Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 50, Number 169, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 25 August 1948 — Page 1

SULLIVAN COUNTY. CENTER OF POPULATION WEA'llie : CONTINUED HOT Indiana: Fair and continued hot tonight and Thursday. , , . ' i VOL. 50 No. 169 UNITED PRESS SERVICE SULLIVAN DAILY TIMES WEDNESDAY, Aug. 25, 1948 INTERNATIONAL PICTURE SERVICE PRICE THREE CENTS

Middle West Heat Wave May

nd Saturday CHICAGO, Aug. 25. (UP) Forecasters said today that the heat wave which has seared much of the Midwest will let up gradually late this week. There will be no sharp break, the U. S. weather bureau said, but temperatures will begin tapering off tomorrow in Minnesota and northern Wisconsin. While the Midwest sweltered in temperatures reaching 100 degrees, the forecast for western Montana was for light snow tomorrow. Forecasters said the heat wave's grip would be broken before any extensive damage is done to crops in the lush cornbelt, which now is producing a bumper corn crop. The weather bureau predicted a high of 98 "in Chicago today, 94 tomorrow, 92 Friday and temperatures in the mid 80's Saturday. The decline will be similar elsewhere in the Midwest, forecasters said, but relief will come slower further south. In Iowa, scattered thundershow-, ers were forecast for Saturday but they were not expected to bring the relief neded by the corn crops, which is maturing too fast under the blazing Iowa1 sun to produce maximum yields. In Wisconsin, crop and weather experts said all sections of the state need rainfall. Late corn was deteriorating in dry sections of i the state. I Thi Virfoe cnnt in iha nnnnfrv ..... . ,.. -K". . I yesterday was ttiytne, uai., wun 109 degrees. High Midwestern temperatures were Marquette, Mich., 101; La Crosse, Wis., 104; rind Milwaukee, 100, the highest , in eight years. I Chicago reported a high of 98; Minneapolis, 98; Omaha, 97; Okla- . homa City, 94; and Little Rock, Ark., 91. At New York's La Guardia Field the top was 83. j In contrast, the coolest temp-j erature in the nation was recorded at Grangeville, Ida. where i was 59.. INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 25. (U.R) The mercury crept upward under a sizzling hot Hoosier sun today toward yesterday's near-record highs as a late-August heat wave went into its fourth day. And the weatherman said little relief was in sight before Friday. Paul Miller, chief meteorologist at the Indianapolis weather bureau, expected temperatures to zoom to near 98 today to break an all-time record of 96 set in 1872 and tied in 1936. The weatherman forecast some relief for the state for Friday and Saturday but said little rain was Indicated. Fairbanks Names Hew Principal Fairbanks will have a new high school principal this year, Jesse M. Boston, county superintendent of schcls. said today as he released th li of toaphers for Fairbanks Township. The new principal is StanVv Brothers, who was formerly in th Pimento school system, Mr. Brothers holds a masters Heerpe from Indiana State Teachers College. He is one of five new members in the Fairbanks system. The others include Mary A. Reid, who will teach commerce and Enriish; Jo Ellen Morg?n. who will t.ech Home Economics and physical education: Carolyn Jones, who will teach music and English, and Tva Findley, who will teach in the grades. The other teachers are Max Kisner, socfol studies- Edear Liston, physical education and math, and Nora Caton and Fern Ransford, in the grades. Countv Schools Open On Monday The Sullivan Countv schools will open on Monday, August 30, Jesse M. Boston, county superintendent of schools, said today. The schools will open at 8:30 a. m. Monday morning, and will remain in session until all are properly enrolled- and oriented. Regular classes in the schools will beein the following morning, and work will continue throughout the day. School busses will pick up the students Starting Monday.

