Adm. Hart denies drunkenness tales
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Congressional medal asked for air hero at Deshon
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Smythe hurls his defiance, explains delay
Mail tampered with, he tells the judge
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School board raises wages of 1,150 custodial workers
Increases, ranging from 40 to 55 cents a day, add $135,000 to payroll
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Only one side of ad subsidy plan explained to Congress
Group representing weeklies said nothing about newly formed advertising affiliate
By Robert Taylor, Press Washington correspondent
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Primer for primaries –
13 districts to name state legislature ticket; 2 nominate Senators
One contest involved Tuesday in 43rd and 45th; legislative races offer a wider selection
By Kermit McFarland
Allegheny County is represented in the State Legislature by 27 members of the House and six members of the Senate.
House members are elected every two years but Senators serve four-year terms. This year, Allegheny County will elect only two Senators.
House members are elected from 13 districts – one to four from each district.
Two Senators to be named
At the Tuesday primary, both primaries will nominate senatorial candidates in the 43rd and 45th senatorial districts. The 43rd takes in the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 7th, 8th, 10th and 15th Wards of Pittsburgh. The 45th covers all of the wards and municipalities south of the Monongahela and Ohio Rivers except the 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th Wards of Pittsburgh.
The only contest for a senatorial nomination is the Republican primary in the 45th district. The candidates are Thomas Lewis Jones, Charles W. Beckman and David C. Davies.
Mr. Jones, 35, is a Brentwood attorney, solicitor for Castle Shannon, a former assistant city solicitor. Mr. Davies, 50, is secretary to the County Controller, lives in Bethel Township, and was a candidate for County Treasurer in 1943. Mr. Beckman, 52, is a Mount Oliver auto dealer, served two terms as burgess and was a candidate for Congress in 1943 and for County Treasurer in 1939.
Cox is unopposed
The incumbent, Senator John Fremont Cox (Munhall lawyer), is unopposed in the Democratic primary. He was the Democratic nominee for District Attorney last year. He is 40.
In the 43rd district, the only candidates are Senator Joseph M. Barr, 38, of Shadyside, who seeks renomination on the Democratic ticket, and Joseph J. Conway, 47, of Morningside, candidate for the Republican nomination. Mr. Barr is secretary to the Democratic County Committee; Mr. Conway is a civil engineer.
In the legislative primaries, most of the nominations are being contested.
Here is a summary of the contests in the first six districts:
- FIRST DISTRICT
This is composed of the 1st, 3rd and 5th Wards. Reps. Homer S. Brown, an attorney, and Daniel A. Verona are candidates for renomination on the Democratic ticket, opposed by John L. Clark, a writer for The Pittsburgh Courier. Unopposed Republican candidates are William Tucker, a waiter, and Lucius Davenport, a food checker.
- SECOND DISTRICT
The 2nd, 6th, 9th and 10th Wards of the city make up this district. Four candidates seek the two Republican nominations: Bernyce Lysle (an “adjuster in service work” and former schoolteacher), Harry L. Truxell (a mechanic), Rudy Weber (a salesman) and Alexander Dlugonski (an assistant service manager for an auto company).
Unopposed for renomination on the Democratic ticket are Reps. George J. Sarraf (a physician) and Thomas P. Mooney (a glassworker), both of whom have been legislators five terms.
- THIRD DISTRICT
This district, electing one legislator, is composed of the 4th and 15th Wards. The Republican nomination is being contested by John H. Carr (a clerk and former alderman), Paul E. Doelfel (a wireman, formerly employed in the sheriff’s office) and Michael R. Chasser (pharmacist for the State Welfare Department).
Democratic Rep. Edward A. Schuster is unopposed for renomination.
- FOURTH DISTRICT
The 4th is the only legislative district in Pittsburgh represented by a Republican, real estate dealer O. B. Hannon. Mr. Hannon, who has served one term, is opposed in the primary by Harry Berger Ackermann (former legislator) and Edward W. Brinling (a painting contractor).
On the Democratic side, the nomination is contested by Michael J. Holland (a city fireman) and former Mayor William N. McNair, who has been endorsed by the organization. The district is composed of the 7th, 8th and 11th Wards.
