Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 49, Number 182, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 11 September 1947 — Page 1

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WEATHER 1 -v- 1 ; . '. , Only Daily COOLER FRIDAY Indiana: Mostly cloudy bith scattered thundershowers tonight and Friday. Cooler Friday. SULLIVAN COUNT! VOL. XLIX No. 182 UNITED PRESS SERVICE SULLIVAN DAILY TIMES THURSDAY, SEPT. 11, 1947, INTERNATIONAL PICTURE SERVICE PRICE THREE CENTS

UNIONS FIGHT SPIRALLING FOOD PRICES CHICAGO, Sept. 11 (UP) The price of hogs and wheat soared to new all-time highs on Chicago exchanges today while in the other large cities C.l.O. 'unions began arrive to combat the spiraling food prices. . Good and choice hogs sold for $30.50 a hundred pounds at Chicago, the world's largest meatpacking center. On Chicago's Board of Trade, September wheat jumped to 12.84 a bushel and December wheat sold for $2.87 a bushel, the highest prices ever paid for wheat delivered in September and December. Corn and oats, however, failed to top 'yesterday's record price. At Detroit, a local of the C.l.O. United Automobile Workers set up a grocery store in p, union hall to sell food -to members at cost. A local representing the Ford Motor Company workers earlier this week bought $1,500

worth of canned goods and fiold out the entife supply in a, few hours. Today, a local representing 16,000 workers at the Briggs Manufacturing Company authorized the expenditure of $10,000 to open a grocery in the union hall. Union 1 officials said the' local store would carry everything but perishable goods. The groceries will be sold at cost by the union officials who will serve as grocery clerks without pay. At Toledo, the ; joint C.l.O. council voted to begin a vast picketing of food stores to display the feeding of the American workers. No date 'has been set for the start of the picketing. v. INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 11. UP) Hogs, 9,500;. opened moderately active; weights 100-225 lbs. steady; 225 lbs. and up, 25c higher; sows strong to 50c higher; good and choice 500 lbs. and down, $22.00 $25.75; barrows and gilts, 225-250 lbs., $29.25; 160225 lbs .and 250-280 lbs., $28.50 $29.00; 160-190 lbs'., $28.25; 280300 lbs., $27.50 $28.00; 300-400 lbs., $25.50; 100-160 lbs., $22.75 $25.25. ' Cattle, 1,100; calves, 600; steers and heifers slow, narrow demand, yearlings steady; light to medjum weight medium to . good steers, $27.00; medium to good fed yearlings, $23.00 $26.00; common to medium mixed yearlings and heifers, $16.00 $23.00; good beef cows, $17.00 $19.00; common and medium, $14.00 $16.50; vealers largely active, steady; good and choice, $26.00 $28.50; common and medium, $15.50 $25.00. Sheep, 1,000; fat lambs weak to 50c lower; slaughter ewes about steadv; good and choice fat native Spring lambs, S22. 50 $24.50; medium to good, $19.50 $22.00; common, $19 00 down: good snd choice slaughter ewes, $5.50 $7.50. MRS. M. RANSFORD DIES WEDNESDAY Mrs. Maude Ransford, age 61, died at 4 o'clock Wednesday afternoon v at the Mary Sherman Hospital. Her home was three miles north of Shelburn. She is survived by the husband, Eugene; a son, Edward Ransford, and a sister, Mrs. Charles Woodsmall of Shelburn. Mrs. Ransford was a member of the Concord Church of Christ and of the Fairbanks chapter of the Eastern Star; The body was taken to the McHugh Funeral Home. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Friday at the Concord Church. Burial will be in the Pogue Cemetery. NTGHT-BLQOMimi CEREUS BLOOMS A night-blooming cereus, owned by Mrs. Hattie Robinson, of Shelburn, bloomed last night for the first time in the four years that Mrs. Robinson has had the plant. The flower is a native of the Philippines, and is a member of the cactus family, although it has the fragrance of a lily. The flower opens at night, and usually is fully open about midnight. The bloom last night was about right inches across when it was fully opened. Mrs. Robinson said that there are four other buds on the plant, and that if the weather stays warm, these will probably bloom, too.

