Truman May Seek
Another Term
WASHINGTON, i/P» — Some of
President Truman’s closest friends 1
predicted today he won’t let it be i
known until after the 1950 Con
gressional elections whether he
will run again.
They agreed he will stump
around the country next year to
get a Congress to back his “fair
deal program.”
A substantial number of them
expressed conviction Mr. Tru
man’s inclination is to leave the
White House at the end of his
present term in 1952.
The President himself set off
the speculation yesterday.
He hinted—with a smile that
might have meant anything—that
he won’t run in 1952. (He will be
68 on May 8 of that year).
■0 But then, later he wouldn’t say
no, positively, or even probably.
It was started when 96 teen-age
girls trotted up to the White
House to look it, and the Presi
dent over.
One of the girls — students of
government brought here by the
American Legion Auxiliary, had
asked about her chances of be
coming an ambassador five years
from now.
Reporting this, in one of his off
the-cuff talks, Mr. Truman said
he couldn’t promise anything that
far away “because that is a year
or two beyond the time when my
term will expire.”
Reporters pounced upon the re
mark at a subsequent news con
ference. It sounded, they told him,
like he would not be a candidate
in 1952.
That, said the President, was
the implication he intended.
So they tried to nail him down,
but failed.
I Boss—Why are you going to
quit, Bill? Are your wages too
low,
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Bill—The wages are OK but I’m
keeping a horse out of a job.
La h< >r Strikes F or
Fourth Round Of
Wage Increases
AKRON, O. (i^P)—Union labor’s
first major strike tor a fourth
round of postwar wage increases
was launcehd Saturday. The CIO
struck B. F. Goodrich, one of the
rubber industry’s Big Four.
Ordering some 17,000 Goodrich
workers in seven states to strike,
President H. R. Lloyd of the CIO
United Rubber Workers said:
“Unfortunately, the company
showed not the slightest interest
in reaching an amicable settle
ment. We were compelled to take
this action to protect the interest
of our membership.
Negotiation on a new contract
broke down Friday night just be
fore the old one expired. As au
thorized by the union membership,
the strike started at 12:01 a.m.
Saturday.
Right on time, URW’s biggest
Goodrich local here set up picket
lines, halting work by 11,000 em
ployees. The other plants at Los
Angeles, Cadillac, Mich., Tusca
loosa, Ala., Miami, Okla., Clarks
ville, Tenn., Oaks, Pa., were also
i ordered to strike.
For its part, Goodrich complain
ed in a letter sent out before the
strike was called that the URW
has chosen B. F. Goodrich men
and women of our company to be
guinea pigs in the fourth round
wage try.”
And after the strike started,
Goodrich vice-president J. W.
Keener contended the union had
served no notice on the company.
The union wantsr 25 cents an
hour pay increases, $100-a-month
pensions paid 'by the company,
health and welfare benefits. The
industry-wide average pay for
production workers has been $1.51
an hour.
Despite its rural character,
about two-thirds of the people of
Australia live in towns.
JACK LENCER
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Box 625 Nome, Alaska
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The Game of
SHUFFLEBOARD
Come In and Play
eliminate China
From House
Committee’s Tour
WASHINGTON, (.Pi—Rep. Hu
ber <D.-Ohio> announced Saturday
China has been cut from the
schedule of a Congressional com
, mittee’s tour of Asia because "the
temptation to seize a Congression
' al group as hostages might be too
; great for Chinese Red forces."
Huber will lead a delegation of
six Congressmen on a 40-day fly
ing trip to Alaska, Japan, Korea,
the Philippines, Netherlands East
Indies, Singapore, Bankok, Burma
and return via the Mandated Is
lands in the Pacific and Hawaii.
i Thev will leave here tomorrow in
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an A:r Force C-54.
With him on the trip, he said in
a statement, will be Reps. Burn
side <D.-W. Va.), Deane <D.-N.-C.>,
O'Konski 'R.-Wis.*, Miehlman <R.
: N. Y.) and Lovre (R.-S. D.>.
They will travel as official rep
resentatives of the House expen
ditures committee
On their Alaska stop, Huber
! said, the committee will study the
Territory’s defenses and defense
needs. Alask’im officials have pro
tested to Congress that theirs is a
neglected area.
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Senate Will Slash
Arms Aid Program
! WASHINGTON, i/P) — Senator
George 'D.-Ga.> said Saturday
that $1,000,000,000 is the most the
j administration can hope for from
the Senate in arms aid for Atlan
tic pact nations.
He said the sum would be split
between cash and contract author
ity. "And they won’t get that,” he
predicted, “until after a long de
bate. if at all.”
President Truman has asked for
$1,450,000,000 for the arms pro
gram, including $1,160,990,000 for
the Atlantic pact nations.
The House slashed the $1,160.
