Evening Star Newspaper, January 23, 1937, Page 1

(U. 8. Weather Bureau Fcre.ast.) Rain, mixed with sleet or snow tonight and tomorrow; colder tonight, with lowest temperature about 30 degrees; gentle to moderate northwest winds. Temperatures —Highest, 67, at 5 p.m. yesterday: lowest, .39, at 10:30 a.m. today. Closing New York Markets, Page 12 Entered as second class matter post office, Washinston, D. C. 85th YEAR. No. 33870. GASOLINE FIRE THREAT LOOMS IN CINCINNATI AS FLOOD HITS Tank Cars Get| Loose From Moorings. WATERS SWEEP | EIGHT STATES| 270,000 Are Home- less as Relief Is Speeded. By the Assoclated Press. WASHINGTON—Chairman Cary T. Grayson marshals 3,700 Red Cross chapters in campaign for $2,000,000 to aid 270,000 homeless or needy in eight States hardest hit by floods— Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Tennes- see, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio and ‘West Virginia. CINCINNATI—Ohio River rise stops at record crest of 72.7 feet, 1.6 above previous all-time high, predicted. Estimates of Ohio flood homeless | range from 50,000 to 75,000. PITTSBURGH—Cold weather eases | flood fears. Pennsylvania homeless | total 4,500; West Virginia, 20,000. LOUISVILLE—Red Cross says Ken- tucky flood refugees may number | 66,000 at peak. JNDIANAPOLIS—Red Cross estimates 33,000 flooded out in Indiana, pre- | dicts 60,000 when river crests | reached. NASHVILLE—Weakening levees cause exodus of 2,500 near Tiptonville. Total of 4,500 homesless in Middle | saved Pittsburgh from a repet: @h WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 1937.—THIRTY-SIX PAGES. ##% Receding waters of the swo. - n Allegheny today apparently March. This view shows the water pouring into Water street on the fringe of the “Golden Triangle” business district. 72.8 FT. it.on of the great flood of last —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. R, S Missouri, Illinois and Arkansas rises to 22,000. Botton lands dwellers Red Cross Campaign on as President Orders Federal driven to ridges in Southern Illinois. Ohio River stage near 60-foot safety Agencies to Act. BULLETIN. level at Shawneetown, IIL Advised by the American Red Cross that 270,000 persons already are homeless in the flood-stricken Midwest, President Roosevelt today issued a proclamation calling on the American people to contribute immediately toward a $2,000,000 relief fund for the Red Cross. Bt the Assoctated Press. CINCINNATI, Ohio, January 23.— More than 75,000 Ohioans made | homeless by a record Ohio Rivar flood | faced hunger and bitter cold today | and the threats of fire and disease. While the river swirled past Cin- cinnati 72.8 feet deep—20 feet above flood stage—that city's fire chief warned of the danger of more than a million gallons of gasoline floating on three miles of the Millcreek bottoms. The Cincinnati area strove mightily to care for 56,500 refugees, while the | Portsmouth district, 100 miles uvp- stream, reported 20,000 of its 70,000 residents homeless. | A milk and food shortage threat- | ened in industrial Portsmouth, half | covered with water to a depth as | great as 11 feet. Damage there was officially set at $1,000,000, while Cincinnati's j0ss was forecast at $5,000,000. In scores of other villages and cities along 200 miles of the Ohio in this Btate the story was much the same. In Cincinnati the unofficial word went out to “shoot the looters.” Offi- cials were bound to conserve the food supply—cut transportation facilities. Increasing the suffering of the homeless were temperatures below 20 in much of the flooded area. Warning Is Sounded. Pire Chief Barney J. Houston warned that the Millcreek Bottom from its mouth at the Ohio River for 3 miles north to the Cumminsville sec- tion of Cincinnati was in danger of bursting into floating fire. He appealed by radio to citizens to take extraordinary precautions with cigarettes, matches and all kinds of flame. Houston reported more than a mil- lion gallons of gasoline, kerosene and fuel oil floating on the water, sending heavy fumes over the surface. Railroad tank cars had broken away * from their moorings and released the fuel, he reported. Pire headquarters reported a 30,000~ gallon tank of gasoline at the plant of the Gulf Refining Co. turned over and spilled its contents. Acting Marshal Louis Purcell re- ported the gasoline spreading in and around flooded buildings. He threw 8 cordon of firemen, police and vol- (See FLOODS, Page A-T.) Athlete Elected Campus Queen By WideMargin Mitsi Green Quickly ‘Abdicates’—Co-eds Are Peeved. B9 the Associated Press. OXFORD, Ohio, January 23.