Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 49, Number 135, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 8 July 1947 — Page 1

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U N COUNCIL APPROVES AMERICAN PLAN FOR WORLD DISARMAMENT Russia Refuses To Veto Or Vote For ; Plan Offered By U. S. And Warns Against Failure Of Proposal. ' LAKE SUCCESS, July 8. (UP) The United Nations Security Council adopted an American plan of work for the United Nations disarmament commission today, disregarding Soviet warnings that the plan would block the passage of all United Nations arms scrapping efforts.

nussia reirainea from vetoing ;. the plan and abstained from vot ing on the plan that was passed . by the council by a vote of 9 to 0. Poland also abstained. A Soviet warning was aimed at the major reference to link ordinary arms scrapping talksTwith the discussion of atomic control and at the failure of the American plan to call for a specific study of such questions as national war production and the location of military , and naval bases. The council authorized the eleven-nation disarmament group to distribute its work among the commission and handed it a broad mandate to "consider and make recommendations to the Security Council concerning arms and armed forces which fall within the jurisdiction of the commission for conventional arms." HALLECK SAYS LABOR LAW HALTED STRIKE WASHINGTON, July 8 (UP) House Republican Leader Charles Halleck, of Indiana.called the hew coal contract "an efji, fective answer to the diref predictions xt President Truman that the new Taft-Hartley bill is unworkable and would cripple worker's rights and collective bargaining." He said it indicated "the wisdom of Congress." "The Taft-Hartley bill has. received an acid test," Halleck said. "A calamitous strike has been averted. Collective bargaining has been freely carried on with the results highly satisfactory to both sides" " Lewis apparently got around one of the provisions of the TaftHartley law by getting a provis sion specifically involving only miners who "were willing and able to work." This was designed to prevent a suit against the union as authorized by the new law for strikes in violation of a contract. Aussies Don't Like U. S. Jap Policy , WASHINGTON, July 8. (UP) , American-Australian relations, strained by .Australian dissatisfaction over the United States occupation policy in Japan, are boiling toward a major clash when the Japanese peace conference is held. Diplomatic reports from Australia reveal that Herbert V. Evart, , the Australian foreign minister, is more than ready to say a lot of things in public that he has been thinking about prj.vately about the United States unilateral direction of Japan. He will have a chance' to tell General Douglas MacArthur in person this week. He left Australia yesterday for a tour of Japan in preparation for next month's British Commonwealth conference in Canberra on the Japanese peace settlement. Band Concerts To Start Thursday The Sullivan High School band will practice tonight for the first band concert that is scheduled for Thursday night at the city park. Wilfred Perigo, director of the band, said that while the band will be made up primarily of the Sullivan High School players, any person in the county who wishes to join the band for the series of summer concerts is welcome to play with the band. Stork Makes Doctor Step MOUNT VERNON, Mo. (UP) Dr. Kenneth Glover found it necessary to step lively to keep pace with the stork. On one day he delivered three babies in three different hospitals in three towns. All were boys and all weighed exactly. 7 pounds 11 ounces.

