The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 2 February 1949 — Page 1
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GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1949. SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS
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council held a brief session Tuesday even-
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the adoption the ..unu*- > th '' P re v»ous meeting.
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the fin the cle tllowei
committee, presented ordinance which was
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]i|Sr Stewart read a request members of the Grecncaatle'Bible Center asking that t|lc m permitted to park n sound!nn k on tiie downtown .streets Saturday night between ,l 1( . hjui.s of 7 and 8 o’clock. CouniJman Green made a motion tlat the request be denied. ]t WM i Councilman the vote was unanimir Stewart appointed nan Black and Councila a committi'e to me6 ^Bjth Mr. Neff of Terre ■ trda to the makin ; ial iiia|i of the city. [ilinan lanig reml a letter nson Larrick which earresignation as a member | I'emetery Hoard. Tin le- j received and made a I
I art olthe record.
Oiflmotion of Councilman j PeaaflBiid seconded by Council^^Hsing. the First-Citizens
r! Trust Company was
Je^^Btrd as a city depository. It As also voted that the city Imy Htiiminnus materials for
during the present Stewart announced the
Jg appointments: Ernest, vning to cemetery board,
I: xpire in IMS.
(Ethel Mitchell as a mem-
|l c ity pai k board. Stewart praised the Mrs. B. F. Handy who
kng from the Park Board. Bs -eived since 19.it* and p-ed but few meetings durlong period of time. j pth Eitel as a member of !
i of Zoning Appeals.
Welch as a member of
of Putnam county.
|si,' :)•■: lin was named ! , J. B. Crosby as a mem|thr Aviation Commission city. Mr. Crosby had
his resignation.
CITY OFFICIALS VISIT TELEPHONE CO. | City officials, following their regular council meeting Tuesday evening were guests of George Nugent, manager of the Indiana Associated Telephone company for a visit through the exchange. Mayor Stewart and other officials 0 f the city went through the exchange and we-c shown the detailed workings of the telephone company plant by Mr. Nugent and his staff. 10 Above Zero This Morning ’The Daily Banner thernometer I egistered 10 degrees above zero at 7 o’clock Wednesday morning Groundhog Day. This was the minimum mark in a iM-hour period from Tuesday’s maximum
of 31 above.
The sun was shinning brightly and at 8 a. m., the mercury had gone up four degrees and the temperature was 14 abovi. All indications were that it would go higher and that the Groundhog had seen his shadow, which according to tradition, means six more weeks of winter. Police Report Traffic Mishap City police reported that a traffic accident occurred shortly before noon Tuesday, just nortii of the Simpson street intersection on south Locust street. It was said that a 1946 Chevrolet coupe, driven by William Hoberl Seat, a DePauw instructor, going south on Locust made a left turn. At the same time, a 19;J2 Ford panel truck driven by Paul Blue, was going north on Locust, and the two vehicles hit. No one was injured and property damage was estimated at $50 by local officers. M. E. Conference Dates Are Listed
MONON AGENT HERE RETIRES ON THURSDAY I' KKD W.VLBK1NG COMPLETING 40 YEARS OF
RAILROADING
Fred Walbring, agent for the Monon railroad, will retire from active duty with the line tomorrow, it was announced today. Mr. Walbring will be succeeded by Art Shipman, present nighi
trick operator.
Mr. Walbring was given a surprise Tuesday night by his bud- 1 dies around the station and a j lew intimate friends who have [ worked with him for many years. I Without him knowing about it I hey purchased a beautiful wrist)
watch, along with a huge supply | WASHINGTON, Fob. 2—(INS)
BUS DRIVER HELD LOGANSPORT. Ind., Feb. 1!. — (UP) A school bus drive was under arrest today on charges of drunken driving. Police said that children tol l them that Edgar Richerson, 61 Logansport, sidi swiped several cars while letting them off th--bus at points in Eel twp., late
yesterday.
