The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 19 February 1949 — Page 1

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THE DAILY BANNER "IT WAVES FOR ALL"

.UME FIFIY-SEVEN

, \KSON IU;VDS DELE K t ,ON TO FERGUSON 1 Tractor factory

L raison, president of th< I ,., S|m ( iidties Corporation guson Implement [putative, will head a <lele 0 f ( ;r , . mastle busineas n ,l 'a 'I. alers on a trip to I ( . t , ir v at Detroit tomorrow, J they will be guests of thf L,,,! Company on a trip I, , ui, big plant on Mont h( . jjiirsts and dealers will J, .special train out of IndI lay evening and Iturn to Indianapolis early |av going from here will Mr Carson, II. J- Key[jolin W Burk, Byrne Hall n l a Buis, Blither Poynter. (•owl, R. C. Beach, I M viler. H. C. Massengale, Nichols and H. K. Malin ! Tr actor Specialties Corpi K B. O'Hair, J. B. CrosR. Raridcn, Rexcll A 11. . ; Bi nnett, Kenneth mflH, l Charles Weaver. i will board the special Lain from points all over thLate, n is estimated that IOC L,Jk: I make up the party.

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of the horse meat sold syndicate, taken into cusfriday Icy Indianapolis poRr ,11 in Greencastlc, initors reported after they the flow of the horseneat from the processilanl in Indianapolis L' al users.

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slid the meat sold hen li a neai campus hamburg(re, patronized almost ex ly by students. It was inI that none .vas sold to kn t 1 il merchants.

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k" Henry Buckner, it Id son of Mr. and Mrs. p Pat Buckner, was acclshot Kriday afternoon by Ktnt. The shot hit between Pt eye and nose. A slight

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Rost he loss of his eye.

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ionage Report l&s A Mistake

I'VAk Iixin-ON, Keb lf» (UP)

' today Ih-it it "public relations faux

J c °mn uniat eapkmage In Ptid Japan.

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I'' S. Eyster, deputy f the army’s public info! die ,,ion. told newBincn ' Army should have noted F'' " port was based on • intintcd information P'lpamsi police files and f fepresent U. S. goyern ktlides.

P"l l he army had no proof F up thi> report’s charge man writer Agenes iH lively spied for the 1 the' Kar East in the I'Po, Pearl Harbor. mi the report should ''dited more carefully, b' knew of no plan to for making the he said he is 'Vortainniako awfully sure” mistake doesn't hap-

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GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1949.

iENCASTLE |0UP TO MAKE DETROIT TRIP

SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS

NO. 108

GERMAN CHURCH ■J LEADER SPEAKS HERE FEB. 23

DEPAIW SPEAKKR

BIMIOP sov.r. j; WILL <.l\ ! SI’LCI.VL CIIAl’EL TALK AT LNIVKIMSITY

IN THE GOOD OLD DAYS

BANNER POLICY “In politics the Banner will he an advocate of American principle. Shall acknowledge allegiance to no old parties, believing that a purification of the politics, and a casting off of corrupt political leaders, is necessary. Are in fa vor of a reform in the naturaliztaion laws of the country, believing that Americans can con trol America without a prostitution of the ballot box. Hav< about as little an opinion of old logics and their anti-progressive spirit, as we have of demagogue and their bland smiles. In short, shall advocate whatever it may deem best for the people and tincountry, fearlessly, faithfully and without favor from any quarter.” (January 3rd, 1854).

Bishop J. W. Ernest Sommer, head of the Methodist Church in Germany, will speak at a ■pe, lal DePauw University chap el at 10 a. m„ Feb. 23, in Gubin Memorial Church. Widely-known for his efforts in reorganizing church activities in war-stricken Europe. Bishop Sommers also took i leading part in the formation uf the Council of Evangelical Churches of Germany. Born and educated in Germany, he lias also studied at the University of Camtoridge, Eng land, ana in Switzerland. He ha served as a pastor in Germany, u missionary teacher in Turkey and as director of the Methodist Rheological Seminary al Frank-lort-on-'Main.

