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WEAT! HER. (D. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair tonight and tomorrow; not much change in temperature. ‘Temperatures—Highest, 75, at 3:30 p.m, yesterday; lowest, 43, at 6:30 today. Full report on p Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages13,14 & 15 he #F NN WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Star. service. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news Yesterday’s Circulation, 115,485 Fntered as secol post office. No. 31,950. Washi nd class matter ton, D. C. WASHINGTON, D .« THURSDAY, CAPITAL PREPAR 10 RECEIVE LAVAL UPON ARRIVAL HERE DURING AFTERNOON Premier of France, Given Ovation at New York This: Morning, Expresses Conl‘i-‘1 dence in Success of Visit. SPECIAL TRAIN EXPECTED | AT UNION STATION AT 3:15 Secretary Stimson, Who Met Party at Dock, Accompanying Official Group to Washington—Will Meet Heover at White House at 6 0'Clock. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN, Washington today prepared to welcome Premier Laval of France. The president of the Council of Ministers of France, to use the of-| ficial title of M. Laval, is coming here to aiscuss with the President of the Unitéd States questions of tremendous importance to the economic recovery of the world, questions that may cover a wide range. The French prime minister ana his party, accompanied by Secre- tary of State Stimson, will arrive at the Union Station at 3:15 o'clock this afternoon. Visits White House Today. ‘With all ceremony and military pomp the distinguished visitors will be re- ceived by the representatives of this Government. The first call made by the prime min- ister, after he has been escorted to the ‘home of Ambassador Walter E. Edge at 1526 Eighteenth street. will be upon President Hoover at the White, House. Accomparnied by the Ambas-| sador of France, M. Claudel, the prime | minister will be received by the Presi- dent and Mrs. Hoover at 6 pm. This is to be a formal cali, purely, unless the President and the prime minister | should begin their discussions of the' subjects they have most prominently in mind, & contingency not expected. This call of the prime minister at the White Fouse is preliminary to his entertainment at dinner by the Presi- dent and Mrs. Hoover. At 8 o'clock a White House dinner is to be given in honor of the guests of the Yorktown Sesquicentennial. Vital Questions Pending. ‘Tomorrow afternoon the prime minis- | ter and his daughter, Mile. Josette | Laval, will go to the White House to | become the house guests of the Presi- dent and Mrs. Hoover. They will dine informally at the White House at 8 p.m. The prime minister of France will remain in Washington until Sunday night or Monday morning. when he wiil return to New York. During the three days of his stay in Washington ques- tions of vital importance will be discussed. Foilowing & conference with con- gressional leaders at the White House the night of October 6, President Hoover issued a statement, in which he said: | “Premier Laval of France is visiting | the United States. It is my purpose to discuss with him the question of such | further arrangements as are imperative | during the period of the depression ir | respect to intergcvernmental debts. The policy of the American Govern- | ment in this matter is well known, and was set out by me in a public state-| ment on June 20, in announcing the American proposal for a vear's post- ponement cf debt payments. ~Our problem in this respect.is one of such adjustment during the period of de- pression as will, at the same time, aid our own and world recovery.” No Treaty Authority. 8o fir this is the only official pro- nouncem-nt in this country regarding the subject 7"hh.‘!1 is to b2 dLC(‘IlSied b}: ~(Continued on Page 3, Column 1.) —— AKRON’S SISTER SHIP UNDER WAY IN OHIO By the Associated Press. AKRON, Ohio, October 22 —Officials of the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation announced today that work cn the ZRS-5, sister ship of the Akron, accept- ed by the Navy yesterday, has been under way since July 1. The second ship is expected to be completed fcr the Navy early ig 1933 About one-third of the entire struc- ture of the new ship has been fabri- cated. a statement said, and segments for the first three main frames, two . bays of intermediste frames and the | connecting _gangways, have been de- livered to the dock. T | S ecurity, However, to Be Foremost Condition Set Up by French. MS OTHER ISSUES | DI Correspondents to Watch Progress to Prevent Any Sacrifices. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. During his visit to Washington, Plerre Laval is to survey, with President Hoover, Secretary Mellon and Secre- tary Stimson, general and the Franco-American re- lations in particular. The French premier. a man of great vision and moderate ideas, is accom- panied by financial experts and some 20 French newspaper correspondents, the flower of the French press, men who have been guiding for vears French public opinion on international affalrs. The French correspondents have. naturally, no official status and | for that reason they are more impor- val' < ments day by day, but also to see that tant than Laval's official experts. The ot | newspaper men are the watch dogs of the French public opinion and are here, not only to report the develop- OUR GENERAL_QUESTIONS APPEAR FOR LAVAL TALKS| OCTOBER 29 a2, 1931—FIFTY-SIX PAGES. (#) Means Associated Pres: TWO CENT the world situation in | PIERRE LAVAL. the premier does thing for nothing The results of the Hoover-Laval con- (Continued on Page 3, Column 4.) not give 1,000,000 RELIEF CONTROVERSY SEEN PLAN SOUGHT HERE IN AIRMAIL AWARD Big Improvement Program to Aid Capital Jobless Will Be Asked. Congress will be asked to appropriate a sum estimated at $300,000 to $1,000,- 000 to provide work for the unemployed in Washington this Winter, it became known today. E. C. Graham, chairman of the Dis- trict Employment Committee, today re- vealed his organization would s to obtain from the Government enougin money to finance a comprehensive pro- am under which every member of the army of the unemployed would be given work. He explained the entire plan remalned in a formative state. Plans Are Tentative. The chairman declared the plans were so tentative it was hard to say whether the committee would need $1,000,000 or could finance its work on $300,000. In any event, however, he insisted it would be impossible to cope in the Nation’s Capital unless Con- supplement funds obtained from charity sports events and other private sources Mr, Graham said Congress would be told practically every large city in the ~ (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) BRIDE INSTRUCTED T0 SUE IN GAS CAS D. C. Heads Take Action Against Central Public Service Cor- poration of Chicago. The District Commissioners today transmitted to Corporation Counsel Wil- liam W. Bride, a formal order instruct- ing him to enter suit in District Supreme Court tinder the La Follette anti-merger act against the Central Public Service Corporation of Chicago for alleged vio- lation of the provisions of the act which prohibits purchase of the stock in local public utility companies by foreign pub- lic utility or holding corporations. The Public Utilities Commission delved very thoroughly into charges that the Chicago concern was the real owner of 84 per cent of the stock of the Wash- | ington Gas Light Co. at lengthy public hearings last month and came to the -onclusion that the evidence brought out in the case was enough to warrant in- stitution of the action. Although lawyers for corporation claimed that the true ownership of the stock in question rested in the Washington and suburban companies, and that the ownership of the latter rested in the Westfield Trust of Illinois, the commission was able to show a long course of management of the affairs of the Washington corpora- tion by the offices of the Chicago con- cern. Under the anti-merger law, the com- missioners are the proper parties to bring such sults and the Public Utili- ties Commission, after the hearing, sent the file forward to the commissioners for actio the Chicago EAVAL’S DAUGHTER WOULD LIKE TO BE AMERICAN, SHE DECLARES Wants to See Theaters and How Girls Dress in U. S., 19-Year-Old Law Student Says. ¥ the Associated Press. i i NEW YORK, October 22.—If Mlle Josee Laval were not a French girl, she'd like to be an American. I want to see the Amerlcan theaters; I'm very much interested to see how ‘American girls dress, and I think, if it were possible, I'd like to go to school | here for a while,” said the daughter | of Premier Laval as she reached here today. ! The beautiful 19-year-old girl, who ! combines a taste for the arts with the sharp intellect of her peasant forebears, was as cool during today's tremendou: cvation as if she were marely going to | one of her classes at the Faculte de Droit, where she is studying to be a | lawyer. “Mother was t00 busy to come,” she said to the girl reporter who inter-| viewed her in the pilot house of the| welcoming tug Macom. “But I am very| g'ad to be here with {ather.” Mile. Laval, who is called “Josetle” | over to her viewpolnt. by her father, confided a belief that the premier wanted her to come along all the white, although at first there were reports that he had to be won She denied with an emphatic_shake of her head that she acted as her father's secrstary dur- ing the voyage. Speaking in English, she declared “He's too much for me,"” indicating that her father's energy Was tremendous. Anyhow, there were a dozen or so experts of various kinds to help the remier attend to affairs of state dur- ng the trip. ‘When one reporter asked if she would get married she smiled and sald, “Maybe,” but she declared that she was not engaged now. A tall, rather slender young woman, with tanned skin and bright eyes, re- sults of plenty of tennis