The Syracuse Journal, Volume 24, Number 20, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 10 September 1931 — Page 1

6/Arthur Brisbane REAL LIFE DIME NOVEL S3«,»M A WEEK GIRL BRAVE, PATIENT CHINA A SMART YOUNG GIRL

Dime novels, no longer printed, occur in life’s reality Charles M. Rosenthal, young broker, was kidnaped, SIOO,OOO demanded. He won $50,000 from his kidnapers at poker, got their I. 0. U-s reducing the ransom to $50,000 which his mother paid The kidnaping “bait” was a "pretty young, woman, of light complexion, found living with a big, very big, bladk .negro.” She was of negro blood. When the kidnaped young man won $50,0W at poker, two kidnapers voted to shoot him. Numbers of the ransom bills caught the kidnapers, the light colored young lady, and i ecovered $16,330 of the ransom. Is not that a super-dime novel? Motion picture exhibitors say “Hollywood should be deflated,” whatever that means, ifand object, especially, to the salary of one young picture lady, supposed to get $30,000 a week. Perhaps she doesn’t get so much, but if she does get if she earns it The laborer is worthy of her hire, even under Kiieg lights. Exhibitors want pictures that will fill theaters. If any ac|tor can be worth $30,000 a week, everybody should be grateful. Nothing is cheaper, no matter what it earns, than the exceptional personality. - ■' An American from China admires “the Chinese dogged patience and courage even in terrific floods that have made thirty millions homeless, fifteen million* destitute.” It seems strange that after 5,000 years of civilisation China has not learned to control the Yang-tse and other great rivers Then w* remember humbly lhAt with all our machinery, and money we haven’t learned to control the Mississippi. Machinery will do it eventually, however, and as the late William Boyce Thompson predicted, will store up surplus flood waters in some inland sea, saving them for use in drought: Drink a toast, if only in soda pop. to Minh Charlotte Hodfikinsvn, nineteen yelars old. who took flying les-sons-for 76 minutes, then flew by herself, and did it well. It w ould almost Vure your “depression blbes” to see that young American girl waving her arms from the cockpit Even birds do not learn to fly as quickly as that, although they begin much [younger. . Cheerful news from Rome Pope Pius XI and Mussolini, the powerful, agree on a aettlenfent of the "Catholic Action" difficulty. ~ Fifteen thousand church clubs will now reopen, forbidden, however, to engage in political activities, or even to have classes for sports. All that is reserved fur Mussolini’* young people. However, each side feels it has won. Which indicates that the settlement is probably fair. The American Chemical society, gathered at Buffalo, N. Y., is told by Profesßons Smyth of Princeton, Andrewa of Johns Hopkins and Drury of Columbia university that with the radio men can hear the “dapce of the finite” in other words, the noise made by molecules and atoms as they move? mysteriously. Each atom ’’sings its own melody and dances its own individual dance” The ancients talked of the “music of the spheres," meaning music produced by the rolling stars. Man may become a complex animal, one ear listening to atoms, and the other to suns a million million times as big as the earth; one eye studying infinity through the telescope, the other the finite “infra-world” through the microscope. At the same time both ears and both eyes will tell him what is going on in his neighborhood. AU interesting, but you hardly have time for it these depression days. An able Du Pont company chemist has developed a “synthetic dress goods fiber, like silk ” f The process sounds like “Alice /in Wonderland,” including castor oil, ehvlene, glycol, carbon, hydrogen, bxygm. Sy nt let ic silk is said to be “at j least as good as real silk,” and silk worms, cropped into hot water to make ther coccoons unwind, will be glad to htar that When will the Du Pont* announce “synthetic "rubber” at S2O a ten? Th* Pullman company, on its “Sportsmen’s Train” of the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad, installs foot rests for tiavelers. They ride comfortably, with feet raised, legs stretched out, leaning back, accord- j Ing to the American habit. A good idea Our great American trouble is heart disease and the Pullman foot rest will help. that. When your feet are up and yota lean back, the blood flows horixonttilly, instead of perpendicularly, and ahe strain on your heart is less. 1 Do your thanking and workihg lying down if wou can, especially in old age. I

