The Syracuse Journal, Volume 27, Number 33, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 6 December 1934 — Page 1

by Arthur Brisbane , j THE SWISS ANSWER BACK WISE MRS. ROOSEVELT OUR TRADE BALANCE THIS IS GOOD NEW'S

Switzerland is small, but takes nothing "laying down.” Every Swiss of fighting age is a reserve mem- • ber of the Swiss army, .with a rifle and ammunition that he can use. That encourages independence. Europe knows that it would cost more to conquer Switzerland than Switzerland would be worth. Jn addi- j tion, nobody would know how to I run Swiss hotels, except the Swiss. Recently Dr. Carl Barth, Swiss J . professor of theology at Bonn uni- j * varsity, to which the former Ger-1 . man kaiser was sent boy, was! dismissed by Prussia’s minister of • culture, because Doctor Barth would j not take the oath of personal loy-t alty to Hilter. The Swiss government takes that f up promptly, saying to Germany: c “If you dismiss a Swiss teacher for c political reasons, the Swiss gov- a ernment will immediately send home all German professors in I Swiss universities.” No hemming and hawing there. a Mm. Franklin D. Roosevelt, wise * and energetic lady, advises giving 1 small children as young as six or ’ seven a weekly allowance, because it teaches them to be independent. They learn- how t<> spend, when ' save, what to pay, and. grow up independent, self-reliant individuals. 2 That is a that some wise professors high up in govern- t ment might adopt. J If it is wise to teach individual ( independence to young children, why not encourage it in grown-up ( Americans, inste; d of training them r to spend the rest of their lives in t any NRA baby carriage. } Again there is cheerfulness. United States exports since October were ’ highest in three years. Uncle Sam 1 sold 1206,352,000 worth of goods to ' other countries. $76,723,000 less ‘ than he took in. That is called a “favorable trade balance,” and is supposed to be a . good thing. / Abait omen, but the French rev- , okition started at a time when France, for the first time in a long , while, found herself exporting more , than she bought. , Edsel Ford, son of Henry, and a ■ great help to his father as presi ' dent of the F<>rd company, dined ( ' With Tritide nt Roosevelt. tn Warm ( Springs, Ga., and told him the nation is “out of the trough.” The two Fords are good judges of returning prosperity. They expect to sell at least 1,000,000 other , "Fords" this coming year. Winthrop W. Aldrich, head of the New York Chase National bank, biggest private bank in the world, tells reporters in Seattle: “Business men and bankers in all the cities we have visited believe that there has been a real improvement since September. ” Prosperity is climbing up, according to Mr. Aldrich, and he to know. He has on hand more than a billion dollars that he will gladly lend you, if you can prove your ability to pay it back. Samuel Insull and sixteen co-de-fehdanta aare acquitted of using the mails to defraud. A majority of the jury, which took two hours to decide, voted for acquittal from the start. Apparently Mr. Insull might have avoided that tiring trip to Greece and all the expense. , Senator Nye, an earnest man, devoted to peace, but not at “any price," asks the big United Aircraft company just what it has in mind in iu, constant expansion in production and betterment of airplanes. The senator seems to fear that United Aircraft has in mind the possibility of war. Let us all hope that it has exactly that in mind, and that a government showing little energy or initiative of its own in air defense will at least appreciate help from private initiative. LAST MINUTE NEWS. The John Porter farm house, just outside the city limits, on the North Huntington road was damaged by fire this morning. Mr. and Mrs. Oth Mitchell, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Myers and Ray Swank have been making their home there. About 9:15 o'clock Chris Baumgartner, a neighbor, saw the roof of the house ablaze and hurried to tell them. The Syracuse fire chief was notified, and Joe Rapp rushed the chemical truck there. Neighbors assisted in tearing at the roof and applying chemicals from the truck. Much of the roof n—r the chimney, which is thought to have caused the fire, was destroyed. Driving from Mftf^Jhis moraing, bLt his car suffered about S2OO damage, wta. skidding on the slippery pavement of the “8” turn shout a mile this side of Milford, the. car

