CATASTROPHE: Lake Boats

On the northeast shore of Lake Michi- gan they say (some Indians do) that there is a drum of the Manitou that sounds whenever the Lake takes a life. If so, the Manitou's drum sounded 52 times one night last week.

On his parlor radio a code-wise listener-in in Wisconsin heard screeching buzzes: "S. O. S.—S. 0. S.—Water up to— ' That was all. He telephoned the Coast Guard. But they heard no more signals. Next day the Milwaukee, one of the Grand Trunk R. R.'s big car ferries out of Milwaukee for Grand...

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