Saltonstall Doesn’t
Seek Nomination
For Presidency
J
(By The Associated Press)
An announcement by Senator
Leverett Saltonstall of Massachu
setts that he is aiming only at an
other term in the Senate gave en
couragement yesterday to support
ers of Gov. Thomas E. Dewey for
winning the 1948 GOP Presiden
tial nomination.
Saltonstall, who is likely to be
the “favorite son” candidate of his
state’s 35 delegates to the national
convention, declared at a news
conference that (1) he is not in the
running for the nomination and
<2) he regards the New Yorker as
the contender.
Saltonstall told reporters Mon
day that former Gov. Harold Stas
sen of Minnesota, Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower and Senator Robert
A. Taft of Ohio also have friends
in Massachusetts but that he rates
the six leaders this wey:
1. Dewey. 2. Gov. Earl Warren
of California. 3. Taft. 4. Stassen.
5. Eisenhower. 6. Rep. Joe Martin
of Massachusetts, speaker of the
House.
However, Gov. Robert F. Brad
ford remarked after a three-hour
hotel room conference with
Dewey that “Massachusetts is
wide open right now and I told
Gov. Dewey so.”
The remarks by Bradford and
Saltonstall followed a two-day
visit by Dewey to the Massachu
setts capital, where the governor
attended the eastern states expo
sition and talked with political
leaders in private huddles.
Governors Ernest W. Gibson of
Vermont, James L. McConaughy
DR. HARRIS ON TOUR OF
INSPECTION FOR V. A.
Dr. Henry Harris of the Veter
ans Administration is on a tour of
inspection for the hospitalization1
of veterans in all parts of the Ter-!
ritory. He has offices in Juneau.
CHURCH O'LEARY HERE
ON BUSINESS TRIP
Chuck O’Leary made a trip to1
Nome from his mining property i
near Teller where he has been op
erating this summer with Jack
Bullock. i
of Connecticut and Charles M.
Dale of New Hampshire said1
Dewey seems to have substantial
strength in their states but added
that sentiment has yet to crystal
ize behind any candidate.
Meanwhile Taft, who is making,
a western trip which he has said,
will determine whether he will
come out openly for the nomina
tion, lined up a busy schedule yes
terday at Los Angeles.
He planned to make two major
policy speeches and confer with
[ labor union leaders, a group of j
bankers, members of veterans or- ■
ganizations and experts on hous
ing.
In Omaha, Republican leaders
from nineteen midwest and Rocky
Mountain states adopted a resolu
tion Monday calling for “an open
convention without dictation at
Philadelphia next June.’’
Harry Crane of Topeka, Kas.,
chairman of the resolutions com-!
mittee, said there had been no at
tempt to form a bloc behind any
. candidate, but that meetings of
party leaders from the 19-state:
area will bring them “close enough!
so they can and will talk together’’ |
at the convention.
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NEWS IN BRIEF
SEATTLE (/P)—A former teach
er in Washington state and Alaska j
Mrs. Mabel Svedlund, of Homer, j
Alaska, died Tuesday in a Seattle
hospital. She was 71. Funeral
services will be held in Evergreen '
cemetery. Surviving are her hus-1
band, Nils Olaf; three daughters ^
Mrs. Johnson, Mrs. Steve J. Pen-'
dleton and Mrs. Henry Strand, all
of Seattle; two sons, Loran of An
chorage, and Fred of Homer; nine
grandchildren und one great
grandchild.
WASHINGTON. f/Pi—The na
tional labor relations board and
Robert N. Denham, its general
counsel, today allowed AFL and
CIO top officers until October 31
to sign affidavits disavowing com
munism.
The effect of the action is that
the board will not dismiss AFL
and CIO cases before that date.
Denham has interpreted the
Tal't-Hartley labor law as requir
ing national officers of the two
big labor organizations to sign
such affidavits if any AFL or CTO
unions are to make use of the
NLRB’s services.
LONDON (iP)—The British cab
inet may decide tomorrow to sur
render the mandate over Pales
tine which the League of Nations
gave this country.
Government sources said today
the foreign, colonial and war of
fices had agreed Britain should
quit Palestine* but not attempt to
impose single-handedly a settle
ment. Britain’s views will be pre
sented later to the United Nations,
whose special commission recom
mended partition but with Jeru
salem under U. N. trusteeship.
NEW YORK, (>P)—Eugene Den
nis, general secretary of the Com
munist party, said last night
American Communists believed
the time was right for launching a
third party but that they would
not ‘‘isolate ourselves” by taking
such a step ‘‘without substantial
trade union and other progressive
support.”
Dennis told a rally the party
favored “a strong, independent
people’s party closely connected
with the pro-Roosevelt-Wallaee
program and movement.”
