The Syracuse Journal, Volume 27, Number 41, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 7 February 1935 — Page 1

by Arthur Brisbane A BABE GROWS UP SENATE'S GOOD NEWS FIVE LITTLE GIRLS $4,88»,••««,•••

Fifty-three years ago a good American mother, weak but happy, received in her arms a small baby, with pink face and little hair. That baby now lives in the White House, face bronzed by ocean air, hair thick at fifty-three years of age. The baby has grown to be Frank- - lin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States. One hundred and twenty-five million Americans are grateful to his mother, who, happily, has lived to see her son move up, from the cradle in which she first placed him, to the earth's most important place among men. Congratulations and thanks, first of all, to President R osevelt’s mother; good wishes, congratulations, and a long life to President Roosevelt. The people of the United States are to be congratulated that by the decision of the senate they will not be pushed into the back door of the Eeague of Nations through the World Court. Mr. Hull, secretary of state, wanted the United States to go into the World court and submit important matters affecting this country to foreign judges appointed by nations that have swindled this country out of ten thousand million dollars. Why, in heaven's name? Th' se marvelous Canadian babies, the Dionna .quintuplets, eight months old, are healthy, happy, each one a' separate little bby of intense individuality. All pretty, all intelligent, with good foreheads, wellshaped heads. What a wonderful family! It seems almost a pity that they cannot remain babies, now, and above, through all eternity. The house of represents ives, 3 9 to 78, gives the President four thousand eight hundred and eighty million dollars, to be spent in accordance with his best judgment to fight depression and unemployment. In early days the little, “small change** eighty million dollars, tacked on at the end of the large figure, would have astounded the country, for In these days millions were respectable units. Now our government unit is the billion—one thousand millions. When will the trillion Mart its career? The printing press could bring it. Not content with being reduced from ‘ a great empire to a small “backyard" by the last Hapsburg, Austria thinks it wants another emperor and Prince Starhemberg will say when the little Prince Otto shall mount the throne. That will mean unhappiness, eventually for the young prince, and a good actor spoiled by Hollywood. Gen. William Mitchell, commanders of all our flying force in the big wju”, knows more about national defense than anybody in this country. He writes to a friend seventy years old as follows: “During your lifetime have come the electric ,telegraph and telephone, the gasoline engine with its accompaniment of automotive vehicles, the adrplane and submarine. The world is now only one-sixth as large as when you appeared. If this development goes on, it is difficult to say what may take place in the next seventy years. Will the biological supremacy of the yellow races dominate, or will the military supremacy, so far, of the white race he able to maintain our culture and standards? The world Is growing ao small and so increasingly populated that one or the other will undoubtedly become master." Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, whose father collected pictures and other works of art, has decided to sell six pictures. The price asked is said to he >1,600,000. The older J. P. Morgan evidently bought good pictures. . Two of the six pictures, already sold to the Metropolitan museum, are a portrait of “Anne of Austria,’’ by Peter Paul Rubens and an altar piece by Filippo Lippi. Nobody knows how much was paid originally for either picture. A rare ten-dollar gold piece, that > Sold at auction for $630, might offer a suggestion for government At that rate, our $8,000,000000 worth of gold could be changed Into >400,000,000,000 worth, nearly all profit. Who could contradict the government if it said that was the value? Col. Roscoe Turner, who does all sorts of things with airplanes, plans a real flight around the earth, 25,000 miles, following the equator all the way, starting at Panama. , This will be the first real “around the world” flight, the others having been flights around the northern eixi ox tn® woria, * mgnt tnat grows smaller as you to farther north. Equatorial heat will not bother ati re th t vou want ... '

