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VOLUME SIXTY-FOUR

THE DAILY BANNER

IT WAVES FOR ALL

GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1955.

UNITED PRESS SERVICE

NO. 13

SERVICES FOR DR. WILDMAN HERE FRIDAY

RITES AT WITH

CiOBIN CHURCH BURIAL IN

FOREST HILL

Funeral services for Dr. Clyde E. Wildman. president emeritus of DePauw University, will be held here Friday afternoon, it was announced today'. Dr. Wildman, who headed the local institution from 191)6 to 1951, died suddenly yesterday at his home in Carlisle, Pa. Since 1953 he had been visiting professor at Dickinson College in Carlisle. Servic es will be held in Gobin Memorial Methodist Church at 2 p. m., with bu: ml in Forest Hill Cemetery. Complete details of the funeral services arc being arranged and ' will be announced tomorrow.

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Survivors include the widow. Forest Kyle Wildman, ar.d a daughter, Mrs. John R. Long of Wilmington, Del. The funeral party will arrive in Greencastle tomorrow and friends may call at the Hopkins- I Walton Funeral Home after 7 i p. m. Thursday until noon Fri- . day. The body will lie in state j at the church for one hour be- i fore the services. A memorial service was h"ld

POSTMASTER GENERAL Arthur Summerfield, following a halfhour conference with President Eisenhower, tells reporters in Denver, Colo., of the President’s approval of efforts to raise the postal rates. .- (International) Schools To Mark Education Week

for Dr. Wildman this afternoon in Carlisle, where the, memorial address was delivered by Dr. William W. Edel, president of Dickinson College. Rites Thursday For 6. V/. Hanna Last rites for George Williain Hanna will be held from the Rector Funeral Home at 2 o clock Thursday afternoon. Rc-v. Harry P. Walrond, of Kokomo, formerly pastor of the local Presbyterian church, will have charge of the services. Burial will be in the Roachdale cemetery. Mr. Hanna, well known resident and transfer firm owner, died of a heart att ack early Tues- ! day. The pall bearers will be Her- i ert Blocker, Joseph B. Crosby, Dr. R. W. Vermillion, Russell Pierce, Glenn H. Lyon and John Fobes. Friends may call at the funeral home. '56 Packards At Scott’s Garage Scott s Franklin Street Garage will hold Open House on Friday and Saturday, Nov. Rh and 5th, at which time the 1956 Packard Clippers will be presented. Everyone is invited to be the guests of Roscoe Scott and his staff for j the first showing of these beau- 1 tiful new automobiles. Embarking on a styling individuality of its own. StudebakerPackard Corporation's 1956 line of Clippers pioneer torsion bar suspension to the medium price field and offer V-8 engines Vhich generate the auto industry s greatest accelerating fofee and

Throughout the city schools I pupils and teachers are making preparations for the observance j of American Education Week — November 6-12. Superintendent > O. L,. Johnson has named Gene Akers as general chairman with Norman McCammon, A1 Avery. Leon Snyder and N. Dixon as committee members. In addition many other teachers have been delegated certain responsibilities. The central theme for American Education Week is “Your Investment In America.” The theme is especially appropriate at tins time as school communities over the nation tackle the gigantic problem of providing thousands of additional classrooms and teachers to meet the influx of increasing school enrollments. Elementary schools througnout Greencastle are preparing to welcome school visitors all during the week. Many parents and friends are expected to avail themselves of the opportunity of seeing their schools in action. Because of over-crowded conditions in the High School Building. special invitations for parent visitations are not being extended. However a communitywide meeting will be held in the High School Auditorium on Monday evening. November 7, in ob servance of the event. Dr. J. Russell Humbert, president of DePauw University will be the featured speaker.' In addition the Dramatics class sponsored by Mrs. Charlrftte Peterson and the High School Choir directed by Don Marketto will present “And The Stars Heard.” A number of local merchants have entered into the spirit of American Education Week and have arranged for students to make appropriate exhibits in their display windows during next week.

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HF.RF. AND THERE

Ola Ellis was confined to his home by illness. Mr. and Mis. Byron Reeve; and daughter, of Calumet City. III., Gilbert Reeves, of Louisville. Ky„ and Miss Meredith Reeve.of Indianapolis, were here visiting their parents.

