Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 48, Number 245, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 9 December 1946 — Page 1

RAIN . Indiana: Cloudy and continued mild tonight.. Occasional, rain southwest portion., tonight, and Tuesday. INTERNATIONAL PICTURE SERVICE PRICE THREE CENTS VOL. XLVin No. 245 UNITED PRESS SERVICE. SULLIVAN DAILY TIMES MONDAY, DEC. 9, 1946.

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TINT! Three youthful bandits were captured in Terre Haute early Sunday morning after a series of holdups in Sullivan and Vigo - Counties, following a 90-mile-an hour chase. The bandits' automobile crashed into a utility pole after failing to make a turn at 25th and Marfiaret Avenue in ; Terre Haute and turned over. Two of the holdup men- were identified as Clarence Heckins, ' Jr., 24, of Great Bend, Kan., and Hugh John O'Neil, 19, of Omaha, Neb., but the .third man's name was not available as the Times went to press today. According to reports the three obtained over $300 in holdups of the Hudson Oil Company station in Terre Haute, the White Swan , restaurant at Farmersburg and Bud Bailey's station north of Farmersburg. W. N. Whitney, owner of the White Swan restaurant, told a Times reporter, "The car came from the direction of Terre Haute, turned around here and - parked by one of my pumps. I went out to service them and noticed one of them had a coat ! thrown over his right shoulder. Just as I neared him he stuck out a gun and told me, 'This is a stickup.' He forced me to walk back into the restaurant where , he again told patrons to sit still and cleaned out the cash register while another helped him keep watch. A third one stayed outside and filled the tank of the car." f While inside the restaurant, s one of the bandits sauntered back 0 into the kitchen where Mrs. Whitney, was washing dishes. She vas unaware of the holdup' go-'..-jng on the 'front. ; , "Get out of here," she de-j manded, "no one is allowed back here." . At that, the young bandit gave , her a slight push and arrogantly continued his survey of the :. kitchen. Mrs. Whitney, believing . him to be "just a smart-aleck kid," then slapped him in the face with her dish-cloth. This seemed to disconcert the bandit and, after giving her another push, he made his departure. The two bandits then left and, with the third, they roared off up ; the highway toward Terre Haute. ; About two and a half miles north of the White Swan they stooDed in at the Harold (Bud) Bailey filling station and robbed him of about $200. The White Swan lost $107.80 to the bandits. The car in which the three were riding belonged to Dr. Carroll Dean Monroe of Selma, Kansas. They obtained it, police said, after talking with the youths, in a holdup at midnight, Nov. 29 at Kansas City, Mo. Dr. Monroe was reported to have stopped for a red traffic light when the three held him up and forced him from the car, taking his billfold and the automobile. The holdups at Farmersburg occurred about 12:15 Sunday morning. The bandits are wanted for holdups in five states, it was learned today. Heckins, police said, is on parole from the Hutchinson, Kan., reformatory, where he was sentenced to two to ten years in 1945 on a forgery charge. He had been discharged from the Navy last year, they said, for bad conduct. Both Mr. Bailey and Mr. Whitney identified the bandits after , their apprehension at Terre Haute.

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r Mrs. Walters, 83, Dies Here Sunday

" Mrs. Martha A. Walters, 83, died at the home of her son, Walter Steele, west of Sullivan, Sunday at 9:30 p. m. She had been ill only a short time. She was a member of the North State Street Church of Christ. ' Surviving is the son, Walter Steele; eight grandchildren; ten great-grandchildren, and one sis.ter, Mrs. Flora Criss, of Terre Haute. . The body was taken to the Billman Funeral Home where it lies in state. Funeral services will be conducted at the funeral chapel Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Burial will be in the Mt. Tabor Cemetery.'

