Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 January 1937 — Page 9

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FRIDAY, JAN.

MILK ARRIVES FOR MAROONED

AT LOUISVILLE

Nourishment Distributed to 4000 Caught in Second Floors of Homes.

By ALFRED GRECO

Times Staff Writer

KENTUCKY AND INDIANA

RAILROAD YARDS, LOUISVILLE, # 29. —The first milk seen | homeless. | shelters 10,000 refugees.

Ky., Jan. here since the Ohio made these rail-

20, 1937

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U. S. Summary

By United Press

ARKANSAS—Twenty-nine 74,951 homeless. Seven Bh id ugees entering Helena daily. Na- | tional Guardsmen with bayonets drive out farmers refusing to evac- | uate 100,000 acres behind weakened ! levee at Mellwood. Regular Army | officers police flood area. MISSOURI—Seventeen dead; 41.792 homeless. Engineers blast levee | to release water impounded in New | Madrid floodway. Charleston sum- | | mons all available men for levee | | work.

TENNESSEE—Seven dead:

road yards an island is being dis- report 500 influenza cases.

tributed today to 4000 persons living | on the second floor of homes.

flooded

| experiencing unusual 4050 | amusement and pathos.

MISSISSIPPI — Four dead; | homeless, Preparations made for

SENATE DOORKEEPER ILL Calvin Slusser, 60, of Marion, Sen-

DAKOTAN SENDS ~te doorkeeper, suffered a heart at-

| He was treated by Maj. H. J. Hal-

leck of the National Guard medical detachment. He was taken to City Hospital.

LAST DOLLAR T0 © tack in the Senate chamber today. | FLOOD VICTIMS

Letters With Donations Are’ Accompanied by Tears |

And Laughter.

The business of handling money | {usually is a routine matter with but four volun-

in American ‘Red Cross headquarters here are | moments of To be

sure the amusement in-

Milk is being brought here by way | possible ‘evacuation Arkansas City, | y ith b of New Albany, across the river, in | Dots ariebly is tinged with pathos, but, |

railroad cars which pass through |

more than two feet of water. which play role of milk wagons.

dry area in the entire West Side of | Louisville, were being used as & medical and refugee relief base. The only contacts with the outside world are by railroad to New Albany, diana bridge and by motor

spanning the Ohio, boats which must |

It is | transferred to outboard motor boats | homeless.

| flood waters

1 d nly high and | | The railroad yards, o g Spillway north of New Orleans. | rival of the one-dollar check which

four dead in Louisville, more feared; 347.589 homeless, out in Louisville. over the Kentucky and In- | puildings undermined by flood wa- ! fer. Paducah.

LOUISIANA — None dead; es

Engineers decide release | into Bonnet Carre

KENTUCKY—One hundred sixtv- |

Looting breaks | Business district |

Flood crest moves west toward where 9000 homes are

fight a swift current to get to the | flooded. Hickman strengthens levees |

Louisville City Hall A trip to City Hall yesterday through streets which are clogged with heavy timbers, huge distillery plant casks and debris,

hours. miles,

Relief work in the West Side area Maunie, Cauche flooded jsville was hampered by lack | Flood crest may enter Illinois to-| ihe sufferers in flood zone need it | morrow, save city.

of Lou of boats until yesterday, when 40 |

metal boats were received from Kansas City. Forty outboard motor boats from South Send, Ind. today

bring medical attention, clothing to families maroone Monday afternoon.

Give Typhoid Shots |

Red Cross doctors are typhoid injections to all persons | they can reach. The hospital train | from Indianapolis treated about 50 |

| against water high as second-story |

windows.

took an | homeless.

outhoard motor boat more than two | | under water. The distance is about three | Metropolis, New Haven, El Dorado, |

ILLINOIS—Eleven dead: 50,000 Harrisburg 80 per cent | Golconda, Equality, |

| Elizabethtown, Brookport, Rosiclare, |

giv ing homeless. cincinnati,

seriously.

Cairo completing levee to |

INDIANA Twelve dead; 75,000 } Crest reaches Evansville | but no new evacuations are |

OHIO — Twenty dead; 143, 437 | Disease threatens CinPortsmouth. Cincinnati |

estimates $25,000,000 damage, starts |

cleanup.

