Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 January 1937 — Page 2
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
TUESDAY, JAN. 26, 1937 |
Louisville’s Business and Residential S
100,000 PEOPLE AT EVANSVILLE MAY BE MOVED
Governor Says Evacuation May Become Necessary.
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pital here and 75 to Methodist Hospital. A troop train bearing 250 Indiana National Guardsmen and supplies was to leave this afternoon from Indianapolis for Evansville. Nearly 200 refugees were at the Manufacturers’ Building at the State Fair Grounds, which has been transformed into a relief center by the American Red Cross. Health officials urged every one from the areca to have a typhoid vaccination.: John Fisher, U. S. Public Health Service, arrived from Washington to take over the task of providing pure water for Evansville in case the supply is polluted. Governor Townsend made a radio appeal to Mayors of cities along the railroads leading from Evansville to prepare their communities to care for refugees. The State Police set up radio staticns in stricken areas without other communication and acted as a clearing house-for Red Cross and other relief emergency information. Mile-of-Dimes, sidewalk shrine for unfortunates, undertook the special mission today of coliecting Red Cross funds for Indiana flood suf-’ ferers. The place: In front of L. S. Ayres & Co. and S. S. Kresge Co. at the intersection of Washington and Meridian Sts. The time: Contributions will be received day or night by representatives of The Indianapolis Times on the line or by mail
525 Troops Sent
Five hundred and twenty-five regular Army troops, 18 of officers, from Ft. Benjamin Harrison, were in Louisville today. They were dispatched by Col. George V. Strong, acting post commander, on orders from Washington, to aid in combating disease and panic in the Kentucky flood area. Governor A. B. Chandler yesterday requested Federal martial law for the state. Equipped with a radio communication system mounted on an Army truck, the provisional convoy left last midnight in 57 trucks. Each of the four companies took its own kitchen and food for 10 days. Boots, raincoats, overcoats and fighting equipment were issued. No more troops will be sent from Ft. Harrison, only regular Army post in Indiana, it was announced at headquarters here today. Maj. R. E. Swab was in charge of the local troops. Companies and Tne commanders were: Company C, Capt. A. A. Horner; Company I Capt. L. L. Skinner; Company K, Capt. L. J. Ferguson, ahd Company L, Capt. C. D. Haisley. Capt. Bruce, W. Bidwell was motor transport of-' ficer.
All Agencies Take Part
Flood refugees here have been offered aid from every relief agency in the city, including the churches, hospitals, schools, the American Legion, the Community Fund, the City Administration and individuals of all ranks. Children, families and single adults are being cared for by various communities and agencies, it was announced by Raymond F. Clapp, manager. Accommodations for 80 persons, including lodging and meals, are open now at the Society of the Good Shepherd, the Rev. A. G. Fussenegger, Catholic Charities Bureau director, said. Preparations already have ‘been made to lodge refugees at 10 Catholic school halls. The evangelistic committee of the Church Federation of Indianapolis has thrown open its churches for the housing of refugees migrating here from the flood districts, Dr. Ernest N. Evans, federation executive secretary, has announced.
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OFFICIAL WEATHER
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INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST—Fair today; lowest temperature tonight about 15; fair with rising temperature tomorrow.
Sunrise ........ 6:53 | Sunset
TEMPERATURE —Jan 26, 1936—
Precipitation 24 hrs. ending 7 a. Total precipitation since Jan. Excess since Jan.
MIDWEST WEATHER
Indiana—Generally fair tonight and tomorrow; not quite so cold northwest and west central portions tonight: rising temperatures tomorrow. Illinois—Generally® fair tonight and tomorrow; not so cold central and north portions tonight: rising temperature tomorrow.
Lower Michigan—Generally fair tonight and tomorrow; somewhat coldér east portion toinght; not so cold tomorrow afternoon. Ohio—Cloudy tonight and : tomorrow: possibly snow in south portion tomorrow; cligthly eolder in extreme east portion tonight; slowly rising temperature tomorrow. Kentucky—Cloudy: probably snow or rain south portion tonight and tomorrow and in north portion tomorrow: colder in extreme east portion tonight; slowly rising temperature in west and central portions.
