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THE DAILY BANNER "IT WAVES FOR ALL"

WJME FIFTY-FIVE

TAX RATES INNOUNCED by )l)HTY AUDITOR

. . T \\ BOARD HIKKS Velfare LEVY FROM •jlc TO 27c

K147 tax rates were an officially Thursday by cmra Jones. Putnam councilor, as confirmed by the , tax Board.

L jtatc board also acted on

GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1946.

NO. 24

DAM COMMISSION ISSUES A WARNING

NEARLY 3,000,000 POUNDS OF SUGAR GO UP IN SMOKE YANKS SEIZE

Landowners in vicinity of

site of the Cagles Mill reservoir < n the Putnam-Owen county lin should not he too hasty in selling timber from their property unless they obtain the desired price for the trees, Clyde R. Black, secretary of the Indiana Flood Control and Water Resourc s Commission, said yesterday. Reports have come to tin: commission office that sonlandowners have been selling timber in belief that their lands would he confiscated by the Fed-

npeal of f ,lc county welfare j cr a i government for the

Ltnient in raising the levy of Lt- as fixed by the Putnam fiy Council in September to leiits- The welfare departi originally asked for :i2.fi | the proposed budget for

I year.

L total tax is as follows:

Each

$100

Poll

ton Twp-

$1.96

$3.50

Iklin Twp.

2.36

3.50

Quisle

3.22

4.50

tell Twp.

2.08

3.50

Lllvillc

2.73

3.75

ton Twp.

2.64

3.50

roe Twp.

2.64

3.50

Ibriilge

3.34

3.50

id Twp.

2.04

3.50

km Twp.

2.12

3.50

mcastle Twp.

2.32

3.50

Sicadlle City

3.94

4.50

Ison Twp.

2.52

3.50

hington Twp.

2.04

3.55

ren Twp.

2.24

3.50

jrson Twp.

2 80

3.50

erdale Twp.

2.76

3.50

trdaic

3.58

4.00

voir construction.

Only land needeil specifically for the lake will be acquired, and the state has no funds to buy additional areas, Mr. Black said. Even such acquisition as will be made by Army engineers for the flood control project will not oe made for some time to come, he added, since final plans are yet

to be completed.

REPUBLICAN COMMITTEES IN SESSION

1G RACKETEERS IN GERMANY

LATEST WIRE NEWS

TROOPS HOLD H “BHi V.MK" BLACK MAPKIT OPKK \TOK-

ZEILSHFJH. GERMANY. Nov 14 i U") American troop; raided the Zeilshelm UNRRA displace, I persons camp !• day am; •seized ten persons described ns "big time" black market dealers

PK.Vtil E, Nov. 14.—(I P) - Filty-two miners were killed loda> in an explosion of nnexplain ed origin in tin' Brown coal mini at Lora in northwest Bohemia the ministry of industry announced.

Saccharine worth an estimated $50,000 at illegal prices wa;

found in the camp, along with! augur rationing, caches of American dollars, gold —

coins, military scrip vali i »d at$2,COO and six-inch stack of Ger-

man hundred-*nark bills.

\t \SHI\GTO\. Nov. II.— (i-NS)—Rp|,. .lenkins of Ohio, chairman of the (.OP congressional food study committee, in (Mealed today that an attempt will be made in the Republican controlled both Congress to end

Lt. Co|. Redmond .1. Connolly, Brooklyn, N. Y„ Frankfurt Provost Marshal who directed the raid, said: "We Pnir.c! eight ol the men we were looking for Four of them were 'big time’ ring leaders and the other four were large-scale independent operators."

LONDON, Nov. II.—(INS) — Reuters reported from Bueliarext today that Ion Hihuluclic, vice president of the Romaniaii Peasant party, was tired on by a

local Cnnuminist leader.

Tire assassination attempt was made in the province ot Topolovent and an inquiry was said to

be in progress. Milialaeln

uninjured.

COAL INDUSTRY | KEPT GUESSING BY KRUG, LEWIS

INTERIOR SECRETARY EXPECTED TO CONFER WITH I' N ION HEAD

WASHINGTON, Nov. 14.— (UP) Secretary of Interior J. A. Krug and President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers (AFLi had the coal industry guessing today on the course of government moves to avert a coal strike.

