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Service Orders
ARMY Y.

ARMY.
Prosser, Col Walter E, Signal
Corps, Baltimore, to Atlanta, Ga.
Elder, Capt. Hartwell M, Quarter
master Corps, Fort Howard, Md, to
Hawaiian Department; November 27.
Holtzworth, Capt. Bertram A,
Field Artillery. Fort Hoyle, Md, to
Hawaiian Department: November 27.
Dawson, Capt. James T.. Field Ar
tillery, Hawaiian Department, to Fort
Department.
Bryant, Second Lieut.. Alexander
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tached Quantico, Va, to San Diego,
Calf.
Ennis, Second Lieut.. Louis A., de-
tached U. S. S. Rena Mercedes, An
napolis, to San Diego, Calf.
Moreau, Second Lieut.. Jean w. de-
tached Marine Barracks, to U. S. S..
Reina Mercedes, Annapolis.
Sabol, Second Lieut.. Stephen ",
detached Portsmouth, Va, to San
Diego, Calf.
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PLAN "STAG" NIGHT

CIUU W III iUIu
Event at Congressional.
The Cosmopolitan Club will hold a
stag" night at the Congressional
Country Club September %, Arthur
w. Defenderfer announced yesterday.
Members will participate in a golf
tournament in the afternoon. Dinner
will be at PM, to be followed by a
program of entertainment.
In addition large group of neo-
phytes will face the Initiation Com
mittee, as all new members of the club
since the last stag night are to be
taken in.
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MRS. ROOSEVELT TOLD
NEW HOMESTEAD PLANS

Arthurdale Advisory Committee
Discusses New Industries
for Project.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt was
hostess yesterday at the Presidents
Hyde Park estate to members of the
Arthurdale (W. Va Homestead Ad-
yisory Committee. which is consider
ing new industries for that first Of the
resettlement projects. She entertained
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MARINE.

Kincade, Col. Girard M, detached
Marine Barracks, to home; Novem-
ber !.
Phipps, Capt. William l., detached
Navy Yard, to u. S. S. Philadelphia
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the committee at luncheon.
The group includes Mrs. Roosevelt.
Bernard M. Baruch. Allie S. Freed.
Representative Randolph, in whose
district the homestead is located, and
Clarence &. Pickett, secretary OF the
Friends Society of Philadelphia.
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Concert Operas to Be Given.
Numerous operas will be presented in
concert form in Moscow, Russia.
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who mingle with other mothers and
other babies.
We can only wait and hope for the
best. but the situation still is bad
very bad"
The Portsmouth Gas Co. said q
shut-off was imminent and the power
supply was threatened as the river
continued to rise.
Gasoline was ordered conserved for
ambulances and motor boats.
Relief Worker Reports.
In New Richmond. near Cincinnati.
a relief worker reported
There is no immediate danger be-
cause Of the marvellous job of five girls
in the telephone exchange who have
stayed at their switchboards day and
night although water now is S inches
above the floor on the second floor"
Two men, planning to remove the
girls, said they would operate the
exchange after that.
In Aurora. Ind. IS miles from Gin
cinnati, a Red Cross worker said:
There's a foot of snow on the
ground. The situation is very serious.
OF the towns population of about
5000 I imagine the homes Of 1000 are
in water and that $500 have evacu-
ated their homes. We haven't had q
bit of power or gas since 7:15 Friday
morning"
Above Martins Ferry on the Ohio
the situation was less serious. The
East Liverpool River stage was Al feet
3 feet above food stage. Several
industrial plants suspended but prop
erty damage was expected to be slight.
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removed in trucks driven through
waist-deep water to the Lincoln
School. About $50 refugees were
transferred from the Lincoln to the
Mckinley School, while about 400
others were removed from the new
81 ,000,00O court house which has sew
eral feet of water in it.
Sheehan planned to urge forcible
removal of all persons in the flooded
areas who have refused to abandon
their homes.
Hundreds Of new deputies have been
sworn. Ten were placed at each soup
and bread line to maintain order.
An 11-car trainload of food from
Columbus was halted five miles from
the city, but the supplies were to be
brought in by truck. Sheehan said
much more food was necessary, as re-
lief agencies have the care of between
$4,000 and 10000 on their hands.
Greenup, KY, Is miles up the river.
surrendered to the rising waters late
today, and a train was sent to evacuate
the residents. Officials were uncertain
that the train would get through and
appealed by radio to hill residents to
bring drinking water to the marooned
citizens. All supplies had been ex-
hausted.
The Central Telephone Exchange In
Portsmouth. menaced by the ever-ris-
ing waters. was moved to q higher
building early tonight. Several hours
were expected to be required for the
cutover Meanwhile. the radio was
used to send out news.
Miss Charlotte johnson. director Of
Red Cross activities along greater
Portsmouth's l0-mile flood front,
where $4,000 homeless were suffering
from cold and scant rations, appealed
for boats.
There are several hundred persons
out there who must be rescued imme-
diately." she said. I'VE don't know
just how many there are. We haven't
got enough boats to get around.
We've got to have them If we're
going to save those peoples lives.
They've got no food and no heat.
Many Of these houses they are In are
near collapse"
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$5O,0)O,0()O SOUGHT
TO CONTROL RIVERS
Appropriation CopeIand's
Aim for Program in
Congress.
BY ]. A. O'LEARY,

