AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 28 April 1927, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.] IXCJI EASING ROOD DANGER. PROPOSED TO BREAK LEVEES. WASHINGTON. April 2G. A message from Alomphis states Governor Simpson of Louisiana with the concurrence of Mayor O’Keele of New Orleans, asked the War Department’s approval to break the Mississippi levees to relieve the flood situation. The proposed break would be created below New Orleans, to divert the wall of water rushing down the great stream. Simpson's message to Secretary Davis declared that Louisiana and New Orleans pledged their faith to compensate any damage caused bv the break, and urged that tho present conditions require immediate action.

.Meantime the Red Cross organisation under Henry Baker, national director of the disaster relief work, established a large depot here for distribution of supplies to refugees.

IMr Baker has requistioned the War Department for a large quantity of supplies. These include twenty-five thousand tents, twenty-five thousand cots, one hundred thousand blankets, two hundred field kitchens all of which will he rushed to rebel camps wherever needed. Mr Baker has also asked the Navy for four more hydro-planes, which will he used to make daily surveys of the Hooded sections to locate marooned refugees, and carry supplies. The evacuation of the inhabitants from their homes in the delta region is continuing oil a large scale. Relief camps will he maintained until the last victims can return to their homes which is estimated will be at least a month, after which Red Cross plans to aid rehabitation by providing clothing ml i\ small amount of Furniture. Meantime, Mr Hpover is proceeding down the Mississippi surveying the desolated areas.

Estimates of flic dead in the flood stricken area vary to-day from two hundred to five hundred.

Refugees from newly inundated sections of Mississippi. Arkansas and Louisana have swelled the ranks. There are one hundred and fifty thousand homeless at the concentration camps. In a statement issued from a steamer proceeding down the Mississippi, Mr Hoover declared the great question was what would happen to the levees of the lower river on arrival of the crest.

PRIESTS TO LEAVE MEXICO. MEXICO CITY. April 2G. “El Sol Labor’’ says the headquarters of the Mexican Episcopate ordered Catholic priests in Mexico to go to United States or Cuba. Many are preparing to do so.

U.S.A. ACCIDENTS. NEW YORK, April 26

Mr Charles Hull. General Safety Agent for the Xew York Central Railways. has announced that ninety thousand persons were killed and two hundred thousand were injured in accidents of all kinds in the United States during 1925. A fourth of this number were children under fifteen. Each day 24G children under fifteen were killed and seven thousand were injured.

U.S.A. INDUSTRY. XKAV YORK. April 27

The Australian Industrial Alission was given a civic reception at AA aterbury. along with Air Do A alera (the Irish Republican Leader). 'J hey were introduced to each other bv the Mayor of the city.

Speaking at a Rotary luncheon where the Alission were guests, Air Campbell, who is a member of the Brisbane Rotary Club, said that strikes in American had decreased, while they were increasing in Australia. The Alission. he said, did not want to study the scientific methods if American industry and to steal its sec-rots, hut only the industrial methods. Piecework appeared to he the secret of success in America, while Australians were always wrangling over wages and conditions. He admired the spirit of co-oper-ation in American industry. Australia neglected this vital economic factor of production. The Mission's inspections included the AA'atcrbury Farrell Foundry Company, where there were 80 indentured apprentices among 750 employees. The members of the Alission were surprised because there were so very few apprentices. It was discovered at the American Brass Foundry Company that women receive the same wages as men, hut are doing more work. In a certain department sixty per cent of the employees are working on the premium bonus system, the average wages roll of the turners "being four shillings per hour. They work n 55-hour week.