Evening Star Newspaper, June 10, 1927, Page 1

\ _;g: of the daring skies awill WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Trundershowers tonight; cooler to! and cooler. Temperature—Highest, p.m. terday; I today. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 10 and 11 | %3 ! No. 30,355. Foifomie Wa Full report on page 9. Bureau Forecast.) s this afternoon or night; tomorrow, fair 88, at 4:15 lowest, 69, at 5 a.m. Che - w ——ee . Entered as second class mattel shington, D. C. WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1927—FORTY PAGES. » “ WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION LINDBERGH NEARS CAPES AS CITY PREPARES FOR GIGANTIC OVATION; DESTROYER MEETS FLYER AT SEA !MOTHER SPEEDING TO CAPITAL TO WELCOME HERO SON TO U. §. Mother to Greet ' Hero First at Navy Yar'd._ THRONGS PLAN BIG WELCOME ! Memphis Due at 11, After Triumphant b Trip Up River. | " The Navy cruiser Memphis, with | Col. Charles A. Lindbergh as the Nation's guest aboard, is due off the Navy Yard tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock, according to advices by the Navy Department today. As ! soon as she docks, about 11:15, Mrs. Evangeline Lindbergh, the school teacher mother of the intrepid flyer, will be taken aboard to be the first | to greet her son in the National Cap- ! jtal. Col. Lindbergh will have lunch- eon aboard the Memphis before he lands at noon. | During the forenoon the women’s | reception committee, headed by Miss | Mabel T. Boardman of the American | Red Cross, will send a letter, a large i bunch of red roses and a silver vase |to Mrs. Lindbergh at the White House. = Mother to Be Honored. ‘The vase will be more than a foot | high and will bear this inscription: “To Evangeline Ladge Lindbergh, in appreciation of mother and son.” | _'The State Department today took in charge a new feature of the Lindbergh | celebration here. In appreciation of the hearty reception and high honors accorded the American boy in the capi- tals of the Old World, he is to make 2 brief call at the French, British and |Belgian embassies here. The time of these calls has not been determined, and everything possible will be done to prevent a traffic jam that the police and military escort cannot control. i Official Picture Planned. Sometime during the Lindbergh ivisit an official War Department pic- young pioneer of 2bythe photo {section of the Cotps as a his- torical photograph. The time for this |has not been determined, but it will |probably be dope some time Sunday and possibly at Bolling Field, if and |when he goes to inspect the work in assembling his famous monoplane, the Spirit of St. Louis. Plans also are being worked out #0 as to avoid a crowd at Bolling Field |{Sunday that might break bounds and do damage to this historic airship. It 'is hoped that after it is assembled it can be put on a float and anchored off Hains Point, so that the public will have an opportunity to view it Sun- ‘day afternoon. Will Fly Over City. Col. Lindbergh will make a flight jover Washington, encircling the city several times, Monday morning be- Ifore he strikes out for New York, it \was officially announced today, first by Maj. Gen. Anton Stephan and then by Maj. Gen. Mason M. Patrick, chief of the Army Air Corps. This is to e a solo flight, with no other planes ear him as escort, in order that there ay be no doubt in the minds of the ecple that they have actually seen he intrepid fiyer himself. 1 This official announcement at the 'meeting of the executive committee {today was greeted with hearty ap- ‘proval not only because it will give the [people of Washington an opportunity to see Col. Lindbergh in his historic plane, the Spirit of St. Louis, but also becaus® it will relieve congestion lat Bolling Field, from which he is /to make his hop-off. As Col. Lindbergh heads for New York, he will be picked up by the 21- lane escort comprising the First Pur- {suit Group of the Army which flew lover the city yesterday afternoon. 