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THE DAILY BANNER "IT WAVES FOR ALL"
VOLUME FIFTY-SEVEN
GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, MONDAY, JANUARY 10, 1949.
SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS
NO. 73
I DEATH TAKES DAN C. BESSER HERE SUNDAY
1 AST HSTKS OX TUESDAY FOR FORMER FLOUR pfiu OPERATOR
CHILD TREATED FOR TRACTOR INJURIES
MARCH OF DIMES CONTRIBUTIONS START
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Daniel ClBesser, age 73 years, died Sunday afternoon at his home at 311 north Indiana street Mr. Besser had been ill for sev-
eral yws.
!l He 1* survived by the widow, Mrs. Ara Besser, and one sister, Mrs. Bertha Watson, of Cali-
fornia.
He was a member of Putnam Odd Fellows Lodge. For many years, Mr. Besser operated the Big Four Fknu Mills. Funeral services will be held from the residence Tuesday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock in charge ■^of Rev. Harry P. Walrond. Bur"^ial will be in the Cloverdale cemetery. The family requests
no flowers.
g.. jr.,. Changes Made At Police Post
'PP 1 ® Eugene St, John, lieutenant in •'y 'barge of the Putnamville Post
jf the Indiana State Police re-
ceived official notice Monday ' ,''morning of his demotion to the
* rank of Trooper, 1st. Class.
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Until a new lieutenant in 111 \ 'barge is announced, Sgt. ftichy) ard Raub, 112 Bloomington street, Greencastle, is in charge
1 John Miller, age 9, was treated for injuries at the Putnam county hospital Saturday afternoon as result of being run over by' a tractor operated by his father, John Miller of Clinton
township.
The hospital reported that the youngster was admitted and released about two hours later. It was said that he was not
badly hurt.
>f the Putnamville Post. He
SERVICES FOR MRS. JARVIS TO BE ON TUESDAY DEATH OF MRS. DONNA V JARVIS GREAT SHOCK TO FRIENDS
Mrs. Donna E. Jarvis ,age 4 years, passed away Saturday j evening at a hospital in Lafay-! ette. Mrs. Jarvis had been in poor health for some time. She was born March 21, 190*, the daughter of John and Grizzella Hazlett Burnside. She had spent most all her life in this commun-
ity.
She is survived by the husband I Vurlin; one daughter, Joyce Ann; one son, Julian; four sisters, Mrs. Gertrude Jack, of Indianapolis, Mrs. Mary Stone of Morton, Mrs. Nina Bowen of Danville and Miss Jessie Burn-
side of Virginia.
Funeral services will be hold from the Rector Funeral Home Tuesday morning at 10:00 o’clock. The Rev. C. A. Newby
Burial will be
Mrs. Edeth Crawley, teller at the First-Citizens Bank accepts the first deposit from Morris Hunter, treasurer of the March of Dimes campaign which will officially open on January 14. The contribution came from the Over The Tea-Cups Club of this city.
joined the Indiana State Police | will be in charge.
"'n 1941. I * n *-^ <> Portland Mills cemetery. Lt. St. John has been in! Friends may call at the Rector
al ail
iptf
Funeral Home.
harge of the Putnamville Post or the past six years and has nade a wide circle of friends in his entire section of the state hrough his splendid police recp,, ird and service to the people he Ha lerved and the action of the Hate Board in demoting him —iame aa a great surprise to his rlends and acquaintances. He LULvUI continue to work in the Post le resides on east Walnut street d came to the local post from artinsville. Prior to his serice here he was a sergeant in
o Indianapolis headquarters pates tonight at Low Memorial tfice for about eighteen months. Library on the University com , has been a member of theh'us. The installation ceremony late Police force for eleven tomorrow will be the first of
ears.
