The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 7 January 1948 — Page 1
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VOLUME FIFTY-SIX
THE DAIliY BANNER “IT WAVES FOR ALL"
REPUBLICANS PONDER GATES’ CAPITAL TRIP
(f.TATK FOLITICIANS WON UEK WHAT WASHINGTON VISIT INFERS
GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1948.
NO. 71
INDIANAPOLIS, ImJ., .Inn. ilNS) - Goveritor Rnlph K. jiinies was in Washington today land many loading Republican )>olitidans wondered what he
|was doing.
Wliat's he up to- was the q.’JosItion of the GOP politics. AlUiough the Governor, as Inlili.ma jneiuber of the Rebublican National committee is schedule | be in Washington on Jan. 19 1 jiml 20 at that organization first bleating since last, spring, ho, Lvcrtheless went to the nation's tapitol yesterday. The Governor tonight will onrrtain Hoosier members of Congress at a dinner where jueh may happen to affect the titurc of the state.
MAVOII AL KEEN It |> AGAINST THE HOORLL'lS
Law abiding citizen „. ;n ' ' ,sl ' fro . . for Mayor A’.
Kce.icy . India ipolis making a splendid start making the cit> safe fo. through In l.ana. The 1!< are being tek.'n over by Police and it may sat n b.' place lor women to \‘.’alk <
streets.
Greeneastle motorists ha ter be careful nheut tlmir 1 epolls parking, otJierwisc will owe the city two hue about .'too are getting st each day. These fines m ay pay off sonic of the capita
national debt.
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Putnam county farmers ar, still critically short of farm im piements and as a result goo, ones being offered at public farm sales are bringing unut.uul-
ly high prices.
On Tucsdaj at the Gales sale, •i>v"i of the eity, a new me ving 1 machine that hud not been us > j send for *125 more ihun it cost: .■ | tractor us u some time, s«;d loi . .uiue than $2000. Livestock Is al- , so selling high. At tins sale, a j short yearling steer brought 1 $175; old corn sold for $2.56 per
t bushel and new' corn went for Bi Is for t ires and tubes, *‘2.50 per bushel. Oats brought crushed stone light an I heavy ! f 1 ’ 1 ' high price of $1.55 per bushhardware and gravel were to be cl - 'I’hcse prices probably arc awarded Wednesday by the Put- about as high us the oldest Put-
J. S. FORCES LEAVE PANAMA
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Last two L’. S. planes lake off from Rio llnlo base
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Commissioners • Award Contracts
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nain county commissioners dor-
thc final session
jt’illiain E. Jenner, wdio will b’ 1 dinner guest, now are engaged b a cold war for supreme-ncy in |i'. state G. O. P. organization. Many politicians have said to timer that it would be stupid ii risk his jjosition by entering a Lruggle for an honor lesser than t now holds, but he had paid no ted to them. Of course the possibility that >rnier Governor Henry F. fhricker may become a eundiBte for the Democratic guber- , btional nomination plays a par* | Uie situation. Schricker smiles 1 "Veelly, addresses the usual jmher of women's clubs and jys nothing. Even in the face of the fact at tile second Schricker disiiet wishes formally to propose ;m for Governor, “Uncle Henremains quiet. Governor Gates, when asked Sy he was going YVashingn. snum.gly saiu uiat lie uU discuss "poliiies in the ] -ad phases" with members of : Indiana congressional dele- j
don.
(The announcement of the bcrnational candidacy of LicJlant Governor Hiehard T. mes was of great concern to Indiana senators and concssmen. On the record, the governor J ay attended a meeting of u conmittec of the National vernors' Conference, at which 'Hi ion problems were discuss-
of their the court
three-day meeting at
house.
