Evening Star Newspaper, October 11, 1936, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Porecast.) Partly cloudy and cooler today; tomor= Tow fair; fresh northwest winds. Tem- peratures—Highest, 79, at 2 p.m. yester- day; lowest, 66, at 10 p.m. yesterday, Full report on Page B-2. UP) Means Associated Press. . 33,766. Entered as second class matter _ post office, Washington, D. C. No. 1,647—N. he el WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION FOUR-POINT FARM PLANIHEMWEHR CHEF OFFERED BY PRESIDENT,| SUPPORTS EDICT SCORING G. O.P. PROGRAM | (F SCHUSCHNIGG < Tenancy, Soil, Marketing Mentioned. LARGER BUYING| POWER SOUGHT, Nebraska Is Urged; to Give Norris Back to Nation. One-Man Control By the Associated Press. ! COLUMBUS, Ohio, October 10.— Gov. Alf 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 State’s foot ball | team, 6 to 0, the presidential nom- inee sajd: “The present mess and muddle in | Washington extends as much to con- | servation as it does to other matiags | under the New Deal. * * * Those cofie servation questions which have to do Text of Roosevelt speech on Page A-4. By the Assoctated Press. OMAHA, Nebr., October 10.—Ad- vancing a four-point program of his own for future assistance to agricul- ture, President Roosevelt told the Na- tion tonight that the “Republican leadership” had proposed a farm plan | with the soil should be brought to- | to cost possibly $2,000.000.000 annual- | gether in that department which deals | ly, “not to save agriculture but 1o with the soil. Landon Pledges Conservation Policy to Check “Confusion” “Mess and Muddle” Caused by Over- lapping Jurisdictions,Says Kansan. in U. S. Feared. “I intend to see that the bureaus concerned with game and fish have a real chance, unhampered by conflict- ing jurisdictions. Folks are tired of | promises of consolidation of divisions and co-ordination of efforts on behalf of conservation. I mean to support and advance the work of the National Park Service in protecting the beauty of the great outdoors for the pleasure and profit of our people. I propose to| advance our great mineral industries by sympathetic attention to their One-Man Rule Feared. Landon spoke after a day which began with a party breakfast meet- | ing in Cincinnati and included a five- stop trip northward, during which he summoned voters to combat what he termed “the growing menace of (See LANDON, Page A-5.) NTEDNERLORAD into the Ak-Sar-Ben Coliseum, the Many Democrats Swing to President led off with an open indorse- ment of veteran George W. Norris, Re- Landon—Result Likely to Be Close Fight. publican, who is an independent can- didate for the Senate this year. “Help this great American to con- | tinue an historic career of service,” Mr. Roosevelt asked. | After asserting that in 1932, the | *“specter of foreclosure stalked the farmer's plow” and agriculture was “on the road to pauperism,” the Presi- dent in seven sentences described the | administration’s farm record. adding that farmers could measure them by “the vast difference between the des- peration which was theirs in 1933 and FOKKER DEFENDS YOUNG ODSEVELT Contract Misinterpreted for Political Propaganda, He Says. By the Assoctated Press. the recovery, which is theirs in 1936.” Four-Point Proposal. The long-time policy of the admin- | 14qs six electoral votes may very well Istration, he said, includes: 1. Conservation against land wast- #ge and soil impoverishment. 2. Seeking to increase purchasing BY G. GOULD LINCOLN, | Staff Correspondent of Ine Star. DENVER, Colo., October 10.—Colo- | depend upon how many Democrats in | this State go the limit and vote for | Landon. An appreciable number of | them are off the New Deal and Rooce- .’::’;:t"ui_h?;o%”fl;f:;, p;ryo:f;“’:‘gm: | velt. Some of them have told me so; “larger and larger domestic market for the farmer.” 3. Attacking the “evil of farm ten- ancy.” : 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? It would run to one and a 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 12 years, the President said, the Republican leadership “neglected” an opportunity to help the American farmer. He put to his audience the ques- tion of what that leadership offers now, then gave his own version. Pirst, he said, it would “scrap” the present program which “it has con- demned as a ‘subterfuge’ and a ‘stop- Tariff Equivalent Payments. men who have always in the past | voted the Democratic ticket. ‘The New Dealers are counting, how- | ever, on making up these losses from 'rank and file Republicans who have | benefitted from the Roosevelt spending and from the A. A. A, The best opinion seems to be that | the presidential race in this State will