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U. S. Mobilizes Army to Evacuate Mississippi Flood Belt BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1937 Women, Children First City Voted Flood Crest Sloidy Ebbs At Cincinnati Shoot Looters, Edict to Troops At Louisville By Legislature For Flood Aid 000,000 From Cairo To Gulf Told to Pack Continued From Page 1 Omaha, and San Antonio, to have complete evacuation plans in readiness by 6 p.m., Jan. 29. Secretary of War Woodring ordered them to prepare to evacuate a minimum of 500,000 persons along the 2,000 miles of levees on both sides of the river.

Sfjf 0 nr" SCORES OF RAILROAD CARS MOBILIZED Scores of railroad flatcars were mobilized to carry out the wholesale exodus. The Secretary of War also authorized the use of not only regular Army troops, but also members of the Civilian Conservation Corps, the National Guard and the Red Cross. Further elaborating the extraordinary precautions, Gen. Malin Craig, chief of staff, said his engineers thought the chances now are that a general evacuation will not be necessary. "At any rate," Craig said, "we hope not." As the far South prepared to flee, another day of watery terror gripped the graveyard of almost buried towns, villages and farmlands in the once pleasant Ohio River yalley to the north.

Admiral Carey Grayson of the Red Cross announced in Washington that the number of refugees in the record-breaking flood had passed the million mark. With the army of homeless swelled to 1,000,000, the toll of known dead by drowning reached 137 hundreds more were missing and estimates of property damage soared far beyond the $300,000,000 mrak, completely overshadowing the havoc of the 1927 Mississippi River disaster. Snow, hunger and pestilence wrote a black picture ot human misery. At Louisville, Health Commissioner Hugh R. Leavell said at least 200 victims had died of diseases attributed directly to flood conditions.

Rationing of water supplies and impaired sanitary conditions caused fear of pestilence in Cincinnati, Louisville, Huntington, W. Evansville, Portsmouth, Ohio, and several other cities. LOSS EXCEEDS $300,000,000 Estimates of property damage were boosted past the $300,000,000 mark, and the army of homeless swelled to 750,000. It was as though a city the size of Boston had been vscusitccL Louisville fought flood, fire and disease with three-fourths of the city under water. Three separate fires added about $750,000 to the damage already placed in excess of in unofficial estimates.

Twenty bodies were found floating in the streets. The hospitals were filled with patients, indirect victims of the flood, and Mayor Neville Miller said "there is the constant threat of disease and epidemic." Cincinnati watched hopefully as the river Inched from the high stages which had halted its power and water plants, spread fire, privation and the threat of disease. The water supply was rationed and citizens carried it from "water stations" In pails, jars and bottles. Some drinking water came from other cities by tank car. REFUGEE STREAM GROWS Mass movements of refugees from flood-stricken cities In Indiana gained Impetus as Evansville and other cities prepared for the crest of the yellow waters, expected within 48 hours.

More than 75,000 had been driven from their homes, and cold, hunger and sickness added to the suffering of those who stuck to their posts. As the flood waters in the Ohio River Valley paused in their rise to new record heights, an army of 2,000 men, directed by United States engineers, worked feverishly against time along the 300-mile Mississippi riverfront. with 2 000.000 acres already sub- Wide World Photo A tiny flood refugee, warmly wrapped in blankets, is carried down a ladder to his mother, waiting in a rescue boat as the flood waters of the swollen Ohio River drive another family from their Ashland, home to an unknown, but safer, refuge. Not Needed in Flood District But Sanitary Engineers, Police and Firemen Are Standing Ready New York City's government Is standing by to supply relief agencies in the flood area with sanitary engineers, policemen, firemen and equip ment, but they are not neeaea at present, Mayor LaGuardla revealed today. The Mayor declared in a formal statement that he had been assured by the Red Cross, the United States Public Health Sen-ice and the Army that they do not now need man power or police aid from New York.

"Since 11:30 last night," the Mayor said, "I have been in close touch with the flood situation. Naturally conditions are very bad. The local people have a tremendous problem their hands. "The American Red Cross reports in response to my direct inquiry that they have the relief situation well in hand. The United States Public Health Service has the health situation under control.