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BUDGET FOR COUNTY IS BEING CUT County Council Takes $9,370 Off in Two Day Session. The county budget had been slashed $9,370 late Wednesday afternoon by the county council in its effort to reduce the tax rate in Kosciusko county. The county council up to that time had been in session two days. The Democratic members of the Council of which there is a majority, are determined in their efforts to cut down every appropriation that was made by Hazel Breading, county auditor. The method of procedure is as follows: Each item of the budget is read. Owen N. ’lgo of Claypool, democratic inquisitor proceeds- to ask questions and then says: "The item should be cuj.”' Two republican members vote against the reduction, the rest of the council vote for the reduction. The republicans claim that some of the appropriations have already been reduced from last year and that a further reduction will just mean additional appropriation of money must be made later. Salaries of officials not fixed by law have been reduced. Appropriations .for miscellaneous expenses come in for close scrutiny. Reduction made in the operating expense of officers is as follows: - Clerk, $500; auditor, $500; treasurer, $200; recorder, $1,000; surveyor, $1,200; county superintendent, s3su: paid county school attendance officers. $250. Other cuts made were; SI,OOO in the coal bill and janitor extra help, sl2o, which come off the operating expenses of the court house. Under the item of c'punty jail. SBOO was cut from the allowance for repair on the garage and $250 for repair, of jail. When the miscellaneous items were reached the council eliminated en tirfely the $1,50U allowed for testing cattle and the SSO allowed for expense of game wardens. The expense of Baugher bridge was cut S3OO and the emergency bridge fund SSOO. The expense of repair of bridges w*:ts cut S6OO. When the editor left the council was trying every means possible to cut expenses of the circuit court but had not succeeded. Earlier in the morning Hazel Breading had told the council that they themselves were responsible for the increase in the county tax levy for they had approved the construction of the Marion and Arnold roads. This yeat the budget alls f<4pusl27,875.62 for expense of county unit roads while last year’s budget called for $104,275.93,. a difference of over $23,000. REPUBLICANS WILL NOMINATE ON 30TH Republicans meeting in the library Monday evening to perfect an organization for the town of Syracuse, for the November election,« appointed the following committee to have charge: Frank W. Greene, chairman; Mrs. Bert Ward, vice-chair man and Mrs. Harve Cory,-secretary-treasurer. It was voted that their caucus to nominate candidates for the town offices should be held on Wednesday, evening, Sept. 30, at 8 o’clock. Frank Greene was appointed to organize a Republican Young Voters’ club. He named the following committee to have charge of the organization: Mrs. Bert Ward, chairman; Mrs. Harry - Grieger, Miss Olean Snepp, Walter R. Smith and Eugene Maloy, committeemen.

IT WAS A FISH STORY Daily papers of cities near Syracuse carried a story, on Monday, about George Currie, aged 15, of Goshen, who washed his hands in Wawasee. lost his ring, and then later caught a 4 4 pound bass. When he cut the fish ogen to clean it, the story went, there he found his ring! Dale Sprague had lost a ring which he valued highly, while swimming near Ideal Beach a month ago. His parents, hearing of the story wondered if that plight possibly be Dale’s ring. They phoned the Currier home in Goshen to ask what sort of ring was found. And they were told there wasn’t any ring. Mr. Currier said it was all a fish story and he doesn't know how it ever got started.

LADIES AND GENTLE-MUN, STEP RIGHT THIS WAY AND WIN A PRIZE

Six tremenduous (-ly large) prize? will be awarded to the harassed and perspiringly victorious golfers at the conclusion of the first Syracuse Business Men’s Golf tournament to be held on the Maxwelton Manor course on Wednesday, September 16. No one is haired and anyone can win a prize if he is lucky. Men, w-- men and children are especially invited to play. It isn’t even neces sary to own a set of clubs. The committee in charge has agreed t< furnish at least two clubs for the use of all entrants. The committee, however, doesn’t guarantee that anyone will be able to hit the ball with the clubs fur nished, but insist any fanning of the air will be due to no, fault of th* clubs. . ■ This is one -of those gold-bric* money-making schemes disguisec with the prizes for bait. The mine; made is to be used by' the Chambe: of Commerce to pay off the note in curred several years ago when the

