Washington (UP) –
The White House reported today that President Roosevelt’s bronchial irritation is “clearing up nicely.”
Secretary Stephen T. Early added, however, that the President’s physician, VAdm. Ross McIntire, insisted that the Chief Executive continue to follow a restricted schedule.
Calls it federal move to concentrate power
By Robert Taylor, Press Washington correspondent
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Non-stop air drive is continued
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Bill may not get President’s signature
Washington (UP) –
Indications mounted today that President Roosevelt will let the soldier vote bill become a law without his signature.
The President has until midnight tomorrow to act. He has three choices – he may sign it, veto it, or let it become a law without his signature.
Expectations that he will take the last course were strengthened by the fact that Congress intends to hold an unusual Saturday session this week.
The decision to meet Saturday, instead of starting the Easter recess this afternoon as planned, was made by Senate Democratic Leader Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky. He told reporters he did not know which course the President would take.
Senator Barkley declared:
I have not discussed his action with him at all. We will stay in session only to keep open all three courses of possible action.
Political observers believed that if the President decides to let the bill become law without his signature, the decision would be based on his desire to do everything possible to facilitate soldier voting despite his dissatisfaction with the bill’s limitations on use of a simplified federal ballot.
Washington (UP) –
Representatives of the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars today defended item by item the Senate-approved “G.I. Bill of Rights” now before the House World War Veterans Committee.
The bill, backed by both groups, provides some $4 billion for discharged servicemen, including hospitalization, education and free home and business loans.
Discussion of the educated provision yesterday brought from Chairman John E. Rankin (D-MS) the warning that he intended to “go over this bill line by line, page by page to eliminate anything which might create any discord in the South or North.”
He expressed fears that “the Fair Employment Practices Committee” – designed to fight employment bars based on color, creed or religion – or some other agency under the bill’s present wording might foment discord by intrusion into the veterans’ educational program.
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After the battle, a Marine boards a transport with his face begrimed from two days and nights of hell on the beach at Eniwetok in the Marshalls, but with the light of battle still in his eyes.
By Robert Vermillion, United Press staff writer
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Montgomery Ward won’t obey board
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All those who have been holding up a moistened finger to the wind profess to detect a determined slump in Democratic prestige for the coming election.
There is evidence to support the view that the fourth-term candidacy will have a harder row to hoe than the third-term candidacy.
But–
Some Republicans seem anxious to make out the best possible case against themselves and their party.
There are numerous examples, but one of the best was the recent speech of Werner W. Schroder, Republican National Committeeman from Illinois. Mr. Schroeder was the man picked by Col. McCormick, the great Chicago rabble-rouser, for national chairman, but Wendell Willkie upset that plan.
In a radio broadcast, Mr. Schroeder attacked the OPA, the burden of his speech being that rationing is being forced on us by New Deal bureaucrats who propose to imprison the whole country in a straitjacket so they may better impose their political “whims” on the people.
Mr. Schroeder, speaking of the bureaucrat, said:
He is with you at every meal telling you what coffee, sugar, bacon and canned goods you can consume. He prescribes the shows you buy and the cut of your suit. He limits your tires and gasoline, while Lend-Leasing it to all the world.
If that’s the kind of insidious stuff the Republicans plan to use, they’ll succeed only in making the most bureaucratic bureaucrat look like a statesman by comparison.
Superior, Wisconsin (UP) –
Wendell L. Willkie was scheduled to end his two-week pre-primary tour of Wisconsin here today after blasting the “backroom boys” of the Republican Party who threatened to make the New Deal the “lesser of two evils” facing the nation in the November election.
Mr. Willkie told an Eau Clair, Wisconsin, audience last night that certain factions of the GOP “think you can be elected by telling one group one thing and another group something else.”
Stumping the state in support of 24 delegates pledged to him in Tuesday’s primary, Mr. Willkie demanded that the Republican Party and its leaders “take an affirmative stand on the issues of the house because when confronted by the lesser of these two evils, the people will continue to vote for the New Deal” rather than an undecided GOP.
He said:
The Republican Party is entitled to leadership. I would be ashamed to lead a party made up of Gerald Smiths, a party with no guts, whose leaders don’t want to be men when men are dying for us.
Earlier, Mr. Willkie told audiences at Chippewa Falls and Menomonie that “the very men who hate the administration so much that they cannot see its good points are actually proving to be its best friends.”
He said:
These men and these forces, such as The Chicago Tribune and the Hearst papers, hate the administration so much that they advocate always-negative policies which prevent the people from removing the New Deal from leadership.