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THE DAILY BANNER “IT WAVES FOR ALL"

VOLUME SIXTY-FIVE

GREENCASTLE INDIANA, THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1957.

UNITED PRESS SERVICE

NO. 181

SCHOOL KIDS VIE IN ANNUAL KIWANIS EVENT

LITTLE OLYMPICS

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I I'M WEDNESDAY

The annual Little Olympics, sponsored by the Greencastle Kiwanis Club, wa.s held Wednesday afternoon in DePauw’s Blackstock Stadium. Boys and girls of the third, fourth, fifth and sixth grades of the Jones, Miller and Ridpath schools competed. Miller, or Second Ward School wa.s the winner by compiling 262 and 1-2 points. Jones, or First Ward school, finished second with 205 and 1-2, and Ridpath, or Third Ward school, w T as third v/ith 160 and 1-2. 50 yd. dash: Tom Scholl, Susie Hickman, Jessica Scott. Ronald Blotch, Sam Stone, Melbina Gail, Dennis Bond, Marcia Proctor. 75 yd. dash: Bruce Scott, Gladys Doan, Elliot Williams, Jessica Scott, Mark Harrold, Melbina Garl, Max Doan, Marcia

Proctor.

Broad Jump: Larry Shelton, Elliot Williams, Richard Moore, Steve Paine. Pole Vault: Jerry Woods, Butch Petit. High Jump: Bruce Scott, Elliot Williams, Joe Hccko, Butch

Petit.

Sack Race: Jan Barrett, Jerry Cox, Barbara Zimmerman, Don Kearns. Baseball Throw: Jerry Wood, Mary McCordy, Dave Petit, Chris Gardner. Shuttle Relays: 3rd Girls, Miller School; 3rd Boys, Jones School; 4 th Girls, Ridpath School; 4th Boys, Jones School; 5th Girls, Jones School; 5th Boys, Ridpath School; 6th Girls, Miller School; 6th Boys, Miller School. 220 Relay: 3rd Girls, Millor School; 3rd Boys, Ridpath School; 4 th Girls, Ridpath School; 4th Boys, Jones School. 440 Relay: 5th* Girls, Miller School; 5th Boys, Miller School; 6th Girls, Miller School; 6th Boys, Miller School. 440 Mixed Relay: Jones School.

A. O. WRIGHT DIES AT HOME iS GRANHAVEN, MICHIGAN James Wright, former auditor of Putnam County, received word Thursday morning of the death of his brother,, A. O. Wright in Gran^iaven, Mich. Mr. Wright is survived by three

STAGED orothers, and a son. Two broth-

ers are in California.

Mr. Wright was born and reared in Floyd township and for many years, lived near Fillmore. Funeral services and burial will be held in Grandhaven Saturday

afternoon.

IKE BLAMED BY EGYPT FOR NEW CANAL DISPUTE

NEW CRISIS SHAPING WITH ISRAEL OVER WATERWAY

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A new crisis was blowing up today over the Suez Canal. Israel reaffirmed its right and determination to use the interna-

SIA.MESE TWINS DIE ! donal waterway while Egyptian LOS ANGELES (UP)—Siam- j officials repeated their deterese twins Terry and Larry Pow- mination to halt any Israeli ship

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ell, born three months ago with [ and blamed President Eisenhow-

their heads joined, died Wednesday while undergoing surgery which doctors had hoped would separate them and give them normal lives.

EX-RESIDENT DIES W r ord has been received by Mrs. Myrtle Moore, South Indiina street, of the death of her iece, Mrs. Ruth Baker Day of Los Angeles, Calif. Mrs. Day was a former resident of Greencastle and attended DePauw University.

STATE BANKERS HEAR TALK BY LT. GOV. PARKER

FAVORS NATIONAL RIGHT-TO-WORK LEGISLATION BY CONGRESS

Allies Release Ex-Hitler Aide BERLIN (UP) Walter Funk, economic minister for Adolf Hitler, was released today from

Spandau Prison.

Allied sources said the 66-year-old Niizi who was serving a lift term in Spandau for war crimes was freed because of his age and

state of health.

Funk was the fourth of the seven major Nazi war criminals convicted at Nurenburg to be fret*! from Spandau. His release left only three men remaining in Spandau. They are Hitlci’s deputy, Rudolf Hess, serving a life term; Hitler youth leader Baldur von Schirach, serving 20 years; and Munitions Minister Albert Speer, also serving 20 years. Russ, Red China Split Develops

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There aie indications that a big split has developed between Rod China and Soviet Russia on the proper relationships between

Communist countries.

It ha* been known for a long time that Wladysslaw Gomulka. the Polish Communist leader. I has received strong and perhaps j decisive support from Red China 1 in his fight against Soviet dom- ,

ination.

