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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

REHABILITATION IS SPEEDED

AS OHIO EASES ITS GRIP ON

Evansville Battles Rumors and Fears In Tireless Effort to Keep Up Courage

SOME HOOSIER COMMUNITIES

Evansville Permit System for Reopening Business Places Adopted for Entire Indiana Area; Communications

Are Improved.

(Continued from Page One)

9. Registering of all refugees in | under strict quarantine when they an attempt to find missing persons | left. started by Red Cross. | After an inspection trip yester10. Resumption of free flow of gay Gen. Tyndall announced the commerce over flood zone highways New Albany situation “well in is immediate objective, Adj. Gen. hand.” He said rumors that several Elmer Straub announces. ' bodies were found in the flooded 11. Dr. Verne K. Harvey, State town were untrue. Health Board director, and Ad).| Dr. Harvey said he would confer Gen. Straub discuss plans for co-| here today with CCC officials to arordinating more closely Health De- range for their aid in rehabilitation | partment activities with those of | work | the Indiana National Guard for re- Two cases of diphtheria were re- | habilitation work. ported from Seymour today, and | Evansville System | one case of pneumonia was reported |

. : 2 | in Charlestown. Four Michigan Maj. Gen. Robert H. Ty ndall, Na- State Health officers were expected tional Guard commander in the

| to arrive here today for duty in the flood zone, announced from his West | flood zone. Baden headquarters today that the | Health Districts Repart plan worked out in Evansville by | Daily reports from four State military and civilian groups would | Health District offices in flood be followed in all Indiana flood |

counties are to be received by Dr. towns. He inspected the Evansville | Verne K. Harvey, public health di- | rector, area yesterday.

Eighty-three health officers w 3 » 1 i {are in the field. These reports “may | The bats tosnormal pan " [be considered the most trustworthy Yani howsiog hain rh per o | information that can be obtained,” mils nN ott | ‘ve id. iscase is at a desire to resume business activin, | OF, Harvey seid hy Permits are issued only to those As = fiood ’ relief contributions complying with strict health, san- | ched $201,015.64, the Indiana Jieuon and Sete feguiakions; Gen; Lieadquarters of the American Red "The permits are recommended by | Cross today hiv [gis anng oh on the Citizens Rehabilitation Commit- [SS an an attemp! ssing | tee, headed by Mayor William H. v= lr 0": dl Dress, and approved by military | More than 10,000 Dames of ren authorities. Civilian committees also | 8€eS. their temporary addres are operating in other stricken cities, | locations of former homes had Deen) and the system will be easily adapt- | taken at headquarters here today. | able Gen. Tyndall said. | The task of enrolling refugees was Refugee chlidren will be excluded | taken over by the Red Cross yesterfrom the Indianapolis public schools | day. relieving the adjutant Oem until Monday, officials said today | eral’s office of that wor . Transfer | after receiving a letter from Dr. of enrollment work from the Na- | Harvey and “Flovd I. McMurray, | tional Guard was done at the re-| : x ” k .' | quent of Governor Townsend, who

| periences of another Times man and

| flood area are Col. John S. Fish-

| office, and Frank Morrow of State |

State Department of Public Instruction superintendent.

Daily Check Advocated

dren might be in the

mumps, measles,

were admitted after

that if they

Monday they should be examined |

daily by a nurse. Indianapolis today paid tribute to Capt. William Arthur, local fireman who gave his life in an attempt to save others. He died in an Evansville hospital yesterday afternoon of exposure and exhaustion after days and nights of evacuation work in Evansville.

Capt. Arthur and his squad res- | cued many victims, often working |

water and

rest

shoulder-deep in icy many hours without change to dry clothing. He became ill Saturday and was taken to the hospital. Physicians attributed his death to gastric hemorrhage induced by physical strain, exposure and exhaustion,

Chief Pays Tribute

Capt. Arthur, who was 46, was| centers to bring out relatives if they

stationed at Engine House No, 8. He was appointed to the depart-

in 1914 and was appointed Battalion | sons or property. {

ment

captain in May, 1924.

