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GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, TUESDAY, MARCH C, 1949.

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D JURY ILL CONVENE ON MARCH IS •• JOHA H. .AIJLEE ISts CALL FOR NEXT * TCCUAY , j ohll H. Alice has called •nam county ^rand jury ‘ 3ion on Tuesday, March .as slated in The Daily a few days ago. the |i, r y will consider various and also inspect th< farm and county jail i session. A Hc i l anyone knowaW viola lions in the coun;hivc tic opportunity of - such evidence , fi,.. office of Prosecutor Durham while the grand meeting. . Ora Reeves Dies In Brazil Ora H Uecves, fnimerly •i. i i Imvn .hip died at the of hr. step-con, Carl in Bi azd on Monday, 7. The survivors incluck* i th: hustiand, O. H. Curl Reeves of Brazil. Reeves. Grecne.iotie R. 4, irles Rei ves of Amherst. T.,e f:im nil will be held at owe Funeral Home at at 2 c clock Thursday mu. Burial will be in Callemotcry. y Reports On Bond Sales i E. Shuey, secretary of S. Savings Bonds Division j.am county, reported that lounty purchased. 76 in bonds during the o' la iiiary. The total for ate of Indiana was $21,u .80 were many who feared 'il hihe i mI of the war might be a concerted c at by the public to cash ngs of savings bonds ano the proceeds. While largo !.. have redeemed their scs. it is a striking fact, and .'it to the people of the y. that thi total of Series : mds outstanding today, of $;!2 000,000,000 is y some $2,000,000,000 lha at the end of AugM5, when the total w'is .,000.000. i r an dial the public as i’a< not only clung to the habit acquired during the dt that in doing so it has ' 1 a great service to the !*l economy. It has im- ’ 0, i billions of dollars might otherwise have con- > i enormously to inflation; same time it has provided 'Voir nf spending power ,an contribute very materjloward the prevention or rat or, of a deflation splr ill the latter seriously 1 n at any time in the fu-

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’Tin. ind., march 8 •van H. Morgan, presiI the Morgan Packing Co., 'is his lather, the late Ivan r gan, as Republican chair°f the Ninth Indiana Disgan was elected without ttion at a meeting at North ^ Saturday.

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2 SURVIVING TRIPLETS PLACED IN INCUBATOR INDIANAPOLIS, March 8 (UP)-^The two surviving infants of triplets born to the blind wife of a blind salesman have been placed in an incubator, hospital officials said today. Mrs. Mona Stamper. ,'!5. gavr rirth to two girls and a bo> yesterday, but one of the girl: lied. The combined weight of the rurvivors was nine pounds, it ounces. * Clyde Stamper, the father, wn blinded by polio when he wa •.even. Mrs. Stamper's blindm si resulted from eyestrain during an illness. The couple has two other child ren, eight and five years old. MANY ATTEND SPECIAL 4-H MEETING HERE A large group of 4-H committee members from throughout Putnam County attended a; special 4-H meeting at the Court House, Monday. March 7th. Thhighlight of the evening was t'if I responsibility of a suoportin; committee group to a successful 4-H Club program. -’ounty Ex tension Agents Miss Smith and Mr. Harris presentee a summar;,’ of the 1948 activities and ex plained the achievement awardreceived the past year (Th' Prairie-Far.ner award and the General Motors Safety placqne) Plans and activities for the coming year were presented. Mrs. Galvin King of Floyd township. Mrs. Frank liouska oi Russell township, Mrs. Wm. Me Elroy of Washington township and Mrs. Hila Brattain of Madison township discussed 4-H activities and sponsoring conmittes as they have been carried out in their respective townships. A summary of the Attica Ro tary 4-H Leaders Training meeting was given by Mrs. Fred Thralls. Mrs. Wilmer Alhin, ,Tr and Mrs. Harold Sibbitt. The recreation session for the committee members' presenling ideas usable in club groups was in charge of Mrs. Carl Myers and Mrs. Gladys Spikcr of the Maple Heights Home Economics Club. Attending were Mrs. Hila Brattain, Mrs. Fred Thralls, Mrs. Harold Sibbitt, Miss Grace Arnold, Mrs. Galvin King, Mrs. Wilmer Albin, Jr., Mrs. Ellen Purcell, Mrs. Geneva Clones, Mrs. Helen Gephart. Maune McOammaek. Nola Vaughn, Mary Shumaker. Helen Reynolds Marie Wright, Louise Gardner. LottiHouska, Thelma Goslln, Mar’ Ella Hurst. Shirley McElroy Dorothy Miller, Frances Nelsnr Eva Boatright, Mrs. K. W. Har ids, Mrs. Marion Cruse, Roxi< Jeiner and Mrs. Leonard Mann. Bryan Renamed To Liquor Board i The County Commissioner: held their regular March sessio: with County Auditor James VV vVright Monday. Most of the session was taken up with routine business, includ ng the allowance of claims filed igainst the county. The Commissioners re-appoint--d Alec Bryan of Marlon town:hlp as a member of the Putnam County Alcoholic Board. He har lerved one term. funeral today INDIANAPOLIS, MARCH 8--UP) Services Will be held to lay for Homer J- Mellett, 7' former state editor of the Indianapolis News and member of a well-known ft#nily of writers.