With hoods again causing Sunering
and property damage in number Of
States, Senator Copeland, Democrat, Of
New York announced last night he
will fight for appropriation of at least
$50 ,000, 900 this year to carry forward
the flood control program authorized
by the last Congress.
AS chairman Of the Commerce Com
mittee, Copeland steered through the
last session comprehensive food
control enabling act. covering several
hundred proposed projects throughout
the country, but that measure was
merely the authorization.
The New York Senator said the
budget estimate as submitted for be-
ginning some Of those projects during
the next fiscal year Is $30,000,000.
which he regards as too small an
amount to permit satisfactory progress.
He recalled that when the enabling
act passed last May his hope was to
make 1t a 10-year program, financed
at the rate OF $4,000, 900 year.
Aim $50, ,0o0, 900 Appropriation.
IT intend to make every effort to
have the appropriation estimate for
the coming year raised to $50, 900, ,000."
Copeland declared.
In addition to heading the Com
merce Committee, which drafted the
authorizing act, Copeland also is
chairman Of the Appropriat Sub
committee for the War Department
supply bill, in which the funds for the
fiood-control project will be carried.
The Senator said the floods now
causing such heavy damage in Ohio,
Kentucky and other Midwestern
States serve to strengthen and en-
phasize the position he took In the
closing days OF the last Congress for
an immediate appropriation to start
the new fiood-control program. He
believes they make it more impera-
tive that at least $50 900 900 be made
available as the initial installment
this year.
The omnibus bill authorizing meas
ure started in the House in l935-the
first session OF the Seventy-fourth
Congress-but did not reach vote in
the Senate that year. Last year the
Senate passed 1t not long after the
disastrous Spring floods.
1928 Law Broadened.
The last Congress. by separate
bill, also broadened the scope Of the
1928 Mississippi flood control law. but
the Copeland measure laid down a
general policy for controlling foods
in all parts of the country and listing
the projects to be carried out as rap
idly as the size of the annual appro-
priation would permit. The law also
requires State cooperation in meeting
the cost. The States will be required
to purchase any lands needed to con-
struct the control projects. and to
meet maintenance costs after the
projects are completed.
Along with the projects for the
rest Of the country, the enabling act
authorizes four Potomac River basin
projects, one to protect Cumberland,
Nd, and vicinity; two in nearby West
Virginia. and one opposite Washing
ton. The local authorization is for
SSH 900 for Ievees and grade raising
to protect Boiling Field, Naval Air
Station. other Federal property and
the downtown portion Of the city. The
estimated cost of lands and damages
on this project was placed at $4,000
IN the law.
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TO drown II you don't was the general
chorus"
Inside the cell houses could be
seen water from the flooding Kentucky
River swirling over the top of many
cells. Coal oil lamps afforded dim
lights and a little heat. Shiyering
around them were groups Of prisoners.
beaten looking and detected, but smil.
ing as the Governor peered in and
spoke to them. Warden Hammond
furnished cigarettes to all inmates.
Field Ordered Cleared.
The Governor ordered a 25-acre
fleld near the State feebie-minded in
stitute here cleared and bedded with
sawdust and straw to provide a tenn.
porary prison camp for the convict
refugees. There the prisoners will be
housed in 500 tents being sent here by
United States War Department,
Three thousand cots and 5000 blankets
also were on the way Field kitchens
will supply warm food. Oil stoves will
furnish heat and light. A wire fence
will enclose the temporary camp.
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Ne,v Flood,vay, First of Great Control Jobs,
Likely to Get Seuere Test From High Waters
I3I,OOO.Acre Reservoir
Provides Protection
for Cairo.
Woodring Is EnrOute to
Area to See Project
in Operation.

