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WEAT . 8 Wes Cloudy showers temperature degrees 2:15 pm B probably tonight west and R. 1 Forecast ccasional tomorrow tonight abcut Highest, 72 light mild No. 31,970 40 CHINESE SLAIN AS JAPANESE RUSH FRESH TROOPS 10 NONNI RIVER AREA Chinese Cavalry Continues Envelopment of Japanese Right Flank as Repair Work on Bridge Progresses. EARLY E\fi\CUATlON NOW APPEARS TO BE UNLIKELY Gen. Honjo Instructed to Demand sihar Not Later Than November 25, With Threat of “Effective Steps.” | ! i | By the Associatea press. MUKDEN, Manchuria, Novem- ber 14—Forty Chinese were killed in a battle in the vicinity of XKaiyuan and two Japanese in anj outpost clash in the Nonni River area, the Japanese headquarters announced today. The continuing envelopment of the Japanese right flank in the| Nonni region by the Chinese cavalry was said to be continuing and the Chinese are now about two brigades strong, reaching to 2 point 5 miles east and southeast of the Japanese positions. Peace in the area seems more unlikely than ever, it was said, as the dgte for the League Council| meetiig approaches and the | chances for an early Japanese evacuation appeared to be les- sened. Repairs to Bridge Progress. Miiitary reports received here indi- cated the repair work on the Nonni River Bridge is proceeding steadily. Yesterday the main span of the bridge was sufficiently strengthened to permit a locomotive to make a trial crossing trestles which but other 3"}',‘,’ ‘wooden b e apanese he: s _claimed to bai'e learned that Chang Hsueh-Liang's' ‘headquarters at Peiping has sent agents into Manchuria to destroy W the Mukden-Antung lway T movements of fresh troops from Japan via Korea. TROOPS LEAVE TOKIO. el LA Commander Instructed to Demand Chinese Evacuate Nonni River Area. TOKIO, November 14 () —A fresh | Gen. Mah's Withdrawal to Tsit- | ©of Japanese army troops left ?(‘;:‘nhmufll“:)dly. cheered by the Japanese people, and the war office an- nounced Gen. Shigeru Honjo, Man- churian commander, has been instructed %o demand the evacuation of the Nonni River area by Gen. Mah Chan-Shan uvembecrhl”' neral téfhative, the Chinese genera BT": ;‘e jnformed, will be “effective " by Japan. m’lp'l"w lz:’onfll‘t’lons of evacuation to be Jaid down for Gen. Mah include with- drawal himself to Tsitsthar and return of Chinese forces now concentrated at Tsitsihar and Anganchi to their origi- naé}en. Mah was also forbidden to come south of the Chinese Eastern Railway, and it was spectfied the Taonan-An- ~(Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) Emperor’'s Adviser Also Marked in Plan to Set Up Dictatorship. 1100 OFFICERS HELD for ‘Weak’ Manchurian Policy. Special to The Star via Air Mail and Fast Steamship. TOKIO, October 31.—A plot to as- sassinate three of the principal officials of the government and to set up a military dictatership, for which more than 100 younger officers of the army are under arrest, has become known | gradually in the last fortnight, although publication of it has been forbidden in Japan, The men who were marked for death are Baron Reyiro Wakatsuki, the premier; Baron Kijuro Shidehara, for- cign minister, and Count Nobuaki Makino, lord ke:per of the privy seal | and close adviser of Emperor Hirohito, The directors of the intended coup detat were said to have blamed these three for what the plotters termed | apan’s “weak” policy in the dispute With China over Manchutla. g Public Unaware of Plot. The general pubiic is unaware of the | events, and reliable information has | | been difficult to obtain, but little by ! little the detalis of the so-called Fas- cist plot of October 18 have leaked out | among those clotely in touch with gov- | ernment circles, so that it is now pos- sible to disclose the main outline of the | Wfim:. irst reports of _the undertakin; reached the newsplpe’i‘ offices in Toklg‘ in the form of a press ban prohibiting the publication of any news relative to | a plot among young military officers aimed against a certain high of the court, understood to Count | Makino. It was learned at that time | that nine or ten younger officers had | :]e::n arrested in connection with the Subsequently it was learned that more than 100 younger officers of the | Army, said to be the ringleaders of the | plot, were under arrest and at the time | of writing were still being detained in military barracks, segregated | other officers so as to avert an; of spreading the movement. In addi- tion, a_number of civillans, including " (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) PLOT TO SLAY ¢ AND WAKATSUKI REVEALED he WASHINGTON HIDEHARA Trio Blamed by ‘F ascists’ | Above, BARON SHIDEHARA. Below, BARON WAKATSUKIL VISIT BY GRANDI SEEN LAVAL TEST European Opinion Widely Di- vergent on What May Be Accomplished. