The Syracuse Journal, Volume 27, Number 22, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 20 September 1934 — Page 1

by Arthur Brisbane THE STEAMSHIP FIRE NO SHOOTING SANTA CLAUS YOU NEED NOT READ BILLIONS AND BILLIONS

i Officers of the Morro Castle sug* gest that “Reds" set fire to the ship. Perhaps they did; “Reds" are notoriously wicked. On the other hand, “Reds" might be a convenient and profitable excuse. Havana reports 26 Cubans arrested for plotting to destroy the life of Mr. Caffery, United States ambassador to Cuba. Os course, they were “Reds." This seems to be the “Reds” busy season. But, when you read about “wicked Reds” setting fire to the ► Morro Castle for the pleasure of burning people, remember that while nothing may be too;, wicked for “wicked Reds,” it is also the fact that owners of the Morro Castle would be free from all damage swts if it could be proved that the ship was set on fire. A distinguished gentleman, former cabinet member, asked what he thought about this fall’s election, replied, “As you know well, you can't shoot Santa Claus,” meaning that President Roosevelt is the national Santa Claus. Maine’s election indicates that \ “shots” aimed at “Santa Claus” will i l>e few for the present. -The Repub- / lican state of Maine re-elected a / Democratic governor and also went ' wet by a big vote. And Maine was the first dry state—with a prohibition law passed 80 years ago, in 1854. New York’s Supreme court, Appellate division, decides that it is n<>t necessary to be able to readier . write in order to vote, a sound decision. Abraham Lincoln's mother couldn’t i*ead. She would have voted wisely. Shakespeare’s mother probably couldn’t read, his wife and daughter certainly could not. More important, the ballot is given to the ordinary citizen not to let him show how learned, a person he is’ but to let him put dishonest rascals and incompetent geese out of office. ’ It isn’t necessary to know howto read or write in order to know that you have been badly governed and are hard up. The government will refund one thousand seven hundred and sev-enty-four million dollars’ worth of government debts,' and rejoices that it will pay only per cent interest. Why issue more fiat bonds when plain fiat money would be exactly aa good? Neither is worth more than the paper it is printed on, except for the government’s signature. • During the 12 years for which the new government debt obligations will run taxpayers will have to pay in intenst unnecessarily $692,151,915, or, compounding the interest, 1838.599,361. Furthermore, the government will have to refinance this year altogether ®5,369.086,400 of indebtedness and will presumably issue fiat bonds bearing at least 3 1 * per cent interest.! This ’foolishness will cost United States taxpayers in the 12 years fallowing the issue $2,093,943,696. Two thousands ninety-three million dollars! Why insist on issuing fiat bonds when you can just as well issue fiat money? The mother of Thomas J. Mooney, sentenced to life imprisonment in San Quentin prison but to be releasetrtT Upton Sinclair is elected governor, died recently. Now it is proposed to take her body, embalmed, of course, out to San Quentin prison, that her son may look once more upon her face. The warden does 'not think he can “permit" such a thing." He ought to permit it. On Long Island the mother of three children took poison, as many mothers do, unfortunately. This suicide was unusual because the mother, after taking poison, stood on her front porch screaming that she was sorry she had taken it. It waa too late. She was dead when Mr husband arrived. Matthew Woll, vice president of the American Federation of Labor, considered by those that ordinarily think little of labor leaders, “an absolutely honest and very able man," says supital and labor should join to control the Reds. They might buy a mouse trap, pay in fifty-fifty, but after they got the Red mouse in the trap it would go on squealing about the prisoners of starvation. That little mouse has not had so much ‘fun before in all its life, or at least not since Lenin died. Greeley said, “Go West, young man.” Wall Street young men and old are going north to Toronto, where they find a new gold rush most profitible. It is not rush to the Toronilo Stock exchange, where new gold and silver stocks are pouring out every minute and “Wall Street houses,” disgusted with their own cold, cruel country, are opening branch offices rabidly.

