Democrats To
Seek Truman
Re-election
WASHINGTON, (/P)—A broad
side of Lincoln Day addresses
seemed likely today to provide the
Republican reply to a declaration
by Democratic chairman Robert E.
Hannegan that his party is ready
to call on President Truman to
seek re-election.
Hannegan’s statement, made at
a New York dinner for postal su
pervisors, was said by White
House secretary Charles G. Ross
to have been made without Mr.
Truman’s knowledge.
But there seemed little doubt
the postmaster general and nation
al chairman spoke the wishes of
the party’s high command when
he asserted after praising the Pres- i
ident’s handling of foreign and do- j
mestic problems:
“We have gone far and fast but;
the task of leading us to peace
and plenty is not acomplished in a :
day nor a year. Until that work is j
done, we are ready to call upon
our President again as the man
who has proved himself fit for the
job. America will give him the
support and loyalty that he de
serves of us through the years
aneud.
Hannegan later replied “yes” to
a question whether it was his in
tention to throw Mr. Truman’s hat
into the 1948 Presidential rir.». j
Most Republicans have thought
for some time that President Tru
man is certain to be the choice of
the Democrats in the party’s 1948
convention. Accordingly, their
strategy has been to try to out
shine his administration with their
own handling of Congress and gu
bernatorial offices.
Carroll Reece, Republican na
tional chairman, brushed aside
Hannegan’s remarks with the com
ment that “ it is again the voice
of Hannegan but the hand of Pen
dergast.”
The Pendergast organization in i
Kansas City which gave Mr. Tru
man his start in politics was made
a campaign issue by the Republi
cans last fall.
Liberia’s government is pattern
ed after that of the United States i
Power Shutdown
Closes Half Of
Britain’s Industry
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operations entirely.
Winston Churchill, leader of the
parliamentary opposition, joined
Attlee in an appeal for popular
support of the government’s dras
tic orders, but challenged the
prime minister to debate tonight
the underlying reasons for them.
The labor party leaders, in a,
stormy scene, agreed to the debate, j
The labor government, which
converted the coal mines from pri
vate to state ownership Jan. 1,
called the coal conservation mea
sures necessary to avert “complete
disaster.”
Slightly higher temperatures
eased momentarily one of the
most severe cold waves of the win
ter, but the forecast was for colder.
Most industries and household
ers appeared to be obeying the
government directive to throw
switches voluntarily on lines
where demands for essential serv
ices prevented a complete shut
down at the source of supply.
All industries except a tew vital;
to health and welfare were order
ed to halt totally or in part in 38
of the 64 counties of England and
Wales. Consumers were forbidden
to use electricity between 9 a.m.,
and noon and from 2 p.m.,*to 4
p.m. in homes, stores, offices and
restaurants, affecting an estimated i
22,000,000 people.
Conservative newspapers de-j
manded Attlee shake up his labor
cabinet, which commands a two to :
one vote in Parliament. The influ- j
ential Manchester Guardian and
London’s Daily Mail and Daily
Telegraph demanded Eman u e 1
Shinwell resign as minister of fuel
and power.
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Confusion and chaotic conditions ,
prevailed in many areas. Nearly
everywhere, electric current use
was cut sharply.
The London Power company
said- it was supplying about half
its normal load. In the great in
dustrial center of Birmingham,
factories and the city’s million
people were put on their honor
and electric current usage dropped
about 75 per cent.
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Five Nations Sign
Peace Treaties
PARIS <vP)—Italy and four other
nations today signed peace treat
ies with the Allies which shear all
of treasure and power and take
territory from all except Bulgaria.
The Italian accord, reducing the
fledgling republic to a third rate
power, had swift repercussions
back home.
A British brigadier was killed in
Pola, a naval base ceded under the
treaty to Yugoslavia, which signed
the pact after months of assertions
that she would not do so witnout
title to Trieste. The Yugoslav le
gation in Rome was stormed.
Angry throng jeered at the
American, Russian and British em
bassies in Rome and at the home
of the constituent assembly which
must ratify the treaty. Foreign
Minister Carlo Sforza told the as
sembly that Italy had stipulated
that the treaty could be effective
only after the assembyl approved.
The Romanian, Bulgarian, Hun
garian and Finnish treaties were
inked formally during an after
noon session in the clock room of
the French foreign ministry. The
United States was a party to all
but the Finnish treaty. In all 20
Allied nations participated.
