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meat and meal, which had been lugged over the hill road to help feed the stricken families that had lost everything. Another group had already started for
er, giving a disdainful kick against some crates and a pile of metal
ight break something!" protest
brought meat and blankets 'stead of that t
possums-give 'em a little music, perhaps," broke
f muddy waters. It was an appalling disaster. A cloudburst up in the hills had flooded a whole valley. Trees, houses, dead animals rode the current in a proc
the relief work, and the equipment of homemade
valley, no telegraph or telephone connections. Starvation, sickness from exposure, any of a hundred o
packing his crates and sackcloth bundles in a tiny cabin on the edge of the flood. Here was
boat 'stead o' tinkering!" was a jeer
hrust of chin, Renaud settled back to work. Jeer
ceiving circuit on to it. He had lugged down, also, his two crude little portables for field radio use, but they were too un
d was flinging into shape. Batteries, induction coils, couplers, transformers seemed to fairly spring into place. In his haste, Lee appeared to be rushing the work with
he was, could on
's the hammer, the chisel?" Like one dement
s hitched onto the little old-fashioned Marconi
spark began to sputter. Adjus
cows come home!" muttered Lee between set teeth. "That's the neare
rgent" call sped over watery waste
elegraphic tapping and switched over to
you, brother? New station, eh? Glad you're on th
with a vicious jab. "We've got to have action, not gab!" Then with stead
gab out of him, and held him keyed for business. "Shoot! Wh
nder. "RL Amateur Station calling. Sargon River district flooded. Need immediate help. Cut
the whole state of Alabama, sending word of the dire need. Mobile, A
you, Flood Station RL. On the way with supplies, tents, doctors, couple more radios and relief operators. Army Post
is old Marconi sparking-taking innumerable
il till he was halfway between Sargon and King's Cove. From here he relayed the flood reports from Lee on to Jimmy Bobb at the Cove. T
the day, for the night hours brought a new and worse disaster. A great power dam, fifty miles up the Sargon, broke
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