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Evening star., 1937-11-20
Will Business
Get Chance
1t Asks?
Official Pride Seen Pos
sible Bar to Profits
Tax Cut.
By DAVID LAWRENCE.

TIMES haven't changed very
much since the days of George
Washington-at least President
Roosevelt doesn't think so when
Evening star., 1937-11-20
800 Fines Total S2,S50.

(Copyrlght 1887
The Washington times., 1937-01-25
NICE PR0FFERS
AID TO OHIO

ANNAPOLIS, Md, Jan. 25.-As-
Sistance for flood disaster victims
in Ohio was offered to Governor
Martin L. Davey, of Ohio, today by
Governor Harry w. Nice, of Mary
land, in a telegram dispatched this
morning.
The governor offered the gov
ernor Of Ohio State ambulances,
manned by members of the State
constabulary; blankets and co.'s
from the National Guard, and Of
fered to make an appeal to the
State Red Cross for food, clothing
and medical supplies if needed.
The governor ordered Major
Enoch Barton Carey, Superintend-
ent of State police; Maj. Gen. Mil
ton A. Reckord, commander of the
National Guard, and DR.. John M.
T. Finney, State chairman of the
Red Cross, to stand by for a reply
from Ohio.
The Washington times., 1937-01-25
Il DIE AS BUS
JUMPS ROAD
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Continued from Page II
Robert Singleton. negro porter,
Tampa; Edward Lisk, address un-
known; Callie Little, Enon Valley,
Pa; PhilliS ASHER. Miami; Wini,
fred Williams, address unknown;
Eana Price, Enterprise, Ala. :;
Morris Sankoff, Miami; S. L.
Matthews. Elkhart, Ind; Mr.. and
Mrs. Frederick M. Gilliland, BoS-
ton; V. H. Rogers, Walla Walla.
Wash.
Though Rogers himself was
badly hurt, he refused to leave
the accident scene until the body
Of his wife was recovered.
Efforts were started Immediately
to bring the bodies of the 81
victims from the submerged bus
1t was impossible to learn the
Identities of any of those killed.
There were no eyeWitneSSeS to
the crash.
A motoriSt passed the scene only
a few minutes after the accident
occurred. A few of the victims had
escaped from the bus and made
their way to the bank of the canal
when he reached the scene.
He sped 10 miles down the high
way to the nearest telephone and
called Miami for aid.
The Washington times., 1937-01-25
NAVY PRESSED
FOR RFL00DA|D

Secretary Swanson today placed
all naval available equipment at
the disposal of authorities in the
flood areas of the Midwest.
He ordered all naval and naval
reserve stations on the Atlantic
and Gulf coasts, as we'll as at in
land points, to make an immediate
determination of boats, seaplanes,
medicine and clothing which could
be rushed by rail to the Ohio
Valley.
On a volunteer basis, in coopera-
tion with the Red Cross, the Navy
stated, the reserves of the Ninth
naval district, comprising the
Great Lakes and the States of
Ohio, Illinois and Indiana, are be-
ing modified.
The Navy expects that seaplanes
will be particularly effective as
means of evacuating victims and
rushing emergency supplies. All
planes available will be pressed
into service and either forwarded
by rail or flown to the river valley.
The Washington times., 1937-01-25
DERBY CAPITAL
BEWILDERED
BY FLOOD

