The Syracuse Journal, Volume 22, Number 20, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 12 September 1929 — Page 1

by Arthur Brisbane Another Arab War Senate and Sugar Would End Strikes Mystery of Finance

Another war has broken out following wholesale murders in Palestine. Jews and the Arabs are boycotting each other in business. The Anglo-Palestine bank refuses bills of credit to Arabs. The latter boycott the Rutenberk Electricity company and the Jewish bank. British airplanes start real work, with Arabs killed and wounded, their friends convinced that Mohammed is not as powerful as was supposed. Christians are as much interested as Jews in the outbreak. Once a religious war starts, the Mohammedan fanatic enjoys equally the murder of a Christian or a Jew.* If anything, the Arabs might favor the Jews to whom they are racially related. From the Jewish religion, the Mohammed borrowed much for his Koran. It has been said that the Koran was written by an educated Jew for Mohammed, who probably could not write, although he certainly could fight. The senate is discussing tariff. One hundred and twenty million Americans who eat sugar, beet sugar men, Lousinana sugar men, sugar growers of the whole world are interested in sugar. A high sugar tariff really means protection, a national subsidy of many millions, for employees of Asiatic labor in Hawaii and the Philippines. Sugar comes duty free from those places, belonging to Uncle Sam; Asiatics do the work. Their employers get the profit. Not much of it will go to sugar growers on this continent. Our friend Cuba, good customer and neighbor would be ruined by a high tariff, if anything could ruin so plucky a people. Britain’s Labor government seeks away to “end strikes and lockouts.” - --s . In a recent cotton strike workers lost $5,000,000 a week in wages. Mills lost $7,000,000 a week in export trade, and must fight to get it back. Arbitration is the only way. If the Labor government can find arbitrators that both sides will trust, to persuade employers to play fair and union men keep bargains when they find they dont' like them, it will render inestimable service to Great - Britain and teach this country something it needs to learn. From the material point of view, Russia will gain by her “continuous industrial year.” There will be no stoppage of machinery, on Sunday or other days, during 360 days each year. Five other days, six in leap years will be devoted to patriotic, bolshevik holidays.

Each man will have his rest 1 time, longer than under our six- 1 day and Sunday plan, but machinery will never stop, except I for repairs. To make machines work all the time and give men reasonable leisure would be the ideal pro- 1 gram. But, of course, Sunday should not be neglected—espe- 1 cially on a basis openly hostile to religion. The International Congress of Psychology learns that married life brings the male mind closer to the feminine mind. Investigation of “sex differences primarily non-intellectuaj” said Dr. Erman’, shows that married life weakens “mental masculinity." Naturally, and fortunately, men were once all cannibals, all murderers, all thieves. To meet a stranger was to kill him, or run so that he would not kill you. Women had to change that gradually in their husbands and in their little boys also. They have done it, partly. Much work remains for the feminine mind. Finance is a mystery understood least by the man who thinks he understands it. Britain lent millions to France and France now is drawing gold from London, worrying the bank of England. The French lend money on call at 2£ per cent, while complaining of poverty caused by the war. This richest country in the world lends call money at from 9 to 20 per cent. A French business man can borrow money on time loans for 3| per cent. American business men pay 6 to 8 per cent. (Continued to Last Page)

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NORTH WEBSTER SCHOOL ENROLLS 298 THLS MR Dunham School, Last Country One of Township to Close. Raises Registration The increase in the attendance of the North Webster school this year over other years, is due to the closing of the Dunham school, according to Guy Bushong, principal. Mr. Bushong states, that 298 students have been enrolled for this year’s work. One hundred and forty are registered for the Junior-Senior high school, and 148 in the elementary grades. The Dunham school was the last country school to be abandoned. At present there are no country schools in operation in Tippecanoe township, Mr. Bushong reports. Led by Mr. Guy Bushong, of Syracuse, principal, the North Webster faculty is made up of the following teachers: Miss Mary Bidelman of Warsaw, primary; Miss Eva Kuhn, N. Webster, second grade; Miss Esther Likens of N. Webster, third grade; Pearl Shock, of N. Webster, 4th jrade; and Miss Elizabeth Banning of N. Webster, fifth and sixth grades. The high school faculty are as follows: Miss Ruth Blanchard, of Syracuse; Miss Gladys Allen, Olivet, Ill.; Mr. Devon Phelps, N. Webster; Mr. John Eberly, N. Webster; and Mr Robert E Lee, of Gray, Kentucky. School athletics have begun, Webster having played and won her first baseball game -with the Lebanon high school. The score was 8 to 0 in favor of Webster. .Mr. Bushong states that a spleduid basketball season is expected although as yet there has been no basketball practicing. Webster plays her first basketball game with Leesburg, November 1, at Leesburg.

