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DAILY BANNER IT WAVES FOR ALL

VOLUME SIXTY-THREE

INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE

GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1954.

UNITED PRESS SERVCE

NO. 39

DEATH TAKES EX-SURVEYOR ON THURSDAY

VIS l ilt i; 1*1.1 MMI.K l»IE> IN SI.KKP AT Tils MT. OIJ\K HOME

DIES IN SLEEP

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CJeorge Arthur PliuiiMer, ug H!» years, well kno’.vn former .surveyor of Putnam county, passe.! away in his sleep at his Mt Olive home, southwest of Gieencastl* Thursday morning. He had been in fairly good health and his death came as an unexpected shock to his family and friends. Mr. Plummer wns born in thi city on January 29, Ikbo. the son of .1 C. and LoUell i Shoptaugh Plummer. H< sp^ nt his entire lifetime in Greencastle and Ptuiiam county. He seived about thirty year aa county surveyor ami was one ol the best known men in the community due to the duties of his office. He was also active in Ixemocratic party circles for many years. He was a member of the Christian Science church. Mr and Mrs Plummer observed tiieii 57th wedding anniversary on Oetobei at which trim Mr. Plummer enjojed himself very much. They had a family dinner at his home southwest o. Greencastle. Mr. Plummer is survived by the widow and five children, in eluding Mrs. Floy Williams, Put namville; Mrs. Oscar Kersey, ,N«.\vpor1; Mrs Kilw.ird Schulz of Helle Union; Bennett of Greenrastle and Russell of Rockville, and 16 grandchildren; one niece, Olive Huflman Knight, and one nephew, Reese Huffman. Brazil One s.,n. Oran, preceded* him in death. I«ist rites will be held from the Rector Funeral Home at 1 JiO o'clock Saturday af‘ernoon. Burial will be in the New Providence cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home.

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MANY EXPECTED TO ATTEND VFW TURKEY DINNER

NEW POSTMASTER TAKES OATH OF OFFICE

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OVER 5641 INVITED FOR AN M AI. PEARL HARBOR DAY EVENT

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Mrs. Alice Brown Rites Saturday

M II.E Is PUOP.A IT O

The will of Mrs Lottie Stark v ho died a few days ago at her Morton home, was probated t«*day by Lyon ;uid Boyd, attorneys for the estate.

20 Years Ago

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John Richards end Howard Moore left for Fort Piero-. Flor-

Gets 8 Months On Penal Farm

Mrs Alice Brown, ige 87 years passed away Wednesday evening at 11:40 at the home of her daughter in Mill< reel eoiiiiiu uity. having been seriously ill foi three weeks. Mrs. Brown was born March 1!», 1867 in Owen county, tin ! liaughtei of Richard and Susan Bowman Asher. She was mairied August !» 1886. to Lowery Bn.wn, who preeederl her ir. death in 1949. Mrs. Brown was a member ot the Cataract Methodist chureh and had spent all her life in the Cat a ract eommunity. Survivors are one daughter Mrs. Florence Gross. Cloverdain. K. 3; two sisters. Mrs. Minnie Hunsickt i and Mrs Ida R. :te . * both of Waveland; one brother, la-vi Asher. St. John. Kansas, four grandchildren and nine great grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Saturday morning at 10:30 fro’, the Whitakei Funeral Horn Rev. Arthur Dues will have charge of the service. Interment will Ih‘ in Cloverdale cemetery. Friends may call at the Whitakei Funeral Home in Cloverdale any time.

