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Evening star., 1936-10-11
DEFENDS
YOUNG ROOSEVELT
Contract Misinterpreted for
Political Propaganda,
He Says.
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK. October l0.-Anthony
Fokker, airplane builder, asserted to-
night that a contract with Elliott
Roosevelt, son Of the President, to aid
in selling planes to Russia, was IAN
ordinary business deal" that had been
"misinterpreted for purposes Of po-
litical propaganda"
On October the Senate Munitions
Committee made public, by direction
Of Chairman Nye. Republican. OF
North Dakota. what it described as an
affidavit by Fokker, saying he had
signed q contract in 1884. subse-
quently terminated, by which young
Roosevelt got 5000. Roosevelt has
denied receiving such q sum.
Fokker said he made tonight s
statement Ito clear any misapprehen-
sion that I am interested in politics,
that was in any way responsible for
the current news releases on this sub
ject or that have any desire now or
ever to embarrass the President Of the
United States or his family"
Terminated by Mutual Consent.
He added it was his understand
ing that only commercial airplanes
would be shipped" that no sales re-
suited from his contract with young
Roosevelt and that it was terminated
by mutual consent.
"All matters of price (for planes
were left to Messrs. Roosevelt and
Stratton C. w. Stratton, an airplane
salesman" he said. Il felt that the
prices were so high as to prohibit busi-
ness. but since I had by that time
reached an agreement with Elliott
Roosevelt representing me, and had
entered into a contract with him,
there was nothing further. could do
until the contract expired"
Fokker added he had been gen
erously allowed to testify informally"
before committee investigator, rather
than before the committee proper, SO
that my business engagements in
The results Of that testi-
mony were put in the form Of an am
davit (by the INVESTIGATOR ''' which
after some minor corrections I
signed"
Backgrounds Of Arrangement.
The designer thus described the
which, he said, led to
the arrangement with young Roose-
velt.
During 1888 I felt that the de-
velopment of the all-metal airplane
had reached a higher peak In Amer
ica than in any other country. Ac-
I opened negotiations with
both the Douglas Aircraft Co., Inc,
and the Lockheed Aircraft Corp, look
ing toward my company in Holland
these companies in Eu-
rope"
After preliminary negotiations by
wire I went to California, where both
are located. Terms were
agreed upon in general with both
was to represent Doug
las in Europe with the exception OF
Russia, as Douglas had already started
negotiations through the organization
Of Amtorg, the of1icial Russian COM
mercial representative. with the as
sistance of Elliott Roosevelt, Mr.. Strait
son and his associates"
Because Of this it was suggested
hat Elliott and come to some terms
which would work out to our mutual
benefit for selling Lockheed planes
20 Russia"
Evening star., 1936-10-11
LOCAL.

Catholic o., II; La Sale. 10.
North Carolina, IA; Maryland, o.
Georgetown, 4: Cincinnati, 0.
Bridsewater. 10; 0sllaudet, o.
Landon Prep, IL; st. Andrews. o.
NATIONAL.
Pittsburgh. 8: Ohio State. o.
Minnesota. Z: Nebraska, o.
Army, 27; Columbia, Is.
Navy, IS; Virginia, II.
Yale, Z: Pennsylvania, o.
Harvard. 2S: Brown, 0.
Princeton. 20; Rutgers, o.
Southwestern, IL; Vanderbilt, b.
Baldwin-wallacs, 10: Syracuse, I,
Holy Cross. 7; Dartmouth. o.
Evening star., 1936-10-11
LEAGUE CONTINUES
REFUGEE ACTIVITY
Sir Neill Malcolm of England Ap.
pointed High Commissioner
Until Dec. 8, 1888.

