Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 49, Number 100, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 20 May 1947 — Page 1

OCCASIONAL SHOWERS Indiana: Mostly cloudy tonight and Wednesday, with occasional" showers. Little change in temperature. VOL. XLIX No. 100 UNITED PRESS . SERVICE SULLIVAN DALLY TIMES TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1947. INTERNATIONAL! PICTURE SERVICH PRICE THREE CENTS

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Taker Calls For Co-Ordination Of Armed Forces Senator Wagner Calls For Passage Of President's Health Program; Senator Kern Charges Fraud In Democratic Victory In Missouri. WASHINGTON, May 20. (UP) Chairman John Taber of the House appropriations committee said today that Congress must co-ordinate the Armed Forces if they won't do it themselves. . He criticized their "utter lack of co-ordination" in opening House, debate on the $3,469,000,000 Navy appropriation bill in which his committee made a 10 per cent cut.

laber said that co-ordination is essential to national defense, and that if the administration won't bring it about, his committee will. The administration1 has a bill pending to "unify" the Armed Forces by putting them under a single Secretary of National Defense. The Senate armed forces committe had planned a showdown today on the proposal to defer action on it. But,, there were not enough members who showed up at the scheduled meeting and action was put off until tomorrow. Other Congressional actions: Taxes Republicans and Demo- . crats alike, of the House Ways and Means Committee, failed to Ret any tax commitments from Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder. Postal Rates The House Post Office committee approved formally a bill which would add about $110,000,000 to the annual postal rates. Health Senator Robert Wag- ; ner, of New York, and five other Democratic senators urged legis1 lation to carry out President Truman's proposed national health and disability insurance plan. .Republicans agreed with the president that medical care . should be helped, but felt that his proposal called for nationali zation of medicine. They have a state aid health program but do not expect to bring it to a vote this year. Economy The way a New Englander sees it, the way to cut down expenditures is to practice thrift in large quantities. John D. Langmuir, of the New Hamp shire Taxpayers Association, told a Senate subcommittee that Americans "are fed up with the general idea that you can't re duce on a government employing 2,000,000 people compared to a pre-war 1,000,000." Election Fraud Senator James P. Kem, R., Mo., accused Attorney General Tom Clark of ap parent "dereliction" for failure to prosecute alleged election frauds in the Democratic primary victory last summer of Enos Axtell, a friend of President Truman, over former Representative Roger C. Slaughter, D., Mo. Kem, asking a Senate investigation, charged that the old Prendergast machine had been revived in Missouri. . MRS TRUMAN BETTER AFTER BAD NIGHT GRANDVIEW, Mo., Way 20 (UP) President Truman's 94-year-old mother, after a restless, uncomfortable night in her fight for life, got up this morning and rocked in her favorite rocking chair for an hour and a half. In dark, gloomy, and somber weather, the president resumed his wait at her home today. It rained lightly throughout the morning, and the clouds hung low and heavy over the hill-top home where Mrs. Martha Ellen Truman fought her game battle with the chief executive again at her' side to help her with his presence. His pre-breakfast report from the home was that his mother "had a bad night but is all right now." FILES SUIT The Martin Wrecking Company has filed a complaint on account against the Carlisle Tool and Stamping Company. Pigg and Tennis are the attorneys for the plaintiff, , ..L-.-tm-Aia

