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cf. FOR NEWS WANT ADS DIAL 6141 10 THE BANGOR DAILY NEWS, BANGOR, MAINE, FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1937 Pittsburgh Faces Peril in General Flood Sweep FLOODS RAVAGE VAST AREA, TAKE HUGE PROPERTY TOLL PERIL LIVES, Its Moving Fishes In His Day When Deluge Comes With floods raging In a dozen states, Pittsburgh was gripped by fear of repetition of 1936 deluge damage when waters of the swollen Monongahela and Allegheny rivers swirled Into downtown streets and store basements. The picture above shows a flooded section on River avenue, at Ninth street, with the B. St O. tracks inundated.

Police stood by to evacuate residents near the rivers, if need arose. The nations rescue forces swung into swift action as the Ohio river went on a 1000-mile iampage, flooding hundreds of homes in a half dozen states. At least eight persons were dead, thousands were homeless, and the property damage will run into hundreds of thousands of dollars. Above is shown home in Newport, Ky as a truck backs into dangerous waters to evacuate the family and house- hold goods. 1 His houseboat resting on the bottom of the Ohio river, near Steubenville, in one of the floods which raged across nearly a dozen states, Sam Simpson, 54, here is shown trying to fish some of his possessions out of the windows of his inundated home.

Simpson saved his wife and three children from the torrents which submerged his 30-foot craft, its roof barely showing in the photo. Submerged Home inundated. The Ohio backed into stores and homes at Aurora. Engineers feared levees near Vincennes would not hold. The Ohio lifted over the 45 feet level at Evansville.

WATERS SPREAD THROUGH OHIO VALLEY CINCINNATI, Jan. 21 (API-Sluggish, debris-filled flood waters spread unabating through the Ohio river valley tonight, adding hourly thousands of dollars damage to their destructive toll. One drowning was reported at Cincinnati, where the river mounted relentlessly toward an unexpected crest of at least 66 feet. Damage there already was estimated by police upward from Portsmouth, city of 43,000 residents, 100 miles up the river from here, shielded so far far by a 60-foot, three-mile million dollar river wall, tensely awaited its first serious flood since. 1913.

City Manager Frank Sheehan ordered residences and business houses in all except hilltop districts evacuated. He said probably would be necessary to open sewers and allow water to come into the city gradually to prevent the river's pressure from breaking the wall. Pumps now keep the water out of the city. Business was almost at a standstill in Portsmouth, located at the confluence of the Scioto and Ohio rivers. After Sheehans warning business owners and residents speedily moved to protect their belongings.

All relief agencies were mobilized for service and it was estimated of the citys 43,000 residents would be affected by the inundation. The flood hit Cincinnati suddenly this morning after a two-inch rainfall. The Ohio rose three feet in ten hours, adding to distress in lowland areas and in Kentucky towns across the river. The crest here was not expected before Sunday. The river rose toward the 65-foot stage tonight, more than 11 feet above flood mark, but short of the 71.1 foot record of 1884.

The main business section appeared in no danger, but officials made a public appeal for boats to remove marooned refugees. KENTUCKIANS TAKE TO HILLS LOUISVILLE, Ky, Jan. 21 (AP) Kentuckians took to the hills in thousands while the worst floods in more than two decades swept on their lowland homes tonight. The Ohio, Kentucky, Green, Cumberland, Mississippi and Big Sandy rivers headed for new records. Creeks swollen by heavy rains left their banks and washed out scores of trunk highways.

Railroad service was interrupted widely. A passenger train was derailed near Slaughters, injuring several. Many schools were closed. The Mississippi river, its 50-foot level 10 feet abbve flood stage, drove 25 families out of the flats at Wick-lifte. Louisville engineers worked on a sandbag wall at the northeast corner of the city, while the Ohio river rose a fifth of a foot an hour.

Government Meteorologist J. L. Kendall said the flood there might go higher than the 46.7 level of 1884, the worst flood in Louisvilles history. The level was 40.2 today. WPA and city authorities moved 1.200 families from low-lying Louisville homes.

Every main highway out of Louisville was blocked by water, except the Shelbyville road. PITTSBURGH AREA MENACED PITTSBURGH, Jan. 21 (AP) A second general rain within 24 hours in the upper Ohio river watershed brought predictions tonight qf high water about the Steel City which ranged from three to five feet above the danger point. W. S.

