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Evening star., 1927-05-12

questioned as obscene were laid before
the conferees in Gen. Andrews office.
Importers generally will be advised,
under orders by Gen. Andrews.
through collectors of the ports that no
further orders for importation shall,
be placed until the final ruling.
"In the meantime" said Gen. An
drews in an official statement. ''the
problem presented to the department
will be thoroughly canvassed and,
as promptly as may be, principles
will be laid down for the guidance
OF collectors in the future in their
execution of the duties imposed upon
them by Section sos Of the tariff
act. which forbids the importation of
obscene printed matter.
II appeared at the conference. Gen.
Andrews said. that '.fhe identical
books III question have been import
ed through the port Of New York for
several years withait question:.
Evening star., 1927-05-12
u. S. FLYERS PLAN TO HOP OFF
TONIGHT OR EARLY TOMORROW
Bertaud Announces He and Chamberlin
Will Not Wait Until Saturday for
Paris Flig ght Attempt

Observers at the flying field be,
lieved that the approach of Capt.
Charles A. Lindbergh. another trans
atlantic contender, who is due here
in his Ryan plane tonight from st.
Louis, may have spurred on the
hackers of the Bellanca flight.
Charles A. Levine, financial hacker
of the flight, declined to comment on
the possibility of a hop-off tonight,
but admitted that an earlier date
than Saturday was under considera-
ton.
Levine said Chamberlin and
Bertrand propose to land at lie Bourget
Field, near Paris. He said he had
been jesting when he remarked Mon
day that the flyers might circle the
Eiffel Tower, touch their wheels at
LIE Bourget Field, then proceed to
England.
Evening star., 1927-05-12
By the Associated Press.


MINEOLA, n. Y, May 12.--L1oyd
w. Bertaud announced today that he
and Clarence d. Chamberlin are plan
ming to hop off tonight or early to-
morrow morning on their proposed
nonstop flight to Paris in their Bel
lanca plane, the Columbia.
Bertaud said the decision as to the
definite time of the take-off would de-
pend largely on the afternoon weather
report, which is expected here at 4
o o'clock. He expressed doubt on the
possibility of a getaway before mid
night but was confident he would be
on his way to Paris early tomorrow.
The Bellanca monoplane was kept
behind closed doors in its hangar,
where mechanics replaced metal
with a wooden one.
Evening star., 1927-05-12
Governor of Fez
Gets Typewriter
With Arab Letters
BY the Associated Press.

BY inc AssOCIateu PIess.
FEZ, French Morocco, May Ia
A typewriter has come into the life
of the governor of F'ez, Pasha
Bouchta Ell Baghdadi. Tie ma
chine, with Arabian characters, the
first of its kind here. was presented
to him recently, and Gen. Charles
De Chambrun, showing the elder
= pasha how civilization uses the
typewriter, tapped out with two
fingers the customary phrase, May
God bless our lord the pasha."
1t was only last year that the
pasha declined to use the govern.
ment's gift o. an automobile, with
the words: IT am too old TO get
into that machine of the devil" He
was persuaded to try it, however,
md now uses the car constantly.
Evening star., 1927-05-12
HOPE EFOR FLYERS
REVIVED IN W|LDS
OF NEWFOUNDLAND
Woods and Waterways Are
Searched After Three Report
Having Heard AirpIane.
LOS ANGELES WAITING
TO JOIN HUNT AT SEA
Wireless and Steamship Companies
Still Without Word of Nun
gesser and Coli.
By the Associated Press.

