Show SENATE PROBING PlAN OF SElliNG HUN SHIPS WASHINGTON Dec 13 Chairman Chairman Payne of the shipping board was re requested requested requested re- re quested to appear before the senate commerce committee late today to ex explain explain explain ex- ex plain the proposed sale Bale of thirty former former former for for- mer German passenger liners at public auction here next Monday Chairman Jones rones said th the committee desired full fulI information owing to the agitation against the sale The International Mercantile Marine MarIno has offered for tor the ships butaU private bids for their sale were rejected Chairman Pa Payne announcing that he would not accept any single bid for tor all aU ships Ch Chairman Payne has announced that he has telegraphed Henry H. H Raymond of New York president of ot the American American Ameri Ameri- can Steamship Owners Owners' association and Charles H. H Potter of ot New York president of the United States Steamship Steamship Steamship Steam Steam- ship Operators' Operators association askIng them to noUr notify officials of their or organizatIons organizations organizations or- or of the proposed sale |