Ballot! Splitting
Will Cut Down On
All Candidates
(Continued from Page One)
and House races and, in some in
stances, in close contests for gov
ernorships.
The Dewey camp’s feeling is
that its candidate will win by what
might amount almost to a land
slide in electoral votes.
Some of his more optimistic sup
porters are counting close to 400
of the 531 electoral votes in his
column. Others scale this down to
nearer 325.
But even with a top-heavy re
sult in electoral votes, most of
Dewey strategists don’t think their
candidate will have a landslide in
the popular vote.
Because of this they are frankly
afraid that Dewey’s margin in
Rain Floods Out
Legion Parade
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a deluge during its parade last
night damaged musical instru
ments, uniforms and floats but
failed to dampen the carnival spir
its.
The rain, which piled water hub
deep along the parade route, caus
1 an estimated $7,500 damage to
the Miami Harvey Seeds Post
band. Some 300,000 spectators
were drenched, too.
some states will not be large
enough to pull through some Re
publican Senators who are under
hot fire.
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Pilot Missed Dory;
Only Survivor Of
[Wrecked Barge j
—
CORDOVA. (/P)—Alive because
I he missed the boat, the lone sur
vivor of the Skarstone barge trag-,
cdy was awaiting air passage to
Juneau and thence to his Seattle
home today.
G. A. Skarbo, told yesterday
how he remained with the sinking
Skarstone by accident and how
four companions who managed to
leave the battered barge in a dory
were lost when their small boat
I swamped.
Skarbo said he was lowering
the dory and it got away without
him.
He was rescued by a bush plane
yesterday from a beach on which
the drifting craft grounded.
Milton Odom, head of the An
chorage Cold Storage Co., for
which the shipment was destined,
examined the wreckage and re
ported the cargo, valued at $248,
000. wa sa total loss.
Skarbo suffered a wrenched an
kle. He was piloting the barge.
Skarbo said he and his four
crew mates had stuck with the
floundering barge for 26 hours in
mountainous seas when the ill
fated dory was launched. A flood
i ed engine room left the craft pow
erless. Its flooded radio was dead.
In a matter of minutes the dory
was swamped. Skarbo immediate
. ly released another raft and a
dory, thinking the men might be
able to save themselves by cling
ing to them.
It was pitch black in the pre
dawn darkness of Sunday morn
ing. He was unable to see what
happened to the other four.
Huge w a v e s continuously j
pounded the disabled barge, the I
superstructure was cru mpled
away, bit by bit. It was several
hours later that the barge ran onto
the beach, 22 miles west of Yaka
taga Beach. The tide was low and
Skarbo was able to jump from the
j craft and race across the beach to
| high ground.
In a telephone talk with Odom
! at Anchorage, Skarbo told how
they had kept the 105-foot barge
behind the protection of Cape
Spencer for three days before
before heading into the treacher
ous Gulf of Alaska “on a beauti
ful day.”
After the storm opened the ,
barge’s seams, he said “we all ex- i
pected the barge to sink within 10
minutes.”
John Penrose and Paul Wang- '
ley, two filers from Seward who
were hunting bears in the area,
tried to land on the beach where
Skarbo was isolated Monday
night, but the high wind and the
tide prevented it. They landed and
picked him up Tuesday and flew
him to Vakataga. Cordova Air
Service later flew him here.
He was weary and told his story
with difficulty.
Skarbo said he and Byron Stone,
the lost skipper of the barge, or
iginally owned it. They sold it two
years ago to the Cape Douglas
Canning company of Seattle.
Skarbo said he and Stone had
chartered the barge to carry 200
tons of produce to Anchorage.
Skarbo is a former Cordova res
ident. He operated a fish and
wildlife service boat in that area
in 1936-37.
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A southern farmer was intro- I
ducing his family of boys to the |
President. "Seventeen boys,” he
exclaimed. "All are Democrats
but John, the little rascal. He got
to readin’.”
Wiese Wouldn’t
Object To Reds
In Unions
(Continued from Page One>
activities and background of Har
ry Bridges, west coast CIO long
shoremen’s union head.
The Junior chamber wrote its
request for an investigation to the
House committee on un-American
activities and then turned it over
also to the two Congressmen here.
Ralph Westover, J. C. C. vice
president, said his organization’s
written request for a Congression
al inquiry said that if any striking
maritime union leader is a com
munist “he should be exposed as
such. If not a communist, employ
ers should withdraw the issue
from negotiations. While the J. C.
C. is not able to find any concrete
evidence that striking maritime
unions are under communistic
domination,” circumstantial evi
dence and the pattern of the strike
make on investigation “impera
tive ”
Wiese testified that he once was
connected with two groups which
have sometimes been described as
“ co m m u nist-dominated” — the ’
Abraham Lincoln Brigade and the
King-Ramsey Counter-Def e n s e
committee.
Kersten asked Wiese:
“Would you object to commun
ists in a union?”
“Not if they advocated good,
strong labor policy,” Wiese re
plied. “I wouldn’t object if it came
from Catholic, Mason or anyone
else.”
“If an agent of the Soviet Union
issued you instructions in connec
tion with your union, would you
follow orders,” the Congressman
asked the fisheries’ council head.
“I take orders from the execu
tive board of the union, not from
any agent of any country,” he de
clared.
“If an agent issued orders con
trary to the policy of the United
States, which would you follow?”
Wiese replied: “That of the
United States, of course.”
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