The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 22 January 1937 — Page 1
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(iREENOASTLE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1!>:!7.
NO. 84
USANDS LEE FROM HIGH WATER
ESS IN SOUTHERN NA AS RESULT OF FIXKJD
IND-
ELIEF IS
SIGHT
ducah. One-third or Aurora, Ind., was under water. Neighbors in sheltered spots ooened their homes to flood refugees throughout the area. The Red Cross supplied army tents to shelter hundreds. Abandoned school houses were employed in Illinois and Indiana. Thousands found temporary shelter in box earn left on side tracks. Relief costs soared as police and rescue workers issued pleas for blankets and clothing, and for trucks and boats to transport food to isolated
shelters.
The city of Evansville appeared 1 safe behind its gigantic seawall. Po- ! lice patrols removed 100 families from the outskirts last night, re1 ceived calls from 150 others asking for immediate transportation out of
the flood zone.
Vincennes Ind., police and Red •'ross workers removed 50 families from water-edge districts. Five hundred fan ilies from Hazelton and Decker, Ind., found refuge in warehouses, public buildings and school
houses.
Two hundred men who had labored 48 hours to save an important levee near Decker were removed last night
MEASURE TO BECOME LAW BY EVENING PASSAGE OF INDIANA
INDIANAPOLIS LIVESTOCK Hogs 6 000; holdovers 84. Market fairly active and steady with yesterday's best time. Bulk 160 to 180 lbs. $10.60; 180 to 200 lbs $1065; 200 to 210 lbs. $10.70; 210 to 225 lbs.. $10.65; 225 to 235 lbs., $10 60; 235 to 250 lbs., $10.55; 250 to 260 lbs., $10.45;
TAX ;;8() to 275 lbs ■ *10.35; 275 to 300 lbs.
Ftor.d Scene At Cincinnati
MORATORIUM SCHEDULED TODAY
DELAYED
AMENDMENTS
-burg And Hazleton Are ically Abandoned Due To 'ddespread Inundation SVILLE, Ind., Jan. 22, (UP) ty-five thousand men, wond children abandoned their floods in Indiana, Illinois,
lucky today.
relief worker estimated
?ere homeless in Kentucky,
Indiana, 20,000 in Illinois. 1 they believed their esti-
onservative, that the figure
doubled by next week, and motor caravans were
ed today to remove addition-
sands from lowland homes | when ^e vails showed uncontroll-
ed by fast-rising rivers in
tate area. hio river rolled over tops of . | p, . roughout its course. Dozens UUHCFill
tributaries were swollen as "
several miles in width,
nceburg, Ind., was practical-
oned. The village of Hazel- I was deserted. Evacuation WELL KNOWN 'MAN DIED AT
Rill Expected To Be Placed On Governor’s Desk During Afternoon
j able signs of cracking.
To Be Saturday
lost complete at Shawnceille and Paducah, Ky., le, Ind., Cairo, 111., arid a smaller villages between ere threatened by rising diich flood rescue veterans J1 not reach their peak until k. tial rains were falling ut the Ohio valley. They ected to drain into the overOhio within a few hours of the crest of the flood from reached this section, lie rescue workers pre- • a peak flood level at least the 46.7 feet of 1894, worst r in the citys history. Red adquarters at Evansville reores of reports from outlycts in Indiana and Kentucky 1 conditions already arc as as in the great flood of
HOME NEAR CLINTON FALLS THURSDAY John Sigler, age 79 years, passed away Thursday at his home two miles east of Clinton Falls. He was a son of Thomas and Sara Newgent Sigler and was born Nov. 3, 1857, near Clinton Falls. Mr. Sigler was united in marriage to Mary Gibson, Nov. 10, 1881. To this union was born a daughter, Hattie. She passed away at the age of 6, and her mother passed away soon afterward. He was united in marriage to Randa Walker, of near Poland, Nov. 1, 1894. To this union was bom a daughter, Lillian lone, wife of Leo Terry. He leaves a wife, daughter, son-in-law, and granddaughter, Rose Marie Terry; one brother, Abner Sigler, and several nieces. He was a
cousin of Dr. T. A. Sigler of Grecneat sheets of water swirl- I castle.
the southern third of Indi- ] His father, mother, two brothers, northern third of Kentucky, and one sister, preceded him in
lower fourth of Illinois must | death.
to the Mississippi river at Funeral services will be held at the A giant seawall there was 1 M. P. church near Clinton Falls,
Saturday at 10:30 a. m. Burial will
be in the cemetery nearby.
by a score of men searching , of weakening. At least 300 ! in the lower sections of ere warned to leave their Engineers called Harrisburg workers to sandbag levee Cross workers, national en, and coast guard life- , ere at work throughout the th headquarters at Evans- , icrican Legion posts musrelief work in Evansville r cities. Police departa dozen cities cancelled r«ranized emergency patrols, who fled_ from their homes tiucks and wagons, volun-
r rescue work.
linois state police broadcast _ ing that all railroad and traffic across the Ohio river •liana border was suspended.
