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The Washington times., 1937-01-23
By EARL GOODWIN

With the Ohio Valley again
threatened by disastrous floods,
which in time will extend to the
Mississippi, Administration Off
cials from the President down to-
day are waiting for the opening
gun on Monday of a court case
which affects the entire govern
mental policy respecting flood
control and the development and
use of hydro-electric power. If
the Government loSes-then the
Governments plan of flood con-
troll by great reservoirs in the
upper reaches of the Mississippi
is "out the window"
The case is that Of the United
States VS.. the Appalachian Power
Company, and the two leading
figures are Huston Tompson,
counsel for the Government, and
his old associate of the Wilson
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Angel Of Broadway
Wins Court Victory

LOS ANGELES. Jan. % G.N.SJ.
While others were seeking war
rants against her, Rheba Crawford
SpliVola, former White Angel Of
Broadway had won a court victory
of her own today. Judge Fletcher
BoWron ordered dismissed $100,.
900 slander action brought against
Mrs. SpllValo by Ernest Thomas
Fade, Angeus Temple artist.
Meanwhile. Willedd Andrews,
attorney for Aimee Semple Nc
Pherson. famous evangelist whom
Mrs. Splvalo is suing for $l,080..
900 SlandCr, was seeking a con-
tempt order to compel Mrs. Spill
valO to continue a deposition hear.
ing in connection with the suit.
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California Crop Loss
Estimated 50 Millions

LOS ANGELES, Jan. % G.N.SD.
Grim winter had invaded the
semi-tropicS today, striking a
staggering blow at California; s
golden citrus empire. Record
breaking low temperatures caused
$50 100000 in damage to the
hundred million dollar crop. ex-
perts declared after a survey to-
day.
Imperial Valleys tomato and
cantaloupe crops virtually we're
wiped out as the mercury sagged
to 1875 on the desert, more than
100 degrees colder than summer
Temperatures. 1t was the lowest
temperature ever recorded in the
valley, where damage was esti-
mated at $4,000,000.
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FLOOD TRAGEDY
SUMMARY
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JeffersOnville, Velpen, Point
Township and other cOmmuni-
ties flooded. Estimated 10000
homeless, damage up to $1O,-
100000 Seven reported dead
and fifty reported missing at
Lawrenceburg.
ILLINOIS-ShawneetOwn, Me
trOpOliS, GOIconda, and Rosi-
clare flooded.
PENNSYLVANIA - Flood S
crept into PittSburgh's Golden
Triangle" but the city was out
Of danger today. Some low
lands near JOhnstOwn evacuated.
ARKANSAS - Northeastern
section reported $4,000 homeless
and floods inching into new
areas. Hundreds, including $50
cOnvicts, detailed to repairing
leveeS.
WEST VIRGINIA-Estimated
$4,000 homeless in State.
Observation-Disclosures 4O,-
900 homeless. Serious situation
approaches climax at Louisville,
with possibility of a drinking
water shortage and power
failure.
TENNESSEE, MISSISSIPPI,
LOUISIANA, and MISSOURI
Some flood d. age has Oc-
Cured, and residents await
"wOrse to come"
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Portsmouth, O., Fears
Epidemic After Flood

