Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 34, Number 21, Decatur, Adams County, 24 January 1936 — Page 1

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

I Conservation Speaker II • , i I • * - < 'c-A-A Milt Wysong, a representative 1 of the educational division of the department of conservation will speak at the meeting of the Country Conservation club Monday. CALL SPECIAL COUNCIL MEET Ad‘”* ,( t Cnnntv Council Wi’l Hold Snecial Session Feh. 5 A epecial meeting of the Adame rounty council has been called for Wedneedav February 5. for the purpose of cortsidering rmuests for additional appropriations. The ap'repriation reoueete total J 5.509.95, of which 12.345.70 is for the 1935 budget and 94.187 from the 1936 budget. One appropriation of $24.25 from the _l§34 budget ulhq is asked. The 1935 appropriations are for claims filed with the county auditor for which funds were exhausted before the end of the year. They cover current bills and w?re not raid because the appropriations for the y?ar were not sufficient to cover the items. The items from the 1936 budget, are with two or three exceptions, requests for re-appropriations for payment of insurance on the court , house. The policies expired last December. The meeting is s heduled for 9 ; o’clock in the morning. o Break In Weather Thought Imminent Local thermametJrv! registered tron 14 to 16 degree? below zero at about five o'clock this morning. At nine o’clo'k the mercury stood at about 10 bslow. Thursday morning th? mercury dropped to 20 and 22 below. Slowly rising temeperature was predicted for late today, with a forcast of snow tonight or Saturday. o CLAIM WORKERS BEFUSIHG JOBS lll.nbor Policy Under Work-Reli?f Program Is Changed Washington, Jan. 24 — (UP) — ! Complain*” from pub’ic works pro- | ’eje:t contractors that relief workers ar? refusing off?ns of private I employment resulted today in a [ -omplete reversal of labor policy under the «4 009,000,000 (B) workrelief program. Works progress administrator Parry L. Hopkins ordered that "workers are to be mad? available to PWA even though this involves I postponing the initiation of WPA projects or curtailing work on active projects by reassigning WPA workers." He informed all state WPA administrators that "projects of the i federal emerge-ncy administration ‘ of public works have been given definite priority in the assignment of labor." The implication of ’Hopkins’ order was that relief workers who refused to accept WPA jobs would be deni id the opportunity to work on WPA work relief project’. The contractors’ complaints came (CONTINUED ON TAGE FIVE)

COMMON PEOPLE PAY TRIBUTES TO LATE KING Thousands O f Englishmen Pay Final Respects To George V (Copyright 1936 by United Press) London, Jan. 24 — (U.R) —King George’s people began paying him heir final tribute today. At 8 a. m. a column of mourners dght abreast, filed into Weetmlnter hall, split into two columns if four, and passed the catafalque in which his body lay. The first to enter the great hall had waited outside since 6 p. m. resterday. The body will lie in state from 8 a. m. to 10 p. m. today, Saturlay, Sunday and Monday and will e buried at Windsor Tuesday n/ter a funeral service at Westminster Abbey, across from the hall, and a state funeral procession to Paddington railway station. There were 3,000 in line when I the- hall was opened this morning. As the day advanced the line' stretched ever farther westward along the Tlw.mes on whose bank the houses of parliament, of which | Westminster hall is part, nre ( situated. Drivers of automobiles and | trucks passing a corner of the ] hall in their course through the artreles of Whitehall and Victoria ! street slowed to a walking rate ; I and l»ared their heads. King George’s royal standard ‘ flew at half staff from tho Victoria tower at the other end of the parliament building from the hall. It was a gre.y morning, with mist rising from the murky Thames. A carpet was stretched from the public en'rance off old palace yard | to the hall. The mourners, including some children, whispered as they apl proached but fell silent as they reached the threshold. At the top of the entrance steps, they saw an aweoome spectacle. The vast hall, with dim burning lights, seemed to burst into the broken only by the tiny splash of (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o ROADS OPENED FOR TRAFFIC All Roads In County Likely To Be Opened By Saturday According to reports from the office of Walter A. Gilliom. county highway superintendent, practically all township roads in the northern part of the county were open for traffic at noon today. Transportation on the township roads in the southern part of the county is possible, and while these roads are not as free from snow as the northern roads, every effort is being made to clear them for traffic. The department expects to have all roads open by Saturday night. Due to the efforts of this department. xTnose men "have worked day and night against the bitter cold and heavy snow, farmers are now able to continue their marketing in various towns in the county. During the entire work of clearing the roads the trucks did not suffer a breaKdown, nor did the men cease their untiring efforts, ; though many encountered frostbitten hands, feet and ears. Mr. Gilliom was forced to remain in Lafayette, where he has been attending the Purdue road’ school, because of blocked roads in that portion of the state, but ' the highway work has been efficiently directed by his office during his absence. o Ears, Toes Frozen After Accident Harve Ki’eon. well known salesman for the Fort Wayne Pipe and Supply company, had both ears and the big toss on each foot frozen Wednesday afternoon, following 1 the auto accident on state road 1, north of Bluffton. Mr. Kitson pulled over to the side of the road to 'et another driver through the path in the snow drift. The other car swerved in th? drift and struck Mr. Kitson's car. Mr. Kitson helped take the injured man to a farm house and it was during this time he had his caero and to°s frozen. Several other Decatur people report having their ears frozsn as a result of th? extreme cold weather yesterday and Wednesday.

