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Harrim, passing a forged instrument.
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Hol M. White to make certain
his ruling Juage
that three iasues
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ORANGE PRODUCTS IN INDUSTRY PROGRAM
day la one vast valley of desola- ghostly hoof-beats of three of the
tion. Four Horsemen of lagend. riding
several doctors
not even
of the prineiml induntrial <
prines of the city.
F H. Farwell, representing
Iana and Missiasippi
atayed until the last moment
then left in boats am! rafts.
Telephone communication wa
tablished with Greenville. Mine.,
ly today and scores of boats
and nurses narrowly escaped death
swimming to the banks.
By LAWRENCE SULIIVAN
(INS Staf Correspondent)
provements on
right-of-way on
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Pale that a driving wind whips low over
1 on the great Waste of waters. over 60,-
by jumping
ported burned
and I loked and behold a I
Horse; and his name that aat
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The Mississippi valley region to- who is so minded can hear
Dintrict court matters here today
were confined to non-jury matters as
the petit jury was excused until to-
morrow when the following cases are
set for trial:
State of Texas vs. M. F. Funchenn,
charged with theft of a hog: J. P.
Young, ponsession of intoxicating li-
quor; Denny Wolford, anmault•with
intent to murder; Clara Jackson.
become an ocean; its tributaries
have burst their bonds. and towns,
villages, plantations and homesteads
are dissolving before their waves
by wholesale
A Great Dsaster
The rest of the country does not
grasp the extent of the flood's de-
vastation and the Imperative need
for real relief work
it doe* not realize that southern
financit rs estimate it will take at
least five years for the south to
recover from this blow, that the
reconstruction problem the valley
will face when, the flood subsides-
and bear in mind that the waters
have not yet reached their crest —
will be as serious as anything the
south has faced since the recon-
•.ruction days following the Civil
War. Dire poverty for several years
faes thousand* who have lost even
thing In the swirling flood water*
Fully 8,000,000 acres are under
water today. The property damage
probably will be at least $100,000,-
000 The death toll of storms and
flood* already I* close to ISU.
Five states lie directly in the
AUSTIN. Texas, April 26.—Judge
James f: Hamilton today overruled
the motion made yesterday by de-
fense counsel to quash indictments
The stage of the Red river was
41 feet todlay, two feet above the
flood stage. Shreveport is not in
danger of being flooded.
ORANGE, TEXAS, TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1927
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on wood and
The Texas Industrial Week idea
was given a suhstantial boost at the
weeklv Rotarv meeting and lunch-
eon at noon today when the execu-
tive board of the chamber of com-
merce. with Pregdeht R- H Manley
preniding, nut on a program which
included addrennes h renrenentativep
Food. clothing. bedding, medicines
or any article designed for the re-
lief of the thounands of flood vic-
tim* in the Miasissippi valley will
be handled free of charge by the
American Railway Express company
provided the shipment is consigned
to a regular relief organization
Announcement to this effect was
made here today by managers of
the local office.
A universal appeal has been sent
out for aid in the relief work, and
Orange is expected to respond.
Front street occu-
Lutcher & More Lumber eompany
was the first speaker He reviewed
some of the most Interesting features
of the hietorv ef this institution
which he nald had operated contin-
nounly regardless of market co nd l-
MEMPHIS. Tenn., April 26.—"— Beneath the sodden rain clouds
rapid pace. la composed of the fol-
lowing; Joe Prager. Joe Cooper, O.
M Hells Leander Hebert. Georg* W.
Bancroft. Will Winfree, H O. An-
derson, Qus Oldham. J. M. Col-
burn, W. E. Dun. Milton Thomas.
Milton Thornes.
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will be restored, according to Thos.
H Me Donald, chief of the bureau of
good roads in Washington, speaking
before members of the Texas High-
way association, in session here to-
day.
' This means that federal funds in
excess of l7.00g.000 will be avail-
able for road construction in this
state. The funds were withheld un-
til the state highway commission
complied with federal requirements
on various projects.
