The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 14 September 1946 — Page 1

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THE DAILY BANNER "!T WAVES FOR ALL"

VOLUME

fifty-four

GREENCASTLE, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1946.

NO. 28 1

lambda CHIS HOLD reunion THIS WEEKEND

PlfMC AT HANDY FARM P OBSt EVENT ON FKAT

pKO<iHA.M

A post-war reunion, chiefly of * Ambers in school between , 939 and the present, is being laid this week-end by the Um^a Chi Alpha fraternity at u. e ( r chapter house at 31Bloomington Street. During the .... years, a special mimeomphed news-letter, The Xi Xdiange. to which each member K nt his own personal bit of news, circulate.! to all parts of the world an.I among other things promoted the idea of such , reunion to be held after the wa r Robert Vanderham, orve of the war-time presidents of the pdPauw chapter and now a senior in DePauw, Is general chairman for the get-together. Tom Trauha Is president of the DePauw chapter. Ladies attending the reunion are being housed at the Alpha Omicron Pi and Alpha Gamma Delta sorority houses. First event of the reunion week-end was a picnic held at Handy's farm south of town on Friday evening. Friday night, ThrouRh special permissio of DePauw University and the Lambda Chi Alpha national fraternity, seven pledges were formally initiate 1. The men initiated were: Bob Afiams. Elwood, Indiana; Bob Adair, Homewood, luiinois; Allan Besterfield, Homewood, Illinois: Francis Durham, Cincinnati, Ohio; Wendell Howard. Anderson. Indiana; Jack Schroll, Oak Park, Illiois;

Manfred Wenzel,

niuois.

Saturday evening, a dance is being given at the chapter house, while Sunday noon the reunion will conclude with a dinner for jmore than 150 people. In between these major events, catching tip -parsosah news and making new acquaintances is the order of the day. Many V-12 members iof the fraternity were in school

SPEAKS WEDNESDAY

“INCIDENT" VICTIMS AT ARLINGTON

M. Clifford Tow nseml Mr. Townsend will formally open the Democratic campaign in Putnam county on Wednesday evening, when he speaks in the court room in his candiidacy for the United States senatorship from Indiana.

PENNSY WORKMAN SUFFERS INJURY

Kenneth R. Miller, of Coatesville, a railroad worker, was struck on the head by some object on a passing Pennsylvania train Friday afternoon. He was brought to the Putnam county hospital for treatment of his in-

juries.

Miller’s condition was reported as “good” at the hospital Sat-

urday morning.

Some of the men who were working with him at the time ofi the accident, believed that he was struck by a piece of coal Homewood,! from the train.

CONSTITUTION (DAY

On September 17, Indiana will observe Constitution Day—little

over a year since the final end i mission. Twenty-five

GOOD OLD DAYS MANY THINGS that are Commonplace today were eagerly anticipated in the horse and bug-| g'y days Let’s take for in-’ stance rural free delivery An item appeared in the Banner that free mail delivery was promised with the beginning of

1895.

ATTENTION LADIES — In good old 1894 calico was selling for 3V£c a yard, gingham 5c a yard, bleached muslin 5c a yard and ladies walking shoes were $1.00. Try and match that today or even try to get it. THE BATCHELORS ASSOCIATION in Greencaatle must have been a real he-man organization an item reads: “Dainty refreshments were served at a lively meeting of this

social club.”

FUN FOR EVERYBODY— — —“An old fashionel quilting ! party and supper will be given by the ladies in costume at Brown’s Hall, Friday, December 3 1875 —Bill of fare will include roast turkey, roast pig, baked beans, hot coffee, mush and milk. There will be a candy pulling and other entertainment. All are invited to attend the quilting in the afternoon. No ad-

ccnts ad-

WALLACE SPEECH PUTS TRUMAN ON ’HOT SPOT PRESIDENT MAY HAVE TO REPUDIATE SOME

STATEMENTS

WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 - (UP)—Secretary of Commerce Henry A. Wallace's New Y*>.rk speedh bidding for left wing votes put President Truman on a hot spot today where ho may be forced to repudiate any ease-aip-on-Russia sentiments. "That speech dropped our jaws over here," a responsible state department official told the United Press. Another sa ; |i the speech was a major disaster for Secretary of State James F. Byrnes vhose foreign policies seemed to some persons to have been challenged by Wallace. It was suggested by still another official that Byrnes scarcely could be more embarrassed if someone yanked his pants off right in the middle of the Paris

peace conference.

