Evening Star Newspaper, November 8, 1927, Page 4

WITNESS PICTURES RUININFLOOD AREA Former Capital Man Writes Graphic Story of Raging Waters in New England. A graphic deseription of the angry #wirl of waters in the Winaoski River and Burling ton, old home town of Mrs, Calv ter w Iy of Wa Mr. and Mrs, street, their near, Vt.. the n Caoli Aestruction i contained in a let tren by vard Noves, former 1o his parents hers, 5 Fifth st on E. ¥ Under the date of Fridayv. Novem Special Workers Assmnsd 103 her 4 that 1 time of long 7 candle light ** * have lived 1 ences dur pect to h much older tricity in the hotel t er house suppiving swent of with the flaod arrived in town ahout 3 o'cl wednesd ternoon and about it hesan rin—not just a rain. hut downpour that stop u Thout an hour o zn 18 hours of d rain. edly the have ever seen at one tim “L intended ing. but upon Toom fonnd ths were stoppad bridges had around us Ftate had amplain I'm ill here “To pass the time 1 riblers and went frantic efforts of two citie save the one bhri » hetwe : and Winooski. Swa ul little stream that ate of « as th the torient tret | which, when it stinek turned end over end. gmashing to pieccs and throwing its burden «f a season’s precious upon the water to be carried away s =0 much match wood. This was not the only one to pass out of sight in that manner, for all day long ho | stables, larnes, bridges and whatnot have been passin steady stream of | spliniered heams, roofs, doors, ete. Cattle Go Over Dams. “Cattle. ton. have passed over the two | dams and through the ~into the | fiats. Some are lucky enough to have | besn rescued alive oy tarm ers down on the floats. while another &roup of men on each hank were | shooting those that were drowning or | were headed for the rocky drop, just heyond the bridge, to put them out of writes: It transplanted to the I am writing hy "o say the le wigh many new experi e tast 48 hours and ex 1 few more before 1 am | There has heen no eler lay, as the pow this haif of Burl ssion last sooms My, have | Noves e f mild not twa to il saod most | | terday nsportation Crippled. leaving earl arriving in the all means of ilroad and highway washed away_all the ferry to New York stopped beeause Lake was too dangerous, so bundled up, | to see the trying to 'n them — put on floating mendous one. the upper dam [ alone lost 75 cows, 25 ses and innumerable ens, s harns, stables and cther buildi gr. ‘ “rom the tir I arrived until 1 leic, a matter of 5 or & hours, the watr o > somewhere around 12 or 15 feet. There are four mills at the bridge. what is holding one (a grist mill) up it a matter of speculation, for when the water carried away powe: wheel it took all but 5 feet of the found: but is still standing. “Another has the water pouring out of the third sto vhile the others ars better off, only being submerged to the second floor. Evervthing made f timber' has heen carried away and & buck powerhouse and engine room of one of the mills crumbied and fell “The abutment on the Burlington side of Winooski caved in this morn- | and to s every k in! n was d 1y granite from the quarry to be dumped in That was surely an endless chain of | trucks. The . ~wount of granite | poured into that hole is just a matter of speculation, but, if each truck car-| earied a ton, which I am sure it did, th re must have been at least 200 it | | | | | i | while the tragedy { piled here showed that eross {he Winopski | Do | ceived fWeeks of Vermont hay. | White state Commerce Commi | by any routes open | | workers to areas as follows tenden Counties, Vt.: William Harr to Washington Count: Carr to Rutland found them distributed in this fash number of refugees, 400 are at Procto) of the county homeless, at Springfield, » at Northampton. 'ARLINGTON' Four Firms Ask 730 Days to Com- | Deep Mud Flats May Hide Bodi €8s Of ‘Flood Victims By the Associated Pres LITTLE RIVER. Vt.. November 8.~ The mud spread across the flats here by the flood was measured to- day and found to be 11 feet deep Relief workers expressed the he- lif thAt many hodies might be bur- ied %o deep in this silt. now hard enough to walk on, that they would never he recovered, RED CROSSHELPS 650 HOMELESS Vermont—Railroads: | of tha | delphia THE YEVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8 19°7 ICLERIC VAINLY TRIES TO SAVE PRESIDENT PLANS - ADDRESS T0 CLUB lWill Speak at Founders’ Day i Celebration by Philadelphia Union League. President Coolidge js devoting all his spare time now to the p ration peech he I2 to deliver in Phi vember 17, at the exercises incident to the Founders' day celebra- by the Union League Cluh of eity. he President ments today time to h hix hi-wee tion tha ’ made few engage in order to have as much nself as possible. He held Iy couference with Gen Lord, director of the budget. and later held his bi-weekly cabinet meetin, and newspaper c nee. Hoover Sees President. nfer Speed