The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 29, 1927, Page 1

WEATHER FORECAST Partly cloudy tonight and Satur- aay. Not much change, ESTABLISHED 1873 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE [aon] BISMARCK, NORTH D. AKOTA, FRIDA APRIL 29, 1 4 PRICE FIVE CENTS TOWNS EVACUATED TO SAVE CRESCENT CITY ‘ADVANCING FLOOD WATERS CREATE FURTHER DEMANDS UPON RED CROSS i CHINA UNREST F CLAIMED DUE TO COMMUNISM: Missionaries, Returning From China, Declare Russia Lurks Behind Uprisings | CALLED OUT MARCH 24 Say Forcign Powers Patient With Revolutionists; U. S. Possibly Too Patient Communist influence to a great extent is irs «| onsible for present up- risings in China, in the opinion of missionaries who passed through ismarck last night on their way after having been called out of ountry by the United States government. Included in the party of returning missionaries was Miss Griedohoff of Abercrombie, N. D. The Chinese of their own accord would not be likely to work up such ter enmity See the foreigners, Hid who has ly 20 years. The sinister figure of ‘Msocow jurks behind the unrest now permeating China, and it has been at work for a long time, stirring the people to bit- ter hatred aud enmity, he declared. here were about 50 missionaries, their wives and children, on the e: bound train when it passed through Bismarck at 8 o'clock last night, all of them from interior provinces of China, Tired after thei trip, they told of the perempto: xiven them to-leave the countr: Expressed their hope of going back some ‘Warned By Government “The government warned us January to_be ready to leave,” said Mrs. A. E. Edwins. “Then, on March | , 2g. cume the second‘ call. We had/ less than a half day in which to make ready and leave. We had just | engaged a home in the mountains; near Hankow, but when the call! came, we had to leave and I'm afraid | we'll never see it agai | The Edwins were stationed at Shekow, less than 10 miles from Hankow, but they said residents of their village had been less restless than those of Hankow, where rioting | had been prevalent. The villageré,| however, were being urged on and} several times made indirect threats, parading through the streets and calling them names. Communists eaeing: “The Communists are boasting | about their success in China,” Rev, Edwins said. “They and many of the! revolutionaries have gained : idea that, because the United States, reat Britain and other foreign pow- s have shown patience, it is a sign ness. ‘A gounter spirit of disgust with the replution is beginning to arise, however, and many of the well-to-do citizens are leaving the country, some of them coming to the United States, It is the law under which the Chinese must live now which is partially responsible for this. If the Chinese in San mreneloee: had to live under the same law which their fel- laws do in a, they would not re- main long.’ ane mussionaries ‘scouted the idea that the foreign powers in were pursuing “imperialistic” aims and acting too harshly, declaring that the howey of imnerialism was merely bnother communist creation. aue avtnuae of the British in China has been. nothing short of wonderful,” one of them said. “The may they kept their patience in Shanghai January 23, when the mobs were surging through the streets, trying to incit then into firing s0 that they could start a riot, was re- markable, The British stood there lently, their muskets crosswise and yonets fixed, -and simply awed them into submission. There were only one or two Chinese injured that day, and in these cases, injuries were accidental.” U. 8. Too Lax, Claim One of the group declared that the United States had shown remarkable atience and self-control -in China, ut said that he felt it was time that this country stepped in to show more force, lest American lives in China be further endangered. “All we and the oth countries ask in C! citizens be treated as the Chinese are many ‘were ned esi the foreign battleships fe city. The murder of Rev. Williams, American missionary at Shanghai, | was “cold-blooded,” members of the group said. Word of mout! carried to them said that the Can. tonese surrounded Willi hou: had ordered him and his family As they stood in the garden watching the soldiers loot the jouse, one of them came up to Wil- liams and demanded money and Jewelry. Williams had on a ring - Which he treasured very highly. As , soldier demanded it, he was said ve Per tis pt en the man’s ving: don’t take The. sol laa patted ast» phe ed i At palit the mission: |, killing him in- ly, acc ding to the veborts the mii eerie had rene lived. jee across wo de party arrived trom the interior provinces to aweait their steamer, the missionaries said. They stayed in the h quarter and ‘trom? their windows they said they could look out and see the a “ diers of foreign powers marching Little fighting was going they waited there a week, thi we sniping was conduc! side: missionary group wa: of Lutheran, Evangelical Be ee ‘he jaferler previness F: an, oe Hu peh, ere, ie! 2 said. feel 4 : ining to “e Governor A. Organization Bi Burdened with’ Greatest Peace-time Relief Necessity — Dispensaries and Hospitals Being Estab- lished in Camps — Calls Sent Out For More Boats Memphis, April 29.