Brotzman. veteran chief of the U. S. Weather Bureau, estimated a level of 31 feet at the Junction of the Monongahela, Allegheny and Ohio rivers during the day. He lowered this to 28 feet after rain ceased, and with the second downpour starting tonight, said: I think 28 feet will be about the top.

But that is not based on any continued rainfall. The Monongahela is virtually stationary with the Allegheny rising slowly. If this rain continues, then any estimates must be subject to revision. Streams feeding into the Ohio and its tributaries, while nearing their brims, did not show signs of unexpected rises. The rapid flowing streams above Johnstown, the flood city, were well within their banks.

checks from federal relief pay windows. The WPA statistical experts have estimated that the average relief recipient probably shares his income with four other persons. On that basis, between 20,000,000 and persons were "on relief at the peak, and less than 12.000,000 now are dependent on federal emergency spending. Buxton Continued from the First Page John Masefield or William Clark Russell. Yet Us absolute authenticy is vouched for by no less an authority than the Canadian government.

For me, this fantastic yarn of the sea furnishes a striking example of the old adage, that truth is stranger than fiction, and yet if 1 had come across this tale in work of fiction I am afraid that I would have accused the author of falling in the saving element of plausibility. I first heard of the story from that patriarcEial 82-year-old former Judge and real estate man, Charles B. Pineo of Bar Harbor, whose great grandfather, Jonathan Pineo, served as a lieutenant under that daring sea hero. Captain Jeremiah OBrien of Machias. The first thing that Judge Pineo said to me when I approached him In his office, was: I have long been a reader of your column and I have been hoping every day that you would drop in to see me so that I could tell you one of the strangest stories in the annals of the sea.

And the materials are all at hand, for the son of the principal lives right here In Bar Harbor." SON NOW HAS HISTORIC WATCH Within an hour I had sought out Harvey R. Dorr, who is employed In the plumbing office of John Silk St Son, and Mr. Dorr immediately escorted me to his home, where he proudly exhibited a large gold watch with an old fashioned hunting case which bore the following inscription: Presented by the Government of Canada to Captain Edwin O. Dorr, master of the American schooner, Ohio, of Bucksport, In acknowledgement of his humane serv-ives in rescuing and caring for two of the shipwreck crew of the schooner Codseeker of Barrington, Novia Scotia, May 12, 1877. And behind this inscription of 59 years ago lies a story of shipwreck that has few if any parallels in sailing ship history.

Mr. Dorr, an unassuming little man who has inherited a deep love of the sea, related the yam to me as he heard it many times from the lips of his father. And he told it so vividly that every detail stood out in my mind with cameo clearness. My father, he said, a native of Orland, and he died three years ago at the age of 85. at the home of my, brother, Leon B.

Dorr, vice president of the Allen Plumbing company at Presque Isle. FOLLOWED THE SEA HALF A CENTURY 1 s'Tather began going to sea when tie was 12 years old, and he did not give up the sea until he was 62 years old when he settled in Bar Harbor. For sixteen years he was master of fishing schooners sailing out of Bucksport and Orland for the Grand Banks. In 1877 he was sailing for the Grand Banks when off the New Brunswick coast he ran into a terrific blow. For some hours' his schooner, Ohio, was at the mercy of high winds and heavy seas, "When the storm had calmed down a bit, father went below for a little catnap, and he hadnt been down there more than 15 minutes when the man at the wheel, by the name of Pickering, hailing? from Orland.

called down and said he had sighted something strange about a mile or so away. "Father came out on deck and when he looked through his glasses decided that the strange object floating in the water was a schooner on her beam ends. Thinking that there might be something that could be salvaged, such as sails, spars or rigging, father ordered a dory lowered, and accompanied by his mate, a man by the name of Gll-patrick, and two sailors, set out for the wreck. Upon arrival there father saw that masts, sails and companionway were entirely submerged by water. The vessel had the' appearance of being a new one, and Indeed it was learned later that this schooner, the Codseeker, was on its maiden voyage when it capsized.

Father climbed on to the side of the vessel and gave one of the planks a sort of tentative thump with his axe. He was startled when he beard some- overboard and drowned, and the 10 remaining were rescued by a tug boat. The men rescued had no tora that there was anybody below the deck of the Codseeker. "Father returned the two men to their home at Barrington, Nova Scotia, and a great demons rai ion was staged there in honor of the rescuers and the rescued. The two men had been given up for lost, and their families received them as per-sons returned from the dead.