Indications are that there willrbe
quick action on the part of the
Hout hern Pacific railroad officials in
responding to a request from Mayor
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no Apologles for being in the lumbar
businesa. because he felt that it was
nne of the manv actual necessities of
life He said that ths frst thing on
which a child put its feet when it
hen there were
PROSsA n ON
inggPn-hip or orenae
M ijBMwIn 25th to soth.
fPah-tp Wek and
eHoranre are rtjsct
2mmpart in thi- nations I
ABr in addition to thi~,
ed ffty visitors will he
pMay 2nd in 5th. for the
nrent-Teacher’ Ansorin-
ivention and Orange will
want to hr ready for
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LAREDO. 420 carloads Bermuda
unions shipped from heir recently.
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of Eonham. and H. H. Moore, of
Cooper. The two former legislators
are on trial in district criminal
court here off bribery charges grow-
ing out of the alleged arceptance by
into the water
Ing Davis maneuvered to the far
side of the field in order to have a
long run before going into the air.
The plane carried a full load. ap-
proximately the same weight that it
Fol M. White.
pathway that eu
heart of the contin
For mile on qm
horizon has dis
waste of water.
that part of
on a mission of famine, pestilence,
and death down a thousand-mile
available One rescue boat was
Mavor of the City of Onur, de-
ei- *• of this week Clenn-Up
Week in the City of Orange and
respectfullt reqnent that every
citizew cooperate in this campaizn
by cutting your weeds and grass.
Ml Ing up and drain and lime low
plarea, gather up all can* and
other rubbish that will not hum
and set out where name can he
hauled awny: repnir and paint or
whitewash fences and outhild-
Ing*: do anything that will make
your premises and our city more
sanitary and • healthier place for
your family. Yours truly.
HOL M. WHITF, Mayor.
SHREVFPORT. Uu April 26.—
boner* of lire am helieved to have
heen saved hy an early warning
that the . Red river levee near
Wekipoint, Ia.. wa« crumbling and
would likely break.
When the levee went not late
yesterday, flonding hundreda of
sores of farm lands and two towns
resldenta had akread: moved to
TANGLEY FIELD Va . April 26.
The propomed trana-Atlantic flight of
14. Commander Noel Dvis and Ta
Stanton H Woonter came to tragic
end here today
While on a Ann l test before hon-
ning off on a non-stop flight from
New York to Paris to win n $25 000
prize Tin vis and Wooster were kill-
ed when their plane crashed while
makine n forced landing in the water
near here
The plane the "Ameriran Tezlon
which they were to use in the long
flight, wna wrecked
The plane, a bombing type similar
to those In use In the navy. made
its first flight shout three weeks neo
near the factory of the Keystone Air-
craft compnny nt Bristol, Tenn.
The plane had been fitted sperinlly
for the Atlantic Right with extra
fuel tanks and reinforced structural
supnorts. »
The crash occurred at 6:35 o'clock
this morning. five minutes after the
take-off.
The bodies of Davis and Wooster
were pulled out of the wreckage and
sent to the naval hospital at Nor-
folk.
The commandant of Iangley field
has ordered a board of Inquiry to
investigate the fatal accident
Officers st Langley Field said that
Da via and Wooster were In jubilant
MEMPHIS, Tenn., April 26.— The
death toll from the southern floods
•oared today to around two hun-
dred as the Mississippi river con-
tinued to overrun the banks of the
lower Mississippi valley, inundating
additional towns and claiming more
lives.
Twenty-five persons were reported
to have perished near Head. Miss,
when the house they took refuge in
was burned to the water's edge.
Three deaths were reported today
from Leland, Miss., from disease.
Many new areas were flooded to-
day from tributaries of the Minsis-
sippi rising beyond their banks
throughout the lower Mississippi val-
ley. Louisinna was getting its first
real touch of the fiood disaster when
breaks near Shreveport in the Rad
river levees were reported.
