The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 25, 1948, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 10,923 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRI DAY, JUNE 25, 1948 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS DEWEY, WARREN ON REPUBLICAN TIGKET Start of Republic SITUATION IN BERLIN DELICATE Russians M;E Another Move to Force Allies Out of Various Areas By The Assoclated Fress Russia cut off food today from her zone to the U. S, British and French areas of Berlin in an ac- celerated effort to force the Allies out. The Russians had stopped the flow from Western Germany by as- serting the lone railroad needed re- pairs. They again disrupted electric service in Western Berlin. LONDON—British Foreign Secre- tary Ernest Bevin told the House of Commons the situation in Berlin is delicate. He said the 2,000,000 per- sons in the western zones of Berlin | were displaying great calmness. He stood by a previous assertion | that the British will remain, “what- ever provocation there may be.” The U. 8. Military Governor, Gen. Lu- cius D. Clay, has said nothing short| . of war can force the Americans out. WARSAW-—-Russia and her seven: ‘Communist states of Eastern Eu- rope called in their Warsaw confer- ence for what they termed a “pro- visional democratic, peace-loving all- German Government.” Stripped of verblage, that meant a Communist Germany under Russia’s thumb. The Warsaw conference said they agreed upon one more try for Ger- i PRAYER ACCOMPANIED THE FORMAL OPENING June 21 in Philadelphia’s vast Convention Hall as the brigades of delegates sat attentively while the Rev. Fred P. Corson, Bishop of the Methodist Church in the “City of Brotherly Love,” delivered a solemn invecation. Photo to the invocation shortly after Walter S. Hallanan, Chairman of the Committee on Arrangements, called the convention to order. (International Soundphoto) OF DEWEY (A | ! WASHINGTON, June 25,-—“’!——! Senator James E. Murray (D-) Mont) today quoted President Tm-! man as saying the Republican Na-| an National (onvenliol_l_ | WORKED OUT shows the seated delegates listening IMOVE MADE BY STASSEN \ | First Candi(raf; for Honors| Withdrew in Favor of WARREN ACCEPTS HONOR Smiling Far}l_iI; Group Ap- pears on Platform-Are Cheered by Delegates By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH CONVENTION HALL, PHILA- | DELPHIA, June 25.—(P—Governor Earl Warren of California today actepted the Republican Vice- Presidential nomination before cheering delegates of the National Convention. He came to the Convention Hall affer being nominated by acclama- tion to run with Gov. Thomas E. Deéwey of New_York on the GOP Presidential ticket. Mrs, three daughters, Virginia, 19, Dor- ifed him to the platform. The smiling family group posed for five minutes for photographers. Mrs. Warren wore a blue suit and & wide-brimmed white hat. Chairman Joseph Martin intro- duced Warren who, he said, will be Vice-President after next No- vember, Warren took the speaker's stand and drew a laugh at the outset by saying: “For the first time in my life T know what it feels like to get hit by a streetcar. “Yesterday, I received something of a jolt. I had no idea I am isure that there was any such shock | Warren and the Governor's| othy, 17, and Nina, 14, uccumpan-[ 6. 0.P. Siandard Bearer | | | | { THOMAS E. DEWEY Ac?ebiance of Nomination . Made by Dewey in Fiffeen | Minute Talk fo Delegales By HARRISON HUMPHERIES | ! ! him | Convention GOVERNOR OF CALIF. FOR V-PRES. Convention: A?cepts War- ren by Acclamation- Martin Nominates By JACK BELL CONVENTION HALL, PHILA- DELPHIA, June 25-—(M—Thomas Dewey and California’s Earl Warren are the 19048 Republican Presidential ticket. Dewey was unanimously homi- nated by the 24th National Con- vention last night. He "icked Warren to run with as Vice-President and the today by acclamation confirmed that choice. No other name than Warren's was presented for the Vice-Presi~ dency. Arizona gave notice of nominat- ing Harold E. Stassen, but a few minutes later withdrew it Chairman Joseph Martin put .