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GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1949.

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NO. 196

yclub RS TALK F INTEREST llK |{|KNCES told OKMi ll NAVI Ol-1 1 ( F.K ulr'iiiis. vice-president nianaser for the Wa- , t , pox Company of tc , u.i3 the speaker on , before the Green- ’ ar> Club. Kent AtroiUiiid the speaker ► ,11. r of the progi am. tiie late war, Mr. g ,| an enviable record Inn liaigcd as one of be is with many attesting to his ex1,. nd. He vyas secnan,I of the Destroyer b roamed the Atai during the dark w ai when Germany g ships faster than 1 States could build Pan will be remc.nie (i itnyer wliich une memorable battle in n with a German a id ■ ime out un top. dev ding talk before :;i: tie Rotary Club, ins related his exib end the destroyer, in.; is a good spe«k"r t'i .ittention of his i relating liis war cxlluii er of Union City, yiKltiale cf DePamr j in tlic class of ItM.,, hit ,,f a $2.0(K).0() Ru.l,n: l:.,- ai the Universaiaiu, Cuba, was n jthe imo Other guests in Mace. Manhattan, ■ iibn, Columbus, Ed Indianapolis and Dr. Ciawford and John A ^it gue.ets of Kent A. ratures In Wednesday weather seemed to m Indiana Wednestemperatures which lay after last week’s cold weather continuJings throughout the in the 80’s Wedncs-

on.

liter bureau’s weekly t for the week ending d last week's low ■i were unfavorable r "i growth. It added « dnnng tiie first part mti rferred with field he weather became or this work during art of the week, s'11ions of the state, said, corn, planting nipleted but in others > delayed by wet

rain.

planting is reported d progress and in the 1 a tobacco is being te hay is being cut. reported in generally ion; oats generally igh only fair in a few tures improved and d, and gardens doing ►I’OSES; DIES : Iml.. June 2 —(UP) Bennett, 45, and Mrs. ghei ty, ^ w idow, wera :A 'ly along a country

light.

asked Mrs. Daugheria bride. She accepter!, collapsed of a heart and the wheel of his When a passing ailed by Mrs. Daughl d lo investigate, Ben-

‘ars Ago

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ermillion was rey superintendent of a. Jacob Eitel were

Jianapolis,

Durham and Miss 11 attended Comtercises at Western iemy in Alton, 111. Arnold was hostess

’• Club.

DANCE RECITAL WAS ENJOYED LAST NIGHT The Spring dance recital, pr - iwnted by pupils uf Mia. Doris Hinkle in the high school auditorium Wednesday night, was enjoyed by a large and appreciative audience. The r,plenum program reveale ' an abundance of talent by the youngsters participating and also was the result of long practice by the performers and excellent coaching by their instructor. The numbers consisted of tap, ball t mid acrobatic dancing mid 111 ■ beautiful costumes added much to the general effect and enjoyment of the recital. Gets 6 Months Farm Sentence Robert Comer, who bad previously pleaded not guilty, ap pcared in the Ihitnam circlei I court Wednesday afternoon aon | changed his pica to guilty on an assault and battery charge. Judge John H. Alice ordered the defendant to pay tii" i nn' costa and sentenced him to th Indiana state farm for s::< months. Conor was arrested will Kernel'i. Morlan on an affidavi. signed fcy Raymond Ale-:’ , I i foil, wing an alleged altercation at 1 a m. on .Sunday, Mij S. a! the Alexander h, me Morlan a!

i so pleaded not guilty when ai | raigned several weeks ago. Morlan also changed his p!, s ! to guilty Thursday mo: nirg and j j was sentemed to the state farm , for JO days and ordered to pay i (he court costs.

Funeral Friday For Mrs. Torr Lust rites for Mrs. Fannie Torr will be hold Friday afternoon at 2:00 o’clock (CST) at the Rector Funcial Home m charge of the Rev. Ralph Saunders. Burial will be in Forest Hill cemetery. Friends may call at the home on Poplar street until noon Friday. Mrs. Torr, age 80 years, passed away at her home at 2:00 o’clock Wednesday afternoon after an extended illness. She was born in Putnam county the daughter of John it and Carolyn Cole King. Mrs. Torr moved to Grecncastle after the death of her husband, Frank Torr, in

1942.

Mrs. Torr was a member of (he Christian church, Four Leaf .Clover Club, Country Reading

I Club and Eastern Star.

Survivors include two sons, Franklin and John Riley, and one daughter. Mr.. Edward Braden, nine grandchildren and two gn at grandchildren, two sisters, Mrs. Emma Bond and Mrs. Gertrude Hutcheson and other relatives. 4-Alarm Fire In Chicago's Loop

j CHICAGO. June 2. CUP) ' four-alarm fire roared out of control for two hours today in

the heart of Chicago's Diop. Four firemen were injured be-

fore streams of water from aerial towers quelled the flames in the old Ashland block which was being torn down >o make way

for a modern bus station. Billows of heavy black smoke

rolled over the downtown area.

