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TORNADO KILLS . T9INGEORGIA;

450 ARE HURT

~ $6,000,000 Damage Done

As Buildings Are Leveled; 4 Persons Missing.<

ALBANY, Ga., Feb. 10 (U. P.) — Fifteen persons were killed, at least four missing and 450 to 500 injured by a tornado that swept through this |pecan capital of the world at 4:10 a. m., today. Property damage was estimated at more than $6,000, 000.

The City’s one nospital had treated 300 cases by 11 a. m., and physicians| said 250 were seriously hurt. Four first' aid emergency stations

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officials said 75 per cent of ess district was in ruins.

leveled by the storm. The tornado swirled out of the

southwest and in two minutes the].

wind wrecked at least five blocks. The storm was preceded and followed by a heavy downpour. .

Nearby Towns Send Aid

Hundreds of injured were removed from flattened homes. At the Putney | Memorial Hospital all beds were filled and pallets were made on the floor for the overflow. A

Doctors and nurses from nearby towns were summoned. Four companies of National Guardsmen arrived to preserve order. CCC workers came to’help clear wreckage and search for bodies. Red Cross workers set up relief stations to care for the homeless. The city was without power, lights or water. Only one telephone line provided communication with the world. usiness section was severely clock on the City Hall was Freight sheds at the were flattened. Streets

and homes. Roads Are Blocked

city cials said the casualty Hist would’ have been much higher had hit later in the day. Most of the city’s 16,000 were abed when

aph poles outside the city led over like match sticks

até Highway ‘Patrol broadppeal to motorists to stay leading to Albany so that orkers and supplies could

‘ "The action followed reports /to the Red Cross

C. Smith, Red Cr distor, said that Wileine, Red Cross medical had ‘left Washington by

sidered submitting him to Federal prosecution on two charges of robhing banks protected by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. State Police Superintendent Don ¥. Stiver said Morris also confessed e Auburn, Ind, state bank of $5748) Aug. 1, 1939.

STEPHENSON CARVES * BOAT OF MAHOGANY

LA PORTE, Ind., Feb. 10 (U, P.). —Indiana’s most famous prisoner, D. C. Stephenson, former grand dragon of the Hoosier Ku-Klux

Klan, revealed today as anoth?] er expert prison craftsman. ted a four-foot ship

model, c single block of Faliogahy: to his

rte. Da er and is furnished and

de. , serving a life prison the slaying of Madge r ‘in 1925, has a 13th appeal for freedom pending in Hamunty Circuit Court at No-

The hearing is scheduled | 5

SLIGHTLY IMPROVED

EAL, Feb. 10 (U,P.) .—The of Lord Tweedsmuir, Goveneral of Canada, improved Ti Ny pday after two brain operations to save his life. Although the 64-year-old viceroy mained unconscious, his doctors d that he is more active, |

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|Pursley’s orders.

VOLUME 51—N UMBER 288

Shooting Victim

Francis T. Smith . . . victim of mystery slaying.

MOVES TO OUST TOWNSEND AIDS

Wabash Chairman Urges Party to ‘Get Rid of » Heller, Pursley.

WABASH, Ind. Feb. 10 (U. P.).— Kenneth King, Wabash County Democratic chairman, today opened a drive to oust Alex Pursley and Dick Heller, two of Governor M. Clifford Townsend's closest advisers,

from their respective posts as Fifth District chairman and exsecutive secretary to the Governor. Mr. King dispatched letters to chairmen of the nine counties of the Fifth District, requesting thenr| to join his crusade to ‘clean our own house before the Republicans do it for us.” The Wabash County chairman, who voted for re-election of Pursley in 1938, is understood to have broken with him shortly after the last general campaign, and blames him for recent anti-King agitation in Wabash County. : “As you probably know, I am 100 per cent for the Hon. Paul V. McNutt for President of the United States and the Hon. Sherman Min-