LOUISVILLE, KY, Jan. IS
Il. N. S0.-Dawn today brought
into sharper relief the picture OF
desolation here.
Bad as the night was without
electricity, the day held even
blacker prospects as the Ohio
reached ever higher toward the
heart Of the city. Even in those
sections still above the flood stores
closed and the residents fled to
safer territory, moving what little
they could.
All Bewildered
Sloshing through muddy streets
above the water Level, those re-
naming in town looked bewilderly
on this once proud city, the home
of the Kentucky Derby and capital
of the Blue Grass country.
Unable to Withstand the pres
sure of the river. storm sewers
spouted filthy mud that tossed
aside the manhole covers as if
they we're cardboard.
Water was everywhere, but little
was fit to drink. One brewery
threw open its doors and offered
tap beer in small quantities to all.
The main business section,
perched on a hill is safe for the
time being. Many who normally
work in it are there today, not
working, but crowded into the
stores, shops and hotels without
any semblance of order.
In the block-long armorE', 5000
homeless are huddled so exhausted
and despairing that there was
hardly a stir when a baby was
born in one corner of the huge
room.
Rescue and relief work is being
directed by Mayor Neville Miller,
six-foot former Princeton football
player.
An improViSed army of 5000 po-
licemen, firemen and volunteers is
working without relief to answer
calls for rescue.
The Washington times., 1937-01-25
FLOOD EFFECTS
IN7 STATES
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mandeered to rush food and
medical supplies to refugees.
KENTUCKY - Half of Louis
vile under water. Power shut
off. An estimated 200, 900 home
less in Louisville, KY. Reported
riot at Frankfort RefOrmatOry,
but emphatically denied any con-
victs killed. Other parts of State
afflicted.
WEST VIRGINIA - Wheeling
still stricken. Industry at stand
still.
MISSOURI - Armed farmers
prevent flooding of 131, ,0OO-acre
reservoir" Troops called out to
enforce this safety measure. ES-
timated 10000 homeless in State.
ARKANSAS AND ILLINOIS
Situation serious in parts of both
States.
TENNESSEE, MISSISSIPPI,
AND LOUISIANA-Large areas
flooded. Estimated 10000 home
less for the three States. All
wait for worse to come"
The Washington times., 1937-01-25
PARKING RULE
HELD INVALID
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tickets issued for such violations
will be held in allegiance. Police
may ticket cars, but as the regula-
ton is non-exiStent as far as Police
Court procedure is concerned, pros
ecution will be impossible until
the high court rules.
Attorney O'Connell today heard
his own automobile referred to as
"a public nuisance" which Hooe
argued the District is enabled to
keep off the streets by means of
the disputed regulation. O'Con-
nelPs car was ticketed several
weeks ago at Sixteenth and L
Streets Northwest.
In answering Hooe'S argument
O'Connell condemned the inatten-
ton of police to violations of traf-
fic regulations on the part of dip
lomatS. He said:
81 don't want to make an in
ternatiOnal issue of this and 1
say this by way of commentary.
The diplomats in the vicinity of
my home violate every known
police traffic regulation and
their sins go unnOticed. Citizens,
however, return to find their il
legally parked vehicles have been
hauled away by police"
The Washington times., 1937-01-25
.LEVEE BLASTED
TO SAVE CAIRO
FROM FLOOD

JEFFERSON CITY. Mo, Jan. 2s
(I.N.SO "A Mississippi River levee
across from Cairo, H.. was dyna
mited by United States Army en-
gineers to relieve a threat of in
undation of the city, Gov. Lloyd
c. Stark, of Missouri, was advised
today by the State highway patrol
The waters were released over
$4,000 acres of southeast Missouri
lowlands.
The levee was blown up after
National Guard airplanes circled
the lowland area to make certain
no one was in the section, Capt.
Harry Sheppard, of the State
highway patrols emergency head,
quarters at Sikeston, Mo-, told
Governor Stark.
When the levae was blasted the
river was rising at the rate of one
twentieth of a foot an hour and
would have gone over the top of
Calro's seawall within few
hours, engineers said. After the
levee was dynamited. the waters
began to recede from the high
mark of 58 feet.
Original plans called for dyna-
miting the levee last night when
the flood waters continued rising
toward the top of the concrete
ana stone wall which stands so
feet high around Cairo to prevent
floods.
The dynamiting was delayed,
however, when Governor Stark
appealed to Gen. Malin Craig,
U. S. Army chief of staff, after
guardSmen were unable to evacu-
ate 125 persons from the area.
General Craig ordered engineers
to withhold the blasting to permit
complete evacuation.
The Washington times., 1937-01-25
SHELLS KILL 10
IN MADRID

