Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 49, Number 153, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 1 August 1947 — Page 1

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VOL. XLIX No. 153 DUTCH TROOPT SPLIT JAVA WITH DRIVE BATAVIA, Java, Aug. 1 (UP) Indonesian forces put the torch to two Java cities today to slow down a Dutch "drive to capture the Indonesian capital of Jogjakarta. A Netherlands communique said great flames were leaping into the sky over the southern

port of Tjailaitjat and the inland town of Poerwaktarto. A Dutch motorized column bypassed the two towns as it cut Java in half and turned towards Jogjakarta, 75 miles away. Racing along at the rate of 25 miles a day, the Dutch column which started from Tegal on the rorth coast, pushed through Benjoemas and on into Kroja, the south coast station on the main railroad into Jogjakarta. The stab cut Java at the narrowist point and almost in the middle. It put the formidable Dutch forces into the South Java plains where for the first time the Indonesian cannot use mountains as defense works. FARMERS GET RECORD WHEAT CROP GOAL WASHINGTON, Aug. 1. (U.R) The Department of Agriculture today set the farmers a 1948 wheat production goal of 75,000,000 acres, the highest in the nation's history. The Department admitted in . an official statement that the goal was too high for normal peace time conditions! But it said that i these were not normal times, li "because the need for exports to imeet world food conditions continues urgent."' "'" The 1948 goal is larger by 4,300,000 acres than the 70,700,000 ocres set this year. The yield this year of 18.6 bushels an acre was unusually high. The 1947 crop is estimated at 1,435,551,000 bushels. The Department also said that it will take a business recession to bring meat prices down sharply. Barring a sudden drop in em ployment, only a moderate price decline can be expected this Fall, the Bureau of Agriculture Economics reported. ine bureau offered only one explanation for the high price of meat "unusually high demand." Auto Bureau Gets 1948 License Plate The Sullivan County automo-j bile license bureau has received a sample of the 1948 automobile licenses, Mrs. Sybil Wray. man ager of the branch said today, j The new plates have white numerals on a blue background,' the colors of Butler University. This year's plates are blue numerals of Notre Dame University. Mrs. Wray said that the 1947 automobile plates are now on sale at half price. The price of plates is cut in half on Aug. 1 each! year. j The numbers that will be assigned to Sullivan County have not been chosen yet, Mrs. Wray said, and the numbers will probably not be known for some time, f The new plates will go on sale about the first of 1948. , Italian May Make Small Auto In U.S. WASHINGTON, Aug. 1, (UP) Gianna Caproni, Italian auto-' mobile magnate, said today that he is negotiating with the Tucker Corporation for space in its Chicogo plant to build a small, low-pri:ed autcmobile for sale in the United States. He said he had inspected the 600-acre ' Tucker plant and believed a plan can be worked out to build his model without interferring with the production of the rear-engine Tucker 48. If the negotiations are successful, Caproni said, he planned to turn out an automobile that will be smaller than any of the American market, but one that is still out of the "midget' class."

