Sunday Times Signal from Zanesville, Ohio • 20

tZZ tlMIMWMil'IMn Page Eight Section Two THE SUNDAY TIMES SIGNAL ZANESVILLE SUNDAY MARCH 18 1945 Zanesville Pioneers Ignored lood Warnings I of 1860 Crest Estimated floods ac occupied loods Soon Came channel was for several feet 341 20th rv '5 ux Pennsylvania railroad and Third street bridge piers after the tins flood Walter Winchell On Broadway 5fcMi Mark Registered Copj ngnt 1X3 Daily Mfrrnr you lake little rare Trade LT COMDR ROBERT SECREST at said as introduced tn the ep of Amer better Hollywood art J3en Grauerito the picture colony 4 This picture shows great flood reached The crest in feet and in children of your the your cabin stood the foot of In the em side of the the and Second worst flood in history was that of avenue while the others were taken from Putnam a country has live in it And any people are out Ter badly home of la first flood avenue are being published today by Samuel Atkinson 1027 Putnam light plant from flood happened Innug ourth and Main streets under water on March 27 1913 the dai that the its crest March original It is a many Zanesville McCulloch in 1797 Is the immediate need just as a the the of has until the period of I860 was the flood Hundreds of men wagons worked fev these reasons the two highest two was NYC to the oster Children 105 22nd CHICAGO A furloughing sailor flying to Chicago gallantly showed an attractive girl how to fasten her safety belt When the plane landed he asked where he could locate her later She smiled graciously and replied: can reach me through this air line a stewardess on January 1937 The center picture shows ifth street looking north from Elberon Hill looking down at the bridge and the lower Main street business section for a man on horseback seemed like heaven sent of transportation es when going down stream ville on two occasions rose high er than they had ever been known to rise In 1913 the height 518 feet and in 1937 it was feet If Ebenezer Zane had laid his town in the Brighton or race districts the residents would have avoided floods But he made his Trace hit the Muskingum riv er right between two waterfalls that he hoped would supply pow er for machinery and he crowd ed his town against the river bank These and other pioneers had ring side seats for all Muskingum river floods And they soon saw the river perform Every spring there was a during the heavy rains The first bog flood came in August 1814 soon after the first flimsy bridge was completed At the same time a dam was under construction at the foot of Market street The flood of 1814 carried away the timbers for the dam and dashed then against the trestle of the bridge and caused some damage In 1815 Zanesville had the high est flood recorded during the first half of the 19th century On March 31 1815 Dr Isaac owler was drowned while attempting to Bremen is the oldest seaport In Germany rate the lieuten said: death The only wealth are the people who the foundations of Its children It is important that world conferences meet be cause we must build up a better world But the first step in build ing a better America is to build occurred in 1818 the crest of 1815 record 1860 a flood of Taken from Putnam hill on March 27 1913 Onlv lamp posts of bridge are visible they began to stream American lines the government was faced This flood of 1818 305 of 1815 312 feet the half 1850 the because of emergency need and them again with the feeling quite gone is cheaper than going to a doctor and much nicer than ac tually having a row with our City) are a twoet Maurice Chevalier has been refused a visa to entertain in England (because of his not yet unproven activities under Gov't) which means perhaps that our State will welcome here with open arms stayed they could the first the next war? ter calmly replied: problem for my but a town of So great for those homeless that medical and dental care (as well as clothing) are also furnished And a nominal sum is even paid to people just to take rare of a baby and give it a little love now and then Thin Sailor Had Good Air Line agency for more informa In for of a its daddy fighting its And forests century highest but near the the locks and this with about 80 erishly for several days to close the channel They succeeded af ter 400 flour sacks filled with sand had been thrown in Zanesville had a taste of the same trouble Portsmouth experienced during the week of March 5 to 10 1945 During the flood of 1860 there was fear that the river would break over the embankment at the intersection of ourth street and the river Was this North or South ourth street? We know that a levee was built by the town