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Partly cloudy tonight and tomor- moderate temperature, Temperature for twent: 7p.m. last nigl 2. ended at,10 .9; lowdst, 'our hours Highest, ’ . No. 909.— No. 28,609. Entered as second-class matter post_office Washington. D. C. WASHINGTON, D. €., SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST - 27, 1922.—-SEVENTY-SIX PAGES. . FIVE CENTS. PRESDENT HOPES STRIES WL END BEFORE .5 AETS Mr. Harding Tells Advisers He Does Not Expect Industrial Crisis. CONGRESS IS RELUCTANT TO PROVIQE LEGISLATION Every Move of Leaders to Enact Federal Ownership Law Is Opposed. Br the Associated Press. Althourh Congress is to be asked to authorize government operation of railroads and coal properties, Presi- dent Harding has told his that he will exercise the authority thus granted only in case of an even- tual industrial crisis, which he does ° not now foresee. Despite the apparent deadlock in both the rail and anthracite strikes, the President is described as still con- fident a way will be found to protect the interests of the general public without resort to actual government direction of the two industries. In the meantime, however, Mr. Harding is said to consider it ex- tremely advisable that if Congress is to recess it must first clearly define | Lis powers to act, and legislation looking to that end is being prepared for submission at the Capitol early this week. Legislation Delayed. This policy of preparedness, emerg- ing from another day of inquiry and consultation by administration offi- cials, was received with manifesta- tion of approval among many of the majority leaders in Congress, but was followed by evidences of reluctance among others to go further than is provided in the industrial investiga- tion and control legislation already rending in both houses. In every move they made to ad- vance the pending legislation itself during the day, the congressional leaders met with opposition and de- lay, although they remained confident that in the end all the emergency measures introduced with adminis- tration backing would be enacted into law. Their plans for bringing the government operation authorization into the general program of strike legislation at the beginning of this week were not complete, however, and it was indicated that further consul- tations would be necessary to whip the whole scheme into shape. In the Senate the Borah bill for a fact-finding commisslon in the coal| industry, similar to the one already passed by the House, met with such prolonged attacks that it finally was agreed to lay it aside entirely until a vote has been taken on the bonus bill. probably late Tuesday. Provision in the measure for an inquiry into the advisability of nationalizing the in- | dustry was one of the features against which the most stubborn opposition was directed. Meantime, in the Senate interstate commerce committee, a second ad- ministration measure proposing to create a coal distribution agency and | to extend the authority of the Inter- state Commerce. Commission over priority of shipments failed of the immediate approval hoped for by the republican leaders and further con- sideration was postponed until to- morrow, with some members intimat- ing that comprehensive hearings would be insisted on before a vote was taken. % Coal Bill in House. A coal distribution and priority bill of a similar character to that under consideration by the Senate committee was presented in the House during the day by Chairman Winslow of the interstate commerce committee, but after a long discussion among com- mittee members it was decided that a hearing on this measure also would be held tomorrow. Only five hours was alloted to hear all of those in- terested, however, and it was agreed that a report should be made before adjournment of the commtttee tomor- row night, with a view to considera- tion of the bill in the House itself on Tuesday. With attention occupied by these measures and by consultations over the government operation proposals to be submitted later, President Hard- ing’s recommendation for creation of a federal agency to buy and gell coal in the interest of the public dropped completely out of sight. It was in- dicated that the administration still thought such legislation would be ' advisable but that Senate and House leaders were not inclined to ask for it in the present situation. A bill authorizing the President to take over individual rallroads which do not adequately perform their func- |* tions as common carriers is under- stood to have been already prepared by Chairman Cummins of the Senate interstate commerce committee, and he indicated