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VOLUME FIFTY-THREE WELL KNOWN LOCAL WOMAN PASSES AWAY

last HITES WILL EE HELD SATURDAY FOR MRS.

GRIMES

Mrs F&nlou Priest Grimes, wile of Wilbur Grimes of Greencastle, passed away at the family residence, Thursday afternoon at 3:35 P. -M. at the age of 48 years 8 months and 20 days. Mrs. Grimes had been in failing health

for 2 1-2 years.

The deceased was torn in Winchester, Kentucky in 1897, the daughter of the late Charles and Betty Priest. Mrs, Grimes \s survived by the husband, Wilbur, and three daughters, Mary Frances Grimes, Mrs. Betty Giddings, and Mrs. Winifred Neal, all of Greencastle; 3 sons, Pfc. Gerald L. Grimes, U. S. Marines on Okinawa, Capt. W. Keith Grimes, U. S. Army Air Force, pending discharge, S-Sgt. Robert D Grimes, U S. Army Air Force, Kearns, Utah. Three sisters, Mrs. W. M. Wormesley of South Souix City Nebraska, Mrs. C. W. Shortried, Geddes, South Dakota and Mrs. Nancy Singleton of Anderson, Indiana and one brother who died in infancy, four grandchildren and a host of relatives and friends. Mrs. Grimes was a member of the First Christian Church of

THE DAILYJBANNER

GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1945.

NO. 299

CITY FIREMEN WILL MAKE FALL CHECKUP Fiie Chief William L-awrence

announced Friday that city firemen will make their annual Fall checkup of the Greencastle busii ess district, starting next week.

The Chief stated that in the

past, the merchants have cooperated splendidly with the fire de- | ailment in this connection. He erges all sto.es to clean up waste paper, boxes and other debris in basements and back rooms that lend to present a fire hazard. If his is done, there will be far less Janger with the i e-kindling of furnaces, stoves and other heatng methods in the downtown

i ction.

Phone Service At Standstill

Telephone service in the Green • castle Associated Telephone Corp. exchange was at a standstill from 1 to 5 o’clock this afternoon, due to the union strike vote which was being taken

throughout the nation.

About a score of operators here were involved, some of whom arc union, members while some others were not, but all joined in the time limit set for

the vote taking.

The chief operator was duty during the afternoon attempts were being made

and

handle emergency calls locally as

this city, of the Cro-tat-em Club j well as No. 1 priority long disand a very willing worker of ! tar, c calls. Maintenance iben Red Cross Society. i were also off duty during the Funeral services will be held same period as they are inckud-

Saturday at 2:3,0 P. M. at the Rector Funeral Home. Burial will be in the Brick Chapel cemetery. Rev. Paul Robinson will officiate in. the services. Friends ] may call at the Rector Funeral |

Home.

cd in the organizations

life strike vote.

Society Matron Held In Slaying SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 5.— (UPl Mrs. Annie Irene Mansfeldt, 46. wife of a society doctor" faced a murder charge today— convinced, too late, that the nurse she suspected of having an affair with her husband was in-

nocent.

Mrs. Mansfeldt, mother of three children, was charged with the fatal shooting of Mrs. Vada Ma, (.in, 32, a special nurse whom she found sitting in her hushand’s automobile. Her husband, Dr. John Mansfel^lt n a general practitioner f>nd grandson of the late John Mansfeldt. famous concert pianist, told his wife at a hospital where she brought the fatally wounded muse that her suspicions were groundless. Then he disappeared. He had not gone to the jail to see his wife where she was held pending arraignment on the r.’.urder charge, nor had he returned home. Mrs. Mansfeldt, an attractive, slender, expensively-dressed society matron, told police she had ‘‘enteitained doubts” about her husband’s fidelity for more than

a year.

Hulman Heads Farm Trustees The Board of Trustees of the Indiana State Farm held its regular annual re-organization meeting at the State Farm Thursday evening. A. Hulman of Terre Haute was

Meat Rationing May End Nov. 1

WASHINGTON. Oct. 5. (UP)

—In the belief that demands for meat are decreasing, the governinent is now considering Nov. 1 as the date for ending meat ra-

tioning, it was learned today.