Authorities said Richersim was arrested after he returned from driving the school bus 'oute. He attempted to escape after being taken to the police itation. they said, but was recaptured a block away.
Push Hearings On Labor Bill
of “Beaehnut” and because he was off duty attending a birthday dinner, he had to be called back to the station to get "No.. 51 straightened out." Before he arrived, the lights in the station were turned off as usual. He came in, unlocked the door and turned the lights on, only to find his friends waiting. Gwinn En
Senate llepuiilie.inH tndiiy Ins! n neu Hglil again,l what they calleil "steam r< !lcr" tactics by Democrats tu fores- a new labor
law through congress.
Democrats on Hu- Senate l.aliur 4'oiii'iiittee easily beat down the GO." revolt against selieilnled night sessions w’liteh uri- ;l -signed to enable Hie cnin-
llnc fur dosing hearings on Hie ailiiiinislralion’s sibslltute lot
the TulI-Hartley law.
The First Methodist church of Crawfordsville will be the host church for the 98th annual North west Indiana Conference of the Methodist church which will conj venc here Wednesday. June 8. to ! continue througa Sunday, June
: 12.
is- Hamilton was granted i Announcement of the dates for
sign, express agent in the city, j miUee t- meet ifs l ob. 10 dead
made the presentation of the watch. Mr. Walbring was so ^ i vcr-co.ne he could hardly speak his thanks to his friends and fellow wunc uen for tneir kindness. Mr. Walbring was born and i eared on a farm in Owen county near Jordon. He did his first railroad work at Jordon after he had dene farm work and drove a rural route mail wagon for three years. That was 49 years ago Wednesday when he started for the I & L. yhich connected the mines of Owen county with the Monon at Wallace Junction. He came to Greencastle 11 years ago. succeeding Bill Mundy as third trick operator. At that time about 10 trains to one now. were operated, but tney were -'1 short ones and carried small engines. Today one of the huge Diesel motors will h?"’ as mfV i cars as three or four steam on-
engines used to haul.
Mr. Walbring said the greatest change in railroading, durj ing ids 40 years, he thought, was the change from steam to Diesel power, although he had seen scores of other changes in his
lion to erect an office li his business over the |1 'in h Indiana at reel. |e voted that the Boy of the city would take city for one hour during jtui'lay of February 12. White Died it Clinton Falls Goldie Hazel White, age died suddenly of a. jHliack Tuesday evening at Clock at her home in Clin-
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■is survived by the husvoreat White, three atepHn James and Almeda | and Mary Ellen Spencer, Mrs. Lizzie Hart of Mora brother, Charles Millor
Hbridge.
•ites will be held ThursH p. m. from the Clinton thureh with Rev. Raymond l*> in charge. Burial will (tiie Clinton Falls cemetery. fnds may call at the resi- \
lin Clinton Falls.
the conference, as well as for the other two Indiana conferences ol the Methodist church, has been made by Bishop Robert C.
Raines, of Indianapolis.
Bishop Raines will preside at the conference here as well as at the North Indiana conference to bo held May 25 to May JO in the Central Methodist church in i Richmond and the Indiana con- | fcrence scheduled for June 22 to June 26 at the First Methodist
church in Bloomington. Will Train At
Camp Atterbuiji
forty ( years work. During his early years on the road Mr. Walbring said he usually worked at least 12 hours and oflen-time more. Now the hours are only eight. He expects to listen to the Diessel whistles in the future and may do some railroading on his own. but he will spend mos* of his time taking a well earned v acation and doing as he pleases.
Six More Nazis Die On Gallows LANDSBERGE. Germany, Feb 2 I UP) Six Germans were hanged here by the United States army today for crimes committed against Allied fliers and ; concentration camp inmates, j They were: * SS ('apt. Helmuth Vetter, physician at the Mauthausen concentration camp. His subordinates injected gasoline into the
inmates.