0y tne ASsoClaleo fEeSS.
GENEVA, October 10 (Jewish Tele-
graphic Agency. - Continuation of
the High Commission for German
Refugees was voted today at the clos
ing session of the League of Ma
tions Assembly. and the Council re-
appointed Sir Neill Malcolm of Eng
land, high commissioner until De-
cember 3, 1898.
Meeting in closed session after the
end Of the Assemby,s seventeenth
session, the Council outlined the fu-
ture tasks Of the high commissioner
Is follows:
/. Induce the various governments
to ratify provisional arrangement
for refugees legal status, drawn up
by an intergovernmental conference
last July, and call another interna-
tional conference to draw up con-
yention on refugees.
Z. Assist private refugee aid or
ganizations to study emigration and
colonization projects with interested
governments.
3. Maintain contact with private
organizations.
1. Prepare q report for the 1898
meeting of the Assembly contain
ing concrete proposals for future con-
duct Of refugee work.
To assist the high commissioner, the
Council approved proposal of the
economic commission to establish an
administrative council of interested
governments.
Evening star., 1936-10-11
MADRID ZERO HOUR
NEARS FOR REBELS.
Attack Is Certain Before
Middle of Week-May
Begin Today.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
After almost three months OF
hard fighting. both sides in Spanish
cipil ,0ar are preparing TOR Gilman:
The Battle OF Madrid. Steadily
gaining during past iCeeks. Gen.
Francois rebel forces are proceed
ing cautiously against capital, cut
ting railroads. food supplies and
auenues OF escape. Hard-pressed
government defenders in the cdpi-
tai are attempting to rush new
forces to meet the onslaught.
Whoever cdn hold Madrid.
Loyalist Socialist forces or rebel
Fascist forces, loiH be kno1n NTH
in teU days. International implicd-
tions hare intensified struggle a.
one betucen tt1o opposing forms OF
government iDfth many European
countries having much at stake.
BURGOS, Spain, October 10 R.-
Gen. Francisco Franco, supreme mill.
tary leader of the insurgents. toured
his front lines tonight to decide when
he would set the zero hour for the
final Madrid attack.
Some informed sources said the
generalissimo might give the attack
order at dawn Sunday. but others be-
lieved Franco would wait for further
consolidation of his troops. wound
around three sides OF Madrid
All were agreed. however. that the
Madrid attack would be launched be-
fore the middle Of next week.
Attack From West.
High officers said the spearhead Of
the attack would be along the high
way from San Martin Valdeiglesias,
west Of Madrid. which joins the main
Talavera- Madrid highway near AL
about 10 miles from the cap
ital.
The only natural defense along this
route would be the forest near the
Alberche River, 8 miles from San
Martin. -
Franco. the military leaders said,
would direct the attack,
which would be supported by other
columns under Gen. Emilio Mola, in
Of the northern Fascist
army.
Earlier. the Fascists announced their
war planes had blasted apart the
only remaining railroad line from
Madrid to the southeast.
The planes accomplished their mis-
sion during = bombardment Of Aran-
juez. strategic city, 20 miles southeast
Of Madrid.
Food Source Cut OF.
With the railroad destroyed. the
said. an important food source
10 Madrid would be cut on. Likewise
leaders could not fee
Ic>~ R1I nan 80
Evening star., 1936-10-11
BY the Associated Press.

BY TIE Associated treSS.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, October 10
Gov. ALI M. Landon closed two stren-
uous days of his Lake States campaign
tonight with a promise. If elected, to
"straighten out this confusion" which,
he said, surrounded the vital sub
ject of conservation of natural re-
sources.
Addressing a Republican rally at a
dinner laid for 700 guests. after an
afternoon spent watching Pittsburgh's
Panthers beat Ohio States foot ball
team, 6 to 0, the presidential NOM
inee said:
The present mess and muddle in
Washington extends as much to con-
servation as it does to other matters
under the New Deal. Those coa-
servation questions which have to do
with the soil should be brought to-
gether in that department which deals
with the soil.
Evening star., 1936-10-11
Tenancy, Soil,
Marketing
Mentioned.
LARGER BUYING
POWER SOUGHT
Nebraska Is Urged
to Give Norris
Back to Nation.
Tert OF Roosevelt speech on
Page A.

