The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 9 June 1949 — Page 1

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GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1949.

WALSH INJURED BY RM TRACTOR VK lt BY MACHINE AK ROACHDALE \ W tJON aSDA Y Walsh, 59, Putnair. ar .ner, was seriously | w hcn he was run over actor on which he was on a farm near Roach[dnosday afternoon. taken to the hospital ordsville, where it was his pelvic region was ashed. Mr. Walsh, hownot lose consciousness

itime.

iidcnt victim was workjis tractor on a farm fiv a Suthwest of Roachdaic was injured. He had jaced a gear on the fter obtaining the part castle As .ne straightfro.n making an adhe accidentally bumpthe gear shift lever with ;« and the tractor leap-

,ilsh was thrown off the and the large rear wheel

'over his hips.

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SWIMMER DROWNS IN QUARRY POND BLOOMINGTON. Iml., June 9. —Uless Lester, 27-year-old quarry worker, drowned Wednesday after a 50-foot dive from a ledge in the Long Stone C^uar**y near here. Sheriff Noble Seiscoe said witnesses told him Lester appeared to light flat on his stomach in the dive. Companions said hi was a good swimmer. Sheriff Sciscoe and deputies recovered the body after three hours’ searching with grappling hooks. Lester, who lived on K. U. -1. Bloomington, is survived by the widow and one child. Two New Cars Badly Damaged

ELLIS STABTS NEW POLICY ON FARM ESCAPES

Failure to stop for a preferential street resulted in several hundred dollars diunage to two new automoboiles shortly before 3 p. m. Wednesday. Fortunately no one in either cai

was injured.

A 1949 Ford sedan, driven by William O. Cass, 19, a DePauw student, was going south on Indiana and failed to observe

gh unable to move, Mr j tho st() p gjg . n al the corner ot mnaged to attract the j n anna s t ree t. The Ford struck of a passing motorist j a 1949 Oldsmobile sedan, driven

by Glenn Deem, who was going

cast on Hanna.

The front end of the Fold was badly damaged and Deem 1 ' car was smashed in along tin left front fender. City police ordered Cass to appear in city coui t Thursday

afternoon.

led an ambulance fro-i* He said be had lain in only a short time be was able to halt the

K. S. TO MEET

dale Chapter No. 247 will, meet in regular Monday eve at 8 6'cloek, li'4!i Degrees. A good m' of members is deRefreshments. Visitors

KKIAf.L LICENSE nhn Ligockl uud Beulah >, 1 well, both of Dan-

I.OSC A TIKE J irvis, substitute rural ail carrier, lost a tire University truck pulled line of traffic unexpectthc post office Thursday The truck bumper the Jarvis car tire. No image was done.

al Mediators Bendix Talks

fH BEND, Bid., June 9. re of the federal med<ho helped settle the Ford '1. sti ke entered th' Aviation Corp. dispute CIO United Auto Work-

h today.

JT C. Viat arrived yesterpielp two other mediatoys ind the strike now in itn The mediators hoped K 1 a negotiation session dor E. M. Sconyers said *nd Paul Holbrook had Jrahle this week to bring 1 sides ‘‘close enough" to 1 AUhng a joint session. ' have been no bargaining Js since last Saturday. A Tuesday session was

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conferred with Sconyers Jbrnok last night on dof the dispute which has |500 workers since April 20

Strike Halts Bus Service

Bus service to the west of Crawfordsvillc still was non-ex-istent Wednesday night as bus drivers continued on strike. At the Crawfordsville office of the Bllni Coach company an j the Swallow Coach Lines, Inc., it was stated that no progress was known to have been made toward settling the walkout. Forty drivers for the company struck at midnight Monday in a demand for higher wages and working conditions. Negotiations are said to have been in progress for more than three month

prior to the walkout.

All service west of Crawfordsville on the two lines was halt cd. However, service between Crawfordsville and Indianapolis was not affected by the walk out. The line operates between Indianapolis and Peoria, 111.

DAY, Auxiliary

To Be Installed

N BOWLERS will ■■'RIDAY afternoon will be a meeting of all Bowlers at the Public C°. room Friday, June ^30 Awards for the City will be presented * Ct ' lg for the City Assocwill be elected.

Years Ago W G KEEN 0ABTUI

Ab cl was tn Blooming8lt,n K his son, Walden. an <l Mrs. j. e. Porter *fe from Terre Haute, culah Yeager received „ ,or of Arts degree from-

diversity of rnia in Los

Bray was home from

ion.

