The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-14
QUAKE REGION
IS THREATENED
BY EPIDEMIC
Widespread Outbreak of
Pneumonia Is Feared in
California Cities.
JOBS GIVEN TO 1000
Unemployed Get Work in
Clearing Away Debris at
Long Beach.
BY FRANK II. BARTHOLOMEW
United Press Staff Correspondent

LOS ANGELES, March IA
widespread pneumonia epidemic to-
day threatened earthquake-strick
Long Beach, Compton and Hunting
ton Park. Settling" tremors con-
tinued in the quake district.
Sixteen patients had been brought
into Seaside hospital and emergency
receiving stations overnight. Most
of them we're old people who had
been sleeping upon the damp
ground in front of ruined homes.
Two aged women were found near
DEATH too weak to call for aid.
A younger woman with baby boy
in her arms was rescued by an am
bulance crew. The baby had pneu-
monia, the mother double pneu-
monia.
The town was divided into patrol
sections and ambulance drivers in
spected the little outdoor camps in
front of Long Beach's 1000 COM
pletely ruined homes.
Those found to be inadequately
sheltered, particularly older people,
were taken to BiXby park, where re-
lief agencies had tents and warm
blankets ready.
Financial Distress Relieved
Many went willingly. Others,
judgment warped by malnutrition
and exposure, fought the ambulance
men, and had to be transported
forcibly.
Employment was given today to
almost 1000 men, assigned to clear
ing the debris and tearing down
menacing structures.
The workers we're all Long
Beachs unemployed. No outsiders
were permitted to enter the city.
The jobs paid 1920 a day, from a
pay roll supplied by the Reconstruct
ton Finance Corporation.
The acute financial distress of al
most 100000 needy survivors in the
eleven cities south of Los Angeles
was relieved in a measure today by
the reopening of banks here.
Friends and relatives thus were
able to send funds in to the area
leveled by the tremendous quake.
Provide Foods for Bread Lines
A continued supply of food for
the bread lines was assured when
the legislature passed a $4,000
emergency appropriation, to be
made available Immediately.
1--WE needed it," said Colonel w.
o. Wyman, in charge of food dis
tribution. 1--WE are feeding 10000
every tWenty-four hours"
The United Press learned from
an authoritative source that federal
agencies would be asked today to
advance 100000 to assist in re-
building the stricken queen city
of the beaches"
The rebuilding of Long Beach
and Compton probably will be done
under the quake-proof code evolved
by Santa Barbara after that city's
1925 disaster, architects said
Damage to school buildings alone
will total $15,O0O,0OOO it was esti-
mated. Practically none of Long
Beach's forty-two public schools,
forty private schools and two paro-
chial schools escaped damage.
Death List Stands at 1919
The list of dead and missing stood
today at 129, as follows:
Killed in Long Beach, 81.
Killed in Compton, Bellfower,
Gardengrove, Huntington Park, Los
Lynwood, haywood Nor
walk, Pacoima, San Pedro, Sawtelle,
Watts and Wilmington, 48.
Missing four days at Long
Beach, IA.
Missing four days at other
points, 7.
Killed in plane crash, 3.
Died of shock, 3.
A full military funeral will be ac-
corded 4-year-old Dolores Spangler
Miller today 70 memorable all dis
aster dead. The baby's mother, Mrs.
Avalon Miller, lies critically injured
in a hospital, unaware that Dolores
was dead. Her father was killed in
an accident Ia CT veo1-