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“From Press to Home Within the Hour” ¢ The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes Forecast) : * Probably showers tonight and tomor- row: cooler temorrow nigkt. ‘Temperatures—-Highest, 88, at 2:45 p.m, yesterday; lowest, 69, at 6:30 a.m. today. Full report on page 9. Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages13,14 & 15 he £he = 35 red as secon 91.¢ ¥ e 39 post office, Was nd class matte; hington, D. C. HOMER IN' SIXTH WITH FRISCH ON TUBLES MACKS i Rookie Outfielder Also Drives! High and Watkins Across | Scoring Platter. HALLAHAN IS PUZZLE UNTIL LATE CHAPTERS| | | i i i t 1 | Haas, cf..... Little Left-Hander Pulls Out of; Tight Hole by Fanning Williams in Fifth. BY DENMAN THOMPSON. PHILADELPHIA, October 7.—"Pepper” Martin'’s home run in the sixth inning gcored Frisch, who had doubled, ahead | ot him and clinched victory for the | Cardinals in the fifth game of the world ! series with the Athletics here today. The score was 5 to 1. | FIRST INNING. ST. LOUIS—Manager Street moved ‘Pepper Martin, hitting star of the series, | up to fourth place in the batting order, | Bottomley being dropped to sixth place. After taking one strike. Adams sliced a single past Dykes at third base. n was put in to run for Adams. Watkins flied to Simmons. Frisch singled to] Jeft center, sending High to third, and taking second on the throwin. Hoyls first to Martin was low for a bv.\Hv slipped over a strike after pitchir other tall. Martin then flied d Simmons, High scoring after the : for the first run of the ball game. h | being held at second. Williams tossed out Hafey on the first ball pitched. One ! Miller, rf Tun. K PHILADELPHIA—High now p’ ng third for the Cards. Bishpp met the first ball pitched by Hallahan and sent | a & fly, which Watkins tcok inj short center. Haas took the Limit | then looked at a third s och- | rane took a strike before popping to Frisch in front of second base. Noruns. | SECOND INNING. ST. LOUIS—One ball and a strike, | Bottomley lined a single to right.| Wilson fouled fcr a strike and bunted | foul for number two in an eflort to| sacrifice. He took a wide one before Jofting to Miller in right center. Hit- | ting at the first ball pitched, Gelbert | forced Bottomley, Williams to Bishop, but_Gelbert beat Max's throw to Foxx by & narrow margin. Hallahan missed a swing-for a,strike, then baunded to |} Williams. - “The_shortstopper fumbled, missing a charice for a force play at - secend.” But recovered the ball in time ‘to flag Hallahan at first. No runs.” PHILADELPHIA—Simmons’ approach to the plate was cheered. He passed up a wide one before belting a double to the scoreboard in right center. As the crowd cheered, Foxx took one} straight through the middle. o wide ones followed and High then trapped a Tot shot and pegged Foxx out at first Simmons being held at second. Miller missed with a weak swing after taking a ball. He bounded the next high to Gelbert, who flagged the runner at first, and Bottomley's peg to Wilson arrived at the plate well ahead of Simmons, who tried to score, for a double play. No runs. THIRD INNING. ST. LOUIS—High was in the hole when he rolled to Bishop. Hoyt start- ed with two strikes against Watkins. He took three wide ones before lofting to Bishop back on the grass. Frisch hit the first ball pitched and skied to Haas., No runs. PHILADELPHIA—A" ball was sand- wiched between two strikes for Dykes, and after another wise one he bounded softly to Bottomley. Williams took two Justy swings and two wide ones before, fouling to High. Hoyt was easily re-| tired on a high bounder to High, No: Tuns. | FOURTH .INNING. | | ST. LOUIS—A ripple of applause | greeted Mertin as he came up. He took | a ball and a strike, then jolted a bunt | to Foxx, which he beat out for'a single, | his tenth hit of the series. Hoyt nar- | rowly missed picking Martin off first | base, and followed with another throw , before making the first delivery to; Haley, a ball. A quick throw by Hoyt | Jailed to catch Pepper napping. Hoyt | continued to closely watch Martin, and | had a count of two and two on Hafey, | when Chic went down swinging. Bot- | tomley, hitting the first ball pitched arched a long fly to left, which was| foul by less than