The Syracuse Journal, Volume 29, Number 39, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 28 January 1937 — Page 2

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Lake Country Boatmen Aid Flood Victims

Boat Crews Os Syracuse Reach Isolated R egions large motor boat by Dr. Nevin Bretz of Lake Wawasee and Goshen and a boat by Ralph Nash of Lake Wawasee. Motors and other boats were furnished by Joseph Rapp, Wallace Howard, Wales M. Macy, Ernest Bushong, Pel Clayton and H. C. Harkless. . t o , ... The crew of volunteers that accompanied Snobarger included Robert Searfoss, Leonard Drukamiller, Fred Clayton, Robert Strock. Dari Burkett and James McClintic. Many Contributions Local business men and individuals who generously contributed food, gasoline and oil, clothing' and other equipment for the two boat crews included, William Irwin of Pure Oil Company. James Kemp of Standard Oil Company, H. C. Harkless garage Dee Stivers of Schell Gas Station, Hoover’s Gas Station, Rogers Service Station, Wright’s Grocery, Fred Hoopengarner of Syracuse Auto Sales, John Greiger of Greiger’s Grocery, L. A. Seiders of Seider’s Grocery, Everett Ketering of The Homestore, C C Bachman and Hilery Bachman of Bachman’s Grocery, Ross Osborn of Osborn Hardware and Ralph Thornburg of Thornburg Drug Company. Contributors of cash to finance the crews ineluded the Chamber of Commerce, the Conservation Club, Frank Hartzer of Hartzer Construction Company, W. J. Laughlin of South Bend and Syracuse, roofing contractor, Joel Wilt of Wilt’s Industries and Noble Myers of Northern Indiana Public Service. The second unit was assigned to three large State Highway Commission trucks and reported to headquarters at Indianapolis. They were dispatched to Shelbyville and Madison where they established headquarters Tuesday and began the work of rescue and relief. More Help Offered More requests caused the formation of a third unit here Tuesday. Ralph Teeter, engineer, president of the Society of Automotive Engineers, and well known Lake Wawasee resident and Hagerstown, industralist, notified Wales M. Macy that his large power boat is at the service of the flood stricken. This boat, a 15 passenger craft was loaded onto a large truck and sent to Indianapolis headquarters whfere it was dispatched ot the stricken area. . , Eli Lilly, one of the oldest and most prominent residents ot Lake Wawasee, owner of the Eli Lilly Drug Company in Indian- j apolis has contributed huge supplies of medicine and medical equipment to the Red Cross and relief agencies. f I Local Red Cross Active Wilmot Jones, jr., owner of Jones Dairy here, was the first to leave Syracuse foft the flood relief work. At the request of Mrs. May Kindig, local Red Cross chairman, a number of volunteer workers collected a truck load of clothing and food supplies. Jones contributed 300 gallons of fresh milk, and left here Monday afternoon with his truck laden with Red Cross contributions and much of the contributed material. Still Call For Aid Throughout the whole southern district of Indiana there are continued calls for aid. Every community in this section is responding generously and liberally. There have been so many splendid gestures and so many liberal contributors, that it is impossible to record them all. From every section of Northern Indiana comes reports of volunteer work and. generosity. North Webster citizens have sent a 14 passenger boat to New Albany and a truck load of milk was also dispatched by the American Legion Post there. Goshen has sent tons of food and supplies and the Star Tank and Boat Company have shipped a number of power boats from Goshen. Whole County Helps At Warsaw, the county seat of this county, the Red Cross, the American Legion and county officials have sent boats, food and clothing in large quantities. An appeal for boats Sunday resulted in a contingent leaving Warsaw shortly before Sunday midnight. Motorboats were donated by Bruce Pierce, of Tippecnoe lake; Barney Peebles, of Chapman Lake; and Clarence Dillman, John Call, Bob Hodges and Will Coleman, of Warsaw. Trucks for the transportation of the boats to the area were donated by Archie Byler, Warsaw trucker; Ed Collins, ice cream manufacturer, and Gerald Overmyer, automobile dealer. Those in the party who will work in shifts in navigating the boats are: Bruce Pierce, Barney Peebles, Robert Hay, Clarence Dillman, Raymond Neff, Leonard Wolford, Eugene Kinch, Wayne Outcelt, Fred Hillegas, John Call, Lyle Stokes, Bob Hodges and Ernest Nichols. Report Acute Suffering From the stricken area comes reports of great suffering and repeated calls for aid. Military law has been established by order of Governor Clifford Townsend, in 33 counties. This affects over 700,000 people. In addition to National Guard units already on duty, all units in the state have been mobolized and are being held ready to entrain for the area if needed. Adjutant General Elmer F. Straub is in direct charge of evacuation and relief work. He issued specific orders early this week that flood victims should be moved to safe areas entirely outside the flooded district. This enormous task has taxed the facilities of the state and citizens have been called on for voluneter work, the use of trucks, boats, radios and autos, contributions of food, medicine, clothing and supplies. Send Federal Aid Federal aid has been provided to all of the stricken states by order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Contingents of regular army. Civilian Conservation Corps, Coast Guard, Marines, Navy, and every Federal relief agency have been- dispatched in large numbers to the flooded zones. Loss is estimated in millions of dollars. More than a million persons have suffered losses of their homes and property. Scores of lives have been lost. Thousands are suffering from cold, exposure and illness, and every precaution is being, taken to prevent epidemics. This whole section, nearly one-fifth of the nation is experiencing its worst catastrophe in years. Relief and rescue work is on a war-time basis. The resources of the government, local, state and national have been mobolized to meet the tcrisis. But this is not enough. The mass contributions of the individual are needed to cope with the situation. The nation is responding most generously as a whole.

