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GREENCASTLF, INDIANA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1947.
CHICAGO HS LEGION ampionship
NO. 265
LOCAL MAN Hl'RT IN ACTO ACCIDENT
AUTO IN WHICH FRED TINCHER MET DEATH
M DEFEATED TO CAPTI HE itbale t kown
VEU-
Sam 'Pearson, Crown street resident, was reported to have been injured hi an auto a.ccident near Crawfordsville Monday night. Pearson, it was said, was en route to Greencastle to see his wife ard new baby at the Putnam County Hospital.
he dozed at the wheel. Council Did Not
Meet On Monday
t Pearson, who is employed out i
»< <*, city. mtUM hLd
mor c than juries and his car was badly Sectatoi - Monday mi, da raged when it was said that
Ann Park, East Chicago mn tn. American Lesoftball championship m| j Versailles Post l"' 1 L ne of 5 to 0. ( ijuraii, winning pitcher, d his Monday afternoon allowing the losers only ^
In the semi-finals; Jui - ^ fij- s t time in five years, | ;d Huntington to a lone | me>mi i )er3 C f cit y C0unC ii f a jj. ' Bast Chicago won ec j mg^t Monday evening. Only to 0. one councilman, Hex Thorlton, W advanci . 1 to the fin- showed U 'P for the meeting, along
Cassell! with Ma >"° r Walter Ballard. Va-
by no Mg 1 | cations, illness and other causes
| prevented the other mentubers
^ " ' I from attending. Only routine championship battle, | matters were to come up before Sellers, Vt i sallies twirl- J the meeting and these will be mas only nicked for 3 taken, care of at the next meet-
Greencastle, weakened j ing.
i second inning and the jeago batters touched ja total of 8 blows includ-
able and a triple.
Jobe tur ned in a great j {pitching for Greencastle | fternoon encounter with.j He rtruck out 101
LATEST
WIRE NEWS
PRESIDENT IN
SOLEMN TALK TO DELEGATES TRI'MAN SAYS IT. S. WILL RETAIN ARMED MIGHT
TO KEEP PEACE
PKTROPOLIS. Sept. 2 (UP) President Truman today told | representatives of 10 American nations that many countries of Europe and Asia live under a "shadow of armed agression" and that the United States is
determined to retain its military i _ ’ > ^ J • represent a pay roll raas«‘ of more
than i li i \ billion tii'dlars
Railway Unions Get Wage Hike
CHICAGO, Sept. 2—(INS) — A nix-man arbitration board In Chi.-age today granOnl one million membeps .of IT-non-operat-tng railway 'anions a IStj cent
hourly increase.
The decision, which makes tlie ini n st.se efts-etive Sept. 1,
JUDGING TEAM FROM PUTNAM COUNTY WINS 4-H JUDGING BOYS FROM PUTNAM WIN TITLE FOR SECOND YEAR
Local Police Arrested Two
City police reported Tuesday
and did ml allow a j that they had arrested two perballs. Two of Versailles! sons Monday afternoon during e in the sixth inning! the Labor Day holiday.
py scored their one run. Ml nearly as large as t turnout witnessed the a tilts. ’ing the championship ophies were presented to 7 title holders and the p. Individual gold softre awarded the players teams.
Above is pictured a group at Pleasant Garden viewing the demolished 1941 Chevrolet which plunged over a 20-foot embankment west of Manhattan on the National Road Saturday night killing Fred Tincher, 53, of Greencastle. William Hoskins, 19, the driver who lost control of the t u , aiK * Skimmerhorn, 30, all of Reelsville, miraculously escaped death.
Wilbur Mullinix Rites Wednesday
Pan American Highway Is Shown Up By United Press Correspondent
Wilbur M. Mullinix, age 60, passed away at his home in Reelsville, Monday morning, after an extended illness. He was born in Putnam county, where he spent his entire life and was well known throughout
the community.
on north Indiana % Survivors are: one sister, Mrs, won’t argue with ’em. After
Cecil Schuyler, of Ind.anapolis; taking a long look at our two one brother, Berdie Mullinix of roads, which we seemed to have
built because we were mad at
bers of the East Chicago, its and Huntington teams as visiting tans all praisI Post 58 frr the spUndid I in which th' tournament ■ducted. Sincere appreIfo' - the treatment accordI and for the fine playing [as expressed during the br and evening, pm 'Bill) Clarkson, Amp’gion Athletic Officer [ Department of Indiana, resented the various tro[uring the semi-finals and be championship fray, also *d the thanks of ' the epartment for the invitaplay the tournament in atlc. He also praised for th" work and in/ rby the officers and in holding the tourna-
or Ballard’s uto Damaged
Dorothy Bronson, 34, of Reelsville, was arrested for driving an automobile without an operator’s license. She was taken
into custody
street.
