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The Weather forecast: Uoudr and unsettled mi:. M EDFORD MAIL 7 TRIBUNE WINNER Pulitzer Award FOR 1934 rain near roast; continue d mlld. temperature. Highest yesterday Lowest yesterday , 18 . 10 Tweuty-ninth Year MEDFORP, OREGON, SUNDAY, JANUA 7, 1935. No. 262. MILITIAMEN QUELL FLOODS DRIVE FAMILIES FROM HOME 'L BRUNO TALKS IT OVER WITH REILLY WORLD LASHED BY GALES, ZERO COLD AND HIGH WATER E By PAIL MALLON Copyright, 1935, by Paul Mallon V WASHINGTON, Jan. 33. The ad f ministration has put rubber Urea on It congressional steamroller. It U till flattening out all opposition in the same old way, but with soma consideration for how the boys will feel after ward. You see that by what happened behind the widely ad vertised house revolt agaln&t giving President Roosevelt nearly 5. 000 .000 .000 to play with for re lief without lay PALL MALI. O.N ing down any rules for his game. It was a pleasant revolt for all. It started when a few conscientious democrats, like capable Cox of Geor gia, protested half apologetically that the house leaders (not necessarily Mr. Roosevelt) were going too far. They said more than an hour should be allowed for 435 elected representa tives of the people to debate a $5. 000.000.000 appropriation bill. They also hinted It was wrong for the J leaders to refuse consideration to all amendments. Certainly a couple of Innocent amendments could be considered. Ordinarily the leaders would pay no attention to such an apologetic revolt. They did not. this time, until they suddenly found their own rules committee was divided 7 to 7 on the question whether they were going too far. Before doing anything, the house leaders trundled down to the White House, went Into a huddle with the driver. They then decided to make the Inevitable crushing of the revolt ers reasonably pleasant for the vic tims by permitting three hours In stead of one hour for general debate. In the fullness of their hearts, they also agreed to consider amendments to one inconsequential section of the legislation, but not to the-Important sections. The steamroller then moved on, with the mutineers falling under the roller resignedly, and the leaders content with having lost nothing but a few hours of time. ) The Inside explanation for 8Uch shennanlgans furnishes a rather In teresting expose of the whole exist ing legislative situation. Congress has an Inferiority com plex, and Justly so. Each revolter knew that If the $5,000,000,000 pork barrel was ever opened up for amendments on the floor of the house, there would be a riot. The rush to get a slice of that money for the folks back home would be un stoppable. Congressmen would start proposing amendments to build dams In every creek In their districts. Also, the argument about the rid iculously small amount of time per mitted for debating such a tremen dous bill Is largely political. Talk Is the cheapest commodity on the Washington market. Nobody cares anything about that. The real reason the opposition wanted more time was to organize a real revolt. The reason the adminis tration would not permit a reason able period for debate was to prevent the opposition from getting organ ized. The result is the legislation un doubtedly has many flaws. These may or may not be discovered when full time la allowed for consideration of the bill in the senate. Half the Insiders in congress seem to feel the Democratic leaders made a mistake In not showing a ruthless front toward the mutineers. They suspect that when congressmen find out they can revolt, even apologet ically, and get away with it. there will be nothing but revolt. However. If future revolts are aa gentlemanly as this one. they will not be revolt ing to anyone except the spectators. Mr. Roosevelt has also been crowd ing the mourners on the world court. He caught the opposition wholly off guard by sending his world court message to the senate. Some opposi tionists who are his friends had in side reasons for believing he was such a sturdy natlonellst that he was secretly against the court, as well as the league of nations (despite his 1920 presidential campaign.) Tndeed, the gossipy word Is now being spread In senatorial cloak rooms that neither the president nor the Democratic leadership Is strong enough for the court to die for it and Is merely