Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 49, Number 180, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 9 September 1947 — Page 1

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A F L DISAGREES ON SIGNING OF AFFIDAVITS

CHICAGO, Sept. 9. (UP) Dissension was reported among members of the American Federation of Labor executive council who have apparently' disagreed on methods of fighting the Taft-Hartley law. The fifteen top officials, who determine the policy or the - A: F. of L.'s 7,500,000 members deferred a decision until Friday on whether the A. F. of L. officials should sign the affidavit certifying that they are not Communists. The affidavits are required by the new labor law. A. F. of L. President William Green announced yesterday before the opening of the council's quarterly meeting, that he would recommend that officials sign the cer

tificate. However, after a full day of closed meeting, Green said the decision had been postponed. Although Green would not confirm the report, it was understood that John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, and a member of the .council, led the opposition against signing the Paper. - vjaS3 PLAN MEETING ON TAFT-HARTLEY LABOR LAW INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 9. Requests of Indiana employers for reservations to attend the "TaftHartley Law Institute" in Indianapolis September 24 and 25 have forced its sponsors the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce and the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce to expand the meeting beyond the original attendance limitation of 200, Clarence A. Jackson, executive vice president of the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce, said today. Mr. Jackson and William H. Book, executive vice president of the Indianapolis chamber, have edvised their members that reservations may continue to be made for a limtied time. ' Latest addition to' the, .list of authorities who will a"3dress .the. two-day session' is William R. Ringer, chief trial examiner of the National Labor Relations Board. Mr. Ringer, former Indi anapolis attorney ' .will discuss! rules adopted; :by the ; board for administration of the new TaftHartley act, which became fully effective August 22. ' Congressman Fred A. Hartley, co-author of the act, will address a dinner meeting September 24, and Congressman Gerald Landis of Linton, ranking member of the House committee on1 education and labor, will speak at a luncheon on that day. Kurt F. Pantzer and Fred Anderson, Indianapolis attorneys, and Byron. J. Stewart of Anderson, assistant director of personnel of GMC's Delco-Remy Division, are among others scheduled as discussion leaders on the program. Mr. Jackson stressed the fact that the institute is to be a "workshop" meeting designed to improve labor relations in Indiana by creating a better understanding of the requirements set up by the Taft-Hartley legislation that completely revises the Wagner labor law under which employers and employees have operated for 12 years. Regular sessions of the institute will be held in the auditorium of the World War Memorial, with luncheons and the dinner at the Indianapolis Athletic Club. DOWNTOWN QUARTERBACKS TO MEET TONIGHT The first meeting of the Fall for the Downtown Quarterbacks Will be held at the Davis Hotel tonight at 6:30 o'clock. It will be the ninth season for the organi7ation, which is devoted to discussing football with the local coaches. It is expected that Coach Bill Jones and his assistants, C. N. Lucas and Harry Jarrett, will be present. It is planned to have the meetings every Tuesday night during the season. HOSPITAL NOTES Admitted Sept. 9: Mrs. Mary Ring of 419 South Court Street. Dismissed Sept. 9: Jess McCultough of 119 West Washington Street; Mrs. Louise Orr of 623 North Section Street. BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT Mr. and Mrs. Billy Ridgeway of Carlisle are the parents of a daughter, Cathy Ann, born September 8th at the Mary Shert .an Hospital.

TO ATTEND CORN DAY AT PURDUE Sullivan County farmers are invited to attend the annual Purdue Corn and Soybean Day to be held Friday, September 12 at the Soils and Crops Experimental Field

