Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 8, 1944, Cairo, Egypt                                Political for ans with National elections Only two months this week saw the various political machines rolling into High official Campaign speeches launched the race Between the two major in president Roose velt revealed that Vic president Henry Defeated for will stump the coun try on behalf of the Roosevelt tru Man in Harry Truman was officially and formally notified that heis the democrats Choice for vice his acceptance marked the first official political address of the democratic the need for tried leadership in military and peacemaking crises the speech of Truman who there is no substitute for experience which can be gained1 through years of application and i am that the people of the will not choose for by political a Man who lacks exp offence and defence but the top had their cannons six Republican including Warren of Green of Bald win of Schoeppel of Martin of Pennsylvania and thy of went on the air Waves last week to Campaign for As Trio gop state chiefs prelude Dewey opening address in Philly Martin criticized Truman for not answer ing their charge of red tape and bureaucratic waste in his acceptance Edward Thye the hate backward look political talk of recent Vears and Praise the political doctrines of the focal Point of the Republican was the Oil political action Andrew Schoeppel spoke specific ally against so called pressure groups and named cos Pac which he said seemed Al powerful in the administrations later defending the its Sidney spoke be fore a special House committee and asserted that the Pac desires mainly to get out the sup porting his assertion by citing the decline in votes from 50 million in quake rocks Eastern new York sixteen states in northeastern United states and several Canadian provinces were shaken shortly after Midnight monday by a severe Earth Shock which awakened rattled dishes and caused heavy As recorded on Fordham University the initial Shock was entered near and it was Felt As far South As Virginia and As fair West As the quake was severe enough to put the Weston College Seismograph in Massachusetts out of operation for nearly an hour and was followed four hours later by two minor states which Felt the tremors a Civ Pel and lid clamped Down on new Orleans Niew Orleans despite its reputation As a open new Orleans last week experienced a crackdown against bookies and other gambling the ministerial by civic obtained a grand jury hearing on horse race gambling after a Campaign in which All three new Orleans news papers halted publication of track entries and 1940 to 28 million in the 1942 mid term but Hill Man did not deny that the Pac favors Roosevelt and tru Man and when if his new York local Union did not once con tribute to of ewes Campaign for District and we still favor Dewey for District turnabout of the presidents White House visitors this one was Gifford a Republican and former governor of Pinchot afterwards revealed that he sup ports Roosevelt for reelection and the Choice Between Roose velt and Dewey is like choosing Between a Veteran Leader of Many a raw recruit who has never shouldered a Rifle or fired a i am for the Man who knows while the political campaigns were being the Contro Versy Over the Soldier vote Law again flared this time in a Columbus Joseph has asserted that lie will go to state and Federal if to compel Ohio Secretary of state to Send out a Black Lead Pencil wit each Soldier vote the reason for his demand is this who is a demo accuses John who is Republican Vic presidential of trying to prevent an honest Soldier vote by failing to act and Amend the state Law under which soldiers would have to Mark ballots with Black Lead pencils Only in order to make them Veteran Dies former George 83yearold Veteran of 40 years in died at his Home this week following cerebral preside Jit Loosevelt led other statesmen in Praise of the Veteran Independent who served years in the Senate after five terms in the House of Norris is known As the father of the 20th amendment which removed the anachronism of the lame Duck session in Wlinich congressmen Defeated at the polls returned to enact new legislation before their terms actually he fostered Nebro Skas system of unicameral legislature the one House system in the nation won the passage of the labor injunction Bill in 1032 and sought the repeal of poll taxes during his last term in singers Mother Dies believing son alive Hollywood Julia co 78yearold Mother of the late Russ died Here still believing that her son was Riding the Crest of although he died of a pistol wound in the heart in Columbo was too ill with heart trouble to be told of her sons accidental death while examining an heirloom through the years her family maintained deception of his continued Fame by sending her letters signed with his second Quad baby Dies these cond of the boy quadruplets Horn to