George Moore, 49, Brazil Route 3, was arrested on a pub-
lic intoxication charge.
Moore entered a plea of guilty to public intoxication when he appeared before Justice of the Peace Ola T. Ellis on Tuesday morning. He was fined $5 and
costs.
Dorothy Bronson, will appear in. municiapal court Wednesday i on the charge of failure to have an operator's license. No other activity was reported by the local officers and the fire department also had a quiet Sunday and Monday with no fire alarms.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 <UPi Hold tight to your steering wheels, taxpayers, and I'll tell you about our two count ’em Pan American highways in
Guatemala.
The Guatemaltecans think we’ve got bats in the belfry. I
Panama will cost $25,000,000. So far they’ve spent $77,000,000. The jungle is closing in on much of their handiwork and they now estimate that it will take another $65,000,000 to finish the job. I'm blushing, all right; I’ve also got pains in the pocket-
book.
Our rdads in
strength to preserve peace.
I Mr. Truman, in a somberly 1 worded message delivered to the final session of the inter-Ameri-can defense conference, pledged Uiis nation’s might of sword and dollar for an all-out effort to
maintain world peace.
Describing the pcst-war .era as a "bitter disappointment an ’. I deep concern” to this country, he said that the. United States was obligated to prepare for R prolonged military occupation of
enemy territory.
“Wo find that a number of nations are still subjected to a type of foreign domination, which we fought to overcome,’’ ho said. “Many of the remaining peoples of Europe and Asia live under the shadow of armed
aggression.”
Mr. Truman did not refer directly to the foreign policy of I P'lsria in central and southern
nually.
The Greencastle high school 4-H Dairy judging team under tho direction of Gene Akers, vocational agriculture teacher, nccessfully defended its state le and was awarded top honors will' a £ain a,t the Indiana State Fair today. Judging was completed Monday and the official announcement of the winners was
made Tuesday.
Big Four Meeting In London Oct. 6
LONDON, Sept. 2—(INS) — An authoritative source revealed today that the Soviets Ihiavi agreed to British, French ami American prop osals for a meeting « f the Big Four deputies on Germany to be held in London, Oct. 6.
To Proceed With German Plans
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 — (INS) _ The United States
Europe, but there was no d «ubt • br!1M|( ., (>|> t)(ld K ,, I3sia t<K , ay Uial
it Mill proceed with plans to i raise tlie level of industry in
we do | )ht , ynn-ricu,^British occupation
remarks were I
as to whom his
directed.
He said, however, that
not believe that present interna-j ( ; ( . rmany a^pitc Soviet
tional differences will have to be resolved by armed conflict,” ad'l-
ohjections.
In a note delivered to Saiinco
Reelsville, and other relatives.
Funeral services will 'be held, ourselves, all I could do was
from the Rector Funeral Home blush.
Wednesday morning at 10:00 a.I "ben I checked in at the Bairn (DST) ace hotel in Guatemala City on The Rev. Dallas Rissler will be m V vacation, the name of Sen
Homer Ferguson, R., was about
beautifully engineered. High bridges carry them over gorges; dynamite has blasted them into sheer mountainsides. They’re handy, too, for the Indians, who
“ a \, ar ll lne . the “ worla may de P end on | k. Tsarapkin, Soviet charge d’
to k’ 1 ’! affairs in Washington, by acting
it that we shall continue
far out of our way to avoid anything that would increase the
tensions of international life.” He described as the “funda-
Seeretary of State Robert A. Lovett, Moscow was reminded that two years of effort to combine all of Germany into an eeo-
The honors of winning Ir-lud-ed a $400 cash donation to defray expenses to the Interna na.l Dairy Congress at ' v ' ‘ •», Iowa late this month other honors and trophies. Members of the team included Wendal (Brattain, (Bruce Wolde, Bob (Perkins and Ike Strain. Another dairy judging team composed of Donald Irwin, Bob Campbell, Bill Wells and Donald Smith, also coached by Mr. Akers and representing the Greencastle high school, which will send them to the Waterloo Internaational show late in September. Both Of these teams won the championship honors Tuesday after completing in local, county, district and aeml-state finals. These state contests covered a period of eight months or mor3 time. Two additional teams in livestock judging were at the fair and may win high honors. Th? 1 members of these include Jack M ,ss, Warren Harlan, Myron McMains and Bob Bruner of one team and Jim Gram, Dale Pitts, Don Bemis and Richard Conrad of the other team.
