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he Fhening Star. D, WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Falr today and tomorrow; warmer to- morrow. Temperatures—Highest, 64, at 12:30 :m. yesterday;’ lowest, 46, at 7 a.m. to- Full report on page 16. The only evening paper in Washington with the Au?c ated Press, news service. Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages13,14 & 15 ¥intered as second class matter post. office, Washington, D. (. PR O TS| Sumiea Yesterday’s Circulation, 116,110 No. WASHINGTON, FLECTION ASSAILED 31,938, ., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, P TWO CENTS. 11, DEBT POLICY HOOVER PROPOSALS (#) Mcans Associated Press. 1931 —THIRTY-TWO PAGES. HUR'.ERS EXPE[}]’ED:PI unge From Bridge! N DECING GAVE WEATHER IS BALMY Earnshaw, Saved for Series Climax by Mack, Is Due to; Face Grimes—Rules 2-to-1 Favorite. BIG DROP IN ENTHUSIASM EVIDENCED IN ST. LOUIS No Wild Rush Made for T\lmstilex; and Tickets Are Plentiful Dur-' ing Mc n5—Cards Confident of o 13 Comebrck—PBurleigh Stop Them.™ The probable lin=. Philadelphia (A.) Bishop, 2b. Haas, cf Cochrane, c. Simmons, 1f Foxx. 1b Milier, rf Dykes. 3b. Williams, ss Earnshaw, p. Grimes, p. Umpires—Mr. Stark (N. L), plate; Mr. McGowan (A. L.). first base: Mr. Klem (N. L), second base; Mr. Nallin (A. L)), third base. BY EDWARD J. NEIL. the Associated Press SPORTSMAN'S PARK, St. Louis, October 10.—Despite the balmiest kind of Indian Summer weather and the| prospect of a sensational deciding duel between the ace right handers, George Earnshaw and Burleigh Grimes, there was no wild rush for the turnstiles to- €ay to sce the Athletics and Cardinals scttle the world series. Tickets for the seventh game, put on sale immediately after Lefty’ Grove set down the Red Birds yesterday, were still plentiful when the band came out be- fore noon to entertain the shirt-sleeved noisy occupants of the bleachers. The wide open spaces in left center | ‘were well populated by the dollar cus- tomers, but the covered paviliow in righ® field held far from its usual early quota of fans. Enthusiasm Drops. There was a sharp drop in home- town enthusiasm following the failure of Pepper Martin to continue his daz- zling streak of play against the world champions, but the Cardinals them- selves were confident they would come back to win behind the hurling of their oid spitball warrior, Grimes. ‘Tll stop ‘em!" growled Grimes, as| he came to the club house with a black stubble of veard His mates were certain he could hold his own with Earnshaw. If the heroes of successive two-hit games in Phiiadelphia returned to the war with their effectiveness unimpaired, there was every outlook for a thrilling battle of pitching craft and s L e Athletes were strong favorites in betting, nevertheless. Grimes has captured only one out of three tussles with the world cham- pions. whereas Earnshaw has dropped the decision only once in five starts. Six games the world champion Phil- srdelphia Athletics and the St. Louls Cardinals have played to capacity in the run of the play, a sensational pres- «entation, yet today the question of con- ueror and conquered rested solely on the decision of one ball game, the sev- erth and last of the world series of 1931, -up: St. Loy Fr | Mer Hafey, If. Bottomley, 1b. Wilson, c. Gelbert, ss. B came to an end as it began—one of the most exciting struggles in all the history of the anpual Fall battles—and, as is just and befitting the time- honored course of all true drama, two of the outstanding characters in the play locked in a final duel. Earnshaw Saved for Climax. On one side was Earnshaw, saved by ® daring bit of strategy for this one climactic effort. Glaring at him across he stage. backed almost off the boards v tactical blunders as open to censure Mack's gamble was to praise, stood Grime:, the embattled spitball veteran, 1. snarling. pugnacious features “ bristiing uncer a twe-day growth of whiskers. It was most fitting that these great right-handers, each the hero of a two- hif masterpiece, should come down to the end of the final act locked in bat- tle for the gold and glory of base ball's world championship. There was another hero in the piece, too, although the brightness of his mor had dimmed a bit in the re- verses every hero must meet before ¥ight can triumph and justice mete out its final award. He was “Pepper” Martin, the wild Wahoo, lionized, feted, presented with everything from a water- melon to a shotgun, all of which he wvould gladly swap todiay for a couple of those base hits that came so easily 0 the first five games of the series. 