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2 RADIO CHAOS TO END : TOMORROW NIGHT New Licenses Granted Most of 732 Stations—Denied to 130 “Jumpers." Chao* :n the air will cease tomor row night. Radio broad lasting stations whfi h hnia jumped wave lengths at "ill after tomorrow night must broach ast on frequencies with h do not interfere with other stations. Licenses to operate after tomorrow night at mid night have been granted most of the 73- stations in existence. But .130 or more broadcasting sta tions. most of them in the list *>f wave jumpers who have skipped i heir old frequency assignments for pret erra hie ether positions since .lulv ]. either will be left out in the colei without licenses or placed below \'2o meters on the wave band spec trum. where their programs v. ill be heard by relatively few listeners. Penalty for “Jumping.” It is one of the penalties the l ed- i oral Radio Commission has meted out to the station operators who ignored j the purpose of the law during the j . >®iod when Federal control of the j was non-existent. The effect of the situation to the j listening radio public, according to * ’ommissioner Caldwell of the Radio j Commission, is that, chaos in the ait , will cease tomorrow night, 'five med- j ley of heterodyning whistles, side ; hand interference and miscellaneous nimble of noises which have disturbed | listeners for many months will be en- j ■ irelv done away with. If stations! continue to ignore the radio law they j will be liable to suspension of license j and court action, with possibility or Imposition of heavy fines. New Schedule Worked Out. Not only will the general situation be cleared up. but a new schedule of frequency assignment or wave length, designed to reduce local interference, has been worked out by the commis sion for use in New York and Chicago and will become effective at midnight tomorrow night. The result will be the first tangible evidence to the pub lic of the work of clearing the air un dertaken by the new air control board. With 130 stations operating below 220 meters, or not operating at all the r,02 stations left will not interfere with o.uh other any more than they did prior to the decision of a Chicago j ndge last Spring which permitted sta tions to choose any wave length. Corn- j missioner Caldwell said. WALSH DEMANDS ALUMINUM ACTION! • By the Associated Press. Attorney General Sargent has requested bv Senator Thomas J. Walsh. Democrat, Montana, to tile a complaint again s{ the Aluminum Co. <*f America for contempt because of violation of a decree of the District Court of Western Pennsylvania in re lation to contracts for scrap alum inum. Tn a letter to the Attorney General the Montana Senator says that unless action is taken prior to July 1 the statute of limitation will have expired and the Aluminum company would be l»eemitted to continue practices that permitted it to dominate the scrap aluminum market. Senator Walsh charges that the Aluminum Co., in which Secretary Mellon is a stockholder, had "frozen out” independent users of scrap alumi num by increasing the price of scrap to within 10 .per cent of the price of virgin metal. This was done, he says, when the Aluminum Co. contracted with the Edward G. Budd Manufac turing Co., of Philadelphia, the Fisher Body Co., the Hudson Motor Co., the < 'ontinental Motor Co., and the Pierce Arrow .Motor Co. to purchase their j* rap product. D. C. MUST RETURN TAX, SAYS McCARL. ON GAS PURCHASES; (Continued from First Page ) J Vailed States to tax itself for the j benefit of the District of Columbia j 4UI gasoline used in its public ! v ehicles. Whether Congress may irn,- 1 pose such a tax on the United States is not necessary to determine. “The recognized mile is that the Government and its instrumentalities are not taxable. The United States ■provides a stipulated sum as its share of the expenses of the District of Co lumbia (fiscal year, 1327, act May 10, 1320, 44 statute 417 i. and there may not indirectly be added thereto fur ther sums and in appreciable amounts as would result and appears in the present contention. It is not conceiv able that a statute which fails to men tion the United States in any of its D sections as being liable for the tax evidences such an intention, partic ularly-when. as pointed out. in the de cision of August 16, 1926. sections 13 and 14 of the act required registra tion tags and certificates used on Gov ernment vehicle* to be furnished with out charge and specifically required governmental agencies selling gas oline to private consumers to collect the tax from such consumers and turn it over to the collector of the District of Columbia. Large Amounts Paid. “In view of the apparently large amounts that have heretofore been paid, and for which there appears no adequate fund under which to make * refund—the Commissioners are re quested to direct the auditor of the District of Columbia to report to this office at once all claims now filed for refunds to the United States