Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 20, Decatur, Adams County, 23 January 1937 — Page 1

■ No. 20.

HUE THREAT MiM CHiCAGu ■CHT WORKERS k:l Workers Turn Off [aicago’s Lights For Three Hours ■go. Jan. 23 (UP) ;l’nlon ]■ U1 ,k, . will n> ■ ! < 1 s H t.xlav that the strike Ml,.ft tli.'n without street uhß for n.-a.-ly thr-e ■Lst nir’it was 'only a taste' |Mt II"' will ift next week IM'),, r demands are , its electricians dereturn of a depression |K ,■ amounting to 39 days ■ ft'ixi.oe'i a year. The city M said it had no money. Th" ■«. menrhers of two local K s the International BrotherElectrical Workers, abanswitches at 8 p. ni. ■ tull home and 40 minutes ■ ordinal tie lighted by 94.558 M u -„re dark. Thirty-nine ; a ,. r oss the Chicago river' ! poised in the a.lr. tenders raised the epans Hlhridges over the main chan- *| of the Chicago river and two , er branches. Street cars rtwb through the darkness the open spans. Passenbecame angry, cars to find a bridge on slowed to a bare Ltr, pace in the darkness, with ! headlights to guide snarled at hundreds before police I nL bridges left in operation the heaviest of the downand all of the elevatlines. But only two of street car tracks. patrols, summoned for ■L n y duty during the day,' tahf to important business tnto guide traffic. Thev street cars over the two e were street lights alone of boulevards. The 486 ■ lights outside the city's in operation. Commonwealth Edison comits regular power to residences, stores, and k* Itate street business district, to be the best lighted in ■odd. ers encountered little troule t> epieg traffic moving in the ■there 71 traffic lights flick■out. ■twhere, traffic was tied into IL Theater goers emerged bright lights to grope their ' o buses and street cars, lone exchanges received ■calmds of calls from angry ■ists and curious pedestrians, i ■ strike lasted only long ■h to deliver a threat of its ■tossibilitiee. ■10:40 p. m., Kelly. Boyle •('< ' announced a truce ha.-i I ■ reached. The workers were ■tINUED ON PAOE THREE' lATH CLAIMS lamuel fickle ired Farmer Dies At lome Os Daughter At Craigville »tiel C. Fickle, 76, died Friday j le home of his son-in-law and liter. Rev. and Mrs. C. W. e. of Craigville. He had been 1 weeks from pneumonia and dications. ftt in Clinton county on July Kfil, Mr. Fickle was a son of art a,nd Eliza Durham Fickle. tas a retired farmer and for last several months had been ng his home with hfe daughi LraigviHe. He was married ■tnanda McCleery on Dec. 4, ■n Tipton county. rvlving are the widow: three “tws. Miss Minnie Fickle, of mapolls; Mrs. Nellie Davis, of Te’te, Mrs. c. W. Moore, of Mlle; one sister, Mrs. S. J. "■ of Frankfort; 11 grandfen and three great grandren. One daughter preceded In death. fhekle was a member of the e Brethren church at Jeffer- j near Frankfort. ort funeral services will be at 1 o’clock Saturday after- ‘ at the home of Rev. and Mrs. *’ ln ch *rge of Rev. H. W. ln ' of Decatur. Sunday ■ng the funeral cortage will e Jefferson, where services he held at the United BTeth•ni<h at 1:30 p. m j n charge Regenas. Burial will the Jefferson cemetery.