today that it might be presented tomorrow or Tuesday along with a similar measure dealing with the coal mines. He and other Senate leaders professed entire confidence that the temper of Congress had reached a state insuring approval of the authorization without serious d lay. In the House, however, the ma- jority managers did not appear so confident, and Chairman Winslow de- clared in & public statement that in his opinion the coal distribution and priority bill he had presented would “sufficiently sound the alarm” for the present. Should “evildoers” fall to take warning, he added, and restore (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) advisers | tember 16 to Hit in Other Ry *he Associated Prese. DETROIT, August 26—One hun- dred and five thousand employes of the Ford Motor Company throughout the country will be without jobs after September 16. In addition, several hundred thou- sand_ other workers employed in in- | dustries furnishing materials for the | Ford plants will be affected. Henry Ford gave these figures to- day in announcing that his three big motor plants located in Detroit suburbs and his assembling plants throughout the country would be closed on ‘that date because of the coal shortage. The announcement was the most | severe blow that industrial Detroit ! has sustained since the industrial de- | pression of two years ago. It means, according to Mr. Ford, that 75000 men employed in the Highland Park, River Rouge and Dearborn plants of the company here will be without | work. Thirty thousand others now | working in the various assembling { plants scattered throughout the coun- try also will be thrown out of employment. How long the machinery in the 20838 SHOPMEN | * GANED BY ROADS i Force Now 56 Per Cent of Normal, Says Committee of Executives. |SEE NO “NEXT MOVE” Roads Will Be Loyal to Men Who Stuck, Declares C., M. & St. P. President. CHICAGO, August 26—Western rail- roads yesterday had 88,911 employes in their shops, this representing a gain of 30,835 men since August 1, accord- ing to a statement issued tonight by the western committee of public rela- tions of the Association of Railway Executives. Western roads employed about 159,000 men before the strike, and the present force s about 56 per cent of normal, the statement said. “While 1 do not like the phrase ‘fight {to a finish’ I really see no ‘mext move’ in the present trouble,” H. E. Byram. president of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, said today on his return from New York, where he participated in unsuccessful peace meetings. Senmiority Main Hitch. | Discussing the conferences looking | toward separate agreements, Mr. Byram said that while the roads participating were ready to give every striker, except lawbreakers, a job and to give them their old pass and pension privileges and adjust seniority as the cases might arise, the carriers were unwilling to discharge any men who remained loyal to the roads in the crisis in order to make room for the men who walked out. Over 100,000,000 hours of work must | be made up before the equipment is back where it was July 1, when the strike started, J. F. McGrath, vice president of the shopcrafts organiza- tion, declared in a statement tonight. He declared this to be the measure of repair work deferred as result of the two-month strike. Asserting the strike has main- tained an average efficlency of 90 per cent, he said that as a result the freight car situation was just as seri- |ous. Work equivalent under normal | conditions to the repair of over one i million freight cars is stacking up each month the strike lasts, he said. Faciag Heaviest Trafiic. “We are face to face with the four months of heaviest traffic in the year,” | the statement continued. “If the en- [ tire old force gets to work and works | three hours overtime each day the re- i sults of the strike cannot be obliterat {ed before the 1st of January, 192 One-twelfth of the cars in the United Stated need heavy repairs, the state- ment said, and asserted that the coun- L Il 1 1 FORD TO DROP 105,000 BECAUSE OF COAL STRIKE Announcement of Closing 'Plants Sep- Many Thousands Industries. Ford plants is to be stilled will de- pend entirely upon the coal supply of the future, the Detroit manufacturer said. The statement issued by Mr. Ford announcing the proposed shut- down was the story of his losing fight during the last few months to insure a fuel supply sufficient to keep his workers at their machines. Uncertain as to Reopening. Mr. Ford declared he “had not the remotest idea” when the plants could be reopened. It was announced that the normal daily consumption of coal in the Ford industries was 3,800 tons, and although declining to state the amount on hand at this time, of- ficlals said it would be impossible to do more “than keep the furnaces and ovens warm." | Only a comparatively small num- | ber of the employes of the Ford plants will be retained in service during | the shutdown, it was announced. Crews sufficient to keep the furnaces warm will be held, however. Mr. Ford's statement follows: “The coal situation has become im- | possible. For the last several weeks |~ (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) SECOND-HAND AUTO BURIED IN SAND BY TANTALIZED OWNER By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, Calif., August 26.