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“From Press to Home R Within the H t our” Local thundershowers and not quite so ‘warm wdr; tomorrow, nxurnfly fair and cooler, WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION ¢ Swulhwy Star, FIVE CENTS IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS OOVER OFFERS TO SKIP DEBT PAYMENTS | ] IRHEEN CASE MAY 'Ll BF DISPOSED OF WITHOUT TRIAL |Two Alternatives Open— Nolle Prossing by Govern- ment or Guilty Plea. WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 21, 1931—-106 PAGES. =* Entered as second class matter .post office, Washington, D. C. No. | TEN CENTS ELSEWHERE 1,370—No. 31,827. PROPOSES YEAR'S MORATORIUM ON NATIONAL WAR OBLIGATIONS AS AID TO WORLD ECONOMICS Hoover’s Debt Proposal L Hope of Europe 1Is Revived by Statement. |AMERICAN STAND| LIKENED TO WAR Mellon—\a} Seen German Status Seen as Cause for Action PARTY LEADERS BACK PRESIDENT President, Supported by Leaders of Both Parties, Would Postpone Governmental Obligations for One Year. Vv EARLY DISPOSAL SEEN OF BREWER INDICTMENT President Hoover's statement last night. announcing the proposal of the United States Government to forego payments on inftrgovernmental debs for one year, follows: ‘The American Government proposes the postponement during one year \M k:“t ;:laymednt‘.s ':n l:xm;govemmenul de]b'as.lnre;:’r]:uta\s u\t} relief dehufi :ot]g g 3 . rincipal and interest, of course, not including igations of governmen! el Cancellation is Nob B i Bubject to confumation by Congress, the American Govern- Witnesses Subpoenaed to Appear June 29 but They May Not Be Called. Considered Part | Do Gt mmea sl i o of o i, 1F of Suggestion. BY G. GOULD nINCOLN. Postponement for one year of » all payments on intergovern- | mental debts, reparations and re- ¢, Mef debts, both principal and in- terest, was proposed by President‘ Hoover last night. “The purpose of this action,” said the President, “is to give thé forthcoming year to the economic recovery of the world and to help free the recuperative forces al- ready in motion in the United States from retarding influences | abroad.” The American Government, under the President’s plan, will postpone all payments upon the debts of foreign governments to the United States pay- able during the fiscal year beginning July 1 next, conditional on a like post- ponement for one year of all payments on international debts owing the im- portant creditor powers. Other Countries Involved. There will bs no postponement of payments to the American Govern- ment, however, unless the foreign powers involved agree to the plan now advanced in full. This the President made extremaly clear. » In announcing his plan for relief of th: world economic ation President Hoover sald that he had aiready ob- conditional on a like postponement for one year of all payments on intergovern- | a roeov-?y‘e oP “This course per, Simeon D. Harrison, tives and Will R. Wood. by Mr. Owen D. Young. Debts Weig! the world and to hel in the United States from rem«fmg Infl severely than our own. Some of these depression. F. Ashurst, Hiram Bingham, William E. Borah, James F. B n D. Duncen U. Fletcher, Carter Glass, Willlam J. Harris, Pat Cordell Hull, Willlam H. King, Dwight W. Morrow, George H. Moses. David A. Reed, Claude A. Swanson, Arthur Vandenberg, Robert F. Wagner, David I ‘Thomas J. Walsh, James E. Watson, and by the following : Isaac Bacharach, Joseph W. Byrns, Carl R. Chindbloom, Frank Crowther, James W. Collier, Charles R. Crisp, Thomas H. Cullen, George P. Darrow, Harry A. Estep, Willis C. Hawley, Carl E. Mapes, J. William Ramseyer, Bertrand H. Snell, John Q. Tilson, Allen T. Treadway It has been approved by Ambassador Charles G. Dawes and mental debts owing the important creditor powers, % of action has been approved by the following Senators: Henry es, Arthur Cap- presenta- C. McLaughlin, Earl C. Michener, h Heavily. urpose of this action is to give the forthcoming year to the economic free the recuperative forces already in motion uences from abroad. “The world-wide depression has affected the countries of Europe more countries are f-eling to a serious extent the drain of this depression on national economy. The fabric of intergovern- mental debts, supportable in normal times, weighs heavily in the midst of this (Continued on Page 3, Column 2. HOOVER DEBT PLAN LAUDEDBY GERMAN Will _Revive Hope of Reich’s People. fained the approval of the leading Democratic and Republican members of | th~ Senate and the House. Confident of the prompt approval of | the Congress when it meets in Decem- | ber, the President is prepared to go| forward with the plan and with the/| postponement of payments on the for- eign debts owed this Government. Con- gressional action is required for the postponement of the psyment of inter- est on these debts, and the interest