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WEATHER.
(C. B. Weather Bureau Forecast.)
Cloudy, with showers tonight and prob
ably tomorrow morning; slightly warmer
tonight.
Temperatures—Highest. 74, at 2:30
p.m yesterday; lowest. 47. at 7:30 a.m.
today. Full report on page 16.
Closing N. Y. Markets, Pagesl 3,14 &15
No. 31,952.
LEAGUE DEMANDS
JAPAN WITHDRAW!
TROOPS BY NOV. 16;!
VOTE STANDS 13-li
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Japan Considers Quitting Na-j
tions’ Group Unless Guar-1
antee Is Given Treaties.
Incensed by Attitude.
PRESSURE AT GENEVA
FAILS TO ALTER STAND
Session Is on Verge of Voting to!
Overrule Tokio's Objections to'
Peace Resolution When Briand!
i
Orders Adjournment Until After-!
noon.
GENEVA. Switzerland. October
24 (/P'. —By a vote of 13 to 1 the
Council of the League of Nations
today called upon Japan to retire its
troops to the Manchurian Railway
zone by November 16. The single
opposing vote was cast by the Jap
anese representative.
The Council took this action after
rejecting Japan's counter proposal i
by a similar vote.
The counter proposal contained
“mysterious fundamental points"
which Japan insisted should be set
tled in advance by direct negotia
tions with China. Exactly what
these ‘fundamental points" were
was not explained.
By the Associated Press.
TOKIO. October 24.—Official cir- j
cles today Intimated Japan would |
consider seriously withdrawing |
from the League of Nations if |
the League of Nations Council, in I
its discussion of the Manchurian j
question, “refuses to support the l
principle of sacredness of treat
ies.”
Disappointment was expressed
at what was called “the apparent
intention of the Council to over
ride Japan’s insistence on Chinese
recognition of treaty commit
ments” as a condition for the
wlthorawal of troops from Man
churia, and considerable resent
ment was evident over the trend
events had taken at Geneva.
Sir Eric Drummond, secretary
general of the League, it was said,
informally suggested to Ambassa
dor Yoshizawa, Japanese delegate
at Geneva, that Japan ask the
World Court at the Hague to take
over the question of treaty com
mitments, but the government in
sisted the foundations of the
League would be threatened if it
“shirked" handling such a ques
tion.
JAPAN CLINGS TO DEMANDS.
League Pressure Fails to Change Stand
on "Fundamental Points.”
By the Associated Press.
GENEVA, October 24.—0 n the j
point of overriding Japanese opposition !
and fixing November 16 as the time
limit for complete evacuation of Japa
nese troops from Manchuria, the League
of Nations Council adjourned a morning
session today until late in the after
noon in the hope that some way might
be found to remove the opposition. .
With Viscount Cecil. British reprc- j
sentative, and Salvador de Madariaga
of Spain leading a strong drive against,
the objections of Kenkicht Yoshizawa,;
Japanese delegate, the line-up was i
clearly drawn, 13 to 1. in favor cf the j
Council's proposal when Aristide Briand. ’
acting chairman, closed the session
until 4 p.m.
M. Briand joined the British and j
Spanish delegates in evincing anxiety j
with regard to the “mysterious funda- I
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GRAND! LEAVES ROME i
FOR VISIT TO BERLIN
I
I
. ]
Italian Foreign Minister Will Re
turn Call of German States- j
man. Made Last Summer.
By the Associated Press.
ROME. October 24.—Dino Grandi,
black-bearded and flsshing-eyed young •
Italian foreign minister, was on his j
way to Berlin today to return the visit
to Rome made by the German chancel- !
lor. Heinrich Bruening. and former for- j
eigm minister, Julius Curtius, last
Summer.
Signor Grandi will remain in Berlin
until Monday and after his return here
will immediately begin preparing for
his trip to Washington next month
to confer with President Hoover.
Premier Mussolini has promised to.
visit Berlin later, and Rome expects
further collaboration between Germany
and Italy to result from the confer
ences. Signor Grandi is expected to
discuss the Balkan situation on this
visit, where Italy is anxious to build,
up a friendly block to offset the French ;
alliance with Jugoslavia, Rumania and |
Czechoslovakia.
JAIL PRAYER PENALTY
PRAGUE. Czechoslovakia. October 24
(JP). —Loyalty to the memory of the
late Austrian Emperor, Franz Josef, has
cost the Baroness Caroline Juncker Bi
gatti, landowner. 79, 14 days in jail.
