Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 38, Decatur, Adams County, 13 February 1934 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published thk Every Eve- DECATUR nlng Except DEMOCRAT Sunday by CO. Entered at the Decatur, Ind., Post Office as Second CUM Matter. H. Heller Pres, and Gen, Mgr. A. R Holthouse Sec'y & Bus. Mgr. Dick D. Heller Vice-President Subscription Rates: Single copies I .02 One week, by carrier - .10 One year, by carrier S OO ‘ One month, by mail -36 Three months, by mall —IOO i Six months, by mall ........ 1.75 | One year, by mall ........... 3.00 One year, at office— — 3.00 Prises quoted are within flrst and second sones. Elsewhere 53 50 one year. Advertising Rates made known on Application. National Adver. Representative SCHEERER, Inc. 115 Lexington Avenue, New York 35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago. Charter Member of The Indiana League of Home Dailies. Another month of winter and perhaps some rather severe weather and lhen we can begin thinking about spring. L u>k out for a big vote in the ] coining primary. With candidates for trustee in cadi township and with- the city primary added to the regular county election, it looks as though every voter will get out. The Public Service Commission of Indiana has saved the consumers more than two million dollars the past year. Is that the kind of service you like or do you prefer ' the kind that boosts costs’ Get a ticket for the annual banquet of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce, it will cost but fifty cents and its worth many times that to you to have an active organization with tlie purpose of helping the community. The county offices here are about ready for your approval. Aided by the PWA the offices have been redecorated and otherwise improved. New furniture itow being installed will add to the convenience of the ' public. It always seems queer when some one gives the newspapers a , letter before the person to whom . it is addressed receives it. Tito natural supposition is that in such , cases, the publicity is desired above every thing else. Murray Holliday, of the Indiana revenue office, will be here the 23rd to assist those desiring his aid in making up their income tax re- , ports. The service is without j charge and is done solely for your , greater convenience. The reports j must be filed by March 15th. Reports indicate the deputies engaged in securing the registration el voters are getting along nicely with their big job.. Many of them] have about concluded their canvass I and are now rechecking to ascer-1 tain how many have been missed. You can aid them by calling the deputy in your precinct. The annual banquet of the De-

Safe Pleasant Way TO LOSE FAT Uuw would you like to lose 15 1" ,1 . 1 _'f r ls of fat in a month and at tli<' name t.irno iniTeaae your eucrgy and improve your health? Ilww would you like to lose your iliillbJo chin and your too prominent abdomen and at the same limo make your skin so clean and ilenr that it will compel admiration'' 'let on the scales today and see how much you weigh —then get an ' cent bottle of Kruschen Salts which will last you four weeks. 'I ikr? one hall leaspoohful in a riasa of hot water every morning ami when ytm have finished the contents of this first bottle weigh youiwlf again. After that you'll want to walk around and say to your friends. "One 85 cent hottie of Krusflien Salts is worth one hundred dollars ol any fal person s money." Leading druggists America over sell Kruscheii Salts —You can al- 1 ways get it at Holthouse Drug Co.

catur Chamber of Commerce will be held at the Masonic hall next Monday evening and every booster for this community ought to bo there to offer suggestions and to pledge assistance for the causes that will be best for every one. | The coming year promises many I activities and if we all pull together, the results are sure to be satisfactory. The annual mid-winter meeting of tlie Indiana Democratic Editor- , iai Association will be held next ! Saturday and plans to make it the . biggest and best ever held are be--1 ing 'pushed along by the president, Hon. Wray Fleming. The principal sneaker will be Joseph C. O'Mahoney, United States Senator front Wyoming, who will be introduced by Governor McNutt. Tickets for the banquet can be obtained bywriting Democratic sfate headquarters in the Claypool hotel. It may be well not to get too much excited about Col. Lindbergh's statement to President Roosevelt. The latter knows what he is doing. Beyond question he has information that few know about and he does not intend to permit another Teapot Dome or war hospital scandal to drag along. Private airplane companies, will be treated fairly we predict and the big thing is that the administration will not countenance any thing that looks like unfair business or graft Congressman James 1. Farley met with the county chairmen of the Fourth district at a luncheon ' at Fort Wayne yesterday and told them of the congressional program and the outlook for a speedy adjournment. Mr. Farley is supporting the President and is working incessantly to render every possible service to his district. He is always glad to hear from constituents and to assist them in every possible way. He returned to Washington today. ————— Thirty-five senators are to be elected in November. The seats to be filled are evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans. The odd man, Farmer-Laborite. is sure to succeed himself. The 17 Democratic seats are all safely Democratic. There seems not even the slightest hope that Mr. Fess of Ohio and Mr. Robinson of Indiana will bo able to continue their solemn services. When even Dave ] Reed has to fight for his life iu , Pennsylvania, Mr. Kean of New j Jersey, Mr. Goldsborough of Mary-] land. Mr. Hatfield of West Virginia] seem bad risks. Is Rhode Island likely to be less Democratic next fall than it was in '32? Mr. Hebert is an able and conscientious senator. but his re-election is likely to be uphill work. This may be true j also of Mr. Vandenberg of Mich-1 igan—New York Times. —o

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Many New Features On The New Plymouth Displayed Here '* Elf /jasf / '/ II * ! ||i t r ft I rn un - The new Plymouth Car For 1931 is now on display at the P. Kirsch & Son Show Room, corner hirst and Monroe streets and Ihe public is cordially invited to cull and inspect, it. There are more than twenty-one new features and improvements on the new Plymouth cars including front wheel springing, hydralic brakes, safety steel body, larger engine, easy ! shift transmission and a choice of several smart body styles. I.