The Army has mobilized In the flood area and they have thankfully declined our offer of man power and police aid. It is not necessary at this time. Equipment Ready "We are ready to furnish: "1. A splendid unit of sanitary en gineers when we are called upon by the U. S.

Public Service. That to my mind is the most important thing, because the health problem is the most difficult one they will have to contend with. This includes par ticularly the pollution of water. "2. We are ready to furnish such petrsonnel and equipment of the Police and Fire Department as may be required.

Awaitlnr Word "At present, I am told, they are not needed. "In any emergency of this kind it is elementary that there must be central control so as not to ere ate confusion. "I am standing by, awaiting word from the President, the Red Cross, the Public Health Service or the Army, as to how and where the City of New York can best serve in this situation In co-ordination with agencies already in the field," New Thames Floods Cause Wide Damage London, Jan, 27 (U.P) Floods, hurricanes and freezing weather brought widespread property damage throughout Europe today. Fresh floods swept through the Thames Valley, Inundating Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire, Huntlng-tonshire and Sussex. In the Med-way Valley the water rose nine feet over the countryside in some places.

Highways were Impassable. The Shetland Islands, experiencing the hardest Winter in living memory, had had 31 gales and hurricanes in the last eight weeks. A blizzard swept through southeastern Europe, blocking roads, isolating towns and halting trains. Scouts Open Store To Collect Flood Aid A Brooklyn Scout Troop, 237, and a Sea Scout ship, "Neophype," having a combined roster of 105 Scouts, have opene da store In the Sanders Theater Building, 14th St. and Prospect Park West, where the boys are collecting food, clothing and money to be sent to families stricken in the flood area.

Scoutmaster Edward Chalmers and Skipper H. A. Wisener are In charge. Doctor Is Indicted Dictator-Mayor Recruits Police of Other Cities to Fight Fires, Disease Louisville, Ky, Jau. 27 (U.PJ Mayor Neville Miller became virtual dictator of flood-stricken Louisville today, commanding police, national guardsmen and regular army troops in a fight against looting, pestilence, fire and destitution.

There were Indications that the crest of the flood may have been reached at Louisville. The Ohio River here had maintained a stage of 57.1 feet since 2 a.m. and Weather Bureau officials believed it might begin to drop late today. Provost marshal by decree of Governor A. B.

Chandler. Miller was supreme head of the city. Two hundred Federal troops were marching Into the city to receive his orders. National guardsmen patrolled the flooded streets at his command. He directed police and firemen through the flood zone.

Dozens of firemen and policemen whom he personally recruited from other cities by radio rushed here by airplane and automobile to swell the ranks of the peace-time army which the Mayor directed against fires which have caused $700,000 damage, flood waters and disease which may have taken as many as 200 lives and stark terror caused by dark' ness, cold and a food and drinking water shortage. The Mayor, a slim, dark man in his middle 40s, called for the police from other cities in a radio broad' cast In which he described in detail the terror which prevailed in this city of 200,000 homeless. He explained that 600 regular soldiers were stationed six miles out of the city, but could not enter unless the city was declared in a state of insurrection. He left the microphone to confer with Brig. Gen.

William K. Naylor, who commanded the troops. Their conference became a legalistic argument. Chief of Staff of the United States Army, Gen. Malln Craig, in Washington, ended it by ordering Federal troops placed at Miller's disposal, for police or other duties.

General Naylor, overruled, reportedly turned over his troops to Brig. Gen. Daniel Van Voorhees, commandant of Fort Knox, Ky. Just before dawn 200 of the 600 troops began breaking camp to mareh into the darkened city. The others will come later.

Troops Folice City First the Federal troops will po lice the city for 24 hours. Then the local police, supplemented by those from other cities, will take charge. National guardsmen will aid them. Under Miller's orders they will be distributed strategically to halt looting, chiefly of foodstuffs. Local police and firemen, exhausted from flood rescue duty, have been almost powerless to prevent marauders from breaking into stores.

