The Syracuse Journal, Volume 27, Number 20, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 6 September 1934 — Page 1

by Arthur Brisbane FEED EVERYBODY? BIG JOB ROADS ASK sl74,•••,♦♦* ■ GAN T SHOOT SANTA CLAUS ‘ ’ STEEL COFFIN FOR WONG

It js announced that the governdrill feed, at public expense, men that go on strike while the strike lasts. The American Federation of Labor representative in the South says the 600,000 textile workers about to go on strike will look to the government to take care of them while the strike lasts. According to the Associated Press, Harry L. Hopkins, government relief administrator, says: “It is a surprising thing to me we haven’t had » d-d sight more strikes than we have." We shall probably have strikes in sufficient number if the government supports all strikers, and, if it shoUid decide to pay them out of public moneys the wages they are asking while the strike lasts, there might be a great many strikes. Railroads ask for an increase of 1170,000,000 in freight rates to offset increased expenses which “reflect economic policies of the gov- ( ernment. *’ Railroads must run, and if the people are not paying enough they must pay more. It is to be hoped that increased payment will provide good pay for railroad workerp, conductors, engineers, trainmen, track walkers, all others. - The “American Liberty league." organized to protect j the beautiful old American dollar and “vested interests" from the “New Deal,” expects former governor Al Smith to help. Mr. John W. Davis, who also ran for President on the Democratic ticket, is said to be with the league “heart and soul." Former Governor Smith’s friends think he may be “too busy." The probability of beating President Roosevelt’s party this fall was expressed well by a -former / Democratic cabinet member who is not i a Roosevelt man: “You can’t shoot Santa Claus, you I know, especially around Christmas.” Edmund Wong On Wah, Chinese j air pilot, dreamed that he crashed I after a collision, and told his Amer- I ican wife that when* he did die he I wanted an iron coffin. Wong On Wah was selected with another Chinese flyer, Fong Shek, to maneuver above the steamship Bremen, bringing in Gen. Chang Fah way. The planes collided. Wong was killed and his desire to fly and fight for the Chinese army thwarted. He will be buried here in a $750 steel coffin. General Chang, whom Wong never saw, gave the | order. • • Why do you suppose Wong wanted .an iron coffin? It could not keep the soul in or keep the worms out, presumably. Many prosperous Americans are buried in coffins of bronze. | Not long ago Mussolini and Hitler met with all signs of amity eternal at Venice. Hands were clasped, vows of friendship and co-operation exchanged. Mussolini was to visit Hi|ler at his country estate as soon as possible, and the world said, “How lovely to see dictator brethren dwelling together in amity!” , And now the Mussolini visit to Hitler is postponed indefinitely. Mussolini did not like the Dollfuss assassination, and seems to hold Hitler’s Nasi friends responsible. Europe discusses the expulsion of Mrs. Sinclair Lewis from. Germany as a forerunner of rigid press control. All copies of the London Times in German wore recently seized and it is expected that foreign correspondents will be asked to leave if they write anything displeasing to Hitler. Engines would not last long without a safety valve, and liberty does not last long without free expression of opinion. Modern dictators need to encroach several hairs’ breadth on established liberties, and all agree with Napoleon, who said his power would last but a few weeks if he permitted freedom of the press. Germany, preparing for a bard winter and with scarcity, is endeavoring, through Propaganda Minister Goebbels, to “establish hunger as a virtue” and arouse the people’s enthusiasm concerning the duty of “doing without." In this country also we expect a hard winter, but instead of a glorifying of hunger and the “noble patriotism of going without," our government says: “Nobody shall be hungry." The American plan will be the more popular. Lord Edward Montague, second son of the Duke of Manchester, thought he would join the French Foreign Legion, changed his mind, started a “hot dog" stand on the edge of the Thames at Maidenhead, and to well satisfied. He sells coffee, soft drinks and sandwiches with his hot dogs, and he made four pounds in 24 hours and finds hot dogs more comfortable and profitable than the Foreign Legion.

