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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1936 Funds PAGE SIX THE NEWS-PALLADIUM United 1 States, Britain, France Pool Stabilization ACTION TAKEN TO MAINTAIN THOUSANDS IN TEXAS DRIVEN FROM HOMES FOUR KILLED IN ACCIDENTS IN NEW FLOOR SHOW Spanish City Of To ledo Held By Fascist Forces FOURTH DISTRICT LEGION MEETING HELD HERE SUNDAY (Continued From Page One) (Continued From Page One)' and would not threaten the town itself. vrxx 1 si a tesiffi Jill rpSS dSSW Hp? i Ii4 kit nls "4.1 Above are members of the cast of the musical and dancing revue featured at the Dwan Recreation gardens this week. There are nine other acts. John Postelli, a fanner residing east of Benton Harbor. Hirsch was rushed to Mercy hospital in Dean's ambulance.

He died this forenoon. Ferris was cut and bruised but not seriously injured, according to the report filed by Deputies Vera Story and Charles Davis. Last, Steltman, Schultz, and Brant were injured at 6 o'clock Saturday night at the intersection of Jennings and May street in the southern section of Benton Harbor. According to the report filed by Deputies Story and Davis, Last was driving north on Jennings avenue and young Steltman was going east on May street. Brant and Schulta were riding with-- Steltman and all three were taken to the Mercy hospital.

Last was treated by Dr. R. B. Taber. Body Found On Track James Murphy, 31, a farm laborer whoso home is in St.

Louis, was killed some time Sunday morning by a Pere Marquette train about a mile east of Watervliet. The body of the was sighted by the crew of a train-which passed the scene of the accident at 8:30 o'clock Sunday morning. Railroad officials together with Coroner Rolland J. Brown and Chief Deputy Sheriff Erwin H. Kubath are of the opinion that the man was killed sometime between 10 o'clock Saturday night and 6 o'clock Sunday morning.

Murphy's head was crushed and his body was cut to pieces. The remains were taken to the Keasey undertaking parlors in Watervliet where the body is being held pending word from relatives in St. Louis, who were notified Sunday morning by Sheriff Charles L. Miller. According to information obtained by Chief Deputy Kubath and Coroner Brown, Mjirphy was employed at the Fred Hentchell farm and was last seen at 10 o'clock Sunday night.

A quarter bottle of wine about one-fourth full was found near his body. An unopened letter delivered to the Henry Piatt home where he used to work which the victim had not seen, was from his mother, Mrs. B. Layser, of 4608 Newport avenue, St. Louis.

It was written on September 21, and it urged Murphy to communicate with his mother at once as she stated she was anxious to renew his insurance policy. Deputy Sheriff Oscar Smith, who aided Kubath and Dr. Brown In the investigation, revealed that Murphy usually walked to the Hentchell farm up the tracks a mile and, a half east of Watervliet. The investigators stated that the blood from the mangled body had been washed away by the rain which substantiated their belief that he was killed some time Saturday night or early Sunday morning. Car Hits Tree Willard Poulin, victim of the Van Buren county crash, died instantly Saturday evening at 5 o'clock when he lost control of the automobile which he was driving north from his home.

The car went into a ditch and was wrecked against a tree. Poulin was the son of Mr. and Mrs. David Poulin of Waverly township, Van Buren county. He leaves his parents, a brother, David Poulin, of Chicago, and two sisters, Mrs.

Alice Gustafson, Paw Paw, and Mrs. Rose Sweet land, Kalamazoo. After Press Time With the capture of Toledo, Spain, by Fascist forces yesterday, the siege of the famous Alcazar fortress, above, was lifted. For weeks the Alcazar, with its garrison, women and children, was under constant bombardment from the Spanish government militia. (By Associated Press) A Fascist army, 8,000 strong, commanded the ancient city of Toledo today after routing government defenders and freeing comrades from the ruins of the long-besieged fortress Alcazar.

The government forces fled to the south and east, their path north to Madrid blocked by insurgents. In ragged flight, the loyalist militia stopped at intervals to shell Toledo and then sped on their way. The Fascist troops smashed their way Into the city yesterday afternoon. Their first step was to free the joyous Alcazar defenders, who for 10 weeks had resisted shell fire, dynamite and gasoline fumes directed against their battered fortress by government fighters. The Alcazar force joined in the battle and the last Socialist lines scattered and fled.

