Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 48, Number 5, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 7 January 1946 — Page 1

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News Of Our

(en And Womei With The Colors RETURNS TO TEXAS Pvt. Lex Akers, Jr. has returned to Texas after spending a Xturlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lex Akers of Shelburn, Indiana. His address is: Pvt. Lex Akers, ' Jr., A.S.N. 45036966, 3706th A.A.F.B.T.C. .Sq. O, Ffight 817, Shepperd ield, Texas. t KETUKNS TO C'AMl

I Sgt. Robert Jr. Taylor has rejourned to Camp Chaffee, ArkanfTas after spending ' Christmas 1 with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. I Floyd Taylor of West Point, Ind.

tie returned by the way of Oklahoma City for a short visit with Capt. and Mrs. Ray M. Taylor. Barbara Collins Is Recent Bride k Of Gene Colvin Miss Rarbara Collins, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Ralph Collins of Sullivan was married to Gene Colvin of tliis city Thursday, December 27th at seven o'clock the Christian parsonage here th the Rev. Jack Anderson reading the vows in the presence oi the immediate families. They were attended by Mrs. Jessie Boles and Clyde Heady, sister and brother-in-law of the K groom. Miss Collins wore a grey Wv.it with black accessories! and ojr rorsage was of., red roses, "t JSrs. Boles wore a green suit with t;ack accessories and a corsage I JC. red roses. A reception was held following the ceremony at the home of tie bride's parents. Following a honeymoon they will reside in Chicago where Mr. Colvin is in school at the Industrial Training Institute. He is a discharged soldier. The bride is a graduate or the Sullivan High School with the class of 1940 and is a memJ tar of the Business and Profes sional woman's club here. Mr. Colvin graduated from the Sullin High School with the class of 1937. DNDUCT RITES ; FOR RALPH STEWART Funeral services were . conicted yesterday afternoon at o oclorK at tne sniman aneral 'Home for Ralph ' C. tewart, formerly of New Lebaron, wno passea away at fori Huron, Michigan, Wednesday 'ight.' The Rev. R. M. Criswell officiated. Song services were in charge f Mrs. Katherine , Reid, with Mrs. Jeanette Wernz at the fjrgan. Flower giris were Betty, Lou Stewart, Margaret Stewart, Mildred Stewart, and Sue Ella Bledsoe. Pallbearers were Ray Barnes, Ijobert Rhodes , Jr., Charles Wright, Clay Warren, Gene Wilmoth and Bill Stedman. H. Burial was wnde at the Center Ridge Cemetery. ' KNOW YOUR GUIDE

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LEGION MEETING V : A special meeting of Sullivan r American Legion Post 139 is scneauiea for - Tuesday evening

