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Show Young Roosevelt Is Linked With Russ Plane Deal WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 (U.R) Elliott Roosevelt, 25-year-old son of the president, sijrncd a contract in 1931 by which he expected to receive ?500,000 through the sale of military airplanes to Soviet Russia, Anthony Fokker, former for-mer Gernmn airplane manufacturer, manufactur-er, said in a sworn statement re-le.'ised re-le.'ised last night by the senate munitions committee. In the deposition, dated Sept. IS. 1935. Fokker said the agreement agree-ment entered into Feb. 28, 1934, covered the expected sale of 50 planes of Lockhcad make to Russia" Rus-sia" at an expected price to allow a commission of $500,000 to myself my-self and 5500,000 to Elliott Roosevelt." ter Tiffany, Fokker agent, as saying he had been informed through a third party that President Presi-dent Rocsevelt had approved the contract made by Elliott, but bad i objector, to his son's traveling abroad with the agent in all er-fort er-fort to sell the pianos. An associate of Fokker. the affidavit af-fidavit said, wanted young Roosevelt Roose-velt to go abroad with him. "counting on the willingness of hie.li foreign officials to receive Mr. Roosevelt as "the son of the American president." The foreign trip was cancePed, according to the altldavit, af'er F.Hiott had telephoned bis father and "had been told by the president presi-dent that he had objections to Mr. Elliot t Roosevelt's traveling abroad in this connection, but had approved the contract with Mr. Fokker." The Aero Digest, in a recent article, charged Elliott Roosevelt tried to sell planes to the Soviet Union, and had accepted a .?5 000 retainer in cash from Fokker. Young Roosevelt emphatically dc-nied dc-nied this. According to the senate committee. com-mittee. Fokker explained that early in 1934 he bad entered into negotiations with the Douglass Aircraft company for sales and licensing arrangements, and later discovered he could not procure an exclusive agency for Russia because be-cause it had been "given to Mr. Elliott Roosevelt and certain partners part-ners in business with him." Paid $5000 Cash Fokker said Roosevelt was paid $5,000 in cash to sign the contract, but that the price sought for the planes by Roosevelt and an associate asso-ciate was "so high that the Russians Rus-sians would have nothing to do with the whole business and had not bought any of the planes." The committee made public the deposition or orders of Sen. Gerald Ger-ald P. Nye. R., N. D., chairman, following published charges that it was withholding information. Committee officials said the deposition de-position was taken by Stephen Raushcnbush and Joel Earnest, commiHee investigators. At his home in Fort Worth, Tex., young Roosevelt said the charge he was "connected with any group to sell war planes in Europe" were untrue. "Three years ago when Fokker came out with a new DC-2 tvpe of transport," Roosevelt said, "I was given a contract to sell planes in , Europe. By no stretch of the imagination could those planes be j construed as war pianes." He said that after signing the contract he decided the job of selling planes would mean dealing with European governments, "which I thought I had better not do." He asked to be released from the contract and he was, he said. He said his associate, G. W. Stratton of Los Aneles, under a similar contract, received $5,000 for his work, but that "I received nothing." The charges, he said, "look like an effort to embarrass mv father." Fokker's affidavit quoted Car-- |