two feet. Hoyt: continued tossing to Foxx in an effort | to keep Martin on frst. Bottomley | then got his second straight hit, an- | other single to righi, sending Martin | to third. Wilson cracked the first pitch ! on a line to Bishop, whose quick toss to Foxx deubled Bottomley off first. No Funs PHILADELPHIA--With a count of two and two, Bishop lifted a high foul, which Bottomley clutched and held despite a crash into Frisch, which sent him sprawling. Hitting the firsc ball, Haas flied to Hafey hrang flied high to Wilson on foul tur No runs. FIFTH INNING. ST. LOUIS—Thus fer a minimum of 12 Mackmen have faced Hallahan in four innings bert fouled for si e two after tal ne, then & ‘Williams 1 w's grounder and tossed hed to Simr ! | | oller to Dyk stop of Halla him out. the first pitcied ball. PHILADELPHIA strike and a_ba; back toward the boex, off Callahan’s chest into left field a single, Al's second hit of tie game. x passed up two low ones, took a strike, and let another low one go bv. {1l another, and he walked. Botto b Frisch and Wilson held a confal with Hallahan, and the crowd started | _ clapping as Miller came up. Bing's at-| *tempt to sacrifice went into the b of Bottomley. Dykes met 1 first pitch, raised a high fl tomley in foul im Williams missed with a swing after tak- i ; ing two balls. He passed up a low one | for ball three, missed and then fanned W No runs. sther swing, | SIXTH INNING. ST. LOUIS—With two strikes record- #d, Watkins raised a fly which Miller | dashed in to _capture. strike and two balls, when he veached | r the plate to slice a double down field for his second hit of the game. | me warming up. Martin took one , then walioped into the upper left ' Adams, 3b. | High, 3b { runs. | straight hit. ther swing, |~ ST. LOUIS AB. CARDINALS R. H. O. A 1 0 0 o 3 [ o 2 1 E o 1 o <l Watkins, rf. Frisch, 2b. Martin, of Hafey, If Bottomley, 1b. Wilson, c. Gelbert, ss Hallahan, p.. e99e93sse 36 3122 PHILADELPHIA ATHLETICS AB. R. IL O. A E. Bishop, 2b... o 2 McNair, 2b... [t 1 o o' 0 ... Cochrane, c.. Simmons, If-cf Foxx, 1b..... Moore, Dykes, 3| Williams, ss . Hoyt, p... | Walberg, p.. Rommel, Heving Boley .. P Po0cooNO NI RNE RN =K QS22 um S =N R LR A I | | | l ® ) - - 3] ss ‘2 Teving batted for Walberg in eighth. Boley batted for Rommel in the ninth. SCORE BY INNINGS. 1 345678 —R ST.LOUIS. 10000201 1= 5 PHILA. ...000000100- 1 SUMMARY. artin (3). Miller, Gelbert. mmons, Frisch. Runs_batted in- hits- Double play “on: Bishon to Foxx. Lefton bases—St: Louls. 5: Face %on’ balls—0f Haliahan, bere. 1. Struei out—By Hallaham, 3: by Host, 1: v Walbers. £ A Hest. 3. in 6 innings: o Wal- innings. "Kiem. Nallin, Stark and Phila delphia. %. 1 off Wal: n Messrs. McGowan. B e field stand for a home run, scoring Frisch ahead, and boosting the Cardi- nal's run total to three. It was tre first home run for St. Louis, and Martin's cleventh hit of the set. Haas made & nice running catch of Hafey's high fly in right center. TWo runs. PHILADELPHIA—Hoyt popped to Frisch. McNair was sent in by Man- ager Connie Mack to bat in place of Bishop. Hitting- the first pitch, he pop- ped fouled to Wilson. Moore batted for Haas. With two strikes and a ball, he raised an easy fly to Watkins. No runs. SEVENTH INNING. ST. LOUIS—Moore now playing left field for the Athletics, Simmons being switched over to center. McNair went to second base and Rube Walberg re- placed Hoyt in the box. The left- hander pitched two balls before Wilson fouled for the first strike. Wilson then shot a clean single to left. On the first pitch to Gelbert, a strike, Wilson was flagged stealing, Cochrane to William: Gelbert fouled for strike two, and Wil- | liams then made a nice pickup of his bounder and threw him out at first. Hallahan was called out on strikes. No PHILADELPHIA—Cochrane to Frisch on the first ball pitched. After fouling a strike, Hallahan pitched three straight balls to Simmons, the ! last one of which traveled far over Wil-| son’s ‘head to the screen. Al then lined a clean single to center, his third He alone of the A's thus far has beecn able to solve Hallahan. Foxx missed with a swing after taking the first for strike two. He passed up a ball, then crashed a safety off Halla- han's glove past Frisch to short right, sending Simmons to