The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 27, 1937, Page 4

THE 20 Dead Afloat in a Louisville Streets / * inflammable materials, More Than 200 Already Have Succumbed to Pestilence in. Kentucky City Louisville, Ky., Jan, 27. — (») — A! night of terror, of flames, leaping to- | ward the moon-bright skies, of brown flood waters, body-laden, lapping at lightless homes, gave way Wednesday to the darkest dawn in all the history of once beautiful Louisville. Pestilence tore at the city, along with the tremendous flood waters of | the Ohio, now fixed at 57 feet—29j) above flood level—and spreading over | 30 of the 40 square miles of the city proper. City Health Officer Dr. Hugh Rod- man Levell estimated that 200 have died in three days of flood disases, in addition to the first batch of drown- ing victims—20 found floating in the streets of the inundated west end sec- tion. Three separate fires that did per- haps $750,000 damage in all, and threatened for hours to sweep the city just as the oil-inflamed floods ravaged part of Cincinnati, had died down, 230,000 Homeless So began the fourth day of hunger, fear of what the end may be, cold and Legislative 1 Calendar (By the Associated Press) Senate Resolutions Introduced Sen. Cone. Res. G—(Thacher)— Designating the American language as the official language in North Da- kota instead of “English.” Educa- tion. Bills Introduced S, B. 87—(Guthrie)—Providing for the application to highway purposes of all special taxes on motor vehicle transportation. Highways. S. B. 88—(Magoffin)—Making un- lawful certain discriminations in price in connection with sale of com- modities in the course of trade or commerce. State Affairs. 8. B. 89—(Lowe)—Providing valu- ation any real estate and personal property should not be increased more than 25 per cent without notice of intention. Taxes and Tax Laws. 8. B. 90—(Drew)—Providing city commissioners may consolidate offices homelessness for 230,000 out of theif desirable. Corporations, 330,000 population. S. B, 91—(Aasen)—Amending pres- Into Louisville poured first aid from |ent laws and make all reffles a lot- all parts of the nation as many cities, tery and unlawful where any valua- answering the radio call of Mayor | ble consideration is offered. Judiciary. Neville Miller for police assistance, 8S. B, 92—(Nelson of Grand Forks rushed state and city officers into the|by request)—Repealing chapter 174, section. laws of 1933, preventing recall of city Thousands of relief workers, doc- | elective officials. Judiciary. tors, nurses, police, national guards- 8. B, 93—(Crandall, McGillic)— men, boatmen who haven't slept for | Amending laws and setting up strict- Gays, staggered back into the fight, er code of ethics and regulations for holding on by nerve alone until rein-| practice of dentistry. Public Health. forcements could come up. 8. B. 94—(Drew, Watt, Crandall)— The scope of the disaster broadened | Providing that all cafes, restaurants rather than lessened’ with the com- parative pause in the rise of waters that have a!l but swept away Jeffer- and confectionaries in state, county and municipal public buildings must be let by contract to highest respon- sonville and New Albany, Ind., just} sible bidder where business amounts across the river, inflicting property|to more than $100 annually. Appro- damage that the most conservative admit must total $100,000,000 in a ten mile area. Parley Ends Squabble And as doctors battled a rising tide of disease attributed to the flood, watched fearfully for signs of typhoid, malaria, and counted in the thou-! sands cases of pneumonia due to lightless, heatless, foodless homes and exposure, the danger of official squabbling marring the work of relief disappeared after a three hour con- ference between federal army and civil authorities. Out on Bowman field 200 of the 600 regulars from Fort Benjamin Harri- son, Ind., were ordered to take’ over the city’s police duties. They will al- ternate policing the city for 24 hours shifts with Louisville officers, aug- mented by 500 patrolmen now on their way here from other cities. Louisville police were told to “go home and sleep 24 hours.” vost marshal, the mayor will com- mand both troops and police. Pass Night of Horror ‘As exhausted, breaking Louisville | Commissioners to levy one-half of one mill for park and recreational pur- waited prayerfully for aid, it looked back upon a night of horror such as few cities ever have experienced. At the mercy of any major fire, of delinquent real As pro- | annually. priations, S. B. 95—(Taxes and Tax Laws)— Permitting adjustment and payment and personal property taxes for 1935 and prior years. 