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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-28

Falls (Va) Prison Camp. On
Tuesday, 7:45 pm, Christ Ambas-
sailors; Thursday, fasting and
prayer; Friday, prayer and praise
service.
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North Carolina Avenue.

What 1t Means to Believe in
God" is the theme of DR.. B. l..
Barnes at II am. tomorrow. The
opening meeting of the young
peoples society will be at 7 pm.
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Jones Memorial (COlOred)

At II am. Sanctuary Service of
the Woman's Society of Christian
Service At $3.50 pm. Queen family
day service Music by the Randall
Memorial Methodist Church Choir.
On Wednesday night is the second
quarterly lovefeaSt and communion
preparatory service.
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Capt. Sven Ruthstrom in charge At
$3.50 pm, young peoples meeting.
At 8 pm. Capt. Ruthstrom will have
charge of the salvation meeting.
Georgetown Corps, 1075 Thomas
Jefferson street N.W.-At 10 am.
Mrs. Brig. Madeline Bristow will
speak at the holiness meeting. At
II am, company meeting. At 6:15
pm, young peoples meeting, led by
1t. Basil Wyatt. At 8 pm. Brig.
Bristow will again be the speaker.
Adjt and Mrs. William T. Powell will
be special guests at each meeting
Northeast Corps, tbs I street NE.
AT II am. Maj. Dodd will speak on
Fruit Bearing" and at pm. on
THE Harvest" Capts. Hazel Banks
and Evelyn Allison will conduct the
young peoples meeting at 6:l5 pm.
Memorial United Brethren.
DR.. Simpson B. Daugherty will
preach at BIAS and II a m. on What
Meaneth This?" A sacred concert
will open the church school session
at $40 am. There will be promotion
Of pupils. The youth groups will
meet at pm. in union meeting.
The Ladies' Aid Society will have
business and serve refreshments on
Tuesday at pm. The Official
Board will meet Thursday at pm.
The fall and winter schedule will
be inaugurated next Sunday with
the resumption of the evening serv-
ice and observance of the loyalty
crusade Sunday with holy COM
munion at II m and pm.
Revival Services Continue.
DR.. H. w. Vom Bruch, evangelist
from Winona Lake, Ind. who has
been conducting revival meetings at
the Nom Sectarian Tabernacle, 6440
Piney Branch road, at Georgia ave-
nue. NV, will continue his meetings
throughout next week nightly, ex-
cept Saturday, at o'clock conclud-
ing October 6. Tomorrow DR.. Vom
Bruch's subjects will be The Chris
tian's Calling" at II am. and IAN
Old Fashioned Love Story at pm.
In the illness of DR.. Forcey, pastor
of the tabernacle. DR.. Vom Bruch
will speak on the Church of the Air
broadcast over VOL at am.
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Union.

DR.. Edwards announces his sub
jects tomorrow: At IL am, Regis
tration," land 8 pm. Opening the
Seals" The choir will sing Steven
sons anthem. Il Sought the Lord"
Harol Lee will sing the morning
offertory, He Smiled on Me-" by
Godfrey OHara. Mrs. William B.
Cafky will sing the hymn The
Ninety and Nine" for the evening
offertory number. The Epworth
League will assemble at $50 pm.
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st. Paul A. NJ. f.

The Rev. J. M. Harrison, jr., will
preach at IL a m. The Sunday school
choir will sing morning and night.
At 4 pm. the Sunday school choir
and congregation will accompany
the pastor to Emanuel Baptist
Church. At $50 pm, Allen c. E.
League; at s pm, services.
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PentecOStal Holiness.
Divine Science.

DIVINE Science.
The Rev. G. L. Patch will give the
Divine Science meaning of Realize
Your Divinity in lesson sermon
tomorrow at II m. at the Grafton
Hotel. There will be an open meet
ing on Thursday at pm.
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Pilgrim A, M, F.,

Sunday will be observed as home
coming with preaching by the pastor
in the morning. Services with
preaching by visiting clergymen will
also be held in the afternoon and
evening.
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Ghrtatahrlp htan

NnristadelPhian Chapel
s32 Webster st. NV; s. g., 10: 90 4 n.
PREACHING, 11:15 Am. Public Invited.
THE WASHINGTON ECCLEsIA
3. 1000 am. Service, HOO am
6O6 Eye 81. NV. Public Invited.s
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Calvary Gospel.


