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Evening star., 1937-01-23

perate by lack Of food and the shutting
of Of gas in all flooded areas.
Gas company officials said they
feared that mains, weakened by the
steadily tapping water. would burst
and thus lay the basis for disastrous
explosion.
The State highway patrol and high
way department reopened tentatively
one circuitous highway into Ports
mouth. hoping to be able to get in
necessary supplies over it. Trucks,
tractors and other equipment were
placed at the numerous worst" spots
In the belief that they would be able
to haul the essential traffic through.
A Columbus company sought means
of transporting $500 gallons Of milk
to allay distress.
Evening star., 1937-01-23
Deplores Wrestling Peril.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa R.-m
the interests Of public safety Police
Chief Elmer Lane has ordered ring
side seats at wrestling exhibitions
moved at least 8 feet from the ring.
"The way they throw those rasslers
and referees out Of the ring, some one
will get killed If the seats are not
moged." the chief sxplafnad
Evening star., 1937-01-23
Floods
(Continued From First Page.)

unteers around the threatened area
and issued mo smoking" orders.
Station Under Water.
Opposite Spring Grove and Arling-
ton avenues the 1000, ,o00- gallon stor-
age yards of the Standard Oil Co. was
under water. Tank after tank tore
away from foundations, releasing the
fuel.
1t was there Friday that fuel oil
escaping from a tank was ignited by
the heat Of burning coal cars. Fire
men whipped" those flames out with
strong vapor streams before they
could spread to the escaping gasoline.
"A tiny spark and Milicreek bot
mass Of flames from the Ohio River
to Cummingsville," the fire chief said.
I'VE are hoping such a thing does
not happen. When you realize the
gasoline, kerosene and fuel oil is
reaching even inside flooded buildings,
some idea of the danger can be pic
tured."
.56,500 Homeless in City.
The Red Cross estimated that $500
persons were homeless in the metro
politan Cincinnati area alone. Nearly
$4,000 were quartered in schools, halls
and other places along the rivers 300
mile course on Ohio's eastern and
southern borders.
Police reported the avalanche of
calls for aid had dropped of sud-
denly, indicating the flood situation
apparently was well in hand.
Persons in immediate danger had
been moved to safety.
Forty-eight hours Of ceaseless work
had enabled officers under personal
charge of Police Chief Eugene T.
Weatherly and Fire Chief Barney
j. Houston to terry thousands from
flooded homes.
Many were standing in water on
the second floors when taken out. II
ny remained in flooded buildings
Evening star., 1937-01-23
Aide Acted for CORVALLIS.

It was not CORVALLIS who surren-
dered at Yorktown. Gen. OHara of
the British Army handed over his
leaders sword to Gen. Benjamin Lin
coin. appointed by Washington to re-
.eeiye the submission. -
Evening star., 1937-01-23
FOOD SHORTAGE ACUTE.
Four Inches of Snow Adds to Hard
ships at Portsmouth.

