Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 48, Number 143, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 18 July 1946 — Page 1

I. HOME DAILY WARMER Indiana: Fair and warmer pnd slightly more, humid, tonight, Friday partly cloudr, warm and, humid with thundershowers Friday or Friday night. Only dallj; newspaper published Itn Sullivan County, The Time ffers excellent coverage for Ita ''advertisers. . ..uJ VOL. XLVIII No. 143 UNITED PRESS SERVICE SULLIVAN DAILY TIMES THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1946. INTERNATIONAL PICTURE SERVICE PRICE THREE CENTS

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j RETURNS TO CAMP i Pfc. James E. Farris returned to Chanute Field, 111., Monday 'after enjoying a 15-day furlough with his mother, Mrs. Rudy Dudley and his sister, Mrs. Robert Milam and family. EN ROUTE HOME Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Walker of 32 West Street have received word that their son, Sgt. Burris L. Walker, who has been overseas fourteen months will be home around the first of August. He is now stationed at Yokahama, Japan. . NEW ADDRESS Pvt. William H. Bedwell 1521f333 Co. D, 5th Bn. 2nd Regt. tf.T.C. First Platoon, Fort Knox, Kentucky. Norman L. German New Commander Legion Post 139 Noiman L. German was elected commander of Sullivan Post 139, American Legion for the 1946-47 year in a meeting held at the Legion Home here Tuesday evening. Mr. German, who held the rank of Major in the (Army during World War n is in business here, being a distributor for the Texaco Oil Company and an automobile dealer. He will succeed Eddie Trueblood as commander of the post. A i capable slate of officers was Dlepted along with Commander Vnian. .They will take 'office yxt month. Also named were: Harry (Fat) Walters, First Vice Commander; Carl Engle, ..Second Vice Commander; Robert wayne Pierce, Adjutant; J. C. Greenberg, Finance Officer; Jesse E. Bedwell, Service Officer; William Russell, Chaplain; Charles Baughman, Historian; Robert Butler, Sergeant-at-u Arms. Greenberg, Bedwell and Baughman, who were unopposed were named" by acclamation. The former, who is a past commandeer of the post, was named its Finance Officer for the sixth ; consecutive year. r A large attendance participat ed in tne election and refreshLments were served to the group at the conclusion of th business session. Young Kidnapers f ; Bound Over To Fedl. Grand Jury ('. FT. WAYNE, Ind., July 18 (UP) Four boys and two girls aged 14 to 22 were held for the .September federal grand jury today on charges on kidnaping a Chicago cab driver to take them on what , authorities said was planned as a plundering trip to the' east coast. The six armed youths captured fn a dence woods near LaGrange, Indiana at dawn Tuesday, were (hound over at their arraignment before "U. S. Commissioner Fred .Berkes late yesterday. Bond was Set at $7,500. RITES FOR BABY I Funeral services were held at ike-. Railsback Funeral Home piis morning 'at ten o'clock for .Donald Ray Daugherty infant son of Mr. and Mrs. John DauUgherty of 117 North Holloway Street, Sullivan, who died yesterday at the Mary Sherman Hospital. Burial 1 was in Little Flock Cemetery at Shelburn. t ' WILL CELEBRATE GOLDEN WEDDING . Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Milam bf 534 South Main Street will celebrate their golden wedding anniversary Sunday. They will hold open house between two and four o'clock.

