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Evening star., 1936-10-07
Jobless Georgian
attempts Suicide
Near White House
SLashes Wrist With Knife
Then Walks Into
Executive Offices.

A 36-year-old unemployed electric
ian of Atlanta, Ga, slashed his wrists
with penknife today just outside the
executive Offices of the White House.
Bleeding profusely, the mani. D.
Wilson-walked into the corridor lead
ing to the executive Offices, but was
halted by Capt. Clarence Dalrymple,
head Of the White House police. The
man said he wanted to see Marvin
H. Mcintyre, secretary to the Presi-
dent, to ask for the Chief Executives
aid.
Weakened by the loss of blood, the
man was taken to the police guard
room in the basement and given first
aid treatment by DR.. Ross H McIntire,
White House physician. Then he was
taken to Emergency Hospital, where
his condition was reported "undeter-
mined"
Wilson told White House attaches
tSee GEORGIAN, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1936-10-07
RADEK ARRESTED
IN STAIN PLOT
Noted Russian Editor ImpIi-
Gated at Trial and Ex-
ecution of is.
By the Associated Press.

MOSCOW, October 7.-Karl Radek,
commentator for the government
newspaper Izvestia. was arrested to-
day on charges of being implicated in
the counter-revolutionary plot against
the Soviet for which 16 Russians
were shot last August.
Radek, one of the best-known Rus
sian editorial writers, was one of five
men under investigation in an alleged
plot to overthrow the government and
kill Dictator Joseph Stain.
His name was announced by Prose-
cutor Audrey Vishinsky at the trial
of the 16 confessed plotters. Au-
gust 81.
Later, Radek disappeared and his
whereabouts were unknown until his
arrest was announced today.
The other four whose records we're
declared under scrutiny include M. P.
Tomsky, former chief of trade unions
and present head Of the state publish
ing house; Nicolai Bukharin, editor
of Izvestie; Alexei Rykoff, former
commissar of posts and telegraphs,
and Gregory Pyatakoff, assistant
commissar for heavy industry.
Political and Legal Guilt"
Prosecutor Vishinsky declared he
ordered Radek Jailed for political and
legal guilt in the plot which allegedly
was planned by Leon Trotzky, former
Communist party leader, now in exile
in Norway.
Vishinsky continued the investiga-
ton Of the four men who were with
Radek, incriminated In testimony
given by witnesses at the trial of the
Is executed plotters.
Shortly after the trial Tonnsky died
suddenly at his home, near Moscow,
and officials said he committed sui
eide because "he became entangied in
the conspiracy Of counter-revolu-
tionary terroriSts."
Rykof was dismissed from his post
(Eee RAnEK. Page A-2)
Evening star., 1936-10-07
DUCE INTERVENES
FOR STARHEMBERG
Sends Vienna Demand His Friend
Head Reorganized Fascist
Party Militia
y the Associated Press.


ROME, October Premier Mus
solini stepped into Austria's muddled
political situationtoday, we'll informed
sources said, with q demand that his
friend, Prince Ernst Won Strahem-
berg, be placed in command Of a re-
organized and unified Fascist party
militia.
Suddenly recalled by his govern
ment, Guigo Zernatto, Austria state
secretary for special affairs. sped to
Vienna for q special cabinet session
to discuss the situation.
Circles close to the government
said zernatto viii express to the
Vienna government II Duce's keen
displeaSure over the Austrian trend
toward Germany, following the sign
ing Of the Austro-G German reconcilia-
ton treaty In July.
II Duce,s demands included the
fusing Of all "para-military" and pa
triotic organizations into one Facist
party and militia exactly Ike that
Of Italy, with the aristocratic Star
hemberg - its head
Evening star., 1936-10-07
Blasing Blankets on Masts
Bring Aid as Schooner Sinks

