Evening Star Newspaper, November 10, 1931, Page 1

The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news service. WEATHER. (U. S. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair and warmer with lowest tempera- ture about 50 degrees tonight; tomorrow mostly cloudy and somewhat cooler. Temperatures—Highest, 62, at 3 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 42 at 7 a.m. today. Full report on page 9. " Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages13,14 & 15 e————— Star. Yesterday’s Circulation, 117,768. he Fpening No. 31,969. Foiefthée Wa Entered as second class matter shington. D. WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1931—F ORTY PAGES. ### (#) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. HOOVER SUGGESTS FEDERAL WORKERS BIVE T0 JOBLESS Civil Service Commission Is| Working Out Plan for $1,- 1 000,000 Contribution. PROPOSAL INCLUDES ALL U. S. EMPLOYES President’s Proposal Will Be Laid Before Officials Friday. on At the suggestion of President Hoo- | ver, a plan is being worked out by the | Civil Service Commission for the Gov- | ernment employes to supply $1.000,000 | of the $2,601.000 quota of the local Boy Serving Life For Slaying to Get Help of Educator By the Associated Press. WALLA WALLA, Wash.,, No- vember 10.—The education of Hubert Niccolls, jr., 12, who is serving a life term in the State Prison here for murder, will be directed personally by Walter M. Kern, superintendent of Walla Walla schools and member of the State Board of Education. Prison officials announced they had accepted an offer by Kern to supervise the boy's lessons. C. F. Rose, prison librarian, will be his teacher. Kern will out- line the course of study and in- terview Hubert before his school- ing begins. Warden C. E. Long said the Loy, recently sentenced to life im- prisonment for shooting fatally the late Asotin County sheriff, John Wormell, had received three times as many letters as he could possibly read. | | | | GIRD FOR BATTLE T0 CONTROL HOLSE Community Chest here for the coming | Garner and Tilson Map Pro- year. It is thought that the plan will re- semble similar ones adopted by indus- tries throughout the country, whereby employes voluntarily contribute one or two or three days' pay a month. grams on Arrival in Capital. In making this known at the White House today President Hoover empha- | BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. sized the fact that such a contribution ! plan proposes to include civil service em- | Representative Jack Garner of Texas ployes not only in Washington, but | Democratic leader of the House, and throughout the country. | Representative John Q. Tilson of Con- Contributions to Be Voluntary. | necticut. who leads the Republican The President indicated that he ex- | forces in that body, probable con- pects Thomas Campbeli, chairman of | testants for the Speakership of the the Civil Service Commission, to whom | House in the new Congress, both ar- he recently outlined his proposal. to | report upon the completion of such a | plan very shortly, following conferences | with departmental heads. It is under- | stood that a voluntary contribution of this sort on the part of Federal em- ployes has grown out of requests made by individual employes and groups to the President’s Organization on Unem- plo%'ment, headed by Walter S. Gifford. he first proposal of this kind put up to the PFresident inciuded the estab- lishment of staggering hours for Federal employes, 50 as to provide additional | employment, but when this plan was studied, at the request of the President, it was found to be impracticable, inas- much as it conflicted with the Civil Service laws, which require a stipu- lated number of hours’ work each week. The President for this reason disap- proved of further consideration, and, | therefore, promptly suggested the alter- | native p! providing for voluntary contributions. Officials to Get Plan Friday. Details of the arrangements for bring- ing Government employes into the Com- munity Chest and unemployment relief campaign will be laid before the full official ment ittee iday, Campbell announced today. Mr. Camp- | bell is acting as chairman of the com- | mittee suggested by Mr. Hoovgr. i Commissioner Campbell stressed that | contributions from the Government em- ployes is, to be on an absolutely volun- tary It is the hope of members of the Governmental Committee that the Government department quota will be reached. This is computed on the basis of an expected contribution from Govern- ment employes amounting to one day's pay