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Evening star., 1936-03-20
LOW RIVER AREAS
DODGE FLOOD LOSS
Potomac Moves Swiftly Into Bay,
but Depth Fails to Exceed
High-Tide Stage.

The Potomac River, unruly and de-
structive in its upper reaches, was on
good behavior on the lower end and
remained within bounds in the South
ern Maryland and Northeastern Vir-
ginia section. The water was moving
swiftly but its depth was no more than
at high tide, according to reports.
At Fort Washington the high tide
reached the Army docks but did not
lap over on dry ground. The Naval
Proving Ground. near Indianhead,
was on high land.
At Leonardtown and Colonial Beach
d high tide was noted but residents
failed to get excited.
State police at the Waldorf sub
station said they did not expect any
further high water or flood damage.
The 10-mile width of the Potomac at
Indianhead precluded any possibility
Of flood danger, they said.
Evening star., 1936-03-20
2211 PER CENT TAX
RATE IS SPROPOSED
House Subcommittee Ten
tativeIy Adopts Figure
for Undivided Income.
Nv the ASSociated Press

BY the Associated Press.
A House Ways and Means subcom-
mittee decided tentatively today to ap-
ply fat 22ls per cent tax on the net
income of corporations limited in pay
ing out dividends "by reason of State
and Federal or contractual structures. |"
Corporations in this category would
not be subject to the proposed new
levy on undistributed corporate profits.
President Roosevelt had suggested that
present corporation income taxes be
repealed and supplanted by levies on
undistributed earnings and a tax on
dividends.
Chairman Samuel 3. Hill said the
rate was not conclusive, but was de-
cided on to provide working basis"
Details still remain to be worked out,
he said.
Hill had no estimate On the num-
Der of corporations now under limi-
tations as to issuance of dividends.
He said the 2212 per cent was an
arbitrary rate; that the subcommittee
felt that if it were too low it might
offer an inducement to some corpo-
rations to show capital deficit on
their books in order to keep free of
the tax on undivided corporation
earnings.
Existing corporation income taxes
average about Is per cent.
Treasury experts have proposed 80 e
per cent on undivided income.
tThe President has suggested that
$500, 900 900 additional Federal reve-
nue. be raised by a tax on dividends
and undistributed net income of
corporations. In addition, he has sug-
gested $4,000, 900 be produced over
two or three years through new and
broader processing taxes and a
'windfall'' levy on unpaid or refunded
A. A. A. processing taxes)
Hill said the agreement on fiat
rate for corporations, which are re-
stricted by State and Federal law and
contract obligations in issuing divi-
dends, was subject to possible modifi-
cation after our staff has worked out
further details"
Evening star., 1936-03-20
BUILDING WRECKED
AS TANKS EXPLODE
No Casualties Are Discovered
After Chemical Blast
in Harrisburg, Pa.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
HARRISBURG. Pa, March 20.-An
explosion Of three chemical tanks
wrecked three STORY brick warehouse
in the flooded industrial district Of
Harrisburg today.
Police said they did not believe there
were any casualties.
Fred w. White, standing on q near
by bridge at the time, reated he saw
four men In two boats so feet from the
warehouse just before the blast. He
said he did not know whether the ex-
plosion caught them.
Police said they feared two more
tanks might explode. Aided by Ma
tional Guardsmen they cleared ap-
proximately 1000 persons OF the Null
berry Street Bridge over the Pennsyl-
yania Railroad yards. 400 feet away.
Evening star., 1936-03-20
Eden Before Commons Tells
of Agreement Between
Britain, France, Belgium
and Italy.
LEAGUE 0VERHAULING
PART OF PROPOSAL
Provision Also Made for Buffer
State and Zone From Which
Reich Troops Would Be Imme.
diately Withdrawn-Germany
Objects to That, However.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, March 20.-The
House of Commons was told to-
day that the four remaining Lo-
carno powers have agreed to
join in a virtual military alliance
if Adolf Hitler refuses to con-
slider proposals to re-establish
the security of Europe.
The propoSals-agreed to by
Great Britain, France, Belgium
and Italy-were published in a
white paper submitted to the
Commons as Anthony Eden,
British foreign secretary, began
an explanation to the Lower
House.
A German spokesman. shortly
after the proposals were made
public, said the plan might
form a basis for discussion If
certain unilateral parts like the
police zone and The Hague Court
reference were eliminated" He
declared Germany must be
treated as an equal and would
not tolerate foreign troops on her
soil.
The plan envisages an international
conference to overhaul the League of
Nations and greatly widen its scope
from existing limitations.
Provision was also mad1 to set up q
buffer zone against Germany along the
Franco-Belgian borders. The zone
would be occupied by international
troops. including British and Italian
forces, until a new security treaty
could be drawn.
Withdrawal Zone.
The proposed zone would be 20 kilo-
meters wide, from which German
troops would be withdrawn. The pros
posals demand that movement of Ger.
man troops into the Rhine zone must
be suspended while French and Bel
gian governments suspend sending
forces into zones adjoining their
frontiers.
Il venture to think the Commons
will consider the proposed arrange
ments to create a sense of security
during the period of negotiation are
fair and reasonable" Eden said to the
members. "and indicate the spirit in
which the question has been ap-
preached by the French and Belgian
governments"
The proposals are subject to ratifi-
cation by the four governments par
ticipating. The British, French and
Belgian cabinets have already ap.
proved
London diplomatic quarters are
awaiting official reaction from the
German government.
In an annex, the four powers agreed
that should Hitler spurn the plan,
Great Britain and Italy. as guaran-
tors of the Locarno pact, Immediately
would inform France and Belgium
that they would come to their assist
ance in manner jointly approved.
This duty, however, would be recip-
rocal and would oblige France and
Belgium to come to the assistance of
Italy and Great Britain to resist un.
provoked German aggression.
The general stats of the nations
(See LONDON, Page A.
Evening star., 1936-03-20
b0RAH LAUNCHES
CAMPAIGN IN OHIO
Idahoan AssaiIs New Deal
and G. O. p. Machine of
State in Speech.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN,