COURT TO ACT ON CAROL MARRIAGE RIO DE JANEIRO, July 8 (UP) Magda Lupescu was

reported slightly stronger, today and friends believe she might live to see her marriage to for mer King Carol, of Romania, formally approved by a Brazilian court. Her condition still was grave, and Carol was at her bedside al most constantly. The Brazilian Seventh court will hear testimony today from witnesses who attended the cere mony in Madame Lupescu's hotel suite in which Carol and his mistress signed a marriage contract The court approval was expected within a few days upon completion of technical and legal procedure. J, Kites Offered For Sale As Surplus CHICAGO, July 8. The War Assets Administration surplus barrel today yielded a novelty in the way of Army equipment. Bruce J. Brown, Chicago regional director, said . about s 17,000 nylon kites, acquired by the government at a cost of $79,000, have gone on sale here. Originally, designed as targets for aerial gunners, the kites are diamond-shaped "Eddy", pattern, five feet high with ;a five-foot spread and come equipped with a rudder and fin. An airplane is pictured on the water-repellent fabric. "These kites are s'turdily built and can be easily g repaired," Brown said. "They are fine for youngsters and for members of gun clubs who want to improve their marksmanship." , The kites, together with thousands of repair kits, are, stored at the Rock Island Ordnance Depot, Rock Island, 111. A sample is on display at WAA Customer Service Center, 404 South Wabash Avenue, Chicago. Invitations to bid may be obtained at the Center. The sale is being conducted on a sealed bid basis, with bids closing on July 22. Find Missing Girl In St. Louis TERRE HAUTE, July 8 Carol Kay Monroe, 14-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Mon roe, of Terre Haute, who disap peared some time late Wednes day night, was located in St. Louis, Herman Halberstadt, Terre Haute probation officer said last night The girl's father received a wire from the St. Louis probation officer that the missing girl was in his custody. Mr. Monroe left last night for St. Louis to return the girl to Terre Haute. George Alumbaugh Funeral Wednesday Funeral services for George Alumbaugh, who passed away at his home on Sullivan route five yesterday, will be held at Shiloh Church Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock The Rev. Homberger will officiate. Burial will be in the Dugger Cemetery. The body was removed to the residence Monday afternoon where it now lies in state. JAYCEES TO WORK ON COURTS TONIGHT The Junior Chamber of Commerce will start tonight to get the tennis courts in the city park in shape for play. Tom Grayson, secretary of the Jaycees, said that all members are urged to be at the park at 5:30 p. m. in old clothes and with shovels to help get the course in condition. Anyone who wishes to Work on the courts is welcome to help.

Plan Reception For Shelburn Pastor

' The congregation of the Shel- J burn First Methodist ' Church i have completed plans for a for- i mal reception and social hour for their returning minister, Rev. j Lester N. Abel, his family and the more than twenty new members affiliated with the church in the last quarter of the recently concluded conference year. 1 The reception and general getgether will be held Friday evening, July 11th at 7:30 with a basket dinner in the church basement and a fun-for-all program. The public is cordially invited to attend and members especially urged to be present. FIND BODY OF WOMAN IN. STREET LOS ANGELES, Calif., July 8. (VP) The nude body of Mrs. Rosinda Mondragon, age 20, who was garroted with a silk stocking and her right breast mutilated, was found today a dozen blocks from City Hall. She was the sixth victim in the "Black Dahlia" murder cycle that started Jan. 15 with the finding of the nude dissected body of Elizabeth Short, age 22. Mrs. Mondragon's face showed signs of beating, and burns and abrasions on her thighs indicated she was thrown from an automo bile. Nate Joshan, a Negro postal clerk, found the body lying beside a curb at 3:30 a. m., Pacific Coast Time, in the downtown area not far from the City Hall. On the nude body was a ring with a blue stone and around her neck she wore a religious medal to protect her from harm. A silk stocking around her neck appar ently choked her to death. She was identified through fingerprints at. police headquarters, where records show she was arrested on a drunken charge on March 19," 1946. U. N. Board Backs Russia On Atom LAKE SUCCESS, July 8 (UP) 'A majority of the United Na.tions Atomic Energy, Commission tentatively agreed in principle last night that all existing atomic weapons should '. be destroyed. ' The atomic delegates sitting as a committee, appointed : a fournation subcommittee to put the proposal, made by the Soviet Union into writing. . ' , Andrei. Gromyko, Soviet delegate, almost chanting that "atomic weapons must be destroyed," got specific support (from representatives of Great Britain, Canada, Australia, Brazil and China. In addition Poland was committed to support Russia in the twelve-nation committee Frederick Osburn, United States delegate, did not take a definite stand. The United States-backed Baruch plan for atomic control, and a disarmament resolution passed by the United Nations General Assembly last Fall, provided only that the atomic bomb be eliminated from national armaments. Plan Education Day At State Fair Another pre-war event will be resumed at the Indiana State Fair on Sept. 3, Orval C. Pratt, manager, has announced. It is the Educational Day parade, a regular State Fair feature but omitted in 1946 because of lack of time for organization. All high school , bands in the state are eligible to compete in the parade which will include floats entered by schools and education organizations. Charles Tomey Dies At Hospital Charles Tommy of 744 E. Beech Street, died this afternoon at 1:08 o'clock at the Mary Sherman Hospital. The body was taken to the Billman Funeral Home . pending ing funeral arrangements. Details will be learned later. MISS COOK TALKS TO ROTARY The Rotary Club held their regular noon luncheon Monday in the Davis Hotel Dining Room. Dr. A. B. Libke, president, presided. Robert Billman, program chairman, introduced Miss Cook, superintendent of the Mary Sherman Hospital, who spoke on hospital work , ,

