Show I I I I I MISSISSIPPI IS THREATENING TO CAUSE TROUBLE I MEMPHIS ME Tenn March 21 The The Mississippi river at Memphis reached a aI stage of feet on the gauge here this morning and was rising more rapidly rap rap- rapI I idly than the weather bureau expected All levees between the Missouri state line and the mouth of the St. St Francis river In Arkansas are being patrolled River men exp ess express belief that the water will reach practically the same height as in 1916 when the gauge here showed three forty-three and a a. half feet teet There was no serious trouble with the levees In that year and the engineers state te that the embankments embankments' are arc much uch better now |