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FORMER CCC ENROLLEE IS IN HOSPITAL Negro Brandishes Gun At Camp; Runs From Officers —Shot. As a result of brandishing a revolver in the Wawasee CCC camp, last Friday, Lee Day, colored, aged 22, former enrollee who had been discharged for insubordination, is lying in the McDonald hospital in Warsaw suffering with two rifle . bullet wounds. Lee Day was near Wawaka on I Road 6 when he was shot by state ; policemen. Art Kel er and Fremont Lender, when he refused to halt when ordered to do so, by the officers. One bullet entered the fleshy part of one arm and the other shattered bones in his right leg. He was t ker to the McDonald hospital in Warsaw, Monday, by state pol ccman Ralph Liggett. Day will be tried in Warsaw on charges of carrying a coi.ceahd weapon, and drawing a dangerous weapon. Trouble commenced last Friday afternoon when Lee Day, accompanied by his brother, Joseph Day arrived at the camp in Joseph Day’s car. ' Joseph had never been an enrol-ee. 1 Some enrollees say that Lee Day came to the camp to collect barber bills due him by enroltees of the camp contr. cted before he was discharged from the camp in December. Capt. Yarian, in charge of the Wawasee camp, said when questioned, that he did not know* exactly what Lee Day did want but that Lee who had the build of a giant and intellect. of an 8 year old was a bully when he was in camp and always b aking for trouble. According to. Capt. Yarian, who obtained the story from eyewitnesses, Lee went to the mess hall and one of the guards who w’as stationed there saw him approaching and shut the door in his face. Yarian said this must have made Lee angry, for Lee gt ined entrance, to the mesahall through the kitchen and called Ulysses Henderson, the guard, vile names. According to Yarian there had been bad feeling , between Henderson and Lee while Lee was in camp. Henderson picked up a shovel and started toward Lee Day. Then, eye witnesses state, Day pulled the gun and Hendeveon, who is small in stature, left. Yarian said that Day, realizing he had gone a bit too far, got into the car with his brother and left the camp. • When Capt. Yarian was informed (Continued on Last Page)

WORK ON FISH POND BEGUN BY FERA MEN Ponds Behind Powe£jHouse are Laid Out by Engineers of ECW at Wawaaee Fish Hatchery. Saturday morning, 23 relief laborers began moving the top soil from the site of the new fish rearing ponds. Construction of the ponds will be under the direction of Fielden Sharp. The ponds will He back of the power house, between the race at the power house, and the Skinner ditch. The ponds were laid out and ground surveyed by engineers frofti the ECW at the Wawasee Fish Hatchery. ■L. F. Bauer, superintendent of the ECW sent two of his engineers, Mr. Stahl and Mr. Bear to do the work. They also made the plans and specifications for the ponds. The Pearl street sewer which lies beneath the ground selected for the ponds, is being uncovered, and will be removed and retard outside of the areo of the ponds. The sewer which was laid Unsealed, is thought to be the source of contamination of the town’s water supply, necessitating the daily chlorine treatment of drinking water. The sewer when relaid will be calked with oakum and sealed with cement.. COMES TO SYRACUSE. J. E. Miller of Attica, manager of the telephone companies of the Syracuse district, came to Syracuse, Feb. 1 and took over duties here. His wife and two sons may not move here until after school in Attica is dismissed for the summer. One son is out of school and at work, but boy ano he dtsuxes withdrawing r m hh class at this time.

