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I the the the THE RICHMOND ITEM, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1937 REFUGEES' PLIGHT SPEEDS PASSAGE OF $790,000,000 RELIEF BILL Entire Sum To Be Used Flood Area if Needed House Approves Appropriation Without Record Vote; Rapid Action Planned in Senate; Red Cross Fund Nears $500,000 WASHINGTON, D. Jan. refugees brought lightning action in relief fund. Without a record vote, the House and sent it along to the Senate, similar fast action. President Roosevelt promised that used for flood victims if necessary.

finance general relief throughout the Administration forces in the House beat down attempts to raise or lower the P' President's request. Representative Boileau Wis.) pleaded vainly, until his face for $1,040,000,000 which crimsonia 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 front, Grayson said he considered the situation in the Ohio and Mississippi Valley "the greatest the Nation and the Red emergency 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 Government 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 the Mississippi relief forces still will face a huge task of cleaning up. He is planning a special relief tion 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 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. Major General William E. Cole, Army Commander hard-hit Fifth Corps area, where Federal troops were ordered yesterday into Kentucky, was called home from in California.

A company of engineers was sent from Fort Belvoir, to Fort Benjamin Harrison, probably 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 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 and property the authorities in protecting. persons 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, Ohio officials.

Meanwhile, Mississippi levees as far south as Arkansas were reported danger. One near Helena, 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 the great levee line. Other levee breaks were threatened at Charleston and New Madrid, and near Tiptonville, Tenn. In three Southern States- Tennessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi- and in the border state Missouri, more than 2,000,000 acres, or some 3,000 Deaths and Funerals BETTY JO MORRIS CONNERSVILLE, 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 southeast of New Salem, following a heart attack.

Survivors are the widow; two sons, William, of Rush County, and James, of Tuscola, three grandchildren. He was a farmer lifelong resident of Rush County. Funeral services will b3 held at 10:30 o'clock Thursday morning at home of the 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 T. HUGHES GREENVILLE, Ohio, Jan. 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, 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. Pauline Platt, 29 years old, resident of near Lynn, died at the Randolph County Hospital Monday afternoon following short illness. Survivors are her husband, Harold; two children, 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 Hubert 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 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. Burial will be made in Springerville Cemetery. EZRA HILL MADISON, Ohio, Jan. 26.

-Ezra Hill, 83 years old, died at his home west of here at 6 A. M. Tuesday of pneumonia. 2 Thursday but the place has Funeral, services will be held at 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. 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 Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock at the Kennard Christian Church and bur- JOSEPH HILDEBRAND Jan. GREENVILLE, Ohio, Funeral services for Joseph Hildebrand, 70 years old, one of the oldest active railroad men in western Ohio, who died at the Greenville Hospital from pneumonia, Monday morning, will be conducted at St. Mary's Catholic Church at 9 A.

Thursday. Interment will be in the Greenville mausoleum. THOMAS CASEY LIBERTY, Jan. services for Thomas Casey, last surviving member of the G. A.

R. in Union County, were conducted this afternoon in Edwards Memorial Methodist Church. Mr. Casey, 91- year-old Civil War veteran, died late Saturday at his home In compliance with request made by Mr. Casey to Rev.

R. M. Hays, pastor of the local church, a large flag given the church by the Civil War veteran, was draped over the head of his casket. The Rev. Mr.

Hays was assisted in the services by Rev. J. A. Carnes of Richmond. Military rites were conducted at the grave in West Point Cemetery.

SAMUEL H. CARPENTER Samuel H. Carpenter, 71 LOUISVILLE (Continued From Page One) militia. The first thing the regulars did was to start spanning Beargrass 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, citizens, carpenters grabbing toiled, an weary, 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, tearstained, 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 believe, swirling like everyone else in waters. They just couldn't 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 inches of snow 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 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 carted stores, the in the name to of the law, provisions 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 waterfront. 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 persons, the first marooned story, 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, 348 people have not had food for three days. They were in no great, danger momentarily, but across flood, moored to projections of Jeffersonville, which has all but disappeared, were 94 power boats from Detroit, waiting for a chance to cross. weaker the batteries, radio, came powered steady by a few announcements of places where rescue was needed, and reports of food discoveries in water-logged freight cars on the railroad sidings. Practically all rail connections with the outside world disappeared three days ago.

Over the radio, too, came the grim warning at frequent intervals: "Looters breaking into store police shoot on sight." That some looters have been shot and probably killed, everyone believes. But police officers, inexhaustible Mayor Neville Miller, and the troops keep a grim silence. "They were told to shoot," said one official today. "They probably did. They didn't say." LOUISVILLE, Jan.

-Mayor Neville Miller appealed to the Mayors of other cities tonight to send 500 policemen by airplanes to Louisville to take over the work of the exhausted policemen. LOUISVILLE, Jan. -Dr. Hugh Rodman Leavell, City Health Commissioner, said tonight that he believed an estimate of 200 persons dead of diseases in Louisville 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. vivors are one son, Cecil; two sis ters, Mrs. Chat Patterson, Springfield, Ohio; Mrs.

Lina Dempsey, Celina, Ohio; and two brothers, Jess Carpenter, Fort Wayne, and James Carpenter, Greenville, Ohio. Funeral services will be conducted 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 Curtisville Church with burial in the adjoining cometery. The cortege will leave Richmond early Wednesday. Until that time friends may call at the Stegall Funeral Home. Overlook Diapers in Relief Plans COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan.

