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,. A2 RRS - INUSSOLIN VISIT Hpm U.S: RUMORED i Martino and Stimson Talk = Over-Possibility of Trip After Laval Visit. (Continued From First Page) {the somewhat unfavorable sentiment iwhich exists against France in this | country today. | __The same thought Is said to exist in 1 Mussolini’s mind. He is certain to make an overwhelming impression here, and he is reported to be anxious to talk i direct to the American people and show himself in a different light from that in iwhich he is generally known to‘the le of the United States. e (Copyright, 1931.) LAVAL ACCEPTS U. S. BID. French Premier Plans to Leave Ocfober 16, After Berlin Trip. __THE - EVENING Widow Again Ciyes Story MRS. BENJAMIN F. COLLINGS CALLED FOR INQUEST IN SLAYING. { | | PARIS, September 25 (/). —American | Ambassador Walter E. Edge formally invited Premier Laval to visit Presi- *dent Hoover at Washington and the premier accepted the invitation this | afternoon. Official. acknowledgment-of President Hoover's invitation will be delivered by the Prench embassy in ‘Washington. The French cabinet earlier today ap- proved Premier Laval's acceptance of the invitation. The premier said he could not talk about the trip until after he and M. Briand return from their visit to Berlin. He indicated, however, that he would sall October 16 on the Ile de France. Trade Accord Rumored. The official communique read: “M. Laval informed the cabinet that' Mr. Edge had invited him, in the name of President Hoover, to go to Washington soon. The cabinet was unanimous in volcing appreciation of the profund significance of the invitation, to which the premier: will ‘reply favorably.” Premier Laval has been busy with reparations for his visit to Berlin, Pretident Hoover's intitation and eco- nomic problems. It was said at the ministry of the interior that he would make an important statement to the French people before setting cut Satur- day afternoon in order to prepare the atmosphere, much as Chancellor Bruen- kirk, who had case. Mrs. Collings failed to identify against them. R LR misunderstanding ¢an be summarized as follows: ‘The . United States has felt that France has been selfishly trying to block peace, progress and the disarma- ment of the world in order to keep Germany down and exercise a willful and artificial military domination over Europe. | | ing did before coming to Paris last July. Daughter to Stay in France. Information came from high sources today that the Germans have indicdted, since the United States showed a will- ingness to co-operate with France, that they are prepared to accept the nomi- nation of a anent Franco-German co! i fo facilitate an understand- ing on trade relations. |__The premier. indicated his daughter, Mile; Jese“Laval, would not accompany him to the United States. “T will be the only member of the cabinet and member of my s oing 4o AlEea he said. | | Edge Presents Inkstands. also presented gifts to th jer and e prem each. mmhafl the of foreign ‘ministry, the Am- “I can assure you of the same frank, cordial and sympathetic reception as mlmdyour es extended to § Mr. Mellon and later to my immediate chief, Secretary of State Stimson,” the | celed. Ambassador told Premier Laval. o “at & deeply auspicious moment in the long .l.nd historic friendship between our § countries.” He expressed pleasure at presenting gracious French on et fectively accomplished.” § “I well know,” he sald, “that they jwill be regarded as ‘mementoes of + friendships formed by common en- { World Economics, Politics and Differ- ences to Be Aired Here. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. PARIS, September 25.—French Premier Plerre Laval today was formally invited and formally accepted the invitation to g0 to Washington for a visit with Prest dent Hoover. This visit will probably occur during the third week of October and the French premier will stay about five days on American soll. The prospect of the unprecedented and historic_encounter s the sensation of Eurove. It comes &S & Tay of hope at a dark time, when & perplexed and leaderless world is -gnd rocking in the slough of & devastating economic depression. ‘The heads of state of what for the, moment are the. two strongest and soundest countries are at last going to‘ get together. ‘There has been a grave misunderstanding between them. It isf no secret that feelings of resentment on both sides bave run high. These misunderstandings _President Hoover and Premier la-rl will attempt to ! clear up. Would Look for Benefits. But they will go further! They will talk over the condition of the world in various aspects, with a view to the possibility of taking constructive meas- ures, and it is this phase of their forth- coming visit which is exciting hope in the