Naples, Italy (UP) –
The eruption of Vesuvius appeared to be dying down today.
No lava of any volume has flowed from the volcano in the last 60 hours and the spray of cinders and boulders ceased Saturday night.
A fine dust still showered out and the crater was emitting a gas smoke which in the past generally has been a sign of abatement.
The dust was up so thick in some places that traffic was blocked.
Frontier dispatch says 300 Italians were machine-gunned in colosseum
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New York (UP) –
Police, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Army intelligence agents have been searching since Tuesday for Valsa Matthai, 22, a Columbia University student from Bombay, India.
Miss Matthai was last seen at 4:50 a.m. Monday ET by an elevator operator at the International House, where she lived. She left the building and disappeared into a snowstorm.
Miss Matthai’s father, John Matthai, is head of the Tata Chemical Company of Bombay.
Most plant injuries held preventable
By Fred W. Perkins, Pittsburgh Press staff writer
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Having lost an uncomfortable number of byelections in the last year, the Democrats have wheeled in their heavy artillery to win the contest in the 2nd Oklahoma Congressional district tomorrow. They have sent no less a personage than Senate Leader Alben W. Barkley to sing the administration’s song at Muskogee tonight.
On the record, the Democrats should win. If they can’t carry that gerrymandered district they might as well quit. In its 30 years of existence the district has gone Republican only one – in the Harding landslide of 1920.
In the last election, 1942, the Democratic nominee for Congress won by only 385 votes. But there were special circumstances which made the Republican vote so large. An unpopular Democratic Senator – Josh Lee – was being voted out of office; and a full Republican slate of candidates for Senator, Governor, other state offices and county and township offices, was on the ticket.
In tomorrow’s contest there are only the candidates for the Congress seat, and Democrat Bill Stigler is better and more favorably known than the Republican, E. O. Clark. There is no such thing in that district as a Republican organization, while the Democrats have state, county and township machines working together.
In good years, the Democrats carry this district by 2–1; in normal years, their majority is about 15,000. If the Democrat wins tomorrow, it will be only what is expected. If the Republican wins, it will be an upset that will reflect more than just a trend.
Organizations must file 1944 reports
By John W. Love, Scripps-Howard staff writer
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Sloan voices ‘faith in future’
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Willkie blasts foes who keep silent
By Lyle C. Wilson, United Press staff writer
Washington –
Associates of Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York are convinced that prior to the nomination of this year’s presidential candidate he will make no further statement regarding the widespread discussion of the possibility of his own selection.
As some observers see it, demands or entreaties for an amplification of Mr. Dewey’s announcement that he would not seek the nomination come for the most past from three sources:
Wendell L. Willkie, the most active Republican aspirant, has recently been assailing “candidates who refuse to discuss the issues.” Dispatches from Wisconsin, where Mr. Willkie is presently making a pre-primary campaign, suggest that he meant Mr. Dewey, although Mr. Willkie has also said the governor’s statements to date have definitely taken him out of the contest.
Democrats seeking President Roosevelt’s fourth-term renomination are also raising the issue of Mr. Dewey’s silence. Chairman Robert E. Hannegan of the Democratic National Committee did not name Mr. Dewey before a weekend Boston audience, but evidently had him in mind in an attack on a man prominently mentioned for the GOP nomination who is smirking and lurking and dodging behind the pretense that he is not a candidate for the Presidency.”
Some of those Republicans who would like to help nominate Mr. Dewey also wish the Governor would give a green light to a national pre-convention campaign. At least as many however are probably content with things as they are.
But the apparent certainty among the Governor’s associates that he has said all he intends to on the subject is generally accepted here as accurately foreshadowing Mr. Dewey’s intentions.