LAST MINUTE NEWS. An attempted robbery at the Sni::': Wawasee hotel was fustrated thi£ morning about 3:10 o’clock by cm plbye* of the hotel. A young nun possibly 25 years of age wearing what was obviously a false moustache came into the lobby of the ho tel and drew his gun on the clerk who was at the desk and the negro bell boy. He had difficulty covering both with one gun and the clerk. Shelby. Minter of Indianapolis reached for his gun and shot at the intruder. The would-be robber left in a hurry' and the clerk followed him. The man whirled > and fired at the clerk but fortunately missed hinu He disappeared headed west along the lake shore. They heard no sound of a car that, he might have escaped in. The sheriff was sent for, and with Town Marshal Rentfrow planned to visit cottages this morning to see if any had been broken into. — o-— —. DLVORCE'SUIT IS FILED IN WARSAW Mrs. Olive Ada Deardorff filed s petition for divorce from Lawrence Deardorff in the Kosciusko county circuit court in Warsaw yesterday afternoon. They were married May 10, 1922. She charges cruel and inhuman treatment.’ The petition states that the defendant struck the plaintiff and called her vile names, that on Sept. 7, the defendant struck and kicked and beat the plaintiff causing bodily injury. That for the past two years the defendant has failed to provide for her. In her petition Mrs. Deardorff asks for the custody of the child Francis Elizabeth Deardorff. A hearing for temporary alimony will be heard next Tuesday. The defendant asks for a sum sufficient to support the child during the trial and for attorney's fee and other expenses. The husband. Lawrenge Peardorff was fined one dollar and cost* Tuesday in Justice Leas’s court on charge of assault and battery preferred by his wife. He was charged with beating her Monday evening. 0 FISHERMAN FINED Frank Campbell of Chicago was arrested Sunday by Game Wardens Click and Justice. He was tried in the justice of peace court of Jesse Shock and was fined for fishing without * non resident’s license.

Social Happenings on Lake Wawasee

The South Shore Inn and The Tavern closed for the season last Monday evening. Mrs, E. L. Holman entertained guests at a luncheon-bridge party at her home •in Maxwelton Manor, Thursday. Following the luncheon six tables of bridge were in play. At the conclusion prizes were won by Mrs. John Grieger, Mrs George Xanders, Mrs. C. H. Sears. Mrs. M M. Smith and Mrs. H. D. Harkiess. Out of town guests were Mrs. H. P. Bow'ser of Goshen; Mrs. Frank Black of Ligonier; Mrs. Clarence Grieger of Fort Wayne; Mrs. J. Schradel of Lafayette. Mrs. Harriet Cotherman’s 88th birthday was celebrated with a party at the W B. Leas cottage, Sunday. Eighteen guests attended. Mrs W. E Long entertained with a bridge party at her home on Kale Island on Friday. Lupfcheon was served 18 guests and bridge followed. Miss Peggy Smith won first prize for

SYRACUSE, INDIANA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1931.

channel was dredged. Wise-guys are especially urged to beware of this money-making scheme as women arc going to sell tickets uus comini week, and anyone entering this competition must ovy a ticket. Il each one isn’t careful he may wakei up to find he has bought two. Skill in golf playing won’t mattei -those who hav? never played be fore may take their chances with ex pert players and then walk away with prizes. Blind bogey will be the method o< handicapping. No one seeips to understand exactly w hat that means unless he has won a prize that Vvay. but the pro engaged to conduct thi: tournament in which hundreds oi golf balls will be split right oper lays; In a blind bogey one choses . handicap in hope that the number chosen by the participant, added di subtracted from his final score wi! win a prize. The prize winning num (Continued on Last Page)

