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, v-r • : . v* / ' • ' • ' ':'* m lw ' •••'• -- r:-;- •->• ^-^4 If OL.59 McHENRY, ILLINOIS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1934 MILK STRIKE CALLED -•\ .-"«- "i*;: ri ot Three To Question of Price To fie Paid the Milk Producers ucerS and Distributors Each To A$g>oi|it <)ne Member, These To Choose Thirel EX M'HENRYITES IN Los Angeles Region Has a Destructive STRICKEN AREAS IN ? %}:r : i--" : !pie tnilfc stride wasended atnoon Wednesday on a- truce reached between the Pure Milk association^and Mayor Edwfcrd J. Kelly in a conference. Soon after noon the niilk trucks arrived in McHenry, armers were bringing available milk into town and it. was soon way to Chicago to relieve the shortage of the last few Mayor Kelly announced milk deliveries would be rebefore night after five days of the strike, which had left Chicago practically without milk. Arbitrators will be named to assist farmers Mid dealers in agreeing upon a price to. producers. Members of the PMA ratified the truce reached, a few hours earlier between their officials and ^ representatives of the <lairi«P. • Under the truce, distributors and producers each will ap- Jjoifit one man to a committee. They, in turn, will select a third man to act as arbitrator and establish a minimum price to be paid the farmers. :r;;> . Don N. Geyer, general manager of the PMA and representative of the farmers at the conference, announced the producers would end picketing of highways and begin shipping milk immediately. Meanwhile, Walter V. Gregory, representative of the AAA in the dispute, said Secretary of Agriculture Wallace^ had suggested that justices of the state supreme courts of Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana, act as arbitrators.. , Mayor Kelly said the agreement had been signed by representatives of the farmers, the organized dairies and the independent dairies that have refused in the p»«t to set any manimum priced : A strike depriving Chicago and its suburbs of the milk usually delivered •:->y 18,000 farmers, members of the Pure JBlk association, was declared $Yid»y by 350 delegates at a meeting in the Auditorium hotel in Chicago and withholding of supplies began on , Saturday morning. By Monday morning Chicago's milk supply was seriously affected and because of the ef- CAPACITY CROWDS SEE "THESE THIRTY YEARS' SUFFER IN FLOODS FARWEST * ' •?/. ."-'i' ~ " . 1 ' :^3Rft£k"'floodp and, storms inCaiiforhia and many parts of the country our thoughts turn to the condition of our friends and relatives and in some cases We find former McHenry people suffering from the effects of these catastrophes, laltihoug'h, generally, they have been located so that they have fortunately escaped. Perhaps those most seriously affected, so far as we -ran- learn, are Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Himler, former McHenry residents and parents of Mrs. F. E. Covalt of this city, who have a home at Puyallup, seven miles from Tacoma, Wash. With rain falling in torrents every day but two during the month of December the Puyallup river and other streams overflowed their banks and flooded the fertile valley where Mr. an^.Mrs." Himler have their Home, nearly wrecking their home which shifted seriously on its foundation, with the bottom literally dropping out of their garage. When neighbors in hip boots came to assist them they found the kitchen flooded and hurriedly rolled up rugs and preserved what furniture they could, taking Mr. and Mrs. Himler to friends who lived up on a hill near the city. f . \ •' A fine new' berry field which was recently set out was under water and ruined, much to the discouragement of Mr. Himler, who is ill as the result of an operation which he underwent last June. In addition to the heavy rains, four inches of 'snow fell in onehalf hour and when this melted-the water continued to rise with the waters of the river additionally increased by the nfelting snow from Mt. Rainier, where it has Its source. TVCany storms sweep in from the Pacific which seems to be in a state of disturbance, causing unnatural weather and conditions along the The most t sucessful advertising stunt in many a day was pulled off by Buss-Page. Motor Sales, dealers in Ford cars, at their free movie, "These Thirty Years," given at the fectiveness of the fanners' embargo Empire theatre Tuesday night, the city's supply of milk was prac<-.