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JAPAN TO SEND VIEWS T0 LEAGUE Wil @ive Council List of | Freaties She Contends Ohina Has Ignored. v \he Associated Press. | TOKIO, October 28.—Japan decided | Fodey 1o lay before the League of Na- #ons Council, as part of her case the unsettied Manchurian controversy & Nat of treaties which, she contends. 'China has fafled to respect | This was understood to be her reply % the statement by Dr. Alfred Sse, | Chinese spokesman, in & letter to Aristide Briand, chalrman of the Council, that China recognizes she is | bound under the League covenant to | yespect treaty obligations | Japan to Send Views. | The list 18 to be handed to the Council when it reconvenes next month st Geneva to resume consideration of | the Manchurian dispute and with it. | the foreign office intimated. would go | the Japanese views on_ the treaty | That attitude, as intimated. is that cannot consider the suggestion the question of treaties be re- ferred to The ue Peace Court. since there is no difficulty In |Jhrlr interpretation. Purthermore, the Jap- aness are prepared to ask what 18 to become of Japan's interests in Man- churia while awaiting The Hague Court’s verdict, which possibly would be delayed for years League Asks Evacuation. League of Nations Council has | u'lr:: le-:“m evacuate illegally occu- sones in Manchuria. Japan has contended the League's resolution is not binding, inasmuch as it was not InANIMOus. 3 Japanese authorities also have been ted as saying that since the declines to acknowledge the va- lidity of certain treaties Japan cannot sccept the Lesgue's program of con- o m’lr.!:'e Mreference to existing treaties, it was generally understood, meant to the so-called Sino-Japanese treaty of 1915, which the Nanking government does not ize, asserting it was forced om China by military pressure in the course of direct negotiations with Japan. On those grounds China now refuses direct negotiations, upon which Japan has Insisted. ACCEPTS ARMS HOLIDAY. Japan Agrees to League Plam, Accord- ing to Dispatches. LONDON, October 28 (#).—A Reut- ers Agency dispatch from Tokio to- day said that Japan has accepted the League of Nations’ plan for & year's holiday on_armaments on condition it does not affect plans aiready authoriz>d and that neighl ing states, especially non-members of the League also agree. Disarmament Committee of the b , on September 28, & resolution calling on the governments to declare & onbynr"tx'uczN in &P its from November building of armament R oAl Nl b DATISEe T WK armament Conference in Geneva nexf February = Sponsored the Tesolution asked the governments 1o “give proof of their earnest desire for & successful issue of efforts to insure and nise peace and * * * to re- fra in any measure involving an increase in their armaments.” The various states were urged to in- form the Council before November 1 as to whether they would abide by the committee’s resolution. COURT BARS CHILD OF NAN BRITTON Testimony in Libel Suit Over “Answer to President's Daugh- ter” Not for Girl 12. t the Itallan delegates. By the Associated Press TOLEDO, Ohio, October 28.—Eliza- beth Ann, 12, daughter of Nan Britton, suthor of the “President's Daughter,” must be kept from the court room dur- ing the prosecution of the author's libel wit against C. A. Klunk, Marion, Ohio, hotel keeper, Federal Judge John M Killits ordered today. The court told Miss Britton's attor- neys, William F. Marsteller of Cleve- land and S. E. C. Moore of Toledo, that the girl should not be permitted to hear testimony that is likely to be pre- | sented, including the reading of ex- tracts from “The President’s Daugh- ter” and from “The Answer to the President’s Daughter.” It is on the admitted sale by Klunk | of the latter book from his hotel news- stand that Miss Britton bases her suit | alleging defamation of character. | Judge Killits conferred with meys on both sides in his offh then announced that the burden o proof should rest upon the plaintiff. I 8 & question of fact, he said. whether some statements in the book “The | Answer to the President's Daughter” | refer to the plaintiff SOVIET IS WARNED BY JAPAN TO HALT ACTIVITY OF TROOPS (Continued From First Page.) | attor- | ce and 1 determined to send troops to any point in Manchuria where Japanese lives are in danger, even as far as Tsitsihar Chinchow, or Harbin Meanwhile, it was reported that the Japanese intend to retain large quanti- thes Of war material, seized in Mukden. wntll the Manchurian dispute between Ohina and Japan has been full This report was attributed ®ial_announcement from headq of Gen. Honjos. Japanese comm: Manchuria, which added that fary supplies found within mil pounds would be held. Some supplies were reported to be America v, and & large part were Britis Bropensy. having ‘been sold by Briti :vhmu to Chinese, but not yet paid Hotbed of Outlawry. Waitsibar, the station on the Chinese Eastern Railway, where a destroyed bridge has involved the Chinese and Japanese in a heated controversy, is about 100 miles northeast of Harbin has long been a hotbed of outlawry. t is only abogt 25 miles from & mountainous section of Mongolia which has been for decades a stronghold for the Hunghutzes (Redbeards) and