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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-01-29
100, 900 Builders Of
 Leuees Speeding Up
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1 fluence of the Ohio and the Mis- sissippi. WPA workers raised the height to 63 feet by building bulk head along the top. Forecasters say the waters will rise to 61 feet, giving the city a safety margin of 24 inches.
 Dynamite Being Used
 Dynamite roared near New Ma drid where army engineers were at. tempting to get flood water back into the Mississippi's channel. Ear Her a fuse plug" had been opened in the levee near Cairo to spread the water and ease the strain on the flood walls at Cairo and Hick- man, Ky.
 Helena, like the towns of Hol- land, is below the water level but is protected by 68-foot seawall. The gauge at Helena read 54.2 feet today, but at crest time it probably will rise to 66 feet. The city will have a safety margin of two feet.
 Zen thousand refugees were shell tered at the Memphis fair grounds. Physicians counted 500 influenza cases among them and said every third person had bronchitis, deep cold or something like that."'
 The known death total by states:
 Kentucky, 1894; Illinois, II; Arr kansas, 29; Missouri, IT; West Vir- ginia, II; Indiana, 12; Ohio, 20; Tennessee, q; Mississippi, 4; Penn- sylvania, 3, Alabama 2.
 Troops Guard Blocks Troops from Fort Harrison guard. ed four block area of Louisville where foundations of several busi- ness buildings were threatened with collapse. Most seriously affected was the Kaufman-Straus depart ment store, second largest in the city, a four story structure with a 200-foot front. Since most build- ings in the district were on the same foundations they were be- lieved subject to similar danger.
 Trucks, boats and planes moved out of Louisville with thousands of flood refugees, most of whom had no knowledge of where they were going or when they would return.
 Looters, some hungry and others attracted by the opportunity fol thievery, roamed the streets of the lightless city. Shoot to kill orders had been issued to 400 exhausted police and 400 national guards, but were ignored. Fresh police from cities as far as Boston and Phoenix Ariz., were assigned to duty in the flooded streets today and rounded up score of looters.
 Identified Dead Embalmed
 Identified dead were ernbalmed The unidentified were photographed and fingerprinted and buried 1T trenches in cemeteries out of reacl of the flood waters. Disease wa widespread and inoculations wer' given at the rate of 5O,0O0 6 day.
 Cincinnati, Wheeling, w. Va, am Portsmouth, O., also faced the me mace of disease as the waters re ceded.
 Il Cincinnati estimated it's damagl at $25, ,000, 900 as 1t started clean up" of homes left swaying danger ously on weakened foundations. Of. ficials still were warning residentl | to boil all drinking water as pre- caution against typhoid.
 il Cold weather added to the slif. fering in Wheeling. Building in spectors warned that several build ings might explode" under pres sure of ice from the freezing va ters. They said a number of homes weakened by the flood, would hsyl to be torn down.
 Flood-Weary residents of Hymns
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-01-29
FEAR NAYS MAY REACH FOR MORE LAND
 IN FIFTH YEAR OF FUEHRER'S RULE
BY MILTON BRONNER NEA Service Stan Correspondent

London Jan 29-Dramaoving Europe is waiting fever ishy for Impresaro Eers next Saturday Matinee. Will tbe called Much Ado About Colonies, it is shrewdy Inspected in foreign capitals?
 VIII connection with the fourth anniversary of his Hectsston to tomorrow, Jan. 30
 with the that Most of his cups have been timed" for the Sunday
 The next coup it is Saturday will be restitution coonies lost after other brand of territorial
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-01-29
MISSISSIPPI IS
 RISING AGAIN
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Rreath Taklng FIght

