Evening Star Newspaper, March 17, 1935, Page 21

BREAK IN LEVEES SPREADS FLOODS 1,100 Families Are Driven From Midwest Homes. Dust Darkens Sky. By the Associated Press. Dust-laden winds whipped the St Francis River into a fury yesterday and its waves battered through the levee on a 20-mile front near Piggott Ark. The sky was dark with grit from Western duststorms, increasing the discomfort of 1,100 families made homeless by the flood and hampering the work of rescus Motor-driven scows patrolled the area. Unofficial observers estimated that one-fourth of the live stock on the lowland farms was lost. Rescue Funds Supplied. Four persons were dead as a result of the storms. At Washington the War Depart- ment announced an allotment of $20,- 600 for rescue work and maintenance of levees along the St. Francis in Mis- souri and Arkansas. | Rain was predicted for the week end over a large portion of the Mid- dle West, but rivermen and Govern- ment officials said it would probably cause only a slight rise. Crest at Cincinnati. | The Ohio River flocd crest has| reached Cincinnati and the stage 1s falling upstream, but a rise aown yiver menaces the lower valley. At Evansville, a few families were rorced to vacate their homes, but the Ohio. at 40.1 feet yesterday, was rismng | slowly and the danger was not acute. | The Mississippi 2nd Ohio rose to| the 46.8-foot mark at their conflu- ence at Cairo, and the slow movement of the crest of the Ohio flood brought a forecast that the high mark would not be reached at Cawro until Wed- nesday or Thursday. FOUR DEAD IN STORM. | Dust Apparently Settling After Two | Days. KANSAS CITY, March 16 (¥)— Four persons, one a cnila, suifocaied by dust near Hays, Kans., were aead tonight and dan esimates ran | high as the Miawest and Rocky | Mountain Regions countea the cost | of a binding, two-day auststorm. The dusl, apparenuy suosiuing to- | night, was followed 1n many piaces by ramn and snow Three other persons were killed in accidents atiriouted to tne storm— | one near Hutcninson, Kans, anoiner in Kansas City, and a tourd i omana, | where snow made streets slippery and | dangerous. Oklahoma, Texas, Nebraska, K sas, Colorado and Wyoming bor: brunt of tne 36-hour -aust atlack. Snow and dust were reported over sections of Minnesota anu Wisconsin tonigat. One train was derailed in Kansas when drifted aust and sand covered the rails to a aepth ot two iee.. The storms were subsiaing tonignt | Chickens were denuded oi ieathers in the Westcliile area. Alrplane pilots reported near-zero visibility irom the dust at altitudes up to 11,000 feet. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Town Hall of Washington, Shore- ham Hotel, 8 p.m. n Toads Worth $20 Each. TORONTO (# —A fully matured wind and body, is : though there are no Prof. A. F. Coventry of the ton University, Carlton Hotel, 4 pm. | University of Toronto said the On- Annual card party and dance ,‘lano government considers $20 a fair Ladies' Auxiliary, Southeast Hebrew estimate of a toad’s value in helping s | keep crops free of insects. He ad- Sl DA RO L e ]mmed the market might be a trifle TOMORROW. { restricted. Dinner, the 500 Club, Hamilton | Hotel, 6 pm. | Dance, Ohio State Society, Shore- ham Hotel, 8:30 p.m. Concert, Washington String Quar- | tet, Carlton Hotel, 3:45 p.m. Dinner, Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity, University Club, 7 p.m. | i Tea, members of Past Matrons and‘ Patrons’ Councll, Prince Hall Chapter, | 1911 Second street, 5 p.m. | | Banquet, Business and Professional | ‘Women, La Fayette oHtel, 6:30 p.m. Dinner, Jacoby Society. La Fayette Hotel, 7 p.m. Dance and card party, North Caro- lina State Society, Shoreham Hotel, 9 pm. Instruction advanced contract | bridge. auspices Massachusetts State Society, Roosevelt High School, 8:15 pm. Dance, Ancient Order of Hiber- nians, Mayflower Hotel, 9 p.m. | in | | | | | | | | Dinner, American Council on Edu»; cation, Mayflower Hotel, 7:30 p.m. l i Lecture, Miss Janet Richards, Wil- lard Hotel, 11 am. Smoker, Variety Club, Willard Ho- tel, 9 pm. HOUSE NAVAL AFFAIRS REPORT DUE TOMORROW The House Naval Affairs Commit- | tee expects to report out fa\‘urablyi tomorrow its bill to correct indefi- | niteness in the present law which | caused the clash between Secretary Swanson and Controller General Mc- | Carl. The bill would change the phrase- ology in the law, so that “permanent change of station,” with reference to officers ordered home would be held to include the payment of trans- portation to the home of an officer or man who is ordered to his home to await orders. The purpose is to include those who are ordered home to mwalt retirement. FARM AND GARDEN, STRAWBERRIESPAY 5 $5 DELIVERS Jf Allen’'s 1935 Berry Book =3 - describes Best Methods. 3 Plants. 