The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 19 September 1949 — Page 1
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THE DAILY BANNER "IT WAVES FOR ALL"
PHONES ID' AFTER RAIN STORM
uphoxes orr or
CABLE soaked Ibi kain m atek
Putnam county was j
GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19
Tracks to Prexy
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rainstorm Sat-
Lj.ii «t,'n th' loial wcit f t l a: inch on The Daily
} mi gaiv-
Ac right's storm also iriber of ti li'pliont.s in Biotin section out of condition Business j ■j by tlic | bung ''dead'’ Monday |
i reported later Monday | , Dm approximately 2C'j l,-ere out of order anr 5 i Lafayette repair crew Lcjne to Greencastle and
A MAN WHO came up from right on the tracks will be new president of the Eric railroad Oct. 1. He is Paul W. Johnston, who rose from track laborer to executive 1 vice president. He will succeed
|(jt, «: .-talf n K rtun S i President Robert E. Woodruff,
|j. , i ',,,,1 min watIsiiortcd an .underground nguist from the ti'leftelangi in the alley be* jtv.ahiiigtoii and Walnut iK'iirknu n drained watci i manhole near the Put.vu office on Jackson fenng the morning s< y could get to the cable. ItrUIKs \lAIM AKA fathers' Auxiliary <,( ]
pa: 1550 will meet In reg- I
Wednesday evening j Kk at the Gen. Jesse M. I
j who becomes board chairman, in 1 Cleveland. (International)
CURRENCY IS DEVALUATED
BY ^NATIONS GREAT BRITAIN TAKES IN-
ITI ATIVE IN SWEEPING MONKTARA ACTION
WASHINGTON. Sept. lit. (UP) Another sunburst of currency devaluation was expected today or within the week by nations eager to sell more goods in the United States because they
want our dollars.
The overall devaluation will 1 tend to open American market-! to cheapened foreign goods and | to make competition suffer against American goods In most
foreign markets.
Great Britain ami 10 other nations have announced currency devaluation in the past 24 hours The British that their proud pound sterling had been reduced in price from $4.03 to $2.80. That ^ is about what the pound actually has been worth but it had been j ! pegged at the false and hight ■ j
1949,
Single Copy 5 Cents
NO 289
AS FLAMES SWEEP MORONIC FROM BOW TO STERN
Shuey Reports On Bond Sales Individual investors in Putnam
j county are holding $5,890,000.00 • in U. S. Savings Bonds ut th - , present time, according to Alb o i j Shuey, Putnam county saving bonds chairman. Mr. Shin-v ' commented that “although sale-
leached their peak in 1945, the
peijple in our county are holdiiv; | Pakistan, Ceylon. Icelam.
level.
The executive hoard of the III- 1 ternationa! Monetary. Fund, j ; which cleared the British and other devaluations, planned to meet here today ready for mori devaluation business. The >i»tions which acted with Great Biitain were: Australia. South Africa, Ireland, Norway, India. Denmark, Israel, Burma, Egypt
and New Zealand.
There was expectation here
EXTRA!
WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 — (IT)—(TO President Philip tlurra) said today Unit a mi-ti.iil-wide steel strike will begin at midnight Saturday unless the j steel companies settle “Here and I
now'' on IV Intsis of the roe. >m-ij * UAI. MINERS WALKOUT,
U. S. FACES INDUSTRIAL PARALYSIS
j ui; utattons of Prosidffit Tm-
man’s Fact-Finding Board.
AVASIIINGTON Kept. I!) — (IF)—Tie State Department ; aim unred today that Russia has ! a c.■pled a U. S. proposal that i de| ies i | the Big Four Foreign ' Ministers rei-onxene *n Ne\\ A orh Sept. 2‘J to tak“ up again the ^ Austrian peaee treaty l|iiestioll.
