Dewey Will Keep
Mouth Shut Until
‘Opportune Time*
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(By Henry Leader)
Enroute with Dewey, (#*)—Gov
Thomas E. Dewey of New York,
prospective candidate for the Re
publican Presidential nomination,
wound up his visit to Michigan
without giving support to a pro
posal from Sen. Robert A. Taft.
“What am I supposed to say,
‘Don’t shoot till you see the whites
of their eyes’?”
Dewey remarked at Flint.
Mich., when told Taft had said
Republican leaders should speak
out on domestic and foreign issues.
“I did a lot of talking in 1944,”
Dewey said in reference to his
last campaign for the Presidency,
“and I was the only one who did.”
When told that Senator John W.
Bricker of Ohio had pledged sup
port to Taft and predicted his
nomination at the GOP national
convention in Philadelphia next
June, Dewey said to newsmen with
a smile and in a sardonic tone:
“I’m surprised. Aren’t you?”
The governor indicated he
would keep his mouth shut on
both national and international
issues until he felt the time and
place opportune.
“I have no plans to speak out
side New York state—literally no
plans,” he said.
Taft asserted in Washington
Tuesday that before Congress met
again in January domestic and
foreign questions “should be free
ly discussed throughout the coun
try, particularly by Republicans.
Taft said he planned to talk
about “the issues before the coun
try, including the Marshall plan,”
during a western tour in Septem-1
her.
The Senator was feted last night]
at a dinner in Columbus, Ohio, at
which a full-blown drive to land
him the Presidential nomination
was expected to be launched.
Neither Dewey nor Taft has
announced his candidacy for the
nomination.
Some Dewey friends wiew the
Bricker pledge and the Columbus
dinner as evidence that the New
York governor’s four-week west
ern trip has caused Taft support- j
ers to get the Senator’s campaign
underway sooner than originally
planned.
Until 49 years ago Princeton
University was called the College
of New Jersey.
Alaska Highway
Is “Stampede
Of 1947”
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SEATTLE, —Arriving here
after a 3,200-mile jeep trip over
the Alaska Highway, William A.
Wallace of Anchorage, public re
lations director for the depart
ment of interior’s Alaskan fire
control service, Thursday describ
ed traffic over the highway as
I "the Stampede of 1947; the modern
counterpart of the gold rush of
1898.”
He warned that most of the
travelers were heading for disillu
sionment in the north and cau
! tioned that persons seeing new
opportunities in the Territory
should obtain full information be
forehand and should be well fi
nanced to carry them over the in
! itial rough spots,
i On the highway traffic, he said:
“There are trailers of all de
scriptions. The average person go
ing to Alaska to settle is on the
■ way with a lot of misinformation.
He expects to find tremendous
wages, plentiful jobs. He doesn’t
t know about the enormous cost of
living. It’s 35 to 40 per cent higher
than even Seattle, which I believe
is the highest in the United
j States.”
He described the housing short
age as being so severe that fam
ilies are even doubling up in gar
ages with dirt floors.
But he added that there were
real future possibilities in Alaska
and along the highway for persons!
with money and knowledge of;
conditions.
There is a great need for ac- j
commodations for tourists on the
Alaska Highway,” he declared.
“Anyone who would make an in
vestment of, say, $20,000 in a tour
ist camp with cabins, eating fa
cilities and a garage for repairing
automobiles could reap a fortune
and do much for the future of
Alaska.”
He predicted a good future, too,
for small manufacturing indus
tries in Alaska, such as furniture
factories.
STANDARD OIL BARGE
ARRIVES AT NOME
The Standard oil barge arrived
this morning in the roadstead and
hds started unloading gas for the
local station.
The Chinese annual population
growth sometimes is estimated as,
high as 5,000,000 a year.
MS. REEF KNOT scheduled to sail from Seattle for Unalaska,
Nome, Golovin, Unalakleet and St. Michael Aug 9th.
Freight received from July 30th to Aug. 7th, inclusive.
SS. BARANOF scheduled to sail from Seattle for Ketchikan,
Juneau, Cordova, Valdez and Seward, Aug. 2nd.
SS. BARANOF scheduled to sail fron^ Seward for Juneau,
Ketchikan, and Seattle, Aug. 8th.