Southern Angeles.

Plans are progressing nicely for a big day Sunday June 12 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Huff, who live at the Indiana state farm. The Disabled American Veterans-chapter No. 83 and its Auxiliary will be formal? Installed. State officers invitel and who will attend to install are State Commander L. L. "Larry Jewell of Terre Haute, and Howard Watts, State Adjutant of Indianapolis. Large delegations are expected from Indianapolis and also Terre Haute.This will be a rare occasion as seldom are the new chapters chartered and installed along with their Auxiliary and there is no doubt but whet the two above groups will be the first to ever be Institute! at the State farm. AH elgible veterans arc invited to attend. The program will begin at 4 p. m. (DST) Sunday afternoon.

Today s Market Hogs 6,500; Barrows and gilts. 25 to mostly 50 higher than Wednesday's average; Bulk good and choice 170-250 lbs 21.00-21.50, several loads 21.65, and around 200 head 21 - 75; 250-290 lbs 20.00-21.00. Choice near 250 lbs 21.50. Heavier weights not established, undertone strong; 100-lflJ lbs 16.00-17.50, choice near IOC lbs 18.00 and above; Sow. steady to 25 higher:

\\ I ^ TRY TO RETl'RN ALL WHO ESCAPE FROM 'PENAL FARM A new policy of trying to return all escapees from the Indiana Stat Penal Farm wai launched yesterday with the arrest in Seattle, Wash., of a Hoosicr fugitive who had been doinf daily business with county jailers as a bail bondsman s assist-

ant. •

Albert Ellis, new superintendent of the farm at IFutna.nville, said Albert Virgil, former superintendent, was notified by letter Oct. 15. 1947, that Harold E. Hall, 24-year-old father of two children, was in Seattle, but that Virgil told Seattle authorities he didn't want Hall returned to Indiana. Hall escaped from the farm Nov. 24, 1946. He was serving a six-month sentence .Tom Vanderburgh Circut Court for assault and battery and petit larceny. Ellis said Indiana authorities had been informed of Hall’s presence in Washington on at least two occasions through FBI circulars following his arrest in that state, but no attempt was made to return him. He said guard* from flic farm will be sent to Scuttle to return

Hall.

Taft-Hartley Law Gains Support WASHINGTON, June fl (UP) j A promised coal strike jolted I supporters of the administration labor bill today and braced the defenders of the Tuft-Hartley law in their nenatc fight over labor legislation. A random sampling of senators indicated a general belief that John L. Lewi*’ decision to call n one-week "stabilizing" walkout would weaken adminisration forces in their drive to replace the Taft-Hartley art with a law more acceptable to labor. The senate is now debating the administration repeal bill and a substitute sponsored by Sen. Robert A. Taft. R.. O., who wants to keep the basic provisions of the Taft-Hartley law on the statute books. “A strike now will not help us.” said Sen. Elbert D. Thomas, D., Utah, sponsor of the admin-

istration bill.

Sen Hubert H. Humphrey, D., Minn., commented that it was ‘‘unfortunate that congress shouldn’t be permitted to legislate in su atmosphere of normal and rcasoiYiblo labor-manage-

ment relations.”

From among the Taft-Hartley act defenders, Sen. Allen J. Ellender, D., La., expressed the belief that lewis' order "will probably kill any action on the part of the senate for any amendments to the Taft-Hartley law." He also believed that the stoppage would assure retention of the anti-strike injunction in national emergency disputes. Taft said a one-week strike would not cause a national emergency, but he conceded it would have "some effect” on the senate's action. He suggested that the shutdown would "emphasize the power that exists in union and that they sould be sub-

ject to cor.trol.”

PUTNAM BOY GETS JUNIOR 4-H POST Morris MoGaughcy, of Russellville who has 'been attending the 4-H Junior Leader council at Indianaipolis this week, has been eloetd assistant secretary of the group. Gov. Henry F. Schrickor was the luncheon speaker on Thursday. More than 400 Indiana boys and girls are in attendance. CLINTON ENCAMPMENT HOST TO DISTRICT MEET The District Encampment No I 16 1. O. O. F. will be held ' i n i Clinton, June 16lh. The district includes Encampments from Terre Haute, Rock- \ ville, Clinton, Grecncastlc, aw. Brazil. Special arrangement!: have been made for this nieetIrg and a large crowd is expect-

ed.