Madrid Next Objective Next objective of the Fascist army, consolidating its lines here, was expected to be a crushing drive toward Madrid, 40 miles to the north. LEVELS: Secretary Morpenlhau's Drastic Action Last Week Paves Way BY WILLIAM S. ARDERY (Associate Prfw Staff Writer) WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 Gov- eminent monetary experts disclosed today that Great Britain. Franc? and the United States will effect a close.

co-ordinated working arrangement i for handling their stabilization funds under the new monetary agreement. SecretaryljIorgenthau acted independently of the other two nations when he moved Saturday to halt a rfmirBrH sweeD in the price of pounds sterling, but. officials said that In the luturc acuuurs i countries will be more closely integrated. They explained that Morgenthau wed $5,000,000 of the Treasury's 92,000.000,000 exchange stabilization fund to buv pounds without consulting Great Britain and France becatise-he wanted to act swiftly to halt the drop of sterling and because exchanges in Paris Rnd London were closed. How Plan Will Work The government monetary experts, said that handling of the three nation's stabilization funds will be coordinated by the Bank of England, the Bank of France and the Federal Reserve system.

These agerffcies will consult whenever any development in international exchange might warrant the buying or selling of currencies to prevent disturbances in exchange rates, officials said, and will keep each other advised of any contemplated action. The United States and Great Britain had established stabilization funds for the protection of their own currencies long before the three-power monetary accord was reached last Saturday. The understanding provided for the establishment of such a fund by France. Apparently to serve notice that he would not hesitate to protect currencies of the three signatory nations, Morgenthau made public his vse of the Treasury's stabilization fund in buying 1,000,000 pounds he isald were offered, in the market by the Russian state bank. It was not expected, however, that a general policy of announcing such operations would be followed in the future.

Since it was set up in 1934 opera-lions of the Treasury's stabilization fund have been a secret. Only once before last Saturday had there been any intimation of how or when it was used. The other exception was when this country went to the aid of the franc last year. Reports "Handsome Profit" Morgenthau told reporters that pound were bought at prices which would give the Treasury a "handsome profit," and said the stabilization fund also had made profits from operations in the past. How much these amount to is not known, however, and for this reason none except high Treasury officials know the exact amount in the stabilization fund.

Thus far only $200,000,000. or one- tenth, of the fund has been placed in a "working account" for international exchange operations. Morgenthau told reports, however, that he was willing to go "the limit" in protecting the currencies of the three nations and that the limit wa.s "two billion dollars." Unless extended by Congress, authority for maintaining the stabilization fund will expire January 30. Morgenthau said he will recommend continuance of the fund. "I certainly shall recommend that it be continued." he said.

"I know nf no better insurance fund the United States could have than the stabilization fund." FIRES KILL 7 IN FAR WEST (Continued From Page -One) controlled advance was given by citv manager John Fasnacht of BaYdori. In that community of 1.500, he saw the flames leap from tree to tree, sending burning embers crashing onto roofs and in streets. He told of aiding in firhtins a fire at Bear Creek, five miles of Ban-don, late Saturday; of tubsequoiu and futile attempts to save the citv 'reservoir; and then of the rush for the beach and safety when firemen were forced to abandon their equipment to the flames. Residents saved nothing but that which they eouM carry. 200,000 Acres Swept By Fire taniomia authorities acres had ben swept bv fire in that state in the past two davs I The Oregon holocaust broke looe 1 northeast of Bandon late 'saturdav I By Sunday morning that town was in ashes.

Prosper, across the river shared the samP fat 1 Traveling with incredible frvnall frc through tree-tops toward Coquille: destroyed suburban buildings on the: outskirts or that town and sent offshoots for miles around the country. Other fires, nourished in tinder-dry underbrush and fanned by a swirling breeze, sprang up along more than 200 miles of coastline. Coc-uille, Coos county seat with a population of. 3,000 about 18 miles inland from Bandon, was saved, at least temporarily, by a cessation of wind. The same held true at Marshfield, about 6,000 population, on Coos Bay 18 miles north of Coquille, and at North Bend, of almost equal size, three miles north of Marshfield.

