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The Cincinnati Post from Cincinnati, Ohio • 14

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Cincinnati, Ohio
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Phi 14 TUNE IN WCPO I 1230- THE CINCINNATI POST Flood Water 15 Feet Deep Covers City Airport Here Is Gying-flsh-eye view of Lunken Airport Thst Is the siscond-atory and roof of the administration building In the center-water Is about 11-15 feet at this point A large transport plane caught by the onrush of flood waters Bee at the right Homes Factories Resemble Floating Blocks As Ominous Quiet Settles Over Flood Area The Post sent two of its reporters out to view the overall picture of the Great Flood of 1945 from up close Here are their observations made on a boat trip up the swollen Ohio River and from the cockpit of a Civil Air Patrol plane Luxury Type Living Room SPRING-FILLED A gracious modem suite with the expensive look of luxury Super-sized extra comfortable sofa and lounge chair With reversible cushions and soft yielding pillow-backs Up bolstered in "Frost-teck" Tapestry a handsome NEW cover TAKE A YEAR TO PAY AFTER DOWN PAYMENT With Elocant Cover Inundated Airplanes Look Like Fishing Flies Bugs From Sky BV RALPH BRADY You get a terrifically graphic panoramic picture of what the Great Flood of 1945 did to the Ohio River Valley here when you cruise over Cincinnati in an airplane The scene unfolded before you at 100 miles an hour leaves you gasping as though someone had doused you with a bucket of cold water In fact viewed from 2000 feet altitude the city looks like an scale model of a town after someone had poured a few buckets of muddy water on it Magnitude Revealed Unless you were affected directly you visualize the magnitude of the flood unless you see It from the air So come along with 1st Lt Leonard Osborn of the Civil Air Patrol on a cruise over the inundated valley Our first big circle after leaving Parks Watson Airport is over Lunken Field and the adjacent city playground The roofs of the Administration Building and the hangars look like rectangular blocks floating in fared far worse than Covington its neighbor Now we circle the Millcreek barrier dam and head up Millcreek Union Terminal stands like an island of refuge In the midst of the swollen creek The roof of the grandstand at Qrosley Field cuts a sharp pattern in the water All the way up to Knowlton's Corner at the foot of the Ludlow avenue viaduct the flood waters have speared into the low places railroad yards streets and fields near the several crossing viaducts Pint-Size Rowboats Corner itself looks (ike a little lake cradled in the surrounding high ground Hoffner Ludlow and Blue Rock and the foot of Hamilton avenue are underwater Rowboats pint-size from your height crawl along ferrying people over the watery barrier As you wing back to a landing at the Watson Airport you think a lot and finally you say bitterly: Yes a mess and it happen" But there it is The big question is: "Shall it happen again?" a sea of water The light poles on the playfield tennis courts stick up like little pins in a map Silence Nearly Audible A submerged C-47 Army transport plane looks like a big trout fly An Army trainer plane nearby looks like a little bug The Beechmont levee alongside the Little Miami River resembles a slender trace of shrubbery against a watery backdrop You almost can hear the silence Upstream you see the roofs of Newtown apparently afloat Now we are flying over Eastern avenue up the Ohio River Railroad tracks and cross streets are flooded spottily in the vicinity of the Waterworks Pumping Station the Cincinnati Gas Electric Co branch and the Cincinnati Gymnasium Boat Club the roof of the Green Line steamer landing with a -passenger craft riding smoothly alongside The public landing is not visible The bridges are steel ribbons of safety Muddy Desolation The Newport downtown section is a scene of muddy desolation It Lausche Interviewed Here tv-'- s': I- 'V 4 "v- i High Water Doubles River's Current Rate Reporter Discovers BY ERWIN BELOW The great quiet desolation of the flood its havoc ravages and ruins was viewed from the Ohio River by The Post from the' deck of a Higgins patrol boat prowling eyes of the Coast Guard Cdr Francis Leahy In charge of Ohio Valley evacuation operations for the Coast Guard his aide Lt Kavanaugh Lt Arthur Schletker veteran riverman here and newsmen were aboard Ploughing into the murky river from the foot of Pike street the craft headed upstream A 10-mile-an-hour current twice the normal speed slowed progress to a creep Cold Perilous The river boiled past the bow laden with hazardous driftwood and thousands of tons of valuable topsoil a colossal waste of fertile farm land It was cold on the water A pale sunlight afforded little warmth The Dayton and Bellevue waterfronts were a panorama of half-submerged trees and red and green rooftops Oyer all was an ominous stillness- Yet behind those watery desolate streets the business of living somehow went on as usual Here and there between rows of protruding rooftops rescue boats piled high with household belongings laboriously rowed shoreward Immobile faces- gazed at the power boat One man waved resignedly Water Laps Sides The main pumping station of the Cincinnati Gas ft Electric Co water lapped the sides of its flood walls protecting vital turbines within huge coal piles appeared as miniature islands The surrounded Ohio River Yacht Club sleek cabin cruii era hugged the safety of their piers the fetid waters seeming to taunt them Lunken Airport its once proud efficiency reduced to submerged impotence a stranded airliner seemed to perch atop the water Back down the river Newport Covington the Cincinnati waterfront mute desecrated homes and warehouses The animal kingdom suffered too A forlorn bunny huddled on a jagged rock surrounded by acres of water This is the 1945 flood triumph once again of the elements over mankind 2 Saved From Nips Arrive on West Coast