The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 1 March 1949 — Page 1

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THE DAILY BANNE R

RLES DAWES $ SPEAKER AT l Of C. DINNER T|V> mokoav proved ^ BK ..MOXOX NIGHT"

here

annual business meeting )e (jiecncastle Chamber of r ,. e was held in the Gobin ..nal (lunch Monday cvcnn proved to be a “Monon” because Gen. Charles lf Monon; Spencer L.. division freight agen« f; Foster. Superintenct- ( Employment, were in ati (1 gll | “Monon" caps were l|V d each person attending l Iine i. Monon calendars also available for those splendid motion picture ol ..nan's (Tiiteiinial train and la all towns on its line up dawn Indiana, was shown pit seni remembered the gvirti to Grecncastle, while , made the trip to New A!tyber. u grand climax im: to the I rip was lield. B Croshy. eliairniaii of th- 1 i,t hip drive fi/r ll*4t» an- ,,| a tnlal inenibership ol i Hie pr, >ent and more ai r Hi total paid $'>,575 denibci hips. It was an[t dnriiifi the evening that Ininti railroad was the new-

leniber.

iw rew directors were anI a liaving iieen elected, imluded Luther Poynter, i, 1 '"S' Tennis and Willard d The directors will meet "ii iay evening to complete irganization hy electing ofn Pence, retiring pros!pie idetl and in his final rcinatli a number of iniportuiSkI loin; that will likely Unwed during the year. Mr outlined a number of the Chamber has tried to nut and what the final re- [! 'Vfd to be. He said one trouble., is the apparent interest of the members - Ive, ami cited cases to his point. He paid tribute * Ryan ami Claud Webb for up 100 per cent attendance

ids at all meetings.

Dawes was presented by L>. O'Hair, a long-time He said Gen. Dawes el U ii id War 1 as a “buck t " and came out of World It as a Brig. General. Daw. ; told (( f pj, c advant•i sinall ((immunities and si' industry that did not K" at numbers of help is C to the . smaller places. '• ^e Monon railroad will w 'th the Chamber of "'(c in acquiring industry "a its right-of-way at any “nil will aid this community

l r .V way possible,

said th. Chamber of Com‘mist have a plan and thin '"Hat in followed, even I* 11 11 m >ght hurt some indii at the time. He gave ex- !' " f Michigan Drive ami her Drive in Chicago as ex- " ,fa "'y with a plan that l " ll,,Wl "l At the time they * " ideil, they hurt some in'"al.. hut now have proven

. worth.

Daw. , (■it( !( | phe danger of iaxation and the great - "I money as a menace f" r """'"iny and said that ' " w "ik and plenty of it. tdit degenerate into a third

1 nation.

Hawes compared Wash1* a re well address with ' ' n' 'mies and showed "" lis have-.corns to pass lore. ast. He said unless "'••"nued <>■ i-ag. Xw a,

GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 1949.

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NO. 116

COMPLETES COURSE

MIDDLE WEST TOUR PLANNED BY DPU CHOIR n .\i*ri;.\R\N( ks s( hi,i)i i. »n>; It IN INDIANA DURING GONCKRT SKA.SON

GERARD DENNIS: Skilled in Burglary, Romance

BULLETINS

Gloria Horn** it/ i

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^carsA^o ,N '-KF.ENCASTLB ls ii! the Putnam county contest were Hav.’kins, RoachdtUe, fl ' '''' ,llth Reeves, Grrsencas- ' xhmen; Ph ii lip Taylor and tent' n l ,Ck ' City ' 80 P hmore 8l ks 1 ^ onf « and Robert Helm Uly ' • iunior *l Martha i„ rs and Julia Crawley, city, iic!tcm ‘ V Bray Waa here ,rom id^ 8 ' G1 ^ Lyon were n LHlianapolls,