be close, much closer than in 1928, when the State went for Hoover by 1100,000 and in 1932, when it gave Roosevelt a lead of 61,000. President Roosevelt is coming here | | to make a campaign speech Monday | | night. His appearence is expected to | rouse the Democrats and to*bring thef | waverers into line again. The Repub- | licans counter with the thought that | he would not come here if the New | Dealers were not worried over the out- | come, despite the latter'’s insistence that the State is in the bag for| Roosevelt. | Rain Favored State, Colorado is a lucky State, more for- | | tunate than many of these Western | States in that it has been blessed { with plenty of rain, both in 1934 and NEW YORK, October 10.—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 “an | ordinary business deal” that had been | “misinterpreted for purposes of po- | litical propaganda.” On October 6 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 & contract in 1934, subse- quently terminated, by which young Roosevelt got $5,000. Roosevelt has denied receiving such a sum. Fokker said he made tonight's statement “to clear any misapprehen- sion that I am interested in politics, that I was in any way responsible for the current news releases on this sub- ject or that I 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- sulted 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 (G. W. Stratton, an airplane salesman),” he said. “I felt that the prices were 50 high as to prohibit busi- | ness, but since I had by that time | Next, he said, it would “substitute a this year, when other States have been system of traiff equivalent payments, ' hard hit by drought. In the extreme not for any permanent contribution to | Eastern part of the State, it is true, farm wealth or national income, but merely as a cash handout—or a dole.” Then he wanted to know whether such a plan would proteci farmers from price collapses and surpluses and guard them against a future “disaster like 1932." Again he offered his own idea + about it. ¥ “No plan could lead the Nation back | faster to such a crisis,” he said. The Republican plan, he added, “is | & 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 A-5, | there was a lack of rain. But the great part of the State has done well | | with its crops, including sugar beets, | | grain, fruit and potatoes. Its mines | | have been more and more active, and ! its stock raising has been all to the jgood. Its banks are bulging with | money, for much money is in cir- | culation. A good deal of this money in circulation comes from Government sources, it is frankly admitted. Even the relief money, although it is not | | deposited in banks by the reliefers, | finds its way into the bank deposits from the merchants of food, etc. One Denver bank has deposits of $63,000,- 000—$10,000,000 more than last year. LEAGUE CONTINUES REFUGEE ACTIVITY Sir Neill Malcolm of England Ap- pointed High Commissioner Until Dec. 3, 1938, ) the Associated Press. 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 Na- tions Assembly, and the Council re- appointed Sir Neill Malcolm of Eng- land, high commissioner until De- cember 3, 1938. Meeting in closed session after the end of the Assemby’s seventeenth session, the Council outlined the fu- ture tasks of the high commissioner as follows: 1. Induce the various governments to ratify a provisional arrangement for refugees’ legal status, drawn up by an intergovernmental conference last July, and call another interna- tional conference to draw up a con- veéntion on refugees. 8 3. Assist private refugee-aid or- ganizations to study emigration and colonization projects with interested governments. 3. Maintain contact with private erganizations. 4. Prepare a report for the 1938 meeting of the Assembly contain- ing concrete proposals for future con- duct of refugee work. _ To assist the high commissioner, the Council approved a proposal of the economic commission to establish an administrative council of interested governments. Radio Programs Page F.3 =mzlete Index P-ve A The commercial loans of this bank are $10,000,000. It has $18,000,000 in- vested in Government securities and more millions in State and municipal securities. A number of years ago (See LINCOLN, Page A-3.) STRIKE HITS DAMASCUS 30,000 Demand Higher Wages and Right to Unionize. BEIRUT, Syria, October 10 (#).