STEEL > TRIKE AFFKf T NATION S BUSINESS
l<A I PiafHO
More than $0,000 miners
l•linois and Indiana
in
refused to
"ork tislay under «hal one mine spokesman called the United 'line Workers' new “no pension,
no work” jmlicy.
■ A few silo Wed up for Hie first
NKAA AVGO, Mi. h.. Sepl. 10—I j.,,, t ,„ laVt a.vordiog l„ mine
(IT') — A triiek carrying ahoiil I -.. . .
, , . J.filiais, tint Giey leit wiieii lln-
I!) inon hnivest workers t«'t
Ilf Ids here through an | n ' M ° f * ,u “ * :Uft ,0 shov '-
open bridge into Muskegon River and state polire said six bodies
h ive been recovered. The workers, all
, - ... timers, all negoes, W ere I ea rente to ontni fields neai :
(•rant, Mich., ahout $0
ni rtli of
l In IlliaiJi, -o.uoi me i niled .wine Indian.i 8.noli nmu
n.er tin pits.
V * O* t%. ,
t») hoik. II ret used to
miles
Grand Rapids
I>E( KS of the Great flakes luxury
, ippinff ‘
j harboi
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VFW Post 1550 Plans Celebration For Fathers’ Auxiliary October 23
Steamer Crew Is Questioned
The miners rctUM-d to work beise the.r pension I .in,I p:ty- | incuts had been flailed. ,11,hn L. LONDON, Sept. |<| (UP)— ..
Sir Stalford < ripfs today ' ' ,U out any imssibllilv of g.... rat | | - , '" sl,,n • :i,V,ni ' nK luHt l
wage Increases and promised no i , , ,,al hi,d r '- cuts would be made in ilefeuse ! U*eir payments to
a Ml social service spending as a ! **"' * lund.
| n ailt of the devaluation of Hie
j |Miun.'l from $4.0$ to $!.8A. j Itulustrial paralyMis Um .it rd
' the nation today as John L Lc\> -
I A big celebration is being ai- | ranged by Gen. Jesse M. Le I Post 1550 cu Sunday. October 23.
more savings bonds at the prei- The Netherlands. Iraq and per-j 1 " 1 th ' ^ athl ' rs Auxil ary, the ent time man at any period situ, ••»P S Sweden. France aud Italy j f,, '’ ,t o, '& aniZH,lon <,f ils ki,1(J 1,1
MARRIAGE LICENSES
lar Movie tcioi Is Dead
Sept.
ijV.'OOI)
po Ph; ■')!., ■11-knowi I dura. ti r actor, was | jki'i in be*I at bis home j
It.;
and a housekeeper h«d been in his room
hit thought th. actor was , htc and did not disturb ! Mi> Morgan said she h i. found that h. was not
and called an inhala* ■ However, efforts to imwerc unavailing,
its latest film appear»'l» in “The StrattMi B the role ot a baseball H' was one of the vetci •
| the inception of the program.” According to Mr. Shuey. this ,$5,890.000 00 investment is eu.' , ing $162,000.00 of interest pci 1 year for Putnam county res;i dents. ‘^TWe potential buyin , power of these bond-buyers am! bond-holders couid give tlvcounty an unpreceduited cco- | nomlc lift if an emergency
should arise."
“Through bank-, jaist pflioes
next c.n the band wa-
| would bi
! gon.
Administration experts welcomed British devaluation as a move toward getting the Unite I Kingdom off the American taxpayers’ backs. But there were urgent protests from some R - publican congressmen that the whole operation would loose a floou of cheap foreign goods to hurt our own industry and take
and both large and small bus 1 .-"! Mvay our own workers' jobs.
pi'.'nr >nvrn a i l had ap-
t m such pictui s as “The Iirgfcld." "Wizard of
JT ... Kbit. .e I “While
Ktw was an ardent
|hn«n In 1947 hi won the
Ui Honolulu yacht BUk Khuoncr. Dolphin II.