—Hand- some Mitzie Greene, the varsity foot ball player with hair on his chest and freckles on his hands, won the beauty queen election at Miami University by a landslide today. Gleeful fellow students turned down 25 beautiful co-eds to place the youth ‘with the catchy name on a throne. Notified of his election as he was ehaving this morning, Greene an- nounced: “T sbdicate. “If my piéture goes in the Recensio (the college year book) with those ‘women, it will be over my dead body.” Runners-up among the co-eds pro- claimed that if Greene’s picture headed the beauty section they wanted none of it. Said Eleanor Mitchell, a red-haired girl from Lebanon, Ohio: “If Greene’s picture isn't thrown out, the whole contest will be nothing more than = burlesque. Why next year lormcbt;:*J t Al run a gorilla, or something, queen.” off by flood-wrecked | With Washington’s quota set at $24,- | 000, the Red Cross today began a | Nation-wide campaign for a $2,000,000 | flood relief fund after President | Roosevelt ordered Federal agencies to | join in atding the victims. | Gen. F. R. Keefer, chairman of the | District Chapter of.the Red Cross, | issued the following statement this | morning: 1chnpter has just received from the | National Red Cross a request for a | contribution of $24,000 to meet the | need of flood victims in eight Cen- | tral States. Contributions are solicited and will be received by the D. C. Chapter at 1730 E street and turned over to the National Red Cross at once. This chapter is heading the list with a contribution of $1,000 im- mediately available.” 270,000 Estimated Refugees. Chairman Cary T. Grayson, mobiliz- ing the 3,700 Red Cross chapters, es- timated 270,000 persons were homeless or needed assistance in the eight States —Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Tennes- see, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio and West Virginia. His call for contributions came less | than 10 months after the Red Cross floods of March, 1936. The President acted at a cabinet meeting yesterday on receipt of Gray- son’s report. Fourteen thousand work relief em- ployes in the affected States were di- verted to rescue and relief duty. And the Coast Guard rushed surf boats and amphibian planes to remove ma- rooned families. The Food and Drug Administration ordered a rigid inspection of food supplies in co-operation with local and State authorities. Paul B. Dunbar, assistant chief, said it might be necessary to repeat QUAKE STOPS CLOCKS Eastern Japan' Shaken, but No Serious Results Reported. TOKIO, January 23 (#).—An earth- quake stopped clocks and toppled household articles to the floor in eastern Japan today. No casualties or serious damage were reported. The District of Columbia has receiving and acknowledging in Washingtonians. Evening Star. the ball rolling. Those who desire to submit “The District of Columbia Red Cross | raised a $3,000,000 fund for sufferers | in the New England and Ohio Valley | Star Will Receive Funds for Red Cross Flood Relief —_ BOMBING CHARGED T0 RECH PLANES ‘Mtack on Loyalist Airport Near Mediterranean Is Laid to Germans. BS the Associated Press. VALENCIA, Spain, January 23— | | Almeria port authorities, reporting | officially to the Spanish Socialist gov- | ernment. charged today German sea- | | planes bombed the government air base | at Roquestas, on the Southern Mediter- | ranean coast. The report, delivered to the office of | Air Minister Indalecio Prieto, asserted five Nazi planes, based on a German | warship, dropped a number of bombs on the airfield 12 miles southwest of Almeria. One of the five planes, it was charged, came down near the vessel after the bombardment and was taken aboard. The report said the warship | was believed to be the Nazi pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee. | | The time of the alleged attack was set at 6 a.m. today. A Socialist vigilance officer made the first report to Almeria authorities from Puenta del Sabinal, the allegation said. He declared he followed the plane movements with binoculars from his station on the southern coast. Four of the planes flew off in the direction of Ibiza, one of the Balearic Islands, he said, while the fifth was lifted to the warship’s deck. The warship, prior to the asserted assault on the aviation base, was cruis- ing 8 miles southeast of Cabo de Gata, the report said. The charges were declared to have been substantiated by other vigilance officers stationed around Almeria. The air ministry announced Socialist planes had bombed an insurgent fleet concentration in the harbor of Cadiz, | sinking one of the vessels. Among the many ships anchored in the Fascist port on the southwestern coast of Spain was the insurgent cruiser Canarias. As the government aviators flew away after loosing their deadly cargo, they said they saw one ship slowly sinking in the harbor. A goyernment squadron also bombed the town of Motril in the southern province of Granada, the ministry reported. Advanced Positions Fortified. Meanwhile, Socialist troops fortified advanced positions on the northwest limits of Madrid after bitter fighting to repulse a Fascist drive to recapture lost territory. The government forces, culminating a week on the offensive against insur- gent shock troops in the University City area, flung their lines deeper into Fascist territory on an arc radiating from west to north. Although the charges gained only a little ground, defense commanders claimed they attained dominating positions throughout the devastated, embattled area. The militiamen advanced sgainst (See SPAIN, Page A-2.) ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION UNON FFIERHTS LABIR SPYING AND SELLIN OUT ATA Employers Are Suckers in Undercover Work, Says Alexandria Mayor. U. S. AGENTS LISTED IN WITNESS’ RECORDS War and Justice Departments Disclaim Connection With Metal Trades Association Case. BY JOHN C. HENRY. Mayor E. C. Davidson of Alexandria, Va., General Secretary of the Inter- national Association of Machinists, today told the Senate Civil Liberties Committee that his international union has had “very bitter” experience with the National Metal Trades As- sociation over the last 30 years. “During that entire period, we have | experienced instances of men being framed and blacklisted through ef- forts of the association's lplu,"’ Davidson said. “In many cases, our members and their families have been | threatened with physical injury and loss of jobs by agents of the associa- tion.” “Most of these fellows will gell out | to anybody with the money,” David- | son continued. “We have frequent offers from spies to sell out other[ Spies.” | “Just who is the sucker under this arrangement?” asked Senator Thomas, Democrat, of Utah. “The employer is the sucker be- cause these men sell them out every day. These spies don't even want to break up unions completely because | then they couldn't sell their services' to industry. Key to Industrial Woes. ‘ “If espionage were discontinued, I believe 75 per cent of our industrial| troubles would end. | “We've employed spies to uncover other spies, but we don't trust any of them. The employers seem to be the | only ones who trust industrial spies. | “We've known of many cases where | employers paid as much as $100 for | union convention proceedings that | were available at my office for post- | age only.” Asked if his union knew of associa- tion blacklists, Davidson said: “Oh, yes; I was a victim of their list years ago in the Norfolk area.” Because he took part in a strike in 1901, he added, he was refused em- | Ployment in plants in that area. Finally, he said, he changed his name | several times, working under different | names thereafter in several plans. “The N. M. T. A. is the agency in this country that has blocked collec- | tive bargaining in the metal trades throughout the country. They know | that any real meeting of employers and employes brings eventual agree- ment and there would be no further field for their association.” U. S. Agents Named. Prior to Mayor Davidson's testi- mony, L. A. Stringham, Eastern repre- | sentative of N. M. T. A., had produced | typewritten memoranda, but no origi- nal documents, naming neariy a dozen present and former agents of the | Justice Department, one Army Intelli- gence officer and one Navy Intelli- gence man with whom he said repre- | sentatives of his association had con- ferred at various times about indus- | trial workers and sabotage activities, | War and Justice Department offi- | cials denied any connection with the | association. Navy spokesmen declined to comment. As questioning developed that the subpoena under which Stringham was appearing was not fully complied with, Chairman La Follette announced that the subpoena would be extended and amended so that all information, in | whatever form, in possession of the association and bearing on its rela- tions with Government departments’ must be produced. In addition, the chairman an- nounced, subpoenas would be served | also on H. J. Bundock and Joseph | Holub, employes of the association, who Stringham testified had been in contact with Government agents. According to Stringham, association contact has been made during recent (See SPY CASE, Page A-11.) Summary of Page. Amusements C-12 Page. Obituary .._A-10 Financiel _._A-12 Lost & Found A-3 FOREIGN. Plot against U. 8. Radek. Woman's Pg.. B-8 is charged to Karl Page A-1 German planes charged with bombing Loyalist airport. Page A-1 Hirota cabinet overthrown by Diet's united front. Page A-1 NATIONAL. Alexandria mayor tells Senators of labor espionage. Page A-1 Pire threat looms as Cincinnati flood reaches 72.7 feet. Page A-1 U. 8. agencies help flood sufferers; Red Croes seeks $2,000,000. Page A-1 been assigned a quota of $24,000 for flood relief by the American Red Cross. The