Supplies. | | merce Washington continued today to take an active hand in relieving conditions arising from the New England floods, was brought more vividly home to some of its residents. | William P, street, a former of Lieut. Gov. S Jackson, clerzyman, brot Hallister Jackson of Vermont, who lost his life. learned to. day that his hrother was huried afternoon in Batie. The only | ronibers of the family able to aitand | funeial weie the widow and Col. | o Jdackson of Burlingson, | v publisher and banker. Al Jackson had planned to attend the funeral 6,600 Hon While the Commission retieving the routin; their ope American 1 for. Commerce id down a special order mmon carriers from restrictions applyin tions. due to the fios Red Cross summary nearly eless are heing cared for., nator Porter H. Dale todav re. this m e from ¢ John | “Loss of ife i, Property d: hizhwa less Inierstate com- | 6,500 | as heavy as reported 12¢ to railveads, “rms and individia tremendons. W conditions are in Winooski, \ River and Lamoille Vallovs, n}.~rr(:vr',‘;..\\ under direction | of Red Cr nd immediate nesds being taken care of.” ) Hailroads serving New England or | connecting with New Enstind rafl. roads will be allowed, under the Inter. <ion order, to forward trafic through that territery Workers Assigned. The Red ¢ xned special | Colin Herrle to Franklin and Chit- | unty. \'l.‘ Charles i ‘ounty, Vt.: Miss Myrtle Flanders to Bennington Coun- | o Vt. and Mis. S. P, Weeden to Windsor County, Vt. Ascertaining that 4,620 homele: re being cared for in Vermont 0 in Massachusetts, the Red Cr n . has the largest | with 1,200, while 3 0 at East W ingford. and 600 in isolated distri Rutland County, Vit s Of the Massachusetts 0 are being cared for t 00 at Pittsfield, 150 at North Adams, 150 at Beckett and 200 | BRIDGE WORK BRINGS 5 BIDS | 1 plete Superstructure of Memorial Span. Five construction firms vesterday hid | President {safer air | terests {and Attorney | Washinxton. for the job of erecting the super-! structure on the Arlington Memorial Bridge. the piers and underpinning | of which are now nearing’ completion tons dumped there, Bridze Topples Into Streant. “The center pier_ received some fer rivle punishment during those h .rs| and when the water succesded in eat-| inz the end abuttment loosa the cen ter gave way and the ) ture toppled into the s without a sound. If it feet it wi'l probably : mills A of floods in the papers, Iy have no idea what they like until we have been in one. with it one | The hidders and the amounts they asked for erecting the sione arch | work are the Hardaway Construction "9 of Columbus, G 2,290.000: Hun.- | kin Conkey Con: ion Co. of Cleve land, Ohio, ‘Whiting Tun- ner Construction Co. of F 1timore, | Md.. §1,694,800; H. I, Converse & Co. of Boston, now engaxed on construc. :inn”nf the piers, $2, 6,000, and P, ‘arlin_Construction Co. New Yorl T T e ri-nce I am going to make it a nalicy to contribute by $5 or £1) to aid the peorle in flood stricken © mumuniti-s anc do it willinzly; they n d it “The rain turned to snow and hail this afternoon and the old timers pre- | that the gzround will be covered | snow by tomorrow night. I think it will freeze tonigh of the firms asked the limit ot | in which to complete the | work. hut the Carlin Co. asked for | It is expected that the contract will he awarded within the next 20| days and the actual construction will hegin in the early Spring, the Winter | months being used by the construc. tion company for assembling of its | plant and personnel. WEST VIRGINIAN DIES | UNDER WHEELS OF TRAIN LAND PATENT UPHELD IN COURT’S DECISION, Note Found on Body Identifies Vic- tim—Case Is Inves- tigated. Work and Spry Lose Suit to Avoid Issuance of Permit for Florida Lands. William A. Cracraft. 1303 Lee street, rieston, W. Va., was kill>d short Iy after 8 o'clock this morning when | struck by a northhound train on the | Baitimore & Ohio tracks a short | tance south of Lamond Station, near | Huhert Work, Takema Park. Papers and letters | terior, and Wil s o b found in his pockets served to identify | sioner of the I:antly”: I.lly’\‘d‘ 'r:m?-:"\"‘::. the hody., and palice reported that on | terday lost in the District of Cohmbin | one note was scribhied “despondent.” | Court of Appeals their second Attempt A pedestrian discovered the body, |10 avoid the issuance of a land parcel which was bhadly mangled after the | for 160 acres of land near Gainescille, train had passed over it. and police | Fla., 1o Hent Read of Pennington were notified. The body was then |County, S. Dak. In June, 1 tead taken 1o the mo _ by his attorney-in-fact, Harrison Besides the letters and notes. which | Edwards of King County, Wash.. laid were examined hy Capt. C. P. M. Lord|a forest lieu selection eript, of the thirteenth precinct, $50 in cash [at $2.000, on the Florida pre was found on the hody. Inspector | Which now is said to be worth - Henry G. Pratt. chiaf of detectives, or. [ millions.” The department officials dered an investigation of the case, and | had decided in favor of a claim of & messagze wags wired (o the Lee street | William H. Gleason, a resident of Flor- address in Charleston, telling of Cra.