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Party Bolt Unlikely
As Mississippi Senators
Support Demo Ticket
JACKSON, Miss., W)—Senators
James Eastland and John Stennis
of Mississippi have joined Gov.
J. P. Coleman in saying they will
support the Democratic national
ticket.
Along with similar statements
by other Mississippi Democratic
leaders, this seemed today to bar
the likelihood of a recalled state
convention and the attendant dan
ger of a party bolt.
Coleman disclosed further that
presidential nominee Adlai Ste
venson has been invited to cam
paign in Mississippi.
'Ike and Chris’ Signs
Will Be Put To Use
Again After All
PROVIDENCE, R. I., OP)— Ed
ward V. Healy Jr., Rhode Island
Republican gubernatorial cam
paign director, yesterday wired
Bayard Ewing, chairman of the
Rhode Island delegation in San
Francisco, as follows:
“In event Stassen’s campaign
for <Gov. Christian) Herter, of
Mass., is unsuccessful, we could
make use of all campaign mater
ial using words ‘Ike and Chris’
for our candidate for governor,
Chris Del Sesto. Will you contact
Mr. Stassen on our behalf?”
O’Callaghan, 34, Opposes
GOP Thomson in Only
Wyoming Congress Race
CHEYENNE. Wyo., UPl-^Jerry
O’Callaghan, 34-year-old history
instructor at the University of
Wyoming, won the Democratic
nomination for Congress in the
only statewide contest in yester
day’s primary election.
O’Callaghan pledged an exten
sive handshaking campaign for
the general election, in which he
will oppose Rep. Keith Thomson.
Thomson, unopposed in the
GOP primary, piled up 26,800
complimentary votes in returns
from 529 of 683 precincts.
Alaska Delegates
Accept GOP
Statehood Plank
By LeROY HITTLE
SAN FRANCfsCO, Alaska
and Hawaii delegates to the Re
publican National Convention to
day shifted their statehood cam
paign guns back to the congres
sional battlefield.
Their fight for “immediate
statehood” planks in the GOP
platform was won here yesterday
when delegates shouted approval
of the party’s 1956 platform.
The platform called for imme
diate statehood for both territor
ies, recognizing that adequate
provision for defense require
ments must be made in Alaska.
Alaska delegates said they
would like to have had a plank
calling for “immediate statehood”
and nothing else, but accepted the
reservation for defense.
Mrs. Joseph R. Farrington, the
Hawaii delegate to Congress, said
language of the combined Hawaii
Alaska bill that died in a House
committee ^last year probably
would be copied to get statehood
bills rolling in Congress again as
soon as possible.
Mrs. Farrington advocated sep
arate bills and said she anticipat
ed no political problem as in past
sessions because both the Demo
crats and Republicans endorsed*
immediate statehood planks tor
both territories in their 1956 plat
forms.
“This is the strongest statehood
plank we have ever had,” Mrs.
Farrington said.
FORMER NOMEITE ELECTED
PRESIDENT SITKA CHAMBER
SITKA — George Beacom was
elected president of the Sitka
Chamber of Commerce last Fri
day. Other officers elected in
clude Fred Geeslin, vice presi
dent, and directors Charles Kidd,
Cecil McClain and Cecil Gould.
Dewey Plugs for Eisenhower-Nixon
By WARREN ROGERS JR.
SAN FRANCISCO, —'Thomas
E. Dewey today plugged for an
Eisephower-Nixon victory in No
vember because, he said, that
would guarantee to Americans
“prosperity and peace at the same
time.”
The former New York governor
and twice the unsuccessful GOP
candidate for President told the
Republican National Convention:
“Every American can sleep bet
ter because the President is will
ing to give four more years of. . .
steady and successful leadership.
“Our purpose is to be strong
enough to prevent war and skill
ful enough to avoid having to
prove it . . .
“Everyone knows today that,
with a Republican administration,,
the American people can have
prosperity and peace at the same
time.”
