The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 18, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” PRICE TEN CENTS VOL. LVI,, NO. 8468. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS ROOSEVELT NOMINATED AGAIN WALLACE ISSLATED FOR VICE-PRESIDENT This CONVENTION | IS WAITING NOW ONFDR Acceptance of Nomination | for President Due at | 6 This Evening : AGRICULTURE HEAD ; AS RUNNING MATE Mrs. Roos&al} Flying to Chicago to Make Ad- dress fo Delegates OCIATED PRESS) (BY A The 1940 Democratic Party Ticket—Franklin D. Roosevelt for President, and Henry Agard Wal- lace for Vice-President—running on a platform pledged not to fight of the Americas except s of attack,” and directly challenging the Nation’s historic anti-Third Term tradition, became all but an accomplished fact early this afternoon. | The Democratic ‘National Con- | vention, having given Roosevelt a third term nomination on the first ballot, the convention reassembled briefly this afternoon, preliminary to hearing Roosevelt's acceptance gpeech, scheduled for 6 o'clock to- ide in c: the Chicago convention to line thi Presidential nomination but early Roosevelt, moved the nomination gates did this same thing. Here is Postmaster Gefieral James A. Farley, Chairman of the Demo- cratic National Committee, waving his hat as he left New Fork for BLITZKRIEG OFENGLAND IS STARTED IsJim | Thrown Against Brifain | in Wide Assaults ‘ READY T0 SAIL | Air Raids T.hbu?;ht Possible Prelude to Invasion | by Troops | (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Nazi warplanes explosively shat- assaults on the British Isles by subji | English Channel. land’s Plattsburg, southwest of London. Airports, ngs up. He was a candidate for the this morning, following the slide to of FDR be unanimous. The dele- were bombed and strafed. |by a bomb splinter, and four elderly night (PST) and making nomina- tion of a running mate. That the man chosen will be the present Secretary of Agriculture, became ap- parent after it was disclosed that President Roosevelt indirectly des- iznated the Iowan as the one he 1 | rapid fire order these and developments are coming up. Roosevelt's Address Senator Barkley announced that President Roosevelt will address the convention by radio at 6 o'clock (PST) and shortly before that hour, Mrs. Roosevelt, flying to Chicago from New York, is scheduled to make a five-minute talk. In Washington, Senator Burke of | Nebraska announced he has bolted | from the Democratic Party and will | support Wendell L. Willkie because nst a third term. Good Riddance Platfor BRITAIN IN TIGHT SPOT RIGHT NOW ‘Churchill Offers Services fo want In other he is & mf.ifm.‘”"{i!.’fii?;ai c'o,g'.m?;;f!;,, saia| Japan-China o End War w is “glad to hand Burke over . e Wikl | -Warns His Ministers In Colorado Springs, Willkie said | he welcomed the nomination of| LONDON, July 18.—Prime Min- Roosevelt because it gives the vot~!jster Winston Churchill today pro- ers a chance to pass upon the third ferred the good offices of Great term question. |Britain to end the three-year-old Joseph Martin, Chairman of the Chinese-Japanese war by peaceful Republican National Committee, means alone. said that when the people get the| Churchill told the House of Com- facts, they will elect Willkie. {mons that Great Britain has con- James A. Farley declined at a cluded an accord with Japan which conference with” newsmen this af- | closes the Burma Road against war ternoon in Chicago to “assume the 'supplies to China because “Great role of prophet” and predict the|Britain is bound to take note of defeat of Willkie by Roosevelt but, the dominant fact that now she is indicated he might have something engaged in a life and death strug- to say Friday or Saturday. gle.” | Churchill said Great Britain has no desire to interfere in the legiti- mate aims of either China or Japan but exigencies in the situation has compelled Great Britain to make the Burma Road accord as a “tem- porary arrangement” in the hope the time so gained may lead to an equitable solution to both. He' emphasized the grave char- acter of Great Britain’s position now and asked all minister “whose | duties are intimately connected with 0" Aum (u”[n the conduct of the war” to sleep in # . |their offices. He asserted that his The Ketchikan Chamber of Com- ‘ reasons in so doing were sufficiently merce has reaffirmed to the Civil Obvious. Aeronautics Authority its protest, B { ENROUT! against the CAA certificate which| MISS FRASER | emp]‘l”yi . prohibits the Alaska Clipper from , ."oe .o "¢ Territorial Treasurer, carrying passengers and airmailbe- |, "o ming pere on the steamer {ween Ketchikan and Juneau, 8C- p. .. e .cior vacationing in the cording to a telegram received 1o- giapec day by the Juneau Chamber. ‘ Tt i S A The Ketchikan organization| mpg STERLING ARRIVES states it is asking removal .of the; Mrs, Hawley Sterling was a pas- prohibition, notwithstanding m‘.umr arriving here on the steamer fact that passenger service s NOW North Sea. She has been in Seattle peing provided by a loeal carrier, ° for the past winter, Henry A. Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture, was born on a farm in Adair County, Iowa, October 17, 1888, is married and has two sons - and a daughter, — e — KETCHIKAN RENEWS DEMAND FOR MAIL */ —,ro———— Foreign Policy Plank in | |persons in a Southcast England town. | Fires Started The Nazi command said big fires | were observed after bombing indus- trial and armament plants. It was troops were landing on the French island of Oussant, off the coast of m of Democrafs { TR Brittany and commanding the south CHICAGO, TIL, July 18. The | gateway to the English Channel. Party Platform adopted last niuhtl Bad weather in the past twenty- by the delegates to the Democratic|{four hours sharply curtailed both National Convention included a|British and German air raiding, the | plank which declared that “We raiders who had lashed at each | will not send our Army, Naval or |other almost constantly since the ;Alr forces to fight in foreign landsz‘Ba'.He of Britain began June 18. | outside of the Americas, except in| Storms Down Coast cases of attack.” | Bix Nazi Stuka bombers stormed Secretary of Commerce Harry L [down on English Channel steamers Hopkins declared that nothing in | this morning, but eyewitnesses said the foreign policy plank changes in the ships apparently escaped harm any way the foreign policy of Pres-|and one of the raiders was believed ident Roosevelt or Secretary of [to have been shot down. | State Cordell Hull. | § The fury of the German on- |slaught stirred speculation as to | Alaska Planks i | Included in the platform is n‘:vr::,tghe;r°:h2°;glfi:3::&;h;l°"' | pledge fav z arg re | © hase [ < SEBAEOVE % which the French newspaper statehood, for Alaska, Hawali and | Puerto Rico and “we favor the| | appointment of residents to office | and equal treatment of citizens of | each of these territories. “We favor the prompt determin- ation and payment of any just| claims by Indian and Eskimo citi- | zens of Alaska against the United | States.” ., KETCHIKAN, Alaska, July 18.— E‘Tne Alaska Trollers Association, |AFL, and the United Trollers of Spanish Workers Parade in Demonstration— Franco Talks MADRID, July 18.—Two hundred thousand Spanish workers, shouting in rythm, “Gibraltar, Spanish,” paraded Madrid’s streets in cele- bration of the fourth anniversary of the outbreak of the Nationalist revolution. Gen. Francisco Franco added to the demonstration by stating in a declaration that he expetes Spain to get back the rocky peninsula that Great Britain acquired in the war ‘more than 200 years ago, Petit Dauphinois had said earlier this week might come Friday. WAREHOUSEMEN WONT HANDLE TROLL SALMON Southeast Alaska Tieup Gets Under Way at 6 Last Night the industry at 6 o'clock last night as members of a joint committee here announced a tieup over all Southeast Alaska. Pickets of both unions were on the dock today. Ragnar Hansen, Secretary of the Ketchikan District Council of the Maritime Federation, declared the CIO warehousemen and cutters will not handle troll, caught salmon until a settlement is reached. Hansen expects packers and troll- ers coming in to sell to the can- neries and not go out again until the tieup'is over. “Trollers are demanding prices of 14 cents a pound for large reds, 10 cents for mediums, 8 cents for whites and 6 cents for cohoes, about two ‘un‘s above current prices, | Fresh Fury (")vaB‘ombers Are‘| tered the one day lull in bombing ng the kingdom to machine | gun atiacks en villages, dive bomb- |ing blasts on steamers, and wide- spread raijds in Wales and on the The German High Command re- | ported attacks were made on a big military camp . at. Aldershot, Eng- about 30 miles | factories and harbors in South and Central England also At least five persons were report- | ed killed, including cne woman slain also reported German " Alaska, CIO, launched a tieup of | . e e — o ¥ i | | | | FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Alaska Delegation Vofes ~ For Farley, as Instrucled, - Then Joins FDR Landslide e E CHICAGO, TIll., July 18—Capt. James V. Davis, Chairman of Ihr“ Alaska delegation to the Demogratic National Convention, said that | inasmuch- as Franklin D. Roosevelt was not officially a candidate fori renomination as President, the Alaska delegation felt it was instructed to cast a vote for James A. Farley | i Davis explained that the Alaska delegation was instructed to vote for ! i Roosevelt if he was a candidate, otherwise to vote for Farley, which was done on the first ballot. | ! The members* of the Alaska delegation joined with the other delega- | tions later in making Roosevelt’s renomination unanimous by acclamation | Members of the Alaska delegation are wearing William B. Bankhead lbuuons showing the Vice-Presidential choice, | PARACHUTE \Alaska Refains PLATOONTO TRAIN NOW Army Announces Experi- { ment to Be Tried Soon | at Fort Dix, N. J. gates. L WASHINGTON, July 18. — The War Department announces an ex- periment in training parachute | 4 S RS Matanuska ' | troops such as Germany and Rus- | sia are using in the European war ! | . | for the first time, | i' ro‘e‘l s 'o The department says a test para- | chute