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CRITICAL

LABDRTESTS Big CIO Unions Poise Their 1-2-3 Punch; See Price Increases. BULLETIN! (By United Press) Formation of a labor party was suggested today as current labor disputes indicated that more than l,500,000.workers may join 376,000 already idle unless settlements are reached within a week to ten days. The warning of formation of a labor party came as three big CIO unions continued their drive for wage increases. John Green, Camden, N. J., president of the International Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America, told 1,105 delegates to the CIO union's 11th convention at Atlantic City that there should be more instead of less political, action by unions in their fight to maintain and extend gains in behalf of labor. Green said that if labor could not remove congressional leaders who fail to keep their promises of full employment and fair em ployment practices within the framework of existing parties that "we will create our own party a labor party." (By United Press) The nation's economy today f ac ed its most critical test since the end of the war, as three big CIO unions aimed a 1-2-3 punch in la bor's fight for higher wages. Unless settlements come within the next 'week to ten days, an estimated-1,500,000 workers in the steel, electrical and meat packing industries may join thei 376,000 already idle in strikes and shutdowns. In disputes of nation-wide scope: ' 1. Seven hundred thousand members of the United Steel Workers, second biggest CIO union, were scheduled to walk off their jobs January 14. 2. Officers of the United Electrical Workers, next in CIO strength, set a January 15 strike date for 200,000 members employed by General Electric, Westinghouse and General Motors. 3. A. F. L. officials authorized 135,000 meat workers to join 200,000 CIO packing house workers in a work stoppage slated for January 16. In all three cases, the unions were seeking wage boosts approximating 30 per cent to compensate for increased living costs. Meanwhile, the threat of a nation-wide telephone tieup became more serious as striking Western Electric employes pressed for an immediate sympathy walkout by approximately 250,000 telephone operators and installation workers. A strike vote was in progress among members of the National Federation of Telephone Workers and American Communication and Equipment Workers, employed in I telephone installation, were sched uled to leave their jobs Tuesday or Wednesday. In Washington, top administration leaders eyed the troubled industrial picture with growing con cern. Capitol Hill developments pointed to an increase in steel and meat prices to avert paralyzing shutdwons affecting every Ameri can. DIES IN ARKANSAS Word has been received' here of the death of Dan Kent of Benton, Arkansas, on January 2. Mr. Kent was a former resident of Sullivan county, having been born and reared near what is known as Alum Cave, northeast of Sullivan. As a young man he went to Saline County. Arkansas where he homesteaded the land where his home has since been located. He is sur-. vived by the wife: four sons, and I one daughter, all of Arkansas, j Mr. Kent is an uncle of Mrs. iJohn Harlow of East Beech St.; .Ed and Jeff Alumbaugh of this I city and Earl Wright of Bicknell. Indiana.

Annabell Houston Is Married In

San Francisco Miss Annabell Houston, daughter of Mrs. Jessie Houston and sister of Mrs. Lee Broshears, both of Sullivan, was married December 8th, 1945 to James M. Warrender of San Francisco, California, it was apnounced today. The beautiful double ring ceremony was performed in the Oak Park Mission Presbyterian Church of San Francisco by Rev. Arthur Willis, in the presence of close friends and relatives of both the bride and groom. The ceremony took place before an altar banked with white chrysanthemums. Attendants were Margaret Houston, cousin of the bride; Ethel Warrender, sister of the groom, 'as bridesmaids, and Theodore Faraway, Hugh Houston and Robert Warrender as ushers. The bride wore a gown of flowing white satin with a finger-tip veil and carried a bouquet of white roses and gardenias. Miss Houston and Miss Warrender wore gowns of azure blue and carried bouquets of pink roses. Following the nuptial ceremony, a reception was held for the wedding guests, after which the bride and groom left for a short honeymoon in Carmel, California. The bride is a native of Sullivan, a graduate of Sullivan High School and of St. Mary's School of Nursing at Evansville. Mr. and Mrs. Warrender will make their home in San Francisco. NEW CASTLE GIRL BECOMES BRIDE OP ROB'T. CONNER Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Conner announce the marriage of their son, Robert, to Miss Janet Ken nedy of New Castle,- Indiana, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roger Kennedy. The wedHincr was snlpimniirpl at two o'clock Thursday After noon,, January 3, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Garman at North Manchester, Indiana. Rev. Fred Conkling officiated with the single ring ceremonv. Their attendants were Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Garman. The bride wore a rose wool dress with black accessories and a corsage of white carnations. Following the ceremony a small reception dinner was serv ed by Mrs. Garman. Mrs. Conner was employed as cashier at the Castle Theater at New Castle. Mr. Conner is a graduate of Sullivan High School with the class of 1944. He has been em ployed with Y. & W Theater Corporation as a theater manager. They will make their home in North Manchester. NAVY RECRUITER" ' HERE JAN. 9TH A Navy Recruiter will be in Sullivan on the 9th of January, 1946 to interview interested applicants for U. S. Navy service. He will be located at the Post Office building between the hours of 10:00 A. M. to " 11:00 A. M. U.S. A welcoming committee, headed by the Mayor of Southampton boarded the giant liner Queeiv Elizabeth -upon its arrival in England bearing the American, delegation to the United Nations

