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1 public mml AP 22 U.S. Weather Report Fair on Sunday) mostly 'cloudy end occasional rain on Monday (Complete report on Page 2) fHGiT Sunday, April 21, 1940. No. 353 Michigan's Great Newspaper On Guard for Over a Century -rpf 109th Year Ten Cents mtwit i UHINAJL. EDITION 15 Officers to Help Cities Isolated Roosevelt Hits G.O.P.

Attacks i I iir Speeding on Curve Cited in Smashup of Flyer; 26 Dead Nazis Reported Routed from Elver urn by Norse; Losses Declare Mrs.Vanderbilt, Society Queen, IsDeadinN.Y. Vexed Nazis Warn Norway; Claim New Naval Successes 1 Hamar Believed Held by Invaders Allies Land 30,000 to 40,000 Soldiers in Three Sectors Attempt to Surround Enemy at Trondheimt attacked" British soldiers who already had landed at Andalsnes. at the head of Romsdals Fjord, D.N.B., official news agency, reported. Andalsnes Is one of the five railheads on the Norwegian we3t coast. Germany also announced the bombing yesterday ef three British transports and a cruiser and said one transport was sunk.

(In contrast, the British reported this afternoon that their expeditionary army had been moved to Norway without loss of a man.) British Seen Cut Off from Norse Although it was conceded that formidable 3ritish forces have been landed far to the north, in the Lofoten Island region opposite Narvik, and at points further south, German military leaders expressed confidence that German shock troops could prevent effective co-operation between British and Norwegian soldiers. In some German quarters, however, there seemed to be irritation over the continued opposition of Norway, a feeble country from a military standpoint, but one which is taking full advantage of its geographical position and difficult terrain to oppose the German forces. Nevertheless, war maps have shown widening arcs of German occupation about Oslo, Bergen, Stavanger and even Arctic Narvik. Foe Claims 40 of Norway German military experts estimated that about 40 per cent of Norway's 3,000,000 people now are in regions occupied by German an area placed at about 12,500 square miles. on War Policy Again Urges His Own Party to Nominate a Liberal Pair Political Talk Evades Third-Term Question WARM SPRINGS, April 20 (A.P.) President Roosevelt urged again tonight that his own party choose a "Liberal pair of candidates," and at the same time waded into the Republican opDost tion for "seeking to frighten the country" by declaring that the present Administration "is deliberately trying to put this nation into war.

It was an out-and-out Dolitical talk that Mr. Roosevelt made by raoio to a series of countrywide dinners of Young Democrats clubs. And while It carried an obvious bid for continuance of the New Deal, it offered no tangible clew to the outstanding political question of the day: Will the President seek a third term Same Kind of Campaign Asserting that America this year, faces much the same kind of campaign as it did in 1932 and 1936, the Chief Executive added: "It seems to me very obvious that If the Democratic Party is to defeat the Republican Party next November, we must nominate a liberal pair of candidates, running on a liberal and forward-looking platform." Not once did Mr. Roosevelt mention names. He came closest to it, when he said: I am not speaking tonight of world affairs.

Your Government is keeping a cool head and a steady hand. A Reference to Dewey "We are keeping out of the wars that are going on in Europe and in Asia, but I do not subscribe to the preachment of a Republican aspirant for the presidency who tells you, In effect, that the United States and the people of the United States should do nothing to try to bring about a better order, a more secure order, of world peace when the time comes." (Mr. Roosevelt presumably referred to recent statements by Thomas E. Dewey.) The President Baid that he was sorry, speaking as an American, that a campaign which should be pitched on "a level of intelligent argument" had "fallen into such low estatt asearly as this." Put Confidence in Voter And, speaking as a partisan, Mr. Roosevelt voiced confidence that the average voter was somewhat tired of what, he called the View-with-alarm" outcries of Re publican candidates.

ine analyzing me pre convention campaign, said that it had fallen into three parts, none of which appealed' greatly to his intelligence. Turn to ROOSEVELT Page 4 Canadian Sailors Drop Their Strike Will Return to Work Pending Mediation TORONTO, April 20 (A.P.) The Canadian Seamen's Union called off its strike late today and agreed to submit its quarrel with Great Lakes ship operators to conciliation, Labor Minister Norman A. McLarty announced. McLarty saia tnat a mediation board consisting of an Impartial chairman and one representative each of the union and the companies would be established at Ottawa immediately. Meanwhile, the seamen agreed to return to work at once and the companies said they would pay S7.50 monthly wage increases, which they previously had offered.

