Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 49, Number 32, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 13 February 1947 — Page 2
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Trrko MILD Indiana: (Generally fair and warmer tonight; tomorrow partly cloudy and mild. VOL. XLIX No. 32 UNITED PRESS SERVICE SULLIVAN DAILY TIMES THURSDAY, FEB. 13, 1947. INTERNATIONAL PICTURE SERVICE PRICE THREE CENTS
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SNOOPER Just about every morning, come rain, sleet, snow or shine -NEVILLE BRODIE drops into the Times office with an ad. That, in itself, is nothing so startling but NEVILLE himself always gets a second glands because lie always looks like it's summer outside. If ever a Polar Club is organized inTullivan we'll wager he'll be. president. However, he may have some competition in that respect, with BILL BOLES and HOBART LEWELLYN, Times employees, who never seem to be bothered with the weather as they head for lunch each noon with their sleeves rolled up. (Regardless of outside temperatures.) The present break in weather is especially appreciated by certain citizens here. One harrassed looking individual dropped in yesterday and dropped this remark upon leaving, "I've sure been kept hoppin' today dodgin' baby buggies today is about as frequent as the first day of Spring." A bank building is good ' for things besides housing finances. The southwest corner of the Sullivan State Bank, we noticed just now, is a rather good backscratcher. Here's the method we just saw" used. A gentleman', walking down that side of the street, paused and looked to fee if anyone was watching. Apparently, no one was. So he backed up to the corner, wiggled a few times back and forth (guiltily wpfrhinff for passersby), then heaved a sigh of relief and resumed his way. (Gonna try it myself, fust chance I get.) Football Coach BILL JONES this morning was standing in the south door of the Community Gym watching some grade school kids playing sandlot football on Harris St. with a gleam in his eye . future Golden Arrow grid .VUars in. the -making. . Mrs. Lillian Austin Dies This Morning Mrs. Lillian Morris Austin, 82-vear-old Sullivan county resident, died this morning at nine o'clock at the home of her son, Hadie St. Clair, 404 South State Street climaxing on illness of many months' duration. Her entire lifetime had been ipent in tills county , where she had long been a member of the Naw Lebanon Methodist Church. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. 'Bertha Ogborn of Terre . Haute and Mrs. Lucille Barnhart of Upland, California: three sons, Mervin St. Clair of Merom, Hadie St. Clair at whose home she died and Hugo Austin of New Lebanon; eight grandchildren; five great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. The body was taken to the Billman Funeral Home where it now lies in state. Funeral services will be conducted Saturday afternoon at one o'clock at the New Lebanon Methodist Church with Rev. Tom Jennings officiating. Interment will be made in the New Lebanon cemetery. HOSPITAL NOTES Admitted Feb. 12: Mrs. Hester Somers of Paxton; Eldin Fox of R. 2, Palestine, Illinois. Dismissed Feb. 12: Mrs. Norma Cffith pnd daughter of Carole: John Pinkerton of 415 North State Street; Claude Robbins of Sullivan, R. 5. Dismissed Feb. 13: Edna Stalcup of the Coffman Apartments; William Benson of Carlisle; Mrs. Mable Tucker of Linton. TUST FOUST DIES IN TULSA, OKLAHOMA Ir. and Mrs. Fred Foust of Paxton received word Wednesday morning of the death of Mi". Foust's brother, Just Foust, of Tulsa, -Oklahoma. Mr. and Mrs. Foust left immediately for Tulsa to attend the funeral. They were ffcomeanied by Mr. and Mrs. Harold Long and Burlie Foust of Sullivan. AVERAGE NET PAID CIRCULATION FOR January, 1947 4515
