The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 1 June 1949 — Page 1
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[e fifty-seven :HCE IS >ENDED IN Ihyten CASE (il ll.TY TO INLm I5Y ITTNAM J KA Vi> flKY •yteu, of Bainbridge, T a riitnam county , on April 2 for violaIndiana slot machine lined $. r )0 and costs | afternoon in circuit gO-ilay state farm suspended by Judge
IBet.
Lcnsion of the sentence 1 miemled by J. Frank i •ount> prosecutci, who [nt .luring the grand ligation *n March. liee also took into conI the fact that Hyten in td has children to supthit it was his first n d that the defendant fconcst with the court. when previously arid entered a plea of not [withdrew this plea and Lilty to the grand jniifnl Tuesday. Thursday Hrs. Burkett L:. Gi ider Burkett, 84, ^ home in Fincastlc *1 12 p. in., CST. She .11 pit mx weeks, iirketl was born March In Raccoon, the daughiceaheaus and Amanda Tier. She was married [8K6 to Marion S. Buriiu. le in the home in died Mrs. Burkett Itmber of the Fincastle church. |ig are a sister, Mar■der. ami a brother, |i dei ilh of Fincastle. services will be held jat 1 |>. m., CST, In the list church in Fincastlc Leonard Wymore of |li lale Christian church Burial will be in Japel cemetery, i may . all at the FinBidcnc..
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GREENCASTIE, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 1949.
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MILITARY RITES
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Announced Celebration
|oarhdale Lions Club le king preparations for the fi'iuth July celebration penning in the north I town Ig event will open Satur|.v 2, end close with s k*(irk display on Monpt. July 4. Appropriate are planned for each P r ' e d.iva, including Sunp 3 i as usual there 1 sever..i free feature at-
Fannie Torr id Late Today l^annn Torr, widow of prr, passed away at 2:00 | Wednesday afternoon at p on west Poplar street extended illness. P survived by three chil1 Franklin and John sisters, Mrs. Dan HutJand Mrs Bond. Fal ararngements will be *ed later.
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Burial for T 5 James G. Carmichael. 25 years old, will be held June 15 at Arlington National Cemetery. Ft. Meyer, Virginia, at 1 p. m. Eastern Daylight
time.
Jhiurs was born and reared in Greencastle, at the time he entered service he was living and working in Indianapolis. AI Ingoing overseas his father sign.-d him up with the Jesse M. Lee Post No. 1550 Veterans of Foreign Wars. He received hi training in Camp Lee. Viigin . and Camp Stoncman, California. He went overseas in January of 1044 and was killed January 20. 1945, aboard the U. S. S. Serpens three miles off Guadalcanal in the Southwest Pacific. Survivors are two sisters, Mr. Olive Andrews and Mrs. Mildre I Bailey of Indianapolis: tw. uncles. Robert and Nelson Carmichael of Greencastle. His father died July 16, 1045 and his mother April 2.'5, 1046. Anyone wishing to send flowers, address them to: James Carmichael, Arlington National Cemetery, Fort Meyer, Va.
END SEEN TO BIC 4 PARLEY; NO AGREEMENT VVLNT l; KECONCILED TO TWO SEPARATE GOVERNMENTS PARIS, June 1. (UP) The three western powers abandoned today all hope of any overall agreement with Russia on Ger- ( many and reconciled themselves > » indefinitely to two Germanies. The western powers, well on j | their way to establishment of a separate west German government, are determined that a unified Germany must be on their
terms.
Russia has rejected these terms, in the words of Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky, “completely and utterly." Vishinsky has made it plain that a plan for a unified Germany, to obtain his support, must be on Russia’s terms. The western powers have rejected those terms Just as flatly. The west therefore has given up hope of accomplishing anyihing on a grand scale at this meeting of the council of foreign ministers. The inclination in western delegation quarters is to try to conclude this conference as qnick'y ivs possible. Western delegates are convinced that no very useful purpose can be served by prolonging it. However, they would like to run through lh<- agenda and try to extract from Vishinj sky all of his ideas on the various issues. For that reason the west will urge Vishinsky to turn to the Berlin problem, Including the question of a single currency, at today’s meeting. Berlin is the second item on the agenda.
CULVER GRAD
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j John E. Crouch, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Crouch, Greencastle, is one of 151 candidates for graduation from Cul ver Military Academy, Culver, Indiana where the traditional Iron Cate ceremonies Wednesday, June 8, will conclude .the school year for the 650 cadets in attendance. During his two years at tn» famous Indiana prep school Crouch earned a varsity Icttci in golf and reserve letters In golf and wrestling. He also participated In intramural seccer, basketball and vrestllng. The Commencement activities at Culver will start Saturday, June 4. with Cavalry and In fantry competitions, a crew race, baseball game, and a play, and will conclude Tuesday, June V, with the final Commencement l ill and graduation Wednesday i Horning.
