Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 47, Number 235, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 27 November 1945 — Page 1

rvrr COLDER Indiana: Mostly cloudy tonight. Colder southwest portion Wednesday; generally fair with little change in temperature. BV DUVIUC BONDS Ml ; VOL. XLVII No. 235 UNITED PRESS SERVICE SULLIVAN, INDIANA TUESDAY, NOV. 27, 1945. INTERNATIONAL PICTURE SERVICE PRICE THREE CENTS

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Men And Womeit With The Colors ADDRESS . Pvt. James R. Adams, 35990337, Co. G, 511th Parachute Inf., APO 468, c-o P. M., San Francisco, Cal. NEW ADDRESS Pfc. Scott Beasley, 35727730, Co. B, 3184th Sig. Sec. Bn., APO 5G2, c-o P. M., New York City N. Y. BACK IN STATES Sgt. Robert Clarkson Jr., son Mr. and Mrs. Robert vClarkof 721 South section street VI husband of Doris Foutz Irkson, has arrived back in states after thirty-five liths in the . South Pacific. was at Guadalcanal! New ftuanu, iew uuinea, uibiu Lil was with the occupational ps at Nagoya, Japan. He will e " home Saturday and exto be discharged in the near Ire. "Back To Civvies." JAMES BENSON DISCHARGED '- SHEPPARD FIELD, Texas. Pvt. James Benson, Shelburn,! . lnd., R. R. 2, .husband of Juanita 'Benson, 1427 Spring St., Ft. Wayne,' lnd., has been honorably discharged from the AAF at the separation center here. ' Prior to-entering the services lie was employed as a salesman with trie"' "Standard- Oil Co. Ho' Li " he father of James R., age 3 years, and Jackie Carol, 4 months. ,'CY BRADBURN DISCHARGED . Cyril. G. .Bradburn, a former resident of Sullivan and who was recently discharged from the Navy after 28 months service, much of which was spent overseas in both the Pacific and Atlantic, visited in Sullivan briefly Sunday. Mr. Bradburn was en route to Bloomfield to resume his I ork with the state Public SerLvice Commission. He was a Chief (Pharmacist's Mate, and went I ashore several times in support of v Marine invasions of Pacific Inlands. He is entitled to wear jfive battle stars and numerous jother campaign ribbons and unit (citation awards. V PFC. SPURLIN DISCHARGED IPfc. Benjamin J. Spurlin. son f Mr. and Mrs. Millard Spurlin Sullivan, received an ihonor!le discharge from the 35th In fantry Division at Camp Breckin dge, Ky., Separation Center.

Pfc. Spurlin spent 15 months inlvme Indiana, and planned to en

Scotland, England, "France, Lux iembourg. Belgium and Germany as a machine gunner in the Infantry. He wears the Combat Infantryman Badge, the Purple I Heart with Oak Leaf' Cluster, IF..T.O. Ribbon with four Bronze Stars, World War II Victory Med ial,; Army of Occupation Ribbon, Good Conduct, and a presidential citation. . , ', Mr. Spurlin will work under Civil Service at Crane, lnd., until next fall, when he will enter colege. ATTERBUKY DISCHARGES CAMP ATTERBURY, Indiana, Nov. 27 Among Indiana men discharged at the Atterbury Separation Center Saturday, November 24th, and Sunday, Movember 25th were: Pfc. William C. Borders, Jr., .28 North State St., Sullivan. I Pfc. Duane D. Spencer, 464 S. Vcetion St., Sullivan. I T4 Earl H. Phegley, RFD 1, r-ullivan. SSgt. Herbert L. Badger, 110 outh Crowder St., Sullivan. DISCHARGED AT FT, KNOX FORT KNOX, Ky., Nov. 27 Vmong enlisted, men given disNiarges from the Army of the 'mted States, by Brie. Gen. iieorge D. Wahl, post command)r, at the Fort Knox Separation enter recently was: Sgt. Charlie A. Buchanan, RFD , Carlisle, lnd.