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WILL BE HELD Final rites, honoring Isaac Maxwell, well-known Sullivan businessman who died early Wednesday morning of a heart attack, will be conducted Saturday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock in the Billman funeral chapel, it was announced today. ! Mr. Maxwell, 74, was one of Sullivan's oldest active businessmen and was highly regarded in civic circles of this section. His death came suddenly at 2:45 Wednesday 'morning following a : heart attack at 1:00 o'clock. He (was a lifelong resident of Sullivan and had been engaged in the : shoe business here since shortly after his graduation from Sullivan High School. I The -Rev. Jack Anderson will officiate at the services and burial will be in Center Ridge Cemetery. Fairbanks And Farmersburg In Tourney Victories (Tourney Scores) Farmersburg, 51; Hymera, 40. Fairbanks, 28; Shelburn, 26. The Sullivan county American Legion basketball tourney got underway here last night with the Farmersburg and Fairbanks Legionnaires eliminating their Hymera and Shelburn comrades in rough and tumble ten minute quarters that brought laughs from all angles in the "no holds barred" contests. Tonight the Sullivan Legion team will meet the Duggcr crew at seven o'clock in the concluding, elimination, pairings and Farmersburg will engage Fairbanks at eight-thirty. With all four teams sporting stars of "yesterday's" high school quintets, tonight's duet promises to be thrill-packed from start to finish. In the curtain-raiser last even ing here at Community Gym Herman "Curly"' Drake led the Plowboy alumni through the scoring zone with a neat eighteen points to best the Hymera squad 51-40. Noble McGarvey took top honors on the opposition with ten points. In the evening's twin performance Fairbanks spelled the victory margin, 28-26, at the foul line walking away with six points from eight Shelburn personals. Walley Drake, Harris and Eldridge drove hardest for ths winners while Bill Thompson and Paul Weekley aerialed three and one, and three buckets, respectively, to head their colors' scoring. Roy Bolinger hit two and one and Jon Brooks sank two in the round of twelve Shelburn fielders. Doors of the Community Gym will open at 6:30 for tonight's session with the championship tilt pairing s the winners of this evening's battle to be staged here Saturday evening. The champs of the Sullivan center will compete in district legion competition and so on to the state rounds. Three County Men Enlist In Army The Recruiting Office, Terre Haute, announced the following enlistments from Sullivan county ! during the month of January i 1947: j Jess J. Petit, R. 1, Shelburn; Darrell D. Pirtle, 32 Nevill Ave., Sullivan; Wendall C. Reid, 404 Sylvandell St., Sullivan. (Army Vet) i The Recruiting Office further announced that MSgt. David D. Baysinger, Terre Haute, has been added to the staff of recruiters for this territory. Sgt. Baysinger will be remembered in " this vicinity as he was the Recruiting Officer . on duty at the Terre Haute Station during the period J 1939 to 1942. Having served in jthe Regular Army for twentyfour and one-half years, of which four and one-half years was commissioned service, Sgt. Baysinger was enlisted, upon completion of his terminal leave, on January 21, 1947 and was assigned to the Terre Haute Office on February 8, 1947.
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He Was Hero Of '31 Mine Disaster UNTON, Feb. 13 "Rabbit", a mundane mine mule whose years of drudgery were made immortal by one day of heroism, is dead here at the age of 33. "Rabbit" was working at the Little Betty coal mine near here on Jan. 28, 1931, when a gas explosion ripped through the workings killing 28 miners. His strength was used . heroically for almost , two days without respite as he hauled rescuers and rescue equipment into the entry ways. He also hauled the seven survivors from the entry ways. ' He had been on a "retired" basis for the past few years and had been cared for by W. D. Roof, who is an employee of the present Little Betty Mine. His teeth had become worn off from too much usage and his diet was augmented by large quantities of