New Britain herald., 1927-04-27
4,000 ORDERED T0
 VACATE VILLAGES


 in this crisis dispatches from New Orleans say they have laid down their arms in the face Of guaran- tees Of remuneration for their losses. Always Are Fighting They have not often directed sidcrs. They have been too busy fighting among themselves. Minia- ture civil wars have been fought in the Louisiana swamps for years, as the muskrat hunters went about their business with a trap in one hand and a gun in the other. The trap was for muskrat and the gun for anyone who might attempt to interfere with the trapping, even though he might happen to own the land.
 When the levce lets the water through an untold number Of musk rat will perish and succulent vege- tables will be buried deep in the rich trucking section to be flooded,
 The Mississippi river is responsi- ble for the second port words appearing on much New Orleans stationery. and has made the city the largest Of the south but it is a viper in the city's bosom when it is angry.
 Troops Patrol Levecs
 New Orleans La, April 21 PI- The tramp Of National Guardsmen echoed along levees today as two southern Louisiana parishes were being evacuated preparatory to sur rendering them to the waters of the Mississippi that the south's lars- est city might be saved from the on slaught of the flood.
 Vigorous protestation on the part of citizens Of the two parishes. St. Bernard and Plaquemines, which often have witnessed the withcring fire of guns in the perennial trap perS' warfare, was registered as the residents continued to patrol the leyees.
 Reimbursement Promised
 Assurance that the property own CTS Of the Poydras area would bo reim hursed for damages came from fifty leading financiers and business men Of New Orleans who joined Governor o. H. Simpson. Mayor Arthur o. Keefe, and President Guy l.. Doano, of the New Orleans levee board. in signing a resolution to this effect.
 Meanwhile officers Of the two par ishes were warning inhabitants to flee after the issuance Of a procla- nation by Governor Simpson setting noon Friday as the time for the crevasse to be cut.
 1000 Must Get Out
 Approximately 4.000 persons must be moved out of the area before the will be settled upon by committee of five persons constituted by two appointees of Governor Simpson, two persons named by the New Or leans city council, and one member designated by the board of levee district.
 Hundreds March Out
 Hundreds of persons formed the seemingly endless caravan which streamed out Of the doomed area. Battered automobiles. trucks. wa gons and even pushcar's trundled through the gravel toward New Or leans where they will be cared for until the waters reccde from their homes. All movable belongings were included in the miscellaneous bum dies which freighted the vehicles.
 Many Of the refugees were per sons who had been driven from their homes in the Poydras area by the 1922 breaks. But in the previ- ous flood they had but the briefest notice and in many cases were forced to abandon their belongings.
 The waters from the Poydras break will inundate about 7O,nO0 acres, it was estimated hy engin- cers. The crevasse of 1922 flooded about that much territory. No towns of any size are likely to be touched by the waters. The village 'i t''' i''IlI'it VI i'' p'i 'loSt to the path the water is expected to take but 1t was thought that it would escape.
 Those Affected Most
 Truck farmers and trappers arc the main inhabitants of the doomed area. None of these will be able to depend on any income from their regular sources during the year. The lands Of the truck farmers are like ly to be under water several months, and it will take several years to make up the number of muskrats drowned by the high waters. The oyster and shrimp industry along the shores Of Lake Borgne is ex- pectod to suffer heavily also.
 The entire Louisiana National Guard was called into service to pa trol the levees in the vicinity of New Orleans.
 Although all the ramparts were reported to be in satisfactory con- dition there was faint hope Of hold ing an unbroken chain when the water goes three feet higher.