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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair, with continued mild tempera- ture tonight and tomorrow; lowest tem- perature tonight about 50 degrees. Temperatures—Highest, 68, at 3 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 49, at 7:15 am. today. Full report on page 9. Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages13,14 & 15 — he WITH SUNDAY MORNING EBITION ening Star. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. l Saturday's Circulation, Sunday’s Circulation, 114,677 125,628 No. 31,975. Fuierthis “Wa second class matt er shington, D. C. D.’C., MONDAY, NOV 9 51— ’EMBER 16, 19 THIRTY-SIX PAGES. **#% P) Means Assoc TWO ,CENTS. ed Press. FOG BALKS PLANS OF GRANDI 10 FLY T0 CAPITAL FROM LINER IN NEW YORK Foreign Minister Expected to Come Here by Train After Landing From Cutter on New lJersey Shore. LINDBERGH HAD PLANNED TO PILOT HUGE CRAFT Famous Flyer Forced to Abandon | Air Trip to New York Assign:| ment—Had Been Called Back From Pan-American Journey to Run Clipper for Diplomat. By the Associated Press. JERSEY CITY, N. J., Novem- ber 16.—Cutting a corner around New York City, where anti - Fascist ~ demonstrations had been threatened, Foreign Minister Dino Grandi of Italy arrived in New York Harbor today and was transferred from the liner with his wife and associates to New Jersey, where he boarded a special train for Washington. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 16.— Low-lying fogs today balked the State Department plan to take Foreign Minister Dino Grandi of Italy by air from the liner Conte Grande to Washington. At noon Pan-American Airways, which had rushed a plane from the factory, recalled Col. Lind- bergh from the South and brought a four-man crew from Miami es- pecially to take Grandi to Wash- ington, announced the weather made the plan impossible. Go to New Jersey. Grandi and his party were taken on a cutter from the liner to the New Jersey shore and were to proceed from there by train. State Department officials had gone down the bay early this/ morning to superintend the pro- jected transfer of the Grandi party from the liner to the plane. As the cutter with the Grandi party eboard was traveling from Quarantine 1 the Jersey shore it was learned that th> Pennsylvania Railroad was holding & special train at Jersey City. Rallroad officials said the train was available for Crandi, but they had not been notified v/hether ne would use it. The plane came to North Beach Air- pait from its Connecticut factory, and 1he liner Conte Grande, with the Grandi party on board, reached quarantine be- 1-re noon. The plan to take the Grandi y to Washington by air was given @t the last minute when the fog led to clear. As the Conte Grande dropped anchor et quarantine Roger Q. Williams, who flew the Atlantic to Rome, flew over- head and dropped a bunch of roses for Mrs. Grandi and a sheaf of circulars expressing the welcome to America of Fascist organizations, Lindy Turns Back. Col. Lindbergh had left Hicksville in his wife’s little land: plane, but re- turned after a brief spin through the fog. He went to North Beach by auto- mobile. Aboard the ship yesterday Signor Grandi was full of enthusiasm and de- clared he would land on American soil with “an open mind and a confident belief in the world’s ouick and sure Tecovery.” Signor Grandi, from the bridge of the liner last night, threw into the sea a bottle, such as is tossed into the Gulf stream on every voyage at the request of the United States Hydrographic Of- fice to determine the speed and direc- tion of the current The bottle contained a note with the usual directions for its return when found and some verses by Dr. Guido Puccio, foreign editor of La Tribuna, Rome newspaper, who is & member of Grandi’s party. Grandi and Signora Grandl were up early this morning for the first sight of land “I long for a sight of New York's famous _skyline,” Signor Grandi said (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) LEAGUE ACCEPTS YEAR ARMS TRUCE vember 1—Forty Nations to Adhere to It. By the Assoctated Press. GENEVA, November 16.—The League of Nations secretariat today published &n announcement by Aristide Briand, as president of the League Council, that the one-year armament truce proposed at the last council meeting had been eccepted, effective November 1. The armaments truce was originally proposed by Dino Grandi, Italian foreign minister, and 40 nations have signified their willingness to adhere to Jt. It calls for a one-year suspension ©f all armaments building programs, . WALES SLIGHTLY ILL LONDON, November 16 (#).