The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 5 May 1949 — Page 1

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GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1949.

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;h school IM IS PACKED FOR PROGRAM |fS Tl\ 'I- rKESENTEI) B y ( IT' St HOOL (IIII.DKEN , hig h school gymnasiu.'i'i l ,y was taxed Wednesday L fortlv annual May Fes|staj;c'il 1 y more than 600 [en in th. grade schools th,. dii. etion of Mi's j Stewart, Vocal Music |

tvisor.

two hour program wta |

| by th- cliildren who were L on the north side of the L, U m and each group gave

Ut on the gym floor.

Uers who participated in [,„!( „f ilnlling the children

the following:

Sch oil: Miss Merol Mis Gladys Sutherlin, Jeanette Arnold, Mrs. Runyan, Mrs. Geneva lanil George Goodwin. r School: Miss Louise |pr Mrs. Nellie Crouch, Mrs. I Rockhill, Mrs. Ida Mae Miss Blanche Williams, |l,ila Mu Hepler, Mrs. Mildigion. Me I’Httline Snively, I Susie Talbott and Darwin [path Sell" 'I: Mins Rub • Mr- l!nla Clay Walker. Olive Baughman, Mi i. Owen.-i Miss Dorothv f Mrs. Mollis Masten ami

Evens.

Fonipaiiinients were played (following DePauw Univeri"i lent toiK hers: Miss Fay' ginesen, Mins Cathleeu William Lockwood, RoLMi'Cnnly and Miss Mildred

EMM

Has Peace Formulc AKERS HEADS

NEW TEACHERS’ ASSOCIATION

SiSgiHp

GAS MASKS NEEDED BY CITY FIREMEN

I’i BLK SCHOOL TEACHRK o OF (iKKENCASTLE ORGANIZE

WITH A NEW Balkan “peace formula” which he Is keeping secret, Australia's Herbert V. Evatt Is trying to get Greek, Albanian, Yugoslav and Bulgarian representatives together #nt the UN meeting. Lake Success, N. Y. The Greek guerrilla war Is crux of the situation. (International)

4-H Club Work Is Meeting Topic

Swindler Under Arrest

IaNKFORT, Iml May 5 < V i W yeftr old man want d I {110.000 bogus home build {■Hi in Toledo, O., was under | in a he-;etal room here to-|fti-r his i apture by an alert

(Hilircnian.

i Will'-n Easterday, who I aha • in a crime careei fiegan in Bit8, was arrested tlay whili on his way to ' woman friend near here. Itcrday iiocame ill in city ltd was tranferred to Clin - ! punty h -ipital after he tnl I p ho h I suffered a henr. ■ FBI n- iiits said he would lurned to Toledo to face p in i -nnection with the ping of numerous persons pivested n his construction

(FHI al- i ti-d Frankfort ci^v I to be on the lookout for Nay. Th' y suspected that buld pay a visit to a woman fives on a farm near her",

bani" was not disclosed.

N Id Glen Nichols made | fine chei k at the farm yes,- I and on the way back to i I spnti. ii Easterday driving i s'* country. He stopped th( 1

bod mad" the arrest.

ot'day headed the While | Intel ion Company in Toledo i

Septerntier, 11M7, to June The KH| said he “under

h l" pietext" had customers "completion slips" for work

'acted by the company.

Gaily the work had not been tl'bd but Easterday would th" signed slips over to n | aod collect the money speeiln the < ertificate. The FHI laied he collected npproxi-

''titinued on Huge Two)

Twenty-two adult leaders and 4-11 Committee members met with Miss Lucile Smith, home demonstration agent, at the court house Wednesday evening. May 4th. Adopted practices for the 4-H Club work in the county were discussed and agreed upon for the coining year. Since th enrollment in the 4-H Clothing project is so large in Putnam county considerable time is given to the standards of work and the methods used in clothing. Again this year the clothing enrollment Will be over ,300. The judging plans for the local contest being June 6th an 1 continuing daily until the last of the month were outlined by the leaders. Junioi judging with th girls, ages 10-13 and Sr. judging, ages 14 and up was planned for every girl enrolled in Bakiney Clothing, Canning and Food

Preparation.

