The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 7 February 1949 — Page 1
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IT WAVES FOR ALL
GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1949.
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NO. 97
CROSSING ACCIDENT
uqcnd freight dj; |,KD AT COFFMAN crossing Ikcn wheel caused twelv? Mo non freight train No. I bound to leave th” t 8:j0 o’clock Saturday K-hey were piled up in a jivam on the east side of near the crossing of the
highwt>
cr0 S northeast of the city. Somfof the ears were loaded with W umobile frames, another was loll'd with motors and inis-
freight was th - c , ittered
e distance.
.heel eviiio*ntly broke the crossing and as the nt south the end of the ped onto the cross-ties ail was broken and then were all piled beside the A signal tower was also irn and several hundred
^^ track will need repaii
d .
jen w ere called out and ^ulay the tracks were rei traffic was resumed
overw wreckage. It will be gevaHiaVs before all the parts
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are pick' up and carried to the shops 4 r repairs as trucks from
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MISHAWAKA, Ind„ Feb. 7. - ' tUP) Velma Fisher, 35, South 1 Bend, was in a critical condition at St. Joseph’s Hospital today from injuries received in an accident which killed Donald Lewis Foutch, 34, Mishawaka, yester-
day.
Foutch drove ms automobile
around an automatic crossing gate on which flasher signals were working and Into the path of a New York Central Railroad train, said Police Lt. John Har-
rington, quoting witnesses.
Cars Damaged In
Traffic Mishap City police reported $125 prop-
erty damage in a crash of two autos Monday morning at 8:25 o’clock on Poplar street between
Madison and Market streets. Donald Crawford, driving a
1948 Pontiac sedan, was going east on Poplar, police said, when Mrs. VV. F. Judy, driving a 193 7 Ford coach, pulled away from the curb also going east. Thtwo cars hit resulting in about $100 damage to the Pontiac and about $25 damage to the Ford.
No one was injured in the ac-
cident according to local officers.
Two Break-Ins At Bainbridge
DEWEY WILL GIVE LINCOLN DINNER TALK
.new York governor SPEAKS IN NATION’S CAPITOL TFESDAY
SAYS HER ONLY LOVE IS MUSIC
CARDINAL TO HEAR PENALTY ON TUESDAY CATHOLIC PRELATE FACES SENTENCE BY CO! RI
IN BUDAPEST
TRAIN KILLS FIVE
ONAWA. la., Feb. 7 (UP)-— Bad visibility at an unprotectI id railroad crossing was blamed by police today for the death of | five persons killed when their I" auto was smashed by a speeding ' northwestern passenger train.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7. (UP) —Gov. Thomas E. Dewey will deliver the Republican party’s biggest Lincoln week address here tomorrow night amid a murmuring rumor that he may again run for political office. Recent Albany dispatches to such carefully edited newspapers as the New York Times and the Chicago Daily News have speculated that Dewey might again j be a political candidate. There is some speculation here in Washington, too. but none of it seems to be friendly to the idea The 1952 presidential election !
is too distant and the election of j 1 last November too recent to per- ewnieiux-r* vr ,
.. , ^ r ! SWEEIING into the New York olfice of her manager. James A. nut much discussion of Dewey Davidson, and wearing a mink coat, a swashbuckling felt hat, a
basic black dress and pearls, Margaret Truman tells her first press conference since she became a professional diva that her only love is music but she will go gadding in New York on Saturday nights. Miss Truman is in New York to begin a period of intensive training for her professional singing career. (International).
the csr and other parts were 8C*tter|d some distance, some being Si the creek cast of the
were also most cov-i gated two break-ins at
ered wu i water.
Sheriff John Sutherlin investi-
Bain-
bridge Sunday morning.
The sheriff reported that the offices of the Bainbridge elevator and the Bainbridge lumber yard were entered some time during Saturday night. Entrance to each was gained through the
Grs®i.'itle Boy Scouts will I back way.
join A . all over the j A very small amount of money natiof is week in observance of j waH tak< ' n at the elevator but it
Boy Scout Week, Feb- '
Scats Observe National Week bi..stle Boy Scouts will I
Nat id®
niary Mil to 13th inclusive. This vear Ai be the 38th anniversary fo| scouting In the United SUtesJand plans have been j made fli a two year program to I i carry 4r<»ugh the 40th year O' j "Hie Bogan for the two year
will be “Strengthen the
Ar ®J Liberty” and its main • - s to strengthen scouting
'Se the membership and scouters. which
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was believed that nothing was missing at the lumber yard of-
fice.