Legion Sponsors Carnival Here
LOAN OFFICE IS SET I P FOR TORNADO VICTIMS i GHELiDURN Ir.d , June 1 The Reconstruction Finance corporation has set up an office here to accept applications for tornado disaster loans. It's purpose is to help repair and rehabilitate prirj>erty damage by the tornado which swept through this area last Saturday. BIG BEN, FAMOUS CLOCK. IS 00 YEARS OLD TODAY LONDON, June 1 Big Be i. the giant clock that booms the hears above the House of Pallia ment, is 00 years old today. Big Ben has failed only once in these nine decades a broken pendule n spring put it out ol action in 1044. Chambers Called In Hiss Trial NEW YORK. June 1. (UP) Whittaker Chambers, admitted former Communist spy courier who hid secret government papers In a pumpkin shell, was ex pected today to be among the first government witnesses called in the perjury trial of Alger Hiss. Chambers was expected to re assert his charges that the 44 year-old former State Department official gave him neen% government d o e u m cuts fo’ - transmission to Russia. Hiss denied this. He also de nied that he had seen Chambers since Jan. 1, lO.’tV, in statements before a federal grand jury lust year. These denials were the basis of his indictment. Federal Judge Samuel II Knufman was expected to rubon a defense motion to dismiss
RED CHANGE IN FOREIGN POLICY DUE TO GROMYKO
TALKS WITH STALIN IN RECENT MONTHS GETS RESULTS
BAINBRIDGE HORSE SHOW OPENS SUNDAY
LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y„ June (UP) The recent change m;
The annual Bainbridge Saddle Club Horse Show will be held at their Saddle Club grounds east of the city on Sunday. Eighteen classes have been set up and a premium list of about $400 has been subscribed for the events.
Russinu foreign policy was brought about by Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko who convinced Premb-r Stalin that America really wants peace, the magazine United Nations World reported today. And in tho event of a real peace Ameiican eton-miic aid In Russia and eastern Europe would !«• made available, Gromyko reportedly told the Soviet dictator. Quoting sources which ••would be neither prudent nyr proper to disclose,” the magazine declare I that Gromlcyo conferred with lh" Russian leader for three months last winter at Sochi In tin Crimea amt later addressed the Soviet Pirtilburo on the subject. After three months debate, tinmagazine said, the Politburo adoptr*! what had become known ns the "Groinkyo Plan" and rivaled Gromyko and Andrei Vishinsky to the two top posts in tinforeign department to carry ii
out.
Since then Russia has lifted the Berlin blockade and has been working overtime to effect a “cold peace,” the magazine declared. Gromyko’s report to Stalin was based upon "a series of con fidential talks” during May and June of last year with some 25 American industrialists and fi- I
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NEW YORK, June I.—(INS) —The Ntm'k market resumed It* dou award trend today following yesterday's wide-open break of $1 to $1 a share—biggest drop of the year. Declines today ranged from Fraetlons to $1 a share with many sb/ahle blocks of stock changing hands at the opening. U. S. Steel o|M'iied S7 cents lower at !|>6. < i..S7 on a block of 1800 shares and Electric Power and Light was off 12 cents on 2100 shares. The hardest lilt issue was Allied Chemical which dropped $1 a share to $170. Losses of fractions were sustained In such lenders as Chrysler, Montgomery Ward, General Motors, Standard Oil of New Jersey, Kenneeott ( opper, and Pennsylvania, virtually all of which were at new lows for the year or longer.
Bendix Rejects Offer By Union SOUTH BEND, Ind., June 1 • ( UP) -Bendix Aviation Corp., a key auto parts distributor, today rejected an offer by the CIO United Auto Workers to use the Ford settle- vent formula as a basis for settling the 43-day-old strike at Bendix. The company denounced the UAW proposal as " Wholly unrealistic.” As in the ease of the Ford ntrike, the Bendix UAW local struck after charging that til ■ company had instituted a speedup on its production lines. Stanley Ladd, president of the local, said lyis union had offered to arbitrate the dispute, tho basis used for settling the Ford
strike.
However. Millard E. Stone, Bendix ^industrial relations director, said the two disputes could not be settled on the same for-
mula.
