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ALASKA WANTS TO VOTE
Residents of the District of Col
umbia have asked for the right
to vote in national elections.
Hawaii has asked to be included
in any legislation to extend the
franchise to those who at present
are not entitled to vote. Alaska
should do the same.
There is no reason we have
ever heard why the people of
the Territories should not vote for
the President of the United Stat
es. He is our President just as
much as he is President of the
rest of the nation. In fact, under
the existing system Alaska is
more directly dependent upon
Presidential decisions and ap
pointments than is any State. It
is the President who appoints
our Governor and the Cabinet
Members whose Departments con
trol nine-tenths of the resources
and wealth of Alaska.
The people of Alaska want to
vote and are entitled in a demo
cracy to that privilege. Alaska
should support wholeheartedly
any legislation designed to ex
tend the franchise to the Terri
tories.
AMERICAN IS DECORATED
BY BRITISH ARMY
LONDON, Aug. 3—An Ameri
can serving with the British
Army has received the Military
Medal for Gallantry during the
recent operations around Dun
kirk.
He is Lance Corporal Harold
Arthur Sims, the first American
to be so decorated in the pres
ent war.
Sims, a wireless operator and
tank gunner in the Royal Innis
killing Dragoon Guards, is a 21
year-old grandson of the late Ad
r.'iral William S. Sims who com- J
rnanded the United States fleet
in European waters during the
first World War.
F. J. FLYNN MADE
DEMOCRATIC CHAIRMAN
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 — Ed
ward J. Flynn of New York to
day acceptedthe chairmanship of
the Democratic National Commit
tae, effective August 17, it was
announced after a White House
conference.
Well known in New York pol
i'ics Flynn had recently been a
Roosevelt consultant.
James J. Farley, Henry W. Wal
lace and Roosevelt made the de
cision after a conference with the
committee named by the Demo
cratic convention.
Said Flynn: “There can be only
a repitition this year of the el
ection four years ago. Reversal
is impossible. Our forces are
trained to victory. Our opponents
are hardened by defeats.”
AL SMITH IS BOLTER
OF DEMOCRATIC RANKS
NEW YORK, Aug. 1 (JP) — A1
Smith declared here that “in my
opinion, the recent so-called Dem
erratic Convention in Chicago
sounded the death knell of the
Democratic Party.”
He said further that he and
“millions of other genuine Demo
crats throughout the United Stat
es will continue to protect and
defend the true Democratic prin
ciples and will in no way, will
ingly or silently, tolerate any
foreign blocs, call them New
Dealers or what-not in the com
ing election. We will march un
der the banner of Wendell L.
Willkie, a lifelong Democrat.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Col.,
Aug. 1—Wendell I#. Willkie said!
that he is “greatly pleased” at A!
Smith’s action.
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NEW CASE LOOMS
LONDON, Aug. 3 —High dip
lomatic sources close to the Brit
ish Government indicated that
Great Britain, in spite of the im
j pending Nazi drive against the
British Ises may take retaliatory
action against Japan for that na
tion’s treatment of British nation
als and the complete ignoring of
British protests.
The source said that one of
the first action by the British
would probably be the reopening
of the Burma Road which was rei
cently closed at Japanese re
puest. The Burma Road is one
of the chief life lines of the Chin
ese army.
At the same time there seem
ed to be definite indications in
Tokyo that Japan intends to join
with the Axis Powers against
Britain, taking advantage of the
troubled conditions in Europe to
seize British possessions and gen |
erally expand her sphere of influ j
ence in the Orient at the expense
of the European nations and the i
United States.
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At least 41 persons were burned to death when a Pennsylvania railroad motor coach crashed head
on into a freight train at Cuyahoga Falls near Akicn, O. The impact telescoped the gasoline power
ed commute train shuttling from Hudson, O., to Akron and set fire to its fuel tanks. This picture
shows the shattered wreckage of the motor coach after the flames had taken their tragic toll.
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Rescue workers are shown here extricating the body of one of the 41 persons killed. The fatally
burned victim, a woman, is shown at the left. The rescuer with the helmet is using a blow torch.
FREIGHTER IS CHARTERED
FOR MID-SEASON RUSH
TACOMA, Aug. 1 — The Al
aska Steamship Company chart
: ered the coastal freighter Lake
Francis for the special midseason
. ; “rush” run to Kodiak Island and
Alaska Peninsula points.
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EXPORTS OF U. S.
INCREASE ONE-THIRD
WASHINGTON-,American ex
I ports rose 33 per cent in value
(during the first six months of the
European war and imports in
creased 27 per cent, the com
merce department reports.
A survey of trade from Sep
tember, 1939, to February, 1940,
showed shipments of United
over the corresponding six
States products to Canada and
Latin America increased approxi
mately 47 percent, to Europe 27
per cent and to Asia 33 per cent
months in 1938-39.
British Restrictions Felt
Total exports were valued at
1,949 million dollors as compar
ed with 1,460 million dollars in
the previous period. Shipments
to all of Europe total 825 million
dollars as compared with 647
million dollars in the same per
iod in 1938-39. Of this amount
316 million dollars went to the
United Kingdom and 149 milion
dollars to France.
The report noted that while ex
ports to the United Kingdom
were 11 per cent above those of;
the 1938-39 period, they were 13
per cent below those of a com
parable period two years before.
Because of the need of conserv
ing exchange to meet war condi
tions, the department said Great
| Britain and France have placed
restrictions on purchases which
1 have hit American tobacco,
grain, fruit, lumber, gasoline and
J automobiles.
“Consequently the increases in
United States exports to the Unit
I ed Kingdom and France, which
together took 24 percent of our
total exports during this period,
was only slightly larger than the
increase in total United States
trade,” the report said.
Exports to Nazis Almost Vanish
It pointed out that declared ex
ports to Germany and German
occupied areas dropped to $700,
000 in the six months period as
compared with 72 million dollars
in the corresponding period of
1938-39 and 96 million dollars in
the 1937-38 period.
Other facts in the report in
cluded:
1— During the period under ex
amination Europe bought $181,
538,000 worth of American cot
ton an increase of 135 per cent ov
er the previous comparable per
iod. Japanese purchases totaled
$34,864,000.
Russia Increases Metal Purchases
3—The Union of Soviet Social
ist Republics purchased increas
ed amounts of copper, ferro
alloys, gasoline and wheat, but j
less metal-working machinery.
Italy took increased amounts of
cptton. copper, lubricants, iron
and steel.
2— Exports to Canada and oth
er countries in North America
were valued at 284 million dol
lars and those to Latin America
at 392 million dollars.
5—Exports to Asia were valu
ed at 338 million dollars or 33
per cent larger than in the cor
responding period 1938-39.
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