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Show THE BULLETIN FLOOD CRISIS MADE NEW HEROES "Backstage"' Scenes Revealed Courage and Resourcefulness of Relief Workers in Rescuing Sufferers. By ALWYN W. KNIGHT sound rose to a wail: "Whore's Munimie?" Tt was an cry for help, shrill with mounting hysteria. The woman paused, wheeling toward the abandoned house from which the sound had come. An arm brassard bearing the emblem of the Red Cross identified her, told her business here in the deserted street running knee deep with muddy water. This entire section of residential Pittsburgh looked as though it had been floated out to sea. " "Where's It was a scream now; there was no time to lose. The relief worker plunged to the rescue and reappeared a moment later with a parrot, a badly scared talking parrot, in her arms. Behind amies with America's n?Hrr their dHejilngt and spent the better part of day stalking servlr-- stations and sheds In The fortitude of these people was remarkable. They had lost everything, yet they could Joke about their "strays" . . . A station of Wlncheiidon. Mass., was isolated when a wooden bridge was shaken loose and floated down-riveReKldents of the section took to boats and chaKcd the bridge, gaining slowly but surely. Rank watchers hooted The bridge was caught, towed back and moored over its foun dations. When the water receded It dropped Into place so accurately that truflic Immediately rrosed . . . Two residents of Wheeling, W. Va, are dead They contracted pneumonia while engaged In rescue work. They voluntered their services to aid the plight of their neighbors, these men; and puld for their heroism with their lives. The denotation of a flood must also be reckoned In terms of its aftermath . . . THOUSANDS NEED HELP With Hood crests receding, loss to the Individual family becomes more apparent. It Is no longer colored by excitement, by terror. There may be something almost majestic about a house, Immersed to its gables, gallantly straining against raging torrents. Rut a home has a ghost-like- , a half burled look when the water haa liili aiid-dry drained away,. Furniture is warped and broken. Mud and silt are piled feet deep over once choice belongings. Plaster haa flaked away, pyramiding the soggy mess below. Walls have buckled; plumbing and electrical fixtures must be relegated to tne Junk pile. The home is dead with its mouth agape, and Its window eyes have been poked out, and It is no longer a home at all. Small wonder that flood sufferers without resources must bs helped to face the future. The Red Cross reports that In Wheeling alone, 15,000 families will require some form of household goods or homo repair assistance . . . An expectant mother at Fowhatan Point, Ohio, waa in desperate need of essential supplies. She lay on a mattress In a dance hall in the midst of 75 other refugees. Lamplight flickered dimly and couples moved about the floor not In the dance but to keep warm. The Point was practically Isolated. Somehow a relict truck fought through from Wheeling carrying the essentials for the stricken woman. A little later she gave birth to a child, both lives doubtless saved by the dogged persistence of relief workers who traversed Impassable stretches of what had once been mads . . . The UnitPd States Coast Guard rescued 10.0(10 persons from Wllkes-Rarr-e ' and Kingston homes. The Susquehanna loops here, and flood waters spilled across at right angles, closing the loop. There resulted some of the swiftest and most treacherous currents ever encountered by small craft. The Red Cross chapter at Wllkes-Rarr-e, I'a., established a first aid station in a trolley car placed at the end of the Market street bridge. This made light and heat possible. Physicians were In charge, aided by Red Cross nurses and the Chapter First Aid rrew of 43 men. As Const Guard boats' brought refugees to the bridge, they THE mid-strea- r. Mum-mie!- agencies changes the cntnjilfxlun of a flood. The humnn little Incidents tell the real story. Humor, putlnM and Inevitably a quiet heroism do not the dnlly Imrrlcnile of This Is enM'(.lally true f this taring's great eiuiteni floods whMi have taken a toll of nearly W lives, property daninKe scaling to one half billion dollars, sod driven lnimlivils of Iioiiicm lo 13 thousand from tlu-l- r lH'ii-etrn- states. The runoff from iihsoiikoiiuI snow linen. xftrKlng banks started It. miles of the Kiini's wiiicrwityn, and limite ngiiin. The broke, fm . the Ohio Fotoiiwf, the Andini-iKliiIi-- i broken hip. the flood years with meant laming peace. fiiin-llle- s I ted Cross workers, from the city's danger spots, readied their home. The woman would not budi?. Her huMmmi, primly stood guard before her, barring the way. It whs neci's.iary to knock the husband out to get the solium Into the rescue boat. After she was taken to a hoxpltal she went on a hunger strike. The buMhaml. meanwhile, had disappeared, fearing amwi fur resisting rescue. Si'veral days passed and the woman eviic-untln- Red Cross Volunteers House, Feed and Cars for Homeless Children in Pittsburgh Flood Area. and the Susquehanna these and other turbulent giants began to shake themselves loose and come alive. Without saying much about It, people began to wonder what would iuipiien If It should ruin hard, and the department of rivers and floods at the United Stntes weather bureau, Washington, 'spent a lot of time on the phone answering questions. JOHNSTOWN THREATENED And then the rain came, deluging the northeastern watershed, converting melting snow Into runaway water by the ton, smashing river ice free of brink. Surcharged rivers from Maine to Virginia and from New Jersey to Ohio, broke bank and leveled g stain which out, an brought desolation to all it touched. Johnstown was threatened with a duplication of the debacle of "89. Pittsburgh was Isolated overnight, its light and power disrupted, its airports suddenly vast lakes. Wheeling, W. Va, was struck with such devastating suddenness that 