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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
OL. XLVIII. No. 133._NOME, ALASKA. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 6, 1946 PER COPY-^liT
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Republicans won control of both House and Senate
of the 80th Congress today in a triumphant landslide
that overturned the Democrats for the first time in 15
years.
The size of the Republican landslide, lifting the party;
into control of both House and Senate, mounted hourly j
today on late returns from the Congressional elections.!
^tiding a tide of protest votes, the GOP swept to its
first major victory since it lost power in the depression
days of 1932. y—■ - ... ..... —
A thundering tide of votes
coursed through New England,
lapped at the borders of Dixie and
surged on to the West Coast.
With 399 House races decided,
the G.O.P. had 224 seats clinched
and the Democrats 175. A major
ity is 218. Eleven of the 35 dis
tricts where election counting was
inconclusive are represented by
Republicans in the present Con
gress.
The party was assured of 51 of
96 Senate seats. Democrats had
won 42 seats and their candidates
led in Maryland, West Virginia,
and New Mexico, the three states
p^iere Senate races were not set
tled.
In the face of the overwhelming
upsurge of Republican strength,
Senator J. William Fulbright, Ar
kansas Democrat, suggested that
his party turn over the White
House to the G.O.P. to avoid the
confusion that followed the first
world war and the 1930-32 dead
lock in Washington.
Fulbright said this could be
done if President Truman appoint
ea^a Republican secretary of State
and then resigned.
“It probably would be the wis
est thing for the President to do,”
Fulbright added in an interview in
Philadelphia.
There was no comment in high
Washington quarters on this idea.
No top official appeared to con
sider it seriously.
The Republican landslide over
tu4ped the Democrats for the first
time in 15 years.
In 34 governorship races, the
Republicans had elected 19. They
took over two formerly held by
the Democrats in Massachusetts
and Ohio, but yielded one to the
Democrats in Colorado. The Dem
ocrats had elected eight.
In undecided contests, the Dem
ocrats led in governorship races in
^riona, Maryland, Nevada, New
Mexico, Oklahoma and Wyoming.
The Republican held the lead in
QRtrfho.
In only two instances, both in
snow-bound Colorado, had the
fr ocrats been able to unseat a
Republican for major office. John [
Carroll, Denver Democrat, beat
Rep. Dean M. Gillespie, incumbent
Republican, in the first district
congress race there. Democrat
William Lee Knous defeated Re
publican Leon E. Lavington for.
governor.
In a sweep that left only Rhode j
Island, and possibly Maryland and
West Virginia, as Democratic is
lands, in the east, Pennsylvania
laid claim to being the banner
GOP state.
There the Republicans won nine
House seats previously held by the
Democrats, in addition to retain
ing all of the places they had held, j
The state gave Gov. Edward Mar
tin, Republican, a margin over
Senator Joseph Guffey, a new deal
wheelhorse, of more than 600,000
for the senate seat the Democrat;
had held since 1935.
GOP leaders joyously counted
the House theirs. They said they
had little doubt that the Senate j
also would fall, giving them com
pelte control of the nation’s legis- J
lative machinery.
Democratic, national chairman'
Robert E. Hannegan glumly left I
his party’s headquarters early in
the morning without comment.
But speaker Sam Rayburn (D.
Tex.) said in Bonham, Tex., he re
called it looked like the Democrats
had lost the House in 1942 “but j
the next day we pulled ahead 24
seats.”
Rep. Joseph Martin <Mass.>, in
line to become speaker of a Re- \
publican House, said his party ac- ■
cepts “the responsibility the |
American people by their mandate j
have placed in our hands.”
GOP national chairman Carroll j
Reece predicted Republican vie-:
tories in West Virginia, Maryland,
New Mexico and Nevada Senate,
races, which still were in doubt. |
Voters swept Gov. Thomas E.
Dewey (Rep.) back into office in
New York by a majority that
climbed toward 750,000 over Sen
ator James Mead (D). Dewey's
margin, projecting him anew into
the ranks of GOP presidential pos
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Russian General
Says Peace Will
Prevail
(By Ed Creagh)
LONDON, (/P)—Col. Gen. A. A.
Zhdanov, often mentioned as a
likely successor to Prime Minister
Stalin, declared today in Moscow
that Russia’s will for peace would
prevail despite opposition of “atom
blackmailers in the United States
and Great Briatin.
“The blood of our peoples was
not shed for imperialist expan
sionists and pretenders to world
domination—for atom blackmail
ers,’ 'he told a meeting of Russian
leaders. He spoke in place of Sta
lin who for unannounced reasons
did not attend, in observation of
the 29th anniversary of the Bol
shevik revolution which falls to
morrow.
