Indianapolis Times, Volume 48, Number 9, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 March 1936 Edition 02 — Page 3

MARCH 21, 1936_

River Cities Cringe as Disease and Disaster Lurk in Angry Waters of Ohio

Menaced by the turbulent Ohio River, running far out of its banks, Huntington, W. Va., thriving city of 50,000, is shown above. Situated in the “bend” where the river turns west and then city, directly in the path of the raging waters pouring relentlessly over lowlands and engulfiing towns upstream, rushed safety preparations.

CONGRESS MAY VOTE FLOOD-AID Drive Is Expected Monday for Funds Supplementing Red Cross Work. (Continued From Page One) tion to contribute $3,000,000 to the Red Cross, and that in the view of relief leaders this sum promised to be sufficient, at least for the immediate future. Sticks to Historic Policy Senator Guffey had talked at the White Hoi se with Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson, Red Cross national chairman, and was informed of the organization's historic policy, never broken, of gathering its funds only by voluntary subscriptions and refusing to accept grants voted by Congress. This policy is based on the Red Cross platform of absolute separation between its relief work and partisan politics. Its officers feqr that if congressional appropriations are accepted members of the House and Senate will feel themselves privileged to demand special favors. But several members of the House declare the floods have left such a great task of providing food and shelter immediately, and later rehabilitating families, that the $3,000,000 asked for the Red Cross will only begin to meet the needs. They have been thinking in hundreds of millions and in billions for so long that the Red Cross’ three million seems a small sum. Other Measures Proposed Rep. Henry Ellenborgen (D., Pa.) has introduced a bill for a $50,000,000 appropriation to be spent at the President’s direction. Rep. Joseph Gray (D., Pa.) asked ten times that much, or half a billion dollars, for relief and rehabilitation. Rep. Matthew Dunn (D., Pa.) made it a full billion, with provisions for loans at not more than 1 per cent interest. Reps. Jennings Randolph and George W. Johnson (D.. W. Va.) advocated transfer of smaller sums to the Red Cross, for use particularly in their state. Rep. Thoedore L. Moritz (D., Pa.) put in a bill lor a modest $5,000,000, but confined its use to his home, Allegheny County. The outcome of Monday’s meeting is expected to be a general bill, offering relief in all flooded areas, and with administration placed in the hands of some government agency. Whether it will become a law is believed to rest with the developing needs of the next few days, the public response to the Red Cross appeal, and the ability of that organization to meet the situation. Hopkins Accepts Challenge One outcome, it was pointed out in one quarter, will be a chance for the public to compare the efficiency of the Red Cross, working on a thoroughly non-political basis, with the operations of Federal relief, now attacked with charges of politics in various areas. Harry Hopkins' Works Progress Administration itself has accepted the flood challenge in a way that may bring it as much public appreciation as is forming for the flood efforts of President Roosevelt's “favorites,” the CCC boys. A million dollars is available in Pennsylvania, for instance, for WPA projects in repair of streets and highways and other public property. Edward N. Jones, Pennsylvania WPA administrator, has been instructed to turn over to the Red Cross supplies of clothing and bedding accumulated in WPA sewing rooms. Similar instructions have gone to West Virginia and other flood-hit states. Aids Given Free Hand Several hundred thousand pounds of food products, supplied by. the Federal Surplus Relief Corp., were reported being prepared in temporary WPA kitchens or being distributed directly to flood-needy families by WPA trucks and workers. "I have given the state administrators a free hand to send their men and spend their money wherever the need has arisen,” Mr. Hopkins said. It was estimated that 50,000 WPA men worked on emergency flood work in the affected states, and this was said to be probably the largest single unit of man-power engaged in the battle against the flood. Utility Defrauder Fined $25 Claude Sanders, 50, of 540 E. Ohio-st, today was fined $25 by Municipal Judge Charles J. Karabell on a charge of defrauding a public utility. It is alleged he connected pipes around a water meter in a house he formerly occupied in the 000 block on JE. Ohio-st,

