The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 18 March 1949 — Page 1
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GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1949.
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UL, March 18—(UT) can military invcsUg»tors ircan police said today
s Horace H. Underwood, j Injured
American missionary and 1 ( a pro uinont American flr , may have been slain jmunists in a cast of mis-
identity-
Underwood, wife of Under .vo id, president us 0 f Chosen Christian y, was shot during a g of Wives of faculty -s in her home yesterday -*ly section outside Seoul, slayers were believed to -en Koreans who may tended to kill Miss Mo Sook, an outspoken critic imuntsm associated wita orean delegation to the United Nations meeting
TWO CARS DAMAGED
AT INTERSECTION
City police reported a traffic, accident in the intersection of Columbia and Madison streets at
4:25 p. m. Thursday.
Cars involved were a 194 j Cheviolet coach, driven by Helen Reasor, Putnam county recorder, and a 1931 Ford coupe, driven by Charles Custis, South Crown street. Considerable damage resulted but no one was
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Mo. who returned retro n the Paris meeting, principal speaker at the ■jig in the Underwood an President Sjiigman jpported the mistaken theory. He said Korea record of being friendlyreign missionaries. He out that none hip been here for 60 years until nderwood slaying, which ribcU as a "terrible shock
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two killers, wearing long aaks, burst into the overpowered the servants rew the meeting into Thing the scene when the entered. .Miss Mo said: Jd a 1 ,ud banging at the r bcr in the middle of my and Mrs. Underwood the door to investigate, ght they .vere som - faculty women. We then a sh it and two masae. came into the room NtlllHfll tan I * MU# T%V«M
Truman Is
Still Confident WEST, Fla. March 18Prcsident Truman saiu that despite the opposisiiutliern Democrats anu he still hopes to get a I>ail of his fair deal pro-
"■ rough Congress.
.aid the events in Conlalely show that the naa three party system. ‘1 had in the presjiential
Jfin last fall.
•ntified the three parlies ocrats. Republicans and * u - The way he said it to indirate that the U dorsn t consider Dixie-
real Democrats.
|in response to athcr quesu rmg a news conference winter White House r - Truman said he still P' i ’ that some of those k r him now will yet nee
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Tats.
■’resident was friendly, u 'an bitter, toward the M ' wh wh has dealt his 11 niun y blows in recent ; "iindcd reporters that tiurt 'd the present session L PVOl, V l c> organizational
IJ ‘Cm time, he said.
. " f thc members of Con-
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,<?r " a chance before we
vt, «t they will do.
1 ®*id, are fundamentally
said we ought to
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'■anapolis.
Welch was Idamobile.
Raphael was re-elected ro " the p “tnam county
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t J t ° h h ; «ray was a tonsil
Police said Miss Reasor wai going north on Madison at th • time of the mishap and that Custis was going west on Columbia
street.
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G-M Will Honor Safety Winners The Jefferson Township 4-11 Club boys and girls who were awarded the General Motors Safety Trophy fer outstanding work in accident prevention on the farm last fall, will be guests of honor at a dinner at the Old Trail Inn Wednesday evening , f Creencastlc Motors, Inc., local General Motors representative which sponsored the campaign. The trophy which was awarded Kenneth W. Harris and Miss Lmcile Smith of t'uj County Extension office at a Purdue meeting last fall, will be given thi Jefferson township unit by John Daneke, General Motors Public Relations reprcaenUt.. ,- and u ' i will also make a talk to thf gathering which is expected t" number close to 10U young men and women and their leaders. Wayne Sinclair was leader ol the 4-H young men aill Mrs Amos Fine was leader for the young women. Others attending will be Harold Taylor. State fH Club leader. Firm Opens In Hew Location
Elmer Whittaker, Commander of the Hurst-Collin-s Post of the American Region is shown as he toueiH-u a maieh lo ihe mortgage m the post home Wednesday evening. Mrs. Whittaker is diown watching the blaze.
