The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 29 July 1949 — Page 1
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th" robbery or E. A 1 - the store keeper wPi shop Wednesday He Mr) the sheriff three )hbed and beat him.
iese Reds lake Demands
| 1TON, .Inly 29 — i i i K ee lented denmndz l • Communist authoritleflt A in ricati diplomats in irantccs" is still i' departure or U. S. l. Leighton Stuar* an <® d party from Nankin s. T l";u ned today. disclosed that the ; iinally had waived id for Stuart, but do so for American , !al Job:-. Cabot. J 1 Hive, other Atneiimd the pilot of the isy’s plane. of signing ''shop before departing is 1 custom. But never *’ it been invoked 1 natic personnel I 1 , irrangement whereby remaining behind 1 ' 1 make good any unpaid naraiuee return of ; d if he is later ac<hM|. , ” I''■partiiienr- several a ked Sturat to ro'In United Staies for
i soon ns s-.e nart | possible measures to “ ifety of Americm. in China. When this and he prepared to 1 mg, the Conmunists r " 'shop guarantee' and his party, refused the demands, "'ll negotiating with the 11 ! authorities in an 3ft it waived on the hls Party. Officials said * '’nds appear to be an ' "ii nunist plan to en* ■tfontinued on Page Twoi
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,!l:1 Mrs. Ernest Kador parents of a daughter. Lorene.
■ and Mrs. Ralph West a trip to Wisconsin and ■fh'Ean.
Charles I>. (onUlin
Elizabeth Tild"»i enterL 11 with three tables of ' ■ Miss (Catherine Cannon 11 high score.
'"an Eyenherger was hei vacation from Eltel's.
Last rites for Flight Officer Charles D. Conklin, son of MrEthel Conklin, will be held from the Rector Funeral Home at 3:30 o’clock Wednesday afternoon with interment in Fore t Hill cemetery. The well known Greencastle boy was killed over Saarbrucken, Germany, on July 19, 1944 while on his 19th mission as bombardier of a B-24. His body will airive here Monday evening. Friends may call at the Rector Funeral Home after Tuesda noon. The local boy was a graduate of the Greencastle high school and prior to entering the Air Corpr, was a student in DePauw University where he was pledged by the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. Services will be in charge of Rev Harry Walrond, pastor of the Presbyterian church. Pall hearers will be Elmer Calloway. J. D. McLean. Richard Sham'd, John Harlan. Norman Birt Bud Paul Grimes, Jr
LEGION UNIT GIVE $200 TO RILEY DRIVE
AUXILIARY SENDS ('HECK TO FUND CAMPAIGN CHAIRMAN
The Greencastle American Legion Auxiliary has donated $20000 to the Riley Hospital Memorial Foundation, it was announced by N. L: Donelson, Putnam County chairman today. The check was presented by Mrs. Francis N Hamilton, president of the organization. With 200 reported cases of polio in Indiana, the importance of the Riley Foundation is more significant than ever. The sum raised in the present drive will be used for the purchase of needed equipment so that the finest care may be given to the children who become patients. It is also hoped that with the new equipment a larger number of patients may be cared for by the Riley Hospital. The drive is now made throughout Putnam County. Funds have not been coming in very fast, but the workers arc diligently doing their job. All persons contacted are asked to give as much as it is possible to this wortiiy fund. Many Putnam County children have been patients of the Riley Hospital in past years and have benefitted. Money for research ami equipment is badly needed, and the importance of the success of the current drive cannot be overstated.
Agree On New Cease-Fire Order
[' tud Beo wa8 confined to homc by typoid fever.
BATAVIA. JAVA. July 29 lUI?) Dutch and Indonesia p Republican forces reached a new cegpe-flre agreement today. The agreement will be signed Sunday at a plenary session of th P United Nations Indonesian commission. ,Del ails of the cease-fire were agreed <>n in l<"ig negotiation* at Jogjakarta, the former Indonesian capital, among Dutcn, Indonesian and UN oflicials.
MASONIC NOTICE Hall of Applegate No. 155, K and A. M Fillmore, Indian". Call meeting Friday July 29th. 7:0(1 P. M. CST. M M Degree to be conferred. Estil C. Hodge, M. M.
GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, JULY 29, 1949.
