Evening Star Newspaper, April 21, 1940, Page 1

Weather Forecast Cloudy, continued cool with occasional light rain today; tomorrow, cloudy. Tem- peratures yesterday—High midnight; lowest, 43, at 8 TFrom the Uhngfi Btares Wea " No. 1,831—No. 35,054, Join Norse in Battling Nazis est, 48, Friday pm. ther Bureau repcrt. letails on PntrA-2m () Means Associated Press. he = unday Sfar WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION WASHINGTON, D. C, APRIL 21, 1940 —120 PAGES. %*# British Drive to East Norway; /A Transport Fired, Berlin Claims 2 German Fanks ¢ Destroyed on Line North of Oslo NINE GERMAN PLANES reported shot down along west front; 5 credited to British, 3 to French and 1 to Belgian flyers. Page A-6 CONFIDENT OF VICTORY for Nazis, Duce tells Hitler in birthday message; Fuehrer, in reply, ex- pects Italy to win “vital rights” Page A-6 NORSE TO FEEL SWORD unless | resistance ends, Nazis warn; com- mander of occupation commutes | Norwegians’ death sentences. Page | A-T, RUMANIA TO RECEIVE Nazi mu- | nitions and planes for wheat; King Carol gives trade concessions to avoid greater demands.Page A-14 ! By the Associated Press. STOCKHOLM, April 21 (Sun- day.—British troops have pene- trated to eastern Norway and are participating ‘with the Nor- sweglans in fighting the German | invaders, the Norwegian army| reported early today in a com- munique from ‘“somewhere in Norway” covering Saturday’s| warfare, The communique said the Brxush: were in “Ostlandet,” meaning the *“Eastern Land,” and added that two German tanks were destroyed in close fighting at Randsfjorden, on the railroad 90 miles north of Ger- man-held Oslo and only 30 miles from the Swedish border. It did not make clear whether this was the action in which the British Expeditionary Forces engaged, but added that the Germans Friday bombed Rena and North Osen, about 80 miles northwest of Oslo and| south of Elverum, which has been | reported held by both the Germans | and the Norwegians. Chute Troops Taken. At Dombos, 175 miles northwest of Oslo on the railroad to Andalsnes, about 50 German parachute troops | were captured, the Norwegian com- | munique said. Andalsnes, a railhead on the Nor- ‘wegian coast, is a British landing spot, where the Germans yester- day reported they had burned a British transport and sunk a Brit- ish cruiser with air bombs just as 8 group of British troops were land- ing. The British and their French allies were reported meanwhile to | have poured at least three dMsions{ into the Norwegian coast in prepar- ation for a. major battle. Unofficially, the Nazi advance was | reported to have suffered a reverse | at Elverum, one-time refuge of King Haakon VII. Contradicting Swedish reports yes- terday that the Nazis had captured the town of Elverum, about 75 miles North of German-held Oslo, travel- ers crossing the border from Norway insisted the bitterly-contested town still is in the hands of the Norsemen. King's Refuge Secret. | Secrecy, still shrouds the present | refuge of King Haakon. Norwegian sources insist he still is in Norway. The reports of allied troop land- ings received by Swedish newspapers said between 30,000 and 40,000 allied troops came ashore at Namsos, Molde and Laerdal, possible jump- ing-off places for drives on Ber- | gen and Trondheim, two western ports. Other British forces are re- ported west and north of Narvik. For their part, the Germans were rushing troops from near the Swed- ish border to Levanger, 40 miles -northeast of Trondheim and south of Steinkjer, where real action may begin shortly between the allies and the Germans. With the German invasion of Nor- way nearly two weeks old, the pic- ture as seen in neighboring Sweden shaped up roughly like this: 1. The Germans control Oslo with what they report are increasing forces, and have reported that they are spreading to the southwest and the north of Oslo. However, the latest report that the Norsemen still held Elverum indi- cated the Nazis have suffered a set- back i1l their drive to the north. 2. Germany, holds Trondheim, Bergen and Stavanger, three of the (See STOCKHOLM, Page A-6.) Two Announcers’ Memories Save President’s Talk Listeners to 500 radio stations|” throughout the country didn't know how close they came to hearing a hashed version of last night's talk by President Roosevelt from Warm SPrings, Ga. ‘The broadcast started from the Willard Hotel here, where the Young Democrats—to whom the President was speaking, via a hook- up from the South—were gathered. Announcers from Columbia and National broadcasting chains had worked out an opening announce- ment which was timed to the split second. They were to start exactly together and finish exactly together s0 the President might be intro- duced