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Evening star., 1927-05-01
BIRDS IN FLOOD ZONE
ASSURED OF FOOD
Isaak Walton League Plans Ship
ment of Grain to Save
Starving Quail.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MEMPHIS. Tenn, April 30.--Quail
and other wild birds in the flooded
area will not die from starvation If
members of the Isaak Walton League
can prevent it, Daniel Wolf, presi-
dent of the local branch of the league,
said today.
While the Red Cross hurried ra-
tions to feed the homeless human
refugees, the league dispatched 10
bushels of wheat to Forest City, Ark.
to feed quail marooned on railway
embankments in the vicinity. Thou
sands of covies of the birds are re-
ported starving on high points in the
flooded district of Arkansas and Mis-.
sissippi.
You see, when the waters rise
the quail seek higher levels" Mr..
Wolf said THE highest points in
vast Arkansas areas are roadbeds of
the railways. When trains come along
they fly up, to settle again when
the cars have passed. There is alb
sOlutely no food for them unless il
is taken to the spot and scattered.
We will send more food for them"
High waters will not affect fishing,
asserted Mr.. Wolf who added that
flooding rivers merely put more fish
in the lakes.
Evening star., 1927-05-01
French Send Sympathy.

PARIS, April 30 Gp). Foreign Min.
lister BRAND has sent a cable message
to Secretary OF State Kellogg, assur-
ing him that the heart of the French
people goes out to the flood sufferers
of Louisiana, and asking him to trans
NIT to the Government of the United
States sentiments of sincere and
profound sympathy"
Evening star., 1927-05-01

Continued from First Pagel
were being fed and that the shortage
of tents for shelter would be met
within the next SO hours.
Before leaving for Washington, the
Commerce Secretary conferred with
Red Cross officials on extension Of res
cue and relief work ard to reinforce
funds in a nationally broadcast radio
address.
Replying to urgent invitations to
personally visit the flood district,
President Coolidge today telegraphed
Mayor O'Keefe expressing regret that
he could not make the trip at this
time and giving assurances that the
Government is cooperating fully
with the Red Cross" in the rescue
and relief work.
Long Fight Is Lost.
The slough in the levee at Glass
cock. the most serious food develop.
ment of the day. ended a day and
night fight by workers and engineers
to hold the surging waters at that
point Since it is Of "buckshot' clay,
engineers expected the levee to re-
sist stubbornly, but they We're salts
fed that eventually the rushing cur
tciiI Wcdll CSIil y Oul IL IdLGG SGtLlOll
of the embankment.
Concordia Parish at the point Of
the break already was under back
water from the Black. Ouachita and
Red Rivers, but the flood there would
be greatly augmented by the main
river flow and some estimates were
that it would cover all of Concordio
Parish, threatening the towns of Fer
riday and Vidalia to the northward,
and flow over into Franklin, Tensas
and Point Coupee Parishes.
Capt j. r. Adams Of the Louisiana
Board of Engineers, declared that not
a thing in the present inundated area
other than trees would be above
water within 4S hours. Housetops
would be covered, he said, adding that
he would concentrate his efforts on
the Vidalia front. throwing up tenn
porary levees thore and at Ferriday
in an effort to keep the waters out
of those towns.
The day brought forth so many
rumors about breaks in the main
levee at points other than Glacscock
that Dictator Parker issued an ap-
peal against the spread of unfounded
rumors, which he said could serve
only to undermine the morale of the
DeODle.
Evening star., 1927-05-01

raising it's wharves, adjusting rail
communica tions and otherwise re-
vamping the post facilities to meet an
increased levee height would be great,
and must be compared with the cost
and engineering considerations of
spillways.
Under authority of Congress,
board of Army engineers has been
for a year in cooperation with the
Mississippi River Commission. making
the necessary observations and COM
putations for studying this question
and expects to have a report ready
for the next session of Congress.
Evening star., 1927-05-01
Girl Gives All She
Saved Since Easter
To RedCrOss Fund

Writing that she wanted to help
"a tiny bit" to relieve the suffering
in the Mississippi flood zone.
little girl yesterday gave all that
she has saved since Easter-45
cents--to the local Red Cross fund.
She is Agnes Fitzhugh Shapter,
1908 NJ street, and she made her
contributions through the cashier
of The Star.
Evening star., 1927-05-01
Gold-P Plated Cloth Now Made.