Neither side Is pledged, however, to accept the mediators' findings. The strike, called six days ago. just before the official start of Great Lakes navigation, affected 285 ships of 10 companies and 6,500 seamen, the union estimated. Union demands included 15 monthly increases, larger crews and a closed shop. Driver Remember Youth Says He Can't Recall All of 13 Violations Twenty-year-old Alfred Gaibrish will face 15 patrolmen all complaining witnesses at his examination Thursday before Traffic Judge George T.

Murphy on warrants charging him with ignoring trial dates for 13 traffic vioia tions. He was held on $500 bond after arraignment Saturday. Gaibrish was arrested at his home at 5349 McDougall by Patrolmen Walter Butt, John Westfall and William Eaton, end ing a search that began last Octo ber. In court, Gaibrish said that he would plead guilty, but Insisted that some of the tickets had been Issued to his brother Cornell, now living in Pittsburgh. He said he couldn't remember which were his and which were Cornell's.

The 15 patrolmen will be asked to identi fy Alfred. In addition to the 13 offenses for which warrants were issued, police found three recent violation tickets against Gaibrish. All the tickets were issued since Sept. 2, police reported, and in clude charges of speeding, ignoring traffic lights, making prohibited turns and driving without a license, Seven were for speeding. Drowns; Girls Rescued Their Boat Capsizes on Oakland Lake PONTIAC.

April 20 A nine- year-old boy drowned and two small girls narrowly escaped a similar fate at 3 p. m. Saturday when the boat in which they were. riding capsized 300 feet from shore on Middle Straits Lake, six miles west of Pontiac. Howard Phillips, who was cele brating his ninth birthday anniversary, was drowned.

He was Tiding In the Boat with two friends, Norma Robinson, 11, and Jo Ann Hunt, 12, when the boat tipped over. He started swim ming for the shore but sank about 150 feet from shore. The gins saved their lives by clinging to the edge of the boat and screaming for help. Neighbors heard tneir cries, me community siren was sounded ant! more than a score of persons rushed to the shore. A rescue boat brought the two girls.

to safety. Both were almost exhausted and were suffering- from the -shock trf seeing their companion perish. It was the season's first drowning in Oakland County. The victim, was the son of Mr. and Mrs.

A. F. Phillips, of 7126 Arrow, Wood Drive, West Acres, the housing project founded by the late Senator James Couzens. Phillips is employed by the Michigan Bell Telephone Co. Sheriff's deputies and neighbors dragged the lake for more than six hours Saturday without success.

The search was to be continued Sunday, Crash-Dazed Driver Wanders Five Days Walter Grettenberg, 18 years old, of 1997 Scotten, who disappeared in a dazed condition last Monday after an automobile accident, was back at home Saturday. A physician said that Gretten berg was so weak that it was likely that he had not eaten in his five days of wandering around the city before he found his way to his home. Grettenberg was delivering parcels for the Riopelle Supply when he drove his car into a fire hydrant at Beechwood and Ridge-wood. Jacqueline Cochran Sets a National Speed Record ALBUQUERQUE. N.

April 20 A.P. Jacqueline Cochran tonight claimed a national speed record for 100 kilometers, with an official mark of 292.6 miles an hour. The old mark was 289.9, Bet in 1937 by Roscoe Turner. Miss Cochran was disappointed, however, when timers for the National Aeronautical Association brought in her flying time. On landing, she said she felt sure she had passed the 300-mile-an-hour mark.

