Coast Guard Saves
Crew Of Ship In
North Atlantic
* -
NEW YORK, <iP)—Saved from a
r crippled schooner in the hurricane
swept North Atlantic, Portugese
sailors threw themselves prone
and kissed the deck of the famed (
coast guard rescue cutter Bibb.
The Bibb—which accomplished
one of two dramatic ship rescues
yesterday in which 79 men in all
were saved—radioed early today
the details of how she picked up 40
men from a Portugese fishing
schooner Gaspar.
* About 390 miles away, two mer
chant ships rescued 39 men from
the sinking British freighter Lei
cester.
Seven men from the4wo stricken
ships were believed lost.
Capt. Donald G. Jacobs, skipper
of the Bibb, radioed his rescue log
to coast guard area headquarters
here today, and ended it this way:
“That it was something alto
gether different in aspect to the
survivors, however, was apparent
from the actions of several of them
who, upon reaching the safety of
the Bibb, flung themselves down
and fervently kissed the deck. •
“Yes—as usual — a dog was
among the rescued.”
Coast guard and navy planes
participated in the Gaspar rescue
operation.
The Bibb, under another skip
per, rescued all 69 persons aboard
the Bermuda Sky Queen when the
huge flying boat was forced down
on the stormy Atlantic more than
800 miles east of Newfoundland
last Oct. 14.
VOTERS
For sound representative government
elect
For Delegate to Congress:
* For Attorney General:
For Auditor:
For Highway Engineer:
For the Senate:
For the House:
E. L. (Qob) BARTLETT
J. GERALD WILLIAMS
FRANK A. BOYLE
FRANK A. METCALF
EDWARD ANDERSON
HOWARD LYNG
WILLIAM E. BELTZ
GEORGE P. MADSEN
ALMER RYDEEN, Nome
FRANK DEGNAN,
Unalakleet
All of the Democratic Candidates are pledged:
1. To the support of our schools and the University
of Alaska.
2. To seek economy in our Territorial Government.
3 To enact an equitable tax program to support our
Territorial institutions.
4. To give equal opportunity to every citizen in ac
* , cordance with the rights guaranteed by the Con
stitution and Laws of the United States and the
Territory of Alaska.
5. To grant pensions and financial support of the
pioneer and needy commensurate with the needs
of the times.
6. To support the right of the people to elect their
own Governor.
7. To the passage of a Municipal Airport Act to pro
vide all communities with adequate air service.
8. To work for fair and reasonable regulation of
child labor for the protection of our children.
* 9. To the improvement and expansion of our high
way system in the Second Division.
10. To the enforcement of all laws including the
liquor laws.
11. To work for additional home facilities for pioneer
men and women.
12. To work together for the betterment of the Terri
tory in harmony and without self-interest.
’ E. L. “BOB” BARTLETT. DELEGATE TO CONGRESS
1944-46, 1946-48. Born Seattle, Wash., 1904. Moved to
Fairbanks, Alaska, 1905 with pioneer parents, Ed and
Ida Bartlett. Graduate Fairbanks schools. Student Uni
versity of Wash., and University of Alaska. Reporter
Fairbanks News-Miner 1927-33. Secretary to Delegate
? Dimond 1933-34. Miner, Circle Dist., 1935-39. Secretary
of Alaska, 1939-44. Married—2 children. Residence
Washington, D. C., and Juneau, Alaska.
I
NOME DEMOCRATIC CLUB
Truman Will
“Give Them Hell”
On Campaign Tour
(Continued from Page One)
vo'e-seeking tour to the Pacific
coast and return. The President is
due to return to Washington Oct.
2.
As Mr. Truman left on his cross
country swing, the Houston (Tex.)
Chronicle, published by Jesse H.
Jones, a cabinet member in the
late President Franklin D. Roose
velt’s administration, announced
its support of the GOP ticket of
Dewey and Warren.
The Chronicle in an editorial
said it believes in a two-party sys
tem. It called on Democrats of the
South to abandon the feeling “that
we are Democrats and can vote no
other ticket.”