Single Copy SCents
NO. 245
GARY WOMEN PICKET CITY'S "TENDERLOIN"
VEHICLE PLATE SALE INCREASE THIS YEAR
QUIZ OPPENHE1MER ON ESPIONAGE
EXTRA!
HOUSEWIVES DETER MIN EO TO RID CITY OF SIN AND VICE
INDIANAPOLIS. July 29Charles F. Fleming, secretary of State Thursday, predicted the sale of more than 1.200,000 motor vehicle plates by the end of 1949.
GARY, hid., July 29—(UP) About 100 Gary housewives, do termined to rid the Steel town of sin and vice, paraded as pickets before 17 bawdy houses and bookie joints today. Despite the 96-degree heat, the women vowed to continue their picketing until lawless elements were driven from the city. And though they sometimes partook of refreshments offered by the proprietors they picketed, they steadfastedly refused to enter the ostablslhmonts to eool off in their air-conditioned atmospheres. The pickets were members of he Women's Citizens Committee organized last spring when a school tearher, Mary Cheever, was slain brutally in an alley. They contend that thieves, utpurses and murderers have been attracted to the city bv wideopen gambling and prostitution. They staged an allout fight to clamp a lid on the city last spring but the campaign subsided after officials promised to i lean the city up. The women charge that the official failed to do so. “We decided Gary is not a closed town after all. despite our campaign, so the WCC Is back in action again," said temporary chair-man Mrs. Russell Griffith. The militant women wore simple sashes over their shoulders with the initials “WCC" emblazoned on them. Grey-haired social leaders trudged in a circle before one suspected brothel while the girls inside peeped at them from behind dingy lace attains. 'Hie campaign seemed to be having initial success. Few men braved the pickets' staring eyes to enter the play spots or gambling houses. The operators of the establishments were good humored about the campaign. One poolhall owner, accused by the WCC of operating a bookie and baseball pool, offe ed the pickets chairs and iv freshments. They accepted. But they turned down his offer to come inside and enjoy his air conditioning. Another alleged handbook operator invited ‘‘all you girls” to lunch. But a third hauled up his awning sothey had to hike in the direct sun. The city’s supply of babysitters was drained by the pie k"ting Most of the women are mothers and had to hire soni"onc to care for their kids while they tried “to make this town safe for children to live in." Mayor Engine Swnrtz and Capt Peter Billick, criticized by the committee often for alleged failure to stamp out vice, said I hey endorsed the women’s efforts.
This figure represents an increase of neatly 11 per cent over Inst year. Fleming made the prediction on the basis of sales of license plates, certificates of titles and transfers for the first seven months of this year.
The stst" Las collected $13. S 726611. an iticiease of abou< j $475,000 over the same period last year
Guard Training Starts Monday
Store houses at Camp Atto - bury were well stocked witn food today in anticipation of the arrivial of the Indiana Naional Guard's 38th infantry division Sunday. The 6.000 officers and enlisted men of the division are coming to camp for 15 days of field training. To feed them 15 carloads of food already have been put away in the Atterbury warehouses. The Items include 9.000 dozen eggs, seven tons of flour, six tons of chicken and twelve t<e:s of sugar. Movement of the 115 unite of 1 he Guard from 60 Indiana citi-.s is scheduled to start early Btmriay All will reach here during the day and will be ready to begin training Monday morning.
TENT MEETING An old fashioned tent meeting will be held three miles west of Pin ivfidd on U. S 40. beginning Sunday. July 31st and ending August 28th. Evangelist Pat Henry will be in charge.
Rites Saturday For Mrs. McClure
Mrs Roxie Parks McClure, as'about 73 years, died Thursday at her home south of Futnamville She had been in ill health for some time
WASHINGTON, •Inly 29 — (UP)—Deleuse Secretary Loiis Johnson told Congress today that ‘Unless arms a:d Is sent in mediately to Western Europe the t lilted States eiay lie timed ultimately to the task of lihI eratii' > such nations conquered ' by an aggiessor.
"We must act now if we are te avoid ti e loss of lives which would be the cost of such a 1therati n," Johnson told tile Hoimiforeign Affairs ( nnimlttee.
Johnson was the second ad minlsliatbiii witness ro plead for Pieshleet Truman's full $1,450,000,00(1 arms aid prog mm.
