The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 5 April 1949 — Page 1
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THE DAILY BANNER IT WAVES FOR ALL"
GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, TUESD/y, APRIL 5, 1949.
grand WARRANTS yED MONDAY HYTKN and PALI. ,|N(. ENTER NOT (il n.TY I’LEAS ^ird of seven indictments t,y the Putnam county ur) last Saturday wa' up late Monday afterDonald Hyten, Bain ute 1, appeared before L lhn H AI lee to answer , e of violation of the slot
1 law.
entered a plea of not His bond was fixed at y trial was set for May ) dO a. n. jndictment asainst Hyten hat on December 1. 1948. viully possessed and perthe operation of a slot - or device that could be led into a slot machine. made his n|«pcarance in it court room shortly p m. He was ropresentexell A. Boyd, local atfU'isinp. Urccncastle 'store proprietor, was in earlier Monday on two ents returned by the (jury. Reising also pleaded 'Jty to a charge of adver lottery and a charge ol ng device for gaming. • Alice set his bond at each case. His trial on nc gaining device was set 1 2$ and his trial for adg lottery was set for .uay at 9:.'10 a. m. Jilts on tour more indict remained to be served by jeriff's office Tuesday *11 complete the total of ihandcd down by the grand
Convocation Speaker FARM NO. 100 IS SIGNED FOR SOIL PROGRAM
Single Copy 5 Cents
NO. 146
SOIL CONSERVATION MEMBERS CONSIDER I0STH FARM PLAN
EXTRA!
CeoRCE E. 3)fWiS
art's Rites At Cloverdale tridy of S-Sgt Charles ow Bloueher will arrive in astlc Wednesday noon ana taken to the Whitaker I Home in Cloverdale. 1 Bloueher was born May 15, the .son of Oscar and Ault Bloueher. He attend- ! Cloverdale schools am. ■'ted with the Em Irene* School class of 1933. Oct. he carried Jane Black ried the service from Putv ' lr 'ty May 1, 1043, am ] 'Uni Feb. 13, 1045 while 01 h.ng mission t® Dushir Germany, with the 9th All « survived by, the wife Vuiney R. i f,is iiK»thnr, Mflr y Bloueher and one brohientice, botli of MartinsHis father passed away In 1948. fral services will be held [ y aftPn ‘«on at 1:30 from hdaker Funeral Home in Ti ^- The Hev. John will be in charge. The ■ ( ’'>llins Post No. 281 of merirnn legion, will have r > services at the grave 1 wil1 lie in the Odd Kellowr er y H! Paragon, Ind. ‘AJUh.F, NOTICE "'"lanrl N „ ^ K & Ul| l meet Wednesday.( 1948 ' 7 :30 P. m. Called Master Mason Degree, ^welcome. Wtn. A. Me ■ w. jh.
0 Years A^o "» fikr.irMCAwn.B h 0,(1 br " l 8f at the bottom '“famous Reelsvillc Hill ,( into Deer creek when ln ni its foundation by a ‘aviiy loaded with stone. " got out of control and the south end of the , he driver Jumped bep truck hit the structure. an, r k W “ a vl * itor ln In - »P0ll8. S * Wary Bittles underwent a •jPe-atlon at the county <'rtain d , MrH ’ Howar «l Dean [ CI « h with h< th ThUr8day Read * tin*. h th ® annula dlnner
Riley Program At High School The convocation committee ot the Greencastlc higii school composed of Miss Lcla Walls, ad. viser, Miss Betty Hurst, student chairman and Miss Ann Sunkei have arranged an Interesting convocation for Friday afternoon at one o’clock. Dr. George E. Davis, director of the office of student affairs at Purdue, and widely known in educational fields, who has pursued a study ol the life of James Whitcomb Riley as ar. avocation, will speak in the high school auditorium. This is Riley's ICO anniversary. — During ms time with PurdmDr. Davis has spoken in scorer of Indiana cnr.imuniUes on edu cation and he has entertainer, hundreds of groups with his readings of poems by the famed Hoosier poet. Dr. Davis, a jovial personality, has made a complete study of Riley's life and writings and is perhaps better informed about the Hoosier bard than any one living except thosi who knew Riley intimately. Because of his detailed study, Dr Davis is able to interpret th. writings of Riley in a very ab!