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WEATHER. “From Press to Home tC. ) 9. Weather Bureau Forecast ” Partly cloudy and warmer tonight Within the Hour and tomorrow; probably local thunder- showers tomorrow'. The Star’s carrier system covers Temperature—Highest, 68. at noon every city block and the regular edi- today: lowest. 54, at 11 p.m. yesterday. tion is delivered to Washington homes Full report on page 13. as fast as the papers are printed. settingWITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Saturday’s Circulation, 100,494 Closing N.Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 10 V J V Sunday’s Circulation, 111,39? Entered Jto. Vrv Sfl ‘3o*l as second class matter I). * oUjdu’J. post office, Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON, C., MONDAY, MAY 9, 1927-THIRTY-FOUK PAGES, C4>) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. INTERVENTION IN CHINA HELD NUNGESSER IS SEEN HALTED BY COOLIDGE STAND FLOODS THREATEN TORNADOES KILL Si. OVER NOVA SCOTIA. Military Occupation of Yangtze Valley by BIG “SUGAR BOWL” INJURE lOH SWEEP Powers Declared Unlikely in View of OF SAYS UNCONFIRMED Opposition to Further Action. AREA LOUISIANA ACROSS TEXAS AND Hundreds Fight to Save BY THOMAS F. MILLARD. Italy to join the combination, leaving REPORT ON FLYERS ('able jBv to Star and New America outside. MIDWEST STATES The York World. Levee Guarding Thickly- SHANGHAI, May 9.—lt is becom- Contrary to Great Britain’s present ing realized here that further action abandonment of the policy of force, E. S. Little, a prominent Briton for many Advices Announcing Sighting by the powers to enforce any sanc- Populated Section. 30 Reported Dead and years resident in China, printed an L 50 tions regarding the failure to obtain open letter urging that the powers dis- of Cross-Sea Aviators Off prompt compliance with their de- arm China, demolish all arsenals, Hurt in Two Towns Near mands about the Nanking outrage is arms, military and naval equipment, : BREAK WOULD DRIVE Newfoundland Also Lack unlikely. Consequently, the hopes of and disband the Chinese armies by the Dallas—Total in many foreigners that this Summer use of foreign military forces. Fatalities proposals 250,000 FROM H.:'?ES would witness extensive military oc- The foregoing and similar simply the situation baek Substantiation. cupation of the Yangtze Valley have would take Missouri Placed at 14. 20 years and give the hegemony of dwindled. Eastern Asia into the hands of a Eu- Hoover and Davis Inspect Embank- Private conversation and press ropean bloc combined with Japan and j SUCCESS OR FAILURE comment now centers upon the cabled opposed to the United States. Such ; ments to New Orleans and Visit OKLAHOMA AND KANSAS statement that President Coolidge is plans ignore the evident fact that the government strongly adverse to intervention in Japanese is even more Caernarvon Crevasse. STILL HANGS IN BALANCE Washington such re- ARE HARD HIT BY STORM China and that he sees no need to averse than to a version. and also prefers the existing send more notes to the Nationalists disorders China to intervention in By the Asuooiated Press. j at this time. wherein Western Europe would dom- 1 j Weather Conditions Between Cape Much is heard May Nebraska, lowa and Dakotas Also j caustic comment ; inate. NEW ORLEANS. La.. o.—'The and New York Declared ; about the collapse of the policy of “sugar bowl" of central Louisiana was Race | action and solidarity of the powers, Japan and United States Close. threatened with inundation today as Swept by Fierce Winds—Dam- i Washington is blamed for causing Menace to Completion of Voyage | There are many evidences that Ja- ' the flood waters of the Mississippi j the breakdown, and the American pan and Washington are closer to- age in Wake of Gales Is Esti- policy termed cowardly, weak and i River surging from six dike crevasses Have Crossed I is ; get her on these issues tl%n Britain at Should Pilots is further described by other epithets. and Washington. Moreover, it is un- ' in the northeastern part of the State mated s3.ooo,ooo—Many likely . piled against the Bayou Glaises Ocean Safely. Entente Without l . S. Urged. that any powers will undertake up Families Lose Their Homes. Newspapers publish many letters intervention unless America and Ja- ¦ levee seeking an outlet to the sea. about the question of intervention, pan participate, and this is being A funnel-shaped stream covering borne by Britain’s change pol- By the Associated Press. expressing opposition to President out of thousands of square miles of the delta By the r icy. Associated Press. May 9.