A lifeboat was launched. The
schooner was drifting IL knots an
hour before the wind, but Chief Ofhcer
Theodore Christensen got the six men
OF the schooner in 81 minutes.
"You have to take what's coming
to you," said Capt Rodney, but it's
pretty darned tough to have two go
down on you. But I'll keep on going
to sea. It's the only thing know.
In 1894, when Capt. Rodney was
master, he lost the Norwegian schooner
Lena in q storm OF Portugal. The
crew was saved then, too.
The rescue was the second high
light of the transatlantic trip of the
American Merchant.
when we left London on Septem-
ber 26 we were ordered to Havre to
pick up a gold cargo" explained
Capt. Moore. I'VE docked there at
IL pm. the same day only to learn
France had ordered gold embargo
effective at midnight. We had one
hour 10 clear. In Is minutes We
slowed las cases Of gold, l07.0o0, 900
francs, and got out TO sea-"
Evening star., 1936-10-07
69th TRANSMISSION for Boy, 9,
In Fight 4 Against Rare Anemia

in infancy. But q younger brother
is normal.
In the last six years the delicate,
bruwn-eyed boy, who leads his class
In school but Is not allowed to play
In children's games, has borrowed is
quarts Of blood.
Physicians estimate that is more
than four times the amount In the
body Of an average 9-year-old.
The transflisions used to come once
q month or oftener. Now Andrew
goes to the hospital every three
months for what he calls his ire
fills
One of Andrews doctors said he
has an excellent chance to reach an
adult age, but "on borrowed blood;
he'll probably always have to have
transfusions
Evening star., 1936-10-07
SENATOR NEELY SPURNS
CHARGES BY RUSH HOLT
Has No Time to Deny "Siliy"
Accusations of Completely in
Booing, He Says.
the Associated Press.

0y the Associated FreSs-
KINGWOOD, w. Va, october O.
United States Senator NJ NJ. Nicely,
Democrat, of West Virginia said he
has mo time" to deny SILLY charges"
in referring to statements by his COL
league, Rush D. Holt, that Nicely was
back of" booing which forced Holt
to leave the platform at rally.
Holt made his speech over a radio
station in Fairmont, Neely's home
town, after boos and catcalls came
from crowds gathered in the court
house.
He later said:
IT will charge Senator Neely specifi-
cally with being back Of this
Both are Democrats. Nicely is run
ming for reelection. opposed by Holt.
In an address last night, Nicely said:
81 have no reply to that man. no
time to waste words on such or to
deny any silly charges made by the
laughing stock of the Nation, dis
grace to West Virginia"
Evening star., 1936-10-07
BR|TA|NREQUESTS
( STATUS QUO IN
: PACIFIC REMAIN
US. and Japan Said to Have
| Been Approached and
T Discussion Begun.
NEW REARMAMENT
OUTLAY is OPPOSED
Toxic Reported Favorable if Re-
visions Are Made in Affected
Article of Treaty.
ny the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, October Uniformed
sources said today Great Britain, con-
cerned over possible competitive race
to fortify Pacific insular naval bases,
has approached the United States and
japan concerning renewal Of article
19 of the Washington naval treaty.
which expires this year.
This article deals with status quo In
the Pacific.
Oral Discussion On.
Oral discussions, the British sources
stated, now are going on IN both
Washington and Toxic. Answers from
the two countries have not been dis
closed, but were said to be, as yet, In
complete.
Great Britain, it was stated, does
not favor new rearmament expendi-
lures in the Pacific, but prefers an
extension of the non-fortiflcation
clause in some form.
However, authoritative commenta-
tors said, the question of violation OF
the article has not arisen.
Informed quarters were silent as to
whether the question of new air bases
was involved in the conversations.
Neither did they stipulate the naval
bases at which they believed new or
additional Notifications might be
erected.
Isles Open to Question.
However, observers said American
fortifcation of Subig Bay, on the
west coast of Luzon Island, as well as
Cavite, near Manila, in the new Philip
pine commonwealth, still was open to
question. as well as the Island OF
Guam, on the trans-Paciflc Air route.
Japan's intentions in the Pescadores
Islands, near Formosa, also are un-
known here. The latter is about 500
miles from British Hongkong, where
Britain is pledged under the treaty
to maintain the fortification status
QUO.
Evening star., 1936-10-07
BLUM DECREE HIT
BY FRENCH REDS
Communists Ask Socialists
to Assist Defense of As.
sembIy Freedom.
az the Associated Press.