WEATHER IN OTHER, CITIES AT 7 A. M. Station. Bar. Amarillo, Tex. 30. Bismarck, Boston Chicago Cincinnati Sitveland, 0. Denver Dodge Os Helena, Jacksonv Mer
Minneapolis Mobile, Ala. New New York Okla. Omaha. Pittsburgh ..... Portland, Ore. ... £an Antonio, Tex. gan Francisco
C Washington, D. C.. ..Cloudy 30.26
ings, in which kitchen facilities are available, were offered for the sheltering of refugees by Mayor John W. Kern. Policemen, firemen and City Hall employees made private collections, amounting to several hundred dollars, which were donated to the Red Cross. Other Community Fund agencies prepared to aid in the relief work are the Wheeler City Rescue Mission, Salvation Army, Y. M. C. A, Y. W. C. A, Volunteers of America, Camp Fire Girls, Girl Scouts, English Avenue Boys’ Club Association, Boy Scouts, Children’s Bureau of the Indianapolis Orphans’ Asylum, Indianapolis Travelers’ Aid Scciety, the Public Health Nursing Association and the Family Welfare Society.
Health Points Listed Dr. Harvey's program of caring for refugees included eight points. Governor Townsend urged that people follow them. They were: Do not crowd refugees into buildings past their capacity. See that refugees are dry and warm. If possible give them a bath. Persons suffering from exposure and {fatigue should be put to bed. They should be fed easily digested food. They should be inoculated against typhoid whenever possible: Persons suffering from sore throat, temperature or other evidences of communicable disease should be immediately isolated. All assistance should be given doctors and nurses. When possible, homes should be opened for housing whole families. The Indiana Department, American Legion, today gathered money. food, clothing and bedding to aid the flood refugees. The Legion Auxiliary’s national committee appropriated $25,000 to aid the flood states. Supplies and food were assembled in national headquarters of the Legion, 777 N. Meridian St., and in buildings at 939 N. Meridian St. 14th and Meridian Sts. and 935 N. Ililnois St. State posts raised an emergency fund of $10,000 and sent the money to Charles Maston, state com.mander. $10,000 Raised
Door-to-door collection of supplies and food was carried on by 25,000 Legionnaires through 320 state posts. The Twelfth District of the Legion, led by Judge Wilfred Bradshaw, aided state departmental officials in distribution of fleod aid. Legion posts in the southern
residents were urged to contact ommander Maston or Judge Brad/shaw,
One hundred ten unit presidents
of the Seventh District Federation of Clubs met today in Keith's The-
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wide flood relief program. They banded as the United Club Women's Flood Relief and said they would contact every woman in the Headquarters were established at 111 N. Pennsylvania St. The sum of $560, accumulated earlier, and $138 donated by women attending the meeting formed a
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K. of P. Opens Quarters Fifty lodges of the Knights 'of
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their quarters at the disposal of refugees. The Knights of Columbus also volunteered use of clubhouses for relief work. Members of the Indiana Funeral Directors’ Association gave ambulances to any stricken community needing aid. Children. of Indianapolis Public Schools took canned goods to school tcday. A TWA plane from Philadelphia brought 150 pounds of vaccine yesterday for the Mayor of Louisville ‘as a donation from the Mayor of Philadelphia. The Louisville airport is in good condition for landing, airport officials here reported, and planes are having no trouble “setting down.”
Bread Is Ready
The Indiana Bakers’ Association stands ready to supply bread in large quantities to flood sufferers, Charles P. Ehlers, executive secretary, announced today.
“In Indianapolis alone, bakeries are in a position to produce between 75,000 and 100,000 pounds of bread cver their normal production every 24 hours,” Mr. Ehlers stated. He asks that appeals be mace to the association rather than to individual baking firms, in order that relief baking may be co-ordinated.
