Evening Star Newspaper, June 12, 1927, Page 2

2 HOOVER DISBANDS - BIG RESCUE ARMY Orders Demcbilization of Volunteer Fleet of Flood Life-Saving Craft. By a Staft Corresnondent of The Star. BATON ROUGE, La., June 11.—The beginning of the end of America’s greatest flood catastrophe is at hand. The “finale” was heralded here to- day, when Secretary Hoover issued tormal orders for the demob:lization of the Mississippl Valley rescue forces, a valiant peace-time army which has placed in relief camps nearly half a million refugees from flooded areas in Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi and Loulsiana since the first big overflow last April, Simultaneously with the Secretary’s announcement was the retirement of former Gov. John M. Parker as head . of Louisiana's great rescue organiza- tion, which, like the other hero groups, embraced the Arm Coast Guard, light house sel State and local agencies, Actual disbanding of these volun- teer life savers had begun several weeks ago in sections where their services no longer were needed, but not until today was it deemed advis- able officially to demobilize the remain- ing groups. Rescue Work Completed. “The first big job of this emergency is done,” Hoover told this correspon- dent tonight. “We have completed the all important initial task of res- . cuing people from their flooded homes and carrying them to places of safety. This gigantic work, accomplished with but one loss of life directly involved in the exodus, will go down in history as a truly epochal achievement. “The credit for successful comple- tion of this hazardous undertaking must go to th: brave men of the va- _ rious co-ordinated agencies who have " risked their lives and sacrificed sleep and food in order to remove men, -women and children of the stricken valley to refugee centers. “The Army with its engineer boats, . the Navy with its seacraft and planes, § the Coast Guard with its fast fleet of { power boats, the lighthouse service £ with it lighthouse tenders, the vari- ous official and private river steamers f and motor boats, in fact, all of the groups that have worked side by side 7 on the front lines of the disaster area i have bpen rewarded in the knowledge I tkat they have prevented great loss of : it and greater property damage by £ thelr unselfish efforts.” Fleet Leaves Flood Area. §with promulgation of the demobiliza- §tion orders there began a general move- ment of rescue craft from Louisiana jwaters. Rum-runners of the Coast "Guard will resume their regular duties in the gulf and ocean, and they do 4 say down here that they will find * plenty of rum-chasing to do when th ige* back to home waters. Prices of 4 bootleg liquor in New Orleans are said “to have dropped to a third of former Zquotations since concentration of rum Zchasers in the flood sections. ; Army boats, including in this cate- ry ships of the Mississippi River mmission, will take up their for- imer duties where they dropped them, imome weeks back. Army and Naval iaviators who had done rescue and :scout service in remote parts of the ‘inland seas overflowing bayous will resume their more prosaic routine at their usual posts. The Commerce .Department boats will see to their llgh;hnuu tending, s;d l}}:- river ‘packets, tugs, barges, launches, row- ‘poats and other large and small craft ;of nondescript character will go their iways, their skippers content in hav- ing had a share in the stupendous rescue program. 3 * This does not mean, however, that ‘further rescue work will not be needed in the path of the June rise in the Msisissippi, Arkansas, Atcha- ‘falaya and other rivers. Removal of :familles from their recently occupied homes is going on daily in parts of Louislana, Arkansas and other States /affected by the new flood, but local rescue forces will be able to handle the new and lesser emergency. Hoover feels there is no further need for a general rescue organization, such as was set up so hastily, but with such .astounding efficiency, in April. First Rift in Clouds. ;: Formal discharge of the great re- Mot fleet i3 expected to bolster the ‘wavering morale of the entire valley. It constitutes the first rift in the black ‘¢louds which hang over the alluvial Dbasin as a result of its greatest disaster, and is to its people a definite ‘harbinger of better days to come. It Js the turning point, they hope. % Hoover, in the face of the pessi- mistic economic outlook envisions for the South an era of remarkable devel- opment. ;. “If you can but hold up through #his calamity, you folks of the South will venture on a threshold of un- precedented prosperity,” Hoover de- Clares to each gathering of farmers and planters who seek his advice. “You have the finest soll in the ‘world down here, with vast potential possibilities from an agricultural landpoint. One thing, and one thing nly, thus far has prevented the val- ley from making better progress. That is the feeling of insecurity which is prevalent as a result of the floods to which your farms have been repeated- 1y subjected. Predicts Permanent Relief. “I have no doubt that within the next few months there will be worked out a plan of flood control that will permanently relieve the Misaissippi Valley of all fear of future disaster. 