The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 30 April 1953 — Page 1

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"IT WAVES FOR ALL"

OlUME SIXTY-ONE DE SCHOOL ildren WILL GIVE PROGRAM , A! , srKINO FESTIVAI A1 MMNASH M ON UdDAY NIOHT ^ following program will !>■ n , e( l hy the children of tho Cicastle Elementary Schools fir Spring Festival on Fn'evening. May 1st. at 7:M k in the high school gym-

Presentation Grade hoys Elementary Band iana' Entire Chortle HISTORY OF INDIANA ns of Indiana ting Song" Primary Chin to n Dance Jones School. Grades 1-2 ic h Settlers in Indiana uette' Upper Grade Chorus ch Gavotte Ridpath School, Grade 4 ly Pioneer Days tie Shoemaker" Primary Chorus bier Dance Kindergarten • Pioneer Days Zip Coon" tipper Grade Choru. are Dance Sixth Grades INDIANA TODAY blems of Indiana nks of the Wabash" tipper Grade Chorus la Dance Miller School, Grade 3 lustry in Indiana fcimer in the Dell" Primary Chorus met Dance Jones School Kindergarten cation in Indiana jythm Band Ridpath School, Grades 1 2 «ic in Indiana ayei P< rfect" .. Miller Choir eratme in Indiana e Name of Old Glory" Choral eadmg. Miller School, Grade 4 tnbution of Indiana the Services of U. S. klsson Song" Tonette and. Jones School Grade 5

ale

ack Home Again in Indiana" Entire Chorus narrators will be Tom aham and Patty Steele The imarv Chorus is made up o c lldien from grades 1. 2 and •'! > Upper Grade Chorus is mad' of children in grades 4. 5 and

INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE

GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1953.

“American Mother”

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EISENHOWER TO SPEAK IN FIVE STATES

I'ltt ■'IDENT TO IMXIlKItjangp,^ h\e speeches m u- Irisl*wj IN«. E. \KL%' .11 NE

BELLE UNION GRADUATES RECEIVE DIPLOMAS

WASHINGTON. April :!() j[ 11 Pt President Eisenhowei I* will make five speeches in early 1 a" in fi\i> states Minnesot,:. I N'lt i and South Dakota, Nevi

’ * i Hampshire and New York, tlu |

' /i I " hit - House announced.

f 4 I The President will travel by |

plane Up will open the set lea of I speeches at Minneapolis at 2:30 p in June 10 before a national

fjJEji ciiiivt iiiiou of the Junior Cham8ELECTED as ‘American Moth- , ^ m, * ,erc ®- cr for 1053" , , Mrs Kthyln Boll. Jllne 11 t ' 1 10 n 1,1 »»•' of Belleville, III. a stepmother to 1 will speak it Garrison Dam, mid-

four children Th ■ is the first tune since the formation of the American Mothers committee that a stepmothei has been

chosen foi the award

Air Cadets Will Receive Awards

The

Awards will tie made to eiptit outstanding An Force ROTC cadets at DePauw University this Saturday afternoon during the second annual Piesident s Review on tlie DePauw campus. The review, part of DePauw's traditional May Day weekend is scheduled foi 2 p. ni. on McKeen

Field.

DePauw Piesident Russell J. Humbert, who lo review the 400-cadet AFROTG unit. will present live of the awards, including the President's Award for the nut i Hiding senior ' idet. Other awards he will make aie the An Force A .rociatioii m-'dal for the outstanding junior cadet and foui Chicago Tribune medals Silver Tribune medals will go to one freshman ami one sophomore cadet on the basis of ,;eu eral and AFROTC academic excellence and military leadership, and gold medals will be pie anted to tlie freshman and sophomore cadets rated outstanding in AFROTC scholarship and mili-

tary leadership.

The Reserve Of fleet s A relation medal for the senim < add I who has contributed most to the AFROTC piogram will be awarded by Col Nathaniel Huckleberry.

