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“SUPER-FLOOD” THREATENS IN VALLEY
AS RAGING OHIO SWELLS MISSISSIPPI
^ a ^ a __ _ _
PRESIDENT CALLS
PARLEYS 10 MAP
LABOR PROGRAM
Three Conferences of Work
ers and Business Lead
ers Are on Today.
SETTLEMENT OF STRIKE
NOT TO BE ATTEMPTED
Police and Pickets Clash in Dis
orders at Cadillac Plant
in Detroit.
BULLETIN.
Secretary Perkins said today the
General Motors Corp. had “failed
in its public duty” in refusing tb
accept her invitation to attend a
strike peace conference.
E> the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt has called three
conferences of labor and business
leaders for late today to discuss labor
legislation.
White House officials in announcing
the meetings said they were not for
the purpose of trying to settle the
automobile strike.
Asked If the President had formu
lated a program to place before the
conferees, the President’s aides said
the discussions would be preliminary
to preparation of legislation.
To the first conference at 2 p.m.
the President invited Secretary Per
kins. John L. Lewis, chairman of the
Committee on Industrial Organiza
tion; Sidney Hillman, president of the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers, and
Charles P. Howard, president of the
International Typographical Union
and C. I. O. secretary.
This conference was scheduled to
last 20 minutes.
Next to meet with the President
were Miss Perkins, Harper Sibley,
president of the Chamber of Com
merce of the United States; George
Meade, chairman of Secretary Roper’s
Business Advisory Council, and Rob
ert Fleming, president of Riggs Na
tional Bank and treasurer of the
Chamber of Commerce.
This meeting was scheduled to last
only 10 minutes.
The last conference of the day was
to include Secretary Perkins, William
Green, president of the American
Federation of Labor, and Charlton
Ogbum, A. F. L. counsel.
FIVE INJURED IN CLASH.
Police and Pickets in Fight at G. M. C.
Plant.
S> the Associated Press.
DETROIT, January 26.—A woman
and four men were injured today
when police and pickets clashed at
one entrance to the Cadillac Motor
Car Co. plant here. Union leaders
said police swung their clubs on the
pickets surrounding the plant.
Six automobiles got through the
picket lines into the plant. Police
said they carried executives of the
company.
The five persons, suffering head
Injuries, were taken by union workers
In private cars to receive medical at
tention.
Attempt to Rush Line.
Fighting broke out between police
And pickets about 8 a.m. when an
automobile containing two men at
tempted to pass through a line of
pickets at a gate leading to the
executives’ garage.
A group of men, aided by a few
women attempted to overturn the
car, but police charged the group with
clubs.
While the picket line was in dis
order three more automobiles went
through the gate. Two had gone in
before the violence started. Each car
was occupied by several men, appar
ently foremen and officials.
More than 100 patrolmen were held
In readiness nearby, and two truck
loads of horses from the police mount
ed division were parked at the admin
istration building’s entrance.
A strike has been in progress at the
plant, a General Motors unit.
Picket lines, assembling about 7 a.m.,
marched for a time in a closed circle
as a loud speaker on a motor truck
nearby urged them to “Let nobody in.”
(See STRIKE, Page AMi7j
TWO SONS RESCUE
MOTHER IN FLAMES
Rescued by ber two sons after her
clothing became ignited by a fire be
lieved to have started from a cigarette,
Mrs. Hannah Warren, 65, of 130T
Twelfth street, was in a serious con
dition in Emergency Hospital today
With body bums.
Kermlt Warren, 27, found his
mother "too frightened to scream”
and standing in the living room with
her dress in flames when he left his
bed room last night to investigate the
source of smoke.
Aided by his brother Joseph, 31,
Hermit ripped away his mother’s
clothing and took her to the hospital.
Both sons also required treatment for
hand bums.
Mrs. Warren had been resting on
a sofa when her sons retired. Hot
ashes from a cigarette some one was
smoking are believed to have been
dropped on the sofa and set her dress
afire. She does not smoke,
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Army Unit Sent
From Ft. Belvoir
To Flood Area
|
4 Officers and 106
Enlisted Men to
Entrain.
Company B. 5th Engineers, composed
of four officers and 106 enlisted men.
today was ordered from its po6t at
Port Belvoir, Va., ln(o the flooded Ohio
River valley for emergency duty.
