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WEATHER Filr and dHhtly. Saturday 'Inrmai'nf; Mhwed by rain or MOW Betur- day afternoon or night. Sim son tin 7KM, JLEAN.N.Y, ERALD Edited for Southwestern New York and Northwestern Pennsylvania Yesterday's Ciimlitkm City 5,063 Suburban TOTAL 11,317 VOL. LXXVIL, No. 24 "PRINTED AFTER NOON" FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 29,1937 PRICE THREE CENTS Rain Spurs Weary Men Government Committee Will Survey Flood Area Inspection Group Named By Roosevelt Presidential Action Follows Fear Suffering i Be Prolonged.

A I -President Roosevelt today appointed a four-man committee of government relief and reconstruction directors to make a personal survey of the mid- western flood area from Memphis north through the Mississippi and Ohio next week. The action came thf wpsthpr rains area tomorrow, jiving rise ti that ruffcring from high might be prolonged. The President tie Inspection group wtll here Sunday, arrive at Monday, and travel'up the swollen Mississippi and Ohio by brat They will stop at all large river cities and make detailed plans for a clean-up, sanitation, and rehabil- iUtion program in cooperation with state and local ofiic-als. Committee will be: WPA Administrator Harry L. Hopkins, who will use the full force of work-relief labor in the area "mopping up" after the dls- (frter.

Surgeon General Thomas Pari ran. of the Public Health Service, who will advise on sanitation and medical problems Maj. Gen. Edward Markham. chief of the Army Engineering Corps, who will map a program of reconstruction for the ivhcle area.

Col. F. Harrington, army engineer assigned to the Works Progress Administration. The committee, the President said, has been instructed to use the full resources of the Red Cross and government agencies In the rehabilitation task. The President planned a program of financial aid to help flood victims reestablish themetclves.

First, he appealed to banks in the area to be as liberal as pos. sible In granting loans to owners if damaged houses and merchants whose stocks have been dwtroyed or IwL The President raid the Red Crow Is prepared to make small loans, ranging from $25 to $50. to make up small losses. He recalled the Recontt ruction Finance Corporation made OOO.Odo In loans last year when sections of New England, Pennsyl- vonli and Vfest Vlrglsli were ravaged. Mr.

Roosevelt expressed the hope however, that the RFC could hold Its leans under the $8.000.000 mark this year. Ninety Accused In Jail Break GUELPH. rang. big from creating disturbances tc inciting to riot and prison break- Ing have been laid against ninety prisoners of the Guelpb Reformatory who are considered responsible for the wild rioting which swept the prison Jan. 17.

announced today. Prison guards, testifying before Judge James Madden who conducting a Royal Commission in the reformatory, said "boodluic wen responsible tor tkt Mooney To Continue His Fight Declares He Will Take Case To Supreme Court For Second Time. Br KK.NMt.TH Stan SAN FRANCISCO--Tom Mooney will carry his fight for freedom from a life sentence to tht U. S. Supreme Court for a second time if the State Supreme Court to grant him a new trial, aaee ptea for'release on a writ of habeas corpus was itcouweatled fur dismissal by the court's referee yesterday said be wasn't surprised by the latest fall, ure in his long fight for freedom.

Mooney and Warren K. Billings were convicted In 1916 in the Preparedness Day bombing in San Francisco. Since then there has been an almost constant effort to win his release. Referee Addison E. Shaw held hearings (or a year in the latest action, during which Mooney waa moved to jail here from San Quentln prison.

