Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 48, Number 240, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 2 December 1946 — Page 1

CLOUDY, COLD Indiana: Fair and continued cold tonight; increasing cloudiness and not quite so cold Tues-. day. VOL. XLVIII No. 240 UNITED PRESS SERVICE SULLIVAN DAILY TIMES MONDAY, DEC. 2. 1946. INTERNATIONAL PICTURE SERVICE PRICE THREE CENTS

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Jack Turpen, Golden Arrow : left halfback, has been named on . the second team All-Wabash 1 Valley and Lee Russell, right end; Bill McCrocklin, left tackle; Robert Kaiser, center; and Billy Pinkston, halfback, were given honorable mention for posts on the mythical team. . Dugger had two Bulldog members mentioned: McClellan rev ceived honorable mention for end and Harrison as a back. The above named grid stars were picked from what is gen- - erally considered one of the . Valley's banner years as far as big, strong teams go. Robinson dominated All-Valley this year by placing three men ' on the first team- and Gerstmeyer and Garfield placed two each. Kaiser and Pinkston are juniors in Sullivan High School and played first string for the Golden Arrows for the first time this year. Jack Turpen also was a newcomer in the starting line-up for Sullivan this year having played his first football on the 1945 team as reserve. Robinson Victory Official Robinson's. victory in the 1946 Wabash Valley High School football race became official Satur- . day when the Valley Board of Control announced a point-stand-ing for the season. Robinson ran away with the : i crown, its fourth in a row, by ' piling up 54 points. The Maroons have not lost a single Valley game since 1943 when they lost . to Tech of Terre Haute. Garfield and Gerstmeyer tied for second place with 29 points : while Casey finished third and ; Wiley fourth. j . President Jesse M. Boston of . Sullivan, presided at Friday's lession of the board. The final srid standirigs are; Robinson, "54;

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J ..INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 2. (UP) . 'Hogs, 10,000. Moderately active and uneven;1 barrows and gilts ' 50c lower; bulk good and choice ; barrows and gilts, 100 lbs. up, to j $25.00; few loads choice 180-250 lbs. to top $25.50; sows weak to .- 50c lower; good and choice to t' $23.00; few lightweights to $23.50. ; ; Cattle, 2,300; calves, 500; steers ' and yearlings strong to mostly - , 50c higher; steers, $30.00; choice I light to medium weight to $27.00; f : good to choice lightweight steers .and yearlings to $25.50; bulk , medium to good to $21.50J cows ;: active, good about steady; others ; strong to 25c higher; few good : beef cows to $15.50; bulk common and medium to $14.00; vealers slow, moderately active, mostly $2.00 lower; good and choice to $26.00; common and medium to $21.00. ' Sheep, 2,500; fairly active, generally steady; bulk good and choice medium lambs to $24.00; western and Texas lambs, good I and choice, to $24.00; bulk of medium and good to $22.00; com-

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i BIRTH- ANNOUNCEMENT r; Dr. and Mrs. Tom C. Brown, , Jr., of Indianapolis, announce the arrival of a son, born Nov. 27th at the Coleman hospital in j Indianapolis. Dr. Brown is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Tom C. Brown, Sr., of South Section St. t : . J Mr. and Mrs. Robert Harrison announce the birth of a son, Dennis. Rush, born December 1, 1 at the Mary Sherman Hospital, A " Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Phegley of Carlisle, R. 3, are the parents m of a daughter, Dixie Lee, born December 1 at the Mary Sherman : Hospital. ' iif.iJS i ; - Mr. and Mrs. Russell Wilson of r Carlisle are the parents of a daughter born December 1 at the ; Mary Sherman Hospital. She has ' Jbeen named Linda Kay,

