Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 49, Number 145, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 22 July 1947 — Page 1

WEATHER : Only Dally Newspaper in SULLIVAN COUNTY ) FAIR YVEUINfcSUA Indiana: Fair and cool tonight. Fair and slightly warmer WedJ . iiVOL: XLIX No. 145 INTERNATIONAL PICTURE SERVICE PRICE THREE CENTS UNITED PRESS SERVICE SULLIVAN DAILY TIMES TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1947.

COID WAVE IN INDIANA HITS CORN CROP GROWTH NO CHANGE SEEN Terre Haute Reports Lowest July Temperature On Record With 47 Degrees; Evansville Has 50 Degrees. INDIANAPOLIS. Julv 22. (UP)AIU imp Inws -fnv

July temperatures were reported at Terre Haute and Evansville last night, and it was the coldest July 22 on record in Indianapolis. ' . The unseasonable cold wave

sent the mercury into the forties and fifties throughout the State, and the weatherman said Indiana corn crop growth had "virtually stopped." The coldest place in the state was Mark h, which reported 45 degrees. However, this was not a record July low there. A 47-degree reading at Terre Haute broke a 43-year-old record for July temperature. The pre vious figure was 53 degrees

July 2, 1904. In Evansville, a 50- Jr-. who yesterday admitted killdegree mark lowered a record inS two babies in City Hospital that was set on July 21, 1944. It June 6 today changed his story was 50 degrees in Indianapplis, to his mother and denied that he too. . had touched the infants. Lafayette and Fort Wayne both Mrs- Gue, who runs a kinderreported 48 degrees, and South garten in her home in Navarre, Bend had a 46-degree reading. Ohio, said her son had been upThe state's corn crop, already set and that he had now returndelayed by excessive Spring rains, ed to an earlier story that a "big has been hard hit by the cold oy with a white coat on" did weather, the bureau $aid, and the killing. oats and wheat, .normally ripe Sne said sne believed Roger's two weeka ago, still are green in told the ' story of killing the many sections. babies to Private Investigator The weather bureau predicted James Ellis and police yesterday

continued cold for tonight, but somewhat warmer tomorrow. DA. V. Will Meet ! Veterans Thursday i Veterans of all wars, and especially those who have medical discharges or CCD a 9nH - those who while in service wp treated for sickness, iniurv nr other disability, are invited to attend a veteran's' meeting to be ,feld in th$ Cpmmissionfirsv;Room invthe Sullivan County' Court' House at 7:30 d. m. Thursrtav July 24. Ward Anderson, state service officer, and Howard W. Watts, state adjutant of the D.A.V., will be present to discuss the various benefits- to which veterans are entitled and they will also explain , the program of proposed legislation sponsored by the organization for.. the coming year, and will give advice and assist disabled veterans in filing their claims. ' The D.A.V. is chartered by Congress as the official voice of the war disabled veterans and is the only organization of the wartime disabled veteran to receive Congressional recognition. All services rendered veterans, their dependents and the dependents of the war dead by the D.A.V. and its service officers' throughout the nation are given without charge and offered regardless of membership ' in the D.A.V. Merom Church Will Honor Rev. Jennings The Senior Pals class of the Merom Methodist Church is planning a reception for the Rev. Tom Jennings for Sunday night at the Merom Bluff. The recep tioty will be in the form of a basket dinner starting at 5:30 p. m. - The class has invited the New Lebanon and the Rose Chapel churches to attend the reception in a body and also has invited the Rev Lester Abel, of She - luiwi n Via a 0-nmo1 rf l mpl tpfi I I lowing the dinner there will be a program and entertainment MARRIAGE LICENSES Wendell Gambill, Shelburn and Mary Dietz, Sullivan. Robert White, Cass and garet King, Cass.

