Evening Star Newspaper, January 31, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER. Rain tonight and tomor: er: temperature night. Temperature for hours ended at 2 37, at 2:30 p.m. vesterday at 1:30 a.m. today. Full report on page 23. | ! | above freezing p.m. today: Highest, row: warm- to- twenty-four ; lowest, 28, z! | Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 28 The Foenin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION No. 765, Lost office Wa Entered as second-class matter shington, D. C. TURKS ASK TIME T0 WEIGH TERMS; ALIESNEAR SPLI British Concede Few Days After French Threaten to Bolt Previous Agreement. CURZON SAYS WORLD IS AWAITING RESULTS Declares Terms Look to Upbuilding of Better Relationships Through Its Generosity. Ry the Associated Press. NB, January Pasha, head of the Turkish delega- tion to the near cast conference, ask- ed the conference today for a delay of two weeks before the signature of peace and a delay of eight days be- fore a meeting of the conference commission. The interval would be employed, he explained, in striving by every means to reach an agree- ment. The Turks desired the delay of eight days so that they need not give a definite reply as to acceptance of the treaty until that time expired. The session was suspended to allow the allies to reach an agreement on the reply to be made to Ismet | the resumption of the conference Lord Curzon announced it Would be impossible completel Satisfy the Turkish require to time, but personally he to remain at Lausanne until evening A long consultation nong the lied delegates in an endeavor to ma tain united fro st the Turks preceded the opening confe ence. All the allied ns, in- cluding the American d that the negotiatio ve long protracted Ismet I agre s not End Warfare. Would Lord beginning ad- a th ¥sion today. said the primary object of the treaty was to bring to an end the terrible war which Europe and than Curzor his ated of Asia and thus whether allied. Turk- go to their aty also was designed Turkish state. which nquished in the war ith the but victorious over Greece, to ts place as a consolidated and re-enter the comity of na- eastern for enable large more eight various armies areas s or Greek. to back resy 8L tions Lord Curzon ted that the ment as to every clause but time was press d. indeed. the waiting, not fr for results he id ey one en an agree- in the treaty, 1z and Europe. whole world, was further debates. but refore it was felt to be in the public interest that the pro- ceedings should be brought to a termination. as he hoped they might e consent id the treaty tended to build up relatior amity, good will and friendly inter- course on equal terms between the tate and the other powers of by cof Lord Curzon n was in- hips of ‘e, reconstruction and co-oper- ation arc the three objects.” He added that the question far the conferees had succeeded in ob- taining them in the document pre- sented today. He was far from think- ing their labors had been in vain, as considerable amount of sus: which had hungz about the meetings, had been blown awa the breezes of Lausanne. ,The British forelgn secretary de- clared with vigor 1 < not pos- sible for tha Turk ation or the Angora government to elaim that they were being ronted with a surprise or a nie The allies had endeavored to frame the treaty not by methods of dictation, but by con- cilfation and compromis, g was how Essential Peace Conditin, However. the allies had rea unanimous hed the conclusion that good re- sults could not be expected from fur- Jiher meetings of the conference com- missions and subcommissions; ac- cordingly they had in the form of a definite treaty the essential conditions for peace. “We are convinced ti need that a general honorable peace can be conciuded,” he said. “This is the treaty we sub- mit today." ST The treaty not of a single power : owe group of powebs. bu all the powers, who were primarily fnterested whether in the re-establishment of peace or the recovery of the welfare of the T s Eoned the Turkish Moreover, the treayt not to the Angora but to the public and “that fearlessly challenge,” Lord Curzon said he world to pronounce whetl tlement he added challenge. Lord “Curzon ‘said h zon sa e wanted world to pronounce whether the tlement offered Turkey zenero nd whether it afforded o portunity for Turkey to reconstituge her life “without external Interven. tion or internal servitude.” Compared with the treafy of Sevres the present document was generog,iy fiself. he said, and it was madness fop anybody to think there was any de. sire to have the conference end in a rupture which jnight mean the re- sumption of war. Nothing could be ained by the recommenceme hostilities. Spe LAny fool can