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Mrs. Bennett Dies At Son's Home Here Saturday Mrs. Smantha Belle Bennett, 70 years old, died Saturday at 5:15 p. m. at the home of her son, Joe Bennett, 120 West Wolfe Street. She is survived by two sons, Joe, at whose home she died, and Ben Bennett of Sullivan, R. 2; one daughter, Mrs. Mable Cummines of Sullivan. R. 3; one bro ther, Miles Citty, Universal, Ind.; and several granocnuaren. The body was taken to the Railsback Funeral Home, where funeral services were held at 2 o'clock this afternoon with the Rev. Jack Anderson, pastor of the Sullivan Christian Church officiating. Burial was in the Little Flock Cemetery. Mrs. Elodie Henico Dies In Linton Mrs. Elodie Henico, 66, resident of Linton since 1911, died early Sunday morning at the residence there following an illness of seven months. She was born in France in 1879 and came to America in 1904. . .. Surviving are the husband, Adolph; one daughter, Mrs. Simone Surmont of Detroit, Michigan; two sons, Joe Henico of Linton, former resident of Sullivan and Dugger, and Henry Henico with the Army of Occupation in Germany; three sisters and" one brother in France; nine grandchildren and two great grandchildren. The body was taken to the M. J. Aikin & Son Funeral Home in Linton where funeral services will be conducted Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock by Deaconess Ntfla D Yoder. Burial wOl be in lai -., wcuidd ui itMk . Rushville Farmer Named Corn King BULLETIN! CHICAGO. Dec. 2 (UP) ' Newton L. Ilalterman of J Rushville, Indiana, was named World Corn King today at the International Grain and Hay Show. Thomas E. Fischer, Shelbyville, Indiana, was elected as World Corn Prince at the ' show held in conjunction . with the International Livestock Exposition. Ilalterman (won his award . with a sample of yellow dent, , number 844-D, variety corn. ' White House Visitor LOOKING very chic after calling on President Truman at the Vhit House Is film star Ginger Rogers. They had lots to talk about sinca Ginger was born In Independence, Mo, the Chief Executive's horn .town, fJntmatUmql Soundphotoft

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OPEN HOUSE IRE TOE 7:30 Basketball Head Coach Gordon Keck, of Sullivan High School, announced today that he and Assistant Basketball Coach Alvan Callahan will hold open house at the high school gymnasium tomorrow evening at 7:30 o'clock. Basketball fans from this section are invited to attend and become familiar with new rule changes and witness the local cagers in practice action. The rules clinic will begin at 7:30. Coach Keck stated that he and Mr. Callahan .have attended severai games since the opening of the season and, at most of them, fans were prone to ride the officials. Their action, he asserted, was unfair as all of the games were called very well. "Many fans are ignorant of the new rules and this is the reason for much of the disagreement with officials' rulings," the cage mentor said. "Our clinic Tuesday night will be an effort to educate all who are interested in basketball to these new rules." Following the rules clinic, a practice game will be played between the Arrow varsity and second team members. All of the squad will be introduced so that local fans will know who's who when the season opens Friday night with Boonville. Aged Resident Of Carlisle Dies At Home Sunday Miss Smyra Rooksberry, 85 years old, died at 1:30 a. m. Sunday at her home in Carlisle following an illness of almost a year. She was a lifelong resident of the Carlisle community and a member of the Carlisle Christian Church. " :' She is survived by two brothers, Joe and Jake Rooksberry, both of Sullivan; one sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Eslinger of Terre Haute; five nieces, Mrs. J. N. Ridge, Mrs. Ruth Banks, Mrs. Fred Foxworthy, all of Sullivan; Mrs. Nora Johnson of Toledo, Ohio, and Mrs. Mary Booe of California; three nephews, Ray Rooksberry of Maystick, Ky., Howard Eslinger of California, and Eddie Rooksberry of Logansport, Ind.; and several great nieces and nephews. The' body was taken to the home of a niece, Mrs. Eunice Lowdermilk of 800 South State Street, Sullivan, at noon today. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon at the Carlisle Christian Church with burial in the I.O.O.F. Cemetery. Sullivan County Bar Association Meets Friday P. M. The annual meeting of the Sullivan County Bar Association was held Friday aftetnoon in the court room beginning at 1:30. Paul Stratton, outgoing president, presided at the meeting at which new officers were elected for the coming year. Wendell Tennis was elected president; Will H. Hays, vicepresident; Etta Logan was reelected secretary and Telia Haines was reelected treasurer. Jesse Bedwell was reelectd a member of the Committee on Admission. Recommend New State Buildings Be Built Today INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 2 (UP) Expansion of Indiana's "badly overcrowded" statetouse, built in the "horse and buggy days", was recommended today by the state office building commission. It urged the acquisition of four city blocks to erect three new buildings, two additions to the present structure - and a huge parking lot. .t