Melvin Strate, Sullivan County and the judge set July 30 as the and Donna Dotson, Bruceville. date for sentencing Chandler. George Rogerson, Jasonville The former Baltimore writer and Annie Mae Hull, Dugger. , was convicted of . treason for serving as a radio mouthpiece NEW SUITS !or Naz Propaganda during the Margaret Povlin vs. John Pov- warlin. Complaint, for divorce. ' 1 The date for sentencing was Gottliebe Geckler vs. Walter announced shortlx after the court

Wiley et al. Complaint for dam ages. . Benjamin Blumbaugh et al vs. Adam Povlin. Complaint on replevin for immediate possession. TO GIVE SHOW AT ODON TRACK

Jimmie Lynch will present his ernoon. One was found at SumDeath Dodgers in a two-hour ner, la., early the next morning, thrill circus at the Odon Oval having made at 800-mile trip at Sunday afternoon. . about 65 miles per hour,

CHILD CHANGES STORY IN v BABY DEATHS MASSILLON Ohio, July 22 . (UP) Six-year-old 1 Roger Gue

Decause fillis offered him an air plane ride. "Rdger could talk of nothing else last night but the promised ride. Today he told me he made up the story because he liked the detective," his mother said. I don't think Roger did the killingt now, although I was ready to believe him yesterday. 1 do think, though, that he saw something the night of the deaths that he has not told completely," Mrs. Gue said. .. The youth. " ." demonstrated to police yesterday how he fatally injured the two babies that were found dead with crushed: heads. He told police , that he dropped the babies on their heads while taking them from their cribs in the nursery. He was a patient in the hospital at the time with a fractured , right forearm. i CHARGE REDS ; ARE KIDNAPING AUSTRIANS :; WASHINGTON, July 22. (U.R) Reports that : men in ' Soviet uniforms have been kidnaping civilians on the streets of Vienna were brought to the attention of the War Department today. Lieut. Gen. Geoffrey Keyes, United States, high commissioner to Austria, noted in his monthly report that ten persons were said to have disappeared from Vienna in this manner during June. Under the military government, Austria is divided into four zones, the United States, French,! Russian, and British. Vienna is in : the Russian zone. Keyes said that on June 26 the Austrian State Secretary of 'the Interior issued a statement to the press condemning the acts. gized the ..heipiessness of the Austr5an police wnQ are Mt flU thorized to take action inst Allied ns in uniform Chandler Retrial Denied By Judge . BOSTON, Mass., July 22 (UP) Douglas Chandler, age 58,

Mar- has been denied a retrial by Federal Judge Francis J. W. Ford,

had denied defense motions to arrest judgment for a new trial . Balloon Travels Fast WICHITA FALLS, Tex. (UP) Two local boys, Ralph Parker, Jr., and Johnny Duncan, released five toy balloons late in the aft-

Hold Services For Mrs. Clarkie Hardin Funeral services for Mrs. Charles J. Hardin, who died at the Mary Sherman Hospital .Saturday at 1:30 a. m. were held at the Billman funeral chapel at 2 o'clock Monday, afternoon. The Rev. J. M. Smith was in charge of the services. Burial was in the Johnson Cemetery. I Surviving are the husband, Charles; two daughters, Mrs. Ralph Daugherty of , California, land Mrs. Gene Wyman of Sullivan; five soiis, Russell Huff and Herschel Huff, both of Sullivan, Otha Huff of Michigan, Garland ; Huff of Peoria, Illinois, ' and

Charles Hardin of Shelburn; two sisters, Mrs. Sarah Reid of Merom, and Mrs. Lillie Woodard,. of Anderson; one brother, Milton Pinkston pf Merom; fifteen grandchildren and six , greatgrandchildren. Army Plans Tokyo To Washington Hop WASHINGTON, July 22 (UP) Eight B-29 Superfortresses will take off from Tokyo for Washington July 31 on a 7,000-mile run billed as -the longest and fastest mass flight ever attempt ed by the giant bombers. I I The Superforts are out to bet- J ter the record set in September, 1945, by three B-29s which tried 1 for a non-stop flight from Tokyo 1 to Washington. Dwindling fuel supplies forced them down at Chicago, 25 hours and 45 minutes after they left the Japanese ; capital. This time the record-shooters will make a refueling stop at Anchorage, Alaska, to make sure that their "gas" holds out for the 1 final leg of the flight to Washington. "

Gen. George C. Kenney, com- rrapunbiuie iepin, mander of the United States Native of the Soviet Union in. the Strategic Air Forces, said thejUnited sta.tes ma:.e1 reSarded;

eight B-29s, drawn, from the 492nd Bond Squadron, are scheduled to arrive in Washington at noon, Aug. 1 Army Air Forces Day.