WILDMAN TO ATTEND “IKE’S INAUGURATION NEW YORK Jan. 10 Clyde Everett Wildman, President of DePauw University, is in New York to attend the formal installation of Dwight D. Eisenhower as thirteenth president of
Columbia University. He planned Brother officers vowed today
to attend the installation reception for visiting academic dele-
Lions To Hear School Expert Roachdalc Lions Club will hear a talk tonight by’W. T. Kinder, chairman of the School Study Commission of Indiana which was sponsored by the teachers of the state in an effort to solve many pressing school problems. The Lions Club asked for the speaker and many are being heard wherever they are invited to speak. The schools are facing un over-crowded condition that will have to be met during the
coming- few years.
Several of them have been heard in this city and more may
come in the future.
Vow To Catch
"Cop" Killer
CHICAGO, Jan. 10.—(UP)—
'DICK' DUNCAN RITES TO BE HELD TUESDAY WELL KNOWN RETIRED ELECTRICIAN DIED SATURDAY NIGHT William R. Duncan, age 84 years, died Saturday evening at the Putnam County hospital. Mr. Duncan had been in failing health for some time, but had only been a patient in the hospital a few hours before he died. He was born in Floyd township, the son of iFetcr and Lueila Gorham Duncan. Mr. Duncan *’as an electrician and had spent most of his life in this com-
munity.
Survivors are: One daughter, Mrs. Mary I /wise Leonard Of I jinsing, Michigan. two sons, Peter of Greencastle. and Percy of Indianapolis; six grand child-
MR. SCHRICKER INAUGURATED AS GOVERNOR
BULLETINS
TEL AVIV, Jan. 10.—(UP) — Israel has rejected for the second time a British note of pro-
BRITAIN SEEKS U. S. SUPPORT IN JEWISH CRISIS
i
FIRST MAN TO SER\ I. ^ test regarding the shooting down j I H E It R I T I S II P L A N E S TWICE AS STATE’S j 0 f five Itritish planes, an Israeli! WERE SHOT DOWN BY
CHIEF EXECUTIVE I government s|>okesinan an-
| nouneed today.
INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 10. \
(INSt—Henry F. Schricker was! WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.honored singularly by his fellow (i pj—The Supreme Court toHoosiers when he took the oatn | ,i llv overruled efforts of the 12 of office today as governor ol [ t„p Communist leaders now Indiana for the second time. ! awaiting trial in New York City
Schricker was inaugurated af p, |,avi- their eases thrown out| ofnce spokesman
Indiana’s 37th governor at - (l f court.
simple ceremonies in the main I lobby of the Slate House. WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.—
Leslie Held On Mann Act Charge JOPLIN. Mo., Jan. 10 (UP) An ex-convict, who posed as the husband of a 15-ycar-old Greencastle, Ind., girl, was in jail today facing prosecution on charges of violation of the Mann act. The girl. Doris Rogers, was on her way home. Police held Donald Eugene Leslie, 27, who, with the girl, was arrested and hold for investigation when Officer Leroy Glyn believed they acted suspiciously. Glyn stopped the pair for ignoring a school stop sign The girl at first told officers she and Leslie were married, 'but later adnitted their Indiana marriage license was stolen from her sister. Leslie, she said, had erased the names on the license and filled in his and his
Just before Schricker took th ■ >ath of office, John A. Walkin ', Bloomgicld publisher, was inaug mated as Lieutenant Governoi Both new state officials at e Democrats swept into office by heavy majoriies at the election
'ast fall.
They succeed, respectively. Ralph F. Gates and Richard T. lames, Republicans. Gates appointed James as Lieutenant Governor las-t Wednesday to sueeed Rue J. Alexander, who died n office. James had been Lieu - cnant Governor from the start <>l the Gates administration until I he resigned last spring to he- j come vice-president and treas- ] urer of Butler University. A crowd of several thousa 11 persons gathered in the lobby in front of the wooden stage to witness the inauguration, which followed a concert of half an
JEWS FRIDAY
LONDON, Jan. 10.—(UP) — Britain has sought United States support for her position in the British-Israeli crisis resulting from the shooting down Friday of five British planes, a foreign
indicated to-
day.
