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Constantine Brown. might be in
duced to force the peace issue and
accept honorable" terms rather
than be destroyed.
In official quarters in Washington,
where the Hitler speech was listened
to with utmost care. 1t is believed
that the Fuehrer did not exaggerate
when he said Germany is better pre-
pared in the air than when the in.
vasion of the Low Countries was
launched in May. T. is quite true
that the factories in Germany and
Czecho-Slovakia have been working
overtime ever since the outbreak Of
the war and they are capable of pro-
ducing a minimum Of 1000 planes Q
month-and possibly 2,700.
Air Losses Not Heavy.
In the forthcoming offensive
against the British Isles, the Ger
mans will need mostly airplanes,
and they have more than they need.
German officials in Berlin have told
neutral observers Germany could
easily afford to lose between 10000
and $4,000 planes to conquer Great
Britain.
Ever since the outbreak Of the
war the German high command has
been concentrating on training pi-
lots. The losses in France and Flan-
ders were not particularly heavy. 1t
is reported that less than 300 pilots
have been killed. Germany, these
officials say, can lose 10 times that
number and still have formidable
| air force.
The stores of gasoline and oil have
not been seriously depleted in the
| campaign on the western front.
Much oil and gas have been found
in Holland and in Norway, and it is
on these stores tina; the Germans
have been drawing mainly in the
campaign against France. These
stores have been nearly used up,
because the tanks and armored cars
have required great quantity. In
the campaign against Britain, tanks
and motorized units won't be neces-
sary at first.
Gasoline Believed Available.
Although British aviators have
hampered the supplying of air bases
in Belgium, Holland and France by
their continued raids, it is reported
that enough gas is now available
for the Germans to start operations
within the next 48 hours. These
won't be started quite so soon, It is
believed, because Hitter expects some
results from yesterdays speech to
the Reichstag.
He hopes that his threats might
frighten the population Of England
into submission despite the deter
mination of the government to fight
| it out.
1t was noticed that in the shower
OF field marshalships on leaders of
the army and air force, the navy
has not been given It's share of great
admirals (the equivalent Of field
marshaD. The reason is that these
will come at the END of the cam.
paign against Britain, If that cam.
paign is as successful as Hitler hopes
| it will be.
There are a number of rear and
vice admirals who will be in charge
| OF the naval operations, and these
men will have to show their mettle
like their colleagues of the army
and air force before they get the ad.
ditional broad stripes
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Columbia Heights Christian

The guest speaker tomorrow
morning will be the Rev. John l..
Nixon, director of the social vel
fare department of the Washington
Federation of Churches. His topic
will be Tear Down the Walls!"
A. C. Ridgeway, chairman of the
Board of Elders, will preside in the
absence of Rev. A. P. Wilson, who
is at Bethany Beach, Del, where
he is conducting a series of lectures
at the Adult Conference of the
Disciples of Christ. He will return
the following Sunday to continue
the series of sermons on Prophecy
and Present-Day History" with the
topic 'The Scepter Of Judah in Re-
lation to the Anglo Saxon Race" "
which will be followed by "Prophe-
cies to Be Fulfilled In Our Life
time"
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Rock Creek Tent
Services Continue

Meetings at the tent at p street
and Rock Creek Park will continue
under the direction of the Rev. j.
Elwood Evans, evangelist from Hous-
ton, Tex. The services begin at
7:45 o'clock each night OF the week,
except Saturdays. Special nights
have been arranged, to continue
through the week, during which rep
resentatives from different churches
will be present. Pastors over the city
have Joined in this evangelistic
effort for Washington.
Young peoples night Is observed
each Friday. This service has drawn
large crowds.
Meetings for boys and girls con-
tinue each morning through Friday
at 10 am.
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Rev. and Mrs. Ketchum
Go to Cincinnati