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Willard Suttles Built Railroad Where Others Failed In Attempt

Albion, I’a., Feb. 13. — Twentynine yearn ago the best engineering minds of the Bessemer & Lake Erie railroad company admitted defeat. They had been trying for several months to construct four miles of .track across that part of the Pymi atuning swamp, located just north jof the borough of Hartstown—but in vain. More than a few constrailing j firms had spent thousands of dollars and had dumped load after load of materials into tho bottomless, treacherous quicksand and mire. Here Williard B. Suttles entered the scene. Suttles, who celebrated his 78th birthday last January 1, spends his winters with his son in Decatur, Ind., and the rest of the year he is usually located not far trom Albion. I He came to Hartstown in reI spouse to a summons from Henry I B. Porter, chief Bessemer engineer. Previously he had written to Porter, an old friend, telling him that | lie had recently quit a job and was at Decatur. Ind. Had a Reputation Then At this time, Suttles had a reputation as a railroad builder in the early days of the Pennsylvania road, and the Toledo, St. Louis and Western (the old Cloverleaf route 'of the Nickel Plate system). He | was known as a man who could lay trails in Hades. He reported to Porter and the itwo took a train to Conley's station. ■>ow a road crossing two miles outh of Shermansville, I’a. A dense undergrowth of poison oak and the still more poi onous sumac, interlaced with vines and briers, impeded the northern limits of the swarfp. Underfoot, a limitless, oozy mass of slime and quicksand seeped from beneath the fallen tree trunks and brush tufts which furnished a shaky footing. Porter swung an arm to the south and said. "Four miles and more oil

r it, Williard. I want a track across it." He then went on to explain i that numerous attempts to do this had failed. The unresistible under* current of water and sand absorb- ' ed every carload of filling that had been dumped into it. It was an inii possibility to set piling, as there was insufficient solid material at .the bottom of the swamp to drive] : into. Makes Promise Good Suttles squirted a stream of to-| bacco juice at an unsuspecting liz- ] aid and promised Mr. Porter that ] he would have his track. He asked , ' only that he be given prompt ser- i vice in equipment and material. ■ and would be unfettered by the actions of any of tile engineering' staff. A little more than three months later Suttles wired Porter: "You’ve got your railroad track. What's next?” It was a fact. Where others bad failed. Suttles had "come through.'' I On Feb. 22, 1906. Engine 21, at the j head of a nondescript train of] gondolas, hoppers, and equipment ] cars, steamed boastfully across four , miles of track, an engineering feat • that won the acclaim of rail build-1 ore the world over. During the past two years the Pennsylvania highway engineers] have been baffled by the same prob Icm as confronted Suttles so many years ago. They had built a piece of roadway, a section of the Perry Highway, near Sheakleyville, Pa., that refused to stay put. It persisted in dropping out of sight into the swamp. Thousands of truckloads of gravel were sunk into the road bed. Sunk is right—it melted into the mud and muck faster than the ■ state men could dump it in. Confer With Suttles This piece of highway crosses the same swamp as the Bessemer railroad, though at a different location. State engineers inspected the Bessemer right-of-way, hoping to

I find a solution to tue problem. It occurred to them that if a four--11 mile stretch of railroad track could [ be built across the morass of a sufficiently solid nature to support locomotives weighing four hundred tons, drawing trains weighing thousands of tons at a terrific speed, in safety, then, surely, a mere piece of highway that had to carry but a comparatively light load such as autos and trucks was within reason. They went to i Greenville, Pa., and consulted with I F. K. Layng. present chief engineer I of the Bessemer staff, and asked his advice. Mr. Layng sent them to Albion to see Mr. Suttles, assuring them ] that that gentleman could give .them more satisfaction than he. How He Built It Mr. Suttles' explanation was brief and to the point. He told them I how he had built the track on a ] pontoon. The brush and trees had been cut for a distance of 5o yards on each side of the proposed track site. This brush had been piled in a long, high heap along the rigl’.i-of-way. The tree trunks had bren 1 placed end to end along the top of ' the pile and lies were spiked across ] them. This gave a foundation" for the ] steel rail to ride on. The cars of I rip-rap and filler were transported i over this track and dumped into I the brush, which not only acted as ; a gigantic • snowshoe” but as rein- | forcement and kept the ground curj rents front carrying away the ballast. The fill was then built up to the required elevation. And so, the completion of one of the most difficult feats in the history of railroad construction was explained us by a wave of the hand. . Nothing was said of the heartrending days of wading knee deep in 11 the icy watrr of the swamp w ith • 1 snow and ice as the only protection i from the quicksand that lurked unI der the frozen surface which turni, ished the only footing for the work- ■ ors as they toiled at cutting the •i brush and carrit/J it to the track : site. Nothing was said of the torture suffered by Suttles and Tiis