and thereafter from time to time monthly report such further claims filed for refunds arising prior hereto, so that ilie same may be reported to Congress for debiting against such revenues of fiie District of Columbia as it may designate. "The proper action should be taken to avoid future collections on Govern ment purchases.” SENATOR NORRIS HITS COOLIDGE CANDIDACY Uebraskan Says “Third Term” Is Long- Step Toward Monarchism. By ttie As-Oi iatoil Pics* Senator Norris of Nebtaska. who js going to the Wisconsin woods to morrow for a vacation, stopped pack ing up long enough today to shy another political missile in the general direction of the boom for President Coolidge for another term. The Nebraska Senator, who on numerous occasions has assailed the head of his party, said a “third term” for any President constituted a long step toward monarchical government. He added that it was immaterial whether ;» President first succeeded to the office from the vice presidency. Already, he said, the Southern Re publican machine, "which is universaJ admitted to be cot rupt,” is prepared to send Coolidge delegate? to thAncxt *J.tepuldiean national convent i-.*tr in .payment for foi mer favors. | CUBAN PRESIDENT AND DAUGHTER mm* * mbt >• u President Machado of Cuba and his (laughter, Senorita Machado, who ar \ rive here today. SENTIMENT FOR DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION HERE GROWING tCoiltinued from First Page! a strong argument in its favor. Sen ator Glass' suggestion appeals strongly to the Philadelphia Record.” The Pittsburgh Post: "Washington should prove a very . satisfactory .and convenient city in j which to hold the Democratic national ! convention." T. M. Hederman, Jackson, Miss.: “National Capital is ideal place in j j which to hold Democratic convention, j ] Would eliminate any jealousies from ! | other sections desiring convention and j ! prevent some other 'favorite son* re peating ttie A1 Smith propaganda of I last convention, which cost the party \so dearly. Agree with Senator Glass t that Washington should be Selected.” Would Limit Temperature. Herbert Bayard Swope, executive | editor of the New York World: "Speaking wholly' for myself and ! not for the World, I should be glad j to see Washington get the Democratic ; convention. There are so few Demo- j crats in the Capital City it would not j be hard to observe impartiality. The j only restriction I would impose would j he to demand a guarantee from The , Washington Star that the tempera ture was not permitted to go over, | let’s say, 7,7 degrees and the asphalt , would remain hard. But seriously I think 'Washington would be a very j good place indeed.” Miss Jessie Scott. Defimcratio na tional committeewoman for Minne sota; "Should committee select any East ern city I would favor Washington.” The Birmingham News. Birming ham, Ala., thinks that discussion of a convention city is premature. It says: “Respecting Senator Glass’ sugges tion, the Birmingham News is under the impression that the next Demo cratic National Convention, like the next Republican convention, is to be held in the Summer of 1925, rather than as Senator Glass apparently im agines. in the Summer of 1927. At the proper time, Washington might prop erly be considered as the meeting j place for both big pow wows. Why not? | • In the meantime, why may.not Demo- i crats and Republicans alike let the public attend to its knitting, unmo lested by talk about where either , party will strive to save the country j and its own skin more than one year j | from now?” Selection Due in December. | Selection of the convention city, by ! ! both Democrats and Rpubiieans will ! j be made next December, and already ! j many cities have issued invitations to I | the national committees of both par- j i tics A plea for tiie next Democratic na j j tional convention in the South is made i j by a Democratic national committee-j | man from the North, Patrick 11. ] Quinn, of Rhode Island, who says: “Capital does not appeal to me as convention city. Al! sections of the country but the South have had con ventions within 50 years. Southern ers will make perfect hosts regard less of their preferences for candi date.” Airs. Lois K. Mayes. Democratic na tional committeewoman for Florida: “Unless auditorium space has been ! increased lately do not see how Wash ; Jngtori could reasonably expect to care l for convention.” A number of the national committee j members are in favor of holding the | convention in the Middle West next \ year. | William -4. Comstock. Democratic ! national committeeman for Michigan, I says, for example: “interested to know Senator Glass : favors Washington for Democratic | convention. The convention will he | invited to Detroit. 