make war.” he added, It is the business of statesmen to end it." drawn up was an appeal government, alone lic opinion of the world opinion.” he added, *we wanted the ier the set- “we fearlessly the the set- was just and New Allied Difficulty. The French delegation’s announce- |the peace and co-operation she re- | ment that it could not consent to Jeaving Lausanne so long as there were prospects of agreement with Turkey led to complications among the allies which brought the near east conference this morning to the brink of a greater impasse than had been anticipated for “treaty day.” The French delegation, which was understood to have the support of the italian delegation, was further con- firmed by a message to M. Bompard from Paris, declaring that France was willing to make further concessions to the Turks, and that she did not consider the allied treaty as defini- tive. = The British received the French an- nouncement as a “flagrant violation of the mutual understanding arrived at hy the allied plenipotentiaries only a few days ago.” This agreement pro- vided that if Turkey did not sign the treaty upon its presentation today. the TContinued on Fage 2, Column 2., all the | cgret- | he said. | was the combined offer | French ‘Pertidy’ Seen by Turks Who Score Terms By the Associated Press. LONDON, January official circles and the unanimous in condemning terms of the draft of the treaty presented at which they consider unacceptable, says a Reuter dispatch from Con- stantinople. Strangely enough, continues the message, the entire blame for the unfavorable character of the pro- posals is attributed to France, and the newspapers indulge in a chorus of vituperation of the French in which charges of perfidy are min- gled with threats of possible re- taliation in Smyrna Public opinion had been led to believe the only serious outstand- ing difficul related to Mosul, but, adds the dispatch, the public finds to their dismay that the questions of the capitulations, the Ottoman public debt and the disposition of Karagatsch still figure d gree- bly among the conditions, and pusequently the French are ac- cused of trying to slip in the ob- jectionable clauses on the strength of Great Britain's quarrel over Mosul. 31.—Turkish press are the | i [ | | | FRENCH TO SEND NEW ULTIMATUM ON RUHR INVASION | London Hears Drastic Steps | Will Be Taken Following Warning. 1y the Associnted Prese BRUSSELS, January 3l.—Bel- ginm nnd France will present t | the German government in Berlin | at 6 o'clock tonight an ult m demanding for the last time that Germany fulfill the reparations program nnd execute the treaty of Versailles. it announced here this afternocon. | | i was If ! LONDON, January 31 | basing their statements | De Goutte’s warning to some of the English correspondents at Duesseldorf assert that the French most immediately will send Berlin a notification, equivalent in sp if not in form to an ultimatum, Appare upon Germany de- {manding reversal of Wilhelmstrasse's policy regarding the Rubr. Germany be told, the Post's | Duesseldorf correspondent says, that France will not tolerate passive hos- | ttity. supported and financed by the German government. and that satisfactory reply is not given drastic be taken exceeding is to | measures will |any already in operation { Dispatches to the Telegraph sa ithat this notificat will probably {be forwarded to Germany this even- ing. The correspondent that it is not known what form the threat- ned me: will take, but that they are not likely to invo further occupation of territory. AWAIT FRENCH MOVE. n alds ures Duesseldorf Without Word of New Enforcement Measure. Dy tin Associated Press DUSSELDORF, January action of the Germans, particularly in Ber official circles, to Gen. De- goutte’s warning that the French and Belgians had come to the end of their patience and that the occupying forces were ready to “take whatever time and measures” were to enforce their pol was awaited here today as the zllies strengthened | their position. i Midnight will see the expiration of {the two-week moratorium recently ! granted Germany for the payment of her half-billlon-gold-mark reparation installment. Whether the French ! will make default the occasion for i putting into effect the expected Ruhr customs barrier and the cessation of | coal shipments eastward had not been |announced this morning. It is revorted that the Berlin gov- ernment through the minister of rail- ways has forbidden the German per- sonnel from carrying out any orders of the French and Belgians. The re- of coal and to either in the shipment out of Germany r Belgium. in the Rubr valley i nly 10.461 erate timber [France Coal production it a necessary | The de- | cree also forbade the workers to