Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 47, Number 66, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 2 April 1945 — Page 2

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SULLIVAN DAILY TIMES-MONDAY, APR. 2, 1945. RATIONING SUMMARY

Sullivan, Indiana Telephone 12 Paul Poynter Publisher Joe H. Adams Editor Eleanor Poynter Jamison Manager and Assistant Editor Entered as second-class matter July 1, 1908 in the Postoffice at Sullivan, Indiana, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Published daily except Saturday and Sunday at 115 West Jackson St. United Press Wire Service. National Advertising Representative: Theis and Simpson, 393 Seventh Avenue, New York (1) N. Y. Subscription Rate: By carrier, per week 15 Cents in City By Mail In Sullivan And Adjoining Counties: Six Months $1.50 Month (with Times furnishing stamped envelope) 30 Cents Year $3.00 By Mail Elsewhere: Year $4.00 Six Months $2.00 Month (with Times furnishing envelope) 35 Cents THE WORLD WILL WATCH OUR ACTION TOWARD SPAIN Spain's dictator, General Franco, bet on Fascism and lost. Today as Hitler, the greatest Fascist of all, totters, Franco's regime is being opposed by forces from both the left and the right, the army, business and the Catholic clergy. His government went into power by force and has maintained that power by force, but the fuel that kept his engine

running has now been cut off Paradoxically. Franco owes

Falange, are to both the Axis and the Allies. The Axis, preparing for World War II, used Spain as a testing ground.

They pitted their might with

ernment of Spain and won. Because they raised the cry of

communism, other nations stood by and watched the Franco

bandits kill the republic. Then as the war between Germany and England and France developed, the Allies, including the United States, did business with Franco. They excuse this on several grounds:

1. It neutralized Spain at

in the war on Germany's side could have slowed victory, cost us a lot of lives. 2. We were able to keep war material from Hitler by buying it from Spain ourselves. But today there is no Axis to help Franco and the Allies have been able to end their preclusive buying. How this latter development affects the Franco regime is told in an article in the current Fortune magazine after a "firsthand report" from the country based on interviews with, government officials and businessmen. "The honeymoon on Allied money that World War I gave Franco's regime is over," Fortune asserts. "The Ameri can and British governments have poured $160,000,000 into Spanish economy since 1941. Most of this sum was spent fo wolfram, the ore of tungsten, indispensable in the making o armor and armor-piercing bullets. Germany's only sources o wolfram were Spain and Portugal and the Allies spent an spent to keep her from getting it, and claim they were suc cessful. "The liberation of France removed the Nazis from the Spanish border and also the Allied need to buy Spanish wolf ram. It removed Franco's chief economic support." Spain's net gain from this soon will be spent, goods ge scarcer, prices continually rise, the masses of Spain grimly wait for the disintegration of the Falange to begin, says Fortune. The Falange alone keeps Franco in power. His plans for Spain are still in the blueprint state. The public debt is higher. The standard of living is lower. Price have soared, but wages have been kept to the 1936 level: the average is 90 cents a day. Black markets are thriving. There is bitter conflict between private business and Franco's state. Corruption is rampant. The army is jealous of the Falange. The church is now opposing Franco. When Franco falls will Spain's troubles be over? Fortune says NO. "The root of cause of Spain's troubles is the same under Franco as it was before he overthrew the Republic and it will be when Franco is eliminated. In a word it is the fact that Spain has never had an industrial revolution...whether Franco departs peacefully or violently, the perennial problem of Spain will still have to be settled. Until the land has been given the peasants in the south, and industry in the north gets a chance to develop, Spain will continue to be the most explosive element in western Europe," in the opinion of For tune. Where does America fit into this picture? "American productivity will be needed to help reconstruct Spain . . . future United States policy will be scrutinize.

both by Latin American nations and by liberated European countries to see whether our efforts are expended on behal of a totalitarian state or a democracy," says Fortune.

We never liked appeasement of Spain, even during the

war, but the world may forgive us for that. But it certainly won't forgive any future dealing with Fascists. We must insist on a democracy before we extend any aid to Spain.

