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THE PITTSBURGH- PRESS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1946 PAGE 2 State to Wen I Dare Say Sugar Charges Dropped for Milk Firm Head Vinocur Won't Talk About 'Agreement' An OPA charge that Louis M. Vinocur, president of the Pittsburgh Milk had illegally obtained and used sugar ration checks for 40,000 pounds was dismissed yesterday at the request of Asst. U. S. Attorney W.

Wendell Stanton. The action was taken without a prior agreement with Loran L. Lewis, chief OPA enforcement attorney, who preferred the charge two weeks ago. 5 iV 1 III I 1 J' I I i I NvFWS5 TWO MEN DIED, and two others were hurt when this cor crashed into a pole ot Beaver and Western Aves. and Reedsdale St.

last night. The battery was thrown 75 feet from the car. THE SURVIVOR OF THIS 75-FOOT TUMBLE down Mt. Washington yesterday is in "good" condition today at South Side. Hospital.

He has face and hand lacerptions and a fractured wrist. He is John Dankowicz, 60, a retired railroad worker, of 325 Phoenix McKees Rocks. Mr. Dankowicz tumbled from Crandview Ave. to the 1 300 block of W.

Carson St. Martin Dlasts Democrats For Shabby Tissue of Fraud' I Governor Declares 'Cowardly' Ignored From Press Harrisburg Bureau HARRISBURG, Sept. 14 publican candidate for the Mr. Stanton, in explaining why he asked U. S.

Commissioner Roger Knox to drop the charge, said: "Mr. Vinocur should not have been charged in the first place. There was some arrangement between him and Mr. Mashank (the lafi A est tt Attirtipv neorc-e rMashank who conducted the sugar probe) Arrangement Unknown "Neither I nor Mr. Lewis knew of that arrangement." When asked how he had learned of the arrangement and.

what it was. Mr. Stanton said: "The arrangement was the same as he made in 20 other cases. Mr. Mashank left a memo in his records and also told me." When Mr.

Vinocur was asked for details of the arrangement, he said: I'd like to forget about it. I won't talk about it." Questions Rejected Mr. Vinocur was asked if he hadn't signed a waiver of immunity before he testified before the Fed eral Grand Jury last spring, and he answered: "You are not a court of inquiry; you're a reporter." He added that the case had caused him "a lot of distress" and that "no damage had been done it was an error." Mr. Lewis agreed with Mr. Stanton that he had not known of any arrangement between Mr.

Mashank and Mr. Vinocur. He said that when he took over as head of the OPA enforcement division several months ago, he went over the Grand Jury proceedings of the sugar probe. The result was he filed informations against -11 persons, including Mr. Vinocur.

Evidence Checked "The OPA made a thorough investigation after going over the rtcords and we felt the evidence was sufficient to obtain a conviction," he said. Mr. Lewis said that the first time he knew that Mr. Stanton actually intended to have the charge against the milk company head dismissed was Thursday. He received a carbon copy of a memo' from Mr.

Stanton to Commissioner Knox asking that the charge be dropped. Whin Mr. Lewis was asked yes terday if he had agreed to this action, he replied: "I did not." "Were you asked to?" "No." Sugar Checks Cited The charge filed against Mr. Vinocur alleged that he had illegally obtained two sugar ration checks for 20,000 pounds each from "a person unknown." The checks were signed with the name of David Lando, Frankstown candy manufacturer, who was fined when he pleaded guilty to black market sugar charges last June. Mr.

Vinocur allegedly deposited the checks in his sugar ration bank account and drew against them for his company. Fall Will Be With Us On Monday, Sept. 23 WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 (UP The U. S.

Naval Observatory said today that fall is just around the corner. Autumn officially begins in the Northern Hemisphere Sept. 23 at 10:41 a. m. (Eastern Standard time), the observatory said.

At the same time on the same date, spring begins in the Southern Hemisphere. Today in Science Flare-Ups on that the Democratic platform is "a shabby tissue of Part of Lincoln Highway Westinghouse Bridge Traffic Will Benefit From Press Harrisburg Bureau HARRISBURG. Sept. 14 The State Is ready to begin construc tion of a four-lane stretch of the Lincoln Highway in North Ver sailles Allegheny County. The State Highway Department announced today that a contract for the 1.18 mile link Jias been awarded to Dinardo, Pitts- burgh.

