Evening Star Newspaper, July 29, 1935, Page 6

MANY HOMELESS | | Several Dead—Lancaster Partly Under ’ Water. Logan Isolated. By the Associated Press. LOGAN, Ohio, July 29.—Raging flood waters, the worst here .in 22 years, cut a path of death and de- | wtruction through the Hocking River | Valley today. ¢ Three hundred persons were home- Jess at Lancaster, 18 wiles north of ‘where the surging waters swept five houses and 1esuited in the Leath of one man and injuries to at Jeast & half dozen other persons. Streams. swollen by a terriffia rain- ptorm yesterday, contilued to, pour | dnto the Hocking River, which washed | $hrough lowlands, carrying live stock | @nd small butldings oa its crest: . § Pamilies evacuated homes in low | Mistricts here and throughout the area southward as warnings went | put. ! With the water rising at Lancaster | At the rate of three-quarters of A Toot an hour early loday. residents | in this area feared a flooc even worse than in 1913, the most severe in his- tory. At Rock Ridge, seven miles north, | water flowed into houses and the river #tage already was up to tac 1913 peak. Near there a man identifled by Sherift Joe Farbeann as Claude Car- | ‘penter, Lancaster grocer, drowned; after he and 30 other motorists were | marooned on State route 31. Carpen- | ter was trying to escape in a boat. 3 A wall of water 5 feet high de- zcended on Laneaster a few hours after 2! inches of rain fell through- | out South-Central Ohio. - Streams al- | ready were swollen from 10 days of | intermittent hard rains. Water cov- ered the east and wesc sections of | the city, but the -business section, on high ground, was unaffected. Mr. and Mrs. William Johnson and | their three children barely escaped from their home befor= it was crushed ‘by the water. Police and firemen in canoes and rowboats reported rescu- ing more than 100 persons from houses. . Safety Director Adolply Raab esti- mated the damage & Lancaster at $200,000. Two main highway bridges | and 28 other couniy -road timber bridges were washed out ln Fairfield County. Vera Dietrich, 15. narrowly escaped death at Lancaster when she was caught in_the onrush of water. Al-| bert Ke]l}’. 16, jumped in and pulled her to the side of a baiding, where Richard Byers swam to them with a rope. Kelly lost his hold and was cut | severely when the current carried him | through the window of a house. | Logan was nearly isolated, the flood | cutting off traffic to the east, north | and west. State route 31, the main artery into SBouthwestern Ohio, was cut off in| numerous places by water between here and Columbus. 8o quickly did the water rise that | residents in the flood area north of here were able to salvage but few belongings before fleeing to higher ground. ——— PENNSYLVANIAN HEADS 29TH DIVISION GROUP W. E. Black of Ardmore Chosen Successor to Baltimore Man as Commander. By the Associated Press. CAPE MAY, N. J,, July 29.—Walter E. Black of Ardmore, Pa.. was elected commander of the 28th Division As- sociation at the closing session yester- day of the organizailion’s three-day convention. Black succeeds James W. ! Burns | of Baltimore. A .resolution -demanding that Con- gress pay all veterans $30 a month for life was tabled after a long debate. Other officers elected included: Vice president, John B. Brown, Norfolk, Vs. It was décided to Lold next year's convention in Richmond, Va. e ——————— Goodrich Golden Ply Silver- towns Are Sold by Allen’s Service 4th St. and New York Ave. N.W, Automotive Service Station 15th and Church Sts. N.W. Bowman’s Service Station 3101 Nicheols Ave. S.E. Barry-Pate Metor Co. 1130 Cenn. Ave. Blair Road Service Station 6429 Blair Road N.W. Camp Meigs Filling Station 4th and Fla. Ave. N.E. Dome Oil Co. 6925 Blair Rd. Donohoe Chevrolet Co. 1620 M St. N.W. R. G. Dunne & Co. 600 H St. NE. Englesberg Tire & Bat. Service © . 1783-Fla. Ave. NW. Ennis Tire Co. 1324 14th St. N.W, C. F. 