Anoifcer Vote Asked By Faure PARIS. Nov. 2 (UP)—Premier Edgar Faure gave the National Assembly its fourth chance in four weeks today to vote him out of office, this time on his program for special parliamentary elections in December. The vote of confidence was set for 9 p. m. 3 p. m. EST but usually several hours of debate precede the actual balloting. Observers gave the premier a bare h)-50 chance of surviving the vote and saving France from another international crisis. Fame's own Radical Socialist j Party was split this time, with former Premier Pierre MendesFiance ranged solidly against him. Mendes-France. showing increasing signs of eagerness to regain office, called his first press conference in many months for today.

INFILTRATION BY REDS TOPIC OF OHIO SOLON

IIEP. GORDON SCHERER PSPEAKER AT DEPAUW LAST NIGHT

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Subversive infiltration of nonCommunist countries is the most potent Communist weapon in the Cold War, Rep. Gordon Scherer (R., Ohio) said here last night. A member of the House unAmerican activities committee Scherer appeared at an opan meeting in the Union under the auspices of DePauw's Young Republicans Club. Indicating that the committee must continually attempt to fight infiltration he discussed the investigating group’s aims and methods. The committee can make no decisions, Scherer said, and a witness is not called unless there is sworn testimony that the individual is or has been a Communist Pa rty member. Even then, he continued, the witness can be found guilty of nothing except perjury because the committee’s sole purpose is l.o conduct hearings on alleged participation in Communist Party affairs. In answer to a question, Scherer said that he had no strong convictions on requiring educators to take rion-Communist oaths but added: “They shouldn’t have any hesitancy in taking them.” The Congressman also discussed Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam’s feud with the committee and disclosed tha-t the bishop’s appearance at a lecent hearing was strictly voluntary. In my opinion, Scherer said, the bishop used that appearance primarily to gain a nation-wide television audience for his attack on the investigating group.

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LONDON'S NEWSPAPERS announced Princess Margaret’s decision not to marry Capt. Peter Townsend with these headlines. At top is the Daily Mirror. Even the Communist Daily Worker (upper left in lower photo) front-paged -w (International Radiopkotos)

New Cars To Be Displayed Friday Jim Harris and his organization have been busy for the past week in preparation for the showing of two fine lines of 1956 automobiles on Friday, Nov. 4th. Being shown on Fr iday and Saturday, Nov. 4th and 5th, will 0“ the 1956 Buiek and Chevrolet lines. The motoring public is invited to the dealership at 115 North Jackson street for a view of many models to bo displayed. Continued emphasis on the superior performance and rakish lines that contributed importantly to record-breaking sales this year give Chevrolet for 1956 its most distinguished new passenger cars. New in the low-price field is a four-door hardtop sport sedar. This car has no obstructing center pillar in the window area ana is fashioned with the same styling zest that made the Chevrolet sport coupe a sensation of the | automobile market since 195C Also introduced for the first time are nine-passenger station wagons, bringing the company’.total number of 1956 bodies to 19.

ELKS SERVICES

B. P. O. Elks memorial services for Brother George William Hanna: will be held this evening at the Rector Funeral Home. Members wil meet at the Elks Home at 7:45 p. m. before proceding to the funeral home whei e services will be held at 8:15 p. m.

Classes In First Aid Start Nov. 8

The Putnam County Chapter. Amemcan Red Cross, announces that First Aid classes will beheld in the V. F. W. Post 1550 corner of Indiana and Poplar . ireem, beginning on Tuesday evening, November 8th, with Lee Lowdemiilk and Norvel Colbert ] as instructors.

Fhe first meeting from 7 to ) ;0 p. m., will be for registran anJ assignment only. Those , o cannot report on the 8th j iy ( ill Red Cross office, teleone 4. for registration. These classes are open to an\-

training course.

