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PPS ~ HOWARD || “80th YEAR NUMBER 202 by . : . SUNDAY, JANUARY
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‘We Don’ + Want It,’ Reporter Told §
By ¥ICIOR J PETERSON
; SHELBYVILLE, Jan, Jan. 7—Sheiby gE County Farmer George H, Ruschhaupt today labeled government efforts to introduce the Brannan Farm Plan as socialism, Typical of more than 2000 farmers in Shel’ . County alone, he reflects their thinking and that of the majority of Hoosier farmers. The plan, which calls for low consumer food prices and high government - supported prices to farmers, will be a Congressional problem this session. “The Brannan Plan would be socialism,” he said with a concerned look as he sat in the living
New Palestine. “Call It Compulsory” “We wouldn't have any control over our land ‘or our livestock. I guess you could call it compulsory. There would be acreage alJotments, probably marketing quotas, ~ THOSE
only way to be sure of making anything on their crops. “They found out in a hurry that
marketing quotas really killed off Farmer George H. Ruschhaupt ... "Get rid of government "= = CC ber of the In|
diana House of Representatives,
initiative and competition. If you controls.
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CL WilN Sparks, | Farm Plan I Retired U. S.
cialism’ ludee, Dies
Rushville Jurist Presided at Trial
Judge Will M. Sparks, retired U, S. Circuit Court _of Appeals judge and former | judge of Rush County Circuit { Court, died at 6:30 p. m. yes{terday in City Hospital, RushVille, following a stroke at his | Rushville home. He was 77.
[> He d sed at 3:30 p.m. as!
| consciousness. : | Services will be held at 2 p. | {Tuesday in Wyatt Mes rial § | Mortuary, Rushville. The {Frank R. Greer, pastor of 8
in East Hill Cemetery there.
murder trial of D. C. Stephenson, | former Indiana ku klux Klan (leader, in 1925, was born in Char[lottesville, Ind., on Apr, 28, 1872.
{anapolis ‘before it wad amliated| {with Indiana University, and was admitted to the Indiana Bar.
were told you could raise 2000 bushéls of corn on 50 acres and
: Zk had a bi, yield over the figure, you Brannan Plan S Cost from 1904 to 1910 and again from
were fined for every extra bushel.
from 1901 to 1903, was judge of
the 16th Indiana judicial circuit]
1914 to 1929. He became judge of|
24 ldn’t nit, you| ° onme 3 — reed It to Ay You had | ¢ Estimated at 4 Billions elie Circuit Court of Appeals
to destroy it, We don’t want any
He remained on the Chicago!
marketing quotas again,” he said What is the Brannan Farm Plan? !federal bench to which he was apwith determination, It is a major farm plan drawn up by Agriculture Secretary i 1eq by President Herbert
Isn't The Answer | Charles
Brannan to have the government guarantee and maintain yo .ver until his retirement Jan.
“And I don’t think the system & higlr income for the nation's six million farmers. 1. 1949.
we're “working under is perfect; The
either, But ‘thé Brannan Plan perishab
jsn't the answer by any stretch of these commodities and takes
feature that has attracted. most attention deals wiih A farewell dinner for Judge le farm commodities. At present “the governnient buys Sparks was given Feb. 9. 1949, by the Indianapolis Bar Assoc dation
the imagination” i them off the market to hold up. 8 certain income for. the na- and .the Indiana. State Bar
“I don't think anybody can un- prices.