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Leads District oBT I* **■* ® ’'****'' JH Mrs. Bob August of this city was ‘ recently elected district head of the Women of the Moose, auxiliary organization of the ixryal Order of Moose. ORCHESTRA FOR BIRTHDAY BALL Bill Hart’s Orchestra To Play Here Saturday, January 30 Bill Hart and hfs Dictators of rhythm, famous Middle West touring baud, have been selected as j the orchestra for the Birthday Ball for the President to be held in the Catholic auditorium. Saturday j night. January 30, John DeVoss, chairman of the orchestra committee. announced today. Organized as is the Casa Loma orchestra. Bill Hart's Dictators of rhythm have been a huge success , because of the cooperation of the members. i Bill Hart cleverly directs his or- ■ chestra and features his trumpet throughout the course of the dance. He has been featured many times on the NBC broadcasting chain during the past two years, and may be remembered best in thia territory for his many broadcasts during the Chevrolet auto show in Indianapolis. Virginia Hoadley. pretty and youthful vocal star, is a special entertainment feature in connection with Bill Hart and his dictators of rhythm. This ‘‘swinger of songs” was formerly featured with many well known bands such as Sammy Watkins. Todd Rollins and Amos Otstot. In 1935 she was heard nightly over radio station KMOX in St. Louis, and it was in this last city while Bill Hart was filling an engagement at the Kit Kat club, that he first heard of her. He immediately hired her on a long-tin- contract. Bill Hart and his orchestra have j : played some of the finest places in i i this territory, having appeared at the Palais Royiyp, South Bend; Indiana roof ballroom. Indianapolis; Rainbo Gardens. Terre Haute; Hotel Vendome, Evansville: the Arabian Grill. Columbus and the 4444 club in Cincinnati. Recently he has made a barnstorming tour of the Middlewest and has played the Play-More ballromm. Kansas City; Kit-Kat club. St. Louis: Eagles Ballroom. Milwaukee: Danceland. Cleveland, and manv other nlaces. The majority of these engagements have been broadcast. o Work Progressing On G, E. Building Work is progressing rapidly on the construction of the recreational building at the General Electric , works on North Ninth street. The steel work is practically completed and the laying of brick will start next week. The addition is about 65 by 130 feet in size and bowling a’leys and other equipment will be installed in the building. The Indiana Engineering company of Fort Wayne has th.? general contract for the building. <3 One Man Grows Old trying to build jO a business another builds V* QUICKLY by newspaper»

GENERALMOTORS EXECUTIVES TO' REOPEN PLANTS Leaders Os Opposing Factions Return To Detroit Today Detroit. Jan. 23 —(U.R)—Leaders of opposing forces in the General Motors strike returned to Detroit from Washington today a.s the corporation prepares! to reopen some of its plants and the United Auto Worker? planned new organization activities. Trains bearing William E. Knudsen, executive vice-president of General Motors, and the ranking union leaders. Pres. Homer Martin and IVice-pres. Wyndham Mortimer, arrived at Detroit stations but 10 minutes a.nfirt. Knudsen, returning from New York after the collapse of mediation attempts in Washington, wns met at the station by Charles E. Sorenson, general manager for the Ford Motor Ca.r Co. We are going to start opening our plants as soon as we can. the General Motors official said. ‘'We’ll open those least affected by strikes." Speculation as to the import of the meeting between Sorensen and Knudsen was dissipated by the Ford executive after they had driver from the station in autos. "I came down to the train to meet a foreign representative.” Sorensen sajd. “I met Mr. Knudsen quite by accident." The board of strategy of the i United Automobile Workers union called a meeting to consider ex- ; tending the strike —now affecting 135.000 workers —to plants not yet affected. Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., emphasized in New York that the chief obstacle in the way of peace negotiations was refusal of union leadens to withdraw sit-down strikers from General Motors plants. Sitdowners in Flint, Mich., where one riot already had occurred, replied that they would not leave unless they were "pulled owt." Returning here to match strategy, were William S. Knudsen, executive vice-president of the J 1.500,000 corporation, and Homer C. Martin, president of the union. Each had his orders —Knudsen to use every means to reopen plants; Martin to intensify the union's siege. Sloan, Knudsen, and other company executives returned to New York yesterday from Washington (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) O GOV. TOWNSEND SIGNS TAX BILL Tax Moratorium Measure Is Signed By Governor Townsend Indianapolis, Jan. 23. —KU.PJ —Gov. M. Clifford Townsend last night signed the J 25.000.000 tax moratorium bill, first important measure completed by the 1937 general assembly. halting sheriff's sales scheduled February 8 and permitting semi-annual installment payment in six years of taxes delinquent since 1931. The moratorium measure was rushed through both houses, much j of the time under suspension of rules, in just eight days alter ifs introduction In the house. Final action came when conference committees of the house and senate agreed on one final amendment. fixing the date of tax sales this year only as the second Monday in April. Senators and representatives decided that another bill will be entered settling the permanent date for sheriff's sales after this year. After action on the moratorium, the assembly adjourned until Monday afternoon. The house passed unanimously an administration sponsored bill providing for the reassessment of all property in the state this year and every four years hereafter. The house also approved, 86 to 5, a bill to allow counties to accept I CCC aid in the construction of drainage ditches and federal aid in such projects. The senate passed only one measure, a bill requiring jury ; commissioners to take an oath to uphold the constitution. oChauncey Deßolt Is Fined For Speeding Chauncey Deßolt was fined $1 and costs, amounting to JlO when arraigned in city court Friday afternoon on changes of speeding through Pleasant Mills.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, January 23. 1937.