1 am convinced the American people are going to see that this plan is put into effect at once. “When this insecurity factor is re. moved, I look for the birth of a new South, a development which will at- tract the interest and support of the outside worl Hoover, Vice Chairman Fleser of the Red Cross, Robert E. Bod charge of reliet activities in the stric en States; Col. W. H. Sulllvan, chair- man of the Loulsiana Rehabilitation Commission, and other flood officials conferred here today with representa tives from half a dozen parishes in the sugar district. Plans for raising some sort of “money crop” before ¥Fall were discussed. State Commis- sioner of Agricuiture Harry Wilson recommended soy beans as the “one best bet,” providing the water recedes before August. Health and sanitary conditions in the State are growing more serious daily, and Fieser announced today that the Red Cross has decided it will be advisable to extend sanitary aid to the homes of the flood victims when they are able to return. Drinking water usually is obtained in large wooden cisterns alongside the houses, where rainwater is caught and stored up in these above-ground tanks. Many of these cisterns have become con- taminated with flood water. Sewerage systems also have been damaged. Urges Mosquito Clean-Up. After spending the night in a mos- quito-besieged railrond car at the de- pot here, Secretary Hoover came for- ward today with o plea for a “‘general mosquito clean-up.” Milllons of the pests are breeding in the stagnant Jakes and pools formed by the over- flowing bayous, presenting a distinct malarial menace to the people. This afternoon Hoover and his party are journeying to Gultport, Miss., and thence to Jackson, where he will in- vestigate Mississippi's rehabilitation Eroblemu at a conference there Mon- ay. Through the courtesy of the Bell Welephone Cy, the Hoover party was <] FOR “RETURN BY REX COLLIER. Staft Correspondent of The Star. NEW ORLEANS, La, June 11— The other evening, while the Hoover special train rested on a siding in Arkansas, there came from the lamp- lighted cabin of a plantation darky soine strains of music ground out by a phonograph lately rescued from the flood. Members of the official party lis- tened and found themselves humming, in unison with the squawky record: “The World Is Waiting for the Sun- - The music stopped, but the corvers gation which had been in progress a moment or two before in Secretary’'s Hoover's private car was not imme- diately resumed. Thoughts were turn- ing over in the minds of those pres- ent, and presently some one remarked, almost under his breath: 7 “That's it. The South is waiting for the sunrise.” Waiting for “Sunrise.” The South—the Mississippi Valley— indeed, is waiting patiently, but at times almos hopelessly, for the sunrisa that will dispel the dark clouds of desolation and despair which now surround it. It is waiting fol‘l n“xrlew day, w"ih;: its people may begin life anew an thelr way i the cotton flelds with light heart and bright prospects for the morrow, when it may be rid of the crushing fear of the mighty river which now has the people cringing at its feet. A flood in February, the biggest flood in history in April and now the June rise to blast away the hopes that rose with recession of the waters and planting of the muddy expanse left in their wake—such a succession of trib- ulations is sufficient to discourage the most optimistic of valley residents, Sees Ray of Hope. But the Mississippl Valley has glimpsed a ray of sunlight through the fog of sorrow. It is a ray of good cheer, to steady weakening constitu- tions quite frayed nerves and give new hope to those who were faltering. This new factor in the situation is none other than Herbert Hoover. “The Chief” is the term wsed to de- scribe him by these stricken southern- ers. Some of the darkies know him also as “Uncle Sam.” It is no sense of levity that these nicknames for the Secretary of Commerce have be- come popular. It is with a feeling of reverential, almost worshipful affec- tion that Hoover has been acclaimed their “Chiet,” their “Uncle Mam.” Returns in Time. Rellef workers in Arkansas and Louisiana declare that had not “The Chief” returned from Washington last week at the psychological moment that he did, the morale of the peo- ple in those States undoubtedly would have been broken to a degree dis- tinctly menacing to the South’s al- ready grave economic condition. Hoover returned to the valley to find new flood waters pouring from the Mississippi and Arkansas Rivers over thousands of acres of farm land just planted in cotton. Rain, rain and more rain, supported by a few cloud- bursts and several cyclones, had wrought fresh devastation and swelled the rivers back to and beyond flood stages of a few weeks ago. Recession of the waters had dis- closed conditions grim enough to break the courage of most men. Re- turning from the refugee camps the people found their homes shifted from their foundations, their barns caved in or turned over, their corncribs washed away, their household goods floating in stagna:.t pools of w: down in the meadow, their wells and cisterns filled with corfuption, their mules dead or missing, the family cow THE OF THE SUNRISE" Hoover Inspects Desolated Region, Shows Eflect of Burden. But Keeps Outward Smile of Optimism. good will. Right to the edge of the sing waters it pushed its way, and when further progress was im- possible, the “Chlef” got off and ven- tured farther still over flood-scarred roads into the plantation country. This was a trying trip for any man, and especially so for a cabinet officer. The most sordid of desolate scenes were unfolded to his view, and the most gruesome of conditions described to him. He was driven along Lake Chicot, at Lake Village, Ark.. where, at the bathing resort on the lake front, battered coffins were washed ashore from a cemetery several miles away. Several of the corpses still lie in the open near the ruined graveyard. Views Desolation. From the rear of his train he viewed mile after mile of farm land going un- der its third high water of the year, and in Desha and Chicot Counties of Arkansas he saw entire villages be- sleged in slime and fiith from the backwash of the flosd. In Louisiana he found many of the parishes still un- der water and with_no prospects of draining off before July. There will be no cotton crop this year in most of Arkansas and Louisiana because of the water. Hoover entered into this work with a will and with a determination that inspired all those around him to great- er efforts. The “Chief” seems to be sincerely wrapped up in the humani- arian task to which President Coolidge assigned him. It has become his hobby, and he intends that this Mis- sissippi disaster will not get out of his control. He has learned to understand and love the South and its people since coming down here last April. He enjoys watching the plantation pickan- ninies splattering in the mud, and at night nothing pleases him more than to hear storles of the darkies and thelr experiences