Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 48, Number 255, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 23 December 1946 — Page 1

IN 1 CUftlfTMAS.O CLEARING, COLDER Indiana: Cloudy and windy this afternoon. Clearing tonight. Tuesday fair and somewhat colder. ( . VOL. XLVIII No. 255 UNITED PRESS SERVICE SULLIVAN DAILY TIMES MONDAY, DEC. 23, 1946. INTERNATIONAL PICTURE SERVICE PRICE THREE CENTS THE SNOOPER,

A call from MRS. JESSIE ENGLE this morning informed us of an incident that we consider a pretty low trick. Thursday night someone sneaked up on their porch and took every bulb from their Christmas tree light strings. MR. 1 and MRS. ENGLE weren't angry about it and they know who did it, too. Not only ' that, but they want the party to know that they are welcome to three more bulbs the ENGLES have if they'll only take the trouble to drop around to CARL'S store for them or if they want to cali when business isn't too , rushed the ENGLES might even deliver their three remaining . lights to them.

It seems a shame, that the one time every year when Sullivan residents really go to a lot of time and effort to beautify their homes and businesses, some person, or persons, insist on spoiling a lot of it by such instances as above. These persons, seemingly, are without a conscience and are void of any vestige of civic pride and the Spirit of Christmas. The businesses and homes of this city, which went to all the trouble to decorate for the season, did it for the benefit of everyone in the city. WAYNE GUTHRIE, city editor of the Indianapolis News, was a visitor at the Sullivan Library on Thursday. MR. GUTHRIE was en route home to "Indianapolis from Vincennes, where he had delivered two lectures on the atomic bomb experiments on Bikini, which he and a large group of newspapermen observed from the U.S.S. Appalachian. . MR. GUTHRIE and MRS. KENNEDY are old friends in that he was her Latin pupil when she taught her first school in Nashville, Brown County, ' after graduation ((from Indiana University. .. !, Public Ai Jin Sullivan Higher Than Average ' INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 23 Annual expenditures for public aid" in Sullivan county were 9.72 per capita as compared to a stateWide average of $8. 31, according to an analysis contained in the ,1947 edition of the Indiana Tax and Social Security Manual compiled by the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce and scheduled for release this month. ' A special section of the 200page Manual on Social, Security Contains tables showing 'county- ' by-county compilation of grants for Old Age Assistance, Aid to Dependent Children, and Blind Assistance programs of the Public Welfare Aid. - Statistics concerning the county show that 773 persons received a total of $18,884.00 in Old Age Assistance. The average individual payment was $24.43 as compared to the state wide average of $26.51, 1 Under the program of Aid to Dependent Children, 147 children of 64 families received an average payment of $16.36 for a total of $2,406.00. The state wide average payment was $15.83 per child. A total grant of $1,051.00 was made to 36 recipients of Blind Assistance in average payments of $29.19. The average individual payment to Blind Assistance recipients in the state was $29.39. ICE ON, HIGHWAYS ; CAUSES SEVEN:.1 DEATHS ' : (By United Press) Slippery highways were blamed in part for seven traffic deaths in Indiana during the week-end. One man died in a plane crash at Kempton and another was killed . when a rock fell on him as he hunted rabbits near Bloomington. " All the traffic fatalities occurred Saturday. The victims were involved in wrecks near Peru, New Castle, Newburg, St. Paul, Elkhart and Greenwood. BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT

Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Everhart 5 of Sullvani route three are announcing ' the arrival of a baby . boy born December 11th at the i Mary Sherman Hospital. He ' weighed eight pounds and foury teen and one-half ounces. He has been named Dennie Edwin. Mrs. ; , Everhart is the former Donna i gexton of Jasonville, Indiana.