Attend Meeting At Louisville
1.5(11
uns into several million
^^■1 men.
Tl^Ai'ii scouts have planned ^^^^■rvenls for Scout Week. |
be a number of win-
^^^Bplay.s and exhibits in
tie store windows. On . the Boy Scouts will city of Greencastle for (Wo hours, and which is lal event of Boy Scout )n Sunday the various will be attended in a
J. W. Earnshaw, SecretaryTreasurer and James Walker, President of Greencastle Production*Credit Association, left Mon. day noon to attend a fifteenth i anniversary Production Credit j .neeting at Louisville, Kentucky,
now in connection with another shot at the White House. Th? talk revolves around Dewey for governor of New York in 1950 or as a candidate for the United
States Senate in that year.
Despite his two consecutive I strike outs as a Republican presidential candidate, Dewey would be a strong candidate for governor or the Senate in his own state. Even the Republican politicians here who do not like him concede that. There are a great many Republicans here
who do not like Dewey.
The Senate vacancy in New York state will conic with the end of the current term of Sen. Robert F. Wagner, a Democrat. Wagner has been ill for a couple of years and is quite incapable of seeking re-election. The GOP urgently needs to gain his Senate seat. It is equally important to the Republican party to mainain its control of New York
state.
On 'the gray and bitter morning after the November election when Dewey conceded dr-feat he said ho would not seek a third presidential nomination. He said in- had "no plans’’ to run for govj ernor again. It is the firm intention of a large group of Republican members of Congress to hold Dewey to his promise to | stay out of the presidential race. But that might not keep him out if he really wanted to get In.
V. F. W. NOTH K All members of Post who ea help with miltiary funeral foi Sgt. Owen, who served with thAir Force, are asked to be at Post Home in uniform at 1:00 p m. Wednesday, February 9. Gambling Taboo In Montgomery
• on February 8 and 9.
Attending the meeting will be some 250 farmer directors and officers of all the production credit associations in Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio. The group will hear such nationally prominent speakers as W. A. Minor, assistant to tiie Secretary of Agriculture; I. W. Duggan governor of the Farm Credit Ad ministration; and C R. Arnold Production Credit Commissioner
The lid was clamped on all forms of gambling in C'rawfordsvdle and Montgomery county
during the weekend.
Sheriff Roy Hardaker issued :i statement over the weekend placing an immediate ban on all
forms of gambling.
In h.s statement. Sheiiff Hardaker said he had “numerous complaints" about gambling both in the city and county in recent j days and that he intends to halt all games of chance "at once." Chief of Police Finis Burkhardt pledged the cooperation of the Crawfordsville police depart-
ment.
"The lid is on," Sheriff Hardaker said. "This applies to clubs and lodges as well as to other forms of public gambling. You
i
.... , . .can't close down onr* rioud ami
The political atmosphere ,, ,,
... — . . allow others to operate," he con-
tin-ued.
The order, Sheriff Hardager said, applies to slot machines, tip boards, punch boards, basketball pools, card games and any other form of gambling.
iual troops are also maks for the week. William
Ki"h“ l ,“wol r S IBAHCE TROUPE WILL use on Wednesday, Fefc. I APPEAR HERE FEB. 14
P. M. in Lhc First I ■ -
Churc h basement. This | Tickets for the Greencastle i working hard to present | appearance Feb. 14, of Martha rogran that will be both ! Graham and her internationallying and entertaining. The ' known Modern Dance troupe will 1 use” is one of our in,", j go oa sale todaj «t Sam Hanna’s i'v«nt(|i-■ the year and ve at • Bookstore, ding to
awaiting Dewey here is not very friendly. Some Republican members of the House and Senate will not show up for the dinner at which he will be the top speaker. Son. Margaret Chase Smith, Maine, and Sen. Edward Martin, Pennsylvania, also will i speak. Out of courtesy to those two some congressional Republicans will attend the dinner who otherwise would have stayed away. And some Republicans, of course, would be on hand but for real engagements which cannot be broken. Sen. Robert A. | Taft told the United Press he
would attend the dinner.
O. E. S. NOTICE
Stated meeting of Morton Chapter 356 O. E. S. on Wednesday, Feb. 9 at 7:30 o’clock. Initiation and .honoring our Master Mason member visitors welcome
Ruby Mauck, W. M.