COURT ORDER IGNORED BY ATTORNEY

GREENVILLE, S. C, May 20 (UP) Defense Attorney John O. Culbertson, in defiance of an or der from the bench to take racial prejudice from final arguments in the mass lynching trial, shouted to the jury today that "I wish more Negroes like Willie Earle were dead." Culbertson was arguing for the freedom of twenty-eight white men, still charged with the brutal lynching of Earle, who was dragged from the Pickens County Jail and beaten, stabbed, and shot to death. ""IB Late yesterday. Judge J. Robert Martin Jr. told the defense attorney that "I'm not going to allow racial issues" in arguments for acquittal of the defendants. The judge, a thirty-seven-year-old jurist, laid down his edict over violent defense objections a' few minutes after the defense had rested its case abruptly with out the testimony of a single wit ness ..or " submission .of ' any evidence. Need For Hospital Beds In State T old By Rogers TURKEY RUN STATE PARK, Ind., May 20. Robert L. Rogers, field consultant of the State Health Department, today outlined an urgent need for additional hospital beds in Indiana. Rogers, an executive of the hospital and institutional services division of the State Health Department, spoke before the Community Planning Institute of the Indiana Economic Council at Turkey Run State Park today. The 'speaker asserted that Indiana now has only 47.2 per cent of the 15,263 hospital beds that should be available now and that thousands of additional beds should be available' for chronic, mental and tubercular cases. Rogers also reported on a health survey, under which one base center, eight regional centers and many local hospitals were designated. Indianapolis is the base center and the regional centers, at which nearly all types of cases can be treated, are in Evansville, New Albany, Terre Haute, Muncie, Fort Wayne, Lafayette, Gary and South Bend. Existing facilities are being designated wherever possible. There are now 9,738 general hospital beds in Indiana, according to Rogers, who added, however, that only 7,203 of them conform to State Health Board standards. I. U. Men's Choir To Give Program Here Tonight The Indiana University Men's Choir will present a program at the high school auditorium tonight at 8 o'clock. The choir will be under the direction of Prof. Hugoboom, of the I. U. School of Music. Prof. Hugoboom was a guest conductor at the Spring Festival here last spring. The Delta Theta Tau sorority is sponsoring the program, and will use the proceeds from it to help them in the work that the group does in Sullivan. Tickets can be purchased from members of the sorority and at the door tonight, '

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RESIGNATION of Paul V. McNutt i&s ambassador to the Philippines brings mention of Emmet O'Neal (above), Washington attorney and former Kentucky congressman, as his successor. (International). EICHEL STAYS AS COUNTY PARTY HEAD EVANSVILLE, May 20 (UP) Charles J. Eichel remained at the helm of the Vanderburgh County Democratic committee today after a meeting of political leaders broke up in a fist fight last night. . . The session was called for a vote on whether Eichel, who had been accused of "subversive activities" within his own party, would remain as county chairmen. The meeting broke up even before it started when a near riot ended in an exchange of blows between Eichel and Probate Judge Wendell Lensing. . Lensing said that Eichel struck him, while Eichel contended that he tossed a ' punch only after Lensing made "a pass, at me first." Jaycees To Get Charter At Dinner Thursday Night ! The Sullivan Junior Chamber of Commerce will be' . giyeni' its charter from the national organization at a dinner at the Hotel Sullivan Thursday flight at 7 o'clock, Bob Henderson, president of the local Jaycees, said today. Bill Hays, who is chairman for the dinner, said that the group has invited a number of local persons Who are not members of the Saycees. tq represent the city, the county, and various city organizations. Hays said that Mayor and Mrs, Art McGuire have been invited to represent the city of Sullivan. Others who have been invited, and the group each represents, include: William Theal, the Elks Lodge; Gilbert Riley, the president of the Lions Cb, and Mrs. Riley; Dr. J. B. Maple, presi- j dent of the Rotary Club, and Mrs. ' Maple; Norman German, commander of the Sullivan American Legion, and Mrs. German, and Al Reel, commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. I Mr. Hays said that Dee O. Coe, president of the Indiana State Jaycees, will be present to present the charter to Dr. Henderson, local president. Mr. Coe will also be the principal speaker, for the dinner. James Nichols, of Terre Haute, will also be the guest of the Jaycees. Mr. Nichols is national vice-president for this district and aided in organizing the local group. . This meeting, with the Jaycees receiving their national charter, will be the formal induction of the local organization into the national group. YOUTH RECREATION MEETS TONIGHT The Youth Recreation, Inc , will meet tonight at the Canteen Building on North Court Street at 7 o'clock. The meeting is to elect a new board of directors for the organization. All members are urged to be present. ii mm SUIT FILED Bert Alsman has filed suit for divorce against his wife, Bobbie Nora Mae Alsman. Plaintiff's attorneys are Pigg and Tennis.

