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THE TEMPERATURES a p. High today's" Low High Year Ago Low i'ear Ago 48 27 BEATRICE DAILY SUN Warmer. If You Didn't See It In The BUM It Didn't Happen" Member of The Associated Press Gage County Draftees Off For Induction Some Leave For Navy Recruiting Station At Omaha For Army. 21-DAY FURLOUGHS JAP MERCHANTMAN HIT BY U. S.

BOMBS The Gage county selective service office today announced that following men from this coun- Ity left today for the navy recruit- ling station at Omaha to be into service: Henry Richard D. ITraylor, Edwin Frank Hubka, Le- Idrue A. Waldron, Victor Scriaf- Dean R. Heckathorn, John F. Vestcr E.

Holman, IHarlan G. Boole, Delbert L. iNoakes. 1 Ivan B. Hevelone.

Rolland D. iMudge, Harry R. Wolken, Albert IR. Engler, Floyd W. Else.

Isaac W. Fblclen, John W. Fold- len, Leo G. Witcofski, Weldon L. Also to Navy Robert A.

Lane and Raymond Milligan reported yesterday, I Feb. 22, to the Omaha navy re- Icruiting station for induction. The following listed men have Ibeen previously examined, found (acceptable and have been sworn 1 into several branches of the navy: Howard T. Mann, Clyde Harold IClaytor, Everett R. Day.

Harold I A. Neill. Marion L. Walker. Inducted Into The following men reported 22 induction into the ar- Imy at the reception center at Ft.

ILeavemvorth, Everett R. Jones, Edwin H. IFlesner, Allison D. St. Clair, Al- Ibert W.

Skrabal, Harold R. Salts, D. Crawford, Chris Weber. Algernon D. Becks will report I Feb.

25 for induction into the 313th Volunteer Hubert Michael Lang, age 25, (Beatrice, is the 313th Gage county for the armed forces. Navy, Marines. Coast Guard The official list of Gage coun- Ity men examined at Ft. Crook, Feb. 16 and found accepta- for service in the navy, marlines and coast guard is as follows: (These men receive a 21-day fur- Lough from Feb.

16): Bruce Maxwell, Charles Burnett I Arthur fiean, George Hendricks, Albert Severance. Orris Bradford, Al Wood, Ran- Ik'ih Bartlett, "Dale" IShafer, Leslie Wittstruck, John Bough- I tin, Eugene Payfte, Francis Good- ireau, Vernon Cacek. Leo Clancy, William Skovv, Os- Icar Kolman, Benno Wider, Dean IZugmier, Donald L. Scalf, Frank- E. Holtmeier.

Ben E. Beran. Acceptable for Army The following Gage county men Jwere fouYtd acceptable for the (army Feb. 16 at Ft. Crook and a 21-day furlough from that Henry A.

Roehr. Grant F. Ran- Idall, George W. Ord, Harold L. Ames J.

Dahle. Albert A. Meek, Leonard W. IL'arimore, John F. C.

Aden, Lloyd Wright, James G. Ficklin. Garold S. Chapman, William C. IShaw, Lane T.

Spearman, Lester Ritterbush, Earl F. Langdale. Elaine W. Crawford. Arnold A.

Herbert A. Kempker, Coulter, John H. Bruns. Dean C. Colgmve, Billie L.

iBeetem, Donald G. York, Wilbur Corey, Henry Wieskamp, Alvin Zager. Limited Service in Arniy Found acceptable for limited in the army Feb. 16 at Ft, and having a furlough for least 21 days are the following Henry L. Lewis, Sherman S.

Roger G. Palmer, Harry Doyle, Henry K. -Tiemann. Chester H. Dietz, Glenn D.

Jeach, Horace' E. Odell, Harrison Gottschall. One ot the 15 ships out of a 17-shlp Jap convoy sunk by the U. S. 5th Air Force during.the.three-day running attack northwest of New Ireland in the Pacific last Monday through Wednesday, burns furiously at the stern and another bomb explodes nearby.

A total 36,500 tons ot merchant shipping was sunk in the attack. (AP Wirephoto) Rural Schools Lack Teachers Coining Year Will Bring Crisis In Education; Many Enter Other Occupations. At the beginning of the school term last September, H. W. Munson, county superintendent, reported all schools were provided with teachers.