— Rayle Miller had an automobile. It was 4 used car. He ran it out in the hot sun and then it quit on him. He fixed it. It quit again. Mr. Miller worked and worked and the car balked and balked. Finally, he got it to run and he headed it into a sand pit, where he first dismembered it and then buried it, with a worn-out screwdriver as a headstone. Nelghbors who saw the called the police. They took Mr. Miller to the station and questioned him. “It was a used cal “Ah,” said the captain. once; turn him loose.” IMINE MEN READY 10 DEAL WITH .S, Lewis Says Wage Negotia- interment he explained. Federal Control. By the Assoclated Press. PHILADELPHIA. August 26.—The United Mine Workers are ready to negotiate a satisfactory wage agree- ment with governmental representa- tives, should the federal government take over the anthracite mines, in case no agreement is reached with the operators, John L. Lewlis, presi- dent of the union, saild tonight in a statement relative to the possibility of such action by Congress. With a deadlock existing between the miners and operators for peace in the hard/coal fields, where a sus- pension has been in effect since April 1. Mr. Lewis said that the anthracite- consuming territory wil be seriously embarrassed for lack of fuel during the coming winter and described the possibilities of such a situation as “appalling.”’ Government Action Proper. “Accurate knowledge and apprecia- tion of impending dangers of the immediate future of the American people,” he said, “will surely mani- fest approval of the action of the federal government in threatening to seize and operate the mines in the in- terest of the people.” Mr. Lewis reiterated that the oper- ators were responsible for the con- tinued tie-up of the industry, stating that the miners believed the invita- tion by the operators to the Jjoint conference, recently broken off, meant that their intention was to effect .a settlement. He declared however, that the joint conference was considered by the operators “the occasion for a renewed opportunity to insist upon arbitration, with the ‘I had one } MAYFIELD LEADING IN TEXAS RUN-OFF Former Gov. Ferguson Is 58,417 Votes Behind in First Returns. CAMFAIGN- WAS BITTER Ku Klux and Beer Issues Created | Intense Feeling Through- out State. By the Associated Press. DALLAS, Tex., August 26.—Earl B. Mayfield is leading former Gov. James | E. Ferguson by 58.417 votes in the run-off primary for the democratic' nomination for United States senator, | 17's NoT > NEW! ARRiED MacMillan, Homebound, Tells of i\’gw Discoveries in Arctic 3 Isla_nds Found, 625 Miles W hite With Geese, Explorer Spent 274 Days Locked in the Solid Ice. Donald B. MacMillan, most daring of arctic explorers. is homeward bound from Bafin Land. t After having been frozenm in for 2} | days, the little schooner Bowdoin broke out of the ice gn the first day of August and is now coasting southward. MacMillan’s first act, when he reached an outpost of civilization, was to dis- tions May Begin With | | Klan and injection of personalities in- ttry cannot escape a car shortage this| pope of lowering the wage scale.” ! fall. The railroads must keep regular | Declining arbitration, he stated that I work going, and this requires 75,000,- | the miners were still willing to forego {000 hours of work a month,before the |their demand for material wage in- | deferred work Is touched, he said. He |crease and have suggested a renewal declared the “men who pressed rail- |o¢ the old wage scale until 1924 or returns compiled at 10 o’'clock tonight ; patch the following account 0‘ his ad- showed. These were from 132 coun- | ventures and mew discoverics in that ties, including complete returns from | atrange icebound wilderness, 150 miles | thirteen. The count gave Mayfleld 164,- | north of the arctic circle; i 960 and Ferguson 106,543. Three mew islands discovered. 