Four Inches Of Snow Adds to Hard.
ships at Portsmouth.
PORTSMOUTH, Ohio, January %
(R.-Hunger, cold, sickness and, the
cries Of hundreds of marooned per.
sons plagued hood-besieged Ports.
mouth today.
Half of Portsmouth was covered by
flood waters that we're ii feet deep
in the business district.
Four inches of snow and freezing
temperatures added to the hardship
of the IS 900 forced to evacuate their
homes in Greater Portsmouth.
The Ohio River stage at Z am. was
66.3 feet and rising two-tenths Of .
foot an hour.
The Scioto also poured a muddy
flood tide over the city from the west.
City officials described the food and
milk shortage as acute and sought
help from the outside.
Physicians were called throughout
the night to care for children in
refuge centers.
Crews of rescue workers laboring
desperately to evacuate all homes in
the food zone under the direction of
Fire Chief Robert Leedom, who re-
ported that several hundred persons
were begging to be rescued.
Lack Sufficient Boats.
Leedom said a shortage of boats
made rescue work difficult.
Those families trapped in their
homes had sought safety on second
floors, but they underestimated the
rapid rise of the flood waters.
Heavy pressure of the debris-laden
brown tide undermined at least 10
houses, Leedom said, throwing a
score of persons into the cold waters
when they collapsed. Leedom was
advised that all had been rescued.
High waters closed all fire depart
ment houses except one in the Hilltop
district. Ffremen mounted fire en-
gine on a barge to be ready to COM
bat any fires in the inundated bus
iness district.
Appeals for bed clothing were sent
out by relief workers, who reported
that so children slept on the floor of
a fire engine house at Sciotoville last
night without blankets.
Ten Miles Under Water.
A 10-mile-long stretch from the
west section of Portsmouth, where the
Scioto pours into the Ohio, east to
Wheelersburg was covered by water
back to where the hills begin.
An estimated 10000 persons live
in Portmouth and the other affected
towns of Sciotoville, New Boston and
Wheelersburg, and officials said at
least 10000 of them were homeless.
Churches, schools, hospitals, garages
and even voting booths were crowded
with shivering refugees.
Portsmouth officials were advised
that trucks Of food were stranded
miles outside of the city, unable to get
through flood waters.
All available boats were being used
in rescue work here and none could
be spared to meet the trucks.
Supplies laid in by householders and
refugees in advance Of the rivers
ascent into the business district
dwindled with alarming rapidity.
Wholesale grocers informed City
Manager Frank Sheehan, grim gen.
eralissimo of the city's defense, that
food stored in upper floors Of their
buildings would last for about two days.
Boat crews began getting out the
staple goods even as they labored to
rescue hundreds Of persons who had
remained in their homes. Not expect
ing the river to reach them, old-time
residents, who have seen many a minor
food, refused to leave when flrst
warned.
Gas Is Shut on.
THAR plight was made uers dsse-
Evening star., 1937-01-23

HUNTINGTON, w. Va, January %
R.-A squad of volunteer nurses re-
cruited from all parts of Cabell County
went into action today to aid an esti-
mated $500 homeless flood refugees
in Huntington.
They reported to DR.. James Klump
director of emergency relief, to work
side by side with rescue crews and city
employees speeding to evacuate still
more persons from homes surrounded
by the swirling tide in river front dis
trictS.
Trucks splashed through water up
to their axles, boats chugged along
city streets in the West End and
Guyandotte sections, taking families
from their homes-some through
upper floor windows.
62-Foot Top Predicted.
For 10 miles up and down Hunt
ington's water front the muddy Ohio
river swept over the first two or three
blocks and threatened to climb even
higher. Rivermen predicted a top OF
81 feet, seven feet above flood stage.
An exclusive residential district,
too, was threatened by rising waters
of Four-Pole Creek, pushed out of its
banks by the backwaters Ct the Ohio
River.
In the business section waters
Tapped over one main thoroughfare
and threatened to climb into other
streets.
Merchants operated their stores by
candle light or the dim glow of oil
lanterns, despite assurances Of the
power companies that there was no
danger of an interruption of light
and power service. Many merchants
said they shut off electricity in a
voluntary move to conserve current
for relief agencies and homes.
Point Pleasant Isolated.
Upstream, Point Pleasant was vir-
tually isolated. Only one telephone
line still provided contact with the
little river town at the junction Of
the Kanawha and Ohio Rivers. Wa
ters there have halted all business
and climbed toward second stories OF
some buildings.
At Parkersburg, Mayor H. r. De-
bussey ordered a vacant five-story
business building thrown open for
emergency shelter Of families driven
from their homes. The Red Cross,
W. P. A. and c. C. c. joined ir fur
nishing equipment. An abandoned
city hospital and other buildings had
proven inadequate to care for the
growing number of refugees.
Evening star., 1937-01-23
FINED FOR HIS "SPITE"

Pays 500 for Planting Garden
Fork With Tines Exposed.
CHICAGO R.-Antone Jordan, AZ,
planted a garden fork in his lawn
so that only the 10-inch tines were
exposed.
Police said he did it to prevent
school children from riding bicycles
over his yard.
Justice of the Peace Martin Nc
Grath said: Deliberate spitefulness."
Then he fined Jordan 500.
Evening star., 1937-01-23

unteers around the threatened area
and issued mo smoking" orders.
Evening star., 1937-01-23
ISLAND PEOPLE
RIDE OUT STORM
Wheeling Residents Move to
Upper Floors, Defying
Police Order.

