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Evening star., 1940-04-21
British Claim Success
In Airdrome Raid in
Northern Denmark
Attack First Reported
On Donish Soil Since
German Occupation
BY the Associated Press.


LONDON, April 81 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 Morse 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
single life.
Communiques from the War Once
and Admiralty announced that:
/. 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.
8. -Four and perhaps five German
planes were shot down in the first
large-scale air battles over the west
1See TnND0N peoe A-9l
Evening star., 1940-04-21
War Referendum Resolution
Indorsed by c. A. R. Session

The National Society of Children
of the American Revolution yester-
day Endorsed joint resolution pend
ing in Congress to provide for a ma
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-
nous and without debate, near the
close of q long day of sessions in
Memorial Continental Hall of the
Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton. The move came from the c. A.
r. Junior National Board, group
of youths headed by Lyons Mills
Rowland, Highland Park, Mich, jun
ior national president of the patri-
otic group.
The G. A. r., all members of which
are under 21, decided that the off,
cial war service resolution will be
sent to members Of the House Mill
tary Affairs Committee. Further
Evening star., 1940-04-21
Mrs. w. K. Vanderbilt Dies:
Was Long a Ruler of 400
Social Leader Was
Noted for Her
PhiIonthropies

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 20.-Mrs. Will
liam K. Vanderbilt, ST., widow of the
grandson of the founder of the Van
derbilt dynasty and long a reignine
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-
ton, she was made a knight of the
Legion of Honor by France in 1919
and received the rank of officer in
the legion IL years later.
The former Anne Hartman, she
was one of eight children of the late
Oliver Hartman, ST., 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 1908.
Mr.. Vanderbilt, the grandson of
Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt,
had received the bulk of the fortune
left by his father, William H.
1t was after the death Of Mrs.
Evening star., 1940-04-21
Tangled Wreckage
OF Train Searched
For More Bodies
Death Toll Reaches rs
After Lake Shore Leaves
Tracks on Curve
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LITTLE FALLS, N. y, April 90
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 Is persons. The in
jured list includes nearly 100 per-
sons.
Travelling SO mile an hour the
New York-Chicago .,assenger 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
Thee hundred passengers, most of
whom were asleep in Pullmans on
the l6-car train, were hurled from
their beds into an inferno of shrieks,
kissing steam and the groans of the
dying.
The bodies of "a victims, most of
them badly mangled, had been iden-
titled by midnight. The identity OF
two others was unknown. Railway
employees continued to search the
twisted steel cars by the Pickering
light of torches for others.
Approximately 100 others went to
hospitals with broken bones, cuts
and bruises and physicians feared
Evening star., 1940-04-21
Two Announcers'
| Memories Save
| Presidents S Talk

Listeners to 500 radio stations
throughout the country didn't know
how close they came to hearing a
hashed version of last nights 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
SO the President might be intro
duced without hitch.
The two announcers were sta
toned on opposite sides of the
ballroom 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 screen. The an
rouncers could not see their script
but continued as best they could
from memory, shouting so they
could hear each other. They man
aged to finish on time and the
Presidents voice came on as
scheduled.
Evening star., 1940-04-21
Red Cross MobiIizinq
Disaster Relief Stoff

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-
emily developing at Newport, KY,
across the river from Cincinnati.
Nat G. 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
lucky 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 a 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 5000 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.
Evening star., 1940-04-21
Dirksen Urges Levy
On Nearby Residents
Working in District
To Seek Amendment
If House Considers
Soles-Income Tax
BY JAMES E. CHINN.

Representative Dirksen, Repub-
ican, of Illinois announced last night
he would make 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 q
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 $4,000 a year. Several
weeks ago the House by an over
whelming vote, refused to consider
the proposed new tax legislation.
II don't believe another attempt
should be made at this session of
Congress to call up the sales income
talk plan," declared Representative
Randolph. But the committee has
instructed that this be done and
Will OOey ltS OrQerS.
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 Unable to seek
It's revision to tax non-residents If
the House refuses again to consider
the dual tax plan.
Primarily. his idea is to circum-
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 taxable
year as well as to non-residents
who work here, irrespective of
where they might maintain a legal
or voting residence.
For those non-residents working
in the District. Mr.. Dirksen does
not intend to add to their tax
burden. 1t 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
1--we or vote. For instance, resident
OF Virginia, working here, who would
be subjected to a $50 tax in that
(See D. c. TAXES. Pare A-6l
Evening star., 1940-04-21