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ASK REVIEW OF WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 (UP) John L. Lewis and the UMW (AFL) today asked the Supreme Court to rule on legality of the preliminary injunction issued by Judge T. Alan Goldsborough in the recent coal strike. After Goldsborough found the union, and Lewis guilty of contempt on Dec. 4, he issued the preliminary injunction against the strikers. Lewis called off the 17-day strike three days later., The preliminary injunction was to remain in effect until the judge ruled whether Lewis had the right to. break his contract with the government during the operation of the coal mines. The high court already to review the contempt conviction and ordered argument on the case on Jan. 14. If the court accepts today's request the case thus would be broadened to include the temporary injunction. In their petition to the high court today, Lewis and the union argued the injunction violated the Norris-LaGuardia act, which limits the use of the injunction in labor disputes, and violated the first and thirteenth amendments to the constitution. TOKYO, Dec. 23. (UP)Homeless survivors of the Japanese earthquake and tidal - wave, estimated unofficially as high as 500,000, were cheered by , warmer, sunny weather today as they buried their dead' and began clearing the ruins. United States Army spokesmen said the situation was "well under control." American reports fromOkyama prefecture, where British units are stationed, showed conditions there were well in hand for, the present, with no outside help needed. , ; Japanese and Allied rescue teams met great difficulty as they struggled to reach the center of the stricken area. Refugees cluttered the roads, disrupted communications, delayed casualty reports and calls for help. The latest United Press tabulation listed 969 dead, 1,432 injured and 63 missing. THIS TRIO PREFERS

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SURVIVORS Of iAP DISASTER CLEARING RUB

IT MAY BE THE SEASON of good cheer for many or us, but not for AlayuR Annguzuk, 1 -year-old Eskimo boy, and his dogs, "Rowdy" and "Sonya" (the pup). They came from Whale's Island, Alaska, with Alayuk's parents to participate in a Newark, N. J, department store exhibit. The trio would rathet be back in Alaska. iMBh International)

10 BEST DRESSED WOMEN OP 1946 ARE SELECTED

NEW YORK, Dec. 23 (UP) The nation's 10 bestdressed women for 1946 were named today by the Mayfair Fashion Guild, a non-profit group of fashion experts, following a poll of the country's ' females, as follows: Mrs. Stanely Rumbrough Jr., society; Mrs. Jock (Liz) Whitney, "farm woman"; Veronica Dengel, author; Flora Stuart, damcer; Mrs. Eyie "Chip" Roberts, politics; Mrs. Stephen Nester, business; Jean Tennyson, singer; Maggi McNeills, radio; Rosalind Russell, movies, and Alice Marble, sports. Funeral Services For Mrs. Huff To Be Tuesday Mrs. Bertha C. Huff, 68 years old, died at 2:30 o'clock Friday afternoon at the Mary Sherman Hospital. She is survived by the husband, James; five daughters, Mrs. Ada Loudermilk and Miss Catherine Huff, both of California, Mrs. Cora Cox of Sullivan R. 2, Mrs. Nora B. Wilkey of Elkhart, Indiana, and Miss Lula Huff at home; six sons, Elihu Huff of Sullivan, R. 2, Edgar and Glenn Huff of Pontiac, Michigan, Samuel Huff of Laingsburg, Michigan, Walter Huff of Birmingham, Michigan, and James Huff, Jr. of Fairbanks; and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren. The body was taken to the Railsback Funeral Home where funeral services : will . bfe held Tuesday afternoon at two b'clock with the Rev. Donaldson of Graysville officiating. Burial will be in the Johnson Cemetery. : MICHIGAN CITY, Dec. 23. (UP) A mass funeral will be held at Peoria, 111., tomorrow for John Courtright,' Chicago artist, and his wife and two children whom he bludgeoned to death Saturday. Courtright, who recently suffered a nervous breakdown, committed suicide by slashing his wrists after he had fatally beaten his wife and children with a poker. The bodies were found in a cottage Courtright had rented for the winter. Courtright had exhibited paintings at the Chicago Art Institute and had painted murals, in several Chicago buildings. ALASKA WEATHER

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HOUSING PRIORITIES JUNKED TODAY WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.4-(UP) Housing Expediter Frank Creedon today formally junked the old priority system for veterans' housing and set up, effective tomorrow, a simple new system under which-non-veterans as well as veterans may build homes for theifi' own use. .

SAYS BILBO SHOULD BE PRESUMED INNOCENT WASHINGTON, Dec. 23. (UP) Sen. John L. McClellan, D., Ark., said today that Sen. Theodore G. Bilbo, D., Miss., should be presumed ."innocent" by the Senate in event his right to a seat is challenged in the new Congress.