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JESSE GRADY ASKS COURT FOR “TIME” Files Petition for Time On Debts in U. S. Court. Jesse C. Grady and three other j farmers, on Tuesday, filed with the clerk of the United States district j court in South Bend, a petition for | an extension of time for debt pay- | merits under the provisions of the Frazier-Lemke bill. Grady listed his assets as $10,690, and liabilities $37,065. Other farmers filing petitions w«fe Landow W. Berkey, Rural route 2, Elkhart, assets $4,518, liabilities $8,756; Jas. E. Guy, rural route 2, Warsaw, ! Ind., assets $12,919, liabilities $24,300; Glen Bailey, rural route No. 4, Goshen, assets $2,267.30, liabilities $2,651. A good pprtion of Grady’s liabilities is money borrowed from the State Bank of Syracuse, past due interest. aid secured by\mortgage and other notes. According to bank officials none of the principal has been paid on the mortgage or on the notes, and the interest has not been paid on these papers for some time. All of Grady’s mortgage and notes were included in the assets set over to the liquidating trustees in rehabilitation of the State Bank of Syracuse, last June, by the State Banking Department. These notes as well as other notes in the trusteed assets must be paid before the depositors can receive all of their pro-rated share of the trusteed assets. The Frazier-Lemke farm moratorium bill, passed by the last session of Congress gives the farmer, according to Congressman William Lemke’s explanation of the bill: “An opportunity to scale down all his indebtedness to the present reasonable value of his .property and to pay for same with interest on' an installment plan—or pay an s annual rental fixed by the court until the farmer is able to refinance such scaled down indebtedness through some other agency at any time within five years.” The bill has been tested out in several lower courts in the nation and will be carried to the Supreme court before a final decision can be made as to its constitutionality. Several lower courts have ruled this bill unconstitutional. If Grady’s petition is granted the depositors of the Syracuse bank will not have the use of this money for five more years, except for the Interest or rental which the court will set which must be paid. n RECORD CROWD HEARS CCC MINSTREL SHOW’

Members of the Wawasee American Legion post are expressing their appreciation of the record size crowd which turned out, Tuesday evening to hear the minstrel show put on by some of the enrollees of the CCC camp, under the auspices of the Legion. The minstrel was directed by E. N. Brindley, educational director of the camp. More than $l3O was received from the ticket sale, the crowd numbering nearly 800. The expenses are paid by the Legion, the money is divided between the Wawasee Legion post and the CCC camp, at which place the money will be used to buy baseball, basketball and football equipment, etc. 0 UNDERGOES OPERATION ’ Stephen Freeman brought his sons Joe and Jim home from Depauw the day before Thanksgiving to spend the vacation at home. That same evening Jim, who hadn’t been feeling well for sometime, became worse, and the doctor was called. Jim Freeman was rushed to the Elkhart hospital for an emergency appendicitis operation. His condition is reported as improving. Mrs. Charles Crow was sent for, and left here Tuesday evening, called to Scranton, Pa., where her daughter Roberta is in the hospital, having undergone an appendicitis operation. ‘ GETS S7S°FOR CAR. Richard Bell, driving the automobile of his father, Simon Bell, was in sin automobile smash up near Albion, Saturday. The driver of the other car settled the damages tor $75 INSTALL NEW VALVE j A new foot valve was installed in i the city welt, Saturday. The pump

