Feeding the Hungry, P. C. Hiebert, 1929

paired. NOVEMBER First. Wire from Odessa that the big clothing ship- ment had arrived. APPENDIX 439 Third. Krehbiel went to Odessa to receive clothing shipment. Ninth. D. M. Hofers reached Alexandrowsk. Twenty-sixth. Rev. P. H. Unruh sailed from New York. DECEMBER First. Plowing season closed. The twenty-five out- fits had plowed a total of 4327 acres in about six weeks. Second. Nine car-loads of clothing reached Alexan- drowsk. Twenty-third. Second shipment of twenty-five trac- tors shipped from New York. Twenty-seventh. Dnieper frozen over at the Bridge. Twenty-seventh. No fuel at Alexandrowsk home and office for several days. Twenty-seventh to Twenty-ninth. The clothing was shipped to the villages for distribution. A.M.R. feeding lists in the Ukraine in- creased to 16,000. 1923 JANUARY Tenth. Rev. P. H. Unruh arrived at Alexandrowsk. Fifteenth. Krasno-Shavkai Volost organized for feed- ing. Fifteenth. No sunshine for many weeks. FEBRUARY Fifteenth. C. E. Krehbiel left Moscow for America. MarcH Third. W.C. Yoder and Dan Schroeder sailed from New York. Second shipment of tractor outfits reached Alexandrowsk. 440 FEEDING THE HUNGRY Nineteenth. C. E. Krehbiel landed at New York on return from Russia. Twenty-fourth. Tractors began plowing at Bethania Asylum. APRIL Fifth. H.C. Yoder arrived at Alexandrowsk. Tenth. Dan Schroeder reached Samara. May Tenth. Miller, Slagel, Unruh, Hofer and Hoeppner conferred at Moscow about the future of the relief pro- gram in Russia. Sixteenth. Unruh left Moscow for America. JUNE Fifteenth. Slagel and G. G. Hiebert in conference with Miller at Moscow relative to the tractor fuel situa- tion. Twenty-second. First immigration train left Chor- titza for Canada. July Third. Second immigration train left Chortitza for Canada. Fourth. D. M. Hofers left Alexandrowsk for Mos- cow on their way home. Fourteenth. Third immigration train left Alexan- drowsk for Canada. P. H. Unruh reached New York on return from Russia. AUGUST First. Slagel left Moscow for America. First. Kitchens in the Ukraine closed. APPENDIX II DOCUMENT I (RIGA AGREEMENT) AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE AMERICAN RE- LIEF ADMINISTRATION AND THE RUS- SIAN SOCIALIST FEDERATIVE SOVIET RE- PUBLIC WHEREAS a famine condition exists in parts of Russia, and WHEREAS Mr. Maxim Gorky, with the knowledge of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, has ap- pealed through Mr. Hoover to the American people for as- sistance to the starving and sick people, more particularly the children, of the famine stricken parts of Russia, and WHEREAS Mr. Hoover and the American people have read with great sympathy this appeal on the part of the Russian people in their distress and are desirous, solely for humanitarian reasons, of coming to their assistance, and WHEREAS Mr. Hoover, in his reply to Mr. Gorky, has suggested that supplementa