The company probably will be sent
to the vicinity of Louisville, Ky., to
handle the operation of boats and sup
plies, the War Department announced.
Commanded by Capt. Robert K.
McDonough, Corps of Engineers, the
company was to make the trip by spe
cial train directly from the Virginia
post. The men will not be armed, but
will be equipped for field service.
The special train is expected to go
to Port Benjamin Harrison, Ind., and
from there the company will be sent
to its flood duty post under orders of
the commanding general, 5th Co^js
Area.
Other officers of the company are
First Lleuts. Kenneth D. Nichols and
John J. Davis and Second Lieut. Ralph
D. King, all of the Corps of Engineers.
The enlisted men were specially se
I lected from the various companies of
the regiment and most of them are
: skilled craftsmen, such as boatmen,
mechanics and carpenters.
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D. C. WORK GROUP
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Elliott Rules 40-Hour Week
for Certain Classes of
Per Diem Workers.
A new financial and administrative
problem was dropped into the laps of
the District Commissioners today
when Acting Controller General R. N.
Elliott ruled the 40-hour-week law
should be applied to certain classes of
District per diem workers.
District officials could not calculate
at once exactly how many of the per
diem employes would be affected by the
ruling, but District Auditor Daniel J.
Donovan said he believed it would have
to be applied to all 2,800. It appeared
that services would have to be cur- j
tailed, or additional funds must be j
provided by Congress for salary pay
ments.
The ruling applies particularly to j
per diem men employed in the sewer, j
refuse, water and highway divisions, 1
where men now' are employed on a |
44-hour w'eek.
The 44-hour act became law in !
March, 1934, but Controller General
Elliott decided the statutory provi
sions were not "self-executing” and
decided mechanics were not entitled to
their claim to time and a half for
overtime in the past.
But he concluded the wages of em
ployes in question who are found prop
erly to be within the terms of the act
"should be adjusted” in accordance
with the act “prospectively effective."
Permanent Per Diem Group.
Maj. Donovan had told the control
ler general the District had some 2,000
permanent per diem men and about
800 on a temporary employment basis.
Elliott said the provisions of the Dis
trict appropriation act for employment
of services on a temporary basis and
limiting employment to nine months
during the fiscal year for certain
classes of work “do not exclude em
ployes whose wages are paid under
said appropriation from the provisions
of the 40-hour-week statute. ‘Neither
does the fact that the rates of wages
are fixed on a per or piecework basis
exclude them from the 40-hour-week
provision.
"The Saturday half-holiday law has
no application to employes paid on a
40-hour-week basis.”
The District Wage Board, it ap
peared from the Elliott ruling, had
divided per diem workers into four
major groups. Under the mechanics’
group are listed trade foremen, senior
mechanics, mechanics, junior me
chanics, minor mechanics and sub
mechanics. Under a labor group were
listed labor foremen, labor subfore
men, skilled laborers, laborers, drivers,
watchmen and junior laborers. Under
an auto driver group were heavy truck
drivers, light truck drivers and pas
senger car drivers. The fourth classi
fication was a checker group consist
ing of material checkers.
Terms of Statute,
Discussing which of these groups
should be included the controller gen
eral said “some of these classes of
positions would appear to be within
the terms of the act—particularly
those under the mechanical group and
perhaps some classes under the labor
group. •
“But it is doubtful whether the last
three classes under the labor group or
any of the classes under the auto
driver group or the checker group
come within the term 'several trades
and occupations,’ as referred to in the
statute.
“For instance, the classification act,
as amended by the Welch act of May
28, 1928, seems to include in grade 3
of the custodial service positions re
quiring the ‘guarding of offices and
storage buildings’ and those ‘operating
passenger and freight automobiles.’
“The proper classification of these
positions is a question for admlnlstra
tlve consideration.*’ -
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DANGER OF FIRE
JOINS LOUISVILLE
PESTILENCETHREAT
Flood-Stricken City Awaits
Arrival of Army Regulars
to Speed Relief.
FLAMES DESTROY PLANT
OF VARNISH COMPANY
Known Death Toll Set at Five,
With Property Damage Reach*
ing “Millions.'’
E J the Associated Press.
LOUISVILLE, Ky.. January 26.—
The danger of fire joined the threat
of pestilence and shortage of water
to plague flood-stricken Louisville to
day.
