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GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1947
NO. 273
Friday that
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ipfity of the downtown ealablinhments will con-
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FILE SUIT FOR $418 IN DAMAGES The American. States Insurance Company and H. K. Sards, Uaiiibridge .undertaker, have filed suit In circuit court for $‘118.20 da rages from A. IS.
Earley.
The plaintiffs state that on Sept. 30, 1946, a.t 10 a. m. an invalid coach belonging to r.lr. Sands was being driven by Claude Scobee on road 43, two miles north of Greencastlc. The driver is alleged to have sounded his siren and started to pass a truck belonging to Mr. Ear:?*
sudd-n
close on
during the
season;. However, some ‘re., will remain open as
doing the past j when the truck made a
‘ left hand turn rervjltjng in a collision adid damage to the am
bu lance.
Kranvis N. Hamilton is attorney for Mr. Sands and the insurance company.
hour of
general closing
has been agreed upon
Greencastle
of Saturday
merchants jre exception
M ost of the stores.will , until 8:30 or 9 o’clock
K nights.
jnnounceinent follows a of the merchant memthe Greejie istle Chamber nmerce held Thursday f m the Public Service my assembly room.
al Sunday for Mrs. Stone
Lula Mae Stone, well „ Greencastle woman and life of Arthur Stone, passed Friday morning about 7:15 at her home on West ly street. 8h' had been an d for several years. . Stone was born In Putcounty, Nov. 20, 1878, the iter of Charles and Emma I She was united in marto Mr. Stone on October X. ades the husband, she is ,1 by two daughters, Mrs. ,i|e Mar Knauer of Terre ; and Lula Josephine a* : seven sons, Weldon, Charklgar, Henry A. and Glen jyt, alt of GreenoasUc an I ! Claiide and Andrew R.. d Indiunajioli' and Orumld »Chicago; eight grandehilard two great grandchllfive brothers, Harve, L ?, Gilbert, Eugene and Earl >y: one sisUt, Mrs. Goldie Alt of Chicago. One daughEtiid Mae, preceded her in Jicral service:; will be held H afternoon at 3 o’clock the Rector Funeral Home )>lwill be in the Little Wal cemetery. Rev. C. A. Newpll have charge, wills may call at the funerj«lf.
ftball Tilt Sunday At 2:30
Chairmen Named By Legion Head
INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 12 — (INS)—Harold E. Morris, of Gary, commander of the Indiana
CHICAGO WAGES ALL-OUT HUNT FOR GANGSTERS POLICE HEAD ORDERS CONTINUES WAR ON AIX
HOODLUMS
OHIGAGO, Sept. 12—(UP)—A sudden demand for timetables agid travel folders developed today as Chicago’s hoodlums planned trips to avoid "the heat.” The pearl gray hats which characterize Chicago’s poorer grade of citizens went into mothballs. Many faces familia,r to the cops on North street and South State street beats were missing
this morning.
“The boys" were looking for
cooler climates.
Police Commissioner John Prendergast yesterday ordered a "continuous" war on hoodlum activities ranging from bookmaking U> the sale of "bottle water” to night clubs. It was the first all-out hunt for gangsters since the middle 30‘s. It promised to be a good one. But few of "the boys" were
ATTENDING CONFERENCE AT PURDUE
Department of the American' wa *Hng to find out how good.
Legion, today appointed chairmen of the Legion’s veterans’ employment, graves registration and the Knightstown Home committees. Hervey B. Styut, of Carmel, a veteran of both World Wars I and H was named head of employment activities. He also is the ncwly-elected Sixth District commander and has had many years of experience in employment with both the state and federal governments. Julian G. Carter, of Crawfcrdsville, was appointed to head the graves registration program. He is the outgoing Sixth District commander and is trust officer of a Crawfordsville bank. Dr. William R. Bolen, of Indianapolis, was appointed Knights-
Most of the hoodlums wasted no time getting out of town. They were reported either heading for the resort circuit or else for "rest cures." Some reports said many eyed a Florida vacation. Around town they said California was becon ing to many. Some might have gone to northern resorts of
estates.