1 believe Detroit 1 possesses all of the advantages for a successful convention.” Chicago Seeks Honor. George K. Brennan, Democratic na-1 tional committeeman for Illinois: “Chicago seeks the honor of having i the national convention of tlie Demo- i eratic party located in Chicago.” W. I„ Barnum, Democratic national committeeman for Arizona: "Inclined to favor some city in the j Middle West. Situation might arise; where I would favor Washington or | some other Eastern city. As yet not committed." James If. Moyle. Democratic na-! | tional committeeman for Utah: ■ j "At present I favor Des Moines or i Cleveland. Denver would suit us." ! j Mrs. Burke H. Sinclair, Democratic I national committeewoman for Wyom-! j ing: * i “Washington of course, would lie j ! one of the extremely desirable cities j j for the Democratic convention if Ivld j in the East. But, 1 believe Western i 1 1 delegates would prefer location more j nearly central in the country.” The national committeeman and the i national committeewoman for Oregon, j Will R. King and Irene E. Stuart, in a joint telegram, say:, i "The undersigned inclined to favor Chicago, Detroit or San Francisco for the next Democratic national conven tion. But no place unless it can seat [ from 10,000 to 15,000 persons. 'Want no tents. Mr. King has been in the • auditorium in Washington and remem ; hers it has but 6,000 capacity. He , agrees with {Senator Glass that if ' auditorium of sufficient capacity can ■ he provided, the national capital is : the logical place for till nation! con • ventions. But with the knowledge we ; have, we are inclined to favor Chicago Detroit or .San Francisco. But we will leave the question open for further consideration. We believe in abolish ! ing both the two-thirds and unit rule j and favor the nomination of some one i who can and will win." In. Jennie Al- Callfas, Democratic THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, P. C„ FRIDAY, APRIb 22. 1927. national cotmnilieewomun for Ne braska : “.My experience at the New York Democratic convention is too deeply j impressed upon my memory (o vote j for the next convention anwyhere but the West or South.” Mrs. Gertrude A. Lee, Democratic national commit tee woman for Colo rado: “Favor Denver for Democratic na tional convention. Colorado is neu tral territory centrally located, cli mate ideal, hotels and auditorium : ample.” j Mrs. Jennie Martin Kirby. Demo i cratie national committeewoman for New Mexico: “Consider Washington too far Cast for convenience ol' Middle West ern and Western delegates. Kansas City, Chicago or Cleveland much more preferable.” Mrs. Florence G. Farley, Demo cratic national committeewoman for Kansas: “I favor holding Democratic na | tional convention in Middle West or : Western city.” , P. .T. Quealv, Denver: I “Senator Glass’ recommendations on i any. subject affecting policies of the Democratic party should not be dis j missed without full consideration. His i opinion carries great weight with me. j and will with all who have in view I only the best interests of our party.” Suggests St. Lotds. The Tennessean, Nashville. Tenn.: "It is yet too early to select the next meeting place for the Democratic national convention. The importance of the location of the convention in shaping the destiny of the party has always been overemphasized. The convenience of the largest number of delegates should prove the first con sideration. For that reason we have always believed that the convention should be held as close as possible to the center of population. It seems to us that St. Louis or Chicago come S nearer meeting that requisite than ! any other cities having adequate eon j vention facilities.” Several members of the Democratic I national committee reply that they are j unwilling to express an opinion yet on ! the location of the next Democratic | national convention. Among them are ! Norman K. Mack of Buffalo. N. Y.: .f. ! T. G. Crawford of Florida. Miss Fli/.a --| both Marbury of New York and Lee E. Thomas of Louisiana. Officials of the trade associations of Washington today joined with proin l inent political and civic leaders <pver the country in urging that the 1928 j Democratic national convention be ■ held in the Capital. Will Study Guarantee. Citing the- manifold advantages of j Washington as a convention city, i which dearly have been demonstrated | in the manner iri which this city acted ! as host to the Shriners, Holy Name S Society and other great organizations j which have convened here, representa i tives of the trade bodies heartily in ! dorsed the invitation extended by Sen ! ator Carter Glass <>£ Virginia to the j Democratic national committee. The possibility of organizing a con ceited movement here to bring the Democratic convention to Washington will be discussed in the next few days at meetings of the governing boaids of the Washington Board of Trade. ] the Chamber of Commerce and the \ Merchants and Manufacturers' Asso i elation, it was said today. At these ! meetings the matter of a financial : guarantee, which a number of other ; cities are making in connection with j their invitations, also will betaken up. ! Washington ranks high among the | greatest cities of the Nation In hotel ! accommodations, it