Local club nominations for the Round-Up and Jr. le ader Coiii ferencc trip awards were presented to the home demonstration agent by the loeal leaders. Present were Mildred Bastin, Hila Brat tain, Judy Albin. Thelma Goslin. Lillie f’aiks, Marylo t Garriott, Ruth Stanger, Margaret Thralls, Beatrice Chillson. Margaret Miller, Louise Gardue y Charlotte Hottska, Geneva Clones, Opal Lawson, Doiotltv Compton, Yvonne Thurow, Mary j Roach, Donna Houston, Roxie | Zeiner, Gertrude Mann, Lois J Coffman. Bernice Steward an.l

i Lucile Smith.

Humid Weather Breaks Records

The Grecncaatle school - teac' - ers have organized a new Ass >- ciation with the following off - cers: President, Gene Akers Vice President, Muriel Rock-

hill.

Secretary, Dorothy Harris. Treasurer, Wanda Stewart. The Executive Board is comprised of Mildred Mason, Minna Mae Hartley, Leon Snyder and George T. Goodwin. The new Constitution and ByLaws of the Association set out among many facts, the follow-

ing:

The purpose of this organization shall be to bring the teachers of Greenca.stle into closer relationship; to establish and maintain conditions essential *o the best teaching service; to secure for its members the social, intellectual, and professional advantages that can be derived from cooperation; to take part in all affairs in which, ns teachers and as members of the coni - 1 munity, they may be interested, j and to create in the community ! at large a deeper sense of the | interests which teachers n-pi ■- sent. The Greencas'le Tearhers A - socintion shall be an affiliated local association of the Indiana Classroom Teachers Association and of the National Education Association. Any classroom teacher, principal or supervisor in the Greencastle public school system upon payment of due as hereinafter provided, may become an active member of this association. Honorary membership shall be conferred upon a'l members retired on pension, the superintendent, and may be conferred upon such other pernAns as, because of distinguished service to the association, may he recommended for such honor by the association. Honorary mambers shall have the pricilege of attending social and professional meetings. Th-re shall be the following standing committees appointed by the president subject to th" approval of the executive board: membership, program, .social, public relations, teacher welfare, legislative anil flower. Man Drowns In Wabash River CLINTON, Ind , May 6. (UP) A camping expedition on the Wabash river ended in disaster when one of four men drowned after falling from a boat. The victim was Pearl Foster, 61, Clinton. He drowned yesterday when a boat in which he and hia three companions were in capsized. KOACIII) \LK O. E. S. NOTICE Rnarhdale Chapter No. 247 O. E, S. wil meet in regular session

City firemen had to wear their gas masks whe'n they were called to the James Brothers' home, 410 Melrose Avenue, at 11:15 p.

m. Wednesday.

Gas leaking from a refrigerator prevented the family from entering the house. The firemen put on their masks, went in and disconnected the refrigerator amt

pulled it over to. a door. They I then started an electric fan and ! had th" gas cleared out of the i

house within a short time. Dr. Chas. Adams Dies In Chicago Mrs. Olive Brown has receifi I word of the death of her brother, Dr. Charles H. Adams. D' Ada rs passed away at rate Woodlawn Hospital in Chicag". Wednesday. He had been in, ill

Missing in Berlin r - ^

W'i-

DAMAGE SUIT ASKS $50,000 FOR INJURIES

FOLLOWS TRAFFIC (RASH ON NATIONAL HOAD IN MARCH, ID 18

health for sane time buyt Ins

death was unexpected.

U. S. AUTHORITIES asked Russians in Berlin if they are bolding Recruit Christus Rangavies, 21,

He was born in Grecncaatle Ihe I New . york ' "'nee Janu- ... ... . i .i ary- Last word of him is from a son of Mr. and Mrs. G. F Adam:.. . .. ,

German girl who R-id she saw

and a graduate of the (,ieen<aat : him looked „ p by German 8e ,. rt , t le High School. He was employed j police, March 23. (/yternational) by the Bell Telephone Co. in L }

dianapolis and then transferred to-Chicago. L-r Adams graduated from the Northwestern Dental School in Chicago tn 1919, and practiced Dentistry for man years in Chicago. He was a member of a National Honors! ,

Dental Fraternity.

He is survived by three sister. Itfrs. Nellie Larniorc of Fog Wayne, Mrs. Olive Brown o! Greencastle, Mrs. G It. Van Fat kenbuigli of Two Harbors, Mine and several nieces and nephew; Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon nt 2:30 o'clock fra n the Rector FTineral Home. Interment will be in th

Forest Hill Abbey.

