Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 23, Decatur, Adams County, 27 January 1937 — Page 1

X XXV. No. 23.

IRDER RIVER LOWLANDS EVACUATED

1 MR $3,100 r. S | 6s * B* r County ContributTo Red <■ Cross Appeal "’PiuTBB , should be <■»."i >7.-1 to assume promptI/V f v word received bv O B Wemhoff. <)f ,1 ”‘ All ’"" s H» appealed to the of the city and county to th>. < -ill "'or- funds by inall.imrchos, lodges, and any I plan- affords a 01 that such a thin? as a ian < 1 ’•nit'nib’ r only tha.t the disastrous flood r „, and Mg ar » still prevalent." Mr ur K' d m Mr. Wemhoff camo ’ '' al >' T national chairman. Over $3,100 Ada me county relief fund over the $3,100 mark at 2 ... ■■ . Klmas still pouring into the office E. Winnes. secretary. Bjpnv> is also breaking all rec-' K»lr contributing to the relief aagti,^^K-i''. : a , i..., p for $330.90 rehm’ this morning and anSIS 9 in the mail, enroute local headquarters. township, without a village from which to soliciting, under the P of Mrs. Henry Breiner. the total yesterday with 1 for $135. In addition to ti.-y were able to trend a Httkl jii of food, clothing and ■ I Children Contribute p.•« of school children ■Mid- the usual purchase of and toys yesterday, when ci mbined their money of their teachers, prinjanitors to raise $101.57 the amount, the Decatur RajOgl school students raised $38.73. school t.-achers and janiCentral teachers and H: North Ward teachers ' s3.ii9 : Riley teachers and $4.50; South Ward teach■»>’m janitors. $4.50; Central B-TA $10; South Ward P.T.A., ■ML « 1 Riley P.T.A.. $2. !f Central Sugar and Soya wmributed a check for evening, the Loyal Ord"•■employees. $1114.15. which, to numerous other donaswelled the total to its standing. ■frcr Berne Man I I Is Taken By Death services will be held for Harris Preston Ray, Berne man, who died at his home in Hartford ■T” 1 ' a strokp of apoplexy. Riti>* held at in a. m. Thursday "’E™ Ha,, tford City Grace M. E. Rev. Jesse Fox will offiby Rev. H- Suekau. of the Berne Mennoni'e Burial will he made at Ray was born near Berne, EW 1 ’ 187 < a son of Levi W. and I, ■ Jan e Harris-Ray. He lived count y until 20 years ago. l/l he moved t 0 Hartford City, are a brother. E M. Ray and a sister, Mrs. George I of Portland. Bfrnie Street Car | And Bus Service K®anapolis. Jan. 27.—{U.R)—Re°n ° f street car an d bus serII? l,. n Terre Haute - halted Jan. A J a strike, is scheduled toIwiß* mPrOtni3e in w h' cll employes granted a 20 per cent wage Fr^HM 6 ' hnanced with increase in l ve s ' x cen t s - was Bcd late yesterday in a four|^^B 01lf erence before Judge Hern.—W/' Spencer of Marion county