DAMAGES WERE ESTIMATED at nearly $3,000,000 in this fire that destroyed the docks at the American Sugar refinery at Arab!, just below New Orleans. Officials reported 25,000 100-pound sacks of sugar lm.1 hern unloaded from a ship iu°t h-fore the blaze started. (Inlernational Soundphoto)

TANGLE DEVELOPS OVER NEW LEADERSHIP IN CONGRESS

Missing Airliner Object of Search

II ST FRIENDLY PUP

ris Fulmer leads Kiwanians

WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 (UP) Republican Senate ami House steering committees meet toda.v in a tangle over new congressional leadership and t<> prepare for their new majority re-1 sponsibihties.

The committees will meet separately. Tomorrow they or their representatives will get together for joint discussions.

BURBANK, Cal., Nov. 14.— (INS)—Possibility that a missing airliner, wilh II persons aboard, had crushed against the side id Ml. Pacific in San Garhiel range, 25 miles from Burbank, was cheeked by flyers today .

■r Greentastle Kiwanis club! In the House it looks like a [announced its new officer; three-man contest for leadership |Uio coming year. The new among Rep. Clarence J. Brown ■dent will be lorvis Fulmer of Ohio. Rep. Charles A. Halleck pr officers will include Wil- j of Indiana, and Rep. Thomas A.

Hebert,

fieth West, jttors will

Crosby.

^na. Hiram dome, Ward MayR. P. Mulliixs and Herold

BURBANK Cal, Nov. 14

(UPl Ground and air rescue teams searched snow-covered foothills near here today for a c'ue to the late of a WesternAirlines transport carrying 11 persons which vanished more

Chief of Police Russell Clapp stated Thursday morning that a strange St. Bernard pup wa;running at large in, the city. The ’.‘hief says the dog is friendly and not danger ius and for eitiz ens not to become alarmed il they should see or come in contact with the animal. The dog got out of a shed where he was placed last night after the police men and firemen had fed tin hungry canine. Officers were looking for the (dog today ana wondering if someone wouK want to give him a good home

GOP Demanding Investigations

One hundred American soldier.-, and 25 army criminal investigation agents took part in tin raid. No hostility was encountered. Some of the :s,500 Jewish inhabitants of the ramp were still in bed when the raiders began pi- wling through the camp.

King expected to confer with Lewis again today on the eve of a possible strike declaration which would call soft coal miners out of the pits at midnight next

Wednesday.

Like other observers, mine owners were puzzled by yesterday's unexplained developments. Just ns evidence was accumulating that the Krug-Lewis negoj tuitions had collapsed, Lewis j walked into Krug's office for an unannounced, private conference.

(INS) | Five spokesmen for tin- bitiun-

KALTIMORE, Nov. II.

-I ..Med stales < ommlsHloner!j nml . s millc operators were called

•lames K. ( ullcii today dismissed; j n t„ th( . dispute

charges against three ex-servlcej i men accused of attempting to

NEW YORK, Nov 14

President Truman’s hopes for a bi-partisan U. S foreign policy may be blasted sky-high by Re-

publican demands for

sell photographs of the atomic

bomb,

4'ullen held that insufficient evidence had been presented

Another

,UP,lH a a , r 8t ^ r r ,, /r e8tiKHt r " ,m m, ‘ n - ''“■•inegouate a contract to replace

had been watching the canip foi *|)ok''sm:tn said dial any further* om

some time in an effort to Identify action rested wilh the War D<

congres- planted

sional investigations of Ameri-! Zeilsheim

leaders of the reportqd illegal dealings. Army agents had been

in a German bakery at

In the Senate:

vice-president; j Jenkins of Ohio,

treasurer, and i the question is whether any’ at be Giffixrd Black, j tempt will be made to substitute L H. Dirks, Sam gen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio for

floor

than 21 hours ago In a blind-

lie secretary will be chosen by IBoard of Directors.

