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THE DAILY BANNER "IT WAVES FOR ALL"

JOIH THE MARCH OF DIMES * JANUARY 14-31

VOLUME FIFTY-FOUR

GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1946.

(ot lnlantlllt_»«roi«U« NO. 88

FUNERAL FOR MRS. RARIDEN ON WEDNESDAY

ruoHlNENT isi:sii)i;NT nil ' t)NI‘XI*K(Ti;i»l,1 MONIJ.W

EVENING

Mrs. Margherita Burton It:i> den, mother of Miss Elizabeth Rariden and Mrs. James M Oliver and wife of Samuel R Rariden, passed away un xpet’ edly at 7:'>0 o’clock Mond i. evening at the Methodist ho< pital in Indianapolis, where ,1. liad been a patient for a month Mrs. Rariden hud seemed im [proved during the week-end, in; [suffered a heart relapse lut< 'Monday and her almo.it sudden 'death followed. Mr. and Mi Oliver were with her at the time

jof

he hospital shortly before seven

lo’clock.

Mrs. Rariden had been in poor ealth for many years and sui'-

BAINBRID6E HAD ROBBERS LAST NIGHT SEVERAL STORES REPORTED ENTERED IN NORTH I’lJI'NA M TOWN Robbers visited Bainbridge Monday night but their nocturnal activities were not discovered until Tuesday morning. According to reports, Tate’s 1 Grocery, VanCleavc’s jewelry | store, Hanks drug and grocery store, and the C. H. & C. Hardware store were all paid a visit by the robbers. Doors at each of i these establishments in the north ' Putnam town were pried open to

gain entrance.

First reports stated that about Vs00 was stolen from Tate's groc-

her passing, as they arrived at j CONGRESSWOMAN Clare Booth cry. The C. H. & C, Hardware

Luce of Connecticut may run forj firm rC p, )rtPd thc the f t 0 f 96

the senate on the Republican . . ticket in this year's national elec-1 "

tion, according to Washington ob-1 ^tate police and the county servers. The race for the Con- 1 sheriff was notified and began | neeticut seat was thrown wide an investigation along with Of- ■ ered a severe heart attack two j (,p en by the announcement of Sen. : ficer Powell, fears ago. from which she ap-; Thomas C. Hart, Republican, that liceman. arently recovered. Early in 19)5 ] he would not seek re-election be-' he suffered another attack from j C!lus e of his advancing years.

Now serving her third term as a member of the House of Repre-

Mrs. Rariden was the daugh-1 senatives, Mrs. Luce is being er of Judson and Minnie Bur-1 hoo.ned for the job by friends. It . , . is stressed that she would not i on. She was born in DavcnpoH. opcn]y ^ bu ^

owa November 15. IS* , IU:t j wouid accept if it was tendered NEW YORK. .Ian. 29 Harry

riother died three days after her. her. (International)

irth and an aunt, Mrs. J. K.. „ , . , . , i E" • I l 4 thc late President kranklin D :Z Z zz Lairless Makes i %

Grecncastle and made her ionic with thc late Mr. and Mr larry M. Smith. Mrs. B. M jfinigus, Grecncastle is a cousin.

LEADERS GO INTO A HUDDLE

Leonard V. Mann, left and Arthur GUtz go into a huddle before the dinner at Bainbridge Saturday evening. We failed to learn whether they were al'iaid of running out of oysti t soup or weri planning on some stintcgy for the coining membciship eami>aign It must have been the latter because there was plenty of oystei soup throughout thc dinnei

VETERAN FARMERS JOIN FARM BUREAU

Bainbridge's po-

Fairless Makes Trip To Capita!

