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Evening star., 1937-01-27
PLEDGED
TO CLEAN Up CITY
Portsmouth Will Get RehabiI.
itation Moving at Earliest
Opportunity.
By the Associated Press.

PORTSMOUTH, Ohio, January 81
With its worst flood in history almost
at crest stage, Portsmouth dug in
today for the task OF caring for
refugees and preparing for quick
cleanup"
City Council appropriated 5000, 900
to get rehabilitation work under way
as soon as the flood waters Of the
Ohio and Scioto Rivers, which rose
past 74.l8 feet at am, started to
recede.
Gold weather throughout the valley
slowed the rise Of the Ohio. Here
it was rising only .02 of a foot an
hour and indications were a crest
would be reached Thursday.
Under nearly cloudless skies-one
Of the brightest days in nearly q
month"; third relief train was being
prepared to take 500 more flood VIC
tins to a haven in Columbus.
Sanitation Problem Critical.
Relief officials said 1t was necessary
to eVacuate nearly 5000 of the 35 900
homeless in Greater Portsmouth be-
cause of critical sanitation problem.
More than $500 already have been
moved from the city.
More than 600 colored refugees were
taken to Columbus today only after
the Red Cross promised them, in
writing. that they would be returned
to this watery, desolate city after the
flood tide Of the Ohio has receded.
The refugees, taken from Lincoln
School, where 900 of them have hud-
died for five days, held an indignation
meeting" while the removal was in
progress, and said they were afraid
they might be left stranded in Colum-
bus after the emergency was past.
The Red Cross promise and an ex-
hortation by City Manager Frank
Sheehan finally prevailed.
Many on Hilltops.
About 1000 refugees already have
been removed to Columbus and Chilli
cothe. Although there are 10000 to
$4,000 others still huddled in hilltop
refugees here, the technique Of rescue
and relief is becoming more skillful
with days OF practice.
Police Chief Harry Sheets clamped
q rigid restriction on the number OF
boats plying the flooded rs per cent
Of the city. Orin Graves, in COM
mand Of the rescue feet, said about
5000 persons still were in the flooded
sections and refused to leave.
At Ironton. Ohio. 25 miles up the
river, serious flood conditions prompt
ed Gov. Martin L. Davey to hurry
TO the city. While Col. Harry D. Jack
son, National Guard officer in charge.
appealed for two more companies of
Guardsmen, more medicine and food.
Communication is by radio only.
All telephone service has failed.
State Highway Patrolman w. l..
link, leaving Ironton to report to the
Governors party. said an entire city
block burned yesterday before the fire
could be extinguished.
Evening star., 1937-01-27

neers, 2.500 w. P. A. workers labored
on the setback levee. The number was
1000 more than worked there yester-
day.
New Madrid Fearful.
At New Madrid. already partly de-
serted by alarmed citizens, there was
fear a levee at the foot Of the spillway
would 60 out and loose the flood over
the town. The Red Cross yesterday
advised residents Of communities from
New Madrid to Blytheville, Ark, to
evacuate their homes
In throwing open the spillwsy-its
first test since completion in 1881, at
cost of $2l 900, ,O00-Army Engineers
used more than a ton Of explosives.
Three perSons-among those who
remained at their homes, despite warn
ings-were known to have lost their
lives and several others disappeared as
the waters poured over the area. Red
Cross officials said last night between
100 and 200 were still in the food basin.
Several hundred were rescued or left
the area Yesterday.
$4,000 Homeless Aided.
More than 1900 homeless persons,
some from Tenn Ssee, were aided in
Southeast Missouri. At least a dozen
flood babies were born among the
refugees.
The Southern Illinois food situation
made dark picture.
Shawneetown, Brookport and Maui
ME were buried in water, while Har-
risburg, ~ miles from the Ohio River,
prepared for inundation OF IS per cent
of the city as backwater from the
flood continued TO move higher. One
$1,000 900 coal mine was considered a
total loss, as water filled the workings,
and other mines were threatened.
New Haven, isolated for days, was
badly in need Of food detachment
Of engineers prepared to build a pom
toon bridge over flooded sections Of
highway into Golconda to keep that
city from isolation.
Mounds. 10 miles north OF Cairo, was
almost completely evacuated, as back
water flowed into the town following
break in a nearby leyee.
Refugees crowded stations all along
the Illinois Central Railroad which
goes through the State from Cairo.
Evening star., 1937-01-27