Conditiops In the Greenville area
were improing and foodstuts reach-
ed that city. •
A crisis was xpedted tdany in a
threatened apii between the Red
Crom and the Minmissippi national
guard over the forceful evacuation
of several small towns
Under orders to move persons from
the flooded towns by force la neces-
mary. national guard troops were en
route to these towns. These orders
were sharply critcized by Red Cros
officials in the field. The qunstten
will probably be decided by Secre-
tary of Commerce Hoover who will
make a report in Vicksburg today
following his special tour of ths
area aboard the U. H. Chinca.
HELENA, Ark., held its breath to-
day as the levees showed signs of
wenkening. Helena to date is dry
•nd protecting several thousand ref-
ugees but is surrounded by water.
Cold, half starved and half-naked
refugees, marooned on house tons)
and in branches of trees In the flood
ares are being rescued by boats to-
day and taken to Leland, Mlaa. Some
are only semi-conscious from their
exposure.
Planters in the delta of the Mig.
sissippi and in the St. Francis basin.
Arkansas, have abandoned hope of
raising crops this year.
Arkansas City was evazuated to:
day after a night of horror. Cut off
from the outer world, without lights
in the grasp of sw ri ling pools of wa-
or water for 24 hours, the city was
ter. 14 feet dep todhey. Its citizens
pied by the company’s switch track*.
General Superintendent H J.
Miekpch of the Texas A New Orleans
division was here on the first train
today to call on Mayor White for
the purpose’of going over the situa-
tion and decided on just what steps
should he taken tn put the thor-
oughfare In the best condition pos-
sible
Micksch said that he was gind to
see the proper authorities manifest
concern in seeing that the railronds,
as well as other institutions do
their part in taking care of obliga-
tions
"We will niwnys cooperate with
the officials of Orange in carrying
out their requests where it t at nil
possible.’ Micksch said.
questions is what will happen to the
levees In the lower river with the
arrival of the erest. Hoover said.
Reaching Greenville, Mississippi,
the hardest hit city In the entire val-
ley. shortly before daylight the
Chinca, government tug. halted only
long enough for a hurried survey of
the stricken area from motor launch-
es before resuming her journey to
Vieksburg. the clearing house fnr
rescue work nf tha entire flooded
area south of Memphis
With the crest nf the raging flood
a little below Helens. Arkansas, st
noon today. Hoover looked south
ward with apprehensive ayes To
the north the worst ha* passed. The
Mississippi and It* tributaries still
are rising at isolated points but the
great swell ha* subsided in every
•(ream and threatens no further ex-
tension of the flooded area below
Vicksburg, however The situation
grows more menacing houris. with
New Orleans, the thirteenth city of
sLAYS FAMLLY.
WINDSOR, Ont., April 26--Be-
Bieved to have gone suddenly in-
sane. Mrs. Husnu Thouan, to-
day killa Ner four children with
a butcher knite and then at-
tempted suicide at their inn kl
Ford City. Ont., according te
word received here
VICKSBURG. Miss . April 26.--
Having whipped Inin shape in a sin-
gle day the greatest peacetime relief
organizatlon in United States his-
torr. Secretary of Commerce Hoover
arrived todav in the heart of the
Miasienippi flood region.
His first purpose was the first
hand survey of conditions in the Red
Cross refuge* camps which ar* rar-
ing for upwA ds of one hundred and
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WASHINOTON, April 24—The
government has no authority to per-
mit the cutting of a levee at Poy-
dras Paris. Iouiniana, to relieve the
flood crest sweeping toward New
Oleans, President Coolidge declared
to<la>
Governor Simpnon of Louisiana
and Mayor O’Keefe of New Orleans
had asked the lever he rut In the
hope of maving the tity from high
water
The .state of louisiana must as-
sume full responsibility for any dam-
age to adjacent land If the levee is
hut, the president sold.
good for sausage This concern, he
said. manufactured 20 different va-
rieties of hogs.