Lni s ival name was kWuppennan He was born »Yutlt City June 1. 1890. Jtlfan'd on the stage in his tirtiit atarled out as a |*»i smin, but sinsi decided
in the boot steps of his Ac! n Ral|. Morgan. UR SPEAKS AT
UURANCE MEETING I*;*' M Stoner will address Mention of the National ptiotbiif Insurance Agents
chairman of the fire
1 c mnuttee. This national uticm underway today
to.
Mr Stoner will 'n the discusalor ' in l he subject of “Funcof Local Boards." Abh Mrs Stoner left Sun- * Chicago.
nesses and industrial firms on imyroll savings plans throughout the state. Hooxlcrs have investc I over one billion dollars in U. S Savings Bonds during the ladecade,” according to Robert \V Fowler, Acting State Director for the Treasury’s Savings Bonds Division in Indianapolis. “This billion dollar business is earning thrift-minded citizens or Indiana nearly 32 millions of dollars in interest each years. And bond sales, in contrast to those of other businesses, aie increasing regularly,” he continued.
Others said the British must go tarther and curtail some of thei" costly welfare state experiment: Everyone agreed that currency
devaluation for the British was >. | of VFW Post 1550 wore installe
j.thc United States.
A banquet will be held at th“ Post Home at 6 p. m., followed by a public obligation ceremony at the high school gymnasium a.
8 o'clock.
Leon King, of Indianapolis. Indiana Department Chief of Staf ami a former State Veterans of Foreign Wars Commander, will administer ttie obligation to the Fathers' Auxiliaries of PosT 15.*0 ' and also Oliver James Post 459 Mr. King will also install the ofj fleers of the latter Auxilary. Of- | fleets of the Fathers’ Anxiliar
Davr-fin. both of Greencastle.
Aid Bill Fight
Opens In Senate
J^^-vf.astlk
was
«ntir ( .
Cloverdale Post Will Aid Vets
The American Legion will assist all local veterans in applying for their National Service Life Insurance Dividends. i This was announced today by Ivan Craggs. commander of lie Hurst-Collms Post No. 281 ■ l The American Legion of Clovet-
dalc.
“Our post will have the lieee - sary applications which veterans will have to make to the VA I get their NSLI dividends." Commander Craggs said. "Every veteran who held his NSLI policy for 90 days or more will have a refund coming to him. The VA expects to pay out approximately $2,800,000 in these i - funds. Payments per veteran are expected to average about $175 according to the VA. Applications should be filed as quickly as possible because it will take weeks and months fn
stopgap, shot-in-the-arm tempo:ary measure. Its effects cannot last. It will have no effect at a : i unless the British government can hold the line against labor demands for higher pay and. in the long run, bring production costs down on a permanent basi:. British devaluation came with the’blessing and probably after the informal urging of the Truman administration. It supporters describe it as part ol a program designed to keep the wostj ern democracies strong and dom- | inant in the cold war against the Soviet Union. The Kremlin, i meantime, hopefully awaits financial collapse and political dis-
aster in the West.
When both Secretary of Tn-as-i ury John W. Snyder and Con- ! gross were sturdily opposed to j increasing loans or grant*, Loi> i dm had hardly any alternative
1 to devaluation.
Ross Lockridge To Lecture Here
by Mr. King last July 24, when the organization^ was formal!' presented with a Chatter. State Commander John G. Tinder. State Adjutant James Harrod and other deparimentro officers will attend this big meet eg. Governor Henry F Sehrieker has been invited ano it is believed that he will be hot'
if at all possible.
The celebration marks the action by the national convention of the Veterans of Foreign Whm in Miami in August. At that time, a resolution was passed by. the convention “authorizing act! encouraging the formation ot Fathers’ Auxiliaries." It waalso stated that the legal staff el the National Department will have changes in I he VFW ConTit ut ion and By-Laws prepared for the 1950 national convention in Chicago which will give the Fathers' orgm ization the same status as the Ladies' Auxiliary. A resolution approving the Fathers' Auxiliary, formed in ( l Giceiicnstle, was passed by the I state VFW convention in India .-
I apolis in June.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 19 L T Sen. Tom Connally. D., i^Tex., issued an “all-or-nothing" challenge to the Senate today as it prepared to debate the administiation’s $1,314,010,000 bill for arms aid to aqti-Communist.
nations.
