The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 15 October 1947 — Page 2

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THE. DAILY BANNER “IT WAVES FOR ALL”

PIFTY-FIVE

ROACHDALE LIONS HELD BIG MEETING

T WEIK

5ED AWAY . About eighty members of the cvPFrTFDLY R ° achd,,ie L ' ions ci,uh R n<i wiw LAILv I Llr L I ^ enjoyed an annual dinner meet-

jing Tuesday evening at Turkey

KNOWN man di "

DA y rOLLOWINO

okt illness

GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1947.

NO. 301

niEII' Rll n st* 1 ® park.

Entertainment for the event was furnished by Jimmy Trimble popular Terre Haute magician.

Lee VVeik. age 68 years, 0 f a family prominent (M tle for many years, way unexpectedly in his oor apartment on the . 0 f the square at 3:30 Tuesday afternoon. Mr. , (1 been feeling rather the past two weeks but out in the business see‘iy morning, the youngest son of the and Mrs. Louis Weik. He Oct. 4. 187!) and edutho city schools. H" -4 from PePauw UniR ith the Class of IftOO. , veteran of World War as a private in the

rtillery.

g his college days, he active part in sports. Be-

after World War 1, he

Iness interests in Chicago -onsin. He had resided In

jtle in M-cent years. a brother of Jesse W.

>rles Weik, Otto Weik,

crip Hays and Mrs

Hanna, all of whom had that. Lewis indicated today that

I he would make good his threat. It was Meany who in his attack on Lewis gave a preview of coming barrage against the riv-

John L Lewis Set Down At AFL Convention

SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 15.— (UP)- An angry AFL convention got set today to take the CIO and Communists to the woodshed for the same kind of shellacking It gave truculent John L. Lewis, miners’ president,

last night.

AFL Secretary - Treasurer Gfeorge Meany was the hero of the trouncing given Lewis in convention action on compliance with the Taft-Hartley law's nonCommunlst affidavit require-

ments.

Lewis threatened to wnlk out of the AFL executive council if the convention took the title of vic<3 president from him and 12 ( others. The convention did Just

him in death,

auivived by two nieces ?eik and Dorothy Weik, Iwphew, John Weik, all ol

orh. |ai CIO and the Communists. may rail at Rector*s | “The Communists found a na1 Home 'inti! noon Thurs- . tionai home in the CIO," Meany

is requested that there said. “The

owers. . UMW said recently

but 1

president of the

that Phil

will be no service but ' Mqrray (CIO president) is a jins will be taken to In- j prisoner of the Communists, jlis for cremation and in- | Who walked out and left him a I

t will then be Hill cemetery.

made in

prisoner?”

| Some delegates gasped at ; Meany's audacity as he charged the UMW president upheld the miners’ historic policy against Communism “with his rightj

7 FROM D.P.U.

ON PROGRAM AT r m SCIENCE MEET | INDIANA ACADEMY WILL / {hold annual session j )

IN MITNOE

-— , I Four members of the DePauw I f University faculty and three stu- i I! dents will be included on the pro-1 gram of the Indiana Academy of I Science when it holds its annual meeting in Mur.cie Oct. 16 and ,

17.

The academy, of which Dr. Winona Welch, professor of botany at DoPauw, is state secretary, will meet at Ball State Teachers College. On, Oct. 18 the j Junior Academy of Science jvill

meet there.

Dr. William Edington, head of the mathematics department at DePauw, will present the necrology report at the business meeting Friday morning. He Is a past-president of the academy. Dr. Albert Reynolds, professor of zoology at DdT auw and head ! of the academy's zoology section, will present a paper on sex hormone responses of Eumeces fasciatus during the divisional meetings Friday morning, and later will join three DePauw students in a demonstration of "A Speoific Gravity Method for Determining Hematocrit in Rabbits." The students include J. W. Bamberger, Greencastle: W. J. Lewis, Terre Haute and Thomas

Trayba, Hines, 111.

Also In the zoology division,

Mrs. Winona Vernborg, instructor of zoology, will discuss "Th Effect of Thlouracil on the Development of the Chick Embryo.'

