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DESPERATION GRIP VICTIMS WATCH THE FLOODS THE JOURNAL is the only paper in St'. Lawrence County having As- sociated Press •wire service. Head the facts—see the pictures. ®$m$bm§ §®m WEATHER Cloudy, probably snow tonight and Saturday; slightly colder in northeast portion, tonight, and in extreme east portion Saturday, Journal tetabHsned 185? \Itepublican Established. 183Q OGDENSBURG. N. Y., FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1936 PRICE THREE CENTS Study New Peace Plan International Conference Is Proposed To Lay New Peace Foundation SUGGESTION IS STUDIED Cabinets Of Britain, France Dispatch New Deal Plans to Parliaments By CHARLES P. NUTTER Copyright, 1936, by the Associated Eress London •<- The cabinets of Great Britain and France, supporting the four-power Lo- carno proposals for a way out of the Rhineland impasse, dis- patched the suggestions for a v European political new^ deal to their parliaments today ior ! formal approval. Government heads started plans for laying the foundations for a new order of peace for Europe in jjin- international conference \which they hoped would be held next. May, either in London, Brussels or Geneva. Leaders Hopeful There, they hoped, Germany •would discuss its military, finan- cial and economic problems -with the other European nations. A meeting of the League of Na- tions conciliation committee of 13, originally 'called for today to con- sider the ; Italo-Ethiopian conflict, wis postponed until tomorrow. A private session of the League Council, set for this Afternoon, also was delayed nv&il after foreign Secretary Anthony Eden's; address late - todiy „ta.thes,House pf.Gom- \mons on-.the proposals -for set- tlement of *he Khineland situ- ation. . .,_ _J. * At the same time, the states- men sitting in the. League of Na- tions council turned their atten- tion to another problem—thfe Italo- EtWopian conflict-toeing called to ho# a session as the league's con- ciliation, committee of 13. Prime Minister Stanley Bald- win's cabinet last night, approved the text b£ the plan for a new Lo- carno and' arranged to make a full statement to the'House of. Com- mons today- *_,.-• Foreign Minister Pierre-Etienne Flandin also reported the , four- power accord to Premier Albert Sarraut's ~rhinistry at Paris last night and won -strong support for presentation of the proposals to- day to the Chamber of Deputies. The Italian and Belgian diplo- mats, submitted the plan to their governments, while the text of the draft proposals was received by the German delegation today and was stud&d immediately- by Joa- chim Von Bibpentrop,,, Adolf Hit- ler's afhibassadof-at-large. • STUDENT UNION IS BANNED ATSYRACUSE Syracuse-^ (AP)--Syracuse Uni- versity refused today to permit the- American Student Union to es- tablish a Chapter here. In a brief statement, Vice Chancellor Wil- liam P. Graham \declared that the students senate already has organ- ized a campus peace organization, / making? a similar group unneces- •j'sary. His decision followed a state- •irnehl by a student union organizer fthat the group woula support a na- ftion-wide \peace strike\ Apr. 22. The damaging floods that have menaced H of the northeastern states have centered their greatest destruction on the area, covered by this map. Splitby the Allegheny Range that -crosses Pennsylvanbu north and south, the swelling streams have dividedthe course of the floodwaters eastward/dowxu the valleys, of the Cumberland and Potomac, and westward down the Ohio River. With water*.continuing to rise, inhabitants along the lower Ohio, as far as LouiSYille, havs been warned to abandon the lower districts. Turn to Page 11 picture* TWO SLAIN IN BANK HOLDUP Bloomingdale, Jnd. — CAP) — Wood Carter, assistant cashier, and an unidentified bandit were shot and killed rn^a gunjight dur- ing the holdup oY the Bank of Bloomingdale today. Carter was ambushed by the bandits when he arrived at the bank this morning. Police said the holdup men ap- parently were hidden in the bank, having obtained entrance during the night. The bodies of Wood and the uni- dentified man were found by Leon- idas J. Brown, cashier. As far as .known there were no witnesses to the shooting. Worcester, N.