is pointed out, | being excelled only by New York, At i lantic City and Chicago. Besides other advantages of first class rail '•communication and unexcelled press I service here, the trade bodies uni i phasized, Washington is admirably sit uated for such a convention, located on the border between the North and the South. Martin A. Lease Concurs. j Martin A. Loose, president of the .local Chamber of Commerce, declared: | ”1 concur deeply, with Senator Carter Glass, the Democratic national com mitteeman from Virginia, in his ex pressed opinion that Washington is the most logical place for the 3928 con vention. We have here the only neu tral political territory in the country.” j A similar expression was voiced by I fit'ii. Anton Stephan, president of tire 1 Merchants’ and Manufacturers’ As j social ion. who added that he felt j Washington would respond with the I necessary guarantees. If a definite zed her© for the j purpose of formally seeking the con vention. he said, a committee should be set to work to plan arrangements. Washington is the most logical selec tion for the convention, being in neu tral political zone and having availa ble ample hotel and auditorium facili ties, Robert J. Cottrell, assistant sec retary of the Board of Trade, said in speaking for E. C. Graham, president of the organization. Boosters of Washington for t lie con vention selection pointed to the satis factory manner in which Washington handled the Shrine convention, which brought an estimated number of 250,- 000 to this city, and to the Holy Name Society convention, which brought about 100,000 visitors. Harper Heartily Approves. Robert N. Harper, assistant treas urer of the Democratic national com mittee and treasurer of the Demo cratic national eommit- approve the suggestion TWO ARE INJURED IN SEVERE STORM | Fair Weather to Follow Rain. Traffic Paralyzed and Trees Go Down. j ,\ torrential downpour, accompanied i by hn.il. wind and lightning, struck | Washington yesterday evening, par* j aiyzittg traffic, blowing down trees and [ utilising several small fires. Two per* j sons were slightly injured. Traction and public utility facilities I were temporarily crippled, but, while i the violent electric storm caused do j lay. it did not entail any heavy ma ! tet'ial damage. The aftermath of the storm this morning consisted of a gentle ruin, in contrast to the slashing downpour of yesterday, and weather forecasters predicted that It would clear up late this afternoon and be fair tomorrow. Mercury Takes Slump. Coming cut of a sky grown ominous' ly black within an hour, the rain be gan at 5:80 o'clock and fell for nearly two hours as the temperature went down from the 88 to the 70 degree mark. Lightning, playing its freakish pranks, tore down a chimney at the home of Mrs. Franc E. Sheiry, lilt)!* Thirty-fourth street, and flashed in a third-story window, knocking down and stunning her daughter. Mrs. Louis S. Bradshaw, Mrs. Bradshaw's shoe was torn from her foot, and she sustained slight burns, but recovered i in a few hours. The rest of the fam ily were in a. living room on the first floor when the crash came. Bricks and soot were thrown out from the fireplace and the lender was tossed across the room. Rubber boots probably saved the life of .1. A. Storey, pharmacist's mate, third class, stationed at the navy ! yard dispensary, who was taken to the Naval Hospital last night suffer ing from burns sustained when he was struck by lightning while attend ing a birthday party at Friendly, Md., a community near Fort Washington. The house, owned by Edward Thorne, was ignited by the lightning and the upper part destroyed. Storey was knocked unconscious and his legs tem porarily paralyzed. Physicians stated that his rubber hoots probably pre ; vented the lightning from going through his body. Far Service Disrupted. Street ear service was temporarily disrupted. A Takoma Park bound Capital Traction Co. car was derailed at Ceorgia avenue and Kennedy street, blocking the Takoma Park line and the Georgia avenue line of the Washington Railway & Electric Co. Emergency crews of both lines co-operated in replacing the ear on the rails, clearing the way in 57 min utes. Cars oti both lines were short cir cuited and stalled in various sections. Most of the tie-ups. however, were of about 10 minutes’ duration, but serv ice was at a standstill for nearly an hour on tbs F street, G street. Mount Pleasant and Brightwood lines of the W. it. & E. Co. Loss Is Low. Melvin E. Sharpe, assistant to the president of the Potomac Electric Power Co., stated that the storm had caused less property damage than had resulted from storms of similar intens ity in the history of the company. Capital Traction Co. officials stated j that its financial loss was negligible. Most of the material damage, public utility men explained, was caused by lightning damaging switch boxes, poles and wires. Emergency crews worked overtime last night and this morning repair men had practically remedied the damage. Lightning cet fire to a curtain at the home of Mrs. L. Paquin, 1505 i Otis street, while the storm was at its height, but firemen extinguished the blaze before it had bad a chance to do more tHan char the window frame. Big Trees Fall. Several big trees were blown down and limbs were twisted from trees all over the city, especially near the Bu reau of Standards. A big tree was blown down in front of 1340 I street, blocking the street and damaging two parked automobiles. The Fire Depart ment rescue squad chopped away clear for traffic and pulled the branches from the imprisoned auto mobiles. An elm fell on a sedan occupied by Airs. C. T. Trescot. 