“Half-way measures are not enough," he said. "Senator.* ought to be willing to undertake the program to the extent neecssary to do some good or be against it entirely.’ Connally, chairman of t.i Foreign relations Committee made the stab mcnl In an inti rview just befere opening debate : n the c/introvrrsml military pn - gram wiiich mil.lary assistam program the Senate economy bloc is out to trim by $700,000.-
000
Sen. Walter F'- George, D . Ga.. n leader of the i conoiny group, : lid the lull amount asked for the Atlantic pact nations would be “a waste of incnej (because) . . . we ll have to do it all .over ngnio when Die part nation: draft their couinmn defense
plans."
•Connally look ;i different vl< .v He cited the military high eomnand set-up agreed on by the part countries here Saliu'day a: evidence that deierse planning on n compel alive basis will be well started before Gongte.-is | makes any arms nviiil.ibl'’.
Donald Eugene Crawford an I
Doris Jean Rowland, both of s Learn or Noronic to a secret inGrcencastlc. i quiry to check "ail aspects" of Raymond lonVs and Ruth , the dockside fire which killed at
I least 119 panic-stricken passen-
| gers.
I Questioning of Hie crew began as five divers descended again into submerged .sections of the charred hull of the 6,905-ton pleasure boat to search for bodies of 171 passengers still listed as
missing.
G ficals doubted, however, that the death toll would rise much higBi r.* pome 361 of the ship s 38.5 passengers were rryporLecl - fe, with "d in hospital. It was believed that most of those unq< counted foe had left the scene for their homes without report-
ing their escape.
Only 29 of the 119 bodies recovered had been Identified. The Canadian transport Lcnartment said its official investi-
N’EWTON, N. C. Sept. I!) — ! (INS)—A speeding passenger
TORONTO. Ont.. Sept. 19 (train of the Southern Railway
i UIM The government today or- off '•« ,ra, ks . ! <lav ami Newton hospital rsti-
deivcJ the crew of the lake , • 1 . .
ihhIimI 80 |H‘rsoiis were mjiiml,
several critically.
The Diesel I'liglnc and four cars derailed anil i-areem-d into a I'J-font diten as Hie train ap-
proai'heil Hie statien here.
Most of Hr.- passengers escap-rd serious injury beeause four I'iiIIman's on Hie end broke loose and
eontimind down Hie track. The train was hound
is' soft coal diggers went on strike against the big caster t mines and a na ioiwide walko.il appeared virtually certain. Th.r threat of a steel sink, was so grave that President Truman was repoited ready to inter-, vene personally to try to head it
off.
Unless someone pulled a mi: • .tele within 24 to 48 hours it appeared that almost 1.000.000 workers would t>c on strike by the end of the week. 400.000 n | the coal industry ami 500,000 in
from i .steel.
| Salisbury, N. G- t" Asheville, N. with sleeping ears from New
I \ ork.
TORONTO. Si* pi. 1(1—(UP) —
Another body was found today ahoard Hie charred hull of Hu-stc-nmed N ironie, liringing the
t >tnl known dead to 120.
WASHINGTON, Sepl. I!) — (IT’)—lionsing expediter today ended lent emit rot in Frankfort and linightstoxx n, Ind., and the
,,, ,, ! I 'illuge or Orange, O.
gator, Capt. William N. M/nn- j
son, would tntcrvii ,v c.ifu ers and ; (Onntlnued on Page 6) crewr.embcrs of the ill-fated ! -
vessel l,-i hu.d c losed ciours on "all |
aspects of the cl i ter.'' FaIIc Tft Tins -onridential impnry pre- ■ Ollj IU l/Culll
ceded fie in a formal government investigation, to be open to the public, later this week, the de-
partment said.
