The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 27 January 1937 — Page 1
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GREENC’ASTLE, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1937.
NO. 88
GUEST COMPILED THIS CITY
Measersmith, assistant
,1) ADDRESSES ARE BY CHAMBER OF ■commerce
HOME CITIES
Each Of Flood fluents ng Also Contained In jSrecucastle Report h! «t0|i(W I1,>er Commerce has ^^■list of all n<xsl guests in and word is being sent cities that all are being for here. It may be sevi.before any word goes Hi to their whereabouts.
and Lloyd
chairman.
Housing: Fred Pease, R. E. Brown, J. E. Friend and Dr. G. D. Rhea. Transportation: John Cartwright, Carroll Moore and Carl M. Brown. Childrens' Education and Recreation: William Bishop and Loftie
Stringer.
Food: Paul Boston, R. P. Mullins and Roy Abrams. Bedding: Rev. Claude McClure, S R. Rariden, L. W. Crump, ami Albert
Dobbs.
Registration: Mrs. E. E. Walker, Mrs. John Cartwright and Miss Helen
Black.
Supplies: Nazarene church, Jacob
Eitel.
Clothing: Mrs. Iva Smith.
The entire personnel of the Legion is giving generously of time and
means in furthering this work.
Bathing facilities have been provided in the high school gym and the
EVANSVILLE UNDER STRICT MARTIAL LAW
As Flood Left New Albany In Wake of Its Mad Surffe
CREST OF OHIO RIVER FLOOD IS EXPECTED BY FRIDAY
FIRE MENACE
ACUTE
Epidemic Of Dysentery Or Typhoid Is Feared. City Is Almost Surrounded By Water.
ring is the Greencastle
1
lean legion Homo Irs. Franklin Johnson and
1058 Cecil Ave. I^ouis-
viU* Hn.tf|rm< nd Lightfoot and three children, 417 N. 29th St. ^^^™lrs. Freeman Morgan and 3419 Del Park Terrace.
EVANSVILLE, Ind., Jan. 27, (UP) Under strictest martial law, Evansville today waited with grim rood humor the crest of the Ohio liver flood expected to sweep up to it
tomorrow or Friday.
At midnight, the river level stood
high school is assisting by having at- ,,t 52. t feet on 1 he government tendants on duty at regularly sped- 1 gauge. It was four feet higher than fied hours throughout the day. the peak in the great flood year of Towels and soap are being provided. ioi:i. and more than 17 feet above
| flood stage.
* I 17 « The waters had risen only four
Council Votes
To Defer Aetion
Picot, 117 N. 32nd. St.,
LEE WILLIAMS ELECTED NEW OOt NCILMAV REPLACING FRANK JONES
4 children,
Mil Short, and
Denton and two cliild)nd St. Louisville.
■1 Delta Kappa
Mrs. E. J. Lynch, and 1117 Hale Ave., Louisville. Mrs. Earl Ashcraft and ■unset Ave., Louisville. Eankin, 3628, River Park
Bville.
The city council, meeting in regular session in the office of the mayor Tuesday evening, voted to defer final action on ordinance number two, requiring permanent 24-hour watchman or flagman service to be maintained by the Pennsylvania railroad at the Bloomington street crossing, pending further efforts on the part of divisional engineers to satls-
tenths of a foot in the last 18 hours. Weatherman John Hagan said the rise during the night was continuing at the rate of .05 inches every throe hours. He said he expected the river would not pass 55 feet and might
stop at 54.
With every additional inch of rise, however, additional homes were being flooded. At least 15.000 and very probably 25,000 have been driven from their houses already. Relief agencies, under the direction of the national guard, had sent 1,750 out of the city by train and truck. Evacuation continued today. Thousands fortunate enough to possess the means of leaving by train or
LOUISVILLE FACING FIRE AND DISEASE
FEAR 200 DEAD ALREADY RECORD BREAKING 1UG1I WATER
MAYOR BECOMES DICTATOR
Commands Police National Guu.dsmcii And Regular Army In Combating UIoikI Conditions
This deserted city stands in poignant testimony to the devastation wrought by siiiuoil nv*'r Dh htinkq nI hiirirNl thi' ritv of Npw Alb.iliV. I i-l. ahovo. locatotl
surged over its banks and burie<l the city of New Albany, Lid., above, located directly across from
Louisville, beneath a rushing wall of muddy water, making it necessary for all residents to evacuate
their homes,
Elms Inn
ag, 3516 Grand
Ave.
private car joined the exodus.