E OF Emery Leo Ransford, 17, Died In Hospital Here Without Regaini n g Consciousness. Emery Leo Ransford, 17, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ross Ransford of Graysville, died at the Mary Sherman hospital at 3:35a. m. today as the result of injuries sustained in a head-on automobile collision west of Sullivan about midnight Saturday. The popular youth, a graduate of the Graysville high school with the class of 1945, sustained a fractured skull in the accident which also seriously injured two other Turman township youths. He did not regain consciousness after the wreck occurred and although he rallied slightly yesterday, little hope had been held for his recovery. The body was removed to the Railsback Funeral Home and will be taken to the residence in Graysville Wednesday. Funeral arrangements have ' not been completed pending word from relatives in California, however, it is known that the rites will be held at the Methodist Church in Graysville of which the deceased - was a member. The Ransford youth was riding -m an automobile driven by Paul Gene Wible, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Wible of west of Graysville, when the Chrysler coupe was m collision with a Ford coupe driven byDavid Loudermilk, 15, Graysville high school student. Wible and Ransford were en route to their homes from Sullivan and Loudermilk, who is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Perry Loudermilk, was en route east to his home which is located, near the scene of the tragedy on State Highway 154, about six miles west of Sullivan. Conditions of both the other youths were reported as satisfactory at the Mary Sherman hospital today. Wible sustaioned a broken pelvis and Loudermilk sustained a broken leg. Both also received numerous lacerations and severe bruises. Emerv Leo Ransford was born in Turman township and hadl spent his entire life in the Graysville community. He is 'survived by the parents; one brother, John William, and one sister, Wanda Lou, both at home. A number of uncles, aunts and other relatives mourn his untimely death, along with a host of friends. The victim of the tragedy had been awarded a scholarship to I Central Normal College at Danroll in the school this week-end. He was a member of the varsity basketball team at Graysville high school last year and was active in many school activities. He had been employed at the Deming Hotel in Terre Haute for some time. Seek Bodies Of Children Drowned In Bus Tragedy FIRST CREEK. Washington, I Nov. 27 (UP) A little group of parents huddled in common misery on the shores of beautiful Lake Chelan today as divers resumed searching for a school bus which carried 15 children and its driver to death in the deep, cold waters. The tragedy, which occurred yesterday during a snowstorm when the vehicle struck ;a boulder on the cliff-tOD country , road and plunged into the lake, left four of the families child less. Two children were lost in each of six families. Only five children were left alive, in the entire, sprawling 25-mile Creek , rural area. Authorities said that the illfated bus and its lifeless . load might have sunk so deep into the almost bottomless lake that it might never be found.

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Terminal Leave Lieutenant Colonel John T. Hays, A. C, returned to his home here Saturday from Washington, D. C, on terminal leave from the Army. Col. Hays will be discharged on January 30th. He entered the Army in the spring of 1942 and went to the European Theater of Operations July 1, 1942, being at Allied Force Headquarters as the representative of, the Services of Supply during the preparations for the African invasion, v He was a member of the theater G-4 staff, having to do with supply during the winter of 1942-'43. From March until October 1st, 1943 he was instructor and executive officer at the Joint Q Planning School, established in London to train the Allied staff for operation Overlord (the invasion of France). On October 1st, "1943, Col. Hays was assigned to the Chief of Staff, Supreme Allied Commander and was detailed in the General Staff Corps. Prior to the appointment of General Eisenhower as Supreme Commander and the establishment of Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces, he was designated assistant Chief Administrative Planner, Number 3. He was the first liaison officer to HQ, First U. S. Army Group, General Bradley's Headquarters, and was Chief of the Policy Section of the G-4 Division on the General Staff at Supreme Head quarters during the winter, spring ! and summer of 1944. In August of j last year he went to France with ! the forward echelon of SHAEF, and went into Paris on a special mission immediately after its capture. He returned to Paris the following week as the G-4 officer on the SHAEF mission to , the French government. In October, 1944, he was assigned as a general staff planner on, the U. S. GroUp, Control- Council,"' which;" is "r (tie agency for the government of the U. S. sphere in Germany. Since his return to the .United States he was in the Planning Division, Headquarters, Army) SArVlPA TTfirpAe and cinno Tnno Viae' handled congressional investigations for the Army Air Forces. SHELBURN SENIOR PLAY THURSDAY The Senior class ' of Shelburn High School will present its annual play on Thudsday evening, November 29th at 7:30 in the high school gymnasium. The title of the Dlav is "The 3ie Blow-Up" which was scheduled) for a performance on October 19. The new cast is as follows: Mrs. Parker Juliana Murray. ' Beans Parker John Alum- ,' bough. j Terry King Bill Wallace. Cora Johnson Mary Martin. ; Katie Lee Henrietta Grubbs. i Margot Hinklepuss Jean White. Sandra Fields Alice Jo Guy. Douglas Blake Robert Mayfield. ' Mrs. Field Norma Robinson. ' Mr. Field Floyd Forbes. Melinda Eilene Thompson. Muzzy (Mrs. Summerville) Ted Rilenge. Several piano selections will be given by Charles Woodsmall before the play, and Kay Grubbs, Alice Marshall, and Dallas Hall will perform between acts. Patrons who have tickets for the performance on Oct. 19 will please bring stubs and rain checks and they will receive the same seats they originally had. ilcKets wm a's be on sale from 6:45 until time for the performance. REACH THE STATES NEW YORK, N. Y., Nov. 27 The S.S. President Adams docked;at' Tacoma, Wash. November 23rd from the. Pacific theater of operation. Included among the many Hoosiers aboard was Sgt. Robert Clarkson Jr., Sullivan. The Europa docked at New. York Sunday from the European theater of operations. Aboard was T5 Howard W. Salesman, Dugger. The S.S. Sea Devil arrived at Seattle, Wash. Nov. 22. Aboard were Alfred E. Anderson, Sullivan and T4 Leonard W. Harmon, Farmersbitrg.