Mrs McClure was born in Putnam county, August 31, 1876 She was a member of the Put namville Methodist Church and was one of the first graduates of the Piitnamville High school She attended DePauw University and taught school for several years
Surviving are the hus/band. William McClure; five children. Genevieve, Elizabeth and Billy, all of Piitnamville and Mrs. William Rayfield of Roachdale and Francis McClure of Greencastle; one sister, Myra Pams and one brother. Fred, of Putnamvillc, and one granddaughter.
POSSIBLE WARTIME ESPIONAGE is investigated by the House unAmerican activities comnilltee as it calls Dr J. Robert Oppenheimer Into a secret session in Washington Dr Oppenhcimer (right), director of Los Alamos laboratory, ts chatting with Rep. Francis E. Wa'ter (Di f’ennsylvnnia a committee member ( tnternutwn-l)
Johnson said we must now add the essential military aid to meet the "rate delloienees In the military equipment of the North Atlantic nations. Il<- said that President Tru man's proposal is "Wie minimum in tlie needs of the signatory nations.” He said the United States cannot “afford to wurt seterai years" tor the restoration of full European arms prodnetlon.
Five Indicted By L. A. Grand Jury
Funeral services will be hel 1 Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock (D8T). The Rev. W. J Evans will be in charge. Friends may call at the residence.
Ruark, Weaver Are Selected
The County Extension Office today announced the selection of Ivan Ruark, representing the Putnam County Farm Bureau Co-Op and Charles Weaver, representing the Greencastle Chamber of Commerce whose duties will be to handle the organization work of the advance-sale ticket campaign for the International Dairy Exposition which will be held in Indianapolis October 8-15. In making the announcement of Die selection of the campaign leaders who will have charge of the drive in Putnam county, a group of leaders representing various organizations and busness met last night tn the court house assembly room. By having a representative of farm organizations. and a businessman representative, the group felt that both the consumer and producer of dairy products could be reached more thoroughly “Here In Indiana, with a minimum of travel, Hoosiers will have the unusual opportunity to attend practically on their own door step the “World's Fair of the Dairy Industry.” It is a splendid opportunity for them to see for themselves the magnitude of the dairy industry from production through the many phases of consumption, in addition to an interntaional review of entertainment acts." At the meeting of representatives of business and organization of this county plans also were made for the purchase and re-aaJe of 1800 tickets for Putnam. This quota was based (CnnUnnril on »*n«e T**“*
DECLINES GUARD
KT LOUIS, July 29—(UPl Sports announcer Harry Cai ay today declined an offer of a police guard alter the FBI inter(epteil a letter threatening to kill him and blow up Upo' tsmaii .- Park. Canty said the letter maj have been from a baseball fan ired by the announcer's pro-St Louis leanings. A special watch was posted at tlie ball park yesterday when die Cards brat Philadelphia. 10 to 2. and the same action might he followed today when St. Louis opens a three-game scried' with Brooklyn. St. Louis leads the National league, a game and a half ahead of Brooklyn.
LOS ANGKLES July 29 i UP) A local spokesman fot) fnimer police chief F B Honall indicted along with four othei police officials as the result of a sweeping vice investigation, said today he would surrender Monday. A gram) jury handed down t indictments against the five i police official yesterday, a few hours after Edward (Neddie) H< idiet, a lieutenant of gangster Mickey Cohen, died ol wounds received in tlie attempted assassination of the mob leader. The Sheriff's office said it planned "friendly little talks" about the shooting with some 20 underworld characters today. Detective Chief Norris Stensiand of the sheriff's office said cue of them would be Jack Ignatio Dragna, longtime racketecr with a record dating hack to prohibition days. The Cohen assassination attempt and the grand jury iniictineiits were two facts of the widespread Investigation ini > l-e«s Angeles vice, although tlicv apparently were not directly connected. Cohen's charges that police attempted to shake him down for $20,000 and were being paid for protecting i allhotisc madam Brenda Allen's lush Hollywood brothel led to the grand jury investigation. Hoi rail, assistant police chief Joseph Reed and Capt. Cecil Wisdom, former head of the police personnel department, were charged with perjury. Lt. Rudy Wellpott. former head of the administrative vice squad, and Sgt. E. W Jackson, his asslstai t. were charged with perjury and accepting bribes. The grand jury said Jackson, in addition to collecting $50 a week for each girl in Miss Allen's bordello, visited the shapely, red-haired vice queen at least once a week “to collect bribes and engage in immoral relations'' with her. All but Honall, who is va cartoning in Montana, surrendered yesterday a few hours after the indictments wcie returned and were leleascd on bail. Bad for Honall. Reed and Wisdom was set at $300 each and for Jackson and Wellpott at $1,000 each. The indictments accused Wellpott and Jackson of using their vice squad positions to take bribes of $50 to $300 from Miss Allen.