George ^dams. age 68. of Clov- • rdale. arrested 20 months ago <n a grand larceny charge in ( mm-ction with theft of U. S. Government corn from storage n n-. at Coatesville and Clayton, appeared in Hendricks circuit court i" answer the charges.' Monday morning, and was per- • utted by Special Judge Howard a. Sommer of Cravvfoidsville to .•lead guilty to a lesser charge of netit larceny. Adams had requested a tiial by jury and jurors had been summoned to hear the case, but were sent home when the man s last minute offer to plead guilty was accepted. Judge Sommer fined Adams 8500 and costs and sentenced him to serve 8 months in the state I enal farm, to which he was tak- < n Tuesday. Adams was arrested April 7. 1955. on complaint that on March 29 he had stolen government corn i f’om storage bins in Liberty township He plead not guilty at that time and lias been at liberty under cash bond of $;;.000. The case had been set for hearing twice this year, but continued taeh time due to unavoidable delays. Arrested with Adams in Apiil ot last year was Barkwell Johnson .age 32. Cloverdale, who pleaded guilty then and has been released after serving the ininij nun ol a l-to-10 year sentence. Johnson was in court here Monday to give evidence in the cast*. Adams paid the $500 and costs Mon-lav Danville Gazette.

More Uian 560 invitations to members and special guests have been sent out by Gen. Jesse M. Lee Post 1550 Veterans of Foreign Wars for the annual Pearl Harbor Day turkey dinner next Tuesday, December 7. Final plans for the occasion were announced as practically i ompleted today by those in charge or arrangements. The dinner, which will be prepared and served by the Ladies Auxiliary is scheduled for 6:50 n. m. at the Post Home. The principal speaker fin' the occasion will be Tom Carnegie, popular sports announcer for Station WFBM. Indianapolis. During the program. Post 1550 v ill formally recognize Carl Myers, Department Commander of the Indiana Fathers Auxiliary of the VFW. Elected officers of Auxiliary No. 1 will also be prest nt. Other special guests will include officials of the city and county administrations, representatives of the American 1 region. VFW Post 459. Elks and Moose lodges, officials of the local service clubs and VFW Liepart ment officers. Another highlight of the evening will be the awarding of prizes to those who have secured the most members for 1955 of the cverseas veterans organization. Added entertainment following the dinner will be vocal and instrumental selections by a group of DePauw University students.

SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 2 — • UPi—CIO radio operators called a quickie strike today against West Coast shipowners in a dispute over contract ratification. The strike affected an estimated 17o ships operated by .some ■M shipping lines belonging to th« Pacific Maritime Association. Most of them were at sea when the strike became effective at 3:01 a. m. EST They will be shut down as they come into port or complete voyages. At least eight ships were tied up in Uie Los Angeles-Imng Beach harbors because of the strike, and five more due in port today also were expected to be affected by the strike.

VICTOR LIVELY GUILTY; GETS LIFE SENTENCE

Left to Right Postal Inspector C. A. L. B urroughs, administering oath ,<vf office to Greencastle’s new postmaster. Raymond R. Neal. Mrs. Neal is an interested spectator. The ceremony took place in the postmaster’s office in the local post of lice Tuesday evening at eight o'clock.

Coeds To Give Dance Concert

Vote Is Against Sen. McCarthy

DePauw Debaters Busy This Week

Mrs L L Porter ertertained a few guests at tea m honor o! hei sister. Mrs Paul T Campbell of Culver. Autos driven by Mi>. Harvey Cox an«l Tom V mdevier wei UaniHged in a collision at the mterseeuon ot Walnut and Indiana streets. Mis.- Mhi\ Lmuse Relink wa.hetV from Houston. Tex-i*.

Two Midwestern debate tourii.iments will attract 14 DePauw 1 mv- rsity debaters this Satur-ij-iy. vv.th a varsity delegation P.iveling to Greenville College . nd a novit «■ gioup to Butler Uni- \ ersity. Greenville College, located in central Illinois, annually spon--ms a tourney foi Midwestern -.hoois and last year won De-P.-u.a - own Delta Sigma Rho tournament Representing DePauw at < u»< nville will be Sam Hender- - >n Warsaw; Max Murphy. Columbia City: Ray MeCalhster, Webster Groves. Mo.; Charles Gilbert, Chicago: Peg Taylou-. Albion. Mich.; and Juu Zachiltz. Cincinnati. Butler is sponsoring its second annual competition for novice debaters. Last year's inaugmal was won by the DePauw entry. t DePauw s novice squad include- Dan Lewis. LaPorte; Dvv;ght Walton. Dos Plaines. HI.; .! hn Sclmeitler. Da\ton. O.: Leila r- elonge. Cicero. HI.; Phil Kendall Phoenix. Anz.; Roger Find- !. > Benton Harbor. Mich.; Robert Smith. Ann Arbor. Mich.; r>d Ken Prewitt. Alton. III.