nerve-wracked peoples of Europe. Contrary to popular belief, although| ! Prance and the United States havel twice been allies and have many ideals { in common, they always have had diffi- culty in arriving at a real understand- ing. This difficully appears to be due| partly to the language barrier, but even more to differences of mental and moral training and psychological outlook. In almost every conference which both have attended in recent years, be- ginning with the peace conference. the French have been exasperated at what they have felt to be an inadequate Americt understanding of important | issues and the Americans have been at least equally exasperated at the French proclivity to indulge in long expositions with “4 ly, secondly and thirdly,” on every occasion. v Ability Esteemed Highly. ‘M. Laval, although he speaks scarce- 1y a word of seems to have a | special gift for dealing with Americans. Both Secretary of the Treasury Andrew | drastic Fixed Topics Lacking. France, while never doubting our good will and good faith, has felt that our statesmanship and public opinion | have been completely misled, partly by German and British influences, into taking steps and holding opinions re- £h4 reparding Sonditions i Europs in | and rega: conditions rope in | general which thé French think utterly unjust lndfl{mdeumnn’b‘lxeéd 3 Te W no program * for | the Washington conversations. Mr. | Hoover and M. Laval will talk as man, all subjects which believes to be ent. It can easily be . foreseen, owever, that the following subjects will be included: 1. War debts and reparations. Since formally linked to- first by the Young plan and the Hoover moratorium, sfg: Mrs. Collings is shown photographed as she arrived at Mineola, N. Y., yes- terday, to attempt to identify two suspects, Timothy Quinn and Carl New- been held for questioning by officials working on the Collings the men and no charges were placed —A. P. Photo. WIDOW' TESTIFIES IN COLLINGS PROBE, REPEATING STORY (Continued Prom First Page.) them looked familiar. The older man, she said, replied, “No, we ain’t clam e d’%ut the men probably did not know Collings was indicated by Mrs. Collings’ testimony later that they asked her hus- band where he lived. Ordered to Stop Boat. Mrs, Collings told how the men in- sisted that her husband help them run | the boat toward South Norwalk, Conh., where the men said they wanted to go. “And the next thing I remember,” she continued, “the men ordered -Ben to stop the boat. ‘They ‘were afraid something was following them. We drifted while a tow went by. “We ran for 15 minutes then, and the men again ordered my husband to stop the boat. They said, ‘We got to get the wounded man on board.’ “The older man directed the younger one to bring the man up and put him on a bed.: Suddenly the door opened 17 | and I heard them say, “We're sorry to creditor, repara common , agree in future to consult one an- other before launching any definite French tend as “sacred” Mr. solve. has an interest to see either the war debts or reparations completely can- Gold Standard to Come Up. 2. The gold standard, France and the United States are now the only two securely solvent big gold standard countries. They seem to have mon interest, first, to preserve standard from 1 against it which 'on all sides; seco: Britain and then the others gold standard as quickly as poss| and, third, to consider measures fending their foreign trade from the unfair competition of inflationist coun- last few weeks wnff tions among leading French and Amer- ican bankers. 3. Political tranquillity. The Wiggin report at Basel laid down as the first | condition of world recovery the estab- | i, lishment of more harmonious political | relations between the leading countries, President Hocyer’s - invitation to Premier Laval seems to have bad a | good effect in this direction, for the | prospects of a Franco-German under- standing when M. Laval and Foreign Minister Aristide Brisnd visit Berlin this week end have grown distinctly bet- ter during the last few days. The idea that Prance and the nited States might soon come to terms seems to have inspired serious reflections in German government. circles, The chances are, however, that M. Laval will desire w0 thresh out with Mr. Hoover the whole question of agitation for treaty revi- slon. Closer Co-operation Foreseen. | 4. Disarmament. So far as is known, | both countries sincerely desire disarma- mient; -but they differ diametrically re- | garding the best means of achieving it.| The United States thinks that the cove- nant of the League of Nations, the Kel- jogg pact and the Locarno trentlzs.