LATEiNEWS

PHONE STRIKE SETTLED

WASHINGTON, May 2C(.(UP) The Association of Communications Equipment Workers today accepted an average wage boost of eleven and a half cents an hour from the Western Electric Company, winding up the final phase of the 44day national telephone strike. The settlement was an

nounced by the Department of Labor, i - I It was understood that the, agreement will be submitted to the union membership immediately for ratification. Some 20,000 pickets have held up the back-to-work movement in

torty-odd states where other

LEWIS, OPERATORS MEET WASHINGTON, May 20. (UP)-John L. Lewis and the operators of 75 per cent of the nation's soft coal tonnage today resumed negotiations on a new contract. . Lewis and the operators had no comment to make as they went into the second dav of : conference. Asked if he

would present his demands for held up his hands, shrugged his JN o speak English.

CENTRALIA MINE TO RE-OPEN . CENTRALIA, 111., May 20. (UP) The former Centralia Coal Company mine number 5 where 111 miners died in an explosion March 23, is expected to resume normal operations within a week, mine officials said today.

GROMYKO ASKS U S TO OUTLAW ATOMIC BOMB NEW YORK, May 20. (UP)- , Deputy Foreign Minister Andre

vx. uusaia vvcuv w uic'veierans wno are pauenxs in xne American people today with ' an .veterans hospitals around the

appeal for the United States to ( country. The proceeds from thedinner in the Indianapolis Athspeed the outlawing of the atom-lsales of the poppies-the buyer letlc club for the ninth year one

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United States still led in the de- C """" " .. velopment of the atom, any fUleir dependents, thought of a monopoly is "an il- Mayor McGuire today issued a lusion" and that some day the -proclamation calling attention to United States might find itself (annual Poppy Day, and urged all lagging behind other countries jn -patriotic citizens to purchase pop- , "certain dangerous Tdnds of ws and to aid In every possible

weapons. Gromykb, Soviet I delegate 'fo tne united Nations, sounded- trie warning at a meeting last, nignt of the American-Russian "Institute, His speech was broadcast throughout?- the r United - States, marking -tbe. first time that Groj myo has made such a direct n at tempt, to -mold public bpiniSh.; TO PLAY WITH BAND . f . f . . ; -- v-y.; f Jerry Brummett will play a French horn with the-Iaperville High School and grade school band at the Memorial Day services May 30. BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Bogard of t n ' oL; nr 17th at the Mary Sherman Hospital. TARN' WITH A

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OVERJOYED AT HJS SUDDEN WEALTH, William Tristano, 10, beams in the police property clerk's office, New York City, as he holds half of $1,536 which he and a playmate, Robert Martinez, found In a ball of yarn two years ago. Pictured with the youngster are Mrs. Grace Tristano (left) and Mrs. Carmen Martinez, mother of Robert, who was given a 50-50 split cn tie luckx-fiad when no claimants turned ug, lntermfonayi

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the new contract today, Lewis 1 shoulders, and told reporters: j . . Saturday Will Be Poppy Day For Sullivan Legion On Saturday, May 24, all the citizens of Sullivan will be asked to wear a poppy on their coats or dresses. On that day, the American Legion Auxiliary will sell their dodDies to the Deoole of Sullivan. jThese poppies are made by the gIves wnai ne wisnes goes into thp welfare fund of thp Ampri-I ican Legion and the'Auxiliary, to ,uf d or the fn,ef ? of ,the disT way to make the. sale a. success, "The quota this year," 'the May0r stated ."is " more than 3,000 poppies made larger than ever before by the' fact there are .many more disabled . veterans making the flowers thaff, heretofore" " ' "Let every citizen do his small bit in this, matter,". -the;, Mayor