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. By Cable to The Star. g PARIS, France, November 14.—By landing in New York Monday, Dino Grandi, Italian foreign minister, in ac- ceptance of the invitation to visit Pres~ ident Hoover extended to him by Sec- retary of State Henry L. Stimson in Rome last Summer, consecrates the diplomatic custom, set by British Prime Minister J. Ramsay. MacDonald and followed by French Premier Pierre Laval, of making Washington a center ot world affairs second not even to Paris or London. The pre-eminence of the United States as a leader in international life was temporarily eclipsed after the Paris Peace Conference, ly by our own supposed will to isolation and partly by what foreign statesmen im- agined to be a permanent paralysis of our foreign policy due to the conlgtu-‘ PHILIPPINE'VISITOHS TO HAVE FREE HAND | Commission Soon Will Start for| U. ., Headed by Senator and Speaker of Islands. By the Assoelated Press. MANILA, November 14 —The nev.y appointed Independence Commission, which will sail for the United States soon, was given a free hand by the Legislature today to deal with Congress. Senator Sergio Osmena and Speaker Manuel Roxas of the House of Repre- sentatives, leaders of the commission, | will Jeave November 26 in order to be in Washington shortly after Congress convenes. Others on the commission probably will leave December 5. ‘The commissioners agreed during a conference with Manuel Quezon, presi- dent of the Senate and chairman of the committee, that immediate independ- ence for the islands is unlikely. Quezon advised the commissioners to seek approval of their plan for an au- tonomous government with restricted vegetable oil and sugar exports and re- stricted emigration. A vote on inde- pendance would be held at the end of 10 years. Quezon will be unable to go with the commission immediately be- cause of illness, but hopes to foliow it to America later. The leaders expressed great hope | they would be able to get concessions, although some fear was expressed that the granting of concessions would en- | tail tariff restrictions. Roxas will carry two trunkloads of data to Washington. TIME CUT CONDEMNED Railway Mail Clerks Oppose Pres- ent Plan to-Aid Jobless. SAN ANTONIO, Tex., November 14 {#).—A resolution condemning a de- crease in working hours, for railway malil clerks, as a means of relieving unemployment, was passed yesterday at the national convention of the Railway Mail Association. Prior to adjourning a five-day mest- | (Continued on Page 2, Column 4) | DYING BANKER’S NOTE BLAMES WIFE FOR SHOT Mansfield, Mass., Police Arrest Wounded Woman and Describe Dramatic Home Scene. . By the Associated Press. MANSFIELD, Mass.,, November 14— Police investigating the death of Justin L. Cobb, jr., last night revealed that while he 'lay dying from a gunshot wound Cobb wrote a dramatic note ac- cusing his wife of firing the fatal shot. Cobb, son of the president of the | First National Bank of Mansfleld, and | a partner of his father in a jewelry | L | | nufacturing business, died at Peter ent Brigham Hospital, Boston, several ours after he was wounded. A warrant charging first degree murder was served on his wife, Mrs. Emily Cobb, 26, while ghe lay on a cot in a Brockton hospital, suffering from injuries which police say were inflicted by Cobb during a quarrel. Chief of Police Newell B. Vickery said that while Cobb lay on the floor of his home his father saw him trying to trace a letter “E” on the floor. Giving the dying man pencil and paper, Vickery said, Cobb wrote the “Emily shot me. Why did she 150 MILLION SPENT 10 PIPE WASTE GAS ‘Great Oil Fields L System. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, November 14.