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GARY POLICE ARREST-BOY IN -7 SCHOOL STRIKE GARY, Ind., Sept. 11 (UP) One boy was under arrest and authorities began presecuting parents and striking students at Emerson School as they moved to prevent an anti-Negro . strike from spreading to other schools. A 16-year-old pupil from Tolleston School, across from Emerson, was arrested yesterday and turned over to juvenile authorities after he attended a meeting of Emerson striking students and parents. Police said he had been agitating for a strike at his school. Picket lines formed outside

Tolleston yesterday, but police and school officials broke them uo. Only about 50 of Tolleston's 400 pupils stayed away from classes and authorities said this was a normal absentee rate. City officials warned that they would arrest all students who had not returned to classes today, ana adult leaders of the strike also faced arrest. ' Only 500 of Emerson's 1,750 students reported for class yesterday. CANTEEN TO OPEN FRIDAY NIGHT The Dart 'n' Arrow Canteen will be opened for the school year after the Bloomington-Sul-livan football game Friday night, Mrs. Ella Briggs said today.' The canteen has been repainted and redecorated since it was closed last spring, and is now ready for the members. Mrs. Briggs emphasized that the canteen is open to all the high school pupils' in the county, and that all are welcome to attend the opening night this Friday. Mrs. Briggs said that for the opening night, music would be player by the Sunny-Siders. LABOR HEAD TO TALK AT MEROM Edward Mertz, head of the Farmer's Educational Association of America, will speak on farmer-labor problems at Merom on Sunday, Sept. 14, at 2:30 p. m. The meeting will be held on the campus of Merom College and is part of the educational i program of the U.A.W.-C.I.O. now being conducted at the college, v . In case of rain, the speaker will appear in the main dining hall. All farmers, laborers, and other interested persons are invited to attend. RIVERVIEW NINE LOSES GAME - The Riverview baseball team lost a poorly played game to the Rafters Tavern nine from Terre Haute by a score of 9 to 2 last Sunday. Next Sunday the Riverview team will play the Shelburn Grays at Riverview. There will be games on the Riverview diamond, for the remainder of the season. . ( Not THE Rube IN HOBOKEN Jail in New Jersey, James Meehan sadly contemplates the end of an impersonation that brought him a ten-day sentence.Arrested in New, York City for intoxication, he told a magistrate that he was the famed ball player Rube Marquard. Sympathetically dismissing the charge, the magistrate dug into his pocket and gave him five dollars. Picked up the followIng night on the same charge in Hoboken, Meehan's , true identity came out and the jaii sentence followed. The real Marquard works at arace track. " t (International),

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S INITIATED BY NEPTUNE ABOARD THE BATTLESHIP MISSOURI, Sept. 11 (UP) King Neptune let President Truman off easy today, but he gave Presidential Assistant John R. Stessen and others the works. : The works involved a mustard massage, a dose of quinine, a dunking in a pool, and a cound paddling by sailors swinging canvas clubs. Bearded old Neptune Rex passed out justice as President Truman and 1,500 other polliwogs were converted into rhellbacks by crossing the Equator en route home from the Rio de Janeiro conference. The President had to make a speech and his daughter, Margaret, had to sing "Anchors Aweigh" as part of the tradition-: al hazing ceremony that ' marks an Equator crossing. But they were spared the rough treatment meted out to Steelman, dignified Stanley Woodward, Department of State protocol chief, and others. BOOST STEEL PRODUCTION UNION URGES WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 (UP) The. United Steel Workers, C.I.O., today urged the- im mediate expansion of the na- i tion's steel capacity with the ' government building and leasing i the plants if necessary. i Assertion that the failure to expand the steel capacity will mean "real depression and un- j unemployment, utis jiruoaKer maintained that the industry itself should maintain the responsibility for the increased capacity. The union view was expressed in a . statement in a statement prepared for delivery before a Senate small business subcommittee on steel by Brubaker, the U.S.N, research director. DUGGER OPENS ' SEASON FRIDAY Dugger's Bulldogs will travel to Jeffersonville Friday to open their1 football season against the Red Devils in a game starting at 7:30 p. m. The Dugger outfit is reported to be a little stronger than the Bulldog team of last year than won five games and lost , four. The Dogs beat the Red Devils last year by a score of 20 to 13. GENERAL LEE RETURNING HOME ROME, Italy, Sept. 11 (UP) Lt. Gen. John C. H. Lee today told a press conference that he would be leaving for the United States next week to await retirement under United States Army orders. Lee said his departure would be taken under orders issued by the Secretary of War on June 10. He did not comment on charges made by Columnist Robert Ruark against him, but said he might do so later. ANDERSON-NICCUM VOWS READ Mrs. Aldona , Anderson of Sullivan announces the marriage of her daughter, Mary Jean, to Norman Kenneth Niccum, son of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Niccum of West Terre Haute. The vows were read at Indianapolis Saturday, August 23. Their attendants were Mr. and Mrs. Frank Aue of Terre Haute. Mr. and Mrs. Niccum will make, their home in Terre Haute where the bridegroom is employed. ANNOUNCE APPROACHIM3 MARRIAGE Mrs. Alma Fern Raley of Sul livan announces the approaching , oaugnier, Eileen Raley, to Lester W. Wright, son of Lex Wright. The wedding will take place Sunday, September 21st at 4:30 o'clock at Indianapolis. Both are praduatas of Sullivan High School. A reception will follow the ceremony at the church. TODAY'S TEMPERATURES Today's unofficial temperatures in Sullivan were: i At 7:30 a. m. ........ 78 degrees At noon 86 degrees