Next fall, he says, he is less sure the teacher supply will meet the demand. He quotes some figures published by the National Educational association, showing some causes for the shortage of instructors in the common schools. Teachers to the number of 200,000 have left the teaching- profession since Pearl Harbor. The teachers' college enrollment has dropped by 60 percent. Fifty thousand emergency certificates have been issued in the past year, an increase of 2.000 percent over pre- Pearl Harbor.

Special summer schools such as was held In Beatrice last year will give some relief, but industrial employment is a keen competitor services of young, -people who normally would become teachers. There must be a limit on the issuance of emergency certificates, if school standards are to be Gage county has been much better off than many other Nebraska counties where the teacher scarcity has been more acute. The situation as of next September is not. bright. Seek Housing For 100 Airmen Officers, Men And Wives From Bruning Base Want Accommodations Here.

The housing bureau of the chamber of commerce has been asked to find if living accomoda- tions are available in Beatrice for 100 persons, officers and men of the army air force and the wives of some of them. They are due to arrive at the Bruning base about March 1. President W. L. Weigel of the chamber invited real estate men and others to discuss the subject this noon.

It was decided to go ahead getting a list of available accomodations, furnished houses, apartments and single rooms. Anyone able to provide space for those army people should notify the chamber of commerce. As yet, it is not known how long the 1 accomodations will be required. Senate Demo Head Offers Resignation Makes Vehement Protest Against FDR's Tax Veto; 'Applause Heavy. CALLS MEETING WASHINGTON, Feb.

23 Senator Albert W. Barkley of Kentucky offered his resignation today as democratic leader of the senate in a vehement protest against President Roosevelt's tax veto, which he denounced as a "deliberate and calculated assault upon the honesty and integrity" of congressmen. Barkley threw down the leadership after a bitter and earcastic attack on the head of BarUley's own party. He shouted his anger at the president's veto message and at one time termed Mr. Roosevelt's own tax goals as "fantastic." "Other members may do as they please," Barkley shouted, "I do not propose to take this unjustifiable assault lying down." As the Kentuckian gave up the leadership he has held since 1937 in the closest harmony with the president, he turned to his colleagues and shouted: Heavy Applause "If the congress of "the United States has any self respect left it will overrfde this veto and enact this tax bill into law." Heavy applause roared out through.

the historic old chamber as Barkley concluded his speech. Scores of house members standing along the rear wall joined in. Senator McKellar (d Tenn) American Airm Pound Rabaul Nazis Retreat From Iron City To Bug River Premier Stalin Says Germany i fi Catastrophe. SUFFER HUGE LOSSES Estimate Strength Of Nazis Associated German troops, routed from I Chile Arrests Members Of German Spy Ring SANTIAGO, Chile, Feb. 23 -Fourteen alleged members of a German spy ring were in custody here today and several oc.nera were under house arrest following -in investigation by the Chilean govern- iment.

Ambal Jara, director geneial of Chilean information deparl- iment, said ring organized tend directed by Ludwis; Von Boh lien, air attache of thj German Itiassy who was recently vepatriat led to Germany. Three Of Quadruplets Born In Alabama Di DECATUR, Feb. 23 Two more of the quadruplets born a paratrooper's young wife died Benevolent hospital leaving only one, a girl, alive. The boy, Edmund Hutto, died last night, and this morning two of his sisters, Sherianne and Yvonne succumbed. Diane, one of the four born yesterday a month prematurely, still clung to life, fed by eyedropper.

Mrs. Hutto, 23, was reported in satisfactory condition. Her husband, a farm worker before becoming, a private in the paratroops at Ft. Benning, was dazecl by announcement of the births: The Huttos reside at Hillsboro, Ala. Finn Official-Back To Finland From Sweden STOCKHOLM, Feb.

23 Juhu K. Paasikivi, former Finnish cabinet member whose arrival here Feb. 12 led to rumors that his government was trying to contact Moscow with a view to negotiating a separate peace, returned to Helsinki today without any indications that Finalnd was any nearer getting out of the war. Paasikivi played an important role in negotiating the treaty that ended the Finnish-Russian war of 1939-40. He declined to comment on the subject of Finnish peace negotiations, but he appeared to be in a less jovial mood than on his arrival, giving correspondents the impression of a man whose mission has been none too successful.

grasped Barkley's hand. Other members, including republicans, rushed over to hands, too. Barkley said Mr. Roosevelt deliberately sought to belittle congress through the tax bill. Makes No Apology "I am one of those who pleaded with the president not to veto this bill," he declared.