co- | WASHINGT 40.C.BLLSGNEN FAVORABLE ACTION BY COMMITTEE VOTE Auto Reciprocity, Optometry‘ Law,Shriners’ Camp Privi- lege Are Approved. | | | | | i | EARLY ACTION PLANNED | ON RAILWAY SITUATION F Committee Will Make Traffic Problem Special Order for Friday. The House District commitiee (o | day ordered a favorable report to the | House on the following bil ! The Commissioners’ two-cent gasoline tax., which requires reciprocity on automobile licenses between Mary- | land and the District. The regulation of practice of | {optometry in the District, which has | already passed the Senate. The resolution granting the Shrin- | ers who are coming here next June | the use of the parks in which to pitch tents and camp during the| Shrine gathering The bill, which has already passed | the Senate. changing the name of | Keokuk street to Military road from | 27th street to Wisconsin avenue | | ! { To Examine Mothers' Bill, The House special meeti sider the bill Howard University home of the National Association for | Relief Destitute Colored Women | nd Children located at the corner of 8ih and Euclid streets. . Consideration of measures designed | to welieve the street railway situation | in the District are to be the special order of business following the How- ard University bill on Friday. Arrangements were made for hearing. probably on Monday ne on the bill introduced by Represent tive Smith of ldaho to regulate and control incorporated., co-operative | contract loan. savings and investment institutions operating under declara tions of trust in the District. A subcommittee of e, consisting of Representatives Sproul of Illinois, apert of Wisconsin, Walters of | nnsylvania, Blanton of Texas and ibert of Kentucky, was authorized to investigate the Free bill. which | proposes to define the legal status of all (:hfl(er n under eighteen years of | age in the District of Columbia, cre- {ating a parental court and providing | for a child-relief allowance for the assistance of certain mothers. - This | was described as “the mothers’ bill." | The so-called reciprocity gasoline tax bill was the last matter acted upon by the committee. It had pre- viously heen made the order of spe- 1 business for Friday, but when Was apparent that the members present were unanimously in favor | it was ordered reported and Represe ! tatlv Zihlman of Maryland instruct- ed draft the report. He ex- that this measure is expected r away forever the question of automobile reciprocity between Maryland and the District. It sub- stitutes for the present license and Droperty tax a two-cent gasoline tax, but is dependent entir 1y upon reciprocity granted by Mar, land. Representative Zihlman said that the Maryland legislature has al ready passed a similar law. He point- ed out that the passage of this law | for the District will increase the revenues $125.000. At the opening of the meeting, sentative Blanton of Texas, | made a motion to reconsider the vota {by which the Reed District de) e 11 was tabled At the last mectime of the committee, and that his mos tion should be considered as pending. | committee arranged for on Friday whieh would authorize | acquire the | {a to con- to of | | | | 1 | | i | i | o | | Urges Optometry Law. Chairman Focht told Mr. Blanton that under the rules of the House the District delegate matter has been settled and cannot be brought up again at this session of Comgress. | Representative Blanton disagreed with Chairman Focht and said his | 1otion was to reserve all rights. The committee was told that Representa- tives Reed of West Virginia and| | Sproul of TUlinois intend to offer | amendments when the District dele- gate bill again comes up for consid- | {eration. Representative Sproul is op- posed to this legislation unless an | |amendment is included giving the | | people of the District the right fo| felect the District Commissioners. ! M. A. Leese, chairtan of the optical | section of the Merchants and Manu- | facturers’ Association. accompanied by Charles J. Columbus, secretary of that association, appeared in behalf of the bill, which has already passed the Senaté, to regulate the practice Unselfish Peace In Near East, Child Tells Parley By the Associated Press | LAUSANNE, January 31.