-Y.—(AP>—An out- break of scarlet fever'closed the Central School\ today. Dr. P. E Bolt, health officer, aid 22 of the 350 pupils have the disease in mild form- Closing of the school for ten days will eliminate the Easter vacation, he added. LAYS AIL NIGHT IN BED OF CREEK Milliners belong' to ^the tribe yhoss, vCfiiefi,interest- is head* dress, 1 Officials Fear Typhoid Epidemic at Biiighatiiton; Serum Rushed to City Red Cross Hurries Aid—WPA Copperating-^4,p00 Are Left Homeless' By Flood Water*—Housewives Instructed To Boil AU Drinking Water Hornell— (AP) — Fred Amidon, 63, of Arkport, fractured his leg and lay all night in a creek bed until aid arrived. He was brought to a hospital here, where his con- dition was said to be-critical from exposure. THREE STEAMERS DOCK AT ALBANY Albany—(AP)— Three steamers docked at the port of Albany last night, opening its season in the midst of a flood. They were the Timber Rush from Portland, Ore with lumber? the British grain ship Gullpoll and the San Marcos of the Quaker Line. LINEMAN IS INJURED IN FALL FROM POLE Hornell—(AP)—Guy Comes, 39, lineman who was repairing some of the miles of wires down here, fell 30 feet from a pole last night. He was taken to St. Mercy hospi- tal, where physicians said he has a possible back fracture. JURY FOREMAN IS RESCUED INROOD Green Island-^CAfP)—Friends in a row-boat rescued John P. Weh- meyer from his water-surrounded home in time to complete his du- ties as foreman of a jury consid- ering four suits for $326,000 against the city of Albany. Supreme Court Justice Fierce H. Russell was un- able to travel from Troy to Al- bany in time to avoid a mistrial in another action for $10,000. By BEK WBCKER$HL*Jf Associated Press Staff Writer Binghamton— (AP) — Health officials rushed typhoid serum here today as, a precaution-; against an epidemic resulting from floods that crippled the wafer supply. Bed Cross officials mobilised. - relief forces to, feed, clothe and shelter 4,000 homeless flood sufferers throughout New York State. Inspect Milk Sources The WPA and Salvation Army; cooperated m furnishing, Buppliesir State sanitarians inspected milk sources. Housewives boiled drinking.*wa^ ter in communities where supplies were damaged under orders » of state and- local health officials. The\ WPA said-all streets •and'*cel- lars where there was danger:of disease would be disinfected. Meanwhile the center of flood, menace shifted from the south- . ern,tier to Central New-York.', Cayuga, and Owasco of the Fin- ger Lakes continued to -'rise*, threatening Auburn, Ithaca /, and' other communities. rt Only one drowning has been official- ly reported. One man . drowned;'' In a flood* backwash •neiWEl-t*' mira. Reports of. another/ drowning at Waterf ord * could \ not he .confirmed and were later discredited. • •- < Both the. Chenango .and Susque~ hanna Rivers dropped*' twoV^feet here from'the flood crest reached two days ago. The Hudsoh'receded slowly, bringing relief ,<to*Altoany, Troy and other flooded 1 .cities^ . Industrial wells • were: • tapped and firemen were assigned; to*;24- hour duty as Binghamton .con- tinued on short water, rations. FJre? hoses connected Binghamton water mains with hydrants in '-Johnson City. City Manager C. A. Harrell said reconditioning of ' flood-soaked pumps would start as soon as the water dropped below the pump sta- tion floor. The water shortage -will continue at least until tomorrow, he added. Schools Remain,Closed Schools remained closed and Will be used as long as , necessary* to house the homeless, officials said. Physicians watched for signs of illness at refuge centers. City Health .Officer C. J. Long- street said there was no real danger\ of an epidemic North of Binghamton the sit- uation emained serious in many communities. - Water mains were broken In Nor- wich, but firemen pumped a temporary supply for - fire protection' from the filtration plant across the Chenango River. Nichols in Tioga County lacked water, heat, light or\ telephones. Motorboats conveyed physicians about the village. 