Evening Star Newspaper, January 20, 1941, Page 1

INAUGURAL EDITION WITH SOUVENIR PICTORIAL AND TABLOID SECTIONS Weather Forecast Fair, cold tonight; est, 26, at 10:30 am.; 89th YEAR. highest this afternoon about 32 and lowest tonight about 22; rising temperature. Temperatures today—High= lowest, From the United States Weatner Bureau Report. Full Details on Page A-2. Closing N. Y. Markets—Sales, Page 26. tomorrow fair, 24, at 7 am. No. 35,328. h WASHINGTO ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Fopening Star D. C, MONDAY, JANUARY 20, 1941 —SEVENTY-EIGHT PAGES. NIGHT FINAL SPORTS () Means Associated Press. THREE CENTS. ROOSEVELT SEES GREAT MILITARY PARADE AFTER CALLING FOR DEFENSE OF LIBERTY Arm for Saieiy, Short Address Urges Nafion Talk Stresses Intent To Push ‘All Aid’ For Democracies By GOULD LINCOLN. A ringing call to muster the spirit and faith of America to save the Nation from disruption from without was sounded by President Roosevelt today, as he began an unprecedented and mo- mentous third term. He warned the people of America to avoid the peril of inaction. He urged them not to listen to those voices which declare that “free- dom is an ebbing tide.” “Democracy is not dying,” the President told his huge audience, in| ‘Washington and throughout the ‘world. tanding bareheaded on a plat- form erected in front of the east portico of the Capitol, the Chief Executive delivered his inaugural address in accents that befitted the | solemnity of the occasion. Brilliant sunshine bathed the Capitol, tem-| pering the. cold for the huge crowd which had gathered in the Capitol Plaza. War clouds, invisible to the eye but nevertheless full of portent to the President's huge audience, | banked in the background. To| many of those who heard the Presi- dent the occasion was reminiscent of March 4, 1917, when Woodrow Wilson spoke to the Nation as it stood on the verge of the World War. The country, the Congress and| the world already have been ad- vised of President Roosevelt's policy of “full support” to the British. The Congress has before it the administration bill to translate this policy into legislation and into action. Today the President confined " (See ROOSEVELT, Page A-4) | Bulletins Three Freed in’l Am’ Case LOS ANGELES (P.—Three of nine defendants in the “I Am” trial were acquitted of mail fraud charges today. A Federal jury declared itself unable to reach a verdict in the case of six other defendants, including Mrs. Edna Ballard, widow of the founder of the movement, and her son, Donald. Those acquitted were Charles Sindelar, portrait paint- er; his wife, and Frank von Derhoya. Flag Cutters Convicted SAN FRANCISCO (P.—Two young Navy seamen, Harold J. Sturtevant and E. C. Lackey, were convicted of malicious mis- chief for cutting down a Nazi flag flying from the German Con- sulate here. Municipal Judge Peter J. Mullins announced that sentence would be imposed next Thursday. (Earlier story on Page A-21) Racing Results Rossvan’s, other selections and entries for tomorrow, Page A-2. Hialeah Park By the Assoclated Press, { FIRST RACE— maiden 2-year olds: 3 fu Fade (Arcaro) Franklin Delano Roosevelt shown taking the oath from Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes to become the first third-term President in the United States. Standing about him are members of the cabinet and other notables, with a tremendous crowd looking on. Garner "Fades Qut’ Of Public Scene; To Leave Tonight Texan Plans to Live Life Of a ‘Personal Isolationist’ At Home in Uvalde By JAMES E. CHINN. John Nance Garner, true to his pre-inaugural promise, today “faded out” of public life and tonight will climb aboard a Texas-bound train to live the life of a “personal isolationist” at his home in quiet Uvalde. Within 15 minutes after close of the inaugural ceremonies at the Capitol—ceremonies at which he administered the oath of office to| Henry A. Wallace, his successor as Vice President—Mr. Garner peared from the public scene, his 38 | years of work in Washington at an Pl THIRD RACE. $1.200 claiming, maiden fhree-year-olds. 1, furlongs Foyal Master (Howcll) 40.60 oxworin 5o © Yils, Plette Book, urning arby Dix, Al }'nu, Bm<hmx Bride and nimond. FOURTH RACE—Purse. §1.200: g -yearzold and up: 7 furls Pass (Arcaro) 5 00 470 an Swept (Hans 1230 Ot Kingoo. Ricca- donna, Burn of Fire. Mad Sy, 30 i, Sur h and Jaw- breaker he Thi rd Term 300. : P fare] Homeward Bound. Galway and War Bonfet SEXTH RACEPurse. S . the In- sugtration Handicap; 4-year-olds and up. Eads 470 R Wi '\ncm.m Dream Boat (Meade 130 R Tan—_iish Fidelity and Oversight SEVENTH RACE—Purse. $1.200; claim- tni 4 vear- and up: 1le miles = Eudymion_ ( 1.5 420 grehard Run (Ax 1500 780 uaker Bra: Ar a ‘Also ran—Gra nd Duke. Combahee. Cvr wallis, Pire Finch. Luicimer. Sieam Roller, White Pront, Druco Syska and Dunfrese. 