—The Prince of Wales was detained today at the home of Viscount Ednam in Wor- cestershire by a slight illness. He opened a new wing of the North Staf- fcrdshire Orthopedic Hospital in honor Bof Viscountess Ednam at Hartshill i yesterday. " Radio irqnn;_-: P_:'C C4 WASHINGTON, Year Added to Pitts’ (Imprisonment for G [] P TU SPUNSOR (Contempt of Court TAXINCREASE MOVE Others to Be Cited for Offering Spurious Papers HEI_D NE[: ESSARY] at Broker’s Trial. IN NE jear and a day in the penitentiary. | * The mimf.’,u xch::’gepag:‘fiw:, rus Senator Watson Reverses grew out of the introduction by him | Own Stand and Indlcates at his trial last year on conspiracy, em- bezzly t ch: ‘based b . iy £ authorisations purporting to snow ne| Republican Position After Parley With Hoover. | | Adjudged in contempt of court to- day, G. Bryan Pitts, former head of the F. H. Smith Co., was sentenced to serve of authorizations purporting to show he was entitled to money the Government claimed he had embezzled. It was charged that these documents were spurious and that the act of FORM OF NEW RATES | (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) R"_EYS |NDI[:'|'EI] . STILL PROBLEMATICAL a | A e | Upper Bracket Incomes Probably TORRMEREEIRL | oo e CHARGED BY . S. May Be Legislated—Treasury Fears $2,000,000,000 Deficit. Father and Stepmother of 12-Year-0ld Rescued From Closet Named by Jury. By the Associated Press Congressional Republican leaders agreed today to sponsor tax increases at this session. Senator Watson, the Republican leader, who has consistently opposed new taxes at this time, said after a conference with President Hoover that a boost is “inescapable mfl:'tg:;dl;:&t';;‘:;“'gls:' ]‘:,M::;i; At the same time, Chairman Smoot Harey N, Rilen, stepmother and father |1 the Senate Finance Committee an- O [Baeal unh - Milay, elinvging | umised “there will lve bo/be Surthue that they “feloniously tortured, cruelly | *¥aton beat, abused and otherwise wilfully G. 0. P. Tax Program. maltreated” the child, who was rescued | Watson's reversal was accepted on 10 days ago from a closet in the Riley | Capitol Hill as settling a Republican home, 1110 Rhode Island avenue. | tax program. Under the indictment, reported to| What form of new or increased rates Justice James M. Proctor in DIstrict |will be recommended is uncertain, Supreme Court, the Government has an | opportunity to introduce evidence on | any alleged beating within a three-year | pending further conferences between congressional leaders and President w{}ofl fbflo‘; !t:g‘g%vt"a?fl ]6~ tlhe day | Hoover and Secretary Mellon. olice found in e closet. PO, ‘and Mys Riley, who police| While both Senators Watson and charge, incarcerated the little girl for | Smoot favor a sales tax, they agreed four years, are now free on $2,500 bond | it was very problematical that Congress each. They will be arraigned Friday | o4 approve such a plan. on the indictment. | “Increased rates on the larger incomes Wording of Indictment. | appear certain. The indictment, signed by District| Senator Watson would not state the Attorney Leo A. Rover, follows: | President’s views on the tax problem, “The grand jurors of the United | but the fact that he changed position States of America, in and-for the Dis- |after his White House visit was in- trict of Columbia aforesaid, upon their | terpreted on Capitol Hill as a sure sign | Briand Says Holiday Effective No- | oath. do present: | that the administration would recom- “That one Elsie M. Riley, and one Harry N. Riley, each late of the District of Columbia aforesaid, on, to wit, the 6th day of November, 1931, and at the istrict of Columbia aforesaid, with force and arms, then and there did wilfully, unlawfully and feloniously tor- ture, cruelly beat, abuse and otherwise wilfully matreat one, Edith E. Riley, she, the said Edith E. Riley, being then and there a child under the age of 18 years. to wit, of the age of 12 years; against | the form of the statute in such case made and provided, and against the | peace and government of the said United States.” Two-year Term Maximum. Conviction on the charges carries a maximum prison sentence of two years or a $250 fine, or both. Should the Gov- | ernment prove Edith mentally deficient