—()—New levee breaks, mediate threats of others and the continuous inundation of more territory as the crest of the Mississippi river flood carried its menace towards the gulf created further demands today upon the American Red Cross, already burden- ed with ite greatest peace-time relief neces: A wall of the Arkansas river be- tween Pendleton and Medford, Ark., went out late yesterday, as did a dike along the Yazoo river, 12 miles below Yazoo city, Mississippi. The Red Cross night received ‘& report that the Mississippi levee at L'Argent; La., was seriously threaten- ed and immediately began a concen- tration of beats at Natchez, opposite there. There remained the threat of a break at South Bend, although en- gineers believed a week's battle fin- ally had brought victory. Boats Concentrated The Red Cross has directed the greatest concentration of boats the; lower Mississippi ever knew to meet possible emergencies around New Orleans. The arrival of several of the 100 boats requested from the navy by Henry Baker, Red Cross director) of relief, was announced. The Red Cross already has under| its care 300 refugees at New. Orleans! with the ultimate list of those re- moved from St. Bernard and Plaque- mine parishes to be swollen to several thousand. The éoncentration of refugees at reported increas- ing tremendously. Belzoni, Miss., re- peated its urgent call for steamboats and barges to remove destitute vic- tims of the flood. There were small craft sufficient to protect lives in Belzoni, which was under two to five; feet of water, but means were lacking, for bringin in the homeless from the countryside, Ashley county, Arkans: Yazoo ai Sunflower bas lower Mississippi delta rescue boats. 1,000 People Marooned One thousand persons were report-! ed marooned about Lake Village, Ark. the town’s water supply has, i and the in the called for Local Citizens Doing Their Bit Contributions received by the | Burleigh county chapter of the Red Cross from people of Bix- marek and surrounding territory, to add to the large fund needed to administer relief in the flood stricken areas of the south, now total $135, and more checks are arriving in each mail. This is in addition to the $100 taken from the chapter treasury and sent to national headquarters when the first call for funds was issued. The situation is still serious’in the south, with thousands home- less and suffering for want of food, clothing and: medical atten- tion, and additional funds are necded. Persons wishing to help in this cause are asked to send contributions to Miss Mary secretary, Bismarck, Contributions received yesterday include: Mrs. H. J. Duemeland Marilyn Ruth Duemeland. og L. La since RATE “HUMP? IS 10 BE OPPOSED BY N.D. CITIES Railroads’ Attempt to Boost | Rates to Points Beyond Missouri Brings Fight :y the railroads to create; Missouri; contested by ing the com-! Jamestown, | Man and "freight ate de- railroad board,’ Attemp t partment of tl it was di Following failed und 1,500 refugees there were! |, lake jwa-! s- reported drinking river an cd, sai ter, found by analysis to show ence of typhoid germs. Provision was made for disposal of P waste matter and for the proper sani- tation of places devoted to cooking’ and serving food, with inspection of’ camps left to state health authorities. Dispensaries and hospitals will be established in camps, and the camps will be commanded by a physician, as sistants, nurses, sanitary engineer and a supply officer. i H. L. Remmel, Republican national committeemem for Atkansas, asked President Coolidge to divert any funds in the department of agriculture to-| wards the purchase of feed, food and) seed for farmers. 1 ‘A meeting of 2 committee of 10) which he attended at Little Rock ae asked the Red Cross to appropi $1,000,000 to aid the farmets in Biaat! i ing a crop this vFea: i ! NORTHWEST IS 18. GENEROUS | IN_HELPING SUFFERERS St. Paul, April 29.