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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1927
Page
8
In New York May 3 AP Mrs Ruth Snyder testifies she fainted when watching Henry Gras beat her husband Albert Snyder and recalls how she aided the plot. She details insurance policies and steps taken to assist Gras while denying notifying authorities.
Tug with a barge moved to St Joseph to stand by for citizen rescue if a crevasse opens. Refugees marooned at Frogmore Concordia parish cry for relief and boats will be sent to Black river. Sicily Island in Catahoula parish evacuated as engineers widen the Poydras breach below New Orleans to 1600 feet, releasing flood waters.
The Mississippi River level near New Orleans falls to 20.5 feet with a 1 foot drop. Crews widen a 2,000 foot opening and coast guard boats assemble. Louisiana State University students rig 200 flat boats for rear levee defense. The reparations committee plans to meet to assess damage in St Bernard and Plaquemines parishes.
As Mississippi River and tributaries breach dikes Northern and Central Louisiana parishes melt into a flood refugee exodus. Red Cross reports 14 000 in five camps plus thousands in Dehli Bastrop Vicksburg Oak Grove Lake Providence and other locales seeking food shelter and transport amid rescue fleets air support and relief boats.
Reports to the Red Cross indicate many refused to leave the area. Preparations were under way to establish wireless communications between strategic valley points. A chain of land stations will coordinate with vessels in the rescue fleets forming a major new Red Cross communication system.
The list records small donations from individuals including J D McCallum H Blame Jacob H Froelich Mrs C H Rhodes and George Schmidt with amounts ranging from two dollars to five dollars. The note shows a continued donations section likely from a community or church newsletter.
The High Point Christian Endeavor Union held its annual banquet last night at the Presbyterian hut on South Wrenn and Green streets. About 75 members attended as Rev. Charles P. Cobb of First Presbyterian delivered the principal address on the movement’s ideals and work.
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