Ni Election Was Expensive

the present Republican

leader. Sen. Wallace H. White,

Jr., of Maine.

Some political observers saw . , in the House leadership contest mountain area from the desert to |

the ocean was divided into 10 1

iug rainstuun,

A day-long search by land and

air was called off at nightfall. It was resumed at daybreak by a

ground force equipped

walkie-talkies and a motor fleet carrying medical supplies, food and stretchers. A 500 square mile]

Ford Motor Co. Lost $51,600,000

IASHINGTON. Nov. 14. P Chairman J. Percy Priest, STenn., of the House campaign ^nditwes committee said topreliminary figures show! this year's election "probi was the most expensive in j history of our country.” I* told the United Press hU puttee is preparing a final pation of campaign expendhikI when it is completed, | sud, "I am positive the fig1 will be astounding.” So far

preliminary skirmishing to the JP48 race for the Republican presidential nomination. Brown’s candidacy, especially, tvas linked with Ohio’s presidential possi- | Nlities Taft and Sen.-elect John ! W. Bricker. Halleck’s last intimate association with a presidential candidate was in 1040 when ho nominated Wendell L. Willkie, the dark horse who won Republican nomination that

year.

Jenkins, the second Ohio lead-

ocean was

sectors and a plan," was assigned to cover each block methodi-

cally.

"With any visibility, we'll find them." a spokesman said. The last report from the ship came before dawn yesteqday when the pilot, three minutes from a safe landing at Lockheed i Terminal, reported he was enI countering sti .rni flurries and | was told to land at Municipal ! Airport, across town and near

the ocean.

WAL officials feared the

ership possibility, may attract

support on grounds of seniority transport might have been enJenkins came to the House in g U if e d in a sudden squall after 1925 and has served 11 consecu- a{ .knowl.'dging the order, and live terms. Halleck has served thal jt might have crashed six and Blown four consecutive j a g a j n st the mountains which

|the committee can determine, j terms. Brown told the United; loom perilously close to the San kMhI, each party spent about Press he was not anybody’s manj Fernando valley Terminal. They

same amount. | In connection with the leadership

best .said (lie committee has! or other matters.

w*l no formal complaints! “I’m a Republican,’’ he said, bt how money was spent. He I Discussion of leadership defi1 he WHS sure "almost all ofjnttely has been scheduled for the

committee but

may or may not be taken up by

(he representatives,

some agreement on leadership

•** to show that more mon-J might be reached prior was spent for radio time this'opening of the new Congress on

be of- ho

,as a pint within the letter of j Senate steering

law 1

tile

w at least within tholes of (he law.”

pest said he expected final

ryl'.itted they were baffled by the disappearance less than fivi minutes from Populous Loa

Angeles and Hollywood.

Airline officials discounted the possibility the plane could have crashed into the (Kean. They said

Although the pil >t was too familiar with

the region to have missed

t„ the MunITpal Airport by so far.

pointed out that

ever, before today I‘Y aml lh< ' Bi K Four forri K" n ' in

isters’ deliberations, it was main

tained.

Byrnes met for nearly two hours with Republican membeis of the powerful Senate War Investigating Committee. once headed by President Truman.

They also

, ... h(> „ f , !1L . urdcubtedly would have made cuiately

r than there usually is even Jan. 3, the choice will not bt another rad i 0 contact if he had “ Presidential campaign. The ficial until the Republican mem- ^ |(> e h to ha>rc

i«li»..- - ,• th<»m>JPlVPS

re»ch€|j the ocean. Flying; time

rF'Mtin otherwise were for

mail campaigning,

F' 1 trucks, handbills, organif 0lml expenses, and field

■

Priest said the biggest loopf m l*Ws regulating elections H 1 fililur '' to set a limit on •wount that can be spent ^ candidate as long as it is

hers of Congress themselves

have voted on the question. Members of the House com-

mittee are Reps. Joseph W. Martin, Jr., of Mass., who is slated to be the next speaker, Clifford

Kans.; J. Roland Kinze: Jenkins; John M. RobKy., Harold Knutvoi, Karl M. Lecompte la :

JEFFERSON, CITY. Mo., Nov. , 14 (UP) The Ford Motor Com-

W ‘ ’ : pany lost $51,600,000 in the first

nine months of 1946, Ernest R. Breech, executive vice-president and director of that giant automobile manufacturing corpora-

tion, revealed today.