LATEiNEWS

TELLS GETtMAN AIMS NUERNBERG, Germany, Jan. 7. (UP) SS General Erich von Dem Bach-Zelewski, commander of Nazi "antipartisan" operations on the eastern front, testified at the War Crimes trial today that Germany's objective in the war aeainst Russia was to reduce the Slavic population by 30,000,0000. Zelewski said that this purpose was stated by Heinrich Himmler in -a speech before the war aeramst Russia was launched., Zelewski, a thin-lipped, dark-haired man, was an SS "career" officer. j He testified that he headed all the Einsatz or extermin

ation groups which were sent into Russia. The princioal task of the E:nsatz eroun was to "eliminate Jews, gypsies and political commissars." Zelewski said that when needed he was given reserve trooDs bv the Wehrmacht to carry out his assignments. He worked directly under Himmler and in cooperation with (the army group commanders. He fcaid that the Wehrmacht as well as the Einsatz groups carried out anti-partisan duties in occupational areas. . ? 1 "GOOD PROGRESS" AT CHUNGKING CHUNGKING, Jan. 7. (UP) Gen. Georee C Marshall. U. S. special envov, announced today that "good nrogress had been made" at the first formal meetings of his three-man peace committee to study a formula for ending China's civil war. ; The committee met for three hours at Marshall's residence. Marshall said another meeting would be held tomorrow. . ; The two comnvttee members, Gen. Chou En-Lai, representing the" Communists, and Gen. Chang Chun, government representative, commented that things are going very well.

Polio Infection Fatal To Soldier Pfc. John T. Rusher, gnndson of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hendricks, Sullivan rural route, died December 13th, 1945 in the Philippines, according to a War Department notification received by the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd E. Rusher, of Peoria, Illinois, it was learned today. A letter from Rusher's chaplain to the parents explained he had died of infantile paralysis, contracted one week prior to, bis. death. Following his graduation from Peoria High School he entered the University of Illinois where j he was pledged to Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. In November of 1943 he was called from the reserve list to active service and after basic training at Fort Benning, Georgia and elsewhere he joined the 86th Division of Gen. Hodges ETO First Army in the Ruhr battles. At the close of the European war, Pfc. Rusher was returned to the States for a 30-day. furlough before going on to the Pacific for combat against the Japs. The soldier's father is a native of Sullivan County and the former had visited here many times. STATE GROSS INCOME TAX REPRESENTATIVE COMING TO SULLIVAN A representative of the State Gross Income Tax Division will be at the local Auto Licenses Branch on January 9th, 11th, 16th, 18th, 23rd and 25th to assist taxpayers in filing their returns, it was announced today.

UNO Delegat es Arrive

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Sen. Arthur H. vandenberg (Rep. Mich); Mrs. Franklin D. Roose;velt; Edward R Stettinius, acting

ASSESSOR OP SULLIVAN COUNTY PLACED ON : PARLEY COMMITTEES

I ' County Assessor Charles L. Davis, Jr., is named on two important committees for the three day state conference of county and elected township assessors to be held in Indianapolis Jan. 8. 9 and 10. Davis is Chairman of the committee to investigate, report and make recommendations On the matter of assessing the production of oil and gas wells, and also a member of the committee on coal mines and mineral acreage assessments. : He Jjas served as a member of both these committees for the past three years. Dillon M. Routt, Hamilton Township Assessor will also attend this conference. OTT McCARRELL DIES AT BEDFORD Ott McCarrell, former manager of the Lyric and Sherman theatres here, died Tuesday at. Bedford, where he had been the manager of theatres owned by the McCarrell family. The deceased was never married and will be remembered by many friends here. He had been connected with the show , busi ness for years, and years ago was with the McTaft Stock Company who played repertoire in a tent show throughout this seclion. The funeral and burial occurred at Bedford Thursday. BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Hamilton of Shelburn, announce the birth, of a son, Billy Lloyd, born at the Mary Sherman Hospital January 7th. x In England j head of the U. S. delegation; and Senator Tom ' Connally, (Dem Foreign Relations Cpmmittee. (International Radio-Soundphoto)

Juvenile Gang At Jasonville Is Broken Up Sheriff And Chief Of Police Of Jasonville Take Three

