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The Washington times., 1937-01-30
NEW HOPE FELT
At CINCINNATI

CINCINNATI. Ohio, Jan. 30
GNSO.-Gradual return to nor
malcy was reported today on all
fronts as flood waters of the Ohio
River continued to subside here.
Seven residents Of a three-story
flat in suburban Avondale were
rescued and three firemen over
come by smoke when fire damaged
the building.
Approximately five-sixths Of the
homes had electricity today. The
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad re-
established service to the East.
Danger still lurked in polluted
drinking water and 1000 have
been inoculated against typhoid
fever, but not one typhoid case has
been reported thus far.
Waters were receding so slowly,
w. c. Devereaux, United States
meteorologist. said, that the river
will not be back within its banks
until about February 7.
The Washington times., 1937-01-30

Editors note: One of the
first to gain access to the U. S.
Army'S newly created refugee
camps in the Mississippi Valley
flood zone, G. Cornwall Spencer,
International NeWS SerUice Spe-
ciul correspondent WriteS the
tolloWing graphic description OF
the people and conditions he
found there.
BY G. CORNWALL SPENCER
MEMPHIS, Tenn, Jan. 80
Q.N.SO.-
"Are youall from out of the
waters?"
The question, voiced in typical
hill-billy drawl by a pretty IA
year-old girl, perfectly expressed
the feeling among this tumble
piled up on the refugee camps
along the river here.
If you are out of the waters, II
your home, your family, your life's
work has been washed away in
the murky flood then you are a
brother in misery and a friend.
Share and share alike.
Milie Powell, the brown-eyed
little beauty, who wanted to be
friends, turned bashful when she
found out we were stranger. She
bluShed and stammered as we
piled her with questions about the
disaster and her own hardships.
FIees to "Primp"
But her discontinue was due to
a cause other than we had
imagined. She broke away and
disappeared at the first oppor
tunity, but reappeared a short time
later and now she was entirely at
The Washington times., 1937-01-30
FLOOD COUNCIL
TO MEMPHIS
International News Service

The high command of President
Roosevelt's flood relief council will
move to Memphis Sunday, to per
sonally direct operations, should
the raging waters of the Ohio
wreak further havoc when they
surge into the Mississippi, Presi-
dent Roosevelt disclosed yeSter-
day.
WPA Administrator Harry Hop
kins, Gen. Edwin Markham, chief
of Army engineers, Surgeon-Gen.
Thomas Parran, jr., of the Public
Health Service and Col. F. c. Har-
rington, Army engineer attached
to WPA, and a representative of
the Red Cross are the five who
have been ordered to the flood
zone,
The Washington times., 1937-01-30
PRESBYTER|ANS
T0HEAR GUEST

The guest speaker at the New
York Avenue Presbyterian Church
tomorrow will be the Rev. Dr.
Ralph Cooper Hutchison, presi'
dent of washington and Jefferson
College, of Washington, Pa, and
former president of the American
College at Teheran, Persia. Dr..
Hutchinson will have for his subject
at the morning service The Great
Repression. At 8 o'clock he will
discuss The Secrets of Men"
The church Bible school meets
each Sunday morning at $50
o'clock with classes and depart.
ments for all ages.
The Christian Endeavor Society
will meet for tea in the parish hall
at 6 o'clock with the intermediate
Society as hosts. Following the
tea. the worship service will be OBJ
served in the lecture room. Mrs
Frank E. Edgington will lead the
discussion of What Do l Know
About My Church?" The younger
group will meet in the second par
ish hall under the leadership OF
Elizabeth Jacobs for a discussion
of Quiet Hour"
On Thursday evening at {
o'clock DR.. Albert Evans, minister
in charge of the New York Avenue
Church. will continue his series oil
mid-Week Bible studies on the life
of Paul. His topic this week vii,
be Songs and Prayers at Mid
night"
The Washington times., 1937-01-30
Red Cross Reports
48 Babies Born 10
Refugees Of Flood
international News Service

Forty.eight babies have been
born to flood refugee mothers in
emergency hospitals set up by the
Red Cross. Birth of four in the
Manchester (Ohio), high school,
now used as a temporary hospital,
was reported today by E. H. Pow
ers, of the Cincinnati Red Cross
staff. He reported;
Manchester is out of COM
municatiOn except by boat and
one telephone wire, which goes
out periodically because the wire
is down, and boats are holding
it up at many points"
The town Of Hestoria, Ohio, &C.
cessible only by boat, has sta
toned a motorless motor police
man in an anchored boat at the
edge of town to stop power boats
before they reach the city limit,
Powers said, because the swell
from power boats would throw
houses from their foundations.
The Washington times., 1937-01-30
SESSION
T0HEAR FISH

