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| i . NUNGESSER PLANE 15 REPORTED SEEN g ‘ WEATHER. 1U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Showers this afternoon followed by fair tonight and tomorrow; not much change in temperature. Temperature—Hi; vesterda toda; Full Closing N. Y. Stocks 30,328. Entered as secon post _office, Was [N NEWFOUNDLAND Several Tell of Sighting White Ship—O0thers Hear Sound of Motor. HEADED NORTHWEST WHEN LAST OBSERVED No Other Aviators Known to Have Been Flying in Vicinity at Time. HARBOR GRACE, Newfoundland, May 14.—A woman resident of Har- bor Grace and two men in Bear Cove, near here, reported today that last Monday morning they saw an airplane passing over. The men said it was painted white. The woman, Mrs. Alice Kelly, who is elderly, said that it was about 10 o'clock Monday morning when she saw the plane. The men, Eben Peddle and his son, asserted that they saw the plane at about the same time. It was going northwest, athey dded, and they watched it until it passed from sight. PBear Cove is a small fishing vil- lage east of Harbor Grace. Peddle and his son came into this town to- day for the first time this week and related their story. Earlier in the week several resi- dents of Harbor Grace reported that they had heard the sound of an air- plaine engine between 9 and 10 Mon- day morning, but that on account of the dense fog they were unable to see the plane. This led to the theory that the plane might have been that of the missing French airmen, Capts. Nungesser and Coli. No other plane was known to have beem in this wvicinity at the time. THREE-PLANE RACE LOOMS. Byrd, Chamberlin and Lindbergh Stand Ready to Start. NEW YORK, May 14 (P.—A tri- cornered air race to Paris loomed as a greater possibility today as adverse ‘weather conditions = caused further postponement in the take-off of the two foremost contenders. The Weather Bureau's report that a squally condition existed beyond ‘midocean. caused Clarence Chamber- lin and Lloyd Bertaud, to postpene their flight set for early today. Meanwhile Comdr. Richard E. Byrd to be rushing his plana for a hop-off, Capt. Charles unnsheufiz spectacular Lochinvar out of the “West, {s rarin’ to go ‘better weather. g Acosta May Get Berth. Byrd, with a bandaged arm, carried since the Fokker monoplgne America crashed in a test flight a“month ago, had not been expected 8 hop off for several days at least, t he made arrangements for the sling to be re- moved from his injured arm today. There came news, too, that the America would be turned over today to the American Transoceanic Co. backer of the flight, that Byrd's pilot would be annofinced. Bert Acosta, it was generally believed, would supplant the injured Floyd Bennett as pilot. Lieut. George No- ville will be the third member of the Byrd party. & These developments, with a Weath- er Bureau prediction that a change in weather should not be expected over the week end, Jed to the opinion Byrd might catch up with Lindbergh and the Chamberlin-Bertaud combina- tion in preparations. There wat a feeling that Lindbersh, the 25-year-old debonair fiyer frem the Missouri National Guard, might do the unexpected, Stirring aviation eir- cles Thursday by landing here from San Diego, Calif., in two hops and record. time, he soon had his single- seated Ryan monoplane, the Spirit of St. Louis, groomed to continue east- ward without notice, “The very minute the clearing comes,” he -said, “I'll be off and T don’t care whether it's breakfast, sup- per, dinner or the middle of the night.” His plane is at Curtiss Field, Long Island, with the Bellanca monoplane Columbia of Bertaud and Chamberlin. Bertaud intimated that the Spirit of St. Louis would not sneak away into the sky unaccompanied. “We will start when anybody else starts,” he said. Sportsmanship Prevails. Despite the friendly rivalry of the three groups, the spirit of sportsman- ship rules them. Grover Whalen, rep- resentative of Rodman Wanamaker, chief of Byrd's backers, offered both Lindbergh and Chamberlain use of the carefully graded two-mile runway of Roosevelt field, a short distance from Curtiss Field, for their take-offs. Cham- berlin and Bertaud proffered the young Missourian their weather maps and a radio and Byrd let him use his charts. The Ryan and Bellanca planes have received assurance of aid from the Shipping Board and Coast Guard. All Shipping Board vessels will be asked to report mews of the flight immedi- atelv. Three Coast Guard sea planes at Gloucester, Mass., have been asked to escort the two planes out of American territory. The Coast Guard cutter Modoc will lay down a smoke screen as a guide for the flyers about 1,500 miles off New York. The America and the Columbia both have been given tests. The America, which will weigh three times as much as each of the two other planes, was taken up