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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair tonight and tomorrow; cooler to- night, probably light ‘Temperat Hi yester Full report on frost. 67, page 16. Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages13,14 & 15 he Foening Star. No. 31,945, Entered as second class matter vost office, Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON, LEAGUE DEBATES ACTION BEHIND CLOSED DOORS; JAPAN CONSIDERS DEFI Deleg—a:(; F rqmii Far East Are | Excluded. NEUTRAL STUDY | HELD OBVIOUS Possibility of Japan Yielding Seat Is Discussed. B the Associated Press GENEVA, October 17.—Ameri- can Consul General Prentiss B. Gilbert ana members of the League Council met in a secret session at the secretariat today without the Chinese or Japanese delegates to resume consideration of the Manchurian conflict. The lobbies were buzzing with speculation concerning what form of action they would take to ar-| bitrate the dispute and how Japan : would counter in the face of col-| laboration between the League and the United States. { 1t whas regarded as obvious that a neutral commission should be sent to Manchuria to supervise the witharawal of Japanese troops and to arrange security for Japa- nese Nationalists, but it was ques- tionable how this could be done without assuming an aspect of coercion toward Japan. The pos- sibility that Japan might with- draw from the Lezgue if the Coun- cil acted against her was a topic of discussion. 1t Japan persists in her unbending attitude, it was said, China might be advised privately to appeal for inter- | vention under asticle 15 of the League covenant which excludes parties to a| dispute from voting and provides for | senctions of an economic and military | nature to bring the recalcitrant dis-| putant to terms. With the moral suasion of the United | he Council | in its | | States arrayed on its side, tl was expected to be more resolute proposals than when the controversy | was first broached, and to move speedily | toward a settlement of whatever character. . i M. Briand, as foreign minister of France and co-sponsor of the Pact D(. Paris, is looked up to in League circles. | along with Lord Reading of Great Britain, as a powerful agent for the| ultmate solution of the deadlock along emicable lines. Gilbert's Presence Hailed. When Gilbert joined the 14 members the League's exccutive board at its ion last night, the event was hailed nistorical and highly auspicious for | rzanized efforts to strengthen inter- cnal security. The presence of Mr. Gilbert meant that the Briand-Kellogg pact. formu- Jated in large part through American cort, was linked with the covenant of ihe League in the effort to solve the Sino-Japanese problem. That problem, is recognized in League ravely menaces world peace and hopes disarmament. After the representative of the| United States had been welcomed With | words of warm praise for his Nation's | will to peace, the council adjourned. Although Japan’s _spokesman _Te mained silent while praising America an themselves on Amer’ he approached Mr. Gilbert at the end of the session an ) with earnest, smiling cordiality. The position taken in quarters is that the United St the secretariat and secretary general of the Kellogg pact and the proper and natural leader in efforts to make it a living instrument. oy Intense satisfaction was expressed in League circles that the powerful Amer- jean sponsor of the Kellogg pact was willing to take an active role in appl ing it. GEN. CALLES ISSUES WARNING IN CRISI A o d were felicitating | ican _collaboration, | | heartedly supporting any his colleagues were | g d pumped his hand | Secretary Stimson. {ommended to his government with- international | drawal of its objection to American ates is participation in the Geneva discussions. | FINGERPRINTS ORDERED | m |t Gilbert’s Speech Thinks Moral Suasion Will Avert War. By the Assoclated Press. | GENEVA, October 17.—The text of the address of Prentiss Gilbert, Ameri- can representative, before the League of | Nations Council last night was as fol- | lows: “In this moment of ceep international : concern,” said Gilbert in his npenlngl statement to the Council, “I thank you | for your invitation to sit in your de- liberations and to participate in your | discusslons insofar as the Pact of Paris, | to which my country 1s a party, is con- | cerned. “The Government of the United States of America has been following | vith the closest attention the proceed- (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) 1., RESTRICTS AID AT GENEVA PARLEY Gilbert Not Empowered to 1 Commit Government to | Any Action. | i | By the Associated Press. | In the face of open resentment by the | Japanese minister of war, a representa- | tive of the United States is sitting at Geneva with the League of Nations Council The League's invitation to the United States to help untangle the Manchurian difficulties of China and Japan is de- scribed by the Japanese Minister, Gen Minami, as “plainly an attempt to drag America into the affair.” 