In the chemistry division, Dr.

Howard Burkett of DcPauw's chemistry department will present a paper entitled "Basically substituted Iscalloxazines” in the morning session- In the botany

division, three DePauw

! ates will speak.

BRIDAL COUPLE OF THE YEAR

REPORT SHOWS COUNTY NURSE IS KEPT BUSY

MISS MARY LOU EVANS DOING GOOD WORK ON HER JOB Miss Mary Lou Evens, Putnam County Health Nurse, took the position as Putnam County Public Health nurse on July 1, 11*47 The office provided for the nurse on the third floor of the court house has been newly decorated and is conveniently equipped.

LATEST WIRE NEWS

State Dinners Cancelled At White House

W VHHINGTON, <>«'t. 15 — | (INS)—The White llou-e today | ean -eUed all of its state dinners : for th*- season "because of the urgent necessity for tin- censer

vati.m d* foci.”

GREENCASTLE CITY TAX LEVY FIXED AT $5.08

PROPONED KATE FOR Cl >T S8c BY STATE TAX BOARD

tuns

The announce.ix-iil uas nmdc

The nurse has kept the hours of|

the other county employees, that L . ,, , . | !*v Mrs. .lames M. Helm, White

is. 8 a. in. to 4 p. m. Mom,ay ' through Friday, and 8 a. m. till noon on Saturday. The hour be-

lloiise social serretary.

SI'm- re I used to < oiiinwnt <vn whether this mass cancellation of slat*- dinners meant that the W Idle House disapproved of such

event*. Mjrs. Helm said—

“There is no end to the implications tliul can lie attached to any statement, but I am merely autlinri/ed to announce the 4-an-J nursing service has recently been appointed by the County'

tween 8 a. m. and i* a. m. has been spent in the office and the hours between 9 a. m. and 4 p. m. have been reserved for home visiting and otiiei work in the

field.

An advisory committee for the

Greencastle city taxpayers have a tax levy of $5.08 for next year as result of action by the Indiana State Tax Board. Tiltboard reduced the special school fund. 4 cents; the tuition fund, 14 cents; the vocational fund, 2 cents; the poor fund, 5 cents; the corporation tax, 12 cents, and the park tax, 1 cent. Broken down, the 1948 levy is as follows:

Medical

by

Society.

the

Mem be rs

The six state dinners viliich l ave been eanet-Med Include tw*i dinners for ntt mbers of the il'iplo mativ corps, one for the cablnc-t one for the chief justice of tlw cupreine c< urt, one for the I'TesI

amt

the speaker's dinner.

IN THE WHITE DRAWING ROOM “f Buckingham Palare at London, Princess Elizabeth, heiress-apparent to the British throne, poses

this group are Dr. G. D. Rhea, chairman: Dr. James H. Johnson. i*r. George F. Parker and Dr. F.

| It Dettloff •

I A total of 116 home visits havej ,

I dent pro tenl of t he senate, | been made for the following reasons: Maternity, 13; Infants and young children, 27; Tuberculosis, 22; Venereal disease, 8; Communicable Disease, 6; Morbidity, 29; Crippled children, II, Some of these visits werei made because they were cases | carried by the former nurse who; loft records in the nurse's office. Others were referred by various I hysicians in the county or by families or neighbors of families needing nurs ng care. The Dept

Plane Crashes On Pike’s Peak

with her consort-to-be, Lt. Philip Mountbatten. The couple's wedding jof Public Welfare, Red Cross, will be solemnized Nov. 20 in Westminster Abbey. (International) (and Tuberculosis Association - - ■ - - — -=~ i have also referred eases to ttie

gradu-

400 Will

-a I ■ V^uiiuuujiisni "witii him rigmj ■ --- Board Special Church To Be

Dedicated Sun.

.MARRIAGE LICENSE

nur hundred persons will w International Harvesti) when it leaves Green7i Wednesday, October «t 7:20 a. m. for Chicago, of thin number are farm4 some business men are

haters

who

4

the

stinking American

love Moscow.”

“He was a comrade comrades,’ 1 Meany said.

