Evening Star Newspaper, June 25, 1931, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bui reau Forecast). Fair tonight and tomorrow; warmer tomorrow. Temperatures—High today; lowest, 60, at 5 a.m. tod Full report on page est, 79, at mnoon ay. 9. Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages13,14 & 15 No. Wa 31,831 post office, Entered as second class matte: shington, D. C. he ¥ WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, JUNE “LIBERTY” FORCED DOWN, GOES ON TO COPENHAGEN; OTHER FLYERS IN MOSCOW Craft of Hillig Crosses Spain and France. RAN OUT OF GAS IN RHINELAND Oklahomans to Con- tinue to Irkutsk on Next Leg of Trip. One pair of American flyers was pushing on around the world to- | day, while another successful At- lantic flight ended in a forced landing of a second pair at Kre- feld, in the German Rhineland. Wiley Post and Harold Gatty reached Moscow from Berlin at 10:30 am. (E. 8. T). Otto Hillig and Holger Hoiriis were forced down at Krefeld, near Dusseldorf, after a 32-hour flight from Harbor Grace. They were unhurt and their plane was un- damaged in the landing. They refueled their plane and hopped off again an hour and 15 minutes later for Copenhngen.} where a huge official reception | was awaiting them. | Hillig and Hoirlis said they lost | their way and flew over Spain and | France before reaching the Rhine. This roundabout flight exhausted their gasoline and their tanks were empty when they came down. Both were obviously very fatigued. While these flights were under way three other pairs of flyers | prepared at New York for ocean | gerating. hand and fix my eyes on the dashboard. Your body slips into a sort of coma, but your mind remains as active as necessary. I had a thermos bottle of tomato juice along, which By Radio to The Star. BERLIN, June 25.—There is one again and that is to fly the Atlantic. we should have to fly it again I would For thiee your luck. didn't have hole in the At first T pretty good ‘We had a WILEY POST. Later, however, we hit rain. you have got to keep high. about much of anything. There are three You don’t get sleepy, for some reason. I am a lot more comfortable in a I didn't get hungry. flights and still another pair was getting ready for a non-stop| flight to Mexico City as a “dress | rehearsal” for crossing the ocean.’ Miss Ruth Nichols, who crashed | at St. John, N. B, on the first leg | of a projected solo flight across | the Atlantic, was still in a hos- | pital there recovering from spinal injuries and planning a second | attempt in September. LAND WITH EMPTY TANKS. | Hillig and Hoirlis Lose Way and Fly | Over France and Spain. | BERLIN, June 25 (A“.—O}to HUHK‘ and Holger Hoirils, transatlantic fiyers, | landed at Krefeld in the Rhineland late | this afternoon after a 32-hour flight | from Newfoundland and restarted for Copenhagen, their goal, an hour and L3 quarter later. | The airmen, several hours overdue on | their transatlantic hop to the Danish | capital, made a forced landing at Kre- | feld with empty fuel tanks at 5:30 p.m. | (11:30 2.m., E. S. T.) and despite their | fatigue took off for Copenhagen at 6:45 (12:45 pm., E. S. T.). The fiyers said they had lost their | way and had flown over Spain and France, thereby exhausting their fuel. Otherwise, they said, they could have | made Copenhagen nicely. Suffer From Fatigue. The flyers were plainly suffering from | the utmost fatigue afier their 32-hour | air wanderings across the Atlantic and | opping off the flyers took on | ed on Page 2, Column 1.) STILL HUNTING CLUES IN FAITHFULL DEATH| District Attorney to Quiz Ship Sur-| geon Regarding Starr's | Letters. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 25.—District At- torney Elvin N. Edwards of Nassau County today was still hunting murder clues in the death of Starr Faithfull. Elbridge W. Steln, handwriting ex- pert, will testify before the grand jury at Mineola tomorrow as to the “au- thenticity cf suicide letters sent by the girl to Dr. G. Jameson Carx, ship sur- geon. The letters have been branded as for- gerias by Stan'ey E. Faithfull, the girl's stepfather. They will be compared to the hendwriting in the diary left by Starr Faithfull. Whon the exemination is completed, Mr. Edwards has said, he will burn the aiary. EVANS SEEKS CUSTODY OF DAUGHTER IN ARABIA Real’ Estate Man Asks Divorced Wife Give Up Child for Education in U. 8. By the Associated Press. Return of his 5-year-old daughter from Aden, Arabia, is sought by George M. Evans, real estate man, in a sult filed in District of Columbia Supreme Court against his former wife, now married to Consul Charlton Hurst at Aden. In his answer to ‘a habeas corpus proceeding in which Mrs. Hurst seeks the custody of a 9-year-old son, now at Evans’ home here, and asks that a divorce be set aside, the petitioner says he wants both of his children educated in this country. Under the divorce, granted last March at Reno, the for- mer wife was granted custody