Three other inve.-ligations to dcteimlro the cause of the
At Statehouse
- — j Gen. Jesse* M. i^e • Post has tin
Professor Ross Lockridge vx'ill j distinction of sponsoring the first deliver sex’en lectures on Indiana ! Fathers’ Auxiliary in the coun-
history in the local high school. The class will meet Tuesday i rfeiiing. Sept. 20. at seven j o’clock, Daylight Saving Time*.
Professor Lockridge is the I ans of World Wars I and II, be - (outstanding author ami lecturer j coming charter members.
try. Several preltmlrary meettugs. the last of April and during the month of May. resulted I in 110 fath'Ts of overseas vetei-
Released From Leper's Colony
INDIANAPOLIS. Sept. 19. tUPi A 74-year-old Negro em . ployc fell two floors to his death
tiugcdy also were underway, j f, l( i a y j,, Indiana statehoiiH' They were being conducted by , aM( | ' p(lliC( , sakl it was ..j.uieUj,,
the- Canada steamship lines, own I wllhout a doubt."
er of the vessel, rity ofllCmls ot
Cleveland, and Hie insurance nun John Taylor. Indiana polk', was which had insured the ship for employed as a basement eustod$1.000 000. | ian. ‘He reported to work some Ndt far from the wrec kage | *•'> minutes before his body was
The
on Indiana history. He makes the colorful and glorious history
reported
county.
xvas reported night In rob-
- c-ceiia U aud Alpha fraternity houses.
1 1 ° 1 * 1 l)f 2.736 students were
Li the Putnai
i l> lh ' a n $300
acc ordln
county
8 to Supt. John
LC ion -
ll ' lth a i | a , , I' ltU a 8 ®-Pound mic* i,ht n y rod after
at
»ra ll . mitUlU ' Lattie
a veteran to get
chock."
Actually, Commander Cragg explained, the American Legion will put on the biggest manhunt in history in trying to local ' veterans who are eligible for the NSLI* refunds. “The VA estimates that some 16,000.000 veterans are entiled to NSLI refunds," Command. ! Craggs'said. "Actually today thVA has the home address of onl . six million of eligible veteran . The American Legion will help It to locate 10,000.000 others.”
his refill: J | <>f our state to live again.
JN HOSPITAL Frank Stocasel is a patient in
This course can bo taken for college credit or audited by those
not interested In credit.
The people of Greencastle anil Putnam county, who are interi sted in Indiana history are very fortunate in having this opportindty of having this eour; e brought to them by such an out-
standing person.
SUIT FOR DIVORCE
total membership at present i.t 121 with more than 200 Dads expected to join by the first of the year. The charter for the aux-
iliary was drawn by Paul Davi- * IVe t°Bc.hi'r under ony i Of.
OAKVILLE. La.. Sept. 19
i DP) A retired army, major, who braved three years .n a leper's colony to be near his stricken wife, carried her tix.uy toward
.strewn dock where the "Queen of the laik'-s" burned Saturday morning at her iiKvir; igs, weary Red ('nisi and Kul 11 ni Atm> worker- and mediciil nffieinlr eontinued I heir grim task oi
identifying charred hodies.
They weri aided by wi cping i datives who came by the humlteds from Detroit and Cleveland, h ..lies of most o.' the victims All but 20 of the pleas--ire-seek-ing passengers aboard the cruise
rhip were Americans.
found on the marble main flood of the*capitol. Fellow employes could not explain what Taylor was doing cu the fourth floor, where he was heard moving about only a few minutes befot* he fell. Police said Taylor was given a mental examination last week, and released from a mental hospital only last Saturday.
