Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 48, Number 181, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 10 September 1946 — Page 1

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by SnooDer Persons passing tha home of MRS. GEORGE COX, 236 Graysville Street, have been amazed at two trees fully laden with whpt aonears to be cherries. MRS. COX isn't sure just what kind of fruit it is but suspects it to be a cross between a cherry and plum. "It hears about this same time every year," she said, "and makes wonderful pies." TEAL WHITAKER and other members of the bank staff have been giving another . member ( whose name . aopeared here Saturday) a good dose of razzing. What he doesn't know is that a plan is being formulated to have a certain business person droD in one day this .week with a 25 lh. bat! of pennies, dimes and nickels for him to count and roll. "Revenue," gloats the plan formulator, "will be sweet." DR. HAZEL RAMSEY dropped into the Times office yesterday freh from a 30-day vacation through the West and Canada. Highlight of DR. RAMSEY'S , trin was a salmon fishing trip at Salmon Rock. 18 miles out of Vancouver, B. C, where she and companions hooked and landed 160 nounds of the fighters during the day. (Incidentally, she rough t the largest a beauty of 17 pounds!) The new nursery at the Mary Sherman hospital was finished none too soon. Over this past week-end the stork practically wore himself down to a nub by not only filling the nursery to its normal capacity of 12, but iust

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emergency, orouKru uui aumtional cribs and billeted the late, 'coming blessed events in another r oom. J -v, , ' V Little Betty Wins Over Terre Haute Sunday, 14 To 4 The Little Betty baseball team won their sixteenth game of the reason Rundav, defeating West Tpvre Fiute 14 to 4. The J.ittle Betty team got to nAi.Alnn1riA trr rr a run in f Vl ,utr?' . ',' " , " , f h-st and two in the third to lead all the way, banging out a total nf ten hits' :while Fields. ' Little Betty pitcher, allowed seven seattered hits. Next Sunday Little Betty will meet the Great Lakes Steelers in the first game of the Western Indiana League series. This game will prdbably be played at the Little Betty park and the second will be played at the Terre Haute stadium. The Miners won the first half of league play with a record of nine and two and Great Lakes won the second half eleven games straight. The game Sunday will get underway at 2:30 p. m. EXAMS FOR CADETS IN MERCHANT MARINE CHICAGO Young men in the mid-western area have an opportunity to apply for appointments as Cadet-Midshipmen in the U. S. Merchant Marine Academy according to a statement released by the Regional Information Officer in Chicago. Qualified men between the ages; of 16 to 21 and Honorably Discharged veterans up to the age of 24 will be permitted to take the competitive entrance examination on November 6, '1946. Veterans will be given I five points advantage in the examination for the academy's four year course. Full information and necessary application forms may be obtained bv writing to the Supervisor, U. S. Merchant Marine Cadet Corps, Washington 25, D.. C. TO BE AT RED CROSS OFFICE THURSDAY Richard Adams, contact representative for Veterans Administration will be at the Red Cross office all day Thursday, Septem ber 12th. He will be available to ( assist veterans' with any problems they, may have.

Golden Arrows On Probation For Practicing Early

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Through Oversight Of IHSAA Rule Setting Opening Day Of Practice As August 20. INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 10. (UP) Sullivan High School today was placed on probation until Sept. 1. 1947 bv

the Indiana High School Athletic Association for holding football practice too early. Commissioner L. V. Phillips of the IHSAA said Sulli

van's football team drilled August 13th and 14th. The IHSAA prohibits drills before August 20th.

The probation order will not effect participation of Sullivan athletic teams in IHSAA spon sored activities during the yearlong period. Phillips said probations were in the form of "warn ings to prevent further infrac tion of IHSAA rules. Practice By Mistake Principal Harry Gilmore of Sullivan High School today announced that the Golden Arrows' football squad was called in practice August 13 and 14. On August 14 Mr. Gilmore ordered practice called off when the error was realized and training was again started August 20, the date set by IHSAA as the earliest time football practice could be initiated. 'It was an oversight rather tnm &n tQ evadfi ruJe fha . ., , . P STUDIES VETS The Sullivan Countv Com-'

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munity Council's Housing Com-lfive mittee, which yesterday asked