WASHINGTON. (/Pi—The gov
ernment today boosted the inter
est yield on its one-year certifi
cates of indebtedness to one per
cent from the seven-eights of one
per cent rate which has prevailed
for a number of years.
The treasury said it would of
fer next Monday an issue of one
year, one per cent certificates in
exchange for the entirety of a
$1,439,563,000 issue of one-year,
seven-eighths certificates matur
ing Oct. 1.
This action follows the recent
trend of slowly rising interest
rates for government and private
securities.
BULLETIN
NORFOLK. Va. (/P)—President
Truman arrived here today aboard
the battleship Missouri after a 12
day cruise from Rio de Janeiro.
ROME, f/P)—On the eve of na
tionwide leftist demonstrations
against the cost of living, the
ministry of labor announced today
the end of a strike of 1,000,000
farm workers in northern Italy.
Minister Amintore Fanfani ar
ranged a broadcast to outline the
terms of accord. The strike has
been in progress 12 days.
Communist leader Palmiro To
gliatti declared, meanwhile, that
“there is a will for revolution in
large strata of the Italian people."
—
LOS ANGELES, </P>—The pen
of Bert Kalmar, 63, writer ot
lyrics of some of the nation’s lead
ing song hits, has been stilled.
Kalmar, writer of “Three Little
Words” and “This Heart of Mine”
—plus many Broadway musicals—
died Wednesday night. Most of his
works were in collaboration with
Harry Ruby.
"
Boston, (/P> — The more manly
male club has named Gene Tun
ney, Dwight Eisenhower, radio
singer Jack Smith and movie actor
Burt Lancaster as typical exam
ples of real American manhood.
Miss Helen Ennis of Boston,'
who identified herself as national
president of the organization, said
it liked “men who are men, mas
culine men, virile men, not the
kind who need mothering.”
LONDON (/Pi - The London
Trades Council, representing 650.
000 organized workers, asked
home secretary Chuter Ede today
to ban all fascist meetings in Lon
don and sponsor legislation out
lawing fascist organizations and
activity.
Its memorandum demanded the 1
re-arrest of Sir Oswald Mosley,
leader of the British union of fas
cists who was detained during the
war.
The council followed the lead of
British trades union congress, rep
resenting nearly 8.000,000 workers
which called upon the secretary
three weeks ago to check the
spread of Fascism.
—
Hotel Employees
Strike In Pliillv
PHILADELPHIA, l/P> — The
nearly 700 CIO employees of the
Bellevue-Stratford hotel went on
strike today leaving only 40 su
pervisory employees and a few
maintenance men to operate the
18-story central city building.
Most of the 900 guests, including
150 permanent residents of the
fashionable hotel, were still in
their rooms when the strike start
ed. Guests carried their own bags
as they arrived and checked out
and made their own beds—if they
were made at all. The dining
room, bar and other such serv;tes
were suspended.
Hurricane Hits
Florida; Mililons In
Damage Done
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storm roughly 60 miles off the
mouth of Tampa Bay at 11:30 am.
<ESTi and forecasts indicated it
would slam into the low-lying
western florida coast about mid
night, between Pensacola to St.
Marks, and winds up to 100-mph.
were anticipated.
Civilians in the danger area
were being moved to reinforced
buildings and beach residents fled
to town. Seven Cuban fishing
boats landed at Alligator Point as
their crews sought shelter. Talla
hassee residents with beach homes
rushed from the capita! to batten
down their cottages.
Truman s emergency proclama
tion enables the federal works ad
ministration to distribute relief
supplies in all hurricane areas.
Hurricane winds which mauled
the lower west coast of Florida
Wednesday night diminished to
gale strength yesterday, but con
tinued to hamper transportation
and communication.
In Atlanta, the federal reserve
bank announced that credits
would be extended to finance re
placement of storm-damaged pro
perty and would be exempt from
usual consumer-credit controls.
At Montgomery, Ala., Governor
James Folsom offered all aid to
Florida, and ordered 12 Alabama
highway patrolmen into the storm
area for disaster duty. The Red
Cross and other agencies braced
for the newest blow.
NEW ORLEANS. (JP)—The dead
center of the hurricane is believed
to have passed over here at 9:40
a.m. (CST) today. The storm
broke, rain stopped. and the
clouds lifted briefly.
The barometer was dovm to
28.64 and still falling.
The weather bureau said the
calm may last as long as one hour.
Residents were warned not to ven
ture outside, as the second half *
of the hurricane must still be un
dergone. It will return from ex
actly the opposite direction.
The weather over the entire
course of a flight mission is
plotted before an American bomb
er leaves the ground.
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