Curpural Kenneth M. Siddons CHANUTE AB' BASE, Febru wry 194:> Corporal Kenneth M Siddons, 22 year'old son of M: and Mrs. Albert E. Siddon; Route two, Clovcrdale, Indiana graduated recently from the An plane Sheet Metal Worker Course, Chanute Ah’ Rase. dpi. Siddons entered the sc vice October J2, 1!H5 and wn stationed at Langley AB - Base Vitginia, prior to coming t C.hanute. He has received th Good Conduct Medal, the Victor, Service Medal and the Paciii Theater of Occupation He serve in Japan months. Hoosier To Die In Ohio Prison COLUMBUS. O., March 1 (UPl Lester Nichols. 4J, Alt roH, Ind,, today wax scheduled to die ini the electric chair a 1 Ohio State Penitentiary B'ii'la\ night for slaying an eldeyly min stcr. unless he is granted executive clemency. Gov. Frank .1 Launch., of Oh ( vaid he waa undecided what ae lion he will take in the cas" Tie U. S. Supreme Court on B’eb. 7 denied Nichols’ apj cal from tie loath sentence and set the ex ecution date. Nichols was found guilty o' first degree murder in the fata shooting on May 6. 1947. of Rev Lewis Whitaker. 76. pastor ot the Pentecostal Church of Gi. in West Newton. He had been arrested earlier and Inter released on bond after he allegedly shot his wife four times in tin d home at Silver Lake. Ind. Whether Nichols gets clemency may not be known until tin day he is scheduled to die. Ohio' governor usually follows the ns ominendatinns of the state parole and prison commission whose decisions usually an not made known until the last day. Watts Receives Temporary Stay MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., March , 1. (UP) Hilbert Austin Watts, granted u new lease on life, contended today he was innocent ol slaying an Indianapolis house wife in 1947. Watts, Negri. Indianapolis truck driver spared temporarily from death in the electric chaii nearly a month ago as he ate his ‘last meal" in Indiana State Prison “death row.” was granted his fourth execution stay by tin U. S. Supreme Court yesterday. Deputy Warden L. C. Sciimuhl said Watts maintained he was innocent of slaying Mrs. Lois Burney when he received word of his latest delay. “Well, that helps,” Watts was quoted as saying. “They ali know I’m innocent. You know it and I know it.’’ The word came in a telegram "rom the National Association 'or the Advancement of Colored °poplc, which has been pleading Watts' case. Yesterday’s decision by the nation's highest court presumaby gave Watts an additional reorieve of at least three months The court agreed to review his ’onvietton after granting him his third stay of execution just before hi was to die Feb. 1. He was to have been executed

March 8.

The widely-known DePauv; University choir, founded th 1911. will make 14 niidwestern I "Ppearances, 11 i n Indiana, dur ng its 1949 concert season thi.. I spring, George Gove, director

lias announced.

The concert season will extern rt i, .Match 1.1 to April 25. 6ir.ee its organization in 1911. the cht ir lias become* one of the utstandmg musical organizuions in the Midwest, and with lie exception, of the war years, as made annual tours through

he, mu'western area.

•■•e choir made 15 mid vi stern ; uid two eastern appearance u.’iiig its spring concert season .asl year, including a special onccrt at the 1048 General Con (Truce of the Methodist Church

n Boston last May.

It has appeared on the UBU la.st-to-coast broadcast of the hiuoli of the Air program, and ,'resented a special Christmas oncer! in December ovei a naionwidc hook-up of the Nation

■ I Broadcasting Bjjtciu.

f'hoir concerts during it. r' ng tour it hide the lull iwng Mar. 15, ,'J;30 p. m., B’irst lelhodist Church, Shelbyvllle: i.id ul 7:50 p. in., Grace Methon.I Church, B'ranklin; Mar. 19, I 1 in., Swaitz Auditorium, /eilersonville; Mar. 20. 10:,'M) a. 'i- Wall Street Methodist huroh, Jeffersonville, and at -’Th p n„ Silver Creek High Jchool. Sellersburg. Mar. 20, at < •!0 p. m. Salem High School, )al(in; April 10. 4 p. m., B’irst •lethoJi.st Church, Vincennes, nd at 8 p. m., Folsom Memorial Jelbodist Church. Worthington, tpril 21. 8 p. nn, Wayne Street vlethodist Church, Fort Wayne; t Pii! ^-1. 8 p. m., City Methodist .’hurrh. Gary; April 2.1 at 8 p in.. Court Street Methodist -hurch, Rockford. III.; April ”4 it 7 p ni Sunday Evening Club Orchestra Hall. Chicago. III., and April 25, at 8 p. m., B’irst Meth

odist Church. Paris, 111.