1} Aviators to Be Hosts. Monday morning, Col. Lindbergh is o be honored guest of the aviators of he country at a breakfast in the M ower Hotel at 7 o'clock, at which his rother aviators intend to make sev- ral presentations. Following this, es- lcorted by 200 automobiles, Col. Lind- Pergh will proceed to Bolling Field, Maj. Hesse, superintendent of the Metropolitan police force, made it very emphatic that the police are taking responsibility only for the safe con duct of Col. Lindbergh. Only 50 of the automobiles in this pscort will be admitted to Bolling E“iem. On account of the limited traf. c facilities for reaching the fleld and bsolute limit of au- omobiles is placed at 60 by the mil tary authorities. Col. Lindbergh's prother aviators will be given a roped- off section directly in front of his plane and they will be depended upon go keep others from crowding too Elose. Naval aviators and the offici tion committee will be ta lling Field by boat from the Wash- fington Navy Yard in order to relieve the traflic condition. Al of these who ave received badges which will admit hem to the Navy Yard and to Bolling For parking, the eld were today instructed to be there | y 8 o'clock Monday morning. Breakfast Plans Complete. Final arrangements for the break- ffast were completed today by John F. yictory of the National Advisory ‘ommittee for Aeronautics, ac he National Aeronautic r. Victory, who has thus made jt ossible for the flying people in Wash- ngton to show their admiration for fthe noted airman. He said that Por- ger H. Adams, president of the as leiation would’ preside and introduce iCol. Lindbergh to the guests. Col. Tindbergh will deliver a bricf address. fAt the same time, Col. Lindbergh's jcommission as an honorary member the association will be presented to him by Mr. Adams. Col. Lindbergh glready is A member in good standing vilian air organization. 1 Aeronautic "Association were grateful today that v_had_been _extended ugd on Page. Trasgo., Will Arrive at Temporary White House in Auto This Afternoon. Mrs. Lindbergh Disappoints Crowd by Leaving Train Near Baltimore. Speeding to Washington to welcome her hero son back to his native land tomorrow, Mrs. Evangeline Lodge Lindbergh this morning alighted from the train at a small station near Baltimore and led newspaper men a chase to find her. ‘When she had been located in a Baltimore hotel it was announced that she would make the trip here this aft- ernoon in a White House car, escorted by Lieut. Francis J. Draling, junior military aide to the President, and will go directly to the temporary ‘White House as the guest of President and Mrs. Coolidge. Mrs. Lindbergh originally had plan- ned to arrive here tomorrow morning, but it is believed she changed her plans suddenly and left Detroit last night supposedly to avoid the publicity which has attended her since her son’s great exploit. By failing to arrive this morning LINDBERGH EAGER 0 VISIT CAPITAL Tells in Own Words of Hope to Meet Destroyer Van- guard Today. DY CHARLES A. LINDBERGH. By Radio to The Star and New York Times. ABOARD THE CRUISER MEM- PHIS AT SEA, June 9.—I have just been informed that when the Memphis reaches Cape Henry tomorrow at 4 PO EEEWill have wrees ord for the fastest run ever made by a naval vessel from Cherbourg, & distance of 3,337 miles, in 6 days, § hours, at an average speed of 24 knots. The Memphis, one of the fatest ships in the United States Navy, has laid down many records, but Capt. Lackey, her commander, and Comdr. Jabez S. Lowell, the engineering offi- cer, are particularly proud of this one. As we near home the days aboard seem more and more occupied. Be- sides engagements to lunch and dine with various members of the officers’ staff and crew, there is an almost con- stant flow of wireless messages from all parts of the United States which must be considered. I cannot reply to most of them until T see my friends in Washington, but I appreciate them just the same. 1 stole enough time from my book Mrs. Evangeline L. Lindbergh. Mrs. Lindbergh disappointed a crowd that had gathered at Union Station and for nearly two hours had a small army of reporters and photographers utterly mystified over her where- abouts. It was not until nearly 11 o'clock that she was located at the Belvedere Hotel in Baltimore, ‘When word arrived that Mrs. Lind- bergh was on the Red Arrow Limited, which left Detroit last night, news- (Continued on Page 5, Column 1.) GREAT AIR DISPLAY FOR FLYER READY Ninety Planes Will Take to Sky Tomorrow for Lind- bergh Welcome. The greatest aerial welcome ever arranged_to honor an individual, be- ginning &t a point 50 miles at sea and continuing up to the Washington Navy Yard, was ready to go forward this afternoon from the Army and “pases-1t1 the’ . folk to greet Col. Charles A. Lind- Dbergh aboard the cruiser Memphis. The Navy’s rigid airship Los Angeles, also given a prominent share in the advanced greeting, was ‘walting im- patiently in her hangar at Lakehurst, N. J., at noon for stiff winds to die down in order that the big airship might be “walked” out and take the air, More than 50 Army and Navy planes were “warmed up” at Langley Field and the naval air station at Hampton Roads, Va., ready to push out to sea this afternoon and wave a hearty wel- come to Col. Lindbergh as he views the advance guard from the deck of the Memphis. Included in the big formation and scheduled to fly out to sea are two Army blimps of the “TC"” type, so familiar to Washingtonians. This aerial contingent will spend several hours circling the Memphis (Continued on Page 5, Column 2.) 