The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 24 December 1954 — Page 2

2Ti?t m-c-

THE DAILY BANNf Jl, GREEHC *,STir, NDIAHA.

FRIDAY, DFCFMBFR 24, 1954.

EXTRA! auto!i when he ranirr''* into the Piety < ab. T i-s * and boiinr^i barL-.^rds, with the cab rolling into a ditch.

INDIANAPOLIS. Dec. 24 — il'Pi- The Lewis Reed family of Klkhart today was named Indiana’s typical ••Christmas Seal" family in a state-wide contest sponsored by the Indiana Tuberculosis Association. The 19M Christmas Seal shows r. double Christmas Seal in which five children are dancing around a Christmas tree. The Reed’s haw five children ranging in age from three to 13. Each of the children will receive a $25 savings bond as an award.

Ccrmans in a Western E’iro**eai | Union by a'280 o 219 rote on the j first of U>ree ratification bills. After a brief recess in the allnight session, the deputies then j approved articles recommending | Europeanization of the Saar borderland and ending the occupation by giving Germany sovtreigny. The vote om the Saar article was :m to 145. The sovereignty issue carried by a .180 to 180 vote, j A third agreement which would permit Allied troops to remain in Germany at the Germans’ rej quest was approved by a show of hands. But the endorsement of the Saar and Severeignty_recommenI datums was overclouded by the unexpected defeat of the article | calling for rearmament of West : Germany and admitting it to WEU.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 «UPi Postmaster General Arthur E. ■ Summerfield says the Post Office Department apparently will handle the bigg?st volume of Christmas mail in its hist ray this

year.*

He said Thursday lat ' r-'^-.j ) from 233 of the nation’s -v. r, . post offices Also indicate the job will .be handled more ouicfcly and efficiently than ever

before.

Postal e.xperts expect a 5 per cent increase in mail volume fiver the 1953 record. Summerfield sai^l he is confident that once again there will be no Christmas mail undelivered on Christmas Day.

(By I'nited Pres*.) Highways, railroads and airplanes were jammed today with happy holiday travelers hurrying t,o celebrate Christmas with their lowd ones. Temperatures were generally mild across the nation, raising hopes that a predicted toll of 370 traffic deaths from 6 p. m. tonight to midnight Sunday would not be reached. The warning weather spoiled hopes for a white Christmas in many parts rX the country. CLEVELAND. Dec. 24. (UP) Attorneys for Dr. Samuel Sheppard today launch a new battle to save the convicted wifeslayer from prison. William H. Corrigan, attorney son of the 30-year-old osteopath’s chief defense counsel, William J. Corngan. will file a motion for a new trial charging among other things that news coverage of the case was ••slanted." • * Sheppard ..as convicted “of murder in the second degree last Tuesday for the July 4 bludgeon murder of his pregnant wife, Marilyn, 31. The conviction carried a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment. The defense plea for a newtrial contained 40 allegations of error in the indictment and the trial itself. The plea claimed newspapeis. and radio stations slanted news before and during the trial. I*, also said photographers took Dr. Sam’s picture in the courtroom despite defense objections and took pictures of jurors on their way to and from the courtroom and at dinner. The brief stated that one juror already sworn in had to leave when he was found to have a police record. It also stated that. Judge Edward Blythin acted improperly when he did not include in his charge to the jury certain stipulations requested fc» * -efense. PARIS. Dec. 24 (UP1—French deputies rejected German rearmament today at a preliminary test vote in the National Assembly but approved bills on internationalizing the Saar and granting Germany sovereignity. The stunning upset decision against German rearmament by the same deputies who killed the European lefense Community onh four months ago forced Premier Pierre Mendes-France to take his government on a reversal in a confidence vote next Mon-

day.

Deputies rebuffed an article which would put 500.000 armed

NEW YORK. Dec. 24-(UP) A distillery plans extensive New Year’s Eve advertising— for other firms products. The Seagrams-Distillers Co. ,aid it would run advertisements * -‘a- Tcni.-vt. when r ‘*s ‘one * * .. s coffee" in 60 nii-jor newspapers.

