The Syracuse Journal, Volume 29, Number 39, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 28 January 1937 — Page 1

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Local Red Cross Appeals For Flood Funds

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News Flashes LATEST BULLETIN FROM SYRACUSE RESCUE CREW Orval Snobarger, captain of the second crew to be sent from here with boats for rescue work telephoned this afternoon from Scottsburg, Indina, thiry milesfrom New Albany. He stated his unit and that commanded by Captain Merl Harkless are working in New Albany, and have done considerable rescue and relief work. “All our men are well,” he said. ::We have plenty to eat and are all safe and sound.” These volunteers who are here from Syracuse and Lake Wawasee, are doing work that is creditable to the community. < Suffering in the district where the local crews are stationed has been acute, Captain Snobarger added. The local relief units have been instrumental in taking many to points of safety, providing food and supplies for the needy and are cooperating in every way with all relief agencies. Captain Snobarger drove in his auto from New Albany to Scottsburg, Indiana, a distance of thirty miles, to make the telephone call. He also said he had contacted other crews from North Webster and Warsaw, all of whom are safe and welt

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Thtu Americart Red Cross is ap-1 pealing to all Red Crass Chapters for contributions and assistance to aid the flood victims in this and [ other sttes where there is acute suffering. , I According to Mrs. May Kindig, chairman of the local Red Cross Chapter. Syracuse has been asked to provide as much as it can raise in cash contributions and to furnish quanties of clothing and bedding. The first call for help here came to Mrs. Kindig from Warsaw, Saturday afternoon, Mrs. Kindig stated. | She immediately contacted officials of churches, schools, clubs and societies for this assistance, and by Monday thirty large bundles of clothing and bedding had been assembled and dispatched to Indianapolis by I Wilmet Jones, jr., who also took a supply of milk. Mrs. Kindig stated yesterday that'

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1 about $l4O in cash had been collected but more cash contributions are needed. The demands placed upon t,he Red Cross and other agencies are the greatest the state has ever experienced, and thousands of dollars are needed to carry on the program of help to the flood victims. Persons desiring to make contributions should telephone Mrs. Kindig. In commenting upon the generosity of local people, Mrs. Kindig said everyone requested to help has re- i sponded most generously, and much i good work has been done by many | volunteers. She particularly praised Best Whitehead, postmaster, who aided in collecting much of the money, contributed locally. “The need is great in Southern Indiana and other stricken areas, and if you can contribute, even a small | amount,” Mrs. Kindig concluded,” 1 “it will do a world of good.”

RUSH AID TO FLOOD ZONES

FOREST CAMPS SEND HELP FOR FLOOD VICTIMS Wawasee Unit Sends Tfucks And Men to River Valley The Emergency Conservation Work State Forest Camps, under the direction of H. A. Woods, State Forester, are throwing all their resources into the fight against the rising waters, which threatens the lives and property of southern Indiana citizens. The southern camps at Corydon, Hyenryville Winslow, Ferdinand, Brownstown, Nashville, Martinsville and Linton have already sent men| and trucks to the danger spots. Approximately fifty of their trucks are now in use, either taking refugees from the stricken areas or hauling food and clothing to those in need. The northern camps at Bluffton, Lagro, Wawasee and Medaryville are sending their trucks to help the Army at Fort Harrison in the transportation of much needed supplies to the flooded areas. Both men and trucks will continue to aid in this work until all danger passes. Theatre Employees Contribute $45.00 With the eall here for flood relief,)! employes on the W. E. Long Theatre construction project, have voluntarily contributed $45 for the aid of flood victims. Officials of : the contracting firm employing these men state the money would be paid Saturday to the Syracuse-Wawasee ' Community Chamber of Commerce, to be used in whatever way the organization desires for flood relief. The organization has financed several boat crews and has been doing everything possible to cooperate with i the Red Cross and American Legion | in aiding stricken communities.

SYRACUSE BOATMEN TO RESCUE 'I I I ■BhSHHr * r W HE , Trr . _ Lake Wawasee and Syracuse residents are shown here loading the first boats to be sent to the flooded area in Southern Indiana. The boats were loaned by local boats companies. Shown in the picture are members of Lake Wawasee Rescue Unit No. 1, Richard Call, Tad Ketring, Joseph Greene, Irvin Bishop, Dal 1 Kitson and Merl Harkless.

SYRACUSE, INDIANA THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1937

Indiana Flood Flashes By The International News Service BEDFORD^—Mrs. Louise Elrod claimed the body of her husband, a bakery truck driver® who shot himself when he believed his family lost in Louisville. Efforts to contact his wife had failed. LAWRENCEBURG—Maj. Walter Fowler seeks the parents of three tiny babies found alone here. Parrot Calls for Help. MITCHELL —The raucous voice of a parrot brought by Mrs George Jetta from Louisville cried out: “Get me out of here. Don’t let the water touch me. Why don’t they bring a beat?” EVANSVILLE — To meet a shortage of rubber boots relief officials are gathering auto inner tubes which are vulcanized and fashioned into crude boots. LAFAYETTE — Among relief garments collected here were two bathing caps and a bathing suit. The suit was sent on to be used as, underwear. MITCHELL —An elderly woman, one of 400 refugees brought here, clutched desperately at a cage containing a. canary. It was all she saved from her home. Lakes Lose Their Boats. SOUTH BEND—Northern Indiana’s many lakes have been stripped of all boats which have been sent to the flooded area. Large shipments of boats went from Warsaw and Culver Military Academy sent thirty naval cutters and rowboats, fully equipped. INDIANAPOLIS—An old man dressed in overalls has met every train from the south, seeking his son among the refugees.

