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Evening star., 1940-07-19
President Sleeps Late
After Acceptance;
Boards Yacht Toniqht
Roosevelt Is Expected
To Go to Hyde Park
Tomorrow or Sunday

All was quiet today at the White
House. where President Roosevelt
slept until II am, with a do not
disturb" sign on his door.
It was the first good sleep Mr..
Roosevelt has had since the Demo-
cratic convention opened in Chicago.
He went to bed shortly before 3
am, after staying awake to deliver
by radio his speech of acceptance
Of the third-term nomination.
Goes Down Potomac Tonight.
Mr.. Roosevelt intends to leave
this afternoon for an overnight
yachting trip down the Potomac
River. Stephen Early. White House
secretary, told the press.
Tomorrow or Sunday, Mr.. Early
said, the President will journey to
Hyde Park, N. Y, for a stay Of
several days.
The White House was barren to-
day of political comment or refer
ences. The Presidents formal ap-
pointment list was a blank. but
Secretary of the Treasury Morgen-
thau was expected to drop IN some
time during the day.
Phrase Unexplained.
Mr.. Early said only that the press
was free to speculate when one COR
respondent wondered aloud whom
the President was referring to when
he said in his acceptance speech
that with one exception" every man
and woman in the country he has
asked to assist in the development
OF the defense program has agreed
to cooperate.
There will be six guests
OF the President on the Po-
tomac excursion tonight. They are
Brig. Gen. Edwin M. Watson, White
House secretary, and Mrs. Watson;
Mr.. and Mrs. Early, Miss Marguerite
lie Hand, the Presidents private
secretary, and Capt. Daniel ]. Gala
CHAN, the Presidents naval aide.
Evening star., 1940-07-19
Committee Here Luuds
District Suffrage Plank

The plank for District suffrage
written into the Democratic plat
form at Chicago received the whole
hearted" support OF the Washington
Committee for Democratic Action
in a statement issued today by its
Executive Committee.
Congress, the statement added,
should exercise without further de-
lay" its constitutional right to pro-
vide local self-government and
should pass 'the necessary legisla-
ton for the granting ultimately Of
national representation"
The statement was issued by Hugh
Miller. chairman Of the Executive
Committee.
Evening star., 1940-07-19
1T was very able and statesman.
like utterance."

like utterance."
Senator Byrnes of South Carolina: !:
'"The President gave in simple and
sincere language his reasons for ac-
cepting the nomination"
Senator Maloney of Connecticut:
"It think it was deeply sincere
expression of the feeling which COM
PEELED the President to sacrifice his
comfort and personal well-being in
carrying out his devotion to his
country and countrymen."
Senator Brown of Michigan: II
think 1t was a magnificent state
ment-entirely appropriate to the
occasion, it disposes Of the third
term question as it should be dis
posed of-let the people decide"
Representative Doughton of North
Carolina: 1T was very fine, excel
lent, Number one, every word of it. !"
Senator Green of Rhode Island:
1T was more patriotic than parti-
SAN"
Josephus Daniels, Ambassador to
Mexico. Secretary of the Navy in
President Wilson's war cabinet: TT
was q speech that thrilled me, and
must thrill every real American"
Representative Mccormick, Mass
achusetts: "A powerful message to
the people-to the American people
OF the world-presenting paramount
issues. It declared the determine
ton to preserve our country from
dictatorship and subversive influ-
ences whether Communism, Nazi-ism
or any other. President Roosevelt
showed himself the leader in public
life of the forces Of decency
throughout the world"
Evening star., 1940-07-19
Roosevelt ProIonqinq
War, Germans Contend

BY the Associated Press
BERLIN, July 19-Political circles,
commenting today on President
Roosevelt's acceptance speech, pri-
vately made no secret of their
opinion that by aiding the axis
enemies the President is prolongine
the war.
His reference to the necessity Of
national unity was met with the
rejoinder that "the greatest traitors
were those Germans and Italians
who went to America and were
melted against the authoritarian
states"
Fascism and Nazi-ism, they held
do not enslave the people nor in
terfere with social justice, as the
President declared.
Ofhcial sources were silent.
Evening star., 1940-07-19
BiddIe in Portugal
En- Route to London
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LISBON, July 19.-United States
Ambassador Anthony J. Drexel Bid
die, jr, crossed the Portuguese bor-
der from Spain en- route here last
night before going to London to
his post with the exiled Polish gov
ernment.
Biddle entered Spain recently to
confer with william G. Bullitt, Am
bassador to France, then remained
for q few days as Mr.. Bullitt took
passage aboard Q Pan American
Clipper here to return 70 AmsricA.
Evening star., 1940-07-19
BY the Associ 10 ted Press.