—Richard | Washburn Child, chief American spokesman, made a strong appeal for §|peace before the near cast tonfer- ©fjence today on the occasion of the| formal presentation to the Turks of |the treaty drawn up by the allied | powers. Turkey must be reasonabl jdeclared Mr. Child, if she was to have {auired. His address made a deep }lmpresslon upon the conference, The United States was represented {at Lausanne for three purposes, he said—first, to protect American in- terests, idealistic or commercial, hu- {mane or financial, without discrim- ination; second, to protect, whenever possible, humanitarian interests, re- gardless of nationality, and, third, to serve in all appropriate ways the cause of peace. The Americans, he asserted, sought no special privilege or favor. They had declared for the open door in the near east. A New Understanding. “Our declarations and the spirit of assent given by the allled nations in the words of the chief delegates of Great Britain and France,” he added, “constitute an accord, creating, we { (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) Aim of U. S. | I} hope, a new understanding and a new | regime of international relationship {in the near east.” Continuing, the ambassador said: “If we can assist in bringing about the peace wanted by the whole world | and the establishment of normal con- |ditions in the near east we are ready to give any help in our power. Because we are not at war with Tur key and are not involved in the an- cient, by-gonme politics of the near east,’ we may bring to bear whatever power there may be in detachment and impartiality. “We sce no reasons why peace should not be made here. We be- lieve peace will be made here, and this belief is not founded upon sway | of accords and. dissenions, but upon | existence of forces that lead to peace. Unless these forces are met by utter- recklessness they are irresist- e. “The fallure of world peace would | be a world calamity, but for Tur- z;)y it would be an irreparable trag- Turk Doubts and Fears. The American ambassador daclared that many of the difficulties experl- enced were due to Turkey's fallure to recognize the willingness with which the other nations concede the claims of the new Turkey to the in- dependence and sovereignty and her right to try to work out her own des- tiny under the favorable cireu: stances of peace. . D. N} “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star's carrier system covers every city block and the regular edition is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. 4 Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 95,469 C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1923 ~FORTY-FOUR PAGES. OFFCALSTOCLUB RECHLESS DAVERS WTH“MAKMUN? Fublic Sufficiently Warned, Says Judge, Who Will Impose Full Penalties. Masimum penaities from now await all flagrant violators of traffic laws. This announcement made by officials of the Police Court today. Determination to carry out this decision has been necessitated, officials declare. by the ever-increasing num- ber of accidents that are caused daily on the public streets of the nation's capital. Judge Robert N. Hardison, the pre- siding magistrate this month the Traffic Court at 6th and D streets northwest, intimated today that the public had been given sufficient warn- ng. and that in the future wherever it was advisable maximum penalties would be imposed by the court. Judge Hardison further intimated that in every case of where a man was con- ed of driving while intoxicated, a on the was over | By the Asso | Century 1 + found by jall sentence would be imposed along | th the fine The time has 1e.” the judge stated, “when public safety and com- fort command the strictest attention of automobile drivers in the handling and operation of their machines. Re- port day by day in the newspapers have aroused public sentiment to de- mand that reckless drivers be suit- ably punish intend to do it.” Public Wishes Considered. Thomas Gillespie Walsh, corpora- tion counsel, in an interview today stated he intended to ask for maxi- mum penalties, especially for second offenses. “We intend to co-operate in every way, he said, “with the wishes of the public. They must be protected, and it is up to this office to see that it is done. Hereafter vio- lators of the law will be dealt with ly and must expect no len- k. wing flagrant speed case: were disposed of y erday and toda; Silas Jefferson, speed, second offense. $100 fine or sixty days in jail; John T. Keady. speed. $100 fine or thirty days: Rudy Marshall, no permit, col- liding and leaving after total fine, $100. Richard M. Hubscher, speed, thirty days and $100 fine or thirty days. In tkis case, however, the defendant was | placed on probation because of miti- gating circumstances. Theodore E. Duckett, ariving while intoxicated, $75; William F. Thomas, driving while intoxicated, $75; Walter Iy Fronland. driving while intoxicated, $50; speed, $10. The maximum fine for speed up to twenty-five miles an hour (first of- fense) is $15 or $20. Thirty miles an hour, $30 to $40 (first offense). Over forty miles an hour, $50 (first of- tense); second offense, $100 Education to Cure Traffic llls, Says Commissioner Keller Simultaneously with