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WEATHER. (U, 8. Weather Bureau Iorecast). Fair tonight and tomorrow; tomorrow. ‘Temperatures—Highest, 87, lowast, rt on page 16. p.m, yesterday; day. Full re Closing N.Y. Markets, warmer at 4:15 6 a.m. to- l\ Pages13,14&15 No. 31,833. post office, Wa Entered as second class matter shinzton, D. POST AND GATTY ON' HOMESTRETCH 28 HOURS AHEAD OF TRIP SCHEDULE Reach Blagoveschensk, in Si- teria, After Flight From Irkutsh—Non-Stop Hop to Nome Tomorrow. MOTOR RUNé PERFECTLY MORE THAN 8,800 MILES Pair Will Halt at Khabarovsk to Pick Up Weather Reports—Are Spending Night of Rest Before Long Flight to Alaska—Feel Fine, They Say. By the Associated Press. SHANGHAL June 27.—Wiley Post and Harold Gatty, American around- the-world fiyers, arrived at Blago- veshchensk, Siberia, at 8 p.m. to- night (6 a. m. Eastern standard time). ‘The fiyers landed in a mudhole, but were not harmed. They had come from Irkutsk, 850 miles away. ‘They plan to leave for Khabarovsk, eastern Siberia, at 3 a.m. tomorrow (1 p.m. Eastern standard time Satur- day). IRKUTSK, Siberia, June 27 (#).—Re- suming their dash around the world, Wiley Post and Harold Gatty hopped off here ‘at 1:10 p.m. Irkutsk time (2:10 a.m Eastern Standard time) for Blagov schensk, Siberia, They were 28 hours ahead of schedule on leaving here. They hoped to reach Blagoveschensk at 8 o'clock tonight and rest there un- til dawn tomorrow. Then they planned to speed to Khabarovsk to pick up me- teorological _information from Japan. Conditions permitting, they planned to hop tomorrow morning from Khaba- Tovsk for a non-stop fiight to Nome, Alaska. They were far ahead of their pell- mell schedule and well past the half-| way point in their 15,000-mile dash around the world. 1,050-Mile Hop. ‘They landsd here at 11:55 am. to- day (11:55 p.m. Friday, Eastern stand- ard time) from Novo Sibirsk, complet- ing the 1,050 miles in 6 hours and 10 | minutes. Originally they had planned to go on to Khabarovsk, 1,100 miles east of here, without a stop, but decided to make th: shorter flight i~ order to pick up weather reports. They expected to reach Blagoveschensk at 8 o'clock to- night and rest there until dawn tomor- row, then proceeding to Khabarovsk. Their flight from Khabarovsk will take them across the remaining stretch of Siberia, the Gulf of Tartary, the Sea of Okhotsk, the Kamchatka Peninsula and the Bering Sea to Nome, a distance of 1,200 miles. The Winnle Mae roared into Irkutsk with her motor working perfectly and landed alongside the Transsiberian Rail- way tracks after circling the city. Despite the terrific physical strain, the flyers jumped out briskly and as- serted they were in perfect condition. ‘They received a hearty welcome from Russian officials and a handful of for- eigners. Had Eight Hours' Sleep. Post and Gatty said they had had but eight hours' sleep since starting their world flight in New York. They insisted they were feeling fine, however. Some of the wildest country in the world lay beneain the racing plane. They crossed Lake Baikal, immediately east of here, and planned to follow the Transsiberian Railway through the transbaikal country and the Yablonoi hMoun'.llns to Chita, 400 miles east of ere. At Chita they had to part with their last manmade guide, the railway, which runs southeastward from Chrita, where- as thelr course was straight into the east. Between Chita and Khabarovsk the desolate peaks of a half dozen smaller mountain ranges pointed up at them. ‘This course took them across the ! frontier of Manchuria and through the | forbidding northern section of _that (Conti on Page 3, Column U. S. RYDER CUP TEAM FAVORED IN FINALS Even Break on Eight Singles Matches Would Give Americans Win. By the Associated Press. SCIOTO COUNTRY CLUB, COLUM- ‘BUS, Ohio, June 27.—Leading 3 to 1, the American professional golf team entered the final day's competition a strong favorite to take the Ryder Cup from the British. Eight singles matches were on today's program, featured by the battle of cap- tains between Walter Hagen and Charles Whitcombe. An even break would assure an American victory. The heat wave rolled back on the job, after being temporarily checked by yesterday's storm, but there a brisk enough breeze to make the weath- er more comfortable for players and spectators. Billle Burke and Archie Compston, the big Briton with a partiality for blue shirts, led the parade off the first tee at 10 a.m. (Eastern Standard time). JAPANESE STOCKS RISE $100,000,000 ON DEBTS Vice Minister Reports Soaring of Bhare Prices on News in “Hoover Boom.” By the Associated Press. 