YANK PLANE SHOT DOWN IN KOREA

Held in Moscow

BANKS CLOSED TI'LSUAY The Central National Bank and First (itt/.eiiH Bank and Trust t o., \\ ill Im- closed all day Toes day February •••£ Washington* birthday.

OBSERVATION PLANE DOWNED; PILOT .SHOT I Wit E

Bishop J. W. Ernst Sommer

NEW BAM, PI AYER

KAESONG. South Korn Feb Hi i INS) 'Mic American Ac Force pilot of n light observa lion plane was shot d ,wn tod t\ ny North Kor an Ice h r g'lini In The flier, identified as Cap! Keith A French, of Rosebud Texas, was given In t aid by a Korean doctor for bullet wounds in his left leg and abdomen at ter he landed the plane on a | mad outside Kaeson,;.

Coach Craig of the Fillmore Cardinals is the proud father ol i baby son born early Saturday morning at the Putnam county hospital. The futuie ball playei weighed 8 pniindn, 2 mniees. Both Mrs. Craig and the new arrivu arc reported doing nicely.

Al LEW ED CUM ESSION

MAY CONTAIN CHEMICALS CHICAGO, Feb 19 (UP) — The Federal government and medical authorities today warned that certain salt substitutes containing a poisonous ehemicnl may be on the i.arkct and in the homes of persons on special diets. Tin- American Medical Associatiun said four deaths and possibly many cases of non-fatal poisoning have been reported in the nation from effects of lithium chloride.

Stockpiles Need Raw Materials

PACT PLANS GIVEN LEADERS BY ACHESON

SOME W ANT U. S. TO GO ALL oi l IN NORTH ATLANTIC PACT

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (UP)

WASHINGTON. Feb. 19 (UP) Secretary of State Dean G. Acheson and key Senators appeared to see practically eye-to-ieye today on the North Atlantic

Security pact.

Acheson gave members ofrT.e senate foreign relations committee a look at the preliminary draft of the seven- nation treaty during a lengthy top-secret con-

L'ongress was asked ("day to j ference late yesterday, and com-

MASOMC NOTICE Oyster supper for Morton Masonic member.! and their fain dies Monday. February 21, a* 6:30 |> m , at tin lod;;.e hall Kenneth B. Clodfelter

MUDDY BAINBRIDGE “W spent our Christmas in Bainbridge ami a merry one at that Some pretty clever folks up there. We have one serious (injection to the- town, however, and that is, in wet times, to get around, a person lias to wade in mud boot-top deep. Why, in the name of common decency, Mt Bainbridgians, don’t you nmko some plank walks? Are you too poof, or because you are too close-fisted? Rather think it F the latter. Should think there was little enterprise about the principal property holders in and around Bainbridge ,und that n few deaths would he a blessing to the place. Some ol them, \v* ire inclined to think, after ‘shuffling off this mortal soil’ in ea. • the following description should lie placed on their tombstones. He that giveth to the poor, lem'■th to the Bord,’ could be soliloptised over In the language of Sambo, after this fashion ‘dat may be so, but when dat man lied, do Lord didn’t owe ’em a red cent'.”

Motor Bike Driver Gets Police Ticket

DPU Grad Gets Appointment

George Bell, 17. Grecncastle Route 3, was arrested by city | police Friday night at 8:HI after his motor bike crashed hendon with a 1918 Chevrolet sedan driven by Mias Doris Williams. Th' accident occurred on the north side of the public square Bell wits charged with reckles. driving and was to appear it; municipal court Saturday.

REAL ESTATE TRANFERN Chester F. Query, et us, ti Bisb-r Alva llapeiiey, land m Washington twp . $1. Archie E. Allen, et ux, to Mai hara A. Gcrneth. laud in Greencastle Northwood Addition. $1 John Scheliek. el al, to Albert Solomon, land in Floyd twp.. $1

Appointment of Dr. James |: Warriner as chief resident phy sician of Methodist Hospital starting July i was announced today by Robert E Neff, ho pital superintendent. Dr. Warriner has been a reni dent in internal medicine a! Methodist three years. He is a graduate of Culver High School DePauw University and Indiana University school of medicine He served 45 months in the Army Medical Corps, 59 of which he was stationed in the I’aeifu theater He is married and raides at 1701 North Illinois St.