Congress Take Mr. Rbosevelt asks that the relief money be handed to him with "limited discretionary power" in order that he would not be forced to allocate it over a period of the entire fiscal year. If Congress grants this request, it will have to reverse itself. Last year Rep. Clifton A.

Wood rum, Virginia Democrat of the old school, succeeded in forcing through an amendment to the relief bill which compelled the expenditure over a twelve-month period. This amendment was vigorously opposed by the Administration, and now Mr. Roosevelt very frankly asks for its repeal. President Roosevelt Indicated that he was perfectly willing to quit the economy fight, launched by Congress in January and supported by the Administration when it presented lower budget estimates. In House and Senate the economy move collapsed, as all such moves Invariably have collapsed in election years.

The President indicated to reporters ugn water in Ohio Valley Worst Flood Since '13 Inundates Hocking River District Thousands Homeless Halt in Rain Forecast MARIETTA, April 20 (A. Floods gripped the Ohio Valley from Pittsburgh to Cincln natl 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, city of 15,000, and climbed three' tenths of a foot an hour toward a tentative crest of 58 or 59 feet at Cincinnati. Far Below Record Cincinnati's flood stage is 52 feet, and the anticipated crest would be far below the record 79.99-foot stage established in the disastrous 1937 inundation.

Severe damage is not caused unless the crests exceed flood stage by 10 or 15 feet. However, the Cincinnati Red Cross chapter made plans to re move 6,000 persons from homes should the river reach 60 feet. A fleet of 50 lifeboats was in readi ness- Thousands of residents in Ohio River Valley lowlands fled their homes or moved to second floors. Marietta merchants moved out their stock. At Pomeroy, merchants began a general exodus.

State Emergency Marietta's mayor, Earl D. Schob, proclaimed a state of emergency as water reached 39.9 feet, nearly four feet above flood stage, at 8:15 p. m. and continued to rise. Highway Department workers as sisted in the evacuation of 95 families in the city's flooded area.

Marietta was isolated except for railroad traffic Nearly a third of rural Ohio was inundated. The Hocking Valley ex perienced Its worst flood since 1913. Among the towns completely isolated were Athens and Logan. Roads were closed at 83 places. Continuing to Rise Streams feeding the Ohio River continued to rise in Ohio and Western Pennsylvania, but began receding in West Virginia, Ken tucky and "Indiana.

Fair weather was forecast lor Ohio Sunday, but light rain was expected in the Pittsburgh and 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 Ohio State agencies to aid flood sufferers.

The Red Cross began setting up food kitchens. Japs Envoy Sees Accord with U.S. Has Hour's Talk with Hull on East Indies WASHINGTON, April 20 (A. Kensuke Horinouchi, the Japanese ambassador, said after nearly an hour conference with Secretary Cordell Hull today that the United States and Japan were in substantial agreement as to the future status of the Dutch East Indies. He added that both Govern ments, along with the Netherlands, the Islands' mother country, "want to maintain the status quo." Japan is maintaining a policy of noninvolvement in the European war," the ambassador told reporters, adding that he saw no likelihood of change.

Horinouchi said that at his Gov ernment's request he explained Tokio's attitude toward the possi bility that the Pacific islands might be involved in a backlash of the war should the Netherlands be involved. The conference followed state ments by the United States and Japan this week that both nations regarded as vital that the Islands' status not be changed. on Spending Responsibility that the fight was hopeless, and a few hours later-started on his annual spring vacation to Warm Springs, Ga. There is ample' reason for Mr. Roosevelt's attitude.

Some of his estimates have been boosted since the economy drive was launched less than four months ago. The most notable instance was when the Senate upped his farm bill by $225,000,000 to provide for parity payments to farmers, something against which the President made strong recommendations. But it was election year, and the farm organizations made a bid for the bounty and had votes to swap in return for it. While boosting the farm budget by $225,000,000, the legislators voted no new taxes. Mr.