ton for re-election as United States Senator, but as far as the big shots|

in the State House go, I am fighting to help clean them out,” Mr. King wrote the county chairmen. “There are two big shots in the

tiState of Indiana who have the State

‘administration by the throat and are strangling it to death, and they are none other than Alex Pursley and Dick Heller, who carries out 1f these men are not gotten rid of, they are going to bring. about the. downfall of the Democratic Party in Novémber, “Alex Pursley, according to the y Gary Post-Tribune, as long ago as 1938, benefitted from the lopsided purchase of Kyrock (Kentucky rock asphalt) made by the State Highway Commission. There are many other things that could be enumerated in regard to the Pursley

,/greed at the expense of his own

party, and these will be brought to light from time to time.”

, FUNERAL TOMORROW FOR EX-ENVOY DODD

U.S. Ambassador Resigned In Rebuke to Nazis.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (U. P.).—

Funeral services will be conducted

tomorrow for William E. Dodd, former U. S. Ambassador to Germany, who died at his home at Round Hill,’ Va., yesterday of pneumonia. Mr. Dodd, 70, had been ill much of the time since his return from Germany, He contracted pneu-

,|monia several days ago and stead-

ily grew worse despite being placed in an oxygen tent. Services will be conducted at the "| Dodd home and burial will be at the private burial ground on the Dodd estate. Mr. Dodd is survived by a son, William E. Dodd Jr. and a daughter, Mrs. Alfred Stern of New York City. Mr. Dodd’s tenure in Berlin was marked by. frequent clashes with the German Government and blunt griticism of Nazi methods. Shortly before he resigned in December, .{1937, he created a sensation by] writing letters to several Congressmen in which he said he had secret information that an unidentified American millionaire was planning

|a coup to establish a dictatorship

here. Early in 1938, he again was in the headlines when his automobile ran down a small girl on'a highway and he failed to stop. He was caught later, however, and tried, but because of his poor health was given a light sentence.

By HENRY M’LEMORE United Press Staff Correspondent

LOS ANGELES, . 10.—Due to the fact that I it school after the fifth grade command of languages is ‘limited to English, French, German, Italian, pig Latin and whatever it was that Leslie Howard spoke in “Gone With the Wind.” - So I am not able to tell you what Arturo Godoy said in Spanish over the radio last night at the finish of his fight with Joe Louis for the world’s heavyweight boxing championship. But my guess is that Arturo, after staying 15 rounds with

FAT IL BULLET IS [IUNTED AT

Robbert Theory Studied Even Though $35 Is Found On Victim’s Body.

Detectives broadened their investigi tio: today in the mysterious killing of Francis T. Smith, 32, in his filling station at 4742 E. 10th St. last night As cffic rs hunted the fatal bullet at the crime scene, Dejective Chief Fred Sin bon announced that “we are going to investigate all angles in this cese.” While ome officers worked on the robbe'y motive, citing that the victim hid pledged to resist any holdup a tempts, Dr. Norman R. Booher’, ¢eputy coroner, reported that the yg iller apparently obtained no money He said that the money in Mr. Smiths pockets. and the change that was sire on the floor during his struggle with the gunman totaled $35. . Smith kept all -receipts of ‘he station in his pocket, the deput: coroner said. Impressions of footprints found in the mud outside the rear window by waich the killer left were regarded is .valuable clues. . Scientifi: crime experts said they were prints of a long, narrow shoe, probably ‘‘xpensive. : Heat Turned on Gunmen

Detecliv: is definitely established by maiks on the newly painted walls and the window sill that the gunmar. loft by that window and fled on foot. Another clue was a small piece of black or dark blue yarn which caught on the wall near the window. Police believe it may have been ripped from clothing worn by the slayer. Chief Simen said that inquiry would te nade into the private life of the victim to determine if he had any enemies. As cetectives hunted for the bullet, other officers intensified their search : for gunmen and thugs blamed fo» a series of shooting and sluggings in unsolved holdups during the last 10 weeks. The tuliet, which officers said apparently’ was fired while the bandit was on the floor, struck Mr. Smith in the throat and passed through his necl:, cutting the spinal column.

station window in the direct line of fire. Folice believed that it ‘was caused by the bullet which killed Mr. Smith, Investigators said that the finding of the bullet, so that ballistic tests can :e made, will have an important bearing in solving the crime.

