staff writer
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Johnston: Labor now on the spot where management stood 10 years ago
A frank statement on the urgent need for labor-business cooperation
By Eric A. Johnston, President, Chamber of Commerce of the United States
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Jap Pearl Harbor strategy borrowed from U.S. Navy
Entire operation, even to Sunday morning attack, was rehearsed by Yarnell in 1932
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In Washington –
President hints he won’t sign soldier bill
May let it become law without signature
Washington (UP) –
President Roosevelt indicated today that he will permit the new soldier vote bill to become law with or without his signature. He said he expects to issue a statement on it about the middle of next week.
If he planned to veto the bill, he would have to send Congress a message explaining his disapproval. In response to a news conference inquiry whether he contemplated a statement or a message to Congress, he specifically said it would be a statement.
He said that his decision on the measure, calling for use of a federal ballot only by those servicemen whose home states specifically validate such a tally, depended on whether he found more service personnel could vote under existing law or under the bill.
President Roosevelt’s soldier vote poll among the 48 governors was completed when South Carolina Governor Olin D. Johnston said his would not accept the proposed federal war ballot for servicemen.
A final tabulation showed that 16 states definitely will not accept the federal ballot and eight probably will not.
The poll indicates that half the states are virtually committed against the administration-endorsed federal ballot.
Only seven states definitely will permit use of the federal ballot, while 12 others have indicated they might. Three states are doubtful and two are undecided.