He said Bendix employes receive incentive pay based on a fixed hourly rate, plus additional money for all pieces turned out over a certain • standard. Ford employes, he said, are on straight hourly pay. Ladd said the union also had demanded Inal Bendix re-hiry 47 workers discharged because of an alleged slowdown. He said the company would 5e permitted to reprimand the employes but they would h-.ve Lhc right to appeal the reprimand. 4 Con tin ii ril on I'fijfi* Three)
Years Ago URKENGASTLa
fPants started moving into r' Cole apartment house on Washington street. | Charles Rector was elect* •ai'lent of the Woman’s °f the Christian church. Zella Adams went to to spend the summer. Crimes, small son of City al and Mrs. Paul Grimes 1 sick list. 1 firemen were called to the Barnaby, Jr„ residence t<7 tiish a blaze In the base* C &uscd by a coal oil heater.
Street Sweeper I Rented By City The city has rented a street sweeping machine for 30 days. If at the end of that time, they desire to purchase it, the rental price will be applied to the buy-
ing price.
In the meantime, the city street force will use it instead of hand brooms which are now being used by the force. If it can be made to pay for itself over a period of' time, the council seemed in favor of buying it. The matter fias been discussed al council meetings and the action taken this week resulted from the sentiment expressed in favor of a more efficient manner of cleaning the streets.
Putnam Native Buried Monday Funeral servicea were held Sunday afternoon in St. Louis, Mo., and buiuil was Monday in I the Shclbyville cemetery for Fred ^ L. Williams, a native of Putnam county, and former judge of the Missouri Supreme Court. Judge Williams was born 12 miles north of Greencastle, sixtynine years ago, the son of James and Alice Bridges Williams. He was educated at DePauv/ University and had his early legal practice in Joplin, Mo. His death followed an illness of two weeks. He was appointed a Commissioner of tin- Missouri Supreme Court in 1013. and served in tha* capacity until his election in 1016, to the four-year unexpired term of Judge John C. Brown, deceased. After leaving the court he took part in important litigation in state and Federal courts, and for : everal years was active in the legal phases of the Missouri Pacific railroad trusteeship. In several- important cases. Judge Williams was named as 1 special master of commissioned for the Missouri Supreme Court or the Federal Court, to take evidence and submit recommendations. He was special master In the state proceeding against the Long-Bell Lumber Co. of Kansas City, and in Federal litigation with Socony-Vaeunm Oil Co. He represented Union Electric Co. in ouster proceedings against the company in St. Char-
les.
As special counsel for the Missouri Pacific trustee, he recommended in 1035 the filing of suits against O. P. Van Sweringen, one of the Cleveland brother financiers who gained control of the railroad system. He is survived by the widow and a sister, Miss Eva Williams of Greencastle. A brother, Robert Williams, preceded him <n death in Crawfordsville in 1929.
The Greencastle post of the Ai i erican Legion again will present the Baker Urited shows at the organization's annual ! ■spring festival next week at Robe Ann Park. The Baker shows, which will be nailing their sixth conseiiitive annual visit here, will be in the city June 6-11. Two new rides and a numbe 1 of other features have been ad ded to the show th;j year. A nr'show will be Flash Williams and his daredevil motorcycle rider who perform on the pcrpendlcii lar walls of a silodrome.
the perjuiy indictment before the nancicrs, scheduled opening statements ' y World,
prosecuting and defense attor-
neys.
Hiss’ attorney, Lloyd Paul Stryker, asked for dismissal of the indictment on grounds that his client’s testimony “could not have delayed or obstructed justice" since it was made >n ttvfinal day of the Jury's sitting, Dec. 15. 1948.
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MASONIC NOTICE Important stated nvetiog Bainbridge Ixirlge No 75 F. and A. M., Thursday, June 2. 8 p. in., CST. D. K. Hostetler, W M.
Bolivia Mobilizes With Threat Of Nation-Wide Revolt Underway
The highlights of report according to
zinc were:
1. Russo-American ment is feasible.
2. The UN ia the agency for composing
USSR differences.
3. The American people do not
want war.
4. President Truman is genuinely determined to preserve
peace.
5 The small group of Amerionn "jingoists” Is losing ground. 6. U. S. economic aid lo R isai i and eastern I'An pc would he available once th" political atmosphere cl« ired. 7. The U. S. would* never allow
LOUISVILLE, Ky., June I — (INS)—LniiiMviUe wiih Hit hold bus service (inlay as employes id (he Louisville Railway Company walked oi l to enforce demand: for tiicrraMed wages and improved Hick-leave benefits. T'h-o strike began at midnight leaving the estimated 2to,(Mil d.dly riders <>i city busses dcpcndeiil. upon tnvieahs, private aid iniohiles, shoe leather and
llici- thumbs.