a month for three months, amount- ing to a total.of three days’ full pay. approximately. The first payment would be made, | under these plans, on January 15, with | the remaining two payments to be made | in _the two succeeding months. | Pledges are to be sought not later | than December 15, Commissioner Campbell said. The subcommittee of the govern- mental department relief organization | will meet Thursday to consider the best means of collection of donations. | ‘Two proposals now are before the committee. One would involve the payment of the cantributions by government em- | - ployes direct to the Community Chest | organization. The other would be for the appointment of an agent in each Government department and inde- | pendent office for the acceptance of the | contributions, such agents to credit the ‘ donations and then pass them over to the Community Chest. The latter plan, it is explained, would save the Com- munity Chest considerably in the mat- | ter of the collection of the donations. 83,200 Workers in D. C. The tentative quota for the Govern- ment employes was gauged somewhat | rived in Washington today, ready to fight the battles of their parties. Prediction that the Democratic party in Congress would have a full legislative program adequate to meet the present situation was made by Mr. Garner at his office in the Capitol soon after he reached Washington from his Texas home. Garner Withholds Plans. Mr. Garner would not outline this program in detail, but declared it would be offered by the Democrats whether t! outlined the House or not. he% have nothing to say about the speakership or the control of the House,” said Mr. Garner. “The organi- zation of the House is on the lap of the gods.” Evidently he was referring to the fact that death or illness might upset the paper majority which the Democrats now have in the House. The Democratic leader made short work, however, of suggestions advanced in some RQemocratic quarters that it might be unwise for the Democrats to take control of the House dunn% &g coming Congress and on the eve of e general elections. Opposes Avoiding Control. “That kind of argument does not a) 1 to me,” sald Mr. Garner. “Any political party which is unwilling to assume responsibility when it comes to it is not worthy of continuing.” , Garner expressed the opinion that whichever party, Democratic or Republican, organized the House when it meets here December 7, should con- tinue to have control of the House throughout the coming session, even if death should upset the narrow majority {of one or two which the party might have. “That seems like sound common sense 0 me,” Mr. Garner said. He declined to go into the question of standing commit- tee chairmanships in the event the Democrats organized the House. “I have | notning to say on that subject,” said Mr. Garner emphatically. It has been reported that Northern ~Democrats might clash with their Southern col- leagues over some of these chairman- ships. Expects Democrat’s Election. The Democratic leader of the House predicted that a Democrat would be clected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of the late Representative Wurz- bach, the only Republican member of the House from Texas. “The Democrats in that district,” said Mr. Garner, “outnumber the Re- publicans.” Mr. Garner, ruddy of face and ap- parently in the best of health, jokingly said that he felt ready for the fray | which may be expected in the House. “I expect to be able to stand up and | catch all the brick-bats they throw at COBLENTZ TELLS OF SIGNING DATA EMPLOYEDBY PITTS Takes Stand After Edwards Testifies Spurious Papers Were Prepared in Florida. DOCUMENTS WERE NOT TO BE USED AT TRIAL Says Suspicion Was Aroused When He Was Handed Dif- ferent Pens. Emory L. Coblentz, banker and poli- tician of Frederick, Md., took the wit- ness stand in District Supreme Court today and described the circumstances‘ under which he signed a number of allegedly spurious authorizations used in evidence at the recent F. H. Smith Co. conspiracy-embezzlement trial. Coblentz, with G. Bryan Pitts, for- mer president of the Smith Co.; John H. Edwards, ir, a vice president, and others, is under indictment for perjury in connection with the introduction of these authorizations, which purported to justify Pitts in receiving money the Government claims he had embezzled. Edwards. who was convicted at the trial and 1s now serving a sentence in Lorton Reformatory, testified earlier in the day that all the authorizations were spumous. He said they were prepared a few weeks in advance