The Rev. and Mrs. Irving w.
Ketchum will be in Cincinnati, Ohio,
tomorrow. He will preach the SER
mon at the ordination of their son,
Paul Freley Ketchum, in the Cove
nant-First Presbyterian Church, to
which he was recently called to be-
come assistant pastor
DR.. Frank Elder, pastor of the
church, will deliver the charge. The
Rev. James Murray Drysdale, Njr., OF
Washington and now pastor in Gin
cinnati Presbytery will make the
ordination prayer. Both young men
were members of the Covenant-First
Presbyterian Church of Washington
and also members of the Friar Club
OF Princeton Theological Seminary
Mr.. Drysdale graduated year ago
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the convention; rage because the
President had dictated Wallace's
nomination; rage because many Of
the old-line Democrats hated the
idea OF being compelled to take this
100 per cent New Dealer as the
second man on their national ticket.
But what did it all amount to when
the check was cashed? Very. very
little. These opponents of Mr.. Wal
lace. and seemingly OF the President
himself, quieted down like lambs.
They changed their votes from
Bankhead and McNutt to Wallace,
the very man they had been de-
nouncing as mot a real Democrat
only few minutes earlier. And
to cap it all, they voted to make
Mr.. Wallaces nomination unani-
nous. So much for the much pub
licized revolt"
Bossed in Big Way.
The fact of the matter is that Mr..
Roosevelt had the Democratic con-
vention right in the hollow of his
hand from its beginning to the end.
The convention danced every time
he pulled the strings. If that is
meant by what is called a "bossed
convention" then this convention
was bossed and in a big way.
Never did convention ever SEEM
lngly get SO angry-and then the
members with a great show of
unanimity do exactly what they had
been so angry about.
First there was the anger over
the third-term nomination. Demo-
Gratis of long standing shook their
heads obviously over that issue.
Some of them almost danced with
rage when it was suggested that
the Democratic party would abandon
its traditional stand against giving
any man a third term in the White
House. When the showdown came,
however, and the draft Roosevelt"
drive was on in the first ballot to
renominate the President, only two
or three men out of the whole lot
were willing to make a real demon
stration and to speak against the
Roosevelt third-term nomination
And only about $50 out of 100 votes
were cast against the third-term
nomination-cast for candidates who
had never had a first term.
Postmaster General Farley stuck
to his guns. He had his name laid
before the convention for the presi-
dental nomination by another DEM
ocrat who is as strongly opposed to
third presidential term as is Farley,
Senator Glass of Virginia. The
veteran Senator, before he made
his now historic address to the con-
vention placing Farley's name in
nomination. sent word to Mr.. Farley
that he intended to mention the
third-term issue If that was all
right. The word came back to Mr..
Glass that it was perfectly o. K.
with Mr.. Farley, to go as far as he
wished.
Few Opponents Speak.
Despite the feeling of reluctance
that gripped hundreds of the dele
gates over the third term, the voice
of Senator Glass was virtually the
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Dr.. R. H. MiIIer's Sermon
Lost Before Vocation

'"The Things That Are Priceless"
will be the subject of DR.. Raphael H.
Miller tomorrow morning at the
National City Christian Church.
DR.. Miller is preaching for the last
time this season before he leaves
for the summer vacation. He and
Mrs. Miller and Raphael, jr., will
spend part Of August at Estes
Park, Colo, where DR.. Miller will
deliver lectures before the summer
school of Phillips University.
At $50 pm. tomorrow, the Young
People will meet in the Vermont
avenue building, while the senior
high group will meet at the home
of Thelma Hartman, l Noyes drive,
Silver Spring, Md.
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Dir. Kelly to Preach
Pre-Vucution Sermon

At the Georgetown Presbyterian
Church tomorrow DR.. John Bailey
Kelly will speak on Hot Goals for a
Cold World" This is DR.. Kelly's
last service before going on his
vacation.
During his absence from the city
his pulpit will be occupied by the
Rev. DR.. Orlo Choguill of Emporia,
Kans.. well-known and popular
preacher and leader of young people
In the Middle West. The services
throughout the summer are at II
am.
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Atonement Lutheran

"The Unjust Steward" will be the
theme Of the Rev. James T. Powers
at the mathis service at $50 am
He will preach at II am. service on
Handicapped Lives" There will
be no vesper services during the
summer months.
Hood College summer school will
begin Monday morning and con-
tinue until Friday. Many members
Of Atonement will attend.
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Old Political Pattern Abandoned