The baroness paid for a requiem mass
for the soul of the dead monarch.
Charges were brought against her in
the district court at Pilsen and she was
convicted. A similar sentence was
passed on the cleric who read the mass.
Radio Program* on Page B-16
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Entere.l as second class matter
post office, Washington. D. C.
AL CAPONE GETS 11 YEARS,
$50,000 FINE AND MUST PAY
SIOO,OOO PROSECUTION COST
j Gangster Ordered Sent to
| Leavenworth Prison
Tonight.
j DEFENSE PLEAS FAIL
'‘•Penitentiary Special”*
Held Up for Imme
diate Trip.
CHICAGO. October 24 (/P).—Fred
erick J. Campbell, clerk of the
United States Circuit Court of Ap
peals. informed Capone’s attorneys
that he could do nothing further in
their appeal for a supersedeas to
■ prevent the gangster's departure for
! Leavenworth tonight. He said it was
too late, as the court closed at noon
Saturday.
i By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. October 24. —"Scarface
; Al" Capone, underworld czar of Chicago,
was sentenced today to 11 years' im
prisonment tor violating income tax
laws and ordered taken tonight to start
his term in Leavenworth Penitentiary.
Federal Judge James H. Wilkerson
not only passed a sentence more than
twice as severe as had ever been given
an income tax evader before, but he
denied every motion which would have
given the big gangster his freedom while
the case was appealed.
In addition to the sentences, 40 years
in the Leavenworth Prison and one
year in the county jail, Capone was
i ordered to pay a $50,000 fine and the
! costs of prosecution, estimated at about
SIOO,OOO.
Terms Run Concurrently.
The court employed the maximum
possible penalties on the five counts on
which Capone was convicted but cut
the penalty from the 1 possible maximum
of 17 years by ruling that several terms
should run concurrently.
As the gangster, downcast and appar
ently dazed by the sentence, was led
from the court room he was handed a
; demand for taxes and immediately after
| ward a lien on his $40,000 Florida estate
[ and on three safety deposit boxes in
j the Equitable Trust Co., a bank on the
! South Side of Chicago.
Capone appeared to lunge at Deputy
j Collector of Internal Revenue E. P.
| Henthorn as he was served with the
I legal papers. His face grew livid and :
he cursed. Two deputy marshals held
him.
Attorneys Appear Frantic.
Last Saturday night, when the jury
returned its verdict convicting the gang
leader on five counts and not guilty on
18, there was some doubt as to which
side seemed more elated. But there
was no doubt today. Capone, his huge ,
shoulders hunched forward, was glum.
His attorneys were almost frantic in
their efforts‘to obtain his freedom pend
ing appeal.
United States District Attorney
George E. Q. Johnson, who directed
the prosecution and asked the Jury in
his final plea to convict "this man who
tried to set himself above the law.”
smiled broadly, but refused comment.
It was the high point of his three-year
drive against Chicago gangsters.
Judge Wilkerson, denying defense
motions for bail, for a writ of super
sedeas and for a stay of sentence, or
dered the defendant remanded Imme
diately to the custody of the United
States marshal, to be taken to prison.
Defense attorneys asked him to Instruct
the marshal not to take Capone to
Leavenworth immediately.
"That’s All," Says Judge.
The court replied he had no fur
ther instructions to the marshal, and
with a gruff announcement, "That's
all.” walked out of the court room.
Marshal Henry Laubenheimer took
the gangster to the county Jail and said
his office would follow its usual cus
tom by starting for Leavenworth with
Capone tonight.
That the Government anticipated
| taking Capone to prison tonight was in
dicated. by the delay of the "Peniten
tiary Special" which was to have taken
the regular contingent of convicts to
Leavenworth last night. The train was
held over until tonight.
On board will be another "public
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MAN DIES WHILE DRIVING
CAR ON DAVIS STREET
Victim Believed to Be George L.
Cain—Auto Comes to Stop on
Terrace of Lawn.
1 A middle-aged man, believed to have
; been George L. Cain. 2442 Huidekoper
! street, dropped dead today while driv
ing his automobile on Davis street near
! Wisconsin avenue.
; As the man slumped sideways in the j
driver's seat, the car mounted the curb,
i careened across the sidewalk and came
j to a stop about halfway up the terrace |
l of a lav/n. Residents of the neighbor
( hood notified seventh precinct police, i
, who in turn summoned Dr. Thomas
j Bradley of Emergency Hospital staff.