Continued From First Page.)
answering the call of Mayor Neville
Miller for police assistance, rushed
State and city officers into a section
ravaged as never before by the crush
ing force of the Ohio.
Relief Workers Back in Fight.
Thousands of relief workers, doctors,
nurses, police, National Guardsmen,
boat men who haven't slept for days,
staggered hack into the fight, holding
on by nerve alone until reinforce
mentS could come up.
The scope Of the disaster broadened
rather than lessened with the COM
parative pause in the rise of waters
that have all but swept away Jeffer-
sonville and New Albany, Ind, just
across the river, inflicting property
damage that the most conservative
admit must total $100,000,000 in a
10-mile area.
And as doctors battled rising tide
of disease attributed to the flood,
watched fearfully for signs of typhoid,
malaria, and counted in the thousands
cases of pneumonia due to lightless,
heatless, foodless homes and exposure,
the danger Of official squabbling mar
ring the splendid, gigantic work OF re-
lief disappeared after a three-hour
early morning conference between
Federal Army and civil authorities.
Out on Bowman Field, where all day
yesterday At huge air liners and tiny
planes swooped to swashy landings
with desperately needed medical sup
plies, 200 Of the 900 regular soldiers
from Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind,
in camp throughout the night, were
ordered to take over the city's police
duties at Z am. They will alternate
policing the city in 24-hour shifts with
Louisville officers.
Louisville police were told to 60 home
and sleep "a hours. As provost mar
shal. the Mayor will command both
troops and police.
Mayors Plea for Aid.
The Mayor, exhausted by his own
three-day sleepless drive. indicated
that military officers had insisted the
soldiers be used only for certain types
Of duty. In radio speech last night
he said:
There is the constant threat of
disease and epidemic. Electric
service is completely out of commits
sion. 1t would be impossible to
cope with major fire. From
constant duty for the past four days,
departments of the city are experience
ing physical breakdown. = There
is a shortage of police engineering, and
medical services Although over
600 Federal troops have arrived, mill
itary regulations do not appear to
permit the Federal Army to- be used
for policing. In effect the Federal
troops are available to us only in the
event of actual riot or insurrection.
- In view of the most desperate
and immediate need for 500 trained
men, will the Mayors of other Amer
lean cities send me by airplane at
once as many uniformed policemen as
can be spared?"
As exhausted, breaking Louisville
waited prayerfully r aid. it looked
Evening star., 1937-01-27
PRESIDENT ENDS
POWERPOOL TALKS
Takes Action Because 19
Companies Obtained In
junction Against Iva.

BY the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt shaped a tenta-
tive course today toward expanded
public ownership Of electric power by
breaking of negotiations to pool Gov
ernment and private power In the
Tennessee Valley.
He took the action, he said, because
19 utility companies obtained a
sweeping preliminary Injunction"
against the Tennessee Valley Author
ity.
Explaining this precluded a trans
mission agreement, he wrote "A Gov
eminent and private conferees yester-
day that meetings would be discpn-
tinued.
The Commonwealth L Southern
Utility Co. protested the action. Wen
dell Willkie, its president, said in New
York:
Il am unable to understand how the
temporary injunction precludes either
the pooling of transmission, the study
ing Of the various problems arising
out OF the T. v. A. operations or the
working out Of a permanent solution.
THE dismissal Of the law suit or
the dissolution Of the injunction would
place our property at the mercy Of the
uncontrolled discretion of the T. v. A."
Mr.. Roosevelt said at a press con-
ference the decision to end the power
pool conferences would not affect ne
gotiations to renew the Common
wealth l. Southern contract to buy
Government power from the Tennes-
see Valley Authority. The contract
expires next Wednesday.
One administration leader COM
mented:
There's no reason why the Gov
ernment should sacrifice this stable
revenue"
Under that agreement, the private
utility buys power at wholesale from
the Government and retails it to
several communities including Chat
tanooga. Tenn.
In the background Of the entire
situation is the fencing between
Chairman Arthur E. Morgan OF T. v.
A. and Directed David Lilienthal for
leadership Of the administrations frst
regional planning experiment.
Most observers agreed Morgan could
take little comfort from the Presi-
dents decision. coming within two
weeks Of the former educators pro-
posal for a Nationwide truce with
private utilities.
Lilienthal has contended there was
no common ground for negotiations
as long as T. V. A. and private COM
panies are firing away at each other
in court rooms.
Evening star., 1937-01-27

