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1 WH AS Page 5 Section 2 wttffff A 1 58 Pages 6 Sections VOL. CLXV. NEW SERIES ISO. 24.861 LOUISVILLE, SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 24, 1937. SECTION 110 PAGES SUNDAY PRICE 10 CENTS.

Hundreds Are Saved In Flooded West End Evacuation of State Prison Is Ordered wht 3 9 A Flood Victim Safe At Last 24 Make Break For Liberty Bv Leaping Into Ice-Cold Water Food, Water Shortages 11 illc Brave Figlit Waged By Rescue Crews; 2 Are Known Dead Governor Commands Flooded Penitentiary Aban-doned Because of Danger of Pestilence and Illness. Ohio Nears Crest of 52 Feel, Expected lo He Reaclieil Sumlay At Louisville. 2,900 Prisoners to Be Barracked In East Frankfort; Shooting Within Walls Ad- milted Bv Officials. 1 tJtzs III 33 rill vni fulfil 1 I -j Property Damage 3Ioimts Hourly As Husincss Is Halted and Ulililies Are (Irippled. Complete orjranization of relief and rescue work In the Louisville area has been worked out by Mayor Neville Miller.

Details will be announced over WUAS at 8 a.m. Sunday. All citizens of Louisville are urged to tune In at this time and to be prepared to take notes on the information given. Frankfort, Jan. 23 Kentucky's State Prison here was being abandoned late today following a day and night of disorders during which twenty-four of the break for freedom.

Evacuation of the prison was ordered by Gov. A. B. Chandler as flood waters of the Kentucky River swirled six feet high within the prison walls. Arrangements were made to barrack the convicts in State property near the feeble-minded institute in East Frankfort.

The removal order, the Governor said, was decided on because of the danger of pestilence and illness in the prison. There -was no immediate danger of the waters rising higher. With two known dead, and the West End presenting the gravest rescue problem ever faced by Louisville, the city Saturday nifiht settled down to a week-end of grim battle against the most devastating flood in the history of the Falls Cities. Henry Arnold, 74. died of exposure at the home of his daughter, Mrs.

Minnie Gassoway. Manslick after he was rescued from his flooded home in Bullitt County. John Schmidt, 55, rear of 540 F. Walnut, was dead on arrival at the City Hospital. He was stricken fatally with exposure and exhaustion from relief work.

Pricnn ITnrlpr Afat-tiil i Boats were commandeered from mrailoVl nlapo in Vietr 2,900 flood-bound prisoners made a 50,000 State Cold Wave Adds to Misery Federal Aid Fund Sought. (By the Associated Press.) Kentucky, gripped by the most devastating flood in the history State police, prison guards and I 1 "1 National Guardsmen evacuate thejJ- 1 tl ICillllS prisoners. The prison was martial law. Ij I HOmClCSS of the Bluegrass iState, sought re-1 Scores of communities were lief Saturday night for more than i without heat, gas or light. A 50,000 homeless persons.

drinking water shortage devel- With the waters of the Many communities were Valley continuing their rise, bitter cold weather added to the suffer-! Health conditions were gener- Police were ordered to shont to kill looters found in the flooded areas. About 40 per cent of the city's residential area was inundated. Water hacked through sewers to low spots in the heart of the downtown business section. Life was stripped to bare necessities, and luxuries banned entirely and every-day conveniences curtailed to the bone. Marooned families were being rescued at the rate of more than 100 persons an hour by a weary corps of oarsmen in every avail-! able boat.

At one relief depot 1 alone, that at 32d and Uroadway, rate of rescue was seventy-; five persons an hour. Other hav- ens of relief were set up at the Shawnee Park Police Station. 27 1 Iv and Broadwav, and 14th and Market. River Creeps I'pward. The intense suffering of tlmu-' sands of homeless, and llic grow-I ing fatigue of rescue workers who have toiled night and day, was allevialed to a degree by settled weather Saturday.

While there I was a heavy crust of snow on un-submerged ground, there was welcome respite from the rain that, up until Saturday, had aggravated the situation d.ulv. Rut the swollen Ohio still crept upward toward a crest of 51.5 tr 52 feet, predicted by the U. S. i Weather Bureau, by late Sunday. Boat Patrols Assisting In Relief Tasks Committee ('all- avor for Public Co-operation In Emergency.

The Mayor's committee Saturday announced it has not received, but must have, cooperation from the public. The committee has obtained full co-operation on the economical use of eas, electricity and water. It has not received co-operation, it said, in the curtailment of social and non-essential telephone rails, use of automobiles, refraining: from sightseeing, and keeping off the streets. There has been some it was added. Louisville's rescue work was operating Saturday under a smoothly functioning general committee headed by Mayor Neville Miller.