MADRID, Jan. 25 Q.NSO
SPANS capital counted heavy
new casualties today following a
weekend of insurgents lombard.
mentS by land and air.
At least 10 were killed and 80
wounded by high explosives which
fell into the center of the city
yesterday. Even heavier casual
ties occurred Saturday.
Fighting continued today on the
Aranajuez sector. with the insur-
gents asserting several loyaliSt at
tacks had been repulSed.
Government Spokesmen claimed
progress in the Marbella district
on the road to Malaga. Gen.
Jose Miaja, chief of the loyalist
defense junta, again predicted ul-
innate failure for the insurgents.
The Washington times., 1937-01-25
Police Arrest 721
In Antismoke Drive

NEW YORK, Jan. 25.-The
Health Department drive against
subway smokers has resulted so far
in 721 SummonSeS, Commissioner
John L. Rice announced today.
The summonSes were given out
during two-hour periods Thursday
morning and Friday afternoon.
They are returnable in Magistrates
Courts tomorrow.
The Washington times., 1937-01-25

in rescuing tn marooned
families.
The flood was moving more
slowly, but just as surely,
farther south along the Mis-
sissippi's tributaries. over
flows from the Big Lake,
Black, st. Francis and Little
Red Rivers have already mum
dated 100000 acres of farm
land in Eastern Arkansas.
Food Shortage
Works Progress Administra-
tor Floyd Sharp said 5000
families are already in refu-
gee camps and three times
that many on the way. Gov
ernor Carl E. Bailey said, the
conditions were already much
worse than in 1927.
Sub-freezing temperatures
that followed a sleetstorm in
creased the suffering of the
homeless and added the health
danger.
Back at Portsmouth, Ohio,
on the Ohio and Scioto Rivers,
$4,000 were driven from their
homes. Across the Scioto in
West Portsmouth, an acute
food shortage faced 1000 resi-
dents separated from the main
town by a five-mile expanse
of water.
In Wheeling, W. Va, the
river was virtually stationary,
but officials said. that 5000
homes were still partially
under water.
BABIES BORN
Lack of adequate medical sup
plies, shortage of drinking water
and contamination increased the
danger of terrible disease toll.
On a hill near Mt. Carmel, Ill,
three women gave birth to babies
without physicians. With Ports
mouth, Ohio, sectors desperately
needing medicine, only two drug
stores stood above water in the
worst afflicted area.
The new miseries which pressed
down on the States of Ohio, In
diana, Kentucky, West Virginia,
Missouri. Arkansas and Illinois
foreboded worse floods to come"
for the lower Mississippi Valley.
With the gorged Ohio and other
flood-sWollen rivers higher and the
Mississippi already above flood
stage, another major catastrophe
was forSeen.
LOOters Active
Looting broke out in the af-
flicted cities, and orders to shoot
to kill all looters were issued.
In view of the extent of the
disaster, the number of fatalities
was surprisingly small. Fewer
than so persons are definitely
known to have persisted. though
large numbers are missing.
At Frankfort, KY, prisoners who
saw the flood waters tapping to-
ward the second tier of cells broke
into a riot which was under con
troll today, and it was officially
denied that any prisoners had
been slain.
The Washington times., 1937-01-25

week was sent to Point Pleasant,
w. Va, from Charlestown. A truck
load Of food also was sent to New
Martinsville, w. Va, from Fair.
mont. Rations for 5000 families
were loaded on a barge and sent
to Hickman, KY, to be available if
high waters force residents out Of
their homes in that vicinity.
The Coast Guard prepared to
send six surfboats and crews from
Galveston, Tex, and 10 from Mo
bile, Ala, to be stationed at Mem
phis for rescue work. Two 75-foot
cutters also were to be stationed
on the Mississippi River. Coast
Guard boats also were standing by
at Atlantic City, Boston and Nor
folk. The Carnegie Steel Company
lent one of its Ohio River boats
for rescue work.
The Washington times., 1937-01-25
BO-FOOt Crest Feared
TONIGHT at Cincinnati