other outlaws who prey on travelers. At this point and at Hallar and many other stations between Harbin and the ‘Russian at Manchull there ve been troul with raiders who :r‘ud the railway sone. Ever since the rallway was jointly eonstructed across Northern Manchuria | by the Chinese and the Russians this ‘western strip has been subject to bandit raids. Chinese control in this western | section of Manchuris has always been weak. Under the craristic regime, T | come tor | making preparations for the Republi- ‘as French Newspaper Men THE EVENING Could Not Believe People Here Have No Vote—Impressed by Lack of Skyscrapers and Independent Press. il BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. HE majority of French corre- spondents accompanying Pre- mier Laval had never been in Washington befor: What impressed them most was That Washington has many parks and public gardens, yet there is not a single fashionable out-cf-door restau Pavillon d n Bois de That there are no_skyscrapers (and they added. “Grace a Dieu'") That the President bothers to see Washington srrespond-nts twice a week instead of baving his favorite reporters to see him daily by the back stairs That American political parties don't subsidize any of the important daily Dewspapers . That the big industrial interests don't subsidize important datliss That newspapers can exist without subsidies That Washington newspaper men are pald less, in proportion to the cost of living. than their Paris colleagues That, In spite of that, they have a luxurious press club That Washington correspondents don’t have free passes on the principal railroads. No self-respecting Parisian newspaper man ever pays his railroad fare. That Washington reporters should enjoy another man's “‘scoop” and con- gratulate him. instead of trying to stab him in the back That hotels in_ this city are more expensive and far less comfortable than good Prench hotels That the citizens of Capital should not enjoy privileges and not be represented Congress. the National citizenship in It is not surprising that the French | correspondents have been struck with the beauty of Washington's public parks and have felt the absence of » pleas- ant and comfortably furnished out-of- | pages, Parls, Vienna and | doors restaurant. Berlin have not as many public parks as we have, yet, the Bois de Boulogn the Pratter, in Vienna, and the Tie rten, in Berlin, have beautiful and expensive eating places where the pub- lic goes late in the afternoon and es- clally in the evening to get away rom the sweltering city heat and en- joy a pleasant rest. In Vienna there are open-air theaters, where light mu- sical comedies are performed. the Pavillon d'Armenonville is the ren- dezvous of smart society, famous act- Tesses and literary lights. If a news- paper man is hard up for a good story. all he has to do is to go out and spend few dollars on a dinner at the Pavil- Jon; he is sure to come back with gos- sip. copy for at least three d In the pame way, it is not surprising that the French newspapermen should have been favorably impressed by the lack of skyscrapers. All over Europe HOUSE SITUATION MUDDLED FURTHER Delay in New Hampshire Vote Until Late December May Decide Control. B the Associated Press. Another complication was added to- day to the muddled question of who wil control the next House. Word came from New Hampshire that the seat in the normall Republican first district, made vacant by the death of Representative Fletcher Hale, could not be filled until late in December, | after Congress has convened. Six Other Vacancles. There are six other vacancles to be filled at special elections, five of which are to be held November 3. The sixth vacancy, in the fifth New Jersey dis- trict, 1S to be filled December 1. Four of these vacant seats are in normally Republican districts. Even if Republicans are successfulin filling these vacancies, their majority will be cut to one. However, the Democrats are waging hard campaigns in the fi Ohio and the eighth Michigan dis- tricts, traditionally Republican The Democrats virtually concede Re- publican victory in the second Pennsy vania district, but claim they will fill the usually Democratic districts—the twentieth Ohio and the seventh New York At present the line-up crats, 213 Republicans Loborite, and 7 vacancles. Independent Stand in Doubt. With the New Hampshire vacancy unfllled and no change in the political status of the other vacancies, the Red publicans would have 217 seats, Demo- crats 216 and Farmer-Laborites 1 is 214 Demo- 1 Farmer- In addition to the doubt that exists | as to what the figures may show when the gavels pound for the opening of Congress, there is some uncertainty as to how far the Independent Republica may take their demands for concessions from the regulars in exchange for the votes of the independents on organiza- tion of the House. There have been some threats that | they might offer an independent can- didate for the speakership. G. 0. P. Conference. Meanwhile, Hous® Republican leaders have agreed to call A conference here November 30 to nominate a candidate for the speakership Representative Hawley of Oregon chairman of the Republican caucus, is to issue the formal call soon. Hawley is now at