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By The Associated Press
SEEING IS BELIEVING
ar. I,oUlß.—Safe crackers ap
,.m;,,‘m).\» do not helieve in signe.
‘l-j, (. Singer, potulry company
manager, told police he had pasted
a note on his safe giving the com
pination and sayving there was no
money inside.
Rurglars knocked the combina
+on off anyway. They found only
;‘;m]»:m}; records.
HAYSTACK CACHE
BUFFALO, N. Y.—Thieves took
petective George H. Smith's suit
in the loot they carried from a
tailor shop.
Smith said he figureq finding it
would be as troublesome as find
q needle in a haystack.
That's exactly where Smith found
the suit—in ' a haystack, far out
in the country.
«t was pressed, but it wasn’t
very clean, and field mice had
chewed it up so it was valueless
except as evidence,” he moaned.
A DOG’'S LIFE
FLORENCE, Ariz, — Louis F.
Graham asked a divorce from his
wife, Lela, who, his petition
charged, made him ‘“sleep on a
couch while she slept in the
double bed with their German po
lice dog to whom she was very
ardently attached.”
STUNG AGAIN
LOS ANGELES.—Last Octeber
Oliver Hickey met 2 hostile hor
net in Griffith Park, a municipal
institution. Hickey filed a claim
against the city for SIOO.
This week the ecity council de
nied the damages. Moreover, it
ordered the city attorney to sub
mit Hickey a bill for $25. It cost
that much to investigate his claim.
.
Motorists of Athens
And Vicinity Again
Toße Served by AAA
Motorists of Athens and vicinity
are to again be served by the AAA
Motor Tag bureau of the East
Georgia Motor Club which opened
its office this morning next to the
Georgia, Theater in the lobby of
the Palmisano Radio store, 225
N. Lumpkin . street.
The AAA Tag buréai service
will be available to all motorists
of Athens and ite vicinity and has
served this territory during twao
previous vears at the Holman
Hotel, (Change in location this
vear is due to the lobby space for
merly occupied by the tag office
at the Holman has been leased by
the Social Security Board of the
Federal Government.
A large supply of automobile,
truck, wrecker, trailer ang chauf
fenr applications for 1937 tags
have been received by ‘the AAA
tag bureau for distribution free to
all who come for them and Henry
M. Johnson will be director of
the bureau, it was announced by
'W. . Shipman executive vice
tresident of the Hast Georgia
Motor Cluh who is in Athens com
(Continued on Page Seven)
S A A BN S
What They Say About
Roosevel{ BiZthday
Ball Here on Jan. 29
———meeeße
By LYDIA HOLLIDAY
(Student in Henry W. Grady
___ School of Journalism.)
”1-‘l:'\e<ptl?hou)l~d do our bit to help
LaXe the President’s Ball a great
t\‘»’n'anmul success,” urged Max
. ichael, prominent Athens lawyer,
‘“jfin interview today.
h:‘_r“sfiing the need of support,
< dd}{h*d. “The funds raised will
}mvu"""l to- help children who
ave been crippled by infantile
:[l:l\\l\ Our suprort will help
”ij'm(surfprers ftnd will hono.r our
= ‘ot who is so vitally inter
fSted in this humanitarian work.”
Baf“”‘j. fgurth annual Roosevelfl
'Orh‘f"\ to be held in Pound audi
(‘,a‘n_“_ r'«ffl.’ the Coordmgte campus.
TME«;:-\.\ .‘9. from 9 until 1 o’clock.
f“”--tl- ‘.l‘nd buttons are on sale
this "‘d('h_. The entire proceeds
\_;"‘“vv"fi“\\'xll go to the Warm
Sbrings Foundation.
LOCAL WEATHER
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i:‘, GEORGIA:
N g Mestly cloudy,
&, \’ 6}' occasional rain in
| northwest and
-4 ’ extreme north
o portions; warmer
, in northeast
and colder in
> northwest
{«I ~ | portion tonight.
