The Syracuse Journal, Volume 27, Number 5, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 24 May 1934 — Page 1

by Arthur Brisbane KIDNAPING DISCOURAGED WE ARE HIGHWAYMEN NOW POOR BABY ORANG SLAUGHTERING THE MACON

William F. Gee tie, recently kidnaped, is back with his family. Three of those that managed his kidnaping are in jail, have confeased, and are given life terms. The little girl, June Robles, heaven be praised, is back with her family. She was found “in a shallow hole covered by cactus, chained by her ankles, her clothes filthy and her body emaciated.” She was too weak to walk or answer questions and could only say “1 want, my mamma” to those that found her, nine miles from her home in Tucson, Arix. Her kidnapers have not been caught as this is written. There is, however, no speculation whatever as to what will happen to them if they are caught. The men of Arixona like kidnaping as little as do the men of California. And if they come within reach of those kidnapers, the latter will be taken care of so thoroughly that they will never need any care at any later timfe on this e.rtn. It is your duty to hope, piously, that there will be no violence. But you are not to bet on it. By the President’s decision France and England, not having paid their debts, are officially declaied in default, and will not be allowed to boirow in this country even from private sources. This will not be pleasing to England or France or to international American bankers, but it will, suit the American people. Europe may not hold American dollars at so low a price,, now that she is no longer able to borrow them by the carload, or import our United States gold by the neat little barrelful.

After the President announced the default and this country’s refusal to accept any pietty little token, the London Evening Star, in big type, called the President’s announcement a '‘highwayman act by the United States.” Considering that the Biitish government is bullying Germany over a miserable little debt of $120,000,000, the British weighers should not abject te the President telling them that they are in defau& when they ' are in default and owe over five thousand millions. « Human mothers, the young, nervous kind, should be warned by the fate of Betty, Chicago’s two pound baby orang-utan, and Bettyes mother. Surroundings in the zoo made the loving orang-utan mother intensely nervous and she worried about her baby so much that her supply of milk gave out. The mind affects the mammary glands. She would allow nobody near her baby to feed it artificially and keepers feared that she would kill her baby is they tried to take it from her. It was pitiful to see her try to feed her baby with milk from her mouth which she took from a can in the cage. The first rule is relax, try not to be made nervous. Easy to advise, hard to do. A lot of heavier-lhan-air planes were sent somewhere, Un imitation warfare, and the big Macon was sent along. This column pointed out the foolishness of that proceeding, send ing such a ship deliberately against a swarm of enemy planes. The intelligent “high command” in this enterprise displayed all the intelligence of a ground mole.

Naturally the high command now report* that the Macon was put out of commission. If the intellectual high command will read about the battle of Jutland and the service rendered there by a Gorman Zeppelin, be will know more about the proper use of lighter-than-air craft. Germany's preparations for war in the air, especially the alleged efficiency of her German-invented “airplace predicator", should interact us. The Germans are developing the world’s greatest fighting air fleet, in competition with Franco, buying engines in the United States, England. wherever they can get them, keeping preparations secret. In Brooklyn, boy twins have been fighting pneumonia with oxygen to help them. Little Roy, who weighed only two and a half pounds at birth, died. His brother, Ross, weighed at birth six and one-half pounds, lives. Where did that twin go when he lost his fight. Did he return whence Im came, to start back here again as a humble littl* servant of Omnipotence, to help improve this earth? Did he t o to heaven, as all hope he did, * to fly around in perpetual bliss? Or, M some think, coldly, did his little drop of consciousness go back to the couree of life, whence it came, as the falling raindrop eventually returns to the ocean?