Several bids were let by the county officiuls Tuesday. The High Point Oil Company was awarded contracts for gasoline, oil, grease and anti-freeze. The High Point was the only bidder
num county farmer ever saw in Uiis community. Livestock, apparently will be short during 1948. because hundreds of head in this county have gone to market and almost daily, loads of hrood sows ana breeding euUle are being sold on the marke v , simply because of the high price. Sooner or later, the
on gasoline of the three firms j sale of this kinu of breeding submitting bit's. Their bid was stock will be reflected in a ser 19.8 cents per gallon as of today, j *ous shortage of livestock on IhiBids for repair parts for coun | farms which produce meat fo; ty machinery and equipment ] the nation, were awarded King. Morrison, j * -
Foster; MacAllister Machinery Company; Scott's Franklin Street Garage; American Steel Supply Corporation, Inc.: Indiana Equipment Company; 1. D,
Adams Company and Eagle Ma- | chine Company. WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 (UP) The C. H. Burnaby Lumber : -a remark by Adm. Chester Company was awarded the eon- : w. Nimitz set off speculation tract for bridge timbers and na ! today Jiut atomic bombs are live lumber. I getting smaller as they become The Logansport Metal Culvert | more powerful. Company was awarded the bid ! Nimitz' remark, made Dec. 15
First convoy of trucks and personnel wlthdruu.
IN ACCORDANCE with rejection by the Panamanian National assembly of an agreement calling for five-year leases on 15 sites for defense of the Panama canal and 10-yea'- lease on B-29 air base at Rio Hato, C. Z.. U. S. forces withdraw in an evacuation that will .•mpty all but two of the bases bv Jan. 14. (International)
NOTICE
Hints A-Bombs Smaller Now
The Triple-A office will In Hosed all day each Saturday, b ■- gining Jain. 10th, by order of the state AAA committee. Te office will remain open froni K:0< a. m. to 4:00 p. m. Mionduy through Friday. It is hoped that this change will not greatly inconvenience tin' farmers.
for metal culverts.
Dr. Wildman Is Chapel Speaker
it Thursday, he will meet III representatives of the uncil of State Government, le said he will conic back to anapolis on Friday. 5very politician c Indiana ows that the go.«-iiior and Jenner arc embattled In a it iO control the GOP state anizatlon. The governor no* i little patronage power bcse he is in the last year of Hdiniiustration. 3o all of Hie miJiana Republlpoliticians are in the anxis seat, striving to know the rnational candidate who will
nominated.
antes, privately Is the choice Gov. Gales, but many ,of the P organization members arc Loo strong for the lieutenant rernor. Hobart Creighton, of rsaw, spuaket of v hc House Representatives, soon is extod to toss his hat in the P governorship race.
HOG MARKET ogs 0 000; active, *1 to $1.25! er; spots $1.50 higher; good choice 160-225 lbs., $28 5075; early top $29 sparingly; 250 lbs.. $28-$28.50; few 75; 250-500 lbs.,, $27.5025; 500-400 lbs..’ $26.750; 550-400 lbs., $26.50-$27; 160 lbs., 50e higher at $25‘5; sows $1 to $1.50 higher 22.50-$26.25;
Pointing out that vve as individuals were never in-ended to be defeated people, President Clyde E. Wildman told DcPauw University students in chapel | Wednesday that it is the resiliency of the human spifit which I caused Christianity to grow, which gives people the ability -o come back from apparent defeat. "There is a resiliency of th human spirit, an ability to come back," he said. "Let us not im-
I v.-hen he retired as chief of naval ] operations and released by the
navy yesterday, was:
! "The navy of the future wdl 1 be capable of delivering atomic | bombs from carrier - based
I planes." ,
| Thai could mean that the bomb is shrinking in size as nicmists perfect it, that carrier planes are becoming bigger and
mere powerful, or both.
The navy has, as a matter of fuetl developed a jet plane which can lake off Iron carriers. .Sneii a plane probably vould have the power to lift an atomic bomb provided it had the bomb
bay space to carry it.