Citing qualifications of Govern
ors Dewey and Warren in admin
istering affairs in New York and
California, respectively, the Chron
icle said Mr. Truman “has not
shown the leadership necessary
for the successful management of
our national and international af
fairs.”
i Mr. Truman will make the first
major speech of the extensive vote
! tour at Dexter, Iowa, tomorrow.
Before the voters go to the polls
November 2, Mr. Truman likely
will make three other railroad
trips and a plane visit to Florida to
round out a 15,000 to 20.000 mile
stumping campaign.
Mr. Truman’s first major cam
paign stop tomorrow, at the na
tional plowing match, may find
him behind a plow.
At least he told a Washington
rural electrification meeting here
last night:
“If they’re going to have a mule,
I might try my hand and see if I
can still plow a straight furrow.”
Other important addresses dur
ing his first week's travel are at:
Denver, Monday; Salt Lake City,
Tuesday night; San Francisco,
Wednesday night; and Los Angel
es, Thursday night.
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey. his
GOP opponent for the Presidency,
meanwhile stocked up more am
munition for his opening campaign
i address Monday at Des Moines,
Iowa. He will confer with farm
paper editors tomorrow on agricul
tural problems which are expected
to figure largely in the campaign
cross-fire.
Both men are due to make major
speeches a day apart in Los An
geles. There a controversy devel
oped.
E. George Luckey, chairman of
the Truman-Barkley ticket com
mittee in Los Angeles said the
President will have to use Gilmore
stadium for his September 23 talk
because the Republicans had tied
up the larger Hollywood Bowl “to
rehearse some complicated lighting
effects” for Dewey’s appearance
the next night.
Democratic national chairman J.
Howard McGrath promptly charg
ed GOP with “leasing an empty
stadium” just to deny it to Mr.
Truman.
Calling that action “un-Ameri
can,” McGrath said in New York
“I am sure that Gov. Dewey on so
ber second thought will disavow
the action of his team-mates on the
so-called Dewey team.”
Dewey’s running mate, Gow Ear1
Warren, launched his speaking
campaign last night in Salt Lake
City with an appeal for nationV
unity and political moderation at
time when the world is “beset by
fear.”
Warren said this year’s election
eering drive must be free from the
prejudice of party, class or race.
To preserve the traditional
American concert of the two-party
system, he urged thrift and com
petence in government after what
he called 16 years of Democratic
“cure-alls, nostrums and expedi
ents.”
The third party Presidential
candidate, Henry Wallace, told a
Buffalo, N. Y., audience last night
that both the Republicans and
i Democrats are participating in a
profit-seeking war program.
The Democratic national com
mittee indicated it will not start a
court fight over the decision of the
Louisiana state committee to
scratch Mr. Truman’s name from
the party ballot.
“Any action will have to be
taken by the people within the
state,” William Primm, assistant to
the national chairman told a re
porter last night.
In Mr. Truman’s stead the Lou
isiana group placed on the ballot
the States Right ticket headed by
Gov. J. Strom of South Carolina.
The States Righters also won a
place yesterday on the North Da
kota general election ballot.
Nugget Ads Bring Quick Results
'Airlines Cut Fares
To Alaska
SEATTLE, (/P)—Two air lines,
Pan American Airways and Pacific
Northern Airlines announced a 25
per cent reduction in their Seattle
Alaska fares yesterday.
The reductions become effective
October 15.
On Pan American planes the re
duction will remain in effect until
April 15, Willis G. Lipscomb, vice
president, said.
Pacific Northern Airlines said it
would keep the lowered rate in ef
fect until March 15.
At the same time, Pan American
said it would cut children’s fares
to 50 per cent of adult fares and
permit infants free travel.
WASHINGTON, (A1)—Argentina
and Holland were the leading
shippers of gold to this country in
the final week of August the com
merce department reported today.
Argentina sent $5,936,717 in gold
i to the U. S. and the Netherlands
$5,653,467 that week. The Union
of South Africa shipped $3,153,261
in gold and Mexico $2,068,051.
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SEPT. 18, 1948