Breath Taking Fight i It will be a breath-talking fight at :! Cairo when the crest strikes carly next week--a matter of inches on {; the flood wall between life and death. Cairo Is protected by a dyke, normally 60 feet high. WPA work 1 CTS have built bulkheads on top, raising its height to 63 feet. Today the river brimmed five feet below !. the top. w. E. Barron, Cairo fore. caster, said the crest would bring the water up to 0l feet, giving the city & narrow safety margin of 24 inches against destruction and ter. TOT.
 Dynamite roared near New Ma. drid where army engineers blasted in an attempt to get flood water back into the Mississippis channel and save the town. Earlier Q fuse plug" had been opened in the levee near Cairo to spread the water and ease the strain on the Hood seawalls at Hickman and Cairo. Last night that water had spread back beyond the main levee until 1t covered 200 square miles and was pushing to- ward New Madrid, which is pro- tected by secondary levee. Then the engineers decided to blast gaps in the main levee several miles south of Cairo to carry oil the wa- ter that was pushing close to New Madrid.
 Tops of Houses, Barns
 The tops of houses and barns barely poked above the water throughout the 200 square miles of water. At Hickman, Ky, the water surged against the levee at 8 height level with second floor windows in the town. All night men hoisted sandbags to the top of the levee and built it higher.
 The river was rising through the Cairo sector, engineers reported. They recorded a rise of about one tenth of a foot in the last 24 hours. Out of the lowlands of eastern Ar- kansas and Missouri came & never ending line of refugees, on the march toward higher ground. Mov- ing fans, trucks, automobiles and mule- drawn wagons carried some of them. Roads were choked to the point where automobiles could make only 15 miles an hour. Droveg of mules clattered on the highways, and the sides of the roads were clut- tered with broken-down trucks. au- tomobiles with Hat tires and wagons with broken axles.
 Dozen Towns In Bad Shape . A dozen Southern Illinois towr-, including Harrisburg, Golconda, New Haven, Eldorado, Elizabethtown, Brookport, Rosiclaire, Maunie, and Cauche were in bad shape.
 From that section south past Memphis the picture was brighter, and it was not until the river got as far south as Helena, Ark, that dan- ger appeared again. Helena, like the towns of Holland, is below the wa ter level, and is protected by . 68- foot seawalL The gauge at Helena read 542 feet, but at crest time 1t probably will go to 66 feet. That will give the city safety margin of only 24 inches.
 At Mellwood, 45 miles south of Helena, the situation was grave. For several years the lc7ee there has been sinking and nov it Is begin- ming to crumble.
 Memphis, sitting high on bluffs, appeared to be in no danger except for sections in the extreme north and south ends of the city. A thous- and persons have been moved out and 1t is probable that an additional 10000 will have to leave when the crest approaches.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-01-29
DOYLE IS VICE PRESIDENT

Hartford, Conn. Jan. 29-( (UP)- Louis A. Johns. New Haven, was the choice of the Motor Truck associa- ton of Connecticut today to be pres- ideiit of the group for second con- secutive year. The association, at its annual meeting last night. also chose James I. Doyle, Waterbury, vice president, and Edmund B. Doyle, Hartford, treasurer. Twelve directors were elected.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-01-29
RED CROSS HAS
 OVER $l3,OOO
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if the money were needed. She also pointed out that there have been several cases of repeaters in the drive to date.
 This afternoon the first clothing donation of the local chapter will be taken to New Haven by automo- bile by Mrs. Ladd. The local dona- ton of blankets and heavy woolen pajamas will be sent on to the flood area from there.
 Checks Are Sent On
 John M. Burrall, chairman of the present drive, announced this morn- ing that another $4,OO0 check had been sent on to the National head quarters in Washington. This brings the local total which has been Sor- warded to Washington up to $l2,000 and proves that the money is being put to use as speedily as possible
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-01-29
SEEK MISSING LINK"

Hong Kong. Jan. 2e--tUP)--A group of American scientists arrived today on their way to Siam and Bogneo where they will search for the missing link" They intend to settle among the Gibbons apes and investigate to what extent they fol- lowed the same route of evolution e nan. n the group were: Har- old Coolidge, Harvard; w. H. Os- good. Chicago; c. R. Carpenter, Berd college. New York; A. H. Schultz, Baltimore.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-01-29

