Der Großmutti zur Palästinafrage –
Der Jude – die tödliche Gefahr
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The Pittsburgh Press (March 8, 1944)
HAIL OF FIRE SEARS BERLIN IN SECOND MASS YANK RAID
350,000 incendiaries hurled
1,000 heavy bombers roar through fierce Nazi fighter defense; One U.S. Mustang group reports downing 28 German planes – new record
By Phil Ault, United Press staff writer
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Only a few come back –
Two Ranger battalions battle to death in Nazi beachhead trap
Yanks march through German lines into Cisterna, try to stand off tanks
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Germans mass for Anzio attack
Savage night fighting in Cassino streets
By C. R. Cunningham, United Press staff writer
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Marines land 170 miles from Rabaul base
Beachhead is taken without loss
By Don Caswell, United Press staff writer
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Denver upset gives GOP Congress seat
War hero defeated in special election
Denver, Colorado (UP) –
The 1st Congressional district of Colorado, traditional Democratic stronghold, swung into the Republican ranks today with the election of Dean M. Gillespie, the 59-year-old businessman, to the national House of Representatives.
Mr. Gillespie won by less than 3,000 votes over Maj. Carl Wuertele, the disabled bomber pilot whose brilliant war record was emphasized by the Democrats. Unofficial returns from Denver’s 4,0002 precincts gave Mr. Gillespie a total of 41,447 votes compared with 38,524 for Maj. Wuertele.
Election significant
The Republican victory was the GOP’s first Congressional triumph in Denver since 1930. It was also considered particularly significant in view of the fact the district gave President Roosevelt a 10,000-vote margin over Wendell Willkie in 1940, although Colorado as a whole went Republican.
Maj. Wuertele had pledged support of administration war and home front policies and had endorsed a fourth term.
Attacked ‘bungling’
Mr. Gillespie had attacked “bureaucracy and bungling” of the New Deal and had called for private business to be given an opportunity to show what it could do in the reemployment of an estimated 20 million servicemen and women and war workers after the war.
He said he was going to Congress with no set determination to “hamstring the New Deal.”
There was pathos in the defeat of the handsome Maj. Wuertele, whose foot was almost severed by flak as he piloted his well-known bomber, Hel-En-Wings – named after his wife – on his 205th combat mission against the Japs.
Will keep on fighting
The 30-year-old flier was the only man to get a bomber off the ground during the Pearl Harbor attack and was decorated nine times by the War Department.
Maj, Wuertele said:
Although I lost, I’ll keep on fighting for our American ideals and Constitution, our way of life, our boys and girls in uniform. I will lend my aid in every way to win the war and to uniting the people behind our new Congressman.
Mr. Gillespie’s election gives the Republicans 210 delegates in the House against 217 Democrats with minor parties holding four places.
Younger: At 8:00 a.m., brother’s a hero; at 8:35 – ‘We regret’…
By Joan Younger, United Press staff correspondent
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WLB placed in middle by independents
Can’t placate them and please CIO, AFL
By Fred W. Perkins, Pittsburgh Press staff writer
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Yanks develop secret base in Marshalls
Majuro Atoll taken early in campaign
By Richard W. Johnston, United Press staff writer
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U.S. flier gives life to save English children
Mustang pilot refuses to bail out and let plane crash in town
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Chinese force closes noose on Burma Japs
Stilwell’s troops reach U.S. units
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Gunner bails out with injured Yank
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Suggestion by Ernie Pyle written into ‘fight pay’ bill
Weiss to offer measure in House providing additional pay for men in actual combat
By Robert Taylor, Press Washington correspondent
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Soldier vote is headed for new battles
States’ rights bloc wins in compromise
Washington (UP) –
Prospects of a renewed Senate fight and a possible presidential veto threatened today to prolong the soldier vote controversy.
House and Senate conferees reached final agreement yesterday after 25 days of struggle between states’ rights and federal ballot proponents. The states’ rights forces emerged largely triumphant.
The conference report, accepted by an 8–2 vote, permits restricted use of a federal ballot for troops overseas. However, servicemen within the United States whose home states do not provide for absentee voting – at present Kentucky and New Mexico – will also be eligible for a federal ballot.
Federal ballot restricted
Use of the federal ballot for overseas troops is restricted to men who apply for a state ballot by Sept. 1 and certify that they have not received it by Oct. 1. In addition, in order to be counted the federal ballots must be legalized by state governors on the authorization of their legislatures by July 15.
The House conferees accepted the report unanimously, and Rep. John E. Rankin (D-MS), leader of the states’ rights faction, hailed it as a victory.
Senate fight certain
He said:
The House is going to take it because we’ve got what we wanted.
But a sharp contest on the conference report in the Senate is certain. Four Senators, two of them the conferees who voted against the compromise, have already announced that they will oppose it on the floor.
If the compromise does pass both House and Senate, there is a possibility of a veto that would reopen the whole issue and delay final solution.
Soldier vote session cost cited by Governor Martin
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (UP) –
Governor Edward Martin said today the state would save about $360,000 if ways can be found to simplify the Pennsylvania soldier voting law without convening a special session of the Legislature.
Governor Martin said he believed all of the Commonwealth’s servicemen, even those stationed in remote sections of the globe, would be guaranteed their right of franchise “if we could just lift the time element and party registration requirements from the present law.”