It appeared the hoods would stay out of circulation for some time as the result of iFrcndergast’s declaration of war. The war was a result of testimony given at a Civil Service •Commission hearing of charge.! aga.inst two police officers. Police Capt. Thomas Connelly and Lt. William Drury accused authorities of "railroading policemen who arrest well-known
Checking corn near Lafayette to see if it is out of the way of frost are these four men shown attending a eonf renee d pm due this week for county agent ami PMA representatives. Left to right: Philip Hutcheson, PMA chairman f"i Putnam county, James Risk, farmer, K W. Harris, county agent, nil of Greencastle; and O. H. Lowery, extension agricultural engineer. Other meetings were held at Greensburg, Huntington and Washington, to acquaint local farm leaders with the new developments in emergency methods for handling an anticipated soft corn crop.
RESISTANCE BY BUYERS GROWS OVER NATION
DEVELOPS AS FOOD PR J ES CONTINUE UPWARD SPIRAL
LATEST WIRE NEWS
WHAT’S THIS!
Mere Money Put Into Circulation
Hy I'nltiwl l f re«»
Organized buyer resistance de-
veloped rapidly across the na- WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 — lion today as the price of food (INS)—Tlie Tnanary announced sliot upward again. * today that more money is being Housewives, alarmed at the | put into circulation again abd steady rise in prices, determined j there is enough for rich -nan, to quit talking about high prices! woman and child In the United 1 and do something about them, j States to have $197.69. Labor unions in many parts of j Money in dmdatton now the country got behind tlv totals $28,481,092,616 and In $2-
19 above the |>cr capita level of
DRY ICE TEST ON HURRICANE IS POSTPONED EXPERIMENT HAD BEEN PLANNED IN WEST INDIES STORM
SCHENECTADY, N. Y., Sept. 12.— (UP) — General Electric scientists said today preparations were not yet complete for dry Ice “bombardment” of a hurricane now moving In toward the Florida coastline and that the experiment will be postponed until a later storm.
S5 ^^^ L :N 0M u;iL E wallacesays
3RD PARTY MAY BE NECESSARY
FORMER VICE PRESIDENT IN TALK AT MADISON
SQUARE GARDEN
town Home Legion chairman.
The Legion and its Auxiliary; « an ^ atc,s " Accordin « lo teaU
carry on an extensive program of asistancc at that home for ( children of Hoosior soldiers and
sailors. Dr Bolen served in a , _ . . . tank corps in World War I with) ^ 4 U11 "__
General Dwight Eisenhower, then the company commander.
mony, the gangsters now head ing lor vacations deservisi a rest. Prendergast got "fightir.g nia,d‘’ at the testimony. Especial-
Truman Gets Equator Hazing
hands to publicize the police trial
with screaming headlines.
! He told policemen to go out and do the job. He ordered ai'i "known hoodlums" arrested- on
sight.
It wasn’t expected many would
be sighted.
Nevertheless, Prendergast plan-
ABOARD THE USS MIS- | n d to tiansfer 50 veteran police-
American -’s softball
Legion teams
and
tonJty afternoon at 2:30 •Aim Park for the chani- ‘ of the city leagues. If s win this cofitcst, anPwe will be necessary l" II d Hickman, dirrfth- noftball activities. COMEDIAN DIES OtlYWOOD, Sept. 12 (UP) and screen comedian Blu * di ''d last night at K of Lebanon hospital. H-’ h avt celebrated his 46th
y today.
/ INJURED
men from the Decetive Burea'U today to make room for "new and vigorous young men.” The new men will compose "hoodlum-
chasing" squads.
‘They won't even have a nodding acquaintance with gangsters,” Prendergast said. "They'll make their acquaintance in a way the hoodlums won't like.’’ The Cuiinelly-Drury triad resulted from charges that the two conspired to bring about false indiciment against three men accused of shooting James M. Ragen, Sr., racing information
Czar.
Ragen was wounded by unknown assailants June 24, 1946 and died two months la,ter. Earlier this week, State's At-
ve'terans of a passage torney William J. Tuohy releas-
SOURI, ept. 12 Top presidential assistants got the works, hut President Truman was left off easy in- the traditional hazing ceremony at the crossing of
tlie equator yesterday.
King Neptune, mythological god of the seas, only required Mr. Truman to make a speech to become a full fledged "shellback," instead of “a vile land-
lubber and polliwog."
Paddling, ducking and other indignities were saved for the
Alimony of $5,000 is asked In , the divorce suit filed in the Pul nam circuit court by Mrs. J Dorothy Parker against Austin i E. Parker. Tlie parties involved have a large fa,rm in Warrei
township.