But despite the fireworks set off by Wallace’s remarks, the odds are heavily against any

. . . , , J .... basic change in United States American airmen shot down by Marshal Tito s fighter planes over I f nr ,,i„ n nn ,iei„ 0 Yugoslavia last month. An Army transport plane flew the bod-! ° g I >ol,clos Th '' constant,-m ies from Rome to Wshington, D. C., National airport, where Wiy | S |ves the President absolute were immediately transferred to Arlington. Interment and mem-| authority to conduct our foreign i orial services will be held at a date when families of the five vie-! relations Subject to limit <1

Latest Wire Flashes

MIAMI, Fla., Sept. 14 (INS) —A “severe” hurricane was centered at 5 a. m. (EST) today about mile, cast, southeast ot < up, ilatteras, moving north, northeastward about 20 miles an hour, the U. S. weather hur-

eau said.

A BUGLER BLOWS TAPS IN the simple ceremonv at Arlington cemetery that marked the arrival there of the bodies of the five

The hiircati said the storm ua. accompanied hy winds of full hurricane force, with gales extending outward I0U miles. LONDON, Sept. II (INS) — \ Rculi rs dispatch reported today Ihut Mrs. Winston (liurchill suffered .slight injuries in an unexplained speedboat accident on Lake Geneva and must rest comp! tely fur a few days. The Churchills are vacationing

in Switzerland.

NEW YORK, Sept. 14.—(INS)

The

that gunmen opened fire on a ctowd in Bombay, killing five

persons and injuring 80. They escaped in a taxi.

Another re|Mirt said seven more stalihiugs occurred in the Indian city as Ilindii-Moslcm

hostilities flared again.

NO AGREEMENT IN STRIKE OF CIO SEAMEN

NKGOTATIONS FAIL To MATERIALIZE BY EARLY MORNING

thus reach the capital city.I International)

NEW YORK, Sept. 14. (UP) The prospect of American seamen returning to their ships today vanished when negotiations between the National Maritime Union (CIO) and ship operators broke up egrly today with no agreement. A threat of violence hung over some of the nation’s

strike bound ports.

A new meeting was scheduled for 2 p. m. (CST) after ship operators, bedded by Frank J. Taylor, president of the American Merchant Marine Institute, have had time to study NMU wage demands. , AFL seamen in some ports

ondon radio reported today were returning to work despite

picket lines thrown up by the CIO, raising the possibility of clashes between the unions. New York City policemen were concentrated on the waterfront, although AFL locals here have given assurance they will

not cross picket lines.

In New Orleans, special detachments of police were stationed at piers as AFL seamen

Hike All Sugar Prices 2 Cents

of World War II.

Governor Ralph Gates has urged all Hoosiers to join on that date in rededicating themselves

only one or two semesters, and ^be principles of the OmstituSlike many other fraternity chap-■ *' on an ^ * n helping to bring

1 atout a world freedom

as great under cur

mission at night. The following are the committees appointed to canvass the various wards for donations to the party First ward: Miss Belle Mulholland, Mrs. W. G. Burnett Mrs. Will Daggy, Miss Lilly Root. - Second ward: Miss Ila Renick, Miss Minnie White, Mrs. Conrad Cook, Miss Jennie Hartley.—

Mrs. Alvah Brockway, Miss Anna Hammond and Miss Luna

Conover.

DO YOU REMEMBER The names of popular stores in

*ss for the occasion

bocal alumni of Lambda Chi ^Ipha include Dean L. H. Dirks, Herrick Greenleaf, Prof, ymond R. Neal, Lynn Brown,

Dunnington, B. F. Hays and Co. (merchant tailors), Bowman’s Dry Goods, John Burley (grocer-

ies )

ters on the DePauw campus, j

new officers were installed in as we have achieved war-times for almost every four- j E rra t Constitution,

month semester instead of once! This is a good time to review |» year as in normal times. (that preamble, which is as ap- | Also returning for the reunion! plicable today as it was when it

it Mrs. Mary DeWeesc, who serv-1 was drafted .in 1787.

as Lambda Chi house mother) “We, the people of the United from ifKIO to 1943. The new house Spates, in .orfter to form a more other, Mrs. Jennie Laughlin, is I perfect Union, establish justice, W hand to serve as general hos- insure domestic tranquility, pro-

vide 'for the common (defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do

ordain, and establish this Consti-

^ Hanna. Kimball Larkin and|tution far the United States of

*hn Earnshaw. i America.”