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CUT IN VALUE OF PROPERTY NEAR MILLION Drop in Public Utilities Makes Valuation Less in This County. The tax levies for the Syracuse Library, the town of Syracuse, and Turkey Creek township, were unchanged by the county board of tax. adjustment, when this board called officers of these tax units to appear in Warsaw, Monday, for the purpose of reviewing the budgets. The officers, greatly relieved that the rates were not to be cut, by the board, discovered however that some slight curtailment will be necessary for the valuation of has been decreased this year from last year. The drop in valuation is due to the lower appraisement valuation of public utilities by- the state, which fact was not known when budgets were made out. The total reduction in valuation due to this cause amounts to close to a million dollars in this county. The town valuation had dropped from $1,037,203 of last year—the valuation used in determining the tax levy in this year’s budgets—to $1,034,994; and the saluation of the township not including the property of the town, from $4,130,737, to $4,007,275. The effect on the town budget due to the decrease In valuation is practically negligible, but the amount of money to be raised by taxation, for the township, is materially reduced. The 71 cent levy asked by the trustee of Turkey Creek Township was set to raise $37,053.55, but with the new valuation, this levy wall only raise $35,800, a reduction of $2,747. "The reduction in the amount to be raised by tax' levy for the library, using the new valuation as the basis of calculation, amounts to approxi mately $39. As there seemed to tie some disagreement ainong members of the library board as to the necessity of an assistant librarian during the summer months, the tax board disallowed the item, ’“salary for assistant" S4O. This does not change the levy. When the library budget was con-. sidered by the tax board, W. G. Connolly, member of this board and the town board, protested the manner in which the library board had divided the levy—3 cents on property within the township, not within Syracuse limits, and 7 cents on the property of the town. It was learned earlier in the day that the remainder of the board had agreed to a compromise with Connolly, making the levy on town property 6 cents instead of 7 cents. The levies were allowed to remain in “status quo” by the tax board. Dr. O. C. Stoelting reminded the board that when the library was built by the donation from Andrew Carnegie, the agreement was made that the township would pay half, and the town half, of the expense of maintaining it. Make Reductions What the final rate for Turkey Creek township and the town of Syracuse will be depends on how much reduction is made in the county budget by the tax board. So far, reductions made are. jail, $225; court house $500; county fair, $300; and commissioners, $2,800. Members of the tax adjustment board are Charles Raber, Lloyd Johnson, John Armstrong, Harry Phend, Ira Swick, Randolph Allison and Oscar Rebman. 4) WAS HOLLOWAY EMARRASSED? Sunday, when Eugene Holloway took Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bruhn of Indianapolis, guests at The Tavern for two weeks, out on Wawasee to fish, an accident almost occurred. Mr. Bruhn had hooked a fish, and stood up in the boat to play it. The fish flipped off the hook and the force caused Mr. Bruhn to fall, inside the/ boat. Evidently believing that her husband had fallen into the lake, Mrs. Bruhn became hysterical and it took some time to calm her. •—y TO HAVE CONVENTION Ths sixty -first annual convention of the Indiana Woman’s Christian Temperance Union will be held in North Manchester on Oct. 4 to 8. Mrs. Elizabeth T. Stanley of Liberty, state president, will preside at all sessions and will sound the keynote of the convention in her message Friday afternoon. Meetings will he in the Street church.