Settlement Of Strike Expected SAN FRANCISCO Settlement of the ninety-two-day strike of Pacific Coast maritime workers "within a few hours" was predicted twlsy wfc'n the committee of the International Longshoremen's Association and the coast committee for the ship- owners submitted "virtually Identical" peace proposals. Indication that shipowners and striken had reached an accord after a long conference was given by Henry Schmidt, president of the San Francisco local of the 1. who snld the strikers would be back at work Monday. The shipowners later confirmed Schmidt's announcement. How Heroic Thousands Battle Rising Foe Some Idea, of the heroic work done by thousands of men who ttrore mightily to bnce the MiwlMippi levee system may.

be gained from the striking picture at left. At the right of the levee, shown near New Madrid, Mo the river surges by fully ten feet above the level behind the levee. Laboring day and night the crewi built plank braces for which were piled three feet high above the natural top of the levees. Soldiers, WPA, and CCC workers and volunteers by the hundred fought side by side to the entire eastern half of Arkansas, cities and farmlands, from complete laudation. Pictured right, near Cairo.

Ill, are just a few of the thousands of men who fought the river on a 1000-mile front. Rebels Trapped By Overflowing Rivers MADRID Troops besieging Madrid were reported today to be caught between two f(coding riv- ers which made their positions critical. A torrential. rain in the Guadarrama Mounuln watershed, extending northwtst of Madrid for rent millions of gallons of 'water roaring down the Guadarrama and riven asd their nuny tributaries trapping the Insurgents. Robbers Fail To Blow Bank Vault HOLCOMR.

N. armed were frustrated today wtfn uttrmptH tn rnh the Hamlln National Bank here. The bandits escaped after several nitro-Elycerint blasts failed to open the steel vaults of the bank. Edward Murray, forty-fix-e-year- gasoline station operator living nearby, was awakened by the and saw the six robbers leave the bank. He notified state police who immediately launched a search for the thieves.

Bank officials sjiid nothing was taken. They added, however, that there was a large amount of money In the hank. The bandits left co except a few fingerprints. Jews Hurt WARSAW Nine Jews were manhandled, two of them being to a hospital, when nationalist and Jewish students rioted today at the entrance to Wamw University over observance of "Arysn Day." Army Engineers Set To Watch River For Months WASHINGTON Army engineers were act today for a two- month watch of the mighty Mis- llulppl, swoiku by waters of the Ohio and other tributaries. Three corps areas, mobilized to evacuate 500.000 lowland if necessary, reported they were ready for action If tne stream through the biillon dollar double levee system constructed after the 1B2T flood.

Weather Forecaster W. J. Moxon warned (hat will have to keep a constant check on HlMMapi far two to protect against rain producing a new threat before present high waters are drained thinrighly. Gen. iUUn Craig.

aruy chief oi staff, said that now believe the levees 'ho)! firm against the crest approaching Cairo, 111, junction of the Ohio and Mississippi. Relief rushed food, bedding, trains, trucks, boats and medicine Into the area on either of the Mississippi al.isg Its 1,100 mile winding course from Cairo to New Ofitana. Tali wu precautionary measure. FLOODED STATES Coal Mine Strike Is Threatened Possible a Of 25,000 Men Complicates Problem. Br C.

L. SULZBEBGEB tailed Frcu Sufi WASHINGTON A threatened strike of approximately 25,. 000 coal miners led by John L. Lewis, of the Committee for Industrial Organization, further complicated today the labor problem plaguing the Administration. i AU Flooded Louisville ARKANSAS Twenty-nine dead.

74.931 homeless. Seven hundred refugees entering Helena daily. National Guardsmen with bayonets drive out farmers refusing to evacuate 100.000 acres behind weakened levee at Mellwood. Regular Army officers police flood area, MISSOURI Sei'enteen dead. 11.792 levee to release water impounded in New Madrid floodway.

Charleston summons all available men for levee work. TENNESSEE Seven dead. 35.SI2 homeless. Memphis Fair Grounds shelters 10.000 refugees. Physicians report 500 influenza cases.

Four dead. 4.050 homeless. Preparations made for possible evacuation Arkansas City. Ark. LOUISIANA None dead.