3 In Tokio he said League Interpcsition would be “little short of intervention and would “not please Japan.” The action of the State Department in naming_ Prentiss Gilbert, American | cansul at Geneva, as “obscrver and au- ditor” followed the Council’s 13-to-1 vcte to Admit the United States. Japan alone dissented. U. S. Assumes No Obligation. Although the United States is whole- move the League may make in invoking the | Kellogg pact to disperse the war clouds threatening Sino-Japanese relations, this Government will remain aloof from any obligations under the League Cove- | nant. Gilbert is not authorized to com- mit the United States to any action, but must report to Washington for de- cisions. | Secretary of State Stimson believes invocation” by the League of the anti- war treaty would establish very impor- tant precedents. He denied, however, such action would combine the treaty with the League’s machinery for main- taining peace. The United States will remain apart from any possible discussions of the Council seeking to apply the League of | Nations' sanctions. These include boy- cott, blockade and, finally, direct mili- | tary pressure against nations breaking the pledge to avoid war. { Gilbert Makes First Report. Such sanctions, defined in Article X of the covenant, form the basis of the Senate's past rejection of American membership in the League. First reports from Gilbert to the State Department concerned his ad- dress to the Council outlining his in- structions. He expressed his Govern- ment's belief that “the timely exercise | of the power” of world public opinion | “may be effective to prevent a breach of international peace of world conse- uences.” Meanwhile Ambassador Debuchi of Japan is maintaining close communi- | cations with his government and with | He favors and rec- OF 224 D. C. EMPLOYES Civil Service Appointees Since July | 1 to Have Prints Recorded in Line With Federal Program. Heads of District government depart- ents were ordered today by the Dis- rict Commissioners to send all em- | ployes put on the rolls frcm the civil service list since July 1 to have their Declares Unpatriotic Acts it ! fingerprints recorded at the Civil Serv- and | ice Commission. Those affected by the rder include 18 firemen, 156 policemen | MiuisterFirmon Manchurian Policy. NEW ATTACK O U. S. ATTITUDE Defeat of Council Aim Feared in Participation. By the A""“.|;::~__ TOKIO, October 17.—Japan was undecided today as to whether it would defy the League of Nations | in the event the latter refuses to reconsiaer Tokio’s contentions in the League Council’s discussions of the Sino-Japanese dispute over Manchuria. If the League decides uncondi- tionally that Japanese troops must vacate Manchurian territory out- side the Japanese-controlled South Manchurian Railway zone, the ‘Toklo administration likely will} h; ave to face a serious situation. The army stands opposed to the interference of any outside agency in adjustment of the main problem. A spckesman for the foreign office said “Tokio still has very grave doubts as to the propriety or strict correctness of the Leagues decision—that is, the question of whether the American cb- server rightly or wrongly is entitled to sit in the Council sessions. Therefore the Government has every hope that some sensible way will be found event- ually to satisfy ail partfes.” Army Attacks U. S. Aftitude. As viewed in Government circles, Japan will continue to adhere to its contention that the Kellogg pact was not violated when Japan occupied cer- tain Chinese territcry “in self-defense” |and questions whether the League will be abie to prove anything to the con- trary if Tokio's case is given careful consideration. Tokio's argument to Geneva is that China cannot possibly force Japan to | declare war, In the eyes of the Japaness the Chi- ‘ nese are not in the least considered as warriors. Japan looks upon the Chi- nese as pacifists at heart, much pre- | ferring a verbal row to actual combat, it being more of the Chinese nature to haggle than to scuffle. _For centuries China and Japan have (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) TEST FLIGHT TAKES AKRON TO CHICAGO Giant Airship Spends Night Cruis- ing Over Southwest Tllinois. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, October 17.—The Akron, | world's largest airship, reached Chicago today on its longest trial came from the southwest, having spent the night cruising over Illinois. News of the mammoth ship’s arrival spread like the stiff breeze that was blowing from Lake Michigan and win- dows were filled as the giant sped east to tbe shore of Lake Michigan. The Akron skimmed over the Uni- versity of Chicago, on the Midway. and then northward to the Loop, over the | lake shore site of the 1933 world fair. The Akron sailed slowly along the downtown lzke shore as an airplane hovered near, like a gnat buzzing about ’ an elephant. | Lieut. Comdr. R. E. Rosendahl, in | command, radioed the naval station the ship would proceed to Milwaukee, re- turn along the shore to Chicago this afternoon and then return to its base | in Akron, across Northern Indiana and | Ohio. SPENDS NIGHT IN ILLINOIS. | Akron Visits Cincinnati, St. Louls and | Springfleld. AKRON, Ohio, October 17 (#).