It now appears that Mao TseTung has warned Soviet leaders I<'«>ntl*ae4l on Pngf Two!

FRENCH LICK (UP)—Congress should enact a national “right-to-work” law, Lt. Gov. Crawford Parker said Wednesday night. Parker told the Inidana Bankers Association he was “completely proud’’ that Indiana has become “the first industrial state” to enact a law outlawing union shop contracts. Parker, unlike Governor Handley who remained neutral, went on record in favor of the controversial iaw during the 1957 Legislature. He told the bankers: “Let us see to it that by our courage, our fairness, and our good example other states—and even the United States Congress will completely restore to American working men mid women the free choice to join or not to join whatever labor union may be operating at the place where they earn their daily bread.” Parker added it was “high time that our government protect .hese individual working people .nstead of pandering to labor oosses.” Parker, in an obvious reference to Gov. G. Mennen Williams of Michigan, asked his audience to •contrast our eden-like situation with that of Michigan.” “There a political tyrant who has been kept in office by the miinous might of ruthless labor bosses and by the cowardly surrender of certain businessmen has demanded a new f six per cent lax on corporate profits. He wants to raise a pyramid of tax's to match his pyramid of pow-

er.

"No wonder that industries are low fleeing Michigan. No wonder that this radical ruler of our sister state is now planning to leave the wreckage of his regime and boldly and brazenly touts himself for the presidency of the 4S states. “He and his labor boss mentors constitute one of the biggest menaces to a safe and sane Amoiica.”

er for “encouraging” Israel. Egyptian newspapers attacked the Eisenhower statement today and said ‘i‘t is really to be regretted that when conditions are beginning to stabilize, America should encourage an Israeli move which may result in world conflagration.” France announced it would ask the United Nations Security Council to reopen the ontire Suez Canal question on Moriday in hopse of weakening Egypt’s total control of the waterway. In London Prime Minister Harold Macmillan faced a Labor Party vote of censure tonight on his government’s decision to use the canal on terms laid down by Egyptian Persident Gamal Abdel Nasser. Israeli Foreign Minister Golda Meir today reaffirmed Israeli’s rights to use the Suez Canal and said, “We shall defend our rights by all the means at our disposal.” However highly placed Israeli sources said Israel has acceded to a request from President Eisenhower not to launch a test ship through the canal in the near future. Previously Israel was expected to test the blockade “very soon.”

CHURCH WILL HOLD AN IMPORTANT MEETING An important meeting will bo held by the Episcopal Church, starting with a dinner at 6:30 this evening. The church heretofore has been assisted by the national organization, but now it will become a parish church and the Rev. Harlan will become Rector as pastor. Dr. Walter Jamieson, secretary -treasurer of the Indiana Diocese, will award the loc;rl church a deed and title to the grounds on which the church has been erect ed. Other speakers will include Bishop Craine and Manning Pattillo, Assistant secretary of the Lilly Foundation, and Dr. Russell J. Humbert, president of DePauw.

20 KILLED BY TEXAS TWISTER, MANY INJURED TORNADO HITS SILVERTON CAUSING DEATH AND DESTRUCTION

This panel discussed the conservation of soil and water at the annual spring meeting of the League of Women Veters in the Union Building Tuesday evening. Left to right are Fred L. O’Hair; Mrs. Charles Rector, Jr., who introduced the speakers, Dr. L. C. Bieber, who was speaking at the time; and Norvel Colbert, conservationist of the Putnam County Soil Conservation District.”

Two Killed In 34-Degree Drop Csr-Truck Crash In Temperature SEYMOUR, Ind. (UP)—A car I Greencastle and community exsmashed into a truck Wednesday ! perienced a 34-degree drop in night, killing twa) persons and in- temperature in less than 24 hours three children to death in a homi-

Stabs Children, Takes Own Life

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (UP) A distraught mother hacked her

Wm. Janis Is Rotary Speaker William Janis, superintendent of the battery shell department of American Zinc Products Division of Ball Brothers, gave an interesting account of this new operation in addressing the Rotary Club at the Student Union on Wednesday. Gilbert Tvvomey, zinc mill superintendent, was also a guest. John Nanovsky arranged the program and introduced the speaker. Kenneth Eitcl presided. Guests of the Rotarians included several Rotary members from other cities. These were Mai McClure of Crawfordsville; Gordon Raeburn, L. Strauss executive of Indianapolis, and Murray Waycraft of Fresno, Calif. Sam Freeman, president of L. Strauss and Co., was also a guest. POSTPONE POSTAL ACTION

juring two others. Killed w’ere Floyd May, 23, Austin, and Lillian Moore, 23, Booneville, Ky. They were riding in a car driven by Waldon Barger, 39, Austin. The truck was driven by Herman E. Ladd, 25, Franklin, Tenn. • Both drivers were taken to Schneck Memorial Hospital here. The truck and car met heal-on on U. S. 31 just south of the Jackson-Scott County line. State police said Barger was driving on the wrong side of the j road. Ladd drove into the wrong j lane to miss the car, but Barger swerved back into the path of the j

truck.