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

NEW OFFICERS I ARE INSTALLED Knights Os Pythias, Pythian Sisters Hold joint Installation ——- More than 60 membeia of the Knighte of Pythias lodge and the Pythian Sister order, with members ; of their families, attended the joint : public installation at the lodge home last night. Mrs. Harve Baker was installed I as most excellent chief of the Pythian Sisters. Other officers installed were: Mrs- Charles Beineke, excel--1 lent senior; Mrs. Mary McClure,' excellent junior; Mrs. Will Dellinger. manager; Mrs Sam Shamp, mistress of records and correspondence; Mrs. Alice Christen, mistress of finance; Mrs. Frank Butler, protector and Mrs. Beecher Nichols, guard. Mr® Ba.ker succeeds Mrs. Lloyd Ahr. who assumed the office of past chief. Mrs. Ed Whitright, Mre. Fred Ahr and Mrs. Ed Ahr acted as installing officers. Mrs. Jessie Burdg. newly 1 elected trustee, also assumed office. The other trustees are Mrs. Joseph Hunter and Mrs. Delton Passwater. In the Knights order, W. F. Beery was installed as chancellor- commander. succeeding Bob Shraluka. ! Other officers are: Ed Highland. ' vice-chancellor; John B. Stulte. prelate; Jess Rupert, master-at arms; Joseph A Hunter, keeper of records and seals; W. A. Lower, master of exchequer. Following the installation ceremonies, short addreeces were deliv-1 I ered by the new’ commander, W. F. ' Beery and Jonas A. Tritch. head of the International business college in Fort Wayne, a member of the local lodge. Luncheon was served in the dining rooms of the lodge after the ‘business session District Meet Thursday The district meeting of the (CONTINUED ON PAOR SIX) o DEATH CLAIMS MRS. CHESLEY M. J. Mvlott’s Sister Dies Today At Local Hospital Mrs. Loretta Mylott-Chesley, 57, Chicago, sister of M. J Mylott of this city, died at 10:17 o’clock this morning at the Adams county memorial hospital of a thyroid crisis, aggravated by a fall last Friday when she fractured a hip. Mrs. Chesley came to this city two weeks ago to visit her husband. Howell Chesley. who has recently been employed at the Cloverleaf Creameriees. Inc. She fell and had been at the hospital since. She was born in Huntington on July 20, 1879. the daughter of Mrs. Margaret Mylott, who survives, and Thomas Mylott, deceased- She is survived by the following brothers and sisters: M. J. Mylott, Decatur; O. P. Mylott, Mary Mylott. Mrs. H. H. Snow, Mrs Josephine Anderson and Mrs. H. W. Thompson, all of Chicago. Katherine. Theodore and Genevieve preceded her in death. There were no chi'dren born. She was a member of the Mt- Carmel church in Chicago. Until a few months ago she lived in Chicago Heights. She was well known In Decatur, having visited here on numerous occasions. The body will be removed from the Gillig and Doan funeral home at 12 o’clock noon Thursday and may be viewed up to the time of the funeral, which will be held at 9 o'clock Friday mornnig in the St, ON PAGE THREE) Mrs. Fonner Enroute Home From Flood Area W. A. Fonner received word this mroning from Mrs. Fonner, who went to Evansville to assist tn caring for her son Heber, who was ill. She said Heber and his family were taken to Aurora, Illinois, where they have been taken care of the past few days at the home of a cousin of Mrs. Heber Fonner. Mrs. W. A. Fonner is en route here today. She describes the flood as the most terrible ever known. The part of the city in which her eon lived was inundated a week ago, the water in that section rising as high as 30 feet and sweeping everything before It. Heber Is better and the family managed to escape.

(’oast Guards Load Supplies in Cincinnati jte&WWiK t '« W IS I i WTT' i i 5».,» $ £ 8 i® 10! v * I PL. - ■ ■ ■*“ * - W ’5 —- AHt /task- \ ® «7 I * — New Jerwey coast guards, aiding in rescue work in Cincinnati, load supplies on their boats at the water’s edge of a flooded street.

FOOD SUPPLIES BADLY NEEDED Legion Asks For Foodstuffs: Seven Decaturites Aiding Seven Decaturites are now engaged in military rescue work in 1 the flooded areas of the Ohio valley. a surrey made today-disclosed. State Patrolman Burl Johnson, of this city, is in the midst of the flood-stricken area. aJding in the • police work and patrolling there. The others, who have been called to the work are members of ‘ the Fort Wayne division of the national guard. These men are: Cla.rence Walthers, Chalmer Lee, Garth Anderson, all employees of the local General Electric plant; Schmitt meat market; John Simmerman. employe of the Hi-W’ay service station and John Epsich. The men were all called to the Fort Wayne armory and left there for various destinations in the flooded lands. Appeal For Food Henry Faurote, commander of Adams Post No. 43. American Legion, sent out an appeal to the residents of the city and county todpy for foodstuffs to be sent to the area. Clothing and other necessities will continue to be accepted, but there is an urgent need for more food, the commander stated. All persons a,re asked to respond to the emergency call by donating, especially canned foods, which are non-perishable. Coffee and vegeI tables are the othens that are badly needed a.nd may be shipped without danger. Six truckloads of the precious consignment have already been sent from the county, with Yost brothers, Zwick & Son. Adame county, Kirkland township. Staley's Dairy and others donating the use of their trucks in the work. o Quarterly Methodist Conference At Ossian The third district quarterly conference and settlement da.y for the SO Methodist Episcopal churches of the Fort Wayne district will be held at Ossian tomorrow. Bishop R. J. Wade, of the Stockholm area will be on the forenoon program and Dr. A. Earl Kernahaji of Washington. D. C. will speak on “Visitation Evangelism” at 1:15 p. m. Following his address, the district evangelistic campaign will be discussed and a report made on membership, finance and missionary giving of the various pastoral charges represented in the conference. ———o Fort Wayne Workman Is Crushed To Death i Fort ‘’ay.ie, Jan. 27. — I’U.R) — Ceci! 1 Herron. 45, of near Sherwood, O„ was crushed to death yesterday by a three-ton overhead flask which dropped on him at the Western Gas Construction com-, pany foundry where he was em-i ployed.