more, it was decided that every on
Ger, both Junior and senior officers
of the national G. 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-
luton.
The c. A. r. also indorsed the
Federal Bureau of Investigation. A
resolution unanimously adopted ex-
pressed interest and confidence tn
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 to
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-
citation Of her courtesy In receiving
(See G. A. R.. Page A-7.)
Evening star., 1940-04-21
Key Republican Leaders Plan
Pre-Convention Policy Talks
Candidates as Well as Issues Likely
To Be Discussed at Philadelphia

promptly and intelhgently 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
"a, just two months in the future
the proponents of the pre-conven-
ton conference are expected to move
promptly. The idea is supposed tc
have developed at a conference be-
tween Mr.. Landon and Col. Knox
not long ago in Topeka.
1t 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-14D
Evening star., 1940-04-21
japanese Oil Contract
With Mexico Reported
By the Associated Press,

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 $1,000, ,OOO
contract to buy Mexican oil, gaso-
line and kerosene.
It is understood the government
would consider it's economic posi-
ton greatly strengthened by q
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 a firm rejection of
the arbitration proposal.
At the same time it was said that
Mexico was near agreement with
Sinclair Oil interests for the pur-
chase OF Sinclair's appropriated
properties.
A government official indicated
that the Mexican counter proposals
included one for a joint Mexican
United States commission en-
powered to draft a Anal settlement
OF the oil controversy, and would be
delivered to United States Ambas-
sador Josephus Daniels either next
Monday or Tuesday.
Evening star., 1940-04-21
BY DON S. WARREN.

An emergency appropriation OF
S91 200 for increased personnel SO
the Districts 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 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.
to have fire escapes. At present
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-
sci Seal, after reviewing the District
License Act of 1882, 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-
ton.
Inspection officials recently re-
ported they had tried vainly for 13
months to ascertain the correct ad-
dress of the owner of q rooming
house on Massachusetts, avenue so
as to serve notice calling for install
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 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.)
Evening star., 1940-04-21
English Cruiser Also Is Sunk
In RomsdoIs F Fjord, Reich Says
Troops Reported Bombed in Landing
At AndoIsnes, West Coast RuiIheod

had landed at Andalsnes, at the
head of Romsdals Fjord, DNB, ON
cial news agency, reported. An
dalsnes Is one of the five railroads
on the Norwegian west coast.
Germany also at.nounced the
bombing yesterday of three British
transports and a cruiser and said
one transport was sunk. 1n con-
trast, the British reported 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
landed far to the north, in the
Lototen Island region opposite Mar
vik, and at points further south,
German military leaders expressed
confidence that German shock troops
(See BERLIN, Page A-6)
Evening star., 1940-04-21
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, April 20.-A 15,O00-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 famed in a
multitude of observances of the
Fuchrer's 51st birthday anniversary
while stern steps were taken in the
struggle to subdue recalcitrant Nor
way. q
The German bombers, escaping
without losses. also effectively at
tackled British soldiers who already
Evening star., 1940-04-21
New Deals Claims
OF Social Progress
Assai|ed by Dewey
Giving Jobs to JobIess
Is Key to Economic
Security, He Asserts
By the Associated Press.