payments at present are the larger amount, with the principal payments considerably less. In round numbers, the plan of the President looks to a postponement of payments by foreign nations to the United States during the next year of about $245,000,000 and a postponement of the payment of German reparations to the allied nations of approximately $425,000,0000, although this latter fig- ure has been estimated as high as $500,000,000, or 20,000,000,000 German marks. The plan contemplates also the post- ponement of payment on inter-allied debts, for example, the debts owed Great Britain. The forelgn governments involved have already been informed of the pro- posed plan, it was said. Strictly European Problem. Despite the fact that the President's plan for economic relief of the nations Iooks to postponement of the payment of German reparations as well as to the postponement of the payment of the sums due the United States by foreign debtor nations during the coming year, President Hoover insisted in his state- ment last night that German repara- tions are wholly a European problem “with which we have no relations.” He pointed out that the American Government has not bzen a party to or exerted any voice in the determina- tion of reparation obligations, and that it did not participate in any repara- fl&ns or the division of colonies or prop- erty. “The repayment of debts due to us from the allies for ths advance for war and reconstruction was settled upon & basis not contingent upon German rep- arations or related thereto,” he con- tinued. “I do mot approve,” said the Presi- | dent, “in any remote sense of the can- cellation of the debts to us.” He said, however, that as the basis of | the debt settlements made with the | debtor nations had been the capacity | Now New York Correspondent of t| am M | Bruening cabinet, at one time, could last BY DR. ERNST WALLENBERG, Editor-in-Chief, Ullstein Newspapers. Berlin, he Vos- B. Z. ittag. sische Zeituns and (Dr. Wallenberg. one of Germany's most distinguished journalists, came to Waashington vesterday in commection with the United = States Governments an- nouncement of its mew policy with re- spect to international debls). 1t is difficult for a non-German to comprehend what political strain and public anxiety have prevailed in Ger- many during the past two years on ac- count of the terrific burdens which rest upon the shoulders of every human being in the Reich. These burdens reached the point where they could no longer be borne, when it became ap- parent that men and women willing to | work could find no work and in conse- quence had to resign themselves to a future of hopelessness. Conditions which followed the war, with their vio- lent overturn of all normal conditions, confronted successive German govern- ments with difficulties, serious in them- selves, but all the more grave because these governments were utterly in- capable of fulfilling the peoples’ de- mands for relief. Every government sat on top of a powder barrel. But the powder assumed its most explosive form under the present government of Chan- cellor Bruening. | Only coming generations will be able to reelize what Bruening has accom- plished for Germany, with what immeas- urable courage he dared to make him- self unpopular. He did not shrink from imposing upon the country constantly increasing tax burdens. He preferred the inevitable unpopularity of such a policy to the deceptive role of the poli- ticlan who would sustain himself in of- fice with promises he well know could never be carried out. The inevitable result of the Bruening policy was the creation of the Communists and the Hitlerites, because it was easy for dema- goguery to flourish amid the iron con- ditions the chancellor insisted upon. It was only by drawing upon every re- source available to high statesmanship that Bruening survived the gathering storms of German domestic politics. Nobody would have believed that the more than & month. ‘Will Raise Confidence. Into the midst of Germany's all-op- pressing crisis now comes the first for- to pay under normal conditions, “we should b consistent with our own pol- icies and principles if we take into ac- | count the abnormal situation now ex- | isting in the world. I am sure the! American people have no desire to at- " (Continued on P: mn 1) | BURESH FORMS NEW | AUSTRIAN CABINET | be able to grasp that our plight is un- eign action from which my country will Editor Deblares Year’s Delay ! Data on Debts FIVE NATIONS CHIEFLY AFFECTED. By the Associated Press. These are some facts and figures about war debts which would be af- fected by President Hoover's proposed one-year moratorium: Great Britain pays the United States approximately $165,000,000 a year in principle and interest. Allied war debt payments to Great Britain total $88,750,000 in 1931 and 2'3:" and $91,250,000 a year there- Germany pays Great Britain $80.