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VOLUME XXVII

DECORATION DAY PROGRAM ANNOUNCED Stores to Close While Service is Held at High School. Syracuse’s annual Memorial Day program will commence at 2:30 DST next Wednesday in the High School auditorium. Warren Colwell will be Master of Ceremonies. Stores will be closed Wednesday afternoon. At 2 o’clock the American Legion and the Syracuse band will form ranks at the corner of Main and huntington streets and march to the school house. Court Slabaugh is asking that all school children who can, meet in study hall No. 1 of the school house at 2 o’clock. The children will march from the school building to the cemetery and decorate graves of veterans. The Boy Scouts will act as captains of the children in the parade. Mr. Slabaugh has also asked that all school teachers who are able to do so, come to the school building to make up bouqiiets and take care of the children; also that everyone who can, bring flowers to the buildring early as there never aie enough flowers. The following is the program of the service; Overture by the Syracuse Band. Invocation by Rev. A. J. Armstrong. Solo, “The Trumpeter” by Vernon Beckman. Address by Ralph Gates, former stale commander of the American Legion. "America" by the assembled group, and then the benediction. The march to the cemetery will follow the services in the school, s jk ■ TYPHIOD FEVER CASES REPORTED IN CROMWELL A rumor reached Syracuse yesterday morning that 27 children in Cromwell were ill with typhiod fever A telephone call there proved that this was not the case, that two were ill with typhoid. It happened that a month - ago, Miss Beck who teaches the Fifth Grade took the pupils of her grade, numbering 27 on a picnic on the farm of the principal, Mr. Loveless. Some of the children drank water from an, old well there, and Leona Coy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Coy, and Junior Iden, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gary Iden,; have recently developed typhoid fever, the illness being blamed upon this water. It was impossible to get in touch with Miss Beck yesterday, but her mother answered questions yesterday concerning the happening. She said that Dean Fiddler of Cromwell had been buried Mother's Day, and his illness had been pronounced typhoid fever; and has been stated in the Journal before, Mrs. J. T. Riddle’s brother, John Moore, who lives in Cromwell is ill with typhoid. ON MONDAY IT RAINED!

The rain, Monday evening, was the first in 10 days, and the other one had been but a shower, but Monday's was welcomed. Everyone had been despairing about gardens and crops being ruined. When Merrit Lung was in* town, Monday, he said that Roy Wilkinson was giving his live stock dry feed as though it were winter, as pastures were dried grass, and Lung said in another week he'd be using dry feed. He also said that he had heard that Lon Blue, who has a number of cattle had lost several after the recent dust storm. ' The rain preceded a drop in temperature which it is thought went low enough for froet, Tuesday night q AT S. S. CONVENTION Miss Genevieve Kitson, representing the .Missionary society and Mrs. Shroyer attended the Church of God Sunday school convention at Zanesville from Thursday until Saturday. On Saturday, Bernice Held and Pauline Hibschman, representing the Sunday school here, and Leonard Hibschman and Robert Parson, representing the Christian Endeavor, attended the convention. q BIRTH ANNOUNCED Mr. and Mrs. George Auer, who live near New Salem, are announcing the birth of a daughter, Monday. Dr. Fred Clark °plans to" join his wife at her parents home in Bloomington, Sunday, and they will spend a week’s vacation visiting in Indiana and Illinois before returning to Syracuse.

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OTHER COTTAGES ON LAO FOUND ROBBED Two on Southside and One on Northside Reported as Robbed Some Time During Past Few Months Since the publication of last week’s paper, other robberies have been discovered at the lake. Vic Niles, who has been caretaker at the Ed Holderman cottage on the southside found windows open there Monday arid on entering the cottage found drawers opened and contents strewn upon the floor. It is not Jcnown how much was stolen. Ell wood George said that the W. A. Anuerson cottage at Sunset Point was rvbued sometime during the win ter; that all of the fine linens and woolen blankets had been stolen, and the fancy glassware. He said it looked to him as though someone was getting supplies to start housekeeping. Mrs. Jim Jones on the north shore said that they had just been told by Mr. Kinnison of Goshen that the Kinnison cottage near their place had been robbed sometime during the past few months. All of the silver, valued at several hundred dollars, among other things, had been taken.