7 Escape Browning Seven highway workers narrow- ly escaped drowning in Bingham- ton's turbulent flood waters when their boat capsized. Three swam ashore and a boat picked up others. ' —y'-r --» - Tha-soul*: aide Of *& city re- mained isolated as water contin- ued-to flow through large areas, despite the *Iroj> in the river, lev- els. '..,\ Broome County Sheriff A. * B. Thatcher mobilized deputies ' to prevent looting of flooded homes and cottages. In, the Albany district, <the Hud- son River slowly receded and hun- dred?! of persons began*to .return tofhastily evacuated homes, in : \Al- bany, Troy, Watervliet, '-.Rensse- laer,'Waterf ord, Green Island and Cohoes.. •\ tyater still covered streets in Albany .\at itoe foot of Capitoi^Hlll. -Governor Lehman said reports from-state police and other state agencies Indicated \the situation is improving.\ Sidelights 0f Flood Where Disaster Struck Over Vast Area ^tLeaSt \ 53 De^In 11 StateS Damage Soars to $225,000,000 200,000 HOMELESS; GOVERNMENT TO AID Federal, »Ute and local governments are working desperately to save human lives and property in the vast area where raging rivers have flo<**ed eleven states. The death, toll'is stesWRIy mounting as rescue, work continues. Millions of dollars worth of damage,has been done already. • , The situation in the east .today. was: OHIO-WEST VIRGINIA Marietta—The Ohio, continuing it« rampage,, struck 1 Marietta, O,, but hastily constructed ramparts withstood the first onslaught Water swjrled' five and six Met deep through the main business section, rising more.than two inches an hour. Rain, forecast for most of Ohio, would force the flooding waters even higher, weather., officials warned. * ' ' ' '•' f '-;' Wheeling, West Va.-T-The waters slowly sank back to their course after piling up t o a 55-foot-height dur- ing the night of terror for the residents of the »teel-co»l city. Rehabilitation work was shelved temporarily as' offi- cials and civilians scraped away debris searching for the\ dead. . • PENNSYLVANIA ... / • Pittsburgh—Disease and fears of water shortage rode „ the wake of the torrents which gradually ( fejl 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 stunned populace which had seen ita city floating under 18 feet'of water took hope. as the weather* bureau forecast that by noon the water level would be 20 below that of Tuesday'night's\cresV Johnstown—With 15 dead and 5,000 homeleW,Johns- town used a dance hall for a makeshift hospital. It housed 653 persons, ill or destitute, Hew-life came there, in the *nidit df misery. HireeiaWe* wmifot* ft th^sWehall —tF^od and n^edical supplies Were plentiful.r-^£2lir i*^ - % Biafhamtoo—^Typhoid serum was Tuahed-to Bingham-' tah>^vhere the water supply was crippled andmahy of. the state's 4,000 homeless were situated; Bmghlamtbjn.achoola remajned closed. Central New York was\ the scene'of the l»\ ' hewest flood menace, with Water from two • of< the finger * lak'eS threatening Ithaca, Auburn and other communities. ~ . ALQNGTHE POTOMAC. , , • Washington—Before it receded slowly from Washing-_ ton, 4 the Potomac left 120 families homeless,, a quarter million dollars damage, flooded streets, smashed boats and water-swept airports. Waterfront cottages were -washed away as the waters spread to the half-mile dike thrown up'near thfe navy and munitions building* • ' • * THEISOUTH Richmond—Behind a. chain of sand bag dikes, Rich- ^-mpnd,iyon its fight with the 28-foot.crest of the Janies- . River. Gas, turned off with the exhaustion, of emergency 'tanks, .was to be available shortly,, South RiGhmond r across' ', the.river and without sand bag walls, had flooded manu- . factoring and residential districts. •,' '- • CONNECTICUT' „ , Hartford—r-The flood-swollen Connecticut r River surged, toward a new crest today, gouging a wide trail of . destruction through the center\ of New England.