SHENANDOAH. Iowa. Dec. 24 iUP) A wandering mother who - was feared dead for five years answered the prayers of her four young sons today and came home for Christmas. Mrs. Elsie Mae Rhoades Hill. 29, arrived by plane from New York today with her new husband and kissed each of her grinning boys, calling each of them by name. Then she threw her arms a round the neck of her mother, who had cared for the children, and said "Oh Mother, I am so

sorry."

It was the first time the family has been reunited since Mrs. Hill, then a widow of three months, became lost after a dance and was too ashamed afterwards to come home. She wandered from Missouri to Chicago and finally to New York while her mother, Mrs. Thomas Woods, cared for the four boys, Mike, David. Richard and Robert. The boys’ ages now I'ange from 5 to 8. Then, only Thursday, Mrs. Hill saw a story in the New York Post that her boys were praying that somehow “Mommy" would return for Christmas. The story .broke down her fears of five years and she went to the newspaper office to identify herself. Some 13 hours later a private plane brought her to Shenandoah and she was hugging her little boys. The people of Shenandoah had already taken steps to make sure it would be a happy, merry Christmas at the Woods home. Edward May, president of the broadcasting company which financed the trip home, bought presents for all * he boys and slipped the#i to Mrs. Hill so she could put them around the Christmas tree Saturday. • Other local organizations purchased presents for the family.

fHE DAILY BANNER and HERALD CONSOLIDATED Entered In tbe poetofBee at Greencastle, Indiana aa second class mail matter under act of March 7, 1878. Subscription price 23 cent# per week; $6.00 per year by mail in Putnam County; $6.00 to $10.40 per year outside Putnam County. Telephones 74, 96, 114 8. R. Rariden, Publisher 17-19 South Jackson Street.

TODAY’S BIBLE THOUGHT Learn to do well, seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.- Isaiah 1:17. It is wrong to suppose that enlightened social consciousness is a new discovery. Humanity has been so very slow to learn social decency and morality.

Personal And Local News Briefs

Mrs. Hansel! Tower is visiting | her par. :*ts, Mr. and Mrs. George J Knauer. Mr. and Mis. Earl Boyd are spending the holidays with rel- | atives near Toronto. Canada. MisTLawrie Davis of I^aPort'* j Is visiting Mr. and Mrs. N. C O'Hair over the Christmas holidays. Mr and Mrs. Glenn H. Lyon motored to Munc’e today to spend Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. Keith H. Lyon and family. Mrs. Pansy Kaiser left today for New Castle, where she will b< the Christmas guest of her son. Harold Kaiser, Mrs. Kaiser and family. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Hood will have as their Christmas guests Mrs. Hood’s sister, Mrs. Ravmond Shrake. and Mr. Shvake of Springfield, Ohio. Miss Marie Adams, student nurse from Danville, 111., is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Adams, Greencastle R. 4. for the Christmas vacation. Mr .and Mrs. Ralph Irwin and son, Jock, are visiting Mrs. Irwin’s brother, J. Don McLean, and Mrs. McLean. They will return to their honm in Cleveland Ohio following the holidays.

Alex Bryan, County Auditor announces that Monday is the last day to file claims for the

year.

Mrs. Mattie Cline. West Columbia street, will spend Christmas with her daughter and fam-

ily in Crawfordsville. _

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Jarrell _ and Dorothy Compton have gone

to Evansville to spend Christ- J ^ Nichols, 305 fcycamore St

ANNIVERSARIES

Birthday

Steven Ray Jones, son of Mr. and Mr s. Raymond C. Jones. Putnamville, 6 years old Dec. 24th. Howdy Conyers, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Conyers, 5 years Dec.

MOSCOW. Dec. 24 (UP) — Moscow newspapers today reported the execution by a firing squad of four associates of the late Secret Polio;? Chief Livrenti P. Beria for crimes against the

state.