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Sullivan County Health Program In Hygeia Magazine The program organized by the Medical Society of Sullivan County to stamp out diphtheria I has been written up in a recent issue of Hygeia Magazine, which is published by the American Medical Society. The program was begun in 1937 and has led to the protection of 9,000 persons, a third of the population of the county, with diphtheria toxoid. . In the decade before 1937, the county had reported 109 cases of diphtheria with 19 deaths. Since the program was begun, however, while there have been mild epidemics in most of the adjacent counties, Sullivan County has had only four cases of diphtheria and has had no deaths. I Dr. J. Harvey Crowder, county health commissioner, said that the program 1 that the magazine discusses is the one whereby all children in the county schools are immunized against diphtheria in the first grade of school. Dr. Crowder stated that the county doctors assist in the program and usually immunize the pupils in the schools in their community. Dr. Crowder emphasized that the consent of the parents is necessary before the child receives the shots, and that all the parents will not permit their children to receive the - shots even though there Is no cost to the parents. All the toxin is received from the State Board of Health, Dr. Crowder said. THREE CALLS THREATEN JOHN BRICKER COLUMBUS, Ohio, Aug. 1. (UP) Associates of Senator John W. Bricker, who narrowly escaped assassination in Washington two weeks ago, revealed today - that three telephone " calls were- received at Bricker's Co lumbus home last night during ! which the caller threatened to ."get him.!' Authorities said they l believed the caller was a dement- ' ed person. I The caller was a woman. Mrs. R. M. Day, mother of Mrs. Bricker, said the woman called three times about the dinner hour. She first asked for the Senator, then :for his wife, Mrs. Bricker. Brickjer, who was preparing to attend a state Republican rally, did not . go to the phone. Mrs. Bricker is in Canada.. . "You tell that sOn-in-law of yours that we are going to get him, and we don't mean maybe," Mrs. Day quoted the caller as saying. Youths At State School Liberate Quail, Pheasants INDIANAPOLIS, IND., Aug. 1 Indiana's game bird population will be increased this year as a result cf efforts at the Indiana's Boys' School, Indiana Department of Conservation officials announced today. Several hundred day-old chicks q u a i 1 and pheasants were raised by the youths under the supervision of Don Misner, superintendent of the dairy barn. At the age of release, eight weeks, 110 pheasants out of 120 were still living, four hundred quail survived out of 480. The ring-necks were ' liberated last week, and the qmil will be released abojt August 4. Merchants Tackle Terre Haute Nine The Sullivan Merchants nine will be gunning for their sixth league victory and a tie for first place when they play host to the Uptown Tires of Terre Haute, Sunday at Pavilion Park. Since the Great Lakes Steelers defeated the league-leading Rassell's Tavern Wednesday night, it gives the Merchants a chance for. a first place tie if they defeat the Tires. The locals defeated the Uptown Tires earlier in the season and they will be out to duplicate the feat when they meet this Sunday. Claude Robbins will be on the mound for the home team and Gabe Takats will be doing the receiving. Either Callahan or Cole will be on the hill for the Tires and Webster will be behind the bat. The game will start 'at 2:45.

