The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 5 February 1948 — Page 1
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GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1948.
NO. 96
S DONATE 8,650 FOR CANCER DRIVE
j LODGE MEMBERS ONTRIBITED TO WOKTHV FUND
TWO CARS DAMAGED IN ACCIDENT HERE
I, luncheon in the Kiloy „ indianpalis today idnir.u Elies Association „ substantial contribution used in fighting cancer in as a result of the Elks drive conducted by the Elks Association and its memb. rs,' $48,650.00 was and all of this sum will t, | by the organization t this drea led disease in i0 n Stoner, fust vice nl i t Uie State Associaii,I been extended an inn t,. attend the luncheon j. tv. VanNuys, dean of d;ena University Medical Another prominent Elk, '•ttinded the luncheon, at la cheek for $24,000.00 •ts.nted to the Indiana Medical Censor, was i’K lemier of Vincennes, State exalted ruler, who Vd the cheek to Dr. Vany ition to the large donaJndiana University, five a.)..; at F urdue Universlaling $7,500., will be proland the Elks will support r ard campaign and will an educational cai.nhrough the Indiana Caniifty throughout the year, ids are being spent undirection of the Indiana Society, and all funds go for cancer work as there dministration costs by he Society or the Elks. Ifun is being donated to iana Medical School will in assisting the employa professor of radiation , jvhich will make possible of radio active substanc,ie treatment of certain with malignant diseases, ‘lond and more extensive is a research study in and new techniques i been developed which an earlier diagnosis of cancer, particularly ccurring in early stages jlungs. urinary tract, and genital tract. By reason Vial assistance, Indiana dty may now join the .ther centers carrying on i of cancer study. ' die Elks with Fred ' xalter ruler, conductin • r campaign in Novem■a. I year, and these funds ontributed to uhe Intatc Elks Association and ;lu I' d in the splendid p for cancer research. ses U. S. Reds oreign Agents HINUTON, Feb. 5- ( UP) •'t1 E. Mundt, R., S. D., I' • L he time has c/j.nc for ' mmunists to stand up ' "imted as agents of a
power.
Tiled on Congress to teai V' il of “seductive sec'iiich he said surrounds im Communists. Citizens, mi It, should have the rot ec Jon against Comideologies as they have phony stock deals, t appeared before a nAmerican subcommittee ort of his bill to require ini.sts and “front'’ groups Her with the Justice DeFallure to comply bill's provisions would iminal offense carrying a tn penalty of one year in a $1,000 fine. South Dakota Republican measure would get Coincoming and going."
Two automobiles were damaged at 12::i0 o'clock Thursday morning in an accident, which city police said, was caused ice on the streets. The estimated damage to both cars was $150. Police said James Black, 327 Melrose Avenue, driving a 1936 Ford coupe, skidded into a 1937 Packard coupe belonging to Eugene Hinkle which was parked in front of Hinkle’s ha.v.e at 513 South Bloom.ngton street. No one was injured. Bureau Sponsors Feb. 18 Meeting The Putnam County Farm Bureau sponsored public meeting on brucelosis and undulent fever scheduled for February 18 i t Gobin church is one that should attract a large attendance. Dr. Thurman B. Rice, well known authority on public health will be the principal speaker and will point out the dangers and magnitude of the spread of undulent fever among people and the necessity of controlling the disease in human be-
ings.
The control of brucelosis and “Bangs Disease" in farm animals, the source of undulent fever, will be discussed. County Farm Bureau officers headed by James L. Myers, county chairman and Mrs. R. J. Coffman, S & E leader, are making arrangements for this meeting.
GOVERNMENT WILL ADVOCATE PLANNED MEALS SEC. ANDERSON P'.ANs TO INV ADE KITC HENS OF NATION
CONSERVATION DISTRICT SUPERVISORS ATTEND ANNUAL MEETING
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Handicap Survey Completed Here The survey of Greencastle and Greencastle township to locate all physically handicapped has been completed under the supervision of Miss Pauline Smith, school nurse. A total of 62 phy-j steady handicapped perso: is under 21 years of age was local c-d. The survey located all persons, not just those who are indigent who are under 21 years ol age who have difficulty in walking, talking, seeing, hearing, have convulsion of spasms, diabetes, tuberculosis. rheumatic heart or other heart difficulty. The survey was a part of a state-wide study sponsored by the division of services for crip-1 pled children o fthe State Department of Public Welfare u establish a registry of physically handicapped persons. The Stum Department of Public Instruction and the State Medical Society are interested in this program and are co-operating in tile administration of the survey. Information compiled by the survey is to be submitted by the city superintendent of schools to the Indianapolis office immed-
iately.
