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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-31
Dancing Star Has New Role

Eleanore Whitney. dancing star
Is TO be seen next with a group of
other young players in Three
Cheers for Love"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-31
Given Feminine Lead

For her fifth film role, Margaret
Callahan will have the important
feminine lead opposite Richard Dix
in Special Investigator.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-31
Bullet Hole in Knights Armor
Seen as Mark Twain Inspiration
Film Version of "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur
Court with Will Rogers, Returning to Apollo.

How could bullet hole be in the knight
King Athur's Round Table?
That question said
nectlcut Yankee in King Arths
winch TO return the Apollo Friday
n
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-31
Selects Hairdress With Care

Katharine Hepburn had tests
made of 18 different styles of hair
dress before she chose the one she
wears in the dramatic Mary Of
Scotland"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-31
Singer Speaks Seven Languages

NFS S'SA Aahe uaScS
Jan Kiepuras European singing
idol now mailing his American
screen debut in Give Us This
Night" speaks seven languages.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-31
Mae Favors Old Timers

Mae West is known for her will
lingness to give the old-timers g
break in her pictures.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-31
Gladys George Is Almost
Perfect as Brazen, Blond
Star Of Moving Pictures
Story Tells Of Film Queens Attempt to Win Country Lad
Who Isn't Interested in Her. Play, Strictly Adult
Fare, to Be Here Through Tomorrow.
BY JOHN w. THOMPSON

George queen Hollywood
resounding slap Personal Appearance"
Evening star., 1936-03-19
GUARD Modified
BY FIVE STATES
New England Dead In
creased by Six and Thou.
sands Are Homeless.
BY the Associated Press.

~ tHr AbnVcihkcu FtSse,
BOSTON, March I9.- National
Guardsmen were mobilized In five New
England States today while emergency
workers fought to control raging rivers
that flooded dozens Of cities and left
thousands of persons homeless.
Six were dead and two missing. add
ing to the toll of 10 lives taken in
New England by uncontrolled waters
last week.
Fear of food and milk shortage
was felt even In those areas not af-
fected by the flood waters. The
Massachusetts, Milk Control Board
sought new sources Of supply.
While Guardsmen were called out to
aid In rescue work, the Red Cross and
other, relief agencies rushed food,
clothes and medical supplies to the
stricken areas.
Connecticut State police routed resi-
dents Of the Housatonic River Valley
out OF their beds early today and
warned them to leave their homes.
Dams were reported to have COL
lapsed on the headwaters of the river
in Massachusetts,. New Milford, Conn,
reported bridge over the river went
out early today.
Cities and farms In the broad VAL
ley of the Connecticut River through
the length Of New England were hard
est hit.
Swollen by melting snow and ice
swept down from the White Mountains
by "a hours of incessant rain the
Connecticut broke through dams.
washed away bridges, flooded popula-
ton centers and put thousands OF
acres under two and three feet OF
water.
At Hartford the river was at the
25-foot level early today and still ris-
ing. 1t probably would exceed the all
time high OF 20 feet reached in the
Fall Of 1927.
Meager communication from New
Hartford indicated all families driven
from their HON ) were well cared for.
The Pennington River there was re-
ported rising slowly.
Willimantic kept an anxious eye on
the dam at its l75,000, ,00o-gallon res
ervoir in Mansfield. where 2 feet of
the top coping had been washed away.
Gov. James NJ Curley Of Massachu-
sets directed relief operations per-
sonally from food threatened Spring
field.
Evening star., 1936-03-19
.SUSQUEHANNA RISES
AND RESIDENTS FLEE
Port Deposit Folk Move to Higher
Ground as River Creeps
Into Town.
BY the Associated Press.

PORT DEPOSIT, Md, March 10
With the Susquehanna River creeping
up into their yards, residents Of the
low western side Of this little town
moved TO higher ground today.
They prepared for the worst as the
flood crest Of the Susquehanna ap-
preached from Pennsylvania. Oficials
at Conowingo Dam, miles above
here, where IS Of the 80 food gates
already were open, believed the onrush
OF water could be controlled without
extensive damage, however.
Boats were used to transport fami-
lies and their furnishings across 3 to
S feet Of water covering the main
street that separates the high eastern
side from the low western side. The
town stretches along that thorough
fare for about a mile and q quarter.
Fifty or more families moved out
of their homes last night and today
as the Susquehanna, about 8 feet out
of its banks, invaded the back yards
of the homes on the western side of
town. One Ill woman was taken from
her home in a row boat. The schools
were closed.
Trafic was at a standstill and the
Columhian-Port Deposit Railroad
tracks were flooded. Water also COW
cred the Conowingo-Port Deposit road.
The lowlands resembled a vast lake
and Riverside residents below the dam
were warned to seek higher ground.
Evening star., 1936-03-19
UTILITIES WATCH
|NROADS OF FLOOD
Gas Pumping Machinery Is
Flooded, but Supply Safe.
Car Service Curbed.

