Evening star., 1938-03-06
CALIFORNIA RELIEF
EFFORTS RUSHED;
RAIN IS FORECAST
Mountain Is Moving Again.
Earth Sinks 2 Feet by
30O-Foot Crack.
II SCIENTISTS NARROWED
IN WILSON OBSERVATORY
Citizens Bolster Police Force to
Patrol City After Looting
of Two Homes.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, March 5.-Relief
and recovery moved forward tonight
in the storm torn areas Of Southern
California while a death toll Of 159
was tabulated.
Unsettled weather was forecast for
tomorrow with potential storm area
forming of the coast, but a cheering
crowd Of more than $4,000 saw the
running Of the 100000 Handicap at
nearby Santa Anita race track.
The flood death list stood at l59.
with SO identified and % unidentified
dead and "a reported missing. Charles
Porter OF haywood, carried as dead.
had fallen into the Los Angeles River
but was rescued. The body of Maria
Zuniga. 8. Of Fullerton, was found
at Anaheim. however. leaving the
totals from morning unchanged.
Mountain Moving Again.
Elysian Parks freak moving noun
tain, apparently given new impetus
by heavy rains. began moving in a
new section, causing police to order
persons from seven homes and three
business places.
A crack opened for a distance Of
800 feet and about 1la miles west of
the slide which recently wrecked Riv-
erside drive. In one place the earth
had sunk nearly feet
Eleven astronomers were marooned
at the Mount Wilson Observatory by
highway washous. but reported
plenty of food on hand. Mount Will
son topped the rainfall column in this
area. with 26 inches for the storm.
Following the looting of two homes
in Anaheim last night. 100 men with
police power patrolled the city to-
night, so of them from the National
Guard. The Mayor estimated damage
to city-owned property and streets
there at $225 900, while Orange Coun-
tvs loss was placed at $3.5O0,000.
Pack Horses Take Food.
Transportation methods Of the early
days were resorted to at San Bernar-
dino, when 900 pounds OF food was
packed on horses to be taken to the
isolated Lake Arrowhead and Crest
line mountain resorts. A baker said
he was flying bread to the Big Bear
Valley. Palm Springs and Victorville
Train service between Los Angeles
and San Francisco. and thence east,
was restored today, with the Southern
Pacific and Santa Fe using buses to
carry passengers to and from trains
at Indio and Barstow, respectively.
Nearly all highways had been reopened
for travel
At Fresno flood waters receded to-
day after inundating IA square miles
Of residential and. outlying area. but
the rising San Joaquin River menaced
Firebaugh, refuge of 500 migratory
workers who had been forced to flee
from a labor camp
The river reached dangerously near
the overflow stage at Firebaugh during
the afternoon and city officials con-
ferred on plans to prevent actual in
undation if possible.
Previously high water had inundated
the Miller Hotchkiss ranch labor camp
on the MADEIRA side of the river and
the migratory workers and their chill
dren fed
Garden District Inundated,
Fresno's fig garden district and some
loWlands were inundated by a break
in the .Herndon Canal and by run-off
water in Dry Greek.
With some streams still at the criti-
(See FLOODS, Page A-50