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, .January 27, 1937.

Enlistments Open In Regular Army I Sgt. Roy E. Quillin. army recruit- | ing officer. 320 federal building, Fort Wayne, announces that he still i has several vacancies for the 11th . infantry and 19th motorized Field [artillery, located at Fort Benjamin Harrison. Sgt Quillin states that any young men wishing to enlist for one of these assignments should call at his office without de'ay. CONFERENCE ON . i _ STRIKE CRISIS — Labor Secretary’ Meets Union Heads; Sloan Statement Washington, Jan. 27 — (U.R) — Secretary of Lalbor Frances Perkins opened a conference with 10 union leaders today in a new effort to break the deadlock in j i the critical Genera.! Motors strike. Six representatives of the committee for industrial organization •— headed by its chairman. John L. Lewie—filed into Miss Perkins’ j office accompanied by four leaders of the United Automobile Workers Union, C. I. O. affiliate. Assistant labor secretary Edward F. McGrady sat in on the peace talk. Those present beside Miss Perkins. Lewis and McGrady, were: I From the C. I. O.— Sidney Hill-: 1 man, Charles P. Howard, John [ I Brophy, Lee Pressman, and Len j I Decaux; from the U.A.W. —Homer I Martin, president; Windham Mor- | timer and Ed Hall, vice presij dents; and George Addes, secreI tary-treasurer. None of the principals a,t the i meeting would make any comment i before the conference started. Notably absent from the confer(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) ‘

Democrat Reporter Writes Os Aurora Flood Condition

—— “I never thought much of the Red Cross until now. They have certainI ly done a great piece of work,” a resident of the town of Aurora, Io- i cated in southern Indiana on the Ohio river several miles west of 1 Cincinnati, told a reporter from the i Decatur Democrat Tuesday nightThe reporter motored to the flood < area Tuesday with another iperson ' to bring a family out of the flood area, if possible. Armed with a civil police pass, it ( was necessary to obtain passes ( from the state highway department, i ( Red Cross agents, the American Le-1 ] glon, and the military police of the National Guard to pase the numer- . oue b’ockades along the roads in the flpod area, which are now under 1 military law. Tourists are banned * under the threat of putting them 1 to work on levies. Military roads tor miles were 1 ! nearly free of traffic with the excepi tlon of heavy civil and army trucks ! carrying men and supplies into

DECORATE FOR BIRTHDAY BALL Catholic Auditorium To Be Decorated For Annual Party The Catholic auditorium will be decorated for the Birthday Ball for the President Thursday and Friday evenings at 7:30 o’clock. Clarence. Beavers and Mrs. Bernadine Meyers, co-chairmen of this committee,! announced today. The Birthday Ball will he held in i the Catholic auditorium. Saturday eveningMembers of the decorating committee are: Mildred Acker, Mary Voglewede, Francis Howell, Kathryn Hower. Tom Hanbold, Don Gage Margaret Laube. Mrs. E. P. Fields. Walter Brunnegraff, Harold Daniels, Kathryn Kauffman. Marcellus Miller, Haro’d Essex, Dick Macklin and Patsy Fullenkamp. Telegram signatures and tickets for the affair are seding rapidly, it was announced ioday. All proceeds will be used tor the assistance of victims of infantile I paralysis. 70 per cent to be retained in Adams county and 30 iper cent to be forwarded to the national committee for research work in an effort to find a cure or preventative for the disease. Tickets in Decatur will again be at the reduced price of $1 a couple and will be good for either the ' dance or card party, or both. o — Moose Dance To Be Held Friday Night Officials of the Moose lodge an- i nounced today that the dance for members and their wives . original-1 ly scheduled for Thursday night, has been postponed to 8 o’clock Friday evening. All members are urged to attend.

