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RAPID PITTSBUR AFTER FLOOD

GHRECOVERY CITED TO BUOY

HOPES OF OHIO VALLEY CITIES

“American Ruhr” Made Sensational Comeback Within Few Weeks After Disaster, Citizens Tell Writer on First Stop of Tour.

. Recovery and rehabilitation are the big news in the Ohio Valley

now. Dozens of flooded cities face perity. What are their chances? of the Washington Bureau of the

the task of beating back to prosLyle C. Wilson, reporter-manager United Press, is visiting the flood

area attempting to find the answer.

By LYLE C. WILSON

(Copyright. 1937

PITTSBURGH, Pa., Feb. :

stream on the Ohio River can take it from Pittsburgh today | that things probably are not as bad as they look. '

Here a flood veteran healed. Pittsburgh is back to days.

bv United Press) \

cause much of the replacement buying that contributed to its postfiood boom was of heavy materials manufactured here or nearby so that some of the replacement expenditures went directly into local payrolls. | The Federal Government set up | $50,000,000 of Reconstruction | Rinance Corp. funds for flood re- | habilitation loans. But the con- | ditions of those loans were strin- | gent. Anyone able to meet them {could get private funds quite as | easily and generally did.

Heavy Property Damage {

There was much discomfort, widespread physical suffering and there were many instances of individual tragedv. Conditions at high flood stage here then were almost as bad as at any point on the Ohio now, | but Pittsburgh has recovered entireily. At high flood tide last March one | seventeenth of the state of Pennsylvania was under flood water. Damage was more than $212,500,000

£ had special advantages be- |

{.—Flood-stricken cities down- | not counting indirect damage from

loss of occupancy and of trade and business. Eighty persons were killed, 2822 were injured. About

1 2800 buildings in the state were de-

with scars but comfortably |G oveq and 5500 were damaged.

normal and has been for some

Director Carpenter, of the local Federal Commerce Department, | said the upsurge of business operat-

This winter-time flood which carried disaster with its |je 1ast March, and continuing now,

es mstream was comparatively kind to Pittsburgh. | crest downstream compare \ Q Fig

When they speak of “the flood

” here they mean the one last |

factor in recovery of Had the disaster ocdepression there

was a vital

curred . during

March when more than 21 feet of water rolled into the city, | would have been no private capital

over the Golden Triangle¢ downtown, and paralyzed for 48 hours one of the world’s

great industrial centers. Today, with the flood crest threatening Cairo at the Ohio's mouth, the city of Pittsburgh, at the river's head, is doing business as usual, having repaired damage | which accompanied one big and one little flood in 11 months. Further down stream and harder hit, Wheeling, W. Va., has rehabilitation | well “in hand. Below Wheeling flood | waters only now are receding from such battered towns as Huntington, Portsmouth, Cincinnati, Louisvifle and Evansville. And Cairo is a city of dreadful day and dreadful night, as an unruly river laps at the boxed-mud reinforcements atop the town’s concrete seawall. Gloomy Reports Recalled But if the towns in the valley below will listen to Pittsburgh they will learn that things probably do look much worse right now than they really are. When many feet of water were flowing last March 17 through some of Pittsburgh's richest business streets, when steel inills were submerged along the Monongahela River south of town; when | there was no light, no water and | no power, there were reports that Pittsburgh could not come back. There were stories that the great! industries which make this area rich and smoky would not want to remain and certainly would not con- | sider expanding their plants. Some | persons were reading a death sen- | tence for the “American Ruhr” which extends from the industrial |

| the presses could run even though | flood waters

| provement in the Pittsburgh area. | The city, fortunately, had surplus funds and ampie private credit ior a

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blinds which can be drepped behind | big plate glass windows. The Pitts- | burgh Press water - proofed its; buildings with inch-thick squares of window glass and other devices so

outside might rise above their topmost level,

Steel Companies Expand

The Duquesne Light Co. waterproofed its power lines and other utilities and industries made huge capital investments to repair damage and protect property against floods to come.

Steel companies began expanding almost as soon as floods were down. Jones & Laughlin proceeded with a $25,000,000 program and U, S. Steel budgeted $60,000,000 for plant im-

first class rehabilitation job. Vice President Arthur A. Atwood |

of Pittsburgh's Colonial Trust Co, |

said Pittsburgh had not lost a single first class industrial establishment

| by reason of the floods of last March |

Raps Surplus Tax

“That,” continued Mr. Atwood with cold emphasis, “was before |

| |

| Congress voted that tax on cor-!

poration surpluses.” From bankers, research reports | and economists you get the idea that Pittsburgh last March and the |

at hand for rehabilitation and he believes if the flood had hit Pittsburgh late in 1929 the situation might have been even worse, because it would have found business generally in a condition of overexpanded credit and toppling toward the abyss.

OFFICERS RENAMED BY ICE INDUSTRIES

All officer? of the Indiana Association of Ice Industries were reelected as the annual convention drew to a close today at the Severin Hotel. : They are Dan Newell, Peru; president; W. A. Stein, Vincennes, first vice president; D. A. Strauss, North Manchester, second vice president; A. C. Goll, Indianapolis, treasurer, and O. P. Fauchier, Indianapolis, executive secretary. W. K. Martin, Crawfordsville, was

| named honorary president for life.

He is treasurer of the National Association of Ice Industries.

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CROP CONTROL, TENANT ATTACK PLANNED IN "37

Agriculture Department Outlines Year's Program Before Committee.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

By Seripps-Hoard Newspaper Alliance | WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.—-Crop! control without price-fixing; the] ever-normal granary; a $50,000,000-

many times that sum for rural rehabilitation—these will be the legislative goals recommended to Congress by the Agriculture Department. The outlines of the program have been disclosed by department officials at House hearings on the farm tenancy bill of Rep. Jones (D. Tex.), chairman of the Agri-

culture Committee. Action will await the report of the President's Committee on Farm Tenancy, expected any day. It is believed that this report will support the $50,000,000 annual expenditure called for in the Jones bill and in the somewhat similar bill of Senator Bankhead (D. Ala). But it will urge that a brake be put on land speculation.

Undersecretary of Agriculture M. | | L. Wilson, Assistant Secretary L. C.| fitness to become landowners. Under

a-year attack on farm tenancy, and | Gray and Dr. Will W, Alexander,

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THURSDAY, FEB. 4, 1937

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