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a WEATHER FORECAST TEMPERATURE day. feet rising. Warmer ins we anu Salur- CA CAMDEN NEWS was High afternoon, tonight and Saturday. THE period ending at 7 a. m.

Friday Arkansas: Generally fair: this Temperature for the 24-hour 37. Low 27. River 16.93 If you miss paper call 721 before 6:30 p. LOCATED IN THE INDUSTRIAL CITY OF THE SOUTH (5 p. m.

Saturday) and copy will be sent you UP) Associated Press Special Features Camden News Founded 1920 CAMDEN. ARKANSAS. FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 1948 ICC May Call Investigation Of Fatal Rail Crash Otterville, Jan. 2 (AP) Alexander W. Weddell, former amand 13 other holiday travelers were bassador to Spain and Argentina, a a a killed in the New Year's Day collision of two passenger trains near this central Missouri town.

Approximately 12 persons were injured, five of whom required hospi pitalization. The dead also included Alexander W. Weddell and Frank M. Ryan, identified as a Hollywood movie director. The collision occurred during a heavy snow storm while the Missouri Pacific's "'The Missourian" was traveling from St.

Louis to Kansas City in two sections. engine of the second section rammed into the rear Pullman of the first train, crushing the car SO completely that torches were used to cut the wreckage apart and remove the dead. All of those killed were occupants The of Weddells the rear Pullmalte from their Richmond, home to Tucson, Ariz. Weddell, 71, had served in many posts throughout the diplomatic world. began his State Department career in 1907 when came secretary to the minister to Denmark.

He became ambassador in 1933 and served until 1939, Argentina then asked President Roosevelt for the post in Spain. He served as ambassador to Spain until his retirement 1942. family of Frank Ryan also The was killed in the wreck. They were identified as Mrs. Adelaide Ryan, James, 20, a son, and the wife; Judith, 18.

a daughter, Frankie, 9, a son. The Ryans were returning to Hollywood after visiting The other relatives in identified dead included Richmond, Ind. Pullman Conductor E. K. Emmons, Charles, Pullman Porter Roy Harry Chamber, Lovejoy, and Ryan, Evansville, San Miss Fernando, M.

a school teacher. Jane Raddatz, 51, identification of Miss Radmade this morning Louis, by datz was Mrs. cousin. Elbert Mrs. Thompson, Thompson said Misse St.

a been visiting her a and Thompson since December 22. Raddatz had Mr. The Thompsons said she occupied berth on the last Pullman the last on Thompson said survivors inthe train. cluded Mrs. a brother, Glenn Raddar, Los W.

Angeles, Prortner, and a Burbank, Calif. sister, r. Mrs. 8. the dead had not been Three of positively but Missouri Patrolman K.

K. Identified State said Highway- personal effects had been Johnson found for the following: St. Louis, Harriet of Thompson, P. Murphy, daughter Katy railroad physician. Richmond, Viola Andrews, Raddatz, 442 AlexanWeddell's maid.

der, Miss San Jane Fernando, Calif. P. Gilpin or Ger34669 en route from Cpl. Everett N. Y.

Camp hart, 18 Green Haven Book, the bodies was hamCalif. Removal sub of freezing temperapered by the tracks was tures. expected to be resumed Traffic today. The statement Missouri saying there probably Pacific issued negligence on the was part of "flagrant certain train employes." Waggoner of the Earlier Col. Hugh attributed the state highway failure of patrol block collision signals.

to an The apparent Missouri Pacific statement said the signals were in perfect Interstate Commerce Comorder. will call an mission Missouri probably vestigation cific spokesman said. added the railroad expected to have the today. Meanwhile traftracks cleared by p. m.

was rerouted over the (CST) branch line between Jeffic being MoPac's and Kansas city and ferson the City Texas line between Sedalia and Bobne: ville. 100 passengers in the forward coaches were not Approximately aware of the fatalities in the hours rear Pullman until nearly seven after the wreck they finish were their when taken off the train the journey to Kansas City. car ahead of rear wheels on the the telescoped Pullman the rails. Identification of the Weddels was by Mr. and Mrs.

Richard made Baldwin of St. Louis. Weddells stopped in St. Louis Dec. 31 for Baldwin, who is a canner waln son of the late L.