travel almost exclusively by foot, j men t a i basis’’ of U. S. policy the ! nom i,. w holc have tailed.
in charge. Burial will be in Boone-Hutcheson cemetery.
They like these sidewalks 28 feet wide. They never saw the
Rollie Coffman Lodged In Jail
six lines up on the registration j like. They have only one com
Rollie Coffman, 42, was placed in the Putnam county jail
Sheriff Ed 1 land '
book. The Senator wasn't down there enjoying the mountain scenery or admiring the orchids, either. He was trying to learn why our prodigal government got into such an argument with itself that it spent our millions building parallel roads leading from nowhere to never-never
j Monday evening by
Maddox, who said he had created
17 Are Killed From One Neighborhood
consedirable disturbance at his
home in Commercial Place dur-
ing the afternoon.
Sheriff Maddox located Coffman at the intersection of roads i
| 43 and 40, five miles south of: Residents of Mt. Meridian be- Greencastle, and brought hin,
gan tabulating the violent deaths of persons in that neighborhood after the accidental death Saturday night of Fred Tincher and they have counted seventeen who died of accidents or otherwise not due to natural causes within the past twenty
back to jail. John D. James, county prose- I cutor, announced shortly beefore I noon Tuesday, that Mrs. Coff- | man had filed a charge of as- ! sault and battery agajnst her
husband.
The Senator will make his report later. I’m making mine
now:
You know about tho Pan American highway, which is supposed to link North and South America, and which now gives tourists a hair-raising automobile ride from Texas to Oaxaca in Southern Mexico. That’s the end of the line. From Oaxaca to the Guatemalan border there is no mad, nor even a cow trail, because there are no cows: Just desert and some cactus plants from which the natives squeeze a
plaint. Don't those Americanos know, that a pedestrian has got to sit down once in a while and rest in the shade? Then why in the name of all two dozen Mayan Gods did we chop down all trie trees on both sides of both streets ? I couldn't answer that one, either. Maybe Sen. Ferguson can.
County Council Begins Session
strong desire for permanent | world peace, adding that this na-1 tiorris prepared to work for thit aim both through the United Nations and through use of its
c wn resources.
“In carrying out our policy we are determined to remain strong," he told the delegates who recently completed work on an inter-American defense pact. “This is in no way a throat. The record of the past speaks for us. No great nation has been more reluctant than ours to use 'Hired
force.”
But the President decla'ed solemnly that this ration’s deterI mination to avert armed cinllkt should not be misrepresented as weakness. "Our aversion to violene ■
! years.
n0tl This count
from have
famil-
Mayor Ballard is , . , from being run over by I This count was made motorist becaiuse his car I mcmory an(l th ° rC may both fenders on the becn morc - these persons ■o were damaged by an I iur with thC ne.ghborhood, said. , MhingUm street driver I
^ after non. It was said 1 'or pulled to the side of •foot and as he did so, 1 Balia,rd started to pass ( the same time, the s t who had pulled away bl ' c,, nter, turned abruptly d« drive way, hitting, the oar as he made the turn.
Gl’s Cash Bonds Tuesday Morning
Vermillion Farm Sold At Auction
bovkd meeting Board of Directors of tho Chamber of Commerce oot Wednesday evening /rt dock at the Public Serffice.
here decided that the Pan American highway had to be finished
pronto.