ONE NURSE WORKS UNDER FERA PLAN Number of Three Nurses Under CWA Reduced to One; Mrs. Bushong Serves all of Kosciusko Co. Although the number of three nurses permitted this county under the CWA, was reduced to one—Mrs. Marie Bushong of Syracuse—when the FERA succeeded the CWA, the nursing service is to be continued until July Ist. Service was inaugurated as a CWA project, Feb. 2. During February and March schools were visited and clyldren inspected to learn of eye, throat and tooth defects. These were reported to parents for treatment before the fall term of school. It is urged that -parents win take children with these defects to family physicians for corrections. Members of the committee in charge of this work are: Dr. Clutter, county health officer and sponsor of the work in the county; J. J. Lantz, chairman of the Red Vross; Dr. Phillips, county secretary of the T. B. association. , All the nurses of the northern part of the state, district No. 2, kept in office by the Governor’s Commission of Unemployment relief, will be required to attend the Public Health Nursing institute in Rochester for conferences and planning of work. Mrs. Bushong is busy to say the least, as her work now includes all of the townships of this county. Some of the schools of the county are in session, as in Warsaw where last week where on inspection she discovered a number of suspicious cases as an epidemic of mealsea has been raging there. Where schools have been dismissed for the summer, Mrs. Bushong’s work means that she must visit parents and urge them to have defects of children remedied.

Time is fleeting; people talking CST-mg

The town board’s decision last week that the law passed five yean ago, that Syracuse would advance to Daylight Savings time every summer, would be enforced this year, has caused much talk and comment in this vicinity, and expressions of opinion from a number of people who do not believe that fast time should he in forcs__here, or anjwhere. Some of thwe people have kindly consented w express their opinions for the Journal. The golf courses of the vicinity seem to be going to adopt Daylight Savings time. The South Shore Golf course and the Lake Wawasee Golf course adopted “fast time" at once. Freeman Moore of the Turkey Creek course said he would d<r whatever the majority decided and Maxwelton golf course has adopted DST. The Tavern, The South Shore Inn, Johnson’s Hotel, Sargent’s and the Spink-Wawaaee hotel will remain on CST, according to the various managements. The reasons for this were given as being that the change in hour would conflict with B. & O. R. R. schedule of trains; and that guests from south of here, including Indianapolis were accustomed ter CST. Oakwood Park, however has gone on DST, and this includes the hotel, Some of the business men in town do not care to be quoted as to their opinion of the ’ ty parlor said if every town vent on -

SYRACUSE, INDIANA, THURSDAY MAY 24, 1934.

|ON LAKE WAWASEEi I 1 I Mr. and Mrs. Otto Huffman of j Indianapolis have rented one of the .George W. Mellinger cottages for !the season. They moved there yes- | terday. | Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Kline of Anderson have rented Roy Miles* cot- , Uge in Pickwick Park for the season I J. H. Krieg from Corunna, who traded Ideal Beach to E. L. Walters, for bis farm, has again “swapped", and Mr. Walters who has been in charge of Ideal Beach for several years has moved back to his farm, and Mr. Krieg is again in charge of the beach. A number of bathers went swimming, Sunday, because of the warm weather. \ The Rathskeller of the South Shore Inn, opened, Saturday evening, a large crowd in attendance. Mr. and Mrs. Ed W’ilson of Fort Wayne have rented the Charles Rusch cottage in Vawter Park, for July and August. Mrs. T. S. Vaughn of Wabash was reported as seriously ill last week. She was taken to the hospital ill with pneumonia, but her condition was reported as improved, this week. — • Several cottages on Kale Island , have been rented for the season, with summer occupants to move there, June Ist. R. F. Stone of LaFayette has rented the Baker cottage for the season; G. Newhart of Terre Haute has rented King’s house for the season; Mrs. Ridell of Nappanee has rented Wm. Lavering’s cottage for the season. These are all located on Kale Island. Mr. and Mrs. Claude Mason and family of Fort Wayne moved to t their cottage at Ogden Point last I week for the season. The Past Time Club of Fort Wayne has returned to Kale Island this 1 summer, having again rented Beach's cottage there. Thirty members of the class of 1927 of the Nappanee High School attended the 6 o’clock dinner party at Sargent’s hotel, .Sunday evening. The Junior-Senior banquet of the Elkhart High school was held at the Spink-Wawasee hotel, Saturday even ing. The dinner was served at 6:30 and was followed by the dance. There were 300 in attendance, including students, all of the faculty, and some of the students’ parents. Irving Bishop has the speed boat concessions for all points on the lake this summer, including Waco Garden, he says. Ward Coppes, formerly of this vicinity, who at present lives in Denver, Col., has written to the Sargent hotel concerning his plans for this summer. He said that last summer he conducted more than 300 people to the World’s Fair in Chicago, and planned to continue these trips this summer,»but wished to include in the trip feast, a week end spent at the Sargdnt hotel. His letter was to make arrangements for this. ’ The first meeting of the Business Men’s Golf and Dinner -Get-To-(Coutinued on Last Page)