b
Word came today from Harbor
Grace. Newfoundland. that a third
person in that far-off spot in the
British colony had heard the whirr of
an airplane high overhead in the fog
! last Monday morning at a time when
/. Capfs. Nungesser and Coli in the
! White Bird were due over New
foundland on their flight from Paris
Ito New York.
/ Police patrols and woodsmen have
| 3oined in a search that will carry
them far into the forests and wooded
!, waterways that indent the country.
1T may be days before the hunt is
concluded.
May Have Drifted i'm Fog.
The dwindling hopes that the
French aviators may be found seem
' to rest on the Newfoundland search.
Cant. r. D. White, naval attache AT
Paris. informed the Navy Depart
rnent that Nungesser's proposed
route would have carried him over
northern Newfoundland, near the
Belle Isle Straits. The aviators may
have drifted in the fog to the south
ward and this would have brought
o. them over f1aTDOF 0LdIC. !.
Meanwhile, United States naval
vessels and Coast Guard patrols are
threading zigzag courses in the
western wastes of the Atlantic,
hunting for the airmen. while the
sedirigible Los Angeles is waiting for
better visibility before joining IN the
search.
Wireless Companies Without Word.
Wireless and steamship companies
were still without any comforting
word today of the French aces, now
three full days overdue at New York.
Charles Lindbergh, fight comman-
der in the Missouri National Guard.
hopped off from st. Louis for New
York today. Lindbergh is the only
lone pilot entered in the Orteig
transatlantic contest.
All is in readiness at Curtiss Field,
Long Island. for the start Of the
2 rBellanca plane early Saturday morn
ing.
Evening star., 1927-05-12
LEAGUE OFFERS AID
FOR ARMS PARLEY
Section Of International Body to
Be Available to Conference
Delegates.
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
GENEVA, May 12.--An official
League of Nationas communique today
says that, acceding to a request from
the British and Japanese govern
ments, the league has placed all its
facilities at the disposal of their dele.
gates and those Of the United States
for the tripartite naval conference to-
be held here next month.
This Is taken to mean that the dis.
armament section OF the League will
be available to the delegates and that
the conference viii be linked with the
Leagues general disarmament effort.
The conference will be held In the
League OF Nations palace. The date
was not given In the communique,
but IL win probably be June 20. pss
previously xeportsd. ..es. -
Evening star., 1927-05-12
Famous Dancer Is Dying.

NEWTON, Kans., May IL LR).-A
cablegram was received here last
night by Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Puck.
EFT. parents of Eleanor Ambrose, wife
of Maurice Mouvet, famous dancer,
stating that Maurice was dying. The
message came from Switzerland where
resting
Evening star., 1927-05-12
STREET CAR LINES
GIVEN NEW ROUTES
Brookland-11 Street, lie
Droit Park and Anacostia-
Central High Affected.

A general rerouting of three of the
important lines of the Washington
Railway and Electric Co. was ordered
today by the Public Utilities Commits.
sion. The change affects the Brook.
land-Eleventh street, the LIE Droit
Park and the Anacostia Central High
School lines.
Under the new plan of routing, the
Brookland line will run to the
wharves, the lie Droit Park line will
terminate at Fifteenth and G streets,
and the Eleventh street cars win go
to Anacostia and Congress Heights.
At present the Brookland cars 20 to
Eleventh and Monroe streets, the lie
Droit Park cars to the wl1aryes and
the Anacostia cars to Central High
School.
New Routes Given.
The new route of the Brookland
line will be as follows: From Brook
land to Massachusetts avenue via
North Capitol street, via g street to
Fourteenth street, and via Fourteenth
street TO the wharves.
The lie Droit Park cars viii follow
terminate at Fifteenth and G streets
instead of running through to the
wharyes.
The Eleventh street cars, starting
at Eleventh and Monroe streets, will
run to Eleventh and f streets. east
to Ninth street. and south on Ninth
street past Center Market to Ana
costa and Congress Heights.
The change in routes will affect
thousands of street car riders. and was
recommended by Capt. r. G. Klotz,
chief engineer of the Public Util.
tiles Commission. 1t viii become eff.
fective as soon as the car company
installs a right-hand turn switch at
Ninth and E streets, which, it Is
estimated, will cost $4,000
Action Is Deferred.
The commission deferred for 80 days,
at the request of Clayton E. Emig of
the public utilities committee of the
Federation of Citizens Associations,
action on the one-man street car queS.
ton, which has been pending for sew
eral weeks.
Authorization was given the Wash
lngton Railway and Electric Co., how 1
ever. to purchase six new yellow
coaches to augment it's notorious
service.
Consideration was given to a pro.
posal to employ experts to assist the
commission with its contemplated re-
valuation of the physical properties
Of the Washington and Georgetown
Gas Light Companies, but no action
was taken. Appointment of the ex-
perts probably will be made soon.
Evening star., 1927-05-12
LOSS is $3.50, 900 ,000.
Hoover Says Figures May Run Much
Higher.