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Ja (ierard Grahani Dennis / •. : Eleanor Karroll

rOHCf OF A DOZEN CITIES athst to the super-skill of handsome Gerard Graham Dennis as a huiglar whose thefts from homes of the wealthy reputedly totaled hundreds of thousands of doliais His nirest in Cleveland also led to revelation of Ins prowess in affairs of the heart Already married In Canada, he lived In Montreal and New 5ork with Eleanor B'arrell for several years After Dennis was caught, police arrested Belly Ftitehie, an ex-school teacher, in his Beverly Hills, Cal . apartment Model Gloria Horowitz is credited with putting police on his t.all, flnternanom,!)

Betty Ritchie

U. S. Sentences

5 Confessed Spies

MUNICH, Mnn h 1 B ive ctm

fcr.ied spies, a Pole an I four Gcimun:;. Were < (mvicted to lav of .spying on American forces iij Germany an i were .sontcec I to pi i o.i term a, hart labor rang-

ing from 12 to 50 years.

ALL is (ft | I I

Denies Charges In Treason Trial

SUB 1 A. March 1 (Ui’l Lad in Ivanov 'i opov, the 12tli defen tant to testify in the mass tiial 1 15 proton la nt ministers, denied today that he had spied or be-

trayed his country.

Popov, :!6, a slight, balding, shabbily-dressed Pe n t cco stal clergyman from the small town

of R Jsse, admitted participating | (rial, which

Tlie alleged leader of Hie asfRtiudge I’ing, The'Wlon MateittlT rlorz. a Dole who iidimltod lie . wa . Polish secret service agrnl | | received the loji sentence of .;()

i years.

Hia four German co-tlefciul- ; ants, whom Szendialorz suid he hired to gather information on American occupation forces for

Poland, were:

Roman Knopp, 24. railroad station porter who said he reportccl j on troop train movements, sentenced to 20 years. Rudolf Barura, 51, sentenced

[to 12 years.

Helmut Shoslok, 22, senteiieeci

j to 12 years.

George Kolodzie, 5'!. seutcncecl

| to 12 years.

Confessions by all five to iirmy investigation agents were- read into the trial before a spceiial I eight-man U. S. Military com-

Kvcrytliiiig who quiet in the office of John T “utlierlin. ouuty slid iff today. Mr. Bulhcrlin A-as via.led by a Daily Banner reporter mt lie was |uc|»aiilig to take a penal farm escapee lo the Michigan City Slate prison am' between 'preparations he said he had not resigned mid

did not intend to.

Gen. Clay’s Order Defied By Reds

Missouri Faces Flood Danger VI r I nltf* <J A i Hiii-uml-iiiiow storm tin b in tile flood dung r zoue ol tli Missomi river basin today a No v Yorkers slipped and -kc led to work over frozen slush laid down by a snowstorm la-'

j night.

A steady snowfall lltfu'igh ". most of yesterday blanketed tli J New York area witli two indie of wet snow in the city and It inches in the suburbs. The atom, was geocinl from southern New Jersey to New Englan I and Wes'

as far as Ohio.

The weather was clear h'.d cold today, turning the slush hit

a tieacheroua glaze.