Chief William Clune said: “He was | ) ve one of the most valuable captains | passes to take supplies to relatives |

in the department.” His wife, Mrs. and mother, Mrs. Mary

and |

Suzanne Arthur, Arthur,

said the duties of the State Militia | had become too heavy to continue | | that phase of activities. Staff Enlarged | The Governor also asked that all public and private agencies co-op- |

know where they are. No one is | perrnlited to wander around in the | inundated areas in search of per-

Individuals are not being given |

| or to visit them. | Communications Improved An elaborate network of

By ARCH STEINEL

This story doesn’t write easily. It's supposed to relate the ex-

myself in the Evansville flood area. —But we had no experiences! Sure we were in a Coast Guard boat that helped rescue a man. But

vey, State Health director, who now is receiving daily reports of health conditions from all flooded cities and refugee centers. Divisional commanders in the back, at St. Meinrad; Col. L. L. Roberts, at Evansville; Col. Clyde Dreisbach, at New Albany, and Brig. Gen. D. Wray DePrez, at Ver- | sailles. Lieut. W. E. Brown of the Air Corps has charge of radio communications in Adjt. Gen. Straub’s |

Police at the West Baden headquarters

Co-ordination Is Theme

Co-ordination of facilities for relief and reconstruction was the | theme in today’s activities of many agencies working for the flood | sufferers. All work of the Civilian Conservation Corps and Emergency Conservation Works in flood relief and rehabilitation in Indiana will be co-ordinated through Army headquarters at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Brig. Gen. William K. Naylor has een advised by the War Department. The Army has been directing approximately 4000 CCC enrollees, officers and technical personnel in the flood area. The Army and the CCC have furnished the Indiana National Guard and other relief agencies with 500 trucks and more than 94 carloads of supplies. At a meeting of American Legion district commanders yesterday a finance committee was named to supervise disbursement of an emergency fund of nearly $30,000. Named to the committee were Lewis Murphy, South Bend; William E. Sayer, state adjutant; John, Ruddick, state finance officer; Judge Wilfred Bradshaw, Twelfth District commander; Barney W. Breedlove, Indianapolis, | and State Commander Charles Maston.

Many Posts Sent Aid

Money and supplies have come 10 Legion National Headquarters in| Indianapolis from states as far away as South Dakota and Massachusetts. Kurt W. Schmidt has been ap- | pointed manager of Legion clothing | warehouses and Mrs. Max Norris, Twelfth District Auxiliary president, | ie in charge of the clothes distributing warehouse at 1007 N. Meridian St. The Indiana department. Veterans of Foreign Wars, has turned its headquarters on E. Ohic St. into a refugee camp and clearing house for supplies. The Red Cross is maintaining a supply depot and clearing house at 210 S. Meridian St., rapidly filled and as rapidly emptied with clothing donated by private citizens and purchased by the organization. More than 100,000 cans of food collected by Indianapolis school children also have been delivered to the warehouse. F. W. Loeffler, assigned by Washington keadquarters of the Red Cross to supervise distribution here, commented that Easterners had not forgotten last year’s floods and are sending large quantities of supplies. Financial contributions to the Red Cross disaster fund included | $10,000 donated by the Shell Petro-! leum Corp. of St. Louis. All telephones that have been | under water will have to be re-

| placed, off¥cials of the Indiana Bell | celebrating President Air | Telephone Co. said as they prepared | birthday, were tabulated.

hundreds of similar rescues were performed daily in the “pocket area” as the Ohio spread like pancake batter upon Evansville. We saw men divided from their families. Wives trying to find husbands. Hotels and business places sandbagging against the sandy yellow river. Relief workers, deadened by lack of sleep, dozing between snatches of food. Military police and Coast Guardsmen systematically evacuating the marooned. The Red Cross feeding, clothing, and housing hundreds of person. People being watered like stock. Stock waiting to be watered like people. We saw rumor become truth and

RIVER FALLING AT EVANSVILLE

Stage at Noon Today Stood

At 53.64; Expected to Reach 50 Friday.