G:ocer Killed Dec. 9

They have the bullet with which Chester Foss Witt, 46, was killed in an attempied robbery at his grocery, 1430 Brogiside Ave., Dec. 9, and believe tha Zzullet in last night's murder coud -have been fired from the same wezpon. Mr. Smith's body was found about ¥:30 o'clock by Paul J. Kervan, 5132 Pleasant Run Parkway, wheli he :drove into the station to use the piy telephone. Pushing the door open against a heavy cbjict, he looked down and

| saw the body. Mr. Smith’s head was

in an basket. : Mr. ¥eivan notified Dr. John Graves, vio has an office at 4734 E. 10th , tien drove to 10th St. and Bosay: 27e. and found cruising

‘gveriurned waste-paper

| officers.

“Hurry: i» the filling station down thel strzet,” he told the officers. “There's 2 man dead.” Dr. Graves said the victim had been killec: instantly. A lit{le more than a half-hour before hic body was found, Mr. Smith hac visited his home across the street at 1001 N. Wallace St. He frequen:ly went there, keeping his eye on the window to see when patrons drove into. the station. Miss Irene Williams, a sister-in-law who l.ves with the Smiths, and Mr. Smit]. were standing in the kitchen esting ice cream when he saw a car pull into the station. He ran over ty wait on the patron, she told police. That was the last time she saw him alive. Miss Williams said that Mrs. Smith he¢ been sick in bed for the past few cays.

ran from ‘he scene-of the shooting to the 3m th home, but got no re(Continued -n Page Three)

‘CLIPPER’ SMITH GETS NEW COACHING POST

PHILAD; SLPHIA, Fet Feb. 10 (U. P)). —Mauricz J. (Clipper) Smith, former Noire Dame ggidiron star, resignéd 23 head football coach at Villanova ‘oday to accept a similar post at Loyola University of Los

Angeles

Mac Hears Fight By Radio, And He's Still Upi in the Air

the sup: Snsbely murderous champion, had thi; te say: “Hellc, 2‘om! Hello, Pop! Sports-

sense lian they do down in South Americe. In fact, less. The sportswriters said I wouldn't last long enough to: get introduced. Let me tell you, Mamaita, and Papasita, I made oe ielva fight. Kiss Grandpasita {ir ‘ne. Adios.” My seat cor last night’s fight was 3000 ryles from Madison Square Garden; aiid for the second time when Louis defended his title I had to depend upon Marconi’s, gadget. If what I heard over the radio

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GAS STATION.

The Young Edison

There was a hole .in the filling].

A nurse from Dr. Graves’ office

writers ip aere don’t have any more

45 days of her sentence he imposed |course, you have one of those 6500 yesterday if she agreed to leave the

state for at least a year. She agreed. ett ements

rer Adclf Hitler returned Berlin ges 5 biel liearned in relia

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 101040

By Lous F. KEEMLE United Press Cable Editor

The Russians this week-end are said to be engaged in the fiercest offensive of the war in an effort to break through. Finland’s Mannerhéim Line. The world wonders what progress they are making. Finnish ¢communiques give little information, the Russian ones even less. Advices cabled to this writer by correspondents who are or have been towards the front line give "the following picture, which they believe to be factual: There is reason to think that-the Russians, more infantry, mechanized units, artillery and’ airplanes, have made some progress

sector of the Karelian Isthmus, which is midway between the center of the Mannerheim Line and its right end on the Gulf of Finland. ; But the Russians have not “broken through” the Mannerheim Line. To undersiand the situation and avoid confusion from apparently conflicting claims of advances and reverses, it is necessary to visualize the Mannerheim? Line. Because it is a series of emplacements fand pill boxes, with artillery positions cleverly selected to take advantage of every hilltop or knoll, traps and pits, and heavily dotted with lakes and deep forests, an enemy can capture many positions at its front and still be many miles from breaking through. One reason for the lack of definite official announcements of progress in the present drive is the Finnish censorship. The Finnish general staff apparently does not want to announce partial operations but wishes to wait until the operation is finished,

