Evening Star Newspaper, January 26, 1937, Page 7

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1937. * A7 RELIEF RUSHED AS FLOOD WATERS CONTINUE ON RAMPAGE . Becnnne s . : - e tour of Cincinnati to personally inspect flood conditions. (All Photos by A. P. and Wide World.) . An air view of l:om'ngl'"z,'no!v under military rule, where 20,000 persons remain to be removed to higher ground from the low- lying inundated residential districts. In some sections only the tops of the homes are visible. Hip-booted rescue worker.at!d refugee and his b ; son take a much needed rest in improvised shelter. Fuse plug levee of the Birds Point-New Madrid, Mo., loodway, dynamited . Unmanned houseboq They were routed from home in Evansville, Ind., by United States engineers in the hope release of the Mississippi waters would re: by water. ease pressure on the Cairo, lll., levee. A Thousands have fled Paducah, Ky., flood-beleaguered city of 34,000. Water, 4 t. Refugees, woe etched on their faces and everything lost to angry flood waters, Ieae Portsmouth. The all of city and rescue workers toil day and night to save marooned families. mother holds 2-week-old baby. Other eight children are behind them. . Row boats with radio units cruising flooded Portsmouth, Ohio, reporting Cat marooned on a second-story window ledge Harry Hopkins (left) and Senator Barkley of Kentucky at flood-relief .danger spots to rescue workers and National Guard, ; of a h Portsmouth, Ohio. . meeting. Stress of working night and day shows in the faces of both men.