PORTSMOUTH, Ohio, Jan. %
GN.S0.-Fifteen thousand flood
refugees anxiously awaited ar
rival of shipments of milk and
meat from Columbus today as a
severe epidemic of colds broke
out and temperatures dropped to
% degrees.
The drop in temperature was
enough to increase suffering,
especially in the outlying sec.
tions of the city, where hundreds
were without shelter. but it was
not sufficiently cold to check
the relentless rise of the Ohio
river as it surged over the three
mile-long flood wall into the city
No one was without shelter in
the city, R. H. Rutnam, assist
ant Red Cross director, said.
The river had mounted to a
height of 66 feet at 7 a. m, Harold
Saylor, police radio operator, said,
and was rising an inch and half
an hour: Water was flowing from
6 to 10 feet deep in the streets,
he said.
National Guard observers said
nearly 100 residents of one street
near the river were evacuated last
night after being trapped by the
flood when they failed to heed
warning of City Manager Frank
E. Sheehan Thursday night to
leave for higher ground.
WHEELING, w. Va, Jan. %
G.N.S0.-Two persons were dead,
and property damage mounted
into the hundreds of thousands
here today as the Ohio River con.
tinued toward an expected crest
of Al feet.
More than 5000 persons evac'
uated their homes in Wheeling
and thousands more in surround
ing towns fled to high ground
Wheeling Island, where four died
in the 1886 flood, was deserted
and today's crest was expected tc
put water in many island second
floors.
Dead were Mrs. Agnes PatoS, IS
Of South Wheeling, whose heart
failed as the waters neared hel
home, and an unidentified man
who plunged into the river neal
Bellaire.
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people from the roofs of homes
and second-story windows of SUBJ
merged buildings. Several thou
sand of the astonished residents
of the city had found shelter in
the strong distillery buildings in
the edge of the valley city.
STEUBENVILLE, Ohio, Jan. %
G.NSD - The anticipated Ohio
River crest of 43 feet was reached
in this district today, but the river
continued to rise slowly.
Steel plants were closed down
until the flood passes, and it was
estimated about 600 families in
jefferson county were homeless.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. Jan. %
G.N.SO The death toll from the
raging floods in Arkansas and
Tennessee leaped to six today
when word was received here that
one person had frozen to death in
Arkansas and four persons were
known to have drowned in Ten
neSSee.
Carl Hunt. 30, levee guard Of
EtoWah. Ark, was found frozen to
death at his post on Big Lake
Levee near Blytheville, Ark. this
morning.
The Washington times., 1937-01-23
OPENS
VOTE DRIVE

Laying the grounwork for
drive to bring about national rep
resentation for District residents,
the Citizens Joint Committee on
National Representation met yes
terday in the Board of Trade of
fices and appointed Commissioner
George E. Allen as chairman Of
the Congressional hearings COM
mittee.
1t will be the job of Commits
sioner Allen and his committee to
negotiate with the chairmen of
the House and Senate Judiciary
Committees with a view to gain
ing a hearing before these groups
on legislation to give the people
of the District the franchise.
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FREEZING ADDS
TO PLIGHT OF
HOMELESS
River Near 73-Foot
Crest; Report Many
Persons Missing

CINCINNATI, Ohio, Jan. %
G.N.SD.-Frantic appeals were be-
ing radioed to all points in cen
tral and northern Ohio today for
food, clothing and money to aid
in relief of 10000 greater Cincin-
natl flood sufferers, sheltered
from freezing temperature Of 10
degrees and a biting wind in
schools, churches, public build
ings and private homes.
River Near Crest
The swollen Ohio River was re-
ported to be practically station
ary at 1877 feet at 7 a, m. This
was 20.7 feet above flood stage.
National Guard observers said
they learned a crest Of 73 feet
would be reached today.
There was little chance Of the
river freezing as it raced through
lower sections of the city because
of the swiftness of the current.
Several cases of exposure were
reported, but rumors that num-
ber had drowned in the flood
waters were unverified.
Thousands Homeless
City officials estimated the
number of homeless in the city
limits at 10000. They said $4,000
had fled their inundated homes
in northern Kentucky towns and
1000 were forced to evacuate in
suburbs of this city.
Covington officials reported all
homeless cared for and Newport
volunteers were rapidly building
boats to take refugees from
flooded homes.
Power and gas had not been
shut off although lower sections
of the city's two poWerhouSes were
under water.
Hospitals reported an influx Of
aged and crippled refugees. Roads
were turned into a glare of ice.
Bus service was curtailed and relief
activities hampered.
Firemen guarded a one-mile area
where a 15,000-gallon gasoline stor-
age tank, damaged by the flood,
was leaking. One thousand gallons
leaked into the flood water.
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Mississippi River stages included: !:
st. Louis, 7.9 feet; Memphis, 49,;
Vicksburg, Miss, 36.9, and New
Orleans, 12.l.
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Suit Threatens u. 8.
Power PROGRAM

