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.0 THE RICHMOND ITEM, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1937 REFUGEES' PLIGHT SPEEDS PASSAGE OF $790,000,000 RELIEF BILL LOUISVILLE mate that the Friday crest might go as high as 55 feet. Hagan said he believed the crest "would be nearer' 54 than 55 feet." Deaths and Funerals Overlook Diapers in Relief Plans LIBERTY MAN STILL MISSING IN FLOOD AREA Wife Unable To Find Trace of Harry Wooley; Last Seen on Hill in Cincinnati Entire Sum To Be Used In Flood Area if Needed House Approves Appropriation Without Record Vote; Rapid Action Planned in Senate; Red Cros Fund Nears $500,000 WASHINGTON, D. Jan. 26. plight of 750,000 flood refugees brought lightning action in Congress today upon a 1790,000,000 relief fund.

Without a record vote, the House approved the huge appropriation and aent it along to the Senate, where Administration leaders planned similar fast action. President Roosevelt promised that every cent of the fund would be used for flood victims if necessary. Originally he had requested it to finance general relief throughout the nation for the next five months. sent He said housing facilities for at least 500 had been secured and that these facilities included kitchens and dining rooms. The Municipal Lighting and Power Company la ready to send a line truck and crew of men into Cincinnati to aid the Union Gas and Electric Company in line repairs at any time.

The Richmond Police Radio Station has been serving since last week as: an aid to the Indiana State Police radio network in transmission of flood orders and has served innumerable times in establishing contacts with units in various parts of the state. Trucks loaded with supplies were passing through Richmond today from cities farther north en route both to the Indiana and Ohio flood centers. Six truckloads of potatoes en route to Cincinnati from Benton Harbor stopped in Richmond for gasoline yesterday. Fleets of trucks from Cincinnati, en route north to supply depots, were passing through Richmond during the night. Police units and trucks which left Richmond for the flood area were carrying their own supplies of food and drinking water.

The Eagles Lodge in a special meeting Monday night named Ralph Snaveley as chairman of relief work and directed him to advise Red Cross officials the club was ready to house and feed 50 refugees. Children of St. Mary's and St. Andrew's Schools, on 'request of their respective priests, are bringing donations of nonperishable foods and clothing for the flood sufferers. This is being turned over to the Knights of Columbus to be packed and sent.

square miles, were under water but no laree cities were inundated. Mem LIBERTY, Jan. 26. No trace was found of Harry Wooley, 32-year-old trucker living in east Liberty, by his wife whq went to Cincinnati Monday after the man had been missing since Friday, when he took a load of hogs to that city. The last information received in Cincinnati was that he had been seen last on the top of a hill near Cores Dairy, where he had been brought by three men who had given him a ride.

In her interview with persons who had seen her husband on Friday, Mrs. Wooley ascertained that he had driven with the load of hogs as far as the dairy on Friday. Here he was told that it would be impossible for him to get to the Cincinnati Stockyards because of the high water. This seemed to disturb him and he insisted that he was going on. He was reported to be in a highly nervous state.

Mrs. Wooley stated that her husband has been somewhat despond-, ent and depressed for the past sev-" eral weeks and thinks that he did not know what he was doing. Members of the family tried to dissuade him from making the trip to Cincinnati on Friday, but were unable to do so. When Wooley left home he was wearing dark moleskin trousers, a dark gray shirt, a dark gray overcoat, brown cap with an Indiana chauffeur's license tag, and six-buckle rubber boots. He has dark hair and beard and blue eyes and is 5 feet 10 Inches tall, has broad shoulders.

Sherman Bias, owner and operator of the Bias Express trucks, told Mrs. Wooley Tuesday that he had seen her husband standing on the viaduct at Spring Grove Avenue on Saturday afternoon looking at the water, but thought nothing of it as he knew he was In the trucking business and made frequent trips to the city. The Wooleys have two children, a son, six years old, and a daughter, four. crushed to death when a mold weighing about a ton fell on him at the Western Gas Construction Plant here today. NEED TIRES? See EVANS SERVICE CO.

