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JULY 25, 1938. MOINES REGISTER. PAGE THREE HEROIC YOUTH RESCUES 14- 12 Swept to Death in U.S. Floods DAMAGE SOARS INTO MILLIONS Thousands Homeless in Stricken Areas. (By The Associated Press.) New England states went on the defensive Sunday as continued rain marooned flooded mercantile costablishments, flattened crops and washed out roads a and bridges.

The flood death toll for the nation stood at 12; damage was estimated at 3 million dollars. Thousands were homelesss and hundreds penniless, their possesions washed away. In San Saba, 20 of 23 persons marooned by flood waters of the San Saba river were rescued by volunteer boatmen and swimmers. The other three persons were reported safe. Lad Saves 14.

Near San Saba, the young son of a rancher battled the flood tide to swim 300 yards to a barn where 14 members of the Jose Jamanay family were stranded. The boy secured a wire to the barn, then swam back with the other end and fastened it to a tree on shore. Members of the marooned family, including several children, made their way to safety, hand-overhand along the wire. The crest of the flood had passed San Saba, reports stated, but onethird of the town was under water. Rhode Island and Massachusetts bore the brunt of the New England drenching.

Hundreds of families were driven from their homes in the Pawtucket and Blackstone valleys by the worst summertime flood in Rhode Island's history. A week-long rainfall of five inches pushed the roaring rivers out of their banks. Showing no signs of abatement, the flood has caused an estimated damage of one million dollars to tenements, mills, crops and other properties. A section of Woonsocket was under four feet of water. Among the refugees taken from their homes by rowboat were a mother and her day-old baby.

Halt: a dozen mills were closed by basement floods ranging in depth from six to 10 feet. Mill officials said about 4,000 persons would be out of work temporarily. The Pawtucket city hall was sandbagged and 200 laborers diked the river, which swept away a government lighter used in dredge work. The Blackstone river rose to two inches above the record height of a 1936 flood. About 200 families in three sections of Woonsocket left their homes for higher ground.

Milford, was isolated by flooded highways, over which swept raging torrents as deep as six feet in some places. A city engineer said a dam above the city was expected to hold back great quantities of surging water. Only one road to Worcester was open. A branch line of the New York Central railroad was swept away near Framingham, where the damage was estimated at at lease $200,000. Putnam and Willimantic, in northeastern Connecticut, apparently were the hardest hit communities in that state, with about 100 families evacuated.

A million dollar loss was reported by tobacco growers. Resorts suffered heavily as the rain kept usual weekend vacationers home. Textile plants in the eastern section were closed by flooded basements, but some hope was seen in a brief appearance of the sun after a night and morning of drenching rain. Downtown Oakland, was covered by five feet of water doing damage estimated at 000. Highways and crops in the state suffered.

WIREPHOTO UP) Swiftly rising floodwaters Sunday flowed through San Saba, southwest Texas town, pushing into business houses and residences. This picture shows the water spreading, covering highway at U. S. CRITICIZES KANSAS PRISON Report Cites '28 Ways' Men Can Escape. WASHINGTON, D.

C. (AP) The state prison at Lansing, has only one way for prisoners to in but 28 ways for them to get out, the prison industries reorganization administration reported Sunday. Criticizing the prison in a general report on Kansas penal institutions, the agency said additions had been "tacked on" to the original unit, and, as a result, the institution now has: Five openings in the main wall. Twelve openings in the outer walls. Nine gates in the outer fence.

Two pedestrian and vehicular gates. The report said the prison was unsafe for housing dangerous criminals and no longer should be used as the state's maximum security institution. It added the prison housed 1,900 prisoners, though its standard capacity is less than 1,400. It recommended that the prison be recognized as a medium and minimum security institution and that the state build a new prison as a central receiving place. The Lansing prison coal mine was the subject of a special report by a representative of the federal bureau of mines, who said that "due to many of unsafe methods" men are forced to assume "unnecessary risks to life and health." Seek 'Man Friday' With 11-Inch Foot broken into early in the day.

Fingerprint men were requested. Led by Detective Bill Hammond, the experts went to the hatchery. But no fingerprints did they find. They did find, however, a footprint, evidently left by a naked foot, on a dusty floor of a backroom. The footprint was about 11 inches long.

Although the procedure was out of their usual sphere, the Police Sunday were pondering the "Robinson Crusoe mystery" of Miller's Hatchery, at 407 Court ave. Saturday workers there reported the establishment had been men tried to obtain toe patterns, without success. "We should look for the 'Man Friday' whose foot fits the print," said Hammond. Detective Hammond refuted a sometimes-held theory that policemen's own footprints often mislead them in their quests. "This foot has a good arch." he noted on the headquarters bulletin.