WASHINGTON, June I (INS) —Tin' House today overwhelmingly approved n Veteran* pension hill increasing benefits fur ex-servicemen of both World Wars hy (j.-| billion dollars during
the next 50 years.
Passage canto swiftly after the house killed a provision Dial would have required World Wai I and II veterans In prove they arn unemployable to beconii: - eligible for kenefits uniler the
meaw-re.
The bill in general enacts Into law benefits now being |atlil tu aged and needy ev-serv Iceniei under veterans ailmlidstratiiin 1 regulations. The house Vote on Die bill was
SENATOR READY FOR LILIENTHAL INVESTIGATION
DPI GRAD UNDER FIRE AS HEAD »7F ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION WASHINGTON, June I. (INS) —Security praettees at the Argonne Laboratory in ( Idcago were injected today Into Senate hearings on Chairman LlltenIhal'ii alleged “Ineredlhle mismanagement” of the Atomic Energy Commission. The laboratory was the seeno of the disappeuran- c of an ounce of uranium 235—one of the disclosures wldeh touched off the public Inquiry by the joint congressional Atomic Energy Commit tee. Sen. Knowlaml (It) Calif., asked LllleiiDial at the opening hearing today whether there wa* an incident in wldeh the Argounc master key file was left open and Die guards instructed not to re(Mirt it, l.ilieiiDuil replied Dial he knew nothing about If and added: “If Dial is true, I will get Hie facts." Sen. Hiekenlooper (R) Iowa, former committee chairman who has spearheaded demands for the Investigation ami l.illcnthal's removal asked the AEC chairman to produce security flics on more Ilian a dozen employees of the commission and all I ID correspondence on lost alomle materials.
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Sylvan Dorset! Dies A! Hospital
Sylvan Doraett of Cloverdalc R. 3, passed away Wednesday morning at 11:20, at the Putnam County Hospital. Among the survivors are a daughter, Mrs. Raymond Stockj well of Cloverdalc R. 3.
LA PAZ, Bolivia. June 1.— (UP) The Bolivia’; government I decreed general inobillz&ttoii to- 1 day to meet the threat of a nn tionwide revolt which officials said hail been scheduled to start with last Sutilnlay'M tin minrsti ikes. The mobilization alerted all •citizens between 19 and 50 to stand by for a rail to inilitsiy service. A government announcement said the ministry of defense will call them by categories “in accord with requirements.” Reports from various parts of the country however indicated that the wave of strikes that started Saturday was subsiding after initial violence (hat cost the lives of two American eng'ncers ami up to 200 soldiers ami strikers. Strikers at two mines seized mine officials earlier this week, it was disclosed today, hut in both cases all were freed without the bloody murder and torture that took place at the Patino mines in the high Andes south of La Paz Saturday. Miners at the Huamini mine group seized four officials as hostages, including American manager Howard Keller, but they were rescue^ unharmed by soldiers. Two of the 2,000 strikers and one miner weye killed In the fighting . Other striker* in the Colquiti mine also seized foreign officials as hostages but later released them when troops moved In. Other American engineers and theft- families were evacuated from the Aramayo group of mines at Animas Quchiala and Telemayo. M*i. Helen O’Conner, wife of American Engineer T. J. H. O’Conner, who waa killed and mutilated by the atrikera at the Twentieth Century mine at Patino last Saturday, said she had overhead a conversation among
the strikers which indicated a general revolt was planned. Mrs. O’Conner wa.; cvacuati I to Oruio together with Mr... Al hert Krefling. wife of the secoml American engineer killed al Pat-
ino.
Mrs. O’Conner said one if th<’ strike leaders, in discussing strategy over the telephone, said: “All right, then, everything ;s ready. We shalf begin here at Catavi. Next will come Huamtnl and after that we shall move on
to the rest of the country."
Mrs. O’Conner, resting at Oruro from her harrowing experience, said she overheard this conversation while she, her bus band and other mine official 1
were held as hostages.
The strikers seized all Catavi : mine officials as hostages when they learned that their union leader, Senator Juan Lechili, had ! been arrfcsted and deported by the government. They grew violent, she said, when soldiers moving in to seise the mine shot and
killed a 12-year-old boy.
The miners beat and k'ckcJ
her husband to death before her
eyes, she said, despite her efforts IC-day visit,
to shield him. She said she was rescued by a young striker who took her to his home anil left h>T
with his wife and mother,
the rebuilding
many. 1 8. The U. S. distrusts Russian | motives, am! only c genuine dem- j oust ration of good will can convince American:; that Russia .sincerely wants peace. The magazine l'■•ported that a • part of Russia’s new strategy Hi Communist Information Bureau, i successor to the Comintern, may
be dissolved.