at the refugee camps. Enjoys Negro Storle “Did I tell you about the old colored man_who said he was ‘jes trustin’ in the Lawd'?” Chairman Couch of the Arkansas Rehabilitation Commission will ' ask, as Hoover puffs his cigar or pipe in the little sitting room on the private car of President Baldwin of the Missouri-Pacific, “Nope, let's hear it,” replies the “Chief,” s'tting up expectantly. “‘Well, this old fellow was discovered sitting in his flooded house without any food and water, waiting to be rescued. One of our boats brought him to camp and I asked him what he had beem doing there all that time, ‘‘Jet trustin’ the Lawd, suh,’ he re. plied. ‘I knew He'd come fo' me aftah awhile, but ‘deed, boss, I didn’t know He was gonna look like you!' " Gets Radio News. Hoover enjoys these tales of the refugee camps. They are the only amusement he has had eince tackling this emergency, barring the radio which the raliroad has installed on his car. And he listens to the radio only when it is dispensing news of the flood or news of the world in general. Not a soclal engagement has he ac- cepted, of all the hundreds which have been sought of him during his trips to the flooded valley. Nor has he had time for movies or other forms of pop- ular entertainment. His relaxation comes in the evenings, when he settles back in his chair on the car and reads typewritten reports on relief activities, or a newspaper. The return of the.flood waters to Arkansas and Loulsiana was just as severe a blow to Hoover as to the families driven from thelr homes for the second time. It lay just as heavily upon his shoulders as though he, him- self, had been forced to stand aside, helpless, and watch his cotton flelds go under another devastating flood. drowned on the front porch or in the pasture, their hogs gone, their fences scattered over the landscape—their ruin, in short, complete. Keep on Fighting. Yet these sturdy folk did not give up the fight. With the aid of the Red Cross they straightened their homes up as best they could, hung the mattresses out on the porch rail Shows Effect of Burden. To those who sit with him in his private car and at his table, the burdens show in the weary sagging of his facial muscles and the slight droop- ing of his shoulders. To the people of the Mississippi Valley, however, he puts on a brave front and wreathes his face in his best smile of optimism. to drv, collected what remnants of furniture were left, hammered the porch floor back in place, nailed card- board over broken windows, or in some cases, where the house was not at all habitable, set up tents in their front yards, and started to rehabil- itate themselves. They had no food supply of their This smile of sympathy has come as a ray of ney hope to the stricken South—a hope that will carry the people through this greatest of all emergencies into a new era of assured flood control. The South will buckle to its present job and whistle about the sunrise to come, for “Chiet” Hoover has promised own and no money with which to buy any, so the Red Cross sent them the necessaries of life as required. All who needed food got it; those who had stock which had been rescued re- ceived feed;' families were supplied with sirpple iron bedsteads and mat- tresses, with tables and chairs and other household necessities. But more important than all, these returning victims of the “big water” were pro- vided with cotton seed. Crops in the Mississippi Valley are divided into two distinct classes— “‘cash” crops and food crops. In the former category are cotton and sugar cane and other produce by which the valley’s alluvial soll is turned into money., The latter classification in- cludes vegetables for the table, for the sustenance of the farmers themselves. Cotton Grows Quickly. It takes cotton seed only three or four days to shoot up through the black soil of the valley. The farmers pushed these seeds into the muddy fields just as fast as the water re- ceded, and by the time a week or two had passed their flood-ridden fields had been converted into acres of po- tential “cash crops.” river about another flood crest. June rises are a regular thing to these people, but ordinarily the waters do not overflow the levees. This June, however, the levees had fallen down on the job. Only remnants of them remained after the unprecedented flood of April and May. The new high water had begun to empty onto the cotton flelds again through the crevasses already there. It was the “last straw on the camel's back.” Then came “The Chief,” with beam- ing countenance and sympathetic un- derstanding of the crisls, to make the South brace up and take new heart. He did not accomplish this miracle by issuing a series of mimeographed exhortations to relief officials or proclamations to the people, dictated | to a stenographer from his bedside. Accepts Railroad Offer. “Chief” Hoover accepted the offer of the Missouri Pacific Raflway to put a special train at his disposal dubbed it his “Booster Special, and journeyed forth into the very heart of the flood country to do some “high-powered boosting.” Equipped with special telephone fa- cllities through the courtesy of tele phone officials, the “Booster Speclal” set out for remote sections of Arkan- sas and Loulsiana on its mission of able to listen in on the Lindbergh reception over a direct wire to Wash- ington. A loud-speaker outfit was rigg2d to a neighboring telephone pole at the depot and members of the party sat in the private car and en- joyed every word of the ceremonies, Hoover himself was detained in con- ference at the capitol and arrived too late to hear the broadcasting. It was another example of how deeply in- terested the Secretary is in the flood problem and how reluctant he is to_ Iay meide duty for pleasure, Then came reports from up_the = to stick with the valley until its shadow of death and destruction has been driven away before the sunshine of future prosperity. R COALITION GOVERNMENT PREDICTED FOR DUBLIN Cosgrave Party Has 17 Seats, De Valera 15, With Others Scat- tering in Election. DUBLIN, June 11 (#).