Lewis, who was president of the CIO from 1935 thruogh 1940,

rose in his seat to reply.

Meany objected but was overjfuled by AFL President William

. VWr of Wcesner wh() tol(| Lowia tf) proCPe ,,

Lewis snarled that there are

Wayne L. Ajrmes, salesman, and Phoebe Hayes, both of

Washington, Ind.

Arthur L. Elmore, farmer, Cioverdale R.aite 2, and Exie V;. Buchanan, Fillmore Route 1.

t

t Co., and Charles Hess of I

The Greencastle Bible Center church dedication program for, Sunday afternodh, October 19, j I has been completed by the pas-l tor, the Rev. Paul Robinson,) who will be in charge and will]

Roachdale Host To Club Women

Tropical Storm Hits Savannah

SAVANNAH, till., 4»e»

(INN)—An Atlantir-bnrne hurricane slashed through the const nl city of Savannah today with

nurse.

Each of the fourteen county schools have been Visited twice [since the opening of school. In these visits the public health I nurse acts as a consultant to the teaijicrs in all matters of health The school is served by the nurse according to its individual hi-nlth wants and needs this may in-

had the congregational singing

lightning suddenness and D ,Pn |elude classroom talks, vision blew Itself out across southeast j testing, supervision of the first

Georgia. a j ( | room, etc.

The hurricane winds, hitting j Meetings attended during the the city at an estimated velocity,P ast months include lw '* 100 miles an hour, caught Na-!'" 0 ^ hl -V County Tuberculosis

Cl i LiOWis snarled mHt mere me. r,^crr a m ’ Thirty (ireonfasuo wom^n.oi nm iihipn hh nour, ™-| i !"'i'l Communists in the CIO. but!^ three t,me ^ er , among the 125 women who'vannah unprepared for the j ..'.T

no!,? Tnd'evening'worSp af re r r-!ei. l b meeting which was held at'

ives International Har-I rthple8S Mpflnv voted to ad in this community, have^^ these unionSt their officers <1 an invitation to the' an(| mpmherH to the AFL as part « of the 4-H Club and. of thp May lf)47 Ap-^ciO merg-

ture Farmers of Americ;i IK the Greencastle high to take the one day trip icafto. Messrs. Weesner T are paying all expenstbe seventy high school *lio have accepted their

4s invitations.

year marks the 100th of International Harvester oako. The centennial of

vice amUhe dedication will take ^ Christian church in Roach*

Koaring xviills were

a*t’<uii

er talks.

“Who now is willing to become a comrade of the comrades?" he

rasped.

"That was a decision AFL majority,” Meany si

back. "This delegate will go along with such decisions any time and he won’t pick up his

hall and bat and go home.”

This crack at Lewis' threat to

wpany has been arranged AFL executive council

min nth n/.ol« 1.XW1A- 't

was drowned in shouts for a vote on the question. Only the delegates from the UMW and sever-

, '' a " Thi'"special mes'sagel Z'.) Mrs. Ford Lucas, president, as-

sisted by Mrs. Omer Beck, vice

After a

]lth |panted by a torrential downpour

vice.

I hr force of the wind diminished.

be brought by the Rev. F. 8 Wirth, evangelist, and the dedl-

musical program

Service Committee meet

jing, two meetings of the County Nutrition Council, County Council of the Congress of Parent Teachers, County Teachers Institute, and a conference on “Tu-

f (»',<>KADO .SPRINGS, Colo. Oct. 15—(INS)— A missing Imva national guard trans|M>rl plane, overdue since yesterday, was found today on the north

i slopt-s of Pike's Peak.

Two of the five pcrsniifiicl weir*' kii-iwu to In- df-Ad a ml three were injured. Nanu-s of tlw- dead were

not IninM-dLalely availahle, Turkey Warns Soviet Union

LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y.. Oct. 15.— (INN)—Turkey bluntly rejected So\let bloc charges In the Cnited Nations today that American aid under th*- Truman program constitutes "Interfer-

ence” on the Bosphorus.

