The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 1 July 1949 — Page 1
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GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, JULY 1, 1949.
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keying local liqii" ip! cl or was chared of Id jury barges Frida, kitnflm circuit court |cial julge A J. Steven )anville, sustained hula) atement on. boiit The giand jury indictsigfd advertising a lot exhibiting a garing jin ahateiucnt is a plea jut ion in a case on the |l > whs improperly | p. ng case, the deed its plea on the |i -latiite No. 916( r> that if a defendant ll ie a grand jury to he is immune from B, thing that It - at testimony. mi.- indicted by a Pu - Ii i n y on two counts i | April 2 following It unblii g n Ij < ounty. Mr. StevL, h- special) |f, wi-i k.i ago, hut due |i furthet action in i ) b< postponed un- | i va reprosente I pt ■!■■ in-er. CrawfordsE while Pros* 1 utof ft : p pioscnted lln- ■ 1 i na. Swindlers Second Trip Rkiugk hi . iniyi Ii p .;‘.’d with In \ t $9,000 E), ■ a pH • Hpture if |di i in ire, kes said today. It Hay Palmer arrested p at the home of Mrs. ph:i pn Yesterday. She I a tarm near here with ec children. 9) I the men used a tertn nnnation scheme to In : out of $9,000. Et i Palmer that they i-pim- a yeat ag' 1 and i tf i mte (iroof it for j&hf gave them the money worked on the h'iuse. |s- 1 she didn't recognize the\ i ame back last told her the house ■ o- bee a'use the "terrompound had I ■■)'! e I t'i 'un-pioif tho ''"m :;tip gave them she said. didn t expiod». But • 'ii did Wednesday t the men returned, id ° ot hei t An were and that he was i lawNe p' 1 pj-, iei ute Sir $3,000 Itold hwji to comi hack .■ with his friends. He sheiiff met them. The 1 H in lieu of $5,000 a grand July on barges of operating a < f game. ^ identified them as B d7 and Barry | ''th of Table Grovj, iaH Ihirk Vaiignn, .'{5, of r *l p said tie was Inhill \ that \T died a * w nan sane time ' i I'.k-d.
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Jndilli Coplon WASHINGTON, July 1. (INS> —Federal Judge Altiert 1^ Reeves today senleneed Judith fopton 40 iiionlli-, to 10 years In prison as a eon'lcled spy for Russia and fixed bond at $20,000 pending appeal. Tin- 28-year old ex-government employe was remanded into custody of the I S. marshal which meant that she would he jailed Immediately uhile her attorney seeks to raise Hie bond money. The government had demanded that bond he set at $100,000. I.ashed hy the judge as a woman who “violated a high trust” and “attempted to betray her country” Mis Toplon passionately declared h r innocence and screamed ttu l she had been denied “a fair ial." In pronoueing sentence, Reeves recommend'< that .Miss fopmi serve her time at the women's reformatory it Alderson, \\. \ a. Judith toll the judge before sentence was pronouneoi: “I understand I can plead for (I outlnueil <>a r«sr Three!
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r imately 2,500 auto p licenses liad been issued Hip- branch office at the >h 'pii Street Garage as the Indiana law went into ef1 Florence Helen MoI iiey left for Breadkiaf, VerII t'i attend summer school. Antiice Moore was home
Indianapolis.
"nd Mrs. Nelson Taulmnn on ,i motor trip to points in 1 '"hi Kentucky. 1 Mary Frances Cooper taking her vacation from Central National Bask.
ROACHDALE IS HOST FOR CELEBRATION ANNDAO OM1NG ANH ejri.V 4 OHM KVANCTi OPFNh TOMORROW Roachdalt- ready to act a j host for its annual homecoming and Fourth of July celebration which officially opens tomorrow in the north Putnam town. Tins observance i sponsored each year by th- Roachdale Laons Club The celebration will laat threo days, con li ting with a gigantic display of fireworks on Monday night. Each ear, the Roachdale event attra' i thousands of persons from ' his section of the state as well as many tormet residents ■ the community. Plenty of rides and oth'U amusement devices have been se* up on the i iway for young and old. There ire various conces sions and veral riee acts will feature tht ntertainmeni during the threc-cUy uSfJkit. Their wi 1 be maaic by a Terre Hfiute quartet and a concert hy the Greene istle high senool hand as other highlights of the homecoming A record i inpwd is anticipated by the Li n., Club members Sat urday night and everything will be done to insure everyone hav ing a good time. NOTICES MAIL.FI> Notice.) have been mailed out by the Farm Bureau which is sponsoring a tax meeting in the gymnasium at Bainbridge next Tuesday vening. Anson Thomas of the Indiana Farm Bur an Tax department will be thp principal speaker. HANKS TO CLOSE The Find Citizens Bunk and Trust Company and the Central National Hank Will be clised Monday July 4th. Both bunki will renu in p)|H'n all day on Wednesday of next week. HKKAKM LEG MALDEN, Mass., July 1. (UP) A hired W. Devine, assistant motfti vehicle registrar, dccltned a| invitation today to direct a safety campaign over the Fourth cl July weekend. He fei downstairs and broke ins right h g Wednesday night.