‘ backed by the sanction of public opin- | ion, give sufficlent security and that further security can be achieved from the act of disarmament itself. | France just as firmly believes that | disarmarent without some | previous arrangement for making com- | mon armed cause against a possible ag- gressor would be foolhardy and highly cdangerous, especially at the present| moment when a large part of Europe| appears tq be racked by wild theorfes | and wilder passions. | That all these grave issues can be| constructively settled in a few hours’ | talk is considered highly unlikely. But | that the misunderstandings can be re- | moved and each nation brought to a better comprehension of the other's| needs and viewpoint is thought certain. The Laval-Hoover meeting. it is sald, will be merely the beginning of closer Franco-American co-operation, just as the Hoover-MacDonald visit was thee- | ginning of closer Anglo-American co- | operation. | | (Copyright. 1931) ——e- FIVE GRID MEN DROPPED | Asked to Quit Squad After Visit, | 'W. Mellon and Secretary of State Henry | L. Stimson, not to mention Ambassador Walter E. e, were struck during the recent negotiations in Paris on the Hoover plan by his gift for plain-speak- ing, for to the point withou, rhetoric or casulstry and for simple common sense.- If any two men can e e Nioas Sl be Mr. men appear to be Mr. ‘Hoover and M. Laval. 4 In general, the Franco-American to Princeton Speakeasy. PRINCETON, N. J., September 25 (). —Five members of the Princeton varsity squad have been asked to turn in their uniforms as a result of & visit to a %.uuy in Trenton, N. J., last Satur- where they were discovered by' coach. an it one of have to do this, but we don’t want any commontion.” “Then I saw them tie my husband's hands. My husband protested he didn't want to be tled, but then I saw him put_his hands behind to be tied. “I hear my husband say, ‘Take the boat and leave us alone.” I went out. ‘The older man ordered me 24 l*mm Barbara e 3 2% !into the cabin, ‘Leave my papa alone! “The next thing I heard was a crash v | of glass. And then I heard my hus- band say in an ordinary tone of voice %o | ‘They're throwing me overboard.”” Threw Mattress Into Water. Mrs. Collings-said she threw a mat- tress and the anchor rope to where she thought he was and shouted to him but got no gnswer, “The oldéf man then came up and grabbed hold of me and held me tight,” she sald. “I saw a rowboat going toward the mattress. Then the older man asked if there was any money on the boat. me -+ 1 said $20, but he dropped the conversa- said mothing more about it.” ‘Then it was, Mrs. Collings testified, that the man put her into a canoe. Both men paddled the boat over the waters of Long Island Sound, leaving her little daughter alone on the dristing cruiser. As they left, she said, she noticed another boat coming toward their boat and thought they would save her husband before he drowned and take her daughter off the drifting boat. “We dled, it seemed, for hours,” she sal “As we approached land, the older man told the younger one to leave the cance. The younger one asked where to meet him. The older said ‘You ow." ™ “Then the older man paddled over to the yacht Bo Peep anchored near there. He changed some of his clothes, og,ened a duffie bag and threw some things that looked like note books and clothes overboard.” Then the man put her on the Bo Peep and paddled away toward Oyster Bay, Mrs. Collings testified. She made no mention of an attack on her by the older man and it appeared the officials had agreed not to question her on that part of the story. She related the oft-repeated account of how she was saved from the Bo Peep by two men on an adjoining estate attracted by her cries. Mrs. Collings last night failed to identify two suspects as the slayers. A single glance at the suspects led Ler to declare they were not the men. ‘The men—Timothy Quinn, 45, former inmate of an insane asylum, and Ed- ward Tompkins, 18, ' friend of Quinn— were released. Cameras. Are Banned. Just before the resumption of the inquest after the luncheon reeess Cor- oner Gibson ordered all cameras, in- cluding a sound movie camera that had been specially rigged up for the occa- sion, removed from the rooms. Mrs, Collings, resuming the stand, sald, in answer to gquestions of Dis trict Attorney Blue, that she was born }x; Boston 28 years ago and graduated om Smith College, where she majored in sociology. Her husband, she sald, | was 38, went to school at Exeter and later at Yale and took a post-graduate course in mechanical engineering at Dartmouth. Mrs, Collings estimated that her hus- | band had lost four-fifths of his capital in the Wall Street crash, but said he was expecting an income of $1,000 a year from his mother’s estate. Bhe said her husband was not “moody or melancholy,” but just quiet; that he few close friends and that their home life was exceptionally happy. BShe said she knew of no enemies he could have had, That he never ex- pressed fear of anybody who might harm him. HORN-BLOWERS WARNED ) ‘; warned by o htiiabon, partiodias oo Boags es, on 3‘@ churches are '. ! STAR., - WASHINGTON, U. 5. LINER CREW'S | - MUTINY REPORTED Officer Is Stabbed and Sailor Is Shot—Stowaway Is Marooned. BY EDGAR ANSEL MOWRER. By Cable to The Star. BERLIN, Germany, September 25.