at the time of her alleged imprison- ment, as claimed by the stepmother, a more severe sentence could be imposed in case of conviction. A report on the child’s condition, which may have an important bearing on the outcome of the trial, is now being drafted by psychiatrists and psychologists at ~ Gallinger Hospital, | where Edith was taken after her re- | moval from the closet. | ‘This report, expgeted to be made | public today or tomorrow, will set forth, | as nearly as is scientifically possible, the | condition of the child when she en- | tered gehe hospital, any progress shown to date and the possibility of her ever | becoming & normal child. next Friday to plead to the indictment. QUIZ SET IN SAILOR’S DEATH FROM DOG BITE| Naval Inquiry to Fix Blame in Hydrophobia Cases on U. S. Destroyer. By the Associated Press. | MANILA, November 16.—Naval in- quiry to learn why 10 sailors of the United States destroyer John Edwa bitten by a pet dog, failed to receive conventional treatment until one died, | has been set tentatively for early in December. | Coxswain John M. Jones of Durham, N. C., died Saturday of hydrophobia. | The other nine sailors, among whom no | sign of hydrophobia has developed thus far, will receive treatment at the Cavite naval base, near here, for the next three weeks. The sailors were given only minor | treatment on the trip when they were | bitten by the dog at Chefoo, China, six | weeks ago. One of the injured men killed the dog and threw it overboard, preventing its examination for rabies. It was re- ported the dog had been smuggled aboard ship in violation of orders anc that the men had failed, for that reason, Mr. and Mrs, Riley will be arraigned | Dess from now on will be on the up- | cancellation of the war debts owed to | | ernment appropriations is vital. | is being considered by people who in mend new taxation. Fear $2,000,000,000 Deficit. Treasury officials fear a deficit this year of almost $2,000,000,000. It is known that Secretary Mellon would not like to meet this gap by borrowing with- out congressional authority. Watson believes that both increased taxation and additional borrowing by the Government will be necessary this year. The deficit last year was $903,- 060,000. As for the general legislative pro- gram, Senator Watson believed the President would sent up his recom- mendations without any specific plea for partisan or non-partisan considera- tion. “We cannot presume that politics will be played, “Watson said, “there- | fore there is no reason to plead against politics. Certainly the President can- not be in the position of begging and supplicating.” Increased taxation was declared nec- essary today by Senator Smoot upon his return to the Capital. While keeping an open mind on the form of new taxes to be sought, the Utah Senator expressed favor toward a general sales tax. He was not cer- tain, however, the Senate would ap- prove such a levy. Confident Worst Past. Smoot, who is now dean of the Sen- ate, came back to Washington confi- dent “the worst has passed and busi- rade.” He urged a resumption of buying. The Senator said he was opposed to America by the allied nations. He urged that something be done to restore silver as an assistant to gold in world commerce. Smoot said strictest economy in Gov- The Senator will go into early con- ferences with President Hoover, Secre- tary Mellon and House leaders on the vernment revenue situation. It is quite evident,” he sald, “that there will have to be further taxation. I have not fully decided what is the best _course to follow. In messages I am receiving the subject of a sales tax the past were opposed to it. Easiest Revenue Source. It may be possible to secure passage of a sales tax, but I am not vet pre- pared to sav that the Senate would agree to one. It is the easiest and surest way of raising our revenue and in my opinion a small tax on ultimate sales would be absorbed by the seller of the goods rather than be passed on to the consumer. That is, a tax of one- | half of 1 per cent or 1 per cent on ulti- mate sales in more than half the cases | would not be imposed on the ultimate consumer. “If the income tax is amended, no doubt the greater incomes will have to bear most of the burden. ‘Every item of an appropriation should be scanned as never before and t> report their wounds. (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) IN ARTIFICIAL By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, November 16.