Mammoth Turtle Still At Large CHURUBUSCO, Ind., March 18. (UPl Oscar, the main1 moth turtle of Fulks Lake, enjoyed another day of freedom today becaus" diver Woodrow Rigsby lost his trousers. But Rigsby vowed to subdu the giant creature nod bring him to the surface today. Rigsby was all set to dive into the seven-acre lak ■ yesterday when he discovered that the pants to his special reinforce I diving suit were missing. Another pair was ihjivered to him
last night.
Hundreds of persons were dis-
appointed. They had flocked to watch the rupture of Oscar and their autos lined the raodways I to the lake for miles. State po- j
lice had to handle traffic. Farmer Gale Harris, who owns
Fulks Lake, has been trying to capture Oscar for weeks. Some people Ray the reptile weighs . r >00 pounds with a head the size of a man's and a shell as big as n
table top.
A legend was growing. Some sightseers said the turtle was the pet of Chief Little Turtle of the Miami Indians. They sai I the Indians put Oscar in the laki
as a memorial after th< death many years ago. f C'unllnnrO on Two I
Howard Davis, owner of Howard Davis Sales and Service, is announcing the opening of hiu new place of business, located in the Williams budding, on East Washington street, at its junction with the Slilcsville Road. Prior to moving to Ibis location, the concern was located on nortn
Jackson street.
With the agency for both the Willys Overland hi|1 the Oliver Plow Co., Mr. Davis will carry the full line of Jecpsters, Olivei tractors and farm implements Howard Davis Sales amt Service is the recognized agent in Putnam County for both of these popular lines of automobiles and
.arm equipment.
The building occupied 'has just been completed and is mod ern in every respect. A coni modious sales room is on th
west eiIT, and a large service BERLIN. Mureh 18 1 UPl garage occupies the cast end of) The Aniefican-lieeiised newspan-
Ihe building, Built of Indiana
KUTIAItlt FULMER KATES HONOR Alt Y FRATERNITY Richard W. Fulmer, 720 S. Locust street, Greenrastle. has met the eligibility requirements for membership in Phi Eta Sigma, national freshman scholastic honorary foi men, it was announced today at DePuuw University. Eligibility requires a ' gradaverage of half A-lialf B for -ithci semester of the freshman year. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Jervis Fulmer, Fulmer is a freshman in the School of Liberal Aris and is specializing, in chemistry, lie is a graduate of Greencastle High School, and attended Indiana University Extension School. Plan Conference On Church Music
Russ Commander Goes To Moscow
limestone and concrete, thy building is attractive on thy outside as well as thc interior. Mr. Davis, who is well known throughout Putnam county, wa; a successful farmer before entering the automotive field about n year ago. Experienced mechanics are associated with the concern t "crvicc both automobiles, traytors and farm implements. A complete parts department is naintained. Grand Jurors On Fourth Day The Pulnajn county graijl jury began its fourth day of deiberations Friday morning In the special session called by Judge John H. Alice which started last Tuesday. The jurymen arc meeting be dnd closed doors in the commissioners’ room on the second floor of the court house. From all indications, the session will continue until well into riext week.
er Neiir Zcitung said today that Marshal Va.sily D. Sokolovsky. Soviet ’ commander in Germany, is believed to have left Berlin t.> participate in a military confer-
ence in Moscow.
A conference on church music sponsored by thc Crusade foi Christ program, will be held nl Dii'anw University, March 2J-24 The conference vill include discussions of choral problems in the church, hymn playing ami singing and the performance of
sacred music.
Speakers will include the Rt
chiefs 1 ^ cv ' Uteh&rd C. Raines, bishop of
the Indiana Methodist area; Dr Clyde FI. Wildman. DePauw president; Dr. Wilfred C. Bain, dean of thc school of music. Ind iaiia University; Bclhurcl Gross choirmaster of St. James Methodist Church, Chicago; Dr. Van Denman Thompson, director of thc DePauw School of Music, and George W. Gove, choral direct- n.
DePauw.
Dr. Orville L. Davis, director of Crusade for Christ at DoPauw, is in charge of arrange-
ments.