and-
Mr. Brannan's plan tion's farmers. There would be | L \o “mo wos o member A
y-in_the public market for as now. Under the new plan the {of the American Ber Association
derstand it. ve is heard it wa would let the commodities sell no 60 or 80 per cent of parity, |, in groups, as well as a member
it, but I don't get sage “the whatever they would bring. secretary-treasurer ot the Shelby, This would give consumers Support at the 100 per cent |
County Farm Bureau said. . * | cheaper “Fact is, I don't think" the as eggs,
thing 1s for sure. We don’t want! between jit. We're going to have to do| received something to. keep it from being! support
nt would
sm sb tl
‘he was sweeping snow from_the {front steps and did not regain
Rev. |
Paul's Methodist Church, Rush-| ville, will officiate. Burial will be
Judge Sparks, who presided as {special judge in the Noblesville
A Republican, Judge Sparks was a member of the Columbia,
8, 1950
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Of D. C. Stephenson Adieu—Anchors Aweigh
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There are no tears ’domacted with this woodby because Mrs. John Hess of RR 3, Box 375, knows her Navy reservist hus-
band isn't going to war. He'
and all that worries Mrs. Hess is that she'll miss that cruise in tropic Caribbean seas. - Seaman Hess’ pals see the goodby kiss well
executed,
i level of whatever price was | putter, cheese ahd Pork. . Club 1p. and. of the Shortridge Band,
butter, cheese and pork. Teached under the new formula.
the aver prices they farm products, except grains, | and the government + Mr, Brannan won't estimate ‘Knights Templar.
Currently farmers are operat- figured on a basis of producing mated about $6 billion a year. [Rotary Club and Phoenix Lodge,
ing on a voluntary “program
jas well as St. Paul's Methodist
teed Church. heres er grants wo | TIMES Woman" % Editor Judge Sparks was the son of
ducts if they prescribe to govern-
James B. Sparks and Harriett!
wishi J Sparks, both nen enemas In NLY. to See Fashions i tii gros
today is free to do so. Farmer Ruschhaupt has a dees) 22
{the family moved to Carthage,
love for 200 acres he works of the I : wag 7, He has lived in Rushville home place. And well he should. The New York Noise That’ § Irritating _ since his retirement. The fertile land near New Pales-| New York City, Sat, Jan. T. Married In 1897
tine has come down from father Dear Bos
to son since pioneer.days. I'm disappointed. Here I was, all set to get as noisy a welcome Della Young. The couple had off their favorite brand, either. Before government support from New York as if I were a movie star.
the Rushville Commandery of
price. what all this woul Leos Sue [cross poh rs ll passed, too.” That support price would be taxpayers, but others have es |Chicago, and of the Rushville)
{Union Le in . He was! government wants us to under-| At the same time Mr. Brannan Generally speaking, this would bageindla wry h ago. S Sut stand it until it is passed. Oné| would make up the difference provide higher prices for al Comm
Bid Reservists Goodby at Station
ag ( ;
| To Help
Wire utting
last night.
| Super-Market, 1102 W,
‘before the grand jury it would levee break considerably south of
ition the Gamewell employ Wives and Sweethearts {questioned by Police Capt. Michael oners, a large delegation of vete
|Kavanagh, head of the police in- erans and private citizens sand
Other photos, Hst of ‘Naval Reservists, Pa Page 3
Ray Porter, |
| © The prosecutor, was
‘By ED SOVOLA, Times Stat Writer (lights in the crowded market Hole, south of here, gave us tre. ABOARD THE INDIANAPOLIS NAVAL RESERVE SPECIAL, Went out shortly after 6 p. m. mendous relief.” Jan. 7—There are 237 enlisted men and 10 officers on this train Friday and were not restored up-| The river was expected to crest (ready to take what Panama has to offer. Ready and rarin’. |til after 9 p. m. Fuses were pulled at 25 feet at Terre Haute by noon The send-off at the Union Station in Indianapolis met with the On & pole outside the store. Sev-| today “but flood levels were drope hearty approval of everyone. Men are still talking about the Short-/éral hundred patrons had diffi- | Ping steadily on some of the triby
ridge High School band and what a swell job they did providing culties in checking out military music during mustering, — — by candle light.
|activities. “Anchors Aweigh”
was the crowning touch.
re as/R. 3, Box 375, took his Pullman| The Galyan Super Market has families ee already returning Shows In Five Days—it's Ind, then to Rushville when he (Ne train pulled from the station|seat slightly. mussed up with ‘been picketed by the AFL meat|' %088Y homes and others crimson smudges. His wife stood cutters and grocery clerks union. Lipstick smears are in evidence!on the platform for. 15 minutes throughout all the cars. Some of smiling at John. He smiled back, be members of an independent
CH He was married Nov- 23. 1807, {De men are in no hurry to wipe made little motions with his union.
