Evening Star Newspaper, January 1, 1932, Page 4

A—4 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 1932. MISSISSIPPI DELTA FLODDS INCREASE Residents Wage Desperate| Battle to Save Levees From Rising “*/aters. ®y the Associated Press GLENDORA, Miss, Januar Babitants of the delta country toda worked desperately to stren en bat- fered and water logged levees against #n increasing flood menace that greeted them with the New Year The Tallahatchle, Yazoo ar rlvers, streams bayous whi oross the flat lands of N stssipp! were rising stead #hich | waters started to rec Water washed over the le several places along the Tallah Valley and new and dangerous breaks | in the levee systems appeared nent. Thousands of undated and tenants and stock hurried to hill rises. Boats Asked by Yazoo Miss alled up to G a d other y af first came just as the ee tops in atchie immi- | acres were wer Town. ailk break | d refugees and cont service t. to aid maroor were pressed guarding the levees o reported the levee s one and Mimms might Tallahatchie the day as‘t Webb, in the Bayou Cassidy | region, was overrun with refugees who poured in last night and today and| camped on the public square i The river slopped over the levee at Swan Lake, and while rivermen be- | lieved the bank would hold, the over- | flow placed much of the countryside | under water, Towns farther down th river lo only to breaks above them to save their own lev from destruc- | tion as the floods rose { through steadily Battle to Save School. B Sumrer, south of here, worked to #ave its school house and levees against | the swiftly rising waters. Phillip hoped | its dykes would hold in the face of an anticipated 1-foot rise that would in undate & portion of the town Northeastern Louisiana also had its troubles. The principal danger cen- tered on the Ouachita at Monroe. The river was at 413, or 13 feet above fiood level last night, and rising steadily. Families in West Monroe had to leave their homes and the backwater | ands up the smalle: Boeuf | | flood from the Ouchita also | into which it flows, in the Natchez area The Mississippl was reported rising | slowly above Memphis. It rose four- tenths of a foot overnight at New Or- | leans to a stage of 102 feet. Flood stage there is 17 feet EDITOR FULFILLS GOAL OF 50 YEARS ON JOB Edward P. Duffy of Baltimore Sun Started First Newspaper Published at Sea. By the Associated Press | BALTIMORE, January 1 —Edward P. Duffy, known by seafaring men every- | Where as “the Admiral’ today com- pleted 50 years as & member of the edi- torial staff of the Baltimore Sun, most of which was served as marine editor. Admiral Duffy, who will be 77 years old next month, s credited with being one of the oldest active reporters in the | country and father of ihe first news- paper published at sea. It was issued | with London type while he was a mem- | ber_of the crew of the Trenton | newspaper service was preceded long by that yeéirs ago THREE PRIESTS JAILED UNDER MEXICAN CURB i YViolation of New Law Li Clerics to One in 50,000 Charged to Trio B the Associated Press MEXICO CITY Catholic priest 50,000 his ministry 1 said WOUNDED FUGITIVE ON WAY TO BALTIMORE th, 8 Ge sld-up, Taken From Macon Hospital by Mary and Officers, bbery not panted the DENNY TO [SIRECT FILM Comedian's Temporary Change An nounced at Culver CULVER CITY, Calif., January 1 (#) Reéginald Denny, for years a screen rontedian going to quit acting, &t Jeast tempo and try his hand at direting City. to Jen Hayhes, Jimm; Greeniwood 0il Geologists’ Wizardry Praised TULSA, Okla., January 1 (#).—Dr. R A Daly of Harvard University, new president of the Geological Bociety of America, paid high tribute yesterday to petroleum geologists and what he termed thelr rdry” and “extraordinary | been approximately 2,600 of them. |IS FATAL TO CONTRACTOR | DWER AR RATES INDPAY EFFECTIE ‘Transport Lines Launch Pro- gram of Increased Speed and Economy. Hundreds in Mad Rush for Auto Titles LINE OF MOTORISTS STRETCHES 100 YARDS OUTSIDE TRAFFIC BUREAU. | | aeronautics today launched on a drastic program of economy, increased speed, lower pas- senger fare rates, longer working hours for all serviceable aircraft, 24-hour | transcontinental mail and passenger | service and reduced alr express rates. | The Capital is among the scores of cities in all sections affected by the changes, American civil | The most general reductions of pas- amounting to became effec- senger rates ever made, as much as 20 per cen tive today on the largest systems At the same time contract airmail lines were forced to accept a cut of $600,000 in payments by the Post Office Department for carrying the airmails. Reductions of salaries on the Ludington Line, following similar reductions on many others, marked the beginning of " He sces & snatch of the third |® NeW financial period for the air lines Tomorrow it may be five| Speed Chief Feature. aosuack B Speed is to be a principal plank to get in the new aviation program, the new mi,’. he 24-hour transcontinental service being anything