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August 19, 1925

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POLAR SEA FLIGHT MAY BE ABANDONED; Wilbur in Message to MacMillan Questions Advisability of Risking Arctic Winter. EXPECTS REPLY IN 36 HOURS Expedition Might Turn to Baffin Land and Norse Ruins in South Greenland and Labrador. POLAR SEA FLIGHT MAY BE ABANDONED

By Special to The New York Times

Sec Wilbur in message to MacMillan questions advisability of abandoning Polar Sea flight because of weather conditions; Macmillan exchanges greetings with Pres Coolidge; the Peary hears New Zealand

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MORAL' FACTOR ADMITTED; American Commissioners Swayed by Pledges Wilson Gave. POST-WAR DEBT MADE EASY Total Amount to Be Paid in the Six Decade Period Is $727,830,500. BOTH SIDES ARE PLEASED It Is Believed Compact Will Be Ratified by Congress and Brussels Parliament. BELGIANS SIGN TERMS OF DEBT

By Special to The New York Times

Agreement signed; payments to be spread over 62 yrs; no interest on pre-armistice loans in recognition of moral obligation to pledges given by Pres Wilson to substitute Germany as debtor for pre-armistice debts; schedule of payments

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Notable Births

Claude Gauvreau

1925Claude Gauvreau, Canadian poet and playwright (died 1971)[†]

Claude Gauvreau was a playwright, poet, sound poet, and polemicist. He was a member of the radical Automatist movement and a contributor to the revolutionary Refus Global Manifesto.