< and entertaining manner. District Chora! Festival Here Friday. April 8th the Grccncastle High School Choir will be the host to the District Chora! Festival Vocal i usic student rum the high schools of Urban on, Frankfort, Lafayette, Cravi Oidsvllle. West Lafayette, and Greencastlc will assemble in the Greencastle High School gyu Friday morning to begin the,ehearsals for the concert that if >.o be presented in the evening. The festival ’horns will mini jer five hundred singers and will )c directed by Mr. William Moon, ;he guest director from Arsenal f’echnical High School Indian apolis. The five hundred void ehojr will present their concert at 8:00 p. m. in the high schoo. gym and all friends and patron; >f music and the school ar. icrdially invited ti attend. This festival is held every year but If \ differrnt school. Greencastle vill not be bos' igain for live years. In the evening concert each ndivldual cho r will present i special number under the direction of their own music teacher then all the students will join in the mass chorus and sing ten lumbers of Mr. Moon, trunlng and bearings made for Greencastle higii school choi, are .making preparations for tin entertain 1 nent of the five hundred guest students and director* that will arrive Friday morning for the festival. FARMER KILLED VALPARAISO. April 5 (UPl A farmer was crushed to death yesterday when an automobile he was repairing slipped off ii jack and fell on him. The victim was Stephen H Evans, 53, Heb-
ron.
HOOSIER KILLED COLUMBIA, Tenn., April 5.(UP)—The body of Alva H. Gritten, 47, was scheduled to be returned to K'ngman, Ind.. today for funeral. Gritten, a trucker and junk dealer, was drowned yesterday when a bridge capsized. Survovorys include the widow and two sons.
' SCHUYLER ARNOLD FARM JOINS COUNTY CONSER-
VATION PLAN
Doris Salsman. chairman o' the Board of Supervisors of th ■ local Soil Conservation District announced today the signing < f the 100th Farm Conservatloi I’lan on the farm of Schuyler Arnold. Salsman pointed out that Mr. Arnold's farm is a fa r representation of other farms in Putnam county on which Farm Conservation Programs have Wen planned in cooperation with Hie local Soil Conservation District. The conservation practices planned for the Arnold farm include terracing, contour tillage, changes in c rop rotations, to include more hay and pasture, changes in land use to use to a better advantage the various soil types on his farm, changes in fence locations to facilitate contour tillage, and to use terrace systems to a better advantage. Approximately 50 acres will he Hie drained on the Arnold farm, and approximately 18 acres of! woodland will be protected from ' fire and drazing, and Mr. Arnold will be encouraged to take advantage of the state Forestry Classification law on this pro-
tected woodland.
Salsman pointed out that on Hu. other 99 farms having farm plans in the district, the following conservation practices haw been planned and are being est- 1
Membero of the Fhitnam County Soil Conservation committc met last week with Schuylet Arnold to go over his faim conservation plan, it being the 100th plan for Putnam county farmers. The committee is shown on the Arnold farm at the intersection of Road 40 and the Stilesviilc road on tlic eastern edge of the county. Left to right are the committeemen. Doris Salsman, David L Grimes, Mr Arnold. Epstein McClellan, Mi. Arnold, Jr. and (Jerald Clodfelter. Robert Coffman failed to arrive until alter the picture was taken.
WASHINGTON, April 5.— (INS)—The natloii'a capital and nearby .Maryland were blanketed today by a wierd "smog’' which affected thousands of persons with a sickening sensation and irritation of the nose and eyes. Official of the Weather Bureau, the National Institute of Health and the Bureau of Mines said the occurence resulted from sulphur dioxide rising from eoal and oil furnaces and pinned close io the ground by a freak atmospheric condition known as “I cm pr rain re Inversion."
NET BANQUET IS SCHEDULED NEXT MONDAY
COACH Ol STATE < UAMFION JASPER TEAM
WILL SPEAK
An ull-Puluam county Ifgh
ablished, as rapidly us the in- 1 school basketball banquel will h' dividual farm programs will p<i**i; held nexi Monday evening. April mit: Contour tillage. 1211 acres; Jll. at the Old Trail Inn. it wu:, cover crops, 486 acres; pasture , definitely announced Tucsd iy.