his home in Salem. Oreg A few davs ago he dispatched tele- grams to & number of the Republican leaders, asking them if November 30 would be satisfactory Representative Wood of Indiana chairman of the Republican Congres- sional Committee. today said the leaders were agreed that the date was satisfac- illlam Tyler Page. House clerk. is cans to use the House chamber for heir erence nning November 30. Last February, at a conference. the Republicans renominated Nicholas Long- worth of Ohio for the speakership and Representative Tilson of Connecticut for floor leader. Tilson and Snell Loom. Since Longworth's death Tilson and Representative Snell of New York have loomed as the outstanding candidates to succeed the Ohioan. A number of other Republicans. in- cluding Mapes and Michener of Michi gan, Ramsever of Towa. Hoch of Kansas and Luce of Massachusetts. also have been suggested as candidates. The Democrats are to caucus on De- cember 5, two days before Congress convenes. Representative Garner of Texas, the Democratic leader. is expect ed to receive no opposition as his party’s speakership nominee. Ship Brings $2.700.000 Gold. NEW YORK, October 28 (#) —The steamship American Legion arrived last night with $2.700.000 in gold coin con- signed from South American banks More than a half of the shipment was . from the In Paris| there are stringent laws buliding to have more than nine In Germany, sn Americari buflding company decided to put up & sky- scraper. After & good deal of trouble the Berlin munieipal council allowed the American eoncern to build an 11- story office building. There is no such thing in Paris The Prench admire the imposing beauty of the New York skyscrapers but do not see the reason for wanting to go so high. It's wasting too much time. they say, to go up to the fifteenth floor in an elevator, then spend at least five minutes finding the office you want on that ficor. ‘The skywrapers are cer- tainly s contrad of the slogan: The White House and the State De- partment conferences were a revela- tion to many of the French newspaper- men. They could not conceive how the President or the Secretary of State, who are undoubtedly busy men. can take enough time off to see the Wash- ington correspondents, especially when they tell them so little. In Paris the head of the press bureau does all that. and it i¢ only the highly privileged newspapermen who occasionally can see the head of the nt. Since M. Brhn:w.:nl:.n at the head of Prance’s foreign affairs only one or two very well known newspaper men can boast of having seen the I secretary at very rare intervals, mainly when he wanted to see them for a purpose It_was & most astonishing thing for the French newspaper men to find that nor® of the Amer':an papers are sub- sidized, either by political parties or by important industrial groups and some of the reporters were hard to convince that this really was the case. With few exceptions, most of the Parisian papers | either are controlled or indirectly sub- | sidized, either by a political party or by a man with political ambitions, or | by the “vested interests.” This is due mainly to the fact the French newspa- pers are published in no more than 10 much less, lacking as in American papers. None of the Prench correspondents who have come to Washington for the first time would believe that the eitizens of the National Capital have no repre- sentation in ress. The most im- portant and g French Chamber of Paris; Premier Lava { Senator from a Paris suburb. It re- quires some sterling qualities for a man to be elected by the sophisticated Pa population. juently the news- paper men thought the same thing would apply here. Omne correspondent asked the writer whether Senator Borah was elected by the Washington elector- ate and when he was told the inhabi- tants of Washi have no votes he would not believe it. When this was confirmed by other Americans present, he threw up his arms and exclaimed the classical: “Bon dieu de bon dieu. [ DRECCIL MPRESSIVE RITES - HELD FOR CADET Victim o'V West l;oint Foot | Ball Game to Be Buried This Afternoon. | | By the Associated Pres: WEST POINT, N. Y., October 28.— In the tiny Cathlolc chapel wiere he | worshipped as a cadet, Richard Brinsley | Sheridan, jr, went to his last mass today. | While the cadet choir, in which he ‘Nearer My to Thee” from the | little balcony in the rear a ‘s nd Fatner b;n&cd the ulem mass. The body o e young sol lay in a flag- Casket ‘before the altar. SR | “There was no eulogy and the services were of the simplest, lasting only half | an hour. "Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheri- | dan, mother of the cadet who died in | New Haven Monday after injuries re- | celved in Army’s foot ball struggle with | Yale, was too grief-stricken to attend. The only relative at the ceremony was | @ brother, Sheridan’s father, hurrying here from Augusta with a daughter, Mrs. J. L. Herman, did not arrive in time for the services. | Excused From Classes, | ¢qVhile the rest of the Military Acad- emy routine moved forward as usual, despite the pall of grief that hung over the post, the Catholic members of the corps were excused from classes for the ceremony. They mu up the hill in the brilliant sunshine of a perfect