platoon of two officers and 48 | men has been organized to be given | training at Fort Dix, N. J., beginning e eopene | July 29 and continuing to August 3. | - - eee WASHINGTON, July 18—Major General Schley, Chief of the Army Engineers, has directed a review of the report on the Rivers and Har- bors plans to decide whether modi- |fications should be made in the Matanuska River project, 'National Convention CHICAGO, ML, July 18, — | Capt. James V. Davis, Chair- | man of the Alaska delegation | to the Democratic National Convention, says the Rules Committee has voted unani- moeusly to leave the representa- tion of the territcries to Na- 1‘ tional conventions as‘'at pres- ent. This means Alaska will | keep six delegates instead of | being reduced to three dele- MRS. HERMLE BACK | WITH TWO CHILDREN . Mrs. John Hermle and her son and daughter, John Jr., and Jean, returned here on the steamer North Sea after spending several months in the States, Drafied Third Time for President of U. Six Delegates fo L tion. 5. i i i Senalor In Bolt Burke of Nebraska, Twice Hit Hard, Deserts Democrafs WASHINGTON, July 18—United States Senator Edward R. Burke of Nebraska announced he will bolt the Democratic party ranks and support Willkie. Fhe Senator was defeated for re- nomination in the Nebraska Pri- mary by Gov. Cochran. Senator Burke made public a etter to the Republican nominee in which he said “as one who feels deeply that in the light of the pres- ent world conditions, it is essential that our country maintain the two term limitation fenure of office for - the President of the. United States. T will work for your vic- tory at the polls in November.” Burke broke with President Roosevelt over the court reorgani- zation plan and has carried his peeve since then which was aggra- vated by his defeat for renomina- -ee - ERROR DISCOVERED IN PRIMARY TALLY; JIM DAVIS SECOND An error of 100 votes in addition of First Division Democratic primary election ballots was discovered by the office of the Clerk of: Court today in a recount The correct totals now place James V. Davis second highest among the House nominees instead of fourth. The order of the Democratic nom- inees to the House of Representa- tives is as follows: John McCormick, James V. Davis, Allen Shattuck, Mrs. Crystal Snow Jenne, TRADITION DISCARDED BY DEMOS \Convenfion Delegates Choose President for An- other Term, the Third SELECTION COMES AS UNANIMOUS VOTE Farley Makes Mofion o Make It by Acclamation —Platform Adopted CHICAGO, Iil, July 18. — Dis- carding an ancient tradition, the Democratic National convention early today noisily nominated Franklin D. Roosevelt for a third term as President of the United States and did it by aeclamation, this ac- tion being taken on a motion made by James A. Farley, Chairman of the Democratic National Commit- tee and seconded by various others, incjuding _ United States Senator b Millard E. Tydings, of Maryland, himself & nominee for the Presi- dency. The unofficial tabulation of the first and only ballot taken in the six-hour night session of the con- vention is as follows: 946 13/30 for Roosevelt. 61 for Vice-President Nance Garner, 72 17/30 for Postmaster Gen- eral James A, Farley. 9% for Semator Tydings of Maryland. 5 2/3 for Secretary of State Cordell Hull. Alaska cast lts six votes for Far- ley but joined other delegations in | the unanimous nomination by ac- | clamation, History-Making Session The Democratic National Con- | vention started the history-making session yesterday in a staid tradi- tional manner. The Delegates stirred and talked in the same old way while United States Senator Robert F. Wagner of New York went through the usual routine of reading the Party Platform. Senator Wagner elicited tremen- dous applause when he read the sections of the platform praising President Roosevelt and approving of legislation enacted under the New Deal, Gets Convention's Mood Representative E. J. Ryan ol Minnesota got the first sample of the mood of the convention when he offered a resolution opposing the third term but his last words were drowned in a storm of “boos.* Some ayes were heard when the question of the adoption was put but they were instantly smothered in a tumult of no's. The platform was adopted with a roar. Roosevelt's Name Bobs Up Roosevelt’s name was dropped into the convention at the outset by the state by state roll call on the Presidential nomination when the clerk shouted “Alabama.” Senator Lister Hill of Alabama climbed through the crowd to the Speaker's stand and said: “If America is to survive, we must now give the best there is in us in a cause of freedom, law and justice, “I place in nomination that vali- ant American, Franklin D. Roose- velt.” John Delegates In Uproar Senator Hill stepped back and the Chicago Stadium floor immedi~ ately became a mass of yelling, dancing, shouting and pushing dele- gates. Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace, waving aloft an up- rooted stalk of green corn, leaped through aisles with the rest of the Iowa delegation and started the great Roosevelt parade through thie " (Continued on Page ' Eight)