6y the Associated Press.
PARIS, October 7.-Dissension
among government supporters sprang
today from an official ban on political
demonstrations.
Chafing Communists asked Social
lists to join with them "in defense of
the freedom of assembly" after Premier
Leon Blum's approval Of an order
prohibiting partisan meetings "sus-
ceptible of provoking hostile action and
reaction and causing new agitation of
public opinion"
The ban, issued by Interior Minister
Roger Salengro, followed disorderly
street fighting Sunday when Fascists
of Col. Francois de la Rocque's Social
party sought to break up Communist
rally in the Pare des Princes.
Afirming their willingness to assist
the government in maintaining public
order, the Communists expressed sur
prise" at the prohibiting decree.
Their criticism was based, they said,
on the theory suppression OF trouble
some leagues" was the proper method
Of assuring public peace.
Leftists-Socialists. Radical-Social-
lists and Communists-supporting the
government have charged De Ia
Rocque's party is in reality the official
ly disbanded Croix de Feu Nationalist
League under a new name.
Charges Against ROGUE Urged.
Premier Blum's administration,
urged to bring criminal charges against
De la Rocque for 'reconstituting" the
dissolved league and organizing street
disorders" rejected the proposal on
the grounds such prosecution might
martyrize the Rightist leader.
Seven of the Fascists arrested dur
ing the street fighting Sunday were
given Jail sentences ranging from six
days to three months on charges of
carrying weapons and striking police
men. One other received suspended
sentence.
Rumbles Of discomfort, meanwhile,
were heard in the Fascist ranks as
an aftermath of the rioting. Some of
De la Rocque's followers asserted he
had not displayed sufficient force in
the sally against the Communists,
while others termed the demonstration
vain" attempt which lost prestige
for the governments opposition.
Explanation of Attack Urged.
Henri Dekerillis, Rightist deputy,
demanded an official explanation Of
the release of assailants alleged to
have beaten q Fascist at scissors so
severely he was blinded. The attack,
Dekerillis asserted, followed the Fas-
cist's conviction on unspecifled charges
by a self-constituted workers court. "
The Taxpayers Federation asked
prosecution of Premier Blum and Min
lister Of Finance Vincent Auriol on
charges Of fraud for urging the pub
lie to invest in government bonds even
as secret negotiations for devaluation
Of the French franc were being con-
Quoted.
Evening star., 1936-10-07
ECkENER FAVORS
HYBLA VALLEY SITE
Famous Zeppelin Builder Here to
Confer With U. S. Officials
on Base.

Hybla Valley. IL miles south Of
Washington, in Virginia, is one of
three sites being considered for a
permanent Zeppelin terminal in the
United States, DR.. Hugo Eckener,
German Zeppelin builder and pilot,
said today after comforting with
Commerce Department officials re.
garding the continuance of trans
Atlantic dirigible travel next year.
From a meteorological standpoint,
Hybla Valley. situated in the Vir-
ginia hills. is favored along with
Baltimore as a prospective site fol-
the terminal. Morristown, N. j., the
third location, is nearer to the traffic
center of the East. however, it was
pointed out.
Accompanied by his New York rep
resentative, Frederick William Won
Meister, Eckener conferred with As.
sistant Secretary of Commerce J.
Monroe johnson, who told the Zeppe-
lin pilot that trial flights of the Hin.
denburg had contributed toward n.
storing confidence Of the American
people In lighter-than-air craft.
Evening star., 1936-10-07
BY tEe Associated Press.