Mrs. Ludia Horn Galled By Death
LAST RITES FOR WIDELY KNOWN CLOVERDALE WOMAN SATURDAY
Mrs. Ludia Horn, age 65 years, a life long resident of Cloverdalc died at her home Thursday morning at U o’clock following an extended ill-
ness.
She is survived by one sister, Mrs. Harry Crowe of Joplin, Mo., and
three brothers, J. B. Meek, Spencer; stroyed their Beech Grove home.
INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 22. (UP) — A joint conference of house and senate committees today to agree on amendments was expected to clear the way for passage of the $25,000,000 tax moratorium bill and allow it to become law by nightfall. Twice delaped by devision, once in the house and senate, the emergency measure to halt the sheriff sales of property for tax delinquencies was to be laid on the desk of Gov. M. Clifford Townsend for his signature this afternoon barring unforeseen circumstances. Townsend and other prominent Hoosier Democrats returned last night from Washington, D. C., where they attended the second inauguration of President Roosevelt. The senate yesterday afternoon made two amendments to the moratorium bill passed earlier in the
house.
One fixed the date of the sales at April 12, instead of the third Monday in March as decided by this house. This is to give the taxpayers more time to raise the money to halt disposal of their property. The other senate amendment extended another concession to the delinquent taxpayer by providing that he could become eligible for the sixyear installment plan of paying back taxes by declaring intention to pay his current taxes by May 3. The house bill would have required current taxes to be paid before the start
of sheriff’s sales.
Failure of the taxpayer to make a declaration of intended payments means that the delinquent property will go on sale April 12. Failure to pay the current taxes will require full payment of delinquent penalties which arc waived if the installment plan is adopted by a taxpayer. Edward Stein, Blomflcld, speaker of the house, said there was no serious disagreement in the house over the senate amendments, but that the conference would be necessary to adjust, phrasing of the bill. Anderson ( Ketchum, secretary of the state tax board who was consulted in the drafting of the bill, also predicted its final passage today. Meanwhile, the legislature appeared to be marking time on other important measures, awaiting the weekend recess. Rep. Paul Sturm, Dana, Democratic caucus chairman, said he would introduce a bill requiring grain elevator operators to keep records of their purchases available
for inspection.
TWO GIRLS BURN INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.. Jan. 22 — (UPi Two small daughters of Mrs. Burley Clark were burned to death in their sleep today when fire de-
$10.20; 300 to 325 lbs . $10.10; 325 to 350 lbs., $10.00; 350 to 400 lbs., $9.90; 150 to 160 Ibes., $1025; 140 to 150 lbs.. $10 00; 130 to 140 lbs., $9.75; 120 to 130 lbs., $9.50; 110 to 120 lbs., $9 - 25; 100 to 110 lbs., $9.00. Pack ng sows mostly $9.25 to $9.75; top $9.85. Cattle 500; Veals 300; market generally steady on all classes; trading slow on cows; load of strictly choice to prime 1,138 lb. Steers $11.50; Other sales mostly $7.00 to $8.00; Beef cows $4.75 to $5.75; cutter grades $3.55 to $4.50. Top sausage bulls $6.50. Veals steady to 50 cents higher. Good and choice $11 50 to $12.50. Sheep 400. Very little done on lambs early; Load of choice natives unevenly higher at $10.75. Sheep steady. Bulk of slaughter ewes $4.00 to $5.oo. Top $5.50.
Tobacco Grown Bv Fred Hunter
Residents of Cincinnati found the problem of obtaining supplies a difficult one when flood waters marooned many families, necessitating delivery of food in boats.
EAST PUTNAM MAN DISCUSSES THE RAISING OF THIS
CROP
i sheds are fitted with heaters which ! are used to disseminate the moisture. Tobacco, Mr. Hunter says, is the very best crop for land, financially speaking, if the right kind of soil is
available.
John Meek, Linton, and Estil Meek
of Cloverdalc,
Funeral services will be held Sat-
tiio river reached 70 feet and , ur( | a y afternoon at 1:30 o'clock from over its levees at Lawrence- th(J h0Jne with burift i ln the Clover-
last night. Within a few rtale rPme t er y.