by Lieut. Bert Balchen and Daniel Kline, who said it performed perfectly. Byrd watched the flight. Hope Still Held. The Bellanca was flown twice by Chamberlin. The radio generator, which the aviators had detached be: fore Nungesser and Coli disappeared over the Atlantic without a radio transmitter, has been replaced on the plane. Lindbergh meanwhile confined his attentions to tinkering with his plane before a_crowd that included a num- ‘ber of admiring young women. Theories and vague reports today kept alive a rapidly dwindling hope for the safety of Nungesser and Coli. The fifth day in which the French airmen were overdue in their 3,800 mile flight from Paris to New York saw a slight strengthening of the be- lief that the aviators might be lost in the Newfoundland wilderness. In addition to reports that an un- identified plane had passed over |Marbor Grace and St. Mary's Bay lowest, 53, at 3:30 a.m ghest, 66, at 4:30 and Bonds, Page 14 d class matter C. hington, D. I Escapes Death Plot I GOV. ALVIN T. FULLER. DYNAMITE SENT 0 GOV. FULLER Postal Inspectors Intercept Package—Threat Made Over Sacco and Vanzetti. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, May 14.—A package con- taining dynamite addressed to Gov. Alvan T. Fuller of Massachusetts was intercepted by postal authorities here ah WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, MAY 14, 1927-FORT today. The parcel, which was accompanied by a letter threatening violence if Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzet- ti are executed, was taken from the mails by an alert employe at the par- cel.post station. The letter was forwarded today to the governor with an accompanying letter from Postal Inspector Park D. Colvin, Threatening Note. The threatening mnote, which was tied to the parcel with wire, read: “Governor of Massachuetts: I have succeeded in getting % pint of this. If Sacco and Vanzetti are going to be murder I am going to get more and use it. (Signed) “A Citizen of the World.” Inspector Colvin said in his report to the governor: “The inclosed threatening com- (Continued on Page 9, Column 6.) < - Sun 00@,9( Out Early in Day, But' Track Is Expected to Be “Dull.” By the Associated Press. LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 14.—Pros- pects of a crowd of unprecedented size witnessing the Kentucky Derby here today were strengthened by constant shining of the sun as the hour for the running of the classic approached. Officials predicted that the track at Churchill Downs would be “dull,” due to rainfall yesterday and last night. ‘Workmen spent the morning im- proving the track. It was believed that their efforts would be rewarded by the course being classed as “fast” when the horses were ordered to the post for the big race. A great deal depended, however, on the weather continuing to be ideal, as predicted by Government experts. All Seats Sold. TEvery unreserved seat was sold long before noon. Tens of thousands of other persons held reserved seat tickets. Squads of policemen began their struggle to keep traffic moving in the vicinity of the historic racing plant shortly after dawn. Nearly every. con- ceivable type of vehicle was to be found in the neighborhood. License tags of numerous autoro- biles showed that their owners had traveled thousands of miles to attend the event. The fact that the track probably would be “dull” was believed to be in favor of the chances of one of the ‘Western horses to finish first in the $50,000 sprint. Royal Julian, Hyd- romel, Rolled Stocking and Fred, Jr., are among the animals whose stock is believed to have been boosted by the condition of the oval. However, Kiev, Bostonian and Scapa Flow, among the entries from the East, also are “mudders.” 25,000 From Chicago. It was estimated that more than 25,000 fans from the Chicago district would be present when all the spec- tators had. been crowded into the plant. Many of that number came on special trains. They were strong for Fred Jr., a Windy City entry. Other sections also sent special trains. If all the horses entered—18— start, the race will be worth $52,526 to the owner of the winner. The largest previous value was $53,775, captured in 1922 by Morvich. ¢ Fhoen ¢ WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION BRITISH AND SOVIET FACE OPEN BREAK OVER LONDON RAIDS Rupture Imminent as Police Comnlete Task of Seizing Russian Papers. SCOTLAND YARD TAKES 7 TONS OF DOCUMENTS Object of Search Believed to Have Been Long Missing Gov- ernment Data. By the Associated Press. LONDON, May 14.