Although the Capitals utilities
gas, electric, transportation and tele-
phone systems-have not been seri-
ously affected by the food, officials
today were taking precautions against
further inundations.
The Georgetown Gas Light Co.'S
pumping station at Twenty-sixth and
K streets was put out Of commission
when the machinery at the plant was
flooded. The city's gas supply was
not endangered, however, the firms
other plant at Eleventh and M streets
southeast being able to carry the added
burden.
Street car service was discontinued
on the Capital Transit Co.'S line run
ming down Seventh street southwest,
below Pennsylvania avenue. All cars
were removed from the barn near the
War College, where a foot of water
was expected by noon.
The Seventh street cars will not run
below Pennsylvania avenue today, off,
cials said. Buses will carry passen-
gers south of the avenue.
Despite dikes, flood waters also were
expected by traction officials to force
abandonment Of street car service on
Fourteenth street below Pennsylvania
avenue. Water is not expected to
come up to the Avenue, oficials
pointed out, but for lack of adequate
switching facilities on lower Four
teenth street the cars will stop at the
Avenue.
Buses will be put In service to
carry Bureau Of Engraving and
Printing, Agriculture Department and
other workers using the transporta-
ton system on lower Fourteenth
street.
Six and eight foot dikes were thrown
up between the Benning power plant
and the rising Eastern Branch of the
Anacostia River. The plant was
functioning smoothly this morning,
and was not expected to be affected,
but the protective measures were taken
to meet any emergency.
Officials of the Potomac Electric
Power Co. said there was no danger
of the city being without electric
power. even if the Benning plant
should be forced to close down.
Arrangements have been made with
the Consolidated Gas, Electric Light
g. Power Co. Of Baltimore to furnish
power to the Capital in any emer-
gency. The Consolidated was getting
up steam in an old plant this morn
ing.
Telephone service was unimpaired,
an early check revealed.
Evening star., 1936-03-19
d. Flood Log
Potomac to Reach 19-Foot
Crest by 6 O'clock This
Afternoon.

Government food engineers today
expressed the opt.ion the Potomac
Riwir would reach q crest OF 10 feet
above iow-water mark at Key Bridge
at 6 pm. today.
The river rose more than . feet in
as many hours this morning. accord
ing to hood-stage measurements taken
at Key Bridge by the District engi-
neer's ONCE. The fastest rise occurred
between 7 and 8 am, when the water
level jumped from 1877 to l7.4 feet
above low-water mark.
The river submerged the guage at
8 am. and the readings had to be
discontinued.
Hourly readings at Key Bridge since
pm. yesterday follow:
Evening star., 1936-03-19
LABOR LEGISLATION
DISPUTED IN HEARING
House Judiciary Subcommittee
Hears Proposals Assailed
as Dictatorship"
BY the Associated Press.

.
Legislation to regulate the labor
conditions Of those who hold Gov
ernment contracts was assailed be-
fore a House Judiciary Subcommittee
yesterday as dictatorship" and de-
Tended as a stimulant to better work
ing conditions generally.
Secretary Perkins urged enactment
Of the Healey bill to relieve the
very embarrassing situation" Of the
Government urging better wages and
lower hours while it lets contracts
to lowest bidders without regard to
their labor practices,
James w. Hook, New Haven manu-
facturer, said business was apprehen-
sive over the enormous powers"
given the Labor Department because
lit suggests that the proponents of
the bill desire a dictatorship"
The measure, substituted for the
Senate-approved Walsh bill, would
permit the Secretary of Laber to Ak
hours and wages Of contractors for
more that $4,000 projects. excepting
professional services. Less extensive
than the Senate measure, 1t would
apply principally to the major con-
tractor requiring him to give sub
contractors notice of the regulations
called for in the Government bids.
Evening star., 1936-03-19