publication to- day of new traffic regulations recom- | mended by the Commissioners' traffic committee, Engincer Commissioner Keller wrote Senator Phipps, chair- man of the Senate District com- mittee, that he believed a campaign of education “should result in con- slderable improvement in the dan- gerous traffic situation now existing in Washington.” The new regula- colliding, | W ) I Miss Carolyn S huster Weds, But Refuses to Give Details Special Disputeh to The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Vo —Miss Carelyn Shuster, daughter of W. Morgan Shuster, president ©f the Century Publishing Com- of New York, and Willlam Morris, son of a sgow, Ky merch. . were married here Mon- dny afternoon by Rev. Willlam J. Morton, rector of Christ Episco) Church, it wax learned here today. Both gave thelr ages at twenty- one years. January 1. 4 Press BALTIMORE. Md.. Ad- mitting that they had “fibbed” about their wedding being at Rockville, Md.. but insisting that they were married at another Maryland town, William Morris. twenty-year-old of a Glasgow, Ky., merchant, and Carolyn, eighteen-year-old daughter of W. Morgan Shuster, president of the Publishing Company of New York, any further particulars respecting the The young couple arrived in Baltimore last Monday and regis- tered at a hotel as William Morri and wife, Kentucky. Yesterday they removed to another hotel, and when reporters early in the eve announced that they were e on Monday and then v weny to the theater. Half an’ hour later Preston B. ila of Montgomery county, at stated over the telephone that he had refused to issue a license to Mr. Morris when the elopers ap- peared at his office Monday. Morris ceremony mar- Rocivil TWO SOLDIERS HELD INPAY ROLL THEFT Al But About $5,000 of $43,000 Stolen, Reported Recovered From Men. By the Associated Pre NEWPORT NEWS, Va., January 31 —Charged with the daring hold-up and robbery of a $43,000 Army pay roll in front of the First National ank at Hampton yesterday, Corps. John S. Wood and James Harvey were held under military Langley Field today, pending a de- cision as to whether they will be tried before a civil or milltary court. It appeared probable that the two | men, who were said to have had in their possession a greater portion of the money taken when they were ar- rested last night, would be brought before a court-martial. Of the amount missing, the exact total of which had not ben announced, $5,000 of it was said to have been siiver contained in a bag which the men are belleved to have been forced to abandon and for which search was being continued today. When arrest- ed after a search of the surrounding country by military and county au- thorities, aided by a posse of several hundred. civilians_and _soldiers, the men were said to have had the notes, comprising most of the money taken, concealed in their pockets, the lining (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) tomorrow, Late Happenings appear in The Toening Ha2 5:30 Edition World news, local news, sports news, financial news—and news of what the courts will consider For sale by newsboys and newsdealers throughout the city. | declined late last night to give | guard at? 1 MBS, WILLIAM MORRIS; Formerty Miss Cardlyn T, $huster. admitted short of <aid Wlhen the young- couple appeared at the hotel later in the night they were accompanied by lee B. Morris, said to be an uncle of theeyoun man. He at- tended the wedding, according to both, iContnued on Page olumn 5.) DRASTIC ACTION ~ ONBOOTLEGGING | 5 | “Itinerant” Injunction Pre- @ vents Law Violators from Changing Sales Places. he was still six twendy-one-years, months Mr. Ray Chief Justice McCoy in Egquity | Court No. 1 this afternoon granted { the “itinerant” injunction asked by | the prohibition enforcement unit in its newest civil proceeding to put a stop to bootlegging in the National | capital. The injunction restrains Ronald H. Irvine. Raymond F. Gray and Tim sanders from selling intoxicants in apartment 707 of the Pelham Courts or in any other premises in the Dis- trict of Columbia. The injunction is to remain in force until further or- der of the court. The niost drastic step yet taken (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) Brain Tests for Brain tests for all drivers of auto- mobiles and immediate simplification of signs and signals directing trafic is the formula Dr. Raymond Dodge, professor of psychology In Wesleyan University and chairman of the di- viston of psychology of the National Resoarch Council here, would pre- scribe to cure Washington's traffic il ‘Why should the law forbid a moron running the Congressional Limited, which needs no careful gulding and has, an unobstructed right-of-way, and yet grant motor operators’ per- mits to persons below the normal level of adult intelligence? is the logical question Dr.Dodge asks In an effort to drive home the sense of his argument. Somé Quick in Emergency. “All persons are not equally suited to driving an automobile,” Dr. Dodge declared, “One man in an emergency gets and acts on an idea quickly; an- other slowly, Uncertain or wavering actions are undoubtedly the occasion of many accidents. This slowness is due in part to lack of practice and training, and in part due to the nat- ural tendencies of the Individual .Both of .these factors can, be_made 4 | By the Associated Preas i TWO CENTS. ENGLAND GIVES 0. K.