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Invasion Climax Believed Near; Tokyo Army Upsets Cabinet.
By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor Germany and Italy renewed | their threats against Britain today and Japan ousted the cabinet of Premier Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai to strengthen her bid for domin-| ation of the Far East. The war in western Europe—ex- | cept for an exchange of heavy air | blows—continued to be principally | & war of nerves as the Axis Powers sought by propaganda methods to |
help pave the way for their longthreatened invasion of the British | Isles, In Berlin, the Nazi press warned | that “the same inexorable fate” | that struck down France will over- | take England if Prime Minister | Winston Churchill continues In | power. {
In the French town of Grenoble, | the newspaper Petit Dauphinois | said that Adolf Hitler had decided that the “movements of the stars” | were favorable for an attack on | July 19 by the 600,000 men (most estimates have put the figure much
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MNUTT HOPES
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Second Place Drive. ‘Paul V. McNutt, assured by New [worked feverishly to consolidate his to mean that Secretary of State [chief executive's bid to become his held by McNutt supporters to be [who would be acceptable to the The McNutt forces held a rally o nominate Farley wouldn't be ‘wise.” | Frank McHale, McNutt for Presi-
Nearly Every State Attends Meeting Launching New By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer CHICAGO, July 16.—Managers for Deal sources that the Vice Presidential race would be kept “wide open” for at least 48 hours, today strength among convention delegates. Most Hoosiers took the assurance Cordell Hull, generally conceded to be President Rooseveit's personal choice, had balked at ac epuing the 1940 running mate, The New Deal sources who revealed the convention situation, Imost favorable to their candidate, {added that that the former Indiana Governor was one of six candidates | White House circle. McNutt Forces Rally this morning and launched the most intensive drive of the convention for second place on a third term ticket. [dent manager, said that every state, WASHINGTON, July 16 (U. P.). (“with the possible exception of two or three, was represented at the
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Senator Carter Glass (D. Va.) announced today that he would
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Charting a Course of Action
Democratic National Chairman James A. Farley (left) who is mentioned as a possible successor to Mr. Farley if he steps
TOLL NOW 63 IN Au Revoir, Jim, Till Friday
confers with
THIRD
TERMERD
CLAIMING 904 ON
FIRST
BALLOT
Farley Is Reported Demanding Businessman
For Vice Presidenc,
y as Apathetic Con-
vention Awaits Draft Orders.
By LYLE (
United Press St
. WILSON
aff Correspondent
STADIUM, CHICAGO, July 16.—Chairman James A.
Farley of the Democvatic Na
tional Committee was reliably
reported today to have taken command of a movement to
nominate Federai Loan Admi President as running mate fo
nistrator Jesse Jones for Vice rr President Roosevelt.
As the convention held another mid-day session for a
round of oratory and routine
business, one report was that
Mr. Farley himself might take the floor late in the week-end to put Mr. Jones’ name in nomination. This might bring on a showdown floor fight between Mr. Farley, the strict party
man, and Roosevelt third-ter out of 1094 on the first ball Mr. Farley was understo
FEEL PRESSURE HITE HOUSE
I'elephoin
Yorker |
Timas-Aeme Frank Walker, New down as chairman,
n leaders who claim 904 votes ol. od to be convinced that there is no way to prevent the convention Irom voting over whelmingly for Mr. Roosevelt. But he evidently was determined upon a “business appeasement” candidate for sec-
MINE EXPLOSION (Or Is He Really Quitting?)
[meeting in the sumptuous McNutt | ; ~ oming stmaster neral ‘headquarters in the Hotel Stevens.) which the Germans have been as-| Dominate Postmaster General | q
sembling for weeks off the French, | James A Farley as President at | Bach person was assigned & g1oup Gag. Masked Rescue Crews ‘It Becomes My Duty to Relinquish the Gavel... . ‘Draft - Roosevelt’ Leaders
Bel _ Dutch and Norweg the Democratic convention if he of delegates to contact and Mr. Mc- : coasts, WOU) were asked to do so but added |Hale predicted that within the next| Remove Victims® Bodies ‘Give Our Successors’ ...ls Farley Through? | Hear From Chief Over Private Phone Line.
ond place on the ticket and has selected Mr. Jones, Texas banker and business leader, as
the man.