The nature Of the
party into ideas and principles prompt
sentiment for the
wallace Roosevels
from the old political availability
Wallace Is New Dealer.
No lifelong Democrat,
bilious widely successful
administration of the stamp a
imagination He probably
counts public life and he makes intelligence
lacks IN political experience His nomination would cnch
control the national ticket and the cost of hurting
feelings faithful
voted for Grover Cleveland can't Democratic
Following this there another cedth
OF the Democratic National Committee
and the hacks view of the
people Enthusiastically professional machine politicians
fate that has beaen the Penderga machine in Kansas City
Long machine in Louisiana the outfit
and the loss national Democratic party
tions Of all these combine
be suspicious political
leadership
Party Unity of New Type
One thing is certain The New Deal which
Chicago throughout the
possible for the of the Democratic
would not understand respond of unity
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v l uc1IlOSi dCy
can be agreed to
by Republicans
and Democrats
a ke without
I n d n G an
answer to the
biggest question
propounded by
President Roose-
velt's acceptance a
Of a third nomi-
n a t ion. That
question is: Does
t h e U n i t e d
States contain
no other man
canahle of lead
Evening star., 1940-07-20

TIC ueIecCION on Corporation
Lawyer Senator Burke of Nebraska
to the Willkie camp is only the first
OF a number Of defections on the
familiar pattern of AL Smith, John
Davis and the other hard-boiled
eggs Of 1885. The good humor OF
the majority which permitted the
overlong effort of the Garner and
the Tydings nominators to wave
the bloody shirt Of the 1888 purge;
the whole spectacle of the New
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HE opinions OF the ers this page their oun not
necessarily The Stars Such optons presented
Stars e0or to gtue all sides OF questions OF interest
readers although such opinions may contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars.
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Chevy Chase Methodist

DR.. G. Ellis Williams, district su-
perintendent of the West Washing
ton district, will speak at the morn
ing service in the absence of the
Rev. Edward Gardiner Latch. Morn
ing services begin at $50 o'clock
during July and August.
The Rev. Mr.. Latch is dean of
the Methodist Senior Conference,
which has been in session at West
minister, Nd, this week. Miss Mar
jorie Pitt is one of the secretaries,
and Misses Peggy Stanton, Nancy
Troth and Jane Kudlick have been
in attendance.
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ton of the Brit
isn Empire is
scofed at in
London, where
h e interpreta
ton Of these
v ords Is that
Hitler wants
Britain to be the
overseer of an
empire which, In
fact, will be un-
der Berlin.
Even so, Hitler
believes the Brit
ish people not
the government
Evening star., 1940-07-20

GUEST MINISTER-The Rev.
Henry J. Whiting, institution
al pastor of the Lutheran
Inner Mission Society of Bal
timore, will preach at the
Takoma Lutheran Church to-
morrow and July % in the
absence of the Rev. J. Adrian
Pfeiffer. The 8 pm. service
will be omitted, but the 10
o'clock service will be re-
tanned. The early 8 o'clock
service will be resumed Au-
gust 4.
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way IN Wnlcn the
revolt" against
t h e nomination
Of Secretary of
Agrtc ulture
Henry A. Wal
lace for Vice
President W a s
squelched in the
closing session
Of the 1910 DEM
ocratic National
Convention.
T n e re W q 8
every evidence
of rage on the
part of many Of
the delegates in
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We, the People
Democrats Prepared to Pay in WoIkouts
For Substantial Unity Under New DeoI
BY JAY FRANKLIN.