STATE POLICE HEAD SPEAKS AT RUSHVILLE
YHTIIt K Till UNTON GUEST OF JUNIOR ( H \ MI1ER OF COMMERCE
RUSHVIL1L.E, July 20 Law enforcement officers must have the understanding support ot "iii'li Hoosier citizen before tiny can perform their duties succe . fully, Arthui M Thurston. Sta'e Police superintendent, told niein hers of the Rushville J'unior Chamber of Coirunerce and tnen guests at a dir.-er meeting here last night.
ALLIES WILL 1 START CUTTING BERLIN AIRLIFT
RECORD PEACETIME MILITARY OPERATION TO BE ELIMINATED
"The citizen is obligated t" support the State Police and other departments by providing information concerning law violators, appearing as witnesses in traffic and criminal cases, and by general observance of tlie rules of good conduct," Supt. Thurston asserted. Relt rring '< the department as a business en terpnse, with its product pub ' service, he pointed out that failure of the stockholder (tin. citizen) to give necessary sup port “would mean a dimini.'hing return in service.” The meeting honored Trooper Thomas B. Osborn of Rushville. who received the annual Junior Chamber award tor saving a life Early in May of this year, Trooper Osborn made a rush trip from SheHiyville *r, Rushville and back to obtain blood plasma to save the lit" ot an injured Lauurer teiephon* lineman A placque wa:> presented to the trooper by Richard Reed, program chairman.
lill.l Fl» BY PROPFI I F.R
BEDFORD, hid . July 29 (UPl Dr. R. F. Wynne Lawrence county eoi’oner. said today two-yenr old Marsha Diana Black was injured fatally when she ran Into the propellei of an airplane piloted by her father at Muncipal Airport here yesterday. Wynne said Edgar O. Block, the father, landed the plane with Marsha and a brother, Justin, 12, as passengers. When Justin lifted Marsha out of the plane, the gill ran into the propeller, the coroner said.
Supt Thurston commended Osborn for his outstanding performance of duty and describe ! the general operations of til 1 State Police department
Emphasizing that law ei - forcement is not a "one man” c r "one department ' problem, the police chief stated, ".Many cri •. - inal cases would remain unsolved if it were not for Uie concerted effort of all enforcement agencies and of individual citizens." In discussing the irarric preb lem he stressed that “too man/ people regard the kitting and maiming in traffic a. vemnionplace" Officials are ta-.mg decisive action to conmaf traffic slaughter thiongh the enannets of accident records. driver licensing, traffic courts, chemical tests for intoxication. en pdneerlng education and enforcement, he reported • “Many thousands of our citi zens are conscious of ttr'ir p"" fnnal job to prevent accident but mirtl this feeling of responsibility sweeps the nation t fear that the needless deaths will continue in spite of enforcement efforts, ne sain “We must assume a greater obligation now to guaranUe that future citizens will benefit from proper supervision and guidance. Tlie results will be in proportion to the amount of time and money and effort vve invest in the future of Indiana and tlie nation."
WASHINGTON, July 29 — (UIM —Rep Francis E. Walter, D.. Pa., announced today that immigration authorities have rounded up almost 75 Hungarians illegally in the United Stales mi papers forged l>> a Paris imssnort ring, Walter, chairman of a House Judiciary subcommittee handling immigration legislation, said the Hungarians are now being held on Ellis Island in New York harbor. He said that ! some of them have admitted j paying up to $1,5(10 for fraudiil I ent entrance visas to fixe Latin American countries. Some of the Hungarians ha I genuine Hungarian passports but they were all stamped with traiidulent entry visas tn Cuba, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Paraguay or Honduras, he said All of them had genuine transit visas to pass ihroogh the I lilted States, he explained. He aihlcd they are detained on the technical charge of overstay log those transit visas. A transit visa permits a person to stop over in the United States for 2!) days while en route lo another country.
