The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 16 May 1949 — Page 2

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MONDAY, MAY 16, 1949.

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CHINESE HEDS The dec..•'ion was made after the outer homin" beacon seven miles nnuth of L’.jnghwa interralmnal airport tease l functioninj(. Communist troops also were reported near Hunsjao airfield, five miles west of Shanghai. Hungjao Is a military airfield. Loss of the homing beacon reduced the safety requirements to the point where it was necessary to halt service in anil out of Lunghwa airport, air lines offi- < ials said. Briti h authorities called up five Royal Air Force Sunderland flying boats from Hong Kong and began loading them at 8 a m. today with HO passengers eacn lor the flight to Hong Kong.

Each passenger was limited to 20 pounds of luggage. The last-minute British exoi 1 ’. will keep going until all Briton who wish to leave Shanghai hav. been flown out, British authorities said. The first planes tins morning took 1.10 British subjects. The managers of one Chinese ami two British commercial aiilines making flights to Canton and Hong Kong said they would keep operating until Lunghwa was threatened by the Commur- j ists. The most recent government military report said strong Communist forces from the west and southwest were moving steadily toward Shanghai's outer d fc - > ■ I

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Mr. and Mrs. Carol Layman , he week-end with tjieir ; i: ts at Hymera. The Putnam County Humane y will meet this evening at 7:n0 o'clock at the City Hall. Gi' vi r Gibbons is confinh St. Anthony’s hospital haute with a heart ailGrace Newby, wno spent : T win' r w:!h her daughter, Mi . \V. C Arnold, has returned to Indianapolis. M and Mrs, Samuel DcFries of Ch:. ago am visiting Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Nelson, north of Greencastle. M; He 1 n Kelley and daughteiI toar.a of C« dar Rapids. Iowa, are gin sts of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Rukes at Putnamvllle. Mrs Jo-ephene Moeller, Mrs. E .'io Boyd and Mrs. Lurero Fulk of State Farm, were guest e V. s. Vern Bowers at Crawfo’iD villo Tuesday. Mi.,'. Charles Hi n liich’s Sunday Scho i! r lass of Brick Chapel | will meet at the home of Mrs. ’■ Flint Wednesday evening at i 7:00 o’clock, CST. Everyone inj teresteri is invited. Mi is May A. Strong of the De- [ Pauw School of Music, will preI ; nt a soprano voice reclta'* Ti: -day evening at 8:15 in Me I harry Hull. Glen Sherman wil be at the piano. The public it cordially invited to attend. G: enrastlc Chapter No. 8* Di d 1 American Veterans wil , mi i t Wedr.e.-day evening at 7:3( :'c!"ik :i the Public Service | room. There will be election of | ueli gat s to the state convention j i :d other business. The Ladies Auxiliary will also meet. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Steinkamj ] ,nd daughter Carol were called | to Washington, Indiana Satur- | day by the illness of his brother | and wife. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer , Steinkamp of Jasper. They an both confined in the hospital a‘ Washington following an autoj mobile accident, j Mrs. Oscar Thomas entertaine i at dinne;- Sunday at Old Trail I n, Mrs. Maude Knox and Mrs. 7. •'«•>!• of Los Angeles. Calif., i Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Hymer Pi m l O'Hair, Mr. ard Mrs. Neal Allen all of Greencastle. Mrs. Knox is a cousin of Mrs. Thomas. -Mis Hymer and Mrs. Allen. Gietmastle Chapter No. 81, D. A. V. Auxiliary will meet •Vi I n . day, May igth at 7:30 P. M. The meeting will be held in he Assembly Room of the Pubi c Service Company of Indana, Inc. The purpose of this meeting -.vill be to elect officers ind make olans for installation. All members please be present.

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FISHIN' FUN One ol the most ardent nt the Local Hopefuls is a fellow who goes by the monicker of George Bundy. George is one Of those fellows who Is imbued with an everlasting desire to eat eh fish, hid to date we haven’t had that first entry In the contest from him. I think Hut can he explained by the fact (hat George has hi- sights set on a king si/.ed linker, and will not enter anything smaller. This Is easi'ly iin.lerstoud and appreeiated, a George comes by this trait —Murallv. His father, Walter Bendy did a’ lot of fishing a few years ago, and we have heard from several sources that he fish si for Smallmoiith Bass with a fly rod, and If It weren’t easily seen that they would measure at least fourteen inches, he would throw them hack. Sportsman’s Shop

SOCIETY Domestic Science Club To Meet Tuesday The Domestic Science Club will meet Tuesday afternoon at 2:.!0 at the home of Mrs. Frank Stossel. Mrs. Eafl Bowman will j have the program. + -r -r + l>. A. K. To Meet Tuesday Washburn Chapter D. A. R will meet Tuesday evening «■ 7:.'10 at the home of Mrs. John Cock. Change in by law will bt voted on. + + F + Matthewa-Huber engagement Announced Mrs. Harvey Stewart, of Coatsvi'.lc, wishes to announce the ngagement of her sister, Miss Madeline Huber, to Robert Ma’ihews, son of Mrs. Ella Matthews, both of Greencastle. Miss Huber is the daughter of Addison Hubei-, of Pendleton. The announcement was made at a dinner given at the Old Trail Inn on Sunday evening. May 15. The w’edding will take plaee some time in August. + F F + Penelope Club To Meet Tuesday The Penelope Flub will meet Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 DST. Mrs. Chestei Jordan will be the hostess at the home of Mrs. George Garrett. S. Indiana St. F F F F Delta Theta Tan! • le -ts Tuesday Delta Theta Tau will meet Tuesday at 8:00 p. m. at th' home of- Mrs. Walter Ballard, J Seminary Court. There will be installation of officers. F F F F Current Book Club To Meet Tonight The Current Book Club will neet this evening at 8 o’clock at he home of Mrs. Walter Cox. F F F F Mother’s Service Club To Meet With Mrs. Myers The Mother’s Service Club wil meet Tuesday evening at 7:30 /clock at the home of Mrs. treni; Myers. Members please bring food and a gift for the auction. F F F F Gro-Tat-Em Club 4 To Meet Wednesday 4 , Cro-Tat-Em Club will meet Wednesday afternoon at 2:00 /clock at the home of Mrs Bruce Shannon. 226 Bloomington street. Mrs. Maude Kirkham vill be the assisting hostess Members please remember the food shower. F F F F Dorcas Class Meets Wednesday The Dorcas Class of the Putnamville Sunday school will meet Wednesday at 2:00 p. m., DST it the home of Mrs. Louise Bridges.

