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By Preston Grover
WASHINGTON —The primary
peeve of the organization of Dem
ocrats of the 10 western states is
non-recognition.
They claim the Administration
has forgotten them. The forgot
ten many they say it somewhere
out west between the Colorado
Nebraska frontier and the Pac
ific Ocean.
By forming a western bloc they
hope to open the Democratic Na
tional Convention in Chicago
with about 130 delegates. With
that influence behind them they
figure they can get more recog
nition for the western states
than they have Heretofore re
ceived.
Here is a sample of their com
plaint: Of the 10 members of the
cabinet five are from New York.
Not one of the others is from
far enough west.
There isn't a western member
of the Supreme Court. The west
has tried to wizard one member
into that august body ever since
Justices Van Devanter of Wyo
ming and Sutherland of Utah re
tired. No luck.
Wheeler in Favor
We talked to one of the senior
members of the westerners. He
said the west had been sucked on
to too many Democratic band
wagons. Western states have sent
delegations to the convention al
ready pledged to this or that
candidate- Without any votes to
trade they got no recognition.
Moreover as individual states
they could get nothing because
no one western state has enough
votes to make a dent.
California is not included in
the picture. They can’t seem to
find anybody there who can
speak for all the Democrats. Cal
ifornia Democracy from an organ
izaiion standpoint is in a mess.
While their complaints of non
recognition can be backed up by
more concrete examples the
thing about which the western
ers protest most is the trade ag
grcements program. The Rocky
Mountain area complains that its
interests — livestock farm pro
ducts wool timber mining—are
being sold across the ocean for
the benefits of states with bigger
domestic interests to protect.
Their chief trouble is they
don't know exactly the man to
get behind as a Presidential cand
idate. Their present plan as out
lined to us is to have delegations
uninstructed but ready to vote
for one outstanding candidate af
ter they have dickered for divi- (
dends,
Many would not feel hurt if
their manipulations put them be-1
hind Senator Wheeler of Mon
tana. He has a heap of support
out there. Westerners claim he:
took on Presidential stature with {
his management of the fights
again the Supreme Court and
the Reorganization bills. A lot of
u stern business people began in :
quiring about him. Most painful1
to some of them was his recent
appearance at the CIO convention
in Columbus, Ohio,
Hull Unpopular
Say what you will a lot of prac
tieed politicians believe that a ■
candidate who gets the CIO in
dorsement might as well be kiss- j
ed by a cobra. Wheeler doesn’t ’
have it but he has a semblance j
of John L Lewis approval. That
hurts. Wheeler has been the boy
hero of western AFL organiza
tions for many years but they ]
have cooled these past few j
weeks.
A western party official took a**
.poll of sentiment of hs state’s
county leaders. He sad 60 per
cent of them were against a third
term and thought the general,
sentiment was that way. But
they told him 80 per cent of the
Democrats would vote for Roose
j velt if he were nominated regard
less of the third term.
Next in line of preference
stood Garner and Wheeler. Be
cause of the trade agreements
program Hull was low. McNutt
had what he called “a trace” of
support.
Our informant said that if
somebody at the Chicago conven
tion gets up and moves for the
nomination of Roosevelt for a
third term pledges and plans will
be smothered in the stampede.
That estimate he said covered not
! only his own state but all the
: western states. He thought it
would stand good for the whole
country. He hoped it wouldn’t
happen.
Portage Bay Route Is
Economically Feasible,
Ohlson Tells Committee
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WASHINGTON, March 8 — It
has been revealed here that Er
nest H Gruening Governor of A1
aska, Anthony J Dimond’s Dele
gate to Congress, Paul W Gordon,
Carl F Whitham president of the
Nabesna Mining Co, Asa Baldwin
and Jack Underwood mining offic
ials and Coi O F Ohlson general
(manager of the Alaska Railroad
have appeared before the Appro'
priations Committee and that1
Governor Gruening predicted
that the new census will show a
territorial population of 70.000
and said Alaska needed more pop
ulation. Said Gruening: “The'
greatest immediate need is to
link Alaska with Seattle and the
United States by air.’’