The latest official word, ,wc y a i s old, is that the smallest
Changes Pending On Liquor Board
derestimate it when we think of ; ^ ^ of Uullvcrins
jurselvca and the l-uture. It ex- 1
is-ed before Christ and it exists now, but it has its supreme incarnation in Him." President Wildman cited thi early days of the Church, the fall of Rome, and the Frutcstant Reformation as examples of the resiliency of spirt. "Now we are ci-.ught in the undertow of a feeling of defeat and futitlity," he said. "We are only a drop in the bucket. But if millions of drops are brought together by seme s it of cohesive drawing pi 'er thu; will fill th'bucket to overflowing and put out the fire whi h threatened to | consume our civilization. SOS Sent By Russian Ship
0 Years Ago
IN URUCNOAOTLJi
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Ann Cannon spent the
Indianapolis.
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and Mrs. Harry Hawkins here front Land O’Lakcs,
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(UPl ship'
atomic bombs is the B-29, th; craft which carried it at Hiroihiina. Nagasaki and Bikini. But unofficial scientific opinion h'-re is that it is reasonable to ossu ne tlia‘. the bomb’s trigger mechanism has been perfected since Hiro'hima to make tht weapon more compact. The HvOrnic energy commission ha I n couple of words to say about Nimitz' statement. The*
were:
"No comment."
Strikes Decreased During Past Year WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 (UPl rite Labor Department said today ihcre were about 5,3C j strikers last year 1,400 fcwel thun the all-time record set it.
full postwar year o,
WEST GERMANY GETS CENTRAL GOVERNMENT
FRANKFURT, Jan. 7 (UF) Gen. Lucius D. Clay announc’d today that military government organizations in the American and British zones will be merged into a single uni- as part of a reorganization establishing a central gov> i nment
for Western; Germany .
Clay arrived in Frankfurt by train to attend a two-day conference with British and Ger
HONOLULU. Jan
An unidentified Russian snip' the first carrying 800 passengers flashed i<Hg
a distress signal today that r ■ jn a summary of last year', was sinking off the coast ol j labor-management disputes, the Japan and that its engines wet- Department estimated Dial 55.-
out of commission.
The SOS was picked up by th RCA listening post here.
The brief message, signed! the total work loss
■‘Dvina. Master,” reported that| earlier.
the ship had five feet of wate.-j Almost half of the 1947 work
in her hold.
000.000 man-days were DS'I through strikes during 1917. II said this was less than one-third
a yeai
It was officially reported Wednesday that William Powell, of
Cloverdalc, had been appointed man °B | ctals during v\h:< h he is by the Putnam County Council cx P cCtcd 10 «hnoun<formation to succeed Fred Boatman, of 01 a C( ' n '- ral govenimi nl a.s the Monroe township, on the County ansA,pr *-° l,le breakdown of the Alcoholic Beverage Board. This Foreign Ministers con-
ference.
Reorganization of the British and American Military governments will he worki I out in a .special meeting tomorrow wivh Gen. Sir Brian Kola it in, com niandcr of the British zone, Clay said. He said Die new nig an as lion will follow the pattern of supreme headq-iarteis i SI IA EF) established during Die war by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. However, Clay said there would be no single eoni iitutdcr. He and Robertson will re vain their co-equal positions, but tli system of co-directors for eael, department and division will hr abolished in favor of a single head for each unit. Officials wen- unanimous u, I predicting that most of the im pot'tuiu Jobs will go to American officials becaiis'- the United States now Is bearing tin- niajo: share of expenses in the two
zones.
All minister-presidcrit.t of lie two zones were in Frankfurt I.
AFL President William Gtv n | h(>Br c ,. iy tr11 Ull . m AI today lined up with other labor | li( . (J [)|ans for Uu , ful
leaders opposed to Henry A 1
appointment, it was said, was made at the special meeting of the Council in December. Mr. Powell's term is for one year and lie will assume his new post .January 16th. He is a Republican while Mr. Boatman, who will retire on Dial date is a
Democrat.
Another appointment to the board by the new city administration to fill the place of Simpson Stoner is due any time now. A.s Mr. Stoner is a Republican, uls successor has to be a Dcmu--rat as the third member of the board is Alex Bryan, of Fillmore. ■Iso n Republican. Mr. Bryan's term does not expire until April. He wus appointed by the County
Commissioners.