Indalecio Gonzales, Mauthausen in mate who became a cam) supervisor and killed at least a dozen other in nates seven of
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2. (UPl Admirutralio:] forces in tie Senate applie.l new .speedup lilies today in an effort to insure that hearings on the .eliuiiiistr lion’s labor bill would end by
Feb. 10.
Tiie move was part of the a I ministration drive to replace the Taft-Har'.ley Aet with Pi dent Truman’s proposal i for a new
labor law.
PiospecLve witnesses were i notified that their testimony | must be held within narrow Urn- | its. The Senate Labor Committee prepared to hear Chairman Paul M. Herzog of the National Labor Relations Hoard toda" Secretary of Labor Maurice I Tobin also was asked to return for questioning by Sen. Robert A. Taft, R., O., a member of the
committee.
Beginning tomorrow the committee sessions will run from 9:.’i0 a m. to 10 p. m„ except when the Senate is meeting and I during recesses for meals. Rules adopted by the committee will require witnesses to limit testimony to proposals "consistent with the- President's program.” They also must limit their oral statements to 10 minutes. although they can file longer .vritten statements There will bo no restriction on questioning by committee members. Opponents and supporters of the administration bill each will be allotted four days.
GOODNIGHT FOLKS (j/ittind BE seein' you in .six weeks. Mr. Groundhog Two Killed In Brewery Blast MISHAWAKA. Ind., Feb. 2 l (UP) A brewery worker was in a critical condition in St. Joseph's hospital today as a result of an explosion which killed two other men. Officials of the Kamm and • Jehellinger Brewery said that Marvin Hetnminger, ’5. Niles, Micbi., was blown cut of a third floor fermentation room and landed on his ieel. They said hr inn to report the accident and then collapsed from shock. The victims w'ere John Guend ling. 75. and Frank Bieshrouck 15. both of Mishawaka. Both men died at St. Joseph’s hospital foil iwing the explosion. Tiie three men were coating vat in the feimentation rouu and pulling it back into service when tiie blast oceured. Thr eon i u.xsion knocked out a wall am "id Lie ceiling crashing down m
them.
h .rernen blamed "accumulated itas ig.'!it"d by an electric spar) H o n un extension cable the men were using” for the blast. They aid the room and most of ilf onlents were destroyed. Damage from the explosion was estimated at $10,000. Cracks Down On Free Plane Rides WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 (UP) Defense Secretary James Forrestal has cracked down on congressmen and govern, rent officials riding free on military planes, it was learned today. He advised the presiding officers of the House and Senate that in the future free air transportation will not be furnished unless it “is primarily of official concern to the national military establishment." And requests by congressmen for rides, Forrcstal said, must be approved as official by a con gressional committee chairman. ’TL is hoped this will result in better service and an economy of effort for all concerned." Foricstal said in a letter to Con-
gress.
GIRL DROWNED
LATE NEWS
NORWAY JOINS
WEST IN COLD j WAR WITH RUSS House Votes 97-1
On Primary Bill
NATION SEEKS INC !<■ VSLD j
SECURITY in TAKING
THIS ACTION
OSLO, Feb. 2 (UP) Nei way) joined the Western Powers in j their cold war with Russia t’>- I day by declaring officially that it wished to join the pn>p,,s"ij J North Atlantic defense part for (
"meleased security
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The government of the til * constitutional monarrtiy of ■’< ■ \ 000.000 inhabitants assured Ru sia that no foreign power wouM , be permitted to c tabli.- h 1, " | on Norwegian soil "as Imi" 1 Norway is not attacked or sub ,
ieel to threat.'- ef at tart.
But. said Norway, the Un "I 1 Nations is not yet .strong eirrc 1 j > provide full protection. There j ore. “as a typical s's'd inm, ountry," Norway was h ping | Vo join a regional defense part
if Atlantic nations.