SS. ALEUTIAN scheduled to sail from Seattle for
Ketchikan, Juneau, and Seward, Aug. 9th.
SS. ALEUTIAN scheduled to sail from Seward for Valdez,
Cordova, Juneau, Ketchikan and Seattle August 14th.
Reservations made through Anchorage or Nome Agent.
“GOP Should Take
Definite Stands”
Says Stassen
LOS ANGELES, (/P)—Harold E.
Stassen, the only avowed candi
date for the Republican Presiden
tial nomination, said that Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey of New York
“has not been meeting the issues
thus far.”
The former Minnesota governor
i told a news conference Wednes
; day yhat: “I feel that the Repub
lican party must take definite po
sitions on the specific important
j issues confronting the people.”
He followed his remark about
Dewey with a statement that he
thought Sen. Robert A. Taft of
Ohio “is taking a stand on import
ant issues.”
When a reporter asked if he
though Gov. Earl Warren of Cal
ifornia was “meeting the issues
directly, Stassen said Warren had
not been in the national picture
as Dewey and Taft have been but
“Warren has met the issues as
they have come up in the state
here.”
WASHINGTON, (/P)—A Senate
hearing on the Hawaiian statehood
bill will be held in Hawaii next
November. It was expected to take
from three days to a week.
Senator Cordon (R.-Ore.),
chairman of the Territory sub
committee of the Senate public,
lands committee, announced today
he will conduct the hearings. He
said he did not know which com
mittee members will be present.
NOTICE
Arctic Native Brotherhood will
have regular meeting Monday,
August 4, at 7:30 p.m. All members
requested to come.
Bert Bell Secy.
N OTICE
Members of Rotary Club of
Nome are hereby notified that the
regular meeting will be postponed
from Thursday noon to Friday
evening at 7:30 in the Nevada.
District Governor Frank I. Do
herty. will be present. Members
must attend.
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Japs Must Ask
Soviets For Fish
MOSCOW, (/Pt — D. Pavlovn
vice-minister of the Soviet eastern
fish industry, whote Wednesday
in the government newspaper
Izvestia that Russia now control
led almost completely fisheries
which were one of the most im
portant sources of Japan’s prewar
food supply.
The article did not mention the
words Japan or international re
lations, but it obliquely pointed
out the strength of the Russian po
sition vis-a-vis Japan.
Fish is one of the major items
of Japanese diet. A very large
part of Japan’s fish supply came,
before and during the war, from
the northern Pacific and Okhotsk
sea fisheries.
Judging from publications of
the article on the Soviet for east
ern fish industry, the Russians
might have chosen this time for a
reminder that, since the war, the
Russians control those fisheries.
Whether this was the actual sig
nificance or not, it was a fact that
if the Japanese wanted any fish at
any future time from those wa
ters, they would have to ask the
Russians.
THE COMMONEST WARNING
of an attack of asthma is that of
an intense desire for sleep. Ac
cording to the Encyclopaedia Bri-;
tannica, the desire is so overpow
ering that though the patient
knows his only chance of warding
off the attack is to keep awake,
he is utterly unable to fight
against his drowsiness.
Seaman On Trial
Hangs Self
WASHINGTON, </P) — William
V. Smith, 21, seaman second class,
awaiting court martial on charges
of killing nine shipmates aboard
an LST off the China coast, was
found hanged in his cell at the
Anacostia naval receiving station
today.
Officers said Smith, of Ashe
ville, N. C., had been held in soli
tary confinement pending trial
August 19.
Charges against Smith, naval
officers said, related that on
April 23, 1946, he swept the deck
of LST 172 with bullets from a
carbine and pistol.
Nine of Smith’s shipmates were
killed and a tenth injured.
Officers said his body was found
hanging in his cell this morning,
suspended by a strip of ticking
torn from a mattress.
Clark Charges
Railroads Unjust
WASHINGTON, (/F>—Attorney
general Clark in a new complaint
accused more than 900 railroads
of collecting “unjust and unrea
sonable” rates on wartime ship
ments of steel airplane landing
mats.
The action was filed with the
interstate commerce commission.
The government is asking repara
tion for alleged overcharges on
the landing mats moved from east
ern shipping points to Pacific
coast ports between Jan. 1, 1942
and June 30, 1946.
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