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, January 21, 1936.

New French Premier I . * • • •» y ft Albert Sarra.nt, former premier and one of the leaders of the Radical Socialist party, was selected by President Lebrun as new premier of France to succeed Pierre Laval when the latter’s adminisItration fell during the battle over the gold crisis. TEACHERSARr ALL ACCREDITED Leadership School Will Open In Decatur Next Tuesday The teachers who will lead discussion groups in the community leadership school which opens Tuesday evening in the Decatur high school building, are now duly ■ accredited with the International ' Council of Christian Education, ac--1 cording to a letter received by the dean of the school, Rev. H. R. Carson. To gain this recognition these leaders have studied the text books and other supplementary books, have passed several tests in personal educational equipment and have filled tentative teaching forms for discussion guidance in class work. Their creditment makes it possible for those in their classes to gain official recognition for work done under them. Sunday is the time set for the enrollment In the various church schools interested and each pastor and superintendent is asked to present the matter and report to Rev. Carson between 1 and 2 o'clock the same day. It is hoped by this method to g?t an indication of the size of the total enrollment and what preparation must be made I ror the comfort and convenience of the school. Those who do not enroll on Sunday may enroll at the School Tuesday evening. o Ask Merchants To Attend Meeting Local retail merchants are invited to attend a xeeting thia evening In the mayor's court room in ths cFty hall, for the purpose of dl&cusoInga student's sale in local stores. The me: ting will be held at 7 o'clock. Membrrs of the high school class will be in charge and students isk a good attendan e. DEATH CLAIMS SOL P. SHEETS Root Township Farmer Dies Suddenly Early This Morning Solomon P. Sheets, 65, prominent Root township farmer, died suddenly at 1:20 a. m. today at the home of his son Chauncy. Death was due to ajpoplexyThe deceased was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Noah Sheets. H? was born in Root township, Adams county and sp?nt his entire life there. 'He was married January 1. 1900. He was a member of the Mt Pleasant Methodist Episcopal church. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Bertha Sheets of 227 North Fourth street, four sons, Chauncy, Chalmer, Merle and G?rald, all of Root township, two sisters Miss Helen Sheets of Fort Wayne and Mrs. Sam Shackley of Bryan, Ohio, Chris Sheets, a brother. Fort Wayne and thirteen grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at the home of Chauncy Sheets, Root township., Sunday at 1:30 and at the Mt. Pl asant M. E. church at 2 o’clock. Burial will ibe in the Decatur cemetery. The body will be returned from the Black funeral home this evening.