COMMUNISTS COMPLAIN AGAINST TRAINING WASHINGTON, Dec. 23. (UP) American Communists have launched a campaign against the administration's universal training program based on the charge that United States military preparations since V-J Day have "scared the rest of the world half to death."!- , ' The Communists' story is that American Army and Navy brass is hell-bent for battle .right away, or anyway, soon. The Army and Navy storyis that our national defense forces were pretty nearly wrecked by the. hurry-up demobilization which began when the Japanese surrendered.

JOHN L. VISITS INDIANAPOLIS INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 23. (UP) John L. Lewis spent a few hours in Indianapolis Saturday when he was caught between trains. Lewis loafed in: the Indianapolis union station, en route from Springfield, III., where he had been visiting relatives. Later he boarded a train for Cincinnati and Washington. 1 Farmer sburg Soldier In Hospital j For 3rd Straight Gliristmas ; . j J . 1; , . 'Pfc Richard P. Taylor son of fctespite-his long convalescence, Mr. and Mrs. Alva N. Taylor of i Pfc: Taylor still keeps his spirits Farmersburg, will for the third I high and hopes to get "patched

consecutive year, spend mas in an army hospital. ChristPrivate Taylor is now a patient at the Percy Jones General Hospital, Battle Creek, Michigan, where he is undergoing a series of bone-graft operations on the left leg. He was wounded three different times during the past conflict while serving with the 115th Division. The first time he was made eligible for the Purple Heart, he laid in a furrow of a plowed field from noon until after dark in rain under such intense fire that medical corpsmen could not reach him. Only eighteen men from the entire company survived the battle in which he was first wounded. Private Taylor was cited by his commander once as being the best equipped fighting man in the outfit and still has a pair of wire-cutting pliers which he managed to keep with him throughout his service. Another piece of equipment of which he was especially proud was a valued, special fighting knife which was taken from him by medical corpsmen the last time he was wounded as a precautionary measure. He figures he has worn hospital pajamas about as much as he has the army uniform since his -entry into service. Since returning to the United States, Pfc. Taylor has been occupying his spare time with correspondence courses, rug-making; making scarfs, purses and numerous other articles of plastic or leather and .has sold a number of purseg and !billfol(Is. : i; s- . : . . ... Pfc. Taylor has been awarded the1 Good Conduct Badge, Purple Heart with two clusters, Presidential Unit Citation, Silver Star and the Combat Infantrymans' Badge of which he is, most proud, and has a number of efficiency medals.

Watch For Forgers

Sheriff Harold (Bootjack) Reynolds today . asked that merchants in Sullivan and surrounding towns be on the alert for check f oryers who have been operating: in this vicinity recently. Sheriff Reynolds stated that several Sullivan merchants have cashed checks durins the last few days

up and aiscnargea m time xo re-enter Purdue University next September where he will be a junior in the School of Agriculture. . His address is: -Pfc. Richard P. Taylor, 15312833 Ward 16, Sec. 14, Percy Jones Gen. Hosp., Battle Creek, Mich.

SCHOOLS OUT FOR HAYS

Sullivan's city schools rounded out their Christmas programs Friday afternoon preparatory to the annual Christmas and New Year's holidays. School will be resumed on January 6, it was learned today from school officials. The Junior-Senior high school presented a program of Christmas carols and a play as a climax to their last day of school in 1946. Following is the program given: Opening Christmas carols by audience; play, "The Six Kept Christmas", by the speech class which included Joe Scully, Jane Bedwell, Pat Rogers, Jack Turpen, LeAnn Wible, Connie Campbell, Bernadyne Hull, Keith Brown and Eddie Kerlin; "Holy Night", by seventh and eighth grades; "Babe in Bethlehem's Manger Laid", by Girl's Glee Club and seventh and' eighth grades; "White Christmas", Girl's Glee Club; "While Shepherd's Watched Their Flocks", Girl's Glee Club; "O Holy Night," mixed chorus; Christmas carols by audience; and the finale, "Silent Night" by mixed chorus. which were fraudulent and requests that anyone who is approached by any person acting suspiciously, call 41, 316 or 240 immediately. "These bad checks are popping up with increasing: regularity around Sullivan and we must have the cooperation of the merchants to stop it," the sheriff concluded.

