The Syracuse Journal, Volume 27, Number 6, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 31 May 1934 — Page 1

JMajiiK 6/Arthur Brisbane SOCIALISTS IN OFFICE NEW DEAL COMPLETE RELIGIOUS WAR IN MEXICO WAR CHANGES RAPIDLY

Americans, old-fashioned, surprised to find old professed Socialism selected by the government to supervise and criticize plans for industrial recovery, may find comfort ' in Europe. Socialism has become, in many places, an important part of the world's political machinery, and without serious damage to what Russia calls “capitalism." / Ramsay MacDonald, formerly a worker in the British mines, now prime minister, is a Socialist, always has been.* In his cabinet working with him haimoniously, are some of the most conservative men in England, including old school Tories. Socialists have been prominent in the French government for years, even “extreme Socialists.” Old Clemenceau himself, the aged “Tiger,” who kept Germany out of France and sent the kaiser to Holland, was a Socialist, enemy of aristocracy and the church It was his hostility to the church thaf prevented his being chosen President of the French republic after the big war. Socialists, like others who believe they could make the world over and better, often find when power comes that the world is doing about as well as it can and that the wise plan is to go along with it. Prof. Raymond Moley, who ought to know what is what in the new era, writes: “With the passage of the stock exchange bill, the New Deal is practically complete. There is nothing that the president or any responsible member of the administration has said to indicate that any important further development of governmental authority is contemplated. This will he reassuring not only to business, but to the vast masses of people who do not waist democracy to undOrlAke_lo.o much. “The problem now is one of administration. It is business of operating the structure that has now been built. That means a problem of getting men to do it, for good men yiake good administration.” Mexico witnesses the beginning of another war against the Catholic church, in the important state of Sonora The governor, Rodolfo Elias Calles, has ordered every church in Sonora closed and gives the priests 12 hours to leave Sonora. Already religious services had been reduced to an absolute minimum. Governor Calles of Sonora is the son of P. Ellis Calles, who years ago closed churches in many places in Mexico. Peiping reports Soviet Russia “rapidly placing the entire area of outer Mongolia upon a wartime basis," getting ready Tor Japanese invasion. Conditions have changed since the last Russian-Japanese war. About 100 years before that war started, Charles Fourier in France predicted that Japan would fight Russia, and Russia would lose because of difficulty in transporting troops across Lake Baikal, and so it turned out. There will be no question of transporting troops across Lake Baikal in the next war. Flying machines, with poison gas and explosive bombs, will fly high above Lake Baikal. That lake, like the English channel, once so important, is now as though it did not exist Sir John Simon, British foreign secretary, says Great Britain will not undertake to preserve China’s territories! integrity or her “open integrity or her “open door” and will not participate in any action “against Japan or any other power in other parts of the world unless the United States gives its full cooperation. " You ask yourself: “When did Uncle Sam volunteer as world-wide policeman and chief chestnut-puller-out for the British Empire?" Secretary Hull, seeing war in the distance, says militarism must be curbed. The best and only way to deal with foreign militarism is to have here in the United States the machinery necessary to curb it, in case it. should turn in our direction. In the noble world of “sport," which fills so many American pages and occupies the intellects of millions except when they are listening to the radio or sleeping, the noble red men easily adopts the white man’s “sport ethics. ” In New Orleans, Tommy Marvin, Indian wrestler, was wrestling with Chief Chewcki, also Indian. “Clamp- ■ ing a chin lock on the chief, Marvin calmly filled Chewcki’s eye with tobacco juice." Chewcki, confronted by “a condition, not a theory," conIt is almost a pleasure to read further on “Checwki won the last two fans and the bout by knocking ■

