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Evening star., 1944-06-25

not bow down to the slave power
And, sir to carry a municipal cleo
ton in the City of Washington, Mr..
Buchanan laid tax on all the en-
ployes of the Government, from the
highest to the lowest, for a corrup-
ton fund, and compelled every man
in the employ of the Government, at
the Navy Yard. on the water works
and on the public buildings, to vote
the sham Democratic ticket to sus-
tain the slave power. Five hundred
were brought from the water works
alone to perpetrate this wrong upon
the people of the District of Colum-
bia. These not being enough to over
come the people, the marines were
ordered out. under pretense Of preserv-
ing order, and seven of the citizens
were killed and about 20 wounded by
this unrighteous use of an armed force
all to this unrighteous use of an
armed force-all to sustain the damn
able cause of slavery. But thanks to
God, we come here fellow gentlemen
from Maryland, daring to be Repub-
licans; not to baptize that District of
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Il came to this city as repre-
sentative of the Republican party for
no sinister purpose, but for the people
Of that disfranehised District. We
claim from the people of this country
the right of franchise; We claim the
right OF citizenship; we claim to be
heard In this discussion, and not to
be silent longer In this Republic. We
have no legislature. We ask of Con-
gress a legislature, and we intend
that they shall give us a territorial
legislature and representation In
Congress-that we shall make our own
laws and that Congress will confirm
them-that we will be a people and
have a work in this great Republic.
Sham Democracy
Il came here to tell this people that
the sham democracy has trodden down
the Republican party with the iron
heel Of despotism, worse and more
tyrannical than that of Russia or the
Austrian Empire.
What has the Buchanan admins
tration done? Why sir, they have gone
into the workshops of the Govern
ment to seek out Republican, and
then turn him cut to grass, taking
the bread from his family, If he did
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DR.. Hallstone indicated that visiting
hours were over by climbing into his top
tier bunk. Just as / squeezed into my
own topsider, the doctor had to get I'D
again to give little codeine to boy
who had headache.
Landing at 5 AM.
We had to awaken most Of the boys
when we reached the Navy flying field at
Olathe, Kans.. around o'clock in the
morning. The doctor passed out two
dollars to each of the boys, and the
patients who could walk went to the
mess hall in bus. A couple of the
stretcher cases said they could do with
bite, too, so they were taken in an
ambulance
1t had gotten pretty cold in the air
so when we took of again Hospital
Corpsman Paul Mcdonald, 27, of Kan
sas City tucked us all in with extra
blankets. Mcdonald used to be cop
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Long Trip in Flying Hospital Makes
Navy Men Feel Like Millionaires

AS we climbed, Seaman (Second Class
Deloy Hudson Of Santa Monica, Calf, =,
reached out and patted the metal floor
ing Of the plane affectionately.
Why 1t Had to Be Good
Il used to make this stuff when I was
working for Douglas Aircraft in Detroit" I"
he grinned. "and, brother, can see now
why 1t had to be good. Floor, do your
stuff and stay with us!"
The doctor, 1t. " E. Hallstone, talked
to couple Of the boys who seemed a
little apprehensive Then he gave all of
them e sedative to help them sleep.
Before they came aboard. most of them
had. received doses Of sodium silicylate,
the pain-relieving drug used for rheu-
matte fever
A few Of the boys were in the mood
for bull session as we cruised at sew
eral thousand feet
These plane rolls are nothing"
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Battered Plane Limps Home, Heroine

feet altitude and was 100 miles from
Ascension.
In jiffy there was lot Of action in
the cockpit. Flight Engineer A. G. Me-
Kinney closed a fuel shut-on valve to
No. 4 engine. The No. nacelle fire
extinguisher was pulled, but had no
effect. The flap burned away in the
wake of No. nacelle. Capt. Robin H
McGlohn needed to wind up q lot of
aileron to keep the wings level.
Oil Tank Explodes
The three other motors revved to
keep "Tillie' going but, with NO. 4
windmilling and some big pieces OF the
Evening star., 1944-06-25
BY Frank Carey,
Associated Press Science writ