Evening Star will assist in raising the required amount by its columns the contributions of Make checks payable to District Chapter, American Red Cross, for flood relief. Bring or mail them to the cashier, The The Star has made a contribution of $250 to this fund to stort their contributions directly to the American Red Cross may send or deliver cash or checks to_the District Chapter, American Refims, 1730 E street. Leaders refuse to alter views in auto strike. Page A-1 Citizenship ban on enlistees in foreign wars studied. Page A-2 Citrus fruit crops of Californis again attacked by cold. Page A-3 Wife and son released after quiz in FEDERAL ¢ Foening Star HOUSING ADMINISTRATION CouLD DO NO BETTER THAN PROVIDE A ROOF FOR THIS SORT OF THING!, PLOT AGAINST U. 5. CHARGED TO RADEK Romm, Ex-Correspondent of lzvestia Here, Is Named as Aide. BY the Associated Press. MOSCOW, January 23.— Soviet | Russia opened the trials of 17 once | esteemed Bolshevists today with an | amazing account of “full confessions” | to a plot to partition Russia between | Germany and Japan and to aid Japan with Soviet oil in event that nation | went to war with the United States. ‘The Soviet government placed Karl | Radek, bearded man of letters, and 16 of his accused co-plotters on trial for their lives in what was a gay ball room in the Russia of the tsars. | America’s new Ambassador, Joseph E. | | Davies, listened avidly. Reading of the startling indictment showed complete admissions of guilt allegedly had been obtained from all 17 defendants. They were accused of compu'ina; with the exiled Leon Trotzky, now | in Mexico, to give the Ukraine to | Germany and the Soviet Maritime and Amur provinces to Japan in order to obtain foreign aid in over- | throwing the regime of Joseph Stalin. Plot With Foreigners Charged. The indictment went far beyond the Zinovieff-Kameneff conspiracy ac- cusations of last year by charging | Radek and the others conspired directly with the secret agents of | Germany and Japan to wreck the | Soviet government. | Many of the charges were based on | a letter which Trotzky allegedly wrote | | to Radek in December of 1935. | In this he is stated to have said: “We shall have to yield the oil of Sakhalin (a Soviet-Siberian island) to Japan and guarantee her a supply of oil in case of war with America.” Radek, seeming old and broken, yet with signs of the old fire in his eyes, testified Vladimir Romm, former | ‘Washington correspondent for Izvestia, the government newspaper for which Radek wrote, helped him establish contact with ‘Trotzky. Romm was ar- rested two months ago after being called home from Washington. Agents Provocateur Identified. ‘Two agents provocateur were identi- fied in the indictment as “Mister K” of Germany and “Mister X,” allegedly (See TRIALS, Page A-10.) —_— Lumberjacks End Strike. FORT FRANCES, Ontario, January 23 (#).—sStriking lumberjacks agreed late yesterday to a settlement ending the 18-day walkout of 2,500 workers. They obtained a promise of fulfillment of most of their demands, which in- cluded increased wages and union recognition. Today’s Star Rankin reintroduces Potomac “Little T. V. A” bill. Page A-16 Young wife severely hurt when run down in safety zone. Page A-16 Col. Cooper sued for $178,300 by Con- tinental receiver. Page A-16 SPORTS. Comeback of base stealing predicted by Connie Mack. Page A-14 Louis-Rosenbloom bout taken seriously by Los Angeles fans. Page A-14 More night basket ball looms for D. C. high schools. . PageA-14 ‘Terps face N. C. boxers and Virginia basketers. Page A-14 Atcheson seeks 13th national hand ball title at “Y.” Page A-14 Hokie Smith rated dangerous in Camp- bell stakes tonight. Page A-15 Larkin would add Dynamiter as 15th club in golf bag. Page A-15 EDITORIAL AND COMMENT. This and That. Answers to Questions. Stars, Men and Atoms. David Lawrence. Paul Mallon. Page Page Page T HIROTA CABINET Defeated | | huge The only Associated (P) Means Associated K in Washington wit! evening paper the Press News and Wirephoto Services. Yesterday’s Circulation, 142,600 (Some returns not yet received.) press. TWO CENTS. | | | | i | HOLSECHEFSBACK AUDITORIUM PLAN Bankhead, Rayburn, 0’Con- nor Indorse Proposal of Robinson. The movement for erection of a auditorium in Washington gained further impetus today when | the three men in charge of the ad- | ministration’s program in the House— Speaker Bankhead, Leader Rayburn and Chairman O’'Connor of the Rules Commuttee—indorsed Senator Robin- | son's proposal for erection of such a structure. The Robinson proposal—made in a bill which the majority leader intro- duced in the Senate yesterday—was | one of three separate moves under way | PREMIER HIROTA, FORCEDTORESEN Premier Fails to Achieve! Compromise Between Army | and Parties. By the Associatcd Press. TOKIO. January 23.