own business.
We take all these things for
granted, along with our vastly
superior standard of living. What
we must assuredly know is this:
these things we have, these privil
edges of ours, exist because of ba
sic principles that belong to the
American Way. Our individual
freedom of enterprise is distinctly
American. No Communistic or so
cialistic state can offer that to its
people.
Wash. Will Go Into
Ferry Business
SEATTLE, </P) — Gov. Mon
Wallgren and the Washington toll
bridge authority ordered the first
preliminary steps Saturday to
“put the state in the ferry busi
ness” on Puget Sound.
The governor’s announcement
that the state “definitely” planned
to operate a fleet of fast, new ves
sels on the ferryless Sound was
made Friday night after an all
day meeting with the authority.
Wallgren said this is being done
to solve the transportation crisis
resulting „from the Puget Sound
Navigation company’s cessation of
intra-state service six days ago.
Seal Matchmakers
Meet Failure
AUGUSTA, Me. (/P) — Commis
sioner E. Reed’s first effort as a
marine matchmaker was blighted
today by cold biological fact.
Fur seals and hair seals, he
learned, have no romantic interest
in each other.
Reed, chief of the Maine sea
and shore fisheries department,
suggested the match Jan. 25, after
Emory F. Tobin of Ketchikan,
asked for Main seed lobsters to
start a lobster industry in the Ter
ritory.
The Maine coast has a surfeit of
hair seals, of little or no commer
cial value. As a swap for the seed
lobsters, Reed suggested that To
bin send some fur seals to be used
in an attempt to improve the
Maine seal strain.
Tobin’s reply described the fur
seal as a species of sea lion, in
whose love life the hair seal—a
distant cousin, perhaps—plays no
part.
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Beltz are the
parents of a baby daughter born
yesterday at the Maynard Colum
bus Hospital.
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Dewey Hopes To
Carry Eleelion In
New' Hampshire
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Politi
cians agree that unless New
Hampshire’s pre-season primary
brings an upset tomorrow in the
Dewey-Stassen contest it prob
ably won’t scratch the surface of.
the GOP presidential race.
Forces of Gov. Thomas E.!
Dewey of New York are contend
ing that he will get at least seven
of the state’s eight delegates.
Backers of former Thomas E.
E. Stassen of Minnesota claim1
their candidate will get up to five.
Yet an outsider or two might |
edge in to take the play entirely j
away from both of them.
Charles Tobey, Jr., son of the
Senator, is running as a backer of
Sen. Arthur Vandenberg (Mich).!
also a couple of delegates still are |
booming Gen. Dwight D. Eisen-1
hower despite his exit from the
contest.
A clean sweep for Dewey would
be touted by his forces as the be
ginning of a drive that will land
him a first ballot nomination—just
as he got in 1944.
Whatever happens, the governor
and the former governor will do
it all over again in Wisconsin on
April 6. But in that race Dewey
and Stassen will come face to face
with a “darkhorse” candidate for
the first tim^ in this year’s cam
paign.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur hasn t
said in so many words whether he
will seek or accept the nomina
tion, but his name has been en
tered in the Wisconsin contest.
Elsewhere, the firing touched
off by the chief executives’s civil
rights program raged unabated.
As more southerners joined the
parade of Dixie Democrats de
manding that Mr. Truman give
way to some other nominee, Dem
ocratic national chairman Mc
Grath issued a statement denying
“rumors” that he and executive
director Gael Sullivan plan to
resign.
McGrath called these rumors
“part of a plan to confuse and de
stroy the confidence of Democrats
in their leadership.”
The party chairman’s statement
took specific issue with a broad
cast by Drew Pearson. The radio
commentator had said that both
McGrath and Sullivan would like
to quit because “no President has
ever lost so much ground in four
weeks as Harry Truman.”
Elderly Widow
Wins Fortune
CHICAGO, (A*) — The 68-year
old widow who won the rich
“walking man” radio contest Sat
urday night described her exciting
week-end simply today at “such
fun.”
“I think the best part of it has
been hearing from a number of
friends I haven’t seen in 15 years.”
she said.
By identifying Jack Benny, ra
dio comedian, as the mysterious
“walking man,” Mrs. Florence
Hubbard, lingerie saleswoman in
a loop department store, showered
herself with prizes valued at $22,
500. She will have to pay approx
imately $8,500 taxes.
She said she has not decided
what to do with all the prizes.
“There’s much too much for my
three-room apartment,” she said.
Besides household appliances,
the prizes include a Cadillac auto
mobile, airplane, trailer, and two
week vacation at Sun Valley,
Idaho.
Anchorage Offi
cials To Resign
ANCHORAGE, Three An
chorage city officials, whose elec
tion last year has been the subject
of protracted legislation, announc
ed Saturday they will resign be
fore the general municipal elec
tion April 6.
They are councilmen Edward G.
Barber and L. McGee, and Anton
Anderson ,a member of the utili
ties board. Their terms would
have extended for another year.
Soon after they had taken of
fice, ditsrict attorney Ray Plum
mer started court action to declare
their election illegal on grounds
that 653 voters were not properly
registered for the 1947 elction.
The trio said in a letter to Mayor
Francis Bowden and the city
council they would resign their
positions to forestall any difficul
ties the council might encounter in
transacting city business while its
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Alaska Day In
Seattle March 16
SEATTLE, (A3)—Alaska Day at
the annual Seattle Times sports
and vacation show has been set
for March 16. The show runs from
March 12 through March 21.
Governor Gruening praised the
choice.
“Already a mecca for the sports
man and outdoorsman, Alaska is
looking forward and preparing for
the day when improved transpor
tation facilities will make her un
excelled recreational attractions
available to the ordinary Ameri
can of modest means,” he wrote.
There will be an Alaskan ex
hibit, with several firms serving
the Territory presenting a display
in booths adjoining the stage.
membership was in dispute.
All other council seats will be at
stake in the coming election
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