fast time, it would be all right, but that Ligonier, Cromwell Leesburg, Milford and Warsaw had not changed, and that he didn't think Syracuse should change until it became j general. Residents about Lake Wawasee, when questioned the first of this week seemed pleased, for the most part, that Syracuse had adopted DST. Places of business on the southside of the lake, such as Emerson’s, Louis Solt's grocery and Dwight Mock and King’s of Kale Island, adopted DST at once. Bishop’s said it would be necessary for them to do what the majority did. Farmers Against It. The opinion of most farmers is against the adoption of fast time. They also say that it will mean that those who Wish to trade in Syracuse, but can’t because stores are closed by the time chores are done, will go to other towns to do their buying. But when it was asked if Wednesday nights, band nights, and Saturday nights with stores open in Syracuse would take care of this late trade, most everyone interviewed said that it would. Sherman Deaton, president of the • Turkey Creek township Farm Bureau said when questioned, that most of th* farmers to whom he had talked did not like the idea of Syracuse adopting fast time. He said in his opinion, a number would trade in Leesburg and Milford. When asked if Wednesday and Saturday nights ’meaning stores open in Syracuse would take care of those dissatisfied

CHICKENS BURNED IN TRUCK’S FIRE $250 Worth of Poultry Destroyed as Detroit Bound Truck Burned Near Hex School. On Tuesday afternoon, a Reo speedwagon on its way to Detroit, loaded with thickens and eggs was consumed by fire, on Road 6 near the Hex school house. According to Estep of Milford, from whom the chickens had been bought, about $250 worth of poultry was destroyed. All that is left of the truck is the steel frame and engine. None of the occupants of the truck were injured. The truck was owned by a party named Miller from Detroit. Orla Brown and Guy Nicolai were repairing a fence just east of the school house, when they noticed that a truck coming from the west was on fire. Brown and his boy rushed into the road and waived the truck down. The fire was in the back end of the truck, among the chicken crates. The two women and the men were in the truck told the men working near the Hex school that they did not know how the truck caught on fire. The pavement on Road 6 was damaged by the fire, where the truck burned, and it was repaired by roadmen yesterday. 0 BOSTON STREET IS CLOSED TO TRAFFIC

Grading of Street Commenced Yesterday; Oil to be Applied Soon Not to Sprinkle Street. Boston Street was closed to traffic Wednesday, and will be closed until the road oil is applied. Residents along the street are requested by the town board not to do any sprinkling on the street, for the gravel must be dry when the oil is placed on the street. The same request applies to all other streets which will receive oil treatment later. Work began yesterday on Boston street to fill in’ the. bed of the road which was exposed, old and new gravel being placed there. The road will be graded and leveled before the black top mixture is put on. The actual application of the black top itself will probably commence Friday or Saturday. 0 PLAYING BASEBALL The first regular game of the Syracuse Athletic club’s baseball schedule will be played next Sunday at Leesburg, at 3 o’clock DST. I In a practise game last Sunday, '.Syracuse defeated the Leesburg nine |ll to 9. j Leesburg was in the lead until the sixth inning when Charles Beck knocked a home run, bringing in another run and tying the score. ; Besides clouting a home run. Beck ' pitched the first five innings of the 1 game. Ray Godschalk pitched the ! last four and Trump was catcher. I There will be a game here, at 4 o’clock Decoration Day, against Ligonier.