—After working t rough the night with pneumatic arills and oxyacetylene torches the po- lice today completed the task of break ing open the safes in Soviet House, supposed to contain something sought by the authorities, ¢ e nature of which has not been disclosed. Immediately the safe-cutting appa- ratus was removed, although a large body of police, some of them in uni- form, was kept in the offices, and 2 sufficient force was retained in nearby sireets to bar entrance to the building. The search of the offices of Arc Ltd., Soviet commercial agency in London, and the Russian trade dele- gation, ‘located in the building, was begun Thursday. Late last aight drills and torches were brought in. The work of opening the safes was under the supervision of the firms which built t m. 4 Soviet Explains Weapens. The vaults are modern strong rooris of considerable dimensions, with doors 10 feet high, extending virtually over the whole basement of Soviet Housz. The newspapers ceased to feature the discovery of arms in the Arcos office, the Soviet explanation that the guns were samples of hunting rifles be- ing generally accepted. Soviet House was searched under a warrant said to have been issued un- der the official secrets act, dealing with the unauthorized possession of state documents. It gives the police wide powers where possession of such doca- ments is even suspected. o After a protest against the raid was made by the Soviet charge d'affaires to Foreign Secretary Chamberlain, it was admitted by both British and Rus- sian officials in don that a rupture of Anglo-Soviet relations was not at all out of the question. They declared the two-€ountries were nearer a break thap-at any time since relations were resumed with ;;n;islcnlnz of the trade on, he: trade delegation Soviet commercial organization, was made to discover whether a certain document, of importance to the state, which has been missing for several months, was to be found there. Seize Seven Tons of Papers. Seven tons of documents, printed matter and correspondencs have al- ready been carted away from the So- viet House to Scotland Yard, it was estimated-this morning by Soviet offi- cials, who .charged that the police were still acting in “an absolutely ar- bitrary manner.” ‘The Soviet representatives declared the raid was practically in the nature of an attack, because the search was started without previous presentation of the warrant guthorizing it. Repre- sentatives of Arcos, Ltd., said*they were deprived of the possibility of be- ing present during the greater part of the investigations. No list of the documents carried away by the police was shown to the Soviet officia’;, consequently neither the Arcos nor the trade delegation ¢fli- cials know what the detectives took. The Russian officlals remained pas- sive while the detectives and inter- preters examined the contents of the safes and the strong rooms, which were forcibly opened during the night. Arcos officials, however, protested against the “melodramatic and sensa- tional methods™ employed by the Scot- land Yard men. All Precautions Taken. The police took elaborate precau- tions against possible interference while the safes were being searched. A large force of armed detectives was on duty in Soviet House this morning. The Tass Agency, Soviet news bu- reau, states that the raid occurred precisely at the moment when signs were becoming evident of a revival of Anglo-Soviet trade and when credit and banking facilities were beginning to be extended to the Soviet union in Great Britain. ‘“There is strong suspicion,” it adds, “that the raid was the result of pres- sure exerted by those elements of British public opinion which have al- ways been hostile to an .Anglo-Soviet rapprochement and whose aim was %0 bring about a rupture in the relations between Great Britain and the Soviet union.” JOVIET SEES RUPTURE. Officials and Press Agree Situation Is Grave. MOSCOW, May 14 UP).—The rald on Soviet House in London is con- sidered.here as of far greater conse- quence than the raid carried out some weeks ago by Northern Chinese agents on the Soviet embassy com- pound in Peking. There is no mistak- ing the feeling in Soviet quarters that because of the standing of the British (Continued on Page 4, Column 2.) Executioner by By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, May 14.—Dr. Frank Price, professor of the Nanking Theological Seminary, escaped decapi- tation at the hands of Chinese be- cause he refused to kneel, he declared on his arrival here aboard the liner Korea Maru. The Chinese love of ceremony was declared by Dr. Price to be the only reason he escaped death at the ex- ecutioner’s ax. He said that when Chinese soldiers and mobs entered Nanking Mrs. Price and her children escaped to an American gunboat. Dr. Price remained in the city, however, and was one of a group of Americans :Monday morning came rumors from j | «Continued on Page 4, Column 4 captured by the invaders, robbed and brutally treated. U.S. Professor Escapes Ax of Chinese His Refusal to Kneel “I was a prisoner eight hours,” the professor said. “On seven different occasions my captors threatened to kill me, ordering me to get down on my knees with my head on the ground so that they could behead me. This is the correct position for executions in China and rarely deviated from. “Each time I refused. It made my captors highly indignant. “‘How then can we cut off your head?" they complained to me. ‘You are very unfair to us.’ P “I finally escaped through the secret help of a friendly lieutenant.” Dr. Price, his wife, son and daugh- ter, arrived yesterday with a party of 20 refugees. sPpge 42 Radio Progra FIGHT T0 CONTINUE SAYS NIGARACUAN Head of Liberal Regime De- nies Peace Pact With Stimson. By _the AsGociated Press, - MEXICO CITY, May 14.—Dr. Juan B. Sacasa, head of the Liberal regime in Nicaragua, which has been fighting the Diaz Conservative regime, was quoted today by Pedro Zepeda, his representative here, as denying that an agreement had been reached by which the Liberals would lay down their arms. Senor Zepeda made pub- lic a dispatch which he said he had recelved from Dr. Sacasa, reading: “Explicitly deny reports that an agreement has heen reached between Stimson (Henry L. Stimson, ‘?:;“mml it Coolidge) who support my government. “Neither my government, nor the sovereign Nicaraguan people -nor. the Constitutional army will accept Diaz (Conservative), as President. ““The fatal term set by the invaders to the Liberals for the laying down of their arms expires today (Friday), but as all Liberals are fighting together like a single man, we are expecting in- evitable bloody developments. Notify the world that the soldiers who for more than a year have been fighting under great hardships will march to death rather than to dishonor.” Zepeda in making public the mes- sage, declared that the world soon would witness the greatest power openly fighting the small Nicaraguan republic, and that “news would soon reach the United States that the blood of the youth of the two continents, of the youth of the twe countries, spilt on the battlefields.” FORCES GIVE UP ARMS. Two Liberal Bands, However, Refuse to Turn in Guns. MANAGUA, Nicaragua, May 14 (#). —Liberal leaders here today empha- sized that the agreement between Henry L. Stimson, personal represent- ative of President Coolidge, and Gen. Moncada for the laying down eof the Liberal arms was solely a military agreement, as the general does not represent the entire Liberal party. It was pointed out that President Sa- casa's peace delegates, the Liberal excutive committeemen, and Sacasa himself have stated at all times that they would not deal with the Conser- vative government under President Adolfo- Diaz, or accept representation in the government so long as Diaz was President. Meanwhile the disarmament of both Liberal and Conservative forces is con- tinuing, and Mr. Stimson was pre- pared today to proceed to Las Band- eros, where, on the invitation of Gen. Moncada he will address the Liberal soldiers before they are formally dis- banded. Gen. Moncada asked him to do this to miake it clear that the United States was acting, not in be- half of the Conservatives, but through a desire to help Nicaragua and to as- sure impartial elections. Approximately 1,000 Liberals in the field and 1,000 Conservatives in Mana- gua turned in their arms yesterday. The Liberal Gen. Miller with 300 men and a few scattered bands have an- nounced -they will not comply with the order to lay down their arms, while Gen. Cabulla, with 400 men, is still holding out near Chinandega. At a meeting of the directors of the Conservative party, approval was given to the plan agreed upon by Gen. Moncada and Mr. Stimson for restora- tion of Liberal representation in the government. EX-MAYOR CONVICTED OF CRIMINAL LIBEL Finger Appeals Capitol Heights Case, Brought by Luckett Over Item in Newspaper. Special Dispatch to The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md., May 14. —Former mayor George Finger, editor of a Capitol Heights newspaper, yes- terday was found guilty of criminal libel by Justice of the Peace H. W. Gore here jn connection with a publica- tion in his paper m"fl’ Thomas J. a $5 and TS CHAUNCEY’S CHOICE Y- ny Sar. TWO PAGES. - THIRD_DEGREE POLICE METHODS ,DENOUNCED BY LAW INSTITUTE Overzealous Officers A;e Liable for Dam- ages, Is View Taken by Legal Organization. “Third degree” methods of compel- ling prisoners to ‘“come across” with confessions, excessive use of force and other abuses of the power of arrest, denounced as common occur- rences in police circles, were main- tained by the American Law Institute today to be sufficient cause to hold over-zealous officers liable for damages. Discussion of these abuses at the final session of the institute developed the fact that this body, representative of the bench and bar of the country, does not countenance the overstepping of the rights of private citizens by officers. - Restatement of the law by the in- stitute h;:g b‘:h.frly tfilt'hm;:flc«:d me for _ prosec A 2 4f, {n”their zeal to enforce the law, they unnecessarily persecute or otherwise #buse the rights of the accused. Hope for Remedy. “It s an astonishing faet,” accord- ing to Owen J. Roberts, Government counsel in oil litigation and a member of the institute, “how seldom through- out the country civil actions are brought against officers who abuse the power of arrest. 