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Wathington Merrvfio-Ronn'il This Morning's Comment By a frisky squirrel or old and In the end had not the Demos Leaders Warned on Loss of Lucrative Jobs nerve to go up against Miss Oakley's skill. I did not like to see Miss Burnell shoot swallows on the witig, something Annie would not do. Child as I was at the time, I resented It. Recently Captain J. G.

W. Dillin, noted authority on old rifles, put a a question at me in the form of a poem, called 'Swallows' Nests' which I will give, hoping that Harry P. Hays, or someone like him can answer It "Oh tell me Mister Bird man And set my at rest, Tell me. where in ancient times. The swallows built their nests.

The red men had no chimney On the wigwams made of bark, Nor did they have a covered bridge Where modern swallow park. And if your guess is a hollow tree, An alibi there sure would be. For there the Bird would meet her doom, Rational Whirligig sale of 225 government -owned homes at South Charleston, W. Va. "We are selling war plants for 10 cents on the dollar, but the appraisal value of these housing units ha been jacked up so high by govern- incut housing officials that vets can't get loans from banks to buy homes," Iledriek told the President.

"Men who fought for their country can't understand why we sell war plants cheap to industry and homes high to veterans." When the President received a pair of gold-plated boots and a bootjack from the El Paso Chamber of Commerce, he surprised the Texas presentation committee by putting the two-piece bootjack together in jig time. "You do that like an old hand," exclaimed Representative Ken Regan, from the Texas cattle country, Said California's Representative Harry Sheppard to a group of congressmen in the house restaurant: "Unless we are completely stupid, we must assume that the German scientists Russia commandeered have given her the atomic bomb by this time, and that she has planes as fast or, perhaps, faster than ours to carry the bomb. That means we will either have to start appeasing Russia or build an air force big enough to whip i her. The quicker we build an air force like that, the quicker Stalin and his thugs will become good boys." Mild GOP Mud-Slinging Foreshadows Petty Campaign 4 ALTOONA TRIBUNE, Thursday, April S3, IU Editorial The Menace In Our Midst ORE persons were arrested and fingerprinted i'A in 1947 than in anv other year on record reported Mr. J.

Edgar Hoover, director of the federal bureau of investigation in his most rectnt report on crime in the United States. Said Mr. Hoover, "a serious crime occurred every 1S.9 seconds in 1947. The year witnessed an estimated 1,665,110 crimes of felonious homicide, rape, robbery, aggravated assault and batter', burglary, larceny and auto The ominous trend is indicated by the fact that the 1947 crime increase followed the increase of 1946, in which year crime reached a high peak since national crime statistics were first tabulated in 1930. Compared with the pre-war averages of 193S-41, reported Mr.

Hoover, in 1947 murder increased 15.4 per cent, burglary, 15.3 per cent, robbery, 14.6 per cent, larceny, 2.6 per cent, negligent man-slaughter, 2.1 per cent Almost 10 per cent more women were arrested last year than in 1946. Boys and girls under 21 accounted for 16.1 per cent of all Arrests of boys under 21 increased 10.5 per cent over 1946. Arrests of girls in 1947 exceeded by 30 per cent such arrests in 1941. Commenting upon this menacing increase in crime, Mr. Hoover says, "Home life has detenor-ated, and in too many instances homes are merely places of living and not places of learning.

''Real reduction in present-day crime rates will not come until every adult recognizes his responsibility to youth and his responsibility as a citizen. In these days of uncertainty, the American people must realize that if we are to be strong internally every effort must be directed toward the goal of making people of this nation more law-abiding." And, said the FBI chief, "The juvenile delinquent of the war years is becoming the hardened criminal of today." In the news now is the tragic story of a boy of 13. sentenced to the penitentiary for 22 years for killing a young playmate. His told the court that his youthful client liked horror and so-called "comic" books. Young people today have lost the taste for good literature, for good taste, and for cultured Eving.

Simultaneously, they have lost a sense of consideration for others, a sense of courtesy, and a sense of social obligation. Crime, presented as a thrill-getter, even though it is depicted as losing in the end, has nurtured a thrill-complex in our young people that finds no adequate antidote in modern life. Some weeks ago, the Supreme court of the United States upheld an atheist in her suit to prohibit religious education in connection with the public schools. By their verdict, the learned justices have done nothing to improve life in America, or to improve and strengthen the characters of our young people. Neither have they done anything to reduce the menacing increase in juvenile crime.