All members of Greencastlo Encampment are to meet at their Hall at 6:45 (DST) ti make the trip. Another Crash At Roads 36-43 Another crash si r.ilar to Sun . day afternoon’s bad accident in which eight persons were injured occurred Wednesday at •Lw intersection of roads 36 and 43 north of the city. As in Sunday’s smash up, the car traveling south failed to stop for th« "G crossing and struck an eastbound auto. State police said the ca. traveling south on 43 was i, Cadillac sedan, driven by Spencer Isom, who with Mrs. Isom wore on route to their home it. Bedford after a honeymoon trip. The Cadillac hit the left icar side of a Piym .Jin sedan, going cast and driven by Howard Kelly, of Cayuga. Polio said the impact turned bath ear around several times but they did n it turn over and no one was injured. Damage to (he Plymouth w.i, j estimated at $200 and diimag'- | to the Cadillac was set a* $1,000. The Hess garage repaii ed Kelly’s machine and to .v j the Isom automobile to Bedford

DIES AT TERRE HAUTE

Mrs. Effle Click, grandmother of Harold Miller of Grcenca itl<\ passed away Wednesday 111 uuing at her home in West Ten" Haute. Also surviving is a granddaughter, Mrs. Edna Jones of San Bruno, California. Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 2 o’clock from the Isaac Ball Funeral Home in Terre Haute. RUSS FAIL TO LIFT BLOCKADE BIG 3 CHARGE PARIS, June 9 (UP) Th? Western Big Three will charg: Russia today with failure t > carry cut the Four-Power agreement to lift the Berlin blockade. The American, British and French delegations were pie pared to accuse the Soviets ot breaking their agreement, and to support the charge by reading chapter and verse, at the 15t|i meeting of the council of foreign ministers later today. The Western bretfs were understood to contain chargethat Russia had acted in bad faith by agreeing to lift the blockade and then failing to carry out the agreement. M >s- < w agreed on May 5 to lift "All Restrictions” on transportation, communications, and trade with Berlin on May 12. Experts of the throe Western rowers met this morning to coordinate their charges against th< Soviets and mnllo th ir strategy. The West abandoned all h ipe of an overall agree'hient with Russia and decided to Intervene in the blockad • fitii.it ion after Secretary of State Lean Achesou doir.andod that next Monday no set as 3 new deadline for an agreement 1 on tli" complete removal of the b!< kadc. Three St. Paul Firemen Killed

LOCAL BOY SETS RECORD IN DPU SCHOLARSHIP wi st to graduate WITH MAGNA <’UM LAI'OE HONORS Charles West, Greencastlo, will graduate Sunday niagu.3 cum laude from Del. auw University with one of the highest scholarship records in the history of the school. West, a chemistry major, is one of the few graduating seniors who ever maintained . straight A average through the four years of study. West also received two of the university's highest awards at an annual Recognition Chapel the Guy Morrison Walker cup. to the outstanding senior and the Sigmt Delta Cht cup. to the man combining the best neholastic and athletic records. West has served as president of Phi Kappa Psl fraternity for the past two semesters. He holds thiee major letters as a member of the varsity basketball squad and held Little State track record for the 8H0 in 1948 While an undergranuatc. West was a member of Phi Eta Sigma, scholastic honorary *>r men; the Chemistry Club; "D" Association, athletic honorary; Kappa Xi. acientific honorary, and Gold Key, senior men’.: honorary. Me was also a mem- * her of the Student Governing ■ Board, and Phi Beta Kappa. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth E. West, 629 E. Walnut st.. West plans on graduate work it the University of Illinois. Mayor Stewart Is Club Speaker Grecncastlc Rotarians were given an insight into the operation of the city administration when Mayor Harold Stewart addressed the civic organization on Wednesday. Emmett Hurst sponsored the program and introduced the speaker.

EXTRA!

WASHINGTON, June !>. (INS) —The Hniine Armed Services Committee today approved 26 to I. a new pay bill increasing I hi' compensation of mllituxy personnel hy 802 million dollars annually. As Hie new measure was reported to the floor, Rep. Vinson (D) Ga.. announced that he would seek House action on the legislation next week.

PARIS, June ».— <INS)—Soviet Foreign Minister Ylshlusky was reported today as rejecting Secretary of Slate Dean Acheson's proposal (hat Hie four military governors of Berlin tn* instructed to ismiplrtc blockadelifting negotiations hy Monday. Achcson suggested that a formal note to this effect Is- sent to Berlin. He look the attitude that no East-West German trade agreement would he feaslhh- until normal conditions have been restored In Berlin.

