The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 2 January 1948 — Page 1

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THE DAILY BANNER

“IT WAVES FOR ALL”

VOLUME FIFTY-SIX

GREENCASTU, INDIANA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 1V48

HAROLD STEWART TAKES POST AS MAYOR OF CITY

FIBERS OF NEW ADMINISTRATION TAKE OVER THURSDAY Hedging honest and efficient | vemment on his part. Harohlj Stewart assumed the office | I Mayor of GrceiicasUc for the! xt four years Tliursday morn-1 g at the city hall. Mayor Stewart was sworn In, Resell A. Boyd, retiring mu-1 t eipal court judge. Judge Boyd bo administered the oath to the w members of the council. Ifford Frazier, clerk-treasurer, rt Francis N. Hamilton, city torney. Roy C. Sutherlin, new y court judge, was sworn in Mayor Stewart. Just prior to the change over in city administration, retiring yor Walter Ballard called the iring council into session. The jiicU chamber was filled to mtity for the proceedings, n passing over the reins of city government, Mr. Ballard »i"l the new councilmcn to ke it a point to attend every cling of their body even if v have to sacrifice personal asures. He pledged the coration of the retiring officials any way possible to the nev' ministration and thanked the nihers of his official family their work and cooperation mig the five years they were

office.

fayor Stewart thanked Mr. lard and the retiring city ofrs for the aid already given new administration before inning office. The new mayor d that he personally was for Vst government and would | duet future municipal btwi- j s to the best of his ability. 'he attitude of the new counicn, Fred Pease, Jesse Green, -rge Long, Robert Black and .is H. Dirks was summed up brief talk by Dean Dirks stated that be Wouid -be for thing for the good of Greentie and opposed to anything t was not good for Greeneasin his judgment. Congratulations were in order "er the installation and apples cigars were passed around the new officials.

C. L BRACKNEY PASSED AWAY ON THURSDAY I .AMT RITES FOR WEM. KNOWN FARMER MET FOR SUNDAY

WILL BROADCAST ON WIRE SATURDAY

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WINTER STORM SWEEPS EAST; DAMAGE HIGH STORM ISOLATES NUMEROUS TOWNS FROM IOW A TO ( OAST

Pfr. Kohrrt Seelmian Pfe. Robert Sechman, son of Mrs. Rena Sechman, Coatesville, R. No. 2, is stationed at Wctzlar, Germany. He has been stationed in Germany since last spring. Sechman enlisted in September 1946. His address is, P. F. C. Robert Sechman. R. A 15246819, H. y. Troops, 10th Squadron, aPO 171, '/, Postmaster, New

fork, N. Y.

Floyd Tp. Farm Bureau Meeting

Floyd Twp. Farm Bureau will meet at Floyd Center school building. Jan. 5th at 7:15. Nadine and Tony Wilms will furnish the music. Ruth Wilms will give a reading. Fred Raub will be the speaker and will talk on his TVA trip. He will also furnish pictures of some of the projects down there. Come and enjoy the evening whether you belong to Farm

Bureau or not.

Everybody welcome. Greek Rebels Are Defeated ATHENS, Jan. 2. I UP) Greek government troops drove the shattered remnants of Gen. Markos Vafthaides’ guerrilla forces toward the Albanian border today while relief troops in Konitsu set up new artillery posts against possible later at-

tacks,

W r ;ir Minister George Stratus said the guerrillas numbered 8,. r >0<» men and eight heavy guns

ARIS, Jan. 2. (UP) France’ 0 f their assault on plunged into a new govern-J th(> toW)1 they hoped to make ttv

“capital” of their provisional

government.

Charles Dee Braekney. aged 75 j y ( ars, passed away at 5 p. m. on Thursday, January 1st. at his! ; home in Monroe township. Mr. Braekney had been in failing | health for some time. , He was born January 19, 1872 ^ , In Clinton Township. Putnam | , County. He was the son of Clarke 1 and Lucy Harragh Braekney, the | J youngest child and lust surviving i j member of a family of ten child-

ren.