This, of course, is only one facet of the problem, vet, it can be a vital one. The Rev. John J. Cavanaugh, president of the University of Notre Dame, commented recently, the government continues increasingly to pour money into tax-supported public schools, and remember, in these highly modern and thoroughly equipped buildings, brilliantly staffed and filled with all of the voung leaders of tomorrow, GOD MUST NOT BE MENTIONED." Says the Rev. Mark I.

Colebrook, a Methodist minister, "It might be considered an appropriate answer for some persons to say that religion and character and moral integrity should be taught in the home and in the church, but, it is an inadequate answer. No reasonable man should assume that this overwhelmingly important function, the teaching of moral integrity and ethical responsibility can be any easier to teach a boy or f'rl than a grade school or high school curriculum, ducators and parents today are making the great mistake of underestimating both the need ana the process of moral and religious education." youR BIRTHDAY By STELLA THURSDAY, APRIL 22 Born today, new ideas, new scenes and new faces appear to be your inspiration. You need something to keep your interest In a job at top peak if you are to do your best work. Don't make the mistake of seeking excitement to the point of overstimulation, or you will defeat the very result which you are seeking. Artistic and dramatic by nature, you would do besj to select a career in which you will lie able to travel much of the time.

In this way, your desire for novelty will be satisfied and you then will be able to devote your energies to the serious work at hand. Some of you born today, however, are able to get your mental excitement by delving into rare books and doing research in odd and mysterious things. This, however, may be but a secondary release, for tho armchair traveler is never as thoroughly satisfied as that one of us who actually does the traveling. Parents of cliildren born oh this day will do well inquire early into their progeny's talents and then bend all their efforts toward sending their vaunting energies into constructive channels. Strong in their likes and dislikes, there will be little difficulty in discovering what these are.

Give such children their heads under proper guidance and they will develop their special talents early. Tighten a harsh remand they may go too far in the wrong direction. Learn to guide, not push and the problem is solved. All of you born today are easily influenced by those you love, hence, marriage may make or break your career. Thwarted in low, you will appear, also, to become thwarted in ambition to seek and gain material successes.

To find what the stars have in store for tomorrow, select your birthday star and read the corresponding paragraph. Let your birthday star be your daily guide. FRIDAY, APRIL 28 TAURUS (Apr. 21- May 21) Be prepared to grasp a new opportunity quickly and to make definite progress toward some idealistic goal. GEMINI (May 22-June 22) Activities postponed from the early part of the week can be continued successfully now.

Full speed ahead. CANCER (June 23-July 23) Check assets and liabilities. Work on the details of a plan to see that all is operating smoothly. Be efficient. LEO (July 24-Aug.

23) Poor judgment can be at fault in some business so be very careful what you embark upon now. Investigate. VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept. 22) Morning hours are the best for your efforts.

Combine business and social plans for best results. Slow up when evening comes. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) Opposing forces may be interfering with your best laid plans, so stand back cautiously.

Let things work out before you plunge. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) The unexpected can happen and the results are entirely up to you; good, if you use judgment. Bad if you fumble, SAGITTARIUS (Nov.

23-Dec. 22) Wisdom in all affairs involving public matters will bring good results, but haste can only bring trouble. CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan. 20) If the unexpected occurs, take immediate action with wisdom and efficiency.

Delays will make things even worse. AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 19) If you can keep your emotions under control, then considerable good can come from today's activities. PISCES (Feb.

20-Mar. 21) The early bird gets the fat reward this morning. When afternoon comes, sit back and relax. The need for rushing is over. ARIES (Mar.

22-Apr. 20) Concentrate on business today, letting the social angle take care of itself. Don't try to combine thenv By HENRY W. SHOEMAKER MISS SUE A. KLINE, HISTORIAN AND FOLKLOR-1ST, COMMENTS ON THE OLD DYERS AND WEAVERS, MENTIONED IN A PREVIOUS COLUMN: LIKE HEDDA HOPrER, ANNIE OAKLEY CAME OF HOLLI-DAYSBURQ STOCK, A GRANDDAUGHTER OF MR.

AND MRS. JACOB WISE. SAYS Miss Sue A. Kline, historian and folklore authority, of Kline's Dry Sawmill, Perry county, was interested in the column about the old Dyers and weavers. Certainly this community did a lot of dyeing, colorful and lasting, with local weavers, or itinerants, helping out on patterns, and continuing through to the finished products; now these are "lost arts" hereabouts, nothing gets started anymore, or no one to gather the plants and shrubs from which the dyes were made, as recorded in the column.