Fall day and all but filled, by themselves, the tiny chapel which stands on a knoll looking down on the | broad expanse of the Hudson River The tenseness the corps feels in- | side, while outwardly maintaining the | stoicism of soldiers, came to the sur. face s the organ plaved softly, the cholr | whispered the old hymn and the priest droned the prayers for the dead | Lined in solid formation in the mid |dle pews, erect and soldierly even soldier wears with full dress array across their eyes. U. S. Cadets at Altar. At the altar, assisting the priest as acolytes, were two more cadets. - All the high-ranking officers of the academy, among them Sheridan’s teachers, wor- shipped with the cadets As soon as the ceremony was over an honor guard of four cadets took post | by the casket, candles burned at the |head and the black draped colors of the corps stood in the altar corners of the low-beamed, Old English-style chapel. The guard was to be changed hourly until burial services at 4 p.m today, when the long military proces- sion was to start from the chapel to the post burial ground in the hills that look down on the plains, where Sheri- dan will be buried beside such honored | dead as Gen. Custer, “Fighting Bob Anderson. George W. Goethal, Winfield Scott and “Molly” Pitcher. Although Mrs. Sheridan, breaking under the strain of her grief, was un- able to muster strength to attend the church services, she spent a few min- utes by the casket of her dead boy before the church was opened. GRID INJURIES FATAL Boy, 14, Dies 25 Days After Minor Hurts in Akron. AKRON. Ohfo, October 28 (# —Edson A. Oberlin, freshman, who for 35 days suffered a | blood infection believed by doctors to | have resulted from a minor injury re- ceived in foot ball practice, died today. He was the son of E. A. Oberlin | president of the Firestone Park Trust | & Savings Bank. Official to Address P.-T. A. TAKOMA PARK, Md., October 28.— Dr. Edwin W. Broome. county superin- | tendent of schools, will be the principal the meeting of the Takoma 10 be tomor- o Ang, scarcely more than whispered, | A. Langton, Catholic chaplain, cele-‘ arched in full dress | 14. Garfield High School | STAR., WASHINGTON, BLLBOARD RULS | * ADOPTEDFOR Y { Commissioners Unanimously! Approve Regulation of OQut- door Advertising. | New sign regulations for the District | of Columbia, limiting the number of | bilibcards and otherwise designed to {give the local governm: oader | Tegulatory powers over all oth | of outdoor advertising. were adopted unanimousiy late yesterday by the Dis- | trict Commissioners. Their acticn quickly followed the | recommedation of a Special Sign tiee, headed by Maj. Donald A. Davison, acting Engineer Commis- sioner, who previously had obtained the support of public interest groups and | business interests generally. He as- sured the Commissioners his committee had taken every legal precaution in “a model set of sign regulations consistent with the requirements of the National Capital, which the commit- tee believes would be sustained by the courts.” Prepare for Bicentennial. l ‘The Ccmmissioners also were actu- ated by a desire to rid the city of un- | sightly signs, over which they previously | had little or no control, before the Bicentennial _celebration next February. U the sign law enacted by Congre: Spring, a month must elapse after the publication of the reguiations before they become effective. It was planned to publish them this week, which would give business firms ana property own- | ers untll the end of November to con- {form. « | Credit was given Maj. Davison for bringing about an agreement with the | billboard companies which was large! responsible for paving the way for tl action just taken by the Commission- ers. In preparing the draft of the reg- ulacions ~ Maj. Davison and the Sign Committee were actuated by a desire not only to protect public interests as much ss possible, but also to respect the legal rights of advertisers and prop- erty owners by keeping strictly within the letter and spirit of the law. Since it was a regulatory and not a prohibi- tive act, they were guided by the legal opinion of one of their number, Assist- ant Corporation Counsel Edward H. Thomas. Objection Is Withdrawn. Recently misunderstanding arose on the part of some of the public interest gToups over the preparation of a list of so-called “doubtful” billboard locations which are to become a part of the estab- lished list. This led to criticism of | Maj). Davison and the Sign Committee. When it was learned the committee Wi powerless to act otherwise, this objec- tion was withdrawn, in the belief that the regulations represented the best possible that could be drafted within the limitations provided by law. A _subcommittee, headed by Roland M. Brennan, chief clerk of the En- | gineer Department, is working out the | details for establishing an ‘“a thorized” list of billboards and is ex- pected to complete this task soon. When this list is eventually estab- | lished it will mark the limit of busi- | mess which the three outdoor adver- | tising companies can do in the Dis- | trict. No new billboard can be erected without a permit approved by the Com- missioners, who have stricl.y adhered | 18 0 plley of dunolng ik