Mr. Braekney was a well known retired farmer ,a«d for ( many years was one of the outstanding threshermen of the county. He was united in marriage to Miss Katherine Garrett on August 17, 1898. To this union were born three, children, Mrs. Charlie Hcndrlch, Mrs. Charles Spencer of Bloomington, and Helen, at

home.

Ho leaves to mourn Ids loss his wife, the. three daughters, four grandchildren, and one great grandchild. He was a long time member of the Brick Chapel Methodist church. Funeral services will be held at the Rector Funeral Home at CiiO, Sunday afternoon. Services will be in eharg of Rev. A. L. Meredith. Burial will be in the Brick Chapel cemetery.

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Freezing rain, sleet, and snow isolated many towns fro n lo.va to the Atlantic Coast and threat enr,| to paralyze New Vork City for the second time In a week today as the center of a vast

LATEST WIRE NEWS

TOKYO. Jan. 2—(INS)—Former Premier Hidekl Tojo claimed today that Japan never east covetous eyes on the Philippines, India and Burma until after the outbreak nt the Pacific war.

NO. 67 PAULEY MUST PRODUCE HIS OWN RECORDS GIVEN UNTIL MONDAY TO TURN OVER COMMODITY ACCOUNTINGS

The three countries, he declared in another day of testimony In his own defense, were not. considered Indore the Peart llarlnir at- . tack to he part of Japan's

storm area moved eastward ovc. ,, t;rr ^ p ^ Asia Co prosper

Ohio and Pennsylvania.

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A severe col i simp was follow- i

ing on the heels of til*- storm | PARIS, Jan. 2—(INS) -ReTemperatures were c.vpectcd to I ports from Bucharest said today drop to almost zero in the mid j that former King Michael, hts west tcnight. j mother, tyiren Helen, and an Danugc to private and public ! entoutruge of 00 plan to leave property already was eatiuialrd the Romanian capital Saturday

Miss Virginia Arnold, pianist and Miss Marjorie Horn, vocali d. will be beard in the regular WTKE-DcPuuw University broadcast Saturday afternoon.

2 SLIGHTLY HURT IN TRAFFIC MISHAP

Rain And Snow New Year’s Day

Speed Up Holy Land Transfer

Two Pendleton women, Rosemary Blubaugh and Marthadeh' Henley were admitted to the Putnam county hospital Thursday, shortly before noon, follow-

ing an auto accident on stale ,,n '<'»i,rMtiay. t>»' "rst <luy of the

'Pile weatherman provided a menu of rain and snow for Gn-cncHstlr and Putnam county

road 96.

It was reported that the car in which tin- two were riding. ■kidded on the ice and overturnled. Botli were slightly injured

but had been discharged fro.ir inor " l,, « U>e streets were rather

New Year.

There was a hard rain during the morning followed by nearly two inches of snow in the nfter-

Consequcntly, Friday

noon.

NEW CRISIS

t crisis today when Premier rrt Schuman demanded a ual vote of confidence by inIng upon immediate passage is drastic-anti-inflation meaby an unwilling national

nibly.

cliuman presented the asbly with « new comprosiuucontaining many of the oral measures which the asbly weakened with amend,ts on its first reading last

k.

The government will not acany modifications,” Schutold the assembly. "It will t its existence on this text.’' BIBLE MARATHON

9VINGTON. I ml.. Jan. 2. ) Readers In the Bible athon here took sleet and in their stride, but the long es in the Old Testament ’ed them down today. marathon begun at the of midnight with the New r "to focus attention on Th.* ’ It is expected to lust unfinal verse is read Sunday, hesc Old Testament gcnealate putting us a little bcschcdule," said the Rev. B. inton who is directing the stop reading. Ut,” he aded, "that’s all The main thing is to get ad. Enough readers have d up to last through Sunday

noon."