of the trial, dated back and treated with acid to give them an aged appearance. Admiis Signing Papers. Ccblentz was called before Justic F. D. Letts today as a Government wit- n in contempt proceedings against Pitts and “any other persons” involved in the introduction at the trial of the alleged spurious documents. On taking the stand, Coblentz iden! fied himself as a publisher and “a foi mer banker.” A chain of banks in Maryland, which he headed, recently failed. He admitted signing the authoriza- tions in question, but said he did so with the specific understanding they were not to be used in any manner at the trial of Pitts and the other Smith Co. officers on the conspiracy-embez- zlement charges. Instructsd by Assistant Attorney General Nugent Dodds to tell his story in his own words, Coblentz said: “My associates and I undertook the construction of two buildings in_ 1926, one in Pittsburgh and one in Phila- delphia. We failed to make a success of this enterprise induced Mr. Pitts to take the propecties off our hands. He bought all of the capital stock and became the owner of the buildings,” but requested that we re- main as nominal heads of the owning corporations. From time to time I signed various authorizations and re- ceipts calling for the repayment to Pitts of money he had advanced the owning corporations, just as a matter of course. i Pitts Asked Signatures. 1 “Then, on September 8, about two ! montns 'before the opening of Pitts’ trial, 1 went to his home in Florida to discuss with him the liquidation of | some indebtedness between us, which | had no connection with the building enterprises. After some discussion of this indebtedness, however, Pitts re- quested me to sign some authorizations on the corporations owning these build- ings. He said he needed my signature | to complete the corporate records for tax purnoses. I reminded him that I had signed a general authorization, but he said this had been lost. “I then asked Edwards if it would be proper for me to sign these papers. He| said it would, and on that basis I re-| luctantly signed them. Suspicious of Pens. “I noticed that Edwards was hand- ing me different pens and different col- ored inks from time to time with which to sign the papers. I asked him why the differcnt colored inks were being used and he answered that they didn't| want all of the authorizations to ap-| pear to have been signed at the same| time. This aroused my suspicions, but I signed the documents after stipulat- ing that they were to be used only for completing the corporate records and were in no wise to ngure in the then YOU HENEN A CHANCE ! WAR DEBTS HELD | I DEPRESSION CAUSE 'MacDonald Links Repara- tions With “Crazy Economy” | in Parliament Speech. By the Associated Press. LONDON, November 10.—Repara- tions and war debts schedules combin- ing in a system of “crazy economy” have caused the distressing economic situation in which the world finds itself, Prime Minister Ramsay McDonald said today in his first speech before the new parliament. “As long as the will of man forces an unnatural economic adjustment upon the world, the world never will succeed or prosper.” he declared. “It is impossible,” he said, “to decree that without regard to circumstances certain blocks of gold shall be trans- ferred from one nation to another with- out resulting in impoverishment of the nation which hands out the gnld and ulimately of that which receives it. Holds Laval Visit Important. “It is necessary to get into contact at once—and this is already being done— with the nations chiefly concerned so that we may extricate ourselves from this absurd enganglement of the im- possible.” He said he attached the highest im- portance to Premier Laval's visit to the United States, and hc expressed ihe hope that it would lead first of all to an understanding between France and Germany. | “In the full and final understanding, however,” he said, “every nation in- | volved must be a party to the agree- ment. That is the policy of this gov- ernment.” ! Asks Tariff Barriers, A plea for establishment of a system | of protective tariffs and early measures to prevent dumping, voiced by a Con- | servative member, marked the business of Parliament after its formal opening by King George Geoffrey Lloyd said in an address of | thanks to the speech from the throne that millions of British people were | looking to the House of Commons with anxiety. and “there were many hoping that the House will establish a system of protective tariffs because they think | it will help them to get work.” George Lansbury, speaking as leader | of the Labor oppositicn, said that the | government was not national, but had won office by “chicanery and fraud.” He said the Labor opposition would put before the House proposals for dealing with the economic crists King Opens Parliament. Amid the pomp and glitter of tradi- tion, the King, wearing the crown of subject. Gunboat Panther ‘Of Agidir Incident Sold as Scrap Iron By the Associated Prebs. KIEL, Germany, November 10. —The gunboat Panther, whose name echoed around the world in 1911 at the time of Kaiser Wilhelm's “panther leap to Agidir,” has been sold for 37.262 marks—a little more than $9.