True Story of Warin North: Finns Still Hold That Line

in the last few days on the Summa

The famous Mannerheim Line in Finland remains intact, despite Russian claims it has been broken, the news behind the censorship reveals. The above map shows

where the Russians reported the recent capture of steel forts.

when they hope to announce a resounding victory. (One famous correspondent submitted a story on the progress of the fighting which he had obtained from unimpeachable sources. The censor killed it, and told one of the press officers that it was “too damned accurate.”) Complaints = of reptitious announcements of lack of Russian

Returns in Film

PORT HURON, Mich. Feb. 10 (U. P.)—Port Huron turns back the pages of history this week"end to honor the memory of its most celebrated son, Thomas Alva Edison.

genius spent his boyhood will turn out in costumes of the Civil War period and attend the first world showing of the motion picture, “Young Tom Edison,” with Mickey Rooney in’ the role of Edison as a youth. Joining in the\ “Edison Days” celebration: on: the inventor's 93d birthday Sunday will be Rooney in person, Edsel Ford, whose father, Henry Ford, was one of Edison's closest friends; Governor Luren D. Dickinson; the Mayors of Michigan cities, and Prime Minister Mitchell Hepburn of Ontario.

RAIN AND FOG PERIL TO STATE TRAFFIC

Road 37 in ‘Fair Condition’; Sunny Sunday Forecast.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

6am. ...31 10a m ...31 ¥1 a.m ...31 11am ... 31 8am. ... 31 12 (noon)... 31 9a. m. ... 31 i1p.m...31

Freezing temperatures during a drizzling rain and -fog brought treacherous driving conditions to Indiana highways today. : All roads north of Anderson were covered with ice, State Police reported, adding that the freeze is extending to the south. Newspapers, State Police and the State Highway Department were besieged with calls, particularly from the thousands of fans who will converge on Bloomington to-|; night for the Purdue-Indiana basketball game. The Highway Department said that Road 37 to the University was still in fair condition at noon. Its condition will be checked during the afternoon and a later bulletin issued for the benefit of the basketball fans. + The Weather Bureau said the rain and fog will continue tonight when the temperature will drop to 20 to 25 degrees, but promised clearing skies and sunshine by tomorrow. Road cdnditions also were treacherous to the west and Frank Spear, 20-year-old singer and comedian from Kansas City, critically when struck by a car west of Brazil in a dense fog. He was hitch-hiking to New York to appear on an -amateur radio hour and the motorist couldn't see him because of poor visibility, police reported.

{HOLLYWOOD JUDGE

BANISHES ILLEANA|

HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Feb. 10 (U. P).—Illeana Laurel was in jail again today and she faced banishment from California upon her release in 15 days. Judge Cecil B. Holland of Bever Hills told the Russian night . singer and former wife of comedian Stan Laurel that Hollywood police were “fed up” with her intoxicated antics. Twice in a week the 175-pound buxom blond singer mauled police when arrested for intoxication. Judge Holland agreed to suspend

HITLER BACK IN BERLIN BERLIN, Feb. 10 (U. P.) —Fnehtoday to absence, it was)

IASK BALANGED

The city where the inventive |

'|the budget should be balanced by

- |operates two farms of his own and

{of parity payments,” he said.

was injures

{teams themselves?

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BUDGET FOR U. S.

Some Farmers Suggest Cut In WPA; Split Over Parity Plan.