At the present high level of demand. officials said, the potential supply of meat for November ptobably could not be distributed

fairly without rationing.

But government economists believe the demand for red meat is on the way down. A contri-

buting factor is said

cline in civilian purchasing power. The current wave of strikes is expected to play an important

part in the drop.

Officials of the Office of Price

ORDERS NAVY TO OPERATE i 52 OIL PLANTS PRESIDENT TRUMAN ACTS AS STRIKE FRONT INCREASES l By I'nilrd I'reo The navy moved today to force I production in the nation's oil re-1 fineries as government labor of- j finals attempted to halt spreading soft coal Strikes and head off i scheduled nationwide telephone

de-up.

President Truman last night | directed the navy to seize and' r pel ate 52 strikebound plants of I 26 oil companies. He said the | petioleum situation had become so critical that “essential military operations are already jeo-

pardized.”

Oil workers, demanding a 30 per cent wage increase, made no immediate move to leturn to their jobs, penning word from international officers in Washington. At least one group, representing the large Texas locals indicated it was prepat ed to test the government’s peacetime seiz-

ure powers.

As the nation waited to see if the navy could get oil and gas-1 cline flowing again, strikes took! heavy tolls in automotive, oil, coal, lumber and steel industries. A nationwide strike vote walkout of telephone employes was expected to cut off long distanc* and some local service for foui hours this afternon. Secretary of Labor Lewis B. fc'chwellenbach said he would meet today with Joseph Bierne, president of the National Federation of Telephone Workers in an attempt to avert the communications work stoppage, set for 2 p. ni. to 6 p. m. (EST). The labor secretary also disclosed after a 30-minute conference with President Truman that ht had called a conference for tomorrow with the soft coal operator's negotiating committe* 1 -and Uhited Mine Workers Chieftain

John L. Lewis.

Elsewhere in the troubled labor picture, sti iking New York

longshoremen prepared to return to work, and 2,700 Pacific Greyhound bus drivers walked out at 12:01 a. m. today. Some 465,000

to be a de- U. S. workers were idle in strik-

' es and shutdowns, according to

a United Press tabulation. Joseph Ryan, president of the

International Longshore men’s Association, said 60,000 New

HOOSiERS AMONG CREW OF CARRIER IN TOKYO BAY

KUHN ARRESTED ON ARRIVAL IN GERMANY

On the flight deck of their carrier USS Bataa i in Tokyo Bay, are these 13 Navy men from Indiana Who helped their ship establish an enviabb recoi l as reflected in the symbols in the background of the ship's victims They are: Front left, Mount E. Higdon, seaman, second class, USNK. Aus.in, Robert H. Goldsmith, radio technician, th rd class, USNR, 4141 Walnut st„ Batesville; Richard R. Ray, aviation ma himst's mate, third class, Tangier; Wayne L. Bcniis, boatswain’s mate, second class. USN, Route 2, Greencastle; Leroy Welch. Jr., seaman, second class, USNR, 730 Beecher, Indianapolis, and Kenneth F Metring, painter, first class, USN, 1902 West Vermont, Indianapolis. Second row, from left, Donald K. Hoffman, sea man. first class, Claypool; Darrel B. Chadwick, fireman, first class, 2502 Weiser Park, Fort Wayne; Lt. jg) Earl T. Richards, 702 West 43rd st„ Indianapolis; Lt. Lloyd E. Dyer, USNR, 719 West 7th st.. Bloomington, Ind.; Lt. Richard J. Tiernan, Junior grade, USNR, 33 South H)th; Richmond; William J. Hill, ma hinist’s mate, first class, USNR. 27th Union, East Gary, and Stanley H. Michalak, fireman, first class, 1026 South 35th st., South Bend. The ship's guns and those of her planes knocked down 138 Jap planes and destroyed 112 on the gr uiul ces/lcs sinking ordJmigi:,»; 41,1:10 tons of mcrclmnl shipping.

taking

Administration and Agriculture j York dock workers would go

Department have resumed conferences on an early end to rationing in view of this prospect. Meantime official sources disclosed that the government—in the midst of elaborate plans to eliminate food subsidies — has

back to their jobs Monday, pend ing negotiations with ship own-

ers.