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= TEMPERATURE
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35mn sl E x "51'0
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s RAINFALL
To s last 24 hours ~ ... .02
Parl since January 1 .... 6.98
A‘f*’fls since January 1 ... 3.63
Verage January rainfall . 4.83
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Full Associated Press Service
Greatest Flood in History Predicted
For Cincinnati, Surrounding Area
Large Crowd Present At Anmual
Chamber of Commerce Meeting;
~ Announce Seven New Directors
| —_—
Livestock Industry, and
y . .
Clark’s Hill Project Are
Chief Topics
i J
| WEATHERLY TALKS
l Editor Thomas |. Hamilton
Explains Proposed
River Project
Completing one of the most suc
cessful years in its history, the
Athens Chamber of Commerce last
night played shost to delegations
from several Georgia cities at its
annual meeting and gave its sup
port to two major Georgia enter
prises—dGevelopment of the Clark’s
| |7Hin power, navigation and flood
lc‘ontml rraject, and the state's
livestock industry.
l An outstanding event of the
meeting, held at the Georgian ho
tel, was announcement of the
election of seven new directors to
serve for the next two years.
They are R. H. Gloyd, merchant;
{J. C. Postell, Standard Oil com
pany; D, D. Quillian, manufac
turer; M. N. Tutwiler, banker; C.
A. Trussell, automotive dealer;
E. L. Wier, wholesale ggocer;
Tate Wright, county attorney and
clerk to the borad of commission
ers. These, with seven cther di
rectors whose terms do not expire
until 1938, will elect a president
at & meeting within the next few
idays. The hold-over directors are
| W. R. Bedgood, T. A.'Gibsan; C.
{ S. Martin, G. V. McCarson, Sam
’Nickerson, Abit © Nix' "and "Es. Oy
| Price. :
A brief resume of the activities
of the Chamber of Commerce for
the last twelve months was made
by President Tate Wright. Among
the chief accomplishments of the
,orgfl.nization was the location of a
’unit of the Rogers Hosiery mill
l (Continued on Page Seven)
I .
~ In Canada Die
I MONTREAL.—(Canadian Press.)
! —Three of the Rondeau quadru
|plets died today after doctors
sought to save them by a desper
!ato race over icy roads to a hos
pitel.
l Two died at 6:30 a. m. Another
succumbed shortly after 11 a. m.
The two boys and two girls,
born yesterday to Mrs. Arcade
Rondeau at St. Thomas, Quebec,
were hurried to _Montreal in an
i ambulance which crashed into a
snowplow during the trip.
Fearful the infents, weighing
{ little more than two pounds each,
{ could not live unless placed in
incubatcys, physicians had prdered
them brought here before dawn.
All reached the hospital alive
and apparently unhurt in the acci
’dent, doctors said.
| At the end of his mercy dash,
the ambulance driver was ca.rrieud)
from his seat on a stretcher. He,
the doctor, and one of two nurses‘
accompaynng the quadruplets |
were hurt in the crash.
Physicians attirbuted the babies’
escape from death during the ac
| cident to the soft wrappings w‘ith
! which they were encased in in
| dividual baskets.
‘ The first born came at 3:30 a.
im. yesterday before the X‘h}"Sl"
cian, Dr. Joseph Elisee Forest,
could reach the 10-room home of |
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i I Georgia News Briefs
' FAYETTEVILLE, Ga. — () —
John E. Travis, 90, next to last
surviving Confederate veteran in
Fayette county, died yesterday.
ATLANTA—(#)—Harry Lavaque,
%0, assistant to the vice president
and general manager of the Geor
gia Power Company, died yester
day. :
He built the first radio trans
mitting agnd receiving station in
this part of the country.
His widow and one daughter,
Mrs. Frank Whitaker, of Rome,
Ga., survive. L
HOGANSVILLE, Ga.—(®/)— W.
W. Frederick, 44, merchant, died
yesterday in an Atlanta hospital.
His widow, and two sons survjve.
DECATUR, Ga. — (#) — Mrs.