—The | Akron left here at 6:30 am, East- lern stendard otime, yesterday, and ) 6 1 SATURDAY, BY HUSBAND | Mrs. Anne Connell probably never will know the exact nature of the an- niversary present which her husband, | Harry J. Connell, 38-vear-old file clerx | for the American Short Line Railway | Association, left for her last night just | before he shot_himself to death in the | association’s offices in the Union Trust ! Building. Fifteenth and H streets. Mrs. Connell, her friends say, declared she would never undo the cord {with which her husband had bound the package in the last few minutes of his life. In the quiet of a deserted file room lon the fourth floor, where Connell had { been emploved for more than 10 years, | he carefully wrapped and tied the wed- ding anniversary gift, tucking a note to his wife beneath the cord. Connell had bought the present yes- terday afternoon and staved in the of- fice to prepare it when his fellow work- ers left at 5:30 o'clock. Lights Many Cigarettes. For some two hours after he had tied up the present Connell debated with himself and smoked, lighting one cigarette after another. Connell had much to worry about, his friends said. Only last Summer his daughter Margaret, 5 years old, had be- come i1l while visiting her grandparents in Kansas City, Mo.. A few weeks ago specialists pronounced her incurably stricken with “muscular paralysis.” The mental torture which this | | | in- OCTOBER 17, 1931 JUST SOLITAIRE. Associated service. The only evening paper in Washington with the Press news Yesterday’s Circulation, 115,121 HIRTY-TWO PAGES. * @) M ns Associated Press. TWO CENTS. WIFE NOT TO OPEN PACKAGE LEFT WHO ENDED LIFE could endure, Connell had confided to Clarence A. Miller, assistant general counsel for the railway association. At that time, Miller said, Connell hinted suicide. While Connell was alone in the office. Miller remembered he had left a brief case there. and returned for it. He noticed a light burning in the file room and hurried to investigate. Present Found on Desk. Connell lay on the floor amid the litter of his burned out cigarettes. a .32 caliber revolver containing one ex- ploded shell beside him. He had shot himself through tke mouth, Coroner Joseph D. Rogers determined later. Connell, it was said. had fired the shot only a short time before. The doc- tor, who responded with the Casualty Hospital ambulance, pronounced him d ead. On Connell's desk police found the present he had left for his wife, that and a note requesting that authorities notify Connell’s brother-in-law, S. S. Gheen of 1752 Kilbourne place. Connell made his home at 4323 Twelfth place northeast with his wife u]nd a second daughter, Marie, 7 years old. Funeral services will be held at St. Anthony's Church, with burial in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Monday. On that day. relatives said the Con- nells had planned to celebrate the eighth anniversary of their marriage HEART WEAKENING, EDISON NEAR END Physician, Who Remains With Patient All Night, Says Pulse Is Poor. | By the Associated Press. WEST ORANGE. N. J.. October 17.— pulse which his doctor described as “poor.” Dr Hubert 5. Howe, who for the first time remained all night with his pa- ! tient, issued his first bulletin at 9:30 am. today, an hour earlier than had been his custom. Dr. Howe's noon bulletin read: “There is very little change in Mr. Edison’s condition during the past three hours.” Pulse Reported Poor. “Mr. Edison has remained all night,” | | the first bulletin read, “in a condition HODVER 0 LEAV ONYORKTONN TRP President Will Board U. S. S. Deputy ' WOMAN HELD SLAIN Mre. Connell Saye She Will Keep Wedding A9 BUDY 15 FOUND Anniversary Present as Clerk Left It. Corpse Is Identified by Sales- man as Wilma Wiggin- ton, 35. oner P. J. Bean of St. Marys County., Md., after an autopsy on the body of Miss Wilma Wigginton today ceclared positively that she did not meet her death by drowning Her viscera will be turned over to a chemist for anal Possibility of foul play was seen to- day in the mysterious death of Miss Wwilma Wigginton, 35-year-old archi- tect, whose body was found floating yesterday in the Patuxent River, about two miles from Millstone Landing, Md Although Dr. P. J. Bean, St. Mary's County coroner, gave a verdict of “ac- cidental death by drowning.” the theory Miss Wigginton may have been mur- dered gained strength when several wounds of mysterious origin were found on her body. The wounds, it was found. wcre in the form of six or seven small holes {in the woman's throat, two similar holes in her shoulder and a bruise above one of her knees. Holds Death Suicide. Despite the condition of the body, however, Harry B. Pitts, a security sales- man employed by a Washington