At least 400 passengers were stranded at the Los Angeles terminal and another 50 at San Francisco last night when Grey-

sidy to cattle slaughterers for hiring workers for overtime

work on Saturdays.

LOCAL PEOPLE MEET ON TOP OF MOUNTAIN While visiting in Tazewell. Va., Miss Eleanorc Cammack and hoi mother and sister and othe; membeis of the family went up in the mountains for a picnic dinner last Sunday. Where they parked their car the ground was

prepared a new subsidy prog ram. I h< und employes In seven western The Agriculture Department states carried out a strike threat has submitted to Reconversion j alter ncgotiatlona for higher

Mtoi John M. Snyder a pl o- wages broke down,

posal to offer an incentive sub- F. W. Ackerman Greyhound * * vice president, said more than

140.000 passengers in California Oiegon, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas were af-

lectcd.

Mr. Truman ordered seizure of the idle oil plants and refineries after government conciliators weic unable to resolve a wage clispuato and end a coast-to-coast walkout. Conciliation healings were disbanded when 10 of 11 i major oil companies rejected a compromise proposal.

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Secretary Byrnes On Radio Tonight WASHINGTON Oct. 5. (UP) — Secretary of State James F. Byrnes begins his report to President Truman today on the failure of the first peace conference of World War II. Tonight, at 9:30 p. m. EST., Byrnes wil report to the American people in a (CBS) radio ad-

diess.

It was assumed that his report to Mr. Truman would be a candid account of the fruitless 22-day meeting in London, describing the causes of the final breakdown and the lessons learned from ^nis first atteihpt to'*d'raft peace treaties. His report to the public is expected to be on a more optimistic tone—an attempt to offset the dismal news reports from London during the last three weeks. Those dispatches painted a gloomy picture of the Big Five quarrelling and failing to agree even on procedure. Byrnes arrived at the Washington National Airport last night at 10 p. m., a few minutes after the “Globester,” making the first scheduled arouml-the-world flight, ended its inaugural trip. Byrnes and his party ur lived almost unnoticed by the crowds who had come to sec the end of the Globester's flight. He and his party slipped off quietly after posing for a few pictures.

quite wet from recent rains and when Eleanorc attempted to start her car, the wheels slipped. When it began to look like the>

named chairman. Other officers jjad found a place to camp

include J. Frank McDermond, Attica, Vice Chairman; Walter F Jones, Anderson, Secretary; and John McFadden, Rockville,

Treasurer.

20 Years Ago

IN GREENCASTLE

L. W. Hudlin was reported on

the sick list.

Miss Josephine Stoner went

definitely another car drove up and two nice looking gentlemen got out and offered help and in a few minutes their troubles were over. But here is the surprise. One of the gentlemen was none other than Leonard Hellingc, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Hellingcr of Greencastle, and his wife who was in his car, was the .former Mary Emily Garrett, ' daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Garrett, also of Greencastle. Think of Greencastle people running into former Greencastle

The President said he had been forced to act because "the plants remaining in operation are insufficient to produce enough petroleum to supply both the direct military requirements and j the minimum essential war supj rotting activities on the home

front.”

“Nothing will be permitted to stand in the way of adequate suppl es of any kind for our Rimed forces and for their proper redeployment and demobilization,” Mr. Truman said in a statement accompanying the ex-

ecutive order.

