The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 24 October 1947 — Page 1
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THE DAILY BANNER “IT WAVES FOR ALL”
lUME
FIFTY-FIVE
GREENCASTIE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1947.
NO. 309
rvRMERS OBTAIN ksT HAND DATA ON
CONSERVATION
SHVIU^' Tenn - 24 'tnam county farmers will |( , r o,cir obligation to conand protect thetr soils a . as the demonstration „ i n the TV A we will
INDIAN A POMS MARKET Hogs 5,000; barrows and gilts active, steady to strong; good and choice 225-275 lbs $27.50, lop $27.75; 170-225 lbs and 275-100 lbs $26.75-$27.25; 160-170 lbs $26.50; 100-160 lbs $2:{.75-$25 00; sows strong to 50 higher; talk $25.25 - $26.00; choice light
weghts $26.25-$20.50.
Cattle 300, calves 300; not enough steers or heifers here to test values; nomiivilly steady; bulk good beef cows $15.75-$17-(XO; odd hea 1 to $17.50; common
JURY FAVORS DEFENDANT IN DAMAGE SUIT
VERDICT RETIT NED FOR WILLIAM A. AIONNETT OF GREENCASTLE
AFTERMATH OF HEAD-ON COLLSSIGN
A verdict in favor of the defendant William A. Monnett of Clieencastlo—was returned late Thursday afternoon by the
■ind medium $12.75-$15.50; vi-nl- Montgomery circuit court jury
ora moderately active, steady;
becone Indiana's leading i good and choice $26.30-$29.00; iltural county, This is a I common and medium $10.00-$26-
I opinion among the locaj a n | farm leaders tour^TVA this week. Wseo valley officials have id the Futnam County Yantfith typical smJtt.crn hosh and have not left a stone Ui to make them com',1,, a nd show them the they wished to see on educational tour. Steve jl a very likabel and captmployce of TV A has been nd director for the group in the valley. night W. M. Landess, o( the program exposition [ TVA discussed man and .sources before the 32 Uutrunty touring farmers and them spellbound with an -fed lecture that will noe
Wotten.
empts are bein.r made by | upervisors of the soil con- j ! tiun district to engage
.00.
Sheep 2 500; active, fat la,mbs strong to spots 50 higher; bulk good arl choice $23.00-$24.50, top $25.00; medium and good $21.00- $23.00; common ard medium $16.50-$29.50; good and choice 91 lb fed Texas yearlings $19.00; load mostly choice 100 lbs $20.00; slaughter ewes mostly strong, top 50 higher; good and choice $6.50-$9.00.
Taft Announces His Candidacy For President
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 — (UP) -Sen. Robert A. Taft, of Ohio, today announced his | candidacy for next year's Rc-
m tor the annual meeting j Pelican presidential nomination. district this winter. 1 Hc ‘ ** 58 y ears old a: ’ d the son 0 ‘ touring co servatlonlat a formcr P^^nt, William •uhvillc early this morning I HoW2rd Taft ’ 190 °- 1:5 - #pped in Evansville at noon j Taft keyed his announcement they were joined by Bill l a cauti(yu8 campaign of avoid»w Indiana editor of the 1 in « Preconvention, primary con-
which heard the $25,000 damage suit brought by Jo Joyce Urseliei of North Manchester, a minor, through her father, Joseph M Urschel, as her next friend. The case, which was venued to Crawfordsville from Putnam county, resulted from an automobile accident which accurred near Grecncastle Nov. 11, 1945, Miss Urschel, at the time of the accident, was a student at DePauw university, and Monnett was a serviceman home on furlough. With the completion of evidence Wednesday noon, the Jurors were ordered to visit the scene of the accident by Judge Howard A. Sommer, who presided during the trial. Immediately after the noon lunch Wednesday, the jurors were conveyed to Grecncastle in charge of Bailiff W. F. Hitch, to view the place, three miles east of Grecncastle, where the accident happened.
Farmer r.i a continue on
tests with other Republican as-
fwicastle. /clock.