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3487 The city's situation was this in brief: Under martial law: water shut off except at two half-hour inter vals night and morning; no street car or bus service; electric iigms and nower shut off in flooded areas and adjacent, territory; elimination of party line teiepnone service 10 permit prompt handling of long distance and local emergency calls: business life at a standstill except for restaurant, drugstores, meat markets, and hotels; no city heat. -Restaurants were ordered to restrict food portions as a conserva tion measure, aitnougn tne tooa supply still was adequate. Prpna rat inns to tichten the' mar tial law grip on all of flooded south ern maiana were maae mis aiier-noon on the arrival here of Maj. Gen. Robert H.

Tyndall. General Tyndall said it had been decided to set up three sectors of command in the flood region. The Evansville sector remains in charge of Col L. L. Roberts, Brig.

Gen. Wray DeFrez or aneiDyvuie was placed in command at headquarters nf the area, and Col. John S. Fishback in charge of a central southern area Detween noaa 45 on the west and road 33 on the east. Colonel Fishback left immediate ly to make a survey of conditions in the central area to determine a headquarters site.

More troops are needed throughout the martial law area, General Tyndall said, in order that looting may be kept under control. "Looting has been at a minimum so far," General Tyndall said, "but we are prepared for trouble when the flood waters begin to recede." The area commander estimated that at least 3,500 troops now are on duty in the entire southern section of the state and that the number may be increased to 4,700 before martial law is lifted. Evacuation of the city continued nn ft volunteer and enforced basis. Northbound trains were filled with those either homeless or fearful or a sudden flood rise that might en trap them. Pef sons removed by guardsmen and naval militiamen were sent out or uie city oy iram, truck, and bus.

Relief officials and guard authorities repeated assurances that the condition of the city's sewer system was not such as to cause general alarm. Deputy state Fire Marsnais were attemntinc to obtain suction pumps from Indianapolis and other cities to use in pumping out iiooaea poll er rooms. Heating plants could De restored in some buildings if pumps were obtained. J. Henfv Schroeder.

in charee of Red Cross rescue work, estimated tonight that the probable total of persons evacuated from their homes oi' about to be removed, at between 2,000 and 5,000. CRUSHED TO DEATH FORT WAYNE, Jan. 26. Cecil T. Herron, 45 years old, Rural Route 1, Sherwood, Ohio, was ft isldairt Cm! and Wood Rang PRIZE WINNER! f7s MAIL jj COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan.

26. UP) Red Cross officials caring for refugees from flood stricken Portsmouth found one detail lacking in their otherwise perfect arrangements. When mothers began asking for diapers for their babies, nurses discovered they had none. An emergency call went out and Columbus merchants soon supplied 600. (Continued From Page One) Officials also announced last night that orders had been received tn hin without charge into the flooded area all supplies consigned to the American rtea uross.

au such supplies will be received at the Pennsylvania Freight Station in Richmond starting this morning. Girl Reserves or Morion mgn School collected over 500 garments anrt isn rnna of food Monday 'and Tuesday to be given to the Red Cross. Members of tne camnei wno assisted were Joanna Hill, Rose- mnrv Arnnld. Marie Patterson. An- nabelle Ball, Marian Morrow, and Agnes Lawall.

Miss Marguerite Burbanck, sponsor, directed the NEED MORE FOOD Walter Eggemeyer, chairman of the Food Committee of the Red Cross Relief Work in the county, last night announced that pupils at the schools in the city are requested to bring canned goods to their various buildings this morning to be forwarded to the inundated area. Other persons also are asked to contribute canned and nonperish-able foodstuffs. They are to be brought to the Elks' Club on North Eighth Street, where a truckload will be dispatched to the south at noon today. Already 14,000 pounds of food have been sent from this depot and it is hoped that today's cargo will total 7,000 pounds. Every contribution, no matter how small it may seem, is welcomed and may be the means of saving a life.

project. The club also voted $10 from its treasury for flood relief. During a meeting at the post home on Henley Road South last evening, members of the Auxiliary to Harry Ray Post, American Legion, voted to contribute $25 to the Red Cross flood relief fund, Many articles of clothing, canned goods, and nonperishable foods were brought to the meeting by the members for forwarding to the Ohio Valley. The drive for food and clothing will continue as long as the need is present, officials of the organization said. Disaster Committee Chairman Paul Comstock was advised yesterday by Mayor Joseph Waltermann he had been informed by Adjt.