pesslls | during the last 10 i Wi years or more. 1 th the exception of the law gov- | erning real estate signs. ulations repeal those which have been | in effect since 1927 and place, with- | 'out reservation, the power of issuing | permits in the hands of the District | ‘Commissioners. Al companies en- | gaged in the business of erecting or maintaining signs in the Distrie be licensed. i Boards to Be Removed. i Billboard companies are ordered to | emove all unlicensed boards within 60 ys. Part of the delay in draiting the regulations, Maj. Davison reported, | was due to the time required by the subcommittee to check, in the advertis- ing companies’ offices, authorizations and permits claimed by the companies for existing billboards and wall signs. “The committee has requested the | General Outdoor Advertising Co., the | | Morton Advertising Co. and the Cri- | terion Advertising Co.,” his report said, “to remove within three years all au- { thorized billboards and signs in resi- dential districts and authorized boards and signs confronting public bulldings and public works, 40 per cent to be removed during, the first year, 30 per cent during the second year and 30 per cent during the third year." With respect to real estate signs, no | permit shall be uired for such a | sign not exceeding 6 square-feet. Real estate signs located within residential | zones are limited to 40 square fect, and if Jocated in outlying sections the maxi- mum area is 60 square feet. | Will Speed Up Licensing. Since the new license year begins No- | vember 1, Maj. Davison recommended | the licensing of all individuals or firms engaged in the sign business be required | as soon as possible. i Designed primarily to prohibit the in- | discriminate repairing, repainting and | “tacking” of miscellaneous signs on the | outside of stores and buildings, the new | | regulations also impose strict provisions ' for the protection of residential dis- | |tricts and those fronting on public | bulldings. All permits for signs in | areas coming within the Shipstead act must first be passed on by the Commis- sion of Fine Arts. By the enforcement of provisions which restrict advertising to the prod- | ucts sold on the premises, Maj. Davison believes hundreds of miscellaneous signs can be removed in the downtown sec- tions. A general maximum of 100 square feet is imposed on signs of the larger type, and every sign is required | to show & permit number and date of | issuance. Features of Regulations. The outstanding features of the reg- | ulations were stressed by the Sign Com- | mittee in its report to the Commission- | ers, as follows |~ Restriction of area of signs used to| | advertise_products or commodities ac- | | tually sold on the premises to 50 per cent of the total area of the sign. Authority to compel the removal of | signs which no longer advertise a busi- | ness conducted upon the premises Forbidding the tacking, painting, | pasting or otherwise affixing of signs or posters of a miscellaneous- character, | visible from the public highways, on the walls of buildings, on barns, sheds, | trees, fences, etc. Requiring that all applications for | rmits to erect signs on buildings or nd in areas falling within the Ship- | stead zones be submitted to the Com- | mission of Fine Arts before permit is | | issuea. T 1 Restricting the area of replacement signs in the case of non-conforming uses in residential zones to 40 square feet. church bulletins to 20 square feet and hotel signs to 40 square feet (resi- dential zones) | | Roof Signs Limited. More stringent requirements on roof | signs, prohibiting signs on spires, tow- | ers, domes, pent houses, chimneys, smokestacks, water storage tanks and cooling towers above the limits of height as established by the zoning Tregulations. | Restriction in the height of signs on | the roofs of show windcws Restricting signs on show windows to | 20 per cent of the area of such win- d | lows | Authorizing permits for not to exceed ome sign cn premises where building | operations are being conducted, giving the name and address of the architect, o nm;-su‘“ t’:m tem: A its. on - ences, limited to 40 the new Teg- | T | industrial areas may be repaired and | | separate act D. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1931 Points Out Distriet’s Voteless Plight BOOTH AT INDUSTRIAL EXPOSITION DISTREBUTING INFORMATION ON NATIONAL REPRESENTATI J on national representation in Congress for the District, ARIZONA MAY GET MRS JUDD TODAY Insanity Plea Welcomed if| “Self-Defense” in Double Slaying Is Dropped. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, October 28.