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EIGHT SUKDAY. MARCH 52. 19 -THE PITTSBURGH PRESS- FEAR DEATH LIST 100 Babies Born Here as Flood Ra ged BRIDGES SAFE, LABOON SAYS All Reported "Doing Nicely, Thank You Planes Hum, Men March War? No, Just a Flood Society Leaders Labor Side-by-Side With Soldiers in Bringing Relief to Needy; Rumors of New Disasters Circulate All IN PITTSBURGH ZONE TOTALS 50 Recover 35 Bodies in Search of Flood Wreckage; Lowlands May Yield More County Structures Are Declared Adequate for Travel Boston Infant Makes Debut In Rowboat; Magee Hospital Heads List BY GILBERT LOVE It's war-timft In Pittsburgh. Airplanes drone overhead, troops march through the the booming sound of explosions roll over the city occasionally, and citizens watch the mounting casualty lists for the names of friends and relatives. There is talk of "canteens" and "billets" and "rations" and "field head Allegheny County's bridges over the flood-swollen Allegheny, Monon-gahela and Ohio Rivers are safe and In no danger of collapse.

County Works Director John F. Laboon announced late yesterday. "Inspections on all old and weak Uniforms are everywhere the khaki of the National Guard; the spans as well as examinations or the county's stronger bridges shows prey of State Police; the blue of the Coast Guard and Naval Reserves. The toll of dead in Pittsburgh's flood zone was expected to reach 50. As searchers dug through eck-ge, additional bodies were added to the list.

Already 35 bodies had been recovered and there were yet great areas of low lying lands in Sharpsburg, Etna, and the McKees Rocks Bottoms," which was expected to 5'ield more victims. that they all have held up through the flood period and are adequate Red Cross flags flutter on trucks for travel," Director Laboon as and autos, and Red Cross arm bands are worn by thousands. serted. To safeguard against false reports As in war days, practically every of bridge collapses, Mr. Laboon appealed to the public to refrain from submitting such alarms.

one has rallied to the cause. Society leaders and charwomen work side by side in the emergency billets that have been set up in churches, schools KNOWN DEAD Report Dangerous Bridges. Reports of dangerous bridges and public auditoriums. Doctors, nurses, students, social workers. periods, but because no electricty is to be had in most sections of the city.

Rumors of "new attacks" by another rise in the rivers are rife, and reports of "defeat" through the breaking of a bridge or a dam are frequent. The populace is prey to these reports because cf the interruption of its usual methods of getting information. Newspapers are being polished with great difficulty, and radio messages can only be heard in most districts by those having battery receivers. Stay-at-Homes Safest As in war times, "civilians" are safer than those at the "front." Citizens who can stay in their homes know where their next meals are coming from, and can Insure their safety by boiling water and milk. truck drivers, funeral directors should be phoned directly to my office during daylight hours between 8 a.

m. and 6 p. m. and night reports everyone who could be of any pos sible use, has been enrolled in the relief corps. should be handled through county police," Director Laboon warned.

(Director Laboon's number is AT- Up To The Front Army trucks and supply vans lantic 4900 Extension 444; for county police callers should ask for the same number). rumble the streets. Big trailer trucks creep along the high Inspection of the county bridges is ways toward the city, "moving up being conducted daily during the I i If i' 2 I I ff' -v' i i i -x I I V- '-i I 1 1 i- -r -1 1 f. iNfv -fv'V I If "lv i 1 i 'Kfn-j "-f to the front. White Coast Guard boats move from point to point on post-flood period by Director Laboon and a corp of 15 engineers.

They are checking over piers, superstruc pecial motor carriers, their blue- jacketed crews carrying their duffel bags Relief and emergency workers must tures, rivets, cables and approaches. False reports of the collapse of the Sixteenth St. Bridge across the Al There are lines past which take their food and water where and when they find it. no one can go except on emergency errands. The most important men legheny River, shortly before noon yesterday brought hundreds crowd CHRISTOPHER BRA UN, 56, Jefferson Twp.