AFL President Not For Wallace WASHINGTON. Jan. 7 (UP)
I many.
Thcs. Bayne Dies In Los Angeles
Piss was attribiivcd to strike.'-, in the telephone, soft coal and
shipbuilding industries.
The message wus addressed to the harbor master at Hakodate, Japan. It requested that a rescue vessel set out as soon ns pos-
sible.
Thu master gave his position as latitude 41 degrees 50 minutes north, longitude 144 degrees ^
eight minutes east. That wotil.jon sale at the Greeneastle postplace the .-hip in the neighbor-J office Tuesday. They have been
. and Mia. Raymond Fishor hood of Hokkaido, Japan’s north- issued as a memorial vO the visitors In Indianapolis, ernmost island. great negro scientist.
NEW STAMPS ON SALE The new George Washington Carver memorial stamps were
Wallace as an Independent candi-
date for president.
"I’m against him," Green ani.ounccd. “Creation of a third arty Is a great political mistake ml labor generally will lie op-
posed to Wallace."
Walter P. Reuther, president Thomas l>. Baym, passi-i the United Auto Workers; away January 1st. in Lo: ICIOL and Jaek Kroll, director| Angeles California. Do n a zud of the CIO Political Action Com-1 den heart attack .uittec, are among other labor He wus formerly u Gieuncasleaders to conic out against Wul- tic resident, but went to Cali- | ace , fornia 20 years ng.o. Curvivint Green has also declared are a son, Robert Bayne, Ingainst Sen. Robert A Taft. R.. dlanapolia; a sister, Mrs. Edm O., as a Republican presidential B. Fiske, Long Beach, Cal. ano nominee. Mrs - Olive B. Jakes, Los Angolei California. He was buried in Die Wee Kirk of the Heather DIES AT ANDERSON I Glendale. Cal.
Word bus been received here ' of the death of Isiah Taylor, age 82 years, who passed away Tuesday in Anderson. Mr. Taylor was n cousin of Mrs. Jennie R. John of this city and Cecil Huffman of Floyd township.
PUTNAM COURT NOTES Alfred E. Stuttner et ul vt,. Elvin S. Foley et al, complaint for possession of real estate. Durham & Durham are attorneys for the plaintiffs.
3 AMERICANS DIE IN PARIS PLANE CRASH POLISH GIRL ONLY SUKVTY OR IN FRENC H AIR TRAGEDY PARIS, Jan. 7. —(UP) Three Americans, one u woman diplonatie courier, were among 15 persons killed last night when a French airliner from Brnsjc-I - crashed and burned while coming in for a landing at fogshrouded I^‘ Bourget ah port outtide Purls.
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A Polish girl passenger vv.i.i the only survivor among the 16j persons in the plane, which earned 11 passengers and a crew of 1 five. The dead Americans were identified from passports and! identity cards as: Mrs. Jane Wallis Burrell. 56, a i diplomatic courier for the Am-1 erican embassy in Paris. She i ! survived by James Harold Wsl lis, 19 Old Army Road. Scar . dale, N. Y. Mrs. Burrell w.-is horn in Dubuque, la, Ixiuis Sibre, 425 K 57th St New York City, director of the Aiiiiiucx Trading Corp., of 1"') Liberty St., New York. John Sherrod Power, 50, a civ-1 iliun employe of the U. S. Army, survived by Ids wife. Mrs. Power. 1511 list St., Washington. D. C | Power was born in Waco, Tex. The other dead included five 1 French crewmen, two English J ; passengers, two Belgian passengers, a Frenchman, a South! I A friean and a Pole. Airport officials said tile J plane, a Douglas DC-5 operated i by Air France, circled above tie | aii port for an hour waiting for| the fog to lift so it could land. ! The plane finally attempted to! land but touched its wheels to the ground in a soft plowed field J 800 yards short of the runway. 