Cloth, wood or metal may be gold or
silver plated by a process just per-
fected by a German. The object to be
plated Is subjected to a bombardment
from a fllament of gold or silver in an
electric vacuum tube.
Evening star., 1927-05-01

her & Bros, Inc, 800; X. L. Simpson.
$40; Robert c. Dahymple, 81; Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles w. Richardson, $50;
George ELI Evans, $1O Emma K
Turner, $5; Frank C Skinner, $40,
Arthur B. Heaton, $25; Julian c. Dow
ell, $25; A. f. Johnston, S25; Joseph
P. Tumulty, S25; Ross II. House, So;
Lucille Andrus, IS; Albert Douglas,
$50; A. Friend, IS; contribution from
the Treasury Department, $610.50;
collections Earle and Rialto Theaters,
S12; collections Commercial Bank
S1S2.82; collections Second National
Co., S63.25; Philip L. Welker, So: col
$3.50; collections Federal-American
Bank, 50; collections Washington
Loan & Trust Co., sS5; collections
Harry S. Wolf. $25; collections Fed
eral-American National Bank, $10.70;
collections Lincoln National Bank, S5;.
collections Union Trust Co., SS.75;
collections Metropolitan Bank. S.; col
lections Merchants Bank & Trust Co.,
S19.09; collections Keith's Theater,
$16.75; collections Columbia Theater.
S41.67; collections keith's, $2136; col
lections Metropolitan Bank, $3S.43;
Rialto, $3.50; Columbia. s63.66;
C. 8. Mackenzie, S5; j. w. Heider,
50; Anna Heider, So; Robert w.
Hunter, so; Corcoran Thorn, $25;
Alice NJ. Craighead, S25 Lydia X.
Burr, $40; collections, Park Saw
ings, S14.05; Garfinkle's, S27.75; Ameri-
can Security g. Trust Co., $120.35;
Woodward G. Lothrop, $162.96; Po.
tomac Saving Bank, $290; Riggs Bank
Fourteenth street branchl. $685.;
Washington Loan & Trust Co, (west
end branch), 1926; Prudential Bank,
s20.79; Riggs Bank. $68.97; Ambassa-
dor Theater, $40.15; Commercial
Bank, $25.93; keith's Theater, $54.12;
w. B. Marbury, $40; A. J. Wads-
worth, so; Harriet A. Perry, Sc; Miss
Olive M. Riddleberger, 81; Samuel
Mackeintz. S5; Nell Adamson, IS;
Annie NJ. Elough, S5; !. A. Slyder, SO;
BERTHE Appler Bible class, SO; Company
II, x. w. Barr, treasurer, $50; Mrs. K.
r. Miller, S5; Newell w. Ellison, S25;
Paul Weeton, s.; a friend, $50; anony-
nous, So; Mrs. Harry w Hahn, S2J;
i, l.. Deland, So: Mr.. and Mrs. Will
liam A. Taylor, $25; Emma f. Haas,
So; II. II. LeF'avour, $40; Capt. and
Mrs. S. c. Rowan. S25; anonymous, 81;
Miss *. w. Cottrell, IS; Zoe w. Wal
son, $40; George +. Martin, s25; Ze-
relda McRae, s.; c. o. Schudt, SO;
DR.. and Mrs. George l.. Knapp, $25;
J. A. Bostick, SO; Mrs. J. Finch, 81;
n. p. Webster, $40: Louis Johrden, SO;
Mrs. T. A. Mccarthy, $40; Miss K.
Judge. $25; Flora J.. Cloman, $25;
anonymous, 81; Louise b. Francis, 81;
Business Women's Council, S7.94:
In the list of contributions received
by The Star Friday check for $40
was credited to Margaret Lidstone.
1t should have been the Ladies' Aux
lltary Of National Capital Post, No.
127, Veterans of Foreign Wars, for
which she is treasurer Of the relief
fund
Flood fund contributions received
by cashier of Evening Star up to s
o'clock last night follow:
Evening star., 1927-05-01
LEVEE 0VERFL0WS
AT WCKSBURG AS
-
MENACE GROWS

