The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 22 November 1946 — Page 1
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THE DAILY BANNER
ST WAVES FOR ALL'
OlUME FIFTY-FIVE
IVERSITY STARTS COAL SAVING PLAN
, UAV begins program T() CONSERVE FUEL
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GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1946.
NO. 31
University startcJ
lorvinp fal Mriday morning. University has a supply of probably for 100 days with iial use, but they are going jhnormal measures to rase less if these measures work out the weather does not get tooj re, their supply will last con-
jrably longer.
jjrtjng F'riday, the heat will •;it down at 10 o'clock at t in all buildings and effecKriday. also, the janitors in buildings were informed to the class rooms warm and
shut off the heat and this
continue until complaints arc , as to the low temperatures
e various class rooms.
WATER WORKS MAS 2 MONTHS COAL SUPPLY With the nation facing an indefinite soft coal strike as result | of the defiant attitude of John L. Lewis, union boss. The Daily Banner checked with O. J. Stewart. superintendent of the Greencastle Water Works Friday morning regarding the coal supply at the local pumping station. According to Mr. Stewart, the plant has enough coal to last approximately two months. However. sixty days supply is not very much if the mine walkout is prolonged fo r any great length
of time.
ATOMIC BOMB ’GHASTLY THING' SAYS GUTHRIE
SILENCE CURTAINS LEWIS HOME
NEWS MTV EDITOR IS PAI'W CHAPEL SPEAKER
DE-
Farm Bureau Names Officers
Marion Township Farm Bureau held a meeting Wednesday night, November 'JO. New officers elected were David L. Grimes, chairman; Carl Arnold, vice chairman: Mrs. Lois Zeiner, secretary-treasurer: and Mrs. Carl Arnold, social and cduca-
I be normally, b it with the j {j onH | leader,
strike threatening for sev- Qr^ea accepted the office
with an interesting talk about things the township organization could do. ending with plain for refreshments of sandwiches an I coffee for the next meeting on
Thursday, December 12.
Mrs. Ethel Sears played the piano while Mrs. Charlie Snodgrass led the group in singing. Hubert Ellison of the Indiana .Farm Bureau organizati n department gave a very interestI ing discussion of the workings I of the State Legislature and the
part played by Farm Bureau.
, University's supply of coal, onsiderably larger than it;
weeks, an unsually large ply has been laid in and there .is to be no immediate danger
* of a shortage.
ml coal dealers report ‘-tieally all the fraternity and ‘rity houses have an ample ly to last them well through winter, probably longer than duration of the present
H.
A Kleekner. superintendent W city schools, stated Friday i there was an ample supply m! on hands to heat the var ward buildings for some to come. He also said that hional coal had been secured 'rsday for the senior high
heating plant.
$25,000 Damage
Suit Is Filed
A suit for damages of $25,000 has been filed in the Putnam j circuit court by Jo Joyce Urschel. I a minor, by her n-xt friend, 11 Joseph N Ursehel against Wil-
| liam Monnett.
j According to the complaint.
Mary E. Anderson. u-‘jthe girl was a passenger in an it HO years, widow of Joseph j au t 0 niobile driven by William S.
jteraon, died early Friday i Hendrickson
ath Summons Mary Anderson |
■'Don't let anyone sell tne atomic bomb short to you: it is I the most ghastly thing the world | has ever known," Wayne Guthrie, city editor of the Indianapolis News, told DePauw \Tniversity | students Thursday in an eye-wit-1 ness account of the bomb tests 1 • at Bikini Atall. Mr. Gnthrie, one of the official newspaper observers on the U. S. S. Appalachian, recounted step ^ by step the preparations for and the results of the atomic bomb tests on July 1 and July 25. He pointed out that thr.re were 75 ships in the target area for the over-the-water test, with all kinds of medicine, clothing armor plate, inflamahle liquids, explosives, soldiers’ equipment, and military • vehicles aboard, along with several kinds of ani-
mals.