The Turkish spoki-situtn at the same time accompanied his declaration on American aid with

an implied warning to the Novlet ... . . . , ## 1 caused a trHin wreck that dorail-

I ntoii to keep handM off Turkey

State Fund

$0 15

County Gen. Fund

. .46

Welfare Fund

. .27

Hospital Maintenance

. .05

Twp. Fund

. 3.00.

Spec. School Fund

.93

Tuition Fund

.64

Vocational Fund

. .10

Library Fund

. .10

Poor Fund

. .15

Corporation Tax

. 1.59 Vj

Park Tax

. .08

Corporation Bonds

.. .02j

Accumulative Scho

Building Fund

. .50

Total

$5.08

The levies for ,e next year

for all the taxing units

in Put-

r.am county are:

Cloverdale Twp.

2.96

Clinton

. $2.91

Floyd

2.58

Fianklin

... 2.38

Greencastle Twp.

... 3.18

Jackson

... 1.98

Jefferson

3.44

Madison

2.82

Marion

2.00

Monroe

2.70

Russell

2.76

Warren

. . 2.78

Washington

2.62

Bainbridge Town

2.70

Cloverdale Town

4.00

Y'.reencnstle City

5.08

Roachdale Town

3.40

Train Wrecked By Two Boys

Kokomo, ind. o<t. is - tuni Police, said two eight-year old boys today admitted they drove a spike between rails at a Pennsylvania railroad switch and

furnished hyi

Girls' Glee Club,

I dogged with flood water and d<-

mmoth scale and exhibits w the progress of farmtr the years. Considerable inmi-nt is on the agenda

‘ attending.

-AKFAST 14e STY I AC X -orter who is spending

al scattered federal local unions voted with Lewis in the shown*

down.

The convention ordered its]

. ... u , • ■ constitution amended to make h r V , f !* ptHn ' WriteS ! Green and Meany the only “offi weakfast menu in a — - r

3 acroSR the street from ^vfbwer Hotel, in the heart

(cation prayer will be by the Rev..

' V , in , | Barney Antrobus of the First' thp Herts Vi He ] |, r i K . No casimllics were re|M»rt

Calvary Baptist church of Craw- j ( , d imniedintoly.

fordsville. | flaK snlllte ' A 6 A. M. weather bulletin The public is cordially invited.; W( .| ron) e address was giv- sa.id the storm that piled up The church edifice has Just j,,, (,y jvj ra p:. Duckworth with a disastrous floods in Florida, Sunbeen completed, but more work | r( , s|MinS( , | )V Mrs. Ralph Saunders day was "a short distance offis being done on the basement „f Greencastle, after whieh the shore from Savannah moving aurl the outside grounds which I president called for reports on westward" and would pass over will add to the building consider- p| a , )ff f„r the year from county the city “within two to three

jably. This work is expected to 1 dj8trict chairmen and club presi-, hours. " ;hr completed within the next 7 e ' ,v . dents. Mrs. Walter Jones, dis-

Windows were Hhattered, trees bcrculosls Control” hH'l at Rock were felled and streets were ville Sanatorium. Perrons who

are hospitalized at Rockville Sanatorium have been visted on

two occasions.

TEACHERS TO HEAR FORMER DIPLOMAT

The bulletin sail reports of

weeks.

menu in a cprg „ rpqu i r p d to sign affidavits

wimble Washington.

■ '• hig menu:

if rambled eggs, two bak,v 'l"r biscuite, butter suf1 '°r two biscuits, one little , ' I1 P of jelly, one rice krispy, h of prunes, glass of ^ V ° CU P S of cot fee "Arith

A " f°r 44 cents.

Porter says: Either these j i,r! ’ nu 7a (they have been ""'as for at least 20 years) ' grants are getting Un

1 hl 8h prices.

69 Are Saved In Sea Rescue

! an i that the strongest

luncheon j would prevail between On., and Parris Island, N. C.

winds

Darien,

Wears Ago!

lN «R*®V0A8TIJC

Prr„ u"' ea P ' Hughes was rroli H w Ut * ° n hU8lne8 81 Moore was t n Brazil * ^ lay cou nty fair,

as vandevier W a« Clinton. 8

home

: Ub8 defeated the leld high school

■ 12 to 0.

