Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 47, Number 50, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 9 March 1945 — Page 2

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SULLIVAN DAILY TTME3- FRIDAY, MARCH 9. 19"45. -

Sullivan, Indiana

ri 1 . I'UUl l.uiw Joe H. Adams Eleanor Poynter Jamison . . . lintercd as second-class matter July Sullivan, Indiana, under the Act o Published daily except Saturday and

United Press Wire Service. National Advertisinf Representative: Tlieis and Simpson,' 3$)3 Seventh Avenue. New York (1) N. Y.

Subscription Kate : By carrier, per week 15 Cents in City By Mail In Sullivan And Adjoining Counties: ... ' , , ' . $1.50 Six Months " Month (with Times furnishing stamped envelope) 30 Cents .. $3.00 By Mail Elsewhere: - $4.00 ear Six .Months ' 2,0" Month (with Times furnishing envelope) 35 Cents PHILIPPINE INDEPENDENCE With the liberation of the. Philippines, the problem of their independence becomes the immediate concern of the npnnltt and Congress of the United States. Under the terms

of the Tydings-McDuffie Act of 1931, the islands are due to become an independent nation on July 4, 1946. In a wave of patriotism and emotion, during the Japanese occupation, Congress passed a resolution which allows the president to proclaim Philippine independence even earlier. Although we have worked toward the political independence of the islands, we have tied them, to the United States economically, with bonds so. strong that they could not exist without us." The destruction of trade and industry, during the war, has aggravated the problems. Moreover, we have made our policy in the Philippines the basis of our propaganda to the Far East. We have boasted about the imminent independence of the islands as a contrast to Japanese policy and have held it up as an example to the Asiatic peoples of what they may expect from us after the war. We have not considered the enemy propaganda possibilities of the economic collapse of the Philippines. The Filipino Rehabilitation commission held its first meeting since the re-occupation, on Feb. 26. 1915, in Washington on the very day on which" General MacArthur, with characteristic p'omp, returned the islands to the. civilian government. As a result of the Filipino plea for 20 years of free trade and adequate war damage compensation, committees "were appointed to study these questions. . The dangers of economic liberation for the islands have long been realized. Senator Tydings, now chairman of the Rehabilitation commission, warned the Filipinos about it in 1935. Paul V. McNutt, who may again be American high commissioner, called for a re-examination of the problem in 1938, He said: ''In economic policy, America has bound the Philippines to her, while at the same time, in political policy. America has presumed to sever the Philippines from her." E. D. Hester, economic advisor to the high commissioner since 1935, s-id in Washington, this week:. ''Unless drastic steps are taken, the depression which will come with' independence will cause resentment against the United Stales. We must make- provisions for free trade and war damages. We must re-establish tire bankrupt financial system and. above all, we must conduct an educational campaign to make the Filipinos themselves understand the connection between political and economic freedom." Since the liberation of Manila, we have proclaimed that in freeing the islands, we are setting an example for all colonial powers with possessions in the east. We picture ourselves as great Mievers in self-determination and generous idealists. The terms of our release of the Philippines am assuredly not generous. The economic provisions of the Tyd-ings-McDuffie Act are alxmt as cold-blooded as could ' be devised. We must find a solution or, the phM.ipn.ines sink and the United States 'loses prestige and ideological leadership throughout the world. The inadequacy of the Philippine proposals stems from the fact that President Qsmena and his, government, are vulnerable. To reiect indeoendence and savej

their country might cost them their political lives. Of the solutions so far suggested,' the most practical would be to postpone independence, but the proposal would have to come from the Filipinos, since the ideological , commitments of the United States make it unlikely that we would or could propose it. Pressure from the. banking and sugar in terests in the islands may make the Osmena government suggest it, . ' The other solutions include a barter agreement, where we would certainly be accused, particularly- in Latin Amer'ca of imitating the Nazis; to, make the islands a dominion which would make us vulnerable to charges of empire-builn-ingtand to make the Philippines the forty-ninth state. The proponents of this idea, primarily the Patterson-McCormick press, have evidently not considered the fact that the population of the Philippines about equals New York and New Jersey combined, which would give them 59 representatives in Congress. On Feb. 27, 19 15, President Osmena, in a surprise, move called, from Manila, for a declaration of the independence of the Philippines on Aug. 13, 1945, the forty-seventh aniiversary of the landing of American forces in the islands. The Filipino Rehabilitation commission, meeting in Washington the day -before, evidently had no advance knowledge of his proposal. . - Behind Osmena's plea, it is understood, is the fact that the Tydings-McDuff ie Act provides that the last government of the commonwealth should be the first independent gov