(Continued from Page One)

Col. Louis Roberts, National Guard commander of this area, permitting

them to go to and from work. All other persons are being kept off the streets under a strict military order issued yesterday when sightseers began crowding some parts of the flooded areas. The city’s water plant, which shut off service last Tuesday, began pumping water into mains at noon today. A huge breakwater has been constructed on pontoons around the water plant to protect the building from the pounding of waves.

Epidemic Not Evident : Evidence of disease epidemic here Is not yet apparent, according to Cel. Thomas Dobbins, reserve officer in charge of civilian hospitals.

“Sickness is at a minimum with |

little more than normal hospital cases reported,” he said. One case of typhoid fever was reported. Col. Dobbins pointed out that typhoid incubation period is

! 21 days so that disease consequences 'of the flood cannot be determined

vet. Approximately 15,000 persons here have been innoculated typhoid, Col. Robbins said. The sanitation problem was reported well under control with improvised toilets being built. They manholes leading to sewers. Many of them are in the middle of streets. Refugees in this area faced prospects of colder weather tonight. Rain which fell during the weekend will have no effect on the river stage, the Weather Bureau said.

PRESIDENTIAL BALL RECEIPTS COUNTED

4500 Present at . Dances in Indianapolis.

Indianapolis today had contributed wholeheartedly to another of the nation’s annual campaigns against infantile paraly3is as proceeds from seven balls, Roosevelt's

today |

are being constructed over |

Seven |

fund-raising |

apparent truth become rumor. If the water supply seemed threatened one hour, in the next it became a “sufficient supply for days.” Frequently the city’s old sewers became a source of apprehension. “They’ll be undermined and flood the city,” it was said. Some streets ran with river offai and sewage. But the sewers held. Buildings were reported endangered, but, like the others, this rumor torpedoed to give way to a new “bogeyman.” All the time the flood’s real drama and last act—epidemic—Ilies hidden in the wings. Faces fear it. Everyone boils water religiously. But no one says anything. Doctors and nurses, overworking hypodermic needles loaded with typhoid serum, hope their precautions are effective. Epidemic danger may pass just as “sewer” and “building” menaces. | But the city expects the best and wonders about the worst,

Civic Pride Barks

{ Civic pride barks at every “bogey- | man” from | to new areas flooded. [ If you try to get the whole picture of nearly one-half a city of 102,000 persons soaked by water, a tired city editor, worn by hours of directing his men, looks as if he'd throw a typewriter at you. And you wished he had. You dislike the rebuff and then remember his faithfulness to a job to be done and are ashamed. “Jitters,” caused from flood relief work, are getting sleep injections now that the crest is passing. Evansville papers fed optimism of “crest reaches here today,” and then a new crest was set. The optimism may or may not have averted panic. The river is a narcotic. Stay near

don’t want to talk about flood, or

hear about it again. Orders Are Changed We saw orders countermanded by

given.

wrong places that likely as

and efficiency become red tape. | It's all so mixed that Evansville | and the river valley is tired of | thinking about it. | Merchants walk the streets, talk{ing to friends or directing i placing of show-stuff in windows,

“wholesale evacuation” | |

it and you either don’t care and | routes,”

| |

not | every 50 years. turned out to be the right places. | ready We saw confusion become efficiency | that.”

REHABILITATION PLANS FORMED BY LOUISVILLE

City Will Rebuild Slowly as Chicago Did After Great Fire.

By United Press LOUISVILLE, Ky., Feb. 1.—Floodravaged Louisville wiil be rebuilt much as was Chicago after the great fire, Mayor Neville Miller announced today. Slums are to be cleared, traffic routes rearranged, auxiliary utility stations built, and a step taken toward reduction of crime and disease. “We are going to do this slowly, carefully, systematically, and legally,” the Mayor drawled. “If we rush into things too fast, before you know it some one will be buildIng a monument to the flood instead of houses for poor people.” In 1934, he said, it was estab-

| lished that one-third of Louisville's

dwelling places were substandard. Twenty-five per cent were crowded, one to three persons to a room. 30 per cent had only cold water, 10 per cent had no running water, 9 per cent had neither gas nor electricity, 32 per cent had no plumbing, 35 per cent had no bath facilities.