third. The crowd was in an uproar as Miller came to bat. Bing took a strike and then bounded to High, whose toss to Frisch forced Foxx as Simmons scored with the A’s first run. Dykes took a called strike ani two balls before missing with a swing for strike two. Meeting the next, he hit sharply down the left field line to High, who held the blow to a single by knocking the ball down. Miller took second on the safety. Willlams swung for strike one, then raised a fly which Frisch backed up for in right center. One run. EIGHTH INNING. ST. LOUIS—High swung for strike | two after taking one. His foul was fol- lowed by three balls, and he was struck out with his Walberg got a strike over after twice missing the target. Two more balls followed for a walk to Watkins. Wat- kins stcle second with a count of two and two on Prisch., Moore crossed the foul line to catch *Frankie's high fly, and up came Martin. With the count two and two, Pepper shot a clean single to left, scoring Watkins with the Cards’ fourth run. This was Martin's thicd hit in a row., and his twelfth of the series, On the second ball pitched to Hafev. Martin set sail for second. but this time Cochrane flagged him with a | good peg to McNair. One run. PHILADELPHIA—Heving batted for Walberg, as Eddie Rommel went to the bullpen to warm up. Heving flied deep ty Watkins. McNair fann23. Moore ot a single on a high bounder, which Hallaban caught close to the third base line too late Cochrane got & single on a crash which Bottomley knocked down, but couldn’t field, Mo-re taking second. Simmons bounded weakly to High, who took the ball while standing on third base, to | force Mcore. NO runs. NINTH INNING. ST. LOUIS—Rommel now pitching Hafey was creiited with ie on a rap which caromed off glove to Willlams, whose throw 2o late reaching Foxx. Foxx made top of Bottomley’s grounder and with a toss to Williams. sending Bot- lbert singled to and ‘sending n flied to out Wil tom te for a single. Gelbert to Frisch. er, Frisch to Gelbert. B ‘Texas league sin- to center. serding Dykes to third. baited for Rommel and fanned. THOMAS LIPTON BURIED GLASGOW, S;’;)fla k Bflob-‘:‘ TP, rvices in St. George's Church. 3106333333 . AS POST PUBLISHER popped i bat' on his shoulder. | to attempt a throw., High. | WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION g S WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1931—FORTY PAGES. ##%’ ar. as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 116,666 (P) Means Associated TWO CENTS. Press. FLYING HIGH! NY How | NoT as MyUcH ° UP-IN-THE-AIR 2 & MAZ = ol e f= ONE OF AMERICA'S FORE- MOST ARTISTS. 1§ ASKED BY WIFE ers. McLean Charges Infi- | delity in Szeking Divorce and Maintenance. | B Alleging that her husband has been {living with another woman ard that { he has grossly neglected the affairs of !!he Washington Post, Mrs. Evalyn { Walsh McLean today asked the Distriet | Supreme Court to grant her a limited {divorce from Edward B. McLean, pub- {lisher cf the Post, and to rémove him jas co-trustee of his father's estate. In the suit for divorce Mrs. McLean | harges that since May, 1928, her hus- band has been living constantly in | adultery with another woman, who is _ __ RESIGNS N GROUP Chancellor to Form New Min- istry—More Emergency Decrees Are Issued. DANICL CHESTER FRENCH. (Story on Page A—3) isions he has grossly mistreated her, | although she has at all times been a “ dutiful wife. Holds Paper Suffers. The other petition poigts cut that {McLean can be removed as president i and publisher of the Post only if the | court agrees to vold his appointment ! as co-trustce of the father's estate, which includes the newspaper. Asserting that the newspaper is suf-| fering grcat damage by reason of Mec- | Lean's management, the petition ac-| cuses him specifically of: | 1. “Ignoring the business affairs of | the paper while drinking excessively gnd | consorting with a woman other tMan By the Associated Press. his wife. BERLIN, October 7.