County HomeEc. Council Elects Officers Friday The Sullivan County Home Economics Club Council met Friday afternoon, December 6 at

the Court House Auditorium. .'The business of the day was the 'election of council officers for 1947 and completing plans for the year books. In the absence of the county president, Mrs. Harley Stull, vice-president, presided. Officers elected for 1947 were President, Mrs. Harley Stull, Triple T Home Economics Club; Vice-President, Mrs. Earl Phegley, Prairie Homemakers Home Economics Club; SecretaryTreasurer, Mrs. Fred Worthington, Sullivan Home Economics Club. Dates for leader training meetings were announced by Miss Jeannette Gentry, Home Demonstration Agent. Tentative plans were made for an officer's training school for Home Economics Club officers to be held in January. Plans were completed for the 1947 year books. Thirty home economics members from nineteen clubs were present at the council meeting. Floyd Lamb, 68 years old, one of . Sullivan's most prominent businessmen, died suddenly Saturday morning at his home at 404 South State Street. Mr. Lamb was a lifelong resident of Sullivan and had operated a grocery store here for the last twenty-eight years. He had been a member of the city coun cil in Sullivan for several years and was a member of the Christian church, the Odd Fellows lodge and the Modern Woodmen lodge. Surviving are the wife, Maude; one daughter, Mrs. Juanita Myers of Seymour, Ind.; and one granddaughter, Rachel Myers of Seymour. The body was taken to ' the Billman Funeral Home where funeral services were conducted this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock with the Rev. Jack Anderson officiating. Burial was in the Center Ridge Cemetery. Offices at the city hall were closed and business suspended this afternoon during the funeral. Mayor -McGuire expressed deep regret at Mr. Lamb's death and said, "The community has lost a valued citizen and business man, and the city government a trusted, conscientious and efficient public servant." Famed Actress Heads March Of Dimes Activities Cornelia Otis Skinner of New York City has been named as 1947 March of Dimes chairman of Women's Activities, it was announced today (Dec 9) by Basil O'Connor, President of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. The distinguished actress and author has been associated with the National Foundation program for some time. Personally interested in the fight against infantile paralysis, she served last year as Vice-Chairman of the Women's Division, Greater New York Chapter. She participated in the nationwide radio broadcast from the White House with Mrse. Truman launching the opening of women's activities in conjunction with the first national conference of Women State Advisors of the National Foundation. This year, Miss Skinner will greet the women advisors attending the second annual conference in New York City from Thursday through Saturday (December 12-14). "This humanitarian cause, dedicated to helping all who are stricken with infantile paralysis has particular appeal to women," said Miss Skinner in accepting her appointment. "As wives and mothers we somehow respond more personally to the challenge, and fear, of polio."

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START DRAFT OP INTERNATIONAL LAW LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., Dec. 9. (UP) A 54-country United Nations committee voted today to begin drafting a code of international criminal law based on the principles espoused by the Allies in the Nurenberg War Crimes trial. The precepts on which Nazi leaders were convicted at Nurenberg included several new principles of international law including the finding that the promoting of aggressive war is a crime against humanity.

NAZI DOCTORS' TRIAL OPENS NURENBERG, Germany, Dec. 9. (UP) Twenty-six of Nazidom's top medical experts heard themselves accused of wholesale murder and unspeakably cruel tortures today when they went on trial for their weird experiments on human guinea pigs in concentration camps.

IRANIAN TROOPS TEHERAN, Dec. 9. (UP) General Staff said tonight

were massed along the entire southern border of Azerbaijan province, deployed for action and awaiting orders. "

The staff chief said the

er Kurtistan where .rebel forces attacked government troops

feunday. PROBE OF ATLANTA ATLANTA, Ga., Dec. 9.

spurred by shocked public demands, worked today in the

seared skeleton of the Winecotf

among the ruins, where 120

ture catastrophes. A number of the 89 persons injured in Saturday's predawn fire still remained in critical condition from shock, burns and smashed bones received when they jumped from high in the burning building.

LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., Dec. 9. (UP) Egypt joined France in the United Nations disarmament debate today with a proposal that all members begin calling home their armies abroad and start general demobilization of their armed forces.