5 p.m.—Col. Lindbergh, followed by Monument. —NMilitary parade, proceed from Peace Treasury, swinging About 12 p.m.—President distinguished guests, the American people. Distinguished Flying Cross. response. Circle. ‘White House. 8:30 p.m.—Col. escorted by Mr. Lindbergh will respond. 9:30 p.m.—Col. a reception. ‘White House. About 9 o'clock—] Metropolitan Theater., ‘White House. 1:15 p.m.—C with the disabled veterans. 5:30 p.m.—Col. Hotel Washington. Mayflower Hotel. e escort. 3 cabinet committee and reception committee, mail wagons, will leave Navy Yard. slowly up Eighth street to Pennsylvania avenue, Capitol, across the Capitol plaza, down ‘Washington Monument grounds. will follow the military parade. Coolidge, surrounded by the cabinet, Supreme Court, members of Congress, diplomatic corps and other officials and ‘will commend Col. Lindbergh in the name of The President will pin on Col. Lindbergh the Following this official reception, day-time display of fireworks, and his mother will go to the (Continued on Page 5, Column 4.) Lindbergh’s Program ‘Tomorrow. 12 noon—Col. Lindbergh lands from cruiser Memphis at Navy Yard. Welcomed (probably) by mother, mittee, District Commissioners and reception committee of Federal officials, members of Senate and House and leading citizens. pass through lane formed by delivery of more than 500,000 air mail letters and escorted by “President’s Own’_troop of Cavalry from Fort Myer, with John Hays Hammond, in ‘White House car, then by President’s cabinet com- Will other famous aviators. Official packages. and by three The procession will move then west to the the north drive to the Peace led by Brig. Gen. S. D. Rockenbach, will ‘Monument along Pennsylvania avenue to the down Fifteenth street to B street and the Col. Lindbergh and his escort Col. Lindbergh will make a brief there will be a brilliant while the President, Col. Lindbergh temporary White House at Dupont 7 p.m.—Col. Lindbergh guest of honor at cabinet dinner in temporary Lindbergh, accompanied (probably) by his mother and Hammond, will leave temporary White House and attend Minnesota State reception in ballrooms of Willard Hotel. Secretary of State Kellogg will deliver an address of welcome and Lindbergh will be escorted by Mr. Hammond to the Wash- ington Auditorium, where the National Press Club will be hosts at Presentations will be made. About 11 o'clock—Col. Lindbergh will be escorted back to the temporary Sunday. £ xpected to visit Naval Air Station, Anacostia, to inspect his monoplane, the Spirit of St. Louis. About 11 o'clock—Expected to attend churchwith President and Mrs. Coolidge and his mother, probably the First Congregational Church, in the Lunch with the President at the temporary . Lindbergh leaves temporary White House, accompanied by Mr. Hammond and with a military escort, proceeding slowly across the Highway Bridge to Arlington National Cemetery to lay a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. will proceed to Walter Reed Hospital, via Q street, New Hampshire avenue and Sixteenth street. 4 p.m.—Col. Lindbergh will be officially received by Gen. Kennedy and staff at Walter Reed Hospital and then will visit for more than an hour Returning across Key Bridge Lindbergh will leave Walter Reed and proceed by quickest route to the Capitol to attend vesper flag service. 7 p.m.—Dinner at temporary White House. 8 p.m.—Col. Lindbergh will attend reception of Missourl State Society at the 11 p.m.—Return to temporary White House. et 13 Monday. 7 a.m.—Col. Lindbergh will be honored by brother aviators at a breakfast, under auspices of the National Aeronautical Association, in the 9 am. (or earlier)—Col, Lindbergh to hop off for New York, with an aerial L S ! R i W AL R S ST i) Films and Mail Taken Aboard Off Coast. AVIATOR READY FOR RECEPTION Gets to Work Early in Shirt Sleeves at Ship’s Desk. By the Associated Press. U. S. S. MEMPHIS, June 10 (by Wireless to the Associated Press).