ernment of the islands. Convinced by local politicians that, the present political influence of the guerrilla leaders and! their civil affairs assistants might prevent his re-election. : Osmena may be taking this means of assuring his cpritihuance in office. This view is supported by Osmena's request to ' his countrymen to "forget petty political differences, to bury the hatred and animosities engendered by' the struggle and

to obey the rule ot law, justice and reason. Further, difficulties arise from the fact that a meeting of the Philippine assembly must be called to approve an independence treaty with the United States. Since 18 out of 24 senators and about half the lower house were collaborationists, a general election for a new legislature will probably have to be called. This, with the economic difficulties of independence completely unsettled, makes it doubtful if the Philippines can really achieve complete freedom from the

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"T SYNOPSIS "Aggie" is the familiar name for Dr. Agamemnon T. Plum, 34, professor and bachelor, whose Aunt Sarah has dragooned him into coming with her to Rainbow Lodge, the family summer home at Indian Stones.' Upon arrival, Aggie found Henry H. Bogarty's card impaled by a hunting knife on the front door frame. "Hank" had wired Sarah, an old friend, suggesting "a new grubstake." "Jim" Calder, a broker, called. After a clash with Aggie, he left. Old John, the family butler, told Aggie that Calder had lost lots of money for investors. The knife, left on the porch rail, is missing. Late that night, Aunt Sarah became very ill, and Aggie motored to Dr. George G. Davis at Medicine Lodge. The doctor's daughter Danielle, escorted Aggie to her father who was working in his photographic dark room. Dr. Davis returned with Aggie. While the former examined Sarah, Aggie trom the porch saw a dog or fox. Next morning, Aggje called on his aunt, quarantined for mumps. She said that Calder's son. Bill (whose marriage to Martha Drayton was one of Sarah's matches) seemed involved with Danielle, and she tells A'gie to keep 'tabs on them. She also reported that Jim Calder did not return home last night. At the club, Aggie meets its manager, Jack Browne, a boyhood playmate, who described his family tragedy and" denounced Jim Calder. Then he introduced Beth Calder and her , escort, Ralph Patton. Later Aggie is "bawled out" by Bill Calder for cutting' in on a phone conversation between Bill and Danielle con cerning a rendezvous at Garnet Knob to which Sarah sends her em barrassed nephew. He hears Bill say to Danielle: "You'll make trouble." Returning through the woods, Aggie makes a ghastly dis covery in a deadfall for bears. Danielle 'comes up and he's just 'tolil her: "Jim Calder's in it-and Itic's dead." i CHAPTER TWELVE Dank-llo stood still. She was 'shucked,, but he could not discern how imii'li or in what way. Her first words, we're peculiar, under the circumstances. "How how Ion;; has lie been there?" . "I'd say since last night. Why ?V .The frill was already recovering her self-possession even her nor1 1 1 ;i I .manner of ve'iomoiis banter. "Alibis.- 'Everybody will have to have them. Mc ''or instance. I wan at home, alone, a od deal of last 1'iijrht because Dad was out on eall. How about yourfs?" "I didn't say Caldei- was murdered." ' She was silent a;raih.' Then she siiriijrjrcdi one" shoulder. "Oh, no, you didn't. One simply assumes I guess that if .Jim Calder died it would be because somebody had ione him in. He was marked for murder. There wore times when I .'ould have done it when I was lit;le and he went away wilh Mother. Dad could have. I wonder if he did?" "Are you talking that way because you think it's funny or because you're rocky?" "Because it's the way 1 talk. Can you say oft'hand - just w hat is iionual'for this little meeting? Are you i-tiijr normally popping out of the woods like a jrhoul and telling me that Jim Calder, whom I've known and baled all my life, is dead in some sort of trap? Telling me as 't vou were giving the homework PAXTON Gail Wilson of Sullivan, spent Sunday vyith Miss Laura Ann pox. Mrs. George Lisman and Mrs. Bertha Lee were Sunday guests of Wm. McKinley and family. Mr. and Mrs. George Raley and daughters called on Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Cox Sunday afternoon. Mrs. O. L. Somers visited in Caktown with her ' sister, Mrs. Ptiith Blann and family, over Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Hinkle Wheaton were here last Friday evening. Mrs. Lois Houpt of Indianapolis, was here Thursday visiting relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Cress Dailey and Mr. and Mrs. Charley Smith were in Sullivan Saturday night, shop ping and attending a show. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Shake, Sr'1 called on Mr .and Mrs. Ben Shake,