STAnDARDIZATION OF ASMS HAVE SEEK DISCUSSED

BULLETIN! WASHINGTON, Dec 9 (UP) The State Department announced today that "informal exchange of views" on standardization of military equipment have . taken place among the United States, Great Britain and Canada. A State Department spokesman said, however, that "this natural development" does not imply "political arrangements or commitments." . The spokesman read a lengthy statement and replied to questions of newsmen based on recent assertions in the British House of Commons that the United States and Britain were making a ' military : alliance against Russia. Hoosier Veterans May Apply For Dental Treatment Indiana veterans may obtain immediate dental examinations to establish service-connected ailments the Veterans Administration announced today following the streamlining of procedure and a change in policy. Veterans in need of examinations should file applications with their VA Contact Office at 415 Star Bldg., Terre Haute, Indiana. Letters of authorization i will be mailed directly to the in- 1 dividual, along with a list of participating dentists in his commimitv Th vpforan thpn hna a 30 day period in which to have the examination completed by any dentist of his choice who may be on the list. Previously, the veteran had to apply for the examination, the dentist was selected by the VA and authorized direct and the two then had to get together as to a time for examination. The double authorization and steps that had to be followed in the VA offices created a bottleneck within the organization itself. The Indiana Regional VA office 1 in addition has been handicapped for space. N It has been at the VA Hospital on Cold Springs Road and recently moved to the Century Building on Pennsylvania Street, Indianapolis. The dental office is still in temporary quarters and its services are limited to administrative .needs. Actual medical and dental out-patient treatment will ( not be given until space recently (vacated by former occupants can . be converted to medical and dental laboratories and-examining rooms. ' ' ." '

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The Chief of the Iranian that central government troops only fighting so far was in lowFIRE UNDERWAY (UP) Official investigators, hotel in . hopes of finding died, a means of preventing fu Shelburn Home Burns Yesterday For Total Loss The two story home of Mr. and Mrs Bavmmifl Rpropr nn RhAlbrn rural route one, west of ,r,iDtw '-A, stroyed by fire yesterday mornirig shortly before noon 'with and personal belongings being reported. The flames' which had gained uncontrollable headway in the rafters before being discovered by seven-year-old Susie Polvin who lives next door, were be-1 lieved to have been set off by defective wiring Mrs. Berger was not at home and Mr. Berger who was asleep did not awaken until neighbors called to him and the fire had gained such momentum that only a small part of the -family belongings could be saved by the Shelburn Fire Department. The house was the property of Curtis Brown of Indianapolis. i While racing to fight the flames that destroyed the Berger home the Shelburn fire truck, driven by John Sebring, was struck by a 1942 Packard sedan as it crossed Highway 41 going west. The passenger car which was driven by Edward Gallen, 40, of (Skokie, Illinois, suburban district north of Chicago, suffered considearble damage, however, it was able to continue under its own power. Mr. Gallen was accompanied by his wife. Neither were injured. SPURLIN TRIAL ENDS IN JURY DkAULULA bAlUKDAI ine Inai 01 lv"uara De8un k on cnBes ui arson enaea in.a aT U1 "1C jury Friday. After 27 hours debate the jury was released without coming to a decision on the case. BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT Mr. and Mrs. David McCullough of 220 South State Street are the parents of a son, born at the Coleman Hospital in Indianapolis December 3. He has been named David Michael. Typhoid Routed in N. C. RALEIGH, N. C. (UP) The death rate from typhoid fever in North Carolina has dropped from '1.3 per thousand people in 1915 to only 0.3 , per thousand this year, the state health department reported. It Won't Be Lon? Now CHESTER, Pa. (UP) The Sun

Shipbuilding Yards has a job reau meeting December 12 at shortening a ship. Workmen will. 7:30 p. m., it was announced tocut off the bow and stern of the day. The meeting will be held tanker Avila and put in a more in the Township House, compact middle. When the job is George Belt, the new chairman, done, the tanker will be 132 feet will have charge of the session long instead of 261 feet. and the public is invited.