|ida, and were about to issue the pat- rifi’s deaths. ent to him when the injunction suit was filed hy | d. In an opinion by Justice Josiah A. Van Orsdel, the appellate tribunul de. l.u ves that 'the diseretion of Scerot | Work has been exhausted and (here ix | nothing for him 10 do but to issue the | putent. |7 1ead owned fo 1 in the West FARRE. Vi, November 8 (#).— | Which he relinquished and accoptod o Lieut. Gov. S. H. Jackson, who wan | forest lieu script, which under the Jaw drowned in the flood last Thursday, | ™Ay be 1&id on any public Jand of the was buried privately vesterday United States. Gleason had claimed Among members of the immediate | Utle 10 the land as an aceretion to hia family, the only one 10 attend wan the | adjoining homestead, but litigation re. §tate official's brother, H. Nelson|Sulted in a finding by the courts Jackson of Burlington, who rode 60 | *Rainst his contention and Read then Imiles over Smugglers Notch to Water | aid his claim on the property, Under Sury and walked the remaining 15 |the decision of the court, as far as the miles. A son, Nelson, 16, a student | United States js concerned, Read is o Culver Military Academy. losi a |entitied to have the million-dollar tract race to arrive in time for the funeral, |In place of his $2.000 script. Other He reached Burlington after a jour. | laimants may contest his titie in the ney that had taken him thronzh Can. [ COUrts of Florida, it is stated. ada, only 1o learn that the funeral had taken place, ecretary of the Tn-| RITES FOR FLOOD VICTIM. Licut. Gov. Jackson Buried in Ver- mont Yesterday. Exonerated of Mailing Poison. NORFOLK, Va., Novemher 8 (#).— Mrs. Eva Hollowell, who was arrested t Summer in Richmond on a charge of sending poisoned eandy through Flying Base in Flood Area. CONCORD, N. '[. November & (). ~-An emergency United tSates Army only 300 day: |e | Along the banks of these riv Secretary of Commerce Hoover has laid before the President the Com- veloping aids to commercial a The President alwavs has manifested considerable interest in the develop ment of civil aeronautics and has_ex- pressed himself as desivinz the Gov- ernment to assist in encouraging com tion. what Mr. Hoover's program is 1615 Kenvon [has not heen revealed. but it is under- | with the rope. will form the basis for to be made hy the annual message to stood that it recommendations in his Conzress, Devices Under Considera Tt i« known that the Comm partment has under consideration nu merous devices to pave the way fo nsportation by private in rresponding to the safe suards which have bheen sct up by the Government for mariners. It is known that among the devices whicn ithe Department of Commerce wants to install are beacon Hghts of an | proved order to make night flying and landing safér. The department also is interested in the promotion of land ing fields as close together as possible o he provided for out of funds co operatively furnished hy the eitios and the Fed 1 Government, VERMONT IS HOME OF MANY NOTABLES High Officials Here Hail From Green Mountain State. ree De in izht The throes of grave disaster Vermont have turned on a i that shows that President Coc ieneral Sargent are no the only sons of the Green Mountain State that are high in the aifans o Incommon with rest of their fellow Americans th have exhibited keen concern in the | tragedy that has overwhelmed the orthiand and in many have ated this by telephone calls (o paper offices to zlean the latest | mation concerninz the inunda- in of or Prominent among Vermonters Washington are Assistant Secretary TLabor Walter W. Husband, fo newspaper man and recently commi sioner general of immigration: Gieor R. Wales, one of the three civil ser ice commissioners. who has been con- nected with that hranch of the Government service since 1 and has come up from the rank: istice Wendell P. Stafford of tha Supreme | Court of the Distriet _of Columbia, | Judge Orio Metealt Barber of the United States Court of Cusioms Ap- peals: Patrick J. Farrell, chief counsel | of the Interstate Commerce Comais. sion: Commissioner Winfiell Seatt of (he Rureau of Pensions. Commission- er Henry O'Malley of the Bureau | Fisherles, and Louis Winglow Austin, physicist at the Bureau of Standards who is plaving a prominent part in the development of radio. Taft's Father A Native. Washingtonlange have vet other links with Vermont. The father of Chief Justice William Howard Taft, | Alfonzo Taft, Secretary of War and Attorney General, wax a native of Vermont. James B. Wilbur, a Ver- monter, is prominently identified with | the Congressional Library and does | historical research work here. Charles F. Fairman, chief cletk in the office of the architeet of the Capitol and its t curator, and IHenry Tavlor, chief | nzineer of the ouse of Representa- | tives and one of the oldest emploves on “the hill,”" are natives of the Green Mountain State, as ix A. E. Chaffee, | reading clerk of the Ilouse of Repre- | sentatives. The name of five Senators, Franklin Edmunds, Redfield tor, nd Jusi mith Morrill are identi- field closely with the earlier develop. ment of the Capital, just as 1 13 enator W 1 Dillingl L] linked with the growth of a later day. | These precedents established by Ver. | wonters of other days are heing sus. ained now by Representative . W. Gibson, who is playing a ent part in the advancement of the city as + member of the District of Columbia | committee. President Coolidge is the second Vermonter to occupy the White Iouse, his predecessor being Presi- dent Chester Arthur. “The land that gave these men birth now suffering. Its four main river news dispatches received in the Capi tal sy, are pwallen with heavy rain: . the the TLamoille, Winooski Mississquof, disaster has written its and Otter, mark, Montpelier Suffers. Montpelier, capltal of Vermont, which news during the week end indicates has suffered above the rest, has close links with the Capital. One of its moat lilustrious sons, Ad- miral George Dewey, hero of Manila Ray, spent his last days in Washing- ton, dying here in January, 1917. An- other man who spent part of his life in the little town of mome 7,000 souls in the heart of Washington County. and came to know Washington inti- mately, was Rear Admiral Charles 12, Clark, who achieved fame by rushing the 17, £, 8. Oregon around Cape Horn in record time during the Bpanish- American War, Mountpelier was organized In 1791 and was flest_permunently settled by people from Massachusetts in 1787, and in 1805 was chosen as the State capital. The ceptennial of Montpelier was celebrated the year Iresident *oolidge was married. ‘Montpeliec and which is also hit by the floods, are in the heart of the granite coun- try, and great diamond saws in the hands of skilled Italian artisans nor- mally fashion the rough stone from [the heart of the hills into pleces of art and building materials, ———e Rum in Cradle of Drys. Correapondence of The Star, KEYSVILLE, Va.—Civie pride In the little town has heen dashed with digcovery in the historic.old Ash Camp Baptist Chureh, where the “first tem- perance’ society fn America the mails, was exonerated late yester- day afternoon when the grand jury in Federal District Court here returned the Bijl in her oges o “AGk Grue” Wi: fiving b - wie ordered established in Burlington. Vt, today by Maj. Gen. ‘renen Brown of the 1st Corps Ayea, (’\‘ change ol foed relied e founded In 1872, has been the head- quarters of neighborhood hootleggers many months. Corn whiskey was found in the ol ity Department’s program for de- | tion. | | By the Asmaciated Pr | VERMONT VILLAGE. {lief by making the reads more treach- COUPLE MAROONED BY FLOOD ‘ Only to Find Rescue Rope Is Too ‘ Short—Two Swept Away. | freezing weather, are stalking through Spacial Dispatch to The Star. t November | the land. The Red Cross, churches SPRINGFIELD, Mass., i 8.—Tales of heroism, of tragedy and | | of general human cont are | | heginning to trickle into this eity (rom | I the flood-swept avea of Vermont, New | Hampshire and Connecticut ¥ One of the eutstanding stories [ volves the courageons but v 1in eff of a minister to rescue a couple, ke conple, as vet unidentified were rapped in their auto west of | Curiosity-seeking motorists field when the Westfleld River went ! unc thousands of cars { surging over the highv Their car ' <tricken aren despite all police, Na tional Guard and military police could swept along until it came to a billboard, where it lodzed. h ouple Lo, Warnings issued to stay away over climbed to the top of the car and as |Saturday and Sunday were to ne svail [the water rose clambered up on the The yesult was that highwn wer side of the hillboard. jammed with streams of cars traveling T three, four and tive abreast at the rate Missed by Few Feel. {of a few hundred feet per hour. Police Their plight was discovered and po- [ waorked 24 and 36 hour stretches try |lice came with a rope to aid in their [ing to untangle a jam never vescue. The officers found, however, | axperienced. Many of the auyi that none of their number could swim. | highyays were blocked by flood A minister, Rev. Walcott Co at. A closing all but a few roads member of the Ipiscopalian cleray. | emergency who was atiracted to the scene, offered 3 to swim through the. ra witer RESCUER BEAT He tried found i e ghors in Attempt Score Trapped 4 i | inz a wonderful work in relieving the suffering. With the excitement of the flood over, the vietims now face the realization of their ble loss and the i prohiem abtaining food, sheiter and heat In Hampden Nty where square n pe are under water, at je 10,000 people are homeless of in 3 0 st drove into the | ry ors for the BACK. and that the feot Turning rope o Novembher | T hattle for { the dvad 1 Y Y lwas told by reliel worke today. I-'v’lvxl;:‘-";""::: M;“M]“_"‘ ot he | When the flood struck this village hE Conneetiont Itiver and swept | /1S greatest force was in the region of H e rver. il |th cemetery, ide which jaway. The horse, however (e | hitched to the wagon, made itx way | 51 Rouses. isafely io shore and climbed out un!