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hneeinent was made of gagement of Earl O. on of Mr. and Mrs. Charn to Annette MacGowen of Watertown, N. Y, nd Mrs. Bert C. Gross Arthur, spent the day in
Russia, Romania Sign Aid Pact LUNDUN, Feb. 5 (UP) Radio Moscow announced today tha L Russia has signed a mutiual aid military pact with Romania binding both eounries to fight against any aggressive threat from Germany "or any other
state.”
Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov, in a statement on the treaty, said it was directed against "fomenters of a new wat from the imperialist camp.” The treaty runs for 20 years. It will be renewed automatically every five years unless it is renounced a year before the end of the five-year term. In event of aggression against either country, the treaty provides specifically that "the other contracting party will immediately render military and other assistance by all the means at its disposal." Political observers expressed belief the Soviet-Rocnanlan treaty was the forerunner of other treaties biding Russia directly to the other states of the Balkan confederation. The Balkan states already are bound together by an iritricate system of interlocking treaties among themselves.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 5 (UP) - The government was getting ready today to invate the kitchen and tell housewives how to plan their meals in a nationwide campaign to fight infdation by voluntary means. Secretary of Agriculture Clinto P. Anderson was to work out details of the program at a meeting this afternoon with representatives of producer and consumer groups. Anderson's aides foresaw a campaign in which the government will advise housewives what foods to buy end may even suggest how much of the family budget to spend on food. They said an effort will be made to get shoppers to pass up scarce items, like some meats, in favor of cheaper, more abundant foods. The new anti-inflation drive will be backed by such slogans as "beat high costs with food budgets." "What we need," said one I agriculture official, "is a little more business administration in running the kitchen. A lot of housewives have been doing just that for years. Now we hope to get more of them to do it." The labor department reported today that average retail food prices a new ull-time high during December. They were nearly 107 per cent above the 1935-39 average. The department said overall food prices increased slightly more than two per cent between mid-November and mid-Decem-ber, “continuing the upward trend halted only onto since last may." Iran Rejects Russ Charges TEHRAN, Feb. 5 (UP) The Iranian government flatly rejected last night all Russian charges of iiindue American activities and influence in Iran. Rejection of the Russian charges was accompanied by Amehcan assurances that Iran, as a member of die United Nations, no longer stood alone against the Soviets. An Iranian government note delivered to Soviet Ambassador Ivan Sadohikov denied one by one all Russian charges presented last week that, American activities in Iran were threa-eniny the Sovif t frontier. Among the charges denied was that the U. S. was arming Iran. The Iranian note said that Iran was prepared to purchase .r.iiitary supplies from any power able to supply her. "The Soviet government also was approached but the prices quoted by you were so high we were constrained to accept the United States offer," The note
said.
Iran also denied that the American advisory mission con-
troled the army.
“We have a sufficient muiiber of officers of our own who can look after our army's needs, and the information the Soviet government received concerning this matter is completely base-
less, the note said.
.“Similarly, United States military advisers cannoc interfere in Iran's war industries." Southern Demos In Open Revolt WASHINGTON, Feb. 5. (UP) Southern Democrats, in open revolt against President Truman’s civil rights program struck at the Democratic party’s pocketbook today to the admitted consternation of the party's
high command.
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There wall be an important dinner meeting of the Greenoaslle Ldons Club Friday evening, February 6th. V. F. W. houp', 6:30 P. M. All members are urged to be present.
BULLETINS Truman Warns Of ‘29 Debacle
BLACK MARKET IS REPORTED IN MACHINERY FARM EQUIPMENT MANi - FACTURERS FAIL TO STOP ACTIVITY CHICAGO, Feb. 5 (UP) Farm machinery manufacturer; said today that despite their efforts to wipe it out, there is i flourishing black market in tr:u tors, combines and other nr;;' illy needed farm equipment.