Plan Slum Clearance Slum clearance will assist in crime and disease reduction, he said, since it was found that crime was four times as prevalent in substandard areas and tuberculosis

| three times as great.

“We want to rearrange traffic the Mayor said, “so that

never again will it happen that

you want to get away and never when a flood occurs we cannot get

the people out of town. determined also where auxiliary gas, electricity and water may be built so that future floods

It will be

relief organizations and new orders | will not leave the city in i Blankets and food went to state. GIy In is present

Floods like this occur once We want to be for the next one sooner than

Stores Open Again

Stores opened today for the first time in a week. Anything but

the | liquor could be purchased.

Flood waters receded to more

and ignoring a New Year's business | than four feet below their greatest

| “gone to pot” by stewing over a set | of golf clubs that may be floating

| alongside a pig-sty.

Promises: of Wages

The John Doe who owes Grocer { Blank is wondering if Sam Blow is

| going to pay him so he can buy |

| new furnishings for his muddy

| home,

| |

height. The death toll was 211. Most of the downtown business section has drained completely. Water has stopped gushing down Broadway, main street of the city. About 400 square blocks in the west end of the city are still under water. About 100,000 still are in refugee centers. A flood-district

In turn Black and Blow are | quarantine prohibited any from re-

| wondering about other Blanks and | turning to their homes.

| Blows as the endless chain of footling the rehabilitation bill goes on | and on—like the river parked on | Evansville’s front porch.

Business firms, forgetting the

| flood’s red ink, generously broad- | | cast in newspapers that workers| serious.

| are to be paid wages even though | they did not work. | Experiences? Sleeping in icebox hotel rooms, “legging” it around | streets in boots miles too large, fac- | mg a flood current in a Coast Guard boat at night. using snow to | wash hands, bumming a drink of water apologetically—why, these are | not experiences!

Good News Item

But refugee

Evansville streets,

military

on centers,

| |

in| head- |

quarters and in hospitals, or in the |

eyes of sleep-deadened reporters,

officials, police, firemen and relief |

Dr. Hugh R. Leavell, health director, said there were no known cases of typhoid, smallpox or meningitis, that there had been no increase in pneumonia cases, and that the influenza e

Nevertheless,

™,

plan\ |

pidemic was not |

a section 12 miles |

SONA XIII KSEYS

FEBRU

BOB BURNS

Says; article today

written by the president of a big soundin’ society and the article had so many ‘“ologies” in it that I didn’t get half of it, but I finally figgered it out that this society is tryin’ to solve the divorce problem. I think I know what causes most of the divorces. It ain't so much that the couple ain't suited as it is because neither one of 'em dct like they did when he was a suitor. Each can see the change in the other one, but they can’t see it in themselves. A little cousin of mine was tellin’ me the other day that his maw was gonna leave his paw, but she wanted to be sure she had some place to go first. So she advertised for a husband in a matrimonial paper under another name. She advertised: “Will make wonderful wife, am a good cook, and have beautiful disposition.” I says, “Well, did your maw get many offers?” and my cousin says “No, nobody answered the ad — but Paw.” (Copyright, 1937)

square in the West End was quarantined, None but those bearing health department passes were permitted to enter. A few who had remained in their homes through the flood were allowed to leave the section—but they were not permitted to return until sanitation was satisfactory. Two hundred and fifty soldiers patrolled the area. It was believed that 10 days would be needed to fulfill the sanitation requirements set by health officials. Sightseers were kept from the city. Highways leading into Louisville were restricted to traffic bearing supplies for emergency and rehabilitation use. The restricted area extends five miles from the city. Kentucky militia patrolled 19 points on the outskirts.

The latest death toll was officially | | that it may be a month or more | before refugees can return to their

increased by 17 to 207, but it did not include two accidental deaths and the shooting of two looters.

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MONDAY, FEB. 1, 1937

34,000 LEAVE AS WATERS AT PADUCAH RISE

Water Polluted, Food Scarce; State Orders All To Abandon Zone.

