The Brownsville Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 220, Ed. 2 Friday, March 20, 1936 Page: 3 of 10
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Panic and Desperation
Adds New Problems
In Districts Struck
By Surging Waters
By FEED VANDERSCHMIDT
(Copyt 193$ by The A. P.)
Panic and desperation built new
and grave problems Friday for the
civil and military authorities of
the eastern states struggling amid
still-rising flood waters which left
miserable homeless by the hundred
thousands an estimated $225000-
000 in property damage and at least
i 153 dead.
In New England in the Ohio
Valley through Pennsylvania. New
York and the rich region of the
Potomac the floods raced on. sub-
merging industrial cities ousting
householders spreading ruin.
The federal government with
President Roosevelt directing the
disaster-fighting forces considered
pouring nearly $400000000 into the
twelve-state area to aid flood suf-
ferers and to check such disasters
In future years.
Militia on Watch
Militia and police fingering guns
and clubs patrolled Springfield
Northampton and Lowell Mass
against threatened outbreaks of
looting.
A new Connecticut river crest
menaced Hartford and other cities
already hit by the waters. At Lowell
and elsewhere citizens fled before
the angry Merrimack.
National guardsmen were called
to calm a panicky crowd near
Lewiston. Maine which heard false
feports that the Gulf Island dam
above the city liad collapsed. Sev-
eral persons were hurt.
Flood veterans of the debris-filled
Ohio battened down In Marietta.
Ohio and other cities to await the
great crest which left seventeen
dead or more in the Wheeling-
Martin's Ferry area and routed up-
wards of 20.000 persons from their
homes. The river rolled out of
Wheeling. leaving misery and
desolation.
Pittsburgh tolling against almost
impossible odds to clean up the
teeming steel city saw Its death list
Increased to forty-five and worried
over threats of disease and water
shortage. Food was plentiful how-
ever.
Johnstown Pa. historic flood
town where the present inundation
first struck housed 553 ill and
destitute refugees of the Cqpemaugh
river rampage in a hilltop dance
hall. There were three births in
the building.
Conditions described as •‘terrible'
by one Red Cross chairman pre-
vailed at Willtamstown. Pa. in the
regipn laid waste by the Susque-
hanna. This and other east-central
Pennsylvania cities could not even
count their actual dead or loss in
property.
Washington Spared
The swollen Potomac jaupeo »e*
luctantly beck from Washington
leaving a battered waterfront.
$250000 damage hundreds of home-
less. But it spared such national
landmarks as the Washington
monument It may have damaged
the famous Japanese cherry trees
which line the tidal basin.
Elsewhere along the potomac
grave after-flood conditions pre-
vailed. Sand bag dikes at Rich-
mond held tight against a record
crest of the James river. North
Carolina highways choked by huge
snowdrifts were opened.
pt the damage western Pennsyl-
vania apparently had the top figure
of more than $100000000. New Eng-
land and eastern Pennsylvania each
added $50000000 more at unoffi-
cial conservative estimates.
Armed national guardsmen patrol-
led debris-filled streets of Spring-
field. Northampton and Lowell.
Mass. and Windsor. BratLleboro
Bennington and Bellows Falls Vt.
Bloated with melting snows and
steady rains the Connecticut reach-
ed a flood stage of thirty-five feet at
Hartford six feet above the previous
record.
While the main business and the
residential sections were above
water the entire city suffered from
curtailed light and telephone ser-
vice.
Several persons were injured at
Lewiston. Me. when a panic-
stricken crowd stampeded on hear-
ing a false rumor that a dam above
the city had broken. The national
guard was called out.
Ohlo-Wtst Virginia
The Ohio continuing its ram-
page. struck Marietta. O. but
hastily constructed ramparts with-
stood the first onslaught.
Water swirled five and six feet
dee pthrough the main business
section rising more than two inches
an hour. Rain forecast for most oi
Ohio would force the flooding
waters even higher weather offi-
cials warned.
As the headwaters tore south
tossing aside bridges and dams
medical authorities strove to pre-
vent the spread of disease epidemics
in its debris-strewn wake
At Wheeling. West Va.. the waters
slowly sank back to their course
after piling up to a flfty-five-ioot
height during the night of terror for
the residents of the steel-coal city
On Wheeling Island in the middle
oL the river residents fled homes
wft the murky torrents even with
third-story windows.
Rehabilitation work was shelved
temporarily as officials and civilians
scraped away debris searching for
the dead
Pennsylvania
Disease and fears of water short-
age rode the wake of the torrents
which gradually fell away from
Pittsburgh.
Hourly the death toll mounted
as rescue workers waded through
silt-slaked streets raking for bodies
Fires and explosions as well as
drownings caused many deaths
authorities said.
The populace which had seen
£ Its gity floating under eighteen feet
■of water took hope as the weather
bureau forecast that by noon the
‘WIFE VERSUS SECRETARY’
Myma Loy co-starred with Clark Gable and Jean Harlow In “Wife
Versus Secretary” showing Friday and Saturday at the Arcadia Thea-
tre In Harlingen and Saturday Midnlte Preview and Sunday Monday
at the Rlvoli Theatre In San Benito.
water level would be twenty feet
below that of Tuesday night's crest
The city’s “Golden Triangle"
business section was drained of
water Friday morning and electric
light service was partially restored.