This tremendously laginfic.uit li'cliiration of policy w.i ■" ,-lined in a short government i ply to Russia’s recent i‘'quc I or information on Norway ;, n! titllde toward the Allanlic iurt In this request Russia noted ' at the Soviets have a eummon ,ottr.dat v with Norw ay The reply meant that Not under the pressure of the , -I I vur has abandoned her traditr nil Scandinavian neutrality 1 iofy Russia and side with I'
Western Rovers.
At the same time Nurw r. 1 onbasNudor to Washington Wil helm Morgenstiorne, amu um - ! j that lie would leave Oslo 1 it I Washington at the end of tl week. He was railed to Oslo P> : advise his government on t
American attitude.
, INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 2.— i (INS)—The Democratic admiit- ! 1st raf inn’s direct primary bill i was passed id I lie llinise of KrprcscntulivcH today. The vote
1 was !I7 fo one.
Although many Kcpiiblicans | voiced opposition to Die measure which provides only for nominu1 lion of tin- governor and United stales senators by primary, only Pep. ( Inirli-s T. Miser, Garrett Itepiihliean, voted against tlo-
hill.
I he House also passed a hill extending for two .years n legal i m inptioii under which women may work around the elork. g. (). p. s|MikeMiien voiced opposition to Die primary hill het a use i! does not inehnle uoniiimtien ot all state officials at the
primary.
Rep Laurence Baker, Kepuhliean of Kendallvillc, asserted: "Who or what lias changed your Hi inking. The pressure )-coups. Tour platform provided Hi,it all state officials should he ! nominated in primary elections.” tn exemption in gross Income lay i-, provided in a loll intmduc- . etl iii lin- Indiana state Senate
1 today.
natnr Willis K. Batchclct, \ngoia Republican, introduce: Hi measure which provides foi a : !,h(>0 exemption instead ot I ,(l(ti> i ir salaried employes am ops exemptions lor retailei> tmin S.i (Mil) to $5,000.
Stalin Suggests Meeting Places
Predicts Delay In Tax Hikes
WATERLOO. Ind., Feb. 2. (UP) Sharon Wilson, five-ycar-
YOLCANO ACTIVE old daughter of Mr. and Mrs SANTIAGO. Chile, Feb. 2. Charles Wilson, was drowned in (UP) The Villarica volcano in j Cedar street yesterday when her 'he Andes mountains, which sled struck the stream’s hank started erupting Monday, was . and she was thrown into the reported today to be dumping water. An uncle of the girl relava into nearby villages from covered the body about 200 feet four craters in its cone. downstream.
WASHINGTTON. Fob 2 l UPi A i Jem derail* tax expert in the House said today it will he May 1 before Congress get: around to President Truman’s request for a $4,000,000,000 tax in-
crease.
This congressman, who aski i not to bo identified, is a toptanking member of the tax writ ing House Ways and Means Cim mittee. He said other legislati'ir including the Presidents’ prof ms als for expanding the sociart j security program. will take | priority over taxes. The conmlttee n< w i" woikln.: I on the administration bill to r\ I < ontlniHHl on l'ii|£«» I diii i NO KM ItKT TO 11 hit NEW' YORK, Fi b. 2 (UP) Mrs. Gilbert P. Sinioi • ehieg,today in a suit for divn'-e thrt her husband, a see re' agent I, 1 the Central Inlellig-iie. Ag -in of the Defense Departne nl, w unable to keep secret from h f his indiscretions with two other
women.
PARIS, Feb. I.—(INS)—Pre- ; mier otulin said today his health nes ind allow him to travel to i Wash ing I on but lie invited I’resincnl I rmiian to confer witii him at any nl five eiiics in Riilsia or, • at the I'resideiil's disrretion" in Poland or ( /eehoslovukia. Slalin made his statement in u blegrum to Internationa! News Service, replying to a message sent him by Kingsbury Smith, European general maii»,rr, asking the Russian leader if he was prepared to go to Washington where President i I 'linaii has said lie is willing to intel with him at any time. W ASHINGTON, Feb. 2. (INS) -The \\ bile House reiterated G day that President Truman is e. iiliug to meet Soviet Premier • Inliu in Washington to discuss i inruns ot ending the "(-old v\.11." i -si leidi.il Secretary ( liarh-s Ross refused comment, how- , .‘i, on Slalin’s latest statement lo i\s suggesting a meeting will) Mr. Truman in Russia, Poland, or ( /eehoslovukia.
