Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-05-01
FLOOD RELIEF
W|DENS
TO NEW AREAS
Gigantic Mobilization of
Men, Boats and Supplies
Takes Place.
MORE VESSELS
Boats Ordered From At
lantic. and Great Lakes to
Save Lives.

! MEMPHIS, Tenn, April 80 (F1-
| Ever widening the scope of theil
Operations as the Mississippi FLOOD
waters poured seaward, relief agenc-
/ les, CO. -ordinateu nj the American
7 Red Cross, moved apace tonight &c
| tvere death and suffering in new
areas as we'll as to minister to the
| wants of the vast army of refugees
already homeless.
| A gigantic mobilization of men,
icats and supplies was taking place
| IN the lower delta, especially In
Louisiana where new breaks were
| threatened in the protective dilles,
while fleets of boats sped to the re-
Eel of thousands whose homes have
been engulfed by the, new wall Of
water advancing over southeastern
Arkansas and pouring down the
northern Louisiana parishes
70 augment craft already gathered
in the Louisiana and Mississippi
waters, orders have gone forth Iore
more than 230 additional vessels
which will be drawn from eastern
end southern seaboards and from
the Great Lakes. These will as
semble at New Orleans and hatcher
where already many boats are en-
gagged in evacuating lowlands threat-
ened or now inundated by the roll
ipe waters Meanwhile with aG-
vance precautionary measures well
in hand post flood relief work con-
t;nued swiftly as car after car OF
food supplies, clothing. II $,
oil
ed were sped by train to distriDu-
ticn points from where the more
than 100000 refugees will be aided
Looking to the future the Ped Cross
tcday set aside fund of $25c,00o
to he used for emergency farm RELIEF
in the flooded Mississippi valley
area. The funds will be spent TO
PURCHASE seed and other supplies, as
fa1 mers resume operations after wat
crs recede.
Medical men gathered to discuss
nlans- for safeguarding the health
Of 100000 flood refugees, argued
Towser's part in the health danger
today. one man of scicnce proposed
that every dog. in refugee camps
scattered over Louisiana, Arkansas
Mississippi, Illinois, Missouri, ken
lucky and Tennessee, be exterminat-
cd. A quiet and unannounced eX-
termination of the animal the poets
have hailed rs mans best friend
was suggested.
l. mo" shouted DIR. c. w. Garrison,
Public health officer of Arkansas
"leave the dogs alone" And the
suggestion was lost iii clamor OF
protest Reports of health officers
showed only a few iso!ated cases OF
rabies in refugee camps.
Refugees, it was explained, by
opponents of the determination plan
following the conference, are lii
enough distress and unhapriness. 70
kill their dogs would add to their
worries, it was said.
NEW ORLEANS, April so R.-The
crevasse waters Of the Mississippi will
have cut a path through the Caernar-
Won levee 500 feet wide by Monday
morning and additional dynamiting in
| the SO hours will widen the breach to
| the 1000 to 1000 feet necessary to
! relieve New Orleans levees of the flood
nressure, George c. Schoenberger, chief
of state engineers, said here tonight.
Two of the major gaps on the. en-
| bankment will be joined before morn
ing, he said. Mr. Schoenberger said
| that 4,200 pounds of dynamite have
| been used in the levee and that 4,O0O
pounds more would be used if neces-
| sary He said that the levees between
| New Orleans and Good Hope, above the
i city, were as strong as the CaernarVon
| levee and that any talk of cutting them
| with a few sticks of dynamite was
folly. Engineers agree that for any
break to bring water into the city it
| would have to be between New Orleans
ard Good Hope and such waters as
| reached the city probably would be
| back water. Estimating that the
J crevasses would take two feet of the
, crest level of the river at New Orleans
/ engineers said that with the relief thus
afforded the peak here probably would
be in the neighborhood of 23.7 feet
around May A.