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Says Campaign Tour May Be t m necessary l o Help Party In Elections. WASHINGTON, July 18 (UP) President Truman said today he would take , the political stump actively late this summer if necessary to help the democratic party in the fall elections. The president said he had not made any specific plans for a campaign tour. He said his decision would depend on the necessity. At the same time he voiced blunt opposition to the reelec tion of Representative Roger C. Slaughter, D., Missouri as Congressman from the Kansas City district of Missouri. Slaughter represents a district immediately next to Mr. Truman's home in Independence, Missouri. 4-H Achievement Day On Friday Sullivan's annual 4-H Achieve ment Day program and exhibit will be held at the high school on Friday, July 19th. There will be exhibits in clothing, baking, food preparation, canning, gardening, room improvement and handicraft. This display will be open to the public at 1:30 p. m. Friday. The program and dress revile will begin at 2:30 p. m. There are approximately 70 members ; completing 4-H work in Sullivan this year. In all, they will have completed about 150 projects. There has been some excellent work done and the exhibits should be very interestling. This achievement day program will mark the end of Sullivan's local 4-H Club year. However, there will be two county events including the county fair on August 8, 9, and 10 and a county camp at Shakamak beginning August 19th in which the Sullivan girls and boys will participate. j All 4-H Club members should 'be reminded that exhibits are due at the high school Friday at 10:00 a. m. All exhibit! should be labeled and dresses should be on hangers. The public is invited to attend both the exhibit and dress revue. Judges for thei exhibit and dress revue will be Miss Gladys Hayes from Carlisle and Mrs. Rita Newman from Shelburn, both of whom are vocational home economics teachers and 4-H club leaders. WILL ATTEND 4-H CONSERVATION CAMP Three 4-H Club boys of Sullivan ' County, Thos. A. Taylor, Curry Township; Art W. Burroughs and Jack DeBeouf, Haddon Township, will attend the State 4-H Conservation Camp next week. The camp will be held at the Massmar Hill 4-H Club Camp at Versailles, Indiana, from July 22 to 26. Eighteen boys are enrolled in the 4-H Conservation Club in the county. J. Howard Telfer, County Agricultural Agent and Ralph E. Watkins, Assistant County Agricultural Agent will attend the camp as a leader and counselor. CONCERT TONIGHT Another in the. series of summer band concerts being presented each week at the city park will be held at the city park tonight at eight o'clock under the baton of Wilfred Perigo. BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT . Mr. and Mrs. Winfred Stives of Glen Falls, New York announce the arrival of a daughter, Arlene, born July 13th at the Glens Falls Hospital. Mrs. Stives is the former Maxine Chambers of Dugger.

Livestock Prices Hit Record Highs

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dropped further. Hogs opened at Chicago $1 to $2 lower than yesterday. Today's top prices for choice hogs was $20 and the bulk of 250 pound hogs sold for from $19.75 to $20. INDIANAPOLIS, July 18 Price records exceeding . previous 26-year highs were established yesterday on the Indianapolis livestock market as cattle, hogs and lambs in larger than normal numbers flowed into the market, although for the general run of slaughter cattle prices remained comparatively steady. Hogs sold at $21 a hundred weight, which was 75 cents higher than earlier prices, and a four-car shipment of choice 1,020 pound steers sold at $23.50 a hundredweight, highest price on the Indianapolis market since 1920. Heifers bringing $21.25 a hundredweight, a choice bull at $17.50, and several lots of choice lambs at $21.50 were among the record-breaking sales. Meanwhile Indiana's newly harvested wheat crop was flowing into shipping points so rapidly that elevators several days ago began refusing to accept wheat, because of uncertainty over nossible forthcoming OPA legislation and also because freight cars to move the new harvest were lacking. : "" " -' -' The new grain, however, is in most instances in a dry condition which will permit safe holding until cars become available, Fred K. Sale, executive secretary of the Indiana Grain and Feed Dealers' Association, said. New oats, which usually are not marketed at the elevators until after most of the wheat crop is gone, also are coming off the farms in quantity, Mr. Sale said. Since the removal of OPA price restrictions grain prices in one instance increased to $1.96, Mr. Sale pointed out . But the black market in grain still operates to an extent, he declared. Wheat cutting and combining is progressing rapidly throughout Indiana except in some southern areas where rain : has interfered with the harvest, the Weather Bureau reported yesterday. Oats cutting almost is completed in the southern half of the state but central and northern Indiana farmers still are harvesting that crop, the bureau said. Prospects for a good corn crop remain excellent, although rain now is needed in many parts of the state. Reveal Shakamak Housing Mixup INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., July 18 Persons with cabin accomodations at Shakamak State Park for the period Aug. 11 through 18, were urged today to contact the Indiana Department of Conservation for verification of reservations. , Robert F. Wirsching, director of state parks, said the former concessionaire at Shakamak, took reservations for this summer which were beyond the term of the contract. Wirsching said accommodations are needed by the department for competitors at the National A.A.U. Senior Women's Swimming and Diving Championships on .those dates. The parks director said every effort will be made to accomodate persons with reservations but added that some will of necessity be cancelled. The former concessionaire he said, has refused to turn over names of persons with reservations for the period.