Dewey praised President Eisen
hower as the “greatest leader of
our time.” He said Republicans
are proud of Richard M. Nixon’s
record as vice president, which
he called “distinguished and de
voted.” '
Dewey declared Eisenhower
and Nixon inherited from the
Democrats a “chaos in world af
fairs” and a “mess in Washing
ton.”
Enlarging on his peace theme,
Dewey said Eisenhower found,
when he took office in 1953: war
in Korea and Indochina, pro
Communist leanings in oil-rich
Iran, trouble in Trieste, a weak
ened European defense alliance,
Austria occupied, and Guatemala
“a Russian outpost.”
“New spirit and skill,” he said,
ended the Korean War, “averted
threatened catastrophe” in Iran,
settled the Trieste issue, “saved
half of Indochina from conquest
by the Chinese Communists, end
ed the Austrian occupation, drove
the Reds out of Guatemala, and
shored up the Atlantic alliance
by bringing West Germany into
it. “Each of these was an historic
achievement for peace,” Dewey
said.
C of C Protests
Leasing of Dental
Office to U.S.P.H.S.
The Nome Chamber of Com
merce has wired a protest to the
directors of the MMM Hospital at
Philadelphia for the renting or
leasing of the dental office space
in the hospital to the U.S. Public
Health Service.
The U.S. Public Health Service
is sending a dentist here to care
for the clinic cases among needy
native families, but he will not
be permitted to provide dental
care for those familes able to pay
for these services, or to the white
population.
The Chamber of Commerce,
backed by city officials and the
Rotary Club, it is reported, urged
that in fairness to the entire
community this office space be
rented or leased to a dentist who
can serve Nome and the rest of
this area. Such a dentist is avail
able, stated Chamber President
Stan Morgan, and he will come to
Nome if the office can be ob
tained.
At the noon luncheon Tuesday
the Chamber made plans fpr the
meeting of the Territorial Board
of Road Commissioners here. A
committee was appointed to take
care of the matter, headed by
Dewey Goodrich with Bob Blod
gett of Teller assisting.
The increasingly popular noon
luncheons of the Chamber of
Commerce brought out 20 mem
bers yesterday and four guests:
Edith Arnold, June Dunbar, Ruth
McLain, and Barbara Ciemny, a
new nurse for the MMM Hospital.
Hoover’s Counsel
Taken With Cheers
At Convention
SAN FRANCISCO, UPt—Herbert
Hoover, the only living Republi
can ex-President, yesterday coun
seled the GOP to adopt a “re
sounding” declaration that “Am
erica shall safeguard the freedom
of men.”
Then, after the 82-year-old par
ty elder left the platform amid
echoing cheers, the Republican
National Convention roared its
approval of such a “declaration
of faith,” and the GAP campaign
platform of which it is a part.
The declaration spells out GOP
aims as safeguarding free institu
tions, maintaining world peace,
and building dynamic prosperity
at home.
In his speech. Hoover told the
delegates that:
“If you face the truth that we
are in a critical battle to safe-,
guard our nation and civilization
. . . then you will be guided step
by step to restore the foundations
of right thinking, or morals and
faith thruout the world.
“Then you will issue as pure a
note in as full a tone as that call
to arms given by your political
ancestors at your convention of
100 years ago—that America shall
safeguard the freedom of men.”
The delegates gave Hoover an
affectionate five-minute ovation.
Eisenhower Nominated for 2nd Term
And Nixon Likely In, Too, Despite
V.P.’s Flight to Critically 111 Father
By WILLIAM T. PEACOCK
and JACK BELL
SAN FRANCISCO, W>—Presi
dent Eisenhower, before his nom
ination this afternoon, talked
politics with GOP National
Chairman Leonard Hall. He said
Vice President Nixon is still “per
fectly acceptable” as a running
mate.
Nixon himself had flown away
to Whittier, Calif., where his 77
year-old father, Frank Nixon,
was reported critically ill.
What change this might make
in plans of the Republican Na
tional Convention was for the mo
ment an unanswered question.
