Evening Star Newspaper, January 25, 1937, Page 5

40 SAFE IN HOTEL WITH FIRE HALTED Flooded Huntington’s Blaze Causes Only Slight Damage. By the Associated Press. HUNTINGTON, W. Va., January 25. ~Firemen returning on boats from & fire in the Hotel Arthur, deep in Huntington's flood zone, said today the blaze was extinguished with only slight damage. First reports from the old hotel, surrounded by flood waters, said 40 persons were in danger. Flaming gasoline which enveloped 2 motor boat rescuing a family from # flooded home burned & grandmother and granddaughter to death yesterday and critically injured two others. Mrs. Ida Osborne, 60, and 5-year- old Donna Shyrene Spurlock died in \the fire. Mrs. O. J. Spurlock, 28, ‘mother of the child, and Mrs. K. C. Howell, 26, were injured. Robert Carson, 27; Walter Riggell, 30, and an unidentified man were taking the women and child from their West End home in a motor boat. State Police Sergt. Andrew Morgan said he was informed some one tossed a lighted match from the boat, which ignited gasoline floating on the water. Morgan said there was a terriffic explosion, apparently of a gasoline | tank. Rescuers found the child in the charred boat clasping her pet collie dog, Sandy, tightly in her arms, where it, too, had burned to death. Congress (Continued Frvm First Page.) -_— already allotted from regular disaster relief funds. White House officlals asserted there was no need for an immediate con- gressional appropriation. While it was natural, they added, for members of Congress from the flood zone to seek large approoria- tions for their States, it was con- tended that W. P. A. funds now on hand and the Red Cross funds would prove sufficient for the time being. At the same time, the White House said President Roosevelt called an- other conference on his Six-Man Flood Committee for 2 p.m. Harry L. Hopkins, W. P. A. admin- istrator, was serving as the Presi- dent’s liaison man between the five Federal relief agencies and the Red Cross. i Many Groups in Action. The Army, Navy, Coast Guard, Works Progress Administration and Civilian Conservation Corps joined forces yesterday with the Red Cross 1 evacuating inundated communities and in supplying food and clothing to the homeless. The President co-ordinated relief activities at a hastily arranged Sun- day night conference and ordered the co-operating departments on a 24-hour basis. He then telephoned C. A. Dykstra, | city manager at Cincinnati: “The Federal Government is stand- ing behind Cincinnati and the entire Ohio Valley flood zones. I am dis- patching more Coast Guard life-saving crews to your aid. “The Government stands ready to eid in any way.” Summary of Activity. Here is a summary of the Govern- ment relief situation: Red Cross—Workers in every af- fected county are providing food, clothing and medical supplies; more than 400,000 reported homeless; trans- porting supplies is biggest problem. Army—Fifth Corps Area establish- ing refugee camps; troops evacuating | 17,000 from Paducah, Ky.; quarter- master depots and general supply sta- tions opened; engineers say Mississippi River will absorb flood waters without danger. Navy: Sending rescue boats and operating personnel from Philadelphia and Norfolk, Va.; will open Marine Corps stores and naval supplies when Red Cross needs further resources. W.P.A.: 30,000 workers evacuating families and manning food depots; women making 100,000 comforters and 100,000 mattresses for refugees; gath- ering all surplus foodstuffs in flood area; relief rolls opened to destitute victims. Coast Guard, C. C. C. Aid. Coast Guard: 800 men, 200 boats, 12 planes ordered to region; portable radio stations attempting to reach isolated areas. C. C. C.: 12,000 boys in camps in stricken area aiding in rellef work; all supplies placed at disposal of Red Cross. Maintaining the health of refugees ‘was as great a problem as providing food and shelter. Chairman Grayson said he was worried about the health situation, but had not received any “bad reports.” Red Cross nurses and doctors, rushed to 10 States by boais and spe- cial trains, worked to combat spread of typhoid fever, influenza and pneu- monia. Oxygen tents were sent to many communities where cases of pneumonia were reported. “We are using serums, boiling water and taking all the precautions we can,” said Grayson, former naval physician. Messages to Red Cross headquarters indicated the region between Louisville and Ballard, Ky., was in greatest need. Fifty nurses from Chicago were sent by beat to distribute food and cloth- ing on both sides of the Ohio River in that territory. Army Depots Opened. Maj. Gen. Malin Craig, Army chief of staff, said he was sleeping in the ‘War Department to keep in direct| touch with the Army's relief wark. After the White House conference, he #aid that Army supply depots at New Cumberland and Philadelphia, Pa.; Columbus, Ohio; Jeffersonville, Ind.; San Antonio, Tex., and Chicago, had been opened for private relief work for the first time in years. They were sending tentage cots, bedding and medicine to the afflicted areas. Craig said 4,500 troops were assist- ing in relief and evacuation. He de- clared it would not be necessary, at least for the time being, to send regu- lar troops to Louisville as requested by Gov. Chandler. A special White House phone was held open to bring the President and his aides latest information. Mr. Roosevelt asked for copies of all re- lief messages. Besides Chairman Grayson, Hop- kins and Gen. Craig, this group in- cluded