Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 25, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 April 1935 — Page 1

EUROPE NEARS SHOWDOWN ON WAR MEATS Britain Prepares for Stresa Parley, Still Trying to Get Nazis in Line. BERLIN HOLDS TONGUE Germans Building Two Huge Warships, Observers Are Told. Bt I'nitwl Prm Europe, with a <arge part of its population in mental panic over the danger of war, moved definitely this afternoon toward a showdown on armaments. Britain prepared to go to the Strega conference with France and Italy on Thursday to make a strenuous effort to bring Germany Into a general agreement and block any effort by France and other powers to take strong action against Germany. Britain was understood to have Invited Germany to submit new suggestions for a collective security system. The French cabinet m;t, however, and was understood to have determined on a firm stand for her own security and the curbing of Germany in eastern Europe. It was believed a general European arms conference would be suggested for this summer. Berlin proceeded quietly on its Way. waiting for the other powers to show their hands. It was disclased that two ••pocket” battleships are being built which exceed the tonnage limitations of the Versailles Treaty and are to be heavily armed. The country was mostly preoccupied by patriotic tribute with a militaristic trend to Gen. Erich Ludendroff. its famous war-time leader, on his 70th birthday. Britain Gets Frank Report By United rress LONDON, April 9.—Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon this afternoon gave the House of Commons a startlingly frank account of the current situation in Europe, including Adolf Hitler's demands for power on land, sea and in the air and for return of some of Germany's lost colonies. At the same time, it was indicated, Britain plans to speed up expansion of her air force. Prime Minister J. Ramsay MacDonald immediately rebuffed Hitler's demand for restoration of colonies. Asked to remove Germany’s misapprehensions by intimating Britain would not consider transfer of any colonial mandates, he said: ‘'There is no reason to suppose the German government is under any such misapprehension.” The foreign secretary made no secret of the fact that Britain saw great difficulties in the way of an agreement, in view' of Hitler’s firm attitude, which rejects all proposals for a mutual assistance pact in eastern Europe, especially one involving Russia, although he is willing to enter a non-aggression pact. Germany, Sir John disclased. refuses to continue in a position of inferiority. He gave a hint that Germany might consider returning to the League of Nations when he said she would "not continue to participate in the league if she were to remain a country of inferior rank.’’ Build Huge Ships (Copvrtght. 1935. bv United Press! BERLIN. April 9.—Two German pocket battleships now being built will exceed the Versailles Treaty tonnage and have guns larger than those specified in announcements, according to reports today. Naval building customarily is secret and the reports could not be confirmed, but they arose frequently here. Reports of this naval construction came just after the return to its Hamburg yard of anew mystery ship—a 2200-ton vessel of yacht type intended for use of a fleet commander in battle. The two ships mentioned in reports as to excess tonnage and big guns are the Ersatz Elsass and Ersatz Hessen, the ‘ pocket bari’eships” officially of 10,000 tons, 11-inch caliber guns. Non-Fighting Flagship The mystery ship is called a nonfighting flagship. It returned yesterday after a trial in the North Sea. Details of the ship's construction are secret. But observers believe it will be lightly armed, with chief attention paid to wireless and electrical range finding equipment necessary for plotting movements and delivering orders. Its speed would be high. Informed persons here were inclined to scoff at stories that Germany was building a powerful fleet. German rearmament at present emphasizes airplanes first, with a fleet equal to any in Europe. Aircraft Carrier Possible Now that the military air force is an. admitted fact, it would not be considered surprising if the next addition of importance to the German fleet would be a big aircraft carrier along the lines of the British and American carriers. The idea of a non-fighting flagship is not new. The American Navy several years after the World War, it was understood here, planned such a ship and even acquired a former passenger ship, but a presidential order blocked further von. It was indicated here that Germany aimed at preventing Russian naval dominance in the Baltic, and had no ambition again to match naval strength with Great Britain.

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VOLUME 47—NUMBER 25

Roosevelt Orders $155,000,000 for Immediate Use to Clothe, Feed 20,500,000 Needy in U. S.

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The New Deal’s major drive against depression was getting under way as Vice President Garner solemnly affixed his signature to the $4,880,000,000 works relief bill designed to give employment to 3,500,000 persons.

