Primer for primaries –
State to send total of 148 delegates to national conventions
GOP will elect 70 and Democrats 78; local contests are mainly Republican
By Kermit McFarland
Pennsylvania will send 70 delegates to the Republican National Convention opening June 26 and 78 delegates to the Democratic National Convention beginning July 19.
There will be 12 Democratic delegates elected at large and four Republicans elected at large. None has opposition in the Tuesday primary.
Locally, the delegate contests mainly are on the Republican side.
Delegates are elected two to a Congressional district. Each district also elects two alternates.
Write-in votes asked
In the 30th district, four names will appear on the ballot for the two Republican delegate positions, but one of the candidates, George R. Hann (Sewickley Heights lawyer) has asked the voters to write in his name for alternate instead of voting for him as a delegate.
There are no Republican candidates for alternate on the ballot in this district, so the alternates to be chosen will be elected by write-in votes.
The Republican organization has endorsed William H. Robertson (26th Ward Republican chairman and a county assessor) and attorney Hale Hill of Harrison Township, but Ralph E. Flinn, delegate to former conventions, is also a candidate with the support of some factions.
Serving in Coast Guard
Mr. Flinn is serving in the Coast Guard as a volunteer lieutenant commander. He gets no salary. He has been a frequent contributor to Republican campaign funds.
In the 32nd district, there are four candidates for delegate. Slated by the organization are James F. Malone (5th Ward lawyer) and former Congressman Harry A. Estep. Running against this combination are George F. Otto (milk company head) and Paul F. Hanzel (North Side auditor).
In other districts, the slated candidates, both Republican and Democratic, are not expected to have serious trouble winning election.
The other candidates are:
- TWENTY-NINTH DISTRICT
Democratic delegates: Mayor Cornelius D. Scully (7th Ward) and County Commissioner George Rankin of Wilkinsburg.
Republican delegates: Robert R. Work (East Liberty real estate dealer), County Commissioner John S. Herron and William P. Witherow (14th Ward manufacturer).
Democratic alternates: Katherine O’Neil Duff (wife of Councilman John T. Duff) and Helen Stotlemeyer of Wilkinsburg.
Republican alternates: Adelaide Rigby Conly (Young Republican leader) and Nelle G. Dressler (vice chairman of the Republican County Committee).
- THIRTIETH DISTRICT
Democratic delegates: Irwin D. Wolf of Fox Chapel (department store executive) and Robert C. Malcolm (Curtisville cashier).
Democratic alternates: Nellie Chillcott of North Side and Edward B. Johnson (Democratic chairman of the 27th Ward).
- THIRTY-FIRST DISTRICT
Democratic delegates: Marguerite Naughton of West End and County Coroner William D. McClelland of Mount Lebanon.
Republican delegates: Frank J. Harris of Crafton (former State Senator), George F. Lutckens (Carnegie mechanic) and William B. McFall of Mount Lebanon (bank president).
Democratic alternates: Lily Hershman (wife of David Hershman, McKees Rocks Democratic leader) and Recorder of Deeds Anthony J. Gerard of Mount Oliver.
Republican alternates: Alexander P. Craig (Ingram clerk) and Mary Leslie Hart Poling of Dormont.
- THIRTY-SECOND DISTRICT
Democratic delegates: Mario L. Bove (Oakland real estate dealer), City Treasurer James P. Kirk of Oakland, and Register of Wills John M. Huston (10th Ward).
Democratic alternates: Irma D’Ascenzio of Almeda Street and Prothonotary David B. Roberts.
Republican alternates: Anna M. Conley (Republican chairman of the 9th Ward) and Ray E. Schneider (former North Side alderman).
- THIRTY-THIRD DISTRICT
Democratic delegates: Mayor Frank Buchanan of McKeesport and Clerk of Courts John J. McLean of Homestead.
Republican delegates: C. J. McBride (Republican chairman of the 31st Ward) and Paul W. Macks of McKeesport.
Democratic alternates: Ethel C. Mullen (wife of Mayor James J. Mullen of Clairton) and Peter Maracini (Broughton constable).
Republican alternates: Thomas A. Steele (McKeesport physician), Frank Kopriver (Duquesne councilman) and David H. Anderson (Homestead merchant).
- CANDIDATES-AT-LARGE
The Democratic candidates for delegate-at-large include U.S. Senator Joseph F. Guffey, his sister Mrs. Emma Guffey Miller, County Commissioner John J. Kane, Postmaster General Frank C. Walker of Scranton, CIO President Philip Murray, Attorney General Francis Biddle of Philadelphia, Democratic State Chairman David L. Lawrence, Meredith Meyers of Lewiston (former Democratic State Chairman), and William C. Bullitt (former Ambassador to Russia and France).
Republican candidates for delegate-at-large are Governor Edward Martin, G. Mason Owlett (president of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers’ Association), Republican State Chairman M. Harvey Taylor and Marion Margery Scranton (Republican national committeewoman).