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UME FIFTY-SEVEN

THE DAILY BANNER ”IT WAVES FOR ALL"

GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, SATURDAY, JULY 16, 1949

Single Copy SCents

NO. 234

RIS MASON LL FACE BAD ECK CHARGES

[,l, oVKIt TO SHERIIT , HIM \> ISV T. II. I \| tiiorities L Mason, who ^resiUos is t of the city, was in the county jail Saturdav hb ting circuit court - on several fradulent |, n who has been sought jgl .,o itics for several foi allegeury issuing a |, ■ i : checks, was tuinto Sheriff John Suther|ti i Haute ponce Friday Aon.

SERVING OVERSEAS

CZECHS OPEN DRIVE AGAINST POPE'S DECREE

TUF.ASOX ( IIAltliKS WILL BE LOU(iEI) AGAINST cui urii WOUKEKS

SECRET CONFERENCE HELD IN PHILIPPINE CAPITAL

p n is specifically charged affidavits on file in the clerk’s office with issu- | (l $10 checks on April 0

Tvt. Gene Seeliniaii

Pvt. Gene Sechman is the son of lio a Sechman of Coatesville, R. R 2 who is on one of the

by 10 I he Urst c.icck was i sou tii crn islands off southedge of at the \anBuskirk K r o-'[ Japan. His address is Pvt. Gen kl the second at the White ; Sechman, IT. S. 55018406 Co. K. P j Pit. 2 21 Inf. Rcgt. APO 24-1

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■plaint ■ liavc been made ot Iraululent checKs, said tc I islu d by Mason, in is tic and Brazil, inl.t in reports, Mason ivolved in an nutomobih it i.'.ii Terre Hau’c I,tv night. His identity was Piet at a Terre Haute L .vhcri he was taken for lint of a slight leg and Injury. Terre Haute ::j'ant'd him ior failure to taxicab bill but turned ■n t.j tin i utiidin county Is l" fact the »nir check

l here

pounces lluss Treatment Ll.N Inly 16 (UP)—An ban G. 1 said today Soviet L b> it. kicked, spat upon Ihcrwise tortured him while him as an alleged spy for kt live months, tai l. with hi lodshot eye" r '••-naves. 21. fork a i, reli ased from the I jad in Berlin last nigh: l,iii' | e i vi i to American ly police. It ild newsmen that he niJ ^■i. the ame clothes for l-i'J h el not seen daylight for f l das wai horrible, like a gruc m .in mare,” Rangraves Tb .mes I wished I wan

iv. , lo a hospital tor L and treatment after I M.wsrien. Lt. Col. |i' I'nivo.-.t M >. p.iid in army would inIiit' u personal intervc.Ii' M.. : G(,n. George P. Hajl deputy American military |ov#ti"i a th Soviet authorities to »(. tip ,t.' the case. Earlier luiriea had produced I' n.ils that he wa i Soviet sector. I’k'r.' ' a ceiiistabuulaty pt 1 ippeared into the r • .1 of Berlin Feb. 21 I in civilian clothe^. The Aihd li ted him as absent with

pave.

I* l; ‘ lave., snia ho hud " d by Soviet senior F'" 1 i ' and tm ned over J v " ' lUthorittM, wlio a. i i i 1 ^nonage. 'KUIVE IN N. Y. V 1 1 ''li Elmer R. Sly r ■- f 1 " trigram, Saturday r * 1 '"in their son Virgil Pd' saying they arrived m New York City Friday 1 ' bey are returning from |* 1 ‘ Congo Mission. They ] ’ 1 at their home ki f'lapolis Mmiilay.

San Francisco, Calif.

CANADIANS PLAN ROCKET TRIP TO MOON

TORONTO, July 16 (UP) The Canadian Rocket Society has set the year 1960 as the “target date” for a trip to the moon and back by a space ship carrying a human crew, Boris Dyke, vice-president of the organization, said yesterday. Dyke, who is in general charge of planning for the trip, said the i date, a decade hence, not only was “plausible" but the “definite date we are working to-

wards.”