W. Baldwin, former president of the Missouri Pacific railroad. McClellan Writes Tax Article New York, Jan. 2 -(A)- tor McClellan of Arkansas has written an article for the American Magazine in which he states the case for his favorite proposal -a federal split-income tax provision. The senator wrote that husbands and wives in the 13 states and Hawail which have community property laws saved $344,291,000 in income taxes in 1916.

Since beginning of the come tax, added. married couples in those areas have saved a bout $1,000,000.000 through "a system of special privilege." allow for division for State community property, laws tax purposes, thus affording married couples lower bracket rates and lesser total payments. Senator McClellan would incorporate a simllar provision by federal law. (P) Associated Press (UP) United Press VOLUME XXVIII NO. 213 Baby Boy First At Hospital A son, born to Mr.

and Mrs. Tommy Aslin, Billkitts Housing Area, at 8:57 a. m. Thursfor the New Year of 1948 at day, was, the first born baby the Camden Hospital, according to information from the hospital staff. The baby boy weighed in at seven pounds and three ounces and is the first child young couple.

Dr. McAlister was the attending doctor and reports that all, including the nervous husband, are doing fine. (This is the first baby born at. the hospital and not necessarily the first born in the county. There are awards being made by several local merchants for the first baby born in this county.) Parents of babies born after midnight, December 31, are urged to send their entries in to the First Baby' Editor of the Camden News, as all entries must be in before January 5th.

Violence Claims 130 Lives In U.S. By The Associated Press The nation's violent death toll over the New Year holiday, an unofficial survey showed today, was 130, including more than 100 persons who lost their lives in traffic and The railroad total fatalities from 6 p. Wednesday to midnight Thursday, which included 104 in traffic-rail mishaps and 26 from miscellaneous causes, compared to 116 for the corresponding period last year. The toll was far below the 288 violent deaths reported over the Christmas holiday period. theme New most Year serious holiday accident was over the crash of two Missouri Pacific passenger trains near Otterville, in which 14 persons were killed.

Ice and snow-covered highways decreased holiday travel but many of the traffic fatalities were attributed to dangerous conditions of roads in the central and eastern states. The traffic toll, however, was the estimate by the National Safety Council which said 175 persons probably would lose their lives in motor mishaps. Pennsylvania led in traffic deaths with 13. The toll by states, listing fatalities from traffic and miscellaneous causes: falls, plane crashes, Included Missouri 15. 1948 Begins Quietly In City Camden enjoyed the quietest New Year's Day on record Thursday as strong winds and cooler weather kept most people in their homes.

New Year's Eve night was braved quiet. too, although some people the rain and wind to attend midnight movies or dances. Many residents of this area were 'glued' to their radios Wednesday night, seeking, the latest information on the tornado which struck Cotton Valley and Haynesville, Louisiana, and Village, Arkansas. Likewise on New Year's afternoon the radios poured out the thrills of the coast-to-coast football bowl games. City police reported no violence over the New Year holiday, although one accident occurred Thursday afternoon on South Main.

The Camden Fire Department answered two alarms, which were small and little damage resulted. The first was to the residence of F. W. Whiteside at 514 West Washington Street, where a log had rolled from the fireplace and caused some damage to the floor. The second alarm was to Zann Gaston's home on Clifton Street, where small damage resulted to wallpaper that caught fire.

At the Camden Hospital the first baby born in the new year was a son born to Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Aslin of Billkitts. Woman Leaps To Safety From Fire New York, Jan. -(P)-An 80- year-old woman leaped three floors to safety today in a fivealarm fire which spread into six buildings and cast a dense pall of smoke over Manhattan's West Side at columbus circle.

The woman, identified firemen as Mrs. Mayse McLain, suftered only leg injuries after she jumped into a firemen's net. About women, and children were led to safety in night clothes by police and firefighters. Eleven firemen were injured in fighting the fire which de. stroyed a four-story building at '30 West 58th street.

One wall collapsed but no one was injured. The fire broke out at 7:19 under" (EST) and was reported control about three hours later. Flames spread to three adjoining converted apartment houses to the fourth and fifth floors of an eight-story office building at 225 West 57th street and the seventh and eizhth floors of a 13-story office building at 1780 Broadway. Firemen arriving scene glimpsed Mrs. McLain standing at the edge of the roof and shouted to her through wind-driven smoke: "Don't jump!" As the elderly woman swayed at the edge of the roof, a life net was spread.