Corn Average Is Lower This Year The nearly 1909 farms in Putnam county, according to the last farm census, raised an average of 57 bushels of corn per acre in 1954, which according to various estimates will be from five to three bushels more per acre than will be pr oduced in 1955. Various things have conspired to drop the corn yield this year over last, chief of which was the dry weather which prevailed during the critical season for the corn. Another thing which will cut the yield is the fact that much of the corn acreage is down worse tharr for - many years. This will cause more to be left in the fields than usual. Various things have caused the corn to fall, and these combined with the drouth, have cut the total yield to one of the lowest figures in r ecent years for - the county. Five Nabbed By 6an:e Warden

Of prime interest to buyers who appreciate the security of ready acceler ation is an increas ? in horsepower extending- fro r the six-cylinder engine to the pace-setting VS. The new mode, sixes rate at 140 horsepower. The Super Turbo-Fire V8 which, in a reeept performance test, set a new all-time record at Pikes Peak in September, develops 205 hoi sepower. Among outstanding safety features in the 1956 Chevrolet line are the avail ibriity of seat belts and shoulder harness: improved, precision-aimed headlights and crash-tested door locks to minimize the possibilit of doors being spuing open by shock or collision. Buiek in presenting its new line of cars for 1956. features a four-door har dtop in every series, more powerful V-8 engines. arV: fresh new styling in the bold design that has made Buiek tlv’ third best seller in the nation fo the last two years. Horsepower nas been increased to 255 in the Roadmaster Super and Centufy ser ies and t . 220 in the Special. For the f;rs; iConllnurtl on 1‘niir Tuo)

Rcscbdale Lions Buy Rssuscitator T! - Lions (Tub of '’oachrtalm one of the most active in centra) i. has given the corrmun- ■ itv a S'onhenson Resuscitator which in the future will he ava.iabV to all re-i ients in the north sectie-. of the county. The community has long neede 1 such a life saver, and the aggressive members of the Lions C’.ub bought the*instrument at a c of bout $500 ard presented it to the community through the Town Board. It will be k^pt in the fire department h**a Jquatiers and will be available through the volunteer firemen, some of whom are nearby at all hours of the day and night.

MASONIC NOTICE Stated meeting of Bainbridge Masonic Lodge No. 75 F & A. M. Thursday evening at T:30. Don South, \V. M. J

Putnam County’s game warden, James M. Smith, has been active this week around Cataract Lake, and as a result, five “sportsmen” entered pleas o c guilty in JP courts. Clay C. Eaton. Cloverdale appeared in Justice Andrews court at Putnamville on a charge of possessing coon hides out of season, and was finer! $10 and costs, amounting to $26.50. The season on fur-

opens at noon November 15.

Annie L. Hagland, Indianapolis apeared in the Ellis comt here on a charge of fishing without a license on her person and drew the customary $10 and costs. Frank Fisher, Indianapolis drew the same penalty for hunting ducks without a plugged gun. A duck hunter can’t have more than three shells in a gur. Most of them earn' five or six. Cliff Miley, Indianapolis drew the same $26.50 for hunting ducks after hours, which are one half hour before sunrise and on? half hour before sunset. Cler ence Lohman. Zionsville, a partner of Mrley’s drew the same fine for the same offense. All

entered pleas of guilty.

MOLOTOV WILL PRESENT PUN FOR GERMANY RUSS FOREIGN MINISTER WANTS UNITED STATES OF GERMANY

GENEVA, Nov. 2. —(UP) — Communist sources hinted that Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacr - eslav M. Molotov would present today a plan for a "United States of Germany” that would scrap both the Bonn and East German governments. The Molotov plan, smoked out by the Western powers to see if the Big Four meeting would fall, was reported based on the "Lublin plan” through which Communist elements in a coalition government triumphed in Poland and Romania. U. S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, British Foreign Secretary Harold MacMillan and French For eign Minister Antoine Pinay planned to meet this morning before the Big Four - confer- | ence resumed at 3 p. m. (9 a. nr. EDT) for its fifth session. The Big Four conferences was on the verge of deadlock with the Western ministers unable so far to get Molotov to set forward a plan for German unity. Thus far his various proposals called for a permanently divided Ger-

many.