Two other conspirators were .sentenced U; long prison terms at hard labor. Izvestia. government news- ’ r _ fftu' • >-j» u ^ sentences had .bet., c... ried out against Viktor S. Abakumov, former minister of state security of the Soviet Union; A. G. Leonov, former chief of the ministry's Investigative Department: and V. I. Komorov and M. T. Likhachev. Leonov's deputies. I. A. Chernov and Y. M. Broverman. ministry employes, were sentenced to 15 to 25 years, imprisonment. respectively. Izvestia’s announcement of the eaecution came one year and one day after it was made known that Beria had paid with his life for his crimes as an enemy cf

state.

Radio Moscow said the MilieCwwflnnrrt ow Pner Thrr^l

mas with Mr. and Mrs. Harry Wey and family. Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Lee and children ,of Lansing, Mich., are spending the Christmas holiday with Mrs. Lee’s parents. Dr. and Mrs. Truman G. Yuncker. Mr. anA Mrs. Donald Cox and family, Mrs. Leo Cox and Mr. and Mrs. George Gough will spend Christmas in Indianapolis the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Cox. Paul McKeehan suffered a slight heart attack while at work at the Putnam County Farm Bureau plant Thursday afternoon. He was sent to the hospital where he will remain about a week and will then spepd the next six weeks at his home on east Anderson street. Damage estimated at $1,000 was caused to the residence at 611 S. Washington 3t., occupied by Rev. L. D. Lockwood, pastor of tho Church of the Nazarene. as a resLilt of fire and smoke in a la?£e room on the second floor during the noon hour Thursday. —Crawfordsvilie Journal-Review. Mr. and Mrs. Ned Smith and Miss Janot Fobes. all of Chicago, and Mi ;nd Mrs. H. G. Young of Gos.ien. Ind. are the holiday guests of Mr. ind Mrs. John E. Fobes and Bill Fabes. All will attend the Fobes family Christmas dinner at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Fobes in Indianapolis .o-n Saturday. The current issue of The Hoosior Banker, magazine of the Indiana Bankers Association has some fine pictures of the new IBM plant and a part the local bankers played in connection with the dedication of the plant on November 30. Pictures of individual bankers, including J. B Crosby, L. J. Arnold. Fred L. O'Hair. Kenneth E. Weftf and Ward D. Mayhall are included in the story.

92 years old today, Dec. 24.

Weddings

Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Carmichael, 10 years today, Dec. 24. Mr. and Mrs. James Wilde, 10 years today, Dec. 24. Mr. and Mrs. Estal Scobee, 5 years today. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence F. Brown. Greencastle R. 2, 39 years today, Dec. 24.

ENLISTS IN ARMY Sgt. James Adams, local recruiter, announced today that Morris Leon Taylor, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Taylor, R. R. 1, Greencastle. enlisted in the United States Army for a period of three years. Morris choose the Corp of Engineers as his branch of service. Private Taylor is now at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. taking his basic training and being issued his clothing. After completeing his basic training, he will be given a leave and assigned to a technical school or a Regular Army unit. Private Taylor took advantage of the opportunity of choosing his branch of service an^. if he is a high school graduate, he can choose from a list of more than SO Tech, schools.

To all of you—from all of us— A Very Merry Christmas.. Home Laundry & Cleaners. 23-2t.

Today* Market Hog receipts at Indianapolis today went»to 6.500. but the market was slow and inactive, especially after the opening. Choice weights of 170 to 225 pounds sold up to $19.25, but mostly under that figure. Heavy weights were slow and down from 25 to 50 cents.

MMIETY W asliington Tup P.T.A. Has Regular Meeting The Washington Twp. P.T.A. held its regular meeting cm Tuesday evening, Dec. 14th. A program of piano selections was