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29. (UP) (

She spent most of her life-!' K - Filirk ‘ sa ’ »‘y«ter-' Sme in Grecncastle where .she I niission to Washington educated in the puhlir i ^ 111 ^ hopes in govern-

Death Takes Harry Hcpkin* / YORK. .Ian. 29 Harr;

H' pkins, 55, intimate advisor of

Memorial Hospital. He had been ailing since November. He resigned his White House connec-

tions last July.

public j

chools and DePauw Univ<irslty. i

KITES WEDNESDAY

Funeral services for Mrs.

incut and lahoi quarters today Clara Spaulding Wellinghoff, a

7hile a student in the university 11 an vurly settlement of the former resident of Greencastle, Ire was affiliated with Kappa j nut-iouwide steel strike. 'who died last week in New Oripha Theta sorority. She wu ; | 1 >< ident Pnilip Murray of tljc leans. La., will be held Wednesr ember of the Gobin Memorial I‘’^ikuig United Steel Workers day afternoon at one o'clock «urch and a number of women’s I * CIO) also was in Washington, from the McCurry Funeral

-lubs of the city.

POLICE GET NEW LEAD IN KIDNAP CASE FORMER COW U'l' NAMI • TWO MEN As (.1 1I.TV

PARTIES

CHICAGO, Jan. 29 (UP) a! former reformatory inmate gave j police today the mini's of tv.men who lie claimed kidnaped I six-year-old Suzann.. Hegnan. Police were akeptiial 1 at : ai I they were overlookm no possibility winch might lead to solution of thc kidnaping-slnying of the blond * child Jan. 7. The statement naming the two! men as the abductors was given! to police by Theodore Campbell, j 22. police Commissioner John 1 Prendergast aided m nine hours of questioning of Campbell. He said he was inclined to doubt I Campbell's story. One of the two men named by | Campbell was in custody. He was ! Vincent Costello, is, a cook, j Costello denied Campbell's story. ; •Police said the two had been; jin thc St. Charles, III. training! school for boys on charges of at- 1 tempted robbery. When arrested late last we ‘k they wen 1 roommates in a building only a few. blocks from the Edgewater Beach neighborhood where Suzanne was kidnaped and dism inhered in the most vicious crime on Chicago police records. Chief of detectives Walter; Storms said both Campbell and

Housewife No. 1

HOPE GROWS FOR PEACE ON LABOR FRONT

ElVI. M \ l()K IM A I LOPMI V! a REPORTED IN xl KIRI, SIT I \T10 N

i iiirl i

MRS. GEORGE IUCAS, 27, of Lafayette, Ind., who was selected as the typical American housewife by ttie Home Makers guild, a consumer research panel of several thousand housewives, is shown arriving in New York City, where she will be feted. Mrs.

(By I'nitcd ."res*.)

Hopes for labor pcaci i day with the apiiointnicid government mediator in the oral Motors di.-pn a a- I i

of new efforts to cttl ,i fat reaching strike in the stc. 1 i

dustry.

Across the nation, .-Ink shutdowns have idled I tHHi 00 i American work rs. In the major labor d< vclnp

| ments:

I 1. Sacrotary of Laboi l.cwiSchwellenbach sent Dewey to Detroit as spot il mediator in the strike ot 17 >.1100 General Motors workers Ib wi v | said he hoped to confer \ n GM and CTO United Auto Work |crs officials this aft nc - n 2. President Philip Mint iv of ie CIO Steel Wor^rs | President F. Kait b ss o C Steel C'irp. were in Wasiiin I . [but th 'y denied reports they ' I | agreed to resume "■ i" ■ iconferences at thi Wliit, If j It. Sen. Milton R. Y am ■ R N. D.. sakl “substantial ment" had been readied i l 73-day midwest trucking driki , He said AFL teamsters pn di:i bly ’ would return to work W di

Mrs. Rariden spent her entire Ye attempting to make life betL r for her family and friends. The was happiest, when serving in ■he interest of others Funeral services will be held from the home, 122 eai 1 Walnut 1 Itrcct, at two o’clock Wednesday! Ifternoon, with Dr. Claud Mc-| fcliire and Dr. Victor L. Raphael: In charge. Burial will be in For- J

rest Hill Abbey.

The pallbearers will be Court land C. Gillen. Simpson Stoner. Donovan Moffett. S. C. Sayers J Don McLean and Ben Canno .. Friends may call at the home.

N, tiler lu.s nor Fairless’ pres- Home.. Dr. V. L. Raphael will ofenct resulted from government ficiate. Burial will be in the invitation but the feeling persist- Stilesville cemetery. td here that new developments

may be impending.

