Evening star., 1935-06-15
.FOULO|S REMOVAL
EFFORT RENEWED
by HOUSE MEMBER
Rogers Says Dern's Repri-
mand to Air Chief Is
~ insufficient.
CASE TO BE RE0PENED
BY SUBCOMMITTEE
Statements of War Secretary in
Letter to officer Held Evi.
dence for Custer.
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
Anew attempt to obtain removal OF
Mai. Gen. Benjamin D. Foulois as
chief of the Army Air Corps was con-
sidered today by some members Of the
House Military Committee.
Representatives Rogers. Democrat.
of New Hampshire, and Hill, Demo-
crat, of Alabama, asserted they did
not believe Secretary of War Dern
had gone far enough in merely repri-
manding the general.
A subcommittee headed by Rogers
recommended a year ago that Foulois
be relieved, declaring he had been
guilty of violations and evasions Of
law and Army regulations" and
gross misconduct and ineffciency."
At the first meeting of the full
committee, Rogers said, the Foulois
case would be reopened "to see what
can be done" He talked Of taking the
battle against the general to the
House fioar.
An independent investigation by the
Army inspector general cleared Foul
lois Of the accusations of breaking the
law which were made in connection
With purchase Of Army planes.
But Dern, in a letter to the COM
mittee, said Foulois had been repri-
manded because the investigation
"afirnfatively established that Gen
Foulois violated the ethics and stand
ards Of the military service in making
statements before your committee
which were not only unfair and mis-
leading, to the committee itself, but
which also seriously reflected on the
integrity of his brother officers -
Rogers and Hill contended thai
statement alone was justification fol
ousting Foulois.
Il think" Hill asserted. that thi'
statement Of the Secretary is the bes
possible evidence of the generals un'
fitness to be chief Of the Air Corps
and absolutely sustains and confirms
the findings of the committee"
Gen. Foulois. whose term as All
Corps chief expires in December. wa,
cleared of the major charges against
him in a detailed and voluminous re-
port made by Maj. Gen. John r. Pres
ton, inspector general of the Army
1t was submitted to Dern Thursday
when he returned to Washington from
graduation exercises at West Point.
Dern promptly wrote his reprimant
to Gen. Foulois and transmitted 1t tc
the adjutant general for delivery tc
! the chief of Air Corps.
The War Department, however. de-
clined to make public the text of th'
reprimand. on the ground it vas par
of the officers personal record, ant
not a public punishment.
The department previously refused
to make public q letter of censur'
from Dern to Col Joseph l. McMullen
but the text was given later to tht
House committee, which gave it Il
the press.
The Military Committee, aftel
nearly a years investigation. charged
that Foulois had purchased planes By
negotiated contract instead of through
open competitive bidding.
Charges Of Committee.
The committee also charged tha
Foulois, when confronted with tht
facts, had given incorrect, unfair anc
misleading statements" The flying
general was reprimanded on thai
charge for departing from the ethics
and standards of the service by max
ing exaggerated, unfair and mislead
ing statements"
The charge resulted from testimony
by Foulois which confiicted with tha'
given by Harry H. Woodring, Assistant
Secretary of War, and other War De.
partment officials and officers.
The inspector generals report, ap
proved by Dern, cleared Foulois o.
wrongdoing by finding that "ths evi
dence adduced did not establish tha
Gen. Foulois violated existing laws ir
the purchase of airplanes and air.
craft materials"