2000 One of the bitterest campaigns in miles of travel by dog team into rcgions | the memory of old politicians in ncver before eczplored by a whitc man, Texas ended when the polls of the|reports of a tract of 625 square miles democratic run-off primary closed at!so white with geese that the land ap- 7 o'clock. Discussion of the Ku Klux | pears as if covered with smow, contact !mi!h the last big walrus herds in the creased the bitterness and the feel- | north—these are chapter headings in the ing of the partisans. thrilting yarn which by cowrier and The kian question promises to con- |cable MacMillan has dispatched to Star | tinue an issue until the November |readers. His dispatch, which is printed election. The republicans have put | below, was started by cowrier from a full state ticket in the field and in ' Makkovick, a bleak, isolated trading their platform denounced the kian |post on the coast of Labrador, 130 miles and declared it controlled a large part, ' north of Battie Harbor, and was relayed if not all, of the democratic party ma- | by cable from Fogo Island. off the north- | chinery in the state. The democrats |castern coast of Newfoundland. | hold thelr state convention in San An- It is the first complete record of the tonio September 6, and will adopt a | ezpedition. platform then. ! The last marrative from MacMillan : was dispatched a year ago this month, Candidates Confident. ey n’: o e Whether the vote was heavy of |yent into winter quarters. That dis- light was unknown early this ‘Ve"‘“ggpatc», sent back to civilization by and reports were conflicting. MaY-| courier, did not reach America umtil field, state rallroad commissioner, ‘m“la.; December. i Ferguson each maintained he wou!dl Now MacMillan sketches vividly the be the successful man when returns!, . o...... of the Bowdoin’s orew are counted. Democratic nomination | ur w10y winter. It 4s @ story 1s equivalent to election in Texas. |,+uou triumphs for the intrepid Maine Mayfield is generally credited with oo "o T ades. being the klan candidate and Fer-’ i guson opposed the klan. Mayfield| ~BY DONALD B. MacMILLAN. has the indorsement of the Anti-Sa- | By Courier and Cable to The Star. loon League and Ferguson is an ad-| ON ~BOARD THE BOWDOIN, vocate of light wines and beer. Both| MAKKOVICK, Labrador, (Via Fogo, agreed that transportation rates|N. F.) August 26.—All safe. No sick- should be lowered, but Mr. Mayfield | ness, and not even an accident to re- would accomplish it by repeal of the|port. When this reaches America, Esch-Cummins act, while Mr. Fer- thamBchllloln ;vlll be :nll,!nfuuu!x;u‘n‘- ~Page 4, Column 2.) ‘ward, well on her way to Battle Har- (Contimued o Page 4, Colimn 23| ™ e ougnt. to be home by the e 13th of September. The Bowdoin seems to feel the joy of motion. No RAleTUR wonder. For 274 days—from the Sth of November until the 1st of August —we were frozen in solid. We found an excellent haven, putting In for the winter in a good harbor just S south of Trinity Islands. I named it after the vessel, and the place where we wintered and took valuable ob- Live Stock and Produce at Market | [ ions w1 be known as Bow- Destroyed and Sewers dois Harbor on the maps of the fu- ture. Flooded. ‘We made satisfactory progress be- foye we pulled in for the winter, and explored the west coast of Baffin { impenetrable. road employes until their backs were | against the wall” were responsible for | the condition which he said prevailed. i :PRESIDENT TAKES WEEK END SAIL IN CHESAPEAKE BAY President and Mrs. Harding, ac- companied by a party of friends, left on the presidential yacht, Mayfiower, late yesterday for a twenty-four-hour cruisé fn Ches- apeake bay. Accompanying the President and Mrs. Harding were the President's sister, Miss Abigail Harding, Mrs. Willlam Boyd of Kansas City, a cousin of Mrs. Harding; Secreta- ries Hoover and Fall and Attorney longer. Semator Pepper Hopeful. Following a telephone conversation with Secretary Hoover today, Senator Pepper held out hope that the dispute could be settled amicably without ‘governmental seizure. While the senator declined a definite forecast, as he had not conferred with the operators, as he had with the miner: representatives yesterday, he said he could see mno insurmountable - ob- stacle to an amicable agreement. A conference between Samuel D. 'Warriner, president of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company, spokesman for the operators, and Senator Pepper was arranged today as a result of & telegram sent by the former to the latter from Montrose, Pa. Mr. War- riner will return to Philadelphix for that purposs Monday. Samuel Gompers, president of the General Daugherty; Senators Cum- ' |American Federation of Labor, who mins of Jows and Kellogg of Min- - nesota; Secretary and Mrs. Chris- tian, Brig. Gen. Sawyer, the Presi-. dent's personal physician, and Mrs. Sawyer, and A. D. Lasker, chair- man eof the Shipping m . came to Philadelphia yesterday from Canads, left with Mrs. Gompers for 'Washington today. = He declined to nt upon the situation, stating that the labor end of the dispute was in the hands of Mr. Lewis. fal Dispatch to The Star. ";ICHMvO.ND. Va., August 26.