Crest of Great Flood Nearing New Orleans

= v;> > - ^r. •*,^, -V. - ' J ^ ' ■/--*■:>??"=^-«-^- - t -' 7^:.-,-- ■ MORE THAN HALF OF MISSISSIPPI FLOOD QUOTA YET T^ BE RAISED- \ NET PRESS RUN! AVERAGE DAILY CIRCULATION OF THE EVENING HERALD for the month of March, 1927 4,996 VOL. XLI., NO. 177. Classified Advertising on |Page 10. MANCHESTER, CONN., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1927. < cor,n. Slate UWajy PRICE THREE CENTS CASH FOR STRICKEN CAILES TALKS WORKING ON THE LEVEES CREST OF GREAT FLOOD STARTS FLOWING IN ON COOLIDGFS N. Y ^ D R E S S NEARING NEW ORLEANS Manchester Awakens to Suf FUND STANDING <$> Issues Long Statement; Says PRAYER BOOK fers' Cry For Help and Quota ........... $1,000 To Cut Levee on Friday to Save City— Death Toll Passes It Is Easy to Settle Differ STARTS A RIOT Flood Fund Grows; More Collected to date $490 200 Mark— Trappers In Area to Be Flooded Threaten ences With the United Archbishop of Canterbury, in Than Half of Quota to Be To be Collected $510 London, Is Obliged to Call in To Resist Cut In Dykes— Patrol District With Shot States. Police. \ Raised; However, and Two London, April 27.— Authori guns— Thousands Marooned on High Spots— Red ties of the Church of England Days Are Gone. TIME TO BROOD Mexico City, April 27.— Presi were today making inquiries dent Calles in a long statement to ^establish the responsibility Cross Supplies Pouring In. NEED OF SERMON for the disorders last night called forth by President Coolidge’s which made necessary for the Red Cross officials ivere gratified Dr. Schlater Gives Advice to New York speech Monday evening, Archbishop of Canterbury to THE CREST of the great Mississip sissippl valley Monday, He will re call in the police to afford him turn to Vicksburg Friday morning, today at the returns in the second Young Ministers at Yale today declared “ it is not only, pos pi river flood slowly bore down day of collection for the quota of sible but easy to reach a friendly protection from hecklers dur upon New Orleans today, scatter inspect the functioning of the peiv School. ing the animal meeting of the manent Red Cross relief headquar- ?1,000 which Manchester has been settlement of the differences exist ing dread before it and leaving Religious Tracts Society ia desolation in its wake. ters at Memphis on Saturday and assigned in the drive for funds for New Haven, Conn., April 27. ing between the United States and Queens Hall. return to Washington Sunday. ^ the relief of flood sufferers in the — “ All work for Sunday Mexico. Opponents of the revised FLOOD CONDITIONS throughout Army engineers and members qj the Mississippi valley are practi Mississippi valley. Treasurer Lu should be settled early in the President Calles said he heartily prayer book termed it "the the Mississippi river’ commissioa, cius Pinney of the local chapter re agreed with President Coolidge’s Popish prayer book” and wild cally unchanged, but relief is who arrived with the Hoover party, week, by Monday if possible, pouring into the devastated area ported this noon that he has receiv so as to give plenty of time to suggestion that differences, which confusion reigned until the po launched immediately into a study ed checks totalling $435, nearly are susceptible of solution by nego lice ejected the hecklers. from all sections of the country. of surveys which they hope will etu. brood. The brooding habit is The death toll has passed 200, half of the quota. This was later essential for a good sermon.’’ tiation, be approached in a friendly One man shouted: “ This able them to determine the exact Increased to $490. spirit by both sides. prayer book they are Intro with the property loss estimated boundary of the lands to be flooded Among the checks was one for Such is the advice given young at hundreds of millions of dol ministers here today by Rev- Favors Negotiations ducing is a disgrace to the Pro by the blast of the levee. Within an $100, and as there were only 15 The Mexican executive declared testant country." lars. Only a careful check, after hour of bis arrival General Jadwin checks altogether, most of them Dr. J. R. P. Sclater, of Toron This extraordinary airplane picture shows men desperately working the angry waters have subsided, to, Canada, speaking before that he favors negotiation rather The police hustled the heck was engaged in drawing a formal were rather substantial. ‘The total than arbitration. to patch a near break in tfte main levee of the Mississippi at New Ma can fix the actual losses in lives legal instrument authorizing th0 the eighteenth annual convoca lers out of the hall as they received today is $385, more than President Calles expressed him drid, Mo. The sand-loaded boat is being used as a breakwater, while and propetty, spillway. All damage claims aris tion of Yale