Then she leaped. Firefighters who rushed to the scene through ice-glazed streets said the fire threw off the heaviest smoke they had seen in years of fighting fires." Walter E. Hussman Comes To Camden As News Publisher PAUL T. MORGAN WILL MANAGE TEXARKANA NEWSPAPERS WALTER E. HUSSMAN C.

E. Palmer, President of the Camden News Publishing announced today the of Walter E. Hussman as publisher of the Camden News, effective January 19. Paul T. Morgan, general manag.

er of the Camden for the past six years is leaving Camden the latter part of January to assume the general managership the Texarkana Daily News, effective February 1. from Texarkana, where he held the Mr. Hussman comes to position of assistant publisher of the Texarkana Gazette and Daily News. He had been connected with the Texarkana newspapers since 1935. Prior to that time he had been employed by the El Dorado Daily News and Times, the Hot Springs Sentinel-Record and New Era and the Hope Star.

He also held the position of vice president and executive director of Arkansas Dailies, publishers representative for 60 daily newspapers in Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Mississippi. He is president of Camden Radio, Inc. Mr. Hussman received his journalistic education at the University of Missouri. During World War I he served as a major in the Caribbean and European Theaters of Operations.

Prior to the war, he took an active part in civic affairs of Texarkana and the states of Arkansas and Texas, having held the post of president of the Arkansas State Junior Chamber of Commerce. He also served on the national board of the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce. He has served as vice chairman and chairman of the Texarkana Housing Authority which built and now operates 000.000 worth of emergency housing. Mr. Hussman is the immediate past president of the Texas Newspaper Publishers' Association and is a director of the Southwest School of Printing.

He is a member of the Club, a deacon in the Presbyterian Church and in 1940-41 was voted Texarkana's most outstanding young man. He is currently vice president and a member of the board of the Texarkana Chamber of Commerce and is a member of the executive committees of the Red Cross and the Community Chest. He is married to the former Betty Palmer. daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

C. E. Palmer of Texarkana, and they have three children. Mrs. Hussman also has been active in civic affairs, particularly with the YWCA and the Junior League.

Mr. Morgan came to Camden in February, 1942, and has been ac- aftive in civic and business fairs here since that time. He is vice president of the Rotary Club and a member of the Board of Directors of the Chamber of Commerce. During the war years he was in charge of the Camden News and despite the many hardships of the publishing field, maintained the high standards of the News and this newspaper never missed a single issue during that time. Sev.

eral, -extra editions were also published and new records were set for circulation and street sales dur. ing that time. Mr. Morgan is immediate past chairman of the Advertising Group of the Arkansas Press Association Under Mr. Morgan's leadership this organization grew and the membership more than doubled He also has been active in the Press Association work in this state, and has been affiliated with the Newspaper Advertising Executive's Association.

Mrs. Morgan will accompany him to Texarkana, and their daughter, who is a sophomore at the University of Arkansas, will join them there when the spring term ends this June. BULLETIN to BULLETIN Little Rock, Jan. 2 (AP) a Passer Venable, Little Rock and Camden, frequent and unsuccessful candidate, for high office, anhe would be a didate for the I. S.

Senate in next summer's elections. Venable. an attorney, made the announcement through a paid newspaner advertisement." Sen. John of Camden, completing his first term in the Senate, has not announced formally his intentions however, he generally is expected to be a candidate for re-election. INFLUENZA INCREASE IN '47 Little Rock, Jan.

2 Incidence of influenza in Arkansas in 1947 was more than four times as great as in 1946, the state health department has reported. The department said 25,026 cases of the disease were reported last year compared to 6,039 a Tentative totals compiled by the department showed 1,647 cases of pneumonia in 1947 compared 892 tor 1946. Cancer increased to 596 from 232. Poliomyelitis decreased from 408 cases to 83. Martin Boomed By GOP Party Washington, Jan.

2-(A)-A oneman drive to make House Speaker Joseph Martin the compromise presidential nominee of the Republican party was launched today by Rep. Leo Allen (R-Ill). Allen appraised Martin's chances of getting the nomination at in five." He said the speaker knows of the campaign now getting under way to "talk him up." he says," Allen told reporters, "is that he doesn't see how anyone could refuse the nomination." The chairman of the influential House Rules committee said he figures the Republican tion in Philadelphia this summer will supply an opening for Martin by following the pattern of 1940. That was the year when Gov. Thomas Dewey of New York and Senator Robert A.