The cost will be $308,217.10. The Federal Government will bear half the expense. Plans call for a concrete road way consisting of two 12-foot lanes on each side of a divisor strip. To Reduce Traffic Hazards Officials said the project will speed up the flow of traffic from the George Westinghouse bridge. Traffic hazards also will be re duced.

Detours are to be established during construction. Traffic out bound from Pittsburgh will be routed through the Liberty Tubes, over Route 51 to the Lebanon Church Road and via Route 837 to Dravosburg and the Duquesne bridge. Traffic will cross the bridge to the junction of Jerome Blvd. and proceed over Route 991 to U. S.

30, the Lincoln Highway, in East Mc Keesport. Inbound traffic will be detoured from U. S. 30' and County Road in East McKeesport over Wilmerding and Monroe ville Road to Electric Ave. in East Pittsburgh, thence over Electric Ave.

to the junction with U. S. 30. Hnlton Road Contract Let The Department also has awarded a contract for resurfacing .93 of a mile on Hulton Road in Oakmont' Borough to the M. OHerron of Pittsburgh, on its bid of $29,320.10.

During construction, the contrac tor is to maintain traffic between the Hulton Bridge and the Alle gheny River Blvd. and also between 12th St. and the limit of the work. Traffic will be detoured from the intersection of Hulton Road and the Allegheny River by way of the Boulevard to Pennsylvania 10th Virginia Ave. to 12th St and back to Hulton Road.

The detour is 1.25 miles long. It is im proved except for 3 of a mile over borough streets. Anti-Reds in UE Vow Finish Fight Not Discouraged by Convention Vote MILWAUKEE, Wise, Sept. 14 (Special) Anti-Communists- in the CIO United Electrical Workers will continue their battle against the Red element within the union de spite "a temporary setback." Harry Block, an international vice president of the United Elec trical, Radio and Machine Workers, is not discouraged because he was beaten for the presidency of the union by Albert J. Fitzgerald.

Convention Winding Up As the convention wound up, Mr. Block, who hails from Philadelphia and is secretary of the CIO Penn sylvania Industrial Union Council, said the anti-Red fight would-be carried on at the local union level. He said his group, which includes CIO International Secretary James B. Carey, would "press with firm determination against the Com munist element in the Would Exclude Reds The principle for which Mr. Block, Mr.

Carey and a St. Louis UE leader. James Click, are fighting is that Communists should not be permitted to hold office in the union. Mr. Carey was defeated by Mr.

Fitzgerald in 1941 In a race for the presidency when the former ran on a platform would have excluded Communists from offices. Mr. Block and Mr. Click opened their fight on the present union leadership in Pittsburgh when they organized a group they called "UE Members for Democratic Action." Then they charged that Com munists had seized control of the union's international -headquarters, the newspaper, the paid staff and most District headquarters and some locals. SILLY DOrPT YOU THINK lH FOR A Laugh, Clown, Laugh! By FLORENCE FISHER PARRY HOLLYWOOD I tell you you have to go and get your story out here; it's never in the mail or on the telephone.

I know, I know: millions are spent on Publicity in every studio, and the Important columnists have their "leg women" to tour the studios for them, interview the stars Mrs. Parry second hand, and telephone them the gossip items you read in all the syndicated columns. But being nobody, prefer to find my own they are under my feet wherever I go, stories I can never use; stories I'll hoard for awhile, until something happens to make their telling just pat. And some, of course, I'm sending on to you now. But they're never the stories you go out for; they're never what you think they'll be.

How was I to know what I was going to find when they told me at MGM that Red Skelton was over on Stage 10 working on "Merton Of The Movies," and did I want to see him? Matter of fact, I didn't. It was hot, I was tired, and I'm not a Red Skelton fan. Or wasn't. Count me in now, though. A Serious Business When it was time to talk with Red Skelton, he gave me the surprise of my life.

I expected a kind of grinning clown. I found myself talking to a dead serious kid with a face as sensitive as they come: blue eyes clear and honest, a nice gentle mouth. I'm afraid to use the word "sincere" since I read. "The but Red Skelton is sincere. Dead in earnest about his comedy, terribly bent on being a good actor.