“‘”:\ "r - 'l';"\j“"‘l Wl"ll'\:”nr :»‘mm.; sro o s the bugsy | ped and empt a :”‘lhli'm‘hil;.nxnl. dragging the bu |rescue was made by a villager in the When the Becket Reservoir dam |colapsible canvas canoe that broke. sending & wall of water 20 feet | the only boat in town. Directly over | high swirling through the town, one [the & ard, where headstones | woman, eausht in a store, lost her [ Were being wrenched loose by the Vi[e< 'lHe ey of (he who | Score, the canocist paddied toward the sod on guard and saw the s 1 es of the houses he collapse, ra; head of the water | The 8 18 fect deep and the S Te e od all in the | White cre a foot high. The e waiied until the last 10 |canoeist fought bravely, but wind s arn his own family and when his | WAVes were too much for him and he Wito stalled oing up a steep grade | Was unable to reach the trapped vie- ped from the ear with his family | ims of the flood, ind_eseaped by a maigin of a few Later the nanies of some of those ViEds e e ornent Ewent ik ox sonts appeaved on the lists of doad s missinz. but the majority w et ved by the strength of the houses in rohinas which they were caught, ESiie When the children of this village he e taken oMt—as they are going to norses in_ such cireumsiances, they |be in an effort to guard against dis fouzht off their rescuers and only | —the Red Cross will have a lot of 1ffer strenuous and heroie mes res |litile pigs on its hands anv of them saved, A do or | During the flood a score of suck- ohstinate and fighting to the |ling pizs were washed up here and were abandoned to the risinz |childven salvaged them as pets. The waters, | prond owners announced today that $20.000,000 Loss S f they wore to he taken away, the iy 2 would have to go with them. hempden aounty. sead et alay \e iron bridge that used to conneet e atiat and foodstufre | his village with the tiny twin com- il o and . conservative | Munities of Duxbury and North Dux- | bury was carried away by another | steel hridze that the flood had borne ik for more rope. he ) od fand only to find that § he turned the hillhoard had | and had been swept away. The ¥ was recovered. An elderly couple drivin 8 in a huggy [ pe or astery Fxhibition more than 100 racing horses | wed in the lake that engulfed rounds. With the perversity of States particul in Springfield | §teel | £2,000,000, with 23, miles yaitrond | The “traveling bridge," which sank nd bridses m- [A[ter entting off the 200 inhabitant lof the twin villages from Waterh de- | their only source of relief, was iden: relief workers today as one cd to span the Winooski 25 miles higher up. huildings damaze cks. trolley tracks possible to estimate New-born infants and children endent on Ironds for a supply of | tified b fresh milk. are suffering. The specters | that 1 of hunger and disease, with their ally. | River, “Big’ Bill's” Fiooa bontrol program Would Guard British Cotton Plant levee are being built by Army Engi- neers to protect it against next year's high water. Mayor “Big Bill” Thompson of Chi- cago probably doesn’t known that his proposed flood control program wonld | protect a huge British-controlled cot-| ton plant. | The 100,000-acre tract, one of the | largest cotton properties in the South, was right hehind the worst levee brenk | of last Spring's flood, at Mounds Landing. Miss. Three miles of new flood control committee, Oscar John- won of Memphis, Tenn., its operator, described the $1,000,000 loss to the plantation by the inundation. 1le told reporters later that Rritish interest controlled 65 per cent of the fiirm's capital. Gov. weeks favored the private under- writing of a loan sufficient to carry emergency work through until the insportation conditions should be department heads, however, expressed the opinion ay that the State-wide situation was too serious to be handled in this way. CUT OFF BY FLJJD, FACES STARVATION (Continued |improved. Some of the PRESIDENT IS INVITED TO FETE IN ALEXANDRIA President Coolidge vesterday was in- vited by a committee representing the Washington Birthday Association of Alexandria, to attend the cele- ion to be held in Ale 22 to ohserve the bi | versary of the first President. dommittee was composed of Charles K Carlin, former Representative; Mayor W. A. Smoot, . C. Goodnow, olin May, M. E. Greene, iL. D. Kirk ind N, L. Snyde Senator