Show TIMES GARLAND THE GARLAND UTAH WuiUPkll SPEED RELIEF TO FLOOD VICTIMS Advance Organization of Rescue Agencies Cuts Death Toll in tion’s Record Tragedy of Human Suffering v “’few &s v x ' ‘ i rljk te i V y' ' f Y ff ' 4 GIBBONS Famous Deadline Hunter By FLOYD ljSsi JLJfc it' 'XX' ? “ Door of Death n X w' r Adventurers’ vjt iJr ' '( Scuj6: Na- ¥4r ' j tUl'V rv I s" The rampaging Ohio river suceping to the highest flood stage In all of the city of Louisville history forced the larger part of the population Ky (shown above) to evacuate their homes Relief agencies are doing heroic work Inset: Typical of the homeless Are this mother and child f Evansville Ind hard hit by floods By WILLIAM C UTLEY us is the dreadful spectacle of the worst flood has ever known Drunk from the effects of thaws streams once peacerains and ful and useful have broken all bounds spilling careening over farm lands ravishing whole towns and cities leaving In their wake despair and destruction Before the rampant monsters cit- - $ BEFORE izens by the hundreds of thousands flee their homes stripped of any but a few personal belongings their lives’ work and savings often cruelly obliterated overnight Mothers are separated from their children wives from their husbands Thousands even less fortunate have been marooned praying that rescue will arrive before it is too late Millions more sit in fearful waiting hoping against hope that the raging terror will be quieted before it can reach them On the crest of the churning waters ride the Four Horsemen of Death Famine Pestilence and War Yes even war for martial law exists in the face of the invading enemy and where the disaster is at its worst there are orders to “shoot to kill" those who break the rules With transportation stricken utilities crippled and supplies shrunken thousands are hungry and thirsty Typhoid meningitis and pneumonia threaten the health of entire cities Some victims are dead and some are dying Relief Work Speeds Considering the magnitude of the catastrophe the death list is surprisingly small This is due almost entirely to the speed and efficiency with which the rescue and relief agencies work Always one of the first and foremost of these agencies in a disaster is the Red Cross Its chairman Admiral Cary T Grayson has estimated that probably a million or more persons will have been cared for by the Red Cross alone in the present disaster The volunteer membership of plus 8000000 junior workers includes at least one chapter in every county Practically every chapter has its standing committee on disaster preparedness and relief beaded by a chairman who is one of the outstanding leaders of the community recognized for his managerial ability To this committee are subordinated several others which are trained to quickly provide food clothing shelter and medical aid during an emergency When their work is done the vast task which often remains is taken over on rehabilitaby a tion which makes awards to families affected by the disaster Meetings of these committees are held at least twice a year In them every type of disaster hazard which might threaten the communitylaidis plans are carefully studied to be followed if the disaster occurs and committee members are thoroughly trained in the duties that will fall to them in that case Members of other chapters which have successfully battled with disasters are invited to come and tell The chapter their experiences chairman presents - hypothetical be problems of disaster relief to solved — epidemics rebuilding after a tornado fire and flood— and each is required to show how its part would be played First Objective when disaster First in on strikes is Red survey — the “eyes” of the archiCross Members are usually s civil engin-rand mechanical tects the field the contractors and builders real estate men and public health officers Before an emergency occurs have studied they are supposed totrouble might all places where is start Their first job in disaster to estimate the number of dead the number inlured (estimating needing hospital attention) homeless homes destroyed homes damaged and families suffering losses Saving of human life is always the first consideration so the rescue goes immediately to work In a flood the big job is to get marooned victims to dry and to safe spots bring the sick and injured to medical posts to save property if it is properly identified and to perform other acts which will reduce the possibility of further loss Real courage strength health and a knowledge of first aid are prerequisites for members of this subcommittee Doctors dentists' nurses and family case workers serve without for charge on the medical aid They immediately secure and make ready whatever hospital facilities are available locally and set up emergency hospitals if they are necessary When flood sufferers are rescued from danger spots the crews usually know where to take them This on is because the shelter has made periodic canvasses of the area for empty houses public buildings such as churches and and automobile camps schools where disaster refugees can be kept from the elements temporarily Temporary buildings are constructed if the load makes them necessary Hotel managers wholesale grocers managers of chain food stores restaurant operators and army or navy men usually make up the on food They know in advance the