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Marion County by noon today had contributed $4879.20 toward its SIB,OOO quota of the $3,000,000 flood relief fund of the American Red Cross, William Fortune, local chairman, announced. Contributors today: Previously acknowledged $1*4.00 L. S. Ayres St Cos 500.00 H. P. Wasson St Oo 100.00 A friend 100,00 Employes. Indiana Trust Cos 25.00 Mrs. John M. Gillespie 20.00 O. P. Welhorn 25.00 G. 1,. Stayman 20.00 E. Rauh St Sons Cos 25.00 Stella V. Rogers Cropper 25.(Ml Bert S. Gadd . ~. 1 15.00 Jacob K. Hcssonr and family and Mrs. Minnie Hessong It.oo Midwestern Petroleum Corp 10.00 J. T. Moorman 10.00 Max Katz Rag Cos 10.00 Central Business College 10.00 Hall St Hill 10.00 Sam Ruebens 10.00 Harry Ruebens 5.00 J. I). Spahr 10.00 Mrs. H. 1.. Glenn 10.00 Mrs. Harry H. Atlass 10.00 I. B. Pohlman 10.00 Robert J. Munn 10.00 R. C. McCullough iO.OO Rabbi M. M. Feuerlicht 10.00 Pitman-Moore Office 11.00 Mrs. Kin Hubbrrd 10.00 Mayflower Transit Cos 10.00 Edgar W. Oliver 10.00 William J. Hogan 10.00 Harley T. Doub 5.00 J. A. 1, 5.00 E. S. Rctter 5.00 K. M. Pfitzner ~ 5.00 Helen M. Shecrin 5.00 Alpha Omicron Alpha, Epsilom Chapter 5.00 Philip C. Coyle 1.00 Mrs. J. W. Burt 5.00 Tonie Rugg 5.00 Ladies' Aid, Second Evangelical Church 5.00 Annie J. Keith 5.00 William L. Jennings 5.00 Dr. William Garner 5.00 Mrs. Montgomery S. Lewis 5.00 Mrs. G. W. Glover 5.6(1 Ffol* Hoffman 5.00 Roll Room IK and Minute Men Men . Club of George Washington high School 5.00 Mrs. William L. Horn 5.00 Mrs. Catherine Burkhard 5.00 Mr. and Mrs. Pat Haley 5.00 John Schneider 5.00 John A. Schneider 5.00 Ed Rosenberg 5.00 Edna Jean Roddis 5.00 Lillian D. Reeves 5.00 Freund’s Pharmacy 5.00 Florence Funk 5.00 F. A. Kinderman 5.00 C. K. VanAusdall 5.00 Edith Ilaschiell 5.00 Arthur R. Baxter 100.00 W. A. Brennan 10.00 Pittman-Rice Coal Cos 10.00 Fertig Ice Cream Cos 5.00 J. F. Carroll 25.00 G. D. Thornton 10.00 George H. Cornelius 5.00 Schloss Bros. Investment Cos 5.00 S. B. Lindley 2.00 McCullough Cos., Inc 5.00 Indiana Insurance Cos. . 10.00 Cooling-Grumme-Mumford Cos lu.oo Haag Drug Cos. <K. T. Brock) 5.06 Edward B. Raub 5.00 Hers-Jones Cos 60.00 J. Wallace Barnes 5.00 Mrs. David 51. Isgrigg 5.00 Nicholas H. Njyes 60.00 Charles J. Lynn 100.00 Dr. O. N. Torian 10.00 Newton Booth Tarkington 50.00 George L. Paetz 25.00 M. D. Lupton 5.00 Charles R. Toke 5.00 Stone-Stafford-Stone 60.00 Furnas Ice Cream Cos 5.00 Alfred M. Glossbrenner 50.00 C. B. Crets 10.00 Deubener's Shopping Bag Cos., Inc... 50.00 Kahn Tailoring Cos 10.00 E. M. Costin 30.00 Albert P. Smith 5.00 James W. Noel 25.00 George E. Hume 10.00 J. Duane Dungan 10.00 Miss Emma Claypoo! 