Taft of Ohio fought to a stand-off in the early rounds, allowing the late Wendell L. Wilkie to snatch the nomination on the fifth ballot. Allen said it looks to him as if Dewey and Taft are in about the same positions they occupied eight years ago and have about the same strength. He expects them to tangle with the same results, only this time: Martin make the logical compromise choice. Everybody likes him and nobody's mad at him.

I figure he's got about a one to five chance to get the presidential running mate. he said, Martin should have a midwestern or Western veteran. Allen said he had nobody in mind that Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota, who is gunning for first on the ticket, would qualify as midwestern veteran. For that matter, so would Allen, although he didn't mention the fact.

On the Democratic side, Allen said he thinks the ticket will be President Truman and James Farley, who recently announced his support for Mr. Truman. Farley is the former postmaster general and Democratic National chairman who parted ways with the late President Roosevelt when the third term campaign came along in 1940. Allen said he and a few others, including a wealthy Southern Democrat, are talking up Martin's stock at every opportunity. The speaker is not joining in.

Allen said, but he is planning to make a midwestern speaking tour. He said Martin probably will speak in 'such cities as Chicago, Omaha, and St. Louis, around the middle February, when Republicans customarily make Lincoln day addresses. Last Convict Is Captured Today Canon, City, Sherbondy, 28 Jan. 2 old (P) aur.

James year derer, was captured at a nch house three miles north of C. non City today, last of the dozen incorrigible convicts who smashed their way out of the Colorado prison Tuesday. The killer of a deputy sheriff gave up without a fight. He armed only with a bogus gun similar to several other made by the escaping prisoners. he didn't put up any resistance, so he's in better shape than some of them who, made the escane." the warden said.

Best reported that Sharbondy took refuge in a hay barn on the ranch of George Smith and had stayed there ever since making his getaway. Two of the dozen convicts were killed and four others were shot and wounded, two critically. Anoth. er was beaten on the head by a ranch wife wielding a claw hammer. Woman Taken By Death Arkadelphia.

Jan. 2 (Spl.) Mrs. Martha Jane Thomas, aged 73. of Sparkman, died at her home Wednesday. Surviving are her husband, John W.

Thomas: four daughters. Mrs. Ella Roberts and Miss Sarah, Thomas of Sparkman, Mrs. Coy Porterfield of Rolla. and Mrs.

Selma Marlar of Rosston: four sons, Harvey of Compton, Henry of Bastrop. Frank of Cullendale. and Jesse of Sparkman; three sisters, Mrs. Dora Fitzhugh of Rolla, Mrs. zie Clements and Mrs.

Lucy Goodman of Malvern; and three brothers. James and Neil Rucker Rolla. and William Rucker of Magnet Cove. BANK CALL Washington, Jan. 2 currency (A)- today The comptroller of the issued A call for a statement of the condition of all national banks at the close of busin se 31, 1047.

Damaging Winter Ushers In The New Year With Snow And Tornadoes Four Highway Jobs Pending Little Rock, Jan. 2 (AP) -Chief Engineer Alf Johnson of the state highway department said today that because of pending litigation involving approximately $1,553,000 in surplus highway revenues he had been unable to issue work orders to contractors who wanted to start immediately on four highway construction jobs they been ditionally awarded. Twenty contracts awarded by the state highway commission at a recent meeting were conditioned on outcome of a Pulaski Chancery Court suit in which Arkansas county judges seek the $1,553,000 under a 1947 law which gave revenues, Johnson said. Despite the conditional nature of the awards, contractors on four jobs sought permission to start work- immediately, and it was necessary to refuse them authorization, the engineer explained. No work already in progress has been halted, he added.

The state is resisting the county judges' suit, which now is under advisement in the chancery court. An appeal to the supreme court, regardless of the chancery decision, has been indicated. Overseas Wire Workers Strike New York, Jan. 2 -(A)- Union overseas communication workers went on strike at four cable companies today, tieing up an estimated two-thirds of their facilities for transmissions between the United States and the rest of the world. The walkout, which involved some 3.300 employes, began at 12:01 a.

m. (EST) and came while federal conciliators still were attempting to bridge differences between union and company tions. The dispute stemmed from their failure to agree on provisions of new contracts to replace those which expired last midnight. vision of the Western Union TeleThe companies are a the cables digraph Company, Mackay Radio and Telegraph. the Commercial Cable Company and All-America Cables.

