Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 48, Number 146, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 23 July 1946 — Page 1

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VOL. XLVnL-NO. 146

UNITED PRESS SERVICE

SULLIVAN DAILY TIMES-

TUESDAY, JULY 23, 1946

INTERNATIONAL PICTURE SERVICE

SCATTERED SHOWERS . Indiana: Partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday with widely scattered 'local thundershowers late tonight or Wednesday fore'noon; warmer tonight becoming cooler Wednesday afternoon. PRICE THREE CENTS

CITY'S PLANS FOR LABOR DAY ARE FORWARD)

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Event Planned As

Retention Hon

oring Returned

Servicemen. Plans are rapidly taking shape, with much enthusiasm already manifested, for a Labor Day

celebration in Sullivan, ine event is being planned as a reception for all returned servicemen, in which ' labor, business -"and'all citizens are invited to Join. j Tom Dale, general chairman for the event is busily engaged : along with members of the varii ous committees in working out r details to make the occasion an 'outstanding and enjoyable one for all. A meeting for committees ' and other interested citizens to lay the groundwork for the big held last night and

was largely attended. Another i, meeting is scheduled at the Mavnr's office at the city hall

, at 7:30 Friday evening and all L rftivpns nrp welcome.

Plans as being formulated at ( this time call for a free barbecue dinner at noon on Labor Day

for servicemen and their familion with pritertainment features

' during the afternoon and even- (' ins to include boxing matches, a

nie eating contest, a sack race

for the kiddies, a program oi sin ein c. music by the Sullivan

hi oh school band ana a street

i 'dance. , ;.

V ; Will. Raise Funds

A fund to make possible the

celebration" will be raised by miiViliV fnnirihntinns and it is

planned that all money remain-

ins over ana aDove . tne aay a

k, expenses be given to the High c.vi TtnnA 4ha Pmr Knnnfc unci

IJL11UU1 JJOllVA, m-ivj ww.r the Girl Scouts here. Gilbert

N Riley, president of the Lions

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4-H Achievement

Program Here

Proves Success

A SMILING Greta Garbo arrives ln

Stockholm, sweoen, lor a. vuv her native land. The once famed

TMiirummi star told reporters sne

will visit tne u. a. onen u. duo

decides to remain ln ner nome-

land, (nternadonaj

LATE NEWS

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Hula. Hummmi WORST OUTRAGE

Merom Legion

Names Officers;

Post Thriving

Gill township American Legion

Post 362 at Merom elected the following officers for the ensuing

year in a meeting Monaay evening.

C. C. Bogard, commander

Wavnp Mahan. vice commander:

Tomas M. Jennings, adjutant-ser-r ;0 nttWr- t?p9 Knilman. finance

V 11- V. uiuvi..) - ' oHiiuir- rhnrips Rude, chaplain;

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vnn Vioiis. historian: waiter

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!irian Prtnnor kpt eeant-ai-arms .

Orville Moon, assistant sergeanv-ai

arms; L. J. Kenaxer, j.nomus m

Jennings, delegates to state convention; C. C. Bogard, Henry Gettinger, alternates.

tWo Hat for the Dublic instal

lation for the new officers was set WorWsHav September .'4th.

Club is chairman of the finance An outstanding attendance marked committee and James McKee is j . meetmg last night and as the

The annual 4-H Achievement program and exhibit was held at Sullivan High School on Friday, July 19th. The exhibit proved to be most interesting and worth while. The highlight of the afTimoram was the dress

1,CA1av.u f o j i . revue given by the 4-H clothing

Buxa. . 1 1 iL!. ..nut"

" There were exniDiis uua in six different projects. The

-,..r,eolroa winners tor various

awgcow"'"' . projects were: Phyllis Valentine,

Tu;vrt Anna iViae vvaiivcj.

Clothing; Myrna Hughes, Food

Preparation; Mary trances Allen, Canning; and Lee Coulson, Gardening. '

Carol Valentine actea as mistress of Ceremonies for the fol

lowing program. - 1 Tnwwn0 A

Welcome aupi. Campbell.

Piano solo ratsy xnuaium. Reading Mary Ellen Alig, Sue Wolfe and Sharon Reid. Remarks Miss Jeannette Gentry. Piano duet Sally and Mrs. Robert Billman. Vocal duet Beverly Gallagher and Susie Reid. zlir.tr Tarnlvn Mahan.

hmthii accomDanied by

Gwendolyn Hilgediek. Two girls - 1 r at

,Qre. coiwtpri from eacn 01 mc

first four divisions in clothing

tn. ronrPRPnt the Sullivan ClUDa

iiw - . in the County Dress Revue. The

girls chosen were Joan uerg anu Carolyn Sue Wolfe, first division; Mary Ellen Alig and Sharon raA cemnH division: Bevera

Boyle and Carol Valentine, third

iwicinn- and Donetta uiemDaugn

and Patsy Gallagher, fourth division. All fifth division girls will go to the County Dress Re

vue. The Dress uevue sweepstakes winner was Myrna Hughes

who made and moaeiea a green

wool suit and a -pink wool aress.