FARM PROGRAM IS OUTLINED BY ROOSEVELT President Outlines Policy To Maintain Soil Fertility Washington, Jan. 24—(UP) —President Roosevelt said today that he | hoped the administration’s objectives for American agriculture could i lie achieved without a constitutional amendment. The president outlined his farm goal as designed to maintain soil fertility and to pass on to the next generation a better and more permanent producing power. The President’s remarks camo while the agriculture department sought to revise the substitute legislation for AAA in a manner to meet constlutional requirements and ultimately 'provide for individual AAA units in each state. These units, with federal financing aid, would be designed to achieve the objectives of production control and isoil conservation. Th? President outlined his objectives as follows: To so manage the physical land ' us? of the United States «o as to not only maintain the soil fertility but to hand back to the next genI eration a country with better producing power and a greater permnney for land used than the one | we inherited from the present gen- | oration. We have got to go a long way to I catch wp with the mistakes of the 'past in order to make the United States as productive as It was 100 years ago, the president said. Mr. Roosevelt’s hope that a constitutional amendment might be avoided came as increasing study was being devoted to the constitutional side of a substitute AAA proi gram. A senate agricutnre sub-commit-i tee. fearing th? proposed soil con-servation-domestic allotment plan might not surmount the constitn- : tional barrier, asked secretary of agriculture Henry Wallace to revise I his plane to include a systom of | (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

PREACHER DIES THIS MORNING Rev. Robert Gaiser Dies Suddenly Early This Morning Rev. Robert Gaieer, 69, minister of the gcepel at St. Paul's Lutheran church, Prebl? township, died suddenly at 8:39 o'clock this morning when he suffered a stroke. Rev. Gaiser was born in Neuenburg. Gerrany, February 26 1866. H? has been minister at St- Paul’s church for the past 15 years and prior to that he had been located in Minnesota for 30 years. He was in the ministry 46 years. Surviving 'bssldes the widow, Mrs. Bertha Gaiser, are the following children Robert. Ottormar. Erich, Mrs. Christ Waag. Helen and Agnes, all of Cleveland, Mrs- J. C. Mueller, Miwaukee, Wi’., Gerhard, Archbold, Ohio; two brothers, Gottfried and Earnest of Cleveland and two sisters Amelia and Anna of Cleveland. Funeral services will he held at St. Paul’s Lutheran church, proaabIj Sunday and burial will be in Cleveland. The body is at ths Zwlck funeral home. Ashley Couple To Open Bakery Here Mr. and Mrs. James Wall of Ashley, will oren a new and modern bakery in the Dugan building on North S?cond street, Announcement of the opening date has been withheld pending arrival of new oven parts. The ibakery will be operated under the trade name of Wall’s Bakery. and Mr. and Mi's. Wall will be in charge. The entire interior is being redecorated. and show cases and ovens ar being installed, and the firm hopes to be open for business in a short time. The formal opening date will be announced later. BULLETIN Fort Wayne. Jan. 24 —(U.R)— Mr. and Mrs. Marlon Mcßride and six of seven children were killed this afternoon when a Wabash train struck their automobile at a crossing near Grablll, Ind. All nine members were brought to Fort Wayne In police ambulances.

Stranded School Children Are Rescued Late Thursday After Workers Battle Hours In Snow