—President voh 2. “Using the trust property for his | Hindenburg accepted the resignations rivate gain and appropriating trust i?unds (t5ads of the Bost). for his per- | Of the Bruening cabinet today and im- sonal use to the damage of the es-| mediately authorized Chancellor Bruen- tate. ing to form a new ministry which would coneolidate the government's position with the Reichstag. The Presidcht commissioned his chancellor to draw up a non-partisan cabinet whose members would be named strictly on personal basis and without regard for their party affiliations. Herr Bruening accepted\ the mandate, and went to work with a free hand to choose his new co-workers. The resignations followed by one day that of Foreign Minister Curtius, who withdrew in the face of attacks on his _(Continued on Page 4, Coluan 7. The More “You” Shop in Stores— The More “They” Work in Factories . People are buying now be- cause of better values for less ‘money. - Prices are from 15% to 33% less than last year. The more you buy, the more work- g ers will be needed in the fac- Former Interior Secretary ' Asks' tories to produce these things. lease From Peni i ‘You can know all about what L S e is new and desirable and about After November 22. real bargains before. .you start shopping by reading the ad- vertisements daily in The Star. Yesterday's. Advertising. (Local Displayy i . “Refusing to pay his own personal | bills, thereby offending Washington | ~(Continued on Page 2, Column 4. WRECKAGE OF PLANE | LOST AT SEA SIGHTED | |Shin Rushed to Sceme of Crash Which Cost Thre> Lives. | HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, October 7 (#).—Wreckage of the lost ship-to-shore | mail plane of the liner Bremen was | sighted today. % The wreckage of the mail plane was sighted off Economy Point by Lieut. Louis Leight from his Maritime and Newfoundland Airways plane. The tug | Almac was immediately dispatched to . the scene. i 'FALL SEEKS PAROLE | | TR0 ! Albert B. Fall, former Secretary of | the Interior, applied to the Justice De- | pertment today for a parole from his year-and-a-day sentence for accepting ' a bribe. Fall will be eligible for parcle on November 22, when he will have served : four months of the sentence fmposed on | him for aceepting $100,000 in connec- ! I tion with Government ol leases. i application probably . will be| = od within a few days by the { Paro | Eoard, e his sentence Fall | Lines. . 43,739’ 17,587 16,583 9,494 ! The Evening Star . . 2d Newspaper. . ... 3d Newspaper. .. .. 4th’ Newspaper. . .. 5th Newspaper > bef sougi% Erecutive clemency. This was | lented ab recommendation of At-| General Mitchell. The parole | ¥ \tion i entirely separate and is| Tnere are 2,500 more sub- nl = right of victed 1| scribers reading The Star daily e e Tentence. st the New|. than at this time last year and Mexico State- Penitentiary becauss of nearly 5000 more reading The pis poor healdn .. . ... .. Sinday Star 3 . 49,998 DISQUALIFIED JURY | - MEMBER GITED ON CONTEMPT CHARGE |Veteran Whose Silence on Pension Delayed Police Indictments Accused. | | Henry L Johnson, Spanish War vet- | eran, whose improper service on the | July grand jury nullified all actions of | that_body _over a period of three . DIOnth miust “show cause™ to the Dis- trict Supreme Ccurt why he should not be leld in “efiminal contempt.” A rule requiring Johnson. a pension- | er, to explain his failure to disqualify lhlmsel! was issued this afternoon by | Justice James M. Proctor in Criminal| | Division 1 following presentation to the | court by United States Attorney Leo A.| Rover of a petition charging the for-, | mer juror with deliberate misrepresen- | tation. | District Attorney Rover first filed a petition with the clerk of the court and then addressed Justice Proctor con- cerning the ccntents of the paper. Rover | suggested that Johnson be required to appear bafore the court on October 14, providing service could be obtained on| him this week. ~The court agreed to | this date. | Secret Investigation Made. The court's drastic step, taken as a new grand jury was being organized, is said to havesbeen decided upon as a ;| result of information obtained in a | secret investigation of the Johnson case.