| Record-breaking crowds were in attendance, with many unable to find seats at both the early and second show and people lining the sidewalk waiting for admittance long before 7 o'clock. r* F*\ tically shut off. .._ ^ The organized PMA farmtrs, who f uppity about 90 per cefft of the fluid milk consumed in the Chicago area, protested against a proposed reduc- : iionrOf 70 cents a hundred pounds for • ; their milk. This proposal was made by the dealers who buy from the association membership. Blockade Complete As the days* wore on Chicago's milk blockade became complete and negotiations to end the strike continued hut without success. Farmers swarro- *d the highways and dumped or turned back all trucks that attempted to fun their blockades and it is claimed that not a single pound of milk was taken from McHenry county, so complete was the blockade. In Woodstock all-night vigils were held by Pure Milk pickets where men were ready to answer a call to any part of the county. Ip McHenry pickets were active on Sunday and Monday and Monday night stopped nearly every car entering this city from the north and west -and searched them for milk. Sunday night'a milk truck was stopped on the river bridge and when the driven be^ gan to get "tough" the cans and their contents were dumped into the rive*: and the driver warned that if he returned he would lose his truck .is well A track for the Economy Dairy, an Independent company in Chicago, was ' stopped at the Riverside dairy and Ihe driver relieved of his gun, when they attempted to load milk which had been pasturized for them bjr the Riverside dairy. ' Trains Are Stopped Mopd&y night farmers from tUSs viciniity gathered with more than 300 ethers at Grayslake where they • •!' ttopped two trains on the Soo line, waving flags and building fires between the rails of the tracks. One of the trains contained several cases of condensed milk which were confiscated. While this was going on - - raids #ere also being made on thc> Walworth Condensed Milk plant be^ cause this company attempted to rend out a carload of fluid milk to f "hicago. r Pure milk members were out in force And dumped milk right and left ..||ln ai} effort to stop deliveries. Pa- . ^froiling of the highways was organiz* *' ed by groups of farmers and in some places there were state highway police ^ and deputy sheriffs who were called into sea-vice by independent milk shippers asking protection. Free distribution of milk wa^ made In McMenry and Woodstock. The farmery, only want a squarej deal and with the PMA firmly united in this undertaking and with expense tnoney provided by reserve® in tha treaseuy of the units of the PMA , r It bey, for the first time, succeeded in ^frying up the milk supply in the secflSf> nd largest market in the nation. Messrs. Washington is a sort of volcanic ash and it is said that the fertile valley was originally a lake which was changed by the eruption of the ..volcanic Mt. Rainier. Snow Melting Starts Early That the season is an unusual one there is made evident by the fact that: snow was melting on the mountain top on December first «when this is usually the beginning of the season for the popular winter sports. 'ietor&! Railroads have been washed out. of the Ford garage, were, present to asist in handling the crowds, which literally stormed the theatre, and they estimate that about 1,0pjO people saw the show, while nearl / 5fik) were turned away. The show was scheduled to begin at 7:30, but by 7:15 the house was full and the picture started early. "These Thirty Years" was a history of the Ford cars from their beginning in 1903 up through the years of their improvement to the present day with a story of romance and excitement pleasing all who saw it. An additional feature was the showing of a film of views of the Elgin road races, which were an additional treat for the audience. The proprietors are more than pleased with the response to .their free tickets which exceeded all expectations. FARMERS GIVE FREE MILK Biabies, invalids, in fact no one has had to go without milk in McHenry this week and free milk has been veryplentiful although the supply is practically shut off from Chicago. This was due to the fact that dairy farmers of this cpnfimunity, members of the Pure Milk association, have made arrangements for the free distribution of milk which was commenced on Tuesday and has continued every day of the strike. The farmers le^ye