Excluding a tnree-nour stop at and wrote a best-seller . book Anchorage, the flight plan calls I which he called "I Chose Freeifor an elapsed flying time of 31 ' A0nL.. ..

hours and 2b minutes from Tokyo to Washington TAFT WILL TOUR THE WEST THIS FALL WASHINGTON, July 22 (UP) Senator .Robert A. Taft, ,R., Ohio, a leading but undeclared candidate for the 1948 Republican presidential nomination, will make -what a spokesman described , today as a "non-political" speaking tour of the West this fall. " He will appear in California, Oregon, Washington, Montana, Idaho, and Arizona. Some political observers believe, despite the "non-political" designation,, that the tour has been drawn up to give the Senator a chance 'to determine what his presidential chances are. Get Oath Of Office Three I. U. Trustees BLOOMINGTON, July 22. Oaths of office were administered at a meeting today of the Board of Trustees of Indiana University to Dr. Dillon Geiger, Bloomington physician, who recently was appointed to the board; William A TTimlral nf THiifftnn. publisher I of the ' Fort Wayne Journal-Ga-zette, and John W. Hastings, I I WnlnrtlAn off Arnpv who was elected last month by alumni of ' i The board designated George W.: Henley, Bloomington attornow and nr Opiffpr as members of the Bloomington executive i committee. On this committee, Dr.1 Geiger succeeds Paul L. Feltus, Bloomington newspaper publish er, who retired as a Doara member on July 1. Charles F. Pipher Dies In Vincennes . Charles F. Pipher, 66 years old, of Wheatland, Indiana, died at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Vincennes Monday following an operation. He was a coal miner. Surviving are the widow, Margaret; a son, Harry; of Lafayette, and a brother, Joseph Pipher, of Hymera. . Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Methodist church in Wheatland. Burial will be in the Wheatland cemetery.:.

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SHIRLEY TEMPLE, 19, has confirmed I Appointment The Senate judreports that in January she will i'ieiary committee approved the

become a mother. The one-tima . child movie star and John G Agar, Jr., acjr, were married Sept. 19, 1945. (Inter national) SAYS RUSSIAN AGENTS ARE ALL SPIES

WASHINGTON, July 22. (U.R) appr0ved a $343,000,000 budget cA'for flood control and navigation -Victor Kravchenko, once a Jo. &n increase oyer the I viet purchasing agent in this $208 566 000 that the House ap I cuntrv. told . th House - Drov'ed

American activities cuiiuumec " ul Kravchenko, who served on a Soviet purchasing commission in I this country, later broke with the Russians over Communist policy He testified as the un-Amen can activities committee sought to find out what kind of . a spy system' Russia has in the United States and how Yugoslav Marshal Tito is able to operate a column here. fifth! After testifying on conditions within Russia, Kravchenko was! asked about Soviet espionage activities here' ' ; ' He replied that he knew of at least two instances in which Russian visitors - had collected confidential American military secrets. One instance involved aviation secrets arid the other involved American submarines, he said. -" - : - DEMOCRATS ' TO IGNORE WALLACE BOOM WASHINGTON, July 22 (UP) National Democratic Headquarters planned a strict handsoff policy for the time being toward the California Wallace-for-President boom. . Fact is, there isn't much the Democratic National Committee can do about it right now. James Roosevelt,- son of the late President Roosevelt, is chairman of the Democratic Central Committee in California. The national Ifrty organization supports President Truman and normally VVUU1U Y WUU1U UCCllU UXI U1C StiltC Uldli man hold the line against such Jn California who .are working ;to A. Wallace for the ,u'ul imC.iiu.i tion next year. Chairman James Roosevelt is eu e -n uuJWiU pulitical quantity, who has been playing with the idea of sending an uninstructed California delegation 'to the nominating convention. That is pretty close to political treason. It pretty much eliminates young Roosevelt as' a spokesman for President Truman and the party organization on the West Coast. BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Stevenson, Sullivan route 4, announce the birth of a son, John Walker, born i July 21 at the Mary Sherman Hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dyer, Farmersburg, are the parents of a daughter, Susan Lee, born July 21 at the Mary. Sherman Hospital.