—Ou: of 45 seats in the Dail thus far filled, the government party late tonight had 17, the de Valera party 15; Labor, 9; Natlonal” League, 4; Farmers, 4; Inde- pendents, 5. Indications pointed to President Cosgrave’s not having a majority, al- though he is likely to win the great. est number of seats of any party. A coalition government, therefore, is pre- dicted. Peter Hugher, defense minister, was ofeated in Louth. May Circulation Daily... 101,731 Sunday. 109,719 District of Columbia, sa: SLEMING NEWBOLD, Businem Manaer ot THIEEVENING b SUNDAY SrAt d5on sl T el copies. of o Gited during the month of May. A. D. was as follows: DAILY. Da 20.. Loss adjustments Total dafly net circulation. Average daily net vaid circulation. Daily averake number. of coples for service. olc . Daily average net circulation SBUNDAY. Coples. Dayi 110760 227 N 111302 39 0.0 110331 Less adjustments Total Sunday net circulation Al'l;llxl‘ll net paid Sunday ciret Average wimber of doptes for serv- oo “ote Averase Sundag. net eirculgtion. FLEMING. NEWHOLD. Jusiness Manager. Lofubgeribed and sworn “to Before me this (2caly ' "“"ELMER P_YOUNT. “Hoter 'y iblk . SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, 2 - —_———— — - FLOOD-STRICKEN AREA WAITS FOUR ARE MISSING INBLAST ON YACHT Sailor Picked Up on Wreck- age Tells of Explosion Aboard Cinnapar. By the Assoclated Press. JACKSONVILLE, Fla., June 11.—A story of explosion and shipwreck of the yacht Cinnabar, bearing Phil Pomeroy, Miami automobile deuler, and a party to New York from Miami, was related here today by Nick Har- abaglia, sailor, who declared the be- liet he was the only survivor. Picked up from the fragment of wreckage by the tug Peerless of Savannah last Wednesday, Harabag: lia reached here exhausted and de- lirlous from his experience. He was unable to give the names of members of the party nor say how many com- prised the crew. Advices from Miami related that Mr. and Mrs. Pomeroy left there last Saturday night for a business trip to New York. The crew included Shil Bertschie, engineer, and a cook in ad- dition to the sailor picked up by the Peerless. Pomeroy, a native of Minneapoli Minn., moved to Miami from Jackso! ville in 1921. Mrs. Pomeroy formerly lived at Waynesville, N. C. The Cinnabar, a 75-foot vessel, be- longed to Pomeroy, who narrowly es- caped death in the boat last year when caught in the hurricane while crulsing in the Bahama Islands. e BRITISH THREATEN 10 DETHRONE SHAK Friendliness With Soviet Stirs Wrath of Envoy in Persia. Cable fo The Star and Chicago Daily By Cable i CopsHieht. 1085 MOSCOW, June 11—8hah Ieza Khan Pahlevi has been threatened with dethronement by the British Minister, Mr. Clive, unless he adopts a policy less friendly to Soviet Russia, according to a story recelved here through Soviet sources in Teheran. The rupture between Great Britain and Russia indicates the importance of either Persla or Turkey as an ally should the present irritation develop into hostilities. Along their Northern ‘rontlers stretches the Transcaucasian federation, the richest in proportion to size among the six republics in the Soviet Union. It includes the oll fields of Azerbaidjan and the minerals of Georgia, Should this treasure storehouse of Soviet' Russia become a prize of war, the friendship of Persia and Turke which now is with Soviet Russia, would be a valuable factor in the struggle. Recently, according to a story circu- lating in Moscow, the British Minister called on the Shah and demanded dis- solution of the cabinet headed by Has. san Khan Mostofi, because it had re- fused permission to the British Air Bervice in Egypt and India to fly over Persia-and because of its delay in ap- proving a pending agreement with the Anglo-Persian Ofl Co., in which the British government is interested. ‘When the Minister hinted that Soviet diplomacy was influencing the government against England, the Shah started to leave the room. The Minister pointedly reminded the Shah, according to the story, that he owed to England his rise to power, adding that there were several other aspir- ants and it still was not too late to pick another. The interview ended abruptly. Several days later the Shah request- ed the Minister to call at the palace. The latter refused, pending instruc- tions from London. oo WHITE MEN RENDER OLD INDIAN DANCES Prescott, Ariz.,, Holds Weird Spec- tacle to Commemorate First Americans. By the Associated Press. PRESCOTT, Ariz., June 11.—Desert moonlight tonight will blend with the gleam of many campfires here to illuminate the seventh re-enactment of the Smoki Dance, the white man' interpretation of the barbaric lege: dary worship dances of the South- western American Indians. A half hundred white dancers, garbed in the costumes of the desert Indian, will take part in the weird spectacle, which first was staged by a group of Prescott businessmen seven years ago when they organized an unusual fraternity, dedicated to the perpetuation of the customs of the “Vanishing American” of the desert. The ceremonials, which start at sundown and last until the early morning hours, are divided into four parts, the ‘Prologue,” a brief intr ductory affair; the “Serene Moon,” dedicated to the moon god; the “Fire Dance,” which the Indians believe leaves them purified and strengthened, and the ceremonial “Snake Dance,” in which, according to old Hopi legends, prayers offered to the rain god while worshipping the “Little Brother,” as they call the rattlesnake, are sure to be answered. The snake dance probably is the most spectacular on the program, a faithful reproduction of the Hopi rituals being given. Live snakes, in. cluding the deadly desert rattlesnalke, are handled much the same as the Honi do in their famous snake dances, without the removal of the fangs or poison sacs. ISLANDS ARE COMBED. Nungesser Search Shows No Trace on Placentia Bay. NEW YORK, June 11 (#).