- 000—as scrap iron to a firm in Frankfort. There is no possibility of using the vessel commercially, as she will be broken up. The Panther GARDIER 0 RELY T0 PROBE FININGS | throughout Manchuria, ané word from Tsitsihar describ Navy League Head Expected to Return Charge of “Inaccuracy.” served as a naval survey ship for some time after the World War. GRANDI 10 RUSH HEREUNDER LARD | | | i Gotham Welcome Abandoned After Anti-Fascist Threats. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 10—Foreign Minister Dino Grandi will be rushed | | through New York in a closed car under | heavy police guard when he arrives from Italy next Monday for conferences with President Hoover. State Department officials conferred today Wwith Maj. Willilam F. Deegan, chairman of the mayor's Committee for ' Reception of Distinguished Guests, and | it was learned the prepared city recep- tion was definitely abandoned. It was arranged, however, for the State De- partment men to meet Mayor Walker after noon to hear his views on the Closed Car to Wait. The present plan calls for Grandi to be brought to his liner's Hudson River | pier on the liner, not being taken off at quarantine as is usual for officials of | such high rank. A closed car will be waiting at the | pier, and with heavy police guard the | Italian foreign minister, against whose | presence here anti-Fascist organizations have threatened to stage demonstra- tions, will be rushed directly to the Pennsylvania Station to entrain for| Washington. When haited by today's insistance of the Washington officials, Warren D. Robbins, chief of the State Depart- ment’s protocol division, and Capt. Eu- gene Regnier, Secretary of State Henry | them by John Hays Hammond and his | not claim the ratio was fixed by the BY REX COLLIER. ‘The charge of “inaccuracy” aimed at the Navy League by President Hoover's committee of inquiry will be hurled back at the committee in a reply by William Howard Gardiner, league presi- dent, it was learned today from a re- liable source. Adopting the procedure of the presi- dential committee, Navy League officials are analyzing. paragraph by varagraph, the “presentment” handed down against colleagues. Coples of the lengthy repdrt exonerat- ing President Hoover and “convicting” Gardiner in the sensational naval policy dispute have been closely studied and annotated with refutative comments and question marks, preparatory to drafting a formal defense. To Answer by Friday. Gardiner is expected to make his reply tomorrow or Priday. While Navy League officials are rep- resented as not underestimating the effectiveness of the committee’s report to the White House, it is understood they have been quick to note what they | believe to be “many inaccuracies” con- tained in the document. It is expected the league will accuse the presidential group of “setting up straw men to knock down,” of draw- ing unwarranted inferences from statements in the league's celebrated pamphlet on “President Hoover and the Navy,” and of making at least one “glaring” misstatement. One of the “straw men,” it is to be | alleged, is the assertion in the first “count” of the committee’s letter of transmittal quoting the Navy League! pamphlet as stating “that the Washing- ton naval treaty established a ratio of 10—6 as between the American and Jap- anese fleets ” The league will reply, it is | reported, that Gardiner’s statement did ‘Washington naval treaty, but that it} referred only to the “established ratio” | of American naval policy. Says View Is Gibson's. (CHANG PLANS BATTLE; | WOMEN AND CHILDREN | ORDERED INTO HARBIN Fighting Imminent on Nonni River; Tientsin Quiet; Situation Declared Tense. NTERNATIONAL ARMY OF 4,000 REPORTED SOUGHT BY CHINESE League of Nations Told China Prephred to Build Defense Against “External Ag- gression” if Council’s Efforts Fail. TIENTSIN, China, November 10 () —Chinese police have captured 400 rebels who partici beheaded a number of them on in