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have consolidated their forces in Rumania, perhaps in Turkey, and all the Balkans.
 Reason for diplomatic glee is that both the U. s. State Department and the British Foreign Office have been flirting with Russia for months, trying to wean her away from the Axis. Sir Stafford Cripps, special British Ambassador in Mexico, could get nowhere, and it has only been within the last ten days that the State Department found the Rus sians in a genuinely cooperative frame of mind But by this time it was too late.
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LOOK and LEARN 4, sy C. GORDON

l. What is a prime number? asN@s Bible is the death penalty for kidnapers oderedP 3 Whose the growing states? 4 What is the average 
 g. Which is populous country in the world?
 ANSWERS:
 divided without remainder by itself and Exodus 116 8 Whineys the cotton gin inches.
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is a directoir, and also helped to build up the Museum of Modern Art.

is a directoir, and also helped to build up the Museum of Modern Art.
 But in Latin America, young Rockefeller had carved out unique distinction even before he accepted his present post on the Defense Commission. He had gone down to Venezuela in connection with his family's oil companies, and had be- come impressed with the idea that American business in Latin America had to be more than a leech indus try-had to do more than drill wells and suck oil out of the ground
 Furthermore, and particularly in Venezuela, he saw that after that country had exhausted the one con- modity upon which it had been so dependent, economic chaos would follow together with the same pol icy applied in Mexico-expropriation
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HIRAM AND THE THIRD TERM

The third term is terrible thing, take it from Senator Hiram w. Johnson of California.
 Hiram ought to know. He is now campaigning for his fifth term Senator and those have not been four year terms but sx-year terms. If three short terms bad for President, five long terms are worse for a Senator, especially for one whose principal object since he was elected the first time has been to keep out of step with the rest of the Senate.
 But the most ironical comment on Hiram John sons opposition to the third principle (of it is matter purely of principle and not of per- sonalities with anyone high minded as the Sena- tor) is the fact that Johnson was a candidate for Vice President in 1912 a ticket headed by Theo- dore Roosevelt, who running for third term
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VlUULKN LIluULIIL ROBERTA LEE

When is walking with companion meet al acquaintance, S introduction obligatory?
 A. il entirely optional
 Please with of the fork?
 A. buildings, grapefruit Should the O wedding held be whom?
 A. parents of the bride
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ATTENTION

All Moose and Women of the Moose are invited to the Mooseheart- Day Celebration, Friday, October 18th at pm. in the LOOP. Hall. Entertainment, refreshments Il d dancing. -adv.
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Bible, Newspapers,
 One Mans Library

MOORESVILLE, N. C., Oct. 25.- Moses w. White, 90, has read the Bible from cover to cover once for each year of his life. White says the Bible and newspapers constitute his library. He reads
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them both every day-and with out the use of glasses. He has attended 48 Methodist Church con- ferences, beginning in 1884.
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British youngsters who have come to the United States are beng taught baseball. This may be the wrong way to strengthen relations with the En- fish who are apt to think it is not cricket.
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Lieut. Michel Dorence French ace who shct down 13 German planes has come to the United States He couldn't stand being trumped by his own country.
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After being razzed by the New Deal, Senator Hiram Johnson has decided to support Wilkie His action is bolt from the boo
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Russia Squeezes Reich in Baltic" says head line Just one of those little love squeezes.
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Japs are getting mad at the United States they threatening to throw all our scrap iron back at us
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Washington Merry Go-Round

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Weather: Highest, 50; lowest, 4a; rain.
Evening star., 1940-04-28

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DETERMINATION OTED
Press Expresses Resigna-
ton To Seemingly Neces-
sity' OF Large Drive

BERLIN. July '16-TuesdayeR
Informed quarters and the Ger
man press expressed resignation to-
day to "the seemingly inevitable
necessity of smashing Britain with
a mighty blow.
Noting the expressed English de-
termination to resist to the bitter
end, and especially Prime Minister
Churehill's assertion that he would
prefer to see London in ashes than
accept anything less than British
victory, many Germans. e con-
WINGED that there must be military
decision.
Forces Ready
The well-informed commentary,
Dienst Aus Deutschland, said Ger
man forces were ready for such a
decision and that attack bases from
Norway to the Atlantic shores" al
ready had been prepared quietly but
with German thoroughness."
It said the German air force thus
far had not made a large-scale at
tack on England, the assaults to
date having the object of Tightening
the German blockade and weaken
Continued on Page Three, Col. "
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OTHERS ARE PROPOSED
Roosevelt Managers En-
phasize That Vice Presi-
Dental Field Is Open