1 didn't anticlpatet,,. hiqren. Mrs. Sparks died
prices and proposed controls popping flash bulbs . . . or cotumnis sts asking me to bare my heart noo ber 1947,
came on fhe “sééné, “the Rusch: {sc the Yeading public.
haupt family brought their living! But out of the ground in rough-and- recently
tumble competition. {drown out the noise of subway — Has Same Drive rush hour? And did they make
The present Farmer Ruscha weary iat home sides the home place, he worksiparked b 160 acres of rented land. Basic-(his own ally a stock farmer, all grainiI'll never raised on the family 200 goes into|The ads,
8horthorn cattle and Berkshirebrief and raghogs. ing controversy,
But on the 160, he feels he have los would be foolish not to go along|voice. with a government program which|nently, th
guarantees him a price 90 per cent Anyway, I arof parity. irived today with “I suppose in a way we have to|typewriter and have price supports and allot-itoothbrush and Miss Fletcher | 5 ve apartment. At 3 o'clock mil-| ments in a period of surplus, We!found no more {liner - Sally Victor will show her}
are in it now on both wheat and than the corn. I think we are about toito think
enter one with stock,” Mr. Rusch- talking ads couldn't ‘have had &|ywhile she shows off her new dress; haupt . sald. {higher decibel rating than next’ qegigns. From 4 to 8 o'clock, mil-| “But I don't like. it. The answer week's fashion shows will offer, jiner Wlorence Reichmar is having|
to the whole thing is no govern- beginning ment controls. | : “The way I Tigure it, sooner, TURN or later the farmer is going to'female fa
have to take a bust. It might as!flossy couturier's salon and you who beats the drums for the
well come now as later. EALLY “Let supply and demand han- labout the dle the situation. I'd like to see here for
all price supports taken off. Institute's national - press week gto
“Let us take it on the chin every six and then come out of the corner I've bee
That's - the basis for fashion clambakes-—this is the ya ter Florell, hat designer, will —_.. -: RE fighting ba 14th—that pulling into New York &
democracy,” Farmer Ruschhaupt
said. (is a little
I did want to hear the “talking ads” which sprouted daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Foster, in Grand Central Station. Were they loud enough to Rushville: two grandsong. James
Miss Louise Fletcher, Times woman's editor, is in New York City for the New York Dress Institute. For her first report on coming fashions, turn to page 13.
atténd IndianA University, and a brother, Walter B. Sparks, St. Petersburg, Fla. A son, William G. Sparks, died
traveler feel as much as if efore radio? know, after a
Hotel apartment of Dora Loues Sparks, still resides here. Miller for waffles. Dora “com- ‘8 0» ‘mutes’ from Paris to operate her International. Fashions agency here an always has waffle parties! the Sunday before NYDI week. From noor to midnight Laura Benham, who does cosmetic publi-. city, holds open hous» in her Park|
t their Permaey say.
