Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-20
COAST AREA
BENEFITS BY
HEAVY STORM
Slight Damage To Property Is
More Than Off Set By Aid For
Southland Crops.
SHIPPING SUFFERS LITTLE
Coast Guard Rescues Five Per-
sons As Heavy Sea Batters At
Small Craft.

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 20. W.P)--
Heroic rescues by coast guard
crews were related today as two
day storm which deluged Southern
California with heavy SHOWS and
rainfall moved into Nevada, with
another large disturbance reported
on its way down from Alaska.
Five persons were rescued from
tempestuous seas off San Pedro
and Long Beach.
Unsuccessful in attempts to re-
move Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Hunen-
berger and his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Rudolph Hunenberger by
breeches buoys from the fishing
barge Rainbow off Long Beach.
coast guardsmen finally brought
the four ashore in the cutter Nc
Lane last night.
The barge had dragged It's an
chor toward the Pine street pier
and was filling rapidly when the
cutter got line aboard the craft.
Ernest Wyilet, San Pedro fisher
man, was saved when his power
boat foundered on the rocks OF
Terminal Island.
A 60-mile gale was blowing wher
the Hunenbergers were rescued.
The battleships West Virginia and
Arizona and the destroyer Fox put
to sea to ride out the storm, but
returned to the harbor this morn
ing.
Heavy seas were breaking over
the two-mile breakwater for its
entire length.
Several small craft were beached.
and a Merritt, Chapman and Scott
derrick barge at work on the fish
harbor breakwater, was crushed
and sank with a loss of $4,000.
Two other company barges were
saved from a like fate.
Pasadena Deluged
Other high points Of the storm
we're:
Pasadena received 5.29 inches of
rain during the storm which began
Wednesday night and cleared at
midnight Thursday, bringing the
years precipitation there to 11.73
inches, against 11.59 inches last
year.
Scores of motorists were report
ed marooned in Cajon Pass, be-
tween San Bernardino and Victor
vile, by slides and snowdrifts.
State highway crews were expected
to effect rescueS today.
Three inches of snow fell in San
Ppry1 rdinn tho canarI
there this year.
All mountain roads, including
the Ridge Route, were closed to
traffic by the unusually heavy
SHOWS. Nearly three feet was re-
ported at Mt. Wilson and five feet
at San Bernardino mountain re-
sorts, which were isolated when
telephone wires went out.
Prisoners in two county honor
camps were snowbound.
Low points in the San Fernando
Valley, and around Long Beach,
were inundated, and police crews
rescued families with boats.
Roads in and out of Bishop and
Inyo county were blocked. -Four
Bishop and IA inches at Independ-
ence.
Helps Unemployed
Unemployed men earned small
sums carrying women across flood
ed downtown streets in Los An
geles. Prices ranged as high as
25 cents, according to the size of
the burden.
The mountains back of Santa
Barbara received 841 inches of
rain in a 24-hour period.
During a II minute period late
yesterday, 81 inches of rain fell in
Los Angeles.
Freezing temperatures were re-
ported today from Pasadena, Riv-
erside and RedlandS.
The weather bureau predicted
additional showers today, with
probable precipitation tomorrow,
and little change in temperature.
A new storm now sweeping the
Alaskan coast probably will reach
Southern California early in the