They will order every cigarette and match on the street extinguished to prevent igniting of the oil seeping from submerged tanks and floating on backwater from overloaded sewers. A deep pool of such oil floated around the city hall. Thirteen are known to have died since Friday, mostly from respiratory diseases. Four babies are dying In hospitals. Six others are dead in outlying flooded areas almost impossible to reach.

Health Commissioner Dr. Hugh Rodman Leavell said he believed 200 persons have died since the Ohio first swept over its banks into the city. There are at least 2,900 more cases of illness than normal, he said. Movie Doorman Held For Jury in Theft Eugene Tcrwlllinger, 21, of 91-13 178th St, Jamaica, was held in $2,500 bail for the grand Jury by Magistrate Frank Giorgio In Felony Court, Rldgewood, today on a charge of burglary. Terwlllinger was a doorman at the Hollis Motion Picture Theater in Hollis and, It is alleged, on the early morning of Jan.

25 he entered the theater with a key and forced open a randy vending machine from which he stole $20. 30,000 Look Forward to Homes Again and Return of Power Cincinnati, Ohio, Jan. 27 UP) Cincinnati saw the angry Ohio River sprawling over one-fifth of the city today and took new hope that its homes soon would be lighted, its water faucets responsive to the touch and its 30,000 homeless happy again at their firesides. By fractions of an inch the destructive stream receded reluctantly from the high stages which blotted out most of the city's lights, halted its power and water plants and spread fire, privation and the threat of disease along its streets. W.

C. Devereaux watched the river with tired eyes and held out hope that the crest of the flood waters was reached when his gauges read 79.99 feet yesterday. There was a possibility that river conditions would bring a second crest exceeding 80 feet. For two hours last night the stage remained at 79.73 feet and then continued its slow drop. Devereaux said "if it goes down a foot in the next 24 hours it will be doing fine." Between midnight and 1 a.m.

It likewise was stationary at 79.63. D. S. Brown, power company official, cheered a populace weary of candlelight and lanterns with the word the generating plants would be ready to go within 48 hours after the river fell to a stage of 75 feet. There were some who thought this happy day might be reached within a week.

There still was no street car service. Passengers crowded three deep in the aisles of buses. Traffic cops in boots waved inquisitive motorists away from the flooded area. Doctor Is Held In Girl Attack Continued From Page 1 of the girl and her mother were not revealed. The mother, according to Mr.

Neary, had heard Dr. Baker, who said he was a Doctor of Philosophy from Cornell, lecture four years ago, when the girl was only seven. She then consulted him about the girl whom she described as "nervous," with a habit of rubbing her eyebrows. He called at the mother's home several times, saw the child and then reported, according to the story tola the prosecutors by the mother that the girl was Improving and was ready for an achievement test. Mr.

Littleton said that on Nov. 21 last Dr. Baker took the child to a room he had rented In Glen Cove for 50 cents a day for the test. Then the girl returned to her home but her mother noted that she was as nervous as ever. She then took her to the family physician, Dr.

Joseph B. Connolly of Glen Cove, who said the child told him that the attack had been attempted In the Glen Cove room. Dr. Connolly testified at the secret session of the grand ury yesterday. Dr.

Baker, who several times lectured in Brooklyn on such subjects as the cause and significance of a nervous breakdown, was once a lecturer at Teachers College, Manhattan. More recently he has been on WPA. He was fr be arraigned before Judge Cortland A. Johnson today. He has a daughter of his own.

Dr. Baker pleaded not guilty when arraigned before County Judge Cortland A. Johnson In Min-eola. He was remanded to the county Jail to await trial, He made no application for ball, CE 4.40 UJ LU a Lake 15 Bill Rushed Through in 23 Minutes to Mobil-ize State's Resources title Itarema, Capitol BoildiiK Albany, Jan. 27 Moving with rec ord speed, the Legislature voted unanimous approval today to a 000 appropriation asked by Gov ernor Lehman to finance New York's mobilization of relief facilities for the nation's flood sufferers.

Not in recent years has the Legis lature followed a recommendation from the Governor with such dispatch. Passed in 23 Minutes Lehman's message was read in the Senate at 11:30 a.m., by 11:34 Senator Jeremiah F. Twomey (D, Brooklyn), chairman of the Finance Committee, had introduced a bill making the $100,000 appropriation and it had passed without a word of debate or comment. The Assembly, which had been tn recess waiting for the Senate bill, reconvened at 11:51, listened to the Governor's urgent message, suspended the rules and passed ths Twomey measure by 11:53. Within a few minutes the bill was on the Governor's desk.