CINCINNATI, Ohio, Jan. 25
U.N.SD New peaks were being
established hourly here today by
the Ohio River which defied all
efforts of observers to predict it's
crest.
At 10 a. M, the river stage was
79.1, exactly eight feet higher
than the 1884 record of I'll,
which stood until last Saturday,
and 27.l feet above flood stage.
Revising previous estimates,
The Washington times., 1937-01-25
Verdict Is Suicide
In Gas Death Case

Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald
issued a certificate of suicide in
the case of Mrs. Gertrude Fowler,
46, of the $500 block of Mckinley
st. N. w.. who died from the ef-
fects Of Illuminating gas in the
kitchen Of her hone yesterday.
Said to have been respondent
over i'll health, Mrs. Fowler was
found by her husband, Henry NJ.
Fowler. an attorney, who told po-
lice he was aroused by fumes. Five
jets Of the gas range were open,
he said. Mrs. Fowler was pro-
nounced dead at Emergency Hos.
pital after the fire rescue squad
had failed to revive her.
The Washington times., 1937-01-25

cast Tor The Hood areas.
Without power, with insuf-
ficient medical supplies, and
with twenty square miles of its
area under water, Louisville
faced the most critical situation
today.
Governor A. E. Chandler de-
clared a state of emergency,
and appealed directly to Presi-
dent Roosevelt. The city was
being operated on a wartime
basis, with National Guard and
regular troops patrolling.
Cairo, ILL.,, was just getting
the foretaste of impending
trouble today as the water
rushed against the brink of its
6O-foot levee. Engineers an
nounced they would dynamite
the 'fuse plug" levee at the
Birds Point-New Madrid spill
way, south of Cairo, to save the
town. Fearful, however, that
this drastic move would not
succeed, the mayor suggested
everyone possibly able to do so
seek safety elsewhere.
When the engineers at
tempted to open the levee yes
terday, farmers living in the
131, ,000-acre "fuse plug" tract
met them with levelled guns
and declared they would pro-
tect their property with bull
lets. National Guardsmen were
ordered out to guard the en-
gineers today. I
The regular Army and Ma
tional Guard were on active
duty in most of the flood zone.
Almost the entire southern
quarter of Indiana was under
martial law as Governor Cliff
ford Townsend appealed to the
entire State to assist in pro-
viding for the flood sufferers.
Whole cities were being evacu-
ated and the refugees rushed
northward by train. Hundreds
were dumped into every village
and hamlet along the line,
badly overcrowding all avail
able facilities to house and feed
them.
National Guardsmen and SOL
dierS from Fort Knox and
other Army camps in Kentucky
patroled LouiSville's streets
with orders to shoot to kill any
looterS.
President Roosevelt ordered
five Federal agencies to coop
crate with the Red Cross in re-
lieving suffering. Battalions of
relief workers were dispatched
to key points by the Red Cross
as it appealed to the Nation for
a two-milliOn-dollar flood re-
lief fund.
Coast Guard crews from a
score of Lake cities and from
the Eastern coast were sent
into the stricken area to aid
The Washington times., 1937-01-25
President Acts

It appeared certain that the 100000 contribution asked
President Roosevelt to augment $00000 already hand
would be insufficient And of $400000 asked
congressional appropriation expected today.
The only optimistic turn given the situation today fore
cast for colder weather the Ohio Valley Forecaster j.
Lloyd of Chicago, said hard freeze" expected tonight will
help stop the rise of water No little fore
The Washington times., 1937-01-25
The Weather