Thursday morning. cidal frenzy and then plunged a The Daily Banner thermome- butcher knife into her own heart, ter recorded a low of 46 at 6 a. authorities said today.

m. after a maximum of 180 degrees Wednesday afternoon. The sudden cool snap was the result of as mass of cold Canadian air which swept into the United

States yesterday.

Cool and cloudy weather with a chance of a few showers was the forecast for this section of In-

diana during the day.

HOSPITAL NOTES

Four Hurt By Chemical Blasts

Dismissals: Jennie Sue Vaughn, Jennie Kelly, Della

Gardner, Kenneth Chaney, Mrs. j critically, at the Brookhaven Na-

UPTON, N. Y. (UP)

gators today sought the cause of a series of chemical explosions that injured four workmen, one

The bodies w r ere discovered by her husband, George W. Conley, when he hurried home from work

Wednesday.

The attractive mother, Elizabeth, 33, had been under treatment for a nervous breakdown. Her body was found lying on the blood-soaked living room floor, a butcher knife through her chest. Nearby were the slashed bodies of the Conley’s daughter, Rebecca, 6, and a son, Matthew 4. Two blood-smeared butcher knives

lay next to them.

Conley found the body of his youngest son, John, 2, in the bed- | room with a knife plunged in his

Tnvesti- chest

Reflector Strips On Sale Friday

Greencastle’s Kiwanians will begin their sale of automobile reflector strips at 4 p. m. tomorrow ! on the courthouse square, according to President Frank DeVaney. Designed for car bumpers, tht safety devices have been credited by the National Safety Council with significantly reducing the number of automobile accidents. The Kiwanis-sponsored strips will be sold and attached on the west and south sides of the square between 4 and 8 p. m. tomorrow, from 10 to 12 Saturday morning, and from 1 o’clock on Saturday afternoon. Primary purpose of the campaign, which is being directed by Abe Walton, is to equip every cai in the area with reflector strips Assisting Walton are A1 Nowak and Gerald Elliott. Proceeds from the Kiwanis project will be used to support the club’s philanthropic work in the Greencastle community and Putnam County.

LINEMAN IS KILLED BLOOMFIELD, Ind. (UP) —

Walter Fry and daughter. Green- J tional Laboratory, one of the na- Robert Peltier, 4J, Vincennes, a

castle; Lillian Hansel, Earl Baldwin, Cloverdale; Linda Wools, Spencer; Joe Western, Cecil Gibbons, Michael Lydick, Stileaville;

Anna Cooper, Carbon.

tion’s main atomic research cen utility company lij^eman, died ters. Wednesday at Freeman-Greene Six rescuers were overcome by Hospital in Linton shortly after acid vapors but did not require ha came in contact with high

hospital treatment. 1 tension wires.

Washington Twp. School Grants

The schools of Washingto. township will receive a grant oi $943.80, Mrs. Cecil Harden re ported today as the U. S. Office of Education made the announcement. The grant comes under Publir Law 874 which provides financial assistance to schools in federally affected areas. The sum of $75" is payable immediately and th< balance will be paid when and il funds are available.

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SILVERTON, Tex. (UP)—A tornado that looked like a berserk cloud of red sand smashed into Silverton late Wednesday night, killing 20 persons in the town and its outskirts and injur-

ing at least 60.

Highway Patrol Capt. J. W. Blackwell said 19 were killed in Silverton itself. He said at least 58 were injured. In addition to these, Mrs. E. E. Puckett, 30, who lives near Silverton, was killed

and her two children hurt.

“It dipped and popped and looked like red sand boiling and rumbling when it hit,” Mrs. Billy Stevens said. “It looked like a oal low cloud that had a belly on

it and then it began

through town.”

The tornado was one of at least a dozen that rumbled around over the Texas Panhandle Wednesday night, injuring at least six other persons ami shattering homes and barns at scattered

points.