100.00 L. B. Barnes -• 100 From ' the Clot' Fund, Dept. 85. MachiLj Shop, Diamond Chain Cos.. Paul Tirey, Treas 25.00 Arthur V. Brown 500.00 William Ray Adams 500.00 T. C. Reilly 500.00 William Fortune 500.00 Mrs. Hazel G. Koon 100.00 F. W. Cornelius 50 .(0 Mrs. H. A. Caldwell 25.00 McGuire * Shook 5.00 John R. Henley 5.00 W. H. Arnett 10.00 S. H. Robinson 10.00 Margaret McPhail Howard 10.00 W. R. Chapin 10.00 W. S. Horn .. 10.00 Edward Gray. Whiteland, Ind 30.00 C. W. Hudson 5.00 Edgar O. Burgan 5.00 Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Carlisle 5.00 Mrs. Margaret H. Kenyon 5.00 Mrs. F. H. Lacy 5 ft) Sirs. Perry Remy 5.00 Albert Michie 5.00 Anonymous 5.00 J. E. Miller 5.00 Joseph Catherwood 5.00 S. Beck Cos 5.00 Ruth Sheerin 5.00 C. A. Breece 3.00 G. W. Orewller 3.00 Mrs. G. W. Ferling 2.00 Edna H. Allen 2.00 W. M. McNutt 2.00 Mrs. Ida Anna Eader 2.00 Walter H. Geiscl 2.00 A. snd B. Kreber 1.00 lohn Johannes 1.00 A Frierd 1.00 Oscar W. Riley 1.00 Verla I. Allen 1.00 For Relief o* Flood Sufferers 1.00 Della M. Behvmer 1.50 Irene A. Miller 1.00 I. A. Ward I.o# Jason E. Baker 1.00 Mrs. Elizabeth M. Collins 1.00 A Widow's Mite 50 A Sympathizer .20 F. T. McCain 1.50 Charles A. Edwards 5.00 R. C. Tavlor 1.00 Bruce P. Robinson American Legion Auxiliary 10.00 James G. Murray 10.00 Marvin Curie 5.00 R. E. Ftinchnaugh 5.00 From three Pittsburgh sympathizers 3.00 J. P. Cashman 2.00 Elizabeth S. Rawls '... 3.00 M. G. Janke - 2.00 Roberta Manville 1.00 R. Witte 1.00 No name 1.00 Employes State Automobile Insurance Aseci-tlon 23.00 C. D. Paidrick 6.00 Mrs. S. Alvin Grosberg, Dallas 2.00 Flora M. Anderson 3.00 Miss Elizabeth C. Abell 2.50 Mrs. J. D. Bash 20.00 Mrs. W. B. Lincoln Jr 10.00 The z.ev. Frederick R. Daries 5.00 Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Carver 6.00 H. M. Gelston 4.00 Mrs. E. R. Kittrrdce 1.00 Frenzel Bros 25.00 Mrs. Philippine H. Frenzel 25.00 George S. Olive 25.00 S. D. Miller 10.06 I. E. Woodard 10.00 Dr. Edmund D. Clark 10.0# ; Tra A. Minnich • 5.00 I H. E. Howe 5.00 i William W. Seagle S.OO i Arthur M. Hood 5.00 : Ferd Barnickol 6.00 1 D. M. Kleusmeyer 2.00 Milton L. Haymann .... 5.00 1 I#4l 48 ?.:•

