New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 25, 1928, Page 23

“levees only,” which has been the sole means of keeping the flood wa- ' device will be uscd in building & number of diversion channels to| carry off excess water direct from | |the main channel of the Mississippi | land its principal tributaries into | Said to Be Greater Than Build- "%%ne *fomnSrvesion ehannets, ing Panama Canal two—the Boeuf Basin floodway from the Arkansas river through | May 20.—P—The launched .| Arkansas and Louisiana into the | Red river, and the Atchafalaya Ba- | sin floodway from the Red river to ! the Gulf of Mexico in Louisiana— | will involve the building of an arti- ficial river 300 vitles long. parallel- ing the Mississippi. The other di- n channels are the Birds| Point-New Madrid, Miesouri, river- | bank floodway, where the levees would be set back from their pres- ent location for an average distanc of five niiles along a 72-mile stretch and the Bonnet Carre spillway nort of New Orleans to take the flood | s direct from the, Missiesippi | Lake Pontchartrain and Lake Borgne into the Gulf. Ihie floodways and spillways, how- | ver, will not be called into use ex- | coptin time of excessive floods and y ligh waters be diverted by | g “fuze-plus” levees acros anouths. The *“fuze-plug” are embankments lower than usual levees so that flood waters -1 will overtop them first and rele aguinst the other levees \& into the diversion chan- Washington, snment has upon | ¥y the greutest engineering 1 king in its history in the pro- t 1o control the floods of the Mississippi viver. lven th construction of Panama canal is belicved nocring authoritics to b o in the task of curbing tiw 660 horscpower torrent of waters in the Mississippi cugincering task is a plex one. and methods ave 1 B d i the izing the project. b controlling the floods, Muj. Ge Edgar Jadwin, chic « i vl ers, will form th si5 of the work is a the engi- nscend- flood coin- ot full n author- plan for to prote izainst 1 ns ) t | the disust rous . which took Although the “levees only” abandoned, the army en- and Mississippi river com- on will continue to place much upon the cmbankments, es along the Mississippi and, 111, to the Gult sed in height from two 1 mapped ppi river barzed with the flood contrel works. The two p policy com- i ans will be iner to three feet. . NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, MAY 25, 102 _ . BRETE HARTE HERD | FOUND IN SWEDEN QOriginal “Arizona Peter” Living; in Village ’ Stockholm, May 25 (P--The ginal of “Arizona Dcte hero of ofic of Bret Harte's stories, | has been discovered by a Swedish | newspaper to be still alive. He is living in the village of Smedjcback- en in his native province. The old will west hero is. how- cver, totally blind. His real name Per Erik Aastroem, and he is now 0 years old. Aastroem left Sweden in the carly cighties for the west where he, like | many other Swedes, entercd the United States' garrison service. “Arizona Peter” earned a repu- tation for enterprise and daring. Onece when he found a Sioux chiet half unconscious, bound and gagged, he got off his horse and taved the Indian. The sweehcart of Aastrocm, however, was in Sweden, and wish- |ing to marry her, he got her a posi- | tion a neighboring farm, owned | by ch woman. { Shortly after her arrival, she and | her misiress were capured in their ! home by a plundering band and carricd off. Accompanied by Grey r. Sioux chief. Aastroem dashed across the Mexican border surprised the bLrigands and 1escued the wo- men. 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Swede and the Indian of their foes. stroem mount. a cop- s, and soon nd miners be- desertsd him to marry one of In grief Aastroem returncd to Sweden where he found work Through an explosion ke sight of both his eyes. | e has been a brush-maker. t , Crock as a stone cutter. Sinee then ett’s Nomination Forwarded to Senate By GLORGE (Washington Cor, Washington ination postmaster at Unionville of Thomas w to senate yesterday by the pr Crockett's appointment wa |mended to post omice a | Wednesday by to succeed Robert E signed. man Fenn t who re- Congr lost the | - |giant who r | hatchet of years was this lcgendary first horn ot two principles, “yang” in” He had two horns and YOUNGSTER HOIDS to zrow fast did Pan-Ku grow that he cet to his stature every 000 years. With an axe to hew out the univers er to complete his work © had to die Chinese Boy Has Ow Ideas on World's Creation day for ording to the myth ountains, his breath his voice the four quarters lood the rivers, s beard the con- and hair the His teeth, bone ame the metals tones, his sweat s creeping human be- nese schooll the wond's o huge an his ody me failed to put the D in their proper places way into the sca and the peopl left in darkness. A messenger Was sent to ask them to and give light. They Ku was called and at ion wrote the char- n, in one hand and | vulh,” moon® in the other. Going to sca, he stretched out his hands and called the sun and moon, repeating a charm devoutly seven times, when they ascended into the sky and gave | light day and night. In his scheme of things, Pan-ku made 31 levels, or stories. Of these 33 were for heaven and 18 below the earth were for hell. The heav. ens were graded for good men and the floors below the carth were for the bad. The Chinese children, the missionary are taught that f one is the very best of all he can g0 to the thirty-third heaven. Even in 18,000 years, the work of reatiog was incom was left through which many fel to the bottom, After a lor woman, Nu-Ku, took a save, stone and blocked up the hole and so finished the work. % Beardstown Residents Now Safe From Floods Beardstown, L. May 35 UP— Beardstown, which takes its floods the laugh on his ancient enemy, the Ilinois river. The last concrete soon will be poured on a retaining wall to keep the river where it belongs. It rain. cd this spring, but the river re- mained in its banks, and this has been one of the few spring seasons that Beardstown folk have not gone to church in boats and transacted business In rubber boots, 12 the city has been crally. Beardstown wetness last year construct the re- ining wall. 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