22 PLAYERS OUT FOR BASKETBALL

With the registration of the Junior and Senior high school I brought up to 189 this week, the school enrollment now stands as , the largest in the school history, according to Court Slabaugh, principal. It has been necessary to add several extra seats in both study halls, to take care of all students. With classes under way, the school body’s interest is now centering about the coming basketball season. Twenty two men were out for practice whech began Wednesday. Formerly only players who played in games deciding the county or district championship were awarded the sweaters. But this year a new plan has been announced by C. E. Beck, coach. An honor players’ code has been adopted, and as the player meets the code requirement, is his fitness for receiving an honor sweater judged. Some of the requirements are that he play in at least ten games of the regular schedule, that he have at least three credits each semester; his general conduct in and out of the. school be approved by the principal and coach; that he observe training rules; that he attends regular practice unless excused by the coach; that he does not use tobacco in any form; that he will be at home by 10 o’clock each evening, oreceding school days unless excused by coach ;that he does not use profane language ;that he shows good sportsmanship at all times throughout the year. The first game is to be played Oct. 25, here, with Cromwell.

o , MISS LEACOCK IS HOSTESS TO CLUB [ Miss Helen Leacock entertained - the Junior Ladies of the Round Table, Monday evening at the Leacock fhrm near Benton. I Eleven members were preesnt. r Games were played and Miss Eu- . nice Wyatt and Kathryn Rich--1 hart were awarded prizes. A ) bountiful pot luck supper was s served. Everyone enjoyed a » wonderful time and all hope to i meet next year with their charm- ;. ing hostess, Miss Leacock, who soon goes away to school.

HA ILSTON ES FR EEZE MULE AND BURY IT In addition to stories of the snows in the west, and cool weather experienced in Syracuse, comes the best one, sent as a newspaper clipping, in his mother’s letter, to Henry Boggs, of Spartanburg, N. C., i who is boarding this winter with Mrs. Henry Snobarger. and working at the gravel pit at Leland. The newspaper acount of the North Carolina hailstorm the last week in August says that their unconfirmed report stated that a mule backed into a corner of a fence for protection. Hail stones, propelled by a brisk wind were swept into a drift at this spot and covered the animal with ice, and froze it to death. “Crazy” Man Able To Sleep It Off In Jail Quoting scripture and brandishing an alarm clock which he said told him the world Would come to an fc end at ten minutes of six Saturday morning, a man named Johnson kept the Eureka boarding house in such an uproar Friday night, that Ocal Craft, the nightwatchman was called at four a. m. Saturday. Having been told the man was crazy, Nightwatchman Craft tried to be gentle with him, tell’ ing him he was sick, and had better come up town with him, and rest. According to Craft’s story, there followed a tussel, during which the officer got the alarm ( lock away from the noisy man. Craft took the man, believed prazy, to the city jyk where he continued'* to . .quote scriptures, this time clock.

Believing that he would not-, be able to tpke care of the man alone, while he got some rest, the local officer had his wife telephone the Sheriff at Warsaw, to come take the “crazy” man away. The officers there reassured her that her husband would likely be able to take care of him alone when he awakened. By the time Craft awakened, he said, the “crazy man had slept it off, and was normal again and able to tell his story. He gave his name as Johnson, his home somewhere north of Saginaw, Mich., his occupation as a tractor repair man. He said that he left Chicago last Friday atfernoon, and picked up a man in South Chicago, to give him a lift. The man, Johnson said, gave him something to drink which seemed to have knocked him out. The man was released and permitted to continue on his way Saturday afternoon.

