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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-13

Miss Barbara Boss has left for West
Point to be the guest Of Lieut.. and Irv-
ing A. Duffy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-13

Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Osmond Saun-
ders have as their house guest Mr.. Saun-
ders' mother, Mrs. Eliza Saunders Of
RichbiIr0, N, Y.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-13

Mr.. and Mrs. Hersey Munroe have
as their house guest the latter's cousin,
Miss Edith Litchfield of Boston.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-13

Mr.. ana Mrs. George Peek of Moline,
NJ, entertained informally at dinner
last evening at the Carlton, where they
ara stopping while In Washington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-13

Mr.. ana Mrs. Arthur Seitz will en-
terrain at dinner and bridge this eve
ming, when covers will be laid for IL.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-13

Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur ]. Whit Of To-
ledo. Ohio, are now at the Shoreham
for a stay Of several days.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-13

Mrs. Oscar Dodek entertained a
party OF so at luncheon at the Shore
ham Hotel today, the company remain
ing later for bridge.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-13

MrA Payne whitney of New York
City has joined her daughter, Mrs.
Charles Payson, at the Carlton, where
they wiz remain for some time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-13

Margaret Burroughs and Miss Jean Bur-
roughs, of Madison, N. j., are passing
several days at the Dodge Hotel en-
route by motor to Florida.
Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore Honour of
1925 New Hampshire avenue are spend
ing the week In New York City.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-23
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

Pierre Laval, Frances youthful prime
minister, is now a full-fledged interna-
tional diplomat. No one in Europe Is
considered such until he has been
through the barrage of pertinent ques-
tons American newspaper men asked
distinguished foreign visitors.
Laval passed the test successfully.
He faced the crowd of some so Wash
ington correspondents last night with
out batting an eyelash. He was tire :.
somewhat nervous, because this is only
the second time in his life that he
has left French soil to visit a foreign
capital. He has spent Al years of his
life in ia belle France" and, had 1t
not been for the vicissitudes of French
politics which brought him unex-
pectedly to the foreground as presi-
dent of the French Council Of Minis
tiers he would have never dreamed of
visiting a foreign country. He owes
this change in his lifelong habits to
Secretary Stimson. 1t was he who per-
suaded him last Summer to go to the
Scven-power financial conference at
London and it is Stimson again who
laid the basis of Lavals visit to the
United States.
AS he stood on the steps of the stair
case of Ambassador Edges mansion last
night smoking ceaelessly American
cigarettes, which he had adopted dur
ing the war in preference to the French
Laval gave the newspaper men the i'm
preston of force He is a small man
heavily built and does not look what
people in this country believe to be
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-23
LAVAL TO TALK PLAINLY
OF DEMANDS FOR FRANCE
Premier Doesn't Mince Words and Has
Clear Conception of His Country's
Needs and Desires.

the true French type. His dark COM
plexion, his full lips and his small
scraggy mustache give the impression
that he may be of Japanese, Albanian
or Persian ancestry. He is not. He is
true Frenchman, born in Auvergne
where his father had a small hosiery
in the little town of Chateldon.
He spoke to the newspaper men
quietly, without waving his hands OF
raising his voice. He has none OF the
flowery oratory SO common to French
public men. Neither does he intend to
follow the system so common to inter
national diplomats, which is to dope the
press with high-sounding phrases that
mean nothing. Laval means to be frank
and If necessary, bluntly outspoken. He
had nothing much to say yesterday be-
cause he had not yet established his
contact with our leaders. But he indi-
Gated clearly that he means to talk
business and tell the press of this coun-
try what that business is.
LavalS spectacular rise as star OF
the first magnitude in the interna-
tional constellation is due mostly to his
honesty of thought and to his habit oil
calling spade a spade" He has used
this method in French politics and has
succeeded. He intends to use the same
method in his international conversa-
tons and hopes to be equally successful
He realizes that little may come out OF
his visit to this country, as little has
come cut of his visit to Berlin, but at
least he wants to have his conscience
clear that he has told the world under
what conditions France intends to CO.
operate and reorganize the economic
and political upheaval in the world.
Laval does not believe in the tortu-
GUS WayS of diplomacy and has said re-
CONTINUED on Page 2, Column 10
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BY the Associated Press


ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo, october a.
Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh
took off from the Rock Springs Airport
at 6:l2 am Mountain standard time)
today on another leg of their trip from
Victoria, British Columbia, with hopes
of reaching New York tonight. There
was light wind, but skies were clear.
The colonel said he would take the
shortest route available and would not
necessarily follow the airmail line The
two are hurrying to their home from
a vacation tour of the Orient cut short
by the death of Mrs. Lindbergh's father,
Senator Dwight w. Morrow.
The Lindherghs' monoplane carried
fuel for a flight of from 900 to 900
miles. The flyers headed for Cheyenne,
Wyo., 800 miles eastward, but were not
expected to stop.
Boeing Air Line officials said a tail
wind of so miles an hour would favor
the two in the upper attitudes. They
reported regular mail planes on the
route were making 1t east from Rock
Springs to Cheyenne In an hour and a
half, 80 minutes under schedule time
Returning a wave of the hand from
Col. Lindbergh, and smile from Mrs
Lindbergh, spectators at the field
watched the plane disappear like q
great white bird into the early morning
mist
Col. LinAbergh said his immediate
destinatiohbwas North Platte, Nebr.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-23
OPTIMISM RE|GNS
At STEEL MEETING
Leaders Unanimously Agree
Industry Is on the
Upgrade.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, October 23-Optimism
was in the saddle at today's semi-annual
meeting Of the American Iron and Steel
Institute.
Comment by steel company executives
bore out the assertion of the institutes
president, Charles M. Schwab, that in
dustry had found its second wind. even
though most of the gain so far noted
was in that intangible sentiment rather
than in the order books.
Business feeling. speakers believed
had been strengthened by President
Hoover'S confidence program, and the
although still abnormally dull, had seer
the worst.
Grace Sees Betterment.
Eugene G. Grace, president of Beth
lehem Steel. said that while there had
been no improvement in actual business
sentiment was "a little better" and
that some consumers were taking more
interest in their steel requirements. One
Of the most encouraging symptoms. he
said, was the recent gain in commodity
prices.
Tom NJ Girdler, chairman Of Re-
public Steel, saw signs of better con-
ditions and believed the foundation was
being laid for improvement in 1882.
L. E. Block, chairman of Inland
Steel, thought the declining trend in
activities was over, since there were in
dications of "a better feeling and more
confidence"
October Sales Lag.
THE month of October" he said
under normal conditions is one in
which we expect increased ingot pro-
duction, but so far as we are concerned
the present month has not yet pro-
vided sufficient volume of new bust
ness to increase our rate of operations
However, there should be no further
dwtndling of steel production, as there
are definite indications in many direc-
tions of a better feeling and more
confident outlook for the future. This
has been strengthened recently by the
announcement of the Presidents plan
and belief that liquidation has run IL
course
George M. Verify, chairman of Amer
Continued on Page q, Column 81
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LEAVE ROCK SPRINGS.
WYO., ON SECOND LEG OF FLIGHT
Pair Spend Night There and Head for North Platte Nebr
Garry Fuel for Over 6oo-Mile Jump.

Both Col. and Mrs Lindbergh ex-
pressed a desire to reach their home
and their baby, Charles A. Lindbergh,
jr., as speedily as possible. Asked If he
worried about the child, Lindbergh
laughed and said, I'm sure the baby Is
fine and don't worry over misfortunes
unless something appears likely to
happen"
when we left home" the mother
said, "he was just starting to walk and
stand on his feet" That was late last
July, just before the couple started
from New York for an aerial vacation
tour of the Orient that was halted by
news of the death of Senator Morrow.
Mist was falling when the Lind
berghs arrived here late yesterday on
their flight in borrowed six-passenger
monoplane. Strong winds blew over
Wyoming last night.
Their plane, presented by California
company, was awaiting them on their
arrival at Victoria abroad the liner
President Jefferson from Yokohama
yesterday morning. Their own plane,
damaged while being lowered to the
Yangtse River from q British aircraft
carrier for flood survey flight, is await
ing repairs.
Col and Mrs Lindbergh stopped
briefly at Seattle, Wash; Nampo, Idaho,
and Salt Lake City on their fight here.
They retired to their hotelbroom, where
dinner was served.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-23
POLICEMEN DENY
BRUTALITY GUILT
18 in Civilian Clothes Appear
Before Justice Proctor With
Accused Civilian.