According to the plaintiff, they
were married April 6, 1935 and j NEW YORK, Sept. 12 (UP) separated in March 1946. She Former Vice President Henry A
e.haiges cruel and ir-Vuman treat ment. In addition to th.e $5,00"
alimony, she asks custody o f for ’48" in. Madison Square Garthree minor children and all den last night that he would other proper relief in the divorce "continue to work within the
housewives. The idea of forcing prices down caught on rapidly. The buyer resistance developed along two lines one old, the
other new.
The first was an old method: Tighten the belt and refuse to j buy any more than absolutely necessary. Individual housewives boomed this method with chain phone calls, urging neigh-! bors to tie up their pursestrings. | The second method was new. | It was the formation of cooperatives by buyers, usually sponsored by unions. Their plan aini-j od at eliminating middle-man. profits. They bought in bulk.;
ami sold goods at cost.
One way or the other, the average man appeared determined (o halt runaway prices that
spiralled up, up, and up.
Union officials in Detroit
August.
Ship Explosion Takes 18 Lives
BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND. Sept. 12—-(INS)—The hollies of 18 ;M-r*ons killed In nn engine room explosion almard the Kriti-h luxury liner Reina Del I’aeifieo were rixrrled ashore today in Belfast. Thirty persons, n ist if them rritb-ally burned, wer- hospitalized. Doctors feared that several would die.
Wallace told a cheering crowd started the cooperative moveof 20,000 thundering "Wallace ment. But an official of the SI
Louis Consumer sounded the keynote. “When consumers
Federation
proceedings.
Hughes & Hughes a,re attorneys for Mrs. Parker. Heavy Rainfall Thursday Night
Democratic party" -until convinc-, (, rs’ strikes against
i d that it held no hope for liber-
als.
H the major parties give the people no choice except "reactionary capitalism," a third party may be necessary in 1948, he said. "If the Democratic party is a
tried buy-1 meat, but-
ter and nnlk they seemed to bej ineffective,” ho said. "They did not prevent an increase in those prices when ceilings were lifted. Cooperative buying rather than a buyer’s strike probably is the best hope for pulling high prices
down.”
A CIO United Auto Workers
SANTA CRUZ, Oil. Sept. 12— (INS)—Soir.ifor Robert A. Tal t, ' R, Ohio, io|M‘iicd Ids western slumping four l.ocPay with a ; warning Hint the aholltUm of ; stall’s rights would lead to a
totalitafrian A me rim
Taft tired the first snot m - tour to determine his popularity
ns a GOP presidential rontender in a speech prepared for delivery before tin- California state
lM(r at Santa Cruz.
A total of .78 of an inch of ' war party, if m y party continues . , ()Cul ri . pr ,.anting 16.000 work-
WASHINGTON, Sept. 12.— (INS)—The United Slates today made a vigorous prnteat to the
MIAMI, Fla., Sept. 12.—(UP) —Scientists and the armed forces readied history’s first attempt today to break up swirling ocean hurricanes with dry ice bombardments from the air. Dr. Irving Langmuir, noted physicist and Nobel Prize winner was reported working with a joint army-navy force in the “hurricane busting” project. The historic test will be directed at a fierce tropical storm locatei in the West Indies. The Weather Bureau at San Juan, Puerto Rico, located the center of the disturbance 650 miles east of Dominica, British West Indies, or about 2,200 miles east-southeast of Miami. Navy airforce hurricane scouts here were informed that a plane from the joint armed forces project “Cirrus” at Schenectady, N. Y., would h loaded with the cooling crystals for the ocean bombardment. Comdr. Edwin T. Harding, head of the navy squadron said that complicated preparation" would prevent the experiment before Sunday. There was little chance that the storm would have blown itself out by that
time.
rainfall was registered by The I to attack civil libertine, ii both Daily Banner rain ga.’ige Thurs- parties stand for high pnccs and
at the Briggs Manufacturing tnrv personnel seized by Yltgo-
will presidential aides, such as John
R. Steelman.
The chief executive was only one of some 1,600 on this battle- | ship who faced the hazing which seagoing men inflict on shipmates who are not “shell-
backs," or
over the line. Mr. and Mrs. Truman wore bakers' caps as the only article of the uniform custimarily requited of polliwogs. Others in the presidential party went all out, ircluding daughter Margaret. who appeared in a sou'wester hat and raincoa,t.
ed a transcript, of his questioning of Jack Guzik. reported heir tc a good share of Al Capone s "business ventures," about Rag-
eiVs death.