Seldom, if

has a Ford official volunteered any Information about the company's earnings. Usually in the past, approximations of profits have been obtained only from statistics filed by the company with the Massachusetts Commis-

sioner of corporations.

Breech, a native son, spoke to members of the Missouri State Supreme Court and the State Assembly, civic leaders, nearby Ford dealers and sales officials from Dearborn, Mich.. Kansas City and St. Louis. He was introlueed by Missouri's Governor, Phil Donnelly, a boyhood friend. The huge loss shown by Ford during the initial three-quarters of the current year, Breech ex- j plained, resulted despite two price increases on its models one in March and another in May as well as a third price boost late in September, which had "little effect” on results for the nine months' period. The loss was before the application of possible tax rebates under the carry-back provisions of the law, which cannot be determined ac-

until the full year's

operating results are known, However, had results for the nine months represented operating

ehn policy in Europe, di sources believed today.

“They honeymoon is over,” one highly placed source asserted : after a surprise call by Senate GOP investigators cn Secretary 1 of State James F. Byrnes yester-

day.

Officials maintained that hard-hitting and highly-publiciz-j ed inquiries into occupation poli icy and the conduct of U. S. | troops abroad would under mine this country’s prestige in

eyes of the world.

Such investigations could increase Immeasurably the difficulties of American statesmen now embroiled in sharp diplomatic skirmishes both iit the United Nations General Assemb-

a n 1 J had learned of

grams which have touched oil a

the Labor

party.

plomatic large-scale black market trading.

Yesterday the Occupation Shronicle, a weekly newspaper published for the department? community in Frankfurt, charg-

ed that UNRRA goods wery sold major n . V(|lt

in sidewalk booths at the camp, and that counterfeiters at Zeilsheim were turning out unlimited quanities of money, focyd ration coupons and clothing

certificates.

Following publications of the the! story', the raid which was scheduled for next week was hurriedly’ arranged for today. Connolly said, however, that his raiders had found no trace of counterfeiting equipment and that he had no indication that

for the first j time yesterday.

According to one informant, their 45-minute discussion with Krug was general in nature. Krug was said to have emphasized his wish that the operators

! me one written by Lewis and I Krug last spring after the govj i rnment seized the mines. The I operators reportedly expressed

LONDON. Nov. 14. (I P) ^ willingness to negotiate. \nlIrony Eden pledged Hi n-, ThiH informant said the operaservallve party’s support in the tors Wl . re not given any settlellmise of Commons today to the] im , nt p , 01>ll .sals and were not government’s foreign asked to discuss Issues which peace-time conscription lu-**-! previously had blocked agree-

ment between the union and the

owners.

part ment.

COL! 41 BUS, S. ( .. Vox. I I —

(UP)—An explosion shutteixv! Hit- \V. N. Wesscll Company banana ripening -lied here I (slay, 1 killing and injuring an undeter-

mined number of persons. At least six persons were

known dead and seven injuri'd. .

Farmers Must Stay Organized

Phi Psis Held Annual Smoker

Psi aiui

hout

Hope,

Miun. sion, Minn

and

the candidate’s knowl-’, Hnl Holmes, Wash.: Leo E. Al-

consent," he said.

•MeirsAgo

-iff bRKENUAHTt.r

len. 111.; Earl C. Michener. Mich.. Halleck. Brown; Leslie C. Arends. 111., and Roy O. Wood-

ruff. Mich

f.n m Burbank to Municipal Air- 1 results for all of 1946. the loss pi rt is 12 minutes. still would have been $32,900,000,

Breech said.

The loss came as no surprise, he added. After the war, Ford told its employes that 1945 operating results probably would result in a loss of about $35,000.000 with that amount doubled if a wage increase should he grant-

ed..

