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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 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 ACROSS AND Hundreds Fight to Save BY THOMAS F. MILLARD. to join the combination, leaving REPORT ON FLYERS ('able jBv to Star and New America outside. MIDWEST STATES The York World. Levee Guarding Thickly- , 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 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 and j SUCCESS OR FAILURE comment now centers upon the cabled opposed to the . Such ; ments to 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 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 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 , 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. Should the start on A report today from Mr. Stim- lem for every large city, in the opin- . were 17 the present Government's relief and engineering large , dead at Nevada. Eight known • s yet been One of these outrages Nan- Bayou des Glaises dike break, a large been sufficiently to make neces- son said Liberal leaders and ion of Gordon Whitnall, director of dead confirmed. for the anti-foreign at skill was concentrated here today to dele- was the toll at More credited. A heavy Chinese portion of the flood waters would be sary the memorial’s construction. gates representing Juan B. Sacasa, the City Plan Commission of Los An- Garland. than reports was not king and the failure of the make reconnoiesance of the tighten- 50 persons were injured In these two sea diverted through the Atchafalaya By unanimous vote of the Team Liberal claimant to the presidency, geles, Calif., who was the opening rainstorn and fog mantled the Nationalists to observe the conditions ing battle lines in the last sector of Basin, bringing some measure of re- ' towns. was inex- captains and workers who attended would take part in congressional speaker at the first formal session of between New York and , and of the Hankow agreement the Mississipi's Inexorable and ruth- lief ot the beleaguered lower river. by-elections in certain districts, al- pedient. however, fully justified. the closing luncheon of the campaign the nineteenth National Conference 17 DEAR IN ONE TOWN. visibility was low. less march to the Gulf. Hoover Visits Crevasse. today at the New Willard Hotel, it though still declining to accept in said that he believed any way on City Planning at Wardman Park The radio and steamship companies Sir Austen Having yesterday effected a review Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Com- by formal the proviso that reasons had led other inter- was decided that a campaign President Diaz, remain in office un- Hotel this afternoon. Another Texas Community Reports were still without information up to similar by automobile of the 100-mile dirt en- merce. and Secretary Davis of the be continued governments to a like conclu- 1 voluntary workers will til the elections in 1928. which are In an interview this morning on the 2 o'clock. Grave apprehensions were ested trenchments which threatened Louisi- War Department arrived here last deficit has been met Seven Fatalities. Under those circumstances the night from Baton Rouge after in- quietly until the to be supervised by the United subject of regional planning, which expressed, though hopes were gen- sion. ana is throwing up on the east side and every Washingtonian has had \ DALLAS. Tex., May 9 UP).—Miss British government did not propose of specting the levee line between the | States. was his topic at this afternoon’s meet- erally maintained that the aviators the river from Baton Rouge to ample time and to sub- . Irma CoonO, Red Cross nurse at address any further notes to Eu- New two cities. After a conference with opportunity ing, Mr. Whitnall declared that it had would he able to conclude a success- to Orleans, the Commerce and War relief scribe. Greenville, telephoned Miss Ada gene Chen, the Cantonese foreign the citizens’ flood commit- become a necessary function of all ful flight, even though their Secretaries and their national flood re- and The final report of the campaign Miller, executive secretary of the Hankow'. tee a visit to the Caernarvon large centers of population to co-oper- Dallas supply was thought to be near ex- minister at lief party were investigating today Crevasses, 15 miles below this city, , today brought the total raised during ate with the various communities Red Cross chapter, this morn- foreign sur- ing haustion. Great Britain, the minister the flood ramparts -here. Secretary Hoover will return to Baton the past week to $71,134.95. Today's rounding them in developing ' that there were 17 dead In the other Powers regional | storm at Nevada, Tex. said, has informed the The two Secretaries, with Maj. Gen. Rouge to remain until after the crisis i report wras $14,856, leaving a deficit FREED FROMTLAME plans, if