-I'm supposed to be funny, that's the job I work at," he said, "but being funny isn't enough. You have to have folks care what happens to the guy you're pretending to be. It isn't jus making funny faces and" cracks. Me, I'm always secretly sorry for the guy I'm playing, I like him, I want him to make out." "You mean Merton Merton of the Movies?" "I mean whatever part I'm doing. I guess it's because I know how tough it is to BE a clown.

You work your heart out at it, you know." I asked him to tell me you know from the start. I'd remembered what Johnny Johnston had told me how he and Red Skelton had worked at a Walka-thon Palace, one of those unspeakably cheap places, and took each other's place Johnny would do his stuff from midnight to four, Red from four to eight, Johnny from eight 'to twelve, etc Living on hot dogs and cokes, sleeping on benches. "You tell me," I said to Red. "Well, you know my father was a clown Hagenback and Wallace my mother used to be always telling me about him; he died before I was born. Me, I wanted to be like my dad, so I sold papers and watched for the circus billboards and haunted the theaters and practiced being funny One day I heard that Raymond Hitchcock was to be at our theater that was in Vin-cennes, Ind.

and I did everything I could to make folks stop and buy my papers so I could get in line for the gallery at a quarter my toother said I could. "So a man came up and I made faces and wise cracks, anything to stop him, and he asked me why I was so anxious to sell my papers, and I said that Raymond Hitchcock, a terribly funny fellow, was to be at the theater and I wanted to go. And he said. How much for all your papers? and I said a dollar. So he gave me the dollar and an extra quarter for the gallery.

And didn't I find that Raymond Hitchcock was the same guy! Still Edna "I joined a medicine show when I was 19, went into a minstrel show, then onto a Show Boat on the Ohio and Mississippi. The circus, too, vaudeville, everything where there had to be someone to be funny. How I worked at it! I met a girl at Pantages in Kansas City. We were only 17, but we got married. That was Edna.

We made out swell. I mean, we worked out everything together, were a team you know; only she was the master mind, she taught me everything I know. Manages my radio show now, you know, a wonderful woman. Fine husband too Frank Borzage. Yep, she ain't my wife any more, worse luck, that sure was an awful mistake on my part; but she sure deserves a fine husband and he's that, you bet! "Well as I said, Edna did it alL Held me down, made me work, improve, experiment.

When I'd say, after our act, 'Did you notice those sour pusses in front never laughed at me once tonight?" she say, -kind of thoughtful, Well, mebbe you weren't funny. Red. Why not try it a different So I would, and she'd make me work on it until they DID laugh. Taught me all I know." "Know what?" he went on. as though talking to himself, "This Merton, he makes me think of me.

Ever notice how lonesome and kind of worried clowns look when nobody's looking? That's because they don't SEE themselves as comedians at all." It was time for him to go back and make love to the store dummy again, this time in a close-up. "There's somep'n I've been wan tin' to say to you. Miss Lucy," he drawled in exaggerated western accents. And then he stopped. Looked blank.

Wretched. And again I thought Red Skelton had blown up in his lines, so for-, Jorn did he look, this Merton of fit Movies! 7 2 lied in Crash On North Side Driver Hurt In Another Accident Two men were killed and two others injured in an auto crash on the North Side last night, bringing the traffic death toll of Friday the 13th to three. One other serious accident occurred last night, a two-car crash in which a driver was badly hurt. Two Killed as Car Crashes, Burns Arthur Meeks, 45, of 1622 Center Ave. and Thomas Wimbs, 40, of Fullerton St.

were injured fatally when an auto crashed and caught fire at Beaver and Western Aves. and Reedsdale St. Jerome Thomas, 45, of 8 Pride St. and Luther Cash, 50, of 81 Crawford St. were hurt in the crash, which occurred just before midnight.

Thomas was taken to Allegheny General Hospital in serious condi tion with a skull fracture. Meeks and Wimbs were pronounced dead on arrival there. Police said that Cash was ex amined by a physician and pronounced under the influence of liquor. He was charged with drunken driving and manslaughter. The right side of the car was ripped away and police had to pry door from around a pole, using a crowbar.