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LISTED ON HONOR Honor Roll for the second six weeks grading period of SullilVZr,SrT "Hiphpst Tlistinptfon" honor and 85 students listed in the "Distinction" class. I Following are names of studei making the honor roil for me penoa Deginnmg uctoDer a and ending November 27:' . . Highest Distinction To attain this ranking the student must receive "A" in at least four full-credit subjects, with the grade in no other subject carried, below "B". Also, he must have no unexcusedi tardies or absences. Su'EIla ; Bledsoe, . Elizabeth Briggs, ' Barbara Brown, Connie Campbell, Jean Davis, Billie Dodd, Betty L. Ford, James Gettinger," Betty Godfrey, Calvin Hilgediek, Ralph Llewellyn, John McCammon, Phyllis McRoberts, Wilma Olson, Sally Organ, Elsie Pendleton, Jeanne Parks, Joann Reed, Patricia ' Pirtle, Phyllis Robison, Virginia Robison, Judith Shepherd, Betty Stewart, Margaret . Stewart, Thelma Tarrh, Patsy Thudium, Carol Valentine, Linda Weisbecker, Donna Whitmore, LeAnn ' Wible,' Sarah Ann Willis, Patty Wilson. '; ; Distinction To attain this ranking the student must receive "B" in at least four full-credit subjects with the grade m no other subject carried, belowC", Also. he must have no i unexcused tardie? or absences. ; n'!"""e f , r,'ii7 nae.son, nauaon tu, Bett. Bledsoe Patricia Bledsoe, .Bennie Boles, Rebecca Brumette, Anita Brumette, Phyllis Bryan, A"a" mpDeii, CamPn .Shir1 ' Chowning, Sue Chownmg Harlan Christie, Aa. B- Christy Zoe Coulson, Margie Cox, Nancy Crowder, Phyllis Davis, Beulah Deckard, Lena Dietz, Ann Dudley James R- Ferguson Jo Ann Ford, Joan Godfrey, Jocelyn Gallagher, Sharon Garey, John Golish, Rosalie Goodman, Marcella Grayam, Vaino Grayam, Ruth Hampton, Barbara Hill, Robert Houpt, Harold Huff, Erma Hughes, Bonnie Jackson, Martha Kaiser, Virginia Kaiser, Dorla Kirk, Nancy Kirk, Harriet, Knowles, Mary J Land, Robert Lawhorn, Marian Lisman, Jerry McCammon, Patsy Mahan, Vernon Mattox, Carolyn Milam, Mildred Miller, Barbara Monk, Jeanette Monk, Peggy Mood, Beverly Moore, Betty Murphy, John Oldham, Jocelyn Parks, Norma Pirtle, Don Pirtle, Gerald Raley, Frances Raley, Raymond Raley, Mike Rambis, Jackie Reynolds, Gordon Riggs, Kenton Riggs, Rosella Robertson, Patty Rogers, Norma Sappenfield, Mary Simmons, Floyd Settles, Corby Shelton, Sara Smith, Mildred Stewart, Jane Stratton, Annabell Treadway, Sarah Usrey, Mary Jane Wible, Anna Mae Wilkey, Howard Wolfe, Deloris Worth. RECANVASS OF VOTES BEGUN THIS A. M. A vote recount was begun today to decide the Hamilton township trustee office holder. Jesse Smith, Democrat, was only nine votes winner over Republican Harold Boone when the votes were canvassed after the general election Nov. 5. Mr. Boone filed for the recount. As the Times -went to press, only one precinct had been recanvassed so nothing definite could be learned as to the outcome. JESSE BOSTON TO SPEAK AT CURRY FARM BUREAU MEET Jesse Boston, county suDerintendent of schools, will speak at the Curry Township Farm Bu.