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THEFTS OCCUR ON WAWASEE ON SATURDAY The Rathskellar, Solt’s Store Robbed; Honeywell Home Entered. The cash register was stolen from I the Rathskellar of the South Shore Inn, the cash register and safe in 1 Louis Solt’s grocery store were robbed, and an attempt was made to rob the summer home of Mark Honeywell, when Mrs. Honeywell frightened the thieves away, between 2:30 and 3:30 o’clock CST, Saturday morning. To gain entrance to the Rathskellar, burglars cut a pane of glass of one of the windows. The cash register was locked, they took the register with them, and it was later found in'back of the C. M. Kitch cottage on the Vawter Park road, smashed open. One of the negroes working for Mrs. Kitch found the register later Saturday morning, and then Mrs. Kitch remembered hearing something being smashed, in that location, about 2:30 that morning, but thought someone was breaking liquor bottles. Louis Solt could time the robbery at his store, as being after 2:15 CST, as it was that hour when he was awakened at his home next to the store. The car of Bob Lepper, who was driving to Syracuse with his mother, had run out of gas near Solt’s store, and Lepper asked Solt to help him push the car to the gas tanks at the other side of the store, where he bought gas. Mr. Solt said that when he put the\:oney, $2 and some cents in the cash register in the section of the building next the gas pumps that the 32 t>e left in the register every night, for change in case an early customer arrived, was in place. But when the robbery was discovered after he had opened the store in the morning, both the change and the other $2 paid by Lepper had been taken from the register. Neither this cash register nor the one in the grocery store were stolen, as neither was locked. There was about $2 in change in the one in the grocery, and this was taken. The door of the safe in the grocery store has been unlocked for several years. In the safe are several small wooden drawers, which were locked, but these had been forced open. They -had contained some old coins and jewelry which were untouched, except one ring belonging to Mrs. Solt. >•- Mrs. Mark Honeywell was sleeping alone in the downstairs bedroom* of their home across the road from Solt’s store. She was awakened by a flashlight shining in her face. Asking “Who’s there? What do you want?” Mrs. Honeywell began reaching for the light connection in (Continued on Last Page) RESTING OUT FINE IN JAIL, $1 A DAY Paul Swank Arrested and Charged with Attempt to Collect Debt 7 by Use of Gun. ? The trial of Paul Swank, 25, of near Syracuse, charged with attempting to collect a debt from Rinard F. Koi berg, also of Syracuse Vicinity, by the use of a gun, was heard Saturday afternoon in the Warsaw city court before Mayor C. C. Du Bo is. Three witnesses, William Gilbert, Dave Clayton and William Longacre testified to having seen a gun on the inside of Swank’s shirt. The defendant said that the gun was borrowed from a tnan, whose name was unknown to him. Swank testified that he was born in Syracuse, but had resided in that vicinity only the last three years. For 10 years he was in an orphans’ home at Mexico, Ind., and also served one year and eight months in the White institution for incorrigible boys at Wabash. He had moved to Syracuse about two months ago. The defendant was fined $25 and $lO costs, totaling $35, and was sentenced to s<x months, suspended, by Mayor Dußois, on the two charges of carrying a concealed weapon and drawing a deadly weapon. He was lodged in jail being unable to pay the fine, to serve it out *1 a day. He had come from * to live with a cousin but a short time ago and had been employed a few days by Kolberg. He went to the Kolberg home to collect for the work and in the ensuing argument the gun was drawn.

