The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-03

oWd1APCQs LIE ObAJ HOVCob Wno Uy boat. In these stricken areas were Venice, Santa Monica, Compton, Lennox, Bell, Van NuyS, Lomita and Culver City.
 The American Telephone and Telegraph reported that its main cable between Los Angeles ano San Francisco was submerged and de- commissioned shortly after midnight and the only means of transmission left was short wave radio.
 The Pajaro river left its banks at Watsonville early today and the po- lice department sounded 8 general alarm. Residents were warned to leave the lowlands. The river runs through the center of the town of 15,000. It had risen several feet in few hours. Sandbags were piled in front of stores. Many homes were flooded.
 In the surrounding foothills, sherif's deputies moved about in automobiles equipped with loud speakers, warming residents to flee, and others had rowboatS to aid in evacuation.
 Heaviest Kind of Rains
 The flood was accumulated from heavy rains, which measured 6.25 inches here in "A hours, and 1065 inches in four days.
 Movie stars were marooned in their palatial homes in the hills and can- yons. Madeline Carroll, blonde English star, was unable to leave her home at Malibu Beach and her telephone line was out, hence she had no means of communication. George Marshall, director for 20th Century Fox studio, was missing. He left his home for the studio and failed to arrive. It was Lelieved that his car was stalled on the flooded road.
 At Laurel canyon, on top of Look out mountain, Michael Whalen, Ida Lupino and Tom Rutherford were isolated in their homes. A bridge had washed out.
 Studio Workers Held There
 Those who were at work in studios yesterday stayed there. Shirley Temple spent the night in bunga- low on her studio lot. Warner Brothers studio converted sound stage into dormitory for chorines and another for boy actors. Louise Hovick, the former Gypsy Rose Lee of New York burlesque show houses, doffed her evening dress and waded from her home to an automobile. Franchot Tone thumbed 8 ride to his studio on baker truck. Myrna Loy abandoned her low-slung road ster and borrowed her gardner's an- cient Cadillac which rode well above the flooded streets
 Paramount's lot was flooded and Sylvia Sidney, George Raft, Dorothy Lamour, Mary Carlisle and Ray Midland rode from one set to another in rowboats.
 The worst destructive force in the city proper was the Los Angeles river, usually dry, which had spread out block wide carrying the waters from the highlands to the ocean.
 Carried Out to Sea
 It was estimated that Is persons had drowned in the river and that most of them were carried shrieking to sea. Warships anchored offshore occasionally put out small boats to make rescues. Bluejackets picked up Lloyd Falksted, 26, who was swept out when the Long Beach bridge fell. He estimated that 15 persons were on the bridge at the time and he told of seeing a woman and two small boys drown. Search lights from the battlesnips swept the shore.
 Much of the communication was carried on by short wave radio. No trains or airplanes moved and au- tomobile traffic was confined to streets in the highland parts of the city.
 Other streets were submerged. The body of an unidentified woman, drowned, was found early today in the gutter on Riverside drive.
 Hospitals Crowded
 Hospitals were crowded with per- sons suffering from shock and bruises. Some were caught by the swirling waters and carried along the streets for a mile or more be- fore they were rescued.
 The greatest danger today was to residential areas below flood control dams. Many of these sections were evacuated. Reservoirs were rapidly filling from the mountain torrents near Tujunga, Pacoima, Santa Anita, San Dimas, Eadon, New San Gabriel, Old San Gabriel, Padding stone, Devils Gate, Saw Pit and Live Oak. In some places water