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|ON LAKE WAWASEE! The Wawasee Club has been organized by Matty Katzer and Pell Clayton, and the club quarters are the building formerly known as “Mineral Springs” next to the Johnson Hotel. Members of the Club plan to hold their first dance of the season Saturday evening. Capt. Leitch, who had been at the Wawasee CCC camp, and in charge of the five CCC camps in this district, was transferred Wednesday last week to Camp Knox, to motorize , the third artillery. Capt. Donald Holmes of the 11th Infantry has come from Fort Benjamin Harrison to the Wawasee camp to take charge of the camps of this district,* temporarily. Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Vaughn of Wabash have gone to Sarasota, Fla., where they are spending their vacation. Jim and Duane P rvis, the Purdue , football Purvis brothers, spent Thanksgiving day with Mr. and | Mrs. Tremper at their Wawasee home. Jac Conley of Hagerstown was their week end guest. W. E. Long visited his lake home last week end, and left for Washington, D. C., Sunday afternoon. ' There were 18 players on the So. , Shore Golf course, Sunday, Dec. 2. There were 20 boats on the kettle Sunday, containing fishermen. Marion Morrison caught a string of perch, two feet long, Thanksgiving Day, on Lake Wawasee. The fish were caught in 18 inches of water. Dr. Wallace took Jean and Billie Emerson to Marion, Friday, returning home, Saturday. Fred Barley of Indianapolis, a lake visitor, Sunday, called on Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Emerson. Mrs. J. H. Elliott and son Robert spent Thanksgiving with friends in Indianapolis. Carl Tuttle, who has been in Florida on business with his uncle, expected to return te the lake today. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Grieger of Fort Wayne and Mr. and Mrs. Schradel of Lafayette were guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Grieger of Kale Island, Thanksgiving. Mr. and Mrs. John Walton spent Thanksgiving Day with Mr. and Mrs. Ted Gatwood of Albion. On Saturday they attended the funeral of a cousin, William Walker, in Fort Wayne. 0 MRS. BRUNJES DIED SUDDENLY NOY. 29TH

Long-Time Resident of Lake Wawasee Died at Home of Son in No. Manchester; Burial in Chicago. The day before Thanksgiving, Mrs. D. H. Brunjes of Lake Wawasee, who was visiting the home of her son John in North Manchester, had been baking a pie. She removed the pie from the oven, walked from the kitchen into the bedroom, and fell across the bed, dead. Funeral services were held for her in North Manchester on Thanksgiving and the body taken to Chicago, where services were held and burial made, Friday afternoon. Mrs. Brunjes was 73 years old. She was born in Bremen, Germany, and came to this county 55 years ago and married Mr. Brunjes, who had preceded her here. They were located in New York, and had a hotel in Wisconsin, which burned, before they moved to Syracuse. When they came here more than 30 years ago they had a hotel where Pickwick Park is now located. Later they moved to the spot where The Tavern is now located, and Matty Katzer bought and enlarged their hotel to its present capacity, 13 years ago. Four years ago, Deithrick Brunjes SrV, died on New Year’s Day, and services for him were held here and he. was taken to Chicago for burial. He and Mrs. Brunjes were both members of the Lutheran church. She is survived by two sons, John in North Manchester, Deithrick Jr. in Chicago; three grand-children and one great-grandchild. Mrs. Brunjes had been at the home of her son in Chicago since Labor Day, and was in Syracuse but a week before her death, on her way to North Manchester. CORN STOLEN. About 30 bushels of corn haw been stolen from Mrs. Tillman Hire's farm, since the former tenants, Mr. and Mrs. Ringler moved from the farm. Mr. and Mrs. Dale Hickman are to move to the farm thia

SYRACUSE, INDIANA, THURSDAY DECEMBER 4, 1934.

Syracuse defeats Bremen, also North Webster B. B. games

Last Friday evening, the Syracuse High School basketball teams won both of their games from North Webster; the first team with a score of 26 to 15; the second team by the narrow margin of 16 to 14. Only in the first quarter of the game did the North Webster first team show any sign of being able to hold the local team. The game at first was deliberate, and rather slow. The score at the end of the quarter was Syracuse 6, North Webster 5. Searfoss had the first opportunity to score with a free throw for Syracuse. He made it, but it was not allowed by the referee, C. Smith of Warsaw, who said that a Syracuse boy had a foot over the line at the time the ball was pitched. So Laird of North Webster made the first score of the evening, a field goal. Shortly afterwards Osborn took the ball away from a No. Webster man and dribbled down the floor and made a goal. This was the

INTEREST NEEDED FOR RLE CLASSES < Few Attended Meeting for Discussion of Rural Education Classes Here. Because of the small number —15— who attended the meeting in the High School last Wednesday even ing, Arthur Konold, county emergency school supervisor of the FEE said that he thought a survey would be made before it would be decided to hold classes for adults in the Syracuse school house. The Federal Emergency Education for adults is part of the FERA. A house-to-house survey had been made of the town to inquire what subjects were most desired by those wishing to take this school work offered free of charge by the FEE, and it was that seeing, cooking and •*Wine nursing were wanted. It is necessary for 10 town residents to ask for some subjects before that class can be taught, or for 25 rural residents to wish a course in one subject. Whether there will be money enough for adult classes for the town is in doubt because the teacher quota for the county is small. The meetings of rural classes would be one night a week, for three hours, one hour to be devoted to rural education, one to recreation and one to conservation, Konold said.

