The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 5 July 1949 — Page 1
the weather ♦ FAIR and hot + + + + * + + + ^ VOLUME Fim SEVEM
THE DAILY BANNER "IT WAVES FOR ALL"
GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, TUESDAY, JULY 5, 1949.
Single Copy SCents
NO. 224
CITY, COUNTY ENJOYED SAFE AND SANE 4TH
, , S MISHAPS OCr ..hrkd «n vuinitv „VKR WEEKEND 5 , n gle s.'.ious accidert ' , was reportrd in th.s I me state police pod 1 ■ 1«y. the Fmnth , i k' nd .t„ng waa qu et i i during the same , v police also repo > . „s quently this ecu Cllj ,,vcd a safe sft,v '
the intense heat. . attended the thre ■
TWIN C ALVES BORN ON JULY FOPKTH The Guernsey cow which li’il Wilde has shown for several years in 4-H club competitioii gave birth July Fourth to twin calves. They are eligible to register and will make a worthwhile addition to Bill's showing.
POLICE PREPARING FOR "KIDS DAY” PROGRAM
Attends English Workshop In T. H. Miss Lela Walls ia in Terre Haute attending an Englisi workshop at Indiana Stale Teachers' College. The topic f ir discussion is the "Teaching .f English Composition in the Se -
c«idary Schools”.
The consultant Is Dr Luella B. Cook, first vice-president .if
■ming and celebia 10 ^National Council ot Engluli Even the Ua Teachers and critic tcei her i
the laboratory School of Minnesota State University it
Minneapolis.
lavish
Monday
n
, Rl ,nchdalc . „ due to this % annu .l
, -died to produce a mis-
n , eded police attentio ei t by the GreencasC 1
„,1 band and a
P D\ of fireworks
the annual cclred by the e hdal. Lions Club.
, Hdie was very q'U't ; u 11 nid Monday. Practicallv , a f-.- was suspended hce , ay night and employers r , v . enjoyed the twe- , h ia . Downtown streets
U • 'i' Mfted and
| h . ii.aini it.V of the residents t i,i weekend at home trv(omfortable as th •
the cut rent sumremained in the
DEATH TOLL OVER HOLIDAY SOARS TO 747 iNDIAN \ HOLIDW DK \TD TOLL MOl NTED TO iH THIS MORNING
lie in wave
IIAI I. KEl’MON T nnu.M Hall reunion will be 10th at Milligan • rdsville, Indiana
Ml i I K I UFMt ERS
• ,,{ Officers of tne fa, Vn-ahary of VFW Post of I 1 u :n day at 8 p. m. at th, I, " M Lee Home. All j i e urged to be pre- . t | i.ION >F,TS GOAL i: ■ i \ : APOLIS, July 5, il l Ann i ican Legion set , lo ign a membership i i i,i .,.'j54,540 for 195*) ,| Legion adjutant H H Dudley announced the which again gave tli ■ liiggest quote, ■ *1 'I hst contrasted with ■ ■ the department of ■ • Islands, smallest !. in's divisions, with t quota is 105,0!)!. M i's laigcst service..sinzation comprises "nts and more tha'i 17,300 posts.
Carl H. Zuck Rites Wednesday Carl H. Zuck died Monday at Culver Hospital in Crawfords ville where he had hem a patient since Wednesday.
Fred Armstrong. Jr.. Terre Haute, secretary of the Indiana State Police Association, Hus.ell Clapp, former chief of police and originator of the Kids Day program here, and Russell Coleman chairman for this year's program, are shown at a recent meeting of the local Chapter of the A. soeiation of Police as they made original plans for the annual Kid’s Day program which w 11 prub ably be held on September 17 this year, Mr. Clapp is preparing the motion picture which w.i taken last year, for showing before tile local Chapter at tile meeting held here. .
He was horn January 2,'i. 1S81 in Waynetowq, the son of Win.
E. Zuck and Martha
Zuck.