types of food supplies each merchant deals in how much of a stock he keeps on hand and how these supplies can be made available to the Red Cross quickly in time of disaster Communication Is VitaLTremendously important in time of flood is the work of the subcommittee on transportation and communication Headed by local leaders of the transportation and radio industries this committee must keep the avenues open for the work of all the others It must have a good working knowledge of all the facilities In the community before and after a disaster occurs It must provide automobiles trucks boats cars —anything that may be used to transport sufferers from the flood area or to bring in food from the outside world Often the most difficult task faces the Red Cross after the emergency has passed and it is a function with which comparatively few are familiar Think what has happened Inhabitants of the stricken area have bought their homes or furniture They may have a little car Perhaps their livelihood comesInfrom ala small business or a farm most no time stark tragedy leaves them with nothing at all They can’t produce a living They have no place to live They probably have no money or at least too little to do them any real good Now it is time for the subcommittee on rehabilitation to begin Hundreds of volunteer workers set about listing the families needing help the losses they sustained and what possible help it will be necessary for the Red Cross to give them Awards are made on the basis of actual need without relation to the extent of loss A family which has lost many times as heavily as another may still have some reserve or credit which it can use without undue hardship A family which has lost but little may yet have lost everything it possessed Of course no attempt is made to relieve any such suffering caused by circumstances other than the disaster itself Living Standards Maintained Widows with children may have to be resettled in completely rebuilt homes and new furnishings given them Farms whose usefulness has been destroyed through the deposits of silt must be restored that their owners may once more earn a living Small shops must be rebuilt or restocked to enable their operators to make a living again A few instances picked at random of what this Red Cross aid has meant in the past will serve to illustrate In a New England town a mill worker and his wife had finished paying for their little home When the mill shut down in 1935 their small savings were carrying them along temporarily The flood came Police forced them to evacuate They returned some time later to find their home washed away completely The Red Cross traded their lot for another in a safer location built them a new home and furnished it City relief officials found the man a job Happiness seemingly denied them forever had been restored In Pennsylvania in 1918 a fruit farmer and his wife made a modest living owned their home The man’s health failed so his son and n-law moved in to run the farm succeeding in making a bare living for the family On the day of the “second” Johnstown flood the son went to the rescue of a neighboring family in distress He was drowned Their own farm was ruined The case looked hopeless Cross workers Hopeless? Red helped with the funeral found new clothing made the house livable again They soon repaired it well and made it possible for the family to buy new furnishings Plans were made to care for the remainder of the family until the young wife was eligible for a widow’s pension Need for Funds Urgent Two years ago a young man with an arrested case of tuberculosis set up in a small farming project which provided a living for his family but did not tax his strength In last left covyear's flood his farm wasstock and ered with silt buildings poultry were carried away His health was about to be threatened he had by worry and nothing on which to make a new start anyway His buildings were repaired and a cow and chickens purchased for him His farm production is back to normal and he is no longer discouraged These are some of the permanent Improvements that are directly attributable to the Red Cfoss Of course it costs a lot of money In reviewing the various branches of the society which must gird for any emergency one has been left out on fundThis is the raising and public information This is the most important work of all especially in the present disaster “Flood suffering has reached unprecedented proportions with relief needs mounting” Admiral Grayson explains “The only limit must be the maximum generosity of the' American people “The Red Cross considers the flood in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys the greatest national emergency the nation and the Red Cross have faced since the World war It exceeds that existing in the Mississippi valley floods of 1927 when the Red Cross gave help to 625000 persons" O Weriern Newspaper Union again I’ve told you boys and girls yarns that — well TIME and of proved that adventures happen to you most often not when you go to some special place or on some special sort of trip but in the familiar workaday places that you’re accustomed to visit every day of your lives It’s a tale of subway adventure that we’re going to hear today — a story told to me by Matthew Creegan of Jamaica N Y Matt left his home and went down into the Lexington avenue subway