—A torrential rain swept -Richmond to- night and completely flooded the busiest marketing section of the city, destroying produce and live stock valued at thousands of dollars. The rain fell in such quantities that sewers were unable to carry it off and the water backed into several stores, accumulating 3o rapidly that customers were unable to reach points of safety and were forced to seek shelter on the tops'of counters and boxes. The water in some sections was re- ported to be two feet deep, Firat market and its vicinity being hard- est hit because of its situation in low land. Watermelons, vegetables and crates of poultry were carried away by the waters. Darly esti- mates placed the loss at more than $50,000. - Little warning was given of the storm, although it was ascompanied by vivid electricaV displays and a high wind. Weather bureésa officials said three inches of rain fell in a Iittle. more than one ‘hour. Land to a point, 78 west longitude, 64 north latitude. Iee Forty Feet Thick. ‘We made a quick run last summer to the artic circle without encounter- ing a single parn of ice. The shores of Melville peninsula were blocked 'with heavy ice, forty feet thick, and we could get no nearer than thirty miles. ‘We had to retreat southward, but our effort was by no means wasted. We discovefed two new f{slands. ‘While attempting the passage northward between Spicer Island, the Bowdoin ran aground, and for a little while we were in a bad pickle. But ‘we worked hard, and succeeded in get- ting thé vessel oft before we were hunz'up'\w low water. ‘We speeded the vessel southward, but again we encountered difculties. DONALD B. MacMILLAN. been a twelve-hour run under favor- able conditions.' But ithe tides were too strong and the ice barrier was Again the Bowdoin went aground. We discovered anoth- er large island thirty miles north of Spicer 1sland, but we had to give up the passage. Both the western and eastern shores of Fox channel were impossible of attainment. We gave up the attempt and turned south- ward. We laid our course southeastward and made some important discoveries for the purposes of cartography. Ac- cording to the maps we carried, we should have struck land on this course, but we failed to do so. We sailed over an area indicated as land on all the latest and most authori- tative maps, and, indeed, fifteen miles (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) DRY PLANES TO TRAIL BORDER RUM RUNNERS Canada-U. S. Bootleg Ring Said to Be Using Air Fleet of Eleven Machines. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 26.—Discovery that an organized ring of rum run- ners is using a fleet of at least eleven powerful airplanes in smuggling liquor into the United States from Canada has led the prohibition authorities to plan for the use of air- craft in trailing international boot- leggers, it was announced last night by Zone Chief Appleby of New York and New. Jersey. According to information received by the prohibition officers the air fleet operates between Canada and isolated locations on Long Island. Regular trips are made, they say, each one taking four or five hours. Usually the machines land on Long Island early in the mornidk or just before ‘dark in the evening, but it was sald that on several occasions the filers have. landed their fllegal cargoes in the daytime. The system so far has worked out without & single capture. The land- ing spot for each trip apparently is chosen by some person directing the operation of the fleet, as motor We were forced by strong tides and|trucks are always on hind to take House Declares War on Insects Around Capitol ‘War on “bugs” around the Capitol was declared yesterday by the House of Representatives. By a joint resolution passed after a rollicking debate, the House authorised the Capitol architect to proceed to the extermination of “In- sects” wherever found. Representative Garnen, democrat, Texas, misreading the resolution in a way to make it apply only to the Senate office building, made a parlia- mentary inquiry as to whether “the Senate is the only place where there are bugs.” “Oh, no,” repled Representative Ireland, republican, Illinois, in charge of the measure, “there are & few in the House.” The resolution was sent over to