Admiral William D. Leahy, chief of naval operations; Robert Fechner, C. C. C. director, and Rear Admiral Russell R. Waesche, com- mandant of the Coast Guard. The President today set up a special flood relief headquarters in the cab- inet room of the White House eucu;_ THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, Scene of Tragic Bus Plunge in Florida Canal In one o/ the worst bus accidents in history, 23 persons were drowned 30 miles west of anrm today when the vehicle plunged into a canal which paralleled the highway. Siz escaped alive. First rescue workers are shown as they reached the scene. All but one corner of the bus was submerged. tive offices, with Hopkins in charge as co-ordinator. Mr. Roosevelt is convinced that urgent needs of the moment are being well taken care of by the Red Cross and co-operating organizations, and it was understood he would so advise Speaker Bankhead and Representative Buchanan at a conference scheduled with the congressional leaders today. Best Hoped for on Mississippi. The officials endeavored to antici- pate new danger points as the flood moved westward. Although Army Engineers expressed the belief the lower Mississippi could take care of huge overflow, W. J. Moxom, director of the Federal Flood Forecasting Service in the Weather Bureau, said: “If flood stages on tributaries of the lower Mississippi should coincide with the big discharge from the Ohio, | | things would be pretty bad for the lowlands.” He said emergency flood conditions might persist for a month and that it might be 10 days or two weeks be- fore the crest enters the Mississippi at Cairo, IIL Deficiency (Continued From First Page.) between now and June 30. That was the amount recommended by the n President. In addition to the relief money, the measure included $95,000,000 for the Civilian Conservation Corps; $6,000,- 000 for Federal land banks on ac- count of reductions in interest rates on farm mortgages; $2,045,000 to the Agriculture Department for forest fire | $1,672,000 fighting and prevention; for completing air conditioning of the Capitol and House and Senate Office Buildings. Failure of Co-operation. In recommending passage of the bill, the committee included a letter from President Roosevelt accusing employ- ers “who are working their employes unreasonably long hours” of “failing to co-operate with the Government | and their fellow-citizens in putting people back to work.” “The tendency toward a longer work | week has had an extremely important effect on re-employment, the Chief Executive wrote. “* ¢ * While among most indus- tries and most employers, the maxi- mum hours established under the na- tional recovery act have not been greatly increased, it is worth noting that in some industries and among some employers the former maximum hours have been unreasonably in- creased. * “Every action of an employer along these lines obviously tends toward the stepping up of pfoduction without an equivalent stepping up of employ- ment.” A prediction of a permanent un- employed class of about 5,000,000 persons, even during “prosperity” pe- riods, was made during hearings on the bill, together with the disclosure the Works Progress administration plans to drop 600,000 more workers {rom its rolls by June. 6,500,000 Unemployed Seen. Both statements were made by Harry L. Hopkins, works progress ad- ministrator, who told a subcommittee that the outlook for this year “holds promise of six and one-half to seven and one-half million unemployed.” “For the more distant future, when prosperity levels materially ex- ceed those of 1929,” Hopkins said, “it appears probable that four to five million unemployed Wwill be the mini- mum. This minimum can be ex- pected to increase with each recur- ring depression—and the recurrence of depressions appears as an unavoid- able teature of the present economic order in this country.” Acting Budget Director Daniel W. Bell told the subcommittee that if Congress appropriates the $790,000,000 asked by President Roosevelt to finance relief until June 30, expendi- tures for “recovery and relief” in 1937 will be about $2,816,000,000, ex- clusive of disbursements for the Civilian Conservation Corps and cther emergency agencies. For the fiscal years 1934 to 1937, inclusive, Bell said, relief and recovery outlays would total $12,611,000,000. Hopkins said reduction of unemploy- ment to the 1929 level of about 1,800,- 000 would require that production be increased about 45 per cent above fast year in order to absorb displaced work- ers and additions to the labor market since 1929. Interruption Possibility. Although he said recovery was in its fourth year of “steady improve- ment,” the administrator expressed doubt it would ‘“continue uninter- ruptedly for three or four more years.” Announcing plans to cut the total of W. P. A. workers from 2,200,000 in February to 1,600,000 next June, Hopkins said the program was based GooD OiL, 1 flm lIFl ll-°°o BAYERSON Ot W on continued recovery and “assumes a good agricultural year that will make drought expenses unnecessary.” He sald the plan also provides for a gradual reduction in the monthly cost per man and assumes more money would be contributed to project con- struction by local sponsors. Floods (Continued From First Page.) were without power or gas. Bellaire and Bridgeport were virtually isolated. Gov. Martin L. Davey called a special legislative session at Columbus to ap- propriate $250,000 for flood relief. | Fully 4,500 W. P. A. workmen already were on the job. Fire also