In Curry county to the south, the (owns of Port Orford (500 population) MONEY a i I 1 Brazos river waters started receding at Waco as 2,500 homeless sought emergency relief. The flood stage was 38 feet at 9 a. m. as compared to 41 at its height. W.

T. Torrance, city manager of Waco, estimated at $500,000. Towns Without Gas Seventeen towns below Waco were without gas when the Lone Star Gas company's suspension bridge on the Brazos was washed out. The towns are Temple, Belton, Little River, Moody, Eddy, Holland, Cameron, Rockdale. Rosebud, Lott, Taylor, Troy, Georgetown, Round Rock, Granger.

South Waco and Bartlett. The Temple waterworks pumping station wasthreatened when the Leon river reached the 21 -foot flood stage. Pumps were used to empty the water, and the Temple Telegram reported the water supply was not immediately in danger. The 22-fcot rise of the Leon river was expected to strike Coryell county late today. Three Forks residents reported several homes had been washed downstream there, where the Lampases ami Leon rivers join to form the Little river.

No loss of life was reported. The Lampasas river, fed by the Sulphur creek after an inch rain, receding today at Lampases. The- public square was flooded, water standing from a few inches to eight feet deep in some sections of the town. No estimate of the property loss was immediately available. Between 50 and 75 families were forced to evacuate lowlands homes near Lampasas.

The Colorado river, 18 miles west of the town, was at a 20 foot stage 36 feet less than last week's disastrous rise. A few miles west of San Saba the San Saba river was rapidly receding. Rains were general over north, central and southwest Texas again today. At Kerrville, the Guadalupe river rose 29 feet. Heavy rainfall was reported at San Benito.

Denton, Sherman, Paris, Tyler and other points. Rains on the upper watershead of the Trinity river late yesterday sent the stream out of its banks at Dal las. Lowland dwellers were warned to evacuate their homes after the stream rose seven feet in two hours early today. The Colorado inched toward a 34- foot flood crest at Austin, forcing 250 families to flee their homes and cov ering 150 yards of San Antonio high- way at the city's southern outskirts Jack Wilson, of Del valley, swam a quarter of a mile to aid 22 men marooned three miles from the city on city project cut off from the mainland by high waters. Firemen followed Wiison in boats and brought the men to safety.

TERRIFIC GAS BLAST KILLS TWO AT FLINT (Continued From Page One) building when the explosion occurred, some of them salesmen attending a meeting in the offices. Two of the employes were women. Some of the injured from the wreckage and wlth-had stopped for service. Passersby helped firemen carry the injured from the drackage and within 10 minutes after the explosion 15 injured were in hospitals. The home of Mrs.

Mary A. Cole, adjoining the station, was damaged badly. Mrs. Cole, Mrs. Ora Jones and two lodgers in the house escaped injury, although Mrs.

Cole was suffering from shock. Morrison Stewart, one of the lodg-i crs, said he heard a heavy explosion, followed by several lesser blasts, from a window, he saw debris flying through the air. TRUCK RUNS AWAY DOWN HILL, CRASHES INTO, DAMAGES AUTO A truck belonging to the Tri-State Motor Express which coasted down hill when the air brakes loosened resulted in damage to a car owned by Ken Truhn, of 1005 Michigan street, St. Joseph, which. was parked on Territorial road at 2:15 this morning.

According to the reports of police the Tri-State truck and trailer was parked on Territorial road in front of the offices of Mammina the owners. The driver, Charles Ewers, left the motor running. After he had left the truck the motor stopped, and the air supply became lowered to a point that permitted the large truck and trailer to coast down hill. The large vehicle crashed into Truhn's car which was parked 15 feet behind Ewer's truck. The left fender, bumper and headlights were smashed on Truhn's car, police stated.

EAU CLAIRE EAU CLAIRE, Sept. 28 On Monday, October 5, the American Legion will enjoy a fish supper if the mem-mers catch the fish. A prize of a fine fly rod is offered by William Brown to the member catching the largest bass. Victor Kerstetter arrivd home Wednesday from Oregon to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Neal Kerstetter. He hasn't been home for two years. by George Banner, of rdute five. South Bend. Banner, a white man, was unhurt.