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CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Aggie had shut his eyes. Sun fell in slanted rays through the pines. It touched his face and accentuated the concentration there. Then, suddenly, one eyebrow twitched and his beard moved with the impulsion of a smile. "I've got it, Wes," he said quietly. "It'll be easy to check the places Bogarty stopped en route here. A cinch." "Yeah? How?" "Because he was carrying in that car a silver fox with a collar. A thing people would notice, hunh?" The trooper's handsome face was indulgent. "And that brilliant deduction comes from what, doctor?" "Deduction? Nonsense! You can't deduce facts like that! It's a memory. Why did I think the fox was a dog? I was sitting on the veranda rail and I said to myself, 'There's a dog.' I was sure of it. The beast saw my pipe smoke and turned. 'No,' I said to myself, 'it's not a dog. It's a fox.' Then Dr. Davis came from Sarah's room and I dumped the whole matter out of my head. Well I've thought back. That fox had a collar on it." "Collar!" , "Yeah. He came down the road in the early light-and he was wearing a collar. I must have seen the glint of metal-or the curve of leather. So I thought of dog. Anyway, I remember he had a collar. Then he turned, and I saw it was a fox, and I erased the collar from my mind. Foxes don't have collars. Because I became certain was a fox, I assumed I'd been mistaken about the collar. That's how people think, Wes. At least-such loopy processes are what pass for thinking among us. Bogarty raised silver foxes a hobby and this one must have been a pet. Or a present, brought it along-" The trooper was impatient, again, to enter the discussion. "I'll check at once. And if Bogarty did have a fox along-and didn't shoot off into the lake here, in which case the fox might have escaped with its e but it would hardly have come round the lake to Indian Stones in order to bite Calder on the back of

he hand-then Bogarty carried it into Calder's house-" "Or led it on a leash " " and they scrapped-and the fox bit Calder-and got away-" the trooper stared toward the water. One of the boats was moving into shore. "All right," he continued. "We've doped out a lot, Bogarty did see Calder. The bite makes that pretty clear. Always assuming he was traveling with one of his foxes, of course. And you happened to spot the fox in the morning-which is lucky for mebecause it means that I want to find out where this Bogarty guy is, in the worst way." He raised his voice, Yes, sergeant?" The man at the oars of the boat News Of The City Schools Journalism S. H. S. Class of SHOP BOYS ON PROJECT Two of Mr. Martin's shop boys are getting some very valuable practical experience in their mechanical drawing. Bill Sevier and Lloyd Bolding have been working out at the local plant of the Kraft Cheese company drawing sketches of the hydrauic press now in use for wrapping and sealing cheese under presure. These sketches were then used by the boys in the classroom as guides to making complete working drawings of the machinery with the object of discovering new improvements in the methods. Their mechanical drawings may be used to apply for and obtain patents from the United States Bureau of Patents. This project under direct supervision of the research engineer of the plant has been valuible as a test of the practical application of theory learned in their classroom. Three or four other such projects will be given to boys to try their abilities. LEAVES FOR SERVICE

A depression hung over the every/year of service. The folusual exuberant spirits of our/lowing graduating seniors will

high school seniors recently at the prospect of losing the first member of this year's class to the service of his country. Dick Bill-. man, who has been an unusually popular member of his class having been on both the football and basketball teams, treasurer of the Hi-Y club, business manager of the year-book staff and always dependable in any capacity he was called on to fill, left to report for duty in the United States Navy. Not only the members of his class, but underclassmen and teachers as well feel a loss at Dick's leaving and not being able to share in the honor and social activities of graduation with his classmates which mark the goal of four years high

