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N s FRENCH REDS MAP NEW ALSACE TOUR Border: Region Quiet as Rightists Claim Propaganda Meetings Failure. By tee Assoctated Presa. PARIS, October 12.—French Com- munists, their propaganda tour of Alsace-Lorraine ended quietly, an- nounced today they would reinvade the region for 122 meetings in the near future. Rightists ridiculed the Communist party rallies, asserting the “mobiliza- tion of the masses” brought only 12,000 persons to propaganda meetings in a region with 2,000,000 population. “The striking thing is the enormous expense, trouble, discredit and loss of time these Moscow gentlement im- posed upon France to obtain their piti- ful results,” commented the newspaper Le Matin. The eastern border region was calm as strong forces of mobile guards pre- vented the Leftist partisan sessions from developing into political riots. The dominant Catholic party in Al- gace urged its followers to prevent dis- order by avoiding future demonstra- tions on both sides. Premier Leon Blum, criticized strongly for forcing the Communists to curtail their rally schedule, made & bid for continued support in a speech at Lens. He declared his government is not | composed principally of Socialists, but is “a government of all parties of the People’s Front.” “A majority in the People's Front is | possible only through the loyalty of all of us,” Blum declared. ‘Through the region strong detach- ments of mobile guards kept careful watch during the propaganda as- sembles. Anti.Communist demonstrators were forced—without serious disorder—io | break up attempted marches on Com- | munist sessions, but were permitted to | hold their own meetings. Landon t (Continued From First Page.) Government. We must put the Amer- ican Government solidly on its (cetj once more.” Earlier Landon told Ohio farmers | statements of President Roosevelt at| Omaha were “more calculated to de- | ceive than to enlighten.” “The American farmer is suffering,” Landon asserted, “as a result of New Deal tariff policies.” | The Governor said Roosevelt at| Omaha “indicated in plain language” | that agricultural exports were in- | creasing. Greeted by 2,500. “The facts,” the Kansan continued, “showed exports, in terms of actual quantities exported, declined.” A crowd police estimated at 2,500 greeted Landon at Mount Vernon, where he made his first talk of the day. Devaluation of the dollar, he con- tended, had -4, effect of increasing tarifls, “69 per cent” and raising the book value of exports ‘while quanti- ties declined. Landon quoted Secretary Hull's Minneapolis assertion that total and agricultural exports had increased “steadily since 1932,” and added that President Roosevelt at Omaha Satur- day “was not as specific as his Sec- | retary of State, but he indicated in plain language that the export mark- ets for our agricuiturdl products had been are are being reopened.” 42 Per Cent Increase Cited. “Now what are the facts?” Landon asked. “Pirst, as to the Secretary’s state- ment with reference to total exports, he says our total exports increased about 42 per cent. Now the Depart- ment of Commerce figures show that for the calendar year 1935 our exports increased only 4 per cent from 1933 to 1935. dliscrepancy? Mr. Hull has expressed 1933 exports in terms of the old dollar. He has expressed 1935 exports in terms of a 59-cent dollar. “Both he and the President must have used the same process in reaching the conclusion that the exports of | sgricultural products have increased substantially and steadily since 1932. “Here again official records show with reference to agricultural exports that between 1932 and 1935 exports in terms of actual quantities exported declined as follows: Cotton, 33 per cent; wheat, 99 per cent: flour, 42 per cent; meat products, 19 per cent, and lard, 82 per cent. The Roosevelt method of increasing our agricultural exports is to reduce the yardstick by which they are measured. It is just as if we cut the bushel measure in half and then contended we were ex- porting two bushels instead of one.” Opening his four-stop speaking trip to Cleveland for his major address tonight, Landon said that foreign food imports had increased 41 per cent in volume “to displace more than 20,- 000,000 acres of American farm lands.” Leaving Columbus after a two-day stay, the candidate was scheduled to arrive in Clevcland at 1:15 p.m. (E. 8. T.) after speaking in Mount Vernon, Millersburg, Orrville and Akron in the industrial sector of Northeast Ohio. The Cleveland address will'deal with relief and its relation to the jobless. It will be broadcast nationally and will begin at 9 p.m. He will be introduced by Daniel E. Morgan, former Cleve- land city manager. How are we to explain this BY JOHN M. VOGT. T WAS Saturday, October 13,/ 1792, A group of Government offi- | cials, architects and private cit=| izens stood proudly on a knoll over- | looking the placid Potomac. Brightly | colored leaves rustled under the crisp Autumn breeze. | Horses were tethered nearby. Their ! masters, grouped around in a small | circle, were watching intently the actions of & flery young Irishman as he deftly applied a last few spatters of cement to a beautifully cut gray stone. He had just directed the un- loading of this imposing stone from | a wagon. With a swift maneuver it was eased into place, and the White House | became officially a national institu- tion. That was the scene at the cere- | mony of the laying of the corner stone nearly a century and a half ago. | At that time Pennsylvania avenue was a black line on a piece of paper— | among L'Enfant’s plans for the Cap- | ital City. The Capitol Building was a few white stones placed one on the other—construction had just begun. Capt. James Hoban of Charleston, S. C., was the fiery young Irishman ; who had just started construction on | the “President’s Palace.” He was the proud winner of a $500 prize and a gold medal that had been offered for the best plan submitted for the Executive Mansion. It is said his plans were drawn | after the castle of the Duke of Lein- { ster in Dublin, his native land. The location was chosen by our first President, George Washington, the only Chief Executive who has not | resided in its spacious corridors. Nor | was he present at the laying of the | corner stone, as many records show. It has been definitely proved that he | was In Philadelphia when the cere- | mony was performed. | He selected the spot where his | “palace” was to be erected and lived | only long enough to see it partially | completed, making his last visit to the }communn_v he always referred to as { the “Federal City” the 9th of Novem- | ber, 1799—a month before he died. It required five years of unceasing.! | toil, anxiety and financial struggle to | | finally finish the walls. In 1797 the | | contract for the roof was let. | James Hoban must have realized at ! this point that his entire life was to be devoted to the task of erecting the future public buildings of Washington. So, in 1800, three years later, John Adams and his beloved wife Abigail | moved down from Philadelphia to be |the first President and mistress of their new home—the most-talked-of | “private” residence in the United States. As we see the home of the President now, in its gracious beauty and lovely | setting of smooth, rolling lawns, gor- geous flowers and stately old trees, i many of them planted by the occu- pants, it is difficult to visualize it as it was then. The scene that greeted Mrs. Adams, { when first catching a glimpse of her | now “country” home, was anything but comforting. “That large, naked, ugly-looking building,” as Benjamin | Stoddert described it, had none of the palatial beauty of structure and land- scape it possesses today. Instead, she | saw old brick kilns, water pits, rubbish | and workmen'’s shanties. And it was with some sarcasm that she wrote her daughter describing her | new home. grand and superb scale, “The house is upon a requiring | about 30 servants to attend and keep | the apartments in proper order and | perform the ordinary business of the : house and stable.” | Mrs. Adams made use of the un- finished rooms and is reputed to have had her laundry hung in the “great unfinished audience room.” | The White House was not always a white house. At the time of the Adams occupancy it was a drab buff | sandstone. { It was after the British had in- vaded the Capital City during the | War of 1812 and set fire to the Capitol and Executive Palace that it received | its present name. During the restora- i tion workmen, to erase the marks of | the flames, whitewashed the complete exterior, hence its' title of today. The words “White House,” however, reasons Travelers I THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1936. Celebrating the White House Birthday Tuesday Will Be 144th ‘Anniversary of the Laying of the Corner Stone. THE WHITE HOUSE. —Underwood & Underwood Photo. were not used officially until former | President Theodore Roosevelt had the name monogrammed on his stationery. During Grover Cleveland’s term of office words similar to “White House” | were used when Mrs. Cleveland had the silver melted down and remolded with the words “President’s House™ inscribed on their handles. Each administration has left its mark. Each First Lady has had the fortunate experience of carrying out | at least some of her plans. It was the charming, young Dolly Madison who caused the great stir throughout the land concerning bath= tubs. She was the first First Lady to have rooms set apart for bathing, and bathtubs, of a crude nature, were placed therein. But when Andrew Jackson, the fiery, hot-headed “man of the people” was swept into office a few years, later, the bathtubs were all removed. It was undemocratic to bathe, said Mr. Jackson. Not only that, but phy- sicians sald it was injurious to the health and clergymen credited it as another of Satan's wicked lures. The scandal was revived, however, at the beginning of Millard Fillmore's term. A broad-minded, farseeinz | man, he totally disregarded public opinion and had a bathtub installed. His administration is also credited with the installation of the first library. Mrs. Fillmore, & quiet un- assuming woman, was & great lover of boeks. During the administration of James Knox Polk, manners of the Executive were drastically changed. His wife, a staid church-going woman, pro- hibited all further drinking and danc- ing. This was quite a contrast to the gay balls and dances given by Harriet Lane, niece of James Buchanan, ‘The greatest contribution, however, came in 