—Japan’s par- liamentary political parties,overthrew the cabinet of Premier Koki Himfl; today, forcing the government to re-| sign under their bitter attacks against | the army. b The premier, unable to reach a com- promise between the angry military leaders and the political parties, pre- sented the cabinet’s mass resignation to Emperor Hirohito after a final ses- | sion of his ministers. He was expected to request the| throne to extend the present suspen- sion of the Diet to allow time for for- mation of the new cabinet. He would remain in office. it was expected, dur- ing the four or five days necessary for the governmental reorganization. It was the first time in Japan's par- liamentary history the Lower House had succeeded in wrecking the gov- ernment. which always before had re- sorted to dissolution and a general election when the Diet's opposition be- | came too strong. Militarists Seek Control. Whether or not it will be a true| victory for the political leaders de- pends, observers said, on the member- ship of the succeeding cabinet, which | the militarists are striving to capture. Japan’s stern minister of war, Gen. Count, Juichi Terauchi, brought the constitutional crisis to a head when he termed the repeated assaults from the floor of Parliament “insults to the army” and demanded dissolution of the Diet. ‘Tense days of negotiations failed to find a basis for compromise on the firm opposition of the united major and minor parties, not only to the military and financial policies of the Hirota government, but to what they charged was a growing tendency to fascis;m and domination by a military bureaucracy. Scarcely had Hirota informed the| Emperor of the cabinet's resignation (See JAPAN, Page A-2) PR Heinrich Mataja Is Dead. VIENNA, January 33 (4).—Heinrich Mataja, 60, former foreign minister of Austria, died today after a paraiytic stroke. | at the Capitol to provide Washington with an auditorium. While Chairman Connally of the | Senate Public Buildings and Grounds | Committee was preparing to give early | consideration to the Robinson measure for an auditorium commission, the Li- brary Committee had before it a reso- lution by Senator King, Democrat, of Utah to require the proposed Thomas | Jefferson Memorial—already author- | ized by Congress—take the form of a structure big enough for inaugurals and other public ceremonies. Bloom Suggests Committee. At the same time Representative Bloom of New York suggested forma- tion of a committee representing the House, Senate, Federal Government, District government and local business interests to study the problem. Support for Building Grows. Although there is some divergence of | opinion on Capitol Hill over the advis- ability of making the auditorium the Jefferson memorial, there appeared to be more widespread support than ever before for an assembly hall ample both | for future inaugural ceremonies and other large gatherings that meet here. The sentiment crystallizing in Con- gress was strengthened by President Roosevelt's declaration that Washing- ton.peeds a large auditorium, and that Government officialc have been weigh- ing such a project in comparison with the building needs of the War Depart- ment. While he indicated the War Department housing needs probably are more pressing, he suggested study be given to a long-range public build- ing program over a 10-year period. ‘The Robinson bill would set up a | commission composed of the chairmen of the House and Senate Public Build- | ings and Grounds Committee and Secretary of Interior Ickes to consider | available sites, work out the probable cost and report back to the present session of Congress. Senator Connally, Democrat, of Texas, to whom the bill was re- ferred, said last night it is desirable | (See AUDITORIUM, Page A-11) 25 COAST GUARDSMEN LEAVE FOR FLOOD AREA Special Train Takes Unit and Six Lifeboats for Cincinnati Rescue Work. By the Associated Press. OCEAN CITY, Md, January 23— Twenty-five men and six lifeboats from the 6th Coast Guard district left last night for Cincinnati, Ohio, for flood rescue work. Capt. T. T. Moore of the Ocean City station was understood to be in charge of the district contingent. A special train was provided to take the men and boats into the flood area. The sixth district comprises the At- lantic Coast from Lewis, Del,, to Cape Charles, Va. Geographic Board Wiping Map Clean of Eccentric Names By the Associated Press. The American public is beginning to control its tongue when it comes to calling the national scenery by freak names. The United States Geographic Board said today the people are losing their love for such nomenclature as: Crooked Lane No. 1 became Manuka, which is supposed to mean the same thing, but more beautiully, in Indian. Mud Lake was transformed