VA Officer To Be Named Today
DRUNK DIRECTING TRAFFIC IS JAILED I ■ rkins. elderly piano taken into custody "lay night by state poG« orge Hecko on road iieduled to appear pal court Monday on a ' publii intoxication, i eported that Perkins ting tratlic with a - 'hen Officer Hecko Vt ll P He brought Perkin r " 1’itnam county Jail, thus "' : fi i>>s voluntary "duty" on •he highway..
He was married to Daisy Henthorn McCullough m 1931 and since that time has mad, his home in Ci awfordsvillc Their residence is 1410 West
Mam Street.
Mr. Zuck woi ked 22 years with the Colvin Coli.structioi Company and had been self employed in construction work. He was a member of the First Christian Church of Crawfordsvillc and the Waynctown Masonic Lodge No. 902. Mr. Zuck is a graduate of the Waynctown High School and attended Butler University. Survivors are the widow; one son. Wm. E. Zuck of Anderson, one sister, Mrs. Sam Groves, Crawfordsville; one brother, Charles L. Zuck of Brookfield; one grandson. Freddie Zuck, Anderson; one aunt, Mrs. Nellie Harvey of Waynetown. He was preceded in death by his parents and first wife. Friends may call at the Brigut Funeral Home. Crawfordsvill; Services will he Wednesday afternorn at 2:90<CST) at the Bright Funeral Home. Burial will be in the Masonic Cemetery,
Crawfordsville.
Says Vishinsky Has Lost Prestige
The Putnu n county conuiu > sinners conducted their Julv
Harvey j session Tuesday at the court
house due to tile fact that Mon-
day was a holiday.
The board planned to u|>point a Veterans’ Service officer dining the afternoon. It was believed that Frank Musten would get this position as he lias been highly recommended by all the veterans organizations over the
county.
It was also believed that th ■ appointnent of a hospital board membi r to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Is.i.o Skel'on would probably be continued until a future ..iceling. Claims and other rov.t.ne bus.ness was to be transacted during
the day.
All Crops In Excellent Shape
Most Putnam County far norreport their 1941) crop "laid by but a few will cultivate some portions of their mop once more, if it doesn't gdow too tall during those hot days and nights, f The laimeis report the corn near shoulder high. The old tradition that it should be kn'" high by July 1 had been broke tin. \ a.ir and unlc.-s the wcathc; is uinavoiable or the bugs cau.e damage this year's total yieti^ is expected to go beyond 1918 |
figures.
ATLANTIC PACT HAS ATTENTION OF CONGRESSMEN
WASHINGTON, July 5 (UP) Sen. Homer Ferguson, It I Mich., appealed to his Senate col leagues today to make a decision on the Atlantic Pact with their eyes wide open. As the Senate prepared to be gin debate on the anti-aggres-sion treaty, Ferguson said the 12-nation compact could, mid certain eonditii • s, lead the Unit cd States into war. "It means," he said in an Intel view, “that aggression by armiei into western European countric will tie considered an act of aggression against this country all ol the legalisms notwith-
standing.
"H it doesn't nieari that in tie eyes of the United States Sell at' we had better not ratify i beiause we would only be deluding our own people and those of western Europe.” Chairman Tom Connally, D l ex , of the Senate Foreign Hi lations Committee, who was to make the first appeal for ratifi ution of the treaty, predicted i would be approved with not nuui hail 10 dissenting votes. However, Connally and othm rlininistrstiun leaders were no. ,o confident about the companio, >1.450,000.000 arms program 'ulikc the part, the arms pht i equires the approval of both th House and the Senate. With the Senate chamber undergoing i xtmsive repairs, d<
Mass Planned For Mrs. Bence
Requiem Mass foi Mrs. Mi nie Brandon Benei pioneei ;i ; civie leader, will be said ut . o'clock Wednesday mornin • n St. Paul's Catholie church, wit funeral services at the church > 9 o'clock, Buruil will tie in Fore Hill cemetery. The widow of Dr. George \V Bence, pioneer physician, di"<l unexpectedly at 6 o’clock Sund: evening at her home, 107 E;i t Washington street. She wool mve been 94 years old Aug.i 31. Oldest of the si>; children «> Mr. and Mrs. James Brandon. Mrs. Bence was born on a Hud #on rivet packet as her LiimJ , .vas migrating to Indiana fro; New Vork. She was named Ai menia after tlie [incket but a' ways was known to her famiH and friends as Minnie. Her early education wa r, ceived in the "Old Black School.' Later she took vocational trai 1 ng in Indianapolis She t.iugl ne of (he first uhscriptio'; schools in Putnam eoiinty I" fore th<‘ establishment of Uu public school system
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t "'"' of the Auditor and ' ’ i i Superintendant wll 12:00 noon Saturday, 1 'i to allow the custodians
time t
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lefinish the floors. • 11 a'ghn, Po Road Supt. - W Wught. Auditor.