fulfillment of his dream of for- eign policy.
 Boldly he made a scrap of paper of the Versailles Treaty and he got away with it.
 BUILDS UP MIGHT
 In March, 1935, he let it be known that. regardless fthe Ver- sailles Treaty, he was creating 8 military air force. On March 16 he announced he would introduce conscription, something the treaty forbade. He said Germany would proceed to have an army of 600, 900. The treaty limited 1t to 100000. He said 1t would have tanks, heavy ar. tillery and other things the treaty forbade. The English, like the French. protested. Then in June, 1935, the English gave the French surprise party. They had okayed Hitler's tearing up of the Versailles Treaty by signing a naval agree ment with him. Germany prom ised to hold its fleet down to 35 per cent of England's.
 Later still he tore up the last ves- tiges of the treaty. because he marched his troops into the demi- litarized region of the Rhineland and also said that no longer would there be international control of traffic on rivers which flow through Germany as well as. other lands.
 And. in recent weeks, the Nazis have had the daring to go almost openly to the aid of fellow FasciSts in reyolt-torn Spain.
 FREEDOM LOST
 Today the German is without lib- erty, as 1t is understood in Amer ica. He is working for low wages and cannot strike. He is heavily taxed.
 He is on short rations as to many articles of food, because the money is being spent in the feverish haste to complete the army, navy and air force plans. He is told that 1t is better to do without butter than without guns.
 But the German has been given back his old pride. He has lost his inferiority complex. For that, if for nothing else. he will be able to thank Hitler on January 30.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-01-29
Portentous Words

Berlin, Jan. 29-"Our soil" yelled Rudolph Hess, In the name of Leader Hitler. i'm a recent speech, doesn't pro- duce enough for 70 million people. We are 70 million peo- pie - and we want to be 90 million people. So what?"
 "The German peasant" Hess observed in conclusion, "pl0ws his field with . sword beside the blow"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-01-29

vile, Ind. were cheered by predic- tions that the Ohio river there would reach a crest of 535 inches or less without causing further damage.
 Red Gross Continues
 The Red Cross, which asked the nation to contribute $10,000, 900 for flood relief. continued evacuation of Pad lcah, Ky, where 5000 homes had been flooded. Many persons were i'll with influenza and needed lacspitalization.
 U. 6. engineers decided to open the huge Bonnet Care Spillway north of New Orleans to spill the rising Mississippi into Lake P0ut- chartrain. The spillway gauge was at 17 feet. When 1t reaches le,I the floodway will be opened gradually. ]. If fully opened. the spillway can divert the Mississippi 50 fast that guages for 100. miles upstream to Baton Rouge will De lowered.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-01-29
KILLED INSTANTLY

Weymouth, Mass, Jan. 2e--UP) -Ernest Enella. Jr., 22, og South Weymouth was killed instantly late yesterday when his automobile crashed into New Haven railroad train at unprotected old City cross- ing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-01-29

(Continued from Page D Thames and Dee. Gales wrecked the harbor at Lossiemouth, Scotland, home of former Prime Minister Ramsay Macdonald, and snow ma rooned 250 motorists in Dorset.
 Influenza In Poland
 From Poland came word of an influenza epidemic following unsea- sonal weather. Warsaw's social life was completely disrupted. Most ot the city's schools were closed. Street car traffic was curtailed when one fourth of the 1900 employees report ed sick.
 Flood stages were reported on the Ardeche, Beze and Gardon rivers which all empty into the Rhone.
 The Rhone was rising rapidly at Pont Saint Esprit, the junction of the Ardeche river, as the flood wa ters poured into the Rhone which rises in Switzerland, runs through southeastern France and empties into the Mediterranean at Lyons Gulf.
 Flood Precautions
 Flood precautions were taken all along the river through vienne valence, Avignon, Beaucaire and Tarascon with the expectation that another day or so will elapse before the full force of the flood waters reach them.
 A blizzard swept the eight west. ern counties of England and Wales At Bridgeport. in Dorset. 150 motor. ists were snowbound in a lonely roadhouse on the Dorchester road They were compelled to spend the night and all day there because ot deep snowdrifts which buried auto mobiles and busses.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-01-29

Tn Q states requiring automobile brake inspection, traf1c deaths were reduced c per cent in the first seven months of 1g36, compared with a ] per cent reduction in other states.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-01-29
WATkRY4LLE

