Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 49, Number 172, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 28 August 1947 — Page 1

WEATHER WARMER FRIDAY Indiana: Partly cloudy tonight and Friday; slightly warmer Friday. . Only Dally Newspaper in SULLIVAN COUNTY INTERNATIONAL PICTURE SERVICE PRICE THREE CENTS UNITED PRESS SERVICE SULLIVAN DAILY TIMES THURSDAY. AUG. 28, 1947.

VOL. XLIX No. 172 U S TROOPS MAY BE SENT TO GREECE .; WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.-A(U.R) Britain's "financial crisis today posed a new hurdle for this country's Greek aid program. Acting Secretary of State Robert A. Lovett disclosed yesterday that British and American officials are discussing the schedule for the withdrawal of British troops from Greece. In an effort to postpone such action as long as possible, authoritative sources said this government is trying to find some way to keep British troops in Greece

as a vitally needed stabilizing in- ' fluence. Failing that, these sources indicated the United States would have to meet headlong the question of whether American troops should be dispatched to Greece to back up the $300,000,000 United States aid program. . . Top-flight Army, Navy, and Department of State officials would not say whether they have considered the possibility of sending troops to Greece a move that would probably require Congressional approval. But in view of British-American discussions, such talks inside the United States government were probably Underway as part of strategic planning. OARD ASKS SCIENTIFIC SUPREMACY WASHINGTON, Aug. 28. (U.R) A special presidential board called for the mobilization of the nation's hrflins anri rash. in a tnyear drive for world scientific supremacy .- :'. - . : ' -..'' It told President Truman that by 1957 this nation must be prepared to spend $2,000,000,000 an nually for scientific research double what the United States will spend for science this year. The board pointed out that Rus sia is now spending $1,200,000,000 annually for research and devel opment. Mr. Truman backed the finding of the special scientific research board as essential in protecting "our democracy from the damage it faces in an uneasy world." He said that the boundaries of scientific knowledge must also be pushed back to insure full production and full employment. ' Merchants Plav At Home Sunday - Sullivan's Merchants, by winning over the Rockville Merchants last Sunday at Rockville, finished the Western Indiana League in a first-place tie with the Rassell Tavern nine from Trre Haute. Each team hafi eight victories and three losses. ' . On Sunday the Merchants will play the Rafter's Tavern - team from Terre Haute in a game at Pavilion Field. This game will replace the one originally scheduled at Brazil against the Bedwells. A game between the two teams could not have changed the league standing of either team, and it was cancelled. The Merchants also ' have a pains scheduled for Monday, Labor Day, at Pavilion Field. The Monday game will be with the Pyramid All-Stars. The team will be managed by Jack . McCammon. The playoff for the league championship will start on Sept. 7, with the Merchants meeting the Rassell Tavern team in a game at Payilion Field. This will be the first game of a best two out of three series. County Teachers Hold Institute The teachers of the county schools held their annual teachers institute at the Sullivan High School auditorium today. Jesse Boston, county superintendent of schools was in charge of the meeting. The speakers at the institute included E. E. Ramsey, of Indiana State Teachers College, Terre Haute; Miss Sally Butler, deputy director of the school savings program, , and Dr. William S. Young, assistant state superintendent of public instruction.

Col. La Follette To Talk At Merom

7" COL. PHIL LAFOLLETTE Colonel Phillip LaFollette will head the list of entertainers and speakers at the Merom Bluff Chautauqua which starts tonight wth a band concert at 7 o'clock. Col. LaFollette, will speak at 2:30 p. m. Saturday. , Colonel LaFollette, a former governor of Wisconsin and son of Robert LaFollette, one-time progressive senator from Wisconsin, was a member of General Douglas MacArthur's staff in the Pacific theatre. On his present speaking tour, he is urging Americans to awaken and face the threat of Coummunism with realism. Superintendent Roe M. Wright will give the welcome address tonight following the band concert, and his" address will be followed . by the Bethel College cappella choir. ' The Chautauaua will continue on Friday morning with a discussion of school problems, and a talk on American art by Hazel Dodge Turman, curator of the Swope Art Gallery in Terre Haute. Julia Bock Harwood.will tell the Chautauqua audience about peoples around the world Friday afternoon and a musical program will conclude the day. EUROPE TO PAY MORE FOR GRAIN WASHINGTON, Aug. 28. (U.R) Europe's hungry nations, already on notice that they will have to expect less "American grain this year, were warned today that they will have to pay more for what they do get.' Department of Agriculture officials said the government is paying almost 50 cents more a bushel for its export wheat than last year's average price, and the peak of the price spiral is still not in sight, they said. These officials said the world need for food is so great, however, that hungry nations probably will pay anything to get the grain. It has been predicted that half the world's population will go hungry this Winter and Spring. On Secret Cruise