Fairless, president of the U. S. 1 Steel Corporation, arrived here yesterday muJ secluded himself at his hotel, giving no hint of his plans. The company's offices here divulged nothing beyond the

fact he was in town.

There has been mounting op-

10 Perish In Hangar Fire

Left to right, George Knauer, Laic McGaiighev, ban Proctor, new Monroe township chairman, and Karl O'Hair, secretarytreasurer, as they whetted their appetites Saturday evening wait- __ ing for the serving of the dinner by Arthur Giltz for members °f I nutted the Monroe township Farm Bureau at the re-organization meeting

in Bainbridge Methodist church

day.

| Costello admitted making tele- Lucas, who lias never been out j 4. CIO and AFL parkin-, h.-iii ■■ | phone calls to the Degnan home of Indiana before, Is mother of two ! workers went hack to ,\ 1 the day ol th ■ kidnaping, children and the wife of a sailor ment S( , iZ0( , h „ t ,

CIO leader thrcatcnci a iu v I strike against Armour and <’o. Tile union accused the ucuponv

m the day ol th kidnaping, children and the wife of a sailor Both claimed, however, that they! vvh0 is serving aboard a U. S. |, had alibis for the hours during dc - slrc '> ,( T. (International)

Which the child was kidnaped I

City Ccuncils To Meet Here

OKLAHOMA CgTY, Jan. 29, (UP) Workers searched through twisted girders and piles , of debris today for possible ad-

. in g ove rnmcnt and union (dltional vic . ims of R flash flre <:uk s o\ 1 t tiie sUil deadlock which destroyed the main hangat si,.10 Ford and Chrysler reached )>f thp okIahoma Arnvv Alr Dc j wage agieements with tile Unit- burning 10 peroms to death | cd Automobile Wmkcrs (ClO)j Thirty-eight others of the ap- | 11st Saturday. I Muse contracts proximately 1.500 workers in thc sent th 1 1 ■ fay of hope hangar were injured, non

into tlie troubled industrial critically.

The blaze, reportedly touch ; off yesterday by an. explosion of

Members of the Greencastle land Brazil city councils will hold

[a get-acquainted meeting here | Pc is -.jiccial mediator. Dewey [this evening. I will try to arrange conferences Thc councilmen will assemble! I 11 wen GM and the striking

front.

Hopes lor ending the long yesterday oy an. explosion ni •' H ike at General Motors plants cleaning fluid, caused damage ofalso rose when Secretary of La- fjcially assessed by army author

bur Lewis B. Schwellenbac i i t j es at $750,000.

named James Dewey of Chester,

at the city hall and then go to ■the Lincoln restaurant to eat. Following the meal, they will reurn to thc local council ( haulers for a get together session. ^A number of items of mutual initerest will be discussed in an informal way. SONIA ASKS DIVORCE

Unite 1 Auto Workers (CIO). Neither government, industry nor labor has made an overl move toward settling the strike of 750,000 steel workers since Presilk nt Truman last week rejected Fairless’ proposal for ai

IIAN RAID DAI tiHTER

Howard Buis received a cablegram Tuesday from his British bride that he was thc father of a daughter, Julia Ann. born Monday night in Bletchley, England. Mrs. Buis and baby daughter arc expected to sail for the United States to join Mr. Buis this

White House conference of in-[Spring,

j ustrial leaders. Mr. Buis, a World War II vet- | There was speculation in some (-ran, was a mighty proud and - quarters that Fairless’ mission! happy man and was busy hand j

CHICAGO, Jan. 2.S Sonja j i.eiv was related to industry ef(Henie, ice skating star, filed suit 1 i- its to win government approvin Superior Court for a divorce, a i ot higher price ceilings. [from Daniel R. Topping-, million- jivui ; S. Old.*, chairman of U. Hire New York sportsman, on • y; . board of directors, said charges of desertion.' j jn a letter to stockholders today Miss Henic and Topping were pj| a t government mficials had [married July 4. 1940. The marri-, p r0 p teel price Increases in HP's* vv/iiM Ho** firut iiiiil 'Pi ii 11 u m* *s < , .’in-nro f n

ing out the cigars all day.