While the city waited for United
States Regulars to arrive and assume
the task of bringing order out of
disaster chao6, a blaze this morning
burned the big plant of the Louisville
Varnish Co.
Two colored men, badly burned, were
brought by rescue boats to a relief
station at Broadway and Eighteenth
street from the varnish plant and the
boatmen reported two colored men
had drowned in trying to escape the
fire that followed a dozen explosions.
It was feared for a time that flaming
oil would spread the fire through the
flooded district. But after blazing
spectacularly, the fire died down. The
amount of damage could not be es
timated at once.
Volunteer relief workers and rep
resentatives of all other agencies en
gaged in rescue work welcome coming
at the Federal troops to enforce mili
tary rule at the request of State and
civil authorities.
Police, firemen. National Guardsmen
and special police were practically
worn out by long hours and hard
work. Relief stations were operating,
however, to do what they could for
the town’s approximately 230,000
homeless.
Scattered Cases of Disease.
There already were scattered cases
of typhoid, scarlet fever and measles.
Relief agencies said the number of sick
was undoubtedly much greater than
officially reported. t
As to the property loss, it was sim
ply referred to as ’’millions” by Mayor
Neville Miller and members of his
Emergency Committee.
The total known deaths in Louis
ville were five, and the State’s total
was 42. including an estimated 12 con
victs shot or drowned in rioting at
the State Reformatory at Frankfort.
All during the night there were
frantic reports to police stations of
looting in flooded residential sections.
A typical one would be. “Men seen
looting at Blank street near Blank.”
But police headquarters and City Hall
had no record of any application of
Mayor Miller’s orders to “shoot to kill
all looters.”
57.5 Crest Expected.
The flood stage, normally 28 feet,
stood at 56.9 feet at 10 a.m. (Central
standard time). The rise was slow,
with a crest of 57.5 expected by to
night or Wednesday. The previous
all-time high was 46.7 in 1884.
Civil authorities tightened regula
tions today under the martial law
proclaimed yesterday by Gov. A. B.
Chandler. Persons on the streets had
to have passes.
Refugees were still being sent out
of town by the hundreds and many
other hundreds were getting away as
best they could. The highway south
east to Danville and on to Nashville
was open. The Mayor began Sunday
urging every one who could to leave
the town and even then described
conditions as "horrible.”
Bodies of animals floated about, or
(See LOUISVILLE; Page A-4.)
Summary of Today’s Star
Page. Page.
Amusements B-16 Puzzles —--B-11
Comics ..._B-ll Radio ——B-12
Editorial_A-8 Short Story.. B-8
Financial ...A-ll Society.B-3
Lost*Pound A-3 Sports ...A-14-15
Obituary_A-l* Woman’s Pg. B-10
NATIONAL.
Danger of fire Joins pestilence threat
at Louisville. Page A-l
"Super-flood” threatens in Mississippi
Valley. Page A-l
Flood spurs Congress action on $790,
000,000 relief bill. Page A-l
Fourteen refugees die as boat cap
sizes in Paducah. Page A-l
WASHINGTON AND VICIITY.
Forty-hour ruling made for D. C. em
ployes. Page A-l
Red Cross fund nears $$00,000 mark
today. Page A-l
Tear gas used to capture man after
shooting. Page A-l
Red Cross collects over. $55,000 for
flood relief. Page A-l
Chrysler executive quizzed by La Fol
lette Committee. Page A-5
House hearings on farm tenancy elim
ination open. PageA-16
Acton, sobbing, tells jury how he shot
Mursch. Pag* B-l
Archbishop Curley opens war on com
munism at A*"11** here, ST*1'
EDITORIAL AND COMMENT.
This and That Page A-8
Answers to Questions. Page A-8
Stars, Men and Atoms. Page A-8
David Lawrence. Page A-9
Paul Mallon. Page A-9
Headline Folk. Page A-9
Jay Franklin. Page A-9
Mark Sullivan. Page A-9
SPORTS.
Di Maggio of Yankees anxious for base
ball action to start. Page A-14
Two big coaches would have foot ball
line unchangeable. Page A-14
Coach Robertson thinks Woodruff
could beat 4-minute mile. Page A-15
Ouimet sees short round as big fault
in U. S. amateur. Page A-15
FINANCIAL..