"The light of the explosion,’’ the speaker said, "was a thousand times brighter than the sun. and the heat at the center was ten thousand times hotter than the surface rtf the sun. Five ships were sunk. Would you call that a dud? Never before had one bomb sunk five ships at one
time."
"This br.mb is ghastly, and mankind hud better wake up to it." Mr. Guthrie continued. "Otherwise this Frankenstein monster will destroy civiliza-
t•■n."
Telling of the second bomb suspended from LSM boat below the surface of the water. Mr. Guthrie said that 87 ships were in the target area, and that a man 50 miles away pushed a button which set into action a radio frequency which exploded the bo r.to, "It's a push-button war," he said. S 'ven ships were sin k and two others and fvur F.ibmarines, sinking. were bracked for study. "I am glad the nation with the bomb is the most God-fearing and liberty loving of nations," Mr. Guthrie said. "What othei
TAX PROBLEMS DISCUSSED AT KIWANIS MEET
WALLACE YODER SPEAKER AT CLUB’S WEEKLY LUNCHEON Wallace O. Yoder, a new member ■ d the Economics Department at DePauw University, outlined seme of the tax problems confronting cities and towns and suggested some solutions, at the weekly meeting of the Kiwanis
Thursday.
Toirsting out that many cities throughout the country were having serious difficulties raising sufficient funds to provide necessary municipal services, Mr. Y> der stated that the first problem was for citizens to realize that more funds must be raised or some services curtailed or
eliminated.
THE SAME SILENCE that has followed John L. Lewis, UMW chief throughout Washington dogs the bushy-browed miners’ king in hit colonial mansion, above, at Alexandria, Va. Reporters keep a lati watch, hoping for a statement from the "speechless" Lewis, who li responsible for the nationwids shutdown of ttie bituminous coa
mines.
MASONIC NOTICE Greencastlc Commandery No 11 will mc.-t on Friady, November 22. Order of the Temple. T:!*) 1
p. m.
Marion Sears, E. C.i Will Talk On Polio Nov. 26 Answering a definite need in
(International Soundphoto. Indiana Banks Get 3rd Award
For the third consecutive year the banks of Indiana have received the 1000 point award which is made annually by the Agricultural Commission of the American Bankers Association. Each year the A. B. A. Commission rates banks in all of the
this community for additional' states on the basis of country information concerning the work I bank activities which benefit agol the National Foundation foi riculture. In the numerical evalInfantile Paralysis, the local 1 nation of these activities, the Parent-Teachers Groups co-opcr-1 Commission considers work done
iiin<: at the home of Mr. and Russell Brown In Russell whip.
nation would have invited oth.'i
on November 1LI nations to witness such a test? p. m., on that date, j And remember, experts say that
present efficiency of the
ating with the Study Group ol the Mary Emma Jones school under the leadership of Mrs. Ralph Bee are bringing to Greencastlc. Tuesday, November 26. Miss Betty Malinku, Indiana representative of the Infan£ili Paralysis foundation. The meeting which will be at the high school at 7:50 p. m. is open to the general public It is definitely not a fund soliciting gathering but is solely educational in
by individual banks, and programs which are carried out by the agricultural committees of the state bankers associations. Points are given for “regular" and “extra" services rendered by tile banks. Indiana banks have received national recognition for their agricultural clinics held in cooperation with Purdue University.
LATEST WIRE NEWS Peru Man To Succeed Ogles
SOUTH BEND. Ind.. Nov. Vi. —(INS)—Thomas E. Hath, of near Misliuwaka, newly elected secretary of state, today announced the appointment of Frank V. Dice, of I’eru, as chief assistant. He succeeds Gilbert Ogles, of Grei'ncastle, who has served as chic! deputy to retiring Secretary ol State Rue J. Alexander. Dice now is a deputy to Attorney General James A. Enimert.
COURT PAPERS ? ARE SERVED ON JOHN L LEWIS
MINE UNION HE.YD ORDER-
ED TO APPEAR ON MONDAY ^
WASHINGTON , Nov. 22.— (UP) Two burly deputy U. S. marshals today served John L. Lewis with papers ordering him to appear in federal court on Monday to answer contempt charges for refusal to call off tho
national coal strike.