Bill Odom Sels New Flying Record

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Bill Odom, daring long distance flier, is shown above crouched in the snug cabin of his tiny, single-engine monoplane as he left Honolulu o n a record-breaking. 36-hou'r, non-stop flight to New Jersey. Below his plane is shown passirg over San FYancisco’s Golden Gate after spanning the Pacific Ocean in 16 hours and 46 minutes. A West Coast escort plane is also shown in the bottom photo. ^

LIFE SENTENCES HANDED DOWN BY SOFIA COURT SOFIA. March 8. (UP) The four leading defendants of 15 Protestant ministers on trial in .".str cl court weie found guilty today and sentenced to life Imprisonment. The four pastors named as th*’ lealirg defendants were Vassii Georgicv Zyapkov, 48, Co "greg.itional; Yankn Nikolov Ivanov 13, Methodist; Nikola Mikhailov Naumov, 49, Bapiisr; Georgi Nicolov Chonov, 46, Pentecost. The first four were found guily of espionage for a foreign ‘spy ring.” All 15 of the minsters were charged with treason. espionage and black mark'ting. The foin also were found 'ililty of having agreed to re•i v - money ill'gaily and were e-lcce;! to 15 years and file’ iOO.OOO leva each, deprived o£ heir civil rights, and all theii iroperty (rdered confiscated. She senteces will run concu •cntly. They also wore found guilty ol iprcadlng false rutnoYs and were entenced on this county to six ■eai s impiisonnumt, loss of civi ■Ights for 10 years, and conflsca ion of 500,000 leva worth of iroperty. The same four were foun< ruilty of spreading false report: tesigned to harm the dignity of h ’ Bulgarian people. On thi:•ount they Were sentenced to 13 nais, fined 500.000 leva, had all heir property confiscated, am ost their civil rights for 2f /cars.

GARY WOMEN GET PROMISE OF CLEAN-UP

STORM CITY HALL DI KING MEETING OK OAKY CITY COUNCIL GARY, nld. March 8 iUP) Tw’j thousand angry w.aren disbanded early today after storming City Hall and penning up Mayor Eugene Bvartz and the town council until they promised to clean out widespread vice and

Wtiinbling.

The women held full sway in the official chambers for four h.jura, jamming the hot stuffy building until past midnight. The demonstration siancd io the City Methodist Church where the women adopted a res initio: demanding that Gov. Henry Pohrickcr clean up this steel mil! town if local officials failed tc i enforce the law. Then the women surged two blocks up the street to the <Vv Hall where a crowd or 500 a!icady was in the tw i-story build ing, de randing that the niii” man council take immediate re form action. Swartz had ordered houses oi prostitution closed, but refusi o to take action against pub’.v gambling. When the woicn ap peared. he promised that he also would try to halt gambling. This didn’t satisfy the angry crovd which blocked the doorof the City Hall, making it impossible for Swartz or the counc.l

to leave.