The trip, he said, would be

made in a "Moon Ship,” in the shape of a gun projectile, 200 feet long and 50 feet in diameter, weighing more than 1,000 tons when fully manned, fueled and

stocked with provisions. It would be atomic-powered,

the society being confident that atomic mower will have practical applications before 1960, Dyke

PRAGUE Czechosovakia.

July 16 Justice Minister Alcxi ; Cepicka said last night a trea- | sun charge will be lodged | against anyone who tries to en j force Pope Pius' decree excom-

municating Communists from the Roman Catholic Church. “Let no one have tbe slight-

j est doubt i mt anyone who, in j any way, should attempt l.i

carry out this directive of the Vatican perpetrates treason.” Cepicka said in a speech. “All acts violating valid law., will be punished us such. Who-

ever tries to carry out on ojv

territory the order or the main enemy of our state (the Pope), let him count on the ract that be must forfeit all rignt to call himself a Czech or Slovak.” Cepicka disclosed plans for a law to give the Communist goveminent control or practicady nil Roman Catholic cnurch a tlairs in this nation, three-fourths of whose 12.000,000 people a -

Catholics.

accused Arclibisnop Jovn'

HOLDING A SECRET CONFERENCE in the summer Philippine capital of Baguio to discuss plans to halt the “menace of Communism in the Far East,” Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek (seated, right) and Philippine President Epidio (juirino (seated left) enjoy a drink. Standing arc presidential aides and Philippine military chiefs-of-staft. (International)

Youth Hurt At Show Grounds

David Keleihaloker,

derail, the Czechoslovak primate H!iwaiian employee

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f" Ur y club members and f 1 Wlv es enjoyed a picnic at j home of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd

1960. said.

"The society has in mind a choice of two routes between this planet and the moon," Dyke said. "A parabolic course would be the most direct and time saving, taking approximately 15 hours. But it would be the most expensive in terms of fuel consumption and strain on the

mechanism.

“Ttie other possiblity, an elliptical route, would require four

day;; each way."’

The major engineering problem to be overcome, he said, is the choice of metal for the moon ship. Tremendous speeds would bo encountered. Making the 2,'i8 - 800-mile trip to the moon in 15 hours woultl require a speed ot 16.000 miles an hour and a journey in four days would be

at 2.SCO miles an hour.

Total expenses of the ship and

incidentals for a two-way moon j come

trip are estimated at $5,000,00(1

Dyke said.

and other high church leaders of treasonable and antistate activ-

'ty. He hinted, however,

might still have change course.

"It is hoped that Dcran and the others,” he said, "will reMeet on their personal historical responsibilities and find the road back to their nation and

their homeland."

The speech was delivered lesf than 48 hours after the Vatican made public the papal decree cutting otf militant Communists from the sacraments and comforts of the church. MOKE HP'S COMING Twenty displaced persons bound for Indiana, will be a board the U. S. S. Marine Marlin. scheduled to arrive In New

York tomorrow.

Anothei seven refugees destined for this state will come on "Ooinpassionate" airlift planes

due to arrive from Germany be-

tween now and Thursday.

Many Farms Need Drainage

British Plane Crashes; 5 Die BERLIN. July 16 (INS) — Five Royal Air Force fliers were killed today when their plan* crashed and burst into flames near Tegel Airport in Berlin.

Pacific Union To Be Formed CANTON, July 16 (INS)Generalissiomo Chiang Kai-Shek announced today that Nationalist. China, the Philippines and South Korea have decided to form a Pacific Union to comb the Com-

munist tide.

He said other nations will be j asked to join the anti-Commun-

1148 Nclda Wcrneke and Miss ist Asiatic grouping and pool

f 'erine Bauer were visitors Ta ! their strength.

(rtnapoiis. j £ hiang m ad e the announcc- ' Robbins was the guest of ment to a joint meeting of the 81 'ves in Mt. Vernon. iKuomintang — Nationalist ' " Haverly was here from central executive committee and pvumaU. ! thu cenlra i political committee.

Uneven stands of oats and areas of sickly yellow corn observed after recent rains poi.it out sharply the fields which

need drainage.