| Warren’s name before the conven- tion and declared him nominated by acclamation. New York's Dewey, getting his second chance at the Presidency, made it an East-West All-Governor ticket after an all-night series of canferences. Whoeop For Warren The word quickly spread to Con- vention Hall and the delegates dicd not take long to whoop through Warren's name. Leaders of camps of other dis= | awaiting me as today. And before {ygu change your mind I want to| 182 LT accept. . PHILADELPHIA, June 24.—P—|appointed Presidential hopefuls Thomas E. Dewey solemnly sel a|were quick to line up behind the combimation: DEWEY'S MATE - Governor Dewey |~ “I am more grateful to you than T : : fwhere in accepting the Republican’ The final, clinching break for By RELMAN MORIN {you know for the great honor that; ! PHILADELPHIA, June 25.—(P—|you have given me.” | 8 » 5 o | Presidential nomination last night.| Dewey which brought his unanis » " | “as long as the world is half mous nomination late yesterday ap- ) tional Conventien has shown that } pe kb !_"mnspryanvg(%;g;_ag"_gm in. conz ! TEL AVIV—Iisrael charged Egyptl|trol of that party. i has broken the United Nations! Officially Mr. Truman has main- truce, entering the third of its four; tained silence about the GOP con- | man unity. weeks run today, by hombing two. Jewish settlements and halting a| motor convoy in the Israeli Negeb. RHODES—Count Folke Bernadot- | te, the U. N. Mediator, himself com-, plained that an Egyptian fighter: plane shot 15 holes into a U. N. plane. The pilot escaped injury. ! ) LAKE SUCCESS—The U. N. il-" self considered Spain and a Russian effort to bring U. S. control of Jap- anese Islands in the Pacific within' range of their veto. Russia tried to block discussion of Soviet decisionsi to stop emigration of Russian wo-, men married to foreigners. ATHENS—Bad, weather and stout, rebel resistance slowed the Greek Army drive against 7,000 rebels pin- ned against the border of Red Al- bania. The Greeks were reported to; have executed 26 more persons for; treason, sabotage and murder. NANKING—The U. 8. dollar went up to 3,700,000 Chinese yuan in the Chinese inflation. President Chiang | Kai-shek summoned top military leaders to an emergency conference on how to drive the Communists| from Central China. ' The Washington! Merry- Eo_ -Round By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1948, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) PHILADELPHIA— Watching the picking of a President: Delegates in convention lobbies, delegates in hotel lobbies, delegates eating hot dogs, lady delegates, gray-haired, slightly paunching delegates marching in aisles, carrying ban- ners, sleepy-eyed, singing delegates, deadly serious, fighting-mad dele- gates, a mixture of P. T. Barnum, a boy scout jamboree and real! democracy Golden-voiced Congressman George Bender of Ohio, with a megaphone rolled out of the Chicago Tribune, shouting the Taft theme song in the middle of a hotel lobby . . . Senator Taft “shaking hands” with a baby ele- phant . . Negroes picketing the Convention Hall, their signs read: “GOP Congress Killed Civil Rights Program.” . . . Mrs. Bertha Baur of Illinois wearing three gold ele- phants in_her hat . . . Governor and Mrs. Dewey strolling down Chesnut Street alone while the crowds clamor to see them at the Dewey headquarters. (Continued on Page Four) jRoss said Mr. | Love You.” Mayor E. J. Loussac of Anchorage. candidates were licked unless they pooled their strength behind just | Buest I vention and the selection of New | York’s Governor Thomas E. Dewey as Republican Presidential nominee. | Murray was asked about Truman’s reaction to the meeting after he had talked with! the President at the White House. ! Murray told reporters: “He (Mr. Truman) think the convention illustrates how the conservative interests of the country are in control of the convention and dominating its ac- tions. { “He seemed to regard the plat- form as a reiteration of promises the Republicans have failed to carry out in the past.” Presidential Secretary Charles G.