Several women fainted in the sticky, crushing atmosphere, but none was hurt. For more thin four hours they made speechey asked questions, and gesticulate*! wildly In their demand for a general cleanup. The citizens’ drive started a*'

BULLETINS TKTEKBOKO N. J., March 8— (IN8)—Speed flier Bill Odom, the “Lone Eagle of 1949” broke all long distance non stop records for small planes today when he landed at Teterhoro, N. J., airport after p, .5000 mHe jaunt from Honolulu. Smiling and freshly-shaven .Odom was greeted by an estimated 1000 persons on his arrival at 12:05 p. in. EST in his scarlet and silver monoplane “Waikiki Beach.” By unofficial tallies, lie co\rred I he approximate 5000 miles in just 56 hours, akled by a tailwind ami his own personal buoyancy lint cnahled him to keep in constant cheerful contact nith radio control towers practically all I lie way. Odom set two records fur ligh planes — the long distuui’c marland the sole long distance record And he told his greeters tha: despite some concern over Indiana he landed with enuiigh fuel for another .300 miles. In’ said. “I felt just like a business man nicking r, short trip.’’ WASHINGTON. March 8(INS)—President Truman's re quest for two billioa 2;i5 iiiilliiu dollars for labor mid social m eiirity activities emerged virtual ly iinseiitlied today from tin House Ap|Kropriations Commit

tee.

The committee made u saving of less lhan one per cent in lh< administration's budget lor th* Labor Department and the Eel eral Security Agency for th 1950 fiscal year. It rc|Mirtcd out an uppropria tioii hill eonlaining $2,211,791, 085, cut of only $28,271,600 fron the budget requested by Mr. Tru niaii for the 12 months Is-giiininp July I. The committee reduced

BONUS BILL IS PASSED BY LEGISUTURE

GENERAL ASSEMBLY RECESSED EARLY TODAY UNTIL NOON HOUR

Veterans' Bodies FIVE STATES Being Returned REPORT HIGH

WATER DAMAGE

ter the fatal shooting last Friday I Hs small saving further b> voi of Mary Gheever, 45-year-old j illK ail additional 88,830,000 t( high school teacher, when she | h( . Federal Security Agency in lesisted a holdup man. contract authorizations.

The women charged that

crime wave has developed here f rhns, with tin- Uiii.i oi 4lc"a»

MV. and Mrs. Lee Kendall have received word from the War Department, that the body o their sen, Pfc. Hobart Kendall ic rnroute to the United Slat*;.;. Hr was killed in Germany March 28

1945.

Guy Williamson spent the n hidianapolis. • a nd Mrs. Charles Moore a/o’liter, Anna Louise, left ut ° on a trip to Dallas Harry Talbott was hos- / the Wonan’s Study Club Country Reading Club met John Cox. d e ?‘ d ®" llc ^ mumps was ren the Fillmore school.

PREPARE FOR CIRCUS All Boy Scouts of Troop 99 ilease meet in the basement of he Christian church at 7:30,p. n. this Evening for final instrucions and costumes for the Scout hreus Saturday, March 12th The circus will be held in the •ymnaatum of Indiana State Teachers college at Terre Haute ’arents and friends of all Scouts ire invited to attend. Tickets ire on sale at Coan Pharmacy’or iy all Boy Scouts. Boys arc isked to bring patrol flags, costumes, etc. . .

Lutos Met In Intersection City police reported Tuesdaj hat a traffic accident occurrc it the corner of Seminary an College Avenue at 4:50 p. m

Monday.

Police said Mrs. Irma MeDlain. driving a 1940 Chevrolet each, was going north on Ool ege and that a 1947 Chevrolet iedan, driven by Alonzo E. Harn*y was going west on Semtniry. The two machines met i-i he intersection. No one was Injured but some damage resulted in the mishap.

Mr. and Mrs. Ira C. Knoll have received word from the War Department saying the body of their son, T 5 Kenneth W. Knoll who was killed in the Battle ol the Bulge on Dec. 17, 1944, will urivo soon in Chicago an l w L be forwarded to Cloverdalc for burial. They will receive wor. of the time and place of ari'iva later. He was serving With th’ 108th infantry Division. Mrs. Ball Dies From Injuries FOR MYERS. Fla.. March 8 (UPI -Mrs. Edmund F. Bail o Muncie, Ind.. today was the sec md victim of an explosion which jank the 45-foot cruiser Osprey here Saturday. She died last night of injuries suffered in th-

blast.

