New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 10, 1927, Page 10

* NOTBE CONVENED Goolidge Not to Act on Demo- crats’ Petition Kansas City, Mo., May 10 (UP)— President Coolidge will not call a special session of congress at pres “nt to consider relief measures for floct victims of the Mississippi, ac- cording to a telegram received at Senator James Reed's office here to- Senator Reed wired Coolidge and several scnators urging a special session of congress be called, but a telegram today from Everett Sanders, Mr. oolidge’s secretary, said “The pres- | dent does mot at this time expect 10 call such extra session.” At the sa time, ceived at Reed's office from demo- atic ators, indorsing R ~uggestion. May 10 (UP) jsmoeratic movement to force an | xtra sesion of congress for flood | «lief and rehabilitation was being | ade today. There were no surface | indications, however, that President Coolidge would sumuion congress. | Senator James A. Reed, democrat, Mo. has taken the lead by call Washington, tive the nced The minority party’ rgument is ion by congress when it in regular session in December will be too late to avert cpetition of the present disaster. It is unlikely that an appropris can be made before January, id Representative Oldfield, demo- ic leader from Arkansas, today. o flood season is beginning in | ir country about that tim 00 late to prevent damag he administration’s attitude is that for al weeks, perhaps onths, no nprehensive knowl- wdge of needs of flood area is Po; <ible. After surveys are made President Coolidge may restate his ittitude toward the relief problem. Former Scnator Robert N. Stan- field, Oregon, in a press statement today, proposed “a combination of flood control, conservation for po and irrigation, deep river tion and railway transportation” un- der divection of Herbert Hoover to cope with fu tuations. THREE DAY STORM DOES BIG DAMAGE (Continued from First Page) seve poles and trees. The city was with- i out light or power and fitful gleams of automobile headlights, lanterns, flashlights and candles played over the d:xr";m\ed piles that had been the busfness section of the city. Dozen Towns Ruined Little Rock, Arl May 10.—(P— Arkansas today surveyed the ruins of a dozen towns, laid waste by a series of tornadoes which yesterday swept the state from end to end, [ lcaving more than 70 dead and 350 injured in their wake. From Srong and Norphlet in the South Central portion to Walnut Itidge and Hoxie in the northeast, where the terrific winds leaped over into Missouri to deal death and de- struction to Poplar Bluff a map of the state looked like a glant check- ~rhoard, one county swept by the storm 4nd the next ome northward intouched in almost faultless regu- larity. ¢ First making its appearance in [wh county and struck Lonoke county where the death list included one sought shelter from the downpour of rain in a filling station. A farmer and his son died in Prairie county, adjoining Lonoke on the east. Small storms bronched off and made a de- structive detour into Monroe and Phillips counties, where many houses were wrecked and trees blown down though few injurics were reported and no deaths. The main storm moved north- ward. 1t ieaped completely over Woodruff and White counties and alighted in Jackson county. Several \omes were demolished and barns d outbuildir destroyed near wport. spendence county escaped but it was in Lawrence one step further north, that took its heaviest toll since rong. Here 28 persons per- ished, niore than 200 injured and several missing. One farm house near Egypt in ghead county, east of Lawrence, 1ed and seven persons, g refuge from the blast were A school house, newly built, wrecked and two Louise Hadley, 17 13, dicd in A Fri ing on a side tr in the same county, en thres coaches blown from the track. No passengers were on the train but three trainmen were seriously injured. c0 pa wrecked | i BOY SCOUTS DOING HUCH RELIEF WORK Those in Flood Zone Are Little 1 county was also struck | by the storm, two dying : ree’s Mill and two at Switch, From here the tornado leaped into Missouri striking at Oplar Bluff to wreak the greatest disas its course. Rescue trains were dispatched to!|Were to “do it so of course he| care for the injured and homeless, Heavy damage resulted in Union county, center of the oil mndustry in the state, Iy a derrick remained standing near Norphlet and Strong. Jagged Line of Ruins agged line of ruins against the sky and sixty bodies in improvised morgues was the toll early today of a tornado which swept through the | main business scction here yesterday {afternoon. Sixty persons were seri- ously injured, and 200 others suffer- ed minor injurie | The storm devastated an area four | blocks wide and ten blocks long in the heart of the town. Fire broke out immediately afterwards, but w soon quenched by the torrential rain that followed the twister. Ten companies of Missourl guards- men from Doniphan and Dexter pa- trolled the strects today, and the town was under military rule. Estimates of property loss varied from $1,000,000 to $4,000,000. Two children were killed and many injured when the Fast Side school was destroyed. Confusion reigned through the night and r cue work was hampered by lack of sufficient light. Two hundred chil- dren were in the East Side school when the tornado struck. A woman who had heen pinned | down by timbers in the basement of the Melhourne hotel was rescued doctors think she will live, Water continued to rise In basement as she lay helpless. the OFFERING— Arkansas at Strong and Norphlet in | I'nion county where 18 were killed ind 10 _others believed dead, the storm began is leaping cour through the state. At least 50 werc . injured in this county. Skips Over County The tornado then skipped lioun county, long enough to take vight lives and injure from 15 to 20 persons at - Randall, Rison and Kingsland. The twister skipped Jefferson NEW BRITA ~ WEDN ESDAY ONLY! The Outstanding Millinery Event of the Season The Cal- | | 99 WEST MAIN ST. Raphacl Building IN'S MOST POPULAR r along | freckled Reports said that scarce- | Poplar Bluff, Mo., May 10 (P—a P after ten hours' imprisonment, and! MILLINERY NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1927, Business Section Wrecked All the business houses on Main pal thoroughfares of the town were wrecked. The stone court house stands apart on a hill like a skele- ton, with its roof gone and all win-| dows broken. Red Cross assistance in the wa of doctors and nurses and reli supplies were rushed from St. headgquarters on two special trains last night. Four dead were taken from the Harris House, patronized by railroad wor Onl today food one restaurant is operatin nd there is a shortage only three small grocery stores were left intact. These are located in the residence districts which escaped the twister. Heroes (By Harris Dickson) on For the United Press) Vicksburg, Miss, May 10—"You, attention.” “Yes sir.” The red-headed boy clicked heels her and stood at salute while ing orders from the scout coutive, “Go to Jones Drug Co., and bring Drug Co. Tightening his hat-strz chin, marched li grenadier. His orders did. The mission was urgent. In the flooded country back of Greenville, housands of people, marooned in barns and tree tops, were suffer- i The needed help. W. A. Mor- had brought the necessary sup- lies in Vicksburg, exhausting local stocks. Medicines must be sent to Greenvilla in a swift motor boat, and it was a boy scout job to assemble the stuff. In ten minutes the phone rang. Red on the wire, saying, “report sir, that them hoxes is so heavy me and Tommy can't budge 'em.” “Bring that stuft to Bryan's quick.” and the scout executive hung up.—Twenty minutes. The red scout enters, every freckle glowing like spatters of rust. He stands rigidly at salute. “Report sir, that them boxes is at Bryan's.” Good. How did you get ‘em_there?" “Well sir, me and Tommy couldn’t move them hoxes ourselves so we figured that there ought to he some other way. Along comes that big slob what drives a yeller, and we hailed him. He's stoutern a Dick hoss. Dumped everything in his eab, Delivered 'em at Bryan's. Then he turns a erank on his meter and grinds out one o' them pay tickets.” “How a1d vou pay the fare?” “Had to do something sir, and did it. quick, eause he was gettin’ riled. You undegstand we already had our boxes where you sald to put ’em. So I jest tends like I'm studyin’ that pay paper whilest me and Tommy slides out of the drug store to the OUR ENTIRE STOCK OF CHOICE NEW SPRING COATS AT REDUCED PRICES GOWN Room 104 Elevator Service SHOP TOMORROW! GET HERE EARLY! DOLLAR SALE. SPRING and SUMMER HATS MISSES’ HATS MATRONS’ HATS DRESS HAT: SPORT HATS TAILORED HATS VALUES TO $5.00 While They Last Including Satins, Silk and Straw Combinations, Felts and other popular fabrics. $1.00 OFF on all other Hats in the Store marked $1.95 up. GOLDENBLUM MILLINERY CO. COR. MAIN & COURT STS. NEW BRITAIN i ! street where we had plenty of run- —_— G"NERESS wu.l | at Carlisle, an aged woman who had | Broadway and Vine streets, princi- nin Among the thousands of drowned- out this bluffs, a case of smallpox developed. Our house of isolation had long been ou Na { shape, cleaned up. Louis ! I Re | mattress, when he ni; s hat and gave the strap a hitch. ! them here, now. e e e sti Stores all closed. open up for yon.” Ar rtz at the Presbyjerian church, or Mr. Abe Artz at the Baptist church. | 0’ room. brought to on the t negroes who were Vicksburg gibraitar corner. Durir t of use. w it must be No contagious disease. promptly put in Every body else | ing busier than switch engines, sk fell to the Boy Scouts. »d’s flaming ha habie: fumesa tou bat us) cout, get me six brooms, bring rted. “Hold Sunday morning. Get somebody to . This s “Yes sir.” You'll find Mr. Frank Sanitary Napkins Our standard Dal-Nap brand — packed one dozen to a box. Wednesday Only, box . those brooms minutes, d marches through the door to | phone booth six brand new Red had dar vashing babic “Washing babie into the Y for a sandwi had to be w tion ed up. § “How did you manage it?” “Well overly smart hands at washin’ Jies, but we fig 1z we had to do was to peel 'em. That's a cinch. T Thirty two |a kid. The bark comes off easy. We | piled em all together in one of them contraptions under- brooms in a |neath the shower, put boards across | the front so they couldn’t climb out. “Now Tommy, says I, turn on the water. Don't make it too hot.” “I reckon Tommy must have twisted that wheel a little too far. | Anyhow, the fourtecen babies howls manful and begins to turn pink same as shrimps in a can. “Cool 'em off, Tommy. Cool 'em | off,” T yells. “Geerusalam, them kids put up an awful scrcech, trying to scramble over our fence an get out. “After that me an’ Tommy lath- ered 'em. After we got 'em all lath- ered Tommy turned on the cold water, an’ nigh took their breath away. But we rubbed ‘em down sir, dressed every one in new clothes that people sent to the Y. Then me an’ Tommy got a receipt for four- teen kids in good order.” INSPECTORS MUST KEEP CHECK OX AUTO MILEAGE Employes of Building Department to Provide Detailed Reports Monthly on Ground Covered scanty breathing spell d out. He was late in executive demanded, you the ave By request of Alderman D. L. Nair, the inspectors in the building department will be ordered by Chairman Leavitt to keep a record of their automobile mileage. At the meeting of the salary and ordinance committees last evening it was men- tioned that the electrical and plumb- ing inspectors are each allowed $40 per month for transportation, in- cluding upkeep of the cars. The building inspector uses the depart- ment car when it is in condition for use. Alderman Nair said all the in- Tommy ducked and them cd. Needed a All muddy, s got to wash that job on Me and wished always told us to use our e me and Tommy ain't ed that the first No trouble to peel Pi spectors should report mileage and Chairman Leavitt agreed to have it done. Relative to the purchase of another car, Chairman Leavitt said that while there is no question of i the need of two cars in the depart- ment, the commission belleves in adding to the equipment one car at a time. 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