Drowned, removing stock from barn on his farm. Family recovrred body. LYDIA VOGUE, 66. 1423 Laurel North Side, burned in explosion in flooded home. Husband, William, 66.

and granddaughter, 6, in hospital. JOHN BECK. 45, 24 Isabella North Side, drowned when skiff upset. WILLIAM LONG, 22. Turtle Creek, found drowned in Turtle Creek real estate office, where he had returned to get valuable papers sfter being once removed.

JOSEPH KORYTKOVVSKI. 30. of 263 Fisk drowned at Sharps-burc when kiff upset. EDWARD BROADBECK, 40. 517 Lockhart North Side, found drowned near home.

FLORENCE YVESLOWSKI, 11, 150 Forty-Fourth caught under falling wall as building exploded at Forty-Fourth as she watched flood. ALBERT FOLEN. 21. of 1327 Hopkins found drowned at Ridr-and Reed.sdale St. ADAM GOLL, 32.

of 1333 Carsell drowned at Page and Chateau ts. LAWRENCE LACEY, 37. Long-way, Negro, drowned when skiff capsized at Forty-third St. Three in the city meet the same reception as the idle sight-seer when they come up against the line of militia ing at the terminals of this span and resulted in traffic tie-ups at these points that lasted nearly an hour. 'Collapse' Report Spiked.

armed with riot sticks and revolvers. There is some looting. Thieves, taking advantage of the confusion, have been robbing cars and picking Examination of the span, used to carry the main body of the inbound and suburban -bound motor traffic around the downtown sector, disclosed that it has not been damaged As in France there is mud mud everywhere on the strets and houses that were covered by the flood waters. And indelicate subject though it may be there is a stench in the flooded areas. Duty calls.

A message comes in to Red Cross headquarters from a worried mother who has not heard from her daughter, a volunteer Red Cross worker, for several days. She appeals to her daughter to communicate with her, but adds to her message, "Stay on duty!" Smelling Salts Help Boy scouts, scarcely more than children, have gone without sleep for 36 hours at a stretch. Elderly women stick to their posts, kept going by strong coffee and smellinj by the recent flood-waters. This bridge with the Fortieth St. span at Lawrenceville are being used to carry the greater load of Pitts pockets in the downtown area as well as carrying on tfteir nefarious work in the afflicted areas when they can slip through the police and National Guard lines.

Wounded Are Treated The injured stream into relief depots to have their wounds dressed. Red Cross workers carrying first aid kits are rushing here and there. More kits are being brought in from other cities in big cardboard cartons. At night there are few lights not for fear of. air raids, as in war burgh's traffic now.

The Pittsburgh-Homestead Bridge over the Monongahela, closed for two days, was reopened yesterday for light traffic on orders from Di rector Laboon. While the flood is making the biggest news in Pittsburgh, some of the "littlest" news is worth mentioning, too. It is estimated at least 100 babies have been born in the flood-swept city. Magee Hospital led the list with 23 infants born there since the start of the flood St. Patrick's Day.

Some of these storm-time babies were born under great adversity, public health nurses report. In Boston, one was born in a rowboat as the mother was being rescued. A nurse had to commande-a skiff to get another mother and her 2-day-old infant in McKees Rocks to a place of safety. In Shapsburgh, a new born baby was taken with its mother to St. John's Hospital.

This was baby Quincey Ross, 5 days old. Only Flashlight Available Mercy Hospital reports flood twins. They were born to Mrs. Mar-cella Charters, 17, of 605 Freemont Midvale. Doctors brought the two little boys into the world with the aid of a flashlight.

At this hospital mothers had to climb to the fourth or fifth floors in the first two days of the calamity when elevator service was cut off. All mothers and children were reported nicely'' as worst of the handicaps of lighting and power were over. Babies at Mercy include a son born to Mrs. Virginia Rice of 1012 Cornell on March 19; a boy born to Mrs. Catherine Ross of 207 North Fairmont at 7:30 p.

m. March 17; a girl born to Mrs. Margaret Johns of 7133 Bennett at 9:20 a. m. March 18.

and a girl born to Mrs. Margaret Mall, 276 Kennedy at 7:30 a. m. on March 19. Magee Hospital's own plant provided power and light, but with telephone service cut off for out going calls proud fathers had to make personal rounds to friends and relatives to tell of new arrivals.

