Bonds cashed in to pay March 15 income taxes
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Big and Little Steel –
Steel debate fails to fix a set of rules
Actual pay battle put off to March 22
By Fred W. Perkins, Pittsburgh Press staff writer
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Ford Company fires 10 plant rioters
Action is witnessed by union officials
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Independents lose fight for WLB spot
MESA president promises action
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Woman given medal
Washington –
Mrs. Edna T. Johansson of New Orleans, stewardess aboard the 4,693-ton American liner Sixaola when it was torpedoed by an Axis submarine only 100 miles from the Panama Canal, today was awarded the War Shipping Administration’s Combat Bar with Star. She is the first woman ever to receive the award.
Finds jobs for women
Washington –
The U.S. Employment Service has found 1,858 different jobs suitable for women in war industries.
Civilian aluminum items may be made again soon
Wartime surplus is disclosed, raising post-war problem for industry
By Dale McFeatters, Press business editor
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‘We’ll ride – you’ll pay’
Weekly editor ridicules bill for ad subsidy
Calls it election year present
By Robert Taylor, Press Washington correspondent
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Gen. MacArthur ‘smear’ charged
Vandenberg scores Army reading list
Washington (UP) –
Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson today agreed with Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg (R-MI) that the War Department should be “scrupulously careful to avoid the official distribution of partisan or prejudicial material to the Army.”
Mr. Stimson made the statement in reply to a protest by Mr. Vandenberg that a list of recommended magazine articles circulated by the Army War College library included a “smear” article against Gen. Douglas MacArthur, the Senator’s favorite for the 1944 Republican presidential nomination.
List to be eliminated
Mr. Stimson wrote Mr. Vandenberg that the list of magazine articles henceforth would be eliminated from the library bulletin.
Mr. Vandenberg protested that the War Department list referred to the article, printed in the American Mercury, as:
…a comprehensive and objective appraisal of the general as presidential timber, with special reference to the character of his backers and an analysis of his military reputation before Pearl Harbor and after.
Mr. Stimson wrote Mr. Vandenberg that the War College library reprinted the list from a poster sent out each month by Harper & Bros. to public libraries and that the comments reprinted under the title of each article were reproduced exactly from the power.
Selections not approved
Mr. Stimson wrote:
There has been no intent to imply War Department approval of these selections. The sponsorship by a council of librarians is indicated as part of the heading. Monthly circulation of this publication represents fewer than 500 copies.
In order that there may be no opportunity for misunderstanding of the War Department’s position, however, I have directed that the list be eliminated from future issues of the library bulletin.
Guadalcanal veterans meet heavier fighting in Burma
Two U.S. machine guns fire 5,000 rounds each to mow down Japs
By Frank Hewlett, United Press staff writer
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Clergymen’s plea on bombing hit
Aid to foe’s morale, statement says
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In Army since 12, he’s not citizen
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Editorial: Dewey and the soldier vote
Governor Dewey’s soldier-voting plan strikes us two ways.
His affirmative suggestions to the New York Legislature for simplifying the balloting arrangement for troops from that state – particularly the proposed waiver of the registration requirement – should be greatly helpful. But it is regrettable that Governor Dewey omitted a further recommendation for state concurrence in the pending Congressional plan, under which men in uniform who apply for state ballots but do not receive them in time could use the proposed federal “bobtailed ballot.”
It certainly is true, as Mr. Dewey says, that the troops are entitled to vote in state and local elections as well as for federal offices. And his proposals go far toward making this possible for many of them.
Still, his plan involves a triple use of the mails. The soldier voter must send a postcard request, receive a ballot from home, and mail back the marked ballot. And that, as anybody who corresponds with a man overseas knows, is apt to take a long time.
If the President approves the federal-ballot bill, Mr. Dewey should think about using this added opportunity for New Yorkers in the service, as a stopgap in cases where his otherwise-excellent state plan fails because of geographical and other difficulties.