In eastern and central parts of
the state damage and death toll
mounted as the waters receded.
At Wilkes-Barre the water drop-
ped a foot before dawn.
The first reports from Isolated
Williamsport came from C. Arthur
Bullock Bradford county Red Cross
chairman who described the condi-
tions as "horrible.”
Further upstream militia helped
residents shovel muck from their
homes as vandals were driven off at
rifle-point.
Virtually all Sunbury was still un-
der water with the threat of dis-
ease stalking the receding flood.
Johnstown with fifteen dead and
5.000 homeless used a dance hall
for a makeshift hospital. It housed
653 persons ill or destitute. New
life came there. In the midst of
misery. Three babies were born in
the dance nail.
Food and medical supplies were
plentiful.
In New York State
Typhoid serum was rushed to
Binghamton where the water sup-
ply was crippled and many of the
state's 4.0 0 homeless were situated.
Binghamton schools remained closed.
Central New York was the scene
of the newest flood menace with
water from two of the Finger lakes
threatening Ithaca. Auburn and
other communities.
The Chanango. Susquehanna and
Hudson nvers were receding.
New Women’s Shop to
Open at San Benito
(Special to The Herald)
SAN BENITO. March 20—Formal
opening of the Valley's newest ladies'
ready-to-wear establishment. Duna-
gin’s. Smart Things for Women will
be held Saturday at 171 N. Sam
Houston Blvd.
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Dunagin. for-
merly of Dallas recently opened the
shop featuring frocks hosiery lin-
gerie. handkerchiefs bags novelties
sport clothe* and many other Items
of special appeal to women.
Everything about the shop is new.
It is a new business for the Valley
in a new location with new stocks
and new styles.
The shop has been open for sev-
eral weeks but a complete supply of
Easter and other spring things is
now on hand so that visitors at the
opening will be rewarded for their
trouble in coming to the store.
An arrangement entirely different
from the usual one has been em-
ployed in displaying merchandise.
Dresses and rather stock are display-
ed under awnings a decorative
scheme suggestive of Valley beaches
has been worked out. Window dis-
plays are changed daily.
Brownsville Teacher
Is Rotary Speaker
SAN BENITO March 20-Miss
Grace Edman of the social science
department of Brownsville Junior
college spoke to the Rotary club
Thursday at the Stonewall Jack
son hotel on the origin and history 1
of great constitutions.
Visiting Rotarlans included J. K
England W. H. Trammell. Dr.
Charles K. Chandler. E. C. (Jack)
Watson Lloyd H. Thompson Ben P.
Barnes and Walter Seale all of
Harlingen; D. D. Oensemer. Massil-
lon. Ohio; Phil Braun. Wilmette Ill-
Joe Jordan. Brownsville.
Guests included Mrs. Jordan and
Mrs. Pauline Landrum Goode of
Brownsville. Boy Scout Buddy
Breedlove and Mrs. Charles E. Bar-
ber.
Daughter Is Born
(Special to The Herald)
SAN BENITO. March 20 —Mr and
Mrs. p. W. Runnels are the parents
of a girl born Wednesday at the
Valley Baptist hospital. Harlingen.
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Plan American In Every
Respect Santa Rosa
Group Told
S (Special to The Herald)
SANTA ROSA March 20. — The
principal speaker Thursday night
for the Santa Ross and vicinity
Townsendltes waa Dr. Osrl E. Lunn.
Weslaco. 15th district congressional
Townsend dubs.
Dr. Lunn said that the Town-
send plan of recovery Is ss Amer-
ican as an eight-hour day. aa he
defied the reporta that the plan waa
of communistic origin. The "father
of the plan” is a descendant of
the Townsend* of Revolutionary
days he added. No matter what a
person's station In life is he will
benefit from the plan; the plan la
the most humanistic ever worked;
and worked out by one who waa
concerned witV the welfare of hit
fellow men. the sneaker claimed.
N. O. Cofer. who was scheduled
to speak was unable to be present.
Music was furnished by the Town-
send Old Time String band playing
and singing several numbers. It
waa announced that Dean Pickle
radio singer would sing at a Town-
send meeting to be sponsored by
the Weslaco club to be held Friday.
Dr. Lunn also announced the
Townsend play “Dreamers Tri-
umphant’* produced by the Pharr-
San Juan-Alamo club will be pres-
ented by the Weslaco unit on Fri-
day March 27.
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Edinburg Group To
Make Good Will Trip
EDINBURG. March JO — The
first good-will trip of the year
under the sponsorship of the cham-
ber of commerce. Is scheduled for
Saturday afternoon when a large
delegation will journey to the Mc-
Cook community one of the richest
agricultural sections in the upper
Valley.
The delegation according to Man-
ager Arthur Teele of tiie chamber of
commerce will of one of the largest
ever to make such a trip. A barbecue
will be tendered those making the
trip at S p. m. near the McCook
schoolhouse. .
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