Evening star., 1927-05-01

Federal, State, Red Cross and local
agencies, under the general super
intendence of Secretary Hoover, him
self on the scene. The total number
of known dead is something over 100,
a small number, everything consid.
cred. Special praise is due the Ar.
kansas civilian aviators who. in seven
planes unable to land, have cease.
lessly spied hither and thither, locat-
ing marooned groups or individuals.
dropping them food, directing boats
to their succor.
Uneasily we receive reports of
smallpox, measles, mumps, malaria,
influenza and other germ diseases.
Typhoid and smallpox incubation is
taking place on a grand scale. But
the great danger in this kind is
ahead, when the waters shall have
receded, leaving Shiny. pestilential
wastes, installations for supply of
pure water destroyed. The Red
Cross has $4,000 nurses available for
its glorious work. .r
OF the $5 900, 900 first asked of the
public by the President for relief, S3,-
1888. 200 had been subscribed on Fri
day. 1t goes without saying that
S5 900 900 can be only a beginning
Somehow the public purse seems to
open rather sluggishIy.
The crest of the swollen waters Will
not reach New Orleans until about
two weeks hence. Could anything be
conceived more dramatic? The crest
advancing with such hideous delibera-
ton, 500. 900 people waiting in the
Crescent City for the final will OF the
Fathers Of Waters.
On Tuesday Lieut. Comdr. Noel
Davis. II. S. ~, and Lieut.. Stanton
Fl. Wooster, u. S. N, were killed in
making a forced landing of the bi-
plane American Legion in final
test of the craft preparatory to es-
saving a nonstop flight from New
York to Paris The plane left the
ground Langley Field belatedly and
rose sluggishly, with the result that
she threatened to crash into clump
of trees in the direct line OF flight.
Wooster therefore turned her slight
". a most hazardous operation under
the conditions. The loss of speed in.
voIved proved fatal. The plane slith-
cred down. Landing was made with
great skill on a marsh without INJURY
to the landing gear. but suddenly the
machine turned over. nose in the mud,
the cockpit. in which the aVlators
were trapped. partly submerged. Inc
wing tanks were broken and gasoline
leaked down from them into the COCK
nit. The indication is that the TWO
heroes were suffocated by gas futnes
and mud. 1t would appear that the
runway at Langley Field IS not aue'
quate.
Albert ]. Beveridge, former Senator
from Indiana, died on Wednesday at
the age of "a. His Life of John Mar
shall" i'm four volumes, is an ad-
mirable work For some years prior
to his death he had been engaged on
a "T,ife Of Lincoln" which he left
about half completed.
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ATisceIIaneous.--Nor is about
~ ceIebrate the 900th anniversary
of the birth Of William the Con-
oueror. She would like to have
as honored guests some descendants
of the Norman conquerors of England.
R,It scarcely any person can be found
Who is able to furnish authentic proofs
of such descent. Such Is glory.
The Russian Soviet government mas
decided to send four delegates or fuil
official status to the internatlonal
Economic Conference, which opens on
Nav under the auspices of the
League of Nations.
The Japanese Diet has been sum-
moned for May 3.
ON Thursday a seaplane with four
Rrazilians aboard, Comdr. de Barros
commanding. hoped off about ain.
from Porto da Praia, Cape Verde Is
lands. for Santos, Brazil. In the after
noon OF the same day, as the plane
approached the Brazilian coast. it fell
into the sea. but. as luck would have
il, an Italian steamship was passing
close, and all four aYiators were res
eued.
The Third Pan.American CONNER
cial Conference win open at Washing
tor, May q under the auspices of the
Pan-American Union.
More than a hundred delegates from
the Latin American republics are OK
pected. including representatives of
the several governments and OF COM
mercia bodies. Subjects such as trans
portatiaa. intaramerican commerce,
arhitratApn OF commercial disputes,
consular procedure and customs regu- |
lations Will be discussed.