<Jreencastle, and U 1 >1 I' H- |„», e Wednesday

way between Hismark and Minot. N D. On the same day at I !(l p m. he will address a national convention of young Republicans at Rapid City. S D On Sunday, June 14. Mi Eisenhower will accept an honorary degree of doctor of laws from Dartmouth College at Hanover,

N. H.

At t la p in. of the same day he will speak at ceremonies dedicating the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial at Oyster Bay, N Y'. The White House declined to say what the President will do between June 11 and June 14, but Ate probably will setay somewhere in the upper Middle West before flying to Dartmouth. Presidential Press Secretaiy Janies C. Hagerty said Mr. Eisenhower would not return to Washington between speeches. This will lie the President's most extensive speaking toui since entering the White House His next speaking date is in NewYoik where on the night of May 7 he will appear at two Republi-

can dinners.

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UNITED PRESS SERVICE

MUSHROOM DERRY CLINTON, Ind , April 30 (INS) Two Clinton couples. Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Foltz and Mr. and Mrs Ernest Donna, were tar in the lead today in the International News Service mushroom derby. They garnered 1,435 mushoom weighing 35 pounds on a lucky day. Mrs. Donna said: “The mushrooms were so thick on the hillsides that they looked like miniature forests. It was just one of those days that happen once in a lifetime."

EXTRA! INDIANAPOLIS, April 30 — (INS)—Got. Georgn N. 4 rttlg tn-

NO. 169

RED TORTURE REVEALED BY FREED YANKS

BRUTALITY OK RED UAPTORfS RELATED BY RELEASED POWS TOKIYO, April 30—(UPt — American war prisoners refusing to make Communist broadcasts were put in three foot high wire cages where they had to crouch like animals, a liberated soldie’-

said today.

Cpl Charles E Dick of Spann. Ky. said some of the soldier* gained release from the torture and humiliation by saying they had seen the error of their ways "You could lie down only ar night," Dick said "The longest

day announce I that the case* of j p erlod , heard of was a man wivt all stale penal inslttution prison- , spenl six mc>nths( in thp ^ r

will be ret letted and also'

Twelve seniors received diplomas Monday night at the Commencement progi.im held .it the school building Pictured arc Delores Shumaker. Dorothy Dunham. Golda French Wiihvta French and Karen Rue McCammack. Others are Forrest Shumaker. Francis Gaston Donald Buis, Noble Cox, Eldon McCammack. Max Nichols and Kimha II Wheeler. Truman MeCatnmii k i lass sponsor and O A Haltom. Principal

Storm Death Toll Reaches 11

Hospital Notes

D'amisned Wednesday: Mrs '*n Higgins and daughter, ^lavton; Mrs. Max Clodfeltei I daughter, Fillmore: Tressa John. R«v. Walter S Rader, irae? Brothers, all of Greencss- *; Gladys Truesdale, R 3.

Lewis Accuses AFL President CHICAGO, Apiil in (UP)

lohu L Lewis has iccused AFL Piesident George Me,my of living to buy "immunity" from I ift-Hartley Act tiy "toadying

to politicians."

The independent union lead- i made the Charge at a news coll-

A88I8T WITH PLAY

ei ii k A Sandeipud.', n ot on science and tactics at DePauw. will present th» PA.’ v I ■ award to an outst uuiing

AFROTC junior cadet.