News of Lake Wawasee

The Tavern and Waco closed for the season, Monday night. The So. Shore Inn closed last night. This season is reported as much busier than last year, and big crowds came to the lake for the closing week end and Labor Day. The Spink-Wawa-see, Sargent’s and Johnson’s hotels, as well as Oakwood Park hotel will remain open until the last of this month. Laucks (Xanders and Miss Irene Abts Battle Creek. Mich., Monday, and brought home their grandmother, Mrs. Amanda Xanders, who had been undergoing treatment there for two weeks. She is reported as improved. Mr. and Mrs. Pleas Greenlee and his secretary, Mr. Coyle of Indianapolis spent the week end and holiday at the Spink-Wawasee hotel. Miss Nancy Cowgill went to Wabash, Tuesday, where she has" accepted the position of assistant librarian. Bill Clark returned to Chicago, Tuesday, after spending the week end at the R. B. Tuttle home.' An-' other guest ofMr. and Mrs. Tuttle, OV«r Labor Day was Herman Harris of inint, Mich. \ ~ 1 Xenp games in the evenings for entertainment of hotel guests and cottagers are continuing at the Spink-Wawasee, as this hotel will remain open until Sept. 20. Rollo Conrad, who underwent a major operation in a hospital in Grand Rapids, Mich., several days ago, is reported as recovering nicely. Mrs. C. W’. Vawter returned to her lake home, Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Jess Vawter of Indianapolis spent the week end with her, and Mr. and Mrs. Desmond Vawter of Indianapolis are spending this week with her. Last night the University Club of Goshen enjoyed a buffet dinner in the Rathskellar of the South Shore Inn. They had played golf during the afternoon. Miss Joan DeHaven, who visited Miss Lillian Clancy this summer has entered the University of Arizona, and Miss Evelyn Stich who was also a guest of Miss Clancy is entering Pepauw this fall. Miss Clancy plans to close her cottage and return to Chicago, Saturday. Miss Marjorie Grayston entertainwith a “scavenger" party, Saturday evening, which was won by Miss Nancy Cowgill. Dr. and Mrs. Grayston and daughter returned home to Huntington, Tuesday. While their fantilies have been at the lake this summer, and they have been able to spend only week ends with them, Fay Patrick, Franto Symrnes and Arthur Schrader haß been living together in IndianapH [ lis. One night last week when tfl men were ready to go to bed, received a telephone call invitiiM them to a party. They refused ■ go. The telephone calls continue® until they removed the receiver fro® the hook, in order to get soiß sleep. They were asleep, when tB doorbell rang, and when tHB answered the door, found that cH of the undertakers’ hearses, aB employes, awaited at the door, aH claimed they’d been sent for, at tfl address. On being told there weß no dead ones there, the ers’ representatives left, but in short while another outfit from H different undertaking establishmefl arrived. Messrs. Symrnes, Schradß and Patrick didn’t get much sleeß that night, but plan to get even. ■ Mrs. W. E. Long, Mrs. Anna Warren and daughter Lida, a; J Mrs Robert Beard Jr., returned tl the Long cottage, last Thursday! after a week’s visit with relatives il Ohio. Mrs. Beard left yesterday fol her home in Chicago. I W. P. Anderson and family closefl their cottage at Sunset Point tnl week, and returned to Indianapoliß Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Boyts B Washington, D. C., are spendirß this week with Mr. and Mrs. JohH E. Boyts at the South Shore Inn. II R. B. Tuttle returned t& th! lake, last Thursday, after spend! ing some time in Indianapolis I Mrs. E. S. Riggle of Goshen anJ Wawasee entertained 24 guests al luncheon and bridge at the Soutfl Shore Inn, Tuesday. Mr*. Faye Patrick entertained J luncheon, Tuesday last week, MrJ Ed Horst, Mrs. Arthur Schrader! Mrs. Frank Symrnes, Mrs. Ed Net! meyer and Mrs. Arthur Bradshaw.! Mr. and Mrs. Ed Wilson a J grandson returned to Fort Waynß Monday. They had spent their vfl cation in the Rusch cottage. Mfl

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and Mrs. C. A. Rusch and Mrs. Albert Joss came from Indianapolis to spend the remainder of the week there. Mrs. Arthur Schrader and family plan to return home to Indianapolis the last of this week, having spent The summer at the lake. Miss Mary Jewell Fargo and Berkley Duck of Indianapolis were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Neumeyer, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Alexander, who had spent their vacation in the Recker cottage, returned home to Indianapolis, Tuesday. Frank Symrnes and son Charles i returned to Indianapolis, Labor Day. Mrs. Symrnes remained to spend at least this week at their summer home. Mr. and Mrs.. E. A. Hardin and Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Gregg and son Dick of Cincinnati, 0., spent Sunday and Monday at the Hardin cottage. Mr, Hardin is in ill health. Miss Margaret Kinnear returned B to Washington, D. C., where she is employed, Sunday, after spending ' the past two weeks vacation with her parents. Dr. and Mrs. H. H. Rogers re'turneai home to Fort Wayne, Wed- ' i Mr. and Mrs. Mark Honeywell reIturned home to Wabash, Labor ' Day. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Teetor and ! daughter and Mr. and Mrs. Teetor returned to their homes in Hagerstown, Monday. Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Brannum returned to Indianapolis, Tuesday, and Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Harwood closed their cottage and returned home to Marion that day. j Mr. and Mrs. Harold Taylor of ' Indianapolis spent the w’eek end with Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Whitehill. Mr. and Mrs. Leon Stern of Kala- ! mazoo, Mich., spent the holiday at 1 the Spink-W hotel with Mr. i and Mrs. A. Wertheimer of Lig- ‘ noier. Andy Biggerstaff and his sister J from -Wabash are spending this week in the Recker cottage. I ' I Mr. and Mrs. Albert Deahl spent Labor Day with friends in Michigan. Mr. and Mrs. Schuman of Cincinnati, 0., are spending their honeymoon at the Spink-Wawasee hotel this week. t. Miss Betty Carter returned to ’ Muncie yesterday, after a visit with I Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Tuttle. I Frank Cox came