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REFUSE TO KILL ATOM CONTROL LEGISLATION Washington, July 18 (UP) The House today refused to kill legislation governing domestic control and development of atomic energy. j By a vote of 131 to 102 it defeated a motion by Rep. John E. Rankin, D., Miss, to strike the enacting clause from

me measure ana send it oacK to the House military affairs committee. n The motion would have ended administration hopes for an act to control atomic research and production from this session of congress. t

STALIN SHAKES UP ARMY HIGH COMMAND NEW YORK, July 18 (UP) Generalissimo Stalin has shaken up the high command of the Red Army and relegated Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov, the Soviet Union's top war hero, to an obscure provincial post. No announcement of the Red Army shakeup has yet been made to the Soviet public but the United Press today learned that it already has been carried out. Zhukov, commander of all Red Army ground forces in Russia's World War II campaign, was Soviet Russia's top military hero. A

CHURCHILL BLASTS LABOR GOVERNMENT London, July 18 (UP) Winston Churchill, opposition leader, charged in the House of Commons today that the laW nmvcrnmAnt rlnne Tint wan t. free sDeech and is going fur-

ther and further on the road to destroying it. . Churchill's charge was made when government members objected to the circulation of posters proclaiming the names of members of parliament who voted for bread rationing as "public enemies and dictators." NOMINATE U. S. DELEGATE TO UN ASSEMBLY WASHINGTON, July 18 (UP) President Truman today nominated the U. S. delegates to the meeting of the United Nations assembly at New York in September. Nominated as senior American representative in the absence of Secretary Df State James F. Byrnes was Senator Warren R. Austin, R., Vermont. .When he resigns his post in the Senate some time this year, Austin will become U. S. Representative on the United Nations Security Council succeeding Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., who resigned this spring. Other delegates to the General Assembly will be Senator Tom Connally, D., Texas, Senator Arthur E. Vandenburgh,, R., Michigan, Representative Sol Bloom, D., New York and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, widow of the late president. This Morning's Headlines BAN HOARDING OF SCARCE GOODS To prevent hoarding at the factory of scarce household appliances and other goods in hopes of higher prices, the Civilian Production Administration clamped stern inventory controls on manufacturers. The antiwithholding order limits to a supply of 30 days or less the stocks of nearly a score of finished products which may be held in factories or warehouses. The rest must be moved to market. The electric ranges, sewing machines, vacuum cleaners, cameras and goods affected include furniture, refrigerators, washing machines, photographic equipment and some building materials.

ASSERT MAY ASKED $3,000 A former secretary for two of the "paper empire" munitions firms now under Senate investigation testified that she heard one of the combine's officials promise to send $3(000 to Repr. Andrew J. May (D.-Ky.). Black-haired Mrs. Eleanor Hall, who said she resigned her job because her employers were a "bunch of crooks" also testified that May was known by the code name of "yeichel" in conversations at the offices of the Batavia Metals and Erie Basin Metal Products Companies, two of the parent firms of the combine. Mrs. Hall testified before the Senate War Investigating Committee after former employe of the Erie Basin firm, Mrs. Jean H. Bates, said that May, Senate Democratic Leader Alben W. Barkley (Ky.) and House Democratic Leader John W. McCormick, (Mass.) were among six congressmen whose offices called company officials. Mrs. Hall related one occasion when May called and talked with Joseph Freeman, Washington representative of the combine. She said "At the end, she said, "Congressman May said rather abruptly, Freeman asked her to listen in on an extension and take notes. 'What about that $3,000?' Mr. Freeman told him it would' be along in a day or so."