Continued from First Page)
Evening star., 1927-05-01
New Levees Held Necessary.

The sure remedy for present flood
conditions in the Mississippi valley is
the construction of levees which will
hold the stream, said a joint state
ment issued here late today by Sec
retary Hoover and Maj. Gen. Jadwin
THE construction of reservoirs
around headwaters are not solutions;
they cover lands virtually equal to
Evening star., 1927-11-08

know, means pumping water daily,
paying taxes and meeting other ex-
penses of mine maintenance. often
running to hundreds of dollars day.
What Mr.. Lewis seems not 10
realize is that today the countrys 8
regular non union mines are perfectly
able to supply the entire country S
needs of around 10,000000 tons week
ly. and this without making any great
use of the 50-odd million tons in
storage.
That's practically a complete re-
versal of the relative union and non-
union strengths of a few years ago.
Incidentally, that is making the So
called union victory in Illinois ana
Indiana mean nothing at all, for they
are running now under 40 per cent,
and that mostly because certain pub
lie utilities can afford to operate their
mines below cost
so. in the complete absence of the
unions willingness to consider our
difficulties. all this forces us to do
exactly what we. are doing. run our
mines opcn-shop. Certainly. we have
no intention of cutting wages below
decent American standards. What S
Evening star., 1927-11-08
CENTRAL CITIZENS URGE
BENNING AIRPORT SITE
Association Wants Council 20 Press
Aviation Field Plan Before
Commission.

A resolution to seek an airport for
Washington on the site Of the Old
Benning race track in preference To
the Graveily Point site was adopted
by the Central Citizens Association
at a. meeting in the North Capitol
Savings Bank last night The resoltI-
ton included request that the CIti-
gems Advisory Council take up the
matter with the District Commission
ers.
Francis De Sales Ryan was re-eiect-
ed president of the association to
serve his third successive term. Other
officers elected were Robert Fl. Nc.
Mackin. vice president: John G. Nc
Mahon. secretary. and III. G. Rein
hardt, treasurer. Mr.. McMackin and
DR.. William T. kenealy were elected
delegates to the Federation of Citi-
Zens' Associations.
The association also adopted a reso-
luton protesting against the use os
one-man cars on North Capitol street
during rush hours, contending that
|, they delay. traffic.
Evening star., 1927-11-08
.LADUE IS QU|zZED
0NPARK|NG RULES
Commissioner Encounters
Series of Questions on Ap-
pearanCe Before Citizens.

