Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 49, Number 107, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 29 May 1947 — Page 1

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HOUSE SENATE AGREE ON COMPROMISE WASHINGTON, May 29. (UP) The House and Senate conf erees reached a quick agreement on the final form of 'legislation to reduce individual income taxes 10.5 to 30 per cent, effective July 1. The Republican-sponsored bill would reduce personal income taxes $4,000,000,000 a year. But Senate Democrats have enough votes to sustain President Truman if he vetoes the bill. The final version of the legislation is expected to be taken up in the House Monday. The Senate wiil probably consider the bill later Monday or Tuesday. The House conferees agreed to the July 1 effective date specified by the Senate.' The House version of the bill would have made the cut retroactive to Jan. 1. The House also accepted a Senate change in the bill liberalizing the provision granting an extra $5C0 exemption to all persons 65 years or older. COMPROMISE LABOR BILL r AGREED UPON WASHINGTON, May 29. (UP) , House and Senate labor conferees today approved a compromise labor bill substantially in line with the legislation passed by the Senate. ' : Assembling for their final session with but a single issue in dispute, they abandoned efforts to settle it and omitted the provision from the bill. Chairman Robert A. Taft, R., Ohio, of the Senate labor commiteet, indicated a degree of optimism about Senate prospects for overriding a possible presidential

veto. Taft told ReDublicans helm Pleasantville.

he believed changes made in the House-Senate conference would r"1' J , v vSenators who voted for the bill while the compromise bill is somewhat tougher than the measure approved by the Senate, it omits nearly all the more drastic provisions which had been approved by the House and reject - ed by the Senate. SUTER FOUND NOT GUILTY Arlen J. Suter Jr. was found not guilty on a charge of failing to provide for his wife by a jury in Sullivan Circuit Court last Friday. The verdict was returned five minutes after they were instructed by the court. Pigg and Tennis were the attorneys for the defendant. BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT Mr. and Mrs. Albert A. Waggoner of Hamilton, Ohio announce the birth of a son born May 12 at Fort Hamilton hospital. The baby weighed six pounds and 13 ounces and has been named Albert Andrew Waggoner Jr. Mrs. Waggoner is the former Dorothy Shake, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Emmitt Shake. NOTICE TO ALL SCOUTS All Boy Scouts, who are going to participate in the Memorial Day parade tomorrow, are to meet at the Dart and Arrow Canteen. BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT

turned over to Jesse Smith, HamMr. and Mrs. OtisRussell, 732 ilton Township Trustee. This dog E. Washington St., announce the tax should be paid before June 5, birth of twin daughters, Rosatie 1947 to the Hamilton Township Joan and Rosalind Jean, born Trusteee at 304 South Section May 29th. Street.

UNITED PRESS SERVICE

Award Schedule Changed For 4-H Safety Program Here's good news for 4-H Club members in Indiana. An all-expense trip to the National 4-H Club Congress in Chicago is now provided for the state winner in the 1947 4-H Farm Safety Program. Formerly only " sectional winners received trip awards. There will be no sectional recognition this year. This change increases the possible number of Chicago trip winners in 4-H safety from 16 to 46. Last year's state winner in Indiana was Charles Alan Gosney of Moore Hill, who received a $25.00 U. S. Savings Bond. Medals of honor for a maximum of five members in each par ticipating county, and a special plaque also provided by General Motors to the county reporting the most outstanding 4-H saftey program in the state this year, will be awarded as in the past. In 1946, county winners were named in Sullivan, Morgan, Orange. Rush. Tippecanoe, Vanderburgh, Washington, Wayne, Lake, LaPore, Bartholomew, Dearborn., Jay, Jennings, Marion and Monroe counties. Wayne County received the merit plaque last year. This is the fifth consecutive year of the activity, which is influencing a steadily increasing number of rural people in becoming' safety minded, i The program is conducted under the direction of the State Agricultural Colege Extension Service. 4-H Junior Leaders Have Program At Pleasantville Eighty-one 4-H Junior Leaders, adult leaders, parents, and extension workers, were in attendance for the May 4-H Junior Leader meeting held Tuesday night, May 27 at the Rock Houss m The meeti was ,n fae form o fl weiner roagt and Jefferson I Township Junior Leaders and " I their adult leaders, Mrs. Hub bard and Mr. Johanningsmier, were hosts to thfe group. During the business, session of the meeting, plans were discussed . for the 4-H Club fair to be held August 7, 8, and 9, by O. K. Anderson, County Agent. Lowell IJ. Meyer, newly appointed County 4-H Club Agent, was in attendance and discussed the 4-H Club program in general. Edmond Stelle, voluntary 4-H Club leader of the Hamilton Township boys 4-H Club, was also present and gave a short talk. The next meeting of the group will be held in Jackson Township on June 24. A panel discussion "Parents Part in 4-H", by some of the parents of the 4-H Club members in the county, will be the special feature for the meeting. KEV. BENEFIEL TO SPEAK SUNDAY .The Rev. Robert L. Benefiel, who recently graduated from the Boston University School of Theology, will be the guest speaker j J at the Methodist Church Sunday, , June 1. While he was in school he held several pastorates in the East. He and his family will go to Sacramento, Calif., to do pastoral 'work under ' the direction of Bishop Baker, j " DELINQUENT DOG TAX NOTICE The Hamilton Township Asses sor's Dog Tax Books have been