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Wood Carter, 30-year-old cashier (above) and one of the bandits who tried to hold up the Bank of Bloomingdale yesterday morning, were killed in the gun battle that ensued.

RESIGNATION EXPLAINED BY JAMES W. FESLER Former I. U. Trustee Points to Differences With Board. James W. Fesler explaining his resignation as chairman of the board of trustees of Indiana University has issued a statement saying that his action followed disagreement with certain policies of the board. He said: “I do not wish to discuss the matter further than to say that I have protested against certain misconduct of a member of the university administrative staff in connection with important business of the university, which misconduct has never been denied.” “For this and other scarcely less important reasons I can not, with my conception of the responsibilities and duties of a trustee, remain on the board. It is a matter of deep regret to me that I must sever my official relationship with Indiana University.” ROBBERS BEAT LIQUOR CLERK, FLEE WITH $l2O Robert Simpson Is Recovering From Head Injuries. Robert Simpson, Roosevelt Hotel, clerk of the Park Liquor Store, 127 N. Illinois-st, is recovering today from head injuries inflicted last night by two robbers who held up the store and escaped with $l2O. The two men had been in the store twice earlier in the night, Simpson told police, and each time they had purchased a pint of liquor. They returned a third time about midnight and asked for another pint, giving him a S2O bill. As he turned to get change the men struck him on the head and rifled the cash register. They escaped in a black auto. Simpson ftas taken to City Hospital where at first it was thought he had'received a fractured skull. YEAR-OLD KIDNAPING CHARGE BRINGS ARREST Hymera Man Held in Taxi Driver Robbery of April 7, 1935. Cecil Hunter, alias Don Martin, 28, Hymera. is under arrest here on a year-old charge of kidnaping and robbery* of a taxi driver. He was picked up yesterday by police on a Criminal Court capias. Douglas Hall, 614 E. Ninth-st, the taxi driver, was robbed of $9 by two men and a woman who forced him to drive them to Terre Haute last April 7. Young G. O. P. Treasurer Named Rae W. Powell, chairman of the Young Republican Organization, Inc., today named William Shepler as treasurer.

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Those telephone poles bare the deception of this apparently peaceful scene of a ferry steaming across a mirror-like lake. The boat really is floating over a highway—Route 52, at Portsmouth, O.— inundated when the swollen Ohio surged over its banks in the southern part of the state. Note telephone poles half submerged.