pressing the Issue to appease certain peace societies, which might otherwise be aroused at the strong new deal trend toward na tionalism. That Is possibly a sour-grape argu ment put forward by antl-courtcrs. They are going strong now. If they could delay a vote for a few weeks mere, they might be able to defeat the court move. The Japsmiw are not going to stop In China this time until they dom inate thoe caravan routes westward The president's consulting rcono (ContlP-jed on Page Bieveni Rnnkr' Guilt t'phetif TOPEKA. Kns . Jan. 26 (API Holding there wa no error In trial court proceedings. the miprme ! court affirmed fxlsv the conviction' -.,.. riutnrt ronrt of W. 1 ' ' i- . i. n.M.nf W, Finnrv. r, I.V'I l 'iia I"' - on rrsarc l'.tbro'.ier nt rmw. .i in ik. to rY) jrnr peillten tisry sentence. AGAINSTHUEY RULE Civil War in Louisiana Is Averted When 'Square Dealers' Surrender Gas Barrage Saves Reputed 'Spy' From Angry Crowd BATON ROUGE, La., Jan. 26. (AP) Two sheriffs tonight described as "lies' the chsrge that they had con spired to assassinate Huey Long. Sheriffs Henry N. Sherburne of Iberville parish and Sidney Dubroca of West Baton Rouge parish declared that statements made at the open court hearing In Baton Rouge "today by one of the witnesses. Sidney Songy, connecting them with an as serted conspiracy to kill Long, were false. Sherburne's statement. Issued at Plaquemlne, follows: "There Is not a word of truth In what Sidney Songy said In Long's hearing In Baton Rouge, concerning myself. Songy la a man without character and few. If any, would be lieve his statement under oath." Dubroca's statement follows : "Sidney Songy is a deliberate falsi fier. Tli ere la not a word of truth in anything he said concerning me in Long's Investigation today." (Copyright, 1035, by the Associated Press ). BATON ROUOE. La., Jan. 26. Senator Huey Long's dictatorship rode out an armed uprising here to night as more than a hundred square dealers surrendered or fled Into the woods before machine guns snd rif' les of national guardsmen. One man was wounded. A thivi tened nltched battle be twee the dlltla and anti-Long forc es came as a climax to an exciting day which saw martial law declared In this parish and city by Governor O. K. Allen, and Senator Long charg Ing In court that antagonistic public officials plotted his death, It was only a short time after the senator abruptly ended his Inquiry into the alleged conspiracy against his life when square dealers started to assemble at the airport. At first they were unarmed, but guns soon appeared. As the anti-Long men began to form their batUe line, a company of guardsmen under Colonel E. P. Roy reached the airport, unslung their weapons and prepared for action. The opposing forces were only about 500 yards apart. The guards men deployed In a line about a quar ter of a mile in length and lying flat on the ground began advancing slowly. The armed citizenry, carrying pistols, rifles and shotguns, backed up against the woods nearby. Ernest Bourgeois, president of the anti-Long square deal association, was in command of the citizens. It looked for a short time as if neither side in the Impending struggle would weaken. Both forces maneuvered cau tiously, their guns poised. Then suddenly, finding themselves outnumbered and surpassed In equipment, most of the square deal ers surrendered to Colonel Roy. They were disarmed, placed under technic al arrest and freed. The citizen shot and wounded was identified at the hospital as George N. AHessl, 30, of Independence. La, a member of the Tangipahoa parish police Jury. Physicians said buckshot had en tered bis body just above the heart. In the abdomen and In the back. An emergency operation was performed. Disorder broke out at the airport tonight as guardscen still deployed over the field. A hundred or more men, women and children had collected about the field after the surrender. Suddenly, someone yelled: "There he is I There Is the spyl" He pointed to a short, stoutlsh man. The crowd believed he was respon sible for notifying the guardsmen that the citizens were gathering on the air field. The crowd pushed at the man. knocked him down, tore his clothing and trampled him. Guardsmen charg ed to the rescue but were finally or dered to fall bnck and shoot gss guns at the crowd. The gas barrage finally