Cuts and bruises were received by Jones, his mother, Mrs. Frank Jones, a sister, Mrs. Evaline Jeffries, and her daughter, Peggy. Mrs. Natalie Smith, another passenger, suffered two broken ribs.

All were released from Pawating hospital in Niles after treatment. Local Adventurer Decides To Spend Winter In Arctic Atty. W. M. Cunningham of Ben- ton Harbor, a Naval officer during the World war, acted as teastmaster for the annual banquet meeting here Sunday cf the Fourth District American Legion.

One-hundred and fifty Legionnaires -from- the six counties of-the Fourth. congressional district convened here Sunday afternoon in the Hotel Vincent for a 12:30 o'clock banquet served by ladles of the Legion auxiliary, and the annual election of officers and business meeting following the dinner. A. R. Wade of Plainwell was elected commander of the Fourth district organization; Frank Pond of South Haven, district committeeman; Frank Sikorskl of Allegan, senior vice-commander; Jack Raeside of Benton Har- bor, re-elected junior vice-commander; Rev.

John Henry of Three Oaks, chaplain; Frr John R. Day of Three Oaks, re-elected district welfare officer; Thomas Botham of Bridgman, member of the executive committee; and Will Tenner of 'Benton Harbor, sergeant-at-arms. City Attorney Wilbur M. Cunningham of Benton Harbor, acting as toastmaster, presented Frank Pond, South Haven legionnaire, who gave a report on the Michigan convention, while Tom Botham and Verne Adams of Three Rivers gave reports on the national Legion convention. Cunningham also presided over the annual election of officers.

DEATH CLAIMS ROSE ROBERTS OF LAWRENCE 1 LAWRENCE, Sept. 28 Mrs. Rose Violet Roberts, 59, a former resident of Benton Harbor and living at Lawrence for the past 10 years, died Sat-" urday at 6:30 p. m. at their farm home two miles southwest of this village.

Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon nt 2 o'clock from the Methodist church in Lawrence, with the Rev. W. P. Manning officiating. Burial will be made in Crystal Springs cemetery at Benton Harbor.

She leaves her husband, William Roberts. A son, W'illiam, died 11 years ago. Mrs. Roberts had been a member of the Rebekah order and of the Mctho dist church. Stricken last Tuesday with a stroke of paralysis, she failed to recover consciousness and died Saturday.

The family moved to Lawrence from Benton Harbor in 1926. PAW PAW BARN BURNS TODAY; LOSS $2,500 PAW PAW, Sept. 28 Fire caused $2,500 loss on the Julius Pctrouski farm, one and one-half miles west of Paw today. A largebrh7 in which-hayTind most of his 1936 apple crop was stored, burned to the ground despite efforts of Paw Paw volunteer firemen '1 to save it. GOBLES STUDENTS LEAVE FOR COLLEGE GOBLES, Sept.

28 Gobies Young people who have left during the past week to attend college include: George Ryno, La Rue Stanton and William Clement, Ann Arbor; Misi Georgia Styles, Forest Thompson and Fred Nlles, Western State Teachers college, Kalamazoo; Myron Seeder, Michigan State. Seeder won a scholarship in a competitive examination with 300 contestants. He was a member of the 1936 class of Gobies high school. COLOMA COLOMA, Sept. 18 Mr.

and Mrs, Joseph E. Deflelds, from Shreveport, arrived in Coloma for a short visit with Mr. DeFlclds' family. Mr. DeFields drove? the 1,000 mile trip in 24 hours.

He enlisted In the Army eight years ago. He lias served In the Infantry and air corps. The last four years he has been in the quartermasters corps as chief mechanic at Barks-dale Field. Mr. and Mrs.

DeFields are planning to leave for their home September 27, accompanied by Mr. DeFields' youngest sister, Lillian. Miss Flora Marvin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R.

Marvin, left for St. Louis, Mo. Saturday morning. She will enter the Gradwohl School of Laboratory Technique where she will continue her work in medical technology and X-ray technology. The Coloma Townsend club will meet at the Odd Fellows' hall Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock.

