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Democratic Ticket
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Primary Election
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. VOTE FOR
RICHARD E. LEE
As Your Candidate For
THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
ON THE DEMOCRATIC TICKET
At The Primary Election
To Be Held APRIL 30TH In Your Community
Elizabeth M. Cross
FOR REPRESENTATIVE
On The Democratic Ticket
Quarter Century In Alaska
Primary Election April 30, 1940 §
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Department of Agriculture Weather Bureau
FORECAST, NOME AND VICINITY
Cloudy, intermittent It. snow, notmuch change temp, tonite & Sat.
Bata For 24 Hours Ending 1:00 pm Today
Highest temp — 31 Lowest temp — 18 Precipitation — 0.09
Total precip. this month — 0.36 Totol since Jan. 1, 1940 — 1.21
Temp. Humidity Wind Weather
12 Midnight . 25 70 NE-16 Cloudy
• am . . .. „ 26 100 SE-18 Snow
12:30 p m .. 27 92 SE-26 Snow
One Year Ago Today
Highest temp — -4 Lowest temp-19 Precipitation — 0
Tomorrow: Sunrise 5:27 am Sunset 6:45 p.m.
The Peninsula: Temp. Wind . Weather
Deering . 20 Calm Pt Cldy
••until . 20 Calm Snow
•olovin . 20 SE-20 Snow
Kotzebue —. 13 SE-5 Cloudy
Solomon . 26 E-20 Snow
Teller . 12 SE-4 Snow
Wales .. .... 4 NE-35 Snow
Weather Klscwhere: 1:00 am Nome Time ’
Temp. Wind Weather Precip.
Anchorage .-.. 32 S-3 Cloudy 0.04
••thel . 26 S-15 Cloudy 0.00
Cordova .— 38 NE-16 Rain 0.50
Dutch Harbor . 28 SW-10 Snow 0.06
Fairbanks .. 26 NW-3 Pt Cldy 0.00
Juneau —. 39 Calm Cloudy 0.291
Pt. Barrow . ..
WEATHER SYNOPSIS AND GENERAL
Pressure is rather low over the
Alaska gullf and eastern north
Pacific with no definite centers
plotted this morning. There is a
weak trough of low pressure ex
tending northwestward over
southwestern Aaska to apparent
ly a weak low pressure center ov
er the north portion of Bering
Sea and extreme Eastern Siberia.
Due to the unsettled condition
considerable cloudiness is over
most of Alaska witTi light inter
mittent precipitation falling over
the southern half and including
all of the Penisula. Temperatures
are well above normal.
Under the present conditions of
pressure and wind distribution
we can expect continued snow
this afternoon, tonight and Satur j
day and not much change in tern
perature. With the trough and
apparent low center over Bering
Sea and Siberia there is risk of
considerable weather Sunday.
Suggestion* and Criticisms Invited
Smart Political Critics
Are Agreed on Roosevelt
Remaining Quiet on Race
By Preston Grover
WASHINGTON — Smart pol
itical critics of President Roose
ve. lt agree he would be unwise
to declare himself out of the race
at tliis point. Needless to say.
his friends can think of even
more cogent reasons for his keep
ing quiet.
To declare himself out of the
presidential race would mean:
1. —He would weaken his in
fluence in Congress.
2. —He would weaken his con
trol over the Democratic conven
tion.
3. —He would weaken his influ
ence in foreign matters.
This last is looked upon as
most important. For a President
to declare himself already a
“has been" at a crucial interna
tional period would be to invite
light treatment at the hands of
foreign nations.
On the other hands, if he has
made up his mind to run for a
third term, a declaration to that
effect while Congress is in ses
sion would stir up all the old
animosities that were so bitter in
1938. It would be especially pain
ful in Congress. As an advance
sample, Senator Smith of South
Carolina already has declared
that if F D R comes up for a
third term he will walk out of
the convention.
The ones who are whooping it
up for the President to take him
self out of the race or put him
self wholly in, are, for the most
part, persons who would benefit
from one or the other of such
moves.
Democratic candidates would
like to have the doubt cleared
up. Then they could go into the
primaries with a clear declara
tion that “I’m for me.” Now they
go in with an explanation that
“I’m for Roosevelt if he wTants
to run, after that I'm for me . . .”
As for the Republicans, they
probably would gain most from
a frank declaration of the Presi
dent that he is seeking a third
! term — unless you believe, as
| some do, that such a declaration
would mean another 1936. The
cries of “dictator" which the Re
publicans have aimed at the
White House for years past
would become a nationwide chor
us.