FALL TERM OF SCHOOL COMMENCES I * ■ I 464 Pupils Registered Yesterday; Baseball Team Will Play. * Enrollment in Syracuse schools is the same as last year. Last year there were 464 in attendance the first month of school and yesterday 464 had enrolled so far this year. This means that those who are enrolled in school will have to attend regularly if Syracuse is to receive its share of the gross sales tax, allotted here for school purposes, according to Mr. Slabaug|i. This tax money is given to schools according to average attendance, Two new courses have been offered High school students this year. Fourteen Freshmen and Sophomores, have entered the one, Poultry ahd Diary; and 10 Juniors and Seniors have entered the other, Aninial Husbandry. There are 42 pupils entering school this year, in the First Gradie. This number is 6 less than last year. The Second Grade numbers 40, which is 8 less than last year; tjhe Third Grade has 42 this year and 38 last year. There are 40 in the Fourth Grade this year, and 39 last year. The 43 in the Fifth Grade is the same number as last year, and in the Sixth there are 44 this year. There were 52 there last year. The Seventh Grade enrollment \ is 49; the Eighth, 34; the Freshmen, 41; the Sophomores, 25; the Junidrs 36? the Seniors, 28. Among the new pupils, or thcfse who have moved back to Syracuse after attending school elsewhere, are, in the High school: Ellen Eckels, Senior, from Chicago; Velina Mason, post graduate work, frcim Fort Wayne; Ernest Allman, Junior from Benton twp.; George Strock, Sophomore, from South Bend; Ernest Strock, Freshman; Ralph Miller, Kenneth Willard, Charles Foreman, Freshmen from Benton township. Charles Foreman is the youngest member of the Freshman class, being 11 years of age last March. Other new students are: Priscilla Rhode, Freshman, from Chicagjo. In the Fifth Grade are Reginald (Contiauea on Last Page) RADIO CONTEST IS WON BY M. W. MACY

I DO YOU REMEMBER— . I ! 20 Years Ago. When the automobile of Dr. J. H. Bow’ser, and the motorcycle of Graham Tyler collided . on Main street without injury to either man, but with damages to the motorcycle. • • « 15 Years Ago. When Court Slabaugh became a member of the teaching staff in Syracuse, and others were: Miss Ruth Patterson, Miss Margaret Beck, Miss Mary Miles, Miss Rebecca Snyder, Miss Leonore Kuhn, Guy Bushong, Miss Lillian Hamman, Miss Lucy Welty and C. C. Bachman, superintendent. • • • Ten Years Ago When John Grieger bought Wm. Kindig’s grocery store? s• • * 5 Years Ago. When 21 live hogs were “lost, strayed or stolen” from the wrecked freight train at Milford Junction? > 0 I TWO FIRES OCCUR , DURING PAST WEEK One at Insley’s Beer Parlor Injures Insley’s Sister; Other Near Cottage of Roy Brown. Last Thursday evening, Miss Nellie Ifisley’s shoulders and one arm were burned, as was»hair on the back of her head, when the gasoline stove in the kitchen of Insley’s beer parlor, exploded. The family was seated at a table in the kitchen, eating, and Miss Insley was near the stove with her back towards it, when the Hash of fire occurred. It injured her, and 1 hen the flames quickly consumed the draperies of the nearby window. The fire alarm was lurned in, but the fire was. extinguished by the members of the Insley family before further damage was done. Roy Brown smelled paint burning somewhere, when he was working near the South Shore Golf course, Wednesday . morning last week, and investigating found that the Brown cotjkge on the lake front across the road from the Roy Brown home, had smoke and flames climbing one side. Mr. and Mrs. O’Connor of Indianapolis have been spending the summer there, and the night before having been cool, they had built a fire in the open fire place. Their nine years old son emptied the ashes, that Wednesday morning, but chanced to empty them next to the house and on somg newspapers. The live coals in set fire to the papers, and the Jflames started up the paint of the house. They were but 18 inches away from the Shellane gasoline tank. With his one hand, Mr. Brown pulled the burning papers and grass and leaves away from the house, and Mrs. O’Connor, who had known nothing of the fire, who had been down on the pier just happened to come up the steps to the house to see the fire. She rushed to carry water to Mr. Brown, and he continued beating at the flames with a wet mop which was near the back porch, so aside from paint damaged to the roof, on one side of the house, no harm was done. Except that Mr. Brown suffered a blistered hand from pulling the burning rubbish from the house. . o . BUY PROPERTY. Yesterday Mr. ands Mrs. Boyd Keif er of Cincinnati, 0., bought the smaller of the two houses of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Harkless on Syracuse Lake, at present occupied by Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Langston. Mr. Keifer’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Keifer of Bethelehem, Pa., are planning to move here soon. Q- . HAS INFANTILE PARALYSIS Lyman Stucky, 13, son of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Stucky of Oakwood Park, is suffering with infantile paralysis. A quarantine was placed on the home today. He is a member of the Eighth Grade in school. His father is manager of Oakwood Park. —q TO USE TOP SOIL. Commencing today, fine top soil is to be hauled from the new state fish hatchery excavation, and dumped on the new city park here in Syracuse. One of the town’s trucks will be used for hauling the dirt. The dirt is furnished free. 0 Mr. and Mrs. Walker White and family, who have been spending the summer in northern Michigan, are expected home about Sept. 11th.