$2,700 PAYROLL AT CAMP IN 15 DAYS Building of CCC Camp Barracks Completed; Men Employed are Residents so this Vicinity. With a payroll to residents of this i vicinity of more than $2,700 for the first 15 days of September, the building of barracks, mess hall, officers quarters and other buildings at the CCC camp on Wawasee is rapidly nearing completion. The buildings are all under cover with the exception of the pump house and two laterines not being completed. Forty-eight skilled laborers including carpenters and brick layers, electricians and plumbers; and 12 laborers have been at svork this past two weeks at the camp. The highest paid receive 80 cents an hour and the lowest 45 cents. No one works more than 40 hours a week. Included among those who have been working at the camp are a few men from Cromwell and Leesburg, but those from Syracuse and Turkey Creek township who have received employment there on construction are: Eston Kline, James Searfoss, < Hugh Causer, Harry Wingard, C. F. McClintic. yWiiliam Wyland, Sam Hoffer, Harold Kitson, Lester Shock, Ralph Miller, James Isbell, Thomas Schlecht, C. W. Howard, R. C. Howard, Garrett Grissom, John Walton, Frank Brown, Dan Wolf, George Mellinger, E. R. Ellerman. When completed the camp’s six barracks can accommodate 42 men each or 252 altogether. The camp is built on the hill behind the new addition to the fish hatchery. Down along the lake road, on the ground between the road and the waterfront, the negro enrollees of the camp have been building the new fish ponds planned by the state. This work is well underway. The cost of building the camp to house the CCC enrollees is of course exclusive of the SSOO per day cost <>f maintaining the camp -feeding, clothing, paying the men, etc. PLAN EXHIBITS AT FAIR IN WARSAW Vocational Teachers of County Organize; Club Members to Exhibit Farm Produce at Co. Fair. Vocational teachers of Home Economies and Agriculture, and 4-H Club leaders of this county, met with County Superintendent Lewallen, in Warsaw, Monday night and organized. They plan to hold regular meetings once each month, and the broadcast by radio will continue from the Elkhart station. Syracuse’s next time on the air will be Monday morning from 11:30 until noon. Oct. 15th. The organization prepared a premium list of products which 4-H club members may enter for show at the county fair. Under com. each club may send 10 ears of yellow, 10 of white, and a single ear of any variety. Also, a peck of late potatoes, any variety; onions, peck of white, yellow, red; tomatoes, 10; largest pumpkin, largest squash; three heads of cabbage;. eggs, dozen white, brown bunch df carrots, peck of turnips, bag of soy beans, alfalfa hay, peck wheat, oats, clover seed. 10 ears of popcorn, three varieties of apples. 0 MARRIAGE ANNOUNCED —_ Miss Katie Bitner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Milbert Bitner, and Roy Wilkinson, son of Mrs. Mary Wilkinson, were married, Saturday morning in the Broadway Evangelical church in South Bend, by Rev. Win. J. Dauner. They were attended by Miss Phyllis Mock and Theodore Vorhis. Following the ceremony, a reception and luncheon were held at the home of the bride’s sister, Mrs. Leroy Brownbridge of South Bend. Mr. and Mrs. Wilkinson left immediately on a motor trip through Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana. They will be at home : on the farm after Oct. 1. Mrs. Wilkinson was a member of the class of 1929 and a graduate of the South Bend College of Commerce. O FIRE ALARM SOUNDED Fire burning part of the roof of the Dave Hoover home on Boston Street caused the alarm to be turned in, shortly afternoon, Tuesday The fire was qui<7KlyL£xtinguished. W £>-- TO BE MARRED Miss Wilma Robinson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Robinson of Boston street, and John Lehman, son of Charles Lehman of Goshen are to be married, Saturday. They will m«ke their home in Goshen.

SYRACUSE, INDIANA, THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 2®, 1934.

ON LAKE WAWASEE ! I 1 Several hundred are expected to attend the luncheon, Saturday, of the Indiana Women’s Democratic Club, to be addressed by Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owens, just returned from Denmark. Marcus White’s mother, who ! suffered a stroke here on her son’s birthday, and who was taken home to Noblesville in the ambulance, Tuesday last week, died Wednesday morning. Karl Freese is undergoing treatment at the Battle Creek sanitarium. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Beattie and ' Raymond Fideler, who have spent their vacation at the lake with Mr. and Mrs. Roy Geer, left for Des Moines, lowa, Wednesday morning. Fideler attends Drake university. ‘ The 86th birthday of Mrs. Gass, mother' of Mrs, R. B. Tuttle and George Gass was celebrated with a family dinner party at the Roy Brown home, Friday. • John Macy has. returned to Purdue University, where he is a Junior after spending the summer with his brother and wife at the Slip. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Piel of Indianapolis are among the fishers w’ho are guests at The Tavern. George .;Wandel, caretaker at W. E. Long’s property, has commenced building a sunken garden on the land in the “V” formed by the new road past Pickwick Park, and the old road leading around Kale Island and then to Pickwick Park. The New York Life Insurance company held its convention at the Spink-Wawasee hotel over the week end. The Hobbs agency in Chicago of the Equitable Life Insurance company convened at the hotel from Sunday until Tuesday. Frank Slough and daughter Helen of Cleveland, 0., who frequently flew to the W’awasee airport this summer, arrived Monday night for a few days stay at the Spink-Wawa-see hotel. / Mr. and Mrs. Alya Kindle and Mr. and Mrs. Bob Mangue of Goshen were gueM®’*of Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Mock, Wednesday last week Mr. and Mrs. Walker W’hite plan to start to Florida, next Monday, for the winter. Mr. White’s brother, Rev. Russell W’hite from Oregon will be their guest the last of this week. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Kinnear of Marion spent the week end at their cottage. ■, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Shaeffer plan to go to the fair in Chicago the last of this week. Mr. and Mrs. Wfifiam Grobel and daughter from Decatur, 111., were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Roy BroW’n from Wednesday until. Friday. Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Brannum\entertained Mr. and Mrs. W’illnpn Wilson of Indianapolis at their cottage over the week end. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Klee, who have spent the summer in the Hogan cottage, returned home, Monday. Mr. and Mrs. G. G. Schmidt and family returned home to Indianapolis Monday, after spending the summer at the lake. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Grobel of Anderson arrived at the Roy Brown home, Saturday, to pay them a visit. Mr. and Mrs. Mose Cotherman of spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Leas. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Schmid of Indianapolis spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. Howardton in the Freeman cottage. Mrs. Boyd Templeton accompanied them to the lake, Thursday, and visited Mr. and Mrs. Ed Neumeyer until Mr. Templeton arrived on Saturday. They went to Petosky, Mich., then to bring Mrs. Templeton’s sister back to Indianapolis. Mr. and Mrs. Chester Kitch entertained a party of friends at their cottage over the week end. Ed Dunning and Herbert Brewster of Chicago spent the first few days of this week at the Dunning cottage. Mrs. Bornaman and son Frank Jr., have gone to Chicago. Mrs. Bornaman plans to return later .. to spend a few days at their cottage. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Chappel and family of Mishawaka spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. Louis SoR. * Mrs. Rusch and Mrs. Joes entertained Mrs. Sweet and son Arnold and wife from Pittsburgh, Pa., and Mrs. Ada Wolf of Chicago, at dinner, Saturday evening. The Sweet party is spending a vacation at Waveland Beach. Mr. Sweet Sr., used to own a summer home on Wa(CostiflHKtf os Last Page)

BENEFITS OF $14,235 TO BE PAID LOCALLY Corn-Hog Reduction to Bring Money to This Township Soon. As the result of 67 corn-hog reduction contracts being signed in Turkey Creek township, last Saturday, $14,235,85 minus the administration costs will be distributed to the farmers who have signed these contracts. The proceeds come from a processing tax levied on hogs, now amounting to $2.25 per 100 pounds. The first payment on the contracts is expected to be made within two weeks after the final contracts have been sent to Washington by the county committee. ■ The first payment is made on the basis of $2 per head on hogs and one half the corn money or 15 cents a bushel. Sometime in November, another payment is expected on the basis of $1 per head on the hogs, but nothing on the corn. In January the final balance is expected to be received, amounting to $2 per head on hogs and 15 cents a bushel on corn, less the cost of administration. The contracts are expected to go to Washington some time this week. According to the statement of Russell Warner, chairman of the corn-hog program in this township, every farmer in the township with a hog base signed a contract. Some farmers, he explained do not raise hogs or have had their pigs destroyed by disease in the years 1932-33, so have, no hog base. Eliminating all the details, regulations and interpretations of which there are many, from the corn-hog program, a farmer, by signing the contract, receives a payment per head of $5 on 75 per cent of his average hog production for market in the years 1932 and 1933. He also receives a benefit payment per bushel under provisions of contract for 20 per cent of his 1932-33 corn production amounting to 30 cents per bushel. He agreed to cut his corn acreage for 1934 not less than 20 per cent. Farmers in the township will receive $9,250.65 for reducing . their hog production, and $4,985.20 for reducing corn production.' The largest sum of money accruing from hogs to one contract in this township is SSBO, and the smallest to one contract, $45. The largest benefit corn payment to be made to one contract will be $338. 