MEMPHIS. May IL R.-Arriving
here today from an inspection trip
through the lower Mississippi Valley,
Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Com
merce, plunged Immediately into a
conference with Red Cross officials, at
which it was understood the general
relief situation in the flood area was
discussed in detail.
Mr.. Hoover said upon his arrival
here that the damage thus far in
hicted by the flood probably will
amount to $3.50, 900 to $500 900. 900.
and declared that 1.-The tragedy of it
is that it is impossible to tell how
much greater the loss will be before
the disaster reaches it's climax"
Evening star., 1927-05-12
Man, Is, Declares Bride, 20, Tricked Him;
Too Feeble to Care for Self, He Says

found her to be older than he had
expected, and too feeble even to take
care of herself, to say nothing OF
helping him.
Mr.. Mayer says he had to carry
her from the train when he returned
TO Milwaukee after the wedding here
and that the next day she fell and
injured her hip. Sending her home
to her daughter, Mayer said she
again fell, due to her infirmities. and
broke her leg.
AS result Mayer said he was
forced to resume doing his own
housework and wants to continue to
do o. =. .,sss .9s@ 4, .ssxsf1ss +
Evening star., 1927-05-12
MEYER is APPOINTED.
Succeeds williams as Federal Farm
Loan Commissioner.

Reorganization of the Federal Farm
Loan Board has been completed, it
was announced by Secretary Mellon
today, by the appointment of Eugene
Meyer, jr., recently made a new mem
ber of the board, to the position of
farm loan commissioner. He sue
ceeds A. c. Williams, who resigned.
Mr.. Meyer was formerly managing
director of the War Finance Corpora.
don and in his new position il now
giving much attention to the question
OF loans in the stricken States of the
Mississippi flood region.
Evening star., 1927-05-12
SEARCH AT SEA wIDENED.
Ships Extend Operations After Comb
ing Large Area.

NEW YORK, May IL R.-Search
for Capts. Nungesser and Coli was
carried on today with renewed hope
as a result OF report from Harbor
Grace, Newfoundland, that an air.
plane was heard overhead on Monday
about the time the White Bird was
due.
Instructions were issued by the Do
minion government that any info-nla-
tion relative to the fate of the flyers
be promptly reported.
Virtually the entire Coast Guard in
New England remained in the hunt,
coastal radio stations kept their in,
struments open for word of the miss
ing airInen, and captains OF trans
atlantic vessels scanned their courses
for trace Of the plane.
Rumor of Finding Disproved.
A rumor that the aviators had been
picked up by the Cunard liner Came
ronia was disproved when the ship 9
captain reported to the New York Of
fee that he had neither seen nor
heard anything of the plane.
While three days OF fog and rain
prevented extensive use OF airpianes
off New England. Coast Guard officials
said the entire area over which air
search might have been effective had
been combed by vessels.
Twenty Coast Guard patrol boats;
eight destroyers, two naval tugs and
innumerable small patrol craft hunt
ed in vain from New York Harbor te
Nova Scotia. The search went on IN
an overwhelming area, however. Two
naval tugs are patrolling definits
courses, and the cutter Tampa, on ice
! patrol duty off the Grand Banks, was
assigned 1.200-rnile area northeast
! OF Boston. The liner France, bounc
for New York. was ordered 400 miles
north of its regular course, to cover
= more closely the vicinity over whicf
Nungesser said he would fly.
Aviation experts renewed expires
siofls of confidence that the airmeI
would be found.
Evening star., 1927-05-12
Brothers-in-Law Die
In Shotgun Fight
Over Bible Dispute
E. the Associated Press.