It seems to me that the state should subsidize these folk arts, and revive them; could be a part of the work of the Kenneth Dear-olfs remodelled State Museum, at Harrisburg. "IT seems unfortunate that arts and crafts centuries old, and of original types, must die out, and be lost to us. If a market could be established, and the effort made worth striving for, the old dye-making sheds and looms, will quickly come to life among the descendants of the original dyers and weavers; now industrial plants in cities like Sunbury, absorb these gifted people." ONE of Sue's best friends remarked, "Prof. N. W.

Moyer has been telling me about the magnificently illustrated new biography of Annie Oakley, by her niece, Annie Fern Swart-out, yet what most interested me was the- fact that 'Little Sure Shot's' mother was born, like Hedda Hopper, in Holli-daysburg, the daughter of a hotel keeper, Jacob Wise. Emily Wise married Jacob Moses, also a Pennsylvania inn-keeper, consequently this explains Annie Oakley's ties with Blair county, and why she took her bridles and 'chaps' to Germaine Cazanave and Henry Schofield, in Aitoona when any repairs were needed. Annie Oakley's step-father was Dan Brumbaugh. It is conceivable that the families of these two great show-women, Miss Hopper and Miss Oakley, were friends, or relatives in the picturesque old Blair seat of justice. Blair can well be proud of the pair, on whose names fame's sun never sets around the world.

Thjy have shown what- it means "to have a Blair county background, women of distinction and unique gifts. "I HAVE long wished to meet Hedda Hopper, and tell her how much I enjoy her snappy and sprightly columns, which are so widely read. I remember De Wolf Hopper, Hedda's husband well; he was one of the world's greatest comedians. I saw him in many years ago when his acting carried audiences with him." RESUMING, Miss Kline said, "The same stage wagons and prairie schooners', which halted at the inns kept by the Wise and Moses families came to our old stone house, across from the Dry-Saw Mill All those old tavern keepers knew one another, and while as Dr. Alfred L.

Shoemaker says, "no Pennsylvania Dutchman ever had to advertise a marriageable daughter by painting a blue gate, as they are good lookers and hard workers, certain signs chalked on the sides of the Conestoga wagons by the innkeepers determined the reception one got at the next stop; if a wagoner was an ugly, abusive drinker, quarrelsome, dirty, or poor pay, he was told 'no place to put him up', and such parties' could only get accommodation by pretending they had a sick child or invalid wife, else they must outspan and spend the night by the side of the road, Landlords like my ancestors or. the Wises' and the Moses', were like in a fraternity, and safeguarded their colleagues In the business from all possible vexations. 'THE Kline's ran a high class stand for nearly a 'century, and a night at Kline's was the nearest thing to a night at home. Of course everything was done at the old place; I can show you where the loom stood, and the dyes were made; everybody worked for the. love of it, like Adam Leader said of the people of Schmalz (Lard) Hill, back of Herndon, They had little money, but plenty to Wages were low, and appetites possibly keener than today, but no one went hungry.

"ANNIE Oakley's Gipsy rival, Darmanutha Burnell, often stayed here, a girl who was always boasting of what she could do with shooting. An-nie, in Harrisburg hearing of her, so Alex Schwartz the trapshooter told me, said. 'I have her beat; I never fear the boaster who can break 100 glass balls out of one hundred, but when they express doubt of their skill, I am apt to get on my "ANNIE waited for the Gipsy girl to appear at the old Harrisburg Opera House, but the meeting never took place. Yet that Romany lass could hoot, but she talked too much. sip coon.

So tell me Mister Bird man And et my mind at rest, tell me Where in ancient times The Swallows built their nests." "SURELY as a friend remarked, 'It is a sweet little and I am sure that through her western tours Annie Oakley knew tho correct answer." IN a recent letter Harry Hays stated. "William H. Gardner and I are ready for a hike in the woods and hope to see a number of early birds. They are arriving steadily. I surely miss the Wilson's snipe and upland plover.

Have not seen one of these splendid birds for the past two years, and they may be as Captain Dillin says of 'Jim on the way out. Also I see very few larks anymore." NO doubt if Annie Oakley returned she would go a long time between shots at wild birds, many of the fine species she knew having disappeared. zine articles were generous enough to underwrite travels that took him into forty-two states of the union. ELDERLY Senator Van-denberg, who is regarded as the most likely beneficiary of Stass-en's show of strength, has not escaped these pre-convention digs. In attempts to decry the prominent part he has played in shaping bi-partisan foreign policy, he is described as an elderly figure who, after serving as an obedient and routine party servant, has decided to make a death-bed repentance.