I The public roads administra.-
Herbert Boswell, of Greencas- tion rus hod to Guatemala to push tie, bought the old Frank Ver- through the highway there. So million farm in Clinton township difl t n c arm y engineer corps, which was sold at public action “Wo’H build the higtr road,”
Monday. 1 the Pra said.
The purchase price was $90 an “And we’ll take the low, the
farm contains 1331 ytxmv replied.
members of the Council
fiery lotion called Tequila. Game Fr;mk Vaughn L i oyd Summers,
the war and the master minds
The Putnam County Council convened at 10 a. m. today for u two-day session durirtg which the members will study the proposed county budget for the
coming year.
The Council selected George Ensign as president. Olh-r uro military strength will be retain-
Canadian Train Crash Kills 39
DUGALD, MANITOBA, Sept. 2 (UP)—Authorities said today that 39 persons were killed when two Canadian National Railway passenger trains eollidcd head-on al the Dugald station last night. DUGALD, MANITOBA, Sept. 2 (UiP)^—Two Canadian National Railways passenger trains, ! one of them the Transcontinental | Express, collided head-on at the ! Dugald station last night and of- | ficials said today that two bodies I had been recovered from the
must not he misread as a lack j wreckage,
of determination on our part tij live up to the bbligations of th> United Nations charter or as an invitation to others to take liberties with the foundations of international peat' " he said. “Our
Years Ago ^ GREENCASTLB
temperature
Putnam county soldiers who have been issued-terminal leave bonds, lined up in all banks Tuesday morning shortly after nine o’clock to get the cold cash'
on the line.
When the terminal leave bonds were issued, they could not be cashed for a period of five years, but drew interest. Then congress came along and made it possible to cash the bonds on September 2 or afterwards and interest was paid from the date j of issue until the time they were cashed. War Department officials asked the GI's to hold their bonds, but apparently only a limited number considered the advice of the top officials and cash began pouring into their
acre. The
acres which made price $12,420.
Jesse FI. Page, Walter W. Leucus, John A. Harbison and Dayton
McCloud.
The Council today read over the figures for the county general fund;, the county hospital fund; and the county welfare fund. The general fund includ appropriations for the courthouse, highway department, jail, county home and county offices.
ed as evidence of the seriousn ■ with which we view our ohlb; itions.”
Ai least 12 other persons we.re
injured in the crash.
Both trains burst into flames immediately after the collision, touching off fires in a nearby oil warehouse and grain elevator. Firemen fought the blaze until nearly daylight before it was biought iun..er control. All available ambulances and first aid
Likewise Mr. Truman made clear that the I'mited States
the total
L O. O. F. NO. 45 NOTICE
Putnam Lodge No. 45 w<! confer th< 3rd uegree tonight
upon a ciass.
Action on the budget is sch d-
This argument went from bad : v jed for Wednesday and the to worse until the army wass’t 1 0 f the Council will then b • even speaking to the Pra and, of j taken up by the County l ax Adcourse, vice-versa. So the army I jygtment Board next week,
stuck tip its nose and bull-dozed
Members of
N-.rthwesti.rn Lodge No. 80i of i Indianapolis, plan '-n coming to see the '.egrec, having Heard Putnam Lodge has one of the host teams in toe stale. Several
ma ximum 'degrees.
•cC. Sh “ t ' *“ ht "
k -"asten. and Kermit pockets through cashing of the re v ‘ a 'tors in Indianapo- j bonds as soon as the banks were
opened.
“nd Mf*- Lee Reeves were ‘a Hammond.
It was possible for a GI to hold as high as $800 in terminal
Fo x was in town from leave bonds, but very few had
a road south through the jungles
on the west coast plains. The public roads administra-
tion ignored the army’s operations. If the army’s road builders were crazy men, could the PRA help it? No, the PRA said. So it built another road a few
car loads of Indianapolis mem-. mi | ps j n ] an d a nd a few thousbers are expected. Putnam willj anfl feet j n the mountain*, also confer the state famous, Both of thoS p highways being in
a wilderness and end in a
ditto.
Putnam lodge John degree. All local members are urged to at
tend.
hog market
tile.
> eoroner Frank
^ from
any ways near that sum and Reed' most of them ran into small
Diivverdale °n sums, while some went into a
lew hundred dollars.
