The Wrangell sentinel., 1944-12-08

this week Tn the GoANIS21 "A'N 2 Baker. Republican of Nome in tie contest which was decided by lot. Roth had 492 votes in the general election for a seat in the House. Under the election law such con- tests may be decided by lot. Mrs. Cross drew the long straw and the seat.
 With the special election, Decem- Der 27. but Is days away there ap- pears to be three main candidates in the race to fill the Senate seat left vacant through the death of the late Senator A. P. Walker. They are F. F. "Dick" Davis of Juneau, Allen Shattuck of Juneau and Frank Price of Sitka. In view of the fact that the election is a tree-tor- all with no party lines drawn, it is I anticipated there will be a scatter ing vote for several others but the campaigns are being made around the three men mentioned above.
 Davis Juneau longshoreman and secretary of the CIO local in the capital city, is the avowed labor candidate. Both CIO and A.F. of l.. groups are reported to be going down the line for him. According to the dope, Ketchikan will offer no candidate and labor groups there are beating the drum for Davis. ]. Should this so-called labor vote muster the strength it revealed in the recent primary and general election, Dick has a good chance of being elected.
 Price, Sitka native, who has run repeatedly on the Albert White Re publican ticket for the Legislature, . is expected to cut in somewhat on Davis vote in view of the report that the ANB will give it's endorse ment to Price What this endorse | ment actually amounts to is a mat ter for conjecture as in the recent general election Price had the sup port of ANB but still failed to win while Democratic candidates with ANB endorsement were successful l Whether ANB will stick together now that party lines are out re- mains to be seen.
 Former Senator Allen Shattuck is expected to rally the conservative vote, drawing from neither h e ranks of the progressives, the labor ties nor the ANB. An Alaska coun- terpart of Virginia's Senator Byrd, Missouri's Bennett Clark or New York's Ham Fish, Shattuck will ap- peal to those who look a little ask ance at statehood as something for the dim, distants future; frown at any attempt to set up an efficient |, tax program for the Territory with | the aim of making it self-sufficient | and not always dependent on the Federal government; chary of changing the status quo, successful | business man Shattuck will appeal | to the "haves" in a contrast with 1 that great body of ''have-nots.
 With neither party out support | ing ticket and dragging the voters to the polls, the total vote is gen. erally forecast to be light-possibly !
  the number cast in the First divi- l sion in the general election. Labor 1 is working to get it's voters a | supporters to the polls, enhancing the chances of Juneau's Davis.
 
 Juneau's young progressive group considered for a time running Err nest Parsons, prominent young bus-I mess man and progressive of the capital city, but at last report had abandoned the idea, fearful that with labor solidly behind Davis their candidate would get little sup port from that source.
 Delegate Anthony J. Dimond, who is retiring from Congress to become Judge in the Third division, is ex- pected to be in Alaska shortly after December To- Mrs. Dimond already is located at their home in Anchor age and Judge Dimond was plan ming to get away from Washington Delegate-elect Bob Bartlett, who is now on the Washlngton scene.
 
 Gov. Ernest Gruening, who has been on his annual mission to Washington for the past several weeks, is expected back in the Ter ritory around the first of the year.
 
 There is considerable agitation among sawmill operators, particu- larly those who see their stock piles mounting, to get the Army to use Alaska lumber Outside. Reason ap- pears to be that the Army is indi- eating in some instances that it has about all the lumber it needs in the Territory. Operators. fearful t h e Army contracts which have been Such good businass might ha near