The tuition would cost nothing, and the meetings would be held in the school building, opened by the trustee. Konold said that classes were ready to commence at the Monroe consol Ida .ed school the first of this week if the teachers were approved and the project approved. He said in the classes it would not be necessary to buy textbooks if one did not wish to, or to study if one did not want to. He said the classes would likely continue through the school year, giving employment to certain unemployed teachers in the county, and at the conclusion of the study, examinations would be, required for either High School or College credit. When questioned about shorthand, typewriting, and such class- ! es, Konold said these were not being given this year by the FEE. He said last year such work was taught and "12 bnrineas colleges of the state went out of business. He also said that 600 had signed up for such work in South Bend, this year, and 19 had asked for it in Warsaw, but unless a person is on poor relief this work is not to be taught by the FEE. He said House nursing project and handicraft classes were being formed at Beaver Dem., and that a band project had been formed at Winona Lake, and another at Morris chapel. When questioned about dramatics, Konold said dramatics, handicraft, sewing, cooking, home nursing, correct English, public speaking, debating and history would be taught in Warsaw. —o CORRECT ERROR Ths town board passed a resolution at its regular meeting, Tuesday night, to correct the error in the original plat of the town of Syracuse. The original plat as filed with the. county recorder shows the lots in this plat are 8 rods long, when in reality they are but 7 rods long. When the new map of the town whieh is bring made, is completed, the lots will be Aown as 7 rods long. I This map will be filed at the recorded office. i

first of the three goals that Osborn made during the game. He and Jones, the other guard, made 12 points between them during the game and were easily the outstanding players on either side. The half ended with the score 16 to 6. In the second quarter North Webster had made but one point. i At the start of the third quarter, Richcreek, North Webster guard was disqualified for “the use of the fist,” and was replaced by Seniff. In this quarter North Webster made six points, four of which were from free throws. Syracuse made three points. During the last quarter Stuckey and Searfoss retired from the game via the foul route. Syracuse made 7 more points while North Webster collected three. Up to the beginning of the fourth quarter Long and Seniff of North Webster both were “hot” at making free throws, but during the last quarter they blew (Continued on Last Pavel

| PLANS MADE FOR CHRISTMAS TREAT The Wednesday Afternoon Club i met at the home of Mrs. Elmer P. | Miles yesterday. Plans for the Club’s rummage sale in the library, Dec. 8, were made, and also plans for i the community Christmas tree which : the club plans as usual this year. • Gifts from organizations or individuals to help with the community treat and lighting of the tree will be gladly accepted by the club, There will be carols sung beneath the tree Monday evening, Dec. 24 at 7 o’clock and then will come the distribution of the treat. Mrs. Ralph Thornburg invited the club members to her home, Dec. 19 at Bp. m., for the club’s annual I Christmas party. • During the meeting yesterday, Mrs. A. W. Emerson reviewed “The Mystical Life of Christ” by H. Spencer Lewis. This is an astounding account, of the wnown and “unknown” periods of the great Master’s life,, based upon authentic records. Club women are taking turns in reading this book and then it will be donated to the library for the public’s reading. 0 STRUCK BY AUTOMOBILE Richard Bell, aged 6, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bell, suffered a bruised ankle and forehead, Wednesday after school when he was struck by a car driven by Mrs. Forrest Galloway. i Richard, who is in the First Grade ran out into the street between two ( cars parked on Main street, accord- > ing to bystanders, in front of Mrs. Galloway’s car, headed west on Main street. She stopped the car at once and took the child to the doctor’s office. The “safety cops” of the Grade school which had been stationed at street corners before school and at dismissal periods, had not -been in service since cold weather commenced as it is toe cold a job for the “cops” standing there to direct school traffic. ESCAPE INJURY IN CRASH No one was injured but Ross Os- ‘ born’s car was knocked out of line, in a smash-up in Huntington Thurs- • day evening. Bill Osborn, accompanied by Tod Richhart and Otis Clyde Butt, and girl friends, was taking some of I the party home to Huntington. Aci cording to Osborn, on one of the 1 ■ Huntington streets, a car was park--1 ad at the curb and a machine came | 1 racing down the middle of the street towards him. 1 He had the choice of crashing head on into the approaching car, ■ or striking the parked car—and he 1 took the latter. It was said the park--1 ed car was not damaged as it was struck on the rear bumper. Bill was 1 able to drive the Osborn car home. I n | WAS FINED s 2—. 1 Guy B. Stone was given a fine of S2OO and costs and a six-months’ suspended sentence by Mayor C. C. ' Dußois in Warsaw city court Tues- ’ <»»y afternoon on a charge of driv--1 ing while under the influence of inB toxicating liquor. Mayor Dußois also revoked his driver's license indefinitriy. Stone was sentenced to serve 60 days at the state penal farm several months ago on the charge, but he B presented a doctor's certificate to ’’ show that he was incapable to serve in prison because of his health. The •’ case was reopened in court Tuesday. a 0 3 The east end of Wawa: 3 was frozen over Sunday morning, melta ing quickly, and the Kettle is now , frozen over, according to reports. . And snow shovels made their first '<• appearance of the season this morning. -

