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ME TM Affix? WEATHER. Generally fair and continued cold lonight: Tuesday fair with rising temperature. is HAZLETON, MONDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 20, 1941. THREE CENTS A COPY. ASSOCIATED PRESS DOUBLE TRUNK WIRE SERVICE I H1B ML MM fi lli TOT Garner Retires After 38 Years: Record Lauded We Must Not Retreat" Or Stand Still Proclaims President Outlining Aims Of Administration In Next 4 Years Hitler And Mussolini Meet At Undisclosed Point: Reach Full Agreement Announces Agency Sailors Tear Swastika Dawn FDIt Says I Do Solemnly Swear For Third Time Foreign Ministers In Attendance And Discuss War Situation.

'i (ft PL II iH -If 'in) rz ys Standing on ninth-floor fire escape outside San Francisco's Nazi consulate, these youths led by two S. sailors prepare to rip swastika off flagpole. Crowd assembled below had booed the banner, displayed in commemoration of founding of the Reich. Notice, U. S.

flag, hung by janitor, above. Suggest "Gift" Plan To Aid England: Willkie Sees FDR Administers Oath to Wallace and Praised by Senate For His Services. WASHINGTON, 20. W) John Nance Garner closed a 38-year congressional career today by giving the 71-word oath of office to Henry Agard Wallace, his successor. His white head bared in the sun light, the 72-year-old Garner read the vice-presidential oath to Wallace, 20 years his junior, in a strong voice.

Wallace answered clearly, "I do," and a cheer went up from the more than 75,000 persons massed in front of the capitol. Garner stepped back smiling, his work done and Wallace bowed slightly to the crowd. A moment later, when President Roosevelt took the oath of office for a third term, Garner who had sought the presidential nomination unsuccessfully and later had failed to vote in the November election, beamed broadly. A few minutes previously the Senate met in a brief session, to overrule Garner's wishes and adopt unanimously a resolution praising the retiring vice president's record as presiding officer for the last eight years. With the gavel falling on Garner's days in Congress, Senator Byrnes (D-SC) arose to introduce the resolution and tell his colleagues that Garner had expressly asked that he not be eulogized.

The outgoing vice president was not present as senator after senator joined in praising his record. The bluff Texan was attending religious services with President Roosevelt-Sketching Garner's career, Byrnes said the record in his 30 years in the House and eight years as vice president was unequalled. "As long as honor, truth and courage are appreciated," Byrnes declared, "the services of John N. Garner will be appreciated by the people of the United States." War In Brief BERLIN, Jan. 20.

(JP) The high command reported today German raiders successfully attacked military objectives last night in London, Southampton and other ports on the southeast English coast It acknowledged that five Nazi craft were lost in the operations. The widespread nocturnal raids followed upon a Sun day of renewed attacks on the British Mediterranean island fortress of Malta, where the crippled British aircraft carrier Illustrious, a destroyer and two merchantmen were declared hit. ROME, Jan. 20. (JP) Virginio Gay-da, often the editorial sounding board of axis policy, indicated today that Germany and Italy were combining forces in the Mediterranean in an attempt to defeat the British there, at present the main theater of war.

LONDON, Jan. 20. (JP-The port of Southampton was one of the cities in Southern England bombed last night by German raiders, it was disclosed here today, but casualties and damage were reported to have been light. CAIRO, Egypt, Jan. 20.

(JP British forces, in pursuit of Italians falling back from the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, have pushed into Eritrea at two points, British headquarters announced today. ATHENS, Jan. 20. (JP) A destructive raid with fire and high explosive bombs on Berati, Italian-held town in the oil region of Central Albania, was reported today by the RAF Middle East command. ROME, Jan.

20. (JP) Stefani, the official Italian news agency, said today that ItaUan authorities had learned two British cruisers were sunk in the air attack in the straits of Sicily 10 days ago, instead of only one. BANGKOK, Thailand, Jan. 20. HP) Three French warships were sunk, the French cruiser La-niotte-Picquet was believed sunk and a French naval plane was shot down Friday in a naval battle off the island of Koh Chang in the Gulf of Siam, the Thai (Siamese) high command reported today.

Hot Bricks Cause Fire. F.ASTON, Jan. 20. (JP) Hot bricks were blamed for a fire at an Easton residence. Firemen said they found bedclo thing and a waitress afire and were told the fire resulted from use of hot bricks betweea the sheets to warm the bed.