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called back, "We've, covered every possible inch, captain!" "Keep on, though. Might be a current that could move the body. I gotta be positive Bogarty isn't lying on the bottom of that lake." "How is the bottom?" Aggie asked. "Eh? Oh. Sandy. Some rocks. Muck farther up. Snags.. But when we quit, it'll be because we are pretty certain Bogarty isn't in that pond! I must say, Plum, I'm grateful to you. Sort of relieved, too. You know those people are all good friends of mine. And they're pretty good people as people go excepting one or two. -I hate to see 'em in a mess. And it gives yon feathers in the stomach when you find yourself in the lino of duty wondering which of your best friends might be guilty of a murder." Sarah had taken to her bed; her mumps were undoubtedly worse. It seemed to Aggie, however, that her physical decline was due more to mental clauses. She greeted his statement that Bogarty's body was probably not in the pond with a sullenness he had never seen in her. She said she' was too tired to talk. The afternoon had faded into a yelIqw sunset across which streamed bluish clouds in long, horizontal pennons. It was a northern sky. Aggie went to his room and looked at it awhile as he dressed for dinner. He reflected that the act represented a complete change of his original program. A double change, in fact. He had at first been loath to dine at the clubhouse; he had agreed to do so because Sarah had wanted to know the minor scandals brewing there. Then he had revolted against that, because the scandals had risen to vast if shadowy proportions. Now he was preparing'to go voluntarily to the club because of his own consuming interest He had become, indeed, a prototype of his aunt an enlarged prototype full of curiosity, eager to pry into anybody's intimate life. He went up the steps of the clubhouse almost blithely. His absorption had submerged his social awkwardness. There were people in the dining room and people in the solarium. Jack Browne was standing near the front door, talking to Mrs. Drayman, When he saw Aggie, he left her."Glad you're up," he said amiably. "Place is like a mausoleurti. I mean rather a haunted house. Everybody! has the jitters." r He grinned boyishly. "You know, Aggie, that beard of yours gave me a shock, the day you checked in. Did I show it?" Aggie sm,iled back. "Moderately." "I'm sorry as the deuce. Beth's around. Looking for you. Talking about you like a windmill. You've made a conquest there, paL" Aggie's grin precipitated. "Where is she?" "Playing table tennis with i school work. Tom Kerlln, Junior Jones, and Curt Hunt, who have also been among the most popular members of their class are already enlisted in the navy and expecting their cali at any time: IN SCHOOL NEWS STAFF "Becky" Brumette brought the journalism class a copy of the school paper of Johnson College in Tennessee where Joe is now attending ministerial school. It seems that Joe is doing all right down there. He has been made art and cartoon editor on their school paper staff, he gave a chalk talk before the student body. One of his pictures is to be framed and hung in their society hall, and he was second high man. in number of points made during their season. Joe is planning on to Sullivan for the basketball returning week-end beginning April 14th friends are looking and all his forward to seeing him. He writes that he likes the school fine but is getting hungry for some of "mom's" cooking. BAND GETS SERVICE STRIPES i The Band . Parent's club have purchased service stripes for the members of the high school band, t These stripes are very attractive, , purple and gold background, and j will be worn on the left sleeve of the uniform, one strine for have four stripes on their sleeves having had four years of service 1 a to their credit: Myra Hubert Houpt, Regina Laughlin, Gardner, Mary Lou Suavely, Mary Jean Keys, Dola Vickrey, Norman Wolfe, Goldie Hadei, Kentz Mprrical, Alice Hamilton, Clara Sacra. HEALTH rOTERS, The study hall was arrayed in many colorful posters illustrating health laws. These wore mad by Mr. Fisher's biology classes as an end to a unit of study on digestion foods and nutrition, The pictures set forth very vividly and appeallngly rules for ood ; health and since there are more than one hundred of them, they , should have made some impres-