After the program, iigm re

freshments were served to the

guests. The judges for the exhibit and dress revue were Miss Gladys

Hayes, from Carlisle ana Mrs. Reta Newman from Shelburn.

ROUND UP HUNDREDS IN BOMBING PROBE . r T..1.. 00 inv TJi-itich nnlice lnvestiea-

ting the King David Hotel bombing in which 100 persons are dead or missing today rounded up hundreds of. suspects, in-

dud ng a Jew louna sunenng num uu , "

hiding not far trom tne Duuei rmyitu "uj " v.v ; . The wounded Jew and several companions found with him were tentatively identified as having been among the perpret-,-m rr T ! J DnHKin

rators or tne wng uaviu duiuimS.

treasurer. Eddie Scully assists . . enAnoAi o rum i vol nn

Ir oonwfll nhairman Dale as vice , ti.. okt oii

r w

Marnm Pliiff Rpntember 9-14,

committees were appointed to dir

ect the project.

nhciirman and Huch Wilson is

secretary of the general com-

mniee. uui mittee members will be an- Tbe Merom Post has only been nounced in the near future, it 'organized two years, Thos. M. . . . . 1 -r . . I nn 4Ua 1 '0 nm

was stated toaay. dennniBs savms '- Mr. Dale and his co-workers mander and under his leadership invite the cooperation of all he Post purchased "Sycamore businessmen of the city in ef- Shadows" as a post home with a - , i iu T nV.i Ti-w MnmViAfohin than nf nnlv 2fi TYVPtTl

forts xo maKc me uowu vuj inciuuciiiiui; . . 1 1 tt 3. 1U 1nnAMhm rt tha

I celebration one long 10 De jc- cers. uiiuer uic icaucioiuH membered by the servicemen it out-going commander, L, J. Ren-

ft will honor and all citizens as aker, the post has grown trom. Q

FAIL TO ADJUST mr r liuro ; , ; , WASHINGTON. July 23 (UP)-A Senate-House confer-e-i Anmoatio cnntrnl Of atOltllC

ence committee on legisiauun i .rt-t a energy failed today in its first nieetmg to adjust differences

on the bin. -1.' , . ... w Sen. Brien McMahon, D., Cohn., chairman of the conference committee said the group jdiscussed "no and some of the medium brand issues." Neither the mihtary provisions inserted by the House or the redrafted patent pro-,

WILL QUESTION HEIRENS ABOUT MURDERS . -.A t 1 notm Tlofnnca aftnrnips arknOWied-

ged for the first time today that they would question William v. . .,1 ni: Tv:,mvcitv cnnhnmnrp 'about

Heirens, iv year 01a mcagu utj r

Despite official denial Heirens has admitted orally three

murders, including tne munap siaj-mg ui ,v. -

Degnan last January. ; , , . , , , Defense counsel John P. Coghlan, his brother, Mai, and Roland Towle went to the county jail today to interview Heirens. They said their conference with him would be explor-

atory and would concern an tuaigco u v6.-j sault placed against the youth.

.t-,,t .mriTT T.-i 00 ttd ' TVm TTn!f(1 Nations As-

XNKVV IVUiv, JUiy i-o ui 1 - . sembly will meet on September. 23 amid increasing indica1 41.. 17.' K iratn nnu'pr

Hons 01 a major Daiue uvei mc us ,vi-"v.. None of the 51 nations objected to the postponement of .. . ci j. I C.J r,r,A iniritatinna will hp tn9ll-

the meeting irom oepieuiuci oiu au iu.. ed this week for the September 23 meeting. The delay was u,r riin a fnrpiVn mini'stprs who feared that the Par-

asivcu vj lire - --- -- . is peace conference might not be over m time for the earlier

meeting. . ' ; .