BRITISH MAY CUT FORCES OF OCCUPATION

! LONDON, Aug. 1 (UP) The British government was reported by foreign office spokesmen to be examining urgently the question of withdrawing troops :"rom Italy and Greece. An official spokesman said no date had been set for the proposed cutdown or over-all withdrawal of British troops from Italy and Greece. Informed sources understood that the British garrisons in Germany and Austria also were marked for reduction. The spokesman said he did not know whether these withdrawals were being included in the current considaration. t Government deputies were reported studying the views In the light of the cabinet decision to speed up demobilization and free manpower for Britain's hardpressed industry and reduce overseas financial comittments. i Local Scouts On Trip To Wisconsin Twenty-two Scouts and Scouters of the Wabash Valley Council . launched their red and white ca-1 noes in the beautiful blue waters of White Sand Lake, near Bould- J er Junction, Wisconsin, Wednesday. Leaving Terre Haute Saturday morning in a caravan made up of four automobiles and two trailers, the group motored to Chicago where, after taking in the sights of the Chicago Planetarium and Field Museum, they set up camp on the , beach at the Edgewater Beach Hotel. The evening was spent in a downtown trip by double-decker bus and . return by elevated rail, where the I boys took in a movie at one of Chicago's downtown theaters. On ' Sunday morning they attended church -at one of, the leading Chi-: !cago churches, where Dr. Preston Bradley, noted lecturer and speaker, is the pastor. On Sunday afternoon the group motored to Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, and participated there in a big Scout Roundup program, ' where they were privileged to 'witness the activities of the Badger Council Boy Scout Drum and Bugle Corps, which is known throughout the country for its color and performance. After camping in the city park in Fond Du Lac, the group then proceeded to Boulder Junction and White Sand Lake, where they made final arrangements for a ten-day tour of the lakes and rivers of -this beautiful vacation spot of the country. The group will travel three in a canoe, carrying 1 their food and equipment for the ten-day period. The party is in charge of Mac Brady, Field Scout Executive of the Wabash Valley Council, assisted by John Andrew, Scout master of Troop 43 of Greencastle, Ind.; Don Wilson, Scoutmaster of Troop 42 of Roachdale; and Charles Johnson, Committeeman of Troop 55 of Sullivan. Scouts in the party are Robert Crawford and Paul Phillips, Troop 5, Terre Haute; Dallas Englehart and Shannon White, Jr., Troop 10, Terre Haute; Bill Iahn, Troop 22, Terre Haute; Bob Boling and Jerry C. Harman, Troop 39, Terre Haute; Lowell Gray, Troop 43, Greencastle; Doyne Carson, Joe Clapp, Dick Sunkel, and Arthur Sunkel, Outfit 943, Greencastle; Harry Rockhill, Troop 45, Brazil; i Leeds Hutchinson, Troop 47, Brazil; Gayle Scharf, Troop 46, Brazil; Jerry Johnson, Troop 55, Sullivan; Joe Perona, Troop 63, . Clinton; and Don Flint, Troop 99, Greencastle. The group will return to Terre Haute weatherbeaten and with a dark brown summer tan on Friday, August 8. Find German Plant Making War Weapons BERLIN, Aug. 1. (UP) United States Army officers inspecting two plants in the American section discovered "war 'materials being manufactured for a foreign power without the sanction of the military government," it was announced today. Officials did not name the foreign power for which the weapons were being made. The plants were closed and placed in protective custody. American agents took five men into custody.

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Gene Easter Honored At Annual Wheat Banquet

Gene Easter of Turman Town ship, was crowned county wheat champion last night at the annual wheat growers' banquet held at the Davis Hotel. Easter, who is one of the youngest champions in the contest's history, was crowned by Howard Lathrope, Purdu University agronomist, who made the award to the champion. v George Enfield, also of Purdue University, talked to the more than fifty wheat growers present on methods of increasing . the wheat yield on Indiana farmi. He compared the average yield last year in Indiana, which was 17.5 bushels per acre, to the more than 30 bushels an acre that the English farmer gets, and to the more than 26 bushels that the Chinese farmer gets from an acre'.' Enfield told how the American farmer must learn to grow wheat so that the yield can be increased He discussed the relationship of fertilizer to the wheat yield. He said that Purdue experts : are working toward a yield of double what the average yield now - is, and that eventually those experts hope to increase the yield to 50 bushels an acre. Mr. Lathrope explained a chart SUPERFORTS FINISH TRIP FROM TOKYO I WASHINGTON, Aug, 1. (U.R) Seven gleaming Army B-29 Superforts winging over 7,000 miles from Tokyo, landed at nearby Andrews Field today in a record-breaking flight climaxing the Army Air Forces' 40th anniversary celebration. I The winged giants swept over the Washington Monument forty hours after taking off from Tokyo at 2 a. m. EDT Thursday. The actual flying time was thirty hours and five minutes. The flight also represented ' a new achievement in radio transI mission and receiving. For the 'first time in history, planes kept in constant radio contact with Andrews Field strategic headquarters, even when 7,000 miles distant. 1 Eight planes took off from Tokyo, but at the one stop in Anchorage, Alaska, one of the ships dropped out because of engine I trouble. . i Miss Nettie Black Attends Seminar BLOOMINGTON. Aug. 1. Miss Nettie Black, of Sullivan, was included among the high school and college commercial teachers from six middle western states who attended the Seminar on Guidance in Business Education held July 28-30 at Indiana University. . Directed by Prof. Elvin S. Eyster, head of business education at the University and nationally known leader in the business education field, the sessions were devoted to discussion of ways and means of assisting students in commercial subjects in high schools to choose their future occupations. The speakers included Mrs. Pearl Wanamaker, of Seattle, recently retired president of the Association National Education Navy Recruiters To Take Medal Requests Chief Clifford T. Loos announced that Navy veterans eligible to receive the Victory Medal (World War II) or the American Defense Medal may. apply in person at the Navy Recruiting Station in Terre . Haute, Indiana after August first.' Eligible men must present their original discharge or certificate in lieu of discharge and a statement of service (553 or other papers to receive the American Defense Medal. Chief Loos stated that a recent Navy Department directive has made it possible for many exNavy men who held ratings, to enlist in the Regular Navy with j a good rating regardless of the) length of time since discharged irom tne iviavai .service, xne cniei said that this will no doubt bolster the large enlistment quota needed to maintain a strong peacetime Navy. Interested men may see Navy recruiter at the Post fice Building in Sullivan from 1 P.M. to 3 P.M. on Monday, Tues-, day and Wednesday, August 4, 5 and 6. 1