20 Years Ago
GKEV: ISC ANTI.■
K igai Prevo was ‘‘ n hustnoBS trip. A Huggard was
a ' ' Chevrolet coach barren Tucker was
lr > Crawfordsville. Lawrence .Miller
L'ni Mimcie.
'L and Mrs. Deward Smyth,■ ,| '" 1 "X'ved from Cloverdale to
Cicencaatle.
In Chicag»
driving visiting
was here
NEW YORK, July 5 (UP) Andrei Vishinsky, Russia's first deputy foreign minister, lost so much prestige by his failures at the recent Foreign Ministers Conference in Paris Dial he could not reach Premier Stalin by phone, The United World^ reported today. The privately-owned, unofficial magazine said Vishinsky lost the Kreml'n's favor because he failed in two missions at the conference. They were to gain France's agreement to drawing up a pact with Russia similar to the one signed in 1935 and to gain large concessions from the Western Powers to match Sovi t concessions on the Austrian
Treaty.
“Vishinsky, eager to have Stalin act as his pilot when the three Western Allies thwarted his early optimism, failed to get through to Stalin by phone, despite frantic, round-the-clock efforts,” the article said, quoting ''authoritative" diplomatic infotmation sources. “The phone to Stalin’s inner sanctum wa» strangely dead." The magazine' said Vishinsky lacked his usual aplomb at a dinner June 4 and seemed uncertain and anxious. Western diplomats said he told them that he would prefer to go hack to his old vocation of Jurisprudence rather than continue a diplomatic career “with which he seemed to be dissatisfied.”
Not only at' utiium count j (mt,. on the )*jict is being held i farmers busy with their corn t | u , snla |ier quarters used prior rop, the eats and wheat crops ^ jggp j-jere it was that legis-
lators in the early days of th ■ icpublic discussed the famed
Monroe Doctrine.
While the Senate considered Ihe Atlantic Pact, the- House planned to lake up the Yugoslav Claims Bill today, run through ihe consent and private ealcii
are crowding the corn and in n’any instances wheat is being harvested in between corn cultivations. although some lari era are waiting for the wheat noisture to go down a little. They report two or three per cent more moisture than is re-
quired by Uii elevators and they ( | ars tunny-row, and then debate are allowing it to stand in Uu lhl , p lllni i Telephone measure liclds a few mole days with the all( j a p a y increase for top gov-
hope thal^ the hot weather will , rnmcn t officials,
dry it out those few per celitag"
points. |>.\V MEETING
This year’s prospect for a bumper crop, along w;th the big
ipring pig crop,
things busy on most farms and the chances arc tha^ if the porker prices hold to the present levels, Putnam county farmers will come out very good from the standpoint ol profit in 1949.
RECOVERY DOUBTED
Greencastle Chapter No. 83,
keeping Auxiliary will meet Wed-
nesday, July 6th at 8:00 P. M. at the home of Mrs.' Everett Maddox, 311 Elm Street All members attending be sure to have serial or C number also rank atid organization of Corr-
pany served and where.
LOS ANGELES, July 5 (UP) A 45-year old drilling contrac*oc lias been lying in a coma ano Nov 19. 1948 when he stifored head injuries in an auto ac•ideiil and doptors believe he will icvci regain consciousness, it was disclosed today. Specialists, however, said Aubrey Lyon may l* Vl ' indefinitely on food given him by a tube. The coma victim underwent surgery In phoenix, Arlz., after the accident but doctors said an injury deep within the brain causes the coma.