f. the Associated Press.
ATLANTA, Tex. May IL
Charles Preston. 65, and George
Shields, AZ, brothers.in-lav'. are
dead following an argument over
the Bible which ended in a gun bat.
tie at the Shields home at Midway
community, miles northeast of
here. Shotguns fired almost stimuli.
taneously brought almost instant
death to each.
Shields and Preston were mar.
ried to twin sisters and each was
the father of three children.
Evening star., 1927-05-12
BY ,ha Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, May 12.-Marriage an
nulment proceedings of Abraham
Mayer. 75-year-old suspender sales
man Of Milwaukee, were filed in Su-
perior Court yesterday against his
bride, Dora. who is past 70, alleging
he was tricked into marrying her
last November.
The bridegroom sets out in the bill
that he married the woman as a
heipmate in his declining years. hav-
ing been led to believe she was hale
and hearty and able to take care OF
,his household. -Insafad, he said, he
Evening star., 1927-05-12
OVERFLOW is FEARED.
Bayou des GLASSES Levees Hold rs
Crews Work ALI Night,

NEW ORLEANS, La, May IL LE).--
Under the pressure of steadily rising
backwaters the Bayou des GLASSES
levees were holding early today. but
with warnings that a crevasse might
occur at any moment.
Throughout the night citizens and
laborers filled sandbags to stop the
flow of water through hastily con-
structed topping and to raise higher
the dixie between Bordelonville and
Sarto, les miles on an air line north
west of here and on the west side
OF the Atchafalaya River from the
Mississippi.
May Overflow Dixie.
Flood relief headquarters at Batoa
Rouge were notified that the water
had nearly reached the top of the
dixie and Army engineers expressed
the belief that before nightfall flood
waters would be cascading over the
top, il a creyasse did not occur before
then.
Live stock in the threatened area
has been removed TO safety and all
residents have moved to higher
ground except the 1000 or more de-
IIlGn WHO cUllle oht WOto
earlier this week, IF 1t goes out, it
viii go out with us on top of it,
While outside the area plans have
gone forward for relief in event Of q
crevasse, the citizens have declared
they would hold back the flood waters.
A rescue fleet has been concentrated
at strategic points.
Would Relieve Other Points.
A crevasse at the threatened dixie
within the next "a hours would cause
much of the flood waters from the
Arkansas breaks and the Winter quar-
ters and Cabin Teele crevasses to be
diverted down the Atchafalaya Basin,
bringing some relief to Mississippi
River levees A smallpox epidemic in
the Bouef River section of northeast
Louisiana was feared by Red Cross
relief workers.
Miss Winifred Callahan, Red Cross
worker. reported that 20 cases of
smallpox were discovered by rescue
workers in the Bouef River section,
but all cases were in one house where
negroes were marooned. The victims
were isolated and placed under medical
care. Ten thousand smallpox vaccine
points and 10000 units of typhoid
serum were taken to the area by Miss
Callahan today.
Rising waters from the Cabin Teele
and Winter quarters crevasses neces.
STATED evacuation of all refugees
concentrated at Jonesville. Boats
were available to remove them to Har.
risonburg, Sicily Island and Rhine.
hardt.
rsnrrNN- pY ANTrNr, SrAuwS
Evening star., 1927-05-12
NEW LEVEE BREAK
THREATENSLARGE
SUGAR BOWL AREA
Hundreds of Workers Rush to
Repair Embankment
After Cave-In..
WATER POURS INTO
10-F00T CREvASSE
Rich Section Is Imperiled When
Mississippi Goes Wild at
Another Point.

