Hidden Causes For Floods And How To Tame Rivers
A report cites H H Bennett of the Soil Conservation Service and Dr John P Jones on flood causes and erosion control. They argue floods stem from land use and suggest that watershed erosion management, grass and tree cover, reduces runoff and flood peaks, with measurable gains in pilot regions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. H. Bennett
Soil Conservation Service
United States Department of Agriculture
Bennett
John P. Jones
al Conservator
Pennsylvania
United States
Allegheny
Jones
New York
Fifty Candidates Out For Jobs On College Nine
About fifty men reported for the varsity baseball squad under Coach Paul H. Boyts as the season opened with equipment issues and indoor drills followed by outdoor practice. The coach warned replacements will be hard in the pitching and catching departments with last year’s key players gone, and he plans to shift several players to new positions as he builds a fresh lineup.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul H. Boyts
San
Ken Spay
Pennsylvania State Association
Edward Pooler
Kenny Greene
Greene
Heal
George Anderson
Eiver
Dwight Miller
Pare
Indiana
Eral
Chet Hoenstine
Keystone
Ich Boyts
Dowell
Vokes
Sam Hoensfine
Curtioff
Cherney
Groskles
Slick
Boyts
Censtine
Dinco
Kuzmiak
Car- Pip
Tuwnnbuil
Portsiders
Gragy
Jamison
Blank
Smith
Laney
Manly
County Basketball Preview Highlights Stewart Youths
County basketball features the Stewart team drawing attention for youthful talent and seasoned 20 year players. The pageant of action promises a competitive Methodist league clash with the sewer squad showing steady game contributions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stewart
Sewers
Eye Wrinkles From Strain Or Neglect Advice
Eye wrinkles stem from eyestrain or neglect says Alicia Hart. If you need glasses and refuse them, or skip eye cream at night, fine lines are your fault. See an eye doctor if reading tires you. buy flattering frames and hats to ease the look. Use rich eye cream at night and wash eyes daily. rinse with a safe solution if irritation occurs.
Train wreck injures enginemen and firemen near Manor
Train No. 36 en route from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia rear ended a freight near Manor around midnight. Mitchell was found beneath his leader’s coat with severe scalp trauma and burns. several passengers suffered minor injuries as day coaches were crushed. Doctor Prothero reported minimal passenger injuries despite heavy damage and a chaotic rescue. Groves recalled the crash as the locomotive struck the curve east of Mayor, with a loud thump as the freight passed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mitchell
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
Manor
Greensburg
Jeannette
Prothero
Groves
Mayor
Treaty costs U S A 90 000 during naval treaty quest
The United States expedition for a new naval treaty ends its four month run with total costs of 90000 dollars. 23 diplomats traveled round trip, with the official treaty copy remaining in London.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Albert W. Wilson
Associated
Southampton
England
United States
Claridge's Hotel
Buckingham Palace
Norman H. Davis
International Naval Conference
Britain
France
Washington
Paris
Japan
Italy
Great Britain
Rance
Belgium
Germany
Joachim von Ibbentrop
Rhineland
Soviet
Russia
Poland
Joseph Beck
Maxim Litvinoff
Mussolini
Salvador de Madariaga
League of Nations
Rome
Ethiopia
Madariaga
Haile Selassie
Addis Ababa
Train wreck details reveal injuries and rescue efforts
Eyewitness accounts describe a collision where an unknown object protruded from a train, triggering emergency brakes. Passengers recall water-like sensation and a fire in the wreck, as doctors and responders treat injured crew and passengers. H P Mishler escorted his mother’s casket from Cleveland to Montgomery county for burial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Snyder
H. P. Mishler
Colley Street
Cleveland
Mary Koons
Gratersford
Montgomery County
Mishler
Charles P. Snyder
Manor
George Evans
Jeannette
West Penn
Obituary of Mrs Willowson at 508 South Seventh Street
