Evening Star Newspaper, March 27, 1929, Page 3

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27 THE EVENING STAR, FLOOD SUFFERERS LISTED BY COUNTIES National headquarters of the Red Cross at Washington has compiled a table from telegraphic advices, showing the number of persons affected St}ql'e Relle |EVII]ENBE OF N(lAH’S /‘ » in each county by flood waters in Alabama, Florida and Georgia. The o) \RTHDAROTANS Red Cross May Ask Whole Town to Move To. New Location By the Associated Press. PENSACOLA, Fla., March 27. —The Red Cross may suggest that the entire village of Milli-| gan, Fla., recently flooded by high 1 waters of the Yellow River, be | | moved to higher ground, Henry i M. Baker, national director of | disaster relief, announced after a survey of the flooded town. “Milligan is situated in a hol- . low and it is a serious question whether the houses should be re- built there,” Mr. Baker said. The Red Cross is feeding 250 persons at Milligan, it was re- ported by Miss Jessie Boyd, dis- aster worker, ; | A d of Coffee weighs more than a R'CD'.:Q'IQ:I[():TP(;'(;?ES(?HSQ(NCKE pp:::d :f :nl:: b:cause Coffee is weighed by “avoirdupois weight” which Efforts were made by Virginia au- | thorities last night to obtain custody of | has 16 ounces to the pound and gold here somewhat by releasing WAter now | Frederick A. Sehenck. farmes 1loiriot P w caight” whi being held up and spread out as a re- | policeman held here on two robbery | is weighed by “troy weight” which has only 12 ounces to the pound. sult of the gorge. | charges. Richmond police said they had | | i FLEE RISING RIVER County. Tom. affected. i Sure Relief |Dr., Woolley, Visiting Here, | Butler Chapman ... Under water ;Missouri Passes Flood Stage LL‘ANS Describes Discoveries of FOR INDIGESTION | Earliest Civilization. Cofee . Elba and | as Plans to Bomb Ice Dams 25¢ and 75¢ Pkg’s.Sold Everywhera | Conecuh asticberry Covis 2 D in Channel Are Pushed. Rural districts . Brewion and Flomaton .Geneva and v Dothan Escambia ..... By th* Associated Press. | "BISMARCK, N. Dak., March 27— | Lowlands here and at Mandan were | under water today and some residents | | were moving household effects as the | | Missouri River reached and passed the flood stage of 15.2 feet. Aided by United States Army officers, | | residents of the two cities arranged to | transpert 10,000 pounds of dynamite by | motor trucks to an ice gorge 13 miles | south of here. If the jam can be blast- ed ou today, it will relieve conditions Geneva . Houston e - .. Montgomery Digging down benecath the ruins nff jancient Ur, & thriving city 6,000 years | ago, Dr. C. Leonard Woolley of Oxford | | has uncoyered an 8-foot deposit of clean | clay which he believes was left by the | great flood adescribed in the Book of | Genesis i The excavations at Ur, located in| what is now Mesopotamia, have bsen ! !conducted by Dr. Woolley under auspices of the University of Penn-! sylvania_Museum and the British Mu-; scum. Opening the royal tombs at Ur, | he has found objects of art more splen- | | did than thcse removed from the grave | {of Tut-ankh-Amen, who was born ap- | pmxlmmrly 2,000 years after the city 0{ Ur had vanished. Will Lecture Tonight. i UPERIOR GARAGES METAL Bricx FRAME sTUCCO BLOCK PORCHES REMODELED :: REPAIRED BUILT :: ENCLOSED 20 MONTHS TO PAY REASONABLE PRICES WE REBUILD-REMODEL-REPAIR TELEPHONE MAIN 9427 STONEBRAKE > Total Alabama (figures incomplete) FLORIDA. Calhoun Biounts M\\n . .Quincy ... ‘Logging Camp River Junction .Bonlfay Westville Washington . .Caryville Okaloosa ... I Crest View Milligan .. : . .Defuniak ‘Springs . Gadsden Gulf Holmes .... Capt. John C. Regan of the Army En- | linked the prisoner with a robbery in gineering Corps took charge of an aerial | that city. Schenck also is wanted m\ survey of the gorge in one of the 'wn‘ Newark, N. J., in connection with a| Army planes which reached here yes- | hold-up in which a policeman was shot. | terday. District authorities have refused to | Seven other Army planes, turn Schenck over to Lieut. George E.