TEXAS TWISTER *he storm in their automobile aud arrived at the firend’s home to find nothing but a pile of wreckage. The National Guard was called out when looting was reported. Texas Rangers arrested one man looting a wrecked home and a woman reported her automobile stolen. The stecl-helmcted troops took UP -sentry duty around the area and aided rescue workers in their search for dead and injilYod. Much of the city was blacked out by the storm and emergency generators were set up in the wrecked neighborhood to awl search and rescue teams.

FOR SALE: Gin's bicycle. Gaod condition. See Ardella Wells cr call 785-W. i6. lp LOST: Ford spare tire, 4.50x21. W. M. Chatman, Putnamville. Liberal reward. Return to Bocsen’s Store. 16-2p

ATTENTION CHURCH - SCHOOL - FRATERNAL GROUPS Do You Need A Large Coffee Urn? During Jewel Tea Company's 50th Anniversary we will arrange for you to get „ *80.00 48 cup Electric Urn free. Call 682-W for particulars after 6:0() p. tn. MELVIN YEATES

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DRIVE OX RATS Chamber of Commerce will furniah the bait and if you have evidence of lats call 87 and leav word that this service is desired. American Boy Fights For Life WELLAND, Ont., May 16 — I UP I An heroic 18-year-olil American high school boy fought !o r his life in a hospital here today. He was wounded critically yesterday while defending two girls fre.n a drunken gunman Tviio killed another boy with them at a lakeside wiener roast. Richard Joseph, a student at Dennett High School, Buffalo. N. Y., was in Welland county hospital, his right arm shattered by a bullet that lodged in'hi-> abdomen. His friend, Harold Snetsky. also 18, a Buffalo high school track star, died in the hospital a few hours after being shot ii the head. Provincial police arrestee George Szendrei, 28. found covering in a beach cottage on thi Canadian shore cf Lake Er'O and held him for arraignment on a charge of murder. Szendrei told police he had only a "vague memory" of what had happened. But the two girls In the party icientified him as the gunman. Lydia Liusi. 16, Snetsky s date, and Geraldine Fiorito, 18. with Joseph, said that there were six couples on the Saturday night wiener roast at Pleasant Beach, 15 miles west of Fori

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The ether eight boys and gins irft in another car shortly after midnight and the remaining four stayed longer. “When we got back to the ar." Lydia said, "this stronglooking man was standing there. He had a gun in his hand. He was drunk. And he talked wild." She said the man ordered the boys to get away and let him have the two girls. . But the two boys leaped at the gunman, throwing themselves between him and the girls. The man fired once. Harold Fell, a bullet in his head. Then he fired again, missing Richard. When Richard tried to close in and grapple with the intrudr, the gunman fired again, this time hitting him The youth fell but when tht stranger ordered the girls to come with him. Lydia said Richard struggled to his feet and igain lunged for the man. This time he managed to grab the gun and wrest it from his assailant The man fled into the underbrush. Young Joseph hurried the girls into the automobile and drove to a nearby farmhouse where they summoned aid.

Monon Freight Derailed Sat.

Regular Monon.rail traffic was resumed here Sunday folowing a 15-car freight train pile-up late Saturday at Ladoga. Wrecked was No. 72. north1 bound Monon “hotshot” freight between Louisville, Ky., and Chi-

cago.

Cause of the wreck, railroad officials said Sunday afternoon, was a broken wheel on a tank car neat- the middle of the 60-car freight. The accident occurred at 3:55 p. m., CST, on a curve leading out of Ladoga, a few yards north of the railroad station. No one was hurt in the derail-

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State Farm Social Club Met Thursday The Thursday Afternoon Social Club of the State Farm, met Thursday with Mrs. Ruby Rukes with Mrs. Edith Steinkamp as assistant hostess. A beautiful chicken dinner was served at noon, after which the regular meeting was held. The program consisted of a paper on “Covered Bridges of Indiana" by Mrs. Margaret Layman For entertainment a traveling game was played. Lovely pins were presented to Mrs. Fred Parker and Mrs. Harold Roth as they will soon be leaving the State Farm. Mrs. Albert Ellis was a guest and became a member of the club. Members present wore M'-.s-dames Essie Boyd, Helen Clover. Mario Coleman. Nellie Danahav. Marguerite Layman, Helen Leh \ Josephine Miellor, Helen Parker, Madeline Roth, Opal Scobee. Mr-,-

Smith, Herbert S(t . Woods and Iva H a | lt ! J ^uded Nancy L^ j li». Stanley Sutu,,, jJ cr and Carol,) st^ Newcomer* To Plenl<- Tuesday The newcomers «] Pienie on the WtaJ Tuesday, evening Vol o'clock. Husband. J are invited. In case of rain tii ( j be held in Bowman j Twice as many :, n# | injured as i n ary „nJ accident, accordir s J survey. Falls on fof most numerous. ’

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