orderly and systematic Can Float 54 Hours. full Seven persons were reported killed of its decision hut has reserved Edgar Jadwin, chief of Engineers; has passed and Secretary Davis will between the $140,000 sought and the growth is to be achieved. Ts forced down at sea, the plane the future amount actually raised during the last and a score or more injured by a liberty of action concerning James L. Fieser, acting national chair- return to Washington. Mr. Whitnall, who has been identi- without its landing gear could keep Secretary Hoover said that a week of $68,000. fied with ' tornado which razed part of the real- and particularly concerning further man of the Red Cross; Gov. O. H. regional planning for the dence section Garland, afloat for 24 hours. might be perpetrated crevasse at Bayou Des Glaises would While the cost of the memorial, area Los Angeles, ; of a town of outrages, which Simpson of Louisiana, Maj. W. H. surrounding said | about 2,000 persons, early this morn- Nungesser plane British sub- force another 100,000 people into with the necessary landscaping and IN DEMENT that was The was sighted flag, DEATH he not sufficiently familiar upon the British Holcombe, river engineer for amplification equip- ’ ing. Two hours after the storm four Newfoundland, property. this refugee camps, hut that ample prepa- devices and other with the details of what is being done off Cape Race. at 10 jects and British bodies had - district, and others embarked this rations had been made to care for ment has been placed at $200,000 the in Washington 1 been covered and 14 in- o'clock this morning, according to to discuss it in a tech- jured had Keeping Out of Hankow. morning on the tug Samson for an them. memorial itself may be built with nical way, but said been sent in ambulances to w ord received by the New York Times Policemen Exonerated at In- he knew the Na- Dallas, 15 miles distant. Great Britain also has decided not inspection of the dynamited Poydras Tautness of battle lines on the lower about $155,000. | tional Capital has taken long strides from its correspondent at , at 1 The identified dead: Monroe Todd, to reoccupv the British concession crevasse, 15 miles below the city. river contrasted sharply with the $25,000 Really Needed. toward developing a regional plan. Nova Scotia. Should the report prove over to the northeast Louisiana line, where the C. O. Smiley and Mrs. Smiley and a Hankow, which was given Last year $60,000 was raised, and quest After Shots at Al- accurate and the daring aviators suc- by an agreement Dynamiting Continues. battle is over and the river has tri- Plan Important Here. Mrs. Nicholson, mother of S. E. Chinese authorities this amount, added to the $71,134.95 Nicholson. cessfully pursue the remaining 1,000 with the Hankow government, at the All but Secretaries Hoover umphantly crashed through the dikes He expressed the and six inundating practically raised during the campaign ending to- leged Rum Car. belief that a : Most of the victims were trapped In . at points, miles of their course over the misty present time. „.. Davis had witnessed the blowing up day, leaves a balance of a little more regional plan is of unusual impor- their beds as the storm struck be- Atlantic, they should reach their goal Sir Austen said that the National- all of that part of the State. While tance in ¦ had lost of the Caernarvon Levee at Poydras the flood continued rise in the than $25,000 needed actually to build Washington, because of the > tween 3 and 4 o’clock. Among the of the Paris-to-New York flight about ist government at Hankow to cen- the memorial. area covered by the Federal dominating position South China 10 days ago, but in view of the un- tral and southern portions of the Policemen W. A. Sehotter and G. C. limited 1 two-score or more seriously injured 8 o'clock tonight (Eastern daylight its in Following a report of the city and the extent to which it nothing more than the expected procrastination of the river flooded area, from the extreme north status of Deyoe were exonerated.from in has i were the four children of the Smileys. time). and was the campaign as outlined above by blame been built up near the boundary of Thunder showers and night winds Earlier in the day a report received shadow of a name. in taking the artificial detour in the came reports of a fall and it was be- the death of William F. Dement, 29- ample lieved the Newbold Noyes, chairman of the Maryland and Virginia. In his ad- followed the twister. Only a small by the French Cable Co., stated that Great Britain, he said, had sacrificed Saint Bernard and Plaque- end was in sight. year-old driver of an alleged liquor car, dress to the ¦ the reoccupation of memorial campaign, Edw'ard F. Col- conference this after- ¦ portion of the residential district was the radio operator at St. Pierre justification for mine Parishes, the officials were anx- Crest Lost in Great