Charlds B. Harman, 63, daughter
of the founder of Agnes Scott col
lege, died yesterday. ===
| Mrs. Harman was born in Sa
vannah, the daughter of Rebekah
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DOCTORS FAIL TO |
SAVE YOUNG MINER‘
OKANOGAN, Wash., —(#)— l
A 60-mile race over ice and !
snow by dog team, bobsled, au- i
tomobile and ambulance failed |
to save the life sz Fred White, '
25-year-old miner. . i
He died in a hospital last |
night after an appendicitis !
' operation, i
y 3 |
oy
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N STRIKE FAILURE
e e e
Sloan Returns to Gotham;'
Next Move Believed |
Up to President '
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STRIKE AT A GLANCE i
(By the Associated Press) i
Secretary Perkins’ efforts for
Generai Motors strike truce
break down; company officials
leave Washington.
Next move put up to Presi- l
dent Roosevelt by wcorporation !
head and labor leaders, |
John L, Lewis, strike direc- '
tor, says campaign among Ford |
and Chrysler employes to fol
low settlement.
Chrysler Corporation closes
four Detroit plants because of |
glass shortage.
CGeneral Motors says 79 per
cent of workers in 43 plants
protest cessation ofs operations.
(By the Associated Press) "
WASHINGTON— (#) —A new]
stalemate in government attem}c)ts-s1
to negotiate the widespread Gener
al Motorg strike made intervation
by President Roosevelt appear in
evitable today.
Both Alfred P. Sloan, jr., com
pany president, and bushy-haired
John L. Lewis, strike generalissimo{
indicated their belief a W’hitei
House conference was the next
logical step. I
The White House hag given no|
indication however, that Mr. Roose
velt would make any immediate
move to take over the role of‘
S T RS e 1
peacemaker.
l Final Effort
Secretary Perkins’ final effort to
lbring about a peace agreement
ibroke down late last night when
'Sloan expressed disapproval of a
statement by Lewis that therel
would be “no half baked comprom
ise.”
“We found it uneless at this time
to discuss further any ideas we
might have,” said Sloan before leav
ing for New York early today.
“Any time the pres‘dent sends
for us, we'll be here.”
Lewis, who declared hig cam
paign to organize Ford and Chrys
ler workers would follow settle-;
ment of this walkout, was asked if !
he helieved time for Wrhite House|
intervention had arrived,
“That’s up to the president,” he
said, “but labor intervened for
him.”
Refers to Support
He referred to the support which
he and many other labor leaders’
gave Mr. Roosevelt in the 1936
presidential campaign. '
Gov, Frank Murphy of Michi
(Continued on Page Six)
Booker Scott and George W. Scott,
who founded Agnes Scott college
in 1889. Her husband, Charles E.
Harman, was for many years gen
erz]l passenger agent of the West
ern and Atlantic Railway.
ATLANTA—(P)—Bruce Bone, 28,
of Hiram, Ga., was reported in a
serious condition in a hospital here
today from injuries received in a
highway accident near Austell, Ga.
last night.
' His father, Robert E. Lee Bone,
54, was Kkilled and two brothers,
Heron and Ople Bone, were in
jured.
The father and three sons were
fixing a tire when struck by a
truck whose driver was blinded by
heavy fog.
———
ATLANTA.—(#)—Superior court
records here today listed a peti
tion for divorce filed by Mrs. Mary
Katherine Bierce Candler, wife of
(Continued On Page Six)
Athens, Ca., Friday, January 22 1937.
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damage when waters of the swollen Monongahela and Allegheny rivers swirled into downtown
streets and store basements. The picture above shows a flooded section on River avenue, at Ninth
street, with the B. & O. tracks inundated. Police stood by to evacuate residents near the rivers,
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The nation’s rescue forces swung into swift action as the Ohio river went on a 1000-mile rampage,
flooding hundreds of homes in a half dozen states. At least eight persons were dead, thousands were
homeless, and the property damage will run into hundreds of thousands of dollars. Apove is shown
a home in Newport, Ky., as a truck backs into dangerous waters to evacuate the family and house
s hold goods. o
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5
Citrus District Gets Gen
eral Freeze; Worst Since.