Billy Alsman In Bricklayer Confess Billy Alsman, 41 Scuth McCammon Street, will take part

in the state finals of the Indiana bricklayers apprentice competition to be held in conjunction with the Indiana State . Fair, it has been announced. According to the drawing for the title Alsman will compete on Saturday, Sept. 4, from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. against opponents from Vincennes, Fort Wayne, and Evansville. Pairings in the st.?e finals cf the Indiana Mason Apprentice Competition to be held at the Indiana State Fair were-, made Monday night at a ' final meet-, ing in the Hotel Lincoln in Indianapolis. The nineteen boys who will compete in the state finals will vie for a $500 cash award given by the Structural Clay Products Institute of Chinago. Illinois. Sponsors of the ' . State Fair contest are the Indiana Joint Committee for Mason Apprentioe Competition. Members of the Committee cooperating in ar-1 rangements for the eventure; ' Indiana State Masonry Contractors, General . Contractors and State Department of Trade and Industrial Education and the Bureau of Apprenticeship, U. S. Department of Labor. A contest will be held every day except the tw.o Fridays of the fair. Contests will n6t be held the first or last Friday of the fair.. Competition begins Saturday morning. , The contests will be held beneath a huge tent at the south end of the State Conservation exhibit and fire tower. Clothiers Win Softball Title

gB mm m (ufj secretary oi state oeorge Kll !4d3TIJ1lffl If raff c- Marshall said today that Df llCCSililU llfuil Russia's closing of Soviet cm- , , ! sulates in this country and the Engles Clothiers are the closinS of the u. s- consulate in champions of the Sullivan Sof t-1 Vladivostok were regretable but ball League.""" ' "' " ""' " " mt entirely "-unexpected; j Marshall said the United They won the crown last' night States accepts the Soviet de-

at Legi.cn Field by beating the Kraft Food Co. by a score of 11 to 2 before a large crowd. The game was close iror four innings, but in the fifth, the

Clothiers scored five runs off little business because of limiMcore. and added more to their tations on their movements.

total in the sixth to walk away from the Cheesemakers. Watkins was the winning pitcher for the new cbamnions, while Moore lost for Kraft. By winning the first two of a three-game series, the Clothiers won the first half crown of the league. They had tied with th Kraft outfit during first half play. As the Clothiers won the second half title undisputed, ; their triumph last night gives ; thpm the league title. They will receive a trophy which the Junior Chamber of Commerce and K. B. Smith, local jeweler, are donating for the champion of the league. In the other game played last nieht, Hymera beat the Eagles Lodge by a score of 5 to 3. Bob McCammon was the winning pitcher for the Hymera outfit, while Engle lost for the Eagles. No games are scheduled t.onieht in the league, but action will be resumed tomorrow night with two games , on too. In the first game Thursday, the Jaycees will play Carlisle, and in the second game Dugger will nlay the Prison team from Terre Haute. TOW AN WINS TERRACE CONTEST HARLAN, Ia Aug. 25 (UP) John Stroburg, Blockton, la., today took home first place in l the third annual National Plow Terrace contest. A crowd estimated at 15.000 invaded the farm of Mrs. W. J. Lewis, four miles south of here, in near 100 depree heat to see Strob"rg win the contest yesterday. Plowmen from Iowa. Nebraska. Missouri, Kansas, Indiana and South Dakota took part. POSTPONE CLOSING OF RAILROAD FAIR . ' CHICAGO, Aug. 25 (UP) Officials postponed the closing date of the Nationa.1 Railroad Fair from Sept. 6 to Sept. 31 today "because of an obligation to the thousands of peode who still want to see it." Maj. Lenox R. Lohr, fair president, made the I announcement. He said more j than 1,500,000 persons already I have toured the exposition.