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SCALES FROM THAT 20 POUNDTIKE T - SHOW IT WAS ONLYEKffIT YEARS OLD

How old is a pike weighing 20 j pounds, one oz., and measuring 44 H inches in length? Since Russell Kistler caught that pike on Wawasee, Saturday a week ago, the answer to that question has ' been guessed by many. Scales from the fish were sent to Dr. Scott of Indiana University, representing the State Conservation department. by Milt Wysong, lepie ! senting that department here. Some people guessed the pike was * 15 years old, oth;rs 25 years. The I neare.-t guess was 10 ye rs, but the pike was younger than anyone ■ i thought. For Dr. Scott examined the scales and wrote to Mr. Andrews, superintendent of the Fish Hatcheries, I and he wrote a letter to Mr. Wysong ' stating that the 20 pound pike was [ but 8 years of ege. In “Abe” Andrews* letter to Mr. j Wysong he wrote: Mr. Mill Wysong, Syracuse, Indiana. Dear Ke’chumbig r» il : Please accept this is our permis-I sion for you to catch 12 more 4 ton ! pike. Os the 12, Dr. Scott needs ! 18 and we need 18 here to hold for I display at the St?ate Fair. Dr. Scott reports that the pike ICE BOAT ACCIDENT. ; , Racing about 40 miles an 1 our in ■ his ice boat, on Syracuse Lake, Sat- ; urday, Ralph Thornbu’*g Jr., was injured when the run. e droppei off the boat, and the rudder post dug into the ice, stopping the boat within i about 10 feet, Burton Niles, who ‘ was riding with Thornburg, was < throw n out on the ice and slid about ? 100 feet along the ice. Ra ph Jr’s i head struck the steering wheel and one front tooth was broken and seveial other teeth loosened. But he had the damage to the boat welded and was back on the lake again, Sunday. ’ Sunday’s high wind kept the ice ■ boat owners racing, and an accident occurred to the boat of Ed Coy and Maxwell Culler. The masit broke, and Coy slid off the boat at the sudden stop, and along in the water on top of the ice. Culler was wrapped in the sail when it deseended suddenly. j - 0 SYRACUSE DEFEATED i BY NEW PARIS TEAM I I Local Boys Lose Basketball Game In Home Gym, Friday Evening; One Player Out. Not being able to break up New Paris's passing game defeated the Syracuse high school basket ball team in a one sided game Friday night at the high school gymnasium 28 to 19. | Syracuse wes handicaped in the ’ game on account of the absence of’ Bob Searfoss, regular center on the' team, from the line up. Seasfoss re- ; ceived a broken nose in scrimage ; the Wednesday before the game and 1 sat on the sidelines as per instruc-,’ tions from the doctor. Then too,! Voyle Osborn did not play his usual fine game due to a bad cold. If Searfoss had been able to play | and if Osborn had felt his usual self * the score might have been different. | Syracuse had defeated New Paris; once this season by the score of 30, to 22 at an invitational tournament played at l>eesburg. Syracuse won this tournament. However no one can say that New Paris did not play basket ball at the game Friday night. They had*' possession of the ball most of the time —one could safely say twothirds of the playing time. Then New Paris had a player by the name of Cripe—No.< 66, who caused no end of trouble for Syracuse. He made 6 field goals, 2 free throws and missed one free throw, a total of 14 points. i In the previous *New Paris-Syra-cuse game the ball was fed to Ye at er center, when New Paris obtained i possession of the ball, but it looked ] like the New Paris coach had deliberately changed hia team’s style j of play Friday evening, for Cripe < went down under the basket to make i the points. » A New Line Up for Syracuse. |l Cullers, tall reserve center, took I; Searfems's position at center, and4 1 Stucky, who had been sick with thej mumps for some time played in his : usual position as forward. Stucky 11 and Bitner did most of the for Syracuse, Bitner making 74 points and Stucky 6 points. Four of* Stucky’s were from the free throw L line. He only missed one free throw during the game. TThe game started with Cripe of i New Paris making 2 field goals. I (Continued on page 2.) |

SYRACUSE, INDIANA, THURSDAY FEBRUARY 7, 1935.