—Sclentists at the University of Illinois Research and Educational Hospital are going to make their own weather. Three rooms at the hospital are to be used to produce synthetic weather conditions, so that a person can be made as cold as he or she would be at the North Pole or as hot as he or she would be at the Equator. The purpose is to study how the body reacts to changes in climate. The scientists want to know why pneumonia flourishes in the Winter. while typhoid. for example, does so much damage in the Summer. Dr. Lloyd Arngld, professor of bac- / SCIENTISTS TO STUDY DISE:ASES Polar and Equatorial Temperature, Humidity and Air Movements to Be Reproduced at Iilinois U. WEATHER ROOMS | terlology, revealed the hospital's weather plans vesterday, saying the laboratory would be the most complete of its kind in l;heu:‘oumry. eating units and refrigerators are to be used to change mekteempemture from that of the tropics to that of the polar regions. Fans and shutters are to control winds so that a 40-mile-an- hour gale can be used when needed for the experiments. With sprayers Dr. Arnold and four assistants will be able to _control the humidity. Tests to be given patients will de- termine whether they can stand polar or tropical expeditions and whether they are fitted for duties in refrigerators or i furnace rooms, WELCOME, SIGNOR GRANDI. CENTRALIZED U, S, EDUCATIONAL RULE T BY COMMITTE Advisory Body in Report Fa- vors Department With Secretary, However. Further “centralization in Washing- ton of powers over the purposes and processes of education” is vigorously opposed in the final report of the Na- tional Advisory Committee on Educa- tion, which has just been submitted to President Hooves The report contains far-reaching rec- ommendations concerning the policies and activities of the central govern- ment, laying greatest emphasis on the preservation of focal autonomy in edu- cation, both in legislation and adminis- tration. The Teport urges establishment of a Federal departmint of education with limited powers, but with a secretary of education in the cabinet, the abolition of the Federal Board of Vocational Education and fne establishment of an interdepartmental council to co-ordi- nate the farflung educational activities of the Army ana Navy, Office of In- dian Aflairs’ and Depariment of Agri- culture, The 'committ-e advocates abandon- | ment both of Foderal appropriations to | Artist Mourned Without Charge by One as 85 Collect By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, November 16—One friend of the eccentric Louis A. Thiel, who died a year ago to- morrow, needs no reward for mourning at his grave. William Multhaup said he'd mourn twice a year without pay. For the fund which Thiel, an artist, set aside has been almost | | FOUR POLICEMEN £0 70 TRIAL ON SO DECREE CHARGES exhausted. In his will he set forth that his friends should receive from | ton's new superintendent of police, to- $5 to $20 each seventeenth of June and November for making pilgrimages to his grave. Eighty- five drew their rewards a year ago, but only five appeared June 17. GLASSFORD TAKES OFFICE AS CHIEF New Superintendent Inducted Into Office With Brief Ceremony. |Jury to Decide Fate of Quar- | tet Accused in Harker Case Is Comnleted. Trial of four policemen of No, 1 pre- cinet on third-degree charges growing out of the Government's city-wide in- vestigation of alleged police brutality got under way early this afternoon in Criminal Division 1 of the District Su- preme Court. Selection ot a jury to try the defend- ants—Precinct Detective James A. Mos- tyn and Pvts. Willlam R. Laflin, Wil- liam C. Grooms and William T. Bur- roughs—was completed shortly after noon. United States Attorney Leo A. Rover immediately began his opening address to the jurors. outlining evidence by which the Government expects to prove that the quartet feloniously assaulted Formally inducted into office, Brig.' Gen. Pelham D. Glassford, Washing- | day immediately took command of the | James Henry Harker in an attempt to extort from him a confession on Au- gust 22 last. Harker is Excluded. Harker, a youthful baker's assistant the States for special forms of edu- | department and plunged into his first sat in the spectators’ section during cation of interest to special groups and of the practice of requiring that Fed- eral appropriations be matched by the | States. A continuance of Federal