Fear of War Spreads to Europe's ‘Man-in-Street’ Citizens of Continent and England Prepare for Inevitable Conflict; Many Change Homes. BY WEBB MILLER United Pre*,. European Manager (Copyright. 1935. bv United Press) LONDON. April 9.—Fear ol war, spreading downward from the chancellories of Europe to the man on the street, has brought a curious state of mental panic to ordinarily level-headed citizens of all nations. Yet, while it is true that the civilian populations of Europe have been affected by war scares to a greater degree than ever since the Armistice of 1918, it is also irue that the average man has no fear of immediate war. He expects war to come—but at some time in the future.

Casual observation here in England. which is the least affected of European nations, shows that many citizens are taking certain precautions, altering their business plans, insuring themselves against the future, even changing their residences, because the future may bring hostilities. “There are even specific instances within the circle of my own British acquaintances. Some have occurred within the last few days. John Rose, my barber, told me with a chuckle today that one of his customers has bought a home in the country because of the possibility of air raids on London. Now Seeks Another Site Shortly after he bought this house, Mr, Rose said, the government built an airdrome near it. Asa consequence. the terrified land owner is now looking for another site. An American correspondent who owns a house in the country which he has bee . trying to sell, has now decided to Keep it. And an American woman long a resident of London has strongly been urging her husband to return to the United States. Incidents such as those are repeated countless times. A British friend, who was a World War officer and Is now in the reserve, told me the military authorities have recently been checking up on his health which, he says ‘‘unfortunately is good." One of the brokers in that group of underwriters known as Llo>ds says that his associates have taken several millions of pounds insurance against England, France and Germany becoming involved in war within a year. The premium is 5 ar cent —but Lloyds will take no inurance beyond the year's time. Build Anti- Gas Cellars On the continent. United Press correspondents inform me of similar incidents, many of them on a larger scale. At Prague. Czechoslovakia, the manufacture of gas masks is proceeding at a tremendous pace. The construction of anti-gas cellars is also proceeding apace throughout Europe. Thousands of houses in Warsaw are "putting in” gas-tight cellars, and a "League for Air Gas Defense,” with a membership of 2,000.000. is buying gas masks for all its members. Rome has embarked on an extensive project to combat air raids. A proposal to construct immense shelters is being examined by experts and may be adopted. In Paris, I believe, the one in-

TVA —the Who, the What and the Why!

JUST what is the Tennessee Valley Authority? Why TV A? And. by the way, just what does TV A mean to us who live in Indiana? It's an even money bet that not one in a hundred can answer even one of those questions. But The Indianapolis Times intends to answer them, and, too. answer a lot more questions concerning the great project down in the Tennessee Valley. Talcott Powell, editor v of The Times, has just completed a thorough investigation of the whole TV A area. Not content with merely gang at Norris Dam or Wheeler Dam in astonishment, Mr. Powell went to .Tennessee to look behind the scenes.

cident that has brought a sense of danger into the French home is the retention on duty of the conscript army, which affects the domestic life of approximately 100,000 families. All of these incidents are but straws showing which way the wind blows, but multiplied as they are, they show a state of tension and a nervousness that is spreading throughout Europe.

WAR PROFITS BILL PASSED BY HOUSE Soldier Drafting Clause Is Stricken Out. By United Press WASHINGTON, April 9.—The House this afternoon passed the McSwain war profits elimination bill after a rebellious membership forced the Military Affairs Committee to strip from the bill a provision authorizing the President to draft soldiers in time of war. Immediately prior to the vote of final passage, the House on a roll call vote, 205 to 183, sent the bill back to committee. The committee immediately reported the bill back to the House with the conscription clause eliminated. Administration leaders then obtained a vote on final passage. As it finally passed, the bill provides for a 100 per cent tax on excess war profits, conscription of wealth and raw materials in war fime; gives the President power to fix prices, license industry and regulate the distribution of essential commodities. WARMER WEATHER IS DUE IN CITY TONIGHT Rain Clouds From Arid West to Boost Temperatures. Rain clouds slowly drifting eastward from the arid western plains will reach here tonight, bringing with them warmer temperatures, J. H. Armington, Federal meteorologist, said today. The entire state was blanketed with clouds last night, so that there was no frost. ■While there is a rain deficiency of .74 of an inch this year, clouds have hung in the atmosphere of Indianapolis for so many days that the earth is moist, Mr. Armington said.

