The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 6 September 1954 — Page 1

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GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1954.

UNITED PRESS SERVICE

NO. 277

POLICE MAKE FIVE ARRESTS OVER WEEKEND

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DULLES IN MANILA

Five arrests were made over Saturday and Sunday by local law enforcement officers and four persons were lodged in the Putnam county jail. Sheriff Joe Rollings reported Monday mon -

ing

William H. Benge. 30. of Lafayette. was the first of the four to be booked a? the jail. He was taken into custody by Town Marshal Kelly Kilgore at Bambridg* on a drunken driving charge and slated at 5 p. m. Saturday. Two Denver, Colorado, young men were the next to be brought to the jail by State Trooper Howard Brackney of the Indiana state police post at Putnamville. They were booked at 10 p. m. Saturday. The two were William McCready, 21 and T< d H. Weber, Jr.

25.

Trooper Brackney arrested then on U. S. 40 near Pleasant

Gardens.

McCready was charged with disorderly conduct and Weber

with speeding.

Both are being held for investigation and state police are cheeking with Denver and Colorado officials regarding the car they were driving. Marvin Jones, 46, Greencastl® Route .'{, was jailed by city officers at 12:20 a. m. Sunday on a public intoxication charge. Jones was riding with his brother, Wilbur Jones, .'$4. of Coatesville, who was arrested fo* speeding on North Jackson street. He will appear in city court on Wednesday to answer to the tiaffic violation charge. City Observes Quiet Holiday Greencastle was practically “a ghost town” Monday as Labor Day was generally observed in

this community.

Only a few places of business were open and traffic was very light in the downtown and resi-

dential districts.

.SECRETARY OF STATE John Poster Dulles steps from a plane at Manila to participate in the eight nation SEATO conference which he called “one of the most important international conferences of our time.”

Two Accidents Reported Here

When his 1954 Plymouth auto hit a utility pole on the Limedale toad at 3:.J0 a. m. Monday, George Lawrence Shaughnessy, 19, of Putnamville, suffered a leg injury and cuts and bruises. Sheriff Joe Rollings, who in* vestigatod the accident, reported that the ear hit and broke off a telegraph pole near the Monon

railroad crossing.

The automobile was a complete

wreck, the sheriff said.

In another accident, a car reported to have been driven by Claude J. Knauer, Greencastle

Several family reunions were Route 3. was badly damaged in a

scheduled at Robe-Ann Park during the day and members ot Windy Hill Country Club and their families took advantage of the new swimming pool during the afternoon. A piteh-in supper and dance were on tap at the club house this evening. lets Enroute To Dayton, 0. Skv watchers here Saturday saw what they believed were entries in the Bendix Air races which ende i at D ivton. O.. and which started in California. Around eight o’clock two jets flying high and leaving a vapor trail, were seen stieaking eastward at a high altitude so high in fact that one had to stop and kn»k carefully before one could see the plane. The long vapor strip was plainly visible for a half hour after the jets passed. It was presumed they were headed for their home base. Dayton, O.

2(1 Years Ago 111 KF. AX'D THERE

Walter Bryan attended the state fair at Indianapolis. Tri Psi met with Mrs. Susie Bit ties. Mrs. Lois Arnold was hostess to the Crescent Club. The American Legion Auxiliary met with Miss Mary Hoff-

man.

Mrs. O. J. Larkin entertained at her home in North wood with a dinner party in honor of her daughter. Mis. Ear! Collins, of Miami Beach. Florida. Edward G Robinson was starling in “The Man With Two Faces” at the Gionada theater. Mary Astor. Mae Clark and Ricardo Cortes were featured in the supporting cast.

