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VOL. L. No. 76. NOME. ALASKA. FRIDAY. JUNE 25. 1948. PER gOPY 15^
NEWS IN BRIEF
WASHINGTON, — <£*) —Pres
ident Truman today signed into
law a bill carrying $3,749,059,250
to maintain and expand the Navy
and Marine Corpis during the
year starting July 1.
The measure includes funds
with which to start construction
of a 65,000-ton aircraft carrier
that will cost an estimated $127,
000,000. It will be the largest of
its kind afloat.
By the use of wartime reserves
and previous .appropriations, the
Navy will have more than $5,000,
000,000 to spend in the next year.
CONVENTION HALL, Phila.—
(/P)—Thomas E. Dewey was nom
inated for president by the Repub
lican Convention here yesterday.
His nomination was assured
when Senator Robert A. Taft, (R
Ohio), Harold Stassen and Gov.
Earl Warren of California threw
their support to Dewey.
VANCOUVER, Wash., — (/P)—
A small boy died and six other
children were carried to safety
as fire razed a boarding home for
children north of here today.
SAN FRANCISCO, — (&) —A
miner, Alaska merchandiser, and
ship operator, George T. Williams
died Tuesday of a heart attack.
Williahns, 78, established the
Williams Steamship Corp., an in
tercoastal line, after the first
World War.
He began his shipping opera
tions in Alaska during the gold
rush. He continued mining ac
tivities up to the time of his death.
FORT LEWIS, —^/P)—Twenty
officers from the department of
the army, Washington, D.C., left
Fort Lewis yesterday on the first
arctic summer inspection tour
which will include Canada, Alaska,
New Foundland and Labrador.
NEW YORK, — (JP) —William
Tilley decided to spend his lunch
hour yesterday visiting the stock
exchange, and he quykly picked
up $1,205,000.
But it was in checks he found
on the sidewalk.
Tilley, a 47-year-old city cleri
cal employee, delivered the checks
to a bank which had drawn them.
One was for $1,200,000 and the
other for $5,000.
His visit to Wall Street netted
a profit, however, he got a $25
reward.
YANKEE STADIUM, New York,
—(/P)—Rain forced postponement
of the Joe Louis-Jersey Joe Wal
cott heavy-weight championship
fight.
The fight was immediately re
set for tomorrow night at 9 p.m.
(EST).
The downpour began shortly be- •
RUSSIA CUT OFF
FOOD SUPPLIES
TO WEST BERLIN
UNDATED INTERNATIONAL,
—By the Associated Press—
BERLIN
Russia cut off food today from
her zone to the U.S., British and
French areas of Berlin in an ac
celerated effort to force the al
lies out. The Russians had stopped
the flow from Western Germany
by asserting the lone railroad need
' ed repairs. They again disrupted
electric service in western Ber
lin.
LONDON
British foreign secretary Ernest
Bevin told the House of Commons
the situation in Berlin is deli
cate. He said the 2,000,000 per
sons in the western zones of Ber
lin were displaying great calm
ness.
He stood by a previous asser
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Clay Says: Russians
“Cannot Drive Us
Out Of Berlin”
i
HEIDELBERG, Germany, —(#*)
—Gen. Lucius D. Clay said today
; the Russians “cannot drive us out
of Berlin by any action short of
war.”
The American military govern
or said the latest moves of the
Soviets indicate they “are trying
to put on the final pressure to!
drive us out of Berlin.”
“Unfortunately,” Clay added,
“the only way they can put on
pressure is to make the Germans
suffer.”
By this he referred to the Rus-1
sian squeeze on transport.
Clay estimated Berliners had
supplies for no more than a coup
le of weeks. He praised the Ger
man administration in Berlin, say
ing it gave a “pretty high exam
ple of leadership” during the cri
sis.
Clay flew to Heidelberg to con
fer with top American command
ers in this headquarters city. He
said the talks were “purely rou
tine.”
Clay said he had no plans for
cutting off water and power to
parts of the Soviet zone supplied
from the American area state of
Bavaria.
Clay said he did not consider
the situation any more serious
than it had been.
fore the scheduled start of the
preliminaries.
The bout had been originally set
for Wednesday night.
Gov. Warren Chosen Running Mate
PRESIDENT?AND MRS- DEWEY
Dewey Nominated
Demos React With.
