The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 8 September 1949 — Page 1
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UME FIFTY-SEVEN
THE DAILY BANNER "IT WAVES FOR ALL
GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1949.,
CIL PUTS
3 DAYS OF
BUDGET STUDY
boakd lnabjjs to comi-lktk WORK
ttKDNKSOAV
PutnalTc^y Council ati their work tm the pro1960 county budget Thurs-
t group
was unable to
line
M their task Wednesday ^ a n indiiations the , had another full day „( them with several aectrf rext year's budget still
cons.dered.
the past two days, the has cut and shaved <1 figures, wherever they j jt possible, in an effort the budget as low aa When they finish, their vnll he studied by the Tax net Board which is ied to convene next week. , budget of the clerk of imut court, the Council salary of the first deputy The suni of $2100 had
sited.
auditor asked a $10 |y raise for a second but this request was re-
salary of the treasurer’s -pntv was left at $1800. im of $1350 was asked for derical help for preparing iling out about 11.000 tax tfs required by law. THe allowed $1050 for this recorder asked an increase for a first deputy. This was left at $1800. The r also asked $115 for fiptions and binding of the ■encastle newspapers but “j refused. It was pointed this was being done in counties and had been by several local attorneys, budget of the sheriff was as read. county surveyor asked for try of $;i750, which is the Tim by law. The Council si $2250. wbich is the » under the law. county agricultural agent lhat the county's part of Ary be inert i.-r I to $14/00. t uned allowed $1260. The Demonstration agent askAOand $7U0 wa allowed. A of $1650 was asked for A help and $1500 was hudg't of the County of Education was passed |Wt any reductions. Eugene « inty school superinreouves an increase by °l 5242 making his salary were no changes in the * of the county assessor, “ily change in the proae- ! budget was a reduction m traveling expense th " J20 « requested, coroners budget was pass-
read.
d * n * es were made in the
°f the circuit
$S.5D0
Single Copy 5 Cents
NO. 280
court in
was asked. Inci-
5 this is a reduction over J'*' a budget which totaled * u, 111 was allow- ' " election board budget l *"* es of the 1950 pri-
' * I,(1 general election.
J ‘ " f l2:i .l40 was wnittl'^fhe county welfare ^ effect this reduction, C >» »W fr..n
• The
Font SAFES LOOTED AUBURN, Sept. 8 (UPj — Four safes were reported broken into by burglars here yesterday. The Citizens Lumber Company said $500 had been taken. The Auburn Grain Co., and the ongnagel Coal Co., reported small amounts of money stolen. Officials at Wertman Rug and Fur niture Co., said their safe had been opened but nothing was missing. MOOSE LODGE KOKKKD HUNTINGTON, Sept. 8 (UP) —Burglars blew open the safe at the Moose I^odge offices here yesterday. Lodge officials told police that some $4,000 had taken. Famed Composer Died Thursday FRANKFURT, Germany. Sept 8 I UP i Richard Strauss, famed 85-year-old composer, died today at his home in Garmisch-Parleu-Kirchen, the German News Agency DPa reported. He had bem ill since undergoing an operation in Switzorlan i several months ago. Strauss was best known foi two of his operas, “Der Ro.s kavalier," completed in 1910, an "Salome.” He also composed n number of tone poems, symphon ic poems, concertos and mm. than 100 selections for voice an ; piano. Although a namesake, In we.i not related to the famous Vic nese Strauss family, of whom th waltz king Johann is best known.
BERMUDA IN DIRECT PATH OF HURRICANE
FIERCE TROPICAL STORM BEARS DOWN ON TINY ISLAND
SWING CLUBS ON ROBESON RIOTERS
EXTRA!
^"I f” 1 public assisMi| n of $1200 was al-
Springfield Is Host To Barkley SPRINGFIELD. Ill , Sept. 8. (UP) Vice-President Alben V\ Barkley unveils a .sculpture of Benjamin Franklin In lay, minus the company of his St. Louis lady love. Barkley arrived her*' last night aboard a plane provided by Illinois Gov. Adlai Stevenson and stayed overnight at the executive mansion. He was in good humor when he stepped off the plane from St. Louis hut said he had n > plans for returning to the Mi souri city soon to visit again with Mrs. Carleton S Ha ll y the pretty widow lie ha ^ been courting for several months. He had stayed in St. Lou s from Sunday until yesterday, squiring her about town. It was presumed that Stevenson ami Barkley, both Democrats, spent some time discussing the Illinois polltieal picture in view of next year's congr/ sional elections. Tomorrow, Barkley will ap pear in Chicago to address the Executives Club. He will stay there until Sunday when he is scheduled to attend a Cook com ty Democratic picnic.