\ The ', onrushing waters crippled Hartford «nd its.suburl?s.»fter striking atJSpringfield and Northampton, Mass*, and : pthef upstream communities. \ .' - ,, , ' ^ : . NEW ENGLAND ? ^Spnogfield- 1 -—Armed National < Guardsmen . patrolled r debris-fijled streets of Springfield, Northampton arid'Low- elk Mass., and Windsor,\ Bratdebbro,; Bennington, and 5 Bellows Falls, Vt. Bloated with melting shows and steady * rains,^^' Connecticut reached, a. flood stage of 35- feet^at Haifford^fix feet above the 1927 tecord. i •• ' Beaton—Guns and clubs i n the hands of military forces and'police f restrained threatened outbreaks of looting in three ^heavily-populated cities today while New England's i flood-conditions gxew.steadi' 'By The Associated Press New -\rork—Spring arrived to- dsy 1 -to-find- much' of the eastern area ,of ^the^TJnlted States devas- tated' by'floods. Astronomers eay the - exact '.time that winter be- comes^sprlng is 1:58 p.m; east- ern- standard time. .- Boscawen, N.H.—Twenty prize cattlfeispentilihe night-in the bed- rooms on the second floor of the home ;*of; Parmer J. Ralph Gra- ham. Binxbamion — A. visitor from New York,- taking an elevator to his tenth floor hotel room, re- marked, \Ifcis Is the life — for weeks I have been climbing stairs because • of an elevator strike.\ The next time he had to walk up. The' hotel elevators stoped run- ning' because of the flood, Wheellns;—It was Illegal to light matches In some parts of down- town Wheeling today. Fumes were escaping from flooded gaso- line tanks and officials feared even a small flame might cause an explosion. Syracuse Menaced Syracuse—(AP) — Flood waters inundating large sections of ' Central New York swept. toward Syra- cuse today. State Engi- neers warned that an in- crease of 11,000 cuWo feet of water a second was rusing north from the fin- ger lakes region toward Onondaga Lake and the Oswego Biver.\ Death Stacks States By nttD^VANDERSCHMlDT (Copyritht,*1936,;Tfie Associated Press) Panic and desperatJonJbuilt -lewand grave problems today for the civil and military.autporiSeVof the Eastern states, strug- gling amid still-rising- flood^waters ,'which left.-.miserable home- less by the.,hundred thousands,' an estimated $225,000,000 in property damage and at least'153*dpad. •' • In Nfew England,. in 'the Ohio Valley,' through Pennsylvania, New York and the rich, region-of ^thejPotcjmao the floods raced on, submerging industrial'citie^, ousting householders, spreading y Worse. Pittsburgh Deaths Rise Copyright, 1936, by the Associated Press Pittsburgh—Flood deatihs in this steel metropolis mounted sudden- ly to 45 today as thousands of workers, worrie'd by -threats of dis- ease, and water shortage, began cleaning up debris-laden streets and buildings. rum. » Agencies Mobilize Binghamton — (AP) — The Red Cross and other relief agencies mobilized throughout New York State today to help feed, clothe and shelter iiious- ands of persons driven tempor- arily from' their homes \by floods. Homes Are t 100 Men Marooned (Copyright, 1936, by the Associated Press) Wheeling, W. Va. — The Ohk River's deatti dealing, ilood water; rolled out of the stricken Wheeling industrial valley today, leaving a.' 'least 17 persons reported deac and thousands homeless. The cresi of the muddy waters surged south ward toward Marietta, O., carry ing with it a tabernacle, 1 uncount- ed homes, fouUdings and automo- biles. Harrishurg, Pa.—There will be no excessive convivality in Penn- sylvania until the flood situation eases. Governor George H. Earle ordered all state liquor stores to close during the emergency. Springfield, Mass. — A ten-inch sucker fish popped out of the plumbing in the basement of a downtown ^store and swam around in two feet of water covering the floor. Storrs, Conn.