Administration, Former Secretary
of War Newton D. Baker. Argu-
ments in the case are scheduled
to start Monday at Roanoke, Va,
before Federal Judge John Paul.
Power Act at Issue
The power company is attacking
constitutionality of the whole Fed
eral Water Power Act. and the
Roanoke argument is the opening
of new phase in this battle be-
tween the Government and the
power people. The first phase
ended several months ago in a
draw when the Circuit Court of
Appeals threw the case out on the
ground that the power company
had improperly invoked its juris
diction.
The case involves not only the
entire Roosevelt power and flood
control program, but there is
early American history involved
as we'll as the personal legal duel
between Thompson and Baker,
who were once. side by side in
building Federal water power poll
cieS and the act embracing them.
Thompson formerly was an aSsis-
tant Attorney General and a Fed
eral Trade Commissioner.
History is involved in the fact
that the water under considera-
ton, known as New River in Vir-
ginia and the KanaWha River in
West Virginia, was declared navi-
gable $50 it is said) by George
Washington, who made some ex-
plorationS in a row boat; also later
on by Chief Justice John Marshall; !;
and it is further alleged that dur
ing the Civil War the river was
navigable to boats which carried
munitions of war.
Approved by Baker
Although the Roosevelt power
and flood control policies are at
stake, the basic act is nearly II
years old. The Federal Water
Power Act was passed in 1920
after a long struggle; it's terms
had been approved by Presidents
Theodore Roosevelt, Taft and
Wilson; by Secretaries of War
Root, Taft, StimSon and Baker,
now the power company's chief
counsel against the Government.
Baker was the first chairman
of the commission appointed to
administer the act. Under Mr..
Bakers regime, the first regula-
tions which now govern the power
commission were inaugurated.
Five years ago the Appalachian
Power Company asked for a dam
that would store a large quantity
of water on New River; but when
the commission informed the
power company it would have to
submit to Government supervision
of the project the fight started.
The power company wanted to
wipe Government supervision off
the books, and the case has been
in and out of courts ever since.
State Control
If the power company is sue.
cessful eventually in the case
wherein arguments start Monday
then each State through which a
Mississippi River tributary flows
will have control over the river in
that State, so far as power projects
are ConCerned-provided the prof,
eCt is on non-naVigable section
even where a dam might affect
navigability somewhere else.
If the company prevails, admin,
istration officials today declared
the Governments flood control
program of large reservoirs to take
up the flood waters in the tribu
taries and upper reaches of the
Mississippi will be blocked.
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Gated by an estimate that 10000
are out of work in West Virginia
and Western Ohio because Of
flood-stopped factories.
National guar dsmen, naval
militia, coast guardsmen, the Red
Cross and Federal, State and local
relief agencies modified forces
from far and wide, but admittedly
were unable to care for the thous.
ands of victims of the enrolling
yellow tide.
The fate of many villages in the
path of the flood was unknown.
Houses tumbling along the tur.
bulent stream, the debris choking
the channel, indicated hundreds
of homes have been swept away,
and fear was felt for the safet.
of their occupants.
Seven Drown
Seven persons who failed to
heed the warning to abandon
the city of Lawrenceburg, Ind,
inundated when a levee broke
yesterday, were reported drowned.
Fifty persons were reported miss
ing there. A family of eight,
trapped in their lowlands home
near Henderson, KY, were oe-
lieve drowned when their house
was swept downstream.
Crews of naval reServiSts in
two boats set out from Eldorado,
ILL.,, early today in an attempt
to reach Shawneetown, isolated
for "a hours. It was reported
TOO people are marooned there.
Water stood 20 feet deep in
the streets of Aurora, Ind, and
at Hazelton IL feet of water sent
trapped residents to second
stories and roof tops.
louisville Hit
National GuardSmen patroled
the streets of Louisville as the yel-
low flood inched its way over the
city. Hundreds of residents along
the swollen creeks threading the
city abandoned their homes. Street
car and bus service was discon-
tinued late yesterday, and the city
prepared to endure long siege.
Acting Governor of Kentucky,
Keen johnson estimated 100000
will be homeless in the State if the
waters continue their relentless
rise. Throughout the State health
officials warned of typhoid
dangers and in Louisville two
innoculation clinics were estab-
lished.
In northwestern Arkansas the
rampant st. Francis River swept
over thousands of acres. The
stream smashed through levee
at Lake City, and rescue workers
today sought to locate a number
of families marooned or swept
away by the wall of water.
PITTSBURGH, Jan. % 0.N.So :.
Already caring for hundreds OF
homeless, Pittsburgh today escaped
a repetition of the horrible March
floods of last year as a sudden cold
snap sent the unruly rivers flowing
back into their channels.
The Monongahela and Allegheny
reached a crest of 33 feet but early
this morning began slowly to fall
as the rain changed into Sleet ana
finally snow when the thermome
ter fell from 35 to %.
Relief forces, quickly modified
by municipal authorities, were
caring for the homeless with the
cooperation of the Red Cross.
Health officials said there was no
danger of widespread epidemic.
ST. LOUIS, Mo, Jan. % G.N.SD
Snow and sleet storms ragged
across southern Illinois last night
adding to the misery and suffer
ing of the flood-stricken area
Many towns, with highways and
railroads already closed, were
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Fear Humid red Dead
In Flood Section