1C Crewmen Die In B-29 Crash

Three Greencastle students will members of the stage crew ‘ttr Clarence Day’s comedy. 1 Life ^sth Mother." Thursday through "aturday in the Little Theat-i th* liePauw i anipus. Dorothy ’Uliams. daughter of R. F. Williams. 522 E Washington St . will i’ 8 a stage manager and Dorothy ®'*b«r, daughter of C. L. Bieber, 311 Gieenwood ave . will be an issistant stage manager. Lila Hanna laughter of Mr ami Mis. Sam Hanna. 711 E Seminary St * s * member of the makeup coinhiittee Di Herold T. Ross, head I A

SAN ANTONIO, '' ^ Apif 30—(UP) A buiMiog r ? -2!t Superfortress clashed and exploded thit e miles ninth of Pan dolph Air Force base Wednesdav. killing 10 of the 15 men on board The other five had' d n d m i saved themselvf ’ t he I" ' ho were killed evidently didn t have time to leaji out before the

bomhep clashed

Lt. Francis L Kafka, the Randolph public information offi °i saul the coinmander of the pl»'i“ who was kille'l. la imed at r * 03 a. m. that his No 3 engine had

gone bad

He said he was turning b*"k moment later, he radioed that

Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, -said that any such "Immunity" from the "ob noxious" labor law should apply to all workers. l/'ivis accused Meauy and Richard Grey of tlie AFL Build lug 'Hades department of i toadying" to Sen H Alexand u Smith R-N J . to get special ex- j ceptions umlei the law for build- I mg Dade Workers Smith, chairman of the Senate I l abor Committee, recently intro dn, ed a bill which Lewis said | would ' repeal the Taft Hartle.' , Act only foi building trades em-

ployes.'

He also accused Hen Robert A

Taft, R-O, of taking part in •clandestine meet.ngs among

Smith, Giey and Meany

cuss the bill

NEW ORLEANS. April 30 (UPi A massive tornado-pack-ed squall line loft tl persons dead today ill a destructive march across the mid-South. As the front moved into Georgia, its liui ricane force winds and torrential mins gradually dissipated into local storms and showei s Wcathei foiei astera said there was no more danger of tornadoes High velocit v winds up lo 75 miles pei hour raged across Louisiana and Mississippi before abating as they blew east into Alabama Hrinesduy night Heavy 1 ains flooded sections of IiOUistan.i and Mississippi. ■ In T”.xms. '-'be!- the •*** nut first hit Tuesday, at least 10 pel son,-, were dead. At. Lafayette, La John Yuncy was killed Wednesday when winds tossed a tree limb on the truckbed he was rid-

ing.

Two othei persons were killed in accidents indirectly blamed on I he storms Thomas Neil Guilhams 27. was eleetrocuted at Hopi Ark, by a wind-severed live uare and Mis Glennie Green I'oitei 85, died in an autoinabile ,u . ident blamed on heavy rains d Byhalia, Miss Eight inches of ram flooded Jackson, eapitol of Mis.->i.s8ippi, having toil persona stranded oi homele.-’ Authorities ralln'l it the "woi.,t flood" ever reiorded In the city.

SUFFERS STROKE Jesse K McCoy, prominent retired Cloverdale businessman, was reported in "a fairly good" condition at the Putnam county hospital Thursday morning following a stroke suffered Wednesday. Mr. McCoy, for many years president oi the Cloverdale Hardware tk Lumber Company, returned home only last week

from Florida.

Rotarians Told Blood Is Needed

to dis-

School Building Group To Elect

C UePauw'a speech department. I me No. 4 engine whs m f b

"ill direct the play being pie- — 1 -—•

»ent»ii for the May Day el * Day celebration.

20 Years Ago

OERB AND THEM

John C. Vermillion announced

ft* would not he a candidate foi r '‘“*lection as county school our-

‘hntendent after lOF, years. Kathleen Campbell was

home on a visit from Vincennes ''here she was guperviior of

itiuste.

Robert Athey was appointed to * Mate excise post with the Gary •tonimunity as his territory. baseball scores: Fillmore Merf hsnts 7—Quincy Indians 2; Cloverdale Grays »—Dady A. C.'ft n Russellville 6 to.,rton 5.

