Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-14

the economic problems are being
tackled in a way that augurs we'll
for early recovery; and that the
morale of the whole valley is high.
Secretary Hoover has given The
Stars correspondent a detailed sum-
mary of the situation as he found 1t
in each State. 1t follows:
ssisSippi-EXpenditu and grants
by Red Cross to September 6. S4S50,-
900; additional grants this trip, S4I3,-
900: appropriation for reconstruction
Of planters cabins. $500. 900; contin-
gent fund. S100,000; total appropria-
ton for Mississippi, $5,723.00O. Coun-
ties found to require no further as
sstance in Mississippi, Jefferson, Will
kinson. Adam, Kinds, Pike, Lauder
dale, Holmes, Tunica, Claiborne and
Leflore. Counties given additional
grants, Humphreys, $11 800; Suntlow-
er, $1,000; Warren, S25 1000, and West
Bolivar, SIS 900. Counties given final
grants, East Bolivar, $4,000; Issa-
quena, SILT 900; Sharkey, $134,500, and
Yazoo, $4,000. Washington County,
worst sufferer in Mississippi, was
awarded $4,000 additional, with
which to carry on until further need
arises.
$4,000 individual Cases.
There are approximately $4,000 in
dividual cases possibly requiring addl'
tional relief this Winter. Louisiana
expenditures and grants by Red Cross
to September 6, $3,600,000; new grants
this trip, 81 ,003, 500; continuing aid in
three parishes hardest hit, $4,000;
contingent fund, 100000. Parishes
requiring no further aid-Ascension,
Grant, Iberia, Lasalle, Morehouse,
Natchitoches, Ouachita, New Orleans,
Plaouemine, st. John, Acadia, Living
ton and Lafayette. Parishes requiring
additions to final grants-East Carroll,
So, 900; West Feliciana, $500; Rapides.
$500, and West Carroll, $4,000. Par
| ishes given final grants-AsSumptlon
| Avoyelles, Catahoula, Concordia, East
Baton Rouge, West Baton Rouge,
Franklin, Iberville, Lafourche, Madl-
son, Point Coupee. ST. Mary, Tensas,
Terrebonne, st. Lanery and town OF
| Melville: total; S84S,700. Parishes still
needing aid-Caldwell, Richland and
| st. Martins. 1t is estimated they will
need nearly a quarter of a million dol
lars to carry them through until jan
uary 1. Approximately $4,000 per-
sons in Louisiana may need help DUR
ing the Winter. Administrations
| expenditures and grants, S3,177 600;
| new grants this trip, S310.640; total
appropriations, $3,487.640. Thirty
| counties requiring no further aid
Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Clay, Con-
| way, Craighead. Drew, Faulkner,
| Franklin, Green, Hampstead. indie
pendence, Jackson, Johnson, Law
renee, Logan, Crittendon, Randolph,
Lee, Monroe, Cross, St. Francis, JEFF
ferson. Counties given additions to
final grants-Poinsett, Prairie and
Woodruff: total, $4,000. Counties
given final grants, Chicot, Desha, MIS-
sissippi and Phillips; total, S265,64O.
! General appropriation for rebuilding
planters cabins. 100000. One-thlrd
Of this probably will not be used. The
other flood States, Missouri, Illinois,
Tennessee and Kentucky, did not suf-
fer so heavily as Arkansas, Mississippi
and Louisiana. In Missouri, eight
counties have been wiped off the Red
Cross list, while two remain to be
graduated"
S263, 800 i'm Missouri.
| Total funds allotted to Missouri ag-
gregate S263,990 In Illinois II coun-
| ties are off the list and two remain
| under Red Cross care. The total
allotted to Illinois was $98,773. In
Kentucky four counties have com
pleted their program and one remains
on a continuation basis. Kentucky's
total was $71,776. Tennessee's five
flooded counties no longer need aid.
| The latter State received S94,31l OF
Red Cross money.
| With recession Of the water, it has
been possible for Army engineers to
compute accurately the grand total
Of square miles overfowed in April.
Capt. L. A. Pick, War Department
aide to Secretary Hoover, today an
| nounced that the water covered 24,S36
square miles of land, or a total Of
1886, 040 acres, mostly under cult
walton. Louisiana led. with 1882
square miles; Arkansas was next.
with zoos square miles; Mississippi
was third, with 4,200 square miles,
and the others, in order, were Mis-
souri,. 1872 square miles: Tennessee,
| 768 square miles. and Kentucky, SO
square miles. Capt. Pick said that
all of the u crevasses in the main
levee line along the Mississippi are
being repaired as rapidly as possible,
and that there Is ample time to close
all the breaks before the January
rise, providing funds hold out. These
breaks are at DOrena, st. Johns,
| Whitehall, Knowlton. Laconia, Mounds
Landing, Cabin Teele, Winter Quar-
ters, st. Joseph, Glassock, Beabston
and Bougere. Work also is being
started or is planned on many Of the
2O0-odd breaks along the tributaries,
| Dripcinallv aIonp the White Arkan.