DISPUTE MAY POSTPONE' ' ADJOURNMENT

' WASHINGTON, July 22 (UP) this week-end faced their biggest threat -. today in Senate-House differences over government t spending. The sharp division came on the Department of Agriculture apand House conferees $86,000,000 apart. The bill was sent back into conference and Senate members .were expected to fight for an increase in :. the House-approved bill., The " disputed funds cover - tion, tenant loans and the school lunch program. Other Congressional action: appointment of Representative , Howell. R., 111., to be judge of vi the United States Court of .Claims. He will succeed Marvin ' Jones, recently sworn in as chief justice of the court. . Oil Export The House Merchant Marine committee has aptry unless the secretary of state certifies that the exports will not interfere with national defense or national security. Flood Control A Senate subcommittee on appropriations has - , Mt . xj Jack Mclntyre INeW District Commandef Jack Mclntyre, of Bloomfield, j was elected commander of the ' seventh district of the American j Legion to succeed N. W. Strange of Loogootee, Sunday at the anLoogootee. Mr. Mclntyre is a1 World War II veteran, .. . . "The seventh district placed sec. ond in membership in the entire State, it was announced. Department Adjutant Sayer complimented Commander Strange on the high membership increase in the district. The district has 163 dele-! gates to the State convention 'and 11 delegates to the national vention, the highest number ever held by the district. Guests at the convention were W. I. Brunton, Scottsburg, Department commander; William Sayer, Bloomington, Department adjutant; Dale Eby, Princeton, Department judge advocate; Ed Rheil, Department child welfare chairman, and A. F. Shaw, candidate for Department commander. HUNGARIAN OPPOSITION DISSOLVES BUPAPEST, Hungary, July 22 (UP) The Hungarian Freedom party today announced Its own dissolution, rather than "risk the life and safety" of its members in opposition to the leftist coalition government. The announcement of the op positionist was made in a letter read to Parliament during debate on a proposed revision of iL lection laws. Deputies of the party at once walked out of the assembly in a body. I Air Forces To Test flew Super Bomber WASHINGTON, July 22. (U.R) The Army Air Forces said that within the next few months it will test a 42,000-pound superbomb by dropping it (from a modified version of the B-29 bomber. v The A.A.F. said this is the heaviest bomb ever built, but it is developing bombs as heavy as 100,000 pounds. Bombs of 25,000 pounds were used during the last war. The much lighter atomic bomb is stated lo be equal to 40,000,000 pounds of T.N.T. The A.A.F. said three B-29'ji also will test new types of deep penetration bombs of American and British design on the German submarine assembly factory at Farge near Bremen, Germany. These test bombs used will not contain high explosives because the targets are close to villages. t

U. N. May Take Indonesian Plea LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., July 22 (UP) An appeal for United Nations intervention on behalf of the Indonesian Republic was

considered possible as a result of the warfare in Indonesia. It was probable that the case, if it is introduced, would go-tq the United Nations Secuity Coun lch ctuts teeh case I evolving fighting in Indonesia '?n,y.a few. days after jt be6an junction nineteen months ago in i n , , 1 n tth0at fasion the Ukranian .successfully to get the council '? . ak,e actlon a&mst e uTse of jj, nisi, uuops aim capuve Japanese troops to put down attempts by Indonesians to obtain their independence from the Dutch. There was speculation that Russia or one of its supporters might bring thg complaint since Indonesia itself cannot bring the matter before the U. N. and must get some sovereign nation to complain for it. American and British officials were lukewarm to the idea of bringing the matter before the United Nations. lVlrS. f lOra rroment TV Af QUolUmm a m t-ii i-t Mrs. Flora May Froment, 72 years old, died at 3 o'clock this morning at the residence in Shelburn. She is survived by the husband, Reuben Froment; two sons, Emmett and Joe Froment, both of Jackson, Michigan; two daughters, Mrs. Helen Smith, of Jackson, Michigan, and Gladys Perkins of Lebanon; five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren, v 1 The body was taken to the McHugh. Funeral Home pending funeral arrangements. RAILROAD STRIKE IN WEST ENDED : SAN FRANCISCO, July 22 ' (UP) Negotiators for the Southern Pacific Railroad and ' the Brotherhood of locomotive en-