Representative j. Hamilton Fish
of New York will be the principal
speaker at a mass meeting to be
held in the Washington Hebrew
Temple tomorrow at p. m. By
the Religious Union to End War.
The New York Congressman will
discuss a recent Joint resolution,
introduced by him in the House,
which would request the President
to call a conference of the SO ma
tionS signatory to the BRAND
Kellogg peace pact.
Jewish, Roman Catholic and
Protestant clergyman also will par
ticipate in the program. They in
clude the Rev. H. S. Anderson.
Father John K. Cartwright, Rabbi
Metz. Rev. R. D. Bowman. Rev.
William Sheafe Chase, Father L.
]. Shean and Rabbi Loeb.
The Washington times., 1937-01-30
CONTINUED from Page u

while the wall has been raised by
sandbags, it was feared the pres
sure of the flood would sweep
these away.
A battle was also being waged to
save the main levee system on the
west bank below Cairo, and resi-
dents in that area will be moved
out rapidly.
Mass Move On
The Army's plan for progressive
evacuation of a hundred-mile strip,
from Cairo to the gulf, was already
we'll under way in the northern
portion.
Sixty7seven thousand persons
have been moved out of the dan
ger zone and 10000 others are
being moved out as speedily as
possible.
The Army's efforts in the dan
ger zones in many cases is being
complicated by refusal Of many OF
the people to leave.
Every person in the vast low
land area to the west of the river
from the Memphis vicinity north
to Cairo will be moved out, the
Army said.
Authorities began the complete
evacuation of Paducah, KY, under
six feet of water. Approximately
$4,000 residents have already been
taken from the city. The estimated
10000 remaining were without
drinking water, light and heat,
and suffering from an epidemic OF
influenza.
River Pressure Great
Just across the Kentucky-Ten-
nesee line the Mississippi doubles
in a flat "S," swinging almost
due north to New Madrid, Mo-,
before continuing its way to the
Gulf. The tremendous pressure on
the bend, it is feared, will cause
the river to break through the
dikes and embankments and flow
straight south from Bessie, inun-
dating thousands of acres in the
Reelfoot Lake and Ridgley, Tenn,
districts.
New Madrid, at the southern tip
of the Birds Point-New Madrid
floodway-into which flood waters
were diverted Monday to relieve
the situation at Cairo-was an
other danger point.
The earthen levees were dyna.
mited yesterday to allow the i'm
pounded waters to return to the
main channel of the Mississippi.
but it was feared that if the main
channel at Birds Point is unable
The Washington times., 1937-01-30
SIX OVERCOME
HERE BY GAS

Six persons, all colored, were
overcome by coal gas from de-
fective furnace early today in their
home at 1896 Gay st. N. E.
Ambulances from Casualty Hos
pital and the Rescue Squad were
sent to the place and artificial
respiration used on two of the vic
tins, Helen Ayres, %, and Irene
Noble, 20, before they we're revived.
The others overcome were given
first-aid. They were James Taylor
IA, William Taylor, II, Edward
Ayres, %, and Sylvia Noble, /.
The Washington times., 1937-01-30
Girl. Out of Waters,'
Shy Before Writer

ease. 1t was plain that in her
absence she had powdered and
rouged. Girl fashion, she had been
worried mainly about her appear
ance.
Beside the clothes she wore the
beauty kit was all she had salvaged
from the flood. Her father and
mother, Fred and Margie Powell,
and three sisters had done little
better. They had to flee for their
lives when the roaring st. Francis
River gulped down their home
near KieSer, Ark, last week.
Plight Is Typical
And their plight is typical Of
hundreds, even thousands, Of
others quartered here at the tri-
State fair grounds or being es-
corted to other havens in nearby
towns.
There is little complaining al
though some could be heard to
grouse about the food.
1--WE get mostly oats (OatmeaD
and Coffee"
In the main they take what
they are given with thanks. Kept
under strict army discipline new
arrivals are tagged for Identified
tion and assigned space for rest.
The next task is providing food.
And the kitchens are taxed. An
eight-year-old boy consumed nine
slabs of bread, four cups of milk
and a quart of beans at his first
meal. The youngster had been
marooned without food for days.
Warmed and fed, the refugees
are either given space at the camp
here or are ordered into another
zone,
The Washington times., 1937-01-30
Red Cross Aid Urqed
By K. Of {. Chieftain