YOUNGSTOWN. Ohio. March 90
Hammering the Roosevelt New Deal
with one hand, the Republican ma
chine of Ohio with the other. Senator
william E. Borah of Idaho launched
his campaign for delegates to the
G. o. P. National Convention in an
address here last night.
To the 5000 who had gathered In
the auditorium the Idaho Senator
spoke as the apostle of the common
man and the defender of small busi-
ness. His address was pasSionately
earnest rather than "rabble-rousing"
IN its temper and delivery.
Senator Borah had reached this
fiood-ridden and snow-covered State
after a long, hard. roundabout trip,
only to be plunged into conferences
with his supporters up to the very
hour Of the mass meeting.
Today. following further planning
with the members Of the Borah Com
mittee, the Senator will 60 to Chicago,
where he is to open his campaign for
the Republican presidential nomina-
ton against Col. Frank Knox.
It is his purpose to return again to
Ohio for a series Of speeches in April.
Borah assailed the Roosevelt admin
istration for the huge Federal bu-
reaucracy with which it has saddled
the country. He attacked its huge ex-
penditures which. eventually, must be
paid for by the American people. He
denounced the policy OF scarcity
which has been the foundation of its
farm program. He criticized the
N. r. A., which, he declared, had sus-
pended the operation Of the antitrust
laws and permitted the building up Of
monopoly.
American business, he asserted, has
improved since the Supreme Court OF
the United States struck down the
N. r. A. and farm prices have ad-
vanced since the court threw the
A. A. A. into the discard, too.
In his address and in an interview
which he gave to the press before the
meeting In the auditorium last night,
Senator Borah not only broke with
the Roosevelt administration in many
important particulars but he laid q
number of ghosts.
"I am not in favor Of imitation,
the Idaho Senator declared, "and
never have been. Neither do I favor
defiation. I should like to see stable
dollar"
In this language the Senator made
his first reply to attacks which have
been raised against him on the ground
that he was an infiationist, particu-
larry among the conservative Republic
cans of the East.
Another ghost which the Senator
sought to lay was the frequently-re.
iterated charge that he Is not sincerely
q candidate for the presidential NOM
:nation but Is merely seeking . posi-
ton of influence when II comes to
Evening star., 1936-03-20
NICE VISITS SCENE
OF FLOOD DAMAGE
Maryland Executive Calls
offegisIature to Take
Emergency Action.
By the Associated Press.


