Evening Star Newspaper, February 7, 1937, Page 11

HOME FURNISHINGS RUINED BY FLOOD Most of Furniture in Rav- aged Area Found Dam- aged Irreparably. BY ROBERT B. PHILLIPS, Jr, Staff Correspondent of The Star. LOUISVILLE, Ky. February 6.— The home of O. C. Stewart in the 2000 block of Maple street, in Wes Louisville, was not pretentious as of January 1, 1937. Like many adja- cent houses, it is the width of one room and ~ narrow hall, has & small yard in front and a modest back yard. It is conveniently close to the Axton-Fisher tobacco plant, and & good many of the people in the neighborhood are workers at that factory. The Stewarts, who fled to the home of relatives when the waters of the Ohio began coming up Maple street a fortnight ago, hal not re- turned to Louisville when we drove by their house yesterday. 1 stopped there only because it looked like &) typical working man's home, and be- | cause some people could be seen mov- ing about inside. These turned out: to be friends of the household. They had attached a hose line and were trying to scour off the floor & collec- | tion of muck, giving it the appear-| ance of an icy swamp. These friends, a man and & woman, also had righted most of the furni- ture, which had been stacked high| midair. Ohio washed out the fill. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. on tables to keep dry and then tum-/ bled over by waves from power boats | . 4. sidewalk and ironically moored and currents that twisted even through | ¢ " .o the insides of houses when the watcrl Wit these conditiona have caased began to recede. !to exist, then and then alone will it The furniture, with the possible eX- | pe possible for these people to know ception of the overstuffed pieces,| what has happened to them. seemed Stol beflonmense ‘f‘r’pa”:gle”;;! Counting on this reaction, some of When the Stewar's come home the¥ | e puplic officials have plastered the will find that thelr m"sh‘! easy | lOVR with stickers reading “Chicago sideboard they had bought on €4SV 1y 'y gap prancisco Did It—Now terms are parped and twisted. Some | € SPREE o B | of the surfaces have bulged and - . | wrinkled until they appear to be crino- And the more responsible citizens, Jated. The fireplace in the front those who have businesses or profes- room' and a stove in the dining room | sions, sit in the best restaurants, were in working order when I was | Wearing hats and coats, blowing out there, but the new washing machine little puffs of steam on the cold air, was clogged with mud. Walking and read the placards wonderingly. around the floors to inspect this stuff was a more or less of an acrobatic feat. Even rubber boots skidded and | COUNCIL TO HEAR NASH glithered in the r ud, as our car had | | done in driving through the silt-s0d- oo o1 U, Professor to Talk den streets. s to Social Group Thursday. Chair Weighs 150 Pounds. The overstuffed pieces, as Isay, May | The February meeting of the Wash- dry out some day. The chairs NOW|inoton Council of Social Agencies will weigh 150 pounds each, and the 0fa |pe peld Thursday in the Gingham | 15 & job for two men to lift. An old| iy above Child’s Restaurant, 1423 colored man came to the door wWhile | p.;hcoivania avenue. 1 was inside and asked if any Ome| oot ired by the recreation divi- | wanted a water-soaked mattress that|gon of the council, Jay B. Nash, pro- | had been thrown on the front porch.| feccor of physical education and chair- | The couple said “No,” and then man of physical education and health laughed when he tried to pick up the of New York University, will speak on mattress to carry it away. It was as “Education and Recreation—a Unified | heavy as lead. | | Program.” The water line in the Stewarts’ b e A er e | Robot Observers is not an inch of wall paper in the L. 0 ikely to Be Next Airline Innovation | living room, dining room, bed room. | kitchen and hall that could be used for anything except wadding. The plaster may come off, too, when an attempt is made to do something about the paper. The second floor was not | hurt, but the condition of the upstairs is a matter of no particular moment to the householders, because they have rented three rooms out as an apart- ment. If a fire insurance company were estimating the damage to the down- stairs, I believe it would be fixed at shoulders of air transport pilots and | around 75 per cent. 2 We went on from the Stewarts to recording; permanently ‘ond with on) another and lary - house, the home | {8iling accuracy