Two-way blow batters Japs in Carolines
Tokyo reports raid on island off Borneo
By Don Caswell, United Press staff writer
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Allied bombers blast Genoa to disrupt Nazi supply lines
Italy-based planes also hit San Stefano and Livorno; lull continues in ground war
By Reynolds Packard, United Press staff writer
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Primer for primaries –
4-against-1 race features 31st district
Lt. Fulton, Navy, man to beat
By Kermit McFarland
Spotlighted among the Congressional contests in Allegheny County is the Republican race in the 31st district (South Hills).
Four of the five candidates in this district, as the campaign has shaped up, are running against the fifth, Navy Lt. James G. Fulton (Dormont lawyer). Lt. Fulton, in the judgment of leading politicians in the district, is the man to beat.
Rated the best chance is Joseph A. White of Brentwood (vice president of the Harris stores). Other candidates are Eugene O’Neill of Brentwood (a delegate to the 1936 Republican convention and a former member of the Republican State Committee), Walter V. Richardson (Mount Washington metallurgist) and Clifford Ball (Mount Lebanon aviation executive). Mr. Ball has not made an active campaign for the nomination.
Similar in 30th district
Lt. Fulton is barred by Navy regulations from making an active campaign. If elected, he will be relieved of his naval duties to take his seat in Congress.
The 30th district (North Hills) presents a similar picture. There, the man to beat for the Republican nomination is Sheriff Robert J. Corbett. Running against him are Grover C. Berg (Bellevue food jobber), Arthur H. Johnson Jr. (wholesale heating supplies), Bob Kegg (North Side clerk) and J. K. Porter (Millvale distributor).
In both districts, the Democratic incumbents are unopposed for renomination. Congressman James A. Wright of Brentwood is the only Democratic candidate in the 31st district and Congressman Thomas E. Scanlon of North Side, the only entry in the 30th district.
Republicans agree in 29th
In the 29th district (eastern wards, boroughs and townships), the Old Guard Republicans and the Young Republicans have agreed on Howard E. Campbell, president of the Pittsburgh Real Estate Board, for the Republican nomination.
Running independently are John McDowell (Wilkinsburg publisher and former Congressman), John A. Franklin (Forest Hills insurance agent), George E. Sipple (East End electrician) and T. W. Stephens (Wilkinsburg florist).
Because of the reapportionment last year, no present Congressman is a resident of this district. The Democratic nomination has been slated for John F. Lowers of Swissvale, chief clerk in the County Deed Registry Bureau, who is the only candidate.
Others are unopposed
Congressional candidates in both parties in the other two Congressional districts of the county are unopposed at the primary.
In the 32nd district, Congressman Herman P. Eberharter of Oakland is the only Democratic candidate, and Gregory Zatkovich of Oakland (former City Solicitor) is unopposed for the Republican nomination.
Congressman Samuel A. Weiss of Glassport has no opposition for renomination in the 33rd district and the sole Republican candidate is Ray A. Liddle (McKeesport attorney).
Eating habits of miners survive the Ickes touch
Slash of 15 minutes from official lunchtime finds ‘underground’ eating when it wishes
By Fred W. Perkins, Pittsburgh Press staff writer
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Sedition panel to be changed, judge decides
Defense wins point on Rogge’s remark
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In Washington –
Congress glad to take part in monetary conferences
Morgenthau: Currency stabilization plan agreed upon by 30 nations
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U.S. carrier takes part in blow at base off Sumatra
Allies attack Japs with orders to catch enemy ‘with their kimonos up’
By Harold Guard, United Press staff writer
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Plane-carried Yank leaflets enrage enemy
Nazis decree penalties for readers
By Walter McCallum, North American Newspaper Alliance
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Patton returns to fighting zone
May lead army in invasion of Europe
By Phil Ault, United Press staff writer
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Psychology skill needed by U.S. flight surgeon
Problem has to do with fliers who have become afraid under nervous tension
By Newbold Noyes Jr., North American Newspaper Alliance
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5 Senators named election probers
Washington (UP) –
Vice President Henry A. Wallace today named the five members of a Senate committee which will investigate the campaign expenditures of candidates for President, Vice President and Senators in the 1944 election.
He appointed Theodore F. Green (D-RI), Tom Stewart (D-TN), James M. Tunnell (D-DE), Joseph H. Ball (R-MN) and Homer Ferguson (R-MI).
Ferguson: More on equal rights
By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
Who opposes the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution? Organized labor, chiefly, is the answer given members of the National Woman’s Party who have worked for it for 24 years.
Last February, the amendment’s sponsors, recovering from the bitter shock of their 1943 defeat, had obtained the promise of more than 100 members of the Senate and the House that they would sign a petition to bring the bill to a vote. Petition action requires 218 signatures. To the sponsors the temper of the Congress seemed good and their hopes ran high.
Then on Feb. 25, a letter signed by Philip Murray, president of the CIO, was sent to all Congressmen.
Repeating the familiar arguments that the proposed amendment would deprive women of all protective legislation, Mr. Murray said:
In the name of the CIO, of whose 5,285,000 members a large proportion are women, I urge you to refuse to sign the discharge petition for the misnamed Equal Rights Amendment.
Upon receipt of this letter, many Congressmen who had promised to sign the petition notified the Woman’s Party they had reconsidered and could not do so.
Such an incident would seem to justify the charge by the Woman’s Party that one of the opponents of the equal rights cause is organized labor. Old timers in the movement like Alice Paul and Helen Hill Weed say that a constant barrage of propaganda emanates from the offices of labor leaders and that this propaganda has influenced certain women’s groups against the amendment.
Among those who are fighting it are such notable organizations as the YWCA, the League of Women Voters, the American Association of University Women, the Leagues of Jewish and Catholic women, and the director of the Women’s Bureau of Labor.