Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 48, Number 8, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 10 January 1946 — Page 1

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WARMER FRIDAT Indiana: Clearing and colder tonight; Friday mostly cloudy . and warmer. Rain south and rain or snow in central portion beginning by Friday afternoon. Much colder Saturday and in north portion Friday night. VOL. XLVIII No. 8 UNITED PRESS SERVICE SULLIVAN, INDIANA THURSDAY, JAN. 10, 1946. INTERNATIONAL PICTURE SERVICE PRICE THREE CENTS

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News Of Our Men And Womei With The Colors

BACK IN STATES Harold Burns of the United

i States Navy and son of Mr. and k Mrs. Harry Burns of Shelburh, V ; has arrived in the United States, according to a telegram received , by the parents Tuesday. Harold who is better known ' to his many friends as "Todd"

f iifl3 hppn stationed at a naval

refueling station in the South 'Pa'ific Cor many months. "Back To Civvies."

kj ATTERBURY DISCHARGES

V flAMP ATTERBURY. Indiana. January 10 Among Indiana men kt3ischarged at the Atterbury separation Center recently were: Cpl. Clay C. Horner, Fair banks. Pfc. Carl W. Wicks, Shelburn. Cpl. Charles L. Arnett, 581 Vest Johnson St., Sullivan. SAILORS DISCHARGED GREAT LAKES, Ills. Amon? persons discharged , from tne This center whose homes are in ; Indiana were: - Max E. Goldman, RT 1c, Dugger. '. .Tames S. Moodv. AOM 3c. R. ; . ' i

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Man Is Fatally Hurt In Greene County Crash

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man Hindman, 40 years old, Worthington carpenter and con tractor, died at 8 o'clock last riight at the Freeman-Greene j County Hospital from injuries retieived in an auto-truck accident on State Road 67, two miles north of Switz City early Wed,esday morning. Harold Bailey of Little Cin Cinnatj, ind., who apparently aid

I pot see Hindman's truck parked the open," he said. "No Amerit on the highway, and drove the can army must even be per-

sodan into the rear of it, lost his nght eye in the accident, and suffered a fractured right leg, i hits and bruises. He is exDected recover. ' i r'. Witnesses and State Police t-.&in tt i i tt: a I jmcer nayes saia . ninaman sWed his truck to see whether ne couia be ot assistance to tr-., est M. Galloway. Elmer McCinuis, James Franklin and Oran E.

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if the highway. Before Hindman :ould get out Bailey's car came fom the south at a high rate of speed, Officer Hayek said, and crashed into the Hindman truck. The . truck and auto were wrecked. lA ' nmaman is survived Dy -ythe widow, Norma, and two sons, f The body was removed to the f Alyers Funeral Home at WorthT.Tigton. He was a member of the Worthington Methodist Church, fiVorthincrton Saddle Club and the Greene County Fair Associainn DISTRICT FUTURE FARMERS MEETING A District VII F. F. A. meet- i ing is to be held at the Graysville Chapter Room on Monday, January 14th at 7:30 p. m. r- The nurnnse nf th mpptino i ; ... n is to initiate all eligible candidates of the district to the pChapter Farmer Degree. A group of boys from Linton and Grayswville chapters are .to be initiated. rDistrict business, pest . killing, spring elimination contest, etc. will be discussed. All chaDters and Vocational Agricultural Departments of this district are asked to plan for the teacher and some of the students to be present at this meeting. . -

GIs Say Their Newspapers Are Being Muzzled Charge "Stars And Stripes" At Tokyo Made Into "House Organ" For War Dept. BULLETIN! WASHINGTON, Jan. 10. (UP) The Senate Military Affairs committee today appointed a subcommittee to conduct a public investigation of the demobilization controversy.

(By United Press) Enlisted men on two Pacific editions of the Army newspaper Stars and Stripes complained today that they were being muzzled in their coverage of the world - wide soldier protest against demobilization policies. A formal statement by enlisted personnel of the Tokyo Stars and Stripes claimed that open pressure against them by officers had changed the paper into a "house organ for the War Department." The Honolulu Stars and Stripes staff said they had received orders not to print letters or stones which criticized "anyone in authority." I New Demobilization Trotests Protest meetings were reported from all quarters of the globe, A proposal was made by demonstrators in Hawaii that Ameri ,can occupation forces be resmcted to former enemy territory. High officers of the European headauarters in Frankfurt railed a meeting of GI spokesmen and newspapermen to record the grievances aired by a crowd of

;Ttrtcire-than"':'f),000 " troops "which ' i i . j . t . . m

uiea 10 swrm uenerai oosepn l. McNarney's headquarters last night. Meantime, at Washington, Sen ator Edwin Johnson, D., Colorado demanded that Gen. Dwight I Eisenhower be summoned before ,

Senate Military Affairs com-,ana

mittee to give a formal accounting "of army demobilization policies. Johnson said snowballing 'we want to go home" demonstrating bv overseas GI's was "near miitiny" and constituted a "challenge to orderly government" which Congress cannot ignore, "The causes for this 'rfenlnrahlA situation must be brought into ! mitted by Congress to degenerate : into a mob." USES 'CHUTE FOR DRAPES FORT WAYNE, Ind. (UP) Ray 1 PrawfnrH rontl,, t,nm kJa !. week of nis return to civilian life making draperies for his living room out of a German parachute xie X00K irom a capture(j Nazi paratrooper. He retained the or iginal camouflage greens and blues in the curtains.