Indiana farmers testifying before the Republican Agriculture Study Committee in the Claypool Hotel today agreed that the national budget must be balanced, but disagreed heatedly as to how it sheuld be done. Some of the farmers told Rep. Clifford R. Hope (R. Kas.), committee chairman, and members of Indiana’s Republican delegation in Congress who were present, that

“cutting off the WPA and other vote-buying projects such as public |P¢&ce buildings.” Some said they were willing ‘to forego ‘the farm parity payments. Others declared that the budget must be balanced without reducing the parity payments. Nearly all of the men appearing before the committee were Republicans.

Opposes Parity Payments J. D. Rathbun, Kentland, who

seven for his uncle, George Ade, famous Indiana author, - asserted that neither he nor his uncle had ever subscribed to any of the Government’s farm programs and that they had made money since the depression. “I don’t believe in a parity program because it is nothing more or less than a dole—nothing more nor less than regimentation. I believe in building’ up the land and preventing soil erosion, but we had been doing that before the Government came along with stich a program. “The biggest problem facing us is the balancing of the national budget. If we can do that, a wave of confidence will sweep the country, wipe out unemployment, and the 10 millions unemployed who will become employed, will consume our surplus.”

2d District Favors Program

“Arthur Arnott, Rensselaer, district director of the In Farm Bureau in seven counties in the Second Congressional district, declared he was speaking for the farmers of his district and that they want “the present farm program continu “We believe the budget must be balanced too, but not at the expense

Clyde Masten, Coatesville farmer, said he believed that the Government must learn to do “just like the individual—pay its debts.” “The other night I heard Frank(Continued on Page Three)

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ABSOLUTE DICTATORSHIP

IN YOUTH CONGRESS TALK CRITICS POINT

T0 WELLES AS 20 COL HOUSE

Put U. S. on Way ‘to War Involvement.

By LUDWELL DENNY ; Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—“Another Col. House” is what they are saying in the Senate and in London about the President’s dispatch of. Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles to Europe a week from today as his personal representative. Isolationists in Washington object to another Col. House, while London officials applaud, But both see a similarity between the Welles mission and that of President Wilson’s| representative—which proved to be the first step on the road to involvement. : : This interpretation, of course, is hotly denied by the Administration. The President warned the press B |against drawing conclusions. He stressed that Mr. Welles would make no proposals or commitments, that his sole function was to gather information. News Emphasis Shifted Doubtless the President knew that nothing he could say would prevent the isolationists and the diplomats here and abroad from interpreting this as another Col. House mission. Perhaps that explains the timing of the unexpected announcement by Secretary of State

Cordell Hull that the United States

is in the midst of peace conversations with unnamed neutrals. The Hull news, coming only two hours after the President's announcement, tended to blanket the Welles mission and its importance. The emphasis shifted from the fact that the President is dealing with the belligerents to the fact that he is acting with the neutrals. It was underscored that these neutral peace talks concern conditions after the war and not present war conditions.

Vision League of Neuirals

This shift of emphasis, to dispel any fear that the President is “involving” the United States, was immediately effective in some proAdministration circles. For instance, New Deal Senator Lewis B. Schwellenbach promptly approved the neutral peace talks “as long as the discussions do not include matters involving present war conditions,” adding that otherwise “it might lead to United States involvement in war.” Along this line, Secretary Hull indicated today that the Administration’s venture is directed mainly toward long-term economic objectives. He said that at present the entire emphasis is concentrated on the situation when the European war ceases—on economic questions, reduction of armaments and the like’ This includes programs, he said, (Continued on Page Three)

AUDIENCE CHEERS BIRTH OF ‘PRINCE’

MANTOVA, Italy, Feb. 10 (U. P.). —When the curtain was rung down on the first act of Hamlet in a little theater at Gazoldo Degli Ippoliti near here, the audience applauded long and loud for their favorite leading lady, Armanda Sabbi, in the Tole of the queen. When the curtain failed to vise for the second act after half an hour the audience grew restive, stomped and called for the show to go on. The producer came on the stage to announce that the show was called off because the actress had just given birth to a boy. He said mother and baby were doing fine, and the audience cheered.