718 Eighteenth street and John Hussey, 3349 Aslr mead place, as it was parked on Penn sylvania avenue in front of the White House. The occupants escaped in jury, although tiro roof of the car was damaged. Almost at the same time a ; tree crashed to earth in front of 714 ! Eighteenth street, but a few yards from Mrs. Treseot's residence, i A tree was nearly uprooted in front of the Japanese embassy at 1321 K street and a tree at South Capitol and E streets fell victim to the wind. Autos Are Stalled. Scores of autombbiles were stalled in the rain. Many of the drivers remained In their machines until the storm sub sided. Emergency crews from serv ice stations and garages were called ; to all sections of the city, j Several electric light poles were I blown down and wind and rain caused | numerous washouts. Dirt covered the ! sidewalk on Connecticut avenue at | Albemarle and Porter streets and a j bad hole appeared in the roadway on | Otis street east of Eighteenth street j northeast. The Connecticut Avenue : Bridge resembled a canal at the peak of the storm, rain sluicing through the thoroughfare and making driving perilous. The wind readied such velocity that it blew the traffic semaphore from its post at Fourteenth street: and Penn | sylvania avenue almost 100 feet down j the street before it was rescued by a ! motorman who left his car and re j moved it from the trucks 1 1 of Senator Glass that the Democratic ; I convention be held here. Washing | ton would l»e a wonderful place for it. • I believe that the people would pro-1 vide the funds necessary for the en ’ tertainment of the delegates and the ; convention guests. ; “The Washington Auditorium is well equipped to handle the conven tion. Its facilities for the press as well as for the delegates are ample. Indeed, it has facilities for the press which are not equalled in many con vention halls in other cities. More than 2,800 square feet of floor space lielow the convention hall can be | turned over to the correspondents.” lias Been Leader for Years. Mr. Harper was chairman of the ■ Wilson inaugural committee, and has ■ taken a leading part in Democratic politics here for many years. A representative of the Washington i Arcade Co., in charge of the Arcadia, . Fourteenth street near Park road, said today that when present plans for re ■ Modeling the structure are completed • about October 15 the Arcadia Audi i torium will seat .10,000, and that during i a convention 3,000 additional tern* • parary seats could be installed. The • present seating capacity is 3,000. The remodeled auditorium, it was said, will consist of an arena similar in that of Aludison Square Garden and | one balcony. There will be no pillars or posts to interfere with vision from any part of the ball. The plans also ■ call for indirect cooling equipment to make the auditorium comfortable in I warm weather. Rooms also would be i ’availably for committee meetings. . A*- '■ . *'•**’•■ * ‘““■lp ■ TRAFFIC HELD UP BY FLOODS IN BLADENSBURG, Ml). TODAY , ... „ -•"a** . - ■—<• , '* • -*■' ■ .yr.- vv : . -a— m e . PRESIDENT ASKS PROMPT AID FOR SUFFERERS IN FLOOD AREA i (Continued from First Page.) j operate with the officers of the Red Gross in their relief work. They were Secretaries Mellon, Davis and Hoover. It was said that this committee would meet at the Red Cross Building at 2 o'clock this afternoon. It was ex plained also that the committee's work will not have any connection with the acceptance of contributions, but to de termine how the Federal Government through its many agencies can best co-operate. Text of Proclamation. The President’s proclamation fol lows: “To the People of the United States; “Eight States of the Union are suf fering one of the most extensive floods in the history of the country. For j more than two weeks the waters of i the Mississippi River and its tribu- J taries, swollen to record volume, have j been overwhelming and breaking | through the levees raised to confln* them within their courses. They have ' deluged millions of acres of agricul tural laud, inundated many towns and driven thousands of people from their homes. The crest of the flood is advancing southward, daily creat ing new' ruin. "In the first few days the situation instead of improving, as had been hoped, has been rapidly growing worse, the flood