6y the ASs0clAted PfeSS.
CHICAGO STADIUM, July 10
Here is the one and only ballot on
Democratic vice presidential NOM
inee at the convention last night:
Alabama, "a Bankhead; Arizona,
6 Bankhead; Arkansas, 18 Wallace;
California. IS Wallace. 6h Bank
head. az Farley; Colorado, " Wal
lace. liz Adams; Connecticut. 16
Wallace; Delaware, 4 Wallace, 2 Nc
Mutt; Florida, 8h Wallace. az
Bankhead, 3 McNutt: Georgia. "a
Bankhead; Idaho, 8 McNutt; Illi-
nois, 3 Bankhead, IS Wallace; In
diana, 20 Wallace, Bankhead: +:
Iowa, % Wallace; Kansas, Is Wal
lace; Kentucky, IL Wallace. II
Bankhead.
Louisiana, 20 Bankhead; Maine,
3 Wallace, 3 Bankhead, 3A Nc
Mutt, n absent: Maryland, 3 Wal
lace, l3 Bankhead; Massachusetts,,
Is Wallace. 325 Bankhead, "a Nc
Mutt, ? OMahoney, u Wallace. 4
Farley; Michigan, SO Wallace,
Minnesota, % Wallace; Mississippi
Wallace, 1874 Bankhead, u Far
ley; Missouri, IN Wallace, 281a
Bankhead; Montana, 3 Wallace, 31a
Bankhead, Farley, n McNutt; Ne
braska, 3 Wallace, 9 Bankhead,
McNutt, l Barley; Nevada, " Wal
lace, 4 Bankhead, Jones, "a absent;
New Hampshire, Wallace, 4 Nc
Mutt; New Jersey, 80 Wallace; New
Mexico, s Wallace; New York, ~
Bankhead, Jones, Al Wallace,
McNutt, 35h absent; North Caro-
lima, 42-l0 Wallace, 171-10 Hank-
head. 1910 McNutt, 9-10 Jones.
North Dakota, 8 Wallace; Ohio, So
Wallace; Oklahoma, % McNutt;
Oregon, 10 Wallace; Pennsylvania
68 Wallace, 3 Bankhead, l McNutt;
Rhode Island 51z Wallace, 1la Far
Evening star., 1940-07-19
NUM-, Piqued at Role,
Gives Up $500, 900 Job
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD, July 19.-Paul
MUM, who didn't like his part in q
new Warner Bros. ganster Aim, has
severed his connection with the
studio and thereby passes up $780,
900.
That sum, Agent M. c. Levee says,
was the amount Mum was to be
paid for seven pictures at the studio.
Humphrey Bogart will replace him
in High Sierra"
Levee also announced that Will
liam Dieterle, one of the better
known Warner directors, also had
Cancelled his contract by mutual
agreement.
Evening star., 1940-07-19
Toxic Inner Cabinet
Aqrees on Closer
Relations With Axis
Konoye Confers With
Colleagues on Proposed
New Foreign Policies
BY the Associated Press.

~ tuS SAoSUSAatSA 1ACbo.
TOXIC, July 19.-The inner gov
ernment Of the new Konoye cabinet
reached q. decision today on rela-
tions with Italy and Germany and
informed quarters asserted that it
calls for a closer working arrange
ment with the axis.
The question Of whether the
Netherlands Indies and French IN
China would be taken under
protection" still was unclarified.
1t was considered certain that
Japan first would attempt an un-
derstanding with Berlin on any ac-
ton In the South Seas.
Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye
and the other three of his inner
government-ministers of navy, war
and foreign affairs-held long con-
ference in which they reviewed the
entire field of proposed new diplo-
matte policies.
The subjects touched on included
relations with the United States,
Great Britain and Soviet Russia.
Konoye said In an announcement
tonight.
Il cannot at present announce
details Of the conference. but can
say that complete agreement was
reached" he added.
Desires Friendship With U. S.
Japan under her new totalitarian-
type government will remain friend
ly with the United States, but will
not lean over backward to improve
this friendship, it appeared.
The Foreign Once spokesman,
Yakichiro Suma. told q press con-
ference that Japan's desire for
friendship with the United States
would not be decreased even though
the new government under Prince
Konoye strengthens relations with
Germany and Italy.
Politics are not maintained by
| mathematical formula" he said.
I'VE are friendly with all nations.
We have been the party wanting
better relations with the United
States. We already have our cards
on the table and have been waiting
for six months for an American
move"
The Japanese press expects an end
of what 1t describes as Japan's dip
lomatic subservience" to both the
United States and Great Britain.
coupled with a closer move toward
the Rome Berlin axis.
Prince Konoye was to name full
cabinet later to complete the gov
ernment he is forming in success
sion to that of Admiral Yonai, which
resigned this week.
Suma implied that Japan
would insist upon a free HAND
in settlement of the three-year- -old
war in China. Commenting on
British Prime Minister Churchill's
remarks in Parliament yesterday
suggesting that the war might be
mediated later, Suma said:
"At this moment we are not well
coming offers Of good ofices of third
parties"
MOSCOW, July 19.-The Com
munist party newspaper Pravda
said today Japan with her new gov
ernment under Prince Konoye Is
under an open dictatorship" of the
| military party.
Evening star., 1940-07-19
Lotviuns Go to Moscow:
May Request Union
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RIGA, Iatvia, July Especial
delegations were reported sent to
Moscow today presumably to request
absorption Of this little Baltic state
into the Soviet Union.
Union with the Soviet may be
proclaimed Sunday, when the new
Parliament meets,
Evening star., 1940-07-19