—Connecticut State College co-eds who invited boy friends from back home to the for- mal dance tonight may have to the.find last minute escorts because of disrupted transportation. , , New. Deal ( Ready to Aid The New Deal,, with' President Roosevelt directing the { .disaster-fighting forces, considered pouring nearly $400, 000,000' into the 12-sUte area' to aid flood sufferers and ,\to check such disasters in future years. *\ *~ , ' The. militia and' police, .lingering guns and clubs,- pat- rolled Springfield, Northampton and Lowell, Mass., against threatetaecl'outbreaks of looting.*--* \> '• A JNew-Connecticiut river crest' menaced .Hartford and other cities already hit by the waters. > At Lowell and elsewhere citi- zens fled before the angry Merrimack. National Guardsmen were' called to calm a panicky crowd near Lewistoh,. Maine, which ifeard false reports-that the Gulf Island dam above the- city h&d collapsed. Several persons were hurt. . . r ; • : • Flood ; veterans of *the \debriefilled Ohio battened down in Marietta, 0hio, and other .-cities^to await the great crest which left 1 7 dead or more in the'Wheeling-Martihs Ferry area and routed upwards bf 20,000, persons from' their homes. The river rolled out of Wheeling, leaving misery and desolation. Pittsburgh Death List Mounts Pittsburgh, toillihg against almost impossible odds to clean up the teeming steel city, saw its death list increased to 45 and worried over threats of disease and water shortage. Food was plentiful, however. •»!•-., Johnstown, Pa./historic flood town where the present inundation first struck, housed, 653 ill and destitute refugees of the Conernaugn River rampage in a hilltop • dance, hall.. Three were born in the building. Conditions'described as * \terrible\ by one Red Cross chair- man prevailed at Wijliamsport, Pa„ in the region laid waste by the.madcap Susquehanna. - This and other East-Central Pen- nsylvania cities could not even count their actual dead or loss in property, in ' '•'.'.. ; ' '- -i • . \ ,,.,,.. f . Damage. Heavy Along Potomac ..-1 • . | l^*^^l^«ca^f-i!a«» The swollen Potomac lapped reluctantly back from Wash- \ MMXj\sMJXsf31\5 1 irigton, leavihg % |>att«red,waterfront, $.250,000 damage, huri- dreds of hornelesT. But it spared such/national landmarks as the Washington M6nument.> It may have damaged the famous Japanese cherry tirees which line the tidal basin. Elsewhere* along the Potomac, grave after-flood conditions Hartford, Conn. — (AP)'-~ The South Meadow power plant of the Hartford Electric Light Company, which adjoins the airport, was sur- rounded by water. About 100 men were marooned there. \Food was brought in by boat, but even this' means of transportation was given up after water topped the dike. Hartford's principal business and residential areas were well above' water, but the flood crip- pled the entire city. The Hartford Electric Light Company and the Southern New England Telephone Company struggled unsuccessfully to maintain complete service. Street lights failed early last night, and a short circuit at one of the power company's sub-sta- tions left a section of the city] wholly without power •\--\-•- service was maintained The city's four hosplta\> resorted] , , ,, . . «, to emergency lighting systems. I choked by huge awnowdntts. were open. jTrip South Washington — (AP) —- Presiden Roosevelt today postponed ior a least another 21 hours, his trip, tc Horida an. order to check; on flow developments, from -the Whitt House. Storms Hit Trolley j prevailed. Sand bag dikes at RuScmond held tight against a m PMU,^^ crc8t 0 f the James River. North Caroliha highways, ••• Jo - J -^-~—-— » ! - Rochester—(AP)—Two inches o snow in the Bochester\ area ant rain\ generally throughout -; *h« southern tier today added to th< arduous task of restoring powe aha\ cbminuDication'faoilitles to *i area virtually isolated by wide spread, sleefr Storms. ^ ' , *i<