~ TO U. S. PROPOSAL IN FUNDING WAR DEBT Cabinet Reaches Quick Decision Fo]lowing Recommendation of | Exchequer Chancellor Baldwin. AMERICAN NEGOTIATORS TO RUSH IRECOMMENDATIONS TO HARDING Hoped to Obtain Change of Law and Final Settlement Before Congress Adjourns March 4. LONDON, January 31.—Great Britain has decided to accept ithe American offer in regard to the funding of the British war i jdebt to the United States. ] { a thereafter No reservation was made Question Confronted. The question which presented itself to the government, according to the view of the majority of the British newspapers, was whether to accept | the proposed basis of settlement, which, according to belief here American Congress will ratify, or to continue on the 5 per cent interest rate under the election of another Congress that might, perhaps, be less mmodating. ral financial | | i i e writers had ad- | vocated a policy of attempting to negotiate a temporary arrangement for a ten-year period, after which a final settiement would be agreed upon. The leading financial writers of the morning newspapers found that opin- jon hardened yesterday in favor of accepting the American funding pro- posal opinion that America. having regard for the uncertainties of the future, should agree to a clause allowing Great Britain the full benefit of any the national credit of both countries during the next ten vears. In some political quarters it is as- serted that Premier Bonar Law's po- sition against acceptance underwent a certain modification vesterday as a result of Chancellor of the Exchequer Baldwin's statement to the cabinet Mr. Baldwin's arguments are also said to have greatly impressed the other ministers. ~ The Times today printed a letter from Sir Roderick Jones, prominent in the newspaper world as chairman of Reuters, Ltd., on the subject of the debt, in which Sir Robert | By the Associated Press. The British decision American debt funding suggeStions was said today by Secretary Mellon to open the way for immediate draft- ing of recommendations to the Presi- to accept the to legalize the terms suggested in the American proposition. no public move would be made by the American commission pending re- | ceipt of official notification of the de. | cision, which must come through the { British embassy, he explained that the | American commission was in a posi- tion to begin at once an outline of de- tails which the President could, in turn, transmit to Congress. Program Disclosed. The nature of the recommendations which the commission may make was not disclosed, but the indications were that a broadening of the commis- sion’s authority would be requested | 5o that it could carry the negotiations to an early conclusion, with a hope of final settlement before Congress ends on March 4. Mr. Mellon, who 1 Auto Drivers s chalrman of the Urged as Cure for Traffic Ills matters of test “Tests for driving ability should be varied according to the sort of tasks which the drivers are called upon to pleasure vehicles might be very dif- ferent from tests for drivers of fast ambulances and fire appliances, and they, in turn, might be quite differ- ent trom tests for drivers of heavy motor trucks. A specific form of test for various types of machines 1s good common sense and good sclence. Scores Confusing Signs. Dr. Dodge believes the human mind {s under a sufficlently severe strain under any conditions of driving with- out being bewlldered by & series of intricate signs and plugs on the streets. Where a signal {s necessary, he sald, it should be placed in the spot from which it can be een most easily from all dircetions. Use of abbreviated words, such lo," are Dboth unnecessary and confusing to many minde Signals used by trafflc policemen should be easily discernible by day or night, the peychologlst suggested. He does not belleve the dark blue uniform of the officers today, without the use of red and green ilghts, is sufMoiently attractive. Unless lighted semaphores are put Into use every- where at night he would suggest policemen directing traffio be equip- ped with white