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VOL. 42. No. 88. NOME. ALASKA. FR DAY, JULY 19, 1940 Pr.ce per copy 19#
F. D. Roosevelt Accepts Nomination
I Secretary Wallace Is Vice-Presidential Nominee
Hitler Makes Last Appeal To Reason Of Britain
Roosevelt Accepts Democratic
Precedent-Breaking Nomination
For Third Term In \^hite House
WASHINGTON,July 18 UP) —
President Roosevelt tonight ac
cepted the Democratic conven
tion’s precedent-breaking nomina
tion to the third term. In a radio
address to the convention, the
President stressed the swift pace
ji of foreign events as influencing
the decision to accept the party’s
call and attempt to shatter trad
ition. He said he is submitting to
the judgement of his countrymen
all that he has done to maintain
the nation’s peace and prepare it
moraliy and physically for what
ever contingencies might lie in
store for it.
i| He said: “We face one of the
great choices in history. It is not
alone a choice of government by
the people versus diotsdM'ships.
It is not a choice of freedom ver
sus slavery. It is not alone a
choice between moving forward
or falling backward. It is all
these rolled into one. It is the
continuance of civilization as we
know it versus the ultimate des
truction of all we have held dear
— religion against godLessness,
the ideal of justice against force,
moral decency versus the firing
squad and the courage to speak
out and to act versus the false
lullaby of appeasement.”
Declaring that selfish, greedy
people couLd not be free, the
President asserted that the Am
erican people must decide whe
ther these things are worth sac
rifices of money, energy and self.
He said they would be. decided
on .the record as it has been made
and record “the things as they
are.”
Henry Wallace Receives \ice
Presidential Nomination But
l Gets Unexpected Opposition
CHICAGO, July 13 (JP) — The j
Roosevelt leaders made Secre
tary of Agriculture Wallace the
Democratic Party's vice-presi
dential nominee tonight but on
ly after bucking unexpectedly
antagonistic booing and widely
l scattered balloting. The Wrallace
* nomination was made unanimous
after one ballot. Speaker Bank
head was the nearest competi
tion.
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Pledged Not To
Fight Outside
Of Americas
. UNDATED,,July 18 (A5) — The
► 1940 ticket of Roosevelt and Hen
ry Wallace running on a plat
form pledge not to fight “out
side of the America’s except in
ease of attack,’’ directly challeng
inig the nation’s historic anti-3rd
term tradition became an all but
accomplished fact, the Democrat
ic convention having given Roose
vet the third term nomination
on the first ballot.
^ The convention reassembled
briefly this afternoon for the pre
liminary hearing of his accept
ance speech, at 6 p.m. PST they
are undertaking the nomination
of Roosevelt’s running mate.
That man chosen will be Secre
tary of Agriculture, and became
apparent after it was disclosed
that Roosevet indirecty designat
ed the Iowan as the one he want
ed. In rapid fire order, these and
other development occurred.
Senator Barkley announced
that President Roosevelt will ad
dress the convention by radio
shortly before that hour.
Mrs. Roosevelt is flying to Chic
j ago from New York and is schcd
uled to make a five minute talk
j in Washington.
Senator Burke said he would
] support Willkie because he was
against the third term. ,
In Chicago, J. C. Quigley, Ne
braska National committeeman
said he would ‘‘glad hand Burke
over Willkie.”
Willkie at Colorado Springs
j said he welcomed the nomination
j because it gave the voters a
I chance to pass upon the third
term question.
Joseph Martin, GOP chairman,
said that when the people get
the facts they will elect Willkie.
Farley declared at a press con
ference in Chicago “I will as
sume the role of prophet” and
predict Roosevelt will defeat
Willkie. He indicated he might
have something to say Friday or
Saturday.
Alaska Delegates
Split Vote Three
Cast For Wallace
I
CHICAGO, July 19 </P>—Wash
ington, Idaho and Alaska fought
pressure from the Wallace
groups to support other candi
dates for the vice-presidential
nomination. Alaska, while pledg
ed for Bankhead decided at the
last minute to change, giving
Bankhead three votes and Wal
lace three. Washington’s vote
was split among five canddiates
with Wallace getting only one
and a half. Idaho gave ten to Me
Nutt and Oregon gave ten to
Wallace.
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Roosevelt Nominated
B y A e e 1 a m a t i o n
On The First Ballot
CHICAGO. July 17 UP — In
the stadium, Thursday, discard
j ing ancient tradition, the Demo
| cratic national convention nois
ily noaninated Roosevelt for a
third term and did it by accla
mation. The unofficial tabulation
, of the first and only ballot show
ed 946 13-30 for Roosevelt; 61 for
Vice-president Garner; 72 17-30
for Postmaster General Farley;
9 1-2 for Senator Tydings of
Maryland; and 5 2-3 for Secre
tary of State Hull.
Alaska cast its six votes for
Farley.
Included in the platform was
a pledge favoring a larger mea
sure of self government leading
to statehood for Alaska, Hawaii,
and Puerto Rico. We favor the
appointment of residents to office
and equal treatment of citizens!
in each of these three territories.
We favor the prompt determin
ation and payment of any just
claims by Indians and Eskimo cit
izens against the United States.
The convention delegates sat
down to wait Roosevelt's reply to
the appeal that he run again but
it was indicated that he will
make no statement until he is
! officially notified.
The convention started the his
tory-making session in the staid
tradtional manner, as the dele
gates stirred and talked in the
same old way while Senator Wag
ner went through the usual rout
ine of reading the patform which
elected applause when he read
sections praising Roosevelt and
approving of legisation enacted
under the New Deal.
Representative Ryan of Minne
sota got the first sample of the
convention mood when he offer
ed a resolution opposing the 3rd
term but his last words were
drowned in a storm of “boos.”