POINT OF ROCKS. Md, March
20.-Scenes of utter desolation greeted
Gov. Harry w. Nice in Western Mary
land today as the executive, accom-
panied only by a State trooper, ar
rived Unexpectedly for an inspection
tour of the flood stricken Potomac
Valley.
Thousands Of homeless citizens
looked eagerly to the Governor for
rehabilitation aid as the murky wa
ters Of the historic river receded
grudgingly from scores of battered
cities and towns between here and
Cumberland.
In his first official act after arriv-
ing on the scene, Gov. Nice issued a
formal statement calling on the State
Legislature to take emergency action
He asked that a $4,000 bond issue
be authorized for repair of highways
and bridges.
Arriving here at 7:30 am, the Gov
ernor found water 10 feet deep in the
streets. He conferred first with
Charles L. Blentlinger. school prin-
cipal, who had organized relief work,
and promised the States co-opera-
ton.
The Governor watched milk being
served at the school building to the
young children of homeless families.
He inspected the National Guard
and American Legion emergency
kitchens and the Lutheran Church,
where Is woman refugees spent the
night on cots furnished by the Red
Cross.
Touring the town, Nice conferred
with and questioned officials of the
Red Cross Salvation Army. American
Legion and National Guard, all aiding
in the rehabilitation work.
Yesterday, after receiving tele-
graphic pleas for financial assistance
from Cumberland, he wired the States
congressional delegation to seek Fed
eral funds. One thousand families
were homeless in Cumberland, and
losses ran into millions Of dollars.
Reaches Depth Of 80 Feet.
Leaving Maryland's second largest
city, the flood crest swept down
through the valley and on to Wash
ington, ripping out bridges and mum
dating town after town. Here, the
water reached depth Of 80 feet in
Main street.
The Governor planned his arrival
to coincide with the serving of break
fast by three National Guard field
Kitchens. Over half Of the 800 resi-
dents were driven from their homes
and were totally without resources.
DR.. e. C. Kefauver, Frederick
County health of1icer, ordered every
resident innoculated today against
typhoid fever.
Lieut.. Col. Elmer Munshower. rank
ing National Guard officer, made plans
for a provisional government in the
community until the water has gone
(See MARYLAND. PAGE a.
Evening star., 1936-03-20
SPRING IS USHERED IN
WITH COLDER FORECAST
Rain Tonight and Tomorrow
Likely to Be Followed
by Snow.

The vernal equinox ushered in the
first day of Spring this morning as
the Weather Bureau predicted rain
tonight and tomorrow, followed by in
creasing cold and probable snow.
The current forecast said, Rain
tonight and tomorrow, probably chang
ing to snow. accompanied by colder
weather." Increasing easterly winds
are expected to swing into the north
or northwest tomorrow.
The low tonight should be about 80
degrees. The minimum last night
was a5 degrees.
Evening star., 1936-03-20
DEATH TOTAL HITS
45 At PITTSBURGH
Cleanup Started as City
Fears Disease and
Water Shortage.