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Striking women employes of a San Antonio cigar factory clashed with police and 11 were arrested. Bricks were hurled, but there were no se- Twenty-nine Are Imprisoned. Because they refused to call off a strike at the Glen Alden Coal Co.’s operations, 29 officers of the United Anthracite Miners of Pennsylvania were jailed for contempt of court. New York prepared to meet a threatened strike of utility employes with Mayor La Guardia, promising that the city will not be plunged into darkness if the walkout occurs. The Pacific Coast blockade of oil tanker sailors seeking preferential recognition extended from San Diego, Cal, to Ketchikan, Alaska, with more Community Chest The Community Chest reports that its afiliated organizations aid, in some manner, more than one- fourth of the entire population of Washington during the year. This 13 one of a series of stories to ap- pear in The Star edch Sunday, showing typical ezamples of the aid given. Only the names are fictitious. “I just can’t keep him from run- ning away, Miss Terrett. Every time I turn my back he's gone again. I have tried every way to keep him at home and get him to attend school, but it seems like I can’'t do a thing with him.” ‘The speaker woman discussing the case of her 8- year-old nephew with Miss Mildred Terrett, director of the Juvenile Pro- tective Association, on whom she had called for help. The boy in question | was a youngster who seemed, from all | descriptions, to be both physically and | mentally alert. | A worker was assigned to investi- | gate the case, and she found that the 1 boy would stay away from home all | night, sleeping, for the most part, in | parked automobiles. He was smart | enough to pick out a large car and | to occupy it after midnight when it | would be reasonably certain that the | owner would not be using it again | before morning. He had a pleasing voice and was able, by singing and dancing in the neighborhood of ho- tels and apartment houses, to collect enough stray nickels and dimes to supply him with food and even an occasional movie. was & middle-aged | Dollars in Action movies and other city attractions would lead him to running away again, but the kindness and care of | the foster home completely won him over, and today he stands well in his grades at school and is becoming quite helpful around his foster home. “Running away from home is one method a child has of expressing him- self that gets instant attention,” Miss Terrett explains. “It is one thing that brings prompt action on the part of parents or guardian and is not nearly so bad a symptom as some * B3~ MRS. A. A. BIRNEY INVITED TO SPEAK Organizer of P.-T. A. in District to Attend Congress Conven- tion at Miami. Mrs. Arthur A. Birney, 3440 Thir- | tieth place, honorary vice president of | the National Congress of Parents and | Teachers, | speak at the thirty-ninth annual con- yesterday was invited to vention of the congress, to be held others that children display, such as i Miami, Fla., April 29 to May 3. sullenness and a tendency to keep | Care- | | ful investigation wili generally dis- | everything within themselves. close some reason for a child’s leav- ing home and it is generally so ap- parent that it is easily corrected. We try to reconcile the child with his own parents, but when this is impos- sible we resort at times to the foster home, as we did, in the case of this YALE STUDENTS HELD Undergraduates Create Near Riot in Theater Alley. NEW HAVEN, Conn., March 16 (#). —TFive students were arrested here to- night after nearly 200 Yale under- graduates staged a near riot in the alleyway between the Taft Hotel and the Shubert Theater when they failed | to gain the attention of the “ladies of | the ensemble” of the Ziegfield Follies. | District of Columbia Congress; Free Parking—Lot Rear of Store ‘145 VALUE! 3.-PURPOSE ONE-ROOM APARTMENTS COMPLETE ».:»WOOL RUG THIS 12-PC. GROUP! Budget Account with this small de- ...arrange the bal- ance in weekly or monthly Upper photo shows flooded sec- n of Jackson, Miss., after a freakish, ice-laden storm dipped in tornadic force on the Southern State. The Mississippi capitol can be seen in the background —Wide World Photo. Lower: Angry flood waters of the St. Francis River failed to perturb this hen and her chicks as they settled down in a casual nest of old brush at Kennett, Mo. They were left when the flood drove farmers from their hemes in Missouri and other Midwest States.—A. P. Photo. BELIEF IN VIOLENCE 'DENIED BY STRACHEY | Writer Also Says He Was Never a Member of Communist Party. { By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March | Strachey, the British author economist night from Detroit and the Middle- | lief Administration, and William H.