Wm. Reid, manager of the Orange
Rice Mill company, introduced his
concern as being 27 year* old, which
has now for its mission, the feeding
of both man and beast To this tn-
at Hut Inn there was added 14 year*
Pon a fee? Aerartment. He said
that h's rommnv had made it p
point to bny Tex ss prnueta In the
wnv of corn nnts and rice. The vonr
1919 he mld. was one nt the bie-
eft cron vearp in the hnterv otor-
anre enmntv. That vear the Orange
nr* Minin* romnanv p«M out more
thnn $700,000 for rice. Lant v*ar. a
non* eren vehr this concern dintrih-
wter nmong the farmers around
$150,000,
Reid said that he theuwht thnt
drain a re was nne of the thing* most
needed to bring Orange rountu into
her own. HI* romnnny has CA men
on it* payroll nearly all the year,
he said
J. I Byrne, manager of the o,
ange Car and Bteel eomnanv. stress-
ed the imnortanre nf developing in-
dustrial relations, which ha, mid hae
reference tn the relations hetween
the employer and employe He said
that contrary to the old davs when
the employer was imbued with the
slave driving Idea, that the new
thought was to ‘look out for the weL
fare of the man who tolls AS wen an
' to look out for the protection of
• your machinery He mid that his
Idea was to see that the employe was
happy and contented and that he
had an opportunity to prosper.
The Texas Creonoting compnny,
represented by R. H Manley, has ex-
pended for labor, piling, poles and
eromties the sum of $1,419,000 since
its establishment. There has been
expended approximately $987,000
for chemicals; for fuel and power.
91SA.OGA; salary or wages. $581,000;
for supplies, $124,000.
O. D. Buller, representing the But-
ler and Callihan Box and Crate
manufacturing plant, said that he
and his associate in buniness had
started a new plan in which they
were devoting most of their time
manufacturing cabbage crates. Dur-
ing the past eleven months this enn-
cern has used 798,000 feet of lum-
ber in manufacturing 137.000 crates,
going principally te the Rio Grande
outside appearancem, moving at a spirits whn they took off this morn-
that wood played m important part
through life and at the end. that
the body waa carried to its last rest-
ing nlare In wood
• Alex Lett, manager of the Or-
ange Products company stated that
the plant would be comnleted in a
very short time and that he expected
the inntitution to play its part in de-
velopment of the country in the
course of time. He referred to the
progress mnde by the American
Pickling and Canning company, now
one of the largest institutions of its
kind in the south, as having been
anrted,14 years ago and that it was
now utilizing the proucts of 10.000
acres of land. He said that there
had heen planted several hundred
acres of trucks in this section thia
year with the view of furnishing the
canning factory, which In due course
of time would be consuming the
products of thousands of acres of
land. Instead of hundred* of acre*
now.
The Sahine Packing company, a
one-year-old Institution, was pre-
sented hr its manager E. G. Wil-
kins. who said that during the past
year that around 6,600 head of cat-
tle and more than 1,000 head of
hogs had been butchered A large
payroll made pomnible by this insti-
tution has resulted In the distribu-
tion of thousands of dollars among
Orange eitizens that would have
gone elsewhere, he said. He stressed
the value of corn-fed hoga and de-
clared that contrary to the old idea.
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Louisiana Gets First Flood Disaster at Shrevept
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The remarkable airplane picture above shows Mt tie Rock. Arkumnsas, where 1,000 men have been con-
scripted for levee duty by he mayor following refusal of 600 work.men to carr» on an apparently futile
fight against flood waters. Is the city, which is virtually isolated from the rest of the state, iso homes and
store buildings in the eastern section, pictured here, are under wuter, several hundred are homeless and
seventy-five square blocks are flooded. Below, to the left, is shown what happens to flivvers left too near
Bear Creek, at Pawnee, Oklahoma. To the right la a refugee camp new Cairo, Illinois, one of the. many
ramps along the Minsissippi river where thousands ami thousands of homeless are now being cared for.
were Involved in the case, namely,
whether an offense had been com-
mitted: whether there was duplicity
in the indiotments, and whether or
not discharging their official duties
mx state representatives would cause
susceptibility to bribery.
Immediately fliowing the court's
ruling the business of selecting a
jury to try the case was begun. nQ
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