the native city gnd dealt with summarily. leader$ escaped. By the Associated Press. ipated in yesterday’s riots and the spot. They were captured Several ring- Japanese troops in the Nonni bridge area, where there was sharp fighting last week, are reported to have withdrawn a few miles to the south to mass for a fresh advance on Tsitsihar, capital of the |Northern Province of Heilungkiang. At Harbin, to the southeast of Tsitsihar, Japanese . ithorities ordered all Japanese women and children in the border fowns of Manchuli and Hailar, close to Siberia, to proceed to Harbin at once because of increasing Chinese animosity. Situation l-‘nuiht With Danger. Restlessness, resulting in sev |tion as “fraught with danger.” . Behind the actual fighting a tion of the Manchurian governmi would place Manchuria u: with Japan. Tientsin appears to be quiet, Dr. Alfred Sze, Chin Council, has informed tlement of the Manch: ?dele:&sex to a point at 2. the League the surrender of Tsitsihaj and that China requeste tional army The first report w: in the Express. China to Prepare To Defend Self in Case League Fails! By the Associated Press. PARIS, November 10.—1If the League | of Nations fails to settle the Manchu- | rian dispute China will build up her| national defenses to a point strong| enough to withstand “external aggres- sion.” Dr. Alfred Sze, Chinese member | of the League of Nations Council, told ! the League. | He made this declaration in report- ' |destroyer is on the way up from Port Arthur. Prepared to Defend Herself. a’s representative on the League of Nations’ eral minor clashes, is persisting ed the situa- proposal for complete reorganiza- ent has been revived. This plan nder Japanese protection and woull the Canton faction in centrol of China pp;oper in close cwo el -operation though still nervous. A Japanese that if it is unable to effect a set- urian dispute China is prepared to buil which she can repel FXtar R e Chang Hsueh-Liang indicated ceived at the Tokio war office that he is South Manchuria Railway zone, where a ber of Japanese troops are quartered. Reports to two London newspapers said Ja r by the Chinese generar. d the League of Nations of 4,000 men tc police the railway, “external aggression.” in official dispatches re- planning an attack on the comparatively small num- an had demanded Mah Chang Shan, to send an interna- pending a settlement. as published in the Daily Telegraph and the latter U. §. Sees Brighter Situation in East; President Silent By the Assoclated Press. President Hoover went over latest developments in the Manchurian sit- uation with his cabinet today, but mo definite word came of what course this Government is planning. While the President remained silent and cabinet members were reticent to discuss the situation, it was said in an ing that China is ready to accept the one-year arms holiday proposed by the | League on condition that the Manchu-| rian dispute should be amicably settled. | China relies upon the League cov-| enant and the Kellogg-Briand pact as! the “bulwarks of peace,” Dr. Sze said, but if these fail she expects to take! care of herself against “foreign en- | emies.” | International experts about the head- | quarters of the League earlier today | were engrossed in trying to determine whether or not there is war in Man- churia. There was something to be said on both sides of the question. The issue | seemed drawn between those who| looked upon the matter from a techni- | cal standpoint and those whose view was more for the practical phases. There was no .onfirmation of the re- | port that the Chinese Gen. Mah Chang| Shan issued a declaration of war on| his own initiative, and League author- ities and experts in international law official quarter that reports from Japan and China were brighter. There was no explanation of what accounted for a brighter outlook. Meanwhile, a memorandum from the Japanese government denying any in- tention of waging aggressive war in Manchuria was received at the Japanese embassy for presentation to Secretary Stimson by Ambassador Debuchi. Japan Renews Attitude. The restatement of the Japanese po- sition was in reply to a memorandum sent last week by the American Gov- ernment through Ambassador Forbes at Tokio. Japan emphasized anew that before its troops can be withdrawn China must agree to respect its treaty obligations and to assure protection of Japanese nationals. The assertion was made that this was no more than any civilized nation owed to another. Any intention of tak- ing advantage of its occupation of Man- me,” he said. He said that