The disturbance over the northern Plains
States has remained almost stationary,
Pierre, s. Oak. 1OO9.5 millibars t29.S1
inches). High pressure prevails along the
Pacific Coast and from the Mississippi VAL
ley eastward. Charlotte, N. C, 1887 mil
libars t30.29 inches) and Eureka. Calf.
1,O20.O millibars t3O.12 inches). AS a
result Of this pressure distribution warn
and rather moist air has overspread nearly
Abnormally high maximum temperatures
were registered Thursday afternoon in the
ern Missouri Huron, s. OAK. reporting
the highest lO7o Scattered showers
have occurred in the Rocky Mountain
region. the Southern States. the Dakotas,
Minnesota and wisconsin
Evening star., 1940-07-19
BY the Associated Press.

BY tne Associated PreSS.
CHICAGO, July 19.-President
Roosevelt told the Democratic con-
vention that because of changed
conditions, this presidential cam
paign will be different"
The midnight speech in which he
made that assertion broke two
precedents. Never before had a
President completing his second
term in Office accepted denomination
for third. And never before had
President made his ( acceptance
speech by radio to the nominating
convention. a.. ="
Other things, too, already have
Evening star., 1940-07-19
New York Bomb BIust
Called Childish Prank
sy the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, July 19-Acting 1t.
James A. Pyke, bomb squad head,
dismissed today as "a childish
prank" an explosion on the Fifth
avenue side OF Central Park yester-
day afternoon.
The blast apparently was caused
by flashlight powder packed into .
small metal container and brought
hundreds Of persons to the scene.
No one was injured.
Evening star., 1940-07-19
Red Cross Neurs Goal
with $19. .4O9,269

National headquarters of the Red
Gross here announced today that
the RED Cross War Relief Fund Is
within 100000 Of It's $40, ,000, 900
goal.
Thu total today stood at A1a. .10a 96a.
Evening star., 1940-07-19
Weather Report
Furnished by tt

b
Coumba-Far tonight
generally variable
Sunday.
tonight
tonight; continued tomorrow and Sunday.
Evening star., 1940-07-19

AutomobiIe lights must be turned on
0ne-half hoDr after sunset
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest "a. on July IL.
Lowest, z, on January 20.
Weather in Various Cities.
Evening star., 1940-07-19
Airline Traveller
touches Alaska and
Chile in II Days
Reaches Forthest North
And South Points on
Scheduled Routes

Mr.. Edgerton is touring South
America as a guest OF Pcn
American AirW1ys. His articles,
sent by mail, lDil be published
as they are receiucd. This is the
seventh OF q series.
Evening star., 1940-07-19
RreeipjtatiM,

Monthly precipitation in inches In tn,
Capttal (current month TO date):
Evening star., 1940-07-19
Report for Last "a Hours.

Record for Last "A Hours.
(Fro<a Aoon yesterday to noon today
Hikhest, 50. 1880 an. today. Year
ago, 81.
Lowest, 20. 5 am. today. Year ago, "a.
Humidity fer Last "A Hours.
fFrom noon yesterday to noon today
Hiehest, 81 Der cent At 4 80 . m. today.
Lowest, 80 per cent, At Pm. yester-
day.
River Repert.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear
1t Harpers Ferry: Potomac clear 1t Great
Falls today.
Tide Tables.
Furnished BY United States Coast and
6A0detle aurveYl
Evening star., 1940-07-19
FOREIGN STATIONS.
(Noon. Greenwich time, today.)