The annual Phi Kappa “nTinker" far business men

DePuuw faculty members wa? held at the fraternity house Wednesday night with a good atten dance. This smoker is held each

just before the traditions

Wabash-DcPauw football game and is always a popular feature

of the school year.

Bob Nipper. Tiger grid coach, showed colored pictures of the Obcrlin-Old Go)(J gime and gavr a running acccunt of the film. Fraternity freshmen put on the usual boxing exhibition and cider and doughnuts were served

to those present.

was being

counterfeit money used at the camp.

Twenty or more unlicensed or "questionable" automobiles ary) trucks were impounded. One displaced person, who had escape I from the Frankfurt jail, was re-

captured.

The searchers found a suitcase filled with saccarine, valued in sugar-starved Germany at $50.000; two pair of nylons, a sixinch stack ot^ German hundredmark bills, $2,000 in. military scrip, a stack of American ten and twenty dollar bills, and a number of gold coins, including one U. S. $20 golpi piece.

WASHINGTON, Nov. II — (INS)—The IreiiMery annoiiiii-ed today thal il a ill retire mere Ilian three and a qu'.irti.r liillion dollars *il tin- national debt for

cash on Dee. 15.

PARIS, Nov. 14—(INS)—The vlelnrlouji French Uomminiisl parly today served n itiee on the Nution that a Communist I trust !«• named Prenier of France. There uas In'ieveil to lx- no doubt Ihal file f'ominiiniats will seek the post for (heir leaile|r, Mauriiv Thorez.

I \( I s KIDN AP ( II \RI.F

GOBIN MEN’S CLUB WVLL MEET TONIGHT

INDIANA POI .IS (UP) Secretai. ' of the Kentucky believe.-! American

Nov. 14.— !. Stanford in Bureau farmers will

PRINCETON. Ind., Nov. 14.

(UP) Gibson county officials said today they would prosecute a Camp Campbell. Ivy., soldier

• I charged with the kidnaping of a Cobin Methodist Church U - S '' 0 • s,i,l em P lo y e - Club will hold its first i Th< ' fi0l,|ler ' ' ,nse l ,h Cortu ' 11 ’

was in the county jail under $3,000 bond. A companion, E— gene Eggermont, who said he also wiis stationed at Camp Campbell, was being held on a

charge of petit larceny.

Another City Officer Quits

Lawrence W. Acton tendered pis resignation, to Chief of Police Russell Clapp Tuesday morning, to take effect immediately. Acton is a World War II vet-

Lawrence

In addition, the following rep- ,. riln iln d was in the Normandy lesentatives have been invited to invasion on D-Day. He served meet with the committee: James Wlt .h the engineers in Europe for |VV. Wadsworth. N Y.: Richard o,.. years and received his hon-

TO TAKE VACAT.ON WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 (UPt The White House anrcunced today that President Truman will go to Key West Fla., Sunday for a week’s vaca-

tion.

White House Fiess Secretary Charles G. Ross said Mr. Truman would take off in. his • ur-engin-e^i plane, the Sacred Cow. about 10 A. M., EST, Sunday and fly to the Boca Chiea Airport,

The

Men’s

meeting of the year this evening at 6:30. Miss Greta Moulden of Oslo, Norway will be the speaker Miss Moulden was a member ot the Norwegian underground during the last war and will discuss conditions at that time. This will probably be Miss Mould* n's last appearance before a Greencastle group as she is returning to Norway within the next few days. All men desiring to affili- ! ate with the Gobin Men's club arc Invited to attend.

lose everything they have gained in recent years unless they remain organized. “Farmers must make maximum use of cooperatives and maintain existing favorable legislation,’’ he said "or else they w'ill lose their gains an*I return t*. a low income status.” Ho spoke before the 28th annual convention of the Indiana Farm Bureau last night. Purdue university President Frederick Hovde was the principal speak-T today. “The cost Is small for an organization, but a heavy price must he paid for the lack of a powerful and influential organization,” said Stanford. He estimated that agriculturists in recent years lost $17,500,• 000.000 because of lack of organization. Farmers, Stanford said, are “victims of unfavorable legislation which influences the course of agriculture. Delegates to the convention met in til* World War Memorial Building here yesterday to hear

Cornell was charged with kid-j lheir P'"sident Hassil imping Robert* P. Anderson ofj S<henck ' advocate adoption

i ilie direct primary system

on !*i»me Tv*«)

Machine Gun Damages B-29

Princeton who operates a mall delivery route The postman in an affidavit said the soldier on Nov. 4, forced him at gun-point to drive 250 miles to Kentland, j Ind., where he robbed him of

articles valued at $200.