Roosevelt stated at the time that if parity payments were to be made, new taxes should be voted; but Senator Pat Harrison, Mississippi Democrat, chairman of the Finance Committee, promptly announced there would be no new tax law submitted in this session. Turn to PREVOST Page 10 Debris May Hide Additional Bodies 100 Hurt when Engine and Cars Hurtle Off Track Wreck One of Worst in U.S. Rail History LITTLE FALLS, N. April 20 (A.P.) Kcscue workers pried tonight into tons of twisted steel-covered steel, once the New York Central's proud Lake Shore Limited, seeking1 possible additions a known wreck deatn ton or per-jnns, of whom two were unidentified tonight. Traveling- 59 miles an hour, the New York-Chicago passenger train last night jumped 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.

800 Passengers on Train Three hundred passengers, most of whom were asleep In Pullmans on the sixteen-car train, were hurled from their beds into an inferno of shrieks, hissing steam and the groans of the dying. Approximately 100 persons went to hospitals with, broken bones, cuts and bruises, and physicians feared that some of them might be added to the death roll of one of the nation's worst railway disasters. Examination of wreckage still is incomplete, and Coroner Fred C. Sabin said that he expected the discovery of "three or more bodies." 'Impossible to Fix Cause' F. E.

Williamson, president of the New York Central, said that It was impossible to learn the cause of the accident immediately, but the system's New York office said that the locomotive's speedometer showed it was roaring westward miles an hour faster than the regulation forty-five-mlle speed for operation around the curve. The flyer was 15 minutes behind schedule on leaving Albany 60 miles sway. A formal Federal and State inquiry will begin Monday at Albany. Death sealed the lips of Engineer Jesse Earl, of Albany, veteran of 41 years on the Central and eligible next month for a pension, the one man who probably could have explained the ca-tatrophe. He died in the battered cab of the locomotive which bolted the rails and hurtled across a highway.

The impact tossed his fireman, J. Y. Smith, of Schenectady, 27 years with the system, to instant death. Carries Tender With It The locomotive carried with it the tender and baggage car. A mail car, uncoupled, sped down the track undamaged with its lone occupant, A.

A. Hill, a railroader for 40 years. But strewn in its wake was the wreckage of seven Pullmans. Hospitals of this city of 10,000 neighboring communities were jammed to capacity. "The inside of these cars could not have been worse if a hurricane 'truck them," one rescuer said.

"There was blood all over and people were screaming and It was the first passenger fatality on the New York Central System in 13 years. Last year, the system received the Harri-man Award for passenger safety. (Pictures on Page 8) List of the Dead in Train Wreck LITTLE FALLS, N. April 20 -I A. The list of identified "ead in last night's train wreck follows: JESSE EARL, Albany, engineer.

J. Y. SMITH, Schenectady, fireman. KASLER WHITE, New York, Porter. JOHNSON, porter.

HUMPHREY A. SEE, New York Central patrolman. C. L. GHYSELINCK, Syracuse, New York Central electrician.

CHARLES H. GROSSKOFF, Buffalo, Inspector for Republic Aviation Corp. DR. ARTHUR G. HALL, Earl-i'le.

N. president of the New York State Association of Veteri-larians. WILLIAM P. KING, Toledo. Harold rothman, sioux City.

Ia. MRS. L. BERG, Syracuse, N. Y.

CEORGE ROBISON, Syracuse, Investment broker. C. J. BLANCHARD, Utica, HARRY ROUSE, Chicago. ELIZABETH MCCARTHY, ltiea.

school teacher. Gervais NOLIN, Auburn, N. CHARLES W. FRANCIS, To- production manager of Elec wc Auto-Lita Co. MRS.

CHARLES W. FRANCIS, Toledo. p- C. BECKER, Moline, 111., resident Stromberg-Becker Manu- rturing Co. Frederick t.

Mcdonald, York. GEORGE ANDREWS. Syracuse. A- M. GREAVES-WALKER, To- r- H.

SCHEETZ, Syracuse. JAMES TALLON, Malone, N. Y. 4 i i By Alvin J. Steinkopf BERLIN, April 20 (A.P.) A 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, it was officially announced here tonight.