The big ned during the day was for boats to remove occupants ot 1 i i- 1 i 1, Photo by Art Abftor. The story i- greatest jltutd i. etitom izetl in this xrrnr in tlie Cane Hun lid. sertinn. fyrain and urnrry irritten in every tine nf his fare, the man, trearing large mttnn glnret tenderly clasps an infant flood refugee brought to dry, safe ground.

Cash Pours In ng of thousands of persons forced from inundated homes National Guardsmen patrolled the flood districts of stricken cities. Water supplies were endangered in many towns, while at Frankfort and Maysville pumping plants had stopped. Cold Adds to All relief agencies in the State hurled their full resources into the breach as a bitter cold wind added to the suffering of refugees However, J. L. Kendall, U.

S. weather forecaster, said the cold After Appeal By Roosevelt Senator Harkley Reports U. S. Orders Red Tape Cut to Speed Relief. 300,000 Refugees Suffer; Epidemic Danger Scouted.

Looter Shot In Cincinnati; River Practically At Stand There. (By Associated Press.) Cold, hunger and snow plagued nparlv 300 000 rpfufpps ririvpn from their homes icy waters Saturday. Twenty-six deaths were counted, as a record-smashing flood cut an ever widening swath through the lower Ohio Valfey and the menacing Mississippi burst through its levees. Property losses estimated at approximately $10,000,000 in Ohio alone increased hourly. President Roosevelt issued a proclamation asking the Nation to contribute $2,000,000 for relief of the homeless.

He ordered Federal agencies to lend their fullest assistance. Spurred by pleas for aid, mercy trains, boats, trucks and planes sped food, fuel, medicine and bedding to the inundated areas. Workers Rushed to Floor Areas. Some 20,000 W.P.A. workers were rushed to flood centers.

Midwestern directors were reaJy to assign 50,000 more to help the growing army of men, women and children forced to evacuate in snow, sleet, and freezing temper- atures au gooa ana Cincinnati meaicai authorities expressed the belief epidemics were not threatening. "Shoot down looters," officials ordered police and National Guardsmen patrolling flooded districts. Governor Townsend of Indiana Saturday night placed the city of Aurora under martial law in an effort to end looting of homes of persons driven out by the flood. Fire Danger Passes. Danger of fire from gasoline pouring on flood waters of Mill 'Creek.

Cincinnati. aDDarentlv had Fr 3 fPared flash of fire would set the swollen creek aflame for three miles, from edce to edse. Bordering the Union Terminal, 1 i iu. dated. A grocery guard killed a Negro prowler there.

Damage of $3. 000, 000 was forecast. Twenty thousand of the 70.000 residents of the Portsmouth, Ohio, (Continued on Face 2, Column 1.) American Red Cross, Green County Chapter 162.42 The Sutchffe Company 100.00 Karl H. Lang 100.00 Lions Club 100.00 Joseph Sass 100.00 Thomas A. Barker 100.00 A.

J. Earlev 100.00 Olivia W. Kent 100.00 Vertner D. Smith 50.00 Beacon Liquors 50 00 50.00 American Red Cross. Paris.

Ky. Bourbon Post, American Legion, 50.00 50.00 40.00 25.0(1 25.00 25.00 25.00 25.00 23.50 20.00 20.00 10.00 10 00 10 00 10.00 10.00 tans. rvy. Sacred Heart Junior College George t. Ragsdaie T- hostel lo Bernard Selligman Mr.

and Mrs. Frank P. Allen Dr. c. w.

Dowden Chi Omega Alumni of Louisville Theodore B. Bickel H. L. Rans John F. Zunder Mrs.

Cary Tabb and Miss Mary J. Bell Miss Y. Rvans M. O. Frank E.

Rudd Ot'o J. Badur C. W. Stockhoff Mane M. Hunt M.

E. Pottlitzer 5.00 5.00 5 on 5.00 5.00 5.00 llr. Daisy H. Meyers Bella M. Brent M.

William McKay 'J- vnDyke Norman JJffttiZZZrnZZZ Eueene r. Lynch E- Tirrinann Anonvmous Robert Maione 5.oo 5.oo 5.00 I 5.00 i 5.00 1 5.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 i 2.00 I Mrs. Louise Bucket jGas Poisoninir Kills 3, Makes lVC OtllCl'S 111 Dr. Morris Flexner comes AtteiiIing Woman Who Dies. Gas poisoning in two Louisville homes caused the death of three! persons Saturday.

