The Pittsburgh Press from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania • Page 21

A XT TWENTY-ONE Other Prrss Departments, Court 7300 ZZZl 17. 1935 Want Ad Headquarters, Court 4900 TOE riTTSBUBGH PRESS THE GREAT emperor penguin through the House "would abolish to a height ot mre than fout FARMERS FEAR Pastoral Scene as Texas Reaps the Whirlwind of Dust and Destruction ASSESSOR BILLS tne city Assessors jjeparwnent ana eet ancl weighs as much as a 10-turn all business over to a board iv.ar.niH hm appointed by the County Commis HIT IN COUNCIL sioners, Mr. Williams said. Doubts Savings to City He added that the annual cost of the entire Department of City. Assessors is now $100,000, and while Official Says City Would I JUDGMENT DAY IN DUST STORM Punishment for Their Sins, Sisters Tell Writer in Blizzard Belt Lose Big Sums If Acts Are Passed the bills professed to save the city that amount, incidental expenses might entail expenses of two or three times that amount.

He declared that under the Weiss Bill publication of assessment lists would be required, amounting to "no less than $250,000 or $300,000 a year." and that the bills "might City Council voted yesterday to ask the Legislature to delay for 10 days the passage of two bills, one seriously affect the city's bonding power." Legal Opinion Sought Williams said that "in the judg DESERTING COUNTRY Yfy TO COAST SEE in the Senate and the other in the House, both aimed to "rip" the ment of certain legal authorities, Department of City Assessors out of office. the city can tax $70,000,000 of rail of Chief Assessor Percy R. Williams road property, which the county can't tax- appeared before Council and declared that If these bills were Pioneers See 30 Years Work Destroyed by Gathering Silt Council instructed the Law De 6 RAND CANYON from the Air DOUGLAS LUXURY PLANES Union Trait Building Telephone, GB. 2400 (Night, HO. 4200) sass.

Sgx y2r- "s'V: passed, the city stood a chance of losing $1,300,000 annually, the Board of Education $700,000, and taxes now collected from railways properties partment to bring in a report on whether, if the pending acts become law, the city would lose the 000 total revenue from this property valued at $70,000,000. The two bills the Coyne Bill, A MUSEUM of public health is to which has passed the Senate, and be opened in Paris. the Weiss Bui, which has gone A. United Press staff correspondent is touring the worst afflicted areas of the dust storm country to get an account of the "dust blizzards" 'uch are turning portions of-Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado. Texas and Xew Mexico into desert.

His third dispatch follows. Come and Get These Great Bargains in By FRANK McNAUGHTON SPRINGFIELD, April 17 Some people in the dust country be lieve God is punishing them for their sins. Photo by Mrrret Bourk White; Copyrirht, 1935, for Th Pittburh Pres. failures, this Texan had no money to repair his farm before the new plague came on. He is shown forcing open the door of one of bis outbuildings, sealed fast by the drifting silt.

As death-dealing dust storms again scourg the West, Margaret Bourke-White's camera shows you better than words the desperate plight of thousands of farmers. Ruined by two consecutive crop Knoxville Prowler Flees When Mrs. Stella Sullivan heard Sure, It's Bad, But Pioneers Are Used to Bad Things, Natives Declare a noise at the door to the cellar of her home, 416 Moore Knox ville, early today she called out and a man wearing a dark overcoat and a derby hat fled. South Side po lice could find no trace of him. I heard that belief uttered by a shoeless woman whose crumbling rock home was so filled with dust that she used a shovel to "bail out" the dirt.

I came here through a "dust blizzard" by automobile from Boise City, with Cecil Lewis, a mail carrier. Trains couldn't get through, so Lewis had to bring the mail in his car. While he kept his attention on the road I boxed the mail. Masked Against Dust Both of us wore respiration masks to make breathing easier. But the fine sand permeates everything.

It fills your hair and eyes and mouth with grit and makes your lungs feel as though they had been sandpapered inside. Near Campo, Col, we pulled up to a battered tin mailbox on a leaning hedge post. Through the dust we could see the farmhouse, built of rock that was crumbling away at the corners. Suddenly an apparition leaped through a paneless window and came running toward the car. It was a woman of indeterminate age.

