Dewey Announces
. Candidacy For
President
(By Henry Leader)
ALBANY, N. Y., I/P) — Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey, out in the open i
at last as a declared candidate for ,
the Republican Presidential nom- ,
ination, will match strength
against generals Dwight D. Eisen
hower and Douglas MacArthur in
the nation’s first two Presidential
primaries next spring.
Full slates of Dewey candidates
for election as delegates to the
GOP national convention at Phil
adelphia June 21 will be entered
in New Hampshire and Wisconsin.
Opposing the New York gover
nor in New Hampshire will be
slates backing Eisenhower and
Harold E. Stassen, former govern
oor of Minnesota. The state will
pick eight delegates March 9.
In Wisconsin on April 6, Dewey
1944 Republican Presidential nom
inee, will be entered against fields
supporting MacArthur and Stas
sen. The state has 27 delegate
votes.
Dewey’s decision to test his
strength first against the World
War II supreme army command
ers in the European and Pacific
theaters became known here less
than 24 hours after he had an
nounced his availability for the
nomination through an aide.
Dewey has been aggressively
but privately seeking the Presi
dential nomination since early last
summer. His open entry into the
contest took Albany by surprise,
however, as it had been stated au
thoritativeyl several times in the
last few months that he would not
become an avowed aspirant.
The shift in strategy was viewed
here as a reflection of a lately de
veloped belief by the governor’s
. advisers that he would have to get
his candidacy out in the open if he
were to head off Eisenhower and
the previously declared candidates
—Senator Robert A. Taft, of Ohio,
Stassen and Gov. Earl Warren of
California.
Gandhi Warned
To Give Up Fast
(By Milton Kelly)
NEW DELHI, (/P) —Mohandas
K. Gandhi received a douctor’s
warning Saturday to give up his
fast, while thousands of his fol
lowers milled about Birla House
in a showing of their devotion to
him.
The 78-year-old Hindu leader’s
doctors said that "in our opinion it
is most undesirable” to let the fast
continue. Gandhi gave no indica
tion he would heed this advice.
The demonstration outside Birla
House was one of wild adoration.
It lasted an hour and was dis
persed at the request of Jawharlal
Nehru, India’s prime minister.
Gandhi’s main condition for
ending his fast is an end to com
munal fighting.
He said his demonstra t i o n
"ought to lead to an honorable
settlement” of the Kashmir ques-1
tion and "all differences” of other;
kinds between the predominantly
Hindu Dominion of India and the
Moslem Dominion of Pakistan.
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Stimpson Selected j
Outstanding Man
SEATTLE, (K*), Irving E. Stimp
son, chairman of the 1947 Red
Cross campaign here and active in
community chest, American Le
gion and other civic activities, was
chosen the city’s outstanding
young man of 1947 Friday. He was
presented the annual Seattle jun
ior chaipber of commerce award
by Ijtoyal Brougham, Post-Intelli
gencer sports editor who headed
the judges.
A special award was presented
Mrs. Melba Shank, whose husband
Willis R., Seattle director of Youth
for Christ, was killed last October
in a plane crash on the way to
Juneau, Alaska, to dedicate a mis
sion there.
Stimpson is a national director
of the United States junior cham
ber of commerce and public rela
tions manager for a grocery store
chain.
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House Members
Recommend Jones
Act Change
U&) Special Washington Service'
W A S H I NGTON, </P) — Two
members of the House foreign af
fairs committee who visited Alas
ka last year recommended Satur
day that the Jones Law be amend
ed to permit Canadian ships to
take freight and passengers to the
Territory.
Reps. Chiperfield <R.-I11.» and
Jonkman <R.-Mich.>, reporting to
the full committee, said their sub-i
group “urges the appropriate com
mittees of Congress give prompt
attention and consideration to the
advisability of amending the Jones
Act to place Alaska on an equal
basis with the coastal states and
to permit Canadian vessels to en
gage in intercoastal trade in Alas
ka.
Under the Jones Act freight or
iginating in the United States cani
be carried to a Canadian Pacific |
port by a Canadian railroad andi
be delivered to Washington, Ore-!
gon or California by a Canadian {
vessel. The law prohibits the same1
vessel from delivering such freight
to Alaska.
