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OCCl'KKKD WKD- ;; y nk.ht in i ongden ham. Iosto.1. 66. night watchLpfPauw University, was ^ times by an unknown t in the basement of Hall at 10:50 o’clock hy night. Hazed and , (nun cuts on Ids head J, M osbm cho was i ton by his attacker. K n y to a telephone ami Lf city police. joni was making hia [round of the campus [jwhen he went into tile Hall basement. He (that the door of one ol jp walk-in ice boxi a He passed by the jut i„ tinn in the lights [,* ihen Ibat iiis assailLh .nit of the icc l>"X Etliini.several times, lutdiiiian lifter.m| two jt on the top id his hoad. f rut over Ins right eye kuppci lip and noae were Hbiilly bruised. I osIkioi described hia anIju a large man with dark U waring a dark-colored k said that the ice tnix k«as(i|ioi contained milk. J and (Train. A laix 01 ■Menfrom a rack in an■pie Ilf the basement, whs l«..e ! ; ,< ;. •■ tni\ ;oet it was U 'hr intruder was pro jte have a Inneh when dlaid hv thr watrhinan. Lnsly nffii ml.- aroused all prs in Longden and Klornils hut Mr Osboin was li tn l irntify any of them I assailant. I Osborn was taken to the lot a local physician where m s were treated and ilcr. to his home at 517 e street. |l Combes, 93 Died Thursday Jail i I P Combes, age 91!. kpa-Kt away early Thurs|Ki:r.ro at th. Putnan ^hospital, following a short kf'inbes w.i.- ;i retired farI" »a:- born June 23, 1856, i of UidweU and Ijucinda hr < imbes He bad spent fltfe in the Quincy comfi »i«im ■ i( v. , ( nicintMT of l^'' Methodist church, | Lltl ’'' No. 6.v, and Cthapfsb Order of Eastern- * A 1 i- | i ( 'i:ni;i pi', ceded P'lraU, |y.j| Thai* are three daughtero, I®''" Smith and Mrs. HaiP" 1 ^'th of IndianatHilis. 1 y of ('loverdalc f # "n grandchildren, fifJ 1 oil,den, and |f MI k'reat gtandc.hild. r'"'' 1 mmhew will be lieUi i 2 00 ' "i CST Iron, dost chur n I "'Ilium |e KriaHeU ay. T' l!nv kainsey will be in A B " ri * J will be in Comtars L. ’ 11 Vnini y, Masonic j ■’ I eonfor ritualI at the grave, L , " ''‘li «l the WhitI, "me until the f "t service, i : T ' h|,>i OWN I.U K > • s “' rt 22 <irp» it r." 1 totii, y Stockley S:il "'n farmer. * frem S " w ' ts found ^earsAgo J^'llttNCASTLE "titbu ' TlXlU Was ho,,,c from Ca| nmack. Purlh' , D V brarian, was vts- ^ n,!S U ' Mr ’ “" d M '«- M Mm'! 14 D ' inni “r and Mrs. »:n,t, aURlH ' y n ‘o‘ored to FP-bent f ° 1 " s l )0 °t kitchen s r the new Methodist
REPUBLICANS OPEN TWO-OAY FARM MEETING
DRILL FOR OIL ON ' TWO PUTNAM FARMS
Oil leases taken out in recent months in Putnam county have developed to the point where
I drilling is underway on tw,,
OOl* LEADERS GATHER IN ' Washington township farms. It IOWA FOR -you JELL i wa * reported Thursday that I'S" PARLEY drillers are at work on the Carl
— i Huffman and Maurice McCul-
SIOUX CITY. la.. Sept. 22. ~ j loU Kh farms, southwest
(UP)—Republican leaders came I Greeneastle.