—The Nungesser-Coli airplane search expedi- tion, financed by Daniel Guggenheim and others, reported by telegram today that working by the process of elimi. nation, it had definitely established that the missing French airmen had not come down on the islands in Pla- centla Bay on the southwestern shore of Newfoundland. SHERIFF IS SLAIN. Unknown Assailant Shoots South Carolinian Near Home. GREENVILLE, 8. C, June 11 (). —Sheriff Sam D. Willls of Greenville County, was shot to death by an un- known assailant about midnight to- night as he emerged from the ca- rage at his home after having ploced his car in the garage and starced to his home after being downtown on Wusiness. D. C, JUNE 12 tINDBERGH HELPS FRENGH-U. 5. PACT Message Coincides With Will- ingness of Kellogg to Dis- cuss Perpetual Peace. By the Associated Pre Charles * A. Lindbergh delivered a brief but eloquent message of friend- ship from France and Europe in gen- eral in acknowledging the plaudits of his countrymen yesterday on the Washington Monument Grounds. Coinclding with the delivery of his message, whether by intent or not, Secretary Kellogg officially expressed his willingness to discuss with France the question of a treaty perpetually to ban warfare between the two nations. Described as the “ambassador of good will” for America, Lindbergh avolded the tedlous ways of diplomacy in dellvering his message to the great throng gathered to see him receive the highest honors his Government could bestow. Speaks With Simplicity. ‘With the utmost simplicity, he spoke into a microphone so that miilions could hear, a few sentences which he said he had been asked by the people abroad to bring home with him. “On the evening of the 218t of May 1ast,” he said, “I arrived at Le Bour- get, Paris. During the week I spent in France, the day in Belgium and the short period in London and England, the people of France and the people of Europe requested that I bring back to the people of America one message from the people of France and the people of Europe. “At every gathering, at every meet- ing I attended, were the same words: ‘You have seen the affection of the Ewme of France and the people of urope for the people of America demonstrated to you. Upon your re- turn to your country take back with you this message from France and Turope to the United States of Amer- ica.’ I thank you.” 3 That was all. The crowds cheered, long and voclferously, but Lindbergh had nothing more to say. Era of Good Feeling. There was no official explanation whether the arrival of Lindbergh in the Capital had any effect on the State Department’s announcement of its willingness to discuss with Foreign Ministe: Briand “a possible agreement along the lines indicated by M. Briand’s statement to the press on April 8 last.” The Briand statement was not further described, but on that date the foreign minister suggested the outlawing of war between the two nations, and he followed this up with a diplomatic “feeler” to ses whether the time might be opportune for mak- ing formal representations on the sub- Ject. Since Lindbergh's flight across the Atlantic and the ensuing ovation given to him abroad, there have heen many suggestions that it might be well to take advantage of the era of good feeling which it indicated be- tween America and the nations of Eu- rope, A number of proposed pacts have been advanced, among them those of the American peace award and of Dr. James D. Shotwell of Columba Uni- versity. U. 8. Ready to Negotiate. Whether any of these have proved Acceptable to the State Department has not been disclosed. Previous to today's announcement officials pointed out that the United States now has an arbitration treaty with France, ne- gotiated during the regime of Wil- liam J. Bryan as Secretary of State. The State Department’s announce- ment yesterday merely said that in response to M. Briand’'s informal in- quiry of June 2, Ambassador Herri, at Paris, had been informed to notify the French foreign minister that the United States would he pleased to be- gin conversations on “the subject of a possible agreement.” PARIS COMMENT DELAYED. News Expected To Make Happy Impression, However, By the Assoclated Pros PARIS, June 11.—News that Am- bassador Herrick had been instructed to inform Foreign Minister Briund that the United States would be pleased to discuss the possibility of an agreement for a treaty of per- petual peace between the two natlons, arrived too late for press comment in the afternoon papers, while the foreign office stated that it had no of- ficial confirmation as yet. It was said in official circles that the news could not fail to make the happiest impression, but that com- ment must awalt official notice. M. Briand, who first made the pro- posal of such a treaty in his message to the American people through the Assoclated Press on April 6, had left the foreign office before the press dis- patches today were received, on his way to attend the League of Nations Council meeting in Geneva. o SPEER LOOKS AHEAD FOR UNIFIED CHURCH Speaks at Presbyterian Foraign Mission Meeting—Tells of Prog- ress Already Made. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 11.—Robert E. Speer, moderator of the general as- sembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, today expressed a hope that some day all evangelical Christian churches would combine to make one. Speaking at the thirtieth annual con- ference of his church’s hoard of for- elgn missions, on the subject of “Co- operation With Other Missions,” Mr. Speer said his ideal was “one organi- cally universal Christian church “I think we are coming to it,” he , “although some of the evangelis- tic churches are not so quick to ac- cept the idea as others, but I believe we will reach this ideal some day. This will not come in out time, how- ever.” The speaker ndded that the Presby- terlan Church in missionary fields had gone a long way toward the realiza- tion of this ideal. He called attention to a unified Christian church with the Reformed Church in Korea, Japan, China, India, Mexico and Brazil and with the Congregational and Reform Churches in South China. SINGER TO PRESS SUIT. Frieda Hempel Sails From New York to Europe. NEW YORK, June 11 (#).