The first Of the great new Federal
fiood-control projects in the Missis-
sippi Valley may be put to the test
for the first time II food waters
break through the levee between
Cairo, H.. and New Madrid, Mo-.
into the new Birds Point-New Madrid
fioodway.
Army engineers at. Charleston, Mo,
were informed that the food waters
had broken through about halfway
between Cairo and New Madrid yes
terday. but later the break was re-
paired and inundation Of the 13l,-
000-acre floodway, which extends for
81 miles along the west short of the
Mississippi was averted. The fioodway
is intended to provide emergency res
ervoir space to keep food waters be-
low the critical 60-foot stage at Cairo.
Secretary OF War Woodring is on
his way to the flooded area from
Washington to inspect the new food
way in operation. This project was
constructed at cost OF $2l 900, 600
as part of the great f1ood-control
program authorized as result OF
the heavy floods of 1927. which laid
waste thousands of square miles of
the Mississippi Valley.
Many Families in Area.
Despite warnings to evacuate the
fioodway area several days ago. the
Red Cross estimated that 20 per cent
of the 1,500 or more persons who live
in the area had not come out, it was
reported by the Associated Press.
The foodway consists of a system
Of double levees. one along the west
ern bank Of the Mississippi, the other
paralleling the river to the west, gen.
orally at distance Of about miles.
These great double levees extend 81
miles along the winding river.
Ordinary flood waters are confined
to the Mississippi channel by the first,
or riverside. levee, which is sufficient
to handle anything up to a food level
OF SO feet at Cairo. Should the river
rise above this stage, as it did yes
terday, the first levee, described by
Army engineers as of the fuse plug"
type. begins to admit the water to the
great reservoir area between the river
and the second levee miles back.
Reservoir Protects Cairo.
This reservoir, covering l31. 900
acres, Is expected to keep the river
below the tops of the 60-foot level
dikes around Cairo. Cairo, occupying
the point of land between the Ohio
and the Mississippi. is a danger point
in event of flooding of either the Ohio
or the Mississippi
The area of the floodway between
the levees is largely swamp and sec
ond-growth forest. Some of it, how
ever. has been under cultivation, the
/ 500 persons supported by these
farms having assumed voluntarily the
risk of living in the reservoir area for
the sake Of farming the rich land
1t is not anticipated, according to
Army engineers. that the floodway will
be called into action, on an average,
oftener than once in 10 years. The
last flood high enough to have inun-
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Flood Facts
Estimates of Homeless,
Dead and Plans
for Relief.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Homeless-Almost 100000 In 10
States-Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky. West
Virginia, Tennessee. Missouri. Arkan-
sas, Illinois, Mississippi and Pennsyl-
vania. Maryland. Louisiana and North
Carolina experience minor foods.
Dead-Ohio, 6: Kentucky. 5; Ten
nessee. 4; Illinois, 3; West Virginia,
Missouri and Arkansas, 2 each: Mis-
sissippi and Pennsylvania, each.
Total. 26.
Relief-Red Cross raising $4,000, 600
fund and has $l,O00,000 available to
finance assistance in inundated areas.
w. p. A. Diverts $4,000 workers to
relief and rescue activity.
Rescue-Coast Guard has nearly 100
boats In flood districts or en- route by
train. Scores OF private boats in op-
Grafton. Eight Army, nine National
Guard and three Coast Guard planes
assigned to observation duty.
Transportation-Str car. bus and
railroad service imperative at a num-
Der of centers and crippled in others
in Indiana. Missouri. Illinois, Ohio
and Kentucky.
Business-At virtual standstill In
Portsmouth. Ohio: Lawrenceburg,
Ind: Aurora. Ind; Point Pleasant,
w. Va. Retarded at Cincinnati, Louis
vile, Wheeling. w. Va; Paducah, KY;
Huntington, w. Va. and smaller COM
munities.
Health-Typus vaccine sent to
Louisville and Cincinnati. Typhoid
warning issued for Kentucky. Sick
ness reported among refugees at
Shawneetown. III. and Hickman. KY,
and in Kennett, Mo-, area.
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dated the fioodway occurred in 1927.
During the intervening years farming
may be carried on safely and profit
ably. The risk, Of course, lies in the
fact that floods cannot be forecast
accurately and when they come these
families stand to lose
Authorized After 1896 Flood.
The fioodway was authorized as a
part Of the great Mississippi food
control project following the disas-
trous 1927 floods. At that time the
food waters poured over the first levee
between Birds Point and New Madrid.
flowing back into the country west of
the river many miles past the line of
the present second levee.
The floodway Is of a different type
from the great spillway projects now
being planned farther down the Mis-
sissippi The spillways will provide
a second channel for the flood waters.
by-passing the surplus food water
through lands of low value paralleling
the river for long stretches. One of
SPAAWdyo OCCu
for the protection of New Orleans but
is not expected to be called into ac-
ton by the present Ohio River flood.
From New Madrid south to the
mouth Of the Arkansas the levees are
be.ng raised slightly. Army engineers
explained. Local "setbacks" will be
made below Helena. Ark. and at other
bottlenecks. These modified works are
designed to carry the highest pre-
dicted floods and are not expected to
be taxed in handling the high waters
from the Ohio.
In event of super food" how
ever. the levees opposite the back
water areas of the st. Francis and
White Rivers have been so constructed
az tn rrevasse and hermit fo0jinr Of
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WATER SUPPLY THREATENED.
Portsmouth Pumping Station Out Of
Commission.


