SMOKING BANNED

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 14, 1 February 1937, Page 7

SMOKING BANNED

-Press Assn.—

Earthquakes Shake Levee at Memphis ELOOD CREST CREEPS ON

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(Jtieceivea i, s.45 ' a.m.) NEW YOKK, Jan. 30. A blanket of gas from punctur•d mains covered the inundated waterfront at Cincinatti to-night. Fire Chief Houston described the fire peril as deadlier than anything Cincinatti had ever faced. The danger is increased by the presence of millions of gallons of petrol on the water. A ban on smoking was established throughout the entire region. Even passengers in trains passing through the city are prohibited from smoking. Mr Houston issued a warning to eities downstream tliat the petrol would float there evcntually If not ignited at Cin* cinatti. "Oue spark and the industrial section of Cincinatti and most of the suburban towns would be surrounded by fire. ' ' Federal engineers have been asked to consult the city authoritie-j and decide on methods to remove the danger. Two earlb tremora -in the Memphis area sent engineers hurriedly to cbech the levees wMch, however, were un-' harmed. Mood control headquarters at Memphis reported that the Ohio- river' had broken through the levee five miles north .of Cairo and waa threatening to eut off tbo city from the north, its only leinaining exit axea. It i8 believed, however, that the break will probably rclieve the tremendous pressuro on tho 64-foot seawall behind the city which lies 40 feet below the level of tho fiooded rivers. The river threatened to overflow at Hiekman, Kentucky, to-night. The evaeuation of livestock and the removal Of household goods has begup on a 200tnile front from Hickman to White River, Arkansas. Overlooked Horrorp. Almost overlooked in the greatei torror "oi: Ohio's devastation, reports are now eoxning of the great damage ln Tennessee, Arkansas and If ashville tv'Meh havo reported consider&ble priva tion as a resuit of the Cumlierlanil tiver overflowing. loaisville's hospitai euperiutendeht, jDr. Buschmeyer, predicted that the ^deatnroll \jrill niu iar aeove the estimates. He said ho believed 400 bodies had already been prepared for burial. The Major, Mr Miller, ixxsisted that the zoll wai not more than 190. The entire nation is listening on tho tadio to head distress calls from tho Louisville station and directions tb police boats. Four men were caught -in the xapids of jyhat was once tho busiest downtown intersection and were rescued while the directions to boats lo efEeet a rescue were carried from eoast to coast by the radio hook-up. Another weird call was a message to *11 police boats that a man, aged 24, had gone berserk through flood suffering, struck his father over the head With an oar, stole a motor-boat and. Was reported to be eruising aimlessly in the flood waters. The police were instructed to confiscate the boat and fcrrest the man. Another call instructed the police to fceize the hip boots of any resident not hngaged in relief work and give them to those willing to work. With the crest of the flood still not in the tiver the. Miesissippi river has risen to a higher stage than any hithei to reported. Cairo, at the junction oi the Ohio with. the Mississippi, is pro paring to meet the crest on Wednesday To-night it lay on an island amici Taging waters. The. Ohio is crawling toward the 59-foot stage with an eapected crest of 61 feet, which is unpreeedente.d, North of Cairo, in so-ealled Littlo Egypt, the smaller communities, notably Mound City, were evacuated when tho flood waters backed up inundating them. An area of 131.000 acres of south•astem Missouri were flooded as a reSult of tb.e opening of the levees. T^ complete evaeuation of Paducah, 8000 inhabitants of which remained to-

flay, nas been ordered, forcibly if neces■ary, m order that when ihe Ohio's crest strikes on Tuesday the danger to human life will be obviated. Memphis is in the path of the rolling flood tide, but is confident that her situatipn on higher grqund will save her. She is a city of Tefugees, 2500 of whom come from the flooded Arkansas lowlands, Tennessee river points and feven the Lower Mississippi delta.