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i WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Porecast.) ‘Temperatures—] today; lowest, 32, at or at night. Highest, 52, at noon am, today. Full report on page Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages13,14 & 15 B — he Fp eninn WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDPITION " No. 31,999. Entered as second class matter post _office, Washington, » G WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1931—FIFTY-EIGHT PAGES. The only evening in Washington wi Associated service. per the Press news Yesterday’s Circulation, 118,404 FEP P Means Associated Press. LONGER DEBT HOLIDAY NECESSARY. HOOVER SAYS, SPURRING CONGRESS: FRANCE PUTS PROBLEM UP TO U.S. Seeks Revival of House Will Not Rush to Vote { On Moratorium, Garner Says Hinged onDrop Settlements ‘ Commission. J ACTION ASKED IN FIVE DAYS Speaker Decl;zres Chamber Will Be Un able to Act Before December 15. i Demands Full Information. | Reparations Cut in War Debts. REICH’S FIGURES CITED BY PARIS TWO CENTS. JAPAN AND CHINA APPROVE LEAGUE'S RESOLUTION TO END MANCHURIAN CRISIS Yoshizawa Reserves Right to Take Action Against Ban- dits—Sze Holds to Prerog- atives Under Covenant. ACCEPTANCES FOLLOW y the Assoclated Press. | Mississiopi to lead off, and an attack Speaker Garner said today that the cn the Hoover proposal followed. Message Expresses » :Says Time Not Ripe SECRET PARIS SESSION Hu vould t t the Hoover | Hape Jor Deace | ooh o e o e ] in Far East. e | today before December 15, the time for | additional intergovernmental war debt payments. | The Texan sald, “We certainly will egriculture is distressed and the vet- cancel a cent of these foreign obliga- tions."” “As long as millions are unemployed, rans are unpaid,” Rankin declared, Congress cannot Vote to postpone or ‘“Are you going to give a dole to these BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Declaring the debtor nations | eannot pay, President Hoover to-| day proposed to Congress a re- creation of the World War For- eign Debt Commission. | In a special message to both | Senate and House, dealing with foreign relations, the Chief Execu- | tive bluntly warned that owing to | economic conditions some of the | foreign debtors of this country will be unable to meet their pay- ments, even after expiration of the Hoover intergovernmental debt moratorium, a year of grace. It is because of this uncertain- | ty that the President proposes es- tablishment again of the World ‘War Foreign Debt Commission, so Congress may share with the Ex- ecutive in the consideration of the problems that may arise. Speedy Action Asked. The President, at the outset of his message, which deals thor- oughly with the conduct of for- eign relations by this Government during the last year, asked legis- lative ranction for the Hoover debt moratorium within five days, siace the next payments from aoroad fall ddue on ember 15 Ez continued: “As we n&:m’nch the new year 1t is clear that a number of the { sveramsats 2 uzm‘!;le to mcnis t0 us crylln t.?:h UE2icss odvirus ml; y mgou, i&ng&: recessary some cases still further temporary adjust- ments. “The Co has shared with the Executive in the past the consideration of questions arisi from these debts. I am sure tha it will commend itself to Con . that the legislative branch of the Government should continue to share this responsibility. In order that we should be in a posi. tion to d:‘all ';nh the atmm;n%,h: Tecomme) e recreation o World War Foreign Debt Commis- sion, with authority to examine such problems as may arise in connection with these debts dur- ing the present economic emer- ency, and to report to Congress|iner ts conclusions and recommenda- tions.” Handled Settlements in Effect. The first five members of the commission were Secretary Mel- lon, chairman, and the then Sec- retary Hughes of the State De: the then Secretary oover of the Department of Commerce, Senator Smoot of not ss on such a piece of important legislation before we have some in- formation on it.” | Hearings will be held before the Ways and Means Committee probably next week. He contended it did not neces- | sarily mean that the governments would | default in their payments December 15 | just because Congress failed to act on Hoover's proposal. Representative Snell, the Republican leader, agreed the House could not act before Tuesday. ‘The House voted to debate the mora- torfum as soon as reading of the mes- sage was completei. The Democrats designated Representative Rankin of | international bankers?” Rankin asked, | and several noes were heard from Re- publicans. { “All right, then, you aren't going to vote for this moratorium,” he replied. Discussing the dole, which topped ‘ot.her subjects debated yesterday, when Republicans charged Democratic speak- ers with favoring such legislation, | Rankin said the Hawley-Smoot tariff was a dole to industry. Meanwhile the Senate adopted with- | out debate the Johnson resolution di- recting inquiry into the amounts of for- elgn securities in this country. The investigation was ordered as " (Continued on Page 2, Column 5) MESSHGE VIEWED 4S D 0 WORLD Diplomats Believe Hoover’s Program Will Benefit Debts Parley. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. ington consider the President's special message to Congress on foreign rela- tions as helpful to the attempts being made in Europe to straighten out the many serious silments the world is suffering. ‘The President’s message may be par- ticularly helpful to the commission studying Germany's capacity to pay reparations and debts. The President clearly realises the results of his in- tergovernmental debt holiday, while belpful to' avert an imimediate catas- tropbe in Europe, have not had time to about the much needed finan- consequently warns Congress tha “as we approach new year it is clear that a pumber of the ts in- debted to us will be unable to meet fur- ther payments to us in full pending re- covery of their economic Jife. It is use- less to blind ourselves to an obvious fact. Therefore it will be necessary some cases to make still further tem- porary adjustments.” Further Slashes Seen. This pastage of the President’s mes- sage is interpreted by foreign diplomats #s to mean it will be necessary for the American Congress to make some fur- slashes in the present debt pay- ments of European countries to the United States will not be made in a haphazard WAy, but strictly in accordance with the ca- may have 10 ask for a reduction of the yearly installments is obvious from the t that the President states: “I recommend the re-creation of the World War Foreign Debt Commission with authority to examine such prob- lems as may arise in connection with these debts’ Utah, and the late Senator Bur- f Ohio. :Or:ex?ded in 1923, Senator Carter Glass of Virginia and Representa- tives Crisp of Georgia and Olney of Massachusetts were appointed as the three Democratic members When the act was | _during _the present_eco- on Page 2, Column 8.) (Contin RUSSIA MAY BLOCK Foreign diplomatic circles in Wash- | That these reductions | pacity o pay of every country which | nator Glass declined and for-| xsneer Senator Simmons of North | Carolina was appointed in ms‘Gemnny, lace. x”\'I‘Chxs commission handled the settlements of the foreign debts later approved by Congress and now in effect. | The Manchurian situation and dis- armament were other subjects stressed by the President in his message today. He reiterated the purpose of the ad- ministration to act with the League of Nations as far as advisable in bringing about a peaceful adjustment of the differences between Japan and China In this connection, he sald “We have been deeply concerned the situation in Manchuria. As parties Seeking 18,000,000 Bushels, Pressed to Accept Produce for Credits. By the Associated Press BERLIN, December 10.—Russia is in- terposing obstacles to negotiations for the purchase by Germany of another 18,000,000 bushels of wheat from the United States Farm Board, it was re- ported today. Germany is in the market for that amount, but it is said that pressure is over | being exerted on the government by the Russian trade delegation to force Ger- U. S. WHEAT DEAL| WATSON PRO TEM. COMPROMISE HOPE Senate Republican Machine Threatened by Reorganizing ‘ in Moses Deadlock. By the Associated Press. A reorganization of the Senate Re- | publican machine threatened today to |grow out of the deadlock which | through two days of balloting: has pre- vented election of a President pro | tempore. As the tussle was resumed, there was talk among Republicans of putting for- ward Senator Watscn of Indlana, the Tioor leader, for President pro tempore in place of Moses of New Hampshire, |and of advancing MeNary of Oregon to | the leadership in Watson's place. One wing of the Republican machine advanced this line-up in the belief Watson was the only compromise hope. i The group sponsoring the ides, al-| | though voting for Moses during the | past two days, includes Senstors who are inclined to be sympathetic to the independents, whose fight against | Moses has brought the deadlock. There was no sign as the Benate went at its first roll call today that the 13 Western independents would not continue to divide their votes among other Republicans and thus continue | the three-way split which prevents | either Moses or Senator Pittman of Nevada, the Democratic candidate | from getting a majority of the votes | cast. | Watcon, according to those urging | the new line-up, is about the only man | who might draw the discordant forces | | together. | McNary also is a popular harmonizer |and would quickly get support for the | leadership should Watson listen to the | presidency pro tem | | | JONES GETS LIFE | FOR MINE SLAYING | Union Secretary Convicted of Mur- | der and Conspiracy by Kentucky Jury. By the Associated Press MOUNT STERLING, Ky., December 10.