4 OSAKA, Japan, June 27.—The Ver- nacular press today quoted Katsutaro Tajima, vice minister of commerce and ustry,-as calculating from assembled reports that President Hoover’s debt suspension ,proposal had caused the price of securities in Japan to rise for ;a, ) te of 200,000,000 yen ($100,~ ‘The spinning shares have risen ex- traordinarily. The press referred to the development as a “Hoover Boom.” 850 miles eastward. | { _The followinz exclusive marrative of | hes a ed in- i t that it is the first | story written from notes made entirely { durine a fiight over the Atlantic by the | Dpassenzer. Otta Hillls. ! "’While the Liberty airplane was en | route to Copenhasen Hillix jotted down { ihe events of the moment as ihey oc- | curred. "By Radio to The Star and North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc. COPENHAGEN, June 27 (N.ANA). —I met Otto Hiilig for the first time in September, 1930, at Liberty, Sulli-| van County, 100 miles from New York. Besides being a very fashionable pho- | tographer, Hillig is a deputy sheriff. | At that time I was engaged as a pilot | for passenger fights from an ordinary | field. Of course, the town was too small to have, its own airfield, and my crier, who also sold tickets, came and told | | me that Hilliz desired to make my a quaintance. H: wanted me to take him {for an hour in the air so he might take a number of photographs for his | business. A short time afterward I asked Hillig to grant me an interview, and he in- vited me to his home. I had hardly en- tered his house when I asked him [} e FEoen ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ing Star. WASHINGTON, - D. €., SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 1931—TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES. ##% HOIRIIS DESCRIBES THRILL OF BEING LOST OVER OCEAN | Pilot, Writing From Notes Hillig Made Flight, Says Battle With Wind Drove Them South. whether he would not like to finance |a direct fiight from New York to Co- penhagen and join me as & passenger. Hillig Jumped at Idea. ‘The idea of undertaking such a | flight had occupied my mind for_ four years, ever since the day when I re- celved an offer from a manufacturing concern to fly for 35 hours without a break round its factory bullding. Hillig jumped at the suggestion, and that same night we started to make the necessary _arrangements. We didn't make much fuss about it. One step was taken as a natural consequence of ane other. There was no long pause be- tween words and deeds. Hillig had—on a certain occasion— been much spoken of in the newspa- rs. This was when he was denled admission to board the Graf Zeppelin, which was about to start a voyage sround the world, although he had bought his ticket and had it in his hands. He looked upon this. incident as a great injustice, and it made him still more desirous of making a trip across the Atlantic. Later on the money he paid for his ticket was refunded, but this did not alter his views on the matter. He took it to heart that he had been men- | ~(Continued on Page 3, Column 1. | | | | | | | i FATAL HEAT RAGES (ACROSS CONTINENT ‘Tempests Lash Lake States, Adding 12 Deaths to Toll of Summer Sun. By the Associated Press. Killing heat raged over America to- day. i Thursday and singed a path of de- | struction across the country. | | From the Ohlo River Valley to| | Southern California temperatures siz- | |zled at 100 degrees and above. ‘No re- | {lief was in sight for the week end. | The storm god added his wrath yes- | terday to that of a merciless sun. Storms Lash Lake States. Michigan, Ohio and Western Penn- sylvania were swept by windstorms, | raking rains and lightning. Twelve lives were lost. ‘Whipped across Lake Erie, the storm lashed the shoreline from Toledo to| Cleveland. Lightning killed two in| Cleveland. A street cleaner was elec- trocuted by & fallen wire, Twenty thou- sand telephone circuits were blasted. A farmer in Winchester died under a blown-down silo. A woman in North Olmstead was killed by lightning and a boy was drowned in Maunee Bay, near Toledo, when waves knocked a boat to pleces. In Detroit, & score of persons were injured as wind and raln damaged bufldings, homes and eutomobiles. At Selfridge Field, Mich., a man was killed in the wreck of a hangar. A farmer was killed by lightning near Yale. ‘Woman Dies of Fright. A woman died of fright in Pitts- burgh, where the rainfall was heaviest since 1903. Another woman was killed by a tree blown down in