Vice Adm. Ben Morcell, chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks named to carry out the i seizure, immediately directed

Asks Aug. 14th Be Legal Holiday WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 (UP) Rep. Raymond S. Springer, R., Ind., has introduced legislation to make Aug. 14 the day Japan accepted U. S. surrender terms — a permanent legal holiday. JUDGE SAYERS 'DIES Dr. and Mrs. Horace Askew have received word of the death of Jttdge A. H. Sayers, of Waj.resburg, Pa, He passed away at one o'clock Thursday morning after an extended illness. He was the husband of Mrs. Askews sister, Flora Bridges Sayers. Mrs. Askew had just returned from visiting

them.

NEW ‘WONDER DRUG” HAS BEEN DEVELOPED INDIANAPOLIS. Oct. 5. (UP) Eli Lily and Company revealed today a new “wonder drug" which offered possibilities as a cure for tuberculosis and may work in some instances where penicillin failed. Streptomycin, the new drug, will be supplied to the armed f< fees before general release to the public, according to Lilly officials. Commercial production was held up while adequate fa-

cilities were built.

Credit for discovery of streptomycin went to Prof. Seiman A. Waksman, professor of micropiology at Rutgers university. It was developed at the Lilly laboratories in Indianapolis. Church Holds Annual Meeting The members and friends if the First Christian church met in their annual congregational dinner and business meeting last evenang, in the auditorium of Second Ward School-. A larg, number filled the room to capacity for .the everting"* program Highlights cf^ the meeting were the reports of organizations and committees. Missionary giving increased almost 50 per cent, .o almost $1500 00. Seventy-five row members were added' to the church during the year. All ear '-ent expense obligations were 'aid in full, anil payments to the building fund had reached about $9600.00, with approximately $4000 more in short term oiedges. 130. men and women ave served or are serving in the armed forces, of which six have

C. of C. Dinner On October 30

The anituial Chamber of Commerce good will dinner will be held Tuesday evening, October 30th, in the dining room at the Gobin Memorial church. The committee in charge of the arrangements is composed of Dean Louis Dirks, chairman, Dr. Truman G. Y"uncker, Mrs. Thad Jones, Cloyd Moss, and Frank Cannon. This dinner has been held for the past several years ami brings the university and the Greencastle merchants and residents together.

Ladies Guests Of Lions Club

Members of the Roachdalf Lions Club observed "Ladies | Night” with a meeting at Turkey Run on Wednesday evening. Sixty-five were present and enjoyed a delicious steak dinner. Eugene Hutchins, Putnam county superintendent of schools and president of the club, presided and introduced “Dusty” Miller, speaker for the occasion. This well known after dinnei entertainer from Wilmington, Oho, delivered one of his humorous addresses which made a big hit with the Lions and theii

guests.

Barney Kilgore Heads Dow Jones

Word lins been received here of the naming of Barney Kilgore

FRANKFURT, Oct. 5. (UP) — Militaiy sources revealed today tnat Fritz Kuhn, former German-American Bund leader, was arrested when he arrived at Biemerhaven after his neporlu,ion from the United States. Mlltnry intelligence infoim.nts said Kuhn’s hi rest at Bremi haven was “automatic" under .he provisions for investigating uspected persons. Kuhn sailed fiom the United .-tates to Bremerhaven aboard Jic American ship Winchester victory. Fourteen o triers wno ere deported for Nazi activity traveled with Kuhn.

HOUSE TO GET TAX REDUCTION PROGRAM SOON FIRST TAX FUT LEGISLATION IN 16 YEARS IS NEARLY READY

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5. (UP) A congressional tux reduction program the first in 16 years was nearly ready for House conderation today. Congressmen were hopeful that other tax cuts would follow soon. The program was proposed by the House ways and means committee, which initiates tax legislation. The committee recommended tax relief for next year totaling about $5,300,000,000, approximately the figure suggeste 1 by the administration. But the committee was more generous to