—Willlam B. Jones, Harlan County mine union secretary, was convicted of murcer and conspiracy by a jury in Circuit Court here today. The jury fixed the penaity at life imprisonment. Jones showed no emotion as the ver- dict was read after 6 hours and 10| minutes of deliberation by the jury. The case went to the jury yesterday after a trial lasting two weeks and with more than 158 witnesses describ- ing conditions i the Southeastern Kentucky coal fields that led up to the to the Kellogg-Briand pact and to the x;:ne-power treaty we haie responsibility " (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) IL DUCE APPOINTS NEW FASCIST HEADS Completes i;;;Etion in At- tempt to Get “Closer to People” for Party Guidance. By the Associated Press ROME, December 10.—Premier Mus- solini effected a reorganization of the Fascist party directorate tod:y by ap- pointing seven new members, all of | > ‘ < Eeng A provincial ‘party chiettains. | Threatening Mob Driven From Hall After Bombardment. 1,000 Policemen End Disorder. The appointments ere in fulfillment of a new policy of “getting close to the people.” Achille Starace, successor to Bignor Giur{ati es secretery, and Prof. Arturo Marpicati, as vice secretary, are the only old members remainirg. The other members are Matteo Adinolf, also a vice secretary, and six directors, Signors Tomxaso, Bottari, Ranieri, Dolfin, Adinolfi, Brato, Cupello and Gastaldl. Giovanni Marinelli con- tinues as permanent administrative many to accept Russian produce instead of cash as payment for credits extended | to Russia and falling due monthly. | The Russlan delegation has been seeking an extension of some of the | credits or acceptance of payment in | killing last May at Evarts of four men. Jones was tried in connection with the death of Jim Daniels, a deputy sheriff, shot to death then, and he | ported to have said that Germany must | do_one thing or the other to save the present credits | _The total amount of these credits is | more than 300,000,000 marks ($75,000,- {000), that amount having been dis- counted by the Reicnsbank and the subsidiary gold discount banks. The bankers recently refused another 90,- 000,000-mark credit. kind, and & Russian spokesman is re- | was the first of a score of other de- fendants to be tried After the verdict was rendered, Cir- cuit Judge Henry R. Prewitt offered to | hald court again this afternoon if the defense desired to flle a motion for a new trial, but on being told there would not be time to prepare the petition, he recessed court, until December 28, Jones | was given until that date to file a pe- tition for a new triai By the Associated Press. | SANTIAGO, Chile, December 10.—A night with dried fish and a Mull stew bombardment of onions, vegetables and crockery. Unsuccessful in forcing the retreated into the sf \FISH, VEGETABLES AND CROCKERY HURLED AT CHILEAN CONGRESS mob “lobbled" the Chilean Congress last and Congress to dissolve as they demanded, the mob treets, stoned wrecked street cars and store window., ... l;\d hldlb;mm to la of pietol fire when the st desa:edr:], a rush of 1,000 ;t:ligsm::" veral persons were injy; ¢ e ‘m'{;edv jured and 20 The mob was driven away from its assault on the Congress Ha)l by a charge of 500 mounted Carabineers, who sur- | .-cvmdgd. t:e building after the Protesters Y down a barrage to Fix Capacity of Germany. By the Associated Press. The French government has formally notified the United States of its position, that reparations revision must be accompanied by a comparative scaling down of war debts. Ambassador Claudel of France, on instructions of the Paris gov- ernment, notified Secretary of State Stimson of the French atti- tude. It was understood that French missions in other interested coun- tries also were instructed to ad- vise nations to which they were accredited of the French position. France Fights Reduction. BASEL, December 10 (#).