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PRESIDENT ' RETURNS TO WASHINGTON GRAND VIEW, Mo., May 29. President Truman wound up a twelve-day' vigil at the bedside of his aged mother, convinced she was making excellent progress as he took off in clear, cool weather for Washington. Mr. Truman made his latest visit to his mother yesterday, leaving' the cottage much earlier than had been customary. After receiving telephone reports this morning, he drove to the Fairfax Airport in Kansas City, Kan., and his plane climbed into the sky at 8:08 a. m. TAX COLLECTIONS LESS IN 1947 The tax collections for Sullivan County were a little less in 1947 than they were for the May collections in 1946, Cleve Lewellyn, county treasurer said to .1

day. The difference in the col- shortage of shells in 1944 was -public relations, told a House apipctions for the same periods in critical, and that he sent repre- propriations subcommittee that the two years was $153.26, Mr. sentatives to Washington to in- .the Army is the "primary tar-

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Valedictorian And Salutatorian For The Class Of 1947 Of Sullivan High School

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Miss Barbara Brown, a member of the Class of 1947, has been named Valedictorian for this year, Harry C. Gilmore, principal of Sullivan High School, announced yesterday at the high school convocation. ' " Mr. Gilmore also said that J. Allan Campbell, Jr., son of Super-

intendent and Mrs. J. Allan Campbell, had been named Salutatorian for the Class of 1947. -

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Tie tumult EISENHOWER TESTIFIES IN MAY TRIAL WASHINGTON, May 29, (UP) General Dwight D. Eisenhower today indirectly contradicted at the war-fraud trial of Andrew J. May testimony offered by the former Congressman that the General was . "screaming" for eight-inch shells in 1945. Called as a defense witness at , Ithe elderly Ketituckian's trial, Eisenhower's testimony appeared to be somewhat of a boomerang. May is charged with receiving more than $53,000 for favors and efforts in behalf of a war-time $78,000,000 munitions combine headed by the Garsson brothers, One thing May allegedly did thing May was to try to prevent a cut in orders for shells from a Garsson company in the Spring of 1945. Eisenhower testified that the vestigate the, delay. r if A

THURSDAY, MAY 29, 1947,

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.who. died during .invasion.!. SENATE VOTES TO REMOVE SOME CONTROLS WASHINGTON, May 29, (UP) The Senate voted today to remove at least 5 per cent of the nation's rent barriers from rent control each month. ' The Senate adopted an amendment to the pending bill offered by Senator Joseph R. McCarty, R., 'Wis. The amendment would require the housing expeditor each month to remove controls from a minimum of, 5 per cent of the total number of areas under control when the new rent bill becomes law. McCarthy sair there were now 600 rent control areas. Thus his amendment would require deconiroi, or aoout tnirry eacn niumu. Other Congressional develop1 ments: Red Target Lieut. Lawton Collins, chief Gen. J. of Army .get of Communists and others I who want to overthrow the gov- ! ernment. Asking' for an adequate public relations staff, he said the J Army is constantly being attacked by "Communists or exjtreme leftwingers in'civilian life" who "are trying to tear it down." Air p o w e r General Carl l Spaatz, chief of the Army Air i Forces, fears this country will be a "second rate" air power in three to five years unless military production is stepped up. He told a House appropriations ; subcommittee that annual production of about 3,000 planes is necessary to keep the United States aircraft industry healthy. ' Farm Prices M. B. Ronald, of Michell, S. D., asked Congress to set up a two-price system for insuring farmers a fair return and enabling everybody to eat well. Ronald advises a self-financing food stamp plan plus subsidies to keep food prices from slumping. HOSPITAL NOTES Admitted May 28: Mrs. Dorothy Godfrey, 511 Graysville St., and i Lawrence Wesner. Dismissed May 28: Mrs. Mildred I Zerfas. Merom: Mrs. Dorothv McjHugh Sheiburn; Mrs. Evelyn BoJ gard, Merom R, R. 1.