Baby Born On Train Doing Fine

A six pound, 15 ounce daugh ter was born to Mrs. Mary Wade of Bermuda yesterday on a southbound C. & E. I. passenger train as the train neared Sulli van from the north. Mrs. Wade wife of navy veteran, Albert Wade, had boarded the train in Chicago enroute with her hus band and four-year-old daughter to Memphis, Tennessee to spend the holidays with Mr. Wade's relatives. Dr. Bob Donnelly, who answered a railroad official's emergency call, said today that the Wades had flown from San Francisco to Chicago where physicians told them it would be safe for Mrs. Wade to make the rest of the trip by train. Due to the Christmas travel rush, they were forced to ride in the smoker where the child was born. Mother and daughter were fcrought to the Mary Sherman hospital in a Railsback ambulance about 5:30 a. m. yesterday and both mother and daughter are reported doing fine. The child has been named Marie Alberta. Pasture Upkeep Maiorltemln '47 Farm Plans CHICAGO Secretary of Agriculture Anderson's recent recommendation that farmers produce more hogs, market more beef cattle for slaughter and produce more milk in 1947, means that pasture renovation will be a number one item in farm planning next season, according. to a statement made public here by the Middle West Soil Improvement Committee. Mr. Anderson's suggested goals and cattle slaughter are designed to provide about 155 pounds of meat per capita for the American people in .1947," says-the statement, "compared with 140 to 145 pounds for the 1935-1939 average.. . "In reaching those goals, farmers will rely on pasture to provide essential fodder. They realize that pasture is the most economical source of feed for livestock. "Experience has further taught them that the meat and dairy producing capacity of their land can be materially increased through soil improvement measures that include the application of mixed fertilizers containing nitrogen, phosphorus and potash, as needed. They have learned, too, that fertilized pasture is richer in minerals, proteins and vitamins as necessary to promote the health and growth of farm animals. 1 "The job of getting pastures into high-yielding condition requires attention to several fundamentals. One of those is the use of plenty of plant food. How much fertilizer to apply and what analyses to use are subjects on which agronomists at state agricultural colleges and experiment station end give farmers valuable advice." Final Rites Held For Mrs. Simpson Funeral services were conducted yesterday afternoon at two o'clock at the Billman funeral chapel for Mrs. Delia Simpson, who passed away at the Mary Sherman Hospital Thursday night. The Rev. Wyman Hull of the Sullivan Baptist Church officiated. Pallbearers were Ted Kirk, E. L. LeDune,. E-c-an Chaney, Dave Rogers, James . McKee and Pete McCreery. Burial was in Center Ridge Cemetery.

Suits May Run Into Billions As Claims Mount Up In Courts

(By United Press) Labor unions across the nation, armed with a potent economic weapon in the form of a momentous Supreme Court decision, sought almost $510,000,000 from employers today in suits filed to collect portal to portal pay. Union attorneys estimated that the amount sought , eventually would reach six billion dollars. Some of the nation's biggest corporations already have been named defendants in suits filed in federal courts. The total was swollen today bv suits totalling $20,660,000 filed by the CIO United Auto Workers and the CIO United Steel Workers at Detroit. The auto workers sought 18,000,000 from Briggs Manufacturing Company and $2,000,000 from General Motors' Chevrolet Division at Flint, Michigan.