—The Young Plan Committee was faced today with the flat opposition of France to reduction of Germany's reparations obligations. The attack was launched by Prof. Charles Rist, noted French economist, who accompanied Premier Laval to Washington for his conferences with President Hoover and who is an expert of the Bank of Prance. Prof. Rist declared Germany's case is invalidated by the very figures sub- mitted by Dr. Carl Melchior, the Ger- | man representative, and aathority on short-term credits and other financial problems facing the committee. The | figures, Prof. Rist said, showed great uncertainty in Germany and justified | 8 belief that this is not the proper time to evaluate the country’s capacity to| American Wins Praise. The work of Walter W. Stewart, United States reprosentative, was praised by Sir Walter Layton, British member, who said the American’s volu- minous documents on short-term cred- its, in which the United States is heav- fly Interested, were the principal fac- tor in checking the German statistics. Woodllef Thomas, Stewart's statis- tician, is a member of the technical subcommittee, which checked Ger- many's short-term figures after they were presented yesterday. Dr. Melchior painted a black picture of the future of Germany. The favor- able trade balance of his country, he said, which has averaged 350,000,000 reichsmarks (about $87,000,000) during the last six months, will not last. His other statistics included a record of | long-term credits, loans mnot publicly issued, bonds and shares issued in Ger- many, but held by foreigners, and term credits. Germany began her argument before the committee today. Chancellor Brue- ning delegated Count Schwerin von | Krosigk, German budgetary expert, to explain to the committee what the Ger-| mans say is “the last ditch” in their fight to keep the Nation from bank- ruptey. Talked to Berlin. Count von Krosigk delayed the morn- ing session an hour while he communi- cated with Berlin to get the latest in- formation M. Djooritch, Jugoslavian member of the committee, arrived from London to- day and the committee sat in its full strength of 11 for the first time. Count von Krosigk, after he had talked with Berlin by telephone, de- scribed for the committee the difficul- ties of balancing the German budget under present conditions, supporting his contentions with figures for the last three years. He said the new emer- gency decree, cutting 10 per cent off the cost of living, should increase ex- rts and thus diminish somewhat the mdge! difficulties. GERMAN BUDGET REDUCED. Revised Figures Reveal Saving of $355,000,000 in Estimates. BERLIN, December 10 (#).—Ger- many’s revised budget for 1931, an- nounced today, reveals a total saving of 1,413,000,000 marks (about $355,000,- 000), compared with the original esti- mates. ‘The budget shows that expenditures have been curtained by 2,200,000,000 marks, which, however, includes 1,230,- 000,000 saved through the Hoover repa- rations holiday. Revenue from taxation and customs shows a decline of 1,000,000,000 marks. The ministries saved roughly 39,000,000 marks, including a saving of 1,000,000 in the foreign office. was made in the budget estimates of the ministry of defense. An extra ex- penditure of 820,000,000 marks was made during the budget year for pub- lic welfare purposes. 'ASKS DEC. 26 HOLIDAY Senator Ashurst Introduces Bill to Apply to 1931 Only. In view of the fact Christmas falls on Priday this year, Senator Ashurst, Democrat, of Arizona, today introduced a bill fo make Saturday, December 26, a legal holiday in Washington for this Y e Benator explained the bill would make it unnecessary for the banks to open on that day. The bill was re- ferred to the District Committee, and Senator Ashurst said he hoped the various civic and trade organizations would indicate to the committee their wishes in the matter. Southern Omits Dividend. NEW YORK, December 10 (#).—The Southern Railway Co. today announced that at the meeting of directors “action on the common and preferred divi- dends was omitted.” |Couzens’ Resolution Asking No curtailment | sweeping RAIL PROBE PLEA PASSES COMMITTEE Joint Inquiry Ready for Senate. Moving promptly, the Senate Inter- state Commerce Committee today or- dered a favorable report on the Couzens | resolution to authorize a broad investi- | gation by a joint congressional commit- tee of the problem confronting the country’s railroads. The joint committee, which would be set up by the resolution, would be in- structed to studv the railroad situation with the particular view to determining to what extent the Federal Government can aid during the present emergency. This act would be designed to pre- serve continuous and efficlent trans- portation service, alleviate the financial | difficulties in which many riers are involved, relieve the of railroad workers and prevent further unemployment among such workers, Goes Back to Senate. ‘The resolution goes back to the Sen- ate for action with the indorsement ! of the committee. Since it calls for s | Joint inquiry, it must pass the House also. It was introduced in the Senate Yesterday by Senator Couzens of Mich- igan, chairman of the Interstate Com- rnz':::" c«:m"xlnu{ge. rlier e day Congress was asked by the Interstate Commerce