Improvement, 5212 acres: new
pasture seeding. 26.'l(l
i Couch "Cabby" O'Neil, menl'ir
acret:, of
woodland management, 788, . .
'squad, will be (tie speaker acres: tree plkTjUng, 113 acres;
tlu- championship
Jaspci
for
the occasion. Eugene Hutchins, county superintendent of schoolr
will act as toastmaster.
farm ponds. 28; terraces. 74 miles; tile drainage, 8 miles; field diversions. 4 miles; outlets and j
later courses, 15 miles. j More than 225 boys, roaches Snlsmarr pointed om that moat managers, and teaehera will utfarmers in planning a ronserva , tbnd the hanouet. Dinner will b
lion program usually lake from served at 0 p. in.
3 to 5 years to put I lie practices
, , I <>ne of the main features ol
into effect. He also stated that l L
, , ... . l the evening will be the announce the district now ha I on file 154 1 . .
, ,, • ment of the outstanding gemot applications for Farm Conferva- | . , , „ , , , net player of the county for the lion plans .and that work of the ' ' _.. . , ... , ,,1948-49 season. Phis boy ha; district could he grealiy speeded . , . , u r, .
' been selected by the Putnam
up if farmers who are interested would organize small neighborhood groups and call on the farm planner to aid them by groups
rather than individually. Death Summons Park Custodian Everett Gooch, age 55, custod-
ian of tlic city park of Grernrasl|e, died shortly after one o'clock Tuesday afternoon. He suffered a slioke several weeks ago and
had been critical since.
No further details were avail-
able this afternoon.
Girl, 17, Admits Shooting Lover WAUKEGAN, III., April 5. (UPl A blonde, 17-year-old girl wept, hysterically today as sin told of shooting to death her 52-v’oai'-old lover because he refused to divorce Ids wife and mur .'
her.
Joyce Keliuniaker, dressed Ir slacks, saddle shoes and cordtl roy jacket, told authorities tha' she hot and killed Carl Reeder clerk al Maukegai Towinhip high school. She said she ha ' been ,intimate with him foi months. The shooting occurred late yesterday 4n Reeder's automo bile, Reeder, Miss Schumakti and her girl friend. Joyce Kirkpatrick. 17, had parked by Dak* Michigan. Miss Schumaker drove the dying man to Victory Memorial Hospital here, then hastened to the dress shop where Reeder's wife works and told her of the shooting .
county coaches. The player to b, honored will receive an individu■d trophy. His name will then lx engraved on a plaque, given by the Greencastle Chamber ol Commerce. The plaque will the: be displayed at Iho school thr player attended for the ensuing year or until the next banquet. TWO HURT BY (OW
SEYMOUR, April 5. (UlM Phillip Trimble, 8. Brownslown, wan in Sctanck Memorial Hospital here today with a broken leg nrd his mother, Mrs. Paris M. Trimble was nursing bruises ran icd when a cow the hoy wa . leading from n pasture went berserk and attacked the lad. Mis. Trimble went to her son's i isistancr.
Two Men Rob Ohio Student A young man. giving ms mini" a George Garrett, recently a : indent iii Ohio University, culled the office ol sheriff Slltherlin lale Monday night, saying he hud been picked up on went Washington sliest, Indianapolis by two no n who drove all over eastern Putmim county until they finally nided up on the Stilesviilc ion I near tlic Paul Alhin home and domped him out. taking his suil can' and his money in the suit case. He telephoned the sheriff's office from Iho Alhin home. Ijc spent the night in the jail hole and Deputy Vie Cue iMiuglit hi;, liri'aklust Tuesday morning. Later ho wired his parents in a Cleveland sunarh for money, lb said lie was on route 1o Washington state to enter school. The men who dumped him out lie . aid pushed n gun in his ribs and told him to get out. He said he did not argue with them, lie was not molested in any othe.
way.
The men were driving a new 1949 Ford sedan wilh only u few miles on it. The car hole Ohio license plates. The State police at midnight blocked road 40 both from the east and west, but found neither of the men. UAH UR \KH FATAL COLUMBUS, April 5 <U!’> Services will be held here tumor, row for William Caso, 29. r>toe driver, who was killed when his -aci'ig at cmilled during a warm-u,) spin at Scott.shurg. He ' cd in an Indianapol,s hospital DIE 4 OK IMI KIES LA PORTE, April 5 (UP) Hazel Lev Holbrook. 21. N oth Ind on. ded in Holy fani' y hospital hero yesterday fro.u inj :i les suffered in an automobile cccidci t April 1.