NEW HAVEN. Conn. Jan. 80
G.N.SD From the national head
quarters of the Knights of Colum.
bus. Supreme Knight Martin H.
Carmody today appealed to all
councils and members of the So
ciety in the United States and
Canada, to contribute to the near
est chapter of the American Red
Cross for the relief of flood suf'
ferers He asked that Contrlbu'
tions from councils of the Society
outside of the United States be
made through the supreme Office
in New Haven.
The Washington times., 1937-01-30
CITY PREPARED
BUT FEARFUL
OF WORST
Final Test Due Tuesday
orWednesday as Ohio
Roars Onward
BY A. L. SLOAN

CAIRO, H., Jan. 80 Q.N.S).
The Ohio River today reached the
highest point in Cairo's history,
tapping perilously near the top
Of the great wall protecting the
city from doom.
The 1000 men who stood by to
build up the 60-foot seawall to
a height of SO feet, and the hand
full of women who stayed to cook
for them, waited with fear and
trepidation today as the river
inched its way up the dixie to the
58.69-foot stage.
OF the hundreds Of cities lin
ing the banks of the Ohio, Cairo
alone has escaped the ravages OF
the flood. But the final test will
come Tuesday or Wednesday,
when the crest Of the flood waters
come laundering by to roll into
the Mississippi.
Cairo was cheered today by the
prediction of Army engineers that
the crest will not exceed 81 feet,
confident the earthen bulkhead
atop the seawall will hold out the
nurky flood waters.
Wall Believed Adequate
Cairo officials today reaffirmed
their opinion that the 60-foot levee
with the three-foot bulkhead will
repel the water at it's top level,
saving Cairo from disaster.
Through Chairman Thomas W.
williams, of the. Association OF
Commerce publicity committee,
Mayor August Bode issued the fol
lowing statement, declaring the
city prepared for any eventualty:
1--WE feel that Cairo is safe,
barring the arising Of unfOre-
seen circumstances. Every pre-
caution has been taken to safe
guard the city.
"There is a plentiful supply OF
pure water, with 2OO,OOO-gallOn
tank filled to capacity. There
are also pipes from artesian
wells at the Halliday and Cairo
Hotels. This will furnish water
supply adequate for any emer'
gency.
"Our coal supply is also suf-
ficient to meet requirements.
The water company has a two
weeks supply, the electric light
company a SO-day supply, with
1900 tons more in the railroad
yards. te
eve await the crest Of the
flood waters with abiding con.
fidence that Cairo will be saved"
Meanwhile, Cairo is also pre-
pared, with small army ready to
effect an orderly exit if it be-
comes necessary. On duty now
are five National Guard com
panies, 113 members of the United
States Coast Guard, 800 Civilian
Conservation Corps workers, and
400 engineers of the State and
Federal Government.
Boats Standing By
Steamboats,, motor craft, and
Coast Guard cutters are standing
by.
The Coast Guard has finished
the evacuation of Mounds, few
miles from Cairo, rescuing 300
marooned in the high school on the
north edge of the town. Among the
rescued were five women telephone
operators who collapsed after stick
ing to their posts continuously for
two days without sleep.
Mound City, which had just cele-
brated it's eightieth anniversary as
a city, today was completely de-
serted. The only living things to
be seen there we're cats, dogs and
chickens clinging to roofs and
trees.
The Washington times., 1937-01-30
Guilty In Shooting

RTVERHEAD, N. Y, Jan. 80
u.N.SO.-A jury yesterday found
Edward Daniel, Al, of Eastport, L. t.,
guilty of first degree manslaughter.
Sentence will be imposed Monday.
Daniels was tried on a first de-
gree murder indictment for the
death Of zollie Privett, 50, at East
port, on July /, 1885.
The Washington times., 1937-01-30
Rescue Boat Mishap
Adds to Flood Toll

PORTSMOUTH, Ohio, Jan. 30
G.N.SO Another victim of the
flood was added to the mounting
toll today when Everett Connolly,
Haverhill, drowned in the Ohio
River. Connolly toppled from a
rescue boat.
Clinging to an overturned boat
after the craft had tossed them
into the water, 81 employees of the
Daily Times, were rescued by
passing boats.
The Washington times., 1937-01-30
Brothers Fire Kills Baby

NEW YORK, Jan. 80 GNS).
A fire started by three-year-old
Robert Jack while plavin" w''1
matches had today cost the life
of his four mouths-old brother.
William.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-07-22