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Pictured above is Aaro Makkonen, 8-year-old Finnish school child, who received one of the gift packages sent out by the Junior Red Cross Society of Sullivan county. The society is currently en gaged in a drive for gift boxes to help the underprivileged children of foreign lands have a happier Christmas this year. Mrs. Claude Harmon is chairman of the movement and reports that the JRC have enlisted the aid of the county schools. Following is the letter of grat itude from Aaro recently receiv ed by the JRC organization: Finland, Lievestyore, June 11,1946. Good Friend: Many hearty thanks for the package we received from you unknown little friends. And way frtfjn America. You cannot be lieve how great was our joy, even mother and father rejoiced when we ran home from school. I am in the second grade in school. In October I will be 8 years old. In that package I received some school things, tablets and pencils, soap and a comb and a red ball. They are so dear to me. I hope this letter gets to that particular dear child from whom I received that package. I had never before received a package. I want to ask if I could get a letter and know if the package was from the one who got my letter. Times are so poor here that I cannot send anything, and I don't know what to send there, for America is so rich. Write and let me know what I could send. May God bless you and your mother and father. Also my mother and father thank ''you for the package. If I could meet you I know we would enjoy playing together. Many dear regards. Write me a little letter. My name is, Aaro Makkonen. Vincennes Hosts District Legion Meeting Dec. 15 Vincennes will be Number One spot on the American Legion calendar on Sunday, December 15 as host to a Seventh District meeting at which time a basket dinner will be featured, N. Wash Strange, of Loogootee, District commander announced today. All veterans and their families are invited cordially to attend the Vincennes meeting at which George N. Craig, of Brazil, southern vice-commander of the Legion, will be principal speaker. Craig was a lieutenant colonel of Infantry in the invasion of Normandy and is one of the leading young attorneys of his community. The Legionnaires will hold a business meeting at the Legion home commencing at 10 a. m. Sunday while the business meeting of the Auxiliary will be in the YMCA building. This will be followed by ta basket dinner at the Legion home. Craig will then address a joint meeting of Legion and Auxiliary to which all veterans and' their families are invited. Vincennes Post 73, of , which Arman W. Shake is commander and Robert E. Reel adjutant, will be host to the Seventh District

Legionnaires and their families Fox. Complaint for damages, at this basket dinner and meet-' Mike Hankins vs. Ruby Haning. kins. Complaint for divorce.

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Hurry Judicial Ending

Of Lewis,

BULLETIN! WASHINGTON, Dec. 9. (UP) The Supreme Court in

an extraordinary legal step agreed today to speed a final decision on the contempt of court conviction of John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers ( AFL) .

The court action came a

started to stream back into the mines after an 18-day strike shutdown. Lewis, bowing to President Truman, announced Saturday that he was ordering the 400,000 soft coal miners