you got from Wawasee that was 44H inches long and weighed 20 lbs/ 1 ox. was 8 years old. The cisco were 3 and 5 years old and I am writing Menzenberger to that effect. Dr. Scott writes: “Tell Mr. Wysong to send a few more scales next time and to send all pike scales he can. I would like to get enough scales to see just what the average ■ growth of pike in Wawasee actual- | ly is. There was only one good scale i for reading in the bunch. I might be • off a year but I am certain it was not 10 years old. I worked them : over, laid them away and worked I them over again after lunch and came out 8 years both times. Pike may be the answer to some of the l ikes that have nothing much but little perch in them, and it is a thing worth studying. Ask Mr. Wysong to examine the stomachs.” j I know you are going to be imt mensely pleased with Dr. Scott’s suggestion that the pike may be the answer to the barren lakes we often , find. This coincides exactly with I your very flat statement that the . pike had been the answer. Personal- | ly I believe when people realize that • we could get these big fish from Wawrsee the result would be many (Continued on Last Page) HALLECK THANKS PEOPLE FOR VOTE Is Sworn in as Representative From Second District, at Congress Tuesday This Week. Representative C. A. Halleck of Indiana was sworn into Congress at Washington, Tuesday. Halleck, a Republican was elected at a special election necessitated by the death ,of Frederick. -Landis, Republican. The following letter of appreciation has been received from Congressman Halleck: February 1, 1935, Harry L. Porter, Editor The Journal, Syracuse, _ Dear'Mr. Porter: * ' J wish to express to you my sincere thanks for the fine support giv- . en our cause in the special election, i It will ba impossible for me to thank you personally just at this time, but I hope to be able to call on you before too long. ' I would appreciate it greatly if you would express through the column of your paper to your peoi pie my thanks for their fine eoffrts The credit is due to the loyal republicans who worked so hard to get out the vote. The part played by the candidate in the election was indeed small compared to that of the thousands of loyal republican workers all over the district. Yours truly, CHARLES A. HALLECK No Political Machine. The victory of 34 year old Charles A. Halleck of Rensselaer in the Second district congressional race Tuesday was more remarkable than the face of the returns would indicate. This was the first election of national significance in 1935 in which the New Deal was at issue. Halleck attacked the wasteful extravagances of the administration in spending the tax payers money without putting the unemployed to work. Mr. Durgan ran as Roosevelt’s man and not as an individual. Mr. Halleck’s own enthusiasm caused his supporters to work energetically for ids election. He traveled over 7,200 miles over the dis■trict from his nomination date, Dec. 11th, to election 97 > J* o - 29- His great speaking ability fired the people in afternoon, evening, and night meetings. The young republican candidate was backed by purely volunteer local organizations while ths democratic candidate had the complete support of the powerful state Tammany political machine. Henchmen of this ruthless machine swarmed into the district from every part of Indiana. The state payrollers were headed by the democratic state chairman, Omer Stokes Jackson, with the state secretary, Keith Johns, who headquartered in LaFayette during the battle. Dudley Smith democratic publicity director, prepared a “Back the Preddent” advertising campaign which blanketed the district with I toll page advertisements setting out how much government money each community had received under the ■new deal. An propaganda sent out a facsimile of a Western Union Telegram to one county which read: “The erection of a federal building at Delhpi, Ind., is under consideration. On January (Contlnnec «a Last Page)

ANOTHER BIG PIKE CAUGHT LAST WEEK 17tj Pound Beauty Caught by Kistler Six Days After He Landed The 2® Pound Pike. After catching a pike weighing 20 pounds and one oz., on Saturday, Jan. 26, the following Friday morning, Feb. Ist, Russell Kistler'caught another big pike, when fishing through the ice on Lake Wawasee. This one weighed pounds and was 43 inches in length. He reported his catch at once to Milt Wysong of the Conservation Department, and the fish was taken to the fish hatchery, to be kept there to be shipped later to Indianapolis for exhibition purposes, by the department—if it doesn’t die. It is feared it may not live, having been scarred when brought through the ice. In four days during that week, Kistler caught four pike, weight of which totalled 53 pounds. First he caught the 20 pound onei; then last Tuesday he caught one weighing pounds. On Thursday he caught one weighing 8 3 4 pounds—and the 17*3 pound one on Friday morning. There’s big fish in “them thar waters yit. ” Mort Ruple fished with crickets and caught blue gills with ’em too, over the week end. Workers of the FERA when digging nerr Ell hart found a whole drove, or flock, or nest of crickets, far under the frozen top soil, and Ruple captured some of these and brought them back to Wawasee with him. Friends from Fort Wayne caught four 12 inch perch, fishing in 10 feet of water, off Kale Island, Sunday, according to Guy Hayes. Fishermen have been catching big blue gills n Dewart Lake in two feet of water, according to J. H. Godscjialk, who lives nehr the lake. Godschalk said that there were many fishermen, and that helgramites, better known as straw bugs, are the bait commonly used. ■ ! 1 1 (U -j COAL STOLEN FROM GRADE SCHOOL HOUSE Would-be Thieves Interrupted Monday Night When Spied by ? Millard Hire. . r . Monday night about t midnight when “Cy” Hire left his garage, starting to Goshen to work, the headlights of his car flashed on two men at a cellar window of the Grade school house. His wife telephoned to the* night watchman while Cy kept watch. Craft and Roscoe Howard and Orval Snobarger went to the school building at once, but in the shadows, whoever it was, had slipped away. They roused the janitor, Clarence Kline, at his home, arid he opened the building and examination showed that someone —or more—had been trying to gain access to the coal in the cellar of the building. Kline srys this is the fourth time this has happened this winter. That during the Christmas ’ys someone stole about 800 pounds of coal, as nearly as he could estimate it, and had backed a car up to the building and loaded on the coal. That twice since then, coal has been stolen, before this fourth attempt Monday night. Kline said during lone of the excursions into the coal pile, the party had dropped a grocery bill with his name on it—and among the items listed was chewing tobacco which had been bought at the store. So—to your work, Sherlock’s! — p— — MARRIAGE ANNOUNCED Announcement is made of the marriage of Mrs. Elma K. Stewart of Ligonier, and Freeman Moore, owner of the Turkey Creek Golf course, this morning at the Presbyterian manse in Ligonier by the Rev. G. H. Bachelor. They will make their home in Ligonier, following a short wedding trip to Louisville, Ky. Friends here have learned of the marriage of Miss Harriet Foust, daughter of Rev. and Mrs. Foust of Lydick, formerly of Syracuse, to Maurice Bromley of Lydick. The ceremony was performed by the bride’s father, Jan. 24, following which the young couple went on a motor trip to Ohio where relatives were visited. . Wm. Hess, son of Mrs. Pete Goble, and Miss Lenora Pauline Knabell of Albion, daughter of Mrs. May Howard, were married Friday evening by Rev. Jarboe at his home. Miss Helen Les cock, formerly of Syracuse, was married on Jan. 15 to John Martin, a member of the Miami Tribune Staff. They will make their future home in Miamie. Fla.