Farm Bureau Directors Board Meets Dec. 16 The December meeting of the Farm Bureau Board of Directors was held Monday night, December 16, at the gracious country home of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Wible. A delicious dinner was enjoyed by the group. The table was appropriately decorated with Yule log, candles and pine. After dinner, guests gathered in the living room., which had also been decorated in keeping with the Yuletide season. The group presented Mrs. Wible, retiring S & E Leader, with a gift of crystal. The business meeting was conducted by County Chairman Rush Davis, after which he turned the meeting over to the hostess, Mrs. Wible. She conducted a series of contests including unscrambling words pertaining to Christmas, won by Doris Chowning; pictures drawn of Santa, won by Mrs. Floyd Mulk, and last but not least, a candle blowing contest won by O. K. Anderson and Mrs. Floyd Fulk. The group sang Christmas carols and to end a perfect party, sang "A Perfect Day." Each went home feeling they had gained a little more of the season's spirit. . Those present were, Mrs. Zula Armstrong, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Fulk, Mr. and Mrs. Gladys Kinnett, Barbara and Jimmy, Mr. and Mrs. James Brashier, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Drake, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Chowning, Mr. and Mrs. Rush Davis, Mr. and Mrs. O. K. Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Wilson, Lois Shepherd and the host and hostess, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Wible. Alvin (Doc) Smith Dies Saturday Near Bloomfield Alvin (Doc) Smith, age 71, was found dead Saturday morning near his home east of Bloomfield, Indiana. He had gone to the home of a neighbor Friday night to buy a horse and had left leading the horse, which was blind. The next morning the horse was found at the home of the original owner which started the hunt for Mr. Smith. He was found with a halter around his arm and it was presumed that the horse had dragged him. He was born in Sullivan county May 12, 1875, the son of John and Mary Smith. Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Nancy Lewellyn of Sullivan, R. 5, and Mrs. Jane Parish of Texas. The body was taken to the Newkirk Funeral Home and removed to the home of a nephew, Homer Smith, at Pleasantville. Funeral services will be conduct ed at the Bethany church Tues. day morning at 10 o'clock. Burial will be in the Bethany Cemetery. MARRIAiGE LICENSES Walter LaVern Akers, Shel-

burn, trucker and Barbara Jeanurer; Dwight Burton on Chapter Vickers, Shelburn, student. j Farmer Initiation; and Gene Marlin W. McCoy, Wheatland, Easter on Scholarship. R. 2, farmer and Eva M. Kieth.j A short talk was given on the Oaktown, housekeeper. ' Pest . Killing Contest by John Gerald D. Badger, 110 South 1 Ransford. Crowder Street, soldier and Bar- j Meeting was adjoined and rebaxa Lou Stark, 621 Washington , freshments of peanuts and pop

Street, Terre Haute, Quaker Maid employe.

In addition, union spokesmen

said they would file suit this week for $270,000,000 on behalf of Ford Motor Co. workers. Similar suits were being prepared against Chrysler and General Motors. At New York, an independent union of Western Electric employees announced it would file suit this week for $15,000,000 in. portal pay for the firm's 18,635 workers. Portal pay compensates workers for the time spent gathering their tools, changing to work" clothes, punching time clocks and . getting to and from their place of work inside the plant gates. . In a test case involving the Mt. Clemens, Mich. Pottery Co., the supreme court ruled that such time is part of the normal work week. The court held ,that workers who win law suits for portal pay are entitled to "triple; timd" and. compensation for legal feesl... , . . .. The decision has resulted in' a recent wave of portal pay suits against some of the nation's biggest industrial corporations. Suits filed since Nov. 20 totalled $198,-' 000,000 in the Cleveland area alone. ' ! r Federal Judge Frank A. Packard, who made the original decision in favor cf the pottery workers said last night that the j j . j it did not involve portal to portal way at all. He said the union sought back overtime pay for workers who were ordered to start work ' H minutes early. ': OVER 8,000.000 INSURED BY FEDERALSGOVERNMENT NOW :,..'; TERRE HAUTE, Dec. 23 Approximately 8,200,000 working men and women in the United States will be permanently and : fully insured by Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance by . the end of 1946, James E. Snider, Manager of the Social Security office said yesterday. About 4.800.000 workers , of whom some 800,000 are women, will have completed ten years of service' in jobs covered by4.he . Social Security Law. In addition, 1,800,000 workers who will attain !aee 65 before 1957 will have sufficient credits to be fully insured. Another 1,400,000 men and '200,000 women who now are 65 or older have fully insured status. About one-half of these are now drawing monthly retirement benefits. '.: " ' Snider explained . that the amount of ; the monthly benefits is not' fixed. . Periods of unemployment, illness, or work In jobs not covered by the Act will operate to reduce the size of .the benefit, he said. ' ' '' GRAYSVILLE F.F.A. MEETS DEC. 16 The Future Farmers of the Graysville Chapter met Dec. 16. 'Meeting was called to order by President John Ransford. Char ley Haddix was initiated to the Greenhand degree. Committee reports were given on the Scrap Drive by Floyd Hopewell Bill Burnett on Treaswere served to sixteen membpra . and one guest.