The newspaper, which gave no source for its information, sn'd It was belo ved the Moscow conference might be connected with the Atlantic Pact to be mafle public in Washington today.
MAURIAOK LICENSES John It. Moore and Barbar-i Geraldine Miller, both of Grecncastle. Thomas Leo Davis. Quincy and Bettic Jean Klcbusch. Greencastle.
Pullman Strike Set For War. 31 CHICAGO, March IS. (UP) The Independent Or ler o! Railway Conductors promised to day to “cooperate” with any at-d-mpt by the National Railway Mediation Board to avert a strike by 2,r>oo I’lillinaii ear con lialnrs set for March :;l A. G. Wise, executive vice president of the union, anno'iuc d yesleixlay that the unioi would strike at 0 a m. loea lines Maieh 31 in a dispute ovci working rules. The strike abw will affect Pullman sleeping car? iterating in Canada. The National Railway Mediaton Board probably will step mto the dispute ami may ask President Truman to appoint a act-finding hoard. In that cast he strike would be postponed lutomatieally for at least 60 lays. Wise charged that Pullman ailed lo comply with workinr. rules as Interpreted for eoiuluc‘.ors by the National Railway Adjustment Board. He charged he company failed to pay compensation awarded by the board >r to accredit hours of service. Pullman President Carroll R larding countered that the interpretations applied only to a comparatively small number ol special conditions of Pullman service. He said the union "apparently feels that it may gel more through the handling of it grievances by a presidential fnctfinding board" than through the idjustmcnt board. Bodies Of Local Vets Back In U. S. The bodies of Ernest Campbell, son of Mr. ami Mrs. Arthur ! Campbell. N. Indiana street. I and Maynard Coleman, son of | Mrs. Ada Coleman, of Greenhave arrived In the United Stales from Europe. Both boys Were veterans of World War II. and lost their lives while in service.
CIVIC CLUB HEADS GET TOGETHER AT JOINT MEETING
KILLED BY TRAIN
driving a LAFAYETTE. March 18.
(UP)—James F. Andrews, 33 Lafayette, was killed late yes terday when the light truck h-' was driving was struck by i Nickel Plate passenger train a county hospital. Otterbeln.
Harley Miller, Rotary, Paul Davison, Lions, and A. Fleenor, Klwanis, as they appeared in triple meeting at the Miller school Wednesday evening.
SENATE WILL FACE TEST BY ADMINISTRATION PROMISE NEW MEASURE ON CIVIL RIGHTS LATER IN YEAR WASHINGTON, March 18. (UPi Administration leaders I promised today to test the Senate’s new anti-filibuster rule , with a civil rights lull later this j year although they believe the rule unworkable. A southern Drmocfal-Rrpubli- I can coalition rammed the new rule through administration opposition last night and forced its adoption by a vote of O'! to 23. Thc outcome had been determined clearly two days earlier. Thc vote climaxed a debate which began Feb. 28 and kept the Senate in night sessions foi more than a week. ‘Tn due course the rale will hi tested to see if it works,” Sena’ Democratic Leader Scott W. Lucas told reporters. "Hut I'm iatistied that it means the end >■ •ivil rights logisltaion.’’ Senate Republican LealoKenneth S. Wherry disagreed le contended that the Senate io\v has an effective rule to lim: 1 lebate for the fiiTit time. Luras refused to predict wlier. he Senate would consider om if the civil rights measures None has yet been approved by i committee. The Democratic leader ludicat <1 the test would bo made will m anli-lyiH-hing or an anti-pot, (IX bill He conceded there wa ilnio t no chance that the a I ninistralion could break a ioiiU,'rn filibuster against the highly -ontroversial fair employment it act ices bill. The new rule allows the Sen ite to limit debate on any busi less except a rules change by a vote of 64 senators two-third.->f the entirp membership. Th, rule closes a loophole whleh had made the old cloture regulation ineffective. Dcnmciatic leaders had tough' or a rule fhat would permit two bird of the senators voting t< ■nl off a. filibuster. They wen willing to keep the door open foi ilmost unlimited debate on fu lire changes hi the rules. Sens. Leverott Saltonstall, R Mass., and Raymond E. Baldwin R., Conn., offered the aiminis ’ration-supported proposal las ■light. It was rejected 57 to 29 Supporting it were 17 Democrat ind 12 Republicans while it wn ■pposed by 27 Democrats and I’d Republicans. Some who favored the admin istration plan actually voted against it because they wom pledged to the compromise whirr irompted the southerners to eal iff their filibuster. The vote on the eonipromis, bowed 29 Democrats and 24 R lUhlieans supporting it, and 15 Democrats and eight Republicans opposing it.