Several hundred claims are pected by General Exchange Insurancé Corp. as the result of ‘flood damage to automobiles in southern Indiana, Larry Pomeroy, general manager of General Motors Acceptance Corp. of Indiana here, has estimated. Proceeds of the Hercules A. C. wrestling show tonight at the Arnmory, including the National Guard Armory rental, the wrestlers’ pay and the state's share of taxes, are to be turned over to flood sufferers, Matchmaker Lloyd Carter said toaay. :
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U. S. Deputy Marshal Andrew W.
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He brought them to the Morin County jail. Trucks loaded with food and clothing gathered almost spontaneously by the citizens of Ann Arbor, Mich., came through Indianapolis today, flood-district bound. They were driven by Michigan University students. The Red Cross headquarters here said at noon today that 25 carloads of food have left by rail for flooded areas and downstate concentration camps in the last 24 hours.
Planes Bring Refugees
Three planes bearing refugees from Louisville landed at Municipal Airport this morning. They bore six to. 10 each. They returned wit bread, canned food and other supplies. Two truckloads of food were shipped to Carrollton, Ky. today by the Red Cross. Three automobiles loaded with food supplies were sent to New Albany. Robert Pentz, Red Cross official, was due from Washington today to take up duties as assistant to Frank W. Loeffler in the Red Cross supply department here.
Church Collects Games
The Broadway M. E. Church is collecting games, books and magazines to be distributed to the refugees at the State Fair Grounds refugee camp. Police are on the lookout for persons who are taking advantage of the flood disaster to gain money under guise of soliciting for the Red Cross. The relief organization announced it had authorized no door-to-door solicitation after two women reported to police yesterday afternoon they had given money to persons who said they represented the Red Cross.
‘Reports Giving $1.85
Mary Hollingsworth, 20, of 1518 E. Raymond St., told police she gave $18 to a woman. Mrs. Ernest Roose, 20, of 28 E. 16th St., reported she gave $3 to a young man who signed a receipt on a scrap of paper with the name of R. Doolittle. Twenty pounds of candy for children of refugees at the State Fair Grounds was donated this morning by an Indianapolis citizen. Twenty-
five or 30 children are at the Fair Grounds, with that many more expected when more refugees arrive today. Indianapolic WPA headquarters dispatched four more officials to the flood and refugee areas to act as co-
ordinators of relief work. They are
Charles W. Legemann, F. M. Woodruff, J. B. Schwend and R. W. Bowser,
CASH USELESS AT LOUISVILLE DURING CRISIS
$50 Offer for Bed Amuses Residents of Stricken Metropolis.
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of toast, a thin slice of chicken, and a vegetable—cost me $1.50. Many restaurants are closed and hotels are putting up food prices. They're amused: if you ask for a bed. I offered $50 for one at a telegraph office and at several other places. There were no takers. 1 am little better off than a man who hasn't a dime. Money can't buy more than the bare necessities in Louisville today. It can't buy comfort. Last night I slept—or rather tried to sleep—on a leather settee in the cold, damp Kentucky Hotel lobby. There is evidence that food rations are being cut down but there appears to be little danger of a food shortage as yet. Brig. Gen. William K. Naylor, Ft. Harrison commandant who is directing relief work in the four flooded Ohio Valley states, is to leave soon for Ft. Hayes, Columbus, O., where he will make his headquarters. Brig. Gen. Daniel V. Van Voohris of Ft. Knox, Ky., is to take command here. Arrival of 525 troops and officers from Ft. Harrison, Indianapolis, is expected late today. They are traveling a 350-mile route, via Cincinnati. Troops from Ft, Knox, to the south, are unable to reach Louisviile. Martial jaw has not been declared. Mayor Neville Miller of Louisville and his staff have reorganized the entire relief and rescue setup in this area. The same personnel that was working under the Mayor has been switched to the Red Cross. Relief operations were disorganized considerably during the change. In a radio address last night Mayor Miller said he felt the seriousness of the situation in the Louisville district had been exaggerated, but that it was grave. He said the City Hospital was functioning normally in spite of reports to the contrary. “President Roosevelt, in a telegram to me tonight, assured us,”
the Mayor said, “that the United States Government will co-operate through all its agencies with the Louisville officials to the fullest extent.” The river is not rising as rapidly as before. The gauge showed 56.8 feet at 9 a. m. today, rice of one foot in 12 hours. Relief workers were cheered but many residents were gloomy. The
‘Weather Bureau predicts the crest
will be 57 feet and probably will be reached tomorrow.