1913 Forecast |
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SAN FRANCISCO— (#) —South- ‘
ern California’s $112,000,000 citrus!
crop was threatened with huge‘i
losses and bitter winter weather]
gripped the far west today. 1
Floyd Young, government frost‘
forecaster at Pomona, expressed‘
fear most of the citrus crop would
be ruined. He warned growersl
late yesterday to prepare for the
worst freeze since 1913, with pros-l
pets of temperatures as low ag 16]
degrees above zero, J
Health officiais reported a gen
eral increase in influenza and oth
er respiratory infections, though
deaths were comparatively few.
Portland, Ore., druggists hired
extra chemistg to fill a flood of
orders for medicine. Oregon auth
orities estimated 20,000 persons ill.
Los Angeles listed 1,300 influenza
cases,
Many Oregon industrial plants
posted notices asking employes 'to
refrain from working if ill.
Inland temperatures fell far be
low zeéro at some points. Extreme
lows included: Alturas, Calif. -33;
Winnemucca, Nev, -34; Baker,!
Ore., -22; Boise, Ida., -14; Spok
ane, Wash., -10; Cacae Valley, Utah!
-44; Pocatello, Ida., -20; Nampa,
Ida.,, -23. I
Temperatures reported last night
at citrus district points included:}
Redlands, 25; Cvina, 22; Pomona,
24: Orange, 37; Upland, 24, in sou
thern California: Porterville, in
cetral California, 26; and El Cen
tro, in the Imperial Valley 30. ;
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DAY —BY — DAY ]
”"—!
By C. E. BUTTERFIELD |
(Time Is Eastern Standard) i
NEW YORK-—(#)—The next ma
jor event in outdoor broadcasting
Ils to come from overseas. It will
be the coronation of King George
VI and Queen Elizabeth of the
British Empire, set for May 12.
Networks on this side expect 1,0 l
carry much of the detail |
T e i
{ Try these tonight (Friday): |
Talks — WJZ-NBC 7, Council of i
State Governments, Gov. Paul V.
MecNutt ang Clarence A. Dykstra;‘
'WABC-CBS — 10:30 Secretary of
Agriculture Wallace on “Farm Ten-!
lancy." > |
| WEAF-NBC —7:15 Uncle Ezra;|
8 Rosario Bourdon Concert; 9!
’Waltz Time; 10 First Nighter|
| Play; 10:30 New College Series, |
tVarsity Varieties; 11:30 Glennl
Gray’s Orchestra. .
WJIZ—NBC—B Irene Rich; 9 Rex!
Chandler Rhythm; 9:30 Vic:torg
Moore and Helen Broderick; 10:00
Junior Chamber of Commerce dis-z
tinguished service award.
‘What to expect Saturday: WEAF- t
NBC—I:3O p. m, Carnegie Techi
Symphony; 3:30 Week-end Revue; |
5:30 Kaltenmeyer's Kindergarten. |
WABC-CBS — 11 a., m. Younx!
People’s Concert; 3 p. m. Down|
by Herman’s; 4:30 (Concert by |
Liederkranz Society of New York.i
WJIZ-NBC—I2:3O Farmers’ Union; |
1:55 Metropolitan Opera, “Tales of}
Hoffman”; 6:35 NBC Home S_vm-‘
phony. i
BAD PENNY f
LA GRANGE, Ind.— Joshua J.‘
Mishler found a penny.
He tossed it against a window
ledge. The coin bounced back and
struck hun in the eye.
~ Mishler angrily threw it at a
tree. It rebounded again, hit him
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!Daniel L. Pittman Passes
In Atlanta; Last Plea
. 17
Was for Girl’s Return
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ATLANTA — (#) — Daniel L.
xpittman, unwillifigly cast in a lead
jing role in a real life drama grow
{ing out of a hospital baby mix-up
!1? years ago, died today.
; Members of the family said his
;last words weré a plea for the re
turn to his household of the girl
!who decided last August she was
j not hig daughter, but the child of
| Mr, and Mrs. John Garner of Ma
| con.
