Evening star. [volume], January 28, 1937, Page A-5, Image 5

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CINCINNATI TURNS
TO REHABILITATION
River Slowly Releasing Grip
on City—Lights Are
Turned On.
Br the Associated Press.
CINCINNATI, January 28—Cin
cinnati stood ready with mops, mus
cle and Ifigh determination today as
the Ohio River, still far out of its
banks, slowly but surely released its
blighting grip.
* Out of the despair and destruction
which the river brought grew a Re
habilitation Committee, bent on mak
ing a speedy clean-up of the hapless
city.
Precious water flowed into the wa
ter mains from artesian wells—mil
lions of gallons of It. but still not
enough.
Some houses long dark glowed with
8 light or two again last night, but
the power shortage was still acute.
The smooth-running Red Cross
machine helped thousands of refugees
to adopt a brighter outlook. New
“come and carry” water stations made
life easier for the householder with
unresponsive faucets.
No Typhoid at Present.
The threat of disease lingered, but
Dr. Richard S. Austin, health co
ordinator, said there was no typhoid
In the city at present. He added the
monotonous, but Important phrase,
•*'boil the water.”
All, however, was not hope and
good cheer. A fifth of the city still
lay under brown wateT. Business was
crippled. Hundreds of houses sag
ged in their watery beds. Empty
tank cars were afloat in railroad
yards.
The river stage hovered slightly over
79 feet, about a foot under the record
crest reached Tuesday, but its move
ment was downward—at the rate of
two or three hundredths of a foot an
hour.
The Rehabilitation Committee took
form at a meeting of Federal, city,
State and county officials. C. M.
Bookman, executive director of the
Community Chest, was named to head
the committee.
Estimates have placed the damage
In the city at from $10,000,000 to $15,
000,000, but the true extent will not
be known until the bottom of the flood
waters is reached.
Rehabilitation will start as soon as
the waters have receded sufficiently to
permit work. At the present rate of
fall it will be at least several days.
To Remove Mud and Debris.
First will come removal of mud and
debris. Buildings will need inspec
tion, and many will be repaired or
torn down. Committees will be named
to study each of the major problems.
The Rehabilitation Committee will
determine the work involved and then
turn it over to the Works Progress Ad
ministration as a project, officials said.
DUTCH SCHULTZ AUTO
NOT GIVEN BONDSMAN
—
Max Silverman Different Man
Named by Witness in Extor
tion Trial of 8.
8? the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, January 28—The
Associated Press erroneously reported
January 26 that Max Silverman,
bondsman for the late Arthur
(Dutch) Schultz, received one of sev
erally specially built automobiles the
slain gangster was alleged to have
given to friends.
Laverne W. Disney, Muncie, Ind.,
Accountant, testified in the trial of
eight charged with extorting money
from New York restaurant owners
that the automobiles were manufac
tured at the direction of Jules Mar
tin, slain Schultz gangster, in an
Elkhart, Ind., factory. He mentioned
"Max Silverman” as one of five who
received cars.
Thomas E. Dewey, special assistant
to the attorney general in charge of
the prosecution, said today that the
Max Silverman mentioned has been
a fugitive on a Brooklyn indictment
charging conspiracy to fix the trial
Jury that sentenced three men for the
murder of Sam Druckman, trucker.
Silverman was a labor adjuster for
the Brooklyn Flour Truckmen’s As
sociation.
Max Silverman, the bondsman, has
hot figured In the case being tried.
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Tennessee Flood Waters Controlled
Dams and flood control projects in the Tennessee Valley are holding back some 145,000,000,000
gallons of water which otherwise might be pouring into the flooded Ohio Valley. The T. V. A.
projects are located as shown.
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T. V. A. Dams, Playing Flood
Role, Cut Height of Crest
But for the co-ordinated flood con
trol now In operation In the Tennessee
Valley, floods along that companion
river of the raging Ohio might now
be adding their toll to those along the
lower Ohio and Mississippi, according
to officials of the Tennessee Valley
Authority.
They believe that had It not been
for the holding back of a great volume
of water In the Tennessee, the flood
crest at Paducah, Ky., might now be
at least a foot higher than the pres
ent disastrous levels and that the tre
mendously high stages now feared
along the lower Ohio and Mississippi
might be even higher.
Since December 22 all of the waters
of the upper Tennessee have been im
pounded behind Norris Dam. where
the great floodgates have been closed
for the first time. Between them,
Norris and Wheeler Dam no are
holding back 145,000,000,000 gallons
of water. Otherwise, something In the 1
neighborhood of 33,000 cubic feet per
second might today be pouring into
the Ohio at Paducah to add to the
present disaster.
Facilities Co-ordinated.
In the Tennessee Valley the'Federal
Government now is co-ordinating all
of the approved flood and water con
trol projects, from reforestation and
soil erosion control to the use of
dams, great and small. Although the
plan is far from complete, it already
has saved the Tennessee Valley from
two floods, according to T. V. A. offi
cials. This year, it is estimated,
Chattanooga alone has been spared
*750,000 in flood damages because of
the operation of the co-ordinated
flood plan.
Before the present plan was put
into operation in the Tennessee Val
ley 44 per pent of all the water falling
In the Ten; ,ssee watershed rushed
directly Into the rivers, the result be
lug reflected in repeated floods. One
of these, the flood of 1917, caused
$4,000,000 damage In Chattanooga
alone, it was pointed out.
The T. V. A. plan, It was explained,
has for Its primary purposes flood
control and the Improvement of navi
gation, with the utilization of surplus
power as an Incidental to the opera
tion of the main plan.
Third Dam Half Finished.
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region embracing parts of seven
States and having an area approxi
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gional development.
The T. V. A. has completed two
dams, Norris and Wheeler, the first
far up near the Kentucky line, the
second down in Alabama. A third is
half finished at Pickwick Landing,
Tenn., below Wheeler. Construction
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ited by T. V. A. from the War De
partment, is in operation.
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development of a 9-foot navigation
channel from the Ohio River at Pa
ducah to Knoxville, 650 miles up the
Tennessee. They also serve an inval
uable purpose as flood control reser
voirs. All figure la the unified effort
to reduce the flood menace not only
on the Tennessee but in the lower
Mississippi as well.
Hand in hand with these dam-bulld
ing projects, T. V. A. is restoring the
natural ability of the soil to hold sur
plus rain water through the planting
of trees, cover crops and the construc
tion of soil erosion walls, mats and
terraces.
The T. V. A. has produced some
50,000 tons of triple superphosphate,
which has been distributed to 20,000
demonstration farms. This Is used
for stimulating cover crops only and
is not suitable for food crops, it was
explained. It is a part of the light
against soil erosion. With co-opera
tion of the C. C. C., more than 200,000
brush, log or stone dams and mats
of brush have been placed to halt
erosion pending the growth of trees
and cover crops. Some 18,000,000
trees have been planted and two T. V.
A. nurseries are prepared to set out
50,000,000 trees. Most of them are
black locusts which, because of fast
growth, are ideal for holding the soil.
Attention also is being given to Asiatic
chestnuts which, being blight resistant,,
may replace the doomed American va
riety. A start has been made with
other nut trees and berries which not
only will provide food for humans and
live stock, but which are vitally neces
sary to wild life. The valley has been
made the scene of a national demon
stration of correct forest management
on a large scale.
T. V. A., It was explained, is under
taking to realise on the Federal in
vestment In navigation and flood con
trol through income from the sale of
incidental power. It is blazing a way
toward a “planned future” for tha
United Btates, from which, step by
step, other great natural areas may be
developed to end soil eroaion.
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