waters have con tinually forced new breeches in the levees, despite the efforts of hundreds of workers, with consequent increased destruction. "The American Cross reports that, by a most conservative estimate there are now more than 75,000 refugees from the flood who must be eared for by the Red Cross. While this emergency continues, which will 47 DIE AS FLOODS THREATEN GREATEST HAVOC IN CENTURY) <( 'ontinued from First Pago.) kansas was rising as they spread out through crevasses or moved on toward the Mississippi. Flood waters were receding in the area around New Madrid, Mo., and bright sunlight gave the hope that conditions would gradually improve. Further Rise Forecast. The Mississippi from St. lajuis to ! Chester, 111., was at a stand today. The river was rising immediately above and falling below those points. The stage here remained at 34.9. A further rise was forecast, however, as result of Missouri River flood waters due to reach the Mississippi Sunday. The crest forecast for St. Louis was still 3f> feet for Monday, the highest since 1903, At Cairo, 111., the stage today was t 55. a fall of .4 in the last 24 hours. The greatest disaster to tiie lower Mississippi Valley in more than a hun dred years was growing more grave today with almost hourly reports of further widespread death, desolation and destruction caused by the furious tide of the Mississippi and its tribu taries. More Than 100,000 Homeless. Property damage was estimated high | into the millions, and more than a hun i dred thousand were homeless and suf- I l’ering for want of food, clothing and I shelter. The most serious condition continued to center around practically the en tire State of Arkansas, particularly the St. Francis Valley and the Mis sissippi delta. 'Plie Mississippi delta section strug gled against long odds as waters spread over 3,000 square miles. Thou sands have been forced to tlee from i their homes; many are marooned, liun , gry, cold and destitute. Mississippi’s governor has requested ' Federal troops to aid in rescue and re i lief work. Epidemics Are Spreading. Suffering among the refugees was increasing with hitter weather adding to the horror of mud and disease. Epi demics of mumps, measles and whoop ing cough were spreading with little medical aid available. Texarkana reported that the Ousn hita River, on its second rise of the year, had inundated 800 square miles of Texas and Arkansas soil. Pine Bluff reported that more than 1,000 persons were marooned in Jefferson County alone from waters flowing through gaps in the Arkansas levee. Rescue work was slow, due to the high winds, and many of the refugees were standing out in the open, where they were targets for the chilling blasts. Fort Smith, cut off from the use of wire communication to the east last night, was believed to be suffering from an increasingly dangerous situa tion. Scores of other smaller towns and cities in that section of the State also were cut off. and from which many reports of suffering were heard. In the St. Francis Basin, spurred by the waters front the new Madrid, Mo., gap in the levee, residents fled in the face of the Inevitable deluge which is slowly creeping ifeutbward. There is no outlet for tVfflr flood until the I,a 4 Co^ eJ an more. I he for weeks, these refugees must be ; ■ fed. shelteered and clothed. Their j ! health must be protected. Situation Regarded as Serious. “in the event that the floods rise j to the predicted higher levels in the ; next few days, the number whose ! most primary needs must be cared for j will quickly be doubled and trebled, i The situation is indeed grave. The j Government is giving such aid as lies ; within its power. Government boats 1 that are available are being used to I rescue those in danger and carrying j refugees to safety. The AVer Depart- j ment is providing the Red Cross with ) tents for housing refugees. “The National Guard. State and lo- 1 cal authorities are assisting. But the j burden of caring for the homeless j rests upon the agency designated by | Government charter to provide relief I in disaster—the American National { Red Cross—for so great, a task addi- j | tional funds must be obtained imme diately. It therefore becomes mj duty as President of the United J States and president of the Atneri- j can National Red Cross to direct the sympathy of our people to the sad j plight of thousands of their fellow ! citizens, and to urge that generous j contributions be promptly forthcom ing to alleviate their suffering. “In order that there may be the utmost co-ordination and effective ness in the administration of the re lief fund, I recommend that all con tributions, clearly designated, be for warded to the nearest local Red Cross chapter or to the American National Red Cross office in Washington, St. Louis or San Francisco. “1 am confident that, as always in the past, tiie people will suport the Red Cross in its humane task.” 100 miles long and many miles wide. | It probably will find the Mississippi