| The data obtained during this inquiry, | allegedly tended to show that the war | veteran intentionally withheld from the | court the fact that he is a Government pensioner. | District Attorney Rover is understood | to have held several conferences with | justices of the court regarding pro- | cedure to be adopted against Johnson. | "The evidence showed that Johnsoa | made no reply at all to a question re- garding pensions. His muteness, it _is 7 2, Column 1.) | | (Continued on Page COMB CANADIAN BAY FOR GERMAN AVIATORS | Searchers Charter Boats and Planes | in Effort to ‘Trace Missing Ship-to-Shore Flyers. | By the Associated Press. ! MAITLAND, Nova Scotia, October 7. —Canadian authorities, aided by planes and boats chartered by the North Ger- man -Lloyd Line, searched the muddy waters of Cobequid Bay today for two German fiyers who crashed while bear- ing ship-to-shore mail from the liner | Bremen to New York. The aviators, Fritz Simon and Ru- dolph Wagenknecht, started 700 miles off shore in a fog, but Janded at Syd- | ney, Nova Scotia, for fuel and food. Then they continued on until they | crashed. EXPECT REC'(;VERY SOON Paramount Moyie Chiefs Plan to Spend $2,000,000 on New Films. HOLLYWOOD, Calif., October 7 (#). | —An extensive production program was announced today by Paramount Studios as indicating the motion picture indus- 'BIG TURNOVER MARKET 81 to $7 Gains in Stocks Are | Numerous. IS RECORDED Marts in Europe Also Improve Under News. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 7.—Wall Street received President Hoo- ver’s plan of economic stabiliza- tion with enthusiasm today. The financial markets pushed | upward at the opening, on top of yesterday’'s spectacular advance, but the stock market, particular- ly, soon found it necessary to pause for breath. | Several gains of $1 to $7 a share: were recorded during the early S REACT The Six-Point Plan in Brief 1. Creation of a half-billion dollar private credit agency to handle credits unacceptable to the Reserve banks. 2. Liquidation of some of the frozen assets of insolvent banks. 3. Appointment of regional bankers’ committees to aid gen- erally in credit expansion. 4. Liberalization of the rules | to permit Reserve banks to han- dle a wider variety of securities. 5. If necessary, creation of a Government credit agency simi- lar to the old War Finance Cor- poration. 6. Strengthening of the re- sources of the Federal Land Banks to further accommodate the farmer. BANKS ALREADY MOBILIZING 0 PUT RELIEF PLAN OVER i MARTEN%’UNCH GIVES GARDS ANOTHER, 5-1 {LEADERS 'APPROVE PLAN | TO REVIVE U. S: BUSINESS; UPWARD Corpo;;tion‘ to Be Ready by End of Week. AID FOR FARMS ALSO PROPOSED American Bankers Indorse Steps for Pool. By the Associated As the country studied with ex- pressions of approval President Hoover's six-point plan to hasten economic recovery, the Presjdent turned quickly today to a new move toward prosperity. He conferred with prominent real estate men to devise ways of easing credit for home build- ing. Wall Street, center of financial America, greeted with enthusiasm trading, when activity was again| Half Billion Resources Will Be the President’s plan to thaw vast at a feverish pace, but trading| slackened later, and some of the| early upturn was lost, a few| shares recording small recessions | from yesterday’s final levels. ! 700,000 Shares Sold. In the first half hour the turn-over amounted to 700,000 shares, and was | almost as large as the 900,000-share turn-over in that period yesterday Brokers were inclined to view Applied to Needs Through- out United States. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. The banking resources of America frozen crcdits. Stocks led other markets in an upward surge early in the day, and cotton jumped at the outset, sithough some gains later were lost as trading slack- ened. i Banking circles hailed the plan |today are being mobilized tp present | as constructive and promised co- the |3 50lid wall of resistance against the | operaticn. Leading bankers im- quieting down of the stock market as |€lements, both at home and zbroad, mediately went to work on details more encouraging than otherwise, | pointing out that after yesterday's up- turn, which in percentage gain was | the widest in recent stock exchange | history, the market needed a breath- ing_spell, position. While official comment from heads o diately, .Y-ml:. it was said unom. | cially in le: ‘panking quarters that President Hoover's program was re- | " (Continued on Page 4, Column 6.) | EVANGELISTS HIT | WAR AND LIQUOR i Wichita Session Also Indorses Plea for All Christians to Exercise Right to Vote. By the Associated Press. ‘WICHITA, Kans, October 7.