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GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, SATURDAY, JULY 30, 1 949.

Single Copy 5 Cents

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Itakes The most out1 entry. tmd in invitation to a*! tT' ■ erv tb' enter this i- the 40th year and brine it will be the best t ti.e Home and Garden had.

Men Rate Police School

Ii ham State Police 1 i' b b n been under way ' c on during the past 'vetks. rlosed Saturday ■ ■ ' ai didates from Putii i'v were members of I s to rate sufficiently be el p.iblc for member1 ' *liana State Police. Vaughn and city and Howard Bracking iet of the city. s lep nted last night •e than two-thirds of "ho started in th<’ SM' - “awfully completed tk and will be absorbed ie department of the enforcement program. '

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IN THE GOOD OLD DAYS GRJCENCA HTL.E, CAjLAMITIEo — Ln October, 1iS74, Greencastl ■ experienced the worst catastrophe in its history when a conflagration destroyed most of the business section of the town. It is regretted that our copies of THE BANNER recording this event are missing. If any subscriber has a copy of October ‘Jb 1874 or November 5, 1874, it would be appreciated if they would bring these cop res to THE BANNER so that an account of this event may be read by tic followers of THE GOOD OLD DAYS On Monday, March 8th 1875, Greencastle was the scene of a second disastrous fire A full account of this event will be given in two parts; starting here, to be concluded next week. THE FIRE—"Just as our city was beginning to recover from the great calamity or last October, the hand of misforture again fell upon her mid gave another terrible blow to her reviving energies. Again our citizens have been compelled to stand helplessly by and see thi savings of years of industrious toil, vanish in empty smoke. About half past seven o'clock last Monday evening a confla’ 4 - gation broke out In the frame building occupied by W. H. 8hcrXy as-.a furniture store, which in a few hours swept awao about fifty thousand dollars worth of the handsomest building and most valuable property in the elty. When first discovered the flames were confined to the rear part of the furniture establishment, but before anything could be done to stay them, thy spread through the entire build ing. From the first, it was ev: dent that the livery stable ot Black & Bro., on the south and the handsome block of building.-, on the north, could only ne saved by the most extraordinary efforts, Some delay occurred in getting the Extinguisher and the Fire Engine in position to work. At last the former was placed in position on the soiii > side i I the building, but inat not being staisfactory to some one in authority, it was moved to the north side, considerable time be. ing wasted in malting the change. It was nearly twentyfive minutes before the Silsby threw water. One hose was carried over the building on the south side of the square ana used to play on the rear of the burning buildings and to prevent tin flames extending farther, lo play on the fire and on the ma; part of the buildings adjoining on the north. For some time the contest raged fearfully, now the flames and no.v the firemen reemed to be gaining the. ndvar'-

age.

At one time it was feared that the entire block would be destroyed, then again there werr hopes that fire could be confined to the furniture building. At last it was discovered that the flames had broken through la Hay s & Co's., and t.>oii .tWeik's buildings, and it wa.i evident that all further efio-t.i to save that block would be use less. From this time the firemen directed their entnc attention t saving the adjol.ilng rmildings which they succeeded in doing. The buildings destroyed, besides the frame building, were the Farmers Bank, and Lyon & Weik’s block, two rooms, and B. F. Hays * (Vs, block, one roon. These buildings were handsome stone front, two story hriek buildings, and formed ono of the most showy blocks in the city. They will, in all probability. be all rebuilt during the summer. (Continued next week!

NEW TEACHERS ANNOUNCED BY SUPT. LEE ZIEG NF.W VCM'.VI, MCSIc; SI'I’ERVISOK. FOrRTII GRADE

TEACHER HIKED

Lee O. Zieg, city school superintendent, today announced th hiring of a new vocal musiv supervisor and a fourth grads teacher for the coming year. Miss Marguerite Caton, it Clay City, is the new music supervisor for the grades an 1 junior high school She succeeds Miss Wanda Stewart, who will be employed In the Indlanapo.is j |

school system.

Miss Caton holds Bachelor -f •Music and Master of Music de grees from Indiana University She conics to Greencastle from the Mitchell schools after eigli years experience in her field cj teaching. She is an aocomplish--d pianist as well as vocalist. She will have charge of Glee Club work and a ll vocal music in the ward buildings and junior

high.

