Lack of steel hits Japs, U.S, Congressman asserts
Statistics quoted to show industrial plight of Nipponese in face of big losses
By Marshall McNeil, Scripps-Howard staff writer
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Big increase in corporate profits seen
Paul denies taxes reduce industry’s ability to build up reserves
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Ohio industrialist defends his methods, high pay rates
Jim Lincoln claims his 1,000 men turn out as much work as 3,500 at rival plant; hits Treasury charge
By Fred W. Perkins, Pittsburgh Press staff writer
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In Washington –
OWI will give ‘known facts’ on candidates
Alleged slight to Bricker brings new policy for campaign
Washington (UP) –
War Information Director Elmer Davis has issued a new policy directive for propaganda handling of 1944 campaign news, instructing OWI employees to “get as close to the facts as the facts are known” in identifying candidates for the presidential nominations, it was learned today.
The new policy was an outgrowth of a recent incident in which an OWI news dispatch aboard, concerning Ohio Governor John W. Bricker failed to mention that he was a candidate for the Republican nomination.
Not made public
Under the new directive, the full text of which OWI refuses to make public, only those who have officially announced their presidential aspirations will be designated flatly as candidates. In the case of those being “mentioned” for the nominations of either party, that fact and no more will be stated.
The OWI will have little difficulty in interpreting the policy so far as the Democratic Party is concerned. The only formal Democratic candidate is anti-fourth-termer Governor Joseph B. Ely of Massachusetts, although President Roosevelt is receiving more than “mention” as an aspirant for a fourth term.
Dewey description
As a result of the new directive, foreigners who have OWI news available either by radio or newspapers have learned that Thomas E. Dewey is:
The Republican Governor of New York State whose candidacy for the Republican nomination for President is being pushed by many supporters…
Wendell Willkie has been referred to in the past week as:
A Republican presidential candidate in 1940 and candidate for the Republican Party’s nomination in the 1944 election…
In the same story, OWI described Governor Bricker as:
Governor of Ohio and candidate for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination…
Vote visibility low
Washington (UP) –
The now-you-see-it-now-you-don’t federal war ballot for servicemen was a little less visible today as Senate and House conferees moved into the final stages of work on a controversial soldier vote bill.
House conferees, dominated by advocates of state ballots, won another concession yesterday which curtailed even further the use of the short-form federal ballot backed by the Senate group.
The conferees agreed to write into the measure a provision under which the federal ballot will go only to overseas servicemen who ask for a state absentee ballot but fail to receive it by Oct. 1.
Senator Theodore F. Green (D-RI), a Senate conferee, said work would probably be completed today so that the House and Senate could act on it early next week.
Stokes: Who is Roosevelt’s ‘ghost’?
By Thomas L. Stokes, Scripps-Howard staff writer
Washington –
Who writes President Roosevelt’s messages to Congress has become an apparently important side issue in the bigger issue between himself and Congress because of the tart, stinging phrases sprinkled through recent communications.
Both Democrats and Republicans would like to blame the much-belabored corps of assistants who are lumped together by the opposition as “the palace guard.”
Some Democrats, in self-defense, would like to place responsibility on the President’s numerous aides, for whom they have little more love than the Republicans.
Degrees, no sense
Republicans would like to create the fiction that a bunch of smart young fellows, dripping with college degrees, but bereft of common sense, are running the government. This is all good politics and good fun, with some grains of truth, for we have those young fellows about and some of them are about as described.
But the real truth is that the author of President Roosevelt’s messages to Congress, in the usually accepted sense, is a fellow named Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Asks for drafts
He gets help, of course. He calls for suggestions, asked for memoranda from various officials and departments and even asks for sample drafts of portions of his messages. All Presidents do that in drafting messages.
Mr. Roosevelt takes all this and then dictates his own version, so that it has, in the end, what is known as “the Roosevelt touch,” and it is a Roosevelt product, branded and stamped.
Sometimes he may lift a sentence or a paragraph or more from something prepared for him, and, occasionally you may run into the author, bragging about his contribution at some cocktail bar.