Patrolmen Dominick Vacca and James Calfo pulled Meeks, Wimbs and Thomas from the blazing car. Patrolman John Macher secured a bucket of water and put out the flames before firemen arrived. Youth Injured In Head-on Wreck George Schwartz, 21, of 123 Mel-lot Baldwin was seriously injured when his car struck a post and collided head-on with another machine on Library Overbrook, early today. Police said that Schwartz lost control of his car after striking the post in the 2600 block of the road. It crossed the highway and struck another machine driven by William May, 39, of Finleyville.

Schwartz was taken to St. Joseph's Hospital with face cuts and a possible skull fracture. Sun fo Disturb with fading and weak signals and reported, but, in most respects, Hitler's science was "far behind ours," in the opinion of U. S. in vestigators.

An official publication of the Of flee of Technical Services of the Department of Commerce says edl torially that in meeting military needs in metallurgy and aeronaut ics and finding substitutes for pe troleum and other scarce items, the Nazis made some "unique, outstand ing and valuable" developments. But German "superiority in science is denied by the American scientists studying the Reich's World War II achievements. Vampire Bats Long-Lived By Science Service PANAMA CITY, Panama Blood- drinking vampire bats are rela tively long-lived animals. Harold Trapido, of the Gorgas Memorial Laboratory here, lists 27 such bats that lived from five to 12 years in a caged colony maintained for experimental purposes. The bloodthirsty little animals throve on a diet of defibrinated blood supplied by a local packing plant.

Even with very limited fly' ing room they managed to mate and produce young. Mr. Trapido is of the opinion that it should be possible to maintain self -perpetuat ing colonies of vampire bats for scientific purposes. Just as white rats and guinea pigs are now main tained. Four Are Injured By Street Cars 2 Homewopd Girls Among Victims Four persons were hurt, two of them seriously, when hit by street cars late yesterday and today.

Two of the victims were young Homewood girls. Children Run Down By Hamilton Ave. Car Sylvia Louise Ellison, 6, of 6842 Simonton suffered a fractured pelvis and Sandra Lowe, 5. of 6834 Simonton a broken collar bone when they were run down by a street car on Hamilton Ave. near N.

Murtland Ave. Both were taken to Pittsburgh Hospital, where Sylvia's condition was serious early today. Police charged the street car operator, John Harding, 409 Mc-Nair Wilkinsburg, with reckless driving. Pedestrian Struck Crossing Fifth Ave. Edward Stevenson, 35, of 133 Crawford was struck by a street car while crossing Fifth Ave.

near Pride St. last night. He was taken to Mercy Hospital with a possible skull fracture. Police reported the car was oper ated by Betty Boyles, 28, of 3426 Forbes St. Trolley Hits Woman Crossing Street Sophia Lowmen, 44.

of 23 Carmel Way, was taken to Allegheny Gen eral Hospital with injuries to the back, head and left leg after being hit by a street car while crossing Fifth Ave. near Market St. about 8:45 a. m. today.

Police said she walked in front of a Wilkinsburg car operated by Edward Thomas, 30, of Greenlee Rd, Killer of Chum Free Under Bail Hazlett Boy Goes Home with Parent Charles Hazlett 13-year-old North Side boy who has admitted the fatal shooting of a playmate last New Year's Eve, was released on $2500 bail late yesterday. Charles re-enacted the fatal "cops and robbers" game for city detec tives after his return from Buffalo. He was indicted on a murder charge after the body of Michael Gerrich, 12, was found hidden in the basement of a house formerly occupied by the Hazlett's. Judge Thomas M. Marshall granted the comparatively low bail after Assistant District Attorney George F.

P. Langfltt told him that the "presumption" was that nothing higher than second-degree murder could be charged. He left the court room with his father, also held under bond as a material witness. The family now lives on Chautauqua more than a mile from the site of the slaying. Funeral Held For 'Ike's' Mother ABILENE.

Kan, Sept 14 (UP) Private funeral services for Mrs. Ida Stover Eisenhower were held yesterday in the modest little home on Fourth St, where she reared Kansas' most famous family of boys, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Army Chief of Staff, and Mrs. Eisenhower's four other sons Ar thur, Milton, Earl and Edgar, plus a small circle of intimate friends of the family were the only persons present for the five-minute service.

The ceremony was conducted at the family home by Lt. CoL Claude R. Ingram, chaplain' at nearby Fort Riley, Kan. CoL Ingram also conducted briet services at graveside in the Abilene Cemetery. Mrs.