Twenty-nine dancing coeds wid whirl through 10 production l umbers at the annual Orches.s concert on the DePauw University campus here D**c. 9-11. Orchesis. modem dance group for women at DePauw. has scheduleil evening performance - on Thursday and Friday. Dec. 9 and 10. and a matinee on Saturday. all in the Little Theater auditorium. Original choreography for the urogram is a result of coopera live effort by the dancers and Orchesis director. Miss Martha Cornick. a member *»t the women's physical education department . Dance titles “On the Avenue." with music by George Gershwin ' Amanda.” adapted from Tennessee Williams’ “Glass Menagerie": and “Sermons,'' based oi selections from James Weldor. Johnson’s book, “God's Troin bone."

WASHINGTON. Dec. 2. (UP) The Senate gave overwhelming approval to one censure resoh; lion against Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy and prepared to vote today on two more. The first blow fell heavily or Wednesday night when the Senate voted 67 to 20 to adopt the first of two censure counts returned by a special committee. It censured McCarthy for "repeatedly abusing” a 1951-1952 Elections subcommittee.

MASONIC NOTICE Called meeting of Temple Lodge No. 47, F. & A. M.. Friday at 7:30 p. m. for work in the E. A. Degree William Wright. \V. M

Remaining to be voted r '. .vere the censure committee'-- secouu

Dr. Sam Defense Gets Underway

Soviet Present Korean Formula

count- a charge that McCarthy "intemperately” abused Brig Gen. Ralph Zwicker during a Senate hearing last Fob. IS and a resolution by Sen. Wallace F. | Bennett, E-Utah. He demanded j McCarthy’s censure for calling j tin’ censure committee the "un- j witting handmaidens” of the j Communist party. A final vote was expected be- | fore nightfall.

FARMER KILLED

"Shorty" Brought $15 Lb. At Auction

DANVILLE, Ind.. Dec. 2 (UP) Charles W. Harris, 76. a i ural Danville farmer, was killeo Wednesday when the truck ho was trying to free ‘rom a chuck hole backed up and crushed him Coroner Dr. F. N. Wright said Harris spread a tarpaulin behind the vehicle to help truck driver Stronii Miles, PMinfiehl. get ttv truck out of the ln»le. Ha*ris wa- i standing on the tarpaulin and the spinning real wheels dr-w hit i ) underneath.

CLEVELAND, Dec. 2. (UP) Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard’s defense got its case underway in his wife-slaying trial today with the claim that the real killer was bent on disfiguring nm murdering putty Marilyn Sheppard. It was a theory based on medical e\ uierue, <1 M inch V\ imam .! Corrigan, chief defense strategist. is a mastei. He will contend the state cannot produce a reason why the husband would deliberately try to disfigure the face of his wife of nine years. Corrigan said Mis. Sheppard was killed by blood tha: flooded her lungs not by a bludgeoning on the head and face. The defense got that and othe: points across in arg iinent on motions even before producing i s first witness. Dr. Stephen A. Sheppard. 54. a brother of D . Sam, who is 30. Dr. Stephen was scheduled U. testify when the defense begin, presenting its formal evidence.