The spokesman revealed that a series of communications hav*>
(UP)—The Supreme Court to- been exchanged between London
ilay implieitly upheld provisions of the Taft-Hartley law whieh take supervisors out from undei proteetions of that labor aet.
and Washington, hut would give no details of them.
Informed quarters suggested, | however, that Britain is especial-
II .11.1 so by refusing to review I ly anxious to maintain a J an appeal hy the Foreman’s As- front w,lh ,hp Un,t< ‘ d Stat, ' s in
the crisis to prevent the possibiliy of Russian involvement. In
soeiation of America attacking the constitutionality of the sup-
ervisory sections of the law.
(the two yeai'S that the Palestine
ROWLING GREEN, Ya., Jan 10.— (INS)—Five ears of the “Orange Itlossom Special'' crack Miami to New York train, were derailed today al Milford, Ya. three niilrs from Bowling Green No one was killed, but three din ing ear waiters were hospitali/.ed.
HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 10.— (INS)—Screen Star Robert Mitchiim, Actress Lila Leeds and
hour by the Indianapolis Cone M t i Realtor Robin Ford today were
found guilty on a charge of conspiracy to possess marl (liana. V second charge of possession of Mari juana was I'.intinued until Feb. 9 when they come up foi
probation and sentence.
its kind held at Columbia since Nicholas Murray Butler was in-
stalled on April 19, 1902.
livestock Men
To Meet Tuesday!Railroader Wins
Radio Jackpot
According to the county ex-
office there will be an it meeting of all persons
elonging to county livestock y 4reed Meociations and extension vestook project committees, «. uesday evening, January 11th *7t 7:00 in the Court House Asbmblv Room This annual meet£*®ig is held •ach year about this UE0 me to (1) make plans and sleet dateg lor the various acusly vities dttrtrg the coming year
elect 1949 officers or appoint
ominating committees (3) ilect superintenueius of the v “• _».us departments for the 1949 \lvutnam County Fair and (4) ■lect Judges for this years fair ^ The Putnam County Sheep breeders gkMKs lation have alfj^ady met. Associations and jW-mnUttees to uo represented mHude the Holstein Breeders A ^Hiciation, Putnam County Jersey ”attle Club, Angus, Shorthorn id Hereford Breeders, Putnam uunty B«ef Cattle Breeders
iation, L>uroc Breeders AsUttUBie Poultry. Swine and tt|M|e Committee and any conmittees represented.
pretended bride's.
that they would track down twol ien and five great grandchildren. I Leslie was held on default of j men'who killed on^ policeman j iis w jf e t wo sons, Harry $1,000 bond, following his Brand .wounded anothej- on a dark- an( j Edward preceded him in raignment before U. S. Oommisened suburban street yesterday dealh _ sioner Lewis Shaw on Mann act
morning. | Funeral services will be held charges.
Cook County State’s Attorney ( frt>m the R ec t„ r Funeral Home DoHa' father yesterday teleS. Boyle said he would “do Xues , day at 2:30 p. m„ Rev ffrn p', 1C(| hcr bus fare back to
Ralph Saunders will be in Greencastle. charge. Burial will be in Fill- i
more cemetery.
Friends may call at the Rec
tor FYineral Home.
Ineth McCoy was here
|nnati, Ohio.
IMHH Pitchford was vis-
nbetroit. Mich.
IMtijllEd Mrs. Charles Card•pent the day In Indianap-
SPARROWS POINT, Md . Jan. 10.— (UP) Horse player John Oaks said today that winning $30,500 in prizes on the radio program Stop-the-Music felt “just like hitting the daily
double.’’
Oaks, railroad superintendent, won the jackpot last night when he correctly identified the mystery melody as “When the Bridegroom Comes.” It was the big-
gest jackpot in the prog ram’s j and groin,
history, according to the Ameri-
can Broadcasting Co.