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Huge Fund Starts Flowing to Every Section of Country. By United Peru* WASHINGTON, April 9.—President Roosevelt’s $4,880,000,000 work relief fund today started flowing to every section of the country to make jobs for 7,000,000 persons. Mr. Roosavelt ordered immediate expenditure of $155,000,000 by the P'ederal Emergency Relief Administration and the civilian Conservation Corps. He signed the appropriation resolution aboard train en route from Florida to New York. Relief Administrator Harry L. Hopkins was alloted $125,000,000 to feed and clothe the nation’s 20.500,000 needy until he receives an additional $755,000,000 provided in the bill for doles. CCC Director Robert Fechner ordered double-quick enrollment of 110,000 recruits to expand his emergency conservation corps to the 370,000 mark. Tentative allocation of the remaining billions of dollars in the New Deal’s effort to employ 3,500,000 persons directly on governmentfinanced projects and 3,500,000 more in behind-the-line industries was as follows: Direct relief money already allocated, $125,000,000., Direct relief money remaining, $755.00^,000. CCC money already allocated, $30,000,000. CCC money remaining, $570,000,000.

Funds Are Earmarked Loan and grants for construction, S9OO 000,000. Highways, roads and grade crossing elimination, $800,000,000. Rural rehabilitation, water conservation, irrigation and reclamation, $500,000,000. Rural electrification, $100,000,000. Slum-clearance, low-cost housing, $450,000,000. White-collar relief, $300,000,000. Sanitation, soil erosion, reforestation, rivers and harbors, miscellaneous, $350,000,000. Total, $4,880,000,000. The funds were earmarked by Congress after a 75-day legislative battle. The President was empowered to change any of its provisions by 20 per cent, giving him a $976,000,000 leeway in directing use of the money. Effects to Be Felt at Once Effect of the executive’s action in alloting money for relief and CCC will be felt almost at once. FERA’s $125,000,000 will go into every state, city and hamlet, to be followed by millions more until all employable persons on relief are at work—if Mr. Roosevelt’s objective is gained. CCC’s $30,000,000 will be distributed to all sections. Mr. Fechner will spend his additional $570,000,000 in enlarging the emergency conservation program to accommodate at least 600,000 youths. The President signed the bill as he sped to New York to attend the funeral of his cousin, Warren Delano Robbins, American minister to Canada. The next move will be a series of executive orders directing expenditures of the rest of the fund. These are expected soon after he returns to the White House tonight or tomorrow. Walker Likely Co-Ordinator Indications were that Mr. Hopkins, Harold Ickes, Secretary of the Interior, and Rexford Guy Tugwell, Undersecretary of Agriculture, would direct a major portion of the drive. Frank C. Walker, New York, former head of the National Emergency Council, has been mentioned as Mr. Roosevelt's personal co-ordi-nator of their agencies. Mr. Hopkins is virtually assured of $1,480,000,000 to use in tapering off relief and establishing work projects. That sum includes part of the $500,000,000 tentatively allotted to rural rehabilitation. Mr. Ickes, administrator of the original $3,300,000,000 public works appropriation, is scheduled to supervise the $900,000,000 construction fund, the $450,000,000 for low-cost housing and $100,000,000 for rural electrification. Mr. Tugwell controls the Bureau of Public Roads and in this capacity he is expected to supervise expenditure of the $800,000,000 earmarked for highways, roads and grade crossing elimination. President Attends Rites By United Press ABOARD PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT’S TRAIN. En Route to Washington, April 9.—President Roosevelt sped back toward Washington and a heavy schedule of Administrative duties this afternoon, after attending the funeral of his cousin. Warren Delano Robbins, at New York. The President ended his Florida vacation yesterday and went to New York only to pay tribute to the late United States minister to Canada, leaving immediately after the funeral for the capital. Mrs. Roosevelt accompanied the President.