mishap in the Brick Chapel vicinity. The driver escaped with cuts and bruises. The car was towed to the Franklin street garage late Sunday afternoon. U. S. To Keep Reds Out Of U.N. WASHINGTON., Sept. 6 — The United States was reported yesterday to be ready to urge the United Nations General Assembly to kill all consideration of U. N. membership for Red China j during the rest of this year. Administration officials said United States opposition to the admittance of Communist China is firmer than ever, in view of the new Red attacks on Nation-alist-held Quemoy Island. Two American officers have been killed by Communist gunfire. The United States strategy at 1 the U. N. Assembly meeting opening in New York 17 days hence is aimed at lining up the biggest possible vote against j even considering U. N. seat for j the Peiping government. J Great Britain, informed of the U. S. strategy, was said to be prepared to support a postponement resolution. At the same time. Russia and her captive nations already have opened a major campaign to get Red China into the L\ N. this fall. A big fight nn the offing. United States diplomats here, at U. N. headquarters in New York and at overseas posts are engaged in talks aimed at lining up support for the U. S. po-

sition.

Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. A mbassa^ior Henry Cabot Laxlge Jr . chief U. S. delegate to the U. N.. and other high administration officials were reported confident the Reds will I fa.l by a wide margin at the fall | session. * A A

PUTNAM CO. EXHIBITS WIN AT STATE FAIR HORSE AS WELL AS LIVESTOCK MADE IrOOD SHOWING SUNDAY Coits entered in the Indiana Prate Fair competition by Miss Elizabeth Randen won high honors at the first showing Sunday

evening.

In the weanling division, one colt finished first, one sixth and one in eighth place. In the Indiana owned five gaited class, an entry made by Miss Rariden finished in sixth place. The same colts will be shown in the Weanling Futurity tonight, while the Yearling Futurity was held at noon and the two year old will be held Tuesday night. Other Putnam county entries made a good showing at the fair. . John R. Hazlett of Russellville won a red ribbon in white Bermuda Onion class. Albert Sheppard, Cloverdale, won a blue ribbon in the 4-H Electric project exhibit. Sharon Sinclair. Cloverdale won a red ribbon in the same type exhibit, electrical. John R. Hazlette, Russellville, won a white ribbon w'ith an exhibit of carrots. Marvin Ramsay, Russellville, placed second in the three yea“old Jersey cow class. George Zimmerman, Roachdale, placed eighth in the yearling Holstein class. Thomas Hendricks, Cloverdale, won top honors in the gilt class. 4-H division. Mary McFarland, Roachdale, won a white ribbon in the Third Division, 4-H Clothing. Mary McGuire, Bainbridge, j won a white ribbon in the school I or sport dress of washable ma- | terial, one or two piece style. Maxine Herriott, Greencastle, j won red ribbon in the electrical

display.

Don Kelley, Russellville, won ninth place in the Hereford and Polled Hereford division, in Jun-

ior Yearling class.

Carol Caywood, Bainbridge, won a blue ribbon on her exhibit of skirt and blouse of cotton or

wash material. Sharon Sinclair,

LEGION AUXILIARY ELECTS SLATE

HEAT SUNDAY NEAR RECORD FOR PUTNAM CO. HIGH MVKK OF 98 DKGRFFS REAC HED HERE IM RING THE AFTERNOON

MRS. PLRC5 LAINSON deft) of Fort Madison, la., gets a congratulatory kiss from Mrs. Harold Burdett of Brooklyn following her election as national president of the American Legion Auxiliary in Washington. Mrs. Burdett is the retiring president. After the elections, the delegates wound up their 34th convention.

Two Left Farm Sunday Evening

Dutch Airliner Crashes, 27 Die

State police reported Monday that two inmates escaped from the penal farm some time Sunday evening. The prisoners making the break were Earl Dean Taylor 17, and Everett Lee Smith, 17 Taylor was sent to the farm from Franklin for vehicle taking. Smith was serving a petty larceny term imposed in a Warsaw

court.

Police said they were informed of the break about 10 p. in. Sunday and that no trace of the escapees had been reported at 8 a. m. Monday.

Local Goats Win 61 Fair Ribbons

Ralph Bee has just returned with his pure bred registered Saanens goats fiom the fair circuit including Illinois State Fai*-, Vigo County Fair and the Ohio State Fair. He brought home 61 ribbons including a Junior Champion, Sr. Champion, grand champion, 12 firsts, 4 rosettes and the Ohio State Banner for the grand

champion Saanens doe. This doe

Cloverdale, | a i so won first on doe with best

won a red ribbon on a school or I udder as well as best of breed. sport dress. j

Lavonne Parker. Cloverdale, won a blue ribboYi in dress suitable material not wool or diffi-

cult material division.