Given Offerings For Handkerchiefs
INDIANAPOLIS. March 18 (UP) Mrs. Peggy Taylor, church secretary who handles the financial affairs of child evangelist “Little David" Walker, said today thal David ''anointed" handkerchiefs in return for offerings. However, she denied that the H-year-old minister sold the handkerchiefs and pieces of cloth. David's guardian, attorney James Dawson, charged that income from sale of the handkerchiefs was pari of the $67,800 earned by the boy during a 16month period. Dawson said he. as guardian, was given only about $800. He has filed suit against the Rev. Raymond Hoekstra. David’s manager, for an accounting of the funds. The boy was paid only $1.479.82. Dawson said. Mrs. Taylor, employed by 'Hoekstra's Calvary Tabernacle to help handle David's finances, admitted that articles were carried in a publication, “The Voice of Calvary Tabernacle,’’ offering cloth “anointed by Little David.” But she said that "we don't sell them.” Dawson claimed the articles (Caallan** aa Pave Twa>
BULLETINS
LONDON, March IH.—(INS) —British Foreign Secretary Beviu told the House of ( ominous today that the North Atlantic Pact is “one of Ihe greatest steps toward world peace ami security thal has taken place since the end of the first world war.".. Rev in said that this “historic occasion" marks the beginning of a “new era of cooperation.” In Paris, French Foreign Minister Robert Sohiiiiuui said that Hie treaty aims to re-eslaldiHli Ihe halaiK-e of power upset by Ihe eastern bloc “which has hundreds of divisions poised."
WASHINGTON, March 18.— (INS)—The Senate Lahor Committee today approved a .SUOmillion dollar federal aid to edueation hill and a 35-million dollar ehild health bill. Chairman Thomas (l>) Utah, said that Ihe two bills were approved unanimously although some eniiimilteemen may sponsor amendments when Ihe legislation reaches the Senate floor. The 3IMi-iiiillion dollars whleh the bill would Hiilhnri/.<> for fed eral aid lo cdiieation would ge 10 Hie slates in Ihe fonu ol grants for teachers, salaries anil other selioitl operating expenses 11 would he up In the slates ti decide if any of the money .hoiilil go In non-puhlic schools. . However the 35-milliim dollarin federal aid authorized foi ehild liealib would be sjient foi students regardless of whethei they were enrolled in public ol ion public schools.
BERLIN. March 18 (UP) A 'mir-engined American C-54 air lift plane overshot the runway at Tempelhof airfield in n dens fog and crashed in a ditch tillay None of the crew was injured.
NAHA. OKINAWA March U CUP) (Four F-80 (hooting star pilots of thc 51st Fightci Wing conplotcd the longest >verwatei» flight ever made b_jet aircraft in the far raft an nrees by flying from Naha Ai. Force Base. Okinawa, to Yokota Air Force Base near Tokyo Wednesday, it was disclosed today. The flight of approximately 1.000 miles was made in one houi ind 45 minutes with the shooting stars averaging more thar 600 miles an hour.