Somerset, Pa. Summer's scourge struck terrifically intthe Midwest. Tllinois had 10 more heat deaths, 8 of | them in Chicago, where the tempera- ture was shoved down to 72 at noon yesterday by lake winds, only to soar to 95 again by evening. The weather Bureau predicted 98 for today. At Canton an all-time June high of 104 was recorded. Over all the State the mercury hovered near the century mark. Midwest Heat Kills Twenty. The burning sun took 5 more lives in | Towa, 5 in Missouri, 4 in Indianas, 4 in Minnesota and 2 in Kentucky. The weiter spread into the Dakotas. In Wisconsin only the Lake Michigan ports were moderate. Over all the grain belt farmers worked at night in their fields. Horses dropped dead in harness yesterday in many places. In Adams County, IIl, the Humane Society forbade heavy work for horses in the sunny hours. Farmer Drops Dead Working. At Cherryvale, Kans, a farmer dropped dead shocking wheat. For 10 days the State has roasted at 100 and abovg It was 104 at Salina and 103 at !:m%)rln. Oklahoma, too, burned up. A new season high was reported at Altus—104. The Pacific Coast, from San Fran- cisco north, was comrlntlvely cool. Southern California still blistered. One unofficial report had it 120 in the shade at Boulder Dam. Washington Cool. ‘The East and South were again mod- erate, although it reached 90 and above in Memphis, Birmingnam, Tampa and New Orleans. Lightning killed a man at Ruston, La., and another at Need- ham, Mass. ‘Washington again was cool. A rain freshened neighboring Maryland and the District of Columbia. The weather man warned of warmer weather, how- ever, by tonight. New York’s millions weathered well. The maximum was.only 81. But a hot week end was. the prediction. S APERSDNS DI " o™ | | her ninety-ninth birthday anniversary | as the maximum size of signs under |Celebrates 99th . Birthday in Home Raised on Stilts Near Sea. By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, June 27.—Mrs. Minerva Hartman yesterday observed in & house on stilts, built for her by San Francisco and San Mateo Coun- ties rather than force her to move from | her cherished home to make room for a new road. The home of Mrs. Hartman,.whom, | Forty-nine 1lives have burned out| records show, served as a nurse in the | o, in the Philippines during the insurrec- tion after Dewey's arrival in 1898, was known as ‘“‘Minerva’s Fort.” It over- looked the bay. When officials found a new road would destroy the house, they raised it and built the road beneath. 543 SIGN LICENSES ARE CHALLENGED gn Committee Requires Companies to Furnish Permit Proof. N Unless outdoor advertising companies in Washington can produce bona fide records of permits and authorizations, the District Sign Committee proposes to order removal of nearly half of their 1,116 billboards, wall and fence signs| now cluttering many sections of the Capital. With the discovery that records were lacking in the files of the District gov- ernment for at least 543 of these sup- posed legalized sign locations, the com- mittee abruptly imposed the burden of proof upon the companies whose right to maintain the sign locations is questioned. An immediate effect of the decision was to withhold approval of the official “authorized” list of locations until the wholesale discrepancies ap- pearing in it are cleared up. 223 Exceed Limit. Of the 543 outdoor signs whose “title” must be cleared, some 223 signs equal in area or exceed the 100 square feet which the official committee will recommend to the District of Columbia the new regulations, except in a few specific cases. Maj. Donald A. Davison, assistant engineer commissioner and chairman of the Sign Committee, has given the com- panies until July. 15 to produce the evidence which will be necessary to save at least a half of their established boards in the 14 police precincts of ‘Washington. 4 “All signs for which the companies cannot produce the per authoriza- tions are to be taken down,” Maj. Davi- son said yesterday. “In the case of such wall signs, they will be painted out. ‘There will be no trobule about that as the companies themselves have volun- onl tarily agreed to do it.” No Renewals on Sites. The list of locations, after being finally approved, will be established and made s part of the sign regulations. Thereafter, no billboard, fence sign or wall sign site shall be added to this authorized list, and any sign abandoned for ‘any cause whatsoever, shall be ':’nane stricken from it, the regu- ns Explaining that every precaution is being taken by the It t brings the whole billboard problem to & head. It is going to mark new sign history in Washing Maj. Davison does not believe all of the 543 signs for which authofization records ar lacking have been es- tablished ““The companies received before 1916 ued on Page 2, Column 1.) his Young Men’s Gathering Told Nevada Gambling Resort | 3%, LOS ANGELES MORE SINFUL X " THAN RENO, EX-PASTOR SAYS |5 Will Kill Itself by Rousing Vigilantes. By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Calif,, June 27.