Interesting Personal Paragraphs A’oout Home People

Jerry Hamman was able to return to work Monday, the first ; time since his recent accident. Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Riddle visited Mrs. Herman Clouse, near Churubusco Saturday Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Riddle attended the U. B Conference at Winona Lake, Sunday Miss Retha Rowdabaugh has gone to the Bethany Bible school in Chicago, for the winter. S. E. Rowdabaugh has returned from his business trip in southern Michigan. S. C. Leeper from near Milwaukee, is spending the week here with Mrs. Lepper and Bob. Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Harkless were in Detroit several days of last week. Leon Connolly and Sol Miller, Jr., will return to Indiana University. Mrs. Mary Wilkinson called at the Fred Hinderer home Saturday evening. Mrs. Eston Clayton spent Tuesday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hinderer. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Stephenson are closing their summer home this week, and returning to Marion for the winter. A. J. Thibodeaux received a telegram Sunday stating that his mother had died in St. Johns- . bur, Vt. * Eugene Houston has gone to • South Bend, where he will at- > tend the Central Junior High School.

SYRACUSE. INDIANA. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 12. 1929

Do You Remember-— Twenty Years Ago This Week When Samuel Searfoss announced his candidacy as town marshall. Fifteen Years Ago The Gray-Tom families had again come to court over the shooting of two cows belonging to Elias Gray. Ten Years Ago Ralph Vail and Tillman Hire who had exhibited their stock farm products at the Goshen fair had won 13 firsts and four seconds on their hogs.iand five firsts and four seconds on their cattle. Five Years Ago William Beckman had participated in the formal opening and dedication of the American Furniture M*art in Chicago.

ROASTING EARS, I BACON BURNS AS : BIG FISH ESCAPE ij Three fish were caught, but, J “oh, the big ones that got away,” 'when the party of eight from I Syracuse enjoyed a 20 mile canoe trip Sunday from Mottville, Mich., to Bristol. According to the party's society reporter’s report, Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Seider. Mr. and Mrs. Hallie Holloway, Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Harkless, and Mr. pnd Mrs-! George L. Xanders, drove to, MotHille, where the changed into a camping party, with Sunday fishing intentions. A pleasant time was had by alu according to the society reports , but several accidents occurred. * It is alleged that Mr. Holloway pushed Mr. Xanders off a high bank, into the water, near Bristol; that Mt. Harkless. burned the bacon, that Mt. Seider (burned the roastingears, that Ityh Fletcher had picked opt all the small eggs left in the store, and left the rind on the bacon in honor of the party. It is also reported on good authority, that Mr. Seider with a two foot rod and a huge reel, made one cast and took an hour to untangle his line. It was discovered on hpme drive to Syracuse, that the lights ,on Mr. Xander’s Ford truck i would not burn, so it was necessary for Mr. Harkless to drive [closely following the truck, so 1 that the lights from his car would [shine ahead of Mr. Xander’s [means of conveyance.

Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Warstler, and two sons of South Bend, vis- [‘ ited Mr. and Mrs. N. C. Insley last Sunday. Eunice Wyatt and Priscilla : Wyatt left Tuesday for North Manchester, for the fall term of school. Miss Christine Rapp left last week to begin her duties as a teacher in the public schools at Nappanee. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Morris, Robert Kanning and Alfred Bowman of Ft. Wayne, were the week end guests of Mr. and Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Brown spent Sunday at Camp Mack, on Wabee Lake, attending the annual Pomona Grange picnic Mr. and Mrs. Paul Spry announce the birth of a daughter, Christine Maxine, on Saturday night. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Stein of Ft. Wayne spent Saturay with Mr. and Mrs. John Swenson. Other guests were the Cassidy’s of Indianapolis. Mr. and Mrs. Emory Kindig motored to Bloomington, Wednesday, taking their son Prentice and Lelia Connolly with them, to enter the university. Mrs. J. H. Bowser arrived in Chicago, last Thursday from Denver, and is visiting her son and family there. ' She will soon return home to Syracuse. Eldrid Mabie and Miss Phyllis Miller spent the week end in Indianapolis visiting the form-