In the Shorthorn class, Tom McCabe finished 7th in Junior yearling class. He finished 6th

in summer yearling class.

As had been stated before Dallas Sutherlin won first in the Berkshire gilt class. Bernard Harris placed eighth in the same

Public Schools Open Tomorrow

division; Larry Stanley, Coates- j pieparations

Public schools open in Greencastle tomorrow for another

academic year.

Although Monday was Labor Day and an official holiday, local teachers were busy at their respective buildings making final

for the arrival of

ville, placed second in Junior Spring Pig class. Sue Stanley. Coatesville, was 20fch in the senior spring pig division. Janet K Stanley. Roachdale, won a blue ribbon on her exhibit

of a fringed head scarf.

Richard Branneman. Cloverdale, placed 13th in the Spotted Poland, gilt class, and in the Junior Pig class. Edwin Branneman, placed llth in the senior

spring gilt division.

Lyndell Allen. Cloverdale, won a red ribbon in the simple skirt

of cotton material class.

Clara Wilson, Bainbridge. won a blue ribbon on entry of dress of wool combination of wool-likr-

texture.

Doretha Nicholson. Bainbridge. placed eleventh in the senior yearling Jersey division.

the students Tuesday morning.

FIREMEN CALLED

City firemen were called to the Clarke Arnold home, 510 Crown stn et. at 1:06 p. m. Saturday. Firemen reported a coal fire in the basement furnace room but said there was no damage.

SHANNON AIRPORT, Ireland, Sept. 6.—The big KYM Royal Dutch airliner bound fo. New York with 56 persons crashed into the muddy River Shannon s broad mouth before dawn yesterday. Twenty-seven persons, including 10 Americans, perished amid gagging gasoline fymes, rising flood tides and slimy mud. Air line officials said most of those lost fainted from the gasoline fumes and wore trapped and drowned inside the superConstellation. Some were feared buried alive while struggling across a mile of treacherous mud after escaping from the plane. Twenty-nine survivors, 16 of them Americans, reached the bank after wading waist-deep i for hours and praying as they crossed the mud. All were reported well except Mrs. Caroline Platz of the Bronx, New York, who was hospitalized. The survivors included 22 passengers and seven crewmen. Three of the Dutch crew of 10. one a stewardess, perished. The big plane roared along at 190 miles an hour with all four engines racing and hit the water at 3:38 a. m. (8:38 p. m. Saturday. CST). The airliner skidded across the surface and slammed against a submerged mudbank. Gasoline and water poured into the cabin Some aboard fainted from (Ikfumes and collapsed, while others ^lose beside them made their es cape to the airliner’s rubber

boats.

Eighteen hours after the crash a rescue launch landed 25 bodies taken from the plane. It was the second crash of a KLM airliner with a heavy loss of life in 13 days. A Skymaster crashed into the North Sea Aug. 23 after a stopover here on a flight from New York to Amsterdam. All 21 persons aboard that plane, including a dozen Americans, were killed. Yesterday’s crash was onh two miles from the airport in the Shannon estuary.

^ Sunday was one of the hottest summer Jays tor Putnam county. The Daily Banner thermometer | registered 98 degrees, with a minimum Monday morning of 64

degrees.

However, at eight o’clock, the mercury had climbed back towards the 70 degree mark and was going upward almost by the minute. j Indnnapolis reported an even 100 degrees Sunday. Putnam visitors at the In liana State Fair reported seeing <J>zens of visitors fall over in a faint from the intense heat of the afternoon. Livestock as w'ell as fair visitors suffered from the heat. However it cooled off during the evening and at midnight was pleasant. The weather forecast for this I week is far normal weather, and j no rainfall. Practically every branch of any size in the county has dried up and again farmers are hauling livestock water and are coaxing the last drop from their w f ells. The 30 day rainfall report for Indiana is not encouraging and we may not have as much rain in September as we had in August, which will be less than three

inches.