Before he died, Ragen charged in n lengthy statement that Visik and others were trying to "muscle ir.” on his business.
day night, when a heavy storm swept Putnam county. It wai; accompanied by thunder and lightning, but so far as is known no damage was reported from the electric display. The storm followed an afternoon of intense humidity. The Banner thermometer registered 91 degrees at 3 o’clock Thursday afternoon. FOSTER McCLURE NAMED MANAGER
Announcement has been made of the appointment of Foster McClure as manager of Deem s
Company at Detroit authorized
depression then, the people must I th( . , X p ( , n ,| ituri . of $io.(KH) have r. new party if liberty and grocel - y s) „ r( . m thl . unio n peace," he declared. ’The people L,, G| . oceri ,. a Wlll s „, ( , al must have a choice.” . co8l by union „ffi CPr8 . They Wallace spoke frtwn the same wjll s ,. rv ,. !ls Kr , )( ,. ry clerks
rostrum where a yoa.r ago he with()Ut ,,, v .
denounced the administration's, Mrs Nl . nir stronR in Spring-
"get tough with Russia" policy.'
That speech brought about his resignation as Secietary of Com-
merce.
He showed no change of | opinion over last year. He said | communism was not the cause of the present crisis facing this vOuntry. He sajd tin crisis wa-s a financial one brought on the Truman administration,'.
field, O., took up the housewive’s resistance movement. She called other housewives selected at random from a phone book. She asked them to buy only essent- ! ials and ask others to do the
| same.
j At Salt Ivike City, 10,000 I women, members of the Salt I Lake Council of Women, decided!
“unwarranted detention mal-treatment” of allied
and Mill
Yugoslav government over the. The San Juan advisory said
that the storm carried winds up tp 75 miles. The storm was moving west-northwestward — pointed at the North American mainland at about 15 miles per
hour.
Slav authorities.
The protest Involved 15 cases, most of them British. Of those detained, the Stale Departmenl announcement said, nine ineliiding two Americans, have mil Is-en returned to their
own forces.
"monopolistic capitalists and
Steak House. The statement was ! their errand boys.'
made by Virgil Deem, proprietor. Foster MoCVtre is well known. In this community, having lived In Putnam Com ty for the past 26 years. Married with three children, Mr. MoC’ure served in the Infantry ot the U. S. Army for 28 months. During this period j he served in Belgium and Oermajiy. His business experience inr eludes that of police ortlcer, contracting and as an employee and manager of restauranto.
Wallace addressed a political
raly sponsored by the Progres- ll "' V i ll ' i
sive Citizens of America. Sharing the speakers’ stand with him were laul Robeson, an I Lena Horne, negro singers, and Dr. Frank Kingdom newspaper
columnist.
ESCAPE SENTENCED Loris Wilkinson, penal farm escape, was sentenced to the state reformatory at Pendleton for 1 to 5 years by Judge John H. Allee in circuit court.
16 HELD IN RAID
KOKOMO. Sept. 12 (UP) Sixteen men arrest, d in a gam
tc refrain from unnecessary buy-] ing. They said it was not a buyers’ strike. They said they’d
smaller quantities.
Meanwhile, the upward price spiral continued. At Detroit, the price of milk was slated to go up a cent u quart next Tuesday. Market aftei; market re-
ported all time highs.
The Chicago Board of Trade increased margin requirements on grain from five to 25 cents « bushel. Richard F. Uhymann first vice-president of the board
PEIPING, Sept. 12.—(INS)— I .oca I huc-c■esses by Chinese Uomniunist troops at widely scattered points in five provinces of north central China were reportcl today In Nationalist dis-
patches.
Hie Red forces appeared to have launched a determined bid j to recover some of the ground lost in a recent series of defeats at the hands of government
t roops.
Franklin Coed Has Disappeared
FRANKLIN, Ind.. Sept. 12.— (UP) A 21-year-old Midhigan girl, who worked summers as a
said the move was made for th‘ j telephone operator between sern- — , « < p esters as a coed at t* ranklin Col-
ing raid on a cigar store across "best interest and protection of, ^ ^ sought t()(iav aftpr she the Street from the Howard i a free, open and competitive ^ laapeare( j wi ^ h ji 25 savings.
The girl, Doris Louise Davis.
the street from the Howard county jail were scheduled to be ararigned in city court today. Five were charged with operating a gambling establi.Junent and th, others with visiting a
I gaming house.