sub- | ventions to th: States in support of | education 1is indorsed, provided that | each State is left free to use the money | as_State authoriies consider for the Lest interests of the people, without di- | Tection from Washington, Federal Relations Problem. The committee, which is headed by Dr. @harles R. Mann, director of the | American Council on Education, has been engaged in studying the problem of Federal relations to education for the past two years. The problem, says the report, “was found to involve questions | reaching literaily into: every phase of Federal administrative activity. The report treats of the difficulties | of education in territories, outlying | possessions and in special Federal | areas: in teaching the Indians and other_indiginous peoples; in training the Government personnel and in in- ternational intellectual relations. In each of these fields recommendations are_offered. The outstanding recommendation is that the Government establish a “Fed- eral headquarters for education” and | by a majority vote, but with 11 mem- bers dissenting, the committee recom mends that this take the form of & Government_department, with a_Sec- | retary of Education in the cabinet, The ‘functions of such a department | would be limited to research and in- formation service that would foster co- operation with and among the States on educational matters, It also would act as a center of co-prdination through which the several conflicting Federal educational agencies might be co-ordinated under one guiding policy. Nucleus Recommended. The committee recommends that the present Office of Education in the | Interior Department be made the | nucleus for this new department. The | existings Federal subsidies for voca- tional education would be retained, but some of their limitations removed | by repealing those provisions of the | Smith-Hughes act that require_State | matching of Federal funds and Federal approval of State plans and standards and that give Washington officials power (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) | GAS FATAL TO INFANT; Four-Month-Old Girl Dies at Hos- pital When Revival Efforts Fail. Fumes of illuminating gas which her | parents did not notice until she was overcome were fatal today to 4-month- old Prances Daniels, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Daniels, 1017 Sixteenth street northeast. Dr. Thomas Crisp, 501 Eighth street northeast, who was summoned by the parents, said they told him they were| in the same room with the child, feed- ing her, when they noticed the odor of gas. After opening the windows, they found the child was not breathing. Dr. Crisp was called and he ordered the child taken to Sibley Hospital, where ux?":!n was administered without re- sults. Dr. Crisp said the child, being near- er the floor than its parenis, was sub- jected to the fumes before they were, as gas remains near the floor. Coroner Rodgers said he would inves- | for his approval, details of police plans | official duties—the supervision of police arrapgements for the arrival of Dino Grandi, Italian foreign minister, and/ his party. The induction ceremonies, held in the poard room of the District Building at | 10 o'clock, established a record for | brevity. In less than five minutes Gen. | Glassford had taken the oath of office and was posing for newspaper photog- raphers with the five-pointed shield of the major and superintendent of police ' pinned on the lapel of his coat. | Confers With Crosby. A reception, also brief, followed the inaugural exercises, and then Gen. | Glassford went into a protracted con- | ference with Maj. Gen. Herbert B.| Crosby, Commisioner in charge of | police, ‘and Inspector E. W. Brown, who | had been acting superintendent since | the retirement November 1 of Maj. | Henry G. Pratt. Just before this con- ference, however, Inspector Brown turned over to the new superintendent for escorting and guarding the Italian minister and his party while it Wash- ington. h. Problems confronting Gen. Glassford irhhis administration of the Police De- partment were discussed at the confer- ence with Commissioner Crosby. These are understood to involve impending | changes in personnel due to the re- tirement of two veteran inspectors— | William S. Shelby and Louis J. Stoll— | as well as plans made to reorganize the Headquarters Detective Bureau. Changes to Be Revealed. Commissioner Crosby had been await- ing an opportunity to