By United Press PADUCAH, Ky. Feb. 1.—Flood waters of the Ohio River lapped at the tops of lamp posts today as the last of the city's 34,000 residents fled with their 19 dead.

Only a few persons remained in the city at midnight—in the top floors of higher buildings on high ground. Drinking water became polluted, food became scarce. State health officials ordered that the remaining persons be removed, too, “by force if necessary.” National Guardsmen and local officials in Government skiffs car= ried out the evacuation, as the river

{crept up the sides of buildings and flowed into new streets.

Only the exclusive residential section in Avondale Heights remained dry. Water flowed 10 to 15 feet deep in other sections. It will reach its greatest height—probbaly 62 feet—on Wednesday, rivermen said. The official death toll was 19. One of these drowned. The others died from natural causes. Twelve bodies, including that of J. M. Slaughter, Paducah’s fire chief, were removed to Mayfield by Red Cross workers.

Deaths May Reach 100

Other bodies may be found in the debris when the water recedes, rescue workers said. Unofficial prc= dictions of the final toll ran as high as 100, but there was no ap= parent basis for any kind of estimate. Damage was inestimable. Officials said it would probably be months

before a check could be made and

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went to Evansville yesterday morning from their home at 1913 Ruckle St. Capt. Arthur's body returned today and funeral arrangements completed. Twenty-six other Indianapolis firemen are on

workers you'll see and hear of experiences. Some they about. But say,

More than 4500 celebrants attended the dances, with Governor and Mrs. Townsend leading the grand | march at each center. Seventy per cent of net proceeds are to go to the Riley Hospital for Children and City Hospital, and 30 per cent to Ga., Founda-

Corps, State Police and naval mili- | plans to restore service in five | tia radio stations has been set up Southern Indiana cities. Approxi- |

throughout the stricken area, Adjt.| mately 3000 telephones are out of

. | C issi in Evansville. Gen. Straub announced. | commission in : | New Albany, Tell City, JeffersonState policemen now are to : J

: : | ville, Grand View and Utica are | accompany commanding National) gout jocal service. It will be re- |

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was to be I forgot—and it's the best news of all. Hip boots are

Guard officers in cars of the State | down in Evansville. You can get

duty in the Evansville flood area. ne : | Police Department, whic are Policemen Ordered Home | equipped with radio receiving sets. Three Indianapolis policemen have | Air corps division radio stations been ordered home from flood duty | are located in Indianapolis, Vinin Louisville by Lieut. L. M. Trout- | cennes, Evansville and St. Meinrad. man. who remained in command of | Naval militia stations are at Indi19 other city policemen on duty | anapolis, Evansville and Madison, there. Those who returned were | and State Police stations are at InPatrolmen Dalin Judd, Earl Hal- | dianapolis, Mount Vernon, Evansstead and James Hayes. | ville, Rockport, Jasper, West Baden, Judd and Halstead were said to be | New Albany, Seymour, Versailles, suffering from exposure. Hayes re- | Batesville, Lawrenceburg and Auturned home after learning of the | yora. | Orders have been issued to all

illness of his wife. Another Indianapolis policeman, | Guardsmen that persons arrested in | the military zone be turned over to

John Willis, 3134 Ruckle St. is recovering here from exposure. He | civil authorities. If civil operations returned Saturday, He was in 2 | have been suspended, however, boat with Officers Judd and Hal-| troops have been ordered to hold stead which overturned in the swift ! those arrested for court-martial. Maj. Gen. Tyndall today con-

current of eight-foot-deep water. | They swam 50 yards in boots and | tinued shifting Guardsme full equipment and waited five | njlitary zone, and efforts i hours to be rescued. ui to Keep refugees from returning to A train from Louisville today | their homes until the waters have brought 120 more refugees to In- | subsided and adequate sanitary condianapolis. Most of them were | ditions establisheq along the 250taken to the Fair Grounds camp. | mile flood front. Also on the train were 194 New | i York Guardsmen en route home Daily Reports for Harvey from Louisville. Some of the| No serious disease outbreaks have Guardsmen reported Louisville was been reported to Dr. Verne K, Har-

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