real es- tate firm, who has supplied investigators with virtually all their information concerning Miss Wigginton, declared he is convinced she committed suicide. This conviction, he explained, is based on the fact Miss Wigginton, in one of two letters received from her Wednesday, informed him she planned to end her life. Questionsd at Solomons Island, Md., where he went. he said. in an effort to prevent Miss Wiggintcn from carrying out her plan, Pitts told investigators: “'Miss Wigginton, whom I have known 12 or 13 years, was in Washington re- cently, trying to get a job with a firm of architects. I saw left for Solcmons Island. “1 received two letters her before she | from her | Arkansas at Annapolis | for Journey. In one of them, apparently writ- ten some time before, | |ton said she was planning a trip to Wednesday morning when I went to my | office, in the 1400 block of K street. | Miss Wiggin- | President Hoover will leave Wash- |ington late this afternoon for An- The strong heart of Thomas A. Edison | napolis, Md., where he will board the | | was weakening today, as indicated by a | battleship Arkansas for a brief cruise | Norfolk. but was unable to locate her. | over the week end, which will carry him | probably as far as the Virginia capes, :be(ore going to Yorktown, Va., where | on Monday morning he will make the principal address at the Sesquicenten- | nial celebration of the surrender of | Lord Cornwallis. | Although the exact time for the President’s departure from the White | House had not been decided upon dur- ing the forenoon today, it was said defi- nitely that he would not be able to get away before 3 o'clock. Considering the mass of work on his desk requiring his last-minute attention, it is thought more likely it would be after 4 o'clock before the President was on his way. | Norfolk or some place farther South. | “In the other note, mailed special delivery, she said she was going to kill “I immediately took an airplane to | From Norfolk I hopped to Baltimore— | first of all because I wanted to check | the passenger lists of the Merchants & Miners' Steamship Co. there, and sec- | ondly because I had a hunch she may | have changed her mind and gone to | Baltimore instead of Norfolk. Finding | no trace of her, I returned to Wash- ington.” On his return to the Capital, Pitts | said, he telephoned Solomons Island four times, but all the calls were fruit- less. He finally decided to make a trip | there, he added. Minister Finds Body. Pitts reached Solomons Island after | Miss Wigginton's body had been found by Rev. Samuel Baur of Vienna, Va. & CONERESS T0 GET HODVER 33 BUDGE SLASHED 0 BONE President Demands That Bu- reau Heads Revise Esti- mates Sharply. /ASKS PUBLIC OPINION SUPPORT FOR PROGRAM | ;Reducticn of Expenditures to Lim- its of Revenues Is Only Sound Policy, Hs Declares. By the Associated Press. President Hoover plans to lay before Congress a 1933 budget stripped of | vevery cent consonant with the oblifa- | tions of the Government.” | In an effort to bring expenditures ‘ and revenues into closer relationstip he has demanded that every principal Gov- | ernment officer revise downward esti- | mates for the next fiscal year. Meri- | torfous and unmeritorious profects alike are to be shelved He has also asked the aid of public opinion in support of ‘‘drastic econo- | mies.” “Cut Only Sound Policy.” Standing yestarday before a group of | newspaper men gathered for his regu lar press conference, Mr. Hoover said: “In times when the income of the; people is reduced and when taxes or| loans may stifle economic recovery there is only one course of sound fiscal policy, | and that is to reduce the expenditures of the Government to the last Government.” Before him, the President had the statement of the Treasury showing a deficit for the first three months of the present fiscal year since July 1 totahng $502,106.600. ~ Th¥ is approximatel; $485.000,000 more than it was for the same period of last vear. when the 12 months' deficiency amourted to nea a billion dollars. Departing_from his prepared state- ment, the President injected a belief that ‘improved conditions were in the offing. He said it was difficult to es- timate now for expenditures to be made after next July 1, when better times could be expected. Passes Over Navy Slash. Many had believed Mr. Hoover would discuss at his conference the recent and much discussed slash in the Nav budget estimate. passing attention, as he said similar cuts were oeing studied in every ernmental department. No conclusions are to be reached fmally until the budget goes to Congres Two great difficulties, he held, balk his program of reduced expenditures. “We must meet interest payments on the statutory redemption of the public debt.” he said. “We must pay allow ances and pensions to veterans and pensions to civil servants, etc. Thus over two billion of the Federal budget is in fixed obligations, and such re- ductions as we can bring about must need be concentrated on less than half of the