HEIRENS ADMITS REPORTS "MUST BE TRUE" William Heirens, 17-year-old student told a Cook County, Illinois physician that revelations that he had admitted three shocking crimes, including the kidnap slaying of little Suzanne Degnan, "must be true." He made the statement after hearing of published reports that he had "talked" three weeks ago after having been given an injecion of sodium pentothal, a hypnosis-producing drug.

GOVERNMENT AGREES TO MINE FOREMEN'S PACT Vice Admiral Ben C. Moreell, federal coal mines administrator, announced a govern-union agreement covering pay and working conditions, for mine supervisory workers the first such agreement reached in the history of the soft coal industry. The agreement applies only to 136 supervisory workers at four western Pennsylvania bituminous mines of the Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp., but the case has been regarded as a test over the long-converted issue of unionizing mine foremen.

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Ml BULLETIN! NEW PALESTINE, Ind., July 18 (UP) Two armed bandits held up the New Palestine State Bank at noon today and escaped with $15,000, state police announced. Police said the men fled in a green Ford automobile and were last seen heading east on U. S. 52. Miss Carrie Snodgrass, bank bookkeeper was alone when the gunmen entered. She said the men each pointed a revolver at her and' forced her to stand quietly at her post while they took the money from a teller's cage drawer. Witnesses gave state police a description of the car and the bandits. The license number of the automobile corresponded with plates issued to a Greenwood, Ind. motorist. Police said they learned the car was stolen. Fl BULLETIN! WASHINGTON, July 18 (UP) The Senate War Investigating Committee, disclosing it has uncovered new evidence in its war profits inquiry, today deferred the decision on finding a . legal way to compel Repr. Andrew J. May, D,, Ky., to testify. Nature of the new evidence was not disclosed nor was it explained whether it had any connection with May who had been described by a witness as "guardian angel" for the two parent firms of the "paper empire" munitions combine under in vestigation. Reorganize PAC Under New Plan WASHINGTON, July 18 (UP) The C.I.O. reorganized its Po litical Action Committee today and placed it under the direction of Jack Kroll, a prodigy of the late Sidney Hillman, Kroll, president of the Ohio Industrial Union Council," was not named to the PAC chairmanship left vacant by Hillman's death. No successor was named. Instead the C.I.O. executive board which will direct the administrative functions under the policies laid down by an enlarged Political Action Committee. CAR STOLEN HERE, ANOTHER RECOVERED City police today recovered a 1936 Studebaker automobile on West Giles Street which had apparently been stolen and abandoned. The car had been registered in the name of Chester Suyay, Terre Haute, it was revealed. Meanwhile, a 1936 Ford owned by Iva Giles of Sullivan was Stolen from Indiana Avenue last night leaving to the assumption that who ever abandoned the Studebaker had stolen the Giles car and left town in it. TALMADGE " NOMINATED ATLANTA, Ga., July 18 (UP) Georgia returned today to the political reign of Eugene Talmadge who was nominated to his fourth term as governor Wednesday on a platform of keeping this "a white man's state." ATLANTA, Ga., July 18 (UP) Eugene Talmadge,: apparently nominated to a "'fourth term as Georgia governor, reiterated in a victory statement today that he would "restore" the white primary in the state. Talmadge said his victory "was the best thing for the white people and the best thing for the Negroes" of Georgia. LEARN OF DEATH Word has been received by Herv'ey Ridgeway of the death on July 17tn or Mrs. G. ' Frank Garber of Staunton, Virginia. Mrs. Garber was the mother of Mrs. Ridgeway. She had suffered a cerebral hemorrhage recently.