Will Continue To

Seek Just Solution For Pales

tine. LONDON, July 23 (UP)

Prime Minister uiemeni

told the House of commons 10day that the King David Hotel bombing was "the worst of many outrages" in Palestine but that ,i r,nt Hivert the govern-

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ment from a search tor a juai and final solution of the Pales-

bine iytwMiv

Attlee maae nis siarancui ...

i n an innuirv by former

foreign secretary Anthony Eden.

tt. r,uA thn p-xniosion WU1C1I

X1C c..v.va v.- . t wrecked British headquarters in

the Jerusalem notei, an

act of terrorism m wmcn innocent persons were killed or

missing.'-

He said the governments wioc fionrps showed 41 known

dead, 52 missing and 53 serious

ly injured. ,

Attlee said he consiaereu -

suggestion that he. call upon

religious and lay leaaeis . Jews in Britain including Zionist

leaders to mase a- puuuu

ouse votes un

CompromiseDPA

Measure I oday

well.

TURPIN-CUNNINGHAM

tn Q4 n. f!. Boeard. the

new commander, is a World War II veteran and served In the Air

Corps. He is a Past Noble urana

FORMER SULLIVAN

RESIDENT IS HUKT in - CRASH FATAL TO ONE Dn Sidney J. Hatfield, 66,' Indianapolis physician, surgeon and businessman , " was killed last Wednesday when his automobile was in a collision with another car at Willits, Cal. His wife, Mrs. Catherine C. Hatfield and

Frank B. Love, 2205 Parker Avenue, Indianapolis, passengers

in the car were injured uiuwu; taken to a hospital.

Mrs ' Love, who is the daughter ' ' - tit

of Mr. and Mrs. ueorge vy Brown of east of Sullivan, suf

fered minor injuries in me crd&n

Sbcial Security

Benefits Paid Here Reported

Social Security benefits payable to residents of Terre Haute

and vicinity now total $54,006 a month, according to J. E. Snider, manager of the local field office.

Of this sum, $6,113.99 go to retired workers and their dependents in Sullivan county, he said. In addition to these monthly benefits, now payable at the rate

of nearly $65,UU0 a year, omaer stated that lump sum payments

aggregating ?3U,uuu nave uceu made locally in the past year.

. ' of the IOOF, and under his leadA double ring ceremony united ; ership the post will no doubt conin marriage Betty Jo Turpin and tinue its fine development, nale Cunningham on July 6th at The Post home is use(i by the

the Ford Memorial Church in j cmirches of the community for norrnit: Michigan. The young 1ass flinfti0ns and also by various

10 we nroanizatinns of the community

couple repeated their vows

Rev. Charles Bayiess. '

t Turnin eave his sister

in marriage. She wore a suit -of aquamarine and carried a bridal bouquet of white carnations, while her maid . of honor, Lois Beisert, wore a dress of dusty pink. Her bridesmaids, Dons Cunningham, sister of the groom, and Lela Lecocy, niece of the bride, wore yellow dresses and all three attendants wore corsages of white gardenias. The groom chose for his best

T-man, George Shanks and Philip

Clark and Frank AbercromDie

were ushers. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ross Cunningham of 307 Grove Ave., Highland Park.

He served in tne Army iur wu years and nine months, twentytwo months of which time he was in the South Pacific. Tho hrifle is -the youngest dau-

nf V.P late Arista Turpin'

nf Sullivan. She is a graduate of

Sullivan hieh school with the

1I001 nf 1Q41

pniirwvinu the ceremony, a re

ception was held,iat the home of . . . mi

Mr. and Mrs. Altred L,ecocy. ine

vnune couple then went to

southern " Michigan for - their

hnnpvmoon. after which they

will reside at 6436 Schaufer

Road, Dearborn, Michigan,

Little Change In Condition of Boy

With Broken Neck

The condition of Robert Pheg

lev..' 17-year-old Carlisle youth

who was critically injured in a

shallow water in a

gravel pit in Haddon township Saturriav. afternoon . remains vir

tually the: same; today, it was learned. Phegley is being treated for a broken neck at the Methor

Hospital in Indianapolis.

Final Consideratipn of Bill With De

bate Limited To Une Hour; aomuiistration Leaders Predict Approval Despite Attack. WASHINGTON. July 23 (UP)-The House, limited I to one hour debate, today began final consideration of the comV""S their attack even before final debate : opened Representative Clarence J. Brown, R., Ohio assailed the new legislation as "a conglomeration of leg: Psfativ ? eCr' which would fatten the pocketbooks of the faVThefanti'oPA attack failed to shake the predictions of administrationleadersth

melled Or A measure anu suuut it w -

PROVISIONS OF BILL WASHINGTON, July 23 (UP) The compromise OPA bill to be voted on by the House today would: " ', 1. Extend OPA to July 30, 1947. ' ' o i-its.nio rpnt controls at

Fear New Life For Black Market

(By United Press) Spokesman for the packing and

dairy industries said today tnat mh levelg unless increase3 restoration of price control mignt authorized by the price ad-

ment unreservedly . condemning caue - - ministrator. no Piuvimuu . ment.. ""Ill L i.n lnval- give black mancets a new lease however for a tenant to be

meor6ra.a :r ::"an,ronlife;' '311., v,v a landlord lor

4-r -v tMA DfiuDrn II r I I I. Ill Oil T OkVKI' . f 111 A I I flUIUUl J J

1, tv, 6. , v The

to prevent further attacks.