WELFARE BODY SELECTS HOKE Circuit Judges to Meet Here Tuesday to Discuss County Boards. With judges, to whom the recent special session entrusted authority for appointment of county welfare boards, are to meet here Tuesday to discuss the type of persons to be on the boards and the organizations to have representation. Meeting yesterday for the first time, the Public Welfare Board named Fred Hoke, Indianapolis, president; Mrs. Marie Stuart Edwards, Peru, vice president, and Wayne Coy, WPA director and head of the Governor’s Unemployment Relief Commission, acting state director. Job Board Formed The Unemployment Compensation Board also organized with Wilfred Jessup, Richmond, as president; Alex Gordon, Indianapolis labor leader, vice president, and Clarence A. Jackson, state gross income tax division head, director. Mr. Jackson said the work for the present will be done by the gross income tax division. The new employment compensation department will be operated chiefly as a collecting agency until 1938 because no benefits are to be paid before that time. The department will not receive guaranteed employment plans until Jan. 1, 1939. One of the immediate tasks confronting the welfare board is compilation of its tentative budget for submission to the Federal Social Security Board in Washington. It is to be prepared by Edward P. Brennan, state budget director,, and Prof. R. Clyde White, Indiana University, legislative adviser, who are to take the figures to Washington. SPORTSMEN’S CLUB" IS TO SEE PICTURES Jug Band to Entertain Tuesday at the Athenaeum. The Sportsmen’s Club program for Tuesday night at the Athenaeum is to consist of sport pictures and entertainment by the club’s jug band, composed of H. Clair Kimber, Eugene C. Felt, John B. Stokely, Charles A. Rockwood, Walter J. Hubbard and Francis Wells. Members of the committee on arrangements include Caleb N. Lodge, chairman; Arch H. Olds and Robert Ferriday Jr. OFFICIAL WEATHER ___United States Weather Bnrean Sunrise 5:47 ! Sunset 5:58 TEMPERATURE —March 21. 1935 7 a. m 54 1 p. m 62 —Today—--6 a. m 35 10 a. m 40 7 a. m 36 11 a. m 44 8 a. m 38 12 (noon) 43 9 a. m 40 1 p. m. 45 BAROMETER 7 a. m 29.76 I p. m 29.84 Precipitation 24 hrs. ending at 7 a. m. .29 Total precipitation since Jan. 1 5.59 Deficiency since Jan. 1 2.61 | OTHER CITIES AT 7 A. M. Station. Weather. Bar. Temp. Amarillo, Tex Cloudy 29.96 48 Bismarck, N. D Clear 29.86 26 Boston Foggy 29.34 44 Chicago Cloudy 28.76 38 Cincinnati PtCldy 29.74 32 Denver Cloudy 29.62 38 Dodge City. Kas Cloudy 29.86 42 Helena. Mont Cloudy 29.40 44 Jacksonville, Fla Clear 29.96 50 Kansas City. Mo Clear 29.98 36 Little Rock. Ark Clear 29.92 50 Los Angeles Cloudy 29.82 58 Miami. Fla Clear 30 08 56 Minneapolis Cloudy 29.86 32 Mobile. Ala Clear 30.00 50 New Orleans Clear 30.04 54 New York : Cloudy 29.16 44 Oklv City. Okla Cloudy 29.90 54 Omaha. Neb Clear 29 98 32 Pittsburgh Snow 29.38 28 Portland. Ore Cloudy 30 12 40 San Antonio. Tex Clear 29.98 52 San Francisco Cloudy 29.82 52 i St. Louis Clear 29.86 42 'Tampa, Fla Clear 30 04 54 Washington, D. C Rain 29.10 44

City Man Escapes Flood; but Blizzard Traps Him Quits Pittsburgh Minutes Before Torrent Shuts Off Bridge; Spends Night in Farmhouse. A vivid account of experiences in the flood-swept Pittsburgh and Wheeling regions was related today by an Indianapolis resident, just returned from an automobile trip to Washington.

William Allen Moore, vice president of the Columbia School Furniture Corp., passed through Pittsburgh late Tuesday afternoon, and says he believes he is one of the last persons to drive his car over the Monongahela River and into the “Golden Triangle” business district before authorities closed the bridge to traffic. “If I had arrived in Pittsburgh a half-hour later, I probably would still be there,” Mr. Moore said. “The flood was just beginning to hit the city in its fullest force. Water was up to the running board of the car. I drove out of town as fast as I could.” Storm Stopped Him Mr. Moore tried to make Wheeling, W. Va., 65 miles away, thatnight, but storm and snowdrifts stopped him and led to one of the most amazing incidents he has experienced. Forced to abandon his car some 15* miles northeast cif Wheeling, Mr. Moore took refuge in a farmhouse. He was not alone in his plight. Eighteen cars were stalled along the road at the same spot, and when he entered the house he found himself the forty-seventh guest! “It was a large farmhouse, amply spacious for a family of four, but not quite large enough for all of us to spend a very comfortable evening. They Were Perfect Hosts “However, the owners were perfect hosts and did everything they could for us. The women and children were quartered upstairs and we men managed to pass the night away telling stories, playing cards or taking catnaps on the floor. There wasn’t much else we could

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A city beleaguered by the raging Ohio River, Gallipolis, 0., is shown here hemmed in by the waters that rose steadily in its streets. On all sides the lowlands were submerged and hundreds fled to the safety of the snow-covered higher ground shown in the rear. Food supplies were rushed in before a halt was called on all vehicular traffic.

