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THE DAILY

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IT WAVES FOR ALL

VOLUME SIXTY-THREE

INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1954.

UNITED PRESS SERVCE

NO. 38

WOMAN, THREE MEN LAND IN COUNTY JAIL

KOI K \KRESTS REPORTED BV AUTHORITIES ON TUESDAY Four persons, including a woruin. were lodged in the Putnam county jail Tuesday and booked on various charges by arresting officers. Wilson I. Galbraith. 41. Indianapolis. was taken into custody by State Trooper George Hecko and brought to the jail at 3:30 p. m. on a drunken driving chaige. Elizabeth Fuller. 26. and Elmer Walter Woods. 47. both of Roachdale, were picked up in Crawfordsville and turned over to Sheriff Joe Rollings on an assault 'and battery charge. The sheriff said May Woods, of Roachdale, \vas the complaintant. Harold Reynolds. 21. city, was arrested by local police at 7:30 p. au. on a public intoxication ci large. In other police activities, Ellis H. Holland. 26, Princeton, pleaded guilty to a public indecency charge when he appeared before Mayor Evan Crawley in city court Tuesday evening. He was lined $10 and costs, a total of . v 23, but a 30-day penal farm sentence was suspended by the Mayor. Holland was arrested on South Locust street at 4:15 p. m Monday. Orchestra Will Play At Chapel Student talent takes over at a DoPauw University convocation for the first time this year when the DePamv symphony is featured in a program of classical music at 10 a. in. Friday in Meharry Hall. The orchestra, with Prof. Herman C. Berg conducting, will u|hmi its concert with a performance of tin overture to Rombuu > opera, "The Barber of Seville."

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SERVING COUNTRY

POLICE HEAD REPORTS DROP IN FATALITIES

INDIANA 4H TRACTOR WINNER VISITS CHICAGO

Professor Berg also is scheduled to conduct three selections from “Masquerade Suite" by Khachatunan. including Wa’z. Romance, and Galop. The student assistant conductor. A Wesley Tower, will tak the baton to direct the orchestr. in Scene, Dance of the Swans, and Hungarian Dance, all from Tscha ikowsky s "The Enchantei Lake.” Founded in DePauw s symphony is the second oldest college orchestra in continuous existence in the United States. TO SERVE VN 4I IH.ES Three DePauw University professors will serve as judges for the Young Instrumentalists contest in Grand Rapids. Mich., tinweekend. They are Profs Herman Beig. Glen Sherman, and Henry Kolling. all of the PePaim School of Music. The contest which sponsored by the Grand Rapids Sympohny Orchestra, is ««I>en only to residents of Michigan.

20 Years Ajja HERE AND THERE

l*lc. Kaymond H. Mitchell

Pfc . Mitchell, son of Mrs. Della Cunninghaiii, is stationed in Korea. Hi.- address is: Pfc.-Raj-mond H MitcljeM U S. 55448173, Co. B. 14th Engr. Bn (Cl, APO 358 P. M., San Francisco, California. Moose Will Mark 40th Anniversary The fortieth anniversary ol • he Greencastle Moose Lodge will he appropriately observed on Thursday evening. December 9. Festivities will get underway at 7:30 p. m. with the initiation of a large class of candidates. James Fentress, well known local bii^uMN-man. will represent the ela^^aihe Crawfordsville Moose cleg^e team will confer Uie initiatofy work. The class will be received into the lodge in honor Alvin Shanks, of South Bend, president of the Indiana State Moose Association. There will also be int oductions of distinguished i guests who are present. A banquet will be served at the Moose Home following the degree work. Music will be fur- i nished by Vernon Elmore. - j Community Dinner On Monday Eve. Anyone men or women, wanting tickets for the Chamber of Commerce Community Dinner in the Union Building Monday, can get them at the Chamber of Commerce office, the principal's office of the high school or at the Physical Education office at DePauw University. The public is invited to participate in this dinner. A feature (»f the meeting will be the honoring of the football squads of the high school and DePauw by the Quarterback Club. * DIES IN FLORIDA Elbert Knctzei a formet resident of Coatesville. and a retired Pennsylvania R. R. employee passed away at the home of h.s brother, in Melbourne. Florida, Tuesday, Nov. 30th. Funeral services will be held from the Powell Funeral Home in Coatesville Friday afternoon at 2:30 p m. with burial in the Fillmore cemetery. \ lOLIN KE4 ITAL

4 ESS IP HOPES INDIANA TRAFFIC DEATHS WILL

BE LOWER

A glimmer of hope that Indiana traffic deaths would not pass the 1.000 mark this year war seen today by S'ate Police Sup* Frank A. Jessup in announcing a 17 percent di op in fatalities. As of Sunday midnight. he -aid. 944 deaths had been recorded since January 1. as compared with 1.141 for the same period in 1953. It represented a drop o. 197 or 17.2 percent in the number of persons killed in state-wide traffic crashes. The nations* I death rate decrease is about 6 percent, he added. "Whether the total traffic victims can be held to 55 the remainder of the year depends on the people who use Indiana streets and highways,” Mr. Jes-

sup asserted.

