lines, against making a voter pay |
a poll tax before, he can ballot in
federal elections, making lynching
a federal crime, and forbidding an ,
employer to discriminate because
of race or religious belief when he
hires a workman.
For Mr. Truman, the win was a
tremendous personal achievement.
With arguments and fight he led
his party from despondency to a
victory which almsot all its lead
ers, except the President himself, i
had written off months ago as an
impossibility.
For Dewey and the “team”
around him. it was the bitter end
of a 10-year dream. The New York
governor had been aiming at and
working for the Presidency that
long.
lie broke precedent when he
captured the Republican nomina
tion this year after a losing race
against Franklin D. Roosevelt in ;
1944. He can hold no hope that his
party will entrust its banner to
him again.
In Wall Street, which had antic
ipated a Republican victory, the
initial reaction to the election’s
outcome was a break in prices of
many stocks. Utility stock prices
especially fell.
Presumably, the falling was dic
tated chiefly by uncertainty over
what new laws affecting business
may be enacted by the new Demo
cratic administration. President
Truman opposed the cuts in per
sonal income taxes voted by the
Republican HOth Congress. When
he called Congress into special
session last summer, he asked for
revival of the wartime tax on “ex
cess profi s” of corporations.
For the rest of the world, the
outcome meant double assurance
that there would be no shift in
American foreign policy. The pres
ent policy has been called bi-par
tisan, but some edginess has been
evidenced in Europe over the
widely held pre-election expecta
tion that a change in political ad
ministration was coming.
In Washington, speculation al
ready is running high that Mr.
Truman now will make many
shifts in his own administration.
This is based on the view that
he got little help in his campaign
from Democratic office-holders
who had looked on it as a lost
cause. Among the cabinet mem
bers, Mr. Truman’s chief campaign
help came from secretary of labor
Maurice Tobin and secretary of
agriculture Charles Brannan.
Tiie dopesters figure there are
two who will surely stay on, but
are inclined to list many other
officials as “doubtful’’ of continu
ing as members of the adminis
trtaion family.
Close associates of secretary of
state Marshall said in Paris he
definitely plans to leave that post
and under-secretary of state Rob
ert A. Lovett is also reported to be
planning to leave.
In the case of Marshall, the
ques.ion is whether the President
might try to talk him into staying
on. A soldier who took the cabinet
job because he thought it ^as a
duty call, there was never any ex
pectation among the President’s
inner circle that Marshall would
take the campaign trail in Mr.
Truman’s behalf.
The shifts indicated the Demo
crats would now have 30 and the
Republicans 18—barring some up
set in still undecided races.
Mr. Truman topped every kind
of odds to hold onto his job as
President.
He licked Dewey in the closest
Presidential race in 32 years and
in an as amazing an upset as the
American public ever helped en
gineer.
He stays on at the White House
i for his first full four-year term. 1
Despite the loss of the fat elector
al votes of New York and Pennsyl
vania—and despite the. desertion
of Alabama, South Carolina, Mis
sissippi and probably Louisiana to
the S'ates’ Rights cause.
He keeps intact as a going con
cern a Democratic party that can
i shrug off Henry A. Wallace’s Pro
gressives and probably can ignore
Civil Rights revolters if it can’t
bring them to heel.
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Mrs. Fred Davis
Accidentally Shot
Mrs. Fred Davis, wife of Fred
Davis of Shishmaref, was acci
dentally shot by her husband in
heir home with a shotgun which
Fred had failed to unload after
hunting.
He was busy cleaning the ducks
which he had shot when he moved
the gun, which went off. Reports
from Shishmaref indicate that
Mrs. Davis was not in too serious
a condition, but would be taken to
the Kotzebue hospital if neces
sary.
Howard Lyng, candidate for
the Senate, who now has the most
votes for that office although five
precincts are still not reported,
and who has been in Juneau at
tending the Welfare Board meet
ing, of which he is a member,
leaves for San Francisco on min
ing business. After spending the
holidays with his sister in Cali
fornia he will return to Alaska.
PAA SHOWS PHENOMENAL
AIR LIFT TONNAGE
SEATTLE, (A*)—As the second
month of the west coast maritime
tie-up drew to a close, Pan Ameri
can Airways estimated it has
flown 1,150,000 pounds of cargo
from Seattle to Alaska during the
last sixty days. Approximately 70
per cent of the cargo carried to
Alaska during October was vital
food products, including fresh
meat, fresh produce and dairy pro
ducts.
The air line has flown 26 extra
flights in addition to its regular
schedules during the past two
months, and is able to fill all re
quests for passenger space.
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The Home Arts Club met at the
home of Mrs. Clement Boucher for
regular meeting last night with
Mrs. Elmo Miller presiding in the
1 absence of the president Mrs. Ken
j neth Rank.
Mrs. Frank Love presented a
paper on the recognition of good
furniture and pointers on what not
to buy.
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