TRUMAN FACES 2-WAY SQUEEZE BY CONGRESS THREATEN TO CUT LUXURY LEVIES, NO INCOME TAX HIKE WASHINGTON, July 1 (UPi —Congress put a two-way tax squeeze on President Truman today with threats to cut luxury levies and promises not to hike the income tax lates. A 7-to-6 vote in the Senate Finance Committee put in the works a bill to reduce Juxury taxes up to 75 per cent. These are Hie sales taxes levied again l such items a:; jewelry, adminsions, toilet goods, telephones, telegiaphs and 1 uggage. The Senate committee wants to haul them down from their wartime emergency peaks to the 1942 level, generally. Simultaneously, Chairman Walter F. George, D.. Ga , of the Senate Finance Committee junked President Truman’s tax increase proposals in these words: "I am satisfied that Congress will not increase taxes at this session." Mr. Truman's budget last January asked Congress to increase general revenue' taxes such as personal and corporation income levies by $4,000,000,000 a year. Ho also asked for a hike of more than $2,000,000,000 in payroll taxes for increased social securi y and similar benefits. The President warned that th • alternative to higher taxes would be a Treasury deficit in the 1949 and 1950 fiscal years. The 1949 fiscal year ended yesterday and official deficit figures will be available today_or shortly. Meantime, unofficial estimates of how much the Treasury went into the red in the past 12 moths range up to $1,500,000,000. The new fiscal year beginning today will end in red ink. too, unless taxes are raised or Mr. Trunam agrees to the economy program for which a powerful bide of Democratic and Republican members of Congress is clamoring. But at his press conference yesteiday. the President Indicated that he would not agree to reduced government spending nor back away from his request for higher taxes. Ot George, Mr. Truman said the senator never had been in favor of taxes sufficient to run the government. To this, Geor-je replied: “I think the President is at most the single supporter of th" theory that (ax) iae: ought to be Increased. The universal opinion of the Amrrjcan people is that taxes are too high and ought not to be increased.”
FATHERS OF OVERSEAS VETS MEET AT VFW POST 1550 HOME
MARRIAGE LICENSE Lowell Downs. Cayuga, and Lucille K Mead. Georgetown. 111.
Last Rites For An Ex-Resident Funeral services were held Monday afternoon for Mis Louise Ellington, age 37 years, who died early Saturday morning of a heart attack at Columbus, I nd. She had been in ill health for two and one-half years. Survivors are the husband, Frederick Ellington, a former resident of G-reencaetle; a daughter, Mary Louise; her mother, Mrs. W. R. Nichols and a broth cr, W. J. Nichols, all of Colum bus.
Seated (left to right) — Ernest Rader, John F. Danahey, James Harlan, William C. Jones, Everett York, Ed Rossox, Raymond Riley, Glenn Hodshire. Standing — Walter Gardner, Faye E. Weaver, Lawrence Miller, James B. Zeis Raymond Hardwick, Jacob Eitel, Willis Scobee, Bruce Shan non, Ralph Call, Willard Garrett, Ora Meek. The above picture was taken by a Daily B aimer cameraman during this week's meeting of the new Fathers' Auxiliary of Gen. Jesse M. Lee Post Veterans of Foreign Wars. Formal presentation of the organization's charter, the first of its kind in the nation, and installation of officers will be held during a joint banquet meeting of the V FW, the Ladies Auxiliary and the Fathers’ Unit on Sunday, July 24, at the Post Home. Members!) ip in the Fathers’ Auxiliary now totals 110. Permanent officers will be elected next Wednesday evening, July 6th.