urged, "SO-that, we -may -go over,Der orge.oarunger weie iuthe top in' this most worthy en- ed in .4! track smashup at AtterprisVto aid -the jnen,and worn- i.lanta .fUowing the Indianapolis-

eii who are "living casualties' 0f the wars." v!: r Wanted: One Stagecoach NEBRASKA CITY, Neb. (UP) Edgar Hawley, secretary of tne chamber of commerce, received iho frtllrtiiincr fmm n Trinn in Orpgon: "If anyone has a stage coach ? c0i t t tm liu-o to have him get in touch with I ime.". HAPPY ENDING

CITY PRIMARY TO COST STATE MILLION

INDIANAPOLIS, May 20 (UP) Indiana' odd-year city election will cost about $1,000,000, a Sum that would have been saved" if the 1945 Hoosier Legislature; hadn't passed . the "skip" election law, statistics showed today. ; ' v - : Figures on the cost of the recent primary in 79 cities were being completed in county clerk's offices. The way it looks, from the first reports of the primary itself, that election cost more than a dollar for each vote cast. The total "state-wide balloting was 385,000. . The announced purpose of the legislature's "skip" law was to prevent the city issues from being clouded by national, state, and county issues. But one result is to further increase the cost of government, already so high on a local scale since the war that many taxpayers are complaining that the tax rates are bursting at the seams. Club For Racers To All Four New Members Tuesday INDIANAPOLIS, May 20 A small coterie of the nation's top race drivers will gather at week from tonight, Tuesday, Msy 27, to welcome new members of the Champion 100-Mile-An-Hour Club as a forerunner of the annual 500-mile race May 30. Four drivers who qualified by piloting the 500 without relief at better than 100 miles an hour last year will receive membership certificates and buttons. These drivers and the average speeds they made in 1946 are: Jimmy Jackson, .114498 miles- an- hour; Emil Andres, 108.904; Louis Durant. 108.073; and Luigi VillcresC 100.783; : ' J ' ' . G-eoree Robson, winner; of the 1946 erind with an 'average ' of 114.820 miles an hour; will receive the . award ' posthumously. nooson.-. anpnotner ; cmo n em,rdLe lU!,l'-iedI- . This most exclusive organiza tion in auto racing, sponsored Dy the Champion Spark Plug Co., of Toledo, O., was" started in 1935 at the suggestion of Dave Evans, who became one of the first members. The club lists 24 living members out of 35 who have hit the 100-mile-an-hour average wthout rf ef since th.e. IndAa,na polis speedway opened in 19ll. The roster includes W lbur ' . "t1" " T now president of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Corp., and Ted Horn, currently national AAA chamDion driver. Both have qualified for the Champion 100-Mile-an-Hour seven times. Harold Wilson May Get F.F.A. Farmer's Degree Harold Wilon, son of John Wilson is the first member of the Graysville F.F.A. Chapter to make application for the fourth degree, "American Farmer Degree" in F.F.A. The application has been sent to Purdue to the State Examining Committee. The degree initiation is carried on at the National Convention at Kansas City, Missouri. A member must be out of high school one or more years, and outstanding in leadership, cooperative and community services, and farming activities. Only one out of 1,000 members can be recommended by a state association. REV P. E. ROLL ADDRESSES ROTARIANS The Rev. P. E. Roll, of the Christian Church .at Worthington, talked to the members of the Sullivan Rotary Club at their weekly meeting in the Davis Hotel Monday noon. The Rev. Roll talked on astronomy and the stratosphere. He was introduced by the Rev. Jack Anderson.

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Occupation Forces Needed; Disagrees With Bevin On Press Coverage Of Moscow Conference.