Indiana Democrats

To Invite Truman

tmtvt ant apat.TS. July 23

(UP) Indiana republican editors announced today that GOP na

tional chairman carron. iveete, Tennessee, would be chief nnnnirAr tnr- thoir annual fall OUt-

ing at French Lick September 21st, . -and Hopsier . democratic editors planned to ask President

Truman . to - appear . at ineir , uuiing! a ' week earlier. , Chairman Pleas Greenlee of the State Democratic . Central Committee announced late yesterday that he would ask . Mr. Truman to speak at the. Indiana

democratic editorial assuciduuu

ULfe,'lan Meat Institute! reimbursed by a

.... , v inrrpases lie

said the livestock and meat in

dustry were working their way "out of the chaos and shortages created by four years of OPA."

D. P. Wilson, president 01 me

; American Dairy Association

warned that dairy nroaucuon Imight drop if price controls and

subsidies are reeswDiisneo. At Washington the Commerce department charged that some

sections of industry have been holding prices down in an effort to lobby Congress into refusing to restore the OPA.

"These figures," he said, "do not include the payments made to a large number of persons who applied in Terre Haute and subsequently moved away. There is no residence limitation on payees in peace-time. Any quali

fied payee may remuve w Tho ton rmmles left July first tv.o stnto or to a foreign coun-

on a tour of the west. Dr. Hat- try an(j continue to regularly re

sist

His parents, Mr. and Mrs. James

Phegley who reside just east of also at French Lick Sept Carlisle are at his bedside and I .

reported this morning that tneir j ...v.noA limVic oro nnralvzed. . 1 '"

3UJ.1, WIIU3C I" ' had been able to detect slight

DOOLITTLE URGES UNIFIED AIR FORCE

fooiino in his fineers. otherwise

his condition was unchanged.

TiP vouth was rescued from

the water by a swimming com-

fnr.on nlltinff Tllnrp 9 it. Over

looks the bluff over the Wabash,

In the meeting last night it was uropd that It be used in a way of

reverence as it was purchased as ... . TTT 1 J

a memorial to tne Doys 01 no

War II, who made the supreme

sacrifice.

Linton Miner Is

Killed Instantly

LINTON, Ind.,' July 23 Will- !. whinov RR vpars old. was

.a... i ... u.i., , w 0 . instantly killed at 6 o'clock Mon-

pvpninc in an acciaent at

the Linton Coal Company Mine,

two miles south 01 nere, wnere

he was employed. He sunerea a fractured neck, back, and skull

crushed.

AnnnrHintf to reDOrtS Of the'

accident, Whitney was working

in the shaft sump wnen me

counter balance fell on him. County Deputy Coroner

held an inquest and returned a

verdict of acclaentai aeam.

TVTr whitnpv is survived by

four brothers, Luke, Bernard and

James Whitney, all 01 Linton, and Pete Whitney of Detroit, Mich. The body was taken to the M, j. Aikin & Son Funeral Home.

-Pi A rV n har? nracticed medi

cine in Indianapolis for the last

44 years had just retired ana planned to devote his full atten

tion to several business enterprises after returning from a

month's vacation.

UN's Atom Head

ceive his monthly annuity.

"Mnnthlv navments for life are

made, upon application to any

retired worker of 65 wno is iuuy insured," he explained. "That is,

if hp haa been paid at least

in in pach of half the

quarters elapsing between 1936

0k4 thP nnartpr-vear in wmtu

he attains age 65, provided that r.h ia rnvpred bv the Act.

The wife of such a worker may additional month

ly payment. Retired workers and their wives in the Terre Haute district receive $34,845 a month.

"WMraua phildren under 18,

nnfi rfpnendent narents of dead

waee earners in this locality re

ceive $19,161 a month, even

though the breadwinner may v,!5r wnrkprf in covered work

onlv half the three years pre

ceding his death. There are 20 miiiinn workers, two out of

every five,, in this country who An not pniov this security for

UV V V "J j - - themselves and families because their jobs are excluded."