"I not only advised him not to veto it, I implored him. "I did not then believe, nor do I now believe that the veto he has sent to congress is justified. "I make no apology for that." Barkley announced to the senate that he had called a conference of the democratic majority foi 10:30 a. tomorrow to select a successor that his resignation would In denouncing the presidents tax veto message, Barkley shouted that it was "the first time during my long service, which I hac thought was honorable, that I have been accused of voting for a bil that would extend relief to the greedy and impoverish the needy." Barkley's peroration was deliver- the great iron city of Krivoi Rog by the Red army yesterday, are retreating westward toward the Bug river, a Soviet communique laid today as Premier Stalin an- lounced that in one year the nazis have been driven from almost three-quarters of the territory they had occupied since invading Russia in the summer of 1941. During the past 12 months, Stain said, the Red armies have advanced westward as much as 1,000 miles in some places." It should now be clear to all," he added, "that Hitlerite Germany advancing inevitably toward catastrophe." Stalin recounted in triumphs of Soviat arms in a special order of the day, commemorating the 26th third Ukrainian ar- bitter four-months' LONDON, Feb.

23 strong is Germany? In the opinion of allied military opinion reflected in Prime Minister Churchill's speech in the house of commons Adolf Hitler still has a machin.e at his Here is a picture of nazi military might as compiled from the opinions of two top allied officers charged with assessing German strength and from information obtained from an an- ti-nazi German underground leader aiding the allied cause. None of these men believe that a combination of allied bombing and Russian ground successes will cause a German collapse, although they acknowledge the contributions of both. Civil Strength In general they sum the situation up this way: strength: Allied demands for unconditional surrender and the Russian determination to crush Germany have hardened both civilians and soldiers to the point where they feel they must stand fast to the last. There is nothing in sight to open a wedge in home front morale like President Wilson's 14 points. (2) The German army: Despite huge losses on the Russian front, estimated to have been between 1,000,000 and men in the last eight months, Hitler has not yet reached the bottom of the manpower barrel.

The German army still has the same number of divisions with which it started the 300. These divisions have dropped in strength from 15,000 to 10.000 or 12,000 men in some cases. Air Power (3) Air strength: In contrast to the army, the air force has been striking less and less vigorously, and some believe that the crack in the German military developed in the navy in the last come in the air force this time. German sea- power has been so weakened it is not expected to be a serious factor in an invasion of western Europe and except for submarines may not even put in an appearance. The principal sea problem facing the allies is that of making amphibious landings with warship and air support against strong shore defenses.

Enemy Refuses To Challenge Says Allied Troops Seize tive On Arakan Front In' Burma. FEW SHIPS SIGHTED anniversary of the Red army a few hours after he had announced the capture of Krivoi Roge in one of the mo'st of the winter offensive. A major military prize, Krivoi Rog with its valuable iron mines was captured by Gen. Rodion Y. Malinovsky's my after a siege.

Suffer Enormous Losses "The enemy suffered enormous losses in manpower and. equipment," the Russian communique reported. "Thousands of enemy dead littered approaches to the city and'its" "Remnants of, the routed enemy. seeking safety in flight, have abandoned many guns, mortars, machine-guns and trucks. Soviet forces captured large Raiders Strike Double Blow U.

S. Airmen Press Attack From Britain, Italy In Coordinated Assault. Germans Raid London Area the ed in a solemn hush. "For 12 years," he shouted, "I have carried to the best of my ability the flag of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. For the past, seven years I have carried the flag of the administration as majority leader of this senate.

"During those years I have borne the flag with pride because I thought that President Roosevelt in himself a dynamic (Continued on Page 2, Column 5) Postal Officials Urge Correct Mail Address Washington's Service Outlined At Lions Meet A saving in time and money is effected by properly all mail, it was pointed out by local postal authorities today. Since directory service cannot be used for local mail, an inadequate or incorrect address means return of the mail to the sender or throwing the mail away. For a city the size of Beatrice the full address is required. In larger cities, where zones exist, the zone number must appear in the address. If the complete return address is on the envelope, it was reminded, the addressee will be able to address his reply properly.