Associated PreSS science writer.
ABOARD A NAVY TRANSCONTI-
MENTAL HOSPITAL PLANE.-The
doctor was making out his report as our
plane sped through California's San
Bernadino Valley
We were nearing the end of an over
night trip across the country from
Washington to Corona, Calf, in fly
ing hospital ward" bearing 16 Navy men
suffering from rheumatic fever. Our
flight was one of the first in a new
service which the Navy says will be ex-
panded as the tempo of the war in
creases
The doctors report was brief. One
man had complained of a slight head
ache, another Of an infected finger.
Another had an ache from something
he had eaten.
And, oh, yes" the doctor added. "A
few showed an increased pulse when we
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while, had good strong contact with
Ascension.
Thick Trail of Smoke
Lightened up, "Tillie" few all right
and the crew began to feel the wing
would stay on if they didn't hit any
hard bumps, The flames were again
dying down, but there was still a thick
trail of smoke from No, T.
About this time the crew began to
look ahead for Ascension on the horizon.
They felt they were so near, yet 50 far.
They knew "Tillie" would sink fast II
they hit, II she lost wing, it would be
just too bad anyhow.
Evening star., 1944-06-25
How the Republican Party
Was Born in WASHINGTON

Der of the latter committee for Mary
land, and John Farley was the Virginia
representative
Where Party Was CrystalIized
incidentally, it was in Mr.. Blairs
home at Silver Spring, still standing,
where the party was crystallized by the
senior Blair and his son Montgomery,
later Mr. Lincolns Postmaster General.
And the senior Blair and his sons Mont
gomery and Frank were delegates to the
second convention at Chicago.
At the first National Republican Con-
vention, held in Philadelphia, in Musical
Fund Hall, Locust street above Eighth,
on June II, large number of delegates
was in attendance. Robert Emmett of
New York served as temporary chair
man, Henry S. Lane was made perma-
nent chairman after the convention was
organized and E. D. Morgan of New
York called the meeting to order.
But at the second convention, held
in Chicago in 1860, the outspoken cham
pion for the people of Washington was
James A. Wise, who, in the Defense
of the Rights OF the People of the Dis
trict of Columbia" said before that
body:
Mr.. President: I come from the
Capital Of this great and mighty Re-
public and, like my friend, Mr. Armour,
I am descended from old Maryland.
(Applause) I stand in this mighty
convention congregated in the Queen
City of the great West, the representa-
tive from the District of Columbia of
the great Republican party. loud
cheers) I stand here the representa-
tive of the prosecuted and downtrodden
and disfranchised people that have no
vote for President, no voice in Con-
gress and no voice anywhere to legislate
for us, and yet our territory contains
hundred thousand freemen.
Evening star., 1944-06-25
BY Special Correspondent.

There's hell popping out in the jungles
around Imphal and the yellow -bellied
sons of TOTO have discovered that they
have cut themselves a large slice of
trouble The trouble is supertrained,
jungle-wise sharpshooters who have
plenty of things 1t takes to win a war.
To keep the boys out in India sup
piled with new, modern equipment for
the deadly business of war THE Can
nonball," lightning express of the United
States Army's Air Transport Command,
is shooting supplies hallway across the
world in half week. 1t is the fastest
express service in aviation history.
Capt. Basil Rowe, Pan Americans
veteran who probably has had more
hours in the air than any other living
pilot, says the "Cannonball" is no place
for ninny. And, he should know. This
air-calloused skymaster has seen all
kinds of flying in the more than 100000
miles he has covered in 2s years
The toughest experience Capt. Rowe
or any of the other pilots of the early
days of the "Cannonball" was landing
on Ascension Island. On his first trip
to the place, Capt. Rowe found that the
runway was between two volcanic cores
that made an exact "on- dime" landing
necessary, IF you didn't want to knock
the wings off your plane"
"Tail-Heavy Tillie."
1t was near Ascension Island that
'Tail-Heavy Tillie" played her part in
the 1912 saga of blazing the Army Air
Transport Commands new air lifeline
across the Atlantic and Africa to India
and China.
"Tillie," converted B-24 bomber, had
just been taken over from the Army for
the new Africa a-Orient service which
Pan American inaugurated for the Air
Transport Command of the United
States Army Air Forces.
Plane Becomes Ball of Fire
On this day of her glory, in November,
1912, the flight from the Gold Coast had
been so smooth every one thought some
thing was going to happen-and it did.
First Officer f. l.. Spencer was the first
to discover that "Tillie" had been turned
into ball of fire. But within seconds
Capt, Ray Hawthorne of the Raj,
passenger, squirmed into the cockpit
and hollered: mo. 4 is on fire!'
BY now the crew could see the big
orange-colored flames licking their way
around the end of the right wing and
wrapping themselves around the fuse
lage as far back as the rudders. The
flames were being fed by gas under
35-pound pressure. "Tillie" had 1000
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were flying at 10000 feet over those
mountain peaks back way. But-so
did mine, for that matteri"
Wounded Men Put on Board
1t was raining as we boarded the big
twin-engined ship Of the Navy Air
Transport Service and the six stretcher
cases had to be transferred quickly from
ambulances. They were placed on litters
on the lower tiers. The rest Of the men
scrambled onto the upper two tiers The
six men on the middle tier could look
out through small windows, but the rest
could see nothing.
The men climbed into their hunks
fully clothed and just before we took
off, Radio Technician Ralph McCor-
mick of Brook Park, Minn-one of the
stretcher cases-strummed farewell to
" Washington on a guitar Mccormick
used to play in dance bands before he
entered the Navy.
But the music was drowned out as the
motors roared for the take-off, lust as
darkness fell.
Evening star., 1944-06-25
BY John Clagett Proctor.

