Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 48, Number 78, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 18 April 1946 — Page 1

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HOME DAILY . 4 Only daily; newspaper published lit Sullvian County, The Times offers excellent coverage for its advertisers. FAIR TV. Indiana: Fair tonight and Friday. Cooler in extreme north and a little warmer near the Ohio river tonight. Somewhat warmer near Lake Michigan Friday. VOL. XLVIII No.' 73 UNITED PRESS SERVICE SULLIVAN, INDIANA . , THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1946 INTERNATIONAL PICTURE SERVIC? ' PRICE THREE CENTS

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VISITS HERE v., Pvt. Harvey Vester sperit Tfft' week-end as the guest- of his brother, Hosea Vester of Route 3, Sullivan. His address is: Pvt. Harvey Vester,. 45020120, Sqdn. E, 3704 A. A. F. B. U., Box No. 107 (Meds.J, Keesler Field, Miss. Any letters written by old friends of Sullivan will predated. be apGen. Eisenhower Cites Continued Red'Cross Need ' Following is a recent statement by Cenerai Eisenhower concerning the Red Cross. Every loyal American will want to read it: ' "During the current Red Cross fund campaign vast numbers of patriotic Americans hava resnonded generously to the cause, Already the majority of chapters have reached or exceeded their goals. In some communities, however, I understand the campaign I is, lagging, and I am surprised to learn that one of the reasons , riven is that comolaints are be-' ine levelled at the organization's1 overseas operations by returning servicemen. For the most part these criticisms have grown out of a Red Cross Dolicv of makine

nominal charges to our forces League, ' today . announced the for food and lodgings in fixed ,1946 loop will have 11 teams inRed cW installations , abroad. stead of eight,, which played These complaints are distressing W-game schedule in 1945. to me sice this particular Red' League officials also said the "Cross fey was adopted at theW6 ?c,b.e.d.vrts wilt call for 22 request of the Army so as to in- games. Representatives of all 11 sure .an equitable distribution 1 teams attended the opening among all service personnel of 1 meeting 'and drew un a schedule Red Cross resources. for opening day, Sunday, May S. "I know the Red Cross. I have 'Games will be played each Sunseen it in action. Overseas it day and holidays from May until performed with the precision of , September. ' ... v ' n well trained army. It would .' tast year's league included be a grave injustice to the Terre Haute Police, Great Lake? SDlendid work of the Red Cross Steal, Terre Haute Eagles, Hyde if its campaign. should be retard-, Community Center, Purple Eaed anywhere by mistaken crit-. gles, Paris, North Terre Haute icism. Grays, and Vigo Ordnance. The ."In' providing millions of pints Purple Eagles and Vio Ordnanca of lifesaving blood plasma, have withdrawn from the league thousonds upon thousands of and this year the Little Bettv packages for prisoners of war, in Mine, West Tsrre Haute, Sullirdaying countless heart warm- van, Brazil and Seabury Market ing messages regarding condi- have been admitted to membertions at home, bringing comfort, ship in the loop. The North and entertainment, and cheer to Terre Haute nine will be known ho-pitals, leave areas and battl as the Rassel Tavern, fronts, the Red Cross accom- Schedule for opening day plished a prodigious task. In follows: Africa, in England, later on the Police vs. Rassel Tavern at

Continent, we learnad how much it meant to find the companionship, the friendliness, the link with home the Red Cross managed to provide. 1 "The services of the Red Cross are as urgently needed today by our occupation troops, our men in hospitals, and our veterans as they ever were by our fighting forces in time of war. The Red Cross needs and deserves our continued support. At the moment it is in the closing days of its greatest peacetime campaign, for funds. It stands now in the shadow of the goal posts. I hope to see it promptly pushed across bv oversubscription of its 1946 fund campaign." YOUNG MOTHER IS BURNED TO DEATH CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind. Apr. 18 Mrs. Pearl Wolfenbarger Clonce, 19 years old, formerly of. Jamestown, was burned to death and her husband, Robert Clonce, died several hours later in an Indianapolis hospital from burns suffered when flames swept iheir home near Lizton. The tragedy occurred when a can ' of kerosene with which Clonce was kindling a fire in the kitchen stove exploded. A six -months-old son, Robert Clonce Jr., was removed from the burning home by Charles Anderson, a neighbor, while Andrew Clonce, a brother of the injured man, escaped injury by jumping through a window in an upstairs room.