The unions are the CIO American Communications Association and the independent All-America Cables Employes Association whose members had voted to join the CIO union in strike action. The last-ditch effort to avert the tieup involved the ACA and Western Union with conciliation officials hoping that agreement between the company and the union would serve as a pattern for overall settlement. Negotiations with the other companies were broken off earlier. Four hours after picket lines began forming in New York and workers had walked out of some offices in San Francisco and Washington, ACA President Joseph P. Selly emerged from the tion session to announce that "the strike is Selly said no future a meetings for further negotiation of the dispute had been planned.

Picket lines were posted at the main offices of the Western Union cables department and the building of the International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation, parent firm of the three other companies involved. Picket lines also were set up in Washington and San Francisco. Spokesmen for unaffected cables companies expressed the belief they could handle the bulk of traffic that ordinarily would go through Western Union or the I. T. T.

Major points negotiator of had disagreement, said ear- 8 lier, were the unions' demands company a 30 cent wage increase and a per contract clause which, he asserted. would, in effected continue in force an existing shop. President wages, he said, range from $55.91 to $73.23 for operators and $38.61 to $65.65 clerks. The companies claimed have operated at a loss in 1947. Brother Of Local Residents Killed Word has been received here of the accidental death of Homer C.

Gardner in San Francisco, California. Mr. Gardner was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. R.

W. Gardner of Gurdon and Whelan Springs. and brother of three well known Camden women: Miss Eppie Gardner the Camden High School Faculty, Mrs. Myrtle Anderson of the Camden Hospital Staff, and Mrs. M.

Bivens: also two other sisters, Mrs. Eunice Merkel of Little Rock, and Miss Amy Gardner of St. Petersburg. two brothers. Robert Gardner of Little and Henry Gardner of Detroit.

Mich. Mr. Gardner was reared and educated in Gurdon. but had been employed in the shipyards in San Francisco for a number of years. No details of the accident have been learned as yet, and no definite funeral arrangements have been made, except he will be buried in the cemetery at Whelan Springs.

Solons Begin Investigation Of Physician GRAHAM TO BE ASKED ABOUT BROKER RELATIONS Washington, Jan. 2 -(A)- Senators inquiring into commodity trading want to know exactly what rangement President Truman's personal physician had with his brokers. Senator Knowland (R- Calif) said today. Knowland said an appropriations subcommittee of which he is a member will issue a summons if the brokers, Bache and do not provide a full explanation voluntarily. On behalf of the committee, Knowland continued, he has asked the firm what arrangement they had with Brig.

Gen. Wallace Graham, who has said he did not know that he was the holder of 50,000 bushels of wheat last September. Knowland said he has been told that the firm's New York office has written a reply and that it might arrive some time today. After Graham's name appeared on a list of grain traders made public by the Department of Agriculture last Monday, he said in a statement that "I asked the broker to handle the account the best way he knew how and to use his own judgment." Two days later Bache and Co. said in a statement issued in New York that Graham had full knowledge of all purchases and sales made for his account.

Graham stuck by his original version. Knowland told reporter that if the brokers' reply to his letter does not explain the arrangement in detail. can get the information" by subpoena. Graham contended that he did not know that he ever held wheat futures until a few days after Mr. Truman voiced his first criticism of speculators in commodities, and he said he then instructed his broker to sell at on once.

He was listed on' the Agriculture Department list as the holder of 50,000 bushels of wheat futures last Sept. 17, about three weeks before the chief executive denounced the "greed of speculators" in grain. Knowland said, meanwhile, that he anticipates that the appropriations subcommittee headed by Senator Ferguson (R-Mich) will meet early next week to outline the procedure it will follow in further investigations. He said the staff has already made considerable progress in laying the groundwork for such an investigation. been checking the official positions of government disclosed to have been commodity, traders.

said they have also received a report on a check of trading activities by the ployes of the Department of Commerce. They said it will be made public soon. First Accident In City For '48 The first holiday accident reported. happened Thursday about 4:15 when the motorcycle. ridden by Miss Lenora Jones and Bill Hester, collided with a 1947 Ford driven by A.