The holding of the Republican Ma
tional Convention at Chicago this year,
the opening session of which begins to-
morrow. makes the 18th time the Windy
CITY has been selected by the COP for
this important purpose. The first ma
tional convention of the party, in 1856,
took place In Philadelphia, when John
G Fremont was nominated for the
presidency Four years hence, in 1860,
Abraham Lincoln was nominated at
Chicago, and in this city majority of
the subsequent conventions have been
held.
However, of all the cities in this coun-
try in 1860 Chicago seems to have been
the least fitted for the purpose, for We
are told that "the town had then just
about taken up the colossal task of rails
ing itself bodily out of the grassy
marsh, where it had been originally
placed, to a level OF IL feet above Lake
Michigan, and of putting underneath a
good, solid foundation" and further
that, when the invitation to the con-
vention was extended, half the build
ings in Chicago were on stills; some of
the streets had been raised to the new
grade, others still lay in the mud; half
the sidewalks were poised high on piles,
and half were still down on level with
the lake.
"A city with a conventional sense of
q decorum would not have cared to be
seen in this demoralized condition but
Chicago, perhaps conceived that it
would but prove her courage and con-
fidence to show the country what she
wss doing and so she had the conven-
ton to come"
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Wide World Photo.

in Kansas City and as bedtime story
he told us how he once caught a nnur-
derer who had slashed mans throat.
ut was easy" said Mac. The guy
swiped car, to make his getaway. but
the dope stopped to see his girl, and
We caught up with him!"
The boys were all set for breakfast
when We landed at Winslow, Ariz., but
they began to get pretty weary during
the last leg over the Salt River Valley
and the Painted Desert. They kept
browsing of, oblivious to the magnifi-
cence below them.
Now, as we near journeys end. they
perk up again.
One of the middle-tier boys has
sighted the Navy hospital at Corona,
formerly the swanky Lake Norconian
Club.
Understand this used to be mil
lionaires joint--with four swimming
pools" says one lad.
Huh" SCOTS Brown, the destroyer vet.
eran. What's millionaire got on me?
I've just crossed the country for IS cents
the price of those two meals!"
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cow hanging out IN the breeze, there
was so much drag that "Tillie" was los
ing altitude. Meanwhile, the flames
were beginning to die down, ai1d 1t
looked as though the fire might burn
out. But, just then the oil tank ex-
ploded!
"Tillie" took the explosion with a
groan and lurch. Cowling and engine
parts kept dropping off and by this time
every one had put on his Mae West
and prepared for ditching as the waves
of the Atlantic came closer and closer
Finally Capt MeGlohn gave orders to
1sttison the cargo OF mica. "Tillie's'
radio operator, George Pauiey, mean
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Jefferson however, was declared elected
as Vice President.
Again in 1900 Jefferson ran as
Republican and as such received 70
electoral votes and Aaron Burr of the
same party received the same num-.
Der of votes, and the contest was de-.
cided by the House of Representatives
in favor of Jefferson for President and
Burr for Vice President.
Prior to the next presidential elec-
ton, in 1904, the 18th amendment to
the Constitution was declared in ef-
feet on September Is of that year. This
amendment directed that the electors
shall name in their ballots the
person voted for as President, and in
distinct ballots the person voted for as
Vice President" And again Jefferson,
the Republican candidate, was declared
elected, his successful running mate be-
ing George Clinton, whose mortal re-
mains rested here in Congressional
Cemetery in this city until 1908, when
they were removed to his home State,
New York.
James Madison and James Monroe
were also elected as Republicans, and
John Quincy Adams OF the same party
was selected by the House of Repre-
sentatives as Monroe's successor.
TAGGED With COP Label
All the candidates in this campaign
that of 1924 which included Andrew
Jackson, j. @. Adams, Henry Clay and
William H. Crawford--were tagged with
the Republican label, and it remained
for jackson, at the next election, to
head the Democratic party. which put
him in the White House for the next
two terms.
Back in Jeffersons and Madisons
day the Republican party opposed the
United States bank, the English treaty
and the assumption Of the State debts.
The Federalists, we are told, favored
the granting of power to the general
government which they thought should
be made strong. The Republicans,
fearing lest the Republic should become
monarchy and the President a king,
opposed this idea and advocated State
rights. The Republicans declared them
selves to be the only true friends of
the people and stigmatized all others as
aristocrats and monarchists.
The Republican party of the sos had