The airmen gave Adolf Hitles a martial birthday gift by pouncing on the British at the very moment of landing troops, the Nazis said. Throughout war-time Germany, patriotism was being fanned in a multitude of observances of the Fuehrer's fifty-first anniversary while stern steps were taken in the struggle to subdue recalcitrant Norway. The German bombers, escaping without losses, also "effectively Dewey Defines Security Basis Contends First Need Is Jobs, Not Dole LOS ANGELES, April 20 (A. Thomas E. Dewey told the California Republican Assembly tonight that the nation "demands an administration which looks upon social security as a necessary safeguard to workers who may occasionally be unemployed, not as substitute for allowing the country to go back to work." In an address at a Hollywood Bowl mass meeting in connection with the assembly's annual convention, the New York District Attorney and candidate for the Republican nomination voiced the need for "an administration in Washington which does not consider proven incompetence to be an essential qualification for public office." Offers Five Principle He discussed the social-security program at length, and offered five requirements lor "a pre dominantly 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.

"Second, adequate and non-political relief for those who are thrown out of work and for whom unemployment insurance has not been provided. "Third, unemployment insurance, efficiently and economically administered in the interest of all workers. "Four, old-age Insurance, to provide a reasonable standard of living after the years of active work have passed. "Fifth, a continuing survey of the possibilities of extending social insurance to new fields. Hits New Deal's Boasts 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 progress." Then he went on to cite anti-slavery legislation, income tax, election of senators by popular vote, civil-service legislation, the Sherman Antitrust Act, creation of the Commerce and Labor De partment, the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Railway Labor Act as examples of progress under Republican leadership.

Me called warnings that Republicans will repeal social legislation of the last seven years "fraudu lent," and declared that the party "will support it by making it a workable social service; not a peg on which bureaucracy may hang its hat." 7,000,000 Lost Payments Dewey said the director of the Bureau of Old-Age Insurance admitted before a House Appropria tions committee that 7,000,000 payments into the fund were unidentified. "The director minimized the importance of his statement," Dewey went on, "but I cannot minimize 7,000,000 tax payments which have not been placed to the creoit or me workers who paid for uiem. Daredevil Driver Hurt Romping with His Dog James Lynch, veteran stunt driver and survivor of daredevil antics performed all over the country in speeding automobiles, was injured shortly before 8 p. m. Saturday in a tussle with his dog.

who was on his way to New York to begin his second season as a thrill driver for the World's Fair, stopped to visit friends in their cottage near St Clair. While romping with the dog Lynch fell and his right shoulder was fractured. He was treated by Dr. Robert K. Homan.

A Jutland Warrior Dies LONDON. April 20 (A.P.) Admiral Sir Ernest Gaunt, 75 years old, who was a rear-admiral in the First Battle Squadron in the Battle of Jutland, died today. Special to Free Presi and Chicago Tribune NUW YORK, April 20 Mrs. William K. Vanderhilr Kr dame of all the famous Vanderbilt railroad clan, died early tonight in New York Hospital, where she had been a natient since The nature of her illness was not disclosed, and even her Dresence at the hosnital hsrl htn guarded.

Not until she had been mere more than a month was it penerallv known that she had left her red-brick town home at No. 1 Sutton Place. Tall, white-haired and occupying an enviable social position an the senior woman member of the fam ily, Mrs. Vanderbilt was the most retiring of all the. seven nr eie-ht Mrs.

Vanderbilts of her time. Throughout her life, Mrs, Vanderbilt faced tragedy after tragedy. Born Anne Harriman riane-Mer of the late Oliver Harriman, who was also a railroad magnate, Mrs. Vanderbilt was twine widowed he. fore she married the socially and nnanciauy powerful man whose name she bore at death.

Turn to VANDERBILT Page 9 Ballots Vanish in Union Fight Vote Was Climax of Carpenters' Row The Detroit District Council of the Brotherhood of Carpenters (A.F.L.), holding an election Sat urday in the wake of a factional dispute, called on the police for help when the ballot box disappeared 15 minutes after the last vote had been cast. Walter Dunn, international rep resentative sent to Detroit from Indianapolis to supervise the vote, told Detective Sergt. Robert Sneed and Detective Hugh Burke that the box had vanished from Room 510, Hoffman Building. He said that he" and other offi cials left the room for lunch at 5:15 p. and returned to find the box gone.

