Evening star. [volume], February 12, 1937, Page A-6, Image 6

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SAND BOIL PLUGGED
AT NEW ORLEANS
Hundreds Stop Uprush in
Wharf District After
3 Blocks Flooded.
By the Associated Press.
MEMPHIS, Tenn., February 12.—
Forces of rehabilitation followed slug
gish crests down the Mississippi to
day, while sand boils gave New Or
leans a taste of flood troubles.
The valley’s largest city felt the first
direct effects of the Mississippi’s rec
ord burden late yesterday, when water
bubbling through a large sand boil
submerged three square blocks of
wharf area to a depth of 18 inches.
Hundreds of laborers hurriedly
sandbagged the leak and no major
levee threat was seen in the flow
caused by river pressure forcing water
through loose soil strata beneath the
dikes. The affected territory was
more than 20 blocks from the city's
main business district.
Agencies Grapple With Crisis.
Meanwhile, the Red Cross and Fed
eral, state and municipal agencies
grappled with the task of removing
flood scars from the valleys of the
Mississippi and the Ohio.
The big river crept toward record
heights along the lower valley levees,
but created no major crisis.
"Only some unforeseen act of God
can change this situation now,” said
Col. John C. H. Lee, Army Engineer,
after an inspection near Helena, Ark.,
where the river crested at 60.25 feet.
Above Helena the river was falling
slowly but steadily. Levee workers
could not relax their vigilance, how
ever, for the recession was so sluggish
that seepage and sand bolls remained
a constant threat.
10 States Get Heavy Rainfall.
An inkling of the river’s burden was
given by the Columbus (Ohio) Weather
Bureau statistics, which showed that
in January there were almost 28,000,
000,000 tons of rainfall in that State
alone. Ten States in the flood zone
had abnormal precipitation.
Until this tremendous burden of;
water empties into the gulf the peo
ple of the valley lowlands can expect
little relief. Backwaters from choked
tributaries, Inundating hundreds of
thousands of acres, cannot drain.
The work of rehabilitation speeded
along the rapidly falling Ohio, and
from Washington came news the Fed
eral Government was ready to lend
financial aid to stricken Individuals.
President Roosevelt signed a bill
last night creating a $20,000,000 Gov
ernment corporation for making loans
to disaster victims.
Harry Hopkins, W. P. A. chief, pre
pared to discuss rehabilitation need
with representatives of States In the
flooded area in Chicago.
Gov. Lloyd C. Stark of Missouri
asked Governors to meet in St. Louis
March 12 to devise a program of Fed
eral aid in rebuilding highways and
bridges.
The Red Cross here estimated in
nine affected States, not including
Arkansas, losses to homes and barns
alone would exceed $28,000,000. It
has been estimated total damage
would run as high as $550,000,000.
Piled on this was the loss of 460
lives and the plight of around 1,000,
000 persons, at least temporarily
homeless.
No source has attempted to com
pute accurately the total flood cost,
including property and highway dam
age, lost wages, the rescue, relief,
hospitalization and rehabilitation of
refugees, and the defense of a 1,000
mile levee line.
CINCINNATI GETS WATER.
Faucet Service Resumes After Three
Weeks’ Shutdown.
CINCINNATI, February 12 UP-—
Gome 450,000 residents of this Ohio
River metropolis drank pure water
•’right out of the fauoet” today for
the first time in nearly three weeks.
Lifting by health authorities of an
emergency flood order requiring 10
minute boiling of all water intended
for human consumption was greeted
by actual shouts of joy as Cincin
natians heard the news.
The city’s water service failed when
the Ohio River reached 75 feet on
January 24. For 10 days thereafter
a tap supply was available for only
one and two hours daily—and then
only to low-lying parts of the city.
NAVY FINDING APPROVED
Civilian employes of ship’s service
activities are not considered eligible
for benefits under the social security
act. Secretary Swanson announced
today.
The cabinet officer approved the
finding of Rear Admiral Gilbert J.
Rowcliff, the judge advocate general,
that the ship's service activities are
•'instrumentalities of the United
States, engaged in the performance
of governmental functions, pursuant
to the laws and regulations for the
government of the Navy.” Conse
quently, under the terms of the social
security act, these workers will not be
affected by the legislation.
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“Perfect Wife” Brings Suit
MRS. BLANCHE KENNEDY. MRS. R. C. JONES.
A perfect wife—so-styled, by her husband—Mrs. Kennedy,
Brooklyn, N. Y., school teacher, testified yesterday that her
husband, Herbert B. Kennedy, sought another woman’s com
pany because he wanted “some one to drink and carouse with.”
She filed a $200,000 alienation of affections suit against Mrs.
Jones, saying she and her husband often went off by themselves,
leaving her “on the porch to ivatch the Aurora Borealis.”
—Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
BRITISH INFLUENCE
SEN IN U. S. PRESS
Editors Held “Controlled”
by Lord Beaverbrook and
Lord Rothermere.
By the Associated Press.
A witness before the Senate Finance
Committee asserted today the Ameri
, can press is "controlled” by Lord
Beaverbrook and Lord Rothermere of
England.
Francis P. Oarvan of the Chemical
Foundation, New York, said the two
British publishers Influenced Ameri
can editorial policy, particularly of
the larger newspapers, because of this
country's dependence on Canada for
newsprint.
Garvan said the New York Herald
Tribune and New York Times favored
"internationalism” because they must
obtain paper from Canadian mills.
Because of this influence on Amer
ican editorial opinion, Oarvan con
tended, British interests are able to
foist their policies on the American
public through "J. P. Morgan & Co,
the British agent.'*
Garvan’s statement was made in
support of argument against recipro
cal trade agreements. He said if use
of Southern slash pine in making
, newsprint were developed, “true free- j
dom of the press” would be achieved.
The New Yorker appeared before
the committee after a representative
i of the American Cotton Shippers’ As
; sociation had said that half the land
| and agricultural labor of the South
! would be turned to other agricultural
commodities or to industrial labor
channels "unless Imports to pay for
exports of cotton are allowed to come
in freely.”
John C. White, representing the as
sociation, presented to the Senate
Finance Committee an association
resolution advocating continuance of
reciprocal trade policies on their pres
ent basis.
The committee is considering a bill
to extend the reciprocal trade program
three years after June 12.
White said the program was "the
only acceptable and practicable way of
restoring International trade to a
sound basis.” By encouraging im
ports, he said, the Government would
protect other agricultural areas from
Southern competition.
The committee heard clashing argu
ments yesterday as to whether the
Canadian-American reciprocal trade
agreements caused a break in domestic
cattle prices last Spring.
MRS. BEATTY DIES
WILMINGTON, Del., February 12
(/Pi.—Mrs. Sadie Coursen Beatty,
widow of William J. Beatty and pri
vate secretary for more than 20 years
to former United States Senator Dan
iel O. Hastings, died last night.
Mrs. Beatty was grand warden of
the Grand Chapter of Delaware, Order
of the Eastern Star. Her husband,
who was for a number of years parole
officer of the Municipal Court, died in
1935.
funeralTsTeld
FOR MRS. HARRIS
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Last Rites Here for Widow of
Founder of R. Harris & Co.,
Jewelers.
Mrs. Harriet Newmyer Harris, 81,
widow of Reuben Harris, founder of
the jewelry firm of R. Harris St Co.,
died Wednesday, after a short Illness,
at her home, in Deal. N. J.
Mrs. Harris, mother of Mrs. Philip
King of Wardman Park Hotel, was for
many years a resident of Washington.
Although she recently had maintained
a home in New Jersey, she spent much
of her time here.
Funeral services are being held this
afternoon in Gawler’s chapel, 1750
Pennsylvania avenue, with Dr. Abram
Simon of the Washington Hebrew Con
gregation officiating. Burial will be
in the Washington Hebrew Congrega
tion Cemetery.
Besides her daughter here Mrs. Har
ris leaves three other daughters, Mrs.
Edmund Rhodes and Mrs. Sigmund
Romberg, both of New York, and Mrs.
Maurice Bandler of Deal, and two
grandsons.
FOR FLOOD LOANS
President’s Signature to
New Law Launches Gov
ernment Corporation.
By the Associated Press.
A $20,000,000 Government corpora
tion will lend money to flood victims
in the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys
and to sufferers In any further dis
asters this year.
The new agency became law with
President Roosevelt’s signature last
night, a day after It had been intro
duced in Congress by Senators Barkley,
Democrat, of Kentucky and Bulkley,
Democrat, of Ohio.
The corporation will aim to provide
credit for those sufferers unable to
give sufficient guarantees for loans
from other Government and private
lending agencies.
The proposal passed the Senate
without dissent and won House ap
proval on a voice vote.
House for Larger Sum.
The only pause in its speedy enact
ment was an attempt in the House
to increase the fund to $40,000,000 and
to extend the loans to victims of dis
asters in 1936.
The corporation will be a subsidiary
of the Reconstruction Finance Corp.,
which will furnish the capital.
The loans could be made on a
"character” basis, avoiding the neces
sity of a demand for security from
persons who already had lost property
in disasters.
The loan corporation would be given
power to decide the amount of the
loan to an individual While the bill
applies to victims of disasters occur
ring in 1937, application for assistance
could be made after that year if It
were proved that the necessity for the
loan arose out of a 1937 disaster.
Development Plan.
Representative Rankin, Democrat,
of Mississippi urged meanwhile that
the entire Mississippi River system be
developed along the lines of the Gov
ernment’s power experiment in the
Tennessee Valley.
