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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
State 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 national 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.
In other elections In the New Jer
sey primary Senator Barbour, Re
publican, was expected to receive
negligible opposition for renomlna
tlon, while James H. R. Cromwell,
United States Minister to Canada,
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 33 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
EL WOOD, Ind., May 31 (JP).—
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 a 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 a 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
aide drive yesterday in the first stu
dent-led nature walks for Washing
ton school children.
The hike marked the first of a
aeries 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 additional material in school
reference books. At the end of
their training, the students are pre
pared to teach lower-grade pupils
with on-th#-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, Wormlev, 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. Mc
Henry are "vegetation” maps of
park areas showing through a key
location of various trees, shrubs and
flowers.
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Canada to Add Two
Cabinet Ministers
To Rush War Plans
Government Undertakes
Enlistment of Third
Army Division
By the Associated Press.
OTTAWA, May 21.—Canada’s war
effort is to be speeded up by a
series of new government decisions
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. Other 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.
Will 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-Mlllion-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
yefcr 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.
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Eventful Night in Holland
Letter to Star Reveals Army 'Exercises'
To Counter Fifth Column Activities
Precautions in the Netherlands
against filth columnists and Invasion
a month before the German Army
marched in struck one government
official there as very "funny,” but
that "something was on.”
"Now that the tension is past,
everybody jokes about these 'exer
cises,’” he wrote in a letter to the
editor of The Star from The Hague.
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 anything.
"During the week ol the 7th of
April and later the situation seems
to have been quite critical according
to unverified 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
‘Huls ten Booch,’ where H. M. re
sides, because the N. (atlonaal) S
(ociallstische) B (eweging) was
planning a putsch and and she is
quite hated by this (league) because
she turned her back upon them,
when on festive occasions and in
parades the Nazi salute was given
by N. S. B. societies.
“I (also) believe that these are
rumors rating on fantasy, but dur
ing that eventful night something
must have been on and the govern
ment has put a spoke in the wheel
of the agitators and traitors and has
neatly checked their splendid plans
by calm and quici action.
“I was ji downtown The Hague
during the evening of the 13th and
saw a peculiar shr up in some places,
as you encounter after a shindy or
accident, which is Just over. How
ever, what struck me most, was the
occupation of strategic points by
the military with machine guns,
etc.’ In some cases streets were
closed ana vehicles stopped; the
passengers must give their places
of origin and destination. If they
could not produce those, they were
arrested. One could see funny
scenes that way, because several
honest citizens have spent some
time in custody until their data had
been checked. When the question
of the meaning of all this was raised,
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against domestic troubles.
“Now that the tension has past,
everybody jokes about these 'exer
cises,’ but that something was on
is proven by further details heard
and seen from these exercises be
cause all soldiers were well provided
with sharp ammunition.
“So they are practicing In a funny
way here!
With Greetings,
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P. 8. “It Is requested to keep the
real name of sender secret, because
he has a government position.”
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