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...order of President Coolidge, at the request of Missouri Governor Samuel A. Baker, relief work went forward speedily under Major General William Lassiter of the Sixth Army Corps Area (Chicago...
Such was one eyewitness' description of what happened one noon last week when a low-pressure area formed in the sultry atmosphere over eastern Missouri, creating a Cave of the Winds, and loosing upon a residential section of St. Louis its worst tornado since...
Health. In each county are medical units financed jointly by the states, the counties, the Rockefeller Foundation, the U. S. Public Health Service. The Red Cross furnishes medical supplies. So vigorously have these units worked that, save in a few counties, the flood-area people now have less typhoid, malaria, pellagra, etc., than in normal non-flood years...
...President at Ouster Park last week came Herbert C. Hoover, reported on conditions in the flood area. His report centred upon the following points: The Federal Government normally appropriates some $16,000,000 yearly for control and navigation of the Mississippi River. This sum should be increased by from $15,000,000 to $20,000,000 annually, and the increase should tinue for ten years, making a total extra expenditure of from $150,000,000 to $200,000,000. Flood prevention plans should include the building of higher, wider levees; the construction of a spillway* in Louisiana (probably using...
...land around the isolated village of Kalaupapa, inaccessible save by an arduous path which is easily guarded. Only about 40 lepers now remain at the colony, many having been discharged in recent years after chaulmoogra oil treatment. Molokai itself is fifth in size of the Hawaiian group, having an area about one-fifth the size of Rhode Island. Flyers Smith and Bronte were in no danger of contracting leprosy...