Strange Situation
Rep. Jed Johnson Democrat of
Oklahoma expressed surprise
that it was not already linked.
Rep. James M Fitzpatrick Dem
ocrat of New York said he
thought it strange that an Ameri- i
can enterprise spanned oceans i
but had neglected an Alaska air j
line adding that the “trouble
with Alaska has been that we
have been taking out a great deal
but have not been putting any
thing back.”
Opposes Annual Funds
Gruening testified: “I would
like to say that one of the great
handicaps we ore experiencing 1
very acutely at this moment is
lack of available transportation'
facilities every summer. It is now
almost impossible for passengers
to secure accomodations.”
Representative Fich Republican 1
from Pennsylvania told Governor
Gruening that he believes the j
time is approaching when Alaska !
should expect that the federal
government “must stop furnish
ing millions and millions of dol
lars annually for Alaska” and j
said he believed officials should
interest private enterprise in de
veloping the Territory.
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NATURE WRITES AN ENDIN C—Ice-filled seas so battered supports of above historlo
Wharf theater at Provincetown, Mass., that it slid into waves. It’s oldest summer theater In U. S.
Taking Everything Out
Governor Gruening replied "I
am entirely in agreement with
you and that is what we are try
ing to do but I would like to say
that millions of dollars are taken
out of Alaska by the United Stat
es and we don’t have much com
ing into Alaska from the feder
al government.”
The Governor advocated that
the Maritime commission pro
gram be extended so it could de
velop coast-wise shipping Alaska
ward saying presently no extra
ships will be available and . ad-j
i vocated the construction of a i
j lodge and cabins at the end of
I the 90 miles of road in the Mount
McKinley National Park.
New Coast Terminal
Regarding the continuance of
i railroad operation to Seward Rep
resentative Fitzpatrick declared
the people north of Seward
would like to see the terminal at
Portage Bay.
Colonel Ohlson said a resurvey
of the route recently indicated
the Portage bay to Fairbanks
route would save o2 miles and
“reveals that it is a feasible ec
onomic move and that construc
tion can be made for $4,500,000
to $5,000,000.”
He said the railroad needed
two locomotives and if it had
$2,250,000 it could be thoroughly
rehabilitated and operate at a pro
fit.
Gruening remarked “if we are
going to build up Alaska, in
crease population and make it a
place where people can live per
nv •; t'y we have got to do oth
er things to add to mining and
fishing. It is unsafe for a commun
ity to be dependent on just two
sources of revenue.”
He mentioned that tourists are
the likeliest prospect but that A1
aska needed transportation im
provements to get this business.
New Road Funds
Delegate Dimond urged the ad
inittance of whites to Indian hos
pitals when there is room and
said Alaska needed schools espec
[ tally in isolated sections; also
| hospitalization for natives for
' treatment of tuberculosis and
that more road construction
funds were required.
Whitham and Baldwin second
■ ed the roads recommendation.
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’ Growth Handicapped
WASHINGTON. March 8—Gov
ernor E H Gruening of Alaska
told the House roads committee
that efforts to increase Alaska’s
population will be handicapped
until Alaska’s share of road
funds are increased and said
more adequate system of roads
and communications are the Ter
ritory’s primary needs.
He urged the committee to re
store the old formula under
which Alaska received nine and
one-half percent of forest roads
fund saying this would increase
the $400,000 received last year
to $000,000.
Forest Service speakers said
the reduction was authorized in
the $38,000,000 appropriation for
forest roads this year and last
year by $7,000,000 which had
“pinched very tightly.” *
GOOD ENOUGH TO EAT ’—Maybe this is just Ar
tist Peter Arno’s way of eliminating one of those hats, even if the
girl is Kav Williams, 23, of North East, Pa., picked in N. Y. as
1940's "most popular model” by 300 illustrators.
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