— Mutiny and attempted murder on an American steamship in thd Mediter- ranean, the stabbing of the first offi- cer, the shooting of a rebellious sailor, the captain’s failure, for mysterious reasons, to complain to the American consuls at either Messina or Leghorn, ithe flight from the ship at the latter port by three of the five American pas- sengers who possessed the means to jpurchase other transportation home- ward—these are the gory spots of a story told to me today by William Ed- mund Aughinbaugh, M. D,, formerly of Columbia University, who reached Ber- lin yesterday with a tale that rivals the best of Joseph Conrad. / ;.. C. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1931 Scenes ini: Flood-Stricken China THOUSANDS MADE HOMELESS BY LATEST DISASTER. Dr. Aughinbaugh's story runs as fol- | lows: For four months he had been trav- eling through the Near East, investigat- ing the economic and political situa- tion and collecting material for a book. Early in _August he embarked at Con- stanza, Rumania, on the steamship Excelsior of the American Export Line, C. H. Wilson, captain, for New York. The Excelsior is a freighter that idles along coasts, stopping at every port for cargo and carrying a few passengers. From the beginning Dr. Auginbaugh noticed the pecullar relations between the officers and the American members of the crew. The food was none too good and the passengers and crew com- plained. Stowaway Found. The first ificident came just after the Excelsior left Saloniki. The crew de- tected an Albanian stowaway who had hidden in the hold. Capt. Wilson, furi- ous, ordered that the man be put ashore at the first Jand sighted. The crew, who declared that the ship was undermanned, wanted the stow- away taken as a sailor, The captain insisted, and on August 23 the Excelsior drew near a small Greek island too small to have a name and the stowaway was ordered put ashore. Barefoot and brown-skinned, the stowaway, dressed only in a cotton shirt and trousers, was thrust into a boat, The crew muttered protests. A sailor went below and brought from the pan- try a huge loaf of bread, which he gave to the Albanian. Thereupon Capt. fiu- son, with a curse, snatcl the bread from the stowaway’s hands and tossed it into the sea. ‘The.small boat departed for the bar- ren shore of the tiny island, where a single hut betrayed the existence of hu- man beings. The stowaway would not really starve, but it might be months before a passing boat would bring him to the mainland, and the captain’s de- cision to land him was equivalent to weeks or months of banishment. The captain’s seizure of the bread brought loud curses from the Excel- sior's crew, whose sense of humanity was outraged. ‘The boat returned from the island, and the Excelsior continued its. trip around the southern tip of Greece, since gae Corinth Canal was temporarily Dog Disappears. The next incident occurred just be- fore the Excelsior reached the Italian port of Bari in the Adriatic. Among the handful of passengers was an American woman, Mrs. Helen Lawrence of New York, traveling with her dog, & Belgian Griffon, to which she referred as “my little boy.” The dog was sured, according to its mistress, $1,000. The animal, called Deedee, was unfortunately suffering from intestinal and kidney trouble and in the hot weather it repeatedly befouled the gheck.u, deckd chairs and rugs, much to e crew's disgust. J . Shortly before the Exceisior reached Bari Deedee disappeared. The captain had the ship scoured, but the animal was never found. Dr. Aughinbaugh as- sumes that some member of the crew tossed it ove: . Mrs. Lawrence left the ‘ship at Bari, thre to make the captain responsible for the valuable animal. Enmity between the officers and crew of the Excelsior grew from hour to hour. The Excelsior left Bari and 12 hours later a mutiny occurred. It began as & strike. The crew complained of inhu- man treatment over I hours in the m«u sunshine. The officers’ authority sunk to zero. On the Excelsior, the officers are quartered forward and the crew aft. At the end of the hot day, the crew re- fused to work er. Capt. Wilson and the. first, and thirdl officers armed themselves with revolvers and went on deck aft. The crew-lined up and defled the of- ficers to cross a given line. One sailor, an Irishman named Duchane, from Brooklyn, N. Y., drew a long knife and said; “Il kill any officer Who crosses the line.” Officer