Evening Star Newspaper, May 21, 1940, Page 8

New Jersey Primary To Test Willkie As Vote-Getter Independent Groups Back ‘Write-in’ Move In Voting Today By the Associated Press. NEWARK, N. J., May 21.—New Jersey’s primary election today, last In the Nation at which presidential delegates will be chosen, was ex- pected to test the impromptu vote- getting strength of Utilities Magnate Wendell L. Willkie, “dark horse” pos- sibility for the Republican presi- dential nomination. Mr. Willkie’s sudden appearance on the New Jersey political scene expanded election interest which otherwise had been confined to the bitterly waged fight between for- men Gov. Harold G. Hoffman and Btate Senator Robert C. Hendrick- son for the Republican gubernato- rial nomination. Blasts New Deal. A “write-in” campaign undertaken on Mr. Willkie's behalf by inde- pendent groups almost on the eve of the election was given impetus yes- terday when 500 New Jersey Re- publican leaders turned out at Som- erville to hear Mr. Willkie blast the New Deal as “incapable” of prepar- ing the Nation's defenses. New York District Attorney Thom- as E. Dewey is the sole.candidate to file in New Jersey's presidential preferential primary and is expected to win support of the State's 32 delegates to the natiomal G. O. P. convention. The size of Mr. Willkie’s “write-in” vote, however, observers said, would influence the allegiance of delegates after the first few ballots at the con- vention, S publican, negligible opposition for renomina- tion, while James H. R. Cromwell, United States Minister to Canads, was unopposed for the Democratic nomination for Senator, and Secre- tary of the Navy Charles Edison was without opposition for the Dem- ocratic gubernatorial nomination. The election will present President Roosevelt with 32 votes in the Dem- ocratic National Convention, since all delegate candidates are pledged to a third term, despite the fact the President has not entered the primary. Rally at Home Town Hears Talk by Willkie ELWOOD, Ind, May 31 (A— Wendell Willkie, New York utility executive, promised last night he would deliver his acceptance speech from the steps of the Elwood High School Building if given the Repub- lican nomination for President. Mr. Willkie, born and reared here, addressed a “Willkie-for-President” rally from New York through s tele- phone loud-speaker hookup. He expressed opposition to in- creasing the national debt and advo- cated a program which “would not make it necessary for & business to spend all it makes.” Appointed Bishop of Trenton The Most Rev. William A. Griffin, who was auxiliary bishop of Newark, has been appointed Bishop of ‘Trenton, N. J., by Pope Pius XII, it was announced last night by the apostolic delegate. The Pope also appointed the Very Rev. Thomas Boland, chancellor of the archdiocese of Newark to be the auxiliary bishop of Newark. D. C. Pupils Learn to Detect Poison Ivy Vines in Woods First Student-Led Nature Walk Taken Through Rock Creek Park An enthusiastic group of 50 Shep- herd Elementary School pupils roamed Rock Creek Park near Park- side drive yesterday in the first stu- dent-led nature walks for Washing- ton school children. The hike marked the first of a series of nature studies in 10 local schools sponsored by the National Capital Parks and District schools. Assembling at West Beach drive end Parkside drive, youngsters de- ployed into groups of five, each in charge of a sixth-grade pupil espe- cially trained over a month’s period by Park Naturalist Donald E. Mc- Henry. From then on, they were on their own as boy and girl leaders pointed out spring flowers, trees and bushes to nature-loving neophytes. Eleven-year-old Dorothy Brain warned her group before entering the trail bordering Rock Creek: “Watch out for-poison ivy. It's all over the place.” Poison ivy or no, the youngsters took to the idea of leaving warm classrooms . and roaming through the cool park in a new form of edu- cation that was “lots of fun,” as one little girl remarked. Mr. McHenry was on hand for the occasion, but remained quietly in the background, allowing his young wards to take the lead. Ten leaders from each of the schools have been trained by Mr. McHenry. With a teacher in charge, the groups have been given an ex- tensive drill in the natural history of the park area nearest their school. Following review of notes taken on the tours, student