discuss personnel changes with Gen. Glassford ever since his appointment, but the pressure of official business prevented them from ~(Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) DREISER INDICTED AS SYNDICALIST ' Named With Nine Others by Grand | Jury in Bell County, Kentucky. By the Associated Press. MIDDLESBORO, Ky., November 16. —Theodore Dreiser and John Dos Passos, New York authors; Marie Per- gain and seven others were indicted by a Bell County grand jury here today on charges of criminal syndicalism. All of those Indicted were with Dreiser's National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners during an investigation of coal field labor condi- tions in Harlan and Bell Counties last week. Commonwealth's Attorney W. A, Brock, who serves in Bell and Harlan Counties, said he would take immediate steps to return Dreiser and his com- panions for trial in Bell County. Others named were Charles Rum- ford Walker, his wife, Adelaide Walker; Samuel Ornitz, Celia Kuhn, George Mauper, representative of the Interna- tional Labor Defense; M. P. Levy, a writer, and A. Gohns. The latter name apparently was listed incorrectly, as the tigate the case before issuin - Jificate of death. s { ¢ sclection of the jury, but was excluded | along with two dozen other Gowern- ment_witnesses before the trial pro- ceeded. John M. Keith, agent of the Bureau of Investigation, who directed the De- partment of Justice inquiry, also was to have been a witness, but when de- fense counsel objected to his presence in the court room a2s an assistant tc Rover, the latter anncunced he would forego using the Government officer as a witness. List of Jurymen. The jury, chosen after several hours of aquestioning by attorneys and the court, is composed of the following: Hugh R. Insley, salesman, of 2906 Thirteenth’ street. Stephen R. Caldwell, 4610 Fifth street. H. Stewart Harris, pharmacist, 719 Somerset place. B. P. Davis, department store buyer, 6210 Eight street. William B. Davis, 317 Third street southeast. Burns C. Downey, president, General Auto Truck Co., 2815 North Capitol street. Eugene W. Farlee, auditor, 615 Rit- tenhouse street. Charles T. Hartley, tire vulcanizer, 6232 Georgia avenue. George E. Foreman, bank teller, 621 Fourteenth street northeast. William B. Fowler, contractor, 233 1009 salesman, of bank teller, Massachusetts avenue northeast. Howard J. Garrett, cashier, Girard street northeast. Ward T, Mixsell, engineer, 5111 Thir- teenth street. Defense Challenges Seven. ‘The Government used half of its 10 possible challenges in _excusing 5 prospective jurors, while the deferlse peremptorily challenged 7 of those called for jury duty. A number of prospective jurors were excused because they were acquainted with principals in the case. Rover said he would show that the policemen compelled Harker to remove his coat and shirt despite his continued refusal to admit any complicity in the robbery. “Mostyn took a piece of rubber hose from the desk and struck the boy viciously on his back, arms and neck,” Rover declared. “Then they made him sit in a chair. Mostyn then kicked over the chair and struck Harker again with all his force while the boy was lying on the floor.” “Confessed After Beating.” The prosecutor said the Government would show that Harker refused to make any confession until he had suf- fered beyond his endurance. “We will show you, gentlemen of the Jury.” he continued, “that Mostyn, after beating a confession from this boy, went to his superior officer and told him the mystery of the robbery had been solved. We will show you that Harker was beaten in the first precinct by Mostyn and Laflin while their two fellow offi- cers looked on.” Justice James M. Proctor excused the jury for lunch at 12:30, instructing them not to discuss the case with other persons or among themselves. “If_any, person_tries to discuss the " (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) e ety Nine Jailed in Riot. NEW YORK, November 16 (#).— Eight men and a woman, fur workers, representing right and left wing union factions, were arrested today at Sev- enth averiue and Thirtieth street after a 15-minute fight in which sticks other member of the group was A. Gannes. sawed-off billlard cues and at least or knife were used. LARGE SCALE FIGHTING FEARED AS GEN. MAH AGAIN DEFIES JAPAN Tokio Hears of Daybreak Attack at Tahsing—League Begins Arbitration Task. DAWES LIKELY TO TAKE SEAT IF KELLOGG PACT IS INVOLKED Council Decides at 20-Minute Session to Carry on Peace Efforts in Private Negotiations. TIENTSIN, China, November 16 (#).