MIAMI, Fla., Sept. 8. (UP) A tremendous Atlantic hurricane bore down on the tiny British island of Bermuda today, its 140-mile-per-hour winds churning up ocean waves high enough to en gulf a two-story building. The Weather Bureau here predicted that th/’ storm center, where the shrieking winds are the strongest, would pass slightly to the east of the island “about noon or earlier." But the hurricane, the third of the seasori, was so large that, first winds of hurricane force Pacific Hurricane LOS ANGELES, Sept. 8 — (I P)—A lOO-.tiJle-an-hoiir hurrl■anc crept mirth along the I’aeitie const of Mexico today, n potential menace to Southern | < alifoi ilia shipping. A 14-29 crew got within 40 miles of th*' center yesterday and estimated the wind in th*' center at 100 miles an hour. At a (Hsian* e of 150 miles from the ceo ter, the winds were still 55 mile.i
an hour.
The storm moved op the lowei ( alifornla (toast at atiou’t IS mill's an hour, and was expect ej to center about 20 miles s nth of S »ti Diego, Cal., at midnight tonight.
Honeymoon City Has Disorders
(75 miles per hour) were expected to strike Bermuda by day-
break.
Hurricane forces winds covered an area 150 miles in diameter. Gale winds extended outward from the storm center as estimated 200 miles in all direction. The little “Honeymoon Isle," on hurricane alert for the pa# 1 , three days, buttoned up tight last right as the roaring storm which drifted erratically for three days finally chose a definite northerly course and picked
up speed.
Last reports late last night from Hamilton, principal city of the 10-square-iuilc island, sa*d the windows of all homes and business establishments wen-
boarded up tight.
Hamilton is a city of some 3,500 population. Bennuda is about 700 miles east of North
Carolina and about 850 south* list of New York.
United States and British aircraft on the island were flown to safety on the U. S. mainlam.. Commercial air service to Bc-
muda was halted.
Several large ships put out to st'a to escape th*’ mountainous waves accompany ng the hurricane. Small craft were moved to "sheltered areas" and moored as
securely as possible.
Shortly before midnight last night, reports from Bermuda said that telephone and electric services were still intact hut that they would probably shut down befoie daylight as a pre-
cautionary measure.
At 11 p. m. EST the roaring i whirling storm was 150 miles south of the island, moving for
STATE TROOPERS WIELD CLUBS to subdue rioters during flareup between anti-Communtst vets and supporters of leftist Negro baritone Paul Robeson at Old Hollow Brook golf course, Peekskill, N. Y., where the singer was giving a concert. Neither faction was favored by 1,200 police on hand to maintain order. More than 47 persons were Injured and In hospitals as a result of clash. (International)
Senate Scrap On Hoosier Polio China Aid Looms Death Toll 70
i
Girl s Death On Ship Is Mystery
INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 8.
iUPi Another seven cases of polio this year will see the state incidence toll surpass the a'l time mark of 682 cases set in 1940 and State Health Board of fir inis sai l it appeared likely th" foimer high would be passed. To-
day’s eas*’ total was 676.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 8 (UP) Senate Republicans today promised a “major battle” for military aid to China when the administration's $1.450.000.000 Arms Aid Program gets to the
Senate floor
They renewed their atatek on the China policy as a special 25-man committee considering the Arms Aid Plan called Vice Adm. Oscar C Badger, retiring np.vy commandtr in. the Fat '
East, for questioning on the ho‘ deaths «vere reported.
China issue.
Controversy over what to do about China flared as the afti imath of a charge by Sen. T ni Connally, D.. Tex., chair nan of the Foreign Relations Committee, that Generalixsinr’ Chiang Kai-Shek "absconded' with $138,000,009 i t gold fro n the Chinese treasury when he quit the government for a
refuge in Formosa.
The Arms Program as proposed by President Truman con-
miles j templates military help for
Euurcpean countries outs de the iron curtain and for s::me n»nGoinmunist nations elsewhere But it includes nothing for No- j
tior .altst China.