leaders search For Many for additional material in school reference books. At the end of their training, the students are pre- pared to teach lower-grade pupils with on-thé-spot instruction. “Instead of relatively few groups of children taken on nature walks by park naturalists as heretofore, the new plan will reach many thousands of school children in the District,” Mr. McHenry pointed out. The plan has been put into prac- tice at Rose Lee Hardy, Bunker Hill, John Burroughs, Shepherd, Barnard, Lovejoy, Wormley, Phillips and Mott schools. Nature hikes will be conducted in Fort Totton, Fort Bunker Hill, Montrose, Lincoln, Rock Creek and Glover-Archbold parks. Now in preparation by Mr. Mec- Henry are “vegetation” maps of park areas showing through a key location of various trees, shrubs and POPULAR PRICES DROP IN AT THE fiMm:/ SHOP 14 & PENNA. AVE.. 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OTTAWA, May 21.~Canada’s war effort is to be speeded up by a series of new government decum which include appointment of two additional cabinet ministers and en- listment of a third army division. Acceleration of the national war program = was: announced in the House of Commons last night by Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King. Othet "steps which he said were “being translated into action” included: Advancement of the date for the Canadian 2d Division to sail abroad and further reinforcements of the 1st Division. Early enlistment of 2d Division reinforcements, WIill Speed Pilot Output. Assignment, of certain naval and military forces to service in the Caribbean and North Atlantic areas. Adoption of “every feasible meth- od” of accelerating the -output of pilots and air crews from Canada. Conferring of special powers on the Ministry of Munitions and Sup- ply, “which would not be accorded in normal times,” so that it can ex- pedite the provision of war equip- | ment and materials. 2-Million-a-Day Cost. At the same time the Prime Min- ister informed the House that the war would cost the people of Can- ada at least $700,000,000 in the fiscal yehr 1940-41. This, at the rate of about $2,000,000 a day, is $200.000,000 higher than the estimate of three months ago. In stating that Canada would un- dertake to raise a third division, Mr. Macknezie King said that Canada now has more than 100,000 men on military duty, including 23,000 in England and a second division of 24,645 soon to go. Brazil is launching . a five-year plan of public works and national defense. EDUCATIONAL. MAGHINE SHORTHAND (The Stenesraph) Evening School—May 22, 6:30 P.M. Temple Secretarial School 1420 K Street N ol 3258 30 New Summer Precautions in the Netherlands against ffth columnists and invasion 2 month before the German Army marched in struck one government official there as very "!unny. but that “something was on.” “Now that the tension is past, everybody jokes about these ‘exer- cises,’” he wrote in s letter to the editor of The Star from The The letter was mailed near the end of April. On May 10, the German blitzkrieg struck. Aided by Nazi sympathizers, the Germans killed one-fourth the Dutch Army - of 400,000 and took most of the re- mainder prisoners, wrecked centuries old cities, spewed death among the populace and forced the royal family into exile even before the nation capitulated. Because of his government posi- tion, the writer asked that his name not be used. It would be all right if The Star merely signed the letter “Krelis,” he wrote, As.translated by T. W. L. Scheltema of the Con- gressional Library's catalogue di- vision, the letter declared: “Strange news about our country is being spread lately. which is partly imaginary and partly true. “Norway got into the war and Den- mark was taken by the Germans without further ado, how, that recent newspaper stories can tell you by treason! There are also traitors in our country, though the government is awake and puts some of those gentlemen under lock and key be- fore they can do anytning. “During the week ot the 7th of April and later the situation seems to have been quite critical according to \mveriflsd reports, especially dur- ing the night of April 13, “Some of the rumors follow: “The Queen is supposed to have asked for a lifeguard and 300 marines are supposed to have been encamped and quartered around the ‘Huis ten Booch,’ where H. 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