By J. E. O'BRIEN Times Staff Writer BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Feb. 10.— They've barred the ticket windows, furloughed the salesmen and they will lay even money that One-Eyed Connelly couldn’t- pick up the yardage necessary to get inside the front door. That’s the Purdue-lndiana Sas tion at a glance. you - terested in Slring gasoline, nerves and the press in that suit, 1. U. officials would be pleased if you - just didn’t come around the Fieldhouse tonight. Unless, of

valuable tickets. ‘To be brief, it’s a sellout. So much for the front-office angle. Now what about the basketball

Branch McCracken ‘promises tothe employ some of the strategy of the -break era. He's going to de-|

They'll Be 'Hanging on the Rafters’ at Purdue-l. U. Tilt

pend on height. Imagine that— and we thought tall basketball players were as obsolete as spitballers and yo-yos.

A transcription of the PurdveI. U. game will be broadcast by WIRE, starting at about 10:15 tonight. Vic Lund of WIRE and George Gardner of the 1. U. AthDepartment will give the Jeti Den description.

Andy Zimmer—all six feet four of him—has been inserted at center Siand Bill Menke has been moved to forward.” The idea is for these lads, along with the other long boys, to conduct their intrabasket com-

-|merce in higher altitudes where

the congestion is not so bad. But don’t get the opinion that _ (Continued on Three)

Sumner Welles . . . sails a week from {foday as Roesevelt’s roving ambassador in Europe.

REPORT NAZI AIR BASE IS BOMBED|

Danes Say Plari Plane Escaped After Air Attack on Island of Sylt.

: BULLETIN LONDON, Feb. 10 (U. P.).—The Admiralty announced today that German planes yesterday sank two

British naval trawlers in the North Sea with a loss of four officers and 18 enlisted men.

TOENDER, k, Feb. 10 (U. P.).—A plane believed to be British today bombed the German North

Sea air base on the Island of Sylt, off the coast of the German-Danish border, German planes attacked the raider ‘and heavy anti-aircraft fire was heard. In London, the Air Ministry offlcial denied that a British plane had been over the Island of Sylt today. The plane appeared shortly after anti-aircraft fire was heard sou of Sylit. Two bombs were dropped by the airplane at Hoernum and {wo more were dropped at Randum. Persons on the Danish-German border saw smoke at Hoernum where fires resulting from the bombs still were burning an hcur and a half after the attack.

Two German Submarines

Sunk, Britain Claims

LONDON, Feb! 10 (U. P).— Britain claimed today to have sunk two German submarines and to have shot down at least one and possibly three German bombing planes - yesterday's coastal and North Sea warfare. e Admiralty announced that one British destroyer sank two Uboats which attacked a convoy, and that although it was not customary (Continued on Page Three)

BRINKLEY REVEALED AS PELLEY ‘ANGEL

Lent $5000 for Silver Shirts, Dies Group Told.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (U. P). —William Dudley Pelley, Silver Shirt Legion leader, today told the Dies Committee that John R. BrinkJey. Del Rio, Tex., gland doctor, lent im $5000 to finance Silver Shirt hi work. He gave Mr. Brinkley a note ghd “still owes him the money,” Mr. Pelley related. Mr. Pelley also testified that if he ran the Government, he would put Senator Robert M. La Follette Jr. (P. Wis), Rep. Samuel Dickstein (D. N. Y.) ‘and John L. Lewis, “in prison for life.” He charged they had “engaged in communistic activities that have brought the crisis we are in.” Mr. Pelley also said he would “set aside towns” for the Jews. “It would be a humane, fine thing to segregate the Jews in certain cities,” he asserted. Further detailing his financial support, Mr. Pelley revealed: : George R. Fisher, former executive of Crowell Publishing Co., New York, gave him $20,000 over four years; Mrs. Sarah C. Scott of Boston contributed an average of $1000 a year since 1930; Marie Ogden of Newark, N. J., gave him $12,000 of real estate bonds, on which he eventually realized $3500. -