But the new attacks center upon his age and supposed poor health. He has furnished inspiration for this kind of disparagement by saying that, if elected he would serve only one term. Now his enemies have him in a state of decrepitude that, according to them, he must sleep at least ten hours a night. He cannot step out after dinner, they add, except for duty occasions. Such an invalid, it is pointed out, could not endure White House hardships even for one term.

Anti-Vandenberg dinner party gossips conclude these jibes with Mrs. Vandenberg's reported remark: "I would rather have a live husband than a dead President." PRAISE Senator Taft is damned with great praise on all sides. His detractors say that "he is so brilliant that he is stupid." What they mean is that, in senate debates and public appearances, he is apt to forget or waive aside the silly amenities of parliamentary and political discourse. Thus his honesty and bluntness are turned against him. He is labeled a "reactionary" by labor for his co-sponsorship of the Taft-Hartley Act.

Yet he is condemned as a "radical" by many Republicans for his co-authorship of measures for federal financial aid for education, health and housing. Even Mrs. Taft's active assistance in his campaign is used against him on the ground that she would be "another Eleanor Roosevelt" if he ever sat in the White House. The truth is that there was never a less socially or politically ambitious or a more "homey" family in Washington. The fact is that Bob and Martha, as they would undoubtedly admit, would like to see the.

male member of the team in" the big chair because they consider him the best qualified man for that awful assignment. PENALTY Even popular Speaker Martin gets kicked a-round. When it is suggested that he might be the darkest of dark horses, politicians and correspondents retort: "What, 'little Joe' in the White House! He's a grand guy, but I can't see him as President of the United States!" Speaker Martin is paying the age-old penalty for his friendliness and for the fact that, since he entered the House in 1924, he has never tried to look or pose or behave like a President. No more than Calvin Coolidge or Warren Harding did! All these behind-the-scenes railings against the key candidates will be uttered and published in one form or another before the gavels bang at the two conventions. But you don't -ve to believe more than ten percent of the Indictment, and even then, you might be wrong! GRAND ISLAND, Nebr.

LVi Sheriff Herbert Hann stopped a motorist driving a car without a tail light. The driver said he had looked only five minutes earlier "and it was burning then." But examination showed the tail light that was burning "five minutes ago" didn't even have a bulb in it. Swimmers have crossed the English channel 25 times, 10 women and 14 men having made the crossing, one man twico. By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON Ohio's usually solemn Senator Robert A. Taft and his wife, Martha, were listening to a radio program, "CBS was there," dramatizing ancient times in modern language.

This particular program was based on the fall of ancient Pompeii, and the dramatization was grim and gruesome. The peopl of Pompeii starved as their city was torn to pieces. As the program closed, Senator Taft picked up the phone and called Columbia Broadcasting. "You can tell the people of Pompeii," he said, "not to worry. The Truman administration will ask for a $42,000,000 relief program for them next week, I'm sure." MERRY-GO-ROUND President Truman has been railing In Democratic leaders from all over the nation, and giving them pep talks aimed at securing his own renomina-tion.

After they leave his office, the visitors are discreetly warned that a vote against Truman at the Philadelphia convention means no jobs for them in the future. CIO President Phil Murray and Chicago Political Boss Jack Arvey met secretly in Pittsburg the other day. Both are opposed to Truman's running again. Chester Bowies, who is opposing President Truman's re-nomination, will make a nationwide lour stumping for a liberal Democratic nominee. John L.

Lewis's real strategy in prolonging the mine strike was to cut coal reserves. With stock piles low, Lewis is in a better bargaining position to get wage increases when the operators have to sign a new contract in June. NO CHANGE ON LEWIS After GOP Senator Styles Bridges of New Hampshire settled the coal strike, Attor-new General Tom Clark personally wanted to pursue the government's contempt case against John L. Lewis, but decided to phone the White House for instructions. "There's no reason to change our course In the slightest," was President Truman's immediate reply.

"I know you Intend to go right ahead with the court proceedings, and I want you to," When Clark inquired what Truman thought about the Martin-Bridges peace deal with Lewis, the President said: "I'm ignoring it." He added that he was glad to see the miners starting back to work, but was losing no sleep over Republican attempts to embarrass the administration. UNDER THE DOME Three years after Roosevelt's death members of the Roosevelt Memorial Foundation have finally condescended to invite Steve Early, one of FDR's closest friends, to join the Roosevelt Foundation. R. D. McCain, Dallas oilman, and his three flying sons, plan a round-the-world speed flight via Moscow if the Russians will let them.