completely isolated as high winds
snapped ice-coated telephone and
telegraph wires.
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snapped ice-coated telephone and
telegraph wires.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Jan. %
G.N.SO AT least seven persons
have been drowned in the flood
waters swirling through the city
of Lawrenceburg, Ind, according
to word received here today. Fifty
persons were reported missing.
Lawrenceburg has been isolated
from the outside world for SO
hours.
HENDERSON, KY. Jan. %
QNSO.-A family of eight per-
sons living in the Ohio River bot
tom lands near here was feared
drowned today. Rescue workers
reported no trace could be found
of Fred johnson, his wife, and
their six children. Their home
was washed away by the raging
flood waters.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Jan %
QN.S0 III If of Louisville was
under water today and business
virtually at standstill as the
rampant Ohio River gradually
rose to flood crest which river
men predicted will reach So feet
today or tomorrow. Street car
and bus service was discontinued
late yesterday, schools closed, and
train schedules cancelled.
NEW YORK, Jan. % Q.N.S0.
The United States Coast Guard
went, inland today-by train-to
the relief of Ohio River flood vic
tins. I'm route from Atlantic
City, MI, to Cincinnati on flat
cars we're n motor surf boats and
AZ Surfmen, while 10 additional
boats we're shipped from Jersey
City to Evansville, Ind, via AL
bany, N. Y. Fifty-Six men were in
the second contingent.
HAZELTON, Ind, Jan. %
0.N.SD Twelve feet of water
stood in the streets of Hazelton to-
day, according to meage report
received here. More than two
thirds of ne residents have avacu-
ated the homes.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. %
GN.SD Moving to guard against
an outbreak of typhoid fever in the
flood zone, DR.. Walter H. Hartung,
State director of health, today
shipped the first consignment of
typhuS vaccine to stricken Ohio
River communities.
To guard against an outbreak
1000 units of vaccine were dis
patched to Cincinnati, where the
flood is worst; 500 units to Ross
county, TOO to jefferson, and TOO
to Adams counties.
PORTSMOUTH, Ohio, Jan. %
0N.SD Lieut.. Col. E. P. LaWlor,
in charge of National Guardsmen
here. reported to his SuperiorS at
Columbus today that lack of CO.
operation between guardsmen and
health officials has seriously ham
pered relief work in this flood-torn
city.
The entire burden of directing
relief operations has been heaped
on City Manager Frank E. Shee-
han, Lawlor said, and city officials
were to meet at 10 a. m. to map
relief program and draft other
city officials into service.
LAWRENCEBURG, Ind, Jan.
% G.N.S0 "A swirling sea of
muddy, angry water today had
changed Lawrenceburg from a
thriving midwestern city of 1000
residents into a ghostly, deserted
village of damaged homes.
Heroism became commonplace
as every available floating craft
piled back and forth rescuing
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ST. LOUIS, Mo, Jan. % G.N.SD
Snow and sleet storms ragged
across southern Illinois last night,
adding to the misery and suffer
ing of the flood-stricken area.
Many towns, with highways and
railroads already closed, were
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Stages at Principal
Ohio River Points

CINCINNATI, Ohio, Jan. %
G.N.SD.A The Ohio River is rising
today, alt, ,ugh slowly, all along
it's 981-mile course from Pittsburgh
to Cairo, ILL.,, with the crest for the
upper reaches expected tomorrow
or Monday. tabulation of river
reports by w. C. Devereaux, U. S.
meteorologist here, showed.
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Treasury Statement