WARPRO

Truman Predicts Continued Price Rises Without OPA

Conferees Resume Efforts On Compromise Bill; President Delays Naming Bowies' Successor Pending Out

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WASHINGTON, July 18 (UP) President Truman predicted today that prices will continue to rise unless congress passes a bill reviving OPA. He told a news conference that price increases during the past three weeks bore out his prediction that inflation would follow the end of OPA. President Truman made the prediction as Senate-House conferees renewed efforts for the third day to thresh out a

compromise OPA bill that he Tells Community Planners Labor. Has Vital Stake TERRE HAUTE, Ind., July 18 Labor has a formidable stake in all phases of planning, Charles W. Kern. State Labor Comj missioner, asserted at . the West 'Central Conference on planning in Terre Haute today. Kern addresed a luncheon session at which Stephen C. Noland, editor of the' Indianapolis News and chairman of the Indiana Economic Council presided. F. B. Culley, of Evansville, vice-president of the Southern Indiana Gas and electric Company, was in charge of the meeting. The Terre Haute Planning Commission and Chamber of Commerce sponsored the gathering, which was attended by several hundred public officials and interested citizens from the following counties: Clay, Greene, Owen, Parke, Putnam, Sullivan, Vermillion and Vigo, ' I "Labor has perhaps a greater interest in all phases of planning than any other group," Kern declared. "The working man is intensely interested in protecting his investment in his home by means of efficient and just zoning. He also feels . that adequate planning will provide suitable educational and recreational facilities for his family. "From an exceedingly practi cal standpoint, labor is interested in what planning can do to attract idustries to the various communities. Labor is aware that during the present decen tralization of industry, the fact ory executives are demanding long-range planning in commun ities proposed for location of idustries. When a factory moves to a city or town, it means many more jobs available for the working man. "Labor also feels that creation of a long-range public works planning program will serve as. a cushion against unemployment during any future depression periods." Other speakers at the conference included Jack Greig, of New Castle, director of the Henry County Council on Intergovernmental Relations; Edward J. Losey, Purdue University land use specialist; G. E. Lommel, Purdue professor of topographical engineering; Otto Jensen, director of the Indianapolis Redevelopment Commission; Fred I. Hoover, agricultural agent for Owen County and H. H. Morgan, assistant director, and Richard E. Bishop, architect and park planner of the Economic Council. Today's conference was the third of a series on community planning, past meetings having been held in Richmond and Evansville. Other conferences are scheduled for Bedford, Peru, j Fort Wayne, LaPorte, Lafayette' and New Albany.

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Mr. Truman said that he would delay appointing a successor ,to Economic Stabilizer Chester Bowles until there was an OPA law making the job necessary. Bowles resigned just before President Truman vetoed- as unsatisfactory the first OPA bill passed by Congress. Heart Attack Proves Fatal To Everett R. Norris Everett Ray Norris of 316 West Graysville Street, wellknown life resident of Sullivan county, died suddenly of a heart attack this morning at the county court house at 7:45. He had gone to the court house to attend to a business matter, it was learned. County Coroner Joe Souter was to hold an inquest today. Mr. Norris was a member of the Sullivan Christian church, the Odd Fellows lodge and the Modern Woodman lodge. He was recently employed at the A & P Store here as a butcher and had been a meat cutter in local stores for many years. Mr. Norris had . been; quite ill a few weeks ago- - after being bitten by a black widow spider! Surviving are the wife, Je'ssie; one daughter, Mrs. Martha. -Griffith of Terre Haute" apd two i brothers, Burl of Indianapolis and William of Wheatland, Indiana. The body was taken to the Billman Funeral Home where It was prepared for burial. It will lie in state there and funeral services will be held at the chapel Sunday afternoon at 2:30. The Rev. Jack Anderson will officiate. Burial will, be at Center Ridge Cemetery. Arrange Union Service Program The third in Sullivan's outdoor union church services for this season will be held Sunday evening at 7:30 with the Rev. Jack Anderson, pastor of the First Christian church bringing the message. Will H. Hays, Jr. will act as platform manager and the Rev. R. M. Criswell of the Methodist church will give the devotions. Special music will be provided by the Christian church. Large audiences have been ; attracted by the previous union meetings held this year. These I Sunday evening services will continue through the month of ' August as has been the custom in jthe past. In event of inclement i weather the service will be held at the Methodist church. HOSPITAL NOTES Admitted July 17: George Field of Shelburn, R. 1. Dismissed July 17: Sherrill Southwood of 215 North. Broad Street; Mrs. Francis Marlowe and daughter ' of Gary, Indiana; Mrs. Harold Lawson of Jasonville rural route.