GAS TAX SETS RECORD Tax collections in Ind’.ana ot May purchases of gasoline set a new monthly record of $4,804,017 commissioner John Mee, of the state revenue department said yesterday. Gasoline puivliasea totaled 499.024,m gallons, an induring th first half of Uv- year crease of 29,126.561 over .'he first half of las-t year.
COUNCIL TO MEET The city council will meet regular session this evening 7:30 p. in. (CST),
She was married t > Dr. Bene unary 16, 1881 Tin v had Hire aughters, Era Bence Rosettcf, Long-meadow, M;is.> Mrs Kd lem-c Loring of Kalamazoo, Mich., ami one daugtui i wli
died in infancy.
For 49 years sin was "Mother Bence” to almost 100 Del’amv University students, aiding them hruugh college. Sin was proud d the records tin y n ado as pro • sale > ni men and busine .Vhen they returned t ■ their Aina Mater, they made th' ir liead[uarters at the Bciiec home. Until seven years ago, Mrs. Bence was active in all her civic and church work. Sir fell in th Hlinmer of -1941, breaking li i leg. Since then she had been confined to her home an 1 a wheel chair. However, sin still iiiamtaineif her interest in affairs and
people.
It is believed that sin w-as pa - Hally a victim of tin heat wave She suffered a rclaps- Saturday night and never rallied. The Rosary service will be held at 8 o'clock tonight at the res-
idence.
Besides the two daughter-.. Mrs. Bence is survived by four grand children, George Hence '-."otter of Longmcadow, Mass., Mrs. Katharine B Trotter o* Memphis, Tenn.; Mrs Ann Luyendyk of Elliott, Me , and Miss Elizabeth Long, Kalamazoo, Mich; five great grandchildren, hree nieces, Mrs. Genevieve Rhea and Miss Elizabeth Daggv. both of Greencastle and Mrs. Louise Jordan, Indianapolis, and a nephew, Dawson Spurrier of Paoh, Pa. Out of town persons expected for the services include Mrs. Jordan. Mr. Spurrier. M'ss Sarah Bence of Terre Haute. Miss Mona McAllister ot South IT ml ; John McCabe, Crawfordsville, B. K Dicks. Lafayette, and Mrs Roland Bannister of Kokomo.
it ^ I nltcil r» «•*» - i N III \ N M’OI.IS, .lull ,. (INS) —'I ilirly-eighi persons losl their lives over tin- I ourtli ol -lul.v liol iday weekeinl m Illdiaii.i and tin bdl cuiitinui d to mouiil. .Many win iiijnred seiiously and several of lliese were not r\ peeled to live, according to box pital reports from throughout ihe slate. i Xutnmnhile collisions elai ued | , lie li\cs ot al le.l'l 30 person-*. | riiere were 1(1 ilrowiTuigs an,I o j.ersons perislied as resilll of tin heal. Two persons died of injuries received wileu shuck bv rains, and one man died in a fire ulii<!i de.troy< d bis lui’ui-. One ol Ihe lioineward bound iatalilir- oeeurred II miles norlli >f Lebanon today when a eai -oiiluining live Shaimlr FieUI. III., soldiers struck the rear ol k truck on c. S. Rilled was me ol fin airmen, Edward Yinek, St. ( lairsviile, O. His four -ompaiiioiis were liurt seriously. The nat ion's oliservam e ol the •'oiilli ol Inly and eii.his to -at-ape Ih* werst heat wave of .lie year cost 71* lives in tin-u-avii-st fiolii’ly earnage ill list* ry, a survey showed today "This is a I'ational 'disgrace, ', i Nalioiial Sal'ty Couneil sp kesiii;‘ii said. "Siunidfiiiig illist lie doll*-." * No one was killed by fm w irka !:ut many critical and painf d njuries were reported d' p le I hi- laws banning their use m most areas. The total of dead exceeded predictions by tin National Sale'y Council wlueii had lori-eost that GC'I pel sons would die, 290 of them in traffic. It about equalled last y a*"’, otal for the fourth -on.Inly, al 0 a weekm I holirlay. w in i 629 persons wen kill*o'. 29o on Hi lighways. 201 by drowning an ! 129 in othci acenlenta. The re< <u'*i .vas set in 1911 when al ' "M 700 persons died on ndependenco day The traffic toll for this year's uiliday wi el;, ad was .somewhat uglier than for a , 'average" hree day wei keiul involving n >
'ndiday.
