Dagmar (top) and Siegfrida Nordstrom, daughters of Prince Axel Edward Nordstrom of Sweden, have invaded London to acquire stage fame under the name of the Nordstrom Sisters.
THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 2,
NEW DANGER SPOT IN
FOUR HUNDRED
DEAD:
OVER MILLION HOMELESS
With 400 already dead and at least one mil- lion homeless the flood waters are threatening an- other and bigger disaster in the Ohio Valley.
Zero hour is rapidly approaching and all eyes are turned upon the city of Cairo, Illinois, where haggard men and women, worn almost to breaking point by days of ceaseless hardship and anxiety, are awaiting their second trial by water.
The last-ditch defenders of the flood-girt city, numbering 4,500 men, are standing by as the wind-lashed waters are swiftly eddy- ing round the bend of the river..
Anxiety is growing as the
The Ohio River is pouring into
waters, rising higher and high-the Mississippi at ths confluence at er, drum with an ominous the rate of nearly 3,000,000 cubic sound against the frail super-feet a second.
structure of the levee on which Forecasters, however, have cheer- be- the life of the community deed the flood fighters with the
lief that their handmade barricade pends.
will save the city.
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PRIME DANGER. SPOT Cairo is the prime danger, spot in
Hundreds of workers are clean- man's-1,200-mile long battle againstļing up, at Portsmouth, Ohio, as the the river, and grim sentinels pace waters there recede, wading deep the levee day and night to give in deposits of slippery mud which early warning of a crisis.
have coated everything.
"PROFITEERS
The seawalls, part of the billion- dollar system of protection, are Man's greed has again' got the flood lit and the sentries, in freezing better of him and "evacuation pro-
are active in weather, keep unceasing watch for fiteers"
the flood- any sign of a break in the levee stricken farming districts. They which might turn the city into a are cheaply buying up inundated watery graveyard twenty feet deep properties and abandoned livestock, in a few minutes.
the latter selling at fantastic prices.
LAST DITCH” Boats, manned by volunteers, The American Red Cross, who stand ready for an emergency eva had appealed for a sum of $10,000,- cuation of the defenders of the 000 for relief of the stricken areas, last ditchin man's bulwarks reports that contributions have al- against the flood.
¡ready reached $8,300,000.-Reuter.
The Pittsburgh Flo
Joan Blondell believes in luxu riance in negligee.
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