America at war! (1941–) – Part 3

On Bougainville –
Yanks smash crack Jap unit

Troops that ravaged China cut to pieces
By H. D. Quigg, United Press staff writer


Wingate’s death laid to storm

Madeleine Carroll cheers wounded Yanks in Italy

Actress doing Red Cross work
By Newbold Noyes Jr., North American Newspaper Alliance


Post-war planning urged by Wallace

Chaplin jury to hear final pleas Monday

Comedian’s, girl’s stories conflict


Celebrities’ lawyer Jerry Giesler is movietown’s big scene-stealer

Courtroom acting his strong point

Lardner: Irving Berlin reaches Italy looking good in 1944 uniform

By John Lardner, North American Newspaper Alliance

Woolf: Yanks fret when Nazis won’t fight

Pilots celebrate victories by signing their names on bottle of brandy
By S. J. Woolf

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Dewey approves bills to aid needy, aged

Albany, New York (UP) – (April 1)
Governor Thomas E. Dewey, approving 14 bills designed to broaden benefits to the needy and the aged, said tonight that “unlike the statism which dominates totalitarian philosophies, we recognize that the state is but an instrument and a creature of its own people.”

Mr. Dewey said:

That instrument is justified so long as it serves the people well.

U.S. also stops Lend-Lease to Turkey

Allies adopting firm stand in quarrel

Anzio Yank takes time out for baptism off beachhead


Conduct of war in Italy hit by Army and Navy Journal

Germans as well as Allies have learned lessons in campaign, publication says

Ford upheld in retention of ‘fast’ workers

Can keep men whom auto union expelled


WLB outlines four basic wage rules

Davis: ‘Upward spiraling’ banned

In Washington –
Easter holiday lets Congress rest 10 days

Members face busy 2 months April 12


2 Southern cities tied up by strike

Way opened to hear Alcoa monopoly suit

House bill would end legal deadlock
By Robert Taylor, Press Washington correspondent

Fierce fighting raging along Indian border

British battle to hold vital supply line

Kirkpatrick: Allies’ setup in Italy held inadequate

Fresh dispute may clear atmosphere
By Helen Kirkpatrick

Bowing sets new bomber output record

Flying Fortress production up 25%


Jolly Roger unit tells of exploits

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Willkie faces test Tuesday in Wisconsin

Party heads await vote on delegates

Washington (UP) – (April 1)
Republican leaders tonight expected Wisconsin’s selection in Tuesday’s primary of 24 delegates to the GOP National Convention to provide the first real clue to the strength of Wendell L. Willkie’s bid for the party’s 1944 presidential nomination.

The second test of his strength will come April 11 when Nebraska chooses 15 delegates to the convention which opens in Chicago June 26.

Party leaders awaited the outcome of the Wisconsin primary with mixed feelings – and much curiosity. Some felt that election of half of the Willkie delegates would represent a triumph for the party’s 1940 standard-bearer. Others contended it would take more than this to get the Willkie bandwagon rolling.

Satisfied with majority

Winding up a 13-day campaign in the state, Mr. Willkie was quoted as stating that he would be satisfied if he won a majority of the delegates. State supporters said election of fewer than 18 or 20 Willkie delegates would not be regarded as a decisive victory.

Mr. Willkie was the only one of four potential candidates for the nomination to campaign in the state.

Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York sought unsuccessfully to obtain the withdrawal of candidates pledged to him. LtCdr. Harold E. Stassen, floor manager for Mr. Willkie in the 1940 convention, and Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Allied Supreme Commander in the Southwest Pacific, are on active duty and thereby prevented from engaging actively in a political campaign. But slates of delegates pledged to each of this trio are entered.

Bound by pledge

Mr. Dewey is bound by a pledge made upon his election to the New York governorship in 1942 to seek no other public office until he completes his four-year term. It was in keeping with this promise that he sought to withdraw delegates in the Wisconsin primary, and today sought to eliminate his name from the Oregon primary to be held May 19.