just east of Lafayette. . Farmers ' from throughout Indiana and adjoining states' are expected to be present. . " Recently launched fertility studies on heavy applications of fertilizers, and especially of nitrogen for corn, will be reviewed in the forenoon tour of the experimental plots. Much interest among farmers who are practicing heavy fertilization has been aroused and effects of the practice on various crops in the rotation, particularly corn and soybeans, will be shown. Results from experiments deal ing with the disposition of straw following grain harvest, which has been particularly " heavy for the last two years, will stress the importance of its removal if clover is to be saved. These and a number of other experiments will be covered in the eleven stops on the forenoon, tour. Fifty staff members of Purdue University will serve as instructors and guides for this session and others will participate in an afternoon program following a picnic lunch, served in the grove of the experimental field. Anyone desiring to attend the Purdue Corn and Soybean Day should contact the County Agent's Office in the Court House. A group will leave the Court House Friday morning. MEN TOP ALL DEPAUW RATINGS GREENCASTLE, Ind., Sept. 9. (Spl.) MWn's Hall Association,' independent men's group at DePauw .University, took first place in scholarship ratings of DePauw social organizations last semester for the fourth consecutive time, a report from Veneta J. Kunter, registrar, indicates. The report includes rankings of. all student groups during the spring semester, 1947. Alpha Gamma Delta sorority topped the Greek women's groups and was second to Men's Hall scholastically. Alpha Phi sorority girls stood third in the list, followed by Alpha Omicron Pi .in fourth place. ' .,.v, . Heading DePauw's .twelve "'national fraternities scholastically is Delta Chi, followed by Beta Theta Pi in second;? place among the men's groups. - The report also shows that DePauw's women students stand -a few points above the men in scholarship, while the campus G.I.'s fall a few points below the average for all men students. In a. broader classification not limited to social groups, the nonveteran men students stood highest, followed closely by the sorority girls. Scholastid ratings of 790 veterans and 294 non-veterans were 'included in the report. I INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 9. (U.P.) Hogs, 10,000; moderately active; weights 160 lbs. and up, 50c lower; lighter weights steady; sows not fully established, indications about 50c lower; good and choice barrows and gilts, 190-250 lbs., $28.50$28.75; 160-190 lbs. and 250-280 lbs., $27.75 $28.25; 280300 lbs., $26.75 $27.25; 300-400 lbs., $24.75 $26.25; 100-160 lbs., $22.75 $25.25; early sales sows, $20.50 $25.50; choice light weights slightly higher. Cattle, 2,400; calves, 600; , generally steady, active; steers and hefiers about steady; good light to medium weight steers, $27.50 $31.00; choice 1240 lbs., $23.50 $24.50; choice light weights, $31.50 $33.00; fed yearlings, $25.00 $26.00; common and medium grassers, $18.00 $23.00; good and choice 850-lb. heifers, $29.25; medium to good, $25.00 $28.50; good beef cows largely $17.50 $19.00; common and medium, $14.25 $17.00; fed yearlings, $25.00 $26.00; common' and medium grassers, $18.00 $23.00. Sheep, 1,000; fat lambs steady; early sales good and choice fat native Spring lambs, $23.00 $25.00; medium to good, $19.50 $23.00; good and choice fed Texas yearlings. $20.00; slaughter ewes steady, $5.50 $7.50. BALL STATE HAS BIG ENROLLMENT MUNCIE, Sept. 9 Registration for all students was held at Ball State Teachers College Monday with more than 2,500 enrolling. A four-day orientation period for 1,000 freshmen closed Sunday night with an all-school sing. Nearly 30 new faculty members have been added to the staff.

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JUDGE RULES AFFIDAVITS ; CONSTITUTIONAL