BY the Associated Press.
WHEELING, w. Va, January 23.-
Residents of the populous island"
residential section of Wheeling moved
to higher floors in their homes today,
determined to ride out food"
Lights cleaned in thousands Of
dwellings throughout the night, while
rescue crews and relief workers moved
about the streets in boats.
Police had ordered evacuation of the
ISLAND" where 10000 persons live in
midstream, but residents, hardened
to flood dangers, refused to leave.
Many, too, refused to leave even
last March when flood waters reached
a stage of 81 feet, carried away island
homes and wrecked buildings, in
Guiding one big tabernacle.
Business District Hit.
Waters of the swollen Ohio, sweep
ing the island from end to end,
swirled also into the lower sections
of the Wheeling business district
today.
Two blocks from the rivers edge, 4
feet of water raced along Main street,
one of the two major business
thoroughfares. The flood had climbed
to 44.2 feet at am, and rivermen
predicted from one to three feet more.
Flood stage is So feet.
A block further from the river,
refugees struggled into the market
auditorium, where 400 men, women
and children were cared for. Others
found shelter in the Y. M. c. A. and
public buildings, all thrown open for
relief work.
Field Kitchens Arrive.
From Charleston came field kitchens
of the National Guard on orders OF
Acting Adjt. Gen William L. Hornor,
to take over the task of preparing
meals for homeless. The State De-
partment of Public Assistance also sent
supplies of food and clothing from
the capital. National Guard tents
were provided for refugee camp If
needed.
An unidentified body of man was
found floating in the speedy waters
of the Ohio across the river at Bellaire,
Ohio. There flood waters have climbed
into the residential section and police
estimate 5000 homes were inundated.
NURSES JOIN RESCUERS.
The Washington times., 1937-09-02

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The Washington times., 1937-09-02

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or in effective reversible color combinations.
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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-05
Florida State
Senator Passes
VIM. Pannill, Tarheel, Was
73 Years Old

FERNANDO. Fla. Jan. D
(Up)-Slacc Senator William
Panniil. ~, representative of thr
ninth district fernando and Cit.
rus coun,irs--im The Legislature"
lied in Il ho.uitpl here Sunda'
night after an illness of three
weeks. -, =,
Panniil had resided in Florida
for 90 years and in fernando
county Cor l6 He was n nativ'
If Warcnton. \. G.. whcr" his
mother had fled during the war
Between the States.
Owner Of large fam, he was
president of Stafford Farms, Inc.
Burial was at Norfolk. Survlv-
ors are his widow; two daughters;
Mrs. Edmund K. CORDOBA ana
Mrs. William Herbert Nash. both
of Norfolk: two sisters, Mrs. Geo
NJ. Pollard and Mrs. James H.
Johnston of Norfolk; and two
brothers. A. =. Pannill of Norfoik
and Charles J. Pannill of Bronx
vile, N. Y.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-05
LOCOMOTIVE
EXPLODES, 3
MEN KILLED
Train Travelling 20 Miles
an Hour; Cars Are
Not Derailed

