Evening Star Newspaper, January 31, 1932, Page 20

B4 = KENTUCKY FLOODS IMPERIL HUNDREDS Disease and Privation Foilow High Water, With 2 Dead, 5,000 Homeless. By the Assoclated Press. LOUISVILLE, Ky, ' January 80.— Twin specters of disease and privation hovered over the desolate, flood-stricken areas of Central and Eastern Kentucky t as swollen streams surged over tches of lowland, leaving dev- and suffering in their paths. the toll stood at two dead, home and properts that will T o thousands | Turgid water covered parts | ways; backwaters washed away | Iway tracks, and traffic places was irtually at a every county south and east e drawn from just sou land on the West Virginia border, through Lexington in the Blue Grass, southwestward through Bowling n to Franklin on the nes rder was affected by the Thousands of Acres Flooded. ds of acres of land were over- s brooks and rivers, gorged by that at some places registered n a 2 period, reached »d marks. Wi st of the smaller streams were reported falling, rivers re steadily rising throughout the T. McCormack, State health health officers every means to many of the uests or hypo- y polluted water. ve homeless and eightened today settling ove first real cold he cold, how- a cessation of rain over rtex of the flood, which soon embraced the Counties of 1 Knox in_the South- | of the State, where and its tributaries val rendered hom, At Pine- of Bell, the Cumber- in 14 hours and then at about 6 inches an 150 Families Returning. 0 unty it was estimated yved out last night, but Che settlements t and Georgetown wera nost affected and the Red ross and the Harlan Relief Commit- tee gave aid to the needy. Harlan, the y s is at the convergence of ce forks of the Cumberland River 1 for ies into it half the town. Bus service on from Harlan to Pineville, Barvourville still was overfiowed roadways r volunteers last night led about 300 persons from high RITCHIE HOLDS 6. 0. P. NOT PROSPERITY NEED louts Republican Contention in Addressing Hamilton Coun- ty Democrats. By the A press CINCINNATI, Ohio, January 30.— Gov. Albert C. Ritchle of Maryland today flouted the contention that eco- the Nation is de- e Republican party being believes any longer that rosperity depends upon & President ana a Republican he said In addressing the County Democratic Executive woman believes any r man’s job is assured n party is in_power. 1 1928 in Palo Alto said | iat can he say to ks where her man’s farmer can belleve any e Republican party can his wheat. The crash ve been so bad had the rned the people it was well intentioned persons favor lation of war deots. If we for- s due us 1t will place the I cost of the World War | the shoulders of Americans. vever before have we drifted 8o rom the principles of democracy we must retrace our steps.” BOY SCOUTS TO GIVE PAGEANT ON LINCOLN| - | Sixteen Troops Will Take Part in Birthday Program Febru- rary 12 n Boy Scout troops n a pageant, “Following staged on the evening rthday anniversary Feb- High School. | rtray a_different | the the Civil War, from his early boyhood to| ill take part! t op 17, of the! erian Church; Troop Pleasant Congrega- | oop 89, of 1717 B! , of the First | the Covenant, | sponsored by the Michigan | Park Citizens' Association: Troop 20, of the Epworth Methodist Episcopal Church: Troop 13, of the Eldbrooke Methodist Episcopal Church; Troop of Mount. Rainier; .Troop 9, of | Douglas Memorial Methodist rch; Troop 92, of the Christ Child Troop of All Saints Epis- urch roop 3, of Christ Georgetown; Troop 11, of the! aptist Church; Troop 104, rendon _Methodist Episcopal Troop 54, the Chevy | Troop 233, of Sea Scout Troop. Queen of the Pyrenees. Luchon is situated in the very center eat Pyrenees range of moun- where the gardens of France and in a valley sheltered from Celebrated since the time of the Romans, it has long earned its title as the Queen of the PyTenees, both on account of its mild climate, the ef- ficacy of its healing waters and the 1 nable visitors who find it an ideal for romantic coaching trips to places as Carcassonne, Saint-Ber- | i-de-Comminges and the Alpine | limbing trips on the glaciers of Mala- detta. Through trains from Paris quickly go through the 507 miles and you soon learn how a population of 4000 can annually entertain 60,000 fourists, » of publications; Dr. Roy O. Bi | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D