the Senate just in time for its arrival to interrupt a speech by Senator Reed, democrat. Missouri, against what he called “theoretical” provisions of the coal investigation bilL"” “Now that is something practical,” remarked the Missouri senator when the House messenger anpounced the action of the House. STRICKEN ITENS INNEWD. . LIST Supplementary Estimates to Carry $3,000,000 Cut From Budget. HEARING IN SEPTEMBER Commissioners Will Have Oppor- tunity to Explain Fis- cal Needs. { The list of supplemental estimates for next year being prepared by the Com- | missioners will include nearly all of |the important items that have been climinated in the past two weeks from the regular budget, it was learned at | the District bullding vesterday. | When the city fathers were in- structed by the budget bureau to re- duce their original figures from $27,- 700,000 to $24,500,000 they were told they might submit separately essential items stricken from the budget proper. The estimates had already been cut jseverely before the tentative figure of {$27,700,000 was communicated to the budget office, and, it is understood, the { teeling prevailed at the District build- ing' that none but necessary projects were included in that total. 1t has been learned from reliable sources that virtually all of the $3,000,- 000 which has been slashed from the i estimates at the direction of the budget { bureau will be incorporated in the sup- plemental list. Opportunity for Hearing. Toward the end of September or early in October Director of the Budget Lord will give the Commissioners an oppor- tunity to make oral arguments in sup- port of their supplemental requests. The serious effect of the heavy cuts made in the original estimates is best illustrated in the case of new street improvement. The Commissioners sub- mitted a request for $1,200,000. True, this was more than had been asked for in the past, but the Commissioners realized that Washington had fallen 80 far behind in highway development since the war that the lost ground would never be made up at the rate appropriations have been made in the past four or flve years. { In getting the estimates down to the $24,500,000 limit this allotment approximately $200,000, which is the amount available this year. It is understood that $200,000 will only permit of the paving of four stretches of roadway. The $1.000,000 eliminated from the regular estimates will be placed high up ‘on the list of supplemental items. Trunk Sewer Extension. sewers also will be asked for in the supplemental estimates. The original budget allowed $1,600,000 for the doubtedly had to be cut to meet the request of the budget bureau. In support of their contention that the District estimates should not be arbitrarily reduced by the mates are cut, city officials point out that the federal government meets only 40 per cent of the amount ap- propriated for the National Capital. Attention also is called to the fact that the $24,500,000 includes several { millions for upkeep of public build- {ings and grounrs, the Zoological Park and similar purposes. These are not municipal activities, but are chargeable partly to District revenue. ‘When allowance 18 made for these outside activities only about $21,- 000,000 remains for the operation of the city government. —_— | FIX RETAIL COAL PRICE. Carolina Fuel Commissioners to Void Allotments of Violators. RALEIGH, N. C., August 26.—North Carolina’ corporation commission, authorized by Gov. Morrison to direct the distribution of the state’s allot- ment of coal, will fix a fair price of coa! to the consumer in North Caro- lina, and those dealers who do not ! for new streets had to be slashed to | Extension of urgently needed trunk | sewer department, but this item un- | budget bureau as departmental esti- | prodiglous fce flelds ‘onto shoalloft the liquors. respect this fair price will get none POINCARE REJECT LAST GERMAN PLAN 10 PRESERVE RUKR British Frankly Gloomy as French Prepare to Enforce Demands Independently. MORATORIUM CONSIDERED BY REPARATIONS PARLEY French Will Follow Plan to Seize Rhine District Despite Decision. By the Associated Preas, PARIS, August 26.