^ lesson McMillan hom Indianapolis.

in order that federal local unionmay obtain National Labor R* latinos Bbard services under the

Taft-Hartley Act.

The titles of the 13 vice-presi-

dents would be changed to "ex-

ecutive board members.” “If you take this astounding

action, you will be voting this speaker off the council of th-

AEL," Lewis had told the con-

vention in an

“I will not be a candidate for re election to this debased board ’’ He said the' AFL leaders were “intellectually fat and stately

asses."

iA 11 After his defeat, Lewis stuck V 11 by his statement not to run for

re-election to the council. Behind the scenes, AFL leaders picked Daniel W. Tracy, president of the Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and former assistant secretary of labor, for the vacancy. „ The convention adopted policy statements yesterday asserting that it would never cooperate with the CIO in foreign policy so [ tong as the CIO belonged to the was World Federation of

Unions !

NEW YORK, Oct. 15—(UP)

The last of the 69 persons aboard the old flying boat Bermuda Sk”

when it made a forced

^ trict president of Clinton, outlin- highest wind velocity varied heed the club projects for their tween 80 and 100 miles per hour

yiar.

Following the noon

Patricia Honthorn, a sixth grade pupil of Roachdale, furnished

i accordion music.

At the afternoon session Dr. Harry Voltmer, of DePauw Uni-

Queen

versity, gave an address with "Local Government” as hi* sub-

landing In mid-Atlantic yester- j Pct . He outlined the developday were rescued early today bvl n ient o fthe township and county, the Coast Guard. |government from its origin in'

- * Dr.l m,lc8

"Very high tides will covet most of the Georgia and South Carolina, Coast,” the bulletin said, "and dargerous gales will extend inland for 100 miles.” Hurricane warnings were ' 'hoisted from Biur.-wick, Ga. to i

Wilmington.

Hurricane winds spread out 75 i

from the cer ter

A brief message from the Englad to th.- present time , p wjnda

Coast cutter Bih*> at 5.45 A. M. Voltmer stressed the fact that h reported that all were safe and too few of us spend time in

z™,* r zrz

community life. Most of us, he pointed out lack information and are indifferent about local

he said, it

and

INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 15. (INS) The Indiana State Teachers Association announced today that Arthur Bliss Lane, former United States ambassador to Poland, is to speak at th*- closing general session of the organization’s 94th annual convention in

Indianapolis Oct. 24.

Lane resigned last March as the Polish ambassador, with tinexplanation that he wished to inform American citizens about the “real facts” concerning the present government in Poland, which the former diplomat asserts is “merely a puppet." His Indianapolis talk will be

Selim Sar|NT, the Turkish dclegute, delivered his statement to the Political and Security Committee in answer to charges of I!. S. interference abroad ■nude by Yugoslavia during debate on the Greek question. WASHINGTON. Oct- 15 — (INS)—President Truman an- | in meed today the resignation ol ( W. L. (layton, of Texas, as Un j dersecrclary of state for eeo

mimic affairs.

C’aytos resigned hccaiftw- of tile illness of bis wife. >lr. Truman announced that the Texan would <-*Hitimie to act as a • [N-cial adviser •<> the State Department on economic affairs DETROIT, Oct. 15.— (UP) — General Motors Corporation today announred a five-rent hourly wage Inerease for 15.900 members of the CIO United Auto Workers and the CIO United Electrical Workers, covering certain elassif lent Ions of skilled maintenance men.

ed five cars and injured five per-

sons.

The streamline passenger train was wrecked late yesterday, soon after It pulled out of the Kokomo station. Railroad officals blamed an open switch. City police said they learned, bciirs after the accident, that 2 young boys were playing near a switch. They said they went to the boys' home, found them asleep and postponed questioning until later today. The accident occurred on the same line and little more than 10 miles from the spot where 3 persons were killed in a passenger train derailment last January, for whieh two teen-age Walton, Ind., boys were held after admitting they put a bale of fence wire on the tracks “to see what would happen.”

reach*- I •

will

• on "Our Foreign Policy Right

or Wrong?”