‘We’ll Lick Him’
By The Associated Press
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey’s unani
mous nomination as the Republi
can presidential candidate brought
this equally unanimous reaction
today from Democratic leaders:—
We’ll lick him.
Senator J. Howard McGrath,
National Democratic chairman,
said:
“This nomination comes as sort
of an encore for Governor Dewey
on his successful “me too” cam
paign of 1944. The American peo
ple also will play an encore in
November.”
Paul F. Fitzpatric, chairman of
the New York State Democratic
committee, said “We’ve licked
him before and we’ll do it again.”
House Democratic leader Rep.
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Kougarok Railway
Rebuilt To Nome
LITTLE GREEK, Alaska, —At
three o’clock this afternoon a
ceremony was held to dedicate
the connection of the reconstruc
tion of a section of the Kougarok
Railroad. Two golden spikes will
be driven into the final and con
necting link at Little Creek.
Participating in the event, which
is of momentous importance to
mining men in the areas along the
80-odd miles of track, and the
fishing parties, will be Charlie
Jones, Road Commission man of i
early days, and other prominent1
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Gov* Earl Warren
Dewey Choice For
Running Mate
PHILADELPHIA, — {JP) —Gov.
ernor Earl Warren of California
was picked by Thomas E. Dewey
as the man he wants for a vice
presidential running mate today.
The choice of Warren was an
nounced by one of Dewey’s cam
paign managers, J. Russel Spragu.e
A member of the Ohio delega
tion said he understood that Dew
ey’s advisers had virtually ruled
out Senator John W. Bricker as
a possibility.
Senator William Knowland of
California told reporters “it is my
best judgement that Warren is
willing to accept.
Dewey talked with party lead
ers and considered recommeida
tions most of the night.
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4“ CELEBRATED
MONDAY 5™
The 4th of July Committee met
last evening at the home of Coun
cilman Steve Anderson and made
out plans for one of the most in
teresting celebrations ever to be
witnessed in Nome.
An enormous display of fire
works is planned, which will be
the first fireworks some of the
younger generation have ever
seen.
A children’s parade is scheduled
for the morning, with excellent I
prizes for the outstanding entries. !
The children’s floats should be
mounted on flat-bed trucks or to
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PHILADELPHIA, — </p) —Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey, smiling, suave,
and utterly adequate to the oc
casion, is the official hero of the
Republican convention.
But the man who got the hand
at the last, and who may yet em
erge as the darling of the party,
was Harold E. Stassen. In the long
run, Stassen may win more friends
and command more genuine ap
proval by his actions at the mo
ment of defeat than he could have
done in a moment of victory. Cen
tainly, he gained stature.
Stassen faced the music with
a smile.
He was first of the candidates—
1 and in fact the only one with a
chance to be nominated — who
walked to the rostrum, stood be
fore 14,000 clamoring people, and
told his followers that he would
no longer hold them to their
pledges.
He went further. He urged them
to vote for Dewey, and in the
coming campaign, to work for
Dewey.
Stassen probably would have
held his lines for another ballot,
with luck the line might have
held for two ballots.
But the end was inevitable.
Dewey was too strong.
The big man must have seen
this from the first.
He came to the convention at
2 o’clock when the balloting was
supposed to start. He was the on
ly candidate there. He brought a
score card with him.
He took a seat far back and to
the right of the platform. And
as the vote rolled out, he sat there,
quietly ticking off his chances,
scoring the ebb of his hopes.
It was Dewey all the way. Dew
ey had 434 votes on the first bal
lot, 515 on the second.
Dewey’s machine was like a
precision instrument in operation.
For him, the situation was never
out of control.
The convention re-convened in
the evening. Quietly, Stassen re
turned to his place in the depths
of the great hall, behind the plat
form.
On the floor the states were cau
cusing. They say nothing is so
timid as a million dollars. It may
be, but 1000-odd delegates to a
national convention can be re
merkably sensitive to the shift
of political winds.
The gavel banged and the strug
ble was over.
Gov. Kim Seigler spoke for Sen
ator Arthur Vandenberg. Senator
William F. Knowland delivered
the message from Governor War
ren. Senator John W. Bricker was
the representative for Senator Ro
bert A. Taft.
Harold Stassen spoke for him
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