(copyrieht, 1885, By the Associated Press
PITTSBURGH, March 20.-Flood
deaths in this steel metropolis
mounted suddenly to As today as
thousands of workers, worried by
threats of disease and water shortage
began cleaning up debris-lader streets
and buildings.
Police and rescue crews, plodding
knee-deep in mud through suburban
areas, uncovered hourly new evidence
of the startling loss of life in the
Pittsburgh areas greatest food.
Most of the lives lost were by
drowning, but some persons died in
fires and explosions, aftermaths Of the
inundation.
The metropolitan death list brought
the total for Western Pennsylvania
to SO. including Is lost in the food
at Johnstown.
The yellow waters Of the Monon-
gahela and Allegheny Rivers. which
meet here to form the Ohio, were
receding and the Weather Bureau
predicted that by noon they would
be 20 feet below Tuesday nights crest.
Shortage Of Drinking Water.
Fear of a drinking water shortage,
bringing with it the danger of pestil-
ence, grew as water company oficials
said the reserve supply was nearly
exhausted.
1t could not be replenished for 48
hnI1rc thai, cold olthntpnh
stations had been started.
Hospitals, many of them overfiowing
with persons injured in the catas-
trophe, we're at loss to meet such
an emergency.
The South Hills. a residential Sec
tion Of about zoo, 900 persons. has been
without water since Tuesday night.
Water company employees were dis
tributing water from tank trucks.
The food situation, on the other
hand, was excellent. More than 1.000,-
900 pounds of foodstuffs were being
rushed to the city and of1icials said
that although there might be incon-
venience, no one would 60 hungry.
City welfare workers, reinforced by
State and Federal agencies, swung into
activities. Red Cross
workers aided the needy, and National
Guardsmen patrolled wreckage-strewn
streets.
Flood waters concealed for more
than "A hours the bodies Of six chill
dren and q woman, found last night in
a home in suburban Etna. The seven
had died in fire that swept through
q dozen homes.
Some of the conditions that followed
(See PITTSBURGH, Page -
Evening star., 1936-03-20
Pittsburgh in Panic
Over False Report
OF Spans Collapse
By the Associated Press.

by Ile AASOClALeu EECkS.
PITTSBURGH. March 20.-A
false police report that the
crowded Sixteenth Street Bridge
had collapsed threw Pittsburgh
into a short panic today. The
Associated Press reporters who
reached the bridge found 1t safe,
with traffic moving over it.
Every available policeman and
ambulance in the city had rush.
ed to the span. after Police Supt.
Jacob Dorsey's Office had re-
leased a report the bridge had
fallen into surging food waters
with five lanes of traffic.
The bridge connects the North
Side with downtown Pittsburgh.
In explanation of the erroneous
report, Dorsey said some one had
telephoned it to his office. He
ordered all other bridges closed
until the report was proved false.
Evening star., 1936-03-20
CASHIER AND BANDIT
SLAIN IN BANK HOLD.UP'
Burglars Hidden in Building Am
bush Employe at Blooming
dale, Ind.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BLOOMINGDALE, Ind, March
20-Wood Carter, assistant cashier.
and an unidentified bandit we're shot
and killed in a gun fight during the
hold-up of the Bank of Blooming.
dale today.
Carter was ambushed by the BAN
dts when he arrived at the bank
this morning. Police said the hold
up men apparently were hidden in
the bank, having obtained entrance
during the night.
The bodies of Wood and the un-
identified man were found by Leon
idas j. Brown, cashier.
As far as known there were no
witnesses to the shooting.
Evening star., 1936-03-20
Star Will Receive Donations
for Flood Relief

The Star in facilitate raising flood relief funds
donations from citizens of Wash
called the President
as ca o the American Red Cross
contributed 500 to start its collections.
The quota Washington District Columbia Chap
ter the chapter launched the fund
This supplemented by
totaing than s1100
Building and Pennsylvania
Make payable ID. c. Red Cross"
Evening star., 1936-03-20
HELEN JACOBS FINED
IN LONDON SPEEDING
Police Say Automobile Was cat
tached to the United
States Embassy."