' Seventeen years ago the Pitt
}ma‘ns and the Garners claimed their
:bables, born in an Atlanta hos
pital, were exchanged. One of the
| babies died later, and a court
| awarded the other to the Pitt
}
{ mans. There wag a stipulation
| that the child, on reaching maturi
]ty, might study the case and make
jher own decision concerning her
} parentage.
’ T.ast vear Mary Louise Pittman,
{a jolly, pretty girl who plans to
! become a nurse, made her deci
| sion.
| In the Pittman housé¥old there
§were tears of sadness; in the Gar
{ner househeld in Maecon, rejoicing.
| Shorily afterward Pittman, 60-
| yvear old unemployed meat cutter,
| suffered a heart ailment. Since
i then he had divided his time be
ltwe(»n a hospital and his home.
i Members of the ymmily said Mary
| Touise was notified today of Pitt
| man’s death. She left Macon for
Atlanta today.
Funeral servlces’wm be conduct
ed Sunday afternoon. Burial will
be in nearby College Park. e
A. B C. Paper—Singla Copies, 2c—s¢ Sunday
‘coas, BROWN ARE
ATLANTA SPEAKERS
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l ATLANTA — (#) — Farmers
and county agents from north
Georgia counties today discuss
ed the 1937 federal soil conser- |
vation program. i
Cully A. Cobb, director of the |
southern division of the agri- |
cultural adjustment administra- |
tion, and Walter S. Brown, act
ing director of the state agri
cultural extension service, were |
principal speakers, |
At the meeting the farmers J
; were informed the 1937 program
“is not very difrerent from the l
‘ program in effeet in 1936.” ,
| INED CEEC
GANNG OBJECTIVE
Success Expected in F. R.
Request for Extension
Of Trade Treaty
WASHINGTON — (#) — A house
|leader said today he expected “little
trouble” in getting an extension of
the president's reciprocal trade
agreement power through that
body.
Chairman Doughton (D-NC), the
house wayg and means committee
added, however, he expected some
democratic opposition from dis
tricts where big industries believe
they have been injured by trade
treaties,
Doughton called Francis B. Say
re, assistant secretary of state, be
fore his committee to tell how the
machinery of reciprocal trade treaty
l making works,
To Finish “Pros”
’ With favorable statements on
the policy already before the com
| mittee from President Roosevelt,
| Secretary Hull and Secretary Rop
er, the group hoped to finish hear
[ing the “pros” today and turn toj
opposition testigony next week, |
f The house prepared to argue a
proposed extension of the life of
the Reconstruction Corporation
‘and other temporary fiscal agencies .
A $50,000,000 crop production loan
tbill wag also on the schedule, ‘
The senate convened for its first
session of ' President Roosevelt'sl
second term, with only routine
businesg at hand. |
The senate civil liberties com-'
mittee went on with its inquiry into
“under cover” labor espionage of‘
the National Metal Trades associa
| tion, ?
l Strike Insurance
Homer D, Sayre, Chicago execu
tive of the association, told investi
gators the organization furnished
“strike insurance,” taking com
plete charge of its members’ labor
troubles, recruiting strike breakers
(Continued on Page Seven) l
Relative of Athens l
Citizens Dies Today ‘
At Home in Waycross!
Miss Elizabeth Hillsman, aged
20, died' at the home of her par-‘
ents, Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Hills
man at Waycross this morning.;
Funeral services will be held at |
Johnson’s church below V&’atkins-%
ville at a time to be anounced |
later, 1
Miss Hillsman was a niece ofj
‘Mrs. J. A. Downs, Athens; Mrs.]
Coile Thornton, Athens; Miss Bes- |
sie Aycock, Miss Blanche Aycock, !
Miss Hallie Aycock and Pearl Ay
cock, and was a member of a
widely known family in this sec
tion.
Highlights From Flood Area
By The Associated Press
FRANKFORT, Ky.—Twenty nine
hundred convicts manned pumps
in relays when the flooded Ken-|
tucky river swept into the Ken
tucky state reformatory here to
day.