Swanson aren _embracing the towns of Rich mond and Williston and their envircns. Snow added to the difficulties of re. erous for relief trains. To'add to the zencral apprehension, Lake Champlain today began to show the affect upon | it of the enormous volume of water which it has absorbed from the hun- dreds of streams for which it acts as 4 catch basin. The lake was above | ity usual Spring flood level and stili rising. Disease Is Fought. Rolton and Waterhury, Winooski Valley towns, planned estraordinary precautions (o prevent the spread of disense and co o, JIos 0 i l::‘-‘.1 iry, . detachment of the Lo Accompanied the commit- ookt eharge and o dras. | (00 1o the White House. ved | The President expressed interest ot | the invitation and said he would give i his_decision later. Sk B | New Jersey headed a committee which lied on the President today to invite him to attend the ceremonies incident to the celebration of the 300th anni- versary of the founding of the Duich Ieformed Church in New York City, to he held in that clty next June. ' eating the town in opri Food ls issued official tickets, Steel cables were streiched across the Winooski and Little rivers to send food and elothing to (he needy in the outlying districts, At Bolton, where 28 persons were believed to have lost their lives, in- cluding 24 workers in g road camp, the first relief p; to break through car- ried a large supply of embalming finid, | but found that only seven hodies had | heen discovered. They reported a fair amount of food left in the town from A quantity floated down the river from Waterbury, on a raft made of lashed | coffing, States and railroads face the task of oring mile upon mile of shattered or undermined highways and road- beds, bridges that have been swept away by the hundreds, steel trestles that have been twisted as if made of cardboard. Losses in Millions. Maj. Gen. Preston Brown, who made a first hand survey of the devastated territory, asserted the losses would run into unestimable millions, Damage at tutland was estimated Brown at $5,000,000. Mont- raised its cost at $3.000,000. jon of the extent to which e uffected wax the state- ment of New Y 5. (hat repairs 10 the right-of-way of the Boston & Albany and Rutland rail- ronds would reach $750,000. EMERGENCY AID PLANNED, KNOWN NAME glistening and the Vermont Studies Private Loan For Flood Relief. MONTPELIER, Vt, November 8§ (#).—Gov. John E. Weeks today sum- moned heads of all State departments to meet with him in the temporary executive offices here and take the first teps toward State-wide rehabilitation rom the flood disaster. The first act of the governor was the appointment of Fred A. Howland of Montpelier, president of the National Life Insur- ance of Vermont, as emergency finance commissioner for the Stats The calling of an extraordinary ses. | sion of the Vermont Legislature was said to be imminent, according to un official word from the governor's con- ference !'ut aight the opinion was that Created in the Tecla Paris Laboratories. A FASHION ™ IMinister Swims Through Raging Torrent| and other relief organizations are do- | properiy | hefore | Save | nd | At yesterday’s hearing of the Tlouse | in| DISTRIGT REPORTS AUTO TAGS ON HAND Advance Supply for 1928 Ready for Distribution December 1. With the advance supply of the Dis trict’s 1928 automebile identification | tag house at Oce plans for started arriving from the wor Vi, ibution 1t the District Building. will hegin December 1, in order to give motorisis a month to procure the new preliminir, | their were today Distribution Thus far numbering about 20,000, livered to. Wade H. Coombs tendent of licenses, and tomo first shipment of pleasure car tags is | dne to arrive from Occoquan. By the | end of the month, the entire quota | is expected to be at the District Build | ing. WL of the comu ave heen de superin- w the of tag distribution | be put into force this year in { accordance with the recent recom- { mendations of the Federal Bureau of | EMciency. Applications for the tags | also will be distributed among the police precinet stations, automobile | organizations and other agencies wher | cure A new system | wil to facilitate the the them in order distribution ilding. The new are far supe roin o | hip than the 192 | were supplied by privat amel in them also wde, he declaved, and there is little likelifiood that it ‘will c one of the principal faults of the tags for the current year. The tags are heing mannfactured by prison labor under the direction of | Capt. M. M. Bernard, superintendent | of penal institutions of the District. at District t Mr Coombs said, ty and work- tags, which contraet. The is of a higher WATSON PROMISES FLOOD PROGRAM FROM CONGRESS (Continued_from _First Page) _ one, two or more billions of dollars to solve the flood situation.