| western scenes of his attempted de- ith fresh denials of alleged portation Communist affiliations. “I was never a member of the Com- he said. “nor have I the Private Family Society.” outlining munist_party applied for menibership.” Strachey questions thé country for a lecture tour. “I said 1n my answers to the ques- | society. " said Strachey, “that I am amist nor an anarchist and | its services since the ot intend to overthrow the | took over the local relief problem, the | force or violence. I repeat that declaration | name to the Family Service Associa- | tionnaire not a poly that I do United States Government Liquor Raid Proves Dud. by PORTLAND, Oreg. (A) —As a Fed- eral jury hearing a liquor law vio- lation case filed into the court room the suspicions of Bailiff Fred Norman were housed. He saw a juror take a strange-looking sack from his pocket. Liquor is forbidden in court. Bailiff Norman marched before the judge with the sack. He extracted a bot- tle—of milk. now.” lence. Shanghai Banks Help. cially. 16.—John | be held Wednesday at 8 p.m. in Bar- and | ker Hall at the Y. W. C. A. srrived in New York to-| He added that it was not true that Communists believe in force or vio- Leading banks of Shanghai, China, are combining to aid growers finan- | on vineyards to help meet its budget than a score of vessels tied up. A Federal conciliator was endeavoring to untangle the situation. Firearms Strike Continues. An orderly strike of 1,000 employes of the Colt's Patent Firearms Manu- | facturing Co. continued at Hzn{ord.‘ | Conn., while granite workers in the Barre, Vt., territory decided on a 14- | month truce with employers. The National Labor Relations Board in Washington pondered the case of the Gary (Ind.) Screw & Bolt Co.. which, the board said, has re- fused to file a certified pay roll list or act on a request to hold an elec-‘ tion. In the soft coal field a committee | of operators and United Mine Work- ers prepared to meet in Washington Monday to draft new wage and hour | contracts for the vast Appalachian territory. \CHEST SERVICE UNIT MEETS WEDNESDAY Assistant F. E. R. A. Administra- tor and Director of Associa- tion to Address Session. | | | The fifty-third annual meeting of | the Family Service Association, for- | merly the Associated Charities, will Aubrey Williams, assistant admin- | istrator of the Federal Emergency Re- | Savin, director of the Family Service | Association, will be the speakers. Wil- | llams will have as his topic “Public | Responsibility for Family Welfare.” | | Savin will discuss “Responsibility of !the new ideas of family service is tnreatened with depor- brought about by the Government as- tation because of replies the Govern- ment says he made to the customary | isked upon his entry into | charter member of the Community sumption of relief burdens. The old Associated Charities was a | Chest and the city’s oldest family In keeping with the chang- | ing times and the changing nature of | Government | organization recently changed its | tion. It is still one of the outstand- ing Chest agencies. | Dr. Anson Phelps Stokes. president | of the association, will preside. Vineyard Taxes Climb. Tunisia has placed heavier dues deficit. 12 Handsi’éfne, Carefully Selected Pieces! 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Of- the home were not so good because | ficer, what's the charge?” the income there was scarcely suffi- | g 3 cient to provide for an extra mouth | - and clothes for an extra child. 01d Archives Searched. It was decided to try a foster home, | To be certain that the installation and to make sure of giving the boy a |of Dr. S. C. Carpenter as dean of complete change, he was sent to a Exeter Cathedrai. Exeter. England, country home about 25 miles from | was carried out with historical accu- ‘Washington and within a few blocks | racy, the cathedral archives, which of the school which he would attend. |date back 700 years, have been care- The worker feared that his desire for ' fully consulted. Mrs. Birney organized the Parent- Teacher Association in the District of Columbia in 1905 and was its presi- dent until 1914. She has been an honorary vice president since 1920. A large group of Washingtonians will go with Mrs. Birney to the con- vention. which will have as its theme the subject “Home—The Index to Na- tional Life.” These women include: Mrs. L. B. Castell, president of the Mrs Mary T. Bannerman, national chair- man of the Legislation Committee: Dr. Adelaide S. Baylor, national chair- man of homemaking and chief of the home economics education service of the vocational education division ot the United States Office of Educa- tion; Miss Ellen C. Lombard. national home education chairman and asso- ciate specialist, home education divi- sion, United States Office of Educa- tion; Miss Charl O. Willlams, na- tional school education chairman and field secretary, National Education As- sociation, and Miss Clarice Wade, pub- licity secretar: ‘Wolves Attack Villagers. 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