Horta (fayaN, Azores CiollA1
(Curreut ohservations.l
San Juan. Puerto Rico e3 e9eudy
Colon. Canal Zoos- 10 60,idy
Evening star., 1940-07-19

MOSCOW, July 19.-The Com
munist party newspaper Pravda
said today Japan with her new gov
ernment under Prince Konoye Is
under an open dictatorship" of the
military party.
Evening star., 1940-07-19

Furnished BY United States Coast An
0eodetic Suryey.)
Evening star., 1940-07-19

Important as political docu-
ment, marking as it did the second
step in this departure from prec-
edent, the address drew the fol-
lowing immediate comments:
Gov. Lehman of New York: "It
Vas very great speech. I am sure
Mat all the people of the country
will read it with great interest and
approval"
ssGov. Rivers of Georgia: "It was
Ggood speech. In my opinion it was
an honest disclosure of his attitude
and feelings, and justified the third
term nomination very admirably" !"
Representative Rayburn Of Texas:
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-12-20
COLLECTING BACK WAGES

Work of the Ohio Division of Min
imum Wage, State Department of In
dustrial Relations (Ohios name for its
labor Department. shows what can be
done by state action to obtain justice
for underpaid wage earners. Activ-
tiles of the division for the ten months
of 1910 ending October 30, increased
sharply over operations for 1889.
This is disclosed in a report of 1910
operations submitted to Director
George A. Strain, of the State Depart
ment of Industrial Relations, by James
P. Walsh, superintendent of the Divi-
sion of Minimum Wage.
Statistics for 1910 show that 800
1899 has been collected for 1850 en-
ployes of the food and lodging, dry
cleaning and laundry Institutes, or an
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-12-20
1941 AFL Convention
To Convene In Seattle

New Orleans, Lathe delegates to
the sixtieth convention of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor here selected
Seattle, Wash, as the city in which
the 1941 convention of the federation
will be held. In citing the advantages
of Seattle, Delegate James A. Taylor
of the Washington State Federation
of Labor said:
"We invite you to come to our state,
and to a city where the building trades
have had a 6-hour day and 5-day
week for over six years, and many of
our organizations have brought about
that short-hour day; city where the
movement knows how to cooperate
and where every organization in our
industries works together and brings
about condition for the entire indus
try. We ask you to come out and look
at the greatest project in the world
where 10,500,000 cubic feet of con-
crete has been placed in the Coulee
Dam and where we signed contract
three years ago whereby every organ
ization on that dam has been organ
lied under the American Federation of
Labor"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-12-20
Plenty Of Steel, Is Claim

Middletown, Ohio. = Current steel
producing facilities are ample to meet
defense and domestic needs, as well as
those of England and Canada, and
there is no need for enlargement of
plants, w. W. Sebald, vice president
and assistant general manager of the
American Rolling Mills Company, told
500 superintendent, foremen, and en-
ploye representatives Tuesday at the
annual Christmas party in the Man
chester Hotel.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-12-20
NO SUSPENSION OF
LABOR LAWS

National Defense Advisory Commits
sion officials primarily concerned with
formulating and activating defense
production labor policy are reported
to be certain that proposed legislation
to suspend certain labor laws, pri-
marily the Wagner and Walsh Healey
acts, will fail.
They are said to be confident that
before Congress can get around to act
on the proposed legislation, certain
voluntary reforms and regulations en-
gineered by the commissions Labor
Policy Advisory Commission will have
removed any alleged necessity for the
legislation.
Within the next few months it is ex-
pected a voluntary wage stabilization
program will have been worked out in
the aircraft and shipbuilding indus
tries, in cooperation with the Labor
Committee Such stabilization should
substantially decrease the likelihood
of strikes in those industries. What
ever the basis of the final sterilization
program will be, defense officials are
said to be insistent that it shall be vol
untary on the part of employers and
employees representatives -"There will
be no ramming of a defense labor
policy down anyone's throat" is the
way it has been expressed.
These reports from the defense COM
mission are most encouraging, indi-
eating the national governments con-
tinuing intention to stand with organ
lied labor in maintenance of present
wage and hour standards.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-12-20
COMMENT ON WORLD EVENTS