® “We_ spent $70,000.000,000 on the World War, we have spent billions on | peace time’ activities of the Govern- | ment.” he said, “and we should not be begrudging in spending of money on this problem.” He gave assurance that “the flood control would get a cordial reception in the Senate.” Soyth Ts Grateful. “Coming from the flood-stricken are: the people of the South feel gratification at the attitude of the President and Secretary of Commerce Hoover in aiding the flood sufferers,” Senator Harrison declared. = When Hoover's name was mentioned, there was loud applause. Senator Harrison also lauded the work of the Red Cros “It is an engineering problem and should he solved by them.” Harrison Government assumes the responsibil- ity, the Army and Government engi- “will do their work well.” Congress and placed as the first law before the President,” he added. “It is a national problem and ir Congress docs not pass a law making the national Government responsible for flood control, it will mes: of sadness to the Senator Harrison concluded. Held Urgent Need. While the devastation and huge eco- I||on|ic losses were reviewed at yeste 1ay's hearing, the witnesses empha- sized a necessity for the National Gov. ernment to assume the work of con- trolling the turbulent waters of the | Mississippi River system. Two gover- no all of Tllinois and Sorlie of | North Dakota—former Gov. Par | Louisiana, : Thompson and Mayor O'Keefe of New Orleans aN advocated that the Fed- eral Government take full responsi- sility to curb the river's high waters and’that Congress immediately enact legislatibn_toward such a step, Mayor Thompson proved to be the chief figure in the first day's hearing. Heading more than 1,000 delegates to the House committee's opening ses- sion, he was cheered vociferously by his supporters whenever he spoke or his name was mentioned and, as a finale, a group of sailor musicians in the party immediately struck up a tune in the committee room upon the | hearing’s adjournment. GETS 15-YEAR TERM. | Albert Cutler, Convicted of House- breaking, Is Old Offender. *hief Justice McCoy in Criminal | Division 1 today sentenced Albert Cut- ler, colored, to serve 15 years in the penitent on a charge of house- nd larceny. court told Cutler that if he were in New York he would get a life sentence, as he has been sentenced no less than seven times for house |baking and larceny. Cutler's re ord showed a total of 30 years which he had heen ordered to serve. His latest offense was the breaking into the home of Mack Davis, 3018 M street, September 3, from which he took a quantity of personal effects. Assistant Upited States Attorney W. L. Colling represented the Govern- ment THE BEST AND MOST FAVORABLY IN JEWELDOM “TECLA” To millions of women TECLA means & solution of thelr jewel problems—the use of an apparently genulne gem, at small cost and risk, the absence of metallic assurance of every characteristic Oriental gems possess. Tecla Necklaces Are Composed Not Just Strung e (s e Used in Teda Settings. | | | INSTITUT! Washinaton Specially appointed Tecla repr Washington, D. C. motorists will he urged to pro- | added. He said that when the Federal | lood control will be driven through | CITY CLUB TO WAGE MEMBERSHIP DRIVE | Organization Soon to Open c-mvi paign to Increase Rolls | by 3,000. | | | The City Club will soon hegin a | campaign under the direction of Mer- ritt C. Chance, chairman of the mem | hership committee, for 3,000 membe it was announced by Rudolph Jo | the president. City clubs in other cities have realized the importance of ong, Mr. Jose said, citing the | Roston City Club, which built up to 8000 members, | The City Club of Washington should, in his opinion, he equally as strong with this purpose in mind the membh <hip decided in 1 eneral meeting recently to establish an an nunl ate of $30 for dues and wave entrance fees | The City Club." “Is the eoutgrowth mercial Club and is approaching its cighteenth year. It has a distinet | civic aim and purpose and is vitally | interested in matters appertaining to the welfare of our city. “Last vear,” he continued, “the club arranged national representation | day. It secured nationally prominent speakers and. by means of the Radio Corporation chain stations, was able to get the plea of our disfranchized citizens into the homes of practically |every city in ths United States. “Thousands of people learncd for the first time we of the Capital City had no voice in either national or rnment For the employes hington business men a husi nd sales congress was conduct- Only a few davs ago the club concluded the observance of manaze- ment veek, which was the first time the event was celebrated in Wash- ington, though other cities have been observing it for seven years.” Mr. Jose pointed out the club has red civic music and encouraged ny artists to take part in them and by its prestige and through the in- strumentality of the radio has brought to the fore many lo rtis Only recently