prove it. Two of his "shots" are re-
produced herewith.
Phelps had public studio at 927
Pennsylvania avenue in those days
and the water came right up to his
doorstep.
Boats rowed right past my place
on the Avenue" the octogenarian
recalled in an interview Water was
everywhere and business was sus-
pended until the flood receded."
Evening star., 1937-01-27
LA TOILETTE PROBER
WILL SPEAK FRIDAY
Ralph Winsted to Be One of Three
Addressing Women's Trade
Union League.

Ralph Winsted, former investigator
with the La Toilette committee Of the
Senate, will be one Of three speakers
to address the Women's Trade Union
League at a meeting Friday at S:15
pm. at the Y. w. c. A. Building,
Seventeenth and K streets. Winsted
will speak on Civil Liberties"
Other speakers will be Mrs. William
F. Kittle. president OF the League Of
Women Voters Of the District, who will
discuss the bill for 40-hour work
week for women. and Lois Babcock,
executive secretary Of the Govern
ment Workers Council.
Evening star., 1937-01-27

papers and res
urrect some in
teresting photo
graphs he took
Of w tshington's
own high water
Of 1880.
That was the
year of the great
JohnStown flood
and. according to
T. w. S. Phelps,
veteran camera =
man, the year of
the Capitals big
gest food - and
he produced the
p h o t ographs to
Evening star., 1937-01-27
Shocking Experience
Told by Refugees
From Flood Areas
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
INDIANAPOLIS, January 81
Terrified and tired refugees came
into the State capital, bringing
stories of shocking experiences.
DR.. H. r. Wilbur, Clark County
Hospital chief, arrived with a
trainload of patients. Pointing
to two tiny girls. Mary Margaret
and Dorothy Sullivan, he ex-
planned, "They walked into the
hospital with notes attached to
them saying, Our name is Sulli-
van. Please take care of u.s.
We think their mother is the wife
Of an Arthur Sullivan in Jeffer-
sonville, but of that we are not
sure"
Evening star., 1937-01-27
Woman Elected Speaker.

PHOENIX, Ariz, January 27 R.-
The Arizona House of Representa-
tives elected a woman speaker pro
tenn yesterday for the first time in his
tory. She is Mrs. Bridge Porter, vet
eran of four regular and five special
sessions. Her husband Is a Phoenix
fireman. n
Evening star., 1937-01-27
ID. C.. Man Resurrects Pictures
He Took of '89 Capital Flood

Pictures Of the .IidweStern food
today prompted an 86-year-old former
photographer to dig through old
Evening star., 1937-01-27
Evacuation

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Louisville

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Cairo

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answering the call Of Mayor Neville
Miller for police assistance. rushed
State and city officers into a section
ravaged as never before by the crush
ing force of the Ohio.
Evening star., 1937-12-12
Santa Campaign Grows
New Record Sought This Year
In Aid Through Toys.
Bv Lucv Salamanca.

IHo started Santa Caus?thats But
Claus particular interest Capital
to answer For the gentleman
the Noralands has visited
to the end that thousands
kened cold stockings
Evening star., 1937-12-12

favorites--Norma Talmadge and the
late Ruth Roland-both accumulated
81 100000 fortunes from nlm-making.
But so did blond Lillian Gbh. By
the time brunette Irene Dunno SAYS
good-by to picture making, she should
also be a millionairess. Irene's salary
hovers between 100000 and $50, 900
per film, which isn't q bad place for
q spot Of lowering.
RLoND Jean Arthur Is determined
to Join the future film million
airesses. CAT the moment, Jean Is
on a no-work-no-pay strike against
her Columbia bosses. She wants more
money! Another blond Jean-Jean
Harlow-used to earn $1,000 q week.
Margaret Sullivan Is one blond who
can get practically any salary she
wants. Right now, M.-G-M and Hal
Roach are bidding fancy prices for her
acting services. Jane Withers does
her bit for the brunettes with week
ly salary OF sl500 plus Endorsements
for this and that. Dark-haired Dean
ma Durbin does one better with a
weekly picture salary of s1,250-plus
a $50, 0,000-a-year bonus, four-fgure
radio salary and $4,000 a week, at
least, as remuneration for CONNER
cial tie-ups. But the blonds GLORY
be) have one earning giant who, with
out any question of doubt, weights
the salary scale in the blond direc-
tion-Shirley Temple. cat least she
was blond until few months ago,
when her hair took turn for a darker
shade) The box-office wonder Of the
world carries home to mama approxi-
mately $4,000 each week.
Yes, it pays to be a blond-in Holly
wood, anyway.
Copyright, 1887, by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Inc.)
Evening star., 1937-12-12
Growth Of The Star-Warner
Bros. AnnuoI Christmas
Compoion.

