Evening Star Newspaper, February 7, 1937, Page 10

“A—10 » OHID RELIEF PLANS Women Ignore Suffering in Flood Zone PUSHED AT PARLEY Hopkins and Davey Map Co-operatives Moves for Rehabilitation, "33 the Assoclated Press. CINCINNATI, February 6.—Harry * L. Hopkins and Gov. Martin L. Davey of Ohio met today and mapped out co-operative plans of flood relief for Southern Ohio. Hopkins, chairman of President Roosevelt’s Commission on Flood Re- lief, said the people of Ohio were doing “a fine job” of meeting the emergency. City Manager C. A, Dykstra said between $500,000 and $750,000 in W. P. A funds would be needed in Cincinnati alone. Hopkins received detailed reports on the flood situation in other South- ern Ohio communities. W. P. A. Units at Work. . “The 250,000 people left homeless ,in Ohio are rapidly returning to their . homes, and they should be in them s by the end of next week. By that stime all refugee camps should be » Closed,” Hopkins said. s The W. P. A, he continued, was 4 8tarting to rebuild and repair schools, « bublic buildings, highways and bridges o1n the flood areas, while the Red Cross . was going about the work of rehabili- , tating families on the basis of individ- ,ual need. The Federal Government and the Red Cross, he said, were pre- !pared to furnish whatever funds were needed to do the job quickly and well. Gov. Davey said National Guards- men would be withdrawn from flood areas tomorrow night. Program Is Prepared. Maj. Gen. Edward M. Markham, chief of Army Engineers and a mem- ber of the commission, said the Engi- neering Corps had prepared a compre= hensive flood-control program which would be presented “when called for.” | It was understood the projects would follow the general outlines of a plan | recommended to Congress last year by the chief of Engineers and the Mississippi River Commission. It called for reservoir projects to cost - upward of $1,000,000,000, including 14 in the Greater Ohio River Valley to * cost some $400.000,000. The conferences here ended a week's tour through the flooded areas. | The commission boarded a train for ‘Washington late today to carry back to President Roosevelt a first-hand picture of conditions. COMMISSION FORMED. Delegates From Nine States Set Up | Flood Body. COLUMBUS, Ohio, February 6 (). =Delegations from nine States today set up a special Ohio Basin Commis- sion to co-ordinate flood prevention work after rejecting a proposal to ask the Federal Government to assume full responsibility for financing and directing an Ohio Valley flood con- trol program. Paul V. McNutt, former Governor of Indiana and president of the Coun- cil of State Governments, which spon- sored the conference, said the com- mission, consisting of three represent- atives from each of the nine States, ‘would start functioning “as soon as is humanly possible.” State Senator Emerson Campbell of ©Ohio led delegates from Ohio, Ken- tucky and West Virginia in a drive to turn the entire flood control prob- lem over to the Federal Government, but delegates from Illinois, Indiana and Pennsylvania overrode his pro- | posal. Participating in the commission will be New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky. Ili- nois, Indiana and Tennessee. Mary- land, which had a representative at the conference, was not included. i DAMAGE TO PADUCAH IS SET AT $27,610,0 City Seeks $2,000,000 Loan From | R. F. C. to Help Credit During Rehabilitation. B3 the Associated Press. | | back to the river. | drive. Upper: There’s still a place for music and dancing among refugees in the concentration camp at Barton, Ark. al- though all are homeless and suffered heavy losses from the flood. To the music of fiddles and_ guitars, these girls dance while others sing and pep up the party. Lower: Woman’s vanity must be appeased regardless of floods, so astute Cora Smith sets up a beauty parlor at a tent at Barton. The patron is Flossie Humphreys. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. Flood (Continued From First Page.) the Ohio quickened. Down the 1,000~ mile stretch from Pittsburgh to Cairo “clean-up” legions of W. P. A. workers pushed the sodden debris Refugees began returning to their homes. Chairman Harry Hopkins and other members of President Roosevelt's Flood Relief Commission visited Cin- cinnati and assured Southern Ohio that W. P. A, the Public Health; rvice, the Red Cross and other agencies would continue to throw all their power into the rehabilitation Although the fall at Cairo was slow, residents of the town began .to feel | more light-hearted than in days. The nervous tension was vanishing and | most of the levee workers felt the danger of a break was passing. Another Body Found. At New Madrid, Mo., the body of the twenty-fourth victim of last Sat- urday's barge sinking was identified as that of James F. Ruffin of War- dell, Mo. | Firemen digging into the ruins of a three-story building. destroyed by | explosion and fire yesterday at Louis- ville, recovered six bodies. Flood deaths ran past 400 and the homeless were approximately 1,000,000. The 75-foot Coast Guard cutter | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHING HARTOGENSIS TO SPEAK ! CLUB TO HEAR BRANCH Will Address Group at Jewish Community Center. At the opening of the Jewish Com- munity Conter's educational term Wednesday night, B. H. Hartogensis will speak on “How Hebrew Scrip- tures Enriches Our Language.” direction’ of Theodore Be'efi, has an Former Representative Campbell Also on Transportation Program. Harllee Branch, Second Assistant Postmaster General, and former Rep- resentative Phil Campbell of Kansas will be guest speakers at the thirty- first annual banquet of the Washing- | Beginning its second semester. the | ton Transportation Club at the Ra- | | center school for dancing, under the | leigh Hotel February 18. Representative Harry L. Haines of 302, part of a great flotilla Deing) jncreased enrollment, it was learned = Pennsylvania will act as toastmaster. used at Helena, Ark., in rescue and levee work, was damaged when she hit a snag and tore a hole in her | from there said she sank, but she PADUCAH, Ky., February 6.—City docked at Helena today and was re- Manager L. V. Bean estimated tonight that damage to Paducah, temporarily abandoned to Ohio River flood waters. would amount to $27,610,000. | At the same time Dean announced the city was seeking a $2,000,000 loan from the Reconstruction Finance Corp. for establishment of credit upon ‘which the municipality could draw for " fire, police and other services, public | Program Donated for Resettle- | paired for further duty. BENEFIT BALL TUESDAY ment’s Flood Relief Affair. Ball room, orchestra and dance pro- today. RALEIGH, N. C., February 6 (#).— Gov. Hoey appointed tonight a seven- man commission to study the need for additional State office space in Entertainment will be furnished by ’Pml Hayden's dance group. | stern near Trotter Landing. Reports Hoey Names “Space Committee.” | Find 0ld Swimming Pools. ‘While digging for mineral water springs at Haskoyo, Bulgaria, work- men unearthed two ancient swim- | Raleizh. The commission, authorized | ming pools, and when a pipe joining by the General Assembly, will report | the depressions was cleaned water to the Governor within 15 days. rushed in and filled the pools. TON, D. C, FEBRUARY 7, FIVEBODIESFOUND INLOUISVILLE FIRE Workers Continue Search of Debris as Others Are Missing. B the Associated Press. LOUISVILLE, Ky., February 6.— Workers continued tonight their search of debris in an explosion-fire wrecked building after removing the bodies of seven victims. It was feared others lost their lives in the tragedy. Tentative identification of the fourth victim was made tonight, but names of three others remained unknown. The dead: Mrs. Hattie Jackson, 27. Mohler G. Breckinridge, 42. Robert Hawkins, manager of the grocery store which occupied part of the destroyed building. Another body tentatively identified as that of Joseph Bacon, an employe of the grocery store. Child, about 15, unidentified. ‘Woman and man, unidentified. Mrs. Jackson was believed killed when she was struck by a falling wall as she ran past the crumbling building. It was planned to sift the ashes removed from the scene in the belief that other victims were cremated in the blaze. There were several reports of women and children missing, but these could not be traced. In addition to those living on the second and third floors, & number of flood refu- gees were being cared for and there was no definite check on their names or number. A tragic aftermath of the fire came to light today. A fireman, Jake Ficks, returned home after fighting the blaze until late last night to learn that his daughter, Mrs. Jeanette Adcocks, and her 6-year-old son, William, probably were in the flaming wreckage as he worked there. They left home a few