Ills On People To Mus- -a ter Spirit And faith Of America. presses Faith In Democratic Principles With Religious Intensity. WASHINGTON, Jan. 20. (JP) nklin D.

Roosevelt, solemnly tak-his third presidential oath be- kath the capitol's sunflecked dome, claimed to defense-minded Amer- tins today that "our strong pur ine is to protect and perpetuate the tcgrity of democracy." Before a shivering crowd cstimat- by capitol police at more than 000, the president stood bare- aded beside Chief Justice Charles ans Hughes, placed his hand on a lorn old Dutch family Bible and omised to "preserve, protect and fend the constitution." A mighty cheer went up from the iltitude jamming: the broad plaza, ey kept up a deafening applause Mr. Roosevelt stepped to the nt of a white pillared pavilion Id began a brief inaugural address inch was. in effect, a sermon on glories of democracy. Just before Mr. Roosevelt took oath as the country's first third president, he sat attentively lile John N.

Garner, a smile creas- his ruddy face, swore in Henry Wallace of Iowa as his successor the vice presidency. The chief executive counselled at outset of his talk against risk- "the real peril of inaction" and terpolated before this phrase the irds "we risk the real peril of iso- tinn. His words recalled to the audience (Continued on Page 13) ffext Of What Roosevelt Said WASmW.Tfr Jan "ft. IB fext of President Roosevelt's inaug-ral On each national day of inaugura tion since 1789, the people have re newed their sense of dedication to he United States. In Washington's day the task of the people was to create and weld ftogether a nation.

In Lincoln's day the task of the people was to preserve that ration pom disruption from within. In this day the task of the people tn snvi thxt tuition bti1 it Insti tutions from disruption from without. To us there has come a time, in the midst of swift happenings, to pause for a moment and take stock to recall what our place in history lias 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 lot by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit.

The life of a man is three-score years nd 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 nd a frame of life, is limited or measured by a kind of mystical and rtificial fate that, for some unexplained reason, tyranny and slavey have become the surging wave the future and that freedom is ebbing tide. But we Americana know that this Is not true.

Eight years ago, when the life of (Continued on Page 13) Quarantine At Ft. Dix. FORT DIX, N. Jan. 20.

(JP) Relatives and friends visited the fort by thousands yesterday, but for the only contact with the "oops consisted of passing gifts V(lr a quarantine line. Visitors were not permitted to en-ler areas segregated because of fcarlet fever and other contagious il a vjuusciiueiiuy iouu irom 'e and personal gifts had to be landed over the line without much 8cial interchange. New Arrivals. A son has been born to Mr. and urs.

paui Veet. of 6gl North f-aurel street. The mother was "ura Plesh before marriage. A son was born to Mr. and Mrs.

of 428 Allen street, Si leton at th Hazleton fctate Hospital. Back in 1933 a new leader assumed the presidency of the United States of America. Men were marching those days marching in relief demonstrations inarching to banks that closed doors in their faces. In 1937 that same man was inaugurated for his second term as With America still struggling to get out of depression, men were still on the march marching behind WPA wheelbarrows marching to work-relief jobs that kept their families from starving. Today President Roosevelt, his face plainly showing the strain of eight years in office, is being inaugurated for the third term and men are still marching young men are marching in to the new army to defend America against the greatest threat in her history.

Not Stated Whether Military Advisers Were Present. BERLIN, Jan. 20. (JP) Complete agreement was reached between Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini during their meeting in an undisclosed place today in the presence of German Foreign Minister Joachim von RiDbentrop and Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeas-zo Ciano, according to an official announcement by DNB, the German official news agency. The DNB communique said: "Berlin The Fuehrer and Duce, on the occasion of their meet ing in the presence of the foreign ministers of the Axis, had an extensive conversation concerning ths situation.

"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 concerning all questions." Further details of the meeting were not disclosed. If military advisers were present during any part of the discussion, the communique failed to mention that fact. From this it would seem the dis cussions were principally political rather than military, although it must be remembered that the Fuehrer and B. Duce are commanders-in-chief of their respective forces and have assumed full military responsibility for the conduct of their armies, navies and air forces.

What surprised foreign correspondents most was the insistence of ths Wilhelmstrasse at 1:15 p. m. that Hitler and Mussolini had not met, when only two hours later the official information was divulged to th effect that both leaders had dis cussed the situation extensively. The official communique failed to disclose the time and place of th 5 (Continued on Page 13) Boxer Kills Nazi Officer BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Jan. 20.