“I took it just as calfn as you please,” he said. “You see, I’ve hit a couple of daily doubles, big ones, at the Laurel Race Track.” Oaks credited his wife with with identifying the mystery tune. He said he just happened to answer the telephone. He was the 55th person called in the sixweek search for someone who
knew the tunc.
He admitted he still isn’t quite sure just what hi' won but he knows it was plenty. “Bert Parks (the quizmaster) was rattling off a lot of stuff for about 10 minutes,” he said. “For the life of me, I can’t remember just what I won. I know there was a new car In there some-
where, though.”
The list of prizes included a $1,000 U. S. savings bond; a $2,500 diamond bracelet watch; a $1,000 piano; a $3,000 diamond ring; a $2,000 living room set;
John
my utmost” to send the killers to the electric chair when they
arc captured.
The dead policeman was Patrolman Jerry Lebloch, 25. His partner. Patrolman Rudolph Loula, 28, was wounded seriously but was expected to live. Both are members of the force in sub-
urban Stickney, 111.
Liula told superiors that while cruising a residential district, he and Lebloch noticed a car parked on the wrong side of the street. As they left their patrol car to investigate, they were cut down by a torrent of bullets
from the parked car.
Lebloch suffered wounds in the head, chest and abdomen and Loula was hit in the shoulder
After firing, the killers fled on
MARRIAGE LICENSE Glen Dale Vickroy and Audra Mae Cummings, both of Cloverdale. Order 70 Yanks To U. S. Consulate SHANGHAI. Jan. 1(L (UP) Telephone reports from Eientsin said today that 70 Americans left there had been ordered to si-ek protection in the American consulate in anticipation that the
Action Promised On Radar Wall
Band.
Samuel D. Jackson, of Fort Wayne, who served as Uniti'd States senator by appointment >f Schricker to succeed the late Senator Frederick Van Ntivs, 1 was master of ceremonies at today’s inauguration. Jackson introduced the Rev. William H Eifert, pastor of the English Lutheran Church of Our R< - deemer in Indianapolis, who delivered the invocation. Then Watkins was presented by Jackson and received ttv oath of office from Judge Paul G Jasper of the Indiana Supreme Court. Watkins spoke briefly. ScricUrr was presented by his predecessor, retiring Governor Gates, and Judge Oliver Stair, chief justice of the Indiana Supreme Court, administered the
oath of office.
The new Governor likewise de- i approximately 280
livered a short address.
NEW YORK, Jan. 10.—(INS) —Elliott Roosevelt was reported in *'exe« Bent" condition today at New York's le Roy Sanitarium when' he underwent a “minor'' operation over the week end. liospital officials said that h< would lx* able to return home within a few days. Nature of the surgery was not revealed.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.— (INS)—The Veterans Admin1st rat ion today ordered a drastic cut-bncU in its hospital construction program exjiected to save
million dol-
lars.
foot, leaving the officers lying in, city would fall to the Comimun-
the street. Loula dragged him- ists in two days,
self to the police ear and broad- Thasc reports slid that attack cast an alarm. ing Cor.munist forces of 225,000 Lebloch died a few hours later men, including 75,000 reinforce-
at a hospital.
Detectives learned that the automobile was stolen, In it they found a quantity of guns and ammunition that had been taken from a sporting goods store in a burglary Saturday
night.
CHERRY FUNERAL
Funeral services for John W. Cherry were held Sunday afternoon from the Rector Funeral Home. Pallbearers were Raymond Bee, Dustin Stewart, Roy Nowgent, O.' D. McCullough, Homer Leucus. Fred Carmichael
and William Hanna.
the I Mfeapay vtii^ Bthe Fllli
SenS ''!^^^B*t her home on west Palm Springs
K*"'‘}ptar Ukreet.
ments, had fought their way through the city's defense ring and captured the north railway
station.