soft feed. These teeth apparently proved his downfall, for he developed a digestive upset and a local veterinarian could not' save him. He died this week. Graysville F.F.A. 1947 Winner Of Project Contest The Graysville FF.A. Chapter has been selected as the winner in the Indiana 1947 F.F.A. Foundation Local Chapter Project Contest. The National F.F.A. Foundation solicits funds for awards in the state contests of the 47 state association. Sixteen Indiana F.FA. Chapters submitted plans for this years contest. First Graysville Chapter $110; Second . Washington Center Chapter $85; and Third Lowell Chapter - $64.18, The Graysville Project Entry was entitled, "Cooperative Swine Association". This is the fourth year In succession that a state award has been won by the Graysville FJF.A. : Chapter on Supervised J Farm Practice Work, In 1946 first place of $75 was won .in the Indiana FF.A. Foundation Local Chapter Pro-j iect Contest. In 1945 one oMhe; five awards of $170, was won in the Sears Roebuck and Co. Con test, and in 1944 one of the eight awards of $100 was won in the ' Sears Roebuck and Co. Contest. '. All of the awards are being: used by the chapter to help the i members in their projects, and Farm Practice Work. The Graysville F.F.A. Chapter now- in its sixth year is one of the outstanding F.FA. Chapters in Indiana. U. S. Dollar To Be Restricted From China Circulation NANKING, Feb. 13 China's prescription for its madly fluctu- j aung currency an oraer 10 stop the circulation of the United States currency and to restrict! public transactions in gold wasj presented last night to Chiang Kai-shek for his signature. Officials indicated the Generalissimo would sign. Chinese overran a Shanghai rice shop and took most of its stock yesterday. Observers said tficf tYiicrVit " eftfnnl fTio ctarf nf L . 1 LI L .11. ..b O.l.U I. t?vu. V w . rice riots, wnicn manv Drecuctea fwould result from high prices and hoarding. Shanghai authorities took ex traordinary defense measures, although insisting that they were not anticipating rice riots or other civil disturbances if condir tions worsen. - j The yuan (Chinese dollar) surnrisingly recovered to 13,000 to $1 from yesterday's low to 19,000 to $1. No one was able to explain the upsurge. The official exchange rate is 3,350 to $1. RECEIVES WORD OF BROTHER'S DEATH Mrs. James . Monroe has received a telegram stating that her brother, Carl Parsons, died February 10th at his home in Burbank, California. MARRIAGE LICENSES Harold Earl Gibbs, Sullivan, merchant and " Donna Marie Cutter, Enid, Oklahoma, clerk.
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WILL NOT WITHDRAW LILIENTHAL NOMINATION WASHINGTON, Feb. 13. (UP) The White House
said today that President Truman will not withdraw the
nomination of David Lilienthal Commission.
14 PA,. MINERS STAGE SITDOWN STRIKE LANSFORD, Pa., Feb. 13. (UP) Fourteen anthracite miners huddled in a mine shaft 600 feet below the surface today in a sitdown strike protesting deductions from their pay for quitting work early. The men decided to remain underground after receiving pay checks for two weeks' work from which the company had docked them for leaving the pit before the scheduled quitting time, even though their quota of coal had been mined. It was the first sitdown strike in anthracite mines since 1937, when 19 miners remained 1,000 feet underground for 21 days. Four of them were hospitalized. TRUMAN STUDIES COAL RELIEF FOR BRITAIN WASHINGTON, Feb. 13. (UP) President Truman today ordered a study of emergency action this country might be able to take to relieve the British coal shortage. Mr. Truman announced that he had directed the1 coordinators of the emergency export program to determine how quickly and in what quantities coal could be landed at British ports. Meanwhile, in London, Prime Minister Attlee told the House of Commons that Britain had made gains iri the fight to overcome the power emergency but that anxiety was now arising over possible gas shortages.