of the children under certain conditions. Mrs, Hurst is the daughter of the for- Gatty and I are agreed on this. there, which delayed us about an hour. ured to get away on the big hop just that much sooner—still, then we might not have found that Post’s Own Story of Hop Weather Caused Only Annoyance on Way Over Atlantic. BY WILEY POST. thing T don’t want to do right away And if sort of prefer better weather. say that I was very disappointed in the conditions 'we struck, but they could have been a whole lot bet- ter, and I don't mean maybe. hours I could not see the engine at all {and I just had to keep my eyes glued on the instru- ments. And it was only by the grace of God that 'we found that hole over Bangor, in Wales, came down and found where we were. You never know Nothing much happened worth ‘writing about until after we left Harbor Grace. ‘They unfortunately very good arrangements for refueling I had fig- clouds over Bangor, 30, perhaps, it was just as well. kept her pretty low. The weather was and we could see what we were doing. fairly good, following wind this time, which helped. As a matter of fact, we made pretty good time to Ireland, all things considered. ‘That meant climbing, for when you can't see Barometers are not accurate within much better than 1,500 feet, you know, so during the night we hung around 11,000 or 12,000. In fact, we held this altitude over the whole second half of the ocean. The sunset was a funny thing. The sun went down just a little west of the north, that is, just a bit behind my left shoulder. all before it popped up 2gain, this time just a trifie ahead of my shoulder. I suppose over Siberia it won't go down at all. A lot of people wonder what a chap thinks about while winging over empty water. I suppose they would be surprised to know that one really does not think It didn’t seem any time at instruments that displace other thoughts. Seat a Regular Rocking Chalr. I had a regular rocking chaif to sit in, at least it is that comfortable. The arms of the pilot's chair are adjustable and the stick can be elongated as desired. plane than out and that is not exag- I let myself slump a little on to one arm, hold the stick with one Reactions are automatic, I guess. (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) NEW YORK WOMAN JUDGE IS REMOVED Appellate Court Ruling Sus- tains Unfitness Charge Against Jean Norris. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 25.—Magistrate Jean Norris, first woman to be appoint- ed to the magistracy in New York, was removed today by the appellate divi- sion of the Supreme Court. The five justices of the appellate di- vision retired to consider the charges of malfeasance at noon today. Within an hour they came back with the de- cision that they had unanimously agreed that four of the five counts of mal- feasance brought by Referee Samuel Seabury, investigator of the lower courts, were sustained, and Mrs. Norris was removed from the bench. Mrs. Norris was charged with being unfit to hold office, her accusers de- claring she had altered court records, permitted her name to be used in a yeast advertisement, been unnecessarily harsh with prisoners in Women's Court | and committed other unfitting acts. She took the stand for four hours in her defense yesterday. While she was under cross-examination Referee Sea- bury charged she had convicted one girl defendant of being a wayward minor although there was “not one scrap” of common law evidence against her. Widely Known Leader. As the first woman magistrate here and as leader in women's activities, Mrs. Norris was internationally known. Early widowed, Jean Hortense Noonan Norris turned to the law as her pro- fession, and after her admission to the bar in 1909 specialized in Federal, State and city tax matters. One of her ac- complishments was the organization of the Delinquent Tax Bureau of the New York State controller’s office. She is a en Lawyers' president of the New York State Feder- ation of Business and Professional ‘Women's Clubs. During the World® War period she was co-leader with George Olvany, later head of Tammany Hall, of the tenth assembly district of the Demo- cratic party organizaticn here. Her appointment to the bench by Mayor Hylan in 1919 created widespread inter- est among professional women. Boston Gives Recognition. In reccgnition of her pcsition -Boston gave her the freedom of the city in 1922, In 1923 she made a tour of Europe, Africa end the Orient and was accorded the honor of sitting on the bench with ths presiding justices in many foreign countries where no woman ever sat before. i JURY DELIBERATES ON SHAPIRO'S FATE Realty Man’s Trial Ends as; Judge Outlines Points in Case. The District Supreme Court jury early this afternoon was delib:rating on a verdict as to whether or not Jacob B. Shapiros meteoric rise and fall in the Washington realty market was not accomplished by a fraudulent mail scheme, The case went to the jury at 10:30 