food of $500 Christmas gifts, will
be repeated this year on a six-fold
scale" This second campaign ran
from December 7 to December 19, and
netted $500 gifts. But after the cam
paign closed gifts continued to come
in. so that by Christmas morning
5000 gifts were distributed by workers
of the Council of Social Agencies as a
result Of the toy matinees.
The next year The Evening Star
and the Warner Brothers theaters be-
gan their efforts on December 4, and
there was fourteen days campaign
that was much more intensive in every
way than that Of the previous year.
On the evening of December 81, 1888,
the following open letter to Santa Claus
appeared on the front page of The
Star:
ITO the Good People of Washington:
Thanks to your generous response
to the third annual toy matinees' of
The Star and the Warner Brothers
Theaters held last Saturday morning,
I shall be able to visit approximately
$4,000 needy children on Christmas
Eve.
Think of it, folks-22, 900 boys and
girls who, without your help, would
have awakened on Christmas morning
to find their stockings empty! :"
But even $4,000 toys were not
enough, it was decided. And in 1894
the campaign really got under way,
with the full forces OF The Star and
the Warner Brothers theaters behind
1t. The Star put on an Expedition
to Santa Claus Land" which took rep
resentatives on an excursion to the
northlands and the home of Kris
Kringle, with daily accounts in the
newspaper Of the exploits along the
way. Leaving Washington on Dec.
Ii, from the airport, the expedition
started for the north pole," and full
descriptive accounts of such fascinati ting
landmarks as Santa's magic observa-
tory, an tgloo home, and Santa's toy
packers and dog teams, were duly re-
ported daily in word and picture. Mo-
ton pictures were taken of the expe-
dition, too, and these were shown later
at the theaters giving toy matinees
Prizes were offered for the best essays,
and altogether Washington was made
very conscious of the child designated
Tor the first time that season as the
forgotten child" AS q result of these
increased efforts 10000, toys were con-
tributed in 1894.
The year 1885 marked the entry of
the National Broadcasting Co., with
WMAL announcing on its own
time the toy matinees and broadcast
ing the first radio program in connec-
tlon with them over its station. On that
occasion Oracle Barrie, Clin Edwards,
TED Weems and his orchestra, Bert
Granoff and Freddie Clark and the
Evening star., 1937-12-12

peeping out, has suddenly won the dis
approval Of almost everybody in Holly
wood who counts. Even Don the
Beachcomber," whose ragged clothes
were always set of by a lei of gar
denias, has changed his habits and his
dress
The change has been gradual, but
the pace has been accelerated during
the last two or three months. You
can still go barefooted around the
town. but the best people won't ask
you out to dinner. Whether the ire
form" will take over the desert, noun
tain and beach resorts this winter,
places where absolute informality has
been the general rule for a long time,
remains to be seen. Picture people
are already occasional weekend visi-
tors to these resorts and they seem to
be more properly-and completely
attired this season than in several
years. A few there are, like Kay
Francis, Norma Shearer and Con-
stance Bennett, who have never shown
themselves in the public except in a
well-groomed, perfectly-garbed state,
no matter where they were or what
they were doing. They wore bathing
suits when in the ocean or on the
beach; riding clothes when they were
on or near horse; heavy clothes when
In the mountains, and proper femi-
nine dress when invited to parties.
The younger generation is taking its
cue from these authorities at last
Youth enjoyed the years of informality
here. but youth is also always eager
for a change, and so Hollywood's new
comers are taking up the idea that
being well dressed is also being COM
fortably dressed.
Copyright. 1887, BY the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Inc)
Evening star., 1937-12-12
Newsreel Editor
icks Top Stories.