—Rev. A. J. Case, former Reno, Nev., tor, as San Franeisco s few in Reno,” kil itself, because it is attracting gunmen W] row of the Methodist Episcopal Church | and here, told @ gathering of young men Jast nigat that Reno is not as bad &s it is made out to be. In fact, he said. Reno “is not as bad as Los Angeles today and not -as bad SPAIN IS GUARDED INTENSE SITUATION DAY BEFORE VOTING Reported Revolt in Seville Air Force Causes Stir as Troops Are Sent Out. FRANCO SAYS REGIME IS WORSE THAN BEFORE Campaign Leaders Active, but Gov- ernment Confident of Assem- bly Victory. MADRID, June 27 (#).—The gov- ernment, today took over the Tabla- da Airdrome from its commandant and arrested the mechanic of Maj. Ramon Franco. Maj. Franco was ordered trans- ferred to a hospital in Seville, By the Associated Pre: MADRID, June 27.—The authorities were on guard throuzhout Spain today as tense situations were reported in several communities in anticipation of the elections tomorrow at which a na- tional assembly, to draw up a perma- nent form of government, will be selected. ‘The most exciting development of the day was a report that members of the alr force at Tablada Airdrome, ncar Seville, were in revolt. A column of infantry, srtillery and cavairy was sent out from Seville to handle the situation, Government of- ficlals were worrfed because of reports that Maj. Ramon Franco, who advo- cates a “real revolution” and vho was deposed yesterday as chief of the na- tion's air force, was fomenting the trouble. Zamora Given Assurances. The government's concern about the Tablada situation was relieved when President Zamora was informed by tele- phone that there was no danger of real trouble developing at the airdrome. Although the government expressed nfidence in a Republican-Socialist since Summer went on its first rampage | Crimean and American Civil Wars and | yictory tomorrow, political observers said it was uncertain how far to the left the assembly would incline. In their election eve statements to the voters the campaign leaders said: Maj. Pranco—"Spain is worse under the present government than she was in the worst days of the monarchy. President Zamora and Minister of La- bor Maura are clerical reactionaries who threaten Spanish liberty.” To Create New Rights. Minister Lerroux—"We sre not going to destroy any rights but to create new_ rights.” Minister of War Azana—"We are radical builders not destroyers. The army ltself understands the necessity of our reforms and is helping in carry- ing them out.” Alfonso sald before he went into ex- ile in France that he would not Te- nounce his rights {o the throne until the people had express:d through the ballot their preference as to a mon- archial or a republican form of gov- ernment. Ballot Protection Pledged. Th: provisional government vowed to maintain order during the balloting, even if martial law was necessary. Troops and police patrolled the strests of many cities where radical, political or labor agitators had threatened to stage sub- versive activities. Political parties, of which about 20 are participating in the election, held their final meetings in behalf of their candidates, A majority of the cabinet, including President Al- cala Zamora, were touring the provinces with the intention of retaining power in the new government. ‘While great uncertainty prevails, ob- servers predicted that President Alcala Zamora’s Right Republican party would win the lion's share of seats, closely followed by the Soclalists. There are a sprinkling of monarchist and church candidates as well as independ:nts run- ning. Particular precautions against disor- ders have been taken in Seville, Oreste, Galicia and Bareclona. The President held last-minute conierences with Min- ister of the Interior Miguel Maura and other members of the cabinet with a zlkw to insuring a peaceful election Y. HELEN JACOBS GOES INTO QUARTER-FINALS American Star Defeats Mrs. God- free, Ex-Wimbledon Cha: pion, 6—2, 6—1. By the Associated Press. WIMBLEDON STADIUM, England, June 27—Helen Jacobs of California today advanced to the