$10,700 Sought In Damage Suit Damages totaling $10,700 are ought in a suit filed in the Putram circuit court Monday by Aiin rt Underwood against Everett Kingridge, Walter Dorsett and Katie Dorsett. The plaintiff sets out in las mil that on November 15, 1948, tiie Dorsetts were the owners of a corn picker and tractor and that Kingridge was employed by them to operate said machinery Underwood states that about C p. m. on Nov. 15. 1948, he was driving his 1934 Terraplane north on a county road east of Little Point in Morgan county. He alleges that the corn picljcr, operated by Kingridge, was going south on said highway Without lights and was in the center of the highway. The plaintiff says Wiat he attempted to avoid hitting the machinery but the impact threw his Car into a ditch, causing him to suffer severe injuries. Due to alleged negligence on the part of the defendants, Underwood asks $10,000 damages for personal injuries and $700 for damage to his automobile. Rev. Freed Dies At Co. Hospital Rev. Theodore J. Freed, Rockville Route 4. passed away at the Putnam county hospital Monday morning. The deceased was admitted to the hosptial Sunday.
BUDAPEST. Feb. 7 (UP) 1 Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty was I reported kept under constant j watch in his prison cell today while awaiting the verdict >t tv | Budapest peoples court tonio, | row morning ((2 a. m. CST). j Government press official • 1 said the cardinal celebrated a j solitary mass Sunday in an of 1 fice in his prison building, tb ■ I same one containing the court in which he was tried. It was imdcrsioow that spei - i'. guards were standing a fulltime vigil over the cardinal and his six co-dependants. Maximum penalty for the charges again.-.; the prelate is death by hanging, which was demanded by the prosecution when the three-day trial ended Saturday. Hungarian press accounts of the last day of the trial emphasized the cardinal's statement that he “regrets" his conflut with the law and also his call f-.i
peace.
The accounts, almost uniform in content, underplayed or overlooked his statement that "I wa not and am not an enemy of the Hungarian people" and "I did
The dead were Clarence Dahl, about 25. his wife Kathleen, 23 two sons, Richard, 4, and Dennis, 2; a id Phyllis Dahl, 18, sister of Clarence, all of Whiting. la. Police said visibility at the i ressing is “very poor and trains go through here pretty fast.” BULLETINS
Bums Fatal To Maynard Fuqua TERRE HAUTE, hid., Feb. 7. — (INS) — Flames whieh deslroyed a one room shack today injured fatally a 50 year old invalid at Terre Haute. He was Maynard Fuqua, a former Putnam county farmer, who had been an invalid for 11 years.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 7.— (INS)—The administration loda> asked Congress to furnish an additional five billion, 580 million dollars tor continual inn 1 of the European Recovery Pro-
gram,
NEW WINTER STORM WHIPS OUT OF WEST
WIND AND SNOW ROAR OUT OF ROCKIES HEADEfl) EAST
LONDON, Feb. 7.—(UP)— Prime Minister Clement R. Atnot and do not have any conflict ' ,, Her today Iurued down a sug-
with the Hungarian worker.’’ , _ , ! gestion III Hie House of Coniine press also overlooked !!-. , ........
mons that Itrituin seek to arcardinals statement that h .; range a meeting in London !*•-
tanuly belonged to the Hungar- I .
I tween President I riiman and
mn peasant class and ‘‘I die m t ,, , . .
i Premier .Inset Stalin,
want to deprive anv social elat; 1
r . . , . , , His rejection came a few moof any right whatever which was , , ,, „ ... . ... , incuts after iintish .Minister id
their due.’’
, . , Stale llcctor McNeil had given
Instead the papers said tn . a sharp negative to a suggestion
eardmal in his final slat ‘i>i<“ i I „ . .
. , I that Russia lie invited to join the
before the court “defended hie I , . ...
,„ . ’ proposed North Atlantic Secur-
self with his education and prin- ;.
, it> Pact. McNeil charged that ctples” and that “the cardinal I , , ....... , , 1 Russian obstructionist tactics
dared that while he was answer
ing to the court he was als i answering to himself.” Cardinal Mindszenty and hi ; six co-defendants will be .sentenced on a variety of charges, but all are charged with either treason or plotting to overthrow
the government.
The official list of charges
against the cardinal:
“The peoples court of Buda-
pest charges Cardinal Mindszenty with a single continually committed crime of leading an
organization concerned with tb overthrow of democratic sta" order and the republic; with tie
continually committed crime ot i treason; with neglecting to report foreign exchange and wilh I
the crime of speculation.” To these charges the cardi n'’ I
pleaded guilty “in principle an • .
in committing the active i. made (he subject of the bid ( ‘ mcnl.” He refused to accept Hi conclusion that he plotted l overthrow the government.
liud made the pact necessary.