3 Now Up to “Pepper.” It was just possible that “Pepper the irrepressible, could throw off the #hackles Robert Moses Grove, the left- hander, placed upon his wrists and Bnkles yesterday in the Athletics 8-to-1 Nictory that evened the count at three | games all and forced the series into a | geventh game for the first time in five years. True drama is like that. And “Pepper” still hitting .571, the bat that oke up three of the six ball games | d was a thunderous factor in two| . others, still swinging, can make or | preak the final act for the Cardinals. ! Oncemore, in the rise of the A's back | 0 a commanding position, it was the | trategy of the 68-year-old Connie fighting desperaiely for his third ght championship, perhaps the final ecord of his 50 years in base bail, that urned the tide. While the base ball world looked yes- vday for the appearance of Earnshaw, | gnfi A's best bet to prolong the fight. | onnle gambled with Grove, the south- aw, who won 31 victories in the Amer- | can League last season. but who was touched for 23 hits by the Cards in two | garlier games. | Gabby Street, with two winning | pitchers, Burleigh Grimes and the two- e conqueror of the A's, Wild Bill allahan, chose to send out 225-pound 'aul Derringer, the rookie. And for the econd time in the series the right- anded freshman cracked after a fine | tart, lost his control. and what might | ave been the deciding game flew right | ut of Gabby's window. Robert Moses rarely has been better (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) | Is Found Hanging Husband Discovers Body in ‘Apartment Closet This Morning. ‘The body of Mrs. Eric Greenleaf, wife of an engineer with the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephons Co., was found hanging in her apartment at 1026 Six- teenth street this morning. Just 10 days ago Mrs. Greenleaf sur- vived without serious injury a fall from the railing of the Dumberton Bridge over Rock Creek Park. Her body was found hanging in a closet of the Sixteenth street apartment by_her husbai ; He immediatcly notified police and the coroner was called to investigate. Mrs. Greenleaf injured her back ir her fall September 30 from the Dum- 1 | barton Bridge. At that time, she ex-| plained, her fall was due to an attacl of vertigo. Mrs. Greenleaf was discharged from Georgetown University Hospital after treatment for the injurles from her bridge leap, a week ago today. She was the daughter of the late J Culp, who lived in Washington for any years and was a vice president of the Southern Railway. P. m: _ USTOATSION IN ASIATIC GRISIS; WL BACK CENEVA Expects to Retain Independ- dent Position on Kellogg- Briand Anti-War Pact. By the Associated Press. The American Government expects to t in the Manchurian situation as soon as it is definitely convinced that pledges given to the League of Nations | by Japan and China are not being ful- filled. There was no positive statement that action would not be forthcoming today, however, because of the rapidly chang- ing situation. This Government expects to co-oper- ate with the League of Nations, which several days ago was given assurance by both the Japanese and Chinese gov- ernments that they would refrain from aggravating the situation. At the same time the United States will retain its independent position and may act un- der the Kellogg-Briand pact to renounce war, or the nine-power pacific treaty of 1922, The League last night sent a reitera- tion of its plea for refraining from hos tile acts, reminding both China and Japan of their pledges. Stimson at White House. Secretary Stimson was an early caller today at the White House, but would not comment on the Manchurian situa- tion or on what he talked to the Presi- dent about. The only statement Secretary Stim- son would make for publication at his Tegular press conference was that the department is still working hard on the Manchurian situation after having con- centrated upon it throughout most of yesterday following a cabinet meeting at which President Hoover took up the subject. Close study is being given reports of American observers in Manchuria, with particular reference to whether the commitments given the League are be- ing fulfilled. Bombings Aggrevate Crisis. Considerable gravity has been added to the situation in the last 48 hours by Teports of bombing of a Chinese town by Japanese aviators, who asserted they had been fired upon, and through Japanese charges that Chang Hsueh- ._30-year-old governor of Man- (Continued on Page 2, Column 17.) e CALLS NATION FOOLVISH IN TREATING INSANITY By _the Associated Press ELGIN, Il1, October 10.