- 000,000 a year in reparations annui- ties, and thus Great Britain collects from her creditors enough to cover her annual debt payment to the United States. France pays the United States in- creasing amounts each year, install- ments of principle rising from about :g;;,ooo.ooo in 1926 to $115,000,000 in Interest did not begin until last year, and until 1940 will at the rate of only 1 per cent. Italy pays the United States about $15,000,000 a year, increasing to about $8,000,000 in 1987. ny this year owes 425,000,000 in reparations. MOVE TOWARD CHACO ment Sent Week Ago from La Paz Garrison. By the Associated Press. ARICA. Chile, June 20.—It was learned today that the movement of Bolivian troops toward Chaco was con- tinuing. ~Besides the ‘‘Aromo” regi- ment, belonging to the La Paz Gar- ago, the cavalry regiment “Ingavi” quartered at Cochabamba, also h: left for the same destination. Manuel Bianchi, Chilean Minister to Bolivia, yesterday said that Bolivia's border movement in ng way signified a bellicose attitude, d he did not believe there would be any ‘“regrettable international clashes.” e 3,000 PIGEONS RACE Annual Association Race Starts From Chattanooga. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., ()—Three thousand pigeons were lib- erated at 4:25 o'clock this moming here to race to their home lofts, located in many sections of the United Stgtes. derstood. Until this moment most of | the world has imagined that Germany | Was making “a_poor mouth” without | (Continued .on Page 3, Column 3.) At 7 o'clock & second group of birds was released. The racing event is held from Chat- tanooga each year unger auspices of th American Racing Pigfon Association. \WOMEN ORGANIZE TO BACK | HOOVER AND CONSTITUTION| “D. A. C.” Plans Presented at White House With Sup- Ender Government Through Disagreement Over Bank Support. Succeeded | | By the Associated Pre: VIENNA, June 20.—Dr. Karl Buresch, who has served as governor of Lower Austria, today succeeded in forming a new cabinet to replace that of Chan- cellor Otto Ender. Ender’s cabinet re- signed as a result of disagreement with the Parliament over measures for sup- of the Creditanstalt, Austria’ t bank, which is in financial diffi culties. Prof. Josef Redlich, who at one time was a lecturer at Harvard University, is minister of finance in the new cab- inet, whose other members are Johann Schober, foreign affairs; Franz Winkler, agrarian interior and vice chancellor: Dr. Joseph Resch, social welfare; Hans Schuerf, justice; Karl Vaugoin, army; Herr Heindl, trade; Engelberg Dolphus, ‘lc!mltun, and Emerich Czermak, edu- -y cation. > BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. President Hoover and Repubiicdn Naticnal Committee officials have just | been informed of the organization of | !a new G. O. P. women’s party entitled “Daughters of: tie American oommu-‘l tion.” It was incorporated during last! !week end and its president, Mrs. Lon Missourl clubwoman and _politician, had an audience at the White House {for the purpose of laying the scheme befors Mr. Hoover. The organization's purp:se is pleinly avowed—"to 'support: the President” and promote his cam= paign for re-eleftion in 1932. Before the Daughters of the American Con- political secretary. | ~. The. primary. O. Hocker, of St. Louls, preminenty Pon port of National Committee and Many Notables. tee leaders was sought to Mrs. Hocker, named as sanctioning Chairman Fzss, Executive “Bob” Lucas, Mrs. Yost, vice chairman of women's activities, and ewten, the and, according ined. ‘Th President’s . . of the “D. A. C.” movement is its prohibitionr and m { enforcement character. Its “aims are epitomized in seven | Th ks, 8s follows: 3‘1:” Constitution. 4. Prank purposes, | henefits and progress of prohibition. 5. Wider participation of all wcmen Government. fleni-n An aroused public opinion against crime. stitution procecded toward - formal launching of their en! e, the ap- i proval of Republican Na Commit- 7. An aroused consclousness among women to help stabilizse and preserve (Conlinued o8 Page 2, Column 5.) Cavalry Follows “Aromo” Regi-| rison, which was sent to Chaco a week | Ge, June 20| 5 08¢ the plan include | Director | as Significant in View of Events. (Copyright, 1931, the Associated Press.) A surge of hope, rarely equaled in its mass effect, has been shot into European economic and pol- itics by the few simple words is- sued by President Hoover at Wash- ington revealing his initiative to assist in economic recovery both in .the United States and abroad. With a_world anxiously watch- ing developments in Germany, where economic and financial de- ression hold the key to its po- itical fate, the President’s an- nouncement has come as a Ppos: sible starting point for a pathway from the present economic morass. ‘What direction that