one day in 1921 — Tuesday November 13 to be exact about it — and before he got out of it he had the most his life has had to experience offer either before or since Mat started to pay a visit to some friends of his who lived on Staten Island lie went down to the subway platform and when the right train came along he got In the first car He stayed on the train until it reached South Ferry and then he started to get off Ilis Foot Was Caught in the Door The door was Matt was the last passenger to get off that car As he stepped onto the platform with closing ar he went through it his right foot the door closed in on his left foot and held it tight It was the sort of accident that happens once in a million years You know how those subway doors are built and how they operate The train can’t start until every door' is fully closed and automatically locked in place But in order to save people from being hurt by the doors as they slide shut they've put a big soft cushion covered by a rubber flap on the side of each one That cushion has three or four inches of play in it That three or four inches was just enough to catch a firm hold on Matt’s foot and shut and lock at the same time Matt twisted around and tried to pull his foot loose but ft wouldn’t come out Then suddenly' Matt's heart froze as a jar The closed locked shook the whole train IT WAS STARTING! doors had been the motorman’a signal to go ahead! Matt let out a yell There was a guard standing between two cars Just twenty or thirty feet away but he didn’t hear The train began to pull out of the station Matt looked around franticaUy for something to grab hold of If he could get a good grip on a post or a handle He might hurt that foot of some sort he might wrench his foot loose pretty badly it’s true But even breaking it clean off would be better than being dragged and taking a chance under the wheels of the car Dragged Along Head Downwards But there was nothing to catch hold of Matt fell to the platform and was dragged along The train moved on picking up speed as It went Matt let out one last yell as the end of the platform came moving And then his body was up to meet him but no one heard that yell either a split falling— over the platform’s edge — down toward the tracks-I- n second he was HANGING HEAD DOWNWARD from that subway door while the train bowled along toward the next station Matt is short of stature and for the first time in his life he was glad of it for his head did not quite reach the tracks Had he been just a few inches taller the top of his cranium dragged over that concrete floor studded with hard wooden railroad ties would have been battered to a pulp before the train had gone half a block As it was that head of Matt’s was in danger from the various obstacles and projections that lined the side of the track Matt remembers trying to hold himself tight up against the as well ts the side of the train to avoid those projections pillars that went flashing by The train was going full speed now It was an express train and Matt also remembers being glad the accident had happened to him downtown where the express trains stopped at every station The next station was Bowling Green for the train had swung around the loop at South Ferry and now was on its uptown trip Would he still be alive when he got there? Matt wondered about that Unconscious But Saved A few Something caught Matt’s coat — ripped it from his back yards farther on his vest went the same way His shirt was being The roar of the wheels— terrifyingly close to his tom to ribbons head— filled his heart with horror' That position was causHe felt weak from the shock of it all ing the blood to rush to his head Suddenly HIS HEAD HIT SOMETHING A great light flashed before Matt’s eyes — and then he was unconscious The train was slowing down now — though Matt didn’t know it It was rolling into the Bowling Green station If the guard opened the door of the car Matt’s foot would be released and he would fall to But the guard didn’t open the door There were no pasthe track Doors sengers waiting to get on up at that far end of the platform But the one that imprisoned of other cars opened and slid shut again Matt’s foot remained closed The train was ready to roll on to the next station — and there’s a no telling what would have happened to Matt then— when watchman standing on the platform saw the foot thrust through the door He took a flashlight from his pocket and looked down There was into the crack between the train and the platform Matt— DANGLING— SENSELESS The guard opened the door The watchman notified the guard The motorman blew the emergency and Matt’s body fell to the track whistle and some men working near the station came and dragged Matt out He woke up in the Broad Street hospital Matt pulled out of it all right — and if there’s one thing he’s thankful for it’s that he’s a small enough man to fit in the space between a The big guys can have subway door and the ground without dragging their six feet if they want it “The bigger you are” says Matt “the more things you knock your head against” c— WNU Service Famous War Horses war horses pulled and catapults Later the Arabs bred fine fleet horses on which they overran most of the world Mediterranean European knights developed powerful horses capable of carrying a 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