Mr. Farley's plan to nominate Mr. Jones for Vice President was inler-
higher) and hundreds of boats]
In Rome, there were demands by that such a request would not be |24 hours they will know exactly how | |
dried y , | | | the Fascist press for Italy to seize | ie So verr-old Viceinion Wa many vetes Mr. McNutt can count At Portage, Pa. CHICAGO, July 16 (U. P.).—Jim! There's Jim! Is he gomg to tell the Britis protectorate over Pales- | <-year-o irginian was lus he's quitting? The Oklanoma officerholder whispered it to the Oklahoma
jon. | tine and there were also persistent] reports that the Foreign Ministers | of Ttaly, Germany and Russia would soon hold a momentous conference | ——a report that has been put out fre- | quently by the Nazis in support of. their claims of Soviet co-operation but one which has not yet come | true. | Italian official sources discounted | rumors circulated abroad that Hitler | might offer peace terms to Britain | as an alternative to a devastating | attack, pointing out that such & move would be playing the game of | Britain, which has rejected peace | proposals in advance and would re- | gard any such offer as a sign of
: | weakness of the totalitarian powers. |
British Hammer at Nazi Bases
Regardless of the Nazi-Fascist threats and the Petit Dauphinois reports that Hitler was studying the stars again, it seemed obvious that the hor for a climatic attempt to invade Britain was nearing. The British were hammering as never before at German bases in all of the countries from which an invasion might be launched, dropping hundreds of tons of bombs on oil depots, arms and plane factories and communications lines.
In the Far East, the critical hour
for the British Empire was reflected in efforts by Japanese Army and Navy leaders to take advantage of the European war and further their plans for domination of Asia. The Yonai was forced out the resurgence of military and nationalistic elements friendly to Germany and Italy and in favor of a one-party rule that would seck to extend Japanese influence over all of East Asia and to the South Seas regardless of British or American interests. Prince Fumimaro Konoyve, founder of a new national party designed to embrace all factions in a ¥ascistlike merger, or Baron Kitchiro Hiranuma, strongly conservative
by
a
former premier, appeared likely to)
succeed to the premiership, with the strongly pro-Nazi Toschio Shiratori mentioned as a possible foreign minister,
R. A. F. Pushes Its Attack
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that the Japanese intended to press ahead as rapidly as possibie with their campaign to end the war with China and extend their influence southward.
interviewed shortly before leaving | for Chicago and declined to am- | plify his statement.
U. S. OPPOSES BURMA CLOSING
Hull Sees Barring of Route As Interference With World Commerce.
WASHINGTON, July 16 (U. P) .— The United States is opposed to any agreement between the British and Japanese Governments to close the Burma Road into China, the State Department revealed today. This nation’s position was made clear in a formal statement issued by the Department in response to numerous inquiries regarding an agreement between Japan and Brit(ain to shut off arms traffic to the! trapped Chinese armies Burma Road. The statement said that this Gov-/ [ernment opposed the closing of any | iroutes over which international commerce customarily moves. It said the closure of the Burma route, (at the instance of the Japanese | Government, would constitute unwarranted interference with world trade. This policy was similar to views expressed by Secretary of State Cor(dell "Hull several weeks ago waen the Japanese Government demanded | (closure of the Indo-China Railroad | over which the Chinese Armies also! received important military supplies. |
Churchill Statement
Expected in Commons
LONDON, July 16 (U. P.).—Prime | Minister Winston Churchill was ex- | [pected to maké a statement to the! {House of Commons today on Great |
|
| McHale asserted.
[Britain's new Far Eastern policy in[cluding an agreement to close the The governmental trend indicated | Burma highway route of supply to/than two points.
China, for the present. | Quo Tai-Chi, Chinese Ambassador, ! lin protesting to the foreign office] |yesterday against the agreement, | |was understood to have told R. Al
Carolina, 26, and Michigan, 38.
States already claimed, in addition to the 28 delegates from Indiana, include, Rhode Island, with 8 delegates; Delaware, 6; Maine, 10; North T atter state, it was explained 6 the first courtesy vote for Vice President to Senator Prentiss Brown and then its entire vote to Mr. McNutt.
committee on credentials to approve | the six delegates from the Philippine
Islands, who are also pledged to Mr. barricade they had thrown up in a | vain effort to save themselves from |
“We have some strength in every suffocating gas.
McNutt.
state delegation and if the field is
| Gas found the bodies of 63 miners en(tombed by a flash explosion in the persons w |Sonman shaft coal company: mine,
| at first was believed to have escaped |
Robert Batton, Marion, & McNutt the worst effects of the explosion, | aide, succeeded today in getting the 8nd found the bodies of Section
PORTAGE, Pa., July 16 (U. P) .— masked rescue crews
lawyer.
James A. Farley stood there
ere below him,
ANTI-THIRD TERM PLANK DISCUSSED
Senator McCarran May Act In Resolutions Group.