—Frieda Hempel, opera singer, sailing for Europe today, said that a suit she re- cently brought against August Heck- scher, aged philanthropist, would be diligently pressed. She has abandoned her professional career, she sald, following an agree- ment with Heckscher to sing only for charity. Under the agreement, she sald, Heckscher was to pay her a fixed sum each year, - 1927—PART 1. GREATEST POLITICAL MISSION NOW CONFRONTING PRESIDENT Black Hills Sojourn S een as Supreme Cam- paign for Coolidge in Move to Win Bacl( BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. President Coolldge {is embarking upon the supreme campalgn of his political career. He has set out to win the West. That is his objective during the next three months, whol- ly irrespective of his intentions re- garding another term in the White House. Most authorities, Republican and Democratic alike, are convinced that Mr. Coolidge's 1928 plans will be largely determined by his experiences and impressions in the agricultural region. In other words, politicians believe that the President will run, or not run, for renominaion and re-election, depending on whether, respectively. he finds the farming country friendly or hostile. Coolidge supporters, con- fident of the President’s political shrewdness, are persuaded that he will find ways and means of pacifying the Corn Belt and other sections now openly anti-administration. If the President fails in his efforts, the opin- ion is hazarded that the result will be o2 paramount influence upon his de- cisions, and that these will be adverse to a second campaign for the White House. Invading “Emeny Land.” Mr. Coolidge, in pitching his SBum- mer tent in South Dakota, is fully aware that he is Invading ‘“enemy country.” It goes without saying that the President and the First Lady of the Land will be heartily welcomed in the Black Hills and wherever else they show themselves in the great open spaces. The greetings Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge will receive are likely to be as cordial and genuine as any that would be showered upon them In their own New England. South Dakota is particularly proud to be able to entertain them, and the State will spread itself to make their so- journ memorable. But the deflated and depressed farm- ers of the Northwest, if their respon- sible spokesmen in Washington are to be beleved, demand and expect more from Presid:nt Coolidge than the mere favor of his presence in their midst. In short, they will look for deeds, not vords or smiles, from the Coolidge ad- mi.istration during the next year. They will particularly require more favorable White House treatment of the farming West's appeals for “re. Farmers. case in South Dakota, where bounti- ful rains during the Spring came as a welcome blessing. Prices seem headed In an upward direction, in al- most every branch of farm produce. 1. the year's harvest turns out as well as it now promises, the political effects will be immeasurable. The agricultural population customarily thinks and vctes in terms of current weal or woe. Already predictions are heard that rural prosperity this year will drive anti-Coolidge sentiment out of existence. (Copyright, 1927.) - COMMONS READY TO ACT IN BRITISH CRISIS WITH SOVIET (Continued from First Page.) involved in: plots to blow up the Kremlin and the Grand Treater. These charges, which were con- tained in a communique issued by Moscow, are, according to Sir Rob- ert, on a par with other charges made against Great Britain from time to time by the Soviet press of having organized the Pilsudski coup d'ctat in Poland, the overthrow of the Lithuanian government, an at- tempt to destroy the Leningrad water- works, a conspiracy to seize the Islands of Dago and Oesel in the Baltic, and others too numerous to mention. Termed “Barbaric Outrage.” The news of the cold-blooded mas- sacre at Moscow has horrified Europe, says the Sunday Observer, which con- demnis both the Voikoft murder and the Moscow executions as ‘“‘barbaric outrages by white Russia in Warsaw and by Red Russia in Moscow.” It adds that these are “part of the whole ferment created by the rupture of Anglo-Russian relations.” ‘The Sunday Times declares that the Bolshevists, “at the end of their eco- nomic resources, are becoming once more the bloody-minded fanatics of a decade ago.” CLASS WAR PREDICTED. Threats Due to British Influence, lief” than has hitherto—the West con- tends—emanated from executive quar- ters. If President Coolidge’s attituda toward agriculutural relief programs remains substantially that which ha assumed in his veto of the McNa: Haugen bill, then, farm spokesmen de- clare, the Middle West Summer White House will turn out to have been a house of cards and one which will eventually tumble down upon the pres- ent leader of the Republican party. Better Understanding. These statements are made on the authority of men who were instru- mental in inducing Mr. Coolidge to go West this vear. Their purpose was to #how him to the agricultural belt and show the agricultural belt to him. Thelr hope is that the wealth of first. hand information to be .thered there w undermine what they call some of the President's prejudices and misap- prehensions. On the other hand, the Western leaders who brought about Mr. Cool- idge's Summer plans are of the opin- ion that, once the trans-Mississippi country gets to know the President, through intimate and frequent con- tacts, it on its own part will scrap some of the prejudices and misappre- hencions it has cherished about Calvin Coolldge. But all through Western statesmen’s discussion of the Presi- dent’s 1927 vacation there runs the positive assertion that the vacation will not have been worth taking un- less it is followed, next Autumn and Winter, by a Coolidge agricultural policy ' wholly different from any hitherto espoused. . Since the administration _courted farm disfavor by vetoing the McNary- Haugen bill in the teeth of its ap- proval by both House and Senate, President Coolidge has aroused rural wrath in another direction. His re- organization of the Federal Farm Loan Board “in Wall Street's inter- est,” as farm organization leaders put it, has kicked up a row among them Says Soviet Official. MOSCOW, June 11 (#).