The north station is inside the protective dike that surround* the city. The inner Nationalist defense ring around Tientsin was placed just behind the dike. These reports said there we? sufficient Communist strength around and in the city to deliver the coup de grace at any time. Most observers expected the city to fall within 24 to 48 hours. The 70 Americans still left here, most of whom refused offers of evacuation because they represented commercial firms, have been ordered to move under the protection of the American consulate in the Leopold building, the city’s largest structure. The 120 British Nationals have withdrawn into their homes inside the city, Families in a
to the school number of cases have doubled up
two-week all expense vacation in! units $820,728.85, a total ofj to accom odate those who were Cal., and a 1919 $1,862,1P8.:(«. Putnam county forCed ou t of their mansions in
received a total of $12l>0.0:h * I vicinity of the racecourse.
COUNTY GETS $1,250.08 For the six months period ending December 31, 1948, the Indi-
A $2,000 kitchen stocked with | ana Alcoholic Beverage Commls$2,000 worth of food; a $1,500 sion returned retail permit fees string of pearls; a $1,800 mink* to the civil units of the various stole; a $1,500 linen trousseau; a I counties in the amount of $1,Smith was hostess $1,200 sterling silver service; a, 241.469.51. and
whit 1 1the Fillmore Stitch and Chat
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 (UP) F.ro.npt congressional iction was pronised today on in Air Force pn>'|>osal to build a adar wall around the country. | Rep. Carl Vinson, D., Ga., said ‘ no will call up for early con (deration his bill to authorize milding of the radar warning -.yvftem Vinson will be chairman if the House Armed Services
Committee.
Air Force Secretary W. jtuart Symington said in his irst annual report released yeserdny that lack of the radar etup loaves a big loophole in he nation's defenses. An adequate system, to be milt over a five-year period, z'ould be about $50,000,04)0. Vinson first introduced legislation to build the radar system during the last Congress. At that time he was a minority nember of the committee and no iction was taken on the bill. He introduced the measure
again last week.
Vinson told reporters enough of the radar stations would be set up to detect at once the passage of a plane over any part of the nation's border. This information woulld be relayed to central points for a
The Rev. Charles T. Alexander, pastor of the Capital Avenue Methodist church of Indianapolis, pronounced the benediction. Nearly all of the employes of the Bloomfield Evening World attended the inauguration ef their boss, Publisher Watkirs, in a body. Publication of the newspaper had been suspended! lor today in honor of the occ.i-| sion. Publication wil Ibe resumed Tuesday. Schricker had served as Gov-| ernor from 1941 until 1945. Th' j n he re-entered the banking buM-| ness he had left in Knox, and; became vice-president of the Fletcher Trust Company in Indianapolis. Under severe pressure from fellow Democrats, h> “reluctantly” became a candidate for Governor last summer He previously had served as a publisher in Knox, a state s"'! ator and as Lieutenant Govei
nor.
Watkins was connected with the Indianapolis Star and puolished The Linton Citizen before going to Bloomfield. A veteran of both World Wars, Watkins is a former commander of the American Legion. The Democratic state committee will give a ball at the Indi <r<H»llMR?«l »»n Hmbf Tlire«*l FILKS FOK IJ1VOIU’K
Vera M. Smithson has filed suit for divorce in the Putnam circuit court from Forest B Smithson. They were married j June 9, 1944 and separated Jan-
check against known flights, uary 7. 1948. She asks that her Any unidentified, and possibly | tiam0 VeraM Hopper be restor
j Kaiser sedan.
ed and that she be allowed $500
and all other relief. Gi.-
Voteraiis Administrator ('art Gray said plans for 24 new hospitals have been cancelled and I I otte r proposed hospitals will be reduced in size. Nolle of the hospilats affected is under construc-
tion.