1 but 500 of the towns 6 000 Friends may call at the home. n had fled to nearby vil-
CHARGES DROPPED
from the Ohio covered 150 DANVILLE, HI., Jan. 22 (UP' -
ks in Louisville, Ky.
FARLEY NOMINATED
WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 (UP) — President Roosevelt today nominated chairman James A. Farley of the Democratic National committee for
At Kidnap ^charges against^ Nolan j rc-appointmcnt a.s Postmaster gencr-
i al.
In Dayton, Ky., city of 8,000, young bride, were dismissed today. 30 city blocks were inun- : The girl, Helen Lawson, 16. Hoops-
ton, III., denied that Foreman forced her to accompany him into Indiana and said that she hitchhiked to Attica ,Ind., alone and met him there. They were married at Williamsport
Ind.
wice that many were floodwport, Ky., home of 20,000. ront buildings were threatthe Cumberland river In and the Tennessee river flows into the Ohio at Pa-
REBELS BOMB MADRID
MADRID, Jan. 22 (UP)—Taking advantage of bright moonlight 13 rebel airplanes raided Madrid four times early today, dropping more
^ .St rt iftt Pv tnan 70 high explosive bombs in the with a sevcr ‘ ! cold - waa aB8crted with ® © © «M9 « « « eMter7i and 80utheaatern sections. I a reliable 80Urcc toda y to have bcen
snow or sleet probable to-
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One really important crop of Putnam county that does not receive much publicity is its tobacco. Usually. Putnam county persons who chew and smoke tobacco associate Kentucky with that product, but, as a matter of fact, Putnam county soil of a certain character can, and does, raise the grade that goes into the highest priced cigars. Fred Hunter, east of Greencastle, with expert help, raised 2,500 pounds of light hurley this last season, of which he sold some 1,500 pounds, most of it at 35 cents a pound when sold locally, or at 42*/j cents at Madison, this state. Light hurley tops most of the Kentucky product, the greater part of the latter being red hurley, due to soil and atmospheric conditions. The red hurley does not “fetch” as much in market as the light, but the quantity of it is much greater, and the proceeds are greater than for the light on account of the greater bulk grown. Kentucky’s red clay soil is fine for the red variety of the tobacco, but th" black, sandy loam that is found in places in this county is better for tobacco than the clay. Mr. Hunter told a Banner man that “black walnut” soil is the best—that ground that raises black walnut trees will raise tobacco. Mr. Hunter and his assistant in the business, whoso name is DeBorde, a Frenchman who cnnic here from Tennessee six years ago to work with Mr. Hunter, will sow their seed beds in February, and will hope for the right sort of weather to get the seed in !hc best condition to make strong
plants.
Here, freezing is relied on to crack the seeds open, but in the south, the same effect on the seeds is obtained by heat produced by firing the seed beds, the hard covering being burst
open by that process.
The young plants will be transplanted by June 1, preferably, and a period of only sixty days from that time will be required to produce the
crop, of the best grade.
The cut plants are hung in a barn for the curing process, and that is not a hit-or-miss process, by any means. Mr. Hunter said Mr. DeBorde can detect the exact status of the curing process by smelling the air in the curing barn. The leaves, in curing, give off a great amount of moisture which collects in drops on the under surface of the roof above the plants, and elsewhere on the inside of the structure, and that moisture must be gotten out of the barn as soon as possible, or the
leaves turn dark in color.
These two men rigged up a gasoline operated fan with a six-inch air hose attached, with which they force
, the damp air out of the bam. AMSTERDAM. Jan. 22 -Tnc con- In the souUi, where the business is dition of former Kaiser Wilhelm of | more highly developed, the curing
Germany.who has been suffering
HOME CONTROL FOR HOSITTAL FORT WAYNE, Ind., Jan. 21, (UP) Definite plans are to be drafted for the removal of Fort Wayne Methodist hospital from control of the Indiana Methodist Association it was announced last night by Dr. Fremont Fribley, district Methodist Episcopal superintendent and president of the hospital board. A committee on plans for homecontrol will submit its recommendations to the hospital board March 9.
No Settlement In \nto Strike
Quads Born In Canada; Three Die
BABIES IN WRECK ON TO MONTREAL HOSPITAL
WAY
MONTREAL. Jan. 22 (UP) The third of the Rondeau Quadruplets, a boy, died at St. Justine hospital at 11:20 a. m. today. MONTREAL. Jan. 22. (UP)— An ambulance racing new-born quadruplets to a hospital collided with a snow plow early today. All the infants, born prematurely, were bruised and their already slender chance to survive was lessened materially. Reaching St. Justine
FINISH FIGHT SEEN WITH COLLAPSE OF FEDERAL NEGOTIATIONS WASHINGTON, Jan. 22. (UP) — Collapse of federal negotiations to end the widespread General Motors strike may lead to a “fight to the finish” in the controversy, it ap-
peared today.