CHICAGO, July 5.-R-Man-
ayers of the draft Roosevelt
movement, c"anvassing the field OF
possible vice presidential nomi-
mes, were reported tonight to be
giving most thought to the follow
ing:
Secretary OF State Hull, Senator
Byrnes of South Carolina, Jesse
Jones, Federal Loan administra-
tor; Paul V. McNutt, Federal Sc
administrator, and Secre-
tary of Agriculture Wallace.
Field Enlarged
These men were less than half
of the total of 'favorite son. and
other vice-presidential possibili-
ties, the field of actual and poten-
tial candidates having been great
ly enlarged by withdrawals from
the presidential race in the face OF
the Roosevelt drive.
Roosevelt managers emphasized
that, as far as they were con.
cerned, the vice presidential field
was still wide-open but it a S
learned that the five named had
Continued on Page Three, Col. 81
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ANNENBERC'S PLEA
STUDIED BY JUDGE
Bases Appeal For Proba-
ton On Testimony That
He Is Seriously Ill

.CHTSAGO, July 15.-R-Federal
Judge James H. Wilkerson took
under advisement today a plea for
probation for M. L. Annenberg,
based largely on medical testimony
that the Philadelphia publisher was
a seriously ailing man.
Judge Wilkerson, who on July l
sentenced Annenberg to three years
imprisonment on his plea Of gull
ty to evasion of $1,217, 296 income
taxes on his 1886 income, said he
might order examination of Amen
berg by a government specialist.
Presumably the court will rule
on the probation petition before
July %, when Annenberg's stay OF
execution expires.
Three Philadelphia doctors, Ru-
fus S. Reeves, Harry E. Bacon and
Herbert M. Goddard, testified that
Annenberg had heart, sinus and
rectal trouble, arterio-sclerosls,
fContinued on Page Three. Col. q
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Broughton Begin
Inspections fW
laps Will Blockade
More Chinese Ports

NEW YORK, July 15.-[R-
The Japanese government, term
ing Britain's protest "inade-
quate," will begin blockading
China's remaining u%noccupied
ports tomorrow, said a British
radio announcement picked up by
NBC tonight.
The British radio, quoting au-
thoritative sources in China, said
the Japanese navy also refused
to take responsibility for any
damage incurred in sealing the
harbors of Foochow, Sanchow,
Wenchow and Ningpo.
The BIC asserted the British
still intended to hold the Japa-
nese responsible for any damage
to British ships which may result
from typhoons, and pointed out
that the harbors named by ia
pan include a number of typhOOn
anchOrages.
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|SIN0-JAP PEACE
TALKS PROPOSED
Great Britain Offers To
Take Role OF Peacemaker
In Far Eastern War

LONDON, July 15.-P-Great
Britain, engrossed in a war of her
own, offered herself as peacemak-
er today in the three year-old Jap
anese-Chinese conflict.
The British government ivised
Japan of a willingness to close for
three months the last remaining
major ute over which war ma
terials are moving to the Central
Chinese government, authoritative
British sources said, provided ia
pan uses this time to seek a settle
ment with China.
This route is the Burma road, a
segment of the famed road to
Mandalay." Chinese Generalissi-
mo Chang Kai-shek has depended
chiefly on this route for his fighting
supplies mainly American since
the japanese sealed the lifeline
through French do-China.
British informants said London
had kept the United States in
formed of it's offer and thus far
there had been no objections, al
though Washington had sent de-
tailed comment" on the negotia-
tons.
Although some critics might say
Britain had run out on China"
the British sources said the big
gest favor Britain could do for
China would be to beat Germany,
whose achievements have greatly
impressed Japan.
In the current negotiations with
British Ambassador Sir Robert
Leslie Craigie, they added, Japan
unofficially has expressed a desire
for a quick end to the war in China
and said that one thing standing in
the way was the continued ship
ment of supplies over the Burma
road.
Britain, contending that the clos
ing Of this route would not greatly
handicap China, thereupon made
her offer, but retained freedom
Continued on Page Three, Col. 81
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KEEPS
WATCH ON MEET
Talks With Senator Byrnes
Over Special White
House. Chicago Wire

WASHINGTON, July 15.-RE
President Roosevelt lunched with
Secretary Hull and talked with Sen.
ator Byrnes D-S. c. over a spe-
cial White House-Chicago telephone
circuit while dividing his time to-
day between official business and
keeping check on the Democratic
Mr.. Roosevelt called Byrnes at
Chicago soon after his meeting with
Secretary of State. Since both the
South Carolina senator and Hull
have been mentioned as possible
Mr.. Roosevelt, there was specula-
ton that this figured in their con-
versations.
Stephen Early, presidential Sec
rotary, said the president and Sec
rotary of state got together to dis
cuss the Pan American conference
opening in Havana Saturday.
The call to Byrnes, he said. was
to find out what was going on,
in Chicago, and the Senator did
most of the talking.
With the convention under way
with no direct word yet from Mr..
Roosevelt as to his third term at
titude, it was presumedgenerally
that he would have nothing to say
until the nomination had been made
So far as official Washington was
concerned, or rather that part OF
it not attending the Chicago con-
vention, no reasons appeared for
revising the opinion that Mr.. Roos-
Continued on Page Three. Col. u
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Sonman, Pa,
Shafts Swept
By Explosion
Hopes Alternately Raised
And Dashed For Men
Known To Be Missing
q DASH TO SAFETY
Gas Explosion Skaters
Three Sections $4,000
Feet From Entrance

