The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 25 March 1949 — Page 2
TH£ DAILY 6ann£R, GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, FRIDaY, MARCH 25, \r49.
Viennese Beauty To Wed Chicagoan < HICAGO. March 25—(UP) — ni Hedge. 60-year-ol<J grandfather, said today he was knocked dead for joy" when a 'l-year-oid Viennese beauty contest winner accepted his proposal marriage during a $25 trans- \ Mar tic telephone call. Hedge said the call to Gettn Uauch was “worth a m ilion dol:ar He was packing his bags ,i :d making reservations today n preparation for his trip to Austria to claim her as his b/icle. "The first thing she said was ‘Sam. I love you. I love you, 1 live y u," he said. “Then England butted in. There was somo v. ,re trouble. But she said she'd many me. I was knocked dead
lor joy.”
Hedge became acquainted with f i iolein Rauch's-family a year -:u when his church gave him Hie nar.e and address as persons worthy and in need. He began ending groceries and presents. I learned there was a girl in the family and sent her an Easter outfit," he said. "We began t x. uanging pictures and I fell in love with her." WITNESS SOUGHT
MILWAUKEE. March 25.— (UP) A mysterious “key witness" was sought today for questioning about the murder of beautiful Patricia Birmingham, 16-year-old student. Police Capt. Adolph Kraemor said the witness “developed” during a three-hour interrogation of Milton Babich. 19, who eloped with Patricia's sister, Kathleen, a week ago Thursday. “I’m going out to look for th" 1 witness right now," Kraemer .* aid as he left the police headquar tecs late yesterday. “It’s a man. I have to find where he is. I think he’s outside the city. That’s all I can say at present.” Babich was returned here yesterday with his bride. They were found at Minneapolis after a four-day nationwide search. Babich was held at headquarters as a material witness but Kathleen was released on her parents' recognizance. Babich has been charged with contributing to the
delinquancy of a mipor by marrying hw Kathleen was questioned only briefly but Kraemer spoke with Babich privately at length. H< said "a lot of things came up” during the questioning aid •we're looking into them now." FAVOR SUBSTITUTE WASHINGTON. March 25 — 1 (UPl A group of House mem hers, who helped kill the Ranki.i pension bill, rallied today around a substitute plan to aid veterans. These members said they favor liberalizing the existing regulatio s under which most 65-year-•ld veterans of both world wars, •a he are in need, can get pensions j of from $60 to $72 a month. "That is the way it should have been handled in the first j place." said Rep. Walter E. j Huber. D., O., who was a leader ! in Lie open revolt of the House Viterans Committee against its Chair nan. Rep. Joim E. Rankin. ; D.. Miss. Under the original Rankin bill, all 65-year-old veterans of world wars I and II would have received $90 monthly pensions, whether they needed them or not. The House yesterday voted, 208 to 207. to send the Rankin bill back to the veterans eomj mittee after whacking it to | pieces with amendments. Its acj tion was regarded as tantamount I to killing the measure. President Truman said the i H'hjsc vote made him very happy. The administration was • ppp.-ed to the Rankin proposal from the start because of its
cost.
Whether anything comes o? Uie new Huber bloc pension plan depends to a large extent on Rankin. He told newsmen he sees no need for further committee study of any pension pro-
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Mrs. Martha Lear is critically I ill at her home on N. Indiana St. Mrs. Blanche Snider is quite ill at her home on east Washington street road. Mrs. Albeit Quade of Vouth Bend is visiting with Mr. and Mis. William McElroy and family of Reelsville. William Bee is critically ill at the home of Mrs. Wilbur Chad.!. N. Madison St. Mr. Bee is a brother of Mrs. Chadd. Mrs. Irene Hlnote is spending Friday and Friday night at Liinedale with her daughter, Mrs. William Pitts and family. Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Hymer returned Thursday from Tampa, Fla. where they have been on a business and fishing trip. Those attending the stat* F. H. A meeting at Muncie. arc Mrs. Dorothy Compton, Advisor, Patricia Spencer, State Editor, Norma Sims, delegate; Calita Seobee. delegate. The book "The Nile” by Emil Ludwig has been presented to the Publte Library by the Wo mans Study Club in memory of Mrs. Ida Pierce. The book will be placed on the Memorial SheL’ in the library. Mrs. Anna Cash and Roxie Williams are visiting relatives in Arizona and will visit other relatives in California before returning home. They will be accompanied home by Clyde Cftsh. who spent the winter in Arizona for his health. A report in the downtown section Friday morning that a 15-year-old Greencastle high school girl had disappeared proved to be only a rumor. The sheriff’s jffice checked with Principal William Bishop and found that the girl in question was attendng classes. Immediate action has been denanded by the State Fire Marshal department on a recommen‘ation to remove the nurses' home at Cluver hospital at Craw fordsville. The building, which formerly housed the hospital, has been condemned as unsafe and as i menace to the hospital itself. The nurses’ heme Is located just east of the hospital, to which R is connected with a passageway.