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PRESS BLASTS ATTLEE PLAN ON ECONOMY

LONDON, Aug. . 28. (UP) Great Britain today embarked on an austere economic program which the press immediately lambasted as "too little and too late" and the nation then ran head-on into a surprise wildcat coal mine strike. . While Britain's "little man" accepted the government's cut, in food, gasoline, and travel with grim 1 resignation, the ' press launched a ferocious attack on the program. But even grimmer news came from the northern coal fields. The government had pinned the whole program on the hope of , boosting coal production. However, nearly 7,000 miners walked out of the pits in wildcat protest against increasing the working hours. They predicted another 50,000 workers would leave the job shortly.1 The Labor. government had laid its cards on the table and they spelled the skimpiest fare on the dining table in all Britain's history; not exen excepting the grim days of the war. BRITISH COAL STRIKE HURTS RECOVERY LONDON, Aug. 28. (UP) Wildcat strikes in the coal mines spread throughout the Yorkshire fields today, leaving 10,000 to 15,000 men idle, and threatened to knock the props from under the government's back - to - the - wall drive to revive Britain s imperilled economy. ' Five thousand more .Yorkshire miners walked out today in " de fiance of their 'goverrimehtahal union apd in sympathy with 140 Grimethorpe colliery workers who are protesting increase work quotas. The strike left twelve pits idle and the national coal board estimated that 82,000 tons of coal have been lost to the nation since the start of the wildcat walkout on Aug. 14. A huge boost in Britain's coal production is the key to the whole British industrial recovery plan. On Aug.. 9, there were 718,000 miners registered on the coal board's list. McCreary Quits As Vincennes Coach Jay McCreary, whose Vincennes Alices lost to Paul Weekley's Shelburn Panthers in the regional tourney last March, has resigned as head basketball coach there to become freshman cage coach at Indiana University. He will return to the university as coach of freshman teams and assist Head Basketball Coach Branch McCracken, under "whom he played as a student. The Vincennes school board released him from his contract io enable him to accept the new position, and the school board is searching for a successor to McCreary. Mrs. Helen Englund To Talk At Merom Mrs. Helen Nelson Englund, one of the nation's leading authorities on the Scandinavian countries, will be featured on the Ladies Day program of the Merom Bluff Chautauqua on Friday. IVi-s. Englund is director of the Chicago chapter of the AmericanScandinavian Foundation, - arid speaks with authority on postwar Scandinavia. The original schedule for Friday's program has been changed so that Mrs. Englund will be able to appear on the program. She will replace Mrs. Julia Bock Harwood. Mrs. Ruth Phillips Funeral Friday Funeral services for Mrs, Ruth Phillips who was killed accidentally Tuesday night when she was run over by an automobile driven by her husband, will be held Friday afternoon at o'clock at the Dugger Baptist Church. Burial will be in trie Dugger Cemetery. The body will be removed from the Newkirk Funeral Home in Pleasantville to the residence in Dugger tonight.