I Dr. Bradley pronounced the man
l dead. The man had no driver's permit
i nor registration card, but was tenta
tively identified as Cain by the papers
found in the back cf his automobile.
[ A cheek-up at police headquarters rc
! vealed the car was listed in Cain’s
j name.
HARRISON AND DICKINSON OPEN
TARIFF BATTLE IN IOWA TONIGHT
! Secrecy Veils Attack and Defense of Senators Reaching
Scene of First Debate.
! .
. Br the Associated Press.
’ SIOUX CITY, lowa. October 24.
| Heavy artillery lor firing opening salvos
'n the Winter's tariff battle were put
into place today as Senators L. J. Dick
inson of lowa and Pat Harrison oT Mts
eisslppl arrived at the scene cf their
first debate on the Smoot-Hawley act.
Secrecy prevailed as to the nature
of the attack and defense. Senator
Harrison, hurrying here from Washing
ton, had prepared no speech in ad
vance. Senator Dickir.von, as well,
guarded his points carefully.
Some indication of the Southern
Democrat’s method of attack was given
m a statement he made before leaving
the Capital, where he declared “there
seems to be a very general conviction
that the falling off of trade is due in
no small measure to our tariff.”
That the argument is considered as a
political weather vane on one topic at
*
©he Iftoerang §kf.
WASHINGTON, D. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1931—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. ***
JUDGE JAMES H. WILKERSON.
VOTERS IN BRITAIN
WARNED OF CANARD
Labor Peer Fears Something!
| Like “Zinovieff Letter”
in 1924 Campaign.
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, October 24—A1l parties in
the most harri?d and strenuous election
campaign Great Britain has witnessed |
in years rounded the turn today with ;
eyes right, and a shiver of fear lest the
ghost of the notorious "Zinovleff let
ter ” walk again on the eve of the voting.
Lord Arnold, Labor peer, warned the
i electorate there would be "an attempt
Ito scare the people” with something
like the famous purported Russian doc
uments which appeared at the last
minute in the 1924 campaign and to \
which the Labor party attributed its
defeat.
There also were whisperings that the
Labor party had up its sleeve a disclos
-1 ure of "secret financial correspondence"
which would be aimed at blasting the
prospects of the national government
! and its followers.
Both Sides Claim Victory.
In the meantime, both sides claimed
| victory today, with the voting only
j three days away. The supporters of
Prime Minister MacDonald assured the
country he would be given the "doctor s
mandate” he asks, by a huge majority
iin Parliament. The oppositionists, led
J by the veteran "Uncle Arthur" Hen
derson, former foreign minister, just
as confidently predicted the national
government’s defeat.
The campaign has been one of the
most bitter the country has known in
modern times. Speakers have been
howled down hundreds of times, heads
have been bashed and some candidates
have gone about with bodyguards.
In London financial circles today a
landslide for the MacDonald forces was
predicted, but In other quarters it was
pointed out that London is "a long way”
from the great industrial centers of the
midlands and the north, where there is
much unemployment and the cuts in
the "dole” count as a most important
factor.
Seaham Race Close.
Prime Minister MacDonald's own
contest at Seaham, where his opposition
is William Coxon, the village school
master, was the subject of as much
speculation as any. The prime minister
himself has said hg is having “the fight
of his life" and. although his sup
porters feel confident that his large
personal following will win for him,
reports from the constituency are con
flicting.
Besides this conflict, there is the the
vonce of the veteran gray prophet. Da
i vid Lloyd George, Liberal war premier,
in the fray as a candidate in spite of
1 his recent illness, who declared in an j
interview published in the Daily Herald, i
) Libor organ, yesterday that “the return
of MacDonald and the Tory protection
ists would be disastrous to all progress
and would put the clock back 80 years."
He has urged Liberal Free-Traders to
support Labor Free-Traders in con
stituencies where there is no Liberal
candidate running and in his statement
yesterday he declared there Is no such
thing as a temporary emergency tariff,
i adding that the American tariff was
first introduced as a "post-war emer
‘ gency."
Woman Candidates Active.
Woman candidates have shouldered
, their share of the hurly-burly cam
j paign, among them Lady Astor, native
, of Virginia: flashing, petite and fiery
! Megan Lloyd-George, daughter and
close companion of the veteran Liberal
leader: Margaret Bondfleld, who was a
member of the former Labor cabinet
and first woman to hold a cabinet post
in Britain, and England’s own Mary
Pickford, the Hon. Mary Pickford, C.