—Dr. John R. Harger, president of the Chicago Medi- cal Society, said the Nation is penny wise and pound foolish in matters of insanity. Many so-called “hopeless cases” would be returned to normal ones, he said last night, if States augmented their equip- ment and enlarged their staffs. By so doing, millions of dollars annually. “Investigations now being carried on,” he continued, “show positively many types of insanity are directly traceable to physical conditions calling for medical and surgical attention. Usu- ally when the physical ailment is cor- rected the mental ailment also dis- appears. Selecting a Home The selection of the home is “among the most important of family decisions. Advertise- ments in The Star offer the greatest possible assistanee in the matter. Only through careful reading of advertisements in The Star can you be fully aware of local real estate offerings. Yesterday's Advertising. (Local Display) es. Th:.Evening Star 67,619 2d Newspaper 3d Newspaper 4th Newspaper 5th Newspaper Total n Real estate advertising in The Star during September totaled 59,818 lines. This is much more than real estate advertising printed in all other Washington papers fombined. DY LLOYD CEORCE: LT THREATEND |May Divide Tory and Liberal | Candidates in Support of Government. 'BALLOT PLAN LABELED WANTON AND UNPATRIOTIC | Baldwin Raps Backers in Darwen for Entering Opponent to Sir Herbert Samuel. By the Associated Press. LONDON, October 10.—David Lioyd | George's arralgnment of the coming general election threatened today in many constituencies to split Conserva- tive end Liberal candidates in thelr support of the national government. The ailing Liberal leader issued a statement describing the election as | “the most wanton and unpatriotic into | which the country ever has been | plunged,” and accusing the Conserva :tl\'es of plotting the vote in order to foist a protective tariff on the country. | T shall be happy to do all in my power in the next Parliament.” he said, | “to assist any government or any party | | which is striving faithfully to get us! through our troubles, but I decline to | assist a mere Tory ramp (swindle) to | | explott. the nation®] emergeney for Tory | | ends.” | Stanley Baldwin, Conservative stand | ard bearer, in an address at Birming ham criticized his Conservative sup- | porters in Darwen for running a candi- | date egainst Sir Herbert Samuel, Lib- eral member of the cabinet, and at the | same time deplored orders from the | Liberal Federation for Liberals to op- pose Conservatives wherever possible. | Liberal free-traders and Conservative | protectionists in some districts are find- ing that the pull of party polities and long-standing prejudices are more pow- erful than the appeal to back the gov- ernment. Arrangements have been { made in many cases for either the can- didate of one or the other party to stand eside and thus insure a straight fight with the Laborites, but plans are going awry. National headquarters of the two | parties are exerting the utmest influ- ence with local organizations, which { select the candidates end determine the issues, to avoid splitting the govern- ment's votes. Oliver Baldwin, 32-year-old son of | the Conservative leader. has an-| nounced his acceptance of the Labor party’s nomination for the House of ‘Commons from Chatham. He will campaign on a straight issue of So- cialism versus Capitalism. Thus he will ! be arrayed against Stanley Baldwin, his father, who is supporting the national government Malcolm MacDonald has backed Prime Minister MacDonald throughout his | | controvery with the Laborites, but will | | seek re-election as a_candidate of that | | party. His sister Ishbel is not a candi- | | cate for Parliament, but is campaigning | | for her father in his rebellious con- stituency. Megan Lloyd George is stumping the | country in support of the Liberal lead- ier's principles. Arthur Henderson, jr.. is a Labor member of the House, and. jso far as is known, will cling to his, | father's party in the election. i Decisive Role for Women. i | Great Britain's women, as candidates. | campaign workers and voters, will play a decisive role in the election. The Labor party is expected to run from 20 to 25 women for the House of Commons and the Conservatives and | 1 | \ e LEGISLATURE ASKS ORY MODFICATION New Jersey Session Calls on Congress to Act in View of Sentiment. By the Assoclated Press. TRENTON, N. J, October. 10.