Rising Temperatures In Middle West Give Promise Os Relief From Severest Weather Os Winter OVER 100 DEAD By United Press Tho snowbound midwest disj carded its earmuffs today as I freezing winds which roared out of the Canadian northwest gradually gave way to warmer temperatures. Additional snow was nromlsed for tonight with the mercury expected to rise well above zero tomorrow. Deaths which accompanied the Intense cold mounted to more than 100 in the shivering middle states, and it was feared the num- | ber would pass 125 before the * final count was taken. Ohio, reI porting 19 deaths, led the list of fatalities. Two died while shoveling snow in New York as the frigid wave moved toward the eastern and southern seaboards. Frost-bitten farmers in western Indiana and eastern Ohio pushed ! through blocked highways and I mountainous drifts late yesterday I to rescue approximately 300 pupils ’ and teachers marooned in country school houses near Geneva. Ind., and Celina, Ohio. Billie Uea.n and Francos Jean, four-montlis-old twins of Mr. and Mi-s. Dolph, suffocated in their farm home when protecting blankets became wrapped too tightly around them at Monticello, Ind. Sixty-five persons, their automobiles stranded on the highway, sought refuge at the Alin Miller farm near Frankfort, Ind. A baker truck driver turned over his cargo to the refugees who also eonsumied Miller's supply of butchered [ nice.’. In Chicago, William Gerwing, 75, died of a heart attack when he ventured outside for a newe : paper. The business section of Angola. | Ind., was threatened when a > $30,000 fire raged throughout most of the night in a three-story strnc- ! ture in the heart of the district. ! Ice which formed almost as quickly as the water left the nozzles hampered firemen. o Legion Official Here Monday Night William Sayer, state adjutant of the American Legion, ie ;-:ch?duled to attend the regular meeting of Ad,axs post number 4.3 here next MonI day night at 8 o'clock. Mr. Sayer, who has been present at many legion meetings in Decatur in the past several years, will discuss adjusted service certificates and the "babybond” bonus bill passed by Congress. All members of the legion and all ex-soldiers are urgently requested to be present next Monday night to hear the state adjutant explain these problems- Refreshments will hs served following the discussion. HOELTJE READY TO SERVE TERM Allen County Township Assessor Decides Against Any Appeal Fort Wayne, Jan. 24— “I am ready to hand in my resignation and take the 'rap,' " Lawrence F. Hoeltje, 42 of 2711 Thompson avenue, Wayne township assessor, announced at the Allen county jail yesterday. Hoeltje has been twice ordered ousted from office by his superiors the state board of tax commissioners of Indiana, since he assumed his duties in January, 1935. He was sentenced to serve 2 to 14 years in the Indiana state prison at Michigan City, plus a fine of SIOO and costs, by Judge Clarence R. McNabb in circuit »court Monday, puisuant to his conviction by jury on an indictment charging bribery. “I have always tried to treat the public and everyone right," Hoeltje continued at the jail. "I never intended to harm anyone. I have abandoned the idea of an appeal because of the expense involved, although I have bondsmen who are (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)

' Storm Notes 100 Marooned Anderson, Ind., Jan. 24 —(U.R) Rescue neared today for more than 100 motorists and students who have spent two nights mar rooned in the Walnut Grove school building, in northwest Madison county. Highway and relief workers were cutting a path into the eight- ■ foot snow drift which enveloped the building. No undue suffering wae reported among the refugees, who were amply supplied from a nearby store. The fuel supply was adequate. A largo portion of the marooned group was students who were un- ■ able to return to their homes after being trapped by the blizzard Wednesday. Others were motorists whose (automobiles stalled In deep drifts on state highway 13. Officer* Home Sheriff Dallas Brown and Deputy L?o Glllig returned from Richmond last evening. The sheriff and his deputy took William Rich, of Monroe to Richamond where he was recommitted to the state asylum for the insane. The officers experienced various difficulties of the trip, be ing forced to reman in towns enroute, due to the condition of the roads. Located Ixical authorities were called last night to aid in ths search for Nolan Black, of east of this city, who had left for Muncie Wednesday, and had not been heard of since. It was feared that Mr. Black had been caught in the drifted snow and. being uuable to get out, had frozen to deaeth. Mr. Black returned home this morning, and informed his relatives that he was stranded near Muncie, and had been unable to communicate with them because of disabled telephone connections. A truck driver, who had been fortunate en- , ough to get through the snow covered highways, picked up Mr. Black and brought him to this city, where he immediately notified tho county shereiff. Clean Street" The city street department was busy cleaning up the remainder oi the snow along the curbs of tho downtown streets. Cars have been forced to park several feet away from the curb during the last few • days, because of the snow shoveled from the sidewalks in front of the business houses. All of the merchants have been keeping their sidewalks as clean as possible to make walking safe for shoppers. Condition Better The condition of Miss Elizabeth Leyse, Monroe school teacher, and H. G. Hayes. Indianapolis salesman. both of whom narrowly escaped death by freezing during the storm, was reported improved today. Mr. Hayes drove his own car back to Indianapolis today. Many false rumors regarding the condition of both persons had been circulated. Gradual Relief Indianapolis, Jan. 24— (U.R) — i Gradual relief from subzero temperatures which have caused at least nine deaths within the last 24 hours came today. Temperatures in central Indiana will reach five degrees above zero, according to J. H. Armington, meteorologist at the U. S. weather bureau here. 1 Zero temperatures will prevail in northern Indiana and the mercury will rise to five degrees above along the Ohio river. Rescue Children Celina, 0.. Jan. 24 — (U.R) — All | of more than 150 students and teachers marooned 24 hours in the Central high school building by six-foot snow drifts were back at i their homes today recovering from (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o Discuss Plans For Boy Scout Banquet ' Plans for Decatur's annual Boy ; Scout banquet were discussed at a short meeting of the local Rotary ' club Thursday evening at the Rice hotel. Bryce Thomas, county scout chairman, announced that '. the banquet will be held at the Zion Reformed church Tuesday ' evening. February 11. Members of the Rotary and Lions clubs will forego their week- ’ ly meeting to attend the scout 1 banquet. Other adults interested • In scouting will also attend. An ’ attendance of more than 150 scouts and adults is expected.