( ITV COURT NEWS
Emmett Scott, 316 Not lit In-
their new home where they can ] diana street, was landed In th
Putnam comfly jail S.-iturda.
Mrs. Gladys I. Roas has filed suft for divorce In circuit court from Robert D. Ross. They were married August 31. 1946 and separated September 15, 194P
son. Commander of VFW Post 1550. Lawrence (Bud) Miller, a member of Post 1550, is credite I with the idea of organizing a Fathers' Auxiliary and it was largely due to his personal efforts that the movement has become a success. Post 1550 is receiving inquiries almost dally regarding tlvFathers' Auxiliary, not only from VFW Posts in Indiana but other states as well. It is predicted that by next summer there will bo several hundred similar auxilliaries and that the organization will continue ij
Mrs. Hans Hdrnbostel was released from the National Leprosarium here yesterday, the first time she had known freedom lr.
more than six years.
She and her loyal husband borrowed a station wagon and headed for Long Island, N. Y. The New York State Health officei has granted her permission to take private treatments then
without segregation.
The Hoimbosteis were aeparatcd for the first time when both became wartime prisoners of the Japanese. She was liberated three years later, but in June.
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night on a charge of public intoxication. He was picked up on north Jackson slieet at lh<Motion tailroad by Night Capi Claude Irvin and Office! Estil McCloud. He paid a fine of $5 and costs in J. P. Court of Ola T. Ellis Sunday morning. FIRE AT ORCHARD CRAW FORDSVILLE. Sept 19 I UP) Owners of Cuffing Brothers orchard near here today estimated damages from a fire at $150,000. The blaze-destroyed a storage building. 23.000 bushels
Dr. Hutcheson Says: The doctors, and hospitals of our state are becoming even more of the vitally importamt role of the Riley Research Foundation in achieving cures and methods of prevention of certain diseases. There is a growing conviotum that the best way to keep our country strong is to prevent disease. It is necessary today, as never before, that there be widespread understanding and support of the important rseaix-h the Riley Research Foundation is doing. The Foundation is now in need of financial support, from every citizen in the state, in order to continue this research. It deserves the support of every resident of
The coal walkout alone, if it. lasts log enough, will clamp a slow freeze on U. S. industrial production for lack of fu 1 Cmipfed with a sCPFr’stiike thei would cut otf raw material.-., th effect could be disastrous, icon
omists warned.
Chiei Federal Mediator CyruChing met with CTO Prc.sldeni. Philip Murray and steel cxccu lives today in an attempt to •si-ttl - their dispute. Munay d - manded that the firms accept a presidential fact-finding board’s recommendation for a company-financed lO-cec.t hou. - ly benelit program. The comI panies iusisied that worker, should h- lp finance the progratr. It v\■ i.■ reported Hint President Truman was ready to offer u settlement formula similar t** one he produced, and the disput-
ants accepted, in 1946.
But .some observers point-’d out that the coal strike mu' have stolen the lightning I t om the CIO steel workers’ dispute with the industry because u long bituminous shutdown would havdosed the steel mills anyway. Local after local of the United Mine Workers met yesterday an I voted against returning to Hi pits today. In some area o meetings were held but UMW offteials gave the lip-off by saying “It’s up to the men xvhethet
they want to work.”
But NMW headquarters issued ,io official strike rail. Lewi planned to meet tomorrow with southern producers at Bluefieb W. Va., and with northern and I western operators at White Sul phur Springs, W. Va., Wednes-
day.
Throughout the coalfields, tini allying cry was “No welfare payments; no work.’’ The men, who have wot ked a three-day week since the UMW operator contracts expired June •TO, v/ere acting in resentment t (Continued on Page Six)
® Todays Weafher O § ' and * $ Local Temporaturo • Generally fair today through tomorrow. Cooler north today and over state tonight. High today 72 to 78. Low tonight near 30 norlh to 55 to 60 south. 6 a. m. 7 a. m 8 a. in. 9 a. m. 10 a. m.