Water Doesn’t Stop Carrier Boy iKLn

The Democrat's staff photographer snapped the above picture of Kenneth Beery, while shooting pictures of flood scenes in the Bellmont addition to the city last Saturday. It was quite by accident that the picture was taken. Driving through the water which covered state road 224 more than a foot deep, a 1 bicycle was observed, propelled by a boy wearing boots. When the lads came up to the car from which the pictures were i I

COUNTY FLOOD QUOTA IS SET * ___________ - I Adams County’s Red Cross Flood Total Set At S2OO i Adams county's quota for the Red , Cross flood relief fund is S2OO, Wai , Wemhoff, chairman of the county ' ’ Red Crocs chapter announced today on receipt of a telegram from ' Carry T. Grayson, national chair- . ' man. The national quota for the flood | ; relief fund is two million dollars Boxes in which persons may place , donations to the fund were placed today in the Daily Democrat, the ! First State Bank, the poetoffice and ‘ Winnes shoe store. The telegram front Mr. Grayson [ to the local Red Cross chapter, says in part: “»n order to meet hourly increas- ' ing needs of flood victims in 8 L states Red Cross is calling on peo- : pie of the United States for min , inum relief fund of $2,000,000- Re- ■ I ports received late tonight indicate 270,000 men, women and children , driven from their homes and now j ( i dependent on Red Cross for enter- { I gency relief, including food, shelter, > ! bedding medical attention and warm ( , | clothing. Raging blizzards and f | freezing weather in many flooded ( i sections add td suffering of refugees ( and greatly increase need for in- : . stant relief. Feel sure your cornmun- < I tty will wish to aid promptly and j (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) , I O ' MARGARET PARR I TAKEN RY DEATH j t Mrs. W. H. Parr Dies Fri- ‘ day Night At Home Os a Son Near Berne t s Mrs. Margaret Jane Parr, 87, wife of W. H. Pa,rr, died at 8:45 t p. m. Friday at the home of a t ■ son, Marion, living five miles east h ■of Berne in Blue Creek township, u The deceased was ibom July 24, ; 1849, a daughter of Daniel and I Maragida Foster. They had lived in Adams county for many years. Surviving are the husband, one of Adams county’s living Civil War veterans; two sons, Rev. " John Parr and Marion Parr, east e ' of Berne; and one daughter, Mrs. 11 John Blowers of Kentucky. : h Funeral services will be held at t( the Bethel Brethren church, east of Berne, at 1:30 p. m. Monday, w Burial will be made in the Mt. d Hope cemetery. , tl

being taken, he dismounted in water which came up nearly to his knees and delivered a copy of the Decatur Daily Democrat to one of his subscribers. The photographer did not know that the papers were being delivered in the flooded area, but took the picture before the boy mounted his bicycle and plowed into the water which covered porches In the addition. The picture has been printed. (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