—The Coolidges position. A w ell known of northeast Louisiana poured its HAVRE, Franch writer, Proposals to disarm China seem to At least 55 persons were killed, British under the nom de , strength into the backwater that al- French Steamship Line announced plume of Putnam Weale. advances an ha advanced without thought, of the more than 100 injured and property ready subjected the Bayou Des Glaises this afternoon that it had received argument favoring revival of the forces required, which would probably damage to extent he hundred foreign pressure. Fed- the of more than advices that Capt„Nungesser’s trans- Anglo-Japanese entente, followed by several thousand levee to an enormous Houdini’s Collection of Magic Books, Numbering 5,147, Has Been Added to the Congressional $3,000,000 by (Continued engineers feared that tornadoes and cyclonic atlantic plane passed Halifax. Nova an invitation for France and perhaps on Page 4, Column 2.) eral and State Library. winds, the dike could not hold. accompanied by downpour* Scotia, 2 and 3 p.m., between p.m. Hundreds of men were working on in some sections, that lashed the French time (8 and 9 a.m., Eastern i the threatened levee. Engineers con- , Middle West and Southwest over standard time). centrated their forces at weak spots, Nicaragua to Give the week end. Death lists were ex- while a rescue fleet consisting of many 1 | pected to increase momentarily as GLACE BAY. Nova Scotia. May 9 BRITISH 10 DELAY |HOOVER INSPECTS types of vessels was being mobilized to s I for Each reports ) Press)—The any emergency. MEMORIAL TO $lO Rifle additional were received meet RISE Marconi CONFERENCE OPENS 04 (Canadian from wireless here, up to 1 o’clock Area Thickly Populated. the storm area. station Texas afternoon, had not been in com- The "sugar howl.” wherein the do- Surrendered to U. S. was hardest hit. with SO this i deaths and 50 injured . • reported from any had i mestic sugar cane is grown, is thickly I munication with ship that i IN NEW [ tornadoes that struck Garland and PENALTIES ; ORLEANS It is estimated that 250,000 DIKE populated. CHINA; ! By flyers. DESPITE Nevada, DEFICIT the Associated Press. ON CITY PLANNING both within 35 miles sighted the French persons might he driven from their of Bayou Des ' I Nicaraguan Liberal soldiers who Dallas, early today. In Missouri the By the Associated Press. homes by a crevasse at tornado toll had Application of Force Inexpe- Greatest of Engineering Skill Glaises. P'our million acres would be surrender their arms to the Ameri- reached 14 dead and NEW YORK. May 9.—Two- overflow. Drive to Continue for $25,000 can Marines under the pacification Development of Washington | an undetermined number of injured. subject to In Kansas, where afternoon came Unless the dikes break the waters plan worked out by Henry Jj. Stim- a tornado swept eighteen o’clock this four counties Saturday night. dient at Present, Chamber- j Brought to Bear to will be diverted through Old River President Coolidge's personal 10 were it there was no definite Actually Needed for son. and Is Special reported dead. In lowa wap and with hack into the Mississippi, adding to Environs a woman of Capts. representative, are to receive cloth- drowned when her motor word of the. whereabouts lain Tells Parliament. Stem Mississippi. the already record-breaking flood that car was over the War Project. ing, supplies and $lO per rifle from Topic swept into a ditch during a heavy Nungesser and Coli, flying is moving down the Father of Waters. for Tomorrow. wind and rain this city. Thirty- That would increase the strain against the Nicaraguan government. storm. sea from Paris to An arrangement to this effect Garland, 15 miles northeast of By Associated Press. BY REX COLLIER, the levees south of Angola. eight hours had passed since the the of by Gen. Moncada, Dallas, and Nevada, 35 miles north* May 9.—Sir Austen Battalions laborers under the di- The District War Memorial will be has been made Regional planning, such as "Wash- Dallas, plane had hopped off from the flying LONDON, Staff Correspondent of The Star. rection of engineers have been rais- Liberal commander-in-chief, and east of were struck by twist- foreign secretary, built. While the response to the cam- ington is now working out in co-opera- ers early today. Bourget. earlier Chamberlain, the NEW ORLEANS, May 9.—- ing low spots for weeks on the lower Rear Admiral Latimer, command- field at Le Two today the La.. paign for funds which ended today tion with nearby Maryland and Vir- Miss Irma Cross told the House of Commons Under the leadership of Secretary reaches of the stream and strengthen- ing American naval forces in Coone. Red nurse reports that the “White Bird" was ' has not been sufficient to guarantee an Nica- . at Greenville, telephoned British government had decided that Hoover ing weak places in preparation for ragua. ginia, has become an essential prob- to the Red had not and War Secretary Davis, the , immediate the project, it has Cross at Dallas that there sighted over Newfoundland application of penalties the height of the flood.