DO YOU REMEMBER— I I- : I Syracuse Journal—Fev. 4, 1959 When news in the Journal stated: The town board will allow $2 to any man who hauls the cart to the fire and brings it back to the firehouse. A large hotel is being built at Oakwood Park by the Evangelical Association. It is to be three stories high and made of cement blocks. Senator-elect Benjamin F. Shively, when he takes his seat as United States Senator will have the distinction of being the only Democratic Senator north of the Ohio between the Atlantic Ocean and the Rocky Mountains. George Snyder last week concluded negotiations by which he has leased the Milford hotel. While butchering last Monday, Henry Hapner was scalded severely with a pail of hot water. j) jON LAKE WAWASEE! Al Klour of Fort Wayne brought his racing car to Lake Wawasee, Sunday, and had much fun speeding it up, applying brakes, and turning around and around on the ice. He also towed a number of skaters who clung to ropes attached to the rear of the car. Another Ice sport Sunday, was the ice boating in the airplane hull from which wheels and wings had been removed, runners and a Chevrolet mqtor added. Three young men from Marion put the unusual craft on the ice near Wavejand Beach and had a big time. Leslie Leidner and Jerry Snyder of Goshen, when fishing Sunday, caught a few perch, but they soon “froze out” and returned home. Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Mock and daughter visited the M. A. Cotherman home in Ligonier, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Urback and family of Chicago came to their lake home Sunday. They brought a carpenter with them to look over the cottage, to figure on remodeling* it. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Fishack and Mr. and Mrs. Al Fishack and children visited Lake Wawasee, Sunday. Mrs. Lester Blake of Ligonier and Mrs. Mort Ruple of Wawasee were delegates to the convention of the American Legion Auxiliary of the Fourth District in Kendallville last Thursday. Miss Sarah Seaman and party of friends from Chicago spent the week end at the Seaman cottage. Mrs. Grace Olds is spending the winter with her son in Wichita, Kan. Guests of . Mr. and Mrs. Mort Ruple, Sunday, werer*Mr. and Mrs: Jay Losee and Mr. and Mrs. Bill Nelson and daughter from Elkhart. A. W. Emerson claims The Kettle looked like a small village, Sunday. There were so many peopjq on the lake that fishing was almost possible. Miss Velma of Ogden Island plans to go to Indianapolis, Saturday, to spend a week with friends. Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Macy returned home from Florida, Monday. They came byway of the Tennessee Valley project. Earl Menzenberger returned home, Sunday, after a week’s hunting in Tennessee where he killed 22 quail. Mr. Menzenberger started home on Thursday but his car broke down in Kentucky and he had to wait while parts were sent for. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Brown and Miss Lydia Mellinger returned home, Monday, after two weeks’ visit with Mr. anq Mrs. Ed Hogan in Chicago. Dr. W. B. Wallace is ill at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Emerson. INJURES HAND. Hoy Jones, son of Rev. and Mrs. Emeral Jones suffered an injury last week. He attends school in Chicago and while at work with a saw had the tendons in the back of his hand cut. The accident occurred Wednesday last week and he came home, Saturday. u— ANOTHER ROOF FIRE Firemen were called out, Monday morning about 9 o’clock to extinguish the blaze in the roof of the Rapp house where Mr. and Mrs. Hodgson live, near the Charles Bowersox home. The loss was covered by insurance. UNDERGOES OPERATION Harry Ray suffered an attack of acute appendicitis and was taken to the hospital in Warsaw, Monday, where he underwent an operation.