L. Powell. The accident occurred on South Main Street, in front, of Powell's Grocery Store. Miss Jones suffered cuts and bruises and was immediately taken to the hospital. Mr.

Powell's car was badly damaged. but he nor Hester suffered any injuries. Miss Jones is employed at the Camden News and Mr. Hester is employed at Hurley Printing Co. County Judges Suit Dismissed Little Rock.

Jan. 2-(AP)-Chancellor Frank Dodge today ordered dismissal of the suit by county judges for an additional $1,553,000 in state highway revenues. The chancellor said he concluded that was the clear understanding that the $2,000,000 appropriated (for 1946-47) by the 1947 legislature and paid to the county judges was all that was intended to be appropriated for that fiscal year." The county, judges had sought the additional money over and above the $2.000,000 allocated by Act 100 of 1947 and appropriated by Act 330 of 1947. The county judges contended they were entitled to the extra locations because of the emergency clause of Act 100. On this contention, the chancellor held: act was an amendment to Act 4 of 1941.

which created a conbetween the state and its bondholders. It was not an tract, priation act. Act 330, the appropriation act under allocation of Act 100, did not carry the emerg. ency clause and did not go into fect until long after March 31, LITTLE ROCK HAS FIRE Little Rock, Jan. 2 -(AP)- The J.

Manufacturing Co. was destroyed by fire here yesterday. President L. B. Jones mated loss at approximately 000.

a The company manufactured wood products. Freezing Rain Hits New York New York, Jan. 2 (UP) A freezing rain lashed the New York metropolitan area today, crippling communications and transmission and disrupting commuter service for an estimated 2,000,000 workers. Live wires, torn down by heavy coatings of ice, fell across the streets of suburban areas and police warned residents to stay home until electricians could repair the lines. City Transit Commissioner Sidney Bingham said the ice storm following last week's record 25.8-inch snowfall had caused the worst transit conditions in 33 years.

A freight train derailment at Peekskill, N. Y. blocked the four main lines of the New York Central railroad. The Long Island railroad reported a fallen tree and icing were causing a severe disruption of service. Other railroads reported trains running up to four hours late.

Airplane flights in and out of New York were halted and bus schedules were cancelled as many highways leading into the city were closed by fallen trees and floods of icy slush. Within the city, subways were running normally, although they were jammed with millions of extra passengers forced to turn from their normal means of transportation. All private automobiles were banned from the as police struggled to clear the way for fuel oil trucks to make deliveries to hundreds of heatless homes and apartment buildings. The International Radio mission station of press wireless at Hicksville, N. and a station of Mackay radio at Brentwood, N.

were put out of commission when antennae broke under the weight of ice. New Jersey commuters were asked not to attempt to travel to work on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad after ice and disrupted electrical equipment. and fallen trees al blocked tracks 1,777 Arrests In Camden For 1947 Chief of Police G. B. Cole today announced that during the year 1947 a total of 1,777 arrests were made by city police for the City of Camden.

Of this number, many were on traffic charges and other minor misdemeanors. City Clerk Fred Benson announced that a total of $22,358 was assessed on fines handed down by Municipal Judge L. M. Stern. The above number does not include traffic tickets for over-parking as this is not classified as an arrest.

May was the month during which the most arrests were made with a total of 199, while September was the month highest in fines assessed. This total was for $2,792. Hope Sends Aid To 1 Tornado Area Hope, Jan. 2 -(AP)- Residents of Hone and vicinity have sent an estimated $3,000 worth of food and suppues tor victims of Weanesday's Louisiana tornado- and contributions are still coming in. A large truck yesterday carried clothing, cots and bedding, food.

gas and wood stoves and baby clothing to Cotton Valley, seventy-five dollars in cash also was sent. Additional contributions were being received and also will be sent to Cotton Valley, it was announced. Ouachita River To Flood Stage John Knight, local weather, observer, has received from the Little Rock weather office that the Ouachita River at Camden is due to reach 28 to 30 feet by Tuesday. Local farmers and stockmen will take note of this rise and round up their stock in the river overflow area. Flood stage for Camden is 26 feet and if rain continues in and above this area the stage may go higher.