FORT WORTH, Texas, Sept. 9 (UP) The anti-Communist provisions of the Taft-Hartley labor law .were upheld today in the first of the major court tests of the new code. Federal District Judge T. Whitfield Davidson ruled the government . "had the constitution?; right to limit the action of any agency who attempted to destroy representative government by the institution of Communism." The decision was rendered on a petition by the Fort Worth local of the C.I.O. oil workers union asking for an injunction to prevent the National Labor Relations Board from forcing union officials to sign affidavits denying Communist affiliations. Union attorneys argued that the law is discriminatory and unconstitutional because it forces Union officials to submit affidavits but does not require the same action from employers. GANDHI TO TRY" TO END RIOTS IN NEW DELHI NEW DELPHI, India, Sept. 9 (UP) Mohandus K. Ganhdi, India's "saint", arrived in fireswept, riot-torn New . Delphi today determined to make a supreme personal effort to halt the bloodiest religious outbreak that has ever swept the Indian capital and the nearby no-man's land of Punjah. Special precautions were being taken, to insure the safety bf Americans in this Hindu capital where violence raged yesterday and last night. Six police officers were detailed to provide a special guard for Ganhdi. Threats have been directed against the 78-year-old leader by his own Hindu people as a result of his campaign to halt the 'war hich has claimed thousands pf jives, 'and destroyed millions V of dollars' worth, of property.. " ' ' Ganhdi , left, the train1 at a station in a ''suburb 'Of New Delphi, where he was"!met.by D; J.'Berla, millianaire' Indian isteel ; magnate and industrialist. -Berlahas turned over his home;to the Mahatma. STATE POLICE WARN AGAINST ARMED GANG INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 9 (UP) State Police said today that a heavily-armed gang, including two women, was responsible for a series of southern Indiana and other midwestern robberies. A state police elert described the gang as "one of the most dangerous in the midwest" and warned all units' to maintain a close outlook for them. Troopers said they believed the gang, whose ringleader is listed as ex-convict Frank Nichols, age 43, and Red Seno, age 40, both of Chicago, was back in Indiana after a 1,300 mile holdup jaunt last week. Nichols and Seno are believed to be responsible for jewelry store robberies in Vincennes and Jeffersonville, state police said. They believe the gang is also responsible for unreported gambling house robberies i southern Indiana. The gang is also wanted in connection with the shooting of two Jeffersonville police officers. Two women, one a blond and the other a brunette and a man who drives the automobile, are accompanying Nichols and Seno, troopers said. The identity of the other members of the gang has not been established. ' GERMAN GENERAL WINS ACQUITTAL MUNICH, Germany, Sept. 9(UP) Lieut. General Otto,Scorseny, war-time commander of the Nazi 140th Panzer brigade, and seven other officers were acquitted . by the Dachau war crimes court today of charges involving the use of American Army uniforms for infiltration and espionage in the battle of the Bulge.

BILL BEACH IS NEW ASSISTANT COUNTY AGENT

v Bill Beach of Gibson County beean his duties this week as as sistant' County agent of Sullivan County. Bill is a native of Pike Countv and a graduate of the Mt. Olympus High School with vhe class of 1938 and was a member of the 1942 graduating class of Purdue University. He taught agriculture one year in Pike Pnnrvtv and four vears in Gibson County. He served as assistant county agent this past summer in Gibson County. While teaching vocational agri culture. Bill was the leader of three local 4-H Clubs. In addi tion, he has coached 'livestock, grain, and dairy judging teams which have won district and state contest honors. Bill was president of both the adult leaders and 4-H Club council organization in Gibson County. Bill was an active member in the Princeton Lions Club, the Gibson County Rural Youth Club, the Ae Alumni Association, the young rural married couples club and the Gibson County i arm Bureau. It is honed that the success which Mr. Beach has had in the past with young " couple's clubs will continue in Sullivan County. The vacancy which is being taken by Mr. Beach as assistant County agent was left by Ralph E. Watkins, last May. Lowell E. Meyer, served as County ,,.4-"i Club Agent during the summer months. V, ;. Mr. Beach is married and he and -Mrs, Beach have already taken, up their residence in Sulli van. ENTER IN WISCONSIN WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 (UP) Harold E. Stassen predicted to day a "wide open race for the 1948 Republican Presidential nomination and said he would onen a national drive for conven tion delegates about the middle of November. He foresaw the possibility that the Wisconsin primary would provide a three-cornered race between himself; Governor Thomas E. Dewey, of New York, and General Douglas MacArthur. SHIRLEY GREGGS . GIVEN COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP Shirley Ann Greggs, of Farmersburg, who was one of the two girls from Sullivan County attending the Indiana State Fair School for girls, was awarded a scholarship to Indiana State Teachers' College at Terre Haute. This announcement was . made last Thursday evening by Mrs. Clyde Williams, director of the school. This award amounts to 9.00. Miss Greggs is one of the two girls to receive this type of scholarship. Gene Easter's lightweight Angus was one of the several hundred calves sold the last day of the State Fair last week. Gene's calf placed ninth in its class of 100 steers and brought a price of 35 cents per pound. The Grand Champion sold for $3.05. CALLED TO BEDFORD Mr. and Mrs. Herschel Bennett were called to Bedford, Indiana due to the death of Mrs. Bennett's brother-in-law, Thomas Brennan. Mr. Brennan was the father of Mrs. Howard Sweet who lived in Sullivan during the war when her husband served overseas. . 1