..rriving
verdale Lions Meet Monday
idavjfchJ. October 27 a,t
the Cloverdalo Lions will hip at the school building double feast. First thorp a Wmpti'ious dinner real•k"d with good things to
h;a will comprise the physi- j list Then the feast for the
will be provided through efficient efforts of Ralph b bringing Russell Clapp, of Police, of Greeneastle,
1 speaker. Chief Clo.pp will i some excellent pictures of I Jung very worthwhile.!
it is you will have to come out. Lions, make our at'ce for this meeting 100'/,, Escape Held
10hio Officers
state police post at Put-
'Uf has received word from
about P ira, ‘ ts '
His announcement came In the face of detcrmlred insistence by many influential Republicans that Taft would be a weak candidate. His supporters respond sharply that Taft already is the most influential man in his party. They insist that the 1948 G.O.P. pjatfor.n must be largely a 1’aft platform because he was so effective in shaping the party’s legislation during the past ses-
sion of congress.
Coed Located In New Mexico
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HIGH PRICES ONE PROBLEM FOR CONGRESS HOPE TO PREVENT REVIVAL OF CONTROLS AND RATIONING
WASHINGTON, Oct 24. (UP) Congress greeted President Truman’s call for a special session today with signs of willingness to tackle the problem of *'high prices but without reviving /Jfj price centrals and rationing.
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From both the White House and Congress came indications that serious consideration would be given to attacking the price problem through an allocation program a quota system for
Red Hot! OUCAN, N. Y„ Oct 24 — (UP) When the motion picture "Forever Amber” opened yesterday at the local theater, the transformer in the projection room burned out.
Military Training Necessary-Truman
MAINE FOREST FIRE DAMAGE IN MILLIONS RESORT TOWN OF BAR HARBOR IS RAZED BY FLAMES
WASHINGTON, Oet. 24 — (INS)—President Triimtui de-
j buyers of steel, grain and other i clued today that universal millscarce goods. The aim would be' tary I raining “Is tan effqrt to ini tc prevent big buyers from hbl-j plrinriit the peace soil will eonding freely against each other timte t,n In- the peace.”
ELLSWORTH, Me. Oct. 24 — (INS)—The death toll in the New England states rime to 13 today as raging forest fires destroyed at least 7.000 homes and ra/.ed two-thirds of swanky Bar Harbor, Me. Eight, small Maine towns have been wiped out so far, and property damage Is expected to exceed 50 million dollars.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24. (UP) Facts about President Tru1 man’s radio address to the na-
WRECKAGE of a SOO line passenger train and Northern Pacific freight train is strewn along the (rack east of St. Paul after head-on | collision In which 21 persons were in)uted. (International) j
lion giving reasons for the Nov ! 17 special session of Congress: Time: 10 p. m., EST.
Networks; All.
Subject; The ‘‘alarming and Vontinuing” price increases in this country and the need for emergency foreign aid.
GRANTED DIVOIUE Madeline Campbell has been granted a divorce frorfl Olyu Campbell in the Putnam circuit court. She was represented by Gillen & Lyon. The parties involved were married Aug. 18, 1935 and separated Aug. 10, 1947.
British Train Crash Kills 31
and thereby forcing prices up. Despite the. great interest in prices, there was no evidence that Congress would shy away
3 Cars Damaged On E. Washington
FRANKLIN, Ind., Oct. 24.— (UP)—A two-month search for a missing 20-year-old telephone operator was ended by police tc*day after she turned up safe and sound in Santa Fe. N. M., with apologies for not advising her family where she was. ,
Miss Doris Louise Davis, for-’ vestigate a three-car accident on mer Franklin College student,' cast Washington street Thu^.sclisappeared from ft rooming d «y ni K ht - No one was injured house here Sept. 2 under mys-! and tu J‘ al damage to tcrious circumstances. She was ““tos was estimated at $100 not heard from until yesterday. I According to the police, a 1935
! from the accompanying foreign CROYDON, Eng. Oct. 24 -1 P robUm ‘ althou « h tlle Ha - (IN8)—-Thirty-one persons were 1 P llblican "’ a j«>nty w "> demand a I and 120 injured in a ! ,let!,ilcd ‘• as '’ to su PP° rt requests ion between two crowded lamilon j^ 01 emergency^ aid. It was un-
siilmrtmn trains at the height oi
I ho rush hour today.