Zhdanov, chairman of the Su
preme Soviet of the U.S.S.R. and
famous as the defender of Lenin
grad, asserted that both the United
States and Britain had “organized
obstruction” at the Paris peace
conference to the Russian program
of “making the United Nations
work—unlike the miserable league
of nations.”
His speech was broadcast to
Russia and reached the outside
world.
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U- S. Willing U. N.
Trusteeships For
Jap Islands
WASHINGTON. (JP)—President
Truman said today the United
States is willing to put former
Japanese islands in the Pacific un
der United Nations trusteeships,
with this nation keeping adminis
trative control.
A proposal to this effect, he said
in a statement, will be placed for
mally before the U. N. security
council at “an early date.”
Mr. Truman said the U. S. plan
embraced the islands which had
been held by Japan under man
date from the old league of na
tions, as well as any Japanese is
lands for which this country “as
sumes responsibilities” as a result
of the war.
RUSSIA—Moscow officials ar
ranged for a military parade of
only 80 minutes in the ceremonies
tomorrow to celebrate the 29th an
niversary of the Soviet revolution.
Denazification
Ministers Quit
STUTTGART, Germany. (/P)—
The denazification ministers of all
three states in the American oc-!
cupation zone of Germany have
tendered their resignations as a
result of sharp criticism by Lt.
Gen. Lucius D. Clay of the work
of German denazification courts,
German governmental officials
said tonight.
Their resignations have not yet
been accepted by the German
minister-presidents, these officials
said.
Clay, Deputy military governor
of the American zone, charged
yesterday that German denazifi
cation courts were “whitewash
ing” Nazis and told the German
council of states that the military
government would take back con
trol of the denazification program
unless the Germans showed im
provement within 60 days.
Meal Flown To
Anchorage And
Fairbanks
SEATTLE—The sixth shipment
of meat to strike-bound Alaska
left here recently in two planes.
The shipment, nearly seven tons
of meat and lard, was carried by a
plane of Arnold Airways bound
for Anchorage and one from Alas
ka Airlines headed for Fairbanks.
An official of the Odom Produce
Company, which was handling
the shipments, said that another
plane would load 1,000 pounds of
meat for Juneau.
Officials said the cost of shiD
ping meat to Anchorage was about
20 cents per pound and to Fai.-j
banks was 21 to 25 cents.
Fire Destroys
Ketchikan Cannery
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KETCHIKAN — Fire destroyed
the Nakat Packing corporation
cannery near here Thursday with I
a loss estimated by Attorney Les- i
ter O. Gore at $750,000.
Origin of the fire was undeter
mined but it started in the newly |
established Alaska Communica
tions System quarters, Gore said.
The blaze destroyed the cold
storage plant, Filipino houses, sal
mon canning plant, commissary
dormitory, trap and seine gear,
and a number of skiffs.
Strike Within A
Strike Holds Up
Alaska Relief Ships
(From the Governor s Office)
JUNEAU—As the people of
Alaska know I have been trying
for several weeks to secure the re
lease from Seattle of ships which
would give some relief to the in
creasingly difficult situation in
which Alaskans find themselves
owing to the differences existing
between the steamship operators
and unions on the Pacific Coa.;>. of
the United States.
These differences have, as we
all know, caused intermittent and
increasingly prolonged tie-u p «r
which through the summer have
pretty well wrecked Alaska’s econ
omy. have caused great financial
damage to practically every busi
ness enterprise, have retarded
housing and all other construction,
have greatly increased the cost of
living to every Alaskan household
and have in short set back the
progress of the Territory incal
culably.
Two weeks ago I sent my aide,
Lieutenant Commander Chester to
Seattle so that he could be on the
ground and do everything possible
to secure the release of ships. He
has succeeded in getting a number
ol- small vesels for Southeastern
which for that portion of our Ter
ritory are relieving the situation
somewhat insofar as actual neces
sities are concerned, although the
future is still extremely uncertain
since even these ships arc not
bringing sufficient hay and feed
for our dairies.
However the committee for
maritime unity, representing the
various unions involved, will per
mit only small ships not connected
with the regularly operating
steamship lines to Alaska.
As far as the westward is con
cerned the situation has been
growing increasingly serious since
the small ships cannot easily cross
the Gulf of Alaska and Comman
der Chester has been trying to get
at least one big relief ship releas
ed. These negotiations, repeatedly
delayed, have now bogged down
over what must seem to Alaskans
a wholly trivial and unnecesary
dispute while the entire people of
the Territory continue to suffer.
Even the small ships released are
wholly inadequate to Southeastern
Alaska’s needs.
Likewise the committee is per
mitting no building materials and
many other essentials to be ship
ped. To sum up the situation as it
apepars to be, Alaska is being
used as a hostage between two
contending groups over a series of
long standing differences and dis
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