8S. B. 96 — (Guenther, Thatcher, Gronvold, Lemke)—Approprating $6,- 000 to state historical society for de- velopment of International Peace Garden in Dolette county. Appropri- ations, 8. B, 97— Taxes and Tax Laws) — Permitting operation through receiv- ership of income producing property than a year, until delinquency satis- fied. House Bills Passed H. B. 58 — Reducing interest on county warrants from 7 to 4 per cent Indefinitely Postponed H, B, 65—Permitting county park f poses, and exempting from levy limi-! tations. H. B, 64 — Prohibiting treating in the drawn citizens saw three start |Places licensed to sell’ intoxicating during the night, and saw all three |/iquors and beverages. burn themselves down to comparative | 8. B, 27—Prohibiting governor or “control” without human hindrance. |Other state officers to appoint legis- First came the Louisville Varnish |!@tor to any clvil office. works, a huge structure packed with Damage was estimated at $500,000. There was an that burned itso garage, and finally the awesome spectacle of an entire block of the old | Eliminating reqiurement that at least sheds |60 per cent of previous bonds, war-/| flame as|rants and certificates of indebted- again firemen were held blocks away | ness issued, Tlinois Central lighting the night railroad with by water a dozen feet deep. All your friends have lunch |—Providing for public display of the at the Blue Blazer. A Fine | Whiskey| Delightfully Mellow counties may issue seed or feed war- rants. State Affairs, ; board chairman, Bills Introduced H. B. 83—(Adam)—Raising required |vote for consolidation of counties plosion, then g fire | from simple majorities to 60 per cent out quickly in &|of legal votes. Counties, H. B. 84 — (Frazier and Rait) — must be paid before H, B. 85—(Tweeten and Hofstrand) specifications of gasoline offered for | sale at retail. Ways and Means. | H. B, 86—(McInnes)—(by request) —Establishing code of ethics for den- tal profession and prohibiting corpor- ation practice of dentistry. Public | Health. “H. B, 87— (Kapaun) — Eliminates provision that upland game bird sea- son provide for taking Chinese ring- neck pheasants or Hungarian par- tridge whenever grouse season is open. Game and Fish. \lowa Coaching Quest Centered in Capital! Towa City, Ia., Jan. 27.—(#)—The Univesity of Iowa coaching quest cen- tered in Washington, D. C., Wednes- day, but the state university athletic ; board members appointed to inter- view candidates for the job were ex- pected to extend their travels before | returning here, Prof. C. M. Updegraff, athletic and Prof E, G. Schroeder, newly appointed athletic director, arrived in the capitol city Tuesday, presumably to viist Arthur (Dutch) Bergman, Catholic univer- sity football coach, From Washington the Hawkeye board members were expected to go} to Dallas, Tex., to meet Matty Bell, Southern Methodist football mentor. WOMEN WHO HOLD THEIR MEN N° matter how much your back aches and your nerves scream, your husband, because he is only @ man, can never under- stand why you are so hard to live with one week in every month. ‘Too often the honeymoon ex- wise woman never lets her husband know by outward sign that she is Hl ® victim of periodic pain. For three generations one woman has told another how to go ‘“smil- ing through” with Lydia EK. Pink- ham's Vegetable Compound. It helps Nature tone up the system, thus lessening the discomforts from the functional disorders which the three ordeals of life: 4. ‘Turnicg from Girlhood to womanhood. 2. Pre- paring for | Motherhood. 3, Ap- Don't be a three nua au juarter wife, | take LYDIA ‘E. PINRHAM 3 VEGETABLE COMPOUND and where taxes are delinquent for more! , NEVER LET THEM KNOW dation with You couldn’t have a ton of coal delivered in Portsmouth, 0.; you had to go help yourself! Here refugees are taking coal from a marooned car. They car- ry their stove right with them, * +* * * * No Wet paws for this cat if he can help it! The tabby perched on the window sill of an aban- doned home in Portsmouth, O., and watched the Ohio rise until it nearly lapped his feet. BISMARCK TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY; JANUARY 27, 1937 PICCARD PLANS HOP Man Partly Cause ° : WITH 2,000 SMALL Of Gigantic Flood BAGS CARRYING HIM Minnesotan Believes He Gan FINDS BABY SAFE Soar 17 to 18 Miles Above Earth Notice of Appeal Is Filed in Liquor Case William Abelson: of Bismarck was seAtenced to serve 90 days in jail and pay a fine of $100 and costs when he was brought up for sen! lice court here Wednesday after conviction by a jury of violating the city’s new liquor ordinance. F. E. » Abelson’s attorney, filed notice Of appeal and City Magistrate E &. Allen granted a week's stay of the execution in order that a $500 bond might be procured. WEBB ASKS LEGION TO AID SUFFERERS Calls North Dakota Ranks to Remember Service Program of Organization Grand Forks, N. D., Jan. 27.