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HURLEY RESIGNS WASHINGTON, Nov. 27. (UP) Patrick J. Hurley resigned as U. S. Ambassador to Chiga today and warned that because of this country's weakness in foreign policy "there is a; third world war in the making." "In diplomacy today we are permitting ourselves to be sucked into a power bloc on the sije of colonial imperialism against communist imperialism," he said. He said professional diplomats! in the State Department are carrying out a foreign policy directly opposed to the basic principles for which this country has always stood. "The professional foreign service men sided with the

L,nnese communist armed party ana the lmneriiaist moc or

nations whose policy it was to keep China divided against ( herself," he said. r " "Our professional diplomat' continuously advised the ( communists that my efforts in preventing the collapse of the national ernvernment nnt vonrpwnt ihe nrrfW nf tho TTnit.

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WHEELER ASSAILS APPEASEMENT WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 (UP)Senator Burton K.

Wheeler, D., Montana, demanded

quit appeasing Russia and let her know once and for all, we I did not fight this war to let her enslave Europe." j "By our liberation of the tragic peoples of Europe and i Asia, we have delivered them from the hands of one cruel,

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..v ..M.uiiiuu uivwiui uitv me uiuuuji nnu ij i aiiuicai iiaiiua of another," the pre-Pearl Harbor non-interventionist told the Senate in a 10,000-word speech directed mostly at the Soviets. Wheeler spoke against a pending bill which would permit the United Nations organization to use American troops as part of an international force to put down aggressor nations. He said the bill "leads us inevitably down the road to the annihilation of an atomic war.":

MOSCOW-CHUNGKING AGREEMENT CHUNGKING, Nov. 27. (UP) An authoritative diplomatic source said today that Moscow and Chungking had reached an agreement which will permit nationalist troops to be flown into Mukden and Changchun and under which Kuomintang officials may return to Manchuria at once. The diplomatic source reported the agreement on these two points only, indicating that other problems remained to be solved. '

Russian military police ordered the communists evacuate Changchun and they did so, informants said. A like order was reported given to the communists Mukden and it is being carried ou.

y A - Chinese icommuiiist pfess'xeiease charged that an undetermined number of American troops had been wounded in the Manchuria fighting. At the same time the communists asserted that the central military- government budget for next year amounted to 5-2,000,000,000 and that steamers of the Minseng Steamship Co., largest concern operating on rivers of interior China, had been seized for military purposes.

Cass Resident Dies At Chicago Mrs. Tracy Coleman Williams, 65 years old, widow of the late Silas Williams, succumbed yesterday morning at ten o'clock at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Pearl Betnor in Chicago. Mrs. Williams was formerly a well-known resident of Cass Township, having lived in Cass for more than fifteen years. About a week ago she had gone to make her home with the daughter, in Chicago. ' Surviving are the daughter, Mrs. Betnor, at whose home she died; three sons, William Williams of Cass, who made his home with his mother, Henry and Emmitt Williams, both of Chicago; three grandchildren; and one brother, ' Charles Coleman of Cass. The body will arrive by train' from Chicago and wiU be taken to the M. J. Aikin & Son Funeral Home in Dugger, where it will lie in state pending completion of funeral arrangements, which will be announced later. WILL EXPLAIN G.L COLLEGE OPPORTUNITIES

I The body was taken to the TERRE HAUTE, lnd., Nov. 27. Newkirk Funeral Home in PleaGlenn Curtis, athletic director santvilJe and will be removed of Indiana State Teachers College, i to the residence there Wedneswill make a second visit to Sulli- da m0Tniln& where it will lie van high school Tuesday, Dec. 4 in sjate- Funiral services will be from 10:00 to 11:00 a. m., to talk conducted Thursday afternoon to returned veterans whTiiay be at two ?clock in the Mt- Moriah interested in entering college in Methodist Church with Rev. the winter quarter that opens Dec. Prns officiating. Interment will

tm Mr. Curtis will be prepared to answer questions concerning the G.L.Bill of Rights, entrance procedures, and curriculum offerings at Indiana State. This conference is open to any

veteran in Sullivan County who born November 23rd at the has graduated from any high Elizabeth City hospital in Elizaschool. Those who plan to attend beth City, North Carolina. The should notify H. C. Gilmore, Prin- mother is the former Miss Erma cipal, Sullivan High School, by '.White of that city. The father is phone, letter or postal card, or in stationed in Manila with the person on or before Monday, De-. U. S. Navy. The babies have not cember 3. ' yet been named.