WASHINGTON. June ». (INS) —lewis 1.. Strauss, atomic commission member, declared today that radio Isotopes exported abroad might help a potential enemy develop new germs for biological warfare. Strauss testified that Finland —under the shadow of Russia— made a "considerably larger" re-' quest for lsoto|>cM than any other country.

Tornado Hits Nebraska; 3 Die

BELVIDERE, Neb., June 9. (UP) Three persons were killed, five others injured, and the main street of this .small town left in -ruins today by a freak tornado which swirled out of » warm summer sky. The twister smashed into o two-story brick building housing the Pierce Cafe on the ground floor and an apartment above. Nine people were in the building. All except one were killed or injured. A fire broke out in the north section of town about four hours after the twister struck. Volunteer firemen who put it out said il started from grounded electrical wiring. But although the tornado ripped the business district, it left homes untouched. A store, a dance hall, a lumber >Wrd, the post office, and a .garage on the main street were virtContinued on Page Two)

ST. PAUL, Minn., June 9 ■ (UP) A collapsing wall today 1 killed St. Paul’s Fire Chief, on j Assistant Chief, and a Division j Chief during a fire in a paper

| cot.pany warehouse.

Another fireman

| by flying bricks when tv heavy masonry fire vail buckled at the huge Wald >rf Pape: company storage building. Fire chief Ed Novak, 53, and his Assistant, Frank McMahon 52, died instantly as the failin': wall buried them under a shower of bricks and then released thousands of tons of waiter logged paper down upon

Lhe.n.

District Chief Harold Bareli, 55, was caught in the falling debris also but was alive when a crew of 18 firemen freed him, Novak and McMahon am! McMahon a few minutes later. He died on the waj to Midway Hospital.

Mayor Stewart discussed the tax dollar and what the citizens of Grcencastle are receiving in the way of services by the various departments of the city administration. The need for ex-

was injured I t, ' ndil ig the sewage system wa

stressed and the necessity of r--building the disposal plant to handle the increased demand on this facility. Mayor Stewart's talk proved of interest to his

audience.

WALNUT RIDGE, Ark., June 1).—(UP)—A nine-year-old boy admitted lo authorities today lhat he shut three playmates In an Ice-box during a game ot hide-and-seek, then left them to suffoeate when he couldn't get the door o|H‘ii. The boy, James Buddy Chesj sicr, sobbed out his story early ; today in the presence ofoffleets i and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. j Borden 4 hessier, according to I Prosecuting Attorney Millard ' Hardin. The red-haired youngster's statement apparently solved the tee box deaths of James Delbert Chastain, two, his nine-year-old sisler, Joyce Ann Chastain, anil six-year-old Shirley Ramsey.

PUTNAM COURT NOTES

Guests of the Gi'eencastlc Rotary Club wore Karl A. Weber, American Railway Express rep-res-ntative of Columbus, and Spencer Pearson. Monon Railroad official of Bedford.

FINDS BILLFOLD

NEW YORK, June 9—(UP) — Former communist courier Whittaker Chambers lu.luy named the five government employes who supplied him with inform ition for the Soviet midergr< und. Testifying in the Alger Hiss IMwjury trial, Chambers gave' Lie names of: Henry Julian Wadlelgh, W'lillam Ward Pigman, Harry Dexter White, Alger Hiss, and Vincent Reno.

MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., June 9 (UP) A year ago, farm t E. G. Gust lost his billfold while plowing a field on his farm near Wcstville.

Helen Mason vs. John M. Mason et al. complaint for partition and sale of real estate.

Hughes & Hughes are attorneys ; money ami other for the plaintiff. ! damp but intact.

Yesterday, Gust turned up the billfold while plowing the same field. Inside he found $16 in bills and $4 81 cents In coin. The

papers were

VFWIIDIES AUXILIARY 32S4 INST ALLED AT ROACHDALE ON JUNE 5

$250 Robbery At Golf Club House

Burglars forced open a window in the club house at th" Grcencastle golf course Wednesday night and took about $250 worth of new equipment. The robbery was discovered hy Tom Hardwick, manager, when he opmod th" club house at 7. A. M. Thursday morning. About *1.000 in equipment belonging to members of the golf club was not touched. State potli einan Trowbridge and deput y ihcriff Victor Cue investigated the break-in.