There will be an Important

" 'i meeting for all stockholders o'

the crew had been oidered to bail j ^ MH|jon Township Sch- .i

Moth- j oUt . ) B „iidi„g Corporation in th" Fth

I At St:08 » m . the plane crash-| mor . High School ed Witnesses said >• dun k 11 '" i Monday evening. May ♦th,

ground ins nearly vertical bank, '

cartwheeled and blew up All of the men who build o' '

weie taken to the Randolph I""

| hospital. Kafka said tl"’ serious injury any ap|M'

sttffcied was a 'pi 11 ned ankle wishing but. they were all lieing held for i*. present

••thorough physical exammi

tions"

I meeting for

Town-ill [loratlon

Auditorium.

7:30 Central Htaudaid 1 im" The purpose of this meeting to elect oftire.s and directors fu the oiganiiation a ul to dis* iu any othei business which m.gh' an'ne Any person mteresl.-d

t„ buy stock is mg"d

Indiana U. To Omit Diplomas pi OOMINGTON, Ind . April 30 (UPi Indiana University today announced it would cut iiui-l of the exerci-e fiom i'v rommeiu ement exeirises bv ,<hni donlug the distribution of diploma i dining the giadnatlor program University officials said th* ni' ok from traditon wa - decided upon in an effort to stl p Hinline die degtee awarding (eiemonies Ibev r .Umated the length of th tune 15 piogram would be reduced fiom three hours to one. Officials slid giaduates would tecelve their degrees after the (eiemonies I F1V K 4I*V SUKI'M T8

Greencaatle Rotarlana heard Mrs John E. Fobes in an appeal for blood donors to the Red Crons when the Bloodmobile makes i! i visit to Greencastle at the ElkClub utt Thursday, May 7th Mrs Fobes, who is chairman of the blood program sponsored by the Asaociale Chapter of To Kappa, was introduced by .lame., R. Pence, president, following the luncheon at the Student Union on Wednesday. Mis. Fobes explained that th pressing need for more donors i based on a two fold need In ad ditlon to the need for blood and plasma on the battlefields of Korea, blood is vitally needed a ’ a factor to derive gamma gl'>" ulln. which is so Important in th fight against polio It is estimated that over two million chit dren in the U. S will be stricken with the dread disease this sum mer, and the availability re gamma globulin is essential ii thia disease is to be fought sm -

cessfully

With Mrs Fobes hivI lepre senttng the Tri Kappa Asso- iaie chaptei. were Mi ; A Reid Win sey. and Mis-, Kathleen ( unn bell, who accompanied the mem tiers of the Rotary Club in g""U’

singing

Guests of the Greencastle Ro tariaus were Willard H' 1 rtough of Goshen, a guest of Ivan Ruaik. Col Ben Armstrong and Captain Wende|| Wamphu of Mi Bullet University AF'ROT'' uni guests of Lt Col Iheodore A Sanders, and John King. sale, manager of the Chicago area f'" Bauer * Hlaik, who was a gues* of Kenneth Eltcl

Frank H, Unger Called By Death

DePauw Coach Gets I. U. Post Robert Slebbtns, 1051 graduate of Indiana Univct sii y, will return to hia aim i matiu in liuu to la!:e over the (iiitics of alumni field secietary Slebhins is at present an assistant athletic coach and instruem (d physitrd •■ducation at DePauw University. The an11 of Mi and Mis. Lyle Htebblns. Mishawaka, the new alumni field secretary served with the Army m Germany after giniluaiion in Uit.i from Mishawaka High School and upon completion ot Ins colli'ge career served a.-- an An F'lirce officer in

England.