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to Charles Bedwell Of Pleasantville Dies Early Today Charles Bedwell, 63, life long resident of Sullivan Countv. died this morning at five o'clock at tne Mary Sherman Memorial i Hospital following a week's ill ness of pneumonia Mr. Bedwell, who was a wellknown resident of the Pleasant ville community, was born Feb - ruary 6th, 1882 near Dugger: the son of Asher and Naomi Bedwell, both deceased. He was a member of the Pleasantville Methodist Church and had been . UOeU 0T 10 ms Jast llln?s !e was Ployed at a Sm3 mjne ne" .Dugger-. Jhe.ecea,fJed 1SA ve eA idow; Mrs" Amla Bwe"; one daughter, Mrs. Eva Wright J S""iva,n r"?;al ro"te: ?ur children; three sisters, Mrs. hoebTe. B.T0W" oit Pleasantville, Lizz!e Afield of Cariisie rural rouie iwo ana Mrs. Lena Cox of Carlisle; and two brothers, Dan Bedwell of Pax)ton and William Bedwell of bugger. " ixil aujuiiuiig ceme tery. BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT G M 1c and Mrs. Herschel L. Bush of Shelburn R. R. 1, announce the arrival of twin boys i

51 7.000 JIMS IDLE TODAY IN U.S.

BULLETIN! DETROIT, Nov. 27 (UP) Six officers of the United Automobile Workers Union (C. I. O.) will meet with Secretary of Labor Lewis B. Schwellenback and his conciliation aides at three p. m. tomorrow in connec tion with the nation-wide General Motors strike. (By United Press) Plans were completed for a strike vote tomorrow of 700,000 c- I- - steel workers, As the National Labor Rer Nations Board completed plans . nnllino TTnUarl Clool ' r , " , wurners unions, ocuweuenoacn studied steps to be taken as soon as the poll is completed in efforts to prevent a work stoppage in the vital steel industry The National. Labor Relations Board was proceeding with prepactions, for a strike vote amo,ng m,orf tha" 1-000,000 other cause it was uncertain whether Congress would approve by that date a House committee's recommendation to abolish strike votes. (By United Press) A United Press survey disclosed today that 517,000 workers were kept away from their jobs by strikes and resultant shutdowns. C. I. O. United Auto Workers were ready for a long picket siege as General Motors Corn, turned do'ii a union request that a G-M system -wide dispute idling 175 000 workers be taken to U. S. Conciliators for settlement of reconversion wage issues. Ford Motor Co', employes faced layoff by nightfall because of supply shortages. A,pyie-Week . . demonstration strike against Montgomery Ward and Co. properties in 11 cities went into its second day as the C. I. O. United Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Employes, union sought to force the management to arbitrate, contract issues, , long in controversy.. . Junior High To Open Hardwood Season Thursday The Sullivan Junior High School will launch their 1945'46 basketball season Thursday evening at the community gym- I "falu"; vvl"1 high fives furnishing the opposi tion. A curtain raiser between the reserve teams of the schools will begin at. 6:30 o'clock with the first team game at 7:30. Coach Lloyd Boyll of Sullivan has been drilling his Junior High candidates for several weeks and local fans are urged ' to see the "Little Arrows" swing into competition Thursday night. School officials revealed today that players from both the seventh and eighth grades have been selected for the Junior High Squad, and will' compose both the first and second teams instead of seventh and eighth grade teams. Other Junior High School teams that) will be met during the season maintain this policy, it was explained. Members of the squad are: Richard Adams, Bob Banks, Joe Bell, Allen Brodie, Paul Howe, Johnny Neal, Skipper Oldham, Paul Orman, Billy Pierce, Paul Brown, Vaino Grayam, Don McClure, Stuart Moore and Dick Morgan. The latter five named were selected from the 7th grade candidates and the others are 8th grade students. HOSPITAL NOTES Admitted Nov. 26: Mrs. William S. Williams : of 219 South Section Street. Dismissed Nov. 26: Mrs. Tressa Minger of Shelburn; Mrs. Tennis Irvin of 542 Sylvandell Street. BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT Mr. and Mrs. J. Rj Sindelar announce the arrival tif a baby boy, Joseph Edward, Nov. 21 at Berwyn, Til. Mrs. Sindelar was formerly Marianna Taylor of this city,

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On Mass Basis In 1938 Nuernberg Testimony Today Discloses That Speech Of Col. Gen. Jodl In Late 1943 Indicated Hitler Was Refusing A Growing Demand By Influential Countrymen That He Try To Negotiate Peace.