UNITED NATIONS. N. Y.. Dec. 2 t UP)—Russia pushed its blueprint for a Korean peace j settlement before the United Nu- | lions today while the Wester!. | powers sought to frame their ideas in words that would gain support from neutralist India. Soviet Delegates Jacob A. Malik clearly outlined the Kremlin’s thre-point Korean peace program before the General Assembly's Main Political Committee late on Wednesday. It called for:

WASHINGTON. Dec. 2 tUPt President Eisenhower summoned seven cabinet members and tour other top officials today to a discussion of plans for mobilizing the nation's economic resources in case of war. Tlie 11 officials constitute the Defense Mobilization Board. Spokesmen described the mee.tr g as “routine.” but it wan n^.ed the board rarely meets u’^^thc 1 resident unless important 'ma* ters are to be discussed. ^ Tliere was speculation the group Mould discuss the Defense Production Act and a '.ew experiment by tlie Office of Defense Mobilization in setting up a reserve of industry and labor executives to be called to government service in an emergency.

MOSCC'W, Dec. 2.- (UP) -The Soviet-sponsored European Security Coiiferjenee of eight Communist natiohs mot today tj draft a re ./hit ion aaginst a rearmed ^ Germany. I>*or. 40r. Ilyichev. Soviet Foieign Office press chief, said the resolution would be in the form of a draft collective security treaty or a declaration of intention by the eight participating nations to form such a system.

C'ON\ 4< Tl> BY II R> IN si . SLAYING IN HOIl 1. ROOM

INDIANAPOLIS. In !> fUP! Pint-sized Vu to. H I. ly M'as convicted and . n 1 • life imprisonment ; i v strangling a “naive eounti . in a, sexual attack and. stu! her panty-clad body into a h room dresser drawer. A tired jury of 11 men m Moman brought in a veni rt frst degree murder while tempting to perpetrate a i The jury had delib ratc l m; hours and four minute.Lively, a 25-year-old lit mont, Tex., salesman u trembling when he w,u- bn i.uto the packed basement co . room to hear Judge Saul I R . sentence him to lii*’ in ti. Indiana State Penitent in i v Chief Prosecutor John I 1 had demanded the elect no for Lively “so he doesn't d.. t oanie thing to any othei no little country grl. “ Lively M'as accused of I * pretty, 18-year-old Don Poore to his room in the C; last July by some “foul " and stranglmg her wh. fused to submit to hi* s. \u ii . - vances. Tlmee days later Miss Pov,,.. body Mas found stlifted in LloM'er dresser drawei ot Li\ I. room.

1. Rene'v ll of the Co • ‘ '.US’ n ieeked Geneva talks on Korea peace by all countries concerned in a new eonf’erence “in the near- . st future.” presumably for another recital of Red Chinese terms the L’niteJ Stales and its partners refused to accept.

2. Lifting of the embargo on -hipi unt of strategic nia-tcjials to Communist China and North Kor. a. voted bj' the General Assembly i.u 1951 because of the aggression by thus • two countries against South Korea.

EI.NDI.EY ItE APPOINTED INDIANAPOLIS. Dec. 2. (UP) Ailen J. Lindley of Cutler was reappointed Deputy State Auditor Wednesday by Auditor Curtis E. Rardin. Lindley, who held the pos >ince 1952. wa.- named a 'lei Rardin was sworn in to leplaie Frank Millis.

5. Abolishing the U. N.’s Commission for the Rehabilitation and Unification of Korea u'hieh Rus.-ia ha s eonsideri d ili< gal ever since tiie assembly voted its establishment m 1950.

DENIED DIVORCE

j WASHINGTON. Dee 2 The united States, not its allies. M'ill be the first victim of all out atomic attack if Russia starts a war, (Jen. Benjamin W. Chidlaw told a mayor's eoiLferenee here today. ChidlaM*. chief of the new ttontinental Air Defense Command, • aid such an aerial onslaught could mean “lOO pinpoint«*d minutes of atomic hell on earth” to the IDO bigg.'St cities represented at the conference. “Those uho knou - the masters of th** Kremlin for the realist;; they are know they would never make the mistake mnv «»f engaging our allies first and leavntg us alone to come in when ready," he said. "Instead in tr.y humble opinion Me stand the mbst likely chance of b'-ing hit all out in a mighty aerial blow as their first, act of aggression.''

BOSTON. Dec 2. (UP) Edv. ard R. Taddeo was denied a di-vorc-e on the grounds he offered. He said his wife persisted in staying out and playing poker “M'ith the girls” until 2 a. m.