without a hitch. The two announcers were sta- tioned on opposite sides of the baliroom in the Willard and had been reading their script for about two seconds when the room was plunged into absolute darkness. Then a lantern slide of the flag was flashed on a screen. The an- nouncers could not see their script —but continued as best they could from memory, shouting so they eould hear each other. They man- aged to finish on time and the President’s voice came on as English Cruiser At Andalsnes, West By the Associated Press. BERLIN, April 20—A 15,000-ton British transport was blasted into flaming wreckage and a ‘cruiser sent to the bottom of Central Norway’s Romsdals Fjord late today by a squadron of German bombers, which gave Adolf Hitler a martial birth- day gift by pouncing on the British at the very moment of landing troops, it was officially announced here tonight. Throughout wartime Germany, patriotism was being fanned in a multitude of observances of the Fuehrer’s 51st birthday anniversary while stern steps were taken in the struggle to subdue recalcitrant Nor- way. The German bombers, escaping without losses, also “effectively at- tacked” British soldiers who already Also Is Sunk In Romsdals Fjord, Reich Says Troaps Reported Bombed in Landing Coast Railhead had landed at Andalsnes, at the head of Romsdals Fjord, DNB, offi- cial news agency, reported. An- dalsnes is one of the five railheads on the Norwegian west coast. Germany also w#nounced the bombing yesterday of three British transports and a cruiser and said one transport was sunk. (In con- trast, the British rep®ried this after- noon that their expeditionary army had been moved to Norway without loss of a man.) British Landings Conceded. Although it was conceded that formidable British forces have been Lototen Island region opposite Nar- vik, and at points further south, German military leaders expressed confidence that German shock troops British Claim Success In Airdrome Raid in Northern Denmark Attack First, Reported On Danish Soil Since German Occupation By the Associated Press. LONDON, April 21 (Sunday)— British warplanes “‘successfully” | raided Aalborg airdrome in north- ern Denmark last night, the Air Ministry announced, in an effort to cut off German reinforcements by air to Norway. The raid, first reported attack on | Danish soil since the German oc- cupation April 9, came as Britain and France continued to land troops along the Norse coast to help stem the Nazi invasion. Great Britain reported successful operations on land and sea and in the air as she taunted Germany last night with the declaration that an allied fighting force had been transported across 400 miles of North Sea and landed on the unfamiliar Norwegian coast without the loss of a single life. Communiques from the War Office and Admiralty announced that: 1. While allied transports had reached Norway unscathed, British submarines in an attack on a Ger- man convoy torpedoed two troop ships. Whether the transports sank was not stated. 2. Three German planes were shot down and others damaged in un- successful raids on British naval units and transports in which the enemy obtained no hits. 3. Four and perhaps five German planes were shot down in the first large-scale air battles over the west- (See LONDON, Page A-3.) Elliott Roosevelt Pays Visit to Father By the Associated Press. WARM SPRINGS, Ga., April 20. —Elliott Roosevelt, one of the Pres- ident’s four sons, his wife, and their guests, Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Roeser, arrived here today by automobile from Fort Worth, Tex., to spend a few days with the Chief Executive. There was no room for them at the Little White House, but they took over a cottage at the Warm Springs Foundation. Man Killed by Hit-Run Driver Police reported early today that & man, tentatively identified as Joseph B. Winston of Landover, Md., was killed by a hit-run driver on a highway near Suffolk, Va.. Po- lice said the only identification was cards found on the body. Dirksen Urges Levy On Nearby Residents Working in District To Seek Amendment If House Considers Sales-Income Tax By JAMES E. CHINN., Representative he would make a move in the House tomorrow to have the District in- come tax applied to residents of Maryland and Virginia or any other State who work here, if considera- tion is given a bill to substitute a proposed combination retail sales- income tax. Despite the objection of Chairman | Randolph of the District Commit- tee, another effort is to be made to have the House consider the dual tax plan—a 2 per cent tax on retail sales and a tax on earned incomes in excess of $10,000 a year. Several weeks ago the House by an over- the proposed new tax legislation. should be made