Forces awaiting only Allied invasion word
By John A. Parris, United Press staff writer
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Take coming defeat as temporary setback
By Glen Perry, North American Newspaper Alliance
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But ready to wield club in bearing crisis
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Legally, the Pennsylvania delegation to the Republican presidential convention is not bound to support any particular candidate for the Republican nomination.
But logically, there is sound moral reason why the delegation should support Governor Thomas E. Dewey.
The 70 delegates to the Republican convention are not legally bound to vote for Mr. Dewey because, through the manipulation of the Republican organization, nearly all of them ran as unpledged candidates.
Under each name of the ballot, they frankly told the voters: “Does not promise to support popular choice.”
Bu, as it turned out, few of these delegates were opposed at the April 2 primary. And in many cases where there were contests for delegate, the opposing delegates likewise dodged any commitment.
So Pennsylvania voters, by and large, had no choice. There were no Dewey candidates, nor Willkie candidates, nor MacArthur candidates, nor Stassen candidates. And very few agreed to abide by the preference of the voters.
As a result, the voters utilized the next best means of demonstrating their choice.
They wrote in the names of the candidates they favored. An overwhelming majority of them said they favored Governor Dewey. The write-in vote he received in Pennsylvania was spontaneous and proportionally large. No other candidate was fairly in the running.
While delegates to the national conventions are elected under pretty loose instructions from the voters, they are, nevertheless, representatives of the electors in their party. As such, they have a moral obligation to represent the views of those voters.
The Pennsylvania delegation has a moral duty to vote for Mr. Dewey.
Advice-to-the-lovelorn columnist writes ‘confusing autobiography’
By Maxine Garrison
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Tale of Enterprise and crew told
By Harry Hansen
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By Florence Fisher Parry
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Nothing stuck up about ‘em, says Cousin Emmy, now in Hollywood
By Ernest Foster, United Press staff correspondent
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Pittsburgh’s ‘Mother of 1944’ will be honored by Philharmonic
By Si Steinhauser
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All groups join in recession
By Elmer C. Walzer, United Press staff writer
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U.S. Navy Department (May 15, 1944)
For Immediate Release
May 15, 1944
Ventura search planes of Fleet Air Wing Four bombed Shimushu in the Kuril Islands before dawn on May 13 (West Longitude Date). Several fires were started. Anti-aircraft fire was intense. On the afternoon of May 13, a single Mitchell bomber of the 11th Army Air Force attacked two enemy patrol boats near Paramushiru.
Forty‑two tons of bombs were dropped on defense installations in Truk Atoll by 7th Army Air Force Liberators before dawn on May 13. Two large explosions were observed on Moen Island. Anti-aircraft fire was moderate. A single enemy fighter made an ineffective attempt at interception.
Ponape Island was bombed before dawn on May 13 by 7th Army Air Force Liberators and during daylight the same day by 7th Army Air Force Mitchells. Landing strips and dock areas were hit.
Enemy positions in the Marshall Islands were attacked by Ventura, Coronado, and Catalina search planes of Fleet Air Wing Two, Liberators of the 7th Army Air Force, Dauntless dive bombers of the 4th Marine Aircraft Wing, and Navy Hellcat fighters during daylight on May 13 and during the night of May 13‑14.