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ESCAPES AS CAR SLIDES INTOWATER Strieby’s Auto Leaves Kale Island Road; Lands in Channel. Owen Strleby’s sedan left the road on Kale Island, at the rear of the Needham cottage, and dropped into the channel, Saturday shortly afternoon, fortunately without serious consequences. The driver of the car, and only occupant, Vernon Sloan, had just delivered a radio to Mrs. Davis and Mrs. Needham al their cottage, and. had driven to the vacant lot just beyond Needham’s to turn the car' around. It will be recalled the Kale Island road is quite narrow at this point, just beyond Kale Island bathing beach, and the road comes to a dead end further along. Sloan had turned the car, and according to young Dick King who reported “1 saw it all,” the car struck the outside fence post next to the Needham garage, which Sloan said caused him to lose control of the machine, as he twirled it away from the fence it crossed the road, crashed through the wooden boat landing in the channel, and turned on its' side, intb the channel, beneath 6 or 7 feet of water. By bracing his body against the door, while the car was in the air and in the water, Sloan broke out the glass of the door, cutting his back slightly, and managed to get out of the car into the water before the machine had turned over completely. Joe Rapp’s wrecker was called, and Leonard Bortz of Garrett, in his bathing suit would attach the chain to the car, and Rapp’s wrecker would try to pull it out of the channel. The car moved forward and then the chain would break. This continued for hours. By getting Mart Landis* block and tackle and attaching it to a tree across the channel, the Woods’ property, and men pulling on this while the wrecker was working on the other side, the car was finally stood upon its wheels in the water. The work of attempting to raise it continued until 6 o’clock, when it was finally dragged out of the channel, filled with mud, a sorry looking sight. Most of the residents of Syracuse had driven out to Kale Island to see the car being raised from the water, during the afternoon. The car was washed out, Saturday evening, by young Sloan, but it was necessary to let it dry out for several days before it could be learned if the engine had been damaged beyond repair in the accidents Strieby was able to drive it Monday afternoon. 0 TO HOLD REUNION. The annual Mock reunion will be held at Epworth Forest Park, North Webster, June 3rd. Everyone is cordially invited. — 0 15 START WORK ON WAWASEE AIRPORT FERA Men Employing Men from Syracuse; Sptak-Wawasee Hotel Furnishing Equipment. F. A. Hendrick, county administrator of the FERA was in. Syracuse, last Friday afternoon and said that 15 men from Syracuse had been certified by case work supervisor, Mr.; Considine of the FERA, for work on the Wawasee airport. Work commenced on Saturday, and will likely continue for six weeks, with John Butler, foreman. The Spink-Wawaeee hotel is furnishing all equipment, such as teams one truck and a grader. The men are paid 40 cents an hour, and each one who works there under the FERA must have a garden this summer. Some men trill work one, others two, or three or four days a week, according to the need for work. Work hours are six per day. 0 JAMES HAWTHORNE DENIED PAROLE BY STATE BOARD Hawthorne, of Ft. Wayne, who was sentenced from the Kosciusko circuit court on a charge of assaulting Freeman Moore, of Turkey Creek township, with intent to kill, wee denied a parole by the state parole beard. Hawthorne and two other Fort Wayne youths attempted to rob two filling stations near Lake Wawasee, when Moore arrived on the

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SYRACUSE WINNER OF TWO BASEBALL GAMES Local Team Downs Leesburg and Ligonier in Games Played Sunday? and Decoration Day. The Syracuse A. C baseball team, in new suits, slugged their way to victory, 13 to 9, over a Leesburg nine, Sunday, in a game which furnished excitement, for there were some errors, some official’s officials* decisions, that gave the crowd something to talk about, and plenty of hits. The suits had been furnished by money from the home talent show given by the club and money donated by W. E. Long. Right from the start, the game took on the aspect of a hitting game. In the first inning, Leesburg made one run, and according to the official scorer. Spider Slosh, Syracuse batted clear around the batting order and made four runs. In the second inning, Leesbu?k r started getting the ball out into the infield and outfield, and went around the batting order with the exception of one man. Leesburg made three runs in this inning, tying the score. After this flurry, both teams settled down and no one crossed home plate until the seventh inning Then Leesburg put fivelnen across the plate after two men had been put out. Errors, hits, stealing\bases and a decision of the Leesburg officials at third base all contributed towards making the five