1903, when the late President Theodore Roosevelt requested in his message to Congress to “restore” the White House “to what it was originally | intended to be by George Washing- ton." The last scaffolds were erected. And | 103 years after the death of the| “Father of Our Country” construc- tion began on the long unfinished east and west Wgngs. | Calvin Coolidge put in the first | radio. Herbert Hoover realized a cooling system for the executive wing. | And the present administration has polished off the rough spots by re- modeling the rooms that were con- demned several years ago. Thus the “White House” stands today one of the most interesting national institutions in America. Spain (Continued Prom First Page.) | Fascist officials warned, against pur- chasers not only in Spain, but also in | | other countries. Those who buy from | the Socialists will be barred from fu- | ture trading with Spain—the pro- | visional government asserted—after | the Fascists seize control of the gov- ernment. Gen. Franco's Fascist armies wound up a week of steady advances with | the capture of Cebreros, the fifteenth town taken within the past few days. Incessant hammering, Pascist head- quarters said, beat back the spirited but {ll-trained government militia un- til the insurgents’ western front was | welded into an unbroken semi-circle around Madrid, at some points within 35 miles of the goal. Capture of Cebreros and Tiemblo, on opposite banks of the Alberche | River, about 40 miles due west of the | capital, closed the flanks of the north- ern and southern armies in an arc from Navas del Pinar, northeast of Madrid, to Toledo, southwest of it. WORKERS FIGHT REBELS. Socialist Guns Begin Bombardment of City of Bargas. MADRID, October 12 (4#).—Workers' | | militiamen, spurred by their leaders to | form a solid block of defense around | $2 PLAN | highway. | ccmmand said the attack had been | to gain control of the road between | 4 the government positions high in the northern, southern, eastern and west. | ern fronts today. From Olias Del Ray, on the Toledo- Madrid road, Socialist guns began an | intense bombardment of Bargas, & little more than a mile across the In the south an official report ad- mitted a strong insurgent column had launched a drive on Hinojosa El Duque, | in Cordoba Province, but the high repulsed. Militiamen also were reported with- standing assaults on their concentra- | tions in the Caspe and Alcaniz sectors | of the Aragon front. Advance in Oviedo. Dynamite-throwing Asturian miners. | fighting on within the northern city of Oviedo, captured several strategic positions and were trying to reconnect | a circle around the city, broken by des- perate Fascists at one point. Strong government forces, holding | stubbornly to mountain positions, re- | pulsed insurgents attempting today | San Martin de Valdeiglesias and Madrid. A few miles north, additional di- | visions of Socialist militiamen massed | around Robledo de Chavela awaiting | renewal of the Fascist drive which | forced them from Cerbreros yester-| day. Drenched and shivering in the wintry wind, relief units poured into Sierra de Guadarrama Mountains. .16 PER WEEK ON MONTHLY BUDGET INVESTIGATE THIS AMAZING ‘ NEW 0IL BURNER THE NEW gssob | House-to-House Committee, of which | building fortifications and providing | been pursued for days, but has always RED CROSS SEEKS - 23,000 IN'3 DAYS Workers Start Final -Push to Bring Enrol'ment to 65,000. Faced with the task of signing up 23,815 members in the next five days, Red Cross volunteer workers started & final push today to bring the Capital’s total enrollment up to 65,000. With the campaign scheduled to close at midnight Friday, latest re- ports show an enrollment of 41,185 since the drive got under way Sep- tember 27. In the 11 reporting days during that period, the daily increase in membership has been 3,744, with the actual funds received slightly higher. Officials figure that the daily gain for the next five days must be 4,763 if the goal is to be reached. Hope was expressed at campaign headquarters that returns from large downtown business houses, public utilities and the Government units, which have not yet completed solicita- tion, will supply the needed members. Lloyd B. Wilson, Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. president and chairman of the campaign, urged that no one wait for a solicitor to make a personal call before joining. House- to-house workers are covering only certain sections of the city this year, he pointed out, and they are not at- tempting to canvass those communi- ties completely. ‘The campaign chairman said the same applied to proprietors and em- ployes in small shops and stores, many of whom will not be covered by the special uniformed workers. He ex- plained that hundreds of letters were sent to those in these divisions urging that memberships be mailed to cam- paign headquarters unless roll call workers called for them. A check-up last night revealed all divisions of the roll call organization were prepared to “open up” during the next five days. Members of the Mrs. Cary T. Grayson is chairman, planned to hold a meeting today for final instructions and reports. The | Booths Committee, headed by Miss Mabel Boardman, made a good start during the latter part of last week