Jet Pilot Dies In Plane Crash

DAYTON, ()., Sept. 6. An Air Force pilot, who established a new world speed mark only last Friday, was killed yesterday when his jet fighter crashed during another assault on the record at the National Aircraft show here. Maj. John L. Armstrong. 32 years old, of nearby Fairborn, died when his low-flying F85H I'Sabre Jet crashed in a field 10 miles from Cox Municipal Airport at nearby Vandalia, where a holiday crowd of 101,237 was awaiting Armstrong’s flight in the General Electric trophy event. Cause of the crash was not determined. Parts of the plane were scattered over a two-mile area. [ About an hour before the crash, the Air Force had announced Armstrong had broken the record last Friday for the 500-kilometer (310 miles) closed course, at 649.302 m. p. h. That was 42 in. p. h. faster than tlv record for the distance established last May by Capt. Anders Wcsteilound of the Swedish Ao Force at 607 1 m. p. h. He was to have made another try to beat his own record yesterday. When he crashed, he was preparing for the G. E. trophy event, five laps around a 100-kd-onieter (61 miles) course. Despite his death, his record will stand as the trophy winner.

LAST SPEAKERS AT LEGION’S LAST SESSION

Charles H. Cook Called By Death Charles H Cook. 81. a former i* sident of this city, passed away Sunday evening in a nursing home at Plainfield where he had b en a patient for some time. Mr. Cook will be remembere i here as a timber buyer a numbei o: years ago. He is survived by the widow and seveial children. Funeral arrangements are in iharge of the Rector Funeral Home.

Walter Reuther

Gen. Matthew Ridgwaj

Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

ADDRESSING the closing session of the American Legion's 36th annual contention, .n Wa.-hington, D C, CIO President Reuther assailed the Eisenhower administration for its fiscal policies which, he charged, are endangering U. S. security and causing widespread unemployment Army Chief-of-Staff General Ridgway said today’s U. S. Army “will perform any duty required of us in the light of your example.” United Nations Ambassador Lodge told the Legionnaires the U. S. will support a motion at the coming meeting of the UN general assembly to send l N peace observers to the general area of Indochina “if Thailand wants this to be done.” (International Sound’photoi)

7 FEARED DEAD

NORFOLD. Va. Sept. 6 The body of one naval reservist had been recovered and six others were presumed dead yesterday in the Saturday night crash of a four-engine R5D transport into Chesapeake Bay. Naval rescue workers were still on the scene yesterday afternoon, bringing to the surface pieces of the craft which apparently nosed into the surf only minutes after taking off fmm Uie Norfolk Naval Air Station. The three crewmen and two passengers were attached to the South Weymouth Naval Air Station in Weymouth. Mass. The two other men, both listed as passengers, were attached to the Naval Air Station at Floyd Bennett Held, N. Y. PRISON BREAK JACKSON, Mich . Sept. 6 State police yesterday hunted five trusties, one a convicted murderer, who escaped while working outside the Jackson State Prison walls Saturday. Three of the five men made their break separately and state police said the trusties apparently had not planned the escape together. Ernest Smith Passes Away Ernest (Pete) Smith, 74, passed away Sunday night at the Putnam County hospital following a heart attack suffered last week. Mr. Smith was a well known farmer in Warren townsh’p where he spent his entire lifetime. He is survived by the widow and six children. Funeral arrangements are in charge of the Rector Funeral Home. Mayhall Among Banking Grads MADISON. Wis. Sept. 6 Ward D. Mayhall, of the Central National Bank, of Greencastle, Ind., was among the 50 early graduates of the Sehood of Banking at the University of Wisconsin who during the past week have been enrolled in the first post-graduate course ever offered by the Banking School. Dr. Herbert V. Prochnovv, director of the school, explained that the post-graduate students had done special work in fiscal and monetary problems in preparation for their work on the Wisconsin campus during tin past week, when the problems were discussed in special seminars. The UW Banking School, which is sponsored by the Centr al States Conference consisting of the bankers associations of 16 states, requires residence attendance for two weeks each year for three years for graduation, now has a total of 1.065 graduates for its first nine years. It is one of many schools, short courses, and conferences sponsored annually at Wisconsin’s State University as educational services for all citizens. Coffee To Get Back To Normal WASHINGTON, Sept 6 Th Agriculture Department said yesterday the production-con-sumption pinch which h;w been blamed for sharp price m reuses in coffee is about over. It said that beginning in mrl1955 there should t> - n : • c'Ufc. pioduced world-wide than i- co" sumed. Just how much that wi amount to w tl depend on : :u ■: tent to which Brazil recover from last year’s frost damage and on how much more coffee drinkers will use. Th-* department made th forecast in its offi< .al publ: i tion. "Foreign Crops > ! M rkets,” as it estimated world c if- i fee prod iction for the 1954-55 1 marketing year. It refrained from making any j predicti'tns a- to whether pri< • would drop as a result of this • x- I p< eted easing in the previously | right production situation. Re- j cently. however, a number o' I major retail firms have cut cof- | fee prices as much as 10 cents a pound.