Gen. Elmer Straub that Richmond's offer to care for 500 refugees had been received, but the situation at tins time did not require sending any refugees to this city. Vincent Youkey, executive secre tary of the Indiana Municipal League, with headquarters in Indianapolis, advised however that Richmond should stand by and be prepared for housing and feeding refugees later in the week if present distribution to other towns and cities proves inadequate. A large truckload of food, made up of staples and canned goods collected by the Red Cross, was loaded from the Elks Club yesterday morning and dispatched to Aurora. The truck was loaded under the direc tion of Walter Eggemeyer's Food Committee.

Wilbur Lewis and Har old Hough were drivers. The truck was in charge of Ed Brinker, who supplied the vehicle Preparations were being made late yesterday afternoon for dispatch of additional truckloads of food to the stricken area and trucks DONATIONS NEEDED Food, money, and bedding are especially needed in the flooded areas. Donations of money should be made by check to the Wayne County Chapter, American Red Cross, or by cash payment at the headquarters, 132 South Fourth Street, to township chapter chairmen, or at banks. Donations of food and clothing will be called for by trucks. Headquarters may be reached over telephones 6184, 7667, and 7450.

An additional transporation facility is offered day and night without charge by Grim's Cab Company, telephone 1344. Cab drivers have been instructed to answer call and deliver clothing and food to headquarters. Salvation Army phone numbers, 1045, 1046, and 1047, also may be called. were standing by to transport clothing and bedding to Indiana Headquarters of the Red Cross in Indianapolis, from where it will be shipped into the flood territory and into towns where refugees are being housed. W.

C. Hlbberd, chairman of the Housing Committee said that- every preparation had been made to care for refugees if they are (Continued From Page One) militia. The first thing the regulars did was to start spanning Bear-grass Creek with a pontoon bridge, 2,000 feet long. They had probably the finest pontoon equipment ever put in any temporary bridge. The.

floats were those precious white oak barrels from Kentucky's famous whisky distilleries, the insides perfectly charred. Each barrel was worth probably $20 and thousands were needed. All day long, as the soldiers and volunteer carpenters toiled, weary, hungry citizens, grabbing an occasional cup of hot coffee and a sandwich from equally tired relief workers, rowed the treacherous Beargrass in skiffs, or drove larger motorboats, carrying wet, tear-stained, frightened people out of the lowlands. It was estimated tonight that fully 20,000 people still remain to be evacuated from houses that have all but disappeared in the swirling waters. They just couldn't believe, like everyone else in Louisville and the river valley, that the "beautiful" Ohio could turn such traitor.

Despite the halting of the river's rise, veterans of other and milder floods, looked with fear into the sunny skies. There is about two inches of snow on the highlands on the outskirts of the city, and about the same covers the sweeping flat country that feeds the Ohio. An inch of melting snow can mean a river rise of fully a foot. With the known dead here few, and the total for the state numbering but 53, among them a dozen convicts who died when the flood waters turned the Frankfort Penitentiary into a madhouse, the danger of near deaths from high water alone almost disappeared tonight. Everyone directly in the path of the sweeping waters has been moved at least to temporarily higher perching places, with the exception of frightened home lovers who refuse to be driven away, though the water laps at their feet in their attics.

There was a growing fear, however, that when the waters finally do subside, a fear greater death toll than first expected will be revealed. It has been impossible to check the names of those at relief stations against the names of the missing, for there was a manual task still for every able-bodied man. Relief was getting closer to hand as the day closed. Supplies came into the city through the airfield and the road or two still open to the south, Police and soldiers commandeered everything in sight for use of hospitals and relief stations. They even broke into closed grocery stores, in the name of the law, carted the provisions to the hillsides, and many a refugee ate caviar, lobster, and anchovies out of tins for the first time in his life.

All but workers were barred from the downtown sections, where the sullen waters cover an area stretching fully seven miles from, what formerly was the Ohio water front. There were heart-touching sights and drama of the most tragic kind in the struggle to combat the flood, In one schoolhouse, at Twenty-third and Cedar Streets, with water lapping up past the first story, were 340 persons, marooned for 24 hours without food, heat, or drinking water. Along Broadway, once the main street of the gay city, it was estimated 5,000 people were caught on upper floors, with only 30 boats available to take them off. In "Honest Abe's Hall" at Twenty-second and Garland, 343 people have not had food for three days. They were in no great danger momentarily, but across the flood, moored to projections of Jefferson- ville, which has all but disappeared.

were 94 power boats from Detroit, waiting for a chance to cross. Over the radio, powered by a few weaK Datteries, came steady an nouncements of places where rescue was needed, and reports of food dis coveries in water-logged freight cars on me railroad sidings. Prac tically all rail connections with the outside world disappeared three days ago. over the radio, too. came the grim warning at frequent intervals: breaking into store police shoot on sieht." That some looters have been shot and probably killed, everyone be neves.