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NAVY PLEASED WITH ROCKET FIRING TESTS

. WASHINGTON, Sept. 9. (UP) -Every coastline in the world was potentially in the range of American guided missiles today following the launching ' of V-2 rockets for the first time by a ship at sea. ' -" ,. Military " leaders acclaimed a "new' era" in naval warfare after watching the 45,000-tori aircraft carrier Midway successfully launch a captive German V-2 rocket from its massive decks last Saturday somewhere near Bermuda. The secret tests proved that the 28,000-pound weapons can be fired from anywhere on the high seas. Heretofore, the missiles, whose range is reported as 350 miles, have been fired only from land bases. ' . The demonstration also promised to give new fuel to those who believe that the day of the battleship is over. Besides launching the usual fleet of airplanes, rocket-firing carriers could stand off shore and bombard land installations with far greater power than the present-day battlewagons. . High Navy officials were pleased over the fact that the launching machine "functioned property" and in no way hindered planes from taking off from the decks immediately after the missiles. V A TO CRACK DOWN ON SALES OF BAD HOUSES WASHINGTON. Sept. 9. (UP) The Veterans Administration, alarmed at repeated reports of shoddy construction of some of the new homes that are - being sold to ex-servicemen, served notice today that-tt will "get tough" to prevent the sale of badly-built houses to former G. I. s. . The V.A. said complaints are being received daily from disgruntled G. I.'s who haye purchased homes. The reports cited structural,-, damages,; defective hpntincr units.iwet cellars unf ino . jshed landscaping, and ;'"a score of other matters jjoo numerous to itemize." ' The agency, in a, "technical re port" sent to appraisers r and to banks and other lending agencies, blamed both the V.A. appraisers and the .lending agencies for their failure to catch such defects during the inspection. v NEW FOOTBALL SCOREBOARD BEING ERECTED H. C. Gilmore, principal of the Sullivan High School, announced today that the new electric scoreboard for Sportland Field will be installed this week, and he hopes to have it in operation when Bloomington's Panthers invade Sullivan for the opening home football game for the Golden Arrows. Mr. Gilmore said that the new scoreboard if the latest type that could be purchased. He compared it with the new board which Linton High School has installed and said that it is about twice as big. The Linton board, he stated, is eleven feet long, while the new Sullivan board is twenty-two feet long. The new board will be located on the north side of the field. R. G. HERIN DIES IN ST. LOUIS R. G. Herin, 50-year-old veteran of World War I, died Monday morning at six o'clock at the Vet erans' Hospital In St. Louis, Mis souri, following a prolonged illness. The deceased was a brother of George Herin, 420 North Section Street, Sullivan. Other survivors are the widow, Glen of Vincennes, and one daughter, Mrs. Robert O'Neil .of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Funeral services will be held tomorrow in St. Louis with continued services at the graveside in the Fairview Cemetery at VincenneS. Rev. Jack Anderson of the Sullivan First Christian Church will conduct the grave services.