of Zanesville in 1841 In that year James Crosby clerk of the town asked for sealed bids raising the levee on the west and northwest now In other words of the Ross book store or to the river Henry Crooks his cabin across the Muskin near the mouth of Chap's John McIntire bridges and along the were cut half of the' waters at Zanes at least in floods of weie 1884 1898 The District office will unearth an awful effluvium in its probe of some model agencies A radio station will be involved Litigation affecting the five giants of moviedom is now being readied It will tend to cause a severance of production and releasing monopoly When rank Kelly (the Demmy chief of B'klyn) visits DR tomoriow he will tell him that the Demmys there will not support LaGuardia for Mayor His sister says the reports that Milton Charleston was killed in action are errone ous The report was started around Boadway by other kinfolk At least six radio commen tators will be dropped by their sponsors the moment the Euro pean war ends and Koreans On Saipan a been have of danism' anil duastation IS bonds will be offered for sale the Recreation and education have been promoted he said Boy Scout units have been organized on Tin ian and Boy and Girl Scout organ izations are operating on Guam and Saipan Posession of standard radio receiving sets is now' permit ted on Guam for the first time since the Jap occupation Last ad Secrest wc A letter from Secrest enclosing a copy of the Honolulu speech was received here by Postmaster How ard McCracken a close friend of the former congressman reach the west end of the bridge on horseback The strong current sections of the towm Material was secured from ountain alley other places between said levee and Sixth street north of Market washed his horse from the ap proach On the following Sunday April 2 the upper bridge was washed away One of the few remaining tomb stones in the cemetery on Moxa hala avenue has this inscription: "In commemoration of Dr Isaac owler drowned 31st This is not his tombstone or his grave memorial stone erected years later Other floods and 1847 But remained the flood of April 45 vears The 22 inches higher than of 1815 As If We Didn't Know It 25 Years Ago: Alex Woollcott made no secret of the fact that he en joyed gossip Those who belittled him for saying so usually received a copy of an essay written by au thor Auden as his reply: "Of ail the interesting things which happen around us the behavior of our neighbors is the most fascinat ing Yet gossip the result of this curiosity is still listed as a vice Is it realy a vice? I think not Un der the right rules it's an act of friendliness and a release of feel ings A friendly person is one who tries to talk about the things which interest his hearers What inter ests them most is the behavior of other people Cut out gossip and there'll be no conversation left ex cept shop talk smoking room stories and the most vapid kind of tea talk gossip Is a (safety valve for I he emotions Psycholo gists tell us that we all nourish grudges jealousies resentments against even our nearest and dear est and that the cure lies in get ting them off our chest When we gossip we do for nothing in the street or the parlor what we should have to pay for doing in the psy choanalyst's consulting room How often I have worked off ill feeling against friends by telling stories about them and as a result met 1 in private business and 1500 women were doing part time laundry work The 5607 gainfully employed were re ceiving a total weekly payroll of 89340898 "Japanese currency was prihi bited as legal tinder and its sur render to military government fi nance officers was ordered On Guam where no exchange rate was set 54753979 yen was collected regular postoffice is now open and the bank of Guam will open soon and general banking facilities will be provided civilians as well as military personnel War Broadway Smalltalk: Monty Woolley says reports from the coast that he had lost his voice are the bunk Can holler louder than ever when bored The Knights of Columbus phone num ber here is Columbus 5 1492 This explains how those rumors flooded the town over the wk end: Radio networks had been on alert orders since March 9th "for possible flash on end" One order (official they say) suggested that such a flash should he held up until after 12 when most people are home sleeping Tall handsome Jack Ellsworth ex Marine com bat coorrespondent is MGM's la iiiieai ij ine sleep or Amer ncan womanhood Ohio CIO Official Speaks Here Monday George Denucci of Columbus acting secretary treasurer of the Ohio CIO council will be the prin cipal speaker at a meeting of