The smoke was so dense that

guests at the Sherman Hotel • awoke in fear that the hotel was ’ ablaze. Many went to the street or peered out of windows in their

nightclothes to watch the fire. The fire started in an annex to

the Ashland building near Rand-

olph and Clark streets.

The annex housed the old Apollo Theater which had been closed in preparation for demolition. The Apollo was an histone playhouse where many of the world’s most famous actors and entertainers had performed. A janitor in the Garrick Theater in the main Ashland building smelled smoke and turned In

an Alarm at 2 a. ni.

Within minutes, flames wet shooting 150 feet into the air over the rear part of the annex. Firemen turned in a second, third and fourth alarm, summon-

(Cnnlloueil on

INTERIOR OF BANK BEFORE AND AFTER MODERNIZATION

PARIS PARLEY EXPECTED TO END JUNE 15

HOPE IN SIGHT FOR ANY KIND i)K AN AGREEMENT

Above* is a scene of the First-Citizens Ban; and Trust Company, before the modernization w or k was completed a few days ago. The low r pitcures show the lobby as it appeared one morning a short time after the bank opened and also shows the new interior fixtures of the institution. which is now considered one of the most up-to-date banking houses in the nation. The bank will hold open house Friday evening fot friends and customers. They will be sliown through the bank and all the modern b inking equipment in the way of book-keeping mai hines and othci thirtgs used in a modern ban . will be seen in actual operation.

Mrs. Williams' Riles Saturday Mrs. Ollic Peck Williams, ag * 78 years, passed away Wednesday afternoon at the home of h, r son, AJbcrt. 422 Anderson street. Mrs. Williams became seriously ill Wednesday morning. The family formerly lived ncaPutnamville. Survivors are three sons, Aib.u t Teddy, west of Grecncastle Hi d O. D. of Putnamville and one daughter; Mrs. Jessie Walker of Englewood, N. J. and one sister. Mrs. Myrtle McCuHle ol Indianapolis. Funeral services will be held at the Me Curry Funeral Home at 2:30 o’clock (P-ST) Saturday aHcrno m, in chai'ge of the Rev. Ed Day of Indianapolis and the Rev. John Tennant. Burial will be in Forest Hill cemetery. Friends may call at the MeCutry Funeral Home. BALL RE-ELE4TEO INDIANA "OLIB, June 2 — (UPi William H. Ball, Muncle, "ontinued today as president of the Indiana Cancer Society following his re-election last night by the board of directors.

WELL KNOWN HIGH

school min dies Bill Called Up

By House Demos

A heart attack suffered lust Sunday proved fatal Wednesday night to L. J. C. Freeman, 01. principal of the Crawfonlsvitl * ’nigh school fur (he past 20 yem < He had been a member of the

WASHINGTON, June 2. (UP) House Democrats, bent on redeeming one of their major campaign promises, called up for

Crawi'ordsville school faculty f i, | consideration today a bill to 1 h-

15 years and was well known by Grecncastle officials in the educational field. He was a member of the NnUonal Association of High School Principals, the Indiana Association of High School Principals, the Indiana State Teachers' Association, and the Indiana S ho •! Men’s Club While a student in Wabash, h o was a member of the national championship Wabash basketball team during the 1906." 1907 and 1908 seasons. y_ PICNIC SUNDAY

PARIS. June 2 (UP) — The three Western Powers virtually abandoned hope today for any type of agreement with Russia m Germany and indicated they were prepared to close the Big our conference of foreign ministers on June 15. As a last report the United States, Britain and France may agree to a series of secret meetings at their afternoon con- j ferencc today to see if Boviev | Foreign Minister Andrei Vishia | sky will make any new offers when the spotlight of publicity i.,

withdrawn.

Otherwise the west considers that £ven their hopes for a ; mini num of agreement on Ger nary* and Berlin have been ! blasted and that there is no further use for continuing the pi ca ,

ant sessions.

Vcrlerday's session was devoi ed to u long legal argument >vcr Russia's desire to maintain i veto on all subjects discussed by the four powers and tic west’s demand for rule by a ma-

jority v< te.

British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin proposed that coitain questions would be earmarked for decision by nuaiiii mis vote of all four po .vct.; ind others reserved for a .traight majority decision. Visninsky became involved yesterday in a long legal argument on why the Western Pow ! ers are in Berlin. U. S. Secretary of State Dean Aches on answered the question blur My by say.ng the west was in Berlin by right and by for c of arm:, and intends to stay there. Sylvan Dorsett Died Wednesday Sylvan Dorsett, living west >: Lr visvillr, died Wednesday the Putnam County Hospital. Mr. Dorsett had been bedlas*. for the last two months and had been in the hospital most of

that time.