10, and the largest combined benefit payment will be $9lB. Land amounting to 432.3 acres was taken out of corn production in this township by the farmers signing the contract, for this year. The reduction in bushels of corn for this township this year, by those signing contracts is 16,617 bushels, using as a base the yearly average for the years 1932-33. The average yearly production for the year 1932-33 was between 38 and 39 bushels. What the cost of administration will amount to is rather indefinite. Locally the pay of inspectors and committeemen up to July Ist was 5 cents a mile for mileage and 30*6 ceats an hour as pay. After July Ist these persons received a pay of $4 a day for 8 hour days. Alva Mallott, county chairman, receives $125 a month. Members «of the Turkey Creek township committee are Russel Warner, chairman; Wilmet Jones, vice-chairman; Loren Eyer, Clee Hibschman and David Clayton, inspectors. These contracts just signed ®re good for only the year 1934. PLAN MEMORIAL SERVICE Because of the long years of service to this community, of Joseph P. Dolan, the Chamber of Commerce plans to hold a Memorial Service at the Methodist church, Sunday as- , ternoon at 3 o'clock. The public is invited to attend. C. C. Bachman is chairman of the committee in charge of the program. Special music is planned, and short talks by old residents who knew Mr. Dolan. The watch which Mr. Dolan bequeathed to Mr. Bachman was presented to Mr. Dolan in 1885 by “pupils and friends,” according to the engraving within the watch. Mr. Bachman says he remembers the service at that time at the Church of God, although he was but a boy of 12, then.

DO YOU I REMEMBER—--20 Years Ago. When building the gym in the second story of the old school building was completed? * * * 15 .Years Ago. When Dick Miller, aged 5, ran into the street after a ball and was struck by’ the car driven by J. M. Sargent, and suffered a broken collar bone, bruises and scratches? • * • 5 Years Ago. When Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Kline, on vacation, were in an automobile wreck near Cudahay, Wis.; When Roscoe Howard bought the house from the present site of W. E. Long’s home; and moved it by water to the other end of Kale Island? 0$424,038 IS DUE COUNTY SIGNERS OF CORN-HOG CONTRACTS Benefit corn and hog payments in this cbunty will amount to approximately $424,038.30, less administration expenses, according to figures released by the county committee. Otljer facts of the corn and hog program are: 812 contracts have been signed in this county; 10,092 acres of corn land are under contract or idle acreage; 38 bushels of corn to the acre according to average yearly production of the years 1932-33; payment wi|i be made on 416,936 bushels of corn which was estimated as being the number of bushels of reduction, using 1932-33 figures as base; corn benefit payments, $102,580.80. Other facts are: the yearly average of hogs grown for market in the years 1932 and 1933 in this county were 85,722. The number of hogs on which benefit payments will be made is 64,291; benefit hog payments, $321,457.50. County officials also stated that no expenses are» paid from the local corn and hog payments, except township and county employes working on the program. Where the money comes from to pay the state and national employes,! the local committee did not know, except that the government pays. According to Russell Warner, county chairman, 85 per cent of the contracts are completed. These are to be sent to Washington, and the others sent there when completed. FUNERAL SHIVICES I WERE HELD SUNDAY Heart Trouble Causes Death of Mrs. Henry Whitmer Last Thursday Evening. Following several weeks illness, Mrs. Henry Whitmer died fest Thurs day evening at her home four and one-half miles northwest of Syracuse. Heart trouble was the cause of her death. Funeral services for her were held Sunday afternoon at the home with Rev. E. M. Foster officiating. Burial was in the Colclaiser cemetery. Mrs. Amanda Whitmer, aged 67, was the daughter, of Jacob and Eva Unrue. She was born in Kosciusko county. On May 21, 1887, she married to Henry W’hitmer. They lived for 30 years on the former farm of her parents. She is survived by her husband, two faster children, Oliver Whitmer and Mrs. William Weybright; and two brothers, Isaac and Sylvester Unrue. 