HOUSE VOTES TO REDUCE ARMY FUNDS

WASHINGTON, May 29. (UP) 23, 24 and 25, to hear Miss MarThe House - appropriations com-' garet Paton Hyndman, president mittee today voted a reduction of of the Canadian Federation of $475,000,000 or 8.3 per cent in Business and Professional Womfunds requested by the War De- en's Clubs. partment for the fiscal year start- j . Miss Hyndman was born in ing July 1." Palmerston, Ontario, of Scottish The amount recommended by ancestry. She was admitted to the committee for the Army and the bar of Ontario in 1936 and Navy Deartments, exclusive of was created King's Counsel in civilian functions, was $5,000,- 1938, the. second woman to re000,000. 'ceive this honor. She is a direcSecretary of War Robert Pat- tor of the Canada Trust Company, terson told the committee that president of a large knitting the reduction would impair the mill, and a director of a retail effectiveness of the Army . and florist company, a woman's spec

would weaken the foreign occupational program. Veterans Invited To Graduate From Indiana State Norman , German, commander of . the Sullivan American Legion, said today that all veterans are invited to participate in the Memonal Day parade that the legion is, sponsoring. , The parade will start from the Teen Canteen at 10 a. m. Friday, ah.jvlllp to the Center Ridge Cemetery wnere services .will De held, with the Rev. Thomas Jennings, the State" chaplain for' the legion, delivering the main address. , i Mr. German said that all vet erans should be uniform for the parade. ? .

Mr. German., said today ' that were elected at this meeting. f rommencement week kctiviWill Dickerspn, .the' miners' poet, Delegates from Sullivan, who I .. Comme ncem e"1 weeK activi would: give ianroriginal poem as palloted In the election were ' ies tlfen

v . . , " mmm " ;. . . if BEVIN WINSVv I VICTORY OVER LABOR REBELS MARGATE, England, May 29. 1 (UP) Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin won an overwhelming vie- j tory for his foreign policy at the' labor party conference today aft-' er a spirited debate in which he angrily attacked American policy' on Palestine. Bevin defeated with ease the labor party rebels who opposed what they called his pro-American, anti-Russian foreign policy. COAL TALKS RECESSED FOR MEMORIAL DAY WASHINGTON. Mav 29. fUP)

Southern Coal Producers re-' elsewhere. The anticipated Indiported today that they are "mak-' anapolis automobile race crowd ing progress' in negotiating a can expect a chilly day in the new contract with the United stands. Mine Workers. i The weather was warm and T rt,. , , ... muggy in most of the East today, L. E. Tierney, chairman of the but the chiUy air was moving joint operator-miner-wage con- cwiftiv WsrH tho orot.

! iference, told reporters discus - sions were continuing on the operators' ideas for a new contract. Tierney did not give any details, but he said the union had not made any demands as yet, as recessed The negotiations were for the Memorial Day week end until 10:30 a. m. June 3, Meanwhile, the United Mine Workers held a policy committee meeting, but the union president, John L. Lewis, declined te tell reporters the purpose of the brief session. '