Miss Catherine Robinson, 0 f Fillmore, will be a ne.v fourth grade instructor here but a s yet has not been assigned lo any cer

tain building.

She has taught six years and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree

CLARK AND McGRATH OFFERED POSTS BY TRUMAN

Horn Canterbury College. For the past three years sh,. has been

teaching at Colfax. Child Dies In

Freak Accident CHICAGO, July 30—(UP) — L ive-year old Louise Capizzi was killed accidentally today by a combination of circumstances which police said “couldn't happen again in a million years.*’ The girl was suffocated in her mother’s small apartment by steam leaking from a pipe lhal had been blocked off imperfeetly when the radiator was

removed.

The steam was generated when the building's stoker was activated accidentally, apparently jarred into action by passing street cars or elevated trains. "It was a freak accident thrt couldn't happen again in a million years," said resuce squad Lt. Elmer Johnson. Louise's mother, Anna. 30, a waitress who is separated from her husband, eame home about 4:30 a. in. and found the child dead in its crib. A neighbor carried the child to the open air where firemen

PRESIDENT TRUMAN ANNUONt'ES in Wash ington that he has offered the post of associate justiee of the Supreme Court to U. S Attorney General Tom Clark (left), and the attorney generalship to Sen. J. Howard McGrath (right) (D) of Rhode Island If they’ accept, McGrath may resign as chairman of the Democratic National com mittee, making William M. Boyle ieenter), executive director of the committee, the favorite to be named committee chairman. The death of Justice

Frank Murphy last week created the court vacancy. (International)

tried to revive her. BOETTIGEK DIVORCE CASE IS TO HE HEARD MONDAY PHOENIX, Ariz., July 30 A divorce action brought by John Boettiger against h(s wife Mrs. Anna Roosevelt Boettiger will be heard in superior court Mon-

day.

Mrs. Boettiger is the daughter of the late President Roosevelt. Boettiger, is the former publisher of the Arizona Times, Phoenix daily newspaper.

Putnam Couple Injured Friday Claude Glover, Greencastl' Route 2, was in the St Elizabeth hospital at Lafayette Saturday in "a serious condition" following a traffic accident near Delphi on Friday. His wife suffered a fractured left arm when their automobile collided with a truck Her condition was described as "fair" by the hospital when contacted by telephone by The Daily Banner. Mr and Mrs. Glover reside a short distance below the cement plant on the Putnamville road. Mr. Glover is a well know farmer in that community. NEW ARRIVALS Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Sadler of Greencastle are the parents of a son born Friday at the county hospital. A daughter was born Friday to Mr. and Mrs. Loren Haltom of Quincy, at the county hospital Mr. and Mrs. Robert Millie,-, of Indianapolis are tile parents of a son born Friday at the hos-

pital.

FATAL ARGUMENT LYNBROOK, N. Y. July 30 (UP) A 31 year old mother of two ehildrin was shot to death in a tavern here early today and police Raid her common la v husband admitted the slaying. Police said Arthur Korman, owner of the Wedgewood Inn confessed that he shot Mrs. Dorothy O'Keefe, 31, with a .22 caliber pistol during an argument, Korman. 46, said Mrs O'Keefe threatened him with u

knife.

Dr. Leo Kaiser said the bullet entered Mrs. O'Keefe’s back and pierced her chest. She die I about a half hour after the shooting.

Driver Escapes Serious Injury Fleming W Starkey, 56. of lO'.i North Euclid Avenue. Indianapolis escaped serious injury late Friday when his autoinobil'' was about DO per cent wrecked i short distance north of Brick Chapel on highway 45. Starkey told State Patrolman U E. Finney who investigated, that another ear attempted to pass him. side swiped him, bu*. a farmer who witnessed the accident told Finney that it looked to him as though Finney hooked into another ear as he started to pass and his car went out of control It turned over two and a half times and was almost a corplcte wreck. The Rector ambulance took Starkev to the hospital where he was treated for minor injuriec The car was dragged to the Scott garage. Starkey’s condition appealed queer to Patrolman Finney who investigated. He salo uie victim of thr wreck told him his wall 0 ’ had $28 in it. but only 61 cents could be found by the officer. MORE RAIN

A total of .70 of an Inch of water was recorded by the Daily Banner lain gauge Saturday morning after the rainstorm which swept the city mid-way between midnight and six o’clock and after six o’clock, when a heavy shower fell. ONLY 51 MILLION,MICKS

Polio Victims Fight For Lives INDIANAPOLIS, July 30 (UP) More than 200 children and adults stricken with pob > fought for their lives today in a handful of Indiana hospitals, many of them in iron lungs. State Health Board spoke" man said the number of cases since .lau 1 had lisen to 218 and that 22 of the victims had died The latest was Donald Allen Picket, 23, Sheridan, a wm veteran who died in a respiratci at U. 8. Veteran hospital her.Jennings county was added to the list of counties where al least one case was reported, other counties reporting on,each in the new case list this morning were La Porte, Jay airl

Fayette.