and horseback riding, Mlle. Laval was clad in a light blue suit of newest corduroy, she wore (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) Post Office Expected to Abandon Washington-Norfoik Airway and Give Contract. Another of a series of controversies which for many months have disturbed relationship between the Post Office De- partment and the aviation industry was seen today when it was learned the department is expected to abandon the Washington-Norfolk airway, laid out and equipped by the Department of Commerce for night fyigg. and to award a contract to Eastern Aff Transport for afrmail service between Richmond and Norfolk. In preparation for the anticipated contract, Eastern Air Transport, now holding & monopoly of airmail business along the Atlantic Coast, will inaugu- 1ate passenger service between Rich- mond and Norfolk tomorrow, flying two tounds trips & day and making direct connections at Richmond with north and south bound planes on the coastal run through Washington. The Washington-Norfolk airway was | with the distress expected this Winter K developed by the Department of Com- merce at the request of an interdepart- | gress set aside a substantial amount to K mental committee, upon which the Post 1 Office Department was heavily repre- sented. with the understanding that airmail service was to be inaugurated over the line as an extension of the existing Cleveland-Piitsburgh-Washing- | ton airmail service. Airway Idle for Months. For several months after its com pletion last Spring the airway lay id The beacon lights and lighted inter- mediate fields, (hough ready, were not used. The lights were turned,on regu- larly about two weeks ago when the Ludington Line, operating hourly pas- senger service between Washington and New York, opened passenger service be- twen Washington and Norfolk over the new airway, with the hope of bidding for an airmail contract. The announcement of opening of passenger service by Eastern Air Trans- port, between Richmond and Norfolk, is taken in local aviation circles to mean an agreement has been reached between the airmail operators and the Post Office Department that an air- mail contract will follow. Under the terms of the Watres airmail bill, the Post_ Office Department can award the contract to Eastern Air. without bids or competition, as an “extension” of its_existing service. Flying of airmail over the Richmond- Norfolk route probably will begin with- in three weeks, it was admitted today by Earl Wadsworth, superintengdent of contract airmail for the Post Office Deparument. Eastern Air Transport headquarters in New York, over long- distance telephone, said inauguration of airmail service on the line was ex- pected soon after the beginning of passenger service tomorrow. Says Picture Is Changed. Admitting it was “too bad" the air- way had been lighted between Wash- | ington and Norfolk instead of between | Richmond and Norfolk, Mr. Wadsworth | explained the change of policy of the | Post Office Department on the route by saying the picture has changed since | the inter-departmental board submitted | its recommendations, as a result of | which the airway was developed and | lighted. “When the airway was developed,” Mr. Wadsworth sald, “the expectation was that the Cleveland-Pittsburgh- Washington line eventually would be extended through to Norfolk. The de- velopment of air mail and passenger | service up and down the = Atlantic Coast; however, makes it advisable to make the connection at Richmond, the Postmaster General beljeves.” ‘The Washington-Norfolk route would make an ideal connection for the de- velopment of airmail service to the | North, Mr. Wadsworth said, but would make an exceedingly poor connection for service to the South. The connec- tion at Richmond, he said, would make "~ (Continued on Page 6, Column 4.) 000 FOR ROADS Contracts Will Be Closed by State of Illinois Before Nov. 12. SPRINGFIELD, 111, October 22 (#).— | Eight million dollars’ worth of hard road and bridge contracts will be closed | by the State of Illinois before Novem- | ber 12 in an effort by the Highway De- partment to recoup time last by con- | fusion over the prevailing rate of wage act. . $8,000, Gov. Emmerson plans to place $34,- 000,000 worth of roads under contract by early Spring as an unemployment measure. Projects up for bids will include { all the unfinished portions of con- | tracts, work on which was ' stopped when the attorney general warned that the contractors would proceed at their own peril. Last Tuesday the | & knitted hat of the same shade. and | Sunreme GCourt cecrared the law in necessitating i SELECTIVE SALES LEVIES CONSIDERED 10 HELP OFFSET Experts Exclude Necessities and Look to Such Articles as Autos, Radios and Pos- sibly Cigarattes. HOUSE LEADERS IN BOTH PARTIES DEVISING PLANS :Move for Tax Increase Regardles: | of Hoover Program—Separate Studies of Question Made by Gar- ner, Hawley and G. 0. P. Group Headed by Bacharach. ! By the