LOS ANGELES, April 90
Thomas E. Dewey told the California
Republican Assembly tonight that
the Nation demands an admins
tration which looks on social secur-
lty 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 assemblys
annual convention, the New York
District Attorney and candidate for
the Republican presidential nomina-
ton voiced the need for IAN admin
istration in Washington which does
not consider proven incompetence to
be an essential qualification for pub
lie omce"
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 we'll
being for our people.
Nom 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 insurance
emciently 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 fields whenever the
administration OF existing forms
has been sufficiently consolidated
to justify further expansion"
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 went on to cite anti
slavery legislation, income tax, elec-
ton 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.al
Evening star., 1940-04-21
Thousands Flee
Homes as Ohio
Floods Rise
Nearly q Third Of
RuroI 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
in D. c. area. Pages A-3 and B-1.
By the Associated Press.
MARIETTA, Ohio, April 90
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,
pioneer Ohio River city of $4,000
and climbed hree-tenths of q foot
an hour toward tentative crest of
So or So feet at Cincinnati.
Cincinnati's flood stage is So feet
and the anticipated crest would be
far below the record 7999-fdot stage
established in the disastrous 1897 in
undation. Severe damage is not
caused unless the crests exceed flood
stage by 10 or IS 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 state of emergency
as water reached 1919 feet, nearly
four feet above flood stage, at 8:15
pm. and continued to rise three
tenths of foot an hour. Highway
Department workers assisted In the
evacuation of IS families in the city's
flooded area.
Nearly third of rural Ohio was
inundated. The Hooking Valley
experienced its worst flood since
1913. Among the towns completely
isolated were Athens and Logan.
Roads were closed at SO 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 receding
IN West Virginia, Kentucky and In
diana. In Southern Indiana, roads
were impossible at % points.
Fair weather was forecast for
Ohio tomorrow, 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 modified
State agencies to aid food 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 overfowing already rain
burdened Ohio River tributaries.
Evening star., 1940-04-21

NEW YORK. April 20 R.-Thirty
Federal agents. presumably looking
for contraband mail, searched the
crews quarters of the United States
liner Manhattan for more than an
hour and half today before she
sailed for Italy. The agents de-
ciined to discuss the search.
Evening star., 1940-04-21
Elliott Roosevelt Pays
Visit to Father
BY the Associated Press.

WARM SPRINGS, Ca, 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.
Evening star., 1940-04-21
Fire Inquiry Board
Asks $4,000 10 Bring
Inspection Up 10 Date
Strengthening Of Fire
Escape Rules, Licensing
Of Rooming Houses Urged
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Need for strengthening Dis
trict building and fire regulations
,0as one suggestion received by
District officials tolloUing the
disastrous fire at the White Court
Apartments. Building Inspector
John w. Oehmann protested his
staff had been unable to keep
current ,pith nep projects and
inspection OF eriSting multi
family d,Uelling buildings. Re-
ports also shoUed eristing fire
inspection services Dere made
Quate.
Evening star., 1940-04-21
RANGOON. Burma. /,

RANGOON, Burma, April 20 tP.
Six persons were stabbed to death
and 20 injured today in communal
rioting on the eve of Mohammedan
feast day. Troops and police re-
stored order.
Evening star., 1940-04-21
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 highway near Suffolk, Va. Po-
lice said the only identification was
cards found on the body.
Evening star., 1940-04-21
Kuiser's Ax-Aide Dies

BERLIN, April 20 lR.-Admiral
Georg Won Mueller, s6. last chief of
the Kaiser's naval cabinet and gen.
eral adjutant to the Kaiser, died last
night ut Hangelsberg the Spree,
20 miles southeast of Berlin.
Evening star., 1940-04-21

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-
Csee VANDERBILT, Page A-s)
Evening star., 1940-04-21
Roosevelt Hits
[G. 0. ?. Tactics
In Campaign
Calls on Democrats
To Nominate Liberal
Pair Of Candidates

THIRD TERM URGED by Attorney
General JAG kson in talk at Young
Democrats banquet. Story on
Page Az.
McNUTT CONTRASTS DEMO-
CRATIC achievements" with Re-
publican promises; omits men,
ton of own plans for 1910. Page
AT.
(Tert OF Roosevelt Speech on
Page A-14)
Evening star., 1940-04-21
British Drive to East Norwov:
Join Morse in Battling Nozis;
transport Fired, Berlin Claims
7 German Tanks
Destroyed on Line
North of Oslo

NINE GERMAN PLANES reported
shot down along west front; 5
credited to British, 8 to French
and to Belgian flyers. Page AS
CONFIDENT OF VICTORY for
Nazis, Duce tells Hitler in birthday
message; Fuehrer, in reply, ex-
poets Italy to win vital rights"
Page AS
MORSE TO FEEL SWORD unless
resistance ends, Nazis warn; COM
mander of occupation commutes
Norwegians' death sentences. Page
AT.
RUMANIA TO RECEIVE Nazi mu-
nitions and planes for wheat; King
Carol gives trade concessions to
avoid greater demands. Page ALA