of Arlington Memorial Bridge, after
1t broke away from its Key Bridge
rnoorings. Bridge tenders said there
was no one aboard the boat. which
they were unable to identity. They
said 1t apparently fouled angle braces
on the masonry side Of the massive
bridge pier and hung there.
BY midnight. the ruins of the old
stone piers Of the demolished Aqueduct
Bridge, Just above Key Endge. were
hidden beneath the water. Usually
they stand 10 feet above the Potomac,
but only roaring waves now mark their
location.
Hasty retreat from X street in
Georgetown, water front industrial
center, was beat by business men about
10 o'clock last night when water began
TO seep through the earthen banks Of
the Chesapeake & Ohia Canal, 10 feet
above the street level. Valuahles were
the neighborhood was hastily evacu-
ated.
BY midnight, the Thirty fifth street
end Of K street, near the Key Bridge,
was covered with several inches Of
water which poured down from q gap
In the canal dixie, but the water soon
sunk through to harder stuhstratum
in the canal bank and the dow here
stopped.
The food was 4 feet deep ut the
upper end of K street, Georgetown,
and police halted traffic south Of NJ
street from the Rock Creek roadway at
Twenty-eighth street, to Key Bridge.
All night long w. H. Jordan and ]. A.
woodward, officials of the Smoot Sand
& Gravel Co., supervised q crew OF
men carrying from the threatened
area all movable objects.
The movers worked almost shoul-
der deep in water, which flowed down
from the canal and washed in from
the Potomac.
Hundreds Of pedestrians thronged
this food front during the night,
and many colored persons living in
the K street neighborhood prowled
about the street rather than risk
going to bed in houses which they
feared the waters might food and
wreck.
Up the river, near the juncture
OF the tide water and fresh water
rivers, the water was tapping at the
floor OF Chain Bridge. which swayed
and groaned as the terrific pressure
OF the pent-up river force struck it.
Great sprays few into the air as
the torrent hit the bridge piers. 1t
was closed to traffic last night, and
If the crest of the food carries away
the ancient structure. some communi-
ties in Arlington County will be with
out water, for the main Is carried
across the river on the bridge.
Evening star., 1936-03-19

shock after rescuers moved her from
Wheeling Island to the mainland.
Die Trying to Save Women.
Two unidentified men fell from a
boat and were swept under water
while trying to rescue Mrs. Ed Nichols
from her island home.
Mrs. Benjamin Little, So, and a
grandchild identified only as "Hacka-
thorn" were buried under the sub
merged wreckage of the blasted resi-
dence.
Mrs. w. F. Reed of Bellaire, Ohio,
collapsed on the street while trying to
escape and died.
Critically injured in the blast were
Mrs. Virginia Hackathorn, 81,
mother of the dead child, and her
three other children, Hollis, Q; David.
Is; Louis, II.
Benjamin Little, 64, husband of the
dead woman.
$1,000 Idle as Plants Close.
More than $1,000 factory workers
in wheeling. a city of 10000 pop
ulation, SO miles below Pittsburgh,
were out of employment as the plants
closed down.
Thousands of miners also were af-
fected and scarcely any business
houses, except provision stores, plan
ned to operate today.
Residents feared food shortage
II the food lasts, but how severe
1t would be could not be determined
Girl Dies In Fall Into Water.
Lieut.. Stanley of the city police
told of rescue work throughout the
night and evacuation of most of the
food area homes.
zone little girl fell on q porch into
feet Of water. Two men drowned
when their boat upset. We don't
have any details about the others.
I'VE haven't had a chance to get
their names.
"And, we had an explosion in .
house that killed four people. We
took i've others away from there to
hospitals.
"The house Just went up into the
air and then sank under the water.
| I'VE believe the explosion was
caused by an accumulation of gas In
the basement"
Stanley said the explosion occurred
In the home Of family named Bais'
ley, but names Of the dead were un-
available.
"Ths islands covered. Waters over
everything"
Evening star., 1936-03-19
TALMADGE REJECTS
PLEA FOR SESSION
~ the Associated Prsss.