He managed to make his way into the mountainous hill-billy country where visitors are unusually unwelcome. It’s the region where a 30-30 rifle says “Hello” and the papers in a man's pockets tell his business. mama a a TALCOTT POWELL saw more than visitors to TV A usually see. He saw the families for whom this colossal project is actually being built. He talked with them, slept in their houses. He has come back with a story that we believe will hold the attention of every man and woman in Indianapolis. We believe we have something you will want to read. The stories start pn Monday pn The Times Feature Page.

CALIFORNIA FLOODS LEAVE 25 DEAD IN WAKE; DAMAGE IS ESTIMATED AT MANY THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS

WAMIKIIm SOUGHT TO AD SAFETY DRIVE Board Urges Transfer of Funds to Install Traffic Markers. An ordnance transferring funds for the installation of traffic warning signs and signs for a reduced speed zone in congested areas was recommended to the City Council today by the Safety Board in connection with the police campaign for safe driving. The Board recommended transfer of $2500 from the police wage fund to the police materials funds for the purpose. The board also asked for funds to purchase 10 new motorcycles and five side cars. The action came after a conference on traffic problems between Mayor John W. Kern, Municipal Judges Dewey Myers and Charles J. Karabell, Chief Mike Morrissey and Capt. Lewis Johnson, traffic department head. Effects of the campaign were shown distinctly today as the number of arrests for traffic violations in the last 24 hours dropped to 24. There were no arrests for speeding. Municipal Court showed the results of the drive, also, as today Judge Myers handed down six convictions and three judgments withheld. Yesterday 40 were convicted in Municipal Court. Mrs. Lilly M. Conlen, 61, of 837 N. Rural-st, a cousin of Detective Jesse McCarty, was injured today when she became confused in traffic and stepped into the path of a car driven by W. Herbert Wood, 37, of 356 W. North-st, at Vermont and Delaware-sts. Mrs. Conlen was sent to city Hospital. Her ankle was broken. Falling asleep while driving on Madison-av at Stop 9, J. P. Love, 2153 Dexter-av. lost control of his car early today. The auto crashed into a utility pole and was wrecked. Mr. Love was sent to City Hospital suffering severely from cuts. Arthur Harrington, 40, of 1054 W. 30th-st, was fined a total of SSO, including costs, placed on probation for six months and had his driver’s license revoked lor a year yesterday by Judge Karabell. Mr. Harrington was charged with intoxication and drunken driving following an accident Sunday at Northwest-ern-av and 30th-st. Capt. Lewis Johnson, police traffic department head, announced today that right turns on red automatic traffic signals would be banned in the future because of increased danger to the pedestrian under that system. The ruling had been in force at only a few crossings.

Hugh Baillie Is Elected United Press President Succeeds Karl A. Bickel, Head of Great News-Gathering Organization Since Jan. 1, 1923. By United Press NEW YORK, April 9.—Election of Hugh Baillie as president of the United Press was announced today. Mr. Baillie succeeds Karl A. Bickel, who has been president since Jan. I, 1923. Mr. Bickel will continue as a director of the United Press, and as a member of the executive committee.

Announcement of Mr. Baillie's appointment followed a special meeting of the board of directors in New York, at which Mr. Bickel’s resignation as active head of the press association was tendered. In so doing, Mr. Bickel proposed Mr. Baillie as his successor, and this was ratified by the directors. The change is effective immediately. Mr. Baillie has been executive vice president of the United Press during the last four years. During Mr. Bickel’s incumbency, the United Press has grown from an organization of 867 clients to one cf more than 1300. Its service has been extended into many additional foreign countries, so that now it operates in 49 countries and its news dispatches are translated daily into 21 different languages. Its bureaus throughout the world have been increased from 50 to 81; its leased wire structure in the United States tripled, and its staff personnel has been increased proportionately. Mr. Baillie joined the United Press in California in 1915, after six

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Ochs; Famed N. Y. Times Owner, Dies Great American Publisher Stricken During Visit to Chattanooga. By United Press CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., April 9. —Thousands of messages of condolence from every part of the world came today to the family of Adolph S. Ochs, publisher of the New York Times and the Chattanooga Times. They bespoke the wide range of the influence and personality of the man who helped change the course of American jour-

nalism, who rose from printer’s devil to become one of the world's greatest publishers. Mr. Ochs’ body will lie in state this afternoon at the Julius and Bertha Ochs Memorial Temple, which he built in memory of his parents. Funeral