its origin through its intense opposi-
ton in nonslaye States to the further
extension Of the slavery system, and the
breakdown OF the compromise policy of
Henry Clay, with the Kansas Nebraska
bill and repeal of the Missouri compro-
mise as the incidental causes, which
brought the party into being. OF its
first actual meeting there may be some
doubt but the one at Ripon, Wis, Feb
ruary 28 1854, was probably the ear
liest. However, it is likely that little If
anything of concrete nature resulted
from this gathering. And the general
impression that the actual beginning
of the party was in Washington is un-
doubtedly an accurate one.
BY 1856 the Republicans had gained
sufficient encouragement to hold a con-
vention to nominate candidates for the
presidency and vice presidency. To
this end the following notice was print
ed in the National Era of January II,
1856:
ITO the Republicans of the United
States:
I'm accordance with what appears to
be the general desire Of the Republican
Party, and at the suggestion of large
portion of the Republican press, the
Continued on Page C-5)
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But 81 years have, indeed, worked
wonders, and Chicago today with its
upward of 1000 900 people, has grown to
be the second largest city in this coun-
try, and the delegates and their friends
will undoubtedly enjoy themselves to
the limit, even if their candidate may
not be selected.
First Lincoln Convention
The Wigwam, where the first Lincoln
convention was held, was at the corner
of Market and Lake streets, and was
built especially for the purpose by the
Chicago Republican Club. 1t was low
structure lso feet long by 100 feet wide.
The roof is said to have risen in the
segment of a circle, so that one side was
higher than the other, and across this
side and the two ends were deep CALLER
les. Facing the ungalleried side was a
platform reserved for the delegates. 1t
was l40 feet long and 35 feet deep, with
committee rooms at each end. The
structure, itself, was made of pine lum-
ber and the interior was profusely deco
rated with wreaths, bunting, flags, ban
hers and statuary, and was about as
fine fire-trap as was ever built, though
1t answered well its purpose,
s. At this convention Abraham Lincoln
( was the dark horse and received on the
first ballot d02 votes, and Seward, later
TO become his Secretary of State, re-
eeived l73ia. On the second ballot Lin
colin received 49, Seward 18412. Third
and last ballot Lincoln, 23ll2; Seward,
l80. At this point, when silence reigned
supreme for brief moment or so, Car
ter, delegate from Ohio, sprang to his
feet and announced the change of 4
votes for Lincoln, which was more than
suff1cient for his nomination And it
was then that a secretary is said to
have broke the silence by crying to a
man stationed on the roof of the Wig
wan to signal to the crowd outside
ss'"Fire the salute! Abe Lincoln is NOM
sthated!"
Birthplace OF COP Here
q Washington has every justification for
claiming to be the birthplace of the
National Republican party and Lewis
Clephane Washingtonian, is certainly
due much credit for the part he played
in starting 1t on its way, especially when
ON June 10, 1855, he with four others
formed a small club known as the Re-
publican Association of Washington,
.. c.
yTThls group soon atterWard, in setting
forth the principles of the association,
as published by Mr.. clephane, among
other things, said.
In order to secure concert of action
and more direct interchange of in
telligenee and general cooperation
Throughout the country we invite the
formation of similar associations in
every State, county, city or village in
the Union, whose officers shall be ex
efheio members of this association, and
who are requested to report to this as
sociation the names of their officers
and number of members for general
Information of the whole"
An informal meeting of the members
of the Republican party was held in
Pittsburgh on February %, 1855, as ad-
ssertised, and Lewis Clephane of Wash
ington was made a member of the
National Executive Committee and the
C0mmittee on Permanent Organization
for the District of Columbia; Francis
p. Blair, at one time editor of the Globe
and whose country residence was Just
over the District borderline in Mont,
somery County, Nd, was made a mem
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But though she never few again,
Tail Heavy Tillie" had the stun to
bring her charges back. Capt. McGlohn
brought her to a silky smooth landing
on the runway at Ascension-the run
way cut between those two volcanic hills.
Besides Capt. McGlohn, First Officer
Spencer and Radio operator Pauley. the
crew included Navigator j. G. Heves
and Flight Engineer Mckinney. Pas
sengers were Capt. Hawthorne, 1t. Col.
u. S. Aldrich, H. w. Toomey, A. X. Mil
ton, L. N. Rea, Cliff Pitman and A. d.
Jones, the last four Pan American Ter.
ries. To say they were glad to have
ground under them is to put 1t mildly.
They were ready to kiss the earth!
copyright. North American Newspaper Alliance.
Evening star., 1944-06-25