— The first home contact for Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, New York-to- Paris flyer, occurred at 6:05 a.m. to- day, when the destroyer Humphreys met the scout cruiser Memphis at sea. The vessels met 250 miles off the coast. The destroyer took aboard movie films made of the aviator dur- ing the voyage and a bag of official mail, which she was to carry to New York. The destroyer was expected to reach New York late today. Flyer's Busy Day. This was Lindbergh’s busy day. There was no time for such stunts as climbing the rigging, posing for the photographers or lunching with the gobs. The flyer arose at 8 bells, had a hurried breakfast and immediately afterward, in his shirt sleeves, was seen at the desk in his quarters try- ing to get his affairs in order for to- morrow’s landing. Radio communications for him con- tinued to accumulate in such num- bers that it will be a physical impos- sibility for him to answer them while at sea or even compile them in their proper order. He said, however, that he hoped eventually to reply to all the tele- grams, cables, wireless messages and letters which have been pouring in for weeks, The messages include in- vitations of all sorts, numerous busi- ness proposals afld suggestions of al- most every conceivable nature. Col. Lindbergh explained that he had tried to keep up with his corre- spondence in Paris, but that eight sec- retarfes at the embassy found it to be to Secretary Wilbur, Admiral Burrage, Capt. Lackey, Comdr. Bagley and all others of the Navy who have con- tributed toward making his second transatlantic crossing comfortable in every particular. He is saying a good word, too, for the mess cook, mess boys, orderlies and the sailors in general. “My associations with the crew all through the voyage will be one of my most pleasant recollections,” he said today. Plans St. Louis Hop Soon. As far as he knows, nothing defi- nite has been decided as to where his plane, the Spirit of St. Louis, will be assembled in Washington, but he assumes that it will be at Boll- ing Field, where he takes off for his flight to New York. The date and time are in the hands of the local committee. It appears likely, he says, that he will take his “good old bus” and hop off for St. Louis as soon as New York is through with him, provided there is enough left of him to fill the seat which he occupied for 33% consecu- tive hours on his record-breaking flight from New York to Paris. Since April 9, 1922, when he made his first flight, Lindbergh has been in the air a total of 1,836 hours and has flown in‘ 35 American States, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, Ireland, England, France, Belgium and Mexico. Expects to Fly Own Plane. Col. Lindbergh said today that he expects to fly the Spirit of St. Louis, his transatlantic plane, from Wash- ington to New York, as he promised, and perhaps later from New York to St. Louis. He added, however, that all the details connected with his re- ception were in the hands of the re- spective cltizens’ committees, and he would defer to their wishes. The task of assembling the mono- plane will begin as soon as possible after the Memphis docks tomorrow. The airman has learned of the re- ception plans of Washington’and New York in wireless messages, and he declared that they met with his ap- proval in every particular. Climbs Out on Yardarm. An unexpected thrill came the way of the Memphis crew yesterday when the aviator climbed out on the yard- arm to take photographs of the ship and its high speed wake. had settled himself on the lofty perch, it was suddenly realized that the high tension radio, always cut off when men are in the rigging, was still on, Orders were immediately issued by the officer of the watch for the sus- pension of the radio service, A 48-mile wind was blowing at the time, but for.20 minutes Lindbergh, 140 feet in the air, calmly pointed his camera. in every direction, most of (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) Washingtonians Asked To Hang Out Flags In Lindbergh’s Honor ‘Washington has been called upon to decorate its homes and business houses for the Lind- bergh reception tomorrow. Maj. Gen. Anton Stephan, chairman of the committee on decorations and _illumination, has asked particularly that the buildings along the line of march from the navy yard, along Pennsylvania avenue to the foot of the Monument and along the routes Col. Lindbergh will take Sunday on his trips to Arlington, Walter Reed and the Capitol, be dressed appropriately with flags and bunting. Rosettes and other decorative features to augment the color- ful array should be made with red, whl{e and blue bunting, the committee points out. Ting After hed &N AMERICANS GATHER INBERLIN TO OFFER HONOR 10 FLYERS Dinner Dance Tonight. Will Be Contribution of Fellow Countrymen. CITY DONATES BANQUET AND SPECIAL PLAQUES Chamberlin and Levine Tour Ai.r- plane Plants—Will Fly to Prague Thursday. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, June 10.