Police Seeking Wealthy Engineer In Wife's Death At Columbus, Ind. Today
COLUMBUS, Ind., Feb. 12 (UP) The divorced wife of a wealthy electrical engineer was snot to death and her father wounded today, and police sought her former husband. Mrs. Ruth Clark Edman. srettv 38-year-old mother of a 17-vear-old boy, was killed by a shotgun blast in the home of her father, Nate Clark, 69. Clark was shot in the arm and shoulder. Police soueht her former hus band, Dave Edman, 40, of Ogilvme, Ind. and Winston-Salem. N. C, who, with the couple's son, were missing from their ' nretentious pine-paneled home. Edman was named bv Clark as his attacker, but the elderly man, dazed by the shooting, was unable to tell police about the shooting of his daughter., Edman was sought by police in several states as they spread a wide search three hours after the shooting. They believed, he fled in a 1946 Ford sedan taking his son with him. Sheriff Richard Thaver said Edman's two airplanes still were hangared at the Columbus muni cipal airport. He said Edman was a rich, electrical contrartnr who made thousands of dollars in war contracts in the south during the war. Clark, from a bed in Bartholomew county hospital, told Thayer that Edman came to the house after the family retired last night. He told the sheriff that Edman pounded on the door and shouted: "I want in in a hurry. I'm going to kill you." Mrs. Edman opened the door and Edman dragged her outside, Clark said. The elderly man followed them and said he hit Edman with a shotgun. Clark said Edman shot him once with another shotgun, Then, he said, Mrs. Edman was shot and Edman turned the gun on Clark and fired again. He said he and his daughter ran in the house and Mrs. Ed man fell to the floor screaming. . Clark said he heard a voice that sounded like Edman shoutin through the window from the outside: i "How do yju like that!" Then he heard an automobile leave. Clark crawled a quarter! mile to the home of a neighbor ' ahd called a doctor and authorities. When the sheriff arrived, ! he found Mrs. Edman lying dead on the floor and Clark suffering ; from loss of blood. INCOME TAX I PAYMENT RULES . 1 If you file Form 1040, send full payment with your return, 2. If you file on your Withholding Statement, send no money. The Collector will send a bill. In either case, file before March 15 with Collector of Internal Revenue, Indianapolis 6, Indiana or Internal Revenue Office in your locality.
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to be head of the Atomic Five Dentists See Chicago-But Def ! CHICAGO, Feb. 13 Five Cleveland dentists conven-' tioning here wanted to "be shown the town" and hailed a taxicab for the tour. Their . sightseeing tour turned out to be a wild, high ; speed nde in. and out of loop j. traffic, through alleys &nd stoplights, over curbs and climaxed by a chase by two squads of pistol-shooting police. , After the police curbed the cab, .the dentists with "glad - to - be - alive" sighs pointed to tlie driver, Ed'ward Hickey, 33, of Duluth, Minn, Dr. Frank Shultz said Hickey told him he had stolen the cab from a garage and that his record showed 42 arrests since 1930. Hickey was held without bail. Dugger Resident Dies At Hospital Mrs. Carrie Rector, 66 years of age and life resident of Dugger, died last night at 10:30 o'clock at the Many Sherman Hospital. Mrs. Rector had suffered a lingering illness for treatment of which she was admitted to the local hospital six weeks prior to her death. She was very well known throughout the county and had been a member of the Primitive Baptist church for over fifty years. Surviving are the husband, Marshall; one daughter, Mrs. Mary Ethel Burton of Toledo, Ohio; one son, Harold Rector of Alliance, Ohio; and three grandchildren. The body was taken to the Railsback Funeral Home where j funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Interment will be made in the Samaria Cemetery, east of Dugger. Carlisle Woman Hospitalized For Gun Wound Wed. Mrs. Imogene Edwards, 22-year-old wife of Noble Edwards of Carlisle, was rushed to the Mary Sherman Hospital (by a Schulze ambulance yesterday shortly after noon where she was treated for a self-inflicted ...22 calibre rifle bullet wound. Her physician today reported her condition fair and stated that the missle entered at the abdomen and passed completely through her body. Mrs. Edwards, the mother of two small children, one three weeks old, has been in ill health for some time, authoriative scources said.