3 “The impression seems to exist in CHINESE SOLDIERS SEIZE 0. S. OIL Firing on Foreign Ships In- creases Along Yangtze Near Nanking. By the Associated Press. SHANGHAI, May 14.--Firing on ships passing Nanking, on the Yangtze River, s becoming more frequent. An, American destroyer was fired on twice yesterday by the Chinese. A British destroyer apd a British steamer also were targets for Chinese fire while at anchor. Several ships proceeding down the river under convoy were fired on near Nanking. Northern Chinese forces, said to be commanded by a Russian officer, conflscated large amounts of oil be: longing to_the Standard Oil Co at Pukow today. The United States consul at Nanking, John K. Davis, has made a protest. Pukow is across the Yangtze River from Nanking. MEXICO WILL DEPORT 2,000, PAPER ASSERTS Tres Marias to Be Destination of Persons Held as Rebels, Says El Sol. By the Assoclated Press. MEXICO CITY, May 14.—More than two thousand persons in jail on the charge .of seditious and revolutionary activities, El Sol said today, are soon Lo be deported to Tres Marias, Mexico’s tropical island penal colony in the Pacific. The island is sometimes likened to France's penal colony, Dev- irs Island. The newspaper presumes that most of these prisoners are Catholics and adds that their deportation will go far “to crush the Catholic revolution against the government.” El Universal Grafico states that the departure for the United States of Right Re‘;:l uA;:yllulmAll‘umirln:.. Bishop of Hu pan eon, and - Rev. glmpol leaves rot a single Cath- Jlic prelate in Mexico except Most Rev. Francis Orozco y Jimirez, Archbishop of Guadalajara, who is in hiding in the State of Jalisco. Some. well informs persons, howéver, voice the opiniol that there are other prelates in 4 country, but where they are a e Lo Busc sy of ntla, nd A D Do e Laredo, it wase announced last e T, the public mind that the victim of these abuses has no recourse under the law. The position held by the American Law Institute, it is hoped, will do much to correct this impres. sion and enable persons to take away the property of officers who over- step the law in their zeal to en- force it.” The position of the American Law Institute in restating the conflicting opinions of courts with respect to service. () Means Associated Press. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news Yesterday’s Circulation, 103,262—. TWO CENTS Baltimore Woman ] To Mark Second | Silver Wedding By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, May 14.—Twice married, Mrs. F. A. Broadbent of Baltimore will celebrate her sec ond silver wedding anniversary to morrow. Her first' was marked in 1892 as Mrs. B. H. Morgan. Soon afterward her husband died and she marrled again in 1902. | Born in Middlesex County, Va., Mrs. Broadbent first became a bride in November, 1867, when only 15 vears--old. Thirty-five years aszo she came to Baitimore and has | sipee made her home here. e has 4 children and 10 grand- thildren. Tomorrow they will tender her a party in honor of the event. . PLAN FOR HUGE POWER PROJECT Hydroelectric Plants on Po- tomac and Tributaries Are Aim of Corporation. The Potomac River Corporation of Wilmington, Del., has made forma! application to the Federal Power Commission for a preliminary permit for a huge hydro-electric plant on the Potomac River and its tributarfes, in- cluding plants at Great Falls and Chain Bridge. The application, signed by Robert J. Bulkley of Cleveland, was received by the commission yesterday and under the rules it must be advertised in the territory affected for eight weeks before any permit 1s Issued. If any objections appear in that time then the commission will hold public hearings, and if not then the permit will be issued as a matter of course, it was said. The issuance of the permit, it was pointed out, is not authority to pro- ceed on the project, but it merely serves to give the permittee a priority over any one else who might be figur- ing on the project. It was added that ft will cost a quarter of a million dollars to make the survey and plan a design for such a project, and for that reason, any company - seeking a permit wans to be protected against such a loss. After the preliminary permit is is- sued, then, before any work on the project can be started, there must be such. vital matters as “foreible entry,” the “forcible taking of property” and arrests in general, is liable to have a_ far-reaching effect in correcting abuses of power by prosecution officers. 