—Americans from all parts of Germany were flocking to Berlin today for a dinner-dance to be given by the American Club tonight in honor of the transatlantic flyers, Clar- ence Chamberlin and Charles A. Le- vine. Through streets lined with cheering noonday crowds, Chamberlin and Levine drove to the Rathaus today, accompanied by American Ambassador Schurman, to receive further honors in recognition of their sensational flight Mounting the imposingly high stair- case, they were greeted by Lord ayor Boess, who was surrounded by uniformed ushers bearing wands sur- mounted by the coat of arms of the Berlin municipality. After being presented to the bor- ough mayors, the president of the board of aldermen and other digni- taries, the flyers and the Ambassador signed the city's “Gelden Book.” Orchestra Plays Anthem. Then they were escorted into the banquet hall to be greeted with a magnificent rendition of “The Star Spangled Banner” by Berlin's famous Symphony, Orchestra. At the conclusion of the luncheon, the lord mayor announced that the thoroughfare leading to Tempelhofer Air Field would henceforth be known as Columbia Strasse, after the trans- atlantic plane. He then bestowed upon the three guests the city’s honorary ~plaque, which is usually reserved for distin- guished citizens of Berlin. Another feature of a day that prom- ises to see the climax of their visit to Berlin, from the social standpoint, is a great banquet by the municipality of Berlin, at which the burgomaster is to present them with special plaques. The aviators intend to visit Munich and Vienna. They will fly to Prague, capital of Czechoslovakia, next Thurs- day, visiting the international aviation exhibition as’ the guests of the Aerial Club of Prague. Plans Undergo Change. The plans of Chamberlin and Levine A_;:derwcm. several. mnd,ifln&}lom‘ to- V. eyt First, they will not fly to Bremen to meet their wives, as they had consid- ered doing; instead the ladies will join their husbands at Prague, the capital of Czechoslovakia. Mrs. Chamberlin and Mrs. Levine will debark from the liner Berlin at Bremen June 17, where they will be the guests of the Lufthansa Air Lines at a “festival breakfast.” They will fly to Berlin, leaving Bremen at 11 o'clock and arriving at the Tempelhofer air field at 2 p.m. They will have luncheon in the air field restaurant and leave in a plane for Prague at 4 p.m., arriving in_the evening to join their famous hus- bands. A wireless message from the steam- er Berlin received at the Amerjcan embassy reports that both women are well and happy and that they are be- ing given great attention. The cap- tain turned his cabin over to Mrs. Chamberlin, while Mrs. Levine has cabin No. 1, adjoining. Chamberlin and Levine will be in Vienna from June 12 to 15, going to Prague on the 16th. Today they ac- cepted an invitation from the Polish government to visit Warsaw, but the date is yet to be fixed. They would also like to include Budapest, Hun- gary, In their itinerary, but are not sure whether they will do so. Chamberlin and Levine motored to Johani t (Continu POLISH FASCIST LEADER MAY SUCCEED PILSUDSKI Both Men Were Active in Politics in Youth, but Suffered Rus- sian Persecution. By the Associated Press. ‘WARSAW, Poland, June 10.—Roman Dmowski is the man most talked of in Poland as a possible successor to Marshal Pilsudski, should the dic- tator falter. Dmowski heads a_sort of Fascisti movement whose policy in regard to the Pilsudski government is one of “watchful waiting.” There is a parallel between the lives of Dmowski and Pilsudski. Both par- ticipated actively in politics in their early youth and had to interrupt their university studies on acount of Rus- sian persecution. Both left Poland, and after a forcible sojourn in Russia emigrated to Western Europe to set- tle later in Galicia, where the Aus- trian zovernment accorded greater political freedom to Poles. COMMITTED TO JAIL. Young Pleads Guilty to Using Christmas Fund. Pleading guilty to a charge of ap- propriating to his own use money of fellow employes in a Christmas savings fund, George Harry Damon Young, former clerk in the Quarter- master General's office of the War Department, today was committed to jail by Justice Hoehling in Criminal Division 1 to await investigation by Probation Officer Amos A. Steele. Young was arrested after investi- gation into complaints of employes that he had failed to make the Christmas saving fund payments, after being intrusted with the same, at the proper time, and was placed under $10,000 bond. The amount of the alleged peculations amounted to several thousand dollars, it was estimated. He was Indicted for conversion after trust and his bondsman yes- terday surrendered him to the cus- tody of the United States marshal. - 'Radio ProgramPage,25 Star * () Means Associated Press. DIFFICULT START IS DESCRIBED BY COLUMBIA ADVENTURERS Keeping Levise ‘Aloard snd Attempting to Avoid Hitting Crowd Nearly Prevented Safe Hop-off. BY CLARENCE D. CHAMBERLIN AND CHARLES A. LEVINE. By Cable to The Star and New York Times. BERLIN, June 9.