BY the Associated Press.
BATON ROUGE, La, May 1.-THE
levee on the Bayou des Glaises. pro
tecting the Sugar Bowl" section in
Louisiana. one mile northwest of
Cottonport. broke today. a crevasse
10 feet wide occurring. A crew OF sew
ersI hundred workers started at once
to repair the crevasse.
Evening star., 1927-05-12
WIDE sEkRCH ORDERED.
Two Men and Woman mistaken In
Reports Plane.

ST. JOHNS, Nova Scotia. May Il
CP.--If the airplane which three rep
utable residents of Harbor Grace re-
mort having heard whirring through
The fog last Monday morning was
that of Capts. Nungesser and Coli,
there is a wide variety of possibilities
as to what happened to it afterward.
The two men, Peter O'Brien, q farmer,
and Capt. John Stapleton, who gave
The first report yesterday, said they
distinctly heard the noise of an air
plane engine, but could not see the
plane because of the fog. Mrs. Hinton,
wife Of the superintendent of the I'm
perial Gable, at Harbor Grace, report
ed today that she also heard it.
Harbor Grace, % miles in an air line
northwest Of st. Johns, is the second
largest town in Newfoundland, with
q population of 5000. The main part
of the town is on a hill, overlooking
Conception Bay, in which is located
Bell Island, with it's famous iron
mines. OBriens farm is behind the
hill.
Agrees With Probable Course.
An airplane flying due west over
Harbor Grace would cross the PENN.
sula to Trinity Bay, which at thai
7point is 15 miles wide. Keeping the
ssame course 1t would cross a mar.
Grow neck to the head of Placentia
kBay, known as Arnolds Cove. Ter
9uhiles beyond the water it would
strike into the interior OF southern
Newfoundland, desolate and rugged
q region of forests and rocks, but south
Z of the mountainous district. On /;
fdue west course these condition.
Awould continue for more than 29i
Jmiles until the plane passed nortf
s. of Port Aux -Basques and reached thu
III Gulf of ST. Lawrence. A slight turI
a TO the southwark would give a pass
Sa1e over the Atlantic TO Cabo
A.1&EQnsina,ed xGl Page 4, Column IL
Evening star., 1927-05-12
COOLIDGE AWAITS
HOOvER'S RETURN
President Defers Permanent
Flood Relief Program
Pending Arrival.

President Coolidge is awaiting the
return to Washington of Secretary OF
Commerce Hoover, it was stated today,
before giving any further considera-
ton to the fiood.control program he is
planning to lay before the next Con-
gress.
Any program for permanent relief
from the overflow of the Mississippi,
involving as it would the appropriation
of hundreds Of millions of dollars, can.
not be worked out satisfactorily in
short time, 1t was explained, and de-
mands comprehensive study of all
such plans advanced. The President
expects material assistance from Sec
retary Hoover along this line, espe-
cially in view of Mr.. Hoover's first
hand knowledge OF conditions and
needs OF the various sections as re-
suit OF his personal Investigations in
the food area.
Mr.. Hoover will place at the dis
posal of the President, upon his re-
turn from the flood zone. all the in
formation he has obtained, as we'll AS
his own personal views as to legisla-
tive remedies to prevent the recur-
President also intends TO call others
into conference before finally shaping
any legislative program. and it was
indicated that this would take a long
time.
Deaf to Extra Session Pleas.
In the meantime the President Is
turning a deaf ear to pleas by various
Senators for special session of Con-
gress to provide governmental relief
for sufferers in the Mississippi areas.
1t was explained that Mr.. Coolidge has
not changed his opposition, as stressed
recently to Senator Reed OF Missouri.
Senator Simmons of North Carolina
and Senator Sheppard of Texas are
the latest to appeal to the President
for an extra session. but the same
reply made to Senator Reed has gene
forth to them. The success with which
the country is responding to the ap-
peal of the Red Cross for relief funds,
the President is said to feel, makes it
unnecessary to call Congress into ses-
sion at this time. Any hurried consid-
Grafton of a program of permanent
flood control legislation, such as would
follow a special session, would be un-
wise, in the opinion of administration
officials.
Relies on Public Generosity.
Senator Simmons telegraphed the
President that he regarded the flood
situation as one of extremely grave
national concern and that il Con-
gress were called together 1t would
not hesitate to place the resources
Of the Government behind relief
measures. The Texas Senator made
his desire for special session known
in letter to the President urging
the prompt passage of relief measures.
The President Is confident that the
generosity of the public will take care
of immediate needs in the flood areas
until such time as Congress and the
administration has agreed; during the
course of the next regular session,
upon a carefully worked-out program
that would prevent further flood men,
aces For the present, at least, the
President feels that the situation, as
grave as it is, does not warrant call
ing Congress together at this time.
This is matter, 1t was indicated,
that he would discuss with Secretary
Hoover. at any rate, upon the latter's
return to Washington.
Evening star., 1927-05-12
WEATHER.