Dispatches to Belgrade newspap ers reported today that a German general staff officer had been slain in Bucharest and a former profes- HKiatu ovAer ui. uj.ee origin utui been arrested as his assailant. Five shots were said to have been fired into the officer on a busy thoroughfare only two blocks from the Rumanian Royal Palace, now used as headquarters for the German general staff. The victim was identified as a Major Doring, said to have held position of importance in the so-called Nazi expeditionary force in Rumania. He fell dead at the entrance to the Hotel Ambassador.

Dispatches to Belgrade newspapers reported that Bucharest police said the boxer told them he quarreled with the officer in a cafe and killed him. Clear And Freezing Inaugural Weather WASHINGTON, Jan. 20. (JP) Inaugural day clear and freezing cold in the nation's capitol, and the weather bureau predicted that the mercury would climb no higher than 31. The early morning temperature was around 20 and the weather man's forecast was that at noon, when President Roosevelt takes the oath of office, the inaugural crowds would shiver at 28.

WEATHER. Eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey: Generally fair and continued cold tonight; Tuesday fair, with rising temperature. Delaware and Maryland: Fair and continued cold tonight; Tuesday fair, with slowly risin temneratnre. Block Island to Hatteras: Stron? northeast winds over extreme nortl portion, diminishing: fresh noi west wins over south and centi portions, stronj off coast, diminis ing by tonight; broken clouds Bight, Tuesday fair. HijrhliVhts Of FDR Address Roosevelts At Prayer Service Ask Divine Blessing For World Peaoe and National Defense in U.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20. (JP) Countering Wendell L. Winkle's re newed endorsement of the salient points in President Roosevelt's aid-to-Britain bill, opposition senators talked today of introducing a substitute measure for an outright gift to the British of $1,000,000,000 or $2,000,000,000. Indications that this "gift" strategy would be employed in the deter-! mined fight for defeat of the lease-lend legislation served notice that inauguration day signified no armistice in the developing legislative contest.

Discussion of the substitute proposal was heard after Willkie met with President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Hull yesterday in a flying visit to the Capital before his transAtlantic clipper trip Wednesday to survey conditions in England at first hand. From Mr. Roosevelt Willkie received a penned note to Prime Minister Churchill The message, carry UliaUS DOHl Dill One Succumbs X-Ray Examination in November Confirmed: Caesarian Operation. MICHIGAN CITY, Jan. 20.

(JP) Quadruplets were born today to Mrs. Eva Swanson, 35 years old 98 pound wife who was previously childless, but one of the babes died shortly after 11 a. m. in St. Anthony's Hospital.

It was the last born, a girl. Hospital attendants announced the death. Only a few minutes before the attending physician, Dr. R. A.

Gilmore, had told reporters that the last born, was "not in very good condition" and was having difficulty breathing. There were three girls and a boy born by Caesarian section. The doctor said that Mrs. Swan-son, only 4 feet, 11 inches tall, was "fine." The hospital for convenience sake named the babies "Swanson One, Two, Three and Four." They were placed immediately in incubators and eiven oxyeen. Incubators were supplied by the Indiana State Board of Health.

Dr. Gilmore said a nhvsician on the Board of Health told him these were the first quadruplets born in Indi ana. Medical authorities said quadruplet births occur only 179 times in 120,000,000 births. Dr. Gilmore said the diagnosis that quadruplets were expected was made as early as last November and confirmed by Bn X-ray specialist.

Mrs. Swanson was given a blood transfusion during the operation by George Segnits of Michigan City and another thereafter by Vernon Swanson, her brother-in-law. She herself weighed 5 pounds when she was born, ing the greeting "Dear said that the 1940 Republican nom inee for president was trying to keep politics out of the American defense program. It also expressed the wish that Britain would weather the storm of war. Willkie said that his conferences with the president and Hull were "very pleasant" and added that they had "extended every courtesy" for his forthcoming trip.

Administration leaders said they thought Willkie's visit to the Wbite House would tend to bolster Repub lican support of the lend-lease mea sure, even though Willkie suggested three modifications a time limit on the extraordinary powers granted the president, congressional reten tion of the "purse strings" and a section by section congressional study to determine whether all the authority conferred on the chief executive was necessary. Despite the adjournment of Con-continued on Page 7) Flag Incident Talks of "Sacred Rights" Violated When Frisco Swastika Was Lowered. BERLIN. Jan. 20.