Italy was stripped of colonies
and some of her homeland.
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AT JUNEAU
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JUNEAU, Feb. 8, 7:30 a.m.—
The Senate spent the entire after
noon Saturday in a quiz session
on the controversial measure pro
posing to make the president of
the Senate or the Speaker of the
House, rather than the Governor, j
responsible for the appointment of
the tax commissioner also to raise
his salary. Sen. O. D. Cochran <D.
2nd Div.) and Sen. Norman D.
Walker (D.-lst Div.> led the quesr
tioning of Mullaney. tax commis
sioner relative to qualifications,
who explained satisfactorily.
He also admitted many firms
were not paying the veterans tax,
but whether the employment of
more collectors would justify the
expense of going over the books
of firms to secure the tax was a
question.
Governor Gruening was ques
tioned on why he had not sub
mitted the name of the commis
sioner following to the Senate, the'
last session failing to confirm Mul
i
laney. He replied he had no one
with the same qualifications as
Mullaney and would have re-sub
mitted his name. He intimated if
the Senate was opposed he would
place the nomination in the Sen
ators’ hands to ascertain if they
had a candidate.
Sen. McCutcheon introduced
House liquor control bill similar to
the one introduced at the last ses
sion, for the Territory to take over
both the retail and wholesale and
operate stores.
MR. AND MRS. FRED CHAM
BERS TO STAY IN SEATTLE
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Chambers
who left here recently for the
eastern states, have had a change
of plans and will be stationed in
Seattle. Mr. Chambers will fly be
tween Seattle and Anchorage for
the American Airlines cargo run.
Mrs. Chambers is renewing ac
quaintances with former Nome
ites.
United States still has enough
coal to last 3,000 years.
I Legislature Busy
With Taxes And
Liquor Business
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plunge the office into chaos by its
not having a tax commissioner. He
was advised that this action was
proper by the attorney general.
Cochran set up a case against
Governor Greuing in true legal
style and with much unction, cit
ing dates and facts at length, but
which Gruening promptly demol
ished in so far as the gallery opin
ion was concerned. Gruening said
he was amazed when the Senate
refused to confirm Mullaney and
called Cochran to his office to ask
why and was told that the Senate,
had a rule whereby they accepted
the recommendations of the dele
gation from the Division from
which the application came and
voted in a bloc for the man ap
proved by his Divisional delegation
in the Senate.
He said First Division men did
not approve of Mullaney, hence;
the bloc voted against him. Gruen
ing reminded him that Mullaney
was a resident of the Third Divi
I sion and that the Third Division
j delegation has voted for his con
j firmation.
Cochran denied that he had
made any statement about a bloc
and eloquently proclaimed that he
was not a member of any bloc as
had been reported over the air.
had been reported over the air.
Quite a session!
A bill to abolish the Alaska De
velopment board is expected to be
up for consideration next week. I
believe the Second Division men
will vote for abolition unless pres
sure is brought on them from home
to vote otherwise. In view of the
Board’s activity to reduce lighter
' 3 Seal .Hunters
Lost At Sea
ANCHORAGE, </P)—Three Es
kimo seal hunters braved a break
ing ice pack in an effort to rescue
their 21 dogs and equipment, only
to be swept out to sea in a thick
Bering sea fog, have been given up
as drowned, father Raul C. O'Con
nor, head of the Little Flower mis
sion of Hooper Bay, revealed here
today.
The three natives, residents of
the tiny community of Kashunak
in the Yukon River delta, were
swept into the Bering Sea Dec. 26
when a huge ice cake broke loose
from the shore while they were
hunting seals with two compan
ions.
Father O’Connor said the men
returned to shore in two kayaks,
but the trio, hoping to rescue the
dogs and equipment, returned to
the cake later. They were envel
oped in a quickly-rising fog.
Four days later the dogs were
heard howling on the pack, the
mission leader said, but the heavy
fog denied possible rescue efforts.
Natives, mindful of reports that
other hunters in similar straits
had survived by killing their dogs
for food held out hope for several
weeks. The passage of more than
a month, however, has eliminated
that chance, father O’Cononr said.
Wives and dependents of the
three men total 13 of the less than
200 population last reported for
the village.
When you see a dog leading a
man you know the man is blind;
when you see a man leading a dog,
you know the man is married.
age rates it is difficult to see why
there would be any opposition to
it from Nome.
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