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IN THE OFFICE of the Civil Property Custodian in Tokyo, this trio bones up on the Ngandong skull of Homo Solensis, which is said to be more than 300,000 years old. Found in Solo, Java, and taker by the Japs during the war, the famed skull, along with others, will be returned to the Netherlands. Left to right are: Brig. Gen. P. K. Tansey, chief of the property custodian's office; Mr. J, R. Van Osselden and anthropologist Dr. A. M. Halpern.,U, S. Army Signal Corps photo. (International)

SITES RECOMMENDED FOR UN LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., Dec. 2. (UP) A United Nations committee, charged with recommending a site for permanent UN headquarters, today gave San Francisco and Philadelphia equal support w ith a location near White Plains, N. Y., as a second choice.

P.S.C. TO USE FUEL OIL FOR POWER TERRE HAUTE, Dec. 2. (UP) The Public' Service Company of Indiana today assured its 225,000 customers of electrical service even if the coal strike is not settled. Chief Engineer J. Thomas Trainer said burners had been installed at the Dresser electrical generating station for the use of fuel oil instead of coal.

LABOR LEGISLATIVE CONFERENCE OPENS ' WASHINGTON, Dec. 2. (UP) Representatives of organized labor and the state and federal governments assembled here today' for the opening of the 13th annual national conference of labor legislation. j The delegates met against a backdrop of a crippling coal strike and mounting demands for drastic federal controof labor by the incoming Congress.

First Civilian President Takes Office In Mexico MEXICO CITY, Dec. 2. Miguel Aleman became the first clearly civilian President of Mexico yesterday,- pledging, adherence to a "good neighbor policy" and vowing to "fight for continental unity." He had risen in 16 years from the department of agriculture, where he was a lawyer, to attain the highest office of the land at the age of 43. He succeeded Manuel Avila Comacho, who with his predecessors were military men or temporary commanders with regimes based on armies. Aleman was iaugurated for a six-year term before 3,500 persons, including representatives of the United States and 38 other nations. '.

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"What happened," "Musta been a holdup or fight 'er sumpin!" Spectators craned their necks, the better to see what was going on in north side Krogers around 11:30 Saturday night. Two state policemen, Sheriff Reynolds, Chief of Police George Barrick, city patrolmen Fred Brown and George Scott plus a couple of plain clothes men and the Kroger manager, were gathered around in a circle earnestly, discussing

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SKULL PRACTICE ir (T - si.t . vv ii 1'." NEWS Sullivan And Paxton Men Held For Auto Theft Arrested after they are said to have abandoned a stolen auto, Jack J. Wright, 25, of Sullivan, R. 2, and Charles Lamb, 25, of Paxton were jailed in Terre Haute Saturday night and charged with vagrancy to be held for investigation. Witnesses said the men, who acted supiciously alighted from the car at First and Cruft streets and pushed it for some distance. The men left the car standing and were later arrested at First and Hulman streets by Radio Officers Gundlach and Graham of the city's police force. The vehicle was reported stolen from Second street "and Wabash Avenue by Thurman Hayes, R. R. 2, West Terre Haute, Saturday afternoon. something obviously very im portant. Then someone saw something that caused him to turn around, and with a look of deep disappointment be stalked off. Others followed suit, some laughing and some with faces slightly red. The law enforcement officers were engaged in their usual Saturday night session of weinereating at the expense of the genial Kroger manager.