Dr. W. C Anderson of the Health board said the hardest hit areas, considering population, were Jay, Randolph and Union counties, with 43, 26, and 10 cases, respectively. However, Muncie was one of the hardest lilt cities Although the population of Muncie is higher than either of the three worst-hit counties, Muncie’s 24 cases represent an "outbreak higher Ilian normal.” Anderson

said.

Anderson said roughly ball of the victims stricken since Jan 1 remain in hospitals.

LEGION TEAMS WILL PLAT SUNDAY K\ EN ING

LYONDON, July 20 (AIM Britain is down to Its last 54 millionaires, the government repelled today. The inland revenue commissioners consider a man a mlllioi.aire if he has an annual income of £100,000 ($400,000 or more.

An exhibition ball game Will be played between games of th" County finals at Robe-Anti Park Sunday evening at eight o'clock team, city champs of Bloomington and the local Legion team. Bloomington is rated as one ot the best teams in southern Indi-

ana.

INTERESTING REPORT MADE ON ASTHMA CHICAGO, luly 30 i UP) Children may suffer from I asthma and other allergies because they are rejected emotionally by their mothers, two reseaichers reported in a publiUion of the American Medical

Association.

The mother in such rases may be entirely unconscious of the rejection, the dispatch said Often it is not obvious, the\ said, because a feeling of guilt causes the mother to mask hefeelings by a n overnttentlveness to the child's physical needs. The report was given by Hyman Miller, M. D , ana Dorothy W Murueli, Ph D., Beverly Hills, Call , in the American Journal «t diseases of children. Adults are victims of the same pattern, they said, although it begins in childhood. Allergic persons are generally passive dependents, with the dependency arising from an unsatisfied fe-|-uig of need for the mother. Warn Gamblers To Stay Away INDIANAPOLIS. July 30— (UP)-Indianapolis police report'd an influx of gamblers from Detroit, st, Louis and Chicago, but warned them to stay away. 'We've got enough to do without any outsiders coming in, taking the people’s money and thru skipping out,” said Inspector Leolln Troutman, acting Chief of Police. Troutman's statement came after police picked up two Detroit men who had from 3,000 to 5,000 pairs of dice and equipment for altering dice in their

car.

Edward Maskeny, 36. driver of the ear, was cited for reckless dnving and vagrancy, and Abraham Sherman, his passenger, on vagrancy charges. Truotman said a salesman s sample ease containing “ 42 boxes of assorted dice, sandpaper and miscellaneous articles used for making crooked dice'' was found in the ear The inspector said some of the dice already were “obviously loaded.” In addition to the two Detroit men, seven "known common gamblers” from Indianapolis, were picked up last night. All -were stated for a municipal court hearing this afternoon. We've been hearing complaints from local peopli* for sometime,” Troutman said. Gamblers from St Louis, Chicago or any where else a en't going to find a welcome here. And we're not going to tak'> Gary’s overflow either.” Troutman said the owner of the car which Maskeny was driving checked out of a down town hotel "hurriedly” before police could pick him up.

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There are but few threshing machine "separators" in use m Putnam county and a Dally Banner photographer found one operating a few days ago on the A. J. Duff fai'b> * ou?:l of Meridian. Johnny Ogles, vrterar. threshing machine man of Jefferson township, was in r.harge of the outfit. This machine was

BABY GIRL KILLED JASONVILLK, Ind„ July 30

(UP) A baby gid was kille 1 in an automobile accident neai here last night when her fathe- 's car ran off the country road. State police said four-month-old Carol Sue Phillips died in I the crash She was riding with her father and mother, Mr ai d Mrs. Joseph Phillips, Jasonville. when the father became blinded by lights from a parked truck and lost control of his car,