The death toll had risen sharp’ this morning when réscue workers broke to heading No. 16, which
Foreman James Monteeth and sev-| eral members of his crew behind a
The blast had torn through the]
kept open we are sure to win,” Mr | north dip section of the 50:year-old | 7imes Special
Remember Top Post
His inner sanctum at the McNutt the shaft entrances and soaked to headquarters is the mecca of doz- the skin by a heavy rain, silently men from every watched the bodies being removed. These largely They were not permitted to view are men who were active in the Me- the dead early today.
ens of contact
state in the union.
Nutt-for-President organization and
now are taking their stand on the minutes after the explosion believed the caused by gas or rock dust had [ rumbled This, they point out, also will | trapping the men working almost via the leave him in the race for top place 8000 feet from the headings of en-| |should President Roosevelt decline ries 16. 17 and 18.
slogan: “Put
ticket.”
McNutt on
the nomination.
Under the direction of Mrs. Sam- | of less than 1000, some 80 miles easq |of Pittsburgh, was the third mine
uel M. Ralston, widow of the former Governor, and Senator of Indiana. and Mrs. women delegates from all states also are to be contacted and urged to (Continued on Page Three)
STOCKS SWING uP ON PEACE REPORTS
| i | Gains Range to Two Points At Peak of Rally.
By UNITED PRESS
Reported German peace overtures | brought a broad rally into New York | stocks today and volume increased. | At the top, gains ranged to more Steels were best | but the whole war list improved and | gains spread to peace issues. In addition to the German peace talk, the market had in its favor a strong technical position, having re-
On the Buropean and African war | Butler, parliamentary foreign under- [sisted pressure for more than two
fronts, the aerial war continued with deadly monotony and probably
secretary, that though China was | willing to negotiate an honorable
{mine at 11:15 a. m.
Emily Newell Blair the west Virginia soft coal district this
veslerday. CHICAGO, July 16-—An antiWives, children and relatives of third term movement was germinat-
the entombed miners, standing at ing today in the Democratic con-
vention. Senator Pat McCarran (Nev. said 'he was considering presentation of
lolutions committee, of which he is a member. He had not decided finally, he indicated. Apparently he was awaiting discussion of the project with other Senators who oppose a third term and who might join him. , 9 _..| There is no possibility of such a The disaster 24 PortaZe. a town plank veing approved by the com-
Twenty-one men escaped a few
through the north dip,
object would be to take the resolution before the convention in a minoiity report and provoke a fight lon the floor. There, too, such a res{olution would be squelched, ) at the effect would be to reveal divisitn on the issue.
U. S. MAPPING PLANS ' FOR POWDER PLANT
explosion in the Ohio-Pennsylvania-
year,
Auto Ablaze; Owner Puzzled
A flaming sedan that plunged driverless down the bank of Fall Creek in Stadium Drive, 1400 block, early today provided a puzzle both for police and the owner. The auto, with kerosene soaked rags in the trunk, was seen by two people rolling down the embankment, the rear end ablaze. Mrs. Mattie Winfley, 932 N. California St., the owner of the car, had loaned it to relatives who said it | reviewed this afternoon by Presiwas taken from its parking place dent Roosevelt, some near the City Hospital last night. |his Cabinet and the Defense ComPolice towed the car to the mission and the details may be rePlaza Garage after firemen extin- |vealed late today. guished the flames.
lof perhaps a series of 20 Federallyowned powder plants at strategic in[land cities, an authoritative source |said today.
“POSTPONE HAVANA SESSION
HIT BY STREET CAR Running for an mbound Michigan | —Secretary of State M. A. Campa
A delegate from Ohio whispered it to his brethren, voday whispered it among themselves. Yippee!
beiore him,
‘an anti-third term plank to the res-|
The matter, it was said, is being to relinquish the gavel. . . has been a happy service. ... I know members of [that your new organization will , . .!
HAVANA, Cuba, July 16 (U, P).
Oregonians Stay with us, Jim! the rostrum. Twenty thousand behind him, around nim, all bending forward, not (0 miss a | word —all staring, net- to miss a | facial expression or a gesture. | The word had gone around that this creator of victories, this man who knew every Democrat trom coast to coast “worth Knowing,’ this man with a million was quitting and this night he was saying his valedictory.