Later one of these men became a fish commissioner in Nova Scotia and frequently wrote father. The Canadian government took official cognizance of the rescue by presenting1 father with a watch. UNLUCKY SHIP "The Codseeker was salvaged and refitted but it must have been an unlucky ship, for it was lost with all hands on its second voyage. Mr. Dorr is a descendant from a long line of Maine seafaring men.

His grandfather. Captain Joseph Dorr of Orland, was lost at sea many years ago in West Indian waters. When the ship was last reported off the coast of Cuba all hands were down with yellow fever with the exception of a 12-year-old cabin boy who was trying to sail the ship into port. The ship was never heard from again. Three children survive Captain Edwin O.

Dorr, hero of the Codseeker 'wreck. They Include Haney R. Dorr and Mrs. Edna Emery of Bar Harbor, and Leon B. Dorr of Presque Isle.

And while he told me of this strange rescue of the two men entombed for four days in the waterlogged hull of the Codseeker, Mr. Dorr fondled the watch, which is an emblem of the courage and resource of his seafaring father. Id rather part with my life than this watch," he said, "and I hope that it will be preserved by mv grandchildren and great grandchildren." Church Leaders Continued from the First Page American politics through his National Union for Social Justice-followed by bitter attacks or President Roosevelt, split the opinions of church leaders. There were hints of possible disciplinary action by the Vatican. The selection I of Bishop Gallaghers successor, wrill be made by the Vatican.

FatheiCoughlIn of the death of his ecclesiastical superior: "Outside of my immediate familv. my best friend has passed to a deserved reward." The controversy which surrounded Father Coughlin in the last presidential campaign reached a peak when the priest, in a speech at Cleveland, called President Roosevelt a1 great betrayer and liar. The priest later apologized, after a rebuke by the authoritative Vatican newspaper Observatore Romano, saying he referred to "candidate Roosevelt and not "the president of the United States. Bishop Gallagher, who had announced he would vote for Roosevelt, said be told Father Coughlin he thought his language was a little Soon the bishop went to Rome, but denied the rao jriests activities were discussed in his audience with the pope. NEW SUNDAY SERVICES ANNOUNCED NEW YORK, Jan.

21 (APi-Completlon of arrangements for a return to the Mr twice on each Sunday beginning January 24, by the Rev. Charles E. Coughlin for a 52-week series of talks was announced late today by the Broadcasting System, Inc, The Detroit priest, who announced his radio retirement after the November 3 election in wmrh the presidential candidate I' favored Rep. William Lemke in North Dakota was defeated, probably would reach larger audience in the new arran0-ment than formerly, a Mu'ual spokesman said. He 6aid Father Coughlin would speak on each Sunday from 3 to 4 p.

Eastern Standard Time, our a hookup of 16 stations reachirg mainly only the East, and wculd appear again on each Sunday evening from 8 to 8:30 p. m. on 22 stations reaching from coast to coast. The broadcasts would be sponsored. the Mutual official said, by the Social Justice Publishing Company.

Previously, he added, the sponsor had been Father Coughlin National Union For Social Justice itself. The talks, at the priests reque-. will be billed as "Current Events it was said, and will be deliver" 1 from the Shrine of the Lit Flower at Royal Oaks, Mich. Sca Hero Capt. Edwin O.

Dorr, former Bucksport shipmaster, once rescued two men trapped for four days in the hold of a capsized schooner. thing that sounded like an answer ing thumf). At first he thought that the sound might have been made by some loose barrels floating around inside the hull but when he struck the plank again with his axe series of knocks and thumps came in reply. MATE TERRIFIED Gilpatrick, the mate, was so scared that his face turned as white as chalk, and his hair seemed to literally stand on end. Lets get away from here, quick, he said in a shaky voice, this schooner Is haunted.

Nonsense! my father admonished disgustedly. there is something alive In there and Im going to cut a hole In the side of this schooner and find out what it is. Dont you dare do it, said Gilpatrick, the minute you cut la hole in that vessel the air will come out, and it will sink and drag down the dory with it. There are evil spirits in that hold. 'AH right said my father, if you are afraid of hants and of being sunk, pull off a little distance with the dory, and Ill stay and take a chance.

