Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 48, Number 83, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 25 April 1946 — Page 1

HOME DAILY Only daily newspaper published In Sullivan County, The Times offers excellent coverage for Its advertisers. " FAIR, COOLER T i Indiana: Fair tonight and Friday, cooler tonight and in south portion Friday. Light frost probably in north and centril portions Friday night.

VOL. XLVni No. 83

Si PICTURE CLOUDED TODAY BY NEW TROUBLE

Rubber Workers S trike At Akron; May Call NationWide Rail Strike May 18th. (By United Press) New labor troubles loomed in the rubber and railroad industries today as strikes and shutdowns kent 629,000 American workers idle.' The major developments: 1. A strike of 900 C.I.O. rubber workers at the Akron, Ohio plant of Goodrich Tire and Rubber Co. was expected to idle 2,1000 other employes today. 2. Two railroad brotherhoods met in Cleveland to consider calling a nation-wide rail strike May 18th. 3. In Seattle, major steamship companies and the striking Canneries Workers union reached an acrsement which would permit more ships to sail for Alaska where residents are critically fhort of provisions. Denounce Gov. Kelly 4. The C.I.O. United Auto Workers' executive bmrd denounced Michigan Governor Kelly for sending state troooers "to intimidate" UAW pickets at the Consolidated Vultee Stinson plant in Wayne, Michigan. 5. A threatened strike of 05,000 A.F.L. Railway and Steamship .- Clerks against the Railway Expfess Agency was avertedtfor at 1W 30 days when - President Truman appointed a fact-fending board to investigate he wage dispute. 6. Negotiations in the strike of 400.000 A.F.L. United Mine Workers against the nation's soft coal operators . remained deadlocked. 7. There was no comment from spokesmen for Chrysler Corporation on a threat by the UAW executive board to strike if the company "arbitrarily fired workers when they reached the age of 65." Bays Will Seek I Full Primary . INDIANAPOLIS, Apr. tate chairman, said yesterday he will recommend nomination of .can didates for United States senator ' and state officials in a Elate-wide primary election as a plank in .his oarty's 1946 platform. "Naturally," he said, "I expect cerely believe the party is ready for this plank. And I believe the people are ready for it." . The state chairman will appoint a platform advisory committee next week which will prepare a draft of the state platform for final consideration by the Democratic state convention. Another plank to be suggested by the state chairman will provide for ah adjusted compensation payment to returned Hoosier veterans, he said. This proposal has been urged by the Indiana Democratic Club's veterans organization. . Mr. Bays said he will not suggest any definite amounts to be awarded. The state chairman said he believes libsralization of all phases of the social security program, a rtate housing program, proposal and a stricter fair employment practices law will also be included in the Democratic state platform. Nationally the platform will indorse the UN program, a revision of the minimum wage act, and repeal of poll tax qualifications for voters, Mr. Bays said. The chairman declined to discuss what the platform might have to say on the liquor and beer situation. MARRIAGE LICENSES James Roscoe Catt, Vincennes, R. 1, carpenter and Mary B: Moore, Vincennes, housekeeper.

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Bennetts Add Distinctive New Improvements A very modernistic "cushion' tone acoustic ceiling has re. cently been installed at the Bennett Pharmacy which greatly enhances the interior beauty of the store. ' Coupled with the new noise-reduced lowered ceiling are three complete straight-line fluoreslighting n fixtures that extend length of the store. The dayi u rys eiven f y the new lighting adds additional beauty to the golden tinted walls of the interior. vj TTn nrr 1Wo Ponnaft noma in Sullivan from Bedford, Indiana, ion of ,h!K i; tablished the Bennett Pharmacy here two doors north of its presi: m c... i

Street. In 1934 the business was part of the state and had engaged moved to the present site on the in the retail lumber business for west side of the public square. more than flfty years' J'etinnS Since the beginning of his'two years aS- He ha(? been pharmaceutical business here, Mr. prominently identified with MaBennett has carried an ad in the sonic lodSe circles since he was Times columns every day of its 8 vm,nS man "aving received publication. This firm has the the 50-Year Masonic Pin several distinction of being the oldest, years acontinuous advertising account of ionninaa KPniih had f3il.d

the Daily Times, and the everexpanding scope of the business is evidence of what every smart merchant knows-it pays to advertise. Several special editions of the Times in cooperation with other well-wishing Sullivan merchants have marked the advancement of this business which has for many years been known as one of the outstanding pharmacies of SnnfhIt is with pride that Sullivan points to another step in the progress of the "town we live in." . Commencement At Dugger Friday UGGER, Ind., April 25 '-i Thirty-five seniors of the Dugger Union high school are scheduled to receive their diplomas at Commencement exercises to be held at 8.00 o'clock Friday evening in the Dugger high school gymnasium, C. W, Stegemoller, principal, announced. . Dr. W. P. Dearing of Indianapolis will present the Commencement address. Dr. Dearing is a former president of Oakland City