drove the crowd back and it left gradually. By 6 o'clock practically everyone was gone and thft guardsmen were pack ing up to leave. Senator Long, at hit short court hearing today, charged that the re volt against his "klngftsh" regime was being fomented by the Stand ard Oil company. Their dispute arow over a barrel tax on refining of oil. It was an nounced, however, a "compromise" had been reached providing the com pany used 80 per cent Louisiana crude. The square deal association waa the outgrowth of this controversy, al though leaders said they were fight- ,ng for tne rtpeM of aU of the Mna. tor's "dictatorial laws." They had sworn to end the dictatorship. More Dividend NEW YORK. Jan. 26. (AP) There were 23 favorable dividend changes lat week against 26 the week before, according to the dividend compila tion of Standard Statistics Co. Un favorable rhangs numbered 7 com pared with 4 in the previous week. KTRMINOHAM. Ell.. Jan. 26. David Lloyd George, the Tormer Brit- Ish premier, enpretved apprehension rrmr th iturion in thr fr - - - - - - " ' 1 ipn tne united rstate? uid Britain to take action to present peace. Mothers with babes in arms fled from Northern Mississippi flooda In the vicinity of Sledge. They auffered from rain and cold. Two of those who deserted their dwellings with children were Mra. Ralph Holmea and daughter (left) and Mrs. Jack Stanley and daughter. (Associated Press Photo MARKS, Miss., Jan. 26. (AP) A store of motor boats were putt-putt-putting tonight In the flood cone surrounding this mecca of north Mississippi refugees In search for numerous families still marooned In their homes after four days of rampaging high water. The number of dead from the Tennessee - Arkansas - Mississippi flood was placed at 27, at Least, and the homeless, marooned or suffering at 2i. 000. Damage to property was estimated at more than 5,000.000. Most of the victims in the trl-state area suffered from the unprece dented flood of the Coldwater river basin. I HUGE WORK FUNDiON BONUS PAYING Move Intended Curb Opposi tion in Senate to Political Power Grand Jury to Probe Texas PWA Graft Charges. WASHINGTON, Jan: . 26. (AF)-In a move to head off rising opposition to the 4,880,000,000 public works bill, word waa sent to congress today from the White House that Presi dent Roosevelt, himself, would allo cate the fund. Democrats and Republicans in the senate were objecting to the vnst power the bill would give the presi dent to delegate authority to sub ordinates. A White House conference waa held between resident Roosevelt and Senator Byrnes (D., 8. C.) one of the executive's close advisors. At the White House, It was said authoritatively Mr. Roosevelt person ally would administer the fund In- httead of Secretary Ickes who han dled the first 3,300,000,000 program. It waa added that existing govern ment agencies would handle alloca tions made by presidential direction. Under such procedure, Ickes as secre tary of Interior would direct only allotments to that department. Senate Republicans, meanwhile, held a conference on the relief program and agreed to contest sections of the measure which would give Presi dent Roosevelt discretion in the use of the fund. They will meet again after the senate appropriations committee acts on the measure and determine then what attitude they will take toward tjie bill when it comes up for con sideration, probably next week. WASHINGTON, Jan. 26. (AP) The first special grand Jury here since the famous Pall-Doheny oil cases was called today to meet Feb ruary 6 to investigate charges of graft In a $4,000,000 Texas public works administration project. Secretary Ickes. whose PWA investl- lgfttlons uncovered the alleged graft. refused to name the project in volved, or to say whether any public works officials were Implicated. All other having knowledge of the case steadfastly declined to name the pro ject most directly involved, icxes did, however. Indicate this Inquiry 'may have ramifications." First word of the proceedings came from United States Attorney Leslie G. Oarnett after he had summoned the Jury. Garnett said the inquiry was being undertaken solely at the request of Ickes and that the jury would analyze "specifically one pro ject, a 4.000.000 project in Texas." Louis Glavis. head of the PWA in vestigation division, has been in Texas three or four timea recently. JOURNALISM FRAT EUGENE. Ore. Jn. 2 (API B W. Fuhl. editor of the I9:;4 PaUtrrt prlre vlnnrr. th! Mfd'ord Mall Trib une, end Hush O. Bull of the Hood River Ne's. were formally Initiated Into Sterna Delta Chi. men', nation al Journalism fraternity here mday. In recognition of their outstanding si Journalism rraternlty here rnnay, in rcoenltlon of their outstanding ! nrv in the field of imirn11m in , HONORS EDITORS inr io rr nr acnaing me Oregon press conference. cnierence. 