One of the most active and! It is a good time, too, to ask Vociferous attendants at the re-J ourselves these questions: Have n 'on is Xi, the chapter’s aging we formed a perfe’Ct union, cstab»llie mascot. Brought from his lished justice, insured domestic *r-time home at Carmel, Ind- 1 tranquility, provided for common

na by Charles Daugherty, j defense, promote,! the general la gj week, ‘wasn't’

hveling national secretary for [welfare, and secured the bless-

mbda Chi, Xi quickly lost his | ings o'f liberty?

p umatic lethargy as he viol-! We of America know that wo % greeted old acquaintances have made greater advances in <1 made many [*'w ones. democracy than has any other

nation,. The United States, by its victory and by its power, has a great world responsibility. It has in its reach insuring the tranquil ity of much of the world and im-

j proving the status or mankind. Putnam county farmers inter- In the manner in which we 8 ' ,< l in soil conservation district meet these new responsibilities, ,lave been extended an in-1 as well as the old, will be judg- 1 at ion to attend an all dav ed the soundness of the Ameri-

Tells Activity Inside Russia

NEW ORLEANS, Sept. It —j

Harrison Salisbury

United Press

WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 The OPA today announced a price hike on two cents a pound on sugar, which experts report will amount to a toiai cost to o >nsumers of the nation of $200,000.000 during the coming year. Increases were granted at all levels of distribution from producers to retailers ami on both beet and cane mgars, effective

Wednesday.

But OPA warned grocers, wholesalers and distributors that

they cannot hold present sugar j designation appeared

supplies until the price goes up aigi take “windfall profits.” The price agency said stocks will be checked the night before the price boost and all this sugar must be sold before the higher

senatorial advice and consent, (lA*)—Twenty new the secrotary of state in his per- l M, ' i <'«’incn patrolled n watqrsonal agent. , Irani area today with rig equipIn his capacity as a presiden- m, nl to guard against a |*ow.ihl*' tial agent, Byrnes formally out- 1 outbreak of violence l>*\vmn lined our foreign policy in a AFL and CIO seamen.

The riot squad, fully armed, took up stations on the river late

speech delivered last week atj I Stuttgart. It was a be-firm-with- ' Russia speech. No speech deliver-

Things have been going on in-jmerce at a political mass meetside Russia this summer which | log will change the Stuttgart

American policy until Mr. Tru-

Third ward: Mrs. McNally, prices become effective.

On another front, OPA said that prices of Ford automobile:: will be increased next week, without .revealing the amounts or models affected. The Ford

Grcencastle in 1875 were W. W.j Company has been seeking

“hardship relief 'on its i" 1 e list

for several months.

At the same time OPA disclos-

Brattin's Jewelry Store, ^ that General Motors CorporaWill Jones Drug Store, Cole) tion has filed a formal request

Brothers and Brockway (pumps)

Hanna and Black (livery and models '

sale stable) none of these stores on the square carry these

names totlay.

INTERESTING “The wedding which was to have been

for increases on its entin list of

WIPES OUT VETO

il Conservation Meeting Arranged

Home Building Shows Increase

Con-

0ur m Montgomery county on can form of government

^ay, September 17. i stitution Day is a timely remindThe diferent phases of con-' er of the sacrifices that have Nation work, increased fertil-) bppn made Rnd an occa8ion for

yarul f arm planning will be ob- 1 s,>bPr rededication,

ir^he group will assemble! Constitution Dav will be ob10 00 a. m. (DST) at tq, e served In Greencastle, with a probity agent's office in Craw- Is:ram ln the Auditorium of the Wdsvilic and the first ston will Grcencastle High School. Tucs- ^ *" d one-half le. ir, 17th at 11:15 A. M.

°f Crawfordsville on the

PROMPT ACTION

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road.

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jjj_(‘UKEN(’AnTi.ir

^2 F ' ranpp s Carson suffered

S kfn arm ia a fall.

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NOBLESVILLK. Ind.. Sept. 14 (INS) Complaints that drunk-) en spectators created disturb-1 ances at a high school football game brought prompt action from the Hamilton county board j

of education.

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. Sept. 14 (INS) James R. Ridgway, vice presidont of a Minneapolis investors' syndicate, reported today that a survey made in 14 ) Indiana cities has shown a yearly Increase of home building that amounted to 8.9 per cent by volume but 35.2 by market value. . Cities covered by the survey were Anderson, East Chicago, Elkhart, Evansville, Fort Wayne, i Gary, Hammond, Indianapolis, Kokomo, Marion, Muncie, Richmond, South Bend and Terre Haute The year of 1945 was the time period on which the statis-

tics were based.