NEW YORK, october 7.-Kerosene-
soaked blankets blazing from the
masts of q sinking schooner brought
last-minute rescue to its captain and
crew and enabled the American mer-
chant liner America to bring them
into port today.
Capt. Alex Rodney, rescued with five
sailors, said his coal-laden schooner
Mabel A. Frye was wallowing helpless
ly in the driving seas after being bat
tered for five days, when the liner
hove in sight of the Newfoundland
Coast Saturday night.
The 39-year-old captain, survivor
of two ship disasters, said there were
no flares aboard the 1,151-ton schoon-
er 50 he piled the blankets on the
deck and fixed some to the masts,
soaked them in kerosene and lighted
them.
Capt. Alfred Moore Of the liner
saw the blaze and came to the res.
cue Of the schooner which had lost its
sails and its single lifeboat.
Evening star., 1936-10-07
NYE D|SCL0SES
ARPLANE DEAL Of
PRESIDENTS SON
Senator Reveals Fokker
Affidavit Charging Elliott
Contracted to Sell Craft.
By the Associated Press.


Chairman Nye, Republican, Of
North Dakota said today he released
the Senate Munitions Committee dep
osition concerning an unfulfilled con-
tract between Elliott Roosevelt, son of
the President, and Anthony H. j. Fox
ker, European airplane manufacturer,
to sell airplanes to Russia, "in the in
terest of fair play to all concerned"
The affidavit attributed to Fokkey
said he had agreed to pay young
Roosevelt a commission of $500, 900
for the sale of so military planes to
the Soviet Roosevelt Immediately de-
MED he had ever agreed to sell mill
tary planes to any government. add
ing the contract was for the sale of
commercial planes to private foreign
corporations.
Young Roosevelt also denied in a
telephone interview with the Fort
Worth, Tex, Star Telegram that such
figure as s500,000 for commission
ever had been mentioned
At an informal press conference
soon after he reached Washington
this morning, Nye told newsmen the
Fokker- Roosevelt agreement had been
given "a great deal of consideration"
by the committee, but had not been
made the subject of public hearings
because "it would have resulted only
in the smearing of the President,
which was thing no member of the
committee wanted to do"
Contract Regarded Unfulfilled.
Nye said it was apparent to the
committee that "if there had been a
contract, it had never been fulfilled
and no business done"
Nye said Senators Vandenberg of
Michigan and Barbour Of New Jer-
sey, both Republicans, concurred in
the decision against airing the depo-
sition in public hearings.
Explaining he had decided to make
the affidavit public because of an
article in an aviation magazine that
the committee had concealed evi-
dence and facts, Nye said:
Speaking for the committee, do
most thoroughly resent it. There has
been at no time any partisanship on
the committee"
The chairman said, in response to
questions, he had acted on his own
initiative in releasing the document,
but added there was utter juStifica-
ton" for doing so and expressed be-
lief other members Of the committee
would have felt the same had they
Evening star., 1936-10-07
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
RALEIGH, N. c., october 7. -
Nine-year- Andrew Saparilas,
whose life depends on the blood Of
others. is ready for his sixty-ninth
TRANSMISSION.
Andrew Is suffering from the
Mediterranean disease" which not
only hinders the blood-making
process, but transforms facial bone
structures, making Western people
look like Orientals.
Physicians say the malady, known
as erythroblastic anemia, Is not un-
common in Italy. Greece and Syria,
but is rare in America. It occurs
only In children Of Mediterranean
races.
Andrew Is Of Greek descent.
His elder sister died Of the disease
Evening star., 1936-10-07
Terms of Article 19.