cans of milk at Barbian's, Regners, Art Smith's and other local stores, where everyone has obtained all they need by going after it. That the citizens have been quick to take up this offer and appreciate the jfenerosity of the farmers is shown bV the many pounds of milk given away free each .flay. Among the Sick 'v> • -V,- Three children in the Will Klapperich family have scarlet fever. The family is quarantined in their home on Riverside Drive. James Frisby is ill at his home in this city. Friends here will regret to learn that Mrs. F. L. McOmber of Highwood is ill and 'confined to her bed. Father Charles S. Nix, pastor of St. Mary's church, underwent an operation at the Aurora hospital last week. Mrs. Joseph Nolan of Chicago underwent an operation at Presbyteri-in hospital, Chicago Monday. Mrs- Nolan was formerly Miss Blanche Carey of Wilmot. Earl Walsh returned home Sunday from Mayo Brothers' hospital, Rochester, Minn., where-he recently underwent an operation. REACHES GOSPEL Fft NELL NOW . IN THE 1 PUBLIC EYE ' £ ; following article, reprinted Several days of torrential rain resulted in disastrous Hoods in Hie Los Angeles area of iouthern California. Many lives were lost and the property damage was Immense. This aerial photograph shows the fine residential district of Venlcje inundated by the flood waters. CITY COUNCIL TO ASK FOR PWA LOAN STATE ENGINEER OK'S SEWER PLANT PLANS COUNTY AUXILIARY ~ MET HERE FRIDAY Tbfe city council held an adjourned meeting of the last stated meeting on Monday evening, Jan. 8, 1934, for the purpose of calling some bonds and receiving the engineer's report on the necessary sewer improvements. On the calling of the bonds it ij thought that assessment No. 6 can be coast. Soil in this part of the state of olosedl up and finished and Auditor and train service Relayed with no mail received from outside the state for many days. Friends here will regret to hear of these unfortunate circumstances and hope that conditions for Mr. and Mrs. Himler will soon improve.. In California, too, there are many former McHenryites who have been getting soaked by the torrential rains but who have been outside the flood area, with the exception of one, Miss Lou Snyder, who is said to be at Glendale in the flood district, but from whom no particular?, have been heard. Dr. D. Gt Wells received a letter this week Jfrom his son, T>r. Glen Wells, who is located at Hollywood and who states that from nine to ten inches of rain fell in forty-eight hours. He states, however, that the floods, occurred in the foot hills and along the coastline near Los Angeles, where streams became swollen and Small dams were broken; letting the water rush into Glendale, Montrose, Culver and other suburbs of Los Angeles. He also mentions having seen Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ferwerda of McHemy, who are on a trip through California and said that thfy intended to leave for the north ttie last of the week. ^ The family of Mr: and Mrs. Fer werda here have not heard from them for a week, but they know that they were in Los Angeles to see the rose parade on New Year's day and no doubt were there to see the floo-j, which resulted from the heavy rains on New Year's and preceding days. Mr. and Mrs. Ferwerda are expected home in about two weeks. Floods In California Others in California who have experienced the rains but escaped the serious floods are Mr. and Mrs. John I. Story and Mrs. Ella Preston of Gardenia, near Los Angeles and Gilbert McOmber, who is in the wholesafe hardware business In Los Angeles Mrs. Rose Smedberg, sister of -Mrs- Martha Page, who is employed in the ^roadway store in Los Angeles, was only about fifteen miles from- the flood area. Mrs. Smedberg has been in California for the past fourteen years and has experienced some of the earthquakes and other calamities, yet, there's no place like California after all. Mr. and Mrs. P. N. Peterson, former residents here, live at Culver which was hit by the flood, bttt no one has heard from ttiem. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Conrad are at San Diego and Arthur Hunter also is at Alameda, Cal., near Oakland. Here a visitor may see the familiar sign, (Continued or* last page.) North is figuring out the exact status of A&sessment No. 10. The auditor will report on these assessments at an early date. r, Mr. Ashley, representing the Wells Engineering company, was present with blue prints and plana for the projiosed sewer improvement which met the approval of State Engineer Ferguson. Th<» letter of approval by Harry Ferguson is printed in full elsewhere in these columns. Estimate Is $25,000 The estimate for the job is $25,000. Of this" amount the government thru the PWA will give 30 per cent of actual cost and will loan the remaining 70 per cent of actual cost at 4 per cent interest over a long period of time. In the present situation ^t- is impossible to spread special assessments and be able to sell the bonds so the only recourse for the city is to use the new sewage rental law. This means that each user of the sewerage system will have to pay rental for the use of the sewerage plant. This will be collected quarterly with water bills and^on the aver age cost about $8 per year and will be governed -to pome extent on the amount of water bills, smaller water bills carrying smaller sewer tax an J vice versa. The sewerage assessments wilj pay for the current pumps at septic tanks and wages of employes and interest on deferred payments, as well as the retirement of the 70 per cent of the original cost. Activated Sludge System The system advised to be installed is known as the activated sludge sys- 1 ^tgja^gnd can be installed on the pres- "*ent property holding. There will be no odor from the plant nor any menace from a small black fly that is found in some plants in great quantities. _ The board unanimously passed a resolution authorizing the mayor and city attorney to sign the application to the PWA for the funds to construct the proposed improvements. Should some new developments arise that make it unadvisable to go thru with the plans, they canh€" dropp?d. The meeting adjoup^T to the; call of the mayor. The first meeting of the new year of the County Council of the American Legion Auxiliary was held at McHenry Friday evening when the McHenry unit entertained the members of the county organization. About one hundred women were present to enjoy the successful meeting, which was held in the pleasant and comfortable Legion hall with !«• cal members as hostesses. A splendid report of the Christmas party at Elgin was given and announcement of the Eleventh district party to be held Monday evening, January 29, was made by district director, Miss Julia Feffer. Each of the four counties in the Eleventh district will furnish fifteen minutes of entertainment. Miss Myrtie Jayne, county rehabilitation chairman, will have charge of the McHenry county entertainment. A letter from the department was read, complimenting the county oh the Christmas work, stating that the county led in the Christmas slipper fund whereby each veteran in a state hospital received a pair of bedroom REID WILL NOT BE CANDIDATE WILL DEVOTE TIME LAW PRACTICE TO Washington, Jan. 10--Representative Frank R. Reid of the 11th Illinois Congressional District, today issued the following statement: "I will not be a candidate for re election to Congress. In view of the early Illinois primary I deem it appropriate to make this announcement now. "After serving for twelve years I can no longer afford to stay in Congress. 'I did not intend to run the last two times but political complications ANNUAL FORESTER FEST AT JOHNSBI RG. JAN. 17 The annual Forester Fest of St. John's Court Johnsburg, will be held on Wednesday evening, Jan. 17, at St. John's Hall. Members of St. Mary's Court, McHenry, will be invited guests. 33fp. NOTICE All horse drawn vehicles must display a white light in front and a red light in rear while on the highways at night. State highway police are instructed to arrest anyone violating this law, so take warning before venturing on the highways after dark. *31-3-fp 'fish Fry at Betty's, Idly Lake, Friday night. Free dancin& - Saturday night. 33-fp slippers as his gift. Each unit in The county subscribed to the fund as well as the county itself. Membership slips are being sent to headquarters as a birthday gift for Mrs/Mary Kent, department president, who celebrated her birthday on January 6. Forty-two members have been added to the ever-growing membership for 1934. January is a legislative month and all chairmen are busy planning work for the month. Members present at the meeting voted to leave the matter of entertainment after each meeting, to the hostess unit, to furnish what they wish. The next meeting will be held at Richmond, where promise of an interesting program is being made. Following the business meeting refreshments were served by the local members. Those from Woodstock who attended the 'Legion Auxiliary meeting on Friday night were: Mrs. Sadie Nelson, Mrs. E. Nevin, Mrs. D. Muller, Mrs. Bertha Davis, Mrs. Margaivt Stoffel, Mrs- Hattie teonard, Mrs. Edith Kretchmer, Mrs. Mary Shale?