The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 27 May 1946 — Page 1

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GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, MONDAY, MAY 27, 1946.

NO. 187

annual recognition chapd luce, which honors DePauw jvfrsity students who are outuding in various extra-currlc- . fields will be held on WedLy, May 29. President Clyde Wildman has announced. Larships, awards ,and other Lnitions will be presented at L time. junior women who have been Led to m< mbership in Mortar Ld women's honorary socand junior men who have , membership in Gold Key. ?spending men’s honorary at P»uw, will be presented at the kpti service. heading the list of scholarL to be announced for next at the assembly are the lee Eugene C. Pulliam scholuyps. These awards, granted tuaily to juniors who are out■idlng in journalism, radio, pre-theology, are in the mint of $500 each for use durthe senior year at DePauw. journalism award is pre4ed in behalf of the IndianapStar. the radio award in be|jf of Station WIRE, and the Werial award in the name of “ Rev. Irvin B. and Martha len Pulliam, Mr. Pulliam's junta. Other scholarship winners to announced at the asembly are the Association of Women Wilts' Scholarship to the junwho is outstanding in scholiip and activities ,and the Y. .0. A. Scholarship, awarded to sophomore for leadership, olarship and service to De-

tar.

The Association of Women jents will also present the t Ring to -the moat deservjumor woman student, and Guy Morrison Walker Cup be awarded to the senior has done the most for De-

^w.

In the field of sports, Sigma ilia Chi, journalism fraternity, II present its cup to the man to has proved himself mest Tficient in athletics and scholdiip, and the Women’s Recre.iAssociation will give a iceiet to the outstanding sen- » woman who has participated sports activities. Knppa Pi, art fraternity, will ’nor the most promising art ‘Indent, and Theta Sigma Phi, Wien's journalism fraternity, rUl announce the award for the "Islanding senior woman of the 'Mr. Prominent senior music indents will be elected to Phi iappa Lambda, and the Van ‘’hman Thompson plaque will k awarded to a music student the basis of activities and Warship in music.

LOSES CONTROL OF BIKE; HITS WINDOW Phillip Byrd, 15. Greencastle Route 1, came to grief Saturday evening when he lost control of j a rented bicycle and crashed intoj )a west display window at the Chevrolet garage on north Jack-1 son street. The boy was taken to the office of a local physician by Char-! les Harvey, north Indiana street, v here several stitches were nec- j essary to clase cuts in his arms! and head. According to the police, young jp Byrd had rented a bike fromjf Weber’s bicycle shop, and was; 1 riding north on the east side of Jackson street on the sidewalk.! He hit the dip in the drive into | the garage and lost control of the bike and crashed through the I big window.

Handy Rites Held Monday

Last rites for Wilson T. Haftdy, 79, well known citizen who passed away early Saturday, were held from the Rector Funeral Home Monday aifternoon at 3 o’clock in charge of Charles Rector and Russell Shannon. Rev. Cecil Fellers, pastor of the Christian church, officiated. Burial was in Forest Hill cemetery. Pall bearers were Will Herod, Paul Heaney, Oscar Sallust, Bob Dills, Lee Williams, Kenneth

West and Elmer Gibson.

AS TRUMAN CALLED FOR STRIKE CURB FROM CONGRESS

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GOVENORS OPEN MEETING IN OKLAHOMA

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PRESIDENT TRUMAN is shown above as he ac dressed a joint session of Congress calling fo» legislation to draft strikers on government-seized properties into the Army. Seated behind the chief executive are Senator W. F. George, left, of Georgia and Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn of Texas, i In ter national Soumlphoto).

Nine "Capped" By Mortar Board

Molotov Denies 25-Year Treaty LONDON, May 27—(UP) Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov Acidly ’denounced the United States and Britain today for forming a bloc against Russi. and said no self-respecting stat') would submit to the maneuver. used by the Anglo-American al-

liance at Paris.

PORTLAND MILLS HAS MEMORIAL DAY

The winners of the Margaret *(ble Lie public speaking comPdition held recently on the M’npua among speech students, VII be announced, and Alpha ” elta Sigma, men’s advertising Eternity, will present a cup to to'' fraternity with the highest •chol as tic average. Alpha lambda Bella, freshman women scholarship organization, * l: present certificates to three •Ti.or women who have mainlined thei r freshman scholastic N'nrds for seven semesters of

ci’liege work.