ASSAILS HUNGARIAN REGIME
RITES TFESDAY
to have all Scout parents I'Kls of the Troiip on hand. ^^^lAndrew*, scout muter of 'vill announce his plans I the week. lASON'K; NOTH E Meeting Bainbridge I No. 75 F. and A. M. ».v. Feb. 10. M. M. Deefreshments. S. Hostetter. W. M.
Miss
Ethel Mitchell of the DdPau.v physical education department. The famous group of dance interpretors has been scheduled for a performance here by the DePauw Women’s Recreation Association and the campus chap-
NORTH MANCHESTER, Ind Feb. 7. (UP) Funeral services will be tomorrow for John Isenbarger. 80. who died in Wabash county hospital after a short illJ'CSS. Isenbarger, a Democratic party leader, was elected state representative from Wabash county in 1913, served as Oenio-
ter of Orchesia, modern dance | cratic county chairman
honorary. The two-hour show, to be held in the high school auditorium. ' will feature Miss Graham, Erick
Hawkins, Natanya Newmann,
Years Ago j
GKEENCASTLE
i Helen
Joan
' a ’ :e if-*
Triangle Club met with mise Kocher. John Cartwright was hos the Tri Kappa sorority. LaVerne Snider was here *ech Grove. i Randel was driving a Hick sedan. Fred O’Hair and Miss ase left by automobile on j*veeks trip to New Orleans er southern points. ial dedication was held at Second Ward school 8 on Anderson street.
MeGehee, Pearl Lang, Skinner. Mark Ryder,
Stuart Hodes, Robert Cohan, and
Rorthea Douglas.
A chamber orchestra will ac-
company the group.
DEATH OF INFANT
Graveside services were held Sunday afternoon for the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Austin Jeffries, W. Berry St., in the Roachdale cemetery. The baby died at birth Satur-
day night.
j years, and was a member of th“ state board of agriculture for 15 years. He was also a fotmer
postmaster here.
VERDICT THURSDAY NEW DELHI, Feb. 7. (UPl A special court which tried Nathuram Vanayak Godse for the assassination of Mohandes K. Gandhi last year will announce its verdict next Thursday. Judgments of seven other pe •• sons charged with conspiracy in the assassination, and with unlawful possession of arms, will be handed down at the same
time.
fatal collision
EVAN8VILLE, Feb. 7 Denny K. Allebree, 29. Vincennes, was
JOINS It. A VI) M.
O. J. Rector, well know Greencacstle man, is now associated with H. and M Sales, accord'll; to an announcement nude today Mr. Rector started selling automobiles in 1925. I rior to the: lie was an auctioneer for thirty 1 years and was at one lime a ;■ I soeiated with his brother Charles H. Rector in the undertaking i
-business.
H. and M. Sales are the Green- 1 castle agents for Chrysler a: ! ! Plymouth automobiles, and Mas-! sey- Harris. Case and New Idc
farm equipment.
INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 7.— (INS)—A Republican-sponsored two per lent sales tav hill was introduced in Hie Indiana House of Representatives today. Tin- measure introduced by Reps. Merrctt R. Monks, of Winchester and Lang Hell, ot Dana, would lie used to finance the soldier's bonus and would become effective July I, 1919 ami expire on July I, 1953. All food stuffs would be exempt from Hi<- two per cent sales
I tav.
The G. (». I*, plan is a counter i measure lo the Democratic rccoiiuni'iidation for a one fourth of me per cent surtax mi the gross j income levj and a $150 million
bond issue,
.’.iso introduced in the House i iodai was a civil rights hill calling for heavy penalties for vio-
lators.
Introduced by Reps. Jane Ann Noble, Kokomo and Judson E. Haggerty, Indianapolis, both Democrats, the measure would prohibit denial of admission to any public place because of race,
creed or color.
In event of conviction anyone I found guilty ot violation of the I civil rights act would he liable lo lines from N.1(1(1 lo $5<MI and up lo 30 da.vs in jail. Any |>crsou so discriminated against also could collect from Hie violator
damages up to $300.
KILEEI) AT ltRA/,1 E
EH IIMOND, \ a., Feb. 7.— (INS)—One ol two eseaped Soviet flyers lias declared he does not believe that Russia has Hie
atom bomb.
1 The airman, Peter Pirogov,
BRAZIL. Ind., I'eb. i. it l')| tt | H „ claims Hial the U. S. has Dmiicl P. Dierdoif Hi, a in in ; won half of the cold war ami ,,an ' 1 ' was w hen he "’oo J urges President Truman lo press 1 | struck by a Pennsylvania Rn 1-| , lis attitude toward mad switch eng me. He win ; Kremlin. nearly deaf ami walked into the, oath of the train, authorities | WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.— • sa ''l- (INS)—The government Is plan-
ning to commission 7,000 new tav agents in a campaign to recover about one billion dollars lost annually through Income tax
evasions.