—Soviet Rus- sia’s war minister, Clemeny Voroshi- loff, told a meeting of workers today that England had so stirred up feel- ing against Russia that a class war ioomed. Terming the international situation “acute” and asserting that “no slack- ening of the hostilities against us can be expected,” he added: “There are many who believe we can avert a con- flict, but I declare we are nearing the point where class war s inevita- ble.” England Called Enemy. The government's published state- ments contained by no means all the data available concerning Englang's hand in organizing internal plots Russia, he said, but those published were enough to indicate “the enemy's activities.” “More than once,” he continued, #captured English sples have had evidence of English support of differ- ent white guard organizations. Neve: theless the Soviet maneuvered to pro- long the period of peace to the utmost limits. “Today those comparatively quiet times are behind .us. England is lea ing propaganda against us in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Esthonia® and Ru- mania. Reply to Poland Ready. “If until now she has not succeeded in throwing them upon us, it is not due to lack of intention, but to po- litical controversies which do not per- mit the creation of a solid front.” If war ensued with insufficient eco- nomical preparation, he concluded, it would bring disaster; therefore he urged strengthening the rear. ‘The reply of the Soviet government to the Polish note expressing regret for the assassination of Pierre Vol- koff, Soviet Minister at Warsaw, will be handed to M. Patek, the Polish minister here, tonight. almost as bitter as the one the Me- Nary-Haugen episode caused. Plans are in progress to prevent the con- firmation of the ro-called “Treasury clique,” which, agriculturists allege, has superseded the “farmer-minded” group hitherto in control of the farm credit system. Mellon Gets Blame. The corn, wheat and cattle country held Secretary Mellon largely responsi- ble for the administration’s anti- McNary-Haugen policy, and now it sees Mr. Mellon in malign domination of the Federal agency which adminis- ters $2,000,000,000 of farm loans. Edi- tors of leading agricultural journals have said to this writer that the Fed- eral Farm Loan Board shake-up is as full of political dynamite for Mr. Cool- idge as his relief bill veto is. Another thing regarding which the minds of Coolidge leaders are quite clear is that Lowden-for-President sentiment is on the march throughout the agricultural West. The Lowden movement has ceased to be theoretical and s in process of actual organiza- tion in 8 or 10 different States. Its mainspring s in Towa, Gov. Lowden’s native State. Gov. Hammill of Iowa, who called at the White House in Washington a day or two ago, declared after leaving President Coolidge that the Hawkeye State “would undoubt- edly be for Lowden in 1928 if the farm situation is not taken care of.” The same point of view found even more drastic expression at the confer- ence of 34 farm organizations from the corn-belt States, held at Des Moines on May 17 and 18. The Des Moines meeting was presided over by William Hirth of Mis=ouri, one of the spearheads of the suosessful McNary- Haugen drive on Capite! Hill last Win- ter. The conference commonly vigorous struck straight at I and his alleged partiality to financial and industrial interests as azalnst those of agriculture. Resolutions Vigorous. The spirit which permeated the Des Moines agricultural council of war is reflected in the following typlcal resolutions: “If there are those who believe that | the demand for a square deéal tor‘ agriculture at the hands of the N: tion has become less insistent, the assembling of the seventieth Con gress will most effectively disabuse their minds in this respect. “While we will carefully examine the terms of any new measure thatq may be proposed, under no circum- stances will we give our lnflomemen(' to any measure which does not deal with the surplus question in the most girect way and in the best of good a We will oppose to the end any legislative ‘gesture’ that is intended chiefly to relieve the present admin istration from an embarrassing situ- ation and thus remove the great agricultural issue from the coming | presidential contest. “The powers-that-be shall not make ‘fish of one and fowl of the other.’ Agriculture will refect with scorn any mere legislative gesture like the Cur- tis-Crisp bill or a blll which does noth- ing more tham %6 give farmers CONDEMNED IN BERLIN. ewspapers Call Soviet Exe- cutions Barbarous. BERLIN, June 11 (#).—The Berlin newspapers yesterday unanimously condemned the execution of 20 persons as ‘“counter-revolutionists” in Soviet Russia as barbarous and brutal in the extreme. ‘The Boersenzeitung says that the “treacherous, insidious intrigues in the houses of others and the sangui- nary reign of terror in its own must finally lead to the creation of a world- wide front of normal men against the raging madness of bolshevism.” The Kreuz Zeitung says that “this incredible massacre can only help t> strengthen the anti-soviet front.” The Vossische Zeitung comments that.ths Soviet government by this course with one stroke has destroyed the meral prestige it gained from the Anglo- Russian conflict and owing tu the at- tack on the Soviet embassy at Peking, the searching of Soviet Hous. in Lon- don and the recent outrages against its officials. The Lokal Anzeiger declares that a state which simply shoots down dozens of citizens without trial of any kind obviously has ceased to have any claim to be regarded as civilized, while the Deutsche Tages Zeltung says that if “the Moscow rulers con- tinue this bloody road, they will be playing into the hands of England and all those who desire a common front against them. MUSSOLINI ASSAILANT GETS 30-YEAR TERM Special Military Tribunal Acts. “Long Live Liberty,” Shouts Italian Anarchist. Germai ( / PRESIDENT T0 GET “HUGE” WELCOME Hammond, Ind., Is Planning Reception When Executive Speaks—Time Advanced. « By the Associated Pres. HAMMOND, Ind., June 12—Ar rangements for the reception of Presi dent Coolidge and his address at thd dedication of Wicker Park, 6 miles trom here, in the heart of the Calumet industrial district, next Tuesday, were idge would