| NAVY PATROL PLANE DOWNED BY RUSS JETS

RED PROTEST CLAIMS U. S. PLANE VIOLATED SOVIET AIR TERRITORY

WASHINGTON. Sept. 6 - A navy patrol airship of the two engine type, was shot down in the Sea of Japan, the Defense Department announced Sunday. One of the men aboard the craft apparently was lost. The State Department called it a “dastardly act” and rejected Moscow claims that the American plane had violated Soviet air territory. It said the U. S. plane was 44 miles from the Siberian coast—far beyond any recognized national limits of jurisdiction. The nine other men aboard the plane, including two officers, were rescued after a night in the water. First reports indicated only one of these was injured. Russia, protesting against a violation of Soviet “air space.” fired on an American military plane. Moscow Radio said the Soviet Union had presented a formal note of protest claiming the American plane opened fire first. Sen. Knowland of California, the Senate Republican leader, called for breaking off U. S. diplomatic relations with Russia. In a telegram to President Eisenhower in Denver, Knowland called the attack another example of Soviet arrogance and aggressiveness. The Defense Department, in first; announcing the incident, made no direct mention of any shots being ex<*anged hut said the American plane had been “a*tacked by two jet aircraft, apparently MIG-15 type, and forced down.” The MIG-15 is a Russian- designed craft. As reports from the rescued c rewmen reached Washington, however, the Navy pieced together this story: The American plane, a P2V Neptune, was on routine patrol, cruising approximately parallel with and about 44 miles from the coast of Siberia. The crew’s first hint of trouble. Navy officials said, came in the form of tracer bullets as the first jet plane came out of the sun, and made a pass without doing any damage. A second jet came up underneath the patrol plane, also firing. the Navy said, and scored hits on the United States plane’s wings. The Navy said the United States plane did not return ths fire. Each of the jets, after making one pass, headed in the direction of the Siberian mainland. Three or four minutes later, a fire was noticed in the patrol plane’s wing and it was for r ed to ditch, hitting the water at a speed of about 100 miles an hour. The nose of the plaJie collaps’ed and its tail was knocked off. Nine of the crewmen escapee! in lifejackets but th*- navi- ; dor. Ens. oger Henry Reid, of Alameda, Cal., apparently was trapped in the navigator’s compart ment. The- plane sank almost immediately. The navy said that although the crewmen reported the attacking jets were apparently of the MIG-15 type, they saw no mar kings to identify the attaek- < r’s nationality. Tlie U. S. Air Force in Tokyo ,-aid merely the “plane went .own shortly after 6 p m. (Japan time) Saturday ami was ditched successfully by the pilot.” The pilot was lister! as Cmdr. John Booth Wayne of Alameda, Ca!., who was among those resr uerj. Tiie Air Force in Tokyo said ontlnurd <»■ I'aic* Two)

G G *G G -G G G £ O Today’s W-ather G O Local Temperature O O G O O G G O Mostly fair and continued ho‘ today, tonight and Tuesday except north portion.

Minimum .. 61’ 01 7 a. m. .. 67 8 a. m. 72° 9 a. m. . 80 10 a. m 80