Com- mission to investigate the complaint of the railroads that rival tra tion agencies cutting into their revenues are the beneficiaries of Government aid that amounts, in effect, to subsidies. Taking cognizance of the repeated charges of the carriers that the assist- ance given motor, water and air lines, either directly or indirectly, sets up unfair competition, the Commission in its ennual report, recommended that Congress go into the matter, to decide if any action is necessary to correct thli(s situation, and what form it should ake. The report deals extensively with the increasing volume in which traffic is being diverted from the railroads, bringing into the picture not only the broadening operations of highway and water carriers, but also of another im- portant factor in the fleld of trans- portation—the pipe lines, Forecasts Truck Regulation, In this connection, the contention in favor of regulation of these agencies in the interest of the public is recalled, | but the Commission for the present, | rests on its previous declaration in favor of regulatory legislation for busses. , It however forecasts recommendatiors with regards to trucks in its forth- coming report on motor-rail co-ordina- tion, and suggests that Congress migh? look into the question of port-to-port rates of the water carriers where, it is s2id, there is an indication toward “purely destructive competition.” The commission goes exhaustively also into the question of the financial condition of the railroads, discussing | its recent denial of the 15 per cent | freight rate increase sought by the car- riers, and proposing a modified rule of rate regulation recognizing that because earnings “will inevitably fall below the standard level in times of business de- pression, they may properly be permit- ted to rise above it in times of pros- perity.” This would entail also repeal of the recapture provision, recommended last year by the commission, which terms 1t| ineffective, and the substitution of & stable rate base. Sweeping Changes Asked. Regulation of holding companies also was urged by the report, which listed in all 19 recommendations, embodying changes in the interstate commerce act. Taking up in order the scope of the Youth Falls 25 Feet . | | While Climbing Pole | | In ‘Frat’ Initiation By the Assoclated Press. TUSCALOOSA, Ala., December 10.—Fred H. Hoppe, 19-year-old | University of Alabzma freshman | | | from Alton, Iil, suffered a frac- tured skull in a fall from a flag pole in the center of the business district, which he was attempting to measure as a part of his fra- ternity initiation today. : Doctors sald he is in « serious condition, but they were hopeful ©f his recovery. Dean Dabney Lancaster started an investigation. He said Hoppe lost his hold and fell after climb- ing 25 feet up the 75-foot pole. EIGHT RESCUED FRON: TWO SHIPS Guardsmen Reach Auxiliary | August Schaoner Annie May Off North Caralina. By the Associated Press. , N. C., December 10.—Five men who had clung to ths rigging of the E Annfe May of Newport News, | Va., for 28 hours as it slowly went to Pleces in a heavy sea on Diamond | - ls, were rescued by Coast Guards- | o ? | WIFE SAYS POLICE BEATHERHUSBAND Woman Testifies Against Two Officers Accused of Assault. Two ninth precinct policemen at- tacked Henry Johnson, colored laborer, with a heavy 3-foot club without provo- cation last August, Johnson's wife tes- tifled today at the suspended officers’ trial on charges of a felonious assault. The weapon alleged to have been used in the attack by the defendants, Vivian H. Landrum and John Sirola, was 1dentified by Mrs. Johnson. The club, which resembled a base ball bat, was_introduced in evidence by James R. Kirkland, assistant United States attorney. The witness said she left her home at 1734 Montello avenue northeast at about 2 o'clock on the morning of 5. She left, she said, after an argument with her a day at work caused him | ;l;'mm:. to lrr?ve..h'ome in time to stay with their infant child. Questioned on Street. She testified while she was walking along a street near her home Landrum and Sirola drove up in a police car. When they asked her what she was doing on the street at that hour, she 2dded, she told them her husband was subject to fits because he was gassed in the World War. She testified the policemen then insisted upon going to her home to investigate. The fiNe comprised the entire crew | of the Annis May, which went aground | on the choals early yesterday. A 40- | mile gale thwarted rescue cfforts yester- | day and for a time during the night | the men were be'leved lcst. | With a shift in the wind and quieter - B. R. Ballance of the Cape Hatteras Coast Guard station and a | crew of Coast Guardsmen reached the schooner and took off her crew. The schooner was a total loss. Ospt. Ralph Carmine of Hampton, | Va., commanded the schconer. Th: others rescued were J. E. Carmins, J. E. Carmine, jr, and Rideout Lewis, all of Hampton, and M. R. Johnson, New- port News, Va. All the men were weak and exhausted | from clinging to the boat rigging, but none was injured. They went without food from yestrrdg morning until their rescue. All were taken to Hatteras In- let Coast Guard station. THREE SAVED IN STORM. { | o PR | ATLANTIC CITY, N. J, December 10 (#).