\\ BONG TANK WORCESTER, Mass., Jam 29. (UP) Anthony Barilone picked out the right car. hut the wrong gasoline tank. “I would have gotten away if I hadn’t run out of gasoline and stopped in siphon some from another car." he said when pleading guilty to an automobile theft charge. The second car belonged to a policeman.

NEW WALKOUT THEATENED AT ARMOUR PLANT

CHICAGO, Jan. 29 (UP, A new meat strike was threatened against Armcur and Co. today after a Q r O packinghouse workers official accused the company of delaying the return of strikers to their jobs. Herbert March, union district director, said that when CIO and AFL packing house workers agreed to return to work at gov-ernment-seized meat plants all companies but Armour arranged to reinstate the strikers “as experitiously as possible.” “Armour and Co., for some mysterious reason, informed us it could not rehire all men who walk d out on strike Jan. 16 until Feb. 6," he said. "They vcfjld

DEATH PENALTY FACES JEWISH OUTLAW BANDS

and killed.

storms said the youths ad- 1 niaUiiig one call to the!

Degnan home from a drug slot, j They disagreed on the spot from i which another call was made. One said it was from a hot dog stand and the other said it was

Reports Wife Was Kidnapped

u k-

| of delaying the return

! ers to their jobs.

5. Ford Motor Co. *dT Ted a 15 per cent pay increase In lii.tib’)

j employes not covered by

WEYMOUT H, Mass., Jan. 29! wa * e n & n ’ en "’ nt ach-d with HJP) Police in six states| the UA W Saturday.

. ... searched fur Mrs. Betty Reader! Easin K Of the labor j trom a rapid transit L stat on , afte A he 25-year-old moHl-j""*-*** ‘ : Storms said that on the first 1 j ( , tbeir | )L , s t level m

15 years yesterday. A steels reflected a fee! n ! Storms said, and turned

ris

. Storms said that on the first,

call Campbell asked "is Suzanne I ,,, Umv chlldren tele ' ,h, ’ ned I .. .... *1 1 . , i hii husband that she had been

there ? then he »<>t paniekv.; j | kidnapped by three men who

JERUSALEM, Jan, 29. (UP) I telephone over to Costelio. who British authorities tlircatened. bung up. Police on ttie day of th death for every member of pa!-j' t ' dnH l , ' n K reported 1 eceiving

cstine’s outlawed Jewish armies) to lay and deployed thousands ol troops and police for a wholesale

w re taking tier out ol the state.

the steel strik

over.

11 wa s

believed th.d

roundup 01 terrorists throughout

the Holy Land.

such a call at the Degnan home just off fashionable Sheridan road on the shore of Lake Michi-

gan.

"For God's sake get the po-

int-." the frantic young mother 1 agreements rc.-ulu-1 S.di pleaded to her husband over the,tween Ford and (7ir\ !■■ telephone "I’ve been kidnapped | UAVV might provide

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CREDIT ASSOCIATION

Moving „„u y I ANNUAL MEETING OF

threatened terrorist outbreak that veteran observers feared might prove the bloodiest in the mandate’s history, the British n-

voked what amounted to mill- 'meeting this

tary law for all Palestine. Army garrisons and police officials everywhere were alerted for a mass arrest of known and suspected members of the illegal Zionist organizations. British

The Putnam

Association will hoi

■vening

o’clock at

church.

Jack Reich

State Chamber

will be the after dinner speaker.

I in related in.du.'trisen. Young, am

in td

by three men. They let me have | for settling thc steel a few minutes to say goodbye j Motors disputes The 1 before taking me out of thej 750.000 CIO steel work state." * ready has idled 150,0011

She said she thought she was calling from north of Boston and

1 vet'Tim cuts

County Credit| shouted lor help before the l ' on -J tru ,. kin{ j st ,ikc Hold its annual ncUon was broken, the husband.' p ...j

loj Arthur Reader, .'it, told police. Reader said li > was summoned In tin- holm of a neighbor to receive the call about 9:.'i0 I', m., sis hours after his Wife had left home to do some shopping in

the

Prcsbyteria::

the Indiana

; r of

Commerce,

military commanders were cm

ol flic Credit Association are

powered to try and execute, the D'cted to be present for tonight's

outlaws on the spot.

session which promises

The harsh counter-measures| m<> ' s *- interesting

were ordered In the wake of a; brazen raid on an RAF station in south Palestine at noon yester-j clay, when 15 mandits disguised! as British fliers stole 200 mach-| inc guns, and a considerable |

quantity of ammunition.