Minus their police haibiliments, Is po-
licemen whom the Department of jus
tice and the District grand jury charge
with third degree" brutality appeared
before Justice James M Proctor in
Criminal Division / today and pleaded
not guilty.
Cecil Mason. self-styled friend" CT
one of the police defendants, was ar
raigned at the same time and he en-
tered plea of not guilty 10 a charge
Of obstructing justice. Mason several
weeks ago pleaded guilty to the charge
when given a hearing before United
States Commission Needham c. Turn
age. The first plea was net binding,
under legal procedure.
Appearance of the accused policemen,
three Of whom were headquarters de-
| tectiveS and two precinct detectives,
room, which was crowded with persons
interested not only in the police charges,
but in many other cases set for arraign-
ment
Each of the officers appeared before
the bench N response to his name and
was asked by Clerk William S. Adkins
how he desired to plead. In every in
stance the reply was a low not guilty.
whereupon the plea was noted and the
defendant released on continued bond
of 81 1000.
The noting of pleas of the 18 police
men consumed less than 10 minutes
United States Attorney LEO A. Rover,
who will prosecute the men, witnessed
the proceedings.
Trial Not Yet Set.
The indicted policemen arraigned to-
day were:
Headquarters Detectives Robert j.
Barrett, Arthur T. Ffhelly and William
MeSser.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-23
MAN SLAIN ON BOAT;
KILLER SUSPECT HELD
Drunken Brawl on Potomac Be.
lieved to Have Caused Shot.
gun Murder.

Richard Collins, Sc, of the first block
OF S street southwest, was shot and
killed today on houseboat on the Po-
tomac River of Fort Washington.
Prince Georges County police are hold
ing Alexander Shorter, colored, and
Arthur Crouch as witnesses.
Collins was shot three times through
the mouth while on Shorter's boat, &C
cording to police. They are working on
the theory the man was killed during
a drunken brawl on the boat.
Shorter has a badly injured finger
and the officers believe he was wounded
while wrestling with others on the boat
for possession Of shotgun.
Three sl1otgunS were found on the
Collins body was removed to an un-
dertaling establishment at Ritchie,
Md. Sergt A. w. Hepburn and Police
man r Arnold Naylor investigated the
shooting and are looking for another
man said to have BEEN on the boat at
the time Collins was k2led.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-23
ESTATE OF MORROW
GOES TO HIS WIDOW
Only Few Minor Requests Are
Made to Members of
Family.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ENGLEWOOD, N. j., october 23.--
Aside from several comparatively minor
specific requests, Senator Dwight W..
Morrow left his entire estate to his
widow, Mrs Elizabeth Cutter Morrow.
The will of the New Jersey Senator,
dated in January, 1927, left everything
to Mrs. Morrow, with the statement that
Senator Morrow had complete conf
dence in her and knew that she would
provide properly for herself and their
children.
The will, filed for probate today, did
not estimate the amount of the Morrow
estate. It Is believed to amount to
several million dollars.
The Senator's widow and the Bankers
Trust Co. of New York are named
executors.
Several personal requests were made
tn members of his own and his wife's
families and to close personal friends.
The Senator left 5000, 900 to Amherst
College. his alma mater, and the same
amount to Smith College, the alma
mater of Mrs. Morrow and their
daughters
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-23
HOOVER STUDYING
MEANS TO EXPAND
HOME LOAN SYSTEM
May Ask Congress for Fund
to Take Over Half of Build
ing Association Credits.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