There is something alive in there and I am going to try and get it out if its only the ships cat. Two of the crew in the dory volunteered to stick with father on the side of the capsized vessel, but Gilpatrick pulled away to a distance of about a hundred yards. Father and his two sailors took turns at chopping, attacking the planking at a point near the forward chain plates. It was at this point that the thumpings had been heard within the hull. It was tough work, as the planking was of oak, and the capsized vessel rolled badly in the heavy seas which had accompanied the recent blow.

After getting a hole through the oak planking there was sheathing to cut through, and when this was accomplished the choppers were nearly made unconscious by-the bad air that rushed out. But the vessel did not sink, as predicted by the mate. TWO MEN RESCUED FROM VESSEL When the hole was wide enough, father peered Into the hold and there saw a living man standing with water up to his armpits. The mans tongue and lips were so badly swollen by thirst that he could only point when father asked him if there was anybody else in the hold. Looking in the direction the man pointed, father saw another man nearly up to his neck in the water in an exhausted condition.

In a Jiffy father and his two sailors had pulled the men out and had lifted them Into the dory which had been pulled alongside by Gilpatrick, who by now had got over his fear of haunts. When they arrived back at the Ohio they found that the legs of the rescued men had become so swollen from standing in th water that it was necessary to cut their trousers and boots from their bodies. The two men kept pleading for water to drink, but father refused to give them any great quantity, feeding it to them with a teaspoon. When the men were able to talk father learned that they had been entombed in the schooner for four days. The Codseeker had a crew of 14 men, and when the squall struck the vessel the two men saved by father had gone below to get their oils.

While they were below the vessel capsized and the two men were trapped. In the meantime two others of the crew had been swept to the state, with 80 per cent of such receipts for old age pensions. Each rented hotel room would be taxed $2 'annually and summer camps similarly assessed $5. Small loan agencies would contribute 75 per cent of all Interest charges in excess of one and one-half per cent collected. Automobiles entering the state and carrying merchandise or pas sengers for hire would pay from one-half to three cents a mile from the port of entry to their destination.

Retail store owners would pay higher license fees on a sliding scale. All earned Incomes would be taxed 13 per cent if they exceeded $2,000 for any year. To enforce this provision, employers would provide the names of all employes coming under the act. Exemptions from this section in eluded $1,000 for husband or wife, and $250 for each child or parent dependent on the taxpayer. Income from intangibles, such as bonds, notes and dividends, would be taxed one per cent for less than $5,000 and six per cent for all over that figure.

Bonds and notes of federal and state governments, and stock dividends paid In new stock would be Immune. The bill would make legal games of skill, slot machines, and beano games, with taxes of $100 on each machine, and a $500 license fee required of distributors. Partnerships, associations or trusts would pay a yearly tax of six percent on Income from their property received by a Maine inhabitant. Annuities would pay a 14 per cent tax. Any profits from selling or buying personal property would be taxed three per cent.

All corporations operating In Maine would contribute at least l-20th of one per cent of the fair value of their capital stock. "Corporate excesses of these corporations would be taxed no more than $5 per thousand, and 2Va per cent of their net Incomes. Bank dividends, taxable in Maine, would be exempt. Wages and salaries of government employees could not be touched. Allowances would also be made for depreciation of property from working incomes, and also for taxes paid to federal or local governments.

Debts proven worthless would be exempt. Representative Donahues bill, patterned after a bill which had found support in Massachusetts, covered 19 pages of closely typed copy. Few branches of tangible or income would fail to feel its provisions. Veteran legislators said the bill had the widest scope of any tax bill Introduced in recent years. Pope Continued from the First Page enough to aid his labored breathing.

The holy father was propped up among cushions and a short white cloak was thrown around his shoulders to protect him against draughts. While still In bed, the pontiff heard Mass and attended to the curtailed routine permitted him. Throughout the night the papal physician. Dr. Aminta Milani, remained in the popes chambers and increased doses of sedatives were administered to aid the pope, whose condition seemed to be entering a dangerous cycle.

The intercession of saints created by Pope Pius himself in St. Peters' canonization ceremonies was besought by the Congregation of Heralds of Christ The King. Among these were St. Joan of Arc, St. Theresa.

St. Thomas More and eight North American saints, including Father Isaac Jogues, who as martyred by the Indians in northern New York. Relief Load Continued from the First Page the total population. His latest adjustments carried the statistics to September of last year, when close to 3,800,000 families and single persons were receiving federal relief money. This was about 11 per cent of the population.