o'clock this morning, after a trial of two_weeks in which the Government produced many witnesses to testify Sha- piro had used the mails to defraud by inducing purchasers of rcal estate to buy property incumbered by an alleged hidden trust. . Fraud Intent Charged. Assistant United States Attorney John W. Fihelly charged in his argu- ment to the jury that fraudulent in- tent had been proven-beyond a rea- sonable doubt because the evidence adduced both from Government wit- nesses and from: the defendant him- self showed that Shapiro had run “fllegally amuck” during his 10 years of operating here; that he had “‘robbed Peter to pay Paul” by borrowing money to purchase{land, obtained loans to pay off his first transaction and then borrowed funds again to build homes which he sold incumbered by a ground trust. The prosecution further contended that Shapiro-in carrying out his scheme not only ‘“defrauded property owners, banks and mortgage houses, but de- frauded every one with whom he came in_contact.” The defense, through its chief coun- sel, Alvin L. Newmyer, requested a ver- dict of acquittal on the ground that the Government had failed to make out a case proving fraudulent intent, that Shapiro did not intentionally shield the ground trusts from the property pur- chasers, because he alone was obligated to pay, and that the defendant was being “made the goat”,as the result of a Senatorial Committee investigation last July into real estate practices here. Stresses Three Points. Justice Jesse C. Adkins, in his 30- minute charge to the jury, explained that there were three elements in the offense charged. The accused, first, he said, must have de' a scheme to defraud; he must have placed or caused to have been placed in some place in the establishmeni of the United States mails a letter for delivery, and he must have done this for the purpose of exe- cuting or attempting to execute the scheme to defraud. “In to violate the statute in- volved kins said, “it is not neces- sary that the alléged fraudulent scheme or artifice met with success or that gain accrued to.the perpetrator. or loss to the purchasers.” POST AND GATTY TRAVEL LIGHT, SPURNING EVEN CHANGE OF SHIRT Two Handkerchiefs, Extra Un.detmu' and Socks Con- stitute Only Baggage on Tour of World. By the Associated Press. OKLAHOMA CITY, June 25.—Wiley Post and Harold Gatty are traveling light. ‘Two handkerchiefs, a change of un- derwear and an extra pair of socks wle.x-l:e tucked away aboard their speed Neither fiyer has & hat and they in- mer Countess Festitics de Tolna, now Baroness Sopron, of Paris, tend to be back in time to change s . The matter of sha be attended heni ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION 0 25, : ";'l",yf.;'i;" < , i:;.':?:;i‘;.','n}u} — R W Y 1931—FIFTY PAGES. The only evening in Washington wi Associated service. * ROADS TELL L.C.C. ALL FREIGHT RATES WOULD BE RAISED Adjustments . to Preserve | Differentials Necessary, Resolution Declares. By the Associated Press. The Nation’s railroads replied to the Interstate Commerce Commission’s re- quest for added Information on the proposed 15 per cent freight rate in- crease today with a resolution ;mmg} that the carriers were prepared to make effective increases on all existing freight | rates. | ‘The commission had asked whelhel'“ the railroads proposed to make specific exceptions to the general rate increase or sought to raise the entire list. The reply to the 1. C. C. query was | adopted at a meeting of rallway ex- ecutives in Chicago yesterday and was filed with the commission today, signed by J. J. Pelley, chairman of the special committee ©f presidents representing the Eastern group; H. A. Scandrett, chairman of the special committee of presidents representing the Western | and Mountain-Pacific groups, and W. R. Cole, chairman of the special com- mittee of presidents representing the Southern group. Prepared for Increases. ‘The resolution informed the commis- sion that “all steam railroads in the United States are prepared, if the au- thority sought in the application is granted, to make effective increases of all existing freight rates and charges * + + with such adjustments in the case of coal, coke and certain other commodities as will preserve existing differentials.” “It is not proposed to make any specific exceptions on any commodi- ties,” read the resolution, “and the car- riers are prepared to make increases of | the measure proposed in all existing | rates on grain and grain products, cotton, other agricultural and horticul- tural products, including live stock, non-ferrous metals, iron and steel prod- ucts, petroleum and its products, lum- ber and automobiles and in all existing class rates.” In reply to specific questions of the commission, the carriers stated that it was proposed to increase by 15 per cent all international rates and charges, and that the application for the in- crease was tendered “with the concur- rence of the