SEEK CONTACT WITH 5 TOWNS
Tell City Area Threatened With Fire and Disease; Water Rises.
By JERRY SHERIDAN Times Staff Writer TELL CITY, Ind. Jan. 26—Relief workers today continued efforts to establish communication with five small flooded communities from which no reports have been received for several days. They are: Tobinsport, Derby, Rome, Deers Creek and Millstone. Each has a population of about 250. As this city slowly filled with water, threats of fire and disease added to the general alarm. cannelton was reported isolated, but in “fairly good shape.” One hundred of the 500 residents of Troy, have been evacuated. A third of Tell City’s 5000 persons was being quartered in the City Hall, a school and a church. Five street flusher trucks, sent from Indianapolis, have provided an adequate water supply for the present. Gasoline is floating on the ood water, and fire warnings have been issued.
voy cohtaining serum to this area last night. ° Typhoid fever inoculations have been given to some Cannelton residents. Most of the Cannelton industrial section is under water and there are about 175 homeless families. “There are only two known looters in Cannelton, and I have told them that they would both go to jail if so much as a nail was missing out of this town,” Police Chief Spike Gileardin declared.
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SUPERFLOOD ON MISSISSIPPI IS ARMY FORECAST
Removal of 10,000 Cairo Residents to Safety Is Ordered.
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declare martial law in six inundated counties. He was expected immediately to order 35,000 residents to leave the areas threatened by the St. Francis and Mississippi Rivers. Five more communities in southern Illinois were abandoned to the flood. They were Shawneetown, Rosiclare, Elizabethtown, Roseview, and Golconda. Harrisburg, III, authorities feared the city would be isolated within the next 24 hours. U. S. Army engineers kept watch on the Mississippi below Cairo to observe the effect on the flood of 15 breaks in the levee. Two of the holes were blasted by engineers to relieve pressure at Cairc and the river itself smashed 13 holes.
131,000 Acres Flooded
In the 131,000-acre floodway over which the waters spread were two communities of a combined population of 260. Authorities believed they had been warned in time for their inhabitants to flee. Five men were reported marooned on the levee between the breaks. The water famine spread. Cincinnati and nearby communities depended on supplies brought by tank car and truck. Portsmouth, O., officials placed the city on water rations.
Flood Crest Believed Passed at Pittsburgh
Bis United Press PITTSBURGH, Jan. 26. — The crest of Western Pennsylvania's worst flood since last March passed Pittsburgh today. The series of five January floods, of which the one passing today was the most serious, left three dead, approximately 4000 homeless and damage of several hundred thousand dollars. After cresting at 34.54, more than nine feet above flood stage, at 2. a. m. (1 a. m. Indianapolis Time), the Ohio River at “The Point” here started a slow recession that for the next six ‘hours was measured in fractions. The stage at 8 a. m. (7 a. m. Indianapolis Time) was 34.2. Outside the immediate Pittsburgh vicinity, districts that suffered heaviest were Verona, Freeport and Beaver, while nearly 2000 were refugees. At least 11,000 persons employed in mills fringing the three streams were idle in the district. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation's open hearths, plate mills and six blast furnaces were idle, forcing 4000 men out of work. Three Carnegie-Illi-nois plants were affected, these being the Isabell furnaces at Sharpsburg, and the Mingo Junction and Marine Ferry plants in Eastern 0.