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JOHNSON SAYS; LESS COAL TO BE AVAILABLE WASHINGTON, ' Sept. 14 (UP) Director J. Monroe Johnson, of the office of defense transportation, said today ' that less coal would be available to consumers because of the freight car shortage. He also said he has proposed a thirty-day embargo on coal exports from the north Atlantic ports to relieve the freight car shortage.. He added that he . wasn't sure a ' thirty-day embargo would be enough. James Boyd, chief of the Interior Department's Bureau of Mines, disclosed that the presidential committee studying this nation's ability to meet Europe's needs, had discussed the embargo. He said that the Department of State had also "wrestled" with the problem". Boyd said that the proposed embargo would very seriously hit England and the occupied countries, who are now on a hand-to-mouth existence and depend on American coal. COMPLETE PLANS FOR DEMOCRATIC FALL SESSION SHELBYVILLE, Ind., Sept. 11 Committees of the Indiana ' Democratic Editorial Association are busy with final arrangements for the organization's fall outing to be held Friday and Saturday, Sept. 19 and 20 at the French Lick Springs Hotel, Marion T. Ayers, president of the association, said today. j Mr. Ayers said advance reservations indicate a record crowd will attend and he predicted that j approximately 1,000 persons will be present for the Saturday night banquet which will climax the i . . rrti l . l iwu-aay meeting. ine Danquei i will be addressed by Robert S. I Kerr, former Governor of Oklahoma and a leading figure in Democratic national politics. There will be a program ' of games and entertainment on Fri day night, Mr, Ayers said, and the annual breakfast for editors will be held Saturday morning. At the time of the editors' meeting, there will be a session of the Indiana Democratic Committee, Pleas E. Greenlee, state chairman, said. The state committee meeting will be held in the, game room at the hotel while the editors will conduct their session in the hotel's main dining room. Resolutions will be adopted at th-g editors, meeting and routine business wfll be taken up. There will be no election of officers, that matter of business being a part of the mid-winter meeting held each year in Indianapolis Brother Like Brother HUNTINGTON, Ind. (UP) Russell E. Key, 32, walked into the Indiana state prison and met 'his brother, who is serving his last year of a burglary sentence, Key was sentenced to two 14year terms on a forgery conviction.

JASONVILLE MINE INSPECTED

A Federal coal mine inspector has reported reasonably good adherence to the Federal Mine Safety Code for strip mines at theMaumee Collieries Company's 2,000-ton-a-day No. 28 mine, four miles southeast of Jasonville,; the Bureau of Mines announced to day. When examined in July by Inspector W. B. Dalrymple, the Greene County mine had 80 em ployees. Since a previous inspection, the explosives-storage magazine had been abandoned and the daily supply of explosives was being stored satisfactorly on the highwall in portable magazines, the inspector reported. He also commended ; the placing . of a warning sign at the railroad crossing ' near the preparation plant, provision for first-aid supplies, wearing f approved clothing by haulagemen, and use of a protective hat by one of the two ground cen at the coal shovel. Recommending that the second groundman at the shovel also wear a protective hat, the inspector proposed the wearing of safety-toe foot-wear by all employees and snug-fitting clothing by men around machinery, use of nonsparking tools for opening containers of explosives, and frame grounding of motors of purrms in the pit and overburden drills. BUS DRIVER SAVES PASSENGERS CHICAGO, Sept. 11 (UP) Quick action by the driver of a stalled bus apparently saved several persons from injury in a two-bus collision that killed a woman and injured twenty-four. Robert Williams, the driver, stalled his bus as he was unloading passengers. He saw another bus coming at his vehicle, and he jumped from 'the bus and pushed passengers away from the vehicle. WABASH VALLEY HORSESHOE TOURN(MENT TO BE HELD SUNDAY The Wabash Valley Horseshoe pitchers will hold their double horseshoe tournament' at Deming Park starting at 10 o'clock Sunday, September 14th. There will be a small entry fee. Everyone is invited to see the stars pitch off. MARRIAGE LICENSES Joe Basil West, Coalmont, Indiana and Marjorie Rose Collins, Sullivan. , Hosea Park Shipman, Depot Street, Sullivan and Lela Agnes Bean, 127 South Holloway Street, Sullivan. DOZIER SUFFERS HEART ATTACK Hubert Dozier, manager of the Shell Service Station at the cor ner of Jackson and Section streets, suffered a severe heart attack last night. He is confined to his home. Disaster Taken Care Of SPOKANE, Wash. (UP) The disaster relief committee of the Red Cross provided a new artificial limb for Carl O. Brostrom, whose wooden leg went up in smoke when fire swept the Swanson Hotel here.