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services will be held there tomorrow. Then the body will be sent to New York, where services will be held at Temple Emanu El, Friday. He died yesterday of cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 77. In apparent good health, he had come here, the scene of his early journalistic triumphs before he acquired the New York Times and made it one of the most influential and powerful newspapers of the world, for a visit several days ago. Mr. Ochs’ seizure occurred in a restaurant where he was lunching with relatives and newspaper associates. He was taken to a hospital where he died several hours later without regaining - ’ consciousness. At the bedside were Adolph Shelby Ochs, his nephew and general manager of the Chattanooga Times, and Mrs. Ochs; his brother, Col. Milton B. Ochs, and Mrs. Ochs; his sister, Mrs. Harry C. Adler, and her husband; his granddaughter, Miss (Turn to Page Three) $1,200,000 POOR AID BOND ISSUEJPPROVED Money to Be Used to Pay Outstanding Obligations in County. The Marion County Council today authorized Marion County Commissioners to issue poor relief bonds in the amount of $1,200,000, for delivery May 1. The money from the bonds will be used to pay outstanding obligations and to finance poor relief until the end of June. Their issuance is provided for in a law passed by the last General Assembly.

years preliminary work on Los Angeles newspapers. Early in 1917 he moved to Chicago, and then to New York, where he became manager of the New York Bureau. In 1919 he was named manager of the Washington Bureau, and he held that assignment during the closing days of the Wilson regime.

Highlights in Today's Headlines Colossus of the Colorado! The entrancing story behind the world’s greatest engineering feat . . . Boulder Dam. The second of this series of interesting articles is . . . On Page 9 of Today’s Times The Story of Easter! Twelve beautifully illustrated articles telling the simple and beautiful story of the origin of Easter. The second is . .. On Page Z of Today’s Times Is Tony Hinkle Leaving Butler? An exclusive story discloses reported negotiations of an eastern college to secure the services of the popular Butler mentor. Read about it . . . On Page 13 of Today’s Times The Story Back of Natural Gas! Vincent Lyons, Times financial editor, has just returned from an on-the-scene study of the natural gas situation in the Texas Panhandle. Look for the first of his six Illuminating articles . .. On Page 1 of Today’s Times Results! Mrs. Cora Sullivan, 1524 College, rented her housekeeping room with a Times Want Ad yesterday. V *

PANHANDLE IS GOLD MINE OF GAS INDUSTRY Gigantic Natural Spout Rules Vast Area Covered Once by Grass. The Indianapolis Times recently sent Vincent Lyons, Times Financial Editor, to the Southwest to look over the Texas Panhandle gas fields. Impressions and information gained as a result of the trip are told in a series of six articles, of which this is the first. BY VINCENT LYONS Times Financial Editor Something, yet nothing. That is natural gas. Captured and put to work it does many tasks from boiling your twominute egg at breakfast to making bricks for the home in which you live. Allowed to pop off into the air its potentialities are immediately cancelled, forever. Billions of dollars are invested, directly and indirectly, in this lighter than air substance. Hidden below the ground, its usefulness depends upon the ability to keep it harnessed always. Thus harnessed it remains a? utility. Any other way it represents a nothingness—a menace. Gas finds its way into the home through a labyrinth of pipes. You may turn on the gas jet in your house, yet you see nothing. The only response is a slight hissing sound and a nauseous odor, both of which increase in proportion to the volume of gas which is released. The magnitude of the gas industry is ever clouded by these two facts —that the product can not be seen and that the investment is to a large degree below the surface of the ground. When in 1918, Prof. Charles Newton Gould of the University of Oklahoma moved with his party of geologists to a top of a knoll in the northern part of Texas in search for gas, he had no idea of just how important his little expedition was. As it developed he struck a fabulously rich sheet of gas producing territory which carried for approximately 115 miles in length and about 20 miles in width. True, natural gas fields had been uncovered for years in other parts of the country, but never had there been such a bonanza. This was really something different and distinct from all other discoveries. This gas-bearing area might be likened to a tremendous blanket as each mile was of the same fabric and richness of productivity as the one just passed. Over these same plains years beiore droves of buffalos had roamed. Perchance, some lone cowboy had built a campfire on the exact spot where Professor Gould had driven his instruments into the earth and struck the rich pool in the Texas Panhandle. Imagination is unre(Turn to Page Two) . Striking Miners Sentenced By United Press WILKES BARRE, Pa., April 9. Five miners were sentenced to five to ten years imprisonment and fined SSOO today for dynamiting homes of other miners who refused to join a strike.