he said he thought thoee two nights would suffice, that it would not be necessary for stores to be open every night. • When Wilmet Jones was questioned, he said daylight savings time just meant he had to get up an hour earlier to deliver milk an hour earlii er. He said he used to sleep till 4 ja. m., and now he ha* to get up at ,3. He, said in warm weather he I couldn't get to sleep much ' before I midnight, so he didn't get much rest j this new time. i Loren Eyer said he always had his clocks on sun time, .which was half an hour faster than CTS and is now half an hour slower than DST. He said Syracuse would probably lose some trade by adopting this new time, but said if stores remained open Wednesday and Saturday evenings late enough to take care of everyone, that would be all right. When Dale Grimes was questioned he said he had been using sun time and was continuing to do so. He said he thought Daylight Savings time was more for the city people than for farmers, that even lake people would like it better if Syracuse did not go on fast time. He said factory men who wanted to quit work early to play golf liked fast time. Grimes said he couldn’t go to work delivering milk earlier to lake customers, as they don't get up any earlier because Syracuse has decided on fast : time. He also said with the Evani gelical church on fast time, he (CentinuMf on Last Page)

DO YOU REMEMBER—i , I 20 Years Ago. When J. W. Rothenberger, local undertaker, bought a motor driven funeral car. * * • 15 Yean Ago. When 10 students graduated from Syracuse High school: Alice Sprague Dorris LeCount, Esther Stettler, Ida Seehaver, Evelyn Hire, Russell Lepper, Orland Strieby, Clifford Foster, Donald McClintic and Vernon Beckman? • • • Ten Years Ago When the Syracuse school board decided to abandon Syracuse c public schools end turn same over to the township trustee; the petition to do so being signed by 322 freeholders of Syracuse and presented to the town board? « « * 5 Yean Ago. When Mrs. Ray Clingerman and two children were all seriously ill with pneumonia? HOTEL TO FINISH BUILDING AIRPORT Money Not Available for FERA to Complete Work Commenced on Wawasee Landing Field. When Mr. Hendricks of Warsaw, in charge of FERA work in the county was in town, he said that money for completion of the Wawasee airport was not available so that the FERA could do this work now. But he said the owners of the Spink-Wawasee hotel intend to complete building this landing field for this summer. He said that ground had been plowed and grass seed sown. When questioned about the airport, Mrs. Bernard Cuniff of the Spink-Wawasee said the hotel had spent about SBOO for material for the field, that lumber had been bought7*'»nd cement for the club room, into which the old farm house on Qie field is being changed. She said that Bob Bolyard, who had the amphibian plane on Wawasee last summer, would have a plane from the Muncie airport, at the Wawasee airport this summer, and would take passengers to points requested; take people up for rides and would give instruction in flying planes. She said that he would live in part of the club house.

FAIR PRACTICE LIST IN COUNTRY ELEVATOR CODE

1 Washington— As approved by President Roosevelt, the code of fair competition for the country-ele-vator industry lists unfair methods of competition as intentional misgrading, false weighing or false docking, giving special rates or payments, purchasing of grain at a price that is less than is economically feasible, or the granting of free storage. In addition to the usual wage and hour provisions, it sets up a code authority of 11 members with power to prevent unfair trade practices. It affects 15,000 country grain elevators and went into effect May 21. The code for grain exchanges became effective March 31. 0 TRY THE LAKE Although the warm weather of last week caused many bathers to go swimming in either Syracuse or Lake Wawasee, after the cooler weather followed Monday night's rain, there were two “duckings” reported. New Harley, fully clothed, was attempting to dock his boat. He held on to the landing and the boat floated out from beneath his feet, letting Ned alight in the water. Spencer Heerman, just recovered from the measles, was out boating and happened to fall into the lake, and is now sick in bed. 0 TRADE FAILURES FALL TO LOW OF 14 YEARS NEW YORK—Business failures in the United States in April, both in number and liabilities, touched an exceptional low-. Dun & Bradstreet report 1,052, for which total liabilities was $25,786,975. With the exception of the short month of February this year, when total insolvencies were 1,049, there has been no month since January *1920 in which failures were so few. Failures in April 1933, when the tendency was toward a lower lever, were 1,921; in April 1932 they were 2,816, and in April 1931 they were 2,383, in both instances the highest ever reported for that month. 0 HEX GRANGE MEETS The Hex Grange held a meeting, Tuesday evening, the women entertaining the men. According to the men interviewed, they were served with some “wonderful food.”