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ferson township. James Myers. Franklin uUmdup!* DaSd L.' G'riim'r'Ma’iTm ^ownsh^"' 8 "' J "' ,uci.. r o 0S vi llV vr m '. n mako , U P the District Advisory Board for the Putnam County Conservation li. trict. Mr. . tyerswas elected at a meeting Wednesday afternoon, succeeding Clayton Cash, whose term expired. Mr Grimes is chairman of the Advisory Board and made the Board's report at the annual meeting Wednesday in the Gobin Mcmoriu 1 church.
Rev. Lonnie Hass, pastor of
the Bethany Christian church in; Evansville and Hurry Hoegh from the Milwaukee olficc of tlje Soil Conservation Service; very effectively shared the, speaking honors at the second | annual meeting of the Putnam'
County Soil Conservation trict held yesterday in
church.
Rev. Hass’ address on “Tiv Enemy Witiiin the Gates" served as a grim reminder that if we do not take the conservation of our soils and other natural resources seriously our position as a power of the world will soon become less favorable. He dramatically pointed to nation after nation down through history that had fallen because of their failure to recognize the importance of conservation within their boundries. Hocgh discussed the major physical land problems in Putnam county and compared them with soAie of the problems cor* fronting the medical profession. He said, “Doctors tell us that the number one killer of man is heart disease and in comparison we who till the soil know UuG the number one killer of soils is erosion. The symptons are nnie'i the same.” David L. Girmes, chairman of the Board of Supervisors of the District was in charge of the meeting and gave the annual report of the activities which revealed that seventy-four Putnam county farms have been completely planned and approximately seventy more are in the process of planning. Also 14 9 miles of terraces have been completed, 12,300 feet of sodded waterways established, 4,250 feet of diversions and 11,100 feet of drainage ditches and tile install-
ed.
In an election to fill the expired term of Clayton Cash as a supervisor of the District, James L. Myers, of Franklin township was chosen for a three year term. Other supervisors who complete the board of five members are: David L. Grimes, R. J. Coffman, F. E. Everman and Doris Salsman.
Death Takes j German Dragnet
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.— (INS)—President Truman Issued to Congress this morning the stern warning that unless it provides tin- government with powers to bring down prices and control runaway inflation the nation faces another 1929 eco-
nomic debacle.
The chief executive told a White House news conference that the inflationary spiral has risen alarmingly even in the few weeks since he asked a special
session of Congress to price and inflation controls The President declared:
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, . " ‘ | He added (hat if Congress Dallas Omer Dunlavy, age 70. MUNICH. Feb. 5. (UP) , . * , . lt I v , | (loi-s not provide some wav to Dis-j away Wednesday evening, German police threw a drag..'11 ulm( .. Bwfu ,
throughout the state of Bavaria | ilirIaUomin hI)lrali ., UuMI „ wi „
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Putnam County Hospital had been a patient for
several days.
Mi Dunlavy was born in Putnam county July 17, 1871, son of J W. and Nancy Slangier Dunlavy. He was a prominent farmer in Marion township where he spent his entire life and was well known in that community. He v.as a member of the Methodist church of Fillmore and a mcmj bei of the I. O. O. F. Lodge of Fillmore for more than 50 years. Mr. Dunlavy attended DePauw University which was at that time known as Asbury College. In 1902 he was united in mar* nage to Miss Elizabeth Kersey. Survivors are the widow; two daughters, Mrs. Ruth Morgan of Boswell, Ind., and Mrs. Esther Quick of Fillmore; one brother, Otis of Indianapolis; three grandchildren, Dwight, Nancy
Jo and Marcia Morgan.
Funeral services will he hel i Saturday afternoon at 2:30 from the family residence in Fillmore. (The Rev. A. L. Meredith will be in charge. Burial will he m Fo' -
est Hill cemetery.
Friends may call at the family residence anytime after noon
Friday.
Last Rites Set For Saturday
Mrs. Amanda Alice Fitzsimmons, age 81, Martinsville street,
passed away at the
County Hospital, Wednesday afternoon, where she had been a
patient for some time.
today to re-capture Fritz Kuh.i.j , onetime leader of the German-1 Aim i jean Bund in New York! who escaped from Dachau prison Tuesday under mysterious
circumstances.
Police were placed on the aleit
Manufacturers said black i . ket sales usually arc made by farmers and individuals oi > r whom they have no conti i!. Many farmers, they said, ha v sold slightly used tractors to other farmers at prices $1,000 > r more above the manufai turi i
list price.