back to work pending a review of the contempt conviction

by the Supreme Court. Thfl TVcfrMnt frmrt Vioto im posed fines of $3,510,006 on the union and Lewis for going ahead with the strike in defiance of a court order. The union appealed the con viction to the U. S. Court of Appeals. The government then asked the Supreme Court to take over the case directly. The high court's order today agreed to deviate from the normal legal channels and reviews its direction. WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 (UP) Coal mines began reopening today after an 18-day strike shutdown, leaving the temporarily Plans are being made for the annual Sullivan County. Wheat banquet to be held Wednesday night, December 18th at 7:30 at the Davis Hotel. Dr. George D. Scarseth, who is in the Research Department of the American Farm Bureau, will be the main speaker. Dr. Scarseth was formerly head of the Purdue University Agronomy Department. This banquet has been held annually in the counties of the Southwestern Indiana Wheat Improvement Association for the past several years up until last year. This year, the banquet is being sponsored by the elevators of Sullivan County, including: Lash's Elevator, Martins Elevator, Johnson's Elevator, Farm Bureau Elevator, Springer's Elevator and Harris' Elevator. Those holding tickets to the banquet are urged to attend the banquet. Any others who are interested in wheat improvement wno ao not nave a ucKei to me banquet, are welcome to attend - Dr. Scarseth's address after ,the dinner. Various township awards will be presented at the meeting and the entire program for the din ner meeting will be announced later. i Local Woman Dies Here Last Night HTm TTnlAn ITnnnrlao 4) AitlA ami a. iicicu luiuniLi), j j u.u at the hospital last night at 11:30. Mrs. Knowles was born in Merom. She was a member of tne Christian church. Surviving are the husband, Harry Knowles; two daughters, Harriet Elizabeth and Nina Sue; one step daughter, Mrs. Mary Beaumont of Memphis, Tenn.; one son, James Robert; three step sons, Garland Knowles of Sullivan, Carroll Knowles of Dublin, Indiana and William Knowles of the U. S. Navy; the mother, Mrs. Flora Wible of Sullivan; three brothers, Walter Wible of Sullivan and William and Olan of California; one sis ter, Mrs. Mary Mooney of Terre Haute and five step grandchildren The body was taken to the Billman Funeral Home and was removed to the residence north of Sullivan this evening. Funeral services are pending. NEW SUITS James Sampson, by his next friend, Herman Fidler vs. Joe

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few hours after the miners had I -- 1 " .. -" vanquished John L. Lewis still facing a bitter struggle to win the new contract he wants for his United Mine Workers. Lewis was boxed in on one side by a government attack in the courts, on another by the ithreat of labor legislation from an angry cungiess aim sun uu another by a deep split among coal mine owners. The next step in the court battle was expected to be a decision by the supreme court today to take jurisdiction on the case. But even with such swift ' action, a final ruling may be weeks away. With an eye to past mine disputes, government officials were prepared for some delays in re-? opening mines today under the back-to-work order Lewis issued Saturday. However, they thought the miners would be more eager than usual tar return because the walkout cost them 18 days pay with Christmas ap- -proaching and they lost at least seven weeks wages in the strike last spring. , Industry and government, offi cials expected the mines to reach normal production . levels, by mfdweek. The government last night established a priority system t0 jnsure coal for most essential users until production j does reach norn-ial. (gy United Press) Loaded coal cars rolled out of Indiana mines today. Emergency conservation measures were relaxed as crippled Hoosier industry prepared for full speed operation and all strip mines were open. The Solid Fuels Administration estimated that - 45,000 tons of coal would be mined ! today. That was half of the normal averaee daily production. . The sudden end of the coal strike f0un(j Indiana on. the brink of industrial paralysis. Three northern cities, South Bend, Mishawaka and Elkhart were- in a "state of emergency." Scheduled shutdowns by industry everywhere in the state were ranceiied this morning with the pr0mise of more fuel soon. " The brown-out ended in time for gtores t0 turn on Christmas lights. . TERRE HAUTE, Dec. 9 (UP) Hoosier soft coal mines were opened today, although - full operations were not anticipated until night shift reports for duty. Early morning spot checks revealed that cleanup crews were preparing the mines for production resumption. In most cases only one-half or two-thirds of normal wnrkins crews were On duty " r ' , wirmin,, 4 trickle vaol, iri m-rpllintinn nonin. hnw-' ever, from larger shaft mines In the Terre Haute region. One hundred and , sixty men were working at the Dresser mine near here, more than 250 at the Saxton where 340 are employed on the day shift. The Victory was opened with 175 men hoisting coal and 60 of the normal 250 reported to work at the Stone Hill mine. Other shaft and strip mines reported partial operation designed to clean up idle mines for night crews which were expected to resume full-scale mining operations. CHICAGO, Dec. 9 (UP) The " nation's railroads hastened today to resume normal service under the coal strike truce. Most of the roads expected to be operating on normal schedules within a few days. The Pennsylvania Railroad said it was resuming full scale operations today. The New York Central said full service would, be restored in a few days.