Show TOWN OWN PREPARES FOR OHIO FLOOD PORTSMOUTH Ohio Jan 1 UP This This industrial city rity of 6 residents braced itself Friday t to o meet the crest of a flood swollen n Ohio river as a company of United Unite d States army engineers patrolled d the streets to aid rescue work an and maintain order River wise residents of this important important im im- steel and shoe-making shoe community faced a rampaging stream which with its tributaries left eft between and I homeless in West West Virginia and and brought death to two persons in western Pennsylvania On the basis of oJ upstream reports reports re- re ports orts where the river now is cresting crestIng crest- crest Ing ng or falling a crest of 61 feet l 11 1 above flood stage is expected here iere Saturday The dike which partially protects this city is 62 feet high but a crest of 61 feet would close the Wheeling steel plant lant shoe factories and other industries industries In- In it was said At least Ohioans were reported to have been removed from rom their homes during the night and nd the Ohio state highway de- de said said all endangered persons persons per- per sons ons on both sides of the stream is as 13 far south as Huntington W. W Va had been evacuated Sandbags were being thrown up here ere in case the crest went more than han 62 feet and in addition to soldiers members of the coastguard coastguard coast guard Red Cross and citizens' citizens defense defense de- de ense corps were engaged in the theattle battle attle with the river Floods are areno areno areo no o new happening to this city which suffered more than 1000 00 damage in 1937 up Clean-up crews in Pittsburgh's golden triangle found in Jn the debris the body of ofa a man identified as s Walter White 51 of that city He e was the second western Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Penn- Penn sylvania flood victim |