The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-16

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lzation is pushed out Of the pic
ture," Carroll added.
In advance of the keynote ad.
dress of Speaker William B. Bank.
head tonight, Kelly had sounded
the convention keyote-Roosevelt
and a third term-the renomina,
ton of the president in the firm ex.
pectation that he would accept.
Us to the latter, only Farley
paradoxically, and perhaps n or
TWO others really knew. Just be.
tore the convention started, Far.
ley, who has been guarding the
presidents secret for a week,
talked to the chief executive over
a special telephone circuit linking
the White House with Chicago. In
response to a question as to how
things are going" Farley told
the president, simply, "okay."
Will Head Syndicate
While the convention was going
on an attorney for a brother of the
late Jacob Rupert was asserting
that the New York Yankees base
ball club probably would be solo
to a syndicate headed by Farley
within two weeks at a price oil
81, 600, 000." This was taken as a
sign that Farley would not stay
on as national chairman very long.
The resolutions committee,
meanwhile, was busy on the plat
form, hearing William Green,
president of.the American Fedora
ton of Labor, assert that Mr..
Roosevelt would find an answer to
the unemployment problem if
DR.. Frances E. Townsend threat
ened to start a third party if
the two major parties failed to en-.
dorse his pensions movement.
Vice presidential booms and
boomlets were springing up all
over the lakeside. Mr.. Roosevelt
had plenty of names from which
to choose a running mate, if he
accepts the nomination. A new one
was that of Louis johnson, assist
ant secretary of war, added today
10 those of such possibilities as
Vice President Garner, J e S S c
Jones, Senator Wheeler of Mon.
tana, Senator Lucas of Illinois, AS
sociate Justice Douglas Of the Su'
preme Court, and many more.
Skaters Tradition
The convention which may break
one of the nations great tradi-
tons. the third term. began by
shattering another. 1t was only
five minutes late in starting. Par
for opening any session of a ma
tional convention is customarily 40
minutes to an hour behind sched-
ule. But, having unobtrusively
mounted the platform at noon, the
converting hour, Farley stepped
forward two minutes later, re-
ceived a burst of applause and be-
gan swinging his gavel. Despite
wide stretches of empty seats on
the floor and in the galleries, he
got things going at five after.
Archbishop Samuel A. Stritch OF
the Catholic church delivered a
brief invocation; Phil Regain
whom Farley introduced az tn e
''illustrious Irish TENOR" sang the
Star Spangled Banner, satisfactor-
lily holding on to the high notes;
L. W. Robert, national committee
secretary, read the formal call
for the convention and the big
party meeting had begun.
But at that point, the delegates
weren't much interested. The great
hall buzzed loudly with conversa-
ton. The aisles were filled with
late arrivals shouldering their way
in and others jostling their way
out. Farley - the organ played
''Take Me Out to the Ball Game"
for manufactured Kelly, and the
latter made his purpose plain early
in his speech.
I'VE are praying and hoping"
he said, to intermittent cheers,
that the man who a keep the
White House as the lighthouse for
humanity" will consent to
again.