A series of questions and direct
challenge to the suggestion that the
| District Commissioners listen tp pub.
lie opinion regarding the automobile
parking situation marked Engineer
Commissioner I4adue's address before
the Dupont Circle Citizens Assoca-
ton in the NIayfower Hotel yesterday
afternoon. in which he explained he
had come to deliver "an informal and
friendly talk" and not to state Il
policy.
At this point Col. Ladue paused to
ascertain from the president OF the
association, Admiral William Ledyard
Rodgers, if that was not the under
standing when he was invited TO
speak. Being assured it was, Col.
Ladue continued, with fewer inter
ruptions.
The situation arose following Col.
Ladue's question as to whether the
citizens would expect the Commits
sioners to ignore three-fourths of the
population in favor of the downtown
parking of automobiles and listen to
the one-fourth not in favor.
Immediately after Col. Ladue asked
the question. Col John BigeloW, mem
her of the association. declared: Il am
surprised to hear YOU say that. The
Board of Commissioners was created
to run the city arbitrarily for the
benefit Of the United States"
Col. Ladue in the course Of his ad
dress declared he was not there to
state any personal opinions. lie also
had declared, Lets quit this jcstinS,
l.oF With his address
All officers incumbent were re-elect-
ed. while Mrs. Demorest Lloyd was
chosen a vice president to succeed
the late Snowden Ashford. The Off
GERS of the association are:
Rear Admiral William Ledyard
Rodgers. president: Gen. George 2.
Scriven, Mrs. Richard Wainwright
and Mrs. Lloyd. vice presidents; Mrs.
William +. Ridgely. secretary: Maj.
Clayton +. Emig. financial secretary;
l.. r. Schreiner, treasurer, and Ralph
E.ndicott, assistant treasurer. Col. T.,
r. Pendleton and Maj. Emig We're
chosen delegates to the Federation of
Citizens Associations.
The association adopted a resolu,
ton opposing the development of the
Great Falls power project, offering as
an argument that it would do away
with one of the greatest natural
beauty spots in close proximity to
Washington.
The president was authorized to ap-
point a committee to study the pro-
posal of the National Capital Park
and Planning Commission to borrow
$40, ,0000 900 from the United States
Treasury for the purchase of park
and playground sites.
Mrs. John A. nougherty delivered
an address on the American Red
Cross.
Evening star., 1927-11-08

penny under the $3.50 scale. they
don't hesitate a minute to go to work
in droves for the lower wages, down
sometimes to So a day. of our COM
petitors. Sometimes. when they come
back. their home union tries to fine
them $500. But that, if not rescind.
ed. seldom does more than make a
m\, loaf around indefinitely or finally
moe back permanently into the non
union fields.
Our whole attitude would be differ
ent." Mr.. Robbins went on, thought.
fully. "if it were NOT that 20 cents
out of every dollar we pay for our
coal is for wages, with about half of
that in turn for nothing more than
the lifting of the coal off the mine
floor and into the mine car.
THAT means that our bill for the
daily work of arms and shoulders is
by all odds our biggest item of cost
if that items out of kllter. then we're
just out of luck altogether. If our
men wanted to help us reduce costs,
they could do lot even on the pres
ent wages. Naturally, we just can't
understand why they are willing to
Evening star., 1927-11-08

the use of fancifully high scale Il
nobody can operate on it,"
Assuredly. any industry Is sick
when union head and operator leader
can make such good cases for them
selves as have been stated, first by
Mr.. Lewis, in my article yesterday.
and now by Mr. ~obbins.
Can we. users Of their product their
indispensable product, help the legiti.
mate interests of both? About that
tomorrow.
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Evening star., 1927-11-08
COTTON NOT AFFECTED
BY RAIL FREIGHT RATES
Price Deviations Show Transporta.
ton Costs Have Little In
fuence, Bureau Holds.

Freight rates on the railroads have
a negligible effect on the price OF cot.
TIN, when viewed from the standpoint
of consumer and producer, the Bureau
of Railway Economics declared yester.
day in making public study of com.
modify prices in relation to transpor.
tation costs. The bureau said it's OBJ
servations led it to the conclusion that
transportation costs have but small
effect on price movements, and that
the transportation burden is moderate
in every case.
Price variations paid to growers for
cotton during the past four years
have been in marked contrast to the
comparative stability of freight rates, .
the bureau said. 1t held that fiuctua.
tions in cotton prices were caused by
other factors than cost Of transporta.
-
Evening star., 1927-11-08

sit idly by while they observe the
ruin not only Of themselves but of
us and our stockholders. besides max
ing trouble for all the public we try
to serve.
I'VE have no quarrel with unionism
as a principle. It's only this vital
matter of wage which will permit
us to operate. Every conceivable
plan we have tried, one after an
other. with Mr.. Lewis First. we
made studies of the increased cost
of living over 1913. Then to this in-
crease we added an extra 90 per cent,
making about S. instead of $3.50 the
base wage. Our offer was instantly
refused by the union heads
Compromise Rejected.
Then we offered to pay regularly
IL certain per cent above whatever
was paid by the most representative
Of our non-union competitors in West
Virginia. 1t wasn't even listened to.
We were curtly told that if we could
no. pay the Jacksonville scale and
get at once the desired rates from The
Interstate Commerce Commission. we
could close down. Even that, you
Evening star., 1927-11-08
City Street Collapses.

ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo., November
S R.-A part of one of Rock Springs
principal streets collapsed yesterday,
leaving a crater.like hole 80 feet deep.
An automobile had just passed over
the spot. The cavity. which reached
width of 40 feet. was the site of an
abandoned mine The town immedi.
ately detailed men to fill the abvss.
Evening star., 1927-11-08
BY WHITING WILLIAMS.

Nofe---Mr. Williams is presenting i'm
D1rtid{ly has obseFraIi0as on the labor
crisis in me s0ft coal field. stating The
nietcpOint Of both operator and union
Ills first article. Which appedred Desfer-
dgv. O0re the miners side To-Day the
operator is heard Mr.. Williams. an
uufh0ritV on economics and human rein
fi0ns has 7rorhed as n soft coat miner
IN Pennsylvania Frame and " dfeS. he
ina as the miners lire.
Evening star., 1927-11-08
WAGE COMPR OMISES SPURNED
BY MINERS, SOFT COAL MEN SAY
Labor Demands Would Mean Ruin, Oper-
ators Declare-Workers Refuse to Help
Reduce Costs on Present Pay Basis.

, ton-not much incentive to open a
mine or work it under those condi-
tions! We want to run a union mine,
and expect to run one if we run
it at ALL but it is impossible to do
so when the non-union fields around
us can produce coal so much more
cheaply and have a monopoly on the
entire market.
Not only has this impossible situa-
ton since Jacksonville slowly stran-
gled thousands of operators and tens
of thousands of stockholders; it has
caused enormous commercial shifts
in entire districts with millions of
| inhabitants.
"In Ohio, for instance" says Mr..
Robbins, 'mine after mine has been
| for three years in the grip Of much
| the same costs as mentioned by Mr..
| Stone. In scores Of our formerly
prosperous Ohio towns, the butchers.
bakers and bankers have been forced
| to join with the managers and miners
in passing their time watching one
long train after another go through
with nothing but coal, coal moving
from the non-union mines Of Ken
lucky or West Virginia up to Lake
Erie. and thence into exactly those
| Northwest markets which We're for
merly supplied by these same un-
| happy Onlookers.
| "Similarly. in 1926 Greater Pitts
! hurca suffered loss of 100000
| tons of soft coal as compared with
what could have been expected from
! the normal oDeration, on unioniZed
basis. in 1928 That means for the
district nothing less than loss in
wages alone of fully $50 900 600. a
| sum which undoubtedly represents
| n loss of two or three times that
| amount in the normal paSs-along of
the wage dollar in the stores. factories.
gas stations. public utilities. etc. Of
| the district"
Freight Rate Relief Slow.
Regarding freight rates Mr. Rob
bins agrees with Mr.. Lewis that they
are extremely important, but he says
| their relief is too slow to bring the
! needed help in time. The operators,
| he insists. cannot afford to sit down
| and wait for the Interstate Commerce
Commission properly to increase the
acceptable help recently given in the
| shape of 20-cent advantage over
! their West Virginia non-union cOmpe-
| titOrs. especially now that even this
! entirely inadequate advantage is
threatened by certain railroads seek
! ing permission to lower their own
rates and thus wipe out this new
! differential.
What tries us operators sorely."
adds Mr. Robbins, is that while our
miners refuse to work for us for a
Evening star., 1927-11-08
Special Dispatch to The Star.