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Communist S e ige Armv Hammm At Dwindling Pocket Of Nationalists. ' CHUNGKING. Apr.- 18 (UP) Manchurian dispatches raid ' the fall of Changchun to a Communist seige army of 30,000, which i hammered ceaselessly at a dwin- , i dling pocket of f aver than 3,000 ; j Nationalist defenders, appeared jat hand today. I At, Peiping, Gen. Li-Ming, in northeast China, confirmed that the Changchun garrison was outnumbered more than ten to one. He indicated that all hope of defending the Manchurian capital had been abandoned. Military dispatches said the bloody fighting in the streets of Changchun. was nearing its end in a Communist victory with the hard - j5ressd Nationalists not expected to be able to hold out much longer, - Pi. wit I n Qlrprj lJl Vp Jivcvt FOI iAr-1 I ftOI1 ""r TERRE HAUTE, Ind. April 18 Ora Cronk, secretary-treasurer of the Western Indiana Baseball Memorial Stadium. Great Lakes Steel at Sullivan. Little Betty Mine at Paris. Terre Haute Eagles at Brazil. u..Ja riAMM...u.. -i ...... . i West Terre Haute. Seabury Market (open date). INDIANAPOLIS, April 18. (UP)--Livestock: Hogs, 5,500; active, steady at ceiling; good and choice butchers 160 lbs. up and many choice lighter weights, $14.85; 100-160 lbs. scheduled $13.25 $14.50; good and choice sows and good stags, $14.10. Cattle, 350; calves, 400; one load 1234-lb.' steers, $17.50; other small lots medium and good, $15.00 $16.25; steady; hardly enough heifers to test values, quotable steady; good and choice considered eligible at $15.50 to $17,000; cows steady and fairly active; good beef cows, $13.50 $14.50; common and medium, $9,75 $13.25; vealers active and steady; good and choice, $17.50 $18.05. Sheep, 500; fat lambs quotably steady; slaughter ewes 50c higher; good and choice 90-lb. shorn fed Texas lambs with No. 2 pelts, $15.35; medium and good native wooled lambs, $14.00 $15.50; choice wooled slaughter ewes to $9.00; shorn offerings $7.00 down. NEW SUITS John A. Templeton, Robert E. Templeton, Margaret Kelly : vs. Martha Gosnell et al. Complaint in Partition.

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WITH HIS alleged offensea characterized by Judge Jennie Loitxnan Barron at Boston as the most "atrocious and heinous" in her experience. Armv Air Force Lt. Thomas Farrell, 24, veteran of 34 missions against the Japs, was charged in Boston's municipal court with burning his initials on the breast, thighs and hips of an . 18-year-old stenographer. Miss Helen Stavron, above. Lieutenant Farrel said he was estranged from his wife and 2-year-old child, both in Los Angeles, ' (Intematioaali LEGION SPONSORING EASTER EGG HUNT FOR LOCAL KIDDIES An elaborate Easter Egg Hunt for kiddies of (Junior High School age and elow is being planned by' Sullivan post 139 American Legion. The affair . will be held on the Legion Grounds Saturday,April 20, at 11:00 a. m. Prizes will be awarded for various contest.' winners, and several hundred gaily colored eggs will be cleverly concealed to baffle and entice , the contestants. ' . Particulars as to, the number and type of prizes are pending, but definite plans will be announced tomorrow, giving' full information as to how the various contests will be conducted. Sullivan Merchants and professional men have graciously donated ample funds to carry out a very delightful affair for local kiddies, and a large turnout is anticipated. This event is under the auspices and supervision . of the local American Legion Post, and alj kiddies in the age bracket mentioned above are cordially invited to attend as special guests of the Post. KIDS, WATCH THE TIMES TOMORROW FOR FULL PARTICULARS! MANILA CALLING, "HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MOM" A special thrill was enjoyed by Mrs. Clyde Peck of this city on her birthday yer:farday when she received a long distance call from her son, Lt. Paul Peck, who is stationed with the United States Army in Manila. The call came through about ten a. m. and both Mr. and Mrs. j Psck talked with their son. His voice came to them per- , fectly clear and natural, they said, from his station thousands of miles away. Mrs. I Peck was notified from San Francisco last Saturday that a call was scheduled for her from Manila Wednesday. Lt. Peck has been oversea'; since last September., . . BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT Mr. and Mrs. Maurice P. Ward of Washington, D. C; are announcing the prriva1 of a son on April 14th. The Wards have a four-year-old daughter, Karen Ann. Mrs. Ward is the granddaughter of Mrs. Anna F. .Shields of Linton and the niece of Mrs. Freal Frye of Pleasantville,

