Highest Crest on Record Seen on Mississippi
The Associated Press reports the Mississippi flood could reach a crest nearly ten feet above the record as the Ohio River rises. Lt. Col. Eugene Reybold warned of a 55 foot crest in Memphis, with extensive evacuations and martial law declared in Kentucky and Ohio river cities. Federal troops moved in to aid flood districts.
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Associated Press
Mississippi River
Ohio
Eugene Reybold
Army Engineers
Memphis
National
Pittsburgh
Cairo
Mississippi
Cincinnati
Louisville
Paducah
Evansville
Ind
Ohio Valley
Montana Senate Action on 22 Proposals and Inquiries
Helena January 25. The House advanced a heavy agenda including final passage on nine of 22 proposals, eight new bills, and notices on about a dozen more. A five member committee to probe the Montana relief commission was proposed by Ernest Burns. Relief director Joseph E Watson and relief commission vice chairman George Mason declined comment. A separate House committee was named to investigate the office of the state superintendent of public instruction with five members named. Alvor d led the inquiry.
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Helena
Montana Relief Commission
House
Ernest Burns Flathead
Relief Board
Joseph E. Watson
George Mason
Relief Commission
Blast Kills About 100 at Chilean Copper Mines
An explosion at Chuquicamata copper mines in Antofagasta Chile killed about 100 workers and injured another 100. The blast damaged the largest copper mines in South America and is described as the worst Chilean disaster in recent history occurring at 8 a m.
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Antofagasta
Chile
Chuquicamata
South America
Flood Wipes Out Plans for Relief Funding in Ohio Flood
President Roosevelt ordered an immediate flood relief push as the Ohio River disaster swelled. WPA chief Hopkins testified 500000 people displaced, with estimates rising to 650000 to 700000 within days. Army, WPA, Coast Guard and Red Cross mobilized on a wartime footing to aid refugees.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Army
Navy
Works Progress Administration
Coast Guard
Public Health Service
Central
WPA
Red Cross
White House
Harry L. Hopkins
Hopkins
Craig
Floodboat tragedy claims six in Arkansas river rescue
In Lepanto Arkansas on January 25 a rescue boat capsized in the Little River while evacuating marooned families from Riverdale. Three women and three children died. Jeff Wolfe rescued others. husband Jeff English and two other men swam to safety.
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Lepanto
Ark
Little River
Pebble English
Helen
Ockley White
Riverdale
Lapanto
Wolfe
Jeff English
Montana Weather Outlook Snow Through Wednesday
Occasional snow is forecast in Montana on Tuesday and Wednesday with colder temperatures Wednesday. The unsettled pattern may bring light accumulation and cold wind chills across the state.
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Montana
Better Business for Butte Is Slogan in Chamber Drive
The Chamber of Commerce outlines expansion plans to boost industry and trade in 1937, aiming for prosperity for merchants and the community. It notes a return to near pre-1936 business volume and anticipates further growth, with the pledge that Butte must secure its place in the sun and protect local business interests.
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Butte
Sun
Chamber of Commerce
Misgours Free of All Blame in Flood Disaster
River experts in Butte challenge Ohio Mississippi valley flood links to the Missouri, noting below normal flows and lack of January thaws. Former Missourians recall floods in April and June rather than winter, with only limited damage near St. Charles where flat land floods periodically for fertile gains.
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Missouri River
Mississippi Valley
Montana
Ohio
Butte
Missouri-Mississippi
Chicago
Missouri
Mississippi
Mississippi- Missouri
St. Charles
St. Louis
Fourteen Drowned as House Collapses in Flood
Ripley Tenn Jan 25 Sheriff J T Hamel reports fourteen people drowned today between Goldcoast and Ashport when a house toppled in floodwaters. He said bodies were not recovered and named the dead as Doe Fain Acey Fain Mrs William Oamp bell and William Simpson, raising the state flood death toll to nineteen.
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Ripley
Tenn
J. T. Hamel
Lauderdale County
Goldcoast
Ashport
Hamel
Doe Fain
Acey Fain
William Oampbell
William Simpson
Scouts Gather for Annual Silver Bow Council Session
More than 150 scouters from Butte and surrounding towns assemble in Mining City for the Silver Bow County Council Boy Scouts annual meeting. A dinner at the Silver Bow club precedes talks by speaker R B Rudiman and master of ceremonies Judge R E McHugh. Ward Thompson presides as officers for next year are named and youth programs outlined. Community singing led by E M Keeley. Invocation by Rev J F Regan and Dr E J Groeneveld participate.
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Silver Bow Club
R. B. Rudiman
Spokane
Ward Thompson
Butte
Deer Lodge
Dillon
Anaconda
Silver Bow Coun
Cil
Boy Scouts of America
R. E. McHugh
E. M
Pat) Keeley
J. F. Regan
E. J. Groeneveld
Army 3 Barrier to Formation of Cabinet in Japan
Tokyo January 25 The army, virtually alone, loomed as a barrier to forming a cabinet under Gen Kazushige Ugaki former governor general of Korea The opposition high command objected to his moderate leanings friendly ties with parties and his past order reducing the army by two divisions Ugaki met today with the spokesman for his military opponent seeking to break the deadlock
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Tokyo
Kazushige Ugaki
Korea
Ugaki
Sloan Rejects Perkins Offer Halts GM Lewis Parley
General Motors president Alfred P. Sloan Jr. declines Secretary Frances Perkins invitation to a Washington conference to end the GM strike. He cites John L. Lewis and the United Auto Workers as blocking talks, saying future negotiations would be unproductive while plants remain closed.
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New York
Alfred P. Sloan Jr
General Motors Corporation
Frances Perkins
Washington
General Motors
Sloan
John L. Lewis
United Automobile Workers of America
Miss Perkins
Lewis
Cincinnati names disaster dictator to run flood relief
Cincinnati faces rising waters with 65 000 homeless in shelters as 8 are dead and water supplies deteriorate. City manager C A Dykstra gains authority to direct all operations amid fire threats and a boil water advisory as river climbs to 719 55 feet.
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Cincinnati
C. A. Dykstra
Health Department
Mill Creek
Riverview
Coast
Martial law ordered as Louisville floods force evacuation
Gov Chandler declared martial law in floor beleaguered Louisville to curb pestilence panic and hunger. President Roosevelt urged federal troops to assume control while two thirds of the 330000 population fled to higher ground as Ohio River Beargrass Creek floodwaters rise and relief centers form.
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A. B. Chandler
Kentucky
War Department
Louisville
Frankfort
Ohio
Cincinnati
Roosevelt
Reybold
Mississippi
Ohio River
Weather Bureau
Paducah Cairo Evacuated as Flood Crest Goes Higher
Paducah Kentucky Cairo Illinois and New Madrid Missouri faced hurried evacuations as engineers and National Guardsmen blasted the Birds Point New Madrid floodway fuse plug to relieve main levees. Rescue boats and motors were sought for hundreds of families stranded on rooftops in Dyersburg Tiptonville Ridgely and other west Tennessee towns as the Mississippi surged.
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New Madrid
Red Cross
Memphis
Tenn
Paducah
Cairo
Ill
United States
Mississippi
National
Birds Point
Big River
Dyersburg
Tiptonville
Ridgely
West Tennessee
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Ayers
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Senate
H. D. Rolph
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Lippard
Alvord
Hamilton
O’connor
Longenecker
Japan
Highlands
Crescent Hill
Beargrass Creek
Southern
Illinois City
Kentucky Town
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