The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 2 January 1952 — Page 2

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NOTICEWe can wtl your cal tie on feeder or slaughter sli|ts, exeept - hen you want them sold as dairy cattle, then they must he lit nd Bangs tested. All hogs, exeept pigs on sows, double treated «U days or longer. Our commission rates are 3 per cent on all in, iitaehlnery. hay, grains, posts, chifIfCnS, r^Htts, Ip to $1500 at one tltne.'from SlottO u|iu:tnl. : |i< , l ent. I ii r u Jure and all hind of other merchandise and small Items. 10 per tent ou any amount. Our sale is held every Friday, starting at |0 o'clock on mlscellaneons items and I2:S0 on livestock. Putnam County Sale Pavilion (. I! KF.Xt VSTI.E, INT)I AN A

’enny Postcard Plane Wreckage Is Now 2 Cents Found; 28 Dead

THE DAILY BANNER and HERALD CONSOLIDATED Entered In the postofflce at tireemsiatle, Indiana aa second class mall matter under act ot March 7, 1878. Subscription price '!0 cents per week; $1.00 pci year hv mail In Putnam t'ounty *5.00 to SI 0.40 per year outside Putnam County. Telephone 95, 74 or 114 M. It. Kariden, Publisher f7-19 Notilh Ja< kson Street

INDIANAPOLIS. Jan. 2 — INS)—The penny postcard was ily a memory today. The cost If the postcard rose today to two hnts and the puce of a special lellvery stamp from 15 to 20 pntit. Insurance costs, also, were up nickel in categories above the loO value and registered and jOD mailing fees were boosted [bout 20 per cent. Although parcel post charges I,’ere hiked as much as 30 per lent last October, a reduction In ilze and weight limits, effective

PHOENIX, Ariz., Jan 2 (UPI A cowboy was to lead a mounted rescue party tip Lookout mountain today to recover the bodie* of 28 persons, including 19 West Point cadets, believed killed in the crash of a C-47 transport plane. Officials at Williams Air Force Base said their rescue teams would climb to the crash scene on horseback, led by Arnold Johnson, a cowboy who reached the wreckage yesterday and reportad that "everybody Is dead." Bodies of the victims were t\

an. 1, is expected to reduce ad- ^ carried to a road three or itional changes. I f our m ||e H from the spot where The size and weight of parcel | plane smashed into the face

ost packages between first lass post offices were reduced rotn 100 to 72 inches in length nd girth combined. A 40-pound limit has been daced on packages sent to first nd second zones tIndiana and tart* of Ohio, Kentucky. Mtchl;an and Illinois.) The limit now 70 pounds. For packages in ither zones the limit will be 20

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There was no change in size md weight of packages sent to he second, third and fourth class xtstoffices. The current limit is •00 inches in length and girth -omblned and 40 pounds in

weight.

Beginning April 1, there will | oe a 10 pet cent boost in mailing charges for newspapers and magazines. The other 10 per rent Increases for this type of mail will take effect April 1, 1953, and April 1, 1954. making a 30 per cent rise in all. An increase in the charge for hird class mall—-mostly circulars md advertising, will lake place next July 1. when the minimum hulk rate will be hiked from one cent to 1 ccntp each.

Former Russian Official Dies

MOSCOW, Jan. 2.—(UP)— Russia announced today the loath of Maxim Litvinov, 75, an ■old Bolshevik" comrade of V. I. T. I«onln and chief architect of Soviet international cooperation >etween tyvo world wars. The Community party organ *ravda, sole newspaper appearng today, -aid Litvinov died ilondny after a long illness. I*. 4»id hid body would lie in slate n the Conference Hal! of the foreign Ministry until the fttner.1 later today. Pravda published a half-coi-unn obituary of Litvinov on its ast page, describing him aa “an ild Bolshevik" and "a prominent liplomat " The dispatch said he iad given up active work in the ast few years la-cause oi severe lines*. Litvinov had been out of public ifo since his letirement as a leputy foreign minister in 1946 lefore that, ho had been foreign ■ommisaar from 1929 to 1939 and Soviet ambassador to Washingon from 1911 to 1943. As foreign commissar, Utvlniv helped the Bolshevik regime rain diplomatic recognition in he chancelleries of the world, vtn a seat In the League of Nadona and generally extend It* InHlence in intermUional affair*. He also was instrumental In jbtatiung American recognition for the Soviet government m 1933.

of Lookout mountain with a "terrific crash.” Rescue planes that had searched the mountains near here since the Air Force plane disappeared Sunday spotted the wreckage on the peak yesterday. The C-47 crashed on a rocky crag near the top of the mountain, about 65 miles northeast’

of I^ioenix.