—With Winnie Ruth Judd, confessed slayer of two women, reported under observation in the county jail by a psychiatrist Arizona authorities here seeking her Teturn to Phoenix, sald they wculd welcome an insanity plea in event the indicated one of seli-defense was dropg‘:d. “They can't get anywhere with an insanity plea,” sald County Attorney Lioyd Andrews of Phoentx. “Mrs. Judd tried to conceal her crime and that in- dicates she is capable of distinguishing between right and wrong. It is this ability which is the determining factor.” Becplte gae anniunced plans of Mt Judd's attorneys to take every step their power to prevent her hasty “Arizona o stand trial 1o murdering her two former iriends and one time roommates, Hedvig Samuelson and Agnes Le Rol, Arizona authorities were hopeful they might start for Phoenix with their prisoner late today. Extradition papers were signed by Gov. Rolph yesterday. Mrs. Judd's at- torneys said they would ciaim sn error was made in the issuance of the ex- tradition papers and, failing in that, would seek action on'a writ cf habeas corpus. Police held for questioning a man glving the name of Fred Williams, a transient. He walked into the police station and said he had aided Mrs. Judd in slaying the two women whose bodies were sent to Los Angeles in trunks. Police placed lttle credence in his story. square feet, restricted to the name and address cf the business to be located on the premises so inciosed, and of the ldiolnlng business. imiting total area of sign or signs on any one building, lot or parcel of | land to 100 square feet, with the privi- lege of erecting signs. of such area cn each street frontage of a corner buld- | ing. Authorising the tor of build- ings to make safe or secure the ramoval of dangerous signs. Protects Fire Escapes. Prohibiting signs from cbstructing any window, door, fire escape, balcony, platform, etc.. or ingress to or egrees from any building. Prohibiting signs on public space and signs or banners carried on or transported on or over &huc space, | except that signs may displayed | on vehicles if such signs advertise the bona fide business of the owner. Prohibiting the display of adver- tising signs on vacant business prop- erty, except one sign not o exceed 6 square fest in area giving the name, | business and new address of the for- | mer occupant, which sign may be dis- | played for not to exceed 60 “for rent” or “for sale” signs. Requiring that no existing sign | shall be repaired, altered, repainted | or moved unless it be brought into | compliance with the requirements of all applicable regulations. Signs May Be Rebuilt. Providing that no new billboards may be erected, unless spplication for | permit be approved by the Commis- | sioners, and that existing authorized billboards located in commercial and rebuilt when authorized by the Com- missioners; that all outstznding au- thority and permits for the erection and maintenance of billboards and wall signs are fescinded, and in lieu thereof a mew list of authorized bill- boards and wall signs is hereafter to be established to become effective on the same date that the sign regula- tions become effective, to which list | there shall be adsled no biliboard or | wall sign site or area unless specifically | suthorized by the Commissioners, and the permanent removal from the list | of any billboard or wall sign aban- doned for any cause whytsoever. Numbering of all billboards and wall signs in each precinet with tag or marker to be conspicuously displayed so0 that the police can detect any un- suthorized billboards or wall which may be erectec or painted. vision that persons engaged in the business shalt publicly display in their place of busmess license is- ued by the superintendent of licenses and that permits for signs shall be kept on the premises where the sign is | to be located. Part 2 of the proposed regulations | to govern real estate signs under the | of Congress, approved March 4, 1913, no permit to be required for real estate signs aquare feet, restricting to 40 square feet real estate signs within the resi- dential zones and to 60 square feet real estate signs in the outlying and un- subdivided sections of the District. Also providing for the marking of all such signs with letters giving the per- mit number and date of permit. Penmyl;um Dividend Reduced. | PHILADELPHIA, October 28 (#).— The Pennsvivania Railroad today re- | duced the annual dividend rate on fts stock to $2 83 payment of 50 | pla | powers, prefer to have their debt-revi- lays, and | 3 mi | published eafh week and the credit | T had sold out at the peak? T ESSE C. SUTER, secretary of the Citizens' Joint Committee on National Representation, explains the voteless |aple plight of District of Columbia citizens to Miss Kay Compston of Newark, N. J. at the committee's booth at the Industrial Exposition at the Washington Auditorium. From the booth Mr. Suter is distributing to visitors literature —Star Staff Photo. COL. TURNER, HURT BY PLANE IN HAITI, THOUGHT NEAR DE Marine Air Chief Alive, but; “Weakening Per- ceptibly.” Was Struck on Head by Pro-‘ peller When He Slipped | in Mud. Col. Thomas C. Turner, officer in cherge of Marine Corps aviation, is “still alive, but weakening perceptibly,” thé: Navy Department was advised at 9:15 o'clock this morning, as a result | of his being struck by the propeller of a large transport plane at Gonaives, Haiti, on Monday. The colonel, Whose station is in the Bureau of Aeronautics, Navy Depart- ment, is in the Marine Brigade Hospital | at Port au Prince, Haiti, where he was taken aboard the mine sweeper U.S.S. | WOOCock. Which arrived In the capital last evening. Ts Not Suffering. The menecge {rom the hospital to the | department. follows: “Col. Tumner.s sti'l alive, but weaken- | ing perceptibly. There has been ab- | solutely no suffering.” Officials here