By the Associated Press.
OMAHA, Nebr, October 10.-Ad-
vancing four-point program of his
own for future assistance to agricul-
ture, President Roosevelt told the Ma
tion tonight that the Republican
leadership" had proposed farm plan
to cost possibly $4,000 900 900 annual
ly, mot to save agriculture but to
wreck it."
Speaking to an audience packed
into the Ak-Sar-Ben Coliseum, the
President led of with an open indorse-
ment of veteran George w. Norris, Re-
publican, who is an independent cam
didate for the Senate this year.
Help this great American to con-
tinue an historic career of service, a"
Mr.. Roosevelt asked.
After asserting that in 1882, the
"specter of foreclosure stalked the
farmers plow" and agriculture was
ION the road to pauperism," the Presi-
dent in seven sentences described the
administrations farm record. adding
that farmers could measure them by
"the vast difference between the des-
peration which was theirs in 1888 and
the recovery, which is theirs in 1885,
Four-Point Proposal.
The long time policy of the admin
istration he said, includes:
/. Conservation against land vast
age and soil impoverishment.
2. Seeking to increase purchasing
power so that people can pay for more
and better food, thereby providing a
larger and larger domestic market
for the farmer"
8. Attacking the "evil of farm ten
lncy."
4. Giving the farmer "a sound plan
of crop insurance in kind against ex-
treme fluctuations of supply and
price"
The Chief Executive, without men
tioning by name his Republican rival,
referred to the tariff equivalent"
farm program which Landon proposed
at Des Moines. Then he asked:
What about the cost? 1t would
run to one and half and even pos
sibly two billion dollars every year.
This vast sum would be spent not to
save agriculture, but to wreck it"
For IL years, the President said, the
Republican leadership neglected" an
opportunity to help the American
farmer.
He put to his audience the ques-
ton of what that leadership offers
now. then gave his own version.
First, he said, it would scrap" the
present program which "it has con-
demned as 'subterfuge' and stop
gap"
Tariff Equivalent Payments.
Next, he said, it would substitute
system Of traiff equivalent payments.
not for any permanent contribution to
farm wealth or national income. but
merely as a cash handout-or dole"
Then he wanted to know whether
such a plan would protect farmers
from price collapses and surpluses
and guard them against a future !
disaster like 1882"
Again he offered his own idea
about it.
mo plan could lead the Nation back
faster to such crisis" he said.
The Republican plan, he added, sis
. straight subsidy of unlimited farm
production" and the Federal Farm
Board all over again"
In a year or two, he said, it would
(See PRESIDENT. Page Ash
Evening star., 1936-10-11
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
METZ. France. October '1o.-Fierce
rioting in Metz and isolated clashes in
several points tonight marked the be-
ginning Of the Communists' weak
ened propaganda tour" Of Alsace.
Lorraine.
Numerous arrests were made and
dozens Of persons injured as the al
lied front Of Rightists and Cath.
olic peasants. demonstrating angrily
against the Communists, clashed with
police and steel-helmeted mobile
guardsmen.
Strong forces Of mobile guards, with
bayonets fixed, arrived at Strasbourg
this evening and were posted at
strategic points in the city IS reports
circulated that Rightists. reportedly
including members of Col. Francois
de Ia Rocque's outlawed "Croix de
Feu," would attempt to occupy the
meeting hall before the Communists
move in tomorrow.
The most serious clash occurred at
Metz. where Communists succeeded in
holding q meeting. but Rightists aft
erward stormed the hall, ripped red
banners from the walls and burned
them in a huge bonfire In the public
square.
The ranks Of anti Communist
demonstrators at Metz swelled this
evening as peasants, armed with
-
Evening star., 1936-10-11
Leading Foot Ball Scores

Fordharn. I; Southern Methodist o.
Purdue, IS; Wisconsin. II.
Michigan State, Z; Carnegie
Tech, o.
Notre Dame, II: Warrington q.
est. Louis), 8.
Auburn, 8; Tennessee. 0.
Duke, as: Clemson, 0.
Georgia Tech. 81: Kentucky. o.
Alabawa, y: Mississippi State, o.
ArkanSas, II: Baylor, 10.
Texas Christian, 10: Tulsa. Z.
Texas A. g. M, 8; Rice. 0.
Southern California, a.: Illinois, 8.
Stanford, 7; Oregon. 2.
Warrington, IL: U. c. L. A.. o.
Washington State, IL; Idaho. o.
L. 3. u, ~; Georgia, J. s.
Evening star., 1936-10-11
c. C.. C. TRUCK CRASHES
One Killed, Fourteen Hurt In
50-Foot Plunge Into Canyon.