— Thirty thousand industrial workers went on strike tonight in Damascus, demanding highér 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- tion in Damascus. Officials said they feared the strike might spread through- out Syria. Possible Division of the Sure 49 150 Landon Roosevelt The Star today presents ble standing (in electoral publican party candidates, cou-ealfondenu in the 48 States. as political sentiment crys torial Section of today's Star. .davit (by the investigator) * in explanation of this table, for the line-up of for guuul news of the week turn | reached an agreement with Elliott | Roosevelt representing me, and had | | entered into a contract with him, there was nothing further I could do until the contract expired.” Fokker added he had been “gen- erously allowed to testify informally” before a committee investigator, rather than before the committee proper, so that “my business engagements in Europe would not be delayed several months. The results of that testi- mony were put in the form of an'af- which after some minor corrections I signed.” Backgrounds of Arrangement. The designer thus described the background which, he said, led to the arrangement with young Roose- velt. “During 1933 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- cordingly I opened negotiations with both the Douglas Alrcraft Co, Inc, and the Lockheed Aircraft Corp., look- ing toward my company in Holland representing these companies in Eu- Tope.” “After preliminary negotiations by wire I went to California, where both companies are located. Terms were agreed upon in general with both companies. I was to represent Doug- Jas in Europe with the exception of Russia, as Douglas had already started negotiations through the organization of Amtorg, the official Russian com- mercial Tepresentative, with the as- sistance of Elliott Roosevelt, Mr. Strat- ton and his associates.” “Because of this it was suggested that Elliott and I come to some terms which would work out to our mutual benefit for selling Lockheed planes to Russia.” How They Stand Today States’ Electoral Votes, Based on The Star’s Political Correspondence. | Leaning 88 68 Majority necessary for election Total 137 218 i its weekly summary of the votes) of the Democratic and i standing vl be Changed S in the States. g full di States and to Part 2, Page D-3, Edi- Starhemberg Joins Fey in Effort to Bar Clash Over Dissolution Order. BUT TROOPS GUARD PALACE OF PRINCE Deny Order. to Disband Given. Decree Seen Ignoring Mus- solini's Demand. By the Associated Press. VIENNA, October 10.—The Austrian Héimwehr, private army of the Fas- cist Prince Ernst von Starhemberg, was under orders to disband but con- | tinued much in evidence tonight. Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg's sweeping order dissolving all private armed forces as a move to consolidate the nation’s military power in his own hands was followed by a decree by Starhemberg ordering his followers to obey the edict. Maj. Emil Fey, former Vienna Heimwehr commander who has bat- tled with the Prince for control of the organization, eased the tense situa- | tion created by the decrees by issuing | | a statement calling on Heimwehr ele- ments recognizing his leadership to preserve order. Deny Order to Disband. Heimwehr men with rifles contin- ued nevertheless to patrol the streets | | before Starhemberg’s palace, their of- | ficers insisting they had received no | orders to disband. | The possibility the battered Heim- wehr would attempt to resist the order or challenge the chanceller’s acquisi- tion of complete military power was believed lessened measurably by m].‘ Fey's moderate attitude. Starhemberg, in a statement to the | Heimwehr membership, called on all not to tolerate any lawlessness. “Whosoever opposes the authorities is a traitor to the Fatherland idea,” he wrote. | The Prince conferred later with | other Heimwehr leaders. The chancellor's order also affected his own Catholic militia, the Ostaer- | ‘k.llche Sturhmscharen. All the pri- vate troops were ordered consclidated This with the Austrian state militia. | would increase Austria’s official armed | forces to approximately 158,000 men. | Opposed in Cabinet. The dissolution decree met strong Iopposmon within the cabinet, and was voted After three ministers had walked out. Vice Chancellor Eduard Baar-Baarenfeld and Pinance Minister Ludwig Draxler resigned, and were joined in the walkout by Hans Pernter, minister of public instruction. Schuschnigg later gave them back not as representatives of private ar- mies. (The chancellor’s decree apparently flatly ignored a reported demand by Premier Mussolini of Italy that Star- hemberg be made the head of a uni- fled Faspist armed force in Austria.) The lution order was not unex- pected. The step was predicted in government circles after Fey's bitter quarrel with Starhemberg led to a| challenge to a duel. The Prince has not formally accepted Fey's challenge, | and Fey has threatened to bring a | slander suit against him. Starhemberg. who once said the Heimwehr would be disbanded ‘“only |over my dead body,” insisted in his statement that Heimwehr ideals be perpetuated in Austria, MILK IS DUMPED IN OHIO STRIKE 1,000 Producers Vote to Back De- mand for Price In- crease. By tre Asscclatec Press. AKRON, Ohio, October 10.