at this session of | Congress to call up the sales-income tatx plan,” declared Representative Randolph. “But the committee has instructed that this be done and I will obey its orders.” Nichols to Head Fight. Mr. Randolph, however, said he proposed to take a place on the side- lines. The job of trying to get the House to consider the legislation, he declared, would be delegated to Representative Nichols, Democrat, of Oklahoma, sponsor of the plan. Mr. Dirksen, ranking minority member of the District Committee who championed the existing in- | come tax law, will be whable to seek its revision to tax non-residents if the House refuses again to consider the dual tax plan. Primarily, his idea is to eircum- vent possible litigation over the present law, which is applicable only to those who maintain a “domicile” in the District. Amendments he has prepared would make the income tax apply to those who have an “abode” here at the end of a taxable year as well as to non-residents who work here, irrespective of where they might maintain a legal or voting residence. i For those non-residents working in the District, Mr. Dirksen does not intend to add to their tax burden. It is his plan to tax their income at the “source” — which would be the District—and allow a credit for any income tax they may pay in the States in which they live or vote. For instance, a resident of Virginia, working here, who would be subjected to a $20 tax in that (See D. C. TAXES, Page A-6.) Social Leader Was Noted for Her Philanthropies By the Associeted Press. NEW YORK, April 20.—Mrs. Wil- liam K. Vanderbilt, sr., widow of the grandson of the founder of the Van- derbilt dynasty and long a reigning queen in New York society, died late today in New York Hospital. She was noted for her philanthro- pies, particularly in behalf of war sufferers, and during the World War was one of the Red Cross’ most active workers. For this contribu- tion, she was made a knight of the Legion of Honor by France in 1919 and received the rank of officer in the legion 12 years later. The former Anne Harriman, she |'was one of eight children of the late Oliver Harriman, sr., and made her social debut in the 1880s. Her first marriage was to Samuel Stevens Sands, jr, who was killed a few years later while riding in the Meadowbrook Hunt on Long Is- land. Her second husband was Lewis Morris Rutherfurd and after his death she and Mr Vanderbilt were married in London in 1903, Mr. Vanderbilt, the grandson of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, had received the bulk of the fortune left by his father, William H. ° scheduled. It was after the death of Mrs. ». 1 Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt Dies; Was Long a Ruler of ‘400’ MRS. W. K, VANDERBILT, Sr. —Hessler Photo. William Astor that Mrs. Vanderbilt took over leadership in the so-called “400,” giving elaborate functions at the Vanderbilt mansion. Her daugh- ters, Barbara and Margaret Ruther- furd, were debutantes then; subse- (S8ee VANDERBILT, Page A-8) 1 landed far to the north, in the| Dirksen, Repub- | lican, of Illinois announced last night | whelming vote, refused to consider | “I don't believe another attempt | Thousands Flee Homes as Ohio Floods Rise Nearly a Third of Rural Areas Are Under Water POTOMAC RIVER RISING toward flood stage, but serious high water not expected. Page B-1. FLOOD PICTURES, showing high waters in Ohio and rising streams inD. C. area. Pages A-3 and B-1. By the Assoctated Press. MARIETTA, Ohio, April 20— Floods gripped the Ohio Valley from Pittsburgh to Cincinnati tonight and turned Southern Ohio into a maze of lakes, isolating entire towns. Thousands were homeless. Water rose menacingly around Pittsburgh’s “Golden . Triangle,” downtown business area, poured past merchants’ doors in Marietta, ploneer Ohio River city of 15,000, and climbed three-tenths of a foot an hour toward a tentative crest of 58 or 59 feet at Cincinnati. Cincinnati’s flood stage is 52 feet and the anticipated crest would be far below the record 79.99-fdot stage established in the disastrous 1937 in- undation. Severe damage is not caused unless the crests exceed flood stage by 10 or 15 feet. Thousands Flee Homes. Thousands of residents in Ohio Valley lowlands fled their homes or moved to second floors. Marietta merchants moved out stock. At Pomeroy a general exodus began in expectation of five feet of water in the main street by morning. Marietta Mayor Earl D. Schob proclaimed a “state of emergency” as water reached 39.9 feet, nearly four feet above flood stage, at 8:15 pm. and continued to rise three- tenths of a foot an hour. Highway Department workers assisted in the evacuation of 85 families in the city’s flooded area. Nearly a third of rural