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SENATOR SUPPORTS LOAN TO BRITAIN WASHINGTON, April lg. (UP) Senator William A. Stanfill, It., Ky., toI4 the Senate today that considerations of world peace and economic prosperity justify approval of the $3,750,000,000 loan to Britain : He said the loan will be a keystone in establishment of a strong Anglo-American bloc for world peace. But he warned there is no assurance that the money ever will be repaid. . The Senate plans to explore the possibility that approval of the British loan would bring a series of demands for loans by other nations. . ' . "If the world must be saved from utter destruction, it must be saved by the United States and Great Britain," StanfiII'said.."We cannot survivev.another economic war followed by a world deoression or by an atomic bomb war." Senator Tom Stewart, D.; Tenn., interrupted to ask Stanfill why former Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones, who this week expressed strong opposition to the loan, was not called by the Senate Banking committee. He also asked why Leo Crowley, former lend-lease administrator, and Bernard M. Baruch' had not been called by the committee. Stewart received no answers to his questions. .' tr IRAN CHALLENGES BRITAIN OVER OIL STAKE TEHERAN, April 18. (UP) Iran today challenged the British protectorate over the oil-rich Bahrein island in the Persian Gulf and asserted that she considers the island an integral part of Iran. The government issued a decree ordering that taxes be levied upon Bahrein oil production just as they are levied

upon the production of the Anglo-Iranian oil companies in southern Iran.' ; . Whether Iran proposes to raise the question of Bahrein's ownership bef ore the United Nations council was not known. The case was brought up last in 1927 when Iran filed a claim to the island with the League of Nations.

PRESIDENT ASKS HOOVER RETURN AT ONCE WASHINGTON, April 18. (UP) President Truman today asked former President Herbert Hoover to interrupt his world-wide famine inspection trip and return immediately to report his "eye-witness account of the necessity for greater assistance from this country" to starving nations.

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Park At Dana Honoring Ernie Pyle

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L DANA, Ind., April 18 Citi zens of Dana, birthplace of Ernie Pyle, today announced detailed plans for a memorial park honoring the late war correspondent, on II. S. Highway 36, where thousands of motorists pass- each day on the coast-to-coast route. The announcement comes on the first anniversary of Ernie's death, April 18, 1945, at the hands of a Jap sniper on Ie Shima, a tiny island just west of Okinawa. ' Plans for the memorial have bean approved by John Lauer, chairman of the Indiana Stat? Highway Commission, and othrr members of the commission, who agreed to accept a gift of additional acreage for the park, maintain night lighting and cooperate1" fully, with- the Ernie Pyle Memorial, Inc., in making ; the ' site a permanent shrine to 'the memory of the Hoosier .Vagabond. ' An exact replica of the monuIment erected on Ie Shima by I members of the 77th (Statue of Liberty) Infantry Division on the spot where Ernie fell, will be placed. in the wooded state highway roadside . park, one mile east of Dana and close by Pyle's boyhood home. The . highway commission already, has given Pyle's name to .the site. Detailed ; plans of the monument on Ie Shima were obtain'ed from Lt. Col. N. A. Skinrood, chief of staff of the Headquart ers Island Command. The plans were drawn by the 1635th Engineer Construction Battalion. The simple inscription on the monument states: "At this spot

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the 77th Infantry. Division lost a buddy, Ernie Pyle, 18 April, 1945." v The plans obtained from the Army also include landscaping of the monument to the exact inch. Stone to be used for the memorial -marker will come from a quarry near Bloomington, Indiana, where Ernie's memory as a student at Indiana University is cherished. The memorial has been made possible not only by the state and the people of Dana, but by contributions from some of Ernie's countless friends throughout the nation. Construction will be started immediately and it is anticipated that dedicatory ceremonies will be held sometime during the coming summer. UNUSUAL SERVICE AT FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH TONIGHT The Last Supper Memorial Service will be held this evening in the First Baptist Church at 7:30. Plans for a very unusual Communion Service ha,-e been made. . BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS Mr. and Mrs. Claude Robbins df Sullivan, R. 3, announce the birth of a daughter at the Mary Sherman Hospital April 17. She has not been named. Mr. and Mrs. Carol L. Knowles Of Shelburn are the parents of a son born at the Mary Sherman Hospital April 18. He has been named Eric Kent.