He urged a united front to prevent accidents in the final days of the year. During 1953 a total of 1,276 died in state traffic. The efforts of traffic safety workers received a boost over the long Thanksgiving holiday weekend.* when but 10 deaths were reported from 6 p. m„ November 24 through November 28. Thirtylour fatalities occurred in the corresponding period a year ago. Troopers on patrol. Supt. Jessup said, are noting a new safedriving consciousness on the part of motorists in all sections of Indiana. Enforcement is being directed at drivers observed in moving violations, he stated. Of the 944 deaths through Sunday. 746 were in rural areas and

Joe Zeiner. 17 of Route 1. Fillmore, receives congratulations from A_ C. Sailstad of Chicago, general manager of sales for Standard Oil Company, on being the 1954 4-H tractor winner from Indiana. This ceremony took place during the 33rd. National 4-H Club Congress In Chicago this week, which also commemorated the tenth anniversary of the 4-H tractor program. The Putnam County youth, wh.o has been active in 4-H work for seven years, was honored Tuesday night at the tenth annual tractor program banquet. Zeiner and winners from 46 othe* states received all-expense trips to Chicago The tractor program is conducted by the co-operative extension services with eight oil companies providing awards and funds for training local 4-H Club leaders who in turn teach 4-H youths how to maintain theii tractors and operate them economically.

Neal Sworn In As Postmaster

Raymond R. Neal took ove? the duties as postmaster in the Greencastle office at eight o’clock Wednesday morning. H ■ was sworn in as head of the local office at eight o'clock Tries day evening by Inspector C. A. L. Burroughs of Tore Haute, who was transferred to this territory recently from Memphis Tenn. Looking on during the

198 in cities. A total of 571 hap J sweaHng in ceremony were Mr-.

Neal, a fellow inspector, C. R.

pened on federal and state highways and 175 on county roads.

The two local banks mailed out $20,000 in Christmas Club checks. Rex Hathaway spent the day in Indianapolis. Miss Helen King. * teacher u. the Rensselaer schools was home for the weekend Miss Anne Cannon was hei^ 11 otii Gary. „

Violinist Edward Filmanowicz. a DePauw University student will appear in recital here Wednesday evening at 8:15 in the Student Union ballroom. Filmanowicz. a Chicago sophomore in the College of Liberal Arts, will play selections by Vitaii - Charlie!. Beethoven. Vieuxtemps, Stravinsky. and Saiasate His accompanist will be Plot. Henry KoLing. NEW «.Ol* i HAIRMAN PAOLI. Ind., Dec. 1 I UP l Retiring State Sem Nubie Eil:I of Orlean.- today replaced th> late Dr. Paul Lindley as Change County Republican < ban man a post Lindley held for 23 years. Lindley, the oldest county GOF* chairman in Indiana in point of service, died Nov. 27 before h ; s latest term was up. The county's 48 T»-e< met committeemen and women elected Ellis over Preston Winmger. West Baden, in a se< i-et haiku Tuesday Ellis's senate tenn expires I>ev. 31.