Congratulations to Congressman Lyndon Jchnson of Texas for pushing President Truman into freezing surplus war plants. If it hadn't been for Johnson, a lot more plants would have been sold just as war production is needed again. SEC commissioners, studying the record of the Henry Kaiser-Cyrus Eaton stock-market fight, may recommend to congress a law penalizing any investment banker who alks out on a contract In the future, HAWAIIAN STATEHOOD Senator Guy Cordon of Oregon is pressing for a vote on Hawaiian statehood inside the senate territories and insualar affairs committee. The house has already voted to make Hawaii the 49th state, but the bill hasn't been able to get by Chairman Hugh Butler of the senate committee. Butler has been insisting that the committee make a first-hand Inspection before it passes on statehood despite the fact that when Butler's committee was invited to Hawaii last summer Cordon was the only one who accepted.

DOWN PENNSYLVANIA AVE. GOP Congressman E. H. Hed-rick of West Virginia has vigorously protested to the White House against the proposed flooded with fifteen feet of water. Elmira, N.

was flooded by three feet of water over the entire city, and Andover, N. Y. experienced the same fate. Thirty thousand of dollars damage was done at Wellsville, N. Y.

and more than twenty-five thousand damage at Caniesto, N. Y. At Sunbury. the loss was more than a million and fifty lives lost. The loss of life in DuBois, Red Bank.

New Bethlehem, and Driftwood, numbered more than five hundred and the great Atlantic, ocean had rose to cover most every east coast line city. Thus closes a long but true story of the great flood that extended throughout the nation in May 1889. Thousands upon thousands of lives lost and millions upon millions of dollars lost in property. Additional feature stories dealing with incidents recorded in years gone by. will be found here at intervals.

By RAY TUCKER WASHINGTON Republican rivalry for the presidential prize has become so keen since the unexpected upsets scored by 'Harold E. Stassen that friends of the various candidates have begun to indulge in some mild mud-slinging, which tends to offset the harsh remarks directed against President Truman by major and minor members of his own party. The tirades are not particularly vicious, but they are undignified, and they forecast a mean, petty campaign. The candidates themselves are not guilty of these offenses, although there is no evidence that they have bridled voluntary or involuntary spokesmen. Nor have the innuendoes been uttered on a public stage of distributed in official or semiofficial literature.

The barbed stories, suggestions and anecdotes are heard in Congressional cloakrooms, at dinner parties, cocktail get-togethers, hotel lobbies, and wherever people with a professional or amateur interest in politics gather. And in Washington that is everywhere, inasmuch as the Capital is known as a public whispering gallery. SOUTHERN Mr. Trumart's difficulties with the Southern wing, for instance, are blamed on his vocal eagerness to picture himself as a Dixie Democrat both before and after he entered the White House. His promulgation of Civil Rights legislation would not have caused such a commotion below the Mason and Dixon Line if he had not represented himself as a son of the South as soon as he landed in Washington.

He himself, according to the cocktail commentators, parlayed into political payoffs the remark of his mother when, as a new National Guard recruit, he returned home in a blue uniform. 'Take that uniform off, Harry," she said, "and don't ever enter this house again in such a getout." He also used to tell with chuckles how. when she first visited the White House, she could not believe that he would retain Abraham Lincoln's bed, which she regarded as a Yankee abomination. Mr, Truman, according to these stories, informed all and sundry, both as a senator and President, that his sympathy and temperament were southern, and that Dixie would have a friend in him forter. Naturally, these autobiographical illuminations lead southern politicians to feel that they have been double-crossed by the man in the White House.

FAVORED For obvious reasons Mr. Stassen is the next most illustrious target of this as yet undercover warfare. His friendly enemies have abandoned joshing references to him as "the young man in too much of a hurry," "the one-world reformer" and the "baby-kissing candidate" since they discovered -that these slighting asides did not hurt him with the electorate. Now he is depicted as Wall street's favored candidate, as Wendell Willkie was in the last, desperate hours of the 1940 pre-convention tussle. His enemies charge that he has been financed, publicized and supported by the international financiers because his general foreign and domestic policy satisfies them as completely as Mr.