Senators Okey $2,980,000 For Cagle Mill Dam

States Senate A)

One of the largest damag" suits ever filed in the Put pa n circuit court asks $50,000 for personal Injuries as result of a traffic accident south of Greencast 1o a year ago. Helen T. Sehahar is the plairlitl and Harold LaPoint, the K. H. Barnaby Co., a corporation, \ iind Edward H. Barnaby, (*lu3 cago. III., are the defendants, j ' According to the plaintiff, oil | Match 23, 1948, the defendanta were owners of a 1947 Dodg club coupe, which was being operated by Edward H Barnaby, president of the E. H. Barnaby

Company.

The plaintiff states that sh ■ and A i del son J Hanna were th" invited guests of Mr. Barnaby on a business trip from Chicago, 111., to Dullsville, Ky. Al Greencastle, the suit sets out, M;. Barnaby became fatigued f m i driving from Chicago and instructed Mr. Hanna to drive. At the intersection of stm" road 43 and U. 8. 40, it is allege I, that Mr Hanna failed to obs<-rve tin' stop signs and did negligent ly ami i-aielessly drive the car into a truck on the National

Highway.

A i result of the crash, the

A United

proprintions subcommittee o | plaintiff says she was confiu"'! Washington today recommended j to the Putnam county honpit'd

EXTRA! 68,000 Workers Strike At Ford

DETROIT, Mich., May 5.— (INS) — Sixty-eight thousand Ford employes at the Rouge and Lincoln-.Mercury plants walked off their jobs today while an eleventh-hour conference aimed al averting the strike still was going on In downtown Detroit. As the workers streamed from the plants. r,\W-<TO President Walter Routher and Ford’s industrial relations director John S. Bugas continued to lock horns in u stalemate over the union’s charges of speedup at the plants. A few minutes before noon Bugas walked from the conference room to make a phone call. \A lien asked hy newsmen If any progress was being made, Bugas said curtly: “None at all. None at all.” There w as no immediate comment from Iteiitlier who ap|>cared to hold Hie stage during the two-hour session with Ford officials. Newsmen were able to look into the conference rnnni through windows and observe the frequent hand waving by the labor leader. Most of the workers gathere-l outside the struck Ford plan's as the noon deadline arrived. They unfurlt-il strike banners and union men in sound trucks begun giving orders far picketing the plants.

IIy I Iiln-d Press More warm and humid weath cr was forecast today In th"

which has

0 Years Ago GRKKNnAMTI.B

smi Mrs. George Weber fHintiy were in Indianupotopson Stoner was in Brazil

hsines.s.

1 Margaret Nelson attended e Phonc convention in Indian‘KUzuhcth Ward, Mi ns Helen anu Miss Irene Hueabs 'n Terre Haute attending a '“ U(, c meeting of Business fe-ssionai Women's Clubs, “hd Mrs. Oscar Sallust “ ir son-in-law, Chester ndiali Ul * MeUlo<ll * t hospital

Spring heat wove gripped the Midwest

I The warm weather spread j I eastward yesterday and broke ^ records in the Midwest fot tb*

second day in a row.

U. 8 forecasters said it might begin to get cooler in some portions of the Midwest today. But the forecast for Illinois and Indiana was for continued warm and humid weather, with occa-

sion^ t hundefshowers.

The mercury soared to 91.2 degrees in Chicago yesterday, breaking the all-time high for May 4- The previous day was Chicago's hottest May 3 on rec-

ord.

Indianapolis, too, topped the record for the second day In a row with 90 degrees yesterday. The old record was 88 set i i 1895. Columbus, O , recorded 90 In mid-afternoon yesterday to top an 1895 record tor May 4. Other high temperatures yesterday were 91 at Louisville, Ky., 90 at St. Louis, 92 at Huntington W. Va., 88 at Milwaukee and Cleveland and 86 at Minneapolis. New To k City had 80.

Monday evening. May 9, a 1 8:01 | WBbe |. vvorks.

o'clock, CST. Degree work. A good attendance is desired. Vis-

itors welcome.

Vora Mao Witt, Secy. Betty Ford, W. M.

Michigan City Feud Develops MICHIGAN CITY, Ind.. Mflv 5 (UPI—A feud between two city agencies dating back to 1932 flared today, left a lake-front park without .vater service and threatened to saddle the < ity with rival boards vying for control of the water works. The 17-year old fuss brdt* out anew yesterday when it was announced that Mayor Russell Hileman had fired the five-mem-ber water board. He said the board refused to turn on th" water in scenic Washington Park. Fountains and pools in t'vi park were dry today in the year

hottest weather.