Roscoe Reams of Grand Junction will be guest speaker at this meeting. Wheat farming employs more per-ons throughout the world than does any other paying occupation, being personal. Those who have been on the ground disagree about what the revolution is about and -differ on the alignment of opposing forces. If they don't know, who does? Simmer all of Europe's troubles down and you will probably conclude that there are mny int0 liUle Paef. and that they are getting on each others nerves.

They can's spread out with- i out stepping on someone. Crowding is something like liquor. It makes some folks genial and others irritable. Benton Harbor-built lumber carriers are even appearing inmurals in the national capital. These products of the Ross Carrier company are doing faithful labor from Yonkers to Yokahama, and from Indiana to India.

Now they're in paintings of west coast seaports. And since the automobile house-trailer industry has achieved boom porportions. it might as well be chronicled that the majority of trailers being built in the United States today are equipped with stoves manufactured by the Fatco company, a Benton Harbor industry which began as a tin shop and is now going to beat the band. Who said the days of opportunity are over? ft Another week and we'll be headed for the Ozarks. It will be our first autumn vacation and do you envy us! Coming back we expect to do some roaming in southwestern Indiana, still the habitat of the old-fashioned Hoosiers.

Our observation has been that Indiana drivers are the worst there are, but we intend to risk that hazard. young man had accompanied Glo- wacki's daughter to a dance. The So-', dus man is charged with assault with a dangerous weapon, assault with in-i tent to murder and a.ssault to do grpat bodily harm, less than, the crime of murder. Prosecuting Attorney E. A.

Westin will handle the case for the state and Attorney Carl Srhnlt CarI will d'-fend PFCFPTtrkAI T7 7J7C AT LAWTON FOR REy CEIGER LAWTON, Sept. 28 The date for reception and Harvest Festival has been postponed to Tuesday night, when it will be held in the basement of the Methodist church honoring the return of the Rev. Robert Geiger and family. A pot-luck supper will be served at 6:30 o'clock. Committee chairman are as follows: Reception, Mr.

and Mrs. James Weurding; dining room. Mrs. Mary Maxam: -toastmistress and program. Mrs.

Thelma Wiekett: decorations, Mrs. Charles Stoker and Mrs. Warren Meyers. ALBERT BANHAGLE ATTENDS PARLEY Albert J. Banhagle has returned to the city after having attended a weekend meeting of the Labor Non-Parti-san league at Lansing which attracted 600 labor leaders from all sections of the state.

Unanimous endorsement was given by the Labor League to the candidacies of President Roosevelt, Frank Murphy, candidate for governor; Leo J. Nowicki, candidate for lieutenant governor; and Prentiss Brown, for U. S. senator. The endorsement of candidates by labor was left to the recommendation of the various local groups before being brought before the state body.

Five Hurt In Car Crash NILES, Sept. 28. Five Nlles Negroes were hurt Saturday night at 11 o'clock in an automobile collision on US-31, one mile north of the Indiana state line. Leroy Jones, driver of the car, and four passengers, were injured when he crashed into another car driven a I 1 BY BOB WHITE There's a tinge of autumn melancholy In the air these days. Some like the fall of the year, pome don't.

It's matter of personal preference. But even malancholy has its beauty. It is true that the dark days of winter, with their snow and boisterous winds, are not far away, but it is well in this iif iu r. i i I life not to look too far ahead, but to enjoy that which at the moment is at hand to give us happiness. We drove to South Haven yesterday.

Low hanging clouds of grayish black filled the sky, scudding low and threatening. Pools of rain water stood along the road and in low fields, the color of freshly cooled steel sheets. The foliage of the trees had not begun to turn, but was deep, dull green. Earth, sky and the lake were somber, lacking the dashing hues of a frosty, sunlit day in autumn or the opulance of summer. Yet the scene was one of unfolding beauty.

There was a persistent, unchanging murmer of the surf, now near, now far. It seemed a sort of lullaby after busy days of growing and. fruition. Snow will come, and the north wind. There is a feeling of expect ency, of pause and of languor.