—It seems, so long ago now—that take-off of ours from New York last Saturday—that it is hard to talk about it. . We can hardly remember what really happened in the excitement of getting away. Getting Levine aboard the plane before any one realized he was going, combind with dodging the people lined up on one side of the runway, was too much of a good thing. There was enough to do flying the plane with- out having to watch a crowd of people. ¥ Just after the start the plane began to swing because of the excessive weight in the rear cabin. There was danger of its going down the runway and hitting the crowd, so etting out of control, hamberlin cut off the motor and turned around for a new start. Immediately the crowd thought something had broken on the plane and so closed in on us from all sides. .. We had to taxi down to the end of the runway for a new start. Then it looked as if the jig was up. We were surrounded by people and could not move, and we were sure that by this time Mrs. Levine knew what was up. For the trick we played her we hope to beg her pardon some day soon. Mechanic Scared Off . Just at this moment John Carisi, our head mechanic, came close to the plane and shouted: “What are you doing, Mr. Levine? Your wife is going out of her mind. She has got the idea that you are going to Europe in the plane.” Now, John is a man who cannot stop talking once he gets started. (Continued on Page 6, Column 4.) ) ACRES ORDERED USED FOR STREETS Condemnation Proceedings Are Sanctioned in Walter Reed Hospital Area. Condemnation of approximately 40 acres of land for the opening and widening of streets in the vicinity of the Walter Reed Hospital was ordered today by the District Commissioners upon the recommendation of Melvin C. Hazen, District surveyor. This is the largest and most expensive con- demnation ever approved at one time by the Commissioners. The area involved in the condemna- tion lies south of the Walter Reed Hospital reservation and is bounded by Georgia avenue on the east, Rock Creek Park on the west, Military road on the south and the hospital reserva- tion on the north. The opening of streets in this territory will not pro- vide a traffic artery through the Walter Reed Hospital reservation, as both Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets will stop at the south line of the reservation. A bill which failed of passage in the last Congress would have enabled District officials to carry Fourteenth street through the reser- Wil Assist Traffic. The condemnation proceedings will be instituted to procure land for the extension and widening of Thirteenth street between Piney Branch road and the south line of the Water Reed Hos- pital reservation; the extension and widening of Fourteenth street between A road and the south line of the Wal- ter Reed Hospital reservation; the extension of Colorado avenue between Montague and Thirteenth streets; the extension and widening of Nicholson street between Thirteenth street and A road; extension of Concord avenue be- tween Georgia avenue and Seventeenth street; extension of Peabody street be- tween Georgia avenue and Fourteenth street, extension of Quackenbos street between Georgia avenue and Thir- teenth street, opening of Fort Drive between Thirteenth and Sixteenth streets, extension and widening of Sheridan street between Georgia ave- nue and Thirteenth street, opening of Tuckerman street between Georgia avenue and Thirteenth street, exten- sion of Van Buren street between Georgia avenue and Fourteenth street, extension and widening of Piney Branch road between Fort Drive and Georgia avenue, and the extension of Luzon avenue between Thirteenth street and the south dine of the Wal- ter Reed Hospital reservation. The development of the area in- volved in the condemnation, Mr. Ha- zen explained, has practically stopped at Montague street, for the reason that the various streets mentioned could not be acquired by dedication on ac- count of the small holdings and im- provements within the lines of the streets. The surveyor believes that the opening and widening of the streets through this section will be a tremendous boom to the area and at the same time provide additional traf- fic arteries for the rapidly developing territory to the north and in Maryland. BEIRES STILL MISSING. Portuguese Aviator Not Heard From Since He Left Para. BUENOS AIRES, June 10 (8).