Musi, however, already have fled buck across the Albanian border and now there are Only about 2 500 guerrillas left in the area AIkjuI a third of the rebels are attempting to harruss troops building a bridge across the river outside Konitsu to replace the bridge destroyed by the rebels at Bourazuni, Strutos said. At least three battalions of the 8th Division entered Konltsa while the remainder of the division is cleaning out the heights between Bourazuni and the AlIisnian border and driving the guerrillas back across the front-

ier.

0 Years Ago W GREEN CASTLE

n Evans bought the O. L. lander confectionery In the “tie theater building, mas Vandevier was here Clinton. coe Oravitt went to Grand Mich., where he had acemploymeiit.

cars collide in bridge Two cars collided inside thr Dunbar bridge northwest of the city Friday shortly before noon, one being a rural route mail cur. Neither driver was injured J but both cars were damaged. As the ears entered opposite ends of the bridge they struck the ice on the floor of the bridge and neith-

er could stop.

AIRPLANE IK UPSET BY STRONG WINDS William Colwell, operator of tile Greencastle airport, lost an airplane New Year s day when a sudden gust of wind caught it Just right an.I before anything could be done, the plane had been whipped around anj turned completely over, wrecking the fusilage and many other parts

of it.

ATTEND MEMORIAL Francis Hamilton, Matt Murphy, Judge Hughes and C. C. Gillen were in Crawfordsville today attending the memorial for Bernard Foley, a young Montgomery county attorney, vho (lied suddenly Wednesday.

JERUSALEM, Jan. 2. -(UP) British authorities In Palestine i*i c pressing the foreign office In London to speed up the transfer ol power to the United Nations i*y as much as six weeks, setting a target for the first 'week In April, instead of Hay 15, reliable sources said today.' These sources said the Palestine government is anxious to turn the League of Nations mandate over to the United Nations as soon as possible in an effort to speed British evacuation, set

foi Aug. 1.

Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin lias been asked to submit his request lu the United Nations and press fur the curly arrival of tieUnited Nations Commission 011 Palestine sq the tnuiefer of the mandate could lie effected. The new British efforts to speed departure from the Holy Land amid a series of New Year’s developments, including British Interception of 12,000 illegal immigrants at sea aboard tire former American vessels Pun

Crescent nnd Pun York.

The two ships were intercepted in the Mediterranean by two British cruisers and five destroyers and escorted direct to Cyprus without touching Palestine. There was no resistance, the decision to land the refugees at Cyprus having been reached m agreement with the Jewish

igency for Palestine.

the hospital Friday afternoon. 14 Known Dead In Train Wreck

at several millions of dollars. Glaze Ice formed Inches thick on communications lines throughout the area. Many srmiiped under the weight. Trees fell across highways, addii.„ L> the hazardous condition- oT loads

anj city streets.

Many railroads curtailed com muting service and appealed to workers to stay home from their

Jobs if possible.

The storm increased the nuinhe.r of dead in traffic and other types of accidents over the New Year’s holiday. A United Tress survey showed that 159 persons died in accidents from 6 p. in. New Year’s Eve until midnight last night. Ninety-five lost their j lives in highway crushes and 64 in otliert ypes of accidents. At least 15 persons were kill ed when the storm knocked out block signals 011 the MissouriPacific railroad linen ear Otterville, Mo., causing one section of u speeding passenger train to plough into the preceding section. The dead weri believed to include Alexander W. Weddell, ! 71, former Ambassador to Ar-

afternoun for exile*.

their trip inUi

Whether Michael actually will leave at Unit time remains uncertain, however, accordliy; to the cnibass) source. The informant was in contact with Bucharest by telephone.

( ANON (TTY, ( olu„ Juji. 2.— (INS)—Capture of James B. Sherbondy, 29, last of the 12 prisoners who escaped from Colorado state penitentiary at Canon City Tuesday night, was made shortly after 7 11. m. today. Warden Roy Best said Slierhonriy was taken at a farm house five miles south of Canon

City.