| Truman had no| comment oificially on Dewey's nom- ination. Ross added Mr. Truman saw and heard the nomination over televis- ion in his White House study. - SEATTLE'S MAYOR IS WELL PLEASED, VISIT T0 ALASKA Returns South with Good- Will Offering from An(hOl’age MBYOI' | Now that Dewey is in, let’s see | what the other hopefuls think SEATTLE, June 25-—(®— Mayor about the convention and its de- William F. Devin was fog-bound ! velopments. at Kodiak for 18 hours during the| The Monday morning quarter- plane trip to Anchorage from which ! backs—the key men of the con- he returned yesterday. fvemiunf ize it up this way. Dew- Although the tie-up caused him ey's rivals could not all win. If and the University of Washington they had gov together on one Glee Club to miss one engage- | man to oppose Dewey, they pro- ment, the Mayor was enthusiastic |bably could have stopped the New over his brief Alaska visit and the York Governor just short of the cordiality with which the Seattle|victory line. But they didn’t. visitors were greeted. | The bandwagon started to roll As evidence of the good-will| Tuesday when Senator Ed Martin manifested, the Mayor brought back | bowed out as Pennsylvania’s fav- a hand-painted necktie upon wiich | orite son and carried 41 votes into appeared the wordas: “Seattle, I|the Dewey camp. That convinced It was given him by 'a lot of people that the other MRS THOMAS E. DEWEY The closest Mrs. Dewey gets to politics is to sit next to her hus- and at Republican banquets . . . She was in the chorus of George White’s Scandals during the 20's and made a nationwide theatre tour . . . At 45 she is still good- leoking with her brown coiffure streaked with silver. The governor's lady was born Frances Hut in Sherman, Texas . she was raised in Sapulpa, | Okla. ... Her father was a rail- road conductor . . . Her mother comes from a long line of Metho- dist and Baptist ministers. Dewey met her in Chicage in 1923 where she was a secretary | and studying music . . . Married | in 1928, they have two sons, 13 | and 16. Newsmen say she is hard to interview. seems to BACKSTAGE TALK ABOUT CONVENTION (By The Associated Press) | i | - -, SIEAMER MOVEME“!’S one of their number. { But they didn’t even do that. Princess Louise, from Vancouver, They kept hoping—until last night. due Saturday afternoon or evening.! Then the telephone rang in a Aleutian scheduled to sail from|hotel room just five minutes before Seattle tomorrow. the night session of the conven- Princess Norah scheduled to sail|tion was to begin. It was Taft. from Vancouver 9 p.m. tomorrow. ! He wanted to notify the others Alaska scheduled to sail from |that he was stepping out. Why? Seattle July 1. The Senator said it was a matter Baranof southbound late Sunday|of simple arithmetic. Dewey had early Monday. Ithe votes. - A HERE FROM YAKUTAT H. E. Barber from Yakutat, is a at the Gastineau Hotel, or e R & VISITI FROM TODD Fred Laube, visiting trom Todd, is staying at the Baranof Hotel. jand utterly adequate to the occa-| Ision, is the official hero of the' Republican Convention | But the man who got the hand | Thomas 'E. Dewey, smiling, suave, | at the last was Harold E. Stassen.| ~Warren had lipstick on him, the In the long run, Stassen may win! more friends and command more genuine approval by his actions at| the moment of defeat than he could have done in a moment of | victory. Certainly, he gained sta-| | trouble. n faced the music with a; He was the first of the can(h-‘ dates—fand in fact the only one| with a real chance to be nominated | who walked to the rostrum, stood | before 14,000 clamoring people, and told his followers that he would no longer hold them fo their pledges. He went further. He| | urged them to vote for Dewey, and | |in the coming campaign, to work | | ior Dewey | i Dewey Too Strong ! | Stassen probably could have held | his lines for another ballot. With | luck, the line might have held | for two ballots. | { But the end was Dewey was too strong. The big man must have seen this i from the first. | He came to the conyention at 2 | o'clock when the balloting was sup- ;posed to start. He was the only i candidate there. He brought a| | score card with him. ! | He took a seat far back and to | the right of the platform. And, as {the vcte rolled