A Flying Saucer Is Worth $3,000 If Genuine

(By United Press) A "flying saucer" in the hand is worth $3,000 today, but those 1 seen in the sky were still a dime a dozen. There were n6 takers for the rewards of $1,000 each offers I ed in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Spokane for a genuirie "flying seucer." ' ( The Army air arm ground forces announced thej were in- I vestigating the reported cloud- J hODDinS disc with fln rmpn mirn I but privately, high ranking Ari my officers said they believe the saucers were a hoax and - that some people were the victims of hysteria. ; Meanwhile the fantasy of the "flying saucers" was growing as WORLD POWERS TO ATTEND j CONFERENCE ; LONDON, July 8 (UP) Instead of half the nations of Europe boycotting the save-Europe conference Saturday in Paris, as the French government gloomily predicted, -it now appears that more than three-fourtns of the European governments invited will accept. ! News came from Prague today that Czechoslovakia is the first country within the Soviet orbit to answer "yes" 4o the AngloFrench invitation. Although the decision of the governments of Poland, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria all subject to strong Russian influence is still anxiously awaited, Czecho Slovakia's acceptance is expected to encourage at least some of the others to attend. ' . ? The British government has received hints whichj-, are still subject to final 'confirmation that Denmark, Norway and Sweden, about which there has also been doubt, will now come in. There is less certainty that Switzerland will make a religion; of her neutrality and stand aside. " Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg tbdajr also agreed to- take part jn trie Paris talks. vjThese trhee acceptances had --beeri. regarded as certain, as "had th&se of Austria, Eire, Greece, Italy, Port-ft ugal, Turkey and Iceland. : STRIPPERS MAY START WORK TONIGHT TERRE HAUTE, July 8 (UP) Coal production in Indiana's strip mines "probably" will be resumed tomorrow, a spokesman for the Indiana Coal Trade Association said today. No miners were working in any. Hoosier strip or shaft mines today, under the traditional "no contract, no work" policy of the United Mine Workers. . If the strippers start again tonight, the miners in Indiana's deep mines are likely to start work tomorrow, spokesmen said.

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County agents from Indiana's melon growing sand farm areas and Purdue University representatives who planned for the Southwestern Indiana Horticultural Farm Field Day held today near Owensville. From left to right are O. K. Anderson, Sullivan County agricultural agent; Prof. N. K. Ellis, acting head' of the department of horticulture; Dr. John D Hartman, in charge of melon research, and D. E. Frantz, assistant agricultural agent, Knox County. '

reports from across the nation brought in a flood of bizarre reports, many of which were attributed to pranksters. A pilot said his plane knocked a mystery disc out of the sky in

Montana. Vernon Baird, pilot of a commercial photographic plane, told of a pearl-gray, clam-shap ed airplane with a plexiglass dome on top that fell to pieces when it got caught in the wash from his propeller. His boss call ed the story a hoax, and Baird later admitted he made it up. Meanwhile, Kansas a dry state reported that none of its residents had reported seeing "flying saucers." Youth Caravan To Visit Local Church A Youth Caravan will visit the Sullivan Methodist Church for a week beginning Saturday, July 19, it was announced today. The caravan consists of two young men from Pennsylvania, and two young women, one from Georgia, the other from North Carolina. They are accompanied by a counselor, from Indianapolis. The young people are all under 24 years of age, and all have completed at least two years of college. The counselor is an adult who is experienced . in youth work. The caravan will be in ' Sullivan to strengthen and revitalize the youth program of the local church. Each member of the caravan works in all fields of youth work, but each is trained in a special field. A complete , program has been set up, whereby the members of the caravan will meet with the intermediate, senior, and youth groups of the local church. They will conduct classes and forums to explain church literature. This is the first time that such a group has visited Sullivan, and the Methodist church is fortunate in -securing Jhe. visit of the .caravan. Announce Summer Enrollment NOTRE DAME, Ind., July 8. A total of 1,743 students are enroll ed, -for the summer session at the University of Notre Dafne, it was announced by the Rev. Louis J. .Thornton,-: C.S C, registrar. The total enrollmentaccording to Father iThornton, includes the 1.258 undergraduate students and the 485 graduate students.. The graduate enrollment includes 184 sisters representing various, religious communities throughout the nation, 136 lay students, 66 priests, 63 brothers, and ib semi narians. The summer session, first regular summer session held at the university since the outbreak of World War II, will close Aug. 15. Mrs. Sarah Griffith Dies At Hymera Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Griffith, 83 vears old. died at 4:30 o'clock Monday morning at her home near Hymera. She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Frank Rehmel; two granddaughters and four great-grandchildren. The body was taken to the McHugh Funeral Home and will be returned to the residence this evening. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 Wednesday morning at the Shiloh Church.