Ridgway said that new homes begun in these 14 cities in 1945 provided shelter for an additional 8,216 persons, as compared to 1944, when the new housing cared for 7,544 persons in the

same cities.

According to the survey, a total of 374,217 dwelling units are

have reached the outside world only in bare fragments. Today it is possible to put these fragments together and see what

they mean.

They tell a story of vast changes within the Soviet Union. First reference to these events used the word “purge.” This

in a dis-

patch which United Press Corresponent M. S. Handler was permitted to send his New York office from Moscow on June 26. “All (Moscow) newspapers report.” said Handler’s cablegram, “that the ministry of state control is purging pnd committing to trial factory directors, engineers and accountants throughout the country who have been faking production figures, receiving bonuses illegally, misappropriating factory funds

and converting state

for personal use.”

Other advices and other cables direct from Moscow since June show that Generalissimo Josef Stalin's postwar house-cleaning has not been confined to Soviet

industry alone.

yesterday, <(Us|>pming a group of

ed now by a secretary of com- „ ;1(M , strlUinK ( , 0

as trouble threatened when AFL

seamen returned to work.

man says It has been changed. He has not yet said that. He actually did say just the opposite. But he also said he api proved of Wallace's speech.

Split Delays Coal Contracts

PARIS, Sept 14— (INS) — Delegates (■> the Paris oeace confer,'Mire disclosed today that Romania already has sunplii-d to Russia enforeed delivery of gxioJa cstuiuital at a billion dol-

lars.

The revelation was made at tile same time the Romanian gov rnnienl d<s lined to say what total of assets had been transferee | to the Soviets undiir the armistice.

WASHINGTON, Sept. II — CiNS)—The House Campaign Expendititres ( ommitt«v* today scheduled a meeting for Monday,

WASHINGTON, Sept. 14.— (UP)—A long-standing split between northern and southern soft coal operators today blocked government efforts to get out of

the coal business.

Adm. Ben Moreell, government

coal administrator, had wanted 1 .Sept Mi to review plans for prohthe operators and John L. Lewis’ ing organizations reported to bo United Mine Workers (AFL) to! active in the elect Ion campaigns,

negotiate a private agreement to replace the government con-

property! tract under which bituminon

mines haVc operated since gov-, and local aililmtes which he

ernment seizure last May. Be- , , . ... , .

J I would submit to lus committee

cause the miners refuse to work without a contract, the govern-

ment cannot release the mini 1 LICK

until a private agreement is nc-| M Clifford Townsend gotiated. Democratic senatorial nominee,

charged today that Indiana Re-

Rep. Priest, I), Tenn., chairman, said he had a list of ahit M

Orleans J and stevedores crossed CIO pick-

et lines and resumed work. Picket groups were limited to six

men by police orders.

The AFL maritime unions in Baltimore also refused to honor

the CIO picket lines.

In Boston, however, AFL and CIO seamen picketed the waterfront side-by-side. The AFL sailors decided to stay out until a CIO wage agreement has been

signed.

Joseph Curran, NMU president, presented the CIO wage demands to the ship operators during a two and a half hour meeting that ended at 2:30 a. m. today. The demands covered deck, engineering'find steward classifications. The decision of the operators will be the key to the ending of the 10-day maritime tie-up which has paralyzed shipping in every American seaport. The Maritime Commission has indicated it will an ’ ize ship operators of government-con-trolled vessels to grant the CIO demands of “equal pay for equal work.’’ The commission yesterday authorized the AFL wage increase. AFL unions won wage increases for able bodied seamen of $3

lor |M>ssilile investigation.

Shiits in personnel and remov- The northern ami southern opals from office, reorganization erators split yesterday on major and investigation have reached con tract suggestions submitted]

The board warned that in the' in existence in the cities, of Howard future any would-be spectator which 89.6 per cent were built

.1

tnt to Uf <Jharlea riowara

^ Uifiver a f P ^* al ^ end PMr-' who appeared to be under

the more than 16 years ago.

faity.

influence of intoxicating liquor.

Weiio, Oh 1 Zaring went to'would be removed from the I \i. l0 ' to visit relatives. ' athletic field immediately.

COUNCIL TO MEET

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high into government ministries. They have reached into the Red Army, the Communist party and even into the country’s intellect-

ual and artistic life.

On some recent days the fourpage Moscow newspapers have devoted as much as two-thirds of a page to reports of reprimands for inefficiency and exposes of jnalicious or wrongful conduct

by Soviet citizens.

