Lifting the draft fog –
Confusing changes in draft are really part of definite plan
Selective Service procedure divided into three distinct phases
By John Troan
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Lifting the draft fog –
Chicago Tribune seeks Wisconsin subsidiary
Chicago, Illinois (UP) –
The Chicago Tribune announced today that it had applied to the War Production Board for newsprint necessary to start a morning newspaper in Milwaukee.
The announcement said the step was taken in recognition of the defeat of Wendell Willkie in the Wisconsin primary election last week.
In its application, the Tribune said:
The recent Wisconsin primaries have demonstrated that the people of that state, through their repudiation of policies of many of the Wisconsin newspapers, are dissatisfied with the service they are receiving from Wisconsin newspapers.
After Mr. Willkie’s defeat in Wisconsin, the Tribune said editorially that the issue in Wisconsin had been “Tribune policies against Willkie policies.”
Mine owners back proposal to fix prices
Measure differs from old Guffey coal law
By Fred W. Perkins, Pittsburgh Press staff writer
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Production held ‘road to real wealth’
AFL told spread work idea gospel of despair
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Girl (Democrat) attempts suicide over man (GOP)
Chicago, Illinois (UP) –
A violent political argument between a 22-year-old girl (a loyal Democrat) and her fiancé (an ardent Republican) led to an attempted suicide by the girl yesterday – after she had cast her vote.
Miss Jane Zak said she and Vito Capozzielli argued about their party affiliations on the way to the polls today, and that after she had marked her ballot, she returned home, locked herself in her apartment and turned on the gas stove jets in an attempt to take her life. She was saved when Mr. Capozzielli broke into the girl’s room and rushed her to a hospital.
U.S. warships blast Japs on Guinea coast
Five more bases in Marshalls captured
By the United Press
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In Washington –
Returning Congressmen face disputed issues in brief, busy session
Prices, Lend-Lease, bonus, debt limit and appropriations are on schedule
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Farley heads harmony meeting of New York State Democrats
Fourth term endorsement seen in resolution urging ‘continued direction’ of war effort
New York (UP) –
The New York State Democratic Committee unanimously reelected James A. Farley as its chairman today and unanimously approved a resolution that was interpreted as an endorsement of a fourth term for President Roosevelt.
The resolution was proposed by former National Chairman Edward J. Flynn. Endorsing President Roosevelt’s administration, it did not specifically mention his renomination and reelection.
‘Continued direction’
The resolution said:
The inevitable victory of our righteous cause can best be assured the sooner by his continued direction of the great contribution that armed America, agricultural America, and industrial America are making all over the globe in defeating the forces of tyranny.
Mr. Farley had opposed Mr. Roosevelt’s nomination for a third term ands resigned as national chairman after the 1940 convention. Today’s resolution appeared to be a compromise with state Democratic factions wanting a specific endorsement of Mr. Roosevelt as a presidential candidate this year. The Albany O’Connell faction wanted to remove Mr. Farley as state chairman.
All in 40 minutes
Passage of the resolution, reelection of officers and the unanimous election of a slate of 20 delegates-at-large to the national convention took only 40 minutes at the meeting in the National Democratic Club.
Mr. Farley and the other committee officers were placed in nomination by Frank V. Kelly, Brooklyn leader, and were seconded by George B. Doyle of Erie County, who declared from the floor:
We are most fortunate in having such a great leader as Jim Farley as our chairman.
As chairman, Mr. Farley pushed through the regular order of business with no deviation.
He said:
No one can be more proud of his friends than I am now and have been through the years. I can assure you that I will never give you any cause to regret the confidence you have placed in me.
Wants no compromise
Tammany leader Edward V. Laughlin’s call for a fourth-term draft climaxed today by completion of the pro-Roosevelt slate.
Mr. Laughlin issued his Draft-Roosevelt statement in Washington last night through the Democratic National Committee which in a session last January “solicited” the President to seek another term.
As leader of Tammany Hall, the New York County Democratic organization, Mr. Laughlin said:
There can be no compromise with ivy-towered isolationism. The blood that has been shed by our boys on the battlefields must not be in vain. We Democrats in New York support without reservation President Roosevelt and his policies.
It is appropriate that New York should take the lead in the movement to draft Franklin D. Roosevelt.
His statement followed by 48 hours a bitter attack by two Tammany district leaders upon his leadership of the New York organization. John L. Buckley and Dennis J. Mahon are assailing Mr. Laughlin on charges of “trafficking” with Rep. Vito Marcantonio, American Laborite member of Congress from a Harlem constituency, whom they accuse of being a communist intent upon swelling American Labor Party strength at the expense of the Democratic Party.
Mr. Buckley and Mr. Mahon said Monday in New York:
The endorsement of President Roosevelt or whoever may be the nominee of the Democratic Party this year by the present controlling influences of our organization would be a travesty and a liability.
Mr. Marcantonio is leader of the left-wing American Labor Party element which captured party control throughout the state in last month’s primaries.
Poll: Governor Dewey boosts lead in Michigan
MacArthur, Willkie are tied for second
By George Gallup, Director, American Institute of Public Opinion
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Government by secrecy assailed by Bricker
Tacoma, Washington (UP) –
Ohio Governor John W. Bricker, candidate for the GOP presidential nomination, blames “government by secrecy” for the creation of “suspicion and distrust of the administration in the minds of the people.”
Governor Bricker told the Pierce County Republican Convention last night that “everywhere I go I find people hungry for information.”
He said:
They are sick and tired of all the mystery and secrecy that covers so much of our national affairs. The people have been given only such news as governmental bureaucrats deem good for them.
Governor Bricker also declared that he favored an elaboration of the League of Nations and the World Court as a post-war peace-maintaining agency.
93 votes for Dewey expected in New York
Albany, New York (UP) –
Political observers believed today that New York State’s 93 delegates to the Republican National Convention would adopt a resolution next month formally endorsing Governor Thomas E. Dewey for the presidential nomination.
Louisiana Governor challenges Roosevelt
Baton Rouge, Louisiana (UP) –
Governor Sam H. Jones, long a bitter opponent of the New Deal administration, has openly challenged the power of President Roosevelt to refuse to let members of Congress serve in the Armed Forces unless they first resign their posts.
The Governor refused to accept the resignation of Rep. James Domengeaux (D-LA) who had passed his pre-induction physical examination and was scheduled to be sworn into the Army within a few days.
Domengeaux, 37, and single, sent his resignation to the Governor according to Louisiana law, several weeks ago.
Governor Jones wrote the Congressman:
I know of now law of the United States that would bar you as a Congressman from serving in the Army of the United States and at the same time keep you from holding your office to which the people of your district have elected you.
Rep. Luce: Roosevelt losing hold on voters
Bridgeport, Connecticut (UP) –
Many a Democrat in Congress “is beginning to view his own bootstraps as a safer device for political levitation than President Roosevelt’s threadbare coattails,” Rep. Clare Luce (R-CT) told the Bridgeport Chamber of Commerce yesterday.
She said that Mr. Roosevelt has lost his vote-pulling appeal, and that in private, Democratic Congressmen and Senators “will tell you so.”