JAP LEADERS TO FORM A NEW CABINET

CONFER WITH M’AKTHUR AND EMPEROR lifiROHITO ’DURING DAY TOKYO, Oct 5.— (UP)—Foreign Minister Shigcm Yoshlda conferred late tonight on torniaion of a new cabinet with Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s staff and Em|ieror Hirohito, and the Japanese home office instructed prefectural police chiefs to disregard Gen. MacArthur’s removal orders "pending dicislons on future »te|»s.” TOKYO, Oct. 5 -(UP) Japanese political leaders conferred with Gen. Douglas MucArthur's staff and Emperor Hirohito today on formation of a new cabinet to replace the resigned government of Premier Prince Naiuhiko Higashi-Kuni. Hirohito accepted the HigashiKuni cabinet’s resignation shortly after 1 p. m. (11 p. m. Thursday, EST), but asked the ministers to remain in office pending appointment of a new government not before tomorrow at the earliest. The resignation followed by less than 24 hours the latest and most drastic of a series of directives from MacArthur designed to speed the progess of freeing the Japanese people from political and religious subjuga-

tion.

Shigeru Yoshida, foreign minister in the resigned cabinet, conferred for an hour late today

individuals and less so to corpor- _ ,, ations than the administration |,

bad proposed.

Committee recommendations called for $2,600,000,000 in individual tax relief, $1 870,000.000 in

ritv payroll ten on" em-

Thc minister's eighth annua 1 | Mr ' | %lls6re

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activities were recounted b.' H

u . r .i „ *1 and other iinaneial services,

heads of the organizations. 1 *- was formerly vice I president of this cor pany with whom he has been associated for

several years.

A graduate of DePauw University and well known locally, he is the husband of the former Miss Virginia Throop, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. J. A. Throop.

tu Terre Haute to enter Indiana p e0 pi c away out in the moun- ^ p| a|)t superintendents to operate State Normal College. 1 tulns 0 f old Virginia. It’s a small (he plo p er ti os in the name of the

Theodore Kauble and Hiram worId a ft e r all. government.

Callendar went to Chicago on a ‘'usiness trip. j COURT NOTES Mrs. L. B. Owens was here , from New Castle. '. UieUa *U«t Bruner vs Cites Elmer Blue attended the an- 1 ter Edward Brdncf.suU f ^ nun Fog Hunters Association vorce. Fay B H . meeting i n southern Indiana. tofney lot, the plainuu.

INDIA NAiPOLLS LTVE8TOOK Hogs 4,000; active, steady; good and choice 160 lbs up, bulk 140-160 lbs and some choice lighter weights $14.80; 100-140 lbs $13.50-$14.50; good and choice lighter sows $14.05. Cattle 700; calves 500; steers and heifers quotable steady; two Loads good and choice 1069 lb weights $17.25; one load good similar weight $16.50; odd head choice steers $17 50; odd heifers held above $16.50; o.>ws steady to easy; odd good cows to $13.00;

r'port showed 902 calls, 44 wed dings, 59 funerals, and 69 ad dresses or sermons outside the local church. Fourteen members of the church died during th”

year.

Movies of the dedication ser- ; vices held in November were shown, to be audience, and a I splendid address by Dr. Pa.ul 'reston, Secretary of the Pen1 sion Fund of the Disciples of Christ, completed the evening Dr. Preston emphasized the importance of the work of the church in creating new' attitudes as basic In the building of a better world, arvl outlined several ways by which individual Christians could help to crcatl those attitudes.

Telegrams, signed by acting 1 8rW)|1 S1 ,»ll lots $12.OO-$12.50; Secretary of the Navy H. StruveL nrtlmf>n a | 1( j medium $9 00--$11-Licnscl, ordered operation of the' & 0 calin( . r8 and cutters $6 59piants under the same wages, $9.00, vealers only moderately

hours and wopking conditions

Continued °n P »K* ♦>

active: mostly 50 lower; top $16-

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Trial Of Laval Stormy Affair

PARIS. Oct. 5. (UP)-Judge Pierre Mongtbeaux overruled a defense plea tor an indefinite postponement of Pierre Laval's treason trial today after a diz-

orderly wrangle in the high court of justice.,

Kiwanis Inducts Two New Members

The Greencastle Kiwanis Club inducted two new memb rs nt its luncheon meettng on Thursday. Following the indu tion if Earl Morrow and Professor Wayne Gray, a general discussion of future plan.* was led by Dr. Herald T. Ross, president of

the club.