DEMOCRATS TO PICKHANLEY AS CANDIDATE MUNCIE, Ind., Sept. 11 (UP) Democratic county chairmen and vice-chairmen from ' ten counties in Indiana's Tenth Congressional4 District will meet here tonight to nominate a candidate for Congress, but state leaders of both major parties had already launched a vigorous battle' for the vacant seat. In what appeared to be a cut and dried affair, Muncie automobile dealer Frank Hanley was expected to be nominated unanimously by the twenty delegates. If nominated, he will oppose the Republican candidate Ralph Harvey, Mt, Summit farmer and state legislator for the seat made vacant by the death of Republican Raymond Springer two weeks ago. State Democratic Chairman Pleas Greenlee said in Indianapolis that Hanley was expected to get the nomination. He said that "eight of the others" were mentioned for the post, but, that he did not : expect any other names to be placed in nomina-

US TO HAVE " LESS FOOD FOR OTHER NATIONS. . WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 UP) The Department of . State today threw another jarring note into the world's critical food situation with the disclosure that this country would have at least 10 per cent less food for export this year than they had last year. ,.The Department of State's announcement was : made amid those other developments: 1. Senator Ralph Flanders, R., Vt., urged the Chicago Board of Trade to boost its margin requirements from 40 percent to the full 100 per cent on corn and wheat to halt speculation and spiraling prices. ' - 2. Department of Agriculture officials saw some - hope ' on 3 break in the grain prices when the drought-hit corn crop hit the maket. But they refused to say if it would effect retail i"ood prices. , 3. Flanders, who is chairman of the joint Congressional subcommittee investigating food prices in the East, said his committee didn't think much of the return of price ceilings. LINTON GETS NEW FIREWAGON The Linton Fire Department is testing the new $7,000 fire truck which arrived in Linton recently. The truck ha3 a 500-gallon boost er tank which will be ready for instant use, without the need of hooking up to fire hydrants. Fisherman 11 RAINBOW TROUT Is part of day's catch for Gen, Dwight D. Eisenhower at Bnile, Wis., as the Army chief of staff enjoys brief fishing trig, jaJj(t (Interaatioaall

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THERE IS TIME FOR YOUR GUESS Just in case you haven't turned in your guess on how much money is wrapped around a football player in equipment when he stepson a gridiron, it isn't too late to do so. The Times will print the coupon that is used to make the estimate tonight it got lost in the shuffle last night. So far there have been a few entries, but they haven't been too close to the actual cost or at least what we . think is about right. H. C. Gilmor still' hasn't divulged the exact figure. Bring your coupons to the Times office or the News Stand, and if you didn't get around to clipping the coupon out of the

