I DARE SAY —
A heedless candidate
By Florence Fisher Parry
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4th term deplored at White House
Washington (UP) –
Thomas Rhea, prominent Kentucky Democrat, said today after a conference with President Roosevelt that the Chief Executive does not want to be a candidate for reelection.
After first saying that the President had told him as much, Mr. Rhea then said that this was only his personal impression.
Mr. Rhea, prominent in Kentucky politics for a number of years and a delegate to the Democratic conventions in 1932 and 1940, was asked this question as he left the President’s office: “Did you get a line on 1944?”
Mr. Rhea replied:
He says he does not want to be a candidate.
“Did he tell you that?” a reporter asked.
Mr. Rhea said:
Now, wait a minute – I don’t know that he said that. My impression is that he would like to get out of the whole thing. Now, don’t misquote me – the President did not make that statement.
I think he would like to go home if conditions warranted.
Mr. Rhea followed this by saying that he did not discuss “politics” with the President.
Under further questioning as to exactly what the President said, Mr. Rhea remained steadfast in saying that he had not discussed a fourth term with the President, but that if Mr. Roosevelt was a candidate, he would carry Kentucky. Mr. Rhea said he hoped the President would run.
Still breaking windows –
Commando Kelly is quick on trigger on radio, too
Congressional Medal of Honor winner talks with family over network
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Willkie leads New Hampshire primary slate
Dewey is second in first vote test
Concord, New Hampshire (UP) –
Complete returns from New Hampshire’s “first-in-the-nation” presidential primary showed today that six of the state’s 11 delegates to the Republican National Convention will be supporters of Wendell L. Willkie.
Two will be pledged to Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York, while the remaining three will be strictly unpledged.
In the 19-man contest for seven delegate-at-large seats, unpledged pro-Willkie candidates, two, and a Dewey-pledged candidate, one.
In contests for the two district delegate seats in each of the state’s two Congressional districts, unpledged pro-Willkie candidates won two while a Dewey-pledged aspirant and an unpledged candidate won the others.
The Democrats elected a complete slate pledged to President Roosevelt for a fourth term.
Marines win new foothold in northern New Britain
By Don Caswell, United Press staff writer
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First WACs arrive in South Pacific
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GOP leaders stay in Senate
Washington (UP) –
Senate Republicans today voted unanimously to retain their present temporary organization until after the November election in which they hope to gain a majority in the Senate.
They retained Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg (R-MI) as acting chairman, Senator Wallace H. White (R-ME) as acting floor leader, Senator Kenneth S. Wherry (R-NE) as whip, and Senator Harold H. Burton (R-OH) as secretary.
They also confirmed the nine-man steering committee appointed by Senator Vandenberg. The committee members are Mr. Vandenberg, Mr. White, Mr. Wherry and Senators Robert A. Taft (R-OH), John A. Danaher (R-CT), Styles Bridges (R-NH), C. Wayland Brooks (R-IL), Harlan J. Bushfield (R-SD) and Eugene D. Millikin (R-CO).
Count Sforza belittles Red recognition
Says it doesn’t change his stand
By Eleanor Packard, United Press staff writer
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WLB interest in public good challenged
Frequent split votes of members cited
By Fred W. Perkins, Pittsburgh Press staff writer
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WLB can’t alter formula, steel industry maintains
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Victorious handsome Harry is banished from screen
Actors who can switch from good to ‘bad’ roles in demand now!
By Jack Cooper
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Editorial: The bobtailed ballot
The Republican National Committee is making capital of the soldier vote issue by distributing widely its version of the “bobtailed ballot” called for in the compromise Congressional bill, now in its final stage.
The ballot covers only the presidential, senatorial and Congressional races. This, the Republicans say, means that the Armed Forces “would be partially disfranchised in that they could not participate in state, county and local elections.”
There has been a suspicion that some Republicans are bleeding less over the possible disfranchisement of the soldier than over the danger that he will instructively write in the name of his Commander-in-Chief rather than that of Mr. Dewey, Mr. Willkie or whoever the Republican nominee may be. Be that as it may, recipients of the GOP’s “sample ballot” should bear in mind that–
Under the Congressional bill – to which the Senate gave its final assent yesterday – the “bobtailed ballot” can be used only by overseas servicemen whose states have certified acceptance of the federal ballot, and who have applied for but not received state ballots.
The onus for any disfranchisement of the troops is thrown back on the states, whether or not President Roosevelt vetoes this bill.
It is to the governors and the legislatures that the serviceman must look for an opportunity to cast either a full state ballot or the short federal ballot.