District of Columbia-Fair and
colder tonight and probably Tues
day; lowest temperature tonight
about "a degrees; gentle to mod
crate winds. mostly northwest.
Maryland-Fair and colder to-
night and probably Tuesday.
Virginia - Mostly cloudy and
colder with rain on the coast to-
night; Tuesday probably fair and
colder.
Temperatures
Yesterday Today
4 p. nj. 81 "A. M. A
8 p. m...... 38 8 a. m....,. 48
Midnight 40 Noon ...... 48
Departures from Normal
Accumulated excess of tempera-
ture since January l, 1887, 276
degrees.
accumulated excess of precipi-
tation since January 1, 1887, 3.73
inches.
Temperature same date last
year-Highest, 81; lowest, 9.
Tide Table
High tide today at 6:46 a. m.
and 7:10 p. m.
High tide tomorrow at 1885 a. m.
and 1859 p. m.
Low tide today at 1:15 a. m.
and 1882 p. m.
Low tide tomorrow at 2:06 a. m.
and 2:23 p. m.
The Sun and Moon
Sunrise today at 7:21 a. m. and
sets at 5:2l p. m.
Sunrise tomorrow at 1920 a. m.
and sets at 5:22 p. m.
Moonrise today at 3:59 p. m.
and sets at 6:04 a. m. tomorrow.
Moonrise tomorrow at $40 p.
m. and sets at 6:43 a. m. Wednes-
day.
The Washington times., 1937-01-25

Weatherman w. C. Devereaux pre-
dicted an 80-foot crest tonight or
tomorrow.
The Washington times., 1937-01-25
Flood Waters RISING:
Fire Adds to Havoc
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officer flood and the put
of Hopkins aides the office of Admiral Cary Grayson
head Of the Red Cross.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-02-11
Illinois Farmers Reject
Two New Deal Plans

THE New Deals farm tenancy
l. and crop insurance plans, ad-
vocated by Secretary of Agriculture
Wallace, were rejected in a resolu-
ton adopted by the Illinois Agricul-
tural association, which represents
63, 900 organized farmers of the
state. The resolution said farm
tenancy could not be corrected
solely through liberalization of
credit or expert supervision of ten
ant farmers who would buy farms.
1t strongly opposed the establish
ment of the proposed Farm Home
corporation. 1t suggested that any
law enacted to relieve tenancy evils
should be based upon a system of
sound credit extended over a long
period Of years and administered by
existing federal and state agencies.
The resolution asserted that ''in
large part the farm tenancy situa-
ton will be ultimately solved by re-
storing farm commodity price lev
els to fair and permanent basis"
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-02-11
Twelve Navy Planes Make
Flioht to Honolulu

TWELVE planes of the navy sue
l. cessfully made the greatest non
stop transoceanic flight in history,
1853 miles from San Diego to Homo
lulu, in 81 hours 43 minutes. They
carried 80 officers and men and
were under the command of Lieut..
Commander William H. McDade.
No difficulty was experienced by
the planes until they were within 300
miles of their destination. Then they
ran into terrific winds that tossed
them about for hours and almost
blew them backward. Navigation,
the officers said, was impossible.
1t was a case of flying blindly
around, seeking a way out. This
way out came suddenly, and on the
side of the storm nearest Honolulu.
From there on in to Honolulu was
"easy sailing"
The Navy department called this
notable flight merely a routine
transfer" of material from one point
to another, but it was fine test Of
the ability and endurance of the
aviatorS.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-02-11

the leading defendants were saved
from the firing squad, being sem
fenced to terms of Imprisonment.
These were Karl Radek, once noted
journalist, and Gregory Sokolnikov,
former Soviet ambassador to Lon
don, given ten years each; and M.
S. Stroilov and v. V. Arnold, or
dered confined for eight years. The
judges said these four men, while
guilty of treason, did not actually
participate in terroristic and wreck
ing activities. 1t was the belief of
neutral observers that they had
been spared in order to get their
testimony against the scores of men
still under arrest for participation
in the conspiracy.
The London Daily Express pub
lished story to the effect that Ra-
dek's life was spared because of
the existence of certain state pa
pers duplicating Stain himself in
intrigues. Radek was said to have
deposited these documents a year
ago with Trotskyists abroad, with
instructions to make them public if
he should fall a victim of a Stain
purge"
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-02-11