—Con- demnation of war as a means of settling international disputes, definite support of national prohibition and a plea for | all Christians to exercise their right of | suffrage, were embodied in resolutions adopted at the closing session of the National Evangelistic Association herc yesterday. The session closed & two-day meeting | preliminary to the international con- | vention of the Disciples of Christ, ope ing last night. The report, read by the Rev. Dr. R | H. Miller, Kansas City, also deplored | the “condition of ' unembloyment throughout the world in the face of | plentiful harvest.” and declared “this| distressing period is a challenge to the | church to extend general help to those | who are unwilling casualties of the de- | pression. Dr. Claude E. Hill, Tulsa, Okla, was | president. efs on yesterday's program in- clu William Mander, Leicester, Eng- / 4BACK SEAT” DRIVING SUSTAINED BY COURT| TaanGR e | Guest in Auto Must Remonstrate When Driver Is Negligent, Justices Hold. By the Assoclated Press. CHARLESTON, W. Va., October 7.— | “Back-seat” driving was sustained by | the State Supreme Court yesterday. | The court, reversing a decision of the | Pocahontas County _ Court, which awarded damages to E. C. Herold for injuries suffered while riding with C. C. Clendennen, held that although the | driver of an automobile owes to his guest “reasonmable care for his safety” | the guest “must exercise ordinary care | for his own safety, and when he knows | that the driver is not taking proper precautions, it becomes the duty of the guest to remonstrate.” | present depression.” that have been undermining public confidence. i Out of the plan announced by Presi- dent Hoover will come the first vital and time to consolidate its|step since Octcber, 1929, to erect a Federal Reserve System. credit structure elastic enough to tide America over the depression period and world through the effects of American economic_recovery. % ‘The plan goes into o tion new law, but with congressional authorization, and it should be required. 2 { It is a program which the banking leaders of the country are sponsoring, and it gets Nation-wide confidence, be- | cause the political side of the situation, represented by the President and the Democratic as well as Republican lead- |ers, is co-operatively blended with the economic side, represented by the prin- cipal banks of America. A revolving credit of $500,000.000 to | take care of slow or frozen assets recoz- " (Continued on Fage 5, Column 5.) 'SMOOT HOLDS PLAN IS MASTER STROKE' Chairman of Senate Finance Com-% mittee Approves Action cf President. By the Associated Press. | SALT LAKE CITY, October 7.—| Senator_Reed Smoot, chairman of the | Senate Finance Committee, today char- | acterized the President’s credit plan as “a master stroke.” He said he expressed | his approval yesterday when it was sub- m}:tted to him from Washington by tele- | one. “T‘ont see how anybody in_the | United States can now have any appre. hension as to the business of the coun- try being carried on in a successful manner,” the Senator said. “I know of nothing’ that could bring more confi- dence and more hope to the business | and peonle of the country than the | President’s plan. | “As an American citizen I take this | means of thanking the President and | his associates for bringing forth a plan | that_ought to silence the fears of the | people of the country as to the ability of | our institutions to carry on through this HOL£AND DENIES RUMORS | Netherlands C. of C. in U. 8. Says Gold Exports Will Continue. NEW ' YORK, October 7 (#).—The Netherlands Chamber of Commerce of | New York announced today it has been | authorized by the Bank of Netherlands, | at Amsterdam, Holland, “to contradict | most emphatically any rumors as to| Holland stopping or having stopped gold exports. Nothing has been changed or will be changed in this respect.” RUMOR THAT HOOVER SEEKS NEW | DEBT HOLIDAY ANGERS LAVAL | Premier Threatens to Cancel U. S. Trip Until Washington Denies Report. try's faith in an early Teturn to “busi- ness normaley.” . Nine picture companies are working now on the steges-an deight others.are rea “wb?lnthumonm.izwum- nounced. New York studios are two additional features, while the Join- ville, France, and Elstree, England stu- dios are working to capacity on multi- u%‘r‘ s ‘was said to involve about H. G. Wells En Route to U. §. LONDON, October 17 (A —H. G. Wells, British novelist, left today !olr mpton to the liner Sl e S o b was making the trip Alming | i By Cable to The Star. PARIS, October 7.