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Ike’s Election
Means End Labor
Union Influence
N WASHINGTON, OP)—Organized
labor’s long era of especial in
fluence in government, such as it
enjoyed under the Democratic
“New Deal” and “Fair Deal,”
appears over. The union bosses
took a terrific licking in Tues
day’s elections.
All the union leaders, with one
or two exceptions, supported the
Democratic cause and urged the
nation’s workers to do likewise.
But it seems apparent from the
record vote and what happened
in the big industrial areas that
the workers largely ignored the
urging of their leaders.
The victory of Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower demonstrated that
labor unions lack the power, to
a far greater degree than was
often claimed, to- deliver worker
votes in key elections.
Most of the union leaders de
clined any comment when the
proportion of Eisenhower’s vic
tory became known.
But one, Jack Kroll, director of
the CIO’s Political Action Com
mittee, said: “Gen. Eisenhower
has been selected to be President
of all the American people. He is
entitled to their support in carry
ing out the duties and obligations
of that high office.”
These are a few of the things
the election results will probably
mean for union labor:
1. The unions very likely won’t
have the same degree of sym
pathy at the White House under
Eisenhower that they had under
Presidents Roosevelt and Truman.
Eisenhower has pledged to be fair
to labor and every other element
of the population. But this sounds
like a far different approach than
the frank partisanship in behalf
of labor which the unions enjoyed
under Roosevelt and Truman.
2. There won’t be any repeal of
the Taft-Hartley labor law. Ei
senhower has promised to make
neeed changes in the law, without
being specific.
Hawaii Swings Toward
Democrats In Contrast
To National Trend
HONOLULU, (IP) — Republican
Joseph R. Farrington, president of
the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, won
his sixth term as Delegate to Con
gress today but traditionally Re
publican Hawaii showed a Demo
cratic upsurge in contrast to the
national trend.
The Democratic upsurge car
ried through in the territorial leg
islature.
The Republicans seemed as
sured of a 8-7 majority in the
Senate, where they had held the
edge 9-6, and a 19-11 majority in
the House which they had ruled
21-9.
TIMES AND NAMES CHANGE
OKLAHOMA CITY, (£>)— Geo.
Aebischer of Oklahoma City says
he will get a court order to change
the first names of both his sons.
He explained his sentiments
have changed since he named the
boys.
They’re called Stalin and Lenin.
Gruening’s Term
Governor of Alaska
Expires On April 9
WASHINGTON, (A*) — General
Dwight D. Eisenhower’s election
as president unquestionably has
hastened the end of Ernest Gruen
ing’s tenure as governor of Alaska.
Robert Reeve, unsuccessful Re
publican nominee for Alaskan
Delegate to Congress, has quoted
Eisenhower as saying he would
name an Alaskan to the governor
ship if elected. The general never
denied it.
There’s no' clue here to just who
Gruening’s successor would be.
Responsible Republican sources in
Washington say they have not
heard the question discussed. Con
ceivably it could be tied up in
intra-party politics — Alaska sent
a pro-Taft delegation to the GOP
national convention in Chicago'.
In any event, Gruening’s de
parture appears imminent. He has
been territorial governor for 13
years.
First named to the job Dec. 6,
1939, he has been reappointed
twice for four - year terms. The
last appointment was confirmed
by the Senate April 8, 1949. His
present term therefore would ex
pire next April 9 regardless of
who was elected.
Only if Gruening extends Ei
senhower his resignation as a
matter of courtesy could he be re
moved earlier. There is no pro
vision for removal except for
cause.
Gruening has been something
of a thorn in the side of not only
Republicans but also many Demo
crats since his first appointment.
Republicans have been parti
cularly upset by the Gruening
proposed tax increases put into
effect by the Alaska legislature.
They also have, pro tested what
they called “high-handed” actions
in his official conduct.
Seismic Shocks Off Japan
Hurl Mighty Waves
Across Pacific Ocean
By ROY ESSOYAN
HONOLULU, (/P) — A massive
convulsion of the earth’s crust
deep under the Pacific Ocean off
Siberia hurtled Seismic sea waves
a quarter of the way around the
world Tuesday at jet plane speed.
Mighty walls of water lashed
the Aleutians, Midway and Ha
waii. Lesser waves washed against
the Pacific shores of Canada and
the United States.
The seismic shocks burst out of
the Sea of Okhotsk, between Si
beria and Japan. They generated
waves which streaked across the
Pacific at more than 400 miles an
hour.
Warning messages crackled
through the air. Low-lying islands
and coastal cities across 5,000
miles of ocean were alerted
against possible disaster. Appar
ently not a single life was lost.
Damage was remarkably light.
The last time such great waves
swept across the Pacific — on
April 1, 1946—169 persons were
killed in Hawaii., The waterfront
of Hilo, a city of 25,000 on the
island of Hawaii, was demolished
three blocks deep. This time, the
seismic waves caused much ex
citement but little panic.
Eisenhower Wins
Presidency In
Landslide of Votes
By JACK BELL
Associated Press Staff Writer
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
smashed all voting records today
as he won the presidency in a
sprawling landslide that left con
trol of Congress teetering in the
balance between Republicans and
Democrats.