The pastor will speak on "The
Power of God, What 1t Is and How
to Use" at II am and at 7:45 pm.
on THE Final Destiny of Man." At
3 pm. the young people will hold a
Sunday school service at Columbia
Park, Md. The pastor speaks on
Wednesday at 7:45 pm. Young
people meet at the same time on
Friday. George Brumback is organic
ing an orchestra. The Rev. James
Van Meter of Martinsburg, w. Va,
will begin an evangelistic meeting
in the near future.
PentecoStal Holiness.
Mrs. L. B. Edge, evangelist OF Nor
folk, Va, will preach at both the
IL am. and 7:45 pm. services. The
revival meeting will continue
throughout the next week, except
Saturday. Congregational and spe-
cial musical and vocal selections will
be engaged in each evening preced-
ing the messages. This song service
will begin at 7:45.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-14
COOPER ASSIGNS
SABOTAGE SQUAD
Mayor Sees Little Danger
But Wants City Safe,
Not Sorry

Mayor Thomas E. Cooper yes
terday assigned detectives from the
city police department to speclal
duty in combating any sabotage
that may be attempted here.
The mayors order to the police
released two officers from other
duties to study the local situation,
cooperate with federal officers in
a check on aliens and to recon-
mend any steps necessary to fur
Their discourage any efforts on the
part of radicals to interfere with
the city's commerce."
Police Chief Joseph c. Rourk
said an intensive drive will be
staged toward enforcement of the
Bolich alien registration act and
industry here will be surveyed to
detect spots vulnerable to sabotage
and espionage.
Cooper said he had no knowledge
of any concrete violations OF this
nature in Wilmington, but added
it is the duty of the department
Of public safety to guard against
these situations before they arise.
Mentioning the fact that the uni
ted front presented by Wilmington
ians during the Civil war kept this
port open later than any other in
the nation, Cooper said the fed
.ral government is doing all pos
sible to prevent such a force from
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-14
TO CHOOSE
PRESIDENT TODAY
Islanders Will Ballot Or
Col. Batista And DR..
San Martin
BY EDMUND A. CHESTER

HAVANA, July 13.-R-The pos
sibility of serious trouble in Cuba's
general election tomorrow devel-
oped tonight as the partisans of
Cuba's "strong man." Col. Fulgen-
clio Batista, opposed demands of
his rival candidate for the presi-
dency, DR.. Ramon Grau San Mar
tin, that voting be suspended in a
half-dozen sections.
A feeling was reported in many
quarters that if more suspensions
were granted, Batista, backed by
the army, would seize control of
the government in a coup d'etat on
the grounds that only thus could
grave disorders be prevented.
Grau, the man who once was
pushed into and out of the presi-
dency by Batista, procured suspen-
sion of voting in three towns in
Camaguey province yesterday, al
leging interference by the army.
His hackers now. demand COM
plete suspensions in Camaguey and
Matanzas provinces and in GER
Continued on Page Two; Col. p
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-14
French Ask
u. S. Vie
On Colonies
Action Taken AS British
Virtually Blockade One
Western Island
NO ANSWER RECEIVED
Petain Government Tries
Also To Learn Nazi
Peace Conditions
NO ANSWER RECEIVED
BY JOHN LLOYD

VICHY. France, July 13.-RN
The authoritarian Petain-L a v a ]
government of France sought the
answers tonight to two important
questions: the United States atti-
tude toward French colonies in the
western hemisphere, and the Ger
man conditions under which the
French government may return to
Nazi-held Paris and Versailles.
On the former, foreign ministry
sources said that an inquiry had
been sent to Washington. No re-
ply has been received, but this is
laid here to poor communications.
Virtually Blockaded
Gone French possession in the
western hemisphere, the West In
dian Island of Martinique, has
been virtually blockaded by the
British since French British rela'
tons were disrupted.)
On the latter, Leon Noel, Petain's
plenipotentiary in the German-oc'
cupied portion of France, returned
from Paris for consultations but
it was not disclosed w h t he
brought.
Authorized circles said the gov
ernment's desire to go to Paris
Continued on Page Five; Col. A.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-14
ALL, Clio
Take Joint
AidPledge
Action Gives White House
Hope That Labor War
Can Be Ended
IN LETTER TO F. D. R.
Board May Be Able To Pre-
vent Strikes If U. S.
Improves Defenses
IN LETTER TO F. D. R.