Service of the papers took place at Lewis’ sixth floor office in the United Mine Workers (AFL) headquarters building hero. Lewis had left the seclusion of his Alexandria, Va., home for the first time in 56 hours.
LONDON, Nov. 32.— (INS)— Eight persons wete killed and a number of others injured today when a plane coming in for a
The general property tax is the 1 landing at \Vestnn-Su|M\rnare basic revenue producer for all struck the top of a double-deck-i
municipalities, but us yield is er bus. crowded with air force| Cr ^ gy „ m J ne „ Uni0n b ° M « rect “ d
limited either by the opposition j personnel, of property owners or legislative!
limitations or rates, he said. j SPRINGFIELD. III., Nov. 22.
Appearing outwardly undisturbed by the threat of a jail sentence or fine- or both— ! which hangs over him, the
mine u
photographers amiably as ho arrived at his office but told re-
porters "no comment.’’
Revenue from this tax could bo —John Murchlando, president oF Neither Lewis nor other UMW raised. Mr. Y'>dcr pointed out. I»v (he Progressive Mine Workers I officials gave any indication as
of America, today urged mein- to whether he plans to fight the Imts of the iiide|M*ndenl union to government through the courts stay on the job. I or whether he may clear himself
of contempt charges by culling
any one of several means, such as Increasing the tax rate, increasing assessed valuations, annexing populated areas no.v outside city limits, reducing the amount of tax exempt property or by encouraging improvement of property. To accomplish the 1 last remit, he suggested a two or I three year tax exemption on new \
construction.
Non-tax income sources which I have been tried in some cities and towns with varying degrees of success include municipal operation of public utilities, city owned liquor stores, charges for sewage disposal services, garbage disposal fees, parking meters and municipally owned parking Hits. He also advanced the Idea that sooner or later some city will try a municipal lottery, similar to the lotteries being operated on state and national bases in some countries.
Other cities have
some unusrjal tax sources, such as a municipal sales tax. pay roll
Marehiundo said: "I expect my.
, , ,, .... off the strike,
miners to live up to their con-j
WASHINGTON.
PARIS, Nov. 22— (UP) — Aerial searchers today Miuid In the lowering Al|>s of Snhth tViiIral Switzerland the wreckage of a transport plane missing three days with I I Ameiricans, at least four of whoiin were seen on the snow blanketed moiuilainside. A U. S. Army Superfortress 1
Nov. 22 -
j (UP) The government com- ( pleted plans for |>ower dimouts j and other coal-saving measures today in preparation for a long I o>urt struggle before it could | force John L. Lewis to call off ■ the soft coal strike -or send him
j to jail.
Steel mills and other coal-
; ZZl™** ng over he scene alter dropping , Uui strike |n()V( , (1 jnt() food clothing and medicine to the i|ay ^ an jnltlal bum ^ surv \ors. ^ violence that left two miners The first reports radioed from ] dead at Ecknvun. W. Va.
The victims, L
1945. At 5
the suit sets out. this car was in I tp,. present efficiency of an accident with an acito parked I atomic bomb is one-tenth of one
on the Greencastlc Stilesville I percent. | toad belonging to William Mon-
l n?tt
This program Is designed to in-
form bank officers concerned I ^ Hx ' vehicle tax,
I with agricultural lending, on the| * HX • Hll< * H on utility bills
is Anderson was born in pneastic December 27, 1856.
former name was Baker and Thp plaintWf aIle g es that she iHtmly home was formerly p ermH nent injuries ns led on the coiner of Bloom- re8U , t of thc crHsh Neligencc on on and Seminary atreets. She the part of t hl . defendant is Ihe last surviving memberL lalmcd altd images of $25,000 family of seven. Most of] are askt , d of th ,, ( . ou ,t.
life was spent in Greencastlc
Madison township,
rvivors are three sons, Jouf North Dakota. Eugene of vit, Mich., and Howard of f Coloiado, and one daugh-
Miss Mary Anderson of. i Jhington, D. C.. and several i LAKE SUCCESS. N. \.. Nov.' ^children. The husband and 22. (UP) The United Nations j sons. Shirley and Clifford political committee pushed to-j Jeraon, have preceded her In ward climactic debate and a vote ^
Ih . . today on Russia’s plan for an in, HunUm’m'ged everyone
its scope.