BERLIN, July 29 (UPl The American and British military governments announced today that the Berlin airlift, greatest peacetime militaTr operation in history, would be eliminated. A joint announcement said the airlift would he reduced bv stages beginning next Monday The announcement emphasized however that both the American and British air forces would he prepared “if nreissary" to restar* the airlift at any time. The decision to end the airlift, the allies .said , was prompted by western Berlin's favorable supply position. Rail road and eanal links between Berlin and the western zones of Germany were reopened with some supply interruptions—last May 12 after the Soviet blockade had lasted 327 days. The announcement said the end of the airlift will not cause all supply planes to be withdrawn from Germany. Jt said a "reduced force" would remain at German bases ready to resume the airlift if the Soviets again attempt to blockade Berlin. Air bas-s will be main'fin'd so that the airlift can be resumed if necessary, the announcement said
Showdown Near On School Bill
WASHINGTON. July 29.(INS)—Attorney General Tom Clark again indicated today that he will accept appointment to file Supreme Court by saying tha I he would “approach the )oh with humility." Senate approval of ( lark in the Supreme Court post made vacant by the death „t Justice Frank Murphy, anyl of Sen. J Howard McGrath as attorney general appeared certain. Clark said after the weekly cabinet, meeting at the Whit House lli.it he will give I’resi dent Truman Ids fornml answci Monday.
H> Inft'ritjifiotril *«*r$ ir«» I lie nation's polio toll, ap parrntly stepped up by the hot. humid wea,lher, mounted well past tlie (i,3<H) maik today and new eoiiimtinitles planned bans on public gatherings and recreational facilities In an effort to stem the title of the disease Latest complete figures from the nation's hoalth oflicials plat t il tlie infantile paralysis toll at 6,339 persons stricken by the hody-wrecking disease since Jan. I, hut the figures were running well lieliintl tlie actual number of t ases. More tluiii .390 of the victims have diet) of the disease. In Indiana the death toll rose to 22 today when llqhert Engels, of Portland, tn Jay county, died in Ball Memorial Hospital a* M uncle. Indiana has 214 eonflrmetl polio ■ uses since Jan. 1.
WASHINGTON, July 29 — i UPl Th bitterly disputed Federal Aid-to-Education Bill reachok the showdown stage today tn the House Labor Committe. Backers tlie $300,000 000-a year measure said they will d maud action this morning If they are turned down as they expect- they promisd to take the fight to the House floor. "Unless the committee nets on the lull, we are going to put on a real drive to discaarge th 1 conmittee from consideration of the bill." said Rep Tom St. e l. D. Okla “there's going to bo more h* at than this place hat seen in a long time Rep. Hugo S. Sims. D . S. C . has already filed a discharge petition to bring a similar measure to tlie House floor. The petition requires the signatures of 218 House members to he effertive. The bill has been bogged down in tlie cormittee in a hot dispute over fetleiai subsidies foe parochial schools. Committer Chairman fohn Lesinski, D. Mich himself a Catholic, thinks is dead for this si ssion “There just isn't time to act," he said. Tiie committee actually has two bills pending Denote it. On", approved bv the Senate,/ duck.? the religious battle wmle tho other, drawn up by R"p. Graham A Barden D N. C specifically bans use of any federal funds for other than public schools.
Hut. humid Heather blanketed must ut the natinn east of the Buckles today, but till' persistent heat wave was shattered over Hie upper Midwest and portions of the Great Lakes aren by a mass of eool nlr from Canada. Elsewhere in the Midwest, hnw'ever no relief was in sight from tlie oppressive heat. The Weather Btireau said that southern In-liana and Illinois, and Kansus mid Missouri will continue tn swelter, ns well as the Hunt I ■ east and eastern seaboard. (l onlinurd uu rime Three)
FATAL COLLISION
. LOGANSPORT. Ind., July 29 (UPl—Gleason Pear, 15 Twelve Mile high school student, died last night 30 minutes after his car collided at a county crossing with one driven by Lansing Baker, 37. Loganspoil, •who was seriously Injured. Pear, son of Ernest Pear. Loganaport was on his way to a softball game in his 1934 model coupe.
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