4 | After | dent Wallace took the oath of office end Garner S As the inaugu ceremonies closed Mr, Garner, bareheaded, with a silk topper in his left hand, walked up to the President, shook his hand and said “Good-by.” Then he turned to Mr. Wallace, shook his hand, and said “Good-by” to him. that the former Vice Presi- dent could not be found. Somehow he had wormed his way out of the crowd on the President’s inaugural | stand and was gone. A few minutes before Vice Presi- (See GARNER, Page A-5.) Quake Destroys Homes NICOSIA, Island of Cyprus (7). —Forty-four homes were de- stroyed and seven persons were injured, some gravely, when a severe earthquake shook the en- tire Island of Cyprus early today. No deaths were reported, however. Parade Vzltc/her Hurt Robert Fordham, colored, about 30, of 1300 Maryland avenue NE, fractured his left collarbone when he tell from the third step of a short ladder in the 400 block of Eleventh street N.W., while watch- ing the inaugural parade. He was taken to George Washington Hos- pital. | count at 4:30 p.m. listed more than | Inaugural Crowd 350,000 to 400,000 Is Estimate of Police Police estimated late today that| 350,000 to 400,000 persons viewed the inauguration parade along the line of march between the Capitol and the White House. By LOUIS P. LOCHNER, An incomplete and unofficial | 260 persons treated for injuries and % | tions were reportes y ilinesses of various kinds by Red Doried by Associated Press War Correspondent. BERLIN, Jan. 20.—Military ques- informed —=Star Staff Photo by John Mueller. Hitler and Mussolini in Accord || jan With Gun At Parley, Germans Report Military Questions Believed to Have Occupied First Part of Chieftains’ Meeting Seized in Front Of White House Another Brandishing Ceremonial Sword Put in Custody Duce, on the occasion of their meet- ing in the presence of the foreign | ministers of the axis, had an ex- tensive conversation concerning the ‘British, Pursuing Italians, Invade Eritrea at 2 Points Offensive Pushes Beyond Kassala, Reoccupied After Fascists Flee Slmple Rites ‘At Capitol Start Third Term Over 350,000 Jam Plaza and Line Route of March By THOMAS R HE\RY 1e milita ise of a unpreced America and cr of the The parade, wit and striking military r clesing feature of his inauguration. { It passed, and he turned back into the White House, his home for eight years, to take up again. as though he had never laid them down for a thoretical instant, some of the heaviest burdens ever placed on the shoulders of a tesman, burdens v grown heavier 1 music S third-term and heavier. | For Frar | made his | at one of humanity’s of a bomb up at the g | 4merican Capitol Symbolic of th a S, power and the idealism o was the great parade wi swung down flag-draped Pe 4 aves n!xe past the President’s reviewing stand in of the V f*mn which, for four more vears, man who stood there saluting (lw flag as it passed wou direct the destinies of all t& the folds of | There passed t | most of the 48 St military aides. t | D. Roosevelt has history i world looking dome of the the America Uncle Sam’s est work boys of which stir tr over the seven seas disap- | Cross units and hospitals. Red Cross units treated 245 per- sons, sending 45 of them to hos- pitals. Emergency Hospital received | four, Casualty, six; Providence, three; Sibley, two, and George Washington University Hospital, | two. Most were treatments for ex- posure. Other parade figures, as an- nounced by the Police Department. | Total number of participants in| | the parade, 5589. Number of marchers, 2,492. Mounted marchers, 361. Vehicles, 477, Riders in vehicles, 2,734. Bands, 6 Police said the parade took one | hour and four minutes to pass Sev- | enth street and Pennsylvania ave- nue N.W., quarters to have occupied the first part of a meeting today between Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini in which, it was officially announced, the axis chieftains reached complete accord on “all questions.” Field Marshal Gen. Wilhelm | Reitel, chief of the Nazi high com- mand, and a high Italian officer were available for advice on numer- ous technical questions, informed Nazis said. The second part of the confer- ence, they added, was concerned with diplomatic questions in which German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and Italian Foreign Minister Count Galezza Clano aided. situation. Spirit of Friendship. “It came off in the spirit of the heartfelt friendship between the two government chiefs and of the close fighting alliance existing between the German and Italian people. “It resulted in complete accord as regards the views of both cor- cerning all questions.” Further details of the meeting were not disclosed. What surprised foreign corres- pondents most was the insistence of the Wilhelmstrasse at 1:15 p.m. that Hitler and Mussolini had not met, when only two hours later the official information was divulged to the effect that both leaders had A D. N. B, German official news | discussed the situation extensively. agency, communique said: “Berlin—The Fuehrer and Il _ Before the announcement of the " (See LOCHNER, Page A-8.) A man carrying a loaded revolver | was seized by police on Pennsyl- vania avenue in front of the White House about noon today, and an- other brandishing a parade route between Sixth and Seventh streets N.W. Secret Service and Metropolitan police made the arrest near the ‘White House. Secret Service agents said the man, sent to Gallinger Hos- pital for observation, was a Wash- ington barber who was wearing an American Legion uniform and who told them he had helped guard the President four years ago. He said, according to officials, that his commander had “sent him down"” to help again this year. The man's name was not given out, ~ (See ARRESTS, Page A-2) ceremonial | sword was arrested on the inaugural | There was les ment, perh: ing with the grim spirit of t It was the mrwr of an emm"'vd America, girding her loins with steel B the Associated Press CAIRO, Egvpt., Jan. 20.