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FRIDAY, JAN. 18, 1052

HELPLESS MONSTER—Stalled and snowbound, with icicles dripping off her front end, the crack streamliner City of San Francisco

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LOS ANGELES, Jan. 18—Southern California was hit!

today by a new storm that ca forced hundreds to flee from

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used at least four deaths and their homes. The total death

toll now stands at nine. Five persons died as a result of the:

storm that subsided late Wednesday. Three children were trapped in a house in West Los Angeles when a mud slide blocked the doorway. Police were attempting to dig them out. Throughout the Los Angeles area traffic was disrupted by water, mud and debris that blocked the streets. Most highways leading north from the city also were blocked to traffic. The San Fernando Valley, about 20 miles northwest of Los Angeles, was hardest hit by the downpour. The city of Van Nuys was turned into a lake and police used six-wheel Army trucks and, tractors to remove residents from their homes.

Get 4.17 Inches Heavy rains that started!

shortly before noon yesterday the crash of a TO- 2 training]

drenched Los Angeles with 4.17 inches by early today. Then the sun came out at 8 a. m. (10 a. m. Indianapolis time) and the weather bureau said the current storm would end quickly. How-| ever, another storm was sweeping ‘down the coast from Alaska and was expected to hit ‘here by tomorrow or Sunday. Traffic throughout the valley

Father of 9 Sentenced in Bank Holdup

A 43-year-old father of nine ehildren today was sentenced to serve two years in federal penitentiary for the toy pistol holdup of a bank five days before Christmas. William Monroe, Fairbanks, a he was sentenced, told Bedural Judge William E. Steckler: “No matter what you do I will never make another mistake.” “Those are the finest words anyone can say,” Judge Steckler replied. Monroe was charged with bank robbery when arrested shortly after holding up the Farmers State Bank in Fairbanks with a toy pistol he bought for the purpose. He obtained approximately $500, federal authorities said. He told the court he realized the mistake he had made immediately after stepping outside the bank. Monroe said he has seven children at home, six of| them in school. He. said he was, unemployed at the time of the holdup.

Probation officers said Monroe had a good work record and. had!

never before been arrested.

“I am not going to make this

a heavy sentence,” Judge Steckler said. “However, I feel he has committed a crime against Bociety and must pay the debt.” Monroe -could have been fined | $5000 and sentenced to 10. years in a federal Penitentiary.

DOES RUSSIA WANT PEACE? A daring Russian dip-

lomat risked death to tell. the|

truth to an American correspond-

ent. You will learn what he said| when you read the series of five " articles starting Monday in The

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was almost at a standstill as streets became rivers of muddy, silt-filled water. Two women drowned when their car skidded 250 feet and

jammed in a culvert in the valley. | {Terre Haute, Mrs. Violet Cash of

Two persons were rescued from an overturned auto in the same area, and police said they feared another person was trapped in the car and drowned.

The body 'of an unidentified man washed up on a lawn in Van Nuys. A woman was killed when a

(house where she was staying with

two ‘small children was pushed

from’ its foundation and into a!

street by a mud slide. The children were rescued by firemen.

Blamed for Crash The rainstorm was blamed for |

plane in the sea off Laguna] Beach. Missing and presumed lost were the pilot, Maj. Elmer L. Gilbert, 34, and Capt. Erwin F. Wall. The Southern Pacific Railroad reported that both its Pacific Coast and San Joaquin Valley lines to San Francisco were closed by flood-waters and slides.

Several other homes threatened

to tumble from hillside «founda-!

tions, and several mountain areas jwere snowbound. The highway {patrol warned motorists to stay out of the mountains.

Battle to Free Train All transcontinental rail and

'highways over the Sierras re-

mained closed and highway officials said it would be at least Southern Pacific work crews battled to free the $3 million streamliner City of San Francisco from snow and ice near ¢ Emigrant Gap in the high Sierras. Meanwhile, 232 passengers and icrewmen who were _snowbound for over 75 hours in the luxury {diesel went their individual ways after they reached Oakland, Cal. on a rescue train early yesterday.

Three Marooned Hoosiers Safe

Times State Service TERRE HAUTE, Jan. 18—An- _ xious Hoosier relatives have learned that three Indiana women aboard the snowbound train,

“City of San Francisco,” have reached their destination.

Mrs. Violet Grace Cummings of

Shelburn and Mrs. Thelma Amour of Farmersburg wired home they

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Los Angeles Gets 4. 17 neha of Rain In Less Than Day

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THE WEST DIGS OUT—Man (arrow) starts to clear roof of snow in Portola, Cal. Note car completely covered at bottom. Deep snows, the worst in years, rendered many roads impassable.

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have arrived at the bedside of)

Mrs. Cummings’ son, John. Mr. Cummings, who lives in Portland, Ore., is seriously ill in San Francisco at the hospital of the Southern Pacific Railroad, of which he is an employee. The three women were rescued

Wednesday from the stranded | train and taken to San Francisco |

{by another train. The messages

of safety were received by Mrs. | Sarah Boling of Terre Haute, !

sister of Mrs. Cash and Mrs, {Cummings, and D. W. Amour

of Farmersburg, husband of Mrs. Amour.

Sees Chance of No Hike

In State Taxes: in '53

Increased revenues from existing Indiana taxes justify the hope no new taxes will be needed in 1953, Clarence A. Jackson told

the Indiana Commercial Exec-|

utives Association todaly. Mr. Jackson, executive vice president of the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce said ‘no

new Indiana taxes in 1953”!

| should be the goal of all state

| citizens. SMI ry EE)

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