800 Kentucky Convicts Huddle in Garage
By United Press FRANKFORT, Ky. Jan. 26.—In a small garage high on a hill above Frankfort, 800 prisoners from the flood-swept Franktort State Penitentiary huddled beneath the machine guns and rifles of National Guardsmen today. : The garage is 100x100 feet. prisoners, more than half of them Negroes, stand like toothpicks stacked in a glass. Their clothing is nondeseript. There is no noise. For sticking down over them are machine guns, manned by National Guardsmen who watch from a stockade at one end of the corrugated steel structure. Outside are more Guardsmen. Throughout the night, 400 volunteer carpenters—called here Sunday by radio appeals—labored under floodlights building a tent city a hundred yards away. The city will be surrounded by wire fencing—and guards. Part of it probably will be finished today. Blankets, tents and steel stoves are being brought here by National
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Guard trucks from Camp Knox. Bales of hay will line the “streets” between the tents. Spaced around the barbed wire enclosure will be tall watch towers, where Guards=men will be stationed as in ware time prison camps.
RACE AGAINST TIME TO RESCUE 20,000
Louisville Relief Forces Are Using All Facilities in Task.
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valids were taken to Nashville and Memphis by air. Regular Army troops, accompanied by engineers with pontoon equipment, hurried from Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, to reinforce weary police and National Guardsmen. Six hundred regulars are expected in Louisville before nightfall. Fire and dwindling food supply increased the discomfort and danger. There was an hour of terror just before dawn when flames sud« denly shot up from the Louisville Varnish Co. plant in the west central industrial section. All avail able fire equipment—a pitifully scanty force in this stricken city that has no lights or power—zigzagged through the shallowest streets toward the blaze. Fire hydrants were under water, but a pumper was used and the flames were beaten back before they spread any farther than an adjoining residence. Firemen were in water up to their necks at one point, shcuting through the darkness and struggling to keep their feet in the slimy footing. Then the walls of the plant fell, and splashed sizzling into the flood water. When that fire was checked, a grave peril was averted, for in many parts of the city there was gasoline and oil floating on the flood. Other perils remained. The food supply ran low in such big refugee camps as. the Louisville Armory and the Southern Junior High School, There appeared to be ample food in the city, but there were insufficient facilities for transporting it. Res« taurants and hotels curtailed their menus, hut still served meals. The regular Army will not take Its function will be to supplement the police and rescue work of local authorities and National Guardsmen. City engineers said the crest, due tonight or tomorrow, would raise the Ohio River floodstage to 58 feet. It stood at 56.7 feet just before noon —and was rising. When the crest strikes, engineers added, water will be from five to 20 feet deep at the doorways of three-fourths of the city’s homes and will go six feet deep over the famous Churchill Downs race track, where the Kentucky Derby is run. The only dry regions in Louisville, engineers calculated, would he a small area downtown around City Hall and in residential sections known as- Crescent Hill and the Highlands. Two hundred thousand are homeless in Louisville and rescue hoats worked desperately trying to save the 20,000 others still marooned in their homes. Director of Safety Dunlap Wake field ordered police to shoot on sight any person found looting. He said it would be necessary to gon ficale food, clothing and gasoine
ANNIVERSARY PARTY ARRANGED BY SCOUTS
Boy Scout Troop 60 of the Car= rollten Avenue Evangelical and Reformed Church is to celebrate its 10th anniversary with a dinner Thursday night. Wallace O. Lee, Inidanapolis Boy Scout Council president, and F. O. Belzer, Chief Scout Executive, are expected among the 200 guests. The troop has a membership of 92.
FELONS SHUN FOOD; AID WAR PLANE FUND:
SHANGHAI, Jan. 26.—Prisoners in Chungking Prison, Szechuen,: went on a hunger strike for one day, donating their food allowance to a fund to be used in buying planes for the Chinese government.
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