to the cornbelt today to find ou*. | why they lost the farm vote i,i 1948 and hoW to win it in 1950. As they gathered here for i two-day national Republican faun conference opening tomorrow, the (JOP chiefs assured farmers that the meeting would
a “you tell
Rotarians Hear Tax Collector
be conducted on
basis. They
•lames It. Monnctt S/Sgt. Monnett. well known Greennastle bvy who was killed over Fnedriehs'iafen. Germany, March 16, 1944, will he hune, in the Eachary Taylor National Cemetery at lyouisville, Ky , Saturday morning. Me was on hir 15th mission as aerial engineei of a B-24 when he met his death. Sets Oct. 19th As Hearing Date Judge Horace Manna, of Danville, special judge in the Fhit-ni-un county grand jury accusation case againsl Sheriff John Sutherlin, has set October 1!*, al 2 p. in. as the date for oral aiguments in the matter. Judg< Manna will hear oral argument.i on the defendant’s objection to legal sufficiency of the accusation juid a motion to quash ordei or to a.bate or dismiss the accusation. This case has been pending for several months following an investigation of gambling ac tiyitics tn the county hy s gram jury early last Spring. Judge Hanna became ill soon aftoi circuit court action was started and the case has been shelved until' the October date for a healing wVis Announced. ,o 1 ‘ ■ i^ — Eight Speakers Will Visit DPU Eight speakers will visit the DePauw University campus for the 194!»-50 university Lecture Series, it was announced today by President Clyde E. WiWman First speaker will be Use Sergio, widely-known tv.nuncnLator, who will speak on campus Sept. ;;o. - All h tines Will be given in Gubin Memorial Church at 10 a. in. Ollier speakers include Ma> EiSLman, Oct. 21: Madame Rajan Nehru, Dec. 9 Merle Miller, Jan. 13; P.eiuictt Cerf, Keb. 3 Rlnhard Llewellyn, Mar. 3. ant* Maxime Volliner, April 28. KILLED RV ENGINE TE.iUE HAUTE. Sept. 22 (UP) Vigo county coroner D M K< rguson niled aecident»l dealh for Elmer' Johnson, *!o. Youagslcvvn. who was kille , whp*i si ruck by an engine in the Milwaukee Haihoid Yards heie yesterday. ENTERTAINMENT FOR V. F. W. DADS PLANNED With some good times in miu I for the membership during th" Fall and Waller season, hh entertaimnent connnitlee was up pointed Wednesday night hy Conimaiulor Faye E Weaver >' r the Fathers’ Auxiliary of VFW Poat 1550. The chairman of this committee is Lee It. MeNee.y and plans for social sessions as well as regular business meetings will be made within th next two weeks. BURNS PROVE FATAL GREEN FIELD, Sept. 22 (UP) Stephen Sever, two, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert' Bever of Greenfield, died .yesterday in an Indianapolis hospital of burns suffered when he played ’with matches in an automobile Mon-
said the conference
would be light on political speeches and heavy on ‘‘down-to-earth’’ meetings to find out what farmers want in the way »cf
long-term farm legislation.
At every opportunity, thev contrasted their approach with what they charged were. Democratic efforts to "sell’’ the farm
I wo (Jrecncastle men were irus" ducted into the Greencastle Ro (ary Club al its luncheon meeting on Wednesday. James R. Pence had charge of the induction of William Hickman, hardware merchant, and N. C. McCamnion, Greencastle high
school principal.
Following the induction, Rexell A. Boyd introduced Nicholas Cagle, Deputy Internal Revenue Collector, in charge of the
income plan of Agriculture'Sec-1 branch operating retary Charles Brannan. partic-. out ° r ,hr Tr,r <' Haute district
ularly at a similar Democrtaie
rally at Dos Moines last June. While the Republicans were not ready to present a specific farm program for 1950. their ! conference was regarded as a kickoff for the year’s campaign:.. That was emphasized by a meeting today of midwestern finance committeemen to discuss money problems in preparation for 1950.
out of
office. Mr. Cagle explained the problems confronted by the interna! revenue collector in the j performance of his duties. The speaker in his interesting j talk urged everyone to keep ade"piate records so (hat no difficulty would be encountered in the computation of income taxes. He mentioned several Instances i where considerable trouble was
experienced hy reason of inadc-
!n keeping with the attitude j qimll , r( . cordH n ,, c „ H)ij|atjnK cx .
animation of hank accounts ard
other records.
Guests of this Greencastle civic organization were Frank Miller, DePauw University Assistant Professor of Education, and Melvin Calvert, Indianapolis, representative National Liquors Cor-
poration.
adopted by (he GOP for the conference, national Republican Chairman Guy Gabrielson avoided specific issues and promises in a nationally-broadcast speech last night at his home town of Sioux Rapids, la. He stopped there for a "Gabrielson Day” celebration en route here for th-i
farm meeting.
Gabrielson said it would be "improper" for him to outline party policies in detail. He Said the Republican platform on s|»ecific Issues would be bhllt If.
Congress.