cross belts and white gloves,. which would show more dis- tinctly against the blue, uniforms. perform. Tests for drivers of light! the | i | dent for changes in the funding law | The government’s decision was reached at a cabinet meeting this afternoon. There will be a full attendance ¢ apparently entered the meeting with the decision already formed i to follow the recommendation of the chancellor of the exchequer. s the session lasted only a few minutes. The terms are 3 per cent for ten years. the ministers, wl and 3! per cent regarding Great Britain being allowed to pay the total sum aiter the ten-year period. among the nations. ou honor, our self-respect, our good name-—these require that we pay our debts like men. We are not mend cants or bankrupts. We must not allow any argument, whatever jis material or pretended moral founda tion, to induce us to imitate the whimper of the one or the shifts the other. Our duty is plain—to pa America, to pay promptly and with dignity The contribution of the Express to the discussion today takes the forn of a front page statement. printed ir bold type, that several states of the American Union are still in defau to British investors for sums hor rowed on the British market, “American public opinton,” newspaper says, “Is now very ins ent upon the necessity of homorin: financial pledges. But it may he pointed out that some American stat have to set their own houses in or “Our proce However, there was a widely beld|der” Clalms Civil 'WaF Debts. Then follows the declarations that sums totaling £12,000.000 sterling are changed conditions that may arise In| eq by Arkansas. Florida. Georgia Louisana, Mississippi, North Carolina and South Carolina. while Alabama i= included as a debtor for an unascer tained amount These sums, the paper rowed in varying amounts from for to seventy years ago, represent # total “greater by half than the amunot claimed by the American gov ernment for the arrears and interest on the British loan.” The Express concludes by askin “Ought no this to be taken into account in de termining the total sum Great Brit ain ought to pay?” I bor {Mellon Says British Decision Opens Way to Make Law of Mission’s Program commission, declined to discuss details of the plan further than to say that pro- vision was made n interest rate of 3 per cent for the first ten vears and 3': ver cent up to the final ex- tinguishment of the debt at the end of sixty-two years. The interest rate for the time since the loans were made to the actual beginning of the funding arrangement would be 41, | per cent instead of the 5 per cent ra i [ now in_efrect. While the Secretary explained that | "ORf 't The Secretary explained that he did not feel at liberty to make public all details of the American suggestions e, lacking official advices, it vas not known whether the plan was accepted In its entirety or whether minor changes would be asked by the British government. Many of these changes, it was said, might have a bearing on the more important questions, such he interest rate and methods of payment. It is understood that delegation informed the American commission of its government's de- sire to deposit with the Treasury here internal bonds of the British government which would be retired serlally under the settlement plan The amortization rate of one-half «f 1 per cent, which is in addition to the regular interest rate, will act to Te-g tire a certain percentage of the prin- cipal each year, but the British de- sire, it was understood. to have the privilege of retiring such additional amounts as their financial position permits whenever conditions are fa- vorable. PERU ASKED T0 0. K. POINDEXTER AS ENVOY By the Associated Press Inquiry has been madeby the Amer- can government as to whether ap- pointment of Senator Miles Poindex- ter of Washington as American am- bassador to Peru would be acceptable to the government of that republic. Although no response has been re- ceived, it is the expectation in official circles that the selection will be ap- proved and that Mr. Poindexter, whe retires from the Senate on March 4, will be nominated for the post at Lima within the next few weeks. The place has been vacant for more than a year. Both the White House and the State Department declined today to discuss the actlon taken, but it is known that for some time Senator Poindexter has the British been under consideration for some position within the appointive power of the President. Some of his friends have urged that he be made a federal judge, and it is ®nderstood also that at one time his name was_glven seri- ous’ consideration in connéction with the governor-generalship of the Phil- ippines should Maj. Gen. Wood decide to relinquish that position \