runsZ The chance for the Syracuse club to win the game and thereby get 60 per cent of the gate receipts looked pretty slim. But after the dust had cleared away, it having been raised by pounding feet, Syracuse had scored seven runs as its contribution to the exciting seventh inning. ,< They made two more in the eighth Syracuse’s line-up was: R. Shultz, 3b; Godschalk, p; Meiedith, If; Beck cf; Jones, Ist base; H. Shultz, ss; Richhart, 2b; Auer, c; and Detrick, rs. Godscholk pitched until the middle of the seventh inning when he was replaced by John Byland. He was replaced in the eighth by Beck. Krammer pitched for Leesburg Following is the score by innings: RHE Leesburg 1 300 0 0 5-0 0 9 54 Syracuse 40000 07 2 x 13 -12 5 In the game played yesterday afternoon, the Syracuse A. C. overwhelmed the much touted Ligonier team 18 to 8. The score tells the story. On Sunday, Syracuse will play the Mishawaka Independents here. —y BIRTHS ANNOUNCED. Mr. and Mrs. Dale Ray are announcing the birth of a daughter, Nancy Carroll. The baby, born Wednesday last week, weighed 8 pounds. Mr. and Mrs. Lester Sawyer are announcing the birth of a son, Arthur Eugene, Friday morning. He weighed nine pounds. Announcements have been received from Dr. and Mrs. Arthur Evans of Gary, that a son, James Arthur, was born to them, May 20th. Dr. Evans formerly practised here in, Syracuse. 0 SUGAR WINNERS. Weekly distribution of sugar to those whose names were drawn, Saturday nights, and which was furnished by merchants of Syracuse, was discontinued, Saturday night. The largest crowd which ever attended a drawing was present. Lucky winners were: Mrs. Roy Brown, W. F. Kindig, John Gordy, M. E. DiUen, Frank Ritter, Florence Foster, Lola Buhrt, Hobert Jarrett, G. G. Harvey, Noble Ringler, Raymond Vail, Bert Ward, Rev. Pritchard, Dot Keeffer, Harry Coy, H. W. Buchholz, Charles W. Wilcox, P. LeCount, Mrs. K. Hapner and C. E. Brady. EXAMINING BANK The final examination of the assets and liabilities of the State Bank of Syracuse, by examiners from the Department of Financial Institutions of Indiana, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, was to have been made today. If the examiners arrived as expected, it was thought the examination of the bank would last until Saturday. After the results and recommendations of the examiners have been approved by the state banking department and the F. D. I. C., the bank can reopen with deposits guaranteed by the government off the United States. The new board of directors are considering applicants for cashier of the bank. As far as could be learned at press time, no choice of cashier has yet been made. I 1 1" 11 ■■■ •* .

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|ON LAKE WAWASEE* The Ligonier High School Alumni numbering 100, enjoyed a dinner dance at the South Shore Inn, Monday evening. Ding Swartz and the Harlequins furnished the music for the dance and remained to furnish music at the hotel over Decoration Day,' as well as on Saturday evenings in the Rathskeller. A crowd estimated at 1,000 attended the opening dance at Waco Gardens, Monday evening, when Jan Garber and his orchestra played. The orchestra, misinformed as to the distance from Chicago to Wawasee Lake, had broadcast by radio about 7:30 that evening, and then drove to Waco Gardens, not arriving until 11:30 p. m. But the crowd enjoyed the music when it did arrive. Mrs, Charles Teetor of Hagerstown has been spending this week at her summer home, having it opened for the season, although Mr. and Mrs. Teetor do not plan to spend the summer there. On July Ist they plan to sail from Vancouver for two months’ tour of China, Japan and Hawaiia. They will be accompanied by Mr. Teetor’s niece. Miss Neva Deardorff, head of the social service department of New York City. Although Mr. and Mrs. Teetor will be away, the Teetor cottage will be occupied this summer. Mrs. Teetor’s cousin, Mrs. Hines, and her two grandsons and their families, from Hagerstown, plan to spend the first, two weeks of July there, and then the sons and daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Teetor will spend the remainder of the summer there. The purchase of the west half of the Major Marsh property on Wawasee was completed last week, Carl E. Bick of Indianapolis and Sunset Point buying the property. , The sale was made by Simeon Incorporated. Twenty players entered the 18 hole, two ball, mixed foursome, a blind bogey, at the South Shore Golf course yesterday. Roy Brown and Miss Eva Baker were first with a net 77. Two couples tied for second place with 78*3. These were Reed Newcomer and -Miss Tilley; and I Bunk Williams and Miss Tyler. In the nine hole tourney, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Dalton won with a net 38. The South Shore Golf club plans to set aside a day a week again this year, as Ladies’ Day, and is asking that ■ all women golfers interested, get in touch with club officials for an organization, and for choosing a day. Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Davis and daughters Mary Louise and Janet from Muncie spent the week end with Mrs. Alfred Davis and Mrs. A. E. Needham at their pottage on Kale Island. They accompanied Mr. Needham to the lake for the week end. A big fight op Lake Wawasee last Monday morning was reported by Mr. and Mrs. Ed Neumeyer of Vawter Park. It occurred in their backyard, while they were eating breakfast, and they stopped to watch. A squirrel was attempting to steal baby robins fro.m a nest in the crotch of a tree when Papa and Mama robin discovered the intruder. They hopped on his back and pecked and pecked. He dropped to the ground, across the open space to the tree where he makes his home, finally managing to shake off the robins. Just as he reached his own tree however, the squirrel’s troubles were increased because Goof us, the dog belonging to Mr. and Mrs John Sudlowe had seen the trouble and was trying to catch the squirrel. He escaped up the tree, however, and the robins went home to find their small ones uninjured. George Osborn of Marion has been opening his cottage this week. Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Batchelor of Indianapolis, who were married last Saturday, spent their honeymoon at the Spink-Wawasee hotel, the first of this week. They left on Wednesday, going to. Northern Wisconsin. Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Hays of Indianapolis moved to EUwood George’s cottage No. 7 in Highland View Gardens, yesterday, for the season. Miss Barrett, formerly at Clinton, is the new Western Union operator who will work at the Spink-Wawa-see hotel this summer. She is rooming at Bishop’s. Mr. and Mrs. Eli Lilly came from Indianapolis, Sunday, to stay at their cottage until Tuesday afternoon. Miss Esther Smith of Swayzee visited Hazel at the Sargent hotel, the first part of this week. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Stretch off new casue came to we last Saturday to spend this week with (Continued m Last Pm)

REPUBLICANS WILL HOLDCONVENTION Will Name Candidates for U. S. Senate, Lt. -Governor and Other State Offices INDIANAPOLIS, May 31—More than ten thousand Republicans from the four corners of the state are expected to gather here next Tuesday morning when the 1,671 delegates to the G. O. P. state convention convene in Cadle Tabernacle. The delegates will nominate candidates for United States senator, lieut.-governor, secretary of state, treasurer of state, auditor of state, superintendent of public instruction, clerk of the supreme and appellate courts, one supreme court judgship and four appelate judgships. Interest will center on the nomination for United States senator due to the repeated claims that Senator Arthur R. Robinson, a candidate for re nomination, will have opposition, a circumstance which was remote a month ago. Robinson, virtually assured of no opposition, sought control of the G. O. P. sta e committee and his failure spurred those unfriendly to the Sen tor to begin talking of other candidates for the nomination. Names most prominently mentioned as possible opponents for Robinson include George Bernard, Newcastle; Gus Condo, Marion; Thos. Daily, Indianapolis; Frederick Landis, Logansport, Republican nominee for Congress from the second district; Harry G. Leslie, former Gov? ernor; Gavin Payne, Indianapolis; and Harold Van Orman, Evansville, former Lieutenant-Governor.* Kyle for Lieutenant-Governor. Republicans operating under the belief that Mr. Clifford Townsend, the present Lae-t.-Governor, who has two moire years to serve, vacated his office when he accepted a $5,000 increase in salary to become head of the McNutt-created department of industry and commerce, will name a candidate to succeed him. Joseph Kyle of Gary, who was the unsuccessful candidate for that office in the 1932 Democratic landslide, will probably be the choice of the convention. The naming of a candidate for Lieutenant-Governor will, it is believed, result in law suits to declare the office vacant. The Republicans are prepared to carry their case to the courts on the grounds that the state constitution prohibits the incumbent from holding any other office during “the term for which he shall have been elected.” Candidates for the nomination for secretary of state are expected to include Luther Draper of Spiceland, former state senator, Reed McCain of Kokomo, former public service commission secretary, Bert Morgan of Indianapolis, former collector of internal revenue, E. E. Neal of Noblesville, also a former collector of revenue, and James Slain of Lafayette, Tippecanoe county comnrssioner. 