She was shoeless and stockingless. I could see the dust spurt between her toes as she paddled through a aBeS A Two patriotic Texans winged their way out of the dust -smothered West yesterday only to be grounded by Pittsburgh snow. Held over momentarily on their way from Amarillo to Washington where they hope to press petition for the Conchos Dam project, Wilbur C. Hawk, newspaper publisher, and Tom W. Cotten, real estate and Rossocratic Sinkabinet Bargains in Used Furniture you will never again be able to equal.

But you must come quickly, as most items are one only and are rapidly being sold. These cannot be replaced at the extremely low prices they are offered. oil man, relaxed in their shirtsleeves in a hotel room and bombastically pointed out that it takes more than a heap of dirt to make the Texas Panhandle call quits. Although the plains are swept by black tornados of dust; although the cattle bellow dirt from encrusted nostrils; although the in CASH or CREDIT! 10-Pce. Bedroom Consisting of Bed, Dresser, Chest, Vanity, Bench, Chair, Spring, Mattress, Bed Lamp and Bridge Lamp! This beautiful STOVES $29.50 Gas Range $14.65 $39.75 Gas Range $19.75 $65.00 Combination Range $32.00 RUGS $2.00 Hearth Rugs! 98c $12.50 Room Size Rugs $17.50 9x12 Velvet $9.75 $24.50 9x12 Axminster Rg $11.75 $32.50 9x12 Axminster 26-50 42-inch sink, right or left drain board, corrmlete with Rossocratic Sinkabinet, two faucets and wall trap.

$23.50 Circulating Heater $11.95 PLUMBING habitants wear masks to keep from suffocating under the terrific embrace of mother earth; Texas is a pioneer country and Texans are men in the aboriginal sense of the word. "Why, hell," said Mr. Hawk, lifting his great spread of shoulders, "we have our cyclones and tornados and all that stuff. "This is just one of those things." Then they began to explain. Certainly the dust storms are bad.

They're every bit as bad as you read about. "Sure, they're worse," said Mr. Hawk. "Why one storm covered four states. It just got dark as pitch.

The whole thing's a drouth. "Why, if we got rain from now on we'd just get 25 per cent of our wheat crop. There'll be a food shortage all over the West. ROSS Rags $16.75 $39.75 Circulating Heater $18.95 SUPPLIES La yrr tin ft shallow drift. Her hair streamed in the dust.

She wanted news of the outside world. She and her sister had been marooned for days. While she talked to us her sister casually tossed a shovelful of dirt out of the window. Both appeared to be ill and were desperately discouraged. The government killed 11 -their cattle last summer and the wind had blown away all of their wheat, which they had planted themselves.

Divine runishment' "This is a sinful country or God would never have punished us this way," the elder sister said. "We'd leave If we could. It's a judgment." Of Baca County's 3.000 acres. 97 per cent is devoid of plant life, Kenneth Welch, Relief Administrator, told me. A plan is afoot to move the population westward into the mountain regions.

Half of the 10.000 9-Pce. Living Room Radios, Lamps. Kitchen Furniture 22t Blvd. of Allies Frankstown Avsaas 4U Msrchant St, Ambridg WKmn Yma Think Hmmbittg Think of Rsm ODDS and ENDS 4f "The storms started in a small Midget Sets $8.45 Cabinet Sets $12.50 Cabinet Cabinet Sets $17.50 5-Pc. Breakfast Set $8.95 $22.00 5-Pc.

Breakfast Set $10,9 8 $24.75 5-Pc. Breakfast Set $12.00 $29.75 5-Pc. Breakfast Set 1 4.95 $24.50 Kitchen $12.9 5 $29.75 $16.7 5 $39.75 Kitchen $19,75 way last year. Then we had no snow this winter only a flurry. We 4.50 Walnut Metal $1,98 8.75 Walnut Metal $4.75 $12.50 Walnut Metal $5.95 $19.75 Walnut Dresser.