—Four hundred gallons of milk were dumped tonight at Mount Hope, southwest of here, after nearly 1,000 striking Northern Ohio milk producers voted unanimously to stand in back of the $2.40 a hundredweight price demand of the Milk Producers’ Association. Daniel Miller, Holmes County inde- pendent producer, reported to the sheriff’s office tonight that two men stopped his truck near Mount Hope and.dumped the 400 gallons of milk he was hauling to Akron. He also told the sheriff he had been warned to take no more milk to Akron. Producers, who 10 days ago quit supplying Akron with milk in an effort to boost the price of Class 1 milk 10 cents per hundredweight, de- cided at a stormy session late today to back the association’s demand for & price increase. ‘They voted unanimously at the meeting to instruct the association's officers and Sales Committee to go ahead with plans for a co-operative distributing plant in Akron, Paul Richards, secretary of the association, said, SUMMONS IN SLANDER SUIT FILED FOR HOOK Attorney for G. O. P. Candidate Asks Damages Not. to Exceed $50,000. By the Associated Press. BESSEMER, Mich.,, October 10.— Summons in a suit filed for slander against Representative Frank E. Hook was filed today with the county clerk here by Thomas Landers, Ironwood, attorney for Wilber M. Brucker, Re- publican candidate for United States Senator. The plaintff claimed damages. of “not fo exceed $50,000.” St WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 11, 1936--112 PAGES. * ALLIE. YoUR 0L ‘Wfimfl Un Yol‘-‘erLE Boy! L MADRID ZERD HOUR NEARS FOR REBELS Attack Is Certain Before Middle of Week—May Begin Today. BACKGROUND— After almost three months of hard fighting, both sides in Spanish civil war are preparing for climaz: | The Battle of Madrid. Steadily gaining during past weeks, Gen. Franco's rebel forces are proceed- Cost of Relief Up 30 Per Cent, Chamber Says Gain in Expenditures Over 1935 Period Cited. ¥ the Assoctated Prass. Estimating the Government spent $585,000,000 for relief between July 1 and September 30. the Chamber of | Commerce of the United States yes- | tiement terday said this was 30 per cent more than in the same period last year. In its bi-weekly review of national business affairs, the chamber added | ing cautiously against capital, cut- ting railroads, food supplies and avenues of escape. Hard-pressed government defenders in the capi- tal are attempting to rush mnew Jorces to meet the onslaught. Whoever can hold Madrid, Loyalist Socialist forces or rebel Fascist forces, will be known with- their cabinet posts as individuals, but | in few days. International implica- tions have intemsified struggle a3 one between two opposing jorms of government with mamy European countries having much at stake, BURGOS, Spain, October 10 (#).— Gen. Prancisco Franco, supreme milie 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 mzi 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-| corcon, about 10 miles from the cap- ital. The only natural defense along this i route would be the forest near the Alberche River, 8 miles Martin. Franco, the military leaders said, personally would direct the attack, which would be supported by other columns under Gen. Emilio Mola, in command of the northern JPascist 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 a bombardment of Aran- juez, strategic city, 29 miles southeast of Madrid. Food Source Cut Off. With the railroad destroyed, the Fascists said, an important food source to Madrid would be cut off. Likewise from San that relief expenditures would exceed $2,300,000.000 for the fiscal year which began July 1 if the present rate is maintained. It pointed out that only $1,600,000,- 000 was allocated for such costs in the Federal budget, and said that an addi- tional appropriation of not more than $500.000.000, mentioned as a possibil- ity by President Roosevelt recently, would be sufficient if present spend- ing continued. The chamber’s estimate of outlays for the first quarter of this fiscal year included money spent for the Civilian Conservation Corps. but not outlays for the Public Works Administration (See SPAIN, Page A-11) RIOTS MARK REDS PROPAGANDA TOUR |French Rightists StormCom- munist Meeting, Burn- ing Banners. BACKGROUND— French Communists. have been supporting People’s Fromt govern- ment of Leon Blum, but have taken leadin calling widespread strikes in many industries. Blum'’s govern- ment, elected last May, is hard pressed ta keep.order as resentment against Communist tactics grows. Proposed propaganda tour of Alsace-Lorraine has deen violently opposed by Rightists. Traditional influence of Catholic church is strong in these provinces. BY the Associated Press. METZ, France, October*10.