Associated Press With plans afoot in the House to increase tares regaraless of what President Hoover recom- mends to the next Congress, the administration let it be known to- day that a scheme for selective sales levies is being considered of- ficially. With conservative and pro- gressive leaders of both political parties in the House known to be planning an upward revision of | Federal levies, experts are busy | hunting for articles that could | best be includea. The idea is to {get as much more money as can be had to counterbalance the Government's falling revenues, while avoiding a tax on necessi- | ties as much as possible. The recommendations formu- |lated at the Treasury will go to i the White House soon. The Presi- | dent has to make up his mind on what to say about the matter to | Congress. | Representatives Devise Plans. But regardless of the Chief Ex- bers of both parties in the House— where revenue legislation origi- nates—are intent upon devising their own plans, it was learned. The Federal deficit today stood at above $600,000,000. The constant swelling of the deficit has served to emphasize the attention being given the problem of baiancing the budget. Orders for huge cuts of budget esti- mates for next year have been acted upon in the Government departments. Now the concentration is upon finding means of bringing in more cash. ‘Tax experts have considered many articles and it has been definitely de- cided that no levy can be placed upon | articles of food,” rent, fuel or other necessities. Such articles as automo- radios and, perhaps, cigarettes were considered as logical sources for bringing in additional revenue. Taxes on such articles, officials be- lieve, would largely be absorbed by the manufacturer and not affect the pur- | chaser. Autos Formerly Taxed. Automobiles formerly were taxed, | revenue ‘act over the opposition of Secretary of the Treasury Mellon. Ex- perts in going over the field have looked at the automobile tax from the standpoint that automobiles use the jroads constructed by the Government except a nominal license fee and a gasoline tax. . They consider that railroads, on the {other hand., were taxed, and that a itax on aulomobiles would furnish a logical basis for raising more revenue. That the Government must raise more revenue has been conceded by of- ficials since the 1931 fiscal vear con- cluded” with a deficit of $903,000,000 and three and a half months of the present fiscal year have produced a deficit of $617.575,720. In the last fiscal year there was a drop of $550,000,000 in income tax and in the present fiscal year there alveady income tax _collections. Figures _rteceived by the Internal Revenue Bureau have indicated much of the income from this tax, which forms the clief element of the Govern- ment's tax system, has been wiped out during the business decline. While the Government faces the necessity for ralsing more money, it " (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) SLAUGHTER OF DAIRY COWS IS SUGGESTED Farm Board Gets Report Urging Killing of One of Every Ten to Prevent Low Prices. By the Associated Press. Dairy farmers are urged to destrov one-tenth of the country’s milk cows to prevent overproduction, in & report sub- mitted to the Farm Board. The report, prepared by the Dairy Advisory Committee, an agency of dairy co-operatives, points out that herds have been increasing for four year: which will eventually lead to large sur. pluses and low prices despite recent in- creases in prices. In addition to asking each farmer to eliminate one cow out of each 10, the committee also suggested that all low- producing cows be culled and =old for slaughter, and that additional heifer calves be v The committee adopted resolutions commending co-operative marketing of d products and urging milk dis- tributors to buy from co-operatives. Adoption by the Farm Board of this proposal would mark a new attempt by it to curtail -overproduction througn destruction at the fountain-head. Its proposal that: one-third of the cotton acreage under cultivation be turned under was,rejected by the South. ’ —hle D-7 Radio Programs on £ by DROP N REVENUES | ecutive’s position, prominent mem- i {but the tax was eliminated in the 1926 | and the States without paying any tax | has been a decline of $247,000,000 in | ‘/:l'\\\\:\ ) Y |/ Nl g | | i | | W0OD ASKS PROBE “OF NAVY OFFICERS PROPAGANDA LIES Says “Cowards” Should Be Driven Out of Service for Attacks on Economy. | Representative Will R. Wood of In- diana, chairman of the House Appro- priations Committee, tod: urged Pres- | ident Hoover to find out what Naval officers are responsible for circulating | “cowardly and insidious propaganda’ | against the President’s economy pro- gram, and recommended their dismissal from the service. The Appropriations Committee ! chairman spoke with emphasis in de- nouncing what he referred to as “the { cowardly naval officers.” He Intimated ‘loo, that he noticed during his talk with the