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Very few of the polio-encephalitis victims died. Some were only mildly and briefly affected, returned to work. Others were desperately ill and still are. Still others, after apparently getting well, suffered sudden relapses, as though a built-up immunity had succumbed to a fresh onslaught of the disease...
...three general questions before the League take on greater importance in view of these new events. France's sudden reappearance in the headlines, making rebel victory even more likely, will give the committee discussing the Spanish situation opportunity to state a more definite policy...
...worst flood in its history, the most drastic outbreak of geographical temperament since the earthquake. Total property damage covering 30,000 square miles was guessed at $50,000,000 compared to the earthquake's $45,000,000. Twenty thousand people were homeless. And in its sudden rage the flood had taken probably 200 lives-ten in the collapse of a pedestrian bridge across the Los Angeles River...
...means of communication with the outside world was by radio, which was swamped with more messages than it could handle. At Pasadena the Rose Bowl was threatened when a torrential overflow from Devil's Gate Dam was turned aside with sandbags. Sixty miles north of the city a sudden landslide crashed on and nearly buried a bus whose 26 passengers amazingly escaped injury. At Glendale, floodwaters and mud wrecked a $1,000,000 Government flood control project. Meanwhile, the Red Cross took charge of relief work. At the flood's height 10,000 refugees were being fed & sheltered...
...White hair. Depigmentation due to prolonged worry. (He discredits the legend that hair turns white overnight due to sudden fright...