WASHINGTON, July 10. Up -
pelief that the needs of national de-
Tense might bring an end to organ
lied labor's five-year-old civil wal
WAS expressed at the White House
today after Is officials of the CLIO,
the AFL and railway labor unions
had pledged cooperation in the de.
tense program.
Given To F. r.
The promise of cooperation was
given to Presidnet Roosevelt in a
letter signed by the labor officials
who make up the labor policy ad-
visory committee of the National De-
tense commission. This committee
was created recently for the an
nounced purpose of preventing stop
pages of work in vital defense In
dustries and preserving labor stand
ards.
Expressing 'full and unstinted de-
votion to u country and to the
program of national Defense" the
union leaders told the President.
I'VE and our membership are
united in our effort and determina-
ton to give effective and expeditions
cooperation in the fulfillment of the
defense program, and to contribute
to a free and secure democracy"
Stephen Early, MI. Roosevelt's
press secretary, made public the
letter and commented that it repre-
scented the nearest thing to a united
labor front since the AFL-CIO split
developed.
Saying the letter had made the
President quite happy, Early added
that it Was a good one because it
showed that national defense might
Continued on Page Three; Col. A.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-14
FIRST SEA LORD
DEFIES GERMANS
Alexander Says Fleet Has
Just Begun To Fight;
Cites Successes

LONDON, July 13.-R-Para-
phrasing John Paul Jones' Il have
only begun to fight" Britain's first
lord of the admiralty, A. v. Alex
ander, told Americans in a broad.
cast tonight that the British hope
to fight out the war and destroy
Germany from their besieged is
land homeland.
In the last eight days, he said,
the British may have shot down
as many as 100 invading German
planes the official figures exceed
80 for certain.)
He added:
"To America, I say in the words
of your Paul Jones: Surrender?
Why-we're only beginning to
fght!'"
(The quotation, actually II have
only begun to fight" was made
Continued on Page Two; Col. p
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-14
TOM %PENDERCAST
INDICTED AGAIN
Deposed Boss OF Missouri
Charged With Accepting
Insurance Bride

KANSAS CITY, July 13.-R-
Tom Pendergast, whose mania for
horse race betting toppled h i m
from boss of Missouri democratic
politics into a prison cell, was con-
fronted today by a new government
move to put him back behind the
bars.
Little more than a month after
gaining his freedom, the man
whose nod Of approval once elected
governors and senators was indict-
ed with two other persons on
charges of obstructing justice in
the settlement of a SO, 000,0 90 state
fire insurance case.
In the spring of 1888, with the
democrats in power in state and
nation, Pendergast's city machine
rolled back a threat of fused politi-
cal elements to GUST him from the
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-14

The federal governments new
est experiment in caring for the
needy will begin operation in Will
mington Tuesday morning at o.
clock when the Federal Surplus
Commodity corporations first food
stamps are distributed from the
Headquarters at the foot OF Grace
street.
Gideon L. Bateman, organizer OF
the program here, estimated yes
terday that about 5000 persons IN
Wilmington and. New Hanover
county will be affected. A total OF
1,758 persons, all relief clients,
had been certified for participa-
ton yesterday, most with families
averaging three or four persons.
With only 40 per cent of the eli
gible relief clients participating, a
minimum of $1,000 OF a maximum
of Sc, 900 in new business will be
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-14
REPORTS
ON FRENCH SCENE
U. S. Ambassador, Now At
Madrid, Says Germans
Acting Properly
BY JOHN P. MCKNIGHT

MADRID, July 13.-P)EWilliam
c. Bullitt, United States ambassador
to France, declared in an interview
tonight that the behavior of the
German army of occupation in
France was definitely very cor.
rect"
Bullitt, who came to Madrid ito
get back in touch with Washing
ton," because of poor communication
facilities in France, said he knew Of
no instance of any American in
France having the slightest diff
Guilty.
lie said he guessed probably
/, 00G Americans are still in France"
and expressed the opinion that most
of them were remaining.
Recounting his experiences in the
16 days in which he remained in
Continued on Page Three; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-14
DEFENSES RUBBED OUT
Rome Also Says Britain's
Fleet Forced To Split
Into Three Units
VICTORY FOR PLANES
BY the Associated Press

ROME, July 13.-1talians
claimed tonight that their
war planes have rubbed out
Malta as an offensive threat
to Italy after blasting with
bombs a British Mediterran-
can battle fleet which split
into three parts under pun
ishment from the air.
Fascists said, also, that
constant Italian air bonn
|bardment over far flung
fronts in the Mediterranean
and Africa was preventing
some 1900 British planes
there from ever being used
in the defense of the British
Isles against a German on
slaught.
Definitely Decided
(The official Italian radio in a
broadcast heard in New York by
the Columbia B~roadcasting Sys-
tenn declared that Italy has de-
finitely decided the controversy of
the airplane VS.. the warship." The
radio said Italy built up her air
fleet while other built super-dread-
naughts land for this reason 49,.
Britain has been handed a bad de-
feat and will be handed others in
the future.
Virginia Gayda, the editor who
often speaks for Mussolini, wrote
in II Giornale alfalfa that the
British, under renewed bombing
of Malta, had Withdrawn their
heavy warships from the fortified
island, which his only about SIS
miles from Italy.
The big men o'War have been
sent to Alexandria, said Gayda,
Continued on Page Eight; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-14
By the Associated Press