The midwcalern snowstorm

occupation comm in 1 swept western Kan ia ; and Okie the mission out by lioma and the Texas PHohandl'

B'ons asters wsriied that the fall would he "heavy in localize I hi'ohs.” Rain fell over the i

iiiainder of Texas.

in illegul black market dollar [

deals liul refused to admit charg cs of spying and treason. He wa . the first defendant to testify who has not confessed his guilt. "I transmitted no infornia I

lion." he insisted despite repeat ;

ed attempts by the Sofia district court piosecutor to break down Hs denial ‘‘niy co, science i

clear on that.'

B-leven of the 15 defendants who preceded Popov to the stand made complete aelf-t onfessiMis whicn followed an almost identi | cal pattern. Popov was the firs'

to deny anything.

Similar to all other defendant l I diiHe***•««» ! %•«•* Husband Charged In Wife's Slaying NEW CASTLE. Ind., March 1 t Ur) Ernest Sells. 59, New Gastle factory worker, was scheduled to be arraigned today on a first-degree r.urder charge in the slaying of his 17-year-old estranged wife, Lillian, las’

week.

Sells was indicted late yesterday by a Henry County grand jury in the week-old slaying Sells confessed the killing to Prosecutor Robert Brown same 28 hours after two junk dealer: found Mrs. Sells' battered body near a pool of blood in a deserted lover's lane last Tuesday. Sells admitted he chokrnl slashed and beat Mrs. Sells dur ing an argument over who fatb ered one of jier two children,

second of a seriea of live a week ago yesterday.

is the bcgta.ii

Sen. Capehart Is "Confident 1

WABASH. Ind., March I (JI’I Sen. Homer 15 OapdiH rt,

R . Did., said last night ho wan '’confident” that this mtt ion could overcome the "threat” of [

bim.nuniw n

Capehart told a civic rally tliat t onimunist forces threaten to t'struy the free enterprise nys

RtANKBURT. Match 1

(UP) An eight-man Riu.saan ! repatriation misaion defied h i I ouster order by Gon Lucius IJ. Clay today with a blunt report that it had no intention of getting out of the American zone ol

Gcniiany.

The U. S. dor ordered

last midnight Hut long past the deadline, the Russians were sti!l in the red sandst'ine building near U. S. military government headquarters, and showed no

signs of departing.

"We have no intention of icuv I ing B'l ankfurt,' 'it spoken nan foi ! ! Hie mission told the Unite’. I I Press, ''it you want uny f'Urtlie ' l ! mfoii i at ion you must get it froni

i iiencral (’lay.”

| Clay was not available at om e j j lor comment. He was in confer- | | rfu'e with the British and B’rencli | military governors, Sir Br'an i Robertson and (Jen. Pico re'

Koenig.

SI KS ( OMLDIAN

HOLLY WOOt>, March 1 tUP) Robert I >. Van Vleck ot Han Jose. Cal., has filed a $50,(KM) iaiiiage .suit against Comedian Loui Costdlo, < barging he gave j Costello i iglils to inaiket an ic:

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tom ..." he said the challengt to America from such forces is 'the iiK-st non-jiolitical Issue facing the American people today" "Americans who arc deterininto contirwJe the system under which the nation has progressed and prospered for so many years ire being called upon today lend their most conscientious attention to the defense of our system against Communism,” said Cape hart. FATAL AfX IIBENT

FORT WAYNB5, March 1 (UP) Jennie Steinbarger. (it. lyrac-use, was killed yesterday when the car in which she was riding collided with a truck or. U. S. 55 near Churubuaco. Another passenger, Myrtle Le:ounts, 65, also Syracuse, was re. ported In critical condition t at Wolf Lake hospital. George E Heltzel, 64. Syracuse, suffered minor injuries,

cube-making machine.

In return, he was to get 49 per cent of stocks and profits ip "Costello Cubes,’’ but got only 15 per cent of the stocks and no nrcounling of profits, Van Vleck

complained.