And Klieg Lights Beat Down
He must have ielt those eves [beating upon him through the rising blue haze, He stood there, a glantman, his heavy shoulders stooped, his head down, the Klieg hghts (beating on his bald pate and causling 1t to glisten, his slender, sensi tive right hand playing with his eyeglasses. Farley lifted his head and raised his eves to the highest pinnacie of the jpalleries. Slowly they descended over the rows and rows of faces and he was looking into the sea of faces [directly before him, the faces of
at
the men and women with the votes, |to fulfill the ambitions of any man, |
| Most of them he knew by their [first names and the rest are his
mittee, Mr. McCarran realizes. The friends, and here they were, tense,
vibrant, fused into one whole upon | which his words might play. What would he do with this instrument? | The reverie was over. He put his glasses on his nose, reached for his {prepared speech, and began reading it. Perhaps he had been thinking, “Guess I'd better get this over with.”
A Lonely Figure
He was reaching his peroration
From out there among those faces | his was a lonely figure up there on
[the rostrum, his face aglisten with
WASHINGTON, July 16 (U.P.).— sweat, the klieg lights beating down | | Negotiations virtually are complete 'on him, trving to reflect themselves Montana's primary election today
{on a contract for building the first on his broad face and bald head. furnished this political puzzle: Bur-
|His voice was solemn, perhaps sad
|—one couldn't tell if the amplifiers
were coloring it. [ “And now . .. it becomes my duty . Mine
{this great gathering will give our successors. . , .” : | The Oklahoma officeholder whis|pered to the Oklahoma lawyer: {“There, didn’t I tell you? He just {won't have anything to do with the third term.” | The Ohinan said: “Aw, that's just
friends, |
WASHINGTON, July 16 (U. P.).— President Roosevelt took an increasingly active role in the Demoeratic national convention today, conferring ny telephone with Secreta;y of Commerce Harry Hopkins, one of the New Deal leaders of the Roosevelt forces at Chicago.
James F. Byrnes (S. C.), reportedly is the White house contact man at the convention, called Mr. Roosevelt over the open long-distance circuit bv which the President is making his influence felt at the Democratic meeting. The conversation lasted about five minutes. with Mr. Hopkins domg most of the talking. The call presumably was a report to Mr. Roosevelt on convention trends and the disposition of the delegates to offer him a third term nomination by Thursday night. White House Secretary Stephen T Early, said that virtually all the talking “was from the Chicago end.” “All I could hear was loud laughter,” he said. Mr. Roosevelt left a wide gap in his appointment list to permit him to tune in a portable radio on his (Continued on Page Three)
WHEELER FACES TEST
Presidential Candidate's Name Up for Senate.
ton K. Wheeler seeking renominaLion to the U, S. Senate at the same [time his name was up for the Democravic Presidential nomination at Chicago, Mr. Wheéeler's
main opposition,
‘Attorney General Harrison J. Free-
bourn, had made a campaign issue lof the isolationist’s dual candidacy. If Mr. Wheeler received both Senatorial and Presidential “nominations, said Mr. Freebourn, he would | be forced to drop out of the Montana race and concede to the Re-
weeks with volume the lightest in | St. car on his way to work last|said today that the Pan American the usual stuff. Friday we'll re-elect publican candidate
22 years.
The increase in dealings | night, Ira A. Hubbs, 63, of 401 N.| conference had been postponed to him chairman; then watch us win!
with far greater damage to both (Peace with Japan the chances were was small but contrasted sharply | Denny St. collided with an out-|July 21 “because some of the dele- with Roosevelt!”
sides than was reported hy dis- hardly more favorable than those of (with recent lethargy. The industrial bound car which he failed to see gates will be unable to arrive in| {average gained more than a point.
patches coming through the censorship.
British attacks on German bases |
to whittle down the striking power of the Nazi air force continued with considerable success, according to London. For a month now, the Royal Air Force has heen dropping tons of high explosives on German bases in the Reich, Belgium, Holland, Norway and France. The Germans repeatedly have reported (Continued on Page Three)
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|a British peace with Germany.
By THOMAS L. STOKES
Times Special Writer
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CHICAGO, July 16.—President Roosevelt will not be laced in nomination” at this Democratic convention.
That is, his name will not be formally presented.
He is not officially a ca
ndidate, and, barring a last-
minute shift, this fiction will be preserved under extraordinary procedure devised by the New Deal group, headed by Secretary of Commerce Harry L. Hopkins, which is managing this convention in constant consultation with the
White House.