ment were worked out to the last
point by commanding officers in the
region and thousands of motor
trucks and railroad fiat cars were
collected. Headquarters for the
evacuation were set up at Jackson,
Miss.
The secretary of war authorized
the use of not only regular army
troops but also members of the
Civilian Conservation corps, the Ma
tional Guard, and the Red Cross.
General Craig said that if the bill
lion dollar levee system, erected
after the great 1927 food, failed to
ho,d, about the same area affected
then would be inundated. Many
thousands Of people already had
been removed from homes along the
Mississippi. but cities like Memphis
and Vicksburg, being on high
ground, were believed to be safe.
At this writing the effects of the
flood may be thus summarized:
Homeless, nearly million. Dead,
probably more than 500, including
200 in Louisville. Damage, conserv-
atively estimated at more than 400,-
600, 900.
Congress hurried through def
cheney appropriation of S., 800, 600
which the President promised would
be made available for flood relief;
and the American Red Cross, work
ing at high speed, was raising fund
of $1O,0O0,O0O to which the people
of the entire country contributed
literally. Supplies of food, drink
irg water, clothing and medicines
were poured into the stricken areas.
Paducah was completely evacuat-
ed, and most of the inhabitants of
Cairo were removed. The flood wat
ers at the latter city were creeping
up close to the top of the rein
forced levees and it was feared
the projections would not be suffi-
cient.
Harry Hopkins, WPA administra-
tor, and other members of the spe-
cial flood relief committee named
by President Roosevelt, went to the
food areas with the expressed in
tention of seeing that the job of car
ing for the refugees was well done.
Mr.. Hopkins indicated he was pre-
pared to spend $3.50, 1000, ,00o-the en-
tire deficiency work relief budget
for flood relief if necessary,
Accompanying Mr.. Hopkins were
Mai. Edward T. Markham, chief of
army engineers; Surgeon General
Thomas Parran, Jr.; James F. Fei-
ser, vice chairman of the Red
Cross, and Colonel F. c. Harring-
ton, Jr., WPA engineer.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-02-11
Michigan Troops Called
to Check Strike Riots


= ENERAL MOTORS and city po-
~ lice in Flint, Mich, came into
violent conflict with strikers there
and the sheriff decided he couldn't t
handle the situation, so he called on
the governor for troops. The Ma
tional Guard of the state was mo-
bilized and the units already in Flint
moved into the strike zone and
formed a military blockade. They
were ordered to clear the area
around the plants but not to enter
the buildings unless there was re-
neWed violence.
This outbreak came while Judge
Paul Gadola was hearing argu-
ments for and against an Injunction
to eject the sit-down strikers from
the Fisher Body plants.
The violence resulted in a new
sit-down strike in a Chevrolet plant
and the announcement by the union
leaders that they would close every
General Motors plant in the country.
Secretary of Labor Perkins and
Gov. Frank Murphy had been un-
successful in all efforts to bring
c.. M. chiefs and John Z. Lewis to-
gether for peace conference, be-
cause President Sloan of the corpo-
ration insisted that first the plants
must be evacuated by the strikers.
Miss Perkins thereupon asked con-
gress for legislation empowering
her department to subpoena per-
sons and papers in connection with
strike Investigations.
Forty thousand employees of the
corporation had been called back to
plants in Michigan and Indiana and
put on part time work, and they
and other non-union workers were
assured again by Sloan that their
rights would be protected.
Sloan contends that more than
100000 G.. M. employees have ex-
pressed a desire to return to work.
Lewis SCOTS at this claim but will
not countenance the holding Of
an election to determine whether his
unions comand the majority nec-
essary to constitute them the sole
collective bargaining agency. The
federal labor relations board could
order such an election but it has
not interviewed, and probably will
not.