West Penn's Roster The three newcomers at West Penn Hospital were a boy born to Mrs. Theresa Larkins, 43 Torrence at 11:20 p. m. March 18; a girl to Mrs. Dorothy Burke of 4116 Geneva at 2:50 p.

m. on March 19, and a girl to Mrs. Elizabeth White of 622 Vanila Way, at 2:45 p. m. on March 19.

Here, too, a special hospital power plant made it easy to handle Doc Stork's newcomers. Homeopathic Hospital reported the arrival of four babies during the city's zero hour. On the South Side, where flood waters caused great havoc, six babies made debut at St. Joseph's Hospital. To one mother, the hospital trip was doubly exciting.

She was Mrs. Mary Klepis whose baby son was born March 19. Not many hours later, her 3-year-old son was hit by a truck as he played near his home and was brought to the same hospital. Here are the names of mothers to whom children were born during Pittsburgh's darkest days: To Mrs. Anna Butler of McKeesport.

a girl, on the afternoon of March 17, just as the rivers were reaching alarming flood stage. A boy was born to Mrs. Eleanor Rupert of 111 Climax on March 18. Mrs. Helen McCrory of 136 Rae Mt.

Lebanon, had a baby girl March 18. Another baby girl was born to Mrs. Ruth Fedak of 131 Agnew Carrick. March 20. On that date a boy was born to Mrs.

Olga Stimmel of Poplar Ave. Two Boys. Girl at South At nearby South Side Hospital, two boys and a girl were born. They were a son to Mrs. Anna Everett of 348 Kambach Mt.

Washington; a girl to Mrs. Elsie Piroth of 524 Delmont Beltz Hoover and a boy to Mrs. Marie Nolle of 44 Briggs St. At Montefiore Hospital, six babies were born. One arrived March 18.

It was a girl to Mrs. Francis Mc-Cabe of 44 Academy Mt. Lebanon. Another baby was greeted by flashlight when electricity in the modern hospital failed. He is the son born to Mrs.

Morris Sands of 3232 Dawson St. Two girls, one Baby Jackson of 139 Warden St. and the other Baby Traffic halted yesterday 'across Seventh St. Bridge, on the Al legheny for repairs of hand railings has been resumed. The railings were twisted off when struck by on-rushing houseboats and a telephone according to Director Laboon, is being carried on in McKees Rocks and at Neville Island.

The move to clean highways at these points is to prevent disease salts. The city is on a war-time diet. Fresh fruits and vegetables ars scarce, and bakery bread and ground coffee hard to get in many sections. Staple foods are plentiful, however. Confusion is apparent, but the necessary work is being done in spite of it.

Crowds pour into the Red Cross depots some seeking aid; some offering to help; a few just trying to see what is happening. What could be more like war than this? others not accounted for. i ETHEL LEWIS, 45, 406 East La- cock drowned in room at her i home after she had sent her brother to look for room for the nisht. VIOLET SPALOR, 15. Union Etna, and six others, burned after debris from explosion in plant across the street floated on flood waters, setting fire to home.

The other vie- tims were: MARY VOLOKOVICII, 22. Union Etna. ANN VOLO- KOVICII, 3 months, daughter of Ma rv. ROSE MARIE METZER, 4. Union Etna.

pole. Mud Being Cleaned. ather than to release traffic, the mothers from flood-menaced homes to St. John's Hospital here. The nurse holding them is Miss Genevieve Korte of the St.

John's staff. Meet the "Noah's Ark babies' Quincey Ross, five days, and Robert Schuffert, just three days in this world when rescuers carried them and their The county's entire road division of 600 men have been scattered to clear away mud, rocks and other director explained. Cattle, dogs, cats and chickens which perished during the flood are being found in great numbers in these two lo- Jigsaw puzzles are traced back to debris from all county highways the early Egyptians. The biggest share of this activity, calities, he said. P.

C. W. Alumnae to Hold Annual Council Saturday BARBARA METZER, 14, Union Etna. CATHERINE METZER, 9, Union Etna. CHARLES METZER, 6.