(7P)-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. WAYNE (Continued From Page One) Officials also announced last night that orders had been received here to ship without charge into the flooded area all supplies consigned to the American Red Cross. All such supplies received at the Pennsylvania "Freight Station in Richmond starting this morning.

Girl Reserves of Morton High School collected over 500 garments and 150 cans of food Monday and Tuesday to be given to the Red Cross. Members of the cabinet who assisted were Joanna Hill, Rosemary Arnold, Marie Patterson, Annabelle Ball, Marian Morrow, and Agnes Lawall. Miss Marguerite Burbanck, sponsor, directed the NEED MORE FOOD Walter Eggemeyer, chairman of the Food Committee of 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 nonperishable 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 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. home on Henley Road 'south last During meeting post 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 Disaster Committee. Chairman Paul Comstock was advised day 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 this time did not require sending any refugees to this city.

Vincent Youkey, executive secretary 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 direction of Walter Eggemeyer's Food Committee. Wilbur Lewis and HarHough 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, may be called. were standing by 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.

Hibberd, chairman of the Housing Committee said that every preparation had been made to care for refugees if they are sent He said housing facilities least 500 had been cured and that these facilities included and dining rooms. The Municipal Lighting and Power Company is 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 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 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, 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. THOUSANDS (Continued From Page One) and Rockport had large districts under water. Jeffersonville and New Albany, both hard hit, sent hundreds of citizens northward. "The Red Cross director at Washington, reported a motor convoy 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 Jeffersonville. The equipment included five circus pullmans which can accommodate 400 persons; a dining car which can serve 40 persons at a and four portable gasoline operated lighting units mounted on These were up into a special 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. More than 100 buildings were inundated.

National Guard officers announced here tonight 50 new water tank cars of 8,000 gallons capacity each were en route to Indiana from Philadelphia and would arrive in state by Thursday. The cars, the officers said, would be placed on a siding at Terre Haute to await further movement. Adjutant General Elmer F. Straub tonight ordered national guardsmen at New Albany and Jeffersonville, isolated by the Ohio River flood, to be prepared to evacuate 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 those stricken towns, and more were leaving regularly.

Normal population Albany is 26,000 and Jeffersonville 12,000. Throughout the day guardsmen worked feverishly to move all residents to higher ground. WATER SUPPLY (Continued From Page One) tee was told, would fail to obey the warning to boil 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 unestimated amount from an Illinois point. Discovery of the threatened water 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 could be described as "near with situation, 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 000 began to settle back today into an attitude of apprehensive waiting as the brawling Ohio River continued a slow but persistent advance into the business district. John Hagan, Acting U. S. Weather Observer, held out some encouragement that the Ohio's rise might be halted.

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Restaurants were ordered to restrict food portions as conservation measure, although the food supply still was adequate. Preparations to tighten the martial law grip on all of flooded southern Indiana were made this afternoon 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 DePrez of Shelbyville was placed in command headquarters of the Versailles and Col. John S. Fishback in charge of a central southern between Road 45 on the west area, road 33 on the east. Colonel Fishback left immediately 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 on a volunteer and enforced basis. Northbound trains were filled with those either homeless or fearful of a sudden flood rise that might entrap them. Persons removed by guardsmen and naval militiamen were sent out of the city by train, 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 Marshals were attempting to obtain suction pumps from Indianapolis and other cities to use in pumping out flooded boiler rooms. Heating plants could be I restored in some buildings if pumps were obtained. J. Henry Schroeder, in charge of Red Cross rescue work, estimated tonight that the probable total of persons evacuated from their homes or about to be removed, at between 2,000 and 5,000.

CRUSHED TO DEATH FORT WAYNE, Jan. (P)-Cecil T. Herron, 45 years old, Rural Route 1, Sherwood, Ohio, was LIBERTY MAN STILL MISSING IN FLOOD AREA Wife Unable To Find Trace of Harry Wooley; Last Seen on Hill in Cincinnati plight of 750,000 flood Congress today upon a $790,000,000 approved the huge appropriation where Administration leaders planned every cent of the fund would be Originally he had requested it to nation for the next five months. square miles, were under water but no large cities were inundated. Memphis 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 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 decreed for other spots in the flood areas as every Federal agencymoved by President Roosevelt's command to "step on -turned its energies to aid the stricken. A territory 1,500 miles the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, through 11 states, faced disease and 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.

weakened levee, at Slough Bend, five miles of Tiptonville, 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, 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 Mississippi, where flood memory is long, men experienced at their tasks fought to establish floods controls in this, one of the richest farming areas In America. Against the time when 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 000 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 -huddled the homeless, 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 Presihad pledged for flood aid. dent, 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. 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- solid sand and lumber a wall of 300 miles or more. Truckload of Water Taken to Cincinnati area. ANSWER CALL 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 INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. A group of 100 Indianapolis firemen and policemen prepared tonight to leave for Louisville, following an appeal of Mayor Neville Miller for men to relieve exhausted policemen there. The Indianapolis group planned to arrive in Louisville sometime tomorrow. LIBERTY, Jan.

trace was found of Harry Wooley, 32-year-old trucker living east Liberty, by his wife who went to Cincinnati Monday after the man had been missing since Friday, when he took a load of hogs to that city. Cincinnati had been information. received in 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 far a8 the dairy on Friday.

Here he was told that it would be impossible 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 husent and depressed for the past sevband has, been somewhat desponderal 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.

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