After what happened the Chicago net
clear that the Democratic party not Overwhelmingly
unity under the - -
The vice presidential supplied of this
cpe The n test
which let itself be pushed
oent Roosevelt and the New Deal welerng
Evening star., 1940-07-20
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

CHICAGO. ILL.,, July 20.-Nothing
more clearly demonstrates the flrm
hold which President Roosevelt has
on the party than the masterful
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Party Unity of New Type

to stop Roosevelt at this convention
any real measure Of power over the
conduct of the political campaign.
They believe that, despite the very
general and human personal liking
for Mr.. Farley, the American people
would be bewildered and offended If
Mr.. Roosevelt's battle for party
unity and national unity were di-
rected by any fifth column element
within the party or give authority
to anV of the men who did their
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Roosevelt on
DebutubIe
Ground
Puts Third Term
On Busis of
Handling Crises
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

Everything that President Roose-
velt said about the seriousness of
the world crisis is correct and the
Importance OF America as a oulwark
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The Reward of COURAGE

10 any completely politics
the trees OF special interest special pressure such
sage would produced
would have done thing
forthrighness ~ ~ eN ~
Ihere nothing
Inc burton K Wheers and Bennett Champ
at th mouth at such
small convention
only who could gained
courage but there would have little
movement Hopkins had had the
Of the convention:
Jim we know this hard We know what
done the We ballot
demonstration of the
The President would have been renominated by
he atmosphere wholly
atmosphere that prevailed in Chicago
Unfortunately the of will failed their
though some of the less dspean events at the convention laid
at their door result In this desperately critical
begins the low level unduted
either for the Presidents
country.
dby yNorthA Newspaper Alliance 1nc)
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The Capital Parade
Courage and Forthriehtness Could Have Won
For Roosevelt and frightened Success Chance


CHICAGO July 20The something sddennr ham
pned here Chicago
who hate the President they would sacrifice ANYTHING to
his destruction
those who have followed devoedy and stu look most az
pectanty for things " -
Precisely happen? One of the men of pood will toward
Roosevelt summed it " wa ~
AT the most critical time
War defiance tradition President was
Tor third by than ordinary political Convention
with an that implies In neanness shufsng cheap compromise
You can argue all right but It wasn't
all right to way" ' WV ~ ""'A'
What might have happened? question
to be found in the the men of good will
desperately upon President while the convention wax IN
progress. ~ woo "
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best will
For the victory ype-uniy
sort which begins by allowing the typy type
ical compromise to take back seat or to take a walk.
Featur Inc)
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Two-thirds of all the peppermint
and spearmint oil produced in the
United States comes from Northern
Indiana.
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This
Changing
World
Germany Believed
Well Prepared for
Air Attack /on Britoin
Nv CONSTANTINE ppouH,

BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.
Adolf Hitler's offer Of peace to
Great Britain is tansamount to an
ultimatum to surrender. His state.
ment that he does not wish destruc-
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herrings.

sitting through while
evatve foes themselves these evidence
ton to get results political
herrings.
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Take 1t or Leave It.

Speclhcay they discovered
were up he men OF good will urged the President his pose
Oh aoons and dlsnterest This pointed out could
% n simplest voter yet savored disagreeaby shorghted
% G Wnlch dictated the disastrous strategy
Court bill 1t would be
boldly frank with the people. - - ~ ' W oe
tey their
net as carry as possible in the convention proceedings still
"ouo nave made brief radio address
ne would nave ignored his enemies instead attacking
as ne o IN his speech Thursday night
talk for ITSELF instead defending would have said
like this: ~ ~ N '1AO'-AAAe
SO great TO all that we hold dear Within perhaps England
M 60 unoer and Ennds will fall While
me we must do all that we to help
Two months perhaps, will
Whe thaC
tn Monroe Doctrine thing of deeds
such times must give all that o country
40 not want to another great Office which
no" snail not
% that my party Will support in all the difficult
Ior utmost seldenial
America must take not
OF world tyranny But nomnato
on that understanding, I shall
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Who Compromised?