The Association of Women “indents and the Pan-Hellenic Coi ' n cil will present their annual $ lf t s and new members of nppa Tau Kappa, intcrfratern1 y cnu ncil, and of Pan-Hellenic

Eight DePauw University students and the wife of the dean of the university were “capped” for membership in Mortar Board, national women’s honorary organization, in an elaborate ceremony which high-lighted the Mother's Day week-end on the DePauw campus Saturday morn-

ing.

The election to membership took place during the annual Mother’s Day breakfast, sponsored by Y. W. C. A. Following a traditional and elaborate ritual, the senior members of the organization filed in and out among the tables in crowded Bowman gymnasium to place the mortar board, traditional symbol of the organization, upon the heads of the unsuspecting new members. Last night's rain ami threatening skies had driven the guests into the gym for the breakfast, orig inally scheduled for the Eas

College campus.

Newly elected to membership were the following juniors: Marian Osborn and Dorothy Giles, Indianapolis; Martha Honan, Lebanon; Marilyn Masters. Lafayette; Barbara Sibbitt, Frankfort; Ruth Bergstrom and Betty Lou Walker, Chicago; and Marilyn Slauson. Wauwatosa, Wis. A surprise in the ceremony tame at the beginning of the capping, when Marcia Smith of Indianapolis, president of the organization, placed a mortar board on the head of Mrs. Edward R. Bartlett, wife of De-

Pauw’s dean.

Following the breakfast and Mortar Board ceremony, guests viewe-d a water ballet presented by the members of Naiad, women’s swimming club, in the college pool. In the afternoon the program Included the crowning of Jane Hickman, Spencer, as May Day queen, music by a student string ensemble, interpretative darning by members of Orchesis, women’s dance honorary

and a Maypole dance Lang. Mishawaka, and Smythe, Riverside. Ill queen’s attendants.

The ip'ortland Mills community observed Memorial day on Sunday when Dr. T, A. Sigler delivered a Memorial Day address in the old church in the com-

munity.

Despite the bad weather a fair crowd turned out. The Russellville American Legion, Post supplied the fireing squad and a number of members of the Post

were in attendance.

Trouble Between French, Siamese BANGKOK, May 27 (UP)Heavy fighting which broke out between Siamese police anil

denied today that Premier Stalin pYench troops along the Mejeeyen agreed to James F. Byrnes river ‘'.invasionT front proposal for a 25-year treaty on j j e( j f 0 a request for British-

Germany and warned that Big Four relations might deteriorate if Byrnes insisted on a full-dress peace conference prematurely.

Molotov said in a Moscow

newspaper interview it had become clear "that the peace offensive publicized in some American circles consists in imposing the will” of United States

and Britain upon Russia.

LONDON, May 27.—(UP) — Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov

Car Is Returned To Tulsa Owner

An officer 'from Tulsa, Okla homa returned to that city this weekend with a 1939 Ford auto stolen from there several days ago by James Melvin Story, 22 of Stockton, Calif., ami Donald Eugene Deslie, 24, of Greencastle Local authorities said Monday that Leslie is a parole violator and it is expected that he will b? returned to the stale reforma ■ tory at IPendleton. Indiana police were expected to file charges against Story during the day. The two men were apprehended early Friday morning near Coatesville after they had eluded state policeman George Hecko Thursday.

American arbitration, Siamese

authorities said today.

Local Siamese forces were attempting to disarm the French

, .. ., troops without restorting to arm-

Molotov issued a sharp attack ^ faced the wttr on Anglo-American policy in the d of a detachment of more

recent Paris conference, making I s

his first public comment through an interview published in the Moscow newspapers Pravda and

Izvestia,

than 800 troops who twice .crossed from Indochina Into the Thatooh district of Nong Kai, five miles southeast of Vientiane, and then withdrew first reports said.

