New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 4, 1928, Page 2

EXTRA GUARDS T0 PROTECT FORESTS Gost., Report Shows Need of| This Force ‘Washington, May ¢ (»—Two hun- | dred seventy-five additional guards and lookout watchmen will be hired to fight fires in the national forests | as the result of a projected increase | in the forestry service tund. Necessity for the increase, co ing 276,000, was pointed out in congressional committee hearings | by Col. William B, Greeley, chief | forester. Last year he said there were but 2,710 guards for a total | area of 158,000,000 acres, of which 0,000 acres carry a high fire ard. Each man was responsible for an average of 34,000 acres. Dur- | the season there were 5,554 of all sizes. the increase,” Colonel propose to ploy $210,000 for additional fire per- sonnel and also for more adequate em- | 1east $200,000 worth of such equip- ment as quickly as we are able to | obtain it The average monetary loss from forest fires for the nine year period from 1919 to 1927, Colonel Greeley said, amounted to $1,506.000 a year. In 1927, he said, the government spent $1,656,000 in all the lines of | aork classed as tire prevention and addition spent a little more than 'ts 000,000 for fire suppression or fire fighting. | Statistics were presented to show that in 1927 it was possible to put | out 88.5 per cent of the forest fires | before they had reached ten acres | in size, compared with 79 per cent the year before. The forest chief | sald distinct advantage was gained by using enough m at strategic points to report each blaze at the | time it broke out. Frequently, | when he is able to reach it in time, |a single ranger. with perhaps one | companion, can control and extin- guish a fire by the time ugy of his axe and shovel. | The most serious fires are th o | which occur in the mountainous re- | | gions, hard of access, where it | sometimes takes two or three days| {10 get a fire crew to the scene. By | the time such fires are controlled | huge acreages of stalwart timber lic in a blackened mass of smolder- ing tree trunks and limbs, incapable training and preparation of the pro- | tective organizations for fire duties. The 275 additional men will bring the average area for each forest guard down from 34,000 acres to a little less than 31,000 acres. Out| of this increase $25,528 will be em- ployed in providing additional fire- | ¥ fighting equipment. “We need to build up pression purposes. We are putting into that from $20,000 to $25,000 a | year now which we are able to save tn various ways, but we need at very ma- | terially our equipment for fire sup- | | Belgrade, May ither poorer crops and lower prices the ‘\dlllc of Yugoslavian exports in 1927 000, SHE being £140,000,000, The longest suspension bridge in the world connects Fhiladelphia, | Pa., and Camden, N. J, it is 1,750 feet long and 135 feet above water | tevel. | )0 below that of 1926, | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1928 WORK PROGRESSES IN STRICKEN ZONE | Galifornia Flood Area Assuming| Normal Appearance Los Angeles, May 4.—(®—Human | brains, money and machinery are | turning the Santa Clara river valley seething with new life. Into this peaceful orchard vale, swept by desojating flood when the St. Francis dam burst, have poured the resources of the Associated Con- tractors of the city of Los Angeles {to dig it out of its pall of silt, replant its orange groves, rebuild its shatter- | ed hiomes and restore it as nearly as possible to its former estate. Tented towns of reconstruction |of the little river where waters, when they broke loose, approximately 400 lives. torrent from 40 to 75 feet high swept through the midnight black- | ness in March, now a quict ambling | brook meanders to the sea, held to its course by a puny rampart of | sandbags scarcely one foot high. | On both sides ‘of it, along a stretch of 25 miles, the gangs of re- builders are feverishly at work, re- | placing desolation with habitation |and dead silt beds with buman and plant life, Thousands of trees from orchard and highway borders were destroyed and those that still stand in the pathway over which the flood rush- ed are mute witneases of its force. { Instead of being erect they lean, row cost of death into a cauldron of energy, | workers have risen along the course | pent up“ Where a | aner row, towards the sea, bent and | torn by the onrush of water from abme From the silt, in some sections many feet deep, the steam shovels {and individual workers bring up the \reckage of dozens of homes that {were blotted out in the catastrophe, |and now and then a body to add to the toll. Brushing aside technicalities with {the same frankness and quickness {with which it admitted moral and !1egal responsibility, the city of Los | Angeles got the work of restoration under way almost before the flood | ‘had ceased to run. | City Gives Foundations | To Old Sub Treasury New York, May 4.—UP—Father | Knickerbocker's latest activities in | subway construction through the ancial district provides a gift to| |Uncle Sam of a steel and concrete | foundation for part of the historic | Sub-Treasury building at Wall and | | Nassau streets. Foundations of the various other buildings rest upon bed rock and in order that the old Sub-Treasury, with its heroic statue of George Washington on the steps, may not | suffer during construction work or | be seriously affected by movement | of thousands of subway trans| soon to hurry past it, a new and permanent support will be placed | beneath it. |e Jared S. Bogardus, chief engineer | for Moranti and Raymond, subway Dbuflders, will put men to work dig- ging down 40 feet under the present foundation, basing the new support {upon the bed rock 70 feet below the street level. This will be about 35 | feet helow the grade of the new sub- way, so the oid graystone building |should repose | come, | go out to you. WATCHMAN RAISES FUNDS FOR CHINES American Wins Thanks of His| Native Town Cincinnati, May 4.—UP—Peter Po- gan is & railroad crossing watch- |man in Cincinnati, but he won for |the “United States of America and its good people” the blessing of the| population of a Rumanian village. Pogan went to his native village after the world war and found that the church of St. Gabriel had lost its bell. Upon his return _to Cincinnati, Pogan raised $816.60, bought a bell three feet high and weighing 1,360 | pounds, and sent it to the congrega- tion of the St. Gabriel church. He received a closely written twelve page letter of appreciation. “The pravers of all our people| God bless the United States of America and the good people of the United States who re- member us with this bell. “Since the people heard this church bell ringing, they have all| come back to church, and now the church is too small to hold all of| eople. ery Sunday and on the holi- . we always will pray for the good people of the United States,” says the letter, from Avran Leahu, the pastor. TIME TO HIT BARBERRY This is the time of year to kill solidly for years to | the barberry bush, prolific source | newspaper | of the black stem rust that attacks | small grain. About 20 pounds of salt packed well around the base will kill a bush measuring one foot in diameter. Forest Tax Inquiry Moves to the West | Salem, Ore, May 4 (®~—On con- clusion of the fact-finding investiga- | tion in the Great Lakes statea, the | federal forest taxation inquiry con- ducted under terms of the Clarke- McNary law will be opened in the | Pacific coast region with Oregon as the key state, Announcement of the shift has |been made by Fred Rogers Fair- ‘rmld, profeasor of political econ- | emy at Yale and director of the in- | quiry. | It is the ultimate purpose of the | investigation to recommend a sys- tem of forest taxation which while affording equitable revenue will en- | courage and protect forestry, par- | ticularly as practiced Dby the in- i dividual farmer, |Artist at Fifty Trains | Left Hand to Brush | Chicago, May 4 P—Like a child ‘le‘:rnmg to walk, Louis Alexander | Neebe at 50 years of age began to [train his left hand to trausfer beauty to canvas All his life he had been, by avo- cation, an artist. 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