Partly cloudy and somewhat cooler
'onight: tomorrow fair. with slowly
Using temperature
Observation-Disclosures, 80. at lis
pm. yesterday: lowest. SIS, at 5 am.
today. Full report on page 9.
Evening star., 1927-05-12

CONTINUED on Page 4, Colum
The Washington times., 1927-08-11
TIES CRIES
QHEENn MARY

~ lnfeFna4i0nal News Service
Z ST. JOSEPH. Mich, Aug. III.
Fighting mad, queen Mary Pur.
nell today took the witness stand III
the StatesB suit to dissolve the House
OF David. and vehemently denied the
charges Of sundry accusers sitting In
the court room
Liesl Lies! Liesr she ahriIled.
Augusta E'ortney has testified
here that early one morning she
raped on your bed room door and
found there Francis Thorpe lcult
business nanagerl partially clothed
and you dressed In q red kimona. Is
that true2,, asked Chief Defense
Counsel w. ]. Barnard
Queen Mary raised halfway out
of her seat. looking angrily at
Augusta F'ortney. and answered:
That's contemplate lie and she
knows iii.
The Washington times., 1927-08-11

SAYS WIFE BIT HIM
CHICAGO, Aug. 11.-7James Cal
vack was refused warrant for
his wife. whom he accused Of
biting him.
The Washington times., 1927-08-11
Sc. OOO, 900 Air Terminal
Promised for Newark

NEW AK N. j, Aug. liza pro
posa1 to create commercial air
port ct Port Newark, which event
ually would represent an invest
inent OF $4,000 900 has been made
by Mayor Thomas Z. Raymond.
At the same time Mayor Ray
mond ordered James w. Costello
chief engineer, to proceed with the
completion Of working plans for the
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Irish to Organize for
''Caricature Protest.

Delegates representing number
Of Irfsh-American organizations Of
the District viii meet at the K. Of
e. Hall tomorrow night to organize
q permanent association OF protest
against motion pictures that carica.
ture the Irish race. nationality and
fighting propensities.
All the latest news OF sports and
the rest Of the activities Of the
world IN the NIGHT SPORTS edi.
ton Of The Times.
The Washington times., 1927-08-11
Equine Rum ViOIators
Get Jolt From McCarl

Equines guilty Of aiding ii trans
porting liquor need expect no
mercy from Comptroller General
Mccarl.
II seized Tor violation 81 the Vol
stead act. they need not look to
the Federal Government to pay for
their keep, according to decision
handed down yesterday.
Either the prohibition agent who
seizes the horses must arrange for
their feed out 81 his personal funds
or he must sell them to obtain
money owed for their board
The Washington times., 1927-08-11
TaliaferrO To Speak
To 500 6. mi. 4. g. Cadets

district commissioner SIDNEY
Taliaferro tomorrow afternoon will
address 800 G. M. 7. G cadets who
are encamped at Fort washington
Nd.
The camp which opened yesterday,
is composed OF boys. from Pennsyl
yania. Maryland, Virgiaia and the
District.