Browning Observation-Disclosures can
be given rich brown tops by
brushing the tops with a pastry
brush dipped in milk before plac-
ing them in the oven.
Il
Storing Brown Sugar.-B r o w n
sugar will not become lumpy if
stored in an alright jar.
When Drawers Stick.-B l a c k
lead or black lead pencil rubbed
on the edges of a drawer which
has become swollen from heat will
enable it to be opened and shut
quite easily.
Heating the Oven.-Open t h e
oven door for a minute soon after
the gas has been lit and you will
find that the oven will get hot
much quicker. BY doing so you
let out the moisture that always
collects when the oven is not in
use.
Turnips Au Gratin.-For tn S
tasty dish half-cook turnips in boil
ing sailed water, then cut into
fairly thin slices and drain well.
Arrange in layers in buttered
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-07-22
AROUND Ad1zT-=za Ferns Of Interest
he HOUSE I9 s sllI|E;s e t;ss;sx;,s

fireproof dish, and cover each lay
er of turnip with grated cheese,
a seasoning of pepper, and some
little dabs of butter. The last lay
ers should consist of breadcrumbs
sprinkled with grated cheese and
dotted with butter. Bake in mod
crate oven until we'll Drowned.
Cooking Cabbage. - Cabbage
should be cooked only until tender
when tested with a fork. Too much
cooking results in changed color
and an indigestible product.
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White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-07-22
what /|Lh
-lNV.| thinks
- about:
Third Term BaIIyhoo.

Third Term BallyhOO.
CANTA MONICA, CALF.
~ After a president has
been reelected it's certain
that some inspired patriot
who is Struggled close to the
throne will burst from his cell
with a terrible yell to pro-
claim that unless the adored
incumbent consents again to
succeed himself this nation is
doomed.
incidentally, the said patriots
present job and perquisites ais o
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-07-22

would be doomed, so
h e couldn't be
blamed for privately
brooding on the dis
tressful thought. You
wouldn't call h j m
selfish, but 20 u
could call him hope
full, especially since
there's a chance his
ballyhoo may direct
attention upon him
as a suitable candi-
date when his idol
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-07-22
When There Were No Dukes

Between the years Of 1872 and
1923 there were no dukes in our
peerage, says London Answers Mag
azine. In the former year, Queen
Elizabeth executed the remaining
two, while James / revived the title
in the latter year for the benefit
of his favorite, George Villiers, who
became Duke Of Buckingham.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-07-22

| WHO'S NEWS
THIS WEEK.
By Lemuel F. Parton
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Foe of Demoniac Forces.

Foe of DemOniac Forces.
NEW YORK. Anato1e France
concluded his "Revolt of the
Angels" with the observation that
mans only hope lay in '"The Con-
quest of the Demons of Anger and
Fear in His Own Soul" The quota
ton may be a bit awry, since the
book is not at hand, but it is perth
nent to today's news of the expedi-
ton to the arctic in the interest Of
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS first Of it's kind.
barring Siegfried's hunting trip in
the land of the ice queen.
The above allusion suggests no
over-simplifcation Of the purposes
Of DR.. George w. Grille, famous sur
geon and bio-chemist, who is head
ing voyage to the Arctic. Specif1-
cally, he fights the demoniac forces
Of anger and fear which now range
the world and which any newspaper
reader can recognize on sight. At
seventy-three, he hopes to find in
the Far North knowledge which will
strengthen his arm and temper his
sword, supplementing knowledge
which he previously cleaned in the
African jungles.
Seals and walruses, neither Of
them particularly angry or scared,
will be studied by DIR. Crile-not as
examples of dignity and complac-
ency, but as the owners and pro-
prietors Of certain unique energy
releasing mechanisms that seem
to work better than the human
carburetor, the suprarenal gland
system. DR.. Grille has dissected and
studied about 800 jungle animals in
the interest of civilized human be-
havior, and now, to piece out his
mosaic Of life energy, he goes North
mot to the ant but the sea lion.
These researches have enabled
him in certain instances to cure
chronic anger and fear. He finds
that in this day Of newspapers,
radio and press agents there are
high-vo1tage stimuli loose every
where which make high blood-pres-
sure the curse of the age. The
name "John l.. Lewis" will make
one citizen apoplectic, while Tom
Girdler" will induce a similar en-
bolism in another.
For aggravated cases Of this kind,
DR.. Grille has a simple "Denerva-
ton" operation, in which he thrOt-
Ties down the too rampant adrenal
glands. Judging from the past, he
could operate on the opposed prin-
cipals in labor dispute and have
them falling over each other to sign
an agreement.
A resident of Cleveland, he is the
founder and head of the Cleveland
Clinic, which is carrying through
profound studies of the adrenal and
thyroid glands, and Of bodily me-
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-07-22