Five others i incfuriinc Dr. Morris Floxner, at-1 tending phvsician. in one were made ill bv gas. 1 had checked the rise of the rivers. passed.

More than a million gal-Gov. A. B. Chandler, who had Ions of the fuel had escaped onto been vacationing in Virginia, re- the stream through the toppling turned to the Capitol at Frank- and overturning of storage tanks fort this afternoon, and took and tank cars. Nevertheless, fire-charge of relief work.

men kept close watch over the Paducah Half Inundated. iarea and posted "no smoking" Paducah late this afternoon re- signs. approximately one-inira 01 on jmihT precipitation Washington, Jan. 23 f3) Cash began accumulating at Red Cross center tonight in response to President Pioosevelt's appeal to the Nation for S2. 000,000 for flood sufferers.

The President made the appeal today in a special proclamation. I .1 I i P. 1 Mr. Roosevelt placed the num- Otli'-l II til OI Prlcd 0VCr half th town undcri water. National Guardsmen wcriv being sent there from Hopkins- ville and an immediate appeal was made for doctors.

The State i 1 i city's area, a large part of it residential. By n'ghtfall forty-five boats were patrolling the flood area and as many more were promised by morning. All Kentucky unaffected by the flood sent to the Mavor heartening citv from a dozen counties. War Department Aids. Arthur Krock, former executive, of The Courier-Journal and The Louisville Times, and now Wash- The dead are: messages during the day.

Clothing Mrs. J. L. Rood, 70, of money were pouring into the I Vi1 1 Paicm-a aane cuys idiuodu center rr 1 1 hnar n'l nnrepe i i cpnim prpit nine llirniinn a tprmins anri ber already driven from their homes in the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys at 270,000 women and children ak.ch i. vmiiflMi, jchaJrman of the Red Cross, in- i creased this estimate to a short time later, and the President said it was likely to go on climbing until the flood crest is past.

"The victims of this grave disaster are dependent upon the American Red Cress for food, shelter, fuel, medical care, and I warm clothing. said the Prcsi- dent proclamation 'In order that the Red Cross' may meet these immediate cmerg- nnir tinner" rri i ni 4 P'jro "'u'- lor these unlortunates until mc, The majority of the prisoners probably will not be removed un- til Monday, the move depending upon the arrival of tents, cots, field kitchens and other equipment. Reports of continued disorders at the prison stirred the flood-stricken State capital throughout the day and were promptly denied by Warden James Hammond, and Maj. Joseph E. Kelly, in charge of the military forces assigned to the prison.

That there actually had been shooting within the prison was admitted by the warden and Kelly. They emphatically denied reports that stirred the town all day to the effect a gang of men convicts had broken into the women's ward, and that four or five convicts had been slain. Situation Held "Horrible." "Nobody had been killed and nobody has been shot," Kelly said. Hammond described the situation within the prison as "horrible," due to lack of water, light and heat. Residents in homes near the prison reported having heard sounds like pistol shots throughout the early morning.

Johnson announced officially that one of the twenty-four who leaped into the icy waters swirling around the prison had not been accounted for. He assumed the man had escaped. The other en tv-three he said were back 1 i in their cells. Water, Power Cut Off. The regular water supply into the prison was cut off this morning when the entire city's supply was shut down.

The prison power plant was put out of order by flood waters last night. There was no heat or sanitation. Highway Department crews started building an emergency water line into the prison to cary water from tanks on a nearby hillside. The water was obtained from the local reservoir and the Lexington Water Company. A ramp for use in moving the prisoners was hastily constructed.

Heavily armed National Guardsmen and State police pa-troled the vicinity of the prison in rowboats. Water was high up on the prison walls and was swirl ing around in the cell houses. The; prisoners were moved to second-' floor cells. There was a general! state of confusion. All available: rowboats in the prison neighbor- (Continued on Page Column Weather Forecast Kentucky Rain with slowly rising temperature Sunday.

Monday, rain and warmer, followed by colder Monday night. Tennessee Rain with slowly rising temperature Sunday. Monday, rain and warmer followed by colder in west and central portions Monday night. Indiana Rain or snow in extreme south, increasing cloudiness followed by snow in central and north portions Sunday, rising temperature Sunday; Monday rain or snow, colder in northwest, warmer in extreme southeast portion. Outlook for Wrek Ohio Valley and Tennessee Rain over south and rain or slcct over north portion Monday; then generally fair probable, except for a brief perior of precipitation middle of week.