- FIFTH DISTRICT
Made up of the 12th, 13th and 14th Wards, this district elects one legislator. Seeking renomination for a third term is Democratic Rep. John R. Bentley, an attorney. He is opposed by Julius Zangrille, a plumber put in the race by Charles A. Papale, 12th Ward Democratic boss, who has split with the organization over patronage.
The Republican nomination is sought by Charles M. Christler (lawyer and former legislator), Thomas J. Jones (14th Ward constable), William F. White (restaurant operator), Samuel Avins (attorney) and Kenneth H. Davies (14th Ward alderman).
- SIXTH DISTRICT
Each party will nominate three candidates in this district. Four Democrats and nine Republicans seek these nominations. Because there has been no legislative reapportionment in 40 or 50 years, this district has been chopped up by annexations to the city, and takes in the first nine precincts of the 16th Ward, the 17th, all except parts of two precincts in the 18th, the 19th and most of the 20th and 28th.
The three Democratic incumbents face opposition only from Stanley Poremski, a county maintenance man. The present representatives are Thomas J. Kirley (police lieutenant), John J. Baker (water assessor), and Louis Leonard (a personnel manager and former steelworkers’ union official).
Running for the three Republican nominations are Nelson T. Miller (public school teacher), William J. Crowley Jr. (a tool room attendant), Paul A. Schullo (secretary at a shipbuilding company), John A. Manzione (insurance dealer), Frank Petrolio (a deputy sheriff), Harry R. Hooton (chiropractor), Basil Onyshkow (an attorney), John A. Weiland (insurance salesman), and Martin P. Burke (buyer for a grocery concern).
Simms: Gen. de Gaulle may soon talk to Eisenhower
Clear understanding between two vital
By William Philip Simms, Scripps-Howard foreign editor
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Fliers knock out Jap airfield
By Don Caswell, United Press staff writer
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Fate of Rome put up to Germans
Roosevelt disputes claims of Nazis
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Poll: Public prefers to spare lives over churches
Vast majority backs Eisenhower’s stand
By George Gallup, Director, American Institute of Public Opinion
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Roberts balks at rumors of candidacy
Pew may woo judge of Supreme Court
Washington –
Associate Justice Owen J. Roberts of the U.S. Supreme Court is not a candidate – dark horse, favorite son, or any other variety – for the Republican nomination for the Presidency.
Published statements that several groups in the Republican organization are eyeing Mr. Roberts as a possible candidate on the ground that he could make a stronger campaign, and appeal to more elements of the party than New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, left the Supreme Court jurist unimpressed.
Earlier talk scorned
There was similar mention of the Supreme Court member from Chester County, Pennsylvania, in 1932, 1936 and 1940, but Justice Roberts each time ignored talk of his possible candidacy.
He is ignoring it this time, in the same way. He will make no statement, since he considers the whole thing “silly.”
Mr. Roberts, a member of the court since 1930 and now its second ranking member, is one of the two Republicans on the highest bench.
On world politics
This year, there is even more substance to the talk of Mr. Roberts, in view of his announced stand for strong participation by the U.S. in international affairs in the post-war period.
Joseph N. Pew Jr. Philadelphia oil man, has reportedly as many as 100 Southern delegates to add to Pennsylvania’s 70 delegates in the Republican convention. Four years ago, he and Joseph R. Grundy, Pennsylvania Manufacturers Association leader, rallied the state’s 64 delegated and a few others around the then Governor Arthur H. James until after Wendell L. Willkie was assured of nomination.
Pew’s strategy?
Should Mr. Pew decide to join the “Stop Dewey” movement, he could augment his strength by allying himself with other GOP factions who want to see a candidate with a stronger record as to foreign policy and as to governmental service, according to this line of reasoning.
Mr. Roberts is 69 and in vigorous health. A former University of Pennsylvania law professor, he was special prosecutor for the government in espionage cases in Eastern Pennsylvania during the last war and in the Teapot Dome oil scandal after the war. He was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Hoover.