PORTHMOUTH, Ohio, January %
(P).-With half of Portsmouth COW
cred by the Scioto and Ohio Rivers
and half its $4,000 citizens homeless,
City Manager Frank Sheehan urged
tonight that the water supply be con-
served.
The city pumping station went out
of commission late today as the Ohio
reached a stage of 67.5 feet, and the
supply of drinking water in the a.
TOO ,0OO-gallon reservoir could not be
replenished.
Sheehan said more than 1000 600
gallons had been used In the last "a
hours, and that water shortage was
imminent.
The city manager said he hoped to
have the pumps taken from the
inundated station and set up near
the reservoir. Several days would be
required for that work.
Several Hundred Maro0ned.
The pressing need was to save sew
eral hundred persons marooned in
second story rooms and to get ade-
quate food supplies to refugees who
crowd all available hilltop buildings.
Flood waters trapped 400 Negro
refugees in the Washington School
early tonight. but they were finally
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the backwater areas, where they can
do comparatively little harm.
FIOOdway Among First Projects.

the backwater areas, where they can
do comparatively little harm.
Floodway Among First Projects.
The new Birds Point fioodway, op-
posite the mouth of the Ohio. was
one Of the first new control projects
undertaken by the Army Corps of En-
gineers following the 1927 floods and
is the only one so far completed, ex-
cspt for one section OF the New Or
leans spillway.
The fioodway is expected to re-
duce the stages Of a food equal to
that Of 1927 so that the levees at
Cairo will have at least a 3-foot
freeboard. Mound City. several miles
up the Ohio from Carlo. also will
be benefited.
The new west levee from Birds
Point to New Madrid, the western
wall Of the fioodway, Is stronger and
higher than the existing levee on
the river bank and is expected TO
afford protection against any flood.
The land comprising the flood
way, between the two. levees. is ex-
pected to be protected. except in the
against all food stages so far re-
corded. except those Of the 1927 level.
Although use Of the hoodway means
destruction of the homes and farms Of
those who have elected to remain in
the area. it is expected to assure per-
manent protection to the $4,000 resi-
dents Of Cairo.
No Ohio Projects Completed.
None of the food control projects
in the Ohio Valley have been COM
pleted. Reports have not been re-
ceived at the War Department cover
ing the food damage to these projects,
but it is not anticipated it will be
serious. since the floods were expected
and all possible steps have been taken
to secure the construction against
damage.
The Ohio River Basin flood control
project includes . series of II dams
and reservoirs in the Ohio River Val.
ley for the protection of Pittsburgh
and the reduction of flood levels in
the Ohio Valley generally. The esti-
mated cost to the United States for
this construction, which was author
lied in the flood control act OF June
%, 1895, is s40.000,000 and the esti-
mated cost OF land and damages, s45,-
100000 more. The remainder of the
80 ,~,;Ir - L.
ton.
Most active of the IA projects is
the Blueston Reservoir on the New
River, where construction OF the dam