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I i r . t. .. lanneu ror iwo, Gov. Candidates Great preparations are being made in the two major political parties for the appearance of their top men, former Gov. Schricker and Speaker Creighton, on the opening day of the Merom Bluff Fall Festival, Sept. 4, at 2 p. m. Republican County Chairman Newt Ringer and his organization have planned a reception and noon luncheon at the college for Mr. Creighton. Not to be outdone. Dem.ccra"tic Countv Chairman John Purcell has re served the other dining, room at the college for a reception 'and luncheon for Gov. Schricker.. The party leaders will ad dress their workers at two sep arate , luncheons preceding the political forum on Merom Bluff Saturday afternoon, where they both will appear on the same platform. In their speeches, they will tell whv thev should be governor of Indiana. This will be the only opportunity the people of .this section will have to compare these two men when they appear together. A band concert will precede the speaking and vaudeville entertainers will follow immedcrow'd is expected or im tant meeti Marshall Not Surprised At Consul Closing WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 mand that we close our consulate in Vladiovostok. He said that is not a serious matter since consular officials here have been able to transact Russia decided to close its two consulates' in this country, in New York and San Francisco, because the U. S. demanded the recall of Jacob Lomakin. Soviet consul-general in New York. Signs Papers President Truman, aboard his yacht in Chesapeake Bay, today signed papers formally revoking Lomakin's consular authority. This, however, had become a mere formality since all Soviet consular pprsonnel in New York and San Francisco are shutting ir their shop and going home, 1 The U. S. demand was mad because of Lomakin's conduct in the car: of . three Russian schoolteachers who don't want to go back to Russia from this country. Russia retaliated bv ordering her consulates closed and asking this country to close its Vladivostok consulate at once. Marshall said Soviet business activities in this country could be conducted by the Soviet embassy and the Amtorg agency in New York, a Russion government trading concern. And. he said, U. S. consular work in Russia could be conducted by the consular staff attached to the American Embassy in Moscow. I lovd McCammon Released On Bail Lloyd McCammon, age 21, of Dusger, has been released on, S500 bail in the Sullivan Circuit Court on a charge of drunken driving. He was arrested yesterday after the affidavit charging drunken driving ' was filed bv Prosecuting Attorney John Knox Purcell in the Circuit Court. The charge arose from an accident in which J.oe D. Hall, of Dugger, was seriously injured. Hall is still in a critical condition in the Mary Sherman Hospital. TODAY'S TEMPERATURES The unofficial temperatures in Sullivan today were: at 7:30 a.m 78 degrees at noon 96 degrees

Four Changes In

1 1 ur mail juiuuij Four changes, including a new principal, have been made in the school system in Turman I Township, Jesse M. Boston, : county superintendent of schools, has announced, ' Harold Fields, who holds a master's degree from Indiana' State Teachers College, and whd was formerly in the Arcadia schools, will be the new princiPal at Graysville. He succeeds !Paul Terrell, who moves to Merom. Graysville will also have a new basketball coach to replace Mr. Sakal, who will coach at Monroe City this- year. The coach is 'Paul Thomas, a graduate of Indiana State Teachers College. The high school staff includes Mr. Fields, principal; Vivian Church, music and English; Mr. Thomas, physical education and science; Enid Monk, home economics and physical education; Irma Gray, social studies; Myrtella Nash, a new teacher, English; Emmett Wagner, vocational agriculture, and John Voigt, a new teacher, math and science. In the grades will be Irma Monk, Dorothy Thomson, Julia Burnett. and Surprise! Soldier Sees "Dead" Wife INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 25. (U.R) Cpl. Marion Williams returned home today and was greeted by his "dead" wife, for whose funeral he had been sent home from Germany to attend. His wife rushed out to meet him as he pulled up in front of their home in a cab. He threw his arms around her and kissed her. "Honey, I was flabbergasted," Williams said. "I didn't know what to think. For five whole days I thought you were dead." Williams, age 33, was with the Army in Germany when he received a cablegram from the Red Cross that - his -vnfe- had died. Williams learned yester-? day, when he arrived by plane on the East Coast, that the message had been intended for another Marion Williams, of Massachusetts, whose wife died after an operation. William had been scheduled to arrive home late last night. When he failed to show up, his wife became worried. She thought that the shock of finding out she was alive might have "made him collapse somewhere." Williams said his trip home took longer because he took a bus instead of a train. He said he couldn't afford train fare. After greeting his wife, they sat down to a huge breakfast she had prepared. The meal included green beans, a gallon of iello with bananas, a gallon of potato salad and a dozen roasting ears, which Mrs. Williams prepared last night. "I'm a good cook," Mrs. Williams explained. Williams nodded in agreement. "But I d.rn't want any of the corn." he said. "Not for break fast." He said he was tired after his long trip. "I didn't get much sleep on the bus, and I'm still a little nervous after all this business. I'm going to take a bath and go to bed." Mrs. Williams said she was "very happy" to have her husband back and was glad the incident was over. "Marion doesn't say much when things like this happen." she said. "He keeps his feelings to himself." Marlha Roberts Dies In Hospital Martha Rose , Roberts, aste 2, died at the Riley Hospital in Indianapolis at 10:30 o'clock Tuesday morning. She was born Feb. 11, 1947 in Sullivan County. She is survived by the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Roberts of Merom; two sisters, Thelma Roberts and Erma Katherine Roberts, and a brother, Jimmy Roberts, j The body was taken to the Newkirk Funeral Home in Pleasantville and was removed tothe family residence this afternoon. Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon at the Merom Methodist Church. Burial will be in the Merom Cemetery.