Today’s Markets Hogs 9000. Bat rows and gills 50-75c lo spots $1 lower. Good ind choice D>O-2,'i0 lbs. $20.75121.50. 250-260 lbs. 20-21. Heavier weights not established. Sows 50c lower at 1550-1750. Cattle $21 Of. Calves 400. Early sales steers and heifers about steady but undertone weak Bulk steers $25.00-$24 50. Some held above 25. Common to 21. Heifers 22-24. Vealers $1 lower. Top $31.50. Sheep 700. Moderately active. B'at lambs about steady. 20-26 Slaughter ewes steady at 10

down.

I’JxpeiLi .said the pi’-cipita:in would arrive Inti today ovei Iowa and Missouri as rain, a l 1 ing to the rise ol riveri januii" 1 with water from the runoff ol winter snows. They sai l aolm snow would full in Nehru iku which also is threatened hy

floods.

Wari'ier weather tlmiiighoii 1 the West an l Midwest also addel to tin - flood (lunger by nieli dig snowdrifts. The New York storm force' 1 • tinnd. to cancel 2911 (lights at !-aGinu'diu B’ield and exti'eniel.v •onr v ability reduced ship movements in the harbor to n iiiiniiiium. The UN Security Uoum il id tjuke Success, 20 miles out of he ’ it v. was foil ed lo t auccl a meeting because only four members showed up. BJnginecrs, who reported yesterday that 92.IMMI acres of the Missouri basin were under water, warned tliat the "Big Muddy" was rising along a 100-mile ice jam from latan Hand near Atchison, Kan., north to the Nebraska border. Lowland residents of the area were reported preparing for a general exodus as the winding river rose more than three feet over flood stage. Cracks began to appear in a gdant ice jam on the Missouri below St. Joseph, Mo., where the river crested a half foot over flood stage yesterday. Residents feared that the snow and rain would increase th* lunger of floods along the big stream and five trlbutario which already were out of theii banks. The tributaries were th' Platte, the Grand, and the Ch&itron, in Missouri, and the Bit Blue and the Republican rivetin Kansas.

Louis Gives Up Boxing Crown MIAMI ItKAClf. Ha. March I — (IN'S)—Joe l.ouis resigned today as w irld's heavywelgitt boxing champion niter a 12-year-reign as Hie feared king of the squared circle, :uid emerged as a big lime fisticuffs promoter in Ins own rigid. Louis retirein) id was nr cm pauii it by an aniueiiieemeiit tha* be bis become imxiug Kllrcetui ol llir lid Tiiatioiiiil fixing (Ini and lias arranged a June bout te.dllixely set far < hh ago. be tw -i n Bizzard < bai !es amt Jersej •Ice Walcott. I lie InternatiC'iiul Boxing C'hii. was described by l.ouis as a new ly funned associatiun ‘Organize, lor tin- betlemM-iil of boxing, il explained ins UNsociates arc Vrtluir II. Wirtz. and James It Norris, nationaily known sport 1 tig ires. Ti e-ism v.iathm will liavr oil ices ill ( .ileago and New York INDIANAPOLIS, 31areh I — HNS)—The Senate today passed (ind sent to Governor Duniy F lirieker a measure which pm »s Hu way for n "salary gratr’ bill. The senators passed House Mil I .’6. which levies a $11) docket lee on all eases filed in Indian.i courts. Tlie vote was 16 to 2. Seven dollars of the $10 is designated lor the stale, while the remaining $5 goes to the county Sen. Gilbert Shake, Yini-cuncs Democrat, spoke hi behalf of I to no amre, explaining that it wa' n method whereby judges can In given a salary increase withoii (osl to Hie slate. A companion hill to the dneke' fee measure I- before the sen '.dors, alter having been approv rd hy Hie House. This hill wouh increase the state allotment foi judges I rom $1800 to a mlnlmitir id $.<100 and a luaxhmmi ol $9600. , WASHINGTON, March I.— tINs)—Tin- House ladoir Com mil lee today voted to start hear ings possibly this week, on "one-package” hill to repeal Ho raft Hartley law and restore in intended Wagin'^ Act. The committee rejected Hu ‘I wo-puckagc" approach sough >y organized jabor—to repeat raft-Hurtley, re-enact Hie W ag tier law and then consider imciulmcids later, II voted down, Hi to nine, a so "lied “two package” resolution ipproved scleral weeks ago by « subcommittee beaded by Rep Kelley (l>) Pa. NANKING, March I.—(INS) —Fhiiicsc ( oiiimunlsl liea'l<|iiar ' is aiiiiomieed loiiigld in a radii broadcast that 25 former North t lima Nationalist army division* will lie integrated into the Re, forces as "independent dixisiond the People's l.iheratiol A rmy.” The troops eoniprised the Na loliulist Fmlrth and Ninth Army ;roups and the Kigldh Army ■ ml were eommanded hy Genera •'u Tsoyi, who siirrenderei ‘ciping to the ( omiimiiists rtiey have since Iieen In-Id It 'eipbig s silburhs. *1 •••* i *» •«••«< «• o r-aig* | NOT SI SPH IOUH