| DO YOU REMEMBER—i I 20 Years Ago. When Rev. E. F. Valbracht came* to Syracuse as pastor of the Grace Lutheran church? • • • 15 Years Ago. When Benjamin Vorhis suffered several cracked ribs and a cut in his head which required 5 stitches to close, when on his w r ay home from Milford Junction in a storm he walked through an open bridge. • • • Ten Years Ago When announcement was made of the marriage of Ruth Stout and Roy Meek? « * • 5 Years Ago. When Mrs. S. E. Rowdabaugh w r as injured when the car which her husband was driving home from Ann Arbor turned over near Bristol? o :— CAVORTING CABOOSE TEARS UP TRACKS Broken Wheel on Oil Tank Car Wrecks Freight Train Near Syracuse Station Last Night.

No one was injured, but main line track was plowed up and the plat- J form at the station was damaged, j when a freight train was wrecked on the B. . & O. last night about 8 . o’clock, i A wheel on a tank car on Train ! No. 97, merchandise run going west, cracked about 400 feet east of the : Syracuse station, and the car skated ■ on the rail as far As the Main street crossing before the wheel broke in two. About eight cars and the caboose were derailed. The mishap to the tank car automatically set the emer- j gency brakes to work on all the cars of the train, but not before rails, ties and part of the station platform were dislocated. - And the caboose went bobbing around from one track to another, and up and down on the ties, before it finally came to a stop on the east bound track. Conductor Grimm and Brakeman Wise had been riding in the caboose when it commenced bobbing around, but they Were not injured in the accident. The wreck crew was called out of Garrett, and the “milk shake,” due here at 8:13 p. m. from Chicago, was held up at Milford Junction until the cavorting caboose was removed from the east abound track about 10:30 o’clock. Workmen were bqsy the rest of the night and this morning, repairing damage done to the tracks. NOT ABLE TO BE UP. A. A. Beach, injured when struck by an automobile 10 days ago, is not yet able to be up out of bed. He refused,, to go to the hospital for an x-ray examination. His son and daughter, who are twins, had been in accidents, and the reason his daughter could not come to the funeral of Mrs. Beach is that she is still in a hospital in New York recovering from injuries which she received in an automobile accident. Mr. Beach’s son, who arrived in Syracuse Wednesday night last week is limping on crutches, and left the hospital to come to Syracuse. He suffered an injured foot while at work on the railroad. Q CIRCULATE PETITIONS Two petitions are being circulated in this vicinity, for signers of the Townsend Old Age pension, to be presented at the coming session of Congress. Many names have already been signed to these petitions, and it is reported more than 8 million have signed in this country. Those who have the petitions to be signed, in case any one is missed and wished to call on them, are Will Kerwin, Mrs. J. H. Bowser's brother-in-law; and Nelson Miles. Q PLAY DUPLICATE BRIDGE The first duplicate contract bridge party was held in Syracuse, w Monday evening at the George L. Xanders home, under the direction of Mr. Elster of Lagrange. High score for North and South was held by Charles W. Kroh and Charles Bachman Jr. ; and for East and West by Mrs. Xanders and Mr. Smith from Lagrange. Interest in this method of play was such that another such party is planned to be held in about two weeks. 0 MEETINGS SCHEDULED i The Conservation club will meet this evening in the library. Everyone interested in SQnservation work is urged to attend the meeting. The Chamber of Commerce meet next Tuesday noon in the Wawasee Restaurant.