PUTNAM COUNTY VA OFFICE TO END ON MAY 6
ACTION TAKEN BY COMMISSIONERS DI KING MONDAY MEETING The Putnam County Board "l t uo.mssimers during Monday, meeting voted to discontinue th.: office of the county Veteran:',' Service Oft ice "us of May 0,
1949.”
The commissioners took this action after agreeing that Ihc office was more or less a dupllca ti m due to ttie fact that the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars organizations euch had their < wn service officer. The discontinuing of th;VA office will also amount to t, lotai saving of salaries and ex penses anr.unting I > $4,200 !o the taxpayers, according t > James Wright, county auditor Hubert Peellein, a Navy Veteran of World War II, is the present service officer for Put r.am county veterans. He hu.; held this position since Amgust
1947.
Arunin Byers w ■ ; the first VA i f.ieer for thr county. He resigned and was succeeded by Donald Meek, ,vho held the position only briefly brf re resigning. Mr. P elicit. Is the third and last VA I officer for the county. The coinmissi' ners also allo.v | ed rla i.s during Monday's s"*s on and awarded a contract to Bob Dean to fuiniNh supplies for the county farm during th" cnsuln ; quarter. The < opiity board members 'idle I the i ir ty farm M or id h e noon and inspected the building and premises as result of recoin-' mendnt ons handed down by (he grand jury al I hr conclusion of its recent session.
WASHINGTON, April 5.— (INS) — Secret eungrrsalonal teatiinony revealed today that Russia is being forced to ‘'jam'' short wave propaganda broadcasts from Yugoslavia and has failed to stop United Stales pro- | grains lieamed behind the iron curtain. This was disclosed by Assastant Secretary of State George V. Allen in testimony before a House Appropriations subcommittee concerning the Voice of America programs.
WASHINGTON, April ft — (INS)—The Senate today rejected a proposal which would have required that al least 25 per cent of American foreign aid grant* be re|Miiil in strategic materials. By a vote <;,| 56 to 22, the Sen ate turned down an nuicndnient <>t Sen. Ellender D„ * a„ t .» boost I he amount of foreign aid coini ter part londs for tills pur|>osi' Irom the present five per cent to 55 per cent.
FOREIGN MINISTERS OF 12 FREE STATES SIGN PACT
FILES FOR DIVORCE Mrs. Betty Beaman has filed suite for divorce in circuit oourt from James Beaman. They were married Sept. 18, 1943 and separated April 2. 1949. She ask? $500 alimony and 113 per week support money for two minor children. Rexeil A. Boyd 1* her attorney.
WASHINGTON, April ft _ (INS)—do Chief Philip M irray s "'d today at t.'ic White Hour* that President Truman is eon crni.l about increasing uncm ploy ment. Murray said be unferred will Mr. Tii.mian on iVnc.npl; yincnt high prices, civil rignta, piihli assistance, uiiecploynient, insurance and old age pcnsi-ins. I LUSHING meadows, n. Y. April ft—(INS)—Iniirortant eonleiencr.s hi hind closed doors among various delegates prcccd r.l tin rpenlng t< day of Ihc Paris "hang-over" session of I lie I nite;| Nations Genera 1 Assembly. U. S. Secretary of State Dean Achi'snn lunuhed with IT. N See- (< OlltlllllFil till l*IIK4‘ Two) Missing Cashier Nabbed By FBI WASHINGTON, April 5 -- (UP) The FBI announced today that Richard Henderson Lit/we, the 10 year-old New York cashier who disappeared March 27 with $884,660 of his bank s funds, was captured last night in Daytona Beach. Fla. The FBI said Crowe was arrested in aDayton bar. He .sue told the FBI agents he was willrendered without n struggle ami ing to return to New York to stand trial FBI agents said they recovered $54,789.63 of ttie loot from a suitcase in the Dayton Beach npartment where Crowe had been hiding out since last Saturday under the name of Richard Karr Previously. $.'16,505 of th« funds Crowe took from a branch office of the National City Bank of Ne v York, where he worked had been recovered and anothei $■’>9,850 located but not recover ed. A large p u t of the stolen brink funds was in the form of securities. ('rowc was said to liavr told FBI agents that he only took the securities to make the bank officials angry. He said he threw the securities iirto the Atlantic Ocean. AMRA.SNADOK injured
SECRETARY OF STATE DEAN ACHESON intro duces the ll foreign ministers to the dignitaries massed in the Departmental Auditorium o n Wash Ington's famed Constitution Avenue to witness the signing of the North Atlantic Security Treaty. Front row, seated, from left, are: Foreign Ministers Ernest Bevln, Great Britain,; Halvard Lange, Norway: Joseph Beck, Luxembourg; BJarni Benediktsson. Iceland; Gustav Rasmussen, Denmark; Paul-Henry Spaak, Belgium; Lester B. Pearson, Canada; Robert Schuman, France; Count Carlo Sforza, Italy, D. U. Stihker, The Netherlands, and Jose Caeiro de Matta, Portugal Ambassadors to the U. S. are seated behind their countries' ministers.