But police officers, inexhaustible Mayor Neville Miller, and tne troops keep a grim silence, iney were told to shoot," said one otnciai today. "Thev nrob- ably did. They didn't say." LOUISVILLE, Jan. 26. LV) Mayor Neville Miller appealed to tne Mayors of other cities tonicht to send 500 policemen by airplanes to Louisville to take over the work of the exhausted policemen.

LOUISVILLE, Jan. 27. Dr. Hugh Rodman Leavell, City Health Commissioner, said tonight that he believed an estimate of 200 persons dead of diseases in Louis ville attributable to the flood in the last three days would be correct, Some species of giraffes have three horns, while others have two. old, died at 5 A.

M. Tuesday at his home, 1024 North Streets. Sur vivors are one son, Cecil; two sis ters, Mrs. Chat Patterson, Spring field, Ohio; Mrs. Celina, Ohio; and two brothers, Jess Carpenter, Fort Wayne, and James Carpenter, Greenville, Ohio.

Funeral services will be conduct ed at 2 P. M. (E. S. Thursday at Long, Ohio, and burial made in Bath Cemetery.

Friends may call at the Unser Waltermann Funeral Home any time. MRS. MYRTLE MARSHALL Funeral services for Mrs. Myrtle Marshall will be held Wednesday at 11 A. M.

in the Curtisvllle Church with burial in the adjoining came-tery. The cortege will leave Richmond early Wednesday. Until that time friends may call at the Funeral Home. BETTY JO MORRIS CONNERSVILLE, Ind Jan. 26.

Miss Betty Jo Morris, 12 years old, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Mark L. Morris, 124 West Thirteenth Street, died at 10 o'clock Tuesday morning at her home following an illness of lobar pneumonia. She had been ill since Sunday. Besides the parents, survivors are the grandparents, Mr.

and Mrs. L. A. Morris, of Brookville, and Richard Rowe of Glenwood. She was president of the Junior American Legion Auxiliary, a member of the Senior Auxiliary, and active in the Central Christian Church.

Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock, Friday afternoon at the Central Christian Church with burial at Dale Cemetery. JAMES PICKRELL CONNERSVILLE, Jan. 26. James Pickrell, 71 years old, died Monday evening at his home south- east of New Saicm) following a heart attack. Survivors are the widow; two sons, William, of Rush County, and James, of Tuscola, three grandchildren.

He was a farmer and lifelong resident or Rush County. Funeral services will bo held at 10:30 o'clock Thursday morning at the home of son, William, southeast of New Salem, with burial in Fisher Cemetery, Rev. Wilbur Crawley officiating. Friends may call at the home of the son any time. BEN Y.

HUGHES GREENVILLE, Ohio, Jan. 26. Funeral services for Ben T. Hughes, retired Greenville businessman, who died suddenly Monday afternoon from a heart attack, will be conducted at the residence, 323 Devor Street, at 2 P. Thursday.

Rev. Ralph Jennings will officiate. Interment will be In the Greenville Cemetery. Surviving relatives include his widow, Mary, one brother, Russell, Frankfort, Ky and two nieces. Owing to flood conditions in the Kentucky area, it was impossible to notify the brother either by telephone or telegram.

As a last resort, Carl Snyder, operator of a Greenville short wave unit, broadcast the message to Kentucky and within 30 minutes replies were received from another amateur station at Frankfort, stating that the message had been delivered. MRS. PAULINE PLATT LYNN, Jan. 26. Mrs.

Pauline Piatt, 29 years old, resident ot near Lynn, died at the Randolph County Hospital Monday afternoon following a short Survivors are her husband, Harold; two cnu- drcn, Eleanor and Lewis, at home; her father and stepmother, Mr. and Mrs. Everett Love, near Lynn; a sister. Mrs. Basil Horner, near Lynn; two brothers, Eldon and HU' bert Love, near here.

