Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 May 1943 — Page 4

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gled today to prevent a break in the Gill township levee along the | Wabash after 30 families were res|cued from the Riverton area, south ri {of Merom. IWinois Farms. Sheriff Hubert Sevier said that ithe strain against the dike was ntin from Page ! tCe el ne) heavy. The pressure broke the Tur-

‘the levee gave way and the break man township levee yesterday and

‘widened constantly to more than inundated 5600 acres of farmland. 50 feet. | Traffic over the Illinois Central

Families Escape ‘railroad stopped because of the flood strain ainst the Wabash Reports said that most families {tie pr a ar on the Illinois side of the river a had moved from their homes be- : «fore the inundation came. Eel River Slowly The full burden of the river had i ‘not reached Vincennes from e Receding persons were homeless, when the High waters of Eel river, which in levee broee and flood rapidly (he past five days had either ruined surged higher. Effects of the damaged crops on 27,000 scres

breach in the dike was felt immediately at Vincennes. of Clay county farmland, slowly re-

Privation and heavy property loss ceded today. were suffered at West Terre Haute County officials said it was beand adjoining Taylorville, which lieved that state roads 42 and 59 were watercovered from depths would be reopened to traffic tonight. ranging from a few inches to house- Eleven inches of rain fell during top levels. five days of flood. More than 2000 men, including soldiers from Indiana and Kentucky, labored throughout the night, piling ; 50000 sand bags around the Con- LOGansport Looting over levee to protect the eity of. ; A GANSPORT C Terre Haute, across the river from . RT. Ind, May 2 u. the inundated areas. The stream P) —Sailors from the naval air stahad remained stationary there for tion at Bunker Hill guarded floodmany hours. {ravaged sections of Logansport toSherift ira Hall of Vigo county, day to prevent looting while the city believed there was a “50-50 chance | dug itself out of silt and debris along of saving several square miles of | the Wabash Jusifential poi eri Jem IN"! Unofficial estimates of damage in = ation, ot prays I hi Seepage {the city reached $500,000 and the as repor NOVEr JeVEE.lcass county highway department The levee break &bove Vincennes peljeved it would require months to occurred on the farm of Orville! repair broken roads. Hedden, who was trapped in his. past-west bus service was resumed home for an hour before rescue yesterday and service to Indianapboats reached him. His family had jis and South Bend was expected left for higher ground, but he had , begin today. remained to save his poultry and livestock. : : Mrs. HL W. Mahrenholz was isc- Cleaning Begins at

lated in her farm home one mile! Fi. Wayne

and a half south of the Hedden| FT. WAYNE Ind. May 21 (U property. Her husband, who was’ ; t oalE . : $n Vincennes. failed in an effort to F-)-—The civilian defense disaster reach the farm by truck but he said: crew, directing work of various city the house stood at levee level and street and health departments, towas in no danger of being swept g.u siarted cleaning up after the

Way. ; . city’s most damaging flood since A telephcne line to his home re- 1913. mained open and Mahrcnholz ad-| parjjer, Carter Bowser of the

vised his wife to free all livestock oop announced that the crisis had

‘Rampaging Wabash Pours Tons of Water Onto

Sailors Guard Against

cussed by city and county officials meeting at city hall yesterday. The touchy subject of whos going to pay the flood damage bill was presented to flood commissioners by County Cemmissioner William Bosson, who reminded that immediate repair of certain bridges and roads was imperative in the interest of war transportation. City and county co-operation in the post-flood program was stressed by Mr. Besson who asserted that both governmental units “should combine forces to clean up this business.”

Estimate $200,000 Loss It has been estimated that citycounty losses will exceed $230.0v..

now in the city-county flood control | board treasury be invested as soon i as possible in rehabilitation projects | which seem to be most needed. “Our losses are going to be enormous,” said the county commis- | sioner. “Unless we launch a finan|cing program right now, our flood rehabilitation effort will be an endless task. You'll never get all these bridges and roads straightened out.”

Authority Questioned

It was pointed out that as a separate taxing unit supported by. both the city and county, the flood control board is a vehicle for issuance of special bonds. All present thought such a step would be] a necessary fund-raising measure. | Mr. Bosson was insistent in his demands that flood control funds be allocated to the county as well] as the city. His request that some|

3.000,

By UNITED PRESS | One of the most devastating {floods in a quarter of a century rolled relentlessly across the nation's richest farm belt today as the waters of the Mississippi, the | Missouri and their tributaries swirled toward unprecedented crests in a half dozen states. | Mounting damage to crops, river cities and railroads was reckoned in the millions of dollars with mors than 3,000,000 acres of fertile low- | lands already lying under water. Farmers predicted that spring corn

Task of Repairing Floo Ravages Gets Under Way

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county roads be completely repaved through money provided by the board brought a hesitant glance from City Engineer Arthur B. Henry who said he wasn’t sure about that body's fund-distributing powers. Allocation of flood control funds has Jong been a sore spot with county officials who have contended that the city has received more than its share of projects sponsored by the board. Mr. Henry and County Surveyor Paul R. Brown said they would begin an investigation of needed re»airs, taking into special consideraion their value to defense plants.