—Coast Guardsmen who battled heavy seas and a blinding storm last | night rescued the captain and his two | crewmen from the sinking fishing | schooner, Sigrid T, four miles off Ab-| secon Light. The rescue party reached the craft, which was drifting helplessly, and brought ashore Edward Jorgensen, skip- r and Mark Adelsel and Mandius dresen, all of Brooklyn. They were brought to the Coast Guard station for ‘the night. Capt. Charles Turner, jr., of the Ab- secon Light life saving station, said the vessel was going down fast when he arrived at her side. PLANS APPEAL MEASURE Senator Brookhart, Republican, of Jowa announced today he would rein- troduce at this session the bill he was considering last year to create a clvil service board of appeals to which Gov- ernment employes could turn for a| earing on questions affecting their :'muz,'sucn 5 Tatings ‘and allocation | under ‘the classification law. | There may be some changes in the| text of the measure, but it is expected | to be along the same lines as the bill which was considered but not acted on in the last Congress. On their arrival there, she said, Lan- drum opened the front door with a skeleton key and immediately struck her husband in the face with some- thing he held in his hand. Her husband grabbed the club from its resting place in the corner of the room and ordered Landrum and Sirola from the house, she said. When her husband tapped the club on the floor Landrum grappled with him, gained possession of the weapon and began striking him with it, the wife testified. She said she then ran from the house. Husband Unconsclous. . A few minutes later, she added, the policemen carried her husband, un- conscious, from the dwelling and placed him in an automobile. E. Russel Kelly, cefense attorney, asked Johnson's wife if it were not true that she.was looking for a policeman when she was accosted by Landrum and Sirola. She denied this. Kelly indicated the defense would contend the policemen were summoned to the home by the wife, and struck Johnson only because he resisted arrest by hitting them with the club. Defense Springs Surprise. A surprise was sprung by the defense when Dr. P. L. Moon of Gallinger Hos- | pital testified Johnson had been drink- | Ing on the night of his arrest. Dr. Moon said he was reasonably certain he had detected the odor of alcohol on the man’s breath. The physician was called as a Gov- ernment witness, but later was made a i | mony. It has been the defense_ contention | throughout " that Johnson was intoxi- cated when the quarrel with his wife occurred. The man testified yesterday, however, that he had not been drinking at the time. Dr. William E. Bowman of Casualty Hospital testified this afternoon that | he took nine stitches in Johnson’s head. Held in $800 Swindle. NEW YORK, December 10 (#)— Herman Snyder, 45, of Omaha, Nebr., was held in $2,000 bail today by Magis- trate Thomas A. Aurelio in Harlem Court, as a fugitive from justice, wanted cn a charge that he swindled Mrs. Ida Hoffman of Omaha of $800. A hearing was set for tomorrow. " (Continued on Page 2, Column 4) U. S. EMPLOYES GIVE $614,000 TO CHEST Latest Check Shows 40,000 Work- ers Yet to Be Seen—Goal Ap- pears Easily in Reach. Forty-three thousand Government workers thus far contacted have con- tributed $614,000 toward the million- dollar relief fund being raised in con- nection with the fortheoming campaign of the Washington Community Chest, 1t was announced this morning. There are about 40,000 workers still to be solicited, and on the present basis the fund would be subscri] easlly. The figures given out today were the totals as compiled last night. Radio Programs on Page DA COPYING FOR THESIS ADMITTED BY 155 OF 171 VASSAR WOMEN Used Each Other’s Notes and Papers of Past Years, Amazed College By the Associated Press. POUGHKEEPSIE. N. Y. December 10.