—@)—A sym- athetic northwest, virtually free Fram the scourge of devastating floods, today is pouring thousands of dollars into a fund for the aid of the less fortunate in the lower Missis- sippi river valley. Already quotas assigned a number of communities been oversub- scribed, while others expect to exceed their goals today or Saturday. ‘Winona’s quota of $700 was exceed- ed by $300 Thursday, while clothing and Tetiding, collected by charitable organizations, was to be forwarded | f to the ‘stricken areas today. From Winona has also gone $2,500, forward- ed from the national welfare fund of the American pease Auxiliary. Watertown, 8. D., had exceeded the $1,000 mark in cotetberiene and oth- er South aketa cities were contrib- uting generously. Jamestown, D., is responding with a goal of $700, as are other Stutsman county communities. Grand Forks had contributed $400 ~today, walle Fargo citizens -haye.contributed Cas# county Red Cross ae a goal of $2,000. ae American Legion posts in North Dakota have been asked to cooperate with the Red Cross by Earl Sarles of Hillsboro, state commander. The Salvation Army of Fargo has been named a concentration point for the collection of clothing in the state. | Killer of Police‘ | Chief Electrocuted Lincoln, Neb. Henry Bartlet it citizen,” died the electric chair at Nebraska penitentiary at 6.33 this | morning, for the murder of Chief of Police Asa Ransom of Minden, in| 1925. Bartlett continued what of- ficials consider a pretense of insanity | ¢; to the last. Bartlett, 36 years old, mumbled incoherently to himself as he was carried to the electric chair. The st , “This is justice,” he sald. He Killed my son or I wouldn't be ere,” Nonpartisan Group _ Holds Meeting Here | With Senator Gera Gerald P. Nye and G. Sorlie present, Non- partisan leaders of the state re group held 4 meeting here la: It was said afterward that th ose sion was partly sodial, with occasion- al references to the welfare of ne state and nation. Loaders be|ing in the meeting snid specia} political significa i eres hi ‘attempts to create a “hump” any- | where, Springer said, but will insist St. Paul Man Named | Kohlsatt, St. for’ knjtore desighwabaatoke. tk plied throughout North Dakota will be waged by the interests which he represents in co general freight heing carried on Commerce Commi: At the beginning, Springer said, the railroads suggested that a “hump” in rates be created at a line extend- ing across. the. state. from. North. Da- kota to South and passing through Jamestown. Later the carriers sug- gested that the “hump” be made at the Missouri river, How “Hump” Operates A “hump,” he explained, ix a sharp inerease in rates made effective at a certain place because of certain al- leged changes in traffic conditions. If the “hump” were made at the Mis-i souri river, he said, rates on ship- ments to Mandan would be substan- tially higher than rates on the same products to Bismarck, only six miles away on the east bank of the river. Creation of a “hump” would ap- parently give jes east of the point where the raise was made an ad- vantage, Springer ole, but would, in reality be a short-a sighted policy. In North Dakota, he explained, every community is dependent on the agri- cultural community to the west of it. The reason, he said, is that farm products move eastward while manu- factured and other products handled by distributors move, in the main, westward. The result of a sharp raise in ight rates at any point, Springer would be to penne the = sons living west Pie! A forcing the to pay higher freight rates. result would be that they ‘would spend for additional freight charges | | money which would a8 inte trade with the merchants who might pre- sume they were benefited by the lower rates which they enjoyed in comparison with their customers on ‘the west, Springer said. His efforts will be directed toward preventing the adoption of any rate structure which will create a “hump” anywhere in the state. Policy Called Wrong Holding that the policy adopted in creating sharp rises at any point is fundamentally wrong, he will oppose eactee y the Inter that if one is to be established aNy-| Any where it should be at the state line.| Another important factor, he said,| is that once the railroads obtain ac-| ceptance of the principle that a sharp | rise is justified at any point, the! | “hump” system will be extended to | other than class rat If it were extended to grain ri i would force farmers, an forced to pay the higher Held hundreds of thousands more in freight charges and’ would reduce by the same amount the money ilable for trade with merchants in The traffic de railroad board taken the same| osition, Springe: id, and will join; in preparing exhibits and data#®; | | as Jewelers’ Head Minneapolis, April 29—)B, HL was elected presi dent of the Minnesota Retail Jewelers Association Thursday, at the senelo- sion of ir 23d annual co which was held at the Nicollet hotel, Minneapolis. Other officers elected are: Stan Garth Mankato, vice president; A. W. Bienborn, Winona, surer, and FE, hwenke, New Richland, who was reelected secre- tary. i ; Earthen Dikes Thrown Up B: lat Benton where | Langd | Pembina | much change in temperature. ' much change in temperature | GENERAL WEATH MOUSE RIVER'S | FLOOD CREST S ATMINOT TODAY: Gauge Reading of 20.2 Feet, at Noon Today Is Highest Point Since 1904 ee, DROPS UPSTREAM | iy Volunteers Protect Most of Residence Property Minot, N. D., April 20—(@)—The! crest of the flood of the House river | apparently had reached } toda, with a gauge reading of 202 ‘Teot reu-| istered at noon. At all points upstream the river te! dropping, though the slow rate of recession brings predictions that the | water. in Minot will remain above flood level for many days, Seven-| teen feet is considered food level. | Earthen dikes which have been built by hundreds of volunteers are} continuing to hold the stream. from; flooding large areas of residence Property. bue to seepage in the embank- ments, continual repairing is meets) sary. ‘Charles Birger Is Rearrested Today, Harrisburg, IN April 29.—<2% Charles Birger, gang Teader, was re | arrested at his home here today b Sheriff James 8. Pritchard of Frauk- lin county and 11 deputies, armed | with machine guns, and taken to jail | a new indictment has been returned against Bireer in} !connection with the murder of Mayor, Joe Adams or West Ciy. Birger made no resistance, He was out on $45,000 bend, pendin, trial at Benton on a charge of com- |plicity in the murder of | Mayc | Adams, who w friend of the rival Shelton gangster: DISORDERS | MAY FOLLOW | EXECUTIONS Peking Swarms _ With Plain- clothesmen—Soviet Rus- sia Backs Cantonese i | | j 1 i London, April swarming with the Daily Mail's correspondent, to prevent disorders as a sequel to the xecution by atrangling yesterday of 20 Chinese, Li Ta Chao, one of those put to death by the authorities, is described by the Daily Herald, London labor organ, “as Dr. Li Ta Chao, famous Chinese scholar.” Li and others, among them a wom- an, were arrested during the raid by northern Chinese troops on the so: embassy compound in Peking. This raid, carried out on April 6, brought to light, according to the northern! auhorities, documents indicating that the Cantonese were receiving active support from soviet Russia in their} campaign against the northerners. A! few days later the soviet government | dispatched a note of protest to the| northern official ordered the) soviet charge d’ ind the entire embassy personnel to withdraw fron: Peking. The Daily Express declares the Russians made prisoner have not} been executed but are still being de- tained. +. Weather Report | \ Weather conditiors at North Da-| kota points for the 24 hours ending wt 8 a. m. today: Temperature at 7 a. m. Highest yesterday . Lowest last night . Precipitation to 7 a, m. Highest wind selediey. 29.—4)—Peking is 0 32] Precipitation; in incher 2 P= rs 2 Amenia, « BISMARCK Bottineau . Devils Lake Dickinson . ! Dunn Center Ellendale . it | Fessenden Grand Forks . Jamestown lon Larimore . Lisbon Minot . Napoleon 01 Cloudy 0 Clear © Clear © Cloudy © Cloudy 03 Clear ao” 0 Clear 48 0 Cloud: Williston . 340 PCid Moorhead, 46 0 Cloudy WEATHER FORECAST For Bismarck and vicinity: cloudy tonight and Saturday. Partly | Not | Partly cloudy | t and Saturday. Not, IER CONDITIONS! The Lend pressure area with its ac- comes ing precipitation and warm-/| rw ris centered over the Ohio | Valley. High pressure areas accom-| For North Dakota: to cloudy tonigl panied by generally fair und cooler! ° weather ore centered over the Plains States; southern Rocky. Mountain re- | gion and over western Oregon. An- other low pressure area over the Canadian Rockies is causing -some- what unsettled weather in that sec- tion. gs ORRIS W. ROBERTS. Official in charge Spectacular Explosion Wrecks Detroit Wehpahen — lige striking picture shews the plant of the Brig: [vere explosion which tore away part of the walls of the structure. EXPLOSION ON U.S.S. LANGLEY STOPS MOTORS 'All Electrical Machinery Par- alyzed—Boat in No Dan- ger—No Casualties An ex- pron the t sea to- Washington, Apr plosion of the clectrie airplane carrier Langley, da all vieet der There wer hip’s personnel cident occurred at 7 o'clock ning while th exhaust and Ithoug taking w » ship was s er slightly, the said she was in no dange explosion the vessel x mile from Ambrose she will be towed to repairs, ‘The Langley is the flagship of the air forces of the’ fleet. She is com- manded by Convmander John H. Tow- ers, dispatch After the nchored half L MOTHER DENIED RIGHT T0 HIRE BABY FOR PAY Woman Wanted Permit to Employ Child in Store; Needed Increased Income Milwaukee, Wis., April 20—-(P)—— A judge's Aversion to child labor pre- | vented a mother yesterday from plac- ing her six-months-old infant in em- ployment to put a bit of income in empty family coffers, H, Thompson, ‘with her Judge appenred before Cordes in juvenile court. rp 37| She told of the limited income of her | husband, an automobile She told of her own inability to ob- tain a position as, teacher because