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Show PAGE SIX PROVO (UTAH) SUNDAY HERALD, 'SUNDAY, JANUARY 31, 1937 Herald Cameramen Flash-News Of World To You In d .d d d d ; Flood at a Glance i Rooms, With Running W ater (Paducah) Stalled by Mounting Flood: i - PITTSBURGH-ISOOHOMELESS PITTSBURGH-ISOOHOMELESS OHIO LOUSVLLE ZOO, ODD HOMELESS 0,000 STILL MAROONED 20,000 HOMELESS, PORTSMOUTH 25.000H0ML PIctMris ' 'f - jpi' j ri '"nnri:ii ' .- 1 :; "' ij- jJ; ' : ' : ' A j .? J;.,. vjii'tn7iiiTriT ' "n CAIRO 10000 WOMEN AND CHLDREN EVACUATED CNCMAT FLOOD AND ARE LOSS 7,000,000-65 7,000,000-65 '000 HOMELESS FRANKFORT 2,900 CONVICTS EVACUATED y r i 1 IT X EVANSVLLLE m- moo S JT REFUGEES M MEMPHIS -J 50,000 REFUGEES f ' ARK i f-4H AWATED HaEygr ! N pf FEARED I ! Ki MISS, 1 ALA. ' Yti . : ELABORATE SYSTEM iyi I OF LEVEES AWAITS i tfl SEVEREST TEST i i' 1 z VA: 700,000 HOMELESS TNI ' STATES' AT LEAST 100 DEAD 300,000, 000 DAMAGB TO PROPERTY ( N GA. SEW ORLEANS FLOOD CREST EXPECTED FE3.6. Gulf of Mexico "Boats, More Boats!!" ' r;, - , - ,- . . w Furiously hammering with tired arms, Louisville residents built rafts and boats as fast as they could nail them together. At top you see men fashioning a crude raft from two oil drums framed together, while the nearness of the approaching water is shown by the man in the boat in the background. Below, a crew boat, one of hundreds urgtrtly needed by the marooned and homeless thousands thou-sands of the stricken city. I.; AW Jne man holds the wide front doors open and another steers the outboard motorboat right into the lobby of the l!-in Cobb Hotel at Paducah. Ky.! Tnough the first floor was flooded, the hotel was made a concentration point for refugees becaus it is on one of the town's highest points. Fourteen were reported drowned, most of the 25,000 residen ts had fled, and troops ruled under martial law. Refugees Relax in Tears, Snacks, Slumber Areas in black along the Ohio and Mississippi rivers on the above map show where the rampaging flood waters have struck hardest in what Red Cross officials call the country's worst disaster. From New Madrid, Mo., down to Iouisiana. over a 300-mile stretch in the area indicated by the dotted lines, levees are being fortified with a solid sandbag backed wall of planks. Territory for 50 miles on cither side of the Mississippi from Cairo to New Orleans will ue evacuated. This is a distance of 1500 miles. JP(S s-Jhl They reacted differently but in the eyes of all the flood refugees, above, was a common look of bewilderment, be-wilderment, uncomprehending of safety at last from greedy rising rivers. Upper Jeft a Cincinnati youngster munches eagerly on a piece of bread and jam in a temporary relief station. An elderly couple and the boy. upper right, rode a refugee train out of flooded Portsmouth after seeing their home beaten for days by relentless waves. Rescued by the same train the aged woman, lower left, finds solace in a pipe. Tears of the little girl, lower right, won't bring back her home near Bird's Point. Mo., but it convinced onlookers at the Memphis terminal station as to how she felt about it. Differently inclined was the boy, center, sleeping peacefully nearby. A nap was a nap, flood or nc flood. Vi I s x-t)??lk?S. fArfef r. XijMi OlSJr iftSlB x.y, -s . If the water rises another foot the Shetland pony, pictured above, might have to be moved to a second floor bedroom. The town is Paducah, Ky., where 28 blocks were under water and almost all of the 25,000 residents had evacuated. The pony's master gave his pet an impromptu stable on the front porch, one of the few front porches above water in Paducah. Help Yourself 4 If vt' -ou couldn't have a ton ot coal delivered in Portsmouth. O.; you had to go help yojrsfcl.'! Here refugees are taking coal from z marooned car. Thev carry car-ry their stove nsht with thera. Needs Nine Li ves II 1 vMttW.X's V N'T. v. St No wet paws for this cat if he can help it! The tabby perched on the window sill of an abandoned aban-doned home in Portsmouth, O., and watched the Ohio rise until it nearly lapped his feeU New Landing Gear Makes Any Plane Amphibious t v 7 'ZrAt ggg TSiWn.gs v friir-y - ' When Sitdowners Refused to Quit Flint Plant 1 ' ' "'fr v- . , .i I -T ill f , 8- 1 -w, . nri utMing -- ----- LjT 'V...... .nI:.-: wwwo6c c b : va- --r5' IMlilMirWlTT ML M I i j ? i7 f 1 WWTS x s it rr-Ws'V 3 " 'JV.,.V.V..AV.V.V.'.,.v1.'. .-. . . Perfected by the Air Commerce Bureau, a new device to enable plane owners to convert land craft into amphibians at small cost, was publicly demonstrated at North Beach Airport, New York, for the first time. The land-and-water equipped plane above rolls out of the water and up the inclined landing stage on wheels which can be retracted into the pontoons by a gear arrangement controlled from cockpit. A serious threat to peace In the General Motors strike developed from this mass gathering at Fisher Body plant No. 1, In Flint, Mich., when union chiefs gave the command not to evacuate the plant unless the United Automobile Workers were designated as the sole bargaining group for employes. In the center foreground Is the sound truck from which orders were blared to "hold fast" until the corporation agreed to the demand. Strikers shown at the windows roared their approval ap-proval of the decision and remained in the factory t Louisville s Hungry Are Fed As the whole stiicken city carried on under the dictatorship of a military provos.-marshal and the martial rule of soldiers, Louisville's Louis-ville's refugees crowded into the National Guard armories for emergency em-ergency food, v. Iveh was all that stood fcetwesn them and strava-tion. strava-tion. Here is a "'soup line" in one of the relief stations hastily set up in a Louisville armory. IVIodel Secretary f. iffr y - ' ..y.:v-:-:-::;: 'v c-:':-u:-:-:-.-;t-:.;.:s -::-::-:.:: Last year a style model in New York and an actress af:Brbadw&y today secretary of the freshman class at the University of Washington. Wash-ington. That makes charming Grace Milliman a real "model oecre-tary." oecre-tary." While in New York, Miss Milliman appeared on Broadway in "New Faces of 1936." Doys on the campus figure her -face is plenty gxxd for 1937 as well! - . |