Ohio was inundated. The Hocking Valley | experienced its worst flood since| 1913. Among the towns completely isolated were Athens and Logan. Roads were closed at 83 places. | The Baltimore & Ohio Rail-| road experienced track washouts in | Ohio and West Virginia. Ohio Tributaries Still Rising. Streams feeding the Ohio River | continued to rise in Ohio and West- | ern Pennsylvania, but began 1'ecedingl in West Virginia, Kentucky and In- | | diana. In Southerm-Jndiana, roads | were impassable at 22" points. | Fair weather was forecast for Ohio tomorrow, but 1] Northern West Virginia districts. A definite break, though, was seen by | weather observers in the virtually week-long spell of rain. | Gov. John W. Bricker mobilized | | State agencies to aid flood sufferers. | The Red Cross began setting up | food kitchens. More than 2 inches of rain over | the upper Ohio Valley watershed yesterday proved the climaxing fac- [ tor in overflowing already rain-| | burdened Ohio River tributaries, | {Red Cross Mobilizing Disaster Relief Statf The Red Cross yesterday was mo- | bilizing its disaster relief staff as flood waters rose in the Ohio River between Evansville, Ind., and Pitts- burgh, with an emergency appar- ently developing at Newport, Ky., across the river from Cincinnati. Nat C. Wilson of the national staff left here yesterday to set up flood re- lief headquarters at Cincinnati. Meanwhile, seven staff workers were assigned to danger spots in Penn- sylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Ken- tucky and Indiana. The fact that valley cities have learned a lesson from disasters of the past is illustrated at Newport, where everything is in readiness to move families to higher ground as the water advances. Red Cross officials said the city was & “model disaster preparedness community,” equipped with contour maps, boats and trucks. An emer- gency fleet of trucks already is help- ing to move families in Newport, where 3,000 persons probably will be forced from their homes over the week end. The Red Cross has requested the Army at Ft. Thomas, Ky., to send cots and blankets for use in shelters. Japanese Oil Contract With Mexico Reported By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, April 20.—It was learned authoritatively today that the Laguna Petroleum Co., a Jap- anese firm, has signed a $3,000,000 contract to buy Mexican oil, gaso- line and kerosene. It is understood the government would consider its economic posi- tion greatly strengthened. by a signed and sealed contract with the Japanese and would make much of this point in replying to the sug- gestion of Secretary of State Cordell Hull for arbitration of the oil con- troversy with the United States. An official source said the reply likely would be & firm rejection of the arbitration p 1 At the same time it was said that Mexico was near agreement with Sinclair Oil interests for the pur- chase of - Sinclair's expropriated properties. A government official indicated that the Mexican counter proposals included one for a joint Mexican- United States commission - em- powered to draft a final settlement of the oil controversy, and would be delivered to United States Ambas- sador Josephus Daniels either next Monday or Tuesday. Kaiser’s Ax-Aide Dies BERLIN, April 20 (#).—Admiral Georg von Mueller, 86, last chief of the Kaiser’s naval cabinet and gen- eral :d]:lunt wl:g: Kflm':hdl‘esd last night at Hangelsberg-on-the-Spree, 20 miles southeast of Berlin, 4 s v | MAY HAVE TO } Cut The Judgment of Solomon Today THECHILD IN *[‘I’ Rl \l \4 | [l | T Fire Inquiry Board Asks $91,200 fo Bring Inspection Up fo Date Strengthening of Fire Escape Rules, Licensing Of Rooming Houses Urged BACKGROUND— Need for strengthening Dis- trict building and fire regulations was one suggestion received by District officials following the disastrous fire at the White Court Apartments. Building Inspector John W. Ochmann protested his staff had been unable to keep current with nmew projects and inspection of existing multi- family dwelling buildings. Re- ports also showed ezxisting fire inspection services were inade- quate. By DON S. WARREN. | An emergency appropriation of ht rain was | $91200 for increased personnel 50| expected in the Pittsburgh and | the District’s fire, electric and build- | ing inspection services can catch up with old problems and strength- ening of municipal fire escape rules ‘were among major recommendations made yesterday by a special board of District engineers assigned to in- | vestigate the recent White Court Apartments fire disaster. One other proposal would require all rooming houses of three or more | stories, housing 10 or more persons, | At present | to have fire escapes. fire escape rules apply only