-, Mrs. Celia Kuppe, Mrs. Helen Woods and Mrs. Louise Johnson. GETS PENSION FOR SON IN CIVIL WAR Mrs. Sa man tha R. Button of McHenry, who was 102 years old last month, is the only mother of a civil war soldier receiving a pension, according to Frank T. Hines, administrator of veterans' affairs, in a repolt made public in Washington. Mrs. Button's first son by the first of two marriages, Clinton D. Rorer, was with Company H, 8th Illinois cavalry, when he was 16 years old. Hie died of typhoid fever June 4, 1864. a few months after entering the service. All of her three sons are now dead. Among her eight living grandchildren are Dr. Clarence Rorer, dentist, of Waukegan, and Frank and Leonard Rorer of Dixon. • • ai • ; ' it appeared in the Literary Digest v" Dec, 23, 1933, ..will be of especial in-; • terest to hundreds • of readers of the .^ ? Plaindealer as a part of it has tb d<i : < ^ with the activities of a former youngs j man of this community, Father Geo* NeU. • The Article in full follows. Three priests are in the public eye„ They have gone far tteyond the gate of creed to preach a gospel in which 1 Jew and Gentile, caste and outcasta, may join. Let Protestants speak of . 0 . them. • ' Monsignor John A. Ryan, one of the foremost authorities on social Science and one of the most outspoken men e for equalization of opportunity, has been lately elevated, but Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins still thinks at him as the simple Catholic priest laboring for the downtrodden and the forgotten. "It's going to be hard," she said, "not to keep on talking abotti 'Father Ryan.'" In the priesthood - " and outside, that word •"."father" connotes so much. Monsignor Ryan'g name is of household fame. He won his first recognition with hi* book, "The Living Wage,'" in which, as its title conveys, he tried to teach thai the principles of social, justice laid £ down by Pope Leo XIII in his Labor Encyclical were not abstract formulas for parlor diseu^ion, but principles to be applied to actual conditions. Ai a professor at the Catholic University for twenty years he has lectured and written in behalf of the poor and op« pressed, for social and economic ju.1- - \ tice for all. He saw that "a small : number of very rich men have beeit;•>, able to lay Upon the teeming masso* of the laboring poor a yoke little bet* / ter than that of slavery itself." Sta*e- • - V and society, he says, must learn thai v. J ^economics is a subject to ethics and i ' that industrial activities are by, moral laws." Aiding the Common Man .^i.7jgood shepherd whose p^Mttuiw knows no creedal line is thus describe govern** ;• prevented my quitting. Unless I return to the practice of law in the nearf 'n thd Christian Century, undenont* future I may lose opportunities that now seem to offer themselves. "I still expect to.be active in politics, however, as I am the Illinois member of the Republican Congressional Committee. inational journal of Chicago: "At Island Grove, 111., is the parish of a Catholic priest named Fr. George Nell. He has gone In and out among these people for twenty-two yearn, until it is impossible to tell where h» "For twelve years I have been! «f/ ^ thV°TT'ty srgnallv honored by the voters ofthe'J" all »ts strutrgles to live he haft 11th Illinois Congressional District n ^ advocate- When the fanneij and I deeply appreciate the confidence' struck against the oppression of th. they repose in me. Tmo hu ave withstio odi : _b ig milk company, he -wr as at theiflr bitter political storms, including one la.n dsli.d e, .i s .a t. .le.a st, u.n u.s.u a.l , r evs. pe- rang d,o or-,b e,l,l s, exp.la.in.in g .t.h e meant- Cially m view of the^ fact that I have ^ meetings with words of encourage* ment. He went into St.- Louis an# had no political maclilne or bags of money to help me through. taken no pains to flatter the so-called great I have had to d^nd solely on ^shoUM ride with him! the men and women wno believed in the things I stood for. I r ua s 11 the farmers' struggle. Detco- A "T^have *ives w^re put on his trail; he told them they were wasting gasoline-* : - --- either he ought to ride with them or For tw® *" weeks they rode with him and counted "My aim ,h as a.lw ays .b een t.