she was married, Educated and refined, mere wisp) of a woman and mother, she held her infant before the judge. Sha pleaded that he permit her to employ the baby for two hours a day in a model nursery, to be conducted in a store next week, National Health Week, Would Get $10 Day “They will pay me $10-each day for that,” ‘she explained. “With — the money I will be able to buy things for my baby.” The judge, ruminating a moment, finally denied her license for employment of the buby. There would be many people com- ing in contact with the child, adding |to the baby’s chances of contracting - diseases, the judge ruled. fe AER Pa ' Temperature and Road Conditions | i (Mercury readings at 7 a. m.) Bismarck—Clear, 40; roads good. St, Cloud. -Cloudy, 48; roads good. Minot-—Clear, 32; roads good. Fargo—-Cloudy: 48;' roads good. Jamestown—Clear, 48; roads good. Duluth—Cloudy, 35; roads good. Crookston—Ctoudy; Hibbing—Cloudy, Mandan—Clear,, 42; roads good. Minona—Cloudy, 47; cats fair, Mankate sie y, 63; roads fair, od. Grand Forks--Cloudy, 40; fair, to ge > to * roads Rochester- “cloudy, 51; roads fair. j buildings a meer in which to find a | sputte. Devils Lake—Clear, 35; roads good, | mechanic. | little) the! 43; ronds goud: | 0; ids good. , jured, some very seriously. *"1,000 People in Desperate Plight ° fe Rock, Ark, April 29.) 700 to 1,00 per- still mar ed in lowlands of Chicot was described ina ae xons who ar the flooded Arkansas, rate today that have not been reached raging water,” the mayor include hud- , other ix number di 300 negroes Th dl rf hots worked all y yesterday rescuing the in- habitants of the lowlands and to- dav the labor was resumed. ‘The refugees are brought first to Lake Village, which is itself under several fect of water, and later transferred to Eudora. “We wet reports of drownings every little wh the mayor said, “hut can't verify them. 1 helieve there have heen miracul- ously few, however. FUNERAL FOR BORCHERT WILL BE TOMORROW Masonic Lodge Have Charge—American Associa- tion Leaders to Attend to Milwaukee, An: | leaders frot (PR) of the Baseball Ameri- kee tomorrow to attend funeral ser- vices for Otto Borchert, president of the Milwaukee club, who fell dead Wednesday night while addressi 700 fans gathered at a booster ban- quet for his team on the eve of the j date set for the opening ef the lo- cal baseball season. The Ma: will be in charge of the services which will be held at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow at the home, The body fay i j Tonight it will’ be ‘taken to the club where the Elks will hold serv Friends yesterday recalled Mr. Bor- chert’s interest in baseball at an early age. While still a boy in school he took a job selling peanuts at the old Milwaukee park and later was bat boy when Clarke Griffith was manager of the Brewers, Mr. Borchert’s schooling was con- fined to the elementary grades. When! he was old enough to become an ap-| prentice, his father decided that young Borchert ‘should have a career, ‘in the’ leather business and he was placed in the employ of a wholesale | saddler, drawing a salary of $2 a ‘week the first year and $5 the sec- ond. Seven Robbers Get Money and Jewels From Chicago Cafe. Chicago, April 29-—UP)—-Seven nisi | six wearing large blue glasses and all armed, held up half a hundred persons in the Wacker Cafe, a re- | , cently established cabaret on the lower level of Wacker Drive, and es- d with loot of undetermined | flue after one of the robb teen shot accidentally by a compan- ion, | An unofficial estimate was that, cash and jewelry totaling several thousand dollars in value were taken from the men and women the proprietor and the waiters, robbers were in the cafe half an hour. Matt- Cullen, the owner, said’$210 was |. One of the robbers w: when a companion’s shot at one of | the patrons missed its mark. The New York Y. M. C. A. has given 2,000 bachelors quartered in its | wife and home. ices, Bedy company at Detroit in flames following a se- Two men were killed and 29 in-! * STRIKING OIL AT ROBINSON ISREPORTED Rumors Unverified Today, | However—Talk of Meeting at piesa Site Sunday Reports » drilling site and impression throughout the community striki of oil is ured. as he knows, Legler said, no drilling has been ‘done on the property for more than a ye that time it was said that Townley would refuse to go on with the drill- ing unless he was able to get teases on all the land in the neighborhood. t of the leases wh been given to other f uals » since expi their failure to st wells as Suni is that the ause of work on test | w; required by the | | have ieee their well with concrete | ! before temporarily abandoning the proj IMPROVEMENT OF COUNTRY | FLOOD CAUSE Change in Drainage System, Thicker Settlements, Said Responsible For Situation Washington, April 29.