SOFIA, Feb. 19 t INS) Bulgarian newspapers l- lay Iron' iiigcd charges that a leading Votcstant clergyman in the uUntry has confessed acting as ■ spy lor Britain and the United itales. The minister, Vaa.ul Zuupknv, i one ol la Evan;’,ele al chun a am charged by the ( "inmuii'.st lulgarian government with art; lim ted against (he lute Sofia newspapers said /iiapkiv. 'confessed" during u prclmiiniry Inquiry that he gavi espion ige inful nation tu Cyril Black tinner first secretary to the U |*8. Mission in Bulgaria Black, professor of history al Princeton UniV’isity. has a! eady denied tins charge.

ANNA LOUISE STRONG, 64, one of eight accredited American correspondents in Moscow, is reported under arrest, accused of subversive activities against Soviet. Sh' will be r eported, reported Tass, official nows agency. She founded the Moscow News, English language paper. In 1930. It quit this month. (International)

Plan Box Supper At Putnamville

Rosa M. Johnson,' et at, Vein Bennett, et ux. land Madison twp., $1. Lawrence R. Reed, et ux, Julian Steele, et ux, land Grecncastle twp., $1.

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LARGE HOGS three lots of hogs lorthern part of

Franklin township, a

"There we e I sold in I he | the county,

few days

Officers Hunt For Hidden Dynamite

The Warren Township L' n. Club will hold a public box supper at the Putnamville school building this evening, starting at tB.'IO o’clock. The proceeds will go to the Lions Club cancer fund. According to advance information, a big time is planned by the Lions and their many Warren

Captain Faces Navy Reprimand

INFANT DIFS The infant daughter of Mr and Mr Warner Gillen, of Gosport, died a few hour;', after birth at the I’utnai n cmty hosiit.il Friday night.

WASHINGTON, I'VI). lit (UP) A navy ciiplmii wiei fin ed with an official reprimand Inlay because he made a si in ill;' remark about Sen. Hurley M Kilgore, D., W. Vu He is Capl. Ross Dieidortf formerly public relations offi< ■ for the 11th Naval Disti el d San Diego. Cal. The navv no nntmeed yesterday that, in addi lion to the reprimand, Diordoi ff has been relieved of all his official duties. According to Kilgore's oldie Dicrdorff told a Ha i Diego new paperman that Kilgore wo ju-t "a politician not fit for the admiral to wipe his shoes on.” Diordoi ff referred to Rea Adm. M. II Bleri. until recently coinniapdant at San Diego an I now naval consultant for th United Stales delegation at Hi

DIES c/r' P.l ICNN CLINTON, In i. Feb 19 (INSi Seventeen-year-old Margaret Gmi.'s died today in Vri'iudlio County Hospital al ('Union ot burns .stiff, red in an explosion and fire at her home lied nigh* Mirs Gross, who was griidua 1 ed troni Clinton high school la -' pi big, appiuenlly was Irving l-i re-kindle a kitchen stove fi*e with kerosene when the tragedy happened.

allow the government to financi world-wide explorations for iearce raw materials needed in U. K. strategic stockpiles. The suggestion was advanced by tile joint Congressional "Watchdog” Committee on Foreign Aid. w’hich said the government's accumulation of essential war material stockpiles is slow-

ing up.

In a report to the yonatc Foreign Relations Committee, the watchdog group said that the United States has adequate .siip-

mittee members raised no serious objection to his going ahead with negotiations on its basis. The treaty, designed to prevent aggression in Europe, would pledge the United States to take immediate steps to help any signatory that is attacked. But it would leave it up to the individual nations to decide what these steps should be At the conference, Sen Henry Cabot Lodge. Jr. R., Mass, a-i. : a few other “young Turk” senators protested that the treaty

plies of many raw materials. I should be even stronger. They

But, it added, the nation's industries have to depend on Russia for one-half its metallurgical chromite essential to the steel (i| and chemical industries. It .*aid the number one problem facing stockpilers is maganese, essential to steel produelion. It is imported from Russia. Africa, India and Latin America.

wanted Acheson to pledge U. S. "military or other action” to meet any armed attack in Ku rope.