Harry B. Neal of 936 Church Street reports the obituary for Mrs Willowson, longtime Indiana Christian Church member. She died quietly with burial at Oakland Cemetery. Survived by husband Harvey R. Willowson and by relatives, she was noted for cheerfulness and helpfulness. The service will be led by Rev. Arthur J. Prohl at Zion Lutheran in the absence of a church minister.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry B. Neal
Church Street
Arthur J. Prohl
Zion Lutheran Church
Wll
Oakland Cemetery
Alexander S
Mary Ann (Ross
Willowson
The
Christian Church of Indiana
Harvey R. Willowson
South Seventh Street
Crow Funeral in Lucernemines Church
Mrs S L Crow of Lucernemines died unexpectedly in Rochester New York. Services will be at Homer City Methodist Church with burial in Greenwood Cemetery. The Rev Samuel Hill will officiate. The notice lists surviving relatives including daughter Roxie wife of Dr Harry B Neal and son Dr William Widdowson with several siblings and grandchildren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roxie
Harry B. Neal
William Widdowson
Philadelphia
Harry C
Escanaba
Mich
Rast B
Grinnell
Homer C
Marion Center
J. McMurray Thompson
Indiana
J. H. Morris
Punxsutawney
R. M. Sutton
Homer City
S. L. Crow
3. L. Crow
Lucernemines
Rochester
N. Y
Homer City Methodist Episcopal Church
Greenwood Cemetery
Samuel Hill
Saltsburg Water Status and Local Flood Relief Efforts
Saltsburg borough secretary R. S. McKelvey reported the town water supply from the reservoir is satisfactory with temporary chlorinator repairs working as expected. Relief continues for about a dozen waterfront families sheltered by friends. National scope flood relief includes plans for long range flood control and a $10 million allocation, with Red Cross reporting $2.53 million received for flood victims as Ohio and Mississippi basins face rising waters and widespread evacuations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saltsburg
R. S. McKelvey
McKelvey
Ohio
Wheeling
W. Wa
Marietta
Steubenville
Portsmouth
Louisville
Owensboro
Henderson County
Illinois
Mississippi
Cairo
New Madrid
la Crosse
Wis
Minnesota
Washington
National Resources Committee
Harry L. Hopkins
Red Cross
Pittsburgh
Golden Triangle
Floods drive relief efforts as Pittsburgh area reels
New rains swept the Olio watershed with flood reconstruction underway in Pittsburgh and neighboring cities. Rivers rose again while communities press for relief loans from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and flood control aid. Small businesses rally as mass donations and appeals mobilize.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Olio
Wheeling
Ohio
Uniontown
Connersville
Morgantown
Monongahela
Brownsville
Allegheny
Franklin
Parkers Landing
Freeport
Cornelius D. Scully
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Scully
Chamber of Commerce
Washington
St. Patrick's Day
Island
South
Fourteen Die in Mexico Passenger List of Fatal Crash
The disaster claimed fourteen lives including Prince Adolf Schaumburg Lippe and Princess Ellen Elisabeth Schaumburg Lippe among other passengers. Survivors and locals aided the scene near Amecameca as theories cited pilot error or motor trouble. The group had arrived in Vera Cruz March 20 aboard Iberia and left Mexico City for Guatemala before the crash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adolf Schaumburg-Lippe
Bueckenburg
Germany
Ellen-Elisabeth Schaumburg-Lippe
Siegmund von Stieber
Munich
Elmer von Rohonczy
Budapest
Hungary
Dora Thein
Bremen
Victoria Thein
Marie Margarethe Harder
Hamburg
Elisabeth Schroer
Dortmund
Liesbet Post
San Jose
Costa Rica
Igler
Leonardo Cordoba
Cordoba
Amecameca
Taxes May Be Pileges And Perhaps Bitter
Washington on March 27 House Ways and Means hearings begin on a new tax program with many organizations and individuals testifying. The Townsend old age pension probe drew attention as investigators sought income details for regional managers including Edward J. Margett of San Francisco. Patman signaled dropping an inflation rider while praising the tax bill's $691 million raise from corporate income and dividends. Debate touched NRA revival and possible NBA objectives, amid talks of a final NRA survey. Farm and AAA issues were also aired with secretary Wallace welcomed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Capitol Hill