INTERNAL REVENUE OFFICE NOW OPEN IN POSTOFFICE The Internal Revenue Service now has an office, open in the Camden Post building and this office will remain open until January 15th for aid to persons filing of current income tax turns and amended decorations. By The Associated Press Winter's most damaging storms of ice and snow struck across the central state and eastward into Southern New England over the New Year's holiday after a series of tornadoes ripped through five southern states. The storms left a path of destruction in their wake. The property damage was expected to run into the millions. The death toll was heavy.

In addition to 20 persons who were killed in the twisters which struck in Dixie, several persons lost their lives in traffic accidents attributed to the icy and snow-covered highways. More than 80 persons died in traffic accidents over the holiday period. Fourteen persons were killed in a crash of two Missouri Pacific passenger trains in a snow storm in Otterville, Mo. The tornadoes which twisted through Louisiana. Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama injured 260 destroyed 240 homes and damaged 250 The freezing rain and snow.

which yesterday centered near the Chicago area, continued today in many parts of the storm belt. The weather bureau said the freezing rains today extended over a narrow band from lower Michigan across Lake Erie to Southern New England. Snow was expected to follow. Snow continued to fall in parts of Illinois and Indiana and in Ohio and Pennsylvania. There, WAS about 10.

inches throughout lower Michigan. The fall in Northern 11- linois, Southeastern Iowa and parts of Missouri measured from four to six inches. Temperatures in the midwest, which yesterday hit low of 25 below in Minnesota, moderated throughout the day and no sub-zero marks were reported early today, Reports from the snow and ice storm areas were similar in nection with the crippling effect on transportat 1 communications and property damage. Traffic-rail, motor and air was disrupted and in some communities paralyzed. Bleet and freezing rain covering electric wires cut off telephone and light service.

Street cars in many cities were halted and radios were lenced due to mechanical difficulties and wrecked towers. Scores of communities in several states were isolated from telephone communication as the icy gales snapped lines. Highways in many midwest areas were impassable. Trains and busses operated far behind schedule and all airline flights in and out of Chicago and other midwest cities were cancelled. The strong winds gusts reached as high as 60 miles an hour in some parts of the storm belt wrecked radio towers in Chicago and broke store windows and uprooted trees in many com; munities.

Nine transmitter towers toppled and three others were damaged in and near Chicago. ical difficulties interrupted casts on many of the major stations. The winds stirred up Lakes Michigan and Erie and the Coast Guard at Milwaukee said waves were 30 feet high. High water on Lake Erie forced 50. families to evacuate from the resort area along the north shore of the Detroit area.

In go the south section of Lake Shore drive along Lake Michigan was closed after waves flooded the heavily traveled highway. New York City, slowly recover. ing from a record snowfall of 25.0 inches last week, was pelted by freezing rain. Traffic slowed and reports of power failure were numerous. The freezing rain also hit northern New Jersey and inany sections were without electric and telephone service.

Shreveport, Jan. 2 (P)- Bitterly cold but clearing weather gripped Dixie today five tornado ripped southern states set about scores of injured, a and sheltering burying 20 victims, patching up hundreds of homeless. The tornadoes struck just as the old year was dying and the new year was coming in. They hit first in Louisiana, Arkansas and nessee, then in Mississippi and A Alabama. The confirmed death toll by states was Louisiana 15, Tennessee 2, Arkansas 2 and Mississippi 1.

No casualties were reported in Alabama. Red Cross survey last night listed 250 persons injured, 245 destroyed and 290 damaged. An emergency fund of $100,000 was set aside by the Red Cross to provide emergency relief and assist rehabilitation work. Worst hit of all the communities was Cotton Valley, where 12 persons were killed and property damage was estimated by a local contractor, G. E.

Speed, at is 000. Mayor Sam Coyle of the little town of 1.500 said the place was twisted into so much scrap lumber and estimated that 200 persons were injured. He placed the number made homeless by a big wind 26 at 500. To relieve the housing situation special trains hauled box cars into the stricken community to serve as temporary shelters and air forces planes flew in cots, tents. bedding and medical supplies.

Roads into the area, already haz. ardous with ice. sleet and some snow were blocked by police to cut down probability of lootkeep out curiosity, seekers and to in ing. National Guardsmen were re- posted through the north 1 Louisiana section..