The delegates to this 100th an
niversary GOP gathering were
all set to renominate Nixon, and
Hall said that for the moment,
anyway, the convention would go
ahead as planned.
He said he couldn’t say, how
ever, whether the elder Nixon’s
illness would interfere with plans
for the vice president to make an
acceptance speech of his renom
ination tomorrow night when the
New Mining Law
‘Most Significant’
Passed Since 1K72
Washington, op—a i a w
passed by the 24th Congress car
ried “probably the most signifi
cant change in the mining laws”
since the first general mining laws
of 1872, Rep. Engle <D-Calif> said
today.
The law is the Multiple Sur
face-Use Act, Engle said in a fur
ther report on activities of the
House Interior Committee, of
which he is chairman.
“Put succinctly,” he said, “it
operates to amend historic law so
as to permit the use of the sur
face and the subsurface of the
same tracts of public lands for
pre-patent prospecting and min
ing activity at the same time that
management and utilization of
forestry products, forage crops,
grazing, fish and wildlife, wilder
ness, water, scenic and related
resources go forward.”
“It’s provisions,” he added,
“will also assure that existence
of a mining claim cannot, prior
to patenting, be used to block ac
cess to adjacent lands—all with
out limiting or interfering with
prospecting and mining activities
on the claim proper.”
Among other important miner
al legislation passed by the 34th
Congress, Engle listed the Mining
Claims Restoration Act. This
opens to entry approximately sev
en million acres of public land,
all in the west, which had been
withdrawn for power develop
ment.
“It’s enactment is one more leg
islative step in the drive to en
courage search for, and develop
ment of, the strategic and critical
domestic minerals m and materials
resources so vital to our econ
omy,” Engle said.
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convention is to -wind up.
Eisenhower talked with Nixon
by telephone.
Hall said the President ex
pressed wishes of all Americans
for the quick recovery of Nixon’s
father.
A rule adopted yesterday barred
nominations by acclamation. Hall
said that under convention rules
anyone could be nominated
against Nixon and delegates were
free to cast votes for others than
Nixon even if Nixon’s was the
only name put before the conven
tion.
A convention showdown on
Harold E. Stassen’s campaign to
ditch Nixon remained possible.
The mood of the delegates was
such that only an outright expres
sion of preference for someone
else would induce them to side
track Nixon. And there was abso
lutely nothing to indicate Eisen
hower would do that.
Eisenhower himself is certain
to be renominated unanimously
at the convention session late to
day (4:30 p.m. Bering Standard
Time>. Immediately after that, the
delegates will choose the vice
presidential nominee.
Stassen, on leave as the Presi
dent’s assistant on disarmament,
asked permission yesterday to ad
dress the party convention today
after it renominates Eisenhower
and before the roll of states is
called on the vice presidential
nomination. There was consider
able doubt he would get it.
Stassen said that if he talks, he
will be “presenting the Presi
dent’s judgment, not my own.” He
said he will not drop his drive
against Nixon unless he is con
vinced he is going against Eisen
hower’s wishes.
ROUSING WELCOME
GIVEN EISENHOWER
ON FRISCO ARRIVAL
SAN FRANCISCO, Presi
dent Eisenhower, all smiles, got a
rousing reception on his arrival
here yesterday. His appearance
gave the Republicans something
to cheer about and they turned
out by the thousands as he drove
to a downtown hotel
Nixon headed the list of greet
ers at the airport. He got a warm
handclasp and a few words from
the President.
Harold Stassen, in the receiving
line, also got a presidential smile
and a word or two.
Eisenhower told the crowd at
the airport he had been reading
the papers in Washington and he
suddenly decided “this was too
interesting a place to stay away
from till Wednesday”—when he
originally had planned to come.
So, he said, he persuaded his
family to come out with him a
day earlier.
JUST WHAT THEY NEEDED
TOKYO, —Japan's Welfare
Ministry today unveiled a new
program for helping the poor. One
point calls for opening 200 more
pawn shops.