GOP Claim Pepper
Defeat Forecasts
Republican Swing
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be John P. Booth of Miami.
National interest in the Florida
primary far overshadowed that in
the primaries held in three other
states yesterday—Ohio, Alabama
and Indiana. In Ohio, Joseph T.
Ferguson, state auditor, claimed
victory in a seven-candidate race
* for the Democratic Senatorial
nomination to oppose Republican
Senator Taft next fall.
While the issues were clearly
drawn in the intra-party Florida
scrap, national political leaders
differed as to the extent of its sig
nificance.
Democrats had said in advance
that it was more otf a personal
fight with the result having no
bearing on national feelings. They
also figured the communist issue
raised by Smathers would becloud
the picture, and recalled that Pep
per vigorously opposed Mr. Tru
man’s nomination in 1948.
Republicans had predicted a
Pepper defeat would mark a
“trend” against the Truman pro
gram, and that’s just what GOP
national chairman Guy Gabriel
son labeled the outcome. In a
statement issued shortly after
Pepper gave up, Gabrielson said:
“The Florida primary confirms
the trend. Voters everywhere are
turning toward the principles for
which the Republican party has
been fighting, and against the so
cialism of President Truman’s
fair deal.
Pepper was supported by the
CIO, AFL and railroad brother
hoods.
Smathers pictured Pepper as
having given “comfort” to pro
communist groups.
Joe Kroninger, manager for
Havenstrite Mines at Candle, ac
companied by his wife arrived
this morning enroute to Candle.
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At A Glance —
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worked out April 1 by the 12 de
fense ministers at The Hague put
into effect even it is means Euro
peans must increase their defense
budgets.
To insure world prosperity and
peace, the United States must im
port greater volumes of foreign
goods, a leading businessman told
the United States Chamber of
Commerce in Washington today.
The speaker was Eugene Holman,
president of the Standard Oil
Company of New Jersey. The
closing of Europe’s “dollar gap”—
the deficit between dollars spent
and dollars earned in world trade
—could be achieved if the United
States devoted only five per cent
of its national income to th£\pur
chase of overseas goods, instead
of the present three per cent, Hol
man said.
Wednesday, May 3, 1950
Trygve Lie, United Nations sec
reta ry-general, announced in
Paris today he is going to Moscow
May 10 for special high-level
talks with Soviet leaders in an ef
fort to save the United Nations
and bolster world peace.
Soviet Russia is boycott i n g
United Nations agencies because
she demands communist China re
place Nationalist China in the U.
N.
Lie said he hopes to persuade
Russia to agree to a meeting of
world leaders aimed at ending the
cold war and averting global ca
tastrophe. He expects to talk with
Prime Minister Stalin. He said he
hopes to get Stalin’s endorsement
of a pan to have the U. N. secur
ity counci meet with “heads of
state and with cabinet members
of all member nations.”
Lie declared at a news confer
ence the world is facing “the most
critical situation since 1945.”
Before leaving on his European
trip he talked with President Tru
man.
In Washington, government of
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ants yesterday to win the 48-mile
Bunion Derby between Aberdeen
and Olympia.
Bredt trekked the distance in
seven hours and 25 minutes, fin
ishing five minutes in front of
Gordon A. Wilson, 35, of Tacoma.
They weer more than 90 minutes
ahead of other finishers.
Bredt placed fourth in the West
Coast tryouts for the Olympics in
1948. He described himself as a
bachelor, small contractor and
carpenter who has lived here for
the past six months and traveled
a great deal between here and
Alaska for five years prior to
moving to Olympia.
By (#*)—There was a touch of
winter over western and Canadi
an border States today w’ith mod
j erate to heavy falls of snow in
some areas. Temperatures were
; on the cool side.
Some parts of northern Minne
! sota and the Dakotas reported
1 fresh snowfalls of more than three
I inches and much drifting. The
| light falls were in the northern
Rockies, northern Utah andnorth
i eastern Nevada, and also in west
ern upper Michigan. There was
much wet w'eather in other parts
| of the country.
ficials said they expect further
purges to take place in Iron Cur
tain countries.
There are rumors the Soviets
plan a new purge of the Polish
army and the Polish communist
party. Marshal Konstantin Rokos
sovsky was relieved of his Red
army duties lato last year to take
contiol of the Polish military es
tablishment.
State department experts said
they could not go along with Mar
shall Plan administrator Paul
Hoffman who yesterday predicted
there will be a crackup of Soviet
control over Eastern Europe due
j to strong tensions developing
| there.
Hoffman told the U. S. Cham
i ber of Commerce the unseating of
, Soviet power in these countries
I would come in his lifetime. Ho is
59 years old.
There was no Congressional
i backing for Hoffman’s opinion.
Representative Vinson <D.-Ga.)
chairman of the House Armed
Services committee, pressed de
mands for an additional $350,000,
000 for defenses.
1 Gen. Omar N. Bradley, chair
man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
(said the cold war outlook was
bad. He urged continuation of the
draft law which is scheduled to
expire June 24.
In Tokyo, Russia asked General
MacArthur to explain military
and news reports that the United
States is rebuilding key Japanese
nacal and air bases. Lt. Gen. Kuz
ma Derevyanka, of the Soviet Mis
sion, charged such rebuilding
would be in violation of Allied oc
cupation policy. MacArthur yes
terday suggested Japan outlaw
the communist party.
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himself as other officers closed
in after an all-night manhunt.
Police identified the dead man
as Gilbert Alvin Easley, 40. He
died of a single shot in the stom
ach from his .45 automatic.
In critical condition in a police
hospital is patrolman Roland E.
White, 26, shot in the abdomen,
thigh and shoulder. White’s part
ner in a radio patrol car, Leroy
Bellew, was wounded in the leg.
White and Bellew were hunting
for Easley on the complaint of his
wife, Louise, 38, who said he had
threatened her and their two chil
dren Carolyn nine, and Gary six.
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I yesterday to receive Veterans Ad
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checks.
Postal authorities said from
1,500 to 2,000 checks had been re
ceived for distribution here. Mer
chants estimated the dividend
checks would enrich the district
by at least a quarter-million dol
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Veterans said they intended to
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