New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 1, 1927, Page 2

2 EXTENSIVE AREAS ARE INDNDATED District Size of Four States Has Been Under Water Washington, Dec. 1. P—An area larger than the combined states of Massachusetts, New Jersey, Del ware and Rhode Island, b yeen under water in the floods of From the borders of deltas of Louisiana New England rivers their b and putting residen lands to flight fn part taking a tell of muillions of bringing death to 457 per g the nation into c g of a com ensive Towa tion P s has carec £00,000refugees, months after the re waters, Of the 21,000 sq flooded by and square miles was in and the rest in the ley. Kentucky, Tenns sas, Missouri, Illinois, homa, Mississippi a the deluge in the la mont, Massachu shire, Connecticut, Maine and Rhode Isia fected by the New T which came in y months after the central and sot ern floods had passed their cr The Mississippt Valley zan in the last two wecks of and lasted well into June of Torrential rains until every effort to k their banks was futile, but in cases the rivers rose slowly, m ing evacnation possible on a scal which greatly reduced loss of. life. As the b of water ploved down the Mississippl from the Ohio and Missourl rivers and tributaries, thousands of mien in scores of lacal- ities bulwarked natural or artif cial barriers to hold back the del- uge. At Laconla, Ark.; at Beards- town, 111, and {n many another com- munity these efforts are epic, even though they failed In the end to stem the tide. Louisiana bore the brunt of the Mississippl flood, and territory was inundated that had not been under water for 40 vears. So great the menace of the flood to the city of New Orleans that an artificial crevasse was made to relieve the pressure Christmas Tenn., found under water. was deluged thrice in spring summer. In New England no more damag- ing inundation ever was felt. The th toll in Vermont and adjacent are miles of lar swelling of r of leve New the breaking tts of more than 1926 in Nashville, 20 blocks and Arkansas City, Ark., | the ground t NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, ates was the list of , almost as great as > dead in the Mississ- floods, and property issessed at upward of SGANDAL MENAGES Montpelier, Vt.; nd Hartford rof Ve 1s were flooded Concord, N. H., The little Wi mont became a and the dead in were counted at Timgs Reports Ellorts o Bar Him From Pefroleum Institute Loss of stock in both nds of head. New York 1 (P—The New York Times today says that an ef fort to block the reelection of Harry lair and E. L. Doheny as di- rs of the Anierican Petroleum Institute beeause of their connection with the government oil lease scan- dals will come to a head at the or- ceting in Chi- ning Tuesday. 1ent members Institute ha rized from New is Dec cugo of the Pe- been eircu- opposing reclection of ng th s says, but fric 1 probably 1ma lection wspaper PRENGH PEOPLE. - USE LESS LI0UOR Their Abstinence Alarms Wine e reicicum rastituie meiuter Dealers fio factors in the indus- try. Der n public este ord as di s-and Dohe Dome and important Both Sinclair and been | institute for m WIDOW MAY HEAR HER FATE TONIGHT Early Decision in Murder Trial Expected River, Masa, Dec. 1 (UP)— Gertrude Frazier Gibbons, on trial for her life ion with the murder of ill know her fate tonight or tomorrow The defense, which closed late fenc t had taken t and denied virtually ing bit of testimony which the government had 4 its circumstantial case. through ad tried to show tha s and her alleged sweetheart, | Antone Da Silvia, since adjudged in- sane, killed the woman's hushand and then threw his battered body into a well in East Swansea last May. While admitting 7 with Da Silva, Mrs. Gibbons declared most of the other statements of the government were A She denied having threatened her dragged | husband. She denied she had plan- attack |ned to divorce him. She denied that [she wanted to get rid of him. France hed so great- France, to in ampatgn ing vintage tn domestic shipments for the first six months the vear was nearly 68 per cent and the total diminution on do- mestic and foreign shipments was 18 per cent the figures for the similar period last year. Hard ‘times in the champagne consuming countries and high prices are blamed largely for the diminution in purchases But there other contributing re some dealers who point the of all kinds of France has dropped con- in the sty or o, t of beer and cider ar ensive drinks of the variety has ir q larly, has gained enor- | lic favor. under are o o at wine in siderably while tha other ine “bubbly” Beer, part mously in sons, s sale er the d every with con- Rumania Will Devote Vast Sum to War Plans Bucharest, Rumania, Deec. 1 (P— More than one-fifth of Ruman budget of $240,000,000 for 1928 will | be devoted to war purposes. The expenditure is defended on! at Rumania on a wide ntly menaced by the | nd might be t 10 her friendship ront Bolshey to war if I fs co aly re SINCLAIR OFFICE T | Mrs. Gibbons wept as she told the court that the breach between her nd her husband resulted from his friendship for Mrs. Emma Beach, a ate witness, rather than for the iefendant’s friendship for Da silv Closing arguments were expect to be heard by Judge Hugo D ue and the fury today, with the wdge's charge to follow. Thdications were that the case might reach the iry today. CLASSES OF WINDS, GALE TO CYCLON National Geographic Tells When Storm Wind Is Tornado by a group | Washington, D. C.,, Dec. 1.