Lake. laday, a member of the memorial com- who was fatally shot after a five-mile noon Mr. Whitnall w’ill discuss in a razed. Miquelon, had received word that the British and for re- t , concession ious to see for themselves the pro- The crest was lost somewhere in mission, and a leader of one of the di- chase at Fifteenth and G streets south- board manner the entire subject of’ More than a dozen houses were Nungesser had been sighted over garding the agreement on the conces- Na- gx-ess being made in the effort to safe- the great lake created by the visions engaged in raising the money, east early on the morning of April regional planning, telling in particu- • demolished. Only the foundations re- Newfoundland. This report lacked sion canceled by the acts of the crevasses, hut lar of there. guard New Orleans. The dynamiting it was said that unless took the floor and declared that from 14, when a coroner’s jury at an in- wnat has been done in Los i mained of several structures. A few confirmation from any source. tionalist government there was a crevasse at Bayou Des all sides he had heard Angeles and vicinity, began small houses British have been at hand so as to has been going on ever since the the complaint quest in the District morgue today were lifted bodily for Glaises it would be at the mouth of that the campaign w-as ending before laying out a regional plan in 1924, a block or more. France Celebrates Report. reoccupj' the concession, he con- initial blast and it culminated yester- River found that the policemen fired on the consideration Great Old within a few days. Move- many prospective contributors had being the first locality to establish a The Havas agency in New York tinued, but on full day in a 3,000-pound charge explosion. ment of the peak of the rise wlil be in their car “in line of duty.” regional planning commission. MISSOURI Britain had decided not to take this sent money. He made the HARD HIT. advised its home in Paris that they An impressive reminder of the a matter of speculation. motion, which was seconded by The jury deliberated only about five More than 300 technical experts and a, now' and hoped that it would not Isaac had definite report from St. Pierre step grave situation into which this city North from Old River gauges all Cans, that the campaign be continued minutes after hearing testimony con- laymen who are interested in city- Miquelon the “White be forced on her. Five Dead in Auxvasse and Carring- that Bird” had w-ould be plunged by a break in the along the line showed steady declines, unofficially until the balance sought cerning the chase in which the fugi- planning problems came into Wash- been sighted over the island at 8:15 Blaines Moscow for Disorders. levees protecting its nearly 500,000 while to the south each tenth of a has been raised. tive car used a smoke screen and dur- ington last night and this morning ton Reported. o'clock this morning. The French foot the waters marked ing which about 12 shots fired at from by the flood climbed a new were every corner of the country for UP).— capital promptly staged celebration. The foreign minister in addressing inhabitants was obtained record, For Continued Campaign. the fleeing automobile. FULTON, Mo., May 9 Five a yesterday afternoon the three-day gathering, at which a St. Pierre dispatch, received the House declared that the Third relief party as Before this motion was put to every phase persons are reported to have been a Hears of of the far-reaching city- killed and number seriously injured in New York shortly after 11 o’clock, International at Moscow was respon- it passed through a half-closed “gate” vote, a number of other workers rose Story Chase. planning a disorders. He movement will be discussed in a tornado which last night struck stated that the Nungesser plane had sible for the Nanking into the walled city, coming from to their feet and urged that the cam- The story of the 5-mile chase of the in a scientific way by men who have said, however, the Communist paign be Auxvasse. New Bloomfield and Car- not been sighted over the island up that Baton Rouge. ATTORNEYISBEATEN continued, as they felt sure suspected liquor car from Sixty-first made a long study of the particular to !) o'clock, Atlantic daylight time, element in China wr as thoroughly dis- from Baton that the balance needed could be and and Marlboro rington. towns near here. of Half of the highway street road to Fifteenth topics assigned to them. At New Bloomfield, about 12 mile* toda y. credited and that the perpetrators Rouge has been closed by erection would be raised. The vote was and G streets southeast early on the The broad reaches of the Eastern the crimes against foreigners had BY TWO WHO ESCAPE unanimous in favor of the Will Discuss Washington. south of Fulton, Rufus Phillips was part way across the road of a sec- motion. morning of April 13, which ended in killed and his