Mrs. Ball’s body wrus to be flown to Muncie today in c small chartered plane. Funeral arrangements will be made

there.

Mrs. Ray Applegate, alio o Muncie, died Saturday shortly after the explosion, which occurred when the fishing boat wac •bout 50 yards offshore. The husband — Edmund F 3aTl, nationally known jar manufacturer and Ray Applegate, advertising executive who handled ‘.he Ball Co., account received severe burns and broken bones in the blast, but hospital attendants said today their condition is “very good." Both men will fly back to Muncie today with Mrs. Ball’s

body.

KANSAS CITY, Mo., Match 8 (UP) The swollen Missoni i river slashed a destructive path hrough five staosltoday in Its umual spring race to the Misi .Eippi and the sea. Ralph Aldrich, federal rival 1 ibserver, warned of now flood-* letween Lexington, Mn., and the uouth of the Gran 1 river. A’ni n Omaha, anny engineers san he “worst floods are yet V •onie.’’

PUTNAM COURT NOTES

Mary C. Shaw vs. Ralph E. 3haw, divorce. They were marled July 3. 1946 and separated March 4, 1949. Plaintiff asks custody of minor child and all proper relief. Hughes & Hughes are her attorneys. Hazel Gorham vs. Thomas Gorham, divorce. Hughes & Hughes are the plaintiff’s attor-

neys.

The big stream boile I turbul.tly a : it rolled along with Us ellow burden of typsoil torn rom the western ranges as the ig snowdrifts of January and February melted in the war o spring sun. The latest regional Woath. r unau advisory predicted th" ‘Big Muddy” would overflow mth o fhero, spreading water .rom ore to two feet deep ov r owlands. The Kansas City reading early .today was 20.2 feet, only 1.8 feet below flood. Tributaries constantly were pilling more water into the Mi.louri. Already, tributary streams n Iowa had claimed two lives. Tributaries constantly wer" .pilling more water into the Mis juri. Already, tributary streams ip Iowa had claimed two

lives.

Capt. VV. M. Koenig flew over .he flood-stricken areas and lat>r announced at Omaha that th* ixtensive damage already done vas “only the beginning.” “If we have a few days of 6*')legree weather we’ll see nothing but water,” he said. Altogether, the river and its tributaries had spread over 188 - 170 acres of bottomland in North Daku a. Nebraska, Iowa, Mislouri and, Kansas. Thousands of acres were under .vater on the Missouri side near Atchison, Kans. The river isoaled 111 summer homes and residences at Sugar Lake. Mo., a fishing resort. The water stopped traffic over the Rock Island, Santa Fe. Missouri Pacific and Burlington railload tracks in Atchison’s east bottoms. At VV’inthrop. Mo., the Missouri broke a dike and washed over the Rock Island tracks.’ Water sloshed 18 Inches deep along tracks between Atchison and 8t. Joseph, Mo.

due to the influx of criminals at- ! tracted by the city’s vice condi

lions.

But Swartz disagreed. Hi blared Gary’s crime wave on slums "maintained by some of >ur bent people.” The mayor he.rged that these landlord: "milk the property for whatever they can get out of it, and don’t ut anything back into it for imirovcmenta." Swartz said that an unidentified negro woman presented the •orrect picture at the demondration last night when siw Jiargcd that ‘gambling and vie • ire being permitted to flourish in buildings which could bo used t house people who have n.’

homes.”

The women, most of them houscw.ves and mothers, disbanded when an alderman made a formal notion to adjourn. The motion was seconded unanimously by his harassed fellow eouncilmen. The wor.en still were grumbling as tney filed from the council ctiamberb and t cturned to their homes in twos

and threes.

"The police have been ordered to close down all pi .-ntltut on Hid gambling,” Swartz sai’* "However, the conditions which have brought on lha recent erini •

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niial supply hills r(-|M>rtc(t out th( committee had reduced thPresident’H record 42 hillion dollar budget hv approximately l27>/ 2 million dollars. There an six more annual supply hills yet

to he considered.

U. S. SI B BASE, Key West, Fla. March 8 (INS)—President Truman will keep an engagement of three years standing today when he flies to Outral Florida to receive a degree of doctor of hdniianiticn at Kollins College The president Is to speak briefly and extemporaneously at excreise., at 11V: college.