i t again from the St. Francis, into which j 1 it will flow near Helena. Across the Mississippi, where the , e Arkansas tributaries are piling great 1 heaps of water onto the levees in the t Mississippi Delta, there are probably ' ‘ 900,000 people viewing with alarm the , ever-increasing danger. A relief train hearing IS boats and J 18 men to operate them was speeding . . southward from St. Louis toward / .Arkansas. The boats were to he . . launched, it was planned, when the l train should be stopped by the high ( s waters. , s Unconfirmed reports from Knowl . ton. Ark., said that 18 refugees ( 3 drowned there when a boat was ( t drawn through the crevasse rent in ( the levee at that point, s Petty ville, Ark., was literally wiped ! . from the map when the flood tore j r buildings from their foundation and . swept them away. At Little Rock, . hundreds of families were in danger, , f and relief work was being pressed , forward. 3 Memphis had converted a large fair j . grounds into a refugee camp. Governors of Mississippi Valley j States and mayors of towns affected have issued urgent appeals for aid in ( 1 caring for the victims.' < FOOD AM) SUPPLIES RUSHED. j. 1 i 1 KANSAS CITY. April 22 OP).— 1 , . Swollen streams in Kansas. Oklahoma I ( and western Missouri receded today | t . under clearing skies to permit speed- j i ing of food and supplies to hundreds I t . left homeless by two weeks of floods j and storms. ( t A cold wave that swept out of the > f i Rocky Mountain States yesterday to J «. . add to suffering and threaten fruit j j and grain, aparently had passed over j 1 the Southwest this morning. The j 1 - mercury stood in the upper thirties j or lower forties in Kansas and Okla- jT homa this morning after dropping to j the freezing point. ’ Higher temperatures also were re > ported in the intermountain and Pa cific Coast States, where fruit was ’ damaged by frost. ! Thousands of acres of cotton, po- j tatoes and small grain were reported j i destroyed by floods. State and county organizations are supervising l'elief 1 to upward of 7,000 homeless in the southwest, BEARDSTOWN UNDER WATER. Schools dosed and Exodus of ! Refugees Continues. > BEARDSTOWX. 111., April 22 (A 3 ). [ : —Grim-faced residents of the inun dated Beardstown went about their - business as best they could today. All grade schools are closed and the : high school will be closed at the end ■ of today’s session. The historic Beardstown courthouse, i where Abraham Lincoln defended Duff Armstrong on a murder charge, is surrounded by water. With the aid of hip boots, streets in the higher sections of the city can he navigated, but boats lire necessary in the lower parts. 1 The ex opus from stricken sections continues#but no cases of suffering , iiM - J, GET EIGHTH JUROR FOR SNYDER TRIAL Selection Two-Thirds Com pleted as New Panel of 150 Is Summoned. J By the Associated Press. | NEW YORK, April 22. —The jury • in tlie Snyder murder trial was two ! thirds completed today, when the | eighth juror was selected shortly after l noon. ! Juror No. Bis Lewis Ruchdasehal, | the father of two children. He is a | widower living in College Point. New faces filled the “bleachers.” The benches which had been crowd ed Monday with talesmen from whom it was then expected to obtain a jury had been gradually emptied as score after score were rejected as unfit. j Last night court was adjourned j only when the last available talesman | had been examined, the score at that j time being seven jurors accepted and 237 potential jurors thrown out. Today a new panel of 150 talesmen filled the room again for the fifth day of the trial and the last day of jury selection. On adjourning last night, Justice Scudder announced that a jury would be obtained today even if court had to stay in session all night. Five were at once excused within the first few minutes of today's ses sion because they felt scruples against the death penalty, and three others because they had firm convictions as to the. innocence or guilt of the de fendants. Another was rejected because he knew Dana Wallace of counsel for Mrs. Snyder. RAINS BLOCK AUTOS AT BLADENSBURG Special Dispatch to The Star. BLADENSBURG, Md„ April 22. ; Tributaries of the Anacostia River in j this section were swollen today as a j result of the heavy rains last night. Eastern Branch had overflowed its j banks by 8 a.m. and water was over the highway near the bridge separat- J ing Bladensburg and Hyattsville. Motorists were compelled to use j other routes in reaching Washington i from the North and East. Rain started this morning after the \ deluge of last night and a.further rise I of Eastern Branch was threatened. I Considerable wind accompanied the j tain this morning and last night. Re- j cession of the Eastern Branch water I is not expected before night. Considerable swelling of the North- ! western and Paint Branches also was j reported today. SEE COVENANT VIOLATED. Injunction proceedings against Charles S. and Lillian H. Elder, col ored. residing at 116 Adams street, were liled today in the District Su preme Court by Edward Stanley. Ed ward C. and Grace E. Mooney and i Frank B. and Lillian V. Rogers, white i residents on tho same block. They j charge that the covenant not to seil j to negroes was violated in the sale of 1 116 Adams street by Hulst Glenn, jr., former owner of the property. The occupancy of the property bv i colored people is alleged to be harm- J ful to tho real estate values in that section. Attorneys Adkins & Nesbit I and Leo \V. Simon appear for the j white residents. < i r pi t ,\ro\o this i,i\k. | Coupon | Ift* «st!