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On the open hearth, high over the foundry floor, men toiled in the flerce | whife light, breaking an opening in a stationary crucible 40 send 20 tons o( P ————— molten steel cascading into a portable drinks ladle. of the metal, was itself a flery furnace | as it swung from the traveling crane to empty into the ingot molds. One of the hottest” jobs is clesning the crucible of fiery slag and other | impurities after the steel has been poured. Both open hearth and electric furnaces are in operation as Uncle Sam rushes production on his big Navy guns. Their purifying heat makes | | men as well as guns. Few prostrations occur in the steel foundry. ‘Thé-man on the street might get a measure of relief, when the sun bears down, and neither shade or eoollnl ~rStar Staff Photo, - it Landmark Destroyed. 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Goodrich Co suffice, by thinking of the | tellows who hold down the hottest joq This ladle, lined with firebrick and | in Washington, and seem to like it! preheated to match the tempentun‘ == D. € IN “sivAnr" SLAYING| Mps. imyn Smith Leaves New | “York by Plane to Face “*Chicago Charge: . . By the Assoelated Press, NEW YORK, July 20.—Mrs. Evelyn 8mith, 46, secused in the slaying at | Chicago of Ervin Lang, waived ex- tradition today before Supfeme. Court Justice Meler Sternbrink in. Brooklyn and left in custody of Chicago detec- tives for Newark Airport to ‘fly to Chicago. ¥ Justice Stetnbrink signed the order on which Detective Lieut. Otto Ernal- son and Assistant State’s Attorney Roy Arnold were ‘to take the pm out of the State. Earlier Mrs. Smith denied in police line-up that she participated in Lang’s murder, ; 2 Mrs. Blanche Dunkel of Chicago, mother-in-law of the man whose dis- membered body was found in & swamp near Hammond, Ind., declares Mrs. Smith reported the killing to her, ac- cording to the district attorney’s office at Chicago. Mrs. Dunkel gives the date of Mrs. Smith's alleged report of the killing as July 10. BEER 50 CENTS AN HOUR NOT CHEAP IN TEXAS| Only Guzzler Can Make Deal Pay, With Regular Price 10 Cents Per 24-Ounce Stein. By the Associated Press. DALLAS, Tex., July 29.—The price of beer was cut to 60 cents an hour here yesterday. A saloon 'ered “all you can drink™ for that price. But it took a real beer guzzler to come out ahead on the deal. beer offered retails regularly at 10 cents for a 24-ounce stein, so that the drinker must gulp considerably more than a gallon an hour to show & profit, The | TRUCKS AND TO HAUL HEAVY LOADS ON FAST SCHEDULES AT LOWER COST MONDAY, JULY 29, S5l {EXTRADITION WAIVED|, Cleans Up City ¢ STUDENT cnvns SHAKE-UP AT ST. PAUL. WALLACE JAMIE. When Attorney General Cum- mings designated St. Paul, Minn,, as the “poison spot of crime” Jamie, 27, crime student, asked permission to watch a police force in action. With the knowledge he had obtained at the University of Chicago and Northwestern Univer- sity crime schools he brought into use & number of devices of his own invention. Through a monitor sys- tem he tapped all telephone wires in the Public Safety Building and rigged up an instrument to record conversations of police officials. Inside of lamps and telephones he inserted microphones connected to his own office and recording ma- chine. The greatest shake-up in St. Paul's turbulent police history occurred result, and now he has been named deputy commis- sioner of public safety by H. E. ‘Warren, commissioner. —Wide World Photo. You can count on EVERY truck owner has his own idea of “per- formance,” “reliability” and “economy.” Such words have a different meaning for the long- distance hauler than they have for the comer grocer or the neighborhood florist. Yet... owners in practically everyline of business are enthusiastic in their praise of V-8 Performance, V-8 Reliabili and V-8 Economy . . . though they view these advantages from mdoly different angles. A motor-freight company writes to tell ol the economy of the Ford V-8 Truck in hauling heavy loads on long trips at high speeds. 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