Americans who liked Ike gave
the 62 - year - old war hero the
greatest vote ever poured out for
a presidential candidate as he
foreclosed a 20-year Democratic
mortgage on the White House and
sent Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson of
Illinois down to crushing defeat.
With about 29,000 precincts yet
to be tabulated, Eisenhower al
ready had rolled up 27,976,106
votes — well over the previous
record of 27,751,597 set by Frank
lin D. Roosevelt in 1936 and far
out-distancing Wendell L. Will
kie’s Republican highwater mark
of 22,305,198 in 1948.
But despite the Eisenhower
sweep through the length and
breadth of the land—including a
deep ballot wedge into the no
longer solid south—the two major
parties fought down to the final
count from yesterday’s election
for what could only be hairline
control of the House and Senate.
Senate and House Fights Close
The fight was so close that the
Senate might wind up Republican
and the House Democratic, or vice
versa. Or both houses could go
to the Republicans or to the
Democrats. Absentee ballots, or
an independent vote, might settle
the issue in either house.
A minimum of 48 seats, plus a
tie-breaking vice presidential vote
is needed for Senate control. In
the House, 218 votes are needed.
Both parties were close but
neither had the prize.
News of Eisenhower’s victory
(Continued on Page Two)
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Gruening Claims GOP
Sweep Proves “As Alaska
Goes So Goes The Nation”
JUNEAU, (/P)—Alaska’s Demo
cratic governor, Ernest Gruening,
claimed that yesterday’s Republi
can sweep proved conclusively
that “as Alaska goes so goes the
nation.”
Gruening said “it now becomes
unmistakably clear once again
that as Alaska went in October
so went the nation in November.”
“It should have been evident
when the Republicans carried 20
out of 24 House seats and six out
of nine Senate seats in the terri
torial election that a nation-wide
Republican sweep would follow,”
he said.
“But I was among those misled^
by the fact that our delegate E. L.
Bartlett (a Democrat) defeated his
opponent although by a majority
reduced from previous years.
“What this proved was that
Bartlett’s outstanding service in
Congress was recognized by his
fellow Alaskans and enabled him
to breast the landslide. The Re
publicans’ overwhelming victory
in the nation 3 weeks after the
Alaska sweep demonstrates once
more than “as Alaska goes so
goes the nation’.”
PRESIDENT-ELECT DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
President Truman Offers
Eisenhower His Plane
For Trip To Korea
ABOARD TRUMAN TRAIN,
(/P) — President Truman invited
the victorious Dwight D. Eisen
hower Wednesday to use the
White House plane, the “Inde
pendence,” for a flight to Korea.
Eisenhower’s announcement he
would go to Korea in an effort to
find a way of bringing the war to
an honorable end was a highlight
of the bitter campaign.
“The Independence will be at
your disposal if you will desire
to go to Korea,” Truman said.
This first gesture of cooperation
with the Republican president
elect was made in a telegram of
congratulation which also in
vited Eisenhower to have a repre
sentative meet with Budget Di
rector Frederick Lawton to go
over the budget figures for the
next fiscal year starting July 1.
Ike Sends His Greetings
To All Alaskans
Via George Goshaw
(Special to The Nugget from
Eisenhower’s headquarters in
New York)
"There is much excitement and
much real honest sincere Amer'
can joy from Ike's great victory
for our America and for peace,
stated George Goshaw in a wim
received this morning from Eisen
hower headquarters in New York.
Goshaw quotes Eisenhower,
after he had addressed thousand
of happy and delighted Ameri
cans, as: "Hello, George, thank
my Alaskan friends for me."
Secret Service Takes Over
Protection of President
Elect Eisenhower
NEW YORK, (£>)—U.S. Secre*
| Service agents took over protec
| tion of Dwight D. Eisenhower
! early today shortly after his elec
I tion as President was assured.
A group of agents had been
standing by at the general’s cam
paign headquarters in the Com
modore Hotel while the election
returns were being tabulated
around the country.
Once the outcome became ap
parent, the agents moved into the «
corridor to guard Eisenhower’s
third floor suite.
When the general left the hotel
for his Columbia University resi
dence, the agents accompanied
him and his wife.
Under the law, the Secret Ser
vice is assigned to protect the
President and his immediate fam
ily at all times. The protection
also extends to the President
elect.
Secret Service agents also had
been standing by in Springfield,
111., to take over protection of
Democratic nominee Adlai E. Ste
venson if he had been elected.
Long Beach Residents
Evacuate Homes but Tidal
Wave Fails to Materialize
LONG BEACH, Wash., (/P) —
Schools, stores and polling places
closed when communities along
the Long Beach Peninsula and
hundreds of residents evacuated
to high ground after radio reports
Tuesday that tidal wave was bear
ing down on the Washington
coast.
The evacuation, described as
“Entirely orderly though rapid,”
was ordered following radio news
service and Coast Guard reports
that a 40-foot wave was traveling
at 700 miles an hour from a Pa
cific earthquake earlier in the
day.
The evacuees returned to their
homes about an hour later after
the Coast Guard advised the tidal
wave would expend itself in the
Pacific.