FRIDAY, AUG. 1, 1947. .

showing the improvement in the wheat yield on eight county farms in the pocket area, which increases from 14.4 bushels an acre on an average- for the entire eight counties, to 16.6 bushels an acre. He said that the increase was due Ho improved methods of farming, and .the use of additional fertilizer. He then told of some of the experiments that the Purdue experts are conducting in the pocket area, and of the new strains of wheat that they are trying to develop. These strains will increase the average yield of wheat from each acre to about twice what the present yield is. Joe Harris, county wheat chairman, presided at the meeting. He introduced Jesse Boston, county superintendent of schools, who gave the invocation. He then introduced the men from the county elevators, who sponsored the banquet, and then he turned the meeting over to O. K. Anderson, county agent. Mr. Anderson presented certificates to the men Who entered the county wheat contest, and then gave certificates to the 'vnine township winners. ARMY PLANE CRASHES IN WASHINGTON McCIIORD FIELD, Wash., Aug. 1 (UP)An Army B-25 bomber crashed and burned eleven miles east of Kelso, Wash., early today, but two men survived by parachuting from 10,000 feet, Army officials announced. The Army said that Kelso Police Chief O. C. Clark reported that one of the survivors said four men were aboard. The survivor was a Sgt. Tass, Ft. Lawton, Wash. He reported inat ne and the bomber chief Sgt. Matthews bailed out at 10,000 feet. Tass, a passenger on the plane, said he was unaware of the fate of he pilot and co-pilot. General Motors To Raise Auto Prices DETROIT, Mich., Aug. 1, (UP) A General Motors Corporation spokesman announced a 2 to 6 per cent increase in the list price on Cadillacs, Buicks, Oldsmobiles, and Chevrolet passenger a u t o m o biles and Chevrolet trucks. C. E. Wilson, General Motors president, said the company "reluctantly" announced the price increase "now being made to cover but a part cf the increased labor and material costs" incurred since the last General Motors hike last November. Randall Hopper Wins Scholarship Randall Hopper, son of Mr, and Mrs. James Hopper of Merom, has been awarded a scholarship to the Lawrence School of Technology at Detroit, Michigan, This college is one of the highest I ranking engineering schools in the country. Its founder and I president, Rector Lawrence, is a cousin of Delno Vickrey of Merom. Randall was an honor graduate of the Merom High School with the class of 1947. Rev. E. E. Aldrich To Address Church Park Meeting The Rev. E. E. Aldrich of the Methodist Church will deliver the sermon at the fourth Church Council Summer Park Meeting Sunday night. The services will be held in the City Park starting at 7:30 p. m. The Rev. Homer Weisbecker of the Presbyterian Church will give the devotions and the mu sic for the services will be furnished by the Baptist Church. Norman Wilkey will be platform manager for the evening, , JVlrS. Eva Fuller Funeral Monday Funeral services for Mrs. Eva Alsman Fuller, who died in St.