usual N. Y. din, .Come|gn ing honnets. From 4 to 6, Maria of it, Grand Central's gum will ply the press with tea
Monday. jopen house in her E. 67th St.’ »
.« 5 apartment. MORE than a hundred ® 8 0»
shion writers loose in a THEN AT 5:30 p. m. Dee Ellis,
need earplugs. That's porstmann woolen people, is number inat Shows Up entertajning with a buffet supper the New York Dress jn the Hotel Carlyle's Victorian
months. After that, there's not a thing n here so often for these 1, 45. until 9:30 p. m., when . Will M. Sparks’
have a champagne arty and . like coming home . . . goo CAUTPASNE Party 10 Prisoners Flee
hand and fidgeted in. his seat Declines Comment Capt. F. F. Knachel, comman- What are you thinking about, The prosecutor's office and bo of two levee breaks on the Embare dant of the U.'8. Naval Armory John” he prosecutor Ce and po- rass River, a Wabash tributary,
“Judge Sparks §§ survived by his And-the man largely responsible Wel he was thinking of sii
for organizing this huge traini operation, was the subject
r———— - and Robert Foster, both of whom conversation in many of the cars. much he'd miss them during the
Got Teary Eyes, Too “The thing I like about
skipper.” one man sald for all to John what he would like to say hear, “is he means what he says, to her—if “he were able. in Indianapolis in 1941. He was an. Did vou see him get tears in his LL | attorney. His wife, Mrs. Louise eyej when he made the speech?” Goodbye, Ruby. I'll behave, Ment The skipper ought to know how Take care of the baby. Kiss the: 'the men feel as soon as possible.’baby again.” Special from your It wasn’t more than 10 minutes after we left Indianapolis that BARKLEY Y TO SPEAK
leards began to make their
{found the men ready with their
lice were interested in
of 4 months old at home and how paieccmand campaign. coming two weeks. The train
the Was pulling away when I asked ment on the incident.
“I am the dumbest ‘town. tonight.” Capt
sailor, Mrs. Hess. affidavit." ’ The prosecutor said
pearance. Should prove interest- The Democratic party aning since the payroll is being rove today that Vice Presi- | passed out. Of course, the games qont Alben W. {might be for fun. You can’t tell {about sailors. Made sort of a test run and N. C.. Jan. 28. felony charges.
u. S. Troops Move In: Stave Off High Waters
Critical Stage Over at Terre Haute; White River Recedes in Central Indiana
Weary troops and volunteers sandbagging ‘levees af , Vincennes ignored steadily rising Wabash River flood waters | last night to knock off work for a night's sleep. Chief of Police James Harlow said the lowlands were | safe at present, with the levees built high enough to withe stand the 28-foot crest expected later this week.
| [rate of .06 feet an hour. al p Ba el {| Nine hundred soldiers from Ft,
Charge that a city Gamewell \ system employee used city- owned] Mavor Takes Active Part: equipment to cut-off lights in al favor W ; big Indianapolis super-market at Mayor ian J. Betz
the instigation of an AFL union agging organizer were being investigated ens in directing sundb ope
p_Prosecutor George 8. Dalley, The mayor said the dikes around Een of the Galyan the city proper were, holding and to present*omplaints before. the within the cify limits, A break Marion County Grand Jury. in sections either north or south Police questioned Everett Wells, of the city, however, would flood foreman of a Gamewell mainten- thousands of acres and endangee s off for a two weeks training cruise ance crew, Friday night but did many homes, the mayor said. pot prefer charges after the com- Meanwhile, Sheriff John Triere plainants declined to sign a mis- weiler of Vigo County (Terre demeanor affidavit, Prosecutor Haute) reported “the situation is Dailey said, The prosecutor added under control and the critical
247 N M H that f the matter was brought stage is past.” The sheriff said a avy en ead to Sea receive the complete attention of the city had “relieved the press
his office. » sure” and no immediate danger Employee Grilled {was anticipated near Terre Haute, | According to available informa-| Big Relief
ternal pasar division, and Lt. - bagging the levees,” the sheriff eld officer. said. “I think we have it under
Store employees were reported to
ing if a city employee used city- families were evacuated after the Ng ing. faithful Ruby. little Zandra. owned equipment to assist in an
Capt. Kavanagh declined com- Out of Danger
Kavanagh White River. Families in the Without hesitating John said, 52id. "I am not at liberty to com- Greater Indianapolis area were
Prosecutor Dailey said Galyan’s back to their previously threat. declined to sign a misdemeanor ened or flooded homes.