—The har- nessing of a wasted natural resource is giving the pipe-line builders $150,000,- 000 worth of business. ‘The turn of a valve, the burning of & softer, hotter blue flame in the kitchen burner, columns of newspaper com- ment on the gas-rate controversy were the signals to the public that a $100,- 000,000 tube from the Texas Panhan- dle to the shores of Lake Michigan had been completed. Gas has been flowing for a month through that pipe, longest single unit of the 3,320 miles of gas lines being added to the Nation's distributing sys- tem. Allowed to Blow Away. Not 50 long ago the wells of the West were allowed to belch their rich gas deposits into the air to blow away un- claimed. Pipe lines are ending that. Legisla- tlon forced conservation in some in- stances. A legislative act in California (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) “EVERLASTING BOYCOTT” AGAINST JAPAN SWORN New York's Chinatown Reveals Pact to Be Passed On for Future Generations to Keep. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 14—An “everlasting boycott” against “anything Japanese” has been declared in New York's Chinatown. A 10-foot poster alongside the bul- letin board on which latest news from the Manchurian sector is posted calls upon every Chinese to swear never to buy or sell “anything Japanese.” Those who break the promise are to be black- listed. The pledge must be kept a life- time and passed on to succeeding gen- erations, says the poster, which has been endorsed by the Chinese Patriotic Association and the Chinese Merchants’ Association. IS NOTED CHE German Nobel Prize Winne: ing, the delegates also advocated the use of clerks on busses and the placing of airmail under jurisdiction of the rallway mail service, ' Radio Programs on Page B-6 By the Associated Press. BERLIN, November 14.—Transforma- tion of a pine log into the equivalent of a juicy filet mignon may not be such an absurd idea as it sounds it the efforts of Dr. Friedrich Bergius, winner of the Nobel chemistry award and famous for his experiments in synthetic food manufacture, are suc- ul. “The material reward of the Nobel prize will enable me to carry on my work, which has been most costly.” Dr. Bergius said in reveali convert wood into an edible food. During the war German sci- °"".f§;5"°°'if°°d ln‘ t.gu!ormm( m&l.- gestible cellulose into _carbohydrates, Bemnr cattle feed, and he believes that one of the infinite gon_lbwuu of wood is a product which might be called synthetic meat, x it his work to | h: CONVERSION OF WOOD INTO STEAK MIST’S OBJECTIVE r to Use Funds in Develop- ment of Synthetic Food. Most of his labors have been de- Yoted to getting oil from coal, & prob- lem theoretically solved in 1913 and practically demonstrated in 1921, when, by applying a pressure of 100 atmos- pheres at 100 degrees cen 1000 ilograms of anthracite were made to produce 445 kilograms of ofl, 219 kilo- grams of gas, 75 of water and 5 of llnrl;nol‘lll‘:e this T, rgius that | formula wugl1 be ::v]," el‘::o commercial use when world oil resources are ex- My tasks rose out of contem raneous circumstances,” the Nobel Pprize winner modestly explains. “Prog- Tess s & matter of m exigencies. I belleve that comfort is em‘ ;‘L‘ tl&l; and am 3 tribu share toward making man ma\n‘l’u'um" of ve in Washington. beni zr WITH SUNDAY MORNI 0. C. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, HOOVER PREPARING | ANNUAL MESSAGE | 'Many Matters of Vital Im- portance to Be Recommend- ed to Congress. DEPRESSION AND RELIEF AMONG TOPICS IN NOTE Debt Holiday, New Credit Corpora- tion, Taxes and Deficit Also to Be Parts,of Discussion. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. In the privacy of the Lincoln study on the second floor of the White House, President Hoover is today absorbed in the writing of his annual message to Congress to be submitted when that body reconvenes next month. With a view to giving his undivided attention to this important work, Mr. Hoover made no engagements and gave orders not to be disturbed. It is his intention to keep busy at this task throughout the whole of today and for several hours tonight and probably the greater part of tomorrow. | President Hoover does not compose papers of this nature hastily, and, in- | asmuch as the opening of Congress is |less than & month off, he realizes that there is no time to lose. Moreover, the President is consclous of the fact that this particular report on the state of the Union and this definite announce- ment of he administration’s policies to meet what he has on more than one occasion described as conditions