Funeral services will be held Thursday at 1:30 P. M. at the residence, and burial will be made in the Arba Cemetery. FRANK B. MONTGOMERY CONNERSVILLE, Jan, 26.

Frank B. Montgomery, 78 years old, father of Mrs. Emery Scholl, Connersville, Democratic state vice, chairman, died early Sunday at his home in the Springerville community. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 10:30 A. M.

in the Springerville Christian Church, in charge of Rev. George D. Wyatt and Rev. Theodore Cord. Buriai will be made in Springerville Cemetery.

EZRAHILL NEW MADISON, Ohio, Jan. 26. Ezi'a Hill, 83 years old, died at his home west of here at 6 A. M. Tuesday of pneumonia.

Funeral services will be held at 2 P. M. Thursday but the place has not been determined due to the serious illness of Mrs. Ellen Hill, the widow. Rev.

G. H. Wood will officiate and burial will be in Green Mound Cemetery. Besides the widow, two daughters, Mrs. Hallie Overbeck, a teacher in the local school; Miss Minnie Hill, Indianapolis; a son, Charles, Indianapolis, and seven grandchildren survive.

WILLIAM CASEY NEW CASTLE, Jan. 26. William Casey, farmer living west of here near Kennard, died Sunday from injuries received several weeks ago when he was kicked by a horse. Mr. Casey was brought to the New Castle Clinic for treatment and was taken home only a few days ago.

He was believed recovering, but suffered a hemorrhage Sunday. Surviving are two daughters, two sisters, and two brothers. Funeral services were held Tues day morning at 10 o'clock at the Kennard Christian umircn ana mir ial made at Knightstown. JOSEPH HILDEBRAND GREENVILLE, Ohio, Jan. 26.

Funeral services for Joseph HUde-brand, 70 years old, one of the old est active railroad men in western Ohio, who died at the Greenville Hospital from pneumonia, Monday morning, will be conducted at St, Marv'a Catholic Church at 9 A. Thursday. Interment will be In the Greenville mausoleum. THOMAS CASEY LIBERTY, Jan. 26.

Funeral services for Thomas Casey, last sur viving member of the G. A. R. In Union County, were conducted this afternoon in Edwards Memorial Methodist Church. Mr.

Casey, 91- vear-old Civil War veteran, died late Saturday at his home here. In compliance with a request made by Mr. Casey to Rev. R. Hays, pastor of the local church, a large flag given the cnurcn oy uie Civil War veteran, was draped over the head of his casket.

The Rev Mr. Hays was assisted in the serv ices by Rev. J. A. carnea of Rich mond.

Military rites were conduct ed at the grave in West Point Cema- tery. SAMUEL hTCARf4nTER Samuel H. Carpenter, 71 years ME Administration forces in the House beat down attempts to raise or lower the President's request. Representative Boileau Wis.) pleaded vainly, until his face was crimson, for $1,040,000,000 which he said was necessary to provide enough jobs and decent wages for the unemployed. Prospects of speedy Senate action were heightened by word from R.

A. Cary T. Grayson, chairman of the Red Cross, that 750,000 persons now are homeless. After receiving late afternoon reports from the 1800-mile flood front, Grayson said ho considered the situation in the Ohio and Mississippi Valley "the greatest emergency the Nation and the Red Cross have faced since the World War." He telegraphed this appeal to all Red Cross Chapters: "Flood suffering has already reached unprecedented proportions with relief needs steadily mounting. Under these conditions impossible now name final goal for funds.

Only limit Red Cross assistance must be maximum generosity American people." The Red Cross fund totaled $375,078 at noon. President Roosevelt kept Federal troops and thousands of other Gov-prnment workers mobilized on a wartime basis to feed and care for the refugees and maintain order in flooded communities. He said at a press conference the emergency would not be over for at least another 48 hours, and that after the crest is past on me mis- sissippi relief forces still will face a. huEre task of cleaning up. He is planning a special relief appropriation after the full extent of the disaster is known.