EUGENE. Greg, October 10 OR.-
A truck carrying Is Connecticut c.
G. G. enrollees to fight forest hres.
plunged on . mountain highway
curve today and plunged SO feet into
. canyon. killing Joseph French. Wa
terbury, Conn.,. and injuring his COM
panions, three critically.
The enrollees had arrived Friday
from Waterbury and Middletown,
Conn. Of1cers said the driver, NJ
Dabarrio, was not familiar With the
sharp curves.
Evening star., 1936-10-11
CITIZEN FINDS ALLIGATOR
"PARKED" IN GARAGE
Three-Foot Reptile Must Await
Claimant, Surprised Autoist
Decides.

George Porter Of 5l00 Brookvslle
road, Chevy Chase, was worried last
night.
Returning from an afternoon of golf,
he, started to drive into his garage. but
stopped short when the headlights Of
his car disclosed through the open
door q strange shape that seemed to
be balanced on two fore feet and q
tail.
Porter gave a yell and headed for
the house, where he got his parents.
Cautiously, they returned to the
garage, where they found q 3-foot
alligator.
They left 1t there to await
claimant.
Evening star., 1936-10-11
STRIKE HITS DAMASCUS
$4,000 Demand Higher Wages
and Right to Unionize.

BEIRUT, Syria, october 10 R.-
Thirty thousand industrial workers
went on strike tonight in Damascus,
demanding higher wages and the right
to unionize.
The strikers, who included both
Christians and Mohammedans, said
devaluation Of the franc seriously cut
their incomes.
All newspapers suspended publica-
ton in Damascus. Omcials said they
feared the strike might spread through.
out Syria.
Evening star., 1936-10-11
R|OTSMARK REDS
PROPAGANDA TOUR
French Rightists Storm Com.
munist Meeting, Burn
ing Banners.
BACKGROUND

BACK CkGROUND-
French Communists. haze been
supporting Peoples Front oorern-
ment OF Leon Blum. but haze taken
leddin calling Didespread strikes
in many industries. Blum's gopern-
ment, elected last May, is hard
pressed to keep. order as resentment
against Communist tactics grows.
Proposed propaganda tour OF
Alsdce-Lorrdine has been piolently
opposed by Riohttsts Traditional
influence OF Catholic church is
strong in these provinces.
Evening star., 1936-10-11
MILLION ALLOTTED
T0TUGWE[[T0WN
BerWyn Development Funds
Part of S33,00O,OO0 for
Relief Activity.

ALLEGATION of $1,000, 900 for Green
belt, near Berwyn, Md, the Reset
tlement Administrations Develop
ment commonly known as "Tugwell-
town." was included in an allotment
Of $33 3.000, 900 of Federal relief funds
announced yesterday by DR.. Rexford
J. Tuswel to complete projects al
ready under way" and carry on
drought emergency activities"
Similar ALLEGATIONS were made for
Green Hills, near Cincinnati. and
Greendale, near Milwaukee.
Money for Farmstead Units.
At each OF the three resettlement
communities the money will be used
for construction Of farmstead units" /"
Omcias said these would be farm
homes on small tracts within the
"Greenbelt area" bordering the COM
nunities, where vegetables and other
farm products to be sold to COM
munity residents would be grown.
O6icials said about $1,000, 900 al
ready had been spent on each of the
communities. When completed, they
said, Greenbelt and Green Hills will
each house ZOO low-income families,
and Greendale will care for $50 fam
lilies.
The allocat ton brought to $307,-
100000 the total made available to
the agency since July, 1885, when it
was set up by presidential order. Re-
ports were recently published that
the Resettlement Administration was
being liquidated.
100000 for 81 Projects.
An administration statement said
that 10000, 900 of the new ALLEGATION
would be used to complete construction
Of 81 rural resettlement projects in
20 States: the the $3,000,00 already
mentioned would be used to build farm
homes on the outskirts of the three
large Government-built communities
known as suburban resettlement prof.
ects," and that $4,000, 900 would be
set up as loan and grant fund for
drought victims and other rural re-
habilitation.
Resettlement spokesmen said the so
projects for which funds were as
signed yesterday were not a complete
list of those that would be continued.
They said additional projects would
be listed for completion as funds we're
made available.
The new allocation. officials said,
came from $s5 5.00o. 900 earmarked by
Congress for rural rehabilitation" in
the last relief appropriation.
Evening star., 1936-10-11