BRITISH ME BOY 1 CHIEF tAUDS MOVEMENT
Lord Rowallan, Chief Scout of the British Empire and Commonwealth, feels that the world owes a great deal to the Boy Scout Movement and believes that as more of the world's statesmen who were once Scouts handle the earth's tangled affairs "the spirit of our international conferences will be a very different spirit." Lord Rowallan, a veteran of over thirty years in the Boy Scout Movement recently made his first official visit to the United States and spoke to na tional leaders of the Boy Scouts of America which celebrates its 37th anniversary during Boy Scout Week, Feb. 7 to 13. ''i wonder," said Lord Rowal lan, a veteran of both World Wars, "how many of us appre ciate the real value of what the Boy Scouts have done for the world and for the nations of the world." - The brotherhood of Scouting, he said, "isn't only a phrase. It is something very real and very practical." The visitor pointed out that last year in Great Britain, Scouts met together from fourteen countries, with different cultures less united, bound by the common Law or Promise of Scouts the world over. Scouts, he con - tinued, recognize each other as people with the same ideals, doing the same things. "Mr lnr acrn " ha tnM Vile American friends' "I was visited
in my office by a Chief Scout vass wil1 be made- Sulliwan from one of the -East. He said, ' County's quota is $2,175 and it is "You know, Scouting is a very , hPed t13 the county will go wonderful thing. My country is over the toPvery different from yours. Mjy! Tnis is a final nation-wide appeople eat different things, we Peal to the public for funds to wear different clothes, we speak -finance USO in 1947., the last a "different language,' we" w"orship .ear of operation, - after -which
a different God, but when I visit a Troop in London or New York or anywhere else in the world, 1 tind myself at home at once, for I am, among people who have the same ideas and are doing the same things." ' I This . universality of Scouting, comments Lord Kowallan, "is a I common bond all over the world. ! It is something very wonderful, something tremendously .signifi- i cant at this time. The limits are : "Scouting," points out the British Chief Scout, "has refused to narrow the interpretation to a Christian God, still less to a denominational God, because in Scouting is was realized there was a possibility of bringing together men of good will from every creed. So in India , the Moslem, the Hindo, and the Christian not only meet together but they also eat together, something which has been achieved by no other movement in the whole world." Looking to the future, Lord Rowallan commented on a recent meeting of the Ministers of Education of the Allied nations. They met, he reported, "to discuss the re-education of the youth of those countries which has suffered so much, reported on the courage and endurance displayed by youth during those trying years, but over and above this, they said' that it was Boy Scouts and Girl Guides, and Scouts and Guides alone, who, when the standards of youth had fallen into chaos, maintained the balance, the fundamental sense of right and wrong, which are I necessary for rebuilding." "I think that was a wonderful
tribute to the value of Scout gram. He outlined in an appeartraining from people who are not ance at Columbus, Ohio, by April in any way biased, who possibly 1, he also hopes the Senate will had very little knowledge of the have acted on a portal pay ban,
theoratical practice of Scouting, but who had seen it in practical work among the youth of these countries, has seen the effects, not merely what might have been 3xpected to be the effects." The membership of the Boy Scouts of 51 nations as of last October was reported by the Scout International Bureau to be 4,413,139 Scouts and leaders. JOHN T. HAYS ADDRESSES IGOP MEETING John T. Hays of the Hays & Hays Law Firm addressed a gathering of the Republican organization of Bartholomew county last night at a Lincoln Day dinner held in the cafeteria of the Noblet-Sparks factory.