1.75 Smokers 69c 9.75 Mirrors $3.98 $19.75 Lounge Chair $7.85 LAMPS $2.50 Bridge Lamps 98c $4.00 Bridge Lamps $1.65 always have a good deal of rain in March and April but almost none ill this year. Consisting of 3-Piece Suite, Bridge Lamp, Table Lamp, End Table, Occasional Table and two Book Ends. "But," said Mr. Cotten. "Nobody's Advertisement' Skin-Itch Torture Ends; Millions Praise Zemo Zemo quickly relieves the torture of Itching Rashes and Ringworm soothes the irritation of Eczema, Pimples and similar skin troubles.

For 25 years Zemo has been used and praised by millions -as a clean, safe, dependable remedy for family use to relieve skin irritations. A trial will convince you of its great merit. Insist on genuine Zemo; it's worth the price because you get relief. Approved by Good Housekeeping Bureau, No. 4874.

35c. 60c, $1. All druggists. leavin' that country. There aint a soul leavin'.

We're stayin too. Some of these farmers have just been livin off the Government. The Government bought their bad Used FurnSture Exchange people in the county are on relief. Many are ill with dust induced bronchitis, sinus infection or lung maladies. This county was settled 30 years ago by emigrants from Kansas and Missouri.

They built up its productivity until in 1931 the county harvested 7,000,000 bushels of wheat. Baca County once produced 12 per cent of the nation's broom com supply. This year it can produce nothing. Muddy Rain Brings Hope in Far West By The United Press KANSAS CITY, April 17 A dust storm which drifted into the cattle and killed 'em. They've been getting hog money and wheat money." Small Deferred Payment Charre "The Panhandle's all right," said Tom W.

Cotten (left) and Wilbur C. Hawk, of Amarillo, went to Washington to tell Harry Hopkins, Federal Relief Administrator, Mr. Cotten. "They've got at least about the dust storms, but over 800,000,000 barrels of oil under there still as a reservoir. They're wasting more gas in the Panhandle now than is being used in the "ic yc yt Pittsburgh they ran into snow and were grounded.

At middle, a dust "drift" near Dumas, below, a dust storm at Amarillo. U. S. A. "Why would a man run away from the biggest gosh darn oil field? That country's all right." spring wheat country of the Dakotas and Nebraska was turned back today At present they are going to stick their state finger in the work re by brisk northerly winds.

2 HURT IN CRASH Mother, Child in Hospital; Woman Driver Held After Accident Thick dust still was whirling up lief plum pie and try to pull out $10,000,000 for the dam which is to be built in New Mexico at the Texas border on the Canadian from the western half of the central nlains region. River. Scattered showers cleared the air Mrs. Robert Miller, 35, of Brack-enridge, and her 3 -year-old daugh over Bismarck. N.

where ne ter, Margaret, were in a hospital at IW rin Films to Be Shown Tarentum today suffering from se leading edge of the dust blanket appeared late yesterday afternoon. Light rain also was reported from Valentine. and several South I I i 7 i s. i i i Jisim vere cuts on the head and face The Cathedral Chapel, of which Rev. P.

A. Atkinson is chaplain will sponsor a picture, "The Voice Tlnknra, DOintS. There also were light sprinkles of Ireland," at the Davis Theater next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Scenes in Dublin during the in Western Kansas and in the OKia after an auto collision at Job's Hole Bridge, near here. Mrs.

Ruth Stewart of Altoona, driver of the other machine, was unhurt. She was detained by police. Neither Mrs. Miller's husband, driver of the Miller auto, nor Stewart, a passenger in his wife's machine, was hurt. homa and Texas Panhandles where the dust had closed down in a blinding mass.

The precipitation came down in the form of mud, but failed Easter week uprising of 1916 will be featured in commemoration of the nineteenth anniversary of Ire land's battle for independence. to alleviate the dust condition. 3D0J dS CZfi ft) (Cl XrZ7 i t- i i Ic-" 'i i TWa? GXD0 OGWGQ OQQOOQuOO Code Number 309 Fifth Price ON SALE AT OS SALE AT ALL STATE STORES k..