0 TWO FIRES AT LAKE DO SLIGHT DAMAGE One Friday Morning at Mason Cottage on Ogden Point; Other Grass Fires Along R. R. Two fires occurred at the lake this past week, fortunately without serious damage. Last Friday morning smoke in the living room of their cottage on Ogden Point warned the Claude Mason family there was a fire between the living room wall and the outside wall, having caught from the fireplace chimney. The alarm was sent to the fire department as cottages are built done to each other there and others might have caught. Neighbors on the telephone line hurried to help, and part of the wall was torn down so that the flames could be reached and extinguished. The fire was under control when the department arrived, but the Mason family expressed their thanks to the department for its prompt reply to the alarm as conditions could easily have gotten beyond their control. The loss is covered by insurance. Grass Fire. # Sunday afternoon residents on the north side of Lake Wawasee turned in a fire alarm, telling Joe Rapp that the grass at the rear of the cottages from Sinclair's to the A. P. Jones cottage was on fire. He took the truck there and saw that a spark from a train must have set fire to gram along the railroad track, and it was burning rapidly as the dry grass was about knee high, but there was nothing be could do,, as it was too far from water for the hose to extinguish it. Rapp, assisted by Sherman Coy, used extinguishers to put out „ th* fire before it damaged property. ' • • ** '

DO YOU REMEMBER—i r 1 2S Years Ago. When fire entirely burned the large tabernacle in Oakwood Park? • • • 15 Years Ago. When the Wawasee Inn was leased for one year to John E. Boyts of Goshen? • • • Ten Years Ago When Floyd Disher’s car caught fire from a break in the feed pipe from the gas tank, and was almost entirely burned? • • • 5 Years Ago. When in response to a petition signed by 62 business men, some from the lake, the town board passed the law placing Syracuse on Daylight Savings Time during the summer months? 0- ... DOLAN ATTENDS 57 MEMORIAL SERVICES He Started Observation of Day Here in 1877; G. A. R. Post Formed Here in 1883. In 1877 the first Memorial services were held here in Syracuse in honor of soldiers who had died during the Civil/War. J. P. Dolan, then a teacher in the local schools, had read that it was planned to have a Memorial Day in Cincinnati, O. On that day, with children of the grade school, he marched to the Syracuse cemetery and there the grave of George William Gordy, the first Civil War Veteran to be buried there, was decorated with flowers, and songs were sung at his grave by the children. Mr. Gordy had been wounded in the war and he returned home to Syracuse where he died. Since 1877, every year Memorial services have been held in Syracuse and in those 57 years, Mr. Dolan has never missed attending these services. On Oct. 2, 1883, a charter was granted for the Lake View Post No. 246 of the G. A. R. to be organized here in Syracuse. Following that time, these soldiers marched to the cemetery and mhny times after the placing of flowers', on the graves there would be flag drills on the square. For years an advertisement would be placed in the Syracuse paper asking all interested to meet at the library at a certain time, to make plans for the Memorial Day service —and for years no one ever attended the meeting except Mr. Dolan and Warren T. Colwell. They always obtained speakers for the meeting Memorial Day before the march to the cemetery, and once Lieutenant Governor Cumnock spoke here. Charter members of the post in 1883 were: William Wallis, Oliver Cromwell, John W. Stetler, Henry M. Stoner, William Bowld, Eli Bushong, James Benner, Francis M. Corn, Morgan Snyder, Daniel F. Ott, Michael Nicolai, Levi Akers, Edward E. Miles, Thomas Ebert, Jonathan Cultis, Frances M. Stewart Jacob Rentfrow, Samuel Akers, Alfred Roberts, Frederick Butt, Amos King and Thomas J. Brady. AU of these charter members have died, as have other Old Soldiers in Syracuse and vicinity, except George Kreager, who is an invalid, George H. Bailey and Elias Wright. Years ago, while the G. A. R. was still in existence here in Syracuse, Mr. Dolan and George Snyder were elected honorary members of the post. 0 PLANS LAST ENCAMPMENT FOR INDIANA G. A. R.