Eisenhower died early Wed nesday at the age of 84. Judge Dumbauld Estate Has Value of $2930 UNIONTOWN, Pa, Sept. 14 (Spe cial) Final accounting in the estate of the late Horatio S. Dumbauld, former president judge of Fayette County Court, showed a balance of $2930 today after payment of all debts. The accounting was filed by his son and only heir.

Dr. Edward Dumbauld. assistant to the XS. S. Attorney General in the Anti-Trust Dept, Washington.

Mail Bandits Get $51,400 in Paris PARIS, Sept. 14 (UP) Four bandits held up mail clerks in the crowded Montparnasse railroad station yesterday and escaped with two mail bags stuffed wih 6,117,000 francs All roads out of Paris were blocked by police in an attempt to stop the bandit car. Police believed the robbers had an inside tip since with drawn guns they approached two clerks assigned to the money bags at the moment they were being transferred to the central office of the station. Democrats Gain In Registrations Run Away with Field in 7 Towns Democrats ran away with the field registrations in seven county municipalities yesterday. The field registrars, completing their tour of the county, listed 1246 new voters as Democrats and 335 jas Republicans.

It was the light est enrollment of the three-week schedule of field registrations. Although they sat in seven lo cations, the field registrars also en rolled voters from other communi ties. They worked in Wall, North Versailles, Homestead, West Homestead, Pitcairn and South Fayette Twp. The breakdown by municipalities of Friday's field enrollments fol lows: Demo- Repub- crato licans Wall 86 5 34 2 1 7 2 .1 "i 3 43 North Versailles 68 McKeesport 2 Penn Twp 2 Patton Twp 17 Wilmerding 1 North Braddock East Pittsburgh 2 East McKeesport Turtle Creek 2 Homestead 640 Dravosburg 1 Braddock 6 West Mifflin 18 Duquesne 2 2 1 32 14 West Homestead 171 Munhall 68 Jefferson Twp. 1 Rankin 2 Wilkinsburg 2 1 152 1 16 4 Clairton Pitcairn Ill Trafford South Fayette Twp 42 Bridgeville 4 Collier Twp Another Child Stricken by Polio One more case of infantile paralysis was reposted today, the 37th treated in Pittsburgh this year.

The victim was a 2li -year-old Coraopolis girl, taken to Municipal Hospital. Poliomyelitis totals to date include seven each from Pittsburgh and other portions of Allegheny County, 21 from nearby counties and two others from outside the state. This is well below normal for this time of year. Westland Man Drowns In Pond at Coal Mine CANONSBURG, Sept. 14 (Special) The body of Collin Haught, 72, retired miner of West-land, near here, was found in a pond at the Westland mine of the Pittsburgh Coal Co.

last night. Deputy Coroner Leslie P. peak-man, of Houston, reported that Mr. Haught had gone to a slate dump to pick coal and that he apparently slipped, fell into the water and drowned. Mr.

Haught had left his home to pick coal and when he failed to return a search was started for him and his body found. Milwaukee Setter Puts Out Fire in House MILWAUKEE, Sept. 14 (UP) Lady, a soft-eyed black setter, was mighty grateful today. Six months ago Don Sherman, 17. gave her a home.

Today his mother left the house a while. When she returned, she found Lady barking frantically behind the living room davenport. A frayed lamp cord had set fire to the rug and baseboard. The fire was out. And Lady's paws were singed.

Bankruptcy, Red Peril in Their Platform Gov. Edward Martin, Re U. S. Senate, charged today strike, openly and defiantly, was a strike against an agency of the. U.

S. Government. "Certain radical unions are seething with revolt by the members themselves gainst the Communistic take-over at the top. Brain-trusters fthe PAC are under fire in their own unions for being open Communists or fellow-travelers. "Yet the Democratic platform pretends Communism is not an issue! Sugar Price Rise Of 2 Cents Ordered Move May Force Upi Canned Fruit, Cake WASHINGTON.

Sept. 14(UP) OPA glumly acknowledged today that prices of canned and frozen fruit, ice cream and cake may go up because of the new 2-cent-a-pound boost in sugar prices. As if that weren't bad news enough, the Agriculture.Department told housewives dairy products will be scarcer and prices higher throughout 1946 and early 1947. The department said the pros pective drop stemmed jointly from normal seasonal slump plus an accelerated decline in dairy herds. The Price Decontrol Board will decide Wednesday if ceilings on dairy products should be restored in view of recent increases.