GAS STILLS BLOWUP AT WHITING

. WHITING, Ind., Aug. 28. (U.R) Two Standard Oil Refinery gasoline stills exploded and burned early today and then burst into flames for a second time a few hours after the first explosion and fire. ' The stiils produced 24,000 barrels of gasoline a day and the loss of this output was regarded ; as serious to Midwestern consumers who have built up a recordbreaking demand for gasoline.: . ; Smoke rose from the fire over the refinery area, which is Hie world's largest. Three men were injured, none of them seriously, and one niun was missing. The missing man was identified as Julias Kopa age 52, of Whiting, a helper on the sUlk which exploded. The company estimated the damnge so far at $75,000, but. said that the total loss would be much larger because of the stoppage of production from the stills. They are expected to be out of commission indefinitely. Another fire three weeks ago damaged machinery producing another 24,000 barrels a day, and this machinery is not expected to be repaired until October. COAL INDUSTRY FACES CAR SHORTAGE CHICAGO, 111., Aug. 28. (UP) The coal industry faces the most severe railroad car shortage in its history, Fred A. Scheifer, chairman of the coal and coke committee of the industry's shipping advisory board, said toda'V The shortage will net be felt most acutely until the annual coal shipping peak later this year, he said, but it is already so se vere that a "big majority' of miners are beirig forced to close for one to five days a week because coal is being mined faster than it can be shipped. Scheifer, in a letter to industry consumers, coal dealers, and railroads, said that all of the United States coal handlers must load, unload and ship coal cars with the greatest speed to make full use of the avalaible cars. METHODIST FIRST QUARTERLY CONFERENCE AT MEROM FRIDAY NIGHT The first Quarterly Conference of the new year will be held nt Merom this Friday night at 7:30 with the pictures, "God's Stewards." After the picture Rev. S. W. Robinson will hold the Quarterly business session. All are urged to attend. Legion Aux. Head JS y : ' i fit , . i UNOPPOSED Tor 'the office of national president of the .women's, .' division of the American Legion, ' is Mrs. L. W. Hutton (above) ot ' Excelsior, Minn. She will succeed Mrs. Norton H.; Pearl, of, Detroit as the auxiliary meets: with the Legion-in the 29th annual conven- " tion In New York. Internacoaa

Assessors Lists Cit Combined Rate . Charles L. Davis, Jr., county assessor, has listed the combined rates in the various tax units in the- county. These are all subject to the approval of the State Board of Tax Commissioners. Mr. Davis points out that the total tax rate for any unit is made up of the several different rates asked. In. the case of a township, the total rate includes the township rate, the county rate, poor relief rate, state rate, and an accumulative building fund rate if the township has approved one. ' In the case of a town," Mr. Davis said, the total rate includes the town rate, the township rate, county rate, poor relief rate, state rate, and the accumulative building rate if the township has approved it. In Sullivan city, the total rate includes the city rate, the school rate, the county rate, library rate, township rate, poor . relief rate, and the state rate. The Sullivan city rate is composed of: Civil City';.; . ... .... .'. .. , $1.64 Schools . ..... ... 2.25 County :'..:.''.. '.. 1.545 Library . 1. . . .10 Township ........ . . . . .06 Poor relief .40 State 15 i Total $6,145

LABOR CHIEFS WONT SIGN AFFIDAVITS WASHINGTON, Aug. 28. (U.R) The American Federation of Labor hinted today that its top national officials may join C.I.O. leaders in refusing to sign the non-Communist affidavits required under the Taft-Hartley act. . ! ' Such a move would constitute a major boycott - of - the --.National. Labor Relations Board by the nation's two biggest labor organizations. Under the new law, officials must sign such . statements before their unions can get Wagner Act protection under the N.LJl.B. It would bar all A. F -.of L. unions as well as C.I.O. unions both national and local, from using the board's services. Robert N. Denham, new N.L.R.B. general counsel, said that the top national officials of both must swear that they are not Communists if their affiliates are to use the board's services. The A. F. of L. and the C I.O. together claim 13,000,000 workers and are the principal clients of the N.L.R.B. ' TOJO TELLS OF JAPANESE WAR, STEPS TOKYO, Aug, 28 (UP) Japan decided to go to war on Dec. 1, 1941, just" six days before ihe attack on Pearl Harbor, Former Premier Hediki Tojo testified in his war crimes trial today. Tojo was asked if it was true that no action nor Order was issued about the Pacific war until after the conference attended by Emperor Hirohito on Dec. 1. " The national . will-for-war was very far advanced in 1941," he replied, "but I do not believe, as premier, that any order was issued about declaring war before that time." , SET SERVICES FOR MISS EGBERT Funeral services for Miss Juretta Egbert, Sullivan High School teacher who died Tuesday night at the home of her mother, will be held Saturday morning. The services will be at 9:30 a. m. (Sullivan time) at the home of the mother near Martinsville. ' ATTENDS CONVENTION Charlie Parks and Mose Hampton of Sullivan left Tuesday morning from Indianapolis on the Hoosier Special for New York City to attend the American Legion convention. They will return next Tuesday. 1

