New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 2, 1927, Page 14

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L8 NEW BRITAIN DATLY _—_— More Pictares From Flood "OWDAY, MAY 2, 1927, Area For Herald Readers Entire Tou_;h Almost merged y Floods " He Ordered Preak Governor O. H. Simpson,, of Louisiana, whose dec- laration of an emergency compelled the federal govs| ernment to order a break in the levee below New Or. leans to relieve flood pres-, sure on the town, < Airplane Photo, Copyright, 1927, NEA Service This. aerial photograph, taken by William Day, flying cameraman for NEA Se ice in the Mis ppi valley, shows how the greatest flood in history has made a huge inland sea of rich farm lands and villages. The picture shows the town of Leland, Miss., with every house flooded. An additional rise of a few feet would have completely submerged the town, . Photo of Blast That Broke Levee Copyright, 1927, NEA Service, Transmitted by Telephoto Wires t flood disaster—t he dynamiting of the Mississippi levee at Poydras, La., in the desperate effort to save New Orleans—is shown in this remar kable picture of the actual explosion that wrecked the flood barrier. The black carth of the levee was shot nearly 100 fe et in the aiv by the force of the blast. The river, almost up to the top of the levee, is visible at the right while part of the eva cuated lowland country that will be flooded by the artificial crevasse can be seen at the right. The move was made in the hope that the outlet would ease the pressure on New Orleans levees and lower the crest of the flood suffciently to save the anxious city. The dramatic climax of a city's fight ag: An Irish Find a convent, Molly : screen star, is This picture taken just before the dynamiting of the I vee al Povdras to save New Orleans shown ax she appears in the shows the exact spot where the ed. An airow points to tween the leading vole opposite Richard ; 3 : s Barthelmess in a new picture. small house to the loft and the indust: cohol distiliery to the i i ar of the .\”li\ }\)h”‘ \] ; 2 \I“',mmllly%(};lig, levee shown here is Lake Lery and through this the waters weie to drain into Lake Borgne, Ll]w ifer home is Il‘;'\om;e and. thence to the Gulf of Mexico. N.J. xnousands Of Flood Refugees Reach Vicksbwg § J Copyright, 1927, NEA Service, Inc.) The pictures above show refugees from Greenville, Leland, Arkansas City and other flooded Mississippi valley towns reaching Vicksburg. Above is a viver steamer towing a barge literally jammed with people. Nearly a thousand refugees are on the barge. A large group of the homeless are shown cr wded on the landing at Vicksburg, waiting for relief workers to care for them. At the low ht is a strikir i ht of the river at flood stage along the conerete river wall at Vicksburg. It makes it d. A break in the gate shown in the center would mean a ale district of this city. o nig appear that the steamboat disa With the flood waters of the Mis sippi slowly but relentlessly engulfing nearly all land in sight near Greenville, Miss., this striking airplane picture shows two herds of cattle marooned on two tiny islands. On the island at the left, there is hardly standing room for the herd. The picture is typical of seenes at several points along the river, thousands of cattle being lost in the flood waters. The photograph is another of the markable airplane pictures of the flooded arcas, taken by William Day, flying cameraman for NEA Service and the Herald. MEMORIAL AGAH_\ST AR 1UZEN WITH LONG HAIR olt against the bob are observed in' e country Students of Greenshoro® College, N €, umple. have chosen Miss Nell Cowan as their most beautiful exhibit of the ve nd the si, o) ‘mfimnt thing about it as that Miss Cowan wears her haie! ong. d > Many monuments have been erected commemorating thg various phases of the World war, but this one, un- veiled recently at Levallois-Perret, ncar Paris, is the first to be dedicated to the cause of no more wars, The in- scription reads “This Must Not Be Repeated.”

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