“Key figures in the Cominforin (whose world headquarters allocate din Bucharest) already have been alerted to stand hy for possible orders to move 1 the Cominform underground again in rase of Its above-ground abolition,” the UN World declared. Stalin is known to he “completely dissatisfied” with the ac- | romplishmcnls of the Cominform
anyhow, the magazine said. Bomb Blast In Spanish City
BARCELONA, Spam, June 1 1 UP I A bomb exploded in the heart of Barcelona today .1 few hours after Generalissimo Francisco Franco arrived for e
WASHINGTON, 4 June ’ — (INS)—Acting Secretary of State Webb today called for passage ot the one billion, lot) mi.lion dollar European rearmament program as “one of the incsl urgrnl pi-fqmsal* of Die
•'resident."
Webb’s slatcinent came a* the While House saM Dial there Is no eonfliet bet ween President 'i ruuiiiui, the State- Depart'I'ent and Senate leaders on the thno table ler action on Dm- North Atlantic Pad.
WASHINGTON. June 1. (UP) Hen Botirkc B. Hiekenlooper, R., Ia., promised to unveil today nin long-secret "hill (1 f pRitieulars" against David E. Lilienthal. As Lilienthal wan railed befire congressional invest i g a t o r s , Hiekenlooper told newsmen lie now U ready to present evidence to hack up his charge that the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission Is gailty of “increddde mlumanagcmem” o. 'h*
atomic program.
Hiekenlooper originally was scheduled to present his detailed
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indictment of Lilienthal at yrsI terday’s closed meeting of the I joint c o 11 g r e s s i o n a I Atomic Energy Committee. But he decided to hold off until today's public hearing on Lilienthal’:! stewardship of the atomic program. He said that Lilienthal is aware of the nature of the charges against him. Several tine's in the past, he .said, he has called the chairman’s attention to defects in commission practices Lilienthal has denounced H'cltenlooper'n accusations as “vague un-American charges.” He said that tin- senator is endangering the whole atomic program by undertaking a "smear” campaign against him. Hiekenlooper said it may take five or six days for him to com-> plete his case against Lilienthal.
— TO SELL RACE TRACK LOUISVILLE, Ky., June 1.— (UP) Sale of Churchill Downs race track to a non-profit corporation seemed assured today. Directors of the American Turf Asaoclatidn, operators of the Downs, voted unanimously yesterday to effect the sale, which would turn over all future profits of the track to the University of Louisville medical school. As a non-profit organization. the Downs would not be subject to taxes.
The bomb caused np casualties but telephone operators in a rcarby exchange were pani :- stricken. A few fainted. Policz investigated to delemiine if there was any connection between the explosion and Franco'j
visit.
Franco arrived on a warship late last night. He was stay.ng at Pedralbes Palace, a good distance from the scene of the explosion, when the bomb went
off. t
The bomb was placed between the iron bars of a fence surrounding a garden In the middle otf the Flaza De Cataluna. It exploded at 6:45 a. m. but damaged only tlv-
fenee.
WASHINGTON, June 1 — (INS)—The joint chief* of *tufi today turned l.humbH down on a proposed nock battle between tin- air force's huge 14-36 bomber and navy jet fighter* lo test their combat efficiency. The chlels told Defense Secretary Johnson that the test Wo lid ‘serve no useful purpose" and would Is- "stilijet-t to serlouu mlsinterprelaticji on the |ia,rt ol
t'he public.”
HOLLYWOOD, dime I —(INS) — U-hlld actress Margaret O’llrien's mother, Mrs. Gladys tty.vto, lias announced she will | seek annulment of her three-inonth-old marriage to Imnd lealor Don Sylvlo. Mrs. Sylvlo said the marriage, which took place over Die tearfid objections of her l2-jear->ld screen star, “just didn't work out.” Hi vvever Sylvio told reporters hi' Intemh-d to fight for his
wife’s love.
WASHINGTON. June I. (UP) —Attorney General Tom U. Clark today defied a Senate Judieiarv Siibeoininlttee suhpena and refused to produce his secret files on alleged subversive activities by enemy agent*. Clark appeared before the committee vyith Assistant Secretary of §t*te j 0 j|n E. Peurlfoy. Clark presented to the committCeatlauetl on l*nur Twn)
Names Review Board Members Judge John H. Alice on Wednesday named two members to the Putnam County Board of Review which convenes next week. The appointive members are Edgar A. Hurst, Jefferson township, Demoerat; and Mrs. Velma Chew, Washington township. Re-
publiran.
They will serve with the county auditor, treasurer and a:.,.essor in ' reviewing Spring assess-
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