President, that the latter felt very much the same way. Charges “Cheap Politics.” “The time has come to stop this cir- | culation of damned lies, and the play- | ing of cheap politics by certain naval | officers,” Representative Wood said, aft- | er leaving the President’s office. “These men have been issuing lying propaga: | da for the purpose of arousing public sentiment with the hope that they may succeed in oblaining larger appropria- tions. ‘These officers have not had the courage to let their names appear in | the propaganda inspired by them, and they have acted without consulting Sec- retary of the Navy Adams or Admiral Pratt, chief of naval operations. or other’ superiors who have been co-op- erating with the President in his de- sire to effect necessary economies. Every other department has been earnestly and honestly endeavoring to co-operate with the President’s plan. and to cut down expenses, and I think it is high- Iy unfair to the President and to the country, and all the others bearing the burden of revising the Government ex- penditures in the face of a large defic “Some of this insidious propeganda, Representative Wood stated, “was to | the effect that 6.000 sailors would lose {their jobs and be turned out into a | cold pitiless world. This colorful story like the one regarding the scrapping of | the Constitution and the Navy Band, { were put out as propaganda to arouse ipublic sentiment. Naval officers who {would engage in such cheap tactics { should be driven out of the service, and | I told the President so today. I know the President keenly resents the at- titude on the part of some officers of have been using the to defeat his purposes.” President Is Aroused. The chief Executive himself let it be { known some time ago that he was | aroused by statements circulated at that | time designed to stir opinion against naval budget reductions. He intended, it was said, to carry his fight directly to the American people if such stories | continued. | _Representative Britten of Tllinois, ! chairman of the Naval Committee in | the last Congress, today told the Ameri- | can Coalition of Patriotic Societies that any cuts in the naval budget submitted to Congress would be carefully scrutin- ized by his committee to see that the efficiency of the fleet was not hampered. Britten and Chairman Hale of the Senate Naval Committee have an- nounced they would propose & col | struction program to bring the N: 'up to the limits of the London trea B RUSSIAN HITS LEAGUE | Criticizes “Lack of Clarity” in De- cisions Involving China. i MOSCOW, October 22 | Litvinoff, Soviet commissar for foreign sharply criticized what he call- ck of precision and clarity in de- | cisions of the League of Naticns in & telegram sent ‘to the league secretariat at Geneva today. | The telegram stated that Russia is willing to adhere to the armaments truce suggested by the League Assembly last September provided other countries do the same, the message added. “The absence of clarity and precision in the decisions of the League regarding international cbligations is one of the reasons for the sad evenis now occur- ing in Manchuria. Acquitted of Mail Fraud. NEW YORK, October 22 (#).—The jury in the Bankers' Capital Corpors tion mail fraud case returned a ver- dict of acquittal today. Howard H. Gunder, Roland J. Randall, Everett J. Stuges, former banking commissioner for Connecticut; the Bankers' Capital Corporation, American Fiduciary Cor- poration and Eastern Bankers' Cor- poration, had been charged with use of the mails to defraud in stock sales amounting to $11,000,000. X (#).—Maxim | Chicago Physician e Making Night Calls By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, October 22 —The Chicago Medical Society asked police protection for its members on night sick calls last night. “Conditions have assumed such proportions,” wrote Dr. Charles M. Phifer to Police Comm:ssioner Allman, “that many physicians are afraid to make night calls because of robberies. One of our members has been hLeld up six times in the last iew wezks.” The society also criticized fail- ure_ to prosecute Fred Nelson, charged with fatally wounding Dr. George M. Lang in his Cicero office. Although captured at_the time of the shooting last Feb- ruary, Nelson has avoided trial. [YPRUS UPRISING 5 FACING BRTIS Two Cruisers Are En Route ~to Mediterranean Isle—Pro- claim Union With Greece. By the Associated Press CAIRO. Egypt, October 22.