when there are sleeping accommodations | for 10 or more persons above the first floor. District officials said they believed wording permits eva- | sion even of present requirements. ‘The board, headed by Capt. John? L. Person, assistant Engineer Com- missioner, also proposed that room- ing houses be brought within the scope of the License Act requiring permits to operate, so as to assure their meeting minimum fire safety | standards. Seal Says Authority Exists. On this point, Corporation Coun- | sel Seal, after reviewing the District License Act of 1932, held that the Commissioners already had author- ity to include rooming houses in the license requirement and said he would recommend such action with- out awaiting the suggested legisla- tion. 5 Inspection officials recently re- ported they had tried vainly for 13 months to.ascertain the correct ad- dress of the owner of a rooming house on Massachusetts avenue so as to serve notice calling for instal- lation of fire escapes and other fire protection facilities which the lessee had declared neither he nor the owner would install. If the License Act were invoked, District officials said, immediate action could be compelled. A rather drastic seven-point pro- gram was proposed by the Person Board as & means of preventing a recurrence of the White Court disaster, in which three persons (See FIRE BOARD, Page A-6.) Six Die in Rangoon Riot RANGOON, Burma, April 20 (#). —Six persons were stabbed to death and 20 injured today in communal rioting on the eve of a Mohammedan feast day. Troops and police re- stored order. Key Republican Pre-Convention | By G. GOULD LINCOLN. | present plans, to meet in Philadel- phia a week or two before the par- ty’s national convention to consider the more vital issues with which ! the national platform is to deal. | They will also discuss candidates | to stand on that platform, taking into consideration all the circum- stances existing at that time, in- cluding the foreign situation. The call for this gathering will be issued by the titular leaders of the party—the 1936 candidates for President and Vice President, for- | and Col. Frank Knox, Chicago pub- lisher. Already such important figures in the party as Senate Republican Leader McNary and House Repub- lican Leader Martin have been sounded out. It is understood they have concurred in the plan. | It was denied flatly that the plan for such a meeting is a “stop Dewey” move. The idea behind the proposal is to get together men holding re- sponsible positions in the party. men who are likely to be members of the Committee on Resolutions, so they will be in a position to deal Candidates as Well as Issues Likely To Be Discussed at Philadelphia Key leaders in the Republican| party will be asked, according to| mer Gov. Alf M. Landon of Kansas | Leaders Pl—an Policy Talks promptly and inielligently with! platform drafting when the time comes. Such a group, it was said, un- doubtly would be in a position to | canvass the crop of presidential| candidates, estimate their abilities| and their availability. | No step has yet been taken to| bring former President Hoover into | the group, although this does not mean he will not be approached. Mr. Hoover’s attitude, like that of Mr. Landon, has been that the del- egates to the Republican National Convention should go to Philadel- phia with open minds, ready to support the man who appears best qualified and best able to get the votes necessary for election. With the convention set for June | 24, just two months in the future, | the proponents of the pre-conven- | tion conference are expected to move | promptly. The idea is supposed to have developed at a conference be- tween Mr. Landon and Col. Knox | not long ago in Topeka. It has been Mr. Landon’s idea, and he has so expressed himself, | that the Republican platform will | be of paramount importance this | year. He has been more interested | “(See LINCOLN, Page A-14) Tangled Wreckage Of Train Searched For More Bodies Death Toll Reaches 26 After Lake Shore Leaves Tracks on Curve By the Associated Press. LITTLE FALLS, N. Y., April 20.