men from the burning poison of the! o«k »nd sumac. Just a commonplace atateincnt of the engiuceiing principal used. Retired In 1931 In May. 1931. after 28 years of accomplishment and faithful service, Buttles, tn company with Henry i Porter, his life long friends and su- ] perior officer, was retired from active service and given a pension by the Bessemer. His retirement marked the end of 59 years of track building. Bbrn In Decatur, lnd„ in 1857, he went to work, first, with the Pennsylvania system in 1871, where he stayed until 1881. He then went over to the Cloverleaf until the summer of 1905. when he resigned | and came to the Bessemer. During [ his time on lhe Bessemer he served as track auperviaor and maintenance of way foreman until his retirement. He was fond of telling tab-s ot the early days of railroading. He remembers the old time •Link-ami-pin" method of coupling cars. He tells of the wooden rail used by pioneer trackmen. He knows when Westinghouse airbrakes were but a dream in the bruin of the invent-1 or. He described the stoking of | the locomotives with wooden slabs ■ cut from the woodlands along the track, and of engines that could be placed, intact, within the cab of a modern Mallet type locomotive. One wonders how many weeks would be required to ride, on a fast Hain, over the miles of track that repose in his memory - back. back, back over the slowly converging ■ rails into the dim years and miles of the past. Mr. Suttles is living here this winter with his son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Suttles of South Fifth street. The above article appeared in the Conneaut. Ohio. News-Herald. o * « | Answers To Test Questions — Below are the Answers to the Test Questions Printed on Page Two. • * 1. John Alexander Dewie. 1 2. Switzerland. 3. New Zealand. 4. "Beautiful River." 5. Ames. lowa. 6. Wales. , 7. Downing Street. 8. Hawthorne. 9. The American Civil War. 1 10. A very large statue. , I Get the Habit — Trade at Home

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INSPECTORS TO ATTEND SCHOOL Safety Inspectors On CWA Projects Attend First Aid Schools Indianapolis, Feb. 13—(Special) Twenty-three additional schools in first aid instruction for safety inspectors on civil works administration projects will be conducted in Indiana this week by Indiana I chapters of the American Red I Cross, it was announced at stato CWA headquarters here today. Twenty-two were conducted last week and arrangements for fourteen more are being made. Altogether, it is estim u t e d . about 2.000 men are being instructed in the fundamentals of first through Ute cooperation of the Red Cross, the CWA and scores of physicians and others trained in first aid instruction who are vhlunteering their services us ] teachers. Each school continues ! for five days. The safety inspecI tors who are taking the course receive their regular pay from the civil works administration for the time spent. , Depending on the number of men to be trained and the facilities available, chapters in some instumcs are conducting schools for men of their own county only, j while in others three and four counties are grouped, in Marion county four classes were necessary. The list of chapter schools for this week, the city where the school is held, and the county or counties from which the men are drawn, include: Fort Wayne: Allen. Whitley, Adams and Huntington counties. David H. flrown and Miss Besse Kinsey, field representatives of the American Red Cross in Indiana, are,in charge of the arrangements for the schools, with Neal 11. Dow, state CWA safety director and W. Pierce Mac Coy, assistant. o * TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY From the Dally Demograt Fils Feb. 13—Mile church, near Bluffion, destroyed by fire with SIO,OOO loss. Farmers Institute opens at the court house wth C. D. Kunkel iu

:ind a good President Wilson I ■ev're ..; |.’. i ( |„B|| . is nut as lucky as usual Dr Fred Patterson ■ high school on "Care ( ,t High school juniors wil«Z What happened to I the stars are Dwight Kenyon Walters, Irvin Ruth Howers', Lucile Leah Hensley. IMBW Adams county grand ’ six Indictments. Wltj Coldest weather of the mercury below tero, MwlSI ■| Decatur Hoy Scouts 1 inn as basketball 28 tn 1- BMIbI Willing Workers hold 1 irns-: ng wltli Miss \’ l):a miles cast of Ifecutur ■MM — Household —BY— WS! ROBERTA!ip® j House Plants | J ( i The pou containing RS s plains can be made mon. joLZI , n covering them with „BL J , on th< The paper can lie cut with i lips or tins, t , t , «Io becomes too . H||B Warmer Floors I I The floors will be t and less draughty if the . ■ s inoths. ffIHM Pudding Bags B'B Add Isnax to the h - ing soak the bags . (Water for an hour. BBm t —» o — Cargoes Increase B- fl Aberdeen, Wash.—(U.FD cargo i'ai h. d new high total- j*|S nt. cargo plywood. bark and canned go. WB - 0 1 II YOU GET UP r TBMMI 1,10 Ihi- Hlnrtdcr With Oil, Ilnehti Etc. the itnpu. in..s •■■ "Is til'll ' ails. mJ Illg- and to .1,, tlie the r .\fi ■ g."■ c .■ "•.'Used train t" 1. . leansiiiK ami ular sleep ll.'lHovis, 1K