LONDON, July 13.-Brit-
aims dashing and cocksure
air fighters sent six German
raiders spinning to destruc-
ton into the Straits Of Dow
err in an afternoon air battle
today and Britain's leaders
proclaimed the islands air
defenses had proved them
selves stalwart and deadly.
The British straits tri-
umph, reported in an air
ministry communique, raised
the days total of felled Nazi
planes to IL, six fighters and
six bombers.
Raids A Failure
At the end of another week OF
ceaseless air bombardment, Britons
confidently claimed that repeated
Nazi raids to soften" Britain for
invasion had failed and that Brit
ish power to resist had grown with
each hour.
In all, official statistics showed
the Nazis have lost 81 planes from
July 4 to tonight.
Three bombers were shot down
earlier today in raids which have
become part of the daily pattern
along British coasts in the Nazi eff
fort to starve and frighten the ma
ton into impotence.
Two were downed during the
morning, one falling into the Eng
lish Channel, and another this after
noon in a fierce sky fight in clouds
high over a southwest coast town.
Three German fighters were shot
down off the south coast tonight.
An air ministry communique re-
ported only one British fighter miss
ing-in the Channel fighting al
though it declared Royal Air Force
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-14
MOYALE GARRISON
IS HOLDING own
British Say Two Italian
Columns Effectively
Engaged AT Capuzzo

CAIRO, Egypt, July 13.-R-Al-
though heavily outnumbered, a small
British garrison still is holding all
it's positions against the Italians as
saulting Moyale, fortified post in the
British Kenya-Ethiopian frontier dis
trist, British army headquarters said
today.
The communique said the besieg-
ed British had inflicted heavy losses
on the Italians.
The italian high command said
it's forces had occupied a fortified
village near Moyale.
In the Western desert, the Brit
ish communique said, two Italian
columns approaching Fort Capuzzo
were effectively engaged again
yesterday"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-14
War Interpretive

the stream of human develop
ments has reversed it's flow.
The trend of civilization has new
er varied from the dim mists of
creation to this fateful hour. Al
ways it has responded to the inner
urge of men in the mass for the
right to a voice in the shaping of
their destiny.
There have been black Bastile
days before now in the ISL years
since it came to be the great ma
tional day of the French people.
Yet what the fall of that royal
prison, a symbol of monarchial au-
thoritarianism, means to French
hearts has survived every vicissi-
tude.
And the spectacle of celebration
of this Bastile day as a day OF
mourning in a France again under
CONTINUED on Page Two; Col. u
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-14
Draft F. r. Movement
Gains Speed In Chicago
DEMOCRATS GATHER
Farley Keeps His Secret
On Third Term A. Dele
gates Arrive
BY RICHARD L. TURNER

CHICAGO, July 13.-R-Demo-
Gratis determined to Draft Roose-
velt," some happy and some I'M
happy about it but nearly everyone
convinced he will accept the NOM
nation, poured into this convention
city today to join in a carnival
prelude to next weeks national
convention.
Bushels of red and white and
blue buttons bearing the m o
''Just Roosevelt" and the silhou-
cite of a rooster rampant adorned
hundreds of lapels, proclaiming in
advance the keynote of the b 6
party gathering.
Mang Big Shots
Familiar big shot faces from
Washington, cabinet members,
members of important boards and
commissions, senators and house
leaders were commonplace in the
gay hotel lobby throngs. Men who
no longer ago than yesterday SAID
goodbye to each other in the capl'
tai stopped to shake each others
hands and gather in groups to re-
sumo a briefly Interrupted discus
sion of the one question mark OF
the convention, whether the presl-
dent would accept the nomination
Two men knew, and they, Sc
creted in the Businesses of the huge
Stevens hotel the convention head
quarters, were in busy conference
with thir aides and casual callers
The two-Chairman James A. Far
lev of the democratic national COM
mittee, who has been averse to a
third term for the president, and
Secretary of Commerce Harry L.
the presidents confidant
and personal convention represen'
CONTINUED on Page Two; Col. -
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-14
Food Stamp Relief Plan
Becomes Effective Tuesday