Columbia over again, and, in the sight
Of God. we will exclude slavery from
1t in less than three months, provided
Congress will give LIS a territorial
legislation"
Referring to the city directories for
1850 and 1865, we find In the former
that the James A. Wise, who delivered
the foregoing remarks, was at that
time a law student residing on Four
and-a-Half street (now Fourth street,
south of Maryland avenue. BY 1855
his name appears as James Andrew
Wise and he had become full-f1edged
lawyer with an ONCE in what is now
John Marshall place. As yeungster
according to the report, he certainly
covered himself with glory upon this
occasion.
Where Name Game From
AS to the use of the word Repub-
lican for an American political party,
it may be interesting to state that the
name dates back for nearly a century
and half, indeed as far back as 1875,
when Thomas Jeffersons party used it
in his unsuccessful campaign against
John Adams, who ran as a Federalst.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-17
Pupil ASSEMBLY
TO OPEN TODAY

RALEIGH, Nov. 49, Up The
eighth annual North Carolina Stu
dent Legislative assembly will
convene here tomorrow with ap-
proximately 200 delegates repre-
senting dozen institutions in at
tendance.
Addresses by Governor Brough-
ton, Secretary OF State Thad Eure,
and Prof. Edwin H. Paget, diree-
tor of forensics at State College,
will feature joint meeting Of the
Senate and House tomorrow after
noon. Following the joint session,
both houses will assemble to con-
slider legislation proposed by stu
dents from the various colleges.
Another joint session will be held
tomorrow night.
Newton Mandel Of New York
City, State college student, will
serve as president of the Assem-
bly,, which is sponsored by the Pi
Kappa Delta, honorary forensic
fraternity at State college.
Other officers, all of State col
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-17
Army Air Base Trucks
Will Collect Tin Cans

Army trucks from Bluthenthal
Air base will make collections in
the city of tin cans. still critical
war materials, Henry Sternberg.
err, chairman Of the county salvage
committee, announced Thursday.
The Army has promised to have
the trucks canvass the city as often
as necessary, Sternberger said.
It is desired that the tin cans
be cleaned, the wrappers removed,
both ends cut out and then flat
tened.
Locations at which Wilmington
ians are asked to deposite their
tin cans are at Sixth and Harnett.
Sixth and Market, Sixth and Queen,
Twelfth and Grace. Twelfth and
Market, Thirteenth and Dawson.
Seventeenth and Princess, Seven
teenth and Ann, Wrightsville ave-
nue. and Hudson drive, Lake Vii.
lage community building at Green
field Terrace. A depot is also at
the M. Nielsen establishment on
Harbor Island.