THREE-MACHINES ARE WRECKED ON WAWASEE ROAD Syracuse resident* w-ere in two automobile accident* on the lake road to the north shore of Wawasee. Sunday evening. All escaped without serious injuries A third wreck on the same road occurred Mondayevening. Mr and Mrs. William Geiger and daughters Majj’irie, Jeanette and Wilma and Walter. Waddle of Chi |cago were riding in the GeigerflivI ver sedan with Wilma driving Cuni day evening. i A car passing theirs cut in too 'close in front of their machine, and .the Geiger fIiVYTF car i ahead. The flivver was turned p » i into the ditch about 15 feet dejp on the right hand side of the r d which leads off from the paved cou.i---»V line road towards the Hex school house. Mrs. Head gul 80 that several stitches were required Ito close the injury when she was. brought to the doctor by other motorists who came upon the wrecked machine .Mr. Geiger received minor cuL, gnd bruises on his head and body. The children escaped serious injury. It is feared tha4 perhaps some of Mrs Geiger’s ribs may have been broken in the accident, Geiger's machine was nearly a total wreck, and before they couTo get out to it on Monday morning someone had removed parts of the engine, tires etc. Second Car Wrecked. ‘ That same evening Lloyd Arned’s gar was wrejskpd on tfie north shore road. Mr. Arhgd is fe*rbgr who has been working at Bushong's this summer. He was accompanied by George Peffi«y, On the “S” curve near Thomas'* onion patch the left rear tire of the machine blew out, causing the car to turn over, Neither of the men were inju-ed except for minor cuts and bruises but the top and body of the car was demolished. The wrecker brought it to town On Monday evening about 8 o’clock, ngar tfiat saine point where the Arned wreck occurred, Ben. Miller’* car wa* struck, A nunibp.r of piachines ip a line had passed his machine, when if is said his right. fender was struck by another pn-j coming car, and the running board was smashed. Lights of machines passing each other were blamed for i causing the wreck . . The oncoming car belonged to Rev. Mygrant and wife from Oak-: wood Park.

high score, Mrs. C. H. King was second and Mrs. Kenneth Harkiess third. An enjoyable “pitch-in” supper was held Monday evening on the lawn of the summer home of Mr. and Mrs- G. G. Schmidt, the supper being given by Mr. and Mrs. Marcus White, Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Tuttle and Mr. and Mrs. Schmidt. Other guests were: Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ross, Joe White of Noblesville; Miss Healey of Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. Arlie Forbes of South Bend; Mrs. Gas* and Carl Tuttle; Dr. and Mrs. G. J. Bookwaiter, Charles Brian, William Cox, Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Cox and children, all of Indianapolis. Ed C Horst caught a small mouthed jumper Sunday, which weighed four pounds. He used a minnow as bait Fifteen advertising managers from the Scripps-Howard papers are expected to attend the annual golf tournament to be held by this group

501 PUPILS ENROLL FOR FALL TERM Lunches Not Served At High School— No Candy Sold. Pupils numbering S(R entered school this year, exceeding last year’s enroilnient by 11. At the High school building Court Slabaugh’s Algebra class numbered 54 so th.e class was divided into two sections. There are more bookkeeping students than desks in that class, ac:ording to Leonard Barnhart, teach-; ‘r, sb that more desks have been ordered, The room for typewriting! classes I* uncomfortably crowded, i Another crowded class is the First j grade. Fifty are enrolled in this; lass, but a number bf these young j oupils are under age, so that it may i oe necessary to, hold to the age limit law. This is that no youngster may start to school unless his or her sixth birthday occurs on or before October 8 of that school year. There have been .so many objections to the cos. -of the noop jypch i .vhich was served at the High achoul building in former years that it is' not "fully decided whether food will ! be served there or not this year.' Classes are not to sell candy and ( gum any more on eweount of com-. plaints that this makes pupils want: ,o spend Hfongy at This was the mean* various class-' es used to raise money for class parties and other expenses. The following is the enrollment i iccording to classes: Senior*, Juniuis, 3p; Sopho-: mores, 29; Freshmen, 46; Eighth' Grade, 54; Seventh, 40; Sixth, 45; I Fifth, 50; Fourth, 38; Third, 41;' Second, 44: and First, 50. Miss Esther Clauss of Milford, who makes her honje Wjtji Mi . aug Mrs, Noble. Myers ha* entered school for post-graduate work, 0 SHARP AND BURNS ARE FOUND GUILTY . Robert Sharp wm sentenced to ’-h p State prieuH al Michigan City for a term of one to five years when he entered a plea of guilty in circuit court to the charge of petit larceny,’ chicken stealing. In addition he was fined $25 and cost and was disfran-1 chised for five years by Judgg Roysg. S>harp first tame to court in the Tucker conspiracy case in January 1927, and turned state’s He served time then at the state reformatory. Sharp wfts arrested this summer in Syracuse by Sheriff Harley D. Person and served a 60 day sentence for violation of the liquor laws. He was alleged to be thg qtMW mind ip thg of which Harold Goy, John Byland, Eddie Burns and Sharp were accused. He was said to have gotten the other three drunk and lead the raid on the chicken roost at tha farm of Wffl. Nickjer, Augu ßl Burn* entered a plea of guilty when he was tried on the chicken stealing charge and was fined $lO and costs. j Harold CoV and John Byland have’ given bond of SI,OOO each to appear. for trial in circuit court jn |he same chicken theft charge-