1880 Chevrolet Coach Good ... $7l 1929 Oakland spt. Rdstr. k. s.. s5t 1928 Reo Wolverine Coach ..... $4t 1929 Whippet Coach ...,.... 425 Cartledge Bros. SC Bhef1eId St.
 Phone s-57po. WatstvilIe.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-01-29
TOM MOONEY IS ] NOT YETLICKED

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-01-29
EUROPE FLOODS
 CAUSE ANXIETY

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-01-29
SIR PERCTVAL
 PHILLIPS DIES

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Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-02-01
SALVATION ARMY Is
AIDING FLOOD WORK
Word Received by Local Corps of Ac-
tivities in Louisville and Other
Districts

Relating the activities of tt. SALIVA
ton Army in Louisville and elsewhere
in the flood districts, a telegram has
been received from Charlotte head
quarters by Adjutant Joseph Willett,
in charge of the local corps, and read
ing as follows:
"Have received this afternoon first
message from Bouterse at Louisville.
Salvation Army today served six
thousand meals in city of Louisville.
Work of feeding divided between
Army and Red Cross. Red Cross dis
tributes canned and uncooked Icmlk
food. Army serves cooked meals. Four
restaurants seven kitchens under di-
rection of Major Bouterse and Bri-
gadier Range now open in two dry
areas in City. Additional restaur ants
and kitchens open tomorrow will in
crease feeding capacity to twelve
thousand meals. Bouterse has blanket
order from mayor to commander any
merchandise food or supplies neces-
sary to keep community going. Sal
walton Army Industrial Home for men
and Wcmen's Home and Hospital ma
rooned by flood. Headquarters build
ing partly under water reached by
pontoon bridge. Bouterse cautions a.
gainst outside people coming to Louis
Vile. Says stay away until further
notice also hold clothing and other
supplies until further notice railways
inundated cannot deliver supplies in
Louisville"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-02-01
Sentiment Grows
On $25, 600, COO Of
Road Bonds Issue

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Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-02-01
(By THE PERRY LIBRARY,

The hookmobile which was used in
vance ,e County during the month of
January proved, to be popular with the
ruraS residents. During the month
1925 books were read by the rural pa
irons who took advantage of this ser
vice. The, H, Leslie Perry Memorial
books - 's.s' "''i' fas
I A regular schedule of stops for the
book truck as it is popularity called,
had been published. in the Daily Dis
patch, and there were people in each
community who met it when it .arriv-
ed. The last week that the visits were
made many OF, the patrons. expressed
their desire, and wish that the service
be continued.
At the SCHOOLS the students in the
high school and seventh grades were
eager to borrow books both, for en-
tertainment and for help with their
school work. At the school 1887
books were loaned to individuals. For
the lower grades the teachers selected
the books and circulated the collec-
ton she chose to the pupils in her
room. One book in this way could be
read, by several students. A number
of the teachers still have their collec-
ton Of books and will return them
later. No circulation of these books
has been counted. Other teachers re-
turned their books at the end of the
month and selected a new collection.
1885 books were read by pupils from
the collections of books selected by
teachers that were returned to the
book truck.
Adults in the county who came to
the regular book stations borrowed
852 books. Love stories and westerns
were often requested but just as often
the request was for religious books,
psychology, biography or anything
that the librarian could recommend as
worth while
There has been a library station at
Townsville for eight years, where a
collection. of books has been kept
The regular patrons there enjoyed
being able to select their books from
a new supply each week. During the
month they selected the books that
they would like to keep in their col
lection for the next few months.
At Drewry the people were particu-
larly anxious to have the use of books.
AS a result of their eagerness, sta
ton has been established there and
the books may be borrowed at Mrs.
Walston's store.
The bookmobile had been used in
four counties in North Carolina prior
to its use in Vance county. Today it
will start on its rounds in Stanly coun-
ty. 1t is owned by the North Caro-
lima Library Commission, Raleigh. A
group of interested librarians and citi-
zens raised the funds for the bookmo-
bile and gave it to the library COM
mission.
There is no possibility of borrowing
it again, as it may be had for only
one month at time for demonstra-
tion purposes. At present the ques-
ton of State aid for the establish
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-02-01