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PARENTS OF TWINS Mr. and Mrs. James Walters of Coatesville. are the parents of twin daughters born Thursdav morning.

Left to right Chaplain. Betty Darnell; Conductress, Lucille Perkins; Patriotic Instructor, June Garner; Trustee, Mary Higgle; Junior Vice President. Jennie Blaydes; Secretary, Bernice Robbins; Treasurer, Velma' Chastain; Musician, Helen Etta Sutherlin; Flag Bearer, Blanche Chamberlin; Senior Vice President, Ruby Everman; President, Mary Jane Stamper; Color Bearer, Marie Harris.

HOLLYWOOD Frederic March, Edward G. Robinson, Helen Hayes and other noted personalities named as "Comnvunists" or "Fellow Travelers” in a report to the FBI all termed the charge baseless today. Their names were included in an FBI memorandum produced at the Judith Coplon trial In Washington. WASHINGTON The Senate Armed Services committee approved the nomination of Gordon Gray to be secretary of the

Army.

INDIANAPOLIS, C. C. Lyoiek, manager of the Indiana Coal Trades Association, said today that John L. Lewis’ latest call for miners to quit work Monday will hurt Indiana mor-a than most states. Lydick said the Indiana stockpiles are far below normal because of previous work stoppages in March and May. Th • May shutdown was limited to Indiana and was a sy apathy str.ke in connection with a dUoute over c instruction at i Terre Haute mine. OAK RIDGE, Tenn., June 9.— (UP)—A threatened strike of atomic workers was averted without federal intervention here early today when negotiators reached agreement on a new contract one minute before tho walkout deadline. The statement, which gave . ome 2,300 members of the CIO's H'uMtiuueii «»u l*ag» Twa)

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LEWIS' ACTION ’SLAP IN FACE' OPERATORS SAY UNION CHIEF SEEKING TO GAIN CONCESSIONS FROM OPERATORS

WASHINGTON. June 9. (UP) — Coal operators today termed John L. Lewis’ latest stop-work order “ a slap in the face,” and some said it might cancel all talks for a soft coal contract. Coal operators, some oi whom -arc trying to get a new contract with I,cwis and head off a possible strike June .30, were stunned hy the ‘‘holiday" order. Southern coal producers, who have been negotiating with ttv United Mine Workers at Bluefield, W. Va., called the work stoppage ‘‘a slap in the face" answer to their proposal that the union give up its right to call strikes at will. The negotiations were recessed late yesterday until Monday after the miners rejected the operators offer as "grotesque, medieval and a shame.” Important southern producers predicted that the contract talLs would not be resumed until Lewis sends his men back to work. WASHINGTON, June 9. As result of an order issued late yesterday by ohn L. D'Wis, the nation's coal mines will shut down for a week, starting Mon-

day.

The order to 450,000 hard and soft coal miners was frankly aimed at reducing the massive stock of already-mined coal a 52 days’ supply. This would tend to li"l|> Lewis wrest greater concessions from the operators in a new contract to replace the one expiring thi"" weeks hence. "The magnificent production efforts of the mine work"rs during the current year have created menacing instability m tin mining industry,” his tuoelamotion to the United Mine Workers

said.

‘‘Results are apparent in more than adequate tonnage for tli? domestic and export market; irregular and broken working time affecting some hundreds of thousands of men, while other mines work steadily; economic inequities affecting the min workers; and a general condition of Instability throughout the whole industry. “Inescapably, continuation of this folly wil leventunle in in - parable damage to our basic industry and the national economy.” Th" walkout or strike ord-r came Just as Lewis wan starting crucial negotiations for a new contract. Bargaining sen dons with southern owners so far have fizzled. But Lewis, earlier Wednesday, announced arrangements for starting separate contract talks with the key U. K. Bteol Corporation at Philadelphia next Monday. There was no immediate comment from the coal industry on Lewis’ order Wednesday for a week’s shutdown. The order said the week's idleness would be good for everybody.

STARTS LIFE TERM

INDIANAPOLIS, June 9. (UP) Edward Fennell, 18, Indianapolis. today began serving a life sentence for the slaying of Fred Robey, 23, on Aug. 29, 1947. A criminal court jury found h e: guilty of first degree murder yesterday after deliberating about five hours. Rob-y v.-1. shot as he rode a bicycle in front

of Fennell's home.

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