) Under the terms of article l9 of
the Washington naval treaty of 1922
the United States, Great Britain and
Japan agreed to maintain the status
quo of the Pacific in regard to torti-
fications and naval bases in the fol-
lowing possessions and territories:
l. The insular possessions which
the United States then held or might
thereafter acquire in the Pacific, ex-
cept those adjacent to the coast of
the United States, Alaska and the
Panama Canal Zone, not including
the Aleutian Islands, and excepting
the Hawaiian Islands.
2. Hongkong or insular possessions
which the British held or might
thereafter acquire east of the meridian
of ITO degrees east longitude, except
those adjacent to the coast of Can
ada, the Commonwealth of Australia
and its territories, or New Zealand.
8. The following insular territories
In possession of Japan: The Kurile
Islands, the Bonin Isands, Amami-
Oshima, the Loochoo Islands, Formosa
and the Pescadores, and any insular
territories or possessions in the Pacific
which Japan might thereafter acquire
Status Quo Important.
The maintenance of status quo was
stated to imply that no new fortifi-
cations or naval bases should be es-
tablished in the specified areas; that
no measures should be taken to in
crease the existing naval facilities for
the repair and maintenance of naval
forces, and that no increase should
be made in coast defenses in the ter
Sitories and possessions specified.
Under the treaty of Versailles, Ja-
pan acquired the mandate to the
former German possessions north of
the equator. These include the Mar
ianne Cor Ladrone) Islands, with the
exception Of Guam, which was ceded
fSao RPTTATN Do0o o.
Evening star., 1936-10-07
SWEDISH AVIATOR,
OUT OVER OCEAN,
STILL UNREPORTED
Kurt BiorkvaII Due Off Irish
Coast in Flight to Stock
holm.
BY the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, October Kurt
Bjorkvall Sweden's 3l-year-old avi-
ator who is flying the Atlantic alone
from New York to Stockholm, still was
unreported early this afternoon. more
than 20 hours after his take-off from
Floyd Bennett Field.
DR.. James H. Kimball meteorologist
of the United States Weather Bureau
here, said Bjorkvall's red and green
monoplane should be over Ireland at
this time.
The plane, the Pacemaker, carried
only radio receiving set.
Dr. Kimball said conditions have
become more favorable, that winds are
light off the Irish Coast, but that it
was possible Bjorkvall would not be
sighted there, as he expected to fly
at an altitude Of $4,000 feet.
No Apprehension Expressed.
Bjorkvalls friends here expressed
little apprehension for his safety
since the Bellanca plane, driven by
450-horsepower motor, had a cruis-
ing speed of only 100 miles an hour
and he was not expected to take full
speed because of the headwinds pre-
dicted near the Irish coast.
They said his supply of gasoline
was ample-795 gallons having been
pumped into tanks in the wings and
fuselage of the Pacemaker before
Bjorkvall lifted its wheels from the
runways of Floyd Bennett Field for
his 4,397-mile flight attempt at 7:35
am, Eastern standard time, yester-
day.
Meanwhile, the Baroness Eva
Blixen Ffnecke, who had waited two
months with Bjorkvall for good flying
weather over the Atlantic only to
be left behind at the last moment,
held her silence at the home of
friends on Long Island.
Flying on Plane.
Bjorkvall, sometimes called the
Swedish Lindbergh" because of
resemblance to Col. Charles A. Lind
bergh in the thin earnestness of his
face, bought the plane a few days
ago from the Swedish newspaper
that was sponsoring the flight.
1.-THE first flight, backed by the
newspaper, was postponed" he said.
Now the plane is mine. want to
fly alone. This is my flight" he told
the baroness, who pleaded in a last
minute effort to be allowed to 60.
The flyer carried a life preserver
and estimated his plane was so con-
structed it would float for at least
six days if he came down on water.
CROWDS AWAIT BJORKVALL.
Evening star., 1936-10-07
II Duce Grooming Count Ciia',o,
Son-in-LaU, as His Successor
In Dictatorship, Rome Reports
MussOIini Plan Believed
to Share Titles With
PrOtege.