The farm equipment mak'-rs said they would tell their sti of Uie black market to the hou. agriculture committee in W ington next week. Rep. Cliff I Hope, K. t , Kans., commit;.' enact I chairman, announced yes' 'that the committee would b I public hearings on the farm
black market Feb. 10. Many manufacturers r-nid t.
already had received invitati fru.ii Hope to appear for U mony at the hearings. Th l they would tell the conimiH. that the only ultimate solid
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come to its logical conclusion| °f B 10 black market prob
and vve will have a crash. President Truman said that
Congress knows as well as lie what is going to happen to prices, and that lie iniends to roil-
Prices Tumble On Nation’s Markets
last night utter a 36-hour search I l* nu '' urging the needed nieasfaili'd to uncover any clues that ,in ' s "" the nation's legislature might lead to Kuhn’s hiding j n’' •'"'g as a chance exists for place. , i preventing economic collapse. The police said they were |
making a concentrated search in the Dachau area and that the Dachau camp had been placed on an alert to prevent additional
escapes.
American authorities maintained a hands-off policy since Kuhn was held for denazification trial by Germans in a German
court.
However, since German police handled the manhunt in a routine manner since Kuhn was unknown in Germany as leader of Nazi activities in the United) States, it was possible that American authorities might step in
to speed his recapture.
It was believed that Kuhn fled to avoid testifying as a witness in the trial of 21 former German foreign office heads in Nuernberg, where lie was deeply implicated in testimony yesterday. | Among witnesses called was Fritz Gissibel, Kuhn’s predecessor as head of the “Friends of New Germany" In the United States, which later became thy
German-American Bund.
Gissibel testified that the German embassy in the U. S. act'd as agents for Nazi Propoganda
Joseph Coebbcls as 1935 by distributing documents and speeches.
After describing how th<
Putnam Minister
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Nazi Criminal Dies In Plunge
NUERNBERG, Feb. 5 (UP) - Field Marshal Johannes Blaskowitz, former German Commander in the- Netherlands indicted as
She was born in Putnam coun-| "Friends ui New Germany" cm- .
operated with the embassy in J
ty, August 18, 1862, daughter f Henry C. and Louie, Finley Nichols. She spent her entire life m
this community.
She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Oren Kivett of Craw fordsville; one son, Herbert, ofj Greencastle; s.x grandchildren;I three sisters, Mrs. Minnie Heavin of Marion township, Mrs. Margaret Baldwin and Mrs. Ettie Spiegel, both of Greenea - tie; two brothers, Lonie and
a war criminal, has committed' Martin Nichols, both of Marion| ^ Harlan, of Greencastle,
suicide by leaping over a guard
NEW YORK,
—The luition'.H Commodity and Security markets went into a [ fre>.h tnilspin fdoay, following j yesterday's sweeping declines. Grains in Chicago yesterday ' tumbled the permissible dally j limlls up to ten cents a bushe* 1 and stocks on the New York Stock Exe.hnage sustained llieii worst break in more than nine
months.
Initial losses in the grain pits today ranged up to the. maxii muni allowable ten cent* a bush- ; e| hi wheat and eight cents a liuxhci in e< rn, as a flood, of sell ing overwhelmed buyers at the
opening eull.
Zero Weather Bypasses State INDIANAPOLIS, F’eb. 5 — (INS)—The Indianapolis Weather Bureau said today that a threatened zero wave has by-
passed Indiana.
H,"osiers were cheered at the news as they dug themselves out of tile season's heaviest sn«/w
increased production to satis
Uhe liuged druaml.
When that would he, they was anybody’s guess. Most of the big com pan. including harccster, Alhs Ch. mars, Caterpillar Trade i ami I. Case, are expanding tm production facilities. Internal 1 " al Harvester opened its Lni ville, Ky., tractor plant lad i and expects it to reach a inm mum production of 50,000 un per year next fall. Caterpillar .spokesmen said t company is building two big m
at Dooricd, Hi.,
000,000 expansion p ' which is expected to "greatly L crease” production next y i Manufacturers said th. . ■ i age of farm machinery is eatis, by many factors. During the \v. they were occupied almost 11 tirely with war pro u con i 1946 several of the major 1 panics, including Allis Chain-'
the propaganda ministry, Gissibel related how he was replac-
ed by Kuhn.