E i Convention Speakers IWINTER H”S me 15,000 EDUGATORS T0 CONVENE HERE National Education Group De- partment to Hold 66th Meeting. Fiftcen thousand educators will as- semble in Washington next the s 1] the Department of the National Ex Opening Februa through February participants will in ates of the Dep: ndence itse’ other ates of various all ational organizations, who meetings concurrent group. a score of T ient Interior Department offi will speak at the various conferences which will com- prise the convention Other Prominent Speakers. Besides the comm x prominen include Dr. Leo: d V. R ctor of th i 1 ey of Secor ry Edu- cation; Dr 5. Evenden, associate dr‘ rector of the 1} na S y of the Education of Teach, Goodykoontz, assistar education, and Dr. Pa clate director of the Natfonal Survey | of School Finance While no Washington hall is la enough to accommodate the entire de gation here for the convention. the cc n will be d r The Wask d: e exhibits more than 200 educational ipment will be held > the sessions zations will be | Memorial Continental Hall T mber of Commerce | Building, Department of Agriculture | Building, National Museum, Depart- | ment of Commerce Building. various rches and hotels and the head- | quarters building of the National Edu- | cation Building Edwin C. Broome, superintend schools in Philadelph: the Department of Superinten s planned the convention pr around timely topics, includ crisls in ic ed of school children and art in educa Character education will have a nent place on the program of discus- sions. | Wilbur Speech Topics. Secretary Wilbur wil speak on “Na- tional Aspects of Education” on the closing day of the convention will address a meeting e Red Cross Building, February 22, on “Food and Good Citize i i Dr. Cooper, who will preside at meet- ings of the Department of Superintend- ence and allied organizations during the convention, will address the Na al Association of Colleges and Depart- ments of Education of the University Coll Commissioner Cooper will speak at the dinner meeting devoted to home eco- nomics education on February 22. He| will speak at the general sessions on the closing day of the convention ‘ Miss Goodykoontz will speak “Social Economic Survey of a Com-| munity as a Basls of an Educational | Survey” before the American Educa- tional Research Association on Fr‘bru-‘ ary 19, prior to the major convention. | She will speak.before the Department of Supervisors and Directors of Instruc- tion on “Supervision in Progressive Ele- mentary Schools.” | Progress and findings of the National | Survey of Secondary Education will be | Teported at sessions of the Department | of Secondary School Principals on Feb- | ruary 22 to 24 at Wardman Park Hotel | by Dr. Koos, Dr. Belmont Farley, as-| sistant director of the N. E. A. divisi in. school administration of education here; Dr. W. professor of education, Univer- f Chicago; Dr. Arthur K. Loomis, pal of the University High School rsity of Chicago; Dr. Charles H Judd, University of Chicago; Dr. Roy Brammell of the office of education, and Dr. Francis T. Spaulding of Har-| vard University. Others who will participate promi- nently in the educational conference: include Dr. Guy C. Gamble, senior sur- vey specialist; Miss Ellen C. Lombard, | parent education specialist: J. O. Malott, | commercial education specialist, and | Mise Alice Barrows, specialist in school building problems, all of the Office of Education. | Membership Ts 225,000, The department of superintendence is one of the largest dcpartments of | the National Education Association. It has a membership of 225,000, Vir- tually every city school superintendent in the country is a member of the de- partment and each year, with the ex- ception of four, since the department was created in 1866 they have met in national conference. The convention city is chosen a year in advance and | the intervening period is occupied by oreparations for the various sessions which constitute the convention. The jast convention held in W ington was in 1926, when, on Wash- | ington’s birthday anniversary, Presi- dent Coolidge addressed the session on “The Father of His Country and Edu- cation.” The first President will be honored at this year's meeting in cele- bration of the Bicentennial. The edu- cators will make a pilgrimage to Mount Vernon, where they will place