« v .h ave it their best assignment. When the Rlux Klan tried to ize cen. my puMic service marked by the ab- tral Illinoi they failed ^tel* ^ sence of ^f-interest. My efforts m, ithin miles of Father Neim • behalf of war veterans, widows and! No how the ize#> orphans, my advocacy of rights of|d ^ the CathoHc priest, thi^ .' workmgmen my support of measures thought of Father Nell and designed to help the farmers, my knew better. Church attendance « stand for full and fair enforcement nQt a h]em_ 0ver road, impa5^ of law, my votes for progressive leg- j ^ to auto traffic in wet weathe* lslation, my keeping of all my caui-jth c on horseback. t« pa.gn pledges and the excellent. re- < k ^ 0B suits obtained m thousands of matters gund morni Here is a Cathelie requested by my constituents--the.-e u * with lots of good lack, made success NEW TRIAL GRANTED In the matter of Anton Roucka vs. Ole JohnSon, in circuit court last October, the jury allowed Roucka a judgment for $369. on suit for breach of lease. Last Monday a motion was made for a new trial and granted. Att'y C. M. McDermott of McHenry represented Mr. Johnson of Richmoni the defendant, and argued the motion, resulting in having the judgment set aside. Full steak dinner-with mushrooms at Betty's; Lily I*ke, Sunday 50c." Call McHenry 261. SS-fp possible. , "There are many capable men and women in the 11th Illinois Congre,fcr. ional District who would make good members of Congress, and I hope some of our outstanding citizens will become candidates in t^ primary.; I will be glad to expend my efforts in behqif of the nominee, whoever he may be. "I. believe that iA the coming congressional elections many Republicans will replace sitting Democrats. A recent survey throughout the State ol Illinois, which I had made as the Illinois member -of the National Republican Congressional Committee; shows that thousands of veterans, farmers and working men and women who left the Republican party will return to it next fall. Great concern is expressed over the money situation anA a return to stability is the desideratum. "Judgment on President Roosevelt is withheld but many voters believe that better results will be achieved in Congress if the Democratic Majority is reduced. "The Republican party will come back into its own if its rebuilding is not left in the hands of those who took it down to defeat. Good sportsmanship, if not good politics, demands that many of the so-called leaders be benched for a season and that different faces replace those in whom the people have lost confidence. For the same old Republican managers to try to bring it back is folly " RESIDENCE CHANGE Martin Wegener has moved on the farm forQMrlyoeeqpM by Mrs; John P. Freund. S,;'; priest who has become the channel of grace to the common man's will to live." Perhaps no one man has so stirred the country and cut as deep between the old order and the new as Father Charles E. Coughlin, radio pries>t of Detroit / Many do not agree with his economic views; many of his owa church violently oppose them. But his sincerity seems generally corvce<ted. Dr. Albert C. Dieffenbach. Unitarian, religious editor of the Bosten Evening Transcript, has this to -?ay about Father Coughlin and the frank, ness of his speech: "Apart from the scientific sound-* ness of Father Coughlin, it is admirable to have in the economic field a re-, birth of free speech from the ancient Mother Church. She gives an example to all churches that is simply magnificient. Most of the Protestant churches are still under the sway of the Reformation's economic individualism which in large part has brought us to our present state. One must injustice praise without stint the Fed*- eral Council of Churches and certain Protestant denominations. But wheri all is^ said no other Church is sustaining one-of its ordained ministers in such unremitting arguments and un. censored assaults as those of Father Coughlin. "Whether he is right or wrong in his theoretical position for economic recovery, he is fulfilling his missiiil . to the best of his conscience and be« lief. He says what is true when h<| explains why he speaks as he <ioesk 'It is the business of spiritual le.vierl to concern themselves with the mater* ial welfare 'of theif follower*' TWre is ample precedent for thai."