out, he sat there, i quietly ticking off his chances, }scorinz the ebb of his hopes. It was Dewey all the way. Dewey had 434 votes on the first ballot, {515 on the second. | Machine Working . Dewey's machine was like a pre- cision instrument in operation. For him, the situation was never out | of control. | The Convention re-convened in the evening. Quietly, Stassen re- iturned to his place in the depths |of the great hall, behind the plat- ;fcrm, Very few people even saw i bim. { On the floor, the states were caucusing. They say nothing is so timid as a million dollars. It may be, but 1,000-odd delegates to a | National Convention can be re- markably sensitive to the shift of political winds. Milling up and down the aisles,| | they were asking, “What are you, !gomg to do this time?” . . change over here?” Struggle Over When the gavel banged again, the struggle was over. Gov. Kim Sigler spoke for Ar- ‘v,hur Vandenberg. Senator Willilam inevitable. 1 . “Any| | | (Continued on Page Five) | said: Gov. and Mrs, Warren and the Warren children—three lovely daughters—came up on the plat- form while the band played “Cali- fornia Here I Come.” result of some resounding smacks from the kids, who had been in the hall to hear the nomination speech- Once Warren got to the platform ! he ran into trouble, photographer Their problem was to get a picture of five people on one (Continued on Page Eight) - - COMMENTS ON CHOICE OF DEWEY (By The Asscciated Press) Gov. Thomas E. Dewey’s unani- mcus nomination as the Republican Presidential candidate brought this! reaction leade today we'll equally unanimous from Democratic lick him. Senator J. Howard McC)ath, National Democratic Chairman, “This nomination comes as a sort of an encore for Governor Dewey on his unsuccessful ‘Me Too" campaign of 1944. The American people also will play an encore in November.” Paul F. Fitzpatrick, Chairman of the New York State Democratic Committee, said: “We've licked him | before and we will do it again.” House Democratic Leader Rep. John W. McCormack declared that “Gov. Dewey is politically vulner- able and with the weak Republican platform and the high cost of liv- ing as the paramount issue we can hurl at the Republicans, we can start out with our chances of victory most favorable.” McCormack said the “Strongest candidate the Republicans could have nominated would have been Senator Vandenberg.” In Tokyo, Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur said Dewey's nomination was a “splendid choice” which ‘“should give assurance and confi- dence not only to our own people, |but to the freedom-loving peoples of the world.” But Col. Robert R. McCormick, publisher of the Cnicago Tribi who had opposed Dewey's nomin: tion, looked at it differently. “It might have been worse,” he “It might have been Van- denberg.” | | we must peacefully labor to men everywhere achieve lib- " he told cheering GOP Na-! Conventicn delegates who! {had just nominated him unani-| mously “Above all other purposes,” he aid, “we must labor by every, wceful means to build a world or- founded wupon jus and | | rightecusness. That kind of a world | will have peace. That kind of peace | will be worth having.” | World freedom and an appeal for unity to help achieve it were the two central themes of the New| | York Governor’s 15-minute accep- ! tance speech, ! | “We are a united party,” he told, Calltariain: G vorsion” Bait- s ;Lhe Republicans, but “our nation ornla’s Governor Earl War-|c.nqe tragically in need of that, |ren, nominated for Vice-President | " ! same unity.’ on the Republican ticket, has teen ™ p. ynies o be sought Is “most 1a potent vote-getter in his state. Y pi of all spir e said Th 1048 Ne' was re-slected govars | 7. i1 SRITAL". he sal Dewey ! o the six other| nor as the nominee of both Republi- | c.mmdfl)“,;ei;rrn'g“f ’m;;:m,ujo:t :;? lcan and Democratic parties. | ¥ | A dark-horse presidential prospect| [P-ininded men of character] in 1944, Warren was keynote speak- | ond ability and deeply devoted to er at the convention which m,-mx-‘mf” r',n.uxmy nated Dewey. | Never has a political party pro-! Warren i3 87, husky, good ]ook-'d"“'d such distinguished men,” he! ing, and. smiles easily. He has fought| "0 : S A for increase ih state old-age pen-| Lh¢ convention gave a burst of slons and for a compulsory health tn- 2PPlause to each, as he named surance system. | them; alphabetically: Senator Ray- Born In Los Angelcs, son of a rail-| mond E. Baldwin of Connecticut, road worker who was an ardent] General Douglas MacArthur, form- | doniat Was newsboy, rail- | €f Gov. Harold E. Stassen of Min- road call boy, and farm hand, . . .