Extra stocks of aluminum are available
Surpluses also reported in magnesium and electric steel
By John W. Love, Scripps-Howard staff writer
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U.S. may mediate Polish-Red tangle
Roosevelt and Hull study government-in-exile’s boundary dispute request
By John A. Reichmann, United Press staff writer
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Hull revamps his department
Move designed to help U.S. foreign relations
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McFarland: Tip from Chicago
By Kermit McFarland
Some Republicans still cling to the high-tariff principles of the Coolidge-Hoover era, but on the whole Republicans have become lukewarm on this issue, many are in agreement on the reciprocal trade policies of the Roosevelt administration and most, at least, prefer to apply tariffs with a large measure of restraint.
In the last Republican national platform, the traditional tariff ideas of the Old Guard were toned down a good deal, although the tariff plank, as usual, was phrased in somewhat ambiguous language.
What the 1944 platform will contain will depend, probably, on the presidential candidate and on the dickers that go on among the platform carpenters in the backrooms of the convention.
But if it is left to front-running Republican powers in this state, the platform will scream for the old Smoot-Hawley type of tariff – and loud!
This was tipped off at Chicago last week when the Republican National Committee adopted a resolution opposing the return to this country, at “distress” prices, of surplus goods sent abroad for war purposes.
G. Mason Owlett, Pennsylvania national committeeman, sponsored the resolution, but prefaced it with a resounding high-tariff speech. He went after the “free traders” and demanded “proper defenses” against foreign-made products.
Mr. Owlett is a high-tariff proponent, you might even say a highest tariff proponent. He is the mouthpiece for Uncle Joe Grundy, ex-Senator, champion tariff lobbyist and still, at 80, the push behind the Republican wheelbarrow. And Mr. Owlett undoubtedly will be a delegate to the presidential convention.
Unless there is an uprising in the April primary, when delegates are elected, Mr. Grundy will be in the saddle when the Pennsylvania delegation goes to Chicago in June, stories about Joe Pew and his money notwithstanding. Mr. Pew, oil heir and would-be kingmaker, is reported maneuvering to unhorse Mr. Grundy, but he has been pursuing this course in vain for several years.
Anyway, the two are well on the way to making a deal which would preclude any but the most surreptitious efforts on Mr. Pew’s part to trip Mr. Grundy.
It began when Alexander Cooper was appointed by Governor Martin to Common Pleas Court. That appointment was designed to appease a local pressure group seeking the Superior Court post held by the late Judge Joseph Stadtfeld; this move to make way for the appointment of former Governor James to the Superior Court, where he formerly sat.
Mr. James is the Pew candidate for this job and if he gets it, Mr. Pew undoubtedly will line up behind Attorney General James H. Duff for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate. Mr. Duff is the Grundy-Martin candidate as of now.
It all adds up the probability that the Pew-Grundy-Martin factions will be consolidated to battle Senator James J. Davis’ candidacy for renomination. This inevitably will become tangled up with the delegate scrap because any stray opposition to the Pew-Grundy-Martin axis will pitch in with the Davis camp.
This combination will play a loose game with the rival presidential candidates, hoping to line up a controllable delegation which can throw its weight around at the convention in such a manner as will profit the combination the most.
How well the combination can control the delegates may depend, to a high degree, on whether or not Mr. Duff can beat Mr. Davis.
Willkie’s One World at top of ten best list
George Washington Carver is year’s best biography in critic’s opinion
By John D. Paulus
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Voice of Roosevelt to return to radio for paralysis fund
Whiskers are popular with network stars and we don’t mean they’re on gags – or are they?
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Tax collector to head drive for 4th term
Democratic campaign expected to be similar to that of 1940
By Lyle C. Wilson, United Press staff writer
Washington – (Jan. 15)
President Roosevelt’s fourth-term campaign – now generally regarded as inevitable – will apparently be similar to that of 1940 but conducted under new management.
The President’s only response to public inquiry about his political plans has been that the question was picayune.
But some of the most experiences political observers in this capital are convinced now that he will be a candidate for one reason if for no other.
Only one with chance
That reason is that no other Democrat would have more than the merest chance to be elected.
Observers believe that the only Democrat who would have any kind of a chance against Mr. Roosevelt in a fight for delegates and a convention showdown would be Secretary of State Cordell Hull. And even his best political friends concede that if Mr. Hull licked Mr. Roosevelt in the convention, the Republicans could defeat him in the election.
Furthermore, there is no one here who thinks for a moment that Mr. Hull would make the attempt.
Will accept ‘draft’
Therefore, with all war questions aside, there is persuasive evidence that Mr. Roosevelt this year will adopt the strategy of 1940 and permit an overwhelming majority of convention delegates to be pledged to him and then accept their nomination for another term in the White House.
The new campaign manager is evidently to be Robert E. Hannegan, a Missourian who is presently Commissioner of Internal Revenue. The capital expects Postmaster General Frank C. Walker to resign the chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee when that body meets here next week to fix the time and place of the nominating convention.
Mr. Walker took the job as a favor to Mr. Roosevelt after Edward J. Flynn of New York resigned last January.
Völkischer Beobachter (January 17, 1944)
US-Volk erkennt Roosevelts Schwindel –
100 Milliarden Staatsgelder verschwendet
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U.S. Navy Department (January 17, 1944)
CINCPAC Press Release No. 229
For Immediate Release
January 17, 1944
Seventh Army Air Force planes made two daylight raids on Mille Atoll in the Marshall Islands on January 18 (West Longitude Date). In the first attack, two enemy bombers were shot down over the airfield. In the second, carried out in considerable force, ground Installations were heavily machine-gunned. One of our planes was shot down.
On the afternoon of January 15, 7th Army Air Force bombers made a low altitude attack on Maloelap Atoll. Airfield and fuel storage installations were damaged and several planes were hit on the ground. Two cargo ships were bombed and may have been sunk. Approximately 45 enemy fighters were encountered. Two of these were believed shot down. One of our bombers was lost.
Navy search planes sank a small cargo ship at Likiep Atoll and probably sank another small cargo ship at Jaluit Atoll on January 15.
Enemy bombers made three raids on Makin and two at Tarawa the night of January 15. There was no appreciable damage to our installations. Casualties were light. One enemy plane was shot down at Makin.
The Pittsburgh Press (January 17, 1944)
YANKS SET TO STORM CASSINO
Fortresses smash Nazi plant in South Austria
Americans of 5th Army within mile of Rome road fortress
By C. R. Cunningham, United Press staff writer
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NINE JAPS SHIPS BLASTED AT RABAUL
Yanks down 31 planes in Pacific raid
Marines take key hill on New Britain; Aussies seize Guinea port
By Don Caswell, United Press staff writer
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Lt. Gen. Bradley appointed to European invasion post
He’s one of Yank leaders under Gen. ‘Ike,’ who’s now in London
By Edward W. Beattie, United Press staff writer
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Grover Bergdoll to leave prison
Washington (UP) –
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, No. 1 draft dodger of the last war, will be released from the Army disciplinary barracks at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, next month if his conduct continues good, the War Department said today.
He has served four years and 10 months of his seven-year term to which he was sentenced after returning in 1939 from Germany, where he had fled.
The Justice Department has dismissed 26-year-old indictments pending against Bergdoll for 1917 violations of the Selective Service of World War I, charges which would have blocked his parole if they were still pending.