Hoosier Madness To End Tomorrow
INDIANAPOLIS. March 18. (INS) There will be a lot of ■econd guessing in Indianapolis uid around the state of Indiana onight. But tomorrow afternoon and •light the kids with the short pants, round leather balls an.l plenty of Jumps in their throats will take many a shot at the netted hoop and will in all probability upset any and all prelourney prognostications. Of course we are talking of the 391b iiiiiiuhI Indiana high school basketball championship finals what else? AI the Athenaeum in Indian. upnlis the state coaches organization will got together for its (iinnal tourney-eve banquet. Robert Nipper, Shortridgc high athletic director, is in charge Oratory will be provided by L. V. Phillips, czar of the Indiana High School Athletic Associa'ion; Ted Sullivan, business man'ger ol the Indianapolis Baseball Club; Mike Kelly, a once famous baseball man; Ossie Cowles, of Minnesota; Bob Higgins, former Penn Slab' coach and l<eo Johnson, of Illinois. Indiana's sporlswriters and broadcasters meet for their annual gabfest at. the IndianapolbH Press Club also tonight. Pictures of the 1948 finals will bo shown but you won't be able to keep the guys mouths shut long enough to listen to any on ■ speaker so that jKirUon of a program will be dispensed with. If Mr. IHSAA Phillips survives the coaches ordeal he Is sure to drop up to the press club to “gas" with the newsmen and mike talkers. Meanwhile, at least four coaches will be sitting on needt s and pins. To wit— Leo I Cabby) O’Neill of Jasper, Bob Primmer fCeattaae* •• Pa** Thrat)
U. S. PLEDGED TO AID W. EUROPE IN NEW PACT
NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY BINDS UNITED STATES FOR TO YEARS WASHINGTON, March 18 - (UP) — The North Atlantic treaty would pledge thc United States in general to help Western F)ur<q»e repel any Russian attack for 20 years. But at a showflown, it would hind this country to take only “such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force.” This was disclosed today with thc first official announcement -if the exact text of the proposed treaty. The text was published here and in Western European captals after months of negotiating on the basic points and veeks of final polishing of thc language. It would be a 20-year ‘‘collective defense" alliance of thc United Slates, Can fla and Western Europe against Soviet Russia, although ,Russia is not mentioned by name. It would cover territory right up to thc iron curtain, including thc Allied zones of Berlin inside the Soviet zone of Gennany. An armed attack against any pact member , "shall be considered an attack against them all.” "Consequently,” the key article of the treaty continues, "they agree that, if such an armed attack occurs, each of them . . . will assist the party or parties so allocked by taking forthwith, and indBllually and in concert with the other parties, such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain thc security of the North Atlantic area." Thc wording i of that section - article 5 of the thousand-word pivot was worked out by Secretary of Slate Dean Acheson after consultation with the Senate Foreign Relations Ciorrinittee. American officials believed that the phrase "such action as it deems necessary" would fully preserve this country's freGlom of action ami especially the constitutional right of Congress to declare war. They hoped for speedy ratification by the Senate after the treaty is signed here early in April. Ratification by all seven original sponsoring countries is necessary to put the treaty into effect. Chairman Tom Connally of the Senate Committee predicted certain ratification, but said there would be exti isive hearings and debate *rst. There is evidence of some opposition, but its strength remains to be seen. A two-thirds vote of the Senate Is necessary for ratification. Acheson will explain the treaty tonight in a nationw'Ua ■adio address (9:30 P. M. CST) over the Mutual and Columbia broadcasting systems. The treaty will be followed by a program to supply Western Flu rope with one to two billion dollars worth of U. s. military equipment in a year Italy To Join Atlantic Treaty HOME, March 18. (UP) The Chamber of Deputies late today authorized the government to negotiate for participation in the Atlantic treaty. The vote was 342 to 170.
® Todays Weather © 3* and ® $ Local Temperature ® Partly cloudy north and cloudy with light snow extreme south this morning followed by clearing In late afternoon or night. Rather cold today. Tomorrow fair. Slightly warmer southwest. High today 32 to 38. Low tonight 20 to 28.
Minimum 6 a. m. . 7 a. in. . 8 a. m. 9 a. m. .. 10 a. m. . 11 a. m. .. 12 noon ... 1 p. in. ..
27' 27' 28' .. 30" . 32” 34° 35 .. 37° .. 38”