But he said the “basic foundation stones of Republicans belief" include a maximum of individual liberty, economy in government and "strong, comoctcnl local self government.” The "chief issue," he said, is "Shall human liberty vanish from this planet; or shall it b" preserved and made perman-
ent ?”
Hr clanged that th; Democratic party "has become infected” by the "poison red fog" of
slat ism.
Republicans recognize that "radicals of the rigid arc a'dangcrous as those who ar*; threatening upon the extreme left," Gabrielson said. He proclaimed his party as the champion of "a steady journey down a middle road." To support the "down to cm th" claims for their meeting, the Republicans pointed to a list of discussion leaders that included representatives of tie "big thiee” farm organizatics The Farm Bureau, Farmers Union and The Grange. London Strike Threat Folds UlNDDN, Sept. 2 (UP) The Iy>ndon railway str.ke • "l lapsed ( day amid reports the government may soon offer | limited wage increase to low- j paid workers. j All hut a handful of 50,000 j radwaymen worked normal ^ schedules despite a union order lo slow down to one sixth their normal sliced starting issl mid-
night.
Electric trains and suuways jammed with commuters roared through London on schedule throughout the morning rush hour. Mainline .trains arrived and departed on time. Only 1.500 of the 50,000 London district rail workers adopted slowdown tactics. Mostly they were freight handlers in depots. Collapse of the strike, called over government refusal of a *1.40 weekly wage Increase, showed unexpectedly support by rank and file Britiah labor for Prime Minister Clement Attlee's
British Bride's Bond Is Lifted INli-’dANAPOL1S. Sept. 22
(UP) A British war bride wa.free today because the Marion county grand jury failed to return an indictment against b er for shooting and seriously
wounding her husband.
Mrs. Pamela Hurt. 19. was released from $2,000 bond yester day by Judge Saul I. Rabb ol criminal court. She had beer hdd on charges of assault ami
battery with intent U> kill.
Mrs. Hurt shot her husband Robert, 31, while he slept after he had threatened to kill her, she
told police.
Hurt is in a Chicago hospital, paralyzed from the bullet wound The couple met while Hurl war a military police nan in London MARRIAGE 'LICENSE
SEEK GLAMOR WAITRESS INDIANAPOLIS. Sept. 22 (INS)—The search for pulchritude made its appearance today in a place where most folks look for food. The Indiana Restaurant Associatlcii announced that it is conducting a search for the "most jiamorous" waitress in the state. Die queen of the waitresses is to >e crowned durnig the 16th annual convention of the association, Oct. 4-6 In Indianapolis. Each restaurant belonging to the association may enter a candidate for the honor. The association said names of judges would be kept secret until the night of the contest, Oct. 6. Governor Henry F. Schricker has been asked to officiate nt the ceremony crowning th * ‘most glamorous” waitress.
itunt Civil War Gold In Florida
(’LEWISTON, Kla., Sept. 22 Hr i A band of gold hunters • :is deep in the everglades losy. seeking to locate a possible •500,000 in gold that belonged ) the confederacy. For 80 years the bullion has 'en as safe in the swampland f Florida as it would be today 'n Fort Knox. Ky., from which I was reportedly taken for safekeeping as the confederates fell hack. Slate game officer L. P. Harry, who dune across what lu li nks may be a camp of the etachinfenl with the gold, led a mall pally ijjLo the everglades, t traveled in big-wheeled swamp lUggies. Harvey said that the campsite i aim >at hidden from sig’iU hy .ndergrowth, but that ho had n earthed confederate amiy dies including bullet metal, a allot mold and a kettle. Checking through records, lit "mid he discovered that u -detachnent under a Capt? Riley was nt from Fort Knox in 1865 ith a half-ton of gold bullion orth about *500,000 at today’s price on gold. They were taking R to Fori leade. Fla.. Harvey reported ut there are signs in the rccorl lat the men sought safety in he swamps as union soldiers ad anced through Florida He located the "ghost village” .bout 40 miles inland from the Ulantic coast and come 15 dies northwest of Miami.