PLAN CONTEST ON COST OF GRID COSTUME The Sullivan High School has announced that a contest in connection with the cost of the equipment that each Arrow football player wears in a game will be conducted in Sullivan this week. The blanks for the contest will be found in The Times and will also be available at Boyle's News Stand. H. C. Gilmore said that in order to allow the fans to see

just what a football player has on in an actual game, a display of a complete outfit will be placed in the window at the News Stand. The prizes for the persons coming closest to the actual cost of the outfit will be season tickets to all the Golden Arrows' home games'. Mr. Gilmore said that all entries must be at The Times office before noon Friday and that the winner will be announced in the Friday i edition of The Times. Mr. Gilmore stated that the reason behind the contest is to show the fans what the local school must pay for outfitting a football team and to explain why the local school has raised the admission prices to this year's home games.' TWO OF A KIND TAKE POT IN FRIENDLY GAME - INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Sept. 9. (UP) Mr. and Mrs. William Bilsky reported to police today that two bandits broke up a "friendly" poker game and took $2,500 from the players and a $3,000 diamond ring from Mrs. Bilsky. Chief of Police Jesse McMurtry said first reports of the players' losses apparently were low. He said the total loot would run somewhere between $5,000 and $20,000, in addition to Mfrs. Bilsky's ring. He said detectives had learned that the Bilskys and their friends played poker twice a week with a $100 4imit 0 all games. "No one seems to know just how much was in last night's game," a detective' said today; GOVERNMENT 1 ;: PAYS MILLIONS TO CASH BONDS ; . WASHINGTON, ' Sept! 9;-i5(yR), The''Federal government paid? out more than S437,0p0,d(0 te re-; deem veterans' ternynarleaYeS bonds in the first fiv6 days of bond-cashing, the Treasury announced today. The payments included some $420,000,000 principal ' and $17,000,000 interest. More than $1,800,000,000 worth of bonds were issued originally. The rush to exchange the fiveyear, 2'2 per cent securities for cash started last Thursday when banks and other financial institutions paid out about $154,000,000 to veterans. VOLUNTARY RENT INCREASE PLAN FIZZLES WASHINGTON. Sept. 9. (UP) The voluntary rent increase provision of the new rent control law isn't going over very well, Frank R. Creedon, housing expeditor, has revealed. His rent experts said in most cases the tenant or the landlord apparently has decided to take his chances on what may happen March 1 when the rent controls expire. Creedon, who also is rent director, said only 6 per cent of the landlords and the ' tenants under Federal control ceilings had agreed on voluntary rent rises by the end of August. Under the statute, tenants and landlords have until Dec. 31 to make the voluntary deals. In re turn for the tenant's agreement to pay up to 15 per cent more rent, the landlord must provide a lease running at least through 1948. FRENCH CUT GASOLINE RATION PARIS, Sept. 9. (UP) The French government today cut off gasoline rationing to all but the very small automobiles in a dollar-saving measure. BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT Mr. and Mrs. Sam R. Hamilton Jr. announce the birth of a dau ghter, Marilyn Sue, born September 5th at the Mary Sherman (Hospital.

BRITISH BATTLE JEWS AS TROOPS FORCE THE REFUGEES TO SHORE : Troops Use Fire Hoses, Police Clubs, And Rubber Truncheons To Batter The Jews Into Submission. HAMBURG, Germany, Sept. 9. (UP) British troops today carried scores of bloody, battered Jews out of the holds of the refugee ship Runnymede"after turning powerful fire hoses on the defiant refugees and beating them into submission with clubs and police billies. ' The British army reported casualties as 'seventeen Jewish men, seven Jewish women, four Jewish women hospital