Miss Malinka, an arresting 1 prat .tj Ca i aspects of other bus!- 1 Mr. Yoder emphasized that the speaker, will be assisted by Mr., neH!i • solution of the financial problem William Styring and will con-j Th( , “regular” services in' nf an - v oiufticipality lay largely
the scene 1(1 miles southeast of.
Interlaken. Switzerland, gave as- '^ wnliam Hunt suranre that there were survivors I , . . j
, , i shot to death by
developed of the hairrowing cx|»erieiiee. In
addition to the four iiersens seen outside the wrecked transport,
amusements j’officials “presumed" that others
were inside.
UN Will Vote On Russ Plan
duct open forum discussion following her address. This will enable interested people to ask and receive answers to the questions they may have concerning this dreaded malady, polio. Included In the program will be a movie sound film: "Your Fight Against
Two Townships Report Quotas Two more townships in Put-
nam county have reached tln ir 1 Infantile Paralysis." goals in tho 11)46 Putnam Coun- j In her talk. Miss Malinka will ty Community Chest drive. Mo"- explain how our own communion and Clovci dale townships ] By benefits through this organunder the chairmanships of Rev. j ization, which in the eight years Frank Smith and Allen Bain, re- j of its existence has made such spectively. made their reports on strides toward alleviating thi Thursday afternoon to Morris horror of this dreaded menace,
lineral arrangements will be 'ventory of allied bases and armnunced later pending word' od forces on foreign soil. » the daughter in Washing- Th e United States. while
tempted to play the role of mediator between Russia and Britain on the troops issue, possibly will formalize its heretofore infomiB 1 request that the Soviet proposal be extended to troops at home as well as those abroad. Britain planed to fight to the last to have the 54-nation polit-
decision
on the Soviet proposal, and seek to couple it with the next item
committee’s calendar
Hunter county chairman. With thi;; the final week of the
| Community Chest drive, Mr.
in th“
(lends may call at thc Rec-
funeral Home.
mihimum for
THURSDAY NIGHT
minimum of 29 degrees , , I**" recorded by T^e!"fTL™!
' Banner thermometer for night. At 8 a. m. Fri-
■ the temperature was still at ( ™ ^ of WOI . ld disarmahis Iment. This also was brought
, Thmsik ^ 116 ? egreeB j into the assembly by Soviet Bus-
Vaicheslav Molotov hoped to wm sanction for the survey of all allied overseas forces before plunging into the more moment-
“'Unity and the rest of the w | 8 ‘ K * .felv scnnl ““w the animals shining eyes
. whether ^ the,, „, m w„.
££ ,“j ; , commotion onOor tho
1 crib, the cat lunging at Cooper, but he had been fatally hit and
ni reading of 65. The wind isday night and Friday 'ng, from out of the went, '*• neem colder to everyone, e weather forecast for this
w as fair am j co |,j
county to respond and make their contribution. He stated that Anyone that hasn’t already been contacted may bring their contribution to the Masonic Temple in Greencastlc or contact many member of the committee in their townships and turn over their contribution to
this worthy cause.
Bcb Cat Killed
Near Mt. Meridian
Roy Cooper and Kendall
Nichols killed a huge bob cat at
Wears Age
jx LltEENC’ASTI-E
and
'*» ^rtrude Oakley rom Indianapolis. n K a Ppa met with
n Slack.
* s Will Pollard was
fr °m Cloverdaie.
I United Nations’
’ agreed that a universal disarma-
ment program would liherata
1 man not only from fears of at- } tack, but also front the tremend- ! ous economic oppression create,1
Mrs. W. M. Me-j by the need of standing armies
Khe >’ heard the Mendelsaohn and navies.