Copyright. 1886, BY the Associated Press.)
ROME, October Premier Mus
solini Is grooming his son-in-law,
Count Galeazzo Ciano, as his sue
cessor, political circles asserted to-
day, and soon may make him head of
the Fascist cabinet.
II Duce would remain as dictator
under his title of "Capo del Gov
erno" (head of the government), it
was reported, and Ciano would retain
his present post of foreign minister.
The elevation of Ciano, informed
sources declared, will be discussed at
a meeting of the Fascist Grand Coun-
Gil in November.
They pointed out the change would
have only a slight practical effect at
present, but would furnish the pre-
(See MUSSOLINI, Page A-2D
Evening star., 1936-10-07
Hundreds Flock to Airdr0me to Greet
Aviator.

STOCKHOLM, October Z @.-
Swedish folk flocked by the hundreds
today to Bromma Airdrome hours be-
fore the expected arrival of Kurt
Bjorkvall, 31-year-old airman, ,unre-
ported on his flight alone from New
York.
All preparations at the airdrome
had been completed for the reception.
Bjorkvau was not expected before
II pm.
Interest was high all over Sweden,
since Bjorkvall would be the first
transatlantic flyer to land in this
country.
Evening star., 1936-10-07
ARMS SEIZED IN RAIDS
More Than 100 Suspected Terror.
lists Jailed in Havana.

HAVANA, October 7 R.-Col. Joze
Pedraza, chief Of the Cuban national
police, disclosing details of roundup
of suspected terrorists, announced to-
day that widespread raids had un-
earthed great caches of arms and
ammunition.
More than 100 suspects were sent
to Principe Prison last night, includ-
ing ex-Mayor Alexandra Vergara Of
Havana, head Of the National
Agrarian party.
Evening star., 1936-10-07
SHOWERS IN PROSPECT
TODAY AND TOMORROW
Disturbance Is Not Expected to
Cause Change in Mild Tempera-
lures of Past Few Days.

Occasional showers are in prospect
for the District tonight and tomorrow,
but the disturbance Is expected to
cause little change in the mild tenn
peratures of the last two days, accord
ing to the Weather Bureau. There Is
a possibility of light rains this after
noon.
Despite overcast skies, the tempera-
ture today was running few degrees
ahead of the hourly readings yesterday,
when Washington enjoyed its warmest
day since September 28.
Evening star., 1936-10-07

(See ELLIOTT ROOSEVELT, AID
Evening star., 1936-10-07

(See RADEK, Page A-2)
Evening star., 1936-10-07

(See BRITAIN, Page A-2)
Evening star., 1936-10-07
WEATHER.

20. B. Weather Bureau F6fecastJ
Occasional showers tonight and tomor-
row; not much change in temperature:
moderate winds, mostly southerly. Tenn
peratures-Highest, rs, at 4:45 pm. yes
terday; lowest, "a, at 6:16 am. today.
Full report on page AS.
Evening star., 1936-04-03
X y y y
YOUR BEST

Mussolini's agents, foreign conces-
sion hunters and arms statesmen have
been telling Selassie for the last two
months that the best way out OF the
present impasse would be to deal with
II Duce direct In this manner Sc
lassie would be certain to maintain his
throne and, by placing his country
under the protecting wing of the
Fascist dictator, he would be sure that
no further harm would befall Ethi-
opia.
The display of force is an i'm
pressiue thing these days, and the
Ethiopians are impressed by the
italian military strength, while
they haze lost faith in the eff
cheney OF Europe's sanctions.
Mussolini is endeavoring to revive
the Roman Empire in Africa. The
defeated Kings in those days were
brought to Rome and followed the
chariot of the victorious Roman gen.
eral.
Something similar will happen to
Selassie after he has made his SUBJ
missions to Italy. But instead of walk
ing behind the chariot he will be met
at the station by a Fascist guard of
honor and will ride in an automobile
at the side of his cousin" King
Victor Emanuel of Italy. Instead OF
the old-fashioned chains, indicating
submission, he will be given the chain
of the order of the "Santissima An