— Rescue workers pried tonight into tons of twisted sleet-covered steel, once the New York Central's proud Lake Shore Limited, seeking pos- sible additions to a known wreck death toll of 26 persons. The in- jured list includes nearly 100 per- sons. Traveling 59 mile- an hour the New York-Chicago _assenger train last night jumpeu the track at a six-degree curve, the most abrupt on the system, and crashed with terrific and ' death-dealing force into a massive stone embankment. Thee hundred passengers, most of whom were asleep in Pullmans on the 16-car train, were hurled from their beds into an inferno of shrieks, hissing steam and the groans of the dying. The bodies of 24 victims, most of them badly mangled, had been iden- tified by midnight. The identity of two others was unknown, Railway employes continued to search the twisted steel cars by the flickering light of torches for others. Approximately 100 others went to hospitals with broken bones, cuts and bruises and physicians feared (See WRECK, Page A-4.) War Referendu m Resolution Indorsed by C. A. R. Session The National Society of Children of the American Revolution yester- day indorsed a joint resolution pend- ing in Congress to provide for a na- tional referendum before drafting citizens and aliens for military serv-| ice outside of the Western Hemi- sphere or territorial possessions of the United States. Action on the proposal was unani- mous and without debate, near the close of a long day of sessions in Memorial Continental Hall of the Daughters of the American Revolu- tion. The move came from the C. A. R. Junior National Board, a group of youths headed by Lyons Mills Howland, Highland Park, Mich,, jun- ior national president of the patri- otic group. The C. A. R, all members of which are under 21, decided that the offi- cial war service resolution will be sent to members of the House Mili- tary Affairs Committee. Further- more, it was decided that every offi- cer, both junior and senior officers of the national C. A. R. and the Junior and senior presidents of the state societies C. A. R. throughout the country be “requested” to write to their members of Congress here urging adoption of the joint reso- lution. The C. A. R. also indorsed the Federal Bureau of Investigation. A resolution unanimously adopted ex- pressed “interest and confidence the F. B. I. and its sincere wish for continuance of the work of the F. B. I under J. Edgar Hoover.” Fur- thermore, the resolution extended fo Mr. Hoover “its appreciation for his courageous, just and outstanding leadership to the safeguarding of the entire Nation.” Other resolutions expressed to Mrs. Franklin D, Roosevelt “appre- ciation of her courtesy in recei ving" (Ses C. AR, Page A1) 5 I3 New Deal's Claims 0f Social Progress Assailed by Dewey Giving Jobs to Jobless Is Key to Economic Security, He Asserts By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, April 20— Thomas E. Dewey told the California Republican Assembly tonight that| the Nation “demands an adminis- tration which looks on social secur- ity as a necessary safeguard to workers who may occasionally be| unemployed, not as a substitute for allowing the country to go back to work.” In an address prepared for a Hollywood Bowl mass meeting held | in connection with the assembly’s annual convention, the New York District Attorney and candidate for | the Republican presidential nomina- tion voiced the need for “an admin- istration in Washington which does not consider proven incompetence to be anyessential qualification for pub- lic office.” He discussed the Social Security | program at length, and offered five requirements for “a predominantly industrial economy such as ours: “First, and foremost, the release of all of our productive energies so that our economy may provide the fullest measure of material well- being for our people. Non-Political Relief. “Second, adequate and non-poli- tical relief for those who are thrown out of work and for whom unem- ployment insurance has not been provided. “Third, unemployment insuranee, efficiently and economically admin- istered in the interest of all work- ers. “Four, old-age insurance, to pro- vide .a reasonable standard of liv- ing after the years of active work have passed. “Fifth, a continuing survey of the possibilities of extending social in- surance to new flelds whenever the administration of existing forms has been sufficiently consolidated to justify further expansion.” i He told the convention that “for some years now the leaders of the present administration have been advising the American people that only under the New Deal can this country make and keep social Pprogress,” then went on to cite anti- slavery legislation, income tax, elec- tion of Senators by popular vote, civil service legislation, the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, creation of the Com- merce and Labor Departments, the (See DEWEY, Page A-8) Radio Programs, Page F-5 The Evening and Sunday Star is delivered in the city and suburbs at 75¢ per month. The Night Final Edition and Sunday Morning Star at 85¢ per month, TEN CENTS Roosevelf Hits 6. 0. P. Tactics In Campaign Calls on Democrats To Nominate Liberal Pair of Candidates THIRD TERM URGED by Attorney General Jackson in talk at Young Democrats’ banquet. Story on Page A-2, McNUTT CONTRASTS DEMO- CRATIC “achievements” with Re- publican “promises”; omits men- tion of own plans for 1940. Page A-T. . (Text of Roosevelt Speech on Page A-14.) By JOHN C. HENRY, 8tar Staft Correspondent. WARM SPRINGS, Ga., April 20.