President Hoover Is considering the
advisability of recommending to Con-
gress a plan whereby from $50 ,000, 600
to $40, 100000 will be appropriated for
a credit corporation to rediscount SO
per cent of the present obligations OF
soundly managed building and loan as
sociations.
The country would be divided into IL
districts, and while the President has
had in mind s5,o00,ooO for each dis
trict. he is being urged to double that
amount so as to provide a bigger res
ervoir for credit operations
Would Aid Home Building.
The purpose of the plan Is to enable
the building and loan associations to
use the money they obtain from the
proposed rediscounting corporation in
making new loans for BODYBUILDING.
Thus it Is estimated a revolving fund
of $120,000,000 would release an equal
amount of credit and would not only
tend to increase real estate values
through the revival of land purchasing
but also would give the construction
industry needed stimulus.
The President hopes to complete his
plans in time for the general confer
ence on home building in December
and, Of course, the proposals require
congressional approval.
Separate From Bank Pool.
The establishment of a rediscount
corporation to work with building and
loan associations is entirely separate
from the project long under discussion
for general pool to rediscount real
estate mortgages. 1t is assumed that
If the principles underlying the plan
with respect to building and loan as
sociations obtain congressional sanction
and show signs of being accepted by
financial opinion as well, something OF
a similar nature may be undertaken
with respect to mortgages.
The difference between the building
and loan associations and general
former monthly curtailments are made
which permits of a regular income and
a rediscounting process not so easily
arranged as with Semi-annual OF
annual payments. The national asso-
Citations OF real estate men have been
considering plans for rediscount cor
poration, but thus far no financial plan
has been developed which the admin
istration has been able to get the bank
ing leaders to accept.
1t Is not yet clear whether in the
case Of the building and loan associa-
tons the formation Of a credit corpor-
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DEMOCRATS GAIN
HOUSE MAJORITY
neath of Hale of New Hamp-
shire Gives Them Lead First
Time in 13 Years.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Democrats for the first time in
Is years today outnumbered the Re-
publicans in the House.
The death yesterday of Representative
Fletcher Hale of New Hampshire, Re
publican, left the lineup Of the House
as follows:
Democrats, 214; Republicans, 213;
Farmer-Laborite, /; vacancies, 7.
Not since November, 1918, when
Woodrow Wilson appealed dramatically
to the country for return of Demo-
cratic Congress and saw Republican
majority elected. have the Democrats
been in the ascendancy even tenn
porarily.
The present lineup, however, will not
last until Congress convenes In De-
cen1ber.
Five Elections November 3.
Five special elections have already
been set for November to I'LL vacan-
cies caused by death. Two are in dis
tricts normally Democratic and three
are usually Republican. Should they
~ do III L11C PdSI, OllC 11OuoC 4nlC-uP
would be divided, with each major
party holding 216 votes. Representative
Kvale of Minnesota, the Farmer-Labor-
lite, would retain the balance of power.
The other two vacancies present more
difficulties, but Gov. Larson OF New
Jersey has called special session OF
the Legislature in an effort to supply
another Republican vote for House
organization
Representative Alderman, a New
Jersey Republican. died only last Sun
day. Under the present law, sue
cessor in that generally Republican
district could not be seated until jan
uary. However, Larson will ask the
Legislature to change the law to permit
an earlier election.
The sudden death of Representative
Hale will make it more difficult for
New Hampshire to close the seventh
House vacancy before December 7.
Center on First Ohio.
Death has been a great scrambler OF
the House membership lists since the
elections last November produced tbs
following lineup: Republicans, 2l8;
Democrats, ZIG; Farmer Leborite, 1.
The Democrats in their efforts to pick
up the weight necessary to organize the
House are concentrating on the first
Ohio district, represented for years by
Nicholas Longworth, and the eighth
Michigan, also additionally Republican
Leaders of neither party expect upsets
in the Democratic seventh New York
and twentieth Ohio, or the Republican
second Pennsylvania.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-23
TOXIC PLEDGES BEST EFFORT.
VIII Try to Complete Evacuation of
Manchuria Within Three Weeks.


TOXIC, October % (P-Kenkichi
Yoshizawa, Japanese delegates to the
League of Nations Council at Geneva,
was instructed by the government to-
day to inform the Council that Japan
will do her best to complete with
drawal of troops from outside the rail-
way zone in Manchuria within three
weeks If China agrees to cease alleged
anti-Japanese agitation there.
1t was emphasized here, however,
that although Japan is conditionally
prepared to make a concession, it would
be impossible to give definite promise
that the evacuation would be completed
by November le when the Council next
meets.
The progress of the withdrawal, it
was pointed out, would necessarily be
dependent upon China's willingness
and ability 10 maintain peace and order
after the Withdrawal.
It was also emphasized that these in
structionS to Ambassador YoShizawa do
not represent a new formula, but are
merely a further concession to the first
of three formulas drafted by Sir Eric
Drummond.
These instructions, however, which 1t
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MOTION PICTURE STUDIO
ADOPTS SIX-HOUR DAY
New R-K-o Pathe Schedule Allows
Employment of 30 Per Cent
More Men.