John L Hill Dies In Indianapolis Word has been received here of the death of John L. Hill, Thursday at his home In Indianapolis. He is survived by the wife, Jean, two -daughters, Mrs. Charles P. Davidson of Indianapolis and Mrs. Idan E. Flaa of Birmingham, Mich.; three neiees, Misses Norma and Garnet Hill of Greencastle; und Mrs. John Barth of Indianapolis. Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Flanncr A Buchanan Mortuary in Indlaiiaixills.
T-H Repeal To Be 1950 Issue
WASHINGTON, July 1 (UP) —Administration forces, decisvely beaten in the Senate, vowed today to carry their Taft-Hart-Icy repeal campaign to the voters in the 1950 congressional elections. Despite President Truman's refusal to admit that the battle is lost, top Democrats in both the House and Senate glumly conceded defeat at least in this Congress. A House Democratic strategist, who asked that his name be withheld, said the chances are that no new attempt will be made to wipe the labor relations act otf the statute books until the 82nd Congress. “I believe,” he said, "that we’ll have the majorities to do it then." The administration's campaign collapsed late yesterday when the Senate, by a vote of 51 to 42, accepted a labor bill written by Sen. Robert A. Taft, R., O. It would preserve the substance and even the name of the TaftHarlley labor-management relations act. The vote represented a stunning setback for the President who had marked his 1948 campaign with a pledge to replace Taft-Hartley with a modified version of the old Wagner law. Mr. Tiuman told his press conference after getting the news that he will try just as hard as ever to carry out the Democratic party platform. Administration leaders in the House, who must now decide ttie fate of the Smate bill, were split into two camps. One group ■ probably the more powerful wanted to forget the whole thing anil let the Senate bill die a quiet death in the House Labor Committee. But another group favored an attempt to “improve" the Senate bill and send it to the White House where, they believe, it will be vetoed. One high-ranking House leader said the fate of the Senate bill will be decided sometime next week. Th" House already has demonstrated Its unwillingness to pass anything but a compromise version of Taft-Hartley repeal legislation. Early in May, it tentatively approved a bill similar to the Senate measure by a vote of 217 to 203. The bill adopted yesterday by I he Senate resembled the Tattllartley Act in almost every respect. It would yullaw the closed shop, mass picketing, jurisdictional strikes and most secondary boycotts, and regulate the union shop and union welfare funds.
MERCURY GOING UP The mercury at noon today stood at 93 degrees, whereas it was ‘only’ 89 degrees at the same time yesterday. Tho Indianapolis weatherman reports there will be no relief until after Sunday and he is not making any rash promises for the period after that time.
LEGISLATURE ADJOURNED BY ILL GOVERNOR
SPRINGFIELD, 111., July 1 (UP) In a rare exercise of his constitutional powers, Gov. Adlai Stevenson today adjourned the Illinois legislature proqternatiin when the two houses deadlocked in an argument on when they should close the 66th Geneial Assembly. Stevenson sent the proclamation to the House and Senate simultaneously and the scssio • was "prorogued" out of exitfence at 4:35 A. M (CST). He acted under article 5 section 9 of the constitution after the Democratic-controlled House informed him that it could not reach agreement with the GOP controlled senate on when to close the session sine die. It was the third time in his tory that a governor had useJ the constitutional club to send the solons home. The last time it was exercised was in 1946 when Gov. Dwight Green adjourned a special session called to discuss rent controls. Previously, it was used in 1863. The House had decided to ad journ today, in accoidance With the constitution which closes sessions as of midnight June 30 July 1. The Senate, working with Its clock stopped, passed a resolution early today which would have called the legislature back into session July 18 to act oi any veto messages by Stevenson or any appointments he might have made. That was when the House sent its request to Stevenson, wh'i quickly went to his office in the statehouse and had the adjournment proclamation issued. Paul T. Haitom Gets Degree
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Paul T. Haitom, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul T. Haitom, Alhambra. Calif., and grandson of Mi and Mrs. W. H. Roby, 18 Beveridge St., Greencastle, recently was graduattu from tbe University of Southern California with a B. A. degree. Mr. Haitom holds n cerlificat" as a member in full srantiing ,n the Phi Kappa Phi, national all-
Henry H. Whelan Rites Saturday Henry H. Whelan, 67, passed away m the Methodist hospital in Indianapolis on Thursday as result of a heart attack. Mi. Whelan, u formei resident of Greiiicastle. was stricken Thms day morning and his death was unexpected. Last rites will be held Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock in Indianapolis. The deceased is survived by the wife and two sons; three brothers, Richard Whelan of Roachdale; Clifford of Cincinnati; Hay of Jeffersonville, and two sisters, Mrs. Florence Eh"man, of Mt. Pleasant, Tex., anil Mrs. Ivy Walton of Indianapolis.