into Jewell Lake, and Dishwater Pond evolved as Mirror Lake. The country still is packed, how- ever, with places that bring frowns to some board members. Kentucky has Biscuit, Busy and Barefoot, and if they wouldn’t choke s train caller, there’s Gee, Happy, Hot Spot and Mummie. Arkansas has Gid, Dowdy and Okay. Georgia’s list includes Social Circle, Ty Ty, Gay and . / Texas has Wm and Oregon Sublimity, STRIKE DEADLOCK BREAK: HOPE: DARK WITH ROOSEVELT DECLINING TO ACT State and Federal Aides Continue to Seek Peace, With 135,000 General Motors Workers Idle. CABINET CRISIS REVIEW YESTERDAY POSSIBILITY Secretary Perkins Says She Will Continue to Hold Informal Conversations—Knudsen Meets Ford Company Representative on Return to Detroit. BACKGROUND— Deadlock in major automobile industry results from sit-down strikes and U. A. W. insistence it holds bargaining power for all employes. First factory ccased out- put November 18. Strike spread into 16 other General Motors units and finally resulted in halting or curtailing operations in 23 more plants of G. M. BY the Associated Press. DETROIT, January 23.—Hopes for an immediate settlement waned today as State and Federal Governmental efforts still failed to bring peace in the prolonged strikes crippling plants of the General Motors Corp. Officials indicated they would con- tinue to press for a solution of the deadlock that has left 135,000 General Motors employes idle. If President Roosevelt has any in- tention of intervening, he kept his own counsel. At a press conference yesterday he confined his references to the strike to: “I have no further news than you have. Of course, I think that in the interest of peace there come moments when statements, conversations and headlines are not in order.” Observers were of the opinion that the automotive labor crisis was can- vassed in the regular Friday afternoon cabinet meeting. Secretary of Labor Perkins, who conferred with Gov. Frank Murphy of Michigan, high executives of General Motors and the leaders of the strike at Washington, made known that she would hold further informal conversa- tions. Sloan and Lewis in East, Alfred P. Sloan, jr, president of General Motors, and John L. Lewis, the spearhead of the strike, were the only principals remaining in the East. Sloan was in New York, where he issued a formal statement yesterday afternoon outlining the corporation’s position, and Lewis was in Washington. William S. Knudsen, executive vice president of General Motors; Gov. | Murphy and Homer Martin, president of the United Automobile Workers of | America, which called the strikes, re- | turned to Detroit today. Gov. Murphy, who has devoted near- |1y all of his time since taking office | January 1 to endeavors to settle the | dispute, said he did “not consider this | an impossible situation.” “This has been worked out before,” the Governor added, “and it will be worked out again.” | Sloan's statement contained these | words of optimism: “The situation must be solved, and | (See STRIKE, Page A-3.) RAIN AND FREEZING FORECAST TONIGHT | Flood Damage Expected Here Only if Wide Precipitation Occurs. Rain mixed with sleet and snow and accompanied by sub-freezing tem- peratures were forecast today as the brimming Upper Potomac rose several | feet overnight. Officials pointed out there is no threat of serious flood damage here unless rains of unforseen extent de- velop over the Potomac watershed. However, it was pointed out that there is a very strong current and the | Potomac was rising rapidly today and | it is possible the waters may flood some of the buildings along the Georgetown shore. Little trouble is ‘expected. The crest of the flood in the Shen- andoah River, which empties into the Potomac at Harpers Ferry, W. Va,, is | éxpected to pass Washington late | today. There may be 8 or 9 feet of water at Key Bridge, according to E. A. Schmitt, senior engineer in the office of the War Department district engineer. Observers explained that if the weather turns colder that condition will tend to sliow down the “run-off” |into the Potomac, and, consequently, the rise of the waters. At Cumberland, Md., the stage was 149 feet above normal after a rise of 2.7 feet. Flood stage there is 17 feet. At Hancock the waters are 189 feet above the low stage, but there the flood stage is 32 feet. The waters rose 1.7 feet there, it was re- ported. A 1-foot rise was noted at Harpers Ferry, bringing the waters to 14.4 feet, still 3.6 feet below the flood stage. | THREE DEAD IN ROOM Gas Fumes Indicate Man and Girls Died of Asphyxiation. ROCKY MOUNT, N. C, January 23 (A)—The bodies of T. Garland Short, 34-year-old mall carrier, and two unidentified young women were found in Short's rooming house auar= ters here Police sald hravy gas fumes ted that they had died of asphyxiation. *