Harlan Awarded Purdue Degree LAFAYETTE, Ind. Feb. 5 -
juries, including a crushed chest.
The jump was made just be-
fore Blaakowitz was cheduled to go on trial for war crimes with
14 other top Nazi leaders. The trial of the other military
leaders opened this morning
was touched off by Gov. Ben j whUe Blaakowitz lay dying in
rail outside his cell in Nuonberg jail, it was announced today. American authorities said Biaskowitz leaped 30 feet into the courtyard of Nuenberg prison last night and died in the
hospital today from multiple in-1 in charge. Burial will be in the
township. The husband and two I Ea^elor of Science in Physical grandchildren preceded her in| E<llR . alioni was awarded his dednath. j g rt . e a t the 87th Commencement Funeral services wil Ibe heldj Exercises of Purdue University Saturday morning at 10 o’clock, hcld Sunday morning, Feb. 1, in from the Rector Funeral Homc.; thc i, al | ()f Music. The degrees The Rev. Dallas Rissler will be W er.e conferred by Dr. Frederick
distributing Nazi litnature froml which has nearly cHmlnateti
(raffle on many roads aftn causing tiiuiiy deaths and aeci
dents.
A serious coal shortage tie. veloped in various parts of the
state.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 5.— (INS) Tile administration warned Congress loday (hat failure to curb grain consumption by whiskey manufacturers will jeopardize the whole, food conservation program and may cause It to fail far short of the
goal.
Lnnry of Arkansas, (vho announced the Democratic state committee would impound the proceeds of the party’s Jeffer-son-Jackson Day dinners on Feb. 19. Similar steps were being discussed in other southern stat-
es.
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the hispital. It is the 12th and last war crimes trial to be stag-
ed here.
His suicide is similar to that of Gen. Franz Boehme, defendant in the first Nuernberg Generals trial, who killed himself by jumping over the upper railing inside the Nuernberg jail.
Stiiesvillc cemetery. Friends may call at the Rector
Funeral Home.
WINTER OF 1917-18 IS RECALLED BY A. J. DUFF
A. J. Duff reported this morning that his old coal hauling records show that during the winter of 1917-18, he delivered coal ail over Greencastle on two bobsleds pulled by horses. In those days all deliveries were made with horses as but few trucks were in use.
L. Hovde, president of the University. Recipients of the degrees, which included Bachelor, Muster and Doctor of Philosophy awards, were inducted into the Piurdue Alumni Association by Fritz B. Ernst, Chicago, president of the Association. .MARRIAGE LICENSES
and J. I. Case, were b, "t strikes. Steel shortages hav h, ■ contributing factor, spoi said. Nevertheless, iii".--L 'it farm implement plants are i ning at capacity. St.11, they 1 not cased the tight supply pn
lem.
A spokesman for Intern.! L i.> Harvester said that th' < puny's dealers in all s ' tions oi Uie country had report. I in dividuals engaging in black m." ket operations. An official of Deere & <a Moline, 111., said the black mar ket moves from south to 1 it i with Uie harvest seasons. Wh n southern farmers have th f crops in, he said, they oft.' a a, tempted to eell 1 to northern farmers in d i need of machinery to h o their crops. A Caterpillar tra ti ' r, p sentatlve said that the lb market is equally common m the sale of road graders an > highway equipment. He sn l hud seen heavy equipment vaged frail the wax advertisi b for as high us $4,000 more th.i the list price. Officials of Oliver Curp. Chicago, said that Uie b e market might ahve attrac ■! (Continuril on rime T tirei->
WASHINGTON, Feb. .V— (INS)—David E. Llllenthul warned today that puhlie understanding of atomic energy is the ‘‘only solid ho|Ki” for preventing an atomic war "on a scale Hint has not yet been disclosed.’’ He said that public ignorance of the atomic world breeds fear and that “fear is the brother of panic.”
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Cloudy south and partly cloudy north today and tdi igh! No important change in to - porature. Friday cloudy, w. rain or snow southwest and I snow northwest by evening.
Donald Peffley, Greencastl“, and Anuabelle Sublett, Putnamville. George Hawkins and Rosemary Price, both of Terre Haute.
ALb CnY, N. Y. Feb. ft (INS) —(hie fireman was killed and produetion of the Albany TimesUniou temporarily wum suspended today when a four-alarm fire raged out of control for nearly threo hours. (Continued on Pnan Tbre«>
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