path will take is being eagerly awaited in Germany, where the government for the past few months has been fighting desper- ately against ultra-Radical and ultra- Nationalist' elements, each struggling to defeat the present government of the republic. Was Warning to World. ‘That fight of the Bruening ministry reached its high-water mark on June 6, when the cabinet issued a manifesto, ostensibly to the Gerinan people, but at the same time carrying a warning to the world that Germany had reached the limit of its resources and that lib- eration “from the unbearable repara- tlons burdens is imperative.” The manifesto called upon the Ger- man people for new sacrifices and was issued simultaneously with a series of decrees placing new taxes totaling ap- proximately $400,000,000 upon the pop- ulation. These decrees were described as “one last effort” beyond which the German government could not ask its citizens to go. One paragraph in the cabinet’s mani- festo stood out particularly, reading as | follows: “The putting forth of the last power and reserves of the nation entitles the German government and makes it its duty toward the German people to tell the world the limits of the privations we have imposed on our people have been reached.” Chancellor at Chequers. While this manifesto was being issued in Germany, Chancellor Bruening and Foreign .Minister Curtius were at Chequers, England, presenting the Ger- man case to Prime Minister MacDon- ald. Little of what took place at the meeting has been revealed to the world, but one of the men who undoubtedly heard a full report on it is Andrew W. Mellon, American Secretary of the ‘Treasury, who spent much time with Mr. MacDonald this week. Mr. Mellon has stated his visit was; purely private, but the striking coin- cidence and the announcement from Washington have been stressed heavily in the European press. Aside from the purely economic aspect of the German government’s plight has been its fight for life against the drive of the Hitlerites and Com- | munists in Germany, each denouncing | the reparations and calling upon the rman people to refuse further pay- ment. Against this campaign, Chancellor Bruening, with the steady help of Ger- (Continued ¢n Page 3, Column 4.) TODAY’S STAR | PART ONE—24 PAGES. General News—Local, National and Foreign. Parent-Teacher Activities—Page B-6. | Spanish War Veterans—Page B-6. PART TWO—10 PAGES. Editorials and Editorial Features. Veterans of Foreign Wars—Page 4. Public Library—Page 4. News of the Clubs—Page 5. Organized Reserves—Page 5. District National Guard—Page 5. D.-A. R. Activties—Page 5. Y. W. C. A. News—Page 5. i Fraternities—Page 8. Marine Corps Reserves—Page 8. Marine Corps News—Page PART THREE—12 PAGES. Soclety Section. The Home Gardener—Page 10. PART FOUR—8 PAGES. Amusement Section—Theater, and Radio. w;l‘ld—?ll! 4. e 5. Screen | In the Motor Aviation—Page Army and Navy News—Page 6. District of Columbia Naval Reserve— Page 6. Radio—Page 7. Serial Story, “The Lucky Lawrences’— Page 8. PART FIVE—4 PAGES. PART SIX—12 PAGES. News and Classified Ads tising. American Legion—Page 12. PART SEVEN—20 PAGES. e Section. The Boys' and Girls® Those Were the GRAPHIC SE N—8 PAGES. World Events in Pictures. COLORED SECTION—8 PAGES. Tarzan; Moon Mullins; Mr. and Mrs.; the Soul; Reg’lar Fellers; Lit- ighlights of * tle Orphan Annie; . Hi mmuuueuu. m-flwrheflippedmm 7 W' and_Ji Days—] 20, Only a Jail‘WOuld Hold Him THAT WAS WHY HIS MOTHER PUT HIM THERE. In view of the wide discussion over the action of the mother who had her 4-year-old son placed in a police cell overnight, the following account, by the mother herself, will be of great interest. It gives for the first time the other side of the case. Mrs. Perry is the wife of Lieut. Roger Perry, U. S. N, now aboard the Langley. BY DOROTHY TARDY PERRY. NNAPOLIS, Md., June 20.—To be inveighed against by the police commissioner, placarded on the front page of half a dozen newspapers and investi- gated by the mayor was the surpris- ing result of an effort to educate my 4-year-old son in the pitfalls that sur- ! round small boys when they leave home, adventure bound. Roger Perry, jr., 4 years and 5 months old, made his first foray into the unknown in August, 1930, when he got out of bed at 4 am, left the house silently and set out to find ad- venture, garbed in his pajamas and carrying a box of animal crackers as a thoughtful provision against con- tingencies of hunger. We were in Long Beach, Calif, at that time, and he was_recovered from the police station at 7 am. After that I provided a| serles of straps and padlocks to keep him within bounds, but he eluded con- straint on numerous occasions and was i “the “habit of causing considerable | trouble in the boulevard traffic, which he threaded precariously. He had a back yard to play in, toys of various sorts and he attended an excellent nursery school, where he was a model pupil. His excursions were never connected with fleeing from punishment or to escape home condi- but were, pure and simple, He had crossed the conti- ed on Page 2, Column 2.) 