An out standing lugli school alhlele. Stetilims was a varsity (et‘- nil tlie Ihjy and 1050 I U football teams. He is a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon social

fraternity

Tax Deadline Next Monday Monday is Ihe Iasi day foi payment of the Spimg install men! of taxes at Hi" office of County Treasurer .1 E Hood Ait< i Monday, a penalty will be added to all delinquent lax ac-

rotml ■

Mi Hood repoitsthal tax pay,ii,.iU , have been g' if id tint h" still exp'iis the usual last minute ni.-li on Haturdny and Monday. Truck Damages County Bridge

era

overruled the Stale Alcoholie Beverage ( onimlssion in it* d)acharge of 10 Deni icrath and five Kr-pilltlican state excise police. The State Highway Departmeat will niiaiernize Us mail signs and markings and nutke them visible at night and will provide more turnouts for trucks on hills. A business man will be appointed to spot check aH shipments of food to teed the 25,000 persons nourished hy the state. Craig said the 15 excise officers still are .>n Ihe payroll pending an investigation ot their cases.” Concerning foodstuffs, the j governor said: "JiLst yesterday, we received a carlond of peas (mm a western stale. They were supposed to Ire Grade I, hut we found they were suhslumlaril. We found someone had “sweated off" the substandard labels on the cans and replaced them witb No. I labels. "Also we have been using No. I potatoes. There is no difference Is-tween No. I and No. 2 po lalfM-s except Hint No. Us are much more expensive just beeause they are round. We should use No. 2’s. Whal difference does ij make when they are mashed.”

An n' “iloaded truck Tu°xdflV caused considerable damage to a bridge in FD.lt ('loverdsle to'V|ishi|>. a'coiding to f'unai t :ihimi. ' unity highway .s'ip"riM lendent It ■ i; ntcessaiy to replace .even l-teauia Wednes'lay m repairing t he bi idge

|)itl\ »,K • El > 11( KM f', .i| (iillip gave Ralph Brice, ef Michigan city, a court appearuue ti' liet Wednes lay it !• 4U |. m Rru e ia charged with failure in have an operator's license

MAN MISSING

I’ANMUNJOM, Korea April 30 (UP) The United Nations will resume negotiations with the Communists tonight on the exchange of sick and wounded wai prisoners, it was announced to-

day.

Whether there will be any attempt to get more U. N. prison pis released was not known Rear Adm John C. Daniel, U. N Liaison chief, called the meeting with the Communist liason officers. It is to start at 10 a in 7 p m. Thursday EDT The U. N already has proposed that the exchange of ailing prisoners be continued foi tlie duration of the wai. SEOUL, Koiea. A pul 30 (UPi American Sabrejets destroyed or damaged five Communist MIG-15's today while hundreds of U. N warplanes bombed North Korean military taigets from the battlefront to the Yalu River. Tlie Sabres shot down threrMICs which swarmed from Mauchuria in a vam attempt to break up the Allied fighter-bomber forint amns Two others were damaged.

was never there myself." Dick ‘discussed the Communists' human xoo during an interview in the library of an army prison hospital "Most of us signed statements and pettttens," said Dick. 21. who used to haul coal in Spann. "I made a broadcast myself, to let my folks know I was wounded." Those who refused to sign documents or making recordings for broadcasts got the cage treatment, he said. The broadcast, he said, was about a "peace appeal to the United Nations.” "At one time only eight men In the company did not sign." Dick said. There were about 200 men in the POW company then "At first a lot of the guy* played along and gave opinions," he said. "But gradually we began to find out you could keep quiet and get along just as well If they thought you were influential or reactionary, they threw you m the cage.” Dick said there were hard labor camps" in addition to the

cage. ^

“The men preferred the labor camps to the cages," he said "You worked hard, but at leaafyou had some room." He said he resisted the Communists' wheedling and coaxing for about two days and finally consented to make a recording when the Reds threatened to withdraw medical care.

herekah notice Fillin' e Rehekah Lodge No 652 will hold a Fellowship meet ing. have inspection and <""te' the degree Tuesday night M'> Bth at eight o'clock DPT. j A good attendance la desired. r pleas* In ,ng saniiflchM.