coiiege ana is nationally .Known pany and ' was operated" here a'Vu sp!,aker- until 1943 when it was sold by The Commencement program Mr. Jennings and his son, Cecil will be as follows: 'Forward,"- jennirtgs. In the meantime Mr. Chenette. and "Warming Up," Jennings had also operated lumRibble, band; Invocation, Rev. hpr vnrH at Now T.Phanon Car-

Mr. Hummerickhouse: "Gentlv 'Flows the River," Marryott nis is America," Marry t mta chorus; ; address Dr Dearing; prerentation, Jesse Boston; "Old Fashioned Garden," Cole Porter, girls chorus: Benediction, Rev. Mr. Homberger. 135 Graduate Seniors of the 1946 class of the fl T "Ik0 mas are: Jay Abram, Wade Bedwell, Ikie Besheres, Max Boone, Herbert Burris, Cornie Goodman, Wilford Goodman, Bill Hampton, John Home, Bob Jennings, Richard Johns, William Kennedy, Max Priest, Bill Ranard, Donald Smith, Thomas Terhune, John Waddell, Aletha Ammerman, Charlotte Ashcraft, Alpha Bledsoe, Bettie Bohnert, Bonnie Cadwell, Betty Critchfield, Betty Fuzesi, Barbara Gadberry, Gladys Hendricks, Betty Keene,.Sara Lou Lehman, Pansy Malone, Norma Morgan,' Norma Pigg, Betty Silvers, Lena Walters, Beulah Willis and Marian Woodward. FOOTBALL SCRIMMAGE CLOSES SPRING DRILLS A "scrimmage" session between the senior football players at Sullivan high and the prospective 1946 team was to be held this afternoon about four o'clock, marking the close of spring football practice, school officials revealed today. It was announced that a regulation spring game was not planned, as has been the custom in previous years, however some heavy scrimmage for the senior and underclass stalwarts appeared to- be in prospect. Coach Bill Jones and assistant Joe Takats have had a squad of about 50 candidates for next fall's varsity eleven working out for several weeks.

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tive In Business 50 Years; Services H day. Saturere Walker V. Jennings, retired Sullivan county businessman, he residence 416 Washington Street, about West ihree 0 clck ,tls nior?in following a cerebral hemorrhage. He was 1 1 1 ..1 i i.Uiwiaeiy Known imuugnuui uus some time ag0 and he had suf. fered an earlier stroke jn Septsmberi 1944, however he had vered sufficientiy to be able I, . ..... j x,, 10 lain Willi oiu inciiua oiiu an interest in the current events here and elsewhere. He had been able to be out on the porch at his home yerterday and his Gudden death early today came as a distinct shock to the family nnd a wide circle of friends. He was 80 years old. Born in Marion County, June 26, 1865, he was the son of the late Mr., and Mrs. Abel J. Jennings, who came to Indiana from New York State, the father entering the hardwood timber businp Jn IMa sfat vpars later ; to. nnmchiVkuhprA h nnprntPd an Parlv sawmill At the age of 19, Walker V. Jennings had his own "sawmill rig" and in 1885 he was married to Miss Lucretia Lloyd. After residing on a farm for 12 years they moved to Farmersburg where he entered the retail lumber business. In 1919 they came to Sullivan where the Jennings Lumber Company was established. The firm later became the W, V. Jennings and Son Lumber Com lisle and Bloomfield. Mr. and Mrs. Jennings celebrated their 60fh woddine anniversary here a year ago this month. Active As Mason He had been active in the First Christian church here and was an Elder in the church. A 32nd degree Mason at the Zorah Temple, he was a member of the Knights Templar, was a York Rite and Scottish Rite Mason and a member of the Shrine. A Past Master of the Farmersburg lodge he had a number of years ago gone into many communities in this section where he engaged in promoting the work and organization of lodge chapters. At one time he and his brother, Emory, were the only two persons who could give all the lodge ritual work from memory. After moving to Sullivan he became active in many civic and community affairs and was a member of the City School Board here several years, also serving as a member of the County Hospital Board at the time the Mary Sherman Hospital was erected. He was also a member of the Guffey Club of Indiana and was long active in the Retail Lumbermen's Association of Indiana. Of ready wit and good humor he had been much in demand as a toastmaster at meetings of the organization about thestate and was a past president of the Association. Mr. Jennings is survived by the widow; one daughter, Mrs. Clennie Bolinger of Sullivan; one son, Cecil J. Jennings of Hutsonville; two grandchildren, Mrs. June Leonard and Howard Bolinger; three great-grandchildren; and two brothers, Emory and (Continued On Page 3, Col. 4).