Shortly before midnight, it' was announced that British patrols had recovered all the much-

John Day Wins AT Corn Show

ers and several lim di * d ers would receive a wic. crease of about 15 pp r ■ - Herbert March listi er of tin* CIO I’lnl -d I' house Workers, said ill except Armour had sp-I u| iiIp-s to return strikii to their jobs as s pop ia ] "Armour and Co i •! mysterious reason, mi- a . it could not rehire all m

Merchant Marine, said he had no' wa i k ,.,| n!d

The majority of thi* niembei-sl Learliy Quincy. He said she had

promised tip return by 5 p. Th'-y have no telephone. Tin* distraught husband, former member of the U.

m ;

age was her first and Topping's t XC , : , ,,i $4 u topi during efforts third. He was divorced in May | tl) p ieV ent the strike.

1940, from Arline Judge, movie! ijivdian Production Adminis- convicted of treason, had

actress.

I twit tell us why.”

1 A spokesman for March charg-

KLI'Lli IJAl’I’T TitlES ,. d (hat Amour representatives SUICIDE IN JAIL CELL walked out of a meeting which j the union had requested to settle CHICAGO, Jan. 28. Warden th c dispute. Frank J. Sain of Cook County 1 Armour and c<. officials sail! Jail said last night that Hans . th • delay in rehiring the workers Max Haupt, father of the execut-1 came because livestock could ed Nazi saboteur and himself, not be shipped lapidly enough.

John Day, well known Marion] township farmer, continues to| win annual prizes at the Statei Corn Sl ow hold at Purdue Uni-

ine guns and were in close pm -1 versity on January 14-18. suit of the raiders, all believed tm His seed corn, open pollinated: be members of a Jewish outlaw j germination 99; t at wegnt .*7 gang. 1 jiounds, won second in the state. The raid occurred near the ■ Ris 10 ear sample yellow corn

*n strike Jan

til Feb 6," he said "TG -

not tell us why.”

I At San Francisco. v 0 [broke out yesteiday in 1 1 I day' strike of CIO and At

husband: police said the call did j, hm ists. f» 0 |j cc s ,,|,| . not g.. through an operator, pi( . k „ ts raH8)jed at u „

doubt that it was his wife’s j,

voice.

Although Mrs. Reader saidi she thmight she was north tiostoH when slie telephoned h

indicating that it came from

I of

Bet hichein

nearby. They believed it was • shipvttn , , H . at a pi ant mad from a five cent dial tde-1 tePiient antl t088t . d hln ,

phon I ditch . Reader described his wife as)

b**ing five feet, three inches tallj HOG M \KKET'

ami weighing about 115 pounds I Shi lun dark hair and brown!

Jewish colony of Rehovot ac i;(Reed’s Yellow Dent) open P'd-1 ( V apparently was part of a well-j linatod, won sixth in the state

•I

stall-1 “We also arc rehiring men

trafor John D. Small told a press) bed himself 12 times in the ab- the basis of seniority," a com-

20 Years Ago

conference yesterday he favored | domen and left wrist with a bar

J price increases “In those spots) ber’s shears.

I where production is now sty- j mied.” He specifically endorsed a price boost for the steel in-

Doctors at the County Jail

IN UREENCABTIX

Ivical thermometers register-

ed zero. ’ , .. v ■ r « » „ Henry Cook went to Louisville, I " ,l the , ms,s ^ Ky., where he had accepted a ' 1111 ” • • • |U,L aH ee ‘ l

dustry.

“Regardless of the wage issue, steel is entitled to a price ad-

_ .. . where he had „— ... ,

■ position in the main office of the I ^owm - *•-*»'« Uk '

pany spokesman said.