menaced Augusta, Ky., as an oil drum burst. The town was almost deserted. Refugees streamed from Paducah as water rose through the business area. From 15,000 to 20,000 of the city's 34,000 residents were expected to be evacuated by nightfall, Covington and Newport, Ky., re- ported food shortages and virtual isolation. Memphis, Tenn., got word that three small gaps had been made in the Mis- | sissippi River levee above Hickman, | Ky., where farmers stopped United States-Army Engineers seeking to re- lease the river into the Birds Point- New Madrid, Mo., floodway. Setk to Relieve City. They sought in this manner to re- lieve Cairo, Ill., where 13,000 residents were endangered as the river level reached 58.08 feet on a 60-foot flood wall. Mayor August Bode warned women and children to flee. Gov. Henry Horner went into South- ern Illinois, where fully 20,000 were refugees in seven counties. At Shaw- neetown about two-thirds of the city’s 1,500 population was being carried out by boats. President Roosevelt ordered all available Government aid into the dis- aster zone after a Sunday night con- ference, placing the Army, Navy, Coast Guard, Works Progress Administration ‘and Civilian Conservation Corps on a 24-hour basis to help the Red Cross evacuate refugees and aid the home- less. The President personally advised nati that “the Federal Government is standing behind Cincinnati and the entire Ohio Valley food zones” and that his private phone would be held open for any direct calls. Eighteen firemen were ii.jured fight- ing a $1,500,000 oil fire in the indus- trial Mill Creek district in Cincinnatl. The blaze continued today. A blazing 250,000 gasoline storage tank drifted downstream from the city and police reported four others were adrift. Louisville restored city water for fire department use only by furnishing a flooded pump station with water power from a river boat. Tht Ohio was at 54.2 feet, more than 26 above flood stage, and another 2-foot rise was in prospect. Louisville police were under orders to “shoot to kill” all looters as food supplies dwindled. Mayor Neville Miller asked all citi- zents to evacuate who could. Officials of the State Reformatory at Frankfort began evacuating prison- ers by boat. The number killed in the rioting was not definitely known, although one guard estimated 15. The bodies sank in 6 feet of water which covered the prison floor and grounds. Red Cross advices said the most critical flood area was between Louis- ville and Ballard, Ky. Martial law was in force throughout the flood belt of Southern Indiana. Gov. M. Clifford Townsend directed relief authorities to commandeer trains and trucks to transport about 55,000 refugees to cities as far north as Indianapolis. Director W. J. Moxom of the Gov- ernment Weather Bureau’s flood-fore- casting service sald it might be 10 days or 2 weeks before the Ohio’s crest met the Mississippi River at Cairo, TI. He said emergency flood conditions might continue for a month and that if lower Mississippi tribu- taries reached flood stage coinci- dentally “things would be pretty bad for the lowlands.” Call for particulars re- garding this remarkable value, Representatives Wayne Oil Burner. J. Edw. Chapman COAL FUEL OIL 37 N St. NW. City Manager C. A. Dykstra of Cincin- Crop Value $132,169,000. The cash value of principal field and commercial crops harvested in South Carolina during 1936 was esti- mated at $132,169,000 by United States Department of Agriculture stat- isticians. AP ESTABLISHED 1859 SALE % WHITE HOUSE Try them today—at our risk. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. Rockingham Gives $1,035. HARRISONBURG, Va., January 25 (#) —Rockingham County and Harri- sonburg contributed $1,035 for the relief of flood victims, the chairman of the Rockingham Red Cross Chapter reported today. The quota was $400. MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 1937. Bus Victims Incomplete List Gives 11 as Injured in Florida Accident. By the Associated Press. MIAMI, Fla, January 25.—An in- complete list of identified dead and injured in the Tamiaml Trail bus accident today: Dead. Edgar H. Whitney, 63, St. Peters- burg, Fla. Robert M. Halpen, 24, care of G. E. Hapenny, Delaware City, Del. Injured. Callie Little, 55, Enon Valley, Pa., shock. Philys Ashley, 45, Miami. ‘Winifred Williams, 59. Edge Price, 65, Enterprise, chest and leg injurles. Morris Senikoff, 32, Miami, head injuries. Milton Pishbein, 22, Miami, shoul- der injuries. Evans, Edward Lisk, serious head and shoulder injuries. Bill Hammond, Tampa, the driver, lacerations. Mrs. M. E. Sage, Bronxville, N, Y. M. R. Evans, Red Oak, Iowa. Bus (Continued From First Page.) Ala., of hospitals showed 11 survivors, in- dicating a death list of 20. The bus line said it Prd no passenger list, however, and cation of the bodies went forward wly. A watch on one of the bodies had stopped at 9:05, indicating that was the time the accident occurred. B. F. Glanders, an Associated Press photographer, who followed an ambu- lance to the scene, said dirt alongside fnjoy these Fine Foods—and Save in the flazyain. the highway was scraped up, indlcn.- ing the bus had slid along on its| side before it plunged into the water. “About 75 persons were lined up be- side the canal” he relatel. “Three men stripped to the waist worked above and below the water line, trying to get inside of the bus. “At about 5-minute intervals the men ‘brought up some one who had been trapped in the bus. 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