Mr. Bosson said he thought it

Mr, Bosson suggested that $70,000 might be necessary for the city and}

county to request federal aid in the flood financing program. i It was conceded by those present that the ordinary inflow of tax] money would be insufficient to meet | repair costs. The city and county | have lost $128.000 in gasoline tax] payments for the current year.

Speedy Action Sought

Chamber of Commerce Secretary William Book, calling for speedy

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date to come through the Republican sweep. | While the Republican trend has increased since then, the party! winning the off-year election last fall by 125,000-vote majorities, even Republicans admit that the gov-| ernor’s popularity also has increased. Some G. O. P, leaders, who think of the governor as a seantorial candidate, say off-the-record that he will run 50,000 votes ahead of his ticket if he makes that race next year. It is perhaps significant that the Schricker-for-vice-president talk, which had been mostly luncheon! table conversation previously, began to take on real impetus following the visit here last week-end of & Wayne Coy, assistant director of the budget who has been very close to President Roosevelt. Mr. Coy’s visit followed closely on

action on rehabilitation plans, de- the heels of the governor's con- £ clared, “I don’t believe taxpayers, ference with the president when he

{will begrudge paying for post-flood Was in Evansville on his way home =

0 Acres of Midwest farmland Flooded Over

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work that may make the next flood | less damaging. After all, we have no assurance that a similar catas-| trophe might not occur next July,! or at any time in the near future.”| The work of the Indianapolis Ci-/ vilian defense volunteers in combatting the flood waters was praised today by Harry E. Yockey, city di-| rector.

Chartres, Stringtown and Grand Tower, Ill, and authorities said flood conditions would become increasingly severe in the next 24

Soldiers from a score of army camps joined Red Cross and state autherities in providing food and housing for an estimated 80,000 persons driven from their homes in Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Arkansas. Chicago OCD officials turned 22,000

cots over the the army for use by | refugees throughout West. |

| plainting would be delayed as much | as one month.

In Illinois, the rapidly mounting

the Middle |

from Mexico. Walker to Come Here E Mr. Coy talked at length with 2 both Governor Schricker and Mr. = Bays. He told newspapermen, how- E ever, that he was here to see his =

|doetor and his dentist and that no §

politics was involved, And following Mr. Coy’s visit will be the visit here this week-end of E Democratic National Chairman £ Frank C. Walker. Mr. Walker and the governor will be the principal speakers at a luncheon meeting of the Democratic state committee here tomorrow. Another factor in his favor is § that he is the undisputed leader of

|the Democratic party in Indiana i today. Governor Paul

influence of former V. McNutt, now manpower czar, is practically nil in the Indiana Democratic party of 1943. Have Historical Precedent The governor's friends also have

The

{historical precedent for their am- =

bitions. Of the 17 vice presidents elected since the Civil war, four, or approximately 25 per cent have heen E from Indiana. Schuyler Colfax

served during President's Grant's F : first term; Thomas A. Hendricks = Wheat and oat!Illinois river, fed by the Sangamon, during President Cleveland's first

SO the animals could reach the levee past at the Edgewater dike, a 1arege crops in many sectors were counted neared record crests at Peoria and term; Charles W. Fairbanks during

end safety. levee holding back tons of water of

a total loss. i

Beardstown. A line of

trucks

Theodore Roosevelt's only elected

Evansville sent 10 power beats the torrential Maumee river from, Tne swollen Mississippi, awaiting removed residents from threatened term and Thomas R. Marshall dur-

and Camp Breckenridge, Ky. sol-|the Lakeside residential area.

the arrival of crests on its principal |

districts in Peoria.

diers arriged with seagoing jeeps) Soldiers and civilian volunteers) yypytaries—the' Missouri, Illinois 150 soldiers from Camp Ellis and and en ambulance to aid in evacu- had worked as long as 72 hours ,n4 Ohio rivers—threatened levees more than 300 townspeople worked dent Roosevelt is the only Demo J

ation work on the Illinois side of| without relief to patch the weak- | o¢ a dozen points between St. Louis | feverishly to add a three-foot ex- [cratic president elected since the |E | Army | tension to the mile-long earthen | Civil war who hasn't had a Hoosier |S lenglneers at St. Louis issued evacu- | levee protecting two sides of the for vice president during at least = {one of his terms. 'E

the river near Russellville and ened and crumbling dike. Plainville, where two smail ccm-| — munities were emptied of residents. | Bluffton Damage Army engineers from Camp Atter-| 3 ne b $1,579,000

bury reported that 20 families near Oaktown, Ind, were marooned by] BLUFFTON, Ind, May 21 (WU: PJ.

the Wabash flood and awaited res-| —Wells county authorities estimated cue. More than 100 soldiers were today that the total loss to crops, kent to southwest’ Indiana with property and roads caused by the trucks and jeeps to aid in the work. rampaging Wabash river would ex3 ceed $1,579,000. i | They said some of the potential Sullivan Fears {or invisible losses may be regained . | partially by planting or re-seeding Dike Break | flooded areas for other crops. They SULLIVAN, Ind. May.21 (U. P.).| were almost certain the 1943 war Sullivan county residents strug-|crop goals could not be reached.

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