Three Committees Will Meet Monday Three committees for the Birthday Ball for the President will meet Monday evening at 7:30 o’clock in the Democrat office to make plans for the affair to be held Saturday night at 7:30 o’clock and 9 30 o’clock in the Catholic auditorium. Those w’hich will meet are the mittees. Final plans will be made decorating, card® and ticket comfor President Roosevelt’s birthday party, which is to rajse funds for victims of infantile paralysis. MRS. EHRMAN DIES FRIDAY Mrs. Charles Ehrman Dies At Home In Allen County Funeral services for Mrs. Liezette Ehrman, 63, native of Adams county, who died at her home in Madison township, Allen county. Friday morning at 9 o'clock, will be held Sunday afternoon at 1 o’clock at the home and at 1:30 at the St. Peter’s Lutheran church. The Rev. L. J. Dornseif will officiate. The deceased was born in Root township. Adams county on December 14, 1873, the daughter of Mr. a.nd Mrs. Frederick Boknecht. On October 5, 1898 she was married to Charles N. Ehrman. She became ill Friday of last week when she suffered a stroke of paralysis, which was given as the ca.use of death. She was a member of the St. Peter’s Lutheran church. Surviving, besides the husband, are a son, Anton and two daughters, Esther and Velma, all at home; three Bisters, Mrs. Christian Sherer, Fort Wayne: Mrs. Ferdinand Lehrman, Allen county and Mrs. Martha Lehman, of Root township, Adams county. One sister is deceased. The body was returned from the Zwick & Son funeral parlor this afternoon to the Allen county home, where it may be viewed until time for the funeral. 0 Pleasant Mills Man Pleads Guilty, Fined Dan Dougherty, of Pleasant Mi'ls was fined $1 and costs and receiv’d a suspended sentence of 30 days In jail before Mayor Arthur R. Holthouse in city court late Friday at:ernoon. The charge against Daugherty vae filed ae result of an auto accident involving Clarence Smith of :his city. Smith filed the charges.