WASHINGTON, May 20, George C. Marshall said today study of the world s economic ate appropriations similar to bill are in prospect. GERMANS TOLD TO WORK AND NOT GRUMBLE BERLIN, May 20. (UP) The American and British military governors told the German people today to stop grumbling and get to work if they want more to eat and better living conditions generally. General Lucius Clay and Air Marshal' Sir Sal to Douglas, in a joint statement to the people of their occupational zones, reminded them that Germany's war of aggression was the direct cause of their present hunger. Earlier tonight, a high British authority reported that British and American flying squadrons of agricultural experts were smashing attempts by German farmers to hoard food while city dwellers existed on a starvation diet. State Police Will Honor Comrades With Memorial INDIANAPOLIS, May 20 Indiana's state police, troopers will pay tribute to 21 fallen com rades in memorial services to be held during monthly inspections at 10 posts, beginning today at Ligonier and Jasper posts. Col. Robert Roscoe, department superintendent, will give the address May 22 at Connersville post, to which Trooper Wade Smith, slain in a gun battle near Shelby ville last Dec. 5, was assigned. Also tSbe present are Major Robert A. O'Neal, executive officer, and other top-ranking officers. Rites scheduled in other police districts will be in charge of Field Captains Robert N. Bush and William A. Thompson, and post commanders. AGNES DRAKE RANKS HIGH Agne Francine Drake, daughter of Denver Drake, of Fairbanks, was one of the 109 students at Indiana University who ranked in the upper one per cent of their class for the first semester of the present schol year. To Form Cabinet ITAIY'S former Premier Francesco Nitti has been asked to form a new government to Replace the cabinet that resigned with Premier Alcide de Gasperi. Co-operating with Nitti, an Independent, will be elder statesman Vittorio Prlando, Jnternatianal),

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, (UP) Secretary of State that he is working1 on a global needs. But he said no immedithat of the Greek-Turkish aid He emphasized the word "immediate." He mentioned the situation in Korea, where, he said, the Departments of State -and War soon would have to ask Congress for an appropriation of about $200,000,000. Of this, $78,000,000 would be for rehabilitation purposes, and the rest for occupational costs, including food. Secretary Marshall made his statement at a news conference in which he also disagreed sharply with British Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin's charges that failure of the Moscow Conference was due to the "full press coverage" given it by the American press. In contrast, Mr. Marshall said that eeneral press coverage of 'such meetings was very imporI tant. But he added that he did not like the appeals to passion I and prejudices which characterj ized many of the statements made l by some of the foreign ministers. LEWIS WILL GIVE WAGE DEMANDS - WASHINGTON, May 20 (UP) John L. Lewis, President of the United "Mine 'Workers, was ex'pected to submit his new contract i demands today to 75 per cent of , the; soft coal industry. . ' . j The mine chieftain reportedly twill :ask fifty-four hours of pay ! for forty hours of work; ''unionization ,of mine, foremen; continuation !of the federal piine safety codej and'ian -increase - in (the 'health and' -welfare' fund royalty i from five to ten cents a ton. The current negotiations affect about three-fourths of the nation's mine operators. The others, largely Southern producers, have refused to join in the industrywide negotiations. Memorial Services Held Yesterday For Congressmen WASHINGTON, May 20. The House held its annual memorial service late yesterday for nine Senators and Representatives who have died in the last year. A full chamber listened to the eulogies for them from Representatives Mansfield, D., Mont., and Keefe, R., Wis Representative Tibbot, R., Pa., sang two solos, and the United States Marine band played. The former members honored by the service were Senators Glass, Virginia; Andrews, Florida; Bankhead, Alabama, and Bailey, North Carolina. The Representatives were Gallagher, Minnesota; Barry, New York; Henry, Wisconsin; Norman, Washington, and Gerlach, Pennsylvania. Band Parents Plan Homecoming For Friday Night k The Band Parents club will have a homecoming party Friday night at the Methodist church annex, starting at 6:30 o'clock. All the old members of the club are invited to attend the meeting, which will be a potluck dinner. The old membership list for the club is lost, and for that reason no invitations have been sent out. It is hoped that all former members will attend the meeting Friday, for the get-together.