Hymera Men Facing Grand

i Larceny Charge Two Hymera men have been released on $1,000 bond each after they were arrested on charges of grand larceny. The men are Hugh Frisbie, age 43, and Charles R. Riggs, age 2o. The affidavits against the two men were filed in the Sullivan Circuit Court on Monday, and the men were arrested and released on bond yesterday. According to the charges fil ed by John Knox Purcell, prosecuting attorney, the two men are alleged to have stolen cast iron from the right-of-way of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, . and Pacific Railroad, northwest of Hymera. The affidavits state that the value of the property allegedly taken by Frisbie was $126.10, while that which Riggs is charged to have taken was worth $91.70. The theft, according to the affidavit, is alleged to have occurred on Aug. 8. Sixteen Die As B-29 Crashes On Hawaii Field HONOLULU, Aug. 25 (U.R) Sixteen of 20 crew members on j an Okinawa-bound B-29 were ' killed last night when the big plane lost an engine and crashed In flames at Hickam Field, it

was announced today. hundred pounds on bulk starch Four, men were rescued from and Syrups. Company officials the flaming wreckage and taken said the price reduction resultto the Army's nearby Tripler ed directly from a break in Hospital. The crew included 16 cash corn prices last week-end enlisted men and four officers, when the bumper crop was asi Witnesses said the Superfort- sured. ress exploded while sliding al- j The company, which processes ong in a ground skid, scattering corn and soybean products at

and Smashing two power substa tions. The plane was one of a group m&king a mass flight to Okin-' awa. Its starting point was believed to have been Spokane, Wash. The crash, worst in Hawaii aviation history, occurred within eight minutes after the plane took off for Kwajalein with a gasoline load of 7,000 gallons. Eyewitnesses said flames shot up 500 feet when the plane exploded and burned. Air Force personnel were unable to explain how four of the crew survived the crash. They said all were able to talk am two of the survivors were even found walking after the crash. It was believed these two either jumped from the escape doors a split second before the crash or were thrown clear oi the flames. The, only piece of the huge plane left intact was the towering tail section. Women Want Peace NEW YORK (UP) Women all over the world fear war and are trying to promote understanding among nations so that peace can be maintained, Mrs. Ambrose N. Diehl said oh her return from a four-month global trip. Mrs. Diehl, president of the National Council of Women of the United states, said she found that the women in India exerted more influence in their country's affairs than the women of any other country she visited. Curse of Television NEW YORK (UP) Two Salvation Army captains, Olive McKeown and Luella B. Larder, the "Angels of the Bowery," have started a campaign to raise money for a television set for the liquorless Bowery Red Shield Club. , They explained that many . men, determined not to drink, were lured into bars by television. Leap Indicates Guilt RICHMOND, Va. (UP) When police went to the home of Charles A. Miller, 18, to investigate a charge of reckless driving, the youth leaped from a second story window. Justice Harold Maurice said anyone that reckless must be guilty. He fined Miller $110 and revoked his drivers' permit. Two Years for Gum Theft SALEM, Ore. (UP) Walter P. Brokus, a transient .was sentenced to two years in the state prison. his crime: burglary. His loot: two sticks of chewing gum.