sONMAN. Pa, July Is. Up
Thirteen bodies were recovered to-
NIGHT from the explosion-shattered
Konpers coal mine and hopes alter
natelv raised and dashed for 81 9TH
ers known to be missing.
L. c. Campbell, assistant to the
eo%mpany's vice-president, said a
check definitely established Il men
we're in the mine shortly before
noon when gas exploded, shattering
three sections about 1900 feet from
the entrance.
q Men Escape
Tventy-one men scrambled to SAT-
ETY.. most of them crawling on hands
and knees, leaving SO trapped.
Mine Inspector w. H. Filler said
he rescue workers had located %
bodies and that he did not believe
any of the others in the pit were
alive.
There is some hope the missing
men might have barricaded them
selves in the last section, right en-
try 49," said Campbell. "We hope
to reach that area shortly"
Sonman is a typical mining village
of about 400, situated in the central
Pennsylvania bituminous fields,
about 16 miles east of Johnstown.
Describing the tragedy, Stanley c.
Yuwus, %, of Portage township, one
Of those who escaped, said:
1T was more of a conclusion than
an explosion. A great ball of white
fire swept down the tunnel. I was
knocked down. With the others, I
began scrambling on my hands and
knees for the main dip of the slope"
Bodies Found
All but one man, Freeman George,
escaped from right entry 10. He was
the first c" the dead to be identified.
A dozen bodies were found in right
Continued on Page Three, Col. ~
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Believed
Making Raids
AT Least II Nazi Radio
Stations Throughout
Country Go Off Air
ATTACKED
German Planes Reported
Over Northeast England,
No Bombs Dropped

LONDON, July 16.-(Tuesday)-
R-British filters were believed ear.
ly today to be ranging far and
wide over Germany as at least
IL German and German controlled
radio stations almost as far east
as the old Polish borer went of
the air-the usual mute signal that
raiders are in their vicinity.
The Germans, on their part, were
reported over northeast England
late last night but no bombs we're
dropped and no gunfire was heard.
Stations Silenced
The stations silenced suddenly at
Beemen, Cologne, Munich. Leipzig,
Breslau, Frankfurt, Saar-
brucken, Vienna, Brussels, Hilver
sum and Strasbourg.
If the British actually are raid
ing on such a wide scale over Ger.
manyT they are resuming heavy
aerial attacks of the past few days.
Earlier, the air ministry announ-
ced that British fliers rained ex-
ploives on % German airdromes
during the last 48 hours.
R. A. F. Raiders also attacked
an aircraft factory at Bremen, air
craft stores at Paderborn and Die
pholz, oil plants and refineries at
Gelsenkirchen, Hamburg and Bre-
men, and freight yards at Hamm
and Soest, the ministry said.
Fires and explosions resulted
and considerable damage was
done" the communique said.
Two British planes failed to re-
turn.
Oil Tanks Fired
The attackers bombs also fell
on detectives in the old gabled
Belgian city of Client, setting sew
eral oil tanks afire.
In Berlin the Nazi High Com
mand said the British bombings
were aim1ess'', that only slight
property damage was done and
that three British planes were shot
down. tlM
Berlin also claimed that her bonn
bers Sunday sank three British
merchantmen totalling $1,000 tons
in the Dover Straits and said a
British destroyer, an auxiliary cru
User, and four other merchant ships
damaged.
Other German claims lacking
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PORT RETIREMENT
TALKED AT MEET
Increase In Tonnage Is Ex-
planned By c. D. Hogue,
Commission Chairman

Discussions of ways and means
Oh developing Wilmington as a sea-
port were held at a meeting of the
Better Business club last night at
me Paris cottage, W~rightsville
Beach.
Cyrus D. Hogue, chairman of the
Port commission and principal
speaker, told of how the port de-
V%eloprnent body was formed in 1885
WIN an eye toward increasing the
annual tonnage clearances here.
from 1,030, 900 tons in 1885, he
sald' the port business has in
creased to 2,173, 900 in 1939-more
nan double.
he attributed a large part Of the
increase to the activity of j. I.
nlers, manager of the Port com
mission.
Two of North Cardinals major
continued on Page Three, Col. y
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ULTIMATUM
TO BRITAIN seen
May Be Given Chance To
Line Up With New Sys-
tenn Or Face Onslaught