minutes before the blast occurred, saying they were going to the grocery store which was caught in the blast. They did not return. . Dr. Hugh R. Leavell, director of health, announced that water from out boiling, beginning Monday. Earlier, Dr, A. T. McCormack, State health commissioner, had an- nounced that the quarantine against traffic entering Louisville would be lifted Monday morning. The quaran- east end Negro section, however, Dr. McCormack said. ‘The body of a Negro identified as Henry Slaughter, 50, watchman at the Louisville Varnish Co., was found today in the charred ruins of the plant, 'BOYS’ CLUBS TO JOIN IN THEATER DISPLAY Exhibit to Be Placed at National in Conjunction With Play “Dead End.” Four local Boys' Clubs affiliated with the Community Chest will com- bine in an exhibit to be placed in the lobby of the National Theater in conjunction with the play “Dead End,” to be shown there for a week starting February 15. Frank R. Jellefl. president of the Boys’ Club of Washington, and Sidney Hechinger. president of the Northeast | Boys' Club, having seen the play in New York, were interested in having it shown here, and in co-operation with | the Georgetown Branch and the Mer- rick Boys' Club of the Christ Child Settlement, are preparing the exhibit. “We have ‘Dead Ends’ in Washing- | ton” said Herbert L. Willett, jr. | director of the Chest yesterday, and pointed out that the Boys' Clubs were a means of combating such situations. He also expressed the hope that Chest members would see the production, visit the Boys' Clubs, and see how the Chest contributions aid in combating those conditions here. A whale shark weighing 26.594 pounds has been landed on the cofst of Florida. the city’s mains would be safe with- | tine will remain in effect in a small | 1937—PART ONE. A special edition of instructions for | reclaiming homes and property n!urL floods went to stricken areas of the 1ohlu and Mississippi basins today. | Prepared by Government experts, | | 200,000 copies were mailed to the Red Cross for distribution to families | whose homes were caught in the floods. | Here are some random suggestions | from it: | Before entering a building that has | been submerged. be sure it is safe and | not ready to collapse. | Knock all loose plaster from ceil- |ings. Wet plaster is dangerous and neavy. | Air and heat are essential to dry |out homes, but before starting heating system be ceitain flues and the | chimneys are not blocked by mud or debris. Boil all water before using when welis have been flooded. Have wells | tested and cleaned. Check entire wiring systems for short circuits before turning on elec- tric lights or appliances. Delay painting or redecorating until all moisture has dried from between | wall and floors. Books and papers must be dried | slowly and pressed frequently to keep pages from crumpling. All exposed food may contain ty- | phoid germs and should be destroyed. Contents of screw-top giass con- taincrs or corked bottles should not be used if touched by flood waters. Feed for animals should be dried and cleaned before use. COURT PROPOSAL SCALLED ‘ABSURD |Mitchell, Former Attorney| | General, Condemns Reor- ganization Plan. ! | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 6.—William | Mitchell, chairman of a committee | appointed by Chief Justice Hughes in | 1935 to recommend Federal judicial procedure reforms, said today Presi- dent Roosevell’s “ace formula for in- creasing judges is abeurd and un- | sound.” “The effect of its application to lower courts seems to have been missed so far by the critics,” said | Mitchell, former Attorney General, | “because the formula obviously is | created to camoufiage the real object— | nacking the Supreme Court.” | He said judges should be appointed | directly to districts with congested calendars and not be transferred there | after being appointed to districts "where a judge happens to be 70.” | “It is absurd to appoint a judge to a country areca where he is not necded and then move him, say, to New York,” said Mitchell. *“People want judges who are their neighbors, not carpet-baggers.” | Listed as Democrat. ! Mitchell, listed as a Democrat in | Who's Who in America, is a former | St. Paul, Minn,, civic leader who was Solicitor General under President Coolidge and Attorney General uncer ! President Hoover. Regarding the Supreme Court proposals, he said: | *I wonder what kind of men will | take