'for names of veterans interested ... . . jin housing in temporIf type, government buik nousLi ig units, uigc mat jmci emeu persons give their names to Bill Smith P. O. Box 325 by tomorrow noon, Wednesday, September 11, 1946. Sullivan County Community Council today began a survey to determine housing requirements in Sullivan. It has been learned that the Federal Government has financed the construction units for veterans in various cities in this part of the country. These buildings are of the same type i as those that are being used to house veterans at various universities. The buildings will house two families each and will have modern facilities including a bath, electricity and heat. They will rent for approximately $25 a month. In other communities they rent for between $25 and $30. This rent is said to include utilities. After the survey has been completed locations will be sought in the city for construction. It Pays (100) To Advertise SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (UP) A housewife was indignant when called by the advertising department of a Springfield newspaper concerning her 84-cent bill. "I paid the bill in full," she said, "and it was too much, too!" "Indeed it was!" came the renlv. You sent us a check for $84." POINTS WAY AFTER DEATH YORK, Pa. (UP) That even In death he may "point men to my Lord," the Rev. Joseph B. Baker directed in his will that $200 be set aside as compensation for a vocalist to sing two hymns the first Sunday each June at the graves of his parents.

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I AT HOI TODAY Mrs. Minnie Chowning Benson, 75-year-old native of Sullivan County, died this morning at four o'clock at her' home six miles northwest of Sullivan, after an illness of several months duration. Mrs. Benson was a member of one of Sullivan . county's most prominent pioneer agriculture families and was widely known throughout this area. She was a member of the Concord Church of Christ. For the last fifty years she had resided at the rural home where death occurred ftoday. .. Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. Faye Nash and Mrs. Fairy Liston, both of Terre Haute; Mrs. Sophrona Stark of Sullivan and Mrs. Bessie -ormong oi anei-1 burn; four sons, Ross Benson of tan-banks, Joe isenson. ot 10peka, Kansas, Robert Benson of Philadelphia, Penn., and James Benson of Fort Wayne; one sister, rs. line cooper oi raerom; brothers, Gus Chowning of Fairbanks, Fred Chowning of sneiDurn, uscar unowning oi Dugger, Lewis Chowning of Sullivan and Webb Chowning of Rockville; ten grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. The body was brought to the Billman Funeral Home and will be returned to the residence this evening where it will lie in state pending completion of funeral arrangements. i EAGLE NOTICE A party will be given Wednesday evening, September 11 at 7:30 at the Eagle Hall in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Dexter Brewer. All members and families are invited. Parents Three-year-old Madeline by) Tobias was reunited (To- j with her parents from Kansas City at the Terre Haute, Indiana, ecice

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RAYBURN CITES FIELD FOR CONTEMPT WASHINGTON, Sept. 10. (UP) House Speaker Sam Rayburn, D., Texas, has signed contempt proceedings

'against Benjamin F. Field, Washington contract expediter, I for failure to produce records for a special House Investigating Committee, hrs office here revealed today. The committee had asked Fields for detailed information

I on the method by which he split a $4,500 fee that he re4 1 ceived in the sale of wire screening.

RUMANIA APPROVES SOVIET OCCUPATION PARIS, Sept. 10. (UP) The Rumanian Political Comnv'ssion today unanimously approved a Big Four plan to let the Soviet Union maintain occupation troops in Rumania, so long as the Red Army is in Austria. 4 ' At the same time, but over a strong Soviet bloc objection, the commission approved : by a vote of 7 to 5 the British proposal requiring Rumania specifically to respect the property and rights' of Jews In that country. The Peace Conference launched a speed-up procedure designed to complete the treaties for Italy, Bulgaria, Hungary. Rumania and Finland before the proposed Oct. 23rd deadline for the meeting of the United Nations General Assembly.

PITTSBURGH POWER STRIKE CALLED OFF PITTSBURGH. Sept. 1C (UP) A crippling power strike was called off almost as soon as it began today in the power strike deadline of Duquesne Power Company of Pittsburgh. ' , , Union President George L. Mueller acceded to an injunction issued against the company and union to prevent a strike in the Pittsburgh industrial area.

Housewives Told Meat Situation May Be "Overly Pessimistic" As Prices Go Back To Ceilings Under OP A

j WASHINGTON, Sept. 10. (UP) Retail meat prices went back under OPA ceilings today j and housewives were told that gloomy predictions of a grave ' new meat famine may well be j "overly pessimistic." ' j OPA's new ceilings reduced ijneat prices from , their- recent levels, "but averaged " three - ant three-quarters cents a pound higher than ceilings of June 30th, when controls lapsed. . The three gnd three.fourth cents increase means housewives Dav about ix h,,nf3rp(1 ,.,. iion dollars more for meat a year - than under June 30th prices. Many butcher shops greeted the first day of the new ceilings with little meat on their counters. It was the result of -heavy j buying by housewives in antici pation of dwindling supplies with the return of price control. I RURAL YOUTH CLUB I I MEET POSTPONED : : $ The Sullivan County Rural Youth club meeting scheduled for Wednesday night, September 11, is being postponed one week to Wednesday night, September 18. Due to the rush of activities and the State Fair, arrangements could not be completed for the session this week. ( The meeting on September 18th will be held at the Carlisle school at 7:30 p. m. (CST). Get Back Kidnaped station yesterday. . The Tobias family and officers flew from Kansas City after the child was found safely, here earlier. Mil