ADRIAN, Mich, Jan. 5. (uP).
Three members Of the crew Of q
wcstbound Wabash freight train
were reported killed last night
when the locomotive exploded .
haif mile west of here.
The dead, ali Of Detroit: Roy
Mead, engineer; q. f. johnson.
fireman; Charles Hudson. brake
man.
The explosion tore up about
200 feet of track or the east.
bound line. but did not damage
the wcstbound rails. None Of the
ears were dcrailcd.
a large piece of iron casting
was blown through the front door
of a nearby house occupied by
Hubert Estes and his family. No
one in the house was injured.
Windows were broken in houses
throughout the western section OF
adrian.
Wabash line officials said no
trains would be able TO move over
the line until morning. The train
vas said to have been travelling
at about 20 miles an hour when
the explosion occurred.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-05
Virus Expert Ill
With Influenza

PRINCETON, n. j.. Jan. s: -
(UP) DIR. Wendell NJ. Stanley,
who received the $1,000 prize OF
the American Association for the
Advancement of Science for ms
Investigations into the mysteries
of disease-producing viruses. yes
terday was i'll Of influenza, dis
ease produced by virus.
The 32-year-old research physi-
clan of the Rockefeller Institute
for Medical Research at Princeton
was stricken Saturday. His condi-
ton was reported as not serious
and he was expected to be up IN
three or four days.
His paper, which won the $1,000
prize, was read ct the final meet
ing Of the association in Philadel-
phia Saturday when the conven-
ton met after a weeks session in
Atlantic City,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-05
NewAnglo-Italian
Accord Assures
Inland Sea Peace

LONDON. Jan. 5.-(UP)-Thc
British foreign office has publish
cd the text Of the An%lo-ltalian
accord signed in Rome Saturday
to provide security in the Mcdi-
tcrranean.
The agreement. reached eight
months aftcr Premier Bcnito Mus
yolini'S conquest Of Ethiopia which
threatened for a time to rcsuI,
in grave circumstances in the
Mediterranean, provides little in
sight into the real purposes Of the
accord.
1t point out, however, that the
pact l. "dcsigncd TO further the
ends of peace and is not directed
against any other power
There is no mention of ltalys
reported promise to maintain
"hands Off" polio" in regard to
the Balcarlc islands of Spain.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-05
CHESTNUT GROVE

CHESTNUT GROVE, Jan. o.
The people of this section trust
that all the readers of The Times:
News had merry Christmas, and
that the new year holds much
prosperity in store for them.
The Christmas tree for MI.
Zion Sunday school was enjoyed
by the members, and Il number
Of visitors. Many nice presents
were received. The Sunday school
also received a treat OF oranges,
and candy, and pencils were also
yiycn. The occasion was greatly
enjoyed by all who were present.
MIR. and Mrs. Hoover Common
and children, Peggy and Lucille,
of Fletcher. spent the weekend
with Mr.. Connor's parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Il. =. Conner.
Mr.. o. Garren Of lioopers
Greek attended Sunday school nc
Mt. Zion Sunday morning.
Mr.. Clyde Barnwell Of Liberty
is spending some time with MT.
and Mrs. j. T.. Cox.
Mrs. Isabel Collins of Edney-
Vile was a dinner guest OF her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Is. p. Con-
,, nor, Sunday.
MIR. p. Connor and Clyde Barn.
we'll were callers in the Liberty
section Sunday afternoon.
Mr.. T. c. Case has purchased o
radio recently.
Carl Barnwell Of Kyles Creek
was overnight guest Of Mr.. j. +.
Cox one day last week.
Mrs. u. p. Conner spent New
Years day with Mrs. G. NJ. Gil.
bert. -.
Mr.. Gay Lydia was through this
community recently.
Mr.. Willard Freeman called on
Mr.. and Mrs. J. NJ. Williams We'd
nesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hubert Collins OF
Edneyville were callers in this sec.
ton New Years day.
Mr.. Jim Justus recently purchas.
ed q radio.
A number from here attended
Mr.. Isaac Justus' funeral Christ
mas day.
The school children, who en-.
loved the two weeks of Christmas
holidays, returned To school Mon
day.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-05
AXE CHAMPION