—Premier Laval for a few hours yesterday was almost '.% verge of canceling the plans for nhl:almn trip, it was learned his from official sources y. Wi «dispatch published mls ‘Washington, hurried to Premier Laval's office last evening and assured him no such proposal was contemplated. He informed the French premier that President Hoover's pronunciamento to- day dealt exclusively with domestic banking and the only discussion of for- affairs was a brief mention of Premier Laval's coming visit, when measures for remedying the world sit- uation would be discussed by the. two s en. With this assurance that President Hoover will take no further steps affect- ing France until he has had oppor- tunity to talk with the French premier, fhe ‘Engilsh Iangu wopi pmm'"%" ne' pub- lished in Paris, "y bassador of a $500,000,000 credit corpora- tion proposed by the President for the relief of banks outside the They in- dicated a working plan would ba f the leading banks was not imme- |at the same time help the rest of the Ieady by the end of the week. In Atlantic City the American WAth "“MRTM‘“’ ‘Associgtion -voted quick ;y&u‘.mn ,i; apgroval of f-hel’i!‘ankers’ poo?. ecking in principle for the President’s domesiic plan came from both Republican and Demo- cratic congressional leaders. Favorable comment came from the press and from leading bankers and business men. while cables from London. Paris and other cities brought information of the interest evidenced in finan- cial and business circles abroad. Ambassador Dawes, in London, characterized the President’s plan as calculated to provide a basis for improved business activity. 'Scnator Reed Smoot, chairman of th@® Senate Finance Committee, called the move “a master stroke” and Senator Vandenberg of Mich- igan hailed “the daw» of a new economic day.” PLAN WIDELY APPROVED. Special Session of Congress Asked to Hasten Results of Proposal. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. President Hoover’s proposal for stabi- lizing the American banking system, announced at his conference with 32 members of the Senate and House last night, met widespread approval today. The aftermath of the conference in- cluded: e%n-m:ecn-i.:- upswing !a the stock mar- A propusal that the President call a fTect the legislation pecescary to carry out his plan, e A demand that the New York Stock Exchange voluntarily give a_two-month trial of a ban on short selling of se- curities. The President was requested by Sen- ator Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan, in a letter sent to the White House to- ::gs.s to call the special session of Con- Didn't Discuss Session. The Michigan Senator, who attended the White House conference, voiced his hearty approval of the steps which the President has proposed, both for the bankers and for Congress. Representative John Garner of Texas, Democratic leader of the House, also took the view that the President could | expedite his economic emergency pro- gram by calling Congress ip special ses- slon. He added, however. he did not expect a call for a special session would g0 forward. There was'no discussion at the White House conference last night of the need " (Continued on Page 4, Column 1) \DEFENDS ROOSEVELT IN SPENDING CHARGE Porto Rican Auditor Denies Gov- ernor Used Public Finds on Family. By the Associated Press. SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, October 7.— Gov. Theodore Roosevelt, accused by former Mayor Roberto H. Todd of ex- travagant and unlawful expenditures at his official residence, had a defender- today in the person of Insular Auditor. L. A. MacLeod. : MacLeod described as “vicious and unwarranted” Todd's published accusa- ticns that the Governor “has been mak- ing the people of Porto Rico pay for his family’s expenses.” He issued his denial, he said, “to prevent the Gov- ernor's good name and splenid record from being maligned.” . .Radio P;omm on P;;e B-19 :