SULLIVAN DAILY TIMES THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1946

LATE SHOWDOWN L06MS ninro a m or itt

ters today cfpened a peace treaty conference which may pro-

j duce a showdown between Russia and the western powers Soviet expansion claims in Eurone and the Mediterran

ean. There were signs that Russfa might be preparing to yield on Jugoslav claims to Trieste and that Britain was opposed to any common Anglo-American front against the Soviet. ' The foreign ministers or the United States, Great Britain, France and Russia met rn the historic Luxembourg Palace. - . - ' The delegates heard a report on a meeting of their deputies and then presumably turned to the mapping of the program for the conference.

DUROCHER ACQUITTED ON ASSAULT CHARGE ' NEW YORK, April 25. (UP) Leo Duroeher, fiery and loquacious manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, was acquitted today on a charge of second degree assault which arose out of a dispute with a man at Ebbets Field. Joseph Moore, special patrolman at Ebbets Field, also was found not guilty by a jury of eleven Dodger fans and a non-baseball addict. The jury deliberated 36 minutes. Duroeher and Moore had been accused of striking John Christian, a war veleran who used to go to Ebbets Field three or four times a week to heckle the Dodgers.

INDEPENDENT GROUP REVOLTS AGAINST LOBBY WASHINGTON, April 25. (UP) A grouD of independent businessmen today revolted against efforts of big business to kill the OPA. Organized into the new Council of American Business they charged that the National Association of Manufacturers' lobby against the OPA was "a national scandal."

NO STEPS TAKEN : HERE IN REGARD TO CHANGING TIME It was learned today that no' definite steps have been taken toward establishing , daylight saving or "fast" . time in Sullivan. Terre Haute and Vincennes city councils ,have adopted a '"fast" time I Sehedule.i " effective! t - ' - 23(h," along wf tV Ttli ; i ier cities however nn even greater number of Hoosier towns and cities plan to remain on standard time, Evansville notably among the large cities having ;. decided not to turn up the clocks. To date little interest has been manifested in changing the time here, city officials . rsaid today. TWIN GIRLS DIE - SOON AFTER BIRTH Alice and Alicia, twin daughters of Feme and Lois .Bedwell Smith of the Bucktown Community, north of Pleasantville on Carlisle rural route two, died last night at theresidence a few hours following their birth. They were born shortly before "midnight. Surviving are the parents, Mr. and Mr?. Feme Bedwell; one brother, Alan," at home; and the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Bedwell of Carlisle rural :-oute two. and Mr., and- Mrs, Guy Smith 'of Dugger rural route one. The bodies were taken to the Newkirk Funeral Home in Pleasantville where they were prepared for burial. Interment was made . in the Mount Moriah Cemetery thi? morning at eleven o'clock with brief services at the graveside. MEETING OP 4-H JUNIOR LEADERS TUES. AT CARLISLE The 4-H Junior Leaders of Sullivan County Will hold iheir second monthly meeting at the Carlisle High 'School, Tuesday evening, April"$0th, at 8:00 p. m. Mary Lou Gettinger, Turman township, president of the group, will preside, at the meeting. The main feature of tha program will be reports of the District Junior Leader Training Conference held at Terre Haute, April 4th. Reports will be made by Art W. Boroughs and Jack DeBoeuf of Haddon Twp. and Myla Turpen, Fairbanks Twp. followed by a general discussion of 4-H Junior Leader problems. Jean Godfrey. Turman township and Jack DeBoeuf, Haddon township, will be in charge if recreation. Hosts for the meeting will b& the , Haddon Township 4-H Junior Leaders.