City police were called to ki-
derstood that the administration may ask for about $1,000,000,000,
including $642,000,000 to
BAR HAFtBOR, ME , Oct. 24 —(UP)—A 10-milc wall of fire with flames 200 feet high swept in a giant pincher across Mmun* Desert Island today leaving in its $10,000,000 wake this smoldering ghost town from which
3,500 residents had fled.
Ahead lay the villages of Seal Harbor, Somesville, Northeast a/H Southwest Harbors their townfolk already in full flight. Behind where the ruins of homes, stores, hotels and palatial estates which made this picturesque coastal village a vacation
land for people of wealth.
Driven to the rock-bound waterfront when this town was ringed by a curtain of flames, the villagers spent five terrorfilled hours before they escaped by sea or overland on a route hacked thnrigh the fP-ry trap.
( With half their town demol’shLAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., Oet. j f (j i m0 8t of '.he fr.ghtoned refu24.—(INS)—Dimitri Manuilsky,! gees were leg • > safety by a
Mr. Truman reileratod his stand in favor of universal training in s|M-aking to members of the civllan committee on National Security at the White
HollUei
LONDON, Oct. 24.—(INS)— The Moscow radio announced today that IMnientel Rrandao, re-cently-recalled Brazilian ambassador to Russia, is in custody
with his staff.
The hrodaeast said that all will In- held until safe conduct of Soviet diplomatic officials now in Klo He Janeiro Is assured.
Several of the victims are lie- rarry.France and Italy through
lieved to have lost their lives winter.
through electrocution. i M r Truman's proclamation All of the suburban trains op- ^f or tp e legislators to con-
spokesman for the Soviet Union and former chairman of the help f'nmintem, today as»ailod (the current anti-Communist drive iiiiiliiding investigations of the House “Un-American" Activities
Committee.
crating between Croydon, site of largest pre-war
electrified.
N ine
all thee a,n ""K th ‘- d ‘‘ ad
London
the
airport,
and
vene at noon, Nov. 17, in the
The white-maned Ukrainian
w nmen w ere
Faces 3rd Trial In Rape Slaying
ATLANTA. Ga., Oct. 24.— CUF ) Taxi-driver Glenn Robinson today faced the possibility of being tried a third time for the rape-slaying of pretty Mrs. Jeanette Reyman after court action in the case ended in a mistrial for the second time in a month.
Rev. Fred Baldus, pastor of the First Baptist church here, said he received a letter from a Santa Fe church requesting a “change in membership" for Miss Davis. Rev. Clint Irwin of the Santa Fe Baptist church later told a Franklin Evening Star reporter by telephone that Miss Davis was employed in a department store in Santa Fe and had been attending his church for several weeks. He quoted the girl as saying that she was "sorry” she had not notified her family In Davison,
Mich.
"I intended to let them know,"
Judge Frank Hooper ruled a
mistrial late last night when the! she said, "but I kept delaying it, jury reported a 7-5 deadlock then intbrming them seemed so
after nearly seven hours of de-
liberation.
Robinson’s first trial hud a
difficult.
She said she went directly to Denver and on Sept. 8 arrived in
Portsmouth Ohio police ■ lmllar ‘’ ndin g in mid-September,Santa Fe.
fflieni that an escaped in-| v ' hen the first * ury faccd Bn 8 ' 4 MiSS DHViS t0ld IrWin Sh0 ^
Indiana penal farm stymie.
."g held there.
wr»pe is John Shortridge, brutal murder of Mrs. Reyman.
wife of a Bogart, Ga., tourist camp operator, whose beaten and ravshed body was found stuffed into the rear of her pickup truck here last June 26.