The very great and unselfish contribution of George Washington to the service of his.country was pointed out by Judge C. B. Ellis at the Washington's birthday meeting of the Lyons club last evening. Ellis suggested that the same unselfish willingness on the part of the rank and file of the citizens in the war and in solving post-war problems is needed if democracy is to be preserved. Judge Ellis reminded that sound ad wise leadership is especially needed now but that unless the people were willing to support that kind of leadership it would not be possible to get it.

He urged support of the leadership that proposes things that should be done even though that form of action may not be easiest. Old Fiddler" In Calif. Meaning Of Lent Told Kiwanis By Rev. Mock An address on the season of Lent, which begins today (Ash Wednesday), was presented by the Very Reverend Ferdinand Mock, of St. Joseph's church, at the Kiwanis club luncheon today.

"Lent is the spring feast of the Church in preparation for Easter, the feast of the Resurrection of the Lord," Rev. Father Mock said. "The character of the preparation is in the nature of a purge from sin and from punishments due to sin, purging out the old leaven of you may be a new off the old man and putting on the new man. "Suffering 'self-imposed' Is set against illicit pleasure, 'self-chosen 1 by faith in the merits of good works through Christ the Saviour. "Besides being good for the angle of atonement, Lent is good as a means of generally, of self-education stream-lining the soul for its acceptance by God," Suggests Army Send Los Angeles Municipal Workers Back On Job Mike Cruise, "The Old Fiddler," Ijwho was a familiar figure on Be- latrice streets several years ago, is Snow in Los Angeles, Calif.

A form- Beatrice boy sends a clipping a Angeles newspaper, a picture of the old musician, a hat, over his entertaining a crowd on a that city. The, paper says: I "Many cities have official greet- lers, but few can boast such a char- lacter as Fiddler Mike (M. H. Los Angeles' unofficial Ikender-away, Fiddler Mike stomps, and'cpacH inductees "eVe'ry Monday, morning the of Federal uildingf. they're shivering, these to buses, 'Jddler Igepus.

JJe no 1 Twinf "mi, hig jjr glasses, stamp him as a man apart. He opens his dilapidated violin case as a receptacle for nickels and dimes and begins on his creakv fiddle. "He cries to his startled audience. 'Stonewall Jackson liked this and breaks, into anything from 'Yankee Doodle' or 'Turkey 'in the Straw" to 'Pop, Goes the 1 The old fiddler splits with the Re Cross, He has receipts to show that he gave the Bed Cross $224 last year, and $34 already this year. He has five sons and three grandsons service.

ANGELES, Feb. 23 Striking employes of the municipal department of power and light returned to their aobs today after the army, on order of President Roosevelt, took over management of the system. Gathered in a mass-meeting, the strikers -voted quickly to end their walkout after hearing read an order of Col. Rufus W. Putnam, of the army engineers.

"There is not a person in the United States who would not follow the dictates of the president in. timers like these," Pert Hoffman, Vice-president of the AFL electri- caV. wprkers local union, told the Boys To Universities WASHINGTON. Feb. 23 the war department 'accepts a suggestion by hard-pressed education authorities, about 100,000 high school graduates 17 years old may be sent to college this summer at the army's expense.

The proposal was made last night by a committee of college presidents after an all-day meeting at national headquarters of the American council on education. The educators, including the presidents of Cornell, Harvard, Indiana university, Vanderbilt, Villanova and Hamilton, issued a statement saying their plan would provide the "most effective wartime employment" of young men between their high school graduation and their induction into the armed forces at the age of 18, dumps of military equipment." Moscow dispatches said that only a narrow escape gap along the lower Dnieper river to the west remains open to the retreating nazis. Kherson and Nikolaev, the latter city 95 miles southwest of Krivoi Rog at the mouth of the Bug, arc probable immediate objectives of the Red army forces; these dispatches American troops threw back two localized German attacks west of Cisterna yesterday, allied headquarters announced today, as Field Marshal Albert Kesselring brought his long-range artillery into play and apparently regrouped his forces for another attempt at driving the allies off the Anzio beachhead. 130 Planes Hit Nazi artillery lobbed shells at the nerve center of Anzio and other beachhead objectives, and 130 German planes hit at ground troops, but the allies countered with 1,600 aerial sorties, and gunfire against enemy troop and vehicle movements. A lull continued in the fighting on the Cassino sector to the east.

