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VANPORT FLOOD HORRORS
Hundreds Of Inhabitants Feared Dead
Aerial
Eye-Witness Tells A Vivid Story
Portland, Oregon, May 31.
Vanport, 24 hours ago a thriving town of nearly 19,000,
Javanese
Prepared Fight
tonight lies submerged by flood waters and hundreds of To
its inhabitants aro feared drowned.
A wall of water swept over the town yesterday from the flooding Columbia River, wrecking whole blocks of two-storey wooden flats and piling them like matchwood against the one wall of the enclosed low-lying community. Boat crews were tonight dragging the deathly still
sea which covers the town.
Most of the Vanport victims were children playing in the warm sunshine when the swirl- ing waters roared through the
streets,
"I
worn
horror A
wanted to yell, to them to run for their lives. All I could do was to waddle the wings of my plane.“
Tales of heroism and came from the dying town. One reporter in the city before business man, driving by, car- the dyke burst said: "Suddenly ried three loads of refugees The water swept down the safety. One the fourth trip his streets. It broke like waves al car, carrying a man, a a_beach_I_sow it slop...ogainst | and_Ave_children, stalled-in-the apartment buildings. There was deep water,
a splintering sound, sharp and loud, and building swung around as it on a lop-sided rail- way turntable."
Survivors told of a building with 20 people in it, none of
whom was helleved to have es- cuped.
Many of the residents refused to leave the lown until constables forced them with drawn guns.
The police shid horns and sirens were blown when the rail- road embankment protecting the city crumbled, but many did not bear them. "The people just| did not believe that there was a break," sold one officer.
Children Drowned
"They wanted to see the wa- ter first before fering their homes. Many stopped to pack
In Canada
to
woman
over
"I opened the door and we all got out," Mr. Ken Jordan related. "I took one of the babies and carried it to high ground.
"The
water came
the road like a tidal wave. As looked back, it came up over the car and covered it com- pletely,
I do not know what became of the other people In It."
Sergeant's Heroism
B
Asmara, May 31.
with A Brillab wergeant machine-gun repulsed an at- tank on the Asmara-Massawa train last night by 19 armed bandita.
armed with
The bandite, guns and grenades, halted tho train by placing a tree trunk across the track.
Jogjakarta, May 31. The Prime Minister, Mo- hammed Hatta, today de- clared that the Indonesian
Republic was "prepared to fight years and years" if pre- sent negotiations with the Dutch broke down as a result of renewed Dutch military aclion,
Dr. Haltn fold the United Press in an exclusive Interview: "1 doub! whether the Dutch could stand a guerilla war of at-
trition."
wns
When they approached to foot the train, the sergeant
hold opened fire and a gun battle He added, "They could followed, the bandits taking
roads and towns, but not the cover and firing back,
country...we inust, however, and The
a way of peaceful settlement in guard, left behind when -the-train-pulled away in the
the interests of both the Indo- confusion, was later found
nesian and the Dutch peoples." He declined to comment on stripped of money and cloth.
which it Ing.
compromise plan, Police patrols wore to.
understood night searching a wide area
Security Council's for the raldors-Reuter.
three-power Committee present- ed to both parties in an effort to reach overall settlement.
Premier sald present negotiations
entering a "very difficult stage" but he re- fused to predict the outcome.— United Press.
Gas Story A "Terrible Lie"
Lake Success, May 31. ·| In Canada's British Columbia nounced as false a Jewish charge An Arab spokesman to-day-do- Province, also in the flood areas, that the Arabs plan to use polson the three Armed Services today gus in Palestina. joined in the fight against the swirling
The Arab, Faris el Khoury of waters which have
Syria,
newamen in a state- told washed away railways, isolating ment: "It is a terrible lie. We the southwest of the province, in- do not possess such material." cluding Vancouver, from the rest Last week he read to the Coun- of the Dominion.
naval
force
was evacuating hundreds of homeless people and aircraft were flying people out of the food area.
An Ottawa announcement said that 14 Royal Canadian Air Corps planes were flying 200,000 sand- bags from Eastern Canada in an
Lelongings or aid neighbours."
Rescue workers reported ses- ing many men in small-power boats breaking into second storey windows. No other evidence of looting seen. A deputy attempt to bolster the crumbling sheriff said he BAW.. four persons dykes-Reuter. in a car being crunched under a floating building.
was
Many parsons sold they saw childron
being swept away. Burvivors scattered in sheltera throughout nearby Portland told of their harrowing escape, of racing away from the wall of water, swimming to higher lund, or escaping from care ctalled in
* mass jam of
the ont
two roads from the low-lying
sericica leading lown.
They said the first 15 minutes was n maddening rush of men, women and children, striving to save their lives frantically un- certain where to turn-and-run except away from the water.
When
the thousands of re- fugees began streaming from the stricken town, bures, lorries and private care took them to tem- porary rehabilitation centres, Four lorry-loads of food donated by private citizens were distributed.
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BRITISH FILMS GET TOO SOPHISTICATED
Londan, May 30
British film mon are perturbed because their pro- ductions, straying too far and realistically into the seamior sidos of life, are increasingly com- ing into conflict with censorship..