Alin HM-L INSTALLED

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WASHINGTON. April (UP 1 Dean H. Mitchell mond. Ind. presid-nt

Northern Indiana Public Service Co . was installed late Wednes-

day as treasurer of the

Chamber of Commerce at th"

gjpiixatton'i annual

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u. s.

or-

meeting

BERLIN. A pul 30 (INS) — West German polk “ 'Hid Iasi t’lgiit that five mote suapected •fed pie, li.’ e b"en iz«d in ,;,!(» 'iii: week the second tundiip (anted out within th* .uoi d h. Two othei were detained fo’ questioning m th* - .illeg.'d spy artlvltiei foi Russia but were re><i ed Istei STATE T. B. HEAD INDIANAPOLIS, Apnl 30.iIIPi Dr William D Piovinee, Fianklin, was installtd Wednesday night as pieaident of the Indiana Tuberculosis Association at th* close of the group's threeday meeting here.

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Fiank Hale linger, years, passed away morning at hia home ‘ownahip Mr Uugei in inva'id all his tile bom February l". 190#

Survivors ate hli iiiotiu" Hattie, with '"horn he im I mad' ilia home; two dstm • Mi • Christine Calvert of Putlaii" Mill and Mrs. Margaret T imh • ‘wo biotheia, Fred and Harold

Unget of Russellville.

F'uneral servicei "'ill b" h'-l'l'i

Saturday morning at th" fanitt’' tesidence southwest of Morton Burial wil he in the I O f) F

cemetery In Carlisle, Ind.

Friends may call at the family |

residence.

Rector Funeml Home is charge of ai rangements.

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MEETING FUID \ Y

reiumon f..«borerLoiai 74‘, ri.,; ■ 1 e l Biitn im county, nill meet Fliday at 7:30 p in DST in the Eagles hall at Bia- | /,i| Nomination of offteei.a and io 1 oily" tniporift' t lui Jneas. D

! Hoffman, B. A.

WASHINGTON, April 30 (UP) E Merl Young, key figure in mink coat scandals in the Reeonstiuetion Finance Corp investigation, was sentenced today to serve a prison term of four months to two yeais foi lying to Senate investigators F’edei al Judge Matthew F' Maguu tuincd dow^i Young a plea iuf probation and ordered him eotiiimtted to jail immediately Young was convicted last mouth on four counts of perjury before a (ederal grand jury and a Senate Banking subcommittee which investigated the RF'C, the government's huge lending agency. Young was found guilty of lying when he said he had nothing to do with the granting of $10,0OO.000 loan to Luetron Corp, a now-defunct prefabrirated housing manufacturer INDIANAPOLIS. April 30 - (UP> A 18-day fishing "holt day" will begin In Indivna Ftklc 11 •taiieii** *■» i aa* T«V»)

TOKYO, April 30. (UP) — Cpl Wendell H. Tteffery, a freed U S Marine, said today a North Korean nurse clipped off eight of olf the remaining two himself, of fthe remaining two himself Treffery, 25, of Terayvllle, Conn., said his feet froze on an 18-mile forced march following his capture Nov 30, 1050, five miles south of the Chosln Reservoir. He said only 40 of the 120 men captured from his company of 350 men survived the march Eighty died of untended wounds malnutrition, dysentery or beriberi. he said Treffery said he "blacked out" for three days Later he was told some medical treatment had been given the survivors of the march. He received only rough surgery, he said

VANDALS SOUGHT SHELBYVILLE, Ind , April 20 I UP) Police today sought vandals who r ansacked and broke open safes at two Shelby county schools and forced them to close for repairs. Sheriff Robert Meltzer said $150 was taken from the Waldron high school and an undetermined amount of money from St. Paul high school.

»••••»•* • ToHfiy'i WaniK** 4 • Local TrmperaHirs ♦ • •••••* + Considerable cloudiness with x’caslonal showers today, beoming partly cloudy and mild south by afternoon/ Paitly Moudy to cloudy tonight and tonoirow with occasional showers .till likely extreme north, somewhat cooler southwest Frtdav.

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