wreaths on the tombs of George and Martha Washington. Already 125 busses have | been chartered for the trip and, ac- | cording to bus company officials, the | procession will be so long that if the operators drive at the legal distance apart the last bus will be leaving the Capital as the first bus is discharging | its passengers at the national shrine. More than 1,000,000 threshing ma- chines are now used on farms in Ger- many. left to right: Leonard V > University of Chicago, who B at_the department of super- intende. N. E. A, convention next month on the progress of the national surv of secondary education, and Dr. E. S. Evenden of Teachers' College. Columbia University, who will discuss the national survey of the education of teachers Lower: Dr. Paul R. Mort of Teach- ers’ College, Columbia University director of the national surv hool finance, who will discuss the of education 08 WALSH TO O TALKS ON RUSSIA Series of Ten Will Include Comparison With Ameri- can Civilization. I of George rezent of the Sch ice, last night announced the program of 'his 1932 series of public lectures on Soviet Russia in which, due to the forthcoming Bicentennial observance, he 11 analyze and compare the two civili- tions resulting from the conceptions g the evening of February the series will continue for 10 I s through May 6. With the excep- of the second lecture, they will be on Friday evenings in Gaston Hall rgetown College as heretofore ce 1924 Dr. Walsh has conducted ashington a public course on pro- essive developments in Soviet Russia, luding with a review of the Amer- an policy which has withstood efforts | to have the United States recognize the | Soviet government. His forthcoming series of lectures is in line with a num- ber of courses inaugurated at George- Iniversity this year in connection i Bicentennial. Historical Experience. Walsh sald: “The principles h underlie the American system of nment, the political _traditions, habits of mind and institutions which have resulted therefrom may with profit be re-examined and analyzed in e light of the historical experience of the century and a half that has elapsed since Washingtoh and his colleagues laid the foundations of our national ex- istence. Another power has since arisen in Eastern Europe which, in its constitu- tion and by its foreign policy, is dedi- cated to the proposition publicly pro- claimed that governments such as that established by Washington and his col- laborators are a menace to humanity and should be liquidated by force Mentioning specifically the United States of America, responsible officials of the Soviet government. have decreed that Communism must replace democ- racy in this land and have instructed their agents to profit by the present grave crisis in our domestic affairs to {mstcn the disintegration of the Inion. Two evenings during the course, March 18 and April 1, will be devoted |toa description of travels recently made by Dr. Walsh in Syria, Mesopotamia and Kurdistan. The first of the Russian lectures will deal with the “American Background, c Age of Washington.” In the second lecture, Thursday, February 25, he will discuss the. Russian background of the study, as viewed from the theories of | Lenin The “American Solution,” reviewing constitutional Democracy, will be the subject March 4, followed, March 11, by a discussion of the “Russian Solution,” as set forth by dictatorship, collective- ity and absolutism Dr. Walsh will strike balance sheets in the achievements of these two op- posing theories of government and civil- ization in the lectures on April 15 and April 22. The Russian Five Year Plan will be considered in “Capitalism at the Cross- roads” April 29. The concluding lecture, May 6, will review the “Bars to Recognition of Soviet Russia.” Tickets may be obtained on applica- tion to the School of Foreign Service. NORTH CAROLINA CUTS SALARIES SECOND TIME New Slash for State Employes Ex- pected to Resuit in $377,000 Annual Saving. By the Associated Press. RALEIGH, N. C., January 30.