Union Et na. (The three above lived at 19-22 Union where searchers looked through the ruins for three others known missing.) 100 to Service 24 Hours of the Day Help Pittsburgh Families at all the ficers at their last meeting. They are Miss Helen Smith, president; Miss Florence Rosenfeld, vice president; Miss Sylvia Greenfield, secretary-treasurer, and Miss Rowena Gettleman, social chairman. The Beta and Beta Junior chapters of the Kappa Alpha Tau sorority will give a joint charity bridge at the Morrowfield Apts. today.

Miss Betty Rosen is chairman of the committee. Her assistants will be Misses Emma Jay Bloch, Evelyn Levinson, Ruth Witt, Lena Abromo-vitz, Rita Steiner and Beatrice Cohen. Miss Emma Bloch is ticket chairman. EDWARD JONES. 44.

found drowned at Eighth and Clay i Sharpsburg. Unidentified Negro found drowned at Twenty Ninth Street and Penn Ave. I CHARLES LECLEREC. 45. 235 FIVE HAHN STORES THE Alumnae Association of the Pennsylvania College for Women will hold the annual council on Saturday, it was announced by Mrs.

Elizabeth McClelland Crawford, president. Registration will be held in Berry Hall at 9:30 a. m. Those who will attend are members of the executive board of the alumnae association; representatives of out of town P. C.

W. clubs; Dil worth Hall Alumnae; honorary members of the alumnae association; associates of the alumnae organization, and a representative of each class graduated. Following registration, greetings from the college will be presented by President Herbert L. Spencer and Dean Helen Marks. Mrs.

Crawford will preside at a chapel program at 10:30 a. m. Luncheon will be served in Woodland Hall at 1 p. m. and a tea will be given by President and Mrs.

Spencer at their home on Woodland Rd. The Delta Omega Eta sorority of the Y. M. W. H.

A. elected of this appalling disaster that has stricken our community, the Hahn organization is most fortunate that its five great stores are situated entirely outside the flooded areas. The Munsen McKees Rocks, found drowned near the Pressed Steel Car Co. plant. ANNA SIMCHAK.

24. 427 Shingis McKees Rocks, drowned, near the Pressed Steel Car canoe carrying her to McKees Rocks North Side Bridge capsized. Three others were rescued as she was swept away. CYRIL LI THE, 25. found drowned at 3008 Penn Ave.

JOSEPH GREGORO, 45. watchman in Grocery storage house at Page and Beaver found drowned beside building. Unidentified man, about 55. found drowned at 34 Bison Woods Run. JOSEPH BAURHENN, 70.

308 West Robinson caught in fall of debris when flood-weakened build- HAS ELEVEN GRANDPARENTS OREGON CITY, March 21 A record number of grandparents for a baby was believed established when Melvin Markley Clarke was born to Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Clarke. Eleven persons are grandparents. However, he has a dearth of other relatives, having no brothers or sisters and only one uncle and one aunt.

inc collapsed. JOHN HELLMAN, McKeesport I T0CH3 UN Adam of 3411 Webster were born in the dawn of March 20. The two boys who make up the list are Baby Tappen of 5839 Hobart and Baby McGrath of 1144 Tennessee Ave. But while these children were safe five stores have been open, and will remain open, day and evening, to do everything possible to serve the public in this crisis. We have complete stocks of every need for the home, from a complete suite to the smallest arti-- cle! All New and Perfect! ICE REFRIGERATORS so important to preserve food, while there is no electricity for your electric refrigerator.

BEDS of all kinds "Simmons" and others, "Beauty Rest" and other mattresses, Springs, Blankets, Comforts and Pillows. STUDIO COUCHES providing extra beds, and so valuable where families "doubling up." Our entire staff, salesmen, office force, warehouse and delivery men are working full time to give you 100 service, at all hours. IN THIS EMERGENCY Hahn Extends Complete Service and Most Liberal Credit to One and All Who Need Home Furnishings We will do our share in this crisis by extending a helping hand to all those who need furniture or home furnishings of any kind. Co to your nearest Hahn store, buy what you require, and don't worry we'll take care of you. Now, more than ever before, Pittsburgh can realize the full meaning of the Hahn credit promise "Make Your Own Terms." policeman, swept into current while attempting a rescue of flood victims, Bodv not recovered.