The Soviet foreign minister French troops made the nvor flatly denied that Stalin had crossing at six A. M. Saturday

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ever agreed in pin,, I <- th( , SiatnPSO forces facing them. Byrnes plan for a Big lour pact ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ have

covering German demilitai iza- 1 lion. Byrnes stated at Paris that Stalin had made such an agreement in principle during

porty bewithdrew

the Moscow conference last De- [

cember.

,“During ids visit to Moscow, Mr. Byrnes did not yet have the project for such an agreement, j and consequently Stalin could j not possibly agree with a nonexisting proposal,” Molotov said.

were

i looted boatloads of pi | fore the main body

I across the river.

Frontier reports then said the

j French returned Sunday morning

I and began, looting again.

ATTENTION VETERANS

TAR CAUGHT KIKE Firemen were called to toe city garage at 12:30 p. m. Monday when a barrel of tar caiught fire Smoke from the blaze drifted over the entire north section oi Greencastle, attracting a large crowd to the scene. PUTNAM GIRL IN SOFTBALL PICTURE Miss Roseanna Foley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elvin S. Foley, Rural Route 1, Fillmore, a freshman at Hanover College, is one of the twenty-five co-ed*--participating in the production of a film entitled “Softball foi

Girls."

This 16 mm. kodaehrome movie is being produced by Coronet Instructional Films of Glenview, Illinois. It is an educational movie intended for use in, higti school and college physical education classes. Dr. Karl Bookwalter, on loavof absence from (Indiana University faculty, and Miss Viola

I8TII ANNUAL CONFERENCE BEING HEED IN OKLAHOMA CITY OKLAHOMA CITY, May 27. (UP)—The 38th annual governors conference convened here today to discuss conservation, tax and veterans problems but apparently will ignore strike and labor legislation. Unless some governor bolts the prepared schedule the question of strikes and what do to ihout them will be overlooked. But the meeting is groggy from effects of the rail strike which compelled President Truman Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, of New York, and some other headline attractions to cancel plans to

come here.

About 30 of the expected 42 governors probably will be here, conference managers said. Gov. Ralph F. Gates, Indiana Republican, arrived early with plans to call a meeting of other Republican governors for adoption of a "states’ rights” resolution. He will have some Democratic support, too, for any plan to return the United States Employment Service to the states. Gates said he would agree witli others that a veterans bonus may be a federal prerogative, but that Congress immediately should return to the states “those functions best served on a state and local basis.” Gov. Edward Martin, Pennsylvania Republican, is conference

chairman.

He opened the meeting in the state capitol building which squats on a windswept hill surrounded by producing oil wells which have poured millions of dollars into the state treasury. The mile of parked boulevard leading to the capitol which was to have been one of the beauty spots of this big prairie city, is marred by half a dozen derricks, each in a square of raw, red

earth.

Eaily arrivals generally endorsed Mr. Truman’s forceful action to curb the rail and coal strikes, but with some reservations against his suggestion that labor be drafted under any conditions. The concensus was that housing was more important to war veterans than a bonus payment. But if there is to be a bonus, these governors almost unanimously believe it should be paid by the federal government,

not by the states.

“The service was rendered to

WASHINGTON, May 27.— (INS)—< on I Mines Administrator .1. A. Krug eonferred fur two and one-halt hours today with •lolm L. Lewis in an apparently iinsueeesstul attempt tu break the deadlock over a new mine

contract.

The l MW president left the interior secretary's office in a glum mood. He told reporters— “I have no statement. You'll have to see the secretary. I don't know what success you'll have with him.” An Interior Department s|M>kesman announced that Krug and Lewis will resume their conferences at 3 p. in. EST. He made no further comment.

WASHINGTON, May 27.— (INS)—Senate Majority Leader Darkle) conferred with President Truman on the lahor crisis today and promptly proceeded with plans for another night session of tin- Senate to Sfieed enactment of (he administration's

anti-strike hill.

Barkley said following his i White llinisc conference that the soft coal strike “looked hopeful.”

WASHINGTON, May 27.— (INS) — Government officials said today thal the prices of milk, butter and cheese will he raised within the next few days. The officials disclosed that the Office of Economic Stuhillzation will announce a new tlairy pricing program calling for increases of one cent a quart on milk, len to 12 cents a pound on huttci and file cents a pound on cheese.