NEWS

AT BIG 4 MEETING rri n: r . Australian Plan For Spanish Probe Hits Snag Today NEW YORK, April 25. (UP) The Australian plan for a United Nations investigation of Franco Spain collided today with a surprise French effort to restrict

' -Appl y the, scope of such ah inquirjh t iioosi ff fh is'" ' development," " -' "Vh

j mis aeveiupuniiii., uil-ii threatened early prospects for Security Council unanimity' on t this controversial issue, came on the first annviersary of the San Francisco Conference where the UN Charter was drafted. SEEK RESIGNATIONS REMAINING MEMBERS EVANSVILLE BOARD EVANSVILLE, April 25. (UP) An Evansville Parent-Teachers committee circulated petitions today seeking the resignation of the two remaining members of the City School Board, as climax to an affair which tojgched off a student strike earlier' this month. The strike started when the school board demanded thje resignation of a basketball coach. Mrs. Jane Lockyear and Mrs. Neva Sandelven were the only remaining members who were on the board when it requested Central High School Athletic Director and Basketball Coach Glen Bretz to resign. The request was prompted by Mrs. Lockyear's charges that Bretz would not let members of his 1946 state basketball finalists play football. Three other members, of the board resigned after 5,000 students went on strike and ParentTeacher members demanded a new board. SISTER OF SHELBURN WOMAN PASSES PATRICKSBURG, Ind.. April 25 Mrs. Ida May Long, 77 years old, of Vandalia, died Wednes day at the Robert Long Hospital in Indianapolis. Survivors include a sister, Mrs. Mary Ault of Shelburru The body was taken to hs Schoppenhorst Funeral Home at Clay City and was removed to the residence of a brother, Emery. Bonnevell of Patricksburg this afternoon. Shore funeral services will be conducted at the residence at 1:30 o'clock Friday afternoon with continued services at 2 o'clock at the Patricksburg Nazarene Church. NEW SUGAR STAMP GOOD MAY FIRST WASHINGTON, April 25. UP) Spare Stamp 49 in ration book number 4 will be good for five pounds of sugar beginning May 1, the OPA said today. It will remain valid until August 31st,

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DRMjlDBW Community Leader At Fairbanks Dies Suddenly; Was Prominent Legionnaire. Dr. D. D. Bradbury, age 57, Fairbanks veterinarian and a prominent leader in many civic affairs of that community and Sullivan county for many years, died suddenly at his home there Wednesday morning at 3:00. o'clock. Dr. Bradbury suffered a stroke of paralysis Tuesday night a few hours after returning from a business call, it was learned. He had been in failing health for some time. His death came as a shock to throughout Sullivan county and elsewhere. A veteran of World War I, he was a member of the Fairbanks American Legion Post No. 275, having been long active in Leeion affairs. He had served on both state and district Legion committees at various times and was a member of the Terre Haute Voiture of the Forty and Eight. He was also a member of the Fairbanks Masonic lod?e. His untiring efforts in behalf of patriotic and community endeavors are almost innumerable. (Many times he had directed Red Cross and other drives in his community, being particularly active during World War II in leadership of scrap salvage and other efforts connected - with the war effort as well as a member of the c , . ... . ouuav.au wiumy rv.uian uexense Council and Fairbanks Townshin Clviiian Defense Dir'tictor. "He or rn. J j n. rvJ'S tjt ganized the Fairbanks volunteer fire department a number of years ago. He was active in democrat politics for many years, Was a former member of the Sullivan County (Excise Board, and at the time of his death was a member of the state War Memorial Board He was born at York, Illinois, and had resided in Fairbanks since he was a young man. His wife preceded him in death about five years ago. Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Betty Dean Sharpe; one son, James L.; one sister, Ola Bradbury, and one grandson, Johnnie Dean, all of Fairbanks. Noble Coryell of Sullivan is a brother-in-law of the deceased. The body was taken to the Wood Funeral Home at Farmersburg and was returned 4q the residence this afternoon. Funeral services will be conducted at the residence at two o'clock Friday afternoon with burial in the Bradbury cemetery near West York, Illinois. Sullivan Senior Class Play May 2 Preparations for the Sullivan Senior class play, "Gabriel Blow Your Horn," under the capable direction of Miss Mabel Nowlin, have been made It will be presented May 2 in the High School Auditorium at 8 P. M. The char, acters are as follows: Gabriel Pennington, mountaineer Joe Libke. Zerushia Pennington, his wife Nancy Carter. Daisy Mae, their daughter Bettie Mae Johnson. Miss Thelma Smith, a wealthy society woman Joan Kaiser. Janet Smith, her niece Norma Morin. Eleanor Barnes, friend of Janet Mary Alice Donnelly. Mildred Clyde, friend of Janet Norma Anstead. , - Pete Wright, friend of JanetIke Southwood. Frank Stephens Jim Hadar. Harold Dillon, rising young broker Bob Vowell. Herbert Brown, Jr., in love with Janet Don Courtney. Mr. Brown, his father John Alexander. Tickets may be purchased from any member of the senior class for forty cents. Seats may be reserved at Bennett's Drug Store beginning Friday, April 26.

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Baking Industry ' ; Receive Complaints Entire Flour Cut Being Absorbed In Bread Production Anderson In Dramatic Trip To Wheat Belt To Plead With Farmers!