Petersburg, Florida, Thursday, the t will be held at the Billman Fu-Of-neral Chapel here 'Monday after-

noon at-3:30 o'clock. Burial will be in Center Ridge Cemetery. The body will leave St. Petersburg Saturday nigbt. , .

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BOY WHIPPED SEVERELY BY WOMAN NEWPORT, Ind., Aug. l (UP) A 35-year-old farm wife was under arrest today, charged with the beating of a 13-year-old Pol - ish orphan until he was "black and blue all over." Sheriff Laureto Griffin said townspeople were "shocked and aroused" by the alleged incident. "They are up in arms," he said. "I guess they feel the kid probably saw enough of that sort of thing in Europe." Edward Zuber, the war orphan, was found late yesterday near the 160-acre farm owned by Mrs. Marian E. Kiepura and her husband, Carl, a few miles from here. The. boy told the sheriff that Mrs. Kiepura beat him with a hammer and crowbar, Griffin said. The boy was taken to a Clinton hospital, where the in Junes were reported painful but . , , , 1iPUraHWaS k 6 n charge of assault and battery and cruelty to children. Griffin said she .admitted she "whipped the boy a little."

Mrs. Kiepura adopted Edward chief of staff, issued a verbal orand his 8-year-old brother a little der for the purchase of a hundred more than two years. His broth- of Hughes' photographic planes er was placed under the custody on Sept. 3, 1943. Of Sheriff Griffin Until the Case 1 Vnhnls sairl Arnold tnlrt him to

is decided. Griffin said he knew r lnal lneir Parems are m Russia." BRITISH CAR CRASHESJEWS AT FUNERAL JERUSALEM, Aug. 1 (UP) Violence flared anew today at the " funeral of the five slain Jews in riot-tor,n Tel Aviv, and in Jerusalem where one Jew was killed in a bombing attempt on a gun position guarding a Hampshire Battalion barracks. I A police armoured car plunged straight into a crowd of Jews attending the funeral of five of '

their number killed in the wild- efforts to get him to testify becat rioting scene at Tel Aviv. A fore next Wednesday. number of Jews were injured. I The enraged crowd tried to j Tenant For Life seize the occupants of the carl DUNKIRK, N. Y. (UP) Harwho were reported by witnesses ' ry F. Goetze always will have a

to be British policy. The driver sped off while other police fired shots into the air until the car was out of reach. A little before the Tel Aviv flare-up, four Jews charged a gun post at the Hampshire barracks in Jerusalem, hurling explosions over the barbed wire barricade. ! They fired a burst from a neighboring garden to distract .attention. British guards answered with gunfire and riddled 'one of the attackers. A second Jew was captured. i First reports said that seven persons were Aviv. A girl injured at Tel was among the wounded. ' Cv-Likitc Hua Frr J-jXIUDlU LMie ror County 4-H Fair The annual Sullivan County 4h Club Fair will open Thursday morning, August 7. Exhibits for all 4-H Club projects will be set up and judged on the basis of blue red, and white ribbon groups. Champions will be picked j from the, blue ribbon group. Spe- j cial awards are being offered; again this year by various livestock breeders' organizations. 4-H girls' exhibits are due as follows: clothing, canning, room improvement, and handicraft, by 4 P. M. Tuesday, August 5, and baking by 12:00 noon Thursday, August 7. All 4-H boys' exhibits, are due by 10:00 A. M. Thursday, August 7. Boys with livestock exhibits are urged to bring them in earlier in the day when it is cooler.

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James Noland And John Knox Puree! To Be Speakers For Democrat Cele

bration Tonight. Tonight will be observed as Democrat Night at the Farmersburg Old Settlers Picnic. Democrat Day will feature an address by James Noland of Bloomington, who was the Democratic candidate for the Congressional seat from this district in last Fall's election.