Stabbed Thrice. The officers hesitated and then the first cficer, named Whetmore, crossed Ithe line, revolver in hand. Duchane | leaped upon him and stabbed him three times, Whetmore recoiled, bleeding heavily. Capt. Wilson, with shaking E‘md. fired at Duchane and hit him in e_leg. The crew never flinched. The officers hesitated. Finally Dining Room Steward Joe Ryan, a graduate of the University of Michigan, spoke: “Captain, if you don’t go back, there’ll be four dead officers on this ship. Leave this to me, and I'll arrest Duchane.” The officers retired shamefacedly to their own quarters and five minutes later Ryan appeared with Duchane’s knife, saying: 5 “He's under arrest.” Dr. Aginb-u'h dressed the wounds of the officer and the sallor. The five American passengers were virtually in a Ppanic. When the Excelsior stopped at Mes- sina, Capt. Wilson failed to complain to the American consul, possibly because the ship was not in entire conformity with American mercantile marine law. ‘The Excelsior continued to Leghorn, which it reached September 21. Dr. Auginbaugh and the two woman pas- sengers with means immediately left the lhl& reserving claims upon the American Export Line. Two American passengers, Harrison Jones of New York and a woman, remained because they had not enough money to purchase a second passage home. ‘What happened at Leghorn Dr. Au- ginbaugh does not exactly know, but he imagines that the Excelsior continued its voyage to Marseille and finally to New York, which it is due to reach October 17. “The captain and officers were afraid to complain,” Dr. Auginbaugh remarks. “My sympathies are wholly with the crew. The matter needs investigation in New York.” (Copyright, 1931.) INFORMATION LACKING. Special Dispateh to The Star. NEW YORK, September 25.—No in- formation concerning mutinous or oth- erwise irregular incidents aboard the American Export liner Excelsior has been received in the offices of the com- pany, an official declared today. The Excelsior, which carries a crew of 38 men, is due in New York October 17. (Copyright, 1931.) Eleven Buildings Burn in Town. VALOIS, N. Y., Berwmber ) — Fire which threatened to nguflhh village of 300 residents was conquered mlytht:dploya after 11 h:cdmflrnu' includ- , destro; ‘vll‘l’.h @ loss estimated at $80,000, i HINA, ancient victim of starvation, plagues and floo ds, again is beset. . Here are two typical scenes during the distastrous flood in Hankow. Above is the fire that destroyed the million-dollar storage plant of an American oil company there in the midst of the flood. Below is a picture from the refugee camps, where thousands of vietims gathered. —A. P. Photo. BONUS RECIPIENTS BARRED FROM JURY Veterans Receiving U. S.! Cash Among Long List of Exclusions. Every veteran of the World War w accepted the bonus ice on District grand police brutality cases. Previous rulings of the court had ex- cluded all veterans who had converted their war risk insurance on the grounds that this constituted & contract with the Government and on one octasion a juror had been excluded because he had a stamp agency in his drug store. As practically every vetéran accepted the adjusted compensation certiicates the effect of the ruling is to exclude all yeterans from grand juries and crim- inal court juries. Ineligibles Extended. The District code disqualifies among: only salaried officers of the ly United States and District governments and the courts for many years held this disqualification did not extend to per- sons only temporarily employed or being paid on a per diem basis. It was not until 1909, when the United States Supreme Court in the Crawford case held that a conviction. was improperly obtained because among the trial jurors was a man who had & stamp agency in his érug store and was in a contractural relation with the United States, that the disqualifications were extended. Following this ruling judicial caution ran_riot and brought about the dis- qualification of all persons having con- tracts with the Federal or District gov- ernment and all persons owning a build- ing which is rented to the Government or in which there is a stamp agency. Before the demolition of the old Center Market and while it was being operated by the Department of Agriculture, all SENATOR CORDELL HULL. HULL TO DISCUSS NATION'S PROBLEMS Tennessee - Senator to Tell Democrats’ Views in Radio Forum. cast over the coast-to-coast network of the Columbia Broadcasting System 8:30 P.fl;l-.mfllh 26. - persons renting. stands therein came |ha: under this disqualification. It was not until 1921 that the ex- clusions were extended to persons re= celving pensions or other gratuities from the Government when the District Court of Appeals threw out an indict- |4, ment against & number of coal deal- ers because a member