Charles Lee at the Hall Hospital last week but the condition of the other two incubator babies is reported Satis the a 25yearold array has arrived Swarthmore Star killed John Ogden Swarthmore College baseball Star and son of a former manager of the Baltimore was killed in action in his parents were september 1944stars and Middle East suicide saved by ropes for three hours Hattie sat on a tenth Story Winrow ledge of a new York building threatening to when she did jump police had already spread a safety net from windows several floors Here Hattie is seen just As she was about to hit the International Pacific vets Gallop in Chicago Riding to mayor Kellys office in what could be a modernized jeep arc some of the men who helped lick the japs on they attended the veterans of foreign wars convention in the Windy Acme sooner expect big mail Bride Biz from Gas an unidentified Soldier serving with forces in France was wed last week via mail order marriage to a girl in the ceremony was recorded in the gis Home Oklahoma attorneys believe that this May Start a flood of such marriages since Oklahoma is the Lone state in the Union which recognizes marriage by Remote its Law interpretations have Long held that two people Are Man and wife from the moment they agree to be regardless of ceremony or their former the stale May thus become the Gretna Green of the armed an earlier postal order involving a new Jersey Soldier and his Hor estate was ruled electrocuted Philadelphia Peter was electrocuted when he tied a wire around a tin can and then tossed it Over a High tension Brush fires hit Southern los Angeles after a two Day some 700 fire fighters last weekend had a Blaze under control Wlinich had swept eight thousand acres of Bushland edging the san Fernando an estimated 80 families were burned out or evacuated in a san Diego county which blackened the Woodland for Miles and shrink led ashes Over Beverly downtown los Angeles and san no lives were poll gives Roosevelt Edge new York president Roose velt chances of reelection increased in according to Eirno Ilo pors Fortune Magazine on percent of the voters favored his return to the White House whereas on August 5 his majority was Down to per per cent favor while per cent Are in poll forces to pass legislation providing benefits Lor War work Era corresponding to those of servicemen were Defeated last week by a bipartisan coalition in the the liberals had sought to substitute for n ways and Means committee draft another Bill pro Viding unemployment compensation for displaced civilian workers to this we Defeated As were other Liberal Mea sures which would restore Benefit payments included in the original George Bill for merchant shipyard and Arsenal give maximum payments of to help migrant War workers locate themselves and form a three member a peal Board to hear grievances of Small plants seeking critical a Senate and conferees also met during the week to Iron out inter House difficulties concerning the controversial reconversion says Baruch White House advisor Bernard Baruch spoke in favor of extending unemployment benefits in a letter to the two major labor unions which likewise favor such called the House Bill he said it would be obviously advantageous to have such compensation cover As Many groups As a definite step toward reconversion was when War mobilization director James Byrnes established a special inter Agency committee to deter mine How the governments 14 billion Dollar investment in War plants shall be disposed of when the need for War material has come to an in pending Senate the postwar constructed designed to alleviate is scheduled for Quick under the proposed extending for three the various states would contribute most of the with Federal appropriations reaching takes Over More Coal mines Pittsburgh president Roo Sevelt monday empowered of the Interior Ickes to take Over four More Pennsylvania mine Compa Nies owning five Coal this raises the number of mines seized by the government in one week to to end a strike of supervisory United mine workers miners were not on strike at any of the but state Law forbids their operation with out some miners in Western Pennsylvania Are publisher of the Fargo is Madame Chiang Iii Washington the chinese finance said sunday that Madame Chiang Kai Shek is seriously ill and will come to the soon for medical care from the same doctor who treated her two years Kung is the brother inlaw of chivas american educated first lady who is now in Rio de branded baby who cried san Frangis Carthur Wood was sentenced to six months in jail on a charge that when the crying of his five months old son annoyed held a hot Iron against the baby Sto f was awfully and i dont know Why i did he told the Holiday takes 245 lives Chicago labor Day weekend Cost 245 lives throughout the a an a Survey More than resulted from traffic mishaps and Cellaneous causes accounted for the last years total of labor Day deaths was