Divinity School. shouted “ take your money and three times the amount that had self in accord with President Cool- bags of sand are being placed where the dreaded crevasse threatens. ACTING ON behalf of President ing out of the operation are to be “ The sermon should be go to Rome.” Several women been subscribed yesterday during idge in that American claims aris While men are working here, another break occurrd and the town is now then joined in hurling epithets Coolidge, Secretary of Commerce borne by the state and city, it waa the first day of the campaign. chosen on Monday,” Dr. under from 5 to 15 feet of water. ing from loss of life and property ___________________________ ♦ of “coward” and “traitor” at Hoover continued his first-hand emphasized by federal officials. This Town Aroused. Sclater insisted. constitute the principal divergency investigation of the flooded areas was in line with the White House Manchester seems to nave awak Professor William Wallace the archbishop and they, too between the two governments. The were ejected from the hall. today.., He approved a plan to announcement by President Cool ened to its old time form as far as Fenn, of Harvard Divinity Mexican executive seized this occa save New Orleans from the flood idge Tuesday that all responsibili charitable movements are concern School, continued his course sion again to deny that the Mexi by cutting the levee, ten miles be ties in connection with the under ed. This town has never yet failed on Nathaniel W. Taylor, with can constitution or that the new low the city. The plan was oppos taking rested upon the local admirt^ to raise its quota, no matter what Gray^s Confession whom the oldTfashioned New property and petroleum laws are iriT L E PROSPECTS ed by residents in St. Bernard istrative bodies rather than with the cause, and today’s total indi England theology came to an confiscatory in spirit or will cause and Plaquemine parishes, whose federal agencies. cates another “ over the top’’ drive. end. Lack of humility. Prof. homes and properties will be de While today’s developments re But the time is short— and nobody confiscations through their opera Fenn declared, was his chief tion. liberately flooded to save the duce the probability of further seri will want to be left out. No sum is OF A JURY TODAY weakness. Offers Bonds Is Read To Jury metropolis. Some trappers living ous flood disaster. Secretary Hoo too small to be of assistance. ver emphasized that the pres ' At the banks where contribution The pre.sident declared that Mex in the area patrolled the levee ico has not refused compensation with shotguns, threatening to re sure of Red Cross relief activity boxes are located, it was said today among the more than 150,000 that only a few donations had been for land taken for Agrarian pur sist the move by force. poses, but has offered the only com Detailed Story of the Mnrder Trial of Alleged Chinese homeless victims continued unabat deposited today and yesterday. SENATE CUTS DOWN THE FLOOD has covered nearly 9,- ed. FEAR CHINESE SHELl. pensation ^Mexico’s economic condi 000 square miles of territory Both banks were open last night Millions To Be Lost for their usual Tuesday night peri tion will permit— bonds. He added with millions of people in seven Of Albert Snyder Placed Slayers Drags In Hart When Gov, 0. H. Simpson order od. that “ the Mexican government river states directly affected. Contributions received at the MAY FOUNDER SHIPS views with satisfaction Americans' ON APPROPRIATIONS The refugees already under the ed the levee cut he declared an Chamber of Commerce office totaled willingness to accept those bonds." On Records In Court To j _____ ford; Court Recess Early. care of the Red Cross approxi emergency exists and that it will be. $100 after noon today while the President Calles characterized mate 200,000, of which 140,000 necessary to sacrifice St. Bernard, Herald office on Bissell street had the Coolidge doctrine for the pro are in concentration camps. and PlagUemine in order to pre vent possible death and heavy dam turned in $12. One contribution of tection of Americans living abroad day. TENS OP thousands of refugees Bills Calling For $750,000 Hartford, Conn^, April 27.— The age at New Orleans. He said that $5 was received by Watkins Broth Forts Along Yangtse Con as "irreproachable.’- but contended were reported marooned on the ers. that when citizens emigrate they prospects of getting a jury today river’s levees and in high spots inhabitants of the doomed parishes Official Appeal. should submit themselves to the would be indemnified for all lose, tinue to Bombard Allied Courthouse, Long Island City, N. Rejected Today By the for the trial of Sin,Lung, and Soo throughout the flooded territory.

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