ATLANTA, March ls.-Gov. Eu-
gene Talmadge yesterday rejected the
plea OF az State Senators for an extra
session of the Legislature to enact an
appropriations bill and end his finan.
cial Dictatorship" az he faced an
impasse in the collection Of about
81 5000 in gasoline revenue due
March 20.
In lengthy statement, the Cover
nor charged the political ambitions"
Of Speaker Y. d, Rivers Of the House
of Representatives and Floor Leader
Roy Harris were responsible for the
States present complex situation BY
preventing the 1885 Assembly from
passing the appropriations bill
Rivers has been mentioned ire
quently as O possible candidate for
Governor.
It was reported the major oil CON-
panies In Georgia, which collect the
Scent State tax on gasoline, had de-
cided to place the revenue due from
February collections in the three Az.
lsata banks-not doing business with
the State at present.
Evening star., 1936-03-19
ID. C.. Flood

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around the T j d a !
B a S IN was above
water at the point.
Backwater from the
Potomac forced the
Eastern Branch to
overflow the banks
and spread 4 feet of
water over Bladens-
burg road at the Peace
Cross shortly before
n O O n. Baltimore
bound traffic was be-
ing detoured through
Cottage City, Md,
over Barney street to
Rhode Island avenue.
Houses in the low
lands of North Brent
wood and Bladens-
burg were evacuated.
Navy Yard work.
men were ordered
home when water
poured into the shops
in half a dozen build
i n G S, threatening
costly damage to elec-
trio motors and creep
ing toward the yards
administration build
ing.
All power and light
was cut off after fire.
men were summoned
in a vain attempt to
pump water from the
electric plant. The
flood made it impossi-
BILE to get up steam for
the yards pumps and
men hurried to shift
to high ground as
m u C h Government
property as could be
moved.
Boats Used at Navy Yard.
All trucks and automobiles
from the flooded Naval Air Sta
tion across the Anacostia River
were centered at the Navy Yard
high ground for protection. In
boats some officers and enlisted
men from the air station padded
across to the Yard.
The river invaded the grounds
of the War College, on the west
side of a tongue OF land In South
west between Anacostia Creek
and Washington Channel. Near
Seventh street, Water street was
flooded, but the market and
business district on Water street
was not flooded.
The $4,000 boat house, 85 feet
by 81 feet, belonging to Crandall
Mackey, on the Virginia shore
Just above Key Bridge, was swept
into the center of the river early
today, and with 1t went a piano,
other furniture, clothing and
boats.
A four-room cottage next to it,
three houSeboats and the Will
liam Roona 1cottage. at the foot
Evening star., 1936-03-19

was in prospect for 100000
city dwellers.
The food supply was dwin-
ding, but 100 carloads of
produce waited outside the
city to come in tomorrow.
More is on the way from the
West.
Shocking facts still ap-
peared, however, as meager
reports from flood-ringed
suburbs came in.
A woman, one of 500 food
refugees huddled in st.
Anne'S Church Lyceum at
Sharpsburg, gave birth to a
baby.
A second birth in the same
building was expected.
Maj. William D. Styer,
chief of United States Army
Engineers for the Pittsburgh
district, said the toll of floods
at Johnstown, Pa, and in the
suburban Sharpsburg-Etna
district may total SO.
Potomac on Rampage.
The Potomac surged to-
ward the Chesapeake Bay on
the worst rampage on rec
ord, threatening Washing
ton.
The Connecticut and Mer-
rimack Rivers in New Eng
land were in steady rise,
Swelled by continued rains,
but the Ohio River Valley
was the center of the days
greatest havoc.
Terrifying in its swiftness,
the surge of food waters in
the early dawn poured over
Wellsburg, drowning two
men. Throughout the dark
hours hundreds screamed for
help as rescue craft piled
through streets to the aid OF
stranded.
But it was in Wheeling
that the river struck hard
est.
Wheeling is Inundated.
Wheeling Island, in the
center of the river between
the Ohio and West Virginia
shores, was inundated. Doz-
ems of persons were taken
from second and third story
Evening star., 1936-03-19