the flood area. Many refugee® had been taken out of the area during the morning in school buses to north of the river. Residents Scatteied Residents from Aurora are now scattered from the town Itself to Indianapolis. This handicapped the 1 search for the friends who were 1 residents of the town. Today, it was reported, the American Red Cross will publish a list of the present locations of all residents of the town taken from the records of the central office, which were being collected TuesdayFirst stop for information was at ( Dillsboro, where hundreds of Aurora flood victims were reported. Un- . der the direction of military police it was necessary to report at the ( central headquarters, located in a ( school building. In the basemen* were about 25 children romping , with a dog at a game of tag. Up- ( (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX). 1 i

War Department Preparing For Mass Removal Os Half Million From Mississippi River Area

Federal Troops Sent Into Louisville To Maintain Order; Evansville Under Strict Martial Law. RELIEF RUSHED Louisville, Ky„ Jan. 27 —(U.R> — 1 Federal soldiers inarched through Louisville streets today and were assigned to posts in the business district to maintain order. The men were equipped with rifles and received the same instructions as police to "shoot to kill" looters. Mayor Neville Miller today became virtual dictator of floodstricken Louisville, commanding police, national guardumen, and 1 regular army troops in the fight against looting, pestilence, fire, and destitution. Provost marshal by decree of Gov. A. B. Chandler. Miller was supreme head of the city. Two hundred federaj troops were I marching into the city to receive his orders. National guardsmen patrolled the flooded streets at his command. He directed police and firemen through the flood zone. i Dozens of firemen and policemen whom he personally recruited from other cities by radio rushed i I here by airplane and automobile i 1 to swell the ranks of the peace- , , time army which the mayor direct-. i ed against fires which have caused | $700,000 damage, flood waters a.nd disease which may have taken a« many as 200 lives, and stark ter- | (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) MORE NATIONAL GUARDS ASKED Practically All Southern Indiana Under Martial Law Indianapolis, Jan. 27. — (U.R) — Rapidly assembling order under martial law enforced by the greatest peace-time mobilization of Indiana national guards in history, co-ordinated relief agencies today pushed rescue and health preservation for Ohio river valley flood victims. A special hospital train equipped with 167 beds was sped to Charlestown, Clark county, to relieve acute conditions reported in the Jeffer-sonville-New Albany area. Six physicians and 12 nurses comprised the medical staff of the “completely hospitalized’’ train. Twenty national guardsmen were aboard as cooks, porters and aids and there was a baggage car loaded with supplies. Additional troops to halt looting and establishment of a judge advocate, comparable to a criminal court under civil law, was asked by Col. Paul E. Tombaugh, commanding national guard troops at New Albany. He asked for enough water to (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) 0 Church Visitors To Meet Tonight The church visitors are requested to meet tonight at the midweek service of the Methodist Episcopal church at 7:30 p. m. They will report on the first round of calls a.nd make any corrections or additions to the information given them. They are all requested to have their notebooks for the recording of church attendance completed. o— Amos Sommers Is Fined, Sentenced Amoe Sommers, 18, of near Berne pleaded guilty in city court this afternoon, to an aseault and battery charge brought in connection with his activities early Sunday morning at Riverside garage. Mayor A. R. Holthouse fined him $1 and costs totaling sll and sentenced him to 30 days in jail. The jail sentence was suspended on his promise of good behavior, and agreement ‘o refrain from associating wi*h bad comipan- i ions. I