at the Spink-Wawasee, from Friday until Sunday. The men are from Toledo, Cleveland, Cincinnati, O, and Pittsburgh, Pa., Chicago and India’ napqlis. Mr. and Mrs. Tom C Potter, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Merrill of Fort Wayne spent last week end and Labor Day in the White cottage. The driving range of the South Shore Golf course was closed Monday evening. Mrs. John Boyts and Mrs W. C. Graham entertained 31 guests at a luncheon-bridge party. Luncheon was served at the South Shore Inn, and the guests went to Mrs. Graham’s home where bridge was played. Prizes were won by Mrs .R. B. Tuttle, Mrs. Ridenour of Peru, Mrs Ebbinghouse of South Bend and Mrs. Rush. Mrs Anna Ballou of Chicago spent last week and Labor Day at The Tavern. Percy Ballou came from De-

DO YOU , REMEMBER— I i 20 Years Ago. When it was at first feared Russell ■ Lepper had been killed when he was kicked by a horse? • * • 15 Years Ago When Herbert Launer was injured when his car and that of Mr. and Mrs Charles Pfingst collided at the I corner of Harrison and Pearl Streets? * • • • 10 Years Ago When the school faculty included: Mrs. Joe Rapp, Mrs. L. A Seider, Miss Margaret Seehaver, Miss Ethel ; Bowser, Guy Bushong, Miss Louise Kuckuek, W. C. Gants, Court Slabaugh, Miss Leotta Parker, Miss Lucy Welty, C. C. Bachman and Mr. •and Mr*. H D. Cress? Five Years Ago. I When Roy Sarjent came from Chi'cagOv to the Syracuse postuffice: when announcement was made of i the marriage of Miss Frances Wilson • and John H Jones; and of Miss Joy ’ Deardorff and Benjamin Julier? ■ —; o BRIDGE PARTY ON LAKE WAWASEE IS A RESCUE PARTY I A bridge party became a rescue ! party, Friday afternoon, when guests at Mrs. W. E. Long’s bridge party 4 ■at her home on Kale Island yrgre 'taken for a speed b<ja( vide following the playing bridge. They witnessed the overturning of (another boat and brought to shore 'the occupants who had been thrown [into the water. ■ Mr. anti Mrs. Carl and two .children had from Gary, where ' M». OUun is basketball coach, to i Wawasee, Friday, to stay over Laibor Day in Roscoe Howard’s cottage Joel Wilt, who basketball games. Friday afternoon Wilt took his motorboat from Syracuse Lake to Lake Wawasee and took Mr Olson and his son Edwin, aged 5, for a ride. They goj; into a trough behind a speedboat, and Wilt’s boat overturned. The occupants were thrown into the lake, ~ Mr; Ql*qq and Edwin were in their haihmg suits, but Wilt wa* fully Slothed. When the boat turned over Mi’, Olgop. kept hold of his son’s arm, but Wilt, not knowing this, dived for the boy and both men brought him to the surface. The party in Long’s speedboat had seen the accident, George WanI del, who hurried towards the ’Overturned boat. He tossed a rope to Mr Olson who was holding his son (Continued on Last Page) MUST PAY ‘PHONE TOLL ON TELEGRAMS FfSW the office of the manager of Hie Western Union Telegraph Co. in' Nappanee comes the news that their former arrangement for the telegraph company tu absorb all telephone t<4l OR telegrams sent from Syracuse through the Nappanee office has been discontinued. The party wishing to send a telegram must now pay for the telephone toll. Another difference announced is that the party wishing to send the telegram rnu»t at telephone office and pay for the telegram the time it is sent. Difficulty in collections has brought about this change, according to the announcement.