—(?)— American Legion posts in North Da- kota were instructed Wednesday by Frank Webb, department commander, to do all in their power to swell the total of relief funds being raised to ai@ flood sufferers in the Ohio and Mississippi river valleys. “Service to the community, state and nation,” Webb said “is the cor- nerstone of the Legion program, and seldom in the history of our coun- .| try has disaster struck so ruinously and widely as in the present flood. “I therefore call upon every Legion post and Legionnaire in North Da- kota to do their utmost to assist the American Red Cross in its endeav- ors to alleviate the fearful sufferings caused by the floods.” The state commander called at- tention to the fact that in the flooded districts, thousands of Le- gionnaires have formed relief unis and are taking an active part in rescuing the flood sufferers and as- sisting the refugees. He asked the North Dakota Legion men to do all i Hastening Runoff of Water Plus Abnormal Weather Blam- On the job to allay the of flood refugees at W. Va. Nurse Hilda Ghi here is shown tending to tiny tots of Mr. and Kitchen of East top with the small they have reached with Minnesota in- struments is 16 miles, John H. Day of San Antonio, Tex., captured a 4-month-old panther cub. The “kitty” consumes about six pounds of meat daily. showed the strain he had endured when he clasped his child from rescuers who brought it among other victims from the flooded west end of the city.—(Associated Press Photo) Ys in Jt had saturated thi january, sal e so that the run-off of additional pre- cipitation was near maximum, He said that floods in January were not unusual, : PENSION SPENDER ‘TO GET FIVE MORE MONTHS FOR TEST Chelan Mayor Plans to Issue Checks to Foil Souvenir Hunters The perfect dinner is a symphony of Say Hitler Ready to Dissolve Reichstag) in inner Nazi circles to be preparing to dissolve the reichstag in its present Hd form when it convenes Satur- lay. Although official confirmation was Hot obtainable, these circles said they expected Hitler would declare the state no longer needs @ body of 741 men existing only to ac tas a sount, | ing board for Der Fuehrer’s special} pronouncements. ‘When conditions are ready fo rthis step, it is known, the Nazis plan to create a substitute for the reichstag |, on the form of a smaller, more com- of Schilling - that’s the proper finale. Schilling Coffee Another one for Drip Groceries coming up! Sufferers at Portsmeuth, O., found food scarce. When it did arrive by boat it generally had to be lifted to second-story refuge spots by Tope, as shown here. One for Percolator = Chelan, Wash., Jan. 27—(?)—The nation’s original pension spender—C. ©. Fleming, 63—was beck in the Floods at Known dead: 137, KENTUCKY Known dead 53; estimated home- less 300,000, Louisville—Health commissioner es- timated at least 200 more persons had died of disease directly attributabie to the flood; regular soldiers moved in at mayor's request to act as police; airplanes brought police and medical supplies from other cities: 230,000 homeless with majority evacuated and hospitals packed; three serious, fires burned out overnight. Paducah—Refugees reached Illinois, across Ohio river by boat; about 1,000 remaining with rescuers attempting to reach them, Henderson—Refugees from lower districts concentrated here, many re- ported ill, OHIO Known dead 13; estimated home- less 103,000, Cincinnati—Ohio river ceased ris- ing, although holding close to 80- foot. level; city’s electric and water supplies functioned on intermittent basis and 30,000 homeless within city had hopes of speedy return to their homes; Red Cross reported no danger of an epidemic; firemen used much of emergency water supply to ex- tinguish apartment fire. Portsmouth—Officials believed dis- aster “whipped” if river holds present 75-foot level; about 35,000 homeless on hilltops with 2,000 evacnated, ILLINOIS Known dead 6; estimated homeless 50,009, Cairo—Retief workers pushed over. icy, snow covered streets to evacuate one-third of 13,000 residents while crews hurried construction of addi- tional bulwarks above 60-foot high levees; Ohio river fell six inches from record peak of 58.67 feet but weather bureau officials predicted it. might rise again to 60 or 61 feet; Gov, Henry Horner, on personal survey of flood area, called for contributions of money and clothing. Golconda—National guard’ planned to build pontoon bridge so that refu- gees arriving from Paducah, Ky., can cach dry ground; the village is iso- lated by water. Harrisburg—This city, 22 miles from the Ohio river, prepared for inun- $1,000,000 coal mine already wrecked. Shawneetown, Brookport. Maune, New Haven, Mounds—Totally or par- tially