IIy \ nllnl l , rp*n» A widespread storm whipped part of the Roccky Mountains today towards the Plains States and Army officers feared that all their work of breaking roads to snowbound ranches might be undone in a matter of hours. Winds up to 80 miles an hour howled across the mountains. An estimated 300 to 400 ears were trapped on U. S. Highway 40 as 77-niilc-an-hour winds drove snow across the Donner summit between Truckce and Baxter in the California Sierras. Towering snowdrifts isolated La Grande and Klamath Falls in Oregon, Walla Walla in Washington, Boise in Idaho, and Casper, Rawlins and Lusk in Wyom-
ing.
Reno, Nev., was cut off on three sides. Half the. automobiles in Blai kfoot, Ida., were stalled on city streets. Several thousand persons, most of them skiers, were believed trapped in the Sierras. About 2,000 persons were snowed in along Highway 50 between Kyburz. Cal., and White Hills, Nev., near Carson City. Truckce hotel keepers appealed to private homeowners to help them care for the storm refugees. Two transcontinental buses were trapped in Oregon, at La Grande and at Union, in Hie heaviest snowfall of the year. Three overland buses and 50 ears were halted north of Klamath Falls in southern Oregon. Air traffic, including haylift operations, were stopped over much of the area. Passenger trains ran 18 to 20 hours late through the Donner Summit and freights were halted pi together. 'Ihe Weather Bureau said that if the storm continued its rapid eastward movement, it would sweep over the Great Plains by tonight and engulf the Great Lakes and Ohio valley by Tuesday evening. Avalanches halted the Union Pacific Railroad’s Portland Rose at Pendleton, Ore., and the Snoqualniie Pass in Washington was closed by slides. The Union Pacific halted all traffic across Wyoming. A Shoshone, Ida . highway engineer warned that rural roads in the area might tie plugged now “until the spring thaws.” Ranchers prepared to be snowed in at their houses for three
weeks.
Doctors worried about the olight of expei taut mothers and relief planes took to the air wherever possible to watch for distress signs marked in tiie
snow at ranch houses.
A light plane with three persons aboard was missing out of Rawlins. It had been on a mercy 1 light carrying feed and supplies to sheep camps in the area. The new blow followed on the heels of a strong blizzard that swept the northern plains th weekend. The earli T storm closed 40 per cent of Hie roads blasted open in South Dakota by Fifth Army bulldozers as well hi 1.250 miles of roads in Wyoming
and a few in Nebraska.
The Weather Bureau in Washington finally confirmed what just about everyone in the West had known for a long time. An offical spokesman said this wan the worst winter in history
.MARRIAGE LICENSE
Harold E. Unger and Dorothea Mae Shillings, both of Green-
castle Route 1.
Francis Cardinal Spellman, in one of his rare apqiearances in the pulpit, denounces the communistic Hungarian government in jam-
_ , u „ f i 1 K Allebree, 29. Vincennes, was nie(1 g t Patrick s Cathedral in New York. He accused the Hungar-
rr | n \ u ;: ,:x.
Roy Smith of Cloverdale, and tomobiles colli K • charges of treason and eapiom* Cardinal Spellman told the Mr and Mrs Owen Jeffries, south of here. Five other per hug , e congregation there is little hop. ,f saving the life of Cardinal
Greencastle 'sons were Injured. Mindszenty. (International.)
MURDER CHARGED
INDIANAPOLIS. Feb. 7. (UP) Mrs. Azalia Gray, 37 3002 East Fall Creek Boulevard was charged with the murder o: her common-law husband, Wi.-
NXNIvING, Fob. 7—(INS) — NnlbmallMt O mniuimler* are i.diving all available troops In the Naiiking-Shaiighai area for a contemplated stand against the Communists. Red forces report-
liam Selectman, 55. custodian - have crossed the Yantze— an apartment house at that • I bch.re Nandress The fatal shooting took a |Mlln( midMay , M . place Saturday, 1 fContinuMi «ii i*mre roar)
& Todays Weather W ® and © 3$ Local Temperature • Fair and colder today and tonight. Increasing cloudiness tomorrow followed by light rain south and rain or snow north in afternoon and evening High today 25 north to 35 south. Low tonight five to 10 north, 10 to 15 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. .
KT 18° IH" 19" 21" 25’ 29° 32" 34*