—Two British cruisers are on the way to the Island of Cyprus in the Mediterranean Sea, where fragmentary dispatches told today of Nationalist disturbances in which the governor's house at Nicosia had been burned. One report said the Greek Orthodox bishop had proclaimed the union of the island with Grcece on the grounds that' it was the will of the people, and mem- bers of the Cyprus Legislature were said to have resigned. There has been Nationalist agitation in Cyprus for some time. The island has been under British administration since 1878, but many of the people are sympathetic to Greece. The British House of Commons discussed & proposal for autonomy in the island last Sum- | mer, but the colonial department said no steps to that end were contemplated. The situation at Famagusta was described as threatening. In other districts there was no dis- order, the dispatches said, but a feel- ing of uncertainty and uneasiness per- | vades the island. | The messages asked that troops be sent to Nicosia as quickly as possible. | P | Cyprus, the third largest island in the Mediterranean, is under British ad- ministraticn by virtue of the treaty of | | Berlin in 1878. The administration is vested in & high commissioner, and its principal industries are quarrying_and agriculture. The governor is Sir Ron- ald Storrs, - |FILIPINO-U. S. SITUATION | | CRUCIAL, QUEZON SAYS | s Declares, After Return to Manila, Statesmanship of Highest Order Is Needed. By the Associated Press. MANILA, October 22.—Returning to Manila after spending more than a year | |in America, Manuel Quezon, President | | ot the Insular Senate, said today the | | Philippines were “facing the crucial pe- | riod of our national history in our re- | lations with the United States.” “The situation,” he said, “demands | | statesmanship and patriotism of the | highest order.” | Quezon declined to amplify that statement, saying he would submit a full report to the Legislature within a | week. Filipino political circle: had been awaiting Quezon’s return to decide what step to take next in connection with the independence campaign. Another inde- pendence mission to the United States | | appears to be the most probable action. SCouT PRESIDENT NAMED Walter W. Head, Chicago Banker, Announces Acceptance. . NEW YORK, October 22 (4).—Walter Decten mieavient of the oy Seouts of | el nt o e of | America to succeed the late Mortimer L. Schiff, New York philanthropist, who died June 4. The presidency of the organization was held by the Chicago banker from 1926 until last May, when Schiff was elecled. - With_the latter's death, the executive board urged Head to resume D. C. HEADS AWAIT LAWYERS' REPORT ON STAPLES CASE \ JAPANESE ASKED 10 RECALL TROOPS AS BRIAND MOVES 10 SETTLE DISPUTE Resolution Before League Calls on China to Pledge Safety—Chairman Sug- gests Three-Week Recess. WANTS EVA(iUAfION 1 COMPLETED BY NOV. 12 Proposals, Given to Japanese for Study and Dr. Sze for Instruc- tions From China, Described as Subject t» Debate and Modifica- tion After Perusal. By the Ascociated Press GENEVA, October 22.—Chair- man Aristide Briand today sub- mitted to the League Council & resolution calling upon the Japa- nese government to withdraw im- mediately and progressively its troops from Northern Manchuria in order that total evacuation may be effected before the next meet- ing of the Council. It calls upon the Chinese gov- crnment to pledge its responsibil- ity for the safety of all Japanese subjects living ip Manchuria, and it recommends that both Chinese Findings Are Closely Guarded. ana japanese governments should Forty-Three Policemen Go Before Board. ‘The District Commissioners today waited a report from the special com- mittee of lawyers appointed to investi- gate the grand jury’s charges against the Police Department in the Staples case as 43 additional members of the nolice force went before a medical board {or examination. the result of which will determine the fate of their police careers. . The committee of lawyers is under- stood to have completed its inquiry and is about ready to submit its Andings to the Commissioners. Henry P. Blair. chairman of the committee, declined to reveal when the report is to go to the District Building, but said he expected to submit it “very soon.” The 43 palicemen are included in the group of 85 of the 107 members of the department 55 years of age or over, who were ordered to appear before the boari of police and fire surgeons. Twenty- two of them were examined Tuesday. including Maj. Henry G. Pratt, superin- tendent, who was found physically inca- pacitated for further duty and is to be put on the retired list November.1. The remaining 43 are to be examined to- MOITOW MOrning. Ret The results of the examinations will not be announced until Saturday morn- ing, when & meting of the police and firemen's retiring and relief board will be held to pass on the recommendations of the medical board. It is understood, however, that a numper of policenien are expect:d to be retired for phylk:ll‘ disabilitles. 