operators and their attorney were Franklin said, but was receding 8D WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 (UP) advised yesterday morning in a at the rate of about a foot every conference with Pat Fisher, dep- 10 hours. uty prosecutor in charge of Mu-| ~ We are out of danger,” Shere Barkley will be nicipal Courts, to bring the mat- iff Franklin said, “but we are chief speaker at a Democratic ter before the Marion County afratdd the highway has been southern. conference ‘in Raleigh, grand jury if they desired to press Washed out. It will be impossible
State Guard
~—=, Last reading for the night at {at Vincennes revealed a river ‘height of 25.67 feet at 9 p. m. The water was still rising at the
i Knox, Ky. arrived yesterday vi wo inv Aime. Ag x
ors a
walls.
Street Commissioner Edsel
erations against water backing up into city streets from sewers.
16th St. no “major trouble” was expected
ee was! “We have about 40 state prise
told the control. A levee break at Blue
groceries | utaries of-the Wabash. | Sheriff Trierweiler said many
planned to return during the day. There were about 60 refugee fame ilies in the Terre Haute area. Approximately 100 square miles were under water as the result
determin- at Lawrenceville, Ill. Thirty-eight
levee breaks, 29 of them at Lawe renceville
The flood threat diminished In ,man in Central Indiana with the receding
reported, by State Police, going
Water was still over Rds. a the store and 46 near Spencer, Sheriff Don
to tell before noon but I doubt !
cigarets, Good outfit. A slight
mention of a fag brought
thro. packs full, too, in the hands On Inside Pages
of AA Fred Kurz, 7016 Evanston 'Ave.. AA ‘Richard Hess, 4821 College Ave. and SA Robert Hart : Section 1 309 E. South St, Martinsville, lowa hospital fire toll- mounts to 38
Ind.. Buddies share. 8N D. L, Carlton. R. R.
(General news and features, Pages 2-12) 18
— . Box 577. was doing a jig in one Section 2 of the aisles. If he wasn't ‘the . . Yue \F ours _ happiest sailor aboard. the special, | Louise Fletcher in New York. , < . New ideas for there's no ice on the fields that baby ‘sitters. . . . Counter-Spy and Katy are slipping by us, He stopped Atkins’ column oo
long enough to explain that he's)
“|drawing pay from his employer g pa DO hel teen talk, gardening, movies, stage, Pages 13-24) |
‘General Motors, and from
(Society, women's news, fashions, homemaking,
| home plus an extra dose of hard ‘ Navy. Add two weeks of sunshine : * work. io, think a hy —yie wo Jail at Cincinnati and interesting duty and it isn't] Section 3 Short Cut The NYDI press week 18 nO o.oo’ yt 100, I'd like to see the CINCINNATI 0. Jan. 7 (UP) hard to understand what makes | Hoosier youth.looks at democracy . .' and likes it. ‘ {chore in itself. There are only 22| piorell hats. Even-more, I'd like Ten prisoners made a Teron him skip.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex, [fashion events on the 5-da ‘ -day sked! eak #t the county jail here to22 top bracket designers yhow-! to see what color hair Walter is P
Jan, T (UP)~A new yellow convertible rolled up ling their
to a San Antonio intersec- |j,otiong, It's the extra-curricular tion just as the Nght gir that calls for-aspirin an
wearing this season. (Last July night: and had a 10-minute start t was sort of brunet following © freedom before the break was
a8 blond period.) discovered.