Agrees To Lie Detector Test
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INDIANAPOLIS, .Inly 1.—(INS) —The lndiana|Mdls Weather Bureau predicted today Dial Indiana will begin the long l onrlh ol July week end holiday with the presenl hot and liiunid weather. Temperatures again were in Hie nineties today over nearly all of the slate and the degree of humidity remained high. Among I he thermometer high marks yesterday were Terre Haute 95, Evansville and Fort Wayne !)3, and South Bend and Indianapolis 92.
CHICAGO, July 1 (UP) Arthur Marino, 27, promised his dead sweetheart's parents today that he would take n lie test on his story of how two mm kill d her in a lover's lane and forced him to drink searing caustic. Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Coward, parents of pretty and populai 17-year-old Joan Coward, confronted tlie young war veteran in a hospital where he was recovering from the effects of drinking the
poison.
Marino and Miss Coward had been engaged just two months and expected to mairy next June. He had refused to take a lie test until Mr. and Mis. Coward visited him. They woke him from his sleep. Mrs. Coward kissed him and then burst into
tears*
"Why won't ydu take a lie test, Arthur?" she asked. “I'm not ready," he said. "The doctor say:; I'm not able to." “Will you take one when you
arc able?”
"Yes, when the doctor says so," Marino replied. He later repeated the promise to Assistant States Attorney
Alex Napoli.
During the visit, Coward asked Marino whether the men he claims attacked him and his fiance were carrying guns. Mar-
ino said no.
"Good, God, boy, what was the matter with you?" Coward said. “Could you stand around and see someone killed without trying ” “I couldn't do anything. I was
university honorary so. iety and help , e8S „ Marlno protested.
only recently was elected pres, dent of the Phi Beta Kappa, t .
S. C. chapter.
A student at the University Medical School, he is a member of Alpha Epsilon Delta, national
honorary pre-medical fraternity. I dawn WcUneSl ‘ )ay un , t Haw »„ He spent two yeais with the nigj\ 0 f such an occurrence.
Navy's Asiatic Fleet during the
war.
FIREMEN CALLED City firemen were called tl the home of Mrs. Charles Trail, 702 Monon street, shortly before 10 a. m. Friday to extinguish a blaze around a chimney. Water from the booslcv tank put out the nrc which slatted from a coal stove. Thit'l'e u,uu tuitio* fluikiuupp
NEW YORK, July 1.—(INS) — Federal Judge Samui l H. Kaufman refused today In allow the prosecution to call Mrs. Hei** GiimpertH Massing as a witness al the Alger Hiss perjury trial. • Mrs. .Massing is the former wife of Gerhart Elsler, reported No. 1 leader in the Communist underground who recently jumped bail and fled In Europe on the Polish liner Halory. Judge haulnmn announced his ruling after attorneys for the government and the defense had argued the issue privately in his chambers for an hour and tr><
minutes.
PARIS, July L—(INS)—Representatives of the Marshall Plan nations met today lo pul the finishing touches on a new formula for European trade, which U. S. Ambassador W. Aver ill llarrimaii said will stimulate commercial competition. The didegates of the 19 nations drafted (he plan at a meeting lhal broke up in the wee hours | of the morning, ending a log-jam regarded as the Marshall Plan's gravest crisis. The ministers of the participating nations will meet later today to consider—ami probably approve—the new formula.
Yesterday, Patrolman Fred Mohr of the suburban Dolton police force cast doubt on Marino's story of the attack. H" said he patrolled the area at the time stated by Marino before
BODIES RETURNED INDIANAPOLIS, July 1 (UP) Bodies of 89 Hoosier scrvicemen killed in World War II have been returned from Europe, the Department of the Army an-
nounced today.
The remains were returned aboard the U. S. Army Transport, Carrell Victory. Next-cyf-kin were being notified.