Willkie's did. SOURCE In support of this indictment, they recall that after delivering the keynote address at the 1940 convention, he became the Willkie floor manager, although he had promised the Taft-Dewey forces that he would remain neutral. "Childe Harold" as they call him, discovered then that no man can get far in presidential politics if he does not have the blessing of the Broad and Wall street clique. Noting that Mr. Stassen has travelled at least 90.000 political miles since he quit the navy in 1945, his critics ask the source of the funds to finance such costly campaigning.

They do not believe that fees from lecture tours and maga- A Farmer's Diary By CALVIN A. 8YERS USE FOR WASTE LAND Here among the hills, almost every farm has some "waste land." Some farms, indeed, seem to have more waste than soil that can be cultivated with profit. Some years ago nearly 50, perhaps a young man purchased 160 acres just east of where we live. There was not enough level ground on the whole place to put the building on. The high ridge on which Calvin Byers the road was built was like a saddle that sloped steeply on either flank.

Waste, cut over land, it was, like all the rest along these same poor ridges. Some of the neighbors questioned his judgment and silently pitied him when he planned to live there. Now, every spring, these rugged hills are pink and white with apple bloom. Lush, dark green bluegrass growing between the rows of apple trees attests the increasing richness of the soil. Scores of cars go past our house every day to get a load of perfect luscious friut.

In a year when most orchards had a scanty crop, he harvested 12,000 bushels. He told me he had not missed a harvest in many years. The elevation, and nearby forests protected him. A furrier along the river road just above our village, has a strawberry patch that hangs on the side of a stony hill. All spring and summer I watched those rows develop.

Now there is not as fine a patch of fruiting plants on any lowland soil. Waste land lies all about its borders, except the edge that drops steeply to the highway. On our own farm, more than 12 acres of rugged slope is covered with brambles and vines and scrubby forest trees. Among the other stuff, the orchard trees I planted are camouflaged, but still alive and growing. In just a few more years, I hope to see this land blossom white and pink with peach and apple blossoms, and where the terraced tree rows rise, blueberries and hazel bushes will grow and thrive.

Melons, berries and vegetables will grow between the rows. I note that a scientist seriously suggests that marginal land should be planted in fruits, nuts and berries In case aerial warfare should disrupt the centers of future civilization. For every home a cave, among the hills, with a spring, an orchard and good firewood why not a goat or two, plenty of game birds and a loom or a spinning wheel? Bomb shelter recreation According to that plan, we might even progress up and up, until we were civilized enough to know and enjoy the goodness of the earth and of its Creator, as our forefathers did. At least it's something to think about, until nations "shall not learn ar any more." SIDNEY, Australia CP) A billygoat had a midday snack of $3,840 worth of checks and wool bills st Hall's Creek, Western Australia, recently when a traveler left his luggage outside a hotel while he lunched. The goat was killed.

Sixteen of the 18 checks were in good enough condition to he paid by the banks. The Aztec Indians used ti weave turkey feathers intc blankets by using strands of wile hemp for fasteners. THE TRIBUNE'S PROGRAM FOR ALTOONA AND BLAIR COUNTY Industrial Expansion A Coordinated Recreation Program A Recreation Director Permanent Program to Prevent Juvenile Delinquency Religioui Education on the Public School Curriculum A Beautification Program for City and County A City Planning Committee ALTOONA CnntintiniHtv Pllhlichaf TRIBUNE iinrm I Published Daily Except Sunday and Certain Holidays By the Times Tribute Co. A. 1110 Twelfth Street Aitoona, Pa.

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The Chesapeake bay was interrupted by the heavy masses of logs, debris and trees afioat. Looking southward from Havre de Grace, the mouth of the Susquehanna and far out into the bay the water was covered with floating wood. So terrible was" the flood, that more than two hundred logs was swept past Havre de Grace per minute. Virginia and West Virginia were visited by the most destructive flood In history. More than five inches of rain fell on Gettysburg, in a ten hour period.

At Valley Junction in Maryland, a sickening roar of water caused one thousand feet of embankment along the Marsh-Creek branch of the railroad to give way and along with the dirt went the precious new rails recently laid. Four divisions of a huge bridge at Hagerstown was washed away. The lrge Laudel dam at Pine Grove, was completely destroyed and the Pine Grove sector Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Enttnd at Aitoona Postofflee as Second Class Mail Matter. Member of the Associated Press and Associated Press reature Service. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for Xblicadon of all news dispatches credited to it or not rwtst credited In this paper and also the local news published herein.

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