RELIEF WORK IN SYRACUSE ASKED FERA Three Projects Are Suggested County Director. . Application for federal relief projects, totaling $3,376 for Turkey Creek township, was submitted in Warsaw, Tuesday morning, to Fred Hendricks, county relief administrator, by Roscoe Howard, W. G. Connolly and Harry Porter. Three projects were submitted: One for completing the city park on Syracuse lake; one for cleaning and deepening the race from the dam on Turkey Creek to the power house; and one for painting the Grade School house. It is hoped that the project of cleaning the race will be approved by the state administration of the FERA at an early date, before cold weather sets in. The race project as submitted, asks that 3,000 man hours be employed at 40 cents per hour, or 20 men for 8 weeks with an average of 18 hours work per week. Besides cleaning and deepening the channel it is proposed to make a swimming pool at the source of the same race. Before the race can be cleaned, a coffer dam must be constructed near the present dam, to hold back the water. While the race is being cleaned, the pumps will be run by electricity To Paint School. The project for the school building proposes that the calcimine be removed from the walls of the rooms of the building, and then, that these walls be painted, and that the interior wood work be varnished, and the exterior trim be painted. It is estimated that 1,440 man hours be employed on the project, or 10 men for 8 weeks. Paint and material would be furnished by the township, amounting to $830.. Park Project. The park project as submitted estimates that 4,000 man hours be employed to finish the park, or approximately 20 men for 10 weeks. The work contemplated in the park project is to finish the fill, top dress, lay tile, put in gravel walks, build a bathing beach, and do the landscape work of the p'ark. On all the projects, no provision for a supervisor was made, as it to contrary to the regulation of the FERA. Men employed on these projects, if they are approved, will probably come from Turkey Creek, Tippecanoe and Plain townships, as Hendricks thought that there (Continued on Last Page) SIGNS SENT BANK TO SHOW INSURANCE ———e» U. S. Government Insures Deposits Up to $5,eM; Signs Sent for Posting Notices in Bank. "TheTstate Bank of Syracuse today received from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation at Washington the official signs which will hang at all receiving windows as visible evidence the depositors of this institution are insured. \ The State Bank of Syracuse to offe of more than 14,000 licensed banks in the country which are receiving these signs. Insured banka are able to offer protection to their depositors up to $5,000. Statistical studies have shown that this maximum fully protects more than 97 per cent of all the depositors in insured banks. A statement by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation follows: “The purpose of the signs is to let depositors know which banks are insured. Heretofore, although 90 per cent of the licensed banks are. insured, depositors have had no easy means of identifying them. “If, by any unforseen circum- ' stance, an insured bank should suspend, the Insurance Corporation would begin paying off the depositors just as soon as a receiver was appointed for the closed institution. The depositors would receive their money in a few days instead of waiting months or years as was the case in the former method of liquidation. This is not only a benefit.to the depositors, but it saves the community from a terrific economic and social blow. When the depositors receive their insured accounts they assign their claims to the Insurance Corporation. Thereafter liquidation proceeds on a business-like basis with the maximum chance of the Corporation and other creditors be- e ing paid in full.”

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