About half of the farms it, I in liar,a have benefit ted from some (haulage improvement but much work is still needed. Farmers who have adequate drainage repAi t increased yields, a longer period, less rick from drought and a less hazardous time at harvest. The severe winter killing due to heaving can be overto some extent by proper drainage and a good drainage system can be considered an even more permanet Improve-

ment than buildings.

Farmers who consider build-

18, a the car-

nival appearing here this week, was reported in a "satisfactory” condition at the Putnam county iiosipital Saturday morning. The young man was painfully injured Friday night when his foot was caught in the machinery of the merry-go-iound. Officials of the carnival brought him to the city hall to ask where they could find tlu hospital. City ofticcrs junvoed into the police car ami escorted the auto containing the injured

youth to the hospital.

Quarry Reports Dynamite Taken BEDFORD, Ind. July 16 Lawrence County Sheriff Zelb' : ' Hawkins was investigating th' theft of about 600 pounds (I dynamite from the Ralph Hogci stone quarry west of Bedford. The sheriff said that the theft was the second at the quar y within the last week. Eleven cases of the explosives were tak en last night and a case was teported missing a week ago. The dynamite was stored in a house which has been converted into a storage builiiliig and w if kept by the stone company t o use in quarrying operations. Th company crushes stone for road . A lock on the door of the buil i

ing was broken.

The sheriff theorized that t o thieves carried the boxes fin'ii the building and loaded thei i on a truck- The tracks wi". found near an entrance to a lane leading to the buildiri" Hawkins expressed the biTel that a pickup truck was used

by the thieves.

FACES (.AMBLING CHARGE CRA WFORDSVILLE, Ini, July 16 Pinball machines ai.il punchboards, valued at $1.50.1, were confiscated by city police

FIRST A-BOMB WAS EXPLODED 4 YEARS AGO NATIKUAY IS anniversary OF DAWN OF A NEW AGE

ALAMOGORDO, N M. July 16 (UP) Four years ago today the blinding glare of what seemed like millions of flash bulbs ->nce flashed across the New Mexico desert. It was the explosion of the vnrld's first atomic bomb. Today the scrubby desert ’(gelation is creeping slowly ack over the blighted area, leveral hundred feet were burnd bone-bare. And today a man can walk inlo the crater left by the bomb vithout fear of poisoning from • adioaetivity and stay there for as long as eight hours. After hat, say scientists, it (s advisihie to get out. Health teams from the Unlveruty of California issued a re>ort on the contaminated area on he eve of the fourth anniversary ■ f that first history-making bla -,' -sunrise, July 16. 1945. One year after the explosion a stay in the area of more tha i a few hours would have rcsulte n exposure to more radiation ban man call undergo. Bi 1 radioactive decay” in the la hrcc years has made possible r lady visit of eight hours. NOTICE

ing a drainage system will want

t„ si insider first if the soils ar« i yesterday in a raid ai the Robert

D.A.K. Cabins at Kobe-Air ’'ark will be open each Sunda 1 o the public during the month >f August and September. /FW DADS TO MAKE PLANS AT MEETING Plans for formal presentation of their charter and nstallation of officers on July 24 will be made at the regular meeting of the Fathers' Auxiliary of VFW Post 1550 next Wednesday evening at Gen. Jesse M la c Home. State and district officials e the Veterans of Foreign War ;

the type to benefit from a drain• agi system cud how much drainage will be required. Further questions are Can the yu'ld be materially increased and does (Continued on Page Twoi

Whurff store and residence he, c. j will attend the Sunday, July 21

Wiiurff was jailed on a charg of possessing gambling devices Earl A. Snyder, prosecuting attorney, issued the search warrants.

session. A pitch-in dinner Willi the indies Auxiliary and the VFW Post is planned by the VFW Dads in connection with the program.

