Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 January 1937 — Page 15

FRIDAY, JAN. 23 1987

NATIONAL GUARD OFFICE DIRECTS STATE FLOOD AID

New Telephone Switchboard Installed to Handle Relief Calls.

The Indiana National Guard headquarters in the State House, nerve center of flood relief work, is working at top speed handling telephone calls and transporting supplies to stricken areas. Adjt. Gen, Elmer Straub said headquarters was open all last night receiving telephoned reports from southern Indiana.

A special switchboard was set up|

this morning to handle the deluge of calls. Special bulletins are received every few minutes. One of the greatest tasks of the + Guard is to find ways of sending supplies to the inundated districts because many roads in southern Indiana are blocked by high water. The - Indiana Bell Telephone Co.

and State Police are checking all |

roads by contacting telephone exchanges and police headquarters. Low ceiling may prevent National Guard planes at Stout Field in Indianapolis from flying to southern Indiana, Gen. Straub said. As the flood dangers increase, approximately 1500 guardsmen may be called out for special duty, Gen. Straub said. More than 400 now are on duty in the stricken areas. Meanwhile, Governor Townsend kept in close communication with National Guard and civilian authorities by telephone and telegraph. Legislators from southern Indiana attempted to obtain bulletin news of the situation in their communities, and almost all are resigned to

remaining in Indianapolis over the week- end.

FRENCH PRISONERS DEMAND SEA TRIP

By United Press / ROCHEFORT, France, Jan. 22.— A group of convicts at the prison at St. Martin, on the Island of Re off the Bay of Biscay Coast, started s tour of solitary confinement today. They were accused of being leaders of a riot in which prsioners demanded that they be sent to the Devil's * Island Penal Colony in Guiana, perhaps the world’s most dreaded convict settlement. The Government is closing the colony, as a humanitarian measure. But the convicts at the prison, which is the evacuation base for the settlement, asserted that their sentences entitled them to an ocean voyage to Guiana and demanded that the Government make good.

WHITE CROSS GUILD MEMBERS OFFER AID

Dr. John G. Benson, Methodist Hospital superintendent, and Mrs. Isaac Born, White Cross Guild president, today offered the services of ! the more than 1000 White Cross Guild members to the Princeton Methodist Hospital and the Evansville Deaconess Hospital in event a shortage in hospital supplies should exist there. Mrs, Born said that if word of shortage is received Guild members will be notified to go to their headquarters to prepare the supplies.

Compared

Vincennes Mount Carmel New Harmony

Indianapolis Elliston

Seymour Shoals

Petersburg Hazleton

Present State Water Levels

River stages at strategic points showing changes during the last 24 hours and comparison to 1913 flood stage are as follows: ON THE WABASH

Terre Haute c.icecieevacees sores sdsreies

cases esen

to 1913 Stages

1913 tage 31.3 24.0 31.0

Flood Height of Stage

Change

29.5 313

18.1 31.0

30.8

FLOOD WORRIES ASSEMBLYMEN

Legislators Fear Damage to Their Homes and Offices.

Indiana legislators with homes and business places in the flood area today were worried as to whether they’d get “back home,” and if so, whether they would be able to return in time for Monday's session. Senator Claude B. McBride, Jeffersonville lawyer, said relatives had telephoned him that the highest flood waters since 1884 were in prospect for his city. “It went to 48 feet in 1884 and from the reports I get, it may go over that stage. It is expected to go higher than the 44.5 feet of the 1913 flood,” he said. Need for money to aid flood sufferers may result in Senator MecBride's joining in a bill for the benefit of refugees. Rep. William E. Gibbons (D. Elberfeld), grocer, said his grocery was surrounded by water, but that he hoped to reach Warrick County in time to save his $5000 stock of

<3 food.

Rep. Winfield K. Denton (D. Evansville), lawyer, said: “Mrs. Denton came up on the train last night and were both going back after today’s session to see what we

can do. Our home “is on high

‘ground and not in danger, but my

office is in the business district. We'll try to get back by train.” Rep. Hardin S. Linke (D. Columbus) said that despite high water | near his farm he'd find some way to: reach his dank acreage. “I don’t know how, but Ill get there and be back for the session Monday,” he added.