FROM half billion motion picture
frames, which he estimates were
included in $4,000 miles of film re-
leased during the past year to theaters
throughout the world by Paramount
News. A. J. Richard, editor in chief Of
this nevsreel, has selected what he
considers the 10 outstanding and most
slgnlflcant screen news stories of 1887.
In the order OF their Importance they
are:
O Sino-Japanese war, CD Hinden-
burg disaster, (3) coronation of King
George and exile of Edward, % South
Chicago riots and auto strikes. go
wedding of Edward and Wallis, (6) in
auguration Of Roosevelt, Cd Middle
West floods, (8) Spanish war, (s) Su-
preme Court fight and Black appoint
ment, Q0) 300 children killed in
Texas school blast.
Evening star., 1937-12-12

OF ner HOLLYWOOD SSterS. therefore,,
she was hopefully approached as q
routine stop on the morning news
gathering beat.
What's new?" she repeated after
us. Nothing, I'm afraid. I've been
laid up with cold the past couple of
days. I haven't gotten around-and
so don't know :" Anita paused
in her business Of personal reconstruc-
tion. She turned from the mirror
and whistled softly.
Why, do know something, after
ALL" she said, her eyes sparkling with
new light. And to me it's the big
gest thing that has happened around
Hollywood in a long time No one
has mentioned it to my knowledge be-
cause it's been creeping up on us only
during the last year. It's like the
measles :"
Well said Louise, giving herself
final appraisal in the mirror and
pumping down on the bench, "the
newest thing in Hollywood is the dress
reform wave that has swept in on all
OF us. We're going formal. I haven't
seen an important feminine player
out in public in shorts or slacks or
hair curriers' for weeks. We're dress
ing up aeain-and, personally, I think
it's about time"
IT DID seem that Anita had some
thing there. Observation and in
terrogation reveal that Hollywood ac-
tually Is dressing up these days-and
nights, too. Reliable informants say
there is now hardly a pair of shorts
to be seen mile east Of the Pacific
ocean. The funny hats the women
wear have replaced the slightly sloppy
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS head. And
women's shoes have heels again be-
cause sneakers" are reserved for the
tennis and badminton courts. The bet
ter night spots are insisting on collars
with neckties in them. The open
throat, with little bit Of chest hair
Evening star., 1937-12-12
Local Scene
Continued from Page F-1.)

for our weekly lecture on the virtues
Of the ballet, permit US to remind you
that those who missed Uday Shan-Kar
and his Hindu troupe last Thursday
passed up IN opportunity they may
never again be offered. It is said
Shan-Kar plans to complete his cur
rent American tour, then return to
Benares to found = native school of
the dance. Being familiar with the
good old American custom of pro-
noting farewell tours' at least six
times before Al artist actually retires,
we are inclined TO take this announce
ment lightly, but perhaps it is meant
in earnest. In that case not half
enough Washingtonians witnessed the
final Hindu swing, although the audi
ence at the National was an excep-
tionally good one for this city.
For some vague reason we seem
not to have discovered here that the
ballet today Is one Of the more stim-
ulattng, vivid forms Of tie drama,
or, Is the classicists say, really hotsy
entertainment.
Cinema items: Monte Blue, who
was once . newspaper man himself
before he went Hollywood in a large
and successful way. headlines the
Earle stage bill this Friday e. the
picture will be THE Barrier" with
Jean Parker and James Ellison
Metropolitan gets Hold 'em, Navy
featuring John Howard and Mary
Carlisle, the same date Loew's
Palace probably will be full Of Moth
ing Sacred" the Carole Lombard
Fredric March technicolor riot, fol
another week or more, If box Office
figures In other cities are a reliable
index the Capitol gets Walter
Wanger's "Fifty-second Street" on the
18th this one Is full of bands
night club entertainers, dancers
comedians and everything but cafe
society R-K-O-Keith's may
hold on to that golden apple "Stage
Door" for months to come, but, should
it step aside some time this week, it
will be followed by Manhattan Merry
Go Round" which also has bands,
Leo Carrillo, Ann Dvorak.