But it is different from the relaxation of spring. It is a respite before winter's onslaught, as such revel in it and worry not. Winters come and winters go. Autumn is autumn, a season- of contrasts, of araoness and vivid colors, of sunny skies one day and grayness the next. It is a good time to be alive.

A reader said: "I thought I had the Spanish situation sized up until you wrote about your perplexities. Now I don't know what it's all about." Sorry to have caused confusion. We were and Langlois, a hamlet, were surrounded. More than a thousand men battled two conflagrations over an area of 10.000 acres in the inland behind the two settlements. Still farther to the south, 500 men fought a blare "aiHBrookings hear-the-Can-" fornia-Orrfion line.

North of Bandon, nlong the coast to Mar.shfirlri Mid North Bend and another 100 nines north of those cities, the situation wa.s extremely grave. It i ms particularly so around Waldport, Yarhais. Newport and Depoe Bay. Forces were afire every few miles. NEW YORK OFFICER WHO CAME HERE FOR TWO BOYS, KILLED Irving Gteon.

46. Buffalo. N. parole officer, dis-d last week from injuries summed an automobile crash whilo v-kie Frsnk fcapiarz, 16, cl N'orh Tona N. from St.

Joi-epa to Buffalo, according to word r.iwed today by Sheriff Charles L. from Green. Green came to St. Joseph to-retum young who ecaptfd from the Nre York Industrial school lor boys and who -was held at the county jail here after he was captured in Miles by 'Dcpuiv Shiriff Claud-- Hurl. The youth together with Francis Harris, 11 of Bullalo, N.

wen- being taken bac): to lhc school when one of the look ofl h-s beat Green over lhe head- with hls hee1' Gm'n- wh0 was lhe car, lost control of the machine and crashed ree. York authorities are holding i JUl pair cn a manslaughter SODUS RESIDENT UP FOR TRIAL ON SHOOTING HARGE The first criminal trial of the September term of the Berrien county circuit court opened today. A Jury was being selected thii afternoon to hear the testimony in the case against John Glowacki, Sodus township, who is charged with three counts. He is charged with shooting Lawrence Metras, 27, Sodus, in the mouth with a rifle early Sunday morning four weeks ago after the 1 1 1 i I i I The Madrid government, mapping elaborate plans for a counter attack in the Toledo sector, ordered reinforcements for a "cold steel" charge. Throughout the night, troop-laden lorries escorted by warplanes, rumbled southward.

Toledo reports, however, said the fresh troops were unable to contact the fleeing Socialist army of the south because General Francisco Franco's insurgents had cut the Toledo-Madrid highroad. Flee! Returns Meanwhile, at Bilbao on the Bay of Biscay, Spanish government warships gave the northern city a respite from Fascist attack. A naval bombardment halted the insurgent advance, and the warships convoyed food, supplies into the harbor. Bilbao defenders celebrated the fleet's return with a festival and basque nationalists guarded Fascist hostages to prevent their death at the hands of vengeful anarchists. More than 100 Fascists held prisoners there have ben slain since the first insurgent aerial bombardment of Bilbao Friday.

RODNEY RUTH month hence. It proved too great an adventure to cut short with only 30 days in the wilderness. Paints Arctic Scenes Painting in water-colors some of the exotic Arctic scenes was a major purpose when Mr. Ruth started for Alaska. This he has accomplished, as well as "shooting" his wild surroundings with voluminous rolls of film.

But shooting of another kind gave him his first thrill enroute up the Porcupine. They needed meat for an overnight stop, those two traders and their half-dozen Indians. Rod sighted a huge buck caribou and circled to spot him standing on a clear rise. "As soon as I got that gun to my shoulder," he wrote, "I knew I had buck fever. I shivered and shook all over.

But I fired and missed. At once, then, I was steady. A second shot pierced his heart and we had meat for supper, after all." The local artist, fond of the ouT-of-doors, quickly won the friendship of an Indian youth. Tatset, which means "shiver." With him and Billy Burke, another Indian and graduate of Columbia university who returned to Alaska several years ago and went native" again. Rod Ruth expects to be shown the mysteries of the frozen north.