(See RELIEF, Page A-1l.)
Evening star., 1936-10-11

(See BUDGET. Page A-5)
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(see FRENCH. Page A-2.)
Evening star., 1936-10-11
WEATHER.

%. o. Weather Bureau Forecast)
Partly cloudy and cooler today; tomor.
row fair; fresh northwest winds. Tenn
peratures-Higkest. 70, at 2 pm. yester-
day; lowest, 66. at 10 pm. yesterday.
Full report on Page B-2.
Evening star., 1936-10-11
Food Source Cut OF.

With the railroad destroyed, the
Fascists said. an important food source
to Madrid would be cut OIL. Likewise
government leaders could not fee
Evening star., 1936-09-08
Miss Barbara Ransom
Married Yesterday,
To Mr.. Sturees

MR.. AND MRS. RONALD RAN
N SOM announce the marriage of
their daughter Barbara to Mr.. Paul
Sturges in Christ Church, Rockville.
Md, yesterday. Mrs. Sturges is the
only child of Mr.. and Mrs. Ransom
of Atlanta, Ga. Mr.. Ransom is vice
chairman Of the Board of Governors
of the Federal Reserve system, hav-
ing been appointed a member of the
board in February.
Mrs. Sturges has been making her
home with her parents at the Shore
croft School in Middleburg, Va. in
the class of 1898, and made her debut
in Atlanta the following Winter. She
is member of the Junior League
of Washington. Her maternal grand
father was the late Mr. Hoke Smith
of Georgia, who was Secretary of the
Interior Of the second Cleveland cab
met. was Governor of Georgia and
later United States Senator. Her ma
ternal grandmother. the late Mrs.
Smith, was the daughter of Gen.
Thomas R. R. Cobb of the Confederate
Army. On her paternal side she is
the granddaughter of the late Luther
Ransom of Columbia, S. c., and Mrs.
Ransom. who was Miss Elizabeth
Cooke of Amelia County. Va.
Mr.. Sturges is the son Of Mrs.
Hollister Sturges of Stone Ridge, N.
Y. formerly of this city, and the late
Mr.. Hollister Sturges. He is the
brother of Mrs. Henry Field of Chi
cago and Mr.. Hollister Sturges, jr,
of Stone Ridge. The bridegroom's
father was secretary of the Surpass
Leather Co. in Philadelphia. Mrs.
Evening star., 1936-09-08
Reception and Ball Tonight Be for Power Delegates
By the:Way-
Beth Blaine