Treasury balance January 81:
$1,765,147.321,36; internal revenue
SIS, ,946.46; customs re CelptS
1852, 1874.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-09-01
A JUDGE REPEALS A LAW

The New York Times, usually well-in-
formed, talks about an "extraordinary sit
uation'' that has developed in New York
where the State has been prohibited from
enforcing its own ''penal laws against
gambling at dog tracks"
What has happened to the great COM
monwealth? Well, it seems that the track
operators have gotten a Federal Court
Judge to issue an injunction, restraining
the police from interfering with the dog
tracks and the dog racing season is in full
swing" regardless of State laws.
This sample of judicial interference
with State penal laws happens to catch the
attention of the great newspaper which
apparently does not know that the same
tactics were resorted to in other States to
protect operators of various slot machines
that were rank gambling devices, out
lawed by penal statutes.
In fact it is something of a farce
when citizens, operating dubious enter
prises, can come into any court and tie
up governmental machinery on the basis
of affidavitS that their constitutional rights
are affected and they are threatened with
irreparable injury. However, this has hap
pened to the Federal government, which
has been restrained from collecting taxes
and also from carrying policies laid down
by Congress because somebody asserted
that constitutional rights were involved,
etc.
We think a general study of the
granting of injunctions throughout the
United States will disclose to The Times
that it is not 'highly unusual for the Fed
eral courts to assume jurisdiction or to
grant injunctions that virtually act as "a
repeal of State laws.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-09-01
EXERCISE OVERCOME

Improper exercising is a very COM
mon cause of impaired health during the
hot weather months, according to Dr. Rob-
ert A. Fraser, chief medical director of a
leading life insurance company, who re-
Gently said:
THE best time to stop exercising is
before you have had enough. Leave the
golf course, tennis court or swimming pool
with the feeling that you would like to
stay longer, and you can be sure that you
have not overdone. This rule applies to
all forms of recreation or exercise, and
should be followed by people who are on
their vacation as we'll as those who are
taking their exercise after working hours. :"
The important thing to avoid, in the
doctors opinion, is the tendency to turn
the play period into an endurance contest.
The grim-faced individual intent on anoth-
er eighteen holes of golf; the perspiration
soaked, half exhausted tennis player de-
termined to finish an extra set; perform
ances like these destroy the very purpose
of exercise, which is to build and tone the
muscles and which cannot be accomplished
by OVERRIDING.
"Those who go on vacation DR.. Fra
ser stated, should shift gradually from a
sedentary routine to one of active exer-
else. The heart and muscles are not pre-
pared for the sudden strain of stepping
from a quiet, inactive existence into one
that calls for thirty-six holes of golf or five
sets of tennis. Such a change is foolish
and dangerous
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-09-01

with no more consideration than was
given to this measure.
1t seems strange that the political
strategistS should value so highly the
questionable advantages of rushing
through various features of pro
gram. simply to save their face, as
against the solid advantages o. letting
Congress GO home and giving the
country q rest from the tifmoil and
uncertainty of further dubious. NJ
considered. EXPERIMENTAL legislation.
There was ocrisis demanding Iegis-
lative correction that could eqnal
those likely to be precipitated by bad
laws. badly drafted and iamn1ed
through in a rush at the end Of seS-
sion that had sorely tried he endur-
ance of the country as wen as of the
members themselves. Nothing in the
administration program. except an
imaginary prestige. could not have
waited for a few short months. when.
alas. Congress will descend on us
again. Mr.. Roosevelt would have
earned the sincere gratitude of all
his countrymen. If he had advised
Congress to drop everything and go
home.
But this advice was not given. Re-
forming and saving the country are
so very pleasant, for the reformer.
that he never tires, never runs out
of new ideas, never loses sigh o. the
disasters and misfortunes that are
ready to fall on the unfortunate vic
tins of his benevolence should his
vigilance slacken, even for moment.
address questions TO the al
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-09-01
THE KEY WEST CITIZEN

WILL always seek the truth and print it
without fear and without favor; never be
always fight for progress; never be the or
gan the mouthpiece of any person, clique,
faction or class; always do its utmost for the
public welfare; never tolerate corruption or
injustice; denounce vice and praise virtue
commend good done by individual or organ
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and not contaminate the reader; never COM
promise with principle.