Of the other prisoners, two were killed and nine captured.

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OJTEKt ILLE, Mo., Jim. 2 — (I I 1 )—Fourlerii persons including a former United States Ambassador and his wife, and ii.nnUier fiiniily of five persons were killed in yesterday s collision of two .Missouri Pacific trains near here, Mate Highway Patrol oiliclah announced today. OTTER VILLE, Mo., Jan. 2 (UP) Missouri Pne.fie officials’ believed today ihut Alexander 1 VV Weddell, 71, tormer Ambassador tu Argentina and Spain, , and his wife were among the U persons killed in 11 Lain wrc< k |

Here yesterday.

Workers, picking their way through a shattered PuIIiiimii car, futJnd luggage and a woman's bracelet bearing Weddell's name. The Weddells were repoi l-

emuiite lo Arizona.

Bodies carried from the wreckage were so hudly mangled

and scalded that complete idol- j town. Ufa alien was delayed. Crews! Telephone service

amd acetylene torches and a ,nil,dozer to tear away sections of Uie ear ill search of more

possible victims.

W. U. Heady, railroad puss“iiger agent here, said he believe i casualties were limited 10 Hie eleven passengers and

treacherous for motorists with 11

mix tun* of ice and snow. The minimum temperature

\ 113 2H dogrccs at 1 o’clock Friday morning and the mercury

stood at B0 above at 8 a. nt.

Shortly after 8:90 a- m„ it bc-|s cnUna ana S P ain

gan alcetiflg here and this was |

followed l»y u light know. Weather'indications for the

state prodieted colder teinperatures by nightfall and motorists were advised to stay off the highways unless it was absolute-

ly necessary.

Storm Cripples Northern Indiana INDIANAPOLIS, Jan 2. iUF’i Emergency crews today repaired broken power lines nnd cleared away rubble left in tha wake nf wind-whipped rain and sleet storms which batleicd In-

dia mm yesterday.

Hardest lilt by the storm war: Salem, where several small buildings were wrecked mill many windows shattered by high v iiots which swept through tin

cunductm in Jie rear pullman of

into limit

higton was completely cut off this morning and phone compan; ufficiulH sail) 80 per cent of th telephones In the town were dead after Icc-couted power lines wen snapped throughout the nrn. Parts «>r Wabash were blacken out by power failures and a sei Lon of Hammond two-mil**

leh first seel ion plus one pass- uquaro whs wit hout bgld *

Cable Workers Struck Friday

NEW YORK. -Ian. 2 (UP) Koine ;t 'too CTO co umunicatlons workers struck today against four najor overseas cable companies, cutting otf two-thirds of the normal commercial comiminicatiou channels between the United States and the rest of

tile world,

Joseph Seliy, president of lh>: American Communications Association (CIO), walked out of negotiations with the Western lUnion company's cable division shortly after 1 a. m. "The strike is on," he an-

nounced.

The union hud struck against Mackay Radio, Commercial Cables and All-American Cables at 12 01 A. M., but had continued negotiations with Western Union in a last minute ef-

engi r in the a ijoining car The standard eq ilpincnt train was creeping through a blinding sm vslonit al about 20 miles per Hour when the second secti'Ki eng.m lanimcd into it, caving .11 the roof and sides of the pullman and derailing five othei

cars

'Tile railroad said that Uie Mock ignals were red due tc an automatic switch when th« snowstorm knocked tiie.’ii out 01 normal operation. The trails wet* buind from St. Ijoiiis to Kansas City. Heady said that there were no survivors in the car In which We. dell s baggage was found.

MINOR ACCIDENT

City police reported that one minor traffic mishap occurred here during the snowstorm Thursday afternoon. No one was injured and damage L> the two autos involved was not large A 1997 Dodge coach driven by Norman C. Best and a 1933 Plymouth sedan driven by Rlch- | ard King got together at the tn-

fort to avert the strike.

