Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-31
Greatest Air STRENGTH
. Pledged at Boston
By Roosevelt
Additional British Aid
Revelation Is Received
Well in Irish Sector

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e. Irish and Italian votes in the Boston
area might be hostile on the latter
count.
And they took with seeming good
humor, sailed by few boos, his raps
at Mr.. Martin-joining MIN in
chorus when he repeated his sar-
donic reference to Martin. Barton
and Fish"-trotted out first in the
New York address.
Rapping again at Republican
criticisms of the speed and direction
of the defense program, the Chief
- Executive itemized the progress in
this respect during the past seven
years of his administration, first for
the Navy, then the Army and finally
the aviation forces.
AS he did last Monday night in
New York, he accused Republicans
OF blocking these expansions,
charged them with political shen-
anigans," and asked how or why
they could be trusted with national
defense"
Assures Army Housing.
At one point he made bitter
answer to the campaign indictment
by Wendell Willkie, Republican
nominee, that the men now being
called to training in the Army will
not be properly housed. Such an
allegation, the President said, is
"the most ineXcusable unpatriotic
misstatement of fact"
ST give assurance to the mothers
and fathers of America he con-
tinued, that each and every one
of their boys in training will be
well housed
And, reWording declaration
which he made earlier in the day at
New Haven, Hartford and Worces-
ter, he assured these same mothers
and fathers that:
Your boys are not going to be
sent into any foreign wars. They
are going into training to form a
force so strong that, by its very eX-
istence, it will keep the threat of
war far /way from our shores. The
purpose of our defense is defense"
1t was an assurance that was we'll
received each time given, Signifying
the Importance of this whole issue
of peace or war IL the political mind
today.
Cites Farm Income.
presumably directed more at his
radio listeners than at his Boston
audience, Mr.. Roosevelt contrasted
farm income, buying power and
general conditions as of today with
those of the pre-NeW Deal era.
Accusing his foes of forgetting the
farmers Immediately after election
day, he drew a laugh by declaring
that:
1.-THE American farmers will not
be deceived by pictures of old guard
candidates patting COWS and pitch
ing hay in front of moving picture
cameras"
Then building up to his criticism
Of Mr.. Martin, minority leader in
the House, as being particularly I'M
friendly to the farm interests, Mr..
Roosevelt recounted the Bay State
Representative votes against such
, measures as the Public Utilities
Holding Company Act, the T. V. A.
Act, extension of the c. G. c. etc.
Hits Insurance Pressure.
GAIL the sweet words of the Re
publican leaders in Philadelphia last
June were not worth the paper they
were written on" he added in a
summary of Republican conduct in
Congress.
Greeted in Boston by a late after
noon mass of thousands of down.
town workers, Mr.. Roosevelt spoke
last night before an audience of
10000 packing the Boston Garden.
During the day he likewise drew
big crowds in the other cities where
he stopped-despite rain or threat
ening weather throughout.
In Hartford, center of the Ma
lions insurance industry, he took
occasion to make a dramatic &C
cusation that executives of that
industry are attempting to instill
In their policy holders a fear of
the present administration.
Recalling that their business could
not have successfully faced liquida-
ton of the securities on which they
were based in 1888, the President
described their present alleged con-
duct as ''the most dastardly and
the most unpatriotic action of any
American I know"
Morgenthau Silent.
Secretary of the Treasury Nor
genthau declined today to elaborate
on President Roosevelt's announce
ment that Britain had received per-
mission to negotiate in this country
for an additional $4,000 airplanes.
Mr.. Morgenthau reported his only
work on the request, after he re-
ceived it from Arthur B. Purvis,
head of the British Purchasing
Commission, was to refer it to
American defense authorities. Only
Ulley VI Tie BLUSH were duIllOIlZeu
to discuss details, he said.
The order was the subject of two
conferences in his office Tuesday,
Mr.. Morgenthau said. One meeting
brought together nearly every rank
ing official in the Army, Navy and
Defense Commission. In the other
only British representatives met
with Mr.. Morgenthau.
Asked whether the presence at
the first conference of Jesse H.
Jones, Federal Loan Administrator,
indicated the Reconstruction FL
nance Corp. might finance new fac
tories to build the British planes,
Mr.. Morgenthau replied, 1--WE in
vited to the meeting everybody who
could have any possible word of adj
vice to the President on the mat