border- ing on an emergency is being awalted by the country with more than usual interest. Phrasing Is Present Task. There are vitally important matters to be discussed Mr. Hoover in this docunient, fnd his treatment of them and the phrasing of his recommenda- tions in the matter of needed legisla- tion will be done with the greatest care and thought. Although he is today entering upon the actual writing of his message, he has really been working on it for weeks. At least he has been building the framework and arranging the scope to be covered. During this preliminary period he held innumerable con- ferences, not only with departmental heads, but with the Senate and House leaders of both Those close to the President say he now knows what he wants o that cover tablishment of a system of home loan | .discount banks to aid home building and home ownership. Will ‘Discuss Taxes. {In this same of his message fite President will relate what has been do'x‘u to relieve the unemployment situation, especially during the coming Winter, principally by the creation of the Gif- ford commission and the co-operative work being done by the Employment Bureau of the Department of Labor and the various agencies of States, counties, municipalities and private organizations. Another important chapter of the President’s message is expected to deal with taxes. Mr. Hoover has been par- ticularly averse to increasing the tax burden, but because of the rapidly growing Treasury deficit and the con- tinued reduction in revenues what he will have to say on this subject is being looked forward to with great interest. He will reveal the economies he has ef- fected in the Government operation, but it is realized that even though he has slashed expenses, the saving will be far sn;lm"-umcwm to meet ‘Treasury eficit. WOMAN’S SKELETON IDENTITY BAFFLING Police Without Clue to Death of Victim Found in Pennsyl- vania Woods. By the Associated Press. MEDIA, Pa, November 14.—Au- thorities today were without a clue to aid in their investigation of the identity of a skeleton of & woman found in the woods near Newtown Square. The skeleton was found late yester- day near the Garret Willlamson Lodge estate.’ Officials said they belleved suicide was the cause of death, Police have asked the New York headquarters of the Garret Willilamson Lodge to search their records for miss| persons, but sald they hold little hope that “this will lead to 2 sl and an - tion of the teeth led luthoi?t‘l:ln:o believe the woman was under 30. She was _about 5 feet 5 inches weighed 130 pounds. b JUDGE C. C. McCHORD STRICKEN IN KENTUCKY By the Associated Press. LOUISV! » Ky., Novem Judge Charits c. McChord, Washing- ton, former chairnian of the Interstate Commerce Commission, was critically ill yesterday at his Physicians sald he is from bronchial pneumonia. McChord and Mrs. McChord here from Wash! last week, A native Kentu , Judge McChord served several terms as a member of the Kentucky State Railroad Commis- sion. He was a to the Inter- state Commerce ission by Presi- dent Taft in 1910, and has since resided . He resigned room suffering Judge o ng Sfar. HIRTY PAGES, oo TRACTION GOMPANY TOBUY 35NEW CARS $700,000 Equipment to Im- prove Service—60 Old Ones to Be Reconditioned. An expenditure of nearly $700,000 by the Capital Traction Co. to purchase 35 new street cars of the most modern type and improve service in point of speed, riding comfort and noise reduc- tion is involved in negotiations which the company announced today are now nearing completion. . Purchase of the 35 cars to replace old uipment was authorized by the board :? tors at its meeting last May, and m% officials have been looking over the entire fleld for months in an en- deavor to obtaln the best cars and equipment available. It was desired to obtain cars with all the latest devices for inereasing pick-up and running M&mkl l:floflltl' riding and to it was ¢ this equipment & short time. Deli is to be made as soon as possible an “’m ol expictea probably” Fel o Others May Be Bought. The new cars, fully equipped, wil cost somewhere around $600,000 and company officials indicated that if they rove attractive to the riding public ?nnher plans for the replacement of its old cars with new ones will be carried out in the next few years. In furtherance of its plans for speed- ing up service. making rides more com- fortable §nd reducing