troit to spend the holiday with her, and she returned home with him. J. Edward Ballou and Tom Higginson came from Chicago to spend the holiday with them at the lake. K. K. Willing and R. O. Speigel of Indianapolis caught the limit number of bass each day from Monday until Thursday last week They were guests at The Tavern. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Falender who spent the past four weeks in another one of Bishop’s cottages have returned to their home in Jndianapolis. Mr. and Mrs. T. V. Summers entertained guests from Evanston, 111. at their cottage last week end Mr. and Mrs. Paul C. Laßlant and two daughters returned home to Indianapolis, Tuesday, after spending the summer in the Dalke cottage. Senator Robinson returned to In(Continued on page five.)

GRAND JURY IN SESSION IN WARSAW Proceedings Will Be Kept Secret— Many Called. W hat will no doubt be a thorough investigation into slot machin gambling was begun Wednesday i..lining when the grand jury was s •/•Tin in by the county clerk in tne courthouse in Warsaw. The court room was peopled with business men and women from Lake Wawasee. Why they are there is a matter of conjecture but it js rumored slot machines” is the answer. At the rate that the grand jury is investigating most of them will still be waiting several days from now. Most of these people were finding he passage of time rather boresome, yesterday, the first day of the investigation. Magazines were in evidence and cigarette and cigar smoke becam,® dense in the court room. For the grand jury grinds slowly. In his instruction to the jurymen. Judge Royse briefly gave the origin of the grand jury, the order of business which they were to folj6w and their duties. In explaining the order of business the judge said the duty of the grand jury is to investigate the misconduct of public officials, the management of county jail and poor farm, and the violation of state laws in general, over the County. In explaining the procedure of calling witnesses before the jury for testimony, the judge said that any stubborn witness or one that did not wish to testiQ would not be tolerated. The court would deal with them, he said, Judge Royse called attention to th* fact that the grand jury must be careful to weigh, the evidence given and not to indict any man on hearsay, for the evidence must stand up in court. He also instructed them' -to_ get both sides of the questions, and the truth and the whole truth. He warned them not to . fill up the court with a lot of petit cases. In speaking of the secrecy of the grand jury procedure Judge Royse stated that secrecy is right, for the person being investigated might run away before he was indicted, unless it was kept secret. This secrecy unfortunately gives a chance for a revengeful person to cause a lof of annoyance to his neighbors by having them called before a grand jury for some petit charge, the judge also pointed out. “Some people use the grand jury to stab their fellow men in the dark,” he said. Another reason for secrecy, the judge said, was on account of scandal. The public likes scandal and anyone called before the grand jury might haye a stigma placed on him which would not dissolve if it became known that he had heen called before this body. So no publicity can be given to the preceedings It may. be a long, long investigation, because at three o’clock yesterday only three witnesses had been called. ADVERTISING DOESN’T PAY 50e BRINGS IN ONLY $68.22 a waste of money to advertise. If you doubt that read these figures. The Ladies Aid of the Zion U. B-. church held its first church dinner and supper, on Labor Day. £he Women spent 30 cents for an ad in the Syracuse Journal, and 20 cents for cardboard. The latter was cut into six pieces and lettered with the news of the chicken dinner for 35 cents at the Guy school house. These six signs were posted in the stores in Syracuse. The women of the group prepared chicken dinners for< a * 'pretty good sized crowd,” and placed a notice at the door of the school that dinners would be served from 11 a. m. to 7 p. m. “Hungry business” began to arrive. By noon they were runuing short of such extras as cabbage and corn. Shortly after noon they had to turn people away. Some who refused to take no on chicken dinner at noon agreed to return at 3?30 and be served. So somg of the women rushed home, jerked necks from chickens, cleaned and dressed ' them, and served noon day luncheons .at 3:30. And then the-supper crowd began to arrive. On the 50 cents spent for advertising the business obtained resulted in the women clearing $68.22. Most of the food was donated, but coffee, sugar, better and bread was bought. It does not pay to advertise.

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