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Show STORM BRINGS " OinGEJO CROPS LOS ANGELES AREAS DELUGED WINDS ADD TO HAVOC FLOODS MENACE Continuing Rain Already Past the Record Rec-ord Point: Lettuce Crops ar.d Unpicked Cotton Crop Seriously Damaged Ios Angeles Crop damage was mounting hourly in Imperial valley as the storm which descended on the area about Los Angeles moved southeastward, south-eastward, harassing motor traffic, washing out railroad tracks and filling irrigation ditches to flood stages. Continuing Con-tinuing rain, already past the record point, wright serious damage to barley pasture fields, the lettuce crop and unpicked cotton. Livestock was suffering suf-fering from exposure to the driving rain and winds. The main irrigation canid, supplying about one-third of the water of the valley, burst from its bunks at Dizie Land and spread 0 ier the San Dicgo-Ki Centro highway. XoUiwest of Brawley the Saltou Sea highway was closed by order of the state highway commission, the rain having undermined the pavement or covered it with heavy sand. Highways in every other direction were impassable. Arizona authorities stopped all traffic by automobile east of Yuma. Stages and other machines ere -unable to get by washed-out sections sec-tions of highway on the San Diego route. A washout on the Southern Pacific company's line worthwest of N'iland delayed outbound and main line westbound trains until 2 o'clock Fri-lay Fri-lay morning. Trains now are running an hour or more late because of soft track. Human Flesh is Eaten by Chinese Peking The populace of the city of Sianfu, capital of Shensi province, is buying and eating human flesh to ward off starvation as the result of being be-ing beseiged for months- because of factional fighting. This information is contained in dispatches received here looting a Chinese refugee who made his way past the beseiger's lines and entered the city. The streets of Sianfu Sian-fu are strewn with dead. The natives have been robbed of all foodstuffs by soldiers. Dogs, horses, millet and even fertilizer are being eaten, the refugee reported. There were nineteen nine-teen foreigners in the city at last reports. re-ports. A letter from one of these dated November 19 said starvation was a matter of days unless relief came. There have been reports that the siege has been raised following retreat re-treat of the troops of General Liu Chen-Hau, the beseiger, but this can not be confirmed. |