Some ayes were heard when the
question of adoption was put but
they were instantly smothered in
a tumult of noes.
The platform itself was adopt
ed with a roar.
Roosevelt’s name was dropped
at the outset of the state-by-state
roil call when the clerk shouted
"Alabama.” Senator Hill climbed
! through the cr6wd to the speak
ers’ stand and said: "If America
j is to survive we must now give
I the best there is in us in the
j-cause c f freedom, law and jus
I tice, I place the nomination of
that valient American. Franklin
Delano Roosevelt.” Hill stepped
back to the stadium floor and
became one of the mass of yell
ing, dancing, shouting and push
I ing delegates.
Secretary Wallace, waving
1 aloft an uprooted stalk of green
1 corn leaped through the aises.
I The rest of the Iowa delegation
j and Arizona yielded.
Virginia Senator G'ass, aged 82
proposed the nomination of Far
ley in a husky voice and spoke
with considerable effort. “Thru
consideration for the party itself
and for its success and perpetuity
I come from a sick bed to be
present at this convention to
name a great Democrat —James
A. Farley,” he said. He called
Farley a man who believes in |
the unwritten laws and traditions
I of the Democratic party that
have prevailed since the day
Thomas Jefferson, who less than
three years before his death, ap
pealed to the party he establish
ed. never to nominated a man
for a third term. There were
boos from the audience but a mo
ment later cheers when Glass
added ‘‘Since I have been sitting
on this platform I have had two
anonymous communications ob
jecting to Farley because he is a
Catholic, which made me more
determined than ever to nomin
| ate Farley.”
Bombing Planes Attack
The British Isles And
Steamers in Channel
UNDATED, July 18 </P)—Nazi
warp a as expensively shattered
the or.e-day lull, by bombing as
saults , n the British Isles sub
jecting the kingdom to machine
gun attacks on villages and dive
bombing blasts on> steamers in
widespread raids on Wales and
the English channel.
The German command report
ed attacks on the big military
camp at Aldershot. England’s
Plattsburg. about 30 miles south
west of London; and on airports,
factories and harbors in south
and central England. At least five
persons were reported killed, in
cluding a woman slain by a
bemb splinter and four edsrly
persons in a southeast town.
The Nazi command said big
fires were observed started by
-he bomb ng of industrial and ar
pi anient plants. They also report
ed the landing of German troops,
on the French Island of Ouessant
off the coast of Britainny, com
manding the south gateway of
we English channel.
Bad weather the previous 24
-.ours sharply curtailed both the
British and German air raiders
who lashed at each other almost
constantly since the battle for
Britain began June 18.
Six Nazi Stuka bombers storm
ed down on channel steamers in
a morning attack but an eye wit
ness said the ships apparently es
caped harm One raider was be
lieved shot down. The fury of
the German onslaught stirred
speculation w ether if signalled
i the ope; ing p ase of a mass iu
■ vasion by r: 000 N?zi troop
i which the French' newspaper Le
| Petit Dauphinois said earlier this
I week might come Friday.
Hiller Makes ‘"One More
Appeal To Reason England”
Accept Reasonable Peace
BERLIN. July 19 tVP) — Hitler,
speaking before the Reichstag to
night, addressed "one more ap
peal to the reason of England,”
warning “the red world empire
will be destroyed” if England in
sists on continuing the fight. Hit
ler emphasized that he is not
asking for peace in the voice of
the victor demanding capitula
tion of the vanquished but rather
as the victor proposing a reason
able peace. He said: "British
statesmen apparently have no
conception" of the destruction to
be visited upon England if Chur
chil contniues to demand a fight
to the finish. “But one thing is
sure, no Churchill will be left.”
He explained that, in the case of
an attempt at rehabilitation of
Britain by the people left be
hind in London after the great
assault, he said, would have dif
ferent ideas entirely from those
of Churchill and his colleagues.
Touching on the Russo-Ger
man relations he emphasized
that these w'ere “fixed once and
for all by a clear delineation of
interests.”
Recalling previous efforts to
conciliate with England, Hitler
said his policy of European, re
organization was based on a two
fold aim — real friendship with
Italy and a similar relationship
with England which he said
would have been a boon to tl\Q
world if England had accepted
it. He didn’t say definitely what
he expected ChurchiLl to do in
response to his peace offer to
England but left no doubt that
any peace would be on German
terms. ►
Willkie and MacNary May
Prove New Puzzle For
Political Partisans
WASHINGTON — Democratic
Senator Scott W. Lucas of IlLin
oic said that most of the Repub
licans in Congress would find
Wendell Lewis Willkie and Sen
ator Charles L. McNary a most
embarrassing ticket to support.
The Illinois Senator said that
McNary had voted in the Senate
against a most e%'erything Willkie
stands for, including the recipro
cal trade program and rearma
ment. On the other hand, Senator
McNary favored those parts of
the New Deal that Willkie op
posed most bitterly principally
the TVA program and the Secur
ities and Exchange Commission
law.
Thus, according to Lucas, the
Republic ns most of whom have
been isolationists will find it
hard to defend their own votes
in Congress and at the same
time champion Willkie’s opposi
tion views. They will also, ac
cording to Senator Lucas, have a
difficult time picturing Republic
an unity under a- ticket headed
by two such opposite as WUMtie
and McNary.
BATISTA WINS PRESI4
ELECTION IN CCBA
HAVANA, July 15 —Fulgencio
Batista, who once gained narrow
:ame as the best stenographer in
the Cuban army, reappeared and
won the election for President in
-he voting Sunday which was
narred by violence with five kill
ed.
Batista was credited unofficial
ly with gaining a three-to-two or
better margin of victory over
former President Dr. Ramon
Grau San Martin, and will take
office October 1 for a four-year
term.