Earl Morrow, manager of th. American Telephone and Telegraph branch, was transferred to Greencastle several months ago to replace Earl Bramor, who ■was transferred to Indianapolis. Prof Wayne Gray be<'a. "e a member oi the DePauw University facul-

buainess tax relief and excise tax reductions and repeal of the $5 automobile use tax costing an

aggregate of $840,000,000.

The committee also voted to

fieeze the social securit; tax at one per cent ea

ployeis and employes for the fifth successive year. The law now provides for the tax to rise to two and one half per cent

Jan. 1.

Although the committee has not yet taken final action, no additional major revisions arc expected. Here aie the major decisions approved thus far: 1. Individuals would have the present three per cent normal tax exemption of $500 (with no credits for dependents) Increased to $500 each for the taxpayer and his dependents. Surtax rater- would be cut four per cent Upper bracket taxpayers who would not receive a 10 per cent tax reduction through those rev.slons would receive a flat 10 per cent cut instead. 2. The 95 per cent excess profits tax on business would be cut u< 60 per cent next year and repealed Jan. 1, 1947; the combined normal-surtax rate of 40 pci cent on corporations would be cut to 36 per cent; the capital slock and declared value excess profits tax would be repealed. 3. Heavy wartime excise taxe imposed in 1942 levels would revert to previous levels, effective t ext July 1, and the automobil - use tux be repealed, effective the same date. Although the House probably will sustain the committee’s fiction, some members expected the Senate to add to the total hill by voting for outright repeal of the excess profits tax next

year.

Among the excise tax reductions scheduled for July 1 would be cuts in the levies on admissions, furs, jewel 1 y and toilet ( reparations from 20 to 10 per cent; on distilled spirits from $9 to $6 a gallon; on cabaret bills from 20 to five per cent; on local telephone service fiom 15 to 10 per cent; on long distance service from 25 to 20 per cent; on telegraph service from 25 to 15 per cent; and on transportation of persons from 15 to 10 per

cent.

land, MucArthur’s chief of staff. The newspaper Mainichi said lie {sought the occupation command's advice on formation of a

new government.

Leaving, Yoshida told news-

men:

“Any statement must como from the Americans. I’m just a retiring minister. It would be impunper lor. me to any-

thing.”

Mainichi said Yoshida had intended to submit several names to MacArthur’s staff as candidates for premier with the final choice depending upon American

reaction.

He had been expected to intimate that no responsible Japanese leader would be willing to attempt formation of a new cabinet if the supreme command planned to issue more peremptory orders without first consulting the Japanese government,

Mainichi said.

Yoshida himself was considered a likely choice for premier, lie has been in the Higashi-Kuni cabinet only since Sept. 17. He was arrested by Japanese police last June on charges of leading icace movement, but was re-

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leased after Japan surrendered. Another candidate for piemier, Prince Fumimaro Konoye, visited Emperor Hirohito about the time Yoshida was conferring with Sutherland. It was likely tnat Hirohito was seeking Konoye’s advice on a new cabinet. Konoye twice formerly served as premier the last time yielding in 1941 to war lord Gen. Hideki Tojo and was vice-pro-mier in the Higashi Kuni govern-

ment.

Other possible choices to hea 1 a new* peace cabinet were Baron Kijuro Shidehaia, onetime foreign minister who retired from politics in the early 1930s because he disliked the path Japan | was following, and Higashi-Kuni himself. Higashi-Kuni's chances of succeeding himself appeared to be fading rapidly, however.

U9-YKAR-OLI) VETERAN CHOSEN G. A. R. HEAD COLUMBUS, O., Oct. 5. (UP) Hiram R. Gale, 99-year-old Seattle veteran who fought with the Union Army through some of its bloodiest campaigns and was discharged before he was 20 years old, was elected

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French with Dr Lestsr Jones in the Dc- commander-in-chief of the Qrgnd I partment of Sociology. *"'Amiy of the’Republic today.

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