£ltfltg Coupon OFFERS TO ITS READERS “Answers to Questions” Frederic J. 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Pietro Kumason; Bi, i L apostolic delegate to tlie l nited Stab - announced today that lie was “ce: tain that the Mexican hierarchy h nothing to do either directly or indi rectly" with the recent attack lo a band of outlaws upon a Mexi, . > passenger train, in which the tram was set on lire and many passeng* - were either slain or burned to death Replying to a statement »>v Presi I dent Colics of Mexico. Intimating that | the attack was carried out with the : knowledge of the Catholic episcopate ! of Mexico. Archbishop Bit titli said that “My first request to the Amerb • •an public in tiiis matter is that juou ment he suspended until definite an * reliable details are available. “The only news wo hive to date 1 v from government sources.’’ he d*> dared, “and, as every one knows, all dispatches from Mexico are rigorous!' censored l»y the Valles government whose officials decide what can aml must, be sent out to the press. “I can absolutely deny the charge of President Culles carried in pro dispatches that the Mexican hierarch' is responsible for the attack. Tim charge is without foundation and result of the bitter hatred of Presi dent C’alles for the Catholic Church. “Because three priests led the at tacking party, as he asserts, then w* must conclude that the Catholf, •Church of Mexico is responsible f<>, the massacre. Moreovei. in a man ner wholly unworthy, as the head of a civilized State. President Calles reck lessly asserts that this attack is »• other evidence of what he Implies -• the systematic tyranny of the Catii olic Church.” MEXICO CLAMPS LID ON ALL BUT OFFICIAL MESSAGES 0 ’ontinued from First Paged 20 children, ranging from infants t 10-year-old boys and girls, wei •• killed in the second-class coach*- I and that another 2l> lost their pat ! ents. The United States embassy had n* | information today to substantia • ■ ! earty’ reports that from 5 to 7 Arne; - I icans were on the train. Apparently j the only Americans who witnessed I the outrage were H. Dock, for man’ ; years a resident of Guadalajara, and 1 E. S. De Lima, vice president of the Banco de Mexico, who is a natural ized American. They reached Mexit City yesterday. * OBREGON’S DAUGHTER sU K. ! | SAX FRANCISCO. April 2? t4>) l —John Rosseter. local capitalist, la-i i night announced receipt of a tel* j gram from former Mexican President | Obregon stating that Obregon ('•tighter. Dona Refugia Ponce <le j Leon, reported killed in a bandit mu*»- i suer* Tuesday, was in a place of ' safery. j Rosseter. close friend of the form* * i Mexican president, said Obregon L>l* ! graphed that Dona Refugia was urn ! aboard the train at the time of the j massacre. Her name was included in I the. list of those killed when bandits i raided a Guadalajara. Mexico City j train and killed 100 passengers. HAVRE DE GRACE ENTRIES Mitt TOMORROW. FIRST RACE—Purge. 51.200. ■ laimiu-. , .. year-olds and up: o furlong-. | Hot Pepper .... tJT Mark Master .. 11 :• Ensign 117 ‘Queen Br,sit . . b*d j •Lone Point ... 11-: * win some .... ill Crousantams .. 11l K.i K«*<- 10.. I Fable lm» ADo eligible— •ciydeiia lor Foregone .... liu j Edith D JO!l Sir mi y i*‘l Venus N’t Wild Aster .... 117 Don gees 117 Rem, 1< . , I i •Allnaehe .... 100 *Alex Wuo.hife I ■: i King O NeiU. 2d 121 SECOND RACE—Purse. 51.200: the and Gay Purse: 2-.vear.oids: 4lurlongs Lucie Dunbar .. 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Jo:, Waning Minstrel 107 * Crystal Domino lo- Longview 105 Mariner In: tCand.v Hog .... ,OK Pillotta lo fH. T. Archibald entry. l H R.U'fr —The Philadelphia Tlan l! ('.ip; $lO,OOO added: 3-year-olds and up 1 miies. ' ‘Singlefoot lit iKdi-to . u,, , Whiskery !<•.» 80-tonian . . •*». ‘Devonshire .. JO2 f Afterglow to: Crusader 12k Washakie ~ . in.-, Ton bout lie; i Point Breeze .. !**, 'Mare 122 ? Gaff snian .... T t Batumi it», ,T Fred V ji„, Moutferrat .... 103 'Display .. .. ’ 1, Canter 112 Joy Smoke . i: - +H. P. Whitney entry. 1 Seagram Stable entry. J Walter M. Jeffords enti v. Walter J. Salmon entr>. °J. E. Griffith entry. SIXTH RACE—S 1 400 the Como.it Ka dicap; 5-year-olds and up: it, n iil< s. * ■»'*:! Washakie . . . it:. Aucilla .. .. , . i1 *2 Sanford . i i , ' ~nV ’! 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