TWO hundred and ten miles southwest in
motor carbrings Springs Of
Virginia The the whole especially
out
majeicany the lighter blue sky.
overhown this
past week end That however did not bother the old habu
those
little sitting delicious
hou rocking on the front porch one can enjoy complete
and
cottages situated oelo the hotel bv the side Of
babbing Incidentally
find That
tired
shattered resulting a
There a contingent Washington people in Springs
Nearly
morning m find the Argentine Ambassador Espl
hotel links Speaking ercenc
this morning Washington. his
u be back the end Of the ueek eouent riso n the en-, ~.
Netherlands Basy
Of the Hungarian legation They
Sunday Philip Of British En-
basy who his first there impressed
h the beauty OF the place. the nO0oang and the pleasant
roundings.
year and
few hundred the
spent holiday
Philip
mead Mrs Charles Clark the Bill
the lovely creature whose picture
arper Bazaar she models the latest and choicest clothes
and others mint julep Saturday
Warm Springs later followed
of
jup
parties in the Warm Springs
found o old 1 og @ 0ndng eunr D @ D duo are back e
pools fed from hot
since famous tor its healing the
especially
the other Only Sunday they closed the "know
neck steamng
ckly gobtS!
bobs about on the uater to person!
Abbie Falmouth,
Emory Sands about Mrs Hugh Auchinclos
ooodiooking
MIS- "Leta' Perkins and the Bill LOngy MddeOu0
few doun for luncheon yesterday.
a going
miles
from
beautiful Sunday
friends including
fna Of
The Mckee Dunns there where
they will
Evening star., 1936-09-08
Cabinet HOSteSSeS
TO Receive at Ball
Honoring Delegates
The French Ambassador and Nine de La
boulaye to Entertain Thursday After
noon for World Power Members

CLAUDE wife of the Secretary the Navy
Nl Roper, wife of the Secretary of Com
will head the receiving line at the reception and
ball the MayoWer Hotel for the dele
gates World Conference Others will include
Howes Civil Service Commissioner Mrs Benton McM
of the mint Mrs Nellie Taylo Ross Mrs Morris L.
William H. Standey Mrs Blair Bannister
The French Ambassador and Nine de Laboulaye will entertain
at reception garden the embassy Thursday afternoon
to the World Power Conference
of the Rumanan Legation and Nine
luncheon yesterday the Shoreham Hotel
Constantine Mota head of the Rumanian deega
World Conference, and Nine Motas, who
stopping at the Mayfower.
arrived in this country two weeks
the Hndeng They by to the West Coast and back
Col A. J. Bddle were hosts at luncheon yes
honor of Col and Mrs c. j. Miller Of
uantco who guests the week end of Col and Mrs
Bidde under the command of Col Miller who
the 5h Regiment of Marines of the two regiments
Thery Beleau Wood Other
guests Walker and Maj and Mrs Lee
Brown.
Biddle entertained Saturday evening at dinner
honor Col and Mrs Miller The guests
major general the Marine and Mrs
John H RUSSELL Maj. Lyman, Brig
daughter Williams Col and Mrs Julian c. Smith, Capt and
Shapley and Mrs. Boodworth and Capt and Mrs
Thompson.
Evening star., 1936-09-08
Prominent Italians
Arriving Today
For Sd Convention

THE Italian delegates to the Third
World Power Convention arrive
today and will have their head
quarters at the Shoreham. The dis
tinguished group include Count Pietro
Jaccini and Comdr. Cesare Bonicelli,
also Signora Amalia Rambaldi- -Bian-
chini. Signora Maria Cecchini, Sig
nora Virginia Richard, Signorina Dora
Luzzatto, Signorina Caterina Barbero,
Signorina Lorenza Marlboro. Signorina
Carla Maria Bassi, Signorina Ausus-
tine Lannaud. Signora Mario Richard,
Signor Silvio Bassi. Signor Adelmo
Della Casa, Signor Luigi Tonini. DR..
Anselmo Lordi, DR.. Franco Bonicelli,
Signor x. Dago, Signor x. Radaelli,
Signor Ferruccio Giusanni and Sig
nor Renato MALTA.
Evening star., 1936-09-08
Miss Clark to Wed
Lieut.. r. H. Kessler

Mr.. and Mrs. o. n. P. Clark an
nounce the engagement of their
daughter Margaret Macatee to Second
Lieut. Robert Henry Kessler, son of
Mrs. P. M. Kessler and the late Col
Kessler.
The bride-elect is a graduate of the
College of William and Mary and a
member of Kappa Alpha Theta So
rority. Lieut.. Kessler graduated from
the United States Military Academy
this past June and will be stationed
at Fort Monroe, Va.
The wedding will take place in the
late Autumn.