HOGS ERASE LOSSES; N. Y. STOCKS DROP

Gains of 10 and 15 cents erased the week’s losses in hog values at Indianapolis today as receipts dwindled to 1000 head, the Agricultural Marketing Service reported. New York stocks declined irregularly in the short session and volume lightened. Steels led the down

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U. S. Sympathy 98 Per Cent for Finland, He Declares.

BULLETINS . STOCKHOLM, Feb. 10 (U. P.). —United) States Ambassador te Russia /Laurence A. Steinhardt

left Moscow Friday night and now is in / Tallinn, Esthonia, it was learned today.

LONDON, Feb. 10 (U. P)— President Roosevelt's attack on Soviet Russia strengthened belief here today that his special envoy to Europe, Sumner Welles, :would sound out Britain, France, Gers many and Italy on their attitude towards Russia.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (U. P.).—President Roosevelt declared today that Soviet Russia is “a dictatorship as absolute as any other dictatorship in the world” and as-

is. 98 per cent with Finland in

her resistance against Russia, Mr. Roosevelt made his statement in an address to the American Youth Congress, which has been

| shot with controversy concerning

its refusal to denounce the Russian

alleged communist influence in its councils. Before Mr. Roosevelt spoke, the 3500 Youth Congress Selegajes marched in the rain along - tution Avenue, chanting their dee mand for jobs and youth opportunie

ties. Says U. S. Favors Finns

The President said that the United ‘States desired to aid IFinland. He ridiculed suggestions that Russia might declare war on this country as a result of such aid. The President described to | the youth, Who slot In 2 dRising fam

outside - the south - portico of the... ..

White House, his early interest in the Russian experiment and his hopes that it would lead to bettere ment of the Russian nation. “That hope,” he declared, “is toe day. either shattered or put away in storage against a better day. “The Soviet Union, as a matier of practical fact, known to you and known to all the world, is a dicta= torship as absolute as any other dic

itself with another dictatorship and it has invaded a neighbor so | ine finitesimally small that it could do no injury to the Soviet Union, and seeks only to live at peace as a dee mocracy, and as a liberal, forwarde ‘looking democracy at that.”

Identifies Youth Rights

Mr. Roosevelt conceded the right of ydung. people or any Americans to “call yourselves Communists,” but emphasized the distinction between

framework of Constitutional Gove ernment and subversive or revolue tionary proposals. “It has been said,” he declared, “that some of you are Communists, That is an unpopuldr term .these days. As Americans, you have gs right to €all yourselves Somunise: You have a right peacefully and openly to advocate certain ideals of theoretical communism; but as Americans you have not only a right but a sacred duty to confine your advocacy of changes in law to the methods prescribed by the Constie tution of the United States—and you have no American right, by act or deed of any kind, to subvert the Government and the Constitution of this nation.” The President fired another round in his controversy with Thomas E. Dewey, Republican Presidential candidate, concerning the effects of

come and debt. Doesn’t Mention Dewey

He made no reference to Me, Dewey by name, but said that statee ments the President made “were misstated and twisted by many newspapers and by some politicians seeking office.” Mr. Dewey had

lion dollars off in his calculation of the nation’s total Government and private debt. “I said last Monday,” said Mr, Roosevelt, “and this was the part that was most seriously mangled and garbled by certain types of newspapers and certain types of politicians—that the total debt of all the people of the United States —private debt, state and local gov= ernment debts and the debt of the Federal Government—was less in 1939 than it was in 1932. That is &- simple fact—somewhere around two billion dollars less—in a nation which has six er seven million people more in it than eight years ago.” The President warned the young people against Utopias or panceas (Continued on Page Three)

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