ized because of hysteria, and BLAST WRECKS RIVER BOAT AT PITTSBURGH PITTSBURGH, Pa. Sept. 9 (UP) A tremendous explosion ripped the excursion steamer Island Queen today as it lay docked at city wharf in the Monongahela River. At least one man was killed and seventeen persons injured seriously, with an unestimated number missing. It was believed that more than seventy ' crew j members were aboard the steamer. Coroner William McClelland said the death toll might reach twenty or thirty. However, he said it would take hours to determine the exact number. Flames swept the $500,000 pleasure boat owned by the Coney Island Corporation, of Cincinnati. Members of the crew were hurled into the river by the blast. Police and fire boats and river steamers sailed as close to the flaming boat as possible to pick up survivors. One member of the crew said after he was rescued that workers were welding in the furnace room of the boat and he believed an oil tank exploded. The boat was docked on the south side of ,.the river near the city's Golden Triangle district. The; blast .shattered windows in buildings- in the wharf area. Parts of the steamer were hurled four blocks. OFFERS NEW WAGE SCALE SOUTH BEND, Ind., Sept. 9 (UP) Paul G. Hoffman, chair man of the Studebaker director's board, today announced a new plant-wide raise proposition of 20 per cent over the current base rate providing the hourly passenger automobile production is stepped up 12 per cent and the truck production is stepped up 17 per cent. Hoffman said the proposal would be withdrawn unless .accepted by the C.I.O. United Automobile Workers union in time to go into effect by next Monday. Company officials had no estimate on how many additional automobiles and trucks would be produced under the new sche dule. Studebaker employs workers at its plant in Bend.- . 14,000 South BLOOMINGTON WINS OPENING GAME Bloomington's Panthers, who play the Golden Arrows" at Sportland Field Friday night, opened their 1947 season with a 13-0 victoryover the New Castle Trojans last night. The Panthers scored a touchdown in each half to win the game. ELECTED BAR ASSOCIATION HEAD Judge Karl Parker Vosloh, of Linton, has been elected president of the Greene County Bar Association at a meeting held recently in the court house at Bloomfield. NEW SUITS Lena Williamson vs. Arlie Williamson. Complaint for divorce, custody and support. TODAY'S TEMPERATURES v The unofficial temperatures in Sullivan today were: At 7:30 a. m. . ( 72 degrees At noon !...... 78 degrees

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three British troops injured

The most serious miuries were said to be a Jewish man with a fractured skull and a British trooper with head injuries. Three persons suffered broken ribs, a Jewish man, a Jewish woman, and a British soldier. Troops of the 6th Airborne Division the famous Red Devils Sherwood Forest troops and police fought their way into tha holds when the Jews defied orders to disembark from the ship. They played smashing streams from high-pressure fire hoses on Ithe refugees and then entered the holds wearing steel helmets, j carrying wooden police billies and rubber truncheons. I A fierce battle in the bowels of the ship was fought. Five 'separate groups of troops were sent into the ship to fight the refugees into submission. The refugees left with blood streaming from their heads and wounds on their arms as they were bodily carried from the I holds in a display that made the unloading of the ucean vigor yesterday seem like a tea party. The Jews screamed, shouted and clawed as the troopers stoically handed them from one party to another, just as firemen pass buckets at a bucket brigade. Between thirty and forty Jaws appeared to have suffered severe wounds in the battle but an accurate count was not possible immediately as the decks were full of troops and Jews. The Jews had clustered together in the hold singing Jewish hymns and anthems. They had ripped out at least one staircase in an effert' to. impede he iroops as they came to grips wijh them. GARY ADULTS TO; FACE; GRAND JURY CHARGES GARY, Ind., Sept. 9. (UP) Prosecuting Attorney Ben Schwartz said today that he would ask the grand jury to take criminal action against adults who have aided and abetted a student strike against Negro students at the Emerson School here. Schwartz asked officials of the school yesterday to turn over to him the names of all adults who are known to have helped foment the strike. He said he would present evidence to the grand jury to charge them with inciting racial hatred, which is against Indiana law. . More than 1,300 of the 1,750 students at the combined grade and high school left classes on the first day of school a week ago to day. They struck under protest of the Gary School Board rezoning program' which sent 38 Negro students tc the first three grades at Emerson. AH Negroes in Gary formerly were sent to one school. Only about 650 of the students had returned today, but the subdistrict director of the C.I.O. United Steel Workers had advised all members to assist in urging the rest to return. . ROTARY CLUB SEES FILMS The Rotary Club saw 16 mm color flims shown by Dr. Irvin Scott at the noon meeting at the Davis Hotel Monday. The films were taken on a recent trip that Dr. Scott took through the New England States and Nova Scotia. James Walters of Carlisle, was a guest at the meeting. JAYCEES PLAN WEDNESDAY PARTY The Sullivan Junior Chamber of Commerce is planning a stag party to be held at the City Park on Wednesday, Sept. 10, starting at 6 p. m. All members are urged to be present for the stag.