quarter-finals of the Wimbledon tennis championships with & 6—2, 6—1 victory over Mrs. Kitty McKane Godfree of England. Miss Jacobs won as she pleased giv- ing the former Wimbledon champion only three games. There was no touch tee to check | Of the former champion in Mrs. God-|a one-year postponement of war-debt carefully the record of each location | free’s play today, and Miss Jacobs, also | and reparations payments, President off form, was lucky she was not facing some other top-flight player. Mrs. Godfree bravely for her first service and took it to give the crowd ov&ot its few opportunities to cheer. She also won the seventh game, but that was all she got in the first set and Miss Jacobs gave her only one game in the last set. Mrs. L. A, Hi T, the United States tenni er, was defeated in id by Betty Nuthall, Jiro Satch, Japanese star, gained Sl bracket were 8—8, Eiriel s LAN SAK! THOS K’ E BEEN SFPALESTINE Associ 0 iated service. (#) Means Associated Press. TeTILES ScHeDrE Su6a w DRY COORDNATION SOUGHT BY BOARD Leaders Split Over Part?r Church Will Play in In- tensified Drive. By the Associated Press. | Members of the Prohibition “Board | of Strategy” stood agreed today upon | an extensive preliminary plan for co- ordinating efforts of the dry forces throughout the 1932 campalgn. Intima- tion was given of a public announce- | ment before nightfall. Differences appeared within the board, | however, between leaders of the new and old line prohibition organizations | concerning the part to be played by the church in enlisting support for the dry cause in the coming political party | conventions. Dr. Daniel A. Poling, chairman of the newly-created “Allled Forces for Pro- hibition,” told the board at its opening | sesslon yesterday that the 257-day | campalgn of his organization would be | almost entirely separated from the church. Dr. Ernest H. Cherrington, | chairman of the Strategy Board and also of the National Conference of Organizations Supporting the mh-‘ teenth Amendment, in a formal state- | ment last night took issue with such separation. Believes in Church Support. “The churches which made possible | the formation and development of the temperance movement and which today | are its greatest source of strength” Cherrington said, “are not likely to heed suggest'ons of thg wet group and | withdraw from the fleld. | Dr. Poling, in explaining his cam- paign, sald his organization sought a “fresh support” which he believed would strengthen rather than weaken the sup- port accorded such organizations as the Anti-Saloon League and the W. C. T. U.| Senator Capper of Kansas and Rob- ert L. Owen, former Senator from Okla- homea, were named honorary board | chairmen, with Dr. Cherrington as| chairman. Vice chairmen will be Grant | M. Hudson, former Representative from Michigan; Mrs. Ella A. Boole, president of the W. C. T. U.; Mrs. J. W. Nichol- son, chairman of the Democratic Wom- en’s Law_Enforcement League, and Col. Patrick H. Callahan, Louisville man facturer. Ballot on Leaders. Most of yesterday afternoon’s session was given over to balloting. Dr. Cher- rington, secretary of the World League Alcobolism, was selected as per- manent chairman after only a few bal- lots. More were needed, however, in selection of the honorary chairmen, vice chairmen and other officers. Col. Callahan, one of those selected to draw “Dth. statement for publication later, said the program ‘upon was “the most comprehensive ever outlined by the drys.” HOOVER TO END BUSY WEEK AT RAPIDAN President to Rest With Friends After Arduous Toil Over Debt Negotiations. After 10 days of almost ceaseless toil in the interest of his proposal for Hoover today was looking forward to a week end of rest and quiet at his fishing camp on the Rapidan River. ‘The President was at his desk long before 9 o'clock this morning, but was undecided during the forenoon when he would leave Washington. He hoped to get away in the early part of the afternoon and not return until the forenoon Monday. Mrs., Hoover went to the camp yes- Wife Awaiting 1928 Yule Gift Divorces Missing Husband By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, June 27.—Charles Proctor didn't go home Christ- mas eve, 1928, On Christmas day he rushed in, exclaiming: “My goodness, present.” 85 saying, he rushed out. hasn’t come back yet. Mrs. Proctor, believing two and a half years is ample time for any one to buy a present, ob- tained her divorce yesterday. BOMBING IN GENOA I forgot your And AL HUNOREDS Many Buildings Damaged by Series of Explosions in Mid-City. By the Associated Press. GENOA, Italy, June 27.