water lines participating in rail and water rates.” Readjustments Required. “Experience has shown,” said the resolution, “that where any general change in the entire rate structure of the country is authorized and becomes effective, it has subsequently been found to be necessary to make changes and readjustments, in some instances reductions, to t competition and other situations. “Such changes, where found neces- sary, will be made as promptly as pos- sible after the proj increased rates, if approved by the commission, become effective.” Referring to the original petition ask- ing the rate increase, filed June 17, the carriers saild they were “confronted with an emergency threatening serious impairment of their financial resources and their capacity to assure the public a continuance of efficient and adequate service.” “In emergencies of this character,” said the resolution, “previous experience has shown that there is but one method which has been adopted, or as a prac- tical matter could be adopted, either by the carriers or the commission to af- ford the necessary relief, namely, a per- centage method.” 4 ‘The resolution was an answer to the the 15 days a statement giving added infor- mation on the petition. TRY DREDGE SALVAGE Seven Boats Stand by to Help 1 Craft Aground. FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla, June 25 seven _boal dredge | volume of trading and Palace of Ancients Shows Resemblance To Christian Church By the Associated Presc. CHICAGO, June 25.—Court rooms with choir lofts—resem- bling the naves of Christian churches, but built several thou- sand years before Christ—have been excavated from two Sassa- nian palaces on the site of Kish, ancient Persian capital. Stephen Simms, director of the Field Museum of Natural History, disclosed the discovery in announc- ing a shipment of treasures from the Mesopotamian ruins. “The building suggests the in- fluence of the famous sects of the Manichaens,” Simms said. “So striking s its resemblance to a Christian cathedral that one is Jed to question its description as a palace.” GAS GO. IS NOTIFIED OF CAPTAL PROBE Date to Be Set by Commis- sion in Ten Days—May Start in Fall. The Public Utilities Commissicn to- day served notice on the Washington & Georgetown Gas Light Companies | that a formal public hearing will be ordered on the questions of overcharges made by the two companies, variaticns in allowable pressures in gas mains, what pressure shall be allowed in the future and how charges are affected by pressure. The notice warns the company 10 days from today the commission will proceed to set the date for the hearing, ;mch is .expec!ed to be held in the The notice reads as follows: “Notice is hereby given, in accordance with the law creating the Public Utilities Commission of the District of Columbia, that the commission, as a result of complaints and on its own motion, has investigated gas service in general, including the operations of both the Washington and the George- town Gas Light Companies; the bills rendered under the existing schedule of rates during the last eight months; the pressures existing in transmission and distribution systems during the same period; pressures to be allowed in the future, as well as the variation to be allowed be- tween the daily maximum and minimum pressures; the adequacy of the trans- mission and distribution systems of the companies, both as to existing loads, as well as any anticipated increase thereof, and charges, particularly, in so far as they are affected by pressure. “The commission has bicome satis- fied that sufficient grounds exist to warrant’ a fcrmal public hearing being ordered as to the matters so investi- gated. “Ten days after this notice the com- mission will proceed to set the time and place for the public hearing.” 1t is thought that the hearing will be held in September, before the heating season begins. HZCh I STOCK PRICES REACT AFTER RAPID GAINS Recent Advances Bring Out Heavy Profit Taking—Trading in Large Volume. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 25.—Stocks hustled higher in excited trading during the morning and early afternoon today, but then ran out of breath and reacted. Heavy profit taking, induced by the rapid advance which again centered in the metal issues, chipped away the gains rapidly and sent numerous prominent lIssues moderately under the previous United States Steel common, after rising $2 to $102, more than lost its improvement, and similar uj in several including ipturns 3 New York Cen- tral and Union Pacific, were converted into -net declines. Extreme advances g_'lh”mthemvpendwlmfledu earlier rally saw an enormous the ticker fell seven minutes behind the market in recording the transactions. Some ing_occurred noon, but it was resumed g became virtually as active on the downsideas it had been on the rally. Radio Programs on Page C-4 the minimum and maximum | ge THREE-CENT FARE 10 BE CONTESTED INDISTRICT COURT |Three Tfansit Companies| | Notify Commission, Attack- ing Act of Congress. | Washington street car and bus lines | notified the Public Utilities Commission | today that they would go to the District | Supreme Court to contest the order for | 3-cent fares for school children on the | ground it is unconstitutional. | 'The nctices were filed personally by | 5. Russell Bowen, G. Thomas Dunlap | and George P. Hoover, attorneys for the | Washington Railway & Electric Co., the | | Capital Traction Co., and the Washing- ‘ton Rapid Transit Co., respectively. The notices were couched in formida- ble Yegal language and contained state- ments that the act of Congress passed February 26, 1931, on which the order for the lower fares was based, “is un- constitutional and void” and that even if. not, the order of the commission | was “without warrant of law” and | | without finding of fact sufficient to g | substantiate it. | Continuation of the fare would work “jrreparable injury” and amount to confiscation of the properties of the companies in violation of the fifth amendment of the Constitution pro- hibiting the taking of property without due process of law, the notices as- serted. ‘The order of the commission was issued March 5, 1931. It set the fare for school children at 3 cents, the maximum allowed by the act of Con- gress. The fare is available to all school children under the age of ‘18, who purchase strips of tickets con- taining 10 or 40 tickets. . ‘The time for an appeal from the order oi the commission to the District Su- preme Court under the statute govern- ing such appeals expires next ‘Tuesday sc the companies’ papers must be filed by that day. It is undetstood, how- ever, the papers will be filed tomorrow. The notices filed today did not con- | tain any statement of the losses caused by the operation of the new fare or any other evidence on which the attorneys will rely on their effort to have the order aside. U. S. WOMEN TAKE ENGLISH MATCHES in. L. A. Harper Advances to Third Round—Mrs. Van Ryn in Fourth at Wimbledon. By the Associated Press. WIMBLEDON STADIUM, England, June 25.—Mrs. L. A. Harper of Oak- land, Calif, first ranking player on the United States list of 1930, today advanced to the third round of the ‘Wimbledon tennis champlonships with 8 6—38, :3«“&"}5"@ :vz{ Mrs. Marshall, an unra player. Mrs. John Van Ryn of Philadelphia, who played her second yesterday while Mrs. Harper was idle, advanced to the fourth round by de- feating Miss Trenham of England, 7—5, 6—2. Helen Jacobs of Berkeley, Calif., ad- vanced to the last 16 of the women's singles by defeating Mrs. J. B. Pittman of land, 6—3, 6—4, in a third round L g HOLDS DEBT PUAN match. per the Press news " Yesterday’s Circulation, 112,857 (®) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. MELLON NOW IN PARIS FOR DEBT DISCUSSION; STIMSON TO SAIL SOON Secretary Studies French Reply With Hoover, but Insists on Maintaining Silence. $100,000,000 SHORT-TERM LOAN TO REICHSBANK CONSIDERED Briand Informs German Leaders Confer- ence on Political Situation Will Be Welcomed. By the Associated Press. PARIS, June 25.—Andrew W. Mellon, American Secretary of the Treasury, arrived in Paris this afternoon to begin negotia- tions for the purpose of arriving at a compromise with France about President Hoover’s war debt moratorium proposal. The Secretary of the Treasury went into conference with Ambassador Edge at the United States embassy as soon as he got there from the railroad station, Mr. Mellon declared before the conference that he had re- ceived instructions from Washington “to do what I have done.” Tomorrow the Secretary will meet members of the French cabinet at a luncheon given by Premier Laval. By the Associated Presc. A second cabinet member arranged today to sail for Europe to participate in the final negotiations for a one-year suspension of in- ternational war debts. Secretary Stimson, who recently announced along with Secretary Mellon that he would spend his vacation in Europe this Summer, de- cided to sail Saturday on the Conte Grande for Naples. : Meantime, Secretary Mellon was changing his “vacation” head- quarters from London to Paris and a tight-lipped silence fell upon Washington officialdom regarding the progress on plans for carrying out the moratorium. The reply of France to the President’s proposal was being studied by Mr. Hoover and Secretary Stimson, but the details of the supposed counter-proposal of that country were not disclosed. Consider Reichsbank Loan. Another proposal designed to relieve Germany by the grant of a short-term credit loan of $100,000,000 to the Reichsbank to tide it over to the end of the month was before Federal Reserve and Treas- ury officials. These negotiations included also the Bank of England, the Bank of France and the Bank for International Settlements at Basle. Gov. Eugene Meyer, prior to a meeting of the Federal Reserve Board, declined to comment on reports of the joint credit arrange- ment. ‘The credit movement is supplementary to the Hoover debt plan and was regarded in some official circles as a step not only necessary to promote European economic stability, but also as a further evi- dence of good faith in a sincere effort to remedy the German, credit situation. Paris Officially Denies Resignation Of French Cabinet By the Associated Press. PARIS, June 25.