Rising temperature at beginning of week; colder Monday night and Tuesday, warmer Wednesday, colder Thursday and at end. of week. I wnitn was aue lo arrive inen-'iinausiridi area. late tonight. Forty-five hundred) When the last tank, a the town's 5,000 telephones; gallon storage dump of the Stand-were out of commission.

lard Oil Company of Ohio, toppled Renewed hope surged through in late Saturday afternoon, belief flood-ridden Frankfort Saturday was expressed by police that flood night as the swollen Kentucky waters had so diluted the fuel River began falling at the rate, that danger was averted, of a tenth of a foot an hour after One-seventh of the city more ington correspondent of the New 1 followe by colder 'weather Mon-York imes, telephoned to assure v- night Mayor Miller that Secretary of, Th(. jf(, f)f ar Woodnng had issued orders to Red Cross son ville Is Submerged Baeknaler Closing T11 Oil N'w Alhany; Many Thousands I Gurgling Ohio waters coursed through four-fifths of flood-Jcf fersonville Saturdav wracked night as military and relief a2rncics caroH for 4ono persons' i ariven irom their homes. eTosed in on Nrw in the last twenty-four hours. 1 the United States Coast Guardi nirnlateH son nprmq hai-e. h.een i rescued from housetops and other; hish points in Jeffersonville and Clark County.

Three babies were born Satur- (Continued on Pace 5, Column 3.) Ask Me Another 1 Of what National League teams was Hornsby a member? 2 In what Dickens novel is Dick Swiveller a character? 3 What kind of a large bird is called a courser? 4 What is the capital of Chile? 5 What President was assassinated by Czolgosz? Answers to today's "Ask Me Another," are on page four. reacmng a cresi or aoove 10 iecnttian ten square miles was inun-! Douglass Blvd. Mrs. Elizabeth Gathof. 74.

of 2732 W. Jefferson. Sylvester M. Gathof, 40, her son. same address.

Those made ill are: Dr. Flexner. 2204 Douglass Blvd. Martin Gathof, 75, of 2732 W. Jefferson.

Mrs. Josephine Randolph, 42. Mrs. Reed's daughter. Mrs.

Wilson Cochran, 2212 Douglass Blvd. fiTArmorv PI James E. Collings, f3, Negro. I.nla Covington 43 Wcm ir Woman Dies. Mrs.

Reed died and Dr. Flex- nor hcr attending physician: IIrs" RandolPn. Mrs- Cochran and the two Negroes, servants in the Reed home, were made ill by carbon monoxide gas poisoning from a furnace. Dr. Flexner said.

Dr. Flexner was called to attend Mrs. Reed at 9 a.m. Not immediately detecting gas poisoning. (Continued on Page 7, Column 4.) and driving 1,500 persons from their homes.

Senator Albcn W. Barkley said Red Cross headquarters advised him in Washington arrangements (Continued on Page 7, Column 1.) nil eveiimuj; jieeocu imiih mr Jeffersonville Quartermaster Depot to be made available for sufferers. The request for the (Continued on Pace 5. Column Flootl Not to Delay Denlianlt's Trial Judge C. C.

Marshall said Saturday night at Shelbyville that from three sides, and iSi3iooo homeless were foreseen as th ernt nmrH $6,958 Given For Flood Aid To Mayor Miller's Committee the murder case of Brig. Gen. come iurnrsnca oy ncich-H. Denhardt would be called atiborin volunteers and relief New Castle Monday, as scheduled.1 workers before climbing into The case will be called for the trucks to be taken to shelter on hearinc of whatever motions mav hifiher ground. Aflrr lh(.

lm n. the Ohio Valley. Hate of Kisc Lessens. u' Jr' fmr.d stae. 4 4 h-et above the previous 'Jl''0 Ab U' At midnight, the stage was 51.

1 in 1R84. The rate of rise was .0 5 of a foot an hour, having dropped to that point from Ihe d.iy's previous rate of .1 of a foot. The weather forecast, however, augured more flood waters. Rain and slowly rising temperature was edic ted for Snriflav and Mund.n- as no respectf of persons or pi. tee.

As eac depot was drowned out and j1s usefulness obliterated, the renter nf "Potions sh.ftrd hac eastward to some other point still dry. Flic stations were favored centers of opera ion. Given Hot Coffee. Kach load of two to four per- son" huddled around fires and Approximately 100 were given temporary shelter during their flight at the fire station at (Continued on Pace 4, Column 1.) Tli Index Sundav January 21. SIX SECTIONS 58 Iiee.

America Speaks P. 8, Mag. Amusements P. 7, Sec. 2 Automobiles P.

9, Sec. 1 Books P. 7, Mag. Bridge P. 7, Sec.