Police Chief Tc Present Awat d

Greencastle Police Uhiet V; Gould M ill present awai i b. ••GockI Citizen of the V\ « k the "Good Drivei o’ the U on "Your Good Citiz n fcti ■ a 5:50 this evening ovei Ran . . tion WORE. At 8, the station will pH Arthur Ca; keek, prole.-.-oi o i gar I and theory at I>Pa a .-'peoial concert of organ mu Included in his progr.n Self*Ctions by Handei Ba Karl-Elert. Excerpts fioni G i—:>)• d's opera "Aiiia " wilt hi on "Box Scat’’ at H::.o T was reconled in Italy by . lan opera company.

TEEN-AGER’S ANGUS STEEJ NAMED GRAND CHAMP

CHICAGO. I>ec. 2 "Shorty'' tiie Angus steer which uon tlie grajid chajnpionship at the livestock shoM- M'as sold this morning at auction, bringing $15 per pounds. He was raised and shown ty Janice ftulling^r, 16 years old Manly. loM'a, school girl List year's champion sold for $20 per ]>ound Shorty weighed almost ll(X» pounds.

M ASONH NOTICE

Morton Lodge No 469 F A A. M. Reg lar stated meeting. Friday IHwember 3rd. -at 7 :50 p m. Fleet ion of officers. an*i annual busin. >< meeting. Floyd Yochum. W. M

MASONIC NOTRE

Regulai stated meeting of Bainhndg. Lo-ige No. 75 F. AA M this evening at 7 30 o’eloek i’ne?- will b<* eleeti'in of officers All members urged to attend L ift Ooley, W. M.

ROTARY LUNCHEON Greencastle Rotaria ns heaid Di. A. W. Crandall discuss the Battle of Gettysburg at its Meekly luncheon meeting at th** Mt monal Student Union on We<lnesday. Marion Wilson presided Dr Crandall, in his interesting dissertation, gave an aecount the second day's battle, at M'hien time the Union forces Mere re-pulse-L Guests were A. A Abbott former Greencastle resident. but uom residing m Brazil. John Stacy. Chicago. mid Georg* Xdiitiison of Evansville.

DIA ORC E SI IT Mrs Cora E Remsburg i.-<-tking a divorce from Fred W lemsburg in a suit filed in the Putnam ciivuit court. The couple was married I>e*-. 31. 1949. and -eparated Nov. 50. 1954 Glenn H. Lvon is att<*m» y for the plaintiff.

NEW YORK. Dec. 2 -Charles R. Slight Jr., chairman of the National Association of Manufacturers. said today a guaranteed annual Mage would hamstring America's expanding economy. He said the gmiraiiteed annual Mage, a goal of unions' in several key industries, has “t')o many •tructural defects '’ “It can destroy a business, - ' Sligh said in an address prepared lor the 59th annual meeting of the NAM. “Many proposed businesses would never op*-n their d<s>rs and many old firm* operating on a narrw margin Mould la.- forced to close..’

Plans Xmas Parly At Student Urjo

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 The. United States Mull pr-ss for a Nationalist Chinese promise to i :-frain from provocative attack j on Red China under Th* iieM' U 8' -r'ennosa security treaty in

First celebration 'b- S tide season on th- ! >• 1' i pus is set foi Sc when the Memot; Union holds it ;n . Party Festivities .vill l; ballroom iinine i i the DePauw-W iti.i game. 1954-55 ho for the Tiger cugei Feature*! dumii.' t i i * ft singing, u Christ mu ; ganized by <'atil Ta joviau' y of .S^lti: .i < ,■ preled hy Jim Wy.-.-n, Sch*--iuled i< i . th** evening is ng •, music of Chaili*- E*<;: his comb > a it:. available during ' Ali facnity - ■! DePauw 'uden' students ft-iui V. ab.i ; e-l

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NOTR I 'Hie office of L. 1 will be cios-d ' eJub**r 6th and ••• . W C-k Of Der. 15'•;

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