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Theater Marquee Sign Carries Ironic Message < : -W.: ■ Lz ' I There’s something ironic in the message of this theater sign at Marietta, 0., which announces “One Way Passage” and “March of Time” as the flood courses down the street at height almost level with the marquee.

PICKWICK PARK ROAD IS REINC STRAIGHTENED d Rapid progress is being made upon the improvement of the highway from State Route 13 to Pickwick Park, south of Syracuse. A county project, over a quarter of mile of road is being relocated to eliminate sharp curves where accidents including one fatality in recent years have occurred. At this point the road has beeli little more than a winding lane. Although picturesque, it has been too narrow and dangerous for fast auto travel, and county officials.have decided the relocation should be made. When completed; the road will be almost without curves from Route 13 to Pickwick Park and Kale Island; and is regarded by lake and town residents as one of the better improvements made here by the county for sometime.

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Ready for Work ..:4m - Dorothy Mackall, motion picture luminary, who has been in England a long time, is shown as she arrived at New York to visit old friends and possibly make a picture in Holly* wood.

LIONS CLUB IS ORGANIZED BY LOCAL GROUP A number of business and professional men of Syracuse and Lake Wawasee have organized a Lions Club in Syracuse. With the help of G. W. Bormuth, special representative of Lions International 350 McCormick Building, Chicago, Illinois. 20 charter members have been obtained. Several more have expressed a desire to join, but charter membership for Syracuse was fixed at 20. However, the club will admit any number of members over 20, but that figure was fixed as the limit to obtain a charter from Lions International. * Clubs In Eight Countries. • There are Lions Clubs in eight coutries, with 2,800 in the United States, having a total membership of over 100,000. The Lions Club here will serve the community in many ways, such as welfare work, civic service of all kinds, promotion of goodwill with other communities, a broad rural program to attract farm trade, a broad publicity program cooperating wiht other Lions Clubs in Northern Indiana to publicize this section as vacation and industrial territory, and to promote high ethical stadards in all business and professions.

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NEW EXCUSE PORTLAND, Ore. Jan. 28 (INS) —A young importer’s novel alibi got him off with a suspended sentence when the appeared in police court here on a chage of impersonating an officer. The 19-year-old youth was arrested when he flashed a policeman’s badge in a beer parlods “You see, Judge” he told Police Judge Cohn, “I only showed the badge so they wouldn’t sell beer to my girl—-I don’t like to have her drink!” He was given a thirty-day suspended senteuce. Black-Headed Gull NEWBURYPORT. Mass., Jan. 28 (INS) —After weeks of patient waiting, ornithologists have succeeded in capturing a black-headed gull on the flats of the Merrimac River harbor, the second of that species ever observed in the Western hemisphere. The other time was in 1930 and the bird then was also seen here.

BACHMAN’S Your Food Dollars Go Further With Us. Peas, No. 2 can dried, quality excellent * 3 cans >- 19c Sugar, 10 lb. cloth bag -55 c Sweet Corn, good quality, No. 2 can each 10c Red Beans, No. 2 size can, 3 cans —25 c Pillsbury Flour, 24 lb. bag. $1.15 Chase & Sanborn Coffee, lb. 25c Fruits and Vegetables Grapefruit, Texas Seedless, 7 for 25c New Texas Cabbage, lb. 5c Fresh Spinach, lb. ... 8c Bulk Pitted Dates, lb. 10c Lowest Prices on California Oranges MEATS Young Tender Rib Boil lb., 10c Heavy Beef Roasts, lb. 17c Short Steaks lb. 20c Lean Slab Bacon, 1-2 or whole, lb. 25c Chumgold, Fine Quality Oleo, lb 17c Phone 12 We Deliver

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DOUBLE CATCH WOODLAND, Wasji., Jan. 28 (INS) —Two rats were caught in the same trap here, according to Troy Horton, assistant postmaster. Horton said the rat apparently started for the bait at the ame time, finishing in a “dead” heat.. They were trapped together, with head and shoulders touching. EXPENSIVE SEEDS CHEHALIS, Wash., Jan. 2S (INS) —The production of field seeds became an important part of the agricultural program in Lewis county | during 1936, bringing in about $37,000 in revenue during the year. The largest single sum was paid for red clover seed, which brought in” about $24,000 for nearly sixty tons.

SAVE AT. iGREIGER’S • Swiss Steak, lb. • • •Bacon lb. 15c* • • • Rib Boiling Beef, lb. 9c* • • SCube Steak, lb. __x 19cZ • • *2 lb. Beef Liver 25cJ •■' • j *2 lb. Bologna 21cJ •2 lb. Frankfurts 25c* • 2 lb. Minced Ham 25c. ! • •' • • •12 ot. can Corned Beef 18c • ■• , • i ’Red Bag Coffee, lb. • 3 lb. bag 48c. ’Chase & Sanborn Coffee, .lb. 25c * ' • • 3 cans Grape Fruit 25c »i • ' j •1 lb. pkg. Marshmallows 15c* : : • 10 lb. sack Table Salt 14c«j • • •Super Suds, large c 17c* • smi|ll 9c* • Palmolive Soap, bar —SL • • • •Strawberries, Leaf Lettuce, Broc-J - •coli. White and- Red Grapes,* ; • Tomatoes, Celery Hearts •