—The New Jersey Legislature today adopted a | joint resolution ealling upon Congress | to modify the Volstead act to legalize manufacture and sale of light wines and beer. | It was the Legislature’s first move for | prohibition reform since the eighteenth amendment became operative. Passage of the resqlution was made possible by a coalition of Republican ' and Democratic members. Many Caucuses Held. Republican leaders of both Houses caucused many times before the resolu- tion was moved. It was only by con- struing the Senatg rule to mean that a majority was not required on concur- rent resolutions that passage was made | possible. ‘The vote in the House was 43 to 7, the latter Republican. The Senate vote was 9 to 5. Four Republicans and one Democrat passed the negative Senate vote. A majority of the Senate is 11 votes. Rev. James K. Shields, superintend- ent of the New Jersey Anti-Saloon League, who sought to block the reso- lution, ‘asserted it would “go down to Washington to help fill dead letter archives.” Sentiment Seen Widespread, The resolution set forth that: “There 18 widespread sentiment throughout the Nation toward a change in the Volstead act 50 as to legalize the manufacture and sale of light wines and beers,” and declared that “a change in the Volstead act legalizing the manufacture and sale of light wines and beer will have the effect of saving | millions of dollars to the Federal Gov- ernment and States in enforcing the Liberals about & dozen each, while the | prohibition laws, and add millions of number to represent independent groups | dollars in revenue to the Government has not been decided. In the 1929 elec- ; Which have been lost since the passage the taxpayers would be saved : that | tion 69 woman candidates were put for- ward by all parties and 14 were elected. The most prominent of this year candidates are Lady Astor, American born member of Parllament. who is standing for re-election as a Conserva- | tive: Margaret Bondfield, former Minis- ter of Labor, who seeks her old post as | a Laberite: the Duchess of Atholl. who | held a cabinet post in the last Conserva- tive government, and Miss Lloyd George. | Political organizations are being be- sieged by women and girls who are eager to lend a hand in boosting the candidacies of their favorite nominees. | Most of them will be used in the rou- | tine work of distributing campaign ma- | terial, but the most talented will stump | the country on the battlefront. H Among the most tireless campaign | workers of this and past elections is | Miss MacDonald. She is carrying the | fight for his re-election into the enemy's | camp in Seaham Harbor, which once sent him to Parliament and now rejects him. She also will work for her brother Malcolm in Bassetlaw. Women Outnumber Men. She will have a worthy competitor in Miss Lloyd George, who will defend her ailing father against a woman Labor candidate and a male Conserva- | tive in Carnarvon, as well as attending ' to her own candidacy in Anglesey. Under a new register, dating from October 15, more women will exercise the franchise than in any previdus elec- tion. Of approximately 30,000,000 eligible voters women are expected to outnumber men by about 2.000,000, and it is believed this preponderance may turn the balance in favor of the Na- tional government. The female vote was credite} largely with turning Baldwin's Conservative government out of power in 1929 and elevating MacDonald’s Labor ministry. The extension of the franchise to per- sons over 21 years of age increased the woman poll by 5,000,000 and the male by only 1,000,000, producing what was popularly known as the “flapper vote.” CRASH KILLS U. S. PILOT Four Mexicans Also Lose Lives in Forced Landing. MEXICO CITY, October 10 (#).—The bodies of an American pilot and four Mexicans who were killed in a ferced landing of a passenger plane bound | from Mexico City to Leon on the Ciu- | dad-Juarez Airline, were brought back i today by motor ambulance. The victims were identified as Pilot Ray E. Salomon, Co-Pilot Ocampo, Se- nora Forestieri, her small niece and | Miss Alicia & de 1a Garza, the last four irom Mexico City. Meager information received here in- cicated the pilot was forced down ai | San Bartol yesterday morning and struck an obstruction, which wrecked the plane and caused the motor to ex- plousy i | i Cobequib Bay. of the prohibition amendment, and would prevent racketeering and general disregard of law.” AUTOPEY SPURS HUNT FOR MISSING AIRMAN Discovery That Ship-to-Shore Pilot Lived Three Days Spe Search for Pal. By the Associated Press. PARRSBORO, Nova Scotia, October 10.—Spurred on by a physician's report that Fritz Simon, German pilot, lived for two or three days after crashing in his Bremen ship-to-shore mail plane, searchers continued today to hunt for Rudolph Wogenknecht, his companion. Simon's body was found yesterday in Dr. C. S. Henderson sald death was due to exposure, but that Simon lived at least two or three days after the crash. He said the flyer could not have been dead more than 24 hours when found. URIBURU REPORTED ILL Provisional President in Agentina Ordered to Take Rest. BUENOS AIRES, October 10 (#).