ISE F, IH MONDAY VQTE Carlisle voters yesterday voted approval of the proposed installation of three public utilities for the town with 330 votes cast in favor of the proposition and only 13 against it The utilities, including a water system, a sewerage and sewerage disposal sytem and a natural gas distribution system, have been estimated to cost $253,707 dollars by engineers and are to be paid for by a civil tax levy such as is now being used in the town for payment of street lighting. No tax will be created against personal or real estate property. HOSPITAL NOTES Admitted Sept. 9: Mrs. FlorT .T t AT . T Un-An cute xvidauii uj. iicw xjcuciuuii. Dismissed Sept. 9: Mrs. Sallie 1 Risinger of Shelburn; Mrs. Helen Kelley and daughter of Dugger, R 1; Mrs. Max Eddington of Linton. Dismissed Sept. 10: Mrs. Marjorie Gilbreath of South State Street. Girl dred Everett (left), Toby's former nurse and confessed kid. naper of the child, was arrested, (International Soundphotcs)

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BRITISH ARREST 250.000 K III TEL AVIV TODAY

Attlee Warns "Unrest And Disturbance" In Holy Land Must Cease; Jews Refuse Conference. JERUSALEM, Sept. 10 (UP) The 250,000 Jews of Tel Aviv and two nearby townships were placed under "house arrest" today when British troops followed the trail of extremists into that area. A British sergeant was killed when troops of the King's own Hussars were caught in a machine-gun ambush one mile south of Ras El Ein. As a aftermath of last night's raid on Tel Aviv, mines were found today on the main road leading out of Tel Aviv. They had been placed there to faciliate the escape of extremists who last night occupied the largest quarter of the city for nearly two hours. LONDON, Sept. 10 (UP) Prime Minister Clement Attlee warned today in an address opening the Palestine Conference that the current state of "unrest and disturbance" in the Holy Land cannot be permitted, to continue. Attlee expressed regret that Palestine Arabs had refured to attend Ye conference which is to consider proposals for the country's future. He made no reference to the absence of Jewish delegates. Government spokesmen were still hopeful that some form of Jewish representation would be arranged later in the conference. The Jewish agency for Palestine refused to attend. Dairy Association To Meet Sept. 24 INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Sept. 10 The twenty-ninth Annual Meeting and Convention of the Indiana Dairy Products- Association, Inc., will be held at the Claypool Hotel, Indianapolis, September 24-26, it was announced today by C. C. Hadley, Executive Secretary. Well - known speakers and technical men will bring to the members of the dairy processing industry the latest information for the most efficient production and processing of milk and milk products. Senator Homer E. Capehart will address the convention at its opening luncheon session, September 25. He will speak to k t(-1T , . ; " ? T," , a"a Hovde, President of Purdue University, will be another featured speaker at the dinner meeting of the same day. Other special features of the program will include the appearance of the 1946 State Champion 4-H Club Demonstration Team from Lake County, Indiana, demonstrating "Correct Milking." Thissdemonstration team won the title of State Champion demonstrators at the State Round-Up held at Purdue University, July 8-10. Mr. Hadley stated that the Indiana Dairy Products Association, Inc., cooperates with Purdue University in sponsoring 4-H Club demonstrations. Entertainment features of the convention include music and a floor show by the Indiana Dairy Boosters, an organization of sudplymen, and the appearance of the Purdue Varsity Glee Club at the anual banquet to be held Thursday evening, Sept. 25. HONEST HANK WINS TOP HONORS IN FOX HOUND TRIALS Honest Hank, fox hound owned by Roger Arnett of Bruceville, won top honors in the allage field trials held at Vincennes recently. The field trials, sponsored by the Southern Indiana Fox Hunt ers Association, were held at Kimmel Park in Vincennes, starting September 1 and lasting 1 through September 6.

First Concrete Efforts To Stop Shipping Strike Ship Owners Present Case To WSB Today At Hearing Boycotted By Big Striking Unions Of AFL. BULLETIN! WASHINGTON, Sept. 10. (UP) Pacific ship owners today urged the Wage Stabilization Board to reverse a wage decision which touched off the nation's worst shipping strike, arguing that such action would end the walkout and avert "at least two others."