2 Classified PP. 8-9, Sec. 3 Crossword Puzzle 7, Sec. 3 Editorial P. fi.

Sec. 1 Financial PP. 5-7, Sec. 3 Kentucky Summary, P. 6, Mag.

O. O. Mclntyre P. 5, Mag. Merry-Go-Round P.

Mas. Music P. 8. Sec. 3 News Review P.

4, Mag. Quiz of the Week P. 5, Mag. Radio P. Sec.

2 Real Estate 10, Sec. 3 Serial P. 5, Mag. Serial Times P. 10, Sec.

I Sports PP. 2-4, Sec. 3 Travel P. 9, Sec 1 Women's News Sec. 2 1 1 1 1 4 fund of $2,000,000 be raised as! speedily as possibles The Red Cross planned to spend a minimum of S3.

000.000 to meet the disaster, but Sl.uuu.uuu already was available. After an all-night siege of telephoning. Senator Barkley. of Kentucky, reported today that Governmental officials had ordered all red tape cut in order that expeditious relief be afforded to Kentucky and adjacent flood regions. Gen.

Malin Craig, army chief of staff, informed the Senator that corps areas commanders at Columbus, Fort Knox and elsewhere had been instructed to disregard usual procedure in order to get tents, blankets, cots and other sup-continued on Page 4, Column 1.) (Continued on "age 4. Column 8.) iwve lacifu ana mcv be returned to their homes, it imperative that a minimum relief, Flood Situation In Brief iBy the Associated Press. Homeless Almost 300.000 in ten StatesOhio. Indiana. Ken tucky, West Virginia, Tennessee, Missouri, Arkansas, Illinois.

Missis-! sippi and Pennsylvania. Maryland, Louisiana and North Carolina experienced minor floods. Dead Ohio. Kentucky, Tennessee, Illinois, West Vii i ginia, Arkansas and Missouri, two each; Mississippi and Pennsylvania, one each. Total 26.

Relief Red Cross raising $2,000,000 fund and has $1,000,000 be presented. Judge Marshall said. New Castle is not in the flood area. inundated areas. W.P.A.

diverted' Hickman, Ky, and in Kennett, Within an hour and a half after it had opened an office for the reception of donations, the Mayor's finance committee Saturday night had collected $5,859.42. The office was opened at 301 W. Walnut at 6 p.m. and by 11:30 p.m. the amount had redClieu $6,358.92.

-ui- ui v-iituiva iiuiu muuc pavdoie to the order of the Mayor's Flood i Relief. The committee will ar-: range, it announced, to have the monev called for in the event the i donor is unable to take it to, the office. The office will remain open Sunday. Its telephones are JAckson 3636 and JAckson 3746. All money collected will be disbursed under the direction of the Mayor and his advisers.

The committee docs not want anyone to apply to it for cash relief. The Committee Consists Of J. McFerran Barr, chairman; Wil- ham C. Dabney. John G.

Hey- burn, Preston P. Joyes, David Maloney, Rabbi Joseph Rauch, Mrs. Louis Seelbach and Prentiss Trry The donors included: Brown-Williamson Tobacco Co. $5.000.00 The Courier-Journal and Times and WHAS 500.00 i i available to finance assistance in 18,000 workers to relief and rescue activity. Rescue Coast Guard has nearly 100 boats in flood districts oH en route by train.

Scores of private boats in operation. Eight nine National Guard, and three Coast Guard planes assigned to observation duty. Transportation Street car, bus and railroad service inoperative at a number of centers and crippled in others in Indiana, Illinois, Ohio and Kentucky. Business At virtual standstill in Portsmouth, Ohio; Lawrence- i Attention, Rescue Workers! Rescue workers and persons in rowboats in zones affected by flood waters are urged to watch for a fleet of sound trucks, bearing special instructions from relief headquarters as to rescue measures and emergency bulletins. These trucks, patrolling as near as possible to flooded areas, carry radio receivers tuned to WHAS, radiophone of The Courier-Journal and The Louisville Times.

The facilities of this station have been turned over to authorities in charge of rescue work. The amplifiers of the trucks may be heard for a mile and should speed rescue parties to marooned families. All persons in urgent need of help are asked to try to communicate with the station. burg, Aurora, Point Pleasant, W. Va.

Retarded at Cin-I cinnati, Louisville, Wheeling. W. Paducah, Huntington, W. and smaller communities. Health Typhoid vaccine sent to Louisville and Cincinnati, Typhoid warning issued for Kentucky.

Sickness reported among refugees at Shawneetown, Total Young America 6, Sec. 2 area,.