B. E., who is the Conservative candi-
I date for Hammersmith, North.
' least is indicated by plans announced
-by Democratic leaders that conferences
s are pending at which campaigns for
t revision will be outlined for the coming
■ Winter.
On Monday night the two Senators,
• each of whom is a recognized leader In
his respective camp, will appear again
! in Omaha, debating the same subject.
Tonight the debate will begin at 8
■ o'clock. Senator Harrison will be giv
• i en 20 minutes before the lowa Repub
,: llcm'3 discussion of similar length. The
! Mississlppian finally will have three
i minutes for rebuttal.
i
; The program will be broadcast at 9
I o'clock <E. S. T.) over the Columbia
i Broadcasting System, and take the place
i of the National Radio Forum, ar
ranged by The Washington Star, which
l usually is heard from Washington each
; Saturday nlfhW
SEVEN TO COMPETE
TONIGHT FOR WORLD
TITLE IN ORATORY
International Contest Finals
Will Be Held at Con
stitution Hall.
EACH YOUTH TO SPEAK
IN NATIVE LANGUAGE
Six Judges Are Choser From Dip
lomatic and Educational Fields.
Silver Cup Is Prize.
Holders of tickets to the In
ternational Oratorical Contest
finals tonight are reminded that
they must be in their seats by
7:45 o'clock. At that time the
tickets lapse and the doors will
be opened to everybody, whether
they have tickets or not. Any
seat, with the exception of_box
seats and those in the press sec
tion, that is vacant at 15 mln
| utes to 8 o’clock may be occu
pied. Box seat reservations will
be held. The contest will begin
promptly at 8 o'clock.
The world’s champion in high school
oratory will be chosen in Constitution
Hall tonight in the Sixth International
Oratorical Contest finals.
Seven nations have sent their best
young speakers to Washington and at
8 o’clock they will take the stage to
deliver scholarly orations designed to
increase interest in and respect for good
government as they make their bids for
world honors.
Six men, prominent in diplomacv and
j education, will judge the seven boys’
j orations, and the verdict they render
' will determine the victor.
Contestants and Topics.
The contestants and the topics of
their respective prepared orations fol
low in the order in which they will be
heard tonight:
John Thomas Lumsden, 17 years old,
of Peterborough,. England, "Disraeli.”
Pierre Henri Courtade-Cabessanis of
I Paris, France, "The French Colonial
, Empire.”
Henri R. M. Van Hoof of Overeen,
Holland, "The Royal House of the
Netherlands.”
Robert Gibson Rayburn of Newton,
Kans.. representing the United States,
"The Tests of the Constitution.”
Gerard Cournoyer of Quebec, Canada.
"Why the French Race Has Survived
in Canada.”
Martin Krieger of Berlin, Germany,
‘‘Youth and Disarmament.”
Thomas Shillington of Rathfarnham.
Ireland. "The Irish Free State.”
Each boy will use his native language
I and each will be allowed six minutes
in which to deliver his prepared ad
dress. As th? boys conclude their pre
pared orations they are to be handed
slips of paper bearing new titles based
upon statements made in their initial
speeches and they will leave the stage
immediately. When the last contestant
has completed his speech, the first, who
: will have been in retirement arranging
his ideas without aid of any sort, will
return to the stage to speak extempo
raneously for four minutes on the new
topic. The other six boys will return
to the stage in the order in which they
left it. each to deliver an extempore
address.
Plan Various Careers.
Various professions are represented
iti the ambitions of the seven con
testants. John Lumsden. the young
Briton, is plotting for himself a career
in social service byway of the Salva
tion Army. He is now a cadet in that
organization's ranks as well as a mem
ber of its band in Peterborough. Eng
land. Van Hoof. Holland’s entrant,
plans to be a journalist, and Krieger,
the German, hopes to attain fame in
, the foreign service field. Shillington.
j Ireland's spokesman, is studying for a
pedagogic career. Canada’s young
Cournoyer expects to study law, while
France's Courtade-Cabessanis intends to
be a teacher. America's own boy,
Robert Rayburn, is studying music with
a view to following that profession.
In judging the contestants, the board
of judges will consider both speeches.
These judges will be Ambassador Miguel
Cruchaga Tocomal of Chile, chairman;
Dr. Jan Herman van Royden. Minister
from the Netherlands: Dr. Marc Peter.