—British forces, in pursuit of Italians falling back from the Anglo-Egyptian | chiat ht beti | two points, British headquarters an- | Day of Personal Triumph. nounced today But above all it was a parade of Striking beyond Kassala, on the | tripute to Franklin D. Roosevelt. Sudan side of the border, f'om‘ As he passed down which the Italians were reportqd on his way back to the W driven yesterday with the aid f through the cheering Ethiopian irregulars, the British et-wrapped crowds wk said they were “now operating east- | the sidewalks, the windows, the tem- ward” of Tessenei and Sabderat “In porary stands all alo he route, contract with the retreating enemy.” it is doubtful if known | sabderat is on the border about|such a pe The 20 miles east of Kassala and Tes-|crowds had just lis senei, about 30 miles southeast of the recaptured town, is several miles inside Eritrea. “Localities about Sabderat and Tessenei, which the Italians have strongly fortified, were yesterday oc- (Continued on Crow;is Gfither in London To Hear Roosevelt Text of President’s This is the text of President Roosevelt's third-term inaugural address: On each national day of inauguration since 1789, the people have renewed their sense of dedication to the United States. In Washington’s day the task of the people was to create and weld together a Nation. In Lincoln’s day the task of the people was to preserve that Nation from disruption from within. In this day the task of the people is to save that Nation and its institutions from disruption from without. To us there has come a time, in the midst of swift hap- penings, to pause for a moment and take stock—to recall what our place in history has been, and to rediscover what we are and what we may be. If we do not, we risk the real peril of inaction. Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is threescore years and ten; a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live. There are men who doubt this. There are men who believe that democracy, as a form of government and a frame of life, is limited or measured by a kind of mystical and Inaugural Address artificial fate—that, for some unexplained reason, tyranny and slavery have become the surging wave of the future— and that freedom is an ebbing tide. But we Americans know that this is not true. Eight years ago, when the life of this Republic seemed frozen by a fatalistic terror, we proved that this is not true. We were in the midst of shock—but we acted. We acted quickly, boldly, decisively. These later years have been living years—fruitful years for the people of this democracy. For they have brought to us greater security and, I hope, a better understanding that life’s ideals are to be measured in other than material things. Most, vital to our preshnn and our future is this experience of a democracy which successfully survived crisis at home; put away many evil things; built new structures on enduring lines; and, through it all, maintained the fact of its democracy. For action has been taken within the three-way frame- work of the Constitution of the United States. The co-ordi- nate branches of the Government continue freely to function. The Bill of Rights remains inviolate. The freedom of elec- tions is wholly maintained. Prophets of the downfall of (Continued on Page A-6, Column 2.) cupied without opposition by troops,” the war bulletin said (If the British have taken Tes- senei and have pushed beyond it to the east they apparently are driving down the valley of the River Gash in the direction of the Red Sea at the Eritrean port of Massaua, which an R. A. F. communique said was twice raided Saturday night. Tessenei is a rail head and center of a cotton-growing region.) Fascist Flight General. The Fascist flight was said to b general all along the 200-mile Su danese border front (See RAIDER, Page A-8.) GUIDE FOR READERS Page. Amusements, B-20 Radio Serial Story, Zomics . B-18-19 A-1 Editorials --A-12| Society - B- Finance A-ZS‘ Sports, Lost, Found B-16 Obituary .,,A-Hi ‘Woman's Page, A communique of the British Mid- dle East command gave the first Page. __B-18| | For the single issue January 20, A-20-21-22 OUr | By the Associated Press. LONDON, Jan. 20.—President Roosevelt ice. spanning the At- lantic clearly and distinctly from | the third inaugural ceremonies in ‘Washington today, was heard avidly | by crowds of listeners gathered iabout radios in Britain Many said it was the best trans- Atlantic reception - they had ever ‘ heard. There was no im | reaction to the Pres address. e ediate official ent’s inaugural Inaugural Editions The Star’s three Inaugural Editions, January 19, 20, 21, will be mailed anywhere in the United States, Canada and Mexico for 25c. Foreign, 50c. 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