—A dispatch to La Nacion from ®ara, Brazil, says there has been no news from ‘the Portuguese aviator, Maj. Sarmento Beires, since he left Para Tuesday for Georgetown, West Indies, on his return flight to Lisbon by way of the United States. The Portuguese consul is said to be arranging to send out a searching steamer. (Maj. Beires flew from the west African coast across the southern At- lantic to the Island of Fernando do Noronha, off the Brazilian coast, in March. ‘From the island he flew to the South American mainland.) Reichsbank Raises Discount Rate. BERLIN, June 10 (#).—The Reichs- bank today raised its discount rate from 5 to 6 per cent. The rate of in- terest on advances remains at 7 per FLOOD REFUGEES DISREGARD DANGER Hoover Issues “Hard-Boiled” Disease Warning Against Return to Homes. BY REX COLLIER, Staft Correspondent of The Star. NEW ORLEANS, La., June 10.— There’s no place like home, even though it is a dingy cabin almost afloat in a lake of stagnant flood Louisiana’s flood refugees didn’t want to leave their homes in the first place, and now many of them are giving relief officials “the slip” and returning to their box-like houses in the flood-washed “sugar bowl.” This new development, just brought to the attention of Secretary Hoover and Vice Chairman Fieser of the Red Cross, resulted today in issuance of strict orders against reoccupation of flooded hornes because .of :serious health problems involved. * “These folks are just like the rest of us,” Secretary Hoover announced in explanation of the ruling. “They want nothing so much as their homes. But to let them go back now, with their cisterns polluted and sanitation bad, is unthinkable. “Be Hard-Bolled,” Says Hoover. “We've just got to be hard-boiled in this matter, not only for their own sake, but for the sake of all the others who would be threatened by an epi- demic in the flood area.. Keep them in the refugee camps until this water passes on, no matter how long it takes or how much it costs.” It looks as though it's going.to take a long, long time for Louisiana to free herself from the succession of floods which have swept down on her from several directions. and which still continue to engulf many of her sugar cgne plantations, lumber mills, railroads, villages and other property in the Atchafalaya Basin. “Your problems here are worse than any’ in the entire Missis- sippi Valley,” Secretary Hoover de- clared yesterday to relief commit- tees from St. Landry, Lafayette, Iberia, St. Martin and St. Mary Parishes at Lafayette. “You are still in the first stages of the program of flood relief, which we have mapped out. The follow-up steps of rehabili- tation and reconstruction are yet to come.” Considers Special Problems. Today Secretary Hoover was in conference with officials at national relief headquarters of the Red Cross with a view to considering Louisi- ana’s special problems and working out a future program of aid to meet her growing needs. Tomorrow he will hear reports from other par- ishes at, a conference in Baton Rouge. Secretary Hoover is not depend- ing solely on reports of parish re- lief workers for his understanding of flood problems. Yesterday he sat on the rear platform of his private car and rode through the Atchafalaya Valley over Southern Pacific Rail- road tracks, being raised 18 inches above their former level to escape the new rise in the valley. Hun- dreds of colored laborers were work- ing up to their knees in water on the task—designed to save New Or- leans from being cut off from direct rail connection with the West. The tracks are being jacked up to the new level and supplied with a foundation of wooden altitude. Water is within a few inches of the rails at several points about a hundred miles northwest of New Orleans. Little hope was held out that the track would not be covered in spot: ut trains will continue to “navigate” as long as possible. View Morgan City. The flooded town of Morgan City, at the mouth of the Atchafalaya, was viewed en route here last evening. This litéle village, in the heart of the bayou country, has been under water so long that the inhabitants have gotten over their first excitement and are going about their business as (Continued on Page 6, Column 2.) LINDBERGH Special Rotogravure Supplement With Today’s Star. A superbly printed portrait of Lindbergh, suitable for framing, for window display or automobile decoration. BY Mail mod"l'flhy'l. Saturday’s and Sunday Star, and U. 8., and Canads, 15¢. Single 12, mailed copies of daily to any address in the I issue, 4c; Sunday, 10c “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers a Yesterday’s Circulation, 102,289 printed. TWO CENTS. WAR PERIL GROWS AS SOVIET TROOPS FIRE INTO POLAND Warsaw Demands Release of High Officer Arrested on Border Tour. 20 RUSSIANS EXECUTED BY REDS HELD REPRISAL Voikoff’s Body Placed on Train to Moscow After High Tribute Is Paid. By the Associated Press. LONDON, June 10.