The President expressed hope that states interested in interstate flood control compacts will get together and clear the way for Federal control projects. He revealed that the Government is developing a synchronized program for prevention of floods and soil erosion in the future. The President received some encouraging news from flood regions at a conference with Red Cross and Federal officials. They told him the weather situation was "the best in more than a week." Surgeon-General Thomas Parran, and Harry L. Hopkins, Works Progress Administrator, agreed health conditions were "exceptionally good," with disease so far no more prevalent than if there had been no flood.

Major General E. M. Markham, Chief of Army Engineers, expressed belief that flood waters probably would be below the levee grades on the Mississippi between the Arkansas and Red Rivers. Among countless activities reported by the Red Cross was the shipment of 80 carloads of food for Cincinnati. Additional medical units were organized by the Army, Red Cross, and health service for Louisville.

Hopkins reported 50,000 WPA workers on the job. Malor General William E. Cole, Army Commander in the hard-hit Fifth Corps area, where Federal troops were ordered yesterday into Kentucky, was called home from leave in California. A company of engineers was sent from Fort Bel-voir, to Fort Benjamin Harrison, probably to be ordered later to the vicinity of Louisville. In Congress, Representative Bigelow Ohio) presented a request from Cincinnati for appointment of a Congressional committee to survey relief needs.

General Malin Craig, Army Chief of Staff, said after the White House conference there was no necessity for Federal martial law in Kentucky. This, he said, would have meant the Army would take over everything in the state, including the courts. Secretary Woodring, Craig said, decided to put Federal soldiers there only to help local and other authorities in protecting persons and property and to increase the morale of the doctors and other relief workers. Red Cross headquarters tonight ordered 31,000 mattresses and sleeping bags sent to Memphis to take care of an expected influx of refugees there. One Red Cross official said there was possibility that 100,000 to 200,000 refugees might have to be concentrated at Memphis.

HOPE Continued From Page One) "We've got it whipped," jubilantly shouted Portsmouth, unio inciais, Meanwhile. Mississippi levees as far south as Arkansas were reported in dancer. One near Helena, ArK said an engineer, "might go out within 24 to 36 hours." Army engineers received orders to drop rescue work at midnight to give their whole energies to the vast task Of trying to save uie great levte line. Other levee breaks were threat ened at Charleston and New Madrid, and near Tiptonville. Term.

In three Southern statesaennes-see. Arkansas, and Mississippi and in the border state Missouri, more than 2,000,000 acres, or some 3,000 phis was prepared to care for 50,000 refugees, Major General E. M. Markman, chief of Army engineers, said in Washington, however, flood waters moving southward probably would be "below the levee grades between the Arkansas and Red Rivers." Wholesale evacuations of beleaguered towns in Tennessee, western Kentucky, southeastern Missouri, Arkansas, and Mississippi, burdened refugee centers while the mighty father of waters felt out the strength of its confining dikes. Martial law was declared in the east Arkansas flood zone when Government engineers advised Tuesday that the main Mississippi River levee at Melwood, 20 miles south of Helena, "might go out within 24 to 36 hours." Regular Army troops moved into Louisville and martial law was do-creed for other spots in the flood areas as every Federal agency-moved by President Roosevelt's command to "step on it" turned its energies to aid the stricken.

A territory 1,500 miles along the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, through 11 states, faced disease arid untold suffering before supplies and relief crews could marshal their forces efficiently with an unknown prospect in store should the Mississippi's untested levee system prove unequal to the task of carrying off the piled up waters. A weakened levee at Slough Bend, five miles north of Tipton- ville, threatened 80,000 acres of Lake County, Tenn, All of it will be flooded if the levee breaks. Engineers also expressed fear for the main levees at New Madrid, Hickman, and a point above Charleston, as waters pouring through the blasted plug levee in an effort to take pressure from Cairo, 111., climbed to a 60-foot set-back levee, At Cairo frantic efforts were being made to build up the 60-foot river wall with sandbag bulkheads. The Ohio River dropped .2 of a foot to 58.46 at Cairo, apparently as the direct result of blasting the plug levee. A new rise was expected however, which may send the river to a 61-foot crest, 21 feet above flood stage Thursday.

All along the Mississippi, where flood memory is long, men experienced at their tasks fought to establish floods controls in this, one of the richest farming areas America. Against the time when the flood crest arrives in the South, the Red Cross made emergency preparations to concentrate as many as 50,000 refugees in Memphis alone. Nearly 2,000 boats were said to be at that city to bring in refugees. Regular Army troops had as their first task the completion of evacuation of two thirds of Louisville's 330,000 residents. Some refugees from low lying areas remained to be moved; the construction of pontoon bridges seemed the only way.