*s A. E. Needham of Muncie and Kale 4 Island is chairman of the committee in charge of arranging the last encampment of the G. A. R.’s of Indiana, which is to be held in Muncie from June 17 to 24th. It is probably the last encampment as members of this organization are becoming so old they wiU probably not be able to attend another such meeting. So far 400 have announced intention of attending the encampment. If they are able to arrive at Muncie everything there is to be furnished to them without cost, including automobile service to any part of the city. A great variety of free entertainment is promised, much of which others who plan to visit Muncie will enjoy as will the old soldiers. Many airplanes are to encircle the city, showering it with red, white and blue streamers. 0 V SUFFERS STROKE Mrs. L. W. Miller, who lives north of town suffered a stroke, ----

GATES SPEAKS AT SERVICES FORVETERANS Legion Members, Band and Children March to Cemetery. Recalling how the Revolutionary War was fought to form a nation in which individuals would have all the personal freedom possible; how the war of 1812 was fought to establish freedom of the seas; how the Civil War was fought to free an enslaved race and preserve the union; how the Spanish American War was fought to attempt to give democracy and freedom to another nation; how American soldiers, known and unknown were killed in Europe to spread the doctrine of Democracy throughout the world, Ralph Gates, of Columbia City, said that he was against Communism which seems to be springing up over our country to destroy our constitution, our form of government, to wipe out churches and family ties. Mr. Gates, former state commander of the American Legion addressed the group assembled for Memorial Services yesterday, for soldiers of our country. The services were held in the High School auditorium, and school children, marching to the cemetery behind the city band and members of the American Legion, decorated graves of soldiers with flowers and flags. In a summary of what leaders there were during the various wars of this country, and the soldiers who fought, Mr. Gates said: “We hear today much of the New Social Order. Give to me the old social order, with the families at the firesides, with respect for institutions made possible for us by these patriots who have gone before. “Let us cling to those things which have made this nation the greatest on earth. Liberty and Freedom were won by sacrifice of our patriots on and off the battle field. “A pacifist magazine recently published an; article declaring if people could not avoid serving in future wars by conscientious objection, then these people should destroy munitionW of war in this country.” Mr. Gates condemned this article, and said that the patriotic organizations of America stand for preparedness. He said he believed we should have as good a Navy as any in the world, and as good an army. “I believe the large number of casualties, of other wars were because of our lack of preparedness. I believe in universal draft; conscript men, factories, money, the wealth of the .nation, rather than only draft men,” Mr. Gates said “The surest step toward peace will be taken when profit is taken out of war.” In his attack on Communism, Mr. Gates again mentioned what the people of this country had fought to build, and said that: “I don’t delieve there is any need for a new social order. Let’s go back to the/old one; and let’s teach respect for/ law." The Syracuse band furnished music at Ahe services, yesterday afternoon, and the invocation and benediction were by Rev. A. J. Armstrong. Vernon Beckman sang a solo: “The Trumpeter.” The Legion members marched to the school house, and from there with the school children to the cemetery where the. firing squad gave the military salute to the dead. 0 POSTOFFICE ON FAST TIME When the town board decided that Syracuse clocks would be advanced to Daylight Savings Time, Louis Heerman, postmaster, wrote to Washington, D. C., to learn if the postoffice here should advance to DST as is the case in other places where DST has succeeded CST for the summer. He received word Saturday that the postoffice should be operated on Daylight Savings Time, and this was put in effect, Monday this week Rural mail carriers now leave Syracuse at 9 a. m. DST. y STORE IS ROBBED Orrin Klink received word here, Sunday, and went to Mishawaka, where the grocery store which his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Klink had recently purchased, had been robbed the night before. It is said about S4O worth of merchandise, cigars, cigarettes and canned goods were stolen. The thieves gained entrance by removing the back screen door and breaking in. When they left they took the screen door with them.

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