Father At Kidnap-Killing Inquest

E N As police questioned suspects ne Drutai Kianap-muraer or mtle Suzanne Degnan in Chicago, her bereaved father, James E. Degnan attended the inquest into Iher death at the Cook County

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Assists In Soil

Work In County The Sullivan County Soil Conservation District of Turman, Fairbanks,' and upper Gill Townships, now has the services of Carroll H. Thrasher, who is assisting W. E. Arganbright, District Conservationist. This was reported today by County Agricultural Agent J. Howard Telfer. Mr. Thrasher attended Indiana University for one and one-half years and farmed from 1929 until 1941. He was active in con servation work in Monroe Coun ty from 1937 to 1941. At that time, he became a Federal Meat Inspector in Chicago and served in this capacity until April 1, 1943. On April 7 of that year, he entered the army and was a dairy and meat inspector, assign ed to the Army Air Force Western Flying Training Command. He served at the Santa Ana Army Air Base, Ontario, California and at Minter Field, Las Vegas, Nevada. He received his honorable discharge on September 26, 1945 from the U. S. Army. Mr. Thrasher is assisting with the work in the very active Soil Conservation District. Farm owners and operators interested in additional service along soil conservation lines, are urged to contact the soil conservation district office and the County Agricultural Extension Office in the Court House. Legal Mixup Gives Custody Of Baby To Both Parents VINCENNES, Ind. Jan. 10 Conflicting Circuit Court orders today left unanswered the question of what to do, with tan 8-month-old baby whose custody isdisputed ' by fts parents. Sheriff Clyde Stalcup of Knox County told this . story of the legal mixup: Mrs. Betty Taylor ; yesterday filed suit for divorce from her soldier husband, Robert Taylor, Diainea irom tne fi&e cir- " "u" a" S'""s ici custody of the child, Robert, Jr. Taylor, home on leave from Camp Atterbury, meanwhile instituted divorce action in Knox Circuit Court and he. too, . obtained an order for temporary tusto.ay OI lne s011-. Prior to the ruling in Knox circuit Co Sheriff Stalcup received the order from the Pike Circuit clerk and he dispatched a deputy, Frank Clark, to serve it on the service man. Clark said he was unable to find the baby. However, Taylor informed. offi cers that his son is with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Taylor, who reside near here. He charged in his suit that his : wife abandoned the child short-.

ly after its birth. t is still legally held by Mr. GetThe perplexed sheriff indicated tinger. At that time the county he would await further legal attorneys advised that in accordmoves on the part of Mrs. Tay- ance with the newest statute Mr.

lor before attempting to execute the Pike Circuit Court order giv ing her custody of her son. I Morgue. He is shown (right) as he answered questions put to him by Coroner A. L. Brodie. The mquest was continued. (International Newsphoto.)

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RUSH SEARCH FOR MURDER f LEWS CHICAGO, Jan. 10.(UP) Squads of police, working against a deadline of four5 p. ra. to build a case against their chief suspects, searched for an insane dent'st today in their quest for the kidnap slayer of six-year-old Suzanne Degnan. The man being sought was a former inmatcof the Illinois state hospital for the insane, and had once worked as a handyman at a nursery school near Suzanne's home. He was (dismissed from the job because of his strange behavior. Detectives drained catch basins, cesspools and sewers in the vicinity of the crime today in another effort to find the child' arms. Other portions of her body were found earlier in four cesspools. Police picked up another man for questioning early to

day. He was Frank Holland,

found in an alley near the Degnan home. Investigators had until four p. m. to place charges against two janitors ?nd the wife of one of the men. If not charged by that time, they will be released by court order. State's Attorney William J. Touhy said he did not have enough evidence "at this time" to seek an indictment of anyone for the crime the most brutal in Chicago's history.