—What to do with 155 of Vassar's 171 freshmen who admittedly copied each other's notes and used notes and papers of former years in preparing a thesis on sanitary conditions through- out the college was the question con- fronting Dr. Henry Noble MacCracken, president of the college, today. The revelation was made yesterday in the Vassar Miscellany BNews, un; di te newspaper. y means of l%nnre the editors of the | News learned that only 16 had writ- | ten their own papers and that regard- ing some of the others: adopted surveys written last year; Officials Learn. Seventy-eight used notes or finished papers of their friends in the class; Twenty-four wrote their surveys in collaboration with others; Five copied other papers with a few changes in wording; Two paid $1.50 for a paper marked 86 per cent last year by one of the col- lege’s strictest examiners. One freshman, the newspaper said, copled a survey written in 1927 and which has received a mark of “A™ for the last three years. Members of the class explained their action by saying that it was the only way they could get the work down and that the amount of work “was unfair.” There was no conspiracy, they said. | defense witness to obtain this testi-' Consideration of Council's Pro- posals Under Way When Reports Are Received of Japanese Cav- alry Advance West of Liao River—Bombing Also Reported. By the Associated Press. PARIS, December 10.—Japan and China today accepted the League of Nations’ resolution on the dispute in Manchuria. Both acceptances were with reservations. Kenkichi Yoshizawa reserved the Japanese right to take meas- ures against bandits in Man- churia. Dr. Alfred Sze stipulated that China reserved “any and all rights, remedies and juridical posi- tions” to which it is entitled un- der the League covenant and under treaties to which it is a party. “China understands and ex- pects,” sald Dr. Sze, “that the commission of inquiry in Man- churia will make its first duty to inquire into and report with recommendations on the with- drawal of Japanese forces, if such withdrawal has not been com- pleted when the commission ar- rives on the ground.” When the Council convened there was an extra chair at the table and a report circulated that United States Ambassador Dawes might attend, but the chair re- mained empfy ‘af the session be- gan. Indorsement Unanimous. , indorsement became unanimous. It also has been approved by United States Ambassador Dawes. ent calls for cessation sible and creation of a neutral com- mission of inquiry to study the whole Sino-Japanese trouble. Dr. Sze stipulated that hostilities must not be.started by Japan under the pretext of the existence of law- lessness “caused by a state of affairs which it is the very purpose of this resolution to do away with.” “It is to be cbserved,” he said, “that much of the lawlessness now prevalent in Manchuria is due to the interrup- ticn of normal life caused by the Japa- nese invasion. Must Hasten Withdrawal. “The only sure way of restoring peace is to hasten the withdrawal of Japanese troops and to allow the Chi- nese authorities to assume responsi- bility for the maintenance of order. “Chine. cannot tolerate invasion of her territory by troops of any foreign country; far less can she permit those troops to usurp the YOM& functions of the Chinese authorities.” Lord Cecil, for England, said it was conceivable that conditicns might arise requiring the Japanese to act against lawless elements but that this must not_weaken the cbligation of Japan to (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) TWO MEN LYNCHED IN WEST VIRGINIA Suspeets in Double Murder Taken From Lewisburg Jail and Hanged. By the Associated Press. LEWISBURG, W. Va, December 10. | —A mob of ebout 60 men took two colored prisoners from the Greenbrier County jail here early this morning and lynched them by hanging them from the cross-arm of a telephone pole. The victims, Tom Jackson and George Banks, were being held in the jail on a charge of murder in connec- tion with the slaying of Constable Joseph Myles and Jack Brown two weeks ago when the officer, with Brown's aid, attempted to make an ar- rest at a colored dance. The mob came to the fail in auto- mobiles, the license plat:s of which had been removed, and aroused Jailer Wal- lace Flint and took his keys away from him by force. They then entered the jail and with- out permitting the two men to dress they took them out on the Midland Trail to the edge of town and quickly and quief wfuned them up toward the cross-arm with ropes. When they had been led part way up, the ropes were and the mob stepped back and a squad of men rid- dled the bodiss with rifle fire. The shots aroused the entire town, but the mob bad dispersed by the time townspeople arrived on the scen, Gov. William G. Counley directed State police to make “a very thorough in- vestigation” of the lynching “in order that the parties gullty of the lynching be brought to ‘justice and that the proper prosecution be made.” Lynching is & capital offense in West Virginia. There have been six previous lynchings sinee the State was founded, in 1863. arrested for ques- were ‘Three men were tioning. No charges filed against