BRASS' PLANS CONFERENCES ON SECURITY

I'. S. CHIEFS O ESTAFF EN ROUTE BY PLANE To

FRANKFURT

WASHINGTON. July 30— (INS)—House foreign affairs committeemen charged today that America's top mllitarv leaders have failed to make a sufficient ease for tlae Truman “amis-for friends” program. Members of the unit, which •idll he the first to vote on the one hillinn 450 million dollar program, said the three joint chiefs of staff hud little more than “window-dressing" to eontrihute in secret tvstlrumy Friday. FRANKKI KT. July 30—(INS) The American Joint Chiefs of Staff arrive in Eranklurt today for a series of top-level conferences on tlie collective security of Western Europe and

North America

The three-man mission—Admiral Louis E. Denfeld, Gen. | Dinar N. Bradley Army Chief of Staff, and Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg. Air Force Chief of Staff—will first meet with John J. McCToy, U. s. Military Governor of Germany. The Admiral and the two Generals left Washington last night aboard President Truman's plane, The Independence. After a week end with U. S. officials, the trio will begin its meeting with ministers and Military leaders of the Western

Union powers.

Their ten-day itinerary calls for them to confer with Luxembourg officials in Frankfurt on Monday. On Wednesday they will fly lo London for discussions with the British Cheifs of Staff. They will go to Paris where they will consult with the French Chief of Staff and Belgian ami Dutch representatives as well as Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, Commander in Chief of the Western Union Nations, before leaving for 5 ienua and home.

Officers End Firearms Drill

Ten state police firearms instructoi s completed a three-day firearms training course today at the Putnamville range. Classes included instruction on the various uses of the rovolver, machine gun. shotgun an,i rifle The school was conducted by three special agents of the 1< Bl Completing the course were First Sgt Mark Nelson Ft. Wayne, and Troopers Walter Weyland, Indianapolis; J D Nash. Michigan U:y; Robert Deeter. Lafayette; Merrill Wanr Winchester, Charles Harbison, Spencer; Russell Powner. Greenaburg; Earl Brown, Columbus; George Stemiel. Bicknell, and Robert Van Dyke. Jeffersonville. ,

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HOPE REWRITING BILL WILL SAVE MEASURE

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bor. Mr. Duff borrowed a pich fork while the picture tv..s being

stead of the old fashioned sienM each summer. Time time h- I

engine as was the ease .-i quart-r worked six ot eight weeks ir. taken and is shown in , ne ce. century ago. Otherwise not in- oats, wheat and rye fields of ter ready to step Into a hoi eluding the size of the machim south-east -Putnam county, and pitching bundles into the ma it is one of the few of Its kind | tons of fine grain were hauled 1 chine, in case someone nad *-

as most farmers are using mod- away from it. ern combines for harvesting pur-j Mr. Ogles had plenty of help poj^.g | with his machine as the farmer.! Mr. Ogles said he purchased of the community "swap" work this "separator' some thirteen | and each in turn helps nls neigh-

leave. However, this en. did not happen wvo we v. re there and he escaped being pressed into some hard w r oi k, hit,

friends reported.

billion dollar Mm.dial Pig i money bill will pull the, maatftire out of a parlie menJthry bogdo vn. The Senator*. Fbecaus* the iidmmistjHioll flu ted t > little used Jr-ules, knocked out much largilhltFUitfwhite House wanted. As a result .tj^e Senate leadership nmjr hhv® to call for a sir r,rn ft|®J^^BM$ n atcs rules whicu rcquIUK^BJwn-thirds majority vote Trt #i effort to get the | stricken language restored. Tin | bill is exported to be report"!', today so action can be taker, early next week.

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INDIANAPOLIS, Jolf v 30 (UP) Attorn* Gene-i^, , Em _ mett MeMauftmon |d^ uled that " 1 f JBNFk-* involved in

we,gtot U*,violations.

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ter to Thomas R Hutson,

WASHINGTON . July 30Commissioner who i INS) Aporopriutions Cbtncourts had the right mittee Senators hoped todfg^ •’“P* 1 " 1 »*gistiatlons in adthat a hasty rewrite ot Uie Jb l-:{ to im P" sm 6 fines fm

® Todays Weather ♦ © and • $ Local Temperature • Fair north, partly elo-udy with scattered showers south today; f, little cooler and not so humid south today. Fair and pooler tonight Tomorrow fair