ELECT BELGIAN HEAD OF UNO LONDON, Jan. 10. (UP) The United Nations Assembly met for the first time today, elected Belgian Forc'gn Minister Paul Henri-Spaak as its president, and heard a plea by Prime Minister Clement Attlee that it become the "overriding factor in the foreign policy" of the whole world. Henri-Spaak, once a power in the League of Nations, defeated Norwegian Foreign Minister Trygve Lie for the first UNO Assembly presidency by a vote of 28 to 23. The election of the Belgian was a defeat for Russia and the bloc of eastern Europe which had sought to elect Lie by acclamation and avoid the secret balloting. Although nominations were not necessary, since the rules called for secret balloting, the Soviet union delegate, Andrei Groinyko, spoke in favor of Lie. Gromyko said the Norwegian delegate was a most appropriate candidate for the presidency, since Norway was, one of the first victims of Nazi aggression. Directly after the election, which followed Attlee's welcoming speech, Henri-Spaak adjourned the assembly until 10:15 a. m. (4:15 a. m. C.S.T.) tomorrow. Henri-Spaak has spent most of his adult life in Belgian politics. His mother was Belgium's first woman senator and his father was a distinguished poet and director of the Brussels opera. . j The UNO president is 47. A barrister by profession, he was Socialist deputy for Brussels in. 1932. He held several cabinet posts and was Prime Minister from May of 1938 until February of 1939. When war broke out he was foreign minister and when Belgium was invaded he came to London with the exiled government. He was relief Belgian delegate tto the San Francisco conference and at the preparatory commission meeting last year. Commissioners Continue All Business Until Next Regular Meeting Of Board February 4

The Sullivan County Board of Commissioners met in continued session at the Court House this morning and continued all busi ness until the next meeting, February 4th, upon motions made by George D. Gettinger. ' At this time the office of Commissioner in the First District ,is in dispute, Dr. Garland Scott . of Sullivan having been appointe3 in a meeting Monday to the Post, which it is also contended, Gettinger's appointment to the,. board, made last February, was valid until a siiosonr hn Wn dulv electPd. The stato wiia-

,ture last March enacted a law yes and Chairman Howard degiving Commissioners the au- clares motion carried unanimous. ! thority to appoint board mem- 1 In a continued session of the bers whereas formerly this au- ;board on Tuesday night bids for, 'thority was vested in County ' Purchase of one motor grader i Councils, Mr. Gettinger's ap- j with deisel power for the counpointment in February of iast!tv were opened. , year having been made by the j 0n motion of commissioner i County Council to fil the un- j L3wrence Huff the bid. of Maclexwred term, of the late Clar-; Allister Machinery Company, ence (Lib) McClure. Mr. Mc-T h!H TrirA nf $R4fl?!9.S anH

Clure had been reelected for a ! cab $210.00; heater $31.50; 13.00-three-year term which would I 24 front tires cash $82.95: total

uctve ueguii January x ui mis year. Both Mr. Gettinger and Dr. Scott sat with the board this morning and voted on the motions. A number of County Contracts were scheduled to be let at this time. The following record appeared on the docket concerning this morning's meeting: In the matter of opening of bids. Motion by George D. Gettinger that this board do re-j or open any bids making thef taxpayers liable until such a time as been satis factory legal advice given, that j the bids now on file be held in abeyance until Monday, Feb. 4, tiisr Til naxs innn rmw 1111 tup

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1946 trusting that this difficulty may be worked out and a satisfactory answer given at that time, which date will be the next regular meeting of the board. Chairman asks for second to motion. Lawrence Huff seconds motion-Question: G. D. Gettinger, Garland Scott, Lawi rence Huff votes yes and Chairma Howard declares motion car ried unanimous. In the matter of other business for consideration of this board. G. D. Gettinger moves that any business before this court be continued until the next regular commissioners meeting. Lawrence Huff seconds motion, Garland D. Scott, Lawrence Huff and ' G. D. Gettinger votes ; cost $6,807.70 was accepted. mately garage, grader. in 60 days to county Same to be No. 12 BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS Mr. and Mrs. Vernor Gore of paktown, announce the birth of a daughter, Donna Sue, born at the Mary Sherman Hospital January 9th. Mr- and Mrs. victor Haywood of 226 South State Street, are the parents of a daughter born at the Mary Sherman Hospital January 9th. She has been named Vicki Lee.

Poultry And Garden School On January 23 The first of the Purdue University and Sullivan County Agricultural Extension Schools to be held this winter, will be the poultry and garden school which is to be held on January 23. This meeting will be held in the Court House Auditorium starting at 10:00 A. M. The speakers will be Melvin B. Flock, Extension Poultry Specialist and