BENTON BRIDGE CONTRACT TO BE LET NEXT MONTH Legal Advertising Requirements Make Earlier Date Impossible Brown Says According to the announcement, made by John J. Brown, director of the state highway commission, the contract for the construction of a new bridge over the Elkhart river, near Benton, on state road No. 2, will be let early in October. Mr. Brown told representatives of the Elkhart, So. Bend, Misniwaka, Goshen, Ligonier and the Churubusco Chambers of Commerce, that plans are being made so that bids for both temporary and permanent bridges can be received early in October. Legal advertising requirements were blamed as making it impossible to advance this date, even if the material were bought and equtpnent rented for the highway department to handle the work itelf. The Chambers of Commerce of the various cities along this route have decided to contribute SIOO each, to erect and maintain signs advertising the route through the dunes as the scenic one to Chicago. Signs were to direct the traffic over state road No. 2 and U. S. road No. 20, east of Goshen. o , FORMER RES'DENI REMEMBERS BRIOGE The following letter from “an old timer” has just been received at the Journal office. a It was written by a subscriber who’s home is now in Henry, Vai He is C. O. Kitson. secretary and treasurer of the Blue Ridge Talc Co., inc. He writes; Reading the article in this weeks Journal about the bridge collapse at Benton, recalls an experience of mine during the construction of that bridge. Having been born abouto two and one-half miles north west of Syracuse iq I was considerable of a youngster when the Be it ton bridge was being con My mother and Mrs. LeCount, whose daughter lived in Benton, with myself and a younger brothier, went to visi.t Mrs. LeCount’s ! daughte}, Mrs. Corns. Findiig it would be necessary to or ford the river on tl> east side of the nbw bridge, Ay mother was afraid that something would happen and that |he babies would be drowned, b persuad’ed some of i the to carry the two on Last Page)

er s mother all j s i s ter and at-’< tending tty t fir , , Miss Ida J,e ard ;?ff returned last Sunday to c^j cago after spending t jVO wee ks vacation i with her motber? Mrs. Lydia Deardorn. j ¥ r ;. a ? d Mrs. Erwin Byland and little % ug hter Phyllis May, are Sunday for To . ledo where) Bvland will be employed, t .Mr -a n d Sirs. Arthur Hill arSu j da v from Rochester, N- Y ’ an !~ ar \ the guests of their mother, Mrs, m q Lepper. They will go from ere Bloomington. 11l Mp, and M Bushong, who had beej -,j w j| b tonsilitis, went to i a st week, where Mr. Bushpnf became worse. They came hl me Fr j day an d he went to beds-y Jerry Hamman and Miss Li Ilf n H arnman> attended a re-uty on be | d Sunday, a 'T ee Tvr ag °‘ A the borne of Mr. and Mrs. Cl as shock, near Mentone. < pM[ s - f*. L- < an ders, president of the Art Cl( b called a meet . mg of the < lul a j. ber home last Friday, for the ,p Ur p Ose o f planning this year! work The club will meet m r^ lar sessions afr ter October 1J ■I fb’land ktriei y arrived here I ast. Saturday 4 Stuart> Fla visit his m<L her Mrs. Anna ilStneby. He is| now prO secuting • attorney of the< county in Flori .

j JOURNAL'S PRESS AS . PATENTED IN 1858 —-—.— The Journal is hereby entering one of these “oldest” contests. According to this week’s “Publisher’s Auxiliary’ - , Roy I Gorden of Kerkhoven. Minn., claims he has an old press which should be placed in -the rord Museum. Its name plate is as follows: Geo. P. Gordon’s. Patents. March 7, 1862, Sept. 29. 1863. March 3, and 31, 1871, and J une 16, 1874. The Journal is, this 12th day of Sept. 1929, being printed on a press, whose name plate . t ods, thusly y Boston and Fairhaven Iron Works, Manufacturers, Fairhaven. Mass.. Patented. Nov. 8. 1858. Liquor Truck Crashes East Os Ligonier A high powered truck, loaded with liquor, failed to make a ■.urn on the river road near Ligonier, Monday morning, crashing through a fence into the nearby marsh. According to Shirley Hostetter who lives near the scene of the accident, and who says he was on his way to work when he saw the truck .closely followed by a roadster. When the truck crashed, the roadster stopped, and with the truck driver, removed the ;icense plates from the wrecked ar. and as much of the liguor as the roadster could accomodate, and drove hurriedly away. Ligonier police were notified, and took charge of the wreck, but not before curious bystanders had removed some of the evidence. o ZIMMERIMI WEDDING SEPT. 7 Miss Zelma Zimmerman, daughter of Mr .and Mrs. C. J. ZimmerRome City, and Glenn E. Grady, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Grady of near Syracuse, were mairred by Rev. Anderson at the Methodist parsonage in Ligon.er; Saturday, September 7. Miss Eleanor Brayton, of Fort Wayne, was bridesmaid, and Dean Grady was best man. man. The young couple will make their home at present with Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Grady, at their country place, five miles south of town. where Glenn Grady is engaged with his father ,- n farming. A reception in honor of the bride and groom, who are now on their wedding trip will be held at the Grady home next Sunday afternoon from 2 until 6 o’clock.