noise, the com- pany, it was stated, now has under way the reconditioning of 60 of its four- moter cars bought in 1019 and 1920. ‘These cars are Ltnz put through the company shops at the rate of five a week, and with 25 of them already in service on the streets, the“entire lot of 60 should be in operation by the first of the year. The changes being made will increase pick-up and running speeds, insure more comfortable riding and reduce noise. The cost of this work is about $75,000. With the 35 new cars and the 60 being reconditioned all in operation, company officials stated that it will be able to take care of a large part of the non-rush-hour service with these ve hicles and handle a considerable po tion of the peak loads with them also. Four Motors to Each Car. new cars will have four mo- tor‘;h'ela:h. weight about 31,000 ds, or 10,000 pounds less than the older four-motor omes. They will be capable of pick-up and free-running speed comparable with that of the auto- e. m"’?}:‘eu cars will be equipped with au- tomatic controller devices to produce even acceleration and eliminate jerks at starting. They can be accelerated at the rate of 3 miles per hour per second, compared with 15 miles per hour per second in the older cars, enabling them to get away quickly after stops. The latest type of braking equipment will be Inlflm with greatly increased brak- ing power over older street car models. The trucks have been specially de- signed. Through the use of rubber and through & new drive there will be less noise in operation than with the |:;r‘xli ent cars. Linoleum-covered floors lessen noise, be more sanitary and give a smoother walking surface for passen- gers. Lights are to be placed over the seats instead of along the center of ing better illumination. th;hr:o:fln:'vwfil be upholstered in real , with double-spring cushions and L':::l:r The windows will be wider than those on the older type cars, ventilators will be of the newest d , and all 35 will be equipped with trolley poles for operation outside the District. Height to Be Less. overall height of the new vehicles w;ll‘lmbe less than that of cars now in service, bringing the center of gravity closer to the ground and assuring bet- ter riding qualities. The cars will be single end to give more comfort and increase seating capacity. The color scheme will be different from the stand- ction green. .rd'l‘lg.rz“::e'l;‘?o( i.he“lfl cars marked p- for reconditioning which have been,; ration and unless something 3:: ppecied interferes the balance will be unning b een specded up. by Ve n cmtbe r:mwrl 50 that they will 5 miles an been ‘::‘tht a running speed of 20 miles an hour can be reached in 11 seconds, red with 15 taken previously in that speed. The braking pressure has been in- creased from 40,000 pounds on eight wheels to 60,000 pounds. The valves will apply the pressure more quickly and bring a car to a stop reduced about 50 per cent. They have been equipped ith new seats, leather covered, with springs and concave backs passenger comfort, « the distance required to|was Bootlegger Is Jailed 150 Days When His Cell Proxy Is Found By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, November 14. —If Jack McLaughlin hadn't at- tempted to serve his bootlegging term by proxy, he would have been out of jail by now. As it is, McLaughlin is out $100 paid to John Saltes, who started the 40-day sentence for him and was discovered as the wrong man, and is in for 150 days because the judge raised it when he passed sentence the sec- ond time. After this term is served he is in for 90 more days. The term was meted out when pleaded guilty yesterday to a charge of false personation. HOME LOAN PLAN URGED BY HOOVER Discount Banks Proposed in ‘o Provide $1,- 800,000,000. By the Associated Press. A $1,800,000,000 blast beneath the frozen home bullding credit jam is planned by President Hoover through the creation of a Nation-wide amry of new Federal banks. ‘The President announced late yes- terday he would request Congress to set up a dozen home loan discount banks, capitalized at around $150,000,000, but capable of advancing 12 times that amount to institutions dealing in small mortgage loans. He expects the results to spread fanwise. Among those hoped for he listed: A revival of home building and a re- sultant increase in employment. An emergency easing of financial strain upon sound banks and loan as- sociations dealing in home-building se- curities. A :la(eauardln( against future build- um) A long-time promotion of home owner- ship through the financial strengthen- ing of credit institutions. Comes as Surprise. ‘The Chief Executive's sudden launch- ing of his plan caused some surprise. Although he has conferred twice re- (Continued on Page 3, Column 1.) - AVIATRIX MISSED RECORD Miss Maud Tait, Society Girl, Flys at Speed of 214 Miles Per Hour. RLH'ROIT. November 11 (#).