Two Covington men rescued from the Jap prison camp at Ca-banatuan in the Philippines have returned to the United States They are Pvt Roy Morris son of Mrs Estel Cohorn of 6 28th street Covington and Pfc Chester McGlasson uncle of Carl Lee of 3313 Watson avenue The two men were among 513 officers and enlisted men who arrived on a transport at San Francisco late Thursday The- War Department has announced that the men will be sent to hospitals near their homes Stove Explosion Starts Home Blaze The family of Charles Ruth of 6023 Wayside avenue Mt Washington escaped injury Friday in a fire that damaged the kitchen of their home Marshal Joseph De-vine reported Two fire companies which have been stationed in Mt Washington for the duration of the flood extinguished the blaze The marshal said a minor explosion in a defective gasoline stove caused flames to flare up and set fire to the walls and ceiling Damage waa estimated at 375 7 1 -V (rJs- i i rt '2 v1' 'i Vv s- 'a ft' -j-- i V' -A 5-Piece Modern BEDROOM Gov Lausche right was interviewed over WCPO during his visit to Cincinnati to Inspect the flood areas Others present for the broadcast were left to right City Blanager Kellogg Robert Bohngen state liquor director and Albert Cash city councilman Drosser Ghost Full-Size Bed Spring and Mattress Railroads Keep Up Emergency Basis Railroads continued to operate on emergency basis Friday from Union Terminal and' suburban stations to which there is shuttle bus service from the terminal Chesapeake A Olio Louisville ft Nashville Southern and Norfolk ft Western trains and the Indianapolis section of the New York Central operate from the terminal Baltimore ft Ohio now has an outlet from the Oakley station for Parkersburg Washington and way points A ft train for Cambridge leaves there at 2:33 while service to Dayton Toledo and Detroit departs from the Glendale station Shuttle bus service operates from the terminal to the Oakley Norwood Lockland and Glendale stations Pilot Is Missing Soldier Wounded VAN WERT March 9 Capt Don Rauch 25 pilot Air Forces is missing in action in China Feb 21 The report was sent to his wife at Wayne Pa who telephoned his parents Mr and Mrs Rauch of this city He has been in service for three years A county soldier wounded in action is Pvt Edward Pfost wounded in France Feb 21 He is a son of Mr and Mrs Lawrence Pfost of nearby Scott Child 22 Months Burns to Death Special to The Poet HAMILTON March Norman Willsey 22 months son of Mr and Mrs Lawrence Willsey of 2 Oxford died at Mercy Hospital of burns received while playing a few hours earlier In his home Coroner Edward Cook said the child had been near a match on the floor and in some manner it 'became ignited and set fire to the clothing Mrs Willsey extinguished the flames and rushed the child to the hospital May-Stem sets a new high in Bedroom Values with this complete Bedroom Group ait $1291 Striking modem suite beautified by lovely limqd-oak veneers full-size Plate-Glass Mirrors curving Waterfall Fronts and streamlined drawer pulla Y(ii to Pay After Down Payment Paper Napkin Smoker Calls Cigaret Addicts NEW YORK March 9 (UP) A troubled Messiah came to town today puffing on a paper napkin to show cigaret smokers how they look He said his name was Paul Kern his age 69 and that smoking three marks: Spiritual degeneracy spiritual decay and insanity" Kern stood halfway up a stairway leading to an elevated railway platform It was noon yesterday in midtown New York A crowd gathered below his "balcony" He took a paper napkin from the pocket of his patched overcoat He flourished it He rolled if tight imitating a man rolling his own cigaret He stuck it in his- mouth with a sweeping gesture He puffed He exhaled with exaggerated heaving of the chest and grinned He tapped his head with his finger and grinned The crowd grinned too They thought they understood In a quiet comer of the elevated platform Kern said he was no comedian His heart was heavy "I do that to show people how foolish they look how silly they are" he said country smoked $150000(ft)000 worth of tobacco last year What a tragedy! He said he shoveled snow and did other odd jobs to keep his crusade alive He tended bar for 20 years but a seized him he said and made him hang up his apron and bar towel for good Two More Liberated Philippine Area WASHINGTON March 9 (UP) The War Department announced names today of additional persons liberated in the Philippines including: Mrs Joseph Crawford whose nearest kin was listed as Russell Hale Box 608 Wilmington Ohio Ora Lautzenheiser nearest kin Mrs Minnie Myers Hamilton if IM1Y- STERN'S I Soviet Women Honored MOSCOW March 9 The press revealed today that 72196 women serving with the Red Army have been awarded orders and medals since the beginning of the war Complete Tubular Metal Cot and Pad 9x12 RUG 12 Mora oi thoae fine rugs' famous for thsir soil cushiony qualities In colorful scroll and two-tons leal Gives you a sturdy ioitabls sxtra bad whan you nasd ill Takss up lulls space folds flat Complete with soil mattress pad IMPORTANT NOTICE To All Factories and Business Places Having Flood Damage: Wc are experts in Salvaging and Reconditioning practically all types of Textiles Consult us at onca for our Advica and Suggestions Free Estimates Act quickly while we are able to take on this extra work Plnitt Kirby 9101-Klrby 2282-WOodborn IIM PEERLESS MFG SUPPLY CO 1368 Avon Place ASSOCIATED WITH OHIO INDUSTRIAL LAUNDRY 2323 Florence Avenue 10 patterns 95 Chtft It! 95 Charm Jtl Louisville Nashville Railroad PASSENGER TRAIN SERVICE TEMPORARILY DISCONTINUED FROM CINCINNATI OHIO EXCEPT slhe following trains will bo operated: Trains Nos 1 7 199 between naBBOai Cincinnati and Louisville emly FflggXgl Train Now S3 The Southland will Aftj HI operate on regular schedule with transfer to regular Florida Pullman cars at Winchester Ky Train No 17 The Flamingo will operate on regular lArfiiU PORTER Division Passenger Agent 3.

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