Boys Into Custody; Two umers JSscape In Stolen Auto. Three out of the five Jasonville boys, ages ranging from 14 to 17 years, who have been on an orgy of crime in the past few days which would rival the action of hardened criminals have been arrested and have confessed, according to Sheriff Maurice Tilley, who has spent some busy days in the south end of Greene County before getting the first clew that led to the breaking up of the gang. During the past few days the boys stole six automobiles and quantities of gasoline and attempted to steal the seventh car. One of the boys was recognized by a Coalmont person and with his clue Sheriff Tilley went to Jasonville Wednesday, where with the assistance of Chief-of-Police Griffith, this boy and two others of his gang and their parents were brought to headquarters at Jasonville where the boys confessed a series of crimes over three counties before shocked and grief stricken parents. On Saturday, Dec. 29, the boys started out by stealing a. 1939 Ford from Viola Brown, of Clay City, who was visiting in Jasonville. They drove lei Coalmont. On Sunday night they stole a 1937 Chevrolet in Jasonville, which they drove to Spencer. The boys had failed to add oil as needed and burned out the motor. They abandoned this car and stole a 1941 Plymouth in Spencer. They drove back to Jasonville and secluded this car Monday. On Monday night they took this car and stole a 1938 Plymouth and Oldsmobile in- Jasonville. The group split up and others drove to Coalmont. The Oldsmobile could not be operated longer so the boys went to a New Year's watch party at Coalmont where they stole a 1934 Chevrolet belonging to Claude Sluder. But while driving around in Coalmont this car stuck in the mud and they abandoned it on a side street. The boys went to the home of "Slim" Chamberlain in Coalmont, where three cars were parked, and used considerable Ingenuity in siphoning gasoline. Taking out the rubber tubing, used as a weather strip around an auto door, they used this to siphon about 15 gallons of gas from two cars. The boys made an unsuccessful effort to steal a Model A Ford in Coalmont. They were unable to get it started. Two of the boys have driven out of the state in a stolen car, making a more serious offense. The Jasonville mayor put the three boys in custody of their parents with instructions not to leave their respective homes until the case comes up for disposal. New Storms Add To Death Toll (By United Press) Tornadic winds, slashing haphazardly at sparsely populated sections 'of Mississippi and Arkansas,, today brought the toll of week-end storm casualties to at least 37 persons killed and 200 injured. Towns hit in the two states included Coila, Hollyridge, Indianola, Sunflower, Rolling Fork, Heathman and Leland, Mississippi, and Lake Village, Arkansas. Coila, a village of 105 persons, was demolished. Two persons were killed there, three at Lake Village, two near Sunflower and one near Indianola. The tornadoes struck last night. Communication lines, crippled for hours, were restored to ser vice today Tho, eoriM nf storms was horn - : OI a collision ui a Wdiui on maaa moving northward and a cold front advancing eastward across the Mississippi river valley. Texas counted 29 dead from its Friday night tornadoes. The unseasonable "heat wave" pushing up from the south sent New York thermometers to 62 yesterday, a January 6 record.

Angry Gl's

Plans Pacific

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20,000 Soldiers Protest Slow Demobili zation In Giant Demonstration At Manila Send Demand To President Truman. MANILA, Jan. 7. (UP) Lt. Gen. W. D. Styer told angry Gl's marching in protest through the Manila streets today that the Army will keep a post-war garrison of 375,000 in the Pacific to protect American interests. A giant rally of 20,000 soldiers was staged at the city hall I in early evening to protest slow demobilization. They carried placards saying "Lincoln Freed the Slaves, Who Will Save Us?" and "Are We Patterson's Playthings?" Their band played "Show Me The Way To Go Home."