SOUTHAMPTON, Eng.. April 5 (UP) U. S Ambassador Lewis W. Douglas was operated on yesterday for a severe eye injury urffered when a fish hook tore into his left eye while he was easting on the River Test in Hampshire. Hospital officials said in announcing the operation that the condition of the 54-year-old diplomat was “as good as could be expected.” None would speculate whether Douglas’ aight would be affected permanently.
60 PERISH IN EFFINGHAM, ILL HOSPITAL FIRE
FLAMES START IN BASEMENT OK THREE-STORY BUILDING EFFINGHAM, 111.. April 5. - (UP) F'ire turned the 62-year-old St. Anthony's Hospital into a •'lazing death trap early today and authorities said 60 persons, including ten newborn infants, perished. The fire started In the basement of the three-story brick building shortly before midnight. A laundry chute, like a giant flue, sent the flames shoot ward through the buildin " deathly swiftness. Helpless patients died in their beds, some with their fractured limbs in suspension slings. Others perished groping through the thick smoke that filled the corridors. At least one died leaping from a window The Rev. John J. Goff, pastor of St. Anthony's church connected with the hospital, said the best estimate of the number of patients in the building was 108. Fifty-five were known to have survived, he said. Firemen said it would be hours, however, before the bodies could he recovered from tho charred mass of debris. Some patients escaped by leaping from windows. Mrs. Arnold Aderman was having labor pains when the fire started. She climb“d down a ladder from the secm'l story room, went home and had her baby. A charity ward, maternity ward and nursery for newborn babies were situated on the top floor. Many of the charity ward patients were old age pensioners. Estimates of the number of newborn babies who perished in the flames ranged from seven to 12. It was not known how many infants were in the nursery but firemen said all of them died. The nursery was equipped to handle 30 babies. Ben Bldenhorn, an attendant, said he helped “about a dozen" patients from first floor windows. Bidenhorn was burned about the face and hands He said he was asleep on tile top floor when he was awakened by one of the sisters. . "I saw smoke ami opened the laundry chute," Bidenhorn said, •hut I saw no flames and I hollers, ‘It’s downstairs.' I ran to the elevator and when I got down there I found the whole place was on fire, both the first and second floors. I tried to get back to the third floor to get the people out but the elevator wouldn't work." Among the known dead were two Catholic sisters, Bertina and Euatasia. three women patients and Frank Reis,’a volunteer who died trying to rescue trapped patients Hospital records wer* lost in the fire and it appeared that an accurate check of the missing and dead would he difficult. However, authorities said 55 persons were known to have escaped. Two nurses on the top floor were among the dead. One rtf the women who Jumped was Mrs. Clarence Springer, a patient In the maternity ward. She suffered a hack injury in the leap, and her hahy died in the flames. Mrs. Ross Henderson, 68. a patient on the second floor, was killed when she leaped. The flames finally subsided after three hours. Brick and mortar walls had collapsed into the basemeift, and only the skeleton framework of the main sec<C„i,tlnue,l mi I'nsr TSree* © Todays Weather fit 0 and fit St Local Temperature fit Mostly cloudy today and tonight with occasional light rain southeast. Tomorrow partly cloudy with no decided change in temperature. Higii today 55 to 60. Low tonight 35 to 40 north, 40 to 45 south.
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