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, March 20.-Helen ia
cobs. American tennis star, was fined
f1 (s5) today for speeding in what
police described as an automobile "at-
tached to the United States Embassy"
Miss Jacobs attorney claimed that
she was returning from tennis prac-
tice and did not know of the 30-mile
speed limit in the area where she was
summoned.
The attorney also said that Miss
Jacobs, who is friend of Henrietta
Bingham, the daughter of the United
States Ambassador, had not claimed
diplomatic immunity, although her
trial had been delayed because police
thought the question of immunity
might be involved.
Evening star., 1936-03-20
45.9 Ft. Above
Low Mean Set
byRun-Off.
HIGHWAY SPAN
AGAIN OPENED
Airport and Tidal
Basin Areas Are
Still Covered.

With damage estimated
at a quarter of a mil
lion dollars, Washington
turned to unusual tasks of
relief and reconstruction
along its flood = lashed
borders today, as the SUBJ
siding but still swollen
Potomac River surged
toward the sea after a
record smashing ram
page.
The largest volume of water
on record flowed past the city,
when the crest reached here
late yesterday, sending water
against the emergency dixie
along the Mall and forcing fam
lilies in unprotected low-lying
sections to flee to upper ground.
Officials plan to remove the dixie
as quickly as possible.
As the debriS-strewn river con-
tinued to unfold a mute story of
destruction along the upper
reaches of the ordinarily placid
Potomac Valley, citizens and Of
ficials here took stock of houses
wrecked along the river and the
neighboring canal. of families
rendered homeless and of dam
age wrought to public works.
All agreed the worst Of what
was described as a major
flood" was over, so far as Wash
ington and vicinity is concerned.
The diminishing body of the
river was not expected to return
completely within its banks for
another 48 hours.
Water Volume Sets Record.
When the flood crest roared
down upon Washington between
6 and 7 pm. yesterday, it hurled
at the city a volume of yellow
water larger than that of the
historic flood of 1889, officials
declared. The level was higher
at Chain Bridge, but tidal con-
ditions below Georgetown kept
the height somewhat lower than
that of the '89 high water.
Highway Bridge was reopened
today and Chain Bridge may be
ready for use again by Monday,
unless more serious repairs are
needed than are now estimated,
Engineer Commissioner Dan I.
Sultan said today.
An extensive program of clean
ing up flooded areas was
started promptly today as a COM
bined force of more than TOO
men of the city Refuse, Sewer
and Highway Department were
set to work in an attack on the
debris.
Highway Bridge was opened as
water receded from roads near
its Southern terminus, permit
ting traffic to go to Lincoln Me-
mortal Bridge and then turn
left to Virginia territory.
Span Withstands Pounding.
Highway Director H. c. White
hurst found that Chain Bridge
withstood it's test of the ava
lanche of water surprisingly
well, so far as he could tell from
the superStructure, the piers this
morning still being under water.
Workmen began repairs to the
flooring and railing and a very
careful examination later will be
made of the piers and abutments
to determine what repairs will be
necessary. The bridge was badly
shaken by the water and floating
trees which smashed into it at
intervals and until late yesterday
officials feared the old span
might be carried away.
When the crest sent turbulent waves
Evening star., 1936-03-20
MARYLAND BILL ASKS
S150,OOO FLOOD RELIEF
Senator Kimble Preparing Meas
ure for Introduction in
State Legislature.

BY the Associated PreSS.
ANNAPOLIS, Nd, March 20.-A
bill authorizing the State Board of Aid
and Charities to spend $150,000 in
the flooded areas of Maryland was be-
ing drafted today by Senator Robert
B. Kimble (Allegany), for presenta-
ton to the Legislature.
The measure would empower the
State Board of Public Works to make
the fund available. 1t would be spent
for medical and food supplies and
any other necessity required for the
rehabilitation and restoration of flood
sufferers to their homes.
Senator Kimble said he was plan
ming to request that the / per cent
gross receipts tax be continued for
80 days, with. the first s150,000 col
lected earmarked for the flood needs.
Evening star., 1936-03-20
Fire Destroys Plantation House.
One Critically Hurt.