kSSsa>ss. 1AaA''i''R'A as suitable candi-
Irwin s. Cobb date when his idol
says no to the prop.
osition. He might ride in on the
backwash, which would be even
nicer than steering tidal wave for
somebody else.
Political observers have name
for this. They call it sending up
balloon" It's an apt smile, a
balloon being a hinsy thing, full
Of hot air, and when it scars aloft
nobody knows where it will come
down-if at all. It lacks both steer.
ing gears and terminal facilities.
There have been cases when the
same comparison might have been
applied not alone to the balloon
but to the gentleman who launched it.
So let's remain calm. It's tradi-
tional in our history that no presi-
dent ever had to go ballooning in or
der to find out how the wind blew
Modern Prairie Schooners.
NTE'RE certainly returning =
w with modern Improvements
to prairie schooner days when rest
less Americans are living on wheels
and housekeeping on wheels and
having babies on wheels. Only the
other day twins were born aboard
a trailer. And-who knows?-per-
haps right now the stork, with
future president in her beak, is flap
ping fast, trying to catch up with
somebody's perambulating bunga-
low.
So it's a fitting moment to revive
the story Of Early Montana when
some settlers were discussing the
relative merits of various makes of
those canvas-covered arks which
bore such hosts of emigrants west
ward. They named over the Cones
toga, the South Bend, the Murphy,
the Studebaker and various others.
From under her battered sunbon-
net there spoke up weather beaten
old lady who, with her husband and
her growing brood, had spent the
long years humping along behind an
OK team from one frontier camp to
another.
Boys" she said, shifting her
snuff-stick, II always did claim the
old hickory Vaughn wuz the best
one there is fur raisin' family in"
AS/A
Pugs Versus Statesmen.
IT'S confusing to read that poor
l decrepit Jim Braddock, having
reached the advanced age Of thirty
four or whereabouts, is all washed
up, and, then, in another column,
to discover that Senator Joe Robin
son is to supply young blood on the
Supreme court bench, he being but
bounding juvenile Of around sixty
six.
This creates doubt in the mind of
a fellow who, let us say, is quite
a few birthdays beyond that en-
gendered wreck, Mr.. Braddock, yet
still has a considerable number Of
years to go before he'll be an agile
adolescent like the senator. He can't
decide whether he ought to join the
former at the old mems home or
enlist with the latter in the Boy
Scouts.
IRWIN s. COBB.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-07-22
6 WNU Service

tabolisms generally. His researches
in the world war vastly widened
and deepened the knowledge of the
mechanical functioning Of the en-
doctrine glands.
These discoveries led him to de-
scribe the human body as an auto
mobile, in which the brain is the
battery, the suprarenal gland sys-
tenn the carburetor, the liver the
gasoline tank, the muscles the mo-
tor, and the thyroid gland the gear.
box.
In Africa, DR.. Grille shot and dis.
sected hundreds of animals, from
the smallest up to lions and rhino-
cerosi. He finds that lions have al
sympathetic gland reinforcing sys-
tenn which enables the adrenals to
deal action hormones with tire.
mendous kick. That's what makes
the lion such a good self-starter
and the sure winner Of any Jungle
track meet. Lions, tigers and Zero.
cious lone workers in general have
this hair-trigger starter.
Herding animals have less sen.
sitive starting and stimulating
mechanism. Less complex, cold
bIooded creatures, like crocodiles,
with special defensive armament,
have an even slower takeoff, but
DR.. Crile's main point is that they
all have an ignition system which
perfectly serves their survival
needs.
AS DR.. Grille sees it, the malad.
justment or malfunctioning of our
energy apparatus releases ungov-
erned emotions, precipitated in body
poisons, and helps put the world
even more out of plumb than it ma
turally seems to be. An artifcia1Iy|
changed environment--with all the
new problems of urban living and
an unstable and complex econorny|
makes people keep on getting
mad about things which they can't
possibly affect or control, unlike the
animals, and renders latterday man
signal failure in the main business
of life, which is Continuous adam.
tation."
At home in the wider generaliza-
tions of his subject, DIR. Grille sees
here the collective elements of So
cial Observation-Disclosures, mobs.
demagogs, kluxers, messiahs, war
mongers, and inflammatory an d |
provocative meters of world de-
mentia in general. He thinks a gen
eral all-around job of scientific hui
man reconditioning is possibly the
only answer.
He is a native of Chilo, Ohio.
taking several academic degrees be.
fore completing his medical educa.
ton in number of foreign univer.
sites.
@ Consolidated News Features.
WNU Service.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-07-22

As you start upward in your ca
reer you get slaps on the back; at
the top, you get none.