W. B. Ward, Extension Horticulture Specialist. Mr. Flock will . discuss chick ' nrnVilpmQ and manappmpnf a3 well as the care and management of the laying flock. He will give particular emphasis to the topic of selection of baby chicks and proper facilities and manage ment. He will also discuss pullet selection, laying flock feeding, and poultry diseases. bring to the group, the latest on ', garden information He will discuss planning, planting, variety selection, fertilization and weed and insect control. Mr. Ward has advised the extension office that he believes that it will continue to be important for each family to have a good home garden in 1946. Both of these schools are important to almost every home of Sullivan County and everyone is urged to attend. The two speakers are excellent authorities on the subject that they are to discuss and have a way of presenting their material so that it is always well received. HOSPITAL NOTES Adn.utcd Jan, 8: Raymond Corbin of Sullivan R. 1; ClarA ence Cross of Jasonville; Mrs. Ruby Hawkins of 218 South Section Street. Dismissed Jan. 9: Mrs. Dale Risner of Terre Haute R. 3; Paul Har&augh of '207 East Washington Street; Charles Lewis of Jasonville. BAD DAY FOR DRIVER PROVIDENCE, R. I., (UP) Arthur Tilleneuve, 38, of New Bedford, Mass., parked his 18ton trailer truck in front of police headquarters and went inside to be reprimanded for a minor traffic violation. Upon his return, he found he had been given a second ticket this time one for illegal parking that called for a fine.

Col. "Pappy" Boyington Weds

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See Hope To Avert Steel, Packing Strikes; Phone lieup At Hand

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Striking Installation Workers Plan To Picket Telephone Exchanges From Coast To Coast Tomorrow Price Relief Offers Made To Corporations. (By United Press) Government labor officials admitted new optimism to

day in attempts to avert scheduled walkouts in the steel and meat packing industries but feared a nation-wide tele-

phone paralysis, within the next 24 hours.

Name Jennings National Contact Officer Of D.A.V. The national commander of the Disabled American Veterans has commissioned Thomas M. Jennings as National Contact Officer to the national commander and during the term prescribed by the national constitution of the organization. A certificate of commission, received by Mr. Jennings Is dated January 4, 1946, at Cincinnati, Ohio, national headquarters of the D. A. V. It is signed by Dan V. Walkro, national commander. Mr. Jennings revealed today that he had tha honor of joining one of the first D. A. V; posts organized in this state, at Evansville. He is the Sullivan County Service Officer, with offices in ices in the County' Court HOUSe - find states that he will be glad to assist any disabled veteran with their problems at any time. Mr, Jennings is also Chaplain of the 7th District, American Legion. . FROM SUB TO SKIES BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (UP) Charles R. Sanders, traffic manager for Waterman Air Lines' new intra-AIabama flight service, went from Alpha to Omega with his postwar Job. He spent 18 months on submarine duty with the Navy. ranch home of his lawyer in Newhall, Cal. The newlyweds are shown above after the nuptials. The bride is 32, and met the dash ing Colonel in Hollywood. (International Soundphoto.)

With 389,000 U. S. workers al

ready idle and another 2,000,000 threatening strike action, the major developments shaped up as follows: : 1. Striking installation workers said they would set lip picket lines tomorrow around 775 telephone exchanges from coast to coast. Members of the National Federation of Telephone Workers have pledged to respect the lines. 2. C. I. O. and U. S. Steel Corporation officials were to resume negotiations today after the government reportedly agreed to price increases of $4 to $5 a ton to help the corporation meet union wage demands About 700,000 steel workers are slated to strike Monday. 3. An unannounced price relief offer was made to two of the big meat packers which government officials hope will prevent a strike of 335,000 A.F.L. and C.I.O. meat j workers, scheduled for Wednes- ' jn ' - 4 Members of the General Ma. tno tani.-finritnm nanol " nVnirtoil i to submit their recommendations i to President Truman for settling' ' a strike of 175,000 C.I.O. Auto " Workers. I 5. Non-dial telephone service Jwas suspended in Washington when 3,000 operators quit work , to attend a "continuous session" meeting called by the Washington Telephone Traffic Union over lo-. cal grievances. - ': Federal conciliators ' worked feverishly in last-minute attempts to end a strike of nearly 8,000 Western Electric Company employes and stave off a communications tieup affecting all but four of the 48 states. The strikers, who install and maintain switchboards and other technical equipment, quit work yesterday in a wage dispute. JUNIOR HIGH - VS. N. LEBANON HERE TONIGHT The Sullivan Junior High School teams will play host to the New Lebanon Junior High squads tonight here at the Community Gym. - The varsities will vie at 7:30 o'clock with the opener beginning at 6:30, SURPRISE CAKE FOR SAILOR PORTSMOUTH, N. H. (UP) Three thousand miles separated sailor Travis H. White and his girl friend, Norma Richardson of Port Angeles, Wash., but she gave him o surprise birthday . party. Writing to the Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce, she arranged to have an oven-fresh cake obtained and taken to White and his shipmates aboard the submarine U.S.S. Tambor in the harbor here. WANT OPA CONTROL BACK ALTUS, Okla. (UP) Residents here have asked the Office of Price Administration to reestablish rent control, abandoned Sept. 1, because they claimed, rents have doubled in many instances since that time. An Army air base here was closed Sept 1 and the rent control office then closed. Other rent control offices in Oklahoma are still in operation.