Although born near Clovcriia, - in Putnam bounty, he moved i . Morgan County at the time of his marriage to Miss R- so Ar , drows and had lived on th" | same farm the remainder of th * last two years. During this tunc he had stayed wtlh his daugh- . ter. Mrs. Raymond Stockwell, in the sane community. He was the son of John and Maria Dor-

sett.

Besides the two (laughters, Mrs. Finchum and Mrs. Stockwell, he leaves a'son Lawren. Dorsett, r-r Winston Salem, N C.; two brothers and a sistei, Herbert Dorsett, west of laiwi. ville; Button Dorsett, near Eminence, and Mrs. Enos Michael of Ciayton, two grand-chiIdrc-i and two great-grandchildren. Another grandson, Merlin Eugene Finchum, U. S. N., was killed in action in the Mediterranean during World War II. Asks $5,000 For Dogbite Injuries

HOG MARKET

Hogs 8.500, active, barrows 1 and gilts steady to 25 lower, j heavier weights steady, good j and choice 170-250 lbs $21.75$22.25; few held around $22 40, top $22.50; 250-300 lbs $21.00$22.00, few 300-325 lbs $25.50$21.00, load big weights near 150 lbs $19.00; ICO 100 lbs $18 .50-$18.00; choice uniform near I'iO lbs higher; sowp steady, bulk 330-650 lbs $16.00-$ 1.8 00, choice light veights $ 18.25-$ 1.850, odd 600 lbs around $15.50-

$15.75.

EXTRA!

WASHINGTON, June >. (DIM —Wiled testimony today disclosed that a person with a police record of grand larceny had access to the safe at an atomic lab oratory from which a sinall quantity of Uraniiini-2S5 disap-

peared early this year.

The disclosure was evoked by Rep, Charles II. Elston, U., ft., ol the joint congressional atomic committee in questioning ot Carroll I.. Wilson, general manager of the Atomic Energy Commis-

sion.

Wilson carefully guarded his answers. Beyond confirming Elston's information in outline, he said little for the public record. Wilson said tie would make a fuller explanation at a closed session scheduled Infer today. Tiie 1-235 was mlslai I at the Argoime National Laboratory near Chicago. Th - * commlr don says all but one-eiglith of an ounce of Ihc atomic explosive tins since been recovered from laboratory residues

TORNADOES HIT FOUR STATES; NINE INJURED

TWISTERS STRIKE IN IOWA. MISSOI Rl. NEBRASKA AND KANSAS ll>- I n lleil t*rcas Heavy thunderstorms la died the midwest today on the heela of tornadoes that injured nin-' persons and caused about $1,000,OOO damage to rural property. Three persons were missing. The twisters struck late yesterday near eight towns lying in a 200-mile radius where the Missouri River joins Iowa, Missouri. Nebraska and Kansas. Seven funnels dipped to earth from dense black thundeihea i ., causing damage near Sidney and Percival in Iowa; Tarkio, Burlington junction and Fairfax ;o Missouri, Bern and St. Bcndicta in Kansas .and Nebraska City, Neb. Most of the casualties were caused by the twister that struck near Burlington junction and Fairfax. It smashed Hie farm hone of Mi a nil Mrs Ray Clink, injuring them an I their four children, Kim. 4, Kent, 9. Shirley, 12. and Margaret, 11 Donna Louis, who lived 50 yaids away, was Imrt vhen she started walking toward Un Clark home at the storm's height. Her mother. Mrs. Owes lannr, and two other l/njis children were missing. Her father was in KansiS'CHy for the day. Mr. and Mrs. Melvin St dd .i

(luesliiinlng aboiil tin 1 unnani I '’•('i' hurt win n a twister mas i

e I man will! tiie grand larceny record was a highlight of the second day of li<'nring'. by tinjoint eonnnlttoe into charge i ol “incredible mismnnage m e n I ’' hurled a! Atomic Chief David E.

Lilienlhal.

( lilt AGO, June 2 (INK) — George R. MeSwain, FBI chief in fhiiago, was held in contempt of court today for r'TuMiog to produce records in the noturloos John Factor kidnaping ciisc. Federal Judge John P. Barneordered the Federal Bureau of Investigation officer held technical custody. The judge said he will sign the contempt citation at 2 p. m., which will order MeSwain placed in jail urless and until be produces the records or is discharged through due process of law. NEW YORK, Jim- 2.—(INK) —Will) taker Chambers, self styled former f'omttmiiisf courier, dramatically identified Alger Hiss today as the mail he first met in a restaurant in Washington in the late spring or early summer of 1931. He said he was introduced lo the former State Department of tii ial by J. Peters and Harold

Ware.