New Mercury At East Side Motors

The East Side Motors will play host to the many motorists oi Greencastle and Putnam County when the 1955 Mercury lines go on display tomorrow. Thursday. Dec. 2nd. Located on the Stiles-ville-Indianapolis road. East Sid^ Motors will hold open house on Thursday, Friday and Saturday up until 9:00 p. m. to receive the public and give them a firsthand glance of this beautiful Mercury for 1955. An entirely new automobile the Mercury Monaclair has been added to the line of completely new Mercury cars for 1955. Making its debut in th 1 automotive field, the Montclair joins the Monterey and the Custom series which have been strikingly restyled and re-engine-ei ed. Mercury for 1955 includes 10 models in the three series. The wheelbase has been increased to 119 inches and exterior dimensions increased two inches in length and two inches in widtn. Mercury- in the Monterey and Custom series are one inch lower than previous models, while the low-silhouette Montclair is twoaiid one-half inches lower. Thi leal tread is three inches wider and the frame is one inch closet to the ground. The bold lines of the completely new bodies repiesent an evolution of ba.-ic Mercury styling A full-scope windshield provides greater driving vision, anu canted headlights <rivo a forward take to the lower, wider front end. The smooth-flowing line carries along the side to a more massive real quarter panel with tail lamps designed to blend in’ • the overall styling theme. The 1955 Mercury offers two high-coinpre.-sioii overhead valv< V-8 engines to give maximum performance at low and .medium speeds as well as better accelera tion and passing ability. The Merc-O-Matie transmission has been redeveloped to handle the considerably high< •. torque of the 1955 Met cut ;' engines. A combination of a hydraulic torque converter and planetary gearing. the new Merc-O-Matie has a larger torque converter than in previouyears. A fast getaway from a standstill is provided by a stait I < ••MliMiieti MM t*Ni>e I ««•••

Liddil and a few friends of the

Neals.

Mr. Neal succeeds Albeit L Dobbs who served nearly eighteen years, longer than any other Greencastle posLnJast^r. * HOSPITAL NOTES Dismissed Tuesday: Clarence Scobee, R. 1; Claude Raikes. R. 2: Gary Evans. Fillmore: Mrs. Howard Chase and daughter. Greencastle; Earl Minnich, Spencer; Mrs. James Bowman and daughter, Coatesville; Frederick DeHaven. Greencastle; Arthur ,Giltz. Bainbridge. Hugh and Randall Kingery, Indianapolis. Seven Hurt In Laundry Blast INDIANAPOLIS. Dec. 1 i UP) Authorities today investigated the possibility that gas | united by an electrical spark nignt have been responsible for a laundry explosion that injured '•even persons and caused near panic among some 200 other

workers.

The blast occurred in a wash ; loom at the -Mechanics Laundry and Supply Co. late Tuesday, -ending a bolt of flame across a ! nearby pressing room and starting numerous small fires in the

first floor ceiling.

Four of the injured were treated and released and the other three were hospitalized in fair

condition.

Clothing was sprayed about the first floor and two large plate

To Turn On New Lights Tonight The new street lights in the Commercial Place addition to the city will be turned on for the first time this evening. A total of forty-nine new light -, will illuminate the recently annexed Grencastle area making this section far more safer for night driving as well as fo: pedestrians. Two old lights in Commercial Plat e were also replaced with stronger bulbs to aid the general illumination. The new lights operates individually and automatically. They are of the very latesLrflesign and each has an electric eye which turns on the light when it is dusk and turns it off at daylight. Other improvements include the water mains which are all in and also most of the sewer system has been completed in the new addition and is now available for connection by property owners.

Lively Murder Trial Near End

INDIANAPOLIS. Dec. 1 (UP>—The first degree murder trial of Victor Lively approached it.- climax today as the state opened its rebuttal to the defendant's testimony that Dorothy Poore induced him to make love t ) her the night of her death. The defense rested its case late Tuesday after calling Lively and two other persons to the stand. The state and defense will close .• ith rebuttal testimony and the case could go to the jury of 11 men and one woman by late af-

ternoon

John H. Daily. Marion County . chief deputy prosecutor, hit hard ; at Lively’s lapses of memory in cross examination of the de-

j tendant.

Lively earlier had testified that the 18-year-old Ciint.m girl had : ' pulled off her blue jeans" and i helped liim undress before she died in his hotel room last July. The victim’s body was foun t crammed in a dresser drawer

2lass windows were blown out by

ihe explosion. Firemen quickly j bout davs a f t er her death, extinguished the flames and help- Lively testified he fell into a ed injured and frightened work- drunken stupor after the two had ns to safety. j disrobed and he could not reJack Packwood. 47. chief en- r , iember ’ having sexual relations gmeer for the firm, said he be- | thp op,.] cr strangling her. lieved "foreign gas" in a large Tht . state attacked Lively s washing machine was responsible • , >aiin he blacked out from drinkfer the bla.-t. Firemen .-aid fumes ]ng an( ] confused the defendant in

questions about how much liquor

r-om oily rags and clothing being ( leaned in the washroom might have been ignited by an electrical

spark.

