The Wilmington Morning Star (August 9, 1944)
ONRUSHING AMERICANS, CANADIANS ONLY 110 MILES AWAY FROM PARIS
Heavy bombers aiding advance
Many enemy strongholds blocking offensive rolled to side
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ONRUSHING AMERICANS, CANADIANS ONLY 110 MILES AWAY FROM PARIS
Jap capture of Hengyang big victory
Hard blow to China; Allied forces winning on all other fronts in Asiatic area
By Ray Cronin, Associated Press war editor
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Small Jap forces remains in Burma
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Wagner to face GOP’s Curran
By the Associated Press
New York Democrats renominated Senator Robert F. Wagner today, and Republican leaders of that state agreed upon Secretary of State Thomas J. Curran as his opponent in the November general election.
Curran’s formal selection by the GOP convention later in the day was regarded as a formality after Republican State Chairman Edwin F. Jaeckle announced in Albany that a consensus of the executive committee agreed on the 45-year-old Manhattan attorney. He was the choice of Governor Thomas E. Dewey, the party’s presidential nominee.
In Connecticut, the state Republican convention renominated Senator John A. Danaher and Governor Raymond E. Baldwin.
In Arkansas, predictions of a heavy Democratic runoff primary vote failed to materialize up to noon despite the bitterly-contested race between freshman Congressman J. W. Fulbright and Governor Homer M. Adkins for the Senate seat of Mrs. Hattie Caraway. Reports placed the vote at midday as slightly less than in the first primary two weeks ago in which Mrs. Caraway was defeated.
The day’s other political activity included a Vermont primary.
British papers banned by Army
London, England (AP) – (Aug. 8)
The sale of British newspapers and magazines was banned in U.S. Army camps in Britain today until after the American presidential election.
The Army said the action was taken under the Soldiers’ Voting Act requirement which says “no member of the U.S. Armed Forces shall have his vote influenced in any way.”
Editorial: Why kill Hirohito?
A Honolulu editor urges that the execution of Hirohito is necessary to prevent further Japanese aggression. Granting that the editor, in a city which includes a large Japanese colony, knows the character and habits of the Jap better than most of us, we still question his suggestion.
Hirohito, believed by his people to be a descendant of the sun goddess, is a confusion of god and emperor. He is the center of the Japanese state religion, but his temporal power has risen and fallen according to the whims and temper of his ministers. And there seems ample evidence that the militarist clique, not the emperor, willed and planned this war.
To execute Hirohito would be both inexpedient and un-American. Such an act would probably rouse the Japanese people, even though defeated, to a fury that would prolong resistance and cost many more American lives. Besides, it is hardly fitting that a country founded on freedom of worship should put to death a ruler who, however senseless it seems to us, is regarded by his subjects as a divine being. If we bring the Tōjō gang to justice, we shall probably have killed the present root of Jap aggression.
Arkansas Negro vote increased
Little Rock, Arkansas (AP) – (Aug. 8)
Negro voters turned out in greatly increased numbers today for Arkansas’ Democratic primary runoff in which youthful Rep. J. W. Fulbright and 53-year-old Governor Homer M. Adkins engaged in a bitter contest for Hattie W. Caraway’s senatorial seat.
The Negro vote was estimated by Dr. J. M. Robinson, president of the Arkansas Negro Democratic Association, at about 5,000. This turnout compared to only about 900 in the preferential primary two weeks ago in which the new state party rule substituting a party loyalty test for a racial ban was given its first trial.
Reports indicated that the voting was generally only slightly heavier than it was July 25 when approximately 185,000 turned out.
The New Deal and the forthcoming presidential election were not even mentioned during the runoff campaign in which issues were overshadowed by personalities.
Adkins attempted to make an issue of the CIO Political Action Committee, claiming that the CIO was actively supporting his opponent. Fulbright denied the charge.
The 55-word Fulbright Resolution, which brought the handsome freshman Congressman national attention, was criticized by Adkins who declared it “does not in any sense of the word offer any plan.”
Fulbright, who was removed as president of the University of Arkansas in 1941 by a board of trustees named by Adkins (an old political opponent), led a five-candidate field in the first primary in which Senator Caraway, the nation’s only woman Senator, was eliminated. Mrs. Caraway adopted a hand-off policy in the runoff.
Agents for a senatorial committee investigating campaign expenses watched balloting in several counties for possible violations of the Federal Corrupt Practices Act. Chief Investigator George J. Shillito said no complaints of any consequence had been received thus far. There were reports of heavy campaign expenditures in the first primary.
The polls opened at 8:00 a.m. and closed at 6:30 p.m. CT.
The Pittsburgh Press (August 9, 1944)
In Washington –
George’s demobilization bill may be taken up first
Vote on controversial job compensation issue may come in Senate tomorrow
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Liberators hit island south of Philippines
13 enemy planes ripped on Halmahera
By William B. Dickinson, United Press staff writer
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Anglo-American oil pact offered to other nations
Agreement is essentially a U.S. plan and approves use of petroleum sanctions
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Nazis abandoning many 88s before Anglo-Canadian rush
Germans have difficulty in retreating as Allies dominate roads, cripple transport
By Richard D. McMillan, United Press staff writer
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Yanks bomb Allies by mistake
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