The union had asked a 30 per 1 tersci tion of Elizabeth and Madi-

cent wage increase. son streets.

telephone service. Calumet Pit.' was also left without lights <>

phones.

All northern Indiana highway were glassed by frozen Jeet m* rain, stat«* police reported. Ron I in the southern half of the slat were covered with snow. Two person* wen* killed ’1 New Year’s Day traffic accidents. Miss Myrtle Fclate id, 2.i Evansville, died of a brokei! iic> ! when the auto in which slin was riding skidded off the road ne.i* McCutehanville. Chester C. Beck. 96, Columbus, was killed When Ilia cur overturned after he fed asleep at the wheel. Sheriff Harold S. Zeis of Allen county ordered all roads rumiing north of Fort Wayne closed temporarily, Freezing rain and sleet formed an Inch-thick layer of ice on highways in that urea. Ice which snapped wires also disrupted communications in Adams and Wells county and partially cut otf phone service in Logans port. At Robertsville in Lake county the storm knocked over a po. lice radio tower which fell ICvatxauct va I 1 *** Tna>

The storm was Uie same general weather condition wdtieh caused a serieu of tornadoes Wednesday in ijouisiuua and Arkansas where at least 25 persons were killed, hundreds injured and hundreds of homes

destroyed or damaged.

As Uie storm lashed its way toward the Atlantic Coast, it was preceded by gale-strength winds, sleet, and snow. In Ks wake, it left disrupted communications and transportation. The following cold snap increased

the damage.

Nearly ail railroad lines operating into New York City reported delays, many ranging up to several Iwurs. Trees toppled across power and signal wires 011 the Delaware and l^ackawana railroad In New Jersey. Official.* said almost all power was om in the suburban areas it serves with electrically operated equip

meat.

The New York Central rail road said its trains were running 90 to 60 minutes lute into New York, chiefly due to preeariout loading at suburban slops. Officials in the Metropolis feared the city would be tied Up again us it W'aa by Iasi week's storm which blocked streets under 25.8 Incites ol

snow.

Hundreds of persons were in Jured, many seriously, by tails on slippery paeements through jut tin* midwestern and northeastern sections of the country. Fire alarm systems froze in many parts of the area. In New 1 lork Uty, Fire Commissioner Frank J. (piayle asked persons sending alarms to use both

COLUMBUS, O., Jan. 2. (INS) —Ohio Go\. Thomas J. Herbert) was to fly to Indianapolis by private plane today fo* his marriage tomorrow to Mildred Helen Stevenson. The 52-year-old governor and the 10-year-old divorcee met in the spring of 1916. Governor Herbert's wife died the previous

year.

WASHINGTON. Jan. 2. (INS) —The Federal Bureau of Investigation was disclosed today lo have investigated the wheat speculation of Brig. Gen. Wallace II. Graham, President Truman's personal physician. The disclosure was made in a litter to Sen. Knowland (R) Calif., from William Reid, a partner in Raehe and Company Graham's brokers.

W ASHINGTON, Jan. 2 — (INS)—TIm* State iDcpartmesit announced today the allocation of an initial installment of 6’.* million, 200 thousand dollars worth of coal and Brains for France under the 522 million dollar stopgap aid program. The first allocation covers grain for December ami January and for coal delivered In France after Dec. 17, when the stopgap aid program became law.

WASHINGTON. Jan. 2. (UP) Edwin W. Pauley, special assistant to the Secretary of Army, today was given until Monday to turn over to Senate inveatigators Ids personal records on commodity speculation. A Senate source said that unless the millionaire California oilman voluntarily produces the requested information by that time, he may be served with a subpena. The Senate Appropriations Committee asked for the records Dec. 12 after hearing Pauley testify that he had made ‘‘substantial" profits by speculating in grain and oilier commodities. Two weeks later, Sen. Homer Ferguson, R., Mich., who heads an appropriations subcommlttea investigating speculation, wrote Pauley a hurry-up letter. The Army Department official replied from hi:i Los Angeles home that "the information is being assembled and will lie forwarded to you as promptly as possible." Pauley pointed out that the senators "did not specify any particular deadline.” The subcommittee, it was learned, has decided that Monday would be an appropriate dead-

line.