990,000 in half, but left unchanged
the proposed $21,370,000 for con
tinued military assistance to
Greece and Turkey, and $27,640,
000 for Iran, Korea and the Phil
ippines.
Nationalists Re
Take Three Towns
CANTON, </P)—The nationalists
have counterattacked and recap
tured three key towns just outside
the Kwangtung province border in
an arc 140 miles northeast of Can
ton, private reports said Saturday
night.
'The communist radio claimed
meanwhile that the Red army had
captured Lanchow, capital of
Kansu province in China’s far
northwest. It said the city fell Fri
day!.
The three towns reported re
I taken by the nationalists in south
! western Kiangsi province are
Kiennangn. Lungnan and Ting
I nan. They had been designated by
one-eyed Red Gen. Liu Po-Chang
as springboards for a drive on Ku
kong, 125 miles horth of Canton,
on the Cnnton-Hankow railway.
Its capture by the Reds would cut
>ff the nationalist central China
!efen«s bastion of Hangvang. 265
miles north of Canton in Hunan
nrovince.
Red forces further north of
Hengyang have returned to the of
fensive after being shoved back
by the nationalists and have made
new gains, the defense ministry
admitted.
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Investigating
Gen. Vaughan’s
Bank Accounts
'Continued from Page One'
the committee plans to turn over
to the justice department evidence
it has gathered about the affairs
of John Maragon. Maragon is a
normally talkative man-about
Washington who suddenly turned
silent Friday when the committee
sought to question him about a lot
of matters.
They include testimony by a
1 committee investigator that Mara
gon made deposits of SI 19.608.61
I in checking accounts over a five
year period. Maragon previously
had sworn at a hearing behind
closed doors that his income over
the same period totalled only
around $30,000.
Hoey said that in addition to
the Maragon evidence, testimony
regarding any government officials
whose names have cropped up at
the inquiry will be turned over to
the departments concerned.
A newsman asked whether that
meant the testimony dealing with
Vaughan would be laid before Mr.
Truman. Hoey said the committee
won’t take the initiative in that
case.
“We won’t send it unless the
President should ask for it,” he re
plied. “That’s a different matter.
It is the President’s prerogative to
ask for it if he wants it.”
As for Vanghan’s bank accounts,
i Hoev was asked in a radio inter
j view Friday night whether the
I committee was looking into those
! as it did Maragon’s.
“We have in a measure,” he
said, without explaining just how
far the investigation has gone.
MATANUSKA FAIR INVITES
SPORTSMEN TO RIFLE SHOOT
The Matanuska Valley Fair
Assn., which is holding the 9th
Annual Fair at Palmer from Sept,
j 3 to Sept. 5, is inviting all sports
j men’s club in the Territory to par
i take in their small bore rifle shoot.
' The entry fee for a team is
! $10.00, and individual entrance fee
is $2.00 Blanks are available at
the Nugget office for anyone wish
ing to take part in the event.
1949 Last GAR
Encampment
— ' —
INDIANAPOLIS, <£>)—Inci
1 polis, scene of the first national
encampment of the Grand Army
I of the Republic 82 years ago. Sat
urday rolled out the welcome mat
for the last gathering of Union vet
erans.
A halt dozen of the surviving 18
members of the GAR are expected
for the encampment, which oegan
officially Sunday. Five affiliated
groups with a membership of
about 2,500 also are to meet Sun
day through Wednesday.
Two of the Civil War veterans
are coming by air. One of them,
Charley Chappel, 102. of Long
Beach, Calif., senior vice com
mander, says he’ll be “proud to be
the last commander.” The second
is James A. Hard, 108, Rochester,
N. Y.
Hard has said he favors another
encampment next year, but indi
I cated he would not push the mat
ter. The GAR last year amended
! its rules and regulations to make
the 1949 meeting at Indianapolis
the last.
Senate OK’s De
fense Construction
■ . i —
WASHINGTON iTP)—A bill au
! thorizing defense construction io
j tailing $26,602,000 in Alaska .and
$12,324,000 in Washington State
1 was approved by the Senate armed
j services committee Wednesday,
I Senator Cain <R.-Wash.> announc
I ed.
He listed the following proo ;ed
Alaska expenditures:
Alaska—Adak, $22,616,000 for
navy defense installations: K'd'
ak naval air station, $2,543,000,
runway extensions and additional
quarters for personnel; Ladd f e d,
Fairbanks, $5,610,000, ex ten-'on
of fighter squadron facilities and
establishment of a cold wea'her
test detachment; Eielson air force
base. Fairbanks, $28,156,200, ; I ii
tional plane and personnel f«.:• i 1 i
j ties; Fort Richardson. $3,644,000.
Details of the approved Alaska
projects were withheld for secur
ity resaons, Cain said.
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