As least six current films have felt the snip of the censors' scissors, but more alarming to the in- dustry is that foreign countries are protesting about the "immorality" in the celluloid export- ed from Britain.
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It is thought in Pretoria that Malan may make a triumphal procession through the city when
he arrives there on Tuesday. He is expected to meet the Governor- General the same afternoon.- Associated Press.
MEMORIAL DAY FATALITIES
Washington, May 31
At least 328 persons, died in seeldents throughout the United States over the three-day Memorni observance. The figure does not
Vanport,
Oregon, flood, More
Scenes that leave even the as Mr. Sidney Box, the producer most unsophisticated Britlah of a new film "Daybreak" dis-Include the unknown dead in the audiences unblinking are prov covered.
to the guard- Private families in the Fort- ing unsavoury lund area joined with the Red ians of morals of other coun" Cross, churches, city agencies and tries.md States this week |
others to care for the thousands of refugees,
Cots were set up in schools, churches and other buildings.
President Truman has pro- claimed the flood wast North- West area of the United States
The
objected to an oplaade in the Bouth Boa romance
Blua
Lagoon" which shows actress
So many cuts were made In ) than half this number died in the film-about Д hangman-automobila accidenta. The Mem- that Mr. Box last week protest-orial Day week-end was in obser ed publicly,
vance of America's war dead
to earn dollara.
the
The British organization, Associated Press. The however, is lenient compared with its United States coun. JAPS AT M.R.A. terpart, the "Johnston Office," Jean-Bimmons lying on the
Honolulu, May. 31. ground, Innocently enough, be
whose apoolficially defined sout Kensuke Horinouchi, former of rules is the biggest worry alde her lover. The AmericanR
H2X |Japanese Ambassador to to British filmmakers hoping United States, and eight other "disaator arou" and has ar
Insist that one of the couple dered the use of surplus war
should be shawn altting up.
Japanese, arrived by · plazo last British producers complain the night on route to Hollywood lo property for rollef and re- habilitation.
The United States has always American code is too inflexible attend a moral rearmament con- Mr. Calvin
Hulbert, a Aying condemned out of hand the script and denies them the right, foference.
to dress of "The Bad Lord Byron" be- instance,
a 17th-cen- instructor, described in Portland use of an incestuous love af- tucy beauty in the accurate law said the Japanese community in "In a speech here, Horinouchi today how, from the air, he saw the city of Vanport. smashed to
fair in the poet's fo-which is neckline of her day--or even let Hawail is providing important sulinters.
not even allowed in the film, Shakespeare's "Henry y say help. for critical relief neoda in The
waters gayo
Brickbats also came this week | “damn."-Router, surging
There
from Holland because" or "Brigh=" ton Rock", a film about razor- ole In the dyke," he mid. slashing race-course gangs, which "There was suddenly a six-foot has been showing in Britain for breach in the railroad embank-
almost a year, ment, then it was 00 feet, then
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warning trickle,
WAS по no minor
PA__wall-of-water-10-feet high
Public Order
slid through the breach, striking The Dutch have banned it on down whole apartment buildings the grounds that it is "ilable to like a bulldozer, knocks down a endanger public order sapling. The buildings scomed morals." to burat as the water hit them.
Like Balloon ⠀
and
Censorship Induced by the British public itself, however,
Japan-Associated Press..
Flying Scot Held Up Twice
London, May 31.
The Flying Scot express had to stop twice today on what was planned as its first post-war non-stop run from Edinburgh to London.
It arrived 25 minutes late at The first hitch came when a "-||| low-flying plano' wrecked rail-
away, signal · equipment
Northumberland.
has also brought headaches to "I saw the whole wall of an
the Alm inen. Showers of letters apartment building pop out like pouring into newspaper offices,
balloon exploding. The fural and comments by some Members King's Cross. ·
in Parliament, forced the pro ture stood undisturbed in the rooms.
There were people there ducers to cut "No Orchids for Miss Blandlah a film about the "Two people stood on the porch Kitapping of an heires by a
zed American gangster. of their apartment, shrinking zex-crazed
to death
H.Boone
too.
from
tho; Blood. The building | Bested and, a kiss |
next door crumblad in a lelktro-
.
ly "fashion.
those people were gene. Bo
The next me t
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whortened from 45 to looked,
seconds, Intervention by
vention by the Home of An old man en led to a medication of ran frantically ahead of the fight between women In Good racing waters, putling tits Time Giri," which is currently Waggon with two Boreaming showing here
was the porch.
Lin it.. The water got thematic
Hulbert
Domestic
Watchdog
VICE-PRESIDENT
OFF TO USA
Shanghai, May 31. Chon L-fu, Vice-President of the Legislativo Yuan, arrived
“Then, about 200 miter farther. Gauth, the express had to halt ngain to take on water, at Gran-. diam, The water, scoop apparatus had gone wrong.
here from: Nanking: yesterday to This ́ ́apparatus į enables, ex-
propare for his departure to the Press, to scorp up water" from
Nagamme between the tracks while travel-) Chen has been invited by over ling at speed. United States tomorrow."
30 American Senators to speak
at a meeting in Hollywood Bowl The northbound Scot from London to Edinburgh - arrived. In
i
Edinburgh Ave minutes early, pr
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