NUERNBERG, Nov. 27. (UP) Germany began manufacture of poison gas on 'a mass basis more than a year before the outbreak of war, evidence at the' war crimes trial revealed today. Orders to start turning cut poison gas on a massive scale were issued by Hermann Goering on July 12, 1938, the evidence disclosed. The evidence was in the form of a memoranda on basic facts about the German war effort written by Gen. George Thomas, former chief of the Nazi military Economy Staff.

Hull Strongly Defends Policy Against Japan WASHINGTON, Nov. 27. (UP) U. S. failure to oppose Japan

ese aggression in the critical days.ed States, Russia and Britain, before Pearl Harbor would havej Jodl revealed that Hitler had ... t hoped to attack in the west in been cowardly, former Secretary 193g after end of polish of State Cordell Hull declared to-!campaign but bad weather and day in a vigorous defense of his Shortage of armament delayed the policy.- I j attack. Hull strongly defended his pre- ; - Jodl said the attack on Britain s war no-compromise policy before J and occupation of the Atlantic

the House-Senate committee investigating the Pearl Harbor defeat which plunged this country into the conflict. He denied Tepeatedly that a 10-point Statement of the. U. S. principles he gave the Japanese on November 26, 1941, "touched the button" that started the war Today he was questioned again about the charge, formally made last August in an Army board report on the Pearl Harbor disaster. His eyes snapping, Hull said that to express himself as he felt! like doing, he would want all "religious-minded people to retire" from the hearing room. He said he had been under this infamous charge for months. He added: "The Japs were off on the attack and .nothing would stop them unless we had laid down like cowards and we would have been cowards." Accuses Goering NAZI Interior Minister Vvnliciiii Fnck, abovi, slipped a leal dagger into fat Hermann Goering, identifying the former reich marshal as the engineer of Hitlers blood purge in 1934. The testimony, given only a day before the Allied military trial of the "0 war criminals opened, at Nuernberg. Cerniany, was received with surprise by Goering, who glaeJ at FvicK in the coiutrcapi's prlsoner dock. (Iuteraatioozl)

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The note did not explain why Germany failed to use poison .gas during the war. Sidney Alderman, assistant U. S. prosecutor, read into the record a speech by Col. Gen. Alfred Jodl made in late 1943 which revealed that Adolf Hitler was then refusing a growing demand by many influential Germans that he try to negotiate peace with the Unitislands' was rejected because the Germans lost naval, and air strength. , DR. WOODWORTII IS SPEAKER AT ROTARY Dr. A. D. Woodworflh of Merom, who lived in Japan for forty years as a missionary presented an interesting address before the Sullivan Rotary club at their luncheon meeting Monday. He gave interesting sidenugnts on Oriental customs and character based on his experi ences there. Dr. Woodworth, who was connected with old Merom College at one time returned to Merom to reside a number of years ago. Rotarian C. D. Hunt was in charge of the program and . introduced the speaker. NEW SUITS Leota Fordyce vs. Jack Fodyc pee. Complaint for divorce. Melvin Martin Wilson vs. Mariorie Opal Wilson. Complaint for divorce. j Alfred H Brocksmith vs. Vernor Robbins. Complaint on contract. MARRIAGE LICENSES James Pickens Sutton, Terre Haute, retired, and Anna Catharine Mock, Clay City, Indiana, housekeeper Harold B. Fuller. Newark. Indiana, U. S. Army, and Hickan E. Thompson, Spencer, Indiana, at home. Roy Stamper, Worthington, Indiana, machinist, and Irene Movelland, Worthington, waitress. BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT Pfc. and Mrs. Thomas Callans of Columbiana, Ohio, are announcing the birth of a daughter, born Nov. 21. The baby has been named Karen Lou. Mrs. Callans was formerly Kathryn Holdson of this city. PRAYER MEETING A prayer meeting will be held at the home of Jim Evans, 514 E. Leach St., Wednesday night, Nov. 28. There is large attendance at these meetings. Everyone is welcome. Come and bring someone.

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