FOR SALE 150-ACRE FARM Vi clay. sand; mile. from State Road 6-'), miles from State Road y," 1 miles from Merom. Ind., 11 miled trom Sullivan, tnd. On good gravel roful. School route. 2 sets of buildings 1 modern 7-room cement block house with bath, hot and cold water, furnace, electricity. New; pHill,ry house, double, garage., smoke house, barn, new corn crib. 2 wells, cistern, 6-i'6om frame House, smoke house, cellar, barn, 42.o6: new tool shed, corn crib, stock scales, 2 wells, cistern,, large, hog house..' Never failing spring,' 200 rods of new woven wire fence. .Priced to. sell, A, L, HARRIS, Owner . R. . 2. Sullivan, Ind.

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assignment for a class in biology? Let me look at him." "That won't be necessary." Her eyes still had color, even in the dusk, and it was a greenish color. Her lips smiled. "Maybe not. But two witnesses are better than one. Somebody else may find him aiter this and change something, for instance. Besides, I've seeu plenty of dead people and I'd like to see what I think myself. I inherit that quality from Dad." He led her to the deadfall and leaned against a tree while she made a thorough reconnaissance. When she had finished, she said, "We better go down to the club and call the police." "Yes." "Somebody could have built that thing heaven knows why it doesn't look as ft it would catch a cow, let alone a bear. He may have fallen into it. Or somebody may have hit him, and carried him up here, and made that thing, and dropped it on him to cover up the original blow." "Then there'd be two sets of tracks." Danielle glanced at him. "Not if the somebody put on Jim Calder's shoes and carried the body. You'd have to be awfully good to be able to demonstrate that. The ground's hard." "Sophomore biology homework," he said. "What?" "You're talking like the professor. You're a peculiar girl." "I'm the ruins of what was a good one." "Let's go to the club. We can discuss your character all summer I was eavesdropping on you and Bill just now. Interesting when the female undertakes to become a cad. Interesting but unconvincing." They went down the hillside. Danielle made the call to the police, whom, she said, she knew. In any event, when she asked for "Wes" she was put through. She told the story tersely. When she had finished she turned to Aggie. "Wes wants us to round up everybody we can here. He'll go up on Garnet Knob with some men and then join us. I'll start by getting Dad and pick up anybody I can, on the way." They left the library. Aggie went across to the desk. Through the archway, he could see numerous people irrthe dining room families who were eatingj at the club until their kitchens were in working order and individuals who used the club dining facilities all summer. He beckoned Jack from work. He told jhim what he had found and what) bad been done about it and what the police Had,-requested;' H kept' his voice low. Jack listened with a blank, meaningless look. His face perspired and he wiped the back of his hand across it. J "All right," he said finally. "I'll go into the dining room and make an announcement. I don t know exactly what Wes wants but if he said he wanted everybody I'll have everybody." He gazed for a mo ment at Aggie. "Was the old mart killed by accident or on purpose, do you think?" "1 couldn't say." Jack's jaw nmsel"? set. "I hope it was on purpose: he wm-p-.-red. I h"e be saw it coming -and was frigiUeiK'd!" Then he drew a breath. 'Tin sorrv. I hated Calder." He shook himself. "Have to get in to tlKit old, soothing mood for the customers! You had the t right Jr., and family last Friday evening. ' Mrs. Evelyn Sexton of Indianapolis, was a guest of Mr. and Mrs. Herb Snyder and family Thursday evening of last week. She also visited her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Cox. 1 George Boling of Chicago, spent the -week-end at his home here. Ezra M. Cox took Mrs. Phyllis Stringer and Dian to their home in Peru last Friday alter a few weeks' visit here with Mr. and Mrs. Herb Snyder. Mr. Stringer is stationed at Bunker Hill Naval Base. Ed Minich of Carlisle, called on Miss Maude Daugherty Saturday afternoon. j Donald Fleener of South Bend, spent the week-end with his sister, Mrs. Charles Hancock and family. ' ! Mrs. Lois VanMeter and child-1