WHAT DID YOU WASTE? Five hundred million people of war-ravaged countries are hungry many starving due to war exhaustion of agriculture and drought. . Home: Did you waste a slice of bread today? (1 slice of bread equals 100 calories.) Did you- waste somei fats that could have been salvaged? Could the meat drippings have been reused for, "cooking and seasoning? ( 1 teaspoon saved per day per person ' equals 1,000,000 pounds per day.) Your diet, 3400 calories Famine diet, 1200 calories. The children suffer most when starved. Farm: , One bushel of wheat will provide seven times as much food when fed to people as when fed to - livestock use other feeds for livestock. Cull out the unproductive animals and poultry sell them and use the feed for productive stock." - " , -

WASHINGTON, April 18. (UP) Reconversion officials expressed growing alarm over the coal strike today and predicted that steel production losses would exceed 4,000.000 tons if the stoppage runs into May. Reports from the Labor Department encouraged no optimism (over prospects for settling the 'strike before then. There was j little hope that the mine opera tors and President John L. Lewis of the striking United Mine Workers (A.F.L.) would be brought back to the bargaining taple this weelt.---"- '- -- - "The nation's reconversion program, is suffering a setback which will steadily grow worse day by day. if the coal strike continues," said Director J. D. Small of the Civilian Production Administrar tion. , . A C.P.A. report estimated that the steel industry would be forced to operate at only fifty per cent of capacity next month, compared with 77.4 this week, if the strike was not settled until "early May." It said the industry might lose 3,500,000 tons of steel in May at that operating rate. C.P.A. estimated that the industry would lose 750,000 tons this month if. production remained at its present level. But it expressed doubt that the current level could be maintained. Baccalaureate For Dugger Class Will Be Held Sunday Seniors of the Dugger Union high school will attend Baccalaureate services at 2:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon at the school gymnasium. The program for the services was announced today by C. W. Stegemoller, principal. Rev. C. E. Homberger, pastor of the Dugger Methodist Church, will present the Baccalaureate sermon. The program will be as follows: Organ melody, Chenetta; March Romaine, Gounod; Invocation, Rev Mr. Humerickhouse; "O Lord, We Worship Thee," Bach, and "150th Pslam," Lewandowski, mixed chorus; sermon, Rev. Mr. Homberger; ."We Sing Thy Praise," Bortninasky - Tkach, girls chorus, and Benediction, MATRIARCH DIES AT 109 McCONNELLSBURG, Pa. (UP) Mrs. Louisj Spriggs, nagres3 "matriarch" of Little Scrubbe Ridge, came to McConnellsburg 80 years ago. Believed to have been Fulton county's oldest resident, she died at her Ridge home a half mile from here, at 109. Survivors said th3 woman who "reigned" over the . Ridge's 75 inhabitants never had failing hearing or eyesight and was active Until her death. Mrs. Spriggs had 11 children.

Amendment-Riddled Price Control BillGoes" To Senate

Bowles Warning Of Inflationary "Joy Ride To Disaster" Goes Unheeded By Rebellious House Amendments Eliminate Subsidies On Meat, Farm Products Senate May Salvage Some Control Provisions.