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Seven Granted Leaves By DPU Sabbatical leaves and leaves o' absence for seven DePauw University staff member.*-, for semesters of the 1949-60 school year were announced today by Dr. Clyde E. Wildnan. Del; auw

president.

Robert H. Farber, afsistan’. dean of students, received a sab batical leave for the first semes-

ter.

Those who received sabbatical leaves for the second semester include Miss Vera Mintle, head of the department of home economics; Dr. Hiram L. Jome, head of the economics department, and Prof. Robert Williams of the speech, department. Leaves of absence for the entire year were received by Frederick L. Bergmann and Arthur Shumaker of the English department, and Woodrow Most of the Department of romance languag-

es.

WASHINGTON, Mn-eh 8 —- (INS)—Tile Nation’s Capital wa* saddiiied by the dciitli of 78 yioir-ohl I Democratic congress (Continued on Page Two)

Bishop To Give Lenten Address

Rt. Rev. Richard A. Kirchof fer, bishop of the Indianapoii:Diocese of th* Protestant Epis copal church, will deliver tin second Lenten observance a I dress at DePauw University -i 10 a. m. tomorrow in Gobin Mr morial church. His topic will h ‘•The Foolishness of God.” DePauw’s Lenten observant’ extending through Easter, w 1 feature seven speeches by churcl leaders. Widely-known for his lecture Rev. Kirehoffer was graduate from the University of Southei California in 1913 and from tb General Theological Seminary i> I New York in 1916. He has been bishop of the Indianapolis diocese of the Episcopal church since 1939.

Putnamville Will Have J. P. Court

Glen Gardner Was appoint" as justice of the peace^jit Putnanwille by the Putnam Count' Commissioners during their re a ular monthly meeting Monday. This appointment was request ed by the state police at the Pu namville Post. Mr. Gardner I the first justice of the peace in Warren township.

INDIANAPOLIS, March 8. - (UP)—The 86th Indiana General Assembly passed a soldier bonus bill with a gross income surtax financing clause early today to reward Hoosier veterans for their service in World War II. The bill, now requiring only the signature of Governor Schricker to make it a law, sailed through both houses 25 minutes after midnight, with only a scattering of 13 Republicans voting against it. It provides a $600 top payment for eligible veterans hut holds up the payment for five years while a fund of $105,000,300 is built up from a gross inotne surtax ranging from oneighth to one-fourth of one per cent. Enactment of the law will mean slate tax increases of 25 to 50 per cent for nil taxpayers, including the veterans themselves. Acceptance of the legislative conference committee’s rompromisc on the controversial question of how to finance the payments was a major victory for Governor Schricker and his Democrtaic administration. Republicans capitulated to the Democratic proposal in order to assure a bonus law. Otherwise, the GOP-controllqd Senate could have stopped the bill cold. Approval came 25 m' • after the technical the 61-day legislative session. But in accordance with tradition the clocks in the Democratic House and Republican Senate were stopped to permit a windup of business. Both Houses plodded through past-minute business until 3:30 6. in , then recessed lyatil luain. Only major issue remaining unresolved among the many parliamentary details was the dire .t primary. The Senate refused last night to accept a conference committee compromise and a new committee labored today against political odds and time. The bonus bill passed the Senate 42 to 6. In the House it carried by a vote of 88 to 7. It was sent to the governor. Most Republicans voted for he bill, hut filed formal protests igainst the gross income surtax nethod of raising the estimat'd $105,000,000 fund to pay th" bonus. The Republicans said they had no other choice. The bill will pay veterans up o $600 at a rate of $15 per nonth for overseas service and $10 for domestic. Taxpayers, Including the veterans themselves, must pay more qross income tax to the state. The new surtax rates: one-fourth if one per cent for all income ?arners except retailers, wholesalers, farmers, who will pay a >ne-eiglith of one per cent surtax. When both houses finally re".s.<*"l nt 3:30 a. m., the Sena’e lad solved the problem of motor /(•hide registration fee increase vs. gasoline tax boosts by voting 14 to 0 in favor of higher fees slid killing the proposed one-celt hike in gas taxes. Republicans and Democrats compromised on mly one increase which will fCoBtloaetf •»*» ***** T-*«.

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