Jr took off from the farm ^gnst 4th He was sent to t" penal institution from
Albany.
[trials from the farm will the young map to this city h" will face court ar-
lent.
Franklin because of "personal”
Robinson is charged with thej reasons and did not explain fur-
ther. She disappeared a few days after talking with her step-
Dodge coach, owned and driven by Robert Larimore, of Danville, was going west on Washington when a break occurred in the steering mechanism and the machine went out of control. The car struck the 1947 Pontiac coach belonging to Dr. J. F. Conrad, which was parked on the| north side of the street In front; of the Conrad home. It also hit a 1937 Pontiac sedan belonging to Elmer Spencer, parked just
ahead of the Conrad car. Kiwanians Hear Talk On Bowery Prof. Raymond Mulligan of
the DePauw Sociology Department staff related some of his experiences in the Bowery to the Kiwanis Club at its luncheon
Thursday.
first -special session since 1939. droppnd restralnt , , n thl , „ N Speaking over all major radio, and Commit U>e .networks at 10 p m. (EST) to-^ ,,, 1|n|erac| the onsIa , IKht „f »•' 'night, the President will explain,^. we(|t , rn liKlUns , RlIs . his decision U, recall Gongres. ))f „ war monger .
conshlcr “the alarming and con- 1 „
A railroad official said •■arlier Unullfe increase in praces” andl'" 8-
that 150 were hurt, some per-| iliB nnlin „ mi „ ( . riaia in weatern j He flayed the United States
j with unlimited bitterness.
the economic crisis
haps fatally, and it was not de-' Euro{)r
Perhaps reflecting recess talks their constituents, con-
termined at once whether any of the dead were included in the of- I
fieial’s figure. The wreck occur- apppared particularly red between Croydon, on Lo"* j interc3te( j in Ml . Truman’s move don’s southern outskirts, and |ink tho dom „ stlc price a)tua .
Purlcy Oaks two miles to tie
southeast.
AltRIAtiE I.ICENSE J, Cox, electrical con* r “nd Ruth Butland, both ■be Haute. Archer, carpenter, and Cral *. both of Brazil. ' '••’HOW CONCERT h' Pauw Symphony directH rman Berg will present rst concert of the year in Hall o n Tuesday, Oct- “ th ' at 8:15 p. m. < ‘ st Eductors will be Gene " IKton and Paul Whear. Acll' on fr ce. Public invited.
tion with foreign aid.
NAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 24.-(INS)—Thirty-five officers and crewmen of the tanker Sparrows Point were rescued and three other men were listed as missing
A passenger said a number o* tlenMed the President’s pre-an-persons we.rc trapped in the : r.ouncement conference at the wreckage. The wreck occurred j White House yesterday cam» on, a main line just before the 9 [ away with the impression that A. M. rush hour and blocked all he had no intention of asking for other traffic. j rationing and price controls but A request was flashe 1 to all i proposed to recommend an allonearby districts for ambulances. | cation program to deal with
Croydon police received a radio prices message from tne scene to .rush every blanket available and sent
up police reinforcements. Some coaches were crushed,
others turned over. Croydon is on the southern edge of London; purley Oaks two miles to the
southwest.
Congressional leaders who at-' f,,llow,n K * , '" l “ sion Parly ‘ od “’ V
(With the Canadian motomhlp
Manx Usher off the central Ual-
Itornia coast.
Earlier, a n-|Nirt to Coast Guard headquarters In San Fran cisco had listed two dead and
two missing.
Gangster Killed; Gang War Looms
GUAM, Oct. *4—(INS)—• A Japanese admiral ami three kuhonRnates convicted of murderlns two American flyers on Tnig In Jmw> 1044, were sentenced ton Ini hanged totflay by a I lilted States
military eunitiiission.
liter sidNinlinates ftf ths admiral were given sentences ot
mothor, Mrs.
Davison.
Floy Crago of
Duck Season Opens Nov. 18 'Futnam county hunters were reminded today that the duck season will open, N.ov. 18 and close Dec. 17. The quota is four and only one wood duck may be
inouded.