Minister from Switzerland; Dr. Henry
Grattan Doyle, dean of the junior col-
J lege, George Washington University:
| Dr. Richard Henry Wilson, head of the
Romance language department. Uni
versity of Virginia, and Dr. Paul Glois,
head of the department of German,
Catholic University.
Tonight's meeting will be opened with
an address by Dr. Cloyd Heck Marvin,
president of George Washington Uni
versity. Randolph Leigh, director gen
eral of the contest, will be the presiding
. officer and in that capacity, he will
I present the contestants to the audience.
I Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent
of Washington schools, will present to
the victor the silver cup which is sig
nificant of the world championship In
high school oratory.
Two to Keep Time.
The time limit will be held against
each contestant. Two service officers
will keep time with stop watches. They
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LADY MAY CAMBRIDGE
WEDS, OMITTING “OBEY”
Ceremony With Capt. Henry Abel
Smith, a Commoner, First of
Kind in Royal Line.
By the Associated Presa.
BALCOMBE. England. October 24.
Lady Mav Cambridge, niece of Queen
Mary and daughter of the Earl of
Athlone. was married today to Capt.
Henry Abel Smith, a commoner, in a
wedding service from which the word
“obey” was omitted.
Archbishop William Carter, former
archbishop of Cape Town, performed
the ceremony, using the service of the
new revised prayer book. Jjtdy May
was the first royal bride in England
who did not promise at the altar to
“obey” her husband.
She wore the priceless lace wedding
veil her Aunt Mary wore 38 years ago
when she married the Duke of York,
now King George V. Her dress was of
antique satin, following in soft folds to
her ankles. There was a lustrous satin
train and the sleeves were long.
Propeller Kills Inspector.
COLUMBUS, Ohio. October 24 (A*). —
Walking into a whirling propeller, John
Doan. 28, a plane inspector of the
Transcontinental & Western Air. Inc.,
was injured fatally at Port Columbus
today. His home was In Peoria, 111. _
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i WOMAN GIVES UP
; IN TRUNK MURDERS
. . j
1 Mrs. Judd Claims She Killed
Two in Self-Defense
After Being Shot.
By the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES. October 24 -Mur- '
r { muring a story of self-defense, Mrs.
I Winnie Ruth Judd, 20-year-old physi-
I clan's wife and minister daughter, sur
i i rendered here last night to face a charge
of murdering Miss Hedvig Samuelson
■ and Mrs. Agnes Le Rol, whose bodies
were sent to Los Angeles from Phoenix
in trunks last Monday.
i The frail, attractive young woman.
after hiding four days, eluding one of
’ the greatest army of police searchers
ever organized here, emerged to give
herself up to her attorneys and to re
ceive treatment for a bullet wound in
. her left hand.
j Goes to I’ndertakers.
1 By prearrangement, she took refuge
1 in the funereal atmosphere of an un
, dertaklng parlor, where she gave her
t self up to her attorneys and was con
) ferring with them about her defense
, when the police rushed in. They had
1 been informed of her Intention to sur
render.
i Fear of lockjaw developing from the
i i bullet wound, she said, led to her sur
, render. It is on that wound, she inti
; mated, that she will base her -elf
defense plea—that she shot the two
women to protect herself.
At the Georgia Street Receiving Hos
> pital Mrs. Judd underwent an operation
f<v the removal of the bullet.
t ; Oh. doctor, I gave myself up because
r it hurt, so much.” she mumbled on the
■ operating table, apparently intending
t her remarks for her husband Dr. Wil
' liam C. Judd. "I was afraid of lock
' jaw.”
Expresses No Regrets.
i After the effects of the anesthetic
. had passed, Mrs. Judd was self-pos
» sessed, expressing no regrets for the
J act charged to her. but at times she be
; came almost hysterical.
a "I had gone to the girls home to re
, monstrate with Miss Samue son for
i some nasty things she had said about
Mrs. Le Roi,” Mrs. Judd was quoted by
1 her attorneys as saying.
Miss Samuelson got hold of a P^ 1
1 and shot Mrs. Judd in the left hand.
; according to the woman s st n r >.-
r "I struggled with her and *he gun
. fell,” Mrs. Judd's story, as related by
; her attorneys, continued. Mrs. Le
- grabbed an ironing board and stariea
: to strike me with it. .