It was of black metal, about two feet square and padlocked, with 698 ballots inside, he said. An anonymous telephone call to police said that the box had been taken to a union local's office in Lincoln Park, but police found no one there. The strife in the carpenters' union dates back more than a year, when four Detroit locals refused to pay a $l-a-month assessment, leading to their suspension. Resentment broke out against William Phillips, president, and Frank Garretson, for 16 years secretary of the District Council, with the ultimate resignation of Garretson. Saturday's election was to choose his successor, with five candidates running, Stuart Proctor, Verne Lough, Warren White, William Shipp and Charles Fox.

Head Nurse Hurt in' Hospital Blast PONTTAC. ADril 20 Mrs. Katharine Henessey, superintend ent of nurses at me uamanu County Contagious Hospital, was critically scalded Saturday afternoon in an explosion in the sterilizing room. Mrs. Henessey was found almost unconscious.

She had been work ing In th eroom alone. The explosion did considerable damage to the sterilizing equipment. Authorities began an investigation. The hospital is a mile west of Pontiac off Telegraph. Strike by Grave Diggers Delays Cleveland Burials CLEVELAND, April 20 (A.P.) A strike of crave dieeers and gardeners today delayed burials at historic Lake view cemetery, the resting place of such famous men as President James A.

Garfield, John D. Rockefeller and Newton D. Baker. The workers, organized In the Arborists, Landscapers and Nursery Workers Union (A.F.L.), picketed the main gate and prevented four burials yesterday In seeking to enforce demands for higher wages. Boy Hurt by Firecracker; Alleged Seller Gets Ticket James chouinard.

eieht-vear-old son of Mrs. Theresa Chouinard, of 3814 Fourteenth, was treated at Receiving Hospital at 7 p. m. Saturday for firecracker burns on the hand. Police ticketed Mike Irworski.

of 3274 Junction, on a charge of violating the firecracker ordinance. Officer, said that thev had had several comnlaints recently of children in the neighborhood tn rowing nrecracxers at passing awiomoones. By Thomas F. Hawkins STOCKHOLM. April 20 (AF.T With the Allies reported to have poured at least three divisions into the western Norwegian coast in preparation for a major battle with Germany, the Nazi advance northward from Oslo was de clared unofficially tonight to have been set back by a defeat at Elverum, one-time refuge of King Haakon VII.

Contradicting earlier Swedish reports that the Nazis had cap tured the town of Elverum, about 75 miles north of Oslo, travelers crossing the border from Norway insisted the bitterly-contested town still was in the hands of the Norsemen and that the Germans had lost many men. Nazis Reported In Ilamar Hamar, in the same sector end also a temporary refuge of the fleeing Norwegian Government after the fall of Oslo, was report ed in German hands by both Swe dish and Nazi dispatches. 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 one French and two British divisions, estimated at between 30,000 and 40,000 men, came ashore at Namsos, Molde and Laerdal.

possible jumping-off places, for drives on Bergen and Trondheim, two western ports. Other British forces are reported west and north of Narvik Rushing Troops North For their part, the Germans were rushing troops from near the Swedish 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 Norway nearly two weeks old, the picture 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 indicated the Nazis have suffered a setback in their drive to the north. Turn to BATTLE Page 2 Britain Reports Series of Gains By Drew Middleton LONDON, April 20 (A.P.) Great Britain reported successful operations on land and sea and in the air tonight as she taunted Germany with the declaration that an Allied fighting force had beeti transported across 400 miles of North Sea and landed on the unfamiliar Norwegian coast with, out the loss of a single life.

