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Nome, Alaska, Friday, June 6, 1952
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THE JULY CONVENTIONS
Indications continue to point to two of the most
interesting nominating conventions in the nation’s his
tory in Chicago this Julv.
The Republican battle seems to have narrowed
down to a fight between General Dwight D. Eisenhower
and Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio. Those who, a short
while ago, thought that Eisenhower was about to run
away with the race, are now convinced that the fight
is to be a desperate one, which cannot be predicted at
this time.
On the Democratic side of the picture, the main
development in the past six or eight weeks has been
the strong showing, among the people, by Senator Estes
Kefauver. Kefauver still has an uphill battle, since he
is opposed by almost every political organization or
bloc which will gather in Chicago.
The Democratic nomination fight will be a more wide
open one than the Republican battle.
The Republican convention may be filled with
more drama than the Democratic, since the fight can
be anticipated in advance, &nd since the first and second
ballot will be packed with drama.
The Republican convention should not last as long
as the Democratic, and the main battle at the former
might be that for the second spot on the ticket. Both
parties will experience a fight over the writing of a
platform, though the Republicans might avoid a show
down battle if the platform is written to conform to the
views of the nominee.
Whatever the results of these conventions, the
American voter can look forward to a month of political
excitement in July, the likes of which he has not seen
in decades.
Prospector Billy Leak Passes On
The Holtville Tribune of Holt
ville, Calif., for May 3, tells of
the death of Billy Leak, probably
one of the oldest remaining miners
erf the early days. He was believed
to be 95 years old.
In 1898 he staked a. claim in
the Klondike, next to Tex Rick
• ard, and there began a life-long
friendship. Both men made their
fortunes on the adjoining claims.
He followed the gold rush
through Alaska and in later years
mined fc?r gold in Mexico.
He is survived by a brother,
Charles Leak of Gulkana, Alaska.
WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by U.S. Dept, of Commerce,
Weather Bureau
Partly cloudy tonight with occa
sional patches of fog. Part cloudy
Sat. with light variable winds.
Lowest temperature expected to
night 32, high tomorrow 45.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: Temperatures: high
j 38, low 29. Max. wind 10 mph
1 from the SW. Sunrise 1:34 a.m.,
sunset 10:26 pan.
Temperatures a year ago today:
high 62, low 48. Extremes this
date since 1907: high 71 in 1940,
low 28 in 1936.
Seattle’s Mayor Pomeroy
Aims at Improvement
Of Relations with Alaska.
SEATTLE, (JP)— Seattle’s new
mayor, Allan Pomeroy, says that
the city’s industrial and civic de
velopment and improvement of
its relations with Alaska and Oth
er northwest communities will be
the principal aims of his adminis
tration.
His travels to Alaska and over
the state since his election, he
said, have convinced him that
“Seattle’s long relationship with
other areas was nowhere near as
friendly as it should be.”
Pomeroy made an address to
the city council and other civic
officials yesterday as he took over
as the city’s 43rd mayor, suc
ceeding Mayor William F. Devin.
NON-SCHED PILOT
DUCKS SMALL PLANES
TO AVERT TRAGEDY
PITTSBURGH,' UP)— The pilot
of a twin-engined, non-scheduled
airliner who averted tragedy by
violently sideslipping out of the
paths of two smaller planes
charged Thursday the craft had
buzzed him.
The jarring maneuver hospital
ized nine passengers and shook
up 40 others. The plane was en
route from Washington to Bur
bank, California.
To cap his performance, Capt.
Henry Glaser of Chicago set his
plane down smoothly on the un
lighted Allegheny County Airport
late Wednesday night.
Glaser told county police and
Civil Aeronautics authorities that
two propeller - driven military
planes buzzed him, forcing him
to dive the plane to avoid a col
lision over Pittsburgh.
Harry Swanberg, 24, of Duluth,
Minn., described the near tragedy
this way:
“People were thrown from their
seats ihto the aisle and the bag
gage came toppling down on top
of us. It was like being in a crazy
house at a carnival.”
FBI Arrests Two Men for
Diversion of Gov’t Rope
WASHINGTON, </P)—'The FBI
Thursday arrested two men—one
a federal official—and charged
them with diversion of surplus
government rope.
The two men were named as:
Capt. Manuel Gonzales, 42, as
sistant chief of the Division of
ship Repair and Maintenance for
the U.S. Maritime Administration,
arrested in the Commerce Depart
ment Building in Washington;
Eagemile Schmidt, used rope
buyer, who was taken into cus
tody by FBI agents in New Or
leans.
FBI Chief Edgar Hoover said
Gonzales was charged with em
bezzling and selling without auth
ority some 170,000 pounds kof rope.
Hoover said the rope was val
ued at about $8,500. The Com
merce Department said, however,
it had a retail value of about
$35,000.
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“One Party m Power Too Long,”
Ike Contends in 1st Political Speech
ABILENE, Kan., AP — Gen. Eisenhower declared
Wednesday, “One party has been in power too long.”
The statement was contained in a major speech on
national issues, his first since he stepped out of
uniform. In launching into the4
personal phase of his campaign,
Eisenhower made four main
points:
1. A call for cooperation be
tween the “economic elements of
9ur country.”
2. The necessity of battling in
flation, bringing the national bud
get “under control,” and taking
“the first step back to a sound
dollar.”
3. Taxation. “It becomes doubly
necessary to see that waste, du- I
plication and extravagance are
eliminated.”
4. The charge that there has
been a “gradual absorption by the
central government of functions
that belong to local communities
and to individuals.”
• Eisenhower also urged contin
ued cooperation with our allies
in the fight against Communism
and called tor a foreign policy
LADY IS CAMERA-SHY
ANCHORAGE, (/P)—C. A. Nich
ols of Kasilof is suffering from
broken ribs and bruises because
he took pictures of a protesting
female.
She knocked him down and
trampled him.
She was a female moose.
stripped of all “mystery.”
Of Communism, he said:
“It has been a global threat,
manifesting itself from the Far
East to Europe in outward’ ex
tensions throughout the vast peri
phery of the Soviet domain. Early
in its course, China was lost to
the free world in one of the
greatest international disasters of
our time—a type of tragedy that
must not be repeated.”
Regarding what many G.O.P.
leaders term the No. 1 charge in
this year’s political battle—cor
ruption in government—the re
tired general said:
“Political health is endangered
if one party, by whatever means,
becomes permanently or too-long
entrenched in power.”
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