spring and summer col-
overlgok the. Fisher twins, goes without saying you have look’ twice. CSGI John, 34
Speaking of men with a little! fun on their minds, you can’t
+ (Editorials, world report, politics, radio, Pages 25-32)
1t Indiana wins Big 10 opener from Wisconsin, 61-59; to Butler * clips DePauw; - 50-49; Purdue loses
} The men, six of them charged ‘ : rerti . changed to red. I don't think I'll make it on : overtime, 60-58. ...........c iii. ang 3 30 FO. oe whi) vitamin pills. account of .I don’t think the With robbery or armed robbery, Kansas St. and YNSI Thomas, i ; ; Seems as if every press agent) cut through the . ceilin and 250 N. 16th 8t., Beech Grove, are| . (Eddie Ash, Joe Williams, the Press Box, Hinkle's skidded her car across the |i, New York wants to bend your| etches Phat nour Already, escaped through a Dn floor two of the kind of guys who basketball clinic, other sports, Pages 33-36) pedestrian cross walk and * lear, You're swamped with invi-| {pes ; thinking about it, my feet Ventilator to the roof of the wouldn't look right in anything Se . 4 waited. work tious tations, to breaktusts. luneheons, -. | building. | but blues. They have the flashing, —_— ection and heavy shoes angrily [houses’and supper parties, Last, YOurs for Ground Grippers, (and alles you Just cant sgnose, Model T building halts progress. ............... -asked her; _ time 1 counted, there were 40! Louise. Fletcher. Turn Now to s thi H (Harold Hartley's “The Week in Business.” real “Why don't you back “outside” invitations and when I rere omething on His Mind estate mews, your market for homes and other ap? checked: into the hotel this morn- End of Freeze Seen Section Four BA Raymond Phillips, 934 § classified advertising, Pages 37-48)
“Mind your own bus- ling they handed me another wad
The man stepped onto the scared to
iness,” the woman retorted. |of telegrams and letters. I'm In South California . : Pour kh DY i gD ton open them la LOS ANGELES, Jaf. 7 (UP)— SECTION of today’s Times ._. A storm moving -down the Pacific . . If you are thinking of
running board, up onto the
fender, then to the hood TOMORROW, I believe, is re- Coast is bringing a current of
and down the other side. ferred to
as the day of rest, For warm air that will end a sharp DU ot ho a Ere:
.. His shoes ground dents -. the fashion press, it won't be. Atifreeze in southern California's. property. Youll find
into the hood-and paint. 11 ayem, The woman stared as the stitute is
the National Shoe In- citrus and vegetable districts, the - ¥ A breakfast- weather bureau said today. FACES a ve EAL, a
r throwing “satisfied” pedestrian style stow in the Carlton Suite of, Riverside recorded an all-time : aa walked away. the Ritz Carlton Hotel. From noon|low today of 19 degrees, one de-| ot AHes = woe
to 8 o'clock, if the girls are still gree under the previous mark “and home x LT hungry, they can trot down to the established in the freeze of 1013. 00 "OM h ie ga’ ied Madison 8quarellt dropped to 20 in Indie, ho
New Jersey St., frankly admitted he has something on his mind Inside Features—
that is giving the cruise to Pan-: Amusements .:%:......22.23 | Pattern ..
if traffic can go through for seve - eral days” 3 Illinois Deaths ' The Red Cross estimated that 500 Hoosier , families, involving some 2007 persons, were made homeless by the flood. / Page 5 In the immediate Indianapolis’ area 45 families were evacua ‘with approximately 25 from the Ravenswood area. Red Cross ghelfers were active in the Broad Ripple Christian Church and the Bluff Avenue Baptist Church for a those not cared for by friends Page 13 relatives. y ang Across the Wabash in Illinois, . the Red Cross reported, 1200 pers sons are homeless and three deaths were attributed to the The danger of an Ohio River flood at Cincinnati was y {past but Louisville, Ky., was still |apprehensive while awaiting a | 28-foot flood stage.
Page 33 City's Icy Coat To Stay a While
Indianapolis’ mantle of ice will remain for the second day, with Page 87 ino general thaw in sight, the {weather bureau said last night. Weather experts predicted {mercury would plunge fore dawn today, climb ) > |afternoon and dip to 12 again tos «i. 18 |Dight. bi
ama some competition. The Phil-| Builders :...is:cv055v5... 38 | Politics Meus enrensasangs 27 For the most part, the
lips home is ‘expecting the stork - Business in March and the seaman is won-: Qjassified
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the of the men on the Panama ends. happy. ty Joba Bata,
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