A survey by l'lilted Press *•:•. Vug. 7 t*> 9 last ye.ii snowi i hat 221 pel . (lied mi sin h 1 non-holnlay ! ia w* shut weeu■nd. Ttiiily-on' pm is died by Irowning *>n Hut ' .ivcia :e w* u
nd ipid 82 iii ink idenls l"i a i im Safety experls I tense heat wave leath total this w As temperst in .
Well, After All! SATANS KINGDOM CONN , July 0 (UT)- The ti-mperat in *■ was 96 yesterday, but it was hotter in Pmgat.iry, aiiotber Conneetn ut village, where tin mercury rose to 100. NO RRI.\lv EXPECTED IN HEAT BEFORE SI N DA Y Tin Indiana weather bureau today ferccast a continuation of the II days heat --.ave through Hie ieuiain li r of the week. Ttio weatluiinan said the tempera turi would be a., high as nin* deg! 1 is above normal for the re 'Uaimiet oj tin we* k '1 he noon day teinpciature In-re Tuesd ty Was 92 degrees.
EXTRA!
-NEW lOlilv, July 5 (INSI — I In- gov * i ii in* n t uniioiinyed today Hull it lias eonelud* *1 its ■ as* in Hi* \lger Hiss perjury trial It was Hu 2llh day of th*-j irial, which is now in il^ sivtli week. The government lias lalT e*l 13 witnesses, ;j;j ,, n (Jlrei f examination ami to on rebuttal. Immediately after Hii- prose ' illloii vviumil up its * as*-. Hi* i|e tense iiiimmiiepd it would have several rebuttal witnesses Ihe defense bail railed !7 witnesses on direef evamination. V total id 70 witnesses fm both sides hail taken tin- stand up to noun today. 'ii hour and ten minute cunferoil* c in tin chambers of Ridge Siiiiiiii l II. Kautm in pre'iMed today's eourfroom pro ei'ciliiigs.
The jury was not brought in until 11:20 a. m. Tin- government's uimiiuiu-emciit came at 11:28 a. m.
CHIANG ASKS U. S. TO AVERT ANOTHER WAR
DECLARES UNITED STATES AID NEEDED It) DREVF.NT WORLD YAK III NEW YC K. July 5—(UP)— Gem talissirr o Chiang Kai-Shek said today that he will lead Nationalist China's struggle against the Communists and asked the United States to he'p if it wishes to avert another world war. Chiang btoke his long silence in an int* i v iew with Clyde Farnswoith. Sci ipps-Howard staff writer, and another American report*'! at Taiph, Formosa The 62 year old Chiang took a leave "I absence as Piesiden* of National st China last January to * dear the way for the gov* min**;t t make its futile alt* nipt to nogotitate a peace ottlement vith the Communists. Hi- still is Dit ector-Geni'ral of the Kuoni-itang (Government paity) He told the two American newsmen. 1 Although he may never renine politjial office, he cannot give up th* “rev-ilntionai y U-a 1iiship" of China he inherited from Di Sun Ya'-Sm. 2 "If communism is not checked in China, it will spread over tin- whole of Asia Should that occur another world war would be inevitable" 3 “Tht first step, it seems to me. is foi the United States to reactivate its policy of giving
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motorists died on ni;; 11wav.', .vhile drivir,,; lo la',:.., riv. :and beaches when others m owned or succumbcu Lo Jjca: nailer the
burning sun.
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New York. A freak "*]iiali lid T city, suiding up vast clnu'l:. o' dust that blotted out sky'.. Tuners. At least sev* n J!' I w-n-(irowned. Winds hit . 8 mil. an houi and capsized nundi* dx or small boats in Long I. inni* un i and other nearby waters About 40 boats ..In. Wen missing today and authorities 1 eared for a score of amateur sail** i who disappeared with the era t. A ceist guard officer said “the situation is worse than .v-‘
thought at first."