— Provisional President Jose Uriburu was reported today to be ill and his doctors ordered him to drop governmental duties and take a complete rest for a week. One man was killed last night in a repetition of the previous night's riot- ing between government adherents and supporters of the Radical part CHICAGO, October 10 (#).—Harold | F. McCormick today filed suit for di- | vorce against Ganna Walska McCor- mick, charging desertion. Mrs. McCormick has been in Paris I much 'in recent years. trying to con- duct a business in woman's wear. Mec- Cormick, head of International Har- vester, was formerly the husband of Edith'Rockefeller, daugbter of John D. Rockefeller, but’ they were divorced some time before he was wed to Ganna Walska, who sought a grand opera career. EDISON, N STUPOR * KNOWS ONLY WIF Unnourished for 24 Hours, Inventor Remains Same [ After Restless Night. By the Associated Press. WEST ORANGE, N. J, October 10.— Dr. Hubert S. Howe announced today that Thomas A. Edison had taken n | nourishment for the past 24 hours, thl‘ |he was in an almost constant stupor | and that he no longer recognized any one, with the possible exception of the | wife, | Dr. Howe's formal morning bulletin, which he amplified in conversation wita reporters, follows: “Mr. Edison had a restless night, but there is little noticeable change, and | his clinical condition is about the same | s yesterday.” | | T do not believe Mr. Edison will die suddenly,” said Dr. Howe in kLis final | | bulletin last night. *“At the same time | | it would not surprise me if I received | an_emergency call at any time.” 5 Details of motor cycle policemen are | kept on 24-hour duty to speed the way for the physician when the cl\mlcuc‘ hour ccmes. Bulletins issued from time to time by | Charles Edison, the inventor’'s son, sup- plement those of Dr. Howe and indi- | cated the despair of hope by members of the family, all gathered in the Edi- son home. Dr. Howe branded as “a lot of non- sense” statements by Mr. Edison’s bar- | ber that the dying inventor had recog- nized him yesterday ‘The patient is now so weak, Dr. Howe | said, that, even after he has been car- | ried to his chair, he is able to sit up jonly a few minutes. He added that so | far today Mr. Edison had not indicated a desire to be moved. From his present semi-conscious con- | dition, Dr. Howe said, it would be pos- sible for Edison to slip into a coma al- most without warning. But the Dl‘ly" sician sald he did not expect this to | happen for some time. | = i RADIO INNOVATION CUTS ADS; REFERS HEARERS TO NEWSPAPERS By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 9.—A departure in radio advertising programs, virtually eliminating commercial features and urging listeners to read the newspapers for advertisements, has been inaugu- rated here with a flood of commenda- tion from the radio public. ‘The innovation was s by the National Sugar Refining Co. of New Jersey. company recently announced at the bo- ginning of its usual half-hour musical brozdczst over NBC: “In tonight's program we initiate an innovation in radio. We have done 2y with our commfifcial advertising announcements, We, 1bat a8 you After two years of radio ad- | vertising in the customary manner the | called to the fact that the firm's adver- | (Broadcasters’ Plan Receives Flood of Commendation From | Listeners All Over Country. | i listen in on our prcgram you wish to be | | entertained.” | It was then suggested that listeners | interested in the company's product read its newspaper advertisements. | “Since then, the.company has merely announced its sponsorship of the pro- gram at the start, no interruption of the musical numbers for commercial announcement. At the time of pause for station announcements attention is 1 tisements appear in the daily news- papers. Company officials said today their |radio plan had attracted favorable | comment from listeners in all parts of the country and that many lctters of lcom.mendlflon had peen received. | derfully , napolis goal the Midsh! | Radio BRILLIANT THRONG \ T0 SEE NAVY GAME Middy-Maryland Contest Promises to Be Season’s Greatest Grid Spectacle. With the foot ball teams of the Naval Acacemy and the Unitersity of Mary- [ 1and primed to the minute Washington | | will have this afternoon its greatest| gridiron spectacle of the season. A record-breaking crowd, including Secre- tary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams, Gov. Albert Ritchie of Mary- | land and numerous dignitaries of Uncle | Sam’s sea forces and the Old Line State | will be in Grifith Stadium to cheer thelr