GRISWOLD URGES GREEK AGREEMENT

Li' ATHENS, Greece, Aug. 28. (UP) Dwight E, Griswold, head of the American aid mission, today urged Greek leaders to ' quit arguing and form a broad coalition government to keep "any foreign power from seizing control of the Greek government." Premier - designate Constantin Tsaldaris announced that he will seek to form a government today even if he cannot win the co-operation of the rival factions. Griswold, who has been trying to reconcile the Populist (royalist) party and Themistocles Sofoulis, Liberal party head, called a press conference to make clear the American position. "We came here merely to prevent foreign aggression," he said, "and we are only interested in seeing a government in Greece with which we can do the job effectively." He said the American mission wanted to see all "elements united" and keep any "foreign power from taking control of the Greek government." RUSSIA AGAINST PLAN FOR EGYPT . LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., Aug.' 28 (UP) Brazil's proposal for sending the Angro-Egyptian dispute back into private negotiations won majority support ii the United Nations Security Council today when Colombia threw its key veto behind the plan. The Colombian decision, assured passage of the Brazilian proposal unless Russia kills it with a veto, ' ' Colombian Delegate Alfonso Lopez ended the mystery of Colombia's position after Soviet Delegate Andrei Gromyko denounced the Brazilian resolution as a move to make the Security Council "step aside and wash its hands in this important matter." Lopez served notice that Colombia would come back with some other proposal if the-. Council plan for resumption of AnglnEgyptian negotiations failed. . HOSPITAL NOTES Admitted Aug. 27: Mrs. Mar garet Riggs of Hymora. Dismissed Aug. 27: Karen Hall of Shelburn, R: 2; K.atnenne nail of Shelburn, R. 2; -Edgar Lowry of Carlisle, R. 3.; Set for Races 9. 1 i EX-WASP Margrete McGrath of San Francisco will fly this AT-6 trainer, equipped with experimental ranger engine, against the country's best women pilots in the HaUe trophy race Aug. 30 . fi.AlanB notlnnol air mPAR. Miss McGrath has 650 hours In j her log, Including 200 hours in i an AT-6. ' (International).

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Vet Contact Office In State To Close Closing of four Veterans Administration Contact offices in Indiana and discontiuance of state-wide itinerant contact service, both to be effected by September 30, was announced yesterday by Veterans Administration officials here. Contact offices ' in Bedford, Madison and Jasper will cease operations on September 12, and the Greenburg contact office will close September 19. Itinerant service to some 80 Indiana com-

munities will be discontinued August- 31. A budget reduction for the 1948 fiscal year necessitated this action, M. D. Cummins, Regional Manager of the Veterans Administration said. He added, however, that the majority, dtf. the personnel cut wts administrative, the branch which would least affect the Veterans Administration's service to Indiana veterans and their dependents. - The announced curtailment, together with one ordered earlier this summer, brought to 190 the total : personnel reduction since the Indiana Regional Office here was opened in April 1946. An original personnel ceiling of 1557 employees Was reduced to 1446. effective July 31, 1947, with the Finance, Personnel and Administration sections taking the heaviest cuts. Vocational Rehabilitation and Contact Service 'were the sections most affected by this last cut of 79 more employees. Mr. Cummins said that he has ascertained that certain community groups, including vettrans' service organizations, nil over the state are willing to take over some of the work formerly done by contact representatives of the Veterans Administration. He listed these organizations as the county service offices , and the service officers of the American Legion. Veterans of Foreign Wars, Disabled American Veterans, the Red Cross and the State Department of Veterans Affairs. "Each of these organizations has assured me that they will do all they can to help the veterans and their dependents with any problems they normally would take to the Veternas Administra tion", he said. . In addition, to closing the four contact offices, contact representatives at the Guidance Centers of Indiana, Purdue and Notre Dame Universities will be withdrawn effetive August 31. The contact representative at the Legion-News Veterans Center in Indianapolis also will be withdrawn. . Fourteen other full-time Veterans Administration offices throughout the state were not affected by the reduction and will continue normal operation. They are Marion, Muncie, Anderson, Bloomigton, : Evansville, Ft. Wayne, Kokomo, Lafayette, New Albany, Richmond, Seymour, South Bend, ' Terre Haute and Vincennes. Itinerant service, as needed, is scheduled for the four cities where full time contact offices will be closed. In cities ' where itinerant service will be discontinued, veterans should contact their local service officers, Cummins advised, or write or visit ther nearest Veterans Administration office for any matters pertaining to G.I. rights and entitlements. ' Both the Illinois and Wiscon sin regions, as well as the other Veterans Administration offices in the United States, are making a similar reduction-in-force to keep in line -with their approprations for fiscal 1948. BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT Mr. and .Mrs. Jack. Markey are the parents of a daughter born this morning at 3:52 o'clock at the Mary Sherman Hospital. She has been named Diane Elizabeth. She weighed eight pounds and three and one-half -ounces. Mrs. Markey is. the former Mary Jean Lowry of Sullivan. MISSIONARY TO SPEAK HERE N. B. Wright, a missionary who recently returned from China, will speak at the Church of Christ on East Jackson Street tonight at 7:30 o'clock. Mr. Wright spent the war years in China, and spent several months in a Jap internment camp. TODAY'S TEMPERATURE Sullivan's temperature is still reasonably cool today " and will probably remain about the same for the rest of the week. Today's temperature: At 7:30 a.m 74 degrees At noon ......,.... . 84 degrees