FAIRPORT, n. Y. (UP)-Roy
l.. Wacenske, husky 20-year-old
farm youth, holds the title Of
Monroe county wood-chopping
champion. He defeated seven 9TH
err men by cutting through an IL.
inch black oak log in two minutes,
IS seconds. The prize wac an axe.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-05
WORKING STUDENTS
THRIFTIEST CLASS

WASHINGTON. Jan. 8. fUP)
College students who wait on ia
bles and fire furnaces are about
the thriftiest class in the world.
Mrs. William A. Becker, president
general of the Daughters of the
American Revolution, said last
night.
The OAR. she said, loaned sat-
700 to students last year and
$44, 900 has been repaid.
USE THE WANT ADS
Milford chronicle., 1937-04-30
@REBECCA'S TRIUMPH

A play entitled "Rebecca's Tri-
umph" will be presented in the Ave
nue. NJ. E. Church. Milford, on Fri
day evening. April 80, by the Ellen
dale Thespians for the benefit of the
Friendship Bible Glass.
This is a splendid performance
and the prices are adults. 25c; chill
dren, 15c. Please come and bring
your friends. Following is the cast
of characters:
Mrs. Rakeman, wealthy lady
(age forty). Mrs. Annie Warren;
Mrs. Delaine, a widow Gage sixty,
Mrs. Katherine Prettyman; Rebecca,
a founding (age nineteen), Winifred
Tucker; Clarissa Goldman Ia spins
teri, Mrs. Hazel Ellingsworth; Dora
Gaines, Margaret Dickerson; Sadie
Morrell, Annabelle Love; Jennie
Woodman, Bessie Warren; Emma
Stevens, Marian Draper; Grace
Annie Sheppard; Maria
Gray, Margaret Jones; Alice Leeds,
Lima Marker; Gussie Green, Joseph
inc Morris; Katie Conner, an Irish
girl, Mary Webb; Gyp, coiored girl,
Mabel Dickerson; Meg. a vagrant,
Fannie Dickerson.
Milford chronicle., 1937-04-30
Taxes Equal Dividends

The annual report of a Western
electric utility company vividly IL
Illustrates the increasing gravity of
/ the tax and legislative problems fac
ed by the electric industry.
In 1896, the company's taxes to-
tailed $7,153, ,509-an increase of 80
per cent over 1885. The preferred
and common dividends paid by the
company were very little larger than
taxes paid-$7,277, ,99S. In other
words, government received almost
as much of the company's earnings
as did its owners, and government
had no investment and took no risk.
Expressing the company's tax bur-
dens another way. in 1920 its taxes
amounted to $4.38 for each active
meter in service. In 1885 they
amounted to S6.25. And in 1886 they
touched the record figure of $40.
Taxes will be still higher. Existing
taxes will not go down. and new
taxes-such as the Social Security
Tax-go into effect.
1t would not be so serious II gov
ernment, as 1t increased the tax
burden borne by public service COM
panies. at the same time encouraged
themto expand. under fair regula-
tion, and increase their business and
But 1t is a curious para
dox that even as government boosts |
taxes on utilities, Ii is building sub
sidized. tax-free competitive plants
Of its own-and encouraging, 4
gifts and loans. the con-
struction of subsidized, tax-free mu-
nicipal plants.
In other words, it is deliberately
killing the goose that lays its golden
tax eggs and transferring the tax
oad to the remaining geese (the
)ublic).
No private business could remain
solvent and adopt a deliberate pol
cy of destroying its best paying Gus
omers.
II is high time the people awaken
o this intolerable situation and
ealize the great stake they have in
his vital problem-a cash stake
to nearly Is per cent Of
he entire gross income of private
lectric companies, which the peo-
lie collect in taxes and which would ..
ave to be paid by the people in ad- :
itional taxes on themselves, If pri-
ate utility earnings were destroyed. 6
Milford chronicle., 1937-04-30
Local And State NelOs
observation-disclosures xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