The wind literally plucked a small boy of. a rock in Centiai Dark and tossed him into the Lagoon where lie was uro.vivd. Coast guard boats and othc r vessels raced to aid the fler: of sailboats nnd cruisers foundering in the gale. Rescue era; returned to docks with their crewmen still applying ortificial resperation in an attempt to revive persons pulled iron the
stormy waters.
The storm victims boosted New York State's total to th - greatest for th< nai.on 53. in eluding 12 traffic deaths and 22 H mii iuui-il ini I*■'*et l'iv.-i
\\ \SHI NJiTON, July 5 (INS)
—I'n-siileiil Truman and Democratic t <mgri-ssional leaders to day disi ussed the feasibility of I iiiakirg a fui'tlii-r attempt *•> pass an administ ratinn labnr lull
Ibis session. • llousi- Speaker Rayluirn, D.,
Tex., said after tin- weekly White llousi legislative i-onter- ; enee that ilnuse leaders will tli rash out Ihe matter witli C hairman Lesinski, D., Mieli., of tin- llousi- Labnr CnmmiHce, and | reacli a decision later this week.
Mass Tax Meeting At
Bainbridge This Evening
I'utnain county farmers wdl
bold a mass meeting in th Bain! i idg.c gy i nasium thi s evening at eight o'el"- k for Hi • | ui pos* iif discus mg their feu end inee m- tax probienih Anson Thomas ot Hi.’ Indiana Farm Bureau will in tin- speaker. The meeting is being sponsored by Hn Farm Bureau ot I utnam
county.
May Fate Petty Larceny Charge John Dmg, about 21 years, was art. ted in Roachdale Sunday night by state [KilicemBTi cUorgc H'' ko who brought him lo the Putnam county jail heir p. ndmg filing of a formal . hargi. probably petty larceny. Hecko .• iid lie found two hear vision mirrors and four car ladio aerials m Longs auto wlii-n he investigated alter rei • iving several complaints from the crowd ultending the Lions ' lub celebration at Roachdale.
i moral support to the Chinese goveuinient in its fight against
communism".
I ‘-It is impossible for anyone to reacli a settlement with the
Communist s’,
5. "Any suggestion that th * Chinese Communists might break with Moscow is insidious propaganda, designed to con-
fuse”.
6. "Russia has not observed her treaty obligations'' and is bent on wm Id domination. 7. "The erroneous Impression that the present situation (ii China) is beyoid repair h is been created by tomimitusl pr>paganda in disnenunating defeat isin’. Farnswoi th -aid he found thGeneralis.nino in the best of health and spirits nt th" moun-ain-side giles! house of the Formosa provincial government about 10 mil'.. Horn T»ipheh Chiang chatted with the two ncw.snui! m poli'e Inevity, and re:,.-rvid nearly all Ins statements I"! publication to v.-r.tte:i answeis winch lie had prepai d to questions submitted In a !-
vance
Black's Case is Set For July 11 Judge John II Alice annoum - *d Tuesday that lie had continued the case of Edwin Black, Indianapolis, charged with violating the buliana horse muat law, until 10 a. m. on Monday, July 11, in the Putnam circut court. Judge Alice said that the reason for this continuation from Saturday, July 2, was due to the fact that the defendant’s attorneys are busy with another trial in Marion county. Black i.i at liberty under his own recog-
nizance.
H \NKH GET ( ALL WASHINGTON July 5 (UPl The comptroller of the currency today issued a cal! to all national banks for a report oi their condition as of June 30 MARRIAGE LICENSE Dennis h-on Thomas Greencastle and Thelma Maxine Jent, Putnam ville. St IT FOR DIVORCE Divot-re action has been filed in tlie Putnam circuit court bv Lois Baylor against Cecil Sayloi. The olaintiff states they were married Dec. 2. 1446 and separated June 26. 1949 She aaks custody of a minor daughter. F. N Hamilton is her at-
torney.
® Todays Weather 0 and ® Local Temperatu
Fan and hot tode fair and cooler nor and tomorrow Hi95. Low tonight 75 south. Minimum 6 a. r 7 a - 8 y 9 •