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About Ashland American. (Ashland, Jackson County, Or.) 1927-1927 | View Entire Issue (May 20, 1927)
One of the Flooded Towns in Mississippi Czar of the Garment Industry Air view of ail that »a * visible of the town of Benoit, MI mm ., during the greut Hood. The water here was thirty feet deeis and It was reported that several lives were lost In the town. Indian Chief Directs Traffic on a Park Lake Dr. Lindsay ltogers, youthful professor of public law at Columbia uni versity who has been chosen as “czar” of the gurment Industry at a salary reported to be $2"),000 annually. Doctor Rogers’ official position Is defined us executive director of the National Wholesale Women’s Wear association, one of the largest Industries In the city of New York. It will be his Job to supervise all trade disputes and to establish an entente cordlale among the various branches of the Industry. Taking the Place of the A rm y Mule l*2 P > 1 :/ ^ So 1 aien-o-W a-Ne, or Chief Great Fire of the Iroquois, Is now the general custodian and guardian around Central lake. New \ ork city. II*» glides hither and yon In Ids light cunoe, painted red, and gives the lake quite a blf of color. He Is seen above breaking up a “ traffic jam.’' Paris Flight Plane Crashes, Killing Tw o Infantry organizations In the Philippines are experimenting with native ponies as replacement! for the time-honored army mules used as pack animals. Lack of roads In many pnrts of the islands makes transportation by any other means Impossible. This photograph shows one of the doughboys with a typical native pony. Indian Mounds Are Flood Refuges This picture, transmitted by telegraph wires, shown the great plane American Legion as It lay wrecked In u marsh near Newport News, Va. I.leut. Com. Noel Duvls nnd Lieut. Stanton Wooster, who were testing the machine ftor the Paris flight, were k’lled. General Butler at Shanghai SAVE NEW ORLEANS Air view of Indian mounds near Greenville Miss., that were filled with people and cattle which were driven there when the main levee broke. Peruvian Traffic Bug I.en. Smedley I». Butler, Just arrived In Shanghai, as he made a tour of Uixi>«<l>on «*r the marina barrack * He Is now In command of the Devil Uog> at Shanghai. This sketch map shows where the Mississippi levee was cut near Poy- draa La„ for the purpose of relieving the flood pressure and saving New Orleans from Inundation. This action, approved by the War department, caused the flooding of St. Bernard and Plaquemines parts lies, which had been evacuated. Far up the Amazon Investigating scientists found the traffic hug. a na tive «rf Peru, strangely armored by na ture. busy, voracious and combative, | it war with many other forest bug I clMsena, the Ohio State Journal In forma Its name was given for the 1 reason that nature equipped It with a red light on Its head and a green light I >r. Us tall, the lights showing at all times during the dark hours -•utruijsi, r enniary § stone, la the most beautiful and W'IThi ° f * " Purt*1« Jewels scrliied by a Fifteenth-century ■ ** “ purple red In color medelyd *"°r uyolette," It Is one of th precious stones that can. If one perstltloua be worn at all time •n all places without Incurring II It Is s faTorits ring stone snd U by many as a lovers' pledge