Last night the West slapped down an East German effort to slip into the conference through the back door with a plan for an "all-German council”—an allGerman government made up of Communist and Western leader s. Communist sources hinted that Molotov’s plan would be on similar lines but would call for a “United States of Germany.” It was the same type of plan that brought the non-Communist government of Poland home from London after the war only to disappear into the red maw. Increas’ug Communist “leaks” said Molotov’s plan called for an all-German council which would leave East and West Germany with senates selected by their respective states in the same way as the American Senate. These states would cooperate to negotiate for German unity. Store Window Winners Listed Winners in the store window painting competition, sponsored by the merchants committee of the Greencastle Chamber - of Commerce, have been announced. The artistic abilities of the high school and grade school students participating was greatly admired by the many shoppers in the downtown area prior to Hallowe’en. Eitel’s Flowers window was selected for the first prize, Prevo’s fo** second prize; and C. B. Hammond Jewelry received thir 1 prize. All of these were the work of high school students. Vicky Lanzone, Ron Terry, Rita Neese and Jack Glover will share the first prize. Shirley Procto T ' i and Phyllis Lanzone will receive the second award, and Lola Sims and Martha McMillan will he given the third prize. Headley Hardware was given the first prize as the work of th-r grade school students, Montgomery Ward was given second place, and F. K. Wuertz 5c to $1 received third place. Sara Hanna and Pat Harrold will receive the first place award, Kathryn Miller and Sharon Tweedy will receive second place award, and Marvin Ogle and Malinda Williams will be the recipients of the thir d place award. Awards of $10, S5 and $3 wil' be given to the participants in each classification at a convocation ceremony at the high school at 10:15 a. m. on Thursday. Cloyd Moss, president of the merchants committee, will make the awards.

HOSPITAL NOTES

Dismissed: Maylene Puckett. Coatesville. Mrs. William E. Wells and daughter. Bainbridge. Richard Allen Burkett. Barbara J Hess, Bernice Grubb, James W. Braden. Mary E Bittle, Madonna Woodall, Greencastle.

THREE BOYS ADMIT STARTING BRIDGE FIRE SPENCER. Ind. Nov. 2 (UP) Three teen-age farm youths were scheduled to be charged with second-degree arson today after admitting they set fire to a covered bridge near Gosport, killing a volunteer fire chief and injuring nine firemen. The youths, from the Gosport area, were arrested Monday and admitted the act as a “hallowecn prank” during questioning Tuesday night, authorities said. Jailed here, they were identified as Dale Morgan, 19; Frank Burkhart, Jr.. 16, and William Pack. Jr., 17. Burkhart was slightly injured when the 300foot wooden bridge collapsed into White River last Friday. Morgan’s father, Frank, war one of the volunteer firemen bat- « tling the blaze. Killed when pinned underwater by a beam of the span was Bert Dittamore, Jr., 33, a Gos port dry goods merchant. Phone Group Held Meetins The annual meeting of Distric 2 of the Indiana telephone As sociation was held Tuesday a the Old Tiail Inn, with about CT from a dozen central Indiana counties attending. Robert Cooper - , local manage, who has served as president for the past two years, presided a the dinner meeting and at the election afterwards. Chai le Thomas, Jr - ., Roachdale, wa. named president of the District 2 Association; Ross Harbaugt Sullivan, was named vice presi dent; and Robert Mutch, Tern Haute, was elected secretary treasurer. A panel discussion during thafternoon was of much interest to those present. Questions wen submitted to the panel and fo two aod a half hour's, they an swered and discussed questio - . submitted. H. E. Hussey, president of General Telephone Co., and presi dent of the Indiana Associatior. of Telephone Companies discus .- ed the problems of the small telephone companies in Indiana an i the legislative problems fating them. He also brought out th jobs the telephone companichave of selling their - services. The women attending named a traffic committee to serve during the coming year. On thi.* committee were Mary Fry Bloomington, Florence Bell, Greencastle and Ada Hodson, Roachdale. Jim Fentress To Show New Olds The motoring public will have the opportunity to get a firsthand glimpse of the beautifu, new 1956 Oldsmobile when this line goes on display at K' - nti Motors, Inc., 119 North Indiana street, on Thursday, Friday an r Saturday, Nov. 3rd, 4th and 5ti - . Jim Fentress, proprietor, Ray Fisher, salesmanager, f Tom Hardwick and the rest of th ■ staff will be on hand to greet tb< - public and the dealership will be open each evening on these thn • days. More power, smart Starfi styling and new smoothness and efficieney in an automatic Iran.-,-mission give Oldsmobile for - 1956 outstanding appearame and performance in its advance to a higher place in automobile pop • ularity. In announcing the 1956 Oldsmobile, J. F. Wolfram, Oldsmobile gener al manager and v; e president of General Motor, points out that it couples t’e “Rocket” T-350 engine with J* taway Hydra-Matic transmission to achieve new standards of performance and efficiency. Specially eye-catching is th new Oldsmobile front end. with an airfoil type grille patterned after the experimental Starfire and Delta and recessed in an oval between the massive upper a . lower bumper bars. Rectangular parking lights are incorporated in the outer extremities of the lower bumper bar and are protected by the overhang of the upper bar. Small chrome block letters which .spWl out the Oldsmobile name add an interesting motif to this distinctive front I ( On 11 n uni on rater Tv*ot

