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THE

CHRONICLE-TELEGRAM

July 24. 1829

Fourteen

Pages

Full Leased Wire Report of the United Press

E L Y R I A ,

O H I O , W E D N E S D A Y , M A R C H 18 , 1936

Ue We k

By Carrier

Thre

Waters Paralyze Pittsburgh, Fires Add To Terr

•••••»•••••

2 L I V E S

L O S T

A T JO H N S TO W

LlV6S

Damage

March 15 >

blocks of Pitts-

Riier

and

its

tri-

Mouougaheia

Allegheny.

seriously a f f e c t - j

w as t h e

Golden

j

formed at th" point j

he

Monongahela

an d j

join

to

make

the j

j

as drep as IS i

th» triausle an d dam- I

was e-nimuted at j

?H».000.'»"0. i

M a r c h I S— ' I ' - K

1

j

rner and

ii« two

M o n o n g a - j

Alleghen:-. paralyzed)

s steel city today,

j

to a depth

at some points in

the

triangle. j

deaths

w»r"

reported.,

into

millions

and;

[

i

fires broke oat and j

light them

stage at the

point—

f o r m

at 43

feet

at

11:15

weather bureau

re-

bureau said

the

stage

at the

rate

of f r o m

inches an

hour.

The

IS feet and the

is 25

fe^t.

vital

portion

of the

formed

by the

which houses

the

c h i e f

j

and coal interests.}

J

i

of the serious-

building

of

Press, on the

block

f r o m

and four blocks

stood

in 10

Water

And Ice Rule Streets

Science Editor

1 Marietta

Faces

; Flood

News Bulletins

Takes

Glimpse

Disastrous

Into Future

Flood

President Orders

Agencies To

Act

W A S H I N G T O N .

M ar c h .

IS

—

President R o o s ev e l t t o day

" c a l l e d on the v a r i o us ag en c i es of g o v e r n m e n t to begin i m m e d i -

[ a t e l y t h e relief of vict ims in the s t r i c k en f lo o d areas.

A

glimpse iiito

a f u t u r e w h i c h -

MARIETTA.

O .. M ar --h IS

< f J » >

"

mar o f f e r siu-h scientific

achieve- \

—The

Ohio R i v e r reach*, H ood Trapped

On

Second Floors

ntents

as cheap and unlimited

stage

of 36 feet here :odaj and

:

NEW

power,

rocket travel at

what

' - "

K E N S I N G T O N . Pa.. M a r c h 18-

Ledhor

ofjhê Ŝ^̂ ardn e w f r

|

3

--

ici

an

street to the

of Pitts-

known

and most

n i a n y

were open to

t r a f f i c .

re-

Boat

Works

six

persons

were

for and at the

Wav-

fought in waist-deep

to

attempt

to

stem

the

rdinary equipmen t w as

Hastily construct-

of

little

use in

blazes.

Boat Company

along with

houses.

Company fire

by

explosions

of

I ^

Neighbors reported

20 j

"

in

ali.

Fireman had i

blasts.

said to

at I O - 3 3 a. m.

But,

possibl-

major

j

dr

«

n ar(

,

b

o],Vvod

to have resulted j

c

hWcon r̂n

in"th*-"ma

or "i»rt~ of

oth*~ fires

broke

out. f r o m th» delayed

buses,

became

j ̂ 'st,̂

b

"™ii4t

ri=o°

in -L

m

were under water

lhft

weather was not

extremelv

'

' - o n t i n u o u p l y

during

the past

-I*

\

un is

shining. Plants are able |

her

of f ices.

-s recalled in

d r i f f s f r o m

six '

*°

useth

'"

s

energy

in

growing, j One of those officials. R.- J- Wy-

> n feet

that paralyzed

automo-

I

hrou

S

n

the process of photo-syu-j sor.

vice-president

in

charge

of

and

bus traffic. i

ne£i

'

s

'and if man could learn the operations, will give the principal

manufacture all food and all fuel

instead of getting it directly or

indirectly

from

plants, he

said.

Great progress in

glandular

therapy

was

seen

as one of the

Among the

other

officials plan-

ning to

attend

are D. J-

Gillis

and

Henry

W^ck. vice-presidents; J.

R. Sampson, sales manager, and

M.

Richards, assistant vice-

probable chief

developments

in • president in

charge

of

operations:

_ j medical

advances

for the future.

L- I- Parker,

district sales

man-

ported Akron. Ravenna

and

Sal- i

He

suggested

that

some

day

"hor-

ager: R. B.

Kelly,

of^ the Cleve-

'

mone surveys" may be made of j land sales

o f f i ce ,

and

f.

J. Schriv-

ali infants to determine their j er. salesman at the general sales

needs in developing their talents 'o ff i ce of the corporation,

to the greatest possible extent-

em were sno wbound. It was said

it was impossible either to leave

or enter any of the three cities.