he expected to have a number of conferences with his Demo- cratic colleagues in the House during the next few weeks. The party caucus insisted neither he nor any other gen- eral with an army might declare war, although he might wage it in the most dreadful form. Only governments, the experts said, | empire and ermine robes over the scarlet | uniform of a field marshal, today opened {the new National Parliament. | | Speaking from the great golden throne in the House of Lords, his majesty bade The league also is prepared to con- test “count 6” of the “indictment,” which charges that the league’s pamph- let said “that the President intended, under the one-year holiday, to forego forthcoming trial. “As I was coming back to Washing- ton on the train, I thought the matter over and began to wonder whether, Stimson’s’ military " aide, the city’s | preparations had almost reached com- pletion. churia to force China to accept new obligations was_denied. American oficials are hopeful even in the face of frcsh hostilities in Man- on the number of Government em- ployes in Washington, now numbering approximately 83,200, including em- ployes of the District of Columbia, ‘Welcome Prepared. congressional and judiciary staffs. The plan for voluntary contributions, how- ever, it is explained, Coes not include the congressional staffs nor those of the judiciary. In arriving at the department quota of $1,000,000, allowance was made for contributions from between 70 and 80 per cent of the total number of em- ployes included in the plan Commissioner Campbell Tevealed also that the total budget for Washington of $2,601.000 included both the Com- munity Chest budget for next year and en allotment for the needs of taking care of the unemployed here during this Winter. Members of committee which is charged with the Hetail arrangements includes Chairman Campbell, Charles P. Sicson, assistant attorney general; R. C. &hite, assist- | ant Secretary of Labor; Ferry K. Heath, assistant_ Secretary of the Treasury: Herbert F. Brown, chicf of the United States Bureau of Efficiency: Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d; Dr. Luther H. Reich- elderfer, chairman of the District Board of Commissioners, and Luther P. Stew- ard, president of the Federation of Federal Employes. the departmental sub- | is to be held December 5. Mr. Garner said that he had no_appointment at (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) AKRON EXPECTED T | OVER CAPITAL ON CRUISE ‘Navy Airship Left Hangar at 6 A.M. Today—May Fly to Pittsburgh Tomorrow. | By the Associated Press. LAKEHURST, N. J,, November 10.— | The U. S. 8. Akron, the Navy's great- est airship, left her hangar at 6 o'clock this morning for a training cruise. The voyage was expected to carry the big ship over Washington, Annapolis and Hampton Roads. will return to her hangar about sun- down. Tomorrow the Pittsburgh, hence a request has come to have the mighty air cruiser put in an appearance to Armistice day celebration. ASKS SOCRATES TC HELP DECIDE EX-WIFE’S RIGHT TO HEART BALM Judge Wants Lawyer’s View When Woman Gets Alimony, but Claims Re By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, November 10.—Socrates has been called upon to help Superior Judge Joseph B. David decide the ques- tion: Can an ex-wife sue her ex-husband for breach of promise to remarry while he is still paying alimony? Harrie president of a manufacturing company, and Olive Lee Hall are the cipais. Mrs. Hall is asking for $100,000 for alleged breach of promise to remarry. Judge David yesterday asked five at- m_wut_ they thought of the case, marriage Offer. Four voted Mrs. Hall had no cause for | action. The fifth, Benjamin Davis of | the firm of Socr:tes & Davis, repre- | senting Mrs. Hall, said she had the right o sue. At this juncture, however, he pleaded that Socrates was unable to be present, and the case went over until Saturday. “If no law can be ‘ound by Saturday I will make law,” said the judge. “I will ‘rulc at that time that an e ife re- | ceiving her alimony from an ex-hus- \band cannot sue that ex-husbind for breach of promise to remarry no matter | what he may have said to her in a | weak moment,” s ues &) GALES DRIVE 0 PASS | She | Akron may fly to| add color to the! (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) SHIPS FROM RESCUING 11 Castaways Left at Mercy of Storms, When Vessels Are Forced Back. By the Associated Press. MIAMI, Fla, November 10.