Cal idoma m 1 ured foot rl( "' K ^ th< “ cement plant. It ^'Pm-ted that a jury fr ' ' Ll ' 1 car causing the
suffered Friday while t P door foil
M Years Agi ^ u keen castle
l| y wh
Cannon
was
AMEN DUROC8 AVERAGE ABOUT $100 THURSDAY The pure bred Duroc sale held by John Ames of Marion township on Thursday was well attended and the sixty head of Duroc gilts and boars which were offered for sale averaged
about $100 per head.
Mr. Ames is one of the purebred Duroc breeders of Putnam county and his herd Is rated j high among the breeders of red i hogs In Indiana. Many of the | animals sold went some distance to be added to herds throughout
FARMERS START LONG 8,000 MILE TREK T 0 THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST AND RETURN
t
open
market."
The board’s action followed a,
statement in Washington. D. C ..|LnvUon. Mich., who liked draby Sen. Ralph E. Flanders, R. , »' atics c °'' rspa an,, ° ten Vt. that many grain increase, P"’**d « to f °, Ho ' ,y -
| wood, last was seen Sept. 2 when
(Oontinisxl on I age -I ^ ber switchboard at the
I United Telephone Co. exchange
| for the noon lunch hour. Her landlady, Mrs. A D
Unversaw, said the girl appar-
ixmm ■’1
* T* :'
The object of the dry ice (carbon dioxide) bombardment is to cause a heavy rainfall of record | proportions and disperse the I swirling air mass before it reaches the mainland. Harding has arranged for the arrival of the specially equipped B-17 “seeder” plane and its crew of meteorologists commanded by navy Lt. Comdr. Dan
Rex.
Plans called for a navy PBtY or an army B-17 to lead the seeder plane high above the storm where it would sow the ice particles at freezing altitude. Pictures would then be taken of resulting changes in clouds and the ocean surface. Harding said the effects of the seeding bombardment to make the storm abort itselt would not be immediately evident, and the experiment would continue for at least two days. If it works, niMsture carried in the tropical maelstrom would be precipitated as rain or snow, thus shattering the force of the
blow,
A navy amphibian from Puerto Rico, spent three hours in the center of the disturbance yesterday locating the eye and recording date with cameras and aerological instruments. It was to be Joined in the storm area today by a B-17 from the army’s 53rd “Hurricane Hunters” Squadron. Both planes will alternate in scouting the storm.
&
en he fell through the
injured j ^ middle weat.
P^'h floor at hl 8 home
Anderson street.
on •
KILLED BY TRAIN
temperature ! BRAZIL, Sept. 12.—(UP) S ree » at 2 p. m . j John W. Gallion, 30,
ma ximum
98 de,
Burnett, 1
'nes'r E . G<V),>er transacted was killed yesterday when a^coalj
dntly left without taking any extra clothing except a pair of pajamas and a light coat. A''], overnight cosmetic box also was
missing from her room.
Maj. Robert O’Neal, executive i officer of the Indiana state police, said he would assign detectives to investigate Miss Davis’
disappearance.
Friends said the girl planned to return to college for her junior year this month. They aaid she had brooded recently but did not explain her worries. POIJCE MEETING
Crawfordsville.
h * u rt ' nt *’ n * was confined
by Ulneso,
The Fraternal Order Of Police
_ , and the associate members will twentv-five Putnam countv fnrm.rs left the for Four station Thivrsday noon for an 8,000 mile trip through the west , , ht t 8 oVU)cK at ^ty twenty '""y * “ . ... I hoif OnHni, th,. two weeks trio M IC '>• lonigm ai " «-•ij
Todays Weather and Local Temperature
Mostly cloudy with scattered showers or thundershowers today and tonight, gradually clearing tomorrow. Cooler north and west today. Considerably cooler
tonight and tomorrow.
truck was struck by a Big Four, w fhBn twpn tv-flve Putnam countv fnrm.rs left the fog Four station Thursday noon for an 8,000 mile trip uirougn me wt-.i tiuck was sirucK oy g , More than twenty n to thp paclfic coaJjt and twice across the western half of the nation during the two weeks trip railroad train at a crossing noar northwest. It wm , i.v$,* d..«•».«.» *$-.« in thi« /*rtv
Brazil.
which is sponsored by the
Indians Farm Bureau.’ Several Hendricks and Putnam county farmers joined the group in this city.
Hall
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