OFFICERS OF BANK NAMED AT MEETING Board of Directors are Chosen; Purdum is Made President. Stephen Freeman, Jesse Eschbaugh, Charles Purdum, Ralph Thornburg and Judge Donald Vanderveer were elected directors of the new State Bank of Syracuse, at the meeting of subscribers and stock holders, held in the Grade school building, Monday evening. At an informal meeting ■of the newly elected directors, immediately afterwards, C. H. Purdum was made president; Ralph Thornburg, vice-president; and Stephen Freeman secretary of the board of directors. A new cashier was not selected at this time, due to the fact that all the data pertaining to applicants were not available. The meeting of subscribers to bank stock was called to order Monday evening, by Stephen Freeman. Judge Vanderveer was elected chairman of the meeting, and Harry Porter, secretary. ' ' Upon assuming his position, Judge Vanderveer told the subscribers that the meeting was for the purpose of electing directors of the bank, and for that only. He also complimented the community on being able to rehabilitate the bank without any outside aid, and remarked that it was the only community of which he knew that had been able to do so. He spoke of the stupendous amount of work which was done before the work of rehabilitating the bank was consumated. He also explained that the method or plan probably does not suit everyone, but that the result which has been accomplished, the reopening of the bank, has been the" aim of everyone. He also explained that the state banking department had submitted a plan for reorganization which some people might think tyranical but to secure guarantee of deposits by the Federal Deposits Insurance Corporation, certain requirements had to be met; About this point in the Judge’s talk the lights went out, as they kept doing, during the evening, with the thunderstorm under way. /The Judge said that he had with him a letter from S. P. Good, examiner in charge of liquidations of the Department of Financial Institutions, which he would reld. The letter, dated May 9, stated that Stephen Freeman, Jesse Eschbaugh, Ralph Thornburg, C. H. Purdum and Donald Vanderveer were acceptable to the department as directors of the bank; that these men had been investigated and were considered satisfactory. The letter went on to say, “if there was any deviation in the selection of these men for directors, it would occa-’ sion further delay, and that therefore it would appear to be to the best interests of the institution to carry On in the way indicated.” The letter also stated that a new president and cashier must be selected to meet the requirements of the state banking department and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. The cashier is to be preferably a stranger to the community, according to the letter. In the letter, Good also wrote that' he hoped within a few days that everything would be in readiness at the bank, in order that the department may- cause a further examination to be made its—approval of\conditions to xhe'rederal Deposit Insurance Corporation. After the letter was explained to the stockholders, Aaron Razor made a motion that the five men be elected unanimously. The motion was seconded by C. C. Bachman and carried unanimously. MARRIAGE ANNULLED. , In circuit court Judge Donald Vanderveer has the marriage of Margaret Levanoff with George Levanoff, which occurred at Morgantown, W. Va., on July 23 1931. The complaint was filed by Mrs. Levanoff, who resides in Turkey Creek township. The suit was brought through Harry Flickinger, next friend. Mrs. Levanoff was granted her former name of Margaret Demka. 0 IN THE NAVY NOW. _ George Henwood, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Henwood, was accepted in the United States Navy on-May 21st at Detroit, Mich., and reported immediately at Hampton Roads, Va. He is a graduate of the Syracuse I High school of the Class of 1932. He I will be in the service for four years.

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