; ‘ln the got_hold_of_tne
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’ HOLD 6 IN PLOT TO SAVE
| BANK WITH COUNTERFEIT
f Secret Service Agents Say Group
Tried to Buy Fake Currency
\ in Mexican Town.
' By the Associated Press.
1 EL PASO, Tex., October 24.—A futile
scheme to save a Colorado bark from
, failure, allegedly involving purchase of
\ counterfeit United States currency, has
(r been revealed by secret service agents
here.
Six men were under arrest, including
a bank official, and agents said charges
of conspiracy to secure, import and
' distribute counterfeit currency would he
fiied against them.
Hal E. Woolsey, cashier of the Union
[ State Bank of Yuma, Colo., which closed
recently, and Forrest C. Fall, produce
merchant of Yuma, were held at Wray,
Colo.; Glenn Whittier and Pearl Moore
of Denver and Kansas City, were in
custody at Wichita, Kans., and two
other men were In Jail at El Paso.
Agents said one of the conspirators
> was given SI,OOO with which to buy
T $4,000 in counterfeit currency from a
Juarez, Mexico, dealer, but later re
i ported to the men who had given him
I the money that he had been swindled
and had not obtained the counterfeit.
I CAR CRASH KILLS BROKER
r
| One of Lindbergh’s Paris Flight
Backers Is Injured.
> ST. LOUIS, October 24
• J. Anderson, investment broker, was
■ Instantly killed, and Harold M. Bixby,
> one of the backers of Lindbergh’s New
1 York to Paris flight, suffered a broken
an* when the automobile in which they
were riding plunged Into a ditch near
St. Charles, Mo., this morning.
Harry H. Knight, in whose car they
- were riding, and Edgar Quinn, the
l fourth member of the party, escaped
e injury when the automobile crashed
, from the highway. The lour were
i en route to a Missouri River club house
. lor a duck hunt, _
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Juror in Box Awaits
His Alienation Suit;
Court Removes Him
By the Associated Press.
SYDNEY, Australia, October
i 24. —Consternation was created in
Divorce Court here when it was
found the plaintiff was calmly
j sitting in the jury box.
By an accident he had been
summoned as a juror and was
waiting to try, as it happened, his
own case, in which he claimed
$20,000 from his uncle on a
j charge of alienating his wife's
affections
It was the uncle who drew the
attention of the judge to the
presence of his nephew on the
jury.
A new panel was drawn.
ONLY 4 POLICEMEN i
j IN 10? FAIL TEST
List Not Made Public, but i
i
Retirement November 1
Is Indicated.
V
Only 4 of the more than 100 mem
bers of the Police Department who un
derwent a rigid physical examination
this week before the Board of Police
and Fire Surgeons were found physi
cally incapacitated for further duty, it
was learned today, and indications are
they will be placed on the retired list
; November 1, the date set for the re
-1 tirement of Maj. Henry G. Pratt, super
i intendent, and Inspector William S.
| Shelby, assistant superintendent and j
; executive officer.
The names of the four officers were !
I not disclosed, but it is understood the !
! examining board placed them in class
j C, a rating which carries with it a :
! recommendation for immediate retire
; ment. The recommendations of the j
: examining board will be acted on by the
Police and Firemen's Retiring and Relief
Board at a special meeting Monday
morning at 10 o'clock in the board
room of the District Building.
Delayed Until Monday.
The retirement board had originally
planned to consider the examining
! board's report at its regular meeting
j this morning, but a delay in the sub
mission of the findings caused a post
j ponement until Monday.' The report
I of the doctors, it was said, was hot re
ceived at police headquarters until 8
! o’clock last night, w'hich allow-ed insuf
ficient time to prepare a digest of the
examinations and notify the four men
found physically incapacitated to ap
pear before the board at 10 o'clock this
morning.
The four men slated for retirement;
were included in the group of 107 over I
55 years of age who were ordered be
fore the medical board. Maj. Pratt
headed this group and immediate action
was taken in his case when the doctors
reported him to be suffering from heart
trouble and defective vision. Among
the others were Inspectors Louis J. Stoll
and Albert J. Headley, three veteran
captains and four headquarters detec
tive seargeants. \
In addition to postponement in action |
of the report of the Medical Board, it
appeared likely that there also would be
a delay in disposition of the findings
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Graf 125 Miles at Sea.