150 miles out. They will con- | ,^, p lrmf; diplomagc tl ue to increase along the p, g an m jqig when he was namGeorgia and South Carolina | rd ^ tpap American Embassy — coast until the storm passes in- j lH |y gi n c,. then h*- has been ' arid - * I assigned to embassies In War-

T>lta ' ‘ 1 ''' ’ ‘

football

would be destroyed.

ing badly.

Those rescued today Included 17 men and one woman who ha" 1 ,

*•*■*• rf” " IBhl “Izrrojr;. .r„«*» ^ - ^ »«*-*... gky Queen. |shoul J proach after midnight Cruise! **„,,*= Rira and Colombia .•All passenger and crew mem-, inform ourselves, thus making ( ^ ( ^ onto b „ arhP , *'«. Cost,. Rica an

rs shoard,” said the terse mes-[ourselves better citizens of the, a

8T lines notified -S*. ) Baw London, Paris, Switzerland. Simons officials and Glynn eoun- |M ^ xjco city, Nicaragua, Estonia.

BOSTON, Oct. 15.—(UP)— The CIO demanded today that (irice control and rationing Im- revived as one step toward main talning full employment.

SUES FOR DIVORCE Mrs. Wilma Jean Elrod has filed suit for divorce in circuit court from Kenneth H. Elrod She sets out they were married Sept. 22. 1945 and separated Aug. 1, 1947. She asks custody of a minor child and all proper relief. Frank Stoessel is her ittorncy.

hers aboard,” saia me «r»e 0 ur.sev™ — ■ < nf 3t Sinlons a d exclusive sea sage from Ctpt. Paul Cronk. Wa* world. island to awaken residents and

warn them to leave low beach

areas.

AFFIDAVIT FILED

ban. Mass., skipper of the Bibb. -Will advise further to passenger and crews details after care-

Following the address resolutions were adopted pledging the

federation to follow the plan of

Each

I^-Ster Crow is Charged in an .affidavit with driving a motor

Beach dwellers were warned to i ^ whjl( , undpr thn influPnCP

lul check. Will recommend plane the national federation. swltch on , and k „ pp on their! net n The destroyed. Pilot (Charles). member was asked Yo donate to bntten down their \ f T , ie l l hv state no 1, a/rees.” the “Save the Shades” move- | affidavit is signed by state po-

bt*

Martin agrees

MASONIC NOTICE

Called meeting of Applegate

__ I/jdge No. 155 Trade (day, Oct. 17th, at

M. Degree.

F. & A. M., Frl7:30 p. m. M.

’houses. Usual high, tides at St.

ment. Following an anu-ndment e , mmon3 and Sea i H | a r J. already to the by-laws Mis. R. E St 8- two feet above normal the past Bainbridge was elect''1 ■ s ' l °n | t Wo ,j a y gi will reach a peak just vice-president and Mis. Gallon time the storm Is to pass Harbison was named third vice lnlarKl Thp added force of thp president. * i ttontiaucil on Pay* Tlirec)

FIREMEN CALLED Burning trash under a tree In the 600 block on Anderson street resulted in a run by the city i firemen at 12:40 o'clock this afternoon. No damage was report-

ed.

BKA/JL CHIEF QUITS BRAZIL, Ind., Oct. 15 (UP) ( Chief of Police Roy Currie re- i

8

Todays Wsathar • • and • • Local Tomporatrjrs W Fair and unseasonably mild

liccmau George Hecko and filed

in the Putnam circuit court. aigqed today and William Harb-y Crow is alleged to have been I was advanced from the rank of driving a truck on u state high-1 patrolman to serve until a new way in Warren township while mayoralty term begins next Jan.

intoxicated. 1st.

today amt tonight.

Thursday

partly cloudy and

mild.

continued

Minimum

50'’

6 a. m.

5ft’

7 a. m

60’

8 a. m.

es-

9 a. m

71*

10 a. m

76’

11 a. m

78*

12 noon

79*

1 p. m

79*