Governor Martin L. |

minor hospital cases here yesterday | Davey proposes thousands of dams and doctors made a score of calls | to control floods.

in boats. The cases were all dis- | charged after treatment. | Most of the patients treated today had colds, but confinement case under observation by Dr. Jane | Ketcham, Indianapolis obstetrician. | An emergency maternity room was fitted up. When it was found there was no other cone aboard the train Dr. B. Bohne fashioned an excellent oo of a tin cuspidor top wrapped in gauze. Dr. Norman W, Beatty was in charge of patients in the admitting ‘room, assisted by Dr. J. T. Harding and Dr, Charles Thompson. Dr.

which was put

| 64,661 there was one | disease. | ings feared.

low flood ood stage.

WEST VIRGINIA Eleven dead; | homeless. Wheeling ' fights | Collapse of flooded build- | {

PENNSYLVANIA — Three dead. | 18000 homeless. Rivers recede be-

1000 SANITARY UNITS SENT TO EVANSVILLE

ke ae I enarge of 600 Toilets Being Built Here

the mobile pharmacy. Robert Kirb was in charge of the in-patient list, Numerous dogs, pigeons and a | goas hung around the dining car, | hoping food would be thrown them. |

Guard Against Looting

Additional Guardsmen were ordered into this section to guard homes and boxcars containing food against looting. Railroad detectives, it was reported, | fired shots to rout looters lats night. | The Indianapolis hospital train | helped in the Louisville refugee | work, while awaiting orders yester- | day to return to New Albany. Today. it was to be used to evacuate 300

police and National |

| are | Marion County |are to “be

| at Evansville. have been built at New Albany and

By WPA. |

Approximately 600 sanitary toilet |

| units of the type approved by the | | United States Public Health Service |

constructed here by WPA workers and | to Evansville, |

being

shipped WPA officials said. Another 300 are being built at |

| Terre Haute and an additional 100 |

Twenty-five units

persons from Jeffersonville to In- | others are under construction at

dianapolis. Capt. Fred Goyer, train commander, said the first line of communication was established with | Jeffersonville vesterday. Capt. Goyer said he was informed by Col. Paul Tombaugh that there still were 1000 persons to be taken out of Jeffersonville. Most of these, it was reported, are refugees crowded into the Palmolive-Peet building when the town was inundated. Clothing Furnished The last of these Jeffersonville refugees were being given complete changes of clothing before they were taken into New Albany.

Dr. Herman Morgan, Indianapolis |

Health Board secretary, one of seven doctors on the hospital train, turned to Indianapolis yesterday, to assist in the care of flood victims being taken sheye.

TEACHERS TO STUDY

who {

re- |

| flood area include:

SCHOOL CURRICULA |

School Superintendent Stetson today

Paul C.;

had organized 75 |

principals and teachers of Indian- |

qpolis senior high schools into five | §

Ppommittees to direct revision and | modernization of curricula. The committees were assigned to | study: Functions of secondary edu- | cation, retardation and maladjustment in high school, needs for technical and vocational education and feasible methods of meeting them,

articulation of the high school with | college and with advanced techni- |

cal and professional schools, character and citizenship aspects of | the eurFieuum.

BEAUTY SHOP OWNERS,

OPERATORS TO MEET ©

More han 500 India na

and |

beauty |

shop owners and operators are to | attend a one-day educational con- |

ference and coiffure-style revue Monday in the Hoetel Lincoln, Thomas W. Smith, the Indiana Association of Beauticians president, announced today. The event is to pe sponsored by the Indianapolis chapter of the association.

| Madison, Charlestown and Greens- | | burg.

Commodities and clothing from | WPA depots in other states con- | | tinued to come where they are being stored in the commodity warehouse at the Fair Grounds. Since Wednesday 70 trucks and 14 express cars have brought supplies for distribution in the flood zone. i Fifty more trucks are expected, |

| including six from Michigan carry-

ing 34.304 garments, 52.580 towels, 2300 sheets, and comforts and] blankets. Supplies are entering here | from six states.

Other WPA relief projects in the | A pipe line from | a 1000- |

Silver Hills to New Albany; yard temporary bridge at New Al-

| bany to connect the city with a| building a fi to float a New Albany fire truck; |

| county road outlet;

acting as nurses in a number of | flood- bound cities.

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