—With Gov. O. Max Gardner setting the pace by voluntarily taking his second salary reduction of 10 per cent, heavy cuts in the North Carolina State pay roll were announced today, to go into effect March 1 The reductions were ordered by the | Advisory Budget Commission, which wus given that authority by the last Legislature. A previous 10 per cent cut went into effect July 1. The new scale, it was announced, will save the State $377,000 a year. Gov. Gardner will be paid for the remainder of his term at the rate of $5,680 & year instead of §7,100, | NORTHWEST AREA Subzero Temperatures From Alaska to Kansas; Severe on Live Stock. By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, January 30.—Loiter- ing Winter, with sudden speed, has overtaken the calendar. Weather fore- casters describe an icy array of sub- gero temperatures from Yukon, Alaska, to Stockton, Kans. Buffering has marked the path of the cold wave in its rapid sweep from Canada toward the Gulf of Mexico. Cries for food, fuel and clothing have increased in the snowbound drouth area of Northern Nebraska with its mini- mum temperature of 18 below zero. Live stock was reported suffering there and in South Dakota where a bitter Northwest wind swept the flat range lands while the temperature reached 22 below. 40 Below at Prince Albert. It was 40 degrees below at Prince Albert, Sask., and 31 below at Hibbing, Minn.” Firemen were wrapped in sheets of ice fighting a blaze at Rice Lake, Wis., where it was 28 below. The mercury dipped below the zero mark in Northern Illinols, Iowa, the Dakotas, Montana, Missouri and other States farther to the North. A drop to 30 below was predicted for Iowa to- night Extreme Low Records. The extremes reported were 16 be- low at Miles City, Mont., 22 below at Aberdeen, 8. Dak. 18 below at Davis City, Nebr, 28 below at Devils Lake, N. Dak, and 11 below at Stockton, Kans. i Bnow fell around the Great Lakes land New York State, there was a | protecting coat in the wheat regions of Kansas, and in Texas, where tempera- tures dropped below freezing this aft- | ernoon. | . NINE RESCUED IN SNOW Party on Bus Fight Grim Battle; Two in Critical Condition. By the Associated Press. BERESFORD, . Dak,, January 30— The story of & grim battle against freezing by four women, four men and a boy after a bus had become stalled in a snow drift near here Priday was revealed here tonight after two of the victims had been given first aid and removed to hospitals in Two were reported in a critical con- | dition. They were A. H. Toms, bus | ayne Larson, 14, & run- was being returned to Sioux 1 Sloux Falls. Dr. L. A. Haug reported Toms' legs were frozen to the es David A. Waldref, Sioux Falls, suf- fered freezing of both ears and a foot; Lulu Belle Howard, en route to Spokane, Wash., had both ankles and a knee frozen, and Harry Skipp, both ears frozen. Neither Miss Howard's Skipp's address was learned. |J. G. POLLARD, JR., NAMED: | T | Appointed Director of Bicentennial | Activities for Virginia. Special Dispatch to The & RICHMOND, Va., January 30.—John | Garland Pollard, jr.. son of Gov. Pol- lard, has been appointed director of ties for Virginia. One of his duties will | be to promote local celebrations through- out the State. Forestville 4-H Club Elects. FORESTVILLE, Va. January 30 (Special) —The Forestville 4-H Club has elected Hazel Sanders as president; Margaret Oliver, vice president; Marie Balinger, secretary-treasurer; Marie | | Major and Anne Fortney, song leaders; | Freda Conner, recording secretary: | Elizabeth Dailey, reporter. Marine Corps Orders Col. Charles B. Taylor, on reporting of relief about March 15, detached Pearl Harbor, T. H.. to Department of the Pacific via first available Government | | conveyance | Maj. Edward M. Reno, detached De- | partment of the Pacific, to Norfolk | Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Va., via the U. Francisco, Calif., on or about PFeb-| Tuary 5. Capt. Oliver T. Francis, assigned to duty at San Diego, Calif. Second Lieut. Francis J. McQuillen, detached Department of the Pacific; to headquarters Marine Corps, Washing- ton, D. C,, via the U. §. S. Nitro, sched- uled to sall from San Diego, Calif,, on or about February 1. Second Lieut. Frank P. Pyzick, de- tached Department of the Pacific; to headquarters Marine Corps, Washing- ton, D. C., via the U. S. 8. Nitro, sched- uled to sail from San Diego, Calif.,, on or about February 1. Seeond Lieut. David F. O'Nefll, de- tached Marine Base, Quantico, Va., to East Coast Expeditionary Force, Quan- tico, Va. Chief Marine Gunner William R. Perry, detached Department of the Pa- cific;'to Parris Island, S. C. via the U. 8. S. 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