The Germans tried to infiltrate around Fifth army outposts on two peaks northwest of the town, but withdrew under cover of a smoke screen when allied artillery opened fire. Otherwise headquarters ed only normal patrolling from, both fronts, with more snowfalls hampering movements in the mountains. British guns shelled enemy troops and vehicles near "the nazis' main concentration point of Carroceto. Allied group troops could see the Germans busily moving their forces in rear aeras, indicating Kesselring was preparing for a renewed assault after repulse of his second major offensive last weekend. The enemy also maintained steady pressure around the perim- LONDON, Feb.

23 bombers and fighters, striking powerfully from Britain and Italy in the first coordinated assault deep into Germany, crippled enemy 'aircraft production anew and knocked 133 nazi fighter planes from the sky, U. S. army headquarters declared today. Fifty-three bombers were lost in the joint assault, which included diversionary raids by planes based in Italy, Forty-one were missing from the force attacking from Britain, and 12 from Italy were reported lost by a Mediterranean headquarters spokesman. The first reports received at headquarters here from the Mediterranean had reported 20 of the U.

S. 15th air force bombers lost, or a day's total of 61 big planes. This figure was later revised as more planes returned. Destroy 310 Fighters "In three days of record-breaking operations aimed at destroying Germany's capacity to maintain aerial resistance, American air force planes have accounted for 310 enemy fighters," headquarters said, with. 153 falling to fighters of the Eighth and Ninth air.

forces in Britain, 117 destroyed by Eighth air force bombers, and 40 by 15th air force bombers. The German threw up savage resistance as the Britain-based bombers struck the Junkers-88 assembly plant at Bernburg and airframe and component factories at Aschersleben and Halberstadt. The 15th air force bombers from Italy blasted two Messerschmitt factories at Regensburg, and bombed freight yards at Petershausen, 20 miles north of Munich. RAF Mosquitos maintained the offensive during the night, Kitting unspecified targets in western and southwestern Germany without loss. In Record Strength An announcement said the formations from Italy were in record Heavy Anti-Aircraft Brings Down Ten Planes; Assault From Two Directions.

LONDON, Feb. 23 A substantial number of German raiders made a two-directional assault on London last night, showering high explosives and fire bombs over wide areas here and in othe'r English sections, causing casualties including at least 10 killed and starting fires in several districts. Ten raiders were destroyed and anti-aircraft firepower hurled' at the Germans from London at times was the greatest and most concentrated of the war. It was announced officially: llth Assault This Month Making their llth assault on London this month and the fourth in five nights, the attacks came in two waves over the east and south coast. They converged on London and then spread out.

The main cargo of the raiders was incendaries, perhaps many of them the new explosive type the Germans say they now are using. In size the attacking force appeared equal to any sent against Britain in recent nights, perhaps For more than an hour a. massive and continuous barrage was hurled skyward. Gun flashes combined with burning incendiaries to turn night into day. Associated American planes pounded Japanese base at Rabaul on Britain with 52 tons of bombs in a raid which enemy fliers refused.

to challenge, allied headquarters reported today. Mitchell medium bombers arid Corsair fighters 'in the attack Lakunai airdrome started- fires in the revetment Mitchell was damaged by aircraft fire and landed in the seal, The crew wag rescued. another significant ment, the southeast Asia mand announced that allied are seizing the initiative from.the Japanese on the Arakan front 'in- jj Burmj. General Douglas Mac Arthur, ported that the fade.ap to send up a single plane to oppose Sunday's' bombing of Lakunai airdromejtj furtherance of the daily assault' Rabaul at the northeast New Britain island. Low Amount of Shipsj; Reconnaissance showed the est number of planes and ever spotted at Rabaul, indicating a withdrawal by the enemy tiflVl' result of- recent heavy Allied attacks have cost the Jap anese 55 vessels sunk and' proii ably more than 300 aircraft, down in February.

Associated Press Murlin Spencer wrote from headquarters, however, the enemy's ability to move plant in and out of Rabaul iwithp great difficulty, "It JBsunttafj" say "that the thinking of abandoning Both in the New Britain and in the northern lied naval and air units eter of the beachhead. strength. Forty-one of the Britain-based bombers failed to return after the fierce battles, which some returning crewmen described as even more intense than those of the Schwelnfurt raid of last October. when the Americans lost 60 bombers, Yugoslav Partisans Inflict Major Losses LONDON, Feb, 23 -Swarming down on the Germans in Ihe Kallnovich area south of the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo, Marshal Josip Ei-oz's (Titol partisans have inflicted major losses on the onw- my, a communique of. the Jugo- slav army of liberation said today.