1 The cra.lt wus torn apart by the crash, scattering wreckage over the field. Fire broke out but was extinguished by fire truck* fiom Le Bourget. Jaycees Sponsor Annual Campaign Putnam county’s annual cum-J paign to assist the National Foundation of Infantile Paralysis will be held from January 10th through January 50th, it was announced today. Rex Haines, Greeneastle, has been named chairman of the drive, and he will be assisted by Richard Reeves. The appointment of Haines and Reeves as chairman and assistant chairman of the drive to taise funds for the relief of infantile paralysis victims came from Basil O'Connor, national ! piesidcnt of the foundation through the Greeneastle Jiuiioi Chamber of Commerce. Charles Weaver, president of the local Jaycees, stated that iu selecting the chairman and assistant chairman of the drive he felt Mire that this drive, the tenth 1 anniversary of infantile paralysis campaigns in Putnam county, would be the most suci-'-ssful of nil. A visitor in Greeneastle recently was Wililam Styrhig, Indiana state representative of the National Foundation of Infantile Paralysis, who was in touch with Mr. Weaver and James R. Pence, picsident of the local organization, in assisting the organization of the Putnam county campaign. At the present timr. contact; nre being made with organizations anil individuals throughout the county to promote the campaign in their respective communities. It is expected that th<complete Putnam county organization will tic announced In a few days. The annual infantile paralysis campaign is one of the most worthy of its kind and deserves the suppoit of everyone for the excellent work It is doing. Half of the funds raised in Putnam i ounty remain in the county to carry on the work of giving assistance to infantile paralysis victims here. The other half of the funds are held by the national organization but can be drawn) on for local use if the occasion I arrives that outside funds are ILvatiautd on t’usu Tkrcr)
LATEST WIRE NEWS
Believe 27 Dead In Georgia Crash MIAMI, Jan. 7. (INS)—toast Guanl headquarters at Miami rcpurted today that all 27 imtsoiin aboard a IM'-H charter < oastal Mr Lilies |diinr were believed to have died when the craft crashed in marshes elglil miles east of .Suvaiuinli, Ga. Tbe two ere which were said to be Americans and the '!.» passengers Puerto Ricans, believed en riMite lo San Juan by way of Miami. Tin- (oast Guard cutter Aurora reported ilia) no survivors were found at the crush scene.
CONGRESSMEN HEAR MESSAGE BY PRESIDENT TRUMAN OUTLINES lit:. MAJOR GOALS IN Ills ADtDRFSS
Ten Killed In Holy City Blast JEIU SALEM, Jan. 7 (INS) — M least III persons were reportkilled today in a violent explosion at the aneienl Jaffa GhIc of Jerusalem, followed a few minutes later by » second Iducf ol the old eity. The explosions, which caused < onsiderahle damage as w ell as casualties, came in the wake of a Palest ino government "crack dow n" order against Holy Land terrorists. It ordered British troops to »hoot on the spot anyone — Arab or Jew—found to Is* carrying arms. Not Guilty Plea By Gen. Meyers WASHINGTON. Jan. 7 (INS. —Maj. Gen. Bennett Meyers pleaded not guilty today to charges that he Ib-d to conge.-v-uImmiI his connect ions witli an Ohio war plunl and llml In- Induced h'.« former friend and as sociale, Itelriot Lamarre, to al*-e tie. t . S. District Judge David A. Pine ordered Meyers In stand trial Feb. 16 on I he six counts ol perjury and subordination ol prejury under which he was indicted.
ALBANY, Jan. 6—(INS) — Governor Dewey flatly charged today that I’residenl Tniniun Is personally responsible for launching a w age-prije-profit spiral which "wrecked the last vestige of Inflation control and brought about I lie present exorbitant scale of living costs.” Texas Blonde Is ’48 Cotton Queen MEMPHIS, Tenn., Jan. 7. (UP) A stately, blende Texas Icauty, 19-yeai-oM Matilda Nai o. Fort Worth, reigned today >1: the 1948 Maid of Cotton. She gasped "It can’! be ine.' - here last night when she wie handed lb" huge bouquet of roses and cotton bolls -ignifying Prit judge,, lied chosen her fi-om among 2'f southern belles to le cotton's international goodwill ambassador. Today the blue-eyed Unlver-j sdy of Texas students began round of entertainments sin travels that will include a sixmonths, .'15.000-mile tour of th:country, Franc- and Great Br!*:*tin !.i 1 display the latest styles in cotton.