The sub-committee called for
improvement of the Alaska rail-1
road, construction of a pipe line
from Valdez to Fairbanks to de
liver oil to the military installa
tions at the latter place, providing
ground telephone and telegraph
wires for the commanding general
of the Alaskan Command, hard
surfacing of the Alaska Highway
in Alaskan Territory and for other
primary highways in the Alaskan
Highway system.
The report “urgently” recom
mended that “our defense bases
in the Territory and the routes to
them, be expanded and maintained
on a basis of highest efficiency.”
Other suggestions it made:
That members of the permanent
board on defense discuss with Ca
nadian members of the board the
question of improving and main
taining the Alaska Highway.
That this government might
work out an agreement with Can
ada to maintain the Haines Cutoff
on the Alaska Highway.
That this country construct and
! maintain customs free the Ross
! land-Laurier highway in exchange
| for the construction and mainten
ance by Canada of the Haines Cut
off for free movement of American
traffic.
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U. S. Should Know
What Aid Money
Is Used For
—
WASHINGTON. <;p) — Senator
Vandcnberg (R.-Mich.) suggested
today that “half the criticism” of
the European recovery program
would disappear if means are pro
vided so the United States “can
follow our dollars abroad and see
we arc getting our money’s
worth.”
The Senate foreign relations
committee chairman made the
comment after John J. McCloy.
president of the international
bank, recommended that “no fuzzy
loans” be made under the Mar
shall plan “in order to avoid the
consequences of the English loan.”
McCloy referred to the $3,750,
000:000 loan by the United States
to Great Britain as “ineffective.”
He said that loan has been criti
i cized here and in England because
J there was a “lack of knowledge"
as to “what the money was used
for.”
Clark Urges
Drastic Controls
On Alien Visitors
(By T. S. Adams)
WASHINGTON, (/P> — Attorney
general Clark today approved
drastic new controls to curb sub
versive activity by alien visitors
to the United States.
Designed to provide much closer
surveillance over the activities of
such visitors, the new regulations
are scheduled to become effective
about March 15.
After that time, the ordinary
one-year visiting permit now in
common use will be abolished,
and the visiting privilege limited
to three to six months.
Extensions may be obtained,
but they will require a showing
that a more extended stay is jus
tified.
Department officials said the
new rules are aimed solely at the
alien who gets in as a visitor and
then engages in subversive activ
ity.
Clark acted under the adminis
trative procedures act in signing
the proposed changes in regula
tions.
These will be published some
time next week in the federal reg
ister, official government organ
after which a period of 20 days
will be allowed for receipt of
“written arguments relative to the
proposals.”
Toy Indians Banned
By Reds As ‘Romantic’
BERLIN, (/P>—The manufacture
of toys out of lead, such as trap
pers, Indians and bivouacs,, has
been forbidden by the ministry for
economic planning in the Russian
zone province ol' Brandenburg.
The reason given was the “unjus
tified robber and Indian roman
ticism” of such toys in the educa
tion of children.
Threaten Railroads
With Nationwide
Strike Feb. 6
CLEVELAND, <A>) — Another
nation-wide railroad strike was
threatened Saturday by three op
erating brotherhoods, who said
they would walk out Feb. 6 unless
given a 30 per cent pay increase
and 44 changes in working rules.
D. B. Robertson, president of the
I'rotnerhood of locomotive firemen
and enginemen, announced the
strke deadline here Friday night
after chairman Frank P. 4Douglass
of the national (railway) media
uop board revealed in Chicago he
would advise President Truman
that mediation efforts have broken
riewn and an emergency existed.
Under provisions of the railway
laoor act, the President now may
appoint a fact-finding board to in
vestigate the dispute and make
recommendations. The board then
had 30 days to hold hearings and
report to the President. A 39-day
"cooling-off” period is required
before walk-out may start.
Robertson said his union and
the brotherhood of locomotive en
gineers and the switchmen’? union
of North America would "go
r.nead with strike plans” set for
6 t.m. Feb. 6.
A strike by the three unions,
who claim a membership of more
than 238,000 would affect about
249 railroads and switching yards
in the country. Robertson estim
ated.
It appeared such a walkout
would halt rail movement as com
pletely as in May, 1946, when ‘he
brotherhoods of locomotive engin
eers and railroad trainmen struck
for 48 hours before capitulating
to President Truman’s terms, as
troops were being prepared to man
the trains.
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