The Republicans hoped to get j
BOSTON. MASS. Sept. 8
i UP) Ship s officers of the | liner Exealibur could give no reason today for the fall in vhich a 19-year-cld Dallas, Tex. rift'nit ante was killed and her
escort crit’cally injured.
Oapt. Samuel N. Groves, the ship’s master, Slid the accident
WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 (INS) —President Truman today nominated Robert D. Murphy, veteran career diplomat a •«! former politirnl advisor to Gen. Dwight 1J. ; Elsenhower, to be U. S. Ambassador to Belgium. In the Brussels post, Murphy succeeds Adm. Alan G. Kirk, who is now Anierhan Ambassador to
Kussia.
Morphy, 54, a native of Milwaukee, has been with the state department since 1917, and has attended most of the big four (foreign ministers conference* In rei -lit years. He Is now serving as acting director of the state department's division of German and Austrian affairs. The newly-named Ambassador was a political advisor to Eisenhower i» the Mediterranean theater and also served as President Roosevelt's jn-rsonal representative in North Africa. WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 (INS) Top-ranking statesmen from three naMo -•*—the United States, Britain and Canada—met today in a high-paneled conference room in the Staf■ * Department building, trying once again to | find a snlutio > to Britain's ser1 i<* s dollar problems. The American delegation went [ into the second day of the talks vvilli a threat hanging over their heads. Sir Stafford ( ripps, Brlt- ! ain’s top financial man, has j warned that his nation will take Its dollar bust (ess elsewhere If some sort of aid from the United States Is not immediately in
i sight.
The discussions today are expeoted to Include th*' American stand that the British pound must be devalued if England is to meet its problems.
RUSS MAY TAKE TITO FUSS TO UNITED NATIONS
WILL DEMAND PROTECTION FOR ALBANIA AGAINST YUGOSLAV THREATS
Dr. George M. Brother sa d. c;curred off the Azores at 4:30
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NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y Sept. 8. (UP) Riot squads an I ambulances rushed to the Bell
Aircraft Corp.. today as flyin; \ wur(1 nt flt1( .ut 12 miles per hour,
squads of strik * g United Aiko Workers, CTO. tried to halt bines ami automobiles carrying non-
strikers to the plant.
Several non-strikers were re |
In the second j
straight day of violence in tne | ^ ^^ mh , i8 th-
number of ! American Legion e.'.nual day at
the Knightstown Children , Home. Members of Legion posts | and Auxiliaries from all over the | state attend and it is an import- i ant day for them as well as th. ,
To Visit Home Ai Knightstown
however, that he did not believe 'he pres'* t epidemic was as se vere as that of 1940. . when 79
Seven new rases of polio were reported yesterday bid no n deaths were added and the fatal
ity toll remained at 70
People and doctors an’ more polio conscious this year, Di Brother said, and cases report" I might not have been diagnosed
os polio in former years.
Vets Apply For Dividend Money
WASHINGTON. Sept 8 (UP) -Some 9.000.000 World War II Veterans already have applied for their Life Insurance dividends Veterans Administration sources
new ammunition from Badgei’s e3tirnate( i today.
13-week old strike. Despite a larger
deputies thrown around tlv plant by Sheriff Henry Beck i on Gov. Thomas E. Dewey’s orders, pickets reportedly block-
ed all gates to the plant. Clashes were reported <»i both
the north and south approaches
to the plant.
At least three persons wertreated at a doctor’s office in North Tonawanda after union men stopped and stoned the bn. in which they were riding a had mile south of the plant. U men and a woman employe we * cut by broken glass. O. E. S. NOTICE Stated meting of Morton Chapter 356, Order of the Ea t ern Star, Wednesday. Sep* 1* Visiting members welcome.
children at the home. All attending take picnic has- I kets and in the afternoon th • childrm put on an entertainment program for the visitors. All o the houses, dormitories, and buildings are open lor the inspection of the visitors and to show them What a fine place it
really is-
Among those from Greencastle planning to attend are Mr. and Mrs.) Thomas Carney. Gwln Ensign Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hamilton Mr. and Mrs. Fred Snivei y D r. and Mrs. R W. Vermillion. Mis? Elizabeth Ann Cannon,
am! Ben Cannon.
statement of his views on far Eastern strategy. They demanded at the same ti ne to see secret reports on the Far East by Gen. Zo-.iglas MacArthur, who his turned down a Senate request to come home and testify. Republican floor leader Kenneth S Wlerry, Neb., made the demand for the MacArthur reports ir. a letter to Connally. He told reporters he wants to see the actual reports. "not just what Sen. oonnally says is in the reports." Tne reports now are lock*^ up in defense department files. Defense Secretary Louis John; 'in has made public some of their noi-sccret portions, and a few Senators have been "briefed" on the nature of the secret parts. Bankers' Group Honors Crosby J. B. Crosby, president of the First-Citizens Rank * Trust Com|>any, Greencastle, has been named to the Ihiblic Relations Committee of the Indiana Bankers Association for 1949 and
1950.