MRS. NANNIE TURNER, PASTOR’S WIFE, DIES

Mrs. Nannie Turner, Negro, 2620 Northwestern Ave., died yesterday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Willa Stark, 130 W. 10th St. She was

: the wife of the Rev. William Turner,

retired Baptist minister. Funeral services are to be held at 8 o'clock tonight in tHe Barnes Methodist Church, and burial is to be in Lebanon, Mrs. Turner was born in Lebanon, Tenn., and came to Indianapolis 20 years ago. Surviors, besides Mr. Turner and Mrs. Stark, are a daughter, Mrs. Leon Bryant, and a son, William Turner Jr., both of Indianapolis.

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The Indiana Bell Telephone Co. main office in Indianapolis reported at noon today that if waters continue to rise, communication may be cut off to several Ohio River towns. Among those most threatened are

Tell City, New Harmony, Grand View and Jeffersonville, officials here said. Trunk cables into Jeffersonville are out now, officials said. Jeffersonville intracity communications may be cut soon, they said. Local telephone. service was cut off today in two Indiana towns, the Indiana Bell Telephone Co. reported. In Tell City,’'a manhole in front of the main office caved in, washing out local service. Toll service was continued, however, with an emergency power plant. Utica also was without local service.

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Cannelton also is using emergency power, it was reported. At Jeffersonville, emergency power was provided by batteries. Operators and other workers there were taken from their homes to the office in boats this morning. Bell company offices here reported five more small emergency power plants were on the way from Chicago today, and would be sent by truck to stricken districts to continue service. One emergency plant was sent to Jeffersonville today by truck and will be taken into the city by National Guard boats, it was reported.

"PRISON IS FLOODED BY KENTUCKY RIVER

By United Press FRANKFORT, Ky., Jan. 22.—The Kentucky River inundated twothirds of the city today. Hundreds of families were being evacuated by National Guardsmen mobilized under emergency orders. The water stood at about five feet in the State penitentiary and several of the major office buildings have been evacuated. The 2500 convicts in the prison have been moved to upper cell blocks, but officials said an additional rise may necessitate the removal of many to other buildings.

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CONTINUE RISE IN MANY SPOTS

1913 Levels Exceeded at Seymour, Hazleton and Decker.

Waters in the Wabash and White Rivers continued to rise above flood stages in 10 of 15 sites having Goverment river observers, J. H. Armington, U. S. Meteorologist reported today.

The 1913 flood level was exceeded

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Mr. Armington said. River stages were based on reports received at 7 a. m. today.

Mr. Armingten explained that flood stages on the Wabash and White Rivers in southwest Indiana are unpredictable because of the continued rise of the Ohio River, the resulting backwash and the breaks in the levees at several places on the White River forks.

Due to approaching cold, rises in the upper Wabash and west fork of White River, with only moderately heavy to light precipitation during the last 24 hours, will not be as high as last week-end, he said.

Part of White Falling

This applies, Mr. Armington said, to the Wabash above Terre Haute and to the White from Indianapolis upstream. The White is falling from Elliston to the mouth of Mount Carmel, he said, due to breaks in levees. These breaks and the cold will reduce the Wabash below the confluence, he said. Stages of between 27 and 28 feet are indicated for Mount Carmel, Mr. Armington said. The greatest precipitation during the last 24 hours was recorded in Anderson, with 2.7 inches of rainfall. Because the Government Weather Bureau river gauge in Hazleton cannot be read due to flood waters, the river stage there is only an es=timate. The height of the river there was estimated at 31.5 feet. In 1913 the river rose to 30.5,

COLDEST WEATHER OF

YEAR IN NORTHWEST

By United Press FARGO, N. D,, Jan. 22.—The most

severe cold wave of the winter |

closed over the Northwest today, It was 40 degrees below zero in Fargo and at least 30 helow in other sections of the Dakotas and Minnesota. Snowplows had opened arterial highways after blizzards Wednesday and yesterday, but trains still were behind schedule.

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M'KINNEY TO HEAD DEMOCRAT DINNERS

Treasurer Made Chairman Of Celebration.

Times Special WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 Prank McKinney, Marion County Treasurer, will be Indiana state chairman for the victory dinners to be held under auspices of the Democratic National Committee March 4. His appointment was announced here by former Governor McNutt, who attended the National Committee meeting yesterday in the absence of Thomas Taggart, Indiana Na-|. tional Committeeman. The victory dinners are to be modeled after the Jackson Day dinners of last year, which were held in Washington and throughout the states and netted $345,000 for the Democrats. Revenues this year will aid in meeting the $450,000 campaign deficit and half million budget for 1937

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