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PAY FOR LIVES T WASHINGTON, Sept. 10. (UP) Yugoslavia has agreed tentatively to pay indemnity for the five American lives lost last month when Yugoslav fighters shot down two unarmed U. S. Army transports, but is still 1 balking on compensation for the lost planes, Acting Secretary of (State William Clayton announced 'today. Clayton told a news con ference that only one preliminary discussion has taken place between U. S. Ambassador Richard C. Patterson, Jr., and the Yugoslav government. He said he hoped the question would be worked out. NEW SUITS La Verne Phipps, as administrator of the - estate of Julia Reynolds, deceased vs. Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Railway Co. Complaint for damages. Agnes Mae Flath, administratvm. wic ramiv. v. Johns, Sr., deceased vs. Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Railway Co. Complaint for damages. LaVerne Phipps, as administrator of the estate of Charles A. Reynolds, deceased vs. Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Railway Co. Complaint for damages. Jeff B. House, administrator of the estate of Isaac House, deceased vs. Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Railway Co. Complaint for damages. William Edward Brown, Dorothy M. Brown vs. Sherman Chubb. Complaint for the recovery of real estate. . Helen Hord vs. Gilbert Hord. Complaint for divorce. BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Mason of New Lebanon, are the parents of a son born at the Mary Sherman hospital September 9. He has been named Robert Joseph. RAZOR POTENT ARGUMENT IN HOLDUP'S HANDS CHICAGO (UP) Geoffrey Harrison picked up a hitch-hiker. The man held him up and robbed him of $50. When Harrison reported, it to the. police, one policeman asked: "Did he have a gun?" ; "No," Harrison said, "but he did pull out a razor, and I didn't need a shave." TWO TONS OF FURNITURE MAKE AIR JOURNEY GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (UP) Furniture is the latest industry to take to the air. Seven companies set a precedent by sending 4,000 pounds of bedroom, living room and library furniture by air to a retail dealer in Yakima, Wash. The dealer was so anxious for delivery on his order that he chartered a cargo plane to carry it 2,300 miles in 13 hours, saving approximately two weeks' shipping time.

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They presented their case and that of two striking AFL Maritime Unions at a board hearing that was boycotted by the big striking unions Seafarers' International Union and the Sailors' Union of the Pacific, both AFL; The hearing, first concrete government step in efforts to end the paralyzing strike, was called to hear evidence whether the board should reverse its decision rejecting a wage agreement reached by the shipowners and the union. The board had rejected the wage agreement on grounds it would upset the government's

i wage stabilization policy and pos I sihi lpa(1 n Pnnfhor round of strikes for higher wages. I Its action resulted in a strike which tied up shipping in every major salt water port in the na tion. The strike, now in its sixth day, has immobilized about 3,000 ships in the worst maritime strike in the nation's history. ANOTHER STRIKE THREAT WASHINGTON, Sept. 10. UP) The Marine Firemen's Union (independent) today bluntly warned the Wage StabiU ization Board it would join two AFL Maritime Unions in their shipping strike unless the board reverses its wage, decision "By 6:00 a. m. (PDT) Thursday. ' The union served its ultimatum directly as the board began hearings on its disputed action rejecting ' J.i,j a wage agreement reached by shipowners arid the AFL Seafarers' International Union and the Sailors' Union of the Pacific. . igj A walkout by the firemen would involve 15,000 men. The independent union is ;riot on strike now but is respecting the picket line of the two striking AFL unions. BPW Meets To Present Programs For Coming Year Striking the keynote "career advancement" for women everywhere, the Business '& Professional Women's Club of Sullivan met last night at eight o'clock in the Sullivan Public Library for their regular monthly assembly with President Rose Self presiding. Committee chairmen Betty Sinclair, Lydia Brown, Nellie Ford, Mary Frances Brown, Marie Ward Yaw, Mabel Nowlin, Josephine Dudley, Elizabeth 'Springer, Pauline Medsker and Telia Haines presented their programs for the year built around the advancement theme. Mesdames Edith Harmon, Lydia Brown and Etta Logan hosted the meeting where the spotlight was 'again focused on the Fall Council Meeting in Indianapolis, September 22nd, at which time Miss Ruth Hoover, International BPW President will relate the events of the Internatioal meeting recently held in Brussells, Belgium. BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT Mr. and Mrs. John G. Werneke of Chevy Chase, Maryland, , announce the birth of a daughter, Diane Elizabeth, born September 5 at a hospital in Washington, D. C. She weighed eight pounds, nine ounces. Mrs. Werneke is the former Mary Pirtle, only daughter of Mrs. C. L. Pirtle of Sullivan route one. "