con-'?ineers reached agreement early

today- on twenty union demands, ending a short strike on onethird of the Far West's railroad transportation, . . ' P. O. Peterson, grade chief engineer of the brotherhood, sent telegrams to. union ',. locals throughout the far-flung Southern Pacific system. ... ,'. A. T. Mercier, president of Southern Pacific, said he expected most of the engineers to report back for duty this morning, and that trains starting after that time may be expected to maintain regular schedules, but that it may be "some days" before the railroad can resume "general normal handling of all traffic." Robert Henderson Dies At Odon Robert Theodore Henderson, 83 years old, died at his home in Odon, Indiana this morning at 5 o'clock after. an illness of three weeks. He was a retired farmer. Mr. Henderson was a member of , the Odon Methodist Church. He ! ilrac Vinrn tin T.Qurranoa Pnlintu

nan uu. ii Ait A-i i . v-iiv.. v. i . j son. In 1883 he was married to T A TIT 1 iJ him in death in 1945 . Surviving are four children, Harry Henderson, of Sullivan, Essie Lumley, of Indianapolis, Dewey Henderson, of Odon, and Clina Henderson, of Muncie; three sisters, Mrs. Sarah Mowery, of Odon, Mrs. Elmira Richardson, of Newberry, and Mrs. Hester Laughlin, of Sullivan; six grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Four children preceded him it death. Funeral services will be conducted at the Poindexter funeral chapel in Odon Wednesday at 2:00 p. m. Burial will be in the Scotland Cemetery. BAND WILL PRACTICE , TONIGHT . . The Sullivan High School band will practice tonight for the third of the summer series of : band concerts. The practice session will be held at the high chool auditorium. FINED IN LINTON William Bryan, of Sullivan, was fined $1 and costs, totaling $11.80, Friday in Linton on a charge of public intoxication.

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DUTCH FORCES LAND ON BEACHES IN JAVA TO

BATTLE

INDONESIANS

Netherlands Warship Reported Damaged In Artillery Duel With Shore Batteries On Landing. BATAVIA, Java, July 22. (UP) Dutch amphibious forces swarmed ashore in Eastern Java today and uneon-" firmed reports said they were advancing rapidly on key Indonesian Republic strongholds despite ship-to-shore artillery duels in which a Dutch warship was reported damaged. Dutch landings at three points

U S DISMAYED AT CONFLICTS High' Department of State officials today expressed dismay at the outbreak of hostilities in Indonesia, but they indicated this country would follow a hands-off policy for the present. 1 The department itself issued a formal statement saying it "profoundly regrets" the failure of the Dutch and the Indonesians to complete an interim government. But it left actual mediation to the British. Official ' sources predict the fighting would end in the same kind of a stalemate which has developed in Indo-China, where the French control the cities and the guerrillas controled the countryside. These officials' discount .Dutch claims that they would be able to restore order in three weeks. They also described as unfounded the report that large numbers of United States planes were being flown . by the Dutch. The Dutch 'have received some surplus C-47s i cargo ships since the end et the war(. but ..they promised not to use them for military purposes, officials said. They also have received some lend-lease material, and gotten additional supplies from the British when the latter pulled out of the area last year. This was done over American ' protests. During the war, the Dutch got forty lend-lease fighter planes, but no bombers. If they have any bombers,! they . got them . from some other sources than the J United States. ' J I COHEN TO END FOURTEEN YEARS OF DUTY WASHINGTON, July 22 (UP) Benjamin Victor Cohen, the last of the criminal New Deal "brain trust", will end fourteen years of government service at the end of this month when . he quits his post of counselor to the Department of State. Cohen's resignation was announced by the White House voctorHnv Pharlps E. Bohlen ' young career diplomat who has i . j , , . ces w TT - - , i A icuu i -n.i him. Bohlen will have the rank of assistant secretary. Cohen last month told Mr. Truman that after fourteen years of 'government service he thought he dserved a long-needed rest. He gave no other reason for the resignation. " HOSPITAL NOTES ,,,,,,..,, ,, Admitted July 20: Mrs. Myrtle HQitAn . Qcnnui a- vi rs jli.iihi f Cl A LU11. 1 UkJVki w ' Turpin, Merom. Admitted July 21: Max Shake, Indianapolis Mrs. Dorothy Shake, Indianapolis; Danny McSwane, Sullivan; Lester Ransford, Palestine, 111. ' '