CLEVELAND. Ohio, November s.
! Coal strike? We know nothing OF
any coal strike"'
| so ran the disconcerting reply of
one of those poverty.breeding coal
| companies" named by John Lewis, the
mine workers president. as trying so
hard to starve miners and their fam
| lilies into servitude."
For us the strike has been forgot
| ten," said the company. To-day were
| operating with non-uniOn miners,
| thousands of them. Their coal does
cost us more because we must pay to
protect them from unionists who
won't work and who stand ready to
assault those who will.
| But we are happy because of this
fone single fact. with . per cent fewer
men we are now getting more coal
than when we were running full-full,
that is. of union men. Furthermore,
our men are earning all the way from
around five dollars to ten and more
dollars n day and working steadily,
too. That's as close as we are to
either strike or 'SerVitude.
70 such testimony the local union
leaders have Just replied with a formal
protest to Pennsylvania governor
and senators and to PittsburGh's S
against the alleged illegal treatment
of miners. their wives and children by
the coal and iron police and the State
constabulary mentioned by Mr.. Lewis
in my article which appeared in this
paper yesterday.
Other protests, also other war plans,
doubtless will follow the convention of
the American Federation of Labor
leaders. beginning in Pittsburgh No
Vember IA.
1t remains all but unthinkable.
however. that the embattled operators
of Pennsylvania, Ohio and northern
West Virginia will show any great Z
willingness than I reported for Mr..
Lewis to compromise on the vital
issue, the Jacksonville base wage of
$3.50 a day. With all their hearts
these operators believe they simply
have no liberty in the matter That
scale is for them a simple impossi-
biity
Their best spokesman is S. II. Rob-
bins of Cleveland, president of the
Ohio Coal Operators Association,
and one of the most highly respected
leaders of the whole bituminous in
dustry.
Operators Position.
According to him, few union op-
orators but have been for most OF
the last three years in the same sit.
uation as was described. not by a
hard-boiled plutocrat. but by no less
a person than the late Warren Stone.
head Of the Brotherhood of Locomo-
tive Engineers, and thus in charge
Of mines owned mainly by his indi
yidual members.
Under the 1917 agreement" Stone
wrote to his union colleague. Lewis
''it cost US S1.1a per ton loaded on
cars for the actual wages paid to
miners. without any charge for de-
preciation or overhead. Under the
Jacksonville agreement of 1924 it
costs Sl.53 per ton-without any over.
head or any return on the invest
n1ent. The average price at which
coal is selling T. o. b. is S150 per
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-11-29
BESSIE HOWE
 lS IMPROVING Who Sent Radio Call for Aid Learns of
 His Success

ANCHORAGE, Alaska. Nov. 29. 1.-The condition of Bessie Howe. |Nlnilchic school teacher. who ac- cidently shot herself in the ab- domen while cleaning a gun and was brought here by airplane after local radiomen caught the faint signals for aid. IS improving and her life will probably be saved
 Walter Kotoff, of Ninilchic, arrived at Seldovia. last Sunday, in an exhausted condition, He walked 100 miles through bitter cold wastes. He was the sender of the faint wireless message summoning aid ibr Miss Howe. He was at Nini,chic when the 'accident occurred and mushed to la fox farm where he sent the radio call for help and then con tinued to Seldovia where he learned his efforts were sue , essful.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-11-29
NATIONAL PARK
 FUNDS SOUGHT
 BY KENT UCkY

LOUISVILLE. Ky. Nov. 29- Mammoth Cave and a score os lesser known caverns in central Kentucky will be included in the Mammoth Cave national park which is to be presented to tho government.
 Congress already has approved acceptance of the park, which will be improved and maintained by the government. It's opening will mark the establishment of the fourth large national park east of the Mississippi river There already is national park in Maine. and recently the gov ernment accepted the Shenandoah national park in Virginia and the Great Smoky Mountain national park in Tennessee and North Carolina.
 Kentucky now is engaged in a campaign to raise $2,000,000 to purchase the land for the park The section around Mammoth Cave abounds in beautiful scenery and lies within easy reach of residents of the central eastern part of the country.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-11-29

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