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Greater Part of Western State Is Affected, Reports Say. 10 DIE IN TRAIN CRASH Five Lose Lives in Auto Wrecks and 10 Others Are Drowned. By United Press SAN FRANCISCO, April 9.—California counted its dead at 25 and its property damage at many hundreds of thousands of dollars today in a checkup of the damage wrought by floods and heavy rainfall over a greater portion of the state. Ten of those reported dead were drowned. Ten railroad workers returning from the task of repairing flood damages to the tracks and roadbed were killed in a collision with a work train bound on a similar mission. Five persons were killed by automobiles during periods of heavy rain. The floods were believed to have passed their crest after inundating acres of farm lands, driving scores of river ‘ bottom” residents to higher ground, and for a time threatening to break through levees, especially in the American and tha Sacramento Rivers. Bear Creek overflowed its banka at Merced last night to cause heavy damage. Subsiding waters left many dead fish on the lawns of residential sections. Railroad and highway traffic still was impeded by high waters and slides. Southern Pacific trains were rerouted around Merced to permit workers to dig a tunnel through the roadbed ‘o let water covering the nearby highway to escape. Weather forecasters promised clear weather today. In the railroad accident 10 section laborers were killed, another was injured critically and three others w r ere hurt less seriously when their car crashed into a work train on Marysville-Roseville branch of the Southern Pacific last night. Four of the 14 aboard the section car jumped to safety. They were the only ones to escape death. The 10 who remained aboard were killed. Several bodies were found 60 feet from the scene of the crash. One was not found until several hours after the accident. Gale Lashes East Coast By United Press NEW YORK. April 9.—The British freighter Newfoundland, speeding to the assistance of the foundering S. S. Bagadry, sighted the vessel wallowing in heavy seas at 9:06 a. m., she reported today by wireless. The Bagadry was caught in a severe storm which caused wide damage along the Atlantic coast. The wind and high waves pounded the coast, damaging resort towns and endangering small vessels at sea. The Bagadry’s holds were filling rapidly and she was in dire distress some 400 miles off Newfoundland, previous messages from the freighter advised rescue ships. In addition to the Newfoundland, another freighter, Manchester Producer, and an unidentified American ice patrol boat were in the vicinity. Change Course to Lend Aid The Manchester Producer changed her course when the Bagadry’s first SOS went out, and the ice patrol boat radioed that she would “proceed to your assistance at 15 knots.” Thirty-five men were imperiled on the crippled Bagadry. Shortly after 9 a. m., the Newfoundland loomed through the mist and rain, and wirelessed the ship: ‘We are now in sight. Will advise later further details about assistance.” A storm of gale proportion* whipped New Jersey and Long Island shores throughout the night, ripping away bulkheads, threatening to carry summer homes into the sea, and driving small craft against the shore. Small Cruiser in Distress A small cabin cruiser was reported in distress off Eaton’s Point in Long Island Sound, and coast guard ships were hunting her. Property damage under the combined pressure of a 52-mile gale and the highest flood tides since the tail-end of a West Indian hurricane two years ago, was large. The Jersey shore, as far south as Atlantic City, appeared to have suffered the most. Tide and breakers swept away five feet of beach at Oak Island, off the Suffolk County coast, and threatened a group of houses. The driving wind, accompanied by sleet and rain, drenched New York throughout the night. Speed Repair Work By Timet Special JACKSON, Miss., April 9—Rehabilitation work in the devastated tornado area of southern Mississippi was speeded today on orders of Gov. Michael Conner. Sheriff L. C. Hicks of Sharkey County gave the executive a firsthand account of the plight of several hundred persons isolated tor more than 48 hours in Sharkey and Issaquena counties following the terrific storm Saturday night. Feld workers revealed a death toll of 30. More than 100 persona were injured.