Today’s Markets Hog prices today at the Indianapolis yards wore fully steady with yesterday’s general sales on light and mediumweight butcher types. Trading was fairly active on a r un of 9,000 head which was about 1,100 smaller than the pre/ious day. Good to choice barrows and gilts of around 180 to 220 pounds sold early at $20.75 to $21.25, top $21.25. A scattering of 220 to 240 pounders went at $20.50 to '21. Nothing was done on heavier classes or sows. Vealers were only moderately Hctlve at prices steady to weak. A few good to etwice offerings rate at $30 to $32 with common to mediums at $20 to $29 and culls down to $12. Receipts of cattle numbered 400, calves 400 and lambs 500. real estate transfers John Matklns, et tix. to William P. Matkins. et ux, land In Washington twp., $1.
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Among the little bayou fishing towns threatened by the flood are Rosedalc, Rose Mound, Crosse Tete, West Oak. Shady i.id New Life. T hey are built in jow swampland which would be nundat'd quickly if the rollin'; flood waters reach it. •
The same ,.coding back-water helped
which threatened the bayou area already had crept into the outskirts of Port Allen early today, forcing 150 Negroes from their
homes.
Working in water three to five feet deep, the flood fighters used giant bulldozers to shove great gobs of mud and gravel Up against a fence of posts and barbed wire to form a semi-cir-cular earthen bank around the 700-foot hole in the levee. Army engineers estimated water is roaring through the hole at a rate of 22 miles per hour and 3.600.000 gallons per minute. An estimated 25 square miles of rich sugar cane fields opposite the break, to the north of Port Allen, were covered with three to five feet of water.
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-S0CIIUReelsville W. S. C. 8. Meets March SUt The W'.S as. of the Reetovill Methodist church will meet Thursday March 31st. at the home of Mrs. Minnie Harris for an all day meeting. There wdll be a covered dish luncheon at noon. Remember the chicken supper and bazaar on April 6th
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Washington Township P. T. A. Meets Mi inlay Washington Township P. T. A will meet Monday March 28th at 7:30 p. m. There will be election of officers. All members art urged to attend.
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Motlern Priscilla To Meet Monday Modern Priscilla Club meet Monday afternoon at o'clock at the home or Mrs Abrams. «
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RECITAL SUNDAY Miss Phyllis McElroy will give a piano recital Sunday, March 27, at 3:00 p.-m. at Reelsvi'le High School. The following numbers will te played: Sonata in D Minor, Scarlatti; Prelude, Op. 28, No. 21, Chopin; Nocturne, Op. 55, No. 1, Chopin; Waltz. Op. 69, No. I, Chopin: Elegie. Nollet: Pollchinclle, Rachmaninoff. The public is cordially Invited. area Inundated PORT ALLEN, La.. March 25 (UP) Flood waters swirling through a wide break in a Mississippi river levee today threatened to force complete evacuation of 1.000 to 1,500 residents of a bayou fishing settlement west
of here.
At the same time, the Red Cross ordered 600 refugees spending the night in shelters here moved across the river to Baton Rouge when water eept into the outskirts of town. Brig. Gen. Raymond Huff, Louisiana’s adjutant general and coordinator of disaster relief, ordered a helicopter reconnaissance of the 40-squarc-mtle bayou area to begin at dawn. He said the flood waters art now within nine miles of the thick cluster of fishing villages on the shores of Grosse Tete bayou and It may be necessary for the residents to flee their homes before they are completely cut off. Meanwhile, some 1,200 volunteers and national guardsmen fought a nightlpng battle tothrow up an emergency levee the break that is allowing the
BUSINESS REVIEW BLOOMINGTON. March 25(INS) The Indiana Business Review of Indiana University reported today that Hoosier business in February continued the [ downward trend of January but the decline V-as slower. The Review said: “The preliminary index for February was less than one pet j cent below that of January, in- ! dicating that, on the whole, business continued at practically the January level. Under normal peace-time conditions, business in February is slightly better than in January, but only in peilods of rapid expansion is the February volume much above that of January. “Perhaps the most significant trend indicated among the figures for February was the lack of any expansion among businesses and industries that normally expand their operations during the month. Consumer shortages of nearly all kinds at home and shortages of both capital and consumer goods abroad have kept business more above normal for the past three years thin in any peace-time period of equal length in our history.” The Review said also that newspaper advertising lineage in February was about equal to a year ago and substantially highsr than In January. Bank debils were lower than in January md about the same as a year ago. Building construction was much below January and much lower than a year ago. Seasonally, coal production vas slightly above January. Unusually warm weather reduced he coal demand in the Middle West. Department store sales were less than a year ago but very little below January. Electricity production was much higher than a year ago. Steel continued at 100 per cent production. Farm income from cattle dropped, but that from hogs rose, as both receipts and prices of hogs were above nor-
mal.