WASHINGTON, April 18. (UP) A rebellious House today passed and sent to the Senate an amendment-riddled price control bill despite warnings by Economic Stabilizer Chester Bowles that it would start the nation on an inflationary "joyride to disaster." The final vote passing the battered bill was 353 to 42. It was one of the worst legislative defeats suffered by President Truman, who had requested a one-year extension of price control without crippling: amendments. The measure would. extend the Price Control Act only until March 31. It carries a series of amendments which administration supporters said would "wreck price control." ' , The amendments provide for SummOnS elimination of meat subsidies on i June 30, with a Corresponding Wm. SmedleV 7o'rise in Prices; termination of I price roll-back subsidies on farm

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William Smedley, age 78, died I at 5:00 o'clock this morning at 'his home near Pleasantvilla. Surviving are two daughters, Carrie Critchfield of Terre Haute ! and Mrs. Anchor Wilson of Chesterton, Indiana; two sons, ' Dale of Dugger, R. 1, and Frank at home; one sister, Mrs., -Eliza beth Tmcher of Linton. His wife preceded him in death last year, The body was taken to the Newkirk Funeral Home at Pleasantville where it was prepared for burial. It will be removed to the home tomorrow where it will lie in state. Funeral arrangements will be made later. ART CHEVROLET, PIONEER RACING DRIVER SUICIDE . INDIANAPOLIS, April 18 Arthur Chevrolet, 61-year-old former Indianapolis automobile builder and racer who with two brothers founded the Chevrolet Motor Company, died Tuesday at his home in Slidell, La., according to word received here yer.terday. j The pioneer race driver and engine designer, ended his own life by hanging himself, Dr. H. E. Gauteaux, acting coroner nt Slidell, said. The body was found suspended in .the garage -at the Chevrolet home. Dr. Gauteaux .said Mr. Chevrolet had been j despondent. HOSPITAL NOTES Admitted April 17: Everett Norris of Sullivan, R. 3. Dismissed April 17: Mrs. Ellard Cleveland and daughter of Dug ger, R. 1; Mrs.- Albert Robbing and son of Carlisle; Joe Borders of Merom, R. 1; Mrs. William Harrison of Shelburn. R. 2; Mrs. Clyde Carpenter of Hymera.

This Morning's Headlines PRESIDENT TO SPEAK ONF AMINE CRISIS A far-reaching program designed to conserve food and speed exports to famished peoples abroad was urged by President Truman's famine emergency committee which declared the present voluntary wheat-saving program is not enough. The White House announced that the President will address the nation by radio at 6:15 p. m. C.S.T. Friday on the famine crisis.

MISSING MUNC1E HEIRESS FOUND Police said Dorothy Ball, 20, Muncie, Ind., heiress missing from Mt. Holyoke College since Tuesday, was reunited with her father at a Salvation Army shelter in the lower East Side of New York. A wide search had been under way for the student. '

STEVE ORDERED BACK TO PRISON The Indiana Supreme Court ordered the Hamilton County sheriff to turn over D. C. Stephenson to Warden Ralph Howard of the State Prison "herewith." The court order meant that Stephenson, who has been in the Hamilton County Jail at Noblesville for more than 13 months, would bo returned to the prison at Michigan City. Stephenson, former Indiana grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, has been engaged in his forty-first attempt to escape completing a Jife sentence imposed in 1925 for the murder of Miss Madge Ober holtzer, Indianapolis state house employe.

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a guarantee of cost-plus-a-reas-onable profit to producers, distributors and retailers on all items. .. The votes for a decisive modification of price control were taken by a coalition of republicans and farm bloc democrats who turned a deaf ear to warning by, OPA Administrator Paul Porter that tto'e actron- amounted to ."repeal ofI price c6ntrol." The' majority of i the House, however, felt it was time for a lot less price control. . . Administration leaders . look to the Senate to eliminate some of 1 the drastic House provisions &nd salvage price control legislation in something nearer the form 1 sought by Mr. Truman. Final House action came after ' a frenzied ten-hour session yes- ' terday during which the repub-lican-democratic, coalition went on an amendment rampage. . ' Just before passage today the House rejected by a roll call vote of 370 to 20 a motion by Repr. ' John E. Rankin, D., ' Mississippi, to send the bill back to the banking committee. TOT IS KILLLED j WASHINGTON, Ind., April 13 Don Lee, 3-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. George Lee of Winslow, was injured fatally, while his brother, Dallas Lee, .5, ! and a playmate, Ronnie Gene Vaughn, 4, were hurt, rtruck by an automobile when nesday on Ind. 64 three southeast of Winslow. PUBLIC LIBRARY TO BE CLOSED FRIDAY The public library' will be closed all day Friday it was announced today by Betty Campbell, President of the Eoard of Trustees. ' .