Edward L. Ropella, a former local resident, is being held in the county jail at LA, CA on a charge of passing checks with insufficient funds and in a letter to the Daily Journal requests relatives in Portage county to come to his aid financially. Mr. Ropella writes the Journal as follows: "In the situation I am in at present I am forced to write to your paper, asking you to locate some of my relatives as I am in need of financial help. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Ropella an uncle and aunt, may still