This is announced by Association President Elmer W. Baumgartner, president of the First Bank of Berne. MASONIC MEETING
A. M Saturday in a "fairly calm" sea. Miss Adrienne Atwell suffered fatal head injuries when she and Robert M. Willard. 21. also of Dallas, fell backward while j climbing a stairway. Willard, a | Southern Methodist University student, sustained a skull frac-
ture
The Exealibur. operated by American export lines, docked here last night about 17 hours •■head of schedule. Willard was removed from the ship in the outer arbor by a coast guard utter and taken to a Boston hospital where he was reported n lair condition. Mias Atwell, granddaughter of Federal Judge William A. Atwell. and Willard were "walking aide by side up the ladder from the promenade drek to the b iat de-k, a distance of nine feet," - .pt. Groves said. "They fell backwards together when they lost t'jeli balance." lie said. "The sei was fairly cilm. Several people observed the accident and the ship's doctor immediately went to the scene.”
By the end of the month, they said, almost 16.000,000 ex-GI's are expected to hove staked theii claim for a share of the $2,800.000,000 National Service Life In-
surance dividend.
Veterans Administrator Carl R Gray, Jr., has said that because of the mechanical diffiieulties involved, payments cannot begin
until early next year.
"We feel that most everyone who is entitled to a dividend payment on the basis of his World War II Life Insurance will have filed by the end of September.” a VA source said. "Some 7,000.000 applicants
were received during the week ,— _r —11.**. A on i )
after the cards were Issued on August 29. Since then cards are
coining into VA's central head-I ami br3t 01 g an ized attack I
Says Reds Failed In Finn Strikes
HELSINKI. Finland, Sept 8. (UP) Premier Karl A. Fageiholm told Parliament today that Communists definitely had failed in efforts to s> ize power by means of wildcat strikes and
disorders.
‘‘The strike wave was the big
LA PA/, BOLIVIA, Sept. 8— (IP)—Oil. Alfred* Delgadillo, commander of government forces in Potoai, charged to*lay that 14 prlsoners-of-war had been decapitated hy th*- Rebels in th. city. At tlic same time, unofficial estimates set the total casualties in the 13-day lev >lt of th * National Itevoliiti* nary movement at 361 dead and 761 wound-
ed.
There was no breakdown f thfigures between Rebels and government forces. The prisoner-victims of th* Rebels were Identified as nlnv soldiers, Ihree University st'idents, and two civilians. Taei. bodies were discovered after tin libels fled Sunday. WASHINGTON. Sept. 8 — (INS)—A navy court was toll today that the "anonymous document” attacking tin- B-.36 bomber program stemmed from requests for Information by ex presidential aide Jonathan Daniel and plane builder Glenn L.
Martin.
Navy Pitot Thomas D. Davts. recalled to the witness stand, testified that 43 of the document's 56 lengthy paragraphs were “responsive" to requests
from Martin.
Earlier, (apt. Leroy C. Simpler testified before the threeadmiral court that Rep. Deane, D., N. C., brought Daniels request to the office of Cedric R. I Worth, suspended navy official, in late April or early May.
LONDON, Sept 8.—(UP) — Russia indicated today it may carry the quarrel with Marshal Tito to the United Nations by demanding UN protection for Albania against alleged Yugoilav and Greek threats. Radio Moscow broadcast a 1 1 article in the authoritative pub lication New Times charging that Yugoslavia and Greece were in league to seize and partition Albania between them. Both Greece and Yugoslavia are committing weekly "provocations" against Albania's ..o.'/.hern and southern borders, .Moscow charged. Since caw^ -.gust these attacks have be * coordinated and "obviously are engineered from one center," the Soviets asserted. “It is the direct duty of the United Nations to call to order the arrant foes of the independence of small nations," Moscow
said.