Parade Starts Capital Celebration INDIANAPOLIS, July Observance of Indianapolis' 100th birthday anniversary was off to a fast start last night as thousands lined downtown curbs to

i watch paraders open the centenial celebration. More than fifty elaborate floats, multi-colored floats and some 5,000 persons were arrayed behind Governor Gates and Mayor Robert Tyndell in the line of march. Connoisseurs of feminine beauty had a big night of it, for in addition to the normal healthy complement of pretty girls to be found in any Indianapolis parade there were stars from the light opera company in town. The two and a half hour parade depicted the history of the Hoosier capital and its- growth from a settlement of a few log cabins into a modern industrial city of today. BRITISH SAY THREE YOUTHS MUST DIE JERUSALEM, July 8. (UP) Major General B. H. A. MacMillan, the British commander, confirmed the death, sentence against three Jewish underground members today, despite the United Nations committee warning that their execution might hinder the committee's work. Gen. MacMillan upheld the sentence pronounced by a military court June 16 against three youthful Irgun Zvai Leumi members for the Acre Prison raid. Officials believed the commander's action would bring an end to the Irgun's truce declared for the duration of the United Nations investigating committee today. . Army reinforcements were rushed to the gates of the British security compound in Jerusalem. Hundreds pfsoldiers,were posted around Acre Prisonto resist a possible Irgun bid to free the two men. Police and troops were warned against underground kidnaping attempts.: COAL COMPANY FINED FOR , NASHVILLE, 111., July 8 (UP) The Centralia Coal Company was fined $1,000 today on charges of "willful negligence" in the Centralia coal mine explosion in which 111 men were killed on March 25. The fines of $500 each on two separate indictments were announced after coal attorneys entered a plea of "nolo contend ere"' to the charge. Circuit Judge R. W. Griffith said he would rule later on a

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the former Illinois State Super- Warning Germans not to take intendent of Mines Robert M.'any stock ln trumors' Nf Medill and Robert Weir, assistant ,roas rep,orted, have,f 'd: H superintendent. Their . attorney I Tfne PePle,s of the wor d don has asked that the trial for Medill iwant a war: R f0

and Weir both charged with omission of duty "be held in a court where there is no coal mine influence." Say Jones Joined ' Subversive Group WASHINGTON, July 7. Two members of the Black Legion told a Senate subcommittee late terday that Representative Robert F. Jones, R., Ohio, joined the hooded organization at a flash' light ceremony in 1938, but Jones denied it loudly and six charac ter witnesses lauded him as a fair and tolerant man. The conflicting testimony came as the Senate subcommittee heard testimony on President Truman's nomination of Jones to be a member, of the Federal Communications Commission. One of the self-described Black Legion members was Frank A. Barber, police chief of Beaver Dam, Ohio. He testified under questioning that he was committed to a hospital for the insane for 61 days in 1922 but said this

was the "result of a frame-up." Howard, Nathan Raines, John He acknowledged he also was Libke, and Lee Coulson. The Rev. once jailed for "shooting a guy" IWeisbecker was in charge of recin Hammond, 111. 'reation for the camp

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REDUCTION BILL TO BE PASSED TODAY WASHINGTON, July 8 (UP) The House foreshadowed passage of the $4,000,000,000 tax reduction bill later today without the possibility of any amendment. This meant a vote would be on the bill as is, after a couple hours of. debate. Chairman Leo A. Allen of the House rules committee, said he hoped President Truman would not veto the bill on this, its second round of the Congressional circle. Democrats conceed they could not stop the bill in the House, either before or after a veto. But they thought they had a chance in the Senate. Sweetheart Law Ends In December INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., July 8, The Indiana Department Veterans' Affairs issued a reminder to Hoosier veterans and asmed forces members today that they have six months in which to bring their alien fiancees into the United States. ,The so-called Sweetheart Xaw, due to expire June 30, was extended until December 1, 1947. Thus' weddings of overseas fi ancees and their American sweet hearts may be expected to take place even in 1948. The law, which allows the girls to come into the United States under a visitors' visa without regard to immigration quotas, entitles the alien visitors to remain for three months. If the scheduled marriage does not take place in the three-month period, then the girl faces deportation War Is Impossible, Russian Says BERLIN, July 8. (UP) Taegliche Rundschau, official Russian newspaper, quoted an official of the Soviet military administration as telling a German audience at Eisenach in the Russian occupation zone that a "new war in the near future is impossible." The official, a Lieut. Col., Nasarov, made trie statement in an address before the convention of the rightist German Liberal -6" only seek to sow dissension be tween the Allied powers." Advise Airliners To Fly Higher WASHINGTON, July 8 (UP) President Truman's special air safetv innuirv hoarH Tcpnmmpnfle(j t0jay that aircraft be required