—Tropical Radio Station here was informed that the steamers Costa Rica and Geisha, which had been cruising the Caribbean Sea near Cartagena in a search for 11 castaways, were forced by iuclement weather early today to halt their| search. The Costa Rica docked at 'AIR HAMM Cartagena carly this morning, radio messages received here said. The ship reported no trace of the shipwrecked group was found. Capt. Frank Ormsbee, Pan-American Airways pilot, saw the men as he flew 2 seaplane from Cristobal, Canal Zone, to_Barranquilla, Colombia. i __The steamer, acting on the pilot's information, reached the vicinity of the drifting men shortly before mid- night. They reported their arrival on the scene by radio to Panama City, after advising Radlo Marine Cor- poration at West Palm Beach, Fla., that they had joined the search. Ormsbee's m e was sent to the flying company's Cristobal base and & report later was relayed here. He sal the lifeboat carried 10 men, while one many gasoline drums, fioated about them. High waves and a 25-mile wind pre- vented Ormsbee from seiting his sea- plzne down for a rescue, he said. rmsbee gave the approximate loci- tion of the drifting boats at about 200 miles from Cristobal. The pllot’s message was turned to the 15th Naval District, and Navy broadcast information to ship in that neighborkoods over the ping clunz to the raft. Wrecxlll.u}(l;dudinl . the new government, headed once more | by Premier MacDonald, godspeed in its undertakings | “My people have given you an em- | phatic mandate,” he said in a voice | which rang clearly through the cham- ber, nd we expect you to achieve suc- cess. Queen Mary, wearing a crown and magnificent robes, sat on his left. On the King's right was the Prince of Wales, in scarlet and ermine. Light | shone’ from the lofty ceiling upon a | blaze of jewels worn by the wives of | the peers. They sat on either side of | the House and the lords were packed clcsely in the center. In the Lords' Chamber the black and " (Centinued on Page 2. Column 6.) ERS KEEP DOAK FROM HIS DESK| Nerve-Wracking Staccato Compels | 111 Secretary to Remain at Home. “Trench warfare” got under way again today along the G street front, be- tween Seventeenth and Eighteenth streets, for the seventh time since July, and prevented Secretary Doak, who has been slightly ill, from returning to his desk in the Labor Department Building. Doak was ordered to bed by physi- | clans one week ago after making eight speeches within two weeks in various sections of the country. He was reported to be fully recu- perated and had expected to return to his office, when word was received at his Virgigia home that four pneumatic hammers were rattling away directly under his office window. He immedi- ately postponed his return to the city. Lloyd George Able to Leave. LONDON, November 10 (#).—David Lloyd George has recovered from his recent illness sufficiently to take a sea voyage and on Friday will sail for Co- lombo, Ceylon, with his wife and his daughter, ‘Megan. A doctor and a nurse will acccmpany them. — Radio Programs on Page C-8 Chancellor Elmer E. Brown of New| York University had been named chair- | man of a special Reception Committee | of 125 prominent bankers, industrialists and leaders of Italian organizations. A welcome similar to that recently accord- ed Premier Pierre Laval of France was planned, with a ride down the bay in the Macom, a_triumphal procession up (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) SLAYER OF WIFE TO DIE IN OHIO ELECTRIC CHAIR Supreme Court Upholds Penalty Set for November 20—Woman in Case Awaits Retrial. By the Associated Press. COLUMBUS, Ohio, November 10.— | Tilby Smith, Ashtabula County wife! slayer, must die in the electric chair | ut Ohio Penitentiary November 20, the State Supreme Court decided today. ! He was given an indefinite stay of exe- | | cution several weeks ago while the court considered his case. The court last Wednesday refused 1o Teview Smith’s second conviction on a charge of plotting the slaying of his wife, Clara Smith, 18 months ago, and today assigned the execution date. Mrs. Julia Maude Lowther, the al- | leged gunwoman in the conspiracy, is awaiting retrial at Wooster on the mur- der charges. She was given a new trial and a change of venue by the appellate court. DISBANDS AIR UNITS New York Naval Militia Squadrons to Be Abandoned. ALBANY, N. Y., November 10 (#).