3 | i | ROGEE PERRY, JR. TWO DROWN, HEAT PROSTRATES EIGHT 99 Record Temperature for, Year in Capital—Showers Forecast. Two persons were drowned yesterday and eight prostrated by the heat as the mercury soared to the 99-degree mark, the highest attained thus far this year. Thousands of residents sought somfort at nearby Summer resorts. . The 99-degree temperature was re- corded at 3 pm., and officials of the Weather Bureau declared the mercury was likely to rise even higher: However, the timely arrival of am al- most imperceptible breeze . prevented the thermometer from mounting any nearer the centry mark. Yesterday's high temperature is not likely to be duplicated today, officials of the Weather Bureau said, predicting thundershowers, followed by “not quite so warm” weather. Tomorrow, they added, will be Distance Swimmer Victim. Those drowned were Leland Chandler, 24, of Clarendon, Va., known as one of the strongest distance swimmers in this part of the country, and Willlam Gil- lum, 10, of Alexandria, 10st his life after the cance in which he and a friend were paddling capsized in the rapids of the Potomac River, just above -, Chain Gillum dtowns Bridge. was ed into Greater Hunting Creek, near the new Mount Vernon Memorial -Highway those overcome the heal 3 of Seventh and E streets. ceived treatment at Casualty, as did collapsed in a la in Simms, who undry (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) “generally falr and| HYDE HITS FOES OF FARM BOARD Denies ‘Board Is in Business’ and Discounts Criticism of $500,000,000 Loss. | | Secretary of Agriculture Hyde struck back last night at critics of the Fed- eral Farm Board. Speaking through Station WMAL in the National Radio Forum arranged by The Star and broadcast over the coast- -to-coast - network of the Columbla Broadcasting System, the Secretary declared the board “is not in business and s not going in business,” dis- counted the “stereotyped criticism |that the board had lost $500,000,000,” and praised it as an agency by which | the farmers have been enabled to or- | ganize just as have business, finance and labor. Linked with this defense of Farm Board was the assertion that President Hoover's efforts in behalf of drought Telief and unemployment constituted FLOWERS CONCEA DEATH ON BORDE France Building Huge Hive of Hidden Forts Along East- ern Boundary. BY PIERRE VAN PAASSEN. PARIS, June 20 (NANA)-If France should ever again be attacked from the east. hostile armies would not by massive citidels with towering battlements, but by a long stretch_of innocent looking lawns and lovely flower gardens. Such gemm and are now being laid out alcng the whole eastern frontier- from the Swiss er to the Rhine. a distance of approxi- mately 250 miles. - The moment an eventual hostile force would venture within sight of denly change their rustic, tranquil aspect to' unfcld themselyes into sin- and destruction. Turrets Beneath Gardens. Armor-plated turrets like those on the foredeck of a modern dreadnaught would spiral upward from the midst of nis. beds’ to send. withering | salvos of fire into advancing -columns ‘D( infantry. Machine guns would bob { from the ground in the most unex- | pected places, here from & clump of | shrubbery or from the center of a ipond. There from behind a cozy ornamental bench. Everywhere the earth would open to release torrents of steel and fire. Hundreds of the new invisible forts along the eastern frontier are nearing completion. Before another two years are up a solid chain of concrete and metal, 200-odd miles long, masked from the untrained eye by elaborate land- ac;re gardening, will encircle France. | Only when that girdle of life and | death is firmly established and ready | to_function will France feel herself sufficiently secure to consider in ear- nest various Jand disarmament proposals, and not a day earlier. Military chiefs agree that the new defense system can | be held with fewer than 10 divisions, | or 200,000 men, but every one cf these a trained mechanical expert. ‘The new defense line, now reaching the last stage of construction, practi- cally follows the frontier. The distance between the outer girdle of invisible forts and the border nowhere exceeds 10 miles. This would seem to indicate that battle is to be given immediately an aggressive force crosses the line, and that, unlike 1914, when the French armies fell back upon Belfort, Metz and Verdun, not an inch of ter- ritory is to be sacrificed without a terrible struggle. Line of “Pill Boxes.” In this way it is hoped to prevent the experience of the great war, when a third of France, containing districts vital