1 of officers, it was the insti- tcuu 18 Mm:.u ‘much >-n‘i§¢mpm-“' hibition- enforcement officers who re- sort to fllegal mczl s to obtain evi- dence as any other arm of law qu- forcement. _ It is common practice, Mr. Roberts sald, for Jaw officers to arrest. persons on insufficiént evidence, merely to compel them to ‘“come across;” and it is sueh practices as these that the institute seeks to break up Ly clearly (Continued on Page 9, Column 3.) FRENCH OFFICIALS T0 VISIT LONDON Doumergue and Briand Seek to Cement Friendship of Two Powers. By Cable to The S 10 e s rint. 1085 DY PARIS, May 14.—President Dou- mergue and Foreign Minister Briand are going to London Sunday on an tion of the plans, specifications and designs. Request for Permit. The memorandum of the Federal Power Commission, announcing the application says: “‘Potomac River ‘Corporation, Wil mington, DeL, requests a m'eT’mnary permit for hydro-electric’ power project on the Potomae River and its tributaries in the District of Columbia in Jefferson, Berkley, Morgan, Hamp shire; Hardy and Pendleton Counties. West Virginia; in Montgomery, Fred- erick and Washington Counties, Mary. land, and in Fairfax, Loudoun, Clark, Warren and Rockingham Countles Virginia. “The proposed scheme of develop ment similar to that recommended by Maj. Tyler in Senate Document No. 403, Sixty-sixth Congress, third ses- sion, with the addition of a storage dam at Charles Town, W. Va., and with the addition of dams and power house near Harpers Ferry, W. Va. “The present project covers four storage dams—near Charles Town, W. Va.; at Brocks Gap near Broadway, Va.; on South Branch near Spring- fleld, W. Va., and on the Great Caca- pon near Berkeley Springs, W. Va. Power is to be developed near Har- pers Ferry, W. Va.; at Great Falls, near Washington, and at Chain Bridge, Washington. “The four reservoirs are to store 1,650,000-acre feet of water and are proposed to equalize the flow of the Potomac River about 6,000 cubic feet per second. The power capacity of the project is not stated, but in Maj. Tyler's report the total combined in- stalled capacity of the power plants at Great Falls and at Chain Bridge was recommended at 294,000 horse- power. The power to be generated is to be sold for public utility purposes official visit. The object is to accen- tuate the entente cordiale between France and Great Britain. Ever since the war the two nations have been drifting apart, although European peace obviously depends to a large extent upon their co-operation. Recently the French have been im- pressed by Great Britain's close rela- tionship to Italy, while Great Britain perhaps will not be surprised, at the moment when the United States is opposing Great Britain’s Chinese policy and when Great Britain-has renewed a show of temper over war debts, to see France proposing a per- petual peace treaty with the United States. The desire of French statesmen is to make clear to the British the great value France attaches to Great Brit- ain’'s friendship. One question which will be discussed is the Rhineland oc- cupation. Germany is conducting a vigorous press and diplomatic cam- paign to force the allies into prema- ture evacuation. France feels the time is not yet at hand for such an evacuation and ‘hopes Great Britain will use a moderating influence on to operating and distributing com- panie to industries, and to other users of electric energy.” Potomac Connection Seen. As the information at the Federal Power Commission is to the effect that the power will be sold to public utilities companies, it is believed that Some arrangement would be made to connect up with the Potomac Electric Power Co, who would take the power and serve it to the people of the District of Columbia. This becomes apparent from the fact that the Potomac Electric Power Company has thousands of dollars invested in the transmission lines in this terri- tory, which, it replaced by another company, might take away the low cost of producing the current by water power. Officials of the Potomac Electric Power Company said that the mat- ter of purchasing hydroelectric cur- rent was a matter of dollars and cents with that company—that is, if the company can serve the people cheap- er by water power they would be interested, but otherwise not. enthusiastic over the hydro electric development on the Potomac, it was a’ final permit, following an examina- |- By Cable to New, TENFOOT FLOOD WAL POURS INTO SUGAR BOWL AREA ‘Water Engulfs Section as Gap in Louisiana Levee Widens to 600 Feet. INCREASED DAMAGE PLACED AT $10,000,000 Break Adds Thousands to Number of Refugees—1,000,000 Acres Face Inundation. By the Associated Press. NEW ORLEANS, May 14.