daughter Della was se- Atlantic still hold within their grasp been punished with a severity and Mr. Noyes announced thereafter that shooting Os particular tion of giant steel cofferdam, connect- the fatal of Dement, was re- interest to the Dis- riously injured. A Miss Clay also was ib? success or failure of the Nun- speed which would have been impos- the present campaign organization viewed before the jury. trict of Columbia will be the power. ing levees protecting fourth reported killed. John W. Sameson. gesser flight. Reported off Cape sible by any foreign with the back J. H. Adriaans Is Assaulted With would be continued in skeleton form The inquest, which was postponed session, at 8 o’clock tomorrow night, government, Orleans from about 70, former assessor of Calla- Race, Newfoundland, the aviators The British he con- New r a break in the and that headquarters wmuld be mov- last Saturday because a police report which is to be devoted to unwilling, under discussion way County, was killed near Carringl- have yet about a thousand miles of tinued, was even east levees above the city. The re- Hammer Outside of His ed to The Star Building. describing the affair included no men- of the development of the National such provocaticm as it had received, After Capital -about six miles from here. sea to traverse in adverse weather maining section of cofferdam was this decision had been an- tion of the shooting by the policemen, and its environs by officials Auxvasse, of to abandon hope that its friendly nounced. on motion r Near 14 miles north conditions. ready to be -locked into place across Bedroom Door. of Mr. Colliday, was reopened by Coroner Nevitt this and members of the various agencies Fulton, Mrs. R. E. Biggs killed The policy would soon evoke an equally the workers tendered Mr. a was weather off Newfoundland the road at the first warning of to Noyes morning W'ith the reading of a new dealing with planning problems here. and her son Thomas was injured. Mr. was clear this morning, but off to the friendly response from the Chinese rising vote of thanks on his leadership report which brought the After registering free from foreign domi- danger. shooting at convention Biggs escaped injury. A farm hand southeast the daring pioneers of the government, Beating their elderly and crippled throughout the campaign. into prominence. headquarters at Wardman reported w and thus would be enabled to Park at 9 on the Biggs place is miss- air ere now winging their way with nation Danger Not Yet Past. victim over the head with hammer Mitchell Gives o clock this morning, the delegates ing. A two-year-old child whose last a devote itself to single-minded serv- a SSO. Recognized Car, Says lowering gasoline supply and facing to silence his screams and then tak- Although he is Report. attended an informal reception in one name was Culver also was mist visibility ice of the interests of the Chinese. While Secretaries Hoover and Davis commander of the police report tersely reported and rain wdth low that ing fright fleeing, Costello Post, The stated that of the hotel lobbies at 11 o’clock. of persons will try The present stalemate in the believe that the Poydras Crevasse has and as J. H. Vincent B. which last the killed. A number were every bit of courage they can Tuesday night passed a resolution liquor squadron under Sergt. The conference got under way at seriously injured. summon. Chinese situation is likely to con- relieved New Orleans of nearly all Adriaans, GB-yearold attorney, 337 George M. Little recognized the 12:15 British view, of inundation, they learned against the form chosen for the me- with a welcoming luncheon, at Houses and other buildings were Aviators at Mitchell Field said that tinue, according to the danger avenue, fell to the floor roadster which Dement was driving wf hich rival forces, inspection tour morial, contending that it should be a Dr. Alfred Shaw, editor of the blown down or seriously damaged, under the weather conditions, now until one of the three by their automobile outside his bedroom door shortly as a rum car on Marlboro road and Review Reviews, spoke r structure to house ex-service men’s of and District trees uprooted and live stock Chang Tso-Lln, the Northern war yesterday that anything may happen after last midnight, o were was obtaining, if Capt. Nungesser could tw young men c ganizations and gave -chase. Racing toward the city Kai-Shek, Nationalist east of the river, below Baton Rouge, possibly a National Commissioner Dougherty made the killed. make a landing in New* York, he lord; Chang escaped from the premises, leaving Guard armory, Col. William Mitchell at 65 miles an hour, the report stated, formal address of welcome blown down generalissimo, the Hankow Na- wr hen the flood peak arrives. on behalf Telephone wires were would have performed a miracle even or behind them a brace, bit and bloody yesterday gave his check