Firing of the board was the latest in a long series of maneu vers between the city park board and the water board. In 1932, the park board t: 1 terpreted a state law to nieau that it had more or less independent jurisdiction ovet the city's water works. It demanded that the city pay for .vater service for Washington F-ark But the park board and the city countered with a demana that the water board pay rent tor the land adjacent to Washington Pack occupied by the

^Ihe rent per month and the

water fee pet month was tj)3 same $166 Both unpaid charge 1 ' now have accumulated to $34,

Hdm 1*11 igt* T««o-

.$2,980,000 toi flood t n-itiol work at the Cagle Mill 11 • ervoii. The sum of $2,217,403 has a I I ready been recommended by a , sirnilat committee in the Hous ■ of Representative.! The Hone j figure reflects an across-the-board 15 per cent cut below Uu I | get Bureau requests and tlv Army Engineers tentative appli- | ation of that cut to individual

projects.

CITY FIREMEN TAKE

UL TIMBER CUTTING The icity firemen, turned timber cutters, chopped down the j big tree on the west side of the j City building on Thursday, or j they started it Thursday and it is expected the street force will i finish it. The firemen dal th |

ladder wrrk, taking oat

limbs ar.d top of the tree. It ha, been costly dead for some tim ■ and only ni|do a good roosting

place for thj^ starlings. Fish Net Found

By Game Warden Game Warden Scott found a six fool by three feet fish not in Deei Creek Wednesday wh 1>' patroling the stream. It had been planted by some tishernici in Wqrren township and was o-;c of the finest made Scott has encountered. He pulled it out of the creek and had it on display here prior to it b n ing destroyed. The net was illegal in every

sense of the fishing laws. COMEDIAN ROBBED

HOLLYWOOD. May 5. (UPi -Somebody stole a $1,250 wristwatch and $200 revolver from comedian Bud Abbott's bedroom during a party at his home, he

repot ted to police today.

foi nine days and that she suffered painful and permanent in juries. Due to the negligence on th" part of the defendants and h i injuries, she a ;ks the court for $50,000 damages.

Dads’ Auxiliary To Meet Tuesday The newly formed Fat he"!' Auxiliary of Gen. Jesse M. Lee Post 1550 Veterans of Foreign Wars will meet Tuesday evening at 7:30 o'clock (DST) at the

Post Home.

Invitations to attend this meeting have been sent to near'y 150 fathers of Putnam county overseas veterans. It is hoped that the Charter will carry th ■ names of a hundred nr more Dads when it is presented to th" State VFW convention In Jim I

hy the loeal Post.

The Constitution committee, i ■ | Faye Weaver, Burl Htust and | Walter Feld, is schedule-t u) make a report on its progress. The committee was appointed by President Raymond Riley at the | organization session on April 26 ! Initiation and dues fm - the remainder of the year have bee i set at $3 and all names appeal ing on the Charter, the first nf its kind in the nat ion, will hthose of paid up members. SAVED BY SHOELACE ST. LOUIS, May 5. (UP) Nineteen- month-old Tommy O’Hare fell into an open 40-foot elevator shaft but hi.-! sh'ielaee

saved him.

The shoelace caught on a nail two feet from the top of th"

shaft.

His 10 year-old brother reach ed down and p illed Tommy up.

BERLIN, May 5.— (INS) Kiehard Well, Berlin bureau chief for INS, and Allyn Baum, INI’ cameraman, were released by the Soviets late today after having been arrested Iasi night. They were seized hy the Kus sians when they tried to test re|»nitrdly “relaxed" Soviet travel restrictions.

WASHINGTON, May 5.— (INS)—Sen. MeCarran (Dt Nev., threatened today to hoU up funds for the operation of (he Slate Department until the United Stab-s fully recognizes Hie Spanish government. Met arrnn, chairman of a subcommittee which o|M>iird hearings on the department's request for more than 27*) niillinn dolalrs for the coming fiscal year, demanded thnt this country gni/.e Spain while State Secretary Acheson was testifying.

NO. 172

TRUCE IN COLD WAR OFFICIAL SAY BIG FOUR

RUSS TO LIFT BIXM'KADE; COUNCIL MEETING ON MAY 28RD.