Representative Dies of Texas
has become has own most sin
cere convert to the righteousness
of his Red-and-Fascist hunt. Any
one with half an eye could tell,
when Dies first took over the in
vestigation two years ago, he
was less than half serious. He ex
pected to demagogue. He did.
He still does But he has dug
into the business enough to more
than half convince himself he is
saving the nation! froma fate
worse than death.
Incidentally, his first press con
ference on his recent return from
Texas was half as big as the
President’s and twice as long.
Moreover, his diggings in the pol
itical and financial netherworld
are drawing crowds and press at
tention.
And don’t forget that:
Thirty-eight freshmen Repub
lican House members meet ev
ery Wednesday night for dinner
at the Army-Navy Club were
speakers—principally New Deal
executives—lecture them on how
the government is run. But the
speakers have to endure an hour
of questioning.
Because it is an election year
Congress will send out $1,000,000
of free mail compared to the us
ual $750,000 . . . Rep. Woodrum
of Virginia, big gun on the House
Appropriations Committee shows
up to work sometimes as early as
7:30 am after a brisk walk along
Pennsylvania Avenue. Brightest
line of the week: Senator Connal
ly of Texas, reporting how the
Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee had gingerly handled the
Japanese embargo question: “We
fired a few blanks and fell back.”
SOURDOUGH STATIONERY
Write to your friend* and rela
tive* on the ‘Outside’, using Sour
ough Stationery. They’M get a big
kick out of it
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-J THIS \\ EEK Alaska can rightfully ask tho
attention of the world, and especially of the States. For
March 30, 1940, marks the seventy-third anniversary of
the conclusion of the treaty under which the United
Stales purchased this vast and rich Territory from Russia.
'I'he story of that purchase has been told many times, but
what is more worthy of attention on thi* anniversary is
the dramatic story of Alaska's steady progress since that
•late. This story the Alaska Steamship Company is doing
its part to spread throughout the State*.
ALASKA STEAMSHIP
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ALASKA IS INCLUDED
IN G-IVIEN REPORT
For the first time, Alaska is
! included in an annual Uniform
| Crime Report by the Bureau of
Investigation of the Department
of Justice, which has an office in
| Juneau.
For the year 1936, a total of
I 267 crimes is listed. Tiie offenses
j are murder or non-negligent man
j slaughter, robbery, aggravated
assault, burglary, larceny over
$50, larceny under $50 and auh'.
theft.
In the Fourth Division, with an
estimated population of 13,588,
last year, the listed crimes total
ed 47, consisting of two mur
ders, four aggravated assaults, j
six burglaries, seven larcenies
over $50, 27 larcenies under $50
and one automobile theft.
In the Third Division with an I
estimated population of 16,309.
the listed crimes totaled 74, con
sisting of ten murders, two rob
beries, eight aggravated assaults,
nine burglaries, two larcenies ov
er $50, and forty-three larcenies
under $50.
In the Second Division with an
estimated population of 10.127,
the listed crimes totaled 33, con
sisting of two murders, two ag
gravated assaults, twelve burg
laries, six larcenies over $50. six
larcenies under $50 and one auto
mobile theft.
In the First Division with an es |
timated population of 19,304, the!
listed crimes totaled 113, consist
ing of two murders, three rob
beries, seven aggravated assaults
twenty-three burglaries, thirty
four larcenies over $50 and forty
four larcenies under $50.
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Employers To Longshore
Men's Contract Terms
SAN FRANCISCO, March 28
— Waterfront employers agreed
to accept the longshoremen’s sev
en-point proposal for a long-term
contract on the basis it intended
to maintain peace, for from three
to five years.
The points included a six-hour
day, a union hiring hall and oth
er provisions, all of which are in
the contract which is still operat
ive though expired.
Wages and similar issues will
be arbitrated annually.
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THEORY INTO P R A C T I C E_iiich above the^U. s,
naval air station at Pensacola. F!a., one of the training planes
"breaks formation.” Pensacola station, a pioneer in naval aviation,
offers courses for aviation cadets and for air-ininded graduates
of the lT. S. naval academy at Annapolis.
FRENCH MEAN B U S I N E S S_a special handling de
vice is needed to swing this heavy 280mm shell into position so it
can whistle toward tl»e Nazi lines from a French howitzer com
pany at western front. (A.P.-Paraniount News Photo.)