the Muskingum County Industrial Un ion council to be held at 7:30 o'clock Monday evening at Clarendon hotel Alva Richardson president the local council will be peo 1 charge iguring from the fact that flood of 1860 rose to 331 feet using Dr Moorehead's figures on the old house in West Zanes ville we get these results: The crest of the flood of 1847 was 298 feet the the flood During 1800 to level was 312 feet end of that period dams were built in the Muskin gum rivers Many ouildtngs were built banks down or part the period of 1850 to 1900 still higher stood at 368 feet In the century as close to Noah lot in town was statement indicates that the levee was probably at North ourth street During the flood of 1847 $11120 was spent on repair of the levee Construction of a new levee after the flood of 1847 cost $83605 Other High Marks "Oh Captain is (liming:" By NORRIS SCHNEIDER Muskingum valley pioneers asked the Indians about floods The friendly red men pointed to the highest branches of the trees and said Eye river him climb high many moons ago Him climb high If the pioneers believed the Indian warning that flood waters would again reacn nign orancnes on the trees along the shore of the river they did not heed the warn ing Marietta and Zanesville weie built on the banks of the Mus kingum river The river was the highway There were no roads cut through the Ohio forest for nine years after Marietta was settled Then in 1917 Zane's Trace was opened but it was only wide enough Rivers avenues pecially with the current The site of Zanesville was se lected by Ebenezer Zane because the three falls at this place fur nished water power for factories and because his Trace intersected the river highway A town on one highway was good at the intersection better The first settlers were two ferrvmen and Crooks They came William McCulloch built his cabin south of the lower end of Main street on ground by the canal west next built gum run on the river bank at Market street The settlers the river as Zane bought Zanesville after plotted Did he go back on Pio neer Hill? He did not He paid $30 for the first lot east of the river on the north side of Main street He had first chance at the ferry and floods bln' curtsied slightly and thus is a great honor Mr st i IH inr snnnU 1 The picture above showing the badly damaged bridge after the 1913 flood and the one below or the grotesque rums of the 1 ingle home on Muskingum for the first time Thcv were loaned to The Times Signal awnue In upper picture note leaning smokestack on old United Nation alateamen will soon gather in San rancisco to make a fateful decisions for the future of the world We hope they have learned that tyrants grow strong enough to make fateful de cisions for the future of the world We hope they have learned that tyrants grow strong enough to in cite wars by feeding on the intel lectual hypocrisy and apathy of peace loving nations The fol lowing story is an example of the type of sordid thinking which could be fatal to plans for global peace: When Stanley Baldwin was the British Prime Minister he in formed a reporter: want it to be said of me that I never sent a sin gle Englishman to die on a foreign The reporter then reminded Baldwin: you see you are piling up trouble that will kill a million Englishmen In the next war?" The Prime Minis Is a As ISIS flood wafers began receding on lower Main street Semes were apparent in many parts of the citv How high were these cording to the present flood stage of 25 feet? We have only the let ter of Dr Moorehead published in a local paper at the time of the flood of 1860 He gave them meas urements of the four early floods on a stone house in West Zanes ville but he did not tell the act location of the level of house It was probably on present Linden avenue The fical stage of the flood of 1860 been computed at 331 feet Dr Moorehead wrote: "On ri day morning April 13 1860 there was in this same stone house four feet four and three quarters of an inch of water on the same floor being 22 3 4 inches higher than the flood of 1815 two feet six inches higher than the flood of 1847" At midnight of Wednesday April 11 I860 the city was aroused by the ringing of bells and cries that the river was breaking over the embankment at the intersection of ourth street and the river Heavy rains had caused a sudden rise of the water The river spread over the lower street of Putnam the Natchez or West Main street dis trict and the West Zanesville or Linden avenue district where only 2 houses in the whole town were not submerged Central Ohio rail road trains did not run days An opening appeared bankment on the west river near