To Affect Ice Cream An OPA spoesman said it was very probable the price of canned and frozen fruit, cake and ice cream would be "affected" by yesterday's boost in sugar prices. But he said it probably wouldn't force up prices of soft drinks or candy. The 2-cent-a-pound sugar in crease will cost consumers an estimated 200 million dollars a year. The Increase win go into effect as soon as dealers have sold their present stocks. The boost was necessary under this country's sugar agreement with Cuba.

It provides for price increases as the cost of living jumps in this country and it jumped 2.13 per cent in retail food prices from. April 1 to June 30 and is continuing to climb, OPA said. Auto Prices to Rise The OPA price increases apply to all sugar, not only Cuban. Prices of Ford, Mercury and Lin coln cars also are going up again. this time by an average of 6 per cent, according to an OPA official.

The increase, expected next wee It, will be the third for the Ford Motor Co. this year. OPA also is considering a petiti-tion by General Motors Corp. fo increases on its many makes cars. Radio Broadcast Next Week cowardice, fraud and evasion." He said ita.

authors ought to be deeply ashamed" for failing to meet the issues of. the day which he described as the threat of na tional bankruptcy and Communism. "It is cowardly," he said of the platform, "because, in failing to rise to these issues, it seeks to pretend they do not exist. Sell-Oat Charged "It is fraudulent because it prom ises socalled 'benefits' to the state which would be impossible without doubling or trebling the tax rate. "It is evasive because it tries to hide the fact that the Democratic candidates have sold out their party principles to the pro-Communist PAC.

They have sold the power and patronage they hope to hold if elected in return for pressured votes and a gigantic political slush ijnnck "There are two all-important miblic issues, both of which must be met by the next Congress, which the Democratic party wholly ignores. "One is national bankruptcy, it comes nearer day by day. Runaway inflation is only a foretaste of the collapse, chaos and universal pov erty that -grill result if mnation is not checked at the source which is governmental improvidence and extravagance. "The other major issue Is com munism. "If the Democratic candidates do not believe Communism is a men ace, I invite them to start reading the newspapers.

"A truck strike, which the Demo cratic Mayor of New York publicly branded as Communistic, shut the great metropolis off from food and medicine, until it became, in the words of. The New York Times, a dying Ship Strike Cited "A maritime strike which everyone knows the Communists had been planning for months, and which was timed to tie in with Russian foreign policy, shut down all the major ports of the nation, including that of Philadelphia. This NOTIONS DOING RATHER VLL BEG1MNER 1 Same Group of Spots That Caused Blackout In July' Expected to Plague Shortwaves By Science Service WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 Shortwave radio broad casts, particularly those following North Atlantic paths, i 4 probably will be disturbed Tuesday through Friday of next week, the National Bureau of Standards warns. This will be the first sizeable disturbance for two weeks.

This storm in the ionosphere is being predicted because of the same group of sun spots that were associated with the radio blackout of July 26-27, one of the most severe in history. Broadcasts were blacked, out for brief periods twice yesterday, due to flare-ups on the sun. Ice Atlas Published By Science Service WASHINGTON An ice atlas of the northern hemisphere, showing exactly where ice is" for every month of the year, has just been issued here by the Navy's hy orographic office. It is intended primarily for use in navigation, but will be of interest also to geographer, cima-tologists and other scientists. In addition to maps showing the seasonal positions of icebergs and other forms of sea ice, there are others showing ice on rivers and inland lakes.

These give information on dates of freeze-up and break-up, of opening to navigation, and average annual number of days with ice. Nazi Science Net Superior By Science Service WASHINGTON American industry may profit from German discoveries now being investigated Deputy Coroner Filo Named Head of Morgue Coroner William D. McClellar. announced today that Jules Filo, deputy coroner for nine years. ha been appointed superintendent the morgue, effective tomorrow.

Mr. Filo succeeds Joseph D. Moon who resigned to become permanently connected with the Pittsburgh School of Kmhalming. This will give Mr. Filo an increase in salary from $2,832 to $3552 a year.

Mr. Filo is 38, married and has two children. He is vice president, of the Young Democrats of Penn-' sylvania and president of the Young Democrats of the Thirty-third Cor- gressional District..