2TO homeless. Engineers decide release flood waters into Bonnet Catre spillway north of New Orleans. KENTUCKY One hundred sixty-four dead in Louisville, more feared. 3U.5SS homeless. Looting breaks out In Louisville.

Business district buildings undermined by flood water. Flood ctest moves west toward Paducah. where 9.000 homes flooded. Hickman strengthens levees against water high as second story windows. ILLINOIS Eleven dead.

JOIKK) homeless. Harrisburg per cent under water. Golconda. Ity, Metropolis, New liaven. a Elizawlhtown.

Brookport, Reaiclare. Uaunle. a seriously Flood crest may enter Illinois tomorrow. Citro com-pitting levoe to city. Police From Other Cities Capture Eighteen Looting Stores.

Br MAKIIN KANE I'Bilrd Fmt Stilt LOUISVILLE. KY. Looters. seme hungry and others attracted by the opportunity for thievery in this lightless city, roamed flooded Louisville today. Until last night the 400 exhausted police and 400 National Guards had shrugged shoulders at reports of looting, and occupied themselves with rescuing and caring lor wo homeless, finoot to kill orders were Issued, but ignored.

But today fresh police from cities as far as Boston and Phoenix. Aril, who canie here by train and plane in response to Mayor Neville Miller's urgent plea for aid. policed the flooded streets. hcun cirly today they had rounded up twenty- three looters--most of them Negroes. The looters were operating in boats on' the edges of the flooded area.

They raided foodstores. a jewelry store, liqaor stores and department stores. Police admitted that many more than those caught, were at work. but officers were handicapped oy the darkness. Relatives May Soon Visit Duke Usually well- informed sources reported today that the Princess Royal--Princess Mary.

Countess of Harewood. the King's only, sister--soon would visit the Duke of Windsor at Enzesfeld. Austria. It was said that the Dukes of Gloucester and Kent, brothers of the King and the former Edward VIII, would visit Enasfcld at a later date. A United Press Enzesfeld dispatch reported today that Count Ucbcraer.

gezcn! tor of the states of Baron Eugene De Rothschild, the Duke's host, arrived at Enzesfeld Castle to con- salt the Duke concerning his plans, especially the possibility that he might have visitors. Film Stars To Attend Function WASHINGTON--Robert Taylor, current film lovtr. arrived in Washington today to sttrnd President Roowvelfs Bitthdiy Ball, apparently fully recovered from an attack of influenza. With him was Jean Harlow. former platinum blonde and now a brunette, wlw Hollywood that she waa the only person aboard the train not similarly afflicted.

A crowd of I.POO. mostly women Jammed the station to get a glimpae of the pair. Many had read dispatches in Washington newspapers til! as ambulance would take Taylor direct to a hospital. Highway Patrol Plan Qf'Senator ALBANY--Senator Walter W. Stokes plans to press for enactment of discretionary legislation permitting expansion of the State Police force by 300 men to form a highway patrol fc- the reduction of accidents.

In an address last night Stokes said the "mere presence" of police officers has a "salutary effect" upon drivers inclined to speed or drive carelessly. Tee present State Police force of about 675 men is engaged in necessary routine and unable to spare sufficient men for highway safety work, he added. Work Speeds Up As Zero Hour Nears Perkins searched for a new plan to bring; peace la ti: General Motors controversy, a dirssresmcn! between union leaders and steel companies controlling so-called "captive" mines appeared moving toward a possible walkout. Representatives of steel corporations and Lewis' United Mine Workers admitted that union insistence on applying the existing check-off system to additionaKas- fessmenta on UMW members is i "leading to trouble." The check-off consists of a de-1 duction by operators from miners salaries which is paid into union! treasuries. It has been used by to build UMW into a pow-1 erful organization.

