The Wrangell sentinel., 1944-01-28
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Due to the late arrival of Ter ritorial Chairman Howard Lyng oi Nome. Alaska Democrats were still conventioning in Fairbanks as we go to press today The convention, scheduled to open Tuesday, actual ly didn't get under way until late Wednesday, and then under slow bell. the Associated Press informs us.
 Territorial Representative Leo Rogge of the Fourth Division was elected permanent chairman and Stanley Nichols, prominent Alaska Legionnaire, also of the Fourth, was Secretary. There were 30 del- egates present with a total of IS votes out of a possible total of so with the First and Fourth being one short of the allowed 20. Wal ter Sharpe of Juneau was named to head the credentials commit tee. also platform, resolutions and nominations and Charles Miller of Juneau was elected chairman of the rules committee.
 First discussions centered a round an amendment to the Dem ocratic party constitution to pro- vide relative divisional representa- tion at future conventions. It was based on the proportion of Demo- crats polling the highest vote in each Division which would give each Division Is delegates with an additional one for each 25O votes over 1000. This naturally favors the more heavily populated First and Fourth Those in favor argued representation should be based on population which is the basic Am erican principle but the amend ment lost by the close vote of 40 to 39.
 Making it anybody's race for Delegate, Attorney General Henry Roden notified the convention he contemplated filing for Delegate to Congress to succeed Delegate Dimond. Territorial Auditor Frank A. Boyle told the convention he would be candidate to succeed himself and Carl Drager of An ehorage announced he would be a candidate for Attorney General,
 Developments on the political front this week shape up on the surface as follows:
 President Roosevelt has appoint ed Anthony J. Dimond as Judge in the Third Division, succeeding Si- mon Hellenthal. The announce ment following the earlier state ment last week by Delegate Di- mond that he would not seek re- election to Congress where he has served since 1882 and confirmed the previous report that Judge Hellenthal had too much opposi tion to win re-appointment.
 Democratic national committee elected Robert E. Hannegan of St. Louis as Democratic national chairman to succeer Postmaster General Frank c. Walker, who re- turns to his Post Office duties, and who, incidentally, never wanted the job in the first place after Jim Farley stepped out but more or less had it thrust upon him. Most significant statement coming out of the meeting of party leaders was that of James Alyward of Mis- souri who described Hannegan as qualified to lead the party to al grand and glorious victory in the election of Franklin Delano Roose- welt to a fourth term" There was no comment from any source indi- eating the gentleman from Mis- sOuri had talked out of turn. In fact the committee adopted a res olution earnestly soliciting the President to continue as our great world humanitarian leader"
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 Again on the Alaska home front, Lynn Gemmill, OPA attorney in the Territory, has been named to succeed District Attorney William A. Holzheimer who resigned a couple of weeks ago. Genmill was formerly Holzheimer's assistant be- fore he stepped over to OPA.
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 Focusing attention on the can didate front was the number of men who were getting ready to answer that 10year-old question, "who are we going to get in Con gress if Tony should ever decide