Hiss, Chambers, Face To Face Contradict Each Other

Wholesale Food Price Index Drops 13 Cents (By United Press) A sharp drop in wholesale some encour-price-conscious food prices held agement for housewives today, j Dun & Bradstreet, Inc., announced that its wholesale food price index, based cn the cost of 31 basic foods, tumbled 13 cents during the week ended Tuesday. j The agency reported price cuts on 16 foods, including flour, corn, rye, oats, barley, lard, cheese, sugar, coffee, butter, steers, hogs and lambs, i Hog prices, which fell sharply yesterday, apparently were bouncing upward again today. Opening prices were irregular but advanced from 25 cents to $1 per hundred pounds at various corn belt markets. Bumper Corn Crop . The bumper corn crop now maturing in the fields had its first effect on prices today. The A. E. Staley Mfg. Company reduced prices 35 cents a its Decatur, 111., plant, said it probably Would cut prices further "when the presently indicated new corn prices materialized." "Last year's short crop advanced corn prices to all-time I highs," a company announce ment said. 'The present uncertainty of availability of old crop corn, until the new crop comes to market, continues to dominate the current cash corn prices." Many experts in the nation's food industries have predicted that this year's big crop eventually will tend to shove prices particularly on meat downward. Most of them, however, believe that it will not have a material effect on the family budget until next spring. Market experts at Chicago, meanwhile, predicted that the current heat wave blanketing most of the country would have a tendency to reduce meat prices. German Police reement manapin BERLIN, Aug. 25 (UP) Ger-' man police in the East and West sectors of Berlin have reached an informal agr 3ment which is expected to end Russian kidnapings and arrests, it was reported today. The agreement provides that either police force must notify the other by telephone before conducting a black market raid in the borderline district of Pots darner Platz, the Times Square of Berlin where the Russia, American and British sectors meet The agreement was similar to informal American proposals made to the Russians yesterday that police of all three sectors cooperate in black market raids in teeming Potsdamer Platz so that wanted operators could not flee into a nearby zone. The plan was expected to put a halt to Soviet forays into the British and American sectors and to silence Russian charges that the western sectors were protecting "black marketeers and gangster elements." It was hoped the plan would bring peace to Berlin before the city assembly meets tomorrow to consider a number of explosive issues.

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WASHINGTON, Aug. 25. faced each other in a jammed and calmly contradicted each

ers seeKing to rind cut which was lying. Before they testified, Chairman J. Paraell Thomas of the un-American activities committee publicly told Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers that one of them "certainly" will be "tried for perjury." Their first contradiction was on the question of when they last saw each other. ,

1935, said Hiss. 1938, said Chambers. Incumbents Win Primary Elections Tues. By James F. Donovan United Press Staff Correspondent Incumbent Congressmen had a comparatively easy time of it in Tuesday's primary elections in Mississippi and New York, returns showed today. In Mississippi, i"ep. John E. Rankin, outspoken champion of white supremacy, won handily over the two opponents who had been expected to give him a tough fight in his bid for nomination to his 15th consecutive term in the House. Both Claude Clayton, a war veteran who almost beat Rankin in 1946, and Circuit Judge Raymond Jarvis trailed the 66-year-old Rankin so badly that they conceded defeat six hours after the polls closed. Three other Mississippi Congressmen also were victorious in their, contested races for renomination. They were! Reps. Thomas G. Abernathy, John Bell Williams and' William Colmer. Democratic nomination in Mississippi is tantamount to election. In New York too incumbent Congressmen and regular organization candidates were generally successful in outdistancing their primary opponents. In Brooklyn, veteran Rep. James J. Heffernan. a Demo crat, easily overwhelmed Frank Serri, an American-Labor partyman, in the Democratic primary. Other Democrats who won pri mary races in Brooklyn were Reps. Joseph Pfeifcr and Don ald L. OToole. Apparent victors in contested Republican primaries included Reps. Katherine St. George, the only woman on New York's 47member Congressional del; gation, Clarence E. Kilburn, W. Sterling Cole, John C. Butler, and Daniel A. Reed. Uavy To Retire atfleship Iowa SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 25 (UP) The Navy will retire the 45,000-ton battleship Iowa from active service with the Pacific Fleet Sept. 1 in order to concentrate on an anti-submarine training program. The Navy said that retirement of the Iowa will make it possible to reactivate a carrier and eight destroyers. Limited funds and manpower prevent the Navy from operating both the Iowa and the nine ships. The USS Missouri will be the only battleship remaining in the active fleet. LEGION AUXILIARY ELECTION TODAY FRENCH LICK, Ind., Aug. 25. (UP) Election of Department officers and delegates to the coming national convention headed the agenda at the Indiana American Legion Auxiliary's 29th annual convention here today. Polls oened about mid-morning to some 700 delegates to elect slates brought before the convention yesterday. In additiin to naming the state's seven top Auxiliary officers, 76 delegates and alternates for the national convention were to be selected. INDIANA MINER IS KILLED PETERSBURG, Ind., Apg. 25. (UP) An accident at the Black Foot coal mine near yesterday was fatal