do. We had no means of communication—the telephone service had been interrupted hours before.” Next morning the unexpected guests were able to depart, but only after following a path in the road cut by a huge snowplow* pushed by four 10-ton trucks. In many places the drifts were eight to 10 feet high, Mr. Moore related. The flood had advanced on Wheeling when he arrived there Wednesday, although at that time it was not as bad as at Pittsburgh. People, however, were making frantic efforts to move to higher ground. Railroads Assisted “The railroad companies were furnishing long lines of freight cars to help people living along the Ohio River banks to move their furniture and other belongings out of their houses. “They had received flood warnings and had heard of the terrible havoc wrought overnight in Pittsburgh,” Mr. Moore declared. “The sentiment seemed to be ‘Well, it's coming and we can't stop it, so let's save everything we can.’ A few people I talked to laughed about the reports from Pittsburgh as if they were exaggerated, but every one obviously was anxious and worried. “When I got to central Ohio the sun began to shine, and it seemed like awakening from a bad dream. But at that I wouldn’t give anything for the experience.” Purse Snatcher Gets $5 A negro purse snatcher obtained $5 last night when he seized the pocVetbook of Miss Pauline Archer, 23, of 613 N. Hamilton-av, while she was walking in the 1500 block of College-av.

DISCUSS PLANS FOR BARRETT’S HANGING County, City Officials to Co-Operate With U. S. Federal, county and city ~uthorities today were co-operat* g in completing plans for the exec Jon ; of George Barrett, convicted sljyer of Nelson B. Klein, Department of Justice agent. Barrett is to be hanged in the county jail yard soma time between midnight and dawn on Tuesday. Charles W. James, United States marshal, Sheriff Ray and Chief Morrissey declared they would take action to prevent the execution from becoming a spectacle for the curious. It is to be the first hanging here in 50 years. It is believed that all persons except qualified officials and persons assisting in the execution are to be barred from the jail for several hours preceding the hanging. Only officials and one representative from each of the three local daily newspapers and three press associations are to see the trap sprung. A large tent is to cover the gallows. Deputy United States marshals working in six-hour shifts are watching Barrett, who killed Klein August 6. TRUCK DRIVER ROBBED Bandit Gets SIOO From Collector, Police Told. A Negro bandit jumped on the running board of a truck driven by Frank Reiner, 33, of 1550 Wade-st, today and forced him at the point of a revolver to drive to Roanokest near Nortn-st. There the bandit robbed him of $lO, then drove away with an accomplice in a car that had driven up along the side of the truck. Reiner had collected the money on his route. He is employed by a meat packing firm.

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5 in a Boat Devil’s Island Refugees Towed to Sea, Cast Adrift.

By United Prrtt PORT 'OF SPAIN, Trinidad, March 21.—Five desperate men, escaped from dread Devils Island penal colony in French Guiana, will be towed out to sea in an open boat today and left to find themselves a country. Gaunt, half-starved, the five arrived here four months ago, in a little leaky boat, after their escape from the colony and an 800mile trip up the coast. One of them is Henri Le Clerq, once a journalist and playwright in Paris. Authorities could not bring themselves to return the refugees, but could not permit them to remain here. They were fed and housed under police supervision. n m A BOAT was prepared. Yesterday they were given provisions for 21 days. The constabulary launch Nemesis towed them five miles to sea, cut them adrift. A few minutes later there were cries for help. The launch returned, to find the refugees’ boat filling rapidly. Police angrily alleged that the refugees opened seams, risking their lives in an effort to make themselves a home here. But they were brought back here. Police made the boat seaworthy, and were ready this morning to take it out again. The refugees are expected to make for Haiti, 1045 miles away. Women’s Group to Meet Katherine Merrill Tent 9, Daughters of Union Veterans, is to serve a dinner Monday noon at Fort Friendly, 512 N. Hlinois-st. A regular meeting is to follow at 2.