They plan a “spontaneous uprising” of the delegates which will be worked out this way:
As usual, the roll will be
called Thursday for nomina-
. tions. This will give an opportunity for the avowed *“‘can- | didates” to be put forward with the customary nominating
| and seconding speeches. As
y
far as is known today, four
¢
at Michigan and Denny Sts. | time for the opening July 20.”
men will be put in nomination—Vice President John Garner, National Chairman James Farley, Senator Burton K. Wheeler (Mont.) and Senator Millard Tydings (Md.)— though there may be withdrawals before the roll is called. You'd never know there was such a man as President Roosevelt. Then the big secret of the convention—which has mystified no one—will be exploded before the delegates. When the roll is called again for voting upon nominations, the chairman of the Alabama delegation, first on the list, will rise and announce: “Twenty-four votes for Franklin D. Roosevelt.” This will precipitate a tumultuous outburst. Thus the “draft” procession will begin, and state after state will give its ballot to the President. The four other “candidates” will get comparatively few votes; that is, if they are still in the race when the
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Au revoir, Jim; but, decidedly, not |goodby!
»
Second to the Wheeler-Freebourn | ight is a three-cornered contest for the Democratic ‘nomination for | Governor.
The Secret's Out—Draft-E.D.R. Movement Will Be ‘Spontaneous’
roll is called, for a checkup by the New Deal group today showed 908 votes for President Roosevelt out of the 1094
in the convention. Massachusetts’ 38 votes, nor
Mr. Farley is not expected to get all of
will Maryland give all her 16
to her “favorite son,” Senator Tydings. In other directions, the New Deal managers are tightening their grasp on the machinery of this convention, with White House backing, despite an undercurrent of mutterings and protest from many delegates here and
there.
These latter do not like to be so overtly “bossed”
by the New Deal “amateurs” with no counsel whatever
from their long-time political
patron, Jim Farley.
Jim, the New Dealers learned finally today, will carry out his purpose of retiring from the national chairmanship, though he has consented to stay on until Sept. 1 to clear up pending matters and give the new chairman the benefit of his advice in starting the campaign.
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L.| third-term
Mr. Hopkins, who, with Senator |
BUTTE, Mont,, July 16 (U. P).—|
|preled as an effort to offset the business appeal of Wendell L, Wiilkie, the Republican Presidential candidate, who resigned a $75,000-a-vear job as head of Commonwealth & Southern Corp. to make the race. The convention already is ©) per cent or mpre pledged to the Roose velt third term.
Deny Anti-Third Term Fight
Draft Roosevelt leaders branded as “plain bunk” reports that antithird sentiment was developing here, The development of “draft Roosevelt” sentiment was under circumsstances persuasively suggesting that Mr. Roosevelt does not want to run again unless nearly all of the 1094 degelates want him to. The Roosevelt high command under the leadership of Senator James F. Byrnes of South Carolina says pratty nearly all of them do. They conceded an anti-Roosevelt minority around 200 votes. If the Old Guard could muster a couple hundred more, Mr, Roosevelt probably could be stopped despite the certainty that he will have a majority of some kind regardless. No urgent business was expected before the convention at today’s session. But delegates, vainly hunting excitement in the absence of any Presidential contest, flocked to the stadium in hopes of some oratorical thrills. Even so, the hall was, dotted with vacant seats.
Need of Lift Noted
The convention's need of a lift was evident as delegates straggled into the big convention hall. The dead cinch nature of the Roosevelt third-term nomination had taken much of the traditional fun, fight land frolic out of the Democratic | gathering. | Democratic conventions are not accustomed to sure-thing nominations and mutterings against the third term and long-distance maneuvering via Secretary of. Commerce Harry L. Hopkins and a private telephone line to the White House were heard in private talk among delegates. But there was no indication that this feeling would take hold sufficiently to upset the third-term , bandwagon. . It is likely that an anti-third-term plank may go to the Platform Committee. But advocates of the declaration admitted they had faint ‘hope it would go any farther.
| Cheer Mention of F. D, R.
| Mrs. Thomas F. McAllister, director of the Women's Division of the | Democratic National Convention |was the first speaker of today’s session. | “We are opposed to war, not be{cause we fear defeat for our nation,” |she said, “but because we hold fast (the American dream that the new world need not share the fatal hatreds between races, classes and (Continued on Page Three)
‘WEATHER REACTION IS A BLANKET ‘YES’
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
62 ..10 a. m..... lam... 12 (noon) .. 1 pom..
65 66 70 2
ME +... 85 . 65
You'll still be under blankets tonight, maybe even more of them than last night, but tomorrow sum- | mer will be seeing you again. | This, in swing time, 1s what the | Weather Bureau had to say today about the state of the weather. | Yesterday the top temperature was 88 degrees. Today it probably will not go above 70.
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