Hogs: 12000; barrows 160 lbs up 25 lower than Friday; Lighter weights generally steady; 199250 lbs generally $27.50; early top $27.75 for strictly choice; sows not established but indications that market steady at $19-00-$23.50.
The army’s road never was finished. The PRA’s road still is being built. Native labor is hacking stone out of the hillsides, and American steam rollers are crushing it into the road bed. I doubt if senator Ferguson ever did learn what the pair of roads cost. Everybody I asked had a different answer. All I do know is that the experts origin-
ally said the completed road to He went ahead.
it equipment was rushed to the is scene from Winnepeg, 40 miles
determined to <l<> its best to pro- northwest of here. Many of the vide economic help "to those who j injured were rushed to hospitals
are prepared to li Ip themselves | theree.
t nd each other.” This was inj Many of those injured suffered (Conti I <»“ I'oKe Three) from burns received when they
were trapped in the burning
coaches.
Two airplanes stood by at
LOCAL STORE MGRr i Winnipeg ready to fly relief sup-
plies to the scene at daylighe. The crash occurred at 10 P. M. The eastbound Transcontinent Express, a through train
Holiday Toll Mounts To 425
(By United Press) Highway accidents, airplane crashes, drownings and other mishaps cost the lives of 425 Americans during the Labor Day week-end from 6 P- m. Friday to midnight this morning, a United Press tabulation showed today. Reports from all states showed that 250 persons died in traffic accidents, exactly the number that had been predicted by the National Safety Council before the holiday began. In addition, 64 persons were drowned, 24 died as result of airplane accidents, and 87 were killed in miscellaneous mishaps directly attributable to the holiday. The final total of 425 dead was slightly under the 457 fatalities counted last year, however. The most spectaeular accident of the week-end occurred at the Minnesota State Fair where two planes locked wings shortly after they rendered an aerial salute to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Army’s Chief of Staff. Three men were killed as the planes plummeted to earth.
ILLINOIS MAN IS
Harold R. Yearwood of Mount Vernon, Illinois has been nam'd
of the Greencastle
PERKINS GUILTY
William Perkins, who was arrested last week, was found , guilty of public intoxication by | a city court jury Tuesday. Hi j was fined $1 and costs and sea-1 tenc-ed to the state farm fa:j-' lr - sixty days by city judge Rexel!
A. Boyd.
REGARDING SIGNS
manager
Montgomery Ward cording to an
made Tuesday. Mr.
has arrived in Greencastle and has already assumed his duties
as manager.
Before coming to Greencastle, Yearwood was assistant manager of tho Montgomery Ward store In Vincennes, Indiana. He has had considerable
j mercantile experience in the sev-
en years he has been with the
Some people read signs and company,
others don’t and Tuesiay mo.rn- During the war, Mr. \(arui>o, ing one motorist who evidently served with the l . S. M.u in didn’t like signs, drove into the. Corps. During his -L years .or “One way” sign at the fire de-! vice, he saw action In the Pacific partment and carried it a ha,171Theater of War and in Asutiv.
a block east, driving in the ; waters.
wrong direction. Neither the I Mr. Yearwood will bring his the sign north the'family, consisting of Mrs. Year-
store, ac- from Vancouver to Montreal announcement was less than ao hour out ol ^ Yearwood Winnipeg when it ploughed into
the other train, traveling from Minaki, Ont. VA Promises To Do Better Job
18 Nazis Guilty Of War Crimes
HAMBURG, Sept. 2 (UP) — Eighteen war crimes defendants charged with killing 50 escaped Allied airmen during the war were convicted today. The case against the convicted Germans involved indiscriminate shooting of R. A. F. officers after they made a mass escape attempt from a prisoner of war camp in March, 1944.
wording on the sign . _ .
fact that the driver hit tho sign rwood and a 12 year old son, to changed the mind of the driver. Greencastle as soon as suitable
living quarters may be found.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2.— The Veterans Administration promised today to do a better job of getting out subsistence checks to GI college students. It also predicted that veterans’j enrollment would set a record of j
1,325,000 this fall.
Last year, when enrollment was slightly more than 1,200,000. there were many complaints from student veterans that th') Veterans Administration was (CouUuueil uq ru*e Tw»J
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