A h i g h

w i n d

which

whipped the

snow as it fell negated efforts 01

h i g hw a y m a i n t e n a n c e

men to use

e f f e c t i v e l y their snow

plows to

clear

roads.

Abandon Machines

Mor° than H O O persons in scat-

tered

vicinities of northern Ohio

were forced to abandon their

routes u n t i l 5 p. m. Elyria Town- automobiles and seek shelter in

? h i p

school buses were

reported

{nearby farm houses

last

night.

two

hours

late

last night.

Included among the

snowbound

A

West Carlisle School bus

was

I

̂

ere 110men and four

o f f i c e r s

of

stuck

in d r i f t e d snow for two

Batte

.|J

A of lne

6ist

coastartili

-

houre.

hut there were no children i

erv

-

T

°

e

tro

°P

?

enroute east

i from Fort Sheridan. 111, i n 25

Trirel,

Xames of the other

offic ia l s

who

wi l l be

included

in the

group

,,_. .

, . ,

, were

not

reported

to the Cham-

\\

nh

regard

to

possibilities

of j

ber

rocket travel,

he said

that scien-

j f

RD

Republic Steel Corporation

tists fe e l that within a few years ;

s a

]

so

expected to be represented

it

w i l l be possible to send rock- ]

v

a

large delegation

from

the

ets 200 miles into the air. He io

ca

i plants of Sf»°l and Tubes,

also said th at scientists are pre- j j

nc a

subsidiary of ths corpora-

dieting that within four

or

f iv e

'

years airplanes with sealed cabins

will travel through

the strato-

sphere from Xew Yo rk to San

Francisco

in a few hours.

tion.

Dietz gave his talk at the close i

;

in the bus at the time.

A Ridgeville School operetta,

I

"The

Gypsy Rover",

scheduled

to

be given last night,

was

post-

poned to next Monday night be-

cause of the snow-blocked

roads

w h i c h prevented participants and

the

audience

f r o m

reaching

the

s

'

Th

of

a

short

program which

talks by Miss

included

Elizabeth

A m o n g

the few

schools

in

ope-

land

county

and

took refuge

in

the Troy

township

high school

gymnasium.

C i v i 1 i a n Conservation Corps

workers were

dispatched

to Woos-

ter in an attempt to clear the

h i g h w a y there.

Two

hundred

men

were placed on the proj ect.

At Akron

railroad

o ffic ia l s

inJVsh-

j Rich, c lub president: Miss Elsie j

Alice

| j Longworth

Says

i

Rich,

with Miss Marjorie Rossiter

Xo

.. ...'tinuo their t r i p < =.

ef t

r

_ c t , to

any of

tne c h i i - j

H

i

?

hway

conditions

w»r- th»

recalled that the

°d Professional

u

omen

s

Club

was

formed

in

iNo. 3. •-oiitinnea

on I'age

21

districts

of

all

Monongahela

and Al-

at

10:25

a. m.

Hood.

city of McKees-

water. The McKees-

cold.

Th e closing of the schools is j

o

f

classed by the

State

Department'

perature

in some sections early \f

fk

-

l7

J

fl

*

r

today brought

imminent

threats

j

*lUVIIlg

of

Education

as an

"emergency

the same as when the schools were

closed during the extremely cold

weather more than a month ago.

and students present yesterday

w i l l be listed as present today in

computing the average daily at-

tendance, u p o n w h i c h f u n d s

of the

because of'Ohio

School Foundation Program

of water in its

press

| to schools are based, Gibbens

said,

a

r i v e r

S r e -

to

t r a f f i c .

That was

briuge. The point

a Pittsburgh

land-

°

e

|Eden

Asks

Ger many

B e Declared A

Treaty V iolator

tonight

, p robably

light

p o r t i o n

to-

L O N D O N * . March 18—Capt. A n-

thony Eden, British f o r e i g n sec-

retary, urged

the league

c o u n c i l

today to

declare

Germany a

treaty violator and to n o t i f y the

signatories of the Locarno treaty

to that

e f f e c t .

Eden

r e - a f f i r m e d

his previous

declaration

that G e r m a n y

had

v i o l a t e d b o t h

the Versailles and

Locarno

treaties.

The first to

report

inundated i

roads

was East

Liverpool.

The i

main

highway

into the

city was

partially

covered with

water

and '

occupants of

several

dwellings

ha d been forced to seek safety. <

Th e

Mahoning

River at Youngs-

,'

town rose rapidly and was two

feet above its normal stage.

Dead

at Wheel

Th e

first

f a t a l i t y o f t h e storm 1 f l ood zone.

Johnston, club founder,

and

Mayor D. A.

Baird.

and

music

bv i

the

club's

octette, composed

of

„ ,,

,,

Miss Caroline Foley.

Miss

Emma

I

W A S H I N G T O N .

D.

C.. March

Gleason. Miss Vantia Hubbard i

1S

- —

The row andriTalnes

Mrs.