ONE OF CITY’S PIONEERS DIES THIS MORNING Mrs. Mary Fullenkamp Dies After Attack Os Influenza Mrs. Mary Fullenkamp, 85, pioneer resident ot Decatur died at 12:10 o'clock this morning after a four week's tight to throw off an attack ot influenza. Mrs. Fullenkamp enjoyed the record of having lived in Decatur longer than any other man or woman. She came to Decatur with her parents, Gerhard and Magdalena Klaphake, from New York city at the age of two and no othei person has seen Decatur grow from such meager beginnings. Her parents operated a five-acre farm on Adams street, across from the Decatur high school, which she was able to remember. Her mother owned and managed the Brernerkamp General store, one ot the best remembered of the early stores in Decatur. Mrs. Fullenkamp clerked in the store when she was a girl. Her education was obtained in a small parochial school, southeast of Decatur, there being no Catholic school in Decatur when she was a girl. She was born December 6, 1851, and last December celebrated her 85th birthday. Death came in the ■! home on 421 Adams street where i for yearn she had held fam- > ily reunions, to which one of the f oldest and largest pioneer families - gathered on many occasions to pay > tribute to her. Few pleasure in her life exceeded these reunions. Her marriage to Jacob Fullen--1 kamp took place on October 18, I 1870. He preceded her In death on November 4, 1900. Survivors Surviving children are: Mrs. Adelaide Gass; Mrs- Clara Myens; Mrs. M. J. Mylott Miss Rose Fulleni kamp and Fred Fullenkamp all of Decatur; Mrs. D. M. Reed ot Indiar napolin; Mrs. E. D. Weialing of Findlay. Ohio, and Herbert Fullenkanup of Chicago. Four sons have preceded her in death. Mrs. Lena > Deininger of Decatur is a half-sister. ’ There are 33 surviving grandchild- ' ren and 29 great grandchildren. Mrs. Fullenkamp, until her last days, was prominent in the activities of the St. Mary’s Catholic ' church and the church societies. Besides the church she was a . member of the St. Mary’s society; . C. L. of C., Sacred Heart league, and the Third Order of St. Fran- , cis. Funeral services will be held Tuesday morning at 9 o’clock at the St. Mary's Catholic church, with the Rev. Father Joseph J. ' Seimetz, pastor of the church, officiating. Burial will be made in the St. Joseph's cemetery. The body will be removed from the Gillig , and Doan funeral home at 3:30 o'clock this afternoon and may be viewed from this evening up to the time of the funeral. o ■ , Catholic Juniors , Give Play Tuesday i The junior class of the Decatur Catholic high school will present , a comedy, “Intruding on Horace,” at the school auditorium Tuesday night at 8 o'clock. Tickets, priced a* 25 cents, may be obtained from any student of tho . high school or grade school. Admis- ' sion may also be paid at the door. Q WEATHER Fair tonight and Sunday; not so cold tonight except extreme east and extreme south; rising temperature Sunday. o I Cloverleaf Emnloyes | Raise Funds To Aid Sufferers From Flood • • Always sympathetic and ready to help, the employes of Cloverleaf Creameries, Inc., of this city, again demonstrated their public spirit and charitable attitude by sending a substantial donation to the flood sufferers in the southern Indiana and Ohio district today. Last evening whi'e listening to the radio, Louis Kelly, an employe of the company, heard the appeal broadcast for funds by the Red Cross He immediately started to take up a collection and this morning had a tidy sum to send to the Red Cross at Cincinnati. A majority of the employes contributed to the fund and the amount will be sent to the Red Cross to aid the flood sufferers. The force enthusiastically entered into the spirit of the occasion and donated gener- | ously to the fund.

Blizzard Adds To J Intense Suffering ' In Flooded Areas I

> Pioneer Dies '' s *** St - & • 1 B A Hk - • B t 1 Mrs. Mary Fullenkamp, one of * Decatur’s pioneers, died early this morning at her home in this city after an illness of four weeks. ■ COP'S KILLER IS GIVEN LIFE 1 Frenchy Benoit Sentenced To Life For Killing Officer Monroe. Mich., Jan. 23 —(U.R) — Alcide (Frenchy) Benoit, confess- . ed killer of a state policeman f whose body he left shackled to a . rural uirtii box, sullenly received j a sentence of life imprisonment at hard labor Friday. The penalty ; is the most severe possible under ’ Michigan law. Stolidly, the 24-year-old paroled convict who admitted that his career of crime included "40 or so” t robberies and abductions, pleaded guilty to a murder charge. He , had confessed the merciless killing of State Policeman Richard F. Hammond after his arrest Tuesday night for the abduction of a ' Detroit used car salesman. ’ | Circuit Judge G. Arthur Rathbun : recessed court to talk with Benoit I in his chambers before pronounc- . ing the mandatory sentence. Except for an emotionless ' ‘ there ain't anything to say,” Benoit's only remark in the courtroom was a, request that his sentence be served in Marquette prison, rather than in the southern ’ Michigan branch. Judge Rathbun ' sentenced him to the southern branch. An hour later, John H. Smith, arrested with Benoit, pleaded guilty in the same court to the kidnaping of Fred Williams, Detroit salesman, who was left bound and gagged in the outskirts of Toledo . last Tuesday night. Judge Rath- ' bun. sentenced Smith to serve from 15 to 30 years in the southern Michigan prison. Q Fort Wayne Man Freed Os Charge Fort Wayne, Ind., Jan. 23 —(UP) , —George Dannels, 39, was found not guilty of a charge of assault and battery with intent to commit criminal assault on a 10-year-old girl yesterday. Testimony by his step father and mother that he accompanied them on a motor trip to Ashley and Hudson, Indiana, on Dec. 22, the day of the alleged assault, led to the charges being dropped. o Reports Favorably To Crop Loan Bill 1 Washington, Jan. 23—(UP) —The 1 senate agriculture committee today voted to report favorably a $50,000,- ■ 000 seed and crop production loan bill. New Novel Is Started Today A new full length novel, “Luxury Model,” is started on page 4 of today's Democrat. The novel, written by May Christie, is a fascinating story ' of a glamorous mannequin who I enchanted New York and ' Paris. Famous men courted her favors, offered her the 1 "protection” of fabulous « wealth. Follow the story daily I in the Decatur Democrat. |1