Isolated figures compiled by the works progress administration reflect a further downward trend since then and indicate that perhaps less than 3.000.000 family heads and individuals now be drawing and rifles. Labor, he added, would not disarm." Lewis said he had gained the Impression General Motors would "cross the rubicon tonight or tomorrow and decide whether to resume negotiations. Meantime, Secretary of Labor Perkins, plainly showing marks of fatigue and loss of sleep, strove desperately to settle the strike. Labor observers agreed, when Miss Perkins met Lewis this afternoon, that the strike was nearer the White House steps than it had been at any previous time. Tuesday Miss Perkins talked with Lewis nine hours without budging him from his position.

Yesterday she talked with Sloan for several hours without obtaining any major Miss Perkins was knowrn to be trying to settle the strike without presidential Intervention. Informed commentators said she realized President Roosevelt might become involved In labors civil war if he stepped into the situation. Lewis principal demand is recognition of the United Auto Workers as exclusive representative of all General Motors employees. The American Federation of Lc.bor already has asked General Motors to make no agreement with the auto workers that would freeze craft unions out of the Industry. If Mr.

Roosevelt urged General Motors to negotiate with the Lewis union, the A. of L. might Interpret such a move as tending to hurt the craft union cause, observers said. GLASS SHORTAGE FELT DETROIT, Jan. 21 (AP) Despite prospective settlement of glass Industry strikes, the shortage of that product affected motor car manufacturing lines tonight.

Chrysler Corporation clpsed the Detroit plants of its four divisions Plymouth, Desoto, Dodge and Chrysler until Monday, announcing that present sources were unable to supply sufficient glass to meet requirements of the five-day production week that been in effect since Jan. 1. Approximately 50,000 workers were affected. General Motors Corporation, Its production paralyzed by strikes in a number of plants and by material shortages. Issued a claim late today that 110,262 employes, representing 79 per cent of the total employment in 43 of Its automotive plants, have protested against the interruption of operations.

The corporation, whose officers are In Washington where strike settlement efforts are under way, said copies of some of the workers petitions expressing satisfaction with present bargaining methods have been sent to President Roosevelt and to governors of some of the states affected. Other expressions of opposition were given in mass meetings, the statement said. Motor Industry observers said they expected settlement of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass strike to open the way for replenishment of Chrysler and some other manufacturers supplies by week after next. At Pittsburgh, Glen W. McCabe, president of the Federation of Flat Glass Workers, made a charge denied by the company, that Libby-Owens-Ford at Toledo was "hedging on a settlement of strikes affecting its 7,000 employes "using the argument that General Motors is down fiat, that General Motors Is their big trpstomer and that they do not needAhe glass anyway.

The glass workers and the United Automobile Workers of America whose strikes have resulted in idleness of 135,000 General Motors employes, have a "Joint council for discussion of strike moves. Both are members of John L. Lewis committee for industrial organization. Old Age Pension Continued from the First Page Definitely designed to provide funds for old age pensions, Donahues bill, whicH- was promptly referred to the taxation committee, would pay $30 a month to persons more than 65 years old. In its far-reaching provisions the measure would exempt from taxation few phases of tangible or Intangible Income.

The bill would take $700,000 a year from state liquor store profits and $200,000 yearly from "general funds. Pari-mutuel pools would pay eight and one-half per cent instead of the present three and onethalf per cent Strike Continued from the First Page and other federal labor officials. Lewis let newspapermen know a few hours before Sloans statement to the press that he would not yield ground and plainly indicated he' felt it was time for President Roosevelt to step in on labors side. Asked specifically whether it was time for President Roosevelt to intervene iij the current strike, Lewis said: Thats up to the President but labor intervened for him. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers and generalissimo of the General Motors strike, gave Mr.

Roosevelt both moral and financial support in his campaign for re-election. We have advised the secretary of labor that the economic royalists and the Du ponts and Mr. Sloan (General Motors president) are among them used their money to try to drive Mr. Roosevelt out of the White House, Lewis said. Labor rallied to the Presidents support when they attacked him.

These same economic royalists now have their fangs in labor, and labor now expects the government to support labor in its legal and logical objectives. Lewis also told the conference that "after General Motors signs a contract, we expect to do a little collective bargaining with Mr. Ford, Asked whether the union then would tackle Chrysler, Lewis said Mr. Chrysler also. Lewis held the press conference soon after he and Homer Martin, president of the Auto Workers, had talked with Miss Perkins.