44 KILLED IN PLANE CRASH NEAR DENVER

AIRLINER C \T(TIES FIRE AND KXrLODKS WHILE IN' FLIGHT

LONGMONT. Colo.. Nov. 2. (UP) A United Air Lines fourengined DC6B caught fire in flight and crashed in a blinding explosion Tuesday night, killing all 44 persons aboard and sca‘tering wreckage over a half-mile area. The big plane, bound for Portland, Ore., ha i taken off lim t Denver’s Stapleton Mtinieip d \irport less than a half hour earlier. A farmer reported he saw tie* flaming aircraft which he d scribed as a brilliant hall of fri" and watched it for fully t'v > rrinutes before it crashed on a farm eight miles east of here. Another farmer said he a he burning plane explode in flight just before i crashed into the ground. A United Air Lines spoki - nan in Denver said the pilot of he plane was Capt. M. H Ilrll. The other crew members, tire rnly victims immediately i Seat - fied, were D. A White, the first, officer;* the pilot-engineer, S. I<\ \rthur; and stewardesses P. L. Peddicord and J. L. Hinds. All were residents of Seattle. Wash.. UAL said. D. R. Petty, vice president in charge of operations for United at Denver, said the plane, Fligh 129. was flying non-stop to Portland. The c? - i!.sh scene was a sugar beet field some 30 miles east of the front range of the Rocky mountains and about 100 mile r southeast of Medicine Bow Peak n southern Wyoming where 1<* s than a month age, on Oct. 6, another United Air - Lines plane this one a four-engined DC4 smashed into the lower r , 12.005-foot mountain, killing ill 66 persons aboard in the nation’s worst civil aviation disaster. Conrad Hopp, 46, a farmer who lives about a half-nrii ■ southwest of the crash scene, said he and members of his family "heard a big explosion it sounded hk<‘ a big bomb went o*t and I ran out and saw a big fire right over the cattle corral." “I hollered back to my wife that she’d better call the fire department and ambulance bccau. a plane was going to crasii. Then I turned around and it ble.7 up in the air.” The Hopps’ son, Conrad D rl • Hopp, said he also saw the plau 1“and it was just going down behind the trees it was on fire.” Mrs. Hopp placed th<* time > »he crash at ex idly 7 p m. MHT i s p. m. CST) besause she s no - ‘we were just changing television stations when we saw it.” Mr s. Hopp said the plane was: so close she fea'ed it was going to hit their house. The plane’s tail section wn located tWo nule.-> south ol th : crash site near the St. Vr ai . river. Hopp .xiid bodic- were sea -- * ed between the main portior < the fuselage and the two-mil • stretch to the r iv< r. The plane's impact I'd! I’n ■ large craters in Uv h ■ f ■ 1 about 50 yards ajart. Two <>, them were mad'* by the engin t and the third by the no <• potion of the plane. Hopp aid. Hopp said he -w at k i.d 29 bodies ;n the crush ii* a. M VSOMC NOTH i; Regular Stated Meeting Morton Lodge 469 F & A M Fr I w. Nov. 4th., 8 p. m. John Layman, W. N. fy Today’s Weather ^ Local Temperature Q Cloudy with ft casional ram today and tonight. Thursday partly cloudy and colder.

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