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Ralph as usual. I'll go out with you" ,' ' ' ' ' 1 " Aggie shook his head. "I wanted a bearing on her to go the other way. She intimidates me." The club manager chuckled. "Beth's all right. Not what you'd call soft-spoken but boy! If that raven, ravishing dream girl were waiting for me with the look in her eye she's got tonight I'd run thither and not at a dogtrot either!" Aggie was embarrassed. "Speaking of dogs," ha said, "that wasa't a dog that bit Jim Calder. It was a fox. Renember you suggested that the chef's mutt was the size of a fox?" Jack seemed momentarily not to catch the drift of this new subject. Then he nodded brightly. "Yeah. A fox! How in the world can they tell?" "A guess." Aggie wondered if he'd let out too much of the trooper's information or, rather, his suspicion. "Do they think that Calder was killed?" Aggie shrugged. The other man's blue and slightly wistful eyes grew cloudv. "I hope he was! If I'd known what Calder was going to cause Dad to do I'd have shot him myself. Which shows you that anybody can kill a person, I suppose." , Danielle was entering through the French doors in the billiard room. Aggie watched her. His answer to Jack was offhand. "I can imagine how you felt. . Still your father shouldn't have done what he did. I mean you made an adjustment to not having money." He stumbled on his words. Here he was, again blundering into embarrassment with Jack. "Sorry, fellow, Don't mean to hurt your feelings." Jack's eyes shone. "It's okay, Aggie. Sorry I popped it out." Danielle was coming toward them. Her words, spoken to carry halfway across the lounge, were bold. "Hello, Aggie, my duck! Yon swim like one, anyhow! Sorry I tipped you over this afternoon." Aggie had the feeling that Danielle wanted everyone to hear her apology. He was sure of it as she continued to talk and to walk toward him in a pale amethyst dress that made her hair seem extrava gantly bright and burning gold, brass, copper. "The rotten Davis temper! I'm proud of my education, and you shouldn't have insulted it even if you have more degrees than Einstein." ' He had not insulted her education. She was close to him now, and she spoke in a more normal tone. "Forgive me?" He wondered if she was always alibiing herself in public with little,. meaningless cnaraaes. "it would be hard to forgive you." be answered. "if I'd been tinable to swim.frj jjjr, ( Jo be continued V , Dlitniiuted sion on the student body during the time they have been on exhibit. BLUE TRI MEETING Last month's meeting of the Blue Tri club was held at' the home of Regina Gardner. After the president,. Ilena Warford, called the meeting . to order, members responded to the roll call by stating what they wanted most after the War. New business taken up was the making of plans for the coming MotherDaughter banquet and the party in conjunction with the Silver Tri and Hi-Y clubs. ! Devotions were in charge of Barbara Lou Stark,' on the subject of profitable leisure time. The poem "Around the Corner" was given as an illustration of one being too busy to have" leisure time. Myrna Lewellyn also read a poem entitled " My Creed." The most important part of the evening's program1 was the guest speaker, Rev. Homer Weisbecker of the Presbyterian Church, who talked on his experiences as a missionary in Thailand. TYPING CLASSES Typing charts showing the records of speed and accuracy of the beginning typing students have been changed rapidly. Myra Laughlin now is in the lead with a gross record of sixty-two words per minute and a net of fortyfive words per minute. Marv Donnelly is in second place with gross of sixty-one words and a net of forty-six words. Edward Lamb is close runner up with fifty eight gross and forty-eight net.- .. . A novel teaching method is being tried in the typing clsms in that each student is "paid" for his work according to its worth. They are now studying the writ ting of business letters and each student has been given "pay" for his letters. For a perfect letter fifteen "cents" is credited to the student's account. One error ! causes the letter to be worth onlv ten cents, two errors in a letter receives only eight cents and so on down. No credit is given for letters having more- than five errors. At the end of the unit on

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Cold Pnpantt6Bra$idiict& letter writing, those who have the most "money" to their credit will rate the highest grades. Penalties must be paid for failure in marking mistakes,' erasures, poor placement, ano so forth. This payment system has stimulated an unusual amount of interest. CONVOCATION MEETINGS . Two convocations were held at the high school recently. Monday's "convo" was a patriotic one at which two members of the local American Legion Post presented a minute man flag to the school for having ninety percent of its students buying' stamps. The third in a series of preEaster programs was held Tuesday morning, with Paul Buckley as chairman. The high school trio composed of Myra Laughlin, Bernadyne Hull, and Naomi Hedrlck sang two beautiful numbers, "Lift Up Thine Eyes" and "Father Teach Me To Know." They were accompanied by 'Miss Mildred Williams, teacher of vocal music. Wendell Fleming led in prayer, after which Rev. Wyman Hull of the Baptist Church was introduced as the speaker of the day. Choosing his subject from the currently popular spiritual, "You've Got To Ac-cent-chuate J the Positive" Rev. Hull appealed . to his youthful audience. Follow- v ing the words of the song, "ac centuate lhepositive and eliminate the negative" he pointed out that it was more difficult to build than to tear down, that optimism was better than pessimism, love greater than hate, faith preferable to pandemonism. The service closed with his benediction. POET INSPIRED ! All the movies being shown to the history classes on our South American neighbors must be taking effect. One young lady, at least, has been inspired to poetry on the subject: I came to visit Venezuela, To see Caracas too, To visit Bogota, Colombia, LaPaz, Bolivia, and Lima, Peru. You might like to see Santiago, Chile, Asuncion in Paraguay with me, Buenos Aires in Argentina, And Montevideo in Uruguay, si? Would you visit Rio de Janeiro, In the country of Brazil? Just sail up the Amazon river, If you'd like to have a thrill. Traverse the Orinoco river, Or the Magdalina, either one, I'll choose the LaPIata river, How fast its waters run! ' j One river left, the Parana, j For us to. visit, then whee I It's back home to Indiana And the good old Wabash for me! Hallie Fisk. I Quit paying rent and own home. Special bargains oi properly on installment plan. Also farms for sale. W. T MELLOTT