appointments when they know thev must listen to their master’s | voice” Like most lawyers, I dont believe in packing the Supreme Court.” | Mitchell said his committee will | make its recommendations to the Supreme Court “in two or three months™ 2nd that on one point they will be similar to the President’s pro- posals. “Our committee is dealing only with | rules of practice and pleading in lower Federal courts,” said Mitchell, “and touches common ground only in connection with the President’s pro- posal for giving the Attorney Gen- eral notice of suits affecting legisla- tion.” He said it is “already the law that Government departments receive notice of certain cases, even though they are not parties, and the com- | mittee's report deals with this proce- | dure.” Professor Praises Plan. Irving Fisher, professor emeritus of economics at Yale University, said ne regarded the President’s message on judiciary reform “as a straightfor- ward and splendid appeal in behalf of one of the very greatest and most- needed reforms in our American sys- tem of government.” Fisher said that while the Presl- dent's proposals will bring a storm of protest from opponents fearful of his | gaining more power, the proposed re- forms “should be viewed from a longer | range than the present year or gen- eration.” “Why not trust the President’s good | intentions?"” Fisher asked. “I see every reason to believe that he is intent on ‘making democracy work’ to maxe American justice work better and more speedily. “There can be no question that there is immense room for improvement and that, if the President conscientiously tries to do what is right under the proposed legislation, the result will be largely to remedy the present scan- | dalous conditions of delay and ineffi- | ciency and to raise the prestige and power of American judges which have been sinking in public estimation.” Seabury Is Opposed. Samuel Seabury. who conducted the investigation which led to the resig- nation of former Mayor James J. Walker, described the President’s pro- posal as “an attempt to pack the Su- preme Court of the United States so that it shall be subject to the will of the Executive.” The President's suggestions for changes in the lower Federal courts, Seabury said, “involves a mass patron= age scheme which must delight the heart of his spoilsman Farley.” Representative J. Parnell Thomas of the seventh New Jerscy dist said the President’s proposal was “a pre- lude to dictatorship and ruin” and predicted the plan would mark the lr:elglmnmg of Mr. Roosevelt's “down- all.” CONTRACT AWARDED FOR SCHOOL ADDITION 'Work to Start Soon on Annex to Alice Deal Junior High. Construction of a 10-room addi- tion and a gymnasium at the Alice Deal Junior High School will be start- ed in about two we T a cone tract awarded ye ¢ the Dis- trict Commissioners. The project was awarded to the Lacchi Construction Co., Inc., of Bal- timore, on a bid of $162,607, the low- est received. An appropriation for the additions was included in the current Distric appropriation act. The building located north of Davenport street be- tween Howard and Fessenden streets. 'Flood Rehabilitation Advice G00DYEAR PLANT Available for 200,000 Families MAY OPEN TONIGHT Proposal to Be Submitted Rubber Workers for Settling Controversy. Et tLe Associated Press. AKRON, Ohio, February 6.—Cood= year Tire and Rubber Co. representa= tives presented tonight to officers of Goodyear local, United Rubber Work= ers of America, a proposal under which operations may be resumed at midnight tomorrow at the company’s No. 2 plant, closed last Tuesday mid= night in a labor dispute. John House, union local president, will submit the proposal to the local membership at a mecting in Akron armory tomorrow afternoon, a coms pany statement said Neither Goedyear nor union spokes= | men would loze details of the p: posal intended to settle a controversy affecting 5,000 employes The concern’s formal said: “Following a conference Saturday night between representatives of the management of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. and the United Rub- ber Workers of America, a proposal under which Plant 2 will be re- opened at midnight Sunday was pre- setned to John House, president of Goodyear local “It will he presented to the union membership Sunday. Schedules are being made up for return to work by departments. 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