to thé armament industry, was overrun by the enemy before Joffre could make his historic stand on the the frontier these gardens would sud- | ister crouching monsters, blazing deatq | Criminal charges pending against Edmund D. Rheem, executive head of the bankrupt Swartzell, Rheem & Hensey Co., will be disposed of during the next eight days by trial or other- wise, it was learned yesterday. There are two alternatives to a trial —nolle prossing of the charges by the Government or a plea of guilty from m;zem. was also learned that final disposi- tion will be made on or before mxlt l‘f;n'd:y of chdnr:e‘s against J. Newton T, second vice president of the mortgage banking house. Both men were indicted last month on charges of embezzlement and re- moval and concealment of writinge. Subpoenas have gone out directing the Government's witnesses to appear in Dmmg Supreme Court on June 29 for mumnln;:l, b::,mmeu were indica- tions ese - . lesses may never be Rumors of No Trial Persist. Despite the vigorous efforts of the Oow!rymmnb Dll'o’:ecuw:in—o:umt At~ torney General Nugen ids and N Burkinshaw, special it—to dl pare their case, there were presistent rumors that the trial will not be held. Althcugh it was insisted that the charges against Rheem will be pressed, there was reason to believe more con- sideration will be shown Brewer. At a recent creditors’ examination of officials of the bankrupt firm, Rhee: assumed full responsibility for all trans- nd beauty spots| indictment was charges 3 prossed and that he would a Goverhment witness in event should be placed on trial. e Rheem in Doubt. Rheem, who, is represented in crim- inal matters. by Attorney Willlam E. Leahy, said last night he ™ 't know whether he was prepared to stahd' with the assistance of Brewer, $162,000 of mortgage notes left in vaults of his firm for safekeeping the purchasers and placed them with the Washington Loan & Trust Co. substitutes for released not in father’s estate. It was charged the bank, upon ing that the trusts securing the notes in the elder Rheem's estate had been released, insisted they be paid in cash or replaced with properly secured notes. Rheem, it was sald, directed Brewer to bring him the notes from the vaults and that he then turned them over to the bank. Has Never Made Denial. Rheem has never denied the notes were taken from the vaults and used in this manner. He even signed s re- lease authorizing the bank to make the allegedly embezzled notes available as assets of the bankrupt firm so that the ultimate loss to the creditors might be | reduced in that amount. |1t was the discovery that the trusts | securing ths notes in the bank had been released which precipitated the ‘crash of Swartzell, Rheem & Hensey Co., Te- sulting in a loss to-the investing public expected to approximate $2,000,000. It has been brought out at creditors” meetings that numerous trusts were released under an unusual clause in the trust agreements which gave the trustees, usually Rhcem and Luther , authority to declare the trusts released after they had been paid in full at the office of the company. In some cases the holders of notes sold under the trusts were paid cash. In many other , however, they were given substitute notes or merely a & credit for the face value of their notes upon the'company’s books. It is this latter class that is facing & loss. Many of them have decided to take their chances as creditors of the bank- rupt, and they are expected to.recover about 60 per cent of the face value of Marne, virtually under the walls of Paris. The outer defense line as it appeard today consists of a mass of concrete pill ‘boxes about a mile or, in some places, two miles apart. They are bur- jed deep in the ground. On the sur- face n« is visible but a small tur- ret, not unlike the conning tower of submarine. There is room for only four, or, at_the most, half a dozen men in (Continued on Page 5, Column 3.) ° (Continued on Page 5, Column 1.) BLOOM TO BEARD Growth of Old BY BEX COLLIER. bristling controversy which has devel- ommmmunzmum D | Navy Jahncke and Representative Sol Bloom of New York over the proposal that the frigate Constitution be manned by & crew in olden garb. JAHNCKE IN DEN ON 1812 WHISKERS CONTROVERSY | Navy Official and Bicentennial Director at Odds on Facial Ironside’s Crew. now if they to present an ancient cruise of the venerable ship. Jt doesn’t know any -&hnmht W”M not about ob- Iam any mhwmmm ’lp!?l “What have whiskers to do with it, w? Who said that the crew had to have whiskers? As a matter of fact, I don’t believe the sailors who m: the during g:z wore whiskers at all. I thisk their holdings. PLANE CRASH IN FOG KILLS 2 OF AIR CORPS Lieut. Horner of Oregon and Com- panion Flying Low in Cali- fornia Accident. By the Associated Press. CHIANG TO TAKE FIELD, Leaves for Nanchang to Head Forces Against Rede.