da, in addition to his law practice. Lockwood Albright of Kokomo was a guest over Saturday and Sunday, of Charles Bachman, Jr. Sunday evening they motored to Bloomington, where they are both students in the university. Mrs. Florence Miller with her daughter Dorothy, of New York City, were guests in the Sol Miller home from Friday until Monday. Mrs. Sol Miller and Sol, Jr., accompanied them to Howe, on Monday.. Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Riddle took Robert Riddle and a friend, Robert Ellmore, to Warsaw Sunay, where they left the young men, who would take up hitch-hik-ing from there to Louisville, Ky.. where they will attend school this year. Rev. R. G. Foust went to Urbana, Tuesday, for the West District of Indiana, Conference of Evangelical churches. Dr. Z. B. Kimmel, president of the Theological Seminary of Naperville. 111., was the principal speaker of the day. Geo. Houser and family, Mrs. Sarah Houser grand-daugh-ter, Gwendolyn Phillips, of Millersburg; and Mrs. S. P. Byers, of Peabody, Kans., Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Thibodeaux and Mrs. A. E. Edmonds, of Syracuse, were a few of the 19 guests the W. G. Connolly’s entertained at dinner Sunday.

FIRST-SECOND DEGREE MURDER CHARGES MADE Grand Jury Indicts Mosier, Confessed Slayer of Mrs. Tallas Elvin Mosier, who was indicted on two counts, one first degree murder, and the other charge, second degree murder, by the Elkhart grand jury, yesterday, is expected to plead guilty when tried for the death of Mrs. Minnie Tallas, prosecutor Glen ’Sawyer said. Mrs. Minnie Maude Tallas, iged 45. who was murdered in Elkhart, last Friday, was buried in Warsaw, her former home, Sunday. Services were held in .he home of her mother. Mrs. Fom Bugll. Mrs. Tallas was formerly Minnie Maude Johnson of Warsaw. After being questioned for 27 lours, Elvin Mosier, aged 62. is jaid to have confessed Sunday to the Elkhart officers, that he had murdered Mrs. Tallas, because us attentions to her were repulsed. According to the facts brought out during the investigation of the killing, Mosier lived next, ioor to the Tallas family. hi 915 he was sentenced to two to .1 years in Michigan City on a harge of criminal attack. Thirty-five years ago the death >f a William Kehres was not olved, but Mosier was arrested m the charge of his murder, alhough not prosecuted. Later ie married the murdered man’s vidow, and still later they divorced, i According to Ysidro Tallas, 39. lusbaud the murdered woman, •**s wife and he quarreled sever--1 times with Mosier over propity. He states that his wife old him that Mosier was botherng her with his attentions. Talas told officials that his wife lad said that Mosier threatened her. A short..distance from where Mrs. Tallas’ body was found, the )fficers found a sharp pointed butcher knife which is believed o have been used by the killer. Evidence of a struggle made by he victim against the assailant, how that the struggle must have darted in the kitchen of ’ her ionic, and continued to a point xbout 25 feet i°n front of the bouse. It was here that Mrs. Fallas’ body was found, with the head near a tree. From a fine powdery dirt inlaled into the mouth and lungs, ifficials are convinced she lived c or some time after the attack, before dying of her wounds.

PHYLLIS NICK AND EARL AUER MARRY Mr. and Mrs. James D. Mick, of Syracuse, announce the marriage on Sept. 7, of their daughter. Phyllis' Leotta, to Earl S. \uer, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Auer, also of this city. The double ring ceremony was ■ead at 4 o’clock on Saturday afternoon by Rev. R. G. Foust, pastor of the Evangelical church at the parsonage. Both the bride and groom are graduates of the Syracuse high school. The bride is also a graduate of the Elkhart Training school for Nurses. The newly married couple are residing in the Kathryn Rothenbarger home on Huntington street for the winter. ' VAWTEK PARK ROAD IS AGAIN REPORTED Syracuse citizens who have cottages along the road in question, are eagerly awaiting the report of the viewers who looked over the Vawter Park road, near the South Shore Inn, last Saturday. These men appointed by the county commissioners, will determine whether or not this road is a public utility. According to most of the property owners along the way, the road is in “horrible condition and should be widened.’’ Viewers made a favorable report on this » road once before, but any work on it was prevented by the petition of one property owner who did not want the road made a. public highway.

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