for SSO to the fleeing auto opened up a smoke of the people of the District. and communication was disrupted. greater than that of crossing tional regime gains ascendancy. The gravity of the situation not hammer. fund. screen, and turning from Marlboro the be the side, but the memorial At the same time Atlantic. The searchlights were turned Chang Tso-Lin appears to only on the east in the Hearing a noise in the entry way letters were being sent to the approxi- road into Pennsylvania avenue south- Business Sessions Begin. on during the day at strongest, but only as a temporary neighborhood of the mouth of the old at the foot of the steps below him, mately 800 members east, swerved to the left, almost First business sessions Wind Sweeps St. Louis. Mitchell Field is unlikely, the British say, river the west, above Baton of Costello Post began at 2 to aid the flyers. ruler who on the man opened his door on the sec- urging their attendance at the next hitting the pursuit car. The report o’clock with John Nolen, president ST. LOUIS, May 9 OP).—Charles to solve the fundamental problems Rouge, has impelled Secretary Hoover ond floor and limped told of Williams, 40, killed: Evidence of the distressing flying toward the regular meeting of the post, wffiich will of the chase through the south- the conference in the chair. Mr. negro, was Annie weather in confronting the country. British offi- to stay in this hazardous territory steps to investigate. As he reached east section of the city and of the Nolen Edmunds, 29, negro, was seriously and about New York was eclipse be held at the District Building a week is a well know n city planner of cials look upon the definite of until the final battles are won or lost. the top of the stairs his night. fugitive crashing porch Cambridge, injured and considerable property bad when Comdr. Francesco de Pinedo, as hands were from tomorrow car into a at Mass. Ibe Italian flyer, the Communistic element in China His headquarters for the next week seized and he was hit twice over the Mrs. Mary C. Costello, mother of Fifteenth street southeast, There damage was caused by a heavy wind- was forced down in important development were two general topics at the heavy fog in Long Island Sound the most or so, or until the crisis is past, will head with a hammer. Vincent B. Costello, for whom Costello where Austin Jarhoe, riding with the afternoon session, storm which struck St. Louis early namely:' “Public there in recent months. be the whole area from Baton Rouge Dement, today. Numerous trees were blown on his flight to from Twisting in the grasp of his assail- Post is named, today sent $lO for the attempted to run away but Services Which Require Regional Boston. Troops at Swatow. to New r Orleans, he announced today. ant, he saw that he wr as a young fund, and William F. Franklin, ad- was caught, while Dement, shot Planning and and down and window glass was shattered. Moderate Secretary of War Davis, vho is through head, Control.” “Govern- white man. Another man stood at jutant of the post, contributed sl. the was lifted from mental Organization to Liners Without Word. A Hongkong dispatch to the Ex- particularly concerned with the flood the foot of the stairs, Promote Re- just inside the Today’s reports will decide the wan- (Continued Page 7, Column 5.) (Continued Six Reported Dead. reports the arrival control problem of the on on Page 4, Column 4.) Ts the. “white bird” was off Cape change- Telegraph future, will door leading to the street which Mr. ning precinct among the city’s police JEFFERSON CITY. Mo., May 9 UP). Race. Newfoundland, her of 600 Moderate troops aboard a leave here this evening for Memphis, Adriaans had locked when he retired stations in the race which started a course would in —John Rankin of Eldon, which was naturally lie across to Cape Canso. Chinese troopship at Swatow. following conferences with the spill- for the night. week ago for a cup, donated by the by tornado last night, ar- Kwangtung Province. Their way board and members of the Missis- Despite his screams, struck a Nova Scotia, and then skirting the eastern he was forced Memorial Commission, to the precinct Father Surrenders Son rived here today and said at least six shore line of Nova Scotia Cape arrival has eased the tension there, sippi River Commission. He may then to face the wall and hold his hands turning in the largest number of sub- After Confession past coup has proceed persons were killed by the storm. Snide, the aviators would head the and danger of a Communist to St. Louis to confer with above his head. The thief searched scriptions to the memorial. Rankin said the twister struck the “white bird” for Boston and New (Continued on Page 4, Column 6.) (Continued on Page 7, Column 6.) his pockets .and then hit him over Standing of Precincts. Os Armed Holdup; Stolen Auto west section or the town and demol- York. the head several