Dear Thomas Pyle, Oh how much I hope you are right about your relationship to Ernie. I am a second cousin twice removed from Ernie through William Pyle and Mary Mack. I can trace John through Robert Pyle I in the Pyle/Pile book. Were you able to find any documentation through your immediate family? I have been able to follow Ernie from Robert Pyle and Martha Malone down to present. Here is what I have found on John Howard Pyle. isn't it a coincidence that they both finished the war at Ie Shima. John Howard Pyle John Howard Pyle moved from the obscurity of a Phoenix radio station to serve two terms as the Governor of Arizona and also served as President of the National Safety Council from 1959 to 1974. Million's of driver's graduated from the Safety Council's Defensive Driving Course that was John's brainchild. His domestic driver improvement program is taught in nine countries He won national recognition with a stirring address "What is Right for America" during the 1952 GOP national convention and his voice is familiar to millions following 21-year career in radio. He performed Easter sunrise services at the Grand Canyon for 25 years and was the voice for all United States Armed Force Networks when the Second World War came to an end. When the Japanese surrender party arrived at Ie Shima, John covered the surrender ceremonies on board the U.S.S. Missouri and was the first radio reporter to arrive with the U. S. Armed Forces on Japan's mainland. John also narrated the triumphant return of General Jonathan Wainwright to the United States following his imprisonment by the Japanese. John was drafted as a Republican candidate for governor of the state of Arizona in 1950 and despite a history of Democratic control, he easily won the election and was re-elected two years later. President Eisenhower asked him to join his staff in Washington in 1955 and appointed him as to the Deputy Assistant to the President for Federal-State relations. John served on many boards and agencies and was on the Board of Trustees for Redlands University in California and the Arizona Board of Regents. Since his retirement he has written a daily column for the "Tempe Daily News." John Pyle, safety council president, radio personality and advisor to presidents was still alive in 1994. John Howard Pyle was the voice of America in Ie Shima at the close of the Second World War. ----- Original Message ----- From: Thomas A. Pyle <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 5:56 AM Subject: [PYLE] ERNIE PYLE > Prior to WWII Ernie and my uncle John Howard Pyle were in regular contact > with each other by letter. Howard was a newspaper man in Phx., AZ and an > NBC employee in the State. >