— to the National Geographic gale is a strong, atraight wind. Whirlwind: An eddy of air which vhisks up dust; or a stronger whirl strips icld and sends t aloft. vislent, powerful a small area, up heavy objects or them from their moorings. ical forces are more fmpor- al ones. nt circular eys- Tropics and Atlantic and a considerabls of winds in th cmi-Tro of the bhbean, covering ca and moving long distances. are the strongest of the pre- ntly horizontal winds. On hundred miles an hour is their usu- 1l maximum for the winds toward the center of circulation. hoon: A hurricane in the trop- ters of the Pacific. pout: A tornado or violent whirlwind over water. A continually misused In popular parlance any de- cs Cyclona: term. Makes Fat People Slim New York Physician Perfects Sim- ple and Easy Method of Re- ducing Weight Dr. R ticing ph nue, New Newman, a York, announces people is mor stateme successtully lents for fat reduction with out unnecessary change of diet or burdensome exercise. He also say: that fat people who suffer from chronic rheumatism, gout, asthma n1'high blood pressure obtain gre relisf from the reduction of their superfiuons flesh. Realizing that this ds almost too good to be true, he Doctor has offered to send with- out charge to anyone who will write him, a free trial treatment to prove his claims. as well as his “Pay- when-reduced” plan. If you want to rid yourself of superfluous faf, sing Dr. R HURSDAY, DECEMBER 1}, 1027, | structive wind is a “cyclone.” Prop- { often in the afternoon, and almost erly, a cyclone is a circular system |always take a path from eouthwest of winds covering a great area |to northeast. This direction in the metimes 1,000 miles across) and | United States results from the fact including gentle breezes as well as | that “lows” drift across the eastern still winds. Cyclones are beneficial | part of the continent almost always rather than harmful. They give us | from southwest to northeast and 1ost of our weather changes. Each | that the tornado (a secondary dis- low” on the daily weather map has | turbance attached to the “low") its cyclonic system of winds circu- | takes the same direction. The rapid- lating around it. When Nature dips | ly swirling column of air which is her spoon in the weather brew and | the heart of the tornado is usually stirs, the result is a cyclone. |marked by a funnel-shaped, black | Recent Nornadoss | cloud of vapor. This whirling mass The occurrence of a tornado in | the National Capital emphasizes the | ¢ end and then upward. Even »s of these destructive winds | 1eavy objects fly toward the column nd ralses anew the question: |38 dust particles and bits of paper “When is a storm wind a tornado?” | fIv into the throat of | hington is outside the regular | €l€aner. J | haunts of tornadoes, yet more than | Amazing Velocities Reached once the National Capital has been | visi m. The most historic August 25, 1814, the as captured British and the Capitol and sther buildings burned. The storm unroofed many fant The winds created do not blow | for any great distance horizontally, | but in their brief dash for the fun- | nel they move at amazing specds — | sometimes with the velocity of a | rifle bullet. Tt is these tremendous | buildings in the in- | velocities that bring about the | pital, and the rain that ac- | freakish antlcs of tornadoes; quills | supposed to have and straws penetrate boards and put out the remaining fires. | planks are driven through trees. Miss. Valley Has Most Tornadoes Most of the destructivencss of In July, 1913 a destructive storm tornadoes is traceable to thrir re- ucle the husiness section of the | duction of alr pressures when their | hing a number of Centers pass over or by an area. The and causing several | Pressure being suddenly reduced tside a building, the air inside it expands and pushes the walls down | or the roofs up—the buildings real- the lower Mississippi Valley and | v explode because of the release of the eastern portion of the Great| What amounts for the moment to Both to the west and | the “compressed” afr within them. ences are fewer. So, | Clouds Skip and Bounce w tornadoes occur | Sometimes tornado clouds go Canada, and in Mexico. <kipping or bouncing along, working | Tornadoes are strictly local havoc where the lower end touches | orms, bred usually by suliry and | the ground, and leaving everything | lgggreather. They strike most | uninjured where the end lits, th was {avorite haunt of tornadoes in ¢ United States, includes the states to Plains sucks alr from all sides to its low- | a vacuum | | A aistinetion must be made be- | | tween the velocity of the air rush- | Ing into the funnel, and the speed | of the funnel itself moving over the | earth. It has been pointed out that i the former velocity, close to the funnel, may be that of a rifle bullet. | The funnel itself, however, seldom | moves more rapidly than 30 or 40 | miles an hour, the speed of an auto- | mobile moving rather conservatively on a country road. day that the story printed in the Hearst papers in America of a pro- posed Mexico-Japanese treaty’ was untrue. “The Hearst papers said that Jap- anese military aid for Mexico in |event of war with the United States {was provided for in the draft of a | secret treaty formally submitted to the Japanese government by Presi- dent Calles in 1926. | SAYS HEARST STORY UNTRUE.| ry. 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