MANY INDIANS ARE STARVING IN TWO STATES
KED.MEN REPORTED DYING IN SOUTH DAKOTA AND ARIZONA
GETS FIRST 1949 MODEL CHEVROLET
Years Ago 1 GHEENCABTLB
Groundhog saw his shad- [>’) Cubs 31; Brazil 27. r 8 Grace Browning was in
papolia.
and Mrs. Ott Webb, MissWebb, Claude Webb. Mr'. M r s. Elmer Blue and Mr. Irs. Ora Day left on a l' K trip to the Lower Rio la Valley. I* Mnn-r Seller entertained [a party in honor of her son, Ob's eleventh birthday.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. Feb 2 (INS l The Indiana National Guard and the Jbth / Infantry Division again will come to Camp Atterbury for their sum-
mer field training.
General Robinson Hitchcock, state adjutant general, announc- j
ed that the Indiana national | whom he helped push into
Guard and the 38th Infantry 1 latrine pit. division are to be at the camp I Karl Schroegler
July 31 to August 14
Simultaneously, plans were anI nouneed for the Ohio National J Guardsmen ard the 37th InfanI try division to use Camp Alter bury for their summer field I training Aug. 14 to 28. Non-div- • isiotial units of tne Ohio National Guard are to be ino Hoos; army camp Aug. 21 to Sept. 4. The decision and plans for the 1949 su nmer field training were made at a meeting last week end at the Fifth Army .headquarters in Chicago. State adjutant generals. senior national guard commanders, army senior national guard instructors and United
States Property and disbursing! ... officers from the states within [ at Dachau before an Allied mili-
the Fifth Army attended. Indiana is included in
Fifth army area, while Ohio is in Gen. Lucius a Clay, American
the Second army area.
Mauthausen
trusty credited with killing 10 men by throwing cold water on them and jumping on their
chests.
Maj. Albert Heim, who ordered two American fliers shot after they parachuted from a
crippled plane.
Corp. Ludwig Hollacher, who
shot an American flier in the
back after he parachuted. Corp. Friedrich Metz, involved with Hollacher in the killing. A seventh man, Gustave Heigel. was given a last-minute
stay when the army department cabled that it was forwarding material bearing on his case. (
The six dead all had been tried
at
1 tary war crimes tribunal. Their ( the sentenced had been approved by j
M \ N HATH, Minn. Feb. 2 — (INS)—George Stark, (ill, wealth;! Gibbon, Minn., farmer, was seiilriK-ed today I" three and ' i in hull years in prison and fined si.51)1) on a fi-deral charge ot | peonage. \ ., iry vl I I mi ll airl one xvo I O'in G mid Mark guilty of hold ' 4-g an Ven n an horn Mexican lahnri-r in slavery for seven y ears.
(1 y Inlleil I'r,** The Army and Air Force rushed medical aid and food supplies to thousands of starving, pnru-monia-ridden Indians ni Arizona and South Dakota today. Part of the vast haylift and bulldozer operations fighting til • West’s big snowdrifts to reach 5.500,000 head of livestock wendiverted to carry relief to th* dying redmen as rapidly as pos-
sible.