E. of of

in.h k;es iai \l

Prosecuting Attorney ^Luther! Samuel Ellenson, 67-year-old Benson said conviction on the Porter county farmer, who died charge carries a sentence of lifej yesterday of injuries received imprisonment. ! "’hen he fell into a corn elevator ... . iat his home southwest of Heb-

! ron.

ON I»EA< KFUL TRIP

VALPARAISO, Nov. 14 (UP) Ritvs were arranged today for

MANILA.

U. S. Army

Nov. 14. (UPl headquarters an-

TURKEYS STOLEN

NEW YORK. Nov. 14 (UP) I

which is about a 20-mlmte auto-| uounced today that unknown 28,454-ton S. S. America, I mobile ride from the Key West ] persons fired machine gun h ” 1 -, i ar gest United States passenger

naval base.

lets at a B-29 of the 6th Bombei 1

e «

Todays Weather <H

and •

Local Temperature f*

The presidential party will fly Group Nov. 7 while it circled

There were no cas-

back to Washington late on the Clark Field, afternoon of Nov. 23 in time to, unities.

. Snider saw u Wiggles worth. Mass; John r." * Irish Roue” at the Murat Taber N Y.; Richard M. SimpJ " lll «napolis. I*™. Pa.; Leonard W. Hall. N. Mrs. Otis Browning y.. and Bertrand Gearhart. Cal.

Senate steering committee

Taft, chairman:

Mieh.; I

Neb .

c ruble dischaige last January.

He has three battle stars.

reach the White

ner.

House for din-] The First Army announce-

I n-ent. made seven days after the

liner, sails at 4 p. in. today ^ her first peacetime North At- WV

lantic crossing.

The sleek luxury vessel, witt practically everything but hei hull rebuilt to erase all trace o(

[, , fla y In Roachdale.

Hn un # ! 0t ' 8l o{ an Inch of

" he " > during the day. Jttln, ’s Bittle s was hos-

to the D. a. R.

members are:

Arthur H Vandenberg. Kenneth S. Wherry,

4JETS NOBLE PRIZE

STOCKHOLM, Nov. 14—(UP) -lleirmun HeeMte, Herman-horn

NEW CASTLE. Ind. Nov 14 (INSI- A forecast of plenty of "hot turkey for Thanksgiving dinner was made today by the

Indiana state police.

Reports that 135 feathered I»IKS UNDER TRACTOR

dinners have beer, stolen were be- KEW’ANA, Ind., Nov. 14 later army public relations offi- hampton, and Le Havre, ing investigated. |lUP) Three-yeai-old Lawrence ccrs corrected this, stating that) Carrying a capacity load of 1,Sixty birds were taken from a Overmyer, son of Mr. and Mrs. farther investigation disclosed 050 passengers, the America will farm two miles east or Shirley in Ralph Overmyer, was killed yes- the bomber was not hit. They be commanded on her first ven-

Fair today and tonight. Friday increasing cloudiness. Little

change in temperature.

incident said the' Superfortress I fj Ve years duty as a troop trails- ; was hit nine times. A short time | port, will touch at Cobh, South

resident **f Switzerland. was Henry county anjd 75 disappeared terday when he fell beneath hi.-; said three tracer bullets were awarded the 1946 Noble prize for trom a farm a few miles sway father’s tractor while plowing a observed going past the homb-

ture into the competitive mari-

White, C. Wayland Brooks, 111.; literature today.

in adjoining Rush county.

field.

tr's nose.

time trade by Commodore Harry Manning.

Minimum

6 a. m . .

7 a. m. ..._

8 a. m

9 a. m

... . 37

10 a. m

11 a. m

12 noon

1 p. m.

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