BY the Associated Press.
CULVER CITY, Calf, October 23.-
A six-hour day was placed in effect in
the construction department of the
R-K-O-Pathe studios here Yesterday
announced as precedent In the mo.
ton picture industry.
Dave CARRIER. superintendent of con-
Struction, said 1t would allow the en-
ployment of 20 per cent more men
The force now is operated in two shifts
which commence work at am. and
2:30 p.m., each with a half hour of
for one meal.
This plan not only provides en-
ployment for more men," said CARRIER
but allows the workers added time fol
leisure and recreation"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-23
LONE WOMAN JUROR BELIEVED
CAUSING SEVEN-DAY DEADL OCK
Wife of Realty Man, Foshay Trial Panel Is Reported
Unpersuaded by II Men.

today resumed deliberations in a room
piled high with more than 900 exhibits
of the prosecution along its walls.
The panel had instructions from the
trial court to make every effort 10
reach an agreement and bring to an
end the trial which began more than
eight weeks ago. The jurors have
been in custody since its opening, un-
able to communicate with any one ex-
cept two bailiffs, except by letters and
with censored copies of newspapers
their only reading matter.
Mrs Clark is near middle age, slender
and small, the wife of a Minneapolis
real estate man. Her colleagues most
ly are farmers. Whether She favors
acquittal or conviction remained . Sc
cret with the jury.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-23
NANK|NG ACCEPTS
LEAGUE PROPOSAL
FOR NEGOTIATIONS
Toxic to Withdraw Troops in
Three Weeks if China Stops
Agitation.
DECISION OF CHINESE
RECEIVED AT GENEVA
Concession on Evacuation of Man
churia Made by Japan in In.
structions to Delegate.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
GENEVA, October 23-Dr. Alfred
SEE, China's representative on the
League of Nations Council, informed
his colleagues this evening that his
government accepts the draft resolution
presented yesterday by Aristide BRAND
as a basis for restoring peace in Man
churia.
The BRAND proposals requested the
Chinese and japanese governments to
begin direct negotiations with view to
arranging details of evacuation Of Man
churia by Japanese troops.
1t recommended also that China
pledge the security of japanese lives
and property in Manchuria and sug-
gested establishment of a permanent
Cancellation committee through which
both governments could deal with prob
lens arising from the present difficulty.
Kenkichi PoshiZawa told the Council
yesterday that his government could not
accept any time limit on the evacuation
of Manchuria after M. BRAND proposed
that all japanese troops be withdrawn
to the railway zone by November Is,
when the Council will meet again.
Today, however, word from Toxic said
the Japanese government was willing to
way zone within three weeks If China
would agree to put an end to anti
japanese agitation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-23
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PresS
+ MINNEAPOLIS, october R3.-Hal-
lowed and dust-coated tradition may
have 1t that women change their
minds, but Mrs. Genevieve "A. Clark
today stood credited witt sweeping
away some of the dust.
For seven days, unconfirmed reports
said, she has chung to her opinion in
the face of an opposite view taken
by II men, who with her form the
jury In the trial of W. B. Foshay and
six co-defendents on mail fraud charges.
She has resisted oratory, pleas and
cajoling; alone she has maintained her
position against their combined and
individual entreaties. AS a result, the
jury appeared hopelessly 9dlocked as,
homesick and weary of it &lss| the panel
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-23
Brazil to Try Out
Coffee Bricks as
Fuel on Railroad
BY the Associated Press.

RIO DE JANE1RO, october %.
inferior coffee compressed into
bricks will be tried out as fuel on
the aforementioned Central
Railroad of Brazil as another
means of disposing Of low-grade
stocks and improving the quality
and price Of exports.
Minister of Public Works Jose
America has authorized the in
novation as a supplement to
burning or dumping in the ocean
the surplus produce. Experiments
also are afoot in government lab
oratorieS to extract alcohol. oil
and cellulose, by-productS, from
coffee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-23
Polish Sculptor Dies.

WARSAW, Poland, October 20 (P.-
Plus Welonski, noted artist and sculptor,
died here yesterday at the age of 81.
European museums hold many of his
bronze Gladiator" and Christ Bear
ing the Cross"