House
Ways and Means Committee
Townsend
Robert E. Clements
James R. Sullivan
Edward J. Margett
San Francisco
California
Rep
Patman
Tex
NRA
Ntima Lon
NBA
Roosevelt
AAA
Wallace
Communism Is Assailed At Grange Meeting
A speech attacking communism and urging home rule in local government concluded a day-long Grange program. Delegates from 25 subordinate granges, reports, lectures, and a fifth degree initiation followed, with a focus on farm credit and tax concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard Park
Bessie Smith
Marion Center Grange
F. P. Weaver
Department of Agricultural Economics
State College
Dorsett
S. E. Dible
Armstrong Township
Flora Fritz
Henderson
Center Township
J. W. Fulmer
Marion Center
Mutual Grange
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
James
the Grange
Savan Grange
Marion Center Grange Orchestra
Pomona
Marchand Grange
Prisoner Of Shark Island at the Ritz Theatre
Warner Baxter stars in Prisoner Of Shark Island a Civil War era drama about a doctor wrongfully jailed after Lincoln's assassination. Gloria Stuart co stars as the film follows Baxter as he faces hysteria and exile on Tortugas in a case of mistaken guilt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shark Island
Ritz Theatre
Warner Baxter
Gloria Stuart
Lincoln
Baxter
Bexter
Protest against political appointments in forestry
H. H. Chapman, president of the Society of American Foresters, denounces the replacement of inspectors, rangers, foresters and lookouts in Pennsylvania’s forests and waters by unqualified individuals. In a letter to James Bogardus, he calls for an end to political appointments as a destructive practice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
H. H. Chapman
Society of American Foresters
Pennsylvania Department of Forests and Waters
James Bogardus
Local gossip and social notes from Gipsy region
Gypsy residents visit Purxsu on Monday to see the County Doctor. Merrit Gorman plans to move to the F W Hess home soon. Mrs Pyeuss ill. G M Brady improving. Harmon Tyger and Bernon Smith call on Glen Campbell residents. Edna Bailey visited Pittsburgh. Mr and Mrs Erwin of Templeton visited the S B Bailey home. A baby girl was born to Mr and Mrs David Bartlebaugh. Esther Smith and others visited Indiana. Smithport visitors in Gipsy. Mrs Brickell and Mrs Gorman shopped at Punxsutawney. Winifred Neff, granddaughter of John White, is hospitalized in Indiana. Earl Tyger bought a new car. Darrel Spicher called in Glen Campbell. Mrs Jill Huffman visited J H Smith. Morgenthau urges exchange stabilization, saying Washington will not block it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. R. Wasgam
Homer City
Dallas Smith
Kathryn Swank
Isabelle Smith
Iris Sutton
Purixsu
Tawney
Jefferson Theatre
Merrit Gorman
F. W. Hess
Haze
Pyeuss
G. M. Brady
Harmon Tyger
Bernon Smith
Glen Campbell
Edna Bailey
Pittsburgh
Erwin #aty
Templeton
S. Bd
Charles Brickell
Rhoda Gorman
Punxsulawney
Winifred Neff
John White
Indiana
Earl Tyger
Darrel Spicher
Jill Huffman
J. H. Smith
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U. P's
Stewarts Collegian
Morton's
Indiana High
Russ” Leach
Church League
Clymer
Righ Scholo
Moorhead
Salana
Alicia Hart
NEA Sta
U.S. A
Benito Mussolini
Duce
Chamber of Deputies
Chamber
Council of Guilds
Pittsburgh Commission For Industrial Expansion
Mark James
Johnstown
Conemaugh
Department of Public Instruction
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Cambria
Somerset
Harrisburg
Lemoyne
Susquehanna River
John A. #. Hall
Adrian Bonnelly
APFIC
Warren van Dyke
van Dyke
Marysville
Duncannon
Juniata River
Sunbury
Williamsport
Amity Hall
Shamokin Dam
West Milton
Milton
Lewistown
Port Matilda
Altoona
Hollidaysburg
Mt. Union
Mill Creek
Associated Press
Ohio Valley
Haddyville
Ware
Peters Mountain
Mexico
Louis Scott
Milk Control Board
Department of Agriculture
Brazil
Farmers Independence Council
America
Council
New Council
Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Morgenthau
Kitt Optical
St. Kittanning
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