CHICAGO, July 1—(INS) — Surgeons preformed a two-hour • exploratory" operation on base hull’s Eddie WaMkus today and derided not to remove the bullet fired Into Jilin by love-ctrmk Ruth Stellihagen. The girl was sent to an insane asylum yesterday after a speedy court trial. 'Dr. William E. Adams, who perlornud the operation al Billings hospital, said the bullet could have been removed by more ex-tensive surgery which was "nol warranted" at present.
Strike In Steel Industry Looms WASHINGTON, July 1 (UP) CIO President Philip Murray lias ordered all officers of the CIO steelkorkers to prepare immediately for a possible mid-July strike against U. S. Steel Corp. Murray, it wan learned, hat sent detailed instructions to all local unions of Die steelworkers telling them what steps to take m case of a strike. The instructions, it was understood. express "hope" that no walkout will occur in the steel mills. But, they make it flea' that a strike- perhaps a long and bitter one is a real posaibil ity unless some agreement is reached between the union and U. S. Steel by July 16 on union demands for higher wages, and insurance and pension plans. The steelworkers’ contract with U. S. Steel does not expire until next year. But it can be re-opened this year on wages and welfare benefits, and the union is free to strike if no settlement is reached. To date, Murray has not made public the union's specific contract demands although he has been negotiating with the company for some weeks. U. S. Steel already has turned thumbs down on any discussion of a pension plan this year and has indicated it does not think a fourth-round wage increase is justified. Negotiations currently are in recess. The next scheduled meeting between the union and Uv company has been set for July 6
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SOVIETS LIFT ALL TRAFFIC RESTRICTIONS TRAINS VND TBUl'KS ROLL INTO WEST GERMANY THIS MORNING
BERLIN. July 1 iUPi-Ber-lin's strike-born railway tieup ended today, food trucks rolled into the city unhampered and a complete lifting of the Berlin blockade seemed in sight. The first elevated train to run in Bulin in 42 days left Anhalter station in the American sector at 3:50 A. M <9:50 P M Thursday. EDTi with 10 sleepy Germans as passengers. Trains then began moving throughout the city on a normal 20 minute schedule. By 8 A. M., the cars were jammed with commuters who had been forced to ride buses or bicycles or even walk during the West Berlin railway strike. T.vo trains loaded with coal and mad from Western Germany, stalled in the Soviet by the strike, rolled into 'Wan nsee station on the outskirts of Berlin early today. The Soviet-bossed railway management promised that trains would be moving between Berlin and Western Ger nany on pre-strike schedules within three
days.
Trucks from Western Germany cleared Soviet < *.ei k poit ts on the Soviet zone bolder with out difficulty and unloaded their cargoes at Western sector ma'kets. The Soviet said the halting of all Western Berlin-bound food trucks yesterday was "all a mistake.” By and large, it seemed Berlin finally was to i,p connected wit*: Western Get many by rail and highway without restrictions of «ny kind lor the first time since the Russians imposed their blockade a year ago. Will Hold Crop Dusting Hearing INDIANAPOLIS. July 1 (INS) A public hearing on adoption of a proposed regulation which would requite the regis. trait ion of any person engaged in aerial crop dusting will he held by the Indiana Aeronautics Commission. The hearing will be conlue.ed July 8 in the office of the A'-ro-nautics Commission, 306 Boar i of Trade Building. Indianapolis, at 10 a. m , CST Such regulation is requested by tbe Indiana Aviation Trades Association. I p,p i i->i < • i ..'i said; “If such a rule requiring registration Is adopted it would permit the compilation of certain factural information. The Indiana Conservation Department. Purdue University and others would be able to give constructive study to the needs and requirements of this activity in the Interest of agriculture, public health and the Indiana aviation industry." TO OPEN NEW MINE BRAZIL, Ind . July 1.—(UP) Officers of the Quality Coal Cot )'., which purchased the holdings of the Brazil Block Coal and Clay Co., said today they would open a now mine near here The Brazil firm, operated since 1932 by O. O. Underwood and Oscar Jenkins, was bought by Quality in a transaction revealed yesterday. President Carl Kumpf of Quality announced that mining equipment would lie moved here soon to start a new pit. Th" Hoosier firm already operated two pits at Carbon and Cardonia © Todays Weather W ® and # & Local Temperature • Generally fair, continued hot and humid today, tonight and tomorrow. High today 92 to 97.
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