believe that Col. Tur- ner’s death is expected in a short while and this fact cast a pall of gloom over his colleagues in the Marine Corps on duty in Washington, where he is well known as the officer who has directed the recent development of aviation in that branch of the service. After landing at Gonaives, on a test flight from Port au Prince, Col. Turner slipped on the muddy fleld while ex- amining the soft ground and his head was struck by the whirling propeller, the Navy Department was informed. Left Here Thursday. Col. Turner hopped off from the Naval Air Station at Anacostia at 6 o'clock Thursday morning, bound for Port au Prince, in a new amphibian ne designed for the use of the KMn'lne ale squadrons 1st Brigade. ATH = COL. THOMAS C. TURNER. alfached do the Marifie Corps headquarters omcia said “today That the. amphibian, Becer known in’ aviation circles as the RS-1, will be put into use as a hospital plane. transporting Marine casualties across the nd republic. They explained that this type of plane is particularly Mlghble, with slight modifications, for such use. Accompanying Col. Turner on the fiight were Lieut. M. T. Seligman, as co-pilot; Gunnery Sergt. R. E. A. Lille trolt, Mich., relief pilot and me- chanic, and Sergt. Curtis Goehring of Random Lake, Wis., as mechanic. Pvt. Albert W. Armstrong of Somerville, Mass,, operated the radio during the trip, arine Corps authorities asserted that the RS-1 carries an 8-hour supply of gasoline and is equipped with two mo- tors, each capable of developing 575 3 'y added that this power plant produces a 128 miles per hML Turner, who was the chief pilot of the plane, covered About 2,000 miles on the entire flight, his colleagues here said. DOCTOR FORGIVES HIS DEBTORS, BUT THEY WON’T FORGIVE HIM _(Continued From First Page) but not the publication of them. The debtors of Marceline, like the foreign slon negotiations conducted secretly. A bare announcement they deem quite sufiicient. | Only 75 debtors were catalogued in | Putman’s first paid advertisement. He promises three more installments. Man of his debtor-patients feel very mucl as they did when they called at his private hospital for their operations.| They are perspiring. The good doctor offers no anesthesia. Perhaps this treatment of Dr. Put- | 's arch philanthropy may seem cyni- cal. The inference is unfair. Dr. Put. man really is sincere. He discussed | it last night in his office without a| twinkle of his surgical blue eyes or a | twitch of his business-like lips. It was just as he had stated in the grim prologue to the first list of for- given debtors: “Recognising the fact that extremely low prices prevail for all local products and that an excessive burden of debt will retard local business, I propose v,o‘ deduct. the sum of $10,000 from ac- counts owed to me. A list will be granted for the amount will be set op- posite each name until the sum of $10,- 000 has been reached. Ola Putman. Can’t Understand Merchants. Returning from a call, this slight, gmnnlunly gray physician w]mw] is boutonniere, lighted a cigarette, | and explained everthing. “1 eannot understans chants did not join me enterprise,” sald. “We are in a period of deflation. I do not see why the working people and the farmers why the mer- | e in this worthy That i8 why I have cut many ac- r cent and ex- “Soot everybody must come to the ‘same ‘thing. 1 lost $30.000 or $40,000 on stocks and bonds when the crash came. It made no difference. 1 would have lost it anyway. What if As a busi- ness man, I 'm])dbhl:lve ntnv:m \hwd oldings and wo "1t there. "1 invested my time The incalculable doctor never cracked a smile. “No, sir. Out of all those 75 was published, just & few. No doubt many more will be paid before the next lxr;:nu published, but there will be no On Main street the merchants dis- cuss the debt revision program of their astute and inscrutable townsman. They don't want to be quoted. No need of that. Dr. Putnam is all right, they say. He just has his whims. He's a good friend, a great giver. They don't want to antagonize him. One never knows when one will land in his hospital, the only large llndsxlall uflulpfl.d one within . miles. They express -E’nnymmlyl.u v ,” raid one, “while I'm not the list, T will say that I feel t‘; some of those who are. I heard of one poor chap today who ran around town trying®to borrow enough to pay his bill befre his name was published. He bor- rowed it. Now, you know he couldn hlvel bono';d it IL he had no credit. That’s proof eno that he was good fofo:;he I)lll."h‘n " e e merchant sl his shoul- ders and observed it was just “a shrewd col’l'ectk\zlh scheme.” : fow, the good doctor is hearing wi ‘he citizens are saying about e doesn’t mind a blh:.‘ el wind. D, like his father's before him, is unsullied He is one of the most generous givers to Marceline’s charity chest. Even those citizens whose ire is aroused by his regular debt revision tell stories of his private philanthropies which he If has never mentioned. Advised Against Printing. “But, he just has ideas” one mer- chant said. ~ “He was advised Cmgt prin those names, but he said, ‘I'm doing the printing.’ " Dr. Putman's {ather, Dr. Ben B. Put- man, practiced medicine in ldarceline and its vicinity for 40 years before his Son came out of Rush Medical 8chool to Tnd him. - ogether they practiced 10 years, then the elder doctor died. hthe; and Son have practiced a total of 70 years in Marceline. And now young Ben, Dr. Ola’s only son, is preparing at Cornell to continue the family practice. (Copyright. 1931. by the North wspaper Allianee, Inc. M3t . PLAN VIGILANTE GROUPS TO HALT THEFT OF DOGS Woman Organizes Committees in XKansas City to Assist Officers in Capturing Robbers. . Ameri . ) American est. Bearden, the organizer, t “many stolen dogs are horses were in other assist officers in cap- suspects. Three .. TRADE VITAL FOR PHILIPPINES Coconut and Sugar Cane. Now Duty Free, Seen as Key to Future. By the Associated Press. Two fixtures in the Philippine inde- pendence picture are the coconut and the sugar cane. Their presence might easily have been in the mind of President Hoover yester- day when he said independence now would mean an economic collapse for the islands. He wants the Philippines to get their financial affairs in better shape before they strike out for themselves. The coconut and the sugar oane have been a factor in the tly growing sentiment for independence tn ‘There are Americans who feel that the competition of Filipino vegetable olls, made llrfily from the meat of the coconut, and sugar make it harder for farmers in this country to scale economic_obstacles. ‘They have not been convinced by arguments that there is little competi- tion between Filipino olls and American d e and that sugar from the islands makes slight difference one way or the other. Enter U. S. Duty Free. Filipino products enter the United States duty free. In 1930 72 per cent of their total of $133,000,000 in export and $123,000,000 in imports came to this country. he far-away islands had a favor- trade balance with this country last year of $27,659,000, Not all of that balance was sugar and copra derivatives but those who, from economic motives, want the Phile Admit Grave Problems. Among the Filj political leaders, avn ee londea o hett demands for independence—and that includes :‘t‘:z wcy—qm ':r-t &mm‘h\o lepel nce would ive islands severe financial aches and pains. Some want independence to be taken like the average prescription—moderate doses over a certain period—until the ‘5‘:““‘ have accustomed themselves to Proposals only yesterday by Manuel Quezon, president of the Insular Senate, were that the islands be given immedi- ate freedom, but that trade be continued for 10 years. He recognized the importance of the coconut and the sugar cane by that island imports of vegetable oil a sugar to the United States mizht limited somewhat. Pedro_Guevara, for the Philippines here, commented on President Hoover’s statement b} that the administration adopt n’deflnlu JOUICY 99 b PSS YOWIS W09 g Y restdent since Mexciniey has Bt st of them Toic they were Biot r h to walk p i mur:m:::dflg}“u frée- dom, but Harding, aftéf & had investigated, decided the time was not at hand, although it was in the offing. There, in the opinion of the admin- . n be Istration, it remains today. Events, however, seem to be sha| to bring the question, along with rooted in economics, before the next Congress for serious consideration. Three Plans Proposed. Even as President Hoover talked, dis- patches reached Washington from Ma- nila telling of three 'ndence propo= sitions put before administration and congressional The first call for immediate freedom. with free trade with the United States for 10 years, but limiting sugar and ofl exports, and restricting Filipino immj- gration into this country. “li'he uugld would have fiml:nrm t;d' and migration arrangements; ve provision for broad autonomy, but with restrictions safeguarding American sove erelgnty for 10 vears. After that, & plebiscite would be held to determine Wwhether the Pilipino wanted to continue under such government or become inde~ pendent. The third provides independence im any form. On hearing what Mr. Hoover had to say, Pedro Guevara—senior commis sioner here for the Philippines—con- tended the administration * come out with a definite program regarding the islands.” Wants to See Hurley: He plans to consult with Seci Becrelye. report, Do is il s _Teport, comment on developments as to the in- dependence mgvunazt. retary the the President had to say. He Oong to enact some sort of pendence legisiation at the coming ses- slon. The Copnecticut Senator expressed a hope the time provided before a plebiscite is taken will be long enough to permit the readjustment in Philip- pine industry which will be “by the fact that their best market will be shut off by tariff walls when they become independent.” TRADE CONFERENCE PLANNED BY NYE North Dakotan to Propese Measure to Govern Business Com- petition, \ —_— By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, October 28.—Senator Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota said today he planned to propose at the next Congress steps by which “millions of honest men” might " some control of “millions of of law-made speum.'"';r the Supply ore Central Association, the tor said this could brought about be flexible any unit of any industry might go to present protests t other units of the same for trade tactics.