HATCHERY TO BE LARGEST IN INDIANA Added Work Planned For Wawasee Lake’s CCC Project When the work on the Wawasee Fish Hatchery is completed, it will be the most complete hatchery in the midwest. It Will be the largest in the state of Indiana, unless some other project goes through. A proposal has been made for a fish hatchery at Brookville, of 150 ponds. If this goes through, it will be larger than the Wawasee hatchery. The tentative date set for completion of the Wawasee-hatchery is now April Ist, 1936. Two new’ proposals concerning the Wawasee hatchery •have been made. One is for an exhibition pond24oxso feet beside the gravel road leading tcf ’the CCC camp. In the same proposal is another exhibition pond 80x30 feet adjoining this same pond, but beside the winding road from the service building to the CCC camp. I These ponds will be built of conic rete, on idle ground owned by the ' state. j There is another proposal—for : two more sorting tanks in the Ser- ■ vice building, and two kidney shaped concrete tanks close to the ser- ‘ vice building, for the displaying of ’ rare species of fish. Ground around the service building will be beautified and have concrete walks around the ponds. These new proposals, which it is thought are approved now, will make the total number of ponds 28, :17 of these being new ones under construction. Another feature of the hatchery will be a pond 580 feet long, known as No. 15, which will run parallel to the road in front of the service building. This will be entirely of concrete will be used as a display pond. The water supply for the ponds will be frohi Lake Papakeetchie and from 4 drilled wells. If enough streams can be found in Indiana, cold enough for trout, it fc proposed to use some of these ponds !for rearing trout as they will be filled with water from artesian wells cold enough for trout. An unusual type of construction is? being used on the new type of ponds. The ponds being constructed bn the land bought from A. J. Rollert, will have flooring of wood. These wooden strips come from Brown courtty and are waste pieces. The only expense which the state has in' this flooring is transportation, minus labor. * a A truck brings 3,600 board feetor 9 tons in one trip, at a cost of-$4 a trip from Brown county to WawaIn the construction of the coffer dams on the job, these same kind of waste strips were used. The breeding ponds will first have a coating of. six inches of brown clay, puddled along the sides and bottoms. Over this covering will ImT - ' laid six inches of puddled blue clay which will stop most of the seepage, and make the ponds practically crawfish proof. A six inch blanket of gravel will cover the bottom of all the ponds. The brown clay for the ponds is coming from some land near Lake Papakeetchie owned by William Bowan of Mishawaka, who donated the clay to the conservation de-, partment. The blue clay is from the high ground near the present construction and which is owned by A. J. Rollart. For every load of blue clay taken the ECW has agreed to , replace it with a load of muck. The proposed boat house which will be constructed on the original island will be of frame construction feet. It will be large enough to take care of three boats and have ample room for fish food storage. The boat house will be . built on piling which will be native stuff. . o WILL NOMINATE DEC. 11 The Republican committee of the , second district will meet Dec. 11 to nominate a candidate for congress to , fill the vacancy created by the death t of Frederick Landis of Logansport. , Seven candidates including Mr. L Landis's son are seeking the nominat tion. The governor will call a special election for the second district, presumably sometime after Jan. 3. u ;— t WILL IS FILED. c In the will of Nathaniel Altland« filed in circuit court, the Grace Lutheran church is left all personal 1 property and real estate. Rev. i John Pettit is named administrator of the estate.

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