Ir -in Indianapolis. I was OPEN WEDNESDAY
' Announcement was made to- j Miss day that the Greencastle Stores
be open all day Wednesday , will close o n Thursday.
in the
will but
Thanksgiving day.
infantile paralysis. Her pertinent information will embrace the research work of the organization, explanation of hospita equipment available, aid to individuals, and precautions to tak. where polio has been known tr
strike.
Inasmuch as this year is thi second .worst year in history foi infantile paralysis, tile first being the epidemic year 1916. and since in Indiana 92', more caser have been reported than last year; it would seem that each of us needs to know the above
facts.
Special guests at the meetin, will bi the local officers of the National Foundation for Infanitle Paralysis including: Dean Louis Dirks, chairman; Mr. Rexell Boyd, vice-i halrman; Miss
the Dan Cc»per farm near Mt. j HcMi Black, Secretary; and Mr. Meridian Friday morning. I Go's Arnold, treasurer.
Tlie eat was seen to go under a j
rib by Mrs. Cooper and the son: ((UIUK INCREASE
gel his gun and by peering j
through a hole under the crib. ] Mrs. Fred Starr, after reading
'■i article about the fust rising irices. reported her experience. She was buying-a bottle of Karo syrup and the clerk said it was 25c. Mrs. Starr handed him fifty cents and he returned the change to her and Mrs. Starr noted he had given her 21c. She asked him about it and the clerk then said that the price had gone up and the syrup was 29c. Mrs. Starr, in true honest fashion. still told him of the old price but paid the 29c for her syrup. If she hud been a minute earlier, she thinks she “might” have sav-
ed four cents.
did no damage.
The eat looked like an oversized gray cat, being about five times the size of an, ordinary cat. It is believed to be the first | bob-cat seen in this community in
I recent years.
MARRIAGE LICENSE
Joe Hendrickson, Danville. 111., and Mary Douthit, Greencastle.
“regular”
which Indiana banks compare] well with banks in other states' include the extension of adequate' credit for crop production and the promotion of cuiilvatlon o! new crops to widen the sources >f farm Income. Another important purl of tlv 1000 point rating program is the work being done in each community to aid returning war veterans who wish to establish themselves in the farming business, and the support given from youth activities through 4-H Clubs and the Future Farmers of America.
Opens Office In Cloverdaie
Dr. F. H. Spurlock announces the opening of an office on Saturday, November 25. in Cloveidale for the practice of general medicine. Following a year of internship it the Indianapolis City Hospital n 1945, and four months at the ndianapolis Induction Center, he teceived a fellowship in medicine at the Cleveland (Crile) Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. While there lie completed two years of specialty training in skin, arthritic, glandular and gastrointestinal diseases. Most recently. Dr. Spurlock and another physician operated a sixty-five bed private hospital in southern West Virginia. Mrs. Spurlock, a graduate dietician, completed her internship following graduation from Purdue in 1941. She is a mem her of Pi Beta Pin social soroi ity. For the present. Dr. and Mis. Spurlock will reside on South College avenue. UNDERGOES OPERATION SANTA MONICA, Cal., Nov 22 (UP) Bing Crosby underwent a minor operation in St John's hospital, it was rtisrVissri today.
in, the ability of its citizens to come to grips with the problem and to realize that any form of taxation ia bound to hurt some-
one.
Guests of the club Included Wayne Guthrie, city editor of the Indianapolis News. Walter Osmer of Terre Haute and Edgar Yeager of Greencastle.
President Will Return Saturday
CAMDEN, N. J., Nov. 22.—
elL Thomas negro, were
shot to death by Sam Curry, foreman, of a small truck mine. Curry was jaik-J. He said tho men tried to drag horn from the cab of his truck after he ordered his night shift to stop work.
Barring a surprise legal move
(IT*)—More than 2,500 massed] by Lewis, the next mund in the pickets, mauled ami shoved 40 government court attack on thc policemen in a CTO Nymputh> j mine chief would await a hearing demonstration outside the strike- Monday before Federal Judge T.
hoiuid plant of I lie Camden Umu -
ler-Post today.