While more than 60 planes carried on the search from the air. Johnson’s wife saw what she first thought was a bedsheet on the mountainside. She studied it through field glasses and told Johnson it might be the wreckage of the missing transport. Johnson, a cowboy at the Arnier ranch in the mountains, took his horse and a station wagon and drove as near as possible lo the spot. Then he rode his horse through the brush and snow to the tragic scene. "Tlie plane hit with a terrific crash,” he reported. The piano is bad and the people are bad, too. The plane was tom up very bad. It was burned some, and son** of the bodies were burned.” Mrs. Roosevelt Again Tops List NEW YORK. Jan. 2. (UP) Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt held h place today for . the fourth straight year at the top of an encyclopedia's listin' of the "World’s 12 Smartest \\ -men." The wife of the late ]> esident placed firs! agt-in poll .'inducted by editors ot The Book of Knowledge among newspaper writers, parents and educators of the Children's Institute panel. Dr. Ellen V. McLouglilin, ed-itor-in-chief of the encyclopedia said Mrs Roosevelt was selected on the basis of her individual achievements during 1951. Four other women were included on the list lor the third straight year. They were Sen. Margaret Chase Smith (R-Me ), Dr. Florence Rena Sabin, Ann • O'Hare McCormick, foreign correspondent of the New York Time*, and Mme Vijaya Lultshnii Pandit, former Indian ambassador to the United States. Muiguerite Higgins, whose reports from Korean battlefields to the New York Herald Tribune won her a place on the 1950 list, repeated this year. Six new names appeared Or. the Hit. They were Educatoi Katherine Lenroot, former head of the Labor Department's Children'* Bureau; Physicist Use Meitner; Princess Elizabeth; Assistant Defense Secretary Anna ’’oaenberg; Mrs Ogden Reid, publisher of the New York Her.d Tribune, and Actress Judy Holiday who achieved stardom I by portraying a dumb blonde in the movie. "Bom Yesterday ”

IVrsonal And Local News BK1EFS

Mrs. Effie Chadd and (laughter Margaret Ann, Mr. and Mrs Marion Detro and Joe Caruso spent New Year's Day in Danville, 111. Pfc. Richard Buis is spending his furlough with Ills parents Mr. and Mrs. Henry Buis. Pfc. Buis is stationed at Bear Field. Fort Wayne. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Woodson have returned from spending the holidays with their son, T. T. Woodson and family in LouisvillegJCy. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Geabes and Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Snider spent New Year’s Day with the former’s aunt, Mrs. Bertha Scott, in Newberry. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kenneson and family have returned to their home in Detroit after spending the holidays with Mr. and Mrs. L. T. Snider. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Hanna and son, Steven, have returned to their home in Andalusia, Ala., alter spending the holidays with relatives in Greencastle. Charles Bamaby left on Tuesday to resume his studies at Amherst College in Massachusetts. He spent the holidays with Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Barnaby, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Lawson left Tuesday to return to their home in Boston, Mass., after .spc-iiding the holidays with Mrs Lawson’s mother, Mrs. Charles H. Bamaby. Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur J. Eekardt and children have returned from Hempstead. Long Island, where they visited Dr. and Mrs. L. B. Eckaidt. They were away for ten days. Charles Aker has returned to Washington, D. C., after spending the holidays with his mother, Mrs. Charles L. Aker. Mr. Aker is associated with the public schools in the District of Cnhunj bia. Philip Sourwinc has returned to Bowling Green, Ky„ Commerce College to resume his studies there. He spent the Christmas holidays with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Sourwine. Mr. and Mrs. John Galloway of Cloverdale, are the parents of a daughter horn at 12:03 p. m. on New Year's Day, at the Putnam County Hospital. This is the fiist New Year’s baby born at the hospital.

A choir composed of High iehool young people and towns>eoplc will sing at the Morning Jervice of worship at the Gobin demon:; 1 Methodist church Sunlay morning. Rehearsal for the hoir will be held on Friday wening at 7:00 p. m. An invitaion is extended to all interested ;o be present for the rehearsal. The picture of Mrs. Adna Bridges Steven* interviewing Mi s Margaret Truman appeared in the Nov. 30. issue of The Airman, a newspaper published by the MacDill Air Base near Tampa. Fla., Mrs. Stevens is the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. O. Z. Bridges and is well known in Greencastle. She is society editor for the paper and her husband, Lt. Col. W. F. Stevens is stationed at MacDill. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Vaughn entertained during the holidays for Lt. and Mrs. Robert Workman and family of Atlanta, Ga Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Vaughn and daughter of Gary, and Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Vaughn and family of Greencastle. Lt. Workman has been ordered to Germany, and Mrs. Workman and sons. Don. Paul and Jerry, Will follow him at a later date. Mrs. Workman is the former Miss Jean Vaughn. VISITS CRASH SCENE

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