—Official de- nial was made today of rumors circulating in the United States that the French cabinet had re- sl APPROVAL HOPES Stimson Still Thinks French| May Agree With World on Suspension. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. According to well informed ecircles, the Prench reply to President Hoover's suggestion is not wholly satisfactory. It insists on Germany's paying the uncon- ditional slice of the Young plan install- ments. It is explained that Lhe payments on which Prance insists are really nominal since the Prench government is willing that they should be reloaned imme- diately to Germany by the Bank for In- ternational Settlements at Basel. To the man in the street it may appear preposterous that the French govern- ernment should insist on suck an ar- rangement, which might jeopardize the entire Hoover plan, without bringing it any material advan:age. France, it is revealed, was compelled to couch its answer to the American Government in thess terms for the fol- lowing reason: The Young plan has be- come a law in France, It is one of many laws the French Chamber of Dep- uties and the Senate vote every year. The German payments cannot conse- quently be suspended unless the French Parliament amends the law. Therefore the French government is compelled to | (Continued on Page 4, Column 5.) though for Midsummer use. could be removed, he think blue LIGHTWEIGHT KHAKI UNIFORMS .FOR POLICE URGED BY BINGHAM Senator Proposes Furnishing Washington Force With Comfortable Clothes for Summer Months. tion | the other The announcement of Secretary ' Stimson that he would go ahead at this time with his plans for a trip to Europe was taken by some State De- partment officials as an indication that :!ll’?ynmum ‘were proceeding favor- ‘The Secretary sald the announcement “merely indicates that I am carrying out my original plan and that nothing {::‘ occurred of & nature to prevent Italy’s Acceptance Complete. Ambassador de Martino of Italy, act- ing on instructions of Foreign Minister Grandi, assured Secretary Stimson to- day that no npolitical considerations were contemplated in Italy's accept- ance of the Hoover plan. “Italy's position of cordial accept- ance has been laid before the American Government and that cordial accept- ance is complete to the last comma,” the Ambassador said after his talk with the Secretary. Senator Harrison of Mississippi called on the President to discuss the war debt reparations situation, but after his conference declined to comment, saying his call had been entirely to “keep myself informed.” He added the prospects for the Hoo- ver plan were “still bright.” ‘The French Ambassador similarly was silent after his visit with Secretary Stimson. Asked if he was optimistic, the Am- bassador replied, “You will have to ask Mr. Stimson.” State Department officials would say nothing officially on the Ambassador's visit, but hinted an effort was being made to reconcile the divergencies be- tween the American proposal and the French counter plan. In addition to Senator Harrison the President also conferred with Repre- sentatives Andreson of Minnesota and Johnson of Washington. Andresen said he hoped the Presi- dent’s plan would work out. Johnson tilld he had approved it with reserva- ions. Officials Look te Mellon. Officials here look to Secretary Mel- lon for a contribution toward solution of the delicate situation that has arisen over the moratorium proposal. Official acceptances of the principle had been received from all the larger powers involved, with the biggest rough spot the immediate road being France's counter proposition. Secretary Mellon has been “vacation- ing” in England. Facts and figures he obtained in a series of conferences wita officials there played a considerable part in President Hoover's decision to offer to suspend war debt and repara- tions payments for a year. And now Mr. Mellon is extending his “holiday” to France. Diplomatic circles here f=ii »osiave that the Secretary of the U-ated States Treasury would discuss the Prench atti- tude with the proper officials. There were expressions of hope that possible objections could be met without involv- i'n‘:l' the United States in Seek War Damage Payments. The immediate difficulty, more than to be the point, ' however, Hoover said in announcing his plan the United States would suspend col- lections on war debts due it provided interested powers agreed to & holiday from “all” intergovernmental payments. So far the situation is Germi accepted “(Continued on Page 4, Onh? 1. as follows: the proj