the chief evidence of this. The new sche- all of a show unless | dules, which affect travel between the rate «f five| weshington and the West Coast, cut es nearly a month |-seven hours from the 1931 schedu the offices and the entrance line, which ex- ¢ 1,000, yesterday jammed Above is pictured part of THRONG of automobile owners, which had increased to ne Traffic Bureau in & mad rush for their certificates of title. ed about a block outside the bureau offices A 191680 VISITS TO THEATERS IN 13 YEARS CLAIMED RECORD act tonight minutes of the | in for the big dramatic m said. “The rest doesn’t mean s He never se°s it 1s a it, fol t minutes to get & "Spy“ for program Publishers Averag‘es 180 Snatches of Plays Each Week. Making 2.600 Full Productions. monoplanes is being awaited as a means of reducing travel time between here and New York The Post Office Department pay cut ian’s idea of a nice quiet off is to pay his way into a movie and forget Broadway for a couple of hours. | That is where Cellahan enters. He has “assistant sples’— porters, scrub- women and doormen—who tell him all the theater gossip. Then he checks up on it, and if he finds the show really is going to close Wednesday, the quantity of the programs is cut in half Sallahan knows his thea‘er. He can spot a “flop” about as quick'y as any- one, and often he warns his cmployers to “go light” on programs for this or that show, “because it looks bad.” Must Watch Cast. Changes In the cast form anott problem. Whenever a substitution made, the program must be revised immediately. That means junking all that have been printed in advance | Again Callahan’s tip e passing on back-stage gossip “Maty Blank is rehearsing for Sally Doe’s part,” they tell him and the vigi- lant Mr. Callahan investigates The plays often get rather jum the mind of the perambulating By the Associated Press, NEW YORK, January 1.—William J 1 arises to remark that he prob- is the world champlon playgoer. In 13 years, he estimated today, he has seen 2,600 plays and has been in seeing snatches of shows The, it COLUMBIA RD. at 18th ST. 121,680 times, he 60 theaters on New York's average of 30 is playing all Callaban drops in on each once a day, making 180 ers in a six-day week. 2 weeks in the year y the years Callahan has beer this sort of thing, and the answer is 121,680, He hasn't missed a “first night” dur- ing the entire period, and there have Invites vou to their special 7-Course New Year’s Day Dinner $ § .00 Includes Roast Young Turkey, Meats, Sea Foods, Ete. Served Today Between 12 and 8 o'Clock We Wish You a Very Happy New Year Col. 5042—Col. 5072 30 Spy for Publishers. the “spy,” the “ears &nd publishing firm which sup- y theaters with their pro- gra His “snooping,” the “hot tips” he picks up and his uncanny sense of how a play will last have saved | his firm_thousands of dollars | It works this way: | Enough programs to last the ABC Theater all of next week are printed | late this week. If the show is to close Wednesday night only half the quan- | tity would be needed, but producers sometimes are strangely secretive about when they are going to drop the cur- tain for good. ed | in BOMB WIRED TO CAR HORN 0 CONTRAGTOR Tomorrow—On Goes the x| Semi-Annual Clearance Sale By the Associated Press. SEATTLE, January 1.—Kenneth E. 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Carte, an 1 engineer abel Hersey both rchill and Carte had been attentive, Carte were. questioned by police The men were not acquainted with each other and Carte recently became en- gaged to another girl CALLS SECRETARY ADAMS “WHIFFET” IN RUM CASE delphia Safety Director Pro- g an The only exception is Formal Wear—octherwise choose as you please from these celebrated makes—remembering that you have this extraordi- nary privilege only twice a year—and now is the opportunity, We have made the reductions even more interesting than usual — and size assort- ments are good, What is conceded to be America’s finest clothing is under clearance orders now. Fashion Park and Mode Suits (All Except Formal Wear) 52 4.75 $34.75 542.75 to whom o an, motes Policeman Ousted From Navy Reserves. Secre- called a ptistical whiffet” last of Public Safety g a policeman who harged from the Naval aring & naval uniform ing liquor arrests P. 1 the officer, took his sergeant shortly before mid- He was dropped from the Naval several weeks ago. vated to show him good warded.” Schofleld said r in the Navy whiffet r the Con- nuary 1 $33.75 and $35 Suits Reduced to o You can have extra trousers at §3.25 Resenyes $39 and 545 Suits Reduced to $50, $55 and $60 Suits................ Reduced to ang dropped order pre- cks on the $65 Fand S 75ES il s TN eSS e Murray Gives Plan | Fashion Park and MOde To Win Convention | | By Precinct Action Reduced to (Overcoats and Topcoats) “People,” Says ““Alfalfa Redicediso Bill,”” Can Control Se- lection of Candidate. $35, $40 and $45 Coats. $50and $55 Coats.... .. Reduced to OKLAHOMA CITY, January 1.— . Willlam H. 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