"I do not know at this time the extent to which we may be called upon but, of course, we of this State wish to help our stricken fellow citizens of other States in whatever way we can and without loss of time," the Governor said in a message to the Legislature. Within 45 minutes the Governor called newspapermen to his office to notify them he would sign the bill immediately. Offers Immediate Help "I called the Governors of Ken tucky, Ohio and Indiana and again advised them that the people of ths State of New York want to help them," he said. "I offered each of the Governors a 100 trucks which could leave very promptly, and I also told them we could make available as paridly as possible all our resources in the Health Department doctors, nurses, sanitary engineers. Ond I offered them State Police, If they are neeaea, Lehman said that if additional funds are needed he would advise the Legislature.

Wreckers Start On Wrong House The house at 87 McDonough St. was minus a complete set of plumbing, electric and gas fixtures today because a crew of wreckers thought Max Schuster of 2442 E. 22d St. had made a mistake in an address. Schuster, a contractor, was hired, by the Wllliamsburgh Savings Bank yesterday to tear down a house at 93 McDougal St.

Schuster hired Alex Braz-zinski, Abe Gach and John Bury to do the Job. The men glanced at the slip of paper Schuster gave them and went, by mistake, to 93 MacDonough St. There the occupants of the house objected to having It torn down. The workmen decided Schuster must have meant No. -87, the only vacant house on the block, owned by the Bowery Savings Bank.

Damage was $500 before they were stopped. Strttf, Brooklyn Arkansas counties. National Guards Coast Guard Boat Sent to New Orleans The Coast Guard patrol boat Galatea left its base at Stapleton, S. today under orders to go to New Orleans for flood relief work on the Mississippi River. The Galatea Is 165 feet long, has a speed of 17 knots and is handled by a crew of 46 men.

Bay Shore, L. Jan. 27 Chief Boatswain William J. McGaw, acting commander of the 5th Coast Guard District, which includes all of Long Island, said that at 3 a.m. today two motor lifeboats and a surf rescue boat had been started for Jersey City to be loaded on a train for shipment to the flood area.

Each boat is accompanied by four men, McGaw said. Another motor lifeboat at Oak Island and rescue boat at Eaton's Neck are being conditioned for flood service and a dinghy was ready at uogue to be sent along with them. Lutheran Church Appeals for Relief An appeal for food, funds and clothing for Lutherans caught In the flood area has been sent to the 3,500 clergymen of the United Lutheran Church of the United States and Canada through the Lutheran Inner Mission. Dr. Clarence E.

Krumholz, executive secretary of the Inner Mission Board, has gone to Dayton, Ohio, to establish headquarters for relief for Lutherans. It is hoped to relieve the Red Cross of at least part of the burdcv of caring for Lutherans in need. Philadelphia churches have already sent a large supply of clothing. Truck and 7 Firemen Leave for Louisville Babylon, L. Jan.

27 A truck owned and driven by George Northam of Babylon and loaded with blankets, clothing and food supplies left here early today for Louisville, Ky, to aid the flood suf ferers, there. With the truck went seven members of local volunteer fire companies. Those in the party besides Northam were Harvey Hellman and Edward Engel of Babylon; Charles Suda, Paul Kronin, Robert Cackek and Allen Ketcham of Bay Shore and James Pinter of Lindenhurst. THESE I FLAGS SPELLTLAGSHIP" In U. S.

Tax Fraud Dr. S. Robert Kahn, 36, of 770 Eastern Parkway, was Indicted today by the Brooklyn Federal Grand Jury on a charge of defrauding the Government of $73,953 on his net taxable Income of $389,780 for the years 1930 to 1934, Inclusive. Over that period he paid taxes of $53.31 on a reported gross income of $23,445, which became a net taxable total of $15,691 after deductions for a wife and two children. Graduated from Long Island College of Medicine May 31, 1923, Dr.