(“J. Peters” previously has been disclosed to lie a name used by Alexander Stevens, a prom Incut Communist who reeenlly was permitted to leave the country voluntarily after being ar rested for deportation proceed

ings.)

Defense objections prevented Chambers from saying who Peters and Ware were.

ed their farm home .smith of Essex, la. Stoldorf nuffored i broken leg. His wife war. cut and

In uised.

The tornado that hi! neat Bern, Ka ns., demolished two fan.i houses and then leaped over i.iie fiiuall community. Meanwhile. nnothei dam.i;. I fatjpi houses and barn.; at St Benedicts, 10 miles to the sputli. Ram and hail nccomp.ulied the toraadn Pint s.-wctif -jiist ;■ j Nebraska City and then tore I into the area near Pernvnl Some freight i ip!i mo- - blown j off their track:; near Taikio.

All members /if the Fathers’ Auxiliary of VFW Post 1550 are urged to attend the pitch-in picnic supper at the Gen. Jesno M. Lee Home Sunday evening at 0 o’clock. Any father of a Putnam county overseas veteran is eligible to join this new Auxiliary and is invited to the picnic whether contacted or not by card.

eialize the GOP-aponsorcJ displaced persona law. Rep. Francis E. Walter, D.. i Pa., floor manager of the mcas- : ure, predicted it would pns.s “without much opposition." He anticipated Hint cffoits would be made to cut the num- | her European displaced persona who may be admU ted to the | United States under the threycar program. But he expressed confidence that th-sc efforts would be squelched. The bill provides tha' the number of DP’s eligible for adi.iisss.n to this country shall be 339.000 in three yeais. instead of 205.900 in two years as provided by law now. Chief opposition to the administration bill was expected from three southern Democrats Reps. Joseph R. Bryson, S. C., Ed Gossett, Tex., and Boyd Tackett, Ark. They said in a statement that the measure is "a snare and (Coatlau*i| on I’na» Two I

An 88-year-old Martinsville woman, Sarah Knight, seeks $5,000 for dogbite injuries in a suit filed in Morgan Circuit

Court.

The plaintiff says in her list of j grievances that a large dog own- ! ed by John and Minnie Janies j knocked her down and bit her many tires September 17. 1948 The fall also broke tier leg, she continues. She seeks damages nn compensation for medical and hospital expenses and for permanent injuries* received. Martinsville Reporter. PLAN DOUBLIj KITES KOKOMO. June 2—(UP) Double services were arranged today for Mr. and Mrs. Finis Hunt. Mrs. Hunt died of a heart attack yesterday. A short time later, her husband, a retired grWer, died of a stroke blamed on the shock of his wife's death.

WASHINGTON, June 2 — <|!|>) — President Truman wild today he is prepared to stick it nut here a.I simmer If necessary while Congress works <>n his

legislative program.

BLUEFIELD, W. Ya., June 2 — (I P)—Southern coal operators returned here today for wage <outraet talks with John L. Lewis, but they had scant hope of reaching an agreement. Some operators expressed the belief that it is only a question of time when the I lilted Miiv Workers’ president will "take :t

walk."

Lewis aOi’ost certainly would face new court action if he should break up the talks at Rliiefield. Mood) could ask Robert X. Denham, general counsel of th> National 'Labor Relations Board, to obtain an Injunction requiring I>'wis to remain at the bargaining table. Federal Mediator Director Cyrus S. Citing reportedly would intervene almost Inuuwdiatcly in an effort to get the parties faick together.

Tliunderstor i;a and heavy shower:; struck reiieatedly today from the Missouri river to tiie Great Lakes and from the Ohio Rivei to the Canadian border. A weather forecaster at Chifftgo deserih-d the weather ,m "very messy" due to turbulence created from warm humid air moving north and colliding wit a cold air rushing south front

Canada.

By nightfall, the storm area wa ; expected to extend east I > Hie Atlantic coast and southward through Tenne: .i-e. TRUMAN TO SPEAK IN ARKANSAS JUNE II WASHINGTON, June 2. The White House said Wednesday President Truman will make an important speech.at Little Hock j June 11 during the annual r. • j union of the 35th Division. Presidential Press Secretary Charles G. Ross said Mr Truman will speak in the stadium there at 3:30 p. m. (CDT) nt the dedication of a war memorial. Ross said the subject of the President's speech has not boro determined but he should be inclined to call it a “major" speech. TAX CORRECTION The federal tax on television sets as advertised yesterday bv the Art Furniture Store should | have read $1.54 and not tiie $41.54 as quoted.

0 Todays Weather © ® and & O Local Temperature 9 Partly cloudy and continued warm today with scattered thundershowers developing in afternoon and at night; tomorrow clearing and cooler. High today 85 to 90, tow* tonight 65 to 70.

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