—Reuter's War- saw correspondent says petty inel- dents on the Soviet frontier are caus- ing much comment in the Polish press. A high police officer named Radosz- kowice, while on a tour of inspection near the border, crossed a few yards into Soviet territory and was imme- diately arrested. The Polish govern- ment has demanded his release. Polish signs on the frontier posts, the correspondent adds, have been de- stroyed by rifle shots from Soviet frontier guards. MOSCOW EXECUTES 20. Official Communique Issued by Soviet on “Terrorism.” MOSCOW, Russia, June 10 (A).— Execution of 20 persons as a reply to the “open transition to terrorism” by opponents of the Soviet regime is an- nounced in an official communique published today. “In view of the open transition to terrorism and destructive struggle by Monarchist and White Guardist ele- ments, acting from abroad, on in- structions awl with funds from for- eign ‘intelligence services,” the com- munique says, “the collegium of the state political departrient passed death sentences at its session of June 9 on 20 persons, and the sentences have been carried out.” Princes Are Executed. ElAmon: thr a?efll‘t'l:a were M. vengren, charged wi lotting to kill M. Tchitcherin; lflrl‘l.l.rpl CoLm‘Sus- lin, charged with a plot to murder Krassin; Prince Mesherski, for carry- ing on propaganda for the cause of Grand Duke Nicholas (pretender to the Russlan throne); M. Eareinoft, for- mer Czarist consul and official of the Soviet State Bank, who was accused of supplying information to Robert M. Hodgson, British charge d’affaires in Moscow, and Prince Paul Dolgorukoff. Several Army officers were con- demned for giving refuge to “white" terrorists arriving from abroad. Executions Held Reprisal. LONDON,. June 10 (#).—London's afternoor give promi- nence to Moscow dispatches telling of the executions there, which are uni- formly characterized by the editorial ‘writers as reprisal for the assassina- tion in Warsaw of the Soviet minister, Peter Voikoff. “Swift and ruthless revenge has been taken by the Soviet government for the assassination of their minister to Poland,” says.the Evening Stand- rd, which asserts that the executed men were all members of well known families. The strongly anti-Soviet Evening News uses the headline: ““The Moscow Orgy” over its lengthy editorial leader on the event. SLAIN ENVOY HONORED. Warsaw Pays Tribute as Voikofl's Body Is Placed on Train. ‘WARSAW, Poland, June 10 (#).— Poland rendered high honors to the assassinated Soviet minister, Peter Voikoff, as his body was taken today from the Soviet legation to the rail- ‘way station to be placed aboard a spe- clal train for Moscow. M, Voikoff was shot Tuesday morn- ing by Boris Kowceda, a 19-year-old Russian student at Vilna High School, the tragedy occurring in the Central Railway Station, where the minister had gone to greet A. P. Rosengolz, former charge d’affaires in London. The coffin was nearly covered with a profusion of .of red flowers, sashes and ribbons. Behind the hearse walk- ed Mme. Voikoff and her 1l-year-old son. : More Arrests Made. ‘The authorities have made further arrests at Bialystock, Grodno, Brestlit- ovsk and Slonim, mostly members of Russian monarchist organizations and former officers in Denikin's and ‘Wrangle’'s armies. It is considered certain that the as- sassin of M. Voikoff, the Soviet envoy, will be tried before a civil court. The assassin declares that he had no ac- complices. He only tried, he explained, to “do his sacred duty as a Russian patriot.” PINEDO TO COMPLETE HIS ORIGINAL PROGRAM Flies Back to Point Where He ‘Was Forced Down to Resume Trip to Italy. HORTA, Island of Fayal, Azores, June 10.—Comdr. Francesco de Pinedo, Italian long-distance aviator, left here in his seaplane at 6:15 o'clock this morning for the spot several hundred miles off the Azores where he was forced down while fly- ing from Newfoundland to the Azores. Upon reaching this spot he will turn around and make for Ponta Delgada, Azores, to refuel and then continue on to Italy. He is doing this so as to retain the continuity of his four-continent flight. PRESIDENT TO SPEAK. Director Lord Also Will Address Business Organization Tonight. ‘The fiscal status of the Governmnent will be discussed in detail tonight by President Coolidge and Director Lord of the Bureau of the Budget at the semi-arnual meeting of the business organization of the Govern- ment at Memorial Continental Hall. The meeting was set forward from Saturday night on account of the wel- indbergh. The United