Either, he said, one Federal agency
like the Tennessee Valley Authority
should be placed in charge of the en
tire system, or separate "T. V. A.’s”
should be created for each main tribu
tary.
High dams, locks, levees and spill
ways developed by these agencies
would avert flood disasters like the
present one, Rankin argued, and bring
cheap electricity to millions of peo
ple. He added that the American peo
ple are being overcharged more than
a billion dollars a year for electric
lights and power.
Rankin advocated a connection be
tween the Tennessee and Tombigbee
Rivers to take some flood water out of
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tives to Be Heard at Rock Hill.
ROCK HILL. S. C., February 12 (IP).
—Attorneys representing Greenwood
County and the Duke Power Co. are
expected here today to ai*ue the power
company's petition that the Public
Works Administration produce docu
menu for consideration by the court
when the Buzzards Roost hydroelec
tric project Is argued February 23.
Today's hearing Is to be before Judge
J. Ayles Glenn.
The Duke company, renewing a long
fight against construction of a P. W.
A.-financed power project for the
county, is seeking an injunction.
Click of Tongue in Name.
The Bushman baby, born at the Em
pire Exposition at Johannesburg,
South Africa, has been named Bain
!Hako, the 1 epresenting a click of
the tongue.
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this ANNUAL ODDS & ENDS SALE way ahead af schedule ...
with a greater selection than ever due to a backward season.
Our strict policy of not carrying merchandise over from season
to season is responsible for these drastic reductions right in the
face af great increases in the wholesale prices on all woolens.
5 OVERCOATS . . . Blue and brown raglans; sizes, regu- t« ^,35
lars 38 and 40; short 35. Were $30. Now- I O
2 OVERCOATS . . . Grey Herringbone, double-breasted
box models; sizes 36, 40. Were $50. Now- AA j
17 OVERCOATS . . . Blue, brown ond dark gray check
patterns; single-breasted raglan models; sizes,
regulars 37, 38, 39, 40, 42; longs 37, 38, 39, $1 Q.35
42; shorts 35, 37, 38. Were $35. Now. I >
19 OVERCOATS . . . Oxford grey fleeces, single and
double breasted raglan and box models; all sizes. JA A.35
Were up to $40. Now_ AA
5 OVERCOATS .. . Oxford grey Meltons, double-breasted
Chesterfield models with velvet collars; sizes, $^^.35
longs 40, 44; short, 37, 38. Were $45. Now.. AA
8 OVERCOATS . . . Oxford grey fleeces, double-breasted
belted models; sizes, regulars 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, $^ ^.35
40; 37, 38 shorts. Were up to $49.50. Now._ AA
5 TOPCOATS . . . Raglan, box ond bal models; brown; «a gj.35
sizes 34, 35, 37, 40. Were up to $30. Now- I O
6 TOPCOATS . . . Raglan, box and bal models; brown and
greys; sizes, regulars 37, 38, 40; shorts 38, 39; $| Q.35
stout 46. Were up to $35. Now_ I 9F
12 TOPCOATS . . . Raglan ond bal models; medium and
oxford grey plaids; sizes 34 to 44 regulars. Were $^ ^.35
up to $39.50. Now _ AA
43 SUITS . . . Browns, dark greys and fancy blues; sport
models for the young man and conservative
models for business mon; regulars, shorts, longs. $■ Q.35
Were up to $35. Now_ I 9F
37 SUITS . . . Oxfords, browns and grey worsteds and
Cheviots. Suitable for now and Spring wear . . .
sport and business models . . . sizes to fit the
regular, short and slim man. Were up to $30. $1 ^.35
Now_ I O
34 SUITS . . . Fine worsteds in desirable shades for oll
year wear. Models to suit the young man and
conservative dresser. Sizes to fit the regular ond $^ ^ .35
irregular built mon. Were up to $40. Now
TROUSERS to match some of above suits can be had for $2.95
67 SHIRTS . . . Discontinued styles in Jayson and Custom
shirts . . . solid colors, white and stripes . . • ftr,
some slightly soiled. Were up *° $2.50. Now__ 3F3
53 TIES ... All perfect . . . discontinued patterns • • • j Q«
all hand tailored. Were $1.00. Now- 9/ |
21 HATS . . . Broken sizes . . . some slightly soiled. $• gg
were up to $5. Now_ 1
110 PRS. HOSE . . . Regular 50c quality of Westminster
hose . . . discontinued patterns in wool mixtures 3 4Tc I
. .. lisle, etc. Now_ 90
41 TIES . . . Discontinued patterns ... all perfect and
hand tailored. Were up to $1.50. Now-,- Q7
17 SWEATERS . . . Special lot . . . oil perfect. Were $1.69 j
up to $3.50. Now_ _ ' 1 I
ENTIRE STOCK OF Silk-lined robes ond imported Mc
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