budget."” The second difficulty he enumerated as_the necessity for the Government ORE D DECREE " ASES EPIRTED The Department of Justice turned over to the District Commissioners today a case record containing 56 cases of alleged police brutality growing out of its exhaustive six-week investigation of third-degree practices. These cases are | the ones in which the grand jury found | insuffictent evidence on which to return | indictments. Announcement was made at the Dis- trict Building that a thorough - in- | vestigation would be made of the 56 non-indictable cases, to determine | taken against : ny of the officers nams, |in the case record. This inquiry wil be conducted by the corporation | counsel's office, under the direction of \Corporntion Counsel Willlam W. Bride | Report Withheld. The case record was presented to the | cent consonant with the obligations of the | gov- | Record of 56 Such Incidents' whether disciplinary action should t ! STAPLES REPORT VOIDED AS BEYOND PONER 0 JURORS Proctor, Expunging It From Records, Says Practice Should Be Stopped. RS !PANELS URGED TO INDICT ; OR DISMISS CHARGES Police Investigation Will Be Con- tinued by Special Committee of Lawyers. Holding that the July grand jury had | exceeded its author Justice James ! M. Protor in Criminal Division 1 | today expunged from the records of the District Supreme Court the special | report of the jury requesting the re- | storatica to duty of Policeman Orville Staples, who, they charged, had been “framed” by perjufed testimony by po- {lice officials and presented to the trial | brard which ousted him | Justice Proctor, in his opinion, hold- ing the report illegal, suggested that the practice, grown up in recent years, | should be stopped and the grand jury | should not come to regard itself as “the general regulators of the public elfare™ They should either indict or ignore a matter referred to them, the court held, hould not make charges. like instance, which place the persons named. or _eas | identified, in a position worse than indicted, since they have no opportunit the allegati rs' Probe to Continue. have no of the grand jury’s cha Police Department by the sp mittee of appointe Commissi y : Corporation C The Comn: { position Mr | respective of charges of the cvidence on whi emain and investigatio he comr winding up t | submit its fir i ers by the m: Asked Dismissal of Hunt. Staples’ report had aske of Policeman Joseph H. {charged with aidin ! Schenck. a former policeman, in ob- | taining the removal of Staples. United | States Attorney Rover and one of his | assistants were exonerated by the same {report of charges and innuendoes that | they had accepted money to release a seized automobile 2nd also declared the | police department to be free of graft. | Motions to expunge the report were | made by Attorney Henry I. Quinn, rep- | resenting Inspector Louis J. Sto. who | investigated the Staples case and pre- | sented the evidence to the trial board, jand by Attorney Albert W. Jacobson, | for Policeman Hunt. whose dismissal | was recommended. ‘They cited deci- sions of the Court of Appeals of Mary- land and of the District Court of Ap- peals. holding that such reports were beyond the power of a grand jury and should be expunged from the records. United States Attorney Leo A. Rover admitted the force of the decisions, but urged on Justice Proctor that the por- tions of the revort exonerating his office and clearing the Police Depart- ment of graft and corruption charges should be fet Rover remarked was the first time iblicly commended and { he did not want to lose the value of it Entirely Beyond Its Scope. “It seems to me,” said Justice Proctor, “that the grand jury was acting en- tirely beyond the scope of its functions in making this report. There is no statute in this district which broadens the functions of the grand jury. The | decisions referred to hardly g: for the claim of the district attorney that the court may exercise discretion “I assume the motives of the grand | jury were good and I have no right to { consider what action may now be taken i by public officials. Thev have a copy of the report and can treat it as thev please. I should not be governed by | those considerations. “It is far better in the public interest that the grand jury confine its actions within the limits of its legal functions Although it exonerates the district at- torney and members of his office of charges or ipnuendoes, if the grand jury has the rir” "9 step out of the line of #s duty an. ablicly declare something favorable to an official or citizen, it i would have the right to condemn such iofficial or person. The report makes serious charges against Inspector Stoll. who, although not named, is easiiy identified as preparing the Staples cas | The men named are in worse condition ¢ taken the ted out that ir- decision the jury and the were based deserve comp Bride gran ek & lawiers is now cts to But he gave it only| the dismiscal of Non-Indictable Nature ! Given Commissioners. room )a¥ned down across Ohlo to Cincinnati, follo wed the Ohio River to Louisville, | which has all the appearance of nor- retired Methodist minister, who came Commissioners by Attorney General|than if they had been indicted. as they | and 50 employes of the other civil de-' Derelictions From Duty Will | Not Be Tolerated. B the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, October 17.