I The controversy, it was learned, i exists at present only between Lewis and steel companies operating "captive" (term used to de-; note a mice operated by an in-i dustry entirely for its own use-- Ei) slscj In which UMW 25.000 members. Independent op- i erators thus far hive not pro- tested the increased check-off. I Army Of 100,000 Continues Against Waters Of Mississippi. Forecast of a rains over the Tennessee and Ohio valleys spurred 100,000 weary ers to greater speed today as the zero'hour approached in the struggle, to' hold back the rising Mississippi W. J.

Moxom of the Weather Bureau warned that the rams' would "prolong the flood" and swell to some extent the pouring into the tributary valleys. me torecasi aooea signuu to the admission of bl charge of the work to plug weak spots in the billion dollar, system that they were fighting treacherous enemy--the "The weather win decide It--If it doesn't rain," they had sajrf, "we've got. the, river licked." Moxom warned that engineers would have to keep up the fight for at least two months. Rains that period, he said, would add to the burden of rivers not yet subsided. President Roosevelt appointed a.

committee of relief and reconstruction experts to survey area from Memphis through the Ohio valley where Hoods already have claimed at least 278 Uvw. expelled 1,000,000 persons Two Injured In Wreck Of Train TRENTON. N. Railroad Company officials blam- i ri2 fcr the c- railxcnt of three a coaches on the crack Washington to New York train. "Ttt Constitution." A passenger.

William H. Brower of Melrose. and the club car porter. Becny Lazaga. 30.

a native of the Philippine Islands. were sent to the St Francis Hospital for treatment of their injuries. Several other passengers were treated at the scene of the accident for minor bruises and lacerations. The hospital reported that the condition of neither was serious. Worst Of Ohio Flood Awaited At Cairo, 111.

tion which mounted hourly toward half a billion dollars. Tie Ohio River was fallins; in the upper valley except below Louisville. It had risen almost six inches at Cairo where a crest of nearly 61 feet. 24 inches lower than the city's floodwall, was mi week. The Mississippi surged steadily nearer the tops of levees In the four-state region where It receives the waters of the Ohio, the St.

Francis sad other ricers. Levees were weakening at several Threatened with disaster should hastily heightened floodwalls fall were Cairo, Hickman, Ky, New Madrid and Charleston. and Tiptonville. Tenn. Below Memphis on the western bank of the Mississippi the Mefl- wood.

Ark, levee system already showed signs of strain. Engineers said it settled several in rfcrnt jrars and TTSS CTIT crumbling. Should the river break through. 100.000 would be inundated. Cough Disturbs Prince FLORENCE.

ITALY Crown Prince Michael of Roumanla WAS in good general condition today though a cough disturbed him during UM night, reported. CAIRO, Thousands ot men toillnR ta thtir tomes from the Ohio River, tossed the last shovelfuls of cinders and dirt Into an emeiytncy bulkiead todsy and wnteJ for the worst. emergency breastworks will be complete by sundown. After that there will be nothing to do but wait for the floo.1 crest mhich his swept hundreds to death and thousands of to destruction. The city his a giant flood wall capable of holding the Ohio within its banks at sixty feet.

The emergency bulkhead is on the top of this, three feet hlf a cage of Umbers mied with dirt and cin- Coilf HlCS men who buut the breastworks as the Ohio inched 1U way HJXJH FLA. up the outside wall were con- CTiTed from toer ghtKM m. fident It would hold back the worst dleate foot the Ohio has to offer. But their fc procwalBjr to Trtvcs Yofk ttul tr en out of the city at orders of h(f Mayor August Bode. And govern- A mcnt bursts stood by to rescue them if the yellow flood crashed through or over the breastworks.

Government engineers said the Ohio River would riw to a peak of 59 to 5SH feet Wednesday before pouring Its load of destructive waters into the nearby MluU- sippl W. E. Birron. government meteorologist, predicted a of sixty to auty-aoe fwL Vcrvcort, la charge of dyde-Maliory here, said today. TThe word that the does not need Immediate aaskU ance to New York," Vervoort i -The hold to which broke out is confined tad covered so that a duafl oas heft he.

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