Communiques from the War Of fice and Admiralty announced that: While Allied transports had reached Norway unscathed, British submarines in an attack on a German convoy torpedoed two troopships. (Whether the transports sank was not 2 Three German planes were shot down and others damaged in unsuccessful raids on British naval units and transports, in; which the enemy obtained no hits, (The Germans reported one trans nort sunk vesterdav and another transport and a cruiser destroyed today.) Turn to BRITAIN Page 14 Candles for Princess LONDON. April 20 (A.P.)-i Princess Elizabeth cut a birthday cake with 14 candles at her "ad vance" birthday party today at Windsor Castle. Actually her four teenth birthday ia tomorrow. Start the Day Right with the Free Press Pages Around the Town 10 Editorial 6 Financial News 18 Fraternal News 11 Obituaries 4 Radio Programs 10 Stage State News 9 Travel News Voice of the People War Day by Day 9 Washington News 5 Weather Report 2 SPORT SECTION" Automobile News 7 Crossword Puzzle 7 Business and Industry 8 REAL ESTATE.

WANT-AD SECTION Garden News 0 These experts explained that in entering Norway April 8, the army struck first at the most populous regions. Three Norwegian divisions were "destroyed," they said, and 5,000 other officers and men captured, while 10,000 fled to Sweden and were interned. Norwegian mobilization in the Oslo region has been disrooted, they contended, and the German Worlds to Conquer Special in Free Prem nd Chlcwo Tribune BERLIN, April 20 Robert Ley, trusted aide of Adolf Hitler, declared in a speech at Hamburg today that "Germany wants everything she controlled 300 years ago." That was before the Treaty of Westphalia, which concluded the Thirty Years' War. The German Empire then included the Netherlands, Bel-glum, Luxembourg, Eastern France, Switzerland, part of the present Italy and Yugoslavia. (CopjrUht.

19401 march is going on northward of Kongsvinger, near the Swedish border. A sharp clash occurred preceding occupation of Honefoss, rail junction northwest of Oslo, List Heavy British Toll In 11 days of sea action, which failed to dislodge the Germans from Narvik, the experts asserted, the British have lost four cruisers, 10 torpedo boats or destroyers and eight submarines, while six battleships or cruisers and one airplane carrier have been damaged seriously. This tabulation is unofficial The same compilation said that as many as seven British transports had been sunk prior to this aiteraoon-a engagement. A. D.N.B.

dispatch from Narvik said total German troop casualties there to date were one dead, two missing and 13 wounded in a clash with the Norwegians. Naval or airforce casualties were not mentioned. Turn to BERLIN Page 8 Reynaud Seeks Italian Entente PARIS. April 20 (A.P.) Paul Reynaud's Government today pursued its efforts to reach an understanding with a thus-far-unresponsive Italy, while French troops poured into Norwegian battlefields to collaborate with their British allies in the widened war against Germany. The Premier told the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee in an exhaustive international survey that France had continued "a friendly exchange of views" with Italy and Spain since the beginning of the European war.

"Outside of all ideological considerations, the French Government will pursue its efforts in regard to these two countries in view of a Mediterranean entente which constitutes in its eyes one of the indispensable bases of peace," a communique said. Turn to FRANCE Page Pigeon Finishes Race Started in June, 1937 PORT HURON. April 20 A racing pigeon, released in Port Huron on June 4, 1937, for a 500-mile race to Torrington arrived home Fridav. It still wore its rac ing tag No, 3,368. Roosevelt Slackens the Reins and Will Let By Clifford A.

(Frmt Prut Waihintton Burtau) WASHINGTON, April 20 There is every indication that President Roosevelt has determined to permit Congress to take full responsibility for further deficit financing, and there is no doubt but that the nation is to continue with this fiscal policy at least for another year. The tipoff on the President's attitude came at his press conference Thursday. He told reporters that he was asking for $975,000,000 to continue the WPA for the eight months beginning next July 1. But he is now asking for no new taxes; neither is he asking that Congress boost the statutory debt limit, now fixed at $45,000,000,000. This latter position may create no end of trouble before the new Congress convenes.

The debt today is approaching $43,000,000,000, and, unless there happens to be a considerable increase in tax collections, will be increased beyond the present limitation before the end of the year..