Times, there are additional ones at the Times office and at the News Stand for you to put your guess on. Remember, all coupons must be in before noon Friday to be eligible for the prize of two adult season tickets to the winner and one adult season ticket to the person making the second best guess. Mr. Gilmore said yesterday that the same arrangement has been made for the students. Two student season tickets will be given to the pupil making the best estimate, and a single ticket to the one making the second best estimate. TRUMAN MAY CALL CONGRESS INTO SESSION WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 (UP) President Truman faced the unhappy prospect of having to call a special session of Congress to beg for advanced payments on the projected multimillion dollar Marshall plan. Undenied were reports that Undersecretary of State William Clayton in Paris has urgently cabled that $2,500,000,000 would be needed "on the cuff" before the end of the yer. It.' eventually would be fitted into ,the over-all long range program which Is now being discussed in terms of about $20,000,000,000 over a fouryear period. : President Truman's Secretary of State George C. Marshall, who will leave tomorrow to continue his diplomatic warfare ' with Russia personally at the United Nations in New York, apparently has been convinced that there is need for a special session. No other source of stop-gap aid is available except through new approaches. Marshall is definitely convinc ed of the urgent need of aiding Europe before the American plan can be effective despite Republican charges that the Euro pean crisis is more alleged than real. , SECOND ROUND IN TENNIS MEET IS UNDERWAY . The second round of the Sulli van men's single tennis tourney is underway, with four matches to be played,( Firth Perryman, chairman of the Junior Chamber of Commerce said today. The Jaycees are sponsoring the tourney. The schedule, for the second round is: C. H. Brown vs. Arch Ralph. J. Moore vs. Wilfred Perigo. Shang Moore vs. Dick Billman. Bill Carter vs. Bob Lowry. Mr. Perryman has said that the deadline for finishing the second round . matches is Sunday night. The score of the first round play are: Billman beat Coleman, 6-3, 6-1; Ralph beat Catlin, 3-6, 6-1; J. Moore beat Purcell, 6-0, 7-5, and Lowry beat ?'erryman, 6-1, 6-1. SOUTH SIDE AUTO SUPPLY TO MO VE The South Side Auto Supply will close for several days beginning Monday, September 15th while moving to their new quarters on the north side of the square. They will be . located in the building formerly occupied by R. H. Crowder and the License Bureau.. Their new quarters have been redecorated and remodeled so as to be especially adapted to the sale and servicing of auto and home supplies. ' Herschel Pirtle, Loyd Lewis and Russell Inbody expect to jopen for business in their new location the latter part of next week. Watch this paper for opening announcement.

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EISENHOWER SAYS DRAFT IS ARTIFICIAL

NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. II (UP) General Dwight D. Eisenhower, prominently mentioned as a' possible "draft" candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, said today that a "man who has spent a lifetime in military service should never enter politics and seek a partisan of ice." The Army Chief of Staff refused to remove himself from, consideration for the presidential nomination, however. He repeated in a press conference at Cplumbia University what he had said yesterday in Washington: , "There never has been a draft movement without artificial stimulus. I will be no party to anything artificial." . That appeared to be a possibility that he would permit himself to be drafted for the nomination in a conventional draft movement without "artificial stimulus." Eisenhower, who will take over as president of Columbia University sometime after Jan. ' 1, made the statement regarding the artificial nature of all previous draft movements at a formal press conference at the Lowe Memorial , Library at the University. - STORY BEHIND FIRST SHADES INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Sept.-ll Indiana Department of Conservation officials today released the story behind the first gift to the fund to "Save the Shades." Although the campaign to create Indiana's 15th state park in west-central Indiana got underway only last week, the first donation was made on May 29 when an anonymous Indianapolis woman mailed a $5.00 bill to Arthur R. Baxter,. Indianapolis c businessman who forstalled sale of the 1452-acre park to timber interests by purchasing the area until the state could get a public subscription campaign underway. In her letter to Mr. Baxter the unknown giver expressed "my very, very deep apprepiation of what you have done for Indiana" and enclosed a five-dollar bill to "start the ball rolling.:' ; Relating how she had seen the Shades but once 15 years ago she added that "I probably will never see it again but I will never forget the impression it made upon me. "Those wonderful .massive rocks! I just stood there awestruck, having never seen such majesty before. And I have long ed many, many times to go back again to stay long enough to drink it all in, but that has not been my privilege, inasmuch as I have no automobile and cannot afford to stay overnight." Winding up her letter with appreciation to Mr. Baxter for making the "Save the Shades" campaign possible by preventing its sale to timber companies, the unknown giver added that: ,., "Surely there must be thousands upon thousands of people in Indiana who feel as I do, that the Shades must be saved and converted into a state park for the enjoyment of all the people." Shades gifts are now being collected by all Indiana banks. Checks may be mailed to "Save the Shades", Indianapolis. All gifts are deductible from income for Federal tax purposes. CHURCH ASSOCIATION PLANS REVIVAL Beginning Monday night, the Curry's Prairie Association of Baptist Churches will hold an association-wide revival meeting each evening next week at the Good Hope Baptist Church south of Clay City on Road 59. There are 22 churches in the Associa tion and each year the meeting convenes to transact the business of the churches during the morning. A devotional service is also held each afternoon at 1:30. Dr. Ray Johnson, State Evangelistic Director of Illinois, will be the speaker and Walter Bruce of Indianapolis, will lead the singing. Monday night will be young people's night and the Sullivan Church will have about 40 of its young people in attendance. Rev. W. A. Hull of Sullivan is the moderator of the association and Rev. Esmond Elliott of Terre Haute, Is the evangelistic director.' ; -