Nothing was taken from the hatchery, police reported. A vain search for money apparently had been conducted, they said. G.O.P. TO HEAR CAPITAL, LABOR Urge Factions to End Co-operate. CHICAGO, ILL.

(U.P.) -Republican program committee officials announced Sunday night they will ask representatives of labor and capital to assist Aug. 1 to 6 in laying down a program by which the two factions can "cease warfare and begin to work together for the general national benefit." Dr. Glenn Frank, committee chairman, said Matthew Woll, vice president of the American tion of Labor, and Louis K. Comstock, president of the Merchants Association of New York City, will assist in planning the program and will address the party committee. C.1.0.

Representatives. The committee also has invited representatives of the Committee for Industrial Organization, and of managements employing C.I.O. workers. Dr. Frank said Woll, as representative of a powerful organization of employes, and Comstock, as representative of a "most historic and influential organization of employers," would try jointly to lay down a program making for co-operation.

Six Forums. The labor "round table" will be one 0. six such forums during the G.O.P. summer session, designed by Frank to promote studies of national problems as a basis for plotting a new Republican policy by 1940. Other speakers at the session and their topics are: Frank Rivers, assistant to District Attorney Dewey of New York, on "Politics and Rackets." J.

N. Darling, Des Moines, cartoonist, former chief of the United States biological survey and now president of the National Wild Life federation, on "Saving Our Natural Resources." Charles P. Taft, chairman of the public welfare committee of the city council of Cleveland, Ohio, on "The Merit System in the Public Services." Mrs. W. W.

Ramsey, Chicago, vice president of the Illinois State League of Women Voters, on "Your Government Job." Dr. Herbert D. Simpson, professor of public finance at Northwestern university, on "Class Prosperity." Dr. Sumner H. Slichter, professor of business economics at Harvard university, on "Essentials of Economic Recovery." ASKS WOMAN U.

S. JUSTICE. CLEVELAND, OHIO (P) The National Association of Women Lawyers Sunday night adopted a resolution urging the appointment of Judge Florence E. Allen, of the United States circuit court of appeals, the United States supreme court. WIREPHOTO UP) Members of the Mamaroneck, N.

fire depart ment found the station house looking like this when the Mamaroneck river, swollen by almost continuous rains, left its banks and flooded the town. Police and firemen rescued several stranded families. DRAFT CITIZENS FOR WAR GAMES: WASHINGTON, D. C. (I.N.S.) -The army Sunday announced plans for staging "the largest and most important defense exercises it has ever devised" at Fort Bragg, N.

Oct. 3 to 17. Situated 150 miles inland, Fort Bragg represents the approximate geographical center of the Middle Atlantic states, whose accessibility to Europe's war air fleets has been demonstrated by recent trans-Atlantic commercial flights. Taking a page from the book of German, Italian and Japanese mimic warfare, the war games will for the first time enlist largescale civilian aid, the army disclosed. Several thousand civilians will be drafted to man 300 lookout stations, comprising what is technically called a "warning net," extending from Fort Bragg to the coast.

The lookouts will signal Fort Bragg of approaching "enemy" air squadrons, unleashing swarms of defending planes. 2 Any Dresses $1 2 for Price of 1 2 Suits 75c RELIABLE DRESS CLUB 4-2528 Free Pickup Delivery Old Sol Gets All The Breaks! Recognize her? Sure, it's Hedy LaMarr, the glamour girl, getting some of that California tan. Hollywood is trying to make film fans forget that Hedy, as Miss Hedy Kiesler, had the leading role in the much-discussed foreign film, "Ecstacy." Just 28 years old, she has completed her first Ameri- TI REFUGEE FLOW SLOW TO START Dickering With Nazis to Delay Aid. WASHINGTON, D. C.

-The flow of refugees which President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Hull are trying to set in motion from Germany cannot begin before the end of the year. A vast amount of preparation must be completed before German Jews can begin their exodus to the United States and other countries which have voiced their willingness to receive them. Officials say five to 10 years will pass before the problem can be liquidated. The intergovernmental committee which met this month at Evian, France, in response to Secretary Hull's appeal, will meet again in London, England, Aug. 3 and endeavor to set up a permanent organization.

Delicate Work. The most delicate work of the committee is about to begin. Quiet negotiations are contemplated with Germany to induce that government to permit her political outcasts to leave the country with some of their properties. Under existing German regulations, Jews quitting Germany may, take, only 5 per cent of their wealth with them. The committee, hopes.

them Germany take can at least 25 per cent, Chancellor Hitler once said Germany was so anxious to get rid of her Jews she would take them to foreign shores on her de luxe liners. Since the governments, by the terms of Secretary Hull's invitation, will not finance the migration, private organizations and the general public will be asked to do so. The committee believes American contributions will have to finance not only the refugees received here but also a large portion of those sent to other countries. WOMAN STRUCK, DRIVER GOES Miss Margaret Monks, 1224 Fifth suffered bruises and leg cuts when struck by an auto as she alighted from a street car at Sixth and avenues shortly before Saturday. University, The driver of the auto did not stop.