Hospitalized by the blast were t\ irence Holt. 29 Miss Rosetta s'hi vers. 30. and Laurie Johnson. 37. all of Indianapolis. DRIVER KILLED ANDERSON I id. Dec. 1 -(UP* Milton Senest. 53. Indianapolis wa.- killed Tuesday when his car went out of control on Ind 67 Mboiil 4 miles south of here. Authorities said the car sideswiped another auto and tan of the highway.

he consumed. Although maintaining he couldn't remember what happened. Lively conceded under questioning that he might have raped the

death.

Asked if he remembered put-

SPLENDID TALK DELIVERED AT DEPAUW CHAPEL

STUDENTS HEAR LEADING MISSOURI MINISTER THIS MORNING "Many people, moving about in society today, actually are dead so far as contributing to the welfare of mankind is c6ncerncd.” Those were the words which Raymond F. McCallister used to keynote his address at a DePauw worship chapel this morning in Gobin Church. Dr. McCallister, one of the best-known clergymen in the Greater St. Louis area, is pastoi of the Webster Groves (Mo.) Christian Chinch. Some of the signs of living death, he said, include a "chronii disposition to accept old ideas instead of promoting new ones” and "the failure to be aroused by anything new.” He continued: "This is a great day in which to be a heretic and a rebel in the finest sense. Think in terms of today's lessons, for unless the new awakens our interest our progress is backward, not forward.” Still another sign of "death" is the tendency to accept America as synonymous with the Kingdom of Heaven. Dr. McCallister commented. "We serve our country best when, seeing her weaknesses, we frankly admit their danger to the body politic and contribute to their eradication." Two of the signs of true life, he added, involve, the attempt.t<» cultivate a sense of humor and to widen one’s circle ot friends in order that it naturally includes others. "Life tends to make us hard.’’ Dr. McCallister commented, "But the therapy of humor is almost miraculous. It is truly an art to be able to appreciate the humorous.’’ In recommending a wider circle of friends, he said: “I can think of nothing more foolisn than for white people to be seen only with white people, and the good only with the good.” Our peace and our lives depend on our adopting a personal “good neighboi ” policy, according to the speaker, and on having a circle of friends larger than our state and nation- friends of all races and kinds. Using the aviator's terms, Di McCallister recommended "visibility unlimited" on the horizontal or human level and "ceiling absolute" . uninterrupted connections with God on the perpendicular. STATION WGKE Singer Minday Carson will be featured with Ray Anthony and hi- band on the "National Guard Show'' to be aired over Radio Station WGRE tonight at 6. The DePauw-Indiana Central basketball game will be broadast at 8:10 through remote facili’ies from Indianapolis. Art Kimball and Bill Keller will provide the play-by-play description of the Tigers' season opener with last year's ICC conference champions. GIFTS STILL ACCEPTED Mrs. \V. D James, Putnam County chairman <»f the Menta.1 Health campaign, announced today that gifts for the mental health patients in Indiana ho.-pi-tals will be accep: • 1 up to and including Dec. 14th. OPEN HOUSE Wright's Electric Service L holding Open House all day Friday. Dec. 3rd. at th-ir sales room at 305 N. Jackson Sr. Refreshment will be served and giftwill be given to children accompanied bv parents. There will also be d<)or prizes. The public is invited. During the day Miss Marge Zimmerman. West mg ho use home

AN EAGLE SCOUT

CENSURE VOTE TO BE DECISIVE SAYS SENATOR

JOE Met ARTin SLI s < PIJCTLY ONE-SIDED VOTE AGAINST HIM

Bowen Akers Bowen was awarded the Eagle Scouting award at t meeting ot Scouts, and their parents and Scout officials after a pitch-in dinner at the Christian churen Tuesday night. He is the 13 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Gene Akers and won his Eagle award m a record time.

EXTRA! WASHINGTON. Dec. 1- (UP) The administration’s call for a four-year extension of the draft plus a modified Universal Military Training program will meet strong opposition in Congress, Senate specialists on military affairs said today. One veteran senator, a .supporter of Universal Military Training in the past, said th-: military manpower proposals will pass only if President Eisenhower throws his "full prestige" behind them. Even then, the President may be forced to accept a compromise cutting the four-yeai extension of the draft to tw r o years, the senator said. He declined use of his name.