CHICAGO CHILD KIDNAPED TOIW

Father Of 6-Year-Old Girl Broads casts Appeal For Return; Ask $20,000. CHICAGO, Jan. 7. (UP) Six-year-old Suzanne De?nan was kidnaped for $20,000 ransom today! and her distraught father broadcast an appeal for, the kidnaper to return the child. "If you have any sympathy or understanding in' your heart you will leturn th child to the family," the sirl's father, James Degnan said in a statement recorded for broadcast every hour over a radio network. . Degnan is district price board executive for the Office of Price Administration. Although he lives in a large first-floor apartment in a fashionable neighborhood, he said he was not wealthy and could not understand why the kidnaper took his little girl. Suzanne, wearikig only a pair of flimsy blue pajamas, was abduct' ed from her bedroom by a kid - naper who left a greasy, pencilprinted note demanding $20,000 in $5 bills. The note lay only .a few feet I from the bedroom window through which the child apparently was taken away. The kidnaper promised In his note to "get in touch with you later." Degnan denied rumors that he had received a telephone call from the kidnaper about 10:00 a. m., two and a half hours after he found the child was gone. . .Degnan told the United Press that he had carried out the kidnaper's instructions and had burned the ramsom note. "All I want is Susanne back," he said. "I assure he kidnaper I will do nothing to harm him if he will return the girl." RED CROSS SECY. ATTENDS SAFETY TRAINING COURSE Mrs. Helen Gregson, Executive Secretary of the Sullivan County Chapter of the American Red Cross is attending a home service safety training course being held in the Y. W. C. A. in Louisville, Ky. There will be ten lessons nf instruction given by Miss Effie E. Nienaun ,of Cincinnati, Ohio. The course contends with service to servicemen and their dependi ents of both World War I and II, JalSO indigent Cases. The Red Cross office will be open during the regular hours. MARRIAGE LICENSES Walter Lee Smith, Sullivan R. 3, clerk, and Elsie Rose Moody, Sullivan R. 5, at home.

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Post-War 375,000

A statement issuea Dy oiyer said the Pacific force would include 200,000 'in Japan and Korea, and 175,000 in the mid-Pacific and western Pacific zones. Of these less than 70,000 will be in his command based in the Philippines. The over-all figures indue air force personnel. (In Tokyo, Secretary of War Robert Patterson said a minimum figure of 790,000 soldiers for overseas duty will be set for July 1. On November 1, 1940, the total American Army strength was 513,000.). Angered because they are kept in the Philippines for what they j think are needless duties, soldiers I of Styers' command staged a series of protest demonstrations and sent a demand to President Truman to get them home. Cale Shepherd '"' Rites Tuesday At Carlisle Funeral services for Cale Shepherd, 58 years old, prominent Carlisle merchant, who died at one o'clock Saturday afternoon at his home there following a brief illness, will be conducted from the residence Tuesday afternoon at two o'clock. Rev. Jack Anderson of'the Sullivan Christian church will officiate and burial will be made in ; the I.O.O.F. Cemetery at Carlisle. The death of Mr. Shepherd, a partner with Roy Duffer in the Star Store at Carlisle, came as a shock to a wide circle of friends and business associates throughout Sullivan county. He had suffered a cerebral hemorrhage He was ' a native of Sullivan county and had been engaged in business at Carlisle since 1910. He was married on July 8, 1908 to Clare Grass, who survives along with a daughter, Frances, a teacher in the Sullivan schools. Also Surviving are one sister, Mrs. Bertha Weathers, R. R. 2, Carlisle; two brothers, William of New Lebanon, and Bert, of Glen Ellyn, Illinois. The deceased was a member of the Carlisle Christian church, the Masonic and Odd Fellows lodges and the Sullivan Elks Lodge. The body was returned to the residence from the Risinger & Kresge Funeral Home Saturday evening. FKAKCIS H. SHEPHERD Francis Howard Shepherd, 81-year-old resident of Dugger, rural route, died Saturday afternoon at three o'clock the result of a heart attack suffered three days earlier. Mr. Shepherd waS born December 4th, 1864 in this county and had resided many years at his rural residence west of Dug ger. He was a member of the Shilnh Phi-iIan Dmrpll Shiloh Christian Church. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Anna Hale Shepherd; one daughter, Mrs. Lura Wells of Glendale, Arizona; one son, Delbert Shepherd of Summerslope, Ari zona; two sisters, Mrs. May Belle Neal of Sullivan rural (Continued on Page 4, Col 5)

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