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WASHINGTON, April 25. (UP) The ffovernment- k prepared to crack down on the country's bakei-s unless they , cooperate wholeheartedly in the emerg-ency flour conserva tion program! it was learned today. r The government already has received a few complaint3 that bakers are absorbing their entire 25 per cent cut ia flour supplies in their bread production, instead of making proportionate cuts both in bread and more profitable pies and cakes. If the situation becomes widespread, it was said, the government will step in with a remedial amendment to War -Food Order Number 1. It would tell bakers specifically how much of their available flour supply must be used for bread and how much for pastries. -. . , The disclosure came as Secre

J. A. Harbaugh To Preside At State Telephone Meeting John A. Harbaugh president jof the Sullivan Telephone Comjpany and president of the Ind- . iana Telephone . Association, will i preside over the association's annual convention weanesaay . m..,... i ! ' a."u A""'.0""' 1 4' ( uje -Hotel., XJevfeiao;'.- ir.sW:.iboi2!. Approximately 500 representatives of 345 telephones companies, operating ini Indiana are expected to attend the -convention which will be accompanied by a large trade exhibit. Service will ba the convention keynote and the opening event will be a service conference, :'n whlch t sx "ewpoints will be The associations service com mittee of which Mr. Harbaugh i is a member, has planned vhe conference. Major addresses will be Wednesday afternoon, when William C. Henry of Bellevue, Ohio, president of the U. S. Independent Telephone Association,- will speak on "Postwar Telephone Problems" and Eustace L. Florance of New York City, assistant vice-president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Association, will take "A Look Ahead in the Telephone Business.''. With The Colors NEW ADDRESS Pfc. Harry L. Morris. 35911240, 'Sv Co.. 508th Para, int., Afu 757, c-o P. M., New York, N. Y. SHOWERS BROS. WORKERS STRIKE AT BLOOMINGTON BLOOMINGTON, Ind., April 25. (UP) Production at the Showers Brothers Co., furniture manufacturers, was halted today by a strike of 600 C.I.O. United Furniture Workers. Rejection by the union of a company offer of a general tencent wage increase yesterday automatically put the work stoppage into effect at midnight. The union seeks a 16-cent wage hike and a group insurance plan. $50,000 FIRE AT EVANSVILLE EVANSVILLE, April 25. (UP) Damage of $50,000 was estimated today in a fire which burned the main mill building of the Maley Wertz Lumber Co. yesterday.

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tary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson left on a dramatic flight to the heart of the country's wheat . belt to make a face-to-face plea ' to farmers to release their grain; for hungry peoples overseas. At the same time a mobile briade of government farm-experts lianneci oui mrou?n,tne gram pen 'in an effort to sell more farmers on the government offer of a 30-cent-albushel bonus - on wheat 'and corn delivered by May 25th. 1 The golden grain which Europifs starving minjonsjiped, tv avVtr famiiVe was moving slowly; from the fnrms of the grain belt!' under the spur of the new gov- j ernment subsidy. . V Farmers were showing interest 1 in the program, dealers and elevator men of the grain belt reported. " . Worthington Pilot Escapes In Fatal Plane Collision . WEST GREENWICH. R. I., April 25 (AP) A mother and her infant child perished Wednesday when a Navy fighter plane, after' colliding with another' Corsair, crashed into a Wert Greenwich home and set it afire. The dwelling burned to the ground. ' The mother was Mrs. Peter-v (Parenteau, whose husband was ocat work when the . tragedy curred. The pilot of one plane, Lt. (jg) Roger C. Inman, 24 years old, of Worthington, Ind., bailed ;out and escaped with a bruised jleg. The pilot of the other plane. Ensign R. V. Franklin, 22, of iFerndale, Wash., flew back, with a damaged wing to the Quonset I Naval Air Station, from which j the two planes had taken off on a training assignment. Hoosier Slays Ex-Wife, Self V SOUTH BEND, April 25. (UP3 Loren Richard Hitt, 50, waited behind a tree for his estranged wife to pass on her way to work today, then shot and killed her and fatally wounded himself, police said. Authorities said Mrs. Harriett V. Hitt, 39, left a South Bend city bus with three other persons to walk to a brewery where 1 she worked. , ATTEKBURY DISCHARGES CAMP ATTERBURY, Indiana, April 25 Among Indiana men' discharged at the Atterbury Separation Center racently were: T5 Levi Morgan, Jr., Dugger. Pfc. James L. AmmermantRFD 3, Sullivan. T4 Edgar L. Chambers, RFD 1. Fairbanks. ' v