favorites in the National Capital first foot ball engagement of major mag- nitude_since 1922, when the Navy and Penn State clashed here. There will be much entertainment aside from the actual battling of the elevens for the throng in the plant on Georgia avenue. A half hour before ganie time, 2:30 o'clock, the brigade of midshipmen will arrive at the ball park and parade around the field before tak- ing their rescrved section in the south stands. The Annapolis conting=nt will have with it the Naval Academy Band and the justly famous goat mascot with its gold and blue horns, colors of the service institution. The Maryland students, who are to be seated in the open stand bordering | the east end of the gridiron also wil have their musical organization with | them. Nattily attired in black uniforms | embellished with gold stripes and wear- | ing black berets topped by jaunty golden tufts the College Park bands- men will strut before the Navy stands | prior to the contest. Between the halves | of the game there will be much tooting and parading by both bands. Middies to Entertain. Maryland has its well nwlnlndl cheering section, but the greater color naturally will be provided by the won- drilled Midshipmen. months the Naval Academy brigade has been preparing various stunts to be sprung this afternoon and the more than 2,000 midshipmen equipped with cardboard squares of blue, gold and white are to present picturesque forma- tion of kaleidoscopic character. Both teams have pointed especially for the game. Maryland has been in two games thus far this season. It scored over Washington College in its first engagement and last Saturday won by a point margin over Virginia, one of | its great rivals on the gridiron. For Navy this will be the second game of the season. At Annapolis last Satur- day the Midshipmen were pressed be- fore triumphing over William and Mary, but with the exception ‘of Bullet Joe Kirn, a stellar back last year, the squad is in superb physical condition and re- | ports from its base indicate it has de- | veloped in playing ability considerably since its first appearance in competi- tion. For Teams Met Last Year. Maryland and Navy met at Annapolis last year, with the latter scoring s touchdown victory. The points were made by Kirn, who crashed through the Maryland line and dashed 65 yards | to goal in the first minute of play. Thereafter the teams fought fiercely, with Maryland generally the aggressor, but on the several occasions that the College Park eleven neared the An- ipmen braced remarkably to stave off nfl'l‘y defeat. ‘The game will bring together many Annapolis _graduates and Maryland alumni and will be followed by several formal social functions. Dinner parties and dances have been arranged. Prob- ably the largest of the dances will be that at the Shoreham sponsored by the Old Line Club, the Washington organi- zation of Maryland alumni. —_—— VENEZUELAN REBELS SEIZE MEXICAN SHIP Passengers and Take Steamer at Sea to Run Arms, Report Says. FPose as By the Assoclated Press. MEXICO CITY, October 10.—The |LAVAL VISIT MAY RESULT | kept carefully to the fore during the | has taken the position that if foreign | s | demand BASEDONNATIONS CAPACTY T0 PAY No Suggestion for Extending Moratorium Made to Europe by Hoover. IN A LONGER HOLIDAY Large-Scale Revision of War Obli- gations Is Regarded as Pos- sible Alternative. By the Associated Press. While the American Government does | not intend to burden European nations beyond their abllity to pay, it expects ' to demand fulfiliment of war debt obli- | gations to the extent possible. With this in view, it has been made | known here that President Hoover has advanced no suggestion abroad for ex- | tending the moratorfum on war debts | and reparations payments beyond next | June. However, there is & feeling in Wash- ington that from the discussions late this month of President Hoover and Premier Laval of France and from the | 1932 Disarmament Conference may come either a general extension of the moratorium or perhaps a lsrge-scale revision of all war debta. Will Take Needs Into Account. The budgetary requirements of the European nations in thelr ratio to| prospective war debt payments will be | Laval-Hoover conferences. Mr. Hoover nations would reduce their expenditures for armaments they would greatly im- prove their economic condition | A more direct interpretation has ! been given this by some of the ad-| ministration’s advisers. They contend that if France and other nations can afford enormous sums for armaments, they can pay their debts to the United | States. View Finding Favor. This view is finding increasing favor in Am bota among officials and those ciemde