STEEL STRIKE MAY BE DELAYED FOR SIX DAYS CTO COMMITTEE EXPECT.-D TO ACCEPT TRUMAN’S TRUE APPEAL
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PITTSBURGH. Pa. Sept. 22 (UP)— Government and un.n sources predicted that the CIO Steelworkers wage policy committee today would a ‘crpt Pn dent Tinman’s six-day stnki truce extension. . Rut more than 5.000 member, of the CIO United Steel Woike Union already' had walked o the job at three steel plant: m wildcat strikes.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 22.— (INS)—A new Russian note received by the State Department to lay denounced the North Atlautlc Pact asserting that its •aggressive alms’* are being confirmed by measures taken to Implement it. The note did not specifically say what these measures were. It was assumed Russia referred to the defense and military comj i nit lees created by the foreign ministers of the 12 pact nations last Saturday and the pending arms-aid program liefore tile Senate.
Government mediation o' fwials also were confident 1.1 the steel companies would foil *v. the lead of U. S. Steel C .i po: a lion in accepting the Pie.sidei :’ plea for "carneat" new bargain mg sessions immediately on th. basis of his fact-finders recoin
nendations for a company paid j ally
;mploye welfare plan
Murray put President tniman’s latest peace plan bet >re the USW’s 170-man wage policy committee here at 10 a m. ED’
WASHINGTON, Sept. 22.— (INS)—A navy court of inquiry ordered Air Force Secretary Symington to appear as a witne .s today and received his Indirect answer that he would
‘•think it over.”
NEGOTIATIONS OF NO AVAIL IN COAL STRIKE
OPERATORS FEAR LEWIS MAY QUIT TALKS BY NIGHTFALL
A member of Symington’s ofice staff informed the court that be would not Im* available until 3 p. m. EST. An emissary from the court was to see him person-
al that time.
Max Eugene Williams. Greencastle, and Helen Maine Huber.
Grcenca tie Route 3.
Tuincy Man Is Crash Victim
MARTINSVILLE; Sept. 22 ’UP) State Police said L'Klav luy Blake, 42 (Quincy, was killed when bis car collided with anither, struck a utility pole and yverlurned yesterday near Lewisville In Morgan county.
Mr. Truman ask 'd tile u .ion ’.o postpone the strikv deadline until 12:01 A M. Oct. 1 to allow lime for new negotiation.: He asked both sides io give "t! greatest weight" to the 10 cor' an hour perwion-insutance pack age" recommendations ot h Fact-Finding Board. 'Die new presidential n;ip*,i* came just three days before • scheduled strike of 500.000 h i a. steel workers. Glowing tension in the mil’, was evident as steelw, ukers staged three "wildcat" walkouts yesterday in Fittabui g district plants. Two of the walkouts at plants of the Universal Cyclops Steel Co. and the Superior Steel Co were blamed on rank-and-file unrest ove.r the industry’s failure j to accept the Fact-Finding ■ Board’s recommendations. About , 1,200 workers were affect-d A change in job procedure j touched off the third walkout 4. 2,800 workers at the A1.bridge Pa., plant of American *iiidg Co., a U. S. steel subsidiary Union officials said they would personally appeal to the men to return to work and send theii dispute through regular grievance channels.
Today s Market flogs 9,000, fairly active, bar nows and gilts fairly steady; to[ 25 higher; hulk good and < ho: 190-260 lbs *19.53-$20.OO, t’X *21.25; 165-190 lbs $19')<l $19.75 few heavier weights; 100-I6h Ih *14.00-*16.00; sows steady to strong; mostly 2*5 higher; most bulk weights $15.50-$18.00; choice lightweights $18.50, lop $18.75
RICH NELL. Ind., Sept. 22.— (UP)—Pickets paraded tn front of Kieknoll stores today In’a dispute between a union and shopkeepers over Saturday night
closing hours.
Some 35 clerks walked out of stores of the Retail Merchants Association yesterday when negotiations lo agree on a new contract failed. The clerks were members ol the I lilted Construction Workers, an affiliate of the United Mine Workers’ District 50.
FORT W AYNE, Ind., Sept. 22. — (UP)—Three persons were killed today when their automobile hit one truck and swerved into Hie path of another. I Stale police identified the dead , as Eugene Foreman, 24; Genevieve Foreman, 21, and Barbel Cash.. 28, all of Fort Wayne. The accident happened on U. S. 80, five miles east of New Haven.
DETROIT, Sept. 22.—(UP) — Nash today announced its 1950 model ears with prices slashed liT.'t to $1 to below last year, selling the scene for possible cuts by other manufacturers. It was the first price reduction announced us auto makers began unveiling their new model ears. George W. Mason, president and chairman of Nash-Kelvlna-lor Corp., said lower production osts a d increased sales made the cut possible.