—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- government leaders could not flee (See RELIEF, Page A-11) CUBA DYNAMITE HELD SMUGGLED FROM U. S. Secret Police Trace Explosive After Newspaper Blast Killed 5, Injured 26. By Radio to The Star. HAVANA, October 10.—Secret po- lice announced today that 850 pounds of dynamite had been smugglecd into Havana from the United States just before the explosion in the building of the newspaper El Pais here Sep- tember 20, which resulted in the death of five persons and injuries to 26. The investigators said Harris Days of Jacksonville, Fla., was the shipper and accused two Cuban customs of- ficers of complicity in. landing the explosives. They said the shipment was consigned to the Rallway Ex- press Co., whose agent here com- mitted suicide after his arrest 10 days ago. P S T R C. C.C. TRUCK CRASHES One xm.a, Fourteen Hurt in 50-Foot Plunge Into Canyon. EUGENE. Oreg., October 10 (#).— 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 as reports circulated that Rightists, - reportedly including members of Col. Francois de 1a 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 succeded in holding a 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 (See FRENCH, Page A-2) MILLIONALLOTTED TOTUGWELLTOWN (Berwyn Development Funds Part of $33,000,000 for Relief Activity. Allocation of $1,000,000 for Green- | belt, near Berwyn, Md. the Reset- Administration'’s develop= | ment commonly known as “Tugwell- | town.” was included in an allotment | of $33,000,000 of Federal relief funds announced yesterday by Dr. Rexford | | J. Tugwell to complete “projects al- | ady under way” and carry on ‘drought emergency activities.” Similar allocations 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.” Officials said these would be farm homes on small tracts within the “Greenbelt area” bordering the com- munities, where vegetables and other farm products to be sold to com- munity residents would be grown. Officials said about $7,000,000 al- ready had been spent on each of the communities. When completed, they said, Greenbelt and Green Hills will each house’1,000 low-income families, and Greendale will care for 750 fam- ilies. | | } The allocation brought to $307.- 000,000 the total made available to the agency since July, 1935, when it | was set up by presidential order. Re- ports were recently published that the Resettlement Administration was being liquidated. $20,000,000 for 57 Projects. An administration statement said that $20,000,000 of the new allocation | would be used to complete construction of 57 rural resettlement projects in 20 States: the the $3,000,000 almeady mentioned would be used to build farm homes on the outskirts of the three large Government-built communities as “suburban resettlement proj- ects,” and that $10,000,000 would be set up as a loan and grant fund for drought victims and other rural re- habilitation. Resettlement spokesmen said the 60 projects for which funds were as- signed yesterday were not a complete list of those that would be continued. knop be listed for completion as funds were made available. 4 ‘The new allocation, officials said, came from $85000.000 earmarked by Congress for “rural rehabilitation™ in the last relief appropriation. S CITIZEN FINDS ALLIGATOR “PARKED” IN GARAGE Three-Foot Reptile Must Await Claimant, Surprised Autoist Decides. George Porter of 5100 Brookville 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 a strange shape that seemed to be balanced on two fore feet and a tail. Porter gave a yell and headed for the house, where he got his parents. Cautiously, they returned to the garage, where they found a 3-foot alligator. They left it claimant. there to await & Leading Foot Ball Scores g LOCAL. Catholic U., 14; La Salle, 10. North 14; Maryland, 0. Géorgetown, 7; Cincinnati, 0. Bridgewater, 18; Gsllsudet, 0. Landon Prep, 12; St. Andrews, 0. NA' Pordham, 7; Southern Methodist, 0. f They said additional projects would | Full Associated Press News and Wirephotos Sunday Morning and Every Afternoon. — TEN CENTS F: YHFRF T SEWHFR 895,015 BUDGET APPROVED FOR 1938 BY DISTRCT HEADS Federal Payment Increase or Sharp Tax Boost Held Necessary. ESTIMATES INCLUDE 1-CENT GAS LEVY RISE Proposals Divided Between Bare Operating Needs and Capital Improvements. BY DON S. WARREN., Throwing