In Cincinnati the cry, "boil the water," went up repeatedly and insistently through every device of public proclamation. The period at which water could be had was cut to one hour a day and even then it was available only in the lower sections. Everywhere in schools, churches, public buildings huddled the home less, who numbered altogether more than 65,000. In Washington, the House of Representatives speedily passed and sent to the Senate a $790,000,000 Deficiency Relief Bill "every cent" of which, if necessary, the Presi dent had pledged for flood aid. The fight to control the Mississippi grew more dramatic as last night passed.

For the second time, engineers dynamited a crumbling levee near New Madrid, to send Mississippi flood water into almost deserted lowlands. In this man made flood, created for the larger purpose of protecting a whole area, three persons lost their lives, four others disappeared and between 100 and 200 were reported by the Red Cross as marooned in the flood basin. One of the greatest protective projects ordered was the erection of a "freeboard," or planks backed by sandbags, along the Mississippi all the way from New Madrid to Louisiana a solid sand and lumber wall of 300 miles or more. Truckload of Water Taken to Cincinnati A Salvation Army truck, equipped with an 800 gallon tank donated by the Civil City, left Richmond yesterday en route for Cincinnati. The tank was to be filled with water at Hamilton.

The Salvation Army also sent a truckload of food to the Cincinnati area. ANSWER CALL INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 26. A group of 100 Indianapolis firemen and policemen prepared tonight to leave for Louisville, following an appeal of Mayor Neville Miller f6r men to relieve exhausted policemen there. The Indianapolis group planned to arrive in Louisville sometime tomorrow.

THOUSANDS (Continued From Page One) and Rockport had large districts under water. Jeffersonvllle and New Albany, both hard hit, sent hundreds of citizens northward. The Red Cross director at Washington, reported a motor con voy of 41 vehicles had left that city tonight to pick up refugees at Evansville. The Washington chapter also sent a shipment of 16,000 gallons of water to Evansville. Relief equipment provided by the Cole Brothers-Clyde Beatty circus was en route tonight to Jefferson ville.

The equipment included five circus pullmans which can accom modate 400 persons; a dining car which can serve 40 persons at a time, and four portable gasoline operated lighting units mounted on wheels. These units were made up into a special train, i Relief agencies reported Madison "is out of the woods," although the Ohio River churned today to 72.8 feet, highest level in history of the city. River observers said the crest had been reached there. 4 More than 100 buildings were in undated. National Guard officers an nounced here tonight 50 new water tank cars of 8,000 gallons capacity each were en route to Indiana from Philadelphia and would arrive in the state by Thursday.

The cars, the officers said, would be placed on a siding at Terre Haute to await further movement. Adjutant General Elmer Straub tonight ordered national guardsmen at New Albany and Jef fersonvllle, isolated by the Ohio River flood, to be prepared to evae uate those cities completely if conditions become more grave. The General informed his officers they should move the remaining residents of those communities to safety "if the situation requires such a move." Several thousand persons already have headed northward from thbse stricken towns, and more were leav ing regularly. Normal population of New Al bany is 26,000 and Jeffersonville 12,000. Throughout the day guardsmen worked feverishly to move all residents to higher ground waterWply (Continued From Page One) tee was told, would fail to obey the warning to boll all drinking water the 20 minutes termed necessary.

Twenty-five tank cars of water were reported en route here from Indianapolis, in addition to an un estimated amount from an Illinois point. Discovery of the threatened wa ter shortage and fear of Infection led to a run on stores dispensing bottles of mineral water. Health authorities insisted there was no immediate threat of disease and said the health situation could be described as "near normal" with only a few cases of scarlet fever and influenza reported, Meanwhile, there was a decrease in the rise of the Ohio. The stage was 52.3 at 3:30 P. M.

It dipped slightly and had risen to 52.4 at 9 P. M. The .1 of a foot increase in five and a half hours was under the former gradual increase of .1 of a foot every two hours. This flood-stricken city of began to settle back today into an of apprehensive waiting as the brawling Ohio River continued a slow but persistent advance into the business district. John Hagan, Acting U.

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