Show SOUTH som fl D MEMPHIS ME Tenn March 9 United The Press Mississippi rIver swollen by heavy rains and 1 I melting snows moved wIth sullen flood Waters southward tonight while the first real battle to hold the levees was In progress In northeastern Arkansas levee breaks threatened Flood waters broke through at one point near the Missouri l line breaking the levee on a toot stretch Engineers and relief crews were rushed from Memphis and sandbags Were shipped north Many eastern Arkansas highways were under water from the break Tributaries of the Father of Waters including the St. St Francis river were ere on the rise causing anxiety The Memphis weather bureau predicted a crest of thirty seven to thirty eight feet here next week the highest by three feet since the record floods of 1927 1921 |