America at war! (1941–) – Part 3

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Light balloting due tomorrow

State polls open from 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

An estimated 785,000 Republicans and 410,000 Democrats will go to polling places throughout the state between 7:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. ET tomorrow to draw sides for the crucial November elections.

Primary balloting is expected to hit a new low for a presidential year because of wartime conditions and the fact that outcome of the elections, except for a few instances, is a foregone conclusion. The estimated total vote is only about a third of registrations for the two parties.

Presidential voting

Observers were divided on whether there will be much significance in preferential voting for presidential candidates. President Roosevelt, whose name is formally on the Democratic ballot, is the only presidential candidate listed, but some quarters expected a large write-in vote to be case by Republicans.

The only statewide intraparty contest is between State Treasurer g. Harold Wagner of Wilkes-Barre, Democratic organization choice for the auditor general nomination, and John F. Breslin of Carbon County, an independent candidate.

James vs. Rhodes

There is also a crossed-line contest for nomination to the Superior Court between former Governor Arthur H. James of Plymouth and incumbent Judge Chester H. Rhodes of Stroudsburg, holders of Republican and Democratic organization support respectively, who are seeking both party nominations to the $18,000-a-year position.

Seeking nomination to a second Superior Court position, but only in respective party primaries, are Republican Judge J. Frank Graff of Kittanning and Democratic Auditor General F. Clair Ross of Butler.

Other contests

Other statewide candidates, all running unopposed with organization backing, are:

REPUBLICANS: U.S. Senator James J. Davis of Pittsburgh (for renomination), Howard W. Hughes of Washington (for the State Supreme Court), Philadelphia City Treasurer Edgar W. Baird Jr. (for State Treasurer), State Senator G. Harold Watkins of Schuylkill County (for Auditor General).

DEMOCRATS: Congressman Francis J. Myers of Philadelphia (for U.S. Senator), U.S. Circuit Court Judge Charles Alvin Jones of Pittsburgh (for State Supreme Court), and Ramsey S. Black of Harrisburg, third assistant U.S. Postmaster General (for State Treasurer).

Delegate races

Completing the list of statewide posts at stake are four positions as delegate-at-large to the GOP National Convention, each having one vote, and 12 as delegate-at-large to the Democratic nominating convention, each with a half vote, and a like number of alternates to each session. All are unopposed.

Each party will also elect 66 district delegates and alternates, and, in other regional contests, nominations will be made for 33 Congressional, 25 state senatorial and 208 State House seats, and 113 memberships each on the Republican and Democratic State Committee.


Simplified tax bill submitted to House

Sedition trial may hear Ford and Lindbergh

Subpoenas asked; jurors challenged


Newspaper boys ruled ‘employees’

Four warships sunk off Anzio

British describe loss during invasion


Heavy casualties in Pacific predicted

8 die as floods sweep Midwest

By the United Press

U.S. to rule post-war air, Britain fears

Congress cherishes war superiority
By Charles T. Lucey, Scripps-Howard staff writer

Landlubbers on flattop in Pacific doing good job

By Al Dopking, representing combined U.S. press


6 Jap ships sunk off Indochina

11 admirals in command of Truk attack

Japs missed chance, King also says


Damage to 20 warships revealed by Adm. King

Report fills in communiqués on U.S. losses in South Pacific engagements

New draft plans being studied

Pre-Pearl fathers over 30 may get break

Cardinal’s rites set for Friday

Bombers blast Nazi supply ports in Italy

Land fronts quiet below Rome
By Reynolds Packard, United Press staff writer

Curtin praises Gen. MacArthur

Says Japs have lost 100,000 in southwest

CIO workers promise to end 12-day strike at Montgomery Ward

President’s order gives company until tomorrow to comply with WLB directive


55 men missing in ship explosion

Burns cause death of former singer

New York (UP) –
Marion Harris, blues singer and stage star of the 1920s who died shortly after her badly-burned body was discovered in her hotel room last night, apparently had fallen asleep while smoking a cigarette, police said today.

Miss Harris, a petite blonde whose husk singing of popular ballads earned her the soubriquet of “the little girl with the big voice,” was found on a flaming mattress after a hotel employee detected smoke and traced it to her room.

Miss Harris, 48, was the wife of Leonard Urry, a British actor. Previously she had been married to Rush Hughes, the adopted son of author Rupert Hughes. They were divorced in 1928.

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Editorial: Unity means victory

Editorial: Take a look at building

Editorial: Easing the way for ‘G.I. Joe’

Edson: Tugwell manages to get in hot water again

By Peter Edson

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Ferguson: More on equal rights

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

Besides the National Woman’s Party who favors the proposed Equal Rights Amendment?

All those, say its advocates, who believe the time has come when women who are being asked to share equal responsibilities should be dignified by “real citizenship.”

All those, say its enemies, who are against organized labor, the reactionaries, the sheltered women who wish to wipe out all protective legislation for the working women.

Somewhere between these extremes one must search for facts.

Its friends argue that the amendment will not deprive mothers and children of their legal protection because that will be forthcoming anyway. On the other hand, women who are not mothers, and those who will remain in industry after the war must not be deprived of an equal wage and an equal political authority with men.

It is not privileges they want, the equal righters contend, it is the rights which are guaranteed to every citizen under the Constitution. When those are bestowed, protective legislation can follow. Until they are bestowed, there is no such thing as protective legislation, they argue.

So, while the amendment has many enemies, it also has many champions. Among organizations supporting it probably the most powerful is the General Federation of Women’s Clubs. Hundreds of leading men and women have endorsed it. The list includes Pearl Buck, Margaret Culkin Banning, Mary E. Woolley, Helen Hayes, Raymond Gram Swing, Irving Fisher, Carl Sandburg, James Truslow Adams, Rupert Hughes and Struthers Burt.

Does democracy mean that men and women are equal under the law? If not, what is to be the future status of American women?

Background of news –
Yes, there’ll be an invasion

By Col. Frederick Palmer

Crosby in G opera? Well – could be!

And though Bing denies it, Rise claims he has a classic voice


Errol Flynn gets it again; this time it’s egg to head