APPROVAL PREDICTED WASHINGTON, March 25.— (UP)—Senate Democratic Leader Scott W. A.ycas predicted today that a drive to cut Marshall Plan spending would be smashed and the $5,580,000,000 renewal bill approved by midnight. But Sep. Robert A. Taft, R., O., maintained that about $2,000.000.000 in current European recovery funds remains unspent and that half this amount can be trimmed from the new requeat without damage. Sen. Homer Capehart, R., Indl, set his sights on a $3,000,000,000 cut. Lucas said he believed a bipartisan coalition will succeed in averting cuts in the overall spending program. Foreign recovery boss Paul G. Hoffman has said the $5,580,000,000 program represents a “minimum” figure. Lucas was ready to )ceep the Senate on the job far Into the night to finish action on the measure. The current spending authority expires on April 3. Chairman Tom Connally. D., Tex., of the Foreign Relations Committee and Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg, R., Mich., steadfastly opposed all cuts during floor debate on the bill yesterday. They said the foreign aid program’s first year haa bolstered western Europe against Communism, and they warned that the program must be continued in full force to meet the “critical period” just ahead. '
STATF FARM GLEANINGS Mr. and Mrs. Lee Bontrager of Goshen, were weekend guests of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Virgil. Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Engle and family of Sullivan were weekend guelts of Mr .and Mrs. Carl La} -
man.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Parker were in Michigan City Saturday
and Sunday.
Mrs. Dale Smith and Mrs.
the Put-
namville Home Ec Club serve the lunch at the Robert Orr sale
Wednesday.
Charles Harrington of Terre Haute visited with his daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Dale Smith Mon-
day.
Mrs. Joe Heeke and Mrs. Betty Schwanke were shopping in Indianapolis Monday. | Mrs. Paul Huff attended a I? A. V. chili supper in Terre Haute Wednesday evening. Mr, and Mrs. John O'Connor and Mike and Joe Allen Alexander. of Cloverdale were Sunday guests at the Max Smith home. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Gates of Mishawaka came Friday for a visit with his sister, Mr. and Mrs. Doyle Clover and family. Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Engle aed family and Mr. and Mrs. Carl Layman were shopping in Indianapolis Saturday. Harold Barr and son. Bob, of Michigan City, came Tuesday for several days visit with Mi. and Mis. Fred Parker. While here they attended the Sportsman's Show now in progress at Indianapolis. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Gates and Mr. and Mrs. Doyle Clover spent Saturday at Madison. Mr. and Mrs. Victor Waller and son, Stephen, of Indianapolis and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Scobee of Putnamville were Sunday guests of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Willis Scobee. Mrs. Ben Rukes returned home the first of the week from Marshall, Iowa, where she was called by the illness of her daughter, Mrs. Wm. Kelly. Mrs. Kelly and daughter accompanied her home. ROACHDALE Funeral services were held on Tuesday afternoon from the I Chastain Funeral Home for Ros- t coe Young, who passed away Sunday morning at his home south of Roachdale, with Rev. Bigler of Bain bridge in charge Everett Lewis and Eugene Hutchins sang “Beyond the Sunset” and “Resting In His Love,” accompanied by Miss Eva Williams. Pallbearers were Joe DeHaven, Ben Miller, Ralph Young, Clarence Robbins.^ Richard Watson and Gene Hess. Flower bearers were Lois DeHaven, Mabel Miller. Fern Robbins, Louise | CHemens, Pearl Young, Esther Homberg, Frances Watson. Thelma Hess and Adelle Masten. | Burial was made in Roachdale cemetery.
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