Rohnert, 691, 44th street, I tactorily comply with demands of the , Fhectric lights were shut off in
council for modem flicker lights and , ;;ome sections to conserve the bell systems to adequately protect pow ,, r BUp .. ly , The xvatorworks had
that crossing.
Temporary 24-hour watchman service will be maintained by the Pennsylvania railroad until engineers can push through the installation of the warning lights, and the railroad men were able to assure the council
Determined To Build 4-Lane Hoad
NEW APPE\L
3518 Grand Ave.
anel, 56 Dumniinic Ave.
Jackson, Hale Ave.
Je Am Stephenson, Hale
llle.
h&rs. Wm. Johnson and Iren, 3409 Grand Ave.
that this crossing will be among the first to be dealt with in their 1937
3516
Hale
3506 Hale
Hale Ave.
Hale Ave.
pand Billy Young,
Louisville.
Caslin, 3518 Grand
llle
Blown, 3508
Loulwille.
Susie Brown
Louisville.
Blossom Sparks, 3506
Louisville.
Florence Brown, 3506
Louisville.
Harriot ’ Bass, 3506
Louisville.
Leonard Gam and Alice Gam, 3506 Hale Ave., Louisville. Ella Brown, 3506, Hale Ave.
Louisville.
Mrs. Arnold—106 Ilaiiua Mr. and Mrs Perkins, 417 N. 2!*tli street Louisville. Mr*. S. K. Rariden Mr. and Mrs George Bellamy 1149 S. 42nd St., Louisville. Mrs. Hixson Mrs. Wm. Kelly, three children New Albany. Mr. and Mrs. George Dooley, New
Albany.
Delta l'. Hoiiho Mrs. J. Irwin Streepey, New Alb
any.
Mrs. Ben Streepey. New Albany. - Mrs. Herod Mrs. John Gadlent and son, John New Albany. JMr. Docker Mr. and Mrs Allen Huckleberry. New Albany. Twenty-five people from Louisville. Jeffersonville, and New Albany arrived in Greencastle at 4 a. m., Wednesday morning, according to city relief workers. The entire group were promptly fed and twenty of that number continued their journeys to other cities later in the morning. The refugees were reported to have been in good spirits and glad to be away from the river. Hie addition to th'> numbers of Lie refugees In the city brought the total to 48 people and more are expect'd soon. However, it has been rumored that moving of people from their hdihes has been materially skiwe I through the reluctance of those in distress to leave that district. Meanwhile, workers throughout the city have kept themselves busv providing for the welfare and health of our less fortunate visitors and Lie
program of crossing safety.
The railroad, represented by Clyde Randel, Terre Haute lawyer for the Pennsylvania railroad, L. E. Gingrick. division engineer, and L. H. Miller, assistant division engineer, insisted that crossing safety was their objective in decreasing their Av e ; losses in lawsuits as much as it is the duty of various urban governAve.! ments in the protection of their citizens, and the council was prom-
shut down and the small available water believed held in reservoirs was carefully rationed. Even that supply was believed contaminated, and the military asked all residents to boil their drinking water. The fire menace was acute. Guardsmen watched over leaking gas mains on a score of downtown
streets.
Dr. Verne Harvey, head of the state board of health in Indianapolis was asked for permission to release the Ohio river flood waters into Evansville’s drinking water to relieve flood pressure and provide water for possible firefighting. He was informed that 70 per cent of Evansville’s streets could not be reached by
fire trucks.
Harvey refused permission em-
VVEST FROM BRAZIL ON NEW RIGHT OF WAY, PROPERTY OWNERS OBJECT
Hale Ave. ised the best efforts of these men to- j pp H |j c . a iiy after conferring with Gov.