Rural Pastors Held Seminar A Seminar for Rural Minister., was held on the l eFauw Un. versity campus during this wee!,. The Seminar was under the auspices ot the Crusade h i Christ Program, and was th • fourth annual program of its kind. Dr. Orvil L. Davis, Associate Professor or Religions Education, at Dt Pauw Univc - ity, was director of jhe seminar. Rockwell C. Smith, Professor of Rural Church at Garret Biblie.il Institute in Evanston, Illinois headed the leaders and was issisted in his work ny The Re'’. Ed.vard Brewster, pastor ot tin First Methodist Church in Rten niond. Ohio and by The Rev. Donald H. K Koontz, pastor and director of the LaGrange county lyargcr Parish, Indiana. The seminar was attended by sixteen rural ministers from all over the state of Indiana. Tn .roup was representative of will • lackgrounds and experience, va - ous members havMg :.vcd in,I served the church in fifteen dil ■ ferent states, The Philippine slands, china. Pile, to Rico, and ndia. Although this conference i; he last in the Crusade for Chit (uadrennial program the members of the seminar uuamiou dy '('titioncd the tnrec cor.icrcticif Indiana Melhouisin and !>;■ 'auw University to work ei dans for making litc seminar a.i ' innual event. iO Killed In German Blast HAMBURG, Germany, July 16 Sixty residents of the small own of Pruem were killed la i night when a former Nazi muni tions dump exploded, the Ham burg radio reported. The town is in the French occupation zone of Germany. The blast injured 600 person . the radio said. Fire brigades from Coblent.'. Trier and neighboring towns, t > gethnr with . French troops fought the flames cr.d deal e debris in the badly damagci town, the report said. Experts believe the explosive dump, which was near the town ignited spontaneously by the ex treme hot weather.

IN THE GOOD OLD DAYS PUTNAM COUNTY TOWN.SiUl’S (Co inued) Wasting ton raised foui hundred and twenty bushels of rye; Warren, eleven hundred and sixty eight; Jefferson, twenty five hundiv 1 and ninety-nine; Cloverdale, four hundred and ninety one; Waslin gtim raised five thousand six hundred and thirty-three bushels ol oats; Warren, eleven thousand and three Hundred and twenty-six; Jefferson, tw> thousand eight n undred ami lorty five; Cloverdale, three thousand, nine hundred and twenty. Washington raised eight hundred and eleven bushels of potatoes; Warren, twenty-seveo hundred and seventy-five; Jefferson, two hundred am: fourteen bushels; Cloverdale, ten hundred and forty-four bushels. The value of orchard products in Washington, was seven nundred and fourteen dollars, Warren seven hundred and thirty; Jefferson, five hundred and eighty-

60-DAY PEACE WILL EXIST IN STEEL INDUSTRY AGREE TO MVAIT ACTION HA TRUMAN'S FACTFINDING BOARD WASHINGTON. July 16—The nation narrowly escaped a a'eM strike yesterday as the industry's biggest corporations accepted President Truman's 60-day peae.r plan under vigorous protest. A fact-finding board nppoin*'ed by him late yesterday will study the deadlocked disput* over a fourth round of postwar wage raises also pensions an i group insurance and will mak < recommends t h a is. The CIO Steel Workers have demanded a substantial rais\ mentioning 20 cents an hour as a possible figure. The Big Steei companies have refused to grant any raise, saying it would hurt the economy. Mr. Truman gave these three men the heavy responsibility of delivering an opinion by the end of August on the issues at stake: Chairman, Carroll R. Daugherty.ptofessor ( ,f business economies at Northwestern University. Judge Samuel I. Rosenman of New York. foiVnci adviser to Presidents Roosevelt and Truman. David V. Cole of Paterson. N J lawyer and labor relations expert. Some steel production, meanwhile, is already lost to the country. That's because major