FERNANDO DO NORONHA ISLAND,
October 24 (jP).—The Graf Zeppelin,
on the way back to Germany from Per
nambuco, passed over this island, 125
miles off the Brazilian mainland, early
this morning.
"TALKIES” KEEP JOSEE LAVAL
FROM NAVY-PRINCETON GAME
Train Carrying Friends Leaves as She Acts as Father’s
Interpreter in Talk With Hoover.
By the Associated Press.
Thud of foot against pigskin will go
unheard by .the petite Jo6ee Laval, her
desire to see a gridiron struggle having
been thrown for a loss.
The daughter of the French premier
today missed the train which was to
take her to Princeton. N. J„ because she
was serving as interpreter for her father
and President Hoover.
Mile. Jo6ee had intended to see the
Princeton-Navy contest. An automobile
waited outside the White House as
train time came and went.
President Hoover and Premier Laval
w'ere before the talkies.
Each remark President Hoover made
to the French premier and vice versa
was repeated by Mile. Jose* and Mrs.
Hoover.
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The only evening paper
in Washington with the
Associated Press news
service.
Yesterday’s Circulation, 115,602
iA>) Means Associated Press.
LAVAL “FAUX PAS”
DISTURBS CAPITAL
Fear Expressed in High Quar
ters That Slight to Borah
May Affect Mission.
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.
* Two diplomatic bombshells exploded j
yesterday afternoon and last night j
amidst the festivities which are being,
held In Washington in honor of Premier
Laval and the French Yorktown Mis
sion.
The first bombshell burst late in the
afternoon when Senator Borah gave,
with his usual frankness, his views on
the Versailles treaty, reparations, debts
and disarmament.
Some of the French correspondents
regarded Mr. Borah's views as mod
erate. At one time the Senator of
Idaho was as popular as the Kaiser
among the French correspondents
They consequently expected 90m e dec
; larations which would indicate that the
Senator was irrevocably opposed to any
agreement of any kind with the govern
ment of the French republic.
The fact that Mr. Borah admitted
that Germany ought to pay the un
conditional part of the Your.g plan
pleased some of the French correspond
ents. who cabled to their Paris offices
that even Senator Borah seems to begin
to realize the imocrtance of an under
standing with France. The represent
atives of the Nationalist French press
naturally discussed at length Mr.
Borah's ideas on the revision of the
Versailles treaty, especially the part re
ferring to the Danizig corridor.
■
Second Bomb Explodes.
On the whole the Senator's state
ments were received favorably by the
correspondents of the moderate French
press. Moderate and Nationalist news
paper men expected Mr. Borah's decla
rations to be much more intransigent.
It gave them all good copy and nobody
thought more about them. Everybody
went to the recepticn the French em
bassy gave to Field Marshal Petain.
Here the second and more powerful
bombshell exploded. Late in the eve
ning it was rumored that Mr. Laval
had issued a statement to a French
news agency in which he attacked the
chairman of the Senate's Foreign Re
lations Committee. At first nobody
wanted to believe that the French
premier, who has a well established
reputation of having a cool judgment
and of never getting entangled in a
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COLUMNIST ON HEALTH
LEAVES $103,340 ESTATE
Dr. Lulu Hunt Peters, Who Died j
in June, Makes Bequests
to Relatives.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. October 24.—Dr. Lulu |
Hunt Peters, author cf works on health
and diet and columnist on health sub
! jects, who died June 27, 1930, left a
gross estate of $103,340 and a net of
$95,929. it was disclosed by a transfer
tax appraisal filed Thursday.
G. Edward Hunt, a brother, of Saca
tella. Calif., received a life interest in
$10,000; Dawson Perkins, a nephew, a
bequest of $12,000; Alice Perkins, a
niece, a bequest of SIO,OOO, and Anna
Perkins, a sister, a legacy of $15,000
and a life interest in $34,846. The last
three beneficiaries reside in Los Angeles.
The talkies took too long.
Other members of the party, how
ever. some of them members of the
family of Ambassador Claudel of France,
were on board the train when It de
parted.
They hoped Mile. Josee would drive
and intercept the train en route.
From the home of Walter Edge. Am
bassador to France, where Premier Laval
is stopping, care word, however, that
she would not go.
The petite French girl apparently
was keenly disappointed at the turn of
events.
She walked nervously about a r<x>m
in the second story of the Edge home,
appearing now and then to glance out
the window,
riliii r tiff''
TWO CENTS.