10 FORCE EARLY VOTE WASHINGTON, Jan. 26. (AP) A threat to use rare parliamentary tac tics to force a vote on the 3,100,- 000.000 bonus unless It Is brought up promptly was discussed by bonus advocates today on Capitol Hill. The men who were discussing It declined to let their names be used, giving as the reason that the plan would 'involve over-tiding the , pre siding officer. In the house. The proposal was this: During con sideration of some bill, a member would offer the bonus measure hi an amendment. The chalrmsn a speaker, presumably, would Immedl' ately hold It out of order since It did not pertain to other subject mat. ter in the bill under consideration. That ruling immediately oould be appealed to the house. A simple ma jority of those balloting would be sufficient to overrule the speaker and then permit a vote on the bonus rider. Only once in their two-year terms were the rulings of the last speakers Ralney of Illinois and Garner or Texas contested. In one, Rainey was sustained; In the other, Garner waa defeated. Some bonusltes, among them Rep resentative Patman (D., Tex.) said they thought such procedure would be Inadvisable. But the others con tinued to discuss methods and the most strategic time to act. HAMILTON. CHIEF E, i DIED LAST APRIL (Copyright, 193.1, by the Associated Press) ST. PAUL, Minn.. Jan. 28. (AP) B,v(r1rn tn ni-mflrm nimnri of .Tohn Hamilton's death was claimed here today, an authoritative source dis- cl0Ked John Dllllnger's chief lieutenant succumbed to bullet wounds last April S at ChlcaRo, the informant announced. The Information waa fur nished by a former member of the gang and corroborated by a letter penned by DUlinger himself, he aald. Department of Juitte offtclala at Washington commented merely that reports of Hamilton's death had been Increasingly frequent In the last few weeks but that his name would not be crossed off the wanted list until hla body had been found. The evidence waa said to have come from a former henchman of the out law whoae Identity waa unrevealed beyond a hint that he waa a prisoner In the Ohio penitentiary. The letter waa written to Hamilton's girl friend Patrician Cherrtngton, by Dllllnger before he himself waa slain last July. Hamilton Incurred hla mortal wounds last April 23. the source made known, when he and Dllllniter were fired upon by Patrolman Fred Me Ardle and Deputy bherlff Norman Dieter near St. Paul as they were I fleeing from the trap aet by govern ment agents at the Little Bohemia In Wisconsin. Bleeding profusely. Hamilton waa rushed to Chicago and kept alive by two physicians until April 2. Hubby Joint Amelia ALBUQUERQUE. N. M.. Jsn. 26 ; cap, Amelia Earnarc and nr nus , hand. George Palmer Putnam, took off from the Albuaueroue airport at . - ..." :. . iuriy trunfctmiini-mni muni irvrn ' uurosna, iai., vo new jora. Legislature Expected to Do Something With One Third Session Passed Bill Changing Primary Election Up Monday. SALEM, Jan. 36. (AP) Only three measures saw their way successfully ! through the Oregon legislature aa one-third of the scheduled 40-day session had passed, and of these but one was deemed of seml-lmportance. Committees, however, were flooded with scores of minor proposals and numerous enactments of major im portance when the assembly adjourn ed over the week-end. The coming week would see virtually all remain ing large Issues Introduced, with the exception of the appropriation bills of the ways and means committee. Out of the 326 bills introduced, an Increase of about 30 per cent over the same period in 1033, defeat In the form of withdrawals and by vote saw 1 1 eliminated, and 33 which passed have passed one house and were ready for the other. The execu tive has but one measure for con sideration, since he has attached hia signature to the other two which have passed. Increased