of the grand jury which reported the indictment was recelving a pension. This decision led to the propounding of .the question whether @ prospective juror receives any money in any form from . either the Federal or District Government and this led to_ the exclusion of all former soldiers having the bonus or war risk insurance. Notaries Dhqll!fllo‘- Between those two court decisions the late Justice Ashley M. Gould de- cided that by reason of the Crawford decision a notary public, whose only connection with the Government is that he is appointed by the President of the United States, would also be dis- qualified to nte’x;ve on a grand jury or & crimina} Jury. It is suclk)xe disqualification that the jury commission would like to see re- moved by legislative enactment, it was stated by Edwin C. Graham, a member of the commission, yesterday, rather than the passing of a law imposing on the jury commission the duty of sending questionnaires to possible jurors to pass on their qualification before plac- the names in the jury box. m%y an error The Star yesterday des<. chairman ignated Mr. Graham as of the commission. Mrs. Lillian 8. Pritch- ard, widow of former Justice Pritchard, is the chairman. SUNDAY IS LAST DAY .OF DAYLIGHT SAVING Most Eastern Cities Will Be Back on Standard Time—Gotham to Shift at 2 AM. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 25.—Day- light sa: , which has been in effect since the last Sunday in April, wil cease for this Jm on Sunday morning. m med ockl;mku 2 the hai Wi and remain so for 60 minutes, S e s e e cloc] forward -nmhm’x‘r last . persons will change their timepieces when they go to bed Saturday nr:ht. New York City, as well as most com- munities in the Eastern States, will be back on Eastern standard time when the Sunday bells—alarm clock, break- fast and church bells—ring. —_—— About 1,400 miles of the Transcanada Highway in the Ontario dis improved or constructed. i by GLENNA VARE WINS WAY TO GOLF FINALS Helen Hicks Beats Enid Wilson in Other Semi-Final Match of National Tourney. By the Assoclated Press. WILLIAMSVILLE, N. Y., September 25.—Mrs. Glenna Collett Vare of Phila- delphia won her way to the finals of the nat ‘womien’s golf championship for the sixth time today when she de- feated Van Wie of Chicago, 2 up, in one of the semi-final matches at the Buffalo Country Club. H":Mm‘*‘, ks, 30-year-old Long Island i, s e e when e 2 and 1, earned the right to go to the Mrs, Vare tomorrow. . TREMOR OF GREAT INTENSITY RECORDED , and finals with Disturbancg Called More Severe |thin Than Recent Japanese Quake Centered in Asia, An earthquake of greater intensity than any recorded here this ‘was registered today on the Georgetown University seismograph. It began at 1:19:35 a.m. and lasted three hours, Officials said it probably centered on the Asiatic continent. Director O'Conor sald the disturb- ance was much more severe than the|h, recent earthquake which shook Japan. Other Shocks Recorded. NEW YORK, September 25 (#).—The Fordham University seismograph red two severe earthshocks, at fifl':'n‘z am, and 1:19:42 am, Eastern standard time. The Fordham scientists said the shocks were approximately 9.900 miles distant and probably centered off Aus- or New d. CALLS DEMOCRATS GLOOM SPREADERS iLucas Urges Republicans to War Against Starvation Propaganda of Opposition. BY the Associated Press. SPRINGFIELD, Mass., tember 25. —Robert H. Lucas, exacml dln&r of the Republican National Committee, today charged Democratic propaganda with responsibility for a fear, which he said had gripped the country, that “men, women and dren will be faced with starvation this coming Winter as a re- sult of the depression.” Lucas was one of a f promi- ublicans who ° e before a- of the New Shlt?smzxpmiflem T great army of this formadion —meet this fght standing b, ee and, hitting o“t:t from the shoulder, dll-“p: this maze of gloomy propaganda,” cas said, “the conscious fear o{~d=- tituticn and starvation will buying m2ower of this vast country will ent.’ Asks Support for Hoover. mfiplemma ose who have it fl'}:‘* actually below the mecessities of times really are.” Women Behind Hoover. ‘The organized Republican women are still behind the administration of President Hoover, Mrs. Ellis A, Yost of Huntington, W. Va. director women’s divicion of the : | National Committee, said today. “It is @ time in public affairs when g:uhnl, prejudices and selfish motives ve a tendency to obscure issues and unbalance reason, making it. difficult even for philosophers to- preserve their poise,” Mrs. Yost said. “But the man in the White House is unmoved by the clamor of discordant voices or the noise of political tom-toms that would disturb the equlibrium of a Nation that bhas need of sober thinking and well considered action. * * * It is freely conceded that he is not a politician, in the accepted interpretation of thai term. No opposition, no expression of anathema on the part of his political enemies or dissenters has ever swerved Herbert Hoover {rom the path of duty.” Mrs. Yost reviewed the steady erease in the number of women h public office since they were granted suffrage and the part they have played in the councils of the Republican party. Urges Investment Freedom. Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio to- day said the op nity of private and corporate investment should be kept open, free of socialistic and paterna- listic government interference, to guar- m Tecovery from the world economi “We must not be led into deadening socialistic theorles which will dry up the Tvoirs of new inventions and Fess sald. “Our chief con- been the wond - not a “xlmv g in_America, had them before, We have always worked out of them. We will come out of this one. Not infrequent these times of stress serve as for finding the way for new wealth. We such results will flow from Cites Building Program. y ‘The: Ohio Senator told of President to stabilize wa“u program, calling for an_expenditure of $1,550,000,000 for 1930 and 1931, of which $430,000,000 was for the public bul program of e Federal year, was cited as evidence of the effort to relieve unemployment. The Senator reiterated his opposition to the dole, and regard- public construction programs, said ‘were important, but “must not be relied upon as the chief source of em- ployment.” k’m gave assurance that where indus- cannot absorb unemployment, the Federal would co-operate T to the Purt of & Nation whose e a Nation wi - of has L Fo have evidénce that this de- | Hi ILEAGUE DECLINES - | TOACT ON HARBI \Council Is Satisfied by Offer of Japan to Withdraw to Original Position. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, September 25.—The Coun- cil of the League of Nations rejected China’s plea for examination of th® Manchurian situation by an impartial commission tonight and announced t- self satisfied with Japan's proposal to withdraw troops to their original position. Kenkichi Yoshizawa, the Japanese Tepresentative, warned the league's council not to interfere in Manchuria before the two powers had time to settle the affairs themselves. The Japanese spckesman asserted that before the league intervenes, “the will of the parties concerned must first be respected,” and he warned that the lcuun‘;fl‘lrmuaz notm-lct until the time al- lowed for peaceful settlement through direct negotiations had expired, He entered an indignant protest against What he called “abominable accusa- tions” against the Japanese troops. Japanese forces in Manchuria are being withdrawn to the fullest .extent permitted by the requirements of the safety of Japanese residents and their property, the Council was informed to- * day in an official note from the Jap- anese government. The greater part of Japanese trooj in Manchuria already have been with- drawn to the railway zope, the note said, and now are concentrated there. U. 8. SENDS FORMAL PLEA. Recall of Troops Asked in Note to China and Japan. By the Associated Press. A formal appeal from the United States that they withdraw their troops from the Manchurian danger zone to- day lay before Jdpan and_ China. Coupled with America’s plea was a request that the two avold acts which might interfere with moves to decide the controversy peacefully. Secretary Stimson ' last “night dis~ patched cautiously worded identically notes to the two powers, expressing re~ grets and contern over the situation. This official action followed informal representations made to the diplomatic spokesmen here of China and Japan. League Kept Advised. ‘The League of Nations, which had re- quested America to take action similar to its resolution urging peace and with- drawal of troops, has been kept advised of the State Department's action. “In view of the sincere desire of the people of this country that prinei and methods of shall in international nhmtlom" the pmnlr‘-m notes said, “and of the existence of treaties, to several of which the United States is a party, the provisions of ‘which are intended to regulate the ad- tr&muzufleflm mt of con na- jlltme'l — lew England Republicans held |in 2] Rep ins ment by the minds of the people and the Jates to those who seek em- |framing Note From Stimson Called Most Im- portant Event in Crisis. as a stern rebuke to Japan. T. V. Soong, of finance for the Natidnalist announced the millions of China’s flood sufferers, STIMSON IS COMMENDED, Prominent Citizens Back Action Takem in Manchurian Dispute.’ BOSTON, September 25 (#).—A group George W. Anderson s Tl Xl crisis ing the success of the proposed | armament truce on Which you are so wisely negotiating with the