every move made by of A. H. Tillmar in the 300 block of | the pilot and co-pilot and continuous South Forty-first street. Tillmar's | readings of every aircraft instrument, son, Bud, is one of the room clerks | are likely to be put aboard every at the Brown Hotel, and I had been | scheduled airliner in the near future. asking him about conditions in hi.s: Samples of motion picture film home as he found them on returning | records made by such a robot were for the first time after the flood. He | shown yesterday to the National Air said the place was in “the deuce of Safety Conference by Bureau of Air @ shape” and I could go by to look for | Commerce officials. The bureau also Samples of Records Made in Checking Pilots Exhibited Here. Robot observers, peering over the myself if I didn’t think so. He was right. ‘The Tillmar house is set rather high | up on a terrace, but nothing in the ‘West End was high enough to escape the flood. Water stood about two feet | deep on the first floor, and here again | furniture that had been stacked fell} over when the waves from passing | rescue boats washed into the house. Tillmar had the foresight to roll his Tugs and tie them to a ladder top' before he left the house, but the ladder | toppled, too. Since he lives downstairs with his wife and child, while his | father and mother have the upstairs apartment, it was the youn; boy who suffered much of the loss. His cab-. inet rado, for example, would be worth | about 2 cents on the market in its Ppresent condition, Residents Still Stunned. It is not easy to calculate accurately | the reaction of the thousands of peo- { plg who are coming back to these | ruined homes. They do not say much, and like most persons who have un- dergone a long strain or a stunning exhibited the first of 12 automatic recording instruments which will be loaned to the airlines. ‘These robot observers, joining the company of the robot pilots which now are found in every big airliner, is was explained, will show just what the pilot did at all times. The records will constitute indisputable evidence of any violations of regula- tions or breaches of good flying prace tice and would provide invaluable evi- dence in case of accident, it was claimed. . Officials Guests of Democrats. ARLINGTON, Va., February 6 (Special).—County Manager Frank C. Hanrahan, members of the County Board and several officials have been invited as guests of the Young Men's Democratic Club of Arlington County at a meeting at Lee Tavern at 8 p.m. Mo HOMES EVACUATED IN'WESTERN FLOOD Lowland Families in Los Angeles Area Flee Advancing Water. By the Assoclated Press. LOS ANGELES, FPebruary 6— Swollen streams drove hundreds of lowland families from inundated homes tonight as torrential rains lashed Southern California, Rowboats were used to rescue many men, women and children marooned in the Compton, Long Beach and Venice areas. A 30-inch water main gave wav on State street in Long Beach, cutting | off the water supply for virtually the entire city. Police and fire depart- ments broadcast warnings that water conservation was urgent. Hamilton Bowl, the Long Beach flood drainage basin, overflowed at Nineteenth and Walnut streets. Rain- fall in Long Beach the past 24 hours was 4.25 inches, an all-time record. Melting snows in the mountains, heaviest in years, brought increasing danger from floods and all emergency crews of the county Flood Control Department were ordered to stand by. ‘The Southern Pacific reported its line blocked near Guadalupe by an earth slide. Passengers were trans- ferred by bus. Water covered the Santa Fe tracks in several places between here and San Diego, with trains operating un- der “slow” orders. A 200-foot section of the track over | which the giant 14-inch railway rifles are moved in and out of Fort MacArthur, at 8an Pedro, was washed out. A motion picture company of 35 persons, including Judith Allen, Gene Autry and Smiley Burnette, was held in Kernville when the flood swept up over the river bridge. Citizens were piling up sand bags, trying to save the bridge. Rain here totaled 217 inches. Two KITT'S Floo'd Undermines Tracks A cave-in mear Cincinnati yesterday left nearly 200 feet of railroad track suspended n Officials estimated 200 carloads of earth would be needed to fill. Flood waters of the —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. linches fell in three hours at San Pedro and at Santa Ana. | Rain in the mountains around San Bernardino melted snow, which lay | 4 