One Cr1tlcaIIy hurt.
BASSETT, Ark, March 20 (PD.-Six
persons were burned to death and q
seventh was critically injured when
fire destroyed plantation house near
here today.
The dead were Edgar Meeks, 80:
his wife, about ~: their two children,
aged 2 and 8; Meeks' father -in-law.
Q Mr.. Green, and Green's son, age II.
Mrs. Green received treatment at
. neighbor's home for serious cuts and
burns suffered when Meeks hurled
her through window Of the four
room house In an effort to save her
life.
Evening star., 1936-03-20
THREE DIE IN BLAST

Six Business Concerns Wrecked,
With $75, 900 Loss.
TEXARKANA, Tex, March 20 up.
Three persons were killed today
when an explosion, followed by fire,
wrecked six business concerns in the
Sandflat business district here, caus-
ing o loss estimated at $4,000.
Evening star., 1936-03-20
Property Loss
Estimated at
225 Million.
$4OO,OOO,OOO AID
BEING STUDIED
3 Bay State Cities
Guarded Against
Looting.

Two full pages of
up-to-the-minute photo
graphs of the floods
aftermath - Pages A-6
and Al.
Evening star., 1936-03-20
WOMAN RECOVERING
AFTER FLOOD RESCUE
Mrs. Eva Dell Myers, Who Clung
to Roof 16 Hours, Soon to
Leave Hospital.

Mrs. Eva Dell Myers, 50-year-old
widow, who was saved from the Po-
tomac at Glen Echo yesterday. in the
most sensational local rescue of the
flood, today had almost completely re-
covered from the ordeal of clinging
to the top of a water-surrounded shed
for 16 hours.
At Walter Reed Hospital, where she
was taken after being brought ashore,
her condition this morning was re-
ported as very good" She expected
to leave the hospital soon, possibly
today.
Evening star., 1936-03-20
WEATHER.
w LIZA i 44494bs
%. 0. weather Bureau Forces

W. ,, WtHtltI HVHNS"SS'E
Rain tonight; tomorrow rain, probably
changing to snow and colder; lowest
temperature tonight about 80. Tempera-
tures-Highest, 81, at noon today; lowest,
So, at 6:15 a m. today.
Full report on page ALL.
Evening star., 1936-03-20

(See FLOOD, Page So
Evening star., 1936-03-20

The only evening paper
in Washington with the
Associated Press News
and Wirephoto Services.
Evening star., 1936-03-20
SIX BURNED TO DEATH

(See MARYLAND, Page 81
Evening star., 1936-03-20

(See PITTSBURGH, Page -
The Nome daily nugget., 1936-11-28

FOR SALE-MOdern heating stOves-burn either hard or soft coal-slightly used, inquire at the Nugget Office for information.
The Nome daily nugget., 1936-11-28
LOCAL ITEMS

The big dance at the new school auditorium commences promptly at g P. M. tonight, music to be furnished by a three piece orchestra.
 Funds derived from the dance are to be turned over to the AL aska Tuberculosis Association, to be used in connection with fight ing the disease in Alaska. The dance is being given in connec- ton with the annual Christmas Seal Sale campaign now on.
The Nome daily nugget., 1936-11-28

The Mirow Air Service dis patched two planes to Fairbanks this morning with seven passen- gers and express. On the plane piloted by Manager Hans Mirow were MT. and Mrs. Leo Seiden- verg, Mr. and Mrs. Thorulf Leh- mann and MT. Peterson, enroute to Seattle via Fairbanks.
 On the plane piloted by Frank Whaley as passengers to Fair banks were MT. Jones, a native named Abaufe, and Ray Decker mechanic
 Pilot Mirow is to return to
The Nome daily nugget., 1936-11-28

Pilot Chet Brown of the Arctic AirWays, according to a message received in Nome, plans to re- turn to Anchorage with a full load, due to the bad weather ex- isting between Juneau and Seat tie at this time. He also plans to make another trip with pas sengers from Anchorage to Jun eau, after which he will take off for Seattle, weather permitting.