windows by a feet Of so or
more rescue boats.
Over the lowland section
of the city the water stood at
Is feet or more, swirling into
the business area. The Wind
sor Hotel, one of the city'S
largest, was engulfed by the
food.
All schools were closed.
The city was demoralized.
Power was impaired and gas
service gone.
Residents Flee to Hills.
All down the Ohio, as far
as Huntington, 200 miles
away, thousands of riverside
residents fed to the hills.
The danger along the river
was acute.
In Steubenville, Ohio, the
water supply was contami-
mated and medical authori-
ties called for anti-typhuS
serum from Columbus and
other cities.
At Bellaire, the hospital
sent out a distress call for
water as the city's supply was
cut off.
Up at the source Of the
great Ohio, at the confluence
of the Monongahela and AL
legheny Rivers, Pittsburgh
was a debris-strewn mass OF
deSolation.
Pittsburgh Des0late.
Inside the steel metropolis,
Golden Triangle" where
millions of dollars changed
hands before the food came
yesterday, slime and reced.
ing waters coated streets and
buildings.
Alert National GuardSnen
kept every one out OF the
business area.
Police reported looting of
food cars in the inundated
produce market.
The waters fell back at the
rate of 6 inches an hour, but
the city of 100000 faced an
other night without lights.
Not a trolley car moved.
There was 10 feet Of water
in some parts of the depart
ment store and theater dis
trict, but in other sections
boats pressed hastily into
service yesterday were
stranded by the receding
flood.
During the night hun
dredS of stranded commuters
packed the Pennsylvania
Railroad station. Many,
staring disconsolately from
their benches, still were
there today.
Johnstown Danger Past.
The danger appeared past
at Johnstown, cut off from
the rest of the Nation fol
hours by the flooded Cone.
maugh River. The Quema-
honing Dam was holding
and believed safe and the
river was virtually back
within it's normal banks.
Five hundred Guardsnen
rushed into the city last
night and today to aid in re-
Mobilization as thousands OF
persons-cold, hungry and
Mortified after hours Of an.
guish-straggled back tc
their homes, many of them
now ruins.
Trucks of foodStuffs, sent
from all over the West, roll
ed into the city throughout
the forenoon.
In New York State the center
of damage was around Bingham
ton. A serious shortage of drink
ing water threatened the city.
With the upper reaches of ths
Hudson rising rapidly, the rivel
swept over virtually all OF Greer
Island, north of Albany, and al
Of the islands 1000 inhabitants
were ordered to evacuate fol
higher ground.
The Susquehanna, after more
than q week of wildness, startee
to subside early today, but ths
valley around Wilkes-Barre wa
q vast expanse of waste ane
water. Throughout the night II
Wilkes Barre many persons were
made Ill by gas fumes from
broken mains.
WHEELING HIT, Is DIE.
Copyright, 1885 BY the Associated Press.
Evening star., 1936-03-19
WHEELING HIT, Is DIE.

Copyright, 1885, BY the Associated Press.)
WHEELING, w. Va, March Ia
Torrents of the angy Ohio River en-
quilted Wheeling's downtown area with
z feet of water, SWIFTLY claimed Is
Evening star., 1936-03-19
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south side Of Constitution avenue,
near Seventeenth street,
BY 3 am. the pounding waters were
swirling over the roadway near Hams
Point, and Park Police had barri-
caded all entrances to Potomac Park,
which in spots, especially at the golf
links near the point, was covered with
water. At the other end Of East Po-
tomac Park the roadway under the
Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac
Railroad bridge was hidden by two
feet of muddy water.
In the path of the rising Potomac
are the Japanese cherry trees, which
fringe the Tidal Basin In West Poto-
mac Park and line the Speedway OF
East Potomac Park. II the waters
reach the low limbs of these famous
trees Park officials reported they
would be badly damaged.
Watching the torrent, hundreds OF
men and women, many OF them
dressed gayiy In tuxedos and costly
evening dresses, lined the Highway
Bridge and other vantage points as
far up the FLYER as Chain Bridge.
which creaked and shook as the Po.
tomac roared past its pylons.
The sightseers thought the Highway
Bridge had been carried away when 1t
was rarnrned by Q loo-foot span from
another bridge upstream.
In close formation cars we're parked
ON both sides OF the roadway at each
end Of Highway Bridge while their
passengers watched the fascinating
sight. Shortly after 3 am. when the
water spilled from the river into the
Speedway, many gathered on the
stairway leading down from the bridge
to look at the road where few hours
earlier they had driven their cars, now
deep, muddy water.
After dawn three S5-foot cabin
cruisers. tossed like match sticks
were hung up beneath Highway
Bridre, and another cruiser shortly
befsre midnight lodged under a span
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-12
DRIVERS PLAN
NEW STRATEGY

Prepared to zoom their tiny cars
around the midget oval east of El
Centro 60 times in the main event
Sunday afternoon, race drivers to-
day completed routine tuning of
their autos and began to map their
race strategy for the event.
Hobart Herrick, leading point
getter among the drivers, refused
to worry, however 1T amt a
gonna make any difference to my
car" he drawled, Its so much fast
er than those other midgets that
20 laps will only put me that much
farther ahead"
All proceeds taken in at the gate
Sunday will be turned over to the
midget association to build a new
D shape track with more durable
surface than the present oval track.