Tells Of Old TrVder Already snowbound by the early A' nfm' Funeral services will be held at 10 o'clock Tuesday morning from St. Mary's church in Paw Paw. The Rev. Fr. Julius Bona will officiate.

CCC TO ENLIST MORE MEN HERE TO LEAVE' OCT. 6 County Relief Administrator H. C. Meyer reported today that enrollment of youths -for the CCC will be resumed, a contingent to leave here Tuesday, Oct. 6.

"We don't yet know the quota, but expect to have that information in a day or-two," Mrr Meyer said. Qualifications for CCC enlistment have been modified somewhat. Young men who are in need of aid but who are not actual relief cases are eligible for enrollment and may apply at ERA headquarters in the Central school building, Pipestone street. winter which set In last month in northwestern Canada, he wrote his parents in Benton Harbor that he is anticipating the long evenings in company of Harry Anthony, the trader, who came out from the British Isles In 1890 and has been "home" but four times since. The trader is 72 years old, enjoys a personal acquaintance with every one of the Arctic explorers, and quotes Kipling by the hour.

He has a vast library of fine books piled up in his log cabin at Old Crow post, the letter said. Mingled feelings of regret and exultation were his, Rodney Ruth wrote, when he saw the Yukon river steamer leaving him behind as it returned to civilization. The wooden-faced Indians and Eskimos who stood with him at the dock changed to gay, spirited fellows once the steamer was out of sight. They raced and danced and engaged In athletic contests. Rod said he Joined in the fun, and succeeded in throwing his wrestling partner.

That night, he and Tatset went to a dance in Fort Yukon where the only dancing partners were Indian maidens. Fort Yukon is an Alaskan outpost boasting about 300 citizens. Of these, about 30 are whites. It is from this northern village that the Benton Harbor man traveled by power launch some 300 miles up the Porcupine river to Old Crow, where he will remain until Christmas. LANSING Mr.

and Mrs. Fred H. Sldmore, of 1226 First street, Jackson, and Elsie Ratzloff, 10, of Lansing, were seriously injured in an automobile collision here Sunday. Mrs. Sldmore, 53, and the child both have possible fractured skulls while Sldmore had a fractured leg.

Somewhere within "mushing distance" of McKenzie Bay, on the Arctic ocean, Rodney Ruth of Benton Harbor is "holing up" for the winter. The local artist, who left the twin cities last May on a summer trek into Alaska, wrote home to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Ruth, 782 Ter ritorial road, that he was so charmed with the Yukon territory that he wants to remain in the north until Christmas, at least. He plans now to return to "the States" about the first of the year, after an absence of more than seven months.

Mr. Ruth is located north of the Arctic circle at a trading post on the Old Crow river, a Canadian stream which joins the Porcupine river in its southward flow to the great Yukon river, which twists through mighty gorges in and out of the Arctic circle and down into the Siberian sea. Sends Letter Instead He had intended returning on the last steamer from Fort Yukon, a northern settlement of some 300 souls, oh ite filial trip August 1. He sent letter instead, one which pictured the glories of Arctic 21-hcur days and of his adventures in hunting, fishing and painting the northern scene. At that time, nighttime was steadily growing longer.

Only a dusk-like darkness hid the sun in July, he wrote, when sunset was at 11:30 p. m. and dawn came at 2 o'clock In the morning. Their first snow came on August 21, halting the harvest of lush huckleberries which had varied their meals of caribou teaks and sour-dough biscuits. The Old Crow settlement Is the trading place for a few dozen Indians and Eskimos, he said.

Mr. Ruth is the first white man, other than Henry Stanley, 72, and his partner In the post, to penetrate this northern fastness In more than 40 years. It came about in this fashion: Rod ney Ruth worked westward with a motor caravan across the United States to the Pacific coast, there took passage on a coast-wise vessel to Seward, and proceeded inland by train. In the Matanuska valley, he was given employment on some of the "Michigan settlement projects and earned 40 cents an hour as a laborer. Inured to a more stringent way of living, he met at Fort Yukon two white men who operated the trading p3st at Old Crow.

He bargained with them for accommodations during- the 300-mile trip-up the Porcupine river to the Old Crow river, and his board and room until their return to meet the steamer at Fort Yukon a i I.