rfresented by Mrs. William Gutbi ip preceding the mee'ing. President. Mrs. Mary McAninch called the meeting to order. The pledge to the flag was led by Nancy Killion. Mr. Curtis Strain introduced Rev. Leonard Thompson who gave a short talk pertaining to the Christmas season. During the business session, ♦he secretary and treasurer’s reports were lead and accepted. The lunchroom chairman. Mrs. leanett Berkmeir gave a report on lunchroom activities. The members of the first, second and third grades presented a program of Christinas music. The big moment of the evening came when Santa appeared with treats for all the children. Friends and neighbors visited socially for the remainder of the evening. Putnamville Group Enjoys Dinner Meeting The Putnamville W.S.C.S. met Dec. 22 with a dinner meeting at the home of our president. Mis. Shirley Schafer. A lovely dinner was spread at the noon hour. The meeting was opened by the president reading a prayer. A nice Christmas card and letter was read from Bonnie W illiams. who is spending Christmas with her daughter, Virginia Sweet, in Arizona. A very nice program on Christmas was given by Ethel Schafer. The meeting was closed with group singing of several Christmas songs. During the social hour a grabbag was enjoyed by Ida Blue, Essie Boyd. Alice Collins, Della Day Rena Evens, Bessie Jones, Opal Jackson, Bernice Lewis, Minnie Lewis, Billie McClure, Elizabeth McClure, Myra Parks. Lelia Rodgers, Opal Scobee, Georgia Sublett, Shirley Schafer. Kate Whitaker, Floy Woodall. Julia Haggerty, Lucille Whitman, Madonna McCullough and Ruth Gostage. Our guests were Mrs. Tiffie, Mrs. Brooks, Mrs. Schafer, Mrs. Mitchel, Helen Elmore, Linda and Jo Ellen Elmore and Gayla Evens. A wonderful time was had by all. The next meeting will be January 26th with Lucille Whitman. Koachdale Philomath Club Holds Meeting Airs. Byron Crosby and Mrs. Dewey Wilson were hostesses to the Philomath Club for its Christmas meeting at the home of tl>? former. The house was beautifully decorated in keeping with the holiday season. A decorated Christmas tree stood at one side of the fireplace. Mrs. Malcolm Harris gave tho Christmas devotions in her usual capable manner. Christmas carols were sung by the members. led by Airs. Ralph Edwards and Mrs. Edgar Duckworth and accompanied on the piano by Aliss Ruth Hutchins. Mrs. Cully Wilson and Mrs. Margaret Bogan demonstrated different types of Christmas decorations and ornaments for use in decorating. This proved to be very interesting. At the close of the program there was on exchange of gifts by the members. The hostesses served refreshments in keeping with the holiday season.

Mrs. Hutcheson Is Hostess To D.A.R. Mrs. W. R. Hutcheson was iiostess to Washburn Chapter of D.A.R., Tuesday evening and was. assisted by Mrs. LouLs Hays, Aliss Minna Alae Bartley, Aliss Edtih L Browning. Mrs. Marie

M ek and Airs. Joref Sharp. The meeting opened wi*h the salute to the flag and the singing of The Star Spangled Banner by the thirty members who were present. The regent. Airs. Robert McCullough, presided during the business session. An interesting letter from Hindman, Kentucky, telling how much the Christmas gifts, that had been sent, were appreciated and also about the life and work in the school. The Film reporter announced that the following films would be shown here, “Beau Brummel.” an English picture of 18th Century Life starring Stewart Granger and Elizabeth Taylor, "So This Is Paris" a musical comedy Disney’s "Pinochio" and ‘‘White Christmas.” The program was given by Airs. Louis Hays who told about "Christmas Customs in Colonial Times." There was no general pattern for observing Christmas among the colonists as each group brought its own customs. The Cavaliers of Virginia celebi ated a some luxurious Christmas while at the other extreme, the Puritans made laws prohibiting any observation. The Dutch colonists of New Amsterdam brought St. Nicholas to America and the Catholics of Maryland added the mid-night mass. The Aloravians at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, who were great music lovers, would greet the dawn of Christmas morning with a trombone chorus. Tradition says that a band of hostile Indians were scared away when they heard this strange sound. In 1863. Thomas Nast introduced a Bravarian custom into our national life when he pictured Santa Claus in his red, furred trimmed suit in one of his cartoons. Alabama was the first state to make Christmas a legal holiday in 1836. By 1880. all the states had followed Alabama’s lead and

was :i national holiday. Indian' ....ving -enacted such a law it. 1875.. Alistletoe and holly have a pagan origin and fire-crackers and fire-arms were used in the south in early days to greet neighbors at some distance. Airs. Hays showed a number

TONIGHT

WFBM-TV—C hannel 6