—Waters from the Bayou Des Glaises crevasse were hourly adding to the total square miles of submerged lands in Loulsiana today, engulfing the famous “sugar bowl” and the Evanegeline country in their seaward march. The breaks were 150 miles northwest of here, on the west side of the Atachafalaya River. The latest collapses alone will in- crease the agricultural loss of the State by $10,000,000 and boost the total of the State’s homeless to nearly 200,000. When the Bayou des Glaises waters reach the Gulf of Mexleo more than 1,000,000 acres of Louisiana will be submerged in a vast lake, 225 miles long and ranging from 80 to 100 miles in width, Crevasse 600 Feet Wide. The crevasse at Moreauville was reported to be 600 feet wide, with a wave of water 8 to 10 feet deep sweep- ing through the gap. Moreauville was rapidly evacuated yesterday and last night, while adjacent territory also was being deserted. Army engineers estimated last night that 100 square miles had been inundated. A naval aviator flying low over the country behind the crevasses late yes- terday said that the waters would reach Melville within 36 hours, but by tnat time few people would remain In the territory. The aviator said the water was moving swi Coast guardsmen in charge of res- cue work declaved that they believed no lives would he 1 Former Gov. J. M. Barker, flond dictator, made a similar pred! . Crest Moves South. ‘The crest of th2 flacd in the Tensas hasin was mov! steadily south- v rd, the t Newellton, in upper Tensas parish. remaining stationary. Reads in the immediate vicinity of tha erevas cos, and” (hi ut t boats »atroiled tho 1 line to take off those whn went to the dikes for - ”yy'“ Fcl.rh:h: most part refugees ouzht wiih them onl; ‘hey wore. Y S (nzess were evacuated to Man- a and Marksville. Mansura, while y:;r.vn;yluu Dlzvs Glaises, was high and dry. being situated on a bl feet ahova the water line. ey Weather Bureau officials here {ssued a warning that little relief could be expected along thé Mississippl River, as the water in the Tensas Basin was higher than ever before, Dikes Are Strengthened. Along the main line of levees hold- ing the Mississippi within narrow bounds from Angola and Old River south, work continued with forces concentrated at Plaquemine Point, 15 miles south of Baton Rouge, and at Torres, where the dikes were being raised hurriedly to prepare for the ap- prgacr:lmgo creat. an Is_developed Thursda Plaquemine Point, but engineers be. lieved the situation was under control, Planters called to the scene last night arrived in evening dress from a dance and_directed laborers in erecting a sa:dbagob;:n-ler. New Orleans continued to be re- garded as safe, The situation in Miss- issippl gradually was improving, more than 3,000 refugees returning to their homes from the Yazoo City aRerugefle dCal’nr‘ while from other reas flood victims were returnin begin rebuilding farms. e BRANDS BOLSHEVISM GROWING DANGER Dutch 0il Firm Head Says It Will Spread Unless It Col- lapses Soon. The_Star and Chy o Copprsht, 10550 DY “Either AMSTERDAM, May 14 bolshevism will collapse or the entire world within a few years will become bolshevik,” declares Sir Henry Deter- ding, head of the great Royal Dutch oil Co., published here today. in a sensational interview Sir Henry expressed the opinion that the activities of the recently founded Soviet Oil Co. will furtlier depress oll prices, even in America, The local electric company is not |and continued: ‘“What the Soviets now offer for sale is our own oll, of which they pointed out, as it is the “beliet of |have robbed us.' officials that steam produced curren Germany. Another question fs China. Now that the British have somewhat tem- pered their atitude toward the Na- tionalists, France and Great Britain in light. France favors supporting Chang Kai-Shek and the moderate Natlonalists the the Potomac, which is subject to such great fluctuations in flow. Maj. Tyler, in his report, said that (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) JAPANESE WATCH PORTS Action Follows Arrest of Number 1 tles the last fe He added it was noteworthy that is more reliable, as against hydro de- | Polshevik propaganda had been p velopment, especially on a river like | ticularly virulent In the oil producing oul Indi Ptrle' like Mexico and the Dutch es. According to Sir Henry, the Rus- sians belleve that if they could estab- ish bolshevism in the principal ofl producing countries, they could con- trol the entire world. . :gnt in his opinion there were less He declared an 140 really sincere communists among all the 140,000,000 Russia. Py o LIQUOR IS MISSING. a Forty Cases Gons From Federal- ship, Declares Paper. VANCOUVER, ' British Columbla, May 14 (#).—The Morning Star said .today. that 40 cases of liquor were missing from the cargo of the steam- er Federalship, which was fllegally seized by the United States Coast Guard in March. The newspaper says the”Consoli- dated