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Farmers, Highway Workers Battle Snowdrifts To Rescue Children (’aught In School Houses NO ILL EFFECTS Many an anxious parent slept peacefully last night, fears for the safety of thedr snow-bound children allaytMl through unremitting toil by tho farmers and highway workers of the county in rescuing the stranded children and conveying them happily homeward. More than 300 school children and teachers, stranded in school houses and farm residences, since the blizzard which struck with sudden fury Wednesday morning, were rescued Thursday. Unable to drive trucks, buses or i autos through the heavy drifts. ; the farmers reached the stranded ' youngsters by means of ths old fashioned bobsleds, and in some cases, wagons. National Publicity Nation wide publicity was given the marooning of the 200 children and seven teachers in the Hartford township school and those at the Jefferson township school by press services and radio commen:?3(ors. Last evening Lowell Thomas and Paul Sullivan, radio commentators, in telling of the blizzard and storm in Adams county, mentioned the two schools and made other comments about the news dispatcher from Decatur over the United and Associated press wires. With their sleds and wagons . loaded with blankets, the farmers bundled their youngsters warmly and took them to their homes. None of tlio children nor their teachers, who kept the student* busy playing games, suffered any serious results from the experience. A little tired from lack of ! sleep, nervous from the over-ex-citement of being stranded for more than 24 horn’s, a hot. hearty ' meal eent the “kids" to t xl early I for a much needed rest. All Rescued Pupils ia.t the Jefferson township school were the last to.be reached. These students were all taken home at 5 o'clock last evening. The 200 students and seven teachers marooned in the Hartford township school were rescued at 2:30 in the afternoon. Other students throughout tlu county had been reached earlier in the day. Brave Zero Weather Rescuers, defying sub-zero tem- ' peratures and stinging snow, driven by a wind at times reaching gale-like proportions, worked at top speed all day, battling huge drifts, to reach their stranded children. At Hartford, the children were ’ supplied with food by William Anderson, a farmer living nearby. Forced to wade through deep snow, he was unable to carry any great amount of food, but did take milk, corn meal and apples. These (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) O FORMER JAY CO. JUCGE IS DEAD E. E. McGriff Dies Wednesday Night At Indianapolis Hosptal Portland, Jan. 24.—Emerson E. McGriff, 78, died Wednesday night at the Methodist hospital at Indianapolis, where he had been taken for treatment Tuesday. He was judge of the Jay circuit court from 1917 until 192.3 and was a member of the legislature in 1929. Surviving are his wife, one J son, Everett, of Indianapolis; two , brothers, Lawrence of Deerfield ’ and Sherman of Indianapolis, and one sister, Mrs. George Mock of ’ ’ Eugene, Oregon. ■ I Court, will be suspended here un- ' til after the funeral. James J. I Morgan, R. D. Wheat and Frank ' Gillespie were appointed by tho ’ Jay County Bar association to adopt resolutions in his memory. Anl other bar meeting ?>ll be held when funeral arrangements have t been made. I The body will be returned to i Portland today after which ariirangements for the funeral will be made.