Bonds decline (table). Page A-ll
Floods curtail steel activity. Page A-ll
Stocks irregular (table). Page A-12
Curb list eases (table). Page A-13
Oil output at new peak. Page A-13
N. & W. earnings climb. Page A-13
MISCELLANY.
Washington Wayside. Page A-2
Young Washington. Page B-6
City News in Brief. Page B-6
Nature’s ChUdren. Page B-9
Bedtime Story. Page B-9
Betsy Caswell. PageB-16
Dorothy Dix. Page B-19
Traffic Convictions. PageB-12
/let S TELLY
JIM FARLEY \
THAT WONT
^ BE ENOUGH!
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14 IN BOAT DROWN
Rescue Barge Loaded With
Refugees Capsizes—City’s
Death Toll 20.
BJ the Associated Press.
PADUCAH. Ky„ January 26
Refugees poured out of this flood
stricken city of 38,000 on the Ohio
River today, leaving behind at least
20 dead and a threat of Are from
gasoline-filmed waters.
Red Cross officials announced 14
persons drowned with the capsizing
of a rescue barge coursing the city’s
streets. Names of the victims were
not available. Survivors swam to
nearby buildings.
Previously six lives were lost. Fred
Duncan, a T. V. A. lineman, was elec
trocuted. George Pace, an aged man,
died of pneumonia. Four unidentified
Negroes drowned in the surging waters.
A 20,000-gallon tank of gasoline
toppled from its mooring In the city’s
southern supply district last night
and spread a coating of the fluid over
the waters. Hospitals were crowded
to capacity.
"We have ample food and clothing,”
said Charles Waggener, chairman of
the Mayfield Red Cross unit, “but are
desperately in need of coal to heat
the school houses and churches filled
with refugees.
"We have barely one more day’s sup
ply.”
FOREIGNERS OUSTED
Portugal Clamps Ban After Lisbon
Bombings.
LISBON, January 26 UP).—Portugal
began today to expel numerous
foreigners as the aftermath of last
week's series of Lisbon bombings.
Officials blamed the bombings on inter
national reverberations of the war in
adjacent Spain.
Kentucky Judge Dies.
GLASGOW, Ky„ January 26 ;/P).—
Kentucky mourned today the death
of Chief Justice Basil Richardson of
the State Court of Appeals. He died
here yesterday at 71.
House Held in Session to Speed
$790,000,000 Deficiency Bill
Party Lines Disregarded as Bloc Maps
Move to Boost Appropriation
to $1,499,000,000.
Er the Associated Press.
Speaker Bankhead told reporters he
would hold the House in session to
day until it had passed a $790,000,000
relief-deficiency appropriation bill on
which the administration is counting
for flood relief funds.
He said an agreement to limit de
bate would be sought and that ‘ every
efTort” would be made to obtain pas
sage before nightfall.
"The administration is anxious to
get the bill through," he said.
Party lines were disregarded by a
group of Representatives in mapping
a campaign designed to increase
TEAR GAS SUBDUES
Man Driven From Home by
Fumes After Motorist
Reports Shots at Car.
Tear gas was used by police to cap
ture a 64-year-old retired Navy yard
machinist early today after he
alarmed residents of the Southeast
section, officers reported, by firing a
shotgun at a parked motorist and
then locked himself in his home.
The prisoner—Paul S. Colin, 1118
K street southeast—was charged with
assault with a dangerous weapon and
committed to Gallinger Hospital for
mental observation.
The shooting was reported to police
by Edward O’Connor, 40, of 713
Princeton place, a street car motor
man, who said Colin fired at his au
tomobile a few minutes after he had
let Mrs. Clara Simonds, 35, of 1116
K street out of the car.
O'Connor said he had called for
Mrs. Simonds at a party after he fin
ished work and had driven her home.
As she was about to enter her house
and O'Connor was preparing to pull
away, Colin, police were told, ap
peared in the doorway of his home
with the shotgun.
Fires Twice at Car.
Without warning, Colin, according
to the report made to police, fired
twice at O'Connor’s machine. The
charges struck low in the rear of the
sedan.
Frightened, Mrs. Simonds ran down
the street, and O’Connor stepped on
the accelerator. At the corner, he
picked the woman up and, together,
they went to the fifth precinct.