Stokes: Anti-New Deal South may oust Pepper, Hill
By Thomas L. Stokes, Scripps-Howard staff writer
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New Gaynor-Farrell team excites moviemakers
June Haver and Dick Haymes all set for romantic film doings
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Capt. Gentile’s own story –
Ace had to win ‘Battle of Piqua’ so parents would let him fly
By Capt. Don Gentile (as told by Ira Wolfert)
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Roving Reporter
By Ernie Pyle
With 5th Army beachhead forces, Italy – (by wireless)
The mechanics of supplying the 5th Army forces on the Anzio beachhead are undeniably beautiful in execution.
We have taken a port full of sunken ships and jumbled streets and wrecked buildings and cleared through paths through it for the movement of our ships and vehicles.
Once our supplies reach the vicinity of beachhead waters, they are under shellfire and bombing raids that may come any moment of the day or night. In addition, German E-boats and destroyers lurk on the edge of our concentration of ships, and naval forces must be always on the lookout for them.
Our supplies are unloaded in many ways. Some few ships can go right up to a dock. Others go to nearby beaches. The bigger freight ships have to lie off the harbor and be unloaded into smaller boats which in turn unload onto the docks or beaches.
All day long the waters in a great semicircle around Anzio, reaching to the horizon, are churned by big and little ships moving constantly back and forth. It resembles the hustle and bustle of New York Harbor.
On the far edges lie cruisers and other battle craft. In the vicinity there is always a white hospital ship to evacuate our wounded and sick from the beachhead.
Lay smokescreens at dusk
Along toward dusk small, fast craft shoot in and out of the great flock of ships, laying smokescreens, while smoke pots ashore put out their blinding cloud of fog.
At night when the raiders come over a mighty bedlam of ack-ack crushes all thought on shore and far out to sea as the ships themselves let go at the groan and grind of German motors in the sky.
Sometimes the raiders drop flares, and then the universe is lighted with a glare more cruel and penetrating than the brightest day, and every human on the beachhead feels that the Germans are looking down at him individually with their evil eyes.
When the moon is full, it throws its swath of gold across the lovely Mediterranean, and sometimes the nights are so calm and moon-tinged and gentle that you cannot remember or believe that the purpose of everything around you is death.
When there is no moon, it is so black you have to grope your way about, and even the ominous split-second flashes from our own big guns do not help you to see.
Sometimes the shelling and the raiding are furious and frenzied. At other times hour after quiet hour goes by without a single crack of an exploding shell. But always the possibility and the anticipation are there.
All these things you can see from the window of the house where we live. There are times when you can stand with your elbows on the windowsill and your chin in your hand, and see right before you a battlefield in action in the three dimensions of land, sea and air, all so spectacular that even Hollywood might well bow in deference to a drama beyond its own powers of creation.
The streets and roads around Anzio are under a steady thundering flow of heavy war traffic. The movement is endlessly fascinating. One day I stood by the road just to watch for a while, and of the first 12 vehicles that passed, each was something different.
There was a tank, and a great machine shop on heavy tractor treads that shook the earth as it passed, and a jeep of a one-star general, and a “duck,” and a high-wheeled British truck, and a famous American six-by-six, and a prime mover trundling the great “Long Tom” gun with its slim, graceful barrel pointing rearward.
Military police highball traffic
Then came a command car, and a stubby new gun covered with canvas, on four rubber-tired wheels, and an ambulance, and a crew of wire stringers, and a weapon carrier. Then a big self-propelled gun on tractor treads, and finally another “duck” to start the heterogeneous cycle over again.
Everywhere there is activity. Soldier-workmen saw down trees and cut down concrete lampposts so that trucks may use the sidewalks of the narrow streets. Huge shovels mounted on truck chassis stand amid the wreckage or buildings scooping up brick and stone to be hauled away in trucks for repairing damaged roads.
Allied military police stand on every corner and crossroad to highball traffic on through, and, believe me, it’s highballed.
Everything moves with a great urgency, a great vitality. The less hesitation the better in this land where shells whistle and groan. There is little hesitation anywhere around Anzio.