Vhe bag imit on rabbits ha* been cut from 10 to five as result of a new law. Hunters are requested by the state corserva-
While taking advanced work;
in sociology. Prof. Mulligan j made a study of some of the men | who were being cared for by the I Bowery Mission, perhaps thej best known agency in operation i
there.
The Farm Bureau of Clover-* He found that the inhabitants dale township will meet Tuesday, of that area fall Into three gen-
farm bureau meet
Actress’ Mother Raps Communists
Oct. 28, at 7:30 at the school building. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Coffman will tell about their trip with the Farm Bureau tour.
rockhill estate left to THE WIDOW
Hears Ago ^ GREENCASTLE
Charles Moore was here
8t kouis, Mo.
^ D Snider and Mrs. CmT' "’' nl ““
D - Lovett was
The will of the late Frampton
Rockville has been probated in the Clay Circuit Court. By Its provisions all the property of the estate, real and personal is left
ton department to remember this j to the widow.
lower limit. On the 1947 hunting) , licenses, issued before the law SUIT FOR DI\ O became efective. the rabbit limR Mrs. Helen Stringer has f e<
the legal suit for divorce from Lloyd
Strlzifcr. She states they were married Oct. IS. 1941 and separatee: Oct. 21, 1947. She asks custody of a, minor child. F. N.
Harftllton is her attorney.
tr'ial clnaalfixations. First are the derelicts who have lost all ambition, who are usually drunkards and who are past rehahilitaUion. Second are the unemployed. Third arc the “poor judgment” cases who blame all their misfortunes on a poor decision they made sometime in the past. Fourth are the young transients
FAIRFIELD, III.. Oct. 24
(UP)- A new gang war threat-1 life hnprmmment. ened to break the peace of south-1 Deatih by hanging was ordereid ern Illinois today as result of thei for Rear Admiral SliiinG'd Aaano, assassination of Carl Shelton, | Surgeon Comdr. UhiKato Uann. T. 59-year-old farmer, gunman and| Takeshi Krigtiohi and Petty Ofbootloggcr who battled his rivals) fleer Sueta Tanaka,
with tanks, armored cars and an
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24. (UP)'airplane.
Film star Ginger Rogers’i Southern counties of the state niojher today asked Congress to have a long tradition of violence outlaw the Communist party and born in crime fights, mine wars "preserve the Bill of Rights for and personal feuds, those for whom it was designed."j Authorities feared today that Mrs. Lela Rogers, a trim, blue- the tradition would be continued suited figure with a swept back by cohorts of the slain gangsters blond coiffure, told the House who might seek their own ven-Un-Amoricsn Activities Commit- geance on the men who riddled tee that Communists in Holly- him with 15 or 20 slugs as he wood she named playwright drove his jeep along a dusty Clifford Odets among them country road yesterday, tried to infiltrate ‘‘our unions, 1 Police thought he may have
CHICAGO, Oet, 24—(INS) —
Grain prei-s declined In spectacular fashion on the lentrl nf trade an the aftermath of President
fCoHtlnni-fl on ruin- Twit
State Teachers Elect Officers
heroic banu of soldier.-; 'rom Dow Field who rodr their bucking bulldozers through the evertigh'ening Hug of flames, cutting a lane to sati-fv over the Hull 3 Cove roa'd. Others had been Liken off the island by navy, coast guard or fishing boats. Now these volunteers had gone back to make a stand on the Southwest Harbor road, facing the approaching inferno with ahnveJs. axes and dynami'n From Beech Hill, a half-mile from the holocaust Dr. John B. Ells, a Bar Harbar dentist, watched the fiery scene below. "I saw the great mansions go tumbling down," he said, "flames spouting from the roofs. I saw Joseph Pulitzer's huge estate consumed and the E. T. Stotesbury cottage that cost $2,500,000 to build and furnish, turned to ashes. "Mary Roberts Rinehart's place is gone and the home of Henry Morgenthau Jr., is lost. So is the great place owned by R. Amory Thorndike, and the one built by A Atwater Kent. I’d say 25 per cent of the settled area on the island , ! s nothing but ruDble." Flames that rnVTiged multimillionaires' homes thus far had spared most of the fashionable shops in the business area. But the hotels Malbern, Belmont and De Gregoire, were demolish-
ed.