—(?)—Man’s modern d s, contrived to give him greater comforts, have turned him to cause the suffering and de- struction of the Mis: ippi floods, in the opinion of the tional Geo- had | xraphic society. When De Soto knew the father of | waters, wide spreading forests of! oak, pine and spruce caught a large! share of the rainfall and fed it slow- y into the Mississippi, tributaries; but when these were replaced with; ‘homes and their modern drainage aye tem, the menace of disaster was rais- ed because of the river's increased | volume. “Every tree cut, every roof built,| reet paved, every drainage | diteh dug, every culvert constructed sissippi_ river syste: said today, “has done pouring rainfall | the great river.” 30 States Drain to River The society pointed out that 30 states contribute to the waters of the Mississippi and it drains a million and a quarter of the more than 3,000, | 000 square miles of the United St: In earlier days, flood stages actual ly were lower not because fewer peo- ple lived in the territory and because, there were more extensive fores' but also because irregularities in the life of the land formed puddlés that later evaporated, or sent out rills/ that slowed up the run-off, the so- ciety said, adding: more Bate into ig Not only hae man helped to put more water into the Mississippi, his works have helped to confine it there.” ‘New Orleans, upon Pas | REFUGEES ARE _ CARED FOR AT ~NEW ORLEANS Highways Cleared and Terri- | tory Surrounding Proposed Levee Break Closed | SOLDIERS STAND GUARD Volunteer . Workmen Labor Night and Day to Protect Dikes Farther Upstream DIKE IS DYNAMITED On The Mississippi Levee, near Violet, La, April 29—(M—4« break in the dike here holding the Mississippi flood waters was made 2:17 1-2 p.m, central time, today by the atate engineers, Dynamite blasted away a stretch of the diken 1,000 feet long, releasing the surging waters Would’ cetape “tren the Heat rom moving down the river from the vant inundated area to the north- One hundred and forty-four charges of dynamite were sunk for a distance of 100 feet on each side of the dividing line he- tween St. Bet Plaque- mine parish The dyn le charges were being to loosen permit the force of raters x) » complete the small, the the levee a the flood crevanse t The sighing ot he dynamite proved a much slower [ose than the engineers had figured upon and the time of the blasting id to be postponed until after 29.—P)—An- , bordering a field mous more than a century y a feat of American arms, were | dedicated today to the racing waters of the Mississi By this sacrifice it was hoped that quaintest of American cities and the metropolis of the south, oright be saved from the fate of more than u score of towns to the north- SPECIAL SESSION OF CONGRESS IS ASKED Washington, April 29.—Q)—A’ special seasion of congress to meet the emergency created by the Mississippi river flood was urged on President Coolidge to- jay in a telegram from Senator on of Arkansas, the Demo- eratic senate leader. The message wus received just before the meeting of the cabinet which devoted considerable atten- tion to the flood situation, but no decision on the request | was announced. ward now buried under waters let loose in the greatest flood in the history of the nation. Warlike scenes were presented as plans went forward for the first delib- erate cutting of the levees since the control of the Father of Waters was undertaken by this system of dikes nearly half a century ago. Soldiers Patrol Levees Long before the zero hour of noon, {armed soldiers of the state of Louis- |iana began patroling the breas: built against a mighty rive sault, armed craft moved here and there on the river and seaplanes droned overhead, none of them equip- ped, however, with anything more dangerous than a camera. With the break of dawn, n detach- ment of the national guard marched to the scene selected for the break at Poydras, 10 miles south of New Orleans, and spread out fan-wise to give a last warning to the few hun- dred residents of the territory who had failed to heed early admonitions to abandon their homes for safe | ground in or near New Orleans. Oth- er soldiers guarded the roads from this city and three hours before noon ‘the highways were cleared and the j area within two miles of the loca- jtion of the break w: closed to traf- Only bearing military s were admitted withi cor- (Continued on page three) | Last Minute | Bulletins Boston, April 29.—(AP)—Babe Ruth banged out his fourth home run of the season off Pitcher Harris in the fifth inning ef the Ya ws’ contest with the Besten Red Sox here today. None was on base. fie. ex: press at Cove Allen, near here, West Palm Beac! Beach, Fia., j—Chi A diamond with a hole through the | middle has been discovered in Eland- It is of value only as a freak stone,