seven; Cloverdale. four hundred | companies had begun to

and niinty. Washington raised Unity five hundred and ninety five pounds of woo', Warren t vo hundred pounds, (evidently a mistake;) Jefferson, thirty hundred and ninety nine pounce . Cloverdale, thirty-one hundr d and fifteen pounds. We have now finished ou.' notice of the county, i.ic natural fertility of the several town.,hips • nay bo considered very .ueH' equal, and the proiluc-s are tb< ame in kind dice.-., g only in unuunt .and this differtiice will likely dissappear in a few years. Monroe township and Greencastle have spent larger omounts ol money for improved stock than any of the othei townships and ate doubtlesj reaping a very large ,.;ofit truii I now. as is clearly seen by every st"ik purchaser. Like im prove vents are gradually preadlng themselves m all t-i ownships and will produce like i, fall:. Agricultural impro ments are being made rapidly ind the future of the county is «• night one. The appended table shows t unount of the five important laples nared, grown in 1857, to he section, or mile square. i'i he several townships It will l>e ound interesting, as siiowin: - . .chat is now being (MiiC us well is what may or shall be done These products are far below .vhat might be produced, and u vill add, as one of the principl easons for this result, is th ■ arge amount of timber yet standng on the lands, a few yeais nore will greatly increase th'unount of cleared land, this and

MOTHERS ARE COACHES AHD SPECTATORS AT KIDDIES' TRICYCLE RACES HERE

tore thorough

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age

may

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ion double these products. ( attic Hogr. Wheat

Corn

tassel 1

246

28a 9

'Yankhn

191

3229

'ackson

148

245

r >oyd

116

263

3111

tonroe

119

223

2831

lint :>n

167

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.tadiuon

113

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lieeneastle

118

3368

Mat ion

122

262

3)71

Jefferson

118

192

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Warren

266

2474

Washington

«7

132

2678

Cloverdale

120

1093

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furnaces, and they said it will be a few days before normal "orations are resumed. Whether the board will succeed in averting a strike in September is something nobody knows, but at least the crisis is over for the summer.

Railroad Union President Dies

CLEVELAND. Inly 16-iUPi Alexander 1-'<I1 Whitney, who lose from tin Horatio Alger-!lk' start of candy butch i to head 'f one of the world's most pow?r(Ul labor unions, died unexpectedly today ot a heai t atta'. k H-

was 76.

The stocky, white-haired pr itl, nt of th" Brotherhood of Raiload Traimmen died in his b'd at his fashionable home in sunurban Bay Village here The on’ v person wi*h him as death came was his wife Whom he ha-1 (ailed shortly before hr died, h s leeietary, Max Matkey, said. “ We are very shocked by tv* death." Mai key said. We thought he had a very atro g heart He was always agile a" I a hard worker.” Mm key said the labor lead :• was in "apparent good health'' upto (lie end and had even He-n a doctor iccently Whitney spent his "usual full day" at the office yesterday, the (ecietB' v added He quit at 4:30 p. m. and had visited a sick riend before returning nome for r dinner paity before retiring “As a matter of fact,'' Markey 331(1. “He was planning a visi* to Miami Beach in August to attend a meeting of the southern lodges Hi., death is totally sudlen and unexpected." Markey said that assistant Piiv.ident D A. Mackenzie, now in Sal* Lake City, will take over us temporary head of the Rad Union. The Brotherhood’s board will meet within 30 days to select Whitney's successor.

The Daily Banner cameraman snapped the above picture as a group of Greencastle kiddies were getting ready for one Irievcle races held Thursday afternoon. Tom Goldsberry. h gh school basketball coach and recreational director, is shown at the right lining the youngsters up for the event. Their mothers are shown giving them encouragement and last minute pointers while also acting as interested spectators.

HOSPITAL NOTES Mrs. Mildred McGinnis of Gosport, was admitted Friday. Royce Cavin of Coatssville, was admitted Friday. Leo Wade of Fillmore, was a 1 mitted Friday. Delbert Harmon of Gree-i-cast 1c, was admitted Friday. Mrs, Dorothy Wells of Cartersburg, was dismissed Friday. Mrs. Florence Allen of Cloverdnle, was dismissed Friday. Mrs. Della Mitchell of Green castle, was dismissed Friday.

^©aa©®****? 0 Todays Weather ® and • {ft Local Temperature Fair north and central, aitly cloudy extreme south today and tonight. Tomorrow mostly fair and rather warm. High today 85 to 90. Low tonight 62 to 66 north, 66 to 70 south.

Minimum

67’

6 a. m.

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77’

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