BRANTB’ORD, Out.. March 1 - UP) Goi'don Schwltzer testified at the bigamy trial of his Wife, Mrs. Mellie Anguish, that he thought liis wife's first husband whs “just another boy friend who didn't want me around.” Cfl AKKS IN JAPAN TOKYO. March 1. (UP) — Two earth tremors within five minutes of each other shook Tokyo and Yokahoma today but caused no damage. KITK8 WEDNESDAY

Funeral services for Mrs. Luella Motherly, who passed iway Monday mornlnv, will be icld Wednesday afternoon fro’.i. the Rentschler Funeral Home in Center Point. Among the survivors are, the ’rusband, Samuel, and a daughter Mrs. Edith Stone of Green-

castle.

POPULATION SET AT 7.228 IN THIS CITY C. OF C. BASES TOTAL ON PRIVATE UTILITY METERS The Grecncastle Chamber of Commerce believes that the city’s population is now over 7,000, according to Charles Weaver, secretary of the organization. In fact, Mr Weaver slated Tuesday, the ('. of C. has the population total set at 7,228. These figures were derive I after an extensive survey and study of the utility meters in the oity limits. All coliimereial motel's, which includes business houses and DcPauw University buildings, were deducted. Ten per cent was also subtracted for accuracy. Using a family unit of four as a basis, Hie lotal of 7,228 was reached. Tlie 1940 B'ederat census placed Greencastlc’s population at just under 5,000. If cqrcei t, the 1949 total as computed bv the Chamber of Commerce, is an inerense of ome 2.000 reslienlr, in nine years and indicates tliat Greeneastle is in a healthy condition from a growing and progressi ve standpoint. $50,000 Fire “ Elwood Cannery BJLWOOD. Ind., March 1— 'oopci Canning Co. otficals said a loss estimated el $50,000 today resulted when fire destroyed the main bid,ding last night. Machinery was destroyed, induding new equipment installed ast season. The Elwood fire dclartnieiit sent a Duck to the leene, two miles smith e.f Hie city. It foiigli tlie lilaz" for two houio. GETS PRISON TERM I. T. Thomas, colored, pleaded guilty to escaping from the state penal farm when arraigned before John Alice in Putnam circuit court Monday afternoon. He was sentenced to serve a 1 to 5-year term in the Michigan City prison and was taken to the institution Tuesday by Sheriff John Sutherlin. TAX hearing A representative of the State Tax Board will be in the office <f County Auditor James W. Wright mi Thursday morning nt 10:30 for a hearing on the proposed additional appropriations as outlined by the auditor's notice. New Assistant At H-W Store Richard Beasley lias arriv"d in Greeneastle, where he has assumed his duties as assistant i.naiiager of the Montgomery Ward store here Mr. Beasley was formerly connected with the Louisville. Kentucky store of Montgomery Ward. Mr Beasley has had considerable merchandise experience, and before becoming associated with Montgomery Ward, was connected with jewelry business He U an Indiana native, and his home was formerly in Bedford, Indiana He attended Anderson College. Mr. Beasley will bring Ins wife to Greeneastle to live as soon as suitable housing may be found

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