When police arrived at Colin’s
home, they said, they could see him
standing in the front room with the
(See SHOOTING, Page XHT)
President Roosevelt’s deficiency re
lief-deficiency appropriation to $1,
499.000.000.
Farmer-Laborites, Progressives, a
few Democrats and some Republicans,
including Representative William
Lemke. Fargo N. Dak., Union party
presidential candidate in the last
campaign, attended a meeting with
that end in view.
The proposed $7,900,000 relief fund
was intended originally to care for
work relief until July 1. but Presi
dent Roosevelt gave out word It
should be used for flood sufferers un
(See CONGRESS, Page A-5.)
RED CROSS FUND
Appeal for Flood Relief Is
Meeting With Quick Na
tional Response.
List of contributors on Page A-3.
Contributions to the Red Cross
flood-relief fund neared the $500,000
mark today, as each hour brought new
reports of growing disaster in the
devastated Ohio and Mississippi
basins.
At 10 a.m. national headquarters
reported a check-up showed $375,
000 in contributions already tabu
lated. This did not take into account
the untabulated checks and those
pouring in with every mail.
Red Cross officials said they were
highly pleased with the response to
their appeal for $5,000,000 to aid the
flood victims, and had high hopes
the money would be received in time
to enable them to render every as
sistance to the flood sufferers.
Quick Response Here.
The District Red Cross reported
more than $12,000 received yesterday.
The stacks of checks on hand this
morning had not yet been tabulated.
Contributions through The Star also
were piling up rapidly. At 11 a.m.
a total of $4,388.10 had been tabulated
and was ready for transfer to Red
Cross officials. This figure included
$801.75 received yesterday morning.
More cash and checks were coming in
rapidly, indicating the District’s quota
of $48,000 will be promptly subscribed.
Mrs. Rqger J. Whiteford, chairman
of the Chevy Chase, Md., division of
the Red Cross, announced flood relief
contributions from residents of that
area will be accepted by her. Mrs.
(See FUND, Page A-*.)
Star Will Receive Funds for
Red Cross Flood Relief
The District of Columbia has been assigned a quota of $48,000
(originally $24,000) for flood relief by the Amercan Red Cross.
The Evening Star will assist in raising the required amount by
receiving and acknowledging in its columns the contributions of
Washingtonians. Make checks payable to District Chapter, American
Red Cross, for flood relief. Bring or mail them to the cashier, The
Evening Star.
The Star has made a contribution of $250 to this fund to start
the ball rolling.
Those who desire to submit their contributions directly to the
American Red Cross may send or deliver cash or checks to the
District Chapter, American Red Cross, 1730 E street.
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DEATH TOLL 111;
WATERS COVER
MILLION ACRES
“Worst Is Yet to Come,” Say
Officials in Stricken Zones.
Cities Evacuated.
MANY THOUSANDS MAROONED;
WIDE WAR WAGED ON DISEASE
“People Dying Like Flies in Indiana
Town,” Legislator Tells Governor.
Homeless Total Hits 550,000.
<Full Page o/ Flood Pictures, A-7.)
Br the Associated Press.
Fear-stricken tens of thousands cowered behind weak
ening levees or fled to higher levels today as the monstrous
yellow tide of the Ohio River swelled to record-breaking
flood heights on its sweep to the Mississippi.
Eddying in muddy, slow-rising torrents, the waters
spread over an area of more than a million acres, taking a
toll of at least 111 known dead, driving 550,000 from their
homes and leaving many thousands more marooned. Whole
towns and villages showed only rooftops.
“Worst Is Yet to Come,” Officials Warn.
Property damage was estimated at more than $300,000,
000 in the entire area and at more than $10,000,000 in Cin
cinnati alone. On every side, from city officials and Army
Engineers, came the warning:
“The worst is yet to come.”
Wholesale evacuations of flood-sieged towns in Ten
nessee, Western Kentucky, Southeastern Missouri, Arkansas
and Mississippi signaled the greatest mass flood exodus in
history.
From Pittsburgh in the North, where anxious crowds
| watched the flood relentlessly spread over the edge of the
I billion-dollar business district, to the crest of the deluge
sweeping into the Mississippi River beyond Cairo, 111., a
panorama of watery desolation extended mile on mile.