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WASHINGTON. Dec. 2. (UP) Secretary of the Interior J, A. Krug was subpoenaed' before a congressional committee today to discuss emergency measures such as the use of the "Big Inch" pipeline to relieve the fuel shortage created by the coal strike. Krug was listed for an afternoon appearance before the House committee investigating surplus property disposal. Ahead of him as witnesses were oil operators who are trying to buy or lease the "Big Inch" and "Little Big Inch" pipelines from the government. The committee took the almost unprecedented step of issuing a subpoena to a cabinet officer after Krug begged off on an invitation to testify last week. The order was issued even though the secretary had offered to appear voluntarily today. Final Rites For Mrs. Frances Kelly Held Sunday P. M. Funeral services for Mrs. Frances A. Kelly, well-known local resident who died Friday afternoon at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Harry T. Crawford, of Terre Haute, were held at the- Railsback Funeral Home at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon with the Rev. F. Leroy Brown of Terre Haute officiating. Pallbearers were John Smith, Lowell Holycross, Edgar - Crowder, Hush-Willis Giles.-- Coorge Collins and Herman Ferree. Burial was in Center Ridge Cemetery. . County Girl To Be Miss Indiana At Chicago Meet Miss Shirley Ann Greggs of Farmersburg will be Miss Indiana in the 4-H National Dress Revue to be held in Chicago in connection with the 4-H Club Congress Wednesday, Dec. 4. She won this title ' in competition with 4-H Club girls from 87 other counties at the Indiana State Fair. Shirley Ann has been a 4-H Club member for seven years. She has completed 28 projects in clothing, baking, food preparation, canning and victory. She is a senior in the Farmersburg High School and the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Greggs. Romantic News fir A STORY published in a Paris newspaper states that Prince Philippe of Greece will become a naturalized British subject so that he can marry Princess Elizabeth of England, with whom he is pictured here. The prince, who served with the British Navy during the war, is third In line to tfrt greek throne. (International)

Court Uses Miners' Words As Evidence In Procedure Today

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2. (UP) Government lawyers today used the United Mine Workers' own words in an effort to prove that the strike of 400,000 soft coal miners violated the contract signed with the government last May. They introduced exhibits in John L. Lewis's contempt trial to show that the union in another suit sided with a government brief which said that the terms of the governmentunion contract were for the period of government operation. They also prepared to introduce in Lewis's trial a newsreel quoting him to that effect after he signed the contract with Secretary of Interior J. A. Krug last May 29.