0 FIRE GOES OUT When Hilary Bachman opened, up Bachman’s store Wednesday morning he found the store, the K. of P. Club rooms, and the attic above the,club rooms full of smoke. He also found some smoke in the cellar but not as much upstairs. A careful search was made of the premises but the origin of the smoke could not be discovered. Hilary said that the smoke smelt like burning wood. Later in the day, Roscoe Howard, inspecting the building for defective wiring, discovered where the fire originated. This w'as bn a wooden shelf in the basement. The shelf had burned in two. The cause of the fire is still unknown. o TWO INJURED IN COLLISION Mrs. Marie Hamman, 36, wife of Alva E. Hamman, of Elkhart, was painfnlly injured in an automobile collision at the junction of state roads 2 and 13 just east of Benton, Thomas J. Prickett, Nappanee real estate man, who was driving alone in his Nash sedan, suffered a cut oXavo hie left Qua

43 AIRPLANES MAKE VISIT TO WAWASEE t J. Mattern, C. McElroy Among Pilots of Aircraft. Among the pilots who brought the 43 airplanes into the Wawasee airport last Thursday afternoon, in the Indiana Air Tour of the Indiana Aircraft Trades Association, were two world famous fliers, Jimmie Mattern and Clarence MeElroy. It will be recalled that Mattern attempted a round the world flight, but crashed in Siberia, and was believed lost for days. McElroy, accompanied by Gordon w-as delivering an airplane to South America, when above Honduras they found themselves in the midst of a storm. Attempting to rise above it, McElroy shot the plane into the air and almost missed a mountain top. The crash caused the death of Gordon. When McElroy came to, he could see miles below him a small seaside village. He had two broken hips, but dauntless, he commenced crawling down to that village. For 17 days, it will be remembered, he crawled through the tropical undergrowth, peopled with slimy, crawling, poisonous things. He was without a drink or food for 17 days, but it rained constantly, so he obtained water that way. He finally saw a cow, and knew, although exhausted, if he would wait enough, someone would come for that cow. And an Indian boy did. By motions, as he could not speak the language. McElroy made himself hnderstood and explained about the crash and need of food. Persuading the cow to approach, the boy milked it so that the warm milk gave McElroy his first nourishment in 17 days. Then the bay ran the 12 miles to the village and the whole town, turned out to assist the aviator. They took him down the rest of the way in an ox cart—the hardest part of the journey. His home is in Medaryville, and he and Mattern learned of the tour and joined in the fun. Seventeen airports were to be visited in Indiana before the return to Indianapolis, Sunday. When the planes commenced arriving at the Wawasee airport, last Thursday afternoon, crowds gathered, and cars were parked along the roadway. The landing of planes was directed by Herbert Fisher of Indianapolis, tour director. j He arrived in one of the U. S. observation planes, and as other planes circled the airport and landed they wheeled in line until the planes ,oL.various types, models and horsepower stood parked with wing almost torching wing, the length of the field next to the road which parallels the railroad tracks. But planes continued to arrive and a second line of parked planes was made. Ray Loomis of Washington D. C. piloted £ the Ford Tri-motor 14 place cabin plane, and this plane and the Chevrolet plane were kept busy taking up passengers until dark. A few of the planes were flown without ads, but for the most part they were lettered, advertising, among other things, Patrick Henry Beer, Pure Oil, Linco, which last named company furnished the gas and oil for the tour of Indiana by these planes. Lieut. Stanton Smith of the regular army from Shoan field, Indianapolis was master of the tour, and Russell Long of the National Guard was starting master. The army planes arrived at airports before others to make sure all was in readiness. Mike Murphy, manager of the Kokomo airport took his plane low over the heads of the assembled spectators, with his arms outstretched, to show he was not the guides with his hands. Then he took the plane up several thousand feet, ‘’killed the motor and came to the ground like a falling leaf. Among the women who piloted their own planes were: Lenore Harper, with commercial license, Mabel Weaver and Dorothy Ray, students, of Indianapolis; Shirley McKitrick. Jack Edwards, called the “flying myaor” of Marion, flew the plane advertising Patrick Henry Beer. Ed New, the flying lawyer from Indianapolis was the pilot of the Curtis pusher, with the propellor on top of the wings at the center of the plane. Miss Peggy Wilson, of Indianapo(Continued on Last Page)

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