Although the Civilian Conservation
Corps is steadily Transforming inn
mature, undisciplined boys into con-
forming citizens, it is not adequately
preparing enrollees to participate in
self-government.
This conclusion was drawn by the
American Youth Commission follow
ing a study of the G. G. c. to chart
what the camps have contributed to
the education of 100000 boys en-
rolled in the past seven years.
'Unquestioning obedience under all
circumstances is not the supreme vir-
tue in a democracy, because democ-
racy demands two types of citizenship
conforming and contributing says
the commission report. "On the other
hand, obedience under appropriate
conditions is essential to co-ordinated
group activity, without which civil
ization could not exist"
In training for obedience and order
illness, two necessities to CONFORMING
citizenship" the commission found
that the C. C. C. "is steadily taking
group after group of immature, un-
disciplined boys who have not previ-
ously been among the most successful
of their generation, and is making
men of them. In general, it is MAX
ing them competent citizens within
the limits of conforming citizenship. y
Contributing citizenship" includes
among other things an ability to par
ticipate effectively in the activities of
variety of self governing groups
respect for the opinions and civil
rights of others, and finally an under
standing of the basic principles of de-
mocracy and deep loyalty to it both
in principle and in practice.
One of the major weaknesses of the
C. C. C. consists of 'the limited extent
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-12-20

to which it prepares enrollees to par
ticipate in self governing forms of
group action, or even to direct their
own activities as individuals" the re-
port concludes.
The commission found the C. C. C.
enrollees ranged from some who had
attended college before entering the
corps to the three per cent who were
practically unable to read or write, and
the % per cent whose literacy was on
the level of the average child in the
fourth grade. Forty per cent of the
enrollees had no previous work expert
ence. Twenty per cent were from for
eign-born parents.
"Many enrollees at the time of en-
tering camp have become problems to
themselves, their families, and their
communities. In seeking to provide
an adequate program for the entire
enrollee group, the Civilian Conserva-
tion Corps has heavy responsibility, y
the report says.
One of the best methods which the
corps has devised to develop contrib
uting citizenship" is in connection
with training enrollee leaders, the
commission found. Each company of
200 enrollees is allowed one senior
leader, nine leaders and sixteen as
sistant leaders, who receive higher pay
and correspond in rank and status to
the on-commissioned officers in the
Army. The opportunity for promo
tion which is open to all enrollees pro-
vides one of the most important in
centives for individual progress in
camp, and the enrollees who actually
serve as leaders receive experience
and training of special value from the
standpoint of contributing citizen
ship" the report says.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-12-20
ALL. Seafarers Chosen
By West Coast Seamen

San Francisco, Calif-The Seafar-
ers' international Union of North
America, A. F. of L. affiliate, gained
two outstanding victories in this area
over c. l. o. unions
In National Labor Relations Board
election for the men who sail the Bal
timore Insular Line ships for collective
bargaining agent the seamen voted
three to one for the A. F. of L. af-
filiate In North Santiago, the Fish
Cannery Workers of the Pacific, af-
filiate of the International Seafarers'
Union, was certified by the Labor
Board as exclusive representative for
collective bargaining of all mainte-
nance and production employees of the
Old Mission Packing Corporation, fol-
lowing an election in which the G. |. O..
union ran a poor second.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-12-20
Pay Boost Pact Gained
By POcketbOOk Workers

New York, N. Y.-President Reinlib
of the international Ladies Handbag,
Pocketbook and Novelty Workers
Union, A. F. of L. affiliate, reported
that he had signed a contract with the
C. F. Rump & Sons, Inc, of Phila
delphia, Pa, providing for closed
union shop, general weekly wage
increase of 81 to So, majority of the
employees receiving So, with all the
increases retroactive to November IA,
one weeks vacation with pay for all
workers and time and one-half for
certain holidays and overtime work
The company was established in
1850 and this is the first time it has
ever dealt with a union, Mr.. Reinlib
said
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-12-20

On what terms we send planes and
munitions isn't the question. We can't
back down without joining the de-
feated nations.
Sound strange? Well, think it over.
When you get it that way, you know
we HAVE TO keep going, win or lose
and we don't intend to lose.
So, nation that loves peace, wants
peace, is plunged into the greatest war
of all time, with the greatest stake of
all time-believe it or not.
Not formal war-but war just the
same. There is no more formal war.
Nations just start at each other in
whatever way seems to them best.
We started long ago-months ago.
In deeper every month.
1t had to be so. How else could it
have been? Ask yourself.
There will be quibbling about this
and that. Are wages right? Are our
planes any good? Are there unnec-
essary bitches and stallings? Is this
or that wrong?
Probably great deal is wrong.
That seems to be our way.
But whatever anyone thinks of the
situation, Uncle Sam is in the fix of
the old frontiersman who never dared
take his hand off his gun.
Believe it or not!