FEARMORERAIN IN FLOOD AREA OF SO.JNDIANA Oil And Polluted Water Seen As New Menace INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 27 (INS)— “Get out before you HAVE to get out!” This blunt warning to residents of harried Evansville went forward tonight from Maj. Gen. Robert H. Tyndall, commanding the Indiana national guard. “Unless you do get out,’’ he added, “conditios may parallel those at The river in Evansville tonight was measured at a stage of 52.87 feet after, rising at the rate of about a tenth of a foot every three hours. Despite predictions of rain or snow tomorrow, John Hagan, -acting weather bureau head in Evansville, for the second successive • day re- j vised downward his crest prediction, | He predicted the crest would be. reached tomorrow at 53 or 53.6 feet. This was good news to a long-suffer-ing population. The earlier predicted crest had been 54 or 55 feet. The Ohio was stationary today in the Madison-New Albany and Jeffersonville areas. A rise threatened residents at Vevay. Fear Sea Wall Break. The situation at Evansville will be most serious if its hand-buffeted million-dollar sea wall crumples. It would add another 75,000 to the present homeless, estimated at between 15,000 and 20,000. Another menace developed today when it was discovered that a leak had resulted in pollution of the city’s entire water supply and that it would be necessary to ration sparingly the pure water which had been rushed to the city in tank cars. Mayor William H. Dress of Evansville reported: “It is conceivable that within twenty-four hours we could have a terrible outbreak of dessentery or typhoid fever here,” and Governor M. Clifford Townsend added that the water shortage in Evansville “is the greatest problem of the disaster.”

Volunteers Rush Fifteen Boats To Stricken Areas I V 7 ’ ,i Red Cross and Other Civic Units of Syracuse and Lake Wawasee Respond to Distress Calls . Following urgent appeals from state officials, and relief agencies, for boats and supplies in jhe flooded areas of Southern Indiana, residents of Syracuse and Lake Wawasee have united in a determined effort to send their every resource to the help of stricken Hoosiers. From this little community of less than .2,000 persons, over $30,000 worth of equipment, 20 volunteers comprising three rescue crews and nearly a thousand dollars worth of food and clothing have been sent into the stricken area. For the first time in the history of Syracuse, the community has been called upon to share an emergency so great, that it is beyond the imagination of most people. Appeals were sent for aid to all of Northern Indiana’s Lake Country, but Syracuse and Lake Wawasee responded more liberally than larger places. Inexperienced in forming rescue and relief expeditions, The Syracuse-Wawasee Community Chamber of Commerce and the Wawasee Conservation Club and local Red Cross have sent the most completely equipped units possible to the flooded area. Under the leadership of Warren T. Colwell, Wales M. Macy, F. Allan Weatherholt and Roscoe Howard, officers and members of the Chamber of Commerce, the plan of organization was speedily carried out. Form Complete Unit Merle Harkless captained the first unit of boats to leave here. His contingent included eleven volunteers, eight motor boats equipped with rescue material and motors, food for the crew, first aid supplies and medicine and quantities of gasoline and oil as fuel for the motors. Accompanying Harkless were Tad Ketering, driver of the Kosciusko Distributing Company’s truck, which was donated by Ross Osborn, and the following experienced boatmen and mechanics, Albert Call, Joseph Greene, Dalas Kitson, Chris Baumgartner, Albert Ward, Nelson Strock, Richard Call, Irvine Bishop, and James Mench. Radio Equipment The unit was equipped with radio and in addition to the closed truck in which they will travel, haul their equipment and live, James Mench, local radio dealer also took his car, and his radio equipment. As a whole the unit was equipped to care for itself in every way and to render every possible service to those in distress. Sent to New Albany The first unit arrived in Indianapolis Monday night and after reporting to American Legion Headquarters there, was dispatched immediately to New Albany. On Tuesday noon, the following telegram was received: Secretary Chamber of Commerce, Captain Harkless and Captain Bishop arrived at New Albany with complete unit of eight motor boats and crew of men. They have established headquarters here. Many thanks. Signed, New Albany Police Commissioner. Answer Second Call After the first unit had been dispatched, requests were received for more aid. Work started immediately to form another unit and late Monday night, Orval Snobarger left with three trucks, boats and a crew. The unit was equally well equipped, and larger boats were sent. The equipment included a large ten passenger power boat, contributed by Harry Bunger, a high-powered cabin cruiser contributed by Cliff Richardson of Elkhart and Lake Wawasee, a

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