to fly higher over th(, mountains yes-jwhen the weather is soupy. It 'also urged early instaiiation of eiectr0nic devices to show the

distance above the ground. The double step was proposed only four days after a Civil Aeronautics Board hearing on the June 13 accident in which a Capital Airline plane crashed into a Blue Ridge Mountain killing fifty persons. RETURN FROM CAMP KOSCIUSKO Sullivanites who attended the Presbyterian camp at Camp Kosciusko have returned to the city The camp is located near Warsaw, Ind. Those who attended include: the Rev. Homer Weisbecker, John Rodger, Jr., Don

LEWIS SIGNS CONTRACT WITH COAL OWNERS IN NORTH AS OTHERS BALK Operators Say New Contract Will Raise Coal Prices $1 A Ton To Meei Wage Boost And Royalty Payment. 1 WASHINGTON, July 8. (UP) John L. Lewis sijmed

his best contract ever with more than half of the nation's soft coal industry and predicted that the rest of the owners-

Southern and Far Western would fall in line within a few

! The one-year pact grants miners a $13.05 basic daily wage foi eight hours up $1.20 from whal they have been getting for nine hours. It sends some 195,000 of the country's 400,000 bituminous miners back to work immediately and ends a brief strike. Still on strike, however, arc around 200,000 Southern and Fai Western miners. Operators ir those areas thus far have refused to go alorig with the agreement But Lewis predicted they will sign up within a few days. He said they "can take it or leave it." Northern operators said the agreement is the "most effective weapon to maintain the economy of the nation." However, operators estimated it would increase the cost of coal by an average oi $1 a ton. They said the cost of mining coal and the production costs depending on coal will be highei as a result of the new contract But they said the price increase "will be substantially less thar would have been the case had s strike occurred."' The new contract runs until June 30, 1948, but it may be terminated on 30-day written no-

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Lewis' face broke into a smile as he signed the new agreement, his first contract with private owners since March, 1946. . ' ' ' But at a press conference he lashed out at the new labor law as the "Taft-Slavery law." He also said that " Senator Robert "A, Taft, R., Ohio, co-author of the act, had "forfeited his chances of being President of the United States." In Cleveland, t Ohio; , C. M. White, president of Republic Steel Corporation, said that i he new coal contract, with. the , United MineyWorker, "along, withy the wage? increases 'grafnted s to jteel workers ;"has pfaced "an unbearably: burden on steel costs in relation to 'selling price." . - " CIO WORKS TO PREVENT RENT BOOST WASHINGTON, July 8 (UP) The C.I O., predicting that rent controls will be extended again next winter, urged tenants today to reject new leases . offered which carry a voluntary 15 per cent rent boost. The union called on local officials to organize tenants block by block and apartment by apartment in opposition to the boost. The C.I.O. campaign was the first of its kind on a national scale. It came as landlords over the nation, working under the provisions of the new rent law, were reported offering tenants leases through 1948 in exchange for a rent boost. . ' Gates Acts To Set Up Rental Boards INNDIANAPOLIS, July 8 Governor Ralph Gates has taken steps to put into effect the "home rule" provision of the new Federal rent control law. In letters to mayors of, twentytwo cities classed as defense rental areas during the war, the governor asked recommendations of persdns to serve on the local rent control board provided in the new law. The governor acted after receiving a letter from Frank R. Creedon, national housing expediter, advising him of the new law which provides for.' the ap pointment of an advisory board

after spending two weeks there, in each defense area and that the

appointments are to be made by Creedon upon the recommendations of the governor. The governor asked that the recommendations be returned by the mayors by July 15 and that the recommendations be kepi non-partisan. .