In the lower Mississippi Valley, where 600,000 were made
homeless in 1927, authorities awaited the big test of the great sys
tern of dikes and levees, built along a 300-mile stretch of the Mis
sissippi after the 1927 disaster.
“A super flood is on its way,” came the grim warning from
Lieut. Col. Eugene Reybold, district chief of United States Army
Engineers, at Memphis, Tenn. , . ,n
Reybold predicted flood stages along the Mississippi at least 10
feet higher than records set in the tragedies of 1913 and 1927
State Representative Claude L. Baylor of Speed, just back from
flood-ravaged Jeffersonville, reported to Gov. Townsend of Indiana
today that “people are dying like flies” there.
The National Guard’s scant communications from the Ohio
River town, in Southeastern Indiana, brought no reports of death.
Appealing for doctors, nurses and medicines, Baylor said:
“The people of Indiana do not realize what is going on in the
Jeffersonville area.
“People are dying like flies.”
“Jeffersonville is gone.”
The deaths, he said, were from exposure and pneumonia.
President Roosevelt, anxiously watching tne progress of the
tidal sweep through eleven States, sent out the crisp command to
legislators debating a $790,000,000 relief request:
“Step on it!"
President Appeals for Fund for Sufferers.
The President sent out word that the fund, originally intended
to care for work relief, should be appropriated for flood sufferers
in the emergency.
Harry L. Hopkins, W. P. A. administrator, estimated 650,000 to
700,000 would be homeless by Wednesday or Thursday.
Red Cross officials renewed their urgent appeal for contribu
tions to a $4,000,000 relief fund. The first day’s receipts at national
headquarters reached $375,078. At midday Hopkins reported to the
President that conditions at Louisville and Cincinnati were slightly
improved.
In Louisville, Ky., United States Army troops moved into the
virtually isolated city of 330,000 citizens to clamp down the military
rule arbitrarily declared by Gov. A. B. Chandler.
Dead in Flood
111 Known Casualties
as Waters Engulf
Communities.
Bf the Associated Press.
The Nation counted 111 known
dead today as the worst general flood
In its history spread tentacles into 11
States.
Ohio.
Thirteen known dead. Identified
dead include:
East Liverpool—Harry Burgess, 64.
Cincinnati—Harry Vaske, 47.
Ravenna—Robert Chatman, 11.
Columbus — Jennie Tomlin, 22;
Daniel Bush, 11.
Kentucky.
Known dead, 44. The identified
dead Included:
Madiaonville—F. M. Monroe, Carl
Curry Chester Coffman, Alonzo
Utley.
Scott County—Leo Stevens, 36.
Louisville—Henry Arnold, 74, ex
posure; John Schmidt, 55. exhaus
tion; Mrs. J. L. Reed, 79; Mrs. Eliza
beth Gathof, 74, and son Sylvester, 40.
Slaughters—National Guard Sergt.
Tom Brown.
Hendersoun County—Roland Gib
son, 65.
Frankfort—Thomas Willard, 60.
Indiana.
Six known dead. Identified dead
Include:
Hardington—Infant Cook.
lAwrenceburg—George Corte, 54;
(See ,* Page A-5.)
.. Khaki-clad Engineers rushed con
I struction of pontoon bridges to speed
the evacuation of more than two-thlrda
of the city’s population.
Gov. Chandler warned the Federal
Government that State and local au
thorities could not combat pestilence,
panic and hunger in the wake of the
city's worst flood.
Two thousand Kentucky National
Guardsmen were on emergency duty
throughout the stricken area.
Lieut. A. Burton of the United States
Air Corps, after a boat inspection of
Louisville's West End, reported 3,000
(See MISSISSIPPI, Page A-5.)
RAIN OR SNOW DUE
WITHIN 24 HOURS
Falling Ganges in Potomae Dis
sipate Any Pears of
Flood Here.
More rain or possibly snow will move
In on the Capital during the next 34
hours, according to the Weather Bu^
reau.
The official forecast called for
“cloudy and colder” this afternoon,
probably "rain or snow tonight or .
Wednesday.”
The minimum temperature overnight
is expected to be about 32 degrees.
Despite the prediction of more pre
cipitation, falling gauges in the Po
tomac River Basin today dissipated
any lears of a flood here.