—Chinese circles here to- day feared that hostilities on the biggest scale since the Man- churian dispute started would result from Gen. Mah Chan- Shan’s third rejection of a Japanese ultimatum demanding withdrawal of his troops to a point north of the Chinese East~ ern Railway. (Copyright, 1931.) By the Associated Press. TOKIO, November 16.—A report that Gen. Mah Chan-Shan had attacked the Japanese troops at Tahsing at daybeak this morning reached }lere today as the Japanese government, its eyes on the League of Nations’ Council session, due to open at Paris, announced i that “the League may not save its face at the expense of Japan.” The government’s position was made clear by a spokesman for the foreign office, who conferred with Baron Shideh:#'a, foreign min= ister. The report of the battle was contained in aw argent dispatch | from Harbin, Manchuria, and it said severe fighting was in progress. An earlier dispatch to the Rengo News Agency from Harbin said a train scheduled to depart over the Chinese Eastern Railway for Man= chuli to connect with the Trans-Siberian Railroad, was delayed be- ‘cause of reports of a serious situation near Anganchi, where Gen. (Mah’s army is located. One Course Is Advised. “Frankly,” the foreign office spokesman said, “we scarcely ex- pect any resolution or decision adopted by the League will help mat- ters. As'we have often stated, we can't visualize a settlement reached in that way.” b About the only thing the League might do, as Japan sees it, he | said, is to recommend direct negotiations between China and Japan, There were no suggestions of a compromise plan, he added, in com- | munications sent abroad by the foreign office. ‘Unless China is ready to accept Baron Shidehara’s five points | will be ~everal bombers. PUBLICITY TO END DEPRESSION URGED | Advertisers Asked to Join With Publishers in Na- tional Drive. Creation of a “wartime” organization mobilizing the Nation's advertising and publishing forces to kill the fe chology among the unemployed, and re- store normal mass buying, was proposed to the Association of National Adver- tisers today by Carl Byoir, Havana pub- lisher and wartime associate chairman | of the Government Committee on Pub- {lic Information. Once the will to buy |is created by united effort, Mr. Byoir asserted, the depression is over. Approved by Committee. The Byoir plan was approved two weeks ago by the Executive Committee of the association, which opened ‘twenty-second anrfual meeting today at the Wardman Park Hotel. Its appro | was not secured until the plan had been submitted to leading bankers and econ- omists, who had approved it as eco- | nomically sound. Addressing the convention, Mr. Byoir declared fear alone prevents restoration of normal spending habits by employed citizens. can be killed, and the business situa- tlon and employment conditions defi- nitely improved by a national co-opera- tive effort by business men, who will recognize the fact that the country has within its own borders all the necessary elements for its own prosperity. Under the Byoir plan, the forces of the Nation would be mobilized into 14 divisions, the restoration of public con- fidence being the main objective. These divisions would include sections in the fields of advertising, film, public speak- ers, four-minuté men, church work, eign born, local organizatigns, women's work, still pictures, lal statistics, news and industrial organization. Received Enthusiastically. Mr. Byoir's plan was enthusiastically received by the leaders of the country’s largest corporations who are members of the association and are attending the three-day convention, In response to inquiries, the sponsor of the plan declared practical steps are aow being taken to put it into forma- jon. plained, he could not tell whether spon- sorship by the Government would be the aim or whether it would be launched solely on the direction of business and industry. Says Country Bored. Assurances the country is bored with depression and ready to “snap out of it at the slightest sign” were given by Dr. Virgil Jordan, economist of the Mc- Graw-Hill Publishing Co. He warned, however, the last stages of the depres- sion have put the country in a “highly neurotic condition.” The 300 or more representatives of the country's largest corporations, who are meeting to consider mutual prob- lems in expending approximately $300,- 000,000 in na‘ional advertising, were welcomed by their president, Lee H. gnswl, vice president of Bristol-Myers o. E. St. Elmo Lewis, a founder and first president of the A. N. A, reviewed progress in advertising since 1912. ‘The new advertising art is much more_realistic but we must watch our (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) Finland Feels Quake. HELSINGFORS, FPinland, November 16 (#).