are now impossible, Chairman Way
nick is Just about convinced that q
bond issue is the only solution OF the
county highways problem.
EougiltOn For 1t
Another factor that is causing the
highway commission to regard the
bond issue proposal with more and
more favor is that fact that it has
the Endorsement of former Chairman
Fufe A. Doughton, of the highway
commission, the grand old man of
Allegheny county" who has also serv-
ed as lieutenant governor and COM
missioner of revenue, and who is con-
coded to know as much about the
States fiscal ability and condition as
any man in the State. While visiting
here Last week, Doughton told Chair
man Waynick. and the members of
the highway commission that 1t was
going to be impossible to do anything
like the amount of work needed on
the county roads out of current high
way revenue and that the only SOlu-
ton of the growing county road prob
lem was the authorization of a bond
issue of $2O,O00,000 or S25,000,000 for
this purpose.
Former Chairman Doughton told
us that he knew both the feelings of
the people with regard to the condi-
ton of the county roads also the fl
nancial limitations on expenditures
for county road maintenance by the
highway development, and declared
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-02-01
DEEDS WERE FIVE
WITH THE REGISTRY

Five realty transactions were re-
corded with the Vance Registry Sat
urday.
James r. Cooper coy eyed to J. Y.
Eaton for $50 one-sixth interest in
lot on Ransom street.
Andrew D. Stevenson ct al, sold to
Thomas Stevenson two tracts I'M
Sandy Creek township of so acres
and 96.05 acres respectively for $40
and considerations.
Bonnie Stevenson conveyed to Mag
gle Stevenson for 81 0and considera-
tions two tracts in Sandy Creek town
ship of 81 and $685. acres respective
ly.
j. w. Jenkins and wife sold to j.
H. zollicoffer for $40 and considera-
tons lots on the Dabney Road in
Henderson and property in Granville,
Franklin and Warren counties.
j. H. zollicoffer and wife sold to
James w. Jenkins and wife for $40
and considerations property on the
Dabney Road in Vance county and in
Franklin, Granville and Warren coun-
ties.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-02-01

ity by the General. Assembly, the high
way commission can adjust "any such
probable inequalities from time to
time as opportunity may arise"
4. That the highway commission
should be granted the power to make
any refunds it might think proper and
be charged with responsibility of con-
tinuously Seeking in it's program of
maintenance and construction to grad
ually eliminate and adjust all such inc
Quities as may exist, resorting to cash
refunds only when the exegencies of
a particular situation demand"
D. That neither the members of the
present or any past highway commits
sion are to blame for any of these in
equalities and that the present high
way commission las shown that it is
trying to work out adjustments of al
legged inequities.
6. That il permitted to continue this
program, the highway commission
'can and will, over a reasonable pc
Rod of time, eliminate all causes for
just complaint"
Z. That the debt adjustment COM
mission does not wish to impugn the
good faith of any county in submitting
its claims, but that it is it's opinion
that "a large number of the claims
filed -. should not be paid. That
of those which possibly have some
merit, few, if any, have merit which
extends to the whole amount of the
claim"
8. That the commission, while not
desiring to skirt its duty, is convinced
that the lack of time to investigate
claims and check the data presented,
that it. cannot recommend any cash
refunds.
Inequiies Admitted
Commissioner Bailey, w. B. Camp
bell and j. K. Warren, as a minority
group, go on record as being of the
opinion that some inequities exist,
the working out of which would prob
ably require refunds to be made to
certain of the claiming counties" but
add that because of the changes in the
highways and the difficulty of deter
mining the value of such highways,
lit is extremely difficult and would
be very expensive to ascertain the APP
parent inequalities"
Little or no uniformality was used
in submitting the claims, the report
points out, saying that:
MANY claims were filed merely
upon the basis of the outstanding road
bonds. Certain of them were filed
for a stipulated percentage of their
road bonds. A large portion of sums
claimed represented expenditures on
roads which have never been made a