PUBLIC SALE Will offer at public sale on THURSDAY, APRIL 5

Beginning at 1:00 P.M. At the W. H. Huff farm, 4 Vi miles west of Sullivan, 1-2 mile west of the Ogle school house: 1 cow; 1 wsgon; mower; roii.r; walking plow; harrow; fence stretchers: log chains; hedge corner posts; V32S Dodge sedan; 1,10x16 ft. brooder house; 1 double hog house; brooder stoves; 2 iron kettles; 400 bu. corn; 4 Axminster rugs; 1 large Florence healing stove; 1

Charter Oak range; 1 gas healing stove; 2 congoleum rugs; .ice box; bulfet; dresser; chairs; leather Duofold;

library table; radio table; piano; 2 beds; 1 day bed; kitchen cabinet; 2 kitchen safes; kitchen tables; 1 alarm clock;

1 heth Thomas eight-day clock; 3 battery radios; 1 Aladdin lamp; 1 gasoline lamp; 1 mare, 8 yrs. old, 1.100 lbs.; horse, 12 yrs. old; horse, .1 yrs. old; one John Deere corn planter. Other articles too numerous to mention. Not responsible in case of accidents. Terms Cash.

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two red points and 4 cents forJ each pound of waste fats. Meats, Cheese and Dairy Products Book 4 red stamps Q5 25, A2 and D2 invalid June 2. E2 through J2 invalid after June 30. Processed Foods Book 4 blue stamps X5 .through (Z5 and A2 and B2 invalid March 31. C2 and G2 invalid April 28. H2 and M2 invalid June 2. N2 through S2 invalid after June 30. Sugar Stamp 3b valid for five pounds until June 2. All sugar stamps must last three months now. Another sugar stamp is expected to become good May 1. Shoes Book b airplane stamps I, 2 and 3 valid indefinitely; OPA says no plans to cancel any. Gasoline 14-A cuupons valid everywhere for four gallons each through March 21. B-5, C-5, B-6, C-6, B-7 and C-7 coupons good everywhere for five gallons each. Fuel Oil Old period 4 and 5 and new period, 1, 2, 3 and 4 coupons valid in the Midwest throughout current heating year. A Masonic W Lodge No. 263 Sullivan Lodge No. 263 F. & A. M., staled meeting April 3 at 7:30 p. m. Work in the F. C. Degree. All members are urged to attend. Visitors welcome. Earl Handford, W. M. - Russell Inbody, Sec. Council No. 73 Sullivan Council No. 73, K. and S. M., will have a call meeting Wednesday evening, April 4, at 7:30 o'clock. Business of importance. All members are urged to attend. ' Clyde Cooksey, I. M. Earl Handford, Rec. DAILY TIMES OPEN FORUM' Letters and Interviews of a suitable nature and proper newspaper interest are sought for this column, thfl editor reserving the right lo censor or reject ans article he way deem is not suitable and proper. Articles of 500 word or less arc preferred. All articles sent lo the Open Forum must be signed and address given, in order that the editor may know the writer, however, the writer's name will not be published if requested. Articles published Herein do not necessarily express the sentl-. mrnt of the Daily Times and this paper may or may not agree wltb statements contained, herein. When your feet hurt, you hurt all over. Repair your shoes with best material and expert workmanship. We sell Army shoes without stamp, and we buy. S & S SHOE REPAIRING 25 Years Est. Denny De Frank 1 floor south of Index. HUFF WM.. WATSON.

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