—Four bombs were exploded here early today, shat- tering many- windows and damaging the walis of several buildings. Police arrest:d hundreds of suspects. The bombs went off at half-hour in- tervals, awakening the populace over & wide area in the center of the city and creating & semblance of panic. One exploded near the royal palace, another in the Piazzo Della Munziata, a third near the street car barns and the last near a factory at San Vincenzo. The property dasmage was relatively small, but the systematic method of the explosions, the fourth in a recent serles throughout Italy, has caused much alarm. The previous explosions occurred at Turin and Bologna, but none caused casualties or serfous dam- age and police assamed they were in- tended as terroristic demonstrations. STOCK GAIN RESUMES AFTER EARLY LOSSES Market Absorbs Profit Taking and Rallies—Specialties Lead Advance. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 27.—After a little early profit-taking, the stock market found itself in strong hands today, can- celed its losses and embarked on a rally that was led by numerous specialties. Any disappointment over what ap- peared to be a temporary deadlock in Franco-American debt moratorium ne- gotiations found scant reflection in the trading on the exchange. Rails, which soared sensationally late yesterday, were comparatively quiet. !J,p S. Steel, opening at $100.75, off $1.25, quickly reached a new high for the recovery, fractionally over the pre- vious closing quotation of $102. New and Columbian Carbon jumped $6. Stocks up $2 or more net included Johns-Manville, J. I. Case, Westing- house. Underwood-Elliott-Fisher and Goodyear Rubber. . | vice is most likely to be taken. OFFICIALS' DEBT VIEWS OPTIMISTIC Acting Secretary Castle Re- gards French Expression Not Unalterable. By the Associated Press. Optimism was reflected by American officials today as to the outcome of the pending negotiations for a one-year war ! debt-reparations moratorium. Acting Sccretary of State Castle said he regarded the approval by the French | Chamber of Deputies of the reply of | that nation as an indication of the | strength of the government itself and not as an unalterable expression in favor of the French counter-proposal. | President Hoover kept a close watch upon developments. Although he had hoped to be able to leave last night for his mountain camp, he rerained in Washington throughout this morning, where he would be in_closer comtact with his emissaries in Paris, Secrefary Mellon and Aml r These two entered conferences with French | officlals to seek to reconcile the views | of the two nations. Reply Not Immediate. Mr. Castle, who will be in charge at the State Department during Eecre- tary Stimson's absence in Europe, pre- | dicted several days would elapse be- |fore the United States would reply i(ormllly to the French counter pro- | posal. He expected the negotiations to | extend beyond the week end in view | of the wide ramifications to which the international conferees are giving their attention. South American affairs also drew the | attention of Government officials today. | At both the White House and the State Department it was said that Federal Reserve and private banks were con- ! |side'rlnl some measure of economic re- lief for Latin American countries. At the White House, it was: pointed out that such negotiations were mat- | ters to be carried on by the banks ,and the goverments involved. White House officials said the President would make no statement on the subject. Castle said there was no thought of | any moratorium on private debts, the President’s plan having specifically ex- empted private debts and loans held privately from his plan. CANADA PLANS SALE OF MERCHANT MARINE Thornton’s Advice Will Be Accept- ed Because of Heavy Ex- penses, It Is Believed. Special Dispatch to The Star. OTTAWA, Ontario, June 27.