—Miss Irving Tait, Springfield, Mass., socidty girl-aviatrix, falled in another attempt at a new world speed record today by a narrow margin, driving her Gee Bee monoplane over a meas- ured course at a speed of 214.992 miles an hour. Rail Head’s Daughter Hurt. GENEVA, November 14 (#).—Miss Louise Shoup, 24-year-old daughter of Paul Shoup, president of the Southern Pacific Railway, was in a hospital here today recovering from injuries received yesterday in an automobile accident. Her jaw was broken and she was cut about the head. Associated service. ' Means Associnted Pross. EXPERTS FINISHING RILEY GIRL REPORT Results of Mental Tests Due From Gallinger in Few Days. a8 a result of her alleged four-year im- prisonment in a dark closet, will be made public within the next few days, it was announced today by Gallinger Hospital. The report is being compiled by psychiatrists and psychologists, who have had the 12-year-old child under observation since she was brought to the hospital a week ago yesterday after police claim they rescued her from a bath room closet in the home of her father and stepmother, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Newgnan Riley, 1110 Rhode Island avenue. = Far From Complete. ‘While it was emphasized at the hos- pital that the report would show only the results of preliminary examinations, 1t was expected today that it would dis- close partially at least the present con- dition of Edith’s mind and physique. A thorough investigation of the child's past life is to be undertaken soon by the hospital staff to determine her original “endowment of intelligence.” Upon the information obtained as to her early history and the results of further exhaustive examinations, A Joseph L. Gilbert, chief psychiatrist, and Mrs. Edith Sutherland Elmore, chief psychologist, expect to determine defi- nitely whether the child is permanently defective or wi'l eventually become normal. Dr. Gilbert and Mrs. Elmore reiter- ated today that it may be months or years before an exact dctermination of her condition can be made. “She is not a normal child by any means,” he repeated “However, after an observation of three to four weeks we may knoy more about the case. It may take six months or a year, though, to definitely diagnose the case.” May Take Year or Two. Simll-ll’lg. Mrs. Elmore, who has given Edith several psychology tests, as- serted it may take a year or two in & normal environment to make an ac- curate estimate of her intelligence. ‘“The final score, as in men- tal age and intelligence quotient which this child makes on formal intelligence tests, is far below average. “Had she come from a normal en- vironment it would signify mental de- ficlency. In view of the unusual - tory of isolation, interpretation of these findings should be deferred until such time as the child has been given an opportunity in a normal environment (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) FOREST FIRES SPREADING North Carolina Section Threatened as Loss Mounts. —Qs ding m“' fi"h}x'n%:mdb:; el prea "ouf T~ mmemnulgtmwm!onstm'mnm Doy o S s iR ackson, Haywood, Avery, Burke and Madison Counties. ‘The fire, which originated in Mec- Dowell County on Linville Mountain several 80, spread across the days has mountain into Burke near Linville Falls. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star, HYATTSVILLE, Md., November 14. —A 17-year-old girl, who claims her stepmother frequently beat her with a rubber hose, was taken from the custody of her parents last night while the mother, Mrs. Hattle Scott of Colmar Manor, was arrested on charges of as- sault and battery. The girl, Mary Scott, a student at the Hyattsville High School, appealed to her teacher, Mrs. Helen Prince, about treatment she received at home. Prince _referred Mary to Justice of Peace Retta D. Morris, who issued the warrant. At a hearing before the magistrate air | last night, the mother ldmlwxu\lllng the hose, expressing the belief that i necessal to properly discipline ;n‘ar ‘-'updml‘ ter, according to Mrs. lorris. The woman's husband, an mglan of the Buresu of Engraving and Print- ing, accompanied her to the hearing GIRLS’ CHARGE OF BEATING LEADS TO ARREST OF HER STEPMOTHER Hyattsville High School Student Is Taken From Custody of Parents After Hearing. and defended her handling of the child, Mrs. Morris says. Mrs. Scott was laced under $500 bond for trial in Po- lice Court Wednesday. Following the hearing Mary was not permitted to return home, but re- mained at the home of Mrs. Morris, the justice of the peace, whose hus- band, Prof. K. J. Morris, is principal of the Hyattsville High The magistrate says she kept the girl at her home on recommendation of Chief of Police McCormick of Col- mar Manor, who served the warrant of Mrs. Scott. Neighbors of the Scotts st Colmar | h girl, Mrs. Morris says. At one time is left home because of ill treatment last Summer was forced to work di gistrate The only evening paper ‘ in Washington with the | Press - news TCENTS. STOLL 1S RETIRED BY COMMISSIONERS AT OWN REQUEST Inspector Will Leave Force December 1 on $187.50 Monthly Pension. WAS MEMBER OF FORCE MORE THAN 36 YEARS Resignation for Age and Health Reasons Follows Third-Degree Probe and Shake-up. Inspector Louis J. Stoll of the Police Department was placed on the retired list by the Commissioners today, ef- fective December 1. Inspector Stoll yesterday wrote Acting Superintendent E. W. Brown asking to be retired on ac- count of “age, physical condition and length of service.” The request was granted today. Stoll will be given a pen- sion of $187.50 per month. Inspector Stoll, who was born No- vember 25, 1870, was appointed to the force May 13, 1895, and has heen an inspector since January 1, 1926. He was assigned to make the first police investigation of the case of James Henry Harker, who charges that he was beaten by members of the first pre- cinct command in order to extract from him a confession to a crime. ‘This was the first of a series of charges of police brutality which led eventually to a Department of Justice investigation, indictment of several members of the department and a thorough shake-up of the administra- tive personnel. Stoll's investigation was severely criticized. ‘Won Fight on Report. Stoll’ e the Stoll was Clev lived in the vicinity of Detroit number of et A ‘was Ay 2 2 ¢ 1o the eighth precinet, Stoll ently served in the tenth, ninth and seventh g headquarters. part in the attempted ber July 2, 1906—P 08 in on a crimina} assault May 16, 1914—Joined mounted 3 December 10, 1917—Transferred from D ember 11, 1917—Promoted to act- ing lieutenant. bruary 1, 1919—Promoted to lieu- tenant. January 16, 1922—Promoted to cap- January 1, 1926—Promoted to in- actor. \ After assuming the ' inspectorship, Stoll was placed on_property auc{ it headquarters. February 9, 1927, however, he was®laced in of the precincts, retaining that ion until last July 1. At that time the pre- cincts were divided into three inspec- tion districts and he was placed in charge of the first district. “NOT GUILTY” PLEA MADE BY POWERS Crowd of Several Hundred Gathers to See Alleged Slayer Arraigned. By the Associated Press. CLARKSBURG, W. Va, November 14—Harry F. Powers, indicted for the killing of Mrs. Asta Buick Eicher and her three children of Park Ridge, 1., and Mrs. Dorothy Pressler Lemke, ‘Worcester, Mass., entered a formal plea of not guilty today to the charge that he killed Mrs. Lemke, and December 7 was set as the date for his trial. Powers, accused of luring his victims here by promising to marry the women, was arraigned only on the indictment charging him with murdering . heavy loss | Lemk him by the grand jury last Tuesday. Defense counsel informed Judge John C. Southern that he would file a peti- tion seeking a change of venue early next week. Mrs. Eicher and her children disap- gelnd in June from their Park Ridge lome.. to to the State Ppemunthry September 20 for safekeeping after a mob about the county jail COL. TAYLOR TO RETYRN FROM POST IN CHIia By the Associated Press. Col. olds J. Burt of Omaha, duty in Militia Bureau here, sall from New York April 29 to relieve Col. James D. Taylor of command of the 15th United States Infantry st Tientsin, China, where recent disorders