(JP) Ir respective of how the San Francisco Nazi flag incident will De nanciiea diDlomaticallv or politically, au thorized German sources said today that the moral question remains. The United States expressed re gret yesterday to the German gov ernment over the incident, wmcn two United States Navy enlisted men off duty tore the flag down from the Nazi consulate San Francisco.) "The fact is that a scandalous incident has occurred, in the course whereof one of the most sacred rights of international intercourse, namely that of displaying the flag, has been violated, it was said. "Even in the jungle, the rights of guests are respected. If anybody here said it was merely a prank of seamen, he had no right to make such an utterance." (The comment about the "prank of seamen" was one of the first comments in Berlin after the incident had been reported.) "The American people cannot be identified with this incident, as it cannot with many other things," it was said. The Wilhelmstrasse said it still had no knowledge of Secretary of State Hull's expression of regret over the incident.

Judge's Guests Robbed. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 20. (JP) While Justice Horace Stern of the State Supreme Court entertained at a party thieves broke into a guest's automobile and took clothing and jewelry valued at $900, rnorqni m. m.

vrm.a. WASHINGTON, Jan, 20. Jf) The program for President Roosevelt's third, historic inauguration day opened at 10:30 a. m. (E.

S. today with ser-Tices at St. John's Episcopal church, across Lafayette Square from the White House. The program proceeded as follows: 11:30 a. m.

President leaves White House for the Capitol. Noon President takes the oath of office on the east portico of the Capitol, delivers brief inaugural address and returns to the White House. 1 p. m. Buffet luncheon at the White House.

1:30 p. m. 280-plane air show. 1:45 p. m.

Start inaugural parade which passes White House in review. 4 p. m. President receives governors of states at the White nouse. 5 p.

m. White House tea. Radio networks will broadcast the ceremonies as follows: Columbia Broadcasting Sys- tern tem Mutual Broadcasting a. m. "The Nation Pravs with the President." MBS, 10 and 11 a.

WEAF-National Broadcasting Company, 10:15, and CBS, 11:05 Preview of events. MBS, 11:15, NBC and CBS, 11:30 President's departure for Capitol and arrival at inaugural stand. (Continued on Page 13) Quads Die. NORRISTOWN, Jan. 20.

(ff) Mrs. Mary Iannone, 34-year-old wife of a Bridgeport shoemaker, was recovering in Montgomery hospital today after the birth of girl quadruplets who died within four hours. The babies, born Saturday, were premature, Dr. Herbert A. Bos-tock said.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20. (jP) Some outstanding passages from President Roosevelt's third inaugural address: In the face of great perils never before encountered, our strong purpose is to protect and to perpetuate the integrity of democracy. We do not retreat. We are not content to stand still.

As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God. The preservation of the spirit and faith of the nation does, and will, furnish the highest justification for every sacrifice that we may make in the cause of national defense. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live. There are men who believe 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 is not true.

Democracy alone, of all forms of government, enlists the full force of men's enlightened will. We know that we still have far to go; that we must more greatly build the security and the opportunity and the knowledge of every citizen, in the measure justified by the resources and the capacity of the land. WASHINGTON, Jan. 20. (IP) Before taking his third oath as chief executive of the United States, President Roosevelt joined his family and high government officials today in prayers for world peace and defense of American liberties.

Following the custom he set on two previous inaugural days, the chief executive attended a special mid-morning service at St. John's Episcopal church across Lafayette Park from the White House. World events gave significance to the Episcopal ritual asking divine guidance "for our country," "for the president of the United States and all in civil authority," "for social justice," and "for the family of nations." "Almighty God, our Heavenly Father," read one prayer, "guide, we beseech thee, the nations of the world into the way of justice and truth, and establish among them that peace which is the fruit of righteousness, that they may become the kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ." The prayer for social justice included this plea: "Grant us grace fearlessly to contend against evil, and to make no peace with oppression; and that we may reverently use our freedom, help us to employ it in the maintenance of justice among men and nations xxj," Praying that the United States (Continued on Page 2) Twenty-Five Years Ago Today. Jan. 20, 1916 Fighting around Ypres.

French advance to cut off St. Miheil..