SYLACAUGA, Ala.. Dec. 1— (UP)—Mrs. Hulett Hodges, the first known person ever struck by a falling meteorite, demanded today that the Air Force return j tiit ore that ripped into her home and injured her. The meteorite, six or eight inches in diameter, fell through her roof leaving a three-foot hoie and struck her on Ihe hip and hand Tuesday afternoon. She was only slightly injured, however, by the object that may have been one of many that fell from a 40-mile high explosion visible in three states. A helicopter crew from Maxwell Air Force Bas a , Ala., flew to Mrs. Hodges’ home to examine the object and the Air Force said it would be taken to Air Force laboratories in Washington. CLEVELAND, Dec. 1 (UP) Susan Hayes goes into court today with her account of the iilicit romance with Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard that the state contends gave him a motive for th murder of his pregnant wife. Miss Hayes, a freckled, saucyfaced girl of 24. was to be the climax witness for the state in its first degree murder case agins* the young osteopath. The young laboratory techni- 1 cian prepared to tell of a week j she lived with Dr. Siun in Caiifomib of their talk of his getting a divorce and marrying her, and of the letters they exchanged. Evansville. Ind.. Dec. 1 - <UPi Police today questioned John li Courtney, 28. Cat mi. III., abmi - (Summaries on Page 2) Edward Lewis Dies In Ohio

WASHINGTON. De. 1 -I’; Sen. Joseph R McCarthy ; t<< counted only 33 votes foi the: side today and predicted ; go down to decisive dele i showdown censure votim: w gets underway jn the Senate l:..> afternoon. McCarthy himself foi t a."completely One-sided vote" . a the big controversy su pt ward a climax after embroilu the Senate and stirring the n tion for nearly six months. "Most Democrats and in,, i left wing or self-styled liberal R publicans will approve my ( sure,” McCarthy declared. "Th e doesn't leave us many votes 1 just want to get it over with The Senate was called into sion to wind up the formal de; that began 21 days ago. At ;; j . m. it will begin acting on th, Watkins censure resolution, ju posed amendments, and i cu. promise formula expected u , i Sen. Everett M. Uirksen R I The final verdict is expecti i > come Thursday. A top pro-McCarthy . ,>m, , timated today that abou’ the Senate's 96 membe; , vote for the Dirksen substitnt which would rule out McCartn censure. He said 33 senators also m vote against the second counl the Watkins resolution win. a nises McCarthy ot abusin i: Gen. Ralph W. Zwicker. Bui predicted that only about would oppose the first eo, charging McCarthy with abn . a 1951-52 Elections subcoin: tee. There was considerable um tainty about the probable lat a third count, proposed by . Wallace F. Bennett which demands MeC. , fcukc for attacVihg thd Watv> censure committee. But. censure in some ion. parently is assured altliong . “Ten Million America ization in New York nisi, sample batch of anti-c n. signatures to the Capital :• in an 11th hour effort ' votes. It claims it has 10 n. signatures altogether. .Dirksen announced j :a troduce hr- long-prom is - 1 promise at 3 p. m., w:th B of getting action on it iii I iie laced a parliann nt ,n y a that threatened to bring up of the censure count fir-; . . an hour's discussion is alio ■ * 1 each count and amen a-,it, ’ showdown on the < could be delayed tin'll T m. Although the term i ,v been made public, be promise is underst',* : !•• ' demn intemperate la . a; senators and u. ge against it without n McCarthy's name Carolyn Brown To Get Award Fust place winn - u: th I Club Youth Fuin !• ■* Contest piojeet tro ■ will soon receive pe, , . , certificat* s comm- d. g "for outstanding v.•• k field of fire pi event - ty." Receiving the i Carolyn Brown, ig- 17. F Indiana, wmnei irc.i Pi i Co* inly.

ting his hand on the girl's throat, j demonstrator, 'vil! give /dernonLivelv replied: ' strations on the use of large ap"1 <km t remember. I don't pliances.

know, I could have

M \RRJAGE LICENSE

NOTICE

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The office of the Draft Board

Charles M. Stephenson, crane

will b * closed all day Friday,

operator, and Helen V. Mann.

December 3rd.

nurse, both of Indianapolis.

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Edward Lewis. ag» 45 years efi'-d suddenly Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock in Dayton. Ohio Death was due t<> a heart atta. k Mr Lewis was the son of the late Charles and Isittie L<-wi.-of Manhattan. He was a stock buyer for th*' Slicker Packing

Co., in Dayton.

He is survived by trw widow Thelma, three >isteis Mrs Dorothy Compton and Mrs. Frank Jarrell. Manhattan, and Mrj Harry Wey, Evansville, two bn<i thers. John of Indianapolis ano Robert of Manila*tan Funeral services will b< held Friday at th 1 S 'hlitnlz & M*x>re Funeral Home, 1632 Wayne Avo.

Dayton, Ohio.

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