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I IRE A t EVANS) IIXE t EVANSVILLE, lnd„ Jan 7 - Five hundred pernon* were routed from a basketball game her last night as a $100,000 fire swept through a Central High Behoof building across the styet
fiom the gymnasium.
The entire northwest wing of the structure was destroyed aiicl the spectacular blaze threaten.' I to sweep all Uie 56-year-old structure as fans were gathering fot the game across the street. The blaze was first noticed at I 7:05 p. m. Firemen had it undei control an hour later. The fire was centered in the home econo.uics department on the thin! floor. Firemen from five engine houses were eallel to fight the flames. • •
WASHINGTON. Jan. 7 it I . •President Truman asked - gress today to free 10,000.00!' more low pay Individuals t Income taxes and to impose • levies on corporations to oan estimated revenue loss of 200,000,000 Specifically, he rccommei . a $40 cost-of-living tax ei. for each individual taxp r with an additional $40 credit 1 each dependent, effective on come received in this cal. n .
year.
Mr. Truman revealed his e|. lion year tax relief progrun his annual message on the s' c of union. He delivered it. in p son before a. joint session of 11 Republican-controlled eongi Tax rates ou larget cor)' lions would have to lie jump rom 58 to 50 per rent to * approximately $5,200,000,000 additional revenue. Mr Trim > : tax cut wotdd be about n. equivalent of an increase o sonal exemptions from the pi. ent $500 to $700 It wa across-the-board proposal ii pl ing to rich and poor alike f » the President observed th would mostly benefit the lov u come group. For example; the incum- t.i of a man with wife and t. children would be reduced ■>) m
year.
Revision of the entin t structure for the moit ;"iv ’ tial relief of higher inc 1 groups must lie delayed, \]i Truman said, until the dam.; of inflation lias passed The President's messagi w 1 wide sweeping document 11 L New Deal tradition of the im Franklin D. Roosevelt, it w.i aimed at the many mdin whom Henry A. Wallace d< s Dates as the coJ'imuii n large part It. repeated n < , mendatmns of previous Tru. • messages which have been sistently ignored by congr. m including a hike in minimm wages. This time from 40 to , t cents an hour. The President set up fr . major goals for congress to tv > him attain or approach in tic , presidential election year 1. Secure the essential hum.. 1 rights of ill citizens 2. Protect and develop our Immaii resources. 5. Conserve natural r. sour. .-.; 4. Lift living standards. 5. Achieve world peace h i I ou principles of freedom, justn ami equality for all nation; The President again expr. dhsapprovval of the Taft-Ii.-ut ley labor control a< t hut mi would enforce it so long as it 1. • niained on the books In addition to his m e 1 pi for a higher minimum wag aw Truman appealed again t. im ited rationing md priei -ontrols to fight. mflaUnu . versal training for An youth, a long-range 111.11 = 1 gram, and a National Hcnb t sttranec progrun. The kicker, saved until 1 < i the long message, wk w tax reduction foi ill nnd plete exemption fot mnnv Hons. The 10.000,000 m b' who would be relieved of ‘ altogether represent ahoul fifth of all persons wlm u 1 • have been making returns 1. high wartime tax rates. It v, the only surprise package 1 Mr. Tinman's message .il l political realists had been 1 dent he would iu some w ax - ter Republican Income tax m i, ( 1 IMlIillU* <1 4H| 1*11 K T«VO»
* • • • • • • «i 1 Todava Woathei uu * and V * LdorI Toraporatorr V Partly cloudy and a lit' varmcr today. Cloudy bun nd tomorrow Occasional h; snow and turning colder nor Ii tomorrow.
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