submerged. TENNESSEE Known dead 9; estimated homeless 175,000. Memphis—Army engineers, predict- ing crest of Mississippi flood next week, reinforced river levees: all res- cue and relief work turned over to Red Cross and other civil agencies; ons sheltered in fair grounds ronville—Red Cross warned all residents to evacuate, INDIANA * Known dead 9; estimated homeless 75,003. their hurried northward, leaving te eC (By the Associated Press) Estimated total homeless: Estimated total damage: $300,000,000 Evarsville—Thousands of refugees! amendment authorizing the wrecked homes behind; city prepared pact body or senate comparszle to money Wednesday with @ promise of| B® ussolini"s Gl (ad Gol painailiea hearers legis ree evaead CONOM Y : (Ga) a ance ployed orchard worker eard ths Bancorporation Has | We Deliver GROCERY news from Isom Lamb, county pl happy ; Townsend manager. “Tt Fleming doesn't get @ Job, pay- ing at least $200 8 month by the end of’ January, he shall have $200 a month for five months.”- Flemin; Gross Earnings Gain, Minneapolis, Jan. 21.—()—The| Northwest Bancorporation and af-; filiated banks Wednesday reported Grocery Specials Jan. 27th to Feb. 2nd, Inc. Tomatoes, No. 2% Stand- 750,000 Sunsweet Prunes; for flood crest of 55 feet, three feet] Said g: “And if I get that| operating earnings for 1936 of $3,-| above night’s level; -break in water| pension, me and maw will build uS 332,014 a decrease of $665,056 from | an § 25c medium size, 25 c main caused apprehension; national| q little home. Wouldn’t that be some-| 1935. Gross earnings of the Bancor-| for ...... teeee 2-Ib. pkg. ....... guardsmen in control of 33 southern] thing?” poration and its affiliated banks in-} a counties, t Meanwhile, Mayor W. T. Price| creased $368,646, or 17 per cent over Minneopa U-8-B-4 Ss sd New Albany—About 75 per cent of] went forward with plans for a new | 1935. I. Vanilla re wansdown it eS micaneade “souvenir-hunter ee test, bared ec it orn. Cake Flour eftersony} iy a and] checks instead of currency. feared doomed; national guardsmen] will be given to a “pensioner” to, « | ‘fir endaand No, 2 tin Lge. pkg. 25¢ preparing complete evacuation of in-| he chosen at Saturday’s Roosevelt 733 its i 19¢ 2 for 27c nut free. - ~“e . (ORE TENDER MISSOURI ORE ” Happyvale Dill Fancy Red Salmon, Known deed 14. Extimatéa home-|Potato Stocks Muc MORE DELICIOUS | Pickles, qt. jar... 1 9c 16-oz, tall tin... 27c Lower Than Year Ago: Washington, Jan. 27.—(?)—Mer-' chantable potato stocks on Jan. 1/ less 20,000, New Madrid—George Myer, Red Cross disaster director, warned resi- dents to evacuate saying: “The levees Purex Cleanser, qt. bottle ...........17¢ are sure to break. They will drown " 4 like ‘rats ins trap Unless they get] Were reported Wednesday by the de: Pillsbury Bran, 16 Treesweet Lemon 13 out while there is time.” 78,011,000 bushels, compared with large pkg. ....... Cc Juice, 742-02. tin. . Cc ; ARKANSAS 105,000,000 a year sgo, and 98,263,000, ( : Known dead 18, Estimated home-| "9 S7% Siects in important pro-| Yox Zs See Mother’s Oats, quick or reg., lge. pkg. 29 Tess 20,250, Little Rock—Gov. Carl E. Bailey ‘said number of homeless might reach 100,000; refugees were cared for in| army tents, box cars, homes, and Public buildings; national guerds- men patrolled Mississippi river front. MISSISSIPPI Known dead one. Estimated home- less 4,500. Clarksdale—Red Cross estimated 900 families homeless in Delta but unofficial sources placed the figure at three or four times that number; many refugees in camps established by Red Cross and municipalities; en- gineers kept careful watch on levees which appeared strong. WEST VIRGINIA Known dead 10. Estimated homeless 100. ‘Wheeling—Ohio rivet began reced- ing; authorities redoubled relief en- ve damage unofficiaily esti- mated at $9,000,000 in state. Parkersburg—Sheriff Hays ordered his men to stop looting and issued a “shoot to kill” order. \ PENNSYLVANIA Known dead 3. Estimated home- Tess 3,000. Pittsburgh—Damage estimated un- officially at $1,000,000; Ohio, Alle- | gheny, and Monongahela rivers start- ! ed falling; relief supply launches sent downstream to aid harder hit com- munities. SOUTH CAROLINA Known dead one. (1 Dinner Pilate Free) a) ducing states were: Minnesota, 2,312,000 bushels, North Dakota 1,156000 bushels. MACARONI PRODUCT RENE BORDON s' oll \ Bae CHRYSLER THE TALK OF THE WHOLE SMART WORLD! 125 MASONS CONVENE Grand Forks, N. D., Jan. 27.—(®)}— After opening their 48th annuai con- iVocation here, 125 members of the Royal Arch Masons and Royal and Select Masters attended the annual jbanquet. Speakers were Fred H. Golstone of Grafton, and Walter L. Stockwell, Fargo. Albert B. Tverberg of Grand Forks presided. 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