<on T%to> Congress Gets Irurnan Budget WASSHINGTON, Jan. 10 UTPi President Truman sent to congress today a budget message asking a tax hike of upward of $4,000,000,000 a year. His message called for spending $41,900,000,000 in the fiscal year 1951, a record breaker for peacetime. National defense costs are expected to top the qieuding list at approximately ! $15,000,000,000. The fiseal year covered by today’-.) budget will begin next July 1. Mr, Truman did not dej liver the message to congress himself It will be read by clerks in either house, shortly after-
noon, EST,
Mi. Truman’s message on the | state of the union and his eco- | nomic report last week forecast i (lie general outlines of the j budget. Higher payroll taxes will he sought for increased and exI panded Social Security benefits and for a pre-paid medical Insurance plan. Mr. Truman also wants to increase treasury revenue by raising postal rates on some classes of mail, including second and third. The post office will operate at a deficit estimated to be $400,000,000 in the
J problem has been before the United Nations, both Britain and U. S. have worked vigorously to prevent Russian intervention. Britain placed her powerful Mediterranean fleet in “a state of reidness," alerted forces at Malta, which is only 48 hours sailing time from Tel Aviv, and was reported to have placed fairly strong naval forces at the Trans-Jordan port of Aqaba, on the Red Sea. Britain also was taking other “crisis measures.” Prime Minister Clement R. At tlee conferred with Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, and then convened an emergency meeting of the cabinet defense commitlee at No. 10 D tin prime minister’s official residence. Present at the meeting weie Field Marshal Sir William Slim, the new chief of the imperial general staff, Lord Fraser, chief of the naval staff, and Ixtrd Te Ider, marshal of the Royal Air Force. Reports from Cairo and frwn Cyprus indicated that Britain's first moves in preparing for any eventuality in the Near East were naval. Cairo reported that two cruisers and a number of supporting craft were at Aqaba, which is near the Palestine border. Cyprus pi ess reports said that British warships were expected there “very soon." Informed sources in London would not comment on either re-
port.
“We cannot disclose the disposition of warships as it might leave us open (o. attack,” an admiralty spokesman said. But he confirmed that all shore leave has been cancelled tor naval petsonnel at Malta. An informed source said that Britain has “a very well balanced strategic force” in the Mediterranean, and that it is in “a date of readiness” for action. The source said the fleet includes a cruiser squadron, two flotillas of destroyers, frigates, submarines and several aircraft
carriers.
The fleet is commanded by Rear Admiral Earl Mountbatten. The aircraft carriers include the Triumph and tile Ocean. Cruisers known lo he attached to the Mediterranean fleet are (he Liverpool and Newcastle, of t.100 tons each, and the Phoebe md Euryalus, of 5,450 tons each. What the effect of the crisis resulting from Friday's air battle might be on plans for Is-raeli-Egyptian peace talks to Open at Rhoucs within a day or two was not yet cleat. It was jiot believed, howeve •, <<'ontluupd on I'iiup Two!
unfriendly, plane could be picked
out promptly. | alimnn y j
Vinson, raminded that neither len & Lyon ar<! thc P laintiff, « at ' i next fiscal year unless rates are
House took any action last year Forneys. I raised.
on the radar network plan, said ' ~ | Sen ' Sc °tt W. Lucas, 111., the
MASONIC NOTICE j new senate majority leader, . j hinted that the administration Stated meeting of Applegate may try to raise personal inLodge No. 155 F. & A. M„ Fill- come taxes, instead of imposing
.Ot $&«&&«««* ® Todays Weather El ^ and G $ Local Temperature 0 Rain today and tonight becoming mixed with snow north tonight. Tuesday mostly cloudy Colder today and tonight. High today 35 in the North, to 50 in tlieh South. Low tonight, 30 in the Northwest to 40 in the Southeast. Minimum 37°
the program is highly Important and left no doubt that he intends to shove It to the House 1
floor for early consideration. i »- - —
In his report, Symington warn- niore ' Jan llth ' 7:00 P' nl In ’ an excess P roflts levy on cor Pored that the Nation lias "none stalIation of officers lor 1949. ations to get the $$4,000,000,000 (('oallaued oa Pat, v«ra) ! R ' 8alra<Jn > W. M. it estimates it Will need.
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