1 ‘The committee of lawyers is guarding its findings with the same degree of | secrecy which surrounded its investiga- tion. Nevertheless, contradictory ru- | mors bobbed up at the District Building | a3 to the nature of the report, but Dis- trict officials insisted they had no in- timaticn as to the committees findings. About the time the medical examin- ing members of the ements Are Seen. lice torce, Corpora- tion Counsel William W. Bride began | a study of the evidence of 56 cases of alleged police brutality, turned over to the Commissioners last Saturday by Attorney General Mitchell. These cases were uncovered by the | Department of Justice in its Investiga- tion of the third degree scandal, which already has resulted in the indictment | of 18 members of the police force. but (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) GANDHI’S GOAT WINS Dairy Show in London. LONDON, October 22 (#).—The goat which supplies Mabatma Gandhi with his daily draughts of milk was awarded first prize at the English Dairy Show today. As the blue ribbon was tied about its | 8. R. Whitley, an official of the sho! told the judges at Royal Agricultural Hall that the price of goats has gone up in England since the Mahatma ar- rived. board resumed its examination of | | each of the defendants. I Awarded First Prize at Euglish | ooy appoint representatives to arrange the details of the evacuation. As soon as evacuation is com- pleted, the resolution proposes, both China and Japan should be- gin direct negotiations on the matters at issue between them, particularly those arising out of recent incidents and those relat- ing to previous difficulties arisipg from the railway situation 1n Manchuria. To this end, the resoluation sugg the two parties shall set up a concil tion committee or some such board of arbitration which would be permanent. Suggests Adjournment. M. Briand suggested an adjournment until next month, the Council mean- while authorizing the president to call an earlier meeting if that should be considered desirabie. Briand proposed that Japan complete the Manchurian evacuation by Novem- ber 15, at which time the Council would meet again. The Council adjourned until tomor- Tow evening so that the Japanese del- egation could study the proposals and so that Dr. Alfred Sz the Chinese member, could ask instructions from his_government The Briand resolution suggested that China and Japan begin airect nego- tlations immediately so that evacuation of the occupied area could be carried out quickly and smoothly. Subject to Modi M. Briand, in presenting his proposals. described them as subject to debate and modification after they had been studied (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) ARRAIGNMENT IS SET ation. - FOR CANNON AND AIDE Bishop and Miss Ada Burroughs to Go Before Justice James M. Proctor October 30. Bishop James Cannon, jr., and Miss Ada L. Burroughs, Richmond, Va. jointly indicted last week on chargss of conspiracy to violate the Federal cor- rupt practices act, will be arraigned Friday; October 30, beiore Justice James M. Proctor in Criminal Division 1. In making this announcement today, Assistant United States Attorney John J. Wilson, i charge of the prosecution, said in the event no attack is mads on the indictment by counsel for Bishop Cannon and Miss Burroughs, he will ask Justice Proctor to set un early date for the trial ‘The Southern Methodist churchman and the former treasurer of the Anti- Democratic Committee in the 1928 presidential campaign are charged also with four specific willful violations of the corrupt practices law in the failure of Miss Burroughs to make proper re- ports of the receipts and disbursements of funds in the campaign. The indict- ment is on 10 counts, 4 charging the willful violations, 4 unintentional vio- lations and 2 counts of conspiracy. Bond has been fixed at $1,000 for Miss Bur- roughs is said to have furnished bond in Richmond, while Bishop Cannon is to arrange bond on his return to Washington. FIRST LADY FOLLOWS PRECEDENT 'AND PLANTS PLAYGROUND TREE | Mrs. Hoover Returns to Children of Her Own Neigh- borhood at Mitchell Park. By the Assoclated Press. ‘Today's schedule called Mrs. Hoover, by choice, back to the -children of her own neighborhood on S street for & tree planting. X Asked to follow a President's wife's precedent.and plant a tree on a public layy Mrs. Hoover chose Mitchell glf , right across the street from her former residence at Twenty-third and 8 streets. Much to the delight of boys and girls thereabouts, the ~entire playground underwent v an improvement wave in ihe presidential duties for the rest of term, His macceptance was an-|pzinted. a new sand ‘carpet went on | vin Coolidge, mwdu S the grounds, rolls of new grass were Mrs. William e preparation for her coming. The playground house was freshly planted playground trees are Mrs. \ l brought in to go about Mrs. Hoover's tree and an old dog's grave was planted with violets and 1ivy and newly cemented. So long as children play on that lot, the old dog's grave will be tended. The late Mrs. Morton Mitchell, willing the land to the District for playground purposes. specified: “Our old dog whose bones rest there is not to be disturbed.” PFrom other neighborhood play- grounds, several hundred helpers were drafted to sing and folk-dance for Mrs. Hoover. Previous President's wives who have Mrs. Waodrow Wilson and Howard Talft. B