Intervention by President Roosevelt was believed to be the only hope of preventing an intense struggle in the dispute which already has thrown out of work 135,000 and threatens to retard industrial recovery during his
second term.
Attempts by Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins to end the strike bogged down when Alfred P. Sloan,, Jr. General Motors president, withdrew from negotiations. Sloan abandoned his original plan to remain in Washington after reading "A transcript or Lewis’ press conference. He said G. M. officials then decided “it was useless at this time to discuss any further the ideas
which we had.”
Sloan announced he and his associates would leave for New York five hours after Lewis’ press conference at which the head of the Committee for Industrial Organization revealed that he had sent his appeal to Mr. Roosevelt through Secretary Perkins. Lewis cited that labor had rallied behind Mr. Roosevelt’s re-election ind that the "economic royalists., rep•csented by Geseral Motors, contribut-
COATING OF ICE COVERS COMMUNITY
(TTY AND COUNTY BLANKETED BY GLAZE OF ICE FRIDAY 3‘i BELOW ONE YEAR AGO Winter Weather Of Toda.x Comjuires Interestingly With Conditions Last January 22nd. Friday morning, residents of the “early bird” classification awoke to see a glare of ice spread over the grounds surrounding their homes, and to hear automobile tires crunching the icy coating as the machines were cautiously driven along the thoroughfares. It was a cane of "Christian wail? carefully,” for pelestrians who were, forced outdoo-s by the stress of business and school demands. The ice which had been on the surface of the highways and the sidewalks the day before, was treated to i downfall of rain in the evening, much of which froze where it fell during the night, forming an armor of frigid crystal that was not as slippery as such coatings sometimes are but which was so hard that it was difficult for walkers to find secure footholds. Automobiles and trucks, because of their weight, fared better, but they did not fare easily, even at
that.
Country roads were in the same condition as the city streets, it being unsafe for drivers to venture out who were not obliged to do so, by reason of their employments. Grades encountered in the rural roads were particularly unpleasant for timid
drivers.
On the state highways, piles of cinders that hail boon stacked along the herms of the sloping sections of the roads were strewn on the pavements as quickly as the state highway employes could reach them, and traffic was thus very much aided. The rising grade on state road 43, going north from Big Walnut creek, which ’s one of th« HKiwt unpleasant stretches of road near Greencastle when there is snow and ice on the pavements, was thus treated with
the cinders and made safer.
One of the unusual inconveniences due to the sleet, in Greencastle, was tile freezing up of the mail boxes, particularly those which faced the north. Mail collectors had to devise emergency means to melt the ice, in order to remove the mail that had been dropped into the boxes before
the freeze-up occurred.
The box outside the Greencastle nostoffice, on Walnut street, which
placed^ iriimLTors i tith 1 TocTors | cd lboir ~ y an " T ' ^ r "?' gy ’“Lo
and nurses watching over them
the administration out of
to drive | power.”
I “The administration asked labor | for help to repel this attack,” he j said. “Labor gave its help. The J same economic royalists now have | their fangs in labor. The workers J expect the administration to help ] them in every legal way and to sup-
anxiously.
Despite the fears of the physicians they responded wonderfully and the medical men, revising their first estimate, believed they were almost out of danger and had a good chance
to survive.
The quadruplets—two boys and , ,, , , . „ , . , , , a . i, port them in General Motors plants, two girls were born to Mrs. Accadc j 1 , ,
midnight, Thursday night, to permit removal of the mail it contained at that time, and it again thawed the
next morning.
'The mother was visiting neighbors nearby when the fire started. The victims were Bertha, 2, and Mary
Ellen, eight months.
The nominated was received by the senate and may lie acted upon immediately out of regular order in Democratic recognition of Farley’s successful conduct of the President's
re-election campaign.
RHEUMATISM ADDS TO
EX-KAISER’S ILLNESS
d Saturday morning except northwest portion, colder
As daylight came, bright and sun-
complicated by rheumatism.
This source reported he now walks
m 14 20 18 18 18 [in 16 16 rn 16 +i 14 14
ny, ambulances collected the dead and
injured. It was impossible accurate- with d ‘«‘cu>ty b «ause of the pains, ly to count the dead and wounded be- The fonner Kaiser was confincd t0 cause fear of further air raids hamp-' bis room in Doorn House ' Uoorn ' 016 ered rescue work. Netherlands, Jan. 15 because of a
; cold.