—A stern | warning frcm Secretary of War P)uurcni Elias Calles that unp:triotic acts or derelictions from duty, would not b2 tolerated in Mexico's present p(fl“ichl‘l crisis was before the nation’s lender‘s‘ Y. i “1 know how to appreciate the merits | partments. From now on, all employes of the Dis- | trict government who are selected from | civil service lists will be fingerprinted as a_matter of course, thus putting the District government in line with the Federal Government in the finger- printing practice. ‘The order does not apply to employes now holding positions Who were not chosen through civil service lists, nor does it apply to per diem workers, school teachers and others not included in the terms of the Commissioners® orders issued last November for the selection of certain employes from civil and deportment cf loyal chiefs under |service lists. Ky., and Evansville, Ind, and gave theater crowds at St. Louis a thrill by putting in an appeardnce there just be- fore midnight. Officials cf the Goodyear Zeppelin Corpcration, bullders of the Akron, said the ship would visit as many States as possible before the two-aay cruise ends here tomorrow morning. So far, the Akron has met Govern- ment specifications, it was understcod here, and after the present flight is ended will be turned over to the Navy. She may be flown next week to her permanent base at Lakehurst, N. J., ‘where she will be fitted with armament and made ready for na me.” the general alsa said in an address | to the army last night. “I know also how to energetically punish those wi | do not know how to comply with thelr dut “Ycu will find in me, as before, your | } friend and companion; a man who has had considerable experience in. safe- guarding the national security and one who is always ready to lend his counsel to those who solicit and merit it.” Gen. Calles’ first act was to prevail on President Ortiz Rublo to appoint his friend. Gen. Abelardo Rodriguez of Lower Californ! 5 subsecretary of the | ‘war office. They are conferring as to the rc- organization of the government. GRAF OFF FOR BRAZIL | German Zeppelin Leaves for Third Ocean Trip This Year. i FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany, Oc- | tober 17 (#).—The Gi Zeppelin left ‘ today on her third voyage to Brazil this | 1 year. She carried 17 passengers, among | hem two women and an American, H. | 1E Brix of Seginaw, Mich, v Women .of Washington's social life foreign embassies and legations. is enriched and made tremendously interesting by the presence and personalities of the women of the They Are Now to Be Introduced to You in a Series of Interesting Interviews by Pauline A. READ THIS SERIES OF CHARMING PERSONALITY ARTICLES —ONE EACH WEEK IN THE SOCIETY SECTION OF The Sunday Star Diplomacy Freder;clt 2{ | bedside last night. mal sleep. He is breathing quietly and easily. His pulse, however, is poor.” Dr. Howe indicated this morning that he would stay throughout the day at the Edison home. Previously he made two calls a day, one in the morn- ing and one in the evening. ‘The reference in his first bulletin to- day to Edison’s pulse being poor was considered of significance because it is the inventor's strong heart which ha: sustained him so long despite the poi son which his weakened system has been unable to eliminate. Will Remain at Home. At 11 o'clock this morning Dr. Howe told reporters that he had definitely decided to remain at the Edison home day and night from now on. “I consider Mr. Edison is now gravely il1,” he said. “This is the first time I have felt definitely that the end is approaching. Mr. Edison has gone another 24 hours without nourishment and his heart is gradually growing weaker.” Dr. Howe said that further bulletins would be issued at noon, 3 o'clock, 6 o'clock and 10 o'clock tonight. All the members of Edison’s imme- diate family were at the home today or within easy call in case of any emer- gency. Although Dr. Howe spoke in his bulletin of Edison’s apparently nor- mal sleep, he made it clear in speaking with reporters that this condition was in reality only a continuation of the coma from which the inventor is ex- : pected to slip quietly into death. Members of the family were at the They were Mr. Edi- son’s oldest child, Mrs. Marion Ozer ‘Thomas A., jr., of East Orange; William of Wilmington, and Charles. Mrs. Jol Eyre Theodore, all West Watches Geneva Developments. ‘The President was at his desk by 8:30 o'clock and lost no time disposing major matters atiracting his attention today is the reports being received from Geneva, where for the first time a rep- resentative of this Government is