He had advised her, he said, that the union was willing to meet General Motors officials to work out a strike settlement at any time, but that the sit-down strikers would re-mam in the Fisher Body 'plants In Flint, Mich. Lewis added that he understood General Motors had not given up its position that It would not negotiate as long as the Fisher Body plants were occupied. Miss Perkins said this morning that General Motors now was willing to refrain from negotiating with any other group of workers while negotiations with the United Auto Workers were under way. The companys acceptance last week of a proposal to negotiate with the Flint Alliance (a group opposing the strike) aroused the United Auto Workers. In the resulting controversy an agreement for negotiations between the motors firm and United was abandoned.

Lewis called the Flint Alliance Episode one of the most stupendous double-crosses in Industrial history. He said the United Union would not go back to last Saturdays truce because we are not going to give General Motors another chance to double-cross us. The strike, he said, was never In a better position. He declared the union had a majority of all General Motors employes engaged in production. Lewis said he was aware he was fighting a united front of financial and industrial Interests whose purpose was to crush him, but that he expected this united front to crack.

General Motors's competitors, he said, could get glass now that the plate glass strike was settled and would make great Inroads In General Motors markets. The corporations salesmen, he said, already were leaving for other companies. WITHDRAWAL WOULD DISARM UNION Withdrawal of the sit-down strikers, Lewis said, would "disarm labor while General Motors still was armed with John Doe warrants, munitions, tear ga pistols Floods Continued from the First Page threatened to crush newly built levees. Calls for help were sent to Indianapolis. A special relief train was being made up to take supplies to the stricken areas.

Three Indiana towns and five in Kentucky were without electricity when flood waters of the Ohio river cut off the electric light and power company at Troy, Ind. At Portsmouth, a boulder estimated to weigh six tons, loosened by rains, rolled 150 feet down a hill and crashed into an apartment house. One woman was injured. The lives of eight families were endangered. One death was reported at Tylertown, where a four months old Negro drowned in overflow water.

The mother saved an older child. A man and woman, both ill of pneumonia, were isolated in their homes near Ken-nett, where the St. Frances river was out' of its banks. Thousands of persons stood in a downpour that ranged from one to more than three inches and watched the inexorable advance of water in the middle and lower Ohio river valley called the worst since the disastrous 1913 flood. At some points business and Industry was at a standstill.

Householders and merchants moved their goods to upper floors. Trucks hauled valuable stock to the hills. Transportation was crippled. Bedraggled refugees many of them had seen icy waters creep to the eaves of their dwellings sought shelter in schools, box cars, tents, halls and public buildings. The overburdened Ohio swelled steadily from Pittsburgh to Cairo, 111.

But the worst, meteorologists warned, was yet to come. More rain, turning to snow as temperatures fell, was forecast The Mississippi edged up hourly. At Portsmouth, Ohio, 500 men piled sandbags on the 60 foot sea wall. But City Manager Frank Sheehan advised 13,000 of the communitys 43,000 citizens to prepare to evacuate. Cincinnati calculated its losses at $1,000,000.

The warehouse and provisions district was inundated. Police received more than 500 calls for boats and trucks. Residents were warned the Ohio might crest there at 66 to 68 feet far above the 52 feet flood stage. Only twice In recorded history has the stream passed the 66 feet 'mark. Calls for help sent hundreds to boats to the aid of families trapped along the Ohio upstream from Cincinnati.

More than six feet of water lapped in the streets of Pomeroy. Most of the homes in Ripley and Manchester were encircled by water. New Richmond, Hlggins-port, Rome and Newton were seriously affected. Hundreds Joined the exodus from Kentucky lowlands. A passenger train was ditched by washed out rails near Slaughters.

Several persons were hurt. National Guards-meii were ordered to stand by for duty at Hopkinsville, Livermore. Covington, Maysville, Marion and Mayfield. Troops were requested by officials of Wickliffe, Eddylle and Augusta. Parts of Frankfort, on the Kentucky river, were threatened.

At Newport, 50 city blocks were submerged and six steel mills suspended operations. At Dayton, water covered 30 blocks. Residents of Hazelton, gathered on knolls to see waters of the White river flowing through homes and buildings they had quit before the levee collapsed. Six persons who fled from Cannelton and Tell city termed the flood the worst In their experience. Part of Richmond was ir.