activities were Indicated by the house at the beginning of the third week next Monday, however, when II bills were on the calendar for final passage, one of which would defer primary elections from May to September. It will be a special order of business at 3:30. The senate, running more smooth ly, to the extent that no session has been much longer than 30 minutes in duration, has no proposals up on third reading Monday, but commit tees are functioning on many bills while waiting for house action on the bulk of the so-called major meas ures. The first of the administration measures, the creation of an ad visory planning commission for the governor, waa approved by the house by a large majority late yesterday, but only after the original bill as Introduced had been redrafted to take power and control away from the proposed group of seven mem bers. The only bill which passed both houses and was signed by the gov ernor tbat'was considered of seml- lmportance was the one giving the executive power to remove members of the state pilot commission at will without cause. ONTARIO, Ore.. Jan. 26. (AP) After a conference here late today Malheur county officials remained undecided whether to hold an au topsy to determine If a reported kicking by small boys brought on the death of Phyllis Weatfall, 7, Vale, Ore. At a conference In the office of Sheriff C. W. Olenn, County Coroner R. A, Tacke read statements from two attending physicians who said they had no knowledge of any body bruises which might have caused the girl's death. Dr. W. J. Weese stated that diphth eria was the cause of death. Both he and the other physician said that a Jaundice condition from which she suffered had appsrently cleared while she waa in th hospital. The county health officer had reported lrt n bruise on her 8T"- i( . , , . A While the officials leaned toward h teoi7 that nothing could be "7 w"umini holding an autopsy, they kept that course under consideration. At today'a conference It was re vealed that there was no positive Identification of the child's assail- anta and that no one notified either the sheriffs office or the district at torney until after the funeral. After talking with two phyalelsns, the child's father said It appeared to him that the death was from natural causes, TWO STORES KEEP Among those Medford merchants who have announced that their stores will not change their regular busi ness hours, aa will some of the other merchants, are Whillock's Golden Rule and the Buster Brown shoe store. Those two stores will stay open every week night until 6 o'clock, and until 8:30 on Saturday, opening every morning at 8:30, Other local stores that will keep thote hours are the hardware stores, and those which feature men's rloth- inE cmlv. Thoe In the lstter cate - -- : a . w-.u .nop. iiu viiici. vivui.i.i i company. PHYSICIANS SAY VALE GIRL DIED NATURAL CAUSES x "aw, y-m iiVwam 'Ml Bruno Richard Hauptmann (right), defendant In the Lindbergh case at Flemlngton, N. J., confer, with hie chief eouneel, Edward J. Rellly, ae the atate conclude. It, case agalnit the Bronx carpenter. Hauptmann wai hi, own flret witneee, mounting the etand ehortly fterthle talk with Rellly. (Associated Preea Photo) HAUPTMANN ALIBI NAMES DEAD MAN AS BABYSLAYER Montreal, Can., Residents to Testify They Saw Isador fisch With Child-State Masses New Evidence FLFM1NGTON, N. J., Jan. 28. (AP) A New York policeman, returned from Germany with relatives of the late Isador Flsch to testify at the trial of Bruno Richard Hnuptman for murder, haa also given the state new handwriting evidence. It waa learned tonight, to be used against the Bronx carpenter. As Hauptmann a counsel moved to bolster Hauptmann'a main hope an alibi the state announced that Lieu tenant Arthur Johnson of the New York city police, recently returned from Germany, had brought back several samples of Hauptmann'a hand writing. Lieutenant Johnson also brought back for possible appearances on the witness stand relative of the dead Isador Flsch the man Hauptmann by Implication accuses of the Lind bergh baby murder who will testify that Flsch died in poverty. Tills tes timony will be used In rebuttaj to tear down defense claims that Flsch was the money man of the Haupt mann -Fisch fur business partnership, and tbe actual kidnaper of the baby. In this connection came a