The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-07-29
NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
MIR. Hoover Offers Flood Re-
lief and Control Plan
to President.
ey EDWARD w. PlcKARo

Ry EDWARD w. PlCkARD
FLOOD relief and control work by
L congress, covering period of ten
years and costing more than $150,000.-
600 is recommended by Secretary of
Commerce Hoover in the comprehen-
sive report on the Mississippi valley
disaster Of this year which he laid
before President Coolidge at the sum-
mer White House. His control project,
besides providing for taking over and
improving the leyee system, embraces
a plan for completion of the naviga-.
ton program OF the Mississippi and
it's main tributaries which he says
can be carried out at an additional
cost of fifteen to twenty millions a.
year.
Mr.. Hoover declared that the flood
control program must embrace the
following principles:
/. Higher and consequently wider
levees and the extensio1l of federal
responsibility for levees in some of
the tributaries.
2. safety valve upon the levee
system by the provision of a spillway
or bypass to the gulf to protect New
Orleans and southern Louisiana
most probably the Atchafalaya river
for this purpose. ts5a .~ss
8. For further safety measures the
engineers are examining the possible
extension, of the bypass to the north
ward from the Atchafalaya toward
the Arkansas. the possible erection
of emergency flood basins. and the
possibility of store in the tributaries.
Concerning the relief work Mr..
Hoover said in part:
"The financial situation on relief is
that we can complete all these pro-
grams-seed, food. feed furniture,
animals, house construction, santa
ton BY the first of November we
estimate we shall have spent S13.4OO.-
600 Red Cross funds, 100000 equip
ment and supplies from the federal
government. 100000 free railway
transportation. and provided $1.1OO.-
600 for county health cleanup units.
We should have left $3,O00,000 from
the Sl6.500.O00 subscribed to the Red
Cross with which to face continued
necessities after November l. 1t is
impossible to determine what the ne
cessities will be after that date"
a MOTHER caller on the President
"A was Senator Smoot. chairman of
the senate finance committee. who
presented his plan for tax reduction.
This program is based on a tax cut
of S300.O00OO0 and includes the fol-
lowing items: ~tN
Reduction of the corporation tax
from 1914 to 10 per cent. looping off
$1500O0.000 annual revenue.
Elimination of taxes on admissions
and club dues, cutting the nations
income $37.000,000 yearly.
Reduction of tax on passenger auto
mobiles from per cent to ~ per
cent costing S50,O00,OOO.
Graduated scale reduction on in
comes between $4,000. and 100000.
l1L1AEI1. SOlueli-HdlTeu cnIlQ
lV1 not yet six years old, is now
king of Rumania, for the picturesque
King Ferdinand succumbed on July
20 to the malady that made his death.
imminent for many months. Until the
new monarch reaches his eighteenth
year the country will be ruled by a
regency comprised of his uncle,
Prince Nicholas. Miron Cristea. patri-
arch of the Rumanian orthodox
church, and Judge Buzdugan of the
supreme court.
In announcing the=death of Ferdi-
nand the government issued an Of
fetal statment saying 1t will not
waver from the decision of the crown
council on January A, 1926. at which
Prince Carol was disinherited and
Prince Michael, his son, proclaimed
crown prince. and that the govern
ment will support the regency. and
''if necessary, resort to arms to pre-
vent the reinstatement of Carol"
The commander of the Second army
corps. stationed in Bucharest. issued a
statement informing the country that
the state of siege continues. and
warning newspaper men that if they