reach central daylight speak at 3:30 p.m. Decorations over the entire 10-mils route the President will traverse were completed today. The presidential shield and flags were displayed over the 6 miles from the Hammond rail station to the park and 4 miles through the glant preserve to the speaker’s stand. A huge welcome arch was being constructed today at the point Pres. dent Coolidge will leave the train. It was announced that radio sta. tions WGN, WMAQ and WLS in Chi. cago had completed arrangements for broadcasting President Coolidge’s ad- dress and that the broadcasting would be extended upon a national scale. REPORT §1,700 LOST * BY POCKET THEFTS < At Least 26 Persons Robbed on Streets and Cars as Crowds Celebrate. £ Pickpockets and sneak thieves ran wild in Washington among the crowds on Pennsylvanis. avenue and on the Monument Grounds yesterday, and losses of more than $1,700 had been reported by 26 persons last night. Although detectives had been posted to watch especially, only Detectives Kelly, Waldron and Sweeney, and Chauffeur Wolfe had brought in s pects who were found to have police records, but who had not been spe- cifically charged with crimes, last night. These detectives arrested six suspects, all of whom except one were found to have records. The greatest profit was derived by plcketpockets operating on Pennsyl- vania avenue, near Seventh street and near Fifteenth street, and in the glm:ument Grounds. Some got rich auls. y Discarded Bill Folds. at work were found In half a dozen bill folds discarded by mail collectors in jetter boxes in the downtown sec- iof. Reece R. Dutton of 719 A. street northeast, reported the loss of his pocketbook and $600, while he was on & street car between Eighth street and Pennsylvania avenue southeast and the Peace Monument. E. M. Jeffries of 470 M street south- west, reported his diamond stickpin valued at $300 had been “lifted” from his tie while on a'Fourteenth street car at Seventh street and Pennsyl- vm(l)lnh avenue, ther serfous losses were reported by the following: Alber E. M:;er of Kansas City, Mo., stopping at the Raleigh Hotel, $51 in cash, while in the Monument Grounds; John Draf- foulos, 2031 Fourteenth street, $50 in cash, “somewhere in the downtown section”; Alfred W. Bright, 328 Fifth street southeast, $30, while on a street car between Fifteenth street and Pennsylvania avenue and the navy ; Fred W. Reannce of Baltimore, 83, while in the Monument Ground: Harvey 8. Ladew of 713 Mount Vei non place, $49; Owen W. Letrevukt, Falls Church, Va., $89, while on the south steps of the Treasury: A Stabler, 2815 Fourteenth street while on a street car at Fou nth and K streets; Dr. Willlam O. Haines, the Sherman, Fifteenth ard L streets, $140, while awaiting a street car on the loading platform at Ninth street and Penmr)vnnll avenue; M, L. Ew- ing of Baltimore, $48, while at Seventh street and Pennsylvania avenue, and Earl Q. Morse, 1028 Eighth street, $56, while in the Monument Grounds. Other losses did not amount to more than $25 in any single case. No Experts Imported. The widespread pickpocket opera- tions this year occurred during the first big celebration in Washington when the local police had falled to import from other citles detectives expert in “spotting" pickpockets. Only five out-of-town experts were on hand this year, and they volunteered their services upon arriving in town to at- tend the celebration. b, COUPLE SLAIN WITH AX, POLICE SEARCH FOR TRIO Negro Draymen Sought After Kill- jng of Aged Pair in Florida. By the Associated Press, JACKSONVILLE, Fla., June 11.— Mr. and Mrs. E. Reich, an aged cou- ple, were slain with an ax in their home at MacClenny, Fla., yesterday, it was learned here today. Three Jacksonville negro draymen, employed by the couple to move their household effects to Jacksonville, are being sought. They were seen around the house yesterday, but their job was not finished. A short-handled ax was found in the Reich home, Sherift Joe Jones of Baker County said today. Sherift Jones expressed the belief that the couple were killed for the sake of Reich’s small savings, which he drew out of the bank yesterday. A fingerprint expert of the Jackson- ville Police Department was sent to By the Associated Pre ROME, June 11.—Gino Lucetti, young Italian anarchist, who attempt- ed to assassinate Premier Mussolini last September, today was sentenced to 30 years' imprisonment by the spe- cial military tribunal for the defense of the state which tried him. Just as the sentence was read, Lu- cetti shouted, “Long live Liberty!” but before he could continue, two car- bineers in the, prisoners’ cage with him, Ju up and closed his mouth with thelr hands. Leandro Sorio and Stefano Vateronl, who were accused of complicity, were sentenced to 20 years and 18 years 9 months, respectively. PRISON BOMB PLOT BARED Conspiracy to Blow Up Missouri Penitentiary Discovered. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., June 11 (#).—A plot to blow up the east wall opportunity to go deeper into debt. One importafit and reassuring fac- tor in the West#rn situation, trom the President’s standpoint, is that crop prospects nefirly everywhere are favorable, t's particularly the of the Missouri Penitentiary this aft- ernoon while more than 3,000 inmates were on the prison pla; discovered by officials thrd the convict leaders, it was g g € ma MacClenny today to examine the ax. Bloodhounds from the State farm at Raiford probably requisitioned, it said. Reich, who was a tailor, had moved from Jacksonvilie to MacClenny about & year ago. —_— BOY CONTRACTS TYPHOID. Journeys to Baltimore From Syria for Sinus Treatment. ‘While journeying all the way from Beirut, Syria, to Baltimore, to un® dergo treatment in an American hos- pital for a sinus condition, 15-year-old Richard Fowle contracted and is in a serious condition at Johns Hop- kins Hospital, according to word re- ceived at the Washington headquar- fers of the Near East Relief, whe: ‘his father, Charles W. Fowle, wi formerly director. Mr, Fowle, who also was at one time connected with the Near Eastern rtment in n will be Indications that professionals were ¢ <