EXPECTATIONS RISE
AS FRENCH PREMIER
lAND HOOVER RENEW
THEIR DISCUSSIONS
Official Communique on Con
ferences Expected to Be Is
sued at Time of Laval’s
Departure.
DUE TO MEET BORAH
AT STIMSON’S DINNER
Message Is Sent Chairman of For
eign Relations Committee Ex
plaining That Remarks Follow
ing Interview Yesterday Was
Not Intended as Rebuke.
By the Associated Press.
An agreement to co-ordinate
French and American banking
resources for world stability
was reached today by Presi
dent Hoover and Premier
i Laval.
i Some progress was marie also
in discussions of war debt and
reparation adjustment, but de
tails necessarily were left in
definite.
A statement outlining the
I results of the 24 hours of con
ference at the White House will
be issued later, probably at
3 p.m.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.
The conversations between
i President Hoover and Premier
| Laval of France, which began
auspiciously yesterday afternoon
and ran until midnight at the
White House, were continued
today.
While no official statement was
issued regarding the progress of
the conversations, the impression
was gained from informed circles
that these conversations between
the heads of the two governments
were justifying expectations.
M. Laval left the White House
soon after 9:30 o’clock this morn
ing to go to his official residence
I the house of Ambassador Edge, in
j Eighteenth street, but with the
■ intention of returning to the
j White House at 11 o'clock and
continuing his discussions with
j the President. It is understood
j also that after he has attended
the luncheon in his honor by Sec
i retarv of the Treasury Mellon at
1 o'clock. M. Laval will again visit
! the White House.
| Communique Is Expected.
While no statement was forth
i coming from the White House or
I from the prime minister, it is be
j lieved an official communique
: would be issued dealing with tlv
conference between the President
and the prime minister, probablv
I for publication about the time M
i Laval leaves Washington. H
plans to go to New York eitho
I Sunday night at midnight or
I Monday morning.
I The first statement from the White
I House in regard to the conference, is
! sued yesterday evening, indicated that
the conversations dealt solely wit .
'policies to aid economic recovery T.' r
’.statement pointed out that ''happily no
' i controversies between the United States
. I and France exist.
In some quarters the statement was
i interpreted as an offset to the interview
i ghen bv Senator Borah, chairman 01
the Senate Foreign Relations Commit-
I tee. yesterday to the group of Frenc:
correspondents who have come from
! France with M. Laval, in which Senator
! Borah declared revision of the Ver
| sailles treaty was imperative and tn
time for moratoriums was pas;, and tha'
onlv cuts in the reparations paid b
I Germany ants intergovernmental debts
j would be effective.
Stimson and Mills Take Tart.
I The conversations between the Presi
dent and M. Laval were brought to n
| temporary close in a brief conference
| before 9:30 this morning, which was
I participated in also by Secretary cf
’ State Stimson and the Undersecretary
of the Treasury Ogden Mills. Both of
I these officials took part in the confer-
I ence at the White House last night.
The Secretary of State remained
closeted with the President followin'!
the departure of M. Laval. Mile. Jose ■
Laval did not leave the White Hous
with her father, but remained for a
while with Mrs. Hoover.
White House Issues Statement.
The text of the statement given out
at the White House last night follow;
j "Both President and Premier
; Laval wish it made clear that the con
versations upon which they are en-
I gaged are solely in respect of such
; policies as each of the two governments
j can develop to expedite recovery from
i the world economic depression.
"There is no remote basis whatever
for statements as to ‘demands.’ 'term.'
ot settlement’ or any other like dis
cussion.
"Happily there are no controversies
to be settled between France and
America. None such exist.
"The sole purpose of these conversa
tions is the earnest, frank exchange of
views with view to finding common
ground for helpful action in the tvo
motion of constructive progress An tie
WR?.I. r
1 The conversations betwetn tne Presi
dent and M. Laval were held in the
celebrated Lincoln study at the White
Hcuse, interrupted only by an informal
dinner which was attended by the
President, Premier Laval, Secretary
Stimson. Mr. Mills and Jacques Bizot.
M. Laval’s interpreter. Mr. Mills acted
as Interpreter for Hoover
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Kokomo Bank Closes.
KOKOMO. Ind.. October 24 The
Citizens' National Bank here closed yes
[ terday morning. The directors said it
was advisable to close for tha protection
ut depositors, and that the bank was
I solvent.
The bank’ statement of September
29 gives deposits of $3,913,624.56 and
total assets $4,823,362.14.
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