| Walton Total Florida (figures incomplete) ... including BULDE® | 820~ 11> ST.NW. ‘ | Dr. Woolley will discuss his findings | {at 8:30 o'clock tonight. when he will | give an iilusirated lecture in the | Thirteenth: and H | streets, under auspics of the Archaeo- | | logical Society of Washington. The | public 15 invited. Dr. Woolley believes there were two | clements of population in Asia Minor | GEORGIA, PBaker ., .. EEETR Baldwin Dalias .. Flint Decatur Dougherty Mitchell Muscogee Quitman ural d .Lamhn(lpr and .Camiila .Georgetown four_bombers, have been ordered here | by the War Department. Four arrived | at Minncapolis late yesterday and three others were at Washington, D. C. Fifty-five tons of explosives are en | route here by train, but officials fear | they will arrive too late to be of any benefit in breaking up ice gorges a: points above Bismarck and Mandan. Kass and Benjamin Birch of the New- | ark detective force, although he is said | to have admitted wounding a policeman in the Newark affair January 29, be- | cause of charges filed against him in | two local hold-ups. Schenck is being held at the uwnd‘ precinet on the robbery charges while | police are conducting a further investi- | A pound of Wilkins Coffee goes farther than a pound of other Coffees because fine coffees only are used in the blend. There are more cups to the pound. before the flood—the Semitics and the | | Sumerians. The Semitics lived in small | | villages which were wiped out by the flood, “while the Sumerians lived in | : | walled citics, some of which survived peopie | the water. alue in a h“. e as He bascs this belief on the fact that | * T ling The two types of pottery were found upder | ing 1 h the clay deposit—painted and unpaint- a cozy open firep}, Y ed. It is known that the painted pot- | | kitchen will prove i tery was the work of the Sumerians, ful to any woman. | while the unpainted was made by the n P large bedrcoms and a large e l ey Expense of Campaign Fixed found above the clay. tiled bath with shower give This, he says, 1ndicaus that the Semi- ample accommodations on at 2.7 Per Cent of Funds Subscribed. | ties were wiped out by the flood, while the second floor. Of course, Wilkinson Three ice gorges in the upper river broke yesterday and the pressure of this onrush is expected to cause trouble when it reaches here in a day or two. The river here rose steadily yester- day at a rate of about two-tenths of a foot an hour, DANGER L gation. MVAY TO COMMAND | U. S. ASIATIC FLEET| By the Associated Press Rear Admiral Charles B. McVay, ir., | was_assigned today to command the | Asiatic Fleet, succeeding Rear Ad- | miral Mark L. Bristol, who is trans- | ferred to command of the 12th Naval | District at San Francisco. I Capt. Fred J. Horne, at present on duty lndw?s:‘:.m' 't filned to ter stage In recent years, the walls stii | COMmand of the aircraft carrier Sara- stood, except for the break which caused | t088: Capt. Horne succeeds Capt. John the flooding of the Tndian e iwed | Halligan, jr., who was transferred to trct. *The" dunger was by no means | ommand of the aireraft squadron of | over, but the reduction in pressure, due | M€, S¢ ey G %o the lower water level, gave beiter | ., Rear e s et Y | chance for strengthening the dykes and | §iven command of the Pensacola Naval ks Alr Station, succeeding Fear Admiral The Government gauge here showed | James J. Raby, who was given three a stage of 198 fect last night, six- | months’ sick leav tenths below the high mark of the re- | Total Georgia (figures NCOMPIEte) ....verrenerseersnernnns id appeal to excellent Grand total (figures incomplete) 36.105 ENS AT QUINCY. QUINCY, I, Mnrrh 27 (#).—The levees protecung thousands of acres of farm lands had won at least a tempo- rary victory today after the Mississippl River had anlen hlll a foot in 24 haurs, NEW YORK CITY.—Hoover gets Following a week of the highest wa- rid of something useless every day. Wait till he sees the Senate and Congress. He sunk the May- flower without warning; took the White House stables and made a garage for fish- The Community Chest campaign cost ! ing poles out of was only 2.7 per cent of the amount 7 it: sent six horses . ¥ to the museum |Fabius and Gregory, but pumping| subscribed, according to a.report ready — that had never |Plants were able to cope with it. - g been able: to be TR ridden since Taft Greater Boston Unitarian chorus is 0 . Bab’s Radio got through with |made up of voices from churches Chat P trabiad the | throughout the city. Tor "a: medicing | ~ Tonight, 7:15 | WMAL ball and makes everybody catch featuring our Model Home in it before th®y can Forest Hills - get any break- fast. That's to HEDGES & MIDDLETON, INC. discourage Sena- Realtors | the Sumerians survived and continued there is a garage. At the | their craftwork. pnce1 of $11,500 you will be Finds Brick on Virgin Soil. amply repaid for inquiring ble to tell, for additional details of R el el et l';ow l:lmny thm-‘ ¢ elapsed since the McKeever & Goss, Inc. National 4750 1415K St. CEONONOECONV/} . HONOEONONON ONONONONONONONINGES lived on earth. il below the flood | deposit, and_probably