The communique, broadcast by Free Yugoslav radio and recorded by tho Associated Press, said that during the. last three weeks of January partisan detachments cut the important Zagreb- Belgrade railway, main link between Germany and the Balkans, the toll of Japanese barges President Roosevelt said day probably thousand in the last year, accour ing: for a large number of personnel. 1 'Chief Praises Cooperation The chief executive prais he termed amazing cooperat among the armed services i Marshall islands and Truk OE ations operations carried with the damage of ve sel. The U. S.

carrier assault' Truk, No, 1 enemy naval the central Pacific, accomplishd more than the destruction ships and 201 planes. A broadcast said it had the Japanese people any other development jsince war's outbreak. There was not new repor progress in the invasion wetok atoll in the western shalls, but previous accounts (Continued on Page 7, Column': Sends Anniversary Message To Soyjif Feb; 23 The agency said today that 'Russian -had ft g. Eighth Air Losses To 3.1 Percent LONDON, Feb. 23 Eighth air force announced today it had been able to hold battle losses of bombers to 3.1 per cent since the American air war against Germany began in August; 1942; This was the first announcement of such figures.

The announcement disclosed that from Feb. 1 to Feb. 22 of this period in whtch more bomber sorties were made than in any other full month it; the history of American operations Jn battle loss percentage for bombers was cyl to 2.2 per in a number of places and traffic was paralyzed for a siderable period of time. 1 1 hat con- ELECT BAB PRESIDENT cal district bar John BJezek, Plainview, at the Richard Steele, named vice and Kelsey, 1 Norfolk, foprnfcgC waiting buses, liKe, 4 Beamge, -peea Vhe Wudeeon rfronnfiff bin "fiscal weat of gan, tne oiuageon at the 'annual, meeting IfddS SMffCTffiffSSySbwS nqmber flaying of 5 his heirss wife, Pat, Richard Steele. 'Creightor STCStffit $SWcJSSrt faU 'ggSj flowing Mjes tyy capital last to 'court.

Washington Observed By Masons Members of Beatrice lodge of Masons and a number of invited guests observed Washington's Birthday last night at the annual dinner and program. The ladies served a sumptious repast, ana' the oldest member, eorge Randall, a' Mason 55 years, and the youngest, John Bauer, were introduced by B. W. Stewart, master of the lodge. N.

M. Ryan is the oldest living past master. Rev. Wayne Greene gave the annual Washington address, referring to the life of the first president as living monument for Ihe inspiration of 130 million Americans, Hazel Weaver, organist -played an elegy to the soldlers and the lodge's roll of honor'WM' laid upon the" altar in a ceremony, HIT JAP INTERCEPTOR South Pacific Base, Solomon Islands of five Japanese interceptors which penetrated an allied, fighter "screen over Rabaul last Saturday and attacked 13 Liberators was shot down by a bomber piloted by Lt. Harry W.

Swanda of Ulysses, Neb. The Liberators were bombing Tobera and Lakunai airdromes. LONDON, Feb. 23 Minister Churchill, in a to Premier Stalin and all of the Red army on 26th anniversary, today, -expre ed "profound admiration of glorious record." "Inspired and guided bv leadership and by theis the soil of Russia, trusting skillful and resolute they will go forward to victor- and through victory tq peace honor," he told Stalin, The British chiefs of staff saged Marshal Klementi Yi, shilov "Our most sincere for yet more brilliant and for speedy and total tipn of our common enemy. MORE" HIT LOAN OMAHA CTK- The war finance committee Tuesday that four; 1 counties have' passed their war loan quotas'.

They arf 107 percent of 102 and Dawson California Storm SPRING THE WAX, When, the ducks fk, 7 cannot be far behinjl, QW-Timer, LOS ANGELES, Feb. 23 Four persons are dead and, mora than 300 had been evacuated from flooded homes as a fo.ur-day storm, marked' by flood waters, snows, damaging'tides, wind and a tornado, began ing off. Improving with castonal moderate, forecaet. Rainfall totaled, heaviest downpour- in. sijf ye.a-f8.:^ i 'unrooted, i and 'sank twro, Bothers Hatf of was avroy, ojf-s Voads.