PITTSBURGH — Flood waters;
eddied into the “Golden Triangle"l
today with no signs of a halt to
a steady rlsin% tide. ’
At a stage of nearly 30 feet the
waters rolled into the lowest parts]
of the many millions dollar busi-|.
ness center of this industrial clty‘f
As they crept along the low,
streets, W, 8. Brotzman, U, S.
weather observer predicted three|
feet more of flood waterg by to
morrow morning. ]
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WHEELING, W. Va—Residents
of Wheeling’s “Island,” a residen-|
tial section in the middle of the
Ohio river, were ordered froml
HOME|
FOOT FLOOD STAGE;
7 I
|Crest of 72 Feet Is Seen
. By Tonight or Saturday;
j Appeals Issued
2 DEATHS REPORTED
’SO,OOO Persons Driven
From Homes; 21,000
In Cincinnati Area
(By the Associated Press)
CINCINNATI—The Ohio river
reached a stage of 70 feet today
and Meteorologist W. (. Devereaux
predicted “the greatest flood on re- ‘
cord” for Cincinnati and lower
riveér points. He predicted a prob
able crest between ¢1 and 72 feet
at Cincinnati for tonight op Sat
urday.”
Upwards of 50,000 already had
been driven from homes—2l,ooo in
‘the Cincinnati district, and 15,000
in the Portsmouth area—and hun
dreds in the scores of cities and
hamlety bordering the river from
Pittshurgh to Cairo, IIL
Two Death ;,
Damage was mounting into un
| calculated millions. There were at
least two deaths in the Cincinnati 5
area. -
Two hundred Ohio national
guardsmen aided in locating refug
ees on the Ohjo side, Along the
flooded edges of four other valley~i
bordering states similar steps were
i taken, -
. Water pouring over a 60-foot
flood wall for the first time since
|1913 mounted rapidly in the busis
ness district of Portsmouth,
Thirteen thousand persong had
evacuated their homes tHere and'
at least 15,000 men and women
were out of work, s
| The levee broke at lawrence
burg, Ind, about 30 miles down
stream at midnight forcing the ine 7
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Titterton Slager
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- Pays With Life
f
} OSSINING, N. Y. — ()~ The
state’s penalty tor the bathtub
murder of Mrs. Mancy Evans Tit
terton in her home last Good Fri«
day was paid today. i
Mrs, Titterton’'s slayer, John
Fiorenza, 25, an upholsterer’s ass
sistant, was electrocuted last night
at Sing Sing penitentiary, in a
quadruple execution.
His face bore a bewildered ex- i
pression and a smile playeg over
his lips as he was strapped into
the electric chair, He mumbled
the “confiteor” after the prison's
Catholic chaplain and said nothing
more.
He was pronounced dead in
less than three minutes.
~ Fiorenza was preceded to the
’chair by one negro angd followed
by two others. The first to die
was Chester White, 33, who had
Lkinpd his sweetheart and her 15«
vear-old daughter. The others were
Charles Ham, 28, and Fred Fowe
ler, 19, who shot a butcher during
'a holdup. .
. Sing Sing's long-termers call
‘electrocutions ‘“graduation exers -
cises” from “high school” —the
death house, so called becauseg the
average age of the condemned has
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their homes todas:
Many died on the “Island” i "
| March when the raging Ohio swept =
it from end-to-end.
FRANKFORT, Ky.—Kentuckys
first flood fatality wag reported to
! day by city police. An unidentified =
Iyouth fell off a rescue boat and’
drowned in downtown ankf.or&
G
’ MEMPHIS, Tenn—Major R. B,
| Burdick of the United States el v
gineers announced today “a coms
fplete mobilization of everything ° fi 3
' have” for a major flood fight in
Major Burdick said theoetaoin.,
the Mississippi valley. ol
Major Burdick said the engineers
‘had between 300 and 400 men in tk f‘
‘fields.
CINCINNATI—Lunken airport,
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