is in progress. This is the largest of
the ii projects and the cost of con-
struction is estimated at s11.6s4, 800,
in addition to which there will be a
cost Of $l,257,000 for land and dam
ages.
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semi-official estimates reckoned the
homeless at $500.
approximately one-seventh of Gin
einnati's 72-square-m area was
inundated.
Damage here was oficially forecast
ut s5,000,000.
A shoot down looters" order
sounded along the river front Of this
gateway to the South.
Police released a grocery store guard
who told them he had shot a colored
1ooter. The Negro, who was rushed
into q police station few moments
before, died on the floor there Of
bullet wounds.
The shoot to kill" order echoed in
suburban Newport, KY, where Chief
Leo Livingston said:
During this emergency police must
use drastic measures to curb crime. I"
In Cincinnati, where water flowed
in streets that never before were
flooded, general health conditions
were declared good.
Il don't believe there is any danger
Of an epidemic here" said DR.. F. K.
Harder, acting health commissioner.
The State Health Department sent
consignment of typhus vaccine to the
city and to other areas to minimize
the omnipresent peril.
Get Bread From Kentucky.
Cincinnati, the majority Of whose
residents live on the city's seven hills,
received bread for Northern Kentucky.
Electric generators continued to
function.
For 48 hours rescue workers had
maintained a ceaseless ferry service,
moving stranded residents to higher
ground.
To the actuality Of hunger for many
still stranded along the valley was
added the suffering of temperatures
below 20 and to S inches of snow.
But the cold was q mixed blessing
1t was expected to end the record
January rainfall that forced the Ohio
River and its many tributaries be-
yond their banks.
One hundred miles above Cincin-
natl, Portsmouth reported 10000 Of
10000 persons In the vicinity were
homeless.
Four inches Of snow added to the
hardships Of . city already half
covered with water as deep as II feet.
Nearby New Boston. o village iso-
lated by the food, radioed the urgent
plea:
Send milk to feed these hungry
babies"
The Red Cross rushed to answer the
appeal-just as 1t and q score of
other agencies were straining to meet
the demands of other districts.
The flood had done damage ON
cially estimated at 81 ,000. 900 in Ports
mouth-and many feared the worst
was still to come.
Lynn Wittenburg, veteran Ports
mouth Times reporter, pictured the
situation Of the refugees there:
Children sleeping on floors without
blankets. man and women rescued
just in the nick of time after their
homes collapsed before the pressure
Of this peaceful-looking water, babies
crying In the arms Of their mothers
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Ohio

Continued From First Page.)
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Hornet Sting Costs $25.

LOS ANGELES UP.-Last October
Oliver Hickey met a hostile hornet in
Griffith Park. a municipal institution.
Hickey filed q claim against the city
for 500. This week the City Council
denied the damages. Moreover, 1t
ordered the city attorney to submit
Hickey a bill for s25. 1t cost that
much to investigate his claim.