the Government. If the situation shculd resolve itself definitely | to the point where this country would | limitation of military and | ! naval activities in exchange for war debt reductions. President Hoover yould find much support on Capitel | Hill. |, Only yesterday evidence of this came from a source now opposed to exten- sion of the debt moratorium. Chairman Britten of the House Naval Committee said he would support further debt holiday only if Great Britain and Japan “not only annul | mew construction contracts but scrap | down to_the ratios established by the ! London Naval Conference so that the | American Navy will unquestionably be | equal to England.” MEEHAN ARRESTED FOR “FIXING” RACES. | { Associate of Late Arnold Rothstein Implicated by Cc'- ored Men. | | By (he Associated Pre | MINEOLA, N. Y., October 10.—Jim- mie Meehan, former gambling house | NEARNG FRUTION AS WEEK CLOSE Inquiry Is Begun to Aid Banks at Crisis in Rail Bonds. INSTITUTIONS FACING LOSS ON LIQUIDATION Depreciation in Market Value Threatens Standing on List of Eligible Investments. By the Associated Press. An economically spectacular week ended today with part of President Hoover's business restoration program rearing fruition and another joimt ;added to strengthen railroad securities: Greatly encouraged over the senti- ment engendered by his proposals, made public Tuesday night, for better- ing credit conditions, the Chief Execu- tive 8 making an exhaustive inquiry into possible means of raising the in- vestment value of railroad bonds. Banks Facing Losses. Hundreds of savings banks and mu- tual savings associations, particularly {in the West, have put money into these bonds because of decreased demands for loans. Due to declining value of the securities, many of them are threatened with being removed from the eligible list for purchase by savings banks. At the same time. the depreciation in their market value has placeg the banks in a position of beinz unzble to dis- Pcse of their assets without a loss. Mr. Hoover has undcrlaken the ex- panded inquiry with a fceling that the emergency $500,000,000 credit corpora- tion “which private bankers have or- ganized will be far-reaching in its power to restore normal processes of credit and increase purchasing powe:. He is particularly impressed with th. support given his program by Senator and Representatives who attended hi- conference Tuesday and believes that from the meeting evolved a .msjor legislative program. It was only a week ago that thc President, after long discussions with both administrative and private ad- | visers, decided to go forward with hic encompassing proposals. Since then. day by day, events have followed one another with & speed that has left the financial world agape. Last Saturday night Mr. Hoover sent over the country his call for 33 Con- gressional leaders to meet with him a: the White House on “a matter of na- tional importance.” Sunday night, scorning precedent. he visited the apartment of Secretary Mellon to confer with prominent New York bankers. Monday morning, in New York. the a | bankers approved the program proposed by the Chief Executi Parties Unanimous, Tuesday night the proposals were laid before leaders of the legislative oranch—a program indorsed by the Fed- eral Reserve Board, the Federal Farm Board and the Treasury Department. Sixteen Senators snd sixteen Repre- sentatives of parties of ordinarily diver- |qvnv. views were inspired to unanimi At midnight the President summoned a ‘stenographer as the legislators left. He dictated a summary of the program, embracing: Creation of the $500.000,000 eredit corporation to help liquidate frozen as- sets of closed banks Liberalization of the stringent redis- count limitations prohibiting the Re- serve Board from accepting certain classes of securities. Expansion of the Federal land bank system and additional funds to provide extension of rural credits. A planned conference with Premier Laval of France to discuss possibility ef partner of Arnold Rothsteln, who was extension of the one-year moratorium held for & time in connection with the | gambler chief’s murder, was arrested | today for conspiracy in the wholessle “fixing” of race horses. Meehan, who was a player in the high-spade game in which Rothstein lost $300,000 shortly before he was slain, was arrested as a result of the confession of two colored men, Drum- mond Jackson and James Hartwell, who said Meehan paid them to tamper with horses. Jackson gave himself up and con- | fessed after an attempt was made last Monday to break into the Belmont| Stable of Victor Emanuel, young mil- lionaire sportsman, who races his horses | both here and abroad. He implicated | Hartwell and the latter gave Meehan's name. Hartwell listed the following among race horses he had helped to slow down | by drugs or nose spoi 2 The Milkman, Squeaky (from the Clancy Stables), Sun Mission (owned by Isadore Bieber), Mr. Sponge, Try and Again and Curate (the last three owned by Joseph E. Widener) and Mor- stone, The Beasel and Tony Princess (the last three owned by Emmanuel). ‘The colored men had already been given six months on disorderly conduct charges, but were brought to the dis. trict attorney's office to confront Mee- han. Meehan said he was first associated with Rothstein in 1921 as pay-off man and later ran a gambling house in West- chester County for him, receiving one- fourth of the profits, which amounted to about half a million dollars. After Rothstein’s murder Meehan went to Havana, but returned and was held in $100,000 bail as & material wit- ness. He was later discharged after the district attorney’s office said he had answered all questions asked him Police here sald that he was forbid- den entrance to any race track in New York State. He himself told officials of the district attorney’s office that he made his living at present by gambling and “cheating the kies.” He denied (any implication in “fixing” race hotses. | i { department of communications reported today that the Mexican steamer Su- perior had been taken over by Venezue- lan rebels, posing as chicle workers, an landing men on the coast of Venezuels, with arms and ammunition, to ald in a revolutionary movement. e supposed passengers wc. > led by exiled Venezuelan _leas ders, who had been operating in Mexico, it was said, and they seized the ship on the higl seas, silencing the wireless preparatory to_landing. ‘The Superior sailed from Vera Cruz for Yucatan September 29 with 110 | passengers and should have reached Eer destination within 80 hours, but nothing was heard from her. irogrl;n on Page B-6 |$213,000 FILM SUIT FILED! Keith-Orpheum Co. Charged With Violating Copyright. LOS ANGELES, October 10 (#).— Earl Wayland Bowman, writer, has filed $213,000 damage suit in Federal Court against the Radio-Keith-Orpheum Mo~ tion Picture Co. and Willlam Lebaron, H ‘The appointment of working commit- tees of bankers to carry out the program «f rediscount and dividend payments. ‘The possibility, if necessity required, a recommendation to Congress of the creation of a finance corporation stmilar in purpose to the War Finance Corpora- tion, “with available funds sufficient for any legitimate call in support of credit.” On Wednesday, & market stimulated some Tuesday by news that the eon- ference would be held, mounted in- creasingly. Congressional leaders made public indorsement of the program. The American Bankers Association, assembled in annual convention at At- lantic City, wholeheartedly approved the plan. Farm groups applauded it, par- ticularly the proposal to strengthen the Federal Land Banks. John W. Poole, controller of the eur- rency, sald he would recommend to Con- gress a plan to speed liquidation of closed national banks. Acts for Home Credits. Wednesday afternoon the President met with bankers, bpilders and real cstate men in a conference dedicated to establishment of & firmer foundation for home building credit. This, however, was looking toward the longer, and mot the emergency program, of national progress. ‘Thursday, before the Pan-American Commercial Conference, Mr. Hoover Inlled for a cessation of international loans except those devoted strietly to productive enterprise. Friday saw stronger markets obtain- ing despite profit-taking and the Presi- dent's inquiry into railroad bond values undertaken. The White House also was informed that the Executive Committee of the Chicago Clearing House Association had voted unanimously to recommend that the organization participate in $500,000,000 credit pool which New York bankers expected to be operative within a few days. WOMAN DIES “T 113 ! Mother Survived Three Children She Left Russia to Jo PHILADELPHIA. October 10 (#).— Mrs. Chaca Serlick, who claimed to be 113 years old, died yesterday at the Jewish Sheltering Home after 3 few days’ illness. She came here from Russis wi a0 years old to join her three en, none of whom survives. SINGER FAILS TO AWAKE its vice president, charging infringe- ment of copyright. . complaint alleges Bowman wrote a story called “High Stakes” and that the defendants recently produced a telking picture under the same title. An accounting of the profits and an injunction restraining ther usz of the story are asked. 3‘ ‘WORCESTER, Mass., October 19 (#). —Editha Fleischer, soprano of the Metropolitan Opera Co., took an over- dose of sleepin sician,