the District's financial problem into sharp focus, the Commise sioners have adopted a budget for the next fiscal year totaling $47,895,015— a sum almost $7,500,000 in excess of the 1938 general fund revenues, if calculated at present rates—Budget Officer Daniel J. Donovan revealed last night. A budget of this size would entail either a heavy increase in the Pederal payment, which this year stands at the record low level of $5,000,000, or & sharp increase in District taxes, or both, Donovan emphasized. The Commissioners’ estimates cone template a 1-cent increase in the gaso- line tax. They propose a highway im- provement pregram costing $3,788,280, an increase of $1,350,400 over this year, but expected revenues from the present 2-cent gasoline tax fall short of that total by some $675,000. Budget in Two Parts. Because of the financial plight now facing the District, the Commissioners separated the budget into two parts, the first covering only bare operating needs and contractual obligations, and the second containing a limited amount of new capital improvements and expansions in personnel and serve ices they hold essential. The maintenance section of the budget amounts to $42,805,308. If only this were finally aproved, and nothing provided for new improvements and desired increases in operations, Maj. Donovan finds, there still would be & deficit of more than $3,000,000, withe out an increase in revenues. With the addition of the proposed capital improvements, amounting to $5,089,707, the shortage between the pudget total and revenue as now fige ured would be hiked to $7,426,095. D. C. “Must Have More Money.” In an analysis of the budget pree pared for the Commissioners, Maj. Donovan bluntly declared the Dise trict “must have more money,” and said of the Federal payment: “It should be apparent to any one that the present Federal payment of $5,000,000 does not represént a just or equitable participation by the United States in the cost of maine taining and developing the Nation’s Capital.” The budget was split into two sece tions, because the question of what should be the Federal payment now is being studied by a commission which is to submit its recommenda- tions to President Roosevelt by the end of the year. The Budget Bureau has instructed the Commissioners to base their esti- mates on a $5,000.000 Federal pay- ment, the bureau adhering to its longe established custom of repeating what- ever Federal payment was made by Congress in its latest action. The Commissioners are hoping the Presi« dent will recommend, and that Cone gress will approve, a much higher sum. $10,000,000 Cut From Estimates. The Commissioners succeeded in limiting the total of their budget pro= posals to the $47,800,000 figure only by cutting more than $10,000,000 from | the estimates prepared by department heads, Donovan explained. All departments suffered a reduce tion- in requests, and some were dras- tic. Public school estimates were cut $4.260,369, from $17,525,619 to $13.= 265,250 This provided but $2,144. 000 for new construction and pure chase of ground. The Commissioners slashed more than $4,600,000 from the requests for welfare and correctional institutions, | to get the total down from $11,450,000 to $8,758,000. The police, Fire, Health and Sewer Departments also suffered slashes. . Details Can't Be Bared. Budget Bureau edicts barred Maf. Donovan from revealing details of items incorporated in the Commis« sioners’ estimates, but some actions are rather clear from departmental totals given out. Provision for approximately 50 ade ditional ‘policemen is believed to be included in tiye estimates. Police Supt. E. W. Brown had requested an increase of more than 130. Health Officer George C. Ruhland (See BUDGET, Page A-5.) GUATEMALA CRASH OF PLANE REPORTED Three Americans in Crew of Pan- American Ship in Acci- dent. By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, October 10—A Pan-American Airways airliner, with a crew of four, including three. Amer- icans, was reported to have crashed today near Guatemala City. ‘Word of the accident reached the company's offices here tonight. Piloting the ship was Capt. A. Pase chal of Brownsville, Tex. Other Amere jcans aboard were Co-Pilot A. L. Palmer and Radio Operator W. P. Neyman, Americapn addresses une known. Company officials said the Guate- mala National Telegraphs reported the ship, which took off from San Salva- dor at 9:19 a.m., en route to Guate- mala City, crashed near San Joss Pinula, 15 miles southeast of Guate- mala City, The fourth member of the crew, Steward Kinderman, was said to be & Guatemalan citizen.” The airliner carried no passengers or international mail. L g