—Giving the Republican party a bitter tongue lashing both for its campaign tactics to date and its record of service to the coun- try throughout the years, Presi- dent Roosevelt tonight called on the Democratic party to nomi- nate “a liberal pair of candidates, running on a liberal and for- ward-looking platform.” Speaking on a Nation-wide radio hookup directed specifically to a series of Jefferson Day dinners by the Young Democratic Clubs of America, Mr. Roosevelt mentioned no individual presidential candi- dates. In what may or may not have been merely a casual use of words, however, he referred at one point to th! problems which will face the “next’administration.” Whether this was inténded as a hint of his own intentions is purely speculative. Mr. Roosevelt did take occaslon to throw a taunting remark at “a Re- publican aspirant,” presumably Thomas E. Dewey, for the latter's “do-nothing” preachments in the face of Europe's war. Criticizes Campaign Tactics. And worded much more sharply than his recommendations to the Democratic party to stay liberal, and to the Nation to stay Democratic, were his slashing criticisms of the pre-convention campaign up to date from “the other side.” Blocking these “other side” tactics into three parts and adding tartly “none of whick appeals greatly to my intelligence,” Mr. Roosevelt said: “First, our opponents are seeking to frighten the country—by telling pecple that the present adminis- tration is deliberately trying to put this Nation into war or that it is inevitably drifting into war. You know better than that. “Second, they are telling you that many of the measures of the past seven years are good, but that they would carry them out with greater efficiency if they were in power. “I do not think that we can swal- low that assertion. We and they must acknowledge that practicaily every serious Government scandal since the Civil War has occurred un- der a Republican administration, and that the underlying Republi- can leadership—the groups and cliques which have always owned the Republican party are still just as much in the saddle of ownership as they were in the old days. Cites Vague Assertions. “Finally, they tell you that they will perform an amazing miracle— that they will give everybody jobs— that they will maintain relief—that they will give work to the unem- ployed—that they will meet the needs of the national defense—that they will reduce your taxes—and that with all, the total of the ex- penditures of the Federal Govern- ment will go down so much that they will have a surplus in the Trea- sury. And you and I know, from long experience, when we ask them | how are you going to do it, that their only answer is the vague as- sertion that they will repeal all of the horrid and nerve-racking re- strictions on private business and let private business do the rest. “In other words, all that the coun- try is being promised to date is a return of the old days of 29 when America went speculation mad, when half the families of the land | were sucked into an orgv of over- production, of stock gambling, while at the very moment of it unemploy- ment was increasing, farm prices were decreasing and we were riding for the worst social and economic fall the country had ever known.” “I am sorry that a campaign which should be pitched on a level of intelligent argument has fallen into such low estate as early as this.” r $ Twice during his address, Mr. Roosevelt conceded that his own ad- ministration has not yet devised perfect formulas or perfect machin- ery for meeting the Nation's prob- lems. But that he considers its progress in this direction superior to what might have been made or might yet be made by. a Republican -;imlnl.strluon was made thoroughly clear, “During the next four years,” he cautioned his listeners, “there will be new problems to face. We need a8 National Government with enough imagination and enough courage to meet those new problems with con- crete, specific remedies—just as we have met many problems that were new during the past seven years with imagination and courage and practical idealism. I do not say that the machinery that we have used or are using is perfect or that it cannot be improved—but you (See ROOSEVELT, Page A-3.) Crew’s Quarters Searched NEW YORK, April 20 (#.—Thirty Federal agents, presumably looking for contraband mail, searched the crew’s quarters of the United States liner Manhattan for more than an hour and a half today before she sailed for Jtaly. The agents de- Complete Index, Page A-2 .. ciined to discuss the search.