CHANGES IN ‘ TAX BILLS ARE ASKED New Fishing License For Out of State Residents. • . « Os interest in the lake region is the Conservation bill passed by the house and signed by the governor this week which permits a seven-day non-resident license to hunt and fish to be issued for sl. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.—Major taxpaying groups of Indiana joined forces preparatory to placing before the legislature a series of bills to revamp the state’s tax system. New proposals, backed Ify the Associated Retailers of Indiana, the Indiana Wholesale Grocers’ Association, the Indiana Manufacturers Association, the Indiana Farm Bureau, the In- * diana Real Estate Association, include the enactment of a 2 per cent consumers’ tax on all sales of tangible real and personal property, amendment of the present Gross Income tax law, limitation of the tax rate on real and personal property and doubling of the rate on intangibles. On all prqposals excepting those providing for the amendment of the Gross Income tax law the groups announced themselves in full accord, the farm group taking a position in ?avor of increases in gross income tax rates from 1 to 2 per cent, on personal incomes, on the incomes of banks, trust companies, and similar businesses, and on the gross profits from the sales of real estate. The business groups propose amendment of the Gross Income tax law to provide that wholesalers, retailers, manufacturers, jobbers, farmers and utilities be taxed at the rate on % of 1 per cent; brokers, banks, trust companies, building and loan associations, finance companies, dealers in commercial paper, persons engaged in lending money and credit, and insurance and casualty companies, 1 per cent., and gross personal incomes and the gross profits of sales of real estate, 1 per cent. With these differences, all groups announce support of the following program: Enactment of a Consumers’ School Tax law to levy 2 per cent on all sales of tangible personal property at retail, excepting gasoline, and on the commodity or servies of utility and transportation companies and the leases and rents of property, all revenue derived therefrom to be devoted entirely to the schools. Increase in the tax rate on intangibles from 25 cents to 50 cents per (Continued on page 2) TWO DEATHS OCCUR ON SAME EVENING Mrs. Gibson and Mrs. Potter Die in Millersburg Sunday—Funerals Held Yesterday Afternoon. Two deaths occurred in Millersburg, Sunday evening. Mrs. Lillian Gibson, who had lived with her sister, Miss Anna Hulvey the death of her husband 10 years ago, died after a long illness. When the n&ws of her death was telephoned to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Potter, who live in Millersburg, Mr. Potter left at once to help with funeral arrangements. Mrs. Potter hadn’t been well, but had been able to attend church that day. He was gone from the house about half an hour, and when he returned, he found that his wife had died during his absence. Mrs. Gibson was 78 years of age. In addition to her sister she is survived by her brother, who lives in Mobile, Ala. Her niece, Mrs. Avis Bryant arrived from there, j Saturday. Funeral serviced for Mrs. Gibson were held at her home, Wednesday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock with Rev. G. L. Schroyer officiating. Mrs. Ida Potter was 63 years of age. In addition to her husband she is survived by two children of a former marriage: Mrs. Allie Gard of Elkhart and Israel Roach of Denver, Col., and six grand children; three sisters, Mrs. Martha Bolinger of Millersburg, Mrs. Nancy Moseman of Ligonier; Mrs. Mary Smith of Elkhart; three brothers, Seymour, Moses and Cassius of Bentoh. Funeral services for Mrs. Potter were held Wednesday afternoon at 3:00 o’clock at the Lutheran church, with Rev. Schroyer officiating. Burial was in the Rice cemetery in Elkhart. JIKRU

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