feet deep and swelled creeks. | In North Long Beach Compton | | Creck overflowed, halting traffic over | | five bridges. | The flood threat spread northe | ward to menace lowlands in a 500 | mile strip from Colusa to Bakersfield. | High water marooned 800 persons | at Woodlake and flooded the town of | Cutler. | A Merced flood covered 6,000 acres | north and south of town to a depth of 12 inches. E. H. Fletcher, Sacramento weather \ | forecaster, said the situation there | | was not alarming but that the Sacra- | mento River would pour through the | wiers of its east bank near the capi- | tal, inundating lowlands. BALTIMORE MAN SHOT | Wife Says He Was Trying to Oust { Adopted Nephew. BALTIMORE. February 6 (P).— John P. Quent, 51, was shot and crit- ically wounded last night as he strug- gled with an intruder in the kitchen of his home here. His wife, Mrs. May Quent, said her husband was trying to put his nephew, | Albert Quent, 19, of McLean, Va., out | of the house. She said the youth, who | had been adopted legally as their son, | came to the house after he had been expelled previously. | Physicians made preparations to | | give blood transfusions to the elderi | Quent, suffering from a .32-caliber | ! bullet wound in the abdomen. A po- | lice lookout was sent for the nephew, 106,00_0,_000 Attend Theaters. Moscow says 106.000,000 attendances | were registered at 216,111 theatrical | performances in Russia in 1936. I :n’(o?n ono»o”nno’«'g Does Your Watch Stop . $Does It Keep Irregular Time = $ where you are sure to get® lity workmanship at lowerg Bring it Shishent aua @ rices : <E “ Kg} Jewelry of every description on_easy terms RNEST BUR “ Never compromises with quality. ‘-'107 Kresge Blds. DI Entrance: 1103 G St. N, smail overhead Is your saving 26000060000 * & * ® My & 0000000000 C., FEBRUARY 7, .1937—PART ONE. BANKHEAD MATINEE TO AID FLOOD FUND Actress Will Confer With Red Cross Officials on Benefit Set for Thursday. Seats are on sale for the special matinee at the National Theater | ‘Thursday of “Reflected Glory,” star- ing Tallulah Bankhead. The entire gross receipts of the performance will be given to the Red Cross to aid flood sufferers. Tax exempt, tickets range in price from 50 cents to $2.50. The benefit matinee is Miss Bank- head's idea. She has suggested that a similar policy be adopted by legitimate and musical productions throughout the country, and & group of New York theater managers is or- ganizing & “flood relief week” during which performances there and in other cities will be held as flood benefits. A tea will be held at the Mayflower Hotel today, at which Miss Bankhead, her father, Speaker William B. Bank- head, and representatives of the Red Cross plan to discuss Thursday'’s show. ‘To promote the sale of boxes to increase the receipts, a group of ‘Weshington socialites is organizing a list of sponsors to work for the suc- cess of the benefit performance. Miss Regan Gives Talk. RIVERDALE, Md.,, February 6 (Spe- cial).—“Making the Living Room Live” was the subject of a talk by Miss Ethel M. Regan, county home demonstration agent, before s meet- ing of the Current Topics Club at| the home of Mrs. Peter Duguid last night, with Mrs. Luther Munson pre- | siding. * A-I1 old ewes and feared their losses might !: heavier. . There has been heavy snowfall dyr- LIVE STOCK LOSSES |N ALBERTA SER'OUS11“ the last 45 days, and sub-geyo AT temperatures prevailed for more than Unbroken Winter Costs 32 Per | month. Cent of Herds—Horses and TR R Sheep Hard Hit. Publication Resumed. Py the Associnted Press. Thlf‘as‘{ui}fg I((:y,. &hx:’unry s’m = LE HBRIDGE, Alberta, February | uisville Courier-Journal an g__T;u moet serious live stock cn‘:g"fimes resumed publication in their plant here today after nearly a twoe in 30 years was reported tonight by | . Southern Alberta ranchers because of | peck shuldown because of flood con- the last 45 days of unbroken Winter. |} 20% She"]b‘;f] e m”d l:;ll pub- Some ranchers listed cattle losses during this period. ngton of 22 per cent of their herds, chiefly | — breeding stock inasmuch as surplus cattle were sold last Fall because of feed shortage. Generally, it was agreed, losses thus far are at & minimum, but feed re- serves also are down to a dangerous level. | Horses were reported dying in many | areas. Sheep ranchers have lost many ' Psychic Message Council 1100 Twelfth St. N.W. ' Corner of 12th a L™ Circles Daily, 2:30 & 7:30 P.M. 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