COWGER FUNERAL SATURDAY All invitations issued for a celeFuneral services for A. J. Cowger, bration in connection with his sevenage 74 years, wh died Thursday, will ty-eighth birthday Jan. 27 were canbe held Saturday afternoon at 2 celled Wednesday, o’clock, from the home in Bainbridge. No anxiety was felt, it was assertHe is survived by the widow and one ed in Doom, but the cancellation was
20 Years Ago IN GREENCASTLE
N. C. O’Hair transacted business In Indianapolis. Members of the high school basketball team were guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Handy at a surprise birthday dinner party for their son Bernard. Elmer Vancleave is confined to his home due to illness. Theodore Crawley was in Terre
, son, W. M. Cowger, at home.
I decided upon as a “wise precaution.” Haute on legal business.
Rondeau at the nearby village of St. Thomas, yesterday morning. Dr. J. E. Forest, who attended her, believed they had no chance to survive at the Rondeau home and provincial medical authorities ordered them to the hospital where suitable equipment ia available. The ambulance skidded on a slippery highway near Pointe-Aux-Trembles, just outside the city, collided with a snow plow and was wrecked. The chauffeur and a nurse accompanying the infants were seriously injured. Dr. Forest also wan hurt. All were taken to hospital in another ambulance. Mrs. Rondeau, 40, already the mother of 10 other children, gave birth to the first of the babies at 4 a. m. yesterday. The rest followed at half hour intervals. Two of the Rondeau quadruplets died at the hospital later this morning, the United Press was informed. CIRCUIT COURT NOTES The Dixon Oil Company has filed complaint on two notea against Carl M. Brown, asking a total of $204.97. Albert E. Williams is attorney for the plaintiff. Nathaniel Huckleberry ia plaintiff in circuit court against Lloyd A. Blue, for a total of a thousand dol- , lars damages resulting, so he claims, from an automobile collision at the intersection of state roads 4.3 and 42 south of Cloverdale, July 11. 1936. For personal injuries he claims to h ive received he asks $700 and an additional $300 for damages to his automobile. Wilbur S. Donner is attor- ! ney for the plaintiff.
The automotive executives evaded a direct answer to questions as to the particular phase of Lewis’ statement that prompted them to drop peace efforts. John Thomas Smith, general counsel, was incensed at what he described as a demand by Lewis that President Roosevelt “reward Lewis for his election activi-
ties.”
Birlliday Ball To Be Jan.
BENEFIT DANCE TO BE HELD IN BOWMAN GYMNASIUM, IT IS ANNOUNCED The Birthday Mall on President Roosevelt’s birthday, which is on Saturday, January .30. will be held in Bowman gymnasium, it was announced today by Carl Hurst and Jewell Shannon who are in charge for Putnam county. Joe McCartney’s orchestra has been secured to furnish the music, and it is expected that several hundred couples will attend. The proceeds of the dance go toward the Warm Springs Foundation and to local charity, and similar balls are being held throughout the country. Tickets will be available downtown at Mullins, Fleenot’s, and at Sam Hanna’s bool: store.
A Year Ago It is interesting to note that it was just a year ago Friday that the worst weather conditions of last winter came upon us. The bail weather had continued since December 25. The issue of the Banner of January 22 had this passage in Its story of the weather: “Putnam county awoke Wednesday morning in the midst of one of '.he worst blizzards that has swept • his section of Indiana this winter. There was a heavy snow falling, be'ng driven by a cold wind out of the lorth The mercury which stood at 20 degrees above zero at 7 o'clock 'egan sliding and at 1:30 it stood at 7 degrees below zero.” During that night the night of January 22 Inst year it reached 14 degrees below, and temperatures much lower than that point were re•vn'ted et other places. Russell Pierce, hving south of Greencastle, '•aid his thevmomrter froze up at 24 below and he didn’t know how much lo ver it would have gone had it not quit on the job. The very worst feature of the cold e year ago to the school children, waa the postponement of the Brazil* Greencastle basketball game. Schools over the county were closed 'he next day. Automobiles and trucks that spent 'he night outdoors had a half-inch '■odT.g of ire on their outside surfaces this morning. This covered windshields and windows as well as the other surfaces of the bodies, and was so flinty in texture that it could not be removed. Visibility through the icy film was hampered, and driving was given an added hazard.
Clarence Scobee, north of town, entered the county hospital, Friday morning for treatment.
Thursday evening, O. W. Irwin of Greencastle, stopped hts coupe on iCuutliiucd ou I’aise Tviui