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hunch' this afternoon when you had me send out guys to look for Calder, didn't you?" His expression changed once again. "Here comes Beth. You take care of her, will you?.' Her brother and the Draynians haven't come for dinner yet and it would be rotten for her to find it out by me just stepping forward and announcing it." Aggie said, "Sure." He turned. Beth had come partway across the foyer. She saw him and smiled. "There you are! All covered with burs and Spanish bayonettes! Been on a nature walk!" Her manner was a mockery of the most fatuous maternal patter almost baby-talk. She was kidding him. "Beth," he said, "I want to talk with you. Come on out to the solarium." Already he could hear Jack Browne's voice beginning his "announcement.". Her very dark eyes caught,-fully, the expression in his.- She looked surprised. Her voice dropped half an octave. "Is this going to be serious, professor? I've just hoard the darnedest thing! Cynthia Symmonds says Sarah is going to promote a match, and who do you think between? You and me! Of course I don't know a dinosaur bone from a piece of driftwood. But I'm nice in other ways " Aggie flushed darkly. This was tough. They were, by that time, on the threshold of the sun porch. He struggled with the self-consciousness she had thrust upon him and the incongruity of such a thing at this time. He kept looking at her. "I've got a shock for you," he said. "And it's not funny and I hope you won't faint." "Yes," she said in a still lower voice. "Something's the matter. What, professor?" She was no longer teasing him. "Your father's dead. lie was killed in a a homemade .trap set for bears in the woods apparently last night, after he'd left Sarah's place. By accident." He added that gratuitously, Beth sat down on a corner of the prng-pong table. "Got a cigarette?" "Only my pipe." "Never mind." She sighed unevenly. "Are you sure it was ar. accident?" There was the same doubt this time expressed by the dead man's daughter. "I think so. One car. never be sure offhand." "I'm glad," she said presently. "Glad?" She nodded and slung her head in such a way that half her black hair was thrown back over her shoulder. "In a way. You wouldn't want to live with a father like that! ' To.' know some of the destructive and some of the sinister things he's dona! To be afraid always there were others or that a new and worse one would be done anv minute!" She hesitated. "Bill and Martha and Mrs. Drayman were coming" right along behind me. I'll go and catch them. They won't want to eat dinner here now," "The police want everybody they-s-aid to be here. They're com- -ing'. You tell them and bring them back." "Thank you." she said. Aggie nodded. "You're being pretty sound about this, Beth." "I am sound," she said. ."Perhaps because Dad was so unsound and neither Bill nor I ever approved of it." (To be continued) ru'.-TisM. in).:. iv I'hiiiu ivyinj DlMtll-iiitu l Klnt Kaalurcj syndicala. Ida. ren of Carlisle, attended church here Sunday and spent the day with Mr. and Mrs. Jesse MeCam. mon. Mrs. Roxie McCammon is visiting her sister, Miss Maude Daugherty this week. Paul Wright of Sullivan, called on Virgil Higgins Monday evening. Mrs. Chester Lloyd and Jerry returned home Monday morning from Camp Robinson, Arkansas, where they had visited Pvt. Chester Lloyd. Noble Stoner of Fort Wayne, Ind., spent the week-end here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Stoner. John T. McCammon. of South Bend, is visiting relatives and friends here for a few days. DAILY TIMES OPEN FORUM Letters and Interviews of a -iuitahlc. nature and proper news-oapi-r interest are sought for this oliimn, the editor reserving the ife'ht lo censor or reject any ariclc lift may deem is not suitable nd proper. Articles of 500 words r less are preferred. All articles ent to the Open Forum must be ;iffncd and address f iven, in order that the editor may know Hie writer, however, the writcr'a ame will not be published if requested. Articles published nereln do lot necessarily express the sentlncnt of the Daily Times and this paper may or may not agree with itatementj contained herein.

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NOTICK OF AIM'OIXTMKNT Notice is hcKby S'vi-n that' tliu unuVrsign'-d has t,(1n appointed Executor of Hip estate of Fannie E. Sinclair deceased late of Sullivan County. Indiana. Said estate is supposed to be solvent. IRVIN H. SCOTT. Sxecutor. Jesse E. Bedwell, Attorney. 1st ins 2-23-4531. Quit paying rent and own a home. Special bargains 01 property on installment plan. Also farms for sale. W. T MELLOTT on lOAFIS INCOME TAXES Do you have income taxes lo pay on MARCH J 5?. In this connection, don't for.uct the "unforgiven" portion of your taxes on which you may have postponed payment from last year, find out what yot? owe. Oct the cash from us to pay your tuxes . . . NOW. Fidelity Loan Co. Upstairs Middle East Side Sq. Then why net give them a lift with Reliners For Truck & Passenger Tires $2.50 Don't fret about replacing worn out Tail Pipes " & Mufflers Just bring your car here. We have tail pipes and mufflers for sale and will install them for you. Tire Repairing Tire repairing done quickly, expertly. We are equipped to give you the best in Vulcanizing Service Also ' Recapping When shopping for a battery don't take a chance with an unknown make. Be ?ure. you buy one of the famous tested and proved Atlas Batteries HUD'S Standard Service (Vickrey's)

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