Meanwhile, tiie Dixie Mates endured their third 'lay of freezing weather and landowners in Texas, Louisiana and Georgia feared that their citrus, strawicrry, vegetable and peach crops would be wiped out. Agricultural experts .'-aid it appeared that vegetable grnvvrs were suffering worse in Texas than the citrus orchardists. Fruit growers debated whether to impose an embargo to prevent freeze-spoiled crops from reachng the out-of-state markets All of the nation, except the •xtreme tip of Florida, shivered n sub-normal temperatures. It. was 27 below zero at Interneionai Falls. Minn., at midnigh’ and 26 below at Pembina, ” I). More and more tales of l im-vi misery unfolded as Maj. Gen. I*ewis A Pick's mechaniz. I "anny” of giant bulldozers, weasels and snowplows buck* d through the snowdrifts of th" northern plains to ranchhons ; that had been isolated for week*. A flood struck along the Ouachita river in Arkansas and • virtually the entire population of Calion, about 150 families, fled as water spilled over a 25-foot levee. Some refugees were housed at Eldqrado, Ark., tint ntlejM huddled around campfires waiting for Red Cross aid. The Fourth Air Force reported that its planes have flown 155 haylift flights that carried 1,310.086 pounds of feed to Nevada
livestock.
At San Antonio, Tex , however, sheep raised H. J. Dev'reaux of Rapid City, S. D., told he National Wool Growi-rs Association that the haylift was “a good gesture" but ineffective. He said the only “real relief" would be to open (hi- roa Is. An airlift was set up to carry i’ood, medical supplies and diic‘ors to Navajos snowbound on their vast Arizona reservation. Diphtheria has cropped up dong witii the pneumonia ravaging the distress'-d nation, according to Arizona Health Director J, P. Ward. Pilot Charles E. Marens, 28, Tucson, flew a helicopter to a remote mountain school to carry Dr. Philip Scholtz ami a nurse to the aid of 60 children who were snowbound for a week. “When we arrived, I drank a cup of coffee," Marthens said. "Before I finished tin cup. the lector had diagnosed four cases of pneumonia." Army ('apt. Georg' W. Mag adry abandoned plans to pata--hute to ailing Indians. Many if (he roads had been cleared and a jeep was being flown from Farmington, N. M , to tran.-port him about the reservation. Hupt. Warren Spaulding of th" Chepenne reservation in South Dakota said many of his wards were starving and the situation would become critical unless B uallnucd on I ••• T moi
1*1 RXIV Miss. Feb. 2—(INS)
—Two Newport, Ind., jail ■.enpi s uvviiilod Iraimfer today '" til*- Mississippi Mato I’enilen- ; ary -.M en they tare aeoumiflat-
ed st-iili-iiK s * ( f '*(1 years, 'Ln pair—( liarles Klinery, 28
*d l:i rt inv ilie, lull., and Ricardo
I lie/, 22, Pittsburgh, Pa., wer« I ’r} $ fit Q
iii .oid by Distriet -hidge ,1. C
'-hivcis wii ii they pleadixi guilty III I tree seo.irale counts of Hrill-
'■.I robbery. They drew 15-year M-nt -neos mi two of the robbery ii. urges, tlii- sentence* to run ciinci.'rrei tly, and an additional live year term on the third i barge. I ( OPK.MIHAGEN Deiuimrk, I Ueh 2—(INS)—IDinmark grantI i 1 He Facto or partial recognit.i>U to Israel today.
military governor.
L. E. Sheridan received the first 1949 Chevrolet automobile by Greencastle Motors. Inc. as result of his name being diavn in their grand opening. He is shown above as he received th keys for the new car from Grovi r Noel, of the Greencastle Motors Chevrolet agency.
j WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 — i INS)—House Minority la-ader I Martin of Massachusetts, intro J dueod legislation today to cut | i"trts, taxes I laid, to their prej war levels.
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Fair and slightly colder today. Partly cloudy and cold tonight. Tomorrow cloudy and warmer folowed by rain or snow at night. High today 15 to 20 north and 20 to 25 south Low tonight 2 to 8 north and 8 to 14 south.
Minimum 6 a. m. 7 a. m. . 8 a. m. 9 a. m. 10 a. m. 11 a. m. . 12 noon 1 p. m.
10 13° 10 ' 14’ 18 20 24 ' 27 J 30'