| hesota, Senator Robert A. Taft of {Studied law and like Gov. Dewey,|Ohio, Senator Arthur A. Vanden- he became a prosecutin; m:urnc)x‘t“"'“ of Michigan, and Gov. Earl i — | Warren of California. “There has been honest conten- ! tion, spirited disagreement, hot ar- gument,” Dewey said, “but let no| lone be misled. You have given; moving and dramatic proof of how Americans, who honestly differ, close ranks and move forward for the nation’s weil being, shoulder to shoulder.” ' EARL WARREN | | A smiling, triumphant Dewey appeared before the lustily cheer- (ing delegates shortly after 9 i RALLE loclock last night to accept his | WASHINGTON, June 25—#—|nomination formally. He'd been Defense officials are dusting off | so certain of winning he had an drait machinery today following |acceptance speech all ready. President Truman's signing of the| After returning to his hotel peacetime Selective Service measure headquarters in downtown Phila- into law. |delphia, Dewey told a crowd of Thousands of the nation’s young |well-wishers that there would be, men 19 through 25 now are liable 'as he put it, “no more Commun- to receive those “greetings” in the|ists on the government payroll.” fall. None can be inducted until|Said he 90 days after yesterday. | “We will start out by having the i { { | The first result of Mr. Truman's!finest housecleaning in Washington action has been to shut off the|after January 20th you ever saw. flood of enlistments in the Na-|We will restore the faith of the ticnal Guard and other reserve | American people in the spoken word units. of their government and the in- The draft bill provides that pros- | tegrity of its purpose.” i pective 4draftees who signed up inj > > such units before the measure be- PELICAN VISITOR jecame law, could not be inducted Grace Rodgers from Pelican, into the Armed Forces, !staying at the Baranof Hotel, is parently came after the kleig-light- ed, sweating Convention had re- cessed after a second ballot which showed these important results: Dewey, 515, only 33 short of the nomination. Senator Taft, tender, 274, Stassen, 149. Almost everybody in the closely packed hall—including Aunt Emma on the top row of the third tier— knew it was all over. Baldwin Senses Trend Down on the milling, noisy, lit- tered convention floor—where the delegates sat melting in their the nearest con- ! shirts—Senator’ Raymond A. Bald- win of Connecticut sensed it quickly. Baldwin—setting a row ahead of Herbert E. Brownell, Dewey’s cam- paign manager—-had been under a lot of pressure as a favorite son who still.was holding on to Con- necticut’s 19 votes. ‘They weren't enough to put Dew- ey over, so Baldwin went hunting for others who might feel as he did, He found a willing companion in Senator Irving Ives of New York, a Dewey backer. They got together with Ferguson of the Michigan delegation which had been holding out 41 votes for Sen- ator Arthur Vandenberg. Issue Settled They collected Senator Know- land of the California delegation, (Continued on Page Flv?) gt G- GOV. WARREN WAS PICKED BY DEWEY PHILADELPHIA, June 25.—(M— Governor Earl Warren of Califor- nia was picked by Thomas E. Dewey as the man he wanted for a Vice Presidential running mate. The cholce of Warren was an- nounced by one of Dewey's cam- paign managers, J. Russel Sprague. A member of the Ohio delega- tion saild he understood that Dewey's advisers had virtually rul- ed out Senator John W. Bricker as a possibility. Senator William Knowland of California told reporters “It is my best judgment that Warren is will~ ing to acecept.” Dewey talked with party leaders and considered recommendations most of the night,