Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 3, Number 4, DeMotte, Jasper County, 8 June 1933 — SEA SCOUTS MAKE FIRST RESCUE AT CEDAR LAKE [ARTICLE]

SEA SCOUTS MAKE FIRST RESCUE AT CEDAR LAKE

The scouts, who were opening rescue of the season last week, when they saved six persons whose row boat had been swamped by the waves of passing speed boats. The accident occurred about midway across the north end of the lake. The scouts, who were opening their barricks at Noble Oaks Park for the summer season, were cruising with their forty-foot ship, “Pulaski”, when they sighted the trouble. They swang alongside the swamped row boat and picked up the six who were floundering in the water. Two other passengers of the logged row boat, a boy and a girl who could not swim, had been rescued a few seconds before by a passing canoe. The rescued party was made up of students of the Moody Bible Institute; they were landed at the Conference Grounds pier.

The Pulaski, at the time of the accident, was in charge of Skippers Clark and Frame, with Lenz, Johhson and Randall as crew. All are members of two Hammond ships, the Indiana and Southern Cross. The man or newspaper that tries to take a neutral attitude in a town fight is an unlucky cuss. He or it is looked upon with suspicion by both sides and cussed by everybody.