Burdette, age 50. The miner fell mer Terre Haute service station 12 feet off a coal car and crushed man, local Texaco officials rehis skull. Ivealed today. ''

(UP) Accused and accuser and tense hearing room today, other before House Red hunt

Chambers, ex-Communist, has accused Hiss, former high-ranking State Department official, of being a cell leader in a prewar Communist underground here. Hiss has sworn Chambers lied. Today, publicly confronting each other for the first time, they ' were not asked in the first hours about the Communist charges. The committee was trying to pin down just, how well they knew each other and just when in past years. Identify Each Other With Committee Investigator Robert Stripling shooting the questions while the witness stood and the spectators craned forward, first Hiss and then Cham-' bers identified each other. Both the 43-year-old Hiss, slim and boyish-looking, and the pudgy, 47-year-old Chambers appeared outwardly calm. Hiss is now the $20,000-a-year president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Chambers, whose income also has been estimated at $20,000 a year, is a sen-. ior editor of Time Magazine. Hiss, testifying first, identified Chambers as a free lance writer he had known as "George Crosley" in 1934 or 1935. He had given similar testimony in a secret ses sion at New York. Hiss said he last saw "Crosley" some time. in 1935 to the best -of his recollection. When ' his turn came, Chambers declared he met Hiss first in 1934 and last saw him in 1938. The conflicting statements came in rapid-fire order. Hiss first asked permission to read a statement but Thomas told him he could not put it into the record at that point. 1 Then Stripling said: "Mr. Hiss, will you kindly stand up."' Hiss, wearing a light gray summer suit, pulled himself erect. Stripling turned around and said: "Mr. Chambers, will you kindly stand up." Chambers, wearing a rumpled pray flannel suit and black tie, did so. He was barely 10 feet away from Hiss. Spectators Stand. The spectators also stood and chaned. There was a moment Cf deep silence as the two men faced ench other both poker-faced and seemingly calm. "Have you ever seen this individual?" Stripling asked Hiss, pointing to Chambers. "I have," Hips snapped. He added that he had known him as Georee Crcsley. After a few more questions to Hiss. Striolinff administered thA oath to Chambers. "Do you know the individual at the witness chair?" Stripling asked. "Yes," replied Chambers, speak-, ine firmly. , . "Who is he?" "Alger Hiss." "When did you first meet Mr, Hiss?" "In 1934." ' - ' "When did you last meet him?" "In 1938." "That's all, Mr. Chambers," ttripnng snapped. Both witnesses sat down. Stripling questioned Hiss about his failure to identify Chambers from pictures shown to him dur ing early closed sessions of the committee. Hiss contended he told the committee the "face was not unfamiliar." He denied Stripling's assertion that he had stated he had never seen Chambers before. I BOB HOFFMANN MANAGES TEXACO The Texaco Service Station located on North Section Street., across from the Sullivan Hish

Petersburg ' School is now under the manto Wayne agement of Bob Hoffmann, for-