sit- ting in on the session of the League | of Nations Council. The President also | was anxious today to receive all possi- le information regarding the over- | night developments on the Sino-Jap- anese conflict in Manchuria. Another | important matter absorbing the atten- (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) DOCTORS FACE TRIAL | Trio With Nurse Accused of Negli- | gence in Death of 76 Babies. LUEBECK, Germany, October 17 (®). | —Three physicians and a nurse were on trial today, charged with negligence in the administration of anti-tuberculosis serum, resulting in the death of 76 babies in the Spring of 1930. More than 80 other infants were taken ill after they had been innoculated with tuberculosis germs taken from cattle, a method which was said to be in com- mon use up to that time. The trial is expected to last four weeks. T Poland Has 265,980 Soldiers. GENEVA, October 17 (#).—The League of Nations secretariat today 's armaments state- 1 tive troops, a navy of 3,108 and an air force of 7919. ‘Total budgetary es- timates of expenditures for 1931-2 are $93,236.000, of which are for land forces. upon it while fishing near Green Holly | Mitchell when they call at his office in of the business before him. One of the | | Creek. Rev. Baur summoned J. J. Bradley, | who assisted him in pulling the body lL!hm“e. ‘The body, which appeared to have been in the water about three hours, was clad in a black dress and a flimsy undergarment, but was shoe- less and stockingless. | _Bradley notified Coroner Bean, who, | with Justice of the Peace Harry P. Wise. summoned residents of the sur- rounding territory, including Solomons Island, in an effort to establish the woman’s identity. The body was not identified, however, until after the ar- | the ~Department of Justice, accom- | panied by Mr. Bride. ‘The purpose of | the visit, it was said, was to determine | the status of the Justice Department's | brutality investigation report, which | was prepared several weeks ago for sub- | mission to the District Commissioners. This report has been withheld, how- ever, pending the outcome of the ac- tion of the grand jury, which yester- day returned indictments against 18 | members of tne Police Depariment on | brutality charges. Attorney General Mitchell declined to give the Commissioners the general rival of Pitts, who immediately notified Teport on its investigation at this time " (Continued on Page 2, Column 3) _ (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) VOICE FROM SKY | | Amplifying System on Pla Replace Bombs in F By Cable to The Star. LONDON, England, October 17— “Boomers” instead of bombers form the amazing experiment which is now being conducted by the Royal Air Force as a method of dealing with insur- rections in the outposts of the empire. Instead of the great engined ma- chines flying over and dropping death- dealing “eggs,” the giant planes will be fitted up with amplifying apparatus whereby a small voice speaking from the cockpit will boom down to the ground like the volce of God from | the sky. 4 The nativgs, staring up from the ps IS NEW BRITISH STEP TO HALT NATIVE UPRISINGS ne Concealed in Clouds to ighting Insurrections. 1 rebellious villages, will hear tones of thunder warning them of the dangers in defying the, British raj. The effect of these “ghost voices” from planes concealed behind clouds is eerie enough to_startle even the complacent Eng- lishmen who are conducting the tests now. The idea of the air ministry is that boomers are more humane and more economical than bombers, but that many an insurrection could be stopped by such means. before it reached dan- gerous proportions. (Copyright, 1831.) have no means of making a defense to the charges.” Rover had called the attention of the court to the fact that the District Com- missioners on receipt of a copy of the grand jury's report from the clerk of the District Supreme Court had taken steps to carry out its recommendations He called attention to the selection of a committee of prominent lawyers to advise on the legal features and the | designation of a civilian trial board in | the event that the lawyers should rec- ommend a retrial of the Staples case. U. S. INFORMS MEXICO BRINKLEY IS UNDER BAN Broadcasting Doctor of Protests at State Department and Is Told Action. The State Department has called to the attention of the Mexican govern- ment the fact that the radio broad- casting license of John R. Brinkley of Milford, Kans., has been revoked in this country. Brinkley is understood to be seeking to establish a broadcasting sta- tion in Mexico. Brinkley visited the State Department to protest that the department was making it impossible for him to operate from Mexico. ‘Undersecretary Castle said this Gov- ernment had not requested Mexico to refuse to permit Brinkley to broadcast. ‘The only action taken was to furnish that government with a copy of Brink- ley's records in this country, showiz« that his license had been revoked. Radip Programs on Page B-16 > Bt 1 Kansas