Show RELIEF GOMES COMES I All TOO lATE LITE FUR J Q Quaker Woman Worker in inI I Russia Sends Cable to I Hoover Saying Speed SpeedUp I Up Minutes Precious By JOHN GRAUDENZ United Press St Staff Correspondent MOSCOW Sept 3 five Twenty per cent of ot the children ren in the famine amine region will die For them relief comes too late Anna I lames a Quaker who has be been n in the Russian famine region f t r I ver nver a year yc-ar ur and who has seen leen the terrible terrible ter ter- death roll mounting Inexorably toda today assured me that her statement above e as was not exaggerated And what Is more she added If It the food tood la is not here within two or three weeks more than 50 per cent of the children will die Miss Haines s has rushed a a. cable to Herbert Hoover Speed d up Ever Every minute is precious precious preci preci- 0 ous US Th Tho Russians arc are maddeningly de deliberate do- do liberate at times Umes in a moment they moment they murmur murmur murmur mur mur- mur constant constantly But the American relief workers are not wasting even that hat moment Several Soo of ot the Americans loft today for the heart of or tho famine country They y will go to t the to o Samara country pa passing m through g mn Ka-mn n an and l to Sar o. o and clown the the aney or of th the Y J to toI NO I The hustling Americans Americana have astonished aston asior- the Russians here and they the ha have V made a lilt hit as well hero Here the thc gorgeous I ed rooms room ar are like atago ge settings nettings with high J walls and frescoed d c ceilings HUDDLED THOUSANDS Before thell departure A. 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A workers sent for me and asked about conditions in the t famine regions I told them frankly rankly what I had seenI seen I told them of ot the thousand fugitives tug fug tives I saw camping camping- on ih the crest of ofa ofa ofa a hill near the banks of ot the rl a. as our steamer slid up to the thi SLav Ki landing and of how they were wei living Jt beneath poorly constructed shelters shel aint 1 t of or wigs and leaves and lo logs logu g tf tte luckiest amon among them having tiny tents in which whole families huddled This miserable half halt famished orde had come como from the distant villages of f S Samara mara where hunger competed with disease for the highest death roll Thuy Thiry were waiting for transportation to Si SI- SI beria These people b by comparison with those we saw at way stations on the tho wiy In were comparatively clear clean At t their hillside camp was none of ot the indescribable filth which naus t one at the villages where disease WUra WU wi ra raging Bu But l their s' s very ery z-y z clea cleanliness tl made them tho the more pitiful Des Despite he their misery the they were wen to meet melt their fate fato with shoulders squared Hope that help would still ennie somehow from somewhere held these thesa people together and kept them alive aUve BUT ONE OUTBURST Only once was there an outburst A middle strong peasant moro more in intelligent In- In looking than his fellows suddenly suddenly sud sud- denly shouted Wo Va ore are th the people w who o produced what food there was We Ve will prod produce ce what will be We Ve are tho the supporters of Gt the countr country You must save U us or you OU yourselves 8 will die I When hen these famished peasants peasant were told that we were pioneers from the tho United States conditions and that food was as to follow they all ll shouted together Oh Oli thank tho the kind American peasant peasants peas peas- ant ants Shaken by y the extreme despair to which hunger had driven m many n of ot t these famished people I 1 decided to distribute some bread among them I Informed the fugitives that tha bread breal would he be distributed to mothers with babies and to children The word had hardly pa passed before mothers bearing babies In th their lr arms rushed wildly down the hll hil toward tho the place where a table had been set setup up ur for cutting cutting- the tho bread brend They were followed by children who lined up In never-ending never rows Burn Villages as Excuse se for Moving II Russia y t Sept 3 B By th the Associated Press Refugee Press passing through this city efty for tor districts in northeastern northeast rn Russia declare that the entire lower 11 Vol Volga Volya l basin tho re- re zion Ion In which flows the tho Don river and th the districts along tho the Jow lower r courses of ot the r and Bug are stricken b b. by th the scourge of ot famine In conver- conver ration with Dr RO Roy Hoy Smith head of tho the American Red fled Cross medical unit here the they tell of t severe ere drouth grain d destroyed by the Intense heat and of or hunger starvation and disease The soviet government SQ Issued d orders that any my person having a a house should not be allowed to s o to Siberia from the famine district and it Is a asserted that whole villages have hav been en burned burned ao so that th the owners of ot houses OUS B In them Continued d on nn pone 2 I t REliEF GOMES Continued from pago page 1 would have an au excuse to leave As a result L the o population of ot entire villages Is migrating toward Siberia or havo have started toward Poland Two Intelligence men were sent Bent amon among the tho refugees lined up at food kitchens li h here re and were instructed to I ask every adult the tho name namo of the tho vil village iI fl lage whence he he came e and what tho the food tood prospects were wore when he loft left When the work was finished It was as found that tho the following districts were vere I listed under very cry bad Samara Samara Samara Sa Sa- Sa- Sa SaI I mara Kazan Ufa Uta the Don Cossack re region region reson re- re gion son tho the Cossack region Tau- Tau rida and parts of Tambo Penza and |