Pittsburgh, Feb. 4.
Broad areas of three states were threatened by floods along the Ohio River today after 20 persons were reported drowned and several others missing in the Ohio River lowlands.
Hundreds were driven from their homes, or warned to evacuate, as melting snow swelled the tributaries of the mighty Ohio and threatened to send it many feet above flood level.
"Meteorologists said the teal danger of the flood was not apparent yet be-use continued cold weather in several ereas delayed the melting of deep snow which has blanketed the state since last week's sub-zero blizzard.
Ohio, Maryland and West Virginia were the three states threatened by floods today.. Residents along the Ohio lowlands where floods had not yet hit were busy tonight reinforcing dykes with sandbags in an effort to save their homes.
Civilian Conservation Corps workers in the three states were standing by for orders to go to work on the dykes if warm weather set in throughout the entire upper Qhio Valley, since observers predicted this would bring a sudden and perhaps disastrous rise in the river.
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