Kahn was suspended from active practice for one year by the Board of Regents on June 21, 1935. Flood Relief Fund Swelled by $9,894 Flood relief contributions received today at the Brooklyn headquarters of the American Red Cross, 130 Clinton St, totaled $9,894. The grand total to date is $20,085.64. Among the contributions of $100 or more were the following: Frederick Loeser Co, $500; Holland Laundry, $100; Brooklyn Dail Eagle, $100; E. R.

Squibb and Sons, $100; A. Schrader's Sons, $100; National Licorice Compan, $200; American Safety Razor, $100; Ebinger Baking Company, $125; Drake Bakery, $100; Sperry Gyroscope Company, $300; Cran-ford Material Corporation, $100; Cross, Austin Ireland, $100; Namm Stores, $250; S. M. Schaefer Brewing Company, $500; City Savings Banks, $100; City Savings Bank employes, Kings County Bu-lck, $100; E. W.

Bliss, $250; Brooklyn Yarn Dye Company, $100; Flat-bush Congregational Church, Grace Church, $330; Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church, $117; Central M. E. Church, $100; Joseph Obermeyer, $100; Mr. and Mrs. Walter M.

Rothchild, $250; C. E. Newton $100. (Earlier Details on Page 4.) nUJ GlflllT STOUT-ARCH CLEARANCE H.40 merged and' 125,000 homeless In the area, the engineers directed the work ol strengthening the gigantic system of levees In the hope they would repulse the assault. Levee Again Dynamited New dynamite blasts widened the gap In the Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway below Cairo through which the turbulent Hood waters poured into a man-created basin covering more than 200 square miles.

Residents of Tiptonville, and New Madrid, two riverside towns near the floodway, were warned by George Myer, Red Cross national disaster director, to flee lest "they drown like rats in a trap." Other cities opened their doors to exiles from the flooded areas. Columbus, Ohio, prepared to shelter 6,000 and Charlcstown, doubled Its 3,800 population overnight witn 2,500 hungry, cold and homeless refugees arriving from southeastern Missouir. Preparations were made at Memphis, to accommodate 50,000 as the exodus from the surrounding country proceeded apace. Mayor H. R.

DeBassey of Parkers-burg, W. appealed for conservation of food in the face of shortening supplies. Portsmouth, Ohio, cheered its Mayor's statement that "we've got it whipped," while the Ohio slowed toward a standstill and the citizenry turned to restoration of necessary services. Troops Remove 35,000 Memphis, Jan. 27 (U.R Thousands of men battled today to strengthen Mississippi River levees from Cairo, 111., to Louisiana as U.

8. Army engineers warned that a "super-flood" was bearing down upon them. At least $5,000,000 will be necessary for the added work on the vast levee system, built by the Government after the disastrous 1927 flood. Engineers supervised the task of strengthening It to withstand waters expected to rise to 62 feet an unprecedented level. Martial law was declared In six LANE BRYANT- BROOKLYN STORE STOUT-ARCH SHOES VITA-MODE SHOES Midwinter Clearance men were moving sometimes Dy force 35,000 men, women and chil dren to safety after hope was aban doned of saving many levees on small Arkansas rivers.

The Arkansas Tennessee Mis souri area already had counted 41 flood deaths. Many others were re ported but unverified. More man 1,000,000 acres of rich farm land were under water. Cairo Continues Battle Cairo, 111, "Jan. 27 CP) Cairo a sunken island behind its 60-foot seawall prepared today for a second battle to keep the swollen Ohio River from engulfing the city.

Dynamite, which mastea open levees below here and permitted descending floodwaters to surge into a Mississippi River spillway between Birds Point and New Madrid Mo, checked the first rise and eased pressure on Cairo's protecting wall. Weather Bureau officials predict ed, however, a new rise would begin tomorrow and reach a crest between 60 and 61 feet by the end of the week. In throwing open the spillway Its first test since completion in 1931 at a cost of $21,000,000 army engeneers used more than a ton of explosives. Three persons among those who remained at their homes despite warnings were known to have lost their lives and several others disappeared as the waters poured over the area. Red Cross officials said last night between 100 and 200 were still in the flood basin.

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