10,000 marooned men, women and children were trapped as water pyramided to the second floors of homes. Other towns, ether cities, leaned against the invader's sweeping began to weep for her Jiu.sband. For the first time she was receiving medl cal care, and life was worth holding on to. The Red Cross located the missing husband and a touching reunion took place at. the side of the cut In the honpltnl ward. The woman will he give n new stnrt In life . . . Sometimes the line between drama ana meioarama is drawn with a sure, bold stroke. This is true in the fol lowing Instance. A Red Cross nurse who is a war veteran set out for Wash Ington for much needed hospitalization second Lieutenant Mary scanion was trapped by rising water In Bellaire, Ohio, enroute. For 48 hours she washed dishes and tended frightened children at a refugee canter, putting the need of others before her own pressing njed ior rest ana meaicai care . . . During the first, flood crest the Coast Guard cutter Kenosha, under Cnpt. sleet-broug- ninety-els-year-ol- LONG SENTENCE "riysKcs," by James Joyce, Is believed to contain the longest sentence lie was Just a country butcher, but ever written In any novel since the he deals with a lot of city slickers Introduction of punctuation. It Is and he mnst be alert to see to It they Cfiiniingeil of more than 12,000 words, put nothing over on him. He was dis- says Collier's. cussing the suggestion that many of the customers who come to him are Dr. Pierce ' Favorite Prescription makes so dumb that he could sell them tripe weak women strong. No alcohol. Bold for porterhouse steak. As an exam- by drnggists in tablets or liquids Adv. ple he evplulned that a woman came Cultivating Polio Into his shop and asked for a pound Poise Is fostered by cultivating (if ham. This he cut, and then to his surprise the customer said, "Now good deal of "don't care." please iiurjrer it." The butcher did not grasp the reand then it Slop Pom! quest immediately, dawned upon him that the buyer Tbetc tootbmc ncalioa pada give you fav scant relief from painful buaiooa; atop ehoa wanted meat for a hamburger steak. prraure, cubical and shield tint eon apot. Bold at all dratr. iliac and dept. torn. to used the Trying explain makings T for a hamburger, the woman became B very Indignant, saylm she knew what she wanted. Not willing to accept his explanation, be did the next best thing and ran the slice of ham through the chopper, wrapped It np, and the customer went away In contentment. Her subsequent visits to the store were friendly and the subject wss never mentioned. New York Sun. 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Citizens of the community formed a posse to bunt y, Is Turned Into Emergency ... C Wmern 7.00-2- 0 7.50-2- 0 were Inspected, then either sent to a hospital or treated on the trolley If requiring medical attention The flood Is over. Hirers, in practically all affected areas are homeward bound for their banks. Mass feeding and shelter stations are caring for comparatively few these dny. But rehabilitation has Just begun. For long, weary months relief agencies will interview Individual families and survey damaged homes. This, the heartbreaking aftermath of catastrophe, Is the version of ths flood tale which will live longest In the memories of families who have lost the bulk of thsir possessions. The rest ef tho world soon forgets. Xcrivr ' B LHREE years ago Harvey S. Firestone conceived the idea that farm work would be easier, faster, and more economical if it were done on rubber. It was on the Old Homestead farm in Columbiana County, Ohio, which Mr. Firestone still operates, that he directed engineers and developed a practical pneumatic tire for tractors and every other wheeled implement on the farm. The result was a tire so unusual in design and so amazing in performance that a patent was issued on the tire by the United States Patent Office at Washington. On tractors, Firestone Ground Grip Tires will do the work 25 per cent faster with a saving of 25 per cent in fuel cost. On sprayers, combines, binders and other farm implements they reduce draft 40 to 50 per cent; do not pack the soil, sink into soft ground or make ruts; protect equipment; do not damage crops and vines; speed up every farm operation. One set of tires will fit several implements. Tires can be changed quickly from one implement to another. Two or three sets are all you need to take care of super-tractio- era folly seataatnd ifeajaAKi McClure Avenue Presbyterian KILLS INSECTS . current Organized relief took the field, led by the American lied Cross, which quickly deployed 300 trained disaster workers to key points of flooded areas. The United States Const Guard sent a fleet of power boats to churn up and down the main streets of America's most densely populated centers. Countand groups less other organization pooled resources to avert a major tragedy, Eut the press of the nation has already given a composite picture of flood details. Day after day headlines paced the southward flow of each crest and told vividly of new The public was areas threatened. brought to the river bank to "view with alarm," but the very breadth and scope of the cfltnstrophe made it Impossible to bring this public to the Individual home, show a closeup of a Red Cross refugee camp, portray the interior of a crowded rescue boat plying from house to house in the half dawn. light of a The real story, however, has been told. It hns come In snatches from the Hps of the men and women who were there, who still are. It hns been told In part by volunteer workers, by trained workers; by the rank and tile of the great army of rescue and rehabilitation. WANTED TO DIE It happened at Springfield, Mass. Rising water trapped a family of three. There waa a woman who weighed 2.T0 pounds, her grandfather and her husband. The circumstances were unusnnl In this way: these people had had time to move out Rut they wanted to file. 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