underneath the uccessive ruins of unsuspected races of civilized peoples, he found a larg® burnt strikingly similar to those used | ruction work today. the story of this solitary brick Imuld be told. he said, it probably would | deal with the lives of a people who | for submission by Rudolph Jose, treas- [ lived in brick houses and surrounded | yrer, at the annual meeting and elec- 10000 yoars agor—at a time when man | tion of officers of the Community Chest is generally supposed to have lived in | trustees at 4 oclock this afternoon in caves and to have killed his food With | the United States Chamber of Com- rhere ‘ean how be Httle doubt but | meroe. Campaign subscriptions to date that the section of the world now callpd | are $1501,560.57, besides the surplus of Asia Minor was devastated by & great | the inaugural charity ball, which has | flood more than 6,000 years before the birth of Christ, Dr. Woolley said. Con- | N0 vet been received. The campaign expenses were $41,608.33. vincing proof, he said, can now be ob- | tained from three “’“fflbso‘:*;!aggfls’l‘cl- To the actual campaign expense was cal documents written abou C: s and upon which the Biblical story i | dded the sum of $6,185.46, which it based: the early legends cf the flood | borrowed before January to cover and the archeological evildence only | cost of preliminary organization and j now being disoovered. latter months of 1928. 1% e people who Tived in Ur of the | Preparation in the Chaldecs were familiar with many of | Comparative Costs Estimated. | | the engineering principles in use today.| Tt is estimated that the former aver- | One of these is the arch as a form of | age cost of money raising for the 57 building, abandant_ evidence of which | separate organizations. now members of is found in the ruins. There is also evi- | the Community Chest, was at least 15 r cent. pe‘l‘he estimated expense for the re- | mainder of the year is 2.9 per cent. bringing the total expenses anticipated for the year lo 6 per cent of the sum subscribed. Planned for Real oot The arrangement of the suites and the service in The Conard 13th & Eye Sts. N.W. provide those things which make for comfortable accommodations. The rooms are of excellent size and well equipped; light and airy. Opposite beautiful Franklin Square; within easy walking distance of any- where downtown—saving carfare expense and tedious rides in crowded ca 24-hour elevator and switch- board service. Under supervision of resident manager. One and two rooms, kitchenette and bath $37.50 to $65.00 a Month Now Under Management of B. F. Saul Co. cent rise. Water still was seeping through levees | at Lima Lake, South Quincy, Mark, | Listen in THATS THE COMMENT I'VE HEARD FROM A Lo BEEN BEMIND 15 WHEFL 4 CARS 1927 Ford Touring 1926 Ford Tudor 1926 Ford Coupe 1926 Ford Tourin, $120 1924 Ford Coupe .$60 HILL & TIBBITS Oen Sundass and Esenines 1 Fourteenth St. $140 $185 $180 tors eating there. Imagine Heflin and Blease throw- ing that thing at Moses and Reed of Penn. P. S.—Federal Reserve sunk the stock market after two weeks of warning and brought the sucker crew in destitute and manacled tonight. 925 15th St. ory of the flood was still fresh in the minds of the survivors. In the royal tombs were found evi- dences of repeated tragedies on a colos- | The year-round costs which will be sal scale. King after king was honored | necessary include the expense of send- by having courtiers, soldiers and slaves | ing acknowledgments and-statements to butchered to keep him company in after | eontributors, keeping lists of givers and life. In one tomb-chamber there were | prospective ' contributors up to date, 8 | nine court ladies, several rows of mur- | posting payments to record cards as re- | dered or sacrificed courtiers, soldiers in | cejved, advice to member agencies on |ail their armor and weapons, slaves,|accounting and other problems, year | grooms and even the oxen that had | round information of contributors and {drawn_ the royal burial chariot. The | citisens regarding the way their money | bodies were laid side by side in orderly | jg being spent: checking financial vo- GOOD HOUSEKEEPING'S Contribution to GOOD HOUSEKEEPING Wyek! A GIFT for Everywoman Free 12-page Bulletin on Spring Housekeeping prepared by Goop Housexeeping INsTITUTE and the Stupio giving new secrets for home-makers — time-saving, step-saving, money-saving ideas; appetizing menus; kitchen helps, etc. Sales—1835 14th St. N. W. Service—1728 Kalorama Rd. eAsk your newsdealer for the Bulletin on SPRING Housckeeping given with every copy of April GOOD HOUSEKEEPING