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More Than 200,000 Are Homeless; Properties Damaged To Extent Os Many Millions. 23 KNOWN DEAD (By United Press) A blizzard swept across the floodstricken Ohio nver vaiiey and part of the Mississippi valley today, wringing some hope that the rise of the big rivers would be checked, but adding to the suffering of thousands who abandoned their homes to the roaring waters. Flood conditions — in some instances the worst in history—prevailed in 11 midwestern and southern states. More than 200,000 were hornless. At least 23 were dead. Property damage, increasing hourly, was estimated in millions of dollars. Rescue workers in Henderson i county, Kentucky, reported a family ot eight, including six children, drowned in the Ohio river. The nation's relief agencies were mobilized throughout the flood area. National guardsmen and coast guardsmen were assigned to relief duty. Admiral Gary T. Grayson, chairman of the American Red Cross, issued an appeal for ♦ 2,000,000 to aid refugees. These states were affected: Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, West Virginia. Louisiana and Mississippi. These cities and towns either were wholly or partially flooded: Cincinnati, Louisville, Portsmouth, 0., Wheeling, W. Va„ Pittsburgh, Steubenville, O„ Cairo 111-, Cardwell, Mo., Kenneu, Mo., Dyersburg. Tenn., Rector, Ark., Leachville, Ark., Bellaire, 0., Martins Ferry, 0., Bridgeport, 0., New Cumberland, W. Va„ New Martinsville, W. Va., Wellsburg, W. Va., Pomeroy, Marietta, 0., and scores of smaller towns and rural communities. Sleet and snow Increased suffering in flooded towns in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Kentucky, but weather experts saw hope ot checking the rise of the Ohio river at its source in Pittsburgh. Levee patrols abandoned efforts ; to save the White river levee near Devalls Bluff, Ark. A break in the levee was expected momentarily. Cincinnati had the worst flood in its history. Half of Portsmouth, 0., was under water. Parts of Pittsburgh's "golden triangle,” the business district, was flooded with muddy, swirling water from the Monongahelia, Allegheny, and Ohio rivers. Authorities urged evacuation of Wheeling Island —home of 10,000 men, women and children —in the Ohio river off Wheeling, W. Va. The river early today had risen to 42.8 feet. Experts predicted that before nightfall the crest would be from 45 to 47 feet—nine to 11 feet above flood level. Lives Imperiled Evansville. Ind., Jan. 23. —fJJ.R> — ON PAGE THREE) O COLD WEATHER TO CONTINOE Continued Cold Weather Predicted, With Snow Possible No immediate break is seen in the cold wave that hit Decatur about noon Friday, leaving enowcovered streets and highways in the city and county. The weather man forecasts continued cold with a possibility of more snow to add to the already laden highways and county roads. County road superintendent, Walter Gilliom, stated this,morning that all county roads were passable and in good condition, with the exception of the berms and sides which were left soft and slippery. Reminiscent of last year on the same date, the temperature started dropping shortly before noon Friday, falling from 21 degrees at 11 o'clock to 14 degrees at 4 o’clock. The temperature reached the end of of Its descent last night at 7 degrees above zero, the lowest unofficial reading reiported. This continued until 8 o'clock this morning when a steady rise was noted. A bright sun this morning added to the speed ot the rise.