1 Noland will share the platform tonight with John Knox Purcell of Sullivan, who has been elected as Sullivan County prosecuting attorney and who will take office in January,

. 1948. GENERAL SAYS ROOSEVELT GAVE CONTRACT WASHINGTON, Aug. 1. (U.R) Senate investigators were told today that the Army Air Forces contracts were awarded to Howard Hushes on the recommenda tion of Elliot Roosevelt despite, contrary recommendations by Army Air Forces experts to Gen- , H H Maj. Gen. Oliver P. Echols, retired, and then assistant chief of gtaff 'of the Air Forceg gaye the testimony to a Senate defense investigating subcommittee. He said Arnold, then Armv Air Forces buy the planes the day after j second time that none be bought. Young Roosevelt, son of the late President Roosevelt, inspected the Hughes aircraft and recommended its purchase as "the only one already designed and suitable for photographic purposes." The travel-worn and weary John E. Meyer checked in with the Senate investigating committee at 8:30 a. m. today but was sent home to bed before being questioned on his entertainment duties for Hughes. Meanwhile, Meyer's boss said in Hollywood that he will de - mand a Justice Derjartment in , vestigation of Senator Owen Brewster, R., Me. Brewster is chairman of the Senate defense investigating committee which is making the inquiry into Hughes' multi-million dollar government plane contract. Hughes also defied committee place to lay his head. His late landlady's will left Goetzer a life-long use of his room. Slain in Ambush FIRING from front window of his home, a 37 -year -old neighbor killed 16-year-old Margery Martin in a Cleveland, O., residential area ambush. The alleged killer, Stephen Gajdos, who, apparently, jhad become momentarily crazed, , was shot and seriously wounded by police. . (International

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In addition to the speakers, there will be a band concert by the Hymera band. The reunion opened Wednesday with a performance by the WMOW radio show from Terre Haute and continued Wednesday night with a talk by the Rev. Lester Abel, of Shelburn. It is expected that the addresses tonight by Mr. Noland and Mr. Purcell will be the highlight of the four-day celebration. Representative Geraw Landis of the seventh district, will talk on Saturday night on Republican day as the wind-up of this year's gathering. Mr. Landis is expected to give his report on national affairs, and the results of the recently-adjourned Congress.' ' Ray Dills, president of the Old Settlers Picnic Association Inc., said that this year's affair is expected to be the best in the 52 years that the picnic has been held. . U S OFFERS TO MEDIATE IN " INDONESIA ; LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., Aug. 1, (UP) The Netherlands "gladly" eccepted an American offer to mediate the Indonesian dispute today and Britian promptly moved to toss the case out of the United Nations Security Council pending the outcome of the United States maneuver. . , - Dutch Ambassador Eelco.N Van Kleffens told the Council that his government accepted the American offer of its good of fices. Effective when the sessions show "how vast these good offices are." British delegate Valentine C. Lawf ord declared that this would obviate action by the council at this time. He also proposed to scrap an Australian proposal for an immediate "cease firing" order and United States intervention in the fightig between the I Dutch and the Indonesians. The United States proposed, however, that the Security Council should issue an immediate cease-firing order request to both sides of the undeclared war and tell the two countries to settle their differences peacefully. ' V Acting American Delegate Herschel V. Johnson said the Council could not take successful steps without weighing the merits of the case and without "prejudicing the legal or moral rights of anyone involved." Name Employment Service Manager The appoinment of Joe H. Pet ty as employment service manager of the Indiana Employment Security Division's Terre Haute office was announced today by Noble R. Shaw, Director. Petty, who has been with the employment service for nine and one-half years, assumes his new duties on August 1, Shaw said. V A graduate of DePauw University, Petty entered employment in the Lafayette office in December, 1937. He also served for several years at Marion where he was manager for twenty months. Since October, 1945, he has been assistant Manager of the Terre Hauet office. "Petty brings with him the epcrience and training gained in. tltc local esnployment service operations." Shaw said, "and labor and management will receive, the same high degree of helpfulness and cooperation which the local, office has previously provided for the community."