The Ladies Aid Society of the Ave-
nue. NJ. E. Church will meet at the
chapel, Wednesday afternoon, May
5 at 3 O'Clock.
The Faithful Circle of Kings
Daughters will meet with Mrs. Wal
ter L. Grier on Thursday. May at
three o'clock. This will be the last
meeting of the season.
Originally scheduled in Lewes May
IL and IL, the diocesan convention of
the Protestant Episcopal Church of
Delaware will be held in Emmanuel
p f. Church, Seventeenth Street and
Riverview Avenue, Wilmington.
-
The Friendship Glass of Slaughter
Neck NJ. E. Church will meet with
Miss Margaret Higman's on Monday
night, May 3. to make definite plans
for a mother and daughter banquet
to be held in the near future. All
members please be present.
Milford chronicle., 1937-04-30
TO HOLD AMATEUR
BOUTS HERE TONIGHT
[Cont.axed from First Psge1

[ContiAa~d from First Psge1
1853 pounds. of Harrington. Jack
son is the lad who put the mokis
on kid" Moore at the last fiesta
] Sharp in an interview given a re-
porter of this paper, claims he is
out to avenge the Moore defeat and
to keep the middleweight crown in
Milford.
In the main preliminary frankie
Ariemienda, 123 pound fistic idol of
Palisades, N. ]. will mix the leather
tamweight wizard from New York
City. Piaxxaia, frequent perform
er in the local ring, is a tough little
fighter who has attracted the atten-
tion of Lew Tender, and may soon
be given a tryout in the Quaker City
maestro's stables.
In the first bout of the triple wind
up "Jiggs" Greenly. 147 pounds. of
Lincoln, will meet Eddie Gutman,
152 pounds, Bronx, N. Y. Greenly, a
favorite with the local fans, hopes
at his last go when he was defeated
by a Baltimore star. Gutman, a
rough-and-tumble fighter will give
him plenty of trouble.
In the second wind-up Johnny Col
lister, 1872 pounds, of Denton, Md.
will meet Jimmy White, 130 pounds
of Schenectady, N. Y. Collister, the
pride of the Eastern Shore was de-
feated in his last bout here by the
Middle Atlantic S. A. U. champ.
White, one of the best fighters ever
to climb through the ropes in Mil
ford, was also defeated in his last
fight. but hopes to obtain a win over
Collister to reestabIish his rights to
challenge the S. A. U. champ; this
bout will undoubtedly be the fastest
on the card with both boys evenly
and both striving for a
In the third bout of the triple /
Jack Stanley. 1873 pounds. of
Md. will meet Balbo /
Esposito. 140 pounds. New York City.
newcomer in the local
fight circles is a hard infighter, and
packs a terrific wallop in either
hand. EspOsito is one of the finest
lighters produced in city which is
known for its champions, and holds
4 record of 81 knockout victories in
he amateur ranks.
The preliminary bouts will be four
rounds each. and the wind-ups will
De five FOUNDERS.
Milford chronicle., 1937-04-30
GARDEN DAY HELD
AT CENTURY CLUB
CONTINUED from First Pssel

lCosffDaed from First Psgel
Sipple; third, Mrs. William Warren
Class Iv-Artistic arrangement OF
berry bearing bushes, any foliage or
grasses allow: First, Mrs. Banning.
Class Miniature arrangement
not to exceed 6x6 inches: First, Mrs.
William Marshall; second, Mrs. Eliz-
abeth Riggs; third, Mrs. William
Warren.
Glass VI-Card tables to seat two.
arranged for luncheon, tea, or des-
sert: First, Mrs. George Draper;
second, Mrs. s. C. Evans; third, Mrs.
Wilson vinyard.
Honorable mention for Mrs. F. b.
Short and Mrs. I. d. Short for artis-
tic arrangement Of tables not class
ed.
The committee and chairman wish
to thank all who assisted or contri-
buted In any way.
A telegram from the president,
Mrs. F. b. Short and from Mrs. G.
Marshall Townsend came too late to
be presented. 1t brought greetings
from Tulsa, Oklahoma.