I DARE SAY —
Shame on us!
By Florence Fisher Parry
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Chaplin loses fight to reveal facts in Joan’s career in Hollywood
Giesler tries again to question accuser
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Dischargees, 4-Fs may save manpower day
7 million available for work draft
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Wealthy youth is dragged from bed as draft evader
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In Washington –
Fund-juggling to bail out subsidiaries laid to RFC
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Recess may delay G.I. Bill
Washington (UP) –
House leaders held only slim hope today that the Senate-approved “G.I. Bill of Rights” would reach the House floor before the Eastern Congressional holiday beginning Thursday.
The measure, a veterans’ omnibus bill which provides total benefits unofficially estimated at $4 billion, is now the subject of hearings before the House World War Veterans Legislation Committee. Representatives of veterans’ groups testified today.
Brig, Gen. Frank T. Hines, director of the Veterans Administration, endorsed the measure yesterday with one major exception recommending elimination of a $500-million veterans’ hospital construction item.
He predicted a peak hospitalization of 288,000 veterans in 1970. He estimated that 120,000 veterans would be hospitalized by 1950.
Simms: Restatement of Allied aims badly needed
Plan must be ready when firing ends
By William Philip Simms, Scripps-Howard foreign editor
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Wolf: Don’t judge soldier by his stripes! Army promotion rules hard, fast
Advancement slow in overseas units
By Tom Wolf
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Two-week toll of Jap ships raised to 25
Allied fliers strike off New Guinea
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Pink elephant mascot eases tension on landing ship
Officer’s mythical pet always saved before crewmen in rescues
By Hal O’Flaherty
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Court ruling spurs demand for portal pay
Principle studied in steel industry
By Fred W. Perkins, Pittsburgh Press staff writer
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Trial balloon election held in Oklahoma
GOP tries to win Democratic district
Muskogee, Oklahoma (UP) –
Voters in Oklahoma’s traditionally Democratic 2nd district today chose between a Republican and Democratic Congressman in a hotly-contested special election that may prove a trial balloon for both parties.
The race for the House seat vacated by Democrat Jack Nichols was climaxed last night with speeches by Senator Alben W. Barkley, Democratic Majority Leader, on behalf of his party’s candidate, W. G. Stigler, and Senator E. H. Moore (R-OK), who spoke for the GOP nominee, E. O. Clark.
Cooperation stressed
Mr. Barkley, who spoke here and at Okmulgee yesterday, called for the election of a Congressman “who is in sympathy with the great objectives” of the administration and said that Congress must in future months give Mr. Roosevelt “a maximum amount of cooperation.”
Mr. Moore attacked the record of the Democratic Party, repeating his charges that bureaucracy threatens the foundations of American political and business life.
Mr. Barkley criticized Republicans for attempting “to mobilize every sore toe into an army of opposition,” by capitalizing on such war inconveniences as rationing, price control and heavy taxes, and branded his party’s opponents “diehards,” “obstructionists,” and “lying partisans” who “rail out as if they were permanent inhabitants of a national wailing wall.”
Elected only one GOP
The 2nd district gave Mr. Nichols a 20,000-vote majority over Mr. Clark in the 1940 campaign, but this was pared to 385 ballots in 1942 when Mr. Clark was again the Republican candidate.
The district has elected only one GOP representative. That was in the Republican landslide of 1920 when Miss Alice M. Robertson of Muskogee defeated the incumbent by 209 votes.
Bricker lashes Senator Barkley
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (UP) –
Ohio Governor John W. Bricker was scheduled to make an address at Wichita, Kansas, today following his address at a Republican rally here last night in which he accused Senate Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley of “taking orders from the New Deal on Capitol Hill.”
Governor Bricker, candidate for the Republican nomination for the Presidency, said Senator Barkley’s visit to Oklahoma on behalf of W. G. Stigler, Democratic candidate in today’s special election, was “an example of the inconsistencies in which New Dealers engage to retain power.”
Governor Bricker spoke here on behalf of his own candidacy for the presidential nomination, but took advantage of Senator Barkley’s appearance at Muskogee to snipe at the Senate leader and at the same time boost the GOP special election candidate.