ASTROLOGIST j CLUB SPEAKER A. C. Peltier Os Delphos Speaks To Lions Club Here Members of the Decatur Lions club were students in astronomy last night at the regular meeting in the Rice hotel, when A. C. Peltier, famous Delphos, Ohio, astrologist spoke. Mr. Peltier was brought here by Superintendent of Schools, Walter J. Krick, who had charge of the programThe astronomer, who accepted his work at first as a hobby, has discovered five new comets, the ’ most famous bears his name. His observatory is located at his home in Scotts Crossing, Ohio, near De'lphos. From there he has conducted his work for the past 15 years. j An interesting lecture, with appropriate lantern slides, dealing with the technicalities of the subject and the various positions and movements of the planets and stars was presented by Mr. Peltier. Guests at the meeting last night ' included William Pettit, new manager of the Morris five and ten cent store; French Quinn, the Rev. G. O. Walton, W. Guy Frown and Mr. Reusser, of Berne. ; Missionary Leader To Address Methodists — Dr E. Stanley Jones, Indian missionary leader, evangelist and author, will speak; at a mass meeting 'of Methodists in this area in the ! North Side high school, Fort Wayne Monday evening, February 8. The address will be under the auspices iof the church’s million unit fellowship movement. o Flood Bulletins Rain or Snow Washington, Jan. 27. -<U.R> —The weather bureau today forecast rain or snow followed by a cold wave for the flooded Ohio valley within the next 36 hours, but said flood waters already had reached their peak north of Cairo. Two Victims Die Mitchell. Ind., Jan. 27.—<U.R> — Two flood refugees from Louisville. , Ky., died yesterday in the relief camp here. The victims were: Mrs. Sarah Held, 62, of 728 South 34th street, heart attack induced by exposure. Philip Kraus, 70. of 678 S. 41st street, an invalid. Trucks To Evansville Fort Wayne. Ind., Jan. 17. —KU.R) —Two 500-gallon pump trucks from the Are department here today were being driven to Evansville for flood service in answer to request of Mayor William Dress of Evansville. Each truck was manned by two firemen. Still Rising Evansville, Jan. 27—(UP)—The turbulent Ohio increased its rate of rise early this afternoon and fear was felt the approaching crest would near 54 feet. Fifty military police were mustered from national guard companies and plans were made to swear in 50 to 80 members of the bar association as special deputies on report of some looting in the district already evacuated. May Lead Relief Indianapolis, Jan. 27 —(UP) — Gov. M. Clifford Townsend today announced he may personally address the state legislature, now in recess, regarding necessary flood relief along the White, Wabash and Ohio | rivers. The legislature is scheduled to reconvene tomorrow afternoon but Townsend did not expect to make recommendation until a survey of flood damage can be completed. 15 Million Damage Cincinnati. Jan. 27 —(UP) — UnI (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) WEATHER Increasing cloudiness tonight, followed by rain or snow I Thursday; rising temperature, i

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Engineers Fear Levees To Be Unable To Prevent Flooding Os Huge Area Along Mississippi MILLION HOMELESS (By United Press) The war department, with President Roosevelt's approval, rushed plans today for the mass removal if necessary of nearly half a million inhabitants of danger areas along the rising Mississippi river between Cairo, 111., and New Orleans, La. Admiral Carey Grayson of the Red Cross announced in Washingi ton that the number of refugees in the record-breaking flood had passed the million mark. Engineers feared that more thousands would be added as the crest turns the corner from the Ohio into the Mississippi at Cairo, 111. The authenticated death toll stood at 113 at noon. With the Ohio river pouring millions of tons of water into the Mississippi at Cairo, army engineers feared the 1,500-mile levee system built at a cost of a billion dollars after the 1927 disaster would not be able to withstand the unprecedented pressure. The commanders of the fourth, seventh, and eighth corps areas were instructed to draw up plans for the removal of flood victims from lowlands extending 50 miles i back on either side of the river. Preliminary to evacuation, thousands of railroad cars were ordered concentrated in the region, with Jacksonville, Miss., designated as ' headquarters. Army officials estimated more than 35,000 trucks wuold be required. Evacuation of given areas will be ordered when levees break or when engineers determine that a break is inevitable. Should army predictions come true of crests 12 to 15 feet higher than ever before, the extreme pressure would jeopardize levees heretofore considered impregnable and threaten with inundation nearly 29,000 square miles never flooded before. The Ohio’s crest rolled toward Cairo, where engineers hoped a three-foot bulkhead erected atop the 60-foot flood wall would save the city, and the stream began to subside slowly from Pittsburgh to Louisville. W. J. Moxom of the weather bueau’s flood division said the Ohio would "fall slowly during the next 24 hours” except below Louisville where recession was not expected before late tonight or tomorrow. Secretary of War Harry Woodring. directing the evacuation preparations on the Mississippi, said (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) 0 No Word Received Os Former Local Woman Relatives here are uneasy concernng Mrs- Arthur Lutz and her two children, whose home is in the thoueand block on Brook street in Louisville, and from whom no word has been received- Efforts to reach her by telephone have been unavailing and telegrams are not delivered. It is known that nearby territory has been evacuated but nothing has been heard over the radio from her exact location. Mrs. Lutz was formerly Miss Agnes Kohne, a sister of Raymond Kohne. druggist, and Dr. Gerald Kohne, well known local i physician. o Reorganization Plan Committee To Be Named Washington, Jan. 27 —(UP) —The senate rules committee today reported favorably a house resolution for creation of a joint committee to act on the President’s reorganization plan but amended the measure to increase membership from seven to nine in each body of congress. Senate leaders said that whether members of the senate Byrd economy committee would be named to the joint compiittee depneded upon vice president John Nance Garner, who will name the members. It was generally believed, howI ever, that the Byrd committee I would get representation.