it has been fighting for the’ maintenance of WMAL's wave length. These are but a few of the many civic activities which the clut engages in. During the Winter it is a beehive of social, civic and athletic { nctivities. Che building up of a club.”" President.Jose added, “by the addition of a large number of young | men is another link being forged in the club’s long list of notable achieve- | ments." he club membership consists of | business, professional and Government | men interested in Washington and its future. The club facilities include a -hole golf course. The club also permits the wives and daughters of members to use portions of the club- Mr. Jose recalls of the old Com stronger {a WILL FEATUR FETE BY OLD-TIME GARB Southeast Citizens Propose Unique Setting for Com- munity Celebration. will he urged to searer 1fas ith quest of of it the s tion to ha | the 10 ve ition in t muni ad i Associ Assor Red Men and the Pare of e Parade a Special Feature. which v dance John Joseph Mrs, will ¥ ments a@ Contests of children will be in « of Mrs. Gordon, and Mrs. Helo direct a vaudevills per- be given in the school Mudd, Mr wkine. Mrs. M e of business a mance to in hibits | Men's by the Southeast Business Association, in charge of s H. Jenkins, chairman; ex- hibits by the Child Hygiene Service, the Southeast Public_Library, the In. structive Visiting Nurses' ' Soclety, Friendship House and the Associated Charities. Reception Planned. Representatives of the Lincoln Park Citizens' Association and the South. east Citizens' Association will compose reception committee. Mrs. Annie Robey will assist Mrs. Gordon in the general arrangements for the parade and Mrs. F. T. Roys will have charge of the dressing rooms. Another meeting of the committee arranging for the celebration will be held in the Hine School next Monday night. At this meeting, Mrs. Davis savs, it is hoped to have in attendanc house as well as attend its frequent concerts, musicales, vaudeville, ete., | without ‘extra cost. DANE’S $5,000 BOND FORFEITED BY COURT| Fight Promoter Fails to Appear| for Commitment—Warrant Issued. Becanse Frank Dane, president of the National Capital Sporting Club, | failed to appear in Criminal Div today for commitment, Justice Siddons forfeited bond of $3,000 under which | the fight promoter was on bail await- | ing a decision of the United States Supreme Court, Dane is said to be in Porto Rico and a bench warrant was issued for his | apprehension. The United ~States | Supreme Court recently 1efused to review action of the District Court of | Appeals which had sustained a sen- tence of 3 years in the peniten-tia imposed on Dane hy Justice Stafford of the District Supreme Court. The fight for which Dane was sen- tenced was one of a series of houts staged at the old Arcade, January 12 1926. all organizations not previously rep. resented, as well those who had delegates at last night's meeting. . WIFE ASKS DIVORCE FROM ‘CONTACT MAN’ Mrs. Henry Mason Day Institutes Separation Proceedings in Paris By the Associated Press PARIS, November 8.—Mrs. Henry Mason Day has instituted divorce proceedings against her husband, it was learned at the Palace of Justice vesterday. It is expected that she will be granted a decree within the next few days. Tenry Mason Day is vice president of the Sinclair Exploration Co., and his activities in connection with the Fall-Sinclair conspiracy case are now under investigation in Washington. | He is alleged to have been ‘contact {man” between Harry F. Sinclair and | Burns detectives, accused of shadow- ing jurors in the trial. ¢ Mrs. Day, who was Elizabeth de Selding, is well known as a mezzo- soprane, having sung in both New York and Europe. Early in the World War she hecame a member of Lord Kitchener's recruiting staff. Later she became chairman of the Franco- American music committes for the Find 0il in Moselle Region. Correspondence of the Associated Press. METZ, Lorraine.—Oil in apparent. Iy paying quantities. has been struck in the Moselle Department, rich in deposits of coal, salt and vario minerals. Borings have been made so far over an area of 5 square miles near Landroff-Daronville at the southern edge of the Lorraine coal field. They e indications of | a wide and deep layer of petroleum which it is proposed to exploit in- wounded. The couple have spent mich of their time in Europe since their marriage in New York {n 1910, Mrs. Day's pres ent residence is given in the social register as Paris. Use of the term Australasia is ob- jected to by New Zealanders on the grounds that New Zeland is neither A part of Asia nor Australla, but is dustrially at once. a self-governing dominion. to hear the Orthophonic Victrola now, today! It will be a revelation to you, for this is something altogether new in music —new tone, new power, new range. You never heard anything like it! 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