STATE HOUSE IN TEMPEST OVER OUSTER

INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 28. (U.R) A tempest in the State House over the firing of Lewis B. Smith from the State financial reponsibility division of the Indiana Motor Vehicle Bureau may strengthen the formation of the Republican "92 Club," some, political observers believed today. The Governor's office and other parts of the State House were in an uproar as charges and counter-charges were hurled between Smith's office, Governor Gates, the State Police, State Auditor A. V. Burch and State Republican Chairman Clark Springer. On the sidelines, Secretary of State Thomas E. Bath said he had signed statements from Major Robert O'Neal, police executive officer, and Detective Captain John Martin that they were "approached by Smith about ninety days ago." The statement said that Smith had offered to arrange for bribes of $500 a month for each of them if they would tip off the Chesterfield Club in Hendricks County about impending police raids. Smith, dismissed from his post late Tuesday, charged that he was a victim df "political dictators." He denied trying to "fix" the police officers and said he was fired because he helped organizs the "92 Club," composed of Republican county chairmen, without the consent of the Republican State leadership. Meanwhile, seven persons, described by Smith as key personnel, resigned in a body in protest against the "unfair" treatment of Smith. Bath announced the appointment of Victor F. Walmer of Marion to the $5,200 a year job from which Smith was ousted. Walmer recently lost his job as director of small loans and consumer credit for the State Department of Financial Institutions in a dispute with Joseph McCord, department director. Young Democrats Plan Convention INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Aug! 28. Young Democrats of Indiana, newly reorganized, are turning their attention to the national convention of Young Democratic Clubs to be held in -Cleveland, October 3 and 4. The Indiana delegation will offer as a candidate for national office, Miss Helen Warvel of Indianapolis. Miss Warvel was elected National Committeewoman from Indiana at the recent convention of Young Democrats in Indianapolis. She has been large ly responsible for reorganizing Young Democratic groups in Indiana, and her efforts have attracted attention of the national organization. The Cleveland meeting will be attended by a large group of Indiana Young Democrats. Heading the delegation will be John Walsh of Anderson, new national committeeman for Indiana; Miss Warvel, national committeewoman; Arthur Nordhoff, until recently national committeeman for Indiana; Marshall E. Hanley of New Albany, recently elected President of Indiana Young Democrats; Mrs. Mary Ochtum, East Chicago, vice-president; Jerome O'Dowd, Fort Wayne, Secretary, and Curtis Kimmell, Vincennes, Treasurer. The Indiana delegation is exr pected to show considerable strength in the convention which will be the first since 1941. Ben Adams Dies At Local Hospital Ben Adams, age 88, of Fairbanks, died this morning at the Mary Sherman Hospital at 5:40 o'clock. ' He Is survived by the widow, Ella, and a foster daughter, Mrs. Edith Parker, of Greencastle, Indiana. The body was taken to the DeBaun Funeral Home in Prairie Creek and will be removed to the. residence tomorrow afternoon. Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Kingsley Memorial Chapel.