In his appreaance before Senate investigators, Pauley admitted Iteing in the commodity market throughout 1945 and 1946 white he was serving an President Truman’s personal observer in Europe. His market operations continued in 1947 when he was reparations commissioner under tin* State Department, he said . But since joining the Army Department last September, he told the Senators, he hart gotten rirt of all but rNnuali fraction of his $1,000,000 worth of commodity holdings. The subcommittee also is awaiting a reply from the brokerage firm of Bache & Co., to its request for information on the dailings of Brig. Gen. Wallace H. Graham, White House physician Graham, like Pauley, was listed as a speculator on, the Agriculture Department's roster of commodity traders. The brokerage firm said the data on Graham might be ready later today.

street boxes and private tele-

phones.

Trolley service stopp'd In many towns. Taxicabs were call

New Mayor Is Having Trouble PRINCETON, ird, Jan. 2

(UP)—Princeton's new Demo cratic mayor was having trouble today in his attempts to push out of office several employes

ol Uie old Republican regime

Mayor Walter D. Cox appoint ed n new fire elite! and new chief ol police. But former Mayor J. G. Topple s depai tinen.

heads refused to resign

Police Chief Hoy Burton anu l* ire Chief Leon Woods, both Republicans, said Cox couldn’t lorce them to quit without cause. 1 hey claimed that If they

ed into the garages to avu d ( mey lost then* rights

damage to them and Injury iO drivers and passengers. The Northwestern Bdl Tele phone Company reuorted tha'. ice-la* len wires had snapped throughout tins Mississippi Valley from Clinton, la., south b

northern Missouri.

Telephone service was knocked out lo Burlington, Clinton,

Mrs, Davis Dies At Terre Haute

Word was received here Friiay of the death of Mrs. Grace Davis, widow of Bird Davis, formerly of Newport, at the home of her son, Sam L>avis in Terre Haute. Mrs. Davis lias been ill lor some time. Mrs. Donovan Moffett of Cortland. N. Y.. is a laughter. Mrs. Davis vvaa well known in this city where she spent much of her time while Dr. and Mrs. Moftett resided here. The family resided m Newport for in any years, where Mr Davis *dited the Newport Moosier. The funeral services will be held from the Newport Methohst church of which Mrs. Davis was a member, Sunday afternoon it two o'clock with burial in the Newport cemetery. MARRIAGE LICENSES Clifford Due, Greencastle, and Beatrice Tudor, Indianapolis. Everett E. Gaston and Elizabeth Lippert, both of Cloverdale.

111 Uie police and firemens' re Llrement pension association. Finally, the new major grant ed both men leaves of absence without pay for four years to get

around the difficulty.

Then anu .her problem aroseCox nauied three new men to the police force. But the patrolmen they were supposed to replace

Ft. Madison. Keokuk, DavenpoiJ „| SO balked at resigning.

and Muscatine. The Illinois Bell Telephone Company said the storm had done at least $1,000,000 damage to communications facilities In the Chicago and northern Illinois areas. tcvailaae* *a F«««

Today the new appointees and the older hands were working side by side In the police department. Cox Indicated that he would try to force the three stand-pat-ters out by preferring "some kind of charges” against them.

Todtra Weather i $Ad t Lock) Temperature

Clearing in south, cloudy with 1 few snow flurries in north tolay and tonight Diminishing winds today. Saturday fair with slowly rising temperatures. Minimum 30’ 6 a. m 30“ 7 a. in 30“ 8 a. m. ...» 30“ 9 a. m. ...» 31* 10 a. m 32“ 11 a. m.’ 31’ 12 noon *...» _... 34° 1 p. m. 34*