The whole story cannot be told Suhce small and
% e pan nand including both political leaders and pubnsts
could find bring home the suggest remedy the
White House Their remedy different from policy followed BY the
man IN charge Harry
convention differed from Hopkins conception. - - ~
Hopkins appeared to be terrified from the President
gn @ & no. De nominated He nrased James Farley
anu leaders by attempting snatch
handus of delegates He oaionst Senators
10 prevent an anti resolution from reaching He
President
hardly knew what happening in Chicago general treated ali
possible enemies with mingled fear and suspicion allies
@ among @ m Ea he and Frank Hague and hastily made
The Of good will hand that the
dents inevitable not loved him
because IN their hearts
put because the vast majority deega place hunters oh
hooe VINO thought the President they could
aoy WIN with in November Therefore instead Hopkins policy
geng the President
good will proposed compromise with the
President. ~ 'r-0A-'' WHY ''o
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-13
MILLS WILL Be
SENTENCED TODAY
Hunchback Pleads Guilty
OF Assault With Attempt
To Commit Rape

Dave Mills, hunchbacked pencil
seller, on trial for his life on a
charge of carnal knowledge of a
female beneath the age of IL years,
submitted a plea of guilty of as
sault with attempt to commit rape
at the conclusion of his trial in
New Hanover superior court yes
terday afternoon.
Judge w. H. S. Burgwyn, pre-
siding over the term of court, post
poned sentencing him until this
morning.
Trial of the case, during which
defense counsel had Mills attempt
to prove to the jury that it was i'm
possible for him to have sexual in
tercourse in the manner described
by Helen Grey, the prosecuting wit
ness, came to a close at $3.50
o'clock.
Judge Burgwyn had court re-
cessed until 9 o'clock this morning,
and left the courtroom.
4Ilcll OSAS1lSc SoduAoS1, 1AoAoAA
Goldberg and w. A. Simon, Jr.,
began dickering with District So
licitor David Sinclair, who finally
agreed to accept a plea of guilty to
assault with attempt to commit
rape and to recommend that the
judge give the prisoner not more
than five years in state prison.
Defense counsel suggested a plea
of assault on a female and it was
refused. A three year sentence
was suggested and it was refused.
Finally after much bargaining, Sin
clair started to leave the court
room, announcing that he would
not accept a plea in the morning
Continued on Page Five; Col. II
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-13
STATE RESTS IN
TRIAL OF FLOYD
Defense Decides Not To
Present Any Evidence In
School Burning Case

LUMBERTON, Sept. Eth e
state rested its case against Ben
G. Floyd and Andrew Smith,
charged with burning the Liberty
school building on July IL, in Robe
son county superior court this
afternoon after the presentation OF
several more witnesses.
In a surprise move, one that
shocked the packed superior court
room. the defense shortly there
after announced it would present
no evidence. The defendants did
not offer a witness.
Judge ]. Paul Frizzelle, OF Snow
Hill, had just overruled a defense
motion for non-suit to which the
attorneys took exception.
The attorneys, three for the state
and five for the defendants, began
their arguments to the 13-man jury
at 1880 tonight.
After introducing evidence from
several witnesses late yesterday
afternoon and this morning tend.
inc to show the former politica.
nower and assistant to superln-
tendent of public instruction
F1ovd. and Smith, former country
c,rnenter. linked together near the
Continued on Page Ihree'
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-13
CAMACH0 NAMED
PRESIDENT-ELEC
Proclaimed New Mexican
Chief On Basis OF Elec-
toral Commission Report

MEXICO CITY, Sept. 12.-R-
Polo-playing Gen. Manuel Avila
Camacho was proclaimed presi'
dent-elect of Mexico today by the
chamber of deputies upon the ba'
sis of an electoral commission re
port that he beat Gen. Juan An
dreu Almazan by 2,476,6 GAL to ISL,
1O1 votes in the disputed July {
election.
Mexico now has two presidents
elect, each backed by his own con
gress, and in this impasse, lie the
seeds of civil conflict.
The quarrel between the two gen
erals over who is to succeed La
FARO Cardenas for the 6-year term
starting Dec. l moved a ste F
closer to a showdown to the up
roarious applause of deputies ano
the gallery for Avila Camacho and
catcaIls for three Almazanista dep.
uties who voted to reject the elec'
toral commissions report.
"'Throw them out" the gallery
shouted.
Deputy Alexandra GARLIC, edi'
tor of the labor newspaper Ell Pop.
ular, apparently referring to the
talk of revolution implicit in the
dispute, emphasized in an Grafton
that 'the army and all other sec.
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