All veterans interested in a | memorial day program for the

He said the Stalin-Byrnes con- Nl , w p ro vidence ehureh for Sun-j Mitchell, Director of Women's versation “was limited to a brief ( j a y j un<! 2, are asked to meet | Physical Education at Hanover exchange of opinion on an agree- church on Tuesday even- College, arc the directors. This inent of mutual assistance in ( n g, May 28 at 7 o'clock, at j production is based upon Mis: casc of a renewal of German and W hich time the program will be Mitchell's recent book, Softbal

Japanese aggression.”

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SOIL CONSERVATION MEN HELD MEETING

Martha Merilyn were the

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announced.

20 Years Ago J* ORPENOABTUB t '™' temperature dropped from maximum of 93 to a minimum ' J 55 degrees. ^ he city council considered the a ^ of Locust to the bul roan. In! (hmca Ati ams was h ere ni Chicago visiting Mr. and ,rs ' Walter Brown

OPEN WEDNESDAY AND CLOSED ON THt RSDAt The Greencastle stores which | normally closed on Wednesday j afternoon, will remain open

day Wednesday this week, nut will be cosed Thursday because' of Memorial Day.

street from Pennsylvania

legion meeting Cassell C. Tucker Post 58, American Legion, will meet this evening at 8 o’clock. Members are urged to present. W. R. C. of Grand Army of the Republic will meet in the D. A. R. hall tn the court house Tuesday at 2:30 p. m.

Left to right around the table: P. T. Brown. Animal Husbandry Specialist; Gerald Karsten. Agricultural Eng.; Harry' Moore, Soil Cmservat on Service; M O. Pence, Agronomy Specialist: fames Rudy S. C. S District Supervisor; David Grimes. I»cal District Supervisor; Frank Everman. Local District Supervisor; J. L. Van Camp, Forestry Specialist; Ronald Bauman, Ag. Eton. Specialist* Virgil Sexton. Assistant State County Agent L;ader; R. J Coffman, Local District Supervisor; K W Harris. County Agent; Dqrts Salsman, Local District Supervisor; Clayton Cash, Local District Suoervlsor R O. Cole, Secretary' State Soil Cons -rvatlon Commission. H District Supervisors of the Putnam County Soil Conservation District in conference with the Purdue Extension Specialists at Lafayette. (Story on page two).

WASHINGTON, May 27.— (INS)—The Supreme Court today ruled that war veterans do not have the right of “NU|>enieiilorlty” on the job under the draft

act.

The high tribunal sustained a seeond Circuit Court of Ap|ioulx ruling that the law does not give veU' wiin job preference over 11011vetemns with greater seniority.

TRAINS RESUME NORMAL RUNS OVER COUNTRY

(By Unilod Press)

The railroads returned to normal today hut a threatened coal shortage may force them

to reduce service.

The worst labor crisis in the nation's history, however, had

the federal government and any an( j freight traiiw loaded

with raw materials for industry

bonus should be paid by the federal government,” explained Gov. Robert S. Kerr, of Oklahoma, a Democrat. Kerr, us host governor, welcomed the visitors at the

opening session .

Gov. Lester C. Hunt, Wyoming Democrat, said the conference probably would discuss a veterans bonus and he agreed with Kerr that veterans from “rich states” should not be rewarded with a bonus beyond the ability of poorer states to pay. The governors heard almost immediately from their committee on tax and fiscal policies that the states should avoid at thitime “ill advised attempts to lower taxes.” The committee report was made in behalf of Gov. Dwight P. Griswold, Nebraska Republican, chairman, who advised the conference he probably

could not be present.

Delton K. Spencer Called By Death Delton K. Spencer, age 56, well ktvrvn resident of Clinton Falls pass, J away Monday morning at the Putnam County Hospital following an extended illness. He is survived by the widow Goldie, one daughter, Mary Helen of Indianapolis, three brothers, Claude and Ross of Kansas and James C. of Parke county and one sister. Mrs. Olive Thomas of Parke county. He lost one son, Lloyd, in Italy in

1943.