released into the country's food
trade channels. These figures will
grow rapidly after the system be-
comes established, he said.
The stamps arrived here yester'
dav-the first shipment amounting
to 50, 900. The FsCC will give the
local organization $21, $50 in stamps
to match the $4,000 purchase.
Bateman said it is probable only
about 40 per cent of the eligible
relief clients will participate TO
start because there is always ON
suspicion and -skepticism at nrst'
This will increase when the re-
lief clients understand the plans
workings, he said. The certlflca-
ton of applicants is in charge OF
Mrs. L. O.. Ellis, director OF the
Associated Charities.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-14
U. S. BUILDS UP
ARMS MATERIALS
Defense Board Is Seeking
Self Sufficiency For
Nations Plants

WASHINGTON, July 13.-R-As-
surances that the United States
rapidly was being made indepen-
dent of foreign sources for key
arms materials came today from
the defense advisory commission.
In an initial report Of progress,
Edward R. Stettinus, Jr., former
United States Steel corporation
chairman, said surveys indicated
adequate supplies of such mater
ials as rubber, tin, aluminium and
able as needed by defense
industries.
Stettinius, in charge of the COM
missions materials division, as
serted that government agencies
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-14
BRITAIN AND ERE
REACH AGREEMENT
Irish To Align Herself
With Britain After
First Raid
BY J, NORMAN LODGE

DUBLIN, July 13.-R-An ami
cable settlement between Britain
and Ireland under which British
troops will cross Fires frontiers
only after a raid by a hostile power
was reported today in quarters
close to the premier's office.
In this event-and only then
Fire will align herself with Britain
without the formality of a declara-
ton of war on the original invader,
the sources reported.
But no British troops will trans
gress Fire soil from Loyalist us
ter or from the shores of the
Irish Sea until another has first
violated that soil, the reported
agreement stipulates.
If a hostile raid should throw
ireland and Britain together in
defense, Britain will gain this
much: she will have the use Of
important ports on Fires west
coast, closer to America than her
own, at which to receive munitions
and supplies from the United States
and Canada.
In the meantime Ireland goes
her way with little outward show
of perturbation. There is an occa-
sional test air raid alarm, but no
street lights are dimmed.
Gas mask drills are held, but
there are no gas masks.
Instructions have been publish
for conduct in air raid shelters,
but there are 10 shelters.
Owners of land tracts suitable for
enemy airplane landings have been
asked to barricade them but thus
CONTINUED OH Page Three; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-14
BY KIRLE L. p

The genius of mankind has yet to
devise means for peering into the
hearts and brains of a people to
fathom their mass opinion. But
for that, July IA might be a less
somber anniversary for France,
and for men and peoples every
where still clinging to the ideal of
popular government as the means
of their political salvation.
For in the hearts Of the people Of
France, of beleaguered England,
of victory-gorged Germany, of TIA
ly, and of the New World rests the
final answer to the authoritarian
to popular government.
While the urge for individual
dominant among human
traits, democracy cannot die.
The towering authoritarian edi-
fee reared amid blood and suffer-
ing is founded on quicksand unless
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-14
Norris Will Fight
Compulsory Training

WASHINGTON, July 13.-RN
Senator MORRIS Qnd-Neb) who
has supported all administration
defense proposals thus far, said
today that he was opposed to COM
pulsory military training and would
speak against it if any bill reached
the Senate
The 79-year-old Independent has
declared that there is more reason
now to fight Germany than there
was in 1917 when he voted against
the declaration of war.
But he said he did not believe
this country should enact conscrlp-
tion legislation now. q
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-14
PRICE OF LIQUOR
WILL Be REDUCED
State ABC Chief Agrees
10 Act At Convention
OF Local Boards

Liquor prices in wet counties of
Nofth Carolina, which advanced
suly at order of the state ABC
DOsfd, will be reduced August l.
An agreement was reached here
Ils morning at Wrightsville Beach
pe'~een Guitar Moore, of Lumber
t0a' chairman of the state ABC
DOafd and the North Carolina AS
SOclatlon of Alcoholic Beverage
sUlirol Boards, under which prices
" oil brands and all qualities OF
h4uOf IN legally wet counties will
oe cut Aug. l..
IN addition Moore agreed that
nts lhark-up on certain low-priced
neAls will be reduced even further
vi Aug in order that the ABC
lures may have an item of suffi-
>'''iUy low price to compete with
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