End To Strike Not In Sight

Governor Issues Gambling Ban

' l "" Zo Cook residence, '■’innklin and College, r l|y damaged by fire ln the attic and believed' Mefectivo W i rin g L 1 '"* McCurry and George [' attl 'ided a Knights of meeting at Cloverdale M Lodge No, 349. I "’minium temperature pro. Ramie! was here from Haute,

igo which we daresay cannot he heat by any other township in he county. 1st 100 head (Wil•iam Stultz’s average 347 gros... 3nd lot 90 head, (William Cun ningham’a) 356. 3rd lot xo head (Johnson Darnall’s) average weight 370." (1854) MORMON NEWS “The las' lews from Salt Luke City state.', hat Gov. Brigham Young ha "ol'ty wives at this time. A livin'; he number, on one day, thee vere nine births. It is stated hat he will he satisfied when 'us wives shall number ninetyline, provided the production hall he a weekly average of one ittle ‘saint’ the year round.” SERIOUS ACCIDENTS ■Last Saturday morning quite a (oi'inus accident happened by tin falling In of the timbers of tin new Presbyterian church. Tin hands were raising a bent when the timbers gave way coming 1 down with a crash, breaking through the second floor, bringing all to the ground. Four men were on it at the time who foil with the timbers, some thirty feet, all receiving severe injuries. Mr. Keller had three of his fingers on his left hand broken, and otherwise bruised, which will lay him up for months. Two other carpenters were considerably hurt but are now walking around Father Shields, who was also on the house at the tffii". was found piled In among the timers and taken out for dead, but we are happy to state he is fast recovering. The walls of the building received but slight damage, and we presume tin: work will go on as soon as hands can be procured." (1854). RAILROADS—"The track upon the New Albany and Salem (routluurd on r»s« Two)

BEVERLY HILLS, Cnl . Feb. Id llll’l Officers hunted today lor 200 pounds id dynamite hid den by a crazed boiler naker who maiketi seven persons for death in a fantastic rcvengi' plot. William Joseph Ward, 55, wa* held in General Hospital on sus plcion of attempted murder a ter hr blasted a mansion Abilin j: .njurmg anyone. He told police he was trying to get even with personnel of the itule Industrial Accident Commission wh i n he blamed for hiiailurc to win compensation fc i 1944 war plant injury.

township friends. An unusually | United Nations. Bieri and Kil large crowd is expected to at- I gore have been engaging in an tend tonight’s event. I intermittent feud for months

MIAMI Fla. Keh 19 (UP) I he heal was on Florida racing rookie ; today, applied by Gov. Fuller Warren's orders for an oninediale and complete halt to oil-track betting. If any money is hot on the nag: or dogs for the rest of the season, Warren said, it must go through pari-nintiiol machine., at the tracks where the state can get a slice of it. Authorities In this racing center pledged co-operation, hut there vva no immediate reaction lr n the bonk making gentry This afternoon.; racing at Ilia lc di however, was expected t; show whether they take the older seriously.

Mrs. Strong May Tell Her Story

WASHINGTON. Feb. 19. • (UPi House Communist investigators said today they may •‘invite” Anna Louise Strong to tell them her story it she in deported to this country by the Soviet Union. Chairman John S. Wood, D . Ga.. said Ilia* at the next meeting of his House Un-America.i Ateivities Committee he will propose that she be issued an invitation. He said that committee niembi rs “will be interested m hearing her testify." Miss Strong, for year.; considered a “pro-Soviet” writer, was arrested in Russia earlier this Week. She whs charged with “conducting espionage - subvertive activily aimed against the Soviet Union."

The front of the h me of Herman D Hover, playboy owner ot iro's night club, was ripped ipurt by a crude dynamite bomb yesterday. The blast rocked Ihi ml ire west Los Angeles area.

Two Hospitalized In Wild Shooting

CHICAGO, Fob. 19 (UP) — Two men were hospitalized touay after a nian they described as “small and wild-eyed shot them as they prepared to take a truck loaded with $40,000 worth j

to Philade!-

of meat and butter

phia.