Unlike other Soviet upheavals, notably those of the mid-thirties, the sentences so far reported have been confined to prison

terms and fines.

On July 17 a two-line United

Press dispatch from Moscow said “unconfirmed reports” had been received of the transfer of Marshal Georgi Zhukov, chief of Soviet ground forces and outstanding Soviet war hero, to the post of commandant of the

Odessa military garrison. A day later the United Press

obtained confirmation of Zhukov’s transfer. No news, of the shift ever has been published in

to them by Moreell on Wednes , day. Lewis made it clear the union was unwilling to accept| conditions imposed by the south-

ern group.

Searching For Missing Gir!

and $10 more monthly than tha

dozen groups and their slate j CIO was granted three months

ago.

The NMU strike called yesterday, has the support of the 200,000 members of the CIO's Committee for National Maritime Unity, and will tie up a largo percentage of American shipping, even if the AFL unions go back to work. Postal officials said 250,000 sacks of mail addressed to persons in foreign countries, including American troops, was held up by the shipping strike.

publicans are attempting tc | make political capital out of the meat shortage which, he said,

soon would disappear.

Townsend, in an interview during the fall meeting of the Indiana Democratic Editorial Assoi iation at French Lick, made Republican Gov. Ralph F. Gates his

special target.

MICHIGAN, CITY, Ind

14 (UP) —Police, boy sc and other volunteer searchers hiked through isolated an as near) here today in an effort to locate! a 15-year-old high school girl,

missing since Monday.

Authorities organized the party late last night after pnlirc expressed fears that Adriana Regan, a sophomore at St. ( Mary's parochial high scbvd. might have been abducted or

slain.

Townsend is a former Indiana | governor and lieutenant gover-

Sept, i

nits! a ^

car and will be the chief speakci the editors' banquet tonight.

Fear Tell High In Hotel Fire

HOT SPRINGS, Ark., Sept. 14 (UP) The 90-room Great Northern Hotel burned down early today, and authorities feared that "many persons'' ^lied in

the blaze.

Some reportedly leaped to

RECONVERSION directot John R. St'elman signs the amendment to the wage stabilization

The girl, daughter of Mr. and

Mrs. Eldon Regan, disappeared 1 their deaths. Many were burned shortly after she purchase*!! critically and were taken to hos-

school books in a downtown store • pitals.

the Russian press nor has there Monday afternoon. Hours lifter the fire began.

Soviet an- The parents, who have 10 othei i fij- man were unable to search

children, said Adriana was a the smouldering ruins for bodies quiet, serious girl. They said she ) Some g'J*sts leaped into

Ind planned to enter a convent safely.

been any official

nouncement.

A second Soviet

_ _ notable to ,«»,>,» u..

salaries comparable to those j vdnov, deputy minister of foreign paid for the same on comparable : a ff a j rs Announcement that the services by other operators in 70 _ vear _ old diplomat, widely!

the same industry thus per- * friend of the west, might have run away. But

minds^l'^^he^^aUrTiking had been “relieved of his duties” j admitted the possibility of "foul j housed a drug store, a grocery AFL'seamen that have tied up was made 0n Allg 2 3. On theiplay" increased daily. There was | a liquor store, a sh.»e -shine par-

Reports Rise In Farm Prices

LAFAYETTE, Ind., Sept 14. (INS)- Purdue University statisticians reported today that the Indiana farm price index rose 56 points following lifting of OPA price controls on July 1. Based on prices in effect between 1935-39 as 100, the index was 232 on August 15, compared with an index of 176 a year ago. The state grain price index was 244 on August 15, compared with 187 a year earlier while livestock prices were up 95 (Conllnut-il on rnite Tw«»

upon completion of her high

school course.

Police speculated that she

they !

Firemen said the 'fire started shortly after 1 A. M. (CST). The

canse was not known.

The three-story brirk building

Todays Weather

and

Local Temperature

nets

Partly cloudy today, tonight

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coastal ports. The Wage StabhizaGon board had previously re-

8 Hinton went to 1 The ban includes bottled spir-! The city council will meet _

enter Indiana its both before and after cm- regular session Monday evening fuaed the 8eatm .n' a wage de-

sumption at 7:30 o'clock. ^ mands. Urternational;

same day P V Smirnov, chief no concrete evidence, however, to ( lor. a confectionery and a rah, of the meat and milk production indipatp tbe -V oun K « irl had t,ppn stand ’ a11 whiph werp dpa f-oy-

« - harmed, they said. ed.

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and Sunday. Slightly

warmer.

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