BERLIN, May 5 — (UP) — Sources close to Soviet headquarters said today that Russia', first step on lifting e Berlin blockade vould fa 1 to demand a plebiscite to firce establishment l a central German government. Russia would want the ple()k s cite to ask the Gentian peoplt merely if they wanted a united or a split Germany. Observers said virtually every German would vote "yes” for united Germany.

BIG FOUR REPRESENTATIVES ANNOUNCE BERLIN BLOCKADE WILL BE LIFTED •st

MEETING IN THE UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS on Park Ave. In New York City, representatives of the Big Four powers announce agreement to lift the Berlin blockade and a subsequent meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers on the entire German lituation From left are Great Britain’s Sir Alexander Cadogan; Russia's Jacob Malik, United States' Dr. Philip Jessup, and France’s Jean Chauvel. (International)

BERLIN, May 5— (INS) — Lieut. (Veil. Sir Brian K. Robertson, British military governor In Germany, said today “I have no instr let inns to w ithdrew the airlift and don't propose to do so.*' WASHINGTON. May 5 — (INS)—The Senate today rejected an iunendment to the aid-to-eduiation hill which would huve required states (a use federal fmills far Intii parochial and public kcJiooI tmiixportution. The proposal hy Sen. McMahan I)., Conn., was turned down by a voice vote after a plea by Sen Tall R.. ()., to keep the “state ci'lucationul system completely free of federal control.” II «»w«IHN*a «.m C«tf- T«VM| Couple Held As Murder Suspects CRAWFORDSVILLE. May 5. (UP) Sherif! Roy Hardakor said today Hint two years' work on a mysterious drowning had proved it was a murder, and he was holding a man and a woman

as suspects.

Hardaker said he was a deputy under Sheriff Harold Zeller when he was assigned fo investigatu the death of John WUllam Nowlin, a 72-year-old handyman, who drowned in a shallow stream near here on Easter Sunday,

April 6. 1947.

The sheriff, who succeeded Zeller in 1948, said the recent discovery nf Newlln's billfold and pipe plus the fact that the man was discovered with one shoe off and his sweater “buttoned on wrong side out" led to the arrest of the suspects, whom he declin

cd to identify.

"I always had it in my mind that the man was killed." Hard nkcr said, "but I'm not ready to say much about it until we cun give He detector tests to two

more people."

NEW YORK, May 5. (UP) The Big Four powers, in a cold war truce move, announced today that the Berlin blockade will be lifted on May 12. In a communique, the n "rs also announced officiall” Big Four council of fo' islets meeting will be in Paris on May 23. The announcement simultaneously in New York, Washington, Paris, London and Moscow—climaxed almost three months of behind the scenes negotiations between the four powi rs the United Slates, Britain, France, and Russia. The communique announcing the historic accord was brief. It

said:

"The governments of France, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United Kingdom and the United States have reached the following agreement: “l. All the restrictions impo since March 1, 1948, by the government of the U. S. S R oa communications, transportation and trade between Berlin and the western zones of Germany and between the eastern zone and the western zones will be removed on May 12, 1949. "2. All restri«tions imp- ,p:J since March 1, 1948, by the governments of France, the United Kingdom and the United States, or any one of them, on communications, transportation and trade between Berlin and the eastern zone and between the western and eastern zones of Germany will also be removed on May 12,

1949.

“3. Eleven days subsequent to the removal of the restrlctiois referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2, namely, on May 23, 1949, a meeting of the council of foreign ministers will be convened in Paris to consider questions relating to Germany and problems arising out of the situation in Berlin including also the question of currency in Berlin." The American mission to th - United Nations announced simultaneously that a copy of the communique was being delivered to UN Secretary General Trygve Lie at his Forest Hills, N. Y., home. 4on V‘»tar» 'Two) TICKETS ON SALE FOR SPORTS BANQUET Reservations for the DePauw university sports banquet next Thursday, May 12, went on sale today. Local business proprietors will be contacted individually today and tomorrow to buy the ticket 0 . Reservations will also be on sale in Cannon's clothing store. The banquet, with Purdue football coach Stu Holcomb as guest speaker, will be at 5:45 p. m. in Gobin Memorial church DePauw lettermen, coaches and cheer leaders will be the. honored guests.

® Todays Weather © It and '■§ Local Temperature 41 Partly cloudy, warm and humid today and tonight. Tomorrow showers and thunderstorms, cooler west. High today near 90 Low tonight 60 to 65.

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