Thrca: of another stoppage alba d developed at St. fPaul,

where Haupt was treated, said 1 Mine, Joe Oilman, union district his condition was only “fair,’’ dir’etor th?re, warned that the

Hogs 7.000; aetiv

and when she left horn., she i ( . h(lic( , 160 , hs and U|1 .,„ d ,, was wearing a fur coat and gray rhoice llKht „ r we i ghta

laid plot to seize British weapons'A single car of Reed’s Yellow, slacks, he said. 'ceiling', choice sows $14.10

for a new terrorist outbreak. Dent won JStli In the slate. | police could ascribe no motive)

The bandits slugged a Jewidi Mr. Day averaged 88 bushels 1,0 the alleged abduction. Neither ~

civiliau and four British airmen to the acre on a 10-acre seed I Rcmiei nor his wife’s family are ®

guarding the camp’s arsenal and 1 coin project. He plans to cnb j wealthy. She is the former Betty I ® Todays WeathfiF ^

loaded the weapons into a stolen the International Show in Chi j Cassily <>f nearby Brainthree. and RAF truck and jeep. eago next year. Both Mr an i, Reader is an ex-Merchant British regulars cordoned off Mrs. Day are nationally known . Marine and at the present time thc* Rehovot colony and round 1 for their splendid corn and fine h is < ■ iployed as a maintenance up hundreds of Jewish settlers poultry which they have display- worloT for a Boston ie * cream

but indicated it was not critical. The warden said the elder

union might resume picketing at Armour and Gjdah\ plants be-

Kaupt, whose appeal from a life cause thc companies were rehir

(Brkinap hardware company.

Miss Evelyn Ayler, Miss would

Estella Shoptaugh and Miss, that could happen to us. To my Bennie Coyne Davis saw till, mind, Jack of production is the

[Greenwich Village Follies at the. Worst thing.'

English theater in Indianapolis. , Small warned that the leconMrs. Walter Newlin was here 1 vi rsion program would sutler

serious harm unless the strike

ended in a few days.

sentence for treason recently was denied by the United States

-o Circuit Court of Appeals, atab-

cmmtrv that any price increase bed himself in a suicide attempt.) U'* companies agreed to iscon-

ing men at the 72 1-2 cents hourly base pay rale. He withdrew his warning, however, when

be about tlif worst thing in his jail cell late today.

ttnue the practice.

[from Casey, 111., visiting her

mother, Mrs. Ida Pierce.

BREAKS ELBOW Gene Soper, motor route driver for The Daily Banner, fell from a itepladder at his home Monday, and suffered a fractured left elbow.

SERIOUSLY ILL The condition of Fred John, who was admitted to the Putnam county hospital Monday afternoon, was reported as critical Tuesday.

lor questioning. In Jerusalem, Sir Ainu Cun ningham, the British high commissioner, countered swiftly wi’.h| a stern proclamation amending the Palestine defense laws to permit unprecedented reprisals against all terrorist organiza-

tions.

ed for many years.

liiomas Sculley, Ex-Resident, Dies Mrs. Emmett Green has

manufacturer.

No ransom demands had been

1 received, police said.

Police also said they were conI vinced that Reader was telling the truth. Neither Reader nor! j any of the neighbors who were | questioned reported anything to.

that there had been j

ft Local Temperature V <» « a « « « «»«!i rj Mostly cloudy tonight and I Wednesday, with occasional 1. it . rain south and rain or -me* v north late tonight and W* dnesday. Colder northwest Wi de. *-

day afternoon.

, ' 0 "l indicate

, ceived word of the dc th of 1‘ p rou p] (1 between husband and

j cousin, Thomas Sculley of Jn-| wife, they said.

COURT NOTES | maica Plains. Mass. Mr. Sculley ( Reader joined with police in Mary Robinson e*t al vs. Doro-1 was a former resident of Grec *-1 the search after getting a thy Maxine Robinson etui, c >m- ! castle and was also a cousin to neighbor to take ca^e of his plaint for partition. Frank Stoes- Simpson Stoner and Mrs. Jnc b three children, age 6, 4 and 2

sel Is attorney for the plaintiffs. Hirt. years.

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