—Premier Poln- care has rejected the eleventh-hour guarantees “offere by the German government and independent meus- ures by France against Germany seemed assured tonight after fallure of the the raparations mission to ob- tain in Berlin the basis of a compro- mise acceptable to France. In well informed French circles it 18 considered reasonably certain that the reparations commission will grant a moratorium for the rest of the year, with the final German pro- Pposals as an additional guarantee. The German proposals, handed to the reparations commission just before it left for Paris, provided for a contract between the German government and the biggest German industrialists, in- cluding Hugo Stinnes, for delivery during the period of a moratorium of products of the Ruhr mines and Wood from. the state forests. Ger-' man industry would guarantee faith- ful delivery and penalties would be enforced against the industrialists in the event the schedule was not lived up to. Details of the scheme were to be submitted by Germany next week, but the French premier rejected the plan this afternoon after a conference with M. Dubols and M. Mauclere. The premier's opposition is sald to be due to the fact that he belleves the scheme made the industrialists more important than the government, and since the business party in Ger- many is in a position to dictate to the government, refusal to carry out the contract would leave the German government powerless to ac and France would be as bad off as before. British optimism, which continued even up to this afternoon, had given way tonight to frank gloom over the situation after M. Poincare refused to accept the latest German proposals. The British think these proposals fairly meet M. Poincare's demands for the German mines and forests by ac- tually giving France the products of these natural resources without handing the district over to political control. The district in possession of France, it is contended by the Brit- ish, would only add chaos to the al- ready critical situation. Convinced Germany Is Trying. Sir John Bradbury. just before the meeting of the reparations commis- sion, told the Associated Press he was convinced that Germany-was really trying to meet the French view and he urged that the French gov- ernment meet Germany half way. Sir John authorized the publication of thé following statement: “I am satisfied that the German government is making a serious ef- fort to meet the views of the French | government, in so far as the actual sit- uvation in Germany will permit I am strongly of the opinion that the | French government ought to do its | best to meet the German government { half way.” | He further informed the commis- sion that the German financial situa- | tion was desperate and that soclal ] order in its entirety in Germany was threatened. Other members of the mission, including M. Mauclere, re- ported that they were equally im- pressed with the seriousness of the German crisis. g Amazed by Prosperity. | The French, however, reported that | they were amazed to see great evi- | dences of prosperity in Germany and declared that a large number of Ger- mans who had apparently had dis- carded their own currency were { using dollars instead. | The reparations commission held a | two-hour session to hear=these re- ports, but it is not likely that any de- {cision will be taken for several days. Sir John Bradbury recommended to ! the commissich that a moratorium in | cash payments should be granted un- til Germany stabilized the mark and balanced her budget. But the French solidly. opposed this recommendation. |The British view is' that at best a { moratorium can oniy act as a bridge | until the whole quesiion is again dis- cussed at the projected November conference on interallied debts and indemnities. Such a meeting is im- perative in the view of Sir John and the other British reparations officials. Despite the gloom In British quar- ters tonight the British representa- tives are making every effort to avoid a direct yote by the commission. Say Germans Can Pay. On the other hand, the French gov- ernment is convinced that Germaiy ca find 150,000,000 gold marks for the August, September and October pay- ments. By that time officials' belleve another allied conference will have to discuss a new - general reparations agreement. If the commission grants a mora- torfum with the guarantees just of- fered, France will Teject the decision and assume her liberty of actlon, it is | ground. ' In attempting passage east of ‘Spicer Island we repched a point 150 {miles north-of the arctic circle. From this polnt to Fury and Hecla strait, my ohgnj!v ‘would only have Appleby saidl that Commissioner Haynes and other officials of the na- tional prohibition department are now discussing sites for sa alr sta. tion here. R of the state’s allotment, according to ® statement issued by the governor today, accompanied by his direction to the commisaion to fix a fair retail price for coal in the state. authoritatively declared. If the com- mission refuses a moratorium France will also act, but in a different mas- ,Der. The commission will meet again ° tomortrow morning. by