Louis Sagot, 50, suffered a ihouldcr wound and possible hull fracture. William Adair. 29 Chicago, sustained a head injury. They said the gunman apiroached them and said he was a night watchman. He drew a gun. they said, and ordered them to stand against a wall. But before they could move ho fired twice, hitting both of them, and slugged Sagot on the head with the pistol. They fled and the gunmnn disappeared.

Three Problems For GOP Senators

PHILADELPHIA. Feb. 19 i UPi Philadelphia’s 3.200.000 daily riders hoped fervently today that the city's crippling transit strike would end during the weekend but the chances for such a settlement appeared slim. Them was little chance for hope in the strike picture drawn by Michael Quill, International president of the transport workers union i('IO). Quill told a press conferoTFe last night that "the strike situation is going from bad to worse.” But he left I he door open for another attempt by Mayor Bernard Samuel to meditate (be nineday walkout, which has halted all tins, trolley and subway-ele-vated service In the city. "The Mayor should take recognition of the fact that the union is ready to continue negotiations." he said Quill asserted flatly that the 11.000 striking transit workers "will not go back to work" for the seven-rent hourly wage increase offered by the Philadelphia Transportation Co. "We're going to stand on our I.'(-cent tigure and not move from it." he said.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 (UP) Sen. Robert A Taft, R„ O . said tielav that GOP senators must solve three major problems in order to present a “united front” against President Truman’s labor hill He gave his views on the isres troubling Republican senators as the Senate Labor Committee met to hear testimony on the administraion bill from Nathan P. Feinsinger, University of Wisconsin professor and former member of the now-ex-tinet War Labor Board. (Continued on Page 2)

Sets Deadline For Pension Vote

The G. I. farm class under the room afforded the young farm- hv the use if I vers and g.ui direction of Sam Solliver, Bain- ers a chance to see the com- The grain If elevated into a bin bridge, is shown above as they bines, hay-balers and other ma- on the big machine and from inspected some giant harvesting chines as they are seen in opera- the bin is el v "ted into a wagon machines at the H. & M. Sales tion. The big self-propelled com- or truck, all by the .simple turnRoom Monday evening. This bine shown behind the farmer ing of a clank or a lever It is class meets regularly each week class, is capable of harvesting quite different from the old days in the high school building un- many acres of ground a day ami of horse drawn hinders and der the teaching direction of one man operates it. The grain threshing machines, but is only Mr. Colliver. widely known Mon- is fed into the machine from the a step forward in the trend of roe township farmer and former | front and all the operator has modern farming, which this genteacher. 1 to do is to steer the machine as ' eration has seen reach its presThe trip to the H. & M. sales- everything else Is taken care of | ent peak of perfection.

WASHINGTON. Feb. 19 (UP) Rep. John E Rankin. D , Mis." today set March 14 as the deadline for a showdown vote in the Hon e on his bill to pension old

soldiers.

Rankin said he has started iew parliamentary moves undei which Administration leaders, fighting a delaying action ag

linst the multi-billion dollar vet crans hill, can stall it that long but no longer. The measure provides $90 monthly pensions for all veter ans of World Wars I and II a: soon as they become 65 yearn old. It eventually will cost more than $7,000,000,000 a year. Rep Rankin's House Veterans Com mittee approved the bill earlie* in the week after a hot argu

ment.

old Wave Is On Way East

lBy United t ress) A cold wave swept across the West toward the Great Lukep today and forecasters warned that it would end the springlike weather enjoyed throughout much of the East the last few days. But as temperatures dropped to almost 25 below zero in tha Northern Plains, the cold wave eliminated, temporarily, the threat uf disastrous floods from the deep snow blanket covering the ranges. The colder vieather also hajte^ rains in the Pacific Northwest, the most critical flood area.

NAYS SPRING IS HERE

"Spring is here" says Jesse Beemer, Park street. Turtle doves and robins were singing ■n his yard this morning and he believes this is a sure sign of pring.

* Todays Wenther W > and • * Local Tempetafuie O

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md Sunday.

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