PEARL WHITE IS IMPROVING PARIS, FRANCE (P)-Pearl White, 49, heroine of Hollywood's early serial thrillers, was reported slightly improved Sunday at the American hospital where she is gravely ill of a liver ailment. SHOT TO DEATH BY MEN IN CAR CHICAGO, ILL. (U.P.) Nick Chiaramonte, 60, a watermelon dealer, was slain in gangster fashion Sunday night as he was talking to "two. or three" men who had called him to their auto. He slumped to the pavement with six bullet holes in his body.

CHANDLER BACK HOME. FRANKFORT, KY. (I.N.S.) Gov. A. B.

Chandler, who was stricken with stomach ailment he three days ago, returned home here Sunday night from Louisville, Ky. His condition is considerably improved. Coming Tuesday! 1863 Women's WASH FROCKS 2 for And Hundreds of Other Items at Great Reductions Rummage Sale in YOUNKERS BASEMENT It's Sally Acme News Picture. Without her famous fans and dressed in white blouse, slacks and colored bandana, Sally Rand (above) appeared in a Los Angeles, court to plead not guilty to two assault charges. The charges grew out of a reported clash with two candid camera fans at a theater where she performed.

The trial will be Aug. 18. HALF OF PWA'S FUND ALLOTTED 5 Millions Authorized Every Hour. WASHINGTON, D. C.

(P)-The public works administration, authorizing $5,532,510 of construetion each hour, Sunday neared the half-way mark in the allocation of its huge new fund. In 25 days it has approved 3,462 federal and nonfederal projects involving total construction costs of $883,470,068. For these projects, President Roosevelt has authorized $515,170,274 of grants and $35,457,000 of loans. Applicants agreed to make up the remainder of the cost. The labor department estimated the projects should provide about seven million man-months of normal employment at prevailing wages, as the result of almost one-half billion dollars' worth of building material orders.

Another 5,489,000 man-months employment would be created at the project sites, with 000 in wages. LEWIS GOES TO HOWARD RITES WASHINGTON, D. C. (U.P.)Chairman John L. Lewis of the Committee for Industrial Organization Sunday night was en route to Colorado Springs, to attend the funeral Tuesday for Charles P.

Howard, C.I.O, secretary and president of the InternaItional Typographical union. Labor Assistant Would Aid-. 'Women of 40' --Says Many Are Disabled WASHINGTON, D. C. (P)- nationwide rehabilitation program for the "unattached, jobless, penniless" woman of 40, now existing on public relief, QUIZZED WITH 'LIE DETECTOR' Police to Grill 'Lipstick' Murder Suspect's Pal.

NEW YORK, N. Y. (P) ---Police working on the baffling "lipstick murders" of Frances Hajek and Lewis Weiss on a lonely lane last October announced Sunday night, after subjecting Walter H. Wiley, 18, to a lie detector test, that "we have decided to press the investigation." Meanwhile, police said Lieut. Thomas Feeney was leaving for Cincinnati, Ohio, to question an alleged associate of Wiley, held there on burglary charges.

The couple was slain in Weiss' car and their foreheads were branded with circles roughly drawn with Miss Hajek's lipstick. was proposed to Secretary of Labor Perkins Sunday by Mary Anderson, director of the department's women's bureau. Miss Anderson recommended that such women be given medical and hospital care and occupational training. A survey of 604 unattached, jobless women on relief in Chicago, in the spring of 1937, her report said, showed onefourth were totally disabled, nearly two-thirds partially disabled, one in seven had a mental illness, and two-fifths were separated or divorced from husbands. Their relief income averaged $22.44 a month.

Miss Anderson suggested an increase in relief staffs to do case work, greater relief allowances, especially for rent, and improved standards of hours, wages and working conditions for women household employes. ENTER RACE DEQUEEN, ARK. (P)-It's a one-arm race for the nomination of Sevier county tax assessor in the August Democratic primary. Each of the three candidates is minus his left arm. Incumbent Ed Lee Cox lost his in a sawmill accident as did his opponent, Constable Ed Shipman.

A hunting mishap similarly handicapped Cathell Hendricks, the third candidate. All live at De Queen, home of armless State Auditor Oscar Humphrey. GARDNER, ONCE SENATOR, DEAD AUGUSTA, (A)-Former United States Senator Obadiah Gardner died at the home of his daughter here Sunday. A Democrat, he was 85 years old. He was appointed to serve the unexpired term of William P.

Frye from 1911 to 1913. ZIEGFELD PARTNER DEAD. ST. LOUIS, MO. (P)-John C.

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