Linden avenue and lor a while it seemed as if the course of the river would shift through Lt Comdr Pobert Secrest former representative to congress from the 15th Ohio district re cently delivered an address before the club of Honolulu de scribing the American military government in the Marianas Lt Comdr Secrest is assistant military government officer on tle staff of Admiral Nimitz com mander in chief of the Pa cific fleet Among the spectators at the Ro tary meet was Lt Comdr Homer Gratz former Scout executive of the Zane Trace council with headquarters in Zanesville The purpose of military govern ment said Secrest is to further the successful prosecution of the war primarily by relieving com bat forces of the care of civilians by restoring law and order by en couraging agriculture and indus try and by introducing required sanitary measures Total population under military government in occupied areas of the Marianas he said is 49618 Three principal islands of that group are Guam Saipan and Tin ian Secrest declared that the civil ian population of Saipan and Tin ian retreated into the hills with the Jap troops many living for weeks in caves with food scarce and medical care almost non ex istent When through military with a major problem of medical and surgical treatment as many were diseased as well as under nourished Death Rate Dielines Last September 42555 medical and surgical treatments were giv en in camp dispensaries on Sai pan he said Of the death ant commander rate after the initial period hast steadily declined Principal causes 'pie wore established vi uvtiiii lime uiaiiriea oy sentary and Even a Community Chest fund has been established on Tinian both by the Japanese Secrest revealed voluntary welfare fund has established and contributions been substantial On the whole of Guam he Jess than 600 people are on relief and the number is constantly being reduced arming Encouraged Other quotations from Secrest's speech include: all areas steps wore taken to encourage agricultural produc tion During September on Guam 2214 pounds of seed and 12000 plants were distributed to farmers and 431 acres were planted government officials have registered all civilians and furnished civilian labor both for military units and civilian rehabili tation In December they perform ed over 2563000 man hours of lab on Guam are set at pre war levels On the 20th of De cember 1944 a total of 3102 lab orers were assigned 792 farmers wer working their farms 213 peo irst Serious High Water Struck This Ci tv in 1814 Ami here I Orer S( of was "iK" Command It was issued ut )2 subordination among Allied war Prisoner must A ed war ergehc and dlreel way Arm" to be used without meIly an(i "o' USPC1 Softness even tcnvniH Xe" Pl1) weakness and should not be practiced" better Americans There are and Barbara Jones (Miss Atlantic many enuaren in tne unitea blares who are because of ill ness or death of a mother Or be cause the childs father is fighting tor his country or some other war time These shelter heart Will babv please? So that won't worry while fighting the and while its mother keeps busy at a war plant or is convalescing at some hospital? Write to your nearest child placing tion Homes 'St Gertie aulohiog published) is beinv salnied work of art by many critics One New York book reviewer points out that the tome is filled with gossip In other words when you put gossip in a book you are a great writer But when you put gossip in a some people call you a baaaaaad boy Ho hum War Epic: He was one of the actors known as "a bit been coached reel etiquette ii well Eveyhi'1 went Dll said resident l'v of you many tun training! completed i Im was assigned as ncvr During one ff was descending IHUUfl eluding the him i mandos smear rn sn nor office lwhl knew him in Hwoodi studied the burnt coik streaks on ()llr Hmo's kiss Ulin your masHr ara of a queen" hut a heluva good guy too He didn't wait to bis agged in when the Japs tacked Pearl Hntbor he enlisted Not long after that he was ele vated to lieul enanl then captain in ni'i'iieii tor commando successfully gid course and I'fimninnrllnn nf of a Raimer gi0Up invasions he phnrli ni inn in full haitic in makeup vom it's supposed I al President aural reception A bing inanufai tuiei ported the Drought his dit lle lit i i i 1 1 i i y'Hing lady had weeks on eor of all Secrest Now on Staff of Admiral Nimitz Tells of Military Rule in Mariana Islands ini? 4 31 a I I Tl I I ajkrS Vat EEKHiHHEB Kan'S al EUb EMtera IJw' 7 fc uw a gz iiCTl jilr I MEMIWM lii 11 i 33 4 Bte2O033EEi 3 HO WMKi aBmiHMraKK'Z 21a £3 a4 a feiHhfcL vn st? 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