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Delegates Attend State Convention Of BPW Clubs Twenty-seven local Business and Professional Women were on hand at the state B. P. W. convention held at French Lick May ialty shop and a ceramic manufacturing company. She has been outstanding for many years in Canadian and U. S. Business Women's circles. Miss Hilda Yatsing Yen of the United Nations Bureau of Information addressed the 1 group at the Sunday breakfast. Her text was the United Nations creed. The United States has the foremost BPW organization of the I world and it serves as a melting1 pot for the various other world organizatiosn and Indiana is an outstanding leader of this organization in the United States. Miss Telia Haines is president of the Indiana federation. Such national banquets are to . , , . m , , . . other countries of the world. These affairs are designed to act' as strong stepping-stones toward world security. nffWre for tho fnllmvino ires-, ,i.taiuac peii; inifanc nmu law, Lydia I Brown, Josephine Scott, i:MabeJ;': Nowlin, ( Edith Han. 'sMary; Scott, Frances- Whitlock, . Ethel! Rickard. Iona Jared and Essie , 'Fuller. i The i ; .alternates were?'-, Doris i Clarikson, Frances Houghton, Eniogene: Llojfd, Doris Scott, Dora Beard,: '- Beyerly McCammon, Rachel Faught, Lorene Pigg, Geneva McCrocklin, Abbie Faught, Nellie Ford and Pearl Harbaugh. WEATHERMAN SAYS COLD ON MEMORIAL DAY (By United Press) A frosty mass of cold air nipped the Midwest today and chilled Memorial Day holiday plans for millions from Minnesota to the Atlantic Coast. The weather forecaster at Chicago said that in most of the Midwest at least, tomorrow would be the coldest Memorial Day on record. Temperatures will be mild in the South and far Western states. But it will be overcoat weather , , Tho nnt fn- th MMt i ? The outlook for the was so bad that the weatherman forecast freezing temperatures for Wisconsin, northern Minnesota and northern Michigan tonight. There will be frost as far Tn; onA northern Indiana. MARRIA1GE LICENSES Harry Edward Reed, Sullivan R. 3, clerk and Wilma Odean Bedwell, Sullivan R. 5, presser.

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STATE COURT RULES AGAINST REICHERT - INDIANAPOLIS, May 29, f.UP) An Indiana State Supreme Court ruling today ended Evansville's Mayor Manson Reicherfs attempt to dismiss a Grand Jtiry which indicted him on charges of political campaign funds collection irregularities. The high court ruled that Reichert had no right to ask it to force a Vanderburgh Circuit Judge to throw out the jury. The ruling, however, written by Judge James Emmert, said that Reichert had "adequate remedies of law" in pleas of abatement which could be filed in response to the indictments he still faces. County Students Get Degrees At Indiana State TERRE HAUTE, Ind., May 29. Four hundred and eighty-seven degrees will be conferred at the i seventy-sixth annual commencernent exercises of Indiana State ( Teachers College here Sunday, June 8, at 6:30 in the evening on the West Campus. Dr. Arthur Cushman , McGiffert, Jr., ' president of the phicago Theological Seminary of the University of I vIllcKJ will .ueiiver mc auuiK, I ,f . , , . . ,.,: jrresiaem, xiaipn x. uey win confer the degrees. Ninety-six of the candidates will receive the master's degree, the remainder the hachelor's. (lonrao PoaVinflv PnllpPO Nash. ,,;ii T.. ,uill aira ho harm1 laureate address I " , Graduating students from Suljlivan county, their degrees and major subjects are as follows: . Alice Ann Beasley, Bachelor of Science, English and commerce: William L. Lindley, Bachlorvof Science, non-teaching; John Li. man, Bachelor of Science, physical education; Oneta L. Pirtle, Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education; Kenneth Tatlock, Bachelor of Science, , physical education and mathematics; Wanda Wright, Bachelor of Science, music and speech; Roy K. Terrell, Bachelor of Science, science and physical education (Degree to be conferred in August); George W. Walters, Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education (August degree); Russell Mason, Bachelor of Science, physical education and industrial arts; Evelyn McRoberts, Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education; Lee French, ! Master of Science; Alvan Calla han, Master of Science (August degree); Beulah Chappelle, Master of Science (August degree), and James Tatlock, Master of Science (August degree). J. Mrs. C. E. Rich Funeral Rites Read Wednesday Funeral services for Mrs. Charlotte E; Rich were held Wednesday afternoon at the Railsback Funeral Home. Mrs. Rich passed away Monday night at the residence on Sullivan route. The message was brought by Brother J. C. Roady of the Sullivan Church of Christ. Pallbearers were John M. !"7 hoat" wink i" Thomas, Robert Wheaton, Hmkle Wheaton, Harrison Wheaton, Harold Wheaton and William Wheaton. Flower bearers were Aletha Wheaton, Mrs. Denman Pope, Mary Wheaton, Lucille Kahre and Delia Taylor. Burial was in the Providence Cemetery at Paxton..