—Can- ada's merchant marine, launched to combat German submarines and con- tinued in service to extend Canada’s markets, appears about to strike its flag. Sir Henry Thornton, president of the Canadian National Rallways, recom- mends that the federal government get out of the business, and, as the ships have been losing money every year and are likely to keep on losing it, the ad- The original cost of the leet was $90,000,000. This, with an additional $12,000,000 in cash losses, has made the ships an expensive luxury. They might sell for $10,000,000. (Copyright, 1981). FAULTY POST OFFICE SCALES BELIEVED CAUSE OF HEAVY LOSS 250,000 Machiries to Be Inspected and Repaired by 39 Men Here Undergoing Training. “heavy losses both on the part rmmc and the general lic, the Post Office Department to- BER Z s g e | < ¥ § matter. p2 ik g g i i p | | i ge i it £a | § | : i % Kl E ! g B ; i s £ i i B E gak i i H of £ : _§ £ ] § ¥ drastic measures to ‘highest standard some used in post offices Nation for weighing ave been are now the scales, manufsctured by cont for the Government, are being used to weigh first and second class matter, which nets the Post Office Department 90 per cent of its revenue. He said the move would not mean the of these machines, but in all when defects are discovered by the in- tneywwld-mdfim:hukh h “for Teadjustmen Contracts to be awarded in future f wlhlwfllmhr-; mediate for y ‘machine The only evening pa; in Washington with m Press news Yesterday's Circulation, 110,975 TWO CENTS. MELLON AND LAVAL HOLD CONFERENCE AFTER APPROVAL IS GIVEN BY CHAMBER Deputies, in Stormy Session, Adopt, by Vote of 386 to - 189, Motion Approving Debt Stand With Qualifications. INSIST GERMANY PAY UNCONDITIONAL ANNUITY Critics of Hoover Moratorium Pro- posal Base Attack on Premise Proceeds of Plan Might Be Used for Constructing Armaments or for Economic Dumping. PARIS, June 27 (#.—Premier Laval's conference with Secre- tary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon was concluded shortly before 6 o'clock this afternoon. ‘The premier and the Secre- tary, together with other French and American officlals who were present at the conference, will meet again Monday, M. Laval announced at the conclusion of the meeting. The arrival of the German Ambassador, coupled with the statement by the premier that the negotiations would be re- sumed on Monday, gave rise to new optimism, although it was evident the details of applying the Hoover proposal had not been agreed upon by Mr. Mel- lon and M. Laval. By the Associated Press. PARIS, June 27.—Momentous negotiations seeking to harmonize the French and American view- points on President Hoover's debt suspension proposal opened short- ly after 10 o'clock this morning between Andrew W. Mellon, Amer- ican Secretary of the Treasury, and Premier Laval. The conversations started short- ly after the arrival of Mr. Mellon and Ambassador Edge at the min- istry of the interior. Premier Laval, who had been up most of the night attending debate on his policy regarding the Hoover plan, had been able to catch only a two-hour nap this morning. He went to the conference with a 386 to 189 vote of confidence from the cham- ber after debate that had lasted most of yesterday and throughout the night until 6 o'clock this morning. It was understood every effort would be made to reach some degree of agree- ment today while some of the world’s stock exchanges were closed and there was no intention of having any confer- ence tOmMOrrow. Deputies Give Aproval. After a stormy session, beginning yes- terday noon and ending this morning, the Deputies adopted a motion approv- ing the government’s stand, with quali- fications. The government had made the motion & question of confidence and Premier Laval had taken the platform to urge its passage. The motion read: “The Chamber, approving the French government’s answer to the proposal of the President of the United States, counts upon it to essure at the same time the inviolability of the uncondi- tional annuity accepted at the Hague b{ the power signatories to the Young plan and the necessities of a policy of peace and economic co-operation, and rejecting all additions, passes to the next business of the agenda.” Laval Viclory Brilliant. Premier Laval thereby won one of the most brilliant victories in the history of moratorium on reparations payments only in accordance with the Young ‘The critics of the government’s poli- cles—even those who paid homage President Hoover's offer—based their attack on the premise that Germany might use the proceeds of the plan for constructing armaments or for eco- nomic dumping. Leon Blum, Socialist leader, argued, on the contrary, that " (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) COAST GUARD SEIZURES IN MONTH SHOW JUMP By the Associated Press. An upwaid turn in Coast Guard ef- fectiveness during the present month Treasury . ‘With the of the American yacht Whispering Wind off Long Is- land on June 18, total seizures for the selzed cases of liquor and arrested 193 men. PG Lo BRAZIL SEEKS TREATIES Most Favored Nation Policy Set for . Tariff Revision. RIO DE JANEIRO, June 27 (@) t decided today to in nations