NDONESAN

Admitted July 22: Brenda Kay named John Ray. Mrs. Naegele Rhodes, Sullivan; Mrs. Opal is the former Ruth Settles, dauWethington, Linton: ghter of Mr. and Mrs. Roy SetDismissed July 20: Mrs. Mary ties, of Sullivan, R. 3. Warner. Carlisle; Mrs. Louella '

Priest, Dugger; Mrs. Jean Watt, Sullivan; Mrs. Lucille Ferguson, RVinlhiirn' ' Mrs Npllp IMAnr Par-

lisle route 2. , ' I Mrs. Ina Hampton, Mrs. Lena Dismissed July 21: Lois Dyer Vickrey, Mrs. Mary Parks and and daughter, Farmersburg; Mrs. daughter, Jeanne, attended the Christine Stevenson and son, Seventh District American LeSullivan; Mrs. Minnie Bartley, gion and Auxiliary meeting at

Switz City.

in Eastern Java unaer cover oi naval bombardnfents were te-1 ported, as fighting spread to Su: matra and Western Java. The official Dutch communi-, 'que wJs chary of details but In-: donesian reports said heavy fight-:

ing was .in progress. The Indonesian communique reported that ! Republic land batteries scored

four direct hits on Dutch warWASHINGTON, July 22 (UP) ships that were shelling Merak in

Western Java. - I In clearing weather, Americanmade Dutch-piloted fighter planes heavily strafed Indonesian positions. ; The Indonesian communique reported it was in heavy fighting against Dutch Imperial marines who landed on the outskirts . of Banjoewangi in Eastern Java, just across the channel from the islands of Bali and Tabing in Sumatra. Dutch B-25s were reported to have attacked and damaged the Kepuoiic airport oi Beranting, Sumatra. ' Dutch pamphlets dropped over the republican territory said the iNetnenanas army was, advancing to guarantee terms of the Cheribon agreement, under which the independence of the United' States of Indonesia was to become effective Jan. 1, 1949. . Although the Dutch imposed only 'light censorship on military news, correspondents were able to obtain little detailed information from Dutch sources. The Dutch nrmv tnnlr nvAtv.'tVia. Pi. tavia office of the Indonesian news service, Antara, and ordered tne agency to stop issuing news bulletins to correspondents. Foreign Scholarship , Board To Meet ; WASHINGTON, July 22 (UP) President Trujnan's board of foreign scholarships probably will hold its first meeting here next month to start its work' of supervising the election of U. Sv ttudents for study abroad under the Fulbright act, the. Department of State said last night. ,' , Mr. T'ruman appointed the tenman board to aid in carrying', out the act, which authorizes eligible nations ito pay part of their debt to the United ( States through scholarships for Americans.' ''.' An estimated $137,550,000 is available in twenty-two countries for educational exchange; through the next twenty years'. About $7,000,000 will be spent . be sent abroad next year. About 12.000 students already have applied for the overseas scholarships, many of them being veterans who will be given preference. New MeXlCO Honors FrmV PvIa On Antr Wnie ryle Ull Aug. SANTA FE, N. M.. July 22 ag Ernie Day jn Mejd co Governor Thomas j Mabi.y issued a proclamation to that effect yesterday, i The goVernor has urged civic I clubs and patriotic organizations throughout the state to join' In . honoring the memory of the famI ed newspaperman who was killed lin the Pacific while servine as i war correspondent during World War n p home Swas , .... - . r Albuquerque. BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT ' I Mr. and Mrs. John J. Naegele announce the birth of a son born at the Holy Family Hospital in LaPorte. Indiana. He has been ATTEND LEGION AUXILIARY MEETING ' Loogootee Sunday. .