Evening star., 1927-04-30
River Gradually Creeping
Upon Second Line of Sand
bag Defense at ViCksburg,
With SWifter Rise Forecast
FLOOD WATERS SPREAD
DRIVES OUT LOUISIANANS
Dynamiting of Dikes to Save New
Orleans Opens Only 60-Foot Gap,
But Engineers Express 0pti-
mism-Demands for Greater Re-
lief Efforts Are Voiced.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, April 30-Twc
new levee breaks, and the threat ot
at least hyc more, under the slow
surge of the highest crest the Mis-
sissippi River ever has recorded
added today to the steadily cres-
cendoing demands for relief which
have caused President Coolidge tc
appeal for fund greater than that
of $5,000000, first asked for the
American Red Cross.
With the scope of the disaster
constantly enlarging as the rushing
water mandates additional towns
some of them ordinarily far from
the river, the President was await
ing a conference with Herbert
Hoover, Secretary of Commerce
who has spent week in touring
the flooded zone from Memphis to
below New Orleans.
Hoover to Give Facts.
Hoover, himself an engineer. to-
night will lay before the Nation a
word picture of what he found, in a
radio address from Station VINO OF
the Memphis Commercial Appeal,
which will be hooked up with prob
ably 80 other stations in two national
networks of the National Broadcast.
ing Co.
Mr.. Hoover viii go on the air at
$50 pm. central standard time, talk.
ing II minutes.
A few minutes later he viii leave
for Washington to report personally
to President Coolidge.
Red Cross officials at disaster relief
headquarters in Memphis said today
that more than 100000 refugees had
registered, and that the figure doubt
lessly represented hardly more than
half of the total number affected.
A relief fund of $4,000, 600 was
necessary after south Florida was
struck by a hurricane last September,
when fewer than half as many as
have been victims of the flood Were
affected, the Red Cross announcement
said.
Small Towns Evacuated.
When the Arkansas River levee
broke at South Bend late yesterday
hundreds of workers lost a Today bat
tie and the evacuation of every small
town in southeastern Arkansas was
made necessary Arkansas City, Nc
CSehee, Lake Village and Dermott, al
ready suffering from the high water,
were indicated as the chief sufferers
In the new inundation.
The other levee break was the in.
territorial one below New Orleans.
Danger spots fought today were at
Vidalia, La, opposite NatcheZ, Miss;
at Glasscock, La, % miles below
Fidalia; st. Joseph, La, and both
north and south of Vicksburg, Miss.
only two towns previously untouch-
ed by the flood We're inundated by the
/ South Bend break, Dumas and Gould.
McGehee, already under to IT feet
of water, was apprenhensive in the
face of the new danger, and at Lake
Village, a further rise would make
necessary removal of !, 900 persons re.
garded as safe at the previous stage.
At Vicksburg. the Mississippi grad
ually was creeping up a second sand.
bag defense, and was stopping over
portions of the north Vicksburg levee
with a bureau prediction of further
rise Of nearly a foot a week hence.
Last night the river was 56.73 feet, as
against the previous record of 549 IL
1922.
Supplies Are Concentrated.
The crest of the flood was slightly
south OF Greenyile, Miss, today, and
working ahead of il, the Red Cross
had ordered concentrations Of supplies
at Vicksburg, Natchez and New Or
leans.
Provisions, medical supplies. and
equipment have been provided, but
1arlfe will
our fullest services read telegram
from w. p. Simpson, chairman Of the
New Orleans Red Cross Chapter, to
Henry, NJ. Baker, director Of disaster
relief
In the lower Mississippi delta many
food victims were reported clingine
10 levees, trees and roofs. and fleets
OF relief boats were being rushed
there.
Seventy refugees were found wher
small boats went into the section iso
lated by the levee break at Dorena
Mo, IL days ago.
In one barn loft were found a white
man and four children and four negro
families. Many white persons were
found without food All had beer
drinking polluted water and somt
were sick.
Greenville, Miss, inundated metrop
oils Of the great YaZoo Delta, f0upt
encouragement in a slight fail of tn
water and assurances that no furthe
rise was in sight. Vaccination agains
typhoid fever had about been com
pIeted. and there was no contagiou
disease in the refugee camp.
Disease Peril Pointed Out.
The next six months will be ii periot
of danger from disease, according /,
DIR. William Allen Pusey, chairman o
the disaster committee of the Amer
lean Medical Association, who re
turned to Chicago from Memphis.
This flood and the problems il ha
caused constitute far and away th
biggest calamity we have had in thi
country and the most difficult to han
die" he said
ut is the next six months that w
have TO watch, as the danger of ep
denies, such as typhoid. diphtheria
smallpox and dysentery is great"
The Red Cross reported that 80 .cai
loads Of supplies were en- route t
Memphis for distribution from var
GUS points. They included u carload
Of vegetables, carloads Of fish,
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