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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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