—An earthquake which lasted 15 This fear psychology, he said, | radio broadcasting, work among the for- | At this time, however. he ex- | * * the present state of affairs e \ may continue indefinitely. war department is planning to send a number of s {to Manchuria from Japan and Korea, it w: additional airplanes as learned. Among them There will in the - wa, apanese s esman, ! Council, it was lum:d!n mmue mmm source here. After tracing his- torical background of the present trou- ble, including what he will describe as | “Chinese duplicity” in connection with | the Lilobanoff secret treaty, the Am- | bassador will contend that the Chinese ?fil:g’“ts tto ?!’:reslrd all so-called un- reaties not only wi but with other countrle{. s Truce Failure Reported. For this reason, he will argue, it is time for the world to call China te task and to recognize that she “is now an organized state like European coun- | tries. "but merely a name” and the ‘yo.x:.;,k“l‘g WVMTent is able to enforce | rol over only a small i | the total territory. ity ch | Negotiations looking toward a 10-day apa truce between the Chinese and Ji 'se armies in the Nonni River sector be no minc of e ing words ne. of Manchuria were reportes to have failed. Thepo Rgn::s"}lrg:v]; Agency said in a dispatch from Harbin, that the Japanese representatives, Con- sul Shimizu and Maj. Hayashi, had been unable to conciliate Gen. Mah and had returned to Harbin, consulste at Tsitsthar. 7 C o8 tHe Dispatch Conflicts With Report. Consul Shimizu was quoted by Rengo as saying that Gen. Mah had displayea | no sincerity regarding the Japanese | Proposals to withdraw north of the | S::n;se Easte;n Rai;lway 50 as to averi | langer of another clash, . ‘m?r?ed obstinate. ER ese reports conflicted with a Muk- | dendispateh to the Tokiy newspant: Nichi Nichi, which said the truce haé been arranged pending completion of Tepairs on the Nonni River Bridge, | Replies to China’s Note. | The Japanese government t 3 | cused China of deliberately ag:rdl.‘yit:ncl | the situation in Manchuria in a reply | to Cmna's_now of November 4 handed |to the Chinese legation here this eve- ning. The note said peace in the Far East will continue to be jeopardized un- | til China “recognizes the sanctity of treaties and abandons her policy of g anti-foreign agitatio oy e gn agi n to_obtain | The League of | which calle ation of tre Nations resolution, ‘g';sp;m Japan Lo begin evacu- Tom outside the railway ‘m'ne in Manchuria and to complete it | by today, is not operative, since it lacked & unanimous vote, the note asserted. Consequently, China’s demand that | Jepan carry out the provisions of that ‘lne!lgue resolution “shows that China is | ying to twist the League's action to | serve her own purposes,” it was argued. On the other hand, the note accuses China of failing to live up to the reso- lution by making no effort to restore normal relations in Manchuria, LONG OCCUPATION SEEN. ‘Oheyin{ League Resolution Would ‘ Mean Chaos, Honjo Says. MUKDEN, Manchuria, November 16 | ®).—Lieut. Gen. Shigeru Honjo, com- | mander of the Japanese Army in Man- | churia, told the Associated Press today that if Japan had complied with the {;ecla%ue's resobluflon to evacuate non- 'y zones by today the It we heve hoor ghate onags, Ol vould | He said no nation had a greater re- | spect for the League’s ideals than Japan | and the unfortunate situation in Man. churia was embarrassing alike to the le?zue and the Japanese Army. | | “We are not purposely obstructing the | League’s objectives,” he said, “or at- | tempting to lower its prestige, but we (Continued on Page 4, Column 6.) | Last of Tribe Dies. | GRAFTOR, Mass., November 16 (). | —“Schiff” James L. Ciscoe, 85, last of | the Hassanamisco tribe of I | last night. He was born June 30, 1846, |at the Indian reservation on seconds, but did no damage, was felt | Hill. He was a member of the Na today in Central Finland. l Algonquin Indian Council.