dispatch from Montreal tonight saying that Edward J. Rellly, chief defense coun sel, had wired -for details of a Mon treal man's statement that he had seen Flsch In Montreal, with a child, shortly after the kidnaping. Michael Barry, a former newsstand owner, signed an affidavit before a Montreal notary last week that he thought he saw Flsch In Montreal with a child "closely resembling" the Lindbergh baby about 15 days aftor the kidnaping. Barry said he had not mentioned the incident until now "because friends advised me to keep quiet." Another Montrcaler, John Harrow, owner of a tailor shop and small ho tel, came forward today the Montreal dispatches said, with a story similar to that told by Barry. Harrow "positively identified" picture of Flsch aa that of a man he saw with several other men in United Statea car about the same Barry is suposed to have seen Flsch L RAIN IS WEEK'S FORECAST Oregon: Cloudy and unsettled Sun day with rain near the coast: Mon day, unsettled, rain west portion and snow over mountains: continued mild: fresh southeast and south wind off the coast. CAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 26 fAP Outlook for far western states for period from January 28 to Febru ar 2: General precipitation In north Pa cific states and Idaho, probably ex tending Into northern California and northern plateau region by middle of week. Normal temperatures. Lower Hay Hale PENDLETON, Ore., Jan. 26. (APl The ehamnet of commerce an nounced today the freight differen tial on hay shipments between Pen dleton and Pilot Rock to the mid west drought diitricU wl'.l be moved February 7. Unier AppHrnttm. SALEM, Ore., Jsn. 26. ( AF) Nine application for water appropriation i t, , u- nffli if - w h.,..,!.,. ,.,. .n,in.,r Hnrinv v,, r. ...r.-.-l m RUM AGENT HELD ON FALSE CLAIM PORTLAND, Ore,, Jan. 36. (AP) Department of Justice agents arrest ed J. O. Spear, special agent for the Oregon liquor contral commission, here today on a charge of submit- ting a false claim for travel expen-! ses. Spear, former prohibition officer of Montana and now a Portland resi dent, was In Portland at the time he was called before the grand Jury as a witness In three liquor cases, declared Carl Donaugn, United States district attorney. However, snld Donaugh, Spenr sub mitted & bill for 427.80 to cover ex penses he said were Incurred In com ing here from Grants Pass to attend the grand Jury sessions. Spear form erly was stationed at Cl runts Pass by the state liquor commission. "It's a flagarant case and there'a no excuso whatever for this sort of thing." Donaugh told Federal Com missioner Kenneth Frazer before whom Spear waa taken for arraign ment. Spear waived hearing and waa held to the grand Jury under bait of 1000. CRAZED CRIPPLE ON RELIEF KILLS THREE IN FRENZY CHICAQO, Jan. 26. ( AP) The temporary insanity of a young teach er waa blamed todr.y for a wild ram page that cost four lives. A jury closed Coroner Frank Walsh's "saddest inquest" with a ver dict holding Henry W. Arden, . 27, unemployed language Instructor, re sponsible for "three murders and one aulcldo while temporarily in sane." Arden, brooding over hla crippled condition and disgruntled because the relief allotment for himself and his mother, Ruth, was to be cut, slew Miss Alice Mae Irwin, . comely relief case worker, in his home yes terday. He and his mother hastened to the Chicago avenue relief station and sprayed the office with pistol bullets. Miss Caroline Wallace, super visor, was slain, Niels Nlelson and Miss Hazel Dugan were wounded. Then Arden ended the gory episode by killing his mother and committing suicide, "It's baffling how these people could afford to buy revolvers," Coro ner Walsh stated. 