The difficulty which the Indiana State Highway Commission is experiencing in securing right of way for the rebuilding of the National road west from Brazil to Miami is causing concern among the business men of Brazil, who fear that the deadlock between the commission and property owners may cause an abandonment of the work in that section with a possibility that it will not again be taken up within the next few years. Comnussion members admitted here had been an error made by the commission in reconstructing the section of the National west from Miami to Terre Haute, with four lanes adjacent, having found that such con-
Mrs. Howard Rockhill announced today that she had received a third message from the National Red Cross concerning funds to be used in the flood zone. This new appeal asks that Putnam county
Mood Bullrlins
wards reaching a satisfactory ar-
rangement in the matter.
Regular business was promptly dispensed with and the city council went into special session at 8 p. m., for the purpose of selecting a councilman and member of the park hoard committee, replacing Frank Jones, who recently resigned from the hoard after moving his residence outside the southern city limits of Greencastle. Lee Williams received the unanimous vote of the council to
fill out Jones’ unexpired term.
PHONE COMPANY SWAMPED WITH “RELIEF” CALLS The Greencastle Telephone exchange was swamped Monday and Tuesday with “relief” calls, as one friend called another to talk about the flood conditions and the arrival of refugees in Greencastle. Officials of the telephone company stated 50 operators could not have handled the
local calls.
It is also reported that calls into the flooded areas are being made, subject to delay, some times it being hours before a call can go through. Of course these calls are all subject to the other end of the call being unier water as many telephone ex’hangos in those zones are covered •vith water and will not be in operation for weeks.
M. Clifford Townsend in Indianapolis. He said it would seriously threaten the city’s health. A few hours later, Indiana national guard headquarters received a request from Evansville for five more fire trucks from upstate cities. Authorities frankly feared an epidemic outbreak of dysentery or typhoid. Col. L L. Roberts, commanding tno 850 guardsmen in the stricken city, declared his intention to remove some 1,000 refugees now sleeping in relief barricks from the city tomorrow. Ho. said lie feared the barracks would be needed for hos-
pital use.
The city was almost completely surrounded by flood waters. The ’art Chicago amt Eastern Illinois train into the city before midnight crept for almost a mile through water six inches deep. In the Evans(<'onlIhiwmI fin I’fiue Four I
death rate. The commission is unyielding in tiicir determination to build the four lanes divided by a twenty-foot parkway, such as to be built in Putnam county, whicli type of building has been found to lower
the accident ratio.
It was urged that the commission build u four lam road on the present right of way west of Brazil, but this they declined to do. Mr. Adams pointed out that both the Indiana Highway Commission and the U. S Highway Board had
lems and that their findings lead the conclusion that a divided road
travele I the National road every 2- r hours and that 1 800 of these were trucks, making it one of the most extensively traveled thoroughfares in
the country.
increase its quota to five
times
the original $200 asked for
relief
work, due to tho widespread and
continued suffering in the
Ohio
River valley.
Additional contributors to the
Red Cross are:
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Huggard.
5.00
Milton Brown
5.00
E. A. Browning
5.00
Business and Professional
Women’s Club
5.00
Shannon Funeral Home
5.00 1
G. B. Shannon
5.00
John B. Boyd
2.00
Bernard Handy
5.00
H. L. Bunker, Jr.
2.00
T. G. Stelling.s
. 5.00
Tom Dowling
2.00
L. R. McNeeley
1.00 !
Maxine Pell
1.00
W. Guy Pickens
1.00
lola Heavins
1.00
Mr. and Mrs. H. N. Hardy
2.00
j Wayne W. Pell
1.00
' Helen MoNary
1.00
Ruth Stewart
1 oo
Roscoe and Alpha Scott
. 2.05
Ingles Hamberger Shop
■J 00
Coxie’s Tavern
5 00
The Hut
1 00
Gler and Angie Stamm
3 00
Pewie’s Place (Roachdale)
5 00
Central Cigar Store
5 00
Sniders Paint Store
l 00
Hillis K- Larkin’s Insurance
Agency
1.00
Carl Lanzoni
i oo
! Addison Heber
LOO
| Mrs. Curtis Schofield
.50
Veda Mae Hill
1 00
| lohn Cartwright
1 00
Ernest Heavln
.50
' Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Martin
. 25 00
O.t.iI C. Johnson
LOO
K k Weaver
2 00
Clyde Hutcheson
. LOO
Clyde E. Wildman
5.00
; W. M. Blanchard
2.00
Lucille Roth
1.00
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27, (IT) — Combatting the raging Mississippi river as it would an invading army, the war department today laid plans for removing nearly a. half million people from the low lying lands on either side of the Mississippi from Cairo, III., to New Orleans. Tin* plan is for immediate removal of all residents and communities of all low lying lands for a distance of 50 miles on either side of the river in any area where u raviolis break occurs in the levee.
