Show Workers Battle T Flood Trying ing to j Save Thousands Deluge Spreads to Great Depth Over Area of Acres BASIN BECOMES LAKE New Breaks in Levees Add Add to Perils B fir y Associated Press Fress GLE GLENDORA DORA Miss Jan 16 Weary 16 Weary relief relic workers risked their own safety safe safe- t ty in battered boats boat today in efforts to rescue e thousands of marooned people peo peo- pIe in the flooded Tippo basin Thus far no loss of life has been reported but this good fortune was due In many instances to the daring of the rescuers who hastened to remove remove remove re re- re- re move across from housetops which arc lre gradually being submerged The greatest peril for the relief workers was in crossing the raging channel o of the Tallahatchie river WATER STILL RISING W Water Vate lter was rising today in the Tippo basin because o of three bre breaks in the levee system last night The flood is spreading to great depth over an area of ot acres wherein dwell more than 2000 people The basin had been transformed into a great inland lake of 20 square miles and the water was flowing lowing tow toward toward to to- w ward the Yalobusha river with threats of greater hazards for territory territory terri tern tory along the stream lm already at flood Hood stage itself itselL The Grassy creek levee protecting fertile plantations W was lS abandoned today to day because it was crumbling and there were no apparent means of saving it Breaks were also reported in the Wade Vade levee in Leflore county and the Freeman Freem ln levee north of or Greenwood At daybreak a new crevasse 40 feet wide was torn in the dyke at Sharkey Another break occurred in the Tallah Tal- Tal lah river levee near Glendora and still another was reported in the Pattison ba bayou ou embankment REFUGEES BROUGHT IN IS Refugees are being brought into the town in great numbers from Tippo Tippo Tip Tip- po basin Many are camped on the high railroad tracks with few clothes and nothing to cat eat There is a shortage short age of box cars to house them E. E P P. Krick Red C Cross oss national disaster dis dis- aster relief chairman estimated that families or from from 1200 1200 to 1500 persons persons per per- sons ire are in danger from the P Pattison bayou crevasses Approximately acres of lands are under water w in six counties counties coun coun- ties tics of Mississippi l Krick Knick said s with Continued on Paso Two WORKERS SAVE MANY IN FLOOD Continued Prom Pare Pace One the ic principal inundation settled in Tallahatchie and Leflore Lefore counties WINSLOW Aria Jan 16 With iP-With more than Indians in the isolated iso iso- snowbound areas throughout the ic three Navajo reservations of or northern norther Arizona and northwest New Mexico facing dwindling food rood supplies supplies sup sup- ples plies government officials today dispatched dis- dis patched army airplane bombers with 1 rations to prevent possible starvation The Th total Indian population i is 40 00 From Winslow Superintendents John ohn G. G Hunter of Fort Defiance Ariz C. C L. L Walker of Tuba City and J. J E. E Balmer of or Leupp Lupp hope to distribute dis dis- tribute from to pounds of f rations to more than a score of widely videly scattered Indian villages trading rading posts and missionary centers REGION REGIO DESCRIBED DESCRIED The area to be covered lies les roughly rough rough- I ly y to the north and east cast of Winslow in a giant rectangle 20 by miles mUes The farthest west point of distribution distri distri- will wi be within 90 miles mUes cd c the Gr Grand irand nd canyon and the eastern limit along long the Continental Divide in New Mexico On the north the Colorado Colorado- Utah tah border line lne and south to the Zuni uni river valley valey form the extreme points of distress The pl plight ht of the was brought rought about by the blocking of the roads oads since November 20 by four blizzards There are arc many sections inaccessible from these points point by pack ack horse This fact officials said together wih ith the clogging of main des desert desett t arteries by snowdrifts ranging up to 15 5 feet in depth has left lef airplane aid aids DS as s the only possible means of relief relie These ships will wIl come from March Marchfield field feld Riverside Cal Bureau experts in all al sections continued continued con- con to scratch heads in puzzlement today oday and delve into yellowed records records rec- rec seeking some precedent for the ducks and drakes of freakish freak freak- frea- frea ish sh weather A complete reversal of conditions gave the west coast almost alost freezing temperatures while the Atlantic seaboard seaboard sea- sea board was enjoying premature spring with temperatures yesterday up to 77 7 In some parts of California six inches of snow and cold weather were recorded threatening citrus fruits but butin butin in n New York spring apparel was in order Even the oldest oldsters cant can't remember anything to compare with wih it iL All Al records have gono gone by the board oard In Arizona Ariona there was heavy snowfall snow- snow fall all and government planes dropped food to marooned Indians Colder temperatures in the east cast were predicted for later today with the mercury scheduled to drop as much as 30 degrees In the west it i was fas expected relief would be in sight by y the early part of next week Weather men have been able to ofer offer of of- fer er no explanation of the whimsies weather is indulging in I say ay It I just cant can't cat be explained they I a |