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT OF H.S.GETS ANOTHER MACHINE
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Tiu* 1, *11 isiantt-Texas coast is being threatened today by high tides being violently pushed ilo.ig by a Gulf ot Mexico storm. On another weather front, a hurricane is raging in the C-arlb-heaii and is reaching down upon tin* eastern end of Hispaniola. \t last reports it was spotted 3.5 miles east ol Man Pedro. In the far east, a tornado hit tire coast of southern Japan and six |ters iris were believed killed and 2 missing. The storm hit Kyushu 1 , .lanaii's southernmost
major island.
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Melvin Meyer, manager of the G. C. Murphy Co., store in this city, is shown presenting Mi. McCammon. principal of the high school, with the title tc a new cash register wthich will b( used in the Distribution Education department of the school. This department teaches salesmanship, which Is needed in many places in today's highly competitive business system The high school, under the supervision of Pro! D. C. Stevens, instructor, sends out its student* in actual business places to study saleama nshlp They are on a part time employment basts and are being trained for salesmanship by the store personnel and the management and Mr. Stevens makes periodical check-ups of their prog rear and due credit ir being given them on their school work. The Murphy Company Is enthusiastically supporting this kind of a work program and the company haa given away about fifty cash regi8ters_Je school; in tQWfli—MMIS tat
Dr. Wiseman Says it is an almost instinctive expression of everybody to say, “Why doesn’t somebody do something?" . . . But to the Riley Foundation it is the signal for' action, the (all to arms . . . especially when the ’'something" has to do with combating dis-
ease.
This is only natural. For over the years the Riley Hospital for Children has devoted its energies and talents to being the "somebody" who can be counted on to do "something" about the health of our children. The Riley Foundation is now "doing something” about diseases. such as polio, that have baffled medical science for centuries. The research, and the work of the Riley Foundation is in direct proimrtion to the support we give it. It deserves your support.
white sulphur’Springs. W. Va.. Sept. 22.—(UP)—Coal operators feared today that John L. Lewis would break off soon, possibly by nightfall, the fruitless talks here on a new contract for his striking miners. Such a move would signal a continued shutdown of the coal mines. Both union and company sources said there was little chance that the four-day-old coal strike would' be settled for at least another week. They based that estimate on a belief that the coal parleys here and at nearby Bluefield, W. Va., would remain deadlocked until the steel industry settles its dispute with Philip Murray's CIQ Steelworkers. Lewis resumed with northern and western operators here yesterday bargaining that has gone on sporadically and without success since June 30 when tb United Mine Workers' contra t expired. He emerged from the session two hours with a considerable show of Lewisian anger. Spokesmen for both sides later confirmed what reporters already had deduced: The talks got no-
where.
More conferences were called for today, but neither aide thought anything much coulj come of them. On the basis of past experience with Lewis in many a contrast crisis, some company men figured it was about time for him to walk out, probably with a verbal blast at the industry representatives. The gloom ifere dispelled earlier optimism springing from the union's talks at Bluefield witli southern coal operators. It was their argument with Lewis over contributions to the union Welfare fund which touched off the walkout of 480,000 hard and sort Scoal miners. At Bluefield, where more tales were set for 2 p. m. today, most of the southern operators wensaid to have knuckled under t > Lewis’ demand that they pay up the 20-cents-por-ton contributions on which some, he said, had "defaulted.’’ In Washington, government labor officials had no Immediat* plans to intervene in the coal strike. There sre still good supplies of coal above ground, and the experts said basic industry would not run short for about a
month.
Chinese Diplomat At State Dept. WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 (UP) -The Chinese Nationalis*.-* have stepped up their efforts to convince the United States tha' Chiang Kai-shek is a good risk diplomatic sources said today. These Informants said the Nationalist government has advised the State Department that military resistance to the Communists has stiff) ced in recent weeks. T he Chinese governmeni also has reported that it has stemmed economic deteriorati >11 in areas still under Its control, notably Formosa. For the first time since issuance of the white paper criticizing Chiang, the Chinese ambassador called at the State Depart(<'«nllBnr<i on l , ii«c Twn» © Todays W"*-’ ^ and $ Local T®mp*rn»xir« * Considerable cloudiness today and tonight. Tomorrow partly cloudy; little temperature change. Higli today 68 to 73 north, 74 to 78 south. Low tonight 448 to 52 north, 52 to 56
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