MATT JOXKOUSKI, 20, Eighth Braddock, drowned when current dragged canoe in which he and companion were using against a barge throwing them into the water. Joseph Golsky. 21, of 724 Washington Braddock, his companion swam to shore. JOSEPH STIPIANAIK, 50. 114 Steuben found drowned at 1404 Reedsdale North Side.

MARK MAR KOVICII, 28, 1090 Saw Mill Way, died in Allegheny General Hospital, after pneumonia developed. He was trapped in his flooded home and due to his weight of 625 pounds, three skiffs were Jashed together to remove him. INFANT II A two months, died after being taken from flooded home on Neville Island to East End. RALPH KEFFER, 20. U.

S. Govt, employe at Dashield Dam, drowned when he and companion attempted to escape from lock house in skiff which capsized. Companion swam to safety. JANE SimiBA, 11 months, McKees Rocks, drowned. MRS.

CATHERINE HARKENES, 80. 504 Center Bjaddock. heart attack in exertion due to flood. JOHN KUZ, 45. 216 Munhall McKees Rocks, found drowned in hFRANK LAND YM ORE, 28.

Dawson, drowned in Youghiogheny. 1000-ToFlCEBERG STRANDEDjSY FLOOD Storage Chunks Are Melted Into One Huge Block Kappels East Liberty and Federal Street stores open for business as usual. Kappels downtown Sixth Street store will be open as soon as possible. and snug in hospital nurseries unmindful that the power was off and the telephone service out of commission. Pittsburgh had its share of "Noah's Ark" babies, too.

These were the little ones whose number will not be known for several days due to the lack of facilities under which doctors and public health nurses are working. Crib Nearly Floated Away. Ohio Valley General Hospital had several from the McKees Rocks section. In St. John's Hospital in addition to Quincey Ross, the Sharpsburg refugee, three-day-old Robert Schuffert of 2415 West Mar St.

Brought tothe hospital after high waters had all but floated away the crib in his own home. St. Francis' Hospital had several "orphans of the storm," ranging from a few days to a few weeks in age. At Pittsburgh Hospital, a boy was born to Mrs. Ruth Thompson of 110 Biddle Wilkinsburg and a boy to Mrs.

Betty Palmer of 6934 Kelly St. Here the delivery room had its own special batteries to furnish light. But nurses taking care of the mothers and infants worked by the light from mine safety lamps. MALADY WITHERS MUSCLES TORONTO, Ont March 21 Twenty-four Toronto children have succumbed to a strange malady which converted them into hopeless cripples. Considered virtually incurable, the malady, known as "psuedo hypertrophic muscular-distophy," withers the victims muscles until they disappear.

IN OUR EMERGENCY ELECTRIC LICHTINC SYSTEM IS IN OPERATION TELEPHONE HI LAND 2275 HAH Kredit Jewelers and Opticians 109-107 Sixth Street GUN RUNNER" FOR LEE 92 EAST LIBERTY NORTH-SIDE SOUTH SIDE BRADDOCK CARNEGIE I ALAMEDA, March 21 Mrs. I The flood left a 1.000 ton iceberg vith the Federal Cold Storage 1501 Penn avenue. It was left standing in the ice house, which adjoins the refrigeration plant on the water front River flood water leaked in and began to melt the edges of the enormous stack of big -cakes. In ad-SitTon. the artificial cooling system -ot cmnned when water invaded The 52K room.

When the flood subsided, the cakes froze to each other, creating an almost solid block about 30 feet high, weighing between 50 and 1000 tons. North Side Store: 405 Federal Street East Liberty Store: 6103 Penn Ave. Linda E. Haskins who at 17 was a "gun runner" for Robert E. Lee, has celebrated her ninty-second i 7 East Main Street 544 Braddock Avenue 17th and Carson Sts.

807-809-811 Federal St. Franks town and Broad birthday here. With her clothing stuffed with pistols and gunpowder for the Southern soldiers, she re peatedly penetrated Gen. Grant's.