CORRECTION

There will be no meeting tonight of the Sullivan American Legion Post No. 139. The Times regrets the erroneous announce-

Cari1 nf a impptinfT tnnisht in

uriiown lust after accepting the yesterday's advertising columns. 7 . . . TT XT TTHTntT- of TV Innol nnct hnlris Its reClllar

V. . n. va hi wicceeds aa hi.mnnthlv meetings the first

IjurauAiui - i .

if. .mmBmca each month.

Mr. and Mrs. George W. Ferree have received word of the birth of a . great-grandson born to a Mrs Baron Hansen

ng turn- ..3.6" -r -.TJ .,.,

panion, Harry Knotts, of near W -rCarlisle who dived for him after Philippines. The baby has been he failed to come to the surface, named Baron Jr. Mrs Hansen

f negiey, paraiyu u "-w nf tt. Morgan

1 . A. AienOEB Tt I V Tflr H r PI l cC. UOUKinvi w

short time, it was reported. j Ferree of Miami, Florida.

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BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT

NEW YORK, July 23 (UP) Lt. Gen. James H. Doolittle said today that the country's security depends on establishment of a single unified air force charged with operations of the air weapnno nt trip nrpspnt and also with

UV ..aw - . development of air missiles of

the future.

Doolittle, who led the tirst air raid on Tokyo and later com

manded the same u. a. eui Force, said that the weapons of the future will travel through the air and that great armies

will be obsolete.

i inKToocM hp mav have paia

for the month of July. . . ,

3. Set up a special tnree-man -

board of de-control with- final

authority to supervise tne graa- : ual removal of price restrictions. , Each member i appointed by the president with, approval of the Senate would receive $12,000 a vear.

' 4. Forbid restoration of controls on livestock, milk and their edible products, cotton seed, v,nn, onA prains until August

auj ucoifj o- - -

20th. Controls would De re&iuie. automatically on that date unless the de-control board specifies otherwise. '

5. Continue de-controis on

poultry, petroleum, eggs ana

tobacco atter Aupusi w

the board speciticauy aireuia price controls to be restored before then.

CONFESSES STRANGLING CHILD

"Back To Civvies."

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SAILORS DISCHARGED GREAT LAKES, Ills. Among

nprsnns discharged irom tne

naval service July 16th at this T

center whose homes are in Ind

iana were:

Curtis F. Wheeler, Ens., Jia

Indiana Ave., Sullivan. . , a o 1 T3

George W. uecKara, o

5, Sullivan.

Announce Meeting

Of Dry Forces '-' There will be a special meeting at the Sullivan Methodist Church July 26th at 7:30 p. m. of the United Dry forces of Sullivan County. There will be a speaker and a program, also the new chairman will be in charge.

Every pastor of every denomina

tion and all persons wno aio interested in the dry cause are urged to attend. rmr.PS SPECIAL

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SESSION TO ENACT STATE BONUS BILL! INDIANAPOLIS, July 23 (UP) Louis F. Baldoni, state democratic representative from

St Joseph county tooay uia

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SAILORS DISCHARGED r ... n pali a SDecial sas

Among persons discharged at . .. , te legislature im-

the Great Lakes Naval center! diately t0 enact a state bonus

!bill for veterans of World war

II. In a letter to the governor Baldoni said that surplus funds at the disposal of the state made

it advisable to act on tne piu-. posal now.

" ' t DRIVE FOR VOTE ON TERMINAL PAY

Tnlv 20. 1946 were:

Jack Alumbaugh, S zc, ou . Court St., Sullivan. Eueene P. Vigus, Ens., Box

602, Merom.

HOSPITAL NOTES

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....... r -t te .tranced 7-year-old- Dayda Lisak and then -. 1 tl-1 il a creek hLteen signed by Marion Karri

Admitted July 22: Bill Kelly of Farmersburg, R. 2: Mrs. Irene

Whitlock of 407 East uepoi Street; Charles Orr of 601 North Duane Street; Hallie Mason of 332 North Court Street.

Dismissed July 22: Phyllis

Jean Sexton of Paxtonr Harvey

Adams of Shelburn; Mrs. vern

Hunt of Sullivan, R. .1; Mrs. Ollie Goodman and daughter of

Sandborn, K. i.

MARRIAGE LICENSES

Gerald Loren Thomas, Fairbanks, Filling station attendant and Rosemary, Pierson, Sullivan.

Twicwwr.TnN. July 23 -

mm ThP Rpnate drove toward

a vote today on the $5,000,000,000

GI terminal leave pay dui inscribed by Sen. Joseph H. Ball,

R., Minn., as "just a Donus m

disguise." '.

Under the measure pacKea Dy

President Truman discharged

servicemen would receive iiveyear federal bonds carrying , two and one-half per cent interest in

payment for furlougns tney cua

nut SCI. ,

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