and is prepared to cover 20 or 25| downtown department stores and banks this week. Enroliment by divisions over the | week end totaled: Government, 30,795; | financial, 2,337; utilities, 1,441; pro- fessional, 1,883; business, 2,024: resi- dential, 889; booths, 797; miscellaneous, 929, sitioned from Macr:id stores, over his | overalls. ‘The haggard warriors, attempting to block the surging Fascist -dv-nce,; struck out at insurgent columns around Navalperal de Pinares, Valde- maqueda and Casa del Quejido. The battle front—all along the waterlogged mountain road to El Es- corial—was sodden from days of driv- ing rain. Convoys of dripping, rag- ged refugees plodded the winding | Toutes east of the fighting zones. | Both sides were spurred to greater | efforts to achieve victory to celebrate on Columbus day. The government high command laid claim to domina- tion of four-fifths of the insurgen® stronghold of Oviedo in the far north. The officers expressed hope the fall of the provincial capital before a con- certed Socialist drive could be an- nounced definitely before sunset. In the capital, war preparations were | taken over by a militia defense coun- | cil, which was attempting to co-ordi- nate activities between the Madrid de- fense units and front.line divisions. The ecouncil declared every man, woman and child must co-operate in food and clothing for fighters. Police pushed a search for a “phan- tom car,” which, filled with alleged Fascist gunmen, has been making nightly trips through the streets, spreading terror in the capital. 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Ko- renevsky of the Neva, which put out yesterday from Odessa, bound for Ali- cante, Spanish government Mediter- ranean port, Soviet spokesmen, declaring the Italian Ambassador to London, Dino Grandi, had charged the Neva se- cretly carried munitions to Spain on its previous trip, said this was obvi- ously false. Capt. Korenevsky, before his de- parture, asserted the Neva had un- | loaded its relief cargo in full view of British, Italian and Argentine ships, and said an Italian warship was lying less than one-eighth of & mile away at the time. Court (Continued From Mrst Page.) a ruling by the Court of Appeals for the District declining to hold up trial | of cases brought by the North Ameri- can Co. and American Water Works & Electric Co., Inc., in the Federal Dis- trict Court here to test the validity of the legislation. Arguments will be heard November 9. Center of months of controversy while under congressional considera- Board from holding hearings in a labor dispute at the company's plant. The board is now free to go ahead with the hearing. ‘The Associated Press case involves an order by the board directing the reinstatement of a discharged news writer. This order was sustained by the Second Circuit Court. The board held the writer had been dismissed for union activities, aithough the press association said he was discharged for inefficiency. The first railway labor act was found invalid by the court last year. In its action in this matter today, the tribunal consented to review a ruling by the Eastern Virginia Federal Dis- trict Court and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals requiring the Vir- | ginian Railway to negotiate concern- | ing disputes with a unit of the Amer- | fcan: Federation of Labor. It was contended by the carrier that amended in 1934, deprived it of lib- erty and property in violation of the Constitution and attempted to regu- late labor relations with employes en- gaged solely in intrastate activities. In an election conducted by the the railroad’s machinists, boilermakers, blacksmiths, electricians and sheet- metal workers voted to be represented in collective bargaining by “system federation number 40” of the Railway Employes Department of the American tion, the act was intended to regulate | holding companies and to abolish those considered undesirable. Representing the Government, So- licitor General Stanley Reed asked the Supreme Court to review the contro- | versy and to protect the Department | of Justice against a flood of ‘“‘compli- i cated and expensive suits.” i He said the Government would be | burdened with 40 similar suits in 12 different courts if the appellate m-i bunal's decision were permitted to stand. Replying. the two companies satd | Government officials wanted to delay | action “until their own single case | against their own specially selected | defendant is finally determined by this | court.” i Labor Action Significant. | ‘The ruling in the labor relations question raised by the Bradley Lumber | Co. was not regarded as particularly significant, since it did not involve the constitutionality of the act itself. The appeal was taken after the Circuit ourt of Appeals in New Orleans had | refused to enjoin the Labor Relations CONSTIPATION] DO AS DOCTORS DO} PLUTD luke WATER THOROUGH.CENTLE U These Stema INCLUDED! | the legislation, passed in 1926 and | National (Railway) Mediation Board, | ONLY 1 DOWN already-existing company union.; ' ! Litigation was started by theiem- ployes in 1935 in a suit in Federal Dis- trict Court to enjoin the railroad from interfering with the voice of Tepre- sentatives for collective bargaining. 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