EVERYWOMAN'S MAGAZINB capacity for various units and divi- | rows around the last resting place of [ quests of member organizations and { the monarch. making_payments_to them in accord- |, One of the most significant resulls of | aneo with their budgets; the study of | the excavations, Dr. Woolley says, 1S | bugets and preparation of budgets for the uncovering of evidence which tends | the® 1930 campaign and yvear round to_show that the old center of eivili- | prenaration for that campaign. zation was in the Euphrates and rot in the Nile Valley. Fund Confinal to Washington. | /”u’/ / /Mfg I/ ld { Of one thing Dr. Woolley is con-| Not only was &1l the money subscribed J } ¢ | vinced—that the age of relics must be {pledged by Washingtonians for the use 2 / 6‘ / / calculated on the height from the bot- | of Jashington's tocial agencies, but JEAHOYIBA | (or ratner than the depth from the (Op | aiso the entive campalgn. expense was { of an excavation. disbursed to Washingtonians. No com- B 5 m f ank !~ While digging in the Sudan, he un- | missions were paid to outside individ- d € € |m\-ered inscriptions made in about 300 | yals or organizations. | AD. at a depth of 18 inches. A little| The ‘expenses of the campaign were 1o one side, he dug down 7 feet and | kept as low as they were by the volun- uncovered an unused United States| tary services of over 4,000 workers, | postage stamp and a British newspaper | serving without charge, and a great | | bearing the date of 1878. factor in the reduced cost was the | Such discrepancies arc caused by | loaning of employes by member agen- shifting sand, he sai | cies to serve in secretarial and clerical | : sions of the campaign, it is explained. | YOUTH Is ARRESTED It is expected that the campaign | ALBUMIN | cost and the year-around cost of oper- | ,nuon can be still further reduced as IN ROBBING PROBE | %athingtonians become more. tamitiar with. the Chest plan and give more | readily, it is said. | Daughters—help old . . . . parents to be comfortable Devoted daughter tells what she did for 80-year-old mother | 20 Burglaries Believed Cleared Up; Analysis of Pledges. | : i s of pledges received dur- | Part of Stolen Articles ing and after the campaign by divisions | Found. | both in number and amounts follows: | | Special gifts unit, 1,191 pledges for | $765261.25; metropolitan unit, 29,103 Police believe they have cleared up | pledges for $480,350.20: group solicita- | about 20 cases of houscbreaking | tion unit, 21,984 pledges for $160,905.29; { ihroughout the city by the arrest of | national ‘corporations unit, 42 pledges | Lester Jackson, colored, 18 years old, of | for $8,124.20; _colored co-ordination, \UP IF YOU |the first block of McCullough street. | 5,451 pledges for $20.568.16; Govern- | wies furnighed. | “notective E. F. Lewis of the thirteenth | ment unit, 6,277 pledges for $36,593.47. | precinet arrested fhe youth Sunday and | and_schools unit. 144 pledges for $758. | since then police have been attempting AAEAREAEARARNANANNANANNNS | | casem nERAL ington, lage. PAPERHANG have th Phone 1 AND FRIENDS OF COLUMBIA 1 Order of Moose: Dance Muscles and Tendens Depend on Ito connect him with various robberies. They say he has confessed to entering 20 houses and taking es much as $1,500 OUR | al some of the places. Three charges I-| of housebreaking have already been % |lodged against him and a great part of > | the loot recovered. Jackson led police STONERS, 1 mave | Lo, most of the stolen articles. areain He The complainanis in the formal = | charges are Katherine Brooks, 301 Todd [ place northeast; Allen Hampion of the | | same_address, and Blondina Strothers, | + | 748 Fairmont street. { A report that a woman relative of rom | Jackson was seen wearing one of the | 108 stolen dresses led to the arrest. CALL OF SPRING KEEPS PARK FORCES ON JOB| Rainbow Fountain Will Be Turned | On Sunday and Monday, Gartside Says, - ‘The call of Spring is in the air in the | parks of the Capital. To make these | recreational areas ship-shape is the task of the mamtenance division of the of- fice of public buildings and public parks, whose chief, Frank T. Gartside, s car- rying on an'extensive program of clean- ing up the parks, rolling lawns, plant- (ing 12 new rescrvations, as the little ! KOON : trisngles and the park spices are calld, | |2 | and doing a general Spring cleaning in ' We Make Wmdow Scrcens‘ the out-of-doors in the 600 odd parcels ! of land that come under his jurisdiction. and Shades to Order | * The rainbow fountain, one of the | & i mate. 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