“Those who follow Hitler in openly calling in peacetime for attacks on their neighbors and for the seizure of their territories are hurling a challange to all freedom-loving mankind." Observers said the Moscow broadcast indicated the Russian* may try to beat Yugoslavia to the draw on charges of a Soviet threat to peace by charging Marshal Tito with the same designs against Albania Possibility that both Russia and Yugosalvia anticipate a showdown battle before the United Nations when the General Assembly opens in New York on Sept. 20 was seen in reports that both will send extremely strong delegations. A Belgrade dispatch said the Yugoslav delegation will be the strongest ever sent to any international meeting. It will leave Belgrade for New York next Friday. Included will be Foreign Minister Eduard Kardelj, Communist party Propaganda Chief Milovan Djilas, Deputy Foreign Minister Ales Bebler and Minister of Information Vlado Gedijer. A Moscow dispatch said Russia will send three delegations— Russian. Byelo-Russian and Ukrainian—with a total of 70 members. Lncluded will be ? crack Russian-Amerlcan interpreter. Oleg Troyanovsky, a graduate of Swarthmore Collej..: and son of the first Soviet ambassador to Washington. Hunt Body In Lake Michigan CHICAGO. Sept. 8 — (UP) — Coast guard crews today searched for the body of a man seen floating In Lake Michigan near the spot where a pile of clothes, apparently belonging to an Indiana attorney, were found. A bystander reported to police that he saw the body in the water near Chicago's planetar-
ium..
Police later found a hat, coat,
PRAGUE, S*‘pt. 8.—(INS)— The majority of Czechoslovakia's Roman Catholic priests flatly re-
jected today a government pro- i an< f wallet bearing the name
|M»>al to "communlze" the church hy linking It with the existing
regime.
In a formal communication,
Called meeting Temple Lodge No. 47 F * A. M. Friday, Sept. 9th at 7:30 P. M E. A. Degree. V. Hanlon, W.M.
quarters at the rate of 1.000.000 - ^ th , regime ^ ] fh “ J
In "better" Its “social position at
flic cost of freedom.”
Missouri Pacific
Strike Friday
ST- I-OUIS, Sept. 8. (UP) — The Missouri Pacific Railroad
a day. , ma ,( P by the Communists after 'That means that about 9.000.- (hr war .. p a g r ,holm said. 000 veterans already Ijave applied 1 ..However, the democratic for the dividend. The present j y orcea n f 0(lr con try were too rate may be expected to de- BtronK a result of which th"
crease in the next two or three weeks. It is safe to assume, however, that by. the first of October, all interested Veterans will have made their intentions
known on the dividend." HOWLING NOTH E
Team captains and players' in the Downtown Bowling League are requested to meet at Vars.ty Lanes Friday evening at 7:30 p. m. for an organization session. Teams in the Downtown League are the V. F. W , Eitcl’s, The Banner, Flrst-Citizis Bank,
JOLIET,III., Seipt 8.-IUP i— Joan Arlene Weber. 18 montns, was expected to recover today from a wound caused when she fell on a 10-inch wood chisel,
Central Bank. Stoner Insurance, j driving it almost completely Home Laundry and Culllgau’s. through her abdomen.
Communist attacks failed com
pletely."
Fin three weeks Communist led strikes have harried the na tion's industry and administration. The strike campaign was
set off by seven communist-con- * begins shutting down its operatrolled unions, three of whio i | Hons tonight in preparation for have ended their walkouts. ; a strike by four operating unions
tomorrow.
The railroad announced that no more passe.igers, mail, baggage or express will be carried after midnight Central Standard
Time.
Leaders of the four unions said there was virtually no hope of averting the strike scheduled for 2 p. nr. CST. tomorrow.
John VVeisshart, 54. of Valparaiso. Ind., near the river. Police said Wcisshart checked out of a downtown hotel where he had stayed from Tuesday to yester-
day afternoon.
■A Q Q Q & Q & # O * Todays Weather •
SERIOUSLY INJURED
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& Local Temperature #
Partly cloudy today;
cooler
central and south. Fair
tonight
and tomorrow; cooler
extreme
south tonight; warmer tomorrow.
High today 68 to 72 north, 72 fo
78 south. Low tomght north, 50 to 55 south.
45 to 50
Minimum
52’
6 a. m
.... 52*
7 a. m
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8 a. m
5.V
9 a. m
58"
10 a. m
62 =
11 a. m
6ft’
12 noon
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1 p. m
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