Friends may call at the family residence in Clinton Falls. Funeral arrangements will he announced later.

and food for cities with short supplies were rolling once more. Most roads reported normal or near-normal service. The Pennsylvania reported that normal freight and passenger schedules vere restored at 7 A. M., EST, Sunday, 14 hours after the strike

ended.

'Pennsylvania officials said priority had been given to the movement of coal, and that all loaded coal cars which had stood idle on 'mane sidings during the rail strike were enroute to destinations. The road also was speeding empties to the mines for newly dug coal, but with the miners on strike again the rnpties were doomed to stay that way. The railroads themselves probably will be the first to suf for from the effects of the renewed coal strike. Their coal stockpiles already had been reduced to dangerously low levels by the previous six-week mine strike. Office of defense transportation officials warned rail freight embargoes would be ordered again and passenger traffic rcdr.iced if the coal shortage is aggravated. Trains began moving almost immediately after the strike ended at 4 p. m. EST Saturday. Striking engineers and trainmen hurried back to work with unexpected speed. But there was a big job to be done. Freight, including perishable food, had piled up in the yards, and some roads will work for a week before they clear it. When work was resumed, foodstuffs began moving first. About 34,000 carloads had been left in rail yards, at switching points and in warehouses. Railroad officials said the food would be moved wherever possible to (I'uBtlnuril uu I'ncr i'lirm

LEWIS DEFIES U. S.; MINERS GO ON STRIKE ACTION IS CHALLENGE TO MR. TRUMAN'S ADMINISTRATION WASHINGTON. May 27. (UP) — John L. Lewis’ United Mine Workers (AFL) struck the gov-ernment-operated soft coal industry today in a defiant challenge to the Truman administra-

tion.

The new shutdown threatened the pation with another industrial crisis before it was fully recovered from last week’s railroad strike. Coal production chiving a two-week work truce provided no permanent relief to an industrial machine crippled by the recent six-week coal strike, which the White House then called a “national disaster.” Railroads probably will be among the first affected by tinnew stoppage of coal production. Their fuel supplies already were depleted by the earlier coal strike. Director J. Monroe Johnson of the Office of Defense Transportation warned that he will have to establish an embargo on railroad freight shipments and further reduce passenger traffic “unless the coal situation improves rapidly.” The 400,000 miners struck again at the end of the two-week truce and Lewis made no move to stop them despite the drastic government action taken last week against engineers and trainmen for their walkout on government-operated railroads. Iwwis appeared to be squaring away for a showdown fight with the administration. In perhaps its first move to accept the challenge, the government sent a 150-man army detachment to Madisonville, Ky., to protect employes of a small Hopkins county mine. Coal Administrator J. A. Krug, who conferred with Lewis and President Truman at the White Hou# Itl.'rt rrtg'ht, arranged for another session with Lewis today, presumably on terms for a government contract. But the pattern Mr. Truman set in handling the rail strike indicated that the mine shutdown would bring negotiations to a halt. The President told Congress Saturday that when the railroad workers struck “again the government” the time for negotiations stopped and the time for action arrived. By spurning government request that he order the miners to stay on their jobs, Lewis not only invited forceful action from the White Houte, but strengthened prospects for passage of the drastic anti-strike legislation asked by Mr. Truman. That legislation would 1 . lit the government to jail Lewis and UMW leaders for failure to take “affirmative action” to keep the miners at work. Miners who struck government - operated property would forfeit seniority rights, and the President could order them inducted into the armed forces. The provision requiring “affirmative action” by union leaders appeared to be aimed ut Lewis. Miners strikes have followed contract terminations automatically tinder the union’s “no contract, no work” policy, without action on the part of the union leadership. President Truman took a direct hand in the coal settlement efforts yesterday. He first met in his study at noon with Kir Vice Adm. Ben Morrell, deputy mine administrator, Reconver- < Co 11 tin ut*! on Ptiftr Four!

<1 & 41 Todays Weather ft • and ft ft Local Temperature f •••••*•«*$ Mostly cloudy today. Warmer west and north. Clear and cool tonight. Fair and wanner Tuesday. Minimum 56 6 a. m f 56 7 a. m 56 8 a. m 58 9 a. m 62 10 a. m 70 11 a. m 72 12 noon 72 1 p. m. 75 2 p. m 75

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