‘Fraud’ is his own
It took only a cursory examination of President Roosevelt’s message on the soldier vote bill to see that someone else had prepared the technical passages, but that the short, ugly word “fraud” was his own.
What is happening is that President Roosevelt is injecting into his messages to Congress those pungent and biting phrases that can be found all through his political speeches. For he obviously is running for reelection, and he overlooks no opportunity.
U.S. Navy Department (March 3, 1944)
CINCPAC Press Release No. 292
For Immediate Release
March 3, 1944
A small force of Ventura bombers of Fleet Air Wing Four attacked Paramushiru and Shimushu in the Kurile Islands on the morning of March 2 (West Longitude Date). Five tons of bombs were dropped. There was no interception, and no damage was suffered from the sporadic anti-aircraft fire encountered. All planes returned to their bases.
Mitchell bombers, Dauntless dive bombers and Warhawk fighters of the 7th Army Air Force and Ventura bombers of Fleet Air Wing Two attacked three enemy‑held bases in the Eastern Marshall Islands on March 1 (West Longitude Date), dropping a total of 28 tons of bombs. On the same day, Navy search planes attacked Ponape with bombs and machine‑gun fire. Our planes returned safely from all of these operations.
The Pittsburgh Press (March 3, 1944)
BEATEN NAZIS ABANDON ANZIO DRIVE
Planes, guns take big toll of attackers
Americans regain silent cut into center of Anzio front
By Robert Vermillion, United Press staff writer
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Jury panel dismissed –
Cadet’s attorney facing contempt
Judge and lawyer tangle as murder trial is delayed
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Janitor’s confession bared in cathedral death hearing
Criticism of his work given as cause for attack
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GOP chairmen hit sour note in 29th slate
Fight starts over names of delegates to convention
By Kermit McFarland
Republican leaders in the 29th Congressional district held a more or less riotous meeting in the Penn-Lincoln Hotel, Wilkinsburg, last night and picked a “harmony” slate for the April 25 primary which will have to be made over or there will be no harmony in the district.
The chairmen and vice chairmen of the wards, boroughs and townships in the district overwhelmingly ratified the choice of the county leaders for the Republican Congressional nomination – Howard E. Campbell, East Liberty real estate dealer.
The fight developed, unexpectedly, over the candidates for delegate and alternate delegate to the Republican presidential convention.
Secret ballot taken
Republican County Chairman John S. Herron and the county vice chairman, Mrs. Nelle G. Dressler, were chosen as delegate and alternate, respectively, by acclamation.
But on the selection of the second delegate candidate and the second alternate candidate, there was a secret ballot.
As announced, the result of this balloting gave William P. Witherow, president of the Blawnox Company, 11 votes for delegate and Thomas E. Whitten, Wilkinsburg attorney, 10. For alternate, the vote was: Robert L. Cook, Republican chairman of the 14th Ward, 12, and Adelaide Coly, Young Republican leader, 9.
There was some dispute about the accuracy of this count.
Up to committee
As a result, both the Young Republicans and the Whitten backers are up in the air. They charge that Mr. Herron and Mrs. Dressler picked themselves and that a deal which had previously been made was not kept.
In a previous conference, it was decided that the Old Guard faction would name one delegate and one alternate candidate, and the Young Republicans would name one each. The Young Republicans decided on Mr. Witherow and Mrs. Conly.
Unless the so-called “harmony” committee which has been busy with slate-making for several weeks can patch up the confusion at a meeting tonight, a wide-open contest for delegate may develop in this district.
Local Republican leaders from the boroughs and townships in the 10th legislative district also met last night and selected a slate of candidates for the four Republican legislative nominations at stake in the April 25 primary.
The four candidates are Paul M. Bardes of Oakmont (former legislator), Dr. Walter Feick (Glassport dentist), Albert E. Beech of Wilkinsburg (an employee of the State Labor & Industry Department) and William P. H. Johnston of Penn Township (an auto salesman).