U.S., BULLETIN! LONDON, Dec. 2 (UP)-y- A government spokesman said today that the United States and Great Britain were discussing "on a technical level" a standardization of weapons and further peacetime military cooperation, but denied that any hard and fast agreements or decisions had been reached. The Communist organ, Daily Worker, reported that Britain was about to enter into a farreaching military pact with the United States, with full details already agreed upon. The spokesman's comment was prompted by the report. ATLANTIC SPEED RECORD CLAIMED LONDON, Dec. 2. American Overseas Airlines yesterday claimed a transatlantic speed record, reporting that Capt. Cameron Robertson piloted a Constellation from New York to London nonstop in 10 hours 12 minutes. An official said the plane, which carried 1,621 pounds of revenue cargo but no passengers, covered 3,019 miles. HOSPITAL NOTES Admitted Nov. 30: Maude Daugherty of Paxton; Mrs. Mamie Street of Shelburn; Michael Wayne Thrasher of Merom, R. 1. Admitted Dec. 2: Mrs. Amanda Emery of Lyons, Indiana. Dismissed Nov. 30: Mrs. Betty Phegley and daughter of Carlisle; Mrs. Nina Arnett of 1423 North Main Street; Mrs. Kathryn Suter and son of Farmersburg; Mrs. Stella Simpson of 401 South Court Street; Harry Hubble of 105 South Crowder Street; Mrs. Ethel Grounds of Merom, R. 2. LEGION TO MEET The Sullivan American Legion Post No. 139 will hold their1 regular bi-monthly meeting Tuesday evening, December 3rd in the Legion Home north of the city. Furniture Men's Holiday CHICAGO (UP) When local 1608 of the AFL Furniture Workers Union held a stag party, they made work for themselves. In addition to the 1,500 legitimate tickets sold it was discovered 2,500 false ones had been put out. A riot started, and 300 chairs were broken. Fraternity Plus ORONO, Me. (UP) Married fraternity men at the University of Maine have solved the prob lem of "sitters" at least during i the rush season. When Sigma Nu had a party, some of the memI bers brought their children along and turned them over to the care of pledgees. Wholesale Prevention CHICAGO (UP) In one of the first experiments of its kind in industry, 1,200 workers at the Argo Corn Products Company plant have been vaccinated against flu. They, all volunteered,

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Judge T. Alan Goldsborough indicated, meantime, that he might be prepared to cut the proceedings short tomorrow and speed up his verdict. It has become clear that no overtures for a truce or settlement of the strike are likely to get anywhere until the contempt trial is completed. The strike is now in its 12th day. The nation felt the pinch of the coal shortage increasingly as winter's first cold wave hit the East. , Without explaining his purpose, Goldsborough announced that tomorrow morning he intends V), put the official reporter on the stand to identfy certain statements made in court last Monday. There was no indication as to what the court had in mind concerning those statements. But there was speculation that the judge might want to use them to speed the trial to an early end. Directors of the Southern Coal Producers Association gathered here, meanwhile, to decide whether to resume negotiations with Lewis for a new contract. One-third, of their number already had repudiated a statement by President Edward R. Burke, suggesting that negotiations between owners and Lewis be resumed. In court, lawyers continued their arguments over duration and operation of Lewis' May 29 contract with Krug. Government lawyers argued that the terms flnH nnnrlif-tnnc nf hA Prtntront were for the ''period of government operation" of the bituminous mines. In support of this contention, Assistant Attorney-General J. F. Sonnett introduced exhibits dealing with a court suit over union . recognition for supervisors employed in mines of the JonesLaughlin Steel Company. ' PITTSBURGH, Dec. 2 (UP) Fuel shortages resulting from the strike of 400,000 UMW miners dragged industrial production still lower today and a cold wave which swept the nation aggravated already heavy demands on shrinking coal reserves. Exclusive of the striking miners, unemployment climbed past 115,000 but industrialists indicated the present outback and layoff were only the beginning should the strike continue. Transportation and steel were hardest hit with 19,000 rail . employees and 70,000 steel workers idle. But the pinch was spreading throughout other industries and throughout the tiation. RICHMOND, Dec. 2 (UP) The Virginia Corporation Commission today continued until Dec. 13 a hearing on charges that UMW President John L. Lewis had violated the state "Blue Sky" security laws by unlicensed selling of union membership. ATTENDS TAX SCnOOL IN INDIANAPOLIS Miss Norma Kelley went to Indianapolis Sunday to attend a Federal Tax School at the Fedt 4i.A.n ir;e V .1 1 n.. trial uuuuui iucic. ivxioo x.nn-j will attend classes under the direction of F. Shirley Wilcox for one week. LISMAN HOME AT NEW LEBANON BURNS THURSDAY NIGHT The home of Herbert Lisman at New Lebanon was distroyed by fire Thursday night, together with most of the contents. w The ire department from Sullivan answered the call but the blaze had gained such headway that the house could not. be saved. Mr. Lisman is a former trustee of Gill Township, y.