Twenty-five homes were destroyed in Sliverton, a town of ibout 850 residents. Fifteen nore were badly damaged and mother 15 slightly damaged. A otton gin was destroyed, along with four grain elevators and a >anacks that in cotton picking ;eason houses Mexican workers. I he tornado disgorged pieces >1 lumber and furniture from the somes it wrecked for a mile iround. There wa.s nothing exept the foundation left of some homes. Five members of one family were reported killed. United Press correspondent I oni Higley said six bodies were oaded into one pickup truck. The lying and injured were parcelled mt to hospitals in larger towns airrounding it. Dr. C. H. Black said he had reated 50 or 60 persons himself, II covered with mud and sufferng from shock, head injuries and uts. The more seriously injured vere sent to larger hospitals at Lockney, Lubbock, Dimmitt, Tuia and Amarillo.

Lightning Hits Baseball Squad

WASHINGTON (UP) — The House Post Office Committee has postponed until next Tuesday action on the administration’s request to boost second class postage rates for newspapers and magazines 60 per cent over a four year period. The committee had planned to take up second class rates today. Five Cleveland Teenagers Jailed

20 Years A!jo

HERE AND THERE

JONESBORO. Tenn. (UP)—A | lightning bolt cracked across a baseball field during a high ! school game Wednesday, killing a 15-year-old player and injur-

ing five others.

Michael Watson 15, a membex of the Lamar. Tenn.. high school team, died soon after he was struck. Of the fiv^ injured. on< was kept at Johnson City Memo-

Dr. D. W. Killinger attended a rial Hospital for treatment of convention of the State Dental burns on both legs. The others Association in Indianapolis. were treated and released, includMiss Irene Owen returned to ing umpire Warren Miller. 35. her home from the Putnam coun- Witnesses said a “horizontal ty hospital. bolt” of lightning swept across Mrs. Sam Hanna was hostess the field in the top of the seventh to the Current Book Club. inning. It toppled the pitcher Dr. and Mrs. V. Earle Wieeman four infrelders and the umpire tc entertained with a dinner-bridge the ground like “ten pins,” a party. j spectator said.

LAGRANGE, Ind. (UP)—Five “long-haired” Cleveland teenagers were held in Lagrange County Jail today in connection with the robbery of a fisherman, Wednesday. Warren H. Spitler, 39. Milford. Mich., told state police he was fishing at Turkey Creek Bridge on U. S. 20 at Brushy Prairie when the five boys got out of a car and approached him. State police said they threatened Spitler with “knives and tire tools.” He gave them $50. The boys were arrested in Elkhart County by state police driving down the same highway. The Lagrange County sheriff's office said one boy was carrying •. “big pocket-knife” and two others had “bowie knives.” State police investigated and found the car was stolen in Cleve-

land.

The boys were identified as James Bostwich. 16: Ronald Maydak, 16. Richard Glomeage. 16: Thomas Fagan, 16, and Robert Viets, 18.

Police Hunting Slayer Of Wife

RENSSELAER (UP) Authirities searched underbrush toiay looking for Carl Dean Muone, 32, Rensselaer, who admitted in a note he killed his ex-wifo Wednesday. Mrs. Geraldine Malone, 30, was shot in the face with a shotgun charge at the store she op (rates with her mother in Parr, Ind. State police found Malone's oar in Curtis Creek about four miles west of here Wednesday. The car had rammed a bridge abutment at high speed. It careened 100 feet into the creek. Malone left a note at his parents’ home here saying he had killed “Gerry” and was going to kill himself. He said he was going to make it look like an accident so his three children could collect the insurance. State and Jasper County authorities at first thought Malone’s body wa.s in the creek with the wrecked car. But when they dragged the shallow creek they found only a shotgun. Blood was found on both banks. Torn photgraphs of Malone's ex-wife and children were found on one bank.

Pictured above is the proposed lew building for Girl Scouts at he Fern Cliff Development. d. Arthur Perry made the drawng from the book of suggested ’dans prepared by the National Council for Girl Scouts. The original drawing may be

r.g recreational, dining an 1 meeting facilities for every Girl Scout troop in Greencastle is the first major development planned for the permanent Girl Scout Camp. By special arrangement with the Fern Cuff committee of

seen this week in a window at j the Girl Scout Council other Coan’s Pharmacy. ' groups may in the future also This attractive lodge provid- j benefit from use of the new-

building. Additional funds are needed for the proposed development. A finance drive is now in progress. Responses to the Council's invitations for assistance are now coming in. All who can are urged to contribute to the fund this week, thereby insuring for our

Contributions may be mailed to

& o o o o o o o o & Today's Weather O & Local Temperature O O O O O O O O O Partly cloudy to cloudy today and tonight with scattered showers and thunderstorms this afternoon and tonight. Friday mostly cloudy with scattered showers

Mrs. Russell Dozer, 203 North- and thunderstorms, wood Blvd. Minimum

Help by buying shares from the Girl Scouts during their current Buy A Block campaign Every parent and friend will want to help by purchasing these shares which will actually pay

Girl Scouts a permanent camp, for the building blocks.

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