As the fire swept on to within four blocks of the waterfront where townsfolk huddled, navy and coast guar I ciatl, guided by radar, picked their vay through the blanket of s noke that hung like fog over the sea Enroute ware additional cutters, tugs and the navy destroyer Perry with food, clothing and medical supplies. Meanwhile the soldiers, some with asbestos suits, managed to break through the barrier of fire and the evacuees streamed away from the doomed town. A dozen communities Ir.cluJing Ellsworth had set up receiving ! stations and here the mothers
INDIANAPOLIS, Get. 24 <UPt afid j^ r j r (.pjidn.,, were eared tor
who are seeing the country and.our scripts and our productions." been killed by a rival ring
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is listed as ten, but
quota is five.
WILD GEESE SEEN
stop over for a short time out of
curiousity.
The Bowery Mission, which is
supported by the Christian Her-!ought to be outlawed aid, tries to rehabilitate as many!agency of a foreign
Under questioning by Commit- gamblers intent on eliminating tec Counsel Robert <E. Stripling, him from the business, she said the Communist party Shelton also had been involved
as “an recently in a squabble with govern- neighbors over cattle which had
Several local people report seetrg wild geeae passing ovet Grecncastle Thursday and Friday en .route to the sunny Southland One group was sighted at the Big
men as possible through relig-[ment.’’ ious inspiration. The mission feeds them, provides a place for them to sleep and helps in ob-
taining jobs.
Before 1900 the Bowery was j primarily an entertainment
strayed off his huge Wayne
Richard Gemmecke, Elkhart () l high school teacher, today was named president of the Indiana State Federation of public School Teachers, comprised of about 14,000 Hoosier classroom instruc-
tors.
The organization held its an-
center, Mr. Mulligan said, where I Eddie Cantor, Sophie Tucker,
PUTNAM COURT NOTES
Elmer C. McCullough vs. Ro- Irving Berlin and others first . a halD and Christine Shar;), started. However, the entertain-
pour sin .luii J damages. Hughes & and the section today has only
and another flock went over the estate and aamagen- nu^iico
ana anoi er k I attccievs for the lodging houses, saloons, second
Roach-1 cement plant shortly after mid- Hughes are aiw-oeys iur u b
night. plaintiff.
ought to be preserved tor those property.
"for whom it was designed." ShO| A nephew, Earl Shelton, Jr., did not identify these persona, j witnessed the shooting from
but said the Bill should not apply to 1
curs and enemies of our coun^newsmen: try.” I "We know who did it.”
/ ... nual meeting in conjunction with She said the Bill of Rights county farm and grazed on their ^ tW() . day conventlon of the
Rights distance and was the target of "the sabot-j several slugs himself. He toid
while the menfolk continue I their fire-fighting.
Todays Weathfir
a&d
Local Temperature
Indiana State Teachers’ Associ-
ation.
Other new officers elected were Eleanor BJy, Muncie, first row vice-president; Belva Newsome, Bedford, recording secretary. Re-elected were Audrey Shauer,
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Partly cloudy today, cooler north and central. Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow. Not quite |to cool north and central tomor-
Also called to appear aftorj It was reported that author-j Valparaiso, secretary; Walter
Mrs. Rogers In the fifth day of ities were searching for Charlie the Communism-in - Hollywood Harris, one of the neighbors ininvestigation were film cartoon volved in the squabble with Shelproducer Walt Disney. Holly- ton over the cattle.
b&nd stores and pawn shops.
(Continued on I’flKC Two*
(Continued on l’n«e Two)
Ackenbach, Tipton, second vicepresident; Blanche Penrod, Indianapolis, third vice-president, and Arthur G. Shull, Indianapo lis, treasurer.
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