Dorothy Funk. Miss Vivian

that wage inside the

Ca

,

Dlne

5

Hackett. Miss Alice Foley

Mi^s

are lo

a

largeextent

blanketed

Ruth Gates

and

Miss Elizabeth

b

^"

a

'""

ms and

excursions

in

T ^ = - t . _*.x.

- . , _ •

„_

.

_ Europe

a nd the

skirmishes Oi

the political

c a m p

aign.

B u t t h e

chronic

dif-

feronc^s be-

twe

p

n the run

of

the mine

D e m

ocrats

and the New

Dealers go on

as usual.

Mr.

Ickes,

the

"terrible

tempered

Mr.

Bang" of the

P r e sident's

offic ia l fam-

ily,

has

just

been bested by Attorney Gen-

eral

Cummings in a

case

to de-

termine which has jurisd iction

over the c i v i l a f f a i r s of the

To Safety At

Parkersburg

PARKERSBURG, \V.

Va..

Mar.

IS—Fifty

families were moved

f r o m the Ohio River front

area

here today into

an

abandoned

i

hospital building beyond the'

600 Families Removed From Homes

W I L K E S - B A R R E . Pa.. M a r c h IS—Six hundred families

e v a c u a t e d t h e i r

h o m e s

t o day as t h e S u s q u eh an n a river w e n t

on a ne \ v r a m p a g e , t u r n i n g W y o m i n g v a l l e y into a v as t

l a k e .

Re d

C r os s

w o r k e r s , t o i l i n g

i n r ow

boats, said

al l

residents

ha d

b e e n

r e m o v e d

from

their

h o m e s

safely.

Coast Guard Crews Assist Flood Victims

" W A S H I N G T O N .

M a r c h

18—Red Cross officia ls ordered

coast guard bo a t s and crews bac k to the Wilkes-Barre. Pa., area

today on reports of freshly-rising

flood

waters in that vicinity.

10,000 Are

Homeless

In

Johnstown

NEW

Y O R K, March

18—Between

8.000 and 10.000 persons

are

n o me les s

in

Johnstown. Pa.,

as the

result

of the f lood. JLt

was estimated t o day in National BroadcastingC o m p a n y short-

w av e broadcast from the scene today.

Red Cross Swamped With Appeals

W A S H I N G T O N . March 18—The A m e r i c a n Re d

C r os s

sped

aid today to scores of c i t ies and towns in a half-dozen eastern

states, m e n a c e d by the wors t floods in years.

N a t i o n a l h eadq u a r t e r s h e r e w er e s w amped w i t h f r an t i c

a p p e a l s f o r a i d i n e v a c u a t i n g r e s i den t s of r eg i o n s

s w ep t

by

mu ddy w at e r s o f s w o l l en rivers a nd streams.

Will Reach Crest

This

Afternoon

PITTSBURGH.

M ar c h IS — Th e

w e a th e r

b u r e a u said today

f loods here

w o u ld reach

their crest

b e t w e e n

three an d

f o u r

o'c lock this

a f t e r n o o n .

The

river

s t a ge was at 43

feet

eight inches at 12:30 p. m.

an d t h e f o r ec as t e r p r edi c t ed i t w o u l d reach the 45

foot

mark.

Flootf Wat

Race

Thro

Cumberlan

C U M B E R L A N D , M

—Flood

waters th

the

business section

land to a depth

cf e

drove hundreds of

rooftops, receded slo

Rescue

crews

Guardsmen and vol

ed throughout a nig

darkness and in a

p

moving

scores

of

pe

_ ty . M a ny

suffered

f

j but no fatalities we

Flood waters

from

in the upper

readies

mac

River

and

Will

through the town

reaching

a

crest

at

then began

to

fall

an hour.

Mechanic

and

Ce

were under eight f

The

c urrent was 12

m

A mass of debris, f

ber and goods f

t

homes

and

stores

records

for this record-break-

'

buses left Elyria since 6:30

last

i away while owners

JOHXSTOWX,

Pa

—Flood waters rag

half of Johnstown re

today

while state o

here f r o m Harrisbu

charge

of the

grave

since

1SS9 when 2

drowned in a flood.

Police estimated

20 had been drow

authentic casualty

impossible.

Police believe tha

persons marooned

night in the two mil

that

had

been inun

depth of 18

feet'

h

cued. Approximatel

gees had been taken

camps and

private

h

(.No.

1.

continued

Winter's March Encore

Ties

U p

Tra ffic,—

Highways Choked

B y

Sno wdrifts,

B us

Passengers

And

Tour ists Marooned

Here

Winter's

March

encore,

which j sutned however, at noon today, it

swept this section w i t h

a

two-day

i was

reported

at the bus

o ffic e

swirl of wind and snow thst broke • here. It was the first time the

new

ing

season, produced

a general , evening,

traffic

tieup the

l i k e

of which has

,

Work All

Xigbt

not been experienced here in many

.

Approximately 50 men of the

an d which dwarfed to

in-

i

„_ ranee even the travel Alt-[

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