4 NAKED IN CROWD LOS ANGELES, Jan. 26. (AP) Two robbers early today In the heart of Los Angeles' business section held up Frank Brosoky. robbed him of a5 cents and stripped him of all his clothing except his underwear. , A paaserby soon after loaned the embarrajucd victim an overcoat to wear to a police station. PORTLAND. Ore.. Jan. 26. (API Turning down Oscar Hill's alibi that he believed It was two Mexicans rath er than two Indians to whom he sold rubbing alcohol. Federal Judge James Alger Fee today sentenced Hill to a year In prison. Hill, of Klamath Falls, admitted he had known the Indians for 10 1 vMra. hut thmiffht thev were Mexl- , r, , , , --- Eastern States Face New Blizzards Europe Swept By Storm Flood Danger in Washington Lessens Havoc Heavy. (By the Associated Press) The storm-ridden eastern statea braced for a fresh onslaught of zero weather and snow Saturday night as winter pursued a ranging way. Floods broadened the sphere of misery In north Mississippi, where the cost waa counted at 27 human Uvea and five to ten million dollars property loss. Snowsildes, wrecked homes and swelling rivers sent whole commun ities fleeing to higher ground in British Columbia. Bitter gales lashed over Europe, sweeping email fishing craft to sea and damaging trees and buildings In Britain. The Norwegian ship "Oanga" was blown out of Blyth harbor and disappeared. The Norwegian steamer "Roydo" waa wrecked on the western Scottish coast. Down in Central America the tem perature broke to 44 degrees above zero at Tegucigalpa, Honduras, and two deaths were attributed to the unprecedented cold. Warning of an approaching hurricane emptied the bay at La Cetba of all vessels, which headed for a safer place In the open sea. Pennsylvania, scarcely recovered from a 40-hour bllcsard, got some relief from the severe cold but pre pared for a new storm reported on its way to the central and eastern parts of the state. Snow fell generaly over West Virginia, where one death waa caused by a coasting accident. An Inch of snow fell atop the blan ket laid Wednesday at Washington, antt Mven Pen were hurt, three of them on a sled struck by an auto mobile. Light, but steady snow fell most of the day In the Chicago area and Indiana, while temperatures ranged In the tens and twenties over moat of the middle west and were due for a drop toward the uro neighborhood. New York streets were still banked with anow, but traffic waa nearer normal, . New England temperatures were Just under freezing, with a cold wave anticipated by Sunday bringing six to ten degree temperature. Two brotheera were found frozen to death at Lake Mllllnocket, Maine, and a barge was reported lost at sea off Norfolk, Va with five men aboard. A Kenyon, Minn., farmer died of freezing and exposure, sixth Minnesota victim of the zero wave. The crest of the Coldwater river flood In Mississippi moved down up on Lambert, and the tragic exodus from threatened homes went on. At Marks, Miss., 600 homeless were In the soup line, and the refugees and other victims of the river's rampage were estimated as high aa 25,000. A atate prison farm housing 500 negroes four mllea south of Lambert was In the tone of danger. SEATTLE. Wash., Jan. 28. (AP) Sunshine warmed the water-logged Pacific northwest today, ameliorating flooda In some districts and adding to scenes of desolation In others as melting snow caused new freshets and earth slides. Sumsr mountain. In British, Colum bia, murled tons of mud and Water down upon the village of Kllgard. and police feared the slides bid the fate of several more dead. Some vil lages were abandoned, others were believed destroyed, communications and traffto were crippled. Western Washington's inundation wss draining off, leaving behind a string of washed-out and mud-covered highways and farms. Havoc of the week's cold wave, storms, heavy snow and sliver thaw was tentatively estimated at 25 dead, scores Injured, hundreds marooned by flood and slide or driven from their homes, traffto arteries seriously dam aged, 10 ships damaged or sunk. WASHINGTON. fJan. 26. (AP) The federal communications commis sion today received an application for a construction permit for a new radio broadcasting station to operate on unlimited time from L. E. RObl deaux of Bend, Oregon. He asked for a permit to operate on 100 watts at night and 250 watts day time. Will . ROGERS ALBUQUERQUE. N. M . Jan. 25. Well, all I know la Just what I read In the Amsrlllo, Texas, Dally Nows. Cattlemen are feeling better than In years. No rain, but the senate will let to that aa soon aa they get ua all set In the World Court. That will Just auout be the breaking of this depres sion. Yes. sir. wish they could get out and taik to the people. Think they would learn something rather sur prising about how little Interested they are In Europe. H It waa put up to a vote of the people you would think It waa some Republican run ning for aometnlna:. Tours, tV., llTTHiW( Ialitate. laa,