Tin- demonstration occurred litter I he South Jersey (TO In-
Alan Goldaborough. At that time Lewis will have a chance to show why he shnrjld not be tried for contempt of court and possibly be fined or jailed f»>r failing to
duslrial Union council, repre ] keep his 400,000 United Mine sentlng 10,900 workers, called a ( Workers (AFL) on the job. "general sympathy holiday" Meanwhile, the civilian producwhen two pickets were clubbed tion administration was perparod and 24 arrested. I to issue orders and recommenda- [ tions today for conservation of WASHINGTON, Nov. 22.—I coal by public utilities. (UP)—Chief Justice Bolilha J.| The order would require tual Laws of the U. S. District Court' consuming electrical plants to
KEY WEST. Fla., Nov. 22 (UP) President Truman .returns to Washington tomorrow to assume on-the-spot direction ol the governnients legal battle against John L. Lewis. The President seemed to be enjoying his tropical vacation tithe fullest although the coa strike left him far from carefree Mr. Truman continued to receivi running reports on thc minisituation from Secretary of thc Interior J. A. Krug and Attorney General Tom C. Clark. He ap parently was content to let them carry the fight for thc govern-
ment.
Clark telephoned the President late yesterday to report on thr court order directing Lewis to show cause Monday why he should not be punished for con-
te-mpt.
Mr. Truman w»a said to be keeping quiet because he felt anything he might say would be superfluous inasmuch as the government’s position is manifest through the steps taken ny Clark and Krug. The President hoped to get In tome more fishing today if time and weather conditions permitted
11,da., dismissed Ihe government's mass sedition cunc
against 24 defendants.
ATLANTIC CITY,
pool their power. State power commissions would be asked to enforce any feasible conservation measures, such as dnnouts of adN. J. Nov. vertising signs.
22—(IN«)_ Gray-haired Philip Murray, president of the eoiigr.-s-i of Industrial organizations since John L. la-wis, Ihe foimdcr, stepped out of the picture, was relerted to of* lee today by Ole i
eighth noiistilutionul convention th ‘* plants would stop deliveries
to non-essential users and re-
CPA also expected to ask manufacturers of gas to conserve by halting distribution to consumers whose contracts did not forbid such cutoffs. When more drastic measures are necessary.
The vote by tile OOO-odd delegates was nnanimiSjs and thunderous applause followed in its
wake. The fact-spoken head of dered a dimout of outdoor dis-
strict the amount available to
essential users.
The district of Columbia or*
Ihe (»t> previocrsly had indieat ed a desire for retirement, prl marily liccauM- of failing health
and loverwqrk.
John Harvey Died Suddenly John Harvey, died suddenly about Friday noon at his home at 206 North Indiana street.
play advertising beginning at midnight tonight. The U. S. public buildings administration ordered a return to wartime heating and lighting restrictions at all feredal buildings in tho ((.uatlaues on I'aae 'I wet
Mr. Harvey 69 years old, was employed at the hospital. He is survived by the widow, Edna Hughes Harvey, two daughters,
NOTICE i Mrs. George Parkin. Grand — - ■ . Blanc, Mich: M.rs. Jay DuckAll county claims to be allow-; worth. Pans. III., and four sons, ed by the Board of Commission- Arthur Harvey, Elmer Harvey, era at their regular December River Rouge, Mich.; Raymond meeting, must be filed with the] Harvey, Mooresvllle; Sanford County Auditor by Tuesday, Harvey, Rockville; and Charles noon. November 26. This early 1 Harvey, Greencastle. filing is due to the Thanksgiving j Funeral arrangements will be holiday. announced later.
• Todays Weather f| • and • • Local Temperature fr Fair much colder today with low’ temperatures ranging from 15 to 20 north to 20 to 25 south tonight. Saturday fair and not quite so cold. Diminishing winds. ... Minimum 29 6 a. m 29 7 a. m 29 8 a. m . 29 9 a. m. . 29 10 a. in 31 11 a. m 32 12 noon .34 1 p. m .. 34 2 p. m. 34