— The disbandment of the aviation squadrons of the State naval militia because of what he termed lack of co- operation by the United States Navy Department was crdered by Gov. Roose~ velt today. The naval militia aviation unit is composed of two squadrons, sta- tioned at the Naval Militia Armory ‘n Brooklyn. They were mustered into | State service in March, 1927, | | the present time of under-age auxiliary our treaty rights to carry on the con- struction of 87,600 tons of naval ves- sels. including the seven cruisers now building " Officials of the league are ready to reply that the inferenc2 is not the league's, but Hugh Gibsons, American spokesman, and Gibson will be quoted in support of this contention. A “direct misstatement” in the com- mittee’s report, it is to be pointed out, is the following excerpt “Paragraph 8, below (of the league's pamphlet) states that the actual auxil- iary ship ratio of Japan is 13.1. This figure is incorrect, the actual ratio at ships being 10.7.” Examination of the pamphlet will show, it is stated, that the ratio of | 13.1 did not apply to Japan, but to Great Britain. If any error was com- mitted in citing Japan’s ratio, it is claimed, it was in under-estimating Japan's’ figure. for the pamphlet gave the Japanese ratio as 10. How many other points the league plans to contest could not be learned, but there are said to be “quite a number.” 60 HOLD-UPS ADMITTED BY ESCAPED PRISONER Man Says He Spent Proceeds in Liberal Tips to Dance Hall Hostesses. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 10.—Robert Kearney, 31 years old, living at the Hotel Taft, New York, admitted under questioning in the police line-up today that he had committed 40 hold-ups in Chicago dnd that he escaped from jail in that city early in August, lice sald. He also confessed 20 robberies here in the last two months. Kearney was captured with a revolver last night after an attempt to hold uj a cordial ship on East Thirty-fourtl street. David Lewis, the manager, made an outery and Kearney ran. He was caught by a patrolman. | day. (Continued on Page 5, Column 1.) JAPAN’S ‘GRA&D OLD MAN’ OF BUSINESS SUCCUMBS Viscount Eiichi Shibusawa Dies at 91—Was Called People's Foreign Minister. By the Associated Press. ‘TOKIO, November 11 (Wednesday) — Viscount Eiichi Shibusawa, Japan’s “grand old man” of business, died to- He was 91 years old, but until a few years ago was still one of the country’s most active business men. The people called him the “people’s foreign min- ister,” because he made 50 many irips to the Unit2d States, especially when the Japanese immigration question was | under discussion. There was a premature report of his death yesterday, but it was quickly cor- rected, although his physicians said he would live only a few more hours. churia that peace will be restored with- out open war declarations. New instructions to this country's diplomatic repr=wentatives in Tokio and Nanking are understood to direct thai even more emphatically than previously China and Japan te called upon to re- spect their treaiy obligations. U. S. Watching Closely. These instructicns were drafted only after President lioover and Secretary Stimson had weighed the continued outpouring of disturbing reports from the Orient. Showing no_disposition to (Continued on Page 5, Column 6.) CHINESE ENVOY ARRIVES H. L. Yen at Vancouver on W:y to Washin~ton Legation. VANCOUVER, British Columbia, No- vember 10 (#).—H. L. Yen, charge d'affares at the Chinese legation at Washington, D. C.. arrived here last night from China aboard the steamer Empress of Russia. He is on his way to Washington. By the Assoclated Press. MOSCOW, November 10.—The Tass News Agency today received a message from Khabarovsk, Siberia, saying a Japanese newspaper editor attached to the Japanese military mission at Harbin, Manchur: made proposals to a conflict with the Soviet government and draw Russia into the Manchurian conflict There was no confirmation of the Kearney told Inspector Joseph Dono- van that he spent the proceeds of the robberies in dence halls, giving liberal tips to the hostesses, Teport. The editor was said to have invited the general, K “White” Russian groups of “White” Russians to provoke | the osmin, zations. EFFORT TO INVOLVE SOVIET ARMY IN MANCHURIA LAID TO JAPANESE {Unconfirmed Report Says Editor Offered ‘““White” Russians Support in Making Attack. on behalf of the Japanese mission. to organize an attack against the Chinese Eastern Railway and to arrest several prominent Soviet officials of the road, including the Russian consul and the manager. He was reported to have promised money, arms and ammunition to aid proposed coup. The suggestion, it was said, included, besides the seizure of the consulate at Harbin and the railway management, capturing the repair shops and the depot, the Far Eastern Bank and other Soviet economic and financial