ROME, July 15.-R-A forecast
was flung out of Italy today that
the axis powers in a few days
would give Britain her chance to
line up with their "renovating, re-
storative'' plan for a new Europe
or else face an onslaught of arms
to force her final overthrow"
The authoritative fascist Editor
Virginia Gayda, limited that an ul-
timatum to that effect would be
forthcoming. Gayda's editorials in
II Giornale D'Italia frequently are
regarded as the voice Of Premier
Continued on Page Three, Col. u
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fiscal year ended June 30, out
year of 1918, the previous high
stripping the World war fiscal
mark, by nearly 500 per cent.
The 1910 contracts for naval
bases, docks, buildings and 9th
er establishments amounted to
$3.50, 1905 compared with
$89, 092, 725 in 1918 and $44, $685.
273 in 1889, the previous peace
time record.
The 627 tanks ordered by the
army today were the first to
be purchased with funds from
the new multi-billion dollar de-
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Chairman's A d d
Sounds Like Formal Fare
we'll To Colleagues
10000 ATTEND MEET
Kelly's Welcoming Talk
Considered Nomination
Speech For Roosevelt
By RICHARD L. TURNER

CHICAGO STADIUM, July Is.
R-Calling for an aggressive cam
paign on the record of perform
Speaker William B. Bank
head voiced tonight a 1910 demo-
cratic keynote of uncompromising
resistance to malignant agrees
sors abroad and assailed the re-
publican platform as political
subterfuge."
He spoke a few minutes after
Chairman James A. Farley of the
Democratic National Committee,
delivering an address which sound
ed to some like a formal farewell
to his party colleagues, had de-
nounced republican leaders for IAN
effort to pin the odious label
war party upon the democratic
party"
Both speakers joined in assert
ing that the coming campaign
against Wendell L. Willfke and the
republican party must be waged
upon the record of eight demo-
cratic years in office. Farley as
serted that unless we give the
country a ticket and a platform
that will satisfy the majority, we
have no certainty of victory"
Addresses Big Crowd
Both speakers addressed a crowd
which packed this big red, white
and blue decked stadium to the
~rafters. The seating capacity ex-
ceeds 20, 900.
The addresses closed a day
which had seen third term lead
ers considering a plan to win nomi-
nation for President Roosevelt
without SO much as placing his
name in formal nomination and
an opening session transformed
the usually dull routine to a
rousing Roosevelt rally by an adj
dress of welcome from Mayor Ed
ward j. Kelly, which was, in eff
feet a nominating speech.
Much attention was attracted by
Farley's closing paragraph - SO
great has been the speculation
whether he would follow his own
desire and retire from
the party Craftsmanship or con-
CONTINUED on Page Three, Col. ~
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Tense program. The army had
ordered 81 light tanks with
1910 funds and has on hand
1872 light and medium tanks
and combat cars built within
the last four years.
The new order, representing
the biggest single purchase of
this nature in peacetime histo-
ry, went to the American Car
and Foundry Co., of Berwick,
Pa, on the basis of bids opened
at Rock Island, ILL.,, last week.
The tanks, weighing about IL
four machine guns of 80 CALI
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-16

WASHINGTON, July 15.-@,
The army awarded a con-
tract today for $1,O0O,O OO
worth of light tanks to bring
its tank het to 1,671-enough
to QUIT the two nefw mechan-
lied "streamline" divisions
and have . few hundred LETT
for other purposes.
At the same time, the navy
reported that its bureau OF
yards and docks, which deals
with shore establishments,
made the heaviest contract
awards in history during the
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-16
SPEAKER BANKHEAD
HEARING
MARKED BY CLASH
Proposal To Convoy Sup
plies To Allies Causes
Dispute AT Chicago

CHICAGO, July 15.-R-A pro-
posal to convoy supplies to Great
Britain led to a clash today as
democratic party platform draft
ers sweltered through what they
hoped was the last day of public
hearings.
Senators Wheeler D-Mont) and
McCarran (D-Nev) took sharp is
sue with Clark M. Eichelberger,
secretary of the committee to De-
fend America by Aiding the Allies,
who said that aid to the British
should include not only airplanes,
guns and %destroyers but conveys
for food and for child refugees
travelling to the western heml-
sphere.
Both senators declared the con-
voying of ~contraband foodstutfs
would be an act of war and would
quickly result in the sinking OF
American warships.
If a battleship flying the Amerl-
can flag at the masthead is sunk,
it won't be Hitler that declares
war;" predicted McCarran. 1T Will
be the American people"
Wheeler accused Eichelberger
and his committee of wanting to
get the United States into Wal and
of "sneaking up on the people, by
failing to distinguish between aid
by the governm ent to the British,