Despite his pledge, recent polls have shown Mr. Dewey to be the outstanding potential candidate for the GOP nomination at this time. There is no doubt among the party leadership that the governor would accept, if nominated.

More tests needed

The selection of convention delegates thus far is too inconclusive to forecast the comparative convention strength of the avowed and potential candidates, on opening day.

A better picture will be available at the end of this month after more than 400 delegates have been chosen in primaries and state conventions ranging from Virginia to Hawaii.


Willkie: Stress issues, not men

Lincoln, Nebraska (UP) – (April 1)
Wendell L. Willkie, stumping the state capital today for the Republican presidential nomination in the Nebraska primaries April 11, described “old-fashioned politicking and old-time organizational methods” as suicidal to GOP presidential hopes.

He declares:

Glorification of the individual – the tendency to rely upon a person rather than the principles he represents – is the greatest curse of the times. Members of the Republican Party are anxious for candidates who will represent their urgent needs. We must place ourselves on a platform and principles for which we will face even defeat.

In urging that Republicans nullify the Democratic argument that “one individual transcends all others,” Mr. Willkie charged World War II was brought about through faulty political leadership and the reliance “of the free people of the world upon men instead of the principles for which they stood.”

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Dark horse to run against George

Atlanta, Georgia (UP) – (April 1)
Senator Walter F. George (D-GA), veteran of 22 years in the upper chamber, tonight was forced into a race for renomination against a political unknown rather than against former Governor Eugene Talmadge, who had been rumored as his opponent.

While Governor Talmadge was announcing to reporters that a heated political campaign was not fitting in wartime, John W. Goolsby of Washington, Georgia, an electric appliance salesman, quietly qualified with Democratic Party chiefs to oppose George in the July 4 primary.

Mr. Goolsby, 47, declared that he was an independent and that he had no factional backing. Political leaders expressed ignorance of his very existence, and Governor Talmadge denied any connection with him.

In his singlehanded campaign against the powerful George, a member of the Senate since 1922 and head of the Senate Finance Committee, Mr. Goolsby said he would run on a farm platform.

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Minnesota GOP endorses Stassen

St. Paul, Minnesota (UP) – (April 1)
Minnesota Republicans in state convention today completed a 25-man delegation to the national GOP convention, committed to the candidacy of former Governor LtCdr. Harold E. Stassen as long as it was “feasible.”

Dr. R. C. Radbaugh of Hastings, a Stassen supporter since 1938 and chairman of the Stassen-for-President Association, was not included among the seven delegates-at-large, whose election was the principal business of the convention.

Senator Joseph H. Ball, close personal friend of the former governor, who sought a delegate-at-large position to back Stassen to the limit at Chicago, won election by the lowest number of votes cast for any of the seven.

The convention platform committee brought out a much-diluted resolution on Minnesota demands for a foreign policy plank, which asked for “a realistic program of collaboration with other nations to maintain the peace.”

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Governor cites New Deal benefits

Fairmont, West Virginia (UP) – (April 1)
Governor J. M. Broughton of North Carolina tonight summarized accomplishments of the New Deal which he said had served as “a governmental blood plasma” for a nation “threatened with death” and predicted a 1944 victory for the Democratic Party.

In a talk to Democratic Party members of the state at a Jefferson Day dinner, the Governor outlined the 12 years the party had been in power which, he said, resulted in:

…an almost miraculous rescue from financial debacle, continuing to the period of the nation’s greatest prosperity and climaxed with a victorious leadership in the earth’s greatest war.

In praise of the New Deal, the Governor said it might well be termed “a governmental blood plasma administered to a nation suffering from shock and threatened with death.” He added that “in any case, the patient recovered.”

Governor Broughton said at present there is:

…hardly a laboring man or woman… who is not making more money than ever before in our history farm income has attained new heights; business and industry have made record earnings.

I DARE SAY —
Movie book brings back memories

Deems Taylor and aides compile fascinating history of the films
By Florence Fisher Parry

Hopper: Love – or a fair imitation – begins at 40!

Campus romance gets bum’s rush
By Hedda Hopper