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Also Pass Bill To Revise Interpretation Of Teaching Units For Tuition Payments; State Department Allotments To Be Cut Instead Of New Taxes. INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 13. (UP) The Indiana Legislature considered school teachers and labor problems today. In a dull morning: session, unmarked by oratory, debate or controversy, the Senate passed unanimously two of four bills earmarked fcr enactment to raise the pay of teachers. At the same time, the House faced a possible Republican caucus on pending- labor legislation. . Senators passed without oppo
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E An organization meeting for the Sullivan County USO finance drive, held at the Davis Hotel Wednesday evening, was attend ed by eight members of the key i workers, who heard N. T. Young, of the Campaign Headquarters of Marion, Ind., discuss the national j and state-wide plans, 1 Mrs- Hazel Brust Countv , chairman, presided, and directed her key workers in the forthcom ing drive. Each township will have a .chairman under whose ' direction a house-to-house can time me government will laKe over this very important work for veterans. There are about 215 from Sullivan County in hospit f- and hf. is 8"t need for l"e emeriainmem. xor se Patients ' which these f unds win promote. "They gave their lives for us; cant twedo something for them ""7, " v l"eir sui Ie"ng" ,notiurn down, the,one w ""liul, u" tdUi,e- aetlarAmong those of the. key workers who attended the meeting last night were Mrs. Floyd Fulk, Mrs. R, G. DeHart, Mrs. Bencfiel of Pleasantville, Mrs. Crisa Watson, Arthur Snavely, Mrs. Thomas Lippeatt and the chairman, Mrs. Hazel Brust L 1 IS SET AS DA1E TO PASS WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 (UP) The Senate Republican leadership today set April 1 as the tar get date for Senate passage of a strike-control bill Senator Robert A. Taft (R.Ohio) fixed the date without mentioning that John L. Lewis' coal strike truce also ends on that day. Taft, chairman of the Senate Labor and Republican Policy Committees, listed labor in a five-point Senate legislative proa two-term limitation of tng presidency, war powers and the budset fa GREENVILLE, 111. (UP) There was a flurry of eye-brow raising when Sheriff David E. Blankenship announced he had married one of his deputies. All was well when he explained his bride was 21-year-old Delores I. Meskie, an off ice deputy. " Name of Law Prevails CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex. (UP) Two bandits fled when Richard Kendall, operator of a liquor store, told them "the sheriff owns j this place." Sheriff John Harney's name was good for $75, which the .bandits failed to get in the esBh register, ''
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sition a bill tnat woum sei up a. minimum salary scale beginning at $1,800 and extending to $3,000, based on the length of service and the training. The present minimum , teachers salary is $1,200. ' They also passed another bill revising the present interpretation of teaching units, on whicli tuition fund ; payments made by the state to local school units are based. Both bills advanced to the House. Meanwhile, in the House, Rep resentative Howard Hiestand of the House Labor Committee, said he had been approached by party spokesmen wno wamea m mediate caucus ui kjkjjt icpicsentatives on the labor question. Hiestand, however, said he had not decided whether and when to call a caucus. Action speeding the teacher pay measure near to enactment came as groups favoring the higher teacher pay schedule accepted a new political philosophy incorporating 'a. fundamental "home rule" observed by houspwives. "' , As a result, teachers In the state may get lhair salary increases and local communities mav' receive r ' more funds,' a!l without the need for levying new taxes. Governor Gates and administration leaders assured legislators that Indiana's financial woes will be solved by cutting allotments to state departments and commissions. ' Plans Being Made For World Day Of Prayer Here Plans are being made for Die annual observance of Workt Day of Prayer which falls on ' Friday, Feb, 21. .This is one of the important meetings of the year and will be observed at the First Christian Church beginning at 7:30 p. m. In planning the meeting, the committee had in mind the business people of Sullivan, making it a suitable time for them as well as all other interested persons. An offering will be taken to be used for work among the migrants of this country, distribution of Christian literature to persons who would otherwise have nothing uplifting to read, for work of Indian students in our government schools and for Unioil christian colleges where young women are in training for Christian service in China, India and Japan. The complete program for this meeting will appear in the Times Thursday, Feb. 20 INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 13. (UP)-r-Hogs, 5,000; very uneven; 160 lbs. up opened 50c to 75c higher; later trade largely 50c "P! 10-160 lbs- t0, 5UC niSherj sows aooui sieauy, guuu uuu I choice 160-225 lbs., $25.50 '100-160 lbs., $21.50 $23.00; sows steadyi $19.75 $21.50. CattlCi 1400; calveS( 600. steers and heifers about steady; medium to good lightweights, $18.50 $22 0Q. medium yearlings, $16.50 $18 00; medium to good heifers, $20.00; good, $22.00; cows steady; good beef cows, $14.00 $15.00: common and medium, $11.50 ' $13.50; vealers to 50c lower; top, $31.00. Sheep, 1,800; fat lambs steady: good and choice fed Texas lambs, $23.25; good and choice natives, $21.00 $23.50; medium and good, $15.00 $21.00; slaughter wes, $7.50 dowa.
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