times, leaving him Recovered everything Last night’s figures showed that the ished in its path. Inquiries at at the Radio Cor- as he sank to the floor in a daze. noon have turned in a poration and independent After lying for hours in a dazed police so far total Special Dispatch to Star. HUNDREDS WITHOUT wireless condition, of $1,198.96 toward the memorial, No. The Williams after they had been driven HOMES. companies and the steamship com Reed Asks Other Democratic Mr. Adriaans made his way ROCKVILLE, Md., May ,9. Senators his room, where he 10 precinct leading the race with —Sur- out for a demonstration upon the parties with vessels at sea brought the to bathed his rendering his 16-year-old son on Hardest wounds. He was then taken $2lO, and the Detective Bureau second a pretense that they wanted to pur- Kansas Hit By Twister; response that no word had come from 1 to charge of robbery, Elmer of chase the automobile. Williams,- the “white bird." To Urge Extra on Relief Casualty Hospital and treted for with $190.50. The standing of other Rife who Scores Injured. Session Flood precincts Takonia Park, Md, yesterday is connected with the Motor While a $25,000 prize severe lacerations and contusions follows: No. 1, $93.75; No. 3, helped Peerless offered by i -* 11, the police Co., on Fourteenth street, was bound KANSAS CITY. May 9 UP).—'Torna- Raymond Orteig, about the head. On his insistence, $166.40; No. $3; Traffic Burea u toward solution of the hold- New York and Paris $69.50; $87.76; No. No. with a rope, relieved of $3, left does, blizzards, torrential rains hotelman, for the first Senator James A. Reed of Missouri progressive Senators today, however, that he had business to at- No. 6. 8, $41.80; up of Edwin Williams of Washington, and and non-stop flight Senator Cl.; In the woods a short distance from hailstorms in the Western States Sat- from Reed tend to, he was discharged later in 5, $145; No. 12, No. 7, $107.60; No. who was robbed of his automobile New York to Paris has been the today sent telegrams to all other said: 14. $3; No. 4, $59.70; No. $3.50; No. Columbia road, at place called urday night and yesterday killed at “I say that the morning. 9. and money last Tuesday a means of attracting attention to a Democratic urging them venture to if the sugges- 13, evening by White Oak. Rife said Davis gave lekst 16 persons, injured scores and left flight Senators to tion I have made meets with your # $3. young between the United States and ap- A number of contributions have two men whom he had taken him the gun to hold while he per- hundreds homeless. France, several of the expeditions advise the President to call an' extra proval I hope you will express your out for a demonstration of Kansas legislate Four Children Burned. been made in memory of individuals, a car. petrated the robbery. was hardest hit when a have not registered for the prize session of Congress to for the opinion to the President. I think the Rife said hip eon Ernest returned OP).— and with those received Saturday eve- In the car the boys made a trip twister started near the Oklahoma bor- money. The Nungesser Plane, mak- flood sufferers in the Mississippi Val- magnitude of the disaster and the ex- POPLAR BLUFF, Mo., May D home night after an der In the central section ning were c j from Comdr. and Mrs. Saturday absence through several States, returning of the State ing its flight from Paris to New York, iev. tent ol the suffering demands govern- Four children of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. of several days confessed his when they Saturday night and four Senator Reed a telegram to farmer, Harry Kimmell, "in memory of our and were out of funds. The late sw'ept is rot eligible for the Orteig prize. sent mental action." Wiley, were burned to death part In the holdup of Williams. He car was left wood counties, leaving 11 known dead. President Coolidge last Friday sug- Senator Reed is at present Excel- In a fire that destroyed their home 15 (Continued on Page in a near Takoma The first definite sighting of Ihe at 2. Column 4.) gave the naple of Horace E. Davis Pai*t, and the police found it yester- Two women and two children were gesting an — that he call such extra ses- sior Springs. Mo. The telegrams miles south of here early today. 1¦ # plane mhcp its hop off was at were The of his companion, killed 5:10 sion. In *> Woodsidejas and day where Rife directed them to go. in a tornado near Eldon. In his telegram the Demo- sent out today to the other Senators children were trapped in their rooms Davis, I ntinued on Page 2, Column 5.; cratic Senators awed 30. was arrested. Rife gave SI,OOO bail pending a hear- * *outh central Missouri, last night. Mea-. and tc%ome of tha ' in kin name by his secretary* in the second story? Radio Program*—-Page 34 Davis pointed a gun * RUefsaid at"* ting, w'hile Davis WL was locked up. (Continued on Page 4. Column $4 7 jlffr '