LOUISVILLE, Ky„ Jan. 27, (UP) — Mayor Neville Miller today became virtual dictator of flood stricken Louisville, commanding police, national guardsmen, and regular army troops in the fight against looting, pestilence, fire and destitution. Provost marshall by decree of Gov. A. B. Chandler, Miller was supreme head of the city. Two hundred federal troops were marching into tho city to receive his orders. National guardsment patrolled the flooded streets at his command. He directed pclice and firemen through the flood zone. Dozens of firemen and policemen whom lie personally recruited from other cities by radio rushed here by airplane and automobile to swell the ranks of the peace-time anny which • he mayor directed against fires vhich have caused .$700.00(1 damage, flood waters and disease which may have taken as many as 200 lives, and stark terror caused by darkness, cold, and food and drinking water shortage. The mayor, a slim, dark man in his middle forties, called for tho police from other cities in a radio broadcast in which he described in detail the terror which prevailed in i this city of 200.000 homeless. He explained 600 regular soldiers were stationed six miles out of the city, but could not enter unless the city was declared In a state of inrreetion. He left the microphone to confer with Brig. Gen William K. Naylor, who commanded the troops. Their conference became a bitter legalistic wrangling. Then the chief of staff of the United States army interrupted them.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27,
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 the flood waters already had readied their
peak north of Cairo.
General Malin Craig in Washing(on ordered the federal troops placed
The following accomodations wen reported today as being available for flood victims: Elms Inn Legion Home City Library
Phi Delta Kappa
Elks Home
, Masonic Temple
| Moose Home Donner Block
BARGAIN HAY ADS
GREENCASTLE OFFERS TO CARE FOR 204) FLOOD GUESTS Roy M. Abrams, treasurer of the Greencastle chapter of the Red Cross wired officials at Louisville, Ky. Wednesday morning, offering to tare for 200 additional flood guests in Greencastle. It is believed that many additional homeless will be brought northward and that the full capacity of the city will be utilized before the emergency ia over.
Today’s edition of The Daily Banner carries a number of advertisements in connection with Bargain Day which will he, held in this city Saturday, Jan. 30. Various merchants, cooperating with tho Grcencastle Chamber of Commerce, are of fering many items of attractive high class merchandise at special low prices for this weekend.
Old Ajjr Paynirnts
Are Increasing
ZINC MILL SUBSCRIBES $250
The employes of the American Zinc Products company plant have made i 100 per cent subscription to the Re I Cross funds in Greencastle. Their tbtal contribution was $250.
FIREMEN MAKE CALL
The Greencastle fire department answered a call to the home of Herbert Elmore, 306 Elizabeth street at
20 Years Ago
IN GREENCASTLE
Re investigation of Old Age Assistance cases in Putnam county under requirements and according to provisions of the 1936 Indiana Public Welfare Ace, has resulted in an increase of average payments, according to Benton Curtis, director of the Putnam County Department of Public Welfare. Since eligibility requirements were more specifically defined and County Welfare Departments were given to investigate all applications for Old Age Assistance, the average payments In Putnam county have risen from $6 00 per month under the old age pension law to $14.07 per month, under the new welfare law.
American Legion hall is buzzing with 7 p. ni., Tuesday. A flue burning out activity in carrying out the city’s re- was thought to be dangerous and the lief program. firemen were called to keep a watchThe committees recently appointed f U l eye on the property until the danto take care of the emergency are: had passed. No damage was re-
Wilbur Donner, general chairman ported.
Clevc Thomas is in Chicago attending an automobile show. Mrs. W. O. Timmons spent the day in Indianapolis. Edgar Prevo left for New York City on a two weeks buying trip. Miss Metta McCoy was the guest of relatives in Cloverdale.
JOHN ESTES FOUND DEAD
John Estes, Sycamore street, was found dead in bed by a neighbor Wednesday morning. Mr. Estes had been ill for about a week. No immediate relatives survive. Funeral arrangements will be announced later
Frank DcVanoy D. W. Smythe Florence Roth Julia Neilaen A. VV. Patrick Dade Shearer Veneta. Kunter G. II. Smith R. G. MeCutchan F. C. Tllden . Mildred Dlmmick
Bn erg
Marjorie Bundy Mary Frances Cooper G. B. Manhsrt Genevieve Walts R. T. Stephenson ... T. G. Yuncker phi Kappa Pat Fraternity Winona H. Welch Edith Huggard Delta Delta Delta Sorority Sigma Chi House (i. H. Smith G. VV. Giddings
Lewis Berg
Vera S. Cooper
L. H. Diiks
DePauw Women’s Club James Warriner Maintenance Department Helen C. Salzer
Krmina Mills Ida A Pierce
Chas McCullough Dan McCullough Frank Bee Frank Roberts Ewans Barber Shop Perry Boswell John F. Williams Forest R. Williams Oren Hall Lem Richardson
Carl Terry
Dennis Terry James Sutherlin (Con I iuuctl <>u rime Three)
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it Miller’s disposal, for police and other duties. Gen. Naylor, overruled, reportedly turned over his troops to Brig. Gen. Daniel Van Voorhees, commandant of Fort Knox, Ky. Just before dawn, 200 of the 600 troops began breaking camp to march into the darkened city. The
others will come later.
It was agreed that Miller will he supreme head of the city, as provost marshal in an area already placed under martial law by Gov. Chandler. His deputy provost marshal will he Percy Haley, former a I jutant gen“ral of the Kentucky national guard. Van Voorhees will command the regular troops who will bring four ■rmored ears into Louisville for patrol duty and to check looting. First the federal troops will police
I(’onf•»n 'rw«*>
MOOSE
HOME READY FOR FLOOD REFUGEES
LOGAN STINE ASKS CHANGE OF VENUE FROM PUTNAM IN DAMAGE SUIT
In a suit for damages in which two Russellville men are named among the defendants, an affidavit has been filed in the Putnam circuit court asking a change of venue from the county, the plaintiff being the one rlesiring to have his suit tried elsewhere. He is Logan Stine, of Benton county. In his petition for a change of venue to another county, he says: “The defendants heroin have undue influence over the citizens of said county and an odium attaches to the cause of action of the plaintiff on account of local prejudice in said county.” The defendants named are Harold Harpold and Otto Rivers, of Russellville; Harold Reynolds and Fred Moneelcy, of Brazil, all doing business under the name of the R. & M. Trucking company. The complaint slice's a truck, pulling a trailer, struck tho automobile of the plaintiff on state road 41, five miles north of Lyford, in Parke county, on July 16. 1936. the truck being driven by Harpold, but owne I by Otto Rivers, with a trailer behind it owned by defendants Reynolds and Meneeley. The plaintiff claims personal Injuries to the extent of $10,000, and $600 damages to his car. Atorneys are Bingham. Mendenhall and Bingham, for the plaintiff; and Arthur MoGaughey and Charles McGaughey, for the defendants.
Officers of the local